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Is there a way to create and manage distribution lists in Confluence?
Asked by Angela D'Iorio:

I apologize if this question has been answered already, but from my initial research I don't think I've seen this question answered. (Also I'm a OD coach not a technical expert of any kind, so please bear with my ignorance in choice of words.)

I currently work on a project team which consists of 3+ distinct organizations each with own e-mail server. We share a team calendar in confluence, where we *can* add our personal schedules, leave, or training, along with the ceremonies for our various projects.

While the ceremonies are entered with a fair amount of rigor, our personal time is managed in our respective Outlook calendars. It is essential that we are aware of each others availability and of our ceremony schedule in order to collaborate and meet more effectively, and one of the problems we run into is that as users we are reluctant to attempt to manage two calendars.

My initial thought is that we can reach out to our respective IT service desks to request the CalDav Plug-In for so we can sync calendars.

However, it would be handy (if we cannot all get the plug-in) to be able to send ceremony invitations directly from Confluence rather than managing distribution lists for each organization, which could get unruly and even more confusing as we add additional organizations.

Thanks in advance for your help.


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

Your workflow idea does sound like it would be a sizeable time-saving effort to be able to merely notify a person, team or department of a scheduled item. Currently, this functionality is not within Confluence. There is a feature request to have this type of functionality added. You may find this feature request at [CONFSERVER-51062](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51062) and for Cloud users [CONFCLOUD-51062](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-51062). We would suggest you vote and watch the feature request which matches your deployment to receive future updates.

There are available add-ons which may bring this functionality into Confluence. Here is a preset search of the [Atlassian Marketplace \| Calendar](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=calendar). One of the listed add-ons may work for your requirements.

I hope this proves helpful in assisting with sending Calendar events from Confluence and provides some direction.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


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Custom macro dialog in confluence in editor context | Override MacroBrowser
Asked by Farhat Abbas:

I'm new to Confluence dev, and I'm trying to create a macro such that I need to show custom UI on editor context instead of Confluence's MacroBrowser taking some params and operating on them.  

I need to open a custom dialog, where I essentially want to render an Iframe and take user input in that Iframe.  

I checked <https://www.slideshare.net/GoAtlassian/pimp-my-confluence-plugin-atlascamp-2011> but it uses AUI dialog(which is being deprecated) in AJS.MacroBrowser.setMacroJsOverride handler function to create a dialog.  

3 things:  
-Can I use the same approach to open dialog, since dialog API is getting deprecated and dialog2 seems to not come with a contructor as such? If not, please suggest how can I open a custom dialog?  
-How can I render an Iframe in dialog2/dialog API? any reference will be helpful  
-Can I override the macrobrowser and show contents instead loaded from a velocity template, where it will be more easy to render an iframe?  

Please help.


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

Something to be aware of is this is a support community and not often browsed by developers. We want to ensure you get the responses and answers you need so we would suggest you check out the [Developer Community](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/). The [Developer Community](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/) may have more available resources to answer or address your developer questions.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers

comments: author: Farhat Abbas
body: Thanks [@Stephen Sifers](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2145523). Didn't realize that.


author: Farhat Abbas
body: <https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/custom-macro-dialog-in-confluence-in-editor-context-override-macrobrowser/26677?u=farhat>  

Link to question on Developer Community


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Importing CSV file
Asked by Thangavel VELUCHAMY:

Hello All,

I had to import external projects, and i have a tickets dumb in the .xlsx file format.

I have chosen " Import from comma Separated from values(CSV)" file format![Error.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/43521i80332C6EFDA2D355/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Error.PNG")

Data are filled in the Japanese language in the file, hence we unable to import the project in jira. Could you please suggest us to import the file.


Answers:
author: Pete Singleton
body: .xlsx is an Excel format, and binary based so you won't be able to import from it. You need to save the file as a CSV (comma separated variable) format from within Excel.

comments: author: Thangavel VELUCHAMY
body: Hello Pete,

Thanks for your support,

Problem is when i save the file as a .csv format, inside data are mismatching (Japanese) language is not supporting.
Is it possible to link certain pages/articles to specific issue types?
Asked by support:

I am trying to link supportissues to display only how-to articles on a certain page.

For eg. Support issue types in JIRA to how-to articles under page "help" in Confluence.

I want the customers to see certain articles displayed depending on which issue type they want to send a request on in the customer portal.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello,

When linking a Jira Service Desk customer portal to a Confluence space, you can share the Confluence space as a Knowledge Base for that portal.

In addition, when they search your help center, it will recommend the pages from that Confluence space that might interest them.

For more details, have a look at [Serving Customers with a Knowledge Base](https://confluence.atlassian.com/servicedeskcloud/serving-customers-with-a-knowledge-base-732528995.html).

I believe this is similar to what you are describing here, but if there is a feature missing, can you let us know what that is with more detail?

Regards,

Shannon


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Search for Jira issue from Confluence
Asked by Max Spencer:

We use the live search macro to display search results for pages within our confluence space. We need a way to also allow the user to search within Jira issues of the Jira project which is linked to the space. Currently users have to execute the search in the confluence page to look for pages, then move to applicable jira project and repeat the search. This is not very practical for user adoption. I am fine having two search boxes (one for confluence, another for Jira), and I am fine if clicking on the search result takes you to Jira.

Is this at all possible?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Max,

We currently have a feature request for this below:

* [CONFCLOUD-2689](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-2689) *Integrate Confluence search to Jira search*

Please vote on the request above, and watch it in order to be alerted to any progress or updates.

For the time being, your users will need to go to Jira in order to search for Jira issues, or when editing a page can insert the Jira issues macro with the desired JQL query.

Regards,

Shannon


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Can not open confluence h2 database file
Asked by Thomas Pauli:

Hey guy's

I would like to open the h2 database file of my confluence instance. But there aren't tables in it.

I took the database file from here: "C:\\Program Files\\Atlassian\\Application Data\\Confluence\\database\\h2db.mv.db".

But now when I try to open it with several tools the program always says that no tables exists in this file. Is it the correct file?

Thank your for your help.


Answers:
author: Angel Ruiz
body: Hi Thomas,

I was able to see the tables by removing the .h2.db extension from the connection URL. I hope it helps


author: Angel Ruiz
body: Hi again,

I have found that accessing the H2 embedded db pointing to the file directly can cause problems when Confluence is also running. It looks like the best is to access via TCP with a URL like this:
>
> ```
> jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9092//Users/.../target/confluence/home/database/h2db
> ```


author: Angel Ruiz
body: > Please disregard this comment cause it is not working


author: Angel Ruiz
body: I am having the same problem trying to open the embedded H2 Confluence DB located at: /target/confluence/home/database/h2db.h2.db

I used to be able to connect to PUBLIC schema and see the tables and execute SQL queries on them


author: Shannon S
body: Thomas,

Per our procedure in [Embedded H2 database](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/embedded-h2-database-145098285.html), you can either use DBVisualizer or the Console.

Can you take a moment to confirm you are working through the steps for either process exactly as it's outlined there?

If so, and you're still having issues, then I would recommend migrating to a supported database (also available on the above article) and see if you are able to access your data that way.

Regards,

Shannon


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PDF Header Style
Asked by serc:

hey guys,

im trying to add a header and footer style for my documents. But its bit to difficult for me. So can anyone help me there?

![How to.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/43505i60288619023DB75F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "How to.PNG")can anyone show me how i can write this?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@serc](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2379213),

have you read this page already:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/advanced-pdf-export-customizations-198806890.html>

comments: author: serc
body: Hi thanks for the answer  
yes I read it, I don't know how to write the title among each other. Also, I don't know how to change the font size separately from "Document" and "Title


author: Steffen Heller
body: ```
@page {
size: 210mm 297mm; /* DinA4 */

@top-left {
display: block;
white-space: pre;
content: "Dokumenttitel \A Betreff/Projekt!"; color: red; font-size: 14pt;
}
}
```

...would be a first step.

Different formats for "Dokumenttitel" and "Betreff/Projekt!" only works with more complex workarounds.
Diffrent css for Confluence?
Asked by serc:

Hi guys,

i just have a question about Confluence and the Layout Config. The standard CSS style doesnt work, is there a Document with a special Confluence css? Or is this only my fail?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: When you add css to Confluence spaces or layouts, it is standard css, there's no "confluence variant"

comments: author: serc
body: but i never see something like this in css

```
@page {    margin: 0.5in;    padding: 1em;    @top-left    {        content: element(header);    }    @bottom-left     {        content: element(footer);    }}
```

Do you know, how i can define this "header" element?

i try it with

