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      We write daily market summaries using the Confluence news posts feature. It would be very useful to be able to email these daily summaries (that include tables and attached graphs from Excel) to people outside of the company.

            [CONFCLOUD-5599] Export news (blog posts) to PDF

            SarahA added a comment -

            Hallo Tom
            Thanks for reporting that, and for commenting on the documentation page too. It's very odd. I've just tested the PDF space export in Confluence 5.0-m9 and in Confluence 4.3.3, and it does not include the blog posts in either of those. Perhaps Confluence 4.3.1 is special!
            Cheers, Sarah

            SarahA added a comment - Hallo Tom Thanks for reporting that, and for commenting on the documentation page too. It's very odd. I've just tested the PDF space export in Confluence 5.0-m9 and in Confluence 4.3.3, and it does not include the blog posts in either of those. Perhaps Confluence 4.3.1 is special! Cheers, Sarah

            ThomasJ added a comment -

            We are using 4.3.1 and blog posts are being included in our space PDF exports! Only glitch is there does not appear to be a way to turn blog exports on or off via the custom export controls.

            ThomasJ added a comment - We are using 4.3.1 and blog posts are being included in our space PDF exports! Only glitch is there does not appear to be a way to turn blog exports on or off via the custom export controls.

            Kathy added a comment - - edited

            A very, very nice "add" would be the ability to PDF export a range of blog posts by date.

            We're an Atlassian partner and this is a recurring request from our clients. Project teams often want to provide "News Recaps" that are more "curated" than simple Watch updates, or to disseminate content to external audiences. The most common use case is to PDF export "Last week's news", or within a specified date range.

            Exporting Blog posts via search filter and/or label would be extra special. (Please Santa! I've been very good this year!)

            Kathy added a comment - - edited A very, very nice "add" would be the ability to PDF export a range of blog posts by date. We're an Atlassian partner and this is a recurring request from our clients. Project teams often want to provide "News Recaps" that are more "curated" than simple Watch updates, or to disseminate content to external audiences. The most common use case is to PDF export "Last week's news", or within a specified date range. Exporting Blog posts via search filter and/or label would be extra special. (Please Santa! I've been very good this year!)

            Thanks for making this into the Sprint!

            Yuen-Chi Lian added a comment - Thanks for making this into the Sprint!

            I am doing a backup of all spaces as PDFs (as we want to cancel the license of a Confluence instance) but many useful resources are blog content!

            It's disappointing, really.

            Yuen-Chi Lian added a comment - I am doing a backup of all spaces as PDFs (as we want to cancel the license of a Confluence instance) but many useful resources are blog content! It's disappointing, really.

            Alik added a comment -

            Let me agree on premise but disagree on conclusion.

            If you think that "Atlassian's business model is to charge a small licensing fees to a large number of customers", which sounds absolutely feasible to me than they should not care why I need this feature. The only thing the should care is how many customers need this feature i.e. how many customers they can loose (the level of frustration) and how many new customers they can get (the competitive advantage). Given this premise the only right thing to do to make this feature come true is letting Atlassian know that I do need it and hoping that all others do the same.

            Anyway I believe it becomes kind of off-topic.

            To sum it up I would really appreciate any feature that would allow me sharing content of the blog with those who do not have rights to access Jira/Confluence.
            Thank you.

            Alik added a comment - Let me agree on premise but disagree on conclusion. If you think that "Atlassian's business model is to charge a small licensing fees to a large number of customers", which sounds absolutely feasible to me than they should not care why I need this feature. The only thing the should care is how many customers need this feature i.e. how many customers they can loose (the level of frustration) and how many new customers they can get (the competitive advantage). Given this premise the only right thing to do to make this feature come true is letting Atlassian know that I do need it and hoping that all others do the same. Anyway I believe it becomes kind of off-topic. To sum it up I would really appreciate any feature that would allow me sharing content of the blog with those who do not have rights to access Jira/Confluence. Thank you.

