Is it possible to use ri:user without notifying the person concerned?

Question

I'm writing a script that creates a series of Confluence pages that details the membership of the groups on our in-house LDAP system. The design of the layout is such that members of a group are displayed on the page using the "@ or ri:user" macro, e.g.:

The drawback to this is that Confluence is notifying staff when the pages get created because that is the purpose of the "ri:user" macro.

Is there a way of *preventing* that notification from happening?

Alternatively, is there a different Confluence gadget or macro I can use that supports functionality like easy linking to the user's profile (which is why we picked the current method) without generating the notification?

Philip Colmer · Answer

The script is intended to run nightly, to update the page content with any changes to our groups.

I might have a look at building a dynamic macro as the "User Profile" macro only displays email addresses for our own users and not external users, making the look of each page a bit inconsistent.

Dominic Lagger · Answer

HI  @Philip Colmer

As you already said, you can use the "User Profile" macro.

Are the pages all created in one go? If yes, you could disable the mail configuration, create the pages with the script and then enable the mail configuration again. But I'm not sure whether this is possible for cloud.

I do not know any other possibility

Regards, Dominic

Mario Carabelli_h0bo0y · Answer

Your right. I overlooked the cloud part, but it shows in tags at the question.

If your interested in creating your own cloud macro: here is the link for it: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/connect-macros/

Unfortunately this means you have to basically write your own (simple) confluence app which may be overkill.

I think you are on the right path with the "user profile" macro. There is no way to disable the notification part of an @mention-macro.