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Does Confluence Cloud now include the option to disable email notifications when pages are edited?
Asked by tstout:

Since Atlassian is making a push for customers to move to Confluence Cloud, is/will there be an option to disable all email notifications. My understanding is this can only be done in the Server and Data Center versions of Confluence.


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi there,

In Confluence Server and Data Center, you may be aware that the "Notify watchers" checkbox remembers the last setting you used for it. If you had it unchecked the last time you saved a page, it will remain unchecked the next time you edit a page. Additionally, many administrators have installed the [No Email Storm](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/42684/no-email-storm?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview) app which adds a "Save \& Notify" button next to the Save button and allows you to choose which button is defaulted.

In Confluence Cloud, the new editor replaces the checkbox with an option called "Publish without notifying watchers":

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/115209i8E8DC2E8903F896E/image-dimensions/416x278?v=v2 "image.png")

On a personal level, users can opt out of some notifications from the Email section of their own settings in Confluence. [Information about what notifications can be disabled on a per-person basis is available here.](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/subscribe-to-email-notifications/)

In terms of disabling email system-wide in Confluence Cloud, that's not something administrators can do. Confluence does need to send email for things like page access requests - disabling system-wide would cause issues in that regard. Tuning at an individual level like turning off Autowatch is the safe approach.

Cheers,  
Daniel


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Agile Retrospective not working when space/page is retricted. How can I solve this?
Asked by Denise Wrathall:

Hi There,

My team and I have been trying to get out Agile Retro up and running, however every time we try to make it editable only for a specific group of people, the retro disappears.

Why is this happening? Is there a way around this?

Please HELP!!


Answers:
author: Denise Wrathall
body: Hi Nicolas,

It's called Agile Retrospective and it's a macro option for confluence pages. As you can see from the screenshots, the retrospective can be seen when there are no restrictions applied for users, whereas, when I do set the page up with restrictions, the retrospective disappears for every user.

comments: author: Nicolas Casel
body: Hi Denise,

I can't see your screenshots, are you sure you had uploaded them?


author: Nicolas Casel
body: Hi Denise,

What do you mean by "Agile Retro"? Is it a page template (with prefilled macros and contents)?

And what do you mean by "the retro disappears"? Please post screenshots.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
disable self registration on confluence
Asked by Sel:

On the login page, we want to remove the "sign up for an account" option. we cannot find this option anywhere which is crazy???


Answers:
author: Monique Khairuliana[ServiceRocket]
body: Do you mean the login page on <https://id.atlassian.com/> ? I don't think that page can be changed. Clicking that link will prompt people to create an *Atlassian Account,*and not creating an account to your Site.

comments: author: Sel
body: Yes that's the page.

We have a site where we want several users to share the same login details. Someone within the group couldn't remember the login details but managed to change the user name and password to the account.

Actually, I have just looked at the page again and what you have said is correct. So I'm confused as to how they changed the user name and password when I'm sure we've locked these down?


author: Monique Khairuliana[ServiceRocket]
body: Hmm.. I think people can change usernames (email address) of their account by accessing <https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/email>. Changing password is somewhere there as well. But to access that page, people should know the account's password.


author: Sel
body: Mmmmmm you are right because I had to go to the link above to restore the user profile to the one I created. Given that they (all the users) had the same email address and password, it can easily be changed by any of them. Is there no way of restricting that on an account?


author: Monique Khairuliana[ServiceRocket]
body: Natively, I don't think there's a restriction to do that, but if the account is google managed account (such as enterprise Google account) then the Change Email option on this page (<https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/email>) is disabled. Hope that helps!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to include footer in PDF exports?
Asked by Travis Christianson:

Hello. How can I include a global footer to all PDF page exports? I have a footer added to **Space Settings** \> **Header and footer** \> **Footer** and it appears on each page. Howevever, when I export a page as PDF the footer disappears.


Answers:
author: Vinod Ramadoss
body: Hi Travis,

I suppose this is because

* PDF customization only applies to space exports (not single page exports via **Tools** \> **Export to PDF**)

For more details - <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/customize-exports-to-pdf/>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confiforms, numeric data based on currency
Asked by Alberto Corominas:

Hi,

I need to define a field like currency, for example:

123.456,12 ?

1.200,00 ?

6,2 ?

I hace tried a lot of test, but I dont know how work with this fields.

Its possible?

Thx


Answers:
author: Alberto Corominas
body: HI,  
the final solution has been using the field as a currency, which provides the functionality of displaying the data that has already been correctly formatted. You can also play with the masks, but the currency has been enough.  
A great pluggin


Tags: confiforms

field

number
incoming-links filter by labels
Asked by Rafal Niznik:

I have created following

## @noparams  
#foreach ($link in $action.getIncomingLinks())  
\<a href="$link.getSourceContent().getUrlPath()"\>$link.getSourceContent().getTitle()\</a\>  
\<br\>  
#end

This code is placed on some website and it shows all incoming-links.  
The problem is that this code shows all incoming-links

My Question:

Is there a way to filter incoming-links by labels ?   
Maybe someone knows how to place incoming-links inside Content by Label' Macro so labels can be applied ?  

<br />

Thanks,

Rafal


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Rafal Niznik](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/785756) !  
Upon reading the *AbstractLink Class* document, I saw the getSourceContent method. It returns an object of the *ContentEntityObject* type. This type, in return, has the getLabels method inherited from *com.atlassian.confluence.core.AbstractLabelableEntityObject.*

You judging by this, you should be able to use the getLabels to work with the labels for that object.
> * ++***[\[Confluence Server Javadoc\] Class ContentEntityObject](https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/javadoc/7.1.0/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ContentEntityObject.html)***++

However, seeing that Velocity has different contexts, I believe that this documentation may come in handy:
> * [++***\[Atlassian Developer\] Confluence Server - Confluence objects accessible from Velocity***++](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-objects-accessible-from-velocity/)

Here you can also check the extra objects that are available for user macros in Confluence Server:
> * *++**[\[Confluence Server\] User Macro Template Syntax](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/user-macro-template-syntax-223906130.html)**++*

I would also like to point out that our sister community, the Developer Community may be better equipped to deal with this kind of development for Confluence! You can take a look here:
> * [++***\[Atlassian Developer Community\] Confluence Development***++](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/c/Confluence)

Let us hear from you!


Tags: confluence-server

server
I'm getting browser not supported, but it is not allowing me to choose a different one.
Asked by inHANCE Help:

I attempted to log in, it defaulted to Explorer 11, got browser not supported message, but it does not allow me to choose a new option. How do I resolve the "browser not supported" message? When I attempt to log in, now, it just displays that message.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@inHANCE Help](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4098697) !

You are receiving this message because, recently, Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) stopped being supported by Atlassian applications.

You can check more details about it here:
> * [++***\[Atlassian Community\] Retiring IE11 support for Atlassian cloud, server, and data center products***++](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Feedback-Forum-articles/Retiring-IE11-support-for-Atlassian-cloud-server-and-data-center/ba-p/1185312)

For you to use another browser, you will need to install any of the supported browsers on your system if they are not already installed. Here is a list of the supported browsers:
> * [++***\[Atlassian Cloud Support\] Supported Browsers***++](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/supported-browsers-744721663.html)

If you are unable to install a new browser due to company policies and restrictions, you may need to contact your company system administrator.

There is also a chance that you currently already have another browser installed but the default one is Internet Explorer 11 still. Here is how you can change the default browser on Windows 10:
> * [++***\[Microsoft Support\] Change your default browser in Windows 10***++](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-your-default-browser-in-windows-10-020c58c6-7d77-797a-b74e-8f07946c5db6)

If you do not have enough permissions to do this in your system, you will also need to contact your company System Administrator.

Let us hear from you!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why are New Relic dashboard URLs getting blocked in my Confluence pages?
Asked by Sarah Holdgrafer:

My support team requested we add links to our New Relic dashboards in a few Confluence pages for easier access, but each time I try to add them Confluence will not save the URL if I attempt to embed it into text. Once I save the page, the link displays as "http://#"

It looks like I can add it correctly if it's just the naked URL, but it's a very long URL and I'd rather not do that if possible. Any ideas why this might be happening?


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Sarah,

I've tested this behavior and unfortunately found it to be an identified bug: [CONFCLOUD-69852](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-69852) . As you noted, pasting the long URL without trying to make existing text into a link seems to work correctly. I've added some notes to this issue that should help our development team solve the problem. I'd recommend watching the linked issue above in order to get updates about the progress of the bug. Thanks for noting this, as your question helped improve the bug report.

Cheers,  
Daniel \| Atlassian Support

comments: author: Sarah Holdgrafer
body: Excellent. Thanks for your reply!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I find the statistics of how many times a user has accessed Confluence and to which sections
Asked by Ana Z:

I have different users accessing Confluence and need to know if there is any kind of statistics created, so I can find out how many times a user has accessed and where in the range of dates I determine.

Can someone help, please?


