youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
As a space-admin (not a Confluence admin), how can you see which users make up a group?
Asked by Ursula Radwanski:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page Restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=829077238)*

As a space-admin, but not a Confluence admin, how can you see which users make up a group?

You used to be able to do this when editing page restrictions, but it looks like the functionality was removed in this 5.10 version.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Ursula,

The easiest way is probably to use the User List macro.


Tags: restriction
Can I import a site from MediaWiki?
Asked by Ed Swindelles:

I have multiple wikis hosted on a self-hosted MediaWiki instance. Is it possible to import this data to a Confluence Cloud site?


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: In theory, yes - but it may not be a simple "point and click" solution. Atlassian provide an open sourced tool for migration, but they don't support it:

<https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki>

and here are the notes about MediaWiki specifically <https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes>

I'm assuming if you can export MediaWiki into the right format for Confluence Cloud, you can then import.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Escaping hyphens in search
Asked by Luan Minh Nguyen:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Search syntax for text fields](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=861257223)*

When searching in Confluence, I am unable to search for text with hyphens.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Have you tried putting quotes around the term?

```
"hyphenated-text"
```

comments: author: Luan Minh Nguyen
body: Yeah tried that and it doesn't work.

Did some more digging and it appears to be a known issue: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-3036>


Tags: documentation
Confluence Edit Notifications
Asked by James Stewart:

Hi there,

Is it possible to get more specific notifications for edits to a Confluence page that has several cards in a deck, that include check boxes? At the moment it is impossible to tell what has been changed when an edit is made, and it is essential to know what new boxes have been checked. Can the email notifications of edits be more specific to only include what edits have been made, rather than the entire deck of cards?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers!


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: I don't know what a deck of cards is in Confluence ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

In your email settings page you can select to show changed content. Annoyingly it is hard to get to the Email settings page - next to your avatar, click the menu and select Watches, then scroll to the very bottom of the Watches page where the link to the Email settings is seen

image2017-2-22 13:54:24.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Edit-Notifications/qaq-p/272003?attachment-id=6415){#link_1185afd8bb9f5e}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/46001/1/image2017-2-22%2013%3A54%3A24.png){#display_1185afd8bb9f5e_0}
How do I total amounts from different tickets?
Asked by Dawson Smith:


Answers:
author: Dawson Smith
body: I was looking to add total amounts from purchases first and then generate a chart subtract the purchases from a budget figure. For example A ticket is created that includes a need for a purchase with the amount and budget code to be charged against. How can I total the amount of all my purchases by budget code and then subtract it from the total budgeted for that budget code.


author: Davin Studer
body: Please be more specific. Your question is very vague.


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hello Dawson,

You can try [Pivot Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/How+to+use+Pivot+table+macro) macro ([Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/server/overview) add-on) with JIRA Issues macro .
How to remove all pages with the same label with CLI?
Asked by ITSO AS:

Hi!

I'm using CLI for Confluence and I want to remove all the pages from a specific space with the label "exclude".

Is it possible to delete all pages with the same label ("exclude") with one command?

Thanks for your help.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You can use the [Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) with something like the following. [Reference](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference?src=sidebar) has more information on the actions available.

```
--action runFromPageList --space XXX --labels exclude --common "--action removePage --id @pageId@ "
```


author: ITSO AS
body: I'm looking for something like;

remove pages where label = "exclude"


author: Rob Woodgate
body: @Bob Swift \[Bob Swift Atlassian Add-ons\] another one for you.

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Thanks. I appreciate you finding these especially since I have been unable lately to monitor this site as much as I use to ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad").


author: Rob Woodgate
body: No worries, if I find more I'll mention you :smile:


Tags: confluence-administration
How to remove all pages with the same label with CLI?
Asked by ITSO AS:

Hi!

I'm using CLI for Confluence and I want to remove all the pages from a specific space with the label "exclude".

Is it possible to delete all pages with the same label ("exclude") with one command?

Thanks for your help.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Duplicate of [this question](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/56059214/how-to-remove-all-pages-with-the-same-label-with-cli).


Tags: confluence-administration
can i add a field to the bulk edit page
Asked by Clare Prentice:

I want to bulk edit all of the products in our NopCommerce shop with weights. It would be really easy if I could add Weight as a field on the Bulk Edit Products page. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Clare,

This is a forum for Atlassian users. I'm guessing you've come here via [NopCommerce's documentation](http://docs.nopcommerce.com/dashboard.action), which is written in an instance of Confluence (an Atlassian product). You need to ask your question in [NopCommerce's support forum](http://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/f/5/general-support.aspx) instead.


author: Clare Prentice
body: Thanks


Tags: confluence-administration
Make body of unknown macro visible
Asked by Oleksiy Brushkovskyy:

Is there a way in Confluence 5.10 to make body of disabled/absent macros visible in page view?

I'm interested in some another way than Tools/View Storage Format or writing user macros for unknown ones.

Is there some built-in plugin component to disable or Velocity template to modify?


Answers:
author: Claudio Kirchhoff
body: Hi Oleksiy,

I don't fully understand - what do you mean by 'absent' or 'disabled'? And which problem are you trying to solve, i.e. why doesn't 'view storage format' cut it for you?

Cheers

Claudio
Notification on content of "Include Page"
Asked by Henning M?ller:

Is there a way to issue notifications on a page which includes content from another page via the "Include Page" macro if the included content changes?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Yes. Just add yourself as a watcher on the source page(s).

comments: author: Henning M?ller
body: So if the consumers of my page want to subscribe to changes, they will have to navigate to each embedded page to subscribe to it? Is there any other way to support this process?


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Henning,

No, there isn't. If you want to know when a change is made to a page you have to watch that page.

Confluence renders the Include Page macro at runtime and has no way of knowing if the content of that macro has changed since the last time it rendered the page.
How is it possible, if I create a template, to have same behaviour than a how-to article when users use this created template ?
Asked by Johan Capez:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [How-To Article Blueprint](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=847355105)*

I mean I would like to have the same window displayed in step 3 "Enter the article name and some labels".

For the time being, users go directly to the article without filling these 2 informations, I would like to "force" them to add additional labels for example. The window is a good way to ensure this before going to the article itself.

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You can't do it with a template. You would need to create a blueprint for this. Below is a link to the documentation for creating blueprints.

<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-blueprints/write-a-simple-confluence-blueprint-plugin>


Tags: blueprint

template
Link between instances confluence
Asked by Desiree Graste:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Links](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=829077251)*

How do I run a query on labels from an other confluence instance?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You could use the REST API to do that, but then you would have to parse the JSON for it to be usable ... there is no macro for it. You'll have to program it.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Another thought I had would be the [ConfiDoc add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.vertuna.confluence.plugins.confirest/server/overview) for using the JSON. I've never used it, but I have used their other add-on ConfiForms. My understanding is that ConfiDoc can parse and display JSON within Confluence.


author: dellagustin
body: I created a suggestion for this use case, as I also would like to have it:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-57782>

please vote it up if it would be relevant for you too.


author: Desiree Graste
body: Ok. thanks for the answer!


Tags: confluence-app

documentation

link
Google Drive Connector for Confluence is not responding.
Asked by Anian St?bler:

We have been using the Google Drive Connector Plugin by draw.io (<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.driveconnector/cloud/support>) for the past months without any issues.

However, since last week, the plugin does not display the linked content in the set frame size and after a few seconds of attempted loading shows the notification "Add-on is not responding. Wait or [cancel](https://equipe.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/editpage.action?pageId=28934187)?".

It is the same situation, when we try to edit the plugin or its content. The plugin freezes and it is not possible to link new Google Drive files or set a new display width or height (see screenshot below).

Bildschirmfoto 2017-02-21 um 10.13.32.png

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Google-Drive-Connector-for-Confluence-is-not-responding/qaq-p/90720?attachment-id=11325){#link_1185b1bd45851d}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/15200/1/Bildschirmfoto%202017-02-21%20um%2010.13.32.png){#display_1185b1bd45851d_0}


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Cool, Atlassian seem to be rolling out fixes this week.


author: Anian St?bler
body: Hi David, thanks for asking. Just noticed 10 mins ago that it once again works just fine!


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Is this still a problem?


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: There are a number of Confluence Cloud instances in production where all add-ons fail, see <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/56054242>, for example. If you contact Atlassian support the official answer is "We're currently upgrading our cloud infrastructure to make your Atlassian experience even better". We've tried to get an answer ourselves but have no response.


author: Anian St?bler
body: Hi David, thanks for your reply. We added now two other add-ons for testing purposes and they are actually freezing as well. Were you able to identify the problem for the other reports you mentioned?


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We've had reports of other add-ons of ours failing. It turns out all add-ons are failing on those Confluence instances. Could you please check whether other add-ons are working for you?


Tags: cloud

confluence-app

confluence-cloud

draw.io

google-drive
Check all pending tasks in Confluence
Asked by viveksinghrai:

Hi,

I want to see lists of all the open/pending tasks in Confluence 5.10.3. Is there any best way to do it.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Vivek,

You can use the built-in Task Report macro to show you all open tasks.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Vivek,

There's no better solution using standard Confluence functionality. JIRA is Atlassian's full task list application and they've just bought Trello as well, so there is no expectation they'll improve Confluence Tasks.

