youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Cannot use HTML Include among two confluence Instances.
Asked by Andrian Fernandopulle:

Hi All,

We have two confluence instances which are connected via Application Links. I am trying to use HTML Include macro to show a page from one confluence in another. It shows a login screen but when I login it throws a 503 error. I switched the two instance then confluence tries to find the page from the destination instance inside the source instance and ends up giving a page not found error.

Any idea why this is happening ?

Is it possible to use HTML Include macro among two confluence instances ?

Thanks for reading


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: You may want to have a look at some of the plugins that were suggested in the accepted answer on this Question:

[Synchorinizing Content Between Spaces and Instances](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Synchorinizing-Content-Between-Spaces-and-Instances/qaq-p/40770)

The answer is a couple of years old but the links to Marketplace are still good and it looks like the recommended plugins are all still being updated by the vendors.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: There is no current macros that support what you're trying to do.

comments: author: Andrian Fernandopulle
body: Thanks for the reply


Tags: confluence-app
How can I stop notifying everyone watching the page when I make a comment in a pdf?
Asked by Simon Rivard:

Every time I make a comment in a pdf file that is in a confluence page, everyone watching that page gets an email notification. I use confluence for research so I do a lot of comments. I don't want to ask everyone watching the page to stop doing so however. I know when you update a page you have a check box that lets you not notify everyone. Is there a similar option for comments in a pdf page?

Thanks


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: There is no option in Confluence to supress the notification when you comment on an attachment. Ironically, that functionality has been reported as broken in some versions: [Notification isn't sent to page/space watchers, when user adds/edits a comment on an attached file](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-44017)

comments: author: Simon Rivard
body: Thanks Ann,  

Hopefullly they will add this feature eventually. It would make my research way less annoying to everyone else watching the page!

Regards,

Simon
Can we limit the columns shown in space macro
Asked by sn:

hi,

i want to show all attachments in space(using space attchment macro) on the space home page but i just want them to be shown as a list with only name of the atatchment and atatched page name.( i dont want the when was it updated, author ect columns)

is there a way to do this ? i'm not technical so i dont know how to write a user macro.

any help appreciated.


Answers:
author: sn
body: sorry, i wasnt clear. i meant using the space atatchments macro \& limiying the results.

comments: author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: You can do it using Table Filter, it is compatible with space attachments macro.


author: sn
body: thanks andrey but im not looking for paid plug-ins


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Shilpini,

You can use [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/manage/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter) macro to [hide columns](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/Managing+Look+of+the+Table+and+Filtration+Pane#ManagingLookoftheTableandFiltrationPane-HidingTableColumns) of a table.


Tags: questions-for-confluence
Confluence notifications : use tiny URL or page id
Asked by Marc Minten _EVS_:

Confluence uses (by default ?) URL's to pages with the page title in notification mails. When the page title is changed, the URL in the mail end up in a dead link :-(

Is there a way to configure the mails so that Tiny URLs or page id's are used in the URL ? Why does Confluence forsee tiny URL but doesn't use it themselfs ? :-)


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Email templates can be customized but it's not easy to do and I am not sure how you would pull the tiny URL for the page and insert it. I found this article while researching your question:[Customizing Email Templates](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/customizing-email-templates-168001822.html)

The functionality you are looking for has been brought up before, but closed as "won't fix": [Replace absolute url with tiny url in mail notification of page edit and comment](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-27845)

comments: author: Marc Minten _EVS_
body: Thanks,

Customizing ourself and putting in the tiny URL seems not obvious indeed. In addition, it is a lot of work and maintenance to solve a stupid "Bug".

Unbelievable that Atlassian recognises that an URL with the Space and Page name hardcoded is bad practice, and promotes using their "Tiny URL" for remote links. But... they do not use it themselfs and refuse to recognise it as a Bug. How far can you be from real users ?


author: Auke_Miedema
body: We ran into this same problem, after sharing a page, then changing the page tile results in a broken link. This would not have happened if a tiny-url or pageid was used.

To avoid this one should be able to configure this in Confluence to always send a tiny-url of pageid url.

I think Marc is absolutely correct in his last statement!
Why would the Agile Version Report macro just stop working?
Asked by Marit Luersen:

I have been using the Agile Version Report macro on a Confluence page for a few weeks now, which I enabled by adding the external gadget from JIRA. This past week it has been failing to load. This happens on the existing macro I had on a page as well as anytime I try to insert the macro. I deleted and re-added the gadget url in the External Gadget setup. I tried both adding the individual gadget as well as the JIRA Gadget Feed. All other external gadgets are working. The Agile Version Report macro works fine in JIRA Dashboards. Anybody know of why this started happening and how I can fix it? Thanks!

![Capture.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2400iC2F5DFF2386B9F51/image-dimensions/414x252?v=v2 "Capture.PNG")


Answers:
author: Craig Nodwell
body: This has now changed to a template.


Tags: external

gadget

macro
Why no "secure=true" on nginx proxy to Confluence?
Asked by Surevine:

In this document :  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/running-confluence-behind-nginx-with-ssl-858772080.html>

It specifically says to avoid setting secure=true. However, that can leave you open to malicious networks stealing your JSESSIONID cookies and impersonating your session.

Why should we not set secure on the tomcat connector? Is it possible to get nginx to secure the cookie somehow instead?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: The communication on the Tomcat connector (port 8090 in the example) is not secure, as it is only set up for communication between NGINX and Confluence. The client traffic is not received over that port. The proxy serves the content over SSL so the connections to the client are encrypted. The [documentation you linked](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/running-confluence-behind-nginx-with-ssl-858772080.html) assumes the proxy is running on the same host as Confluence, and mentions that the NGINX\>Confluence traffic is unencrypted:

* "External client connections with NGINX are secured using SSL. Connections between NGINX and Confluence Server are unsecured.
* Confluence Server and NGINX run on the same machine."

comments: author: Max Allan (Surevine)
body: Thanks for the explanation of how secure proxies work but the secure flag on the connector has little relevance to what you've explained.

It does mean that the cookie is delivered without the secure flag and can be extracted by malicious networks.


author: Simon Waters
body: I note the example also has SSLv2 enabled, which was deprecated 6 years before Atlassian was founded.


Tags: cookie

nginx

security
Excerpt macro bug in latest Confluence Cloud version?
Asked by Timo Volkmer:

I am currently using Confluence Cloud (v 1000.1572.0) and experience that the blog post macro does not render excerpts as expected when using the Excerpt macro on a blog post.

The blog post macro always renders the complete text of the blog post (or renders an automatically computed excerpt) instead of showing what I have defined as the excerpt using the Excerpt macro. I use the "new line" setting in the Excerpt macro and the "excerpt" setting in the blog post macro.

I am 100% sure that this feature used to work correctly several weeks ago.

Does anyone else have a similar experience?

Thanks!

Timo.


Answers:
author: Ossi Heimo
body: Same here. Just found this excelent way to build infoscreen showing blogposts and now this excerpt doesn't work at all.  

Does somebody know if this has been reported?  

![conflu_excerpt1.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/48113i560248AADCA40913/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "conflu_excerpt1.PNG")  

![conflu_excerpt.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/48112i38CD3157B35581E3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "conflu_excerpt.PNG")


Tags: blog

excerpt
How can I search and replace in a space?
Asked by Xavier Amador:

I need to change many links and words throughout hundreds of articles in a space, but I am unable to find a method in Confluence, or an add-on, to accomplish this. There is an add-on called Qron Search and Replace which unfortunately does not work properly and the documentation is riddled with errors.

Does anyone know of a good way to do this?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Alain,

there's another one:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/at.rumpelcoder.confluence.search-and-replace/server/overview>

But I didn't test it yet and also, it is not for free. But you can give it a try.

comments: author: Xavier Amador
body: Thanks, but I should have mentioned that I use Confluence Cloud, so add-ons made just for Confluence Server will not work for me.


Tags: confluence-cloud
Is there any possibility to create a report of all meeting notes (label) I am mentioned in?
Asked by Markus Raab:

Hi,

I want to create a report that lists all meeting notes (label "meeting-notes") I am mentioned in.

If this is not possible via a report, I want to have any opportunity list all the notes of all meetings I took part in (= I am mentioned in), no matter who created them and where they are located.

Any suggestion on how to do this?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: You can find these pages using the standard search:

![2017-06-22_095831.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/2392iA6DA666F44707881/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2017-06-22_095831.png")

Just click on Add a filter, choose mentioning user, and insert your name, then add another filter for label and choose "meeting-notes".

If you are on Confluence Cloud, then you can turn this into a report by adding the free addon [CQL Search](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/cql-search/cloud/overview), and then selecting everything in the URL after "cql=" and copy/pasting into the cql field of the CQL Query macro.

comments: author: Markus Raab
body: Hi Stephen,

seems this works if I want to manually search for it. We are on Confluence Server 5.10.1 (soon upgradgin), and the actual goal would be to include the results on a page for each individual users.

Every user should (without building searchfilters themselves) have such a report with all the notes about meetings they took part in within their personal space.

I thought this may be useful anyway for many other organizations as well, but couldn't come up with a solution by now.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: I forgot that the content by label macro also supports CQL.

Ask and ye shall receive (user macro):

```
## @noparams
#if ( $space.key.startsWith("~") )
<ac:structured-macro ac:name="contentbylabel" ac:schema-version="3">
 <ac:parameter ac:name="showLabels">false</ac:parameter>
 <ac:parameter ac:name="sort">creation</ac:parameter>
 <ac:parameter ac:name="reverse">true</ac:parameter>
 <ac:parameter ac:name="cql">label = "meeting-notes" and mention = "$space.key.substring(1)"</ac:parameter>
</ac:structured-macro> 
#else
<ac:structured-macro ac:name="contentbylabel" ac:schema-version="3">
 <ac:parameter ac:name="showLabels">false</ac:parameter>
 <ac:parameter ac:name="sort">creation</ac:parameter>
 <ac:parameter ac:name="reverse">true</ac:parameter>
 <ac:parameter ac:name="cql">label = "meeting-notes" and mention = "$action.remoteUser.name"</ac:parameter>
</ac:structured-macro>
#end
```

This will show the most recently created 15 pages with the label meeting notes and where the user is either the personal space owner (if inside a personal space) or the currently viewing user (if in a regular space).


author: Markus Raab
body: Thanks Stephen ...

This solution works quite well.


Tags: meeting-notes
How to integrate clickable SVG in Confluence
Asked by Marc Veser:

Hi,

I want to use a SVG file as navigation map with multiple links to other confluence pages. I've integrate the SVG file by typing '!' and then selected the attachment (thanks to the tipps here in the community). Unfortunately the links in the SVG file don't work any more. When clicking on the SVG the preview is opened and here again the links don't work.

I also had the idea to link to the attachment address directly to prevent the preview mode. Unfortunately this automatically downloads the SVG file and a local copy is then displayed.

How can I display the SVG with working links without downloading it and without using additional plugins which I'm not allowed to install/use?

Any help is highly welcome,

Marc


Answers:
author: mantibi
body: I have exactly the same issue as Marc. I need the image SVG links to work, either in the page read mode, or by previewing the image.

Any news about this issue, and possible ways to solve?

comments: author: Andreas Purde
body: Dear [@mantibi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4215410) ,

in case you are allowed to install apps you can use [SVG Out](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1213030/svg-out).

Kind regards

Andreas


author: mantibi
body: Hello Andreas, thanks for your answer.

I am not Confluence admin, but I will try to ask the one of my company.


author: Andreas Purde
body: Dear Marc,

there are two options under the conditions you mentioned which I'm aware of:

* Use the HTML macro and embed the SVG there. The HTML macro comes with Confluence but is deactivated per default. You need your admin to activate it.
* Write your own user macro in Confluence. A couple of lines are sufficient. However you also need an admin to "install" a user macro in your instance.

Andreas

comments: author: Marc Veser
body: Hi Andreas,

thank you for your answer. Unfortunately both options seem to not work for me because we are not allowed to install user macros or activate the HTML macro. Is there another option?

Regards,

Marc


author: Andreas Purde
body: Dear Marc,

are you allowed to specify [Custom HTML](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-use-javascript-in-confluence-313458839.html) in your Confluence configuration?

The option I'm thinking of: if you add a script as Custom HTML which loops through the images on a page, checks whether they are a SVG and changes the img-tag to embed-tag... could be worth a try.

Andreas


author: Marc Veser
body: Hi Andreas,

I've only space admin permissions. I couldn't find a place where to check if I'm allowed to specify Custom HTML. Do you know how I could check this?

Marc


author: Andreas Purde
body: This is on Confluence level not Space level. Sorry.


Tags: svg
use case: browser closed after space delete command
Asked by Abhishek Pratap Singh:

Hi All,

To delete a space, I performed the below steps (in my local machine)

Browse-\>Space Admin-\>Delete Space

Delete operation started, since the space was very big it took more than hours I anticipated, so I closed the browser.

On next working day, I again followed the same steps to delete the space (this time from a remote machine). deletion started again, but after few hours a 'delete space failed' message appeared in browser window.

Now I have following queries (as I am new to confluence):

1) Is delete operation happens in background, even if I close the browser window?

2) althogh I am not able to find the space in wiki now, not even in database. I am not sure, it's deleted successfully or not?

3) I've also tried to delete space using curl:

curl -v -S -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -X DELETE http://SERVERNAME/confluence/rest/api/space/SPACEKEY

but that results into following error:

HTTP Status 403: Access to the specified resource has been forbidden.

Regards,

Abhishek


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: 1) Yes, it will continue

2) If you can't find the space, it's been deleted. The process deletes the "header" last, and the header is the bit that tells Confluence that there is a space there.

I've seen this a couple of times on large space deletes, I've never worked out why the error is thrown even though the process completes ok.

comments: author: Abhishek Pratap Singh
body: Thanks for your response, that clears my doubt.


author: Abhishek Pratap Singh
body: Any solotion for the issue mentioned in 3rd point.

Is this error is related to wiki application or it's tomcat only.

As with the same credentials, I am ablt to delete space with browser.

Regards,

Abhishek


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Your REST call looks ok, but a 403 for that call means either your credentials are wrong, you don't have delete space rights, or the space has already been deleted.


Tags: delete

space
Sharing JIRA-Portfolio reports in Confluence?
Asked by Robert Wallace McNeil:

According to this site (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiraportfoliocloud/sharing-the-reports-858567600.html>), "5. You can put the iFrame link into the [Confluence macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/HTML+Macro)) to make your reports show up and load automatically in your Confluence pages."

I'm not seeing where/how to actually do this. The link to the "Confluence macro" doesn't take me anywhere. I see no such macro when I search for it. I can't figure out how to accomplish connecting a JIRA Portfolio Scope report to a Confluence page we are trying to set up for reporting visibility? Any help is appreciated!


Answers:
author: Roi Fine
body: Hi Robert,

You will need your Confluence admin to enable the HTML macro since it is disabled by default. Check the confluence docs here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-administrator-s-guide/managing-add-ons-and-macros/enabling-and-configuring-macros/enabling-html-macros>

Please be aware that enabling the HTML macro has some secutry implications detailed in the docs I linked above.

Please let me know if that helps

comments: author: David D Bigness Jr
body: I does. Is there an alternative to sharing Jira portfolio reports without using the iFrame? My company is not fond of the iFrame macro due to security concerns. If not, where can i suggest the enhancement?


author: Liz_Pat
body: I have the same question.


Tags: advanced-roadmaps

jira
Download Confluence Server Archives
Asked by Edgar A. Ramos:

Hi, I?ve looked at the board and didn?t find a similar question so it goes, I'm looking for an old installer but when selecting the link to reach <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives> all I get is a revolving arrow and no list of downloads available.

Is the site down or should I try another URL (I have looked but found only that one). BTW I know it's quite old but looking for 2.2.9 for Linux.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's working for me.

Here's the two 2.2.9 download links direct in case it's something flaky on the page.

<https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/downloads/binary/confluence-2.2.9-std.zip>

<https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/downloads/binary/confluence-2.2.9.zip>

comments: author: Edgar A. Ramos
body: Thanks Nic!, probably something with my connection because I tried with different browsers and same result.


author: BSL_BANZ
body: I am having the same problem. Tried Firefox, Chrome and IE11. Also tried on my phone.

Am looking for the 5.2.4 64bit version of Confluence to set up a migration path to version 6.11. Would really appreciate the link to the archive - and Atlassian to have a look at why the archive page fails.

Thanks in advance.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's the same answer - there's something wrong with your network or client if you can't render the page.

However, 5.2.4 was pulled because of a bug that makes it corrupt data, so you should be looking for a different version.
What's with the Confluence POP3 setup, and the system email addons?
Asked by Mark Montminy:

With Confluence server, 6.0, it seems you \*might\* be able to do incoming email handling for things like comments, and page creation.

There's a POP3 mail handler under General Settings / Mail, and there's a few interesting Email system addons, some are disabled.

I'm not able to find any real information on these settings. The online docs only refer to SMTP for outgoing email, and the addons have no mention at all.

I suspect this is either old, deprecated/broken functionality, or something that was never turned on.

I don't have email enabled at all on my test instance so it's not easy for me to test.

I'm curious if anyone's done anything with them and has any insight to share?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: The POP server under Confluence Administration\>Mail Servers is for outgoing notifications.

Confluence 6.0 does have [built-in email archiving at the space level](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf60/add-a-mail-account-852732108.html) but no ability out of the box to create pages or comment via email.

There is a feature request open that seems to match your use case:

[Create space or page from emails to Confluence](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-1726)

The feature request has a link to this plugin as a possible workaround, it is compatible with Confluence 6.0:

[Send EMail To Page Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.plugins.confluence.send-email-to-page/server/overview)

comments: author: Nathanael Motz
body: It's interesting. The POP server settings seem a bit different than the SMTP settings. I noticed today that one is taken to the POP settings when trying to use the "Page from email" template. The message that pops up when trying to use that template suggests that the POP server settings are for getting emails **into** Confluence. I've been trying to track down information on this functionality but haven't found much (besides this question).


author: Nathanael Motz
body: I opened a case with Atlassian support about this. I thought I would report back in case it helps somebody else. Basically the "Page from email" template/plugin is not supported. Also mentioned here: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Email-to-Page-system-plugin/qaq-p/160398>.


Tags: confluence-app

server
[solved] We want to export a backup of another team's wiki/jira, can we import it as an Archive?
Asked by Ruth Norton:

We want to export another team's confluence/jira as we will be taking over their projects/products, we have our own brand new installation of jira/wiki and we want to retain root to be clean. Can we do an import and have it automatically be set to Archive to be referenced down the line, but not convolute our fresh installation?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, an import of everything will effectively duplicate the old system.

But you can selectively import projects and spaces without inheriting all the other stuff.

comments: author: Ruth Norton
body: Thank you Nic.