youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
What is the syntax to search several spaces that have the same space category?
Asked by Scott Selberg:

Is there a way to create a search field that is bound to search within a space category?


Answers:
author: Scott Selberg
body: So, I think the answer is you can't. I'm going to try and put a macro together that adds the space category tags to the page so I can then search for those tags.

comments: author: Jennifer S
body: Hi Scott, Did you ever have any luck figuring out how to do this? We are currently trying to figure out a way for our users to be able to search within a Space Category. Any insight you have is much appreciated, thanks!


author: Scott Selberg
body: Hi, So I packaged up the code that I'm using to add labels to pages into a plugin. At present, I think it works but I've not fully tested it but it may meet your need. I can only provide 'best-effort' support, but the source code is posted as well that can be used for self-support.

<https://bitbucket.org/selberg/space-labels>

comments: author: Jennifer S
body: Hi Scott - I will check into this thank you so much!!


author: Scott Selberg
body: I did't find anything directly in Confluence. My solution was to write a macro that adds the labels of the space home page (could easily be the space categories) to every page in the space. Then I could search by the label.


Tags: search

space
Import events using who field
Asked by Paul Stallworth:

We are using Team Calendars but what we would like to do is let people create a calendar in their personal space and then add/import events from other calendars where they are in the "Who" field. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Paul, there is a similar functionality suggested in [this improvement](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1022) ticket, would that suit your usage scenario? Please take some time to review the ticket and post your usage case.
Is it possible to add the JIRA Time Tracking Report to a Confluence Page?
Asked by TJ Baker:

I'd like to build a reports page for our sales manager, to allow him a single place to view the simple Time Tracking Report that is provided in JIRA. Is this possible?

Additionally, so it does not have to be done manually for every project he'd like to view this report for, it would be ideal to have the report shown 'by project' in a specific category (or other defined filter).


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey TJ,

That's not possible.

However I believe it's a good idea. So I raised a feature request as you can see here:  

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35894>

I would strongly suggest that you vote on this issue to increase its popularity and add it to your watchlist for future updates. I also suggest you to comment in the bug, that way our Bugmaster can see how this problem is impacting your business.

Cheers,  
WZ

<br />

<br />

comments: author: TJ Baker
body: Thanks William. I've also added this as a requested update to the 1h plugin for time tracking. We would love to see this simple JIRA Time Tracking report in an overview page in Confluence for specified category of projects (or some other filter).I'll share the idea in the feature request you created.Cheers,tj


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
can I put tabs in a Theme Press layout page?
Asked by Michelle Vincent:

I know how to do it in a regular page and wanted to apply it to a particular layout available in the Theme Press default space. But in the creation of that page, it doesn't allow me to choose tabbed blocks in the column.


Answers:
author: Maggie Modersohn
body: Hi @Michelle Vincent,

First of all, apologies for our very late reply here!

It is possible to create a layout with tabs, although it's a workaround.

1. Create a page using a layout that is as close as the one you would like to create (except for the tabs).
2. Now in the page, add more blogs and tab them, just as you would do in the layout.
3. Once you're satisfied with the result, go to Tools -\> Edit Entire Page and copy the page content
4. Now navigate to the Theme Press Default Space and open the layout you were using in step one
5. Go to Tools -\> Edit Entire Page and remove all the macros, except for the last one which defines the page width
6. Paste what you had copied in step 3 into the page
7. Save your layout, and you should be good to go!

If you need help, contact us and we'll schedule a quick screen share.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Maggie


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Michelle, I have added the specific label for the add on vendor so they can get to this thread.


Tags: addon-com.brikit.themepress
Can I change the max attachment size in confluence temporarily?
Asked by Chad DeShaw:

Can I change the max attachment size temporarily to upload a file larger then 10 MB then set the size back down?

Will the larger than 10 MB file still be able to be there and be downloaded afterwards? I am just wondering if this will cause any issues.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes.

Actually, I have nothing else to say for a change. Your proposal is fine, you'll be able to upload a bigger file, then put it back to 10Mb. You'll find your file can still be read by confluence.

Ok, one minor caveat - don't upload **huge** files - confluence won't handle them well, it's not designed to be a file store.


Tags: confluence-administration
Have problem with relocation picture in IE10/11 on Confluence Server
Asked by Tony Montana:

IE 10/11. After relocation of the picture a mouse the server saves the copy of picture.


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Viktar,

I was able to replicate this behavior in my instance as well. It seems to be a bug. Can you confirm if you have created the bug report already?

If not, I can create one for you.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Tony Montana
body: Hi!Yes, bug ticket is created. <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35888>Please, vote and watch!Thx!


