User activity in Confluence
Asked by Patricia Campos:

Hi!

I want to generate a list report showing the different users in Confluence together with the number of articles that they have published. Is there a way to do this?


Answers:
author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Patricia Campos](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3985217)

Natively you can use [contributors macro](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-contributors-macro/) on the pages and [contributors summary macro](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-contributors-summary-macro/) which displays a table of contribution-based statistics for a set of pages. These statistics can be grouped according to individual pages or individual contributors.

You can also explore [CQL Search](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1213090/cql-search?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) plugin for cloud (currently it is free) which can give you the results you are expecting.

comments: author: Patricia Campos
body: Thanks Kishan! It works :)


author: Levente Szabo _Midori_
body: Alternatively, you can view the number of contents created by users on the "Most active authors" gadget of the [Confluence user activity analytics](https://www.midori-global.com/blog/2024/05/22/confluence-cloud-user-activity-report?utm_campaign=gh&utm_medium=cac-comment-1831602&utm_source=cac) dashboard in [Better Content Archiving and Analytics](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/123/better-content-archiving-and-analytics-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&utm_campaign=gh&utm_medium=cac-comment-1831602&utm_source=cac):

![confluence-site-user-analytics-dashboard.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/328378i914F883046F6EB75/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence-site-user-analytics-dashboard.png")

It also contains more Confluence user activity insights, as well as page status, page statistics, and space usage-related [Confluence analytics dashboards](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/App-Central/Premium-quality-Confluence-analytics-for-ALL-tiers/ba-p/2718035).

*(Please note that I'm part of the team developing Better Content Archiving for Confluence.)*

comments: author: Jaz Wilkinson
body: [@Levente](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1728178) This looks like exactly what we need but unfortunately we'll never be allowed it because we have thousands of users - although only a dozen or so would need to use this. Is there any way to have licenses for only some users?


author: Levente Szabo _Midori_
body: [@Jaz Wilkinson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5555767) It would be a long answer to explain why we at Midori think that Confluence content lifecycle management is a responsibility of everyone (ot at least have a say), not just a handful of users, so if you interested, I summarized [in this blog.](https://www.midori-global.com/blog/2023/01/18/confluence-content-lifecycle-management)

To answer your question: Atlassian stipulates that apps are licensed at the same or higher level than the host app, and there is no legal way to work around that.

In any case, if you are interested in discussing how your content lifecycle management strategy could be supported by Better Content Archiving, feel free to reach out, I'm happy to have a chat: levente.szabo@midori-global.com


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