Introduction

Notifications for ScriptRunner for Confluence gives the ability to automatically watch an entire hierarchy of pages with just one click. In the same way, you can stop watching the hierarchy at any moment.

Watch Descendants

  • To watch all the descendants of a page (and the page itself) please select the Watch descendants checkbox.

watch descendants


  • After the selection, the Watch descendants and Watch page checkboxes will be selected. The Watch page checkbox will also be disabled as the descendant watching functionality automatically includes the root page.

watch descendants selected


  • If you watch a large page tree with many descendant pages, the watching process may take a few seconds. In this case a progress bar is displayed.

watch descendants waiting


  • When you navigate to a page that has the watch descendants feature enabled a link will display that navigates you to the ancestor page, this is the page that the feature was enabled on. This allows users to quickly navigate to the ancestor page in order to adjust their notifications settings.

Note

If you create new pages or move existing pages into a page tree which is watched, these pages will be automatically watched.
descendant page watched

Unwatching Descendants

  • In order to stop watching all the descendants of a page (including the page itself) please deselect the Watch descendants checkbox.

  • If you stop watching a large page tree with many descendant pages, the unwatching process may take a few seconds. In this case a progress bar is displayed.

unwatching descendants waiting
Note

If before selecting the Watch descendants checkbox you are already watching the ancestor page, the notification will be preserved after you stop watching the descendant pages.

Personal Watches

You can also check the watch descendants functionality from your personal menu.

  • You can access your personal menu by clicking your profile picture and then Watches.

personal watches

  • Standard Confluence gives you the ability to stop watching pages from the Watches section.

personal watches standard pages

  • Notifications for ScriptRunner for Confluence allows you to control the descendant watching functionality from this section as well.

personal watches pages

For how-to questions please ask on Atlassian Answers where there is a very active community. Adaptavist staff are also likely to respond there.

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