youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Did the new Confluence update remove Anchors?
Asked by Joshua Riedel:

I used to use jumps and anchors to navigate longer articles I wrote (In a table of contents like fashion) but I no longer see the Anchor macro listed. Is it gone? If so, what can be used similarly to the Anchor?


Answers:
author: Scott Theus
body: Hi [@Joshua Riedel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3053332) ,

it looks like they were removed from the new editing experience. There is an open request to add it back, you can review and vote for it here: [CONFCLOUD-66773](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-66773)

Hope this helps,

-Scott

comments: author: Joshua Riedel
body: Added my vote! Just noticing all the things they've taken out... like my old favorite lorem ipsum macro. Not a big loss compared to this, but alas


author: Bill Bailey
body: Yet another reason to not use the Cloud version. ;-)


author: Joshua Riedel
body: Sadly I can't change what my company uses :'(


author: Juan Felipe Cardona
body: Even a simple html page let's you add anchors!

I'll vote!


author: Juan Felipe Cardona
body: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-66773> is closed, no more voting allowed.

They added/enabled the headers links, but that is only part of the full anchors capability that we had before.

It seems they didn't understand the users request.


Tags: anchor

cloud

confluence-cloud

update
Disable Confluence notifications (not email)?
Asked by Darryl St_ Pierre:

I regularly receive notifications in Confluence (Cloud), and I'm unclear if or how I can turn them off.

* I am a Confluence administrator, and a Site Administrator.
* Notifications are almost all "Xxxxx edited your page".
* I create all new spaces in Confluence.
* I set all permissions for spaces.
* I do not Watch any of the pages generating notifications.

The notification I receive are in-app. I never receive email notifications for these alerts, as I have most turned off.

Why do I see these alerts, and can I eliminate them?


Answers:
author: Rick Kotze
body: Same thing happening on my side.  
Very frustrating - signal gets lost in the noise.


author: JinquanZhang
body: Are you sure that you do not watch any of the pages?

Maybe you're watching the space, you can check that.

comments: author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: Yes, confirmed I am not watching space or pages.


author: Dean P. Simmer
body: Same issue here too. No way to stop watching the page since I don't watch it, and no way to transfer ownership. It's really annoying.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Create Jira issue in Confluence issue
Asked by Nathan Overlin:

Greetings,

I am working on setting up an onboarding project for my company. I know how to create a Jira issue based on a set of text from a confluence page, but it looks like the linking is not working as I would expect.

Example -

* I have a table with some columns in my Confluence Page
* I highlight a set of text such as "(Presales) Site Audit Discussion" and click Create Jira issue
* After creating the issue I can confirm that makes a Jira ticket as desired, however, the confluence page acts as nothing happened. The text I highlighted has no indication a ticket was made.

That being said should the text actually have a link or something to indicate a Jira was made or does it remain as normal text? I know different Jira views can be made in confluence to show the different tickets, but if I make tickets randomly on this table, I would like the specific text I highlighted to show the ticket or status.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hey there, Nathan!

This behavior is present in both Confluence Cloud and Self-Hosted, according to reports.

In both Cloud and Self-Hosted, the behavior is quite similar (if not the same) as what you described.

Here are the links to the reports I mentioned, Nathan:
> * **++*[CONFCLOUD-35077](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-35077)*++**
> * **++*[CONFSERVER-35077](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-35077)*++**

Currently, the workaround consists of **manually adding Jira issue links** to the desired pages.

Let us know your thoughts on this. Looking forward to your reply!

comments: author: Nathan Overlin
body: Thanks that does seem like the issue and from what I can tell on the thread it's random to some extent and has been going on for a year or better.

I will pass this on to my team to try and manually add. Hopefully, we get a fix or workaround soon!

Thanks,

Nathan


author: Diego
body: Thanks for the feedback, Nathan!

Come share with us again sometime.


author: Renae Dahiya
body: [@Nathan Overlin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2351116) - We are evaluating Jira/Confluence integration and ran into this issue today as well. Any updates?


