youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How do I copy and paste a complete table?
Asked by Mike Courtney:

I have tried selecting the rows, Cmd+Shift+c and Cmd+Shift+v and it does not work

I have many tables that use the same template, and I should not have to reinsert a table and retype the headers for every one.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: If selecting the line above to the line below the table doesn't work, then just click in some text and select all (cmd/ctrl+a) and copy. Then paste it in a new page and delete the text you don't want.

Then you can save and use this page as your copy source by just clicking in a cell, selecting all and copying.

comments: author: Mike Courtney
body: Thanks Milo. That works, despite a little post-editing. Atlassian really should have a 'copy table' functionality ... since even the select all the rows and copy/paste them doesn't work as documented.

:smile:


author: Milo Test
body: Yeah, tables have always been a bit wonky. And they keep adding features without adding the obvious ability to easily copy.


author: jbarr
body: Awful design. CTRL-A simply results in the whole page being copied. I have never liked this product, and don't see why anyone uses it.


author: Rebecca M.
body: With tables, make sure you're selecting a line above or below the table as well as the table itself.

If you're using the same basic table, have you considered creating a template? Then you wouldn't have to worry about copying/pasting at all.

comments: author: Mike Courtney
body: I tried selecting above or below - it does not work either. Very frustrating.

I am now aware how to create a template, but I will look at that.

Thanks Rebecca
Hallo Zusammen, vieleicht kann mit jemand weiterhelfen?
Asked by Stefan Held:

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com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set  
at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:149)

caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set  
at com.atlassian.spring.container.SpringContainerContext.getComponent(SpringContainerContext.java:48)

???

Danke im Voraus

Stefan


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This can happen when:

* Confluence is run as a user who does not have full access to all the installation and data files
* Your database driver is missing or inaccessible
* Your security settings are blocking something (firewalls, unable to reach host, selinux etc)
* It runs out of memory during startup (you should see a memory error in the log)
* You've got a version of Java that is not valid for Confluence (or, possibly, one of the add-ons in it). It's hard to do this if you've used the installer on a more recent version (and even harder to break it with an add-on), but it's worth checking the Java path it's running on.


author: Stefan Held
body: Many thanks for their efforts and answers. I can fix the error by doing the following: "re-trigger the setup wizard"

1. Ensure the application server (for example, Apache Tomcat) running Confluence has been stopped
2. Delete the `<confluence-home>/confluence.cfg.xml file`

3. Re-start Confluence's application server and then Confluence

Greeting stefan
page modify status check
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

We use confluence server for 5.8.2 version.How can we know when we edit some page content, how to know is there other account modify the same page at the same time ? Thanks a lot.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi,

[Collaborative editing for Server](https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/collaborative-editing-for-confluence-server) will tell you all you need to know.


Tags: confluence-administration
Performing quality controls on Confluence pages.
Asked by Urmimala Biswal:

Hi,

Is it possible to fetch information about confluence page in order to perform quality control on them.

For instance, I would be interested to monitor how long a page has not been modified and make decision if we should archive, delete, or update it.

Information to be collected could be : Page name, Link, Author or person in charge of last modification, creation date and time, Last modification date and time.

Is there any confluence add on, which can help us to achieve this task?

Regards,

Urmimala (Nagra)


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: Greetings,

There is a plugin that does exactly this, and does it very well :smile:. Meet the [Archiving Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving/server/overview) - your new best friend for page cleanup. It lets you check to see how long since a page has been viewed or edited and mark it as "expired" or even archiving or deleting the pages if you wish.

Check out their 10 minute video demo:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4c8tKck1zk>

Good luck! A clean space is a happy space.
Enable confluence sharing button
Asked by Alicia M. Baamonde:

How to enable the Confluence sharing/notifications button?

How to disable the e-mail notifications button?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Alicia,

[This page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-disable-share-button-in-confluence-590938985.html) should answer both your questions.


author: Alicia M. Baamonde
body: Hi Rob

Thanks for sharing. As you can see this feature is already enabled and yet the share button still does not show.

Thanks

Alicia  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Enable-confluence-sharing-button/qaq-p/348732?attachment-id=4838){#link_1185ea06fcfa26}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/58893/1/screenshot%20share%20button%2020170106%20Confluence.docx){#display_1185ea06fcfa26_0}

comments: author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Alicia,

The 2 reasons that the Share button won't be available are:

1. The Share Page add-on is disabled;
2. Your outgoing mail server is not configured correctly.

As the Share Page add-on is enabled, the problem lies in your outgoing mail server. Go to Confluence Administration \> Mail Server and [follow the instructions to check your mail server is setup and working correctly](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-a-server-for-outgoing-mail-151078.html#ConfiguringaServerforOutgoingMail-Testingtheemailsettings). Is everything there working as expected?


author: Alicia M. Baamonde
body: Hi Rob,

All done and test email received:

This is a test message from Confluence.

