youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
hide table rows
Asked by Jeff Scattini:

Is it possible to hide certain rows in a table from a specific user group?

We have a number of different user groups in my Confluence server instance. It'd be great if, in a table of links/descriptions of processes, users only saw the rows that applied to them. Is there a way to conditionalize/hide/show table rows for users?

I looked at ServiceRocket's Visibility macros, but that seems to only work if I reconstructed the table for each user group, which would rapidly get confusing.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Maybe Table Filter add-on can help you: you can add [filter with a **@currentUser** value](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/Managing+Dropdown+Filters) and hide filters pane, so each user will see only rows with his mentions.


author: Irina Safronova
body: I have the same question. And it may be very useful. Filter does not solve the problem.

comments: author: Katerina Rudkovskaya [Stiltsoft]
body: Hi Irina,  

If you need to keep your data safe and secure, you can try the following way using Table Transformer, Table Excerpt (Include) macros of [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview):  

Please divide you data into two pages. The first one should contain data which are available for public view. And the secound one should include only classified data. Here on the second page you need to apply appropriate restrictions and wrap data with Table Excerpt.  

![](https://stiltsoft.atlassian.net/secure/attachment/43036/43036_Screenshot_1.png)  

![](https://stiltsoft.atlassian.net/secure/attachment/43039/43039_Screenshot_3.png)

![Screenshot_2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/97714i9AFA1407463008E2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot_2.png")  
![](https://stiltsoft.atlassian.net/secure/attachment/43035/43035_Screenshot_4.png)

Then insert Table Excerpt Include on the page with public table view and look up/merge data of both tables with the help of our Table Transformer macro.

![](https://stiltsoft.atlassian.net/secure/attachment/43038/43038_Screenshot_5.png)  
![Screenshot_1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/97708i0A5C1E508135B7C0/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot_1.png")  
![](https://stiltsoft.atlassian.net/secure/attachment/43037/43037_Screenshot_6.png)  
![](https://stiltsoft.atlassian.net/secure/attachment/43034/43034_Screenshot_7.png)

Results:

![](https://stiltsoft.atlassian.net/secure/attachment/43033/43033_Screenshot_8.png)

<br />

Thus, other users won't see secret data on the public page.  

![](https://stiltsoft.atlassian.net/secure/attachment/43031/43031_Screenshot_9.png)

<br />

Katerina  
StiltSoft


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I add some custom JavaScript or a little snippet that will use the Confluence API to grab current user's info to a Confluence page?
Asked by MacGregor Thompson:

I'm a developer working on a project and have never used Confluence before. Is there a way to add some custom javascript or a little snippet to a confluence page to let me grab the current user's info and then pass that along?

<br />

Details:  
1) Confluence web page has a button.  
2) When a user clicks that button, I want to use the confluence api to grab the user's info, open a new window to the url with the user's info attached as the query string.

Basically, I just want to know if there's a way add a snippet using the confluence api. I have the api method I need, but am having trouble figuring out how it can be added to the page. One of our customer's uses Confluence for their company and is requesting this feature.


Answers:
author: Sarah Heimeier
body: Hi MacGregor,   
If I understand correctly what you are wanting to do, to add JavaScript into a Confluence page you need to insert the HTML macro. To do this go to the Confluence editor, click Insert \> Other Macros, and search for HTML macro. Then insert it into the page. Inside the HTML macro, you can then add the JavaScript code.

<br />

I hope this helps

comments: author: MacGregor Thompson
body: Well the issue is that the steps to turn on the html macro don't work.

1. Go to ![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/files/590259975/590058057/1/1398739574671/Cog.png) \> **Add-ons**.

2. Select **System** from the drop down and search for the **Confluence HTML Macros**add-on.
3. Expand the add-on and enable the **html (html-xhtml)** module.

The only thing listed that has 'html' in it is 'Atlassian XHTML'.

If you do what you say, the only html macros listed are as follows:

1) HTML Comment

2) HTML Image

3) HTML Table

4) List Item (li)

5) Ordered List (ol)

6) Table Body (tbody)

7) Table Cell (td)

8) Table Head (th)

9) Table Head (thead)

10) Table Rod (tr)

11) Unordered List (ul)

None of these help me out. So neither the steps to turn on the HTML macro work, nor do the steps for adding it (I would presume since it's not enabled in the first place).


author: Sarah Heimeier
body: Hi MacGregor,   
Are you using Cloud or Server?

If you are using Cloud, you won't be able to use the HTML macro. Although, you can use the Atlassian Connect (<https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/index.html>). This allows you to build add-ons to customise your Atlassian products.

