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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-27142

Show/Hide sidebar in Confluence is not retained by cookies

      Description:
      The show/hide side bar in Confluence documentation theme, it should remember the cookies and last settings to be shown when logged in to the page again.

      Steps to reproduce:

      • In fireball 183, navigate to Confluence and go to any space with documentation theme, and click to show the sidebar.
      • Logout, and login in again, and navigate to the same space.
      • You will find that the sidebar setting is reset to hide.

      The cookies responsible to keep this setting "doc-sidebar" is reset to 0 on the content value, and doesn't keep the setting before logout.

            [CONFSERVER-27142] Show/Hide sidebar in Confluence is not retained by cookies

            I will concur, I see this behavior in the local version of Confluence as well, 5.0.

            Dave Hergert added a comment - I will concur, I see this behavior in the local version of Confluence as well, 5.0.

            More specifically this isn't maintained across a given session using tabs irrespective of logging in/out. If you hide the sidebar on a given tab and then open a new tab the new tab will have the sidebar showing.

            Derek Hunter added a comment - More specifically this isn't maintained across a given session using tabs irrespective of logging in/out. If you hide the sidebar on a given tab and then open a new tab the new tab will have the sidebar showing.

              etom edith (Inactive)
              romar Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar (Inactive)
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