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Sidebar Page Automatic Sorting
Asked by Jason Tolotta:

This refers to the **Confluence Cloud** instance only.

The sidebar pages are not sorted alphabetically.

I know that I can sort the pages via the **Space Settings**, however, this does not persist and requires constant manual sorting via this screen.

I saw this page, but it is not an ideal solution.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Sorting-order-of-child-pages-in-Confluence/qaq-p/404393>

What are the exact steps to permanently sort the pages in the sidebar after new pages are created?


Answers:
author: Lava Kumar Dukanam _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Jason Tolotta](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/601858),

Are you not able to drag and re-order them right on the sidebar? I'm able to do it and it persists the order.

Let me know.

Thanks

Lava

comments: author: Jason Tolotta
body: [@Lava Kumar Dukanam _Appfire_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1525538)

I see where I went wrong with my words.

I have re-worded the question and hopefully now it conveys what I am trying to achieve.


author: Jason Tolotta
body: I edited this question and has now been lost in aether.

This is no longer required.

Please reference <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Sort-Sidebar-Page-Tree-Permanantly/qaq-p/998494#M132071>


Tags: confluence-cloud
No Meeting Notes index
Asked by Bryan Severson:

When I add meeting notes to a new Confluence site, the meeting note will get attached to the site page but no Meeting Notes Index is created.


Answers:
author: Rambabu Patina _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Bryan Severson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1331153),

There is a known issue [CONFCLOUD-57810](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-57810) please vote/add a comment there.

Meanwhile as a workaround - copy an existing meeting note index page from another space and move it to the new space, update the macros to refer to the new space.

Thanks,  
Ram.

comments: author: Bryan Severson
body: I went ahead to placed a vote. Thank you for your help!


author: Patty Walters
body: Wow. A year later and this is still the case?


author: Maureen Teyssier
body: Only works if you have an existing meeting notes index, which I don't!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I am unable to access Confluence
Asked by Renee Whalen:

I am unable to access Confluence SIG Sales.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to look at the error message you have when you try to "access" Confluence and probably take it to your Confluence administrators.

We're end users of Atlassian software here, and we have less access to your system than you do.
Confluence or Jira for managing reporting schedule?
Asked by Colin Delderfield:

Hi,

We are already using Jira and Confluence, which is the best to use to monitor and report on completion of recurring tasks?

For example circulation of daily/weekly/monthly reports to stakeholders, I want to be able to:

* Monitor completion
* Assess if the task is being completed on time and easily report completion rates YTD
* Assign to other team members to cover leave etc

Thanks


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there Colin!  

As I understand, you need to select the **most adequate tool** for your environment.   

Confluence is**great for content sharing and collaboration** on knowledge and information creation. There you can create pages, blogs, spaces and share everything with your organization and even more. However, the project management capabilities of Confluence fall short **when compared to Jira** .   

**Jira is specialized in task assignment, project creation and management**. There you can track issue progress, assign them to other users, create and manage a project. You can check more information about Jira procedures here:

**[Add, Assign and View tasks](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-assign-and-view-tasks-590260030.html)**

**[Tracking Status and Progress of issues](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiraportfoliocloud/tracking-status-and-progress-of-issues-828785247.html)**

**[Completing a sprint](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/completing-a-sprint-764478128.html)**

You can also create graphs and display information directly into Jira Dashboard:

**[5 steps to Build a killer dashboard](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/5-steps-to-build-a-killer-dashboard)**

**[Configuring dashboards](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/configuring-dashboards-764478209.html)**

However, sharing this information internally can be a challenge if you rely **solely on Jira** . Integrating Jira and Confluence has this purpose: You should be able to **show and share data from jira in your Confluence instance** so other users can access and study it. Creating pages for documentation about your projects and tasks in Confluence is pretty straightforward. You can even display graphs from Jira within Confluence:

**[Jira chart macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/jira-chart-macro-724765322.html)**

**[Jira Issues Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/jira-issues-macro-724765217.html)**

**[Add formatting to your page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/add-formatting-to-your-page-724764836.html)**

For short:
> - Managing the projects, issues and creating the data could be done with Jira  
> - Creating reports, documentation and sharing the data could be done with Confluence

Let us know if this addresses your questions!


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

cloud

confluence-cloud
Allow my Sales Team to rank a Feature list created in Confluence
Asked by Sarah:

We have had a planning day and created a wishlist of features based on Client feedback.(I'm Product Owner)

I have created a document in Confluence and would like the Sales team to rank the list of features in priority from 1 to 20.....

Is there a plug in or add on that will allow this, or can anyone give me ideas (not using fields) on an easy way to do this?

Must be cloud based not server.

Thans

Sarah


Answers:
author: Jennifer Hemmens
body: Hey [@Sarah](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1201323),

I use the server but would be surprised if the following isn't a cloud feature. We have a number of different "proposal" overviews (such as internship ideas, improvements, etc.) which we allow our colleagues to create and vote for using the "Like" button.

We do this using the page properties macro. We have templates containing a page properties table with a number of fields depending on the type of proposal. These pages are created as child pages under their relevant main overviews (which have the create from template button on them to simplify things). The relevant page overview contains a page properties report. In the report, it's possible to display the amount of likes a page has. The amount of likes per page helps us to determine priority of the proposals :)

This doesn't help with individual ranking of issues though, as you described. I don't think there's a built-in Confluence feature for this, other than each user editing the page separately. We tried a poll add-on before, but ended up not really needing it. It was quite easy to use though:

* [Polls for Confluence add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211126/polls-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

I'm not sure if it's available for cloud, but I'm sure you could find something similar.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Regex OR operator and Macro Markup Parameter/Value Pairs in Sidebar
Asked by Nicole Norman:

Hi,

I want to use the Table of Contents (TOC) macro in the sidebar. I want to exclude all headings that end in "headingABC" and all headings that end in "headingDEF".

Key Items of Note :  
- Wiki markup for macros use the pipe key to separate parameter/value pairs.  
- Regex uses the pipe key as the OR operator within an expression.

Issue :  
When I add an OR operator (pipe key) to the exclude parameter value it is effectively being interpreted as the end of the exclude parameter value rather than being interpreted as the OR operator within the expression value of the exclude parameter.

STRs

1. Create a page, add text for "headingABC" and "headingDEF" then set both to H1 (level is irrelevant). Click update to save the page.

2. Navigate to the space sidebar textarea (space tools \> look and feel \> sidebar, header, and footer) and copy/past the TOC markup {toc:exclude=.\*headingABC\|.\*headingDEF} in the textarea and click save to save the sidebar.

3. Load the page created in step 1 and view the content rendered by the TOC macro.

//end STRs

Actual Result : Only the first heading added in the exclude is actually excluded.

Expected Result : All the headings specified in the exclude parameter should be excluded.

I have tried some variations including escaping the pipe {toc:exclude=.\*headingABC\\\|.\*headingDEF}, double escapes, double pipes, double rainbows, quotes in various places, and more but haven't yet gotten multiple expressions using the OR operator to exclude multiple headings in the sidebar. Works as expected when the TOC is in the page rather than the sidebar, however.

What's the markup that would accomplish this?

Thanks,

Nicole


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: I cannot seem to find away around the pipe issue. But what about if you rewrite the expression to this ...

```
{toc:exclude=.*heading(ABC)?(DEF)?}
```

comments: author: Nicole Norman
body: Thank you for the prompt reply! That does exclude those headings however the example I provided was oversimplified. The heading titles I want to pass in won't have a partial string match in common (the 'Heading' prefix). I need to pass multiple disparate strings. For example, I want to exclude (The list is likely to grow.) :

pen

banana

fred

sky

blanket


author: Davin Studer
body: Would this work then?

```
{toc:exclude=.*(pen)?(banana)?(fred)?(sky)?(blanket)?(etc)?}
```


author: Nicole Norman
body: It does work but it's too robust. We are going to go with this for more precision :

{toc:exclude=\^(pen)?(banana)?(fred)?(sky)?(blanket)?(etc)?$}

Thanks again!


author: Davin Studer
body: Like the saying goes ...

"You have a problem and you want to solve it using Regular Expressions. Now you have two problems."

: )


Tags: confluence-server

server
Is it possible to change the default add behavior to add page at the top of a section?
Asked by Joseph Ishak:

Every time I add a new page to a section, be default it goes to the very bottom of the section. I then have to reorder the pages and manually move it back up to the top. Is it possible to change the default behavior for my account to always add new pages at the top of the section?


Answers:
author: roman
body: Hi [@Joseph Ishak](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2425974),

as soon as at least one page is being reordered manually through Space Tools ? Reorder Pages, all new page will be created at the bottom of the page tree.

The default functionality is that each new page is being ordered based on the page title. You can restore this functionality by clicking on the icon in the Space Tools ? Reorder Pages:

![Screenshot 2018-12-12 at 10.50.04.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/40076iDF8A769DFDB9BADE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2018-12-12 at 10.50.04.png")

Keep in mind that clicking on this icon would reorder all pages in the space alphabetically.

I don't think there is any way to change the behavior for spaces where pages are re-ordered manually and place all new pages on top instead of the bottom.

Cheers,  
Roman.

comments: author: Joseph Ishak
body: No, that is not what I am looking for. I am looking for a way to set the ordering of pages in a specific section. That only lets me pick between Alphabetical (not what I want) or Default (Add at the bottom). In addition, I would have to do this every time I create a page which is the same as what I am doing now and manually moving each item to the top.


Tags: confluence-server

server
is it possible to have more than one confluence server synchronized with a master?
Asked by Charles MacDonough:

There is currently a desire to create multiple instances of a confluence server, but I need the user list and the content to remain consistent across all of them. Is there a solution for that. At times these instances may not be connected to the master, but I need updates from a remote to sync to the master and vice versa when it reconnects.


Answers:
author: Bastian Stehmann
body: Hi [@Charles MacDonough](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2425650),

Did you have a look on the datacenter edition of confluence?

If you want to have different server instances, maybe an add-on like [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/42115/comala-workflows-remote-publishing?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/42115/comala-workflows-remote-publishing?hosting=server&tab=overview) might help you.

But keep in mind, that you will need a license for each server instance.


Tags: confluence-server

server
remove page author
Asked by Dave:

how do I hide the page author in Confluence?

old instructions said to edit the Style, but that is not an option in Admin any longer?


Answers:
author: Jennifer Hemmens
body: I can highly recommend the following free add-on:

* [HideElements](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211757/hideelements-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

It's free, and allows you to really clean up your page by hiding practically anything! And saves you having to configure your stylesheet.


author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: Hi [@Dave](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1690967),

Are you using cloud or server?

If you are on server try this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-hide-content-author-name-created-by-in-a-page-701600769.html>

If you are on cloud, please check this previous answer from last month about the differences between cloud and server.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-hide-content-author-name-created-by-in-a-page/qaq-p/943662>
How can show expand and collapse handles be shown in the Children Display? Macro
Asked by Richard Harris:

How can I show expand and collapse handles on the Children Display' Macro

or is there a better macro to show this?


Answers:
author: Kian Stack Mumo Systems
body: I would look into using the page tree macro. It shows you a page tree that is configurable. You can get all the child pages and drill down into them with expand/collapse.   

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-tree-macro-163414255.html>


Tags: confluence-server

server
View a team calendar from a Kanban/scrum board
Asked by LakshmiS:

While doing sprint planning, I would like to view the team calendar I have created in confluence. Is there any way to do it?


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Lakshmi,

While Team Calendars can be exported to iCal format and embedded on other sites, there's not really a place to inject something while doing sprint planning in Jira.

My suggestion would be to use two monitors or resize the Confluence window on your screen so that you can see it while you're in your backlog for Sprint planning. Not a super technical solution, but it will get you the info you need with minimal fuss!

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: LakshmiS
body: Thanks Daniel - two monitors is what I am also using currently. But since team availability is one key parameter during sprint planning, I thought there would be a better alternative!


Tags: confluence-server

jira

jira-server

jira-software

server
display formatted date stamp using [now]
Asked by Andrey Pykhantsev:

Hi, I'm trying to display the time a form was modified/approved to create a unique approval number formatted as: XX--YYYYMMDD, where XX are the initials of the person approving.

I got this to work chaining several methods below:

*\[entry.name.upperCase.trunc(2)\]-\[entry.created.formatDate(yyyyMMddHHmm)\].*

However, this only works with the time when the form was created. I tried using *\[now\]* and*FORMATDATE(NOW())* as decribed in [this](https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Supported+math+operators%2C+formulas+and+functions) article, and the result is a random number like '*1544543232619'.*

Tried several ways of getting \[now\] to work but no luck. ![Screen Shot 2018-12-11 at 11.32.24 AM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39993i152CC56FE9A2B609/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-12-11 at 11.32.24 AM.png")


Answers:
author: Andrey Pykhantsev
body: after trying to get formatDateAs() and now() to work, got a way around it by

1. creating a separate field **date** that stores the epoch time

2. using two separate IFTTT macros to first assign current time to **date**and later to use that field value to format it using

```
[entry.name.upperCase.trunc(2)]-[entry.time.formatDate(yyyyMMdd)]
```

![Screen Shot 2018-12-19 at 12.01.11 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/40753i406E4E7CD2851691/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-12-19 at 12.01.11 PM.png")

comments: author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Each ConfiForms field has a "created" field, which is set with the value on record creation - you can use that field. Also, you can always use \[entry._now\] or just _now to access the current time

And you can apply any of the virtual function on these fields, as usual


author: Diego
body: Hello there Andrey!  
As far as I understand the documentation provided by the Confiform team, the approach to this would be to use the **FORMATDATEAS** function:

```
[entry.name.upperCase.trunc(2)]-[entry.created.FORMATDATEAS(now(),"yyyyMMddHHmm")]
```

The pattern used is correct, according to this Oracle documentation:

**[Oracle - Simple Date Format](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html)**

The number that you end up with is in EPOCH format, used by Unix. For example, 1544543232619 corresponds to Tuesday, December 11, 2018 3:47:12.619 PM.  

