youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How can I add decision entity to meeting template
Asked by Suchit Gupta:

I want to update the meeting blueprint and include decisions as part of the meeting notes template. How can I do it ?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

Suchit, as of today we do not have the option to **edit pre-existing blueprints** . We could, however, **create a new one** that does fit your needs. Here is some information about this process:

**[Confluence Cloud - Blueprints](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/blueprints/)**

**[Confluence Cloud - Multi-page blueprints with Confluence Connect](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/multi-page-blueprints-with-confluence-connect/)**

Please, keep in mind that **blueprints are plugins** and they need **some coding skills**to be developed. This task could take some time to be achieved.

Let us know your thoughts!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I skip user onboarding in Atlassian Cloud?
Asked by Brandon Lawler:

I am onboarding some new technicians to our helpdesk and they are being prompted to set up new spaces via the onboarding menu. They do not have the option to skip this. We already have our spaces set up, how do I make it so that they are not prompted for onboarding?

The existing article on this topic does **not** answer this question for Atlassian Cloud.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Sloan
body: Hi Brandon, welcome to the community. :)

It's not doable. Atlassian closed an issue about this *won't fix* , have a look at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-40215>

Cheers  
Niklas

comments: author: Brandon Lawler
body: Thanks--and that's disappointing. It seems odd that Atlassian wants every user to create a space and then delete it when they're just going to be using existing projects.


author: Jake Burgy
body: Wow! This is *terrible*!

For scenarios where admins control user accounts and want to invite specific people to just view and collaborate on *existing, pre-defined spaces* , this is absolutely awful because we don't want users creating their own stuff - which the welcome wizard *forces you to do.*

Please make this optional!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Attachment Preview Does not Work After Migration
Asked by Shirley He:

After importing a site backup into a new production machine, we can no longer see previews of attachments. What is strange is that in a previous staging instance in which we performed the same site backup restoration procedure, we can preview the attachments.

We suspect that it may be due to proxies or firewalls, because we had to "substitute" the old production Confluence instance with the new Confluence instance. Could this possibly affected retrieval of file previews? We can see the file thumbnail and we can download it, but previews just won't work.

I found suggestions to enable certain plugins in Confluence, but when I checked, they were all already enabled, so I don't believe it is a plugin problem.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there Shirley! We could first try to access Confluence **via localhost** and check how the previews behave. Further, could you clarify a few points for us:
> 1. Is this affecting **all types of files**?
> 2. Is this affecting **all files**?
> 3. Is this affecting **all users**?
> 4. Is this affecting **newly attached files**?

Also, we could try a **reindex from scratch** **and also rebuild the plugin cache**in your new server:
> 1- Shutdown Confluence  
> - Make sure that the process is not running  
> - You can check that with ps -aux \| grep confluence in Linux and via the Process manager in Windows  
> 2- Go to \<confluence-home\>  
> 3- Remove the following folders:  
> - \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins  
> - \<confluence-home\>/plugins-cache  
> - \<confluence-home\>/plugins-osgi-cache  
> - \<confluence-home\>/plugins-temp  
> - \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins_language  
> - \<confluence-home\>/index  
> - \<confluence-home\>/journal  
> - \<confluence-home\>/logs  
> 4- Check permissions for \<confluence-home\>  
> - The user running Confluence must have \*full read/write/execute permission on this folder  
> - You can use the following commands to set this. Keep in mind that the user confluence here is just a placeholder, you must use the user that exists in your system  
> - sudo chown -R confluence:confluence /path/to/\<confluence-home\>  
> - chmod -R u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx /path/to/\<confluence-home\>  
> 5- Check permissions for \<confluence-install\>  
> - The user running Confluence must have \*full read/write/execute permission on this folder  
> - You can use the following commands to set this. Keep in mind that the user confluence here is just a placeholder, you must use the user that exists in your system  
> - sudo chown -R confluence:confluence /path/to/\<confluence-install\>  
> - chmod -R u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx /path/to/\<confluence-install\>  
> 6- Start Confluence  
> 7- Click \*Cog Icon\>General Configuration\*  
> 8- Search for \*Content Indexing\* in the left menu bar  
> 9- Click the \*Rebuild\* button

**Note:**

**- schedule a instance downtime for this procedure to be executed. Users accessing the instance can hinder the reindex process.**

Let us know your thoughts!


Tags: confluence-server

preview

server
Is there a definitive Atlassian supported method of bootstrapping a Confluence instance?
Asked by david_b_snyder_saic_com:

I would like bring up a single Confluence instance in AWS Cloudformation and, using only userdata, install Confluence and connect it to an existing AWS RDS instance where it's data is stored. Is this at all possible in an Atlassian supported way? If not, when will that capability exist?


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello David and welcome to the Community!

Confluence does not allow for a symbolic link to be used for the home directory. You must define an absolute path. However, you may map a drive and then move the Confluence home directory to said mapped drive. Doing this is though it may cause slower performance due to network dependency on the mapped drive. There is also a chance of possible corruption issues if the mapped drive is removed or disconnected while the Confluence service is still running.

You may find more about what is support eligible with Confluence at [Supported Platforms](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html) and further information about Confluence directories at [Confluence Home and other important directories](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-home-and-other-important-directories-590259707.html).

We hope this proves helpful and you're able to deploy Confluence within your requirements while being supported.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers
How I can create a ?Chart? Macro using some of the rows of a table?
Asked by Gasalho Antero:

I want to have a complete table, but I don't want to use all the rows data to build it!

Example I've the table above, and I want to build a Chart with the last six rows, is this possible?

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/44515iB13EC8CD29E68B59/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: [@Gasalho Antero](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1909713),

Thanks for posting this question. To build on [@Gasalho Antero](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1909713)'s answer, here are the steps to complete your request:

1: Wrap your table in the **Chart From Table** macro and **Table Filter** Macro.

**Goal:** Only expose the last 2 lines of information in the chart.

![1.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/44531iAA3E9ADC9A3D913E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "1.jpg")

2: Edit your chart. **Date = X,** **Web Browsers = Y**

![4.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/44534i80DB4C1F9EDD401A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "4.jpg")

3: Add a filter onto your page for the date range

![2.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/44532iA7927EB87A21F138/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2.jpg")

4: Insert a date range

![3.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/44533i663BCB2C603E113F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "3.jpg")Your chart will then adjust as you change the date ranges.

Hope this helps!

- Jon

comments: author: Jonathan Smith
body: [@Gasalho Antero](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1909713) Note: the table filter macro is a **paid** (yet very beneficial) macro.


author: Gasalho Antero
body: Thanks,

unfortunately "table filter" isn't available on the organization!

Thank you anyways.

.


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi [@Gasalho Antero](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1909713),

You can use combination of [Table Filter macro and Chart from Table macro](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/cloud/overview) to accomplish this. You can watch [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nxGN3ETbv8&index=11&list=PLRpx9wuFqlzFa9X4DWwQEBdy22YIwT6kh) as an example.

comments: author: Gasalho Antero
body: Thanks,

unfortunately "table filter" isn't available on the organization!

Thank you anyways.
Is there a way to create a template confluence calendar?
Asked by Sucheta Karandikar:

I want to create a calendar template with Event Types defined that can be used by multiple teams in their own spaces. The idea is to have a top level calendar that can then show all the events of this type.


Answers:
author: Chris Kent
body: Here is a free Calendar macro that can be used in templates, for Confluence Server only.

<https://kc-dev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CEFC/overview>


author: Diego
body: Hello there Sucheta!

Creating a**template for calendars** is a feature that is not currently available.

However, you could **create a calendar** where all those teams have access:

**[Create, Add, and Edit Calendars](https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/create-add-and-edit-calendars-654213559.html)**

After creating this calendar, you could either **embed the calendar** in their designated spaces or even **add the existing calendar** to the spaces. For you to embed the calendar, you can check here:

**[Embed Calendars on Confluence Pages](https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/embed-calendars-on-confluence-pages-654213492.html)**

Let us know your thoughts!


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
how do i obtain previous version page id?
Asked by Timor Noa Levi:

Hi,

i want to catch previous versions page id with using the current version page id using the script console. is that possible?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there Timor!

Could you clarify a few things about the **script console**:
> 1. Are you referring to the Adaptavist **ScriptRunner Macro**?
> 2. Are you facing **any kind of issue** when trying to fetch this information?

Nonetheless, we can achieve this by using **Confluence REST API** as well! We can do it like this:
> 1. Go to your favorite browser
> 2. Enter the following string in the **address bar:**
>
> ```
> http://yourinstance.address/rest/experimental/content/<pageID>/version?expand=content
> ```

You should change the yourinstance.address to your actual instance address. Also, the \<pageID\> should be replaced by the page id of the **current page page_id**. This REST call should retrieve the necessary information for all page versions.

You can also send this with a cURL from your terminal, if using Linux or macOS. If you are on Windows, you will need some extra software:

**[Run cURL commands from Windows Console](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2710748/run-curl-commands-from-windows-console)**

Further, you will need to check the **content** tab that shows up when the query is ran in your browser. When you reach that, you can look at the **webui** line. The URL shown there should contain your page_id.

Looking forward to your reply!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Display Error in Meeting Notes Template in Chrome
Asked by Silke K?hler:

In Firefox everything works fine, in Edge and IE it works (but as it's not that good supported than Firefox or Chrome we have difficulties in some other points...), but when I create a new page with the Template for Meeting Notes I get a strange display error. Not an error as message, but the way the Attendee list is shown is not really nice.

Is this somhow a known issue?

![2019-02-04 15_28_30-2019-02-04 Meeting notes - Corporate IT - WiKnow!.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/44492iA660ED7F34A71128/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2019-02-04 15_28_30-2019-02-04 Meeting notes - Corporate IT - WiKnow!.png")


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi Silke,

Most likely, it was a browser UI issue as I cannot reproduce this problem in the never versions of IE.

regards


Tags: confluence-server

server
Hide assign action button on view screen
Asked by Patricia Smith:

Once actions are completed, is there any way to hide the items from view please?

Thanks,

Patricia


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: [@Patricia Smith](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2665700)

Action items will stay grayed out on your page. If you remove them, they won't be reportable on your **Task Report** macro.

If you are actively reviewing open items, I would suggest making a **dashboard page** which includes the Task Report macro (which only displays incomplete tasks).

If you display your action items in a table, you can add a status column, then use the **Table Filter Macro** (paid add-on) to filter completed items.

![5.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/44552i00DE1B90918E0725/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "5.jpg")

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Jon

comments: author: Patricia Smith
body: Hi Jon,

Thanks for your email and help. Sorry for late reply but I've been in meetings today.

I will have a try and let you know how I get on. Basically I was just trying to hide all the closed actions so all the open ones were just listed.

Thanks,

Patricia
Change history limited to last 3 entries and scroll?
Asked by DD:

I added the "Change History Macro" to my page and now it takes up all the space. How do I make it a scroll window that has a hight of just the last 3 entries?

DD


Answers:
author: Jared Brenner
body: Hi Dirk,

There was a similar discussion in [this](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-i-limit-the-number-of-shown-page-revisions-on-a-page/qaq-p/994219) thread last week. [@Milo Test](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781527) figured out a way to use the Div macro to limit a panel's size. I think you'll find the information there useful.

Good luck!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I have imported a site but i can't access to the page. It's not ? cloud confluence origine.
Asked by PLA:

The export Site is coming from a not cloude vversion. And i havent' acces to the page, but it's my user the owner. In the orginal site it was an other user. How acces to the page. I have change the autorisation but it change nothing.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Pascal,

To understand, you made a whole site export on Server, and imported the site export into Cloud. Now you cannot access one of your pages.

I would recommend going to the Space **Settings \> Permissions**, and recovering access this way:

* [Add or Remove Page Restrictions \> View all Restricted Pages in a Space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/add-or-remove-page-restrictions-724764891.html#AddorRemovePageRestrictions-Viewallrestrictedpagesinaspace)

Clicking the lock icon next to a page will remove its restrictions.

If you're having trouble with an entire space, use this method:

* [Assign Space Permissions \> Manage and Recover Space Admin Permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/assign-space-permissions-724764762.html#AssignSpacePermissions-managepermManageandrecoverspaceadminpermissions)

Let me know if you have any trouble.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Title Page margin
Asked by serc:

I am trying to create a title page and have the following problem:  
The margin prevents me from inserting an image closer to the margin (top right). Does anyone know how I can adjust the margin of the title page?


Answers:
author: Jack Brickey
body: Hi serc, I realize that this is an old post unlikely you've moved on. However one question I have for you is whether this is server or cloud. Cloud has changed quite a bit since your post. I was unable to reproduce this issue in my cloud instance.
How to pull in information from confluence page onto the site widget - feedback box?
Asked by Candy:

How to pull in information from confluence page onto the site widget - feedback box


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

Could you clarify some points for us:
> 1. What is the **feedback box** that exists in your site?
> 2. How is this box **coded in your site**?
> 3. Are you on **Confluence Cloud or Server**?
> 4. What **kind of information** to you need to fetch from Confluence?
> 5. Is your site **hosted in the same server** as Confluence?
> 6. Are facing any **kind of errors** when you try to Connect to Confluence?

There are some ways with which you could retrieve information from Confluence. One of them is **REST API**. You can check further information about it here:

**[Confluence REST API - Server Examples](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-rest-api-examples/)**

**[Confluence REST API - Cloud](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/)**

If you need to fetch information from Confluence, you might be looking into **expanding content** so you can work with it!

Looking forward to your reply.
confluence 6.14 - weird timestamps for creation / modification in
Asked by Michael Levec:

Hi all,

looking for help concerning a weird issue. Suddenly, throughout our Confluence 6.8.0, all timestamps concerning documents and attachments have crazy values like 57.19.2018 (mm.dd.yyyy).

On a hunch, changed format in general settings, but no effect other that the order is changed, but still wrong / weird dates.

Checked some of the tables in database, like Content / Contentid et al and found dozens of correct values, but none of those crazy values.

I have uploaded a picture describing our problem to here [http://abload.de/image.php?img=screenshotfrom2019-02aak9p.png](http://abload.de/image.php?img=screenshotfrom2019-02aak9p.png "screenshot") (runs some ads, sorry, free service).

This beaviour is consistent, in document history, recently updated and all other views....

Basics have been checked, like system date. Database is Mysqld 5.7.25 and the connector version 8.x.. Has been like this for almost a year and this problem never occurred so far.

Really appreciate any good hint.

Cheers,

Michael


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Michael,

mm stands for minutes, and MM stands for months:

* [Java SimpleDateFormat](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html)

I suspect because you used mm instead of MM, it's showing the minutes rather than the months.

Could you have a look and let me know?

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Michael Levec
body: Hi Shannon,

thanks for your reply.

I just checked the current, active format in 'general config', which is:

Indexing Language German  
Encoding UTF-8  
Time Format hh:mm  
Date Time Format dd.mm.yyyy, HH:mm  
Date Format dd.mm.yyyy

I restored an older backup and found it was like this before:

yyyy-mm-dd, HH:mm  
yyyy-mm-dd

So, as far as the variables go, the only thing that changed is the order, so I drilled deeper and nagged a few people, which brought to light someone "tweaked" this setting and the big appeared before the order was switched (from US to German style).

So, in short, I checked the link you posted and of course it has to be different.

This worked for me: dd.MM.yyyy

And if I knew something about Java, I might have known about SimpleDateFormat class :D

Thanks a lot. Easily fixed.

Regards,

Mike


author: Shannon S
body: Happy to hear you were able to resolve this! I used to see the problem a lot back when I worked on the Cloud team, so when I saw your post I knew immediately what it could be.

Take care, and have a pleasant week.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

date

server
Licensed users slot used up while total active users are still under the license limit
Asked by Fransiskus:

We are currently running Confluence with license for 10 active users, because of recent changes in the team we have to disable old members and add some new team members. Last week we just found out that suddenly that everyone have only read-only access because there were 11 signed up users. I already did some checking through all the list of users and there are currently only 10 active accounts registered. I also read on the documentation that disabled users should not be taken into account in the license users limit. Therefore I would like to ask if you anyone can help me regarding this issue?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Tarun Sapra
body: Hello [@Fransiskus](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2655378)

Are the disabled users part of the group which counts towards the license, I am not sure but can you try to remove the disbaled users from the groups that count towards confluence license. Groups like confluence-users etc , you can remove the users by visiting their profile if you have admin rights

comments: author: Fransiskus
body: Thanks for your answer. I've been cleaning up this group but it seemed that it does not help the issue. I aso already checked directly in the database and it returned only 10 active users.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Uploading a Custom Macro to Confluence
Asked by Neha Sharma:

Hi,

I've created a new custom macro following the link - <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/creating-a-wikipedia-macro/> .

According to the instructions in the above link, the macro is tested using the "atlas-run" command which installs a confluence locally and runs the macro.

Now my requirement is - I want to install it to my existing confluence application. Can someone please suggest how it can be done ?

Thanks,

Neha


Answers:
author: Rambabu Patina _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Neha Sharma](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1175909),

Either you can install the developed custom macro through:

In Confluence Admin GUI:
> Confluence Administration --\> Manage apps --\> Upload App --\> Choose your add-on jar file and install

(or)

In the command line:
> atlas-install-plugin -p 80 --server \<your_server_url\> --context-path "\<if_contextpath_any\>" --username \<admin_user\> --password \<admin_password\>

I recommend to first install and check your macro in the development environment.

Thanks,  
Ram.

comments: author: Neha Sharma
body: Thanks [@Rambabu Patina _Appfire_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1168698) for that quick response. I'll try it. I thought that method was only for uploading add-ons or plugins.

Thanks again. :)


author: Neha Sharma
body: It worked. Thanks [@Rambabu Patina _Appfire_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1168698)


author: Tobias Anstett _K15t_
body: Hi [@Neha Sharma](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1175909),

a) If you want to build the app for a production instance, you should use "atlas-mvn package" to create a build.

b) If you want to use a standalone instance for development, I suggest to configure quick-reload -\> <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/automatic-plugin-reinstallation-with-quickreload/> to speed up your development.

Best, Tobias


Tags: macro