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 you to do that in view mode.

With Confluence native inline comments you are supposed to highlight the whole text fragment.

Simple set up of permissions for specific comments while adding or editing comments

You can set up Space Permissions for inline comments for both, Talk and Confluence inline comments. But only with Talk you can also adjust permissions for any comment on your page with a couple of clicks while adding or editing that comment. *

While with 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 very convenient when you need different permissions for different comments in your Space.

Viewing all inline comments of the page at the same time on the right-hand sidebar

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.

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 get to do all that, plus archive your comments. **

Comment pictures

With Talk you can attach an inline comment to a picture, with Confluence native inline comments you can’t do that.

Refreshing discussions in

real time

With Talk if you are having a discussion with someone on the page using Talk, your discussion is being refreshed 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 informed about new comments and have to click “Show me” every time, as there’s no real time refreshing of discussions.

Add inline comments in edit mode

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

Partially

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.