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Migrating Confluence account and content to a public cloud
Asked by Belinda Lee:

I want to migrate content from private to public cloud but I to retain the author of the documents. How can I do this?

Belinda


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: There are a lot of details to pay attention to, outlined in [Migrate from Confluence Server to Cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/migrate-from-confluence-server-to-cloud-724765529.html), but long story short, if you do a site import from Confluence it will import your author and the authorship association.


Tags: migration
External Documentation
Asked by Igor Goncalves:

Hi, I have a question about how to create external documentation in short with your documentation, where only the content of my text is shown.

[Documentations](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/documentation#types-of-documentation "Click in External Documentation")

Just click in external documentation, and look.

Thanks for all helps.


Answers:
author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: I believe what you are trying to do is blogging.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/blog-posts-834222533.html>

Within the KB it will show you how to take an internal article and publish it externally.
External Documentation
Asked by Igor Goncalves:

Hello, I have a question about how to have external documentation the same as it is in your documentation.

How do I do this?

[Confluence Documentations](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/documentation#types-of-documentation)


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Atlassian are using Confluence and Scroll Viewport to handle their documentation.
Bidirectional updates for issues created from confluence
Asked by ramonde zrihen:

Hi,  
I'm looking for a solution which updates any changes made to issues created with "multi issues from Confluence table" / create issue macro:

1. changing table value/s in Confluence automatically updates these values in related JIRA issues
2. editing/deleting issue in JIRA automatically updates it's relevant Confluence table Column   

i found "[issue manger for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.seibertmedia.confluence.conjira/server/overview?_ga=2.73611474.1511930097.1523892168-686955745.1519457421)" add on which updates these bidirectional edits but is capable of creating one issue and not multi issues from table which is nice but not that helpful for users using Confluence as their primary tool

many thanks,  
Ramonde


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I may be missing part of your use case, but it sounds like Confluence and Jira have the functionality you are looking for out of the box. Here is an example of a Jira issue created from a Confluence table reflecting changed status:

![Screen Shot 2018-04-16 at 12.22.36 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19720i9D09540EDA5C9810/image-dimensions/244x77?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-16 at 12.22.36 PM.png")![Screen Shot 2018-04-16 at 12.23.05 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19721i906E196D09A708F9/image-dimensions/258x37?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-16 at 12.23.05 PM.png")

For more details, please see [Use Jira applications and Confluence together](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/use-jira-applications-and-confluence-together-427623543.html)

comments: author: ramonde zrihen
body: Hi Ann,  
i'm aware of this functionality, but there are no updates for changes made both in JIRA and confluence besides issue status.   
Editing issue's description in JIRA doesn't appears in Confluence's table and vise versa


Tags: confluence-development

jira-development

questions-for-confluence

server

table
Version info in exported documents?
Asked by Per Lanvin:

Hi,

I upload and edit a lot of MS Word documents and other document types within Confluence (GoEdit!) and one of many fantastic features with Confluence is the versioning/page history.

It would be great to be able to stamp exported documents with its version, is that possible?  
For example if there's $variable I could use that expands to the version number during export etc ...

However, I scanned through the community and all I found was the one below. Let me know if this can be done, it would be a really useful feature!

Rgds

/PL

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/Creation-Date-Document-Creator-Document-Version/qaq-p/523903>


Answers:
author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Per,

If using a third-party app would also be an option for you, you could try out [Scroll Office for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-office/server/overview), which extends the default MS Word exporter with for example placeholders that are replaced dynamically depending on the export data.

We have a blog post comparing Scroll Office with the default MS Word exporter: [Built-In Exporter vs Scroll Office](https://www.k15t.com/blog/2017/02/exporting-confluence-pages-to-word-built-in-exporter-vs-scroll-office)

?In your case you could work with the $scroll.version [placeholder](https://help.k15t.com/scroll-office/using-placeholders-75367911.html) to print the page revision of the exported page in the generated Word file.

If using Scroll Office would be an option for you, please feel free to evaluate Scroll Office via the Atlassian Marketplace. ?Please feel free to reach out to us via [support@k15t.com](mailto:support@k15t.com) if you have any questions.

We'll be happy to help.  

Best,  
?Nils


Tags: atl-adm

atlassian-marketplace
Is there a Search that searches a Space AS WELL AS any included excerpts from another Space?
Asked by Allison Roberts:

We have 2 Spaces, I'll call them Space1 and Space2. Space1 has Pages which include excerpts of Pages in Space2. We have a Livesearch in Space1 and we restricted it to Space1. We've found that it doesn't search the included excerpts from Space2 (the included excerpt Pages do not show up in the search results). Is there a way to implement a search that searches Space1 as well as any included excerpts from Space2?


Answers:
author: Meg Holbrook
body: Hey Allison,

Since the excerpts are still technically part of Space 2, I don't think this is possible. Are you using an addon (like SmartTemplates?)

comments: author: Allison Roberts
body: Hi Meg,

No, we're not using an addon. We're just using the Livesearch macro.


author: Allison Roberts
body: Meg, if we were to use 'addon's, would that impact, or possibly change your answer?


author: Meg Holbrook
body: Hey Allison,

I don't believe so. Excerpts are just a display view of content within another area. Since access to that content is limited, I don't think it will pull either way.


Tags: excerpt

live-search

search
Nesting macros in user macros - how to stop render of JSON output by nested macro before user macro?
Asked by Austin:

I am using SQL Query to get a JSON string from Postgres which is then fed via a user macro to JavaScript to initialize Chart.js plugin for better charts

Seems like I can only place another macro inside my user macro if I select "Rendered" body. However, this causes Confluence to render the resulting JSON as Confluence markup, which breaks everything completely and horribly. How can I allow a macro as the body of my user macro but stop it from processing that data before handoff to my user macro? Is there an intermediary macro I can use to stop that processing? Is there a way to escape curly brackets without whatever escape character following through to the user macro? the user macro needs valid JSON as input.

Right now everything works if i change my user macro to "unrendered" and paste my JSON manually, but the JSON is dynamic hence the SQL query.


Answers:
author: Austin
body: I didn't find a way around it, I ended up using javascript to remove the crap.

1) Load underscore.js in Custom HTML \<head\> or in place

2) Set the SQL Query output to "escape special wiki characters"

3) Use the following javascript on document load:

```
<script type="text/javascript">
 var json =`$body`;

 json = json.replace(/<\/?span[^>]*>/g,"");
 json = json.replace(/(<|)br\s*\/*(>|)/g,' ');
 json = _.unescape(json);
 json = JSON.parse(json);

 //var json should now be valid JSON, hopefully

</script>
```

comments: author: Ramakrishnan Srinivasan
body: Hi Austin,

Thank you for your post, I have tried nesting with chart macro and successful. But the charts are very basic and I dont have much control.

I was going through the chart.js documentation but could not figure out how to nest Chart.js inside a user macro,

Can you please share that part where you nested chart.js in your user macro?

Thank you

with warm regards

ramki


Tags: javascript

atl-adm

chart

json

macro

sql

user-macro
Export / Import Confluence space from Cloud to Server
Asked by Hiten:

We currently have two Atlassian instances and are working on a convergence project in which we will migrate from Cloud to on premise .

The first step we are looking at is taking our cloud confluence and importing it into our on prem confluence. this will not be an overwrite of the existing on prem space but an addition to it.

What is the best way to do go about this.

Also there the cloud confluence spaces link to our cloud Jira which we are looking to migrate into our on prem Jira as phase two.


Answers:
author: Petr Van??ek
body: Hi,

for merging two Confluence instances you need do these steps.

1. Export first cloud instance (bigger one)
2. Import it into new server instance
3. Then you need make export of every space in second (smaller one) cloud instance (in Content tools of every Space administration
4. Then import it into server one by one space - By this step will not be nothing overwritten

With Jira it's similar - but of course make backups of everything before you start any next bigger step.

comments: author: Carlos Uriostegui Garcia
body: If we migrate one confluence project from cloud to on premise, Will the comments be persistent? I mean all the comments till that moment will be also migrated with the confluence page?


Tags: cloud

export

import

server
Is there any way to get the list active spaces(within span of 6 months)?
Asked by Abhishek Bharadwaj:

I need to get a list of active spaces. List of all spaces not only modified within the previous 6 months but also visited . In details, the space to which users visited, also should be considered as active. The space which are not modified or not visited by any users should be considered as Inactive.


Answers:
author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: I'm also interested in this - I found this [Viewing Site Statistics](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/viewing-site-statistics-123043962.html) in documentation.

Plugin you need to acitvate is Confluence Usage Stats. I will give this a try - hope it can help you, too.

comments: author: Abhishek Bharadwaj
body: Hi Fabienne,

This plugin will give the stats in the form of graph and we can not know the active spaces( not only recently modified but also viewed).

Thanks for the reply!

Abhishek


author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hi [@Abhishek Bharadwaj](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1182320) - when using Global Activity View as described [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf65/viewing-site-statistics-939701783.html) you can see this ![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19799iA77FCD6C11F798D6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

You can choose if you want to see statistic for day, week and also month. It also gives back numbers of views (for the most popular ones) - in the graph you see the total number of views.


author: Abhishek Bharadwaj
body: HI [@Fabienne Gerhard](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/971720) ,

I need to segregate all the Wiki spaces into Active and Inactive , based the views and the modification. The above plugin , as you can see in the screenshot will only fetch me hardly 5-6 Active spaces based on views. Hence that will not help me with my requirement.

