youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Lookup and set values directly from an xml webservice response
Asked by Ryan Kafoor:

Hi,

I need to lookup and set values for my confiform fields using a Webservice/API, however the response returned is in XML. Afaik, confiforms requires the response to be in JSON. Is there any way to parse this or use it anyways without needing to use an external service?


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi [@Ryan Kafoor](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5292920)

ConfiForms attempts to determine the format and convert it to JSON automatically

You can see in the mappings how it does that and what result it gets. Attempt to configure a test web-service backed dropdown field for example, choosing the XML webservice endpoint and check the suggested mappings

Alex


Tags: confiforms

confluence-server

server
Roadmap planner
Asked by McArdle_ Renai:

When trying to use the roadmap planner - the links that I add for each bar either disappears or doesnt stay hyperlinked.


Answers:
author: Linh Pham_Ricksoft_Inc
body: Hi [@McArdle_ Renai](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5339767) , welcome to the Community!

The Roadmap macro only supports links to Confluence pages. You can type the page title or insert the page URL link, then you'd need to select the page from the dropdown menu (use the up/down key to navigate and hit ALT+ENTER to select)  

![Partnerships - Partnerships - Confluence 2023-10-13 11-17-27.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/286089iBA10C03AD8D8949E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Partnerships - Partnerships - Confluence 2023-10-13 11-17-27.png")  

It will then show up on the timeline bar when you hover over it:

![Monosnap Partnerships - Confluence 2023-10-13 11-17-58.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/286090i5AE947176C66B9E2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Monosnap Partnerships - Confluence 2023-10-13 11-17-58.png")

If you're looking for a more comprehensive roadmapping tool, there are some options in the Marketplace as well: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence\&query=confluence%20roadmap](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=confluence%20roadmap)

*Disclaimer* : I work with the team that develops one of the apps, called [Gantt Chart Planner for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1227063/gantt-chart-planner-for-confluence-roadmap-timeline?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) :)

comments: author: McArdle_ Renai
body: Thanks [@Linh Pham_Ricksoft_Inc](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5233021) - the steps youve detailed are exactly how ive used it - only inserting confluence pages. However, they disappear or dont stay hyperlinked.

thanks re other options, I look into them.


Tags: confluence-server

roadmap

server
Using Confluence guest groups
Asked by Zolt?n Leh?czky:

I have a hard time understanding what [Confluence guest groups](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/invite-guests-for-external-collaboration/#:~:text=access%20for%20them.-,Give%20guests%20Confluence%20access%20via%20a%20guest%20group,-Access%20management%20is) are for. I understand normal Confluence groups, but am I right to think that Confluence guest groups are only a different (and not shorter) way of adding multiple guest users to a space?

I really mean **add** , not **give access to**: instead of adding guests to a space one by one, you can add them to a guest group, and then under the space's settings, you can add all users from that group to the space at once. However, adding new users to that guest group won't give them access to the same space; you'll need to add them one by one.

Is this really how it works? If yes, why would I use a guest group instead of adding those guests to a space directly?


Answers:
author: Zolt?n Leh?czky
body: Got an answer from Atlassian support. Guest groups can't be added to spaces, see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-74916>.

Quoting Atlassian support:

Other than that Guest groups can also be used for:

* [Page Restrictions](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/add-or-remove-page-restrictions/)
* [Tagging](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/mention-a-person-or-team/)
* Organizing sets of guest users
* Identification of guest users on an instance
* Also, the **Guest Role** must have a **default Guest group** to work properly

Please **learn more** about **Guest users** from our public documentation:

* **[Invite guests to Confluence](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/invite-guests-for-external-collaboration/)**
* **[Assign space access to guests](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/assign-space-access-to-guests/)**
* **[What can guests see and do in Confluence?](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/what-can-guests-see-and-do-on-confluence/)**


author: marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-
body: Hi [@Zolt?n Leh?czky](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/527758) ,

If I understand correctly, adding guests to the guest group makes it easier to identify all of them in a Confluence instance.

comments: author: Zolt?n Leh?czky
body: That would make sense, but you can already do that in multiple ways:

* All guest users can be listed in the Users list.
* Guests of a given space can be listed under its Space permissions page.
* A list of all guests and their corresponding permissions can be listed on the Global Permissions page.

So, I don't think having groups for this too adds any value if they don't operate as normal groups (with their point being that you don't have to manage individual users' permissions for a group of people).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Would you share the precedure to copy the exel data to the table in confluence page?
Asked by Tien Pham:

I have a table of data sheet specification and would like to either download the table to confluence page or be able to copy the contain of excel page to confluence tabe.

