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Kaban in Confluence
Asked by Maria Martinho:

Hi!

How can I create a Kaban Board in Confluence?

Thank you.

Maria


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You would need to write a not-insignificant add-on to add boards to Confluence, as it is not designed to do anything like that. You would probably be better off getting Jira instead.

comments: author: Maria Martinho
body: Hi Nic!

Thank you for your suggestion, but I'm not using Jira, only Confluence.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you want to do boards, you probably want to use Jira, not write it yourself in Confluence.

As I said, Confluence is not written to support boards, there's nothing in it that will do it, so you would need to write a lot of code to do it. It is likely to be a lot easier to use a tool that is built for it, such as Jira.


author: Maria Martinho
body: Maybe that would be easier, yes, but at this moment I'm only working with the Confluence.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, so you'll need to write an entire issue tracking system for Confluence.


author: Maria Martinho
body: I don't know how to do that :-(

I found this information but I think I don't have the options Strategy Canvas and Task Canvas

<https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/add-boards-to-confluence-with-canvas-blueprints>

I also found this, but I don't find the Board Settings

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/configuring-columns-764477997.html>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yeah, the Canvas App can do some board-like stuff, and would save you having to write the App yourself.

The second link you've found is for configuring boards in Jira.


author: Maria Martinho
body: Do you know if the options Strategy Canvas and Task Canvas are paid features?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Probably. See their entries in <https://marketplace.atlassian.com> (make sure you choose Cloud versions)


author: Maria Martinho
body: Ok, thank you :-)


Tags: confluence-cloud
Could not create pie chart
Asked by Lev Sturmer:

Hi,

Struggling to create simple pie chart in Confluence. Creating simple table with few values and trying to make a pie chart - no luck :(

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/43064iE9EBBD7011BB886E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/43065i59B9A12AC33EDF69/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

Any idea what I do wrong? Bar charts work fine.

Thanks

Lev


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi [@Lev Sturmer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1647237),

You need to set **Content Orientation** in the chart options to "vertical" in this case. By default is it blank..

comments: author: Lev Sturmer
body: Hi Mirek, doesnt really do any good unfortunately:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/43067iFF0B1D94E924B1D7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Mirek
body: Not **Display** Orientation.. **Content** Orientation :)

I did a quick test to be sure that is working..

![chart.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/43070i08EB7987367D75E8/image-dimensions/546x333?v=v2 "chart.png")


author: Lev Sturmer
body: Yeahhh!

Thanks :)


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Lev,

As an alternative you can try [Chart from Table](https://demo.stiltsoft.com/display/tblfilter/Chart+from+Table?os_username=guest1&os_password=guest1) macro, that is shipped with [Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app.
Could not navigate to Confluence: Endless redirection loop
Asked by Tech NSQ:

I signed up for a Jira and Confluence trial. While Jira works perfectly fine, I could not navigate to Confluence. If I do, it ends up in an endless redirection loop.

I tried in Incognito mode, but it's the same. How could I potentially fix this? Thanks for any help.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Nirmal,

Does this occur for all users? Could you confirm [they have application access to Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/manage-product-access-744721629.html)?

Please try the below steps and let me know if the issue persists:

* What is the browser used to access the Jira instance.
* Clear the cache on the browser
* Try a different browser
* See if a different user is having the same issue
* Disable plugins/extensions on the browser
* Check to see if the issue happens on a different network connection

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Eleanna Sillet
body: I have the same problem ans try all that, anothers users can sing in whitout problems.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
CONFLUENCE Event Based Triggers
Asked by karthick tgi:

Hi all,

I would like to know if it is possible to have event based triggers from Confluence API service.

For example,

In confluence page we create update and delete the comments these all need in Single event trigger API?

If its available please share with me.

Thanks ,

Karthick


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

Karthick, could you please exemplify what you need to accomplish? Knowing that may make it easier to help you out!

However, you could check our **Event Listener Module** in Confluence:

**[Event Listener Module](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/event-listener-module/)**

Further, you can take a look at the Event Types here:

**[com.atlassian.confluence.event.events.types](https://docs.atlassian.com/DAC/javadoc/confluence/4.0/reference/com/atlassian/confluence/event/events/types/package-summary.html)**

Let us know if this sheds some light!

comments: author: karthick tgi
body: Hey [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952) Thanks for reply me..

Let me summarize my exact question :

I need only one API in that api we changes anything that could be suddenly affect this api and the response must be produced.

