Is there a way to use the Recently Updated Macro to get everything EXCEPT updates by me?

[Julie Spradley]

I would like to monitor a Confluence space for updates by other users so that I can proof them for grammar and spelling.  Is there any way to get the Recently Updated Macro to exclude updates that I make?

[Shannon S · Accepted solution]

Hello Julie,

Thank you for reaching out! Happy to help you with this.

I did some research, and I found this thread on Community discussing a possible workaround:

• How to Exclude/Filter Out an Author from Recently Updated results.

You could either use SQL to filter this out, or write a User Macro:

I would write a user macro to generate a list of recent updates. The Page object has a getLastModifier() method that you could use: maybe build a List of contributors, and then walk the tree of pages to get a count of pages that the user was the last modifier for. Spit out a table of users and the # of pages they updated, with a link to drill down into which pages the user was the last modifier for.

There is a feature request on our site in order to add this feature into the Recently Updated Macro:

• CONFSERVER-20956 Allow exclusion or limitation of recently updated content to certain users only

I encourage you to click *Vote for this issue* and provide your feedback there, as it can help to implement the feature request in the future.

Regards,

Shannon