youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Unable to use Advanced Jira Roadmap macro
Asked by Robert Egan:

The following error is displayed when the page is rendered.

Error rendering macro 'portfolio-for-jira-plan'

It looks like you've entered a URL to a Jira that is not connected to Confluence. Contact your administrator to configure an Application link.

Seems straightforward enough. Except that there IS an Application link, because we use dozens of different Jira gadgets in our Confluence pages, and they all work fine. You can also paste the link [https://\*\*\*\*\*\*/secure/PortfolioRoadmapConfluence.jspa?r=OIAPo](https://jira-test.ncte.hpc.mil/secure/PortfolioRoadmapConfluence.jspa?r=OIAPo) directly in the page, click it, and go to the report in question.

There is, as usual, absolutely nothing in the server logs.


Answers:
author: Robert Egan
body: The \<iframe\> link worked. I'm just going to write our own user macro using the \<iframe\> approach.

comments: author: Buket d?lger
body: Hi! Could you explain in more detail how you solved it?


author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Robert Egan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4276125) This seems like a [bug](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JPOSERVER-2925), as mentioned in the comments seems like the version 1.1.0 of "Advanced Roadmaps for Jira in Confluence" app works and anything higher than that version produces the rendering error. I would also suggest [raising a support ticket](https://support.atlassian.com/contact/) with Atlassian Support to confirm.


Tags: server
How to Display Multiple Parts of a Confluence Page to Another Confluence Page
Asked by Aaron Andrade:

We have a HR page that has the cell numbers and home numbers of employees and I need to pull some of those numbers and add them to a call tree page for incidents that may happen.  

What I am hoping to do is add a macro that will allow me to pull specific people from the HR list and add them to the call tree. There is screen shot of the HR list (names and numbers changed for security reasons.![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170826i675B9244B32C0B50/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you documented each person on a separate page, you could use the "include" or "excerpt-include" macros to draw their data into a page as needed.

comments: author: Aaron Andrade
body: I tried that and because the HR page is in alphabetical order and the call tree isn't the numbers were being put in the wrong spots. Thank you for the advice!


Tags: confluence-server

server
What are some cool features in Confluence that a beginner may not know?
Asked by Matt Williams:

I am trying to become better at using Confluence and would like to know some features that are available not including macros/plug-ins.


Answers:
author: Matthias Gaiser _K15t_
body: Hi [@Matt Williams](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4577855)

my colleagues started to create a Confluence Best Practice series with short \& easy to watch videos. [Check it out here](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvtVyEIKNWjzk8MSwEiT2NV77Oe8INTf).

Currently, they cover topics like:

* Sharing content
* how to create beautiful pages
* templates
* Content Reuse
* Labels

Maybe you get some inspiration from them.

Cheers,  
Matthias


author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Matt Williams](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4577855)  
[Creating pages with pre-formatted templates](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/pre-format-your-content-with-templates/) is also one feature that you can try out.


author: Darryl Lee
body: [Creating a Jira issue from within Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/use-jira-applications-and-confluence-together-427623543.html#UseJiraapplicationsandConfluencetogether-CreateissuesfrominsideConfluence) is kind of neat.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
We want to use an old editor
Asked by Vaclav Elias:

We can't use the old editor.

<br />

There was information in the community that only Atlassian support engineers could make older editors available.

Please, can you activate also for us?

Thank you! :)


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You will need to raise this with Atlassian support directly, over at <https://support.atlassian.com/contact>

I am not sure they are still doing it any more (certainly not for free or starter licences, as they're unsupported), as the old editor will be going away eventually and they're pushing people to the new one so they can get rid of it.

comments: author: Vaclav Elias
body: Thank you Nic. The reason I want old editor are the tables, which you can set responsive.

I really hope once they remove any option to have old editor, this will be fixed.


author: Matthias Gaiser _K15t_
body: Hi [@Vaclav Elias](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4648814)

welcome to the Atlassian Community. As [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) said, eventually you have to use the new editor since the old editor will go away some day.

If you want to enable the legacy editor, you could also follow these steps:

1. Install this free app: [Property Inspector for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1223854/property-inspector-for-confluence)
2. Create a new page, set a title and publish it (or use an existing page)
3. In the tools **???** menu, choose **Property Inspector
   ![Screenshot 2020-11-24 at 15.13.01.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170914i6047C6988A75BF33/image-dimensions/296x328?v=v2 "Screenshot 2020-11-24 at 15.13.01.png")**
4. Delete the property **editor** and click Close  
   ![Screenshot 2020-11-24 at 15.14.48.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170915i4727EC77F22741BC/image-dimensions/416x273?v=v2 "Screenshot 2020-11-24 at 15.14.48.png")
5. Reload the page
6. Click edit and now you see the legacy editor

Cheers,  
Matthias.

comments: author: Vaclav Elias
body: Thank you Matthias.