Let us know if the FORMATDATEAS function works as expected!

comments: author: Andrey Pykhantsev
body: It works the same way as the functions I tried, namely output is in EPOCH format, **not** "yyyyMMddHHmm".

Seems that it only does it when I'm trying to get the current timestamp using

```
[now]
```

or

```
 now()
```

P.S.: the form should grab the moment the form is approved, not the time it was created. I'm using IFTTT macro with onModified event and setting this parameter on the entry field.


Tags: confiforms

date

filter

format

timestamp
Can Confluence search by text of an HTML, Word, or PDF macro?
Asked by Jonathon Goulding:

I am investigating solutions to utilizing an HAT and testing output formats and methods to get documentation on our company's wiki.

The following macros appear promising, but have their own limitations:

* Word Macro
  * Ruins formatting and images
* PDF Macro
  * To be readable, it must take up the entire desktop screen
* HTML Macro
  * Images and multimedia not possible

The big question is whether the Confluence search function can return page suggestions based on the body text of each of these macros. We have a service desk portal with a search function to provide clientele with software support article suggestions based on their described problem, and being able to search through text will keep the page form being cluttered by labels.

Additionally, if there is a way to make labels invisible to unauthorized users, that would also be useful here.


Answers:
author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: Hi [@Jonathon Goulding](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2086533),

Confluence indexes and searches certain types of attachments, including the ones you listed.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-Confluence-search-PDF-Contents/qaq-p/424960>

The documentation link there doesn't work as expected. I'm still trying to find the official one, but here is a link to seibert media, a reliable partner:

<https://answers.seibert-media.com/t/confluence-search-capability-can-we-search-for-information-within-attachments-added-to-pages-such-as-keywords-within-a-pdf/38>

comments: author: Jonathon Goulding
body: Now for HTML, I am planning on copying HTML (with in-line CSS) into the macro. Based on the second link, it looks like this is still searchable from a service desk portal search bar like what my company is implementing. Is this correct?


author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: yes that is correct


Tags: confluence-server

html

macro

pdf

server
Publish list of custom fields / statuses / resolutions
Asked by Janakiraman S:

Hi,

I administer a 10000 user JIRA+Confluence instance and there are too many custom fields, resolutions and statuses out there. I wish to publish the list on a confluence page so users can go through it and choose from them. Is there an out of the box way to achieve this?

Thank you for your ideas.

Janaki.


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: Janaki,

We just went through this. We had to pull the information out of our database. You could then use the information queried from the DB to display on a Confluence page. You would have to manually update the information since there is no way to link it to the Confluence page via JIRA.

comments: author: Janakiraman S
body: Thank you for the input Brant.


Tags: jira
On 1 specific page when I open it to edit it is blank
Asked by Rick Collins:

This only happens on one page, all other pages work fine. No idea how to fix this so I can edit the page.


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: Rick,

This is usually due to a plugin/marco being used on the page. If you know what it is you can disable it then when you open the page it will not be blank. I have also seen this when there is an update to the marco/plugin and the user needs to clear their browser cache. Sometimes the cache stores old JavaScript which in turn causes the issue.
Can we unwatch the notification when creating a new page through REST API?
Asked by Shaurya Chawla:

My automated script creates a page(POST call to create new page with content in a specific space.) every day for reporting on confluence. Does confluence cloud api have a way to unwatch/disable sending notifications to confluence space users ; each time when a new page is created ?

I explored but couldn't find a lead here: <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-rest-api-examples/>  
Can you point out an eg , if there is a possibility to include in request body?


Answers:
author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Shaurya Chawla](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1492471),

why not? When you create a news page, you get the page ID in the response. Use this ID and fire a

```
DELETE https://mycompany.com/rest/api/user/watch/content/<id>
```

So long

Thomas

comments: author: Shaurya Chawla
body: Thanks [Thomas Deiler](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/484715) I did notice delete api but I was wondering if there is something I can include in the same request body when at the time of creation of page so users don't get notified each time automated script generate a new page(even though they are subscribed to the space). So some json object/key that I can use in request body for **create a new page** instead of doing a separate call.