Hi Mick,
What parameters are you passing to the macro when you're displaying dates and times? If you're listing more than one page in a single instance of the macro then the last updated date will be the last date any of the pages you're tracking in that instance. If you're tracking the entire space in a single instance of the macro it will show the date when you last updated anything, which would include the page that the contributor macro is on so would be "less than a minute ago" because you just edited it.
For listing the user and the page they edited you can do this by including "edited", "commented", etc. in the list of columns to display. E.g. if you choose to display "lastupdate,edits,edited,comments,commented" this will give you a list of names with the date they last edited something, how many edits they made in total, which pages they edited, how many comments they have made and which pages they have commented on. If you're tracking multiple pages in a single instance what it doesn't do is group data by page so it won't show Joe Bloggs edited the Test page 5 times, the Documentation page 8 times, etc. To do that you would have to have an instance of the macro for each page, with each instance restricted to track just one page.
Another macro you could use for tracking who updated each page and when they updated it would be the Contributors Macro (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Contributors+Macro).
As an aside I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago on how I set up simple community management dashboards in Confluence to track updates (or lack thereof) - http://blog.networkedcollaboration.com/2012/02/20/confluence-community-management-dashboard/
Hope that helps?
Andrew.
Andrew,
Thanks for replying. I've attached a couple of graphics showing the parameters I've set up.
I'm tracking a specific space in one instance that has about 22 spaces. There is only one space specified.
The tracking macro is not in the same space as the one being tracked.
I will follow up on the other ideas asap, thanks for those.
And I'll have a look at your blog to - in fact I'll add a permanent link to it from mine - which I published yesterday: http://davidsonmedia.weebly.com/techno-blog.html
Cheers.
Thanks for the link, I've reciprocated.
As you're tracking all the content of a Space in a single instance of the macro I believe the last updated date is behaving as I described - it displays the date of the last time you updated anything in the Space that the macro is tracking. To track the last time someone updated a single page you'd need separate instances of the macro with each one configured to track a single page - which may or may not be workable for you depending on the number of pages in each Space and how prolific new page creation is, i.e. if people are creating lots of pages all the time it's going to be near impossible to keep track of them.
thanks, your blog looks very interesting, I'll have a go at setting that up.
The last updated date is doing this for me and several other users, and I know that we can't all be updating things at the moment, mainly because it's very unlikely we're all logged on at the same time.
I'm only really interested in monitoring a space as a whole, I only need an overview of what's going on so that I can definitely see what clients are editing. I know you can see this in the dashboard, but that doesn't display the info as I'd like to see it.
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