youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is there a way to export the page with attachments via the embedded links?
Asked by Deepak Routray:

Hi,

I have created a page and have attached a word document on the same page. When I export the page to MS word, the links don't work as the attachments are not exported. I believe attachments are stored in Confluence Server. So inside exported word doc, when I click the link, nothing happens. Same is the problem if I use View File Macro. Edit document link does not work outside confluence server. Is there a way to export the page with attachments via the embedded links?

Thanks,

Deepak


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: I think the only way is to export the page as a Word doc, then in Word, relink the icons, and then attach the Word doc to the page.
What does it mean when an add-on is unsupported?
Asked by Mattias Van doninck:

We wanted to ad the [Confluence Source Editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/overview). But in the description it says that add-on is unsupported. What does this mean? Are there any risks?


Answers:
author: chucktalk
body: Hi @Mattias Van doninck,

When an add-on is marked as unsupported, this means that there is no support offered for the plugin. It was usually a project of an engineer seeking to resolve an issue, but it is not guaranteed to remain working across future versions of the product as it was not placed into the product as a supported feature.

In terms of the [Confluence Source Editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/overview), I recommend installing the add-on in a test or development environment first, and then verify that it will work within your deployment. Many of our clients use this add-on, but there is no official support for the add-on itself.

Sincerely,

Chuck


Tags: atlassian-support

confluence-administration

source-editor
Is there a way to add an image as a watermark over an entire space?
Asked by Eric Nielson:

I'm trying to add an image as a background over an entire space, is it possible to make it a watermark? Maybe over one page and I can copy and paste to all pages?


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Eric, You might check out this Q\&A from a few years ago. No telling if it will work with current versions of Confluence, but it may. <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/55111>

Let us know if it does work for you by coming back to accept this answer. If it's not quite there, please provide additional comments to clarify what you need. Good luck!

..................

**UPDATE TO ADDRESS YOUR COMMENT** , *"(That Q\&A) gave a macro to install, but unfortunately I'm not a Confluence Administrator so I can't install it myself. Is there anything else I can do? I'm only trying to get a logo as a watermark*."

Unfortunately I don't think so. A request was filed in Atlassian's open feature request system (in their public JIRA instance) on this topic. The request 'Background image for pages' was closed earlier this year by Confluence Product Management with the explanation there are no plans for this in the near future. It doesn't mean it will never happen, but there wasn't a lot of action of folks voting for this one and sometimes user input can sway product roadmaps. Click over to check it out.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-15027>

So what can you do? Can you request help from your Confluence Admin to try the other option?

comments: author: Eric Nielson
body: Tom,

It sounds like the best option would be contacting my Admin to try the macro. Thanks!
Sidebar missing in Space
Asked by Dennis Dam:

We've created a confluence space based on a JIRA project, but now the lift sidebar is missing for this space. It is blank for every user.

Currently in the Cloud, you cannot change the Theme anymore to Documentation, so i think the default theme and documentation theme are integrated now (done by Atlassian)?!?

The left sidebar is completely empty, the content menu at the left-bottom is also gone.


Answers:
author: Dennis Dam
body: Contacted Atlassian support, and it is fixed. See <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-41425>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I embed excel, word and pdf in a page and export all in one page.
Asked by swanand bhorkar:

We need to embed excel file, word file and pdf as icons in a page.

When we export the page as a word doc, we want those embedded files into the exported document.

And when we dbl click on these icons in the exported document, it should open the files (excel, pdf and word) in their respective editors.

Which plugin supports this functionality of exporting the document along with the embedded files ?

Please suggest as this is a critical functionality for us.

thanks.

Swanand


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: I think the only way is to export the page as a Word doc, then in Word, relink the icons, and then attach the Word doc to the page.
Can I implement an Excel sheet in a template?
Asked by Lukas Uschner:

Hey,

I am new here and want to implement an Excel sheet into a template.

Is that possible?

Greetings Lukas


Answers:
author: Lukas Uschner
body: Seems like it is not possible but there already is a suggestion for Atlassian: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8892> .

Hope they implement it one day.


author: Lukas Uschner
body: Without referring to another site where a table is attached. I want to use the Office Excel macro so that each new page have an extra Excel chart.


Tags: confluence-administration

jira

ms-excel

ms-office

template
Are you charging extra money for adding anchors?
Asked by Bits trainees:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Anchors](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724764900)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Corentin M?hat
body: Atlassian Licenses are counted on a per-user base, so they will not charge your extra money for adding anchors to a confluence page :smile:


Tags: anchor

confluence-cloud
Mail to News Plugin
Asked by Jay Tucker:

Hello,

I installed the latest version of the [Mail to News Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.mail2news/overview) on Confluence 5.9.5 Server. I've followed the instructions carefully, set up a Gmail account that is connecting successfully in the configuration screen.