Server: SMTP Server

From: [noreply@allianz.com](mailto:noreply@allianz.com)

Host User Name: tararatt

Still the share button does not appear. could you kindly assist?

Thanks

Alicia


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Alicia,

If the Share Page add-on is enabled and the mail server is setup correctly and sending mails then the Share button should be visible.

As it's not, your next step will have to be to log a support ticket with Atlassian and ask them to investigate. I'm sorry I couldn't help you fix it. When Atlassian resolve this for you, can you post the resolution here so we can help other people with the same problem in the future?


Tags: confluence-administration
How to disable/hide Create Child Page
Asked by Pavan Kumar:

I am trying to run an instance of Confluence running on version 5.8.9 in read-only mode. Actually there is another instance of Confluence and I have to merge these 2 instances. For next few days the old Confluence should be running in the read-only mode. I have quite a few entries for disabling editing of pages, attachments, hiding of Create Page button etc.. but I am not able to find How to disable/hide Create Child Page.


Answers:
author: indra
body: Disable/hide Create Child Page in space level to custom configuration changes made it.

Go to Space tools --\> select Configure sidebar --\>select page tree radio button .


author: Rodney Hughes
body: Unfortunately Page Edit Restrictions don't inherit so you have to apply them page-by-page.

but you can put a Page **View** Restriction on the top page to just yourself until you've finished fiddling

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Or keep it far more simple and just remove all add/edit permissions from the spaces. You won't need to fiddle with any "disabling" of stuff.


Tags: confluence-administration
I would like to view all the assignee, while using the Task report Macro. If a task is assigned to 3 users Task report macro pick only the name of first user to whom the task is assigned under the assignee tab.
Asked by Dhanshree Agrahari:

I would like to view all the assignee, while using the Task report Macro. If a task is assigned to 3 users Task report macro pick only the name of first user to whom the task is assigned under the assignee tab.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Dhanshree,

Confluence's task list is simple and you can't do much with it. It assumes that the first person mentioned is the person to whom the task is assigned, and you can't change that. Ultimately Atlassian would probably rather you paid for JIRA, as that's basically a very powerful to-do list manager, so it's not in their interest to make the task list functionality in Confluence much better.

If you want more powerful task functionality then there are [task add-ons](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=task) in the Atlassian Marketplace, including some free ones (or you could use JIRA :smile:)
For the Recommended Updates notification, are pages I'm restricted from viewing removed?
Asked by Brian Bachman:

I see in the [documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-the-recommended-updates-email-notification-281480712.html) that the content in Recommended Updates notification is only from spaces that a user has access to. Users may have access to a space, but not all the pages as page level restrcitions are applied. Does a user's restricted pages appear in the Recommended Updates?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Brian,

Yes, this works in the same way as it does for spaces. Only pages that you have View access to are included in the Recommended Updates notification.


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I display a list of all Confluence spaces, disobeying permissions?
Asked by Andrew Snyder:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Spaces List Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658736914)*

Does anyone out there know how I can generate a list of all spaces in our Confluence instance that ignores the permissions of the currently logged-in user?

The existing Spaces List macro obeys permissions, and only displays a list of spaces that a user has access to see. This is a solid implementation from a security perspective. However, I am interested in generating a list of all Confluence spaces, regardless of whether the logged-in user has access to see that space. This may be undesirable for many other Confluence instances out in the world since acknowledging the existence of a space to users that don't have access to it is bad from a security perspective. However, the Confluence administrators at my company have decided that allowing all users to see a list of spaces that they may or may not have access to is desired. Otherwise, users may create duplicate content by accident when the content already existed in some other location that they should have gotten access to.


Answers:
author: Andrew Snyder
body: I found the answer to my question over in another thread - <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/43122> - specifically in the 2nd comment from Aaron J. Schmidt. It provides the code to generate a macro that shows a 4-column table. The columns are:

1. Space - the name of the space. Clicking on the name brings you to the space.
2. Key - the space key. Clicking on the key brings you to the space.
3. Users - the list of admins that have admin permissions via the "users" permission
4. Groups - the list of admins that have admin permissions via the "groups" permission

It includes spaces that the logged-in user doesn't have access to. When the user clicks on a link to a space that they don't have access to, they receive a warning saying that they don't have access to it. This is exactly what I was looking for!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you're worried about users creating duplicate content, then the obvious answer is that you should un-hide the stuff they're duplicating.

I don't think there's any sense or value in telling people "hey, there's a space over there for that... but we're not going to let you see it".

But, if you must do this, you're going to need to do some coding - you'll need to construct a version of the macro that runs the "list spaces" as though it's an admin.


Tags: confluence-administration

documentation

macro
Does this plugin manage flat/agile organization chart (multi team/manager for one people)?
Asked by Jean-Daniel Bonnetot:


Answers:
author: Communardo Products
body: Hi Jean-Daniel,

Thanks for your interest in our add-on!

Our add-on allows you to set a secondary manager for a user, so a user can have either one or two managers. However, this only has an effect on our macro "Organization Chart (compact)". The macro for more complex hierarchies "Organization Chart" does not currently display the secondary manager.

Administrator Guide for the configuration of the manager field (a prerequisite for using the Organization Charts): <https://support.communardo.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52659691>

User Guide showing the different looks of the two macros: <https://support.communardo.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52659712>

I hope this helps to answer your question. :smile:

Kind regards,

Almuth

Communardo Support

comments: author: Franz Reichard _Communardo_
body: Hello,

as we moved our documentation you will find the Administrators Guide [here](https://communardo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/upp/pages/277643619/Organization+Charts+v+3.2) now.

The macro in the Users Guide is described [here](https://communardo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/upp/pages/277643400/Macros+Organization+Chart+v+3.2).

If you have further questions or support requests you can always [contact our support](https://jira.communardo.de/servicedesk/customer/portal/2).

Kind regards

Franz  
Communardo Support


Tags: addon-de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userpro
how to set height for column macro
Asked by rohith reddy:


Answers:
author: VRL Tracking
body: To set the height for a column macro in various platforms or applications, you'll need to follow the specific guidelines or syntax provided by the platform you're using. Here's how you can typically set the height for a column macro in some commonly used platforms:

Confluence:

In Confluence, you can use CSS to set the height for a column macro. Here's an example of how to set the height to a specific [value](https://bungeefitnessnearme.com/bungee-fitness-adelaide-australia/):  
css  
Copy code  
{style="height: 200px;"}

comments: author: Wateen Speed
body: "When it comes to understanding personal finance, net worth is a key metric. It's not just about how much you earn but also how well you manage your assets and liabilities. Tracking your net worth regularly gives you a clear picture of your financial health. For more insights on building and maintaining a strong financial foundation, check out the resources at this [website](https://networthbiohub.com/)"


author: VRL Tracking
body: I reckon the width can be set but height is depending of the content page [Jollibee menu price](https://jollibeemenuprices.com/)


author: VRL Tracking
body: I reckon the width can be set but height is depending of the content [page](https://parcelstrackings.com/vichare-courier-tracking/)


author: Milo Test
body: What are you trying to achieve?


author: QuentinB
body: I think you can set width but height is depending of the content ...  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/column-macro-51872396.html>


Tags: confluence-administration
Requirement Yogi does not show the description to the right anymore
Asked by IT Operations:

We use Requirement Yogi Plugin and so far it worked well.

After making a new site and a new Requirement with the shortcut, I added a description in the column after that as always but now it doesn't show anything.

I searched our server logs but didn't see anything here.

The problem is that the following two strings don't get saved in the requirement description accordingly.

Do I need to specify something specifically for this to work?

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Answers:
author: Sam Hall
body: This is a general Atlassian community forum, so someone might be able to help, but you'll probably have better luck contacting the vendor of [Requirement Yogi for JIRA](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.requirementyogijira/server/support) directly.

Looks like their support details are here: <http://support.play-sql.com/> and email (stated as preferred method of contact) is: [support@play-sql.com](mailto:support@play-sql.com)

[](mailto:support@play-sql.com)Hope this helps.

Sam

comments: author: IT Operations
body: Thank you. I will do that.


Tags: addon-com.playsql.requirementyogijira

requirement
Is there a way to bulk upload information to Confluence Spaces?
Asked by Lewis Pugsley:

We have project information within Confluence as separate spaces. There's information for each project in the form of tables and different pages.

Does anyone know if it is possible to add information to multiple spaces as a bulk upload rather than having to do so individually?

