youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Create Clickable Link to Insert JIRA Issue/Filter
Asked by Michael Fisher:

I apologize if this has been asked before. I'm a JIRA/Confluence newbie and delving into creating a custom template. I've searched all over, but cant seem to find anything

In the generic "Product Requirements" Template, there is a preset field for "Epic" where in the field next to it, you can click and it automatically pops up the "Insert JIRA Issue/Filter" field. I am now creating my own custom template and I want the same functionality, but cannot seem to get it. Pictures are below.

Can someone please assist.

Thank you!

![epic field.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18053i141595F047872665/image-dimensions/551x156?v=v2 "epic field.PNG")

![jira-issue field.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18052iE676B962CF257A8A/image-dimensions/542x386?v=v2 "jira-issue field.PNG")


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Michael,

The Product Requirements template is actually a Blueprint and not a template, so it was developed specifically for that purpose. It's not possible to create your own using the template method.

For more information, have a look at [Developing Blueprints](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ca.nuum.ajii/server/overview) from our Developer documentation.

Clicking that link just gives you the option to insert the Jira Issues Macro, which also allows you to create your own. If you want users to create their own issues from your template, then they'll need to highlight the text they want to create an issue from.

Another option would be to use an add-on, such as this:

* [Advanced Jira Issue Insert Macro](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ca.nuum.ajii/server/overview)

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Michael Fisher
body: That's all I really wanted to do, was find out how to insert the ability to click a link and insert the macro. I was able to figure it out by just copy/pasting the existing field from the Product Requirement blueprints.

Not super intuitive, but it works.

Thank you!


author: Shannon S
body: Michael,

Glad you were able to get it working.

Take care,

Shannon


Tags: atl-dev

jira

macro
Space admin can't add users
Asked by Ron Jacob:

whenever a space admin trying to add users in space its prompting for system admin password window, as a result space admin cant ad/remove users


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Ron,

The admin password dialog is expected for space admins, they should be able to just enter their password and then proceed to add users to the permissions page.

To make sure this behavior is still expected, I created a test user (Charlie) on my Confluence 6.8 instance and gave the user space admin permission and no other administrative access. When the user started to add another user to the space permissions this dialog appeared:

![Screen Shot 2018-03-27 at 2.20.08 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18049i00A533BC00B81CAC/image-dimensions/359x273?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-03-27 at 2.20.08 PM.png")

After I entered Charlie's password I was able to add the user to the space permissions.

I look forward to hearing if your user can get past the dialog by entering their password as a space admin.

Thanks,  
Ann

comments: author: Ron Jacob
body: Hi Ann

Is there any way to disable password prompt


author: AnnWorley
body: Absolutely!

Just uncheck **Secure administrator sessions**, at Confluence admin console\>Security Configuration\>Secure Administrator sessions or \<Confluence_Base_URL/admin/viewsecurityconfig.action:

![Screen Shot 2018-03-27 at 3.55.45 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18058iB569B83C62586095/image-dimensions/767x53?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-03-27 at 3.55.45 PM.png")


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yep, see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-secure-administrator-sessions-218269595.html>
Is there a way to change the page history difference notification email or version comparison?
Asked by David Perez:

End users are asking

"Have been wondering for awhile if there is anything that can be done to improve the 'diff' e-mails/page history that we get from Docs. Attaching an example, where it is very difficult to skim through and pin-point the change. It's a little better, but still relatively painful, to track down the change on the web-history view too..."


Answers:
author: thais
body: Hi, David,

We opened a feature request for your suggestion here:   
[CONFCLOUD-59375 - Easier to see version comparison: page history difference and notifications emails](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-59375)You may be also interested on this feature request:   
[CONFCLOUD-14888 - Better control of email notifications for new, changed, and removed content](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-14888)

Please feel free to add yourself as a watcher to it, voting to increase its popularity. More information can be found at our [Implementation of New Features Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/implementation-of-new-features-policy-201294576.html).

comments: author: David Perez
body: You got my vote!


author: thais
body: Thanks, it will give more visibility to the feature request.
Newly created Groups not showing up in Confluence
Asked by Laurel Moczydlowski:

Hello!

My organization uses the server version, I just created a group in Jira and added the team members, however it's not showing up on the confluence side. Has anyone seen this issue before?

Thanks,

Laurel


Answers:
author: Laurel Moczydlowski
body: Thanks all, this somehow ended up resolving it self. Not quite sure how.


author: Mikael Sandberg
body: If you are using Jira as your user directory, check the logs to see if there are any errors. Even if the sync says it was successful, that is not always true, it has happened to me a couple of times that a new user does not show up in Confluence. The easiest way of fixing it is to create a new user directory and disable the old one.


author: Leo Diaz DEISER
body: Hi [@Laurel Moczydlowski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1192182)

Check your user directories on Confluence:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/connecting-to-crowd-or-jira-for-user-management-229838465.html>

It's necessary to have at least 1 Jira or Crowd directory.

Cheers!
Creating a staging environment
Asked by Karl Pfeil:

In the documentation Creating a staging environment for upgrading Confluence - under #3 Replicate Confluence - step #5 Start Confluence with the following .. where do you edit?

    -Datlassian.notifications.disabled=true-Datlassian.mail.senddisabled=true?

Also under #3 Replicate Confluence - My current confluence is a VM, VMware with a Simplivity host. If I were do a restore from a backup turn off the current and power on the restored VM - different name. Could I just edit the confluence-init. properties and the confluence.cfg.xml, edited the base URL, license will be the same, and check system information. Would this work? Of course I would have backed up the DB and restored with another name. But I would still need to stop the send notification from my first question.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Check out <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-system-properties-168002854.html> on how to give the additional properties on startup.

I didn't fully get the second part of the question but, yes, you can edit the base url to point to the new url.

comments: author: Karl Pfeil
body: So ad just add it - See last two lines: does this need to be at the end? - ${CATALINA_OPTS}

# Set the JVM arguments used to start Confluence. For a description of the options, see  
# <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html>  
CATALINA_OPTS="-XX:-PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:-PrintTenuringDistribution ${CATALINA_OPTS}"  
CATALINA_OPTS="-Xloggc:$LOGBASEABS/logs/gc-\`date +%F_%H-%M-%S\`.log -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=5 -XX:GCLogFileSize=2M ${CATALINA_OPTS}"  
CATALINA_OPTS="-XX:G1ReservePercent=20 ${CATALINA_OPTS}"  
CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true ${CATALINA_OPTS}"  
CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.plugins.enable.wait=300 ${CATALINA_OPTS}"  
CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:+UseG1GC ${CATALINA_OPTS}"  
CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.notifications.disabled=true"  
CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.mail.senddisabled=true"


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Something like this:

```
CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.notifications.disabled=true -Datlassian.mail.senddisabled=true ${CATALINA_OPTS}"
```


author: Karl Pfeil
body: Thanks. Now the next step #6 - Head to http://localhost:\<port\> does not seem to work. I must be missing something?
Is there an easy way to notify a page owner of a needed update?
Asked by Franco Posa:

I am looking for some structured way of letting a page owner know that some particular info on the page is out of date/incorrect/confusing. It could be a tag on the page or anything, really. The main requirement I am looking for is ability to leave feedback on a page in a manner that will notify the owner automatically.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Mikael Sandberg
body: You could use the comments on a page and @ mention the owner. You also have the option to leave inline comments, see [Comment on pages and blog posts](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/comment-on-pages-and-blog-posts-139483.html).
Confluence export to PDF
Asked by Jes?s Jorge Mu?oz:

Hello there,  

I have defined some rules on Confluence PDF export stylesheet to customize some properties of documents. One of them is that the first page of content is defined as a cover, with a custom background color.  

By default, if I export to PDF documents containing divs with custom background color, Confluence adds some margin and padding to it. To solve this, I've defined the following rules in PDF export stylesheet:  

```
@page :first{      

size: 210mm 297mm;     

margin: 0;      

padding: 0; 

}    
```

But for some reason, if I use these rules, the content in other pages get cut, making large paragraphs, tables, images , etc not completely visible, even being these properties set to only the first page of content.  

Is there some kind of solution to this question? Or is this a bug of the PDF export module?  

Kind regards,  

Jes?s


Answers:
author: thais
body: Hi, Jes?s,

I could replicate the behaviour you described on our test instance, and opened the following bug report on the issue:

[CONFCLOUD-59394 - Adding code for first page on PDF Stylesheet truncates export on the right side](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-59394)

We suggest you add yourself as a watcher there to receive the latest updates and changes in status from the developers, adding any information you'd like to share in the comments. You can also find more information on our bug fixing policy [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/atlassian-cloud-bug-fixing-policy-206865884.html).

comments: author: Jes?s Jorge Mu?oz
body: Hi Thais,  

Thank you very much for your support! I've already added myself as a watcher as you suggested.  

I hope this question could be helpful for someone else.


Tags: atl-dev

cloud

export

pdf
I can't create lists in the 'Cascading List' Custom Field
Asked by Ann-Marie Grace:

When I try to create a cascading list (2 adjacent drop-down lists) in Custom Fields, there is no 'Options' field where I can add the content for the list items. Can anyone help or advise in plain English as opposed to code?! Many thanks.


Answers:
author: Fazila Ashraf
body: Hi [@Ann-Marie Grace](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1168370)

Trying my best to put it simple :)

1) Click on configure of "Cascading select' field that you created and then Edit options to configure the main list:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18074i1E7DB33EB3045A02/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")2) Feed in the main choices and then click on "Configure" of the main choice to feed in the sub choices

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18077iB39E763E401906EB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18076i5B111477621FC3AC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

comments: author: Ann-Marie Grace
body: Thanks so much [@Fazila Ashraf](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/538419), it's working beautifully now!


author: Fazila Ashraf
body: Glad that it was helpful! If my answer was useful, you can choose to accept the answer (the tick before the answer) :)
How do we block Nosso logins for Saml SingleSignOn?
Asked by Syed Ehteshamuddin:

Is there a way to block Nosso logins for SAML Single Sign-On? I want users always use SSO login to get in confluence but just should be able to access when there is an emergency like AD failure etc..


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Syed,

If you are using [SAML Single Sign On (SSO) for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.resolution.atlasplugins.samlsso.Confluence/server/support) then this documentation has instructions for disabling the nosso URL: [Step 5: Enable login redirection](https://wiki.resolution.de/doc/saml-sso/latest/all/setup-guides-for-confluence-saml-sso/setup-saml-sso-with-ad-fs-confluence#id-.SetupSAMLSSOwithADFS(Confluence)v2.0.x-Step5)

The way I read the document, it looks like you would have no way to log in when AD fails if you disable login redirection. Please consider using a proxy, firewall or other network mechanism to block the URL: https://\<your-confluence\>/login.action?nosso It seems like it would be easier to do that than disable the plugin in the database or otherwise workaround SAML SSO to access Confluence in the event that Confluence somehow can't reach AD.

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Syed Ehteshamuddin
body: Thank you [@AnnWorley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502040) will try to block it on firewall level.


author: Christian Reichert (resolution)
body: Hi [@Syed Ehteshamuddin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1143470),

I work for resolution, the company developing the plugin you are using.

Currently there is no way to block the ?nosso from the plugin itself. A couple of customers have requested to be able to globally disable the ?nosso feature. We accepted this as a feature request and it has been selected for development for the next version 2.1.0 which should come out over the next 3 weeks.

However to be explicit once you disables the ?nosso the only Way to get to the old login prompt \& login during a failure (i.e. Your ADFS down) is to restart Confluence in safe-mode or to disable the redirection via a REST call and a local admin User.

Thanks [@AnnWorley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502040) for your collaboration ...

<br />

Cheers,  
Christian


author: An Dinh
body: I can see 'Enable nosso' checkbox now.


Tags: administration
Unexpected logs while creating pages in Confluence Java API.
Asked by Orkun Gedik:

I am creating pages via confluence api. When this line is called;

```
pageManager.saveContentEntity(page, new DefaultSaveContext(true, true, true));
```

\<confluence-home\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log is printing a log in info level as following.

```
2018-03-27 17:12:20,648 INFO [http-nio-8090-exec-9] [plugins.synchrony.service.SynchronyExternalChangesManager] performExternalChange Started external change for ContentId{id=68074}
2018-03-27 17:12:20,651 INFO [http-nio-8090-exec-9] [synchrony.service.http.SynchronyRequestExecutor] execute Initiating request PUT http://127.0.0.1:8091/synchrony/v1/data/Synchrony-f3476aab-5f02-39e2-a9a2-7fefc1d45fe9/confluence-68074?state-at=@head&state-format=html HTTP/1.1 for 68074
2018-03-27 17:12:20,683 INFO [http-nio-8090-exec-9] [plugins.synchrony.service.SynchronyExternalChangesManager] performExternalChange Started external change for ContentId{id=68075}
2018-03-27 17:12:20,687 INFO [http-nio-8090-exec-9] [synchrony.service.http.SynchronyRequestExecutor] execute Initiating request PUT http://127.0.0.1:8091/synchrony/v1/data/Synchrony-f3476aab-5f02-39e2-a9a2-7fefc1d45fe9/confluence-68075?state-at=@head&state-format=html HTTP/1.1 for 68075

```

I could not figure it out why this logs are printing. Any idea will be helpful.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I see similar INFO messages creating a page in Confluence using the UI:

```
2018-03-27 10:09:39,289 INFO [http-nio-8090-exec-5] [plugins.synchrony.service.SynchronyExternalChangesManager] performExternalChange Started external change for ContentId{id=65630}
2018-03-27 10:09:39,290 INFO [http-nio-8090-exec-5] [synchrony.service.http.SynchronyRequestExecutor] execute Initiating request PUT http://127.0.0.1:8091/synchrony/v1/data/Synchrony-7f6db90c-bdea-3c1b-aa1a-97d149df8c34/confluence-65630?state-at=@head&state-format=html HTTP/1.1 for 65630
```

Based on this, I think these log entries are expected behavior when creating content in Confluence. Please let me know if these entries are impeding your productivity/ability to use Confluence, etc, and if there is anything we can do to help.


Tags: atl-dev

confluence-development

synchrony
Is there a code box with tabs for multiple programming languages?
Asked by Ivan Agafonov:

Is there a macros that could display one code box for several programming languages (as in the screenshot below)?

![sample.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18026i52F82B03FCBC4BBF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "sample.png")


Answers:
author: Eric Lam
body: Hey Ivan,

There isn't anything out of the box in Confluence that allows to show a tabbed layout but with the third party *[Composition Tabs \& Page Layout](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.composition/server/overview?)* add-on, it is possible to achieve a layout similar to your example screenshot.

After installing the *Composition Tabs \& Page Layout* add-on, you can add a *Deck of Cards* and then add *multiple cards* that each contain *Code Blocks with the relevant syntax highlighting.*

A picture describes a thousand words!

The **Editing Page** raw macro look:

![EditingPageMacroLook.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18080i47A9748A8BB9A662/image-dimensions/600x624?v=v2 "EditingPageMacroLook.png")

The **End User Page** look:

![EndUserPageLook.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18081i764A7E4724619D12/image-dimensions/600x390?v=v2 "EndUserPageLook.png")

Cheers,

Eric

comments: author: Ivan Agafonov
body: Thx a lot for your reply! That macros looks absolutely great. But we've got the cloud version, so it's not compatible :(


Tags: atlassian-marketplace
Calender Plugin Not available
Asked by Deepthi Raj:

I am unable to find the calender plugin in the Insert \>\> Macros under my project . If the calender plugin is not available ,how to i enable it and get it added .

Please advise


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi there,

The calendar macro is a part of Team Calendars add-on in Confluence which is a separate subscription.

Can you confirm that you have ordered Team Calendars and it's installed on your instance?

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Wie kann ich die Reihenfolge der Stichw?rter in einem Bericht ?ndern?
Asked by Marco von Glutz:

Wie kann ich die Reihenfolge der Stichw?rter/Tags in einem Bericht ?ndern (z.B. nach Erfassungsreihenfolge oder nach Alphabet)?

How can I change the order of the tags in a report (currently they are not sorted either by order of capture or alphabetically.) I would like to capture order.


Answers:
author: Jan-Peter Rusch
body: Was f?r ein Bericht? Content by Label?

comments: author: Marco von Glutz
body: Bei einem Eintrag oder auch Beitrag, zu welchem unten rechts entsprechende Stichw?rter/Tags definiert werden k?nnen.


Tags: language-de
How to add web links and link them with anchors in the code block in the same page ?
Asked by Nitin Srivastav:

I have a JSON and i need to describe each and every key as a link with which i can associate each key with an anchor on the same page.

The JSON i have provided is in the code block and the description of each key is outside the code block.


Answers:
author: Minh Tran
body: [@Nitin Srivastav](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1201782) Can you provide a sample json and a screenshot for what you are trying to do?
Trouble removing links to pages in Confluence
Asked by Guus Oosterbaan:

I created a number of links in a Confluence document to other documents in the same space. I created the links by copying the browser address from the other Confluence page and header into the link dialogue box.

Some of the links worked, some others not, very inconsistent.

Now I would like to remove the links. I select the link text, sometimes the link-properties-toolbar pops up (sometimes not) and press "remove link". Sometimes this works, but most of the time not.

Very annoying.

Someone knows what to do?


Answers:
author: Minh Tran
body: What Confluence version are you using [@Guus Oosterbaan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1199664)?


Tags: link
Not able to submit the edited content for a page
Asked by Sathish kumar:

We are getting "Error Processing your request" message to a page and now we are not able to edit or Update a particular page in confluence.

It shows 3-4 members have edited the same page.

Need some suggestion on how to resolve this issue.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Sathish,

All users on the instance aren't able to edit the page? Are you able to click edit and just not save it, or not even click edit?

I had a similar issue where I wasn't able to save something I was working on, so I opened a draft of the page in another tab, and was able to save that.

If this doesn't work, could you confirm your Confluence version, and let me know what error [occurs in the logs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/working-with-confluence-logs-108364721.html) when you try to edit or save the page?

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Sathish kumar
body: Thanks for your response.

Issue with Date macro - instead of using the date macro, somebody in the team has entered date manually. So it was not recognizing the date and not allowing anybody to update the changes in that page.

Correct the date and it is working fine now.


author: Shannon S
body: Good catch, Sathish! Thank you for letting me know what the resolution was.

Take care, and kind regards,

Shannon