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Switch to the Default Theme: Most of this stuff doesn't show up? There is no Global Look and Feel radio button and I am using Confluence Cloud. Why is this so messed up?
Asked by Scott Paden:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Switch to the Default Theme](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=762877014)*

I'm trying to setup a consistent theme and following these directions and they just seem wrong from the very start. For example, there is no "Global Look and Feel" theme under Site Them as shown in your instructions. What is going on here?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Scott,

Confluence will show you different things depending on how it's set up. A few questions so we can help you:

1. Do you have any additional themes installed (by additional I mean any themes apart from the default look and feel theme)?
2. Have you currently applied one of these additional themes to Confluence?
3. If so, have you applied it globally to every space in Confluence, or just to an individual space?
4. Are you trying to adjust the global theme (i.e. apply a theme to every space in Confluence) or are you trying to adjust a theme in a single space?


Tags: confluence-cloud

theme
Can you customize label search results in Confluence?
Asked by Vio Voykinska:

I would like to generate a list of labels with links that automatically generate a "Page Properties Report" for each label. Is this possible with Confluence?

I know that I can manually "Page Properties Report" for each label I have, but I would prefer not to have to do this if there is a way to automate the process.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Violeta,

The **Content by Label** or **Navigation Map** macros will provide you with a list/matrix of pages that have a particular label (or combination of labels, if you want).

comments: author: Vio Voykinska
body: Hey Rob, thanks for the tip!

While these macros will allow me to generate lists of labeled items, I would like to first be able to generate a list of all labels+links, and then modify the way that the link results are displayed to show data listed in the "Page Properties" macros within each labeled page.

The "Labels List" macro will do the first part, but not the second, as far as I know. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if what I want to do is possible in Confluence. ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hmm. Could you put the label list macro into a cell in a Page Properties table?

The Page Properties Report would then pull that label information through, along with the rest of the Page Properties information.
Creating an index/table of content of select spaces?
Asked by Victor Prasad:

Hello,

We have a lot of Confluence Space because governance was and ignored word.

For our branch we have a lot of spaces, with no relation. We have create a main space to be sort of an index or table of contents for this all these branch specific spaces.

Questions:

Can we relate all these branch spaces with a tag, then have a tag cloud show up on our main index space?

Can we have a RSS of all changes to these branch spaces that appear on the main index space?

Can a space administrator do this? We want to have as little as possible Confluence Administrator interference.

Is there a smarter way to do this?

Open to suggestions!

Thanks,

Victor


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: You may need some serious "brain surgery" on how your system is set up ...

Tags or labels are quite helpful in the Space Directory - but the Directory still only shows the User the Spaces that they have access to.

Same with the email notifications and Watch settings will only alert people on content changes in regards to the Spaces and pages they have access to ... not sure how that works with RSS as presumably the person needs to get to the page in the first place to set up the RSS

So what is it you want to tell whom, and for what purpose?

Telling people there are a whole bunch of Spaces they can't access may be counter productive unless the purpose is to encourage joining those Spaces ... and then someone has to manage the User access approval
Is there a way to make space templates?
Asked by Aaron Lamberson:

I would like to make a template that can be applied to the main page when making a new space. I hope this makes sense. Please let me know if you have any questions.

EDIT: I think I may have found my answer. I went to "Global Templates and Blueprints," scrolled down and saw "Space Blueprints." It looks like you cannot edit them. So I am guessing that a space blueprint cannot be created?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: You can create them in Confluence Server, and customize the existing ones in Confluence Cloud.

Another option is to use a Copy Space macro. Build a "template" space, and duplicate it for new spaces.


author: Scott Selberg
body: A space blueprint needs to be delivered as a plugin.
Why is the "custom stylesheets" checkbox disabled?
Asked by Scott Beeson:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Styling Confluence with CSS](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=166528400)*

image2017-1-23 12:48:47.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-is-the-quot-custom-stylesheets-quot-checkbox-disabled/qaq-p/225770?attachment-id=5805){#link_118f8eb33de12c}  
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Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Nic is correct. The complete list of restricted functions in Cloud is [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/restricted-functions-in-confluence-cloud-734070955.html).

Cloud also has the Div macro, which you can use to add CSS to specific parts of a page - [this](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/46685686/answers/46793843)is a recent answer for a Cloud user that shows an example of using the Div macro to customise the content of a panel, for example.

comments: author: Scott Beeson
body: The option should either be completely hidden or it should provide some sort of indicator as to why it's not available.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Yes, that would seem to be the better approach! Most of the restricted functions are hidden or removed, but there are some anomalies and this appears to be one of them.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Are you on Cloud?

comments: author: Scott Beeson
body: Yes, sorry. Updated tags.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, ok, thought so. Customised CSS is something Atlassian restrict on Cloud


author: Chris Purser
body: I think we're all wondering why stir up a mess by having the disabled checkbox visible at all. If they can make it disabled, they can make it hidden...


author: William Wilson
body: Absolutely feels like a taunt.   

I understand the security issue, and why it's disabled.

However... Having it there when I have no say in changing it is... well.. a taunt. As [@Chris Purser](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4677039) said... "If they can make it disabled, they can make it hidden..."

Or simply... removed.


Tags: confluence-cloud

css
How do you embed a link in a Confluence page that opens in a new browser tab or window
Asked by Phil Caisley:


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: Of course standard browsers allow you to "hover" your mouse over a link, ***right click***, and select "Open in new tab" or "Open in new window"


author: Milo Test
body: This is a knows issue:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-9380> Feel free to follow/vote for it.

If you are using Confluence Server or the HTML macro for Confluence Cloud, you can force it to happen:

```
&lt;a href="http://Atlassian.net" target="_blank"&gt;This link will open in new window/tab&lt;/a&gt;
```
How to remove "Created by ," after using this code?
Asked by Frances Albrecht:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [How to hide content author name (created by) in a page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=701600769)*

The following code added to the Stylesheet removes the author's name, but leaves the text snippet "Created by ," which looks odd.

Q. How do you remove that snippet as well?

#com-atlassian-confluence .page-metadata .author {  
display:none;  
}


Answers:
author: Dirk Lindner
body: Is there already a solution on how to remove the text? I'm currently facing the same issue. Last modification should still be displayed.

![18-10-2023_14-13-02.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/286930iB649DC800E0AF2F9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "18-10-2023_14-13-02.png")


author: Martyn _admin_
body: Hi,

I can't find Stylesheet under "Settings \> Look and Feel". Where can I add my custom CSS?

Thanks

comments: author: Dirk Lindner
body: ![18-10-2023_14-09-46.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/286929iFC503BE477992A1A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "18-10-2023_14-09-46.png")This seems to be possible only for the Confluence admins, not the Space Admin.


author: Maggie Modersohn
body: Hi Frances,

Just remove the .author to remove all the page metadata.

#com-atlassian-confluence .page-metadata {  
display:none;  
}

Let me know if I misunderstood the question.

Maggie

comments: author: Kristian Klima
body: Hi Maggie,

I have the same problem, I think the issue is that if you add the code to the StyleSheet, your page still displays the phrase 'Created by'.  

In other words, you end up with something like:  

"Created by , last modified on [Feb 05, 2018](https://cds-stg.na.intgdc.com/pages/diffpagesbyversion.action?pageId=16035502&selectedPageVersions=8&selectedPageVersions=9)"

The code insert removes the name, not the Created by phrase.

Ideally, what's left would be "Created on DATE" or "Modified on DATE".

Any thoughts on that?

Thanks,

Kris


author: harshahid_h
body: Hi,   

Below code would remove entire line.  

.page-metadata .page-metadata-modification-info {  
display:none;  
}

Thanks,

Harsh H


Tags: confluence-administration

layout
"Create from template" button doesn't work
Asked by N:

Hi,

the "Create from template" button in the tasklist of confluence will result in a popup-Window with a spinning wheel.

Nothing else happen, I only can close the popup window.

I'm using

* Confluence 5.9.7
* Oracle DB 11.02

Thanks for any help.

Regards

Norbert


Answers:
author: N
body: After deleting a space, which causes the error, it works.

The space was labeled as "undefined".


author: N
body: Hi,

thank you for your answers.

I use Windows 7, Internet Explorer 11 or Firefox 50.1.

When I open the developer console in Firefox, push the button "Create from template" I get the error message

ErrorConfluence_1.jpg

Seems it have to do with the data, because on our test installation with much less data I do not have the error.

Thanks for any further help.

Regards

Norbert


author: Rodney Hughes
body: It may be even more fundamental ...

what version Windows are you using?

What browser and version are you using?

are you using a "company PC" on a company LAN?

if using Internet Explorer - it is not fully HTML5 compatible so can lead to an array of weird problems - try using Firefox or Chrome (you can have multiple browsers on your pc - I have four so I can check what users are doing

If company PC/LAN, check things like JAVA script enabling with your IT department

Simple test is to try on a personal PC at home or a mobile phone


author: Davin Studer
body: Before you click the button push the F12 button onyour keyboard to bring up the developer tools. Then click the button. Most likely there is some Javascript error happening that preventing you from seeing the templates. See if there are any errors in the Javascript console. The dev console will look something like this ...

**Chrome**

image2017-1-23 8:48:16.png

**IE/Edge**

**image2017-1-23 8:49:17.png**

**Firefox**

**image2017-1-23 8:51:31.png**  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/quot-Create-from-template-quot-button-doesn-t-work/qaq-p/310819?attachment-id=2128){#link_118f8ff91941a0}  
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[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/quot-Create-from-template-quot-button-doesn-t-work/qaq-p/310819?attachment-id=2129){#link_118f8ff91941a0_0}  
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Managing Add-on Install Button
Asked by Jason Andrew:

I can't see an install button for Confluence add-ons. I'm trying to install the Content Report Plugin.

image2017-1-22 20:43:30.png

I have full admin access..

Thanks in advance guys!  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Managing-Add-on-Install-Button/qaq-p/333343?attachment-id=5531){#link_1185d4465ea855}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/56315/1/image2017-1-22%2020%3A43%3A30.png){#display_1185d4465ea855_0}


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Your screen shot is the display of an already-installed add-on.

You're looking in the wrong place for install add-on, you should be at the top of the "manage add-ons" page, which has the install link at the top right. But you're also on Cloud according to your labels, so you won't have it - you can only add Cloud or the ones Atlassian allow - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/add-ons-and-plugins-744721612.html>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Notifications linking to wrong port after HTTPS upgrade
Asked by Tim Hosman:

Hi!

Today I upgraded our Confluence webpage to run over HTTPS with a self-signed certificate, I used [this guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/running-confluence-over-ssl-or-https-161203.html).

Although everything is now running fine, there is one part that broke. When opening a notification in the notification centre (opening it to redirect to the page), Confluence uses the wrong link. It goes to:

<https://confluence.mysite.nl:8090/....>

In stead of the following:

<https://confluence.mysite.nl:8443/....>

I do not understand why, because I followed the instructions where it should redirect everything to the new HTTPS port (in the guide) and it redirects everything fine except this.

FYI I have also changed the base URL to [https://confluence.mysite.nl:8443/.](https://confluencemysite.nl:8443/....)

Can anyone help me fix the notifications?


Answers:
author: Tim Hosman
body: Seems to work now! Not sure what made the difference, ah well :smile:


Tags: confluence-administration

moderators
How do I create a Confluence task report for a page and it's child?
Asked by Linda Tran:

Is there a way that when you add a specific parent page to the task report, all child pages will be automatically included?

I would like to avoid having to add each page individually, especially for meeting notes.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: The task report macro has an option for reporting on pages with specific labels. Add a label to the report macro and then add the label to your child pages.
Issue with numbering formatting after importing .docx with images
Asked by Joe Cuc:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Importing a Word Document into Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658736950)*

For some reason the numbering is okay after an import until it hits an image. After the image it resets back to 1. Then keeps counting down until it hits another image and resets again. Is there anyway to resolve this? On my document the numbering is formatted correctly.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Joe,

Confluence interprets a break in the numbering as a cue to start a new numbered list. You can't get Confluence to change this behaviour so your best manual option is probably to remove the images from the document, import the document, then add the images back in.

In general terms, to do a line break which doesn't break Confluence's numbering, do SHIFT+RETURN. This will add a new un-numbered line in your list. You can add as many of these lines as you want. When you want to resume the numbering use RETURN, and it will give you a new numbered line that carries on from the last numbered line. In your specific case you can use this to amend your imported pages if you'd rather do that than reimporting the document without the images.

comments: author: Joe Cuc
body: Thanks for the info.


Tags: documentation
Can I filter documents/pages in Confluence similar to how I can filter in JIRA?
Asked by Karthik Soravanahalli:

I would like the ability for my users in Confluence to search through release notes similar to the JIRA filter:

image2017-1-20 10:23:35.png

Would this feature be available in Confluence or perhaps be available to be installed through a plugin?

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Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: I would suggest the use of labels for this. There are many macros in Confluence that can use labels as a means of filtering content.
Can I find out if and when a file was downloaded from Confluence?
Asked by Peter Dawson:

For data security I need to be able to find out when a file was downloaded and who downloaded it.

Is this possible in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You can turn on http access logging for Tomcat ... link below. Then search through the access logs for ...

http(s)://{your server}/download/attachments/{page id}/attachment.ext

The only change I would make to turning on the access logging would be to replace this

```
&lt;filter-mapping&gt;    &lt;filter-name&gt;AccessLogFilter&lt;/filter-name&gt;    &lt;url-pattern&gt;/display/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt;&lt;/filter-mapping&gt;
```

with this

```
&lt;filter-mapping&gt;    &lt;filter-name&gt;AccessLogFilter&lt;/filter-name&gt;    &lt;url-pattern&gt;/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt;&lt;/filter-mapping&gt;
```

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Enable+User+Access+Logging>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Only if you have set up some form of logging to capture the fact someone used the download option.

It's not that easy in Tomcat alone, I tend to use a proxy in front of it and read the access logs in there.
Scheduled Confluence report: Export & Mail
Asked by Britta Henseli:

Is it possible to:

* Automatically export a Confluence report
* Attach the export to a mail
* Schedule mailings regularly

We use the cloud version.

Many thanks


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Britta,

It's not possible to do this with the out-of-the-box Confluence tools, but you can export pages (amongst many other things) with the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli/cloud/overview) add-on. Assuming you're on Windows, you could use Powershell (a built-in Windows tool) to watch a folder, and every time a file appears in it (in this case an exported page from Confluence), mail that file to a specific address and move the exported file to an archive folder. Alternatively you could tell Powershell to take the contents of a folder and mail them to an address on a regular schedule, say once a day.

This might be overcomplicated and a much simpler answer may well be available though.....

comments: author: Britta Henseli
body: Hi Rob,

Thank you for the explanation. This solution sounds good, I will check if it's feasible


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Utilsing AUI Tab Macro's or Navitabs
Asked by vanessa:

Hi,

Please can someone help me regarding the usage of tab macro's. I've created a template at the moment that utilises the Deck of Cards Macro - this allows me to create tabs horizontal at the top of my page and allows the user to change views by selecting each tab. However, when I select the edit option to edit the page in Confluence, it doesn't appear user friendly and users have to scroll to the relevant card label to edit the content on that tab. Is there a more efficient way to edit an individual tab? If I were to upgrade our licence to utilise the AUI Tab Macro or the Navitabs - would this resolve my issue? Or do I need some other additional plugin. Please can someone help me with this? Thanks Vanessa


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: No matter which macro you use you will still get the same look in edit mode. That is how the Confluence editor works. It puts in placeholders for macros, but does not render them as they would look when viewing the page. Unless you need one of the special features that the navitabs aDD-ON has I would recommend the [Spectrum Formatting Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/fr.spectrumgroupe.confluence.plugins.formatting.macros/server/overview). Just like all the other tab macros in Confluence(including Navitabs) it utilizes Atlassian's AUI Tab API, but it is free as opposed to Navitabs.

comments: author: Michael_Coxe
body: Um, Spectrum Formatting Macros aren't free. Price starts at $1 per user, which drops at 250+ users. Maybe it was once free perhaps?


author: Davin Studer
body: They just recently made it a paid add-on.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is undefined internal user searched in MS Active Directory?
Asked by Hans Zemp:

For Confluence I've internal directory management in first place. For secondary I've defined MS Active Directory. If a user is not defined internally but in Active Directory, will it be found there? On my first tests I just get "User xxx not found":


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It should be - you can imagine that when Confluence is looking for a user, it checks the directories in the order listed, one at a time, until it finds someone. So yes, in your case, if it doesn't find them in the internal, it'll look in the AD next.

If it's not finding them in the AD directory, then check the settings, you may be filtering them out.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Or it may not have synced yet.


author: Hans Zemp
body: Thank's Nic. I read the link you mentioned and have now a mixed environment: Internal directory first, AD second. Some users and authorizations are internal, some in AD. Works great so far. Now a question: If a user is owner of a Confluence document, I can't delete him. Now if the user is just defined in AD and not internal, I can delete this user through AD even though he's still owner of a Confluence document. How will Confluence handle this?

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It'll throw errors in the logs on some actions, but for the users, I think it just shows the history and owner as the plain login name, as it doesn't have any other data for them.


author: Hans Zemp
body: Thank you Nic. You're right, after changing settings for AD, it worked.

Now I'd like to have internal directory first and AD second. So, I started to delete users from internal directory that AD is used. But users, which are owners of existing docu in confluence, I cannot delete. Is there a way to "move" users from internal directory to AD?

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Annoyingly (because you can do it in JIRA), no. There's docs on the complexity at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/managing-multiple-directories-229838494.html>


Tags: confluence-administration