youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
For Children Display macro, how do I display multiple excerpts from a single page
Asked by James Hanley:

When enabling "Excerpt Display" to "simple," it only pulls the first defined excerpt of a page. As a hack, I have used multiple Multiexcerpt macros and referenced them in a Multiexcerptinclude which is itself inside an excerpt macro - within that page itself, the excerpt expands correctly, but the Children Display does not properly expand the detail.

How can I have multiple experts (because the detail is in different parts on a single page) show up as part of the children displace sith simple excerpt display?


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@James Hanley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/944196) ,

If it happens so that you use our [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app in your company, note that the add-on also provides [Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Excerpt+and+Table+Excerpt+Include+macros) macros that allow you to collect several excerpts from:

* Current page
* Specific page
* Page and child pages
* Page and all descendants
* Pages with specific labels

Maybe this will simplify your case.


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi there,

As this question mentions our [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud&utm_source=atl_community) app, we are happy to introduce its new macro -- [Table Spreadsheet](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Spreadsheet+macro?utm_source=atl_community).

This macro allows you to work with fully functional Excel spreadsheets right in Confluence.

You'll be able to use cells' formulas, filters, conditional formatting, etc., create pivot tables and charts from the page view and edit mode.

The Table Spreadsheet macro is available for Cloud and Server/Data Center.

![](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/download/attachments/83100938/Conditional%20formatting.png?version=1&modificationDate=1641987630000&api=v2&effects=border-simple,shadow-kn)


author: Jason Boileau {Appfire}
body: Hi [@James Hanley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/944196), if you are referring to the [MultiExcerpt](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/169/multiexcerpt?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app for Confluence, please create a support ticket [here](https://artemis.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3/group/-1) and our support team will be happy to help you find a solution.


Tags: child-page

excerpt

multi-excerpt-macro
How to edit a space's CSS style sheets?
Asked by Maryam K:

Hi all,

I want to change the style of the local Confluence I use at an advanced level. Is there any fast way we can do that? I searched this question, my understanding is that I can do this at "Space tools \> Look and Feel". Does anyone know where is "Look and Feel"? I cannot find that!

Thanks,

Maryam


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Welcome to the Community!

You litterlly click on "space tools" (the link is available to anyone who can see the space), and it'll drop a list of options, including "look and feel".

But, l\&f is an administration function for the space - you will need to be a space admin to get it to appear and use it!

comments: author: Kishan Sharma
body: [@Maryam K](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4667966) As mentioned by Nic, you might not be having space admin rights hence you can't see that option available to you.


Tags: colour

css

style
All 460 pages of project space missing after moving attempt to new space
Asked by Chris Billiau:

I recently attempted to move a space and all its contents to a space we designated as a projects archive to clean up our list of spaces. During the move of all 460 pages I received an error window asking me to try refreshing the page. After I refreshed the page the space displayed an image and said there was no "home" page for this space.

The space is visible and can be opened but all 460 pages are missing and not in the space that they were being moved to either.

How do I found my lost pages?


Answers:
author: Florian PEREZ
body: Hello

I've experienced that kind of "bug" recently, page have just repaired without action after some time.

If you're on a paid version of the cloud I would highly recommend to contact the support! They are the only that could help since you can't really act on cloud instance!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence Startup Error Shared Directory
Asked by Poor User:

Hello Atlassian community, I am seeking help, resolution regarding an issue with Confluence server version 6.15.3

I am running Confluence inside docker, and during Confluence start-up the following error is given on both the Confluence webpage and seen within the Confluence pod (view logs)

```
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to create shared home directory in /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/shared-home
```

Navigating to that path within the pod (storage is backed by AWS ebs volume) the path of

```
/var/atlassian/application-data/confluence?
```

is actually empty within the pod, but the ebs volume contains data for the volume mount as Confluence has been deployed and running \>2 years.

---- added more info below ----

Upon further inspection it appears I missed some important details in my posting.

log4j:ERROR Write failure.  
12/9/2021 12:34:42 PM java.io.IOException: Read-only file system

Confluence appears to be re-attempting the initialization to the /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence...however since the application was previously working..and can recognize there is data there...the boot process fails to complete.

All help is appreciated. Thank you.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This is pretty much what it says it is - the user running Confluence cannot create the directory it needs. This is probably down to permissions (but also check if the disk is full)


author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Poor User](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4667758) Welcome to the Atlassian Community!  

