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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-36933

Improve Inline Comments

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      Atlassian Update – 08 May 2023

      Hi everyone,

      Thank you for your patience as we look into this suggestion. We understand that this is a core requirement for many of you and with the context of your feedback we have been investigating how we can best deliver this in Confluence.

      We are excited to share that we plan to deliver a solution that allows users to easily navigate to the first inline comment whilst viewing a page. This functionality will be delivered as part of View inline comments in edit mode very soon. Please look out for this upcoming feature in the Confluence Release Notes, and continue to watch this ticket for further updates.

      Kind regards,

      Jacqueline Bietz

      Confluence Data Center

      Inline comments need some improvements. Currently, there is no way to tell if a page has any inline comments just by looking at the top of the page. A user has to visually scan the page and try to see if there is any highlighting indicating an inline comment. This is hard to do and undesirable for several reasons:

      1. The page may be dense or very busy,
      2. the highlighting used is faint and hard to see on many monitors we tested,
      3. the can take a long time to do on long pages without any guarantee of success and the effort may be wasted if there are no comments.

      Also, there is no way to open the inline comment browser except for finding an inline comment and clicking on it. We request the following features:

      1. Display a count of the inline comments at the top of the page.
      2. Provide a link / menu option / keyboard shortcut to view the inline comments when you are not currently viewing any inline comments.
        1. If the count of inline comments is > 0, then the count could be a link that, when clicked, opens the right-side sidebar to view and navigate inline comments for the page.
        2. Hitting ] should toggle the right-side inline comment navigator.

              3de8ace38af0 Jacqueline Bietz
              2560fa7d93fc Graham Martin
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