For example,

I have done some changes in confluence pages like to edit /update my comments or we add any comments or else we add newly one page for particular space these all must be affected in this api and that they produce all the response..

Is there any API is available for that. or how can we achieve this.

please share your ideas with me.
How to find source of the group?
Asked by Raju Anumula:

We had a group in confluence, named as "Pnt DevOps", the challenge is when we add any user in this group it stays for a while and then disappears, we believe that there is some kind of synchronization happening, but not sure from where ? from which source?

Thanks in Advance.


Answers:
author: Grigory Salnikov
body: Hello,

First, I'd check my user directories:

**General Configuration** \>**User Directories**

In your case, there should be more than just the internal directory. The next natural step is to check these directories and see which one of them contains the group "Pnt DevOps".

Hope this helps.


Tags: confluence-server
Confluence REST API expanded Body Storage structure Q - multiple value sections possible?
Asked by Nick:

Hi Confluence Page/API gurus,

I have succeeded in querying the REST API to pull out the full body content of a single record/page via:

https://\<domain\>/rest/api/content/12345?expand=body.storage

my challenge is that:

1) the entire record/page content is stuck in single body.storage.value field vs separate values based on page headings/sections etc

2) our page content is typically several screens worth of long form text/tables etc

<br />

Q. Is it possible to edit the underlying page template structure to create another "value" section(s) to put content in (eg value2, value3 ) that can then be queried via API when body.storage is expanded you would see value (blob of data), value2 (another blob of data), value3 (blob) etc etc?

thanks in advance!

Nick


Answers:
author: Tobias Anstett _K15t_
body: Hi [@Nick](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1932406),

The short answer is NO you can't.

I am not sure if there is a long answer at all... this is just the way Confluence stores the information. The API is already very powerful, e.g. storage is just one of the available viewing options, however all of them return a single value.

Best, Tobias

comments: author: Nick
body: Thanks for the response and confirming that is the expected behaviour Tobias

regards

Nick


Tags: api

cloud

confluence-cloud

rest-api

template
Migrating from Confluence Cloud to Server :: Import Fails
Asked by Mika Nuotio:

We are trying to migrate from Confluence Cloud to Confluence server.

I created a backup file from Confluence Cloud.

When I install Confluence Server and attempt to import the Confluence Cloud generated backup file, I get the following error message:

"Import failed. Check your server logs for more information. Error unzipping file: invalid stored block lengths"

I am using Confluence Server 6.12.2 (64-bit) and PostgreSQL 11.

The size of the Confluence Cloud generated backup zip file is 48MB.

Help is appreciated.


Answers:
author: Mika Nuotio
body: Tobias and Ram,

Thank you both for your kind support.

It turns out that my backup ZIP file was corrupted as Ram suggested. I created a new backup ZIP file and the import worked without problems.

This issue has been resolved.


author: Tobias Anstett _K15t_
body: Hi [@Mika Nuotio](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1186253),

I recently had the same issue. In my case the problem was the browser I used. Firefox and Safari did not work.

Eventually Chrome did the job :)

Best, Tobias


author: Rambabu Patina _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Mika Nuotio](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1186253),

Please check the file ownership, it may cause the issue.  
And also can you try unzipping the file manually to see what errors happen on a command line.

Thanks,  
Ram.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Monica Vinader Engraving Space
Asked by nordstrom.alamoana:

We were invited to Confluence as a retail partner with Monica Vinader. I have instructions from the brand representative that states there should be an Engraving page listed under *Your Spaces*, however I don't see that as an option when I log in.

She also mentioned that upon logging in, that we have to check the box to have access to the Engraving Space on the site, but that box wasn't there either.

Please advise.

Thank you,

Charlotte


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think you've been directed to your organisation's Confluence (documentation) system, or possibly a Jira (request or issue) system, looked for help, and found a link to here for help. Problem is that this is for help with the system, not help with your organisation!

We're a community of end-users, happy to help with using or administrating Jira, Confluence and the rest of the Atlassian stuff, but I'm afraid we can't help you with your organisation's processes.

I'd have another look for internal help docs, or ask the people who got you access to the systems.
Database: Database connection failed after docker down.
Asked by scranthony:

Hi,

i restart docker with docker down command.

Postgres has changed the name of the container. For that reason i changed this name in confluence.cfg.xml file to. But it does not help. Confluence still shows me:

##### Database: Database connection failed {#toc-hId-1262989538}

Before docker down everything worked perfect.