With that the exact datasheet page data collect can be copy/link into.

Thanks, and Best Regards,

TienPham


Answers:
author: Stiltsoft support
body: Hi [@Tien_Pham](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5339748) ,

You may try the standard Excel macro for the case.

If you need more advanced features (to connect your Google Sheets to Confluence and filter/aggregate your data there, import the existing .xlsx file to Confluence and continue to work with it using Excel-like functionality, etc.), you may browse the Atlassian Marketplace for some 3rd party apps.

For example, you may check the [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud&utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) app that we develop.


author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: [@Tien_Pham](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5339748) Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I have not had cause to use it yet, but there is an **Excel macro** available in Confluence Cloud. See this page for more information: <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-microsoft-office-macros/>

I hope this meets your needs.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

filter

table
Wanting to Migrate from Confluence Data Center to Cloud - How hard is it?
Asked by JA:

Hello,

I'm the Confluence administrator at my organization and looking to migrate our Confluence Data Center instance to Cloud by the end of the year. We have the migration assistant plugin installed and updated. I'm just starting requirements gathering now, but wondering how hard is it to complete? Do you just setup your cloud instance and then walk through the migration plugin steps until completed or?

Advice and insight welcome from anyone who has already completed this migration. Thank you in advance!

J


Answers:
author: Trudy Claspill
body: Hello [@JA](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1454642)

The difficulty level depends on many factors.

Do you use any third party plugins in your Confluence instance? If so you need to find out if the vendors of those provide a version that is compatible with Confluence Cloud. Then you need to check if the Cloud version supports the same functionality. And then you need to check if the vendor actually has a method to migrate the app related data to the Cloud instance.

There may be Atlassian provided functionality in Confluence that is not supported by the Migration Assistant application. For instance Team Calendars information is not supported by the Migration Assistant.

There could be Atlassian provided functionality that is not supported in their Cloud product.

For functionality (Atlassian or third party) that is not supported in the Cloud app natively or by the original app vendor, you have to figure out what you want to do about that. Do you want to look for another Cloud app that can provide that functionality, or abandon the use of that functionality?

How much data do you have to migrate? If you have a large number of spaces, pages, attachments, users/groups, that can impact the complexity of the migration.

I advise you to read every scrap of information you can find about the migration process and options.

<https://support.atlassian.com/migration/resources/>

If it seems like an overwhelming task, consider engaging an [Atlassian Solution Partner](https://partnerdirectory.atlassian.com/). Disclosure - I work for [Praecipio](https://praecipio.com) which is an Atlassian Platinum Solution partner in the Americas. If you are in the Americas and are interested in working with us, let me know and I can get you connected to the right people in our organization to discuss that.


Tags: confluence-server

server

unknown-hosting-type
How to align title on the Overview page for a space?
Asked by Daniella Midura:

Thank you in advance for taking the time to review this.

I am seeing a new issue with aligning the title on the landing page of a space. My space is called "DM". Its landing page is pointed to the "Overview" page. "DM" is the title that is displaying on the Overview page (even though the Overview page is named "Overview"). How do I align the "DM" title to display in the center of the screen (see pic1 -- this is what the Overview page looks like when accessed by a user)? I cannot manipulate the "DM" title anywhere in the editor when editing the Overview page (see pic2 -- this is what the Overview page looks like in the editor. You can see there is no "DM" title available).

![Capture.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/286012i14BF07138D2B625E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG") ![Capture.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/286014iBC81830D2D4CC9EE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")


Answers:
author: Alex Sramek
body: Having the same issue, I've opened a ticket.

What's odd is that it's properly justified when editing, and snaps to the left when published.

comments: author: Tori Sampsell
body: I'm also having the same issue. Can you please link to the ticket or let us know how to resolve it when you get the answer?

Thanks!


author: Alex Sramek
body: The ticket unfortunately said "yeah that's the way it is. You can vote on a feature request."

Vote here! <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-74029>


author: Alex Sramek
body: The ticket also \*did\* say they're going to check in with the dev team to try to figure out the rationale, so maybe further updates will come.


author: Dan Breyen
body: Hi [@Daniella Midura](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5339666) welcome to the community. You're right, I tried it and couldn't find a way from the GUI to change that. The alignment control is greyed out when you click on the title.

I took a quick look at jira.atlassian.com and didn't see any issues reported. I would open up a ticket with support (support.atlassian.com/contact) to see if I'm missing something or if you can't do it from the GUI.

You can use spaces as a workaround in a pinch.

There might be some third party app that would work, but I'm not aware of any.