There are a number of add-ons that improve Confluence Tasks though, and you can find them [here](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=tasks). Hopefully one of those will give you the functionality you need at the right price :smile:


author: viveksinghrai
body: Hi Rob,

I am already using Task Report macro, is there any other or better solution than that.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: What about the task report macro does not suit your needs?


author: viveksinghrai
body: No, I am using Server version, is there any sql query for that to get pending task data.


author: Davin Studer
body: The server version has the task report macro too.


Tags: confluence-administration
I am not able to login automatically by embedding credentials as part of the URL
Asked by Sundeep Kumar:

We use Confluence pages as a knowledge base which we could share with our clients by embedding credentials as part of the URL.

But now I understand this feature has been disabled.

Unfortunately, [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/jira-and-confluence-cloud-os_username-and-os_password-embedded-in-url-no-longer-available-872007971.html) was not helpful. What options do I have now?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The page you mention has some ways to update your code to access. What does "not helpful" mean? (As one of them works for me and I've not tried the others)

comments: author: Sundeep Kumar
body: Hi Nic,

As mentioned earlier, we would share a link with our clients, which with one click would open a page regarding the information they were looking for without the hassle of entering credentials or having to remember them.

Getting this link was easy, just get the link to the page and add *os_username* and *os_password* on top of it.

We also used this feature as an inbuilt help button in our software, which again with just one click would take them to a page with the required information the user was looking for.

Since this feature was disabled, both the link and the help button just takes the user to a confluence login page which asks for login credentials. As you can imagine this has been disruptive.

Unfortunately for me, as a non-IT personnel who is tasked with sorting this issue out, the pages regarding this issue were not simple enough for me to decode the information and figure out how to move forward.

When you say one of them works, what exactly did you have to do to make it work?

Thanks for your help.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how to make a confluence page public
Asked by Poochee Yuen:


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Well the question is about a page. If you only want to make individual pages public, you have to make the entire space viewable by Anonymous access; then restrict the access for pages you don't want people to see (a real pain). So the easiest is to just create a public space viewable by all to hold those pages.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi,

To make a page publicly available you need to turn on Anonymous Access. See [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/setting-up-public-access-156.html) for information on how to do this.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why can I not see my PPTX document in 5.10.8
Asked by Greg Della-Croce:

Every since upgrading to 5.10.8 none of my PowerPoint documents are visible or clickable.

1. Has anyone else had this problem?
2. Has anyone solved this problem?

Thanks

Greg DC


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Greg,

Thanks for the answers. Clearly Confluence has a problem with pptx files specifically (although they should work without any problems). There are several tickets in about ppt files working fine but pptx files not working. As a temporary workaround you could try attaching a ppt file and if that works use ppt until a fix is issued?

But you'll need to put a ticket into Atlassian because this is a bug, not a configuration issue.


author: Greg Della-Croce
body: Rob

To answer your standard questions:

* It is happening for multiple people
* It is happening in all browsers
* It is only happening with PPTX as far as we know
* Files in Attachments seem to be affected also.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Greg,

Some standard questions:

* Is this happening just for you, or for everyone?
* Is this happening in all browsers (i.e. Chrome, Firefox, IE/Edge, Safari)?
* Is this happening for any other file types, or just pptx?
* Are the files in an affected page still visible and viewable in the Attachments page?


Tags: ms-powerpoint
Not finding user when using the "@" symbol
Asked by Greg Harabedian:

The auto-name completion when using the "@" symbol in front of somebody's name on a page does not show them as a user. I can see they are a user and have "confluence-user" access. I re-indexed, but that didn't seem to help. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Julian Riedinger [Decadis AG]
body: Hey Greg,

great question .. your first attempt to build up the index from sretch was a good starting point. Did you tried the following

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/unable-to-mention-certain-users-in-confluence-779165995.html>

Cheers,

Julian

comments: author: Greg Harabedian
body: I'm afraid rebuilding from scratch looks like the only option here.


Tags: confluence-administration
Draw.io not working
Asked by Aleksandar Balicevac:

Hi,  
I tried reinstalling Draw.io plugin a couple of times but I can not get it working. Every time I want to insert a diagram into Confluence page (Insert more Content -\> Draw.io Digram) I never pass the load - <http://prntscr.com/ebgc15> .


Answers:
author: Aleksandar Balicevac
body: No worries!


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Yup, I was writing to a bunch of affected users at the same time and didn't match you to the support ticket.


author: Aleksandar Balicevac
body: Atlassian has fixed it. The only persisting issue is the load wheel that never disappears in this view - <http://prnt.sc/eed5x6> as I wrote earlier in my email.  


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Is this still a problem?


author: Aleksandar Balicevac
body: Hi David,   
Thank you for your reply!  
True that! None of add-ons are working on our Confluence account.   
I talked to Atlassian's support and they confirmed that there is an issue on our account due to the ongoing platform upgrades.   


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We've had reports of other add-ons of ours failing. It turns out all add-ons are failing on those Confluence instances. Could you please check whether other add-ons are working for you?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Firefox Version 50 oder h?her
Asked by Ralf Loessner:

Wertes Confluence-Team,

wir verwenden Confluence 5.9.9 und mit der Ver?ffentlichung von Firefox 50 (bis hin zur aktuellen Version 51.0.1) funktioniert das Add-one WebDAV (webdav_launcher-1.1.0-fx.xpi) nicht mehr.  
An der System-Umgebung wurden keine Ver?nderungen vorgenommen und wenn man den alten Firefox 49.0.2. installiert, so funktioniert auch der WebDAV Launcher wieder. Die Verwendung der ?lteren Firefox-Version ist jedoch aus Sicherheitsrelevanten Gr?nden keine Option f?r unsere Firma.

Wer kann bzgl. Firefox + WebDAV Launcher helfen???  

Mit freundlichen GR??en

Ralf L?ssner

und weitere 600 Mitarbeiter :smile:


Answers:
author: Tim Eddelb?ttel
body: Hello Ralf,

here is the bug report: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-46040>

There you will find all need informations.

Regards,  
Tim
How to avoid certain articles from showing up on the related knowledge base articles?
Asked by Shwetha Chandrashekara:


Answers:
author: Julian Riedinger [Decadis AG]
body: Hey Shwetha,

you could set a restriction to the page that you want to hide. If the user have no permission to view the page (i.e. your customers), he won't see this page in the knowlege base search

Cheers,

Julian

comments: author: Shwetha Chandrashekara
body: Thanks Julian,

But may be I explain the problem a bit more. there are certain general articles stored in the knowledge base and also articles that describe the solutions. Both of them should be available for the users but only the solutions articles should show up on the JIRA tickets under the 'Related knowledge base articles' and not the general articles.
Firefox doesn't recognize Webdav Addon
Asked by Matthias Born:

We try to use "Edit in office" from Firebox.

But every time we try to open a document, the webdav addon tries to install again. Again and again.

Has somebody an idea, what the reason can be?

Regards!

Matze

Ps.: It's a confluence 5.9.4 and latest firefox (tried installed and portable allready). Operating system is Win7, it's seems to work in W10...


Answers:
author: Matthias Born
body: I find an Issue with a workaround:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-46040>

Atlassian. please add this workarounds description to addons.mozilla.org and your own Webdav Addon and "Edit in Office" documentation


author: Ralf Loessner
body: I can confirm that! With Firefox version 50 and above, the WebDAV Launcher 1.1.0 no longer works

We have this problem by using notebooks with Win10.

<br />

Regards

Ralf


Tags: app

confluence-administration

edit-in-office

firefox

ms-excel

ms-office

webdav
Child pages show in hierarchy
Asked by Dongyi Song:

My conflunce space shows all child page in a very strange hierachy in google Chrome from one day to another - like below. I don't know what I did wrong with it.

1

2

3

4

In IE it shows correctly

1

2

3

4

Anybody knows how to get the nice layout back?

thanks!

dongyi


Answers:
author: Dongyi Song
body: Just in case someone else also comes across the same problem. The tree view's font size is controlled by 'CTRL + scroll of the mouse', once the font reaches a certain size, it will show the tree view with indent of each child page. It can swap back to the list layout without indent, if the size is reduced back.

comments: author: Rodney Hughes
body: so the problem you were asking about has been fixed?


author: Dongyi Song
body: yes, it is fixed now.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: What does \<\<Browse\>\> then \<\<Pages\>\> show?

Select the Tree view to see the hierarchy of Parent/Child, and allows you to drag to reallocate

Note that others can rearrange the structure too
Sql-query macro adds 2 spaces to every cell
Asked by Martin Berins:

Not a massive issue, but I am wondering why sql-query appends every cell with 2 spaces, except for NULLs, which become \&nbsp;. Here is an example output:

\<td class="confluenceTd"\>\<p\>\&nbsp;\</p\>\</td\>  
\<td class="confluenceTd"\>\<p\>34 \</p\>\</td\>  
\<td class="confluenceTd"\>\<p\>2016-11-23 \</p\>\</td\>  
\<td class="confluenceTd"\>\<p\>private \</p\>\</td\>  
\<td class="confluenceTd"\>\<p\>1 \</p\>\</td\>  
\<td class="confluenceTd"\>\<p\>800.00 \</p\>\</td\>

Tried trimming the contents, but spaces must be added after the contents is generated.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: I am not sure why there would be 2. Opened this issue to review: [SQL-491](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/SQL-491).


Tags: confluence-administration

sql