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Can't @mention new employee
Asked by John Thomas:

We cannot [@mention](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/732788) one of our new employees in Confluence Cloud.

He is setup like all others in GSuite, Confluence, and Jira, but his name won't appear in the user list when we try to [@mention](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/732788) him in Confluence. It does work in Jira, though.

I don't know if it matters, but his email address was used by a previous employee in years past.

What can we do to get his name to show up?


Answers:
author: Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_
body: [@John Thomas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1705946) There's a suggested solution in [this post here](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/User-mentions-doesn-t-work-in-Confluence/qaq-p/275674) (3rd answer down by Antonio, seemed to work for a few users) :

*- insert this user temporary on global permission (all permission)*

*- try to mention user*

*- remove this user on global permission (all permission)*

comments: author: John Thomas
body: Thank you, Callum. I went to Global Permissions and I cannot find a way to add individual users, only groups.

Under Space Permissions \> Individual Spaces \> Manage Permissions (for a Space) \> Individual Users, this user does not come up as an option.


author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@John Thomas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1705946)

Look at this post, maybe can help you

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

Cheers

comments: author: John Thomas
body: Thank you, Vero. I see the user in the People Directory but it only shows him having access to Trello, even though he has Confluence and Jira and is included in the confluence-users, jira-software-users, and jira-users groups.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why can't I bring Jira field to confluence table?
Asked by Bill Mills:

I've created a table view in Confluence that displays fields as submitted via confiforms entries, including the Jira ID # that feeds back to the confiform entry at submission. I wanted to bring the Jira Issue Status field into this field view as a separate field so I followed the following steps from vertuna:

"We add ConfiForms Field macros to the TableView and set the field names parameters like this: myJiraIssue.fields.status.name".

This worked and I now have a separate field that I can export that lists status. I want to do the same thing for another field labelled as "Sprint" (official name is customfield_15) and am unable to get it to work trying:

* myJiraIssue.fields.sprint.name
* myJiraIssue.fields.customfield_15.name

Has anyone run into a problem like this?

Appreciate any help / guidance!

<br />

<br />


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: What you need to know is exact name of the field and the structure Jira uses to return it's value when requested via REST API call

I am pretty sure the field name is not "customfield_15", as custom fields have a much larger numbers...

Try to do a request in the browser to

```
https://_your_jira_/rest/api/latest/issue/_issuekey_
```

Changing _your_jira_ and _issuekey_ respectfully, and see what field returns information about the sprint and what is the structure

Alex

comments: author: Bill Mills
body: You're right, it's customfield_10005. I don't have global admin rights to my Jira server, just local project admin rights.

Here is the field in xml:

\<customfield id="customfield_10005" key="com.pyxis.greenhopper.jira:gh-sprint"\>

Does this help describe the issue better?

Thanks!


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Not quite. I have no idea myself how to get such xml

Have you tried to do a request as I mentioned in the browser?

(you don't need any extra permissions)

find in that response your custom field and share its structure


author: Bill Mills
body: Unfortunately I get an error or redirected back to the main project page when I try to change the url.


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: The URL you should craft should be almost the same as the one you see when you browse the issue - at least it's server part

```
https://_your_jira_/
```

Feel free to [open support issue](https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/VERTUNA/Support+Request+Form) and provide the URL you see in the browser when viewing the issue in Jira and I will construct the URL fro you that does the same but returns a JSON (RESt API call)

Alex


Tags: confiforms

confluence-server

jira

server
Expand macro - embedded content not revealed upon search
Asked by Alex Knoll:

I'm using the expand macro to condense a lot of related information on one page. When using the search bar, the information held within the expand macro is successfully found - however, when you click on the search results, it simply brings you to the page, with the macro condensed. This means that the user is brought to a page and has to manually expand each section in order to find the answer to their question.

The expand macro automatically assigns an individual URL to each of its sections - so my question is, can that specific URL be leveraged so that when a user clicks on a search result, the section is automatically expanded upon arrival on the page?


