How can I direct a colleague to a specific portion of a page?

[Robert E_ Schneider]

We are currently converting the documentation of our software from Word/PDF to Confluence. While importing and revising the documents I sometimes hit a statement of which I am unsure. I would like to mark this specific passage (maybe a word or a sentence only) and ask a colleague to check it. 

I entered a selfmade mark there (".*###") and asked my colleague to search for this string. But the search will not return anything.

Is there a better way of doing this?

[Alexis Robert · Accepted solution]

Hi @Robert E_ Schneider, 

maybe you can take a look at the inline comment function, it seems that it could do exactly what you want: highlight a specific statement in a page with comments on what to change/check.

It would show like this on the page:

 If you want to direct a user to a specific portion of a page, you can also use the anchor function to do this.

Let me know if this helps, 

--Alexis

[Robert E_ Schneider]

Hi Alexis, 

thank you for the advice! Seems that it is - in a way - what I am looking for. 
However: When I select text the comment-sign will not appear. I checked my profile settings - "Text select" is active. 

But anyway: even though I couldn't try it: my self-made markup looks a little easier to handle. The target person can search for it at their leisure and I just enter the question in the text. No need to send an extra message.

I changed my markup to "$QSTxxx" with "xxx" being the user I want to ask. That works in the search.

Best regards

Robert

[Tarun Sapra]

Hello @Robert E_ Schneider

In addition to the answer provided by @Alexis Robert you can also use "Anchor tag" and share the URL which will take your colleague to the exact point in the page which you have marked and wish to be discussed/reviewed.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/anchors-139442.html

[Robert E_ Schneider]

Hallo @Tarun Sapra,

thank you for your reply! But I am looking for something quick and simple to use. Adding an anchor seems a bit too much for this.

But I found, why I didn't get the comment-tag, when I selected text: this is only displayed when you view an page, not in an edit-session.  But that's still no good, because I want to ask the question while I am editing the page. Publishing it and then searching it for the text in question to add the inline comment, is not an option.

Looks like I will stick with my homemade markups.

But thank you for caring!