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How can i setup collaborative editing of documents?
Asked by Brad Schabel:

I have a group of individuals who need to edit documents together - Word, PPT and Excel. How do I execute that form of collaboration via Atlassian?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Mike Rathwell
body: Hi [@Brad Schabel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3218738)

Confluence is a bit different than using, for example, O365 or G-Suite in that one doesn't edit static/discrete documents attached to a page/space. Rather the collaboration comes in where multiple people can edit the same Confluence page at the same time (assuming a reasonably recent version of Confluence) and is there out of the box (unless your admin disabled it).

In many ways this is a Better Way to Go for a couple of reasons:

* In Confluence, there are rather less ways to format a given page (macros notwithstanding) so it's less likely you get a document with borked formatting as is so often the case in MS Word, for example.
  * If you need a static Word document created at various points in time, you can use something like Scroll Office to export a doc that looks like your corporate ones from the Confluence page(s).
  * The source content is always in Confluence giving you a single source of truth for the content
* O365 and G-Suite, unless one is using shared drives with broad permissions across the content in the drives, needs to have content *explicitly* shared with those that are collaborating. Confluence is somewhat the inverse; once the permissions to various content trees are set, the content is *implicitly* shared with all. If you then set up watchers on the space, page, what have you, they all get active notification when/if content changes.

Text documents are particularly easy to do this with Confluence. For the more spreadsheety kinda things as well as PPT, you'll need some extra plugins (and a search of marketplace.atlassian.com will find lots of good tools. That said, a consideration is that rather than distributing static, discrete, and... dead... documents you can distribute a link that is always right.

Good luck and always reach out back in this community for help and guidance. When you start down the rabbit hole and you run up against a specific thing to do, *someone* will have likely been there before.
Gliffy Images not showing?
Asked by Joseph Wibowo:

Anyone else struggle with using attached custom images in a gliffy diagram? It just shows up as an invisible box.

Same problem here: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Adding-images-to-Gliffy/qaq-p/1018627>

The fact this is an issue is quite surprising. This functionality is core to the product.


Answers:
author: John Almeida
body: Scott's advice it dead on! We hope this helped resolve your issue, but If you are still running into this problem, submit a ticket to our support team [here.](https://support.gliffy.com/hc/en-us/requests/new)


author: Scott Theus
body: Hi [@Joseph Wibowo](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3218733)

What is the size and file type of the image you are attaching?

comments: author: Joseph Wibowo
body: tried jpg and png, small file, just a couple hundred pixel square img


author: Scott Theus
body: Is it less than 1 MB?

This may or may not help, but here is the documentation on using attached images:

<https://guide.gliffy.com/user-manual/gliffy-for-confluence-plugin/1/en/topic/adding-images?q=image+attach>


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New to Confluence
Asked by Graciano Garduno:

So I purchased a $10 licence and when I revived I made a mistake and add the licence as

onbox database option . What I really wanted to do was use my own SQL database. Is there away to re-host the licence into my own database using SQL?

Thanks

JR


Answers:
author: Mikael Sandberg
body: Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

The license does not control what database you are on. You can either reinstall your Confluence server and select an external database, or if you have data in Confluence that you want to keep you can follow the [Migrating to another database](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-to-another-database-148867.html) guide.


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server
Confluence Cloud sidebar
Asked by Marcel Heelein:

So I just gave Confluence Cloud a try, have been using the Self Hosted version for a few years.  
So far so good, but the UI seems quite a bit different. I am missing the Header Bar..  
After some googlefu I found this;

[New navigation and a new look for Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/new-navigation-and-a-new-look-for-confluence-881536766.html)

Is there any way we can get the Original Header back?  
Like this is almost a deal breaker for me using the Cloud hosted instead of the Self Hosted option. I am not liking the new "Sidebar" this is not #FTW for me.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

Hey, thanks for being open with the *Sidebar FTW*part Marcel. We are always trying to improve the experience we provide to customers.

Currently, we can not rollback to the previous interface in Cloud instances. You can check a little more about the design language for Cloud here:

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

Would you share with us which are the pain points for you Marcel? What breaks the deal for you with Cloud?

Maybe we could help with that!

Looking forward to your reply.


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side-bar

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How can we export PDFs and also keep hyperlinks?
Asked by Saruka Thangarajah:

We've created Draw.IO Diagrams where clicking an icon in the diagram leads a person to an external website.

Our hyperlinks within the diagrams and throughout the Confluence page no longer appear when the page is exported into a PDF.

How can we export a Confluence page into a PDF with the hyperlinks?


Answers:
author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: Saruka,

I dont believe this functionality is available natively, but you may want to look at Scroll PDF Exporter (k15t Software) in the Marketplace. It appears that hyperlinks are maintained in the PDF output.

