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Create a confluence page that refers to a fix version jira filter and stays unchanged after a date
Asked by Ryan Colandrea:

The goal of what my team is trying to do is create a release script for our weekly releases into production. This does two things, first it is a script on how to do things, and it is a historical reference on what was done.

We are trying to have an automated tie between our JIRA issues/stories and the script which is created in our confluence page. So far what we have done, is we have different sections (14 of them) for what application we have to do a release for and in each section we have an "insert JIRA Issue/Filter" macro. Looks like this (we use the component field to determine what JIRA story shows on what filter- not shown in the screen shot below): ![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59266i3AF0A36031607292/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")the JQL search filter criteria in JIRA looks like this: ![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59267iE3E3C70031AC9518/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

The issue is, each week we update the fixVersion in the filter to be the next weeks release. So that causes all the content in the confluence page to change to match the next weeks stories in the fixVersion, thus losing out on the previous weeks information if no screenshot was taken.

We have 14 filters in the confluence page, so updating all of them to be the new fixVersion is a no go due to time it takes and potential user error. However we did try this for a couple weeks and it gives the result we are looking for, which is a usable confluence page with the information saved. ![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59268i11870E925622A0D5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

Is there any way to do the above by just "flipping a switch" and freezing the page from updating information so all the story hyperlinks stay intact but still allow us to copy the confluence page and change the fixVersion for the next week? Or potentially a local variable on the confluence JIRA filter macro, that can be called from inside the page?


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Ryan Colandrea](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2085081)

I would just export the information on an excel and paste it on confluemce.

The other option is to use another an extra customfield such as a date picker to determine when it was released. I would then purchase one of the confluence reporting plugins such as the rich filters where it allows you to filter between ranges. So yould only have to create 1 page and filter for the specific week. With this add on you can also filter components and fix versions.


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cloud

confluence-cloud

filter

jira

jira-software

jira-software-cloud
Confluence cannot connect to Bugzilla
Asked by preetiparasar:

We have installed version 6.15.4

We have also installed two user created plugins

It is a two-part solution. One plugin builds a REST connection to a Bugzilla instance (set in the admin console). REST calls are returned as Java objects that are available in the Velocity context. Following Set of Macros are defined

* Bug link, that can display one or more bugs from a list as a set of links. Mouse-over on the link displays a bug summary, or the summary can be displayed inline after the bug link. Bug link decoration based on whether the bug is new, resolved, etc.
* Table lsting user-selectable values for a list of bugs.
* Table similar to above based on a Bugzilla search query.

In in the admin console page the Test connection to Bugzilla server works fine.

But when we try to insert Bugzilla data using bugzilla Macros , it fails with following error or "Check connection to Bugzilla server in admin console.

Caused by: org.json.JSONException: JSONObject\["baseUrl"\] not found.  
at org.json.JSONObject.get(JSONObject.java:475)  
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2337.invoke(Unknown Source)  
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)  
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)  
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.GetExecutor.execute(GetExecutor.java:117)  
at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelGetterImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:529)  
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIdentifier.execute(ASTIdentifier.java:198)


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: There have been enough changes to Confluence since this plugin was developed (for version 5.9.7), that some methods and objects have been deprecated. I suggest you contact the contractor that developed the plugin for you. ;-)
Is there a way to assign the calendar an email address?
Asked by Laiken Cleary:

My team is looking to use the calendar feature on confluence but if someone must go in to add an event each time it will not be used. Is there a way to sync the calendar with one person and it update automatically or it be sent invitations to meetings like a typical address? Any help with this feature would be appreciated


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You can use CalDAV to update the calendar if it supports it. If you are using exchange or Google this is possible. I'm sure there are other platforms as well that support CalDAV as well, I just only personally know about these two. The below link tells you how to setup CalDAV two way synchronization.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/subscribe-to-and-from-team-calendars-273285883.html>

If you happen to use Exchange you might also consider switching to [Outlook Calendars for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217554/outlook-calendars-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview). It works directly with Exchange and doesn't require a third party sync tool.


Tags: calendar

confluence-server

server
Can't login on Chrome or Safari even after following setting instruction for cookies
Asked by Karen Pang:

Tried to login with a couple direct links to the projects (Confluence space) and none worked. Followed the 'allow cookie' and 'unblock third-party cookies' and restarting program...none action worked.

It keeps saying 'Something has gone wrong' and the 'try again' button. Tried that too.

What else to try?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Karen,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. The error you're seeing is a generic error and it's hard to say why you might be running into it.

What is the format of the direct link you're using? Are you able to login to Confluence directly? It will also help us if you can share a screenshot of the error you are experiencing.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Karen Pang
body: My case might be network related. I resolved it by connecting it to a personal hotspot, login, then switch back to company wifi connection. Thanks.


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Karen,

Thank you for letting me know about that! Glad you were able to resolve the issue by switching between networks.

Take care, and have a pleasant week.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
PlantUML possibly not working with new editor in Confluence Cloud?
Asked by Kevin Dangoor:

Our site has switched to the new Confluence editor, which may or may not be related to this problem.

I just tried creating a new diagram. It worked fine when previewing in the dialog but when I clicked Insert, creating the attachment failed. Looking at the Network tab in Chrome Dev Tools, I see that it POSTed to: /wiki/rpc/json-rpc/confluenceservice-v2/addAttachment and the response was 501 ("Not Implemented").

I *have* created PlantUML attachments in the past, but that was before our site switched to the new editor.

I haven't found any similar questions yet... help?


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: The call seems to have been removed and a Confluence Cloud release went out that implemented that change. We weren't aware it was going. You can track <https://trello.com/c/SaGGpzOj/71-unabled-to-create-new-diagrams-on-drawio-for-confluence-cloud> (it's draw.io, but the problem is the same thing).

comments: author: Kevin Dangoor
body: We use draw.io also but I happened to hit this first in PlantUML.

It's unfortunate that they removed the call before people even knew that was happening.


author: Kevin Dangoor
body: Oh, and thanks for the quick response!


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We've deployed a fix for draw.io, currently working on the same change for PlantUML.


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Fix for PlantUML deployed as well


author: Kevin Dangoor
body: Thank you for the quick fix!


author: Kevin Dangoor
body: Hmm, I just gave it a try and it has no trouble inserting an image now, but it shows up as broken. I didn't see anything obviously wrong in the browser dev tools.


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Shoot an email to support@draw.io and we'll setup a test Confluence instance to try and get a repro case there.


author: Kevin Dangoor
body: I just tested with draw.io, and that one is working fine, so this is something specific to the image attachment that's being created for Plant


author: Kevin Dangoor
body: Will do!


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We deliver via cloudflare, they had went bang a couple of hours ago and the edges caches have had inconsistent files in some places. It might be worth opening dev tools, setting browser cache off when dev tools are open and trying again, to try to flush things out.


author: Kevin Dangoor
body: I see a 302 from plant.draw.io for the image going to an Atlassian URL. If I download the file on the other end of that redirect, it appears to be a broken image.

Ahh, I just took a look at what's inside the file. It appears to be base64 encoded. I just base64 decoded it and the image is actually in there, it's just being stored base64 instead of binary.


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: If you view source of plant.draw.io/connect/plantuml/macroEditor-1-1-2.html, do you see a b64toBlob call on line 248?


author: Kevin Dangoor
body: Yes, indeed, and now it works. I see what you mean about the Cloudflare caching. All appears to be well now, thanks!


Tags: plant-uml
I grant access to my confluence page, but some users cannot access. There are no restrictions.
Asked by Kim Elaine Penick:

I have added specific users to the page with no restrictions, but they still cannot get to the page. They see a notficiation about the page in their confluence, but cannot access it.


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

did you check the access to the space? Pages can only be restricted, but before that one has to be granted access to the space where the page is stored.

Best

JP

comments: author: Jonathan Smith
body: Space permissions or else the user needs to log into Confluence first if SSO didn't kick in.

- Jonathan
Confluence Cloud Noticeboard?
Asked by Jacob Mitton:

Hello confluence people.  
So I am looking to implement some sort of "cork board" on our Confluence site.

Most of our users access confluence more regularly than other apps so I would like to find a way to include the idea within our Confluence as opposed to an external page.

The rationale being that people could quickly post anonymous sticky notes or something similar to give shout outs to other employees (or whatever other reason) but I am having a hard time finding a good Add-in for that.

Has anyone implemented something similar or know of a good integration to use for such a thing?

Any advice/ideas would be appreciated


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: Out of the box, anonymous posts is going to be problematic.

I have previously created a simple shout out feature for the server version of Confluence, but unfortunately this can't be replicated on Cloud (as User Macros aren't available). However, it would certainly be possible to build a custom app to do this in a similar way.