Hope that helps.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

questions-for-confluence
When a Confluence record is linked to a Jira issue, where is the link stored in the database
Asked by Les Marsyla:

We create report requirements in Confluence and we track report requests in Jira Service Desk. We link the requirements to the Intakes in JSD. We need to extract those links for tracking status.

Where are the links stored in the Confluence and Jira Postgres databases?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

It depends on how you created the link. What method are you using?

comments: author: Les Marsyla
body: I believe we're using the Jira macro in Confluence


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, but what method are you using to create the links?


Tags: unknown-hosting-type
Search doesn't find pages unless recently edited
Asked by Dagmar Bouwer:

The search function doesn't show any results unless it can find pages I've edited in the last 3 days.  
I searched for content clearly on a page, because I've opened the page, and search function can't find that page, until I've made a change to it. After making a change, it can find it no problem.

Search used to be able to find any page, regardless of age, with the search term, and I don't know what changed.

I've looked through some menu's and the Spaces \> All Content section only shows a short list of pages, all of which were edited in the last 3 days. My space has hundreds of pages. They show up just fine in the side bar and I can access all the content.

How can I get the search function to work again? It is really essential to my use of Confluence.


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Dagmar Bouwer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4014689) ,

it should be an indexing issue. In Confluence Cloud tere is an automatic job that perform that action in background and, as an admin, you can't force to execute manually (in server/data center you can). Btw, I know that ussually you need to request a manual indexing to Atlassian support team (<https://support.atlassian.com/contact/>)

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: Dagmar Bouwer
body: [@Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781528) Thanks for your assistance!  
I've tried to submit a support ticket, but it doesn't seem to be available for free users. Or it should be done with the Confluence Admin, but I don't know who in our organisation that would be and can't find in Confluence what account has that status.  
Looking at the Space settings \> Space Details \> Administrators, my account is on that list.  
Am I missing something or is there another way to contact support to ask for the Index reset as you suggest?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I get to anchors in exported PDF via URL?
Asked by Katsiaryna Hreben:

I put some anchors and links to them in my Confluence project. After export if I want to get to page 3 (as an example) of my document I can write 'page = 3' in URL, but what do I need to write in URL if I want to open my document at a specific anchor. Is that possible at all? Or is the only way to open my exported document at a specific place - to click the actual link to anchor on the page?


Answers:
author: Dan Breyen
body: Hi [@Katsiaryna Hreben](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5339445) welcome to the community. I did a quick search on Atlassian's Jira site (jira.atlassian.com) and it appears you are running into this issue: [CONFCLOUD-72220](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-72220)

If that looks right to you, I would vote for and watch it for future updates.

Hope that helps.

comments: author: Katsiaryna Hreben
body: Thanks [@Dan Breyen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5086375) , but this issue is not my case. My anchors and links to them work just fine. The problem is I want to insert Help Links in a product and I would like to make these links open my Confluence exported PDF at specific places., the places where I have put anchors. So the question is - what do I need to write in URL in my code to make each link go to a specific place in document (where the anchor is) but not just to page 1,2,3 of my exported project. I hope I explained it clearly)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
obfuscate name of user in shared pages or whiteboards
Asked by JKhan:

Is there a way to obfuscate the name of users when sharing a page or whiteboard? this is for retrospectives or other times when users want to comment or share but not have their name displayed to the group

this is only for internal users, not with global users


Answers:
author: Christina Ristevski
body: Hi [@JKhan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5339615) currently this is not possible in whiteboards although it's something we're looking into as we've heard this feedback come up before!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Not able to share any space with another user
Asked by Bilal Warsi:

Being a Site Admin, I am not able to share any confluence space with another user. I have tried the sharing feature to grant access to full space / a single page. But the other user cannot access either space or the single page.


Answers:
author: Trudy Claspill
body: Hello [@Bilal Warsi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4667851)

Can the user access Confluence at all?

Note that the Share button on a page does not give the specified user permissions to access the page/space. It is just providing them with a link to it. You have to separately grant the user permissions to the space/page.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
page permission/restrction structure and automation
Asked by JQ:

hi everyone

we would like to achieve this in our confluence

1. have some pages viewable by all (internal and external readers), and the rest only by internal users, example 1,

* internal users can view page group X and Y
* external users can view page group X only

then further divide internal users, example 2,

* user group A can view page group A and C
* user group B can view page group B and C
* user group C can view page group A, B and C

having read some dicussions, I understand that we need to--

* either divide the user by spaces, or divide the pages by parent pages
* then duplicate the public pages into the private space/page tree by page include/excerpt

wondering if this is correct and if anyone could share any best practices to this?