```
header
{
 h1. Document <br /> Title;
 font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
 font-size: 13pt; 
 background-image: url(/download/attachments/46079785/Test6.png?api=v2)
}
```

but doesnt work.


author: Steffen Heller
body: Answer to first question:

Confluence uses CSS 2.1 with a few exceptions...

see here:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/PDF-Export-Which-CSS-properties-do-work-and-which-ones-not/qaq-p/99072>

There you also find a description about how to create running headers and footers in your PDF. Search for "Anyway, in case anyone is interested in my imperfect workaround"


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5mins old saved draft
Asked by Prathap Ghorpade:

Hi all,

I was working on the flow chart and I accidentally deleted the flow char and closed the confluence page. Now if I open the same page form the draft it opens the parent file but says flowchart not found.

Is there a way I can go and get a 5mins older saved draft of the same file.

Thanks,

Prathap


Answers:
author: Sid
body: You can restore previous page versions, <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-history-and-page-comparison-views-139379.html>
I can't see the Confluence "Cog Icon" on the top left of my Confluence screen
Asked by Dev:

I am administrator and want to be able to create a Confluence security Group and have been directed to access "General Configuration" selectable from the "Cog Icon".

However, I can't see the Confluence "Cog Icon" on the top left of my Confluence screen.

I can see a cog icon on the bottom left called "Space Tools", but that has no "General Configuration" menu.

Please help


Answers:
author: Yogesh Mude
body: HI [@Dev](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2609513)

Welcome to the Community!

It means you don't have confluence admin rights. you have the specific confluence space full rights.

Please ask your confluence administrator to provide you a admin rights for confluence.

comments: author: Dev
body: Thanks Yogesh
what about Project Management
Asked by Mayra Lerma:

Is there any macro or template that could help me with project management? like assign tasks and follow the process (%, milestones, hito, etc)


Answers:
author: carolyn french
body: Hi Mayra, and welcome to Community!

I just typed out a long answer to you, but lost it :(

You can certainly use Confluence for task assigning and tracking by using the Task Report macro and Task lists.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/task-report-macro-590260009.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-assign-and-view-tasks-590260030.html>

Do you use Jira as well? There are plenty of excellent integrations between the two.

There are lots of Confluence blueprint pages out of the box like Meeting Notes, etc. to help you manage your project.

Have a look around, and ask any further specific questions you may have.

Hope this helps!

Carolyn

comments: author: Mayra Lerma
body: Thanks a lot!! It helps me a lot
Labels Heat map - Can we filter the heatmap to a specific set of pages under the selected space?
Asked by Ankush Gokarn:

I'm trying to create a section for all the team projects and want to make it easy for people to search hence using the Popular Labels - heatmap option.

The issue is that it searches across all the pages in the space whereas I would like the tag cloud to display labels only under a specific page (and its children pages for each individual project).

Is there any workaround to doing this?


Answers:
author: Rick Carini
body: There is this free plugin that might help you with this.

I would much prefer that Atlassian just acquire/purchase/license this "open source" code because I would prefer Popular Labels to work like this and my corporation is trying to reduce the number of third-party plugins that we have in our system:

* [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/582508/tagcloud-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/582508/tagcloud-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

comments: author: Rick Carini
body: Well, not free anymore :(


author: Diego
body: Hello there Ankush!

Currently this option is not available for the **Popular Labels Macro**. The macro will show all the popular macros in your instance, regardless of them being on the same page or not.

Let us know your thoughts on this.

comments: author: Administrator
body: :-(


author: Markus Besau
body: I'd like this feature as well, would help us a lot! :)


author: Iain MacGranthin
body: i am surprised there isnt more support for this - i would like it too


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Can I use @self in the Page Include Macro?
Asked by Lois Jewell:

Hi,

I'm trying to put the Page Include Macro inside a template. The documentation at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf613/include-page-macro-964960833.html> indicates that if the page resides in another space you can include the space key with a colon to identify the page you want to include eg DOC:My Page Name.

As my templates are in one space (using the Page Tree Creator plugin) and could be applied anywhere, I'd really like to be able to use @self:My Page Name ..... but this doesn't seem to be working for me.

Have I made a silly mistake somewhere? Or is it just not possible with this macro?


Answers:
author: Haran Kumar
body: Hi [@Lois Jewell](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2375994) ,   

I'm bit confused with your question.   

To create a page using template you can directly use the content in template. Why to go for page insertion into the templates.   

To make myself clear on your requirements,   

You need to create an already existing page from one page ( in different space) using template.   

<br />

One simple solution is copy contents of the required page and create a Global template, which can be used in any space.   

You can simply use the template button in any page in any page to create the required page.   

Regards.   

<br />

comments: author: Lois Jewell
body: Thanks for replying [@Haran Kumar](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1882587)

As mentioned, I'm using the Page Tree Creator plugin to generate a group of templates (ie: click once to create a page tree rather than a single page that could be a global template).

