youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How can I add a color palette similar to the one on the Atlassian Design, Product > Foundations > Colors page?
Asked by Chris Aylott:

How can I add a color palette similar to the one found on the Atlassian Design, Product \> Foundations \> Colors page?

<https://design.atlassian.com/product/foundations/colors/>


Answers:
author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: If you are writing an Atlassian Connect add-on and you want to have access to all of the AUI colors then you can download them from here: [https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/aui/src/6397e72088fd24f7d56e6871e32c1f3e94200a27/src/less/imports/colors.less?at=master\&fileviewer=file-view-default](https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/aui/src/6397e72088fd24f7d56e6871e32c1f3e94200a27/src/less/imports/colors.less?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default)

comments: author: Wouter de Vries
body: I think the question is how can I create a page similar to the colors page on my confluence installation without having to write my own add-on.


author: Steve Behnke [DiscoverEquip.com]
body: Well, you probably can't on Confluence Cloud. What are you looking for?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Slack for Confluence Cloud
Asked by Alexander Nagl:

Hey,

will this add-on be available for Confluence Cloud too?  
<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.madein49.slack-for-confluence/server/support>

Kind regards,  
Alex


Answers:
author: Ben Romberg - codefortynine
body: The Cloud version of Slack for Confluence is now available on the [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.madein49.slack-for-confluence/cloud/).


author: Ben Romberg - codefortynine
body: We're working on it!


author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: I created an issue for you here: <https://bitbucket.org/madein49/slack-for-confluence/issues/1/request-make-a-cloud-version-of-this-add>

This type of question is better to ask the add-on vendor directly. :smile:


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: More a case of "if". If the vendor wants to write a Connect version of the add-on, then you'll be able to use that (Connect and type-2 add-ons are very different things)

Hopefully they'll tell us here that they're working on it!


Tags: addon-com.madein49.slack-for-confluence

cloud

confluence-cloud
How to filter mails from Questions for Confluence in my inbox?
Asked by Diogyn:

I would like to filter all mails sent by the Questions for Confluence system to a separate folder in my inbox, but the sender is the same as any other confluence mail. Is there a way to tell them apart in mail filters?

I use Thunderbird, but steps for other mail clients are welcome for other users.


Answers:
author: Anne EQS
body: Filter for subject starting with

\[Atlassian Answers\]

comments: author: Diogyn
body: Yes, thanks.

We used these filters to get all the mails:

"Stop watching this question"

"Answer this question"

"Watch this question"


Tags: questions-for-confluence
How to use custom CSS?
Asked by Lewis Smith:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Getting Help and Support](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=590259859)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Add the css to the page or space you need.

comments: author: Lewis Smith
body: Ok, sorry for being very new to this product with very little time to get-up-to-speed. I want to specifically customize the "Space" including the default header and navigation, so that all pages in the space adhere to the custom UI. Also, I will need to customize individual page content and would like to do all of this by linking to a custom.css file.

Thanks


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's quite a powerful system with a lot of tricks and nuances. As a new starter, it's hard to find a lot of it because there's so much. When you're experienced with it though, although it might not be hard to guess what people might think they want when they ask a short question, it's quite hard to work out what they really need to do! So it's a difficult question on both sides!

For the styling of a space, start with a look at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/styling-confluence-with-css-166528400.html> - you can apply the css quite easily, but it's done in-line, not from a file. If you want to store it in files, it's going to get difficult, because you'll need to embed them in the application.  

Page css is a different matter - it's a lot harder, and you have to mess around tricking Confluence into doing it at the right place. Obviously, pages take their css from their space, so where possible, do it in there. I'm not sure how to do pages, I've always run away screaming, unless I've got an add-on like the Theme Builder that can do stuff at that level (and even then, that was actually at a theme level and controlled with labels or page types rather than page specific)


author: Lewis Smith
body: Excellent! This is a good starting point for me. I will certainly be able to do most of it at the space level, but will have some unique page content that will need a few page level classes. Thanks for this feedback.

Thanks
adding line spaces
Asked by Dane Winchester:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [The Editor](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724764836)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Hi! If you're your looking to enter a *line break* instead of a full paragraph, you can press **`Shift` + `Enter`**to obtain a new line.

If you're looking to control whitespace via *spaces* , you're option is to use the `preformatted` text option, in the upper left --   
image2016-4-15 11:35:3.png

```
This gives you full   white   space       control    in        terms     of s p   a  c e s
```

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/adding-line-spaces/qaq-p/410511?attachment-id=5971){#link_1190c5a59901a2}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/69472/1/image2016-4-15%2011%3A35%3A3.png){#display_1190c5a59901a2_0}


Tags: cloud

editor
upgrade of atlassian products
Asked by Tet Cheng Chia:

Hi,

I have some Atlassian software which I need to upgrade:

* Confluence (5.4.2)
* JIRA (5.1)
* Crowd (2.3.6)

As they are EOL, I need to upgrade all of them but instead of upgrading all of them in one big bang, I would like to do it piece-meal eg. Upgrade Confluence first, then wait for a run-in of 2 weeks to debug any issues that arise, then upgrade JiRA, wait for 2 weeks then CROWD or any other sequence. Currently Confluence and JIRA is getting their identity management via CROWD.

I would like to upgrade all of them to the latest version but I worry that by doing it piecemeal, there may be breakage between CROWD and the rest due to incompatibility (eg CROWD 2.3.6 cannot communicate with Confluence 5.9 etc.

<br />

Can someone advise if I can do the upgrade in a piece-meal manner or should I follow any sequence?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Athirah Zolkefli
body: Hi Tet Cheng Chia,

Based on the Atlassian documentation, the compatibility between Crowd/Confluence and Crowd/JIRA enables you to upgrade in a piece-meal manner, as you've described.

* Confluence 3.5 and above is [compatible](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Integrating+Crowd+with+Atlassian+Confluence#IntegratingCrowdwithAtlassianConfluence-CompatibilityofConfluenceandCrowdVersions) with Crowd 2.1 or later.
* JIRA 4.3 and above is [compatible](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Integrating+Crowd+with+Atlassian+JIRA#IntegratingCrowdwithAtlassianJIRA-CompatibilityofJIRAandCrowdVersions) with Crowd 2.1 or later.

Should the upgrades cause you any issues, don't hesitate to contact Atlassian Support and we will do our best to help you out. :smile:

Hope the information above is useful to you!

Regards,  
Athirah Zolkefli


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I make a template available in multiple spaces?
Asked by Joe Ruggero:

When creating a template in a space, how can I make that template available in another space? Also so that when I edit the template in one space it updates the template in the other spaces?


Answers:
author: Nelson Carranza
body: Hi Joe,

You need a global template

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/page-templates-724764985.html>

Regards

Nelson


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi Joe,

Have a look at our Add-on Page Tree Creator. The PTC-templates are based on normal confluence pages and can be used on any space. Best practice would be to place PTC-buttons in the spaces; like that your users simply press the button, filling out the form and the page / page tree gets created.

**[Marketplace link: Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)**

Regards,  
Stephan


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to get extract page hits,users for all pages in a particular space from confluence db ?
Asked by Komail Badami:

I need to get historical data from my confluence installation say 6 months earlier. I have access to the confluence mysql db, but can't seem to know which table has the required information, I am not even sure if the information i want is actually stored in the db. Is there anyway I can retrieve this data ?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Have you enabled the Confluence statistics add-on (it's off by default as it can cause performance issues), or used a 3rd party add-on for the tracking?

comments: author: Komail Badami
body: I forgot to add that I don't have the confluence statistics add-on enabled or have a 3rd party add-on for tracking. Is it possible to merely query the db and get the data I want ?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What data? You haven't enabled any tracking, so there's nothing tracked.


Tags: confluence-administration

database

track
JSON syntax highlighting in confluence code block
Asked by Khun Ivan:

How i can make JSON syntax highlighting in confluence in code block?


Answers:
author: Nar Kumar C. - Narva Software
body: There is custom code syntax highlighter for Confluence Cloud <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219685/code-syntax-highlighter>

It supports more than 300 programming languages and text formats including JSON.

*Note: I am add-on developer.*


author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: Sounds like what you need is a Better Code Macro for Confluence Cloud: <https://cloud-code-macro.atlassian.io/redirect/install>

I wrote this add-on and I think it's pretty cool! Let me know what you think.

comments: author: William Carr
body: It is pretty cool but the preview does not work. I'm able to add "better code block" macros but when I hit preview in my Confluence document I briefly see a waiting gear where the better code block macros are but then I see nothing in the place where the waiting gears were. If I hit save I see the code blocks rendered as expected.


author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: Oh, that's not good. I raised an issue to look into that: <https://bitbucket.org/robertmassaioli/cloud-code-macro/issues/3/preview-not-showing-content>


author: Munish Desai
body: Can this macro be installed on Confluence server?

Also, it seems that the default code macro doesn't display the color highlighting when used in Questions. Why would this be? Isn't it the same code macro in both the page editor and Questions editor?

How does one make a new macro appear in the macro browser when trying to insert code in Questions? Only the default code macro appears.


author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: This add-on is only available for Atlassian Cloud. Sorry.

In questions you should be able to start with the { character to load macros.


author: Robert Galovic
body: I wrote a brush for JSON for the code macro - see here (just c\&p):  

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/how-to-highlight-JSON/qaq-p/285735>


author: Mayur Jain
body: ```
{

}
```


author: Marcel Nick
body: We have developed a [Confluence macro](https://goo.gl/wUNzyK) which provides syntax highlighting for JSON Objects .


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

json

syntax-highlighting
Publishing content
Asked by Ashish Khabde:

Hi,

I would like to know how can i publish content. I want the help file to look similar to the confluence help. Where there is a drop down available for Variant and the Version.


Answers:
author: Monique Khairuliana
body: do you mean something like the functionality that this plugin provides?:

* <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions/server/overview>

image2016-6-13 23:19:11.png

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Publishing-content/qaq-p/143163?attachment-id=7951){#link_11870a28696b3c}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/23828/1/image2016-6-13%2023%3A19%3A11.png){#display_11870a28696b3c_0}


author: Josefin Klang
body: Hi, I would also like to get a step-by-step procedure for publishing different versions including variants,, can someone provide that? Thanks.


author: Ashish Khabde
body: Yes, i would like to publish using scroll versions as the plugin provides. Can you help me with the step by step procedure.


Tags: confluence-administration
User macro prompt for input
Asked by Kristjan Kullerkann:

Hello

I have wrote a simple user macro. Can I somehow make the macro prompt the user for input into parameter?

They currently have to double-click on macro after inserting it.

To clarify my issue I would like to make my macro behave as is behaving "Include Page" which automatically prompts for input when selected by user (via shourtcut e.g "{").

Thanks for any help! :smile:


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you make a property required in the user macro it will pop up the properties window after the user embeds it into the page. If no properties are required it will just keep you in the page editor.
export PDF jira macro
Asked by Jonathan B:

Exporting a page to PDF in Confluence 5.9.7 and pages with JIRA Macro are rendering as URLs instead of the chart(s). Is this by 'design' or is there a work around?

image2016-4-14 20:42:25.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/export-PDF-jira-macro/qaq-p/285414?attachment-id=5635){#link_11870a4880f111}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/48386/1/image2016-4-14%2020%3A42%3A25.png){#display_11870a4880f111_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/export-PDF-jira-macro/qaq-p/285414?attachment-id=5636){#link_11870a4880f111_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/48386/2/TEK-TSJI-StatusReport-150416-0926-23.pdf){#display_11870a4880f111_2}


Answers:
author: Jonathan B
body: It is the "issue statistics" gadget: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/adding-the-issue-statistics-gadget-185729546.html>

Other gadgets work ok.

Did find this that appears to point to an issue:<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-17953>


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Can you show me, in the editor, what Macro you are using?


author: Jonathan B
body: The same happens with Word export. I am assuming this is due to the way the page renders the script.


Tags: confluence-administration
team calendar task how to synchronize
Asked by Jurij Ivastsuk-Kienbaum:


Answers:
author: Jurij Ivastsuk-Kienbaum
body: How can I synchronize due dates of several tasks with team calendar? The main goal, two steps: 1. define a task 2. add this task to the team calendar, consolidate to one step: define a task (this task is automatically linked into the team calendar.
remove row in confluence not working
Asked by Andrew Cohen:

Hi, I have a table which won't let me remove any rows. I have 2 other tables in the same document from which I can delete rows with no problem, but for one table, whenever I click the delete-row button, it doesn't do anything. Anyone come across this before? Any workarounds?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: I would start by redoing the table as they sometimes get horked:

Click-drag select all the data in the table and copy, then insert a 1x1 cell table and paste.


author: Andrew Cohen
body: Selecting multiple rows and pressing delete on my keyboard sort of works -- it leaves a couple rows behind, and even after repeated tries I can never get rid of the last row. The delete row button still not working on this one table.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
adjust livesearch width in sidebar
Asked by Dmitry Ree:

is it possible to adjust livesearch width as sometimes to fit sidebar width?

image2016-4-15 9:54:51.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/adjust-livesearch-width-in-sidebar/qaq-p/54798?attachment-id=10670){#link_11870a934a591f}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/9238/1/image2016-4-15%209%3A54%3A51.png){#display_11870a934a591f_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/adjust-livesearch-width-in-sidebar/qaq-p/54798?attachment-id=10671){#link_11870a934a591f_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/9238/2/image2016-4-15%209%3A54%3A21.png){#display_11870a934a591f_2}


Answers:
author: Dmitry Ree
body: Confluence server, just go to sidebar configuration and add wiki markup for the live search macro


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Can you show me how you've added the livesearch macro to the sidebar? Can you tell me if you're using Confluence Server or the Atlassian Confluence Cloud product?


Tags: live-search

side-bar
chrome version 50 confluence editor footer size
Asked by Keith Weinheimer:

this is very similar to the issue years ago

I have confirmed this on multiple computers, when chrome updates to version 50 the footer takes up over half the page

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/editor-window-is-small-when-using-google-chrome-365003598.html>

Confluence_Edit Screen Issue_Chrome.png

we are on confluence version 5.7.4

are others seeing this issue?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/chrome-version-50-confluence-editor-footer-size/qaq-p/245227?attachment-id=11894){#link_11870aaa901ef0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/41476/1/Confluence_Edit%20Screen%20Issue_Chrome.png){#display_11870aaa901ef0_0}


Answers:
author: Doug Swartz
body: Yes. I just caused a chrome update to test this. This is amazingly unusable ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

Confluence 5.8.6

Chrome Version 50.0.2661.75 m


author: Madhav Kompella
body: The CSS solution provided on:  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-41035>  
worked for us - that way, each user doesn't have to use the JS-based solution provided above. We are using Confluence version 5.4.4


author: JulioV
body: Can confirm this issue can be reproduced with Chrome v50.0.2661.75 and Confluence Server 5.5.3 and the css workaround provided in the KB article above does not fix.


author: Michelle Bachmann
body: Confirmed this happened on Confluence 5.7. I had Chrome version 49.x. When I upgraded to version 50.x to test the user-reported issue, the error occurred.


author: Roman Kirilenko
body: Latest Chrome update is sucks. But our team saved a lot of time with the [InPlace Editor for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.extra.cipe/server/overview) today.


author: Yuri Orlov
body: BTW, there is a [cool add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.extra.cipe/server/overview) that solves this problem too


author: Patrick Farnan
body: I've ran into same issue. As an interim solution if you save this as a bookmark:

Name: Resize

URL: javascript:$("#editpageform").height($(window).height()-45);

Then you can just click it to resize it quickly

comments: author: Michelle Bachmann
body: This works! Thank you so much.


author: Vadim Rutkevich
body: The same sh\*t :smile:


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Team Permissions and Cross Team sharing
Asked by Jeremy Scott:

We have five or more teams that are creating internal documentation that need to be isolated from each other normally secure documentation. There are times where one team would like to share pages with another team but not the others for certain team collaborative projects. What is the best way to accomplish this in Confluence? Some teams members are having difficulty collaborating with others because they can't share an article they created. When they try to share it, the link is dead first because of space permissions or page restrictions. When a page is moved to allow others to see it, the organization of the spaces become unorganized. There doesn't seem to be a way to structure the permissions for exceptions such as these either within the space permissions or the page permissions. Both are either too open or too restrictive especially when trying to keep organization of pages together.

Anybody have any ideas or best practices for this?


Answers:
author: Rebecca M.
body: Maybe create a separate space for collaboration? Then, those pages that need to be shared can be copied from the restricted space to the collaboration one. This would leave the organization on the restricted spaces intact.

One issue may be how restricted the shared page still needs to be - i.e., Team 1 needs to share with Team 2 but doesn't want Team 3 to see it.


Tags: collaboration

confluence-administration

permission

security

team
Confluence - I need to format fixed width text
Asked by dan lem:

I need fixed width text, with indentation, and I need to be able to highlight specific parts.

I always need to format this text elsewhere, like Word, and then paste a screenshot of that text into Confluence. I wish I could simply do this in Confluence but I just can't figure out how. We are using Confluence 5.8.10.

This is exactly what I need:

a picture of text.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-I-need-to-format-fixed-width-text/qaq-p/295160?attachment-id=491){#link_1190c7c68f609e}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/49970/1/a%20picture%20of%20text.png){#display_1190c7c68f609e_0}


Answers:
author: Nick Reilingh
body: I don't believe this is possible out of the box. My approach would be to use the code macro and add line comments to flag out the important highlighted parts. (You might think about creating an enhancement request for the code macro for this feature.) There may also be plugins available that provide the editor with this capability.

comments: author: Steven F Behnke
body: He could add his own "syntax brush" for custom highlighting using the Code macro, that's a real good suggestion.