youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How to add a select list multiple choice field to a confluence page?
Asked by manjunatha k r:

I would like to add one single list multiple choice custom field to a confluence page/template.  
Please suggest how to achieve this in confluence.  

- Manju


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: What are you trying to accomplish? When the users creates a page from the template do you want them to select an option from the list?

If that is the case then you can use a template variable.

![Capture1.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/286i035F3FF966AD565D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture1.PNG")

Select list as your variable type and enter a comma separated list.

![Capture2.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/287iAAC5E379F31EA32F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture2.PNG")When you create a page from that template it will have you select one of the values prior to creating the page and put that value in the spot where the variable was place in the template.

![Capture3.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/289i762DE6AF553070D4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture3.PNG")

comments: author: Manjunatha K R
body: Thanks for your inputs.

Yes, when the users creates a page from the template we would like them to select an option from the list i,e template variable and this variable list/values should be common accross the Space.

Means we need to have a Components (i,e template variable) and it's values will be filled by Release prime and accessable by all users creates pages to write the product requirements and map with the component values updated in the variable.


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: On a page you could use our free Add-on Easy Dropdown Menu: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.EasyDropdownMenu/server/overview>

comments: author: Manjunatha K R
body: Thanks for your inputs.

I am checking this add-on, how it can be mapped(i,e Drop down menu values) to each requirements captured in the multiple pages under same space we are going to create.


author: Michael Aglas
body: the free Add-on seems to be not so free...


author: Steven DAHAN
body: 10 Box just for that's ! i think it's overrated ! =(


Tags: confluence-administration

questions-for-confluence
Where customer satisfaction rating is stored in database
Asked by Juha Lastuniemi:

Hello! I'd like to query satisfaction rating for issues using sql. Where do I find the "stars"?

BR,

-Juha


Answers:
author: Anita Dzik
body: In **CUSTOMFIELD** table I have two fields which are relatable with satisfaction rating.

First it is **SATISFACTION** field (in my version of database: id = 11102), second it is **SATISFACTION DATE** field (id = 11103).

In CUSTOMFIELDVALUE table, value of SATISFACTION field is in STRINGVALUE column, value of SATISFACTION DATE field is in DATEVALUE column.

**Example:**

*select*   
*p.pkey,*   
*ji.issuenum,*   
*ji.assignee,*   
***cfv.stringvalue as "star",***   
***cfv2.datevalue***   
*from*   
*customfieldvalue cfv*   
*join jiraissue ji on cfv.issue = ji.id*   
*join project p on ji.project = p.id*   
*join customfieldvalue cfv2 on ji.id = cfv2.issue and **cfv2.customfield = 11103***   
*where*   
***cfv.customfield = 11102***

comments: author: Mary Joycelyn Bunag
body: Hi, [@Anita Dzik](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1443389) - this actually works for me! Thank you!

I replaced your customfield ID using the following and I was able to get the STAR rating.

![Capture.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/131597iC8BC97F9DEB0E1B4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")

I then got the Customer feedback/comment part using the below SQL:

**select**   
p.pkey, i.issuenum,  
i.reporter,  
ep.json_value  
**from**   
entity_property ep  
join jiraissue i  
on (i.id = ep.entity_id)  
join project p  
on (i.project = p.id)  
**where**   
ep.property_key = 'service-request-feedback-comment'

Joined the tables together and was able to re-create the data displayed in the Satisfaction report.


author: OMAR MOHAMED AHMED MOHAMED FATHY
body: did you reach anything


author: AnnWorley
body: It looks like you are using [Ovyka Satisfaction for JIRA](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.ovyka.jira.satisfaction/server/overview).

The satisfaction ratings seem to be in the "AO_A36E36_FIELD_ANSWER" table in the INT_ANSWER column.


Tags: jira

jira-service-desk
Users with Permission Cannot See Tab's
Asked by Jonathan Holmes:

Hi guys,

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. It's starting to become a more re-occuring theme.

After adding a user to a page, and giving them their required permissions, upon logging in as them, they are unable to see the tab in question.

They can get to the space via the search box, and look at the space from a direct link, but they cannot see the tab in which the space is held.

Why is this? I thought it should appear straight away once someone has permissions?

Thanks,  
Jonathan


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: How are you implementing the tabs?
Confluence 6 - collapse sidebar permanently for a space
Asked by DG COMP:

Hello, we would like to collapse the sidebar permanently for a space in Confluence 6.

We manage to hide the contents of the sidebar for a space with following code in Space / Look \& Feel / StyleSheet:

.acs-side-bar  
{ display:none !important; }

Do you know if something similar exists to collapse the sidebar ?


Answers:
author: Chris Swinney
body: I too am looking for the same thing. Or at the very least to have the sidebar collapsed by deafult
Space Directory Empty
Asked by Quirijn van de Weg:

Hi, I cannot see any of my spaces in the space directory. All filters (all spaces / site spaces / personal spaces / ...) return a box showing "No spaces found.".

Anybody an idea why this happened? Is it possible that I somewhere ticked a wrong box? Thanks!


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: In Confluence Admin there is a page called Content Indexing. On that page is a button to start a rebuild of the index. Depending upon the size of your environment it could take anywhere from minutes to hours to complete. While the index is rebuilding search will probably not work.

comments: author: Paul Hyland
body: Thanks! Worked a treat :-)


author: Ken Hawkins
body: Please advise where to find the "Content Indexing" page as I am having the same issue.


author: Ken Hawkins
body: I have just discovered the knowledge I was missing...

* the space appears in "All Spaces" only once the space Home Page is Published !

So simple, yet as a new user it was easy to make this mistake.

Hopefully this thread will help others in the future :)


author: Yannick Djomo
body: I get an error saying

We can't check the status of your index {#toc-hId--528930893}
-------------------------------------------------------------

You may have lost your connection. Refresh the page to try again.

Any suggestion on this?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That suggests your permissions to see them have been removed (test this by visiting a page in one of the spaces manually - if that works ok, it's not the permissions) OR that the index is broken, OR that someone has installed a hack or an add-on that hides it.  

You'll need to talk to your admins about all of these

comments: author: Quirijn van de Weg
body: Thanks Nic, I can still visit all spaces. Hopefully index is broken and somebody can tell me how to fix it!


author: Logan Hawkes
body: Did you get a solution? I see the same issue with Confluence 6.7.2.
Roadmap (or something) without dates
Asked by David Coombes:

I'm trying to show projects in an order (similar to the roadmap macro) but without dates.

I know that projects should be timebound etc but theres various reasons for wanting to do this. Is there a way to create a chart or diagram where I can order projects? Preferrably it'll have lanes too.

Any help appreciated.


Answers:
author: Hermance NDounga
body: If you have Confluence server, you could try to remove the dates with CSS .. I have cloud so I cannot try, but with the style console I've been able to hide it with the line

.roadmap-frame .roadmap-frame-title, .roadmap-frame .roadmap-frame-content {  
display: none;  
}

You can also try to install an add-on to build diagrams <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=diagrams> (you can filter by cloud or server, and also free or not ;) )

comments: author: David Coombes
body: hi

that's a great help - thanks for taking the time to reply.

David


author: Hermance NDounga
body: you're welcome :)


Tags: jira

roadmap
Space creation and autopopulation with variables
Asked by Miles:

I don't know all the capabilities of Confluence, but here is the result I would like to achieve:

An admin creates a space, which is autopopulated with a set of pages (current logic of blueprints), the pages are different in their structure. On top of that, some pages are autopulated with a set of (predefined) variables. These variables can be used on any pages within the space, and as a bonus, accross spaces.

Do you think this is doable?


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: It should but not OOTB.. Either development or finding an addon.

You can check Blueprint Creator

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218917/blueprint-creator-advanced-templates-pages-blog-spaces?tab=overview\&hosting=datacenter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218917/blueprint-creator-advanced-templates-pages-blog-spaces?tab=overview&hosting=datacenter)

This should make some of the requirements possible for sure (e.g. page structure)
Solution Servername Database
Asked by Renato:

Hi everyone,

I am looking for a solution for the following problem:

We would like to create a page, which serves as some sort of a "server database". For our daily work, we constantly mention a bunch of different servers on our Confluence insance. Also, most server names are mentioned on multiple confluence pages. Thus, we would like to store all the server related information in one single place/site and just tag them on our Confluence pages. In the sense that if some server related information changes, we only have to change the information once and not on every single page seperately. I already tried the "include page" macro but it's not ideal for our purpose. I am thinking about something like the "CRM Contact List" AddOn where all the contacts are stored in one central place and contacts are mentioned using the #-symbol. Does anybody know of a solution? Thanks a lot for your help, it's much appreciated.

-Renato


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Not quite sure if I understand correctly this case, but.. If Server would be a single page (and on that page you would have information about the server) then simply on other spaces/pages add a link to that pages (something like a mention) . From every document you would always have a reference to server information.

Overall I recommend using Jira project for that and mention Jira issues where an issue would be a server.. You get all mentions on the ticket be always up to date.. etc. Simple Asset management without addons :)
(Confluence Wiki) Calculate number of working days between lozenges dates
Asked by dtann:

How do I calculate the number of working days between lozenges dates? eg: 05 Apr 2017 and 17 May 2017

I've been trying to google and search for answers on the community, but most answers are JIRA related rather than Wiki related, thus I decided to post a question.

Please let me know as well if you need more information on the question.

Thank you very much.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Please let us know what lozenges you are using. The ones I am familiar with are the ones from the [Status Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/status-macro-223222355.html) and they are not associated with dates. Just a guess, are you using the Roadmap planner as in [How to build a release planning page in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/blog/2015/08/how-to-build-a-release-planning-page-in-confluence)?


Tags: date

wiki
Why is Firefox slow on editing a page and can't render some macros?
Asked by Thomas Keppler:

Hello!

I'm currently using Confluence 6.1.1 behind an Apache reverse proxy. All worked fine so far until I tried using it in Firefox. Editing a page takes considerable time (at least 15s of seeing the spinner) and when I want to render some macros like {info}, I get the error:

```
Error while generating placeholder. Is the server available?
```

Everything works well in Safari and Chrome.

I have done a quick Google search and found this: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Error-while-generating-placeholder-Is-the-server-available/qaq-p/123752>

I've followed the suggestion, but that didn't help :-/

Any other recommendations?

BTW: Since upgrading to 6.1.1 from 6.0.6 I get an error that my base URL couldn't be checked, even though everything is configured as per Atlassian's recommendations. I just disabled the plugin for now, but maybe that has something to do with it. While I did not have this error message in 6.0.6, Firefox had a sluggish behaviour there as well.


Answers:
author: nicktruch
body: I have exactly the same problem as described : "Error while generating placeholder. Is the server available?" when trying to use the {code} macro in Firefox an IE, everythings fine on Safari and Chrome.

I checked the page request and there is a "Firefox ne peut ?tablir de connexion avec le serveur ? l'adresse wss://wiki.univ-lyon2.fr/synchrony-proxy/v1/bayeux-sync1."

Any answer ?


author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: As Atlassian changed the collaborative editing connection handling in 6.1 it could be related to this change. Firefox has/had a somewhat buggy websocket implementation. With 6.1 Confluence uses a XHR (Ajax) fallback, if websockets aren't working as designed. We've got a simliar configuration in our company \& I already asked Atlassian, if we should change our proxy configuration in 6.1/6.2 to make use of the (better) XHR handling with Firefox. Did you check the page requests with Firebug? Any errors coming up?


Tags: edit

firefox

page

performance

reverse-proxy
Private confluence with public jira
Asked by Justin Volden:

We are curious about how making our confluence instance not accessible over the internet would effect our public jira to would be private confluence integration. My hope is that our service desk projects linked to a confluence space would still work as expected, present knowledge from Confluence in the jira customer portal even though confluence itself is not accessible publicly. Would this work since jsd would be able to see confluence inside our network. We are on the server version of both products.  

Ty


Answers:
author: Hermance NDounga
body: If your Confluence is linked to you JIRA Service Desk, you can define one space to be your Knowledge base : <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf53/developing-a-knowledge-base-on-confluence-wiki-411108858.html>, and open it publicly, while the other Confluence spaces remain private.
Creating Jira Issues from Confluence Requirements page
Asked by Leland Smith:

Hi - i used the Confluence Requirements page to create a set of Jira Story's. Problem is that it didn't copy over any formatting for the Story text and cut it off entirely after like a twitter post worth of characters.

I don't understand how they advertise this as a feature if it has such ridiculous limitations.

Is there any fix to this?


Answers:
author: QuentinB
body: Yes, there is a limitation of characters number ...  
Hope Atlassian will work soon on the request : <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-43173>  
I suggest you to vote for this issue.  
Regards


Tags: jira

requirement
Include content of one table to another existing table
Asked by Vladimir Shidlovskiy:

Hi guys! I have been trying to find solution to this problem for the past few days without any success. Here's what I'm trying to do.

I have a main table with a set of rows which looks somewhat like this:![main_table.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/244iF15E0D61086A640F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "main_table.PNG")Within the same space I have a set of dedicated child pages created from a template with exact same set of rows and values in them, only vertically oriented:

![dedicated_page.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/247i29AC9FE00BFA7276/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "dedicated_page.PNG")

So basically my main table includes the content of all child pages in horisontal format. I'm trying to connect those dedicated pages to the main table via 'Create From Template' macro and using 'Excerpt' macro on the template dedicated page. The idea is for 'Excerpt' macro to fetch values 1 to 9 (headers are always the same, so they are not included) and to use some other macro to include these values to the main table adding new row each time. Here's where the problem comes in.

I defined a specific label for template page and tried using 'Page Properties Report' macro to paste the values to my main table. However this macro won't support wikimarkup and creates its own table insted. Using 'Excerpt Include' macro does not help either: it just wont paste values to the existing table. I was also trying to find a way to create a hyperlink that would add to one of the pasted values for easy access to dedicated pages, but I guess I'll leave it for another time.