Answers:
author: Nicolas Casel
body: You could use the 'Reporting' plugin:

<https://docs.servicerocket.com/reporting/user-guides/basic-tutorials/showing-a-list-of-active-users>

By digging into its set of macros, you should find how to get such statistics.

comments: author: Ana Z
body: Thank you!
Analytics cockpit
Asked by Gerald MURIEL:

We just upgraded to 7.8.0. If I uninstall viewtracker plugin and disable Global activity, Will analytics cockpit give me the same results?


Answers:
author: Sloan
body: Hi Gerald

If you disable or uninstall Viewtracker you will have no longer Acess to the Analytics Cockpit via the administration. But the data stays unchanged in the database.

Please note that global activity and Viewtracker are in no way linked and both use their own technics to track page views.

Contact support.bitvoodoo.ch should you have any need for support regarding Viewtracker - Analytics for Confluence.

Cheers  
Nick

comments: author: Gerald MURIEL
body: Thanks for confirming.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Table Transformer Macro - If else condition
Asked by Shathya Bhama V R:

I am using confluence to track the risks and the table has these columns:

1. Risk Detail
2. Open Date
3. Status - (Open/Closed)
4. Closed Date
5. Aging (in days)
6. Remarks

I am calculating the aging by using the below query for the open issues.

SELECT \*, ROUND(DATEDIFF(day,'Open Date',CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))+ " day(s)" as 'Aging' from T1

For the closed issues, I need to find the elapsed time between Open and Closed dates.

So can someone help me to construct the query to check **if the status is closed** then use this query

SELECT \*, ROUND(DATEDIFF(day,'Open Date',CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))+ " day(s)" as 'Aging' from T1

Else

SELECT \*, ROUND(DATEDIFF(day,'Open Date','Closed Date'))+ " day(s)" as 'Aging' from T1


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@Shathya Bhama V R](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4131249) ,

You may try the following SQL queries:

**Option 1**

SELECT \*,

CASE WHEN T1.'Status' LIKE "Closed"

THEN ROUND(DATEDIFF(day,'Open Date','Closed Date'))+ " day(s)"

ELSE

ROUND(DATEDIFF(day,'Open Date',CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))+ " day(s)"

END

as 'Aging' from T1

**Option 2**

SELECT \*,

CASE WHEN T1.'Status' LIKE "Open"

THEN ROUND(DATEDIFF(day,'Open Date',CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))+ " day(s)"

WHEN T1.'Status' LIKE "Closed"

THEN ROUND(DATEDIFF(day,'Open Date','Closed Date'))+ " day(s)"

END

as 'Aging' from T1

![TT 3.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/114947i58656096DC52FC13/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "TT 3.png")


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Add Edit permissions for a restricted page
Asked by Alessio Tedesco:

Hi, I need to add a user to view and edit a restricted page in a space where he has no access.

There are no permissions set for this user at the space level, but I need him to have the ability to viewe and modify a specific restricted page.

If I add him with view permissions, looks like there are no issues; if I set him with Edit permissions, this appears(look screenshot_1)![screenshot_1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/114906iADA398B59888154D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "screenshot_1.png")  

<br />

I can't add him at the space level with view all, because he would start seeing all the pages in that space and I don't want this.

![screenshot_2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/114908iF31BA3691A689346/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "screenshot_2.png")

If I try to set it like screenshot_2, then the user disappears at individual permissions (space level)

Can you please provide me a solution to this


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: To do it "properly", this user needs to be able to see the page. That means you will need to add them to the "view" permission for the space.

There are a couple of ways to "cheat" if you really don't want to give them the access they need.

* Move the page to a place they can edit, let them edit, then move it back.
* Change the page so that it uses "include" for the part(s) of the page that they need to edit, put the page that your include uses in a space where they can see and edit them (as can the other people in this space)


author: Alessio Tedesco
body: Thanks for the clarification but this is a strong limitation.  

It is really against least privilege methodology, Devs from Atlassian should re-think about this.


author: Nicolas Casel
body: I confirm what [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) is saying: first of all, the user must be allowed to access the space. This is kind of a consequence of the 'wiki philosophy' based on **openness and collaboration**.

So, you need to consider the 'Restriction' feature in this way:

* by default, you grant permission to the **whole wiki (all the pages)** = if a user is granted access, s/he can access to the whole wiki
* then, for a specific page, you **add a restriction** = only one or some users / groups (that you select) can access (only reading or editing) to this specific page. If you limit the **reading ("View")** to certain users, all other users will **NO** longer be allowed to access to **this specific page and its child pages**
* and based on **group permissions**, you can limit what actions users can do (e.g. delete pages, change labels, etc.) in the whole space


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

permission
How to monitor success of LDAP synch
Asked by Seamus Shortall:

We need to be get an automated notification from Confkuence (SErver) whe the LDAP synchronisation fails.

We recently had login issses caused by errors in our Active Directory. The resolution was to fix the data in AD.

We pursued various avenues of investigation, including cookie-handling and browser settings. But, it was not until we inspected the directory configuration pages in Confluence that we saw a message indicating the the synchronisation had failed. Inspecting the server log led us to identify the corrupt AD entry that caused the failure.

Resolution would have been quicker if we had known earlier that the synch had failed.

Is there a way to have Conflunce send us an e-mail when this happsns, or is their a reliable log in Confluence where we can detect the failure (e.g. using Nagios?


Answers:
author: Daniel Ebers
body: Hi Seamus,

I understood you want to know when a LDAP sync fails before the first users are calling in.  
As far as I know there is no monitoring that would provide that but I think your approach is pretty good.  
You said you spotted the problem through logs - I'd recommend to note the exact error message and establish some sort of monitoring (and be it log file parsing) on this error.  
Surely, there could be plenty of several error messages - which you do not capture by monitoring for the single one you saw lately but it should be a good start.

I am not aware of many users that monitor for a failed LDAP sync but from my opinion it is advisable to spend time into a monitoring - should keep users happy ;)

Cheers,  
Daniel


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence - filter results macro with non standard JIRA field
Asked by Siw Kathrine Tokle:

Seems to be an issue with the filter results macro.

The dropdown list of filters are not visible and when adding fields for the results that are non standard in JIRA they do not show in the list.

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/114880i9540A319E01BF2B2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Siw Kathrine Tokle](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2763385) !

I believe that you are affected by the bug described here:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Filter result macro doesn't respond to certain fields***++](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-70878)

This bug explains that the Filter Results macro does not play well with certain field from Jira and ends up working as expected.

Currently, there is no workaround for this situation. The best course of action would be to vote and watch the report.

Let us hear from you!

comments: author: Siw Kathrine Tokle
body: Thank you Diego, I have voted and hope that priority will be given this issue shortly.


author: Daniel Salvat
body: Hi!

Do you know if that affects all kind of Custom Field types? Can I use a type that actually works with this?

Best regards,

Daniel


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

filter
How can I limit the ability to modify a checkbox on a Confluence page?
Asked by Danno:

I tried to create a fillable checklist in confluence. Unfortunately setting the page restrictions so that all can view and only some can edit does not prevent others from modifying the checkboxes. Even view only permission allows someone to check/uncheck the boxes. Is there a way to prevent this?


Answers:
author: Jen
body: May I ask what is the goal you're trying to achieve? We've adapted all sorts of workflows, due to the functional limitations. Perhaps I could suggest a work around?

comments: author: Danno
body: Hi Jen,

Thank you for replying. I was trying to use checkboxes where the document creator could check them off and still allow other people to view it while it was in progress but not be able to uncheck items. Setting the permissions to the page to keep others from editing doesn't lock out the checkboxes. Viewers can check or uncheck at any time.

Unfortunately, I am not able to acquire a lot of add-ons to my system nor am I a good enough programmer to build my own.


author: Danno
body: Jen, I just realized you mentioned workflows in your answer. If there is a way to implement some sort of tie in via Jira workflows to Confluence I'm all ears.


author: Sven Schatter _Lively Apps_
body: Hi [@Danno](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1287831),

Unfortunately, Confluence Tasks don't come with any permission system. An\< user can check or uncheck them, there's no way to configure this.

Cheers,  
Sven

comments: author: Danno
body: Thanks for answering. I think what I have to do is make the actual checklist totally private to the user who created it and then "publish" a PDF version of it for others to view.


author: Xandra Volkmann
body: Dear all, I am facing the same issue you described here. Is there still no possibility in place to permit check or uncheck of the boxes? I am hoping that now (almost 4 years later ;-)) something was implemented to improve this issue?

Thanks

Xandra


Tags: checkbox

cloud

confluence-cloud
When a change is made to a roadmap, can the email notification include a link, not source code?
Asked by Michelle.Bridges:

I'm watching a page which includes a roadmap. When changes are made to the roadmap, the email notification displays the source code, which can be quite lengthy and meaningless. I can see why this would happen but is annoying from an end-user's perspective. Is there a way to configure this to just send the View Page link, if nothing else?

Many thanks

Michelle


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Michelle.Bridges](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4044571)

This has long been a known problem and still no fix, but here is the issue:

* Cloud: [CONFCLOUD-36732](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-36732)
* Server: [CONFSERVER-36732](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-36732)

You can only vote for this issue.

Regards, Dominic

comments: author: Michelle.Bridges
body: Thanks Dominic. I have added my vote.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

roadmap