If you are using Server, then you may need your admin to enable the html macro. To do this, please refer to this document: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-administrator-s-guide/managing-add-ons-and-macros/enabling-and-configuring-macros/enabling-html-macros>
Reorder pages does not work in Confluence .
Asked by Milan Nepali:

I am on IE11 and I am able to reorder pages, however my co-work can't and he is on IE11 as well. is there a work around for reordering pages in Confluence ?

Thank you  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Reorder-pages-does-not-work-in-Confluence/qaq-p/357767?attachment-id=12482){#link_11869da08ae319}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/60447/1/Untitled.png){#display_11869da08ae319_0}


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Does he have the same access to the space as you? Check the space permissions.

comments: author: Milan Nepali
body: Hello Nic

thank you for the quick response. yes, my co-worker has same access to the space as me. (I read somewhere on net that, user will need view, add, edit, delete permission to be able to reorder pages)

thank you


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, that's why I asked. What are the symptoms of this failure?


author: Milan Nepali
body: Untitled.png

just freezes .. user needs to refresh after ..


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That suggests broken javascript somewhere. Could you get the end user to run a developer tool like firebug to see where it's freezing? Also, does the server side logging tell you anything?


author: vivuu
body: Being confluence administrator and space admin also , reorder page is not working. we can order it the console but it not getting saved. (meanns - it wont make any change to the pages)


author: Confluence Administrator
body: Hi

I cannot reorder pages. If i go to reorder one of the spaces we have in Firefox, Chrome or IE, i just get a "spinning wheel" and no action...even after 5 minutes wait

Thanks,
Can Confluence talk to two instances of JIRA?
Asked by Scott McDonald:

Can our Confluence server version talk to two instances of JIRA (JIRA Developer and JIRA Service Desk) or would we need to start running to versions of Confluence?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: It can, if in case they are two completely different instances. You will get the option to pick the instance for integration features like using the JIRA Issues macro.

comments: author: Scott McDonald
body: We currently have JIRA Software Server version and in the process of evaluating JIRA Service Desk Cloud version, so my concern is having our Confluence Server talk to both a JIRA Server version and JIRA Cloud version simultaneously.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: It is surely possible. Connecting one more JIRA instance wouldn't affect the existing integration. Users will have to select the instance when they use macros and such.


author: GabrielleJ
body: Do you mean by JIRA Software? JIRA Service Desk sits on top of JIRA Core just like JIRA Software so technically, you just have to let your JIRA talk to a Confluence and both of them are already linked.


Tags: jira-cloud
Adding a contact link or a direct link on Confluence's login page
Asked by Jesse Martinez:

Would it be possible to set up Confluence to provide a contact link or direct link to an already made request form (Account Request Form) on the Confluence login page? JIRA has this, but the Confluence login page has nothing other than the username and password field.

Thanks,

Jesse

Any help, for little that it might seem is welcome and greatly appreciated!


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: be careful what you wish for ... you might get it

that means anyone anywhere in the world could ping the contact person with a barrage of access request forms - valid or hackers


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I add Customer Support Portal into Confluence?
Asked by Mandi Chiancone:

What is the best way to add our Customer Support Portal as a "Contact Us" section of our Support Page in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Mandi Chiancone
body: Hi Colin, do you know if there has been any progress made on the iFrame project?


author: Colin Goudie
body: Just awaiting Atlassian MP approval. Hopefully in next few days


author: Mandi Chiancone
body: Hi Colin,

Thank you for providing this information. Do you know the expected release date for this plugin?


author: Colin Goudie
body: We have an anonymous customer portal plugin about to be released (just going through approval). it would enable you to iframe in the customer portal into a Confluence page or web page and display the customer portal to users that aren't logged in.

They can then interact with Confluence KB and or log requests.


author: Mandi Chiancone
body: Hi Steven,

Thank you for your response. We are using Confluence as our Knowledge-Base and would like to customers to be able to go to Confluence then select a link or page that will redirect them to our support portal to open help desk tickets.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Can you describe what you're expecting in greater detail?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can we install it on CentOS 7 and have nfs installation directory
Asked by Mai Waly:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Supported Platforms](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=207488198)*

We have purchased a confluence lic ad we need to know

Can we install it on CentOS 7 and have nfs installation directory

for production what is the best free db option


Answers:
author: Mai Waly
body: What about best free db option
and Can we use CentOS7  

Also can confluence server be the same db server


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can do it, but I wouldn't recommend it - there are working directories in the installation that you don't want to be on disks slowed down by NFS. And you definitely do not want the index or caches under \<confluence home\> on an NFS disk.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: As the docs say

1. You can install on an operating system that runs the required version of Java. CentOS 7 is one
2. PostGreSQL is the preferred database (with MySQL and Oracle behind it, and MS-SQL if you absolutely must) for a completely clean installation. If you have DBAs who prefer one of the other three though, you should go with them - stick with what you know best
3. Yes, you can run the database on the same server


author: chucktalk
body: Hi @Mai Waly,

NFS installation is not supported, as NFS lookups may significantly impact performance of the application (long start times, slow loading of pages, etc.) and is not recommended. If you do use an NFS install directory, you may experience issues with the installation.

