Is temporary text highlighting possible?

[Nikki Rosenberg]

Is it possible to highlight a piece of text in a Confluence article for a temporary period? The goal is to highlight new sections or updates to sections so it is easy for users to see what changed on a page. The highlighted text should automatically un-highlight after a few weeks. 

I know this is manually possible using the recent highlighting addition, however preferably we do not need to come back to articles to un-highlight content and it would be done automatically. I don't think this is possible in Confluence itself, but maybe there is an add-on someone can recommend?

Thanks! 

[Barbara Szczesniak]

I could see a use case for this, since I generate output for our Scroll Viewport site after each deployment (3-week sprints). It would be nice if each new output would highlight only have text changed since the last output. 

Since I need to highlight the new text manually, though, what I'd really need is a way to remove the highlights from the text in Confluence after I publish the output—before I start making the changes that I will want to highlight for the next. 

Of course, the biggest problem is getting anyone else who makes a change to highlight it. I can't even get them to put in a comment saying what they changed when they publish.

Anyway, I guess what I'd like to see is a way to search a space for all pages with highlighted text, so I could go and remove it before making further changes. I would want to do this manually, though, as there are places where I highlight text (in a different color) for other purposes.

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Interesting one @Nikki Rosenberg 👀

I don't see many use cases for this (at the moment), but you could maybe check with the official Support team about this requirement. You can raise "Technical issues and bugs" request 
Their staff usually checks the use case and, based on it, can create a new feature suggestion on JAC.

I haven't managed to find anything related that's open at the moment, but idea is to maybe check if this can be done by using REST API + automation, but that would probably require some work (initially to analyze if that's even possible, and then how to construct it) - but, from similar experience, I'd say it's easier to manually update content then to construct something like that 😅

Cheers,
Tobi

[Charlie Misonne]

Hi Nikki

I never heard of such a feature but it is an interesting idea. I can not find a Martketplace app that does this.

By default users can compare versions of a page by going to the version history. What has changed will be highlighted.
You could also add a Change History macro on the pages for users to see there was a recent change.

[Brandi Guess]

This exists in another way, Users who want to see what has changed would be able to go to Version History and compare the current with the previous version which shows what changed. 

I have worked a lot with automations, and I do not think this would work even with API the way you are wanting it to.  but I obviously have not tried so I could be incorrect.