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Viewing news

  1. Click on the 'Browse Space' link and then click 'Blog' for the space. This is located at the top of every page and beside the space link on the dashboard.Go to the 'News' tab. This will display the latest news items in the space along with the date of each item and the name of its author.

Adding news

  1. Click the 'Add News' link located at the top of every page in the space and then click on 'Blog Post'. This will bring up the 'Add News' screenup the editor.
  2. Enter a title for your news item in the 'TitleNew Blog Post' text field at the top.
  3. Enter your content in the text-entry box using Confluence markup or Rich Text as you would for any other page in Confluence.
  4. If you want to backdate your news item, click 'edit' next to 'Posting DayDate' and select a past date. 
    (info) You can set the date to earlier than today, but you cannot set it to a future date. And you can only change the date when creating the news item, not when editing a news item.
  5. Preview and click 'Save'.

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  1. Go to the page.
  2. Click the Tools menu at the top of the page.
  3. Select the 'Watch Page' icon from the list. This will be replaced with the 'Stop Watching Page' icon .

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  1. Go to your name at the top of the page. (This is the 'User' menu. A dropdown list will appear when your cursor hovers over the 'User' menu.) Select 'PreferencesSettings' from the dropdown list. The 'Preferences' view will open.Click the 'Edit Profile' tab'Settings' view will open.
  2. Click the 'Email' link in the left-hand panel.
  3. Click the 'Edit' button.
  4. Check the box beside 'Subscribe to daily updates'.
  5. If you want to receive a notification each time you add or edit content on Confluence yourself, check the box beside 'Notify on my actions'. If you leave this box unchecked, you will receive notification of other people's actions but not of your own.
  6. From the 'Email Format' dropdown menu, select whether you want to receive your notifications as HTML or plain text. This will apply to all your email notifications, including your watches.
  7. Click 'SaveClick 'Submit'.

User Profile

Each user in Confluence has a user profile. Your profile contains your personal details, photograph (optional), group membership, site preferences, email notification preferences and user statistics. To find your profile:

  1. Go to your name at the top of the page. (This is the 'User' menu. A dropdown list will appear when your cursor hovers over the 'User' menu.) Select 'PreferencesSettings' from the dropdown list. The 'PreferencesSettings' view will open.

    Info

    Name and Email are not editable in your user profile. This information reflects the name and email on record in Active Directory