Looking for advanced tasks options with numbered lists

[Think Technologies Group]

Hi All,

I've seen the question asked, but only answered with ugly hacks and I've yet to see a plugin for it, though I'm hoping one exists. 

We use Confluence for a lot of process documents. The documents are LONG and INTRICATE. Number lists work great for organization; however, due to the nature of the docs, they are very easy to lose your place or in some cases, when skipping steps is necessary, hard to track if you've done all of the steps or missed any and need to come back.

What I would love to find, at it's most basic, is a way to have numbered list plus the task based check boxes so as you are going through a process document, you can check off each step as it is completed. This would also give you a clear view of what steps had to be skipped. I have seen people who use a Number and then a sub line of a task, I've tried it and it makes the documents even harder to read.

In a perfect world, this would have some type of "reset" at the end to clear all of the check boxes for the next user OR a quick copy button to make a copy of the document so that the task list checks aren't saved for future users of the document.

I'll do my best to example this:

[x] 1. Step 1 actions
[x] 2. Step 2 actions
[  ] 3. Step 3 actions
etc etc

EDIT: I found another question on here were someone came up with a great work around to the "Reset" check box. It requires that you enable HTML macros in Confluence: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/html-macro-38273085.html

Here's the code as well to put inside the html macro:

<a id="removeAllcbx" href="#">Remove checkboxes</a> <script type="text/javascript"> AJS.toInit(function () { AJS.$('#removeAllcbx').click(function() { $( "ul.inline-task-list" ).find( "li" ).removeClass("checked"); }); }); </script>

[Shannon S]

Hello,

Nice to hear from you again!

I'm not aware of any add-ons specifically that can do that, other than using the HTML workaround that you discovered. We had a feature request to use both a task macro inside a numbered list, but we do not have plans to implement it:

• CONFSERVER-36765 Create a list with numbers AND task checkboxes

I've included your question in the Marketplace Apps collection, in case anyone is aware of an add-on that will help you with this task.

Regards,

Shannon

[Think Technologies Group]

Hi Shannon,

I read through that add-on request and see that a few people wanted it there as well as I have found several posts on this forum. I think it would be a good idea to reopen that request. 

[Shannon S]

Hi there,

I am unable to reopen cases after they have been closed by development. If you'd like, you can raise a new request at jira.atlassian.com and refer to the original request there.

Please feel free to share that link with us once you've done so!

Regards,

Shannon