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When changing a page in Confluence, there is a text box at the bottom for "What did you change?". Is it possible to make this a required field, so users have to enter a change message? In my previous experience with Wikis, this seems to help a lot when you're looking at list of recent changes or trying to find something in the history of a page, because at the least it provides a hint to relevant/irrelevant changes.
If you don't require users to fill it in, it's easy to forget or simply skip. Making it a required field is about the only way to make it work.
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Update: I ended up doing what Matthew Horn suggested.
To add this, first create a .js file hosted on a webserver somewhere, accessible to anyone accessing your Confluence install. If you're running a proxy in front of the Tomcat confluence server, that is a good place, in for example, a /custom directory.
Contents of this file:
jQuery(function(){ var saveEnabledTitle = 'Save your page ( Type \'Ctrl+S\' )' var previewEnabledTitle = 'Preview ( Type \'Ctrl+Shift+E\' )' var saveDisabledTitle = 'Please enter a change comment before saving'; var previewDisabledTitle = 'Please enter a change comment before previewing'; // confluence UI limitation var saveButtonCheck = function() { var commentField = jQuery('#rte-savebar #versionComment'); if (commentField.length == 0 || !$(commentField).is(':visible')) return; if (commentField.val().length > 0) { jQuery('#rte-savebar #rte-button-publish') .enable() .attr('title', saveEnabledTitle); jQuery('#rte-savebar #rte-button-preview') .enable() .attr('title', previewEnabledTitle); } else { jQuery('#rte-savebar #rte-button-publish') .disable() .attr('title', saveDisabledTitle); // note: have to disable preview too, since it doesn't work if the publish button is disabled. Probably a workaround but pretty complex. jQuery('#rte-savebar #rte-button-preview') .disable() .attr('title', previewDisabledTitle); } } saveButtonCheck(); jQuery('#rte-savebar #versionComment').keyup(saveButtonCheck); $('.aui-buttons.toolbar-group-preview, .save-button-container').click(function() { $('#versionComment').focus(); }); });
To add this to your Confluence, under administration, go to Custom HTML and add to "At the end of BODY":
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://hostname/path/to/file.js"></script>
This is a total hack, but it seems to work so far. Note that if you disable the Save button, the Preview function stops working, which is why I also disabled that button (my preference would be to only require the comment to Save, but it's not a big deal).
Warning: after using this for a year, many users still type useless comments like "update" or "edited" or even just a period. I think it probably will take until they have to go back and wade through a couple dozen changes to find a particular edit themselves before see the value. What's the saying.. you can lead a horse to water...
Hi Greg, you may be able to help me out.
This is basically the kind of functionality I'm looking for, but I just need to know, where did you put this bit of javascript in order for it to effect the confluence page editor?
Thanks in advance
Matt
Thank you Greg for this code.
Using Custom HTML and adding at the end of body, will work only for that page...
My question:
Is it possible run this code in all page of confluence as default? like a event...
Regards,
Caio.
This looks like a more concise solution with fewer dependencies and would be less likely to break:
https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/249722
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