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How do you disable page comments but keep inline comments enabled?

Anthony Wood_s2dqzd

Inline comments are great because you can discuss an issue and then resolve it.

Page comments (the ones at the bottom of the page) can't be resolved, so they are just always visible, even if they have been fully resolve.

For one of my spaces I want to prohibit the use of page comments but enable (and encourage) inline comments.

I can't work out how to do this. I can only disable/enable page and inline comments together.

Thanks in advance.

Accepted answers

Stephen Deutsch

One option would be to go to the space for which you want to hide the comments, then click on Space Tools, Layout, Stylesheet, and then add the following line:

#comments-section { display:none; }

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Patrick Cartier [Candylio]

There is no out of the box functionality that allows you to disable comments while enabling inline comments. Unfortunately comments and inline comments are all under one permission "add comment".

This plugin allows disabling comments on certain pages, but I'm not sure about inline comments: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.scandio.confluence.plugins.hideelements-macro/server/overview?_ga=2.167233470.1408681685.1520821806-2024476247.1511688550

Stephen Deutsch

One option would be to go to the space for which you want to hide the comments, then click on Space Tools, Layout, Stylesheet, and then add the following line:

#comments-section { display:none; }

Bill Bailey

Love a white tape approach! ;-)

Anthony Wood_s2dqzd

This works just fine for me. Thanks very much :-)

As a follow up question. Do you know how I can disable comments on a single page (rather than a whole space), but still keep inline comments enabled? I also have a need for this.

Stephen Deutsch

My suggestion would be to create a user macro with the following content:

## @noparams
<style>#comments-section { display:none; }</style>

Make sure that it's visible only for Confluence Administrators, call it something like "Disable Page Comments", key like "disable-page-comments", and then insert it into the page(s) for which you want to disable page comments.

Irina_Bel_Stiltsoft_

Hi @Anthony Wood ,

Once you disable Comments permissions on a space level, users aren't able to leave both inline and page comments within this space. However, a workaround might be found in the Talk - Advanced Inline Comments app. Once you disable Comments permission to disable the comment section on a page, you can leave inline comments (talks) with our app. You only need Pages or Comments permissions to leave them.

Moreover, with our app, you can restrict viewing for the talks on a space level or/and for the specific comment thread. Say, you want your comments to be visible only internally. You can set space permissions for the comments only for a group or/and users who can view them. However, any user who can make comments can change restrictions for specific comment threads.

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