Darryl

comments: author: Saruka Thangarajah
body: Thanks Darryl, I'll suggest that to our Admin


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Thanks for mentioning Scroll PDF Exporter [@Darryl St_ Pierre](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1757592) - unfortunately we have the same issue in Scroll PDF Exporter (see [https://k15t.jira.com/browse/EXP-2071).](https://k15t.jira.com/browse/EXP-2071)

As soon as we find a solution here, we'd be happy to share any news.

comments: author: Saruka Thangarajah
body: Is there any timelines of a fix with Scroll PDF Exporter?


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: As I recall, the underlying PDF lib used for export doesn't support SVG foreign objects, it wouldn't be possible until it does.


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Not yet, but we might be able to discuss this further with [@David Benson _draw_io_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853291) and the draw.io team to see if we can improve this.


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: <https://k15t.jira.com/browse/EXP-2478>


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: It won't be possible. Export formats take the PNG from draw.io and use that. We tried providing an SVG output, but the native Confluence PDF exporter couldn't use it.


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Changed search behaviour with Confluence 6.14
Asked by Nicolas Kreft:

We have noticed, that the search behaviour has changed while upgrading from Confluence 6.10.2 to 6.15.4.

With Confiuence 6.10.2, when typing incomplete words into the search box in the upper right hand corner, we'd get results which we don't get with 6.15.4.

For example: We have pages containing the word "sharepoint". In the old Confluence 6.10, we would get results as soon as we typed "sharep". In the new Confluence, we have to type "sharepoint" to get results.

Is this intended behaviour? Can this be configured somewhere so that the behaviour matches the old Confluence?

![new-search.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/55278iA730C970F142E020/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "new-search.png")![old-search.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/55281iF50C552BE10E35C0/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "old-search.png")


Answers:
author: Pavel Potcheptsov
body: I don't like new search too.

Previously if I typed incomplete word in search field I got result grouped by categories. For example there are Page Titles, Attachments, Page Content and Space Name which contain same word in their names. If I just type part of that common name then search returns all that categories, i.e if I looked for Space then such Space(-s) is in search result, if I looked for Page then such Page(-s) in search result too.

Now I can't find Space quickly by their part name.

comments: author: Nicolas Kreft
body: Hi Pavel, thanks for chiming in.

I'm not sure yet which I like more, the old behaviour was sometimes unpredictable because (I think) the results would change based on what you have last edited or visited.

With the new search, that doesn't seem to be the case which is more consistent for me.


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server
Links broken after copying pages and deleting old ones
Asked by lophat:

I wanted to take ownership of pages from another user and followed this advice on [this page](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-change-the-owner-author-of-a-page-in-Confluence/qaq-p/6734#U1088608)

1. Rename the page you want to change the owner of, publish.
2. Copy that page
3. Rename the copy to match the original name, publish.
4. Delete the old page.

I didn't quite do this, I copied the pages to my own personal space. The original owner renamed (copied) their pages in the same space so they would have a new name, then I deleted the originals and then copied the pages back to their original location from my own space. I know this is a little confusing, but I think it's pretty much the same logic as 1-4 above. All the image links and draw.io links now give me a 404 error. I am getting very little help locally. Are all the old images gone? Is there any way they can be recovered? The draw.io stuff is 100+ hours of work.


Answers:
author: lophat
body: I would delete this but I don't see that option. It turns out I can still restore the old pages from the trash so I haven't lost my work... whew!


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server
How can I restore the data from a previous confluence instance without backups?
Asked by Paulo Marciano:

Recently we had problems with our confluence install and had to reinstall. Regretably, our newest backup was a few months old. I have access to the entire confluence dir, is there a way to restore the data?


Answers:
author: Alexis Robert
body: Hi [@Paulo Marciano](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3217024) ,

do you still have access to the database that you used with your previous Confluence install ? You would basically need to point your new Confluence to it, if the versions are the same.

Let me know if it helps,

--Alexis
Is there a way in Confluence Cloud I can uninstall/unsubscribe and install my licensed plugins?
Asked by Anand Rajaraman:

I have my licensed scroll pdf plugins, but can I uninstall/unsubscribe and install/subscribe it again anytime?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

You surely can do that Anand. We have an article explain ore about this here:

**[Managing Apps - Uninstall or unsubscribe from apps](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/managing-add-ons-or-plugins-724766519.html#ManagingApps-Uninstallorunsubscribefromapps)**

Excerpt from the article:
> You can uninstall **user-installed** apps that are no longer being used on your site. See [Uninstalling apps](https://confluence.atlassian.com/upm/uninstalling-apps-273875709.html) to learn how.
>
> If you'd like to cancel your subscription to an app, go to **Settings** \> **Manage apps** from the Confluence sidebar, then click **Unsubscribe**.

Let us know if this helps you Anand! Looking forward to your reply.

comments: author: Anand Rajaraman
body: Thank you [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952) I was able to uninstall.
Search fail
Asked by Tamari Janelidze:

Hi All,

I have a search failure for uploaded file. The situation is that if I type some text using Georgian Font (Sylfaen) and then upload this document, later if I want to search for specific word from this file. it can't find that word is contained in this file. But if I convert my file to PDF and than upload, search works perfectly.

Anyone have any ideas what might be a problem ?


Answers:
author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Tamari,

To start with, have you tried [indexing](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-index-administration-148844.html) your confluence?

Victor
Search in older versions
Asked by Tamari Janelidze:

Hello,

I have a question about search function. Can search find for a specific word, for example, that was written in older version of the page, but is removed from current version.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Tamari,

Hello and welcome to Community! It's nice to have you.

It is not currently possible to search through Confluence page history, and to be honest, it doesn't appear to be in any upcoming roadmaps for the future.

There are two feature requests for this. One is for Server, and has already been closed as Won't Do:

* [CONFSERVER-1281](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-1281) *Add ability to search historical pages and attachments*

> Thank you for raising this suggestion. We regret to inform you that due to limited demand, we have no plans to implement it in the foreseeable future.

The ticket for Cloud is currently still open, but as it has been many years since it was raised, it is likely that it may also not be considered.

* [CONFCLOUD-1281](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-1281) *Add ability to search historical pages and attachments*

I would still encourage you to follow-up on the requests with your feedback and input.

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

Shannon
How to list pages filtered by page content
Asked by John Fergus:

Hi,

I have a user-macro (called *target-audience* ) on pages allowing the user to choose some boolean parameters indicating the target audience groups for the page. This macro renders bullet points for each chosen group. For example, below is a page where the chosen groups are **GroupA** and **GroupB**.

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/55238i4E2B85F7DAE31090/image-dimensions/499x237?v=v2 "image.png")

I would like to create a page like below where I list the child pages of the current page that have the indicated groups as part of the target audience. For each list I would like to use a macro to chose the pages to display in the list. For example, in column one I would like a macro where I can specify pages containing **GroupA** as the target audience.

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/55237iC1C0631D09864879/image-dimensions/538x171?v=v2 "image.png")

Obviously a **Children Display** macro is close, but I cannot only choose to display certain of the child pages. Similarly, the **Content by Label** macro is close but I do not have labels on my child pages.

I could manually add labels to the child pages, but if i could automatically add them based on the target-audience macro that would be great. From reading questions here I can see that should be possible by using the REST API.

I looked at writing a new user-macro similar to **Content by Label.** My macro would examine children pages and look at the content to see if the content include the required groups. However in the macro I cannot see how to get the page content *as it would be rendered* . It gives me the content before the *target-audience*macro has run. Is there a way to see the content after the macro has run or a way to see into the macro and examine the boolean parameters to see which ones are set?

Or is there some other approach I should take? Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks,

John.


Answers:
author: John Fergus
body: To make this work I adapted my target-audience macro. As mentioned above, the macro sets boolean parameters depending on the values selected by the user.

To make this work, I have a naming scheme where my custom labels will all be prefixed with 'ta-'. In the macro code I create a JS array of label names that need to be added to the page. I can now loop over all existing labels on the page that match 'ta-' and see if they are required. Those that are not required I can remove. I can then loop over the required labels and add those.


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server
Can i add template in a page ?
Asked by YJ:

I just want to have a macro that can fast create format content in the page, Ex: create a table with certain format, when i click a button , it will create the table in current page ?


Answers:
author: Victor Mutambuki
body: YJ,

Please see content on [Create from Template macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/create-from-template-macro-792499098.html).

victor

comments: author: YJ
body: Hi Victor,   

Thanks so much for your answer. But " [Create from Template macro "](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/create-from-template-macro-792499098.html?_ga=2.129839621.867560736.1558403273-2130506685.1555950430&_gac=1.11340416.1557717652.EAIaIQobChMInfjvs8aX4gIVWgQqCh28HAKJEAAYASAAEgJGifD_BwE)will **create a new page** using the given template.

What i want to do is when i click a button, it will " Create certain content (Ex : a table) **on current page** , the certain content may from a template.   

Is it possible to do it? thanks in advance.


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confluence-cloud
how can i fix the problem of accesing to Jira
Asked by hamza zammel:

Hallo,

I installed Jira as Service on Windows and it worked. Today i tried to go in but i found the following error:

JIRA failed to establish a connection to your database.  
This could be because:

* Your database isn't running
* The configuration of your dbconfig.xml file is incorrect (user, password, or database URL etc.)
* There is a network issue between JIRA and your database (e.g. firewall, database doesn't allow remote access etc.)

Note: i did not use another DB, i use the integrated DB h2.


Answers:
author: Chandrakanth Bhat
body: * Check the Application logs under \<jira-install\>/logs folder for errors. Share the error from the logs
* Try [connecting to H2](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/accessing-jira-s-h2-embedded-database-776818136.html) embedded DB to make sure the db file exists and can be connected. If you are unable to connect to DB, then you may have to reinstall the JIRA again.

Regards,

Chandru


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server
Confluence remove HTML target attribute from link in user macro
Asked by Marc Wampfler:

Hi,

I wrote a "User Macro" to add links with some options.

In the user macro is a link with the HTML attribute "**target** ", but if I'm using the user macro, the "**target**" attribute is missing.

What is my fault?

SIMPLIFIED user macro CODE (there is much more code in the user macro)

```
## @param Target:title=How to open the link|type=enum|enumValues=New,Current|default=Current Window|desc=Defines how the link will be opened.

#if( $paramTarget == "New" )
    #set( $target = "_blank" )
#else
    #set( $target = "_self" )
#end

<a href="http://www.google.com" target="$target" data-target="$target">Google</a>
```

The "**target** " attribute is set correct, see the **"data-target"** attribute.  
The HTML source code resulting in

```
<a href="http://www.google.com" data-target="_self" class="external-link conf-macro output-inline" rel="nofollow" data-hasbody="false" data-macro-name="av-test-macro-code">Google</a>
```

I knew the workaround "adding javascript code to add the target attribute based on the external-link class".


Answers:
author: Ulrik Schoth
body: Hi [@Marc Wampfler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2450950), have you found a solution in the meantime?

comments: author: Marco
body: Hi [@Marc Wampfler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2450950) and [@Ulrik Schoth](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2108520) , i suppose this issue relates to [CONFSERVER-54958](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54958)

Best regards, Marco


author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Marc Wampfler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2450950)

Take a look at this article <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-make-my-attachments-open-in-a-new-window-or-tab-313459830.html>

Looks like the target needs an _ in front of it. You can try it and see if that works.

comments: author: Ulrik Schoth
body: The [linked article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-make-my-attachments-open-in-a-new-window-or-tab-313459830.html) shows the underscore only in the example

    <A href="newwindow.html" _TARGET="_blank"_>a new window</A>

and not in the preceding text: *You need to add a **TARGET = "_blank"** to the \<a href\> HTML tag.*

I guess the underscore in the example is a typo: If you use it, the whole attribute goes through but the browser does not recognize it.

So, this suggestion does not help unfortunately.


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server

user-macro
Can't resize images, resize handles are missing
Asked by Radu Paraschivescu:

According to the "Confluence Editing Improvements" post:

"You can change an image's size by dragging the handles at its sides."

However when I insert an image there are no handles at its sides.

The image is a PNG.

I tried using both the latest Chrome and Firefox.


Answers:
author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: Radu,

Are you using the New Editor template?

![Annotation 2019-05-21 093721.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/55264iACA905A7FF3DB1A7/image-dimensions/489x270?v=v2 "Annotation 2019-05-21 093721.jpg")

The handles should appear on either side of the image. Moving them out will increase the image size, moving them in will decrease it.


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resize
How to add restriction to confluence pages in java
Asked by Jogarao Ganta:

I need to add restrictions to page using java.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Jogarao,

Thank you for contacting us!

I found a thread on our Developer Forum that might help you! Have a look at the thread below, and feel free to raise another question there if the solution doesn't help you.

* [Set Page Restrictions programmatically](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/set-page-restrictions-programmatically/3701)

Take care and kind regards,

Shannon


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developer
View file macro no longer working with Confluence 6.15.x ?
Asked by Marco Nowak:

We recently updated Confluence to 6.15.4 and recognized, that the "viewfile macro" does no longer work.

Is there any workaround for this? I cannot find any other discussions with this problem so far.

![Macro.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/55196i9B92FE3F0A928470/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Macro.jpg")


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi [@Marco Nowak](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1251022) ,

Are you sure that the Office Connector plugin is enabled? There was a security vulnerability and one of the workarounds was to turn the webDav plugin which disabled automatically the OfficeConnector. You can read more about this here:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trust-Security/Unexpected-Consequence-of-Confluence-CVE/gpm-p/1048058>

After upgrading (if this was turned off manually), you will need to manually re-enable:

* WebDAV plugin
* Widget Connector
* Office Connector

comments: author: Marco Nowak
body: Sorry, my fault...

The Office Connector was disabled but I searched for "Viewfile".

Thanks for your fast reply!


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server