youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is it possible for a child page to have multiple parent pages?
Asked by Michael Mourelatos:

I have created pages organizing multiple articles with the content by label macro but am looking for a more organized way of doing this using multiple parent pages for the same child page.


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: No, but you can use the include page macro to essentially create the same child page in two locations (with different names when in the same space, or the same name when in different spaces).

But there is no way to fork the navigation that way.


author: Mykenna Cepek
body: Pages in Confluence are organized in a strict hierarchy, from the Space home page on down. Every page has exactly one parent. The "Page Tree" macro wouldn't work, for example, if a page had multiple parents.

You've already discovered the "orthogonal organization" mechanism in Confluence - page labels, and the related macros.

There are a few other macros that probably don't do what you want either, but I'll mention them for completeness: Content Report Table, Excerpt and Excerpt Include, and Include Page.

There might be something in the Atlassian Marketplace that might be helpful, but frankly I rather doubt it:

* [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud\&product=confluence\&query=page](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=page)

Not the answer you wanted, I know. Sorry! Best wishes.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
New space created when new user joins
Asked by Lisa Guadiana:

Greetings! I recently noticed that as new employees are creating/activating their Atlassian accounts, new spaces in Confluence are being created in their name.

Is this a new feature that has been added to new user setups? I searched through the administration portal and I didn't find anything that stated that a new space should be created when a new user comes on board.

Thank you in advance for your guidance and support!

-Lisa Guadiana


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@?rico Scorpioni](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1187449) You will need to vote for this enhancement here [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-71300?error=login_required\&error_description=Login+required\&state=35febe57-8fdd-4fdd-b97c-9653ac1be602](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-71300?error=login_required&error_description=Login+required&state=35febe57-8fdd-4fdd-b97c-9653ac1be602)

The current workaround is to remove access to personal spaces in the global permissions <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/manage-global-permissions/>


author: ?rico Scorpioni
body: I just want to turn off this feature. We're adding users on the daily basis and this creates extra work for admins.


author: Brant Schroeder
body: Lisa,

These are personal spaces. It is not a new feature but maybe the group they are in is allowing it on your global permissions.

You should be able to delete personal spaces if you're a System Administrator (note: this is a different group to a Confluence Administrator) by going to Space Tools \> Overview \> Delete Space.

Also just wanted to make sure you were aware you can control which groups have the ability to create a Personal Space from Confluence Admin \> Global Permissions.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
When I export a big chunk of my Space, why are some images missing?
Asked by Laura McWilliams:

I have exported a big bunch of pages from my documentation space to HTML. It doesn't look super pretty but overall it's pretty usable. However, there are a number of images that are just randomly missing. They appear as broken image tags in my browser, and navigating the local file structure verifies they are not in the attachments folder where they should be.

I can't seem to identify anything different about the missing images vs. other images that came through just fine. Even on the same page, some images will be there and others are missing.

One strange thing I noticed when looking at a page with missing images, is in the list of attachments at the bottom of the page, the image names for the missing ones look different from the ones that are there.

Instead of showing "image-XYZ-NMP.png (image/png)" it shows something like "imageDATESTRING .png?version=1\&modificationdate=XYZ\&cacheVersion=1\&api=v2 (image/png)" But the actual image link looks similar to the other ones. There is no local file that maps to the actual link or the bogus string shown on the page.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Laura McWilliams](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4041155)!

As I understand, you are facing a situation where random image files are missing from the HTML export you just created.

I tried to replicate this behavior but was unable to. With this in mind, I would like to ask you a few questions:
> 1. *How many pages did you export with this HTML export in Confluence?*
> 2. *Do you have an estimate of how many images are there on a page that displays this behavior?*
> 3. *What is the file type of the affected image files?*
> 4. *Are the affected images inside a macro such as the Excerpt Macro?*
> 5. *Are the affected images included from somewhere else other than the files uploaded to the page itself (giphy, drive, excerpt include macro, page include macro)?*

Let us hear from you!

comments: author: Laura McWilliams
body: Yes, you are correct about the situation.

1. I count 92 html files from the export. I counted 300 .png images.

2. I have found instances of the behavior on pages with quite a few images, like 10 or so, but also on pages where there were only like 3 images.

3. All of the images are .png files.

4. No, I don't think ANY of the affected ones are inside of a macro.

5. No, all of the images were added to the page itself.

Thanks in advance for your help.


author: Jimmy John
body: Hi Diego, I'm experiencing a similar issue. We've set up a parallel space in confluence to an existing space. In pages in the existing spaces we use the Excerpt Includes macro for content we want to expose to customers, and call that macro in pages in the external space. We then need to export the space to HTML where we then process is and display in another framework. We have a handful of images (attachments) which, while pointed to in the html code are actually missing from the exported files. Is this a known issue? Is there any way to resolve this?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Improve the way my page looks on different resolutions
Asked by Dustin Sitar:

Hello there -

I have a team page that I built using my Thinkpad laptop. However, when it shows up on either different laptops or is viewed through external monitors it is completely different experience.

Any suggestions on how to improve this experience for different people in my company. Attaching two experiences but seeing it on other screens - it is different on each one. Is there a way to set border width or something to improve the experience? Thanks for any guidance.![confluence_page.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/122125i7C8C2815DCD302A8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence_page.png")![confluence_page2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/122129i6FAC88342B06B1BD/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence_page2.png")


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Dustin, welcome to the Community!

Based on how the page looks while being viewed, I believe you're using the Page Layout tools (the ones you access from the toolbar) to create the three columns. Columns created this way have a non-configurable width that's relative to the screen size of whoever is looking at it. However, the page layout is pretty straightforward what-you-see-is-what-you-get for column alignment in the editor.

Using the [section and column **macros** as described here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf75/page-layouts-columns-and-sections-1004946579.html#PageLayouts,ColumnsandSections-TheSectionandColumnmacros), you can set specific column widths in pixels. There's also an option to draw borders around a section if desired. I think using the section macro and column macros inside of it will get the sizing effect you're after. The downside of using this method is that the columns will appear on top of one another in the editor; it's only when viewing the published page that you'll see the rendered layout. Happy to answer more questions if you need help setting it up!

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: Dustin Sitar
body: Hey Daniel, [@Daniel Eads](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1527694)

I followed as you described here. and manually set columns to pixel width. For middle section I did 100-300-100. However it still creates a lot of white space and still seems to be reactive to browser size. Looks great in half screen but creates a lot of white space in full screen. It seems to not stay at required pxl width. I would love if page maintained the pxl width I set and created the white space on the exterior. Thoughts? Thanks for any help!![confluence.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/122237i1EB597D70717A6E3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence.png")


author: Dustin Sitar
body: [@Atlassian](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/704808) just looking for additional advice [@Daniel Eads](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1527694)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Reporting of pages using Table Excerpt Include
Asked by preeti arun:

Hi Team,

We are maintaining our master tables under Table Excerpt and referencing those on other pages through Table Excerpt Include and wrapping it inside Table Transformer.

We are looking for macro/functionality which can list pages that reference the master table and If we make a change there - it would be good to know what needs to be updated to the table which is inside the table transformer macro.

The manual way would be to maintain a list of the pages that reference the master table?


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@preeti arun](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3216257) ,

You may type the following query into your Confluence search:

macroName:table-excerpt-include AND text\~"***Master page name*** " AND text\~"***Excerpt name***"

Here the ***Master page name*** is the name of the page where your master table is located, the ***Excerpt name*** is the name of your Table Excerpt macro.

As a result, you'll get a list of all the pages where you use Table Excerpt Include macros from the specific master table.

comments: author: preeti arun
body: Thanks a lot [@Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1464746) its helpful.


author: Marcin Kr?wka
body: Hello [@Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1464746) , I'm struggling to get the list of pages which are using table-excerpt-include.

In my case, given:

* Master page "Global list" contains Table Excerpt macro with *name*=FooBar
* In several pages I'm using Table Excerpt Include macro with *Excerpt Name* "FooBar" and *Page titl*e "Global list"

When:

* on Global list page, using Search Results macro with *Search Terms*:
* macroName:table-excerpt-include AND text\~"Global list" AND text\~"FooBar"

Then:

* List is not returning several pages where Table Excerpt was used .

Is there something I should correct?


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Seems that everything is correct.

The Search Results macro is not available for new Confluence versions, but as far as I know there was a field to set the maximum number of results - maybe you have too many pages to be listed? Try the search field in the upper right corner of the page instead.

[Here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-syntax-158720.html) is Atlassian Documentation how to search for different macros, labels, text abstracts, etc. for your reference.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Parent/Child Page Permission Issue
Asked by Michael O'Pry:

I am trying to create a Space that has View access for everything and Edit access to certain pages.

**Config 1:**

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**Space Permissions:** confluence-users: View All

**Page Restrictions:**Anyone can view, only some can edit

In this setup, I get the following error "No edit permissions in space. Contact a space admin."

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**Config 2:**

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**Space Permissions:** confluence-users: View All \| Add Pages

**Page Restrictions:**Anyone can view, only some can edit

In this setup, it seems that nothing is restricted. Everyone is able to Add child pages.

------------------------------------------------

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Michael O_Pry](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4047454) !

If I understand correctly, you need to have some pages open to be edited and others closed to edit.
> 1. For you to achieve this, you could do this:
> 2. Create a space (Or navigate into an already existing one)
> 3. Add the editing permissions to the groups or individuals you need
> 4. Add the "Anyone can view, some can edit" page restriction to all pages
> 5. Go to the pages where you want people to be able to edit the pages
> 6. Under the page restrictions, add the groups or individuals who you need to be able to edit said page

Page restrictions need to be applied to each and every page in the space for this to work.

For the pages which you need no one to be able to edit, leave only your name under the restrictions.

If you add the *confluence-users* under the Page restrictions using the "*Anyone can view, some can edit*" scheme, everyone under the confluence-users group will be able to edit the page.

You can check more details about permissions and restrictions here:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] What are Confluence Cloud permissions and restrictions?***++](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/what-are-confluence-cloud-permissions-and-restrictions/)
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Add or remove page restrictions***++](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/add-or-remove-page-restrictions/)

Let us hear from you!

comments: author: Michael O'Pry
body: [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952) for step #4, are you stating doing this for every page or is there a setting for all pages? I see your comment below saying every page, but Step 4 looks encompassing.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Error while uploading file more then 10Mb.
Asked by Ucell IT:

Hello,

Dear Support,

An error occurred while uploading file larger than 10MB to confluence. Could you help please this issue, what could be the reason? The established allowable file uploading limit is 100MB.![chrome_5GhTYLUfTF.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/122039i3EA35934CFA49D8D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "chrome_5GhTYLUfTF.png")![chrome_oe7Z0Hi4wl.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/122040i7C173BFA238CFF5B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "chrome_oe7Z0Hi4wl.png")


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Do you happen to have a reverse proxy in front of Confluence? If you do you might need to set that up in the reverse proxy as well. We use IIS as a reverse proxy in front of our Confluence and we had to set that up in IIS as well.

comments: author: Ucell IT
body: Thank you for reply,

I am using NGINX as a proxy.

Problem is solved... Thank you again =)


Tags: confluence-server

server
after Server restart Confluence service do not start automaticly
Asked by IT-Support:

After a Server restart, the Confluence service no longer starts automatically. The service had to be started manually via the cmd. The service always started automatically up to now.

Can you Explain us why the Service didn't start automatically or how we can fix this problem.


Answers:
author: Daniel Ebers
body: Hi Adriano,

here is a guide to start Confluence as a service using linux:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/run-confluence-as-a-systemd-service-on-linux-937177781.html>

When you said it started previously but now I does not (anymore) - there must have been something changed that lead to this, or?  
A server restart should normally not change the way how services are started.  

In case the guide linked above does not help you might to dig deeper on a linux system level what is wrong with the service's configuration - in case you did this never before make sure you have something around who can debug this.

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: IT-Support
body: Thank you for your response. Your solution works perfectly.

Has thus been clarified.

Many Thanks  
Nick R.


author: Davin Studer
body: If Confluence is not set as a Windows service it will not start automatically. You can check by opening windows services. If you do not see it in the list for Atlassian Confluence you can add it. The below link shows you how to do it.

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/start-confluence-automatically-on-windows-as-a-service-172071.html](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/start-confluence-automatically-on-windows-as-a-service-172071.html#:~:text=%20In%20Windows%3A%20%201%20Open%20a%20command,with%20default%20settings%3A%0Aservice.bat%20install%20Confluence%0AThe%20service...%20More%20)

comments: author: IT-Support
body: The Confluence Server is running at a Linux Server sorry for the false request. I edit the question so this cant happen again.  

Have you also an tipp for Linux Server?


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to link pages to twin in a new instance?
Asked by Thomas:

Our mother company has introduced Confluence, so we moved all our spaces from the previous, local Confluence (<https://small.confluence.instance>) to the new central server (<https://big.confluence.instance>) via XML export/import.

We removed write access to the old instance, but we still have a lot of Confluence links in external documents/systems so users end up looking at the old pages. Is it possible to magic something (say in custom HTML) that refers to the new page? Like a big red ribbon on top of every page <https://small.confluence.instance/some_page> reading

"this confluence page has moved to a new server, please update your references. New link: <https://big.confluence.instance/some_page>"

?

I think the best I could do (with my almost non-existant scripting abilities) is to insert a custom header that links to the new space. But it would be really neat to have a link to the page within the space.

I do have Confluence admin access to the (old) instance, but no low level (SQL) access. So I can create global custom HTML or change space-local headers and sidebars.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Did the space names/pages stay the same? Is there only one piece of the URL (the server name) that is different?

comments: author: Thomas
body: The nternal structures do differ, for example space IDs and different user IDs.

If I look at a page (https://server/display/page_path) only the server part is different. But if I look via pages/viewpage.action?, the address is different.


author: Davin Studer
body: Hmm. If it was just server name that would not be that hard to create something that would give you a link to the new server. However, pages that have special characters in the title would not work as the content id's are different between the systems.


Tags: confluence-server

migration

server
confluence server setup
Asked by Anderson Hsu:

Would it be possible to duplicate another same confluence ap server by another SEN to connect the same database to practice reduction exercise? If possible, how to setup it ?

(additional information: I mean I can duplicate ap and database server, but I don't know to to run it without affect production server)

Thanks a lot.


Answers:
author: Yevgen Lasman
body: It will not work. As soon as one Confluence finds another instance writing to the same database but not being part of its cluster, application will stop in panic.

If you wanna practice, you should duplicate not only app but the database too. Make sure to ++reconfigure application copy++ to use database ++copy++. You would also have adjust base URL and maybe application URL in conf/server.xml file.

This way it will work with no issues.

comments: author: Anderson Hsu
body: Thanks a lot. How can I prevent production confluence to detect my duplicate confluence to make production crash?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You don't. You wouldn't want to - two separate confluences using the same database will quickly corrupt the database and fall over.

You must copy database and attachments to their own separate areas if you want to run another Conflunce starting with a copy of the production data.


author: Daniel Eads
body: This document will walk you through the considerations for copying the application's data and database:

* [Create a staging environment for upgrading Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-staging-environment-for-upgrading-confluence-866094180.html)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Where did "monospace" font go?
Asked by Rob Gilliam:

Where did the Monospace font go in the new editor?

It appears to have been replaced by a "Code" font (on the same shortcut) that doesn't support things like bold or italics, so is harder to call out specific parts of the text you're writing.

On pages or parts of pages imported from the legacy editor, italics are showing in the text that has been marked as "code", but the italic letters are surrounded by large spaces.

Anyone know how to get the old monospace font back?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there [@Rob Gilliam](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/588276) !

You are right, there is no text that accepts text formatting in Confluence Cloud.

The closest we can get is to use the "code" text formatting, as you are already doing.

Some time ago, there was a Suggestion trying to tackle this lack of monospaced text in Confluence. You can check it here:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Provide for monospace text with formatting***++](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-1179)

Similar requests have been made here in our community and the results where the same, we need to use the new "code" formatting. Either via toolbar or using \` on either side of what we want to have monospaced!

Here is one of those posts:
> * [++***\[Atlassian Community\] Keyboard shortcut for monospace formatting***++](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Keyboard-shortcut-for-monospace-formatting/qaq-p/1209931)

Also, some time ago the noformat macro has been removed from the new editor, as shown under this document:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Insert the noformat macro***++](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-noformat-macro/)

Let us hear from you!

comments: author: Rob Gilliam
body: Basically I need to be able to do the equivalent of this:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/122336iFCF1C61D19AF0FDC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Rob Gilliam
body: Hi, [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952)

It's been nearly a month. Any update on this?


author: Tom Gagne
body: Another problem with \`code\` instead of monospace fonts is I can't highlight code and leave an in-line comment.

So I can't highlight code and I can't comment on code. That makes it hard to use it as a collaboration tool to discuss, well, code, JSON, XML, or anything else where monospace is the preferred format.


author: Jose Romero
body: Over four months later - any news?


author: david.price
body: Just started using cloud, not worth it without {noformat}

monospaced, smaller font with scrollable pane, saved having mahooosive comments when explaining issues from large logs.

Somebody bring it back.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud