youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Removing macro from auto list
Asked by Rashedul Hasan:

Hi

I don't want my macro to appear on auto list using { in my page instead I wnat to navigate to it only through menu. Could someone tell me the way to achieve this? I'm extending BaseMacro for my macro.

Thanks

Rashed


Answers:
author: FernandoA
body: |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Hi Rashed, Please find related answer at: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/76800/barring-macro-from-appearing-inside-page-using-autocomplete-suggestion?page=1#82929](/questions/76800/barring-macro-from-appearing-inside-page-using-autocomplete-suggestion?page=1#82929) Cheers, Fernando \| Atlassian |


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Copy & paste doesn?t work with tables in Confluence 4.2.11
Asked by Thomas Fleischer:

I got user reports that they can t copy and paste tables inside a page during editing.

Create a heading, a textblock and a table. Then copy all with copy\&paste in the same page. The heading, text and table content was shown as a textblock. see picture

By my self I can t reproduce this but I have seen it by the users. It affects all browsers.

![](../../upfiles/copyandpaste.png)  


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: I have tested it in IE 9 (Win7), Firefox 13, and Chrome 21 but I'm not able to reproduce it. Which browser are you using?


author: RianA
body: Hi Thomas,

It might be related to some third party plugins, that blocked the rich text format to be copied to the clipboard. Please enable **Plugin Safe mode** and check whether it works. You can achieve this by navigating to *Confluence Admin \>\> Plugins \>\> Enable Safe mode*.

Cheers


Tags: editor
Can`t to delete attachments
Asked by Anton Borisov:

Hello.

We have Confluence and Jira products on one server, base is working on MySql with local attachments storage. System is Linux CentOS 5.7. Authorization in confluence is working thru jira accounts.

The problem is in attachment deleting, we cant to do this even thru administrator account.


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi Anton, if you can't see the remove attachment button, you might be hitting to known issues from our [Knowledge base article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/No+Remove+or+Edit+link+for+attachment+despite+having+permission). It is caused by disabled module from the plugin.

Cheers

comments: author: Anton Borisov
body: It\`s OK, i found it in TOOLS )

Thanx a lot for quick help.

Have a nice day and future weekends.


author: hsuhailah
body: This issue usually occurs when the URI encoding hasn't been configured to UTF-8. Set the URI Encoding to UTF-8 as per [Application Server URL encoding](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Application+Server+URL+encoding) then delete the unwanted attachment afterward.

Hope this helps.
Is there a way to make a collapsible code block re-collapse?
Asked by Danny At Resolute:

Its handy having collapsible code blocks to save page space. However, once you open one you can't seem to recollapse it. Have I missed something or should this become an enhancement request?


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hello Daniel,

I'm afraid you're correct, this is an expected behavior. Please feel free to raise a feature request at <https://jira.atlassian.com> on this and vote on it to raise it's popularity, maybe add a comment as well, if you like. Apologize for this inconvenience.

Cheers

comments: author: Danny At Resolute
body: Done: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26287>

but I can't vote on my own issue so everyone else please go and vote.


Tags: code-block

macro
Powerpoint converter can't deal with Korean letters(hangul)
Asked by Seung-myeong Yang:

I embeded my powerpoint document to a confluence Page.

Confluence converted the document for a while and I saw a great embeded viewer like Slideshare.

But it can't deal with Korean language. I tried to embed font to pptx file but changing font wasn't applied to the presentation viewer.

I attach a sample screenshot of the problem. Each of something like rectangle are Korean letters.

Interestingly word viewer doesn't have this problem.

How can I fix this?

![](../../upfiles/confluence_powerpoint_problem_1.PNG)


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: It seems that you are hitting this bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25408>. Unfortunately, it is yet to be fixed. I'd suggest you to vote for it to increase its popularity and priority to be fixed. Also, watch the page for any future updates by the development team.


Tags: locale

ms-office-connector

ms-powerpoint
Exporting comments to pdf or word
Asked by Ryan Alexander:

Hello,

Is it possible to export a page with comments to pdf or word please.

I know this cannot be done in native Confluence according to the page (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+PDF>) but are there any other plugin's or code that I can change to make this functionality actually occur.

This is proving very necessary for those users that need to print hardcopy's.


Answers:
author: FernandoA
body: Hi Ryan,

We have a ticket raised [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8888) requesting this improvement to be implemented.

I'd strongly suggest you to vote and comment on it to raise its awareness and also add yourself as a wacther for following further updates.

Cheers!


Tags: cloud
update confluence calendar via command line or api
Asked by Milind Shah:

Hello,

We want to update confluence calendar using some kind of API or Command line based on certain events. Is it possible to do something like that.


Answers:
author: Matthew Erickson
body: Hi Milind,

Currently there is no public API for Team Calendars. You might want to vote/comment in this ticket: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-269>

Cheers,  
Matt
can you empty trash (purge deleted pages) across multiple or all spaces?
Asked by MitchellM:

Is there a global equivalent to emptying trash (purge deleted pages) for all or a subset of spaces, vs. purging pages one space at a time manually?


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: There isn't a way to purge the trash globally at this time unfortunately. After some research I could find this feature request: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-18160>

I believe that it fits your needs, so feel free to vote on it to improve its popularity.

Let's see if anyone has any workarounds for that...

comments: author: MitchellM
body: Thanks, Alyson. I'll comment on the feature request: it's close.

I wonder if there is any kind of command line option for purging deleted pages in a space? Then it could scripted and purge multiple spaces in a single step.
can you limit attachment history / versions?
Asked by MitchellM:

Is there a way to limit the number of versions of a document that conflunce maintains?

For example, I would like to be able to specify on a space or globally, retaining only the last 10 versions (history) of an attachment.

Thanks - Mitch


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: I'm afraid not. There is an existing improvement request raised here, fyi: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7260>. However, no development is implemeted yet. You may watch the page for any future updates by the development team.
Apply Change to All Pages
Asked by Zach Newman:

Is there a way to apply an edit to every page in a space?


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hello There

There isn't a straightforward way to do that, but you can try something like that via database, by referring to the BODY_CONTENT tables that stores the content of the pages and then creating an update statement that would reflect to all pages. You might want to involve your DBA on the move.

comments: author: Zach Newman
body: Thank you for your help Giuliano!


Tags: edit
Is LDAP Integration a standard feature in Confluence OnDemand
Asked by wendy adams:

I can't seem to find this point explicity stated in the documentation on this site; please can I ask the group's help to confirm the following:  

1) Can the the standard out-of-the box OnDemand Confuence installation be configured for external authentication with LDAP (specifically, Open Directory). I see Jira OnDemand cannot, but can Confluence?  

2) If yes, can we also add individual users as local authentication, or is this an all or nothing setting.  

Thanks for your help.


Answers:
author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Hi, there are some existing threads on this but I think this will help - [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/45254/connecting-to-corporate-ldap](/questions/45254/connecting-to-corporate-ldap).

I hope that answers your question!

comments: author: wendy adams
body: Thank you. I see that LDAP is not supported in Jira OnDemand, but still unclear on Confluence OnDemand only. I'll keep searching.


author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: It applies to all application in OnDemand, including Confluence-only OnDemand. Hope that clarifies.


author: wendy adams
body: Yes, thank you for clarifying! Much appreciated.


Tags: authentication

cloud

confluence-cloud

ldap
Confluence (or JIRA) triggering e-mail templates from a Confluence page
Asked by Tim Milner:

Hi. I wonder if anyone can help me on an issue. I am trying to set up a page for someone -- they wanted a check box on a Confluence page, which users could tick to say they've read terms and conditions, and then IT could receive e-mail notification to alert them to this fact, and then action a task as a result. I used the (Adaptavist) survey plugin functionality to set up a check box, but it doesn't trigger e-mail alerts (doesn't register as a page change).

So another option I have considered as a workaround is that there could be a link below the terms and conditions text, and clicking it opens an e-mail addressed to IT's e-mail, which the user can then click send to have delivered to IT's Inbox. I would need this e-mail to be auto-populated with some text akin to 'I have read the terms and conditions... etc. etc.' I know how to trigger a blank e-mail template from a Confluence page, but what I need to do is for an e-mail to have text already in it - ie. using an e-mail template. It doesn't appear to be something I can do in Confluence (I welcome being corrected if I'm wrong here), but I thought it may be possible that we can use JIRA's functionality here. Is it something JIRA can do, and if so, can we integrate it easily to use it on a Confluence page?

Thanks,

Tim


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Tim

Another option is to use a Wufoo form. Wufoo (<http://wufoo.com>) is an online web service that you can use to create an HTML form

You can embed a Wufoo form into a Confluence page using the Widget macro ([http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Widget+Connector+Macro).\</span\<\>\>](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Widget+Connector+Macro%29.%3C/span)
[](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Widget+Connector+Macro%29.%3C/span)

[The Atlassian Contributor License Agreement is a live example of a Wufoo form on a Confluence site. People who want to contribute to the Atlassian documentation can submit an application via this form.](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Widget+Connector+Macro%29.%3C/span)<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ALLDOC/ACLA+v2.0>

We have set up the form on Wufoo so that it sends an email to JIRA, creating an issue in a specific JIRA project. We get the JIRA notification, and handle the input from there.

<br />

There's another option: The JIRA issue collector, available in JIRA 5.1 and later: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Using+the+Issue+Collector>

I hope this helps. :)

Cheers, Sarah  

<br />

comments: author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: If you are happy with the form content dumped into the description of an issue, thats fine, if you want to map Wufoo form fields to JIRA issue fields, you'll need something a little more feature rich. [JEMH](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.javahollic.jira.jemh-ui), a Mail Handler for JIRA that has specific support for processing Wufoo emails and doing field mapping.


Tags: email

template
Creating custom titles using CSS
Asked by Avinash:

Hi,

I am trying to assign different font, color and style only to my title of the page. (I also do NOT want to assign the title as h1,h2...h6). I have used the followng css style for the title.

p.heading{

color: #2D637F;

font-family: ="Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans", Arial, sans-serif;

font-size: 24px;

font-weight:bold;

line-height: 1.5em;}

Now the tilte content is say "Welcome". How do i use wiki mark up to assign the above css code to only this particular heading without using html macro?

plz help...Thanks!


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi Avinash,

you must make sure that the html and the css matches.

The wiki code

```
{div:class=heading}My Title{div}
```

creates the html code

```
&lt;div class="heading"&gt;&lt;p&gt;My Title&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
```

So you have **.heading p** in html but **p.heading** in CSS. Change one of them to match the other and it will work.

Steffen

comments: author: Avinash
body: Thank you so much! Works like a charm! :)


author: Amalia
body: You can create a custom user macro. Go to **Confluence Admin \> User Macros \> Create a User Macro** . Type "title" as **Macro Name** and **Macro Title** , and select "Rendered" for **Macro Body.** For template, add the following:

```
## @param dummy:title=dummy|type=string&lt;p class="heading"&gt;$body&lt;/p&gt;
```

The parameter I put there is dummy since user macro requires you to put a parameter in order to include it in the Macro Browser.

Add a new page, click Insert Macro and search for "title". Add the title macro into the editor and type the title in the body of the macro.

Don't forget to put the CSS code that you mentioned above into the **Stylesheet** page in the **Confluence Admin.**


author: CharlesH
body: You could use the span or div macros available from the Adaptavist advanced formatting plugin I believe. Those macros allow you to specify inline style attributes or a class.

comments: author: Avinash
body: I tried using div macro in the wiki markup this way

{div:class=heading}

My Title

{div}

But nothing happens. Its like i cant make it identify my heading in the markup. :(


author: CharlesH
body: I think Steffen may have given you a pointer to make this work. See his answer below.


Tags: css

macro

stylesheet
How to load dynamic content through a link??
Asked by ashan:

Hi,

I use confluence 4.2.2 with documentation theme. I have 'page a' in "Space a". There is a link in 'page a' to 'page b' which is in "Space b". Then I load those two pages to "space c" using include macro. when I click link in 'page a' loaded in "space c" it navigates to "space b". Is there a way to load the content of 'page b' to "space c", when I click the link in 'page a' ???

or how can I show the content of 'page b' in "space c"(when I click the link in 'page a') without changing the page tree (left navigation panel) of "space c" ???


Answers:
author: MPal Pal
body: I am handling a similar scenario. It will be great if anyone knows an answer to this please.
Layout & behavior issues with new eval
Asked by Shelley Cook:

just finished the installation of an eval copy of Confluence and find the layout is broken.

\* the browse and personal menus are both visible and do not hide

\* the Quick search label color is black over a dark blue background

The layout issues seem to suggest a style sheet is missing or broken.

Also, ajax behaviors seem to all be broken. EX: Under Administration - \> Support Tools, the Support Request and other sections never load the loading graphic displays but not content loads.


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: Which version of Confluence are you using?

Please ensure none of the required plugins and modules are not disabled. A quick check is to run this SQL query:

```
SELECT * FROM BANDANA WHERE BANDANAKEY='plugin.manager.state.Map'
```

If you have any third-party plugins installed, then please enable the safe mode.

Another thing is to check the atlassian-confluence.log file to see if there are any errors
Confluence 4.2.5. IE9 support
Asked by Nick Fischer:

I've just upgraded out test-instance of Confluence to the ver. 4.2.5. The main reason for the upgrade were several bugs in Plugins: Excel and Jira.

After the Upgrade I've noticed, that Confluence won't work with IE9, so I've switched my browser to IE8 mode and Excel-plugin is working again. Plugin for Jira still does not work.

I've already read here that Confluence 4.2.4 won't work properly in IE9 and I suppose that's the same with 4.2.5.

Has anyone else had such problems? Maybe there's a workaround there to get Jira plugin working...


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Nick,

Just to have a better idea of the problem with the Jira Plugin, could you please let us know what kind of error appears and if there's some error message when you try to use the plugin with the IE9?

Cheers,

Luiz.


Tags: app

internet-explorer
How to list all pages that have links to the current page? (referenced by macro)
Asked by Regius Korn?l:

Lets say that I have page A,B,C and D.   
The pages have these links:  
A\<-B (1 time in the text)  
A\<-C (3 times in the text)  
C\<-D (2 times in the text)  

Now I need a macro, that shows me this table on page A:

* B(link)
* C(link)

How to do this?


Answers:
author: Regius Korn?l
body: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.linking>

incoming links macro

comments: author: Quentin Jendrzewski
body: That's not an adequate or acceptable answer considering that we pay Atlassian to produce these tools.


author: Alison Frane
body: Wow, basic wiki functionality like "what links here" is something you have to pay extra for from a 3rd party? Add me to those dissatisfied with this "solution."
?show or hide sidebar? message is not displaying when mouse over on sidebar
Asked by Vinay Viswanath Sunku:

If we mouse over the control in the menu bar(or) Sidebar it says "show or hide sidebar".

this functionality is not working for us,

Please guide us how to Enable it,

Regards,

Vinay Viswanath Sunku

<br />


Answers:
author: Franchesca V Havas
body: Is there anyone assigned to this yet?

We have to hit the "windows" button on our keyboards to toggle it open. We do not see the sidebar to drag it out. We use IE9.

This has to be one of the strangest bugs.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Vinay,  

Actually that's a bug as you can see here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24881>  
There's a workaround, which is to manually drag the Sidebar back to its visible position.  

I think this should do the work.  

Cheers,  

WZ
Is there any way to increase the character limit for comments on an attachment?
Asked by Greg Kullberg:

I'd like to have a more detailed description on an attachment, specifically for making the gallery macro more useful. Right now the descriptive text I'm adding to an image that's attached to the page is limited to a certain number of characters. Is there any way to increase this limit?


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hello!

It's seems that there is a improvement request open for this already.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25691>

Unfortunately it was not implemented yet. I suggest to vote and watch the ticket for further information. :)

Hope that helps!

Regards,

Rodrigo Adami
Restrict access to an account for a special IP address
Asked by Bianka Reinhardt:

Is it possible to restrict the access to our account to our company IP address? The access to our wiki should be possible only trough our IP adress by working in the office or via VPN.


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Bianka,

I'm sorry to say that as you are an OnDemand customer, this isn't possible because it is a restricted function in OnDemand: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

However, we do have an open feature request to ask that this functionality is added to a future version of OnDemand and therefore I can only suggest that you watch/vote/comment on the issue to encourage our developers to prioritise it's implementation: <https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-2636>

All the best,  
John


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. Security by IP is a bad idea, but that's a different question.

If you want to do it, you can't do it in the application, you need to do it before the application, which means via your proxy, firewall, network filter etc.

If you're with OnDemand as your label says, I don't know if Atlassian will do it - raise a support request. If you're not, and it's your own installation, then talk to your network team.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
No "Like" button for the comments in IE
Asked by Mike Lo:

Hello,

I just find out that there is no "Like" function for the commets in IE (version 7 \& 8), but it does appear in other broswers. Any solution for that? Most users in my company use IE 7 or 8.

![](../../upfiles/No_likes_for_comment_in_IE.jpg)

We're currently running Confluence 4.2.6.

Thanks!

Mike


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: This is a known issue in Confluence ([CONF-25683](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25683)) versions up to and including 4.3-rc1, which is the version currently running in OnDemand.

The bug has been fixed in the yet-to-be-released 4.3 final release. This should be coming out (for both OnDemand and self-hosted) in about a month.

comments: author: Mike Lo
body: Great, thans Michael :)


Tags: download
Create tabs to show dynamic content
Asked by Brooke Brady:

What I am trying to achieve is to have a section of a confluence page have 3 tabs, with each tab having a different form displayed on it.

At the moment I have the area set out in a section and column, and there is an iframe showing a google docs form. I want to be able to show 3 forms, but still take up the same amount of page real estate, so I want something like tabs. Clicking a tab will show a different google docs form in the place of the original one.

This must be done without reloading the main page, as the main page has other content on it that should not change, only the column showing the forms.

I have tried using excerpts and display in page macros, but these do not work as I want. Is there any way to achieve this?


Answers:
author: Oli S
body: Hi Brooke,

I think the plugin "Navitabs" could help here:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.navitabs>

They have the macro "Localtab", where you could place the tabcontent. Documentation:

<http://www.bitvoodoo.ch/plugins/confluence-navitabs-plugin.html#localtabs-macros>

I hope this helps

cheers

oli

comments: author: Brooke Brady
body: Thanks! I had this plugin already however obviously did not know how to use it correctly. Working perfectly.