Chuck


Tags: supported-platforms
More structured product requirements
Asked by Michael Kuhl:

I didn't find any way to bring more structure in the product requirements --\> all my requirements are flat under product requirements. I would like to have requirements groups/categories

e.g.

- product requirements

- group 1

- req 1

- req 2

- group 2

- req 3

- req 4

etc...


Answers:
author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi Michael,

Create the subpages group 1, group 2, etc. and move the req. pages (Tools -\> Move) to the corresponding subpage.

Or you could us our Page Tree Creator Add-on and an add different PTC-Button macros with different target pages. Like that your requirements gets created under the correct subpage.

Try our [**Live Examples**](https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PEPSMarktExample/Marketplace+Examples) (no registration needed).

**[Marketplace link: Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)**.

Regards,  
Stephan
How to turn off e-mail to users about add-ons?
Asked by Annette G.:

Today one of our JIRA users received an e-mail from [Confluence@our.instance](mailto:Confluence@our.instance) inviting them to use Confluence. As we are currently only just setting up and investigating Confluence, I don't want this type of e-mail to be sent automatically.

Is this a general setting? Can it be turned off?


Answers:
author: Annette G.
body: Jusst in case anyone is searching the same subject: it is part of the restrictions of the Cloud to not be able to configure in-app notifications. Apparently marketing messages are part of this and can't be turned off...


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira-cloud

jira-software

jira-software-cloud
Indexing not working
Asked by Nathaniel Wright:

Is anyone else seeing the same issue where Content Indexing stops working and needs to be manually flushed?

I believe I have narrowed down the root cause for our instance - whenever Confluence loses access to the database (e.g. we just had a database outage so routine maintenance could be made), on restoration most of Confluence appears to work fine but Content Indexing is broken. Same happened for last maintenance window. Only fix that I have found is restarting Confluence.


Answers:
author: Charlie Misonne
body: Hi Nathaniel

I had the same issue a couple of months ago. Not sure it was related to a lost database connection...  
At the time it looked like a problem with attachment indexing. That's what the logs said. Did you check your logs?  
Restarting did solve the problem but it came back after a while. After a Confluence upgrade I never encountered the problem again. Are you on the latest version?


Tags: confluence-administration
How to reactivate site admin login
Asked by JIRA Admin:

Site admin account is generating "account is deactivated" error when trying to login

How do we resolve this?


Answers:
author: Darren Pegg
body: I believe you can't login in with the account "site-admin" this is reserved for Atlassian support. You can be included within a "site-admin" group


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how to center a column?
Asked by Dmitry Ree:

image2016-7-18 12:49:12.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/how-to-center-a-column/qaq-p/56103?attachment-id=9195){#link_11869f2527a8fb}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/9455/1/image2016-7-18%2012%3A49%3A12.png){#display_11869f2527a8fb_0}


Answers:
author: Ganapathy Subrahmaniam R
body: We can use section macro and inside the section macro, use column macros to achieve the purpose.

Example : We insert a section macro, inside this macro , we place 3 column macros each with widths like 30%,40%,30% respectively.. In this way, the second column appears to come in middle of page.. we can have the related content inside the second column..

By this way, we can have a centered column.


author: Dmitry Ree
body: \<div align="center"\>\</div\>

comments: author: Ganapathy Subrahmaniam R
body: We can also directly use **Align** **center** button if its just going to be a plain text.. use of div tag might help if we are going for any styling purposes..


Tags: column
Which AUI components to display number comments?
Asked by Nicolas Casel:

For every wiki page, in order to display the number of comments in a "fancy" way, I've done this tiny red icon via CSS:

comments-count-icon.png

However, does it exist a better solution? Maybe thanks to the [AUI](https://docs.atlassian.com/aui/latest/docs/inline-dialog.html)?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Which-AUI-components-to-display-number-comments/qaq-p/439818?attachment-id=6627){#link_11869f48c6401e}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/74589/1/number-of-comments.png){#display_11869f48c6401e_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Which-AUI-components-to-display-number-comments/qaq-p/439818?attachment-id=6628){#link_11869f48c6401e_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/74589/2/comments-count-icon.png){#display_11869f48c6401e_2}


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: I most often see the Badge used. I usually see them colored #cccccc with #333333 text, or #205081 with white text.

