youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Can we execute multiple Confluence Macros on same page in parallel?
Asked by AustinS:

Hey there,

We have one macro that could be used/added multiple times on single Confluence page. Right now we find it execute sequentially, but we want it can execute at same time when user press "Save" button. How could we make sure they executes in parallel?

Is there a way we can implement this or some config settings in Confluence we can use to switch executing order?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Why do you think you need to do this?

comments: author: AustinS
body: Customers' request. They want to load macros and get results faster.


author: AustinS
body: Is that possible in Confluence?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: "Customer request" is not an explanation of why you think you want to do this. It does not matter who is asking, the question is why?

To get results faster, look at performance. Remove macros from the page, optimise the code for the macros if they're your code, get faster networks, make sure your users are using proper browsers (not IE), get better servers, tune the JVM and so-on.


author: David Brama
body: It might be possible to run a transformer before the macro gets executed and replace the macro elements.

```
com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.transformers.Transformer?
```

can be registered in the plugin descriptor:

```
<transformer key="<TRANSFORMER KEY>" name="<TRANSFORMER NAME" class="<CLASS THAT IMPLEMENTS Transformer>" chain="storageToView" weight="-100000"/>
```
User Logon Problem From Our Website
Asked by Bing Hui:

We have lots of users from outside of our organization which log onto our website to access information. Once in a while a user is not able to log in. After a second or third try, the user is then able to log in.

When checking on our Crowd log, the ERROR logged was mainly as the following. This specific error occurred 206 times in the past 20 days.

2018-03-14 05:17:33,353 Caesium-1-1 ERROR \[atlassian.crowd.directory.DbCachingDirectoryPoller\]

Error occurred while refreshing the cache for directory \[ 655361 \].

com.atlassian.crowd.exception.OperationFailedException: org.springframework.ldap.CommunicationException:

192.168.x.xx:10389; nested exception is javax.naming.CommunicationException:

192.168.x.xx:10389 \[Root exception is java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out\]

If I haven't included enough information, feel free to ask. Any help is appreciated!

Thank You!

Bing


Answers:
author: Bruno Vincent
body: Hi [@Bing Hui](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1196941)

It's actually a bit hard to say without the full stack trace. Maybe it's a pure network issue. My guess is that it might have something to do with LDAP referrals, this is a common issue that is well explained on this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/hipchatkb/hipchat-server-synchronization-with-ldap-fails-with-javax-naming-communicationexception-domain-com-389-root-exception-is-java-net-sockettimeoutexception-connect-timed-out-884708776.html>

In which case, you should check that 'Use node referrals' is turned off in the connector's tab of your LDAP directory in Crowd's console.

comments: author: Bing Hui
body: [@Bruno Vincent](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853568)Thank you so much with your response! As of the network issue, I have been monitoring it and I haven't seen one packet been dropped yet. It maybe the network connection between Crowd and our Apache Directory Server 1.5X behind the scene. I probably have to dig deeper. We are only using the "Use native DN Matching" option and this is the only box is checked. I will take a look at the link and I am going to investigate a little more this weekend.

Thank You Again!

Bing


Tags: crowd
Comala Workflows - Approvals Workflow Report Macro
Asked by Jessica Sigafoos:

My team is currently testing Comala Workflows in our dev Confluence environment, and we're having problems getting Approvals Workflow Report Macro to work.

I'm working with a copy for the "Editor and staff approval workflow." The workflow is properly applied to the new test pages, but pages appear neither in the Workflow or Comala Workflow Tasks reports (I am both the "Editor in Chief" and in a custom group assigned to the "Reviewers" parameter).

I then tried using the Workflow Report reporting macro, selecting Approval as the Type. I'm not sure what value they're looking for Approval setting, I've tried using both the values I've set for workflow:name and approval but neither as worked.

To be clear, when I say it's not working, it's not populating the report with any content.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Jessica Sigafoos
body: For anyone else seeing the same problem, the fix was to rebuild the Confluence index (the index doesn't have a set rebuild schedule in our dev environment, which is why we were seeing the issue in the first place).

comments: author: Lynne Randolph
body: Also, I had built a table for pages awaiting approval and had noticed the same as you, some were not in there. But I put a Workflow Report as a second list on the page which is nice because it lists all of the pages in the workflow and their current status.

![workflow report.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/60769iED7C73C8AA5AB135/image-dimensions/568x313?v=v2 "workflow report.PNG")


author: Mike Rink
body: Hi Jessica, sorry for missing this post - were you able to resolve your issue? Let me know if not and we can look at how to sort it out.

comments: author: Jessica Sigafoos
body: Thanks for following up! Yes, I was able to resolve this issue.


author: Mike Rink
body: That's great! Glad to hear it.


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

comala

workflow
what is the optiminum way to search for an item in confluence "Googlishous"
Asked by Debi Siering:

Unable to easily locate something in confluence when performing queries/search. Used standard installation.

- How you make confluence "Googlish"quality of being similar to Google query search engine


Answers:
author: JanR
body: Debi,

did you notice the difference between the quicksearch (start typing into the search field instantly displays result based on page \& attachment titles) or the full search which opens when you press return in the search field: This search allows searching the page / attachment contents etc. The result is sorted by relevance where the page title count more than the page body. You can also filter the result by date, space, author, contact type,...

Hope that helped...


author: Davin Studer
body: Conflunece's search engine is actually quite full featured. The biggest issue is not being able to put wildcards at the front of search terms, but aside from that there is a pretty rich search syntax. The below link is Atlassian's documentation for their search syntax.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-syntax-158720.html>
How to create an index listing in Confluence
Asked by Doug Kozar:

I created a documentation page that I want to have show an index listing of various documents. How do I create a document summary page?

![Documentation Web Operations Confluence M C.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17130iDE33DD6B489F7B89/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Documentation Web Operations Confluence M C.png")


Answers:
author: JanR
body: You are using a page property report macro. This macro lists pages containing a page property macro with an embedded 2 column table. The first column contains the report table headers, the second column the values displayed in the report for that page. Additionally the pages displayed in the report must have a common label eg. webops-doc

Check this

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html>


author: Doug Kozar
body: I tried using labels but![Documentation Web Operations Confluence M C (1).png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17131i5D0192FEAB82D247/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Documentation Web Operations Confluence M C (1).png") it does not work.
Non-aggregate notification emails
Asked by william:

Is thee a way to configure Confluence Server so it does not send an aggregate notification email with a rollup of changes? For example if 5 people modify a page in a minute I want to see 5 separate notification emails for each user watching that content. I am not talking about daily digests as we already have those disabled.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi William,

You can change the interval before the changes are batched into one email:

[Email Notifications](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/email-notifications-145162.html)
> Batching window: System Administrators can change the batching window for changes and comments on the same page or blog post in the Send batched notifications scheduled job. Increase the time for fewer emails or reduce the time if more immediate notifications are essential in your site.

I look forward to hearing whether that works for your scenario,

Ann

comments: author: william
body: Unfortunately we can't allow any possibility of batching at all.


author: AnnWorley
body: The Send Batched Notifications [Scheduled Job](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/scheduled-jobs-96567525.html) cannot be disabled altogether but it could be set to run every second so that in order to be batched there would have to be multiple edits in a second.

We have a feature request open to make email notifications more configurable. You may add a comment or vote for it to communicate directly with the development team and emphasize your specific use case: [Make Email Notices Configurable](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-34094)
Excerpts and Table Filters
Asked by Casey Maynard:

I have a table that I have excerpted to several different pages. The problem I am having that if I filter on the new page that filter changes the original tables display.

Page 1: I have 7 different columns

Page 2: I only want 4 of the 7 original columns

Page 3 I want 3 of the original 7 but add one more

So when I change page 3, it then changes page 2 to show the 3 plus the new one.

How can I display a different set subsets of my master tables on different pages


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi there,

As this question mentions our [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) app, we are happy to introduce its new macro -- [Table Spreadsheet](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Spreadsheet+macro?utm_source=atl_community).

The macro allows you to work with fully functional Excel spreadsheets right in Confluence.

You'll be able to use cells' formulas, filters, conditional formatting, etc., create pivot tables and charts from the page view and edit mode.

![](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/download/attachments/83100938/Conditional%20formatting.png?version=1&modificationDate=1641987630000&api=v2&effects=border-simple,shadow-kn)

The Table Spreadsheet macro is available for Cloud and Server/Data Center.


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hello Casey,

You need to include only table without Table Filter macro from the main page and add separate Table Filter macros to page 2 and 3.


author: Davin Studer
body: What are you using to filter the columns?

comments: author: Casey Maynard
body: Table Filters and Charts for Confluence
Favicon is not being applied
Asked by Pedro_Furtado:

Favicon is not being applied in confluence 6.7.0


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Pedro,

You are right: [Cannot change favicon](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54888). The issue was fixed in Confluence 6.7.2. The workaround for Confluence 6.7.0 on the bug report is:
>
> ### Workaround {#toc-hId-1595835878}
>
1.
   > Shutdown Confluence
2.
   > Update \<confluence_install\>/confluence/images/brand-images/favicons/fav-confluence.ico with your custom favicon.ico
3.
   > Update \<confluence_install\>/confluence/johnson/fav-confluence.ico with your custom favicon.ico
4.
   > Delete the contents of \<confluence_install\>/work/\* (do not remove the folder)
5.
   > Delete the contents of \<confluence_install\>/temp/\* (do not remove the folder)
6.
   > Startup Confluence and the favicon.ico should show on the Browser tab

I look forward to hearing whether the workaround is effective for your instance.

