Confluence collaborative editing - Change name initial letter on cursor location

Catalin_e9xn3r

Hello,

We're using collaborative editing in our confluence and one of the teams has 3 persons with the same name initial. Most of the times they all get the same color when editing, and combined with the same initial it makes a mess. We crowd-source our meeting notes and it's confusing to see 3 green Cs editing on the same topic. I get that for some teams it might just be a minor inconvenience, but in our case we would like to know who-is-who, to give priority to the most knowledgeable person for the topic (developer, tester, scrum master).

So, is there a way to configure the initials used in the collaborative editing?

thank you

Diego_88dj6o

Hello @Catalin !

After reading your question, I went through some testing and could verify that this is indeed the behavior of Collaborative editing.

With this in mind, I went ahead and created two different Feature requests. One of them tackles the issue with name initials and the other one tackles the issue with repeated colors. Here, take a look:

• [Confluence Server][CONFSERVER-59400] Assign different colors to all users editing a page with collaborative editing
• [Confluence Server][CONFSERVER-59401] Allow users to select which letter will be used in their Collaborative editing text cursor

 

Currently, the best course of action is to vote and watch both reports. Voting helps to increase the issue visibility and watching it will keep you up to date with everything posted there. Be sure to voice your experience in the ticket as well!

 

Looking forward to your reply, Catalin!