I have sent a few test emails to it using the space key in the email address.

The emails arrive in my Gmail account fine but no updates appear on my site.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Jay Tucker
body: I don't see anything in my logs related to this application at all?


author: Midori
body: If it successfully connects, but the blog posts are not created, then most likely there should some **error occur when the blog posts are being created**.

Check your Confluence log, or upload that here so that we can have a look.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I track per-user views in Confluence Cloud?
Asked by Nauto Admin:

My boss would like to know which users have looked at specific pages.

There appear to be lots of plug-ins for doing this in JIRA server, but nothing that works with JIRA Cloud.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.viewtracker/server/overview>

Is there any way to do this?


Answers:
author: Ignacio Pulgar
body: The most similar thing to what you have described is [Who's looking for JIRA Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/whoslooking-connect/cloud/overview), but just shows the list of users who are looking at the issue at the time you are looking into the issue.

Hope it helps.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can we restrict any person/group from creating sub pages?
Asked by Risha Ravindran:

I have created a main page and have restricted edit permissions for that page and the sub pages.

However I see others can create a sub page under the main page although the main page and the currently available sub pages are restricted to view only. Wanted to understand if confluence has also an option to restrict people creating sub pages.


Answers:
author: Andrea Carl
body: Yes, at the space level you can remove the "add page" permission.
My localhost 8090 is showing system error
Asked by Mark Jayakody:

I want to log in to my localhost:8090 in confluence but it is saying that system error. What should I do now


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Read the error to see what it is telling you. If it's generic, read the log file for the application as well, as it'll have more information in it.
User Directories: Active Directory configuration - user password change?
Asked by esome:

Hello,

I've set up a new confluence server and still activated the LDAP-User Directory function with Microsoft Active Directory connection. At the moment I use an administrator user with administrator domain rights to connect to the active directory server. And I've set up the permission to "Read Only" (at the moment).

Currently it is possible to login via the AD User credentials for all our employees (active AD user). Thats pretty good. So the next step and question for me is the following challenge:

Is it possible, when I use the option "Read/Write" in the Permission Settings section, that AD users can change their own AD password via the Confluence profile settings dialog?

Thank you very much.

Kind regards,

Matthias

Sorry, my english is not the best ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")


Answers:
author: esome
body: Hi Daniel,

thank your for your answer. I've just set up "Read/Write". When I try to change a user password in Confluence (Profile --\> Password) I get the following error message "The following error(s) occurred:

* Sorry, but your password could not be changed. Please try again, and contact your administrator if the problem persists."

So as you described, I've set up the option "Use SSL" with the default port 636 (test via telnet: our ad-server responces on port 636).

When I click on "Quick Test" the following error message appears:

"Connection test failed. Response from the server:  
[s](http://ad1.esome.it)erver1.domain.com:636; nested exception is javax.naming.CommunicationException: [s](http://ad1.esome.it)erver1.domain.com:636 \[Root exception is [javax.net](http://javax.net).ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target\]"

So I think there is no ssl certificate on our server1? Or what is the problem? Do I have to set up mor in Confluence?

Thank you very much!

Kind regards,

Matthias

comments: author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: Sorry - I missed your response earlier, hopefully this is still helpful!

You are right - it looks like Confluence does not trust the certificate on your AD server. Atlassian has instructions on adding the certificate to the trust store here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/connecting-to-ssl-services-117455.html> Keep in mind that you need to restart Confluence after installing the certificate!


author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: Hi Matthias,

Users will be able to change their passwords for AD via Confluence if the connection is set to Read/Write. However, it also needs to be set to LDAPS (LDAP over SSL) or else [users will get an error when they actually submit their new password](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/ldap-error-code-53-299570921.html).


Tags: confluence-administration
How to access to folder on server from confluence?
Asked by Sebastian_Frankowski:

Hi, I need to create page on confluence (3.5.17) that will be show a list of files in specyfic location, and after user action will show content of chosen file.

What I should do that, is it possible?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: How are you making these files available over the network?

comments: author: Sebastian_Frankowski
body: I not make them available over network. They are on the same machine where is confluence, and I want to show them in confluence for a group of users (read only).


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence is not an application for serving up files - it only exposes attachments like that.

You'll either need to make the files available via some publication system and then link to them, write something that adds the function to Confluence and lets you embed them, or convert them to attachments (a lot of places I've worked have a central confluence space for standard cross-space files to be shared)


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence approval button?
Asked by Umar Riaz:

Hi

I am using confluence to document requirements. I was wondering if there is a sign off button I can add to the page?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-approval-button/qaq-p/206869?attachment-id=8601){#link_1186bb5d42ed50}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/34882/1/image2016-6-30%2016%3A3%3A39.png){#display_1186bb5d42ed50_0}


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Another option is the [Page Approval](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.pageapproval/server/overview) add-on. It's free.


author: Benjamin Weinheimer-Erben _mgm-tp_
body: Hi Umar,

not by default. If you like to note the state of your page you can use the [Status Macro (see link)](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/status-macro-223222355.html) or if you like to have a more advanced workflow you can try [Comala Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow/overview) Plugin.

greetings  
Benjamin


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: The [Spectrum Formatting Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/fr.spectrumgroupe.confluence.plugins.formatting.macros/server/overview) also includes a status macro (and is free), so you may want to check that out, too.
User can't edit space but has full permission
Asked by Maciej Olszewski:

Hello,  

I have a problem with one user, as in title, she can't edit space but had permissions for that. Other 2 users with same permission can do it. In past other user has similar problem but after clearing cashe in browser problem was solved, but here it didn't help. Can somebody help me with it?  

Cheers,  
Maciej


Answers:
author: Maciej Olszewski
body: It was granted to user explicitly, other users too


author: Davin Studer
body: Does the user have space admin permissions assigned because of a group membership or because it was granted to the user explicitly?


Tags: confluence-administration
How to Create a Table of Conten for the whole space
Asked by Nils-Florian Kr?ger:

Hi,

i have serveral gobal spaces on the landing page of my Confluence. One of them is "Quality-Management". In this Space there are several Capter with Capter and so on. Initial this was a word document named "Quality - Management", with different Capter an we try to build the same in Confluence. So i am looking for a macro to create a table of Content for the global space QM.

It looks like

* QM(Global Space)
  * Chapter 1
    * Chapter 1.1
    * Chapter 1.2
  * Chapter 2
    * Chapter 2.1
    * Chapter 2.2
  * Chapter 3
  * Chapter 4

Regards


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You could also use the children display macro.


author: Nils-Florian Kr?ger
body: Thank a lot i will try out the your suggestions an give feedback if this solve my problem.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: I like the "Page Tree" Macro as you can include a search box and "Expand/Collapse" links under the search.

The "Page Index" Macro gives you a different style view


author: Milo Test
body: You can do that with the Page Tree macro.
Error while running Confluence CLI command
Asked by Peter Hanraets:

Hi,

I am evaluating Confluence CLI plugin (already using JIRA and Bamboo CLI).

I run the following command (with corresponding output):

C:\\Applications\\Atlassian\\atlassian-cli-5.4.0\>confluence --server <https://vikipedia.acc.vanderlande.com> --user nlph --password \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*--action getPageList --title "Vikipedia Home" -v  
Server address: <https://vikipedia.acc.vanderlande.com>  
Successful login to: <https://vikipedia.acc.vanderlande.com/rpc/soap-axis/confluenceservice-v2> by user: nlph.  
Response code: 200, message: OK, url: <https://vikipedia.acc.vanderlande.com/rest/org.swift.confluence.cli/latest/validatelicense>?  
1bdb5e8578 logged out.

Client error:  
org.swift.common.cli.CliClient$LicenseValidationException:  
at org.swift.common.cli.AbstractRemoteClient.validateLicense(AbstractRemoteClient.java:207)  
at org.swift.confluence.cli.ConfluenceClient.validateLicense(ConfluenceClient.java:321)  
at org.swift.confluence.cli.ConfluenceClient.handleRequest(ConfluenceClient.java:671)  
at org.swift.common.cli.AbstractRemoteClient.process(AbstractRemoteClient.java:448)  
at org.swift.common.cli.CliClient.doWork(CliClient.java:454)  
at org.swift.confluence.cli.ConfluenceClient.main(ConfluenceClient.java:184)

If I go to that validatlicense URL it gives me:

```
{"status":true,"message":"Bob Swift Atlassian Add-ons - Confluence CLI Connector has a valid license.","product":"Confluence","version":"5.8.17","build":"5997","time":"2016-06-20T08:40:36.435+0200","timeZone":"Central European Time","title":"Vikipedia Acceptance","baseUrl":"https://vikipedia.acc.vanderlande.com","connectorVersion":"5.4.0"}
```

What did I do wrong???


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Duplicated [here](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/questions/167510022).

comments: author: Aditya Verma
body: There is no resolution to this problem even at the link provided by [@Bob Swift (personal)](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781458).


author: Peter Hanraets
body: Debug output shows no response from the license validation:

Using basic authentication.

Response code: 200, message: OK, url: https://vikipedia.acc.vanderlande.com/rest/org.swift.confluence.cli/latest/validatelicense?

Result data:

license validation: {}

check_mssql_query_string_regex


Tags: bob-swift

cli

confluence-administration
Is there any method to see preview all attachment in current space, not current page
Asked by JK Kim:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Attachments Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=97911315)*

Is there any method to see preview all attachment in current space, not current page

I'd like to see all attachement preview in my space, as time goes, there are lots of images and documents, however I cannot remember where I upload my material, therefore I need plugin to show all attachment-preview in my space


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: The Space attachments macro lists all the attachments, who attached it and to which page. There isn't a preview, but you can click on a listing and it will show you the attachment.

comments: author: JK Kim
body: Thanks for your answer. I already used attachments macro, however, as you commented, it did not have preview functionality. therefore whenever I select the attachment it open new page to display it.


Tags: attachment

preview
is 5.10 official and released?
Asked by Nir Brifman:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Confluence 5.10 Release Notes](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=826894762)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Yes, it is.


Tags: confluence-administration

documentation
page and comment information
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear partners,

How do we know this page is belonged which space ? Because we can not find it's spacdid field in the content table.

And also how do we this comment is belonged which page? Because we can not find it's pageid field in the content table.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Dear Jonathan,

We use confluence 5.8.X version, and now we can use query as shown as below:

select \* from likes order by creationdate desc

and then use the sql query as shown as below :select \* from content where contentid in (the contentid from likes table ) It can collect likes as listed as below:

tab2.jpg

But some comment and page just only has prevver and pageid information, how can we use one query sentence to list like or comment by space? (It mean list like or comment list by space just only use one query sentence)

Thank you.


author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Dear Jonathan,

Thank you for your reply. If the command or page has many prever version, would it be possible to find out it's original pageid or spaceid ? Thank you.

comments: author: Jonathan Soo
body: Hey Hsu,

For sure, the current page version is the only page that doesn't have a value in it's `prevver` column. That's how Confluence determine if that's the current page version, the rest would be available in `Page History` page. For example, you wish to query all the current page in your database :

```
SELECT * FROM CONTENT WHERE PREVVER IS NULL AND CONTENTTYPE='PAGE';
```

Cheers,  
Jonathan


author: Jonathan Soo
body: Hi Hsu,

Whenever you encounter a page with no `spaceid`, it's most likely a older version of your current page. Only the latest page have a `spaceid`. The older page will have `prever` as a references to the newer page. Same goes to comment, older version of comment doesn't have a `pageid`, but a `prevver` referring to the updated comment.

That being said, make sure you include `prevver is null` in your SQL statement to exclude all the older version of record.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,  
Jonathan


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to create "out of the box" user specific dashboards?
Asked by YannickV:


Answers:
author: Stefan Ernst
body: Hey Yannick,

the user can set an individual site homepage in his profile: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/edit-your-user-settings-1016023.html>

But this page has to be created first and the whole process is not very intuitive for first time users.

Other than that, there is no out of the box way to set up dashboards for users


author: YannickV
body: I'd like to know if you are able to have a shared view and a personal view of one page for example the dashboard without using an extension of Confluence.


author: Meck
body: Hello Yannick,

Could you be more specific?

Regards,  
Lameck.


Tags: confluence-administration

dashboard
How do I make it so columns show side by side rather than stacked when exporting to PDF?
Asked by Eric Dahl:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Customize Exports to PDF](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=190480945)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Meck
body: [Eric Dahl](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/users?username=ericdahl.blueowl77425081),

You should try use section:

image2016-6-19 0:55:20.png

PDF View {#toc-hId-1648278243}
------------------------------

image2016-6-19 0:55:48.png

Regards,  
Lameck.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-make-it-so-columns-show-side-by-side-rather-than/qaq-p/240341?attachment-id=10568){#link_1186bcbabed3bc}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/40757/1/image2016-6-19%200%3A55%3A48.png){#display_1186bcbabed3bc_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-make-it-so-columns-show-side-by-side-rather-than/qaq-p/240341?attachment-id=10569){#link_1186bcbabed3bc_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/40757/2/image2016-6-19%200%3A54%3A40.png){#display_1186bcbabed3bc_2}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-make-it-so-columns-show-side-by-side-rather-than/qaq-p/240341?attachment-id=10570){#link_1186bcbabed3bc_1}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/40757/3/image2016-6-19%200%3A55%3A20.png){#display_1186bcbabed3bc_4}


Tags: confluence-administration

export

pdf