Changes Pulse Can Make

Pulse can change Confluence in three ways, and no other:

Change	Where	The way back
Apply a fix: replace a placeholder, or remove links to pages in the trash	Page vitals	Undo for 10 minutes, and Confluence’s page history
The label `needs-review`, added or removed	Page vitals	The undo in the flag, and Confluence’s labels
A comment that mentions the page owner, in your words	Page vitals, and the menu of a reader notice	Delete the comment in Confluence. The notification stays sent

Each one is made as you, the signed in person, so Confluence checks your own right to the page. Each one happens only after you confirm it with one click. Nothing Pulse runs by itself, such as its weekly check, ever changes a page. And every change shows in Confluence: in the page history, the labels or the comments.

Apply a fix

Two Must fix rows in Page vitals carry a button.

Replace the text. The coach quotes a placeholder it found in the page, such as TBD or TODO: add the driver link. Type the words that belong there. Pulse shows the change before it makes it, and puts your words in place of the quoted text and changes nothing else.

Replace “TBD”?: the quoted text TBD, the field Your words filled with The procurement contact named in the agency contract, the preview TBD → The procurement contact named in the agency contract, the note that Pulse saves a new version of Password reset for contractors as you, and the buttons Keep the page as it is and Replace the text

Remove the link. A link to a page that is in the trash becomes plain text: its words stay, the link goes. Pulse removes a link only when it names the page by its id (a pasted page address or a smart link) and Confluence shows you that page in the trash. Confluence shows the trash to space and site admins, so for other people such a link stays, with the reason. A link that does not open for you may open for others, so Pulse never removes it.

Either way:

Pulse saves a new version of the page, as you, with a message that ends with Pulse, for example Replaced “TBD”, with Pulse. Confluence keeps the previous version in the page history, and people who watch the page get Confluence’s usual notice of an edit.
Undo puts the page back for 10 minutes after the fix, as long as nobody changed it since. After that, restore a version from the page history.
Pulse refuses rather than guess: if the page changed since you opened the preview, if the editor holds a draft that differs from the published page, if it is a live doc, or if the space asks for approval before a change is published, it saves nothing and tells you to make the change in the editor.

Apply a fix works in Page vitals only. The coach in the editor names a change; you make it there.

The label needs-review

Add the label needs-review in Page vitals puts the Confluence label needs-review on the page, so readers see it on the page and in Confluence search. Remove the label needs-review takes it off, and when you mark a labelled page Still correct in Page vitals, the flag that confirms it offers the same. Pulse never takes the label off by itself. Only people who can edit the page can change its labels.

Mention the page owner

When a page needs its owner, Mention in a comment writes a footer comment on the page that mentions the owner, with your words. You see the comment before it is posted.

Everyone who can open the page sees the comment and your name. The owner gets a Confluence notification, and so does everyone who watches the page.
When you come from a reader notice, Pulse suggests a first sentence that fits it, such as Could you check this page? Its review date has passed. You can change every word.
You can mention the owner of a page once a week, and five owners a day. A site can post 100 such comments a day.
To tell the owner something without your name, use This looks wrong on the page instead. See What readers see.

You can delete the comment in Confluence like any other. The notification it sent stays sent.

What Pulse does not do

What Pulse never does, as Get started lists it: Pulse never edits, archives or labels your pages by itself; Pulse never fetches web addresses from your pages; Pulse only shows each person pages they can open

Pulse never changes a page by itself.
Pulse archives nothing. In Clean up, Archive in Confluence opens the page so you archive it with Confluence’s own menu. See Site and Clean up.
Pulse never fetches web addresses from your pages.
Nothing you type into these forms is stored by Pulse, written to a log or sent to analytics. It goes to Confluence, as you.