What i checked:

- db existence.

- connection to Postgres DB using php script. (Works)

- reload confluence a couple of times.

Why it does not work then?


Answers:
author: Tobias Anstett _K15t_
body: Hi [@scranthony](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2335581),

Have you restarted Confluence after re-configuring the confluence.cfg.xml? This file is only read on startup, so modifications won't take effect just reloading.

Best, Tobias

comments: author: scranthony
body: sure. I restarted several times. Even tried to change permissions of all confluence folder to 777 for testing. no luck.


author: Tobias Anstett _K15t_
body: Hi [@scranthony](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2335581),

Have you already followed the instructions here?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf64/troubleshooting-external-database-connections-936511519.html>

Maybe this helps identifying the root cause.

Best, Tobias


author: scranthony
body: hi Tobias,

not yet, thank you for the link.

i solved that a bit different: rename mounted folder and reinstalled confluence. After that restored the db backup.

I know that its not perfect solution but it works for me.

best regards, Anton


Tags: postgres
How to search for content within Spaces of a certain category??
Asked by Vishal:

I want to be able to provide a search for our department of Confluence content within a group of Spaces. I though that having the categories set for these spaces (to 'dcx') would allow me to make a search on those lines, so I have created a Livesearch macro for this. However category cannot be chosen.

Instead I then choose to create a search within specific Space Keys, but this does not seem to work. Can this field only contain one value? I have tried by listing multiple spaces, separated by comma, and also by semicolon, but the search does not seem to limit the search to these Spaces.

Please provide me with an option so make a search with a set group of Spaces.


Answers:
author: Tobias Anstett _K15t_
body: Hi [@Vishal](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2327727),

Confluence bundled macros are limited to a single space.

However if you are also fine using the full search and some CQL you can provide a link to your search action e.g.

```
YOUR_CONFLUENCE_BASE_URL/dosearchsite.action?cql=space.category%20in%20("test")
```

will preconfigure the full search to only search in spaces with the label/category test.

Beside that there are some Atlassian Marketplace apps which bundle macros to directly search using CQL - Script Runner for Confluence is one of them.

Best, Tobias


author: Mario Carabelli
body: Unfortunately the livesearch macro can only be restricted to one space.

I think you need an extra app, like scriptrunner to make tgis possible.
Confluence had problems starting up after 6.13.1 x64 upgrade
Asked by Eric:

This same error is occuring on 2 separate instances running on 2 separate servers.

Description:

Unable to start up Confluence. Fatal error during startup sequence: confluence.lifecycle.core:mananagedjobs (Start and stop the Managed Scheduled Jobs)

Exception:

JDBC exception on Hibernate data access: SQLException for SQL \[n/a\]; SQL state \[XX002\]; error code \[0\]; could not extract ResultSet; nested exception is org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: could not extract ResultSet


Answers:
author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: Hi [@Eric](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2512512),

Please take a look at this similar questions and possible solution.

[Unable to start confluence on server](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Unable-to-start-confluence-on-server/qaq-p/593120)

comments: author: Eric
body: Thanks Edwin...

I did see that answer during my searches, but in this case the DB is postgres and the exception is a little different with 'could not extract ResultSet', compared to the oracle issue 'snapshot too old' in the referenced ticket.


author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: What version of Confluence are you upgrading from?


author: Eric
body: 6.0.6 on one and 6.0.1 on the 2nd.

We did a 3rd upgrade from 5.5 with no issues.

The end goal is to migrate all to cloud confluence.


author: Eric
body: should we be looking at fixing a certain table in the DB?

not really sure what the 'hibernate data access' is trying to access

thanks


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence has starting problems
Asked by 551550:

Hello! I need your help!  
When my Confluence starts, i get an error massage.  
How can i fix this startup error?  
Thanks!

![image1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/43010i31A868244C8BF3E1/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image1.png")


Answers:
author: Bastian Stehmann
body: Hi [@551550](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1822744),

it seems that you have an error on line one of your config file, so you should check, if there is something wrong.

It is probably the confluence.cfg.xml file in your Home-Folder.

comments: author: 551550
body: But where can I take an original cfg file for the change?


author: Bastian Stehmann
body: Please follow this to generate a new file.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-generate-a-new-confluence-cfg-xml-425461512.html>
Is it somehow possible to print the confluence version and date to documents you need to printout?
Asked by Kerstin St?heli:

Need to print confluence version and date to documents. is this possible?


