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How to make an issue confidential or not

Ben Prescott_ requested to merge docs-bprescott/20230612-confidentialchange into master

What does this MR do?

A customer raised a ticket (link for GitLab team members) to highlight that editing an existing issue does not present a tick box to toggle confidentiality.

This option in the docs is not present:

The first way is to edit the issue and toggle the confidentiality checkbox. After you save the issue, the confidentiality of the issue is updated.

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