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The Talk add-on
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Comparison: Talk add-on and Confluence native inline comments
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Feature
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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. | ||||||||
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. | ||||||
Setting up default Space comments viewing permissions | With Talk you can set default space viewing permissions applied to all the talks created within the space.
In Confluence, you can give a user permissions to delete or add comments (including inline comments), but there's no way to restrict viewing comments to users with the 'View All' permission. It gives no solution for the case when certain users or groups should be able to view all of the available page content but for inline comments. | ||||||||
Setting up permissions for specific comments |
| With Talk you can very easily configure individual permissions for any separate comment on your page while adding or editing that comment. If you want to know more about managing permissions, please, follow this link. You can't do it for specific Confluence native inline comments. Since 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). Not very convenient when you need different permissions for different comments on your page. | |||||||
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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Restore removed (aka resolved) threads
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| With Talk it’s possible to resolve threads by removing or archiving them. You can restore both removed and archived threads.
With Confluence native inline comments you can either delete or resolve threads. While the resolved ones can be restored, you can’t restore the deleted threads.If you delete them by mistake or for some reason need to get intentionally deleted threads back, you can’t do that. They are gone for good. | ||||||
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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