youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
I cannot remember the old server id. How can I check the server ID ?
Asked by Leebeom Park:

After registering the Server ID, I accidentally deleted the confluence home directory because it failed during installation.  

How can I check the server ID?  

<br />


Answers:
author: Alexey Matveev
body: Hello,

Why would you need the server id?

comments: author: Ismael Jimoh
body: * Hi [@Leebeom Park](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3440993)

Like [@Alexey Matveev](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1159601) said you should not need the server ID. Do a new install instead.

If you really must have your old server id then consider the steps:

1. setup new database
2. complete confluence installation to create home directory and setup the database configuration(recommend using a similar database here)
3. once initial configuration is completed, stop confluence
4. take backup of the old database
5. Delete the database from step 1
6. create a new database with same name as step1
7. restore backup from old database to new database.
8. startup confluence.

The above makes sure confluence has the old server id again similar to when setting up a test instance.
Allow users only to add a blog post but not to edit
Asked by Martin_Nitschke:

Hi there,

I am looking for an option to allow all users to add a new Blog post, but they should not be able to edit posts from other users.

I know I can set a page restriction when adding a blog post but can I set a page restriction as standard for new blog post. I don?t believe that all users will remember to set the restriction when they create a new blog post.

Thank you


Answers:
author: Carlos Garcia Navarro
body: Hi Martin,

If I understand your question correctly, it's not possible to set up default restrictions as described in these tickets:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-27498>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-27498>

comments: author: Martin_Nitschke
body: Alright Thank you. But is there any other way to get a such behaviour that users are only allowed to edit their own blog posts?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Can't see create option in confluence
Asked by Jitendra soni:

Can't see create option in confluence


Answers:
author: Merve Nur Bas
body: You can't (according to my knowledge). You will have to use the sidebar for that.


author: Jitendra soni
body: I do have that option but just wondering how I would get an option in the header. I think something is wrong.


author: Merve Nur Bas
body: And you don't the any plus icon (+) on the left sidebar?


author: Jitendra soni
body: I am using Confluence Cloud


author: Merve Nur Bas
body: Do you use Confluence Cloud or on premise?

If you use the server version please go to the permissions (Space Tools in the lower left corner and than permissions) and see that the option add is checked for pages.


author: Jitendra soni
body: Thanks, Merve, I am the admin for this account.


author: Merve Nur Bas
body: Hello Jitendra,

you should ask your admin to give you write permissions.

Regards

Merve
Changing the font of Macro Panel Title
Asked by Oma Utah:

How to change the font style and size of a Macro Panel Title


Answers:
author: Robert Crain
body: Hi Oma,

You can add the CSS Stylesheet macro to the page and control many aspects for out of the box Confluence and macro/plugin content.

Here is an example of some CSS to control the panel text (aka .panelHeader)

Add the CSS stylesheet macro, then copy and paste this into the box.

.panelHeader  
{  
color: white;  
text-shadow: 0px 3px 3px #000000;  
font-size: large;  
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;  
}

Robert


author: Diego
body: Hello Oma! As I understand you need to change the font face within your Confluence pages, specifically under the Panel Macro title.

This option is not available for the Panel Macro. You can check more about it here:
> * ++***[Panel Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/panel-macro-51872380.html)***++

You can, however, style fonts throughout the instance as explained here:
> * ++***[Styling Fonts in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/styling-fonts-in-confluence-174751968.html)***++

There is also a third-party plugin that might be able to help you with this task. Here you can have a better look at it:
> * ++***[Content Formatting for Confluence](https://www.adaptavist.com/atlassian-apps/content-formatting-for-confluence/)***++

If there is any question left, feel free to share with us!  
Diego Canto Rodrigues  
Support Engineer
I don't see comment section on one of my Space Overview pages
Asked by Jonathan Hooks:

I see comment section on most of my Overview pages for my Spaces, but some of them do not have a comment section, I am not sure why this is happening.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Jonathan,

Welcome to Atlassian Community! It's great to meet you.

In Confluence Cloud, when a page is made the space homepage or is an overview page, then comments are not possible. This is expected behavior, but I created a feature request a while back suggesting to change that. On the thread are a few workarounds you can try.

* [CONFCLOUD-56967](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-56967) *Space overview home page does not allow* comments

You can vote on the request and you will automatically be added to the list of watchers for the request.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Dixelle Sequeira
body: Thank you, Shannon. But the workarounds in [CONFCLOUD-56967](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-56967) do not work anymore.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
confluence universal plugin manager Update/destroyed app updates URGENT
Asked by Henricus Fluthgraf:

Hello together,

i am using Confluence server version (6.14.1).

The Universal Plugin Manger was installed in the Version 3.0.2. Because of different problems with the marketplace, no connection via appsite, i tried to update to UPM 4.0.4.

After this, in the admin Area, App Administration, there is nothing,Ony the site search is availabe.

I tried to reinstall a backup, but nothing changes. The same behaviour as before,

So i cannot install a app via upload, all installed apps seems to bee lost.

Need help

Henry

PS: the database is on a other server, but i cannot get the backup befrore next week.


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Henricus,

From what you've described and the steps you've explained, your best option is what you're already pursuing (restore from backups). It seems that when you installed the UPM 4.0.4 manually within Confluence it caused an issue resulting in what you're seeing now.

There is an article to review and follow when restoring your site which should help to remove any cache during the process. This process may be found at [Restoring a Site](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf614/restoring-a-site-965546316.html).

While this is a bit after the fact, we do suggest you test any updates within a staging instance to avoid interruptions to production. More information on how to set up a staging instance may be found at [Create a staging environment for upgrading Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf614/create-a-staging-environment-for-upgrading-confluence-965546667.html).

I hope this information proves helpful and you're able to get your Confluence instance back online.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


Tags: app

atlassian-support

confluence-server

universal-plugin-manager
Confluence startup confluence failed
Asked by Alexey Zhukov:

Hello, I have a problem with startup Confluence.

My problem:

Could not load bootstrap from environment. BootstrapException: Unable to bootstrap application: Couldn't save confluence.cfg.xml to /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence

But! I read the posts in the community. And I tried all the solutions and not a result...

I am re-installed Confluence, I check privileges. Help me!

Dedicated user - Confluence.

drwxr-xr-x 14 confluence confluence 4.0K Jul 3 19:14 /opt/atlassian/**confluence**

drwx------ 20 confluence confluence 4.0K Jul 3 19:40 /var/atlassian/application-data/**confluence**


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's not a lot we can help you with here. You need to look at the operating system to see why it cannot save the file to the disk.

Try logging in as the user that is set up to run Confluence, then

* cd /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence
* cat confluence.cfg.xml
* touch confluence.cfg.xml

You will get an error message from at least one of those steps which will tell you what is wrong.

comments: author: Alexey Zhukov
body: cd - OK!

cat - OK!

touch - not error - OK!

id:

uid=1007(confluence) gid=1007(confluence) groups=1007(confluence)

-rwx------ 1 confluence confluence confluence.cfg.xml


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Are you running the installer as "confluence"?


author: Alexey Zhukov
body: No, as root. need to use user "confluence"?


author: Alexey Zhukov
body: i re-installed Confluence as "confluence" user. Works! thnks


author: Mirko Sch?fer (Seibert Solutions)
body: By the way, an alternative is to set the right file permissions:

    sudo chown -R <confluence-user> <confluence-install-folder>sudo chown -R <confluence-user> <confluence-home-folder>sudo chmod -R u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx <confluence-install-folder>sudo chmod -R u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx <confluence-home-folder>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-set-file-system-permissions-for-confluence-986879252.html>
how do I edit excel document within Confluence
Asked by Kirk Karges:

how do I edit excel document directly within Confluence and save it directly back without having to save it locally and re-upload?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@Kirk Karges](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3439030) ,

there's also an app called "GoEdit for Confluence" - we are using this one for editing documents. It works really well, but it's not for free.


author: Jonathan Smith
body: Morning [@Kirk Karges](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3439030) ,

1. Add the spreadsheet attachment into a Confluence file list.
2. Expand \> the file name, click edit
3. Make changes and save
4. Publish/upload changes.

comments: author: Jonathan Smith
body: If you are unable to add a file onto a file list page, your space admin will need to grant you attachments add permissions in the space settings.

- Jonathan


Tags: confluence-server

server
Is it possible to add background music?
Asked by Greg Hamberg:

I would like to add some music to play for a few pages but not sure if it's possible to add.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Greg


Answers:
author: Curtis Freudigmann
body: Hey [@Greg Hamberg](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3438673),

I have never tried to play music but I tested an idea I just had.

If you have a video file with the music you would like you can add it as an attachment on the page. Then you can use the multimedia macro and you can tie this to the video attachment. You can set the video to 'autoplay'.

Now if you place the 'MultiMedia' macro inside of a 'Cloak' macro, the video will not display to the screen but the sound will come through with the autoplay. I imagine you can you do this same thing with audio files instead of video files but I never tried that.

HTH

-Curtis

\*EDIT\*

I just tried this same method with a .mp3 file and it works as expected. You can attach the .mp3 file to the page. You can use the MultiMedia macro to auto play this. If you want to hide the player from the screen then put it in a Cloak macro.

comments: author: Greg Hamberg
body: Awesome, I will give it a try and respond. Thanks for the reply, Curtis!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Enforce "what did you change" in Confluence?
Asked by Esther Strom:

We've been using Confluence for years as a small company with users who are well-trained to fill in the "what did you change" field when editing a page.

We were recently purchased by a much larger company, and although we've done training, due to hundreds of users in multiple geographical locations, I can no longer manage things page by page.

Is there any way to enforce the use of that field when editing a page (of any kind)? I'm open to add-ons, if required.

![2019-07-03_1006.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59524iCFAEA0E6F2979BCC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2019-07-03_1006.png")


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: [@Esther Strom](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2991092) not sure if you are aware, but the "what did you change" field has actually been removed in the new editor in Cloud:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-cloud-editor-roadmap-967314556.html>

Atlassian say this is because:
> "it had almost no usage, but added significant visual clutter and complexity to Confluence. Instead of using change comments, you can see the difference between published versions of a page in the page history."

comments: author: Esther Strom
body: Thanks; I was not aware. We haven't received the new editor rollout for most of the page types yet.


author: stasleo
body: Rediculous update. Now there is no way to track WHY users introduced this or that change. A user may change requirements from A to B, but the reason behind it will be lost in time.


author: Jonathan Smith
body: Hi [@Esther Strom](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2991092) ,

The Publish "on click" action would need to be modified to validate the "what did you change" box has content. This sounds like a feature request.

I think you will find more marketplace options when it comes to page publishing options / approvals versus requiring comments.

* [Comala Publishing](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/143/comala-publishing?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview)

Hope this helped some :)

- Jonathan

comments: author: Esther Strom
body: Thanks for the response, but

1. that plugin does way more than we'd need; we're not looking for approval processes or publishing automation; we just want to make sure that a field that's natively provided is actually used.
2. that plugin is not available for Cloud.

So it sounds like the simple answer is "no".

ETA that I've submitted a suggestion to Atlassian; if anyone else finds this question, please vote for it: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67035>


author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: It should be possible to write a Javascript one-liner, which is called when the user clicks the "Save" button, verifies if he entered a non-blank script to the "Comment" field and rejects the save if not.

There are multiple ways to inject these little Javascript fragments to various Confluence screens (like using the announcement bar, apps, etc.)

comments: author: Esther Strom
body: The announcement bar doesn't exist on Cloud, and I don't want to start hacking things.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Default labels in meeting notes
Asked by Beth Reay:

I would like to create a page that has children pages for different meeting types with a default label type so I can create a content report by meeting type. I have not been able to figure out how to set a default label on a template. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Did you try just adding the label you want to the template and saving it? I think when you create a page from the template, the label is also copied.
Confluence editing broken with forward proxy configuration
Asked by Gary Pitman:

I have configured proxy info in \[confluence_home\]/bin/setenv.sh to allow connection to the market place but this breaks space editing.

My line in setenv.sh is:

CATALINA_OPTS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.mydomain.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=8888 -Dhttps.proxyHost=proxy.mydomain.com -Dhttps.proxyPort=8888 -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=localhost\\\|127.0.0.1\\\|\*.mydomain.com -Dhttps.nonProxyHosts=localhost\\\|127.0.0.1\\\|\*.mydomain.com"

If I comment this line and restart confluence editing works again but the marketplace breaks.


Answers:
author: Gary Pitman
body: I found that I could get this working if I put the proxy configuration in catalina.properties instead of setenv.sh


Tags: confluence-server

server
Collecting Anonymous Feedback
Asked by Marinda:

There have been many questions asked already about this topic that I have dug through without getting an answer.

Is there a way to gather truly *anonymous* feedback within Confluence? All the macros we've looked into aren't truly anonymous. For example:

* [Forms for Confluence](https://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/FFC/Form+Responses) shows the Sender in the results
* [ConfiForms](https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Creating+anonymous+forms+in+Confluence+with+ConfiForms) has a box you have to check to make it anonymous. I do not like that a page editor could just edit the form and uncheck that box. The form is not truly anonymous.
* Easy Forms (see picture below) also has a box you have to check to hide users. We do not like that a page editor could just uncheck that box. The form is not truly anonymous.![Capture.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59508iBAA290C80434CF99/image-dimensions/331x208?v=v2 "Capture.PNG")

Are there any survey/feedback macros available that are truly anonymous and do not even have the option for checking a box to view users? Using Confluence 6.13.4. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Abhijeet Desai
body: Hi [@Marinda](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1590532)

[Likert Rating Survey](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1226628/likert-rating-survey?tab=overview&hosting=datacenter) provides truly anonymous feedback with Confluence. You can view the documentation [here](https://alphalyraesystems.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LRS/pages/1343489/Documentation).

BRs.

comments: author: Fred Bunting
body: This one no longer seems to be the Atlassian Marketplace. The link to the documentation requires access to their Confluence instance.


author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Marinda](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1590532)

There is a new app that may help you called multivote and enterprise survey: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210786/multivote-enterprise-survey-confluence>

Here are the instructions: <https://tngtech.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VOTE/pages/1960181761/Anonymous+Surveys>

Thanks


Tags: confluence-server

server
Really slow access to confluence project
Asked by Calderara Serge:

Dear all,

Our customer in Asia encouter a real slow performance issue on confluence project.

From our site in Europe, we do not encounter such latency.

What is the best way to identify the root cause of slow access from our customer site, is there some special log or other stuff to check.?

Would be really help full as we do not know where to start

regrds


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Calderara,

Thank you for contacting us about this. According to the tags on your question, this is in Data Center Confluence? Can you confirm? I ask because I do not see any Data Center licenses associated with your account, but Cloud licenses. I want to make sure that I give you the right information.

If you're on Cloud, you will want to [Generate a HAR file](https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/generating-har-files-and-analyzing-web-requests-720420612.html) from a computer where you are experiencing the performance issues when accessing the instance. You can then send this to the [Support Team](https://support.atlassian.com/contact) and we can analyze it and let you know what the issue might be. Note that a few seconds loading time can be normal and if the page happens to have a lot of macros on it, it may cause delays in loading. Especially if these are Jira Issues Macros. If it's just on certain pages that contain a lot of macros, then you will want to consider breaking the page up into smaller pages.

If you're having an issue with your Data Center instance, is the problem with specific nodes? Can you let me know which version you're running?

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Calderara Serge
body: Problem has been solved already


author: Shannon S
body: That's great to hear! Please feel free to provide any details about the resolution if you believe it might help other users running into the same issues.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: data-center
How do I disable email notifications for a user, while still retaining access to view the calendar?
Asked by Darrell Alicna:

I have a user that does not want email notifications every time an event is added to a calendar. Do i need to remove them from a certain group? Should i disable the watch calendar option?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Darrell,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. It's nice to meet you.

It's not possible to disable email notifications while remaining subscribed to the calendar. The user will need to stop watching the calendar if they no longer want email notifications for it.

I hope that clarifies things, but let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

team-calendars-for-confluence
How can I parse the Month from a Date field?
Asked by Curtis Freudigmann:

I would like to have a form set up with a Date field. On the back-end I would like to be able to parse only the month of the submitted date. Is this possible? I have looked at some of the virtual functions and done some small testing but was not able to get the desired results.

When I use the IFTTT to send an email I can get the datetime as 'Jul 21, 2019 09:59' by simply using

```
[entry.myDateField]
```

But when I use the Create Page IFTTT I try to use a condition like

```
myDateField:Jul*
```

And I have a parent page called July where I would like to create all submissions where myDateField is in July under. But I cannot get this condition to hit.

\*\*EDIT

I have looked in to virtual functions and see an option for parseDate() which I have been testing a little bit, but I am concerned because this is described as a method to parse the date from a Jira issue. Despite my testing I have not been able to accomplish this.

Any help is appreciated.

<br />

Thanks!

-Curtis


Answers:
author: Curtis Freudigmann
body: Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has tried this or might be able to see where I am going wrong. I feel as though getting the condition to hit should work seeing as it's writing to my page as "Jul xxxx".

Can I not use a condition like Jul\* to match this?

As a side note - any time I try to manipulate the date it always comes back in epoch form.

Thanks again for any assistance!

-Curtis


Tags: confiforms

confluence-server

server
Is it possible to prevent jira dashboard access by user /set of users ?
Asked by srikrishnap:

Is it possible to prevent jira dashboard access by user/set of users ? We are using 7.13.x version jira server {#toc-hId--1414529963}
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Answers:
author: Alexey Matveev
body: Hello,

You can read here how to share a dashboard:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracorecloud/configuring-dashboards-765593585.html>

comments: author: srikrishnap
body: Thanks for the answer. Is this link applicable to project level dashboards ? measuring metrics like velocity,burndown. We want to hide them as well.


author: Alexey Matveev
body: I guess by project level dashboards, you mean reports. If so, then you can not prevent users to see the reports. But in these reports users only see data, for which they have browse permission


Tags: jira