Have a look at my Cloud app *News for Confluence Cloud* <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1215732> as this might give you an idea of what is possible.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

note

sticky

sticky-note
Single space users seeing other single space users when commenting
Asked by Jon Karnofsky:

I'm am trying to determine if we can/should allows clients into our Confluence space. I'm finding an oddity that I could use help with.

For default permissions, I've removed confluence-users and added one for our employees to have access to all spaces. Additionally, I've added (test) client users:

* Client 1 has read and comment access to Space A, no other spaces
* Client 2 has read and comment access to Space B, no other spaces

My problem lies here: if I am in Space A and logged in as Client 1, when I hit the @ symbol to tag a user, "Client 2" is in the list.

I have verified that when this comment is posted, Client 2 doesn't get an email, and can't access the space - but is there any way to restrict them being in the list?

This seems like a show-stopper in allowing client access to view and collaborate on projects for them.


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi Jon,

you can't restrict users from being displayed in the @-mention list.

Best

JP
Oracle 18.3 support
Asked by suheyl.karakas:

Hi,

We are moving toward migrating our databases to Oracle 18.3. On your supported platform pages I found that you support Oracle 12c release 2. When will you support Oracle 18.3?

Kind regards,

S?heyl Karakas


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hey S?heyl, welcome to the Community!

Our product managers recently updated a public feature request about Oracle 18c - the short story is that it's being worked on for Jira specifically and we'll post an update in the next couple months. You can view the details and follow along on our public Jira instance:

* Jira: [JRASERVER-67074](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-67074)
* Confluence: [CONFSERVER-55307](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55307)
* Bitbucket: [BSERV-10346](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BSERV-10346)

Cheers,  
Daniel \| Atlassian Support


Tags: bitbucket

bitbucket-server

confluence-server

jira

jira-server

server
Achor LInks still not working
Asked by Linda Shady:

I am still experiencing the same issue as others have reported wiht the anchor link as well as a new issue:

1. Same issue - When clicking on the link to an anchor, the page opens at the top instead of at the anchor location.

2. New issue - Last week, after setting up an anchor link, the link does not open the anchor linked page, but instead opens a new draft page.

Any idea of when these will be resolved?


Answers:
author: Sireesha Dugginapeddi [Appfire]
body: Hi [@Linda Shady](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3424017) ,

For

1 - Please add anchors as mentioned in [this](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/anchors-139442.html) article. You should be able to use them without any issues. I use them on an everyday basis.

2 - It is a broken link and you see it in purple unlike the actual links in blue. Generally broken links take you to new draft page when clicked. So please try and modify the link appropriately to correct this behaviour.

Please let me know if there is any error or warning message you may encounter.

Thanks

Sireesha

comments: author: Linda Shady
body: Thanks, this is working.
background image for single page with HTML macro and css
Asked by Matt.Payne:

Just trying to set a BG image for a page.

<br />

What am i doing wrong ?

![Capture.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59241i818A824E4EBDB8CF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")Thanks


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Matt,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. It's great to have you!

Can you just confirm with me which version of Confluence you're using to test this? Is the background images attached on the page directly? I assume you're just referncing it with attachmentname.ext format?

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Matt.Payne
body: Thanks Shannon, The image path and format were set correctly I think. In the end I gave up with inclusion using html and css macros and managed to solve this with code in the PDF export customisation, Which works fine. Thanks Matt


author: Shannon S
body: Thanks, Matt! That's the other place I was going to suggest, glad you were able to get it working!

Take care,

Shannon
WebDAV seems to reset attachment history
Asked by Rene Schade:

Hi.

I just startet using WebDAV to edit my Confluence files. It works well, but something is wrong withe the version history.  

Example:  

I have a word document, uploaded as an attachmenet months ago, which has an attachment history of \> 50 version. All edits has been made with the Compaginon App.   

If I chose to edit the file with WebDAV using Word once saving it the version history is reset to 2!   

(It actually behaves similar to deleting the file and creating a new one with the same name).  

Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Any ideas to fix the problem?  

Thanks,  
Ren?


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

from what you describe, you've been using the companion app before, then upgrade to the latest 6.15.6 version \& enabled the new dark feature to get back the old handling.

My guess: Either a bug or enabling the feature resets the attachment version history.

Cannot try here as we stay with the companion app.

Best

JP


Tags: attachment

confluence-server

history

server

version
Migration from social text
Asked by kiran-p:

Hello All,

We have Social text for collaboration, we are planning to move to the confluence.

Could anyone guide me as to how this could be done?

Thanks

Kiran


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: The easiest way:

* Hire interns to copy \& paste between the two systems.

The second easiest way:

* Try to convince your team to copy \& paste between the two systems.

Doing this programmatically is hard. It takes a lot of time and effort, and content owners tend to be challenging to work with. :) Unfortunately, there is no magic "migrate" button. Most clients that we talk to about this type of migration don't feel there is ROI for the effort involved. Hence my recommendation to just hire interns to do it.
One drive documents
Asked by Laura Phillips:

Does anyone know if you can link to a one drive document from confluence?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Laura,

Thank you for contacting us! There are a [few add-ons in Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=onedrive) that could help you with this. I would recommend looking through those and give them a try. See if it meets your needs.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Notify user when adding to a group
Asked by Tamari Janelidze:

Hello,

How can I notify a user automatically when I add her/him into a group. So far, when I create a new group and add users, they don't get any notification about it.


Answers:
author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Tamari Janelidze](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3162878) ,

I have a solution, but it is a bit tricky:

* Add our users to the groups as usual.
* Write a cron job, that polls the "Audit Log" via REST API every lets say 10 minutes
* [GET /rest/api/2/auditing/record](https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/latest/#api/2/auditing-getRecords)
* Limit the search with "from" and "to"
* check for group modifications
* fetch users email address by [GET /rest/api/2/user](https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/latest/#api/2/user-getUser)
* Send her/him an email

So long

Thomas
Support period- Your commercial Confluence support and updates are available until Jul 08, 2019
Asked by Abbas Khan:

Hi Team,

In our confluence setup I am getting this above message "Your commercial Confluence support and updates are available until **Jul 08, 2019**".

Does this disable all the license and my confluence become read-only?  
Or it is just related to renewing the support and that only support expires and we will not be able to do upgrades. Remaining functionality will work.


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Server License is perpetual. If the license expire you would loose maintenance, but the application would continue to work.

<https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing#softwaremaintenance-4>

What is included in the maintenance? Below is the answer

<https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence#serverlicenses-3>

comments: author: Abbas Khan
body: Hi Mirek,

Thanks for replying, any idea what would happen to my user licenses? Will it get affected?


author: Mirek
body: What you mean by "user license"?
The Confluence space's hierarchy is not listed on the left side when using Internet Explorer 9
Asked by Angela Jordanovska:

Hi All,

Please note that unfortunately, when using Internet Explorer 9, the Confluence doesn't show the Space's hierarchy on the left side. This problem doesn't persist with the other Browsers.

<br />

Could you please help me with this inconvenience.

Thank you in advance for your time.

Angela


Answers:
author: Steeve Le Dr?au
body: In my case, it's the cloud version and I'm using Chrome, last version.

It seems that Atlassian released a news version (many changes, new features) and this afternoon, there were many bugs (some error messages for example or blank pages like group manager, profile page etc...)


author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

are you con Confluence Cloud or Server? If you're on server, which version are you using?

Make sure your Confluence version supports your browser. I'm pretty sure that an IE 9 is not supported for more than two years.

You might want to check:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html>

Best

JP


author: Steeve Le Dr?au
body: Same problem for me using Chrome.

If you go to the Space settings, find orphan pages, edit one of them, then publish it, the tree appears but if you refresh your browser, it disappear.
Mailing list to contact members
Asked by Kristin Griebenow:

Hi there,

I am new in confluence and just started a page for my project. I have about 60 members and I am wondering if I can email them, when there is something new on the page? even when they decided to not get informed? I don?t want to spam them, just want to implement some kind of newsletter....

thank you for any suggestions and help!

Kristin


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: Have you looked at the Share function?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/share-a-page-or-blog-post-16482511.html>

This allows you to send an email notification linking back to a Confluence to one or more users, including a short note.

This may not entirely meet your requirements and will work best if all 60 members are listed in a Confluence permission group.

If you want to send a newsletter about changes and updates across different pages, I would suggest creating a blogpost and then sharing that.

However, bear in mind that Confluence allows users to have control over notifications and digests - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/email-notifications-145162.html>

You might want to check with users that they actually want an additional notification, when they might already be receiving updates.


Tags: email