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How to automatically count string values from a table that are to be used in a new table for charts
Asked by Nikitas Popp:

Hello Confluencers ;)

I am trying to find a way to automate the counting of specific string values from a table. Based on that count, I want to generate a new table to display the number of occurrences of each string value and use that to generate a chart. Is there any way to automate that?

Big thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Stiltsoft support
body: Hi [@Nikitas Popp](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5591798) ,

We can suggest trying the app that we develop - [Table Filter, Charts \& Spreadsheets for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-charts-spreadsheets-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud&utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111).

You may reuse your source table as many times as you need with the help of the [Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/tfac/cloud/table-excerpt-and-table-excerpt-include-42241623.html?utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) macros.

Then you may wrap each Table Excerpt Include macro in the [Table Toolbox](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/tfac/cloud/table-toolbox-42245927.html?utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) macro (a special shell for macro nesting due to the Cloud editor limitation) and apply the [Pivot Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/tfac/cloud/pivot-table-42239659.html?utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111)/[Table Transformer](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/tfac/cloud/table-transformer-42241552.html?utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) macros for aggregation and calculations. Then you apply the [Chart from Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/tfac/cloud/chart-from-table-42239655.html?utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) macro and create a graph based on your transformed table.

So, you'll be able to update your source table, all the changes will be passed through our macros, and your charts will be always up-to-date.

Besides, we support not only manually created tables but macro generated as well (for example, Page Properties Report and Jira Issues).


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Need help on upgrade MySQL 8.4.0 from MySQL 5.7.32?
Asked by Tejas Naik:

Hi,

We've reached the end of support for **Confluence 7.18.1** , so we are planning to upgrade to **Confluence 8.9.6** . During the upgrade process, we discovered that we need to upgrade **MySQL from version 5.7 to 8** before upgrading Confluence.

I've reviewed the documentation but am still unclear about how to perform an in-place upgrade of MySQL 8 using the binary package since our current MySQL 5.7 was installed via binaries.

My question is: Can we take a backup of MySQL 5.7.32, extract the file MySQL 8.4.0, and run the **`mysql_upgrade`** command and update the **`my.cnf`** file?

Or should I extract the file MySQL 8.4.0, create a new database, and load the data from the old MySQL 5.7.32 dump?

This is my first time handling a database upgrade, I would greatly appreciate your guidance or any specific documentation that could help.  

Regards  
Tejas


Answers:
author: Fadoua
body: [@Tejas Naik](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2604206)

Good Day!

I hope the following links will help:

* <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/install-windows/upgrade-to-a-different-edition-of-sql-server-setup?view=sql-server-ver15>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-to-another-database-148867.html>

Best of luck!

Fadoua

comments: author: Tejas Naik
body: Hi [@Fadoua](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/655791)

Thank you for the response  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-to-another-database-148867.html>

The link you provided suggests migrating from a different database, but I'm specifically looking to upgrade the same database to a higher version, from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.4.0.


author: Fadoua
body: [@Tejas Naik](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2604206) Then please refer to the Microsoft documentation. I was unable to locate a doc on Atlassian website which makes sense because MS should provide it


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Within Questions how do I ensure that new questions appear at the top
Asked by Andy Richman:

WIthin Confluence Questions when I select the Recent Tab the most recent questions do not show at the top. I cannot see a way to ensure that these new questions or questions with recent answers come up to the top. Can someone explain what the algorhythm is that ranks the order of the questions showed under Recent?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: It looks like Recent means "Created time", based on my testing and from this suggestion ticket: [Either lost the ability to see the question in activity order or recent selection is broken](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-48308)

I asked two questions and when I answered the second one it was still second on the list, despite having had activity (an answer) since the first one was posted.

Is this consistent with what you are seeing? If so, please vote/comment on the ticket to attract more attention from the development team.
Assign task on question page
Asked by Markus Freudenberg:

I'm a bit confused about how to assign a task, since neither on the page of a question nor in the editor window can I find the '**Task list** ![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/files/590260030/704578352/1/1422394659985/task-button.png) button', suggested here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-assign-and-view-tasks-590260030.html>.

Mentioning someone by @ is not the same thing. How do I do it?

Thanks for your answer.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I am sorry to report that there isn't any way to use the task list macro from Confluence Questions, it only works in the Confluence editor when you are editing a page.

Feel free to let me know more about your use case, maybe we can come up with a workaround.


Tags: assign
Can I watch a topic and get email notifications in "conversation view"?
Asked by Susan Ostreicher:

When I receive email notifications for topics that I'm watching, each question and answer is listed individually. As a result, the email is often cut off or abbreviated.

Is it possible to receive notifications in "conversation view" - that is, one entry for each topic, and a count of the new replies? This would make it much easier to scroll through and click on the topics that I'm interested in.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: There isn't any setting withing Confluence or Questions to batch or stack the emails from a watched topic.

If you think this requirement would be useful to other Questions users, please consider opening a suggestion ticket at <https://jira.atlassian.com>. This will give you a chance to explain your use case directly to the dev team as well as putting it out there for others to vote on.
Is there a documentation for the Addon - Modules of Confluence Questions?
Asked by Jan:

The addon Confluence Questions has 229 Modules - I assume some of these would have the impact we need when they are deactivated. I just do not know which ones as I could not find any documentation - testing would take ages... thanks for any help.


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: There's not documentation that I'm aware of, usually the modules have a short description so you can either search or hopefully read through and make semi-educated guesses about them. What precisely do you need to disable?

comments: author: Jan
body: Thanks for your reply. We would like to deactivate some of the Experts function and the possibility to create new topics. I think that I found the modules, but still it is a pain as you have to try and see the results one by one with about 10 different modules having "expert" in their names.
How can we export data from "Questions" to dedicated Confluence page?
Asked by Vidhi Gyani:

If we decide to stop using " Questions" in our organization and don't want to lose the content, there should be a possibility to export all that to a Confluence page


Answers:
author: Rick Carini
body: This also helped me, if you have access to the database:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/Where-exactly-is-the-data-of-Questions-for-Confluence-stored-in/td-p/817832>


author: Hermance NDounga
body: From what I can see here : <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51723> it's not possible out-of-the box.

What is sure it's that if you decide to do a site backup it will be included inside. And the second solution would be to play with the API : <https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence-questions/rest/index.html>

I hope it helps!
Why questions add-on unanswered list contains questions answered and doesn't receive mention email?
Asked by xiaobo ding:

Recently,my project adopt Questions add-on for Confluence.I came across two problems:  
1.Why the unanswered list not only contains questions that been answered,there are also somequestions answered in it?  
2.I asked a question and followed, while someone answered it,why couldn't I receive a mention email?  
Any body can tell me the reason and how to solve.  
Thank you!


Answers:
author: Jack Brickey
body: Hi [@xiaobo ding](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/689991) , did you find an answer for this? It would likely be best to contact the vendor support for a direct answer to this question if their documentation does not convey the answer.


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Confluence Questions - Who gets automated email notifications and when?
Asked by Don Donzal:

My intent is to start a question with a smaller more specific group. If no answer comes from the watchers of the initial topic(s), then I'd like to open it up to a larger audience by later adding additional topic(s) followed by a larger group. So here are some questions for clarification:

1. When I first create a brand new question, do watchers of all topics get email notifications or just those from the first topic applied?
2. If I update an existing question later by adding a new topic, do the watchers of the added topic now get an email notification?
3. If so... As a Confluence Admin, I have 2 ways to modify the topics of a question. I can either edit the question and add/remove topics or I can also click the pencil icon and add/remove topics without entering edit mode on the question. Does this make a difference?

FYI - Looked here and in documentation and found no answers.

Thanks in advance,  
Don


Answers:
author: carolyn french
body: 1. From my experience, only the watchers of the topics added the time of question creation will be notified via email.
2. No
3. I think it's just the ease of adding/removing topics both these ways. I don't think there is a difference.

If, as an admin, I add more topics to a question, sometimes I manually share the question with groups or email distro lists, so that they are notified.


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As part of upgrading to the new community will you be releasing a newer version of Questions for Confluence?
Asked by Yaacov Weingarten:

We are considering of starting a Community alongside our Confluence-based documentation, and after reading the recent reviews of Questions for Confluence, I am not sure that this is the right tool for us. Since you are migrating to a new tool - will this be available as a Confluence add-on?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The new community site is not based on Questions or Atlassian software, so it won't be an add-on.
Why can't I see the Confluence Questions project anymore in Atlassian JIRA?
Asked by carolyn french:

This link doesn't work anymore and I can't access any of the issues I'm watching in this project! <https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/CQ>

image2017-3-2 17:7:34.png

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/Why-can-t-I-see-the-Confluence-Questions-project-anymore-in/qaq-p/383194?attachment-id=2243){#link_11545b7d8403b9}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/questions-for-confluence-questions/1143/1/image2017-3-2%2017%3A7%3A34.png){#display_11545b7d8403b9_0}


Answers:
author: Steffen Opel _Utoolity_
body: It seems the Confluence team has merged the issues for the major supported add-ons back into the [Confluence (CONF)](https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/CONF) project itself, see the [components](https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/CONF?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:components-page) that start with 'Add-on - ...', e.g. [Add-ons - Confluence Questions](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CONF%20AND%20component%20%3D%20%22Add-ons%20-%20Confluence%20Questions%22).

I don't know about the rationale behind this move, but while there are the usual oversights like the [Submit a support request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ) on the [Questions for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-questions/overview) Marketplace listing still targeting the deleted project, as well as a slight loss of information (notably the former components), the issues as such are still available.

Any links to the former issues should simply redirect to the new one accordingly, see e.g. the infamous <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-361> (the JIRA issue macro here targets [CQ-361](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-361), but retrieves and display the new issue key at runtime).

Accordingly, you can still access your watched issues from your profile as usual, though they will show up with a CONF key - finding e.g. all 'watched and open' issues can be achieved via a resp. JQL query as follows:

```
key in watchedIssues() AND project = CONF AND component = "Add-ons - Confluence Questions" AND resolution = Unresolved
```

comments: author: carolyn french
body: Thank you for the help!


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How can I allow users to edit tags in Questions?
Asked by Friedrich Lasnia:

If I try to add a new tag to a question a colleague has created, this first seem to work, but after saving an error message is displayed briefly: "Access denied".

How to allow this? We all want to improve other questions.


Answers:
author: carolyn french
body: See with your admin if your instance has reputation-based permissions enabled. That means when you accrue a certain number of points, you are able to do certain admin functions like update another user's question's topics. Otherwise, only admin can do it.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/questions/permissions-407724476.html#Permissions-RepBasedPermissions>


author: Andr? K.
body: Hi @flasnia,

I haven't found any explicit documentation about editing other people topics but I've tested in my instance and it seems only users that are presented in the administrators group can edit topics in other people's questions. I believe you could do this by editing questions permissions or even the space permissions, but again I haven't found any documentation indicating which permission controls this.

For more information about [topics](https://confluence.atlassian.com/questions/topics-407724479.html) and [questions permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/questions/permissions-407724476.html) refer to these.

Hope this helps.


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Confluence Questions : How to know if people are searching and reading the questions?
Asked by Matthew Page:

Essentially the query is about effectiveness. Is there any way to know how many times someone has clicked on the question? Very few people will bother to click the up arrow to indicate "this worked for me". Most of the time they would type in the search, see the question, click it and read the answer then go away. This leaves us with no indicators of if the system is being up-taken across the company and what questions might benefit from attention due to their 'read frequency'. Optimal would be indicators of if they clicked on a question then typed in another search to another question, this would indicate the first one was a "miss" and maybe we should track which questions were misses so we could adjust them. This could even give us a hint about the types of questions people are searching for that don't have good answers yet at all.

Any advice here?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Matthew Page
body: Due to strict security we cant send out our internal discussions and information to another company, unfortunately ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")


author: tsantef
body: My company has been using Google Analytics for this but having view metrics integrated into CQ would be ideal.
Confluence Questions set up like answers.atlassian.com
Asked by kiralybalazs:

Hi,

We'd like to have a similar page set up like answers.atlassian.com using Confluence Questions.

The requirements are:

* separate domain from Confluence (eg. answers.xy.com while Confluence is wiki.xy.com) - not a simple redirect
* SSO using crowd

Well, that's it. Is this possible? What do I need to do to have a setup like that?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: If you cannot live with a redirect, it will have to be a separate installation of Confluence. That will mean a separate license too.

comments: author: kiralybalazs
body: Thanks for the answer.

A simple url redirect would be, well, not the desired solution.

Is it possible to setup some Apache magic maybe (or something similar) to serve /questions on a different domain? I'm also fine with the services being xy.com/wiki and xy.com/answers if this makes it easier.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Yes, it won't be a simple redirect. It will be done by Apache or something similar. That should be possible. Unfortunately, I do not have any code to share.


author: Kurt Martinsen
body: There is no problem in using Apache as a proxy and whatever domain you wish (I believe it is not fully supported meaning if you have problems concerning that part of the setup, you may get support, but it is not guaranteed). Confluence uses a server base url (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf510/configuring-the-server-base-url-829078159.html>) which might cause problems if you intend to serve the same instance from different urls.  