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Pedro_Furtado
body: Thank you for the quick reply!
Is it possible to set up permissions so that users can add/edit pages, but cannot publish them?
Asked by Zoe Sadler:

We are setting up a knowledge base on Confluence and want to encourage collaboration by allowing users to add to and edit pages, but we also want the opportunity to review those changes/added pages before they are published, so that we can ensure that the changes are appropriate and information doesn't conflict/be duplicated etc... Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: You can setup a space and allow the "add" permission for those who you want to add/edit. Then when you are ready to publish have another space where just the people who you want to "publish" have the "add" permission.

Once the pages are ready from the edit/add space only the users with "add" permission in both spaces will be able to move them.

This way one space could be entirely for drafts and the other space could be for published content with nearly the same page structure.


author: Davin Studer
body: That ability is not native to Confluence. However there is an add-on in the marketplace for that. Check out [Comala Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow/server/overview).

comments: author: Zoe Sadler
body: Thanks for the quick response Davin! I took a look at the add-on which looks great but unfortunately our Confluence is cloud-based and Comala Workflows seems to only be available for server-based Confluence.


author: Davin Studer
body: Oh, yeah, in that case I don't have any great options for you.


author: Gorka Puente _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Zoe Sadler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1196844),

I'm product manager at Comalatech, the company behind Comala Workflows. You can have a look to [Comala Approvals](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.cloud.approvals/cloud/overview "Comala Approvals"), which is a cloud app. It has the basis to review and publish pages. It's not as complete as its server counterpart, but we are working to improve its capabilities.

Give it a try, and if you want to request any new feature, just create a [ticket](https://comalatech.jira.com/servicedesk/) to follow up.

Regards,

Gorka
Examples of different Gnatt charts which can be created in Confluence
Asked by ANki:

I am looking for examples to show how we can utilize Gnatt charts effectively.

How do i modify it to show %age next to the bars or show relationships between different activities. Can I showcase current date or milestone date?

How do I combine some activities to show the overall timeline? Does it have to be a new row in the data table.


Answers:
author: Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_
body: Hi, ANki. Are you using other Atlassian products together with Confluence? Or, just Confluence?

If sounds like you may be using Confluence + Jira. If so, are you using any of the Gantt apps for Jira? There are a number of them you may wish to consider.

-dave


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hello,

If you use [Chart from Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/How+to+use+Chart+from+Table+macro) macro ([Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/cloud/overview) add-on), then you can show [milestones and current date](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/How+to+use+Chart+from+Table+macro#HowtouseChartfromTablemacro-Ganttchart).

If you are using Confluence native Chart macro, then it is not possible to show current date or milestones.

Can't tell you more about other requested features because I do not imagine what exactly data you have and how you want it to visualize.


Tags: gantt
Jira and Confluence upgrade (aws)
Asked by Nico n:

Hello everybody,

we have jira service desk 3.2.3 (based on Jira 7.2) and confluence installed on the same unix server and connected on the same DBMS Postgresql 9.2 (everything in the same server).

Now, we want to upgrade both jira and confluence to the last versions. According to supported platforms, we should upgrade even postgresql because 9.2 is EOS for Jira 7.8 and is going to be EOS for Confluence 6.8 (to be released soon).

Do you suggest to upgrade postgresql before, check everything is ok, and as a next step upgrade jira/confluence ? Or it could be done everything in the same step ?

Other question: we would like to evaluate if move everything to aws, upgrading license to DataCenter version. We have some custom plugin deployed already, so we don't know if on aws we can expect some limitations. Do you know something about it ?

many thanks


Answers:
author: Nico n
body: many thanks


author: Tiago Vitorino
body: Data Center deployments are quite unique to every single customer/product expectations. I do have a few recommendations that might work for you.

Read:

[Supported Platforms](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html)

[Database Setup for PostgreSQL](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/database-setup-for-postgresql-173244522.html)

[Switching Databases](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/switching-databases-861253056.html)

Professional services assistance:

Please visit our [Solution Partners Portal](https://www.atlassian.com/partners/search?page=1)

Hope this helps.


author: Nico n
body: thanks, in fact evalueating if Data Center is compatible with out implementation is the main difficult task. However, do you have any suggestion about the first question (Do you suggest to upgrade postgresql before, check everything is ok, and as a next step upgrade jira/confluence ? Or it could be done everything in the same step ?)

Thanks in advance


author: Tiago Vitorino
body: Hi Nico,

The first recommendation is to evaluate JIRA Software and Confluence Data Center. The following steps should be to update JIRA and Confluence Server instances to a supported Data Center Versions.

My recommendation is also to review Atlassian's [Best Practices for Data Center](https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/best-practices-for-atlassian-data-center-892801350.html) and follow our guidance step by step.

Hope this helps you to get started.


Tags: aws

data-center

database

jira

postgres
How do I avoid 'confluence1' service name and user name when re-installing from binary?
Asked by Pat Ryan:

* What I want is to be able to do is install confluence on same server, uninstall it, install it again and not have it name the service 'confluence1'. Reason is I'm automating install/configure using Ansible and need to depend on it always being 'confluence' and never 'confluence1'.
* What file triggers atlassian-confluence-6.2.3-x64.bin to know that Confluence has been installed before and therefore install it as 'confluence1'?
* When I install Confluence from '.bin' it creates a user named 'confluence' and service named '/etc/init.d/confluence' and sets ownership of '/opt/atlassian/confluence/logs', '/opt/atlassian/temp' and '/opt/atlassian/work' to 'confluence' user.
* When I un-install Confluence on my server, then install it again to the same server, from then on it creates a user named 'confluence1' and service '/etc/init.d/confluence1' and the directories are owned by 'confluence1'. I uninstall by running '/opt/atlassian/confluence/uninstall'.
* I've tried removing all traces of atlassian/confluence from '/opt', '/var' and '/etc' and removed 'confluence\*' user and '/home', but when I install confluence again it always creates 'confluence1'.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: mehrdaad
body: Have you tried to delete confluece user and group?

Apparently uninstalling Jira deletes it's users and groups but confluence does not.

Try to run:

```
userdel confluence

groupdel confluence
```
I am not able to see the issue where i am set as watcher
Asked by Satya Pandey:

I am registered with my AMD account on <http://my.atlassian.com>, but I am not able to see the support tickets created for confluence where my ID has been set as a watcher


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Satya,

Please open a support request at [Contact Support](https://support.atlassian.com/contact) and choose "My account" as the answer to "What can we help you with?". (I would be happy to open the ticket on your behalf but the support portal wizard wants to know account information that I don't know and wouldn't encourage you to post on this public forum.)

Thanks,

Ann


Tags: jira-service-desk
I would like to provide my audience to have the Like button
Asked by Keren Cohen:

but from some reason it doesn't work on anonymous access...


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It can't work with anonymous users, it would be useless.

Imagine this case. You ask people to vote for opening a new dog park in your town. To do this, you ask them to anonymously post a piece of paper into a post-box. Great.

But, you have no identification on the paper, so you have no way of knowing if each "vote" is by honest people who vote once, or someone like me who really likes puppies and parks and has posted 2,000 bits of paper. If you can't count "one person, one like/vote", your poll is utterly useless.

So. The "like" function works by recording the unique id of a user. They can click it as many times as they want, but it's only one "like" per person. With "anonymous", there's either no likes, or one, because you have no idea if it's one person or many.


Tags: like
How do I turn on email notifications for when someone mentions my name in a wiki?
Asked by Caitlin Shroyer:

How do I turn email notifications on for when someone mentions my name with '@' in an wiki?


Answers:
author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: By default, this should be on, and there's no way to turn it off.

First I would check your spam folder, see if they are ending up there.

Second, if you are an admin check the mail queue (if not just ask your admin to do this). You might need to flush this

Third, check the email log to see if there are any errors.

I wonder if this is happening to just you or other users in your instance?


Tags: email

notification
Additional metadata on attachments
Asked by Martin B:

Hi,

With the introduction of GDPR I would like to add some custom properties to attachments within Confluence eg) review date, weed date, data type etc

Is this possible? If not is it something that is being considered?

Cheers

Martin


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Martin B](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/770365) ,

unfortunately there is a request for that <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-29180> but with resolution "Won't Fix"

Fabio


Tags: attachment

developer

property
Are Atlassian accounts tied to a subscription?
Asked by Sven M?ller:

We want to transfer certain confluence and jira projects to a new cloud-instance (backup and import). This process which is documented quite well.

But are atlassian accounts tied to the "old instance/subscription"? Or are they "global" and a account could (in theory) access several different instances?

Example: I can login to <https://my.atlassian.com/> which seems not to be related to my companies cloud instance.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Your description of "global" is spot-on.

I have one Atlassian account which has access to all sorts of bits of Atlassian sites (I work for a partner, so I have access to partner related stuff, as well as the stuff you can see on my.atlassian.com and so-on), and 25-30 Jira and Confluence Cloud instances that are all client sites that they have let me into. One account, many systems.

comments: author: Sven M?ller
body: Thank you for your fast answer!


Tags: account

jira