youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Can we use salesforce profiles to control confluence access?
Asked by Ashwini Nagaraj:

Hi,

Can you tell me if we can control the confluence access via salesforce profiles?

Thanks in advance!!


Answers:
author: Ashwini Nagaraj
body: [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) Thank you :) your answers are helping me to move further. Let me go through the link and get back to you!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, give them permission to "access" the pages that make up the contract and docs.

I'm not sure what you want more detail on, so I'm going to guess "external directories" - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-user-directories-229838212.html> for the confluence side. I don't know Salesforce well enough to tell you where to look to configure external users in that.


author: Ashwini Nagaraj
body: [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) Thank you... Can you give me more details.

Eg: there is a contract and a related document saved in confluence and user need to get the access on contract and its document based on the account of the contract. Can this be achieved?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, because they're not exposed in a useful way as a user directory. (Unlike the other way around, where with a bit of code, you could in theory use Confluence's groups to control Salesforce access. Not that I would bother, if you want shared access control, you should move both systems to use an external identity tool)
Is it possible to change the image of a video thumbnail in confluence?
Asked by Nadia Bairamis:

When posting a video tutorial I could not find an option to change the video thumbnail to one appropriate to the contents of the video or the page.

It uses a plain and dejected looking stock thumbnail that does not invite a user to view it. I would like to change the thumbnail to suit the contents.

Thanks

![Screen Shot 2018-03-19 at 10.17.56.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17368i671B1938267D827E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-03-19 at 10.17.56.png")


Answers:
author: jack laska
body: 1. Upload the video
2. Upload the thumbnail (jpeg)
3. Add the thumbnail to the page
4. Hyperlink the video to the thumbnail


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Nadia,

We have a feature request for this below:

* [CONFSERVER-54192](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54192)

In [another request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-8874), a user had a workaround where they were creating their own thumbnails and then editing the view manually in the [Confluence source editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/server/overview). You could try this if you are familiar with editing source.

I tried to see if there was a Marketplace add-on that might help you with this as well, but unfortunately, it doesn't appear there is.

Let us know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Nadia Bairamis
body: Thanks!


Tags: thumbnail

video
Cannot create new Space - Error: "a space with this space key already exists"
Asked by Gabor Szinyei:

Hi,

We are having problems to create new spaces in our Confluence. When I try creating a new space, nothing happens at the end of the wizard then when I try again, it says the "A space with this space key already exists." so it seems something has happened in the background.

Can you please help to fix this?

Thanks

Gabor


Answers:
author: Atlassian B2X
body: Work around below steps:

Spaces --\> View All Spaces --\> Select Category Trashed --\> Find Deleted Space --\> Click on Permanent Delete. Then only you will get new space with that Space Key

comments: author: Gabor Szinyei
body: Thank you! :-)


author: Gabor Szinyei
body: Hi Thomas, Hi Nic,

Thanks for helping. Looking into the Admin section/ Space permissions, I can see the space created. Actually multiple spaces, as I have tried several times using different space-keys.

However, regardless I had permissions to them, I could not see them. Now I have deleted all of them and recreated the one I intended to have the first time and now it looks OK.

Weird...

We have been running Confluence since ages and to be honest I haven't created a new space since really long time...but that would not explain this behavior.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It sounds like it is creating the new space, but not taking you to the right place afterwards. Can you check in the admin section that the new space is there?


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Gabor,

do you have Cloud? If so, are you able to open the space after the first creation?

(try https://\<your-account\>.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/\<your-space-key\>/pages)

comments: author: Gabor Szinyei
body: Hi Thomas,

No, we have a local installation.

Bests

Gabor


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: [@Gabor Szinyei](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/102687)

OK, then please try

http://\<your-confluence-url\>/display/\<space-key\>

instead
How to export and import confluence global templates between two instances?
Asked by Anand Mutagond:

Hi,

How to export and import confluence global templates between two instances?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: There's no real easy way to do this as far as I am aware, but if you don't have that many templates to move, you could install the [Confluence Source Editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/server/overview) on both instances and simply copy the page code from one instance to the other.
PagePropertiesReport over text macro
Asked by Assistenza Mind-Mercatis:

Hi

We have a page set with PageProperties like

![PP-Status.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17361i8014BCD79EC1DB90/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "PP-Status.png")

In the PP table there is a row with

* header: Status
* value: the status macro

whose generated code is

```
<ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id=".." ac:name="status" ac:schema-version="1">
  <ac:parameter ac:name="colour">Red</ac:parameter>
  <ac:parameter ac:name="title">ToDo</ac:parameter>
</ac:structured-macro>
```

In our PagePropertiesReport we want to collect all page with status "ToDo"!

We added an "Including text" filter for the "ToDo" string.

![PPR.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17360iBB410AFC29BFF9F6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "PPR.png")

But the PagePropertiesReport does not load the desired pages.

How we can search for pages with criteria enclosed in a macro?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi there,

You would need an add-on such as [Table Filter for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/server/overview) to be able to filter the report to only show items with the status "ToDo".

Otherwise, we do have a feature request here that you can vote on that would help accomplish what you need should it be implemented:

* [CONFSERVER-29421](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-29421)

Let me know if you have any questions about this!

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Assistenza Mind-Mercatis
body: Thanks for your reply.

Our Confluence already uses Table Filter For Confluence. So... we used it ... but we would prefer that PagePropertiesReport also consider text in macros.  
Thanks


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

macro

user-macro
Web Notification for published pages (create, edit and delete)
Asked by Adhyaksa Kris Pratama:

Hi,

Is there any way to show notification about published pages in confluence web pages?, I've attached a picture.

![Capture2.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17352i5E7FEF9AD5B959F0/image-dimensions/236x220?v=v2 "Capture2.PNG")

Now it's only showing notification for comment only, is there anything I can do to show other notification besides comment and mention?  

Thank you


Answers:
author: Suren Raj
body: Hi, Adhyaksa.  

I'm afraid it's not possible to display **create, edit and delete**notification on workbox.

The ability to configure what types of notifications go out (for things such as page creation, edits and delete) has been reported per a few feature requests, but there is no ETA as to when they will be created and added to the product:

\* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26672>

\* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26642>

Please take a look at our documentation covering New Features to get a good overview of how and when we implement new features into the product:

\* \|<https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/new-features-744721668.html>

I would also recommend voting on the requests to let our product teams know you are interested in seeing this in the future, and please add yourself as a watcher so you will receive updates on the requests. I also went ahead and linked to this ticket in a private comment to provide more visibility on the feature requests. If you have any further questions, please let me know. Thanks!

comments: author: Adhyaksa Kris Pratama
body: Hi. Raj,  

Thank you for your answer

Ahh. i see, their status is still in the Gathering interest, I hope they'll implement it soon.  

Also, thank you for recommendation for voting on the request
How to display JIRA Development Panel details in Confluence page?
Asked by Abhijith Rao:

I am not able to find Development Panel field details in Confluence "JIRA Issue Macro". Can you please guide on how to populate JIRA Development Panel details in a confluence page?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Abhijith,

This is currently not possible within Confluence natively, but I have created a feature request for it. Please vote on this and comment with your use case as it will be seen by our developers.

* [CONFSERVER-55206](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55206)

Let me know if you have any questions!

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

jira-software
Share with everyone without login?
Asked by Tayger:

Hello

I'm searching for something like Wiki and just checking out Confluence. Is it possible to create a page (manual) so EVERYONE who has the link to it can read that WITHOUT logging in? No further rights, just reading what I have written. When I try the link to my document (without being logged in) I'm forced to login.

Regards


Answers:
author: Evan Golden
body: Confluence is a bunch of spaces that are each a container for pages.\&nbsp;  
You can make a space anonymous so that anyone with the URL can see content.\&nbsp;  
\&nbsp;  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/setting-up-public-access-156.html>

comments: author: Tayger
body: Thank you, just played around with it. It's in general what I want/looking for. Anonymous user can see a bit more than I want, like 'Configure space', even tough anonymous users can't do here anything but they see it.

Regards


author: Evan Golden
body: Thanks Farai

If you found this helpful, and if it answered your question, please click the check mark to mark it as answered.

Regards


author: Tayger
body: Sorry, was not aware, sure!
Page name hint in template
Asked by PCKM:

Hi

I created a template that creates a "project" page which is the place holder for that project related information. The template contains sections and so on.. .This works great.

There is one problem: naming convention for these pages. While we have a convention, users create pages without remembering the naming convention.

Can I set a name example IN the template that users have to override while the open the template - before they save the template as a page?


Answers:
author: Dmitry Mironov
body: The easiest solution is [Create from Template macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-from-template-macro-317196995.html). In this case you can create a page with pre-populated title.

The harder. but more configurable solurion is create a custom blue print.


