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Is there a way to get a PDF Export in my email after each update to a page on Confluence?
Asked by Shady M_ Najib:

I'm trying to get a PDF export from a specific Confluence page in my inbox every time it's updated. Is there a way to automate that other than manually going to Confluence after each update notification to export to PDF?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Shady,

Welcome to Community! Happy to help.

Something like this would require a great deal of customization and would you to write a script.

I would recommend reviewing the following add-ons to do that. I haven't personally worked with these add-ons and I cannot say for sure if any of them offer all of these features for you.

* [Scroll PDF Exporter for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)
* [Bob Swift CLI Command Line Interface for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/284/confluence-command-line-interface-cli?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)
* [Scriptrunner for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215215/scriptrunner-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

I'm also tagging the Atlassian Marketplace collection. It's possible that one of the vendors will be able to respond on this post and let you know if it's possible or not with their add-on.

Let us know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atl-adm

atlassian-marketplace

cloud

confluence-cloud
Best practices for upgrading/migrating from W2K8 R2 to W2K12 R2 with Jira & Confluence?
Asked by Rachid Amajoud:

Hi,

i would like to migrate/upgrade the Windows OS of Jira and Confluence, what is the best way to achieve this without Jira/ Confluence configuration impact?

grtz


Answers:
author: Andrew
body: Hi [@Rachid Amajoud](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1164407) ,

Jira\&Conf are java application and should be platform independent. It may be worth paying attention to the permissions on Windows and check that tomcat has permission on JIRA_HOME.

What database is used? I think You need find recommendation from DB vendors.

Also changing URL might affect on attachments. If your new server will be at the same URL it should work fine.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-articles/Upgrade-Best-Practices/ba-p/932563>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/system-requirements-126517514.html>

comments: author: Rachid Amajoud
body: hi ?????? ??????,

thx for your reply!

We are still using a postgreDB.

But do you recommend a migration or an upgrade of the Windows OS?

grtz

R.


author: Andrew
body: Hi [@Rachid Amajoud](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1164407) ,

IMHO: I prefer migration.

In any case I recommended keep one working instance.

In migration case You will clone application-data/DB to new instance and make smoke test then change DNS to new instance. Downtime old instance depend on size of data and clone time. If some wrong You just up old instance.

In case upgrade I recommend make clone of the current instance and try upgrade of clone.

<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/installation-and-upgrade>

B.R.


author: Rachid Amajoud
body: ?????? ??????, {#toc-hId--1439546533}
-------------------------------------

thx for your advice!

grtz

Rachid


author: Rachid Amajoud
body: ?????? ??????, {#toc-hId--1439516768}
-------------------------------------

i am running now jira/Confluence on W2K8 R2 Standard, so if I migrate to W2K16 DC, it should not be a problem?

grtz

R.


author: Andrew
body: Hi [@Rachid Amajoud](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1164407) ,

I think not. As I said the jira/conf is java app and should be platform independent. Use java same version in both and it should work. Check permissions, firewalls rules, hardware resource etc.

For example, the postgresql by default use the port 5432 then OS should give access to this port for jira/conf.  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/server-hardware-requirements-guide-30736403.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/jira-applications-installation-requirements-802592164.html?_ga=2.58284522.1119616481.1555313086-115832795.1554099184>

B.R.


author: Rachid Amajoud
body: ?????? ??????,

thx for your answer!

grtz

Rachid


Tags: confluence-server

jira

jira-server

jira-service-desk

server
about Free License for a space
Asked by Peter Jeon:

We want to run a space in Confluence for our partners. We do not want a public board open to unspecified individuals.

Giving an example, we want to issue a free license that allows read-only access to a number of specific people. They will be able to access the board with logging in through the free license.

Is this possible? How can we do this?

Thank you,


Answers:
author: Andy Heinzer
body: Hi [@Peter Jeon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3050412)

I am afraid that what you are purposing here is not possible with Confluence. In order to restrict pages or content to specific users, these users have to have an account in Confluence. Having that account makes them a licensed user. See [6. How do you define a Confluence User?](https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence#serverlicenses-6).

While you can have an unlimited number of anonymous users, these anonymous users have access to public spaces. There is no other mechanism by which you can restrict those anonymous users even further within Confluence.

Perhaps you can resolve this by either licensing those partner users, or perhaps creating a separate installation under a different site/URL might be one way to separate the content.

I hope this helps.

Andy


author: Petr Van??ek
body: Hi,

no, it's not. For that user is user.


