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We're collating feedback on the new editor introduced in Confluence 4.0 here. If you have feedback on a bug, a task you now find harder or are unable to do in the new editor then please leave a comment below and we'll incorporate it into this page (and remove the comment afterwards).
Detailed Feedback
| Customer Feedback | Atlassian | ||
| From | Comment | Notes | Related Tickets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-Yves Avenard, Nils Andresen | Want to be able to find & replace | This is on the short term roadmap | CONF-4402 |
| MattS | how do I change 100 URLs on a page that have a typo in their domain name? | ||
| Andreas Pfotenhauer | ...imported from a trac wiki, and the importer had left some strange inline css in place, setting some padding and margins, and i was not able to remove it using the new wonderful editor, so finally i edited the page directly in the database... | ||
| Anonymous | |||
| Anonymous | The code block macro often reformats my code | ||
| Anonymous | I want "insert jira issue" to be included in the autocomplete when I start with {jira, which now only shows the 'JIRA Issues' and 'JIRA Portlet' macros | CONF-23858 | |
| Anonymous | I want to be able to insert or edit a macro and it's paramaters without having to touch the mouse | ||
| Anonymous | |||
| Nils Andresen | If I have a table (or a note/warning) directly followed by a heading
| Nils, for a quick workaround of sorts, you can use the Keyboard Shortcuts to remove (and apply) the heading so you don't need to use the mouse when using your second approach. | |
| Nils Andresen | When inserting a macro with properties (like note:heading=...) I am currently unable to do this
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| Jean-Yves Avenard | As the wiki being edited is about a mathematical tool, there's lots of use of upper/lower script and font of different size. As the feature to change the font size isn't available with confluence, we created a macro small/big like so: {small:80}text{small}. The wysiwyg is completely broken for those, the smaller sized text appears on a different line so you have to keep switching between wysiwyg mode and preview. | Jean-Yves can you provide an example of what you're trying to do and how it worked before? Is this not something that the subscript & suprscript formats can do for you? | |
| Justin Spies | In the past I viewed the Wiki text version, copied that text and then pasted it into a new template. How do I do so now without having to create the document twice since the template editor is not rich text, but rather is straight Wiki text? | This will be addressed in the future | CONF-11744 |
| sanjay srikonda | Linking within the same page is a nightmare in 4.0. I have to press CTL+K to bring up the link window, yet, NOTHING in that window seems to work for linking within the same page. I have to create the same link 3-4 times before it "sticks" in my page. | ||
Other Feedback - Needs more detail / use case info
Just to separate out the content while we collaborate over it, these are some of the more generalised comments from different locations that we would love to nail down to specifics. Add a comment if you can assist in this, especially if you originally raised it.
| From | Comment | Atlassian Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymous | I often capture technical documentation in another editor before posting it to the wiki – this is in lieu of not documenting at all. What is broken is the ability to take these documents in wiki markup and work with it offline before reposting. | |
| Diego Ballve | sometimes I used to copy a page away, do replacements on it using wiki syntax on text editor (say most of the page was good some paths and variables in the content had to be changed to reflect a different environment), then insert it back as new page. No can do now. | use case is doing find/replace on links and variables? |
| Anonymous | user macros are crippled | |
| Anonymous | code macro does not work | |
| Anonymous | copy&paste of content to and from tables is a mess | Perhaps this is about missing the ability to copy/paste multiple rows? |
| Anonymous | send a page by email in wiki-markup to a customer and they could update the documentation | |
| Anonymous | copy/paste of complex layout, even on a mobile device | What is the use case behind doing this? Not something copy page can do? |
| Jean-Yves Avenard | it has broken all my macros | |
| Nils Andresen | Moving things around in lists (like this one..) by using copy & paste is horrible | Nils would this begin to address those issues? What are the other specifics? |
| Nils Andresen | the "enter insert new paragraph"-feature makes me cranky | Nils is this in lists (like above) or other situations also? |
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