Tags: cloud

template
Error connecting to server message displayed when uploading a file on to confluence
Asked by Jobi Varghese:

I tried uploading a pdf file to Confluence. But it shows an error message "Error connecting to server". The size of the file is around 750 KB. Is that because of any network issues?


Answers:
author: Igor M.
body: Hey,

If you are using Confluence server instance, you should check if there is a proxy or some other client in between you and confluence. Default attachment size for confluence is 100mb, but proxy such as **Nginx** needs to have setting adjusted to work with Confluence correctly, like **client_max_body_size.**

Igor
"Error connecting to server" message displayed when uploading a file on to confluence
Asked by Jobi Varghese:

I tried uploading a pdf file to Confluence. But it shows an error message "Error connecting to server". The size of the file is around 750 KB. Is that because of any network issues?


Answers:
author: Lauretha Rura
body: Hey [@Jobi Varghese](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1198436) - it is possible that network issue is causing it, but to confirm this you may want to generate [HAR file](https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/generating-har-files-and-analyzing-web-requests-720420612.html) while reproducing the issue to get a better understanding of what goes wrong.

If the HAR file shows HTTP 500 Internal error, you'd then want to check your {{\<Confluence-Home\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log}} as the error is coming from server side and the log would be able to tell us the issue.

Hope this helps :)

comments: author: Jobi Varghese
body: Thanks Lauretha. Issue was because of the network. When I tried uploading files using another network it got resolved.
Sr Tech writer
Asked by Kavitha Ramasamy:

Unable to create a personal space in Confluence, need help!


Answers:
author: Dmitry Mironov
body: This is in [Global permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/global-permissions-overview-792499454.html):

|----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Personal Space | This permission allows the user to create a personal space. |

P.S. If this helped and answered you question, please do not forget to mark the questions as answered.


author: Kavitha Ramasamy
body: okay, thanks for the help!


author: Dmitry Mironov
body: Ask you confluence admit to grant you permissions to create personal space.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to explain the problem. "I can't" tells us nothing useful - for all we know, Clive the angry penguin is growling at you every time you move the cursor towards "create"


Tags: personal-space
Put request is updating Confluence form as well as target url page
Asked by Daniel Baron:

I have a Put request in an HTML macro form that's intended to update the content of a target Confluence page (representing a skill type) with the form submitter's name and email. However when the form is submitted the target page AND the form page content get updated with the user name and email. Why is this happening and is there a way to prevent it?

```
<script>function addNameToPage() { var users_name = document.getElementById("users_name").value; var email = document.getElementById("email").value; inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('select'); for (i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {  input = inputs[i];  if (input.value >= 1 && input.value <= 5) {    var skillString = "<p> " + users_name + " (" + input.value + ") - " + email + '</p>';    var skillName = input.name;  if (input.value.length > 1)   	var skillString = "<p> " + users_name + " - " + email + '</p>';    var skillName = input.name;  $.get('/rest/api/content?spaceKey=EXPERTISE&title=' + skillName + '&expand=space,body.storage,version,container', function (data, status) {    var pageData = data.results[0];    var page_id = pageData.id;    pageData.body.storage.value = skillString + pageData.body.storage.value;    pageData.version.number += 1;    $.ajax({     type: "PUT",     url: "/rest/api/content/" + page_id,     data: JSON.stringify(pageData),     contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",     success: function (data) {       $("p").prepend(skillString);       alert("Success!");     },     error: function (data) {       console.log(data);     }    });   });  } }}</script><form onSubmit="addNameToPage()" action="/rest/api/content" method="PUT">
```


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Daniel,

If you remove the line

```
$("p").prepend(skillString);
```

Then it should update the page without writing anything to the form page.


author: Daniel Baron
body: That's it, thanks. But why is that .prepend be updating the form page if it's inside the ajax PUT request specifying a different target url?

comments: author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Daniel,

it's not actually *inside* the PUT request. The PUT request reads the data in the pageData variable and submits it to the given URL. Then the success function is run **after**the PUT request is complete with the response being put into the data variable. The jQuery function inside the success function runs on the page where the PUT request was submitted and doesn't have anything to do anymore with the PUT request itself.


Tags: atl-dev
Confluence Operating System
Asked by Anderson Hsu:

Dear partners,

Which operating system is suitable or better for Confluence self-host installed ? which operating system does most of company use ? Is there these kind of information which we can refer ? Thanks a lot.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Always go with a supported operating system - that means Linux or Windows. It works on other systems fine (Solaris and Mac OS for example), but it is only supported on those rwo.

Technically, I should be neutral on the choice between the them, it should not matter. In real life, Linux is cheaper, faster, more reliable and far easier to configure and maintain than Windows, so use that. Unless you have no Linux support in your organisation (if you've got loads of windows expertise around and no Linux, then don't swap just because it's better, you should go with what you know)


author: Dmitry Mironov
body: [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) gave you correct answer.

Just add h ere the link to [Confluence system requirements](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/system-requirements-126517514.html).

comments: author: Anderson Hsu
body: thanks for your kindly assistance.
Is there a way to use space variables in Global PDF Stylesheet? Or somehow include it on PDF Exports
Asked by AccountName:AIB:

Hi,

For PDF exports, I'm trying to export the **space name** to the bottom center of the export.

I tried the following but no luck so far:

```
@bottom-center
{
content: $space.getName();
}
```

I think the space variables do not work within the PDF CSS Stylesheet.

Is there another way of possibly achieving this?

I look forward to your ideas.


Answers:
author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi there,

You might want to have a look at our [Scroll PDF Exporter for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf/server/overview).

Scroll PDF Exporter is an app for Confluence Server and Cloud that allows you to further customize your exports using a graphical template designer.

One key feature of the app is the possibility to use placeholders for specific metadata (e.g. the space name). Those placeholders can be used in the header or footer of your exported file and will be replaced during export with the wanted information.

You can find further information about all available placeholders in our [Scroll PDF Exporter documentation](https://help.k15t.com/scroll-pdf-exporter/latest/customize-document-sections-121932316.html#id-.Customizedocumentsectionsv4.0-placeholdersAddplaceholders).  
For your specific use case the placeholder "Space Name" should work.

You can try out Scroll PDF Exporter using a 30 day trial license via the Atlassian Marketplace.  
In case you have any further questions regarding the app, please get in touch with us via [support@k15t.com](mailto:support@k15t.com).

We'll be happy to help.

Best,  
Nils


Tags: css

export

pdf
How to make table sortable ?
Asked by Xavier Alabart:

How I can make tables sortable by the header of the table?.

I created a table.

Marked first row as header.

But it does not show the option to sort when in view mode.

Any ideas? its a bug? I saw this working before.

I use Cloud Confluence.


Answers:
author: Dmitry Mironov
body: Hi [@Xavier Alabart](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1177336), can give some more information on your instance:

- cloud or server

- version

The docs for confluence tables are give [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/tables-136463.html).

comments: author: Rachana Jain
body: Hi,

I am using Cloud confluence and while the table I have created has a header row, I cannot sort.

thanks !


author: Nivedita
body: I am also looking for the same suggestion.


author: Anthony Yager
body: I copied and pasted a table (so it was sorted in edit mode) Now I can't sort this table either\>
preview macro of attachment
Asked by Anderson Hsu:

Dear partners,   
We found when we open attachment in page content, office document,pdf document can be shown in preview mode , but ai document, 7z document...etc cannot be shown in preview mode. Would it be possible to make ai , 7z ,zip document be shown in preview mode? Thanks a lot.

![preview.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17337i0ABBEE2A27A14427/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "preview.png")


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Well .ai is a proprietary format from Adobe. And there is no longer extensions for even viewing .eps files. So would take work to develop a browser viewer extension.
How do I make the display fit the entire width of page for the Excel Macro?
Asked by Stan Murrah:

I successfully inserted the Excel Macro, but it is not displaying all columns with values because the display is truncated. The width of the display on the page is too small. There is plenty of room on either side of the display to display more, but it only displays a small image in the middle of the page. I don't see a way to change the display width like I can on other macros.


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@Stan Murrah](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188992)

If you are on cloud, it's not possible to fix this unfortunately.
Acces
Asked by Ramana RangaRaju:

Hi,

How do I get access to https://domain/wiki/dologin.action

Do I need special permissions to access this?

Thanks

Ramana.


Answers:
author: JanR
body: Did you try login.action instead of dologin.action? What is the actual error message you get?

comments: author: Ramana RangaRaju
body: yes I tried login.action but that takes you to web browser. I am trying to update a page using JAVA HTTP client.

I am using:

dologin.action

editpage.action

doeditpage.action

Using dologin.action I am unable to access, working with my Admins to grant we access. Hope it helps.

With login.action I am able to connect but page it not getting updated.

-Ramana.


author: Ramana RangaRaju
body: Thank you. I couldn't find the details about that in the document. Can you please point me to some document where we can update the setup.

Thanks

Ramana.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. You will need to ask the administrators of that site.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You will need to ask the administrators of that site.