* <https://design.atlassian.com/product/components/badges/>
* <https://docs.atlassian.com/aui/latest/docs/badges.html>
* <https://design.atlassian.com/product/foundations/colors/>

Examples --

* JIRA Scrum boards: image2016-7-17 11:28:21.png
* Confluence Workbox notifications: image2016-7-17 11:29:17.png

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Which-AUI-components-to-display-number-comments/qaq-p/439818?attachment-id=5060){#link_11869f4dc4ace3}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/74590/1/image2016-7-17%2011%3A28%3A21.png){#display_11869f4dc4ace3_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Which-AUI-components-to-display-number-comments/qaq-p/439818?attachment-id=5061){#link_11869f4dc4ace3_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/74590/2/image2016-7-17%2011%3A29%3A17.png){#display_11869f4dc4ace3_2}

comments: author: Nicolas Casel
body: Great Steve, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!


author: Steven F Behnke
body: No problem, I love the AUI site and sharing the knowledge :smile:


Tags: aui

comment

confluence-administration
How much can we store on our Confluence Cloud wiki?
Asked by Julian Wood:

Is there a limit to how many photos and files we can place on our Confluence Wiki? Many thanks!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/atlassian-cloud-storage-policy-744721619.html>

comments: author: Julian Wood
body: Thanks Nic, so 25GB is the limit if we use 1-10 users account?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's what it says,


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how do I create sizaeable images like on the confluence test page?
Asked by bbf-mark:


Answers:
author: bbf-mark
body: Thanks I know how to statically resize an image in edit mode. The Confluence test page has an image that resizes dynamically when as you shrinks or grow window so that the image fills 100% of the current frame width and not be chopped off / cause scrolling. It's actually part of an image slider on that page. I know that it can be done with various javascript/css code tricks but I don't know that I can do that or want to do that inside a confluence html macro.

I was hoping that there was a solution or a marketplace add-in but the two slider macros don't resize the images only the slider container.

any other thoughts would be appreciated.

comments: author: Rodney Hughes
body: I haven't seen that ... can you provide a link to the test page?


author: Rodney Hughes
body: When you insert the image on the Confluence page, as you place the mouse on the image (still in page edit mode) a pop up dialogue allows you to set the size of the image on the page by pixels or by pre-sets
How to move both Jira and confluence databases to another sql server
Asked by support@bluestone.com.au:

Hi,

I need to complete a migration of databases from our current applications SQL server to another SQl server instance. Can you please advised what is the process in order to get this completed. Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Shut down JIRA and Confluence, clone the databases over to their targets, then edit the connection settings in \<JIRA hom\>/dbconfig.xml and \<Confluence home\>/confluence.cfg.xml to point at the new databases


Tags: confluence-administration
disable like button
Asked by Andy Webb:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Likes and Popular Content](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=278695530)*

I don't seem to be able to disable the like plugin for a recent installment of Confluence cloud. I go to Manage Add Ons but can't find a way to disable, but I was able to do it with another installment a year ago. Maybe I forgot something.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: If you're using Confluence Server, then you can disable it by disabling the "Confluence Like Plugin" (you have to change the dropdown in the Manage Add-ons screen to "System"), but that won't work for Confluence Cloud.

Your best option is probably just to hide it with CSS. You can disable it globally by going to the "General Configuration", finding the "Sidebar, Header, and Footer" link, and then inserting the following text in either the header or the footer:

```
{style}#likes-section{display:none;}{style}
```

comments: author: Adrian Byram
body: Perfect !! Thank you Stephen


author: Andy Webb
body: It worked for me as well. Thank you.


author: Ranganath HV Gowda
body: [@Stephen Deutsch](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781490) - I am using confluence 6.2.4, when I added the suggested text in footer that didn't work.

I then went to **Space Tools -\> Stylesheet -\> Space Stylesheet** and added the text. This worked.


author: John Corwith
body: Doesn't work in 6.13.3 (Data Center). My admins don't want to enable Stylesheets due to the risk of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. :(


author: Andy Webb
body: Something worked a year ago, because I disabled it on another instance of Confluence cloud that I manage and it is still disabled. Maybe that avenue was closed.


author: Eric Gruss
body: Create a dislike button, they should cancel out then.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

like
Insert Parent's Table of Contents
Asked by Jason Ford:

I'm not sure why Confluence's TOC is not like a normal book TOC that starts from the top, or at least gives you that option. Page Tree will not include headings within the children and TOC does not let you set the starting level.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

I essentially need a Page Tree that also lists the page's headings (and maybe subheadings), or a TOC that starts at a parent level that I can set.


Answers:
author: Jason Ford
body: The latter, a Page Tree that also lists the child page headings.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: I am a little confused ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

TOC does let you select which Heading style numbers to include you can start at Heading1 or any other level.

Sounds like you want a listing as Page Tree on a Parent page that gives all the Child pages AND also provides a listing of the Headings that appear in each child page?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud