Set up Confluence Cloud
Get the high-level details you need to set up your Confluence Cloud site in order to meet your team's needs.
View your notifications
Confluence displays notifications collected from page watches, shares, mentions, and tasks. If your Confluence site is linked to a Jira application, like Jira Software or Jira Service Desk, you'll also see notifications from your Jira application.
The Confluence Cloud mobile app lets you get notifications wherever you are. Try it for iOS and Android, today.
Looking to manage your notification email messages instead? See Email Notifications
View your notifications
To see your notifications, select the notifications icon in the sidebar. From your notifications you can reply to comments, like a comment or page, watch a page, or open the relevant page or blog post.
Only show relevant notifications
You can use the Only show unread feature to easily filter relevant notifications from the noise.
To do this:
Select the notification bell icon in the top nav bar to open the notification center.
Select the Only show unread button so that it is switched on (green).
To hide a single notification from view, select the blue dot on the right side of the notification. This marks the notification as "read" and because Only show unread is active, the now "read" notification will be hidden.
To clear all your unread notifications, select Mark all as read.
Notifications aren't deleted, so nothing is ever lost.
If you want to see hidden notifications later:
Select the notification bell icon in the top nav bar to open the notification center.
Select the Only show unread button so that it is switched off (gray). All notification, read or unread, will now appear in the notification center.
To unhide a notification, simply select Mark as unread and it will stay displaying in your list once you switch Only show unread back on.
Notifications are automatically removed from the list after 30 days. Older notifications can still be found in your email.
Which notifications are included?
Notifications are added to the notifications center when someone does one of the following:
Shares a page or blog post with you
Mentions you in a page, blog post, comment, or task
Comments on a page or blog post that you're watching
Likes a page or blog post that you're watching
The notifications center does not show notifications triggered because you're watching a space. Only watches on pages and blog posts are relevant here.
The notification appears as "read" if you've already viewed the page or blog post.
If your Confluence site is linked to a Jira application, you'll also see the following Jira notifications:
Comments on issues that you're watching
Mentions
Shares of issues, filters, and searches
Keyboard shortcuts
Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
g then n | Open the notifications window |
j | Move down to the next entry in the notification list |
k | Move up to the previous entry in the notification list |
n | Move down to the next notification for a particular page or blog post |
p | Move up to the previous notification for a particular page or blog post |
Enter | Open the selected notification |
u | Return to the notification list after opening a particular notification |
Mobile notifications
You can also view and respond to notifications on your mobile device. See Get the Confluence Cloud mobile app for more.
View and manage notifications from a single page
From the notifications page, users can view the latest updates and filter past notifications by product.
To view and manage your notifications from a single page:
Select the notification icon (bell) from the top-right menu.
Hover your mouse and select the ‘Open in a new tab’ icon.
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