Tags: jira
Creating a page collaboratively.
Asked by Moema de Castro Alves:

HI I would like to know when creating a page for the WIKI if its possible to add more people? At the moment I see only the name of who created a page, but would be fair to recognize other people that contributed directly, and I would like to know if its possible to avail from this option.

Many thanks


Answers:
author: Kurt Klinner
body: [@Moema de Castro Alves](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3534661)

Generally speaking you will the something similar to the image below (the person that created the page and who modified it lately)

![Screenshot 2019-08-22 at 21.33.12.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/64128i1551C1AB1EFCA7EF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2019-08-22 at 21.33.12.png")

In addition you could have a look to the Contributors macro, described at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/contributors-macro-183468956.html>

Cheers

Kurt
CTRL+B key on page edit for non-latin layouts
Asked by Dmitry Gorelov:

Hello.

If I switch to Russian keyboard when edit any page in Confluence, the hot key Ctrl+B does not work.

In Comments field under the page it does.

Please fix!


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hey Dmitry!  
I was able to spin up a Windows machine (*I++assumed you were using Windows due to the CTRL+\<key\> combination++* ) and test this behavior.   
Turns out that a few other languages are also affected by this, such as Arabic.   
With the behavior in mind, I raised a report. You can check it here, Dmitry:
> * ++***[CONFCLOUD-67629 \| Keyboard shortcuts do not work in some keyboard layouts in Windows](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67629)***++

You can vote and watch the issue. Voting can help with the report visibility and watching will keep you up to date with everything.

As a workaround, we can change the layout to English and the shortcuts should work as expected.

Let us know your thoughts on this. Looking forward to your reply!

comments: author: Serge DUDNIC
body: French keyboard does not work either


author: Dmitry Gorelov
body: Thank you, Diego!

I agree it looks like a bug, thank you vor issuing a report.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
User Macro Language Reference
Asked by Kevin Rappold:

I am new to Confluence macros but not to programming in general. So I know the types of things i want to do but can't find a very good reference style document on the language syntax of the user macro tool. The examples help but do not show all the variations, etc.


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Yeah, getting started writing complex macros is a bit of a challenge, mainly because it is a mix of Velocity and Confluence Java Objects (not all of which are available in the Velocity context).

So I use this as a reference: [http://velocity.apache.org/engine/1.7/.](http://velocity.apache.org/engine/1.7/)

And this forum is a huge help. There are a few articles like these (mine is listed first):

* [Confluence-articles/Getting-Started-with-User-Macros-Writing-a-Wrapper-Macro/ba-p/979571](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Getting-Started-with-User-Macros-Writing-a-Wrapper-Macro/ba-p/979571)
* [A-User-Macro-to-Create-a-Table-From-an-Attached-CSV-File-Par](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/A-User-Macro-to-Create-a-Table-From-an-Attached-CSV-File-Part/ba-p/738757) (Davin has written a few)

They help in learning some of the tricks for performing more complex task. And then just lots and lots of Internet searches (and unfortunately, velocity gets a lot of non useful hits).

But yes, a dummy's guide to Confluence macros would be very useful. It took me quite some time to come up to speed.

comments: author: Kevin Rappold
body: thanks so much...this really helped me.


Tags: user-macro
Pie Chart - Changing the name of the Label?
Asked by Gesine F:

Hey everyone,

I would like to know how I can change the names of the labels in a pie chart?

Can anyone help with that, who know a quick way or configurating the labels?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's no way to change the labels, they are drawn directly from the configuration settings of the gadget and the data it is reporting on.
How can I get access to add page in the wiki?
Asked by Vinodh Kumar:

I need to get access to add page in my company wiki page

wiki.slb.com


Answers:
author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hi [@Vinodh Kumar](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3534241) - you should contact your Confluence Administrator/Space Admin in your company. They have the rights to give you permissions in your wiki.

Welcome to this community!
How to search value which stored by the status macro?
Asked by Aleksandr Paren:

Hello.