Answers:
author: Tobias Anstett _K15t_
body: Hi [@Kerstin St?heli](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2305583),

I am not 100% sure about the default Confluence PDF export.

However in [Scroll PDF Exporter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) you can easily configure new PDF layout in an intuitive template editor. This editor support inserting so called placeholders which are resolved during export. There are placeholders for all kind of dates and page metadata such as version information.

Best, Tobias
Avoid email notification someone clicks on checkbox on confluence
Asked by Gr?goire Seux:

Hello,

my company uses checkboxes a lot on confluence pages, mainly for design documents where we ask "reviewers" to tick boxes when they've read the doc and when they agree to the proposed designed.

By default, when someone tick a checkbox it produces the following result:

- it sends to all page watchers email notification

- it adds this person to the watcher of the page

The former is actually bothersome because it means a lot of people will receive a long email (for a weird reason it shows usually the full page instead of the just a precise diff like it usually does).

Is there a way to disable notification (individually, by page or globally on confluence) when checkbox are ticked?

Note: I've read many other questions with similar keywords that are all related to: disable notification on page update by unticking _notify watchers_ checkbox. Those are different questions. I've found no existing questions on this website related to mine (maybe not using the right keywords).


Answers:
author: Gr?goire Seux
body: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-37307> covers what I need

comments: author: Mario Carabelli
body: [@Gr?goire Seux](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2586278)

Cool. Today I learned smth. Nice job digging this up and thank you for sharing.

With kind regards

Mario


author: Mario Carabelli
body: Hey Seux,

Clicking a checkbox is internally just a page update.

You can disable Autowatch in your profile individually, which stops the effect that you get added as a watcher if you update a page (or tick a task box)

Watchers always get notifications at page updates so to stop notifications entirely you have to evade watching pages with task boxes and relymore on @mentions or site sharing for more targeted updates of your team.

Kind regards,

Mario

comments: author: Gr?goire Seux
body: Thanks for your quick reply!

I understand there is no way to prevent checkbox ticking to update the page.

Would you know an alternative to checkbox to mention someone and ask him to confirm he agrees with the document?


author: Mario Carabelli
body: Hey Seux,

the easiest way would be a @mention of the reviewer in a comment of the document. This way only he gets notified and he can simply answer on the comment.

Another way would be to share the page with the reviewer.

It all depends though on what permissions the persons involved have. If for example the reviewer or the createor gave no comment permission this won't work.

Basically it is hard to consult from far without actually knowing your business case.

If I had helped you it would be nice if you mark one of my answers as correct.

With kind regards,

Mario


author: Gr?goire Seux
body: From whatI understand there is no way configure this, the only way would be to change the way we write those design documents.

Thanks for your help.


Tags: checkbox

confluence-server

email

notification

server
how can I search label and tags that exist in metadata of files on confluence?
Asked by me:

Hi

as you know each file have metadata that store information in that file , now I want to modify or search this information on confluence.

how can I search label and tags that exist in metadata of files on confluence?

Any idea?

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi there,

You'll want to use an add-on for this, since the functionality doesn't exist in Confluence by default:

* [Confluence Metadata Add-ons on Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=metadata)

We also have a feature request in order to extend the search. If this is something you would find interesting, please vote and watch on the request below:

* [CONFSERVER-9268](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-9268) *Extend Lucene search engine in Confluence to add support for synonym rings, faceted search, etc*

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: me
body: Hi dear Shannon,

try some of them but not work as I expected! (Need search and modify metadata of files as store on file even when I download them data attach to them)

do you have any suggesstion

Thanks,


author: Shannon S
body: Hi there,

I've tagged the thread to include it in the Marketplace Collection. This way, if anyone has another solution for you, they will be sure to let you know.

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

confluence-server

server
We need to embed confluance pages in our MVC project
Asked by Sam Salbi:

We have an MVC application that we need to include confluence product knowledge as an iframe or embedded within the system without API.

I tried to change the clickjacking option but it does not work in Chrome.

Is there any plagin or way to either embed or show as side knowlegebase?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Tobias Anstett _K15t_
body: Hi [@Sam Salbi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2550328),

There are some existing questions related to this topic:

\* <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-embed-Confluence-pages-in-other-websites/qaq-p/951511>

Hope this helps.

Best, Tobias

comments: author: Sam Salbi
body: Thank you for the reply Tobias! I was trying to avoid the amount of work that comes with the API but it seems there is no other options.


Tags: confluence-server

server