Is there a way to create space templates with information per space in a bulk format?

Would be a lifesaver if there's a way.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Lewis,

No, there isn't a way to do this in Confluence Cloud. It would be possible in a server version (ultimately the pages are just HTML/XML, JavaScript and CSS like most web pages) but you don't have the same access in the Cloud version.

As a workaround, you could create a space that contains the pages you would normally add into your new project spaces, and copy those pages over to any new space. This wouldn't upload the data but it would give you the pages. Alternatively, Confluence has very good [Word Import functionality](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/importing-a-word-document-into-confluence-658736950.html#ImportingaWordDocumentintoConfluence-ImportingaWordDocument), so you could create a Word document that you upload and split according to the headings to create the new pages. This has the advantage that - presumably - someone has to create the data for each new project anyway, and they could do it in a standardised Word template document that you then import to create the pages and content.

Neither option is exactly what you need, but your bulk creation/upload options in Cloud are limited....


author: James Dellow
body: Atlassian Connect allows you to automate content actions in Cloud using the Confluence API - depending on what you are trying to achieve, the easiest approach could be to build a javascript add-on that runs in the browser.

Alternatively, you could try the [Confluence Command Line Interface for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli/cloud/overview), which gives you access to the same API.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
"b" for creating blog post
Asked by Jesper Slettengren:

keyboard shortcut for create blog post does not work.

"e" for edit "c" for create works just fine, why not "b" (the one I would use most of all).

I've tried other browsers also same problem.

Kind regards


Answers:
author: Dan Breyen
body: hi [@Jesper Slettengren](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/556874) and [@Marc Lewandowsk](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/484631) I'm using Cloud Confluence and am unable to recreate this issue. Do you still have this problem today? I'm not sure if you're on Server or Cloud.


author: Marc Lewandowski
body: Having this issues as well, was about to ask my own question. Perhaps add "not working" to the title of your question, don't know if that will make this rise to the level of a bug report.
Need to create a user with read only permission (Similar to anonymous user)
Asked by RackNap Knowledgebase:

Hi all,

I am trying to create user with the read only permissions. Similar to an anonymous user, but with login credentials.

How can i do that??


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Create a standard normal user, then **don't** put them in any groups or space permissions that give them any access other than reading pages.

comments: author: RackNap Knowledgebase
body: Hello Nic,

I followed your suggestion but, now user doesn't have permission to access confluence.

What should i do for it.??


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You need to include them in a group that has the "can log in" global permission.

I suspect you've run into the "default settings problem". The default in Confluence (and similarly in JIRA for that matter) is to have a group called confluence-users. This group has "can log in", which is absolutely fine, but then the (bad) design is to use that group generally to allow access to spaces as well, as a default.

This means you have three options

1. The messy quick option - add a new group for "other people who can log in", put it in the global settings, and put your user in that group and no others.
2. The slower, but proper way to do it - go through your spaces and remove usage of confluence-users, replacing it with something else that still lets all the users in.
3. A variation on 2 - create a new group for "can log in", put everyone in it, add it to the global permission, then remove confluence-users from the global permission. Then make sure your new user is only in the login group

Note that however you do this, you will need to add the user to the "see space" permissions.
Showing random content / text on a page
Asked by David Choi:

Hi,

I need a tool or plugin which can show one single random text / quote from a list, but the list should be invisible (only visible when editing).

Is there anything out there?


Answers:
author: Aleksandr Zuevich
body: Hi David!

Try please <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.hetsar.confluence.random/server/overview>.

Be free to ask any feature requests.


author: David Choi
body: Is there anything? Some user macros?

comments: author: Aleksandr Zuevich
body: Hi David,

I've created macros, but I'm waiting for the approval from Atlassian marketplace
Can text on wiki pages be included in quick search?
Asked by verwooks:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/search-139528.html>

This page explains that only name of a page, blog post, person, file/attachment, or space and choose from the list of options displayed. But is it possible to make text inside pages, page name and space name show as well?

Example: I search for "duckhunting" which is a text inside the page "hunting". As I search for duckhunting i need to find something.

If not, is this a feature on the roadmap?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Atle,

I don't know if it's a feature on the roadmap, but the list of Confluence tickets/requests about "quick search" is [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24660?jql=project%20%3D%20CONF%20AND%20text%20~%20%22quick%20search%22). If you find one that matches your requirements you can watch/vote for it, or you can create your own feature request.


Tags: confluence-administration