Tags: confluence-administration
Working simultaneously with Office Connector
Asked by Felix Albertsmeier:

Hi,

I am in charge of administrating our Confluence instance and one of our users reported a problem.

He said that if he worked on a MS-Word Document with the WebDAV Launcher that every other person trying to edit the same file would get a notification that the file is being worked on already. That notification doesn't appear to be working any more.

I have never seen the notification and can't reproduce it. Also I haven't found any information on it. Does this notification exist and if yes, do you have any ideas why it is not displayed anymore?

We use Confluence 5.6.4 atm.

I hope someone can help me with that! Thanks in advance for the help!


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Felix, it is likely that the Confluence editor feature of [concurrent editing](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF54/Concurrent+Editing+and+Merging+Changes) which is described [in this ticket](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8333) was understood to be working with office documents too, which does not happen today.

This is foreseen to be implemented sometime this year as per ticket comments. As for office documents uploaded [through WebDAV](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+a+WebDAV+Client+to+Work+with+Pages), they will be versioned though not merged.

comments: author: jniewt
body: So you intend to implement <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8333> but NOT concurrent editing of Word/Excel documents? Additionally, the import/export feature of Confluence into Word is just too limited. I guess we will have to use SharePoint after all...


Tags: confluence-app

ms-office-connector

webdav
How does Social Space work with the mobile version of Confluence
Asked by Jan Stacha:

Hello,

I would like to ask how Social Space add-on works in mobile optimized interface of the Confluence. (is there any optimization for mobile devices in this plugin?) We are now evaluating a purchase of Social Space to replace Yammer and a concern was raised about the usability on mobile devices since these are the major source of social content in our organization.

Thanks,  
Jan


Answers:
author: Melek Jebnoun_Vectors_
body: Hey Jan,Sorry for the delay to reply, we didn't get notified since the label you added wasn't correct.Thanks a lot for you interest in our plugin :)Concerning your question, actually we only worked on the desktop mode (it displays perfectly on mobile devices). For an optimized mobile interface, it requires some modifications on the plugin sources.We can unfortunately integrate this task to our roadmap starting February, does it work with your needs in term of time?Don't hesitate to contact us on our Jira instance \[1\] to have a quick follow up ;)Melek\[1\] <http://lab.spectrumgroupe.fr/jira/browse/SS>


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Jan, I have added a label for the Spectrum Groupe team (add on vendor) to this case, they should be attending to it.
2 columns with independent scrolling
Asked by Dumitru Daniel:

Hello,

I am an employee of Adobe and i am administrating a section of Adobe Wiki ([wiki.corp.adobe.com](http://wiki.corp.adobe.com)).

I was wondering if there is any way i could have 2 independent scrolling columns, 1 left column that is fixed and does not scroll with the other one, a Table of contents, and one to the right containing the actual page contents.

I appreciate your answer,

Kind regards,

Daniel


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi Daniel,

If you don't find a macro for this you can create that yourself.

Put the scrollable area in a div and link it with a class like this

```
.scroll {overflow: auto;height: 500px; }
```

PS: Your link doesn't work.

comments: author: Michel Meester
body: Hi Steffen,  

Where do you do this?

Can you show me where you fill this in?  

Kind regards,  

Michel


author: Steffen Heller
body: ![scrollDemoSmall4.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30093i100AAD3B09BF127F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "scrollDemoSmall4.gif")


author: Steffen Heller
body: * Click Edit
* Insert the CSS macro: Insert \> Other Macros \> CSS Stylesheet \> Insert
* Enter the code from above
* Add a section to the page: Insert \> Other Macros \> Section
* Insert two columns inside the section: Insert \> Other Macros \> Column
* Insert the Table of contents macro inside the first column: Insert \> Other Macros \> Table of Contents
* Insert a div inside the second column: Insert \> Other Macros \> Div
* Double click and edit the div: Enter "scroll" at "Class"
* Add text with headings to the second column


author: Michel Meester
body: Hi Steffen,  

That worked perfectly

Thanks,

Michel


author: RWilburn
body: Hi Steffan,

Thank you for posting this! This is exactly what I'm looking for! Unfortunately, I could not find the CSS Stylesheet or Div macros in the Other Macros list. Do you have an add-on that includes those commands?

Thank you in advance!

Rhoda


author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi,

as far as I know, these macros were removed.  
But your questions gave me an idea and I created a new post for this. Read this and see if it helps you:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Possible-workaround-for-missing-div-and-span-macros/qaq-p/1591423#M200638>


author: RWilburn
body: Hi Steffen,

Thank you for such a quick reply! And thank you for the other post. I will check it out right now.

Have a great day!

Rