youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Contributors Summary - Karma like stats
Asked by Justin Goldberg:

I want to encourage my team to document more and I like what Karma does but its only available for on premise Confluence. Is there a way to extract the raw detail from Confluence that includes at least the following:

* Page created user
* Page likes
* Comment likes
* List of whos updated the page
* Date created/changed

I came across this api but it doesnt seem to have much detail: <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/content-properties-in-the-rest-api/>

Contributors summary doesnt have all this detail.


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Justin!

In rolling out Confluence to a department in the past, I've used the [Confluence usage statistics macros](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/viewing-site-statistics-123043962.html) to track and reward the highest contributors. It didn't provide all the details you're looking for here, but it could be useful if you want a temporary quick win while you find another solution.

Thanks!  
-- Zak


author: Marty
body: Hi Justin,

I am not on the Confluence Team, but I will try to help.

There is an open issue in our public issue tracker related to this: [CONFCLOUD-60020 - Gamification for Confluence: Badge, Karma or any score points](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-60020?_ga=2.227472282.625686508.1551641563-1540663825.1539569898)

For more on how we use our public issue tracker as input to our development process see [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/implementation-of-new-features-policy-201294576.html).

I hope that helps!

comments: author: Justin Goldberg
body: Hi [@Marty](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/880798) ,

Appreciate the assist on this. I checked that ticket and I already voted on it in the past, couldnt remember it.

If there was an api that provided the raw stats for now that might work but not ideal.


author: Marty
body: Hi Justin,

I had a look at the API to see if I could work out a way to do it and nothing jumped out at me.

I've reached out to the Confluence Team informally to see if there is a way that I am missing. I will let you know when they reply.


author: Marty
body: Hi Justin,

so I don't know how 'official' this is, since it's not documented, but there is an endpoint to do this. It might get disabled or deprecated at any time, so I can't guarantee it's a good long-term solution, but here it is anyway.

\<instance_url\>/wiki/rest/likes/1.0/content/\<content_id\>/likes

I hope that helps!


author: Justin Goldberg
body: Thanks Martyn, appreciate you looking into this. Ill check it out and see if i can build up something based on that and the other api's Ive found.


author: Ali bahadir Gursoy
body: pls translate to Turkish languge on my cite!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to fetch Bugzilla bugs counts on a confluence page for reporting?
Asked by Saurabh Gupta:

Hi there,

I would like to fetch Bugzilla data (bug counts based on my search criterion) at run-time on Confluence page for reporting purpose. How can I do it? Using any existing plug-in or macros or anything else?

Appreciate your response.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: I have not seen any plugins for this, but haven't searched in awhile. I had past customer who needed a Bugzilla connector. I developed the following under contract for them.

[MarketCom+BugZilla+Connector+and+Macros](http://confluence.marketcomllc.com/display/PUBLIC/MarketCom+BugZilla+Connector+and+Macros)

We developed as a two-part solution of plugin connector and the user macros.

Obviously this would not be free, and we would need to do testing to ensure it works properly for your version of Confluence.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Restricting permissions on single confluence page
Asked by Lisa Lee:

I'm trying to figure our how to restrict page privileges in Confluence v.5.6.4

Any help/guidance would be great


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: If page restrictions is in 5.6.4 then this is how you would do it - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf612/page-restrictions-958777353.html>

comments: author: Lisa Lee
body: Unfortunately this page refers to a "restrictions icon" that we don't have on our version. :-(


author: Brant Schroeder
body: Are you a space admin?


author: Lisa Lee
body: Okay, just consulted with one of my team. We figured out that it is only the creater/owner of the page that can restrict it.

On the top right hand side of the page there is a dropdown menu entitled "Tools" under with there is a selection entitled "Restrictions" where the owner can determine who can view page etc. Because I haven't created the page I don't have the permissions to do that.

I will instruct the creator of the page that he can take care of this himself.

Thanks for helping Brant! Wish we had a newer version of this thing lol


author: Brant Schroeder
body: It could also have to do with space permissions. You might not have permissions to apply restrictions to pages.


author: Lisa Lee
body: Good point. I'll look into that as well. Thanks.
Reviewing Confluence Documentation
Asked by Kali Horton:

Has anyone established a process at their company where confluence documentation owners are tasked, at least annually, to review their documentation for updates? As we all know, documentation can become out dated over time due to new polices, procedures and technologies. A document owner may need to be reminded to make these changes. Is anyone doing this efficiently with atlassian products?


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Kali!

In the past, I've used a [Page Properties Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html) on each page that needs to be reviewed that included a review date. I then compiled a list of all the pages in one place using a [Page Properties Report Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html) so the pages could be sorted by due date. A group of Confluence champions would regularly review the list and ensure that pages were reviewed when the time came.

