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  2. CONFSERVER-34510

View all inline comments at once

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      I would like a way to view all inline comments at once. This is mostly related to how I like to consume content and is a personal thing, but I think it's worth raising anyway (I doubt I'm alone).

      I read a page and then scroll down through the comments. I don't read every one, but rather a few things will prompt me to read a particular comment:

      1. The name of the commenter - if it's someone with interesting opinions I'm more likely to want to read what they have to say
      2. The ones with lots of replies
      3. The ones that start with interesting phrases like 'I disagree', 'let me play devils advocate' etc
      4. The long comments where people are obviously passionate about the topic
      5. Ones that have a standout sentence in bold or a headline or something eye catching
      6. Inline comments that are unresolved

      With inline comments, I can't immediately see if a little yellow bar has 80 passionate comments underneath it, and unless I click on every highlighted word, I'm likely to miss out on important discussion. I feel like I can scan down a page and get a vibe from the page comments too, which I'm now missing with inline comments.

      For me, I feel like it's taken away some of the inclusive and easy nature of collaboration that Confluence is amazing for.

      Ideas:

      1. Have a way as the author to change an inline comment into a page comment, and start it with the highlighted text in a quote. That way if something becomes a vital discussion it can be moved to a place it will be more visible to casual page viewers
      2. Have a 'view all' button that does the above for all inline comments for the current viewer only
      3. Have a user setting that does the above for all pages by default (ie disable inline comments per user)
      4. Display a count of comments in the top right of the highlighted text so it's easy to see where the discussion is

      Workaround

      Here are some helpful keyboard shortcut for navigating inline comments:

      • Next Inline Comment N
      • Previous Inline Comment P
      • Next Inline Comment (edit mode) ⌘ + Shift + O
      • Previous Inline Comment (edit mode) ⌘ + Shift + L

            [CONFSERVER-34510] View all inline comments at once

            Manfred Wecke added a comment -

            Would be great to have such report available.

            Manfred Wecke added a comment - Would be great to have such report available.

            James Brown added a comment -

            +1

            James Brown added a comment - +1

            Irina_Bel{Stiltsoft} added a comment -

            I can suggest Talk - Advanced Inline Comments for Confluence app and specifically the Talk Report feature that can help you with your case.

            Talk Report allows overviewing comments made on a specific page and/or space and see in it the following data:

            • Name of a page where an inline comment/suggestion was created
            • Link to an inline comment/suggestion
            • Initial comment/suggestion
            • Priority of an inline comment/suggestion
            • Status (open, resolved, archived)
            • Discussion/suggestion author
            • Users mentioned in a discussion
            • Date when a talk was started
            • Date of talk resolution

            You can see the Talk Report page in docs, to have a more detailed view of the feature.

            Irina_Bel{Stiltsoft} added a comment - I can suggest T alk - Advanced Inline Comments for Confluence app  and specifically the Talk Report feature that can help you with your case. Talk Report allows overviewing comments made on a specific page and/or space and see in it the following data: Name of a page where an inline comment/suggestion was created Link to an inline comment/suggestion Initial comment/suggestion Priority of an inline comment/suggestion Status (open, resolved, archived) Discussion/suggestion author Users mentioned in a discussion Date when a talk was started Date of talk resolution You can see the Talk Report page in docs, to have a more detailed view of the feature.

            Jürgen Hermann added a comment -

            The feature set of "Task Report" would be suitable for getting a grip on a selection of pages – it could go as far as a simple option to treat an inline comment as a task for the original poster, activated by a simple checkbox ("include inline comments as tasks").

            Super-simple and unobtrusive implementation, not that that ever helped to get it...

            Jürgen Hermann added a comment - The feature set of "Task Report" would be suitable for getting a grip on a selection of pages – it could go as far as a simple option to treat an inline comment as a task for the original poster, activated by a simple checkbox ("include inline comments as tasks"). Super-simple and unobtrusive implementation, not that that ever helped to get it...

            Peter Langley added a comment -

            comments aren't worth much at all if you have no way to report on them or see all of them within a space.  The existing functionality operates like a single confluence page is a single unit of work.  I think it almsot never is.  I imagine most, like me, consider a space or a section of a space to contain related material and dont confine it to a single page.  

            Peter Langley added a comment - comments aren't worth much at all if you have no way to report on them or see all of them within a space.  The existing functionality operates like a single confluence page is a single unit of work.  I think it almsot never is.  I imagine most, like me, consider a space or a section of a space to contain related material and dont confine it to a single page.  

            Keith Sottung added a comment -

            This macro should be avail about NOW. If you can't easily find al unresolved in-line comments.... it really makes the in-line feature less attractive to use.   

            Keith Sottung added a comment - This macro should be avail about NOW. If you can't easily find al unresolved in-line comments.... it really makes the in-line feature less attractive to use.   

            Simon Dunn added a comment -

            add your votes to here https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-36933

            Simon Dunn added a comment - add your votes to here  https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-36933

            J Z added a comment -

            https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-36602

            J Z added a comment - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-36602

            Radek Antoniuk added a comment -

            Adam, I think you could actually write your own macro for that.

            Radek Antoniuk added a comment - Adam, I think you could actually write your own macro  for that.

            Adam Cable added a comment -

            Even just a macro for a count of open comments per page would be great...

            Adam Cable added a comment - Even just a macro for a count of open comments per page would be great...

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