It's strange that this post was created September 2nd, 2020, and we're just now hearing about it via a "Confluence November digest" e-mail I received today (November 10th, 2020). We do not yet see it on our instance but are very much looking forward to it (and just recently complained about the issue it solves)! Hopefully, its inclusion in the e-mail "newsletter" means that rollout will soon be complete. Like, Lee, though, I'd love priority access. We also very recently found a bug related to comments where resolved comments are not being shown past a certain number of comments, so we know how to bug find!
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November 10, 2020 edited
Thank you for your comments. We appreciate your feedback and it's exciting to see so many customers looking forward to this release. We are in the process of rolling out the feature to all customers and ensuring that it's a high performance and high quality experience for everyone. We ask that you please be patient and expect all customers to have access to the feature in the next week or two.
Best,
Daniel Ayele Senior Product Manager Confluence Cloud
This is awesome news! I've been waiting on this feature for years. There were some good Marketplace Apps that solved this for server/dc, but they were never approved for internal use by our admins.
Ship it and ship it fast! My team needs this!
BTW ...why not eliminate Edit/Publish as a follow on? It seems like the Permission function revolves around comment handling and one could just set permissions for the page instead of requiring an edit/publish mode. My team often has to publish a blank page first then provide edit links for quicker collaboration. So we end up using the edit links to mimic the 'always iterative' design we see in other products such as Google Docs. Food for thought! Excited about the end of published-view based comments
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November 17, 2020 edited
Thank you all for the questions and discussion, we're really excited to bring this feature to all of you. I'm excited to announce that all customers now have access to inline comments in edit! (caveat: for those customers who have opted in to change management it will take a little while longer to get access via the next batched release). I'm also hosting an AmA on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Confluence/status/1328745120393474049 for the next few hours, so feel free to hop in to the conversation if you have questions or feedback.
got released on my instance this morning, a great improvement!
In the odd occasions, comments aren't showing, requiring a page refresh. That being said, I've been having that issue previously before and seems to be related to the Confluence Cloud server.
@Gerri Mills I think that probably makes sense. I assume that when a page is being edited, everyone sees the latest published version (which is probably a different instance of the page in the Confluence backend).
It's very confusing - If I add an inline comment whilst editing, the only time it is visible is in edit mode. So once the page is published, those comments are not visible. So, then I add the comment again (while not in edit mode) so people can see the comment.
THEN, if you go back to edit there are two comments.
@Gerri Mills IMHO, that is a bug in your instance. You should contact Atlassian support directly. I suspect they'll be receptive since this feature literally just rolled out.
On my instance, comments created in edit or view mode are always visible in either edit or view mode, which is what I would expect.
I created a test page to try it out, but of course the new Public Links feature only allows sharing the contents of a page, and not its comments, which defeats the purpose here.
This rolled out to us today and it's working. I agree with previous comments that this will be a useful feature, as I can now process comments of suggested edits while I'm actually editing (wow, imagine that).
Feedback for Atlassian itself = can you update this page as the rollouts occur? Seems lots of people aren't clear on the difference between an announced vs. GA feature, and I was initially confused when reading this article (dated two months ago) and seeing the "available now" popup in Confluence.
Is anyone having trouble getting alerts for these? I get them via the app as a push alert but nothing in email. I get other Confluence alerts in email and I checked my alert settings.
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