Tags: evaluator-resources

licence
How do I embed the Jira service desk widget in a confluence page?
Asked by Brian G:

There is no obvious way to embed the Jira service desk widget in a confluence page with the given code snippet (script).

Any thoughts?


Answers:
author: Jay Rosenthal
body: That doesn't answer the question of specifically the service desk widget. If you to the JIRA Service Desk project you can copy a widget script for embedding the form. That script looks like this:

\<script data-jsd-embedded data-key="1243-abcd-5678-efgh" data-base-url="<https://jsd-widget.atlassian.com>" src="[https://jsd-widget.atlassian.com/assets/embed.js"\>\</script]()\>

We want to embed that specific script into Confluence. Seems like this should be possible from a security perspective as there are already other JIRA embeds in Confluence.

Which macro can be used to embed that script?

comments: author: Michael Scherz
body: [@Jay Rosenthal](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1369156) This is exactly what I am looking for but still not able to perform.  

It would be great to include the widget to a Support Page or on the Overview Page.  
With the basic widget addon, this is not possible.  

Have you already found a solution?  

Thanks and kind regards  
Mike


author: Manuel Venegas
body: I've tried with 2 html/javascript macro plugins available and can't get this to work. Any suggestions?


author: Alex Sprague
body: Has any answer ever been provided for this? Even with the HTML include add-on all that shows up is a blank space when using the Embed Widget code provided by jira service desk. If we can embed a request form into Confluence that would simplify so much.


author: Diego
body: Hello there!

Brian, you should be able to type / in your editor and search for the desired macro. The interaction looks like this:

1. Create a new page
2. Type the**/ symbol**
3. This should come up:
   1. ![Screen Shot 2019-04-22 at 15.19.02.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/52223iC0CC3D9B1F99E68C/image-dimensions/352x254?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2019-04-22 at 15.19.02.png")
4. Type the macro name
5. Select the desired macro

We also have the option to insert via the toolbar at the top:

1. Create a new page
2. Click the **+** **sign** at the top
3. Click **View More**
4. This should come up
   1. ![Screen Shot 2019-04-22 at 15.19.19.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/52224i83908B1704931B56/image-dimensions/415x289?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2019-04-22 at 15.19.19.png")
5. After clicking view more, search for the desired macro

Further, could you clarify the part about "...with the given code snippet (script). ". Are you trying to manually insert a macro with an API to an specific Confluence page? Could you give us an example of the snippet you are using?

Please, be mindful when sharing information here in Community. Here we are on an open space and anyone can see what is posted. So take care not to share sensitive information.

Looking forward to your reply Brian!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira-cloud

jira-service-desk
Confluence to run on port 80
Asked by Imran Ali:

Hi Team,  

I am having problems to run my new confluence instance on port 80,   
I was using this with port 80 earlier but due to server crash issue , I have to rebuild server again but this 6.15 version is not working with port 80. ( I have modified server.xml but still site is not coming up on port 80)


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Imran,

What operating system are you running? We don't recommend running Confluence on port 80 in Linux as it would require Tomcat to run as root, which is a security risk. Instead, we recommend running Confluence behind a reverse proxy such as Apache or nginx ([setup guides here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-use-nginx-to-proxy-requests-for-confluence-313459790.html)).

The active connectors in your server.xml file would also be helpful to troubleshoot anything you're currently trying to do.

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: Imran Ali
body: Thanks Daniel for your reply,

Yes you are right to use reverse proxy but I just wonder as this was working fine earlier without any reverse proxy.

anyways , I will add RP now


author: Yoga Reddy {Appfire}
body: Hi [@Imran Ali](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2033977)   

Please provide us the Atlassian logs to troubleshoot the issue.

Thanks

Yoga

comments: author: Imran Ali
body: It was working fine on other server earlier but for further security , I am going to add reverse proxy .

I will post here if I got further issues .

thanks


Tags: confluence-server

server
Where is placed application links constantly?
Asked by Mail Testuser:

I had several Jira accounts, cloud and self-hosted.  
And in each of them the placement/path of Application Links is different  
-For old self-hosted  
Applications -\> Integrations -\> Application Links  
- For cloud  
Jira Settings - Products - Application Links  

But we need unified path to create an instruction for users how to create Aplication Link for our application in Jira for both versions


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

Currently, the design languages for both environments are a bit different. In Cloud we have Atlassian Design Guidelines 3 (ADG3). You can check a little more information here:

**[Atlassian cloud design](https://atlassian.design/)**

And here we have the guidelines for server:

**[Atlassian server design](https://www.atlassian.design/server/)**

Currently, there is no unified instruction that could be used by both platforms. We have some documentation on Application links for both Server and Cloud. You can check them here:

**[Linking to another application \| Confluence Server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/linking-to-another-application-360677690.html)**

[**Link to Server produtcs from Cloud**](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/link-to-server-products-from-cloud-744721656.html)

Let us know your thoughts on this!


