Page changes and changes in the publishing state

Publishing byline state and page changes

A source space page and the published page of the target space will remain in sync until a user action triggers an Atlassian page update event.

User actions on a published and synced page

The following user actions on a published page in either the source or target space affect the publishing state and cause a SYNCEd page to move to a move to a different publishing state such asout of sync.

A page may need to be refreshed after the change to display the updated publishing state byline.

User action

Sets publishing state as:

Notes

User action

Sets publishing state as:

Notes

Edit a page (in either source space or target space)

out of sync

 

Move a page in the source space that includes a change in the hierarchy

out of sync

  • changes in the order for a page that do not include a change in the hierarchy (changing the page ordering) do not change the publishing state for the page

  • Changes in a parent page’s macro content as the result of a page move, for example, children macro, do not change the publishing state for the parent page.

Move a page in the target space that includes a change in the hierarchy

no change in status

  • next publishing action from the source space can cause the target space page to be moved

Add label

  • to either the source space page or the target space page

out of sync

 

Remove label

  • from either the source space page or the target space page

out of sync

 

Add attachment

  • to either the source space page or the target space page

out of sync

 

Delete attachment

  • from either the source space page or the target space page

out of sync

 

Check or uncheck the box for any macro, for example, task macro

  • on either the source space page or the target space page

out of sync

Multiple changes in a macro in a short period of time, for example, checking several tasks as completed, may only cause one Confluence update as Confluence Cloud may process these changes in a batch process.

Archive published page in the source space

If the page is archived in the source space

  • publishing sync is removed from the target space page

  • publishing sync is unchanged on the target space page

  • the publishing state byline is still displayed on the target space page

  • no publishing state is displayed on the archived source space page

Any edits to the target space page whilst the source space page is archived will cause the publishing status on the target space page to be out of sync.

Restoring a page from the archive sets the publishing status to out of sync on each page and enables the page to be published and synced from the source space.

Archive published page in the target space

If the page is archived in the target space

  • publishing sync is unchanged on the source space page

  • publishing popup link to between linked page version in each space is retained on each page

  • the publishing state byline is still displayed on the source space page

  • no publishing state is displayed on the archived target space page

An edit to the source space page, while the target space page is archived, causes the publishing state to be out of sync on the source space page.

Delete a published and synced page from the source space

If a previously published page is deleted from the source space

  • the target space page is appended with the REMOVED lozenge

Publishing the source space page creates a new page even if the deleted target space page has been ‘restored from trash’.*

Delete published and synced page from the target space

If the page is deleted from the target space

  • publishing sync on the source space page is changed to NEW

 

Restored page from source space Trash

  • previously published target space page has not been deleted

A ‘restored from trash’ source space page will be restored with the publishing state at the time of deletion (if there have been no changes to the target space page)

The publishing popup will include a link to the target space page

 

Restored page from target space Trash

  • previously published source space page has not been deleted

A ‘restored from trash’ target space page is restored with the publishing status at the time of deletion (if there have been no changes to the source space page).

The source space page retains the NEW publishing status until a new publishing action.

 

If a new page has been created by a publish action, restoring the deleted page in the target space trash will offer two options

  • overwrite newly created target space page (and maintain sync link for restored page)

  • restore the deleted page with a new title (with no sync link to any page in the source space)