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How does one include the entire page including the comments section?
Asked by Linda Gardea:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Include Page Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139514)*

How does one include an entire page including the comments section?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: You cannot do this. Can you talk about your usecase a little bit?

comments: author: Linda Gardea
body: Historically we collaborated with SME using a massive blog/webpage on another platform to gather requirements and information. Often the information for one feature was very relevant to other features. Testers who had to ensure the features were all implemented consistently appreciated having all information in one place.

Now that we are on Confluence we want to break up these collaborations into decisions or smaller topic pages with more focus. We expect our subject matter experts will find the comments the easiest way to quickly collaborate (no need to edit the page and determine where they need to give feedback/more information).

I want to re-create a summary page for our testers that need to access all information especially if we are breaking things up so much. I figured I could do this using the include feature, but unfortunately we are missing key information contained in comments. I would love to see an option to include comments for the include macro.

We also discussed disabling comments, but we'd rather be able to include them.

Any workarounds or plans to allow this functionality in the future?


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Foremost I am not an Atlassian so I don't know what is planned. I haven't found a related suggestion to this yet in <https://jira.atlassian.com> so I am not sure.

Are you on Confluence Cloud or Confluence self-hosted? If we're talking Confluence Cloud I am afraid you're out of luck. If you're using self-hosted Confluence I am **sure** we can figure something out.


author: Linda Gardea
body: We have a self hosted version of Confluence.


author: Randy_Elias
body: Running into the same issue on a self-hosted deployment.

Any ideas how to overcome this?

[@Linda Gardea](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/558676) - Did you find a way around this issue?

Thanks,

Randy


Tags: confluence-cloud

include
I'm trying to copy a large page but it seems to only copy a fraction of it. is there a limit to the size of copiable pages?
Asked by Abraham Poultridge:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Copy a Page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139013)*

See title.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Can you show us an example of a failing copy?


author: Milo Test
body: I don't know of any limits to the copy. Anything special on the page, such as include macros, third-party table macros, etc.?


Tags: copy

page
Looking for a way to do automated test logins to Confluence (to detect application downtime).
Asked by Max Hozven:

Hello,

I'm looking for a recommendation for a tool we can run from another computer on our network to periodically test logins to Confluence v5.9.2 (and alert us when it stops becoming possible)? I know there's many choices out there, hoping for one that confirmed works with Confluence logins. Also that could ideally log out of the session after (as if a login is successful, I know the next login will warn that you are already logged in, which I think would break most automated login scripts).

Please let me know, thank you.

-Max


Answers:
author: Joseph Pursel
body: Max.

I automated JIRA testing using Jmeter for similar reasons as you describe. I have not automated Confluence testing yet.

I have Jmeter login, perform some scripted issue comments and Agile board changes, and logout. Jmeter can be configured to write your results to a log file for later viewing, and you can watch the tests using a monitor.

to verify the results, I access the JIRA issues updated to see when comments were made and match them to the time Jmeter recorded the action.

Hope this helps.

Joseph

comments: author: Max Hozven
body: Joseph,

Thank you for your suggestion below.

I have not used jmeter before, but just watched a video demonstration, I will try it out for this purpose. If I can get it to work, I'll have to figure out how to script it and determine when it fails so it can email me an alert. Have you ever done something like this before in your environment?

Here's the video I found for others who are interested:

JMeter - How To Login Into A Web Application {#toc-hId--1093049956}
===================================================================

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGkrSFKcj10>

Thank you.

-Max


author: Steven F Behnke
body: You should be able to use basic authentication. Let me dig a little bit into that.


author: Max Hozven
body: Hello,

Thank you for your suggestion, much appreciated.

In our case, when the problem surfaces, the web page always responds (displaying login/password), after you enter a login and password, in the bottom left hand corner of the browser (Firefox) it says "Waiting for server confluence.example.com".

If we used a shell script :question: with the above, could we add login/password info, so it would try to login and enter a different result code for success vs. error?

The most I've ever done in the past is write shell scripts to ping hosts or determine if http/https is responding, nothing with automated logins.

-Max


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Have you considered just pinging the API?

A small query or perhaps some other endpoint -- [https://confluence.example.com/rest/api/search?cql=text+\~+%22query%22\&limit=1](https://confluence.example.com/rest/api/search?cql=text+~+%22query%22&limit=1)?


Tags: confluence-administration
Adding images has started to fail on the attach files panel, anyone know how to fix?
Asked by Kevin Shrapnell:

Stalled loading.png

On both OSX and Window, Chrome and Safari tested. Both used to work yesterday. No known update to browsers in that time frame.

Two instances show up on the panel when only 1 image was added.

Suggestions welcome

thanks

Kevin  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Adding-images-has-started-to-fail-on-the-attach-files-panel/qaq-p/347432?attachment-id=11619){#link_1186b07a857b4b}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/58703/1/Stalled%20loading.png){#display_1186b07a857b4b_0}


Answers:
author: Kevin Shrapnell
body: "fixed' itself the following day


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to reorder Jira issues that appear on the Jira issue collector in Confluence?
Asked by Colette Byers:

I'm pulling issues from multiple epics and want to change (and save) the order of the issues showing up in the macro. The idea is for us to put our highest priority items at the top and our lowest priority items at the bottom, but we need more granularity than the 5 priority markers. The hope is to reorder the items, regardless of their priority.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Not the JIRA Issue Collector -- The **JIRA Issues Macro**.

The macro is pretty static. There is no drag'n'drop functionality. The best you can do is add a ORDER BY clause to your JQL.


Tags: issue-collector
move pages does not work
Asked by Johannes:

we try to move pages within a space and between spaces. We have tried with different browsers.  
Sometimes the window as described in the documentation opens sometimes it does not. We have the latest version of Confluence 5.10

we are lost.

Johannes


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: Moving is a deleting action from the source Space and a create action in the destination Space

So I believe you need to have Space Page Delete Permissions in the source

and

both Space Page Create Permissions in the destination AND you must be included in the destination Parent page Edit Restrictions if they are set


author: Milo Test
body: Please provide more information:

* Procedure you're using for an inner-space move
* Procedure you're using for an inter-space move
* the specific errors you are receiving


author: Rodney Hughes
body: As I tried to say above, assuming you have Edit Permissions yourself in the Space, you need to check if there are any Page Restictions set on your page you want to move (i.e. you are allowed to Edit it) AND the page you want to move it to (you are allowed to Edit it as well). If you don't have all three as authority to Edit it won't work.

comments: author: Varsha Muzumdar
body: There are no page restrictions on the page. The other action buttons like Edit, Copy and Delete need to be clicked twice in order to function, whereas move does not function at all. Regarding the permissions, I have admin privileges and can Edit all the pages.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: I am not sure if your Admin priveleges override specifc Page Restrictions for View \&/or Edit. Please check the source and desitination parents don't have the red lock icon under the title.


author: Johannes
body: Hallo Milo,

we proceed like described in the documentation. We tried internet explorer, chrome and google. We even upgraded from 5.7 to 5.10 and restarted the server.  
Click while on the page MOVE  
but the "**Set Page Location" does not open.**   

I have administration rights and also space rights and all the permissions

johannes  

comments: author: Varsha Muzumdar
body: I am facing the same problem. Can someone please help? I am using 6.1.4
Is there a way to mass export spaces?
Asked by David Corken:

We are looking to build our training documentation in Confluence and want to make export the documents to PDF a paper manual. I know we can export one article at a time, but is there a way to mass export?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) has [exportPage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference#Reference-exportPage) and [exportSpace](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference#Reference-exportSpace) actions. Those can be combined with [runFromPageList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference#Reference-runFromPageList) or [runFromSpaceList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference#Reference-runFromSpaceList) respectively.


Tags: bulk-edit

export

pdf
HTTP Status 500 - org.springframework.jdbc.BadSqlGrammarException: Hibernate operation: Could not execute query; bad SQL grammar []; nested exception is com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Table 'confluence.BANDANA' doesn't exist
Asked by sri ram:

howto resolve the issue in confluence..


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi there,

The problem can be related to the collation of your database, please, check the **Cause 2** of this site -\> <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/upgrade-fails-java-sql-sqlexception-table-confluence-bandana-doesn-t-exist-due-to-case-sensitivity-123044020.html>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This means a damaged or unreachable database.

What did you do to provoke this error?


Tags: confluence-administration
User duplicated in search box
Asked by JM:

Hello,

I have a problem with an user on some search forms. The user appears 2 times instead of 1 and if you go to "Admins - Users" and find the user, the user is not duplicated.

How can I solve it?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Did you try to rebuild the indexing of your content?

1. Go to **General Configuration**.
2. Search for the **Content Indexing** option in the left side bar.
3. Click on **Rebuild**.


Tags: confluence-administration
i cant edit office documents in office 2010 with confluence
Asked by danny harris:

i cant edit spreadsheets in excel i have the webdav firefox addin installed

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[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/i-cant-edit-office-documents-in-office-2010-with-confluence/qaq-p/126620?attachment-id=11210){#link_1186b0de497868}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/21088/1/capture2.jpg){#display_1186b0de497868_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/i-cant-edit-office-documents-in-office-2010-with-confluence/qaq-p/126620?attachment-id=11211){#link_1186b0de497868_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/21088/2/capture%203.png){#display_1186b0de497868_2}


Answers:
author: Damien Braz
body: Hi Danny,

The problem is probably due to your path.

Maybe try to create a new excel 'June_16'.

A space in a path is often a problem :smile:

Damien.

comments: author: danny harris
body: Hi Damien

Thanks for replying what I dont understand if this is issue why is it only affecting a number of users the rest of the users are using it just fine I ve looked at the working systems to see if theres any diffrence but there isnt - it dont make sense if there was an issue using the space it would affect everyone wouldnt it?


author: Damien Braz
body: Nope, that's weird, but, i found [this](http://forums.asp.net/t/1740537.aspx?Microsoft+Excel+cannot+access+the+file+is+solved+by+creating+a+folder+) on Google...

It will be long, but, I can't really know why there is a problem only with some people.

Are you all using the same Excel's version?


author: danny harris
body: yes we re all using office 2010 so its really strange
how can I change site administrator in Confluence?
Asked by Rhona Sweeting:

Hello,

The administrator who set up Confluence in my organisation has left and I need global access to the system.

At the moment, I have some permissions, but need a greater range (i.e. the ability to delete spaces etc).

Can anybody advise?

Thanks,

Rhona


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Check this out: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html>


Tags: confluence-administration
Firefox does not load attachments (images, pdf etc)
Asked by Thomas Nyrup:

I have a problem when using Firefox in our Confluence (locally hosted)

Firefox does not load attachments, such as image files, pdfs, and other documents.  
When clicking on the file attachment or image, it just keeps loading. I can choose to download the file no problem, but we would like to be able to view the file(s) in-line in.

Creating a new page in Confluence using Firefox causes the same loading to continue endlessly.

Works fine in Chrome and Safari.

Opening attachments on other Confluence sites works fine in Firefox, so it might be a configuration problem at our end.

Any ideas?

Screen Shot 2016-06-29 at 10.56.35.pngScreen Shot 2016-06-29 at 10.57.57 (2).png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Firefox-does-not-load-attachments-images-pdf-etc/qaq-p/296625?attachment-id=6818){#link_11906d2e68a5c8}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/50173/1/Screen%20Shot%202016-06-29%20at%2010.56.35.png){#display_11906d2e68a5c8_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Firefox-does-not-load-attachments-images-pdf-etc/qaq-p/296625?attachment-id=6819){#link_11906d2e68a5c8_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/50173/2/Screen%20Shot%202016-06-29%20at%2010.57.57%20(2).png){#display_11906d2e68a5c8_2}


Answers:
author: Damien Braz
body: Hi Thomas,

It's probably not a problem with Confluence.

That's, I think, a question to ask directly at Mozilla.

I found [this](https://support.mozilla.org/fr/questions/979039), i help it can help you with your issue :smile:

Damien.


Tags: attachment

create-page

firefox

image
confluence usage
Asked by Berthold Neldner:

Hello guys, I have 3 questions to the use of confluence.  
1) If Atlassian changes Customer Agreement and/or EULA -- how does the Atlassian Customer notice this? Is there any information service?  
2) Content Share between different Instances: Is it allowed to connect via API to a Confluence instance and copy the Content to another Confluence instance?  
3)I s it possible to use any number of CPUs in the server or is there a limit?  
Thx for Help!


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: 1. I am not sure about this
2. Yes. You should have different licenses for both the instances though
3. There is no limit. It depends on your data and the load.


Tags: jira
Migrating spaces between confluence instances
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

Hi All

Iam trying to migrate a few spaces from one confluence instance to another. And i am going to do it via xml export and xml import for spaces.

My question to you is, will the xml export contain all the attachments, contents, videos etc? or will i need to copy some folders manually from the physical server as well (something similar we do in JIRA project import for attachments folder)

Rahul  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Migrating-spaces-between-confluence-instances/qaq-p/36803?attachment-id=10986){#link_1186b11d0daaec}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/6158/1/export-xml-2.PNG){#display_1186b11d0daaec_0}


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Yes. It contains everything including attachments. No need to manually move them.

comments: author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: Thanks Jobin , just wanted to confirm.


author: Smita
body: What happens to the users of the spaces ? If I try to migrate from one instance to another , and the target instance doesn't have any user

A) Does it create USERS upon migration ?

OR

B) It is a prerequisite to create users before migrating ?

OR

C) Is it okay if we create users post to migration of spaces and it will fix the "Unknown user" stuff?

<br />

Thanks

SMita


author: Chander Inguva
body: Hi @Rahul Aich \[Nagra\],

All you have to do is select Full XML Export instead of custom as shown below are screenshots for reference.
You need to have export Space permission or you should be a confluence administrator.

**Step 1 :**

export-xml-1.PNG

**Step 2:**

export-xml-2.PNG

Hope this helps

Regards

Chander  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Migrating-spaces-between-confluence-instances/qaq-p/36803?attachment-id=4725){#link_1186b133f299f2}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/6161/1/export-xml-2.PNG){#display_1186b133f299f2_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Migrating-spaces-between-confluence-instances/qaq-p/36803?attachment-id=4726){#link_1186b133f299f2_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/6161/2/export-xml-1.PNG){#display_1186b133f299f2_2}

comments: author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: thanks Chander, it confirms my understanding.


author: Chander Inguva
body: Awesome Rahul!!


author: pdbarnes
body: Uh, the text in your screen image, and in my Confluence, says it **does not**export attachments, blogs or comments:

```
Full Export (includes pages not visible to you) Generates a XML file for each page in this space, including those not visible to you, and excluding blogs, comments, and attachments.
```


author: Stephane Desrochers
body: You're wrigth Peter! The UI still have this notice (on my 5.10 server version) but is is wrong. I expect it is fixed in some later versions.


author: Brian M Thomas
body: Just another voice agreeing that the UI is incorrect. It has been partially fixed; my version only says that blogs are excluded, but I have exported many a space, and nothing is excluded.


Tags: confluence-administration

migration
Add HTML code to Confluence page
Asked by Davor:

I would like to add world clock to page in Confluence  

<http://localtimes.info/getwidget/10100/>

<br />

Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Davor
body: Error rendering macro 'html' : Space with key '\<!-Local Time Clock widget - HTML code - [localtimes.info](http://localtimes.info) --\>\<div align="center" style="margin' not found.

comments: author: JONATHAN BOHLMANN
body: Did you get this to work?


author: Davor
body: Ok, thanks but i cant manage to show this:

[http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personal.html?cities=234,166,281,33\&wch=2](http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personal.html?cities=234,166,281,33&wch=2)

On my confluence page


author: Damien Braz
body: Hi Davor,

You can use [HTML Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/html-macro-38273085.html) for this.

Don't forget to enable it! :smile:

If you don't trust all your user, you could also use the [Confluence Source Editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/server/overview).

Damien.


Tags: html
Disable printing for whole space
Asked by Toni Iton:

Hi,

I know there is the option to disable printing for some parts / pages via a user macro (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf52/noprint-example-of-a-user-macro-401441976.html>) Is it also possible to apply this (e.g. via CSS customizing) to a whole space? Using the macro is errorprone if you forget to add it to a page..


Answers:
author: Renato
body: Hi Steven, I am actually looking for a way to disable the export and printing functions in general. Any idea how I can accomplish that?

Thanks in advance.

-Renato


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Tell us about what you're trying to accomplish please. If you want to globally remove the menu items for export, that's a possibility. If you'd like to disable exporting in general, that should also be possible.


Tags: confluence-administration

css

macro

print
Search on Macro Created Values
Asked by Lara Ramsay:

Hello! Fairly new to Confluence, experienced JIRA (user and admin.)

We are setting up a proof of concept to use Confluence as a requirements repository. I've created templates for some of our standard deliverables. We have a need to add attributes to the documents created via the templates.

I created a user macro that creates drop down lists for the user to fill in - but the downside is that the value is searchable when it's just text typed in a confluence page, but not when it's created via the macro.

(Example: A field we need is Product. The user macro presents options Product A, Product B, Product C. When I search "Product A" the page created with the macro does not appear. Ideal scenario would be able to search "Product: Product A" but even a search result of "Product A" would be helpful.)

I know the best way to collect data attributes like this is via labels, but I'm not sure we can expect our new to Confluence users to consistently add the correct labels (I've embedded static ones within the templates).

Ideally, I'd like the macro values to be searchable. Another idea I searched for was forcing the addition of labels, or converting text to labels but I'm coming up short on all my ideas.

Thanks for any help you can throw my way.


Answers:
author: Benjamin Weinheimer-Erben _mgm-tp_
body: Hi Lara,

have you tried the list-option of Template Variables: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-template-296093779.html#CreateaTemplate-Templatevariables>

Another solution could be the Scaffolding-Plugin with Label-Options-Macro: <https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/SCAF/label-options>

Another idea could be to work with the Page-Properties Macro. Based on your Confluence version, as it is new i assume you have 5.10, you can perform more or less advanced searches for values in a page-property...

so far my first ideas

greetings  
Benjamin

comments: author: Lara Ramsay
body: I had tried the list variables option - I can't recall why I didn't quite like it :smile:

But I just used it again *within* the page properties macro and I think this might be the best solution! Since we are still in the POC stage, we're pretty locked down on bringing in add-ons (for the moment) but I'll save this link to look at in the future - seems like labels can be super useful.

Thanks so much for your help! This will work for us! Thank you.


author: Michael Caron
body: Given the suggested answer, it seems that searching macro content is a no-go?