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Is it possible to import requirements and have the Requirements Blueprint applied?
Asked by Chad Beaudin:

We have a large set of requirements that we would like to import into Confluence as Requirements Blueprints.

I don't see a way to have the Requirements Blueprint applied during the import. We'd rather not have to manually enter thousands of requirements.


Answers:
author: Tim Koenig
body: Hello, can anyone from Atlassian comment on this? We are all basically looking for a way to import content from CSV and map those fields to the Requirements Blueprint in Confluence (similar to what can be done for importing Jira issues).


author: Chad Beaudin
body: Unfortunately no.


author: DI2E Licensing
body: Did you end up solving this? We have a similar requirement


author: LUC FILION
body: Hello Chad,

I don't know if you are finished entering your requirements manually, but there are other ways to do what you want to do.

What you can do is define a new Issue Type in JIRA called Requirement  
Then, you can import thoses issue (with issuetype = Requirement) in JIRA (from which tool do these requirements come from? Excel? DOORS?)

I would use Confluence to instantiate Requirements as objects in a Blueprint you define. You can use, JIRA issue macro that is part of the Confluence package. Nuum has created the Advanced JIRA insert issue macro or the AJIIM macro <http://bit.ly/1kwt9uJ> that was specially developed for this purpose, and which can also show traceability.

Regards,

Luc

comments: author: Chad Beaudin
body: Thanks for the input Luc.
Create space beneath a Note or Code Block macro
Asked by colfinn:

Hi,

When I use a Note/Info/Caution macro or a Code Block macro in a series of steps, it inserts space above the macro, but not below. This means the text that follows is directly beneath the macro and looks very cramped. I've tried a hard return and also tried Shift + Enter, but the results are either too much space or none at all. Is there some secret method I am missing that will enter a reasonable amount of space beneath these macros? Thank you.


Answers:
author: colfinn
body: I neglected to mention that I tried that, but your reply made me think of trying a nbsp in wiki markup. The result of just one nbsp was no space at all...but a second one provided exactly the amount of space I was hoping for. Thanks!


author: Luther Hargrove
body: Not sure if this is what you are looking for or not, but you could use '\\\\' which would give you a blank line in confluence wiki markup.
How to force link to open in new tab when creating a link in Diagramly
Asked by Farzad Panahi:

When you create a link in Diagramly how can I force it to open in new tab when clicked?


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We've changed the behaviour in the latest plugin version, see if that now does what you need.

comments: author: Farzad Panahi
body: Works fine. Thanks.


author: coroowicaksono
body: Sory David \& Farzad, can you please share how to configure draw.io to have a button link into new tab ?


author: Wolfgang WEH (WGM)
body: Hi everybody, is there any thing new on this topic ? I have the same problem / use case like Farzad.

comments: author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Is this Cloud or Server? If Server, which draw.io version?


author: Wolfgang WEH (WGM)
body: server


author: Wolfgang WEH (WGM)
body: 6.5.4


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: In the latest version, click "Edit Macro" and then Links.![links.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5352i328689D184DCFDCE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "links.png")


author: Farzad Panahi
body: The use case is when your link is an external link. Imagine you have a diagram which has links to internal confluence pages and also links to public internet. Usually you want the links to confluence pages to open in the same page to keep the flow. But when it comes to links to external pages (internet) you usually want them to be opened in a new tab.


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We could add an option for this, but I'm loathe to, tbh. Open in new tab within browsers is a standard paradigm and each additional UI option makes it more complex. Is there a specific use case that's causing a problem with this?


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly

diagramly
Problems with Confluence on Server 2012 R2
Asked by Timo Glaser:

We tried installing Confluence on a Windows Server 2012 R2. The setup process completed without any errors. However, the "Atlassian Confluence" services does not start. In the error log, it shows event id 7024 - "incorrect function". How can we fix that?


Answers:
author: Timo Glaser
body: We solved the problem ourselves. Your current installer (5.5) does not properly install Java JDK so that it had to be installed manually. Thanks a lot for your support.

comments: author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Thanks for your feedback. We will look into this matter.

<br />

Just a reminder, Confluence 5.5 has not been officially release yet. I believe you have installed the Early Access Program version of the Confluence [](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-eap)<https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-eap>which is not recomended for production usage.   

I would advise you to use the stable version of Confluence like 5.4.3 which has been officially tested and released if you plan to use it for production.  


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Timo,

<br />

Do you mind to provide us the stacktrace from \<confluence-home\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log and \<confluence-install\>/logs/catalina.out?   

That will give us more information regarding this error.
Working with Tables
Asked by Robert Rosado:

We have a few pages with tables, and when we sort them by the "date" field, it sorts properly. If we go to export to PDF it resorts back to the previous state. Is there a way to have it display in the sorted view when a PDF is created? The workaround is to use the "print" dialog, and select PDF.

Thank you

Robert Rosado


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: The PDF function generates its content from the original page, not from the view, so I think the answer is "no" -- the PDF will always reflect what is saved in the page, unaltered by user actions in the browser.


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: You may also try the the [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) app for table export.

Export the whole table or use the live filtration (set filters on the fly in the view page mode) and get the filtered result in CSV, PDF and Word.

**Live filtration in the view mode:** ![Live 1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/112769iAD0F498292898095/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Live 1.png")

**Filtering on the go:**

**![Live 2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/112770i59967261AC936ABC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Live 2.png")**

**Exporting of the filtered table:**

**![Live 3.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/112771i801A060601A33355/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Live 3.png")**


author: Robert Rosado
body: Thank you


author: Robert Rosado
body: I don't see a way to sort the columns in the "edit" of the page. Looks like I have to manually make the change. Am I missing something?

Thank you for the reply as well. I appreciate the help.

comments: author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: I think that's right -- there's no way to invoke the sort in the edit phase. You'd have to manually sort the table if that is possible in your case, Otherwise, I don't know of a way.
How to test Addons
Asked by david martin:

I am new to confluence and Jira Support. I have to upgrade the production systems from 5.1 to 5.4.3 but when I do upgrade check on the installed addons I get a list of about 20 add-ons that have not been tested and need to be. But since I am new to this system how would I know what each add-on show do to perform a test on its functionality i.e. Customeware Tracking, Jira Macos, and Scaffolding Metadata Plugin just to name a few. Thank you in advance.

v/r

David


Answers:
author: Kay Brown
body: There should be a link to documentation on the plugin pages at the Atlassian Marketplace and Service Rocket. For instance, here is the user guide for the Scaffolding plugin: [](https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/SCAF/User+Guide)<https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/SCAF/User+Guide>

Here is the user guide for the tracking plugin:

[](https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/track/User+Guide)<https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/track/User+Guide>

Regards,

Kay


author: david martin
body: I can find the addons but that still does not give me any clues as to what I need to do to test them. Like one is template addon. do I install it and try to make a templete? What would I do to the others that aren't as cut and dry? Thank you in advance


author: Kay Brown
body: Look them up here: [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/>and here: [](http://marketplace.servicerocket.com/category/plugins)<http://marketplace.servicerocket.com/category/plugins>(CustomWare is now Service Rocket).

Regards,

Kay
Export to PDF/A using Confluence
Asked by Maurice Pasman:

As a government body, we are required to use PDF/A format for externally published documents. Confluence generates PDF 1.4, not PDF/A format. The used component (iText 2.0.8) however is capable of doing so, according to [](http://itextsupport.com/download/pdfa3.html)<http://itextsupport.com/download/pdfa3.html>. Is there any way to achieve this from Confluence?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Maurice,  

Unfortunately PDF/A is not generated by Confluence yet.  

We have a New feature created for that[as you can see here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22674).  

We ask you to vote on this Feature so the debs can be aware of this.  

Kind Regards  

comments: author: Maurice Pasman
body: > An error occurred while attempting to fulfill your request.

Is there any other way for me te see this issue, and possibly vote it up?


Tags: confluence-administration
Clear Float
Asked by James Cook:

How do I clear a float (caused by justifying an image for example). I have text that wraps the image as expected, but not I am at a point where I want the next header to appear below the image. How is this accomplished?


Answers:
author: David Waller
body: I'd like to do the same.

The only way I've found is to create a new section for the content that you want to appear below the floating panel.

comments: author: Patrick Nelson
body: Awesome, thank you! This really should be added as a macro, like {clear} or something.


Tags: custom-field
how to know the complete pages count in confluence
Asked by Amjad Syed:

i want to know the complete pages count in the confluence. and i would also like to know my confluence is 32-bit or 64 bit. my onfluence version is 4.1.1

thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Go to admin -\> system info to find all that and more

comments: author: Amjad Syed
body: Thanks Nic.

i would also like to know my confluence is 32-bit or 64 bit. my onfluence version is 4.1.1


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Look in the JVM section of the page.
Labels disappearing in old page versions
Asked by Kevin Schrauth:

Hi,

We are using Labels in Confluence.

When adding a Label on a page it is displayed on the page (bottom right corner).  
But the Label is only displayed on the newest page version.  
If we switch to a older page version the Label is disappearing.

Confluence: Version 5.4.1.  
Label Tools Plugin: Version 2.1.0.

Regards,  
Kevin


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Kevin,

By default, Confluence is not showing this behavior, so I believe this is a bug with the Label Tools Plugin from adaptavist.

I strongly suggest you to create a bug with their support so can be aware of it: [](http://www.adaptavist.com/w/about/contact-us/)<http://www.adaptavist.com/w/about/contact-us/>

Cheers!


Tags: confluence-administration
How can we point URL in email to specific Confluence subdomain
Asked by Fabian van den Barselaar:

We want to service specific Confluence Spaces on a subdomain. But if you share a document from that space the URL link point to the installed main - URL.

Does anyone know a solution to modify URL links in sent emails?


Answers:
author: Fabian van den Barselaar
body: We are going to solve it differently : 3 confluence servers connected to 1 jira server


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: If I remember correctly the links generated in emails are determined by the Base URL the instnace is configured with.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL>

There is no way to achieve your desired functionality with a default Confluence instance.

What is your use case for having certain spaces being served by subdomains? Is it internal vs external documents?


Tags: confluence-administration

email

mail-handler
Bandana table size exploding
Asked by Daniela Scheiwe:

Hi, yesterday we noticed our database server was running out of space. Upon further inspection we found the bandana table to hold more than 3 million entries with +3GB size. After restarting confluence the table went back to "normal" with \~8MB and 1500 entries.

Anyone knows what might have happened here?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Many of the third party plugins write to the bandana table and it can grow quickly. I would start by looking at the entries to see if there are any clues. Barring that, start disabling third party plugins until performance improves.

The user rating plugin is particularly bad when it comes to creating bloated entries.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi,

As Matthew said, seems that some third-party plugin is creating several entries on that table.

Next time it happens, try to:

1) create a database dump;

2) Restart Confluence;

3) Create another database dump;

4) Make a diff be dumps regarding the Bandana table entries;

This will allow you see clearly which plugin is creating this.

Hope it helps with the troubleshoot!


Tags: confluence-administration

database

sql
Custom PDF Export only for Space Admin?
Asked by Natalie Wenz:

Hi,

I tried to export a whole space but it seems that the custom pdf export is only available for space admins? Is that true or is there a possibilty to change this in the permissions?


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Natalie,

Have you tried giving a user space export permissions?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Space+Permissions+Overview>


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: HI Natalie,

<br />

Unfornately, currently the PDF export stylesheet only affect PDF export throught space administrator and not the personal.  

There has been a feature request raised for this matter [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-17853.)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-17853>.

<br />

I suggest you to vote and continue your discussion in the bug ticket to increase its popularity.

<br />

Regards,  
Jing Hwa
Problem with seeing images on another page
Asked by Helen Griffith:

Hello!

I have created a page especially for images to share them across my space. When I go to add these images, they do not appear when I search for them using the add image macro. I can see images that I added a while ago, but not my most recently added ones. Any ideas why?

Kind regards,

Helen


Answers:
author: Helen Griffith
body: I keep answering this question but continue to get emails to tell me to do so...!


author: Helen Griffith
body: Problem was due to indexes not rebuilding automatically. Not sure why, but they've been deleted and recreated from scratch and all seems good.


author: Helen Griffith
body: Problem was due to indexes not rebuilding automatically. Not sure why, but they've been deleted and recreated from scratch and all seems good.


author: Helen Griffith
body: It was indeed due to the indexes... We've had them rebuilt from scratch by Atlassian support and all seems good---for now at least. Thanks for your help!


author: Helen Griffith
body: Hi Daniel,

With images such as screen shots, these may need updating if the screen changes. If that screen shot is used in multiple places, it may take a long time to find everywhere that the image is used. If the image is never updated, or if it's only ever going to be used in one place, then there probably isn't a need for this.

Hope that helps,

Helen


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hi Helen,

Why have you done things like this? What is the advantage of attaching all images to a single page rather than the pages where they are displayed?


author: Steve Currie
body: I followed links from a related page to find this one; here are some things to try to further diagnose:

* Attach one or more images to a page (already done)
* Go to a different page in the same Confluence instance (should be fine to be a different space), edit it, and use the menu "+" icon to add an image.
* When prompted with the image selection dialog, choose "Search" and type the name of one of the files attached to the first page, hit enter.
* Confirm search results are as desired or not as desired.

Presumably this is what you're already doing, so this is just to verify that, perhaps.

I just tried this to see if I could recreate the problem (which I have seen before) but it worked fine. This server (which has shown the problem) is restarted daily, so some of the house-cleaning that takes place during that might have dealt with the delays I was seeing.

comments: author: Helen Griffith
body: Thanks Steve. Sorry for the delay in replying... I have indeed been following these steps and the problem still occurs.

I think that the problem is with the indexes. We rebuilt the indexes and the images I wasn't able to include originally appeared. However, any images added AFTER this manual rebuilt did not! I also started having a problem linking to newly created pages, so it all points to an index problem.

I have been in touch with Atlassian support and they are going to rebuild the indexes from scratch.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
what happened to the add page button?
Asked by Kevin Garrett:

I just logged in to add some content. There is no button to add a page. I am logged in as administrator. I've tried it in Chrome and Safari (Mac). Still no button, menu item, or command to add a page. Gone. What happened. I'm using Confluence OnDemand.


Answers:
author: Kevin Garrett
body: Thanks Mirek. I should have posted this after the problem was solved. I opened a ticket and it seems that some plug-ins didn't load last time the server was restarted. So they restarted it. All fixed now.


author: Mirek
body: Hi Kevin,

I am not sure when you last logged into to your Confluence instance but there is no longer a button to add a page as it was in the old version. Instead of this there is a **Create** button on the top of the navigation bar (like Ask a Question on Atlassian Answers). This will show a popup to create a page/blueprint with all required data.

I hope that will help.

Best Regards,

Mirek

comments: author: Kevin Garrett
body: That's what is no longer there. I couldn't remember the name of it since it is missing.

Hrm... I've uploaded a screen shot twice but it doesn't show up (at least not yet).


author: Mirek
body: Oh.. OK.

Because you are using OnDemand Confluence I cannot point you to this documentation that probably could help..

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/%27Create%27+button+is+missing+in+Confluence+5.0.x+or+5.1.x](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/%2527Create%2527+button+is+missing+in+Confluence+5.0.x+or+5.1.x)

In your case the only solution is to raise a ticket with Atlassian Support. They will know what to do in order to bring the button back.

I hope that will help.

Best Regards,

Mirek


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Adding Background Color to a Space
Asked by Caesar Sulapat:

Hi, I am trying to add a background color for a space, i am using version 5.3 and using IE 9 as browser. I look at the conlfuence guide and follow instruction and recommendation from the comments. I tried looking at the style sheet and put css codes to put a color and still nothing happens. Any suggestions how to do this. Thanks.


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

I was able to change the background color by adding the codes below to (Confluence Admin \> Stylesheet):

```
.aui-page-panel{  background: red;  }
```

However, this will not work if you are using documentation theme, and will only work if you are on Default theme.

Cheers.

comments: author: Caesar Sulapat
body: Thanks mate, I will try to do this one.


author: Dawid Janocha
body: @hossein toussi Hello mate , you can help me with smt , i try to set the color also to my macros like " info -macro " and i cant , could you help me plz ?


author: Caesar Sulapat
body: Thanks mate, I will keep the suggestion, for now, the team decided not to put colors on the background. thanks again
Can I show video in Confluence OnDemand while storing it on a separate server?
Asked by Davin Hoekstra:

Since there is a limit of 25GB in AOD can I store a video on a server and link it to display in Confluence OD?

Can I have it embedded or will it just be a link to the video on the server?


Answers:
author: BillA
body: What we typically do at Atlassian is upload the video to YouTube and mark it as unlisted video. Then copy and paste the YouTube link into Confluence and voila! - it automatically converts it into an embedded video. There are no storage fees, it's a nice player and no one else can see the videos...only people with the video link or people who can view the page with the embedded video.


author: Davin Hoekstra
body: @ Bill Due to the limitation on space can clients connect to an Amazon Cloud solution (S3) and store files there yet present them in Confluence? My client is concerned they will run out of space quickly on Confluence. The current solution listed by Atlassian is to delete content which isn't really the way they want to go if they're investing in AOD.

comments: author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Hi Davin, the add-on [Ink](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.inkfilepicker.plugin.confluence.filepicker) lets you add files from the cloud into Confluence.


author: Davin Hoekstra
body: Thanks Bill. That's what I thought but wanted to be sure since it wasn't called out specifically as not an option. I agree with your recommendation.


Tags: confluence-cloud

multimedia