youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is it possible to get search results in gallery form in a confluence page?
Asked by Geoff Woo:

I'd like to search all attachments of a page (which will be all jpgs) and get results in an interface simmilar to google image search. Does this feature exist?


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Geoff,

I don't believe we have such feature. Our search feature is based on Lucene, so it would require some tweaking on that. I would be honest with you that I've tried to think a way around this for you, but its quite difficult based on how we can search. We have three ways of performing searches, and the real problem is the output of them.

* Lucene
* OpenSearch, <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.plugins.search.opensearch-plugin>
* RSS, <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.macros.html>

And with the output of these searches you might get the url for the image and then perform something like Google Images.

Sorry that I could not give you any kind of code, or suggestion on that. But at least this will give you some light on how to proceed.

Cheers,

Guilherme


Tags: gallery

result

search
Issue in the search
Asked by MPal Pal:

Hi All,

I have two spaces with identical content. When I search both spaces with a key word say "Oracle", the search omits some results in 1 space.

For example, space A shows 5 results but space B shows only 2 although the other 3 pages exist in space B too.

Any idea why this is?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Nothing \*should\* be different, if the following are true:

1) The user you are logged in under has permissions to view all content -- and that individual pages do not have restrictions set on them

2) The content has the same labels

3) The content was created around the same time -- or if some content was created sooner, that you have indexed it before searching (make sure auto-indexing is on, or kick off a manual index)

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Here's a page that explains ranking that might be of some help:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Ranking+of+Search+Results>

matt


author: MPal Pal
body: Thanks for the reply Matthew Horn.

I was able to fix the issue by rebuilding the indexing of confluence's search.


Tags: search

space
Changing JIRA Confluence Link Display
Asked by JL:

Is there a way to change the format of how linked JIRA tickets show up in Confluence? Particularly, we would like the Due Date parameter to show up on Confluence.

The other option we had was using the query page, but that doesn't seem to be a "snapshot" -- we don't want this to keep updating, it's for a meeting notes page.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The links are supposed to be dynamic, not snapshots.

If you want a snapshot, you'll need to grab the data you need as a one off and paste it into a static page (I'd still use a table of course).

comments: author: JL
body: That's fine. I was talking about the insertion of a table of a a JIRA query. Showing the ticket status is great, but we don't want it to automatically update the tickets listed themselves.

ie. we list who is working on what, we don't want it to update to the currently assigned tickets, but updating the status to closed is still desired.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: But that's what I mean - it's supposed to be dynamic. I'm not sure what you mean by "update automatically" - it needs humans to tell it what to do.


author: JL
body: Currently, as part of our documentation, we document each of our bi-weekly meetings, and manually link each ticket being worked on, using the "Add JIRA Link".

We make a new Confluence page for each meeting. What I'm getting at is that the ticket status should be updated, but the actual tickets being worked on does not change. If I look back at a page from a month ago, it should show all of the tickets worked on during that period (and hopefully, the status would be marked as "closed").

There's two ways of adding JIRA issues right now. One is based off of a LIVE search query, and shows it in a table. This wouldn't help us, as it would change if you looked at a previous meeting.The other one is the manual "Link Issue", where you specify the individual issue to link. We use the latter.


Tags: jira
Confluence 4 editor and Form-Mail-NG
Asked by Andrei [errno]:

is Form-Mail-NG fully compaible with 4.x? I run intoa problem when trying to create a mail form.

- mail-success macro is not found...  

do i have to fall back to the wiki text style? thanks


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello,

From our marketplace site it looks like the latest version is compatable with Confluence 4.x.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.formMailNG>

I am not sure exactly how you are implementing the macro, but it looks like other users have had issues with the mail-success macro.

<http://www.adaptavist.com/display/community/Form+Mail+NG+-+mail-submit>

Adaptavist may get a chance to weigh in here, but I know they are great about getting back to those people that file support requests with them.

You may wish to drop a line to help@adaptavist.com or take a look at their [support page](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.formMailNG/version/206/support) on the marketplace

comments: author: Andrei [errno]
body: thank you - was hoping Adaptavist reads this forum as well... then there is just one source to search...


Tags: adaptavist

addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.formmailng

confluence-app
how can I merge cells in a table?
Asked by Ana Cabria Mellace:

I could merge cells normally in the first row inserted but then I couldn't do so with other cells in the table.

Help?


Answers:
author: Simon Pearce
body: The merge function does work - it's the cell select function that's not great. If you select one cell and one directly below it, the screen shows that you have selected to the end of the *row* and then along the following row until you reach the second cell you want. However, if you look closely you can see that two selected cells have changed colour also meaning you can now hit the merge button.

comments: author: benc as! admin
body: I read both threads, and this was the best answer... and I got my two little cells merged!


author: Walter Phippeny
body: I was trying to merge two cells that were vertical to each other. The Confluence GUI made it look like I was selecting the cells, but the merge button wasn't working. I noticed, though, that if I selected the third cell down, the borders would disappear, but the background color of the cells would be slightly blue. Then I could move the mouse pointer back off the third cell; so that only the two cells were selected WITHOUT the border. This is the sign that you can merge.

![conf-cell-merge.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/57806i30549C63B1204E9D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "conf-cell-merge.png")


author: Thiago Ribeiro
body: Ana,

The select function while working with cells on Confluence is a bit buggy but the selection still works. Try to select the cells with the mouse and use the merge option.

I hope it works.


author: Synkronizer
body: For this you can use Synkronizer Excel Add-in, using this simple excel tool you can merge excel Row, Columns, Database, and Multiple Excel Files and Find the Differences. Try This:

[https://www.synkronizer.com/compare-excel-tables-features/merge](https://www.synkronizer.com/compare-excel-tables-features/merge "Merge Excel cells")

![merge Excel files-2.jpeg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/46481iC867AFE71575D730/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "merge Excel files-2.jpeg")


author: Christopher Yeleighton
body: When I left click cell (1,1) and \[Shift\] left click cell (2,2), the cells get marked (by borders) but merging them has no effect. It seems the cells are marked but the text within the cells is not. I can mark the text by left clicking and dragging but this method does not scale when the table spans several screen heights. A workaround is to make the text really tiny; however, I still have a table where dragging does not select text across table cells. The table is a little irregular; I am not sure how it happened.


Tags: cloud

merge

table
How to restart confluence?
Asked by Susanne:

Can I restart confluence as an confluence Admin inside the webinterface?


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: You'll find more information here on how your confluence service is likely to be installed \& how you would restart it

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Starting+Confluence+Automatically+on+System+Startup>

<http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/windows-service-howto.html>

if it's windows you're on, press windows key \& R to get the command window \& enter "services.msc" to get the services window up, find your Confluence service \& restart.

But as Alex said, it can't be done via the web interface

comments: author: C. Faysal
body: > "Starting Confluence Automatically on Sytem Startup"

that means in case your server (where confluence is hosted) needs a reboot for example...

the system will start confluence by itself so there is no need for to to take action


author: Susanne
body: Just to be clear I want to uninstall the Descendent notification plugin by Adaptavist, that why I need to restart confluence

<br />

"To uninstall this plugin a Confluence restart will be required. As this plugin replaces the default Confluence notification manager with its own version, after you uninstall the plugin in the normal way you also have to restart Confluence to enable normal notifications to work."

I'm a bit confused with your link "Starting Confluence Automatically on Sytem Startup".  
It's nothing I have to do, right? But you recommend it?


author: Susanne
body: thanks all for your explanation :)


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: No, you need to restart confluence at a operating system level. There is no way to do this from the user interface.


author: Jack Hanley
body: System reboot to restart a service is bad practice. Use monit or webmin to restart a Linux service with an interface. Monit is free and configuration is only about 3 lines.  
I have opened my source for Monit config here:  
[http://stash.cagedmedia.com/plugins/servlet/readmeparser/CL/monit-scripts](http://stash.cagedmedia.com/plugins/servlet/readmeparser/CL/monit-scripts?at=)
View-mobile devices-confluence
Asked by Tobit M??ller:

Hello,

I want a different view from my mobile devices for confluences. For example, at the IPhone they should be an other view of arangement as a normal Desktop view. (Arrangement of themes, optimized user-friendly view)

Where or how can i handle this problem?  
Can confluence identify which devices are connected to the programm?  
Thanks


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello jr.Mueller ,  

Actually we only have 2 native view types for Confluence mobile:  

\* Mobile (default when accessing the application from a mobile device)  
\* Desktop version - in this mode you'll visualize your Confluence as you see on your desktop  

And you can switch from these views as described in the following article (which have more details about Confluence on a mobile device itself):  

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Notes+about+Confluence+Mobile#NotesaboutConfluenceMobile-YoucanswapfrommobiletostandardConfluenceandbackagain  

If need a different kind of view for your Confluence when your users access the application by a mobile device (and also identify which devices are connected to the programm as you mentioned) you'll have to perform some development at your instance and apply a customization to achieve this. The best option for customizations would be an Atlassian Expert, which you can find in the following link:  

http://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts  

I hope this helps to clarify the doubts regarding Confluence mobile and about the view modes.  

Best Regards,  

LJ.


Tags: confluence-administration

confluence-app

mobile
Hide View Change
Asked by Raju KC:

Can we hide View Change from users having view access only.


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello rkc,

Can you clarify what you mean here? Do you want remove the Page History menu item for users have view access only? This can be achieved with the rather brute force method of using css to hide this element for all users. You can place the following bit of css in the Space Admind \> Stylesheet

```
#action-view-history-link{    display: none;  }
```

It looks like we have a request for something close to the functionality you are requesting.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-13247>

Please go ahead and visit that issue. I will attach this post to the issue as well to further increase it's visibility. Please feel free to use the above as a stop gap until this functionality is rolled into our product.
Exporting to Word in Confluence gives error "DocumentA is not a valid Single File Web Page"
Asked by Mani1:

I am trying to import my Confluenc page to word via **Tools --\> Export to Word**

and gets the below mentioned error

"**DocumentA is not a valid Single File Web Page**" ... as you can also see it in the below image

Can you support me in this regard, I am really not sure if this is a bug or i am making some mistake.

![](../../upfiles/US_is_not_a_valid_Single_File_Web_Page.jpg)


Answers:
author: Thomas Fleischer
body: I had the same problem.

The reason of the problem:

When you add an image to this page which is attached on another page and not this one then you got this error.

Resolution:

You must add every image as an attachment on this page and not "link" to another pages image
Autofill team calenders with adhoc/freevo
Asked by Florian Gehringer:

Is there a way to set a calender entry at the end of a certain worklow.... e.g. a vacation request?


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Florian,

I believe we don't have this sort of Transition, but could be a added as a Feature in the future.

However as a workaround for now you could create two calendars, and move from one to another, or create a Status for it.

If you wish to create the feature request you can do it here:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=>

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Guilherme
Can't delete issue
Asked by Artur Nasyrov:

After upgrading JIRA from 4.1 to 5.2, I can't delete Issue.

I created new issue after upgrade. Then I press delete button. Then text message showed that issue has been deleted, but issue not deleted.


Answers:
author: Artur Nasyrov
body: I resolved issue. That was solution: [https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Cannot+Delete+Issue+Due+to+File+Permission?utm_source=SAC\&utm_medium=hercules-issue-view\&utm_content=408261](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Cannot+Delete+Issue+Due+to+File+Permission?utm_source=SAC&utm_medium=hercules-issue-view&utm_content=408261)

comments: author: MatthewC
body: glad we could (sort of) help!


author: MatthewC
body: any information from the logs?


author: C. Faysal
body: did you already run a re-index?
Page Hit count for confluence
Asked by Raju KC:

Is there any plugin that gives page Hit count for confluence


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi there,

I think this can be done by using [Google Analytics plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/me.davidsimpson.confluence.plugins.googleanalytics). However this is a commercial plugins, therefore there will be a fee for using this plugin.

Hope this information helps.

comments: author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I've been using Google Analytics without the plugin since my site went live. The plugin seems nice, but it's very easy to get GA up and running without it.


author: MatthewC
body: Confluence does come with a basic logging facility

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Viewing+Space+Activity>

Just be careful if you have a high load system

There's also some more info in the Confluence knowledge base

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=154239308>

You can also get the tomcat container to record the HTTP logs which can then be put through an analyzer like AWstats, webalizer or anything [here](http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/free-website-analytics/)

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/User+access+logging>

One tip though, don't use the tomcat configuration entry Atlassian give you, it won't work with most other analyzers, instead use this one, it's faster as well.

```
&lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.FastCommonAccessLogValve" directory="D:\atlassian-data\confluence-home\logs\access-logs" prefix="tomcat_access_log." suffix=".log"  pattern="combined" resolveHosts="false" /&gt;
```


author: Karanpreet Kaur
body: This can help with the page statistics: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217079/page-view-tracker?hosting=datacenter\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217079/page-view-tracker?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview)

Its free as well. However only available for DC and Server sites.


author: rderania
body: ![15417542860931447249563455891598.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37147iED4542596111D4DC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "15417542860931447249563455891598.jpg")
Report on Pages Added to the Space
Asked by ViswanathanR:

Hi Team,

Is there a way to take a report on how many pages added to the space and send that as a weekly report to the team automatically ?


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: The standard functionality built in means you can manage the space watchers and they will get an update every time the space is updated

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Watching+a+Space>

or if you'd prefer, the recommended email is weekly

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Recommended+Updates+Email+Notification>

But that's all there is as part of the core service. You could write a user macro that gave you the last 7 days of updates if you wanted but it would just be in a page and not emailed out automatically, although could always script that externally with something liek curl.
is it possible to delete a space level permission entry?
Asked by John Edstrom:

I've a newish site. While experimenting with workflows and space permissions I set up some groups I no longer need or want. Some of these groups were used to set group permissions on content in various spaces. Now that the groups have been deleted and are entirely gone the permission entries are irrelevant and useless.

I haven't been able to discover a way to remove a group permission once it has been set. The zombie permission fields are harmless, but they look silly and clutter the page.


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Lurker,

Unfortunately this is a problem indeed. But this avoids users that have LDAP and something is messed up there, these groups would be removed and everything would be missing permissions.

So this is why we don't remove the groups permissions. However we can provide you an SQL Query to remove them:

```
DELETE FROM SPACEPERMISSIONS WHERE PERMGROUPNAME='GROUPNAME';
```

This would remove the groups, just change 'GROUPNAME' to your desired groupname. Keep in mind to perform a backup before proceeding with any SQL Delete.

Cheers,

Guilherme
Edit appears on page when I don't have permissions
Asked by Karie Kelly:

Why might Edit be appearing on a Confluence page when i don't have permissions to Edit the page - restrictions are applied.

When I click on it, it says I don't have permissions. But, it's my understanding that I shouldn't see Edit in the menu bar if I don't have permissions, even as an admin, because of these restrictions.


Answers:
author: Karie Kelly
body: We have submitted a bug report to Atlassian because the UI should not be different for two different users, each not having edit permissions to the page. One user sees Edit, but gets a permission error when clicking on it; the other user does not see Edit. The correct result for both is that Edit is not shown.


author: LuizA
body: Hello There,

I understand your point of view but I suspect that is normal and occurs due to the design of the application (Confluence itself). If you need a help to confirm this, please feel free to raise a support ticket at our [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) and we can try to reproduce this behaviour with the same steps that you perform and then check if this is a expected behaviour or maybe can a kind of bug (I think this is expected, but anyway we can check for you).

Cheers,

LJ.

comments: author: Karie Kelly
body: I disagree. If I login with another user that doesn't have edit permissions to this page, or some other page, they don't see Edit on the screen. I don't understand why my user would have this behavior when I don't have permissions to edit the screen. I'll raise a support ticket as you suggested.
What is the difference between a Page and a blog post on confluence?
Asked by Panshul Gupta:

What is the difference between a Page and a blog post on confluence.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Blog posts are typical blogs. Used to puclish contents and people can subscribe to it. The editor is the same but you won't normally use blogs for documentation. Maybe the docs will give you more details.

Check this out: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w8i2xQwvxg>

comments: author: Panshul Gupta
body: thnx Jobin. The video really helped.


Tags: cloud

team-calendars-for-confluence
How to configure to ensure & in URLs aren't interpreted as &&
Asked by Karie Kelly:

We have links embedded in our confluence page buttons we have created to navigate directly to create issue type form (e.g. Create Bug takes the user to an blank Bug form)

When you hover over the button, the link is correct; but, when you click on it, the \& in the URL is being replaced by \&amp; and consequently the form is not correct.

Does someone know what system, tomcat, or some other configuration we need to set to make this work as expected as we tried this in the OnDemand environment, and it works fine. It's just in our download environment.


Answers:
author: Karie Kelly
body: Thus far, the team has found no solution to this and believe it is an issue with the Adaptavist clickable macro itself and we have submitted a bug report to them.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Kalynn,

Out of curiosity are you running a WAR install of Confluence or our Standalone version? Also what version? I did a quick test in Confluence 4.3.3 standalone and did not see the behavior you are talking about. Would you mind providing the URL you are linking to so I can test further in our test environments?

comments: author: Karie Kelly
body: Hi Daniel,

We were on OnDemand and migrated to OnPremise this week. Consequently, we had to take the same version of Confluence (which is 5.0-OD-27) and the same plugins that OnDemand had. But, once we migrated, the clickable macro no longer works.

A URL that was associated with it is not visible in the macro on editing; however, if you input in the macro or create a new one, it doesn't recognize it and the clickable action doesn't work. I tried inputting [http:www.google.com](http://http:www.google.com) and that doesn't even work - it cannot recognize any URL that is not a Confluence site.

If you don't edit the macro and hover over it, you see the correct URL. But, when you click on it, it doesn't escape the \&. It replaces it with \&amp; so the user navigates to an incorrect URL.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Kalynn,

I think you are right about this issues being with the Adaptavist clickable macro. Confluence 5.0 uses a slightly different plugin archetecture from any of the 4.x series. It is likely that the plugin is not yet compatible with the Confluence 5.0 series. Your comment below will be the best way to resolve this. I would think that there would be no publically released version of an updated plugin until Confluence 5.0 is released publically.


author: Karie Kelly
body: What threw me off is that the macro is working fine in the OnDemand environment which is at the 5.x EAP.