Yeah, I know it's TL:DR but I hope someone could help me with advice. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Steffi Frank
body: hm... as far as I understood: to solve your issue using the exerpt macro is the wrong way - have you thought about page properties and page properties report already?

comments: author: Vladimir Shidlovskiy
body: Yeah, I ended up connecting tables using Page properties + Page Properties Report. Those two gave me the result I wanted + links to child pages, only in their own table format which is a bit sad. No big deal, just have to recreate child pages again. Page properties report has some issues with sorthing though. No matter what I used, it always brings last edited row to the top. Guess I'm doing something wrong here, will keep reading documentation. Thanks for your answer!
Updating parent container of an attachment
Asked by Supreetha Upadhya:

I'd like to update the parent container (non-binary data) of an attachment in a Confluence page using Cloud REST API and "curl" command. I looked up the REST API endpoint URL and found this: PUT /rest/api/content/{id}/child/attachment/{attachmentId}

Could somebody provide an example for a correctly constructed JSON input to achieve this? I tried the one below but it fails:

curl -v -u 'admin:xxx' -X PUT -d '{"id": "att000","title":"test.jpeg","type":"attachment","version": {"number": 2,"minorEdit": false},"container":"/rest/api/space/xxx"}' -H 'X-Atlassian-Token:xxx' -H 'Content-Type:application/json' <https://xxx.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/space>

Thank you for your time!


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi!

introduced a snippets, please checkout

[https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/intro/](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-content---attachments/#api-api-content-id-child-attachment-put)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

rest-api
What is the future of Questions for Confluence?
Asked by Joe Yeakel:

Our organization spent a fair amount of time last year introducing users to, and driving usage of, Questions for Confluence.

The last update was in September 2016, and since that time there have been developments that raise questions about the future of Questions, but have also come without any context (that I've seen, at least) from Atlassian. Those developments are:

1. Retiring the "Questions" project in Atlassian's JIRA and moving the tickets under Confluence
2. Moving these community boards off of Questions and to a new platform

Can someone with knowledge comment about what these changes mean for Questions for Confluence?


Answers:
author: Caroline Bartle
body: Hi Joe, my name is Caroline and I'm a product manager for Confluence.

I would firstly like to reassure you that the future of Questions for Confluence isn't in doubt, and that our plans are to continue to support and develop the product.

I take your point that it has been a while since the last update of the product -- we have been undertaking some technical improvements with the product, which have unfortunately resulted in feature updates taking a back seat for a while. We hope to refocus on features again in the coming months.

I'd like to address the developments that you raised in your comment:

1. **Retiring the "Questions" project** -- we actually changed our process for customer-reported bugs and suggestions across all products. The details of this are outlined [here](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/software-teams/track-product-bugs-and-suggestions). As part of this change, we moved issues related to Questions to live under Confluence. Our reason for doing this was solely to streamline the review and escalation process on our end, and isn't a reflection of Questions being deprioritised.
2. **Moving the community boards** -- the decision to move Atlassian Community to a new platform was the result of the broadening requirements of the Community. That is, the need for the Community site to encompass more than Q\&A, and also to offer things like user-generated articles, product-specific landing pages and topical themes, which aren't currently part of the feature set of Questions.

Hopefully that helps to clarifies things, but please feel free to email me directly (cbartle @ atlassian.com) if you would like to provide feedback or request features for Questions.

comments: author: Nathanael Motz
body: Hi [@Caroline Bartle](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/211095). Are you still around? It's two and half years on since you answered this question and I'm curious how you would answer it now? I haven't seen or heard much about the future of Questions lately. There haven't been any new features in a long time. I came to Community tonight because I have this same question.


Tags: integration

questions-for-confluence
Can I create a page blueprint (not space blueprint) in Confluence cloud?
Asked by Aylin Kohls:

Hi all!

I've seen many answered questions about creating space blueprint, but I need to create a page blueprint (set of page templates), similar to out-of-the-box *retrospective blueprint*. (changing Retrospective blueprint is not a posibility because I use it too)

Looking into Atlassian documentation I found how to create page templates, but no page blueprints. Can I do it in cloud?

Thanks!!!


Answers:
author: Maarten Cautreels
body: Hi Aylin,

as far as I know you can only create blueprints through Confluence adding which are not support in that way on the cloud.

Best,

Maarten


Tags: blueprint

cloud

github
Anchor problems within a page with a number in the title
Asked by Krissie Evely:

I seem to be unable to create a URL to an anchor if the page title contains a number.

for example page name is 3Roadmap with an anchor of test

so the URL I use is \*/3Roadmap#3Roadmap-test

and nothing happens. If I remove the 3 from the page title and use:

/Roadmap#Roadmap-test

Then I am able to get it to work.


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: See Jon answer from similar thread

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Re-Re-How-to-link-to-an-anchor-on-the-page/qaq-p/1072289/comment-id/140968#M140968>

Basically all pages that start with a number would need an "id-" to work correctly.


Tags: anchor