Since you got ""Read-only file system" error which indicates that the file system currently allows read-only access. You might want to check and grant rw (read/write access) to it and retry.


Tags: confluence-server

home

server
Latency when editing page
Asked by Augustin Luton:

Hi,

I have a problem when editing pages with a lot of text.

Laptops are heating and taking all the CPU!

It seems that there are some code injected when clicking on edit...

Can you help me please?

Thanks!

Camille


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Augustin Luton](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/909498)

One approach is to break down the pages into smaller separate pages. Create child pages for example for separate sections.

Also, you may want to open a ticket with atlassian support so that they can take a look at the logs.

Regards


Tags: confluence-server

edit

server
Where can I find my site url?
Asked by Aisha Mahmoodallah:

I need my atlassian site url to contact support by I can't find it anywhere


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Welcome to the Community!

This is a bit of a problem. We can't tell you the site url, we don't know what you've set up.

If you don't know it, then why do you need support on it? It's not like you're actually using it!

So, two things

1) The url that Atlassian are asking you for is just the base of your site, it's not a complex part of it or a convoluted path. At the moment, almost all Cloud sites run on \<something\>.atlassian.net so all you need to know is the \<something\>

2) If you are the person who set up the site, then you have admin access to it, and if you log into admin.atlassian.net or my.atlassian.com, you'll be able to get a list of all the sites you own, which will give you the missing \<something\>


Tags: cloud

configuration

confluence-cloud
How to display the workspace Key on a page?
Asked by Dirk Eyfrig:

I need to display on a page the key of the workspace the page belongs to. When moving the page to another workspace, it should automatically display the key of that new workspace.

In a Confiforms environment I would use \[entry._page.spaceKey\], but I want to avoid using confiforms just for this.

How can I achieve this without using Confiforms?


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Have you considered creating a simple user macro to do that?

```
$content.spaceKey
```

contains this... <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/user-macro-template-syntax-223906130.html>

comments: author: Dirk Eyfrig
body: Hi Alex,

you seem to be active everywhere ;-), we just discussed about confiforms...

No, I didn't consider a user macro; I don't have access to user macros as I'm not a site admin.

I hoped there is a solution that can be implemented directly on pages. Our IT department is a bit reluctant on supporting user macros.


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Do you have HTML macro enabled in your Confluence instance?

```
AJS.params.spaceKey
```

contains this info....


author: Dirk Eyfrig
body: OK, got it. that works!  
Thanks.

Sample code, where Key is displayed when a button is pressed - if anyone else is having the same issue and is not so familiar with scripting of html pages...

```
<script type="text/javascript"> 
  function showMessage(msg) { 
    AJS.$('#spaceKey').html('Workspace key is: <strong>'+msg+'</strong>'); 
    } 
</script> 

<button class="aui-button submit" type="button" onclick="showMessage(AJS.params.spaceKey)">Show Key</button>
<br />
<div id="spaceKey"></div>
```


Tags: confluence-server

server
Solution for live search double encoding URLs
Asked by Remco Bakx:

When using the live search, the URLs of the results are double encoded, e.g. when a contains a '\&', this is encoded as %2526 instead of %26. As a result, the user get a 404 page instead of the the file being downloaded.

Several issues have been reported in the past about the live search double encoding filenames, like e.g. this one: [CONFSERVER-32869](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-32869)

Although this issue is reported as resolved, in our instance which runs version 7.14.1, we still encounter this issue.

Does anybody experience the same issue or have a solution for this?


Answers:
author: Pramodh M
body: Hi [@Remco Bakx](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/745982)

Preferably there is a recommendation not to use special characters in Page title, in spite of that reporting issues is no big concern I would say. Ain't it?

Being said that, if you are searching for content with special characters, I would suggest not using them at all


Tags: confluence-server

live-search

server
No white space between border and text in first column
Asked by Matt Parks:

When creating a table in Confluence the text in the first column of the table is jammed up against the left border when viewing the page that the table is on. When editing, there is the expected amount of white space (probably one space worth). I didn't notice this in the past, but behavior seems to be on existing or newly-created tables.

Is anyone aware why this could be happening? There's no change if I left-justify the cell.

I am running 7.9.3 Data Center.


Answers:
author: Marcus Bienengr?ber
body: Same problem. Page loads, seems to show the right space in the first columns. After very short time the changes to no space in the first column in all tables on all pages with all browsers.

