Confluence collaborative editing - Change name initial letter on cursor location
Asked by Catalin:

Hello,

We're using collaborative editing in our confluence and one of the teams has 3 persons with the same name initial. Most of the times they all get the same color when editing, and combined with the same initial it makes a mess. We crowd-source our meeting notes and it's confusing to see 3 green Cs editing on the same topic. I get that for some teams it might just be a minor inconvenience, but in our case we would like to know who-is-who, to give priority to the most knowledgeable person for the topic (developer, tester, scrum master).

So, is there a way to configure the initials used in the collaborative editing?

thank you


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Catalin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1362440) !

After reading your question, I went through some testing and could verify that this is indeed the behavior of Collaborative editing.

With this in mind, I went ahead and created two different Feature requests. One of them tackles the issue with name initials and the other one tackles the issue with repeated colors. Here, take a look:
> * ++**[\[Confluence Server\]\[CONFSERVER-59400\] Assign different colors to all users editing a page with collaborative editing](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59400)**++
> * [++**\[Confluence Server\]\[CONFSERVER-59401\] Allow users to select which letter will be used in their Collaborative editing text cursor**++](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59401)

Currently, the ++*best course of action is to vote and watch both reports.*++ Voting helps to increase the issue visibility and watching it will keep you up to date with everything posted there. Be sure to ++*voice your experience in the ticket as well!*++

Looking forward to your reply, Catalin!

comments: author: Catalin
body: [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952), thank you for creating the two Feature requests. Voting right now!

A side question just for my curiosity: on our locally hosted Confluence server the user icons are all in a line and not overlapping like in your screenshot. Is it a difference due to Confluence Cloud vs Server?


author: Diego
body: Hello and thanks for getting back to me, [@Catalin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1362440) ! To answer your question, yes, this difference is between Confluence Server and Cloud. I ended using the cloud screenshots but the behavior is the same for both platforms. Here we have the differences:

**Confluence Server**

![CollaborativeEditingServer.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/81166iB250C44D5BB4DF79/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "CollaborativeEditingServer.jpg")

**Confluence Cloud**

![CollaborativeEditingCloud.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/81167i238F1652938C4275/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "CollaborativeEditingCloud.jpg")

I hope this clarifies things up!


author: Catalin
body: Thanks for taking the time to clarify even this minor question. Have a nice day!


author: Diego
body: For anyone who might find this thread, I have raised the same requests but aimed at our Cloud platform:
> * ++**[\[Confluence Cloud\]\[CONFCLOUD-69239\] Assign different colors to all users editing a page with collaborative editing](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-69239)**++
> * ++**[\[Confluence Cloud\]\[CONFCLOUD-69238\] Allow users to select which letter will be used in their Collaborative editing text cursor](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-69238)**++


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