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How to send custom email about updates to all watchers.
Asked by Madhu Kandampadath:

Instead of using "update and notify" and sending whole page in email, which is very confusing and also shows bugs (where the change was done).

I would like to know if there is way to send custom email to the watchers list from confluence page to update them directly what are the updates and where to look for.

Sending the whole page in an email seems too much information. and i could not find any other option other than "update and notify".

Please advise! Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Madhu Kandampadath](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4983899) ,

welcome to the Atlassian community!

Here a useful third part app that could satisfy your requirements [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219676/notify-helper-for-confluence?tab=overview\&hosting=server](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219676/notify-helper-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=server)

Hope this helps,

Fabio


Tags: confluence-server

email

new-to-confluence

notification

server
Will it ever be possible to edit Word documents natively within Confluence? (no SharePoint etc)
Asked by Max Haley:

One of the features we would love in Confluence is to use it to edit Word docs, but natively

All the options at the minute (and there are some good ones) require connections into SharePoint. This makes it more difficult to share content with 3rd Parties - unless it is a Confluence article already and we export as PDF.

But this creates multiple versions and means we don't have a live, single point of truth


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Max Haley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4656750) ,

as [@Dave Mathijs](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2662590) said, there's no solution at the moment. In the past Atlassian supported Companion app (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/edit-office-files-724765124.html>) but it was discontinued from 31 March 2022.

Fabio

comments: author: Max Haley
body: Thank you for your prompt response, hopefully yourselves and Microsoft can collab in time to provide this functionality


author: Dave Mathijs
body: Hi [@Max Haley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4656750) , at the moment, there's no native solution for this. I completely agree that inline editing should be made possible without having to download the attachment and upload the new version again.

comments: author: Dawn Lewis
body: I can't seem to find any updates on this topic. Without inline editing, I am going to have to start looking at alternatives. Since we moved to the cloud, this has been greatly missed by our teams. I have been trying to wait for a solution but don't see there is one on the horizon.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

ms-office

word
Security field
Asked by jean meheust:

Hello,

How does work the security field in confiform.

In my organisation threre is several group.

Is it possible to use this type of field to restrict the acces of a record to a particular group.

Is it a filter i have to use on cardview

Thanks for your help


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi

This is a field that lists security groups found in your Confluence instance in a dropdown (single or multi-select) field

A convenient way to select a group.

You can use it to restrict edit permissions for field(s) in a record, using it inside the "Editable only by groups/users" parameter of a ConfiForms Field Definition macro for field(s) you want to restrict

Referencing it via \[entry.your_security_group_field_name_here\]

PS, And as with any other field in ConfiForms you can use it in filters. Of course

Alex

comments: author: jean meheust
body: I try your solution.

Thanks a lot

John


Tags: confiforms

confluence-server

server
How to track which part has been changed for Office excel MACRO in the confluence
Asked by Lee:

Dear Experts

My team is creating a confluence page to gather the information from the 20 people during the year. In other words, 20 people put or update the information at any time when he/she needs it. However, as I am a manager, I can't track which part has been changed in the column or row in excel.

When someone updates the MACRO excel and system send me the notification. However, it doesn't show which part is updated. When I just click on the link incuded in the email notifiaction, it just bring me to the confluence page (whole page) .   

Would you coach me how I can detect the changed part in the MACRO EXCEL? I already check the "page history" but in case of MACRO Excel, it doesn't show changed part specically.


Answers:
author: Shardul Juyal_Addteq_
body: HI [@Lee](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4538826)

If you are looking for a full spreadsheet functionality with version history, you can have a look at our app [Excellentable](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211672/excellentable-spreadsheet-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud) which allows you to create and maintain full spreadsheet including version history within confluence.


author: Dam
body: Hi,

If you don't have complex formula in your Excel file, why using an Excel file? You can just use a classic table on a Confluence page, so every time someone do changes, you will be able to see the changes and differences using page history feature in Confluence.

If you have complex things in your Excel file then an app can be used to be able to build complex tables in Confluence: Table Filter and Charts for Confluence  
[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

This app is one of most famous app for table filters and formulas directly in a Confluence page ;)

I hope this helps a bit.

Cheers,  
Dam.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

macro

ms-excel
Added user doesn't got any invitation email
Asked by Meetri IT:

Have added a new user in atlassian but user is not getting any invitation email. Please help here


Answers:
author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@Meetri IT](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4983734) ,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

Please ask user to check if it has landed in there spam folder or any security filter blocking it. If it is not in there then the below thread has some info regarding the same. You might want to go through the same.

* [New-users-didnt-receive-an-invitation](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/New-users-didnt-receive-an-invitation/qaq-p/1922126)

Have a good day!

Thanks,

Srinath T


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
using confluence to display your reference architecture
Asked by phil.mizzi:

Has someone used Confluence to communicate their reference architecture?


Answers:
author: Srinatha T
body: [@phil.mizzi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4983680) in case you are looking for info like how our cloud architecture is designed. You have the info documented in the below page.

* [Cloud-architecture-and-operational-practices](https://www.atlassian.com/trust/reliability/cloud-architecture-and-operational-practices)

I hope the above answers your question. Have a good day!

Thanks,

Srinath T


author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@phil.mizzi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4983680) ,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

If i have understood your question correctly , you want to know how to create a page with architectural info ? If that is the case then you try the Software architecture template we have .

* [Software-architecture-review](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/templates/software-architecture-review)

I hope the above info helps. Have a good day!

Thanks,

Srinath T


Tags: architecture

cloud

confluence-cloud
Space export API or SOAP like flyingpdf
Asked by Andreas Denzler:

Hello,

Is there a possibility via REST or SOAP API to export not only single pages (like with the flyingpdf function <https://confluence-url.com/spaces/flyingpdf/pdfpageexport.action?pageId=1234567> in combination with curl or wget) but whole areas of Confluence and save them as PDF or HTML or XML?

<br />

The best solution would be, being able to run a curl request in Windows cmd or with powershell, like I am doing successfully with single pages (with requests like this one: curl -s -L --referer ";auto" -o %exportfolderdestination%/export.pdf -D- -u username:password -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/pdf" <https://confluence-url.net/spaces/flyingpdf/pdfpageexport.action?pageId=1234567> \>nul

Thanks for your suggestions.

<br />

Best Regards,

Andreas


Answers:
author: Hana Ku?erov?
body: Hi [@Andreas Denzler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2066209) ,

unfortunately I don't think this is possible :-(.

comments: author: Andreas Denzler
body: This is sad, unfavorable and unfortunately disappointing.

Any other ideas to accomplish this, maybe e.g. with some workaround, plugins/addons, scripting?


author: Hana Ku?erov?
body: I've searched the Marketplace, but didn't find anything suitable.

Probably you can [develop your own application](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/java-api-reference/), but I don't have enough experience with development for Confluence, only for Jira.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Contiforms 2.18 is incompatible with Confluence Data center 7.13.8
Asked by Stephanie Hurt:

We just upgraded our Data Center instance to version 7.13.8 and Universal plugin Manager reflects that Contiforms 2.18 is incompatible. Which version would be best to upgrade to?


Answers:
author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@Stephanie Hurt](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4407254) ,

You can refer the product page below which says the supported versions are

Version 2.27.16?**Confluence Server 6.10.0 - 7.18.2**

* [Confiforms-data-forms-workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211860/confiforms-data-forms-workflows?hosting=server&tab=versions)

Thanks,

Srinath T


author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@Stephanie Hurt](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4407254) ,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

You mean coniforms? I do not see an app with name Contiforms.

Thanks,

Srinath T


Tags: confluence-server

server
space import from xml, some thumbnails are not previewing
Asked by Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Gopala Krishna Turlapati:

Recently i have configured 6.12.1 in debian linux and configured database is mssql 2014. I have take the space backup of xml and imported into the new instance. Some thumbnails are not previewing like pptx and xlsx.


Answers:
author: Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Gopala Krishna Turlapati
body: [@Srinatha T](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4686256)   

Thanks for updating.

But presently we are using 6.12.1 .  

In my test instance, I have configured 6.12.1 and mysql version is 8.0 . I have take the db backup of mysql and imported into the my test instance and as well as copied the attachments also. Everything is working fine.  

In another test instance, i have configured the confluence version 6.12.1 with mssql (2014). I I have took the space backup using export and imported into the my test instance-2. Only i have faced one issue of .pptx and .xslsx not previewing properly of some spaces. In some space, .pptx and .xlsx is previewing fine.   

Presently we are not upgrading right now.


author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Gopala Krishna Turlapati](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4982676) ,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

I think you are hitting a bug

* [CONFSERVER-59429 - Texts in powerpoint thumbnail is not rendered correctly depending on Java version](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59429)

You can check the workaround mention on the page. This is fixed in 7.4.

Hope the above info helps. Have a good day!

Thanks,

Srinath T


Tags: confluence-server

server
Comments and mentions on drafts - collaborative editing
Asked by Can Yildiz:

Consider this use case:

There is a confluence page that is being updated for the next version, and few people are working on it together. They can see each others updater real time, that's great, but in reality not everyone works at the same time on the same thing necessarily. So how to communicate on changes on the collaborative draft? Well, we can add comments, yes. But the mentioned users don't get any notification as long as the comments stay on the draft. If this is a long-ish confluence page, it's not feasible to hunt the "yellow sections" i.e. comments.

We currently have to let each other know about such comments via another communication methods (e.g. slack). "hey I changed this part, can you please review?". Obviously this is sub-optimal, and not what I have in mind when "collaborative editing" is mentioned.

Think of Google Docs "suggestions" or at the very least the comments that notify users.

Question is: Am I missing something fundamental here? Or does Confluence really not have any of these collaboration features (particularly notification of comments in drafts; it's clear that it doesn't have a "suggestion" feature).

Any help is appreciated!


Answers:
author: Dave Mathijs
body: Hi [@Can Yildiz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4983251) welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I understand what you're saying. Confluence pages are either published or in draft. When they are published you can see the changes between the current version and the previous version.

When pages are in draft and collaborative editing is used, you'll only see real time changes being made while multiple people are editing a page. Within a draft, there's no change log.

The difference with Google Docs is that these docs are "live" all the time, there is no unpublished draft.

So I don't really have an alternative here, there is indeed a difference on how Confluence and Google Docs work in terms of real time editing.


author: Laura Campbell _Seibert Media_
body: Hi [@Can Yildiz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4983251) Have you tried tagging colleagues in the comments where their attention is needed? That will trigger a notification by Confluence.

It sounds like you don't want collaborators to publish the page until all changes are made, correct? If that's the case, what about using the new status feature at the top of the page to indicate that the page is in progress/draft? You can publish the page, but people viewing the page will know that it's not finished yet.


author: Daniel Eads
body: While it's slightly different than the "make a suggestion" with the approve/reject options, you could consider using [in-line comments](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Inline-comments-while-editing-FINALLY/ba-p/1444781) while editing to leave suggestions. These show up as yellow highlights on the text in question. You can leave in-line comments on the Edit screen and see them while editing, both without having to publish the page.

Cheers,  
Daniel


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Assign task to page creator in template
Asked by Justin Christopherson:

I have a template that I would like to add a task assigned to the creator. Then when they create the page using the "create from template macro" they already have this task assigned to them. Is this possible? I try to put @"creator" but this does not work.


Answers:
author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@Justin Christopherson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4505597) ,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

The below thread has some answer for your question.

* [How-to-assign-a-task-to-a-creator-of-a-page](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-assign-a-task-to-a-creator-of-a-page/qaq-p/1170901)

Hope this helps. Have a good day!

Thanks,

Srinath T

comments: author: Justin Christopherson
body: Hello Srinatha,

Thank you for the reply and I did see this thread earlier however, I guess I am not advanced enough in my confluence experience to see how adding this to the workflow can transfer to a page template.


author: Srinatha T
body: [@Justin Christopherson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4505597) ,

Yes, its little bit advanced topic. I have not tried it myself. But should be achievable.

Thanks,

Srinath T


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Change PastDue/OverDue with Butler
Asked by Magesh Jaganathan:

Can someone help me to share the Butler Rules or DueDate commands where when a card is Overdue/PastDue, it should automatically change to the next day which is exactly 24-hours after it is past due.

This should apply for all the past due cards independent of the no.of days over due too.


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Magesh Jaganathan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4268312) seems like this is what you want:

![2021-02-18 at 4.32 pm.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/131033iE70F28235D36072A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2021-02-18 at 4.32 pm.png")
Calendar command creating second set of cards
Asked by Cindy Johnson:

Hello Trello experts! New to the game and loving Trello so far.

Here's my issue: I created a calendar command to create two cards every weekday. See below

![daily goal calendar command.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/130857i38E809F70696F9DE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "daily goal calendar command.PNG")

But there were FOUR cards in my list (my apologies that I deleted one before jumping on here and asking the question. They all show as being created by me via Butler at the same time:

![trello Today list.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/130858i6639D6A56007DE23/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "trello Today list.PNG")

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Cindy


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Cindy Johnson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4268273) could be a glitch, your command looks correct, if it keeps happening I'd contact the Trello support team directly by going back to trello.com/contact and selecting to ask support rather than the community.

comments: author: Cindy Johnson
body: Hi Iain! Thanks for your comment. I figured it out and it was because of "repeater" cards that I had created before diving into commands/rules. I've deleted those repeaters, and I think everything will be set!


Tags: butler

calendar

card

command
Not receiving any alerts via email or app
Asked by Louise Ward:

I've realised over the past month that I've not been receiving any notifications via email or alerts on the App, for tasks with a due date. The Test Notification works and I've not changed any of my settings. I mentioned this to a colleague who confirmed they've not received any notifications for a while.


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Louise Ward](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4268265)

Look at this posts, maybe can help you

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/Not-receiving-alerts-by-email-notification/qaq-p/1488933>

<https://help.trello.com/article/793-receiving-trello-notifications>

<https://help.trello.com/article/1195-push-notification-settings-for-mobile>

Cheers

comments: author: Louise Ward
body: Thank you, I have checked all these settings. I've even noticed than none of the tasks with past due dates appear in the list of notifications. I have now set all boards and cards as watching to see if this helps.
Missing boards
Asked by Luis castro:

Hello.  
Can someone help me, please?  
I have always entered e Trello with my email and my password by mistake I entered from the same email but through google. Since then my boards have disappeared since it seems that Trello has created a new account even if it is the same email. From the mobile, I can still access my boards. What can I do to get them back?  
Thanks a lot.


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Luis castro](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4267376) try logging in via id.atlassian.com instead


author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Luis castro](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4267376)

I advise you to contact the trello support team directly

<https://trello.com/es/contact>

Cheers


Tags: board
Add specific custom fields by label
Asked by Matt Geerdes:

Hello, is it possible to add custom fields when specific labels are added to a card?

Thank You!

Matt


Answers:
author: Matt Geerdes
body: lain, I have 10 custom fields created that appear on all cards however I don't use all the custom fields for every card created. I'd like to add or delete custom fields based on the label added to each card.

comments: author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Matt Geerdes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2135690) custom fields are added to a board, not a card, so the same set of fields exist for every card on a board. You can set values on the fields when a label is added, and the field will only show on the front of the card if a value is set, but you can't edit which fields exist at the card level.


author: Matt Geerdes
body: Hello lain, I'd like to add specific custom fields when the label TOOLS is added to a card.

comments: author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Matt Geerdes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2135690) do you mean that the custom field doesn't currently exist on the card and you want to add that field, or that the field exists on the card and you want to set the value to something?


author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Matt Geerdes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2135690) you can set custom field values when a label is added to a card, but AFAIK you can't create custom fields with Butler. Also, whenever you add custom fields they're added for the entire board, not just one card. Can you elaborate a bit more on what you're tryingn to achieve?


author: Felix
body: You could set up a Butler rule to do this. Check out <https://help.trello.com/article/1198-an-intro-to-butler>
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Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you are struggling to cancel your Trello subscription, you will need to talk to Trello support - try the "contact support" on <https://trello.com/contact>

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Tags: subscription
How do I enable butler board buttons across all team boards
Asked by Alison Curryer:

I have set up board buttons on my boards and want that button to be replicated across all board in my team. When I check the box to enable the button across all boards I get a notification saying Trello could not connect to the server to carry out the action and the board button gets deleted.

Can anyone help?


Answers:
author: Felix
body: Hey [@Alison Curryer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4268116)

That doesn't sound good!

Could you create a support ticket at [trello.com/contact](https://trello.com/contact) (click on "Ask Trello Support"), so we can investigate this?

I'll keep an eye out for your ticket - going through the non-public support system just means we can get more information about your account, and I can see what's going on more easily.

Thanks,

Felix

comments: author: Alison Curryer
body: Thanks [@Felix](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853253) I have created a ticket just now


author: Felix
body: Thanks, I just assigned it to myself. Will follow up on the support ticket from now on.