Abhishek..


author: Shannon S
body: Abhishek,

You can find the queries you require from this article:

* [Finding Unused Spaces](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/finding-unused-spaces-107184852.html)

Have a look there and let us know if you have any questions.

Shannon

comments: author: Abhishek Bharadwaj
body: Hi Shannon,

Thanks for the reply!

The queries in the link which provided will only fetch the spaces which are modified in a specific span. I need a query or a way which also considers not only the modified spaces as active, but also the space which was unmodified and visited by many.

Abhishek


author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: see the answer below - sorry... answered two times
stop Confluence
Asked by Michel Heemskerk:

We don;t use confluence, I want to quit with it.

How do I do that. (the subscription begins and I don't wan to pay


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Go to my.atlassian.com , log in and find the service, click the cancel.

comments: author: Michel Heemskerk
body: I can only find the **Atlassian Cloud (Monthly Payments)** service.

We use Jira but not Confluence. that needs to stop..
Language setting
Asked by Junho Song:

Hi

Please find the attached file.

I changed language English. But the default language does not change.

Please help me.

Thanks in advance

![Screen Shot 2018-04-16 at 7.24.55 AM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19678i2E70AD5DE814A74F/image-dimensions/479x346?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-16 at 7.24.55 AM.png")


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Are you changing the language for entire Confluence instance or just your profile? Since users can have own language preferences in the profile.

Please read this doc for more information

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/choosing-a-default-language-214860191.html>


Tags: language
Historical data on usage statistics in confluence
Asked by Dennis Hansen:

I've activated Jira Confluence plugin Usage Statistics to see the Global activity tab in General configurations.

But it does'nt show any historical data, only need changes/updates are being registered - is there anyway to get historical data into this usage statistics?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Dennis,

It's not possible to get historical data using the Usage Stats plugin. The only data which will be shown is from after the add-on was enabled.

Let us know if you have any questions about that.

Shannon


author: Mirek
body: I am afraid that Confluence do not store this when this plugin is disabled. You would need to keep it running for some time to see some statistics.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, because it's not been captured.

The add-on you have enabled is the code that captures the activity information, as well as reporting on it.


Tags: atlassian-marketplace
Refresh didn't work when using "Insert JIRA issue/Filter" Macro
Asked by Richard Coffre:

Hi all,

I insert the macro 'Insert JIRA issue/Filter" in a Confluence page.

When I preview the page, everything is OK.

But when I save and see the "real" page, I have the error message "Refresh didn't work. Try again or click an issue to see it in JIRA".

Do you have any ideas?

Best regards,

Richard


Answers:
author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: What version of JIRA and Confluence are you presently on?

Looks like a similar issue was resolved on an older version:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-38687>

comments: author: Junio Fernandes
body: I have the same problem, but not using custom fields on order clause. Preview works, updated not.

My filter (sanitized):

issuetype = Bug AND Environment in (Production) AND project in (PRJA, PRJB, PRJC) AND (fixVersion in unreleasedVersions() OR fixVersion is EMPTY) AND status not in (Done) AND Origin in (Development) AND ("Epic Link" is EMPTY OR "Epic Link" not in (EP-1, EP-2)) ORDER BY status ASC, project ASC


author: Junio Fernandes
body: I solved my question with this:

[https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54583?focusedCommentId=1858200\&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-1858200](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54583?focusedCommentId=1858200&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-1858200)

It may help others too.


author: LANeo
body: We had a problem with this macro when there were special characters in the query result.

This filter worked well: "key IN (ABC-1, ABC-2)"

This did not: "labels IN (u?ebny, kancel??e)"

I can confirm that the link provided by Junio Fernandes solved our problem with the macro. (Confluence Server 7.8)


author: Stephanie Willis
body: I'm having this issue now on Cloud


author: Theodoros Antoniadis
body: I have the exact same problem even when I use the filter ID ("Filter = 99999")


author: Theodoros Antoniadis
body: I still have this problem even when I use the filter ID !


author: Andy Hurley
body: I am seeing the same issue even when there are not special characters and when I limit the displayed fields to just the key. Doesn't seem to be any workaround except to use the filteresults macro instead.


author: Giorgi Tsitsvidze
body: it helps me ... 7.4.4

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/filesystem-encoding-is-written-as-ansi_x3-4-1968-even-though-the-server-is-set-to-utf-8-658735809.html>
Can you show me a screenshot of My Tasks in the Confluence Mobile Server app?
Asked by Markus Raab:

We are not on 6.8.x yet, but I need to know how / if "My Tasks" is embedded into the native Confluence Android / iOS app.

Someone has a few screenshots of that?