The use case was the creation of new customer on-boarding doco for a managed service. There will be some details that will be common across all customer accounts, and the concept I was trying to go for was that content like "how to log a service request" could reside in one place and be 'included' using the macro into each new customer page tree. In this way, site specific doco could be self contained for sharing with individual customers without having to be duplicated and maintained each and every time.

I was trying to work out whether the @self reference might allow the page tree template to include something like the customer's software licensing overview which resides outside the managed service page tree but would follow a consistent naming standard.

I guess I'm just getting into the realms of unnecessarily complicated :-)


author: Haran Kumar
body: [@Lois Jewell](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2375994) Got your idea. Its pretty much of one time activity that would bring ease in the process of handling documents.


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JobRunnerResponse.failed() - Does this do anything useful?
Asked by Al Johnson:

Hi,

I'm returning JobRunnerResponse.failed(e) from my JobRunner during fail conditions and while testing a fail and running a job from the Scheduled Jobs screen, I don't see the error/exception/failure indicated in the interface or in the History view. There isn't even anything logged (unless I log the exception myself in a catch).

So, what's the point returning this really? SHOULD the Scheduled Jobs screen be indicating to the user that the job failed or not?

Thanks,

Al


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Al,

I don't have a direct answer as to how the JobRunnerResponse should be presenting the results if failed. I did find some resources which discuss JobRunnerResponse along with two other developer posts which reference JobRunnerResponse.

Here are is developer information:

* <https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-scheduler/2.0.0/xref/index.html>
* [Class JobRunnerResponse](https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-scheduler/2.0.0/apidocs/com/atlassian/scheduler/JobRunnerResponse.html)

Here are the developer posts:

* [How to give administrative permission to Scheduler](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/how-to-give-administrative-permission-to-scheduler/4023)
* [Atlassian scheduler in 7.4.2 jira version not showing up right time in Scheduler details](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/atlassian-scheduler-in-7-4-2-jira-version-not-showing-up-right-time-in-scheduler-details/9823)

I hope the provided documents and posts assist with finding out how JobRunnerResponse should function.

Something to be aware of is this is a support community and not often browsed by developers. We want to ensure you get the responses and answers you need so we would suggest you check out the [Developer Community](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/). The [Developer Community](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/) may have more available resources to answer or address your developer questions.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers

comments: author: Al Johnson
body: > this is a support community and not often browsed by developers.

Well then why don't you remove the "confluence-development" tag as that only causes confusion!!!!!!!! Please god take me now!


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Extract Site Map of a Space?
Asked by Maralei Bunn:

Hi, I'm working within a Confluence Wiki space, and I see a "Reorder Pages" option under "Space Tools." Is there a way I can easily expand all page "trees" in my space and export the links as if it were a site map?


Answers:
author: Levente Szabo _Midori_
body: Hi [@Maralei Bunn](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2607570)!

As Shannon correctly said, using Better Content Archiving you can have a page tree view of your pages in your space [that looks like this.](http://www.midori-global.com/products/better-content-archiving-for-confluence/documentation/#page-status-browser)

It natively doesn't allow exporting, but I just tried and if you save the page as PDF from your browser, it saves the URLs as well.

Give it a try!

Thanks, [@Shannon S](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/510046) for mentioning [Better Content Archiving for Confluence!](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/123/better-content-archiving-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview)

comments: author: Shannon S
body: No problem, Levente, thank you for following up with us so quickly! :)   

Shannon


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Maralei,

You might be able to use one of [these Marketplace add-ons](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=server&product=confluence&query=sitemap) to generate a sitemap, but I also read somewhere that you might be able to get a similar overview by using [Archiving for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/123/better-content-archiving-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) plugin.

Have a look at those and let us know if you have any questions about them.

Regards,

Shannon


author: martin lindberg
body: Have you tried this plugin, it extracts pages from all of your spaces in a well organized way.

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221649/page-index-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221649/page-index-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

comments: author: Darline Auguste
body: Hello [@martin lindberg](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2209603), welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Please see our [Community Guidelines](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Atlassian-Community-online-guidelines-for-Marketplace-vendors/ba-p/689723), specifically:

**No necroposting:** Aka, no "raising threads from the dead." In general, avoid posting on old threads (six months or more old) simply to promote your products.

AND

**Identify yourself as a partner:** if you are mentioning your own products or services, make sure you include wording to make it clear that you are affiliated with the company providing those products or services.

There are other ways to inform members of extensions that are outlined in our guidelines and users should be made aware that you are affiliated with a partner company.

Thanks!

Darline


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