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If I have a list of items like this:
...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?
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:
Please, click on “This affects my team” and also watch to receive updates.
Kind regards,
Angélica
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!
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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.
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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.
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Agreed, I find myself needing to do the same thing. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
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Agreed this would help me, particularly while exporting retro boards from various tools and pasting them into confluence. All those actions could become action items easily.
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I need that same thing. Hopefully this isn't too hard and gets bumped up.
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This is a daily pain for me as I write a lot of documents about processes and action list and if I forget to start the list as a TASK one, at the end I have to spend time going line by line and changing it to a TASK.
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Ran into this today. This is ridiculous.
Is it too much to ask for a wiki that is fast and useful? (I'd even take _or_ at this point).
The "new" editor is so much worse than the "old" editor which was so much worse than writing in your inconsistent-between-products markup language.
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Truly ridiculous that this basic formatting capability is not present!
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Yes, while I'm unfamiliar with the old version, I also have encountered this list to action items issue and hope this is being addressed quickly. At the moment, copy/pasting seems to be the only workaround. Fixing this would enhance the speed of work significantly. Sometimes when creating a list, one cannot predict that it needs to be in action item format. That is the nature of the creative process.
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Are there any updates on fixing this bug? Seems like a long-standing issue that should be quick to fix and affects lots of users as evidenced by the traffic/comments above.
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This remains a daily annoyance - it looks like it has been an issue for over a year, likely with many users experiencing daily annoyance. Are there any updates on this issue?
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