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Unchecked Task List items after clicking "Edit page"
Asked by bartekkacz:

Hi,

Are you aware of any bug related to randomly unchecked "Task list" elements in the Atlassian Confluence 7.4.1 (server) version? I'm using those as a checkboxes in my testplan template and noticed that sometimes task list elements are getting unchecked after clicking "Edit page" button. I do not see any root cause of that - checked multiple browsers on different computers and what is more strange - not always the same "checkboxes" are impacted by this random change (the same within a page, but random when comparing multiple testplans).

I verified a storage format source, all task-ids are unique within a page. I didint find also any meaningful topic on the community.


Answers:
author: Guillaume Champion
body: Same here: not systematic but frequent and random. Confluence Server 7.2.0


author: Lei Wang
body: Hello,

It looks like you are running into an existing bug:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-29341>

Please feel free to vote and watch it.


author: Pieter Smith
body: I also noticed that this is primarily caused by collaborative editing:

1. Somebody starts to edit the page. Oops that is not what he / she wanted, and clicks close. A collaborative edit draft is then kept in Confluence.
2. Subsequently someone checks off a task next to their name in view mode.
3. Later someone updates the page, starting from the previously created draft (which precedes the checkbox), and publishes. That someone is now unwittingly overwriting the previously checked checkbox.

The problem IMHO, is that setting a checkbox in view mode, should do the sane thing from a UX perspective (i.e., check the box on the latest published version of the page, AND check the box in the unpublished draft). This would avoid unsuspecting editors from unintentionally unchecking tasks.

This is a really big problem for our page review flows (that make use of tasks to indicate completion), and meeting / retrospective action point management. Is there any way we can get this prioritized and fixed?


Tags: confluence-server

server

task
PDF Exporter footer (single page)
Asked by Harold:

Dear all,

I've been busy trying to style the PDF exporter for a single page according to our corporate Identy. Know I'm stuck on two parts that I hope somebody has an answer to. The issues are:

1. I want my footer image on the edge of the PDF page. But due to the margin set on the page. I can't seem to align the image on the edge.
2. On our pages sometimes the expand macro form Atlassian is used. Then the items on the pages are all expanded which is fine. But these "tables" are far to wide for the PDF page. I'd like to make sure that these are fit to the pages automatically.

Image 1. Shows the yellow blocks which should be aligned to the right of the page

![sshot-1.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/109509i839760883F80F358/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "sshot-1.png")

Image 2. Shows how the Expand Macro is running of the page.

![sshot-2.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/109510i33EEDB6FEC5CCCE5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "sshot-2.png")

Below the uses CSS for the footer image.

@bottom-right {  
text-align:center;  
font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Verdana, sans-serif;  
font-size: 11pt;  
color:#263682;  
vertical-align:right;  
padding:0px 0px;  
content: counter(page) " / " counter(pages); "; /\*Shows page number\*/;  
white-space:nowrap;  
background-image: url(https://........../footer_image_yellow_center.png?api=v2);  
background-size: 100% auto;  
position:absolute; right:0;  
background-repeat: no-repeat;  
page-break-inside: avoid;  
}

Hopefully somebody has an answer to my problems.

Kind regards. Harold


Answers:
author: Harold
body: [@Steffen Heller](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781537)

I've seen you around with these kind of issues a lot. Do you have any idea what can be done with these problems. Looking forward to your advice.

Kind regards   
Harold

comments: author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi [@Harold](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4078007),  
as regards the positioning of the image, define it as background-image of @page and not of @bottom-right. This way, the margin doesn't matter.

Something like this:

@page {  
size: 210mm 297mm;  
background-image: url(/download/attachments/.../image.png);  
background-repeat: no-repeat;  
background-position: bottom right;  
}


author: Harold
body: Stefan,

Thanks for your advice. I'll be sure to test this. Seems logical.   
Regarding point 2 the "expand macro" you don't have any advise?

I'll test the css and report back via this post.

Kind regards.

Harold


author: Steffen Heller
body: I don't know the expand macro. I would need info what that is, how it works, what the css is like aso.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

expand

footer

pdf-export
Is there a way to Export Confluence Pages and subpages as one PDF Document?
Asked by Fernando Andr?:

Hello,

I'm using Confluence and I would like to know if there is a way to export Confluence Pages and it's subpages as one PDF Document.

Confluence Version 6.15.9

Best regards,


Answers:
author: Jorge Merino
body: Hi Fernando,

You can go to the export space options in Space Tools -\> Content Tools -\> Export, there you will find how to export branches or pages into a pdf

![export.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/109543iEF1A1179051BEA38/image-dimensions/401x386?v=v2 "export.png")  
Or you could use a third party app like Scroll PDF Exporter.

