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How to specify a parent page when creating pages using templates?
Asked by Hooman_Famili:

Am using Confluence in the cloud. I have created a template under Space Tools -\> Content Tools -\> User Defined Templates. When our users go to create a page and use this template from the pop up selection list, I would like to have the page be created under a specific (existing) parent page. How can I accomplish this?


Answers:
author: Malin
body: Hi! I see this post is from 2017, so I'll ask if it is still not possible on Cloud?  

We are using a Create form template macro in an Confluence Overview page.   

When we click on "new morning checklist" (name of our template) from the overview page, we want the page we then create, to fall under a certain parent page.   
Otherwise our list of pages will be pretty messy.

comments: author: Mark Nash
body: We would like this functionality aswell!  

We want all our Docs to fall into the correct section in Confluence and specifying the Paerent from the Template or button would be extreamly useful!


author: Hooman_Famili
body: I have noticed an update to the cloud version that somewhat addresses this. When you click the "+" to make a new page, there is now an option to choose the template and the location/parent page. It's not an attribute of the template, but helps.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/50559iCFFBC78755357C37/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Anton Chemlev - Toolstrek -
body: You can try to put Create from template macro on the page, you want to be parent. So, all pages will be created under this page.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to create user macros in Cloud. On server i used this recipe - <https://stiltsoft.com/blog/2014/03/atlassian-confluence-look-feel-tricks-creating-buttons/>


Tags: template
New confluence version is really bad....
Asked by Fanfan:

1) copy and paste image shows as broken imgs once published.

2) relatively it is a small page, but it always told me it is too big to save and I have to split it and use include page function. After I splitted into 2 pages... it keeps telling me the same things.......... what happened???????


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: It sounds like you're copying from other sources and pasting bad images or bad html into the Page.


Tags: bug

performance

usability
Intranet solutions
Asked by IT Admin:

Hi,

I'm looking to use Confluence as our intranet but was wondering what Confluence can do that stands out from SharePoint?

I have created space and played with ideas for the site but before purchasing more users licenses just wanted to get a feeling if this would be the right way forward.

Any thoughts or ideas on how to make an Intranet standout in Confluence would be useful.

Cheers,

Matt


Answers:
author: Bridget
body: Hi Matt!

This thread has a pretty comprehensive breakdown of the differences between Confluence and SharePoint:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/Confluence-vs-Sharepoint-What-s-the-difference/qaq-p/539092>

Let me know if that's helpful :)

Bridget
Creating a set of Pages from a Template, Blueprint, or Macro in Confluence Cloud
Asked by John Hauppa:

I want to create a set of Pages with one parent Page and a set of Child pages from a Template. Each parent Page should have the same set of child Pages for each time we want to use the parent Page template.

I am using Confluence On-Demand (Cloud). There does not seem to be a way to perform the above task.

I looked at --

-- Custom Blueprints, but these are not supported in Confluence Cloud

-- Page templates with Child Pages. These are not supported.

-- Creating a Macro, but these are not supported in Confluence Cloud

-- Add-in Marketplace. All of the options I could find that may be able to create Parent and Child Pages are not supported in Confluence Cloud.

Being able to create consistent set of site content from a template seems to be an essential feature for an intranet. What am I missing here?

The only other option I can think of is creating a Page template for each page we need in the set, and then manually creating the set of Pages in the correct order each time we need a copy of the parent Page with all of its child Pages. Since we need to create this set at least once a month, this is a tedious and error-prone solution to the problem.


Answers:
author: Paul Norrod
body: I found this which sounds like what you want

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/overview>

The one thing I am wanting is to combine this with smart templates so all the pages being created are still linked back to the master template. This way if I want to change the format I only do it to the master template.

comments: author: John Hauppa
body: Thanks Paul -- one thing to note about the Page Tree Creator is that it does not work with Confluence Cloud. I am using the Cloud version so my options are even more limited.
Make page orientation dynamic
Asked by Miguel ?ngel Garc?a G?mez:

Hi all,

I have a question about customizing exports to PDF. When a Confluence page contains a large width table, visualization in a PDF page is quite weird. The best solution is to show the page containing the table in landscape orientation.

Until now, my workaround is to export in Word format and then change the orientation of pages with large width tables to landscape orientation manually.

This is a hard work, so I it would be great if there is an automatic solution in Confluence that detects pages with this kind of tables and will change it automatically.

Regards,

Miguel.


Answers:
author: Angela Greaves
body: It's 2023 and there is still no option for that. In addition the editor capability for Confluence Cloud is ramped DOWN with every UPdate.


author: Peter DeWitt
body: [@Miguel ?ngel Garc?a G?mez](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/157474), take a look at Scroll PDF from k15t.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf/cloud/overview>

comments: author: Angela Greaves
body: BTW, it's 2013 and the k15 pdf exporter still does not make it possible to style a table layout properly. E.g. you can set a Landscape layout but then the settings that the style is unable to handle but you have set them in Confluence (e.g. individual arrangement for some of the cells) will be overridden and the whole table wil lbe downgraded to the settings the PDF exporter can handle. (Where there is no option ot set individual layout for side-header and non-header cells. So e.g. for a supported sw matrix the PDF Export from k15 is still appalingly dumb in 2023).
JIRA issue macro in table view in Confluence does not link the page to JIRA?
Asked by Andrii Maliuta:

Hello!

JIRA issue macro in table view in Confluence does not link the page to JIRA?

When JIRA issue macro is added to a Confluence page this will show the mentioned page in the JIRA ticket. However in table view this functionality does not work.

Please help with this issue.

Thank you


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Andrii,

That's definitely not the expected behavior. It should automatically link to the Jira issue.

Can you show me a screenshot of what it's currently doing? Please also let me know your Jira and Confluence versions.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Andrii Maliuta
body: Hi Shannon.

We have:

\* Confluence 5.10.4

\* JIRA v7.2.7

I think I gave not enough explanation, sorry.

The issue is that when I set **Table view** for **JIRA Issue** macro in Confluence, specifying one issue, in JIRA instance there is no "**mentioned in** " option. It is present in JIRA only if **Single Issue** is set in Confluence.

Can you please help on this?

Thank you


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Andrii,

It sounds like the following bug, which I was able to find, and then noted you already discovered it and commented on it:

* [CONFSERVER-39845](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-39845)

I recommend you continue to watch the issue for updates when the issue is resolved. At that time, they will let you know the release version so you'll be able to upgrade your instance to the fixed version.

Do let me know if you have any further questions about this.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


author: Andrii Maliuta
body: Shannon,

Thank you for the information.


author: Shiben Bhattacharjee
body: Hello, this is a problem we are facing at my work place as well. We have some information in table view in a confluence page, and those descriptions need to be created into tasks. When we do, the tasks does get created but the page does not show the Jira link which we have to manually edit and add to the page later.

EDIT: want to add this is not always. Sometimes it does work.


author: Shannon S
body: [@Shiben Bhattacharjee](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/998625) Thank you for that feedback! Please make sure to also include your comments on the bug ticket so our developers can see it as well.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Peter Gabriel
body: This problem happens in the cloud too.


author: Shannon S
body: Peter,

Thank you for reaching out! You can find the Cloud version linked to the same bug I shared earlier.

Here it is for easy access:

* [CONFCLOUD-39845](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-39845) *JIRA issue macro in table view in Confluence does not link the page to JIRA*

Please vote and watch in order to be updated of any changes.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: integration

jira
lot of errors in the atlassian confluence log when we were trying to login again giving us the 401
Asked by Rajratan Dahane:

2017-11-06 23:11:23,628 WARN \[ajp-nio-8009-exec-33\] \[atlassian.seraph.auth.DefaultAuthenticator\] getUserFromBasicAuthentication getUserFromSession : Exception trying to login 'hpconsult.im' via Basic Auth:com.atlassian.seraph.auth.AuthenticatorException: UnknownError com.atlassian.seraph.auth.AuthenticatorException: UnknownError ... Caused by: org.springframework.ldap.LimitExceededException: Referral limit exceeded; nested exception is javax.naming.LimitExceededException: Referral limit exceeded \[Root exception is com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapReferralException: \[LDAP: error code 10 - 0000202B: RefErr: DSID-03100781, data 0, 1 access points ref 1: 'ap.pg.com' ... Caused by: javax.naming.LimitExceededException: Referral limit exceeded \[Root exception is com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapReferralException: \[LDAP: error code 10 - 0000202B: RefErr: DSID-03100781, data 0, 1 access points ref 1: 'ap.pg.com'


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi there,

Are you using AD or LDAP? It sounds like your DN might not be correct.

Have a look at [LDAP Integration Fails with LDAP Error Code 10](https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowdkb/ldap-integration-fails-with-ldap-error-code-10-658735957.html) for more details on how to resolve that.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


Tags: error

login
Is there any Confluence plug-in for AsyncApi similar to OpenApi?
Asked by Lyuben Ivanov:

Our company is using Confluence Cloud and I am searching a way to integrate our AsyncApi (<https://www.asyncapi.com/>) documentation into confluence. I found similar plug-in for Swagger (OpenApi) but cannot find anything reagarding AsyncAPI. Do anyone know if there is such plug-in or if there will be such plug-in in future?


Answers:
author: Mary Garcia
body: Hi, I am looking for the same solution at the moment! did you managed to get an answer for this?

comments: author: dgamache
body: I am also interested in an efficient workflow to get AsyncAPI documentation output into Confluence Cloud. Is there an answer to this question?
How to create a new page in confluence which can render reports from ELK and SonarQube reports?
Asked by Rishabh Sharma:

Hi Team,

We are working on creating new page in confluence which can render reports from ELK and SonarQube reports.

Can you please help us achieve this functionality via macros?  

Thanks


Answers:
author: Andrea
body: Hi Rishabh,

Hope it's not too late to advice you to try this app: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/es.excentia.confluence.plugins.confluence-sonarqube-connector/server/overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/es.excentia.confluence.plugins.confluence-sonarqube-connector/server/overview?)

This add-on allows you to integrate Sonar with Confluence, being able to view SQ reports in a Confluence page :)

Hope this is helpful for you

Andrea


Tags: elastic-search

kibana

logstash

sonarqube
Problems with Confluence in Citrix
Asked by Informatik:

Hello

We use a Citrix-enviroment for our users and noticed a problem: we can't create or edit new pages in Confluence. When we create or open a Page to edit it keeps loading.

We use a Windows Server 2008 enviroment and tested on both Explorer and Chrome.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Tullio,

Could you show us what's happening in the Confluence application logs when you try to create or edit a page?

That will help us understand the issue.

Please also tell us the version of Confluence you're running.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Informatik
body: This is what i got from the logs

2017-11-07 15:43:39,326 WARN \[Caesium-1-4\] \[impl.schedule.caesium.JobRunnerWrapper\] runJob Scheduled job ESIndexJournalVerifierJob#ESIndexJournalVerifierJob completed unsuccessfully with response JobRunnerResponse\[runOutcome=ABORTED,message='Dark feature es.indexing disabled'\]  
2017-11-07 15:44:24,037 INFO \[support-request\] \[atlassian.plugin\] createSupportZip Saved Support Zip to: C:\\Program Files\\Atlassian\\Application Data\\Confluence\\export\\Confluence_support_2017-11-07-15-44-23.zip  
2017-11-07 15:44:44,869 WARN \[Caesium-1-4\] \[engine.query.spi.HQLQueryPlan\] performList HHH000180: FirstResult/maxResults specified on polymorphic query; applying in memory!

We're running version 6.4.3

thanks in advance for an answer


author: Shannon S
body: Thanks Tullio,

Are there any error messages? The bit you've shared appears to just be warnings. If you watch the logs long enough there should be something that says ERROR instead of WARN, or a Caused by: that follows the ERROR.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


author: Oliver Lukanowski
body: Hey,

we face the same problem right now.

Is there a solution for this case?

Kind Regards

Oliver


author: Shannon S
body: Hello @\[deleted\],

Thank you for following-up with us! If you're the site admin, you can [contact the Support team](https://support.atlassian.com/contact) regarding this, and we can have a look at your logs for you.

If you're the admin of a Starter license site or otherwise not eligible for support via the portal, you can still raise a new question with us in Community, and it'll link the Community support team to your account details and we can help you get that solved directly.

Let me know if you have any trouble!

Regards,

Shannon
Problem connecting Confluence to Jira User Directories
Asked by Simon N?gele:

I want to use jira as user directory for confluence, but when trying to connect i get:
> Connection test failed. Response from the server:  
> com.atlassian.crowd.exception.InvalidAuthenticationException: Application failed to authenticate

I set up the confluence as application link and whitelisted it in jira.

The instances of jira and confluence are running in the internal network with IPs and not with FQDNs.

The logs don't show anything related.

Anyone the same problem? I also read every post on this problem, but nothing helped


Answers:
author: Simon N?gele
body: For everyone dealing with the same problem:

I deleted the user in jira server users and added a new one with a password which has **no special characters** like ?$ or something like that.

ONLY CHANGING THE PASSWORD WILL NOT WORK!

There really should be information, or even better, a message on creation of the user that tells you not to use special characters which aren't working.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's odd, the system I've got (Confluence 6.4, Jira 7.4) works fine with special characters in the password. And username too.


author: Simon N?gele
body: I'm running jira 7.5.2 and confluence 6.5

Not sure why, but I tested another easy password without special characters, but without removing the user and that didn't work. I also set up the same user with the same special character password used in the beginning which also didn't work.


author: Luciano Fagundes
body: Hi Simon

I believe the KB below might be helpful to resolve this problem, it seems the user created in JIRA in order to allow Confluence to authenticate is invalid. A password reset might be helpful to resolve this problem. If it doesn't, please check the other resolution steps for this issue provided on the KB and let us know in case of any questions. Hope it helps! :)

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-is-unable-to-connect-to-jira-due-to-application-failed-to-authenticate-error-777022937.html>

comments: author: Simon N?gele
body: I already read the this while setting up confluence with this [documentation.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/connecting-to-crowd-or-jira-for-user-management-229838465.html#ConnectingtoCrowdorJIRAforUserManagement-ConnectingConfluencetoJIRAforUserManagement)

I also reseted the password by deleting the user in JIRA user server and setting it up again.

In the mean time i installed hiphat and the error is the same when trying to connect to jira user directories.

Is there any log or log option i can set to narrow this down?


Tags: jira

user-directory
Confluence - MySQL session isolation level 'REPEATABLE-READ'
Asked by andy:

During new setup Confluence, as our MySQL is shared by Confluence and Service Desk. If I modify the /etc/my.cnf, it will also affect Server Desk database. Any ideas to apply the "READ-COMMITTED" ?


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@andy](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1161854) ,

yes, it affects both dbs. You should split database instances.

Fabio
Can't edit text on a confluence page i'm editing
Asked by Craig Betts:

I have created several pages in confluence, without issue.

I am currently unable to edit a certain page.

Every time I select Edit, the pages asks me to click recover page.

I'm then in edit mode, but when I attempt to highlight some text to change or attempt to place the cursor at a point to add text. The whole page is highlighted and I can't seem to stop this.

I'm then still left unable to edit the page.

I'm unable to delete the text from the page to be able to start again.


Answers:
author: Martin Kellner
body: I had the same problem. You should have a look at the xml source of the page. My page had a broken layout. I guess your page has a complex layout with more than one row e.g.

Look, if the \</ac:layout\> tag is not at the end of the xml source. If it is in the middle of the page you can try to recover the layout of your page in the xml editor by comparing it with a small demo page you have created.

But I also think that easiest way is to restore an earlier version of the page.


author: Jeremy M
body: Dear Craig,

Is it a possibility to restore the page to a earlier version? You can also manage your own drafts through your profile, and try out of removing cache works.

Friendly Regards,

Jeremy Mooiman
HTML macro and &lt;script&gt; tag on confluence mobile
Asked by Mateusz Sz:

Hello there,

I've used the HTML macro and put inside some jQuery code in \<script\> and some css in \<style\>. It works well on desktop version, however when I switch to confluence mobile, the \<script\> tag vanishes from DOM, when the \<style\> sits on its place. Why this behaviour happen? Can I turn it off somehow, so my script tag stays on place?

Thanks for answers


Answers:
author: itechpros
body: We are also having that problem. Docs say that User Macros are automatically included on Confluence Mobile. They render in all desktop versions, including Safari, however don't render on actual mobile devices. The script tag just seems to get striped out.

Seems this is a known issue for a long time: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-38647>


Tags: html-macro

mobile

script
JQL Question
Asked by Silke Auer:

Hi all,

I have a problem with a link in confluence. I want to make a Blueprint, where I can see all issues, which my team solved last week.

**project = "Entwicklung" AND status was "done" DURING ('2017-10-30', '2017-11-05') AND status = "done"**

The problem is, that I see all issues, but I want to see the ones, that are solved last week.

I cannot find the error.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Silke,

try the following:

status changed to done DURING ('2017-10-30', '2017-11-05') AND status = done


author: Silke Auer
body: Thanks for your help ;)

comments: author: Thomas Schlegel
body: You're welcome :-)


author: Balasubramanyan murugan
body: [@Thomas Schlegel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781483) Can you help me to query, Number issue created by "USER" during last week, please. I tried this **project = "Online Application v4" AND reporter =** suyambu**AND During ("2018-02-19", "2018-02-23")**But not working :(


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@Balasubramanyan murugan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1185924),

this should do it:

project = "Online Application v4" and reporter = suyambu and createdDate \> 2018-02-19 AND createddate \< 2018-02-23

BTW, please do not post new questions as answers to older questions. Your question isn't easy to find that way. Thank you.


author: Balasubramanyan murugan
body: Sorry... i thougt so. But thanks it works


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: No problem, [@Balasubramanyan murugan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1185924), you're welcome
Add an editable customized column
Asked by Pamela Wang:

Hi, I am using Confluence 6.2.3, and custom fields can be added as columns to the JIRA issues table.

*\<ac:parameter ac:name="columns"\>summary,**custom1,custom2**\</ac:parameter\>*

Would it be possible to make custom1/custom2 editable/input columns? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Pamela,

no, you can only create or display Jira issues from Confluence.

Changing an issue through a Confluence page is not possible, as far as I know.

comments: author: Pamela Wang
body: So in other words, the customize fields would always stay empty? What's the purpose of these fields? Thanks again.

![custom.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8965i07410C368F1A480A/image-dimensions/160x321?v=v2 "custom.jpg")


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: You can see the value of your custom field there, if the field has a value for the issue. But you can't change it there.


Tags: jira