That being said, here's a sample Apache configuration so you can find out by yourself. I've changed and removed a lot of lines, so treat this only as an example:

```
&lt;VirtualHost APACHE_IP:80&gt;  ServerName answers.domain.com     ErrorLog "/var/log/apache2/answers_error.log"  TransferLog "/var/log/apache2/answers_access.log"    ProxyTimeout 30  ProxyRequests Off  ProxyPreserveHost On    &lt;Location /&gt;    Order allow,deny    Allow from all    ProxyPass  http://CONFLUENCE_IP:8090 ttl=5 timeout=300 retry=0    ProxyPassReverse  http://CONFLUENCE_IP:8090  &lt;/Location&gt;&lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
```

Proxying to /questions is something I don't know how to solve since css, js and other files seem to be fetched relative to the context path provided in the server.xml and not the full Base URL.

PS. I personally use AJP instead of HTTP for the proxy <https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/configuring-apache-reverse-proxy-using-the-ajp-protocol-802593042.html>.
Answers in Questions for Confluence Cloud not loading?
Asked by Rhona Sweeting:

Hi,

Currently experiencing issues when users attempt to answer questions in QfC (Cloud version) - field displays infinite loading (screen shot below):

image2016-12-8 10:27:22.png

System was working as expected up until 12am GMT this morning, as far as I can see.

Any thoughts? Should this be reported as bug?

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/Answers-in-Questions-for-Confluence-Cloud-not-loading/qaq-p/157197?attachment-id=11052){#link_115e17b50eb246}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/questions-for-confluence-questions/455/1/image2016-12-8%2010%3A27%3A22.png){#display_115e17b50eb246_0}


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Could well be hitting the issue affecting all Confluence Cloud Connect add-ons - <http://status.atlassian.com/>.

comments: author: Rhona Sweeting
body: Ah, that explains a lot! Many thanks. :smile:


Tags: cloud
Embed questions form in a page within Confluence space
Asked by Miroslav Kralik:

Hello,

is it possible to include the form for questions in a particular page within the same space? So users can submit the question from the space mainpage as example without a need to go exactly to questions page?

image-2016-09-19-11-29-26-795.png

Thank you, Miro  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/Embed-questions-form-in-a-page-within-Confluence-space/qaq-p/177538?attachment-id=11834){#link_115e17f3b1d3b4}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/questions-for-confluence-questions/535/1/image-2016-09-19-11-29-26-795.png){#display_115e17f3b1d3b4_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/Embed-questions-form-in-a-page-within-Confluence-space/qaq-p/177538?attachment-id=11835){#link_115e17f3b1d3b4_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/questions-for-confluence-questions/535/2/Screen%20Shot%202016-09-19%20at%2011.43.14.png){#display_115e17f3b1d3b4_2}


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Miro,

If I understand your question, the YES! This is the purpose of the 'Questions List' macro. Using that macro, you can define a particular topic and only those with permissions to view the space in the page where it is located, can see the question/answer.

See more on this here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/questions/integrate-questions-with-your-spaces-407724495.html>

Cheers,

Tom
Answers licence
Asked by Alexander Skvortsov:

Is it possible to buy a licence for private atlassian-answers-like (stackoverflow-like) service ?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Answers is a customised version of [Confluence Questions](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/questions) so, yes, you can get it for yourself, but you'll find it's not quite the same, and you'll need Confluence to run it.


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Questions anonymous login redirection wrong ?
Asked by Codrut Predoi:

Although I setup anonymous to be able to see questions, They are not able to access the link like this.

<http://1.com/questions> - It will redirect to login page no matter what I do. Also I tried to make questions like in answers.atlassian, but it did not work with disabling Confluence Spaces? Any help would be apreciated. In logs I receive a 302 redirection when access allowed on anonymous as well.


Answers:
author: Codrut Predoi
body: Also. I have just added a new group(questions-users) and added 1 user to that group. When I try to login to questions it says that I am not permitted to access that page. The group has been permitted access to Questions from the questions permissions setting tab.
Can I globally remove the Questions link in the sidebar?
Asked by Kelley Cooper:

We do not want to allow users to 'ask a question' in spaces...only globally. I globally removed the 'Ask question in space' dropdown (by hiding it via the stylesheet) and the 'Ask a question' option in the Create dialog (by disabling the Blueprint), but I cannot determine how to globally remove the Questions option/link from the sidebar.

I know it can be hiddent one space at a time but we have 50+ spaces, not to mention I don't want to have to remember to remove it every time a new space is created. I want to either globally hide it OR change the URL associated with it to point to the same location as the Questions link header banner.


Answers:
author: Kelley Cooper
body: Figured this out using [this post](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/15835979/disable-asking-questions-in-a-space) as reference.

```
/* Hide Questions link in sidebar*/  .cq-space-sidebar-link    {        display:none !important;    }
```


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