How to make Notify Watchers in Edit page mode to be unchecked by default?

[Gregory Kneller]

Hi mates, can you please advise with the subject? Thanks!

[Alejandro Conde Carrillo · Accepted solution]

You could try to add this code to your custom HTML (in the dead section)

<script>
  AJS.toInit(function(){
    <!-- Disable "notifyWatchers" checkbox by default (on edit pages only) -->
    AJS.$('input#notifyWatchers').attr('checked', false);
  });
</script>

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[Gregory Kneller]

Hi Alex, so it is only on global level... Thank you for the anwer))

[Richard Meadows]

do you need to restart Confluence for this to work?

[David Hergert _PAYX_]

There is a small piece of JavaScript you can add to your HTML header that will 'remember' if you uncheck the box for a few hours using a cookie. We love it this way, since it allows us to disable it, but it re-enables after a few hours in the spirit of open communication and sharing.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+uncheck+Notify+watchers+check+box+on+Confluence+editor+by+default?focusedCommentId=397083416#comment-397083416

[ThreepE0]

I needed to place this at the end of the body section for it to work for both direct and linked access to edit pages.  Worked great, thanks!