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Is there a way to export a page properties report to Excel?
Asked by Natalie S_:

Is there a way to export a page properties report to Excel?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: No, but you could export it to Word and then copy and paste it into Excel from Word.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: I have created a browser bookmarklet that will allow you to create CSV files from an HTML table. It should work on pretty much any web page ... including Confluence. All you have to do is drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar in your browser and then on your Confluence page click the bookmarklet. It will then create a link right before each table on you page that says Export to CSV. If you click that link it will prompt you where to save the CSV file and then you can open it in Excel and do what you want with it.<http://iamdav.in/2014/10/24/bookmarklet-creating-csv-html-table>


author: Satish Bhandari
body: Thanks,

This captures only the content on the page, not the whole report.

The default "export to word" feature export full report (in the non-deployed paginated views).

As the eventual target is Excel, is there any third party plug-in available to do so, even a paid one?


author: Anna Dziuba?ska
body: try this: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

exports to csv fine, but when in use it freezes your table for editing (you have to remove the filter from the page to be able to edit the table)


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@Satish Bhandari](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2442249) ,

You may try the [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app.

Use the filtration button at the top right corner of your page

![Mon 4-3.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/119371iA10233D2827E377C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 4-3.png")or go to the editor and manually wrap your Page Properties Report macro in the [Table Filter](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Filter+macro) macro:

![Mon 4-2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/119372i9EF2850A7C322088/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 4-2.png")Now you'll be able to [export](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+export+macros+and+results) the whole report or the filtered report to the CSV format:

![Mon 4-1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/119373i9BA561DBDC7CE72A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 4-1.png")You'll be able to export manually created tables as well.

[@Anna Dziuba?ska](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4169865) , please raise a support ticket if you have any problems with the Table Filter macro. It shouldn't prevent editing, you don't need to remove the macro if you need to edit cells and add/remove table rows.
Share a single page to my lawyer
Asked by Ronald Diqu?lou:

Hello,

I have a space to manage my paperwork. I want to give access to my lawyer to help me edit a single document.

If I understood, I can give access to my lawyer to all of this space. However I do not want him to look the rest of my documents.

I want to give him access to change only one page.   
How can I do?

thank you


Answers:
author: Gorka Puente _Appfire_
body: Hi Ronald Diqu?lou,

We've just released the new version of [Share Attachments and Pages](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.keinoby.confluence.plugins.share-attachments), which allows you send individual pages without giving access to the rest of your Confluence instance. It's actually like dropbox, you can generate unique links to your pages or attachments.

Check it out and send us feedback!

Cheers,

Gorka


author: Ronald Diqu?lou
body: Thank you for your reply. That's what I thought. It's really not practical.

It would be interesting to have the opportunity to share a page to an external person. Much like you can do with Dropbox or equivalent.


author: Branno
body: Howdy Ronald!

Space permissions take priority over page restirctions. If a user does not have view permissions on the space, Confluence will not render any pages in the space per [Giving People Access to Content](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Giving+People+Access+to+Content). You do have options:

* Give the user permissions to the space, and then restrict all other pages except the one you want them to view (time and labor intensive)
* Create a new space that the user has permission to view, and make a copy of the page you want them to edit and move it into this new space
  * Once the changes are done, you can take the contents of this page and put it into the original page

Hopefully this was helpful.

Regards,

Stephen Brannen \| Confluence Support

comments: author: Guy Burroughes
body: Wow, that is clunky!


author: Alejandro Clerici
body: Why it's so difficult to share a page!! please review this...


author: vtecnica
body: its a joke...something so basic and not possible.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to make Confluence desktop site default for mobile
Asked by Rand McKinney:

We have a Confluence documentation site, and we would like the default mobile view to be the desktop site. Is that possible?

I tried just disabling the Confluence Mobile Plugin, but then on a mobile device the site just displays a lot of gobbledygook characters.

I realize I can install a plugin for this, but it seems like I should be able to use the existing desktop site for mobile as well without using a plugin.

Thanks,

Rand


Answers:
author: Rand McKinney
body: Here's a screenshot from iPhone / Safari:

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author: Rand McKinney
body: Here's a screenshot from iPhone / Safari:

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author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Rand, can you provide additional information on the "gobbledygook characters"? A screenshot could help. :)


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I set "Showed Changed Content" to false for entire Confluence installation?
Asked by Jonathan Beerhalter:

For security reasons we cannot send out the full content of blog posts in email when notifications go out. As such we've had to shut down all email notificaitons from blog posts within confluence. I know that each individual user can manage their email notifications, but we'd like to enforce this firm wide.

I'm referring to the "Show changed content" referenced here [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Subscribing+to+Email+Notifications+of+Updates+to+Confluence+Content)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Subscribing+to+Email+Notifications+of+Updates+to+Confluence+Content>

Is this a setting we can enforce for all users?


Answers:
author: Branno
body: Howdy Jonathan!

There is a way to enforce this setting for all users, but it will involve working in the database. This information is stored in the OS_PROPERTYENTRY table. You can manually disable the "show changed content" setting for all users that have email notifications enabled by running the following SQL statement:

```
UPDATE OS_PROPERTYENTRYSET boolean_val = 'f'WHERE entity_key = 'confluence.prefs.email.show.diff';
```

After manually setting all users to false, you can then use a stored procedure or a trigger to set that value to false if a user attempts to enable the setting.

As this involves directly modifying the database, **ensure you backup the database before making any changes**. Also note that this statement would not be officially supported by Atlassian.

Cheers,

Stephen Brannen \| Confluence Support


Tags: confluence-administration
Jira and Confluence on Demand trial for a PDM-System Development
Asked by Olaf Huber:

Hi there

I've created a Jira on Demand account for testing purposes.

We are in the middle of a development for a new PDM-System for our company that will supersed our actual running pdm.

The development team comprises roundabout 10 developers and is distributed on 4 different sites/2 timezones.

My main goal of the test account was to provide a common platform for our development, especially for the documentation/content, so that we don't have to mail around different word documents etc. for specifications and that there is only "a single source of truth".

Now after starting with the testing, I realized, that Jira is basically just the issue trackings system and we need to use also Confluence for the above mentioned goal.

Is that correct?

If so, do I have to open a Confluence Testing Account as well?

And then: how do I merge both to work together?

Best regards

Olaf


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You won't merge them, they're different systems handling very different types of data.

If you go to your OnDemand/Cloud management account (the place where you created the Jira system in the first place), you'll be able to add Confluence. In fact, if you look in the menu that appears in Jira when you click the menu icon on the far left of the header, you'll be offered a link to Confluence.

There's a whole load of work to do to integrate the two systems - by "integrate", I mean make them aware of each other, able to exchange data, use each other's functions and gadgets etc. But because you are using Cloud/OnDemand, almost all of it will be done automatically. You'll find Confluence features like "gadget with Jira issues in it" and "highlight a list and make it into Jira issues with a right-click-menu-option" simply work without you needing to do anything.

comments: author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: Hi Olaf,

You can just add Confluence on your existing instance following this guideline: [](https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/ondemand/evaluation#duringyourevaluation-2.)<https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/ondemand/evaluation#duringyourevaluation-2>. Both applications will be linked and you can navigate from JIRA to Confluence and vice versa.


author: Olaf Huber
body: Helle Abdoulaye

Thank you, I was able to add confluence. But on the Site Adminstration under "Manage Application" it notes, that confluence is currently unavailable. Is it a temporarily "OnDemand" problem or did I something wrong with the setup?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It takes a while to arrive - give it an hour.


author: Olaf Huber
body: It "arrived", thank you...
When will version 4.4 of TeamCalendars be released?
Asked by Sander Brakel:

When will version 4.4 of TeamCalendars be released?

There is currently a bug in TeamCalendars which is a real blocker and should be fixed in version 4.4, but the date which shows in Jira for that release is way passed already.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Sander, the release data is not correct [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:roadmap-panel), but as you can see the backlog is almost completelly resolved, so it should be soon.

Cheers

comments: author: Sander Brakel
body: Ok great, thanks for the quick answer. Can expect the release in 1 - 2 weeks or months?

Regards,

Sander


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Atlassian release when it's ready, not to a timetable. You won't get a firm committment to a date. But, as Tiago says, as the backlog is just about done, you can expect it within a couple of weeks. I'd say it'll be out before Summit.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Will the next version also include some way of allowing people to stop being sent calendar updates if they so choose? As opposed to calendars either being on or off in a space? Cheers.
Number of spaces during Confluence Trial
Asked by Sriram Karra:

Is it a limitation that I can only create a single Space during my 30 day trial?


Answers:
author: Sriram Karra
body: I have already raised a bug using your support system, and it's been a pretty slow response so far. It would be helpful if you can get it resolved: <https://support.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/jst/problem-report-106377>


author: Mallmann
body: Hey Sriram,

There's no limitation when using the 30 days trial. Would you mind giving us more details on what's happening so we can try to help you?

Best regards,

Eduardo Mallmann

Atlassian Support


Tags: trial
Capitalize first letter of new sentence
Asked by Patrick_Vanhoof:

Hi,

Can I set that Confluence should capitalize the first letter when starting a new sentence? This for text in pages and comments?

Thanks,  
Patrick


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: As far as I know, confluence doesn't have any kind of autocorrect function so I don't think this is possible.

comments: author: Patrick_Vanhoof
body: Maybe a browser setting? On iPad and smartphone this seems to work.


author: Steffen Heller
body: Yes, outside confluence there might be something.

If you search for "chrome autocorrect" there are some descriptions about how it will or would work.

In Firefox I use a spell checker with different dictionaries but that only underlines mistakes but doesn't autocorrect them.


author: Jakub Stejskal
body: Can i get an update? Is it still not possible to change every sentence to begin with capital letter? (Something like fn+shift+F3 in word)


author: Patrick_Vanhoof
body: During edit, like in Word or Outlook.


author: Alexey_Rjeutski__Polontech_
body: Do you want to do it during edit - or after the page is saved / comment added?


Tags: confluence-administration
Attach File to Page using a script
Asked by Ralf Lohm?ller:

We would like to attach automatically files to page.

Is it possible to attach a file to a page using a windows script ?


Answers:
author: Alexey_Rjeutski__Polontech_
body: Hi, please check this page [](/questions/92192/how-to-attach-file-into-page-using-confluence-api)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/92192/how-to-attach-file-into-page-using-confluence-api>- it can contain info that you need.


author: Davin Studer
body: Another option would be to use the WebDAV plugin. It allows you to work with Confluence as if it were a filesystem ... files and folders. So, any scripting langauge that can work with files and folders would edit pages and add attachments.


author: Ralf Lohm?ller
body: Thanks, this script may help [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Upload+attachment+via+Python+XML-RPC)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Upload+attachment+via+Python+XML-RPC>
Default label for all new pages created in a space
Asked by Jeanne Howe:

Is there any way to add a default label to new pages created within a space? We are trying to identify new pages added to a space so we know they need to be reviewed. Once we have reviewed them, we add a "reviewed" labeled, but since you can not search for pages within a space that do not have a label, we need a way to identify all newly created pages.


Answers:
author: Wayne Wong
body: Hi there,

I am sorry to inform you that currently we don't have such function.  
However, there is an existing improvement request here [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34613)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34613>

We recommend our users to comment and vote on the feature request, and customer's feedback is one of the things that the developers decide to work on next as mention in the [Implementation and new features policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy),do leave some comments if you have any suggestion for improvement.

Thank you  
Regards.  
Wayne Wong


Tags: confluence-administration

label
Cannot get edit permission for wiki page
Asked by Chris Rodgers:

Hi, I am a user of an atlassian wiki. I cannot find the "edit" link. The docs just say that it is at the "top of the page" but I can't find it. I have attached a screenshot. I contacted the site admin and he says I should have permission. Can anyone explain what I am doing wrong, or how the site settings should be changed?

![screenshot](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4434737/edit_permission.png)

edit: When I click on "Tools" -\> Restrictions, I see "No view restrictions are defined" and "No edit restrictions are defined".


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: From that display, I suspect your site admin is looking at the wrong place.

He needs to read the space permissions in full to see who has edit rights, check if you match the rules for who can edit, and then check the page is not restricted.

comments: author: Chris Rodgers
body: Thanks, I edited my question to include what I know about restrictions. I will try and find out what the space permissions are set to.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That rules out the thought that the page might be restricted then! One down, just need to check your membership and space permissions now.


author: Chris Rodgers
body: Fixed! Turns out I was in "confluence-users", but not the "users" group.


Tags: edit

permission

wiki
Public documents in confluence
Asked by Ben Diamant:

Hey,

Is it possible to create documents that is visible to public peoples who don't have a user on atlessian (Like a wiki page). We want to document our installation proccess for customers but also maintain an internal documentation and wondering if confluence can fit as a solution.  

Thanks


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

You can have a space in your Confluence instance for the "installation process", and enable public access for that space only. More information on setting up public access can be found here:

- [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access>

Cheers.


author: Nick Muldoon
body: Hi Ben,

If you are using Confluence Cloud you may want to explore [Instant Websites](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/instant-websites) which allows you to publish a space to a public, fast, mobile responsive website. We use it for [our product documentation](http://docs.arijea.com/documentation/redaction/redaction-for-confluence-user-guide/).

Cheers,  
[Nick Muldoon](https://twitter.com/njm)  
[Arijea](https://twitter.com/arijeasoftware)


Tags: instant-website
can I do version control using Confluence?
Asked by Rajan Sharma:

can I do version control using Confluence?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes. Assuming you are talking about confluence pages, then it's built in. If you're talking about something else, you really need to explain the requirements...

comments: author: Bruno Tiago
body: @Nic Brough \[Adaptavist\]

Does the Confluence have a version control of documents?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: A simple one - if you add a file with the same name as an existing one, it'll get uploaded as a new version, not a replacement.
Backup Confluence on AWS EC2
Asked by kae001:

I'm new to AWS and looking for an automated production backup strategy for Confluence running on an EC2 instance. I know about the [standard documented approach](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Production+Backup+Strategy "standard documented approach") to Confluence backups, but I'm interested in leveraging EC2 to make it faster and easier.

1. Any recommendations on how to go about this? I'm just looking for any ideas as a starting point for my research.
2. Can I keep Confluence running while the backup is in progress? (The database- and filesystem-level backup strategies suggest stopping Confluence to be on the safer side)


Answers:
author: Abhi Vaishnav
body: Hey X,

All our Atlassian products are running in AWS as well and this backup strategy has been tried and tested for us. Our confluence server just crapped out about 2 months ago and bringing up the cold-standby instance was a breeze - with minimal data loss.

We have a production server (in AWS-West) along with a cold-standby (in AWS-East) instance.

Our production database has a read-only slave (using AWS's built-in features - in AWS West) that we take MySQL dumps from and restore to our cold-standby's DB.

We also RSYNC our confluence data and server directory to our cold-standby instance.

This is all done once an hour. Of course, if losing an hours worth of data is unacceptable, you can run the cron jobs more frequently...


Tags: confluence-administration
Links to Draft pages are visible
Asked by Ramsay Mayka:

We are evaluating Adhoc Workflow and we have noticed a distressing behaviour with our workflow.

If you have a published page that includes macros like Children Display or Content by Label it can display links to pages that have never been published. If the user clicks on the link, then they receive a Not Permitted operation error.

Is there a way to avoid these links from appearing?

Regards,

Ramsay


Answers:
author: Miguel Reimer
body: Hi Ramsay,

If you are using a space workflow that is automatically active on all pages in the space(see the "Workflows" page in the space admin), you can add this page created trigger to your workflow markup:

```
{trigger:pagecreated}{add-restriction:type=View|group=GROUP_NAME}{trigger}
```

Where GROUP_NAME is the group name of the group(or groups) that can view draft versions. "user=USER_NAME, USER_NAME" can be used instead of the group parameter. You can also use as many {add-restriction} macros in the trigger as well. This will hide the page links from users.

Also, add this trigger to remove those view restrictions when reaching the published state:

```
{trigger:statechanged|state=Published}{remove-restriction:type=View}{trigger}
```

Change "Published" to the name of the state in your workflow that has the "final=true" parameter. This will remove all page view restrictions so all users who have view permission in space will once again see the links to the page.

Give that a try and let us know if you have any further questions.

Thanks,  
Miguel

comments: author: Ramsay Mayka
body: Thanks for the prompt response. Your suggestion gives the results that I want.

Cheers,

Ramsay


Tags: adhoc-workflows
How do I use a .js attachment on a page?
Asked by Jason Monsorno:

I've been writing custom javascript code in {html}\<script\>\</script\>{html} tags on the page or another and including it, I've made User Macros and all that has worked fine but I don't want to continue that route. Instead I want to upload my .js files as attachments and include them, the best way I see is

```
{html}&lt;script src="/download/attachments/123/file.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;{html}
```

That seemed too easy and apparently was, Chrome is throwing an error when trying to load it:
> Refused to execute script from '[](http://confluence/download/attachments/4426187/HotFixCreation.js "http://confluence/download/attachments/4426187/HotFixCreation.js")<http://confluence/download/attachments/4426187/HotFixCreation.js>' because its MIME type ('application/x-upload-data') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled.

Any ideas how I can use my .js attachments?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Have you tried editing the mime type in the attachment properties?

comments: author: Jason Monsorno
body: I never clicked on properties before, it worked like a charm.


author: Jason Monsorno
body: I never clicked on the properties before, worked like a charm.


author: Olivier Carbone
body: $.getScript is to include the file content in the body of the page. It's to work around the cache... it solve the shituation, but it's not a best practice.

Yes, Davin, edit the content type of the js file to "application/javascript" is a best solution!

To change the content type of an attachment, please visit the view page attachment (viewpageattachments.action) and click in Properties of the js file.


author: Jason Monsorno
body: Not sure why it's not blocked but I can load it from JavaScript:

```
{html} &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; $.getScript('/download/attachments/123/file.js'); &lt;/script&gt; {html}
```