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In Edit mode, talks can be added anywhere on Confluence pages, including in the middle of the sentence.  

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When you are having a discussion with someone using Talk, it is being updated in real time. And you can see new comments in this discussion right away.


Toggling Sidebar 

Talk - Inline Comments

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Via Insert menu

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Open the page on which you want to start a discussion and switch to Edit mode.

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Click where you want to add an inline comment.

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Enter your comment and click Save. You will see the Talk iconImage Removednext to the commented part, and your comment will be displayed to the right of the page content.

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Instead of clicking Save, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Enter.

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for Confluence allow you to collapse or expand the sidebar with added talks. This is convenient when you need to hide all excess elements from the page and view the clean page.

You can collapse or expand the sidebar with talks in three ways:

  1. Click the button (Image Added or Image Added) located to the right side of your talk discussions.
  2. Deselect or select the Show comment sidebar option.
  3. Press the hotkey ] (square bracket).

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Additionally, you can click the appropriate talk on the page and the sidebar will automatically expand if it was collapsed.

Mentions

To mention a Confluence user in a comment, press @ in the comment field and type a username.

To insert links to other Confluence pages in a comment,

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press [

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and type a page name or paste a page URL to a comment

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You can use wiki markup to format the entered text. Please see this page for more info.

Update your page. A timestamped comment is now posted on the page and is visible to other Confluence users who can access this page and have permissions to view the discussion (more about Managing Permissions).

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All users mentioned in a comment will get both a Workbox and an email notification about a new discussion. You will get Workbox and email notifications about new comments posted in the discussion, if the Autowatch option is enabled in your Confluence user profile.

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Instead of clicking Save

Keyboard Shortcuts

You can use keyboard shortcuts in the editor:

  • Ctrl+Alt+C – add a Talk inline comment in the editor
  • Ctrl+Alt+S – add a Talk suggestion in the editor

Using autocomplete

You can use autocomplete to add Talk inline comments in Edit mode.

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Click Insert.

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, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+

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Via button in the editor toolbar 

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This option is disabled by default. To enable it:

  1. Go to Confluence Administration> Manage apps and locate Talk - Inline Comments for Confluence.
  2. Expand the list of the app's modules.
  3. Enable Talk Editor Insert Button module.

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Click where you want to add an inline comment.

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