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Converting a list to Action Items?

Phil Speer

If I have a list of items like this:

Item 1
- Item 1A
Item 2
Item 3

...and I want to convert that to a list of action items, I used to be able to select the bulleted list, then press the Action Item button at the top, and it'd put a checkbox in front of each item, maintaining the text, indents, and formatting. This worked with the old Confluence system, but under the newer Cloud system, it doesn't work.

This is completely disruptive to my workflow, and I rely on this functionality for my day-to-day work. Anyone know of a way to get this to work properly?

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Angélica Luz

Hello Phil,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Testing on my local Confluence, I was able to replicate the same issue.

It’s possible to convert a bullet list into action items using the legacy editor, but not the new one.

This issue was reported as a bug and I added two gifs on the ticket for our dev team to check what happens in this case:

Not possible to convert the text in bullet points into action items

Please, click on “This affects my team” and also watch to receive updates.

Kind regards,
Angélica

Phil Speer

Thank you for entering this as a bug. I'm unfamiliar with the bug process in Atlassian products. How long does a fix like this typically take to get to users? This issue has significantly affected my workflow, so I'm curious as to how long it will be until I'm back up to normal speed. Thank you again!

Angélica Luz

Hi Phil,

It will depend on each bug. This one, for example, was created in 2019 and you are the first one to report this issue since then, so I’m afraid to say that it won’t be fixed soon.

For more information, please check our policy below:

Atlassian Cloud Bug Fix Policy

Wim May

Seconding this - this would be a great help if it worked properly.

At least if I paste a list into the start of an action item...it should keep the format of an action item instead of converting back to a list. That's expected and isn't how confluence operates even if I use paste and match style.

ehudson

I too am baffled by this not being an option, I'm moving company knowledge to Confluence and find it arduous without instinctive options like action items. Can there be an update? I'm tempted to use another product for the project management side, which personally seems ridiculous!

Hakan Sirin

Fix this, please! Its been 6 months and going...

unknown

Bump! Please fix this

cormacc

Another vote to fix this - it's daft, and greatly limits the use of confluence for minuting meetings

Sylvia Barron_m4x2zk

This is still not possible, right? Another reason to convince my coworkers to change to Notion ...

Hans Christian Stadtler

Bump, Bump ;-)

James Mortensen

This is a huge headache. Even when I go to create an Action Item, if the copied text had a bullet point in it, the checkbox vanishes in place of the bullet point.

It would really be nice to get this fixed.

We're onboarding to Confluence from Google Docs, and this is a much missed feature.

Alícia Rius

I need this too.

Paul Knight_r24aqm

any progress on this?

J.C. Carley

MUCH NEEDED UPDATE!!!!

Does anyone have a workaround?

Alexander Khozya

Hope this will be fixed soon, it's very inconvenient

Michael Rosner_errl9a

This worked for me: I had a bullet list, and I selected the entire list. Turn bullets off. Line by line, click the Action Item button, i.e., selecting multiple lines and clicking Action item didn't work for me. Moving the cursor down to the next line and clicking Action Item does the trick.

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