Sometimes I am using the status macro in my confluence pages.

Here the example

![!_01.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/64059i552CC171B121237C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "!_01.PNG")

If I am trying to do the search this is page couldn't be found.

If I use CQL, the result will be with the pages which are withe macro, but not with the value which I wanted

```
macro+%3D+"status"
```

Is there some ways to find values in the status macro?


Answers:
author: Aleksandr Paren
body: Hi, [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952) .

1. I need search result in the Confluence, I don't want to use REST API

2. I wrote, I have the script

```
macro+%3D+"status"
```

And unfortunately no any information in the Advanced Search Reference, how can I search values in the status messages

Only that example which also gives me result only with the pages where status macro used.

```
macro = status
```

As I am understanding for now there are no any possibility to search pages with the values in the status page macro inside. This is sad, because now I have to edit so many pages and insert standard text instead of status page macro. Finally it works that rendered value can not be found.

If I look into the rendered output HTML-code, I can see my message inside.

```
<span class="status-macro aui-lozenge aui-lozenge-complete conf-macro output-inline" data-hasbody="false" data-macro-name="status" data-macro-id="d828d53d-cd70-4650-886d-2b26fb7e2b03">THIS IS THE TEST STATUS MACRO</span>
```


author: Diego
body: Hello there Aleksandr!  
We can use CQL and REST API to find the desired content. We can find the desired content on the page body itself.   
Our query can look into the *++storage format++*and search for the desired string within your content, Aleksandr. This should work regardless of what we are looking for because we will look into the storage format, not the macro as a rendered product.

For this, we will need some REST API:
> * ++***[REST API - Search](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/#api-group-Search)***++

and also Advanced CQL search:
> * [**++*Advanced Searching Using CQL*++**](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/advanced-searching-using-cql/)

The request should look like this:

```
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://your-domain.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/search/user?cql={cql}' \
--user 'email@example.com:' \
--header 'Accept: application/json'
```

You will need *++API Tokens++* for that. Here is your documentation for it:
> * ++***[API Tokens](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/api-tokens-938839638.html)***++

<br />

API Tokens are used as a mean of authentication for our Cloud platform when you are dealing with scripts or any other Cloud process.

Let us hear from you Aleksander!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

macro
how link to aui tab
Asked by YOUNGHO:

I want to link to a tab other than the Active Tab in AUI.

ex:  
- Aui Tab Group\> Aui Tab (ID: test1), Aui Tab (ID: test2)

- Active Tab is test1

- but i want to link test2

Here is what I wrote:  
Aui Tab Group\> Aui Tab (ID: test1), Aui Tab (ID: test2)

link text \> Edit \> Advanced \> link **input: page name # test2**

I did the above, but it links to Active Tab (test1).

how link to aui tab


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@YOUNGHO](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3534294)

Look at this posts, maybe can help you

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/question-about-aui-tabs/qaq-p/1590924>

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-How-to-hyperlink-or-anchor-to-AUI-Tabs-page/qaq-p/978189>

Cheers


Tags: aui
I am struggling to reference an image for use in a space template i have created
Asked by Warren Turner:

I have created a bespoke space template in a confluence space for taking minutes.

I am trying insert an image (which needs to be attached to another page within the space) as you suggest here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/blueprints-and-user-created-templates-724764985.html#BlueprintsandUserCreatedTemplates-Createyourowntemplatetemplate_types>

The only option i have is to add an image gallery - i cannot see the way to do this:

#### Images and other attachments {#toc-hId--709855773}

Attachments need to be uploaded to a separate page, then in your template, choose **Insert** \> **Files** \> **Search** on other pages to embed the file or image. Please note that you can't upload an image or other file into a template directly.

Interestingly i have seen that the image gallery is due to be deprecated so wonder if this has now happened and if so how i achieve the inclusion of an image in a template.


Answers:
author: gabriela.souza
body: Same problem here


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
No emojis on confluence cloud on mobile
Asked by Tomasz Sobierajski:

Hi, I'm having an issue with confluence cloud on a mobile - the emojis that are displayed on a desktop are not displayed on a mobile - instead they are replaced with a blue star icon:![conflue_mobile_no_emojis.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/64035i31873E5B311C3A07/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "conflue_mobile_no_emojis.jpg")


Answers:
author: Andy - PTC Redundant
body: [@Tomasz Sobierajski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2899339) :

Have you still got HipChat integration set-up on Confluence and used old HipChat Emojis??

If yes, Cloud Confluence Mobile no longer supports that type of HipChat integration. (Already a while now).

Random question, just to check - does you mobile device support the emoji's you use and can see via desktop?

(Long shot, but it might be device affected)

comments: author: Tomasz Sobierajski
body: [@Andy - PTC Redundant](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1182002)   

No, the emojis used are not HipChat emojis.  

It might be device affected because the emojis supported by the device are displayed, only the ones that we have created internally are not.


author: Tiffany
body: Hi [@Andy - PTC Redundant](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1182002) and [@Tomasz Sobierajski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2899339)

My name is Tiffany and I'm a product manager on Confluence. I saw that you're having issues with emojis on mobile and wanted to let you know that we are fixing the issue and you should be able to see emojis soon! I will keep you updated on this post, but we will be providing emoji support and a bunch of new features for mobile soon! ?


author: Barbara Berti
body: Hi all,

since you're into icons, we have just released Icons for Confluence (cloud), a set of +500 fully customisable icons (colour, size, shape) to be added to Confluence documents. Hope you might give it a try! Thank you


Tags: mobile

cloud

confluence-cloud

emoji
How to change space URL?
Asked by Laura Sergi:

The current URL doesn't look very nice. Same with the tiny link.

Is it possible to change the URL of a space or the last part of it? The base/dashboard URL is completely different.


Answers:
author: Kurt Klinner
body: [@Laura Sergi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3534136)

Hi Laura

welcome to the community.

The core functionality of confluence does not support that, but you could check if

using a kind of url rewrite solution could fit your needs. Apache and nginx both support url rewriting so that could be an option.

See also

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/using-mod_rewrite-to-modify-confluence-urls-226165314.html>

Cheers

Kurt

comments: author: Laura Sergi
body: Thank you for your answer, Kurt.

I removed the unsafe characters and now it works.
Search in edit mode just finds the first entry
Asked by Sebastian Rottmann:

Hi,

is this a bug or a feature? For example I have a list like

\* foo

\* bar

\* foo

Now I am searching for "foo" while in the edit mode of a confluence page. It finds the correct first entry of "foo". But I want to jump to the next "foo" and press 'search' again. But it stays on the first find.  

I can imagine that it's the feature because the 'find' is a 'find an replace' which wants to iterate through my findings. But for me it is a bug. I don't want to replace content. Just find all my "foos". But I stick on my first finding.  

The workaround is to save my edited page. Use my browsers find (CTRL+F) look for all my "foos". Remember where I found them. Go back to edit mode and do what I intended to do initially. Not really usable :/  

Greets

Sebastian


Answers:
author: Susanne B
body: Hi Sebastian,

I'm still new to this topic, but that's why I test many functions.  
In the confluence editor with the function "find and replace" you can run through all search matches without replacing them. We use Confluence Server version 6.12.

The function ist also documented here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/the-editor-251006017.html>

Greets  
Susanne

comments: author: Sebastian Rottmann
body: That's what I tried. But it sticks at the first finding. Try to find strings that you use more than once on your page. Does that work? I am using 6.15.6 server edition.

It kinda sucks that CTRL+F is intercepted through confluence. I found out that you have to open the browser search first and than go to the edit mode to keep the built in browser search.


author: Susanne B
body: Yes I do. I enter only the search string and click on "search" to go through the page. It works and mark the matches one by one. But you found a good work around.

I'm sorry that I can't help.
Confluence attachments
Asked by Iro Karavasili:

Hello all!!  

I would like to ask you if there is a mysql command or a script that you may use in order to find the (top 10 let's say) pages with the attachments that have large size.  
Confluence v.6.14.0  

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Kurt Klinner
body: [@Iro Karavasili](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1605208)

Hi Argyro

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-find-the-total-size-of-all-attachments-in-confluence-794201234.html> provides some useful sql queries that you can customise baed on your needs

All the best

Kurt


Tags: confluence-server

server
user macro with CQL result (unlimited)
Asked by KRAFTON Inc.:

l had view "<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/User-macro-with-CQL-result/qaq-p/721816>" and used the contentbylabel macro.

But max result of contentbylabel macro is 500.  
I wanna more cql search result.

Do you have any idea?

I used this code.

```
## @param CQL:title=CQL Query|type=string|required=true|default=type = page and |desc=Enter CQL Query here, use pageId() to refer to current page ID and spaceKey() to refer to current space key.
## @param STARTDATE:title=StartDate|type=string|required=true|desc=From Date.
## @param ENDDATE:title=EndDate|type=string|required=true|desc=To date

#set ( $day1 = $paramSTARTDATE )
#set ( $day2 = $paramENDDATE )

#set ( $cql = $paramCQL.replace("pageId()", $content.id.toString()).replace("spaceKey()", $space.key) )
#set ( $cql = $cql +' and created >= "' + $day1 + '" and created <= "' + $day2 +'"' )
#set ( $htmlString = $action.getHelper().renderConfluenceMacro("{contentbylabel:showLabels=false|showSpace=false|max=1000|cql=$cql}") )

#set ( $results = 0)


#foreach ( $linkPart in $htmlString.split('href="') )
#set ( $results = $results +1 )
#end
<p> $day1 ~ $day2 Found $results results.</p>

```


Answers:
author: Dario B
body: Hello [@KRAFTON Inc.](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/158744) ,

As mentioned in the [Content By Label macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-by-label-macro-145566.html) page, the max results limit is indeed set to 500 and there is no way to increase it.

However, I can see that in a previous community post another user pasted the code to create a user macro that returns the full list of results:

* [Exceeding the Content by Label Max Page Limit](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/Exceeding-the-Content-by-Label-Max-Page-Limit/td-p/641717)

Please review above thread and let us know if it helps.

Cheers,  
Dario

comments: author: KRAFTON Inc.
body: Thank you Dario!


author: Dario B
body: You are very welcome! :)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Export old version of a page to PDF in Confluence
Asked by Kofi Akosah:

Hi all, is it possible to export an old version of a page to PDF in Confluence


Answers:
author: Dmytro V
body: As the feature request for exporting to pdf specified version is closed <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-6062>

The possible workaround that I've found is next:

1. Restore old version(... \> Page History -\> Restore action)

2. Export it to PDF

3. Restore the original one(... \> Page History -\> Restore action)


author: Mehmet ?irin Usanmaz
body: Hi Kofi,

* Go to "Page History" page.  
  ![Ekran Resmi 2019-08-22 10.39.25.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/64021i1C4DA7A562D5E43C/image-dimensions/328x275?v=v2 "Ekran Resmi 2019-08-22 10.39.25.png")

<!-- -->

* Click on the version you want
* In the opened page you can export pdf as follows  
  ![Ekran Resmi 2019-08-22 10.41.08.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/64020i07B5626B2295B522/image-dimensions/375x250?v=v2 "Ekran Resmi 2019-08-22 10.41.08.png")

comments: author: Kofi Akosah
body: Thanks Mehmet!


author: Martin Dubois
body: I get the latest, not the version I wanted.


author: Alexander Plaksin
body: Yes. On export you always get latest version. no matter which version you selected.
Checkbox: display time and name of person who checked the box.
Asked by The PLF:

How can I display the time when a checkbox was checked and the name odf the person who did it?

The checkboxes are in a task report.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Julie Wood
body: Has there been any change to this since 2022?


author: Jack Brickey
body: There is not any way to Capture that level of detail directly in the document.