In Tips for Confluence Administrators: Part 2 We talked about some known bugs in Confluence, and I encourage you to vote for these serious bugs so that Atlassian can prioritize fixing them, such as
- Copy/paste table cells does not work as expected when header cells are merged
- Can't Copy Table Header
- Nested table cannot be resized
- Limited number of users with the same name appeared in the page restriction search
In addition to a few bugs, millions of Confluence users have made more optimization suggestions during use.
These suggestions may one day appear in the newly released version of Confluence, and users will participate in the co-creation of future versions of Confluence to some extent.
BTW, you can also find many alternatives in the comments of these suggestions, such as third-party plug-ins, self-developed methods, etc.
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Global Find and replace
- Link Report/Link Validator
- Record permission changes in page history
- Page edit permissions should be inherited by pages, like view permissions are
- Text statistics like word count, character count, etc.
- Provide ability to override Lucene tokenisation and stemming and search for exact text (literal search)
- Allow admins to change Lucene's stop words
- Disabling the ability to view the "Page History" on a space
- Support for vertical alignment of table cell contents
- Reverse ordering of comment lists
Global Find and replace
Customer has requested the ability to conduct a find and replace across an entire Confluence installation, within a space, within one or more selected spaces or within one or more pages.
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-2522
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217476/find-and-replace-utility-plugin?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/284/confluence-command-line-interface-cli?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1212823/search-and-replace?hosting=server&tab=support
Link Report/Link Validator
Administrators may need to verify if links inside their Confluence pages are working properly. Doing that for a huge space requires time, since there's no automated way of doing this. In a space with 1000 pages, an administrator will need to check page by page and validate all links manually, which is extremely time consuming.
Confluence should have an automated way of verifying all links inside a given space and return a report for administrators to fix broken references.
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/how-do-I-find-all-external-links-in-a-confluence-space/qaq-p/446798
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55958
Record permission changes in page history
Page edit permissions should be inherited by pages, like view permissions are
Edit restrictions are not inherited.
When we have a big existing space and we want to change edit permissions of a hierarchy, it's very painfull because we have to change manually the permissions of every pages of this hierarchy.
We should be able to optionally inherit 'edit' permissions so as to 'view' permissions does.
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-5095
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/What-exactly-is-Confluence-s-permission-inheritance-policy/qaq-p/1480852
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221313/edit-permission-inheritance?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview
Text statistics like word count, character count, etc.
For collaborating on academic writing a word count feature is essential Almost every destination for an academic document has a word limit and it would be really helpful to see how the test is approaching this limit while writing it.
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-7792
Provide ability to override Lucene tokenisation and stemming and search for exact text (literal search)
We would like to able to search for exact text, and not have Lucene tokenise, remove stop words, or do any stemming.
We partly use Confluence as a knowledge base for our own software product, which includes lots of system codes, acrnoyms etc. The specific use case that prompted this was a user wanting to search for the text "S/D". Lucene strips off the 'S', and the '/', leaving the search to just look for 'd'. Not particularly useful.
It would be brilliant if we could enter a query somehow that overrode this.
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/The-Confluence-query-cannot-return-the-correct-result/qaq-p/1877656#U1877712
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-14910
Allow admins to change Lucene's stop words
It would be great if admins could edit the set of stop words used by Lucene.
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-41370
https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-remove-stop-words-in-jira-s-lucene-indexing-836111705.html
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/How-to-change-confluence-lucene-stop-words/qaq-p/463493
Disabling the ability to view the "Page History" on a space
It would be useful to have an option to simply disable the ability to see the Page History of pages on a specific space.
The idea of this improvement would to maintain Confluence saving the page history information but making not possible for users to delete the previous versions (either by accident or with malicious intent).
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-34041
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214087/space-admin-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview
Support for vertical alignment of table cell contents
Especially when merging columns, it would be nice to have the merged cells content aligned vertically.
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-24453
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1222494/vertical-align-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=server
Reverse ordering of comment lists
Comments on pages should be ordered according to administrator's preference - the most recent comment can appear at the top or the bottom of the list.
https://davidsimpson.me/2012/01/24/how-to-reverse-the-order-of-comments-on-confluence-pages/
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-change-order-of-comments/qaq-p/1018025
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-2587
At the end of this article, maybe you want to know when these features will be released, or what new features will be available for Confluence and other Atlassian products in the next quarter or even a year, you can get them from the Data Center Roadmap!
https://www.atlassian.com/roadmap/data-center
- How to disable attachment downloads
- How to hide elements in Confluence using CSS or JavaScript
- How to skip the onboarding page (welcome.action) for new users in Confluence
- confluence.collab.edit.user.limit
- How to put an iFrame into Confluence
- Finding Unused Spaces or Pages
- How do I make my page completely private?
- How to prevent a Space Administrator from delete their Space?
- How to identify inactive users in Confluence
- Not able to copy comments in Confluence
- Make Confluence Space Permissions page read-only
- Disable the display Creator, Last update And who updated
- Restrict creating pages in the home page of a space
- Enforce Password Complexity in Confluence
- HTML macros are disabled by default
- Redirect Confluence users to a new URL
- Get a list of active users counting towards the Confluence license
- Get the number users and groups in Confluence Server and Data Center
- Hide Move and Copy menu for pages
