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Feature | Talk add-on for Confluence | Confluence 5.7 native inline comments | Notes | |||||||||||
Creating inline comments by just pointing to the paragraph you refer to |
| With bigger fragments of text it’s so much easier to just point to a paragraph to comment it.Talk allows that in view mode. With Confluence native inline comments you are supposed to highlight the whole text fragment. | ||||||||||||
Creating inline comments by selecting a text fragment | Talk has another concept, thus it doesn't support adding inline comments to the highlighted text. Confluence native inline comments work by adding inline comments to a selected text fragment. | |||||||||||||
Default Space Comments Viewing Comments Permissions | With Talk you can set default space viewing permissions applied to all the talks created within the space.
Confluence 5.7 allows you to set space permissions for creating and deleting (not viewing) comments; and for viewing All or nothing. This way you can't hide single inline comments or all of them , as from the users with "view All" space permission. As users either have the permission to view the pages with all the inline comments in the space (if they have "view All" permission) or they can't view pages (together with their pages' inline comments) at all. | |||||||||||||
Setting up permissions for specific comments
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| With Talk you can very easily configure individual permissions for any separate comment on your page while adding or editing that comment.
Whilewith Confluence native inline comments you can set only Space Permissions for inline comments. They automatically apply to all the inline comments of the Space, not 5.7 page's viewing is either restricted together with all of its content or a user can view a page with all of its content (including all of the inline comments). As there are either default view All or view nothing permissions. So there's no way to restrict viewing of some of the native inline comments. Not very convenient when you need different permissions for different comments in on your Spacepage. | ||||||||||||
Viewing all inline comments of the page at the same time on the right-hand sidebar
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| With Talk inline comments are displayed in view mode on the right-hand sidebar all at once. You can expand the sidebar and go through all the comments and discussion. Reviewing your pages and finding needed comments is very convenient with this Talk feature. With Confluence native inline comments are displayed in view mode on the right-hand sidebar only one inline comment at a time. | ||||||||||||
Navigating to previous/next inline comments
| Talk optionally displays all inline comments of the page at the same time instead and might have navigation later. Confluence 5.7 has the "navigation between inline comments"feature. | |||||||||||||
Archiving comments and restoring archived comments | With Confluence native inline comments you can delete or resolve comments, but not archive them. While with Talk you can not only remove, but also archive your comments.
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Updating discussions in real time
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| With Talk if you are having a discussion with someone on the page using Talk, your discussion is being updated in real time; and you can see new comments in this discussion right away. This feature is essential for real time discussions using inline comments. With Confluence native inline comments you only get workbox notifications about new comments and have to click “Show me” every time, as there’s no real time refreshing of discussions.
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Add inline comments in edit mode |
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| With Talk you can add inline comments ANYWHERE on your page in edit mode. With Confluence native inline comments you can’t add inline comments in edit mode. | |||||||||||
Restore removed (aka deleted, resolved) comments |
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| With Talk it’s possible to delete/resolve comments by removing or archiving them. You can restore both removed and archived comments.
With Confluence native inline comments you can either delete or resolve comments. While you can restore resolved Confluence native inline comments, you can’t restore the deleted ones.If you delete them by mistake or for some reason need to get intentionally deleted comments back, you can’t so that. They are gone for good. |
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