No additional CSS. (Confluence Server 7.13.7)


author: Bill Bailey
body: Has anyone installed custom CSS, either at the space or instance level? Has any new plugin/macro been installed that might have added new CSS rules?

The way to debug this is to look at three things:

* View the storage format of the text in question to ensure there is not some inline CSS pasted into the cell.
* Check that the content in each cell is wrapped by similar tags, e.g. p tags
* Use the browswer inspect function to see if CSS rules are being overwritten (a way to check if some new CSS rules are overwriting the default ones)

comments: author: Matt Parks
body: To my knowledge, there is no custom CSS at the instance level and the behavior happens on any brand-new table that I create with just plain text in the field.

Nothing of consequence in the Storage Format and all of the tags are the same. Below is an example. Note that the bolded sections have zero white space between the text and the edge of the column, but the other cells do have white space (including the first 'Stuff' cell where I've added in a space).  

<br />

```
<table><colgroup><col style="width: 50.0px;" /><col style="width: 54.0px;" /><col style="width: 50.0px;" /></colgroup><tbody><tr><th>Test</th><th>123</th><th>abc</th></tr><tr><td>&nbsp;Stuff</td><td style="text-align: left;">More</td><td style="text-align: left;">Stuff</td></tr><tr><td>abc</td><td>def</td><td>ghi</td></tr><tr><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>??
```


author: Bill Bailey
body: What happens if you reset the manual column widths to just float?

But still seems like some sort of CSS issue. I would try to see what rules are working to cause it. And try changing that text to be paragraphs (check the storage view make sure p tags are actually added).

I tend to write custom CSS to fix a number of spacing issues within the default CSS (just FYI)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Atlassian Connect app scopes meaning
Asked by yaniv farmad:

having a third party apps is great, but I'm a bit confused with the permission scopes meaning. I wouldn't want to grant access for more data than is needed to the app. for example, I wouldn't want the app (or it's developers) to have access to the IP in the conf site.

for example, what's "Read data from the host application" mean? what kind of data is shared, where is it stored, and who can access it?

if I have a Conf site with pages with valuable information (e.g., the bitcoin prices tomorrow), if I'll add an app with permission to "Read data from the host application", will my valuable information will be shared with someone?


Answers:
author: marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-
body: If an app has READ scope, it can in principle read (get, copy) all the information in your Confluence instance.

However you can restrict access for an app if you know the app user (i.e. the Confluence "user name" of the app).

Before installing an app, you can check their privacy policy and decide if you trust them.

comments: author: yaniv farmad
body: thanx for the answer

but i don't get it, Confluence exists to hold the most valuable information any company has. who will want to allow any third party to get access to that data? who will take the risk?


Tags: cloud

confluence-app

confluence-cloud

permission
Where I can find the hex codes provided in the editor (text color and cell highlight) ?
Asked by Maria Ahvenlampi:

Hello!

I'm trying to find what are the HEX codes for colors provided in editor color palette (text and cell highlight).

I think those can be seen in the config but is there any other way to check hex codes?

THANKS!


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Probably the easist way is to use the browser inspect function to look at the actual CSS code. Some poking aroung will lead you to the style sheet you need.

You can also create a test page with the various colors, and inspect each on to get the hex codes.

comments: author: Maria Ahvenlampi
body: Hi Bill,

I used the browser developer tool to get the codes :) THANKS!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Looking for an overview (video clip) for newcomers
Asked by Johannes.Stark:

Hi

I am the Confluence admin in our organization and was approached by a newcomer to provide some sort of intro. Is there something available that I could provide to the new user to get started?

Thanks,

Johannes


Answers:
author: Johannes.Stark
body: Hi

I was more looking for something that guides a new user on how to get started with Confluence. The clip you pointed me to is promotion oriented...

Thanks,

Johannes


author: Suvradip Paul
body: Hi [@Johannes.Stark](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3962773) ,

Thanks for writing.

I think this short but precise one gives a clear overview of Confluence to new comers - <https://youtu.be/BX9W51eU4n4>. Could you please check and let me know your feedback?

comments: author: Suvradip Paul
body: Hi [@Johannes.Stark](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3962773) ,

I think this is a combiner Jira and Confluence Cloud video to get started published this year with relevant background - <https://youtu.be/DKQm2Z36IdM>.

Would you mind checking this out and share your thoughts?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Trash page cannot be deleted
Asked by Marian Rodr?guez:

Deleting a page from the trash gives an error and cannot be deleted or restored.

Attach document with the error.

