What does "last updated" mean when viewing a user?

[Tom_tom]

For example, when you login as admin and click on a user to view their attributes and it shows,

Last Updated Nov 29, 2019 17:45

does this mean the last time a user has updated content in confluence? Or when content created by this user has been modified by another user? Or when this user has been mentioned?

[Sebastian Kurrek · Accepted solution]

Hello Tom Tom,

as far as i know it just displays the actions of this user. So the last time he created oder updated some content.

does this mean the last time a user has updated content in confluence?

- Yes

when content created by this user has been modified by another user?

- No

Or when this user has been mentioned?

-No

[Tom_tom]

Ok thanks for the info

[Pete Singleton]

The last updated time against a user is the time the User Profile was last updated - not the time they last updated Confluence content.

[Tom_tom]

Interesting: when a user update contents, won't that update a user profile in the "Activity" tab? The last updated seems to correlate with the date of the user's content change.

[Sebastian Kurrek]

I think that are two different thinks.

The Activity Tab will Update. But the Profile has its own "Updated" Attribute and this will update if the user profile was updated. 

I Thought about the activity Stream 

[Tom_tom]

Hmm, I know that I have not edited my profile today and my "last updated" shows today. The only action that I have done is to create a new page.

[Pete Singleton]

I'm using Confluence 6.14, and the Activity shows a list of most recent updates in Confluence.

The "last updated" against my user profile shows July 3rd 2019, which is when my account was created.

[Sebastian Kurrek]

Hope somebody can confirm or contradict my next information:

Im not sure if different authentications update your profile.

- like LDAP Sync

- or check your profile with every authentication

[Tom_tom]

That is interesting. The other user attributes ("Last login") are not updating and I'm using SSO via ldap, so maybe the "Last updated" is actually being mapped to the SSO's last login (my setup is not correct). Can anyone else confirm "Last updated" should only update when a user modifies their profile and doesn't make content changes?

[Tom_tom]

Yep last updated does not correspond to latest activity, been reviewing several users.