Answers:
author: Damien Tan
body: Hey [@Markus Raab](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/256837)

I've checked the Mobile App from Android and notice that there the "My Tasks" wasn't included in the mobile app as of now

![Mobile App.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19929i6CBFCB17996F8563/image-dimensions/233x414?v=v2 "Mobile App.jpg")

From the screenshot above, we can see there is only 4 different sections which are:

* Recent
* Space
* Saved
* Notifications

(i have to block the sensitive information)

comments: author: Markus Raab
body: Oh, too bad. I thought they took care of that as well. Thanks though for checking!


Tags: activity
Can Jira datacenter and Confluence datacenter be on same nodes?
Asked by Balaji J:

Currently we have jira and confluence server on one node and planning to move both to datacenter version with 2 nodes i.e.,

Both servers are linux

Server1: jira node1 runs jira ID

Server1: Confluence node1 runs with confluence ID

Server2: Jira node2 runs with jira ID

Server2:Confluence node2 runs wih confluence ID

Is this architecture supported?

Thanks,

Balaji


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, you can run many services on one node.

comments: author: Balaji J
body: Thanks Nic for the update. So in datacenter version both Jira \& Confluence can run in same node?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Same answer to the same question


Tags: jira
Sync gitbook to Confluence
Asked by Anu:

I have a gitbook documentation which I like to keep as it is, because of the developer friendliness and git based version controlling. Is there a way to sync the generated HTML files or the markdowns directly as a confluence space?

I came across <https://github.com/laurencer/confluence-sync>. Seems it's not maintained for few years and APIs are outdated <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-xml-rpc-and-soap-apis/>

Appreciate your support


Answers:
author: kennyngkk
body: Hello Anu,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. We hope that you are able to find what are you looking for.

> Is there a way to sync the generated HTML files or the markdowns directly as a confluence space?

This is possible for server-side Confluence. You can install one of our many plugin call source code editor for Confluence. This allows you to edit the source code in HTML.

* <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/server/overview>

Do note that if you have any attachment in GItBook(I am not familiar with the product). You might need to manually port it over to space.

If you are planning to use Confluence on Cloud. The workaround is to install a test instance on Confluence server. Port all the page to Confluence Server then you do an XML migration to Cloud.

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/migrate-from-confluence-server-to-cloud-724765529.html>
Time Travel? Last Modified date displays as date before the actual update
Asked by Helen Smart:

![ConfluenceLastModifiedError.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19771i49F74B74CAA34F9B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ConfluenceLastModifiedError.JPG")

(Screenshot 2)

![ConfluenceLastModifiedError2.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19772i96FBF5B3B4819073/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ConfluenceLastModifiedError2.JPG")

A Confluence user has emailed me (workplace Confluence admin) to say that her Last Modified dates are displaying as the day before she has actually updated them.

For instance, she has updated two topics on April 9, and the Last Modified dates are April 8.

I note the two updates are attachments, so I looked for examples of this happening with Confluence page updates. I found an update I had done on April 13. It is now appearing as April 12, and I know I was not in the office on that day so there is no mistaking this has happened. This also demonstrates that it isn't just my workmate's PC environment.

This must be some peculiarity of the Cloud storage but could anyone let me know whether this problem is fixable in the Confluence configuration items?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Helen,

You can attach your screenshots to your question by clicking the camera icon. It will allow you to upload any images you need.

Is this related to your instance at c\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*i.atlassian.net? I'd like to have a look so feel free to send the examples and then I can compare them on the instance.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Helen Smart
body: Yes, this is on the Co\*\*\*\*\*\* account.


author: Shannon S
body: Thanks, Helen.

Out of curiosity, where are you based? Your time currently on your server is 11:47 am but your email address is in Australia. Is it possible that you haven't set your personal timezone so it conflicts with the local timezone of the instance?

Shannon


author: Helen Smart
body: We're in Australia. Are we talking about the settings on the user's PC or settings in Confluence admin?


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Helen,

No, strictly the settings in Confluence.

It looks like your server time is set to GMT which could cause the issue you're seeing if the users haven't set their individual times in their profile:

* [Edit your user settings](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/edit-your-user-settings-724765386.html)

Can you confirm what timezone your profile is set to?

Shannon
How to I remove email notifications for Team Calendar (created events)?
Asked by Victor Folkebrant:

When creating a event in a team calendar the invited resources get a email notificaiton. These mails are seen as spam by most resources, how can these automatical email notifications be turned off?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Victor,

This isn't possible, but a feature request has been made for it here:

* [CONFSERVER-49340](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-49340)

Someone came up with a [workaround on Community](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/how-to-update-calendars-with-out-notifying-watchers/qaq-p/357574#M60422)but it would require you to disable the email on the server when modifying the calendar.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Shannon


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence