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  2. CONFSERVER-4337

Improve copy and paste from clipboard into Confluence WYSIWYG editor

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      Summary

      Pasting contents from external sources into Confluence editor reveals a number of problems:

      Pasting from web sources::
      • Mixed-media pastes (text + images) from web sources does not work. Will result in missing images.
        • Unable to copy images individually from web sources are tracked in a different ticket: CONFSERVER-28739
      Pasting from Microsoft apps (Word, Excel)
      • Mixed-media pastes (text + images) does not work. Will result in missing images.
      • When data is passed via Ajax to switch between markup and rich text views, the StringUtils.escapeCP1252 method is not applied.
      • Extra  s,
      • Extra macros
      • List elements each become a paragraph (I don't think there's enough information in the HTML to fix this)

            [CONFSERVER-4337] Improve copy and paste from clipboard into Confluence WYSIWYG editor

            We are really talking about the very basics of data management in the windows environment. We are not asking for a corner case to be addressed.

            Richard Franke added a comment - We are really talking about the very basics of data management in the windows environment. We are not asking for a corner case to be addressed.

            I'm having the same trouble trying to copy & paste text from a Teams Wiki to a Confluence page.  The text (formatted with bullet points) is there for a second but if I click anywhere on the page, it all just disappears!  It's so weird.  If I paste as plain text it stays there but all the formatting is lost and the bullet points appear as one long paragraph so can't easily be reformatted.  It's really annoying!

            Danielle Downs added a comment - I'm having the same trouble trying to copy & paste text from a Teams Wiki to a Confluence page.  The text (formatted with bullet points) is there for a second but if I click anywhere on the page, it all just disappears!  It's so weird.  If I paste as plain text it stays there but all the formatting is lost and the bullet points appear as one long paragraph so can't easily be reformatted.  It's really annoying!

            I have the same issues outlined above.

            Kalese Webber added a comment - I have the same issues outlined above.

            Additional notes about this major design flaw/bug:

            • Atlassian support tells me that copy-paste from one Confluence page to another also results in junk HTML. This is just bad programming; a  bug. Not a feature request.
            • The copy-paste problems occur regardless of where you are copy-pasting from: Notepad, Google docs, anything.

             

            Laura Schneider added a comment - Additional notes about this major design flaw/bug: Atlassian support tells me that copy-paste from one Confluence page to another also results in junk HTML. This is just bad programming; a  bug. Not a feature request. The copy-paste problems occur regardless of where you are copy-pasting from: Notepad, Google docs, anything.  

            Additional notes about this major design flaw/bug:

            • Atlassian support tells me that copy-paste from one Confluence page to another also results in junk HTML. This is just bad programming; a  bug. Not a feature request.
            • The copy-paste problems occur regardless of where you are copy-pasting from: Notepad, Google docs, anything.

             

            Laura Schneider added a comment - Additional notes about this major design flaw/bug: Atlassian support tells me that copy-paste from one Confluence page to another also results in junk HTML. This is just bad programming; a  bug. Not a feature request. The copy-paste problems occur regardless of where you are copy-pasting from: Notepad, Google docs, anything.  

            Laura Schneider added a comment - Please vote for and watch these related issues:  https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-7118 https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-60231

            Scott Eck added a comment -

            We have all sorts of formatting problems when attempting to copy from external sources to Confluence. Lists get mangled among other things.

            Scott Eck added a comment - We have all sorts of formatting problems when attempting to copy from external sources to Confluence. Lists get mangled among other things.

            Hi Everyone,

            I'm updating this feature request to address all issues observed with pasting content from any external sources into Confluence editor as this is currently a limitation in Confluence. We'd like all existing issues related to copy-pasting content to be consolidated in this single Feature request. This will help us centralizing our tickets and to have an accurate number of users that are affected by this issue.

            Thanks!

            Monique | Atlassian Support

            Monique Khairuliana (Inactive) added a comment - Hi Everyone, I'm updating this feature request to address all issues observed with pasting content from any external sources into Confluence editor as this is currently a limitation in Confluence. We'd like all existing issues related to copy-pasting content to be consolidated in this single Feature request. This will help us centralizing our tickets and to have an accurate number of users that are affected by this issue. Thanks! Monique | Atlassian Support

            Anne EQS added a comment -

            We're facing issues with saving pages when copying content from Word or Outlook. (Unable to save)

            Anne EQS added a comment - We're facing issues with saving pages when copying content from Word or Outlook. (Unable to save)

            Images are lost when copying from Word and pasting into the editor in 5.2.3.

            Jacob Kirsch added a comment - Images are lost when copying from Word and pasting into the editor in 5.2.3.

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