2. given the complexity and ever growing content, we are also keen to automate the page restriction settings by intergrating with page metadata , e.g.,

* if targeted audience (metadata) is internal only, then auto restrict page to internal users group (for example 1)
* OR if targeted audience is user group A, then auto restrict page to user group A and C (for example 2)

having read some discussions, it is not very clear to me if it is possible, we are in server right now and in the midst of deciding whether to move to data center (more likely) or cloud.

anyone knows how to achive this?

thank you in advance!


Answers:
author: marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-
body: Hi [@JQ](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5222139) ,

From my experience, restrictions and permissions are complex to handle and mistakes are easily made. That said, I think it makes sense to divide content within spaces, and have relatively uniform permissions/restrictions within a space.

I would not recommend to change restrictions based on metadata in general. I think it's much more obvious to move pages between space in order to restrict them.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence Automation: Archive inactive pages when scheduled (recurring) ONLY without children
Asked by Michael Jordi:

How can I archive inactive pages when scheduled (recurring) ONLY if they do not have any children?

Currently I am having this one here...  

```
(type = page AND ((lastmodified < now("-12M")) AND (created < now("-18M")))) AND space in ("XYZ")
```

<br />

...but if a page gets archived with children, all children move up the hierachie and this creates quite a mess


Answers:
author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: You can't, I am afraid.

In CQL, you can test for [parent](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/cql-fields/#parent) and even for [ancestors](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/cql-fields/#ancestor), but there is no CQL field for children or descendants. If there were, then you'd append a clause like these to your query:
> ... and children is empty
>
> ... and descendants is empty


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Companion app stopped working
Asked by Ryan McMullen:

Until today, the Companion app worked flawlessly on our system. We are running Confluence DC 7.19.14 and the companion app is 1.6.1.

We do connect to confluence using windows certificates and there is no problem with connecting and logging into confluence but when trying to edit a file I get the following in the companion log:

```
info: adc:browser 2023-10-12T13:10:15.018Z direct websocket launched successfully on port: 31459
info: adc:file-manifest 2023-10-12T13:10:24.373Z Launching custom protocol for Window.
info: adc:serverauth 2023-10-12T13:10:24.374Z Found trusted domain in database: OURSITE
error: adc:ServerFacade 2023-10-12T13:10:25.552Z Could not get temp link information: 
error: adc:ServerFacade 2023-10-12T13:10:25.552Z Error: net::ERR_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT_NEEDED
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.<anonymous> (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:49386)
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.emit (node:events:513:28)
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.emit (node:domain:489:12)
error: adc:ServerFacade 2023-10-12T13:10:25.552Z Error: net::ERR_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT_NEEDED
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.<anonymous> (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:49386)
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.emit (node:events:513:28)
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.emit (node:domain:489:12)
info: adc:ErrorHandler - 2023-10-12T13:10:25.552Z Unable to JSON parse and extract response error responseText: undefined
error: adc:ProtocolHandler 2023-10-12T13:10:25.552Z Error parsing protocol link 
error: adc:ProtocolHandler 2023-10-12T13:10:25.552Z Error: net::ERR_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT_NEEDED
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.<anonymous> (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:49386)
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.emit (node:events:513:28)
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.emit (node:domain:489:12)
error: adc:ProtocolHandler 2023-10-12T13:10:25.552Z Error: net::ERR_SSL_CLIENT_AUTH_CERT_NEEDED
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.<anonymous> (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:49386)
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.emit (node:events:513:28)
at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.emit (node:domain:489:12)
```

My system did do a windows update yesterday so I'm not sure if one of the cumulative updates messed up something with the process or not.

I have rebooted, uninstalled companion app and reinstalled it, verified I an logged into confluence.


Answers:
author: Bogdan Dragoiu
body: For others affected, a bug has been opened under <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-94080>. I'd urge you to vote on it by clicking " This affects my team" under "Affected customers".


author: Bogdan Dragoiu
body: Please re-implement this. We see that it seems to still works with 1.4.6, but we require this for newer 2.x clients.


Tags: confluence-server

server
sync confluence instances
Asked by Asaf Benyamini:

is it possible to sync two instances of Confluence, where one site is on the internet, and the other is on an air-gapped network?


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Asaf Benyamini](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/347172) ,

Sync confluence instances is not a builtin feature (there is an open request for that <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-40456>). BTW, sync using your own approach or third part app is possible if the two different instances are able to interact. If one instance is not visible by the other, you can't.

Fabio


Tags: confluence-server

server