Limiting duplicate page content

[Antony Prout]

Is there anyway that I can have Confluence setup (natively or with a plugin) so that when a user inserts the title for a new page, if a page with a similar title already exists then a popup is displayed informing the user about that page?

An example would be, User A creates a page called "Git setup" and a few days later User B wants to create a page called "How to setup Git". Once they've put in the title I would like a pop up asking them if the page they are about to create is going to be a duplicate of the existing "Git setup" page.

I understand that this should ideally be done with user training (search before you create) but it would be really neat to have this kind of functionality.

[Luiz Maia · Accepted solution]

Hi Antony,

I actually don't see any native function of Confluence or a third-party plugin that allows this. I understand your suggest, and I see we have this same functionality here in answers.atlassian.com when you try to create a new Question.

My suggest would be to try to apply a correct usage of labels, what could help you identify if that page content already exist.

In addition, I raised a improvement request with our development team to implement this function. I suggest you and your mates to vote on this request and also comment on it with your suggestions for this functionality.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-37560

If you have any questions, please let us know. Thanks.

Kind regards,

Luiz Maia
Atlassian Support

[Robert Krause]

Hi @Antony Prout,

you could try the Duplicate Content Defender Plugin. When creating a new page it shows pages, with a similar title and lets you preview their contents.

Best regards,
Robert 

[Antony Prout]

Thanks Robert that looks like it would work for us. I'll check out it.