Is there a bug on the popular questions macro?
Asked by Jonathan Beattie:

I've added the 'popular Questions' macro to many of my Confluence pages, with the 'Ask a Question' button included. I have also set topic tags to filter for the macro (i.e. so that it only shows Questions with these topic tags).

It looks like there is a bug with this macro, because the 'ask a question' button does not appear ***until a question is asked with one of the filtered topic tags.*** This makes for a poor user experience as people can't ask Questions directly from these Confluence pages until there is at least one question with one of the topic tags designated for that macro. This doesn't seem to make sense and I'm thinking this is a bug with the macro.

Can someone please look into this issue and let me know if/when it should be resolved?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I reproduced the case you describe to the best of my understanding. I filtered on a topic with no questions but the "Ask a question" button did appear.![Screen Shot 2017-05-05 at 9.16.52 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/952iA87BA3AFC43D26B4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-05-05 at 9.16.52 AM.png")Please let me know what version of Questions and what version of Confluence you are using.

comments: author: Jonathan Beattie
body: Thanks Ann! The version of Confluence I am using is Confluence 1000.1138.0 . I'm assuming the version of my Questions space would be the same, but if not, please let me know. This bug is still persisting for me across numerous Confluence pages.

![Popular Questions 'Ask a Question' Button Bug.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1204iFD8A9F0C20CCEE4C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Popular Questions 'Ask a Question' Button Bug.png")


author: Jonathan Beattie
body: Hey Ann, I was hoping to get a follow-up on the above. I am also seeing another bug when using the 'Popular Questions' macro. When I ask a Question from the main 'Questions' space, it will give me recommended topic tags to use when adding them to my Question.

However, when asking a Question using the 'Ask a Button' feature on a Confluence page, it does not give any recommended topic tags while I am entering them in. This allows users to enter multiple variations of the same topic whereas the recommendations provided using the main Questions space solve for this problem.

Is this a known bug for the 'Ask a Question' button, and does Atlassian have any plans to solve for this?


author: AnnWorley
body: From the version you are reporting I can see that you are using our Confluence Cloud offering. I wanted to test the behavior you are describing but Questions is temporarily unavailable for my Cloud test instance. The best course of action now is to [open a support request](https://getsupport.atlassian.com) so the Cloud support team can check whether the issues are happening on all Cloud instances or if not, if there is a way they can fix yours.


author: Jonathan Beattie
body: Hi Ann, we actually recently migrated to having Atlassian hosted on a server. Should I still open a support request?


author: AnnWorley
body: That is interesting because the current Server version is 6.2.1 - the version you are reporting has never been a server version (1000.1138.0). Please do open a ticket so Support can examine your logs.


author: Jonathan Beattie
body: Hi Ann, sorry again for the confusion. We are on Confluence 6.0.6. Hopefully this helps.


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