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Migration to Cloud from Server version of Confluence
Asked by 4A Games:

I want to test migration from server version of Confluence to Cloud using Cloud Migration Assistant.

How can I prevent users migration in this case? I've selected to migrate only one space but it still shows me that some user data will be migrated.

Does migrated users get invitation automatically?


Answers:
author: Alexis Robert
body: Hello [@4A Games](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2848230) ,

the user data that is migrated is only what's needed to make user mentions work for example. It will not send invites to your users.

I have tested this more than 10 times and have never run into any issues with users data or emails, you can make your tests without worrying :)

Let me know if this helps,

--Alexis

comments: author: 4A Games
body: Hello [@Alexis Robert](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1213386)

Thank's a lot.

Will proceed with the tests right now!


author: Rory Apperson
body: I would caution you to think about the decision *very carefully* before you decide to make the move from server to cloud. The cloud version recently forced on everyone a new editor which is complete junk. Basically, they re-wrote the editor from the ground up and got rid of a ton of useful features while introducing hundreds of bugs. The content created with the new editor renders differently than content created in the old editor, and it's far, far inferior. Based on the feedback I've seen, I'm not alone in being extremely irritated by this move on their part and by the overall lack of empathy for the long-term customers that they've screwed over with this decision. If I could go back in time, I would definitely not move from server to cloud, despite the latter's apparent advantages.  

Reading material:   

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-discussions/Discussion-page-for-users-affected-by-the-editor-change/td-p/1222979>  

[https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/What-s-New-in-Confluence-Cloud-November-2019-Edition/ba-p/1225137](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/What-s-New-in-Confluence-Cloud-November-2019-Edition/ba-p/1225137??????) (see comments section)  

[https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/2019-All-Wrap-ped-Up-Like-a-Present/ba-p/1235288?utm_source=atlcomm\&utm_medium=email\&utm_campaign=immediate_general_comment\&utm_content=topic](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/2019-All-Wrap-ped-Up-Like-a-Present/ba-p/1235288?utm_source=atlcomm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immediate_general_comment&utm_content=topic????) (see comments section)


Tags: confluence-cloud

migration

user
How can I search by special characters
Asked by seanvi:

I going to find smth starts from "@permission"  
but I get only results with "permission" without "@" in the beginning.  


Answers:
author: Scott Theus
body: Hi [@seanvi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3672764) ,

Is your search criteria ***@permissio*n** or is it***"@permission"*** ? If you are leaving out the quotation marks then I suspect the search engine is ignoring the special character because it relates to the tagging function in Confluence.

Try searching with the quotation marks included.

-Scott

comments: author: Wojciech
body: I still get results for "permission" and see no "@permission" results.  
Even with quotation, special characters are still ignored.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I import test data into Confluence or find a public instance of Confluence?
Asked by Joe DiMartino:

Hello everyone,

I am a student and my class is working to build an application that uses Confluence and Jira APIs to retrieve data, process it, and send it to a third party. What we need is to find good test data to fill our Confluence instance with and it is turning out to be rather difficult (we are all new to this).

We have found exactly what we are looking for with Jira here: <https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/CONC/issues/CONC-353?filter=allopenissues>  

But I cannot find anything similar for Confluence. My team and I have searched high and low and cannot find a public instance of Confluence, a similar open source product that that has a usable instance and is importable to Confluence, and wikis with a similar content structure that is downloadable and importable into Confluence but to no avail.

We also tried using the Data Generator for Confluence plugin (from here: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218965/data-generator-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218965/data-generator-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)) but the generated data is nonsense (just gibberish for words) and we need data that we know and understand.

I recently found this page but can't really tell if this is going to help me: <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/create-test-data-and-a-test-fixture/>

Has anyone had this problem or have any input that may help?

<br />

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Joe,

Thank you for contacting us about this. You can usually find public Confluence instances if you search "Powered by Confluence".

We also have a list here on our website:

* [Where can I find examples of live confluence sites?](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/where-can-i-find-examples-of-live-confluence-sites-339739187.html)

I hope this helps, but let us know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Joe DiMartino
body: Shannon,

Thank you very much! I will look deeper into these, but at first glace, this looks very helpful!

Thanks,

Joe


author: Shannon S
body: You're welcome, Joe! Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
Macro to change the Master page when any edit is done in child page master page also has to reflect
Asked by harshaforu:

I have a master page and child page, my query is if I make a change in the child page the changes should reflect on the master page too.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Make your "master" page a series of "include: child page X" macros instead of a block of copied text.


author: Dominic Lagger
body: HI [@harshaforu](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3672544)

The change history is only available per page. So it isn't possible to see the change history of another page.

If you are on confluence server, you could write an user macro (I could help you with this)

If you are on confluence cloud, I'm not sure, whether there would be a plugin for this.

Regards, Dominic
he menu text language switched to Russian
Asked by Sagiv Masvari:

Help!

The menu text language switched to Russian. How can I switch them back  

Changing the default language to English didn't help.

Thanks

SM


Answers:
author: Jared Antonenkov
body: ![Screen Shot 2019-12-16 at 10.40.44 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/76436i7BE261B0DFF2EEFC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2019-12-16 at 10.40.44 AM.png")It helped me


author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi [@Sagiv Masvari](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3653805) , welcome to the Community!

A change recently went out on Atlassian Cloud that now takes the language settings from your account preferences at <https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/account-preferences> instead of the specific Jira/Confluence settings. Changing the language preferences at that link should get the menu text back in the language you prefer.

Cheers,  
Daniel \| Atlassian Support

comments: author: Sagiv Masvari
body: Thanks much Daniel \& Jared - Issue is resolved :)

Appreciate your help

Regards,

Sagiv


Tags: confluence-server

server
Create a confluence page having the JIRA macro or JIRA filter.
Asked by naveenkumar_dp:

Hi Team,

I am able to create the blank page in confluence using rest api.

If I try to create a page having JIRA macro I am not getting succeeded .

Below is the snippet for creating a page.

createPage = "{\\"type\\":\\"page\\",\\"title\\":\\"new page\\",\\"space\\":{\\"key\\":\\"OMS\\"},"

+ "\\"body\\":{\\"storage\\":{\\"value\\":\\"\\"\<h2\>Display the Sprint -Sprint 5 which is closed issues.\</h2\>\<p /\>"

+ "\\"\<ac:structured-macro ac:name=\\\\\\"jira\\\\\\" ac:schema-version=\\\\\\"1\\\\\\" data-layout=\\\\\\"full-width\\\\\\" ac:macro-id=\\\\\\"dads2-6csdff-dsd-r6ff-6dfgdb232\\\\\\"\>"

+ "\\"\<ac:parameter ac:name=\\\\\\"server\\\\\\"\>System JIRA\</ac:parameter\>\<ac:parameter ac:name=\\\\\\"maximumIssues\\\\\\"\>20\</ac:parameter\>"

+ "\\"\<ac:parameter ac:name=\\\\\\"columns\\\\\\"\>key,summary,type,created,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolution\</ac:parameter\>"

+ "\\"\<ac:parameter ac:name=\\\\\\"jqlQuery\\\\\\"\>Sprint = \&quot;OMS Sprint 5\&quot; and status=close and project = OMS \</ac:parameter\>"

+ "\\"\<ac:parameter ac:name=\\\\\\"serverId\\\\\\"\>3f701a8d-470a-3309-8926-3b7be06fa653\</ac:parameter\>\</ac:structured-macro\>\<p /\>"

+ "\\",\\"representation\\":\\"storage\\"}}}";

Please any one can help me on this.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: My hunch is there is something off in the raw post. Probably something is not escaped properly. I would first mock it up in Confluence and get the storage format for the page. Then run that storage format through a tool to escape out the string for JSON such as below ...

<https://www.freeformatter.com/json-escape.html>

<https://codebeautify.org/json-escape-unescape>

Then craft your JSON using the escaped string. Next, you will need to escape the JSON to work within a string. So take that JSON with the escaped storage format and escape that whole thing out again. Not sure what language you are using but here is one for JavaScript.

<https://codebeautify.org/javascript-escape-unescape>

Then take that out put and put it back into your project to see if it works.

comments: author: naveenkumar_dp
body: Hi Davin,

Thanks for your reply,

I am using java code to achieve this. After changing the JSON escape format also no luck.

I got the "500 Internal Server Error".

Can you please help me on this.


author: Andrea Mendez
body: Hi! I'm not sure about the snippet part, but you could always try creating a template with the Jira macro, so every time you create a page from that template the jira macro will be added. Hope this helps :)

comments: author: naveenkumar_dp
body: Hi,

is there any api's are available for creating a template instead of page in confluence?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
"Comment internally" in Confluence
Asked by Preetam:

Is it possible to post "comments internally" in Confluence so that external users who have access to the Space won't be able to view internal comments?