This was a more informal manual process, but there are also several page-auditing 3rd-party apps in the [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com) you may want to check out.

I hope this helps!  
-- Zak

comments: author: Thomas Bowskill
body: [@Zak Laughton](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/311502) I never thought of that. Might start to introduce on some of our larger docs


author: Thomas Bowskill
body: [@Kali Horton](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1150588)

For my most common use-case in tech, I have found tying Confluence into the change governance process to be essential: if we introduce change, in the change approval process someone should be checking the relevant documentation is updated -- so it's more instilling the culture of change=updated documentation.

While this might not cover 100% of your use-case, I hope it helps somewhat.

I'm also aware there are applications like [Commala Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/142/comala-workflows?hosting=server&tab=overview) that *might* help you


author: Jared Brenner
body: Hi Kali,

I tend to let my users notify me of gaps or outdated information in the knowledge bases I maintain. Of course, there may be process changes that spur an update to the documentation - in those cases I'll also check the inline comments for feedback to implement and then make all my edits at once. As time and preferences allow I may also overhaul a page to use a more up-to-date style template, but I personally don't have regularly scheduled reviews.

Jared


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Integrate JIRA marco with Confluence
Asked by Hardik Shah:

HI,

I have to automated Release Notes creation. Currently, for every release, we are manually adding all "enhancement" and "defect" ticket and updating release note with version.

As of now, I have release tickets created in JIRA and all "defect" and "enhancement" ticket is linked as a child on this ticket. I have also one mode "Published". Based on this flag I want the confluence to display Below information

ProductVersion RelaseDate Description HyperLink

By clicking on the hyperlink, it should open another page, and which should display all linked issue name, issue #, and description.

I found with JIRA Issue Macro you can plugin JQL and which display all issue, but in my case, I need to have control on formatting and on click I want to display certain information.

Any help would be appreciated.


Answers:
author: Marty
body: Hi Hardik,

I am not on the Confluence or Jira Teams but I will try to help.

Firstly, the JQL Search should allow to select only those issue that you want to display.

You should be able to use the **Display options**on the Jira Issue Macro to control which columns are being displayed.

You can also display formatting using HTML: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/jira-issues-macro-724765217.html#JiraIssuesMacro-renderinghtmlfromjira>

I hope that helps!

comments: author: Eric Vook
body: Another link to the Jira Issues Macro - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf69/jira-issues-macro-950284967.html>

The macro gives us flexibility to select the specific columns to display.

![jira-issues-display-options.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/49376iE28598FFFD3A288B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "jira-issues-display-options.jpg")


author: Brant Schroeder
body: The JIRA Issue Macro will not do what you are wanting to do. We had a similar issue and ended up breaking it up into multiple queries and displaying it on the confluence page that way. We did look at some plugins but they did not do what we needed. You can check those out as well - [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence\&query=confluence%20display%20JIRA](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=confluence%20display%20JIRA)

comments: author: Hardik Shah
body: Thanks for the informaiton. Did you try creating a custom macro? If yes because of some challenges you end up using the existing plugin?


author: Brant Schroeder
body: We did not end up creating a custom macro. We ended up adjusting the way we used the current existing macro to meet our needs. It may not have as many bells and whistles as we want and require a little more scrolling but it delivers the information we needed.


author: Rawsan Mati
body: I need to display the content of JIRA Story description in confluence without title "Description".

How to hide the title and only display the content?

![JiraDescription.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/53178i2DFE5B5127C8F08A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "JiraDescription.jpg")


Tags: issue

jira
Can I hide the page name in Confluence?
Asked by Kate Mateo:

I have created a PNG file with the Group name and motto. This makes the page name redundant. Is there a way to hide the page name?


Answers:
author: Kian Stack Mumo Systems
body: Kate,   

If you want to restrict it in a single page only, you'll need to use the [HTML macro.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/html-macro-38273085.html)   

Insert the HTML macro into your page, and then paste the following in:

```
<style type="text/css">#title-text {display:none;}</style>
```

If you want to do it at a space level, simply edit the style sheet for the space and include:

#title-text {display:none;}

<br />

comments: author: Bill Bailey
body: I you do not have the HTML macro enabled, you can create a user macro with the same code. Then you can use it any time you need to inhibit the pate title display.


author: Helen Gosper
body: What about for confluence cloud?


author: Bo Chen
body: yes, what about confluence cloud?


author: Helena Hamilton
body: Agreed - is there a solution for cloud users?


author: K Langford
body: Yes, add the line above to your space Style Sheet and it is done.

Space-\> Look and Feel -\> Style Sheet -\> Edit.

Add the line below and hit save.

#title-text {display:none;}


author: David Loszewski
body: I don't see Style Sheet on confluence cloud, is this feature no longer available?


author: rolland_vandersluis
body: I'm not an admin for my company's Confluence site. The HTML macro is disabled and I can't create my own user macro. What recourse do I have?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Gliffy: why I can't copy and paste objects to another diagram anymore?
Asked by Bill Rudy:

I used to be able to do this but no longer can. I'm on server v6.3.1. Anyone aware of a change that took this away?


Answers:
author: Bill Rudy
body: All, FYI/FWIW we are on 7.4.1 (Server) now and I can do this again...not sure which version fixed this, but thanks Atlassian!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Integrate QlikSense dashboard into Atlassian?
Asked by Lawrance Amburose:

How to integrate the QlikSense dashboard into Atlassian? Is it possible to do that?

Thanks,

Lawrance A


Answers:
author: Lawrance Amburose
body: Hi,

For SSO, how to pass the Username and Password in \<Iframe ...\>\</iframe\>when embed URL in confluence?

Thanks,

Lawrance A


author: Lawrance Amburose
body: Hi Zak,

Thanks for your response.

I got the expected solution in the below URL for embed Qlik Sense app.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-put-an-iframe-into-confluence-598837531.html?_ga=2.147866743.1709110616.1551898083-637118929.1549470453>

Thanks,

Lawrance A


author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Lawrance,

I'm not familiar with the Qlik Sense dashboards. I don't know of any native ways to do what your asking, but we may be able to provide a solution or workaround with a bit more context.

* Where do you view a Qlik Sense dashboard?
* How do you want to integrate it with Confluence? (e.g. do you want the dashboard to be able to modify Confluence? Do you want to display the dashboard within Confluence?)
* Overall, if you could implement the functionality you are asking about, what would it look like and how would you use it? What is your end goal?

Thanks!  
Zak


author: Jessica Malenfant
body: Hi [@Lawrance Amburose](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2825244)

we're having the same problem right now. We have a Qlik Sense server up, but when we add the app as an embedded iframe into a confluence page, the user logged into confluence cannot see the Qlik app natively.

We are trying to figure out a way to pass the credentials between Qlik and our cloud Atlassian instance but have not been successful. Not sure about you, but we have internal and external users and I dont' think active directory is an option.

Can you tell me more about your situation?


author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Lawrence!

I'm not as familiar with SSO integration and iFrames. Since this is a more targeted question than your original post, I'd recommend posting this as a new question in Atlassian Community so others can see it in their feeds.

-- Zak


author: Lawrance Amburose
body: Can someone provide the solution to achieve this scenario?


Tags: embed
Requirements Gathering Template In JIRA
Asked by Rohini Isarapu:

I have a google docs with my requirements gathering template. So, whenever a person is creating a task for me, the template which is created should automatically be generated so that in the JIRA ticket itself I have the requirements gathering also.

Please let me know if this is possible.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Rohini,

My apologies, but I'm not quite following what you're asking for.

Templates in Confluence can be created and then each time you create a page in Confluence you can choose to use that template. However, it's not connected to Google Docs and I'm not sure how you would set that up.

Jira issues do not use Confluence templates, and so if you want to use a different set of requirements for a Jira issue in this project, then you need to make sure to set up the fields properly on your Create Issue screen.

If you can be a bit more specific on what you need this template to do and how you expect it will work, we can try to answer your question.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
Reverting Profile Picture to previous version
Asked by Collin_Bennett:

User uploaded an inappropriate photo. How do I revert back to a previous version


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there Collin!

In older versions of Confluence, changing the user avatar is not possible for the admin. Only the user itself can perform this. There is a feature request that aims into implementing this:

**[CONFSERVER-14368 \| Let Confluence Admins change user profile pictures](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-14368)**

A workaround to that would be to change the user password and login as the user to change the avatar.

As an system administrator you have enough powers to change the password of other users:

**[Set your profile picture - Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/set-your-profile-picture-203199.html)**

Also, there is some explanation of the administrator powers in Confluence:

**[Confluence Admin Permission Levels Explained](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-admin-permission-levels-explained-604209420.html)**

However, in Confluence 6.14.x we are now able to remove the user avatar, if you are an admin:

**[Confluence 6.14 - Release Notes \| Delete profile picture](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-6-14-release-notes-963655609.html#Confluence6.14ReleaseNotes-Deleteprofilepicture)**

Let us know your thoughts on this!


Tags: confluence-server

image

profile

server
What can be the reason, that "[" don't collapse/expand the left navigation?
Asked by Armin Dittrich:

I'm using Confluence 6.6.6 with MS-Internet-Explorer 11 or Chrome-Browser on a Windows 7 Desktop.

While english-keyboard-language is active, the "\[" will collapse/expand the left Navigation. This works on IE11 and Chrome.

But the "\[" don't work to collapse/expand left Navigation, when using german-keyboard-language.

What can be the reason for this behavior?

PS: same behavior with Confluence 6.13.2 (our Testenvironment)


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there! Thanks for sharing with us Armin.

I have tested this locally and can confirm that the issue happens even on macOS Mojave 10.14.

Looking at the German layout, the \[ key becomes ?. This affects the behaviour of shortcuts due to the fact that the system itself registers the key as another.

Since the shortcut was bind to \[, pressing what is ? does not have the same effect. With this in mind, you could try:
> 1. **Temporarily switch to the U.S. International layout**
> 2. **Use the alt+5 key combination to activate the \[ symbol**

In the German layout, to use \[, we must press the alt key and also the number 5 key. I have tested this in Chrome in macOS and the key combination works.

Let me know if this works for you Armin!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Unable to install Confluence in Windows machine
Asked by Ikhlef Issam:

Hi

Trying to install atlassian-confluence-6.4.1-x64 on windows 10 machine

I am getting message box error saying

======================================================

the installation removal of a previous program was not completed confluence you need to restart server

=======================================================

the confluence was installed previously and work fine !

Thanks

Issam


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Issam,  

If Confluence was installed previously and works fine, what are you trying to do here? Are you attempting an upgrade?

If you uninstalled the previous installation, can you let me know what steps you took to uninstall it?

Lastly, you may need to clean your registry of remnants from the previous installation of Confluence. Speak to your system admin for help with that.

Regards,

Shannon
Whisper plugin causes page load pause in IE11
Asked by Joe Chlimoun:

I came across this while troubleshooting a nagging issue I was having with Jira: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/jira-admins-seeing-page-load-pauses-in-ie11-952614454.html>

I couldn't find any equivalent issue documented anywhere for Confluence, but I had a similar page load pause. Just as a shot in the dark (pun intended), I tried disabling the whisper plugin in the same way, and it immediately fixed the issue.

I believe there must be a way to fix the whisper plugin so it doesn't cause this issue, but it seems it's rare enough that it's not getting much attention. How many others have come across this? Is there any other workaround besides just disabling whisper?

Also, in my searching, I did come across this issue with whisper in Confluence - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-57580> - but it is unrelated. My instance is very small, if there are half a dozen concurrent users it's a big day.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there Joe!

Well as I understand, you are facing problems when loading pages in Confluence using Internet Explorer 11. As a starting point, you could check if your network can reach the following URL:

- [https://engage-delivery.useast.atlassian.io](https://engage-delivery.useast.atlassian.io/)

Also, could you clarify a few points for us:
> 1. Was there any kind of change applied to your instance, prior to the issue?
> 2. Is this issue present for all Administrators?
> 3. Is this issue present for normal users as well?
> 4. Does the situation come up in other browsers?
> 5. Do you have a firewall or proxy in your environment?

Let us know your findings Joe. Looking forward to your reply!

comments: author: Joe Chlimoun
body: Hi Diego, thanks for replying.

I'm sure this is a result of corporate network restrictions. I can't find out if it affects other browsers because I'm not allowed to install other browsers. We are strictly firewalled and proxied, and I'm accessing Confluence behind a reverse proxy.

Nonetheless, this is the environment I'm stuck with, so disabling whisper is my only recourse.


Tags: confluence-server

jira

jira-server

server
Page Properties Report broken by inclusion of Handy Statuses
Asked by Peter:

Recently one of my Page Properties Report tables stopped working. After some exploration I discovered that if I removed the two fields that included Handy Statuses from the "Columns to show" it worked.

I am trying to figure out what changed, but I know we're using the following versions

Confluence Server: 6.11.0

Handy Macros: 2.1.0

Page Properties Macros: 5.1.1

I would like to get those Statuses back into the report table so any insight would be appreciated. Thanks.


Answers:
author: Natalie Paramonova [Stiltsoft]
body: Hi Peter,

I'm Natalie from StiltSoft company, the Handy Macros app vendor. Please, create the ticket in our [Support Portal](https://stiltsoft.customercase.com/forums/support-requests/ideas/create) in order to discuss the issue in details.

Thank you.

comments: author: Peter
body: I'm not sure if this is a problem on your side but will do. Thanks.


Tags: confluence-server

server