Inline comments
Inline Comments
As of MultiExcerpt 5.5.0, we have added the ability to make inline comments on our MultiExcerpt and Atlassian's Excerpts that are also visible on the MultiExcerpt Include and Atlassian's Includes.
Limitations
Users will not be able to create inline comments on the content displayed on the Include page (Confluence limitation, see CONFSERVER-36235)
Users can reply to and edit comments, but not add new ones to included content.
They will see this error.
Disable Inline Comment Viewing for Anonymous Users
At the time of the release of MultiExcerpt 5.5.0, Confluence did not allow admins (or anyone else) to use permissions to disable anonymous users' viewing of comments on pages that they were allowed to view.
Now your site admin has the power to hide inline comments from anonymous users using the MultiExcerpt Admin tool:
Users Can Toggle Inline Comment Visibility on a Page
MultiExcerpt adds an item to the page menu that allows users to show/hide inline comments for that page (only for that user). This setting is persisted and is used for subsequent page visits by that user until they change it.
Enable Inline Comment Viewing in Excerpted/Included Content
Allows your site admin to enable/disable the viewing of inline comments in MultiExcerpt Includes, where the comments have been made in the body of a MultiExcerpt on some other page that contains the MultiExcerpt that is included by the MultiExcerpt Include.
That’s a long way to say, “You can now view inline comments on included content!”
This feature works on the MultiExcerpt Include macro and Confluence’s “out of the box” Excerpt Include macro.
Specify Custom Colors for Included Inline Comments
Allows your site admin to specify custom colors for inline comments rendered in an include. They can specify a color for an inline comment when it is not selected and when it is selected (via the user, using their mouse).
This feature works on the MultiExcerpt Include macro and Confluence’s “out of the box” Excerpt Include macro.
Per-macro control over inline comments
In the MultiExcerpt macro, there is a new parameter available in the macro editor to configure whether or not inline comments will be rendered in MultiExcerpt Includes that include the excerpt:
Admin control for inline comments in MultiExcerpt Includes vs Confluence Excerpt Includes
The admin configuration tool for the MultiExcerpt plugin has been enhanced to allow an admin to configure the rendering of inline comments for MultiExcerpt separately to Include macros, and for Confluence Excerpt, Include macros:
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