Purge Versions for Confluence

Approved for Confluence Data Center

Welcome! Purge Page Version History for Confluence Documentation.

Confluence tracks the history of changes to each page by creating a new version of the page each time it's modified. Over the time version history might go beyond than expected due to changes by users. You can purge page version summary by keeping last few versions using this plugin either automatically or on-demand basis.

Use Case:

Help to keep Confluence database compact, minimal migration efforts and down time, by purging older versions (e.g. older than 3 months) by keeping minimum number of latest versions.
Helps alert notifications for the last modified page author that, page has exceeded version history and steps to purge. So that we can accomplish letting content owners clean the history instead of we admins and automation engineers.

Features:

Provides https://ilaesolution.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PVC/pages/302546982
Helps to skip commented versions purge.
Helps to automate and on-demand space versions purge.
Helps to Alert notifications.

Top Users

Quick Start Steps:

Provides Page Action (Purge Versions) for users with remove permission.

Go to Page → Click (…) → Purge Versions.

Options
- Keep versions - Always to keep minimum number of the versions regardless of the age.
- Keep Days - Delete versions older than this number of days.
- Author - (Optional) Delete older versions only for this confluence username.

Go to Confluence administration page → Manage Purge Versions

Add Purge Configuration.

Schedule

Go to Confluence administration page → Scheduled Jobs

Default it runs every Saturday 4AM (System time)

Go to Confluence administration page → Logging and profiling → Add entry

Package Name: com.tse.confluence.purgepageversions.plugin
Log Level: DEBUG

Known Confluence product bug:
- On Confluence restart, if any custom schedule settings are reverted to default but still schedule runs with default settings.
- Workaround, you need to re-save the custom settings. See, https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55455

Automated spaces purge does not really purge versions?
- Step-1: Go to Settings tab in manage purge versions admin page, and check username is confluence administrator.
- Step-2: Check permissions of each automated space and make sure above username has full permissions.
Attachments version purge sends emails?
- As of now Confluence does not provide API to suppress notification while purging attachment versions.
- Workaround is just disable Mail server while purging bulk attachments versions.