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Alex Knoll](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4278463)

I was not able to find anything that provides this functionality. I would suggest submitting a feature request here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa>


Tags: confluence-server

expand

search

server
Is there a way to filter pages where change has been done in the specific part of the page?
Asked by Svetla Prahova:

We track our product requirements on pages. All requirement pages are created from a template. Each product req. page contains 4 tables: page properties, description of the requirement written by PO, analysis of the requirement which is done from BA, and status information/comments here all (PO, BA, team) can write questions, comments and etc.

Sometimes PO changes requirement's description in 2nd table after the requirement is analysed and under development, and if BA is not informed, he can miss it.

Is there a way to filter recently updated pages where change has been done in table 2 only? Or BA to be notified each time when text in 2nd table is changed?


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Svetla Prahova](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1323963)

There is not a great way to do this. You would only be able to filter on which pages have had changes.

I would suggest improving your business process to ensure users as aware of changes. If the BA is added as a watcher as soon as it is assigned to them then they will be notified of the update made to the page. They can then watch for these changes.

I have also seen individuals make the section in the tables their own pages as a subpage under the full document. They then include that page in the full document. This allows them to track the page changes for the requirement document.

The BA could also filter on when and who made the update so they could check weekly if any of the POs they are working with made changes to any of the requirements they are overseeing.


Tags: cloud
Can you add individual headings in Confluence
Asked by Joey Moroney:

Im wanting to add individual headings that are not connected to the pages and then add child pages

ie:   

STAFF (Heading)

. Internal staff

. external staff


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Joey Moroney](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4142574)

If you are talking about the navigation on the left-hand side you can but they will be associated with a page. Usually, on these pages I just add a navigation macro to make it easy for users that accidentally click on them.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Show data in table if checkbox is checked
Asked by buchhaltung@die-besserwisser.de:

Hello all,

I would like to know if it is possible to create a table (table1) whose content is automatically transferred to another table (table 2). However, this should only happen if a checkbox is checked in table 1, which provides the data. Otherwise, the content should not show up in the dynamic table 2. I am not a developer, so please excuse my amateurish way of expressing myself :)

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Best regards


Answers:
author: Katerina Rudkovskaya [Stiltsoft]
body: Hello [buchhaltung@die-besserwisser.de](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4329218) ,

Please try our [Table Excerpt(Include)](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Excerpt+and+Table+Excerpt+Include+macros) macros to reuse your table on the current page or another one first. Then wrap your source table (Table Excerpt Include) with the [Table Filter](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Filter+macro) macro and specify the checkbox filter:

![2021-03-31_16h36_05.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/136798iA26981B3F7276A0F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2021-03-31_16h36_05.png")

![2021-03-31_16h32_40.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/136793i771CA3D16A9514D3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2021-03-31_16h32_40.png")![2021-03-31_16h32_51.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/136795i63DF157443B142D4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2021-03-31_16h32_51.png")![2021-03-31_16h33_55.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/136794i991C883BC61C320B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2021-03-31_16h33_55.png")![2021-03-31_16h34_30.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/136797i0601AE4457CDB4CB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2021-03-31_16h34_30.png")![2021-03-31_16h37_48.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/136799iF2D1245209C3BA12/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2021-03-31_16h37_48.png")

Katerina  
Stiltsoft


author: Brendan Ford
body: This is definitely possible using Javascript, and in just a few lines, but if you are not a developer, then this would not be simple. If you have a DOM/Javascript developer at your disposal, then explain it to them, and also explain that you can embed javascript into a Confluence page using the HTML macro, and to use the following event to trigger anything that they want to happen after the page loads:

```
AJS.$(window)
```

I hope that is helpful.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Connect Analytics for Confluence (Data Center) to Azure Monitor Application Insights
Asked by Olaf Stehr:

Confluence Data Center contains some very nice Usage Analytics features since Version 7.11: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/analytics-1044780333.html>

When it is hosted on Microsoft Azure, it would be great to connect this to Application Insights of the Azure Monitoring service:

<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/app-insights-overview>

Does anybody here have had a look into that already?

Cheers  
Olaf


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Olaf Stehr](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1787949)

I would suggest submitting this request as an Atlassian feature request here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa>


Tags: analytics

azure

data-center

server
Confluence notifications
Asked by Nodar Vardiashvili:

Hi, is there anu way to create confluence notification scheme ? I need to add due date field in confluence and then receive mails about this due date


Answers:
author: Bastien Delourmel
body: Hi Nodar,

For now on, it is not possible in Confluence. In fact, there is an open request [CONFCLOUD-34389 - Daily / Weekly Digest Email for Tasks](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-34389?error=login_required&error_description=Login+required&state=aaf8b6ba-fc63-4e31-8e09-833d7ab25b98) you can vote / watch this issue to be updated.

But i can suggest you this add-on: [Task Reminder for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214272/task-reminder-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

Regards,


author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: You can add a "due date" (also called an "expiration date" or "expiry date") to Confluence pages:

![confluence-page-expiration-date.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/258567iFB16FA1387C99C7E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence-page-expiration-date.gif")

And [use a notification scheme](https://midori-global.com/products/better-content-archiving-for-confluence/cloud/documentation/configure/notification-schemes) to send out emails!

A notification scheme contains notifications. Each notifications has:

1. a custom schedule
2. a CQL query (which collects the pages for the email, e.g. the ones that reached their due dates)
3. a customizable email template (subject and body you can edit)

It can be implemented with [Better Content Archiving for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/123/better-content-archiving-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview).

*(Disc. it is a popular supported and paid app developed by our team.)*


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
add a dropdown menu and based on selection display content
Asked by Krithica G:

Hi,

I want to set up a leave tracker page. I created a table for a month.

I want to display it for 12 months for which i need a month selection dropdown and based on the selection respective month table should be displayed? Is it possible ?

Are there any other better solutions for this?

Pleas help.


Answers:
author: Krithica G
body: Hi,

Thanks for your response. I am looking for options to implement in confluence page and not in jira. can you please let me know how to get this done in confluence?

Thanks,

Krithica


author: Callum Carlile _Automation Consultants_
body: There are a few options you could look into:

* You could use a Cascading List field, where you can nest a second dropdown list under each of the 'parent' field values
* If you had ScriptRunner, you could use Behaviours to hide a particular custom field until a certain value is selected/present in another custom field
* You could look into a different add-on such as [ProForma](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215833/proforma-forms-checklist-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) or [ProForma lite](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219499/proforma-lite-forms-checklists?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) to create a dynamic form which hides and displays custom fields based on previous field value selections


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to add my Jira team`s member to my confluence
Asked by pietro.e:

I want to add user pictures and their profile link on my project space in confluence.


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@pietro.e](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4329028)

Look at this posts, maybe can help you

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/profile-picture-macro-258801707.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/your-user-profile-139549.html>

Cheers


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can't edit my checklist page - Says I'm being disconnected evn thoug I have log out and came back
Asked by Marco Leonini:

Please can you gelp me with my technical issue?

In French that's the message:

Vous avez ?t? d?connect?, c'est pourquoi nous avons d?sactiv? la modification pour ?viter tout probl?me. Vous pourrez de nouveau modifier du contenu une fois la connexion r?tablie. Tentative de reconnexion en cours...

I ca not go on with my work because my changes can't be saved.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Marco Leonini](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4329013)!

The behavior you described (randomly logging out) is documented here:
> [Getting randomly logged out of Atlassian Cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/getting-randomly-logged-out-of-atlassian-cloud-691011821.html)

This can be caused by a cookie added by the "remember me" option. You can try to clear your browser cache and then try logging in again.

If you do not want to do that right at the start, you can check if the behavior is present in another browser or in a private/incognito window of your current browser.

Since it has been a few days since you reported this, I would like to understand a few things:
> 1. Is this still affecting you?
> 2. Is there someone else who is also facing this?

Let us hear from you!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I format whole text?
Asked by Weronika Noga?:

I need to have an equal spaces between rows of the text


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Weronika Noga?](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4302602)!

Formatting text is one of the foundational functions of content creation. Currently, line spacing controls have been suggested as a new feature for Confluence.

You can check it here:
> * [CONFCLOUD-34468 - Ability to Control Line and Paragraph Spacing in Confluence Page](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-34468)

However, if we look at a paragraph in Confluence, line spacing is consistent throughout all lines:
> ![Screen Shot 2021-04-01 at 13.51.16.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/137105i76684A3DBB478744/image-dimensions/140x122?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2021-04-01 at 13.51.16.png")

The only difference is when we start a new paragraph, then we have a different space between lines. This can be avoided if you use this combination of keys to create a line break:
> Shift+Enter

You can see in this screenshot that the spacing between two paragraphs is the same as the spacing between lines:
> ![Screen Shot 2021-04-01 at 14.01.40.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/137106i5B9F3E57AE4EB5D3/image-dimensions/145x119?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2021-04-01 at 14.01.40.png")

This happens due to the fact that shift+enter does not create a new line but rather breaks the current line and keeps it if it is the same.

I hope this helps.

Let us hear from you!

comments: author: Weronika Noga?
body: Thank you Diego :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to show confluence pages with a specific label in slack using confluence >< slack integration
Asked by Muhammad Fardan:

my slack workspace is integrated with cloud confluence apps

when i tried to find confluence page of specific label in the slack using this command

"/confluence search \<label-name\>"

it didnt give expected result, it didnt show confluence page with given label name


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Muhammad,

Thank you for raising this question with us.

According to the information returned when I type /confluence help:
> `/confluence search <text>`: Search for the content in linked sites

The command will search your Confluence site for that text. It does not limit it to labels, and there doesn't appear to be a way to specify the label in your search. Can you tell me about the results you received but weren't expecting?

As a workaround, I found a 3rd-party add-on called Obie that uses Confluence's built-in search in tangent with Slack. They wrote [a blog article on this process](https://obie.ai/blog/how-to-search-better-in-confluence-documentation-and-workspaces/). You can install the add-on from their [listing on Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=obie) if you want to try it.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Take care,

Shannon

comments: author: Muhammad Fardan
body: Hi Shannon,

Thanks you for answering my question.

I had created several pages in confluence under a specific label, lets say "kubernetes-manual". So I expected that those pages link are shown in the result when I typed
> /confluence search kubernetes-manual

But none of my pages was listed in the result, Its only show some other pages that may have "kubernetes" or "manual" word

Thanks for the suggesstion, I will check Obie page to explore it.  

<br />

Regards,

Fardan


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Fardan,

Thank you for clarifying that. The integration is a basic text search of the page content, and so it doesn't look at labels. You can confirm this if you put the *kubernetes-manual* text into a page and see if it returns the page.

I hope this helps!

Take care,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

label

slack
How do we prevent broken bookmark links when moving pages from one space to another?
Asked by Heena Heena:

Hi everyone,

We are doing content restructuring on confluence and need to move pages from one space to another and we need to do this for multiple pages across spaces. The biggest challenge that this is posing is the broken bookmark links this will result in because most bookmarked links are prettified.

I wanted to request the alternative solutions or workarounds that the community might have used (Use of plugins/Banners etc). Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Thank you so much for your help.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you move a page, people landing on the old url for it will be given a "this page has moved to" message automatically.

If you want to pro-actively redirect them, you'll need to create a new page with the old name and put a redirect chunk of code on it.

comments: author: Heena Heena
body: The automatic "Your page might have been moved...." is rather inconvenient because this scenario is expected for hundreds of users across many pages. It can be quite frustrating to have to click on two links for every other page you try to open. Also, I don't think confluence says for sure like "This page has been moved to yy location". It just suggests "Your page might have been moved to yy location". Has there been a recent change to this that I might be missing?

For second option using something like a "Redirection for Confluence" plugin, the entire existing page hierarchy will have to be copied before redirecting which is also not a good option again given the volume of pages


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: So how else would you do this? Confluence's "this page has been moved to" is about the only "solution" you could usefully implement.


author: Heena Heena
body: I could not figure out a better solution myself. Hence, was wondering if anyone else has implemented a more innovative solution.

Thanks for taking the time and answering though.


author: Jude Wood
body: I was hoping for a link similar to Google drive where the link does not change even if the page is moved. We add page links to embedded draw.io diagrams and when the page is moved these links are broken


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Google drive's urls do not change because the pages are not being moved when you change them.


author: Bastian -drawio Diagrams-
body: [@Jude Wood](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5138999) Hey Jude. How do you embed you links in draw.io and which Confluence deployment are you using? If you embed links via the linking menu, the links will work even if you move your page inside of Confluence. May you specify?


Tags: confluence-server

server