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Set owners

The table below describes the Set owners quick action and gives practical advice on how to use it.

Action How does it work?
Set owners This action sets the user(s) responsible for the content in this page or in this page plus in its descendant pages.
You can also see inherited owners (if set) and the contents each owner has been inherited from.
Confluence interface to select a user as page owner in the Better Content Archiving app
Content owners can receive notifications for their owned items. To enable this, select the "Owners" checkbox within the notification scheme.
For large content trees, propagating owner changes might take up to a few minutes. You cannot change owners on a specific content while another change is still in progress. (If you think a propagation is stuck for a long time and you want to a clean it up, you can either wait for the next scheduled Refresh Content Owners job execution, or you can start it manually.)

Effects
The following content properties are updated, depending on the parameters selected in the dialog:
  • "Direct owner" fields (owners set as either owners or tree owners on the content itself):
    • arch.directOwner
    • arch.directOwner.count
    • arch.directOwner.setOn
  • "Inherited owner" fields (owners set as tree owners on any ancestors of the content):
    • arch.inheritedOwner
    • arch.inheritedOwner.count
    • arch.inheritedOwner.setOn
  • "Any owner" fields (union of direct and inherited owners of a content):
    • arch.anyOwner
    • arch.anyOwner.count
    • arch.anyOwner.setOn
  • Internal fields (not intended for end users – they serve as a basis for the calculated fields listed above):
    • arch.owner
    • arch.owner.count
    • arch.owner.setBy
    • arch.owner.setOn
    • arch.treeOwner
    • arch.treeOwner.count
    • arch.treeOwner.setBy
    • arch.treeOwner.setOn

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