Tags: cloud

server
How to migrate SharePoint list/library data to confluence
Asked by suresh-bitbucket41:

Is there any option or tool to migrate SharePoint data to confluence. If anyone has a script please share it


Answers:
author: Tarun Sapra
body: Hello [@suresh-bitbucket41](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1664771)

Please see the following duplicate question

++**Sharepoint migration to confluence**++

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Sharepoint-migration-to-confluence/qaq-p/597341>
Problem using Jira filter in Confluence
Asked by Cheryl L Pietsek:

I can insert a jira filter into my page but when I try to click 'display options' to change the layout for my filter, nothing happens. Is there a permission that I am missing? Not sure why I cannot configure the columns to display.


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Cheryl L Pietsek](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2856582)

* Can you show us with a printscreen, how it is looking?
* Are you using Confluence Cloud or server?
* Did it ever worked?

Thanks for your answers.

comments: author: Cheryl L Pietsek
body: Hi Dominic. After trying to do this again... I notice that the button to even insert the report as it is is greyed out meaning I could not insert the report as-is either. This leads me to think that I may have an access issue and require some permission to be changed. Any thoughts on this? I asked someone from my team but they said we should all have the same access... but obviously that is not true. If you know of a specific permission that needs to be enabled please let me know and I will explicitly ask to have her check what is showing for me in that option. Thanks!


author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Cheryl L Pietsek](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2856582)

Again, I can't imagine how it looks for you. Could you please give me these answers, so perhaps I can help you.

* Can you show us with a printscreen, how it is looking?
* Are you using Confluence Cloud or server?
* Did it ever worked?
Splunk dashboard recommendation for confluence
Asked by Parthiban Narayanasamy:

Hello There,

We are working to confluence SPLUNK dash board for confluence.

could you please suggest me some key indicators like threads count, DB connection, access log, etc.

What are key indicators that need to monitor from confluence logs?


Answers:
author: Patrick_Gove
body: Im working on a SPLUNK dashboard my self. Would love to get some key indicators.

comments: author: khalid alqahtani
body: am interesting to using this tools.

it's for jira service disk? is there Doc for integration ?


Tags: atlassian-marketplace
Draw.io - linking diagrams that were created in one page to a new page
Asked by hadasky:

Hi,

In the past I was able to link a draw.io diagram created in one page to another page and then edit it in the new page.

Few versions ago (don't remember when) this was changed, and you can only edit the diagram in the original page it was created in. The problem is that if you've deleted the original page, the digram is lost forever.

This means that I have to create multiple versions of the same digram every time I use it.

Does anyone have the same issue? current confluence version is 6.6.0

Thanks


Answers:
author: Boris
body: If the page is removed, all of its attachments are removed as well so there's no workaround for that. That's the way Confluence does it, there is no workaround for that.


author: hadasky
body: Thanks for the response, so is there a solution coming to reduce overhead of maintaining multiple instances of the same diagram? or a way to find a diagram even if the page it was attached too was removed?


author: Boris
body: It's true that this was possible a long time ago.

But, since we synced diagram and page revisions, we had to remove the ability to edit the diagrams from the pages that are not their source. This is because an edit from the non-source page would require us to locate all the pages showing a particular diagram and parse them to update the revision macro parameter.

<br />

This would add a lot of complexity so we opted to always show the latest diagram revision on a non-source page and disable edits from them.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence "Premium"
Asked by Mat Chavez:

Hello all,

I'm a bit confused... did Atlassian just take away unlimited Confluence Cloud storage, and double the per-user to get it back? Am I reading that right?

Fixing permissions visibility is a fix, not a feature.

Someone, please tell me I'm wrong, and that it's not going to drive us to a migration out...


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: Cloud isn't currently offered with unlimited storage, although the stated amount was increased from 25GB to 250GB last year.

The new permissions trouble shooting features sound completely new. It wouldn't be needed in the server version, as they get access to the confluence-administrators "super user" group.

Taking into account the other benefits of premium, I'm assuming these are being aimed at enterprise (1,000s of users) or where Confluence is critical to how they work.

At least if you don't need these features, you won't be asked to pay more?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Unable to edit documents
Asked by Ryan Schefke:

When editing the documents I am getting below error

Cannot restart synchrony service.

![image (5).png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/51725i504C79AC34C7D2AB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image (5).png")


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Given some info in the video Ryan recorded, I think the problem is related to an attack against a vulnerability that's been circulating. I've [answered comprehensively in Ryan's second ask of this question](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Cannot-Edit-Pages/qaq-p/1062324#U1062541).


author: Ryan Schefke
body: Hello. We are still having the Edit problem. I recorded a descriptive video to show you exactly what is happening. Please advise as we are unable to edit/update our customer documentation: [http://youtu.be/YNY80AdoY0s?hd=1](http://youtu.be/YNY80AdoY0s?hd=1?)

Thanks,

Ryan


author: Ryan Schefke
body: Hey [@Ryan Schefke](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/673135)

Are you able to clear your cache or try a private browser window?

Thanks

comments: author: Ryan Schefke
body: Hello @\[deleted\] . Same thing happens. Tried to clear cache and use incognito.

Note that we just migrated our Confluence from one server to another, which is when the issue started occurring.

My video here shows the issue that occurs when trying to edit: <http://help.leadliaison.com/watch/cqfDb8Z0n8>


Tags: atl-confsec

confluence-server

server
cannot grant permissions to a page
Asked by Marlon Bonny:

I have user who has already been given permission to a restricted page but she still can't access it

I've had several admins look at the page and we can't seem to figure it out


Answers:
author: Mikael Sandberg
body: Hi Marlon,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

Make sure the user have access to the space. Space permissions are inherited down to each page. Also check if the parent page to the page in question (if it has one) has any restrictions on it.

comments: author: Marlon Bonny
body: Thanks Mikael !!

I did indeed give the user space permissions to no avail. I don't know how to check the parent pages. How do I do that :) ?


author: Mikael Sandberg
body: So the parent page would be the page above it. For example:

![Demonstration Space.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/51724i0D969AA698A3B711/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Demonstration Space.png")

In this case Meeting notes is the parent to 2016-07-27 Meeting notes and 2017-05-04 Meeting notes. Above meeting notes is the space page in this case, so the restriction could be either in the Meeting notes page or the space page.

You can always follow the bread crumb link at the top of the page to find the parent page and traverse backwards.


author: John Fetzik
body: To see if there is a parent, from the page in question click the three dots at the upper right. Then click "Page Information" in the pop-up menu.

![Confluence-Parent-001.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/51727iB9B6A2A08D5B4B0F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence-Parent-001.png")

The Hierarchy section of the Page Information will show any Parent or Child pages.

![Confluence-Parent-002.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/51728iF301BB684066EAFF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence-Parent-002.png")


author: Kurt Klinner
body: [@Marlon Bonny](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3048720)

Hi Marlon

does the user have access to the space where the page resides in?

Cheers

Kurt


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
is there a macro for a 'gnatt chart"?
Asked by Villy Savino:

Trying to use confluence/space and want to add a gnatt chart of all the deliverables? -- \*\*more context\*\*

Would like an ability to create a work breakdown structure (WBS) with tasks, sub-tasks, showing duration, start and end dates, dependencies and assigned resources


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Another option is a [Gantt chart](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/How+to+use+Chart+from+Table+macro#HowtouseChartfromTablemacro-Ganttchart) type in Chart from Table macro ([Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app).

comments: author: Villy Savino
body: Andrey,

do you know of any Macros that can be purchased that gives me the capabilities like microsoft project -- an ability to put in predecessors for tasks and dependencies. Both solutions so far is just a bar graph but I need to be able to manipulate those with the assigned tasks as dates are getting pushed out.


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Unfortunately, I haven't seen such macros for Confluence. And I have no real experience with Microsoft Project, so I can miss something here. There is a [demo](https://demo.stiltsoft.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=23724567#ChartfromTable-SampleChart#5) of the Gantt chart, maybe you will find something useful there.


author: Kurt Klinner
body: [@Villy Savino](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2901640)

have a look to

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/roadmap-planner-macro-704578202.html>

there is a gantt option

the roadmap planner macro might be interesting as well

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/roadmap-planner-macro-704578202.html>

Cheers

Kurt