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Filtering on multiple task lists per row in a Confluence table
Asked by Dale Wolfe:

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know of a way to sort Confluence tables on task lists where each row has multiple entries? See attached. Straight-up column filtering doesn't trigger correctly. Notice the task list is super easy for users to update their schedule - no page editing needed!

I do have [StiltSoft](http://stiltsoft.com/)'s Table Filter and Charts for Confluence app but that doesn't seem to have the capability either. I was thinking possibly a user macro after reading StiltSoft's article [here](https://stiltsoft.com/blog/2015/08/confluence-tips-and-tricks-task-lists-and-automatic-calculation/) .

![Screen Shot 2020-04-01 at 8.19.24 PM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88884iE7B61C7F8EF282FB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-04-01 at 8.19.24 PM.png")

Thanks,

Dale


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Dale,

Do you need to filter entries to know, for example, who is in the office on Thursday?

Please, notice that you can use [Cell value delimiter](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=42239755#Tablefiltration-DropdownFilter) to split Home \\ Office value into two values Home and Office and be able to filter by them.

Also, you can use the [Visual Filter](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=42239755#Tablefiltration-VisualFilter) to show checked tasks.

comments: author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: As a workaround, you can use [Handy Status](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/HMFC/How+to+use+Handy+Status+macro) macro ([Handy Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214971/handy-macros-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview) app): users will be able to switch their status between Office/Both/Home. It is compatible with the Table Filter macro. You can try it on the [demo site](https://demo.stiltsoft.com/display/HM/Handy+Status?os_username=guest1&os_password=guest1) (feel free to edit and create pages there).


author: Dale Wolfe
body: Hi Andrey,

The answer is yes to your question; I'd like to be able to filter and see who is in the office on the various days of the week. When I try to use cell value delimiter and the visual filter I see this (I don't see the full set of options in the dropdown):

![Screen Shot 2020-04-02 at 9.01.55 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88987i5469DADC198AF569/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-04-02 at 9.01.55 AM.png")


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Yes, it won't work properly with this format. In my opinion, the best solution is to use a switchable status.

Or change the table to this layout:

![2020-04-02_17h19_15.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/89000iB43A3539BC0DBB25/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-04-02_17h19_15.png")![2020-04-02_17h19_34.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/89001iDEAEBA99231C3573/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-04-02_17h19_34.png")
Could I author a template outside of Confluence or simply as a Page in Confluence
Asked by rjngroup:

I work for a company that has pretty strict access control rules.  

I am able to author pages within certain spaces; however, I can't manage templates.  

I do need to create some templates for my team and administrators said that I should create them as pages and they will somehow make them into templates.  

Not sure exactly how that will work if I was intending to use some variables.  

I could also just create a few pages in a "templatized form"; for example, I could leave sections as "Fill in content here" and leave it at that.  

Please let me know what would be the easiest route from your perspective.  
Unfortunately me gaining permission to create templates is out of the question.  

Regards,  
- Mikhail


Answers:
author: Ashkan Malekly
body: Hiii [@rjngroup](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3841046)

If you don't have access to the company to make a template, you can create your favorite page as a sample and when others or you want to use it as template make a copy from that or copy \& paste the source code of page in new page


Tags: confluence-server

server
Permissions for Next-gen JIRA Roadmap in Confluence
Asked by Brian Sparker:

related to this: <https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/enable-the-roadmap/>

Members of my company who are not JIRA users are unable to see this roadmap.

What permission do they need to have in a next-gen JIRA project to be able to see this Roadmap?

This is the error they are seeing:

![Screen Shot 2020-04-01 at 1.12.12 PM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88820i183A061EAF9263D4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-04-01 at 1.12.12 PM.png")


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Brian Sparker](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2151131)

Like Jira Filters, I would expect the users will need at least view access to the Next-Gen project (role: Viewer).

The roadmap is a visualisation of the data in Jira - so the users will need access to this data in that platform to also see it in Confluence.

Ste


Tags: cloud

next-gen

roadmap
How fo I insert a user macro in the new editor?
Asked by Mike Flanigan:

I don't see anything under "General Configuration" like a lot of the help/past questions point to for creating your own macro.

Thanks,

Mike


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Mike Flanigan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1363404)

User Macros are just available in the server version of confluence. Not for the cloud version.

Regards, Dominic

comments: author: Mike Flanigan
body: Thanks Dominic. The previous time I used Confluence it was on a local install, didn't realize this limitation was there in the cloud version.