I know internal comments are possible in JIRA, but my question is specific to Confluence Spaces.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Being on Confluence Cloud I don't know that there are any great options for doing this. If you were on server then Hide Elements combined with the show-if macro or a user macro that does the same thing as show-if could work well. But with cloud you are more limited in terms of options.


author: Sireesha Dugginapeddi [Appfire]
body: Hi [@Preetam](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3672437)

Unfortunately this feature is supported natively in Confluence. Neither is Atlassian going to implement it in near future. Refer to [CONFSERVER-2535](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-2535) for more details.

However, you may want to try using this macro - [HideElements](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211757/hideelements-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview).

Hope this does the job for you!

Thanks

Sireesha

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Unfortunately, the poster is on Cloud so Hide Elements is not really an option.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

questions-for-confluence
Border around a table while exporting data/requirements from JIRA
Asked by preeti:

I want to add table borders dynamically/automatically while exporting data/Requirements from JIRA.

does anybody aware of any plugin/macro/jquery to fulfil this?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What do you mean by "export"?

Export usually means "give us data", not "give us formatted data". In most cases, it's up to the receiving program to do formatting, not Confluence.


Tags: confluence-server

jira

server
Everytime i save the sequence diagram it doesnot save and gives this error.
Asked by Shahbaz Akhter:

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/76038i569A20BB5D74E143/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Could you tell us what app you are using to provide this function?


Tags: wiki
Is there a way to populate a new default Space permissions group
Asked by Curt Holley:

Into already existing Confluence spaces.

We now have an AD providing Confluence access and it is in the Default Space Permissions of Space permissions.

But other than retrospectively added it to all existing Spaces, is there a way to force the new set of Default Space Permissions into the existing spaces?


Answers:
author: Curt Holley
body: Answer, as per [@Nic Brough](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2097759) (not surprisingly :-) ) here. <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Apply-space-permissions-to-existing-space/qaq-p/616545>


Tags: confluence-cloud
Limiting Sections Search
Asked by Capps:

We have setup one space with multiple sections.

Each section has specific info related to that section and is quite deep.

On each sections top level page we have put a search box.

I would like the search box to only look at pages that sit directly underneath the page that the search box is located on.

Is this possible in Confluence cloud?

**#Note:**

I do know that you can limit the search to the space with @self and also use tags to limit searches but it would mean a lot of work and very strict rigour to ensure every single page in a section got tagged correctly

Im hoping more for a general "search child pages" function.

Thanks


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: Have you tried the 'Page Tree Search' Macro?

comments: author: Capps
body: Perfect James, thats exactly what I was looking for :)

I might be pushing my luck now but how can you centre it instead of it being aligned, its messing up my feng shui


author: James Dellow
body: Glad that helped. In regard to the layout, sorry, that's not easily done in Cloud - I don't know why this particular macro ignores text alignment in the editor, but its like this in the old and new editor alike.


author: Capps
body: No worries, thanks anyway, it was exactly what I was looking for.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

search
Embed jira report into confluence page
Asked by Michael Handschuh:

Each week we hold a dev meeting and for each meeting notes are taken and saved into confluence. Is it possible to embed into these notes a report that contains all work items in a particular project (or projects) that have changed state in the last week?


Answers:
author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: I guess in the meeting notes you don't want a dynamically updated list of issues. It mean you should the "updated \>= -7d" JQL query and somehow capture the returned issues and insert those to Confluence.

One way could be [exporting those to PDF](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/5167/better-pdf-exporter-for-jira-pdf-view?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) or Excel and attaching the resulted files to the Confluence page. You could even use a Confluence macro to show the results without the file being downloaded.


author: Jeff Turner
body: With JQL perhaps?
> updated \>= -7d

comments: author: Michael Handschuh
body: Wouldn't this provide a constantly updating report? I'm trying to have an automated snapshot, 7 days worth of changed issues from the date the confluence note is created. Maybe there's a way to save the date the confluence date is created and then reference that from the JQL?

Worst case scenario is I provide my project managers the JQL snippet and teach them how to replace the date in the snippet. It's not as automated as everything else in our process but would work.

**It would be nice if Confluence exposed some variables to the JQL**.


Tags: confluence-cloud

jira

report
For Confluence Questions add-on: How can I edit others' questions/answers?
Asked by Charles R McKinney:

I am a space admin, and I want to be able to edit Questions and Answers in the space. AFAICT, it is only possible to edit questions or answers that I have added myself. However, in this case, we have an internal tech support team that uses this for a sort of internal "Stack Overflow", but sometimes, the wording or formatting needs some help.

How can I get the ability to edit a Question or Answer that someone else added?


Answers:
author: Amith Mathur _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Charles R McKinney](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3671509) ,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

This was also discussed in the following thread. You can review the solution provided there.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/Is-there-a-way-to-edit-other-users-Questions/qaq-p/1067599>

Thanks,  
Amith Mathur


Tags: confluence-server

server
Page Properties Report and Returned Results
Asked by Chris Iacovelli:

Running "Powered by [Atlassian Confluence](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) 6.13.4 "

Have several pages (created from a template) that all have the same page properties table block and page label. Table is fixed width and not responsive. Table header is leftmost column of the 2 columned table.

Pages save and can be seen in their proper location in the left nav.

Insert a page properties report to show all fields for the pages with the page properties and get nothing returned.

6+ hours later, I can see the results under the page properties report and they are accurate.


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: Its probably an indexing issue?

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Yeah, it seems like maybe your page indexing is backed up. It is not uncommon for it to take a little while to show up as page edits need to be indexed before the page properties report will work, but if it is taking hours I would look into why the indexer is going slow. Maybe tons of edit are happening all the time and your server is under powered, or possibly there is some index corruption that it causing the indexer problems and maybe you need to do a full re-build.


author: Roey Shamir
body: Although it is a working solution, I had discovered it is not robust enough and missing some essential capabilities.

This is why we have created [Metadata for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1222027/metadata-for-confluence-cloud?utm_source=atlassian_community&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=labels_post)!  
It breaks the limitations of labels and page properties for organising pages, lets you configure your own fields with various types, input and query them.  
Additionally, it includes a few macros to integrate the metadata inside the page.

Give it a try with a free trial


author: Chris Iacovelli
body: Some screen shots of what i have described above.![ppr 3.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/76001i882E8215D9EF3A27/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ppr 3.png")![ppr 4.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/76000i059535266ADC8CFB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ppr 4.png")![ppr1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/76003i9761E7ED3685FA65/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ppr1.png")![ppr 2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/76002i99F4D43FAE10E501/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ppr 2.png")


Tags: confluence-server

page-property

server
Hidden navigation link shows up in "More" menu
Asked by jonb:

I'm using the AJS.toInit function as [described here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-use-javascript-in-confluence-313458839.html) to edit the contents of the navigation bar in confluence server.

**Hiding Items**

I've tried setting the display = "none"or class = "hidden" and those work fine.

The issue is that when the window is resized to be much smaller, the navigation items are collapsed down to a "More" dropdown menu and my once hidden links show up there.

How can i permanently remove the items?

**Adding Items**

Similarly, any additional links I add show up fine, but do not get collapsed into the "More" menu as the default ones do.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you are doing it via JavaScript then that will only happen once on page load unless you have logic to redo the hide when the nav is collapsed as it probably rebuilds the DOM for that process. I would instead use native CSS to do the hide. You could even still use JavaScript to inject the styles in if you want to use JavaScript. Are you using the html macro to do this right now?

comments: author: jonb
body: Yes, currently i'm trying to do it in the Custom HTML through javascript.

```
document.getElementById("people-directory-link").parentElement.style.display = "none";
```

OR

```
document.getElementById("people-directory-link").parentElement.className = "hidden";
```

This hides it on page load, but as you mentioned gets over written as the DOM is rebuilt from the window resize and navbar collapse scripts from confluence.


author: jonb
body: Instead, I put this in the global stylesheet:

```
#people-directory-link{  display:none;  }
```

This ensures that the link stays hidden on the navbar, but it still shows up when collapsed in the "More" menu.

This seems to be working for me though:

```
#people-directory-link{  display:none !important;  }  

aui-item-link a[href$="/browsepeople.action"]{  display:none !important;  }  
```

The aui-item-link style with the specific href selector gets rid of the link in the "More" menu.

The !important is....important because otherwise those were also getting replaced by confluence styles.


author: jonb
body: As for inserting elements into the navbar. I'm using this in the AJS.toInit function

```
space_menu = document.getElementById("space-menu-link").parentElement
AJS.$('<li><a href="#" class="aui-nav-imagelink" title="Events">Events</a></li>').insertAfter(space_menu);
```

On page load, this inserts my Events link after the Spaces menu as desired.

However, when resizing the window, Events doesn't get added to the "More" menu while Spaces does. When expanding back out, the links get rearranged so they are no longer in the correct order.

I don't see any difference when comparing the properties of my custom links to those already on the navbar. So i'm trying to figure out if it's something in the javascript code for the resize events.


Tags: app

confluence-server

javascript

navigation

server