            You're comments aren't offending me, they're just not serving any purpose. My point was that you're not adding anything more to the detail of this issue...you're just complaining.

            The following part of your latest comment is hinting at something: "In a big company with all those restrictions and securities...". There is obviously something specific about your use-case that makes this a bigger problem for your organization than it may be for others. Why not spend a few minutes describing that in a clear and concise way, so that Atlassian can possibly use the information to re-evaluate the priority of this request?

            Something that all of us need to remember is that Atlassian's business model is to charge a small licensing fees to a large number of customers, which means that any one customer (or possibly any 5) expressing "unhappiness" (i.e. without real use-case context) is unlikely to have much impact on their prioritization. If you really want Atlassian to address a request, they have to understand the requirements and, ideally, how the requirements might affect a larger set of customers.

            Kavian Moradhassel added a comment - You're comments aren't offending me, they're just not serving any purpose. My point was that you're not adding anything more to the detail of this issue...you're just complaining. The following part of your latest comment is hinting at something: "In a big company with all those restrictions and securities...". There is obviously something specific about your use-case that makes this a bigger problem for your organization than it may be for others. Why not spend a few minutes describing that in a clear and concise way, so that Atlassian can possibly use the information to re-evaluate the priority of this request? Something that all of us need to remember is that Atlassian's business model is to charge a small licensing fees to a large number of customers, which means that any one customer (or possibly any 5) expressing "unhappiness" (i.e. without real use-case context) is unlikely to have much impact on their prioritization. If you really want Atlassian to address a request, they have to understand the requirements and, ideally, how the requirements might affect a larger set of customers.

            Alik added a comment -

            This workaround is definitely worse than suggested by Jim (above). I would never send out anything such badly looking.

            I am sorry if my comment offended you.
            Still it is weird to me that after 6 years there is still no ability to share the content of the blog post in any straightforward way. The only thing you can do is sending a link.

            Technology should support process. If it can't it is useless. In a big company with all those restrictions and securities what is the benefit of using Blogs if you still have to create document in Word then distribute it separately from posting it to Blog? I presume it is designed to save my time, not to introduce additional effort.

            Alik added a comment - This workaround is definitely worse than suggested by Jim (above). I would never send out anything such badly looking. I am sorry if my comment offended you. Still it is weird to me that after 6 years there is still no ability to share the content of the blog post in any straightforward way. The only thing you can do is sending a link. Technology should support process. If it can't it is useless. In a big company with all those restrictions and securities what is the benefit of using Blogs if you still have to create document in Word then distribute it separately from posting it to Blog? I presume it is designed to save my time, not to introduce additional effort.

            It's important not to hyperbolize when stating an impact, as it dilutes all other impact statements. For example, blogs are absolutely not useless without any one feature, especially for something as basic as exporting to PDF.

            Also, the workaround here is simple: print the page to PDF using one of the many PDF printer drivers available. It's not a perfect workaround, but it mostly works.

            If you want to emphasize the importance of this feature, provide some new information that no one else has included here, such as a description of your organization's specific use-case for exporting to PDF that others may not have considered. Otherwise, you're just spitting into the wind.

            Kavian Moradhassel added a comment - It's important not to hyperbolize when stating an impact, as it dilutes all other impact statements. For example, blogs are absolutely not useless without any one feature, especially for something as basic as exporting to PDF. Also, the workaround here is simple: print the page to PDF using one of the many PDF printer drivers available. It's not a perfect workaround, but it mostly works. If you want to emphasize the importance of this feature, provide some new information that no one else has included here, such as a description of your organization's specific use-case for exporting to PDF that others may not have considered. Otherwise, you're just spitting into the wind.

            Alik added a comment -

            So after 6 years it is still not implemented?...
            Without ability to export Blogs are useless.

            Alik added a comment - So after 6 years it is still not implemented?... Without ability to export Blogs are useless.

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