I will be testing this on Monday! :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Inline Comments with an @mention in the editor don't send notifications?
Asked by Chris McCullough:

It seems like if I'm editing a page and I [@mention](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/732788) another user in an inline comment no notification is sent to them until my draft is published. Is there any way to turn on notifications for inline comments while in the editor or does that only work on a published page?  

It's just a little strange that someone I mention in an inline comment doesn't get a notification to look at an edit I make to a page without first publishing that page. Am I missing something?


Answers:
author: Alexander Pappert
body: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Inline-comments-while-editing-FINALLY/ba-p/1444781>

we won't send notifications or post inline comments until you publish


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to add file printout into a page
Asked by Eitan Pinhas:

I'd like to add a word document content to be printed into a page.

Not as a link nor as a thumnail.

I tried to copy paste it but I dont get all the formats...

Is it possible?

I can save it as pdf or html but I cant find a way to add it as a prinout.


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Hello and welcome to the Community! Have you taken a look at the PDF macro, will it not do what you want?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/pdf-macro-375849180.html>

comments: author: Eitan Pinhas
body: Thanks a lot, I was able to use word macro.

Exactly fits my needs.


author: Bill Bailey
body: Good deal. If I have answered your question, please accept the answer. We work for clicks! ;-)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Content of body.storage and body.editor is different
Asked by Mathias Franz:

Hello,

I was editing a lot of pages via Rest API of our confluence Server instance.

All of the following steps were done via python and the atlassian-python-ai-package.

When I view the edited pages, everything looks good. But if want to edit one of those automatically edited pages, the old content appears in the editor. I don't know how to solve or fix this problem.

If I simply open the page in chrome it looks fine. The new content is present:![body_storage.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170796i5562A8DF11584524/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "body_storage.PNG")

If I click on edit, the old content appears in the editor:

![body_editor.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170797iFA0058255AE2F461/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "body_editor.PNG")

Funfact: If I make some changes on one of those broken pages via the editor and than restore the page via pagehistory, the problem disappears. But unfortunatelly this not the way to solve the problem because there are to many pages where I need to do this.

What i have done:

I changed the body of a page via python-script.

1. get the body from a page

2. i added some content at the top of the body (the content that was added came from another confluence-page ZYX)

3. replace the body of the page

I'm not a native english speaker but I hope you understand what the problem is. Otherwise please feel free to ask. :)


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Mathias Franz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4523495)

The only thing I can imagine is, that you have "unpublished changes" in one of those pages.

To recapitulate:

1. You get the content of a page
2. You change something with python in the body
3. You save this page
4. in confluence, you can see the changes, but the edit mode is wrong?

Can you share some code?

Thanks, Dominic


Tags: confluence-server

server
Costing to the Confluence per user or entire team
Asked by divya.smitha:

We have a plan to integrate confluence with JIRA. but this requirement is only for few users from our iQuanti team.

Can we separate them and give confluence access only to the needy.

With the Above configurations : What would be the cost. Need details


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, the user list for Confluence can be totally different to the user list for Jira. So you can have (say) 25 people with Confluence access and 200 in Jira.

comments: author: divya.smitha
body: For 25 people, what would be cost. Can you please give the billing chart.

Thankyou very much for the response


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: First hit on most search engines is <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing>


author: divya.smitha
body: Thanku. We are already 120 plus users of JIRA and need to enable confluence for just 20 users. How to do that. Could you please give the steps to follow


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: For Cloud, go to site management and check who has access to each application -

<https://admin.atlassian.com> -\> Product Access

This will show you groups of people who have access to the various products you own. You will need to make sure that the groups for Confluence access contain only the 20 people you want to see it, and similarly, the 120+ for Jira users.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I am unable to disable sortable tables in APPs.
Asked by Taylor Holyszko:

Hi,

Our tables in our documentation site : [Datumize Documentation - Datumize Documentation](https://docs.datumize.tech/docs/) all appear with a sort field that is covering text. We want to disable the sortale tables app. However as logged in as superadmin, there does not appear to be a way to actually disable this, as no disable button exists.

Can you help me in understanding how to achieve this?

![Screenshot 2021-11-24 at 07.39.27 (1).png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170776i496DE433C8348EF2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2021-11-24 at 07.39.27 (1).png")


Answers:
author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Taylor Holyszko](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2036105) On Confluence server, it seems like these system modules cannot be modified/disabled. However there are below workarounds I have read on the community -

1. Add a new column and merge all the cells with an adjacent column.
2. Add a new top row and merge all its cells.


Tags: confluence-server

server
We want to set the drop-down list in the table. How to implement it?
Asked by johnnyzhang:

We want to set the drop-down list in the table. How to implement it?

![????_20211124194017.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170770i789428306FA0AB99/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "????_20211124194017.png")


Answers:
author: Jack Brickey
body: OOTB this isn't available. There are Marketplace apps to consider. Here is a post that offers one such app - [Add-drop-down-menu-in-confluence-table-rows](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Add-drop-down-menu-in-confluence-table-rows/qaq-p/1850913) .

comments: author: johnnyzhang
body: Is there a free plug-in to implement this function?\^_\^


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: We also can suggest our [Handy Macros for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214971/handy-macros-for-confluence-formatting-and-interactive-ui?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app and it's Handy Status macro that allows you to change statuses (options) within the pre-defined set on your Confluence pages without continuous transitions to the page edit mode.

The app is a paid one but you'll have free 1-month trial and get other useful macros along with the mentioned above.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Finding changes on page history
Asked by Rebecca Grant:

I have a page that has regular small updates. I use the page history to see what has changed. I like the feature that colours the changes ("This line was added" green, "This line was removed" pink, "Formatting was changed" blue); however, it is quite hard to find the changes when I look at the history (the colours are quite pale, the page is unfortunately very long, lots of scrolling!). Has anyone got a way of finding the changes on the page please? I am not that technical so not looking for code or scripts, just a way to quickly jump to those green highlights to see what is new.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Rebecca Grant](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4648195) Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I haven't come across any option that will jump directly on the new lines added, while comparing 2 versions. I can think of opening developer tools (F12 on Chrome) and search (CTRL + F) for "**diff-html-added** " in the elements tab, this way you can jump to the sections where the new lines have been added by clicking the arrow keys in the search section. Similarly you can search "**diff-html-removed** " and   
"**diff-html-changed**" for lines removed and formatting changed respectively. Hope this helps.

![dev-tools.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170793i6FA5B7AD1B48A269/image-dimensions/526x242?v=v2 "dev-tools.png")

comments: author: Rebecca Grant
body: That is just what I need! Thank you so much.


author: Kishan Sharma
body: Great, glad that helped ?


author: Somashekhar Sonnagi
body: Is there way to remove "Formatting was changed" . I only want

"This line is added"

"This line is removed"

"Formatting was changed" unnecessarily shows lot of information, which is not relevant.


author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Somashekhar Sonnagi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5594998) Welcome to the Atlassian Community!  
No there's no way to remove "Formatting was changed" option. However, in developer tools, you can delete nodes having **diff-html-changed** class**,**to remove all lines where formatting was changed. But its a manual process and could be cumbersome if you have lot of information.

example -

\<span **class="diff-html-changed"** data-a11y-before="Start of changed content" data-a11y-after="End of changed content" id="changed-diff-1"\>\</span\>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confiforms Calendar View not displaying additional entries on Month view
Asked by Jason Walsh:

I've built a calendar view to display entries based on a DateTime Interval (Not using time, just day) which works well. However, if I have more than 7 items that appear on a certain day, I get a "+ 2 more" link appearing at the bottom of the date cell, which is fine.

![SS1.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170726i803D383264D9B407/image-dimensions/232x214?v=v2 "SS1.jpg")

The problem is that when I click on that link, nothing happens. I have no custom CSS at play that could conflict with that either. The interesting thing is that when I look at the same date in the week view, I can click on it and "sometimes" it will appear way at the bottom and if I click on any other day that has a link to display more, it won't work and neither will the first link that worked before. Very odd.

![SS2.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170728i59045DCD14821748/image-dimensions/330x154?v=v2 "SS2.jpg")

![SS3.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170727i7F42107FF6C673DC/image-dimensions/505x127?v=v2 "SS3.jpg")

Is there a CSS rule or something that I could apply to make that like work? When editing the macro, the links work perfectly and display right beside the date in the month view, but published it doesn't work at all.


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi

Hard to tell, must be a CSS issue (conflicting). As you say it fails to work when page is published - must be some theme or general CSS rules that conflict with CalendarView ones.

Since 2.19.3 we have removed this functionality and there is no +n more link is shown

<https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-Version2.19.3>

Alex

comments: author: Jason Walsh
body: Hey Alex,

I went and dropped all CSS from the site in question and those links are still unresponsive. I'm at a bit of a loss here, is there anything I can do to perhaps expand the cell height? Or see what could possibly be root cause of the CSS conflict?


author: Jason Walsh
body: I'll submit an app support ticket


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Updating to a recent version of ConfiForms might be the best option here.

Fighting with CSS conflicts is really a nightmare, especially if you have custom theme installed or other non standard CSS rules in place


Tags: calendar

confiforms

confluence-server

server
Cannot Edit a specific Confluence Workspace
Asked by Stephen Zmetana:

We use Confluence for our Online Workflow Help. I'm an Admin on the system, with full admin privileges to all product Working spaces. But for some reason, I can no longer edit one specific Workspace. The little pencil icon indicating Edit permissions does not appear.

Under **Space Tools / Permissions** it has the standard set of Admin Group user privileges, and I even tried adding myself as a specific user with full Admin privileges -- but no go, the Edit icon doesn't appear.

Other Admins have the same problem with this one particular space.

Has anyone every run into this problem before, and know how to make the space editable?

![Confluence1.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170702i2C67D3E34F593361/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence1.png")![Confluence2.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170703iEA331417C884F981/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence2.png")


Answers:
author: Jens Rutschmann [K15t]
body: Hi [@Stephen Zmetana](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3684262),

according to the screenshots it looks like you're on Confluence Server / DC and you seem to be using Scroll Versions in that space.

With Scroll Versions individual space versions can be edit-restricted to prevent unintended changes in completed versions. I suppose this has been done here. These restrictions are not shown by the padlock icon.

Please see our docs here how to check and manage these restrictions: <https://help.k15t.com/scroll-versions/4.1/manage-versions-188549756.html>

If you need further help please reach out to our support team at <https://support.k15t.com> or help@k15t.com

Cheers,  
Jens

comments: author: Stephen Zmetana
body: Hi Jens,

Yes, using Scroll Versions. But no Edit restrictions to the versions are indicated.

![NoEditRestrictions.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170851i4385456E8763F45A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "NoEditRestrictions.png")

I even tried explicitly adding Admins group to Roles, to see if that would enable Edits. But no joy.

![ScrollAdmins.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170852i75F07F385B8738CB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ScrollAdmins.png")

Somehow the whole space in Confluence seems to be locked off.  

I will reach out to your Support Team, thanks!

Stephen


author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Stephen Zmetana](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3684262)

Can you also share the settings on the page restrictions? (lock icon). Maybe there is something there even though it says there are no restrictions.

Regards

comments: author: Stephen Zmetana
body: Thanks for the suggestion, Fabian.

But when I click the Lock Icon it also shows "No Restrictions"

![NoRestrictions.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/170850iEF9952F98D1E4EB2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "NoRestrictions.png")


Tags: confluence-server

edit
Streamlining access permissions for Confluence Pages
Asked by Mark Deacon:

In our company we use Confluence to record meeting minutes/notes.

There are some meeting minutes/notes that are confidential and we don't want everyone having access to view.

Currently the only way I know how to restrict access is to manually restrict everyone and only manually grant it to the individuals I want to see those meeting minutes.

This process takes time each time, plus exposes to risk if the person recording the notes forgets to restrict access to those notes.

Is there a more streamline way where we automatically restrict access to everyone, and automatically only grant access to those individuals tagged on that specific page? That way it occur automatically to save time and make it more fool proof.


Answers:
author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Mark Deacon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3744186) In addition to Jimmy's answer, you can also think of creating a page at the root level eg: named **Private** , and then add view/edit permissions to only those users who should be able to view/edit child pages under it. You can then ask those users to create meeting minutes under the parent Page - **Private**. This way only those specific users will be able to view/edit pages under it.

comments: author: Mark Deacon
body: Thanks Kishan.


author: Craig Willson (AppFox)
body: Hi [@Mark Deacon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3744186) ,

Like [@Jimmy Seddon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/512822) mentioned, you could consider using a different space for the restricted content and then set the default permissions at the space level.

Alternatively, you could use [Compliance for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218474/compliance-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) to apply classification levels to the restricted page (e.g. Restricted Meeting Notes) and then set up the access restrictions (users or groups) that apply to the level. These restrictions would be applied automatically to any page that is changed to that level.

I hope these suggestions help.

Thanks,  
Craig

comments: author: Mark Deacon
body: Thanks Craig.


author: Jimmy Seddon
body: Hi [@Mark Deacon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3744186) ,

Have you considered using a separate for this restricted content? That way you could control the default permissions at the space level and you don't have to worry about people forgetting to manually restrict those meeting notes. If it's a different group of people each time I don't know that there is a better way to have a dynamic set of restricted permissions.

I hope that helps!

-Jimmy

comments: author: Mark Deacon
body: Thanks Jimmy. Do you know if there is a way to set an automation up in Confluence where it automatically just shares permission with those who are tagged in the specific page?


Tags: permission