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To delete a comment from a page, you require 'Remove Comments' permission which is assigned by a space administrator from the Space Administration screens. See Space permissions or contact a space administrator for more information.

Currently, it is not possible to delete all comments for a page simultaneously.

To delete a comment:

  1. Go to the page that contains the comment.
  2. Click Remove at the bottom of the comments box. This is only displayed if you have permission to remove comments for this page.
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Deleted comments cannot be restored.

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  1. Oct 06, 2009

    Normen Maaß

    I want to restrict the "Delete" Permission for the comments. As I know you can only set the permissons in that way that a user can delete comments or can't delete comments. My requirements are that a user can only delete his own comments, but he mussn't delete comments of other users. Does have anybody an idea how I can solve this probelm. Maybe via Plugin?

    1. Oct 12, 2009

      Zed Yap [Atlassian]

      Hi Normen,

      I want to restrict the "Delete" Permission for the comments. As I know you can only set the permissons in that way that a user can delete comments or can't delete comments. My requirements are that a user can only delete his own comments, but he mussn't delete comments of other users. Does have anybody an idea how I can solve this probelm. Maybe via Plugin?

      As far as I know, the feature requested is not available yet and I could not think of any plugin which might fits your requirements. However, I found an improvement request in JIRA:

      Please add your comments to the discussion, vote on it and add yourself as a watcher for future updates. Also, please bear in mind the following document on how we schedule features for inclusion in our products: Implementation of New Features and Improvements.

      In the mean time I have a mere suggestion, you might want to achieve this by doing some simple customisation. To achieve this please follow the steps shown below:

      1. Edit the Comment.vmd file via <confluence install>\decorators\components
      2. Look for the following line:
      3. Now right below the above code append the line with the following code:
      4. Save the changes

      Now the user will not be able to delete other user comment.

      Hope that helps.
      Best rgds,
      Zed

      1. Oct 12, 2009

        Normen Maaß

        Thanks. This was a solution I thought about it too. But the big drawback is that an administrator can't delete a comment either.

        1. Oct 12, 2009

          Zed Yap [Atlassian]

          Hi Normen,

          I have added additional syntax on the if statement. With this extra statement all the confluence-administrators group will be allow to have the remove option for a comment. To do so please follow the steps shown below:

          1. Edit the Comment.vmd file via <confluence install>\decorators\components
          2. Look for the following line:
          3. Now right below the above code append the line with the following code:
          4. Save the changes

          Hope that helps.
          Best rgds,
          Zed

          1. Oct 12, 2009

            Normen Maaß

            Hi Zed,

            Thanks. Sorry for misunderstanding. I don't mean the Confluence administrator. I mean a group of user how are responsible for a space. I could maybe a space administrator or another group of users.For instance, our editorial department who are responsible for internal communication must be able to delete comments. The editorial department are not systemadministrator.

            Normen

  2. Jan 28, 2010

    Anonymous

    Is it possible to retrieve a deleted comment from the Database in confluence 3.1

    Thank you,

    Mustafa

    1. Feb 05, 2010

      Jack Low [Atlassian]

      Hi Mustafa,
      Unfortunately, the feature that you are after is not available now. We'd have an existing feature request being tracked here:

      Please feel free to comment on it, vote on it to increase it's popularity, and add yourself as a watcher for future update.

      Thanks & regards,
      Jack

  3. Jul 26, 2011

    Anonymous

    I can't find any "remove" link in or near the comment. Can anyone show a screen shot? I've looked in edit mode and without, and I'm a Global Admin. Thanks, Emily.