How can this page be deleted?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Marian Rodr?guez](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4649701) Looks like you missed to add the screenshot of the error ?


Tags: confluence-server

server
The service stops after a few minutes of normal execution
Asked by Luis Vargas:

After migrating the Confluce database from Oracle11g to Oracle18c, the service has stopped after a few minutes of normal execution. The oracle driver used is version 21 (ojdbc8.jar)   

Configuration has been adjusted to increase heap memory to 4 GB, threads to a maximum of 200 and hibernate connections to 60. All plugins were disabled, except UPM. These actions were unsuccessful.

Nothing related to the service crash appears in the log.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If a Confluence service just stops dead after a while, with no warning, then one of three things have happened:

It has crashed but cannot write a crash log because the disk is full.

It has crashed, but at a different layer, and written a report to a different log. Start with a check of \<confluence home\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log, then move on to \<confluence install\>/log/Catalina.out. If there's no crash report in either of those, then it's going to be something in the operating system logs, Java should have reported something to them.

An admin or process management system has chosen to kill the process stone dead, with the hardest of stops - no option to write anything, the process has to stop because they said so. (Kill -9 to people who know a bit of \*nix)

comments: author: Luis Vargas
body: Thanks for your answer. I found that they were the confluence scheduled tasks, I disabled them all via the web and now I'm looking for which one causes the service to crash.


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to use 'variable' on template
Asked by beck:

I want to use 'variable' for the template.

I could add 'new variable' with name and its text, multi-line text or list.

But i don't know how I refer to this variable.

For example,

I created new variable below.

variable name : age

type : text

and how do I use 'age' variable in the page.

I want to adjust 'age' variable for the page. But I don't know how to do.

please let me know

thanks


Answers:
author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@beck](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4665150) When you create a variable in the template, and try to create a page using that template, you will be prompted to enter text into the fields where the variable appear and that will appear on the page once you create it. You can refer example [here.](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/create-a-template/#Add-a-variable-to-a-template)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I pass the 'variable' to the JIRA macro on confluence?
Asked by beck:

now, I'm creating template for release note.

I put 'variable' for \<project key\> and \<release version\>.

And I wanted to put 'JIRA issue macro' which refers to both \<project key\> and \<release version\> variables as its JQL.

So I want the user who creates a release note using this template to just put project key and release version as variables. and it will generate release note with \<project key\> and \<release version\> automatically.

Please let me know how to do

Thanks


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: If you were on the Server version, I would tell you to write a user macro. Would be a fairly straighforward task. Alais, you are stuck on Cloud.


author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@beck](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4665150) By using native template functionality this is not possible to do as the templates are not dynamic. You need to explore third party plugins on [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=dynamic%20template)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to create macro?
Asked by beck:

I want to create Macro.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html>

I've read this article but I can't find 'User Macros' section at General Configuration even though I'm an administrator of confluence.

Please let me know how to do


Answers:
author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@beck](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4665150) ,

Cloud does not support user macros, you can refer to some previous posts in the community.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/HTML-macro-on-Confluence-Cloud/qaq-p/1318974>

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Creating-a-User-Macro/qaq-p/200876>


author: Bill Bailey
body: [@beck](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4665150) you have hit on one of what I think are the three top shortcommings in the Cloud versus server version. They are in order:

1. No custom domain names (been a request open for the for 10+ years)
2. No custom CSS
3. No user macros

Until Atlassian addresses these issues, I cannot see how any of my clients can move to the Cloud version.

Good luck!


author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@beck](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4665150) What Ollie as mentioned is correct. User macros allow HTML and JavaScript to run in Confluence Cloud, which can affect performance so its restricted by Atlassian.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Export option not enabled Scroll WP Publisher
Asked by Shiva Pratap Reddy:

Export option not enabled to publish the confluence document o wordpress via this

Scroll WP Publisher {#toc-hId--1208608532}
------------------------------------------


Answers:
author: sedat_sayin
body: We have the same issue. We were using Scroll WP Publisher for Exporting Confluence Pages to Wordpress.  

But now we cannot export any confluence page to Wordpress.  

Is there an any idea about fix it?


author: mishaikon
body: How to fix it? I can't export any posts now...
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Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@?? ??](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4654391)

You can use the following instructions on how to reorder the pages in confluence: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Where-is-the-reorder-pages-option-in-the-new-Confluence-UI/qaq-p/808659>

Regards

comments: author: ?? ??
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Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud