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It would be nice to have a tag that allows for embedded comments. For instance, the page could be edited and the following added anywhere in the page...
{comment:visible=true|user=me}This is a visible comment.{comment}
...which would show the little user icon at the point in the document where the comment is. By hovering over the comment the text would popup in either a floating div or even a tooltip, the username in the 'user' attribute would also be displayed. Setting 'visible' to false would make the comment only visible when the document is being edited.
Comments piled up at the bottom of the page are okay, But when a few people on a team are collaborating on a document it is VERY useful to have the comments embedded in the document.
Also, maybe have a 'Comments ON/OFF' switch to view the document without comments.
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[CONFSERVER-4486] Embedded Comments
Nice would be:
- Highlight text on a page
- Tooltip to create a comment or JIRA issue comes up
- Click on Comment
- The highlighted text will be inserted in the next comment as quote
- Write your comment to the quote
- Make a footnote in the Confluence page highlighted content before with link to the real comment
Chris Decker
added a comment - Big +1 for this. I'm currently pushing to get our entire company on board with using Confluence for all of our internal reference materials, training manuals, etc., and a lack of redlining functionality and inline comments has become a huge barrier to user acceptance.
Chris Decker
added a comment - Big +1 for this. I'm currently pushing to get our entire company on board with using Confluence for all of our internal reference materials, training manuals, etc., and a lack of redlining functionality and inline comments has become a huge barrier to user acceptance. +1 for this feature and a big vote for following the outstanding example provided by Medium as Charles Hall suggests. Talk requires the author of the document to insert a macro at every point where a user might add a comment which is not really usable.
Trimble Navigation NZ
added a comment - +1 here also. Not easy to get collaboration on a long document when you can't add comments inline.
Trimble Navigation NZ
added a comment - +1 here also. Not easy to get collaboration on a long document when you can't add comments inline. 
Lee
added a comment - +1 as Confluence Talk doesn't work on OnDemand. 
Charles Hall
added a comment - While I've voted on this issue and added comments urging Atlassian to follow Google's implementation, we should recognise that other systems offer this functionality also. The inline commenting offered by Medium looks even slicker than how Google do it. Take a look at this example, there are comments for the final paragraphs - https://medium.com/on-publishing/e87e836ccff1
I find the speech bubble with a number in it really good - not too intrusive but I can see easily which paragraphs have prompted further discussion. Clicking on the speech bubble shows/hides the comments nicely. I think this sets a new benchmark to aim for with Confluence.
The official status at the top of this ticket dates from May 2013. Please Atlassian, can you give this more consideration? For this feature alone, many of our internal users consider GoogleDocs to be a collaborative system, and Confluence "just a wiki", which is doing it a great disservice.
Charles Hall
added a comment - While I've voted on this issue and added comments urging Atlassian to follow Google's implementation, we should recognise that other systems offer this functionality also. The inline commenting offered by Medium looks even slicker than how Google do it. Take a look at this example, there are comments for the final paragraphs - https://medium.com/on-publishing/e87e836ccff1
I find the speech bubble with a number in it really good - not too intrusive but I can see easily which paragraphs have prompted further discussion. Clicking on the speech bubble shows/hides the comments nicely. I think this sets a new benchmark to aim for with Confluence.
The official status at the top of this ticket dates from May 2013. Please Atlassian, can you give this more consideration? For this feature alone, many of our internal users consider GoogleDocs to be a collaborative system, and Confluence "just a wiki", which is doing it a great disservice. +1 to Bernards comment - this should be bread and butter, and after using Google Docs for a while we cannot live without this for Confluence. We have a 500 user commercial license, looking to expand. But we really need this. Get it on the roadmap, please!
Torgeir Hovden
added a comment - - edited +1 to Bernards comment - this should be bread and butter, and after using Google Docs for a while we cannot live without this for Confluence. We have a 500 user commercial license, looking to expand. But we really need this. Get it on the roadmap, please! +1 This feature could be awesome to overcome google docs. I saw something like this in this issue CRUC-6317 .Really cool...
Hi Everyone,
Thank you for your patience with this issue. The Confluence team is pleased to advise that in the upcoming Confluence 5.7 release you will be able to create comments within content. We are calling this "inline comments".
For Cloud (previously OnDemand) customers, this is available to you today. Simply highlight some text, and select the "inline comment" option on a page.
For Server customers this will be available shortly early next year!
We hope you enjoy it.
Merry Christmas!
The Confluence Team