Cheers!  
Jorge

comments: author: mark3smith
body: PDF isn't an option.

![Screenshot 2023-03-15 at 3.45.19 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/245811i257B8386FE72BAAF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-03-15 at 3.45.19 PM.png")


author: Jorge Merino
body: It's not appearing because the PDF Export module is disabled in your Confluence instance.   
Go to manage apps -\> Filter by System Apps -\> Search "Confluence PDF Export" and enable it.

Best regards,  
Jorge


author: Atlassian 29495
body: Um, this is not answered and inacceptable. Firstly, access to Space Tools isn't a normal thing in company settings. Secondly, the user above mentions no PDF export.

This, IMHO, is another typical Confluence scenario which millions of users face, however isn't taken seriously. I experience several such things with every Atlassian service in the past five or more years.

*Note that in Chrome, I was just not able to hit the Answer button. Using another browser, I can at least answer. How strange can it be.*

comments: author: Rick Van Oostveldt
body: Strange, coz I use Chrome and it works.

Also: our Confluence offers the option to export to PDF and HTML.. Maybe it needs a checkbox somewhere, by the admin?


author: Ian Turner
body: I think the standard page level exports are PDF and Word (I don't have HTML). But that isn't what is being requested here.

If I understand correctly they have a structure of pages, in a hierarchy, that they want to export. The only way to do that is to go into space admin and select the individual pages. Having done this myself quite a lot on a large space with many pages its a pretty poor solution regardless of the security implications that make it even worse.


author: Ian Turner
body: Something I've been forced to do is create a page that is made up from the pages you want in the document, using the include macro. Say I have a structure of pages:

* body of report
  * chapter 1
  * chapter 2

I'd create a page called report that just contains include page macros:

include page - body of report

include page - chapter 1

include page - chapter 2

You sometimes have to mess about with the headings and table of content. Then you can export from the "report" page in either PDF or word. Its not a great UX but its one way of doing it.


Tags: confluence-data-center

confluence-server

export

pdf

server
Unable to drag and drop or insert image
Asked by Jochem Adriaanse:

Hi everyone,

Possible there is someone who has a workaround for this issue.

Currently it is impossible for us to add images to confluence pages. Previously you could add images but these options don't work anymore.

What we have tried create a new page/document, drag \& drop, /image, /picture

Since last week these options no longer work in our confluence spaces.


Answers:
author: Jochem Adriaanse
body: Hello thanks for your answer. This problem occurred after a colleague changed rights. In the meantime I have found out that it was because of the change of rights.

comments: author: Diego
body: Thanks for sharing the root cause and also how you solved the situation with us!


author: Diego
body: Hello [@Jochem Adriaanse](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3941276) !

As I understand it, you are currently unable to upload images to your Confluence pages.

With this in mind, I tried to replicate the behavior you explained. Here are the results:
> **Via Drag And Drop**
>
> ![DragAndDrop.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/109883i078EFDF3B1F113EC/image-dimensions/186x169?v=v2 "DragAndDrop.gif")
>
> **File File Manager**
>
> ![FileManager.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/109884i2970E664BD7FFB3D/image-dimensions/166x150?v=v2 "FileManager.gif")

Since I was unable to replicate the behavior, I would like to ask you a few questions. Here we go:

> 1. *Is this still affecting your pages?*
> 2. *Is this behavior present for all users?*
> 3. *Is this happening regardless of the browser being used?*
> 4. *Is this happening in all pages (new and already existing ones)?*
> 5. *Is this happening with any file type or is it affecting images only?*
> 6. *How big (as in file size) are the files that you are trying to add to your pages?*
> 7. *What browser are you currently using?*

Let us hear from you!

comments: author: Jochem Adriaanse
body: Hello thanks for your answer. This problem occurred after a colleague changed rights. In the meantime I have found out that it was because of the change of rights.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

drag-and-drop

image
mass word document upload
Asked by daniel lanuza:

Hi

I am looking into uploading 15000 word documents with images into confluence (ideally turning them into pages)

is there a smart way to do that?

THanks


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: This will be a huge project. I suggest a lot of scripting to first clean up the Word docs, then cleaning up the source in Confluence. And of course, I would try this against a local copy of Confluence for testing first.

comments: author: daniel lanuza
body: indeed. i got that far.

any preferred tool for scripting that you would recommend in this context?


author: Bill Bailey
body: Probably Python. Confluence has good API support, but not sure how that works with the Cloud versions. Your strategy maybe to do the conversion on the server version, then move the spaces over to the Cloud once you are done.

I am guessing you have a month's worth of work ahead of you.

I did find this one app that might do what you want (except it does not support embedded images):

[all-in-one-file-importer-for-confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221333/all-in-one-file-importer-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

And you are in luck as it is available for the Cloud.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

ms-word

upload
Tomcat config is incorrect error
Asked by Andrew Balmer:

Hello,

I am getting following error when accessing Confluence via proxy (i get same error when accessing confluence app from the internal network)

**Tomcat config is incorrect**

The Tomcat server.xml has an incorrect configuration:

**scheme** should be 'https'  
**proxyName** should be 'confluence.co.uk'  
**proxyPort** should be '443'

According to this link below I am using reverse proxy and under `<install-directory>/conf/server.xml` file I have following settings

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/jira-displays-an-error-banner-about-the-incorrect-tomcat-config-939940652.html>

\<Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"  
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"  
enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"  
acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"  
clientAuth="false" sslProtocols="TLS" SSLEnabled="true"  
URIEncoding="UTF-8" keystorePass="Password"  
keystoreFile="F:\\Confluence\\conf\\Confluence.keystore"/\>  

\<Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"  
maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"  
enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"  
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"  
scheme="https" secure="true" proxyName="confluence.co.uk" proxyPort="8443"/\>

I have also tried following settings but that did not work:

\<Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"  
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"  
enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"  
acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"  
clientAuth="false" sslProtocols="TLS" SSLEnabled="true"  
URIEncoding="UTF-8" keystorePass="Password"  
keystoreFile="F:\\Confluence\\conf\\Confluence.keystore" secure="true" proxyName="confluence.co.uk" proxyPort="8443"/\>

Could someone let me know what could I be doing wrong here?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: In the section "connector port = 8090" why did you set the proxy port to the internal connector port instead of the port the proxy is going to be working on?

The proxy connector settings that the error message is warning you about are for the external user-facing stuff, not the internals. Try changing it to 443 as suggested


Tags: confluence-server

server
Can we restore old contents in confluence.
Asked by Preethi Loganathan:

Can we restore/recover the contents of a particular space in confluence.If yes,can you please suggest how it can be done.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Assuming you have completely deleted it, then you'll need to get a backup, restore that to a temporary Confluence installation, then you'll be able to export that single space from the temporary install and import it into the original Confluence.
Not able to Create a new confluence page as a child of another page
Asked by Hardik Rana:

Not able to Create a new confluence page as a child of another page with below curl req:

curl -u admin:admin -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/json' -d '{"type":"page","title":"new page",  
"ancestors":\[{"id":456}\], "space":{"key":"TST"},"body":{"storage":{"value":  
"\<p\>This is a new page\</p\>","representation":"storage"}}}'  
https://wiki/rest/api/content/

OS: Windows

Error on using -o with curl:

curl: (7) Failed to connect to port 80: Connection refused


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The error you're getting is a network error - it means there is nothing running on port 80 (http) on the url you are hitting, or a firewall is stopping the connection dead.

Check what the base url of the Confluence you are trying to connect to is, I suspect you will find it is not what you are using in curl (it will probably be https)

comments: author: Hardik Rana
body: Yes, I have mentioned in my question. It is https only.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: But your curl call is over the default http port of 80. Have you set up 80 to serve up https? Or are you looking in the wrong place?


author: Hardik Rana
body: ```
curl -D- \  -u admin:admin \  -X POST \  -H "X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck" \  -F "file=@example.txt" \  -F "minorEdit=true" \  -F "comment=Example attachment comment" \  https://wiki/rest/api/content//123/child/attachment
```

But I am getting status 200 for the above curl request.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: A 200 is a success, now you're on the right url.


Tags: rest-api
Notifications to email
Asked by Vlad Kim:

Hello

How can I set up emails notifications triggered by date not by action in Confluence?

I've got a table of tasks with different due dates throughout the year and ideally I would like to get a reminder notification to my email that I need to start working on particular task.

If this something possible to do in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Vlad Kim](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4077614) !

As I understand, you want to receive emails based on the due dates set for your tasks.

Currently, reminders for Task Due Dates are not available in Confluence. Some time ago, a similar feature was suggested here:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Tasks' due dates should be notified to users through notification box***++](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-35150)

I was also unable to find a third-party application that provides such feature.

If you visit your Profile in Confluence and go to the Tasks tab, all the tasks assigned to you are listed there. More details about it:
> * ***Action items** - Add action items by using the **Action items** button in the toolbar and mentioning another user. Whoever you first mention on that line is assigned the action item. Assigning someone an action item looks like this:* *Items like this show up on Dan Morgan's tasks list under his profile, and he can tick them off as he does them. The due dates turn red if they become overdue. He can also filter them by date, completion, and whether they were assigned to him or created by him from here. If he'd prefer to see these on another page, he can also use the Task Report Macro.*

The complete documentation page:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Add formatting to your page***++](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/add-formatting-to-your-page/#Addformattingtoyourpage-text)

Let us hear from you!

comments: author: Vlad Kim
body: Thanks it's clear now!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

notification

reminder
When I turned off confluence access for a user it blocks the user to access jira as well
Asked by Abubacker Siddique:

I have turned off confluence licence for specific users that disables access for jira as well, the user can't proceed or access the issues in project.


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Abubacker Siddique](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1013779)

What happens when the user tries to access Jira?

I'd first check the user still has Jira product access. As a Site Admin:

1. Go to <https://admin.atlassian.com/>
2. Against your site, press "Manage Users"
3. Locate a user who should have Jira but not Confluence, and select them
4. Ensure the user has "Has access on site" and "Jira" toggled to ON

-----------------

If they do have access to Jira - but not the project - it's more likely a project permissions issue.

If this is **Classic:**

1. In Jira, go to the project
2. Go to Project Settings \> Permissions
3. Check what the user needs for "Browse Projects"
4. Ensure the user has access via that permission - eg. if it is based on a user's project role, ensure that role is set via Project Settings \> People

**Note:** Atlassian is changing how users access projects; in future you might find that the permissions needed in **Step 3** are "Browse Projects" and "View Issues" to see the issues.

If this is **Next-Gen:**

1. In Jira, go to the Next-Gen project
2. Go to Project Settings \> Access
3. If the access level is "Private", the user will need a role to see the project's issues
4. If they don't have access, press the blue "Add People" button to add the user to a role.

-----------------

If neither of these resolve the issue, let us know what the user can/cannot do in regards to Jira at this stage :)

Ste


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira-cloud
Series of questions for projects
Asked by Douglas Curry:

We have a series of questions for folks in our company that we need answered before the project starts. We have a total of 10 questions to help clarify the project and its steps. All employees have access to Confluence, Questions for Confluence and Trello. Most of the staff has limited technology exposure and we need to keep this a s simple as possible to get the 10 questions answered. I'm looking for suggestions as to which application to use and how to best set this up so we can easily repeats the process?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Douglas Curry](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1356600)

I'd think from a simplicity and storage perspective, Confluence would be a good option here.

You could:

1. Create a Space where all of these questionnaires are kept - or, if each project will have its own Space, create the Space first
2. Create a Template with the questions pre-set on it.
3. Request during project set-up that users go to the Space, create a new page and select the "Questions Template", populating answers below each question.
4. Keep the document for future use/reference.

\^ This is a nice, simple approach and Confluence is quite easy to use!

See more on templates on [these pages](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/pre-format-your-content-with-templates/).

Ste

comments: author: Douglas Curry
body: Thank you Stephen!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
User Management in cloud (deleting/deactivating users for a free account)
Asked by Katie McDaniel:

I have a free Confluence cloud account I use to track some household things.

I also wanted to muck about with some of the Teams in Space Jira demo space, so I imported that into the my cloud Jira instance (linked to the Confluence space).

In order to do the import, I deleted the users for my confluence space (because the demo comes with 10 users, and the import will fail if they can't all come). I thought I could delete/deactivate some of the users after my time with the demo was done, and re-add my Confluence team members.

Today I tried to remove some of the Jira team members so I can re-add my team. I removed their access to my products. They're not showing up in any of my groups or in my user lists. And I was able to re-add my team members...but I can't give them access to Confluence. The slider bar is grayed out and I can't click on it.

![Screen Shot 2020-09-07 at 11.31.40 AM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/109462iDDD637FE32959356/image-dimensions/324x198?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2020-09-07 at 11.31.40 AM.png")


Answers:
author: Katie McDaniel
body: Thanks, Henrique - refreshing didn't work. But I waited a couple hours and now it seems to be working. Perhaps it just needed time...


author: Henrique Degan
body: [@Katie McDaniel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3968635) ,

Creio que voce pode retirar i acesso ao site dar um F5 (Atualizar) e tentar novamente, ou pode reenviar o invete que pode vir a dar certo.

Tente fazer este procedimento e nos avise se deu certo!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Livesearch not filtered by restricted labels
Asked by Gary Strange:

The livesearch marco won't filter the results by the label I've specified.

Any documents matching the search term are listed even if they don't have the label I specified in the "Restrict to label(s)" criteria.

Reference: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/livesearch-macro-163415902.html>


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Gary Strange](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1133989) !

As I understand, the results of your searches within the Livesearch macro are incorrect.

When I tried to replicate the behavior, I found out that this is indeed a bug.

I have filed the following bug report:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Specifying a label on Livesearch macro does not affect results from both the dropdown search results preview and the See more results for option***++](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-70782)

The only workaround I was able to find was to use the enter/return key for you to be redirected to the full search page.

I hope this helps to explain why this is happening!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

livesearch-macro