Best,

Mike


Tags: cloud

user-macro
Confluence can't find home directory?
Asked by Jared_Conn:

I am running Confluence on localhost and whenever I try to get it working it takes me to a page the says

#### Setup: We can't locate your Confluence home directory. {#toc-hId--655133521}

I have already went into the confluence.init.properties file to specify my home directory and still have found no success. Looking for suggestions on what else I can try.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Check that

* The home directory exists
* The home directory is not inside the install directory (and that the install directory is not inside the home directory)
* The home directory and all its contents are owned by the user running Confluence
* The user running Confluence has permissions for RWX across all files in there
* You have got the right path in the properties file (That's my usual mistake, getting the wrong name in there)


author: Ed Gaile _Atlanta_ GA_
body: Are your installation and home directories separate? They need to be separate.

i.e.

Installation directory = C:\\Atlassian\\Confluence

Home Directory = C:\\Atlassian\\ApplicationData\\Confluence

comments: author: Jared_Conn
body: Yes, I am also running this on OS X.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Who exactly can view and edit my pages on the free plan?
Asked by Scott J. Keeton:

I'm confused about permissions in the free plan. It says about my pages that:

*You're on the free plan, so anyone who's logged in can view and edit this page.*

Who exactly is *anyone who's logged in*? Does it mean people in my team or anyone on the Confluence cloud ?


Answers:
author: Ang?lica Luz
body: Hello Scott,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

On the Free plan in Confluence, it's not possible to change permissions of a space, so any Confluence user will be able to view, add and edit pages and spaces.

* [Permissions and restrictions in the Free plan](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/permissions-and-restrictions-in-the-free-plan-976780167.html)

With that said, the "Anyone" means that any user added to the site will be able to do the above.

If you have any other questions regarding this matter, please let us know.

Regards,  
Ang?lica

comments: author: Scott J. Keeton
body: *any user **added to the site** will be able to do the above*

Perfect! This is exactly what I wanted to hear and I also take another look at the docs :-)


author: dv
body: You guys should really change the language you are using. "Any confluence user" can mean both users from inside and outside of your organization. Which makes me wonder if any user logged in via other organization can view our information?


Tags: cloud
Unable to Publish a page in confluence
Asked by Bar Molaga:

I'm unable to publish a page that I've initiated in confluence if it's relevant, I created it from an onboarding template.

I get the following message -

![Selection_038.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88795iEC8BF46C30B3D99D/image-dimensions/294x122?v=v2 "Selection_038.png")

Came up from some searches, that it may work after a while, so it didn't.

I tried to come back every few hours but without any luck.

The response I get from the server -

```
{
    "statusCode": 409,
    "data": {
        "authorized": false,
        "valid": true,
        "errors": [],
        "successful": false
    },
    "message": "com.atlassian.confluence.api.service.exceptions.ConflictException: Draft versioning is not supported. Current version is : 3"
}
```


Answers:
author: Fakhfouri Vahid
body: I have the same issue with the error message. In my case, publish is gray and my mouse pointer shows a "forbidden" operation icon when it flies over publish.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/98746i668638C91FE9197B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Tags: cloud

onboarding

publish
How to update all records in Confiforms via Action button
Asked by its moi:

I have a Confiforms form with an assigned tableview. I have added an action button to update

id=\[entry.id\]\&f1=test

I would like to display the button only once in a view above my tableview and update all records when clicking this button (which is only displayed for one particular record).

Is that possible, and when yes, how?   
I tried to achieve this with an IFTTT which is acting "on modified" but I am not sure how to get all datasets updated. Maybe this is not even the right way.   

Thanks for any help.


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: You can actually initiate a bulk update... we have a "Update by filter" action in IFTTTs. This can update multiple records at once

And you can have a IFTTT that reacts on the field change and that field change can be instantiated via the action button

comments: author: ICICI Bank Atlassian Support Team
body: Hi Alex ,

We have multiple records created with confiform and we would need some changes in the already created records.

So we are looking for the bulk update and i have arrived on this page but will need more info about how to use IFTTT by update filter.


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Is this a one-time task?

Consider looking into using the REST APIs - <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/REST+API>

Especially the methods to update specific field with desired value for multiple records at ones (by specifying a filter)

1. <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/ConfiForms+Server+REST+API+version+1#ConfiFormsServerRESTAPIversion1-UpdateConfiFormsFieldvaluebyfilter>
2. <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/ConfiForms+Server+REST+API+version+0#ConfiFormsServerRESTAPIversion0-Updatespecificfield>


author: Rohit Agarwal
body: As far as I have worked with ConfiForm, there is no one button to update anything from the UI component. IFTTT will only trigger an action: OnCreated or OnModified for a particular entry when the event occurs.

I found a way to do bulk-update via custom javascript and Confiform update APIs.

comments: author: Radhika Shinde
body: Hi Rohit,

Could you please provide me with more details on how you were able to edit multiple records with just one edit button and save them?

Thanks,

Radhika


Tags: confiforms

confluence-server

server
Xhtml Image Rendering Error?
Asked by Jean-Claude Chauveau:

Hi,

Hopefully this is a simple thing to resolve. We created a page within Confluence with some images and are now getting the following Xhtml errors:

From the Chrome browser, i copied the html tag that displays the image exception:

\<img src="/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/error?i18nKey=editor.placeholder.broken.image\&amp;locale=en_US\&amp;version=2" title="com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.XhtmlException: Missing required attribute: {[http://atlassian.com/resource/identifier}value](http://atlassian.com/resource/identifier%7dvalue)"

Any thoughts what may be causing this?

Thanks,

Jean-Claude


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Jean-Claude Chauveau](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3797634)

Looks like this is a known issue. The best will be to attach the images into the Confluence Page rather than copying and pasting images. When you copy, sometimes it may not render properly.

Here are details on an existing post: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/After-pasting-an-image-get-quot-broken-image-quot/qaq-p/910253>

Regards
How to add a code block to an expand element within a table cell in new editing experience
Asked by Florian Storz:

When I add an expand element on a blank page it's working fine.  
When I add a code block to the expand element it's also working fine.

![Bildschirmfoto 2020-04-01 um 15.49.03.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88762i7BAD1AC34A6B63D7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Bildschirmfoto 2020-04-01 um 15.49.03.png")

But when I want to do the step above within a table cell, it is not possible to place a code block within an expand element. The code block element is placed below the expand element.

![Bildschirmfoto 2020-04-01 um 15.53.23.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88766iA1F0EBE5FB4D880C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Bildschirmfoto 2020-04-01 um 15.53.23.png")![Bildschirmfoto 2020-04-01 um 15.53.37.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88767i5BEBF5E30434840C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Bildschirmfoto 2020-04-01 um 15.53.37.png")


Answers:
author: Florian Storz
body: As the previous mentioned feature request was closed, but the relevant part for this question was not handled, the link to the [new feature request is here.](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-72003)


author: Florian Storz
body: Hopefully this will be solved by this [feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-66437)

comments: author: Rakesh Sarangi
body: Do not think it is solved yet. Still facing this issue


author: Sven Sch?fer
body: Can confirm this. Have the same problem.


author: Julia Rakitina
body: Have same problem


author: Tazo Lezhava
body: Same problem for me.

This is not ideal, but I found the following workaround (which will only work for specific cases). I used \`Layouts\`, where code macro inside expand macro works, so I put those on the right, and put 1xN table on the left, however you'd have to do this for every single row separately or hard-code your number of new lines.

I generated an example for for 2x3 table where last column is used for code blocks, here is the screenshot for a preview, hopefully it helps.

![Screen Shot 2022-10-09 at 1.30.31 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/219764iCFFC6C970AFC5113/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2022-10-09 at 1.30.31 PM.png")


author: Rahul Tiwari
body: Facing the same issue [@Florian Storz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/729975)


Tags: cloud

code-block

confluence-cloud

expand

table
How to start using ADD ON?
Asked by ruslans.klimovs:

Hello!

I have added an Add-on (please see the picture).

![Mind_Maps.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88757i6FCF6B8F1ACE56FE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mind_Maps.jpg")

But, still I can't find a way to start using it. It is not in the list:

![List.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88758iF57FFC93D2BFCD1E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "List.jpg")


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello [@ruslans.klimovs](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3668750),

Happy to help you begin using your Mind Maps add-on. I had a look at the vendor's documentation, and it appears that Mind Maps are a macro that you add on a page:

See [Adding a Mind Map to a Confluence Page](https://documentation.pristinebytes.com/mindmaps).

Therefore, there won't be a Mind Map template that you're looking for. You just need to create a new page, or edit an existing one, and add the macro using the instructions above.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: ruslans.klimovs
body: Thank you very much Shannon! I ve got the same answer from vendor!

It is really work!


author: Shannon S
body: Hi [@ruslans.klimovs](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3668750),

That's great! Happy to hear it's working for you.

Take care, and have a pleasant rest of your week.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: app

cloud
Hyperlink PDF files
Asked by Haden Griffith:

How do I make a PDF file into a hyperlink


Answers:
author: Haden Griffith
body: ![Capture.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88965i900309FE20715819/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.JPG")it isnt letting me click the link after i upload the PDF and our pages look very different when uploading a file to the page


author: Ashkan Malekly
body: Hii [@Haden Griffith](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3840354)

You can do it in some ways. One of them is if you upload pdf in view mode then in edit mode write what you want and link it to attach file.

comments: author: Haden Griffith
body: i put it in the view and it only gives the option to upload. Do you guys do call support or share screen meetings to demonstrate


author: Ashkan Malekly
body: So follow as bellow:

at first, attach your file (PDF) to your desired page then:

![12.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88914iEE8AA7EEFCAAB18C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "12.png")

Go to edit mode :

write your favorite word for the link (e.g here is PDF):

![14.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88915i4B3908AE7F58D4E8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "14.png")

![15.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88916i5506B8200E5233CE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "15.png")

After choosing your file that had attached in step 1 and follow as pictures, click publish and then :

![16.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88919iC9C2DE0DA7238161/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "16.png")

In your view mode click on your word that shows as a hyperlink (here PDF)


Tags: cloud
adding admin
Asked by Wilson.dsouze:

I need to add some people as Admin to space in confluence


Answers:
author: Daniel Ebers
body: Hi Wilson,

welcome to Atlassian Community!

This should not be so hard. Have you had a look at this [documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/assign-space-permissions-724764762.html)?

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: Wilson.dsouze
body: No, I will look at this and come back you if i have any impediments


author: Wilson.dsouze
body: done... Thanks Daniel.


Tags: cloud
Editor do not load, can't edit pages
Asked by SwenKuper:

hello,

i just created a free confluence cloud account. i use confluence with google chrome in citrix.

i'm not able to create new pages or edit any existing pages. if i click on the edit button, all the options are greyed and i can't select any content.

any suggestions? :-)

Thanks!


Answers:
author: SwenKuper
body: Solved! Our Firewall blocks some traffic.

comments: author: chiem siew ling
body: hi everyone , we are having the same issue mention above and it happen to some users only , where the edit is loading and once when click in to edit mode , the buttons are all gray off , unable to create and edit the exisitng page . we are using cloud version .

Tried using incognito, can edit for old pages..but not on the new page created. Unable to create page .

Can someone advise how do we resolved this issue ? thanks much


Tags: cloud
Newbie help: Drop down options on a Confi form
Asked by Nadeem Ahmed:

Hi, I am new to Confluence / Confiforms and wish to set up a form for the team I work in to capture their experience \& skills across a number of systems in our organisation. I have a list of 30 systems we use, and I wish to have this full list displayed at once in Alphabetic order. Maybe rather than a single long list, have 3 systems on each line, so the form only take up 10 rows (as later I plan to add other questions on the same list).

So the issue I have is that I wish a drop down box against each system on the list, displaying 1 to 3; 1 being excellent knowledge, 3 being basic. The team member can then choose which out of the 30 systems they have knowledge of \& the extent of that knowledge.

Easiest for me would be to get them to do on excel!! But I'd like to make use of Confluence \& have this data in real time without having to maintain a excel doc \& one day soon start running off reports etc!

Thanks


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi

Create a simple form that has a field (definition) to capture your system's name and register in that form all your systems.

This way you can create a form that will hold all the systems you use and will be the "source of truth"

The data from this form later can be used in other forms or to create "views" for the captured data.

Good pages to start with ConfiForms:

- <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Basic+concepts>

- <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Creating+a+simple+form+in+Confluence+with+ConfiForms>

- <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Define+form+once+and+use+it+anywhere+you+need>

- <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/FORMS/How+to+show+the+data+stored+with+ConfiForms>

- <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Multiple+ways+to+show+your+form+data+in+Confluence+with+ConfiForms>

- <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Quickstart+with+ConfiForms>


Tags: confiforms

new-to-confluence
Importing a large cloud site
Asked by Nick Power:

Hi,

I have a confluence Cloud Backup of space/site that weighs in at 2GB. How to upload this to a new cloud instance?

Upload screen says 200MB is the limit, if I click the link "Alternative methods for upload" the page returns 404 Not found. So no help from Atlassian available it seems.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Elifcan Cakmak
body: Hello,

Here is the documentation that you are looking for:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/migrate-a-confluence-cloud-site-to-an-existing-cloud-site-959303219.html>

Also stated in the documentation, size limit is for the uncompressed XML files inside the backup zip file. This is the 'data size' of the backup. There's no limit to the file size and number of attachments.

But if you still exceed the size limit, what you can do is specified in the documentation.

Regards,

Elifcan

comments: author: Nick Power
body: Hey Elifcan,

Lifesaver, all uploaded and the import job is running as we speak! I think those support pages could be worded a little better for import novices, a job for Atlassian!

Thanks for your help!


author: Elifcan Cakmak
body: Hey,

Agreed, documentations can be better in many ways. Atlassian is working hard but since there are so many, they have a hard time to catch up, I guess.

Glad to help,

Elifcan


author: SaravanaKumar
body: Hi [@Elifcan Cakmak](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/783241)   
Do we can import a zip of about 30 gb data using site import?  

If not what is the alternate without going into installing a data center?


Tags: cloud