How do I delete many (or all) Comments on a Confluence Page?

[Andreas Haaken]

We have several very long discussions on a Confluence Page, that we want to have deleted, after the things are finailzed. Is tehre a comfortable way to do this?

[Steffen Stamprath]

With this plugin it is easy: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/aptis.plugins.deleteAllComments

[Alexey Matveev [cPrime]]

Hello,

You could use the Power Scripts for Confluence add-on:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219507/power-scripts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview

I've found Power Scripts for Confluence really handy for Confluence admins who want to automate their work and apply bulk actions to Confluence. And it is a free add-on:

You could get all comments for a page and then delete them. Your script would look like this:

number pageId = 123456;
CComment[] comments = getComments(pageId);
for (CComment comment in comments) {
    deleteComment(comment.id);
} 

[Andrew Frayling]

Hi Andreas,

You could do this with the Confluence Command Line Interface plugin - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli - which has a removeComments (https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-removeComments) command.

Would that work for you?

Andrew.

[Andreas Haaken]

Thank you, but that will not be comfortable enough for our authors, as they need a web based way to do this..

[Andrew Frayling]

Ah, ok. There are couple of open feature requests (https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-3902 and https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5023) relating to bulk deleting comments via the web interface, but they haven't been implemented yet. Alternatively, anyone with the remove comment permission on a space can delete the comments one by one.

Andrew.

[Matthew J. Horn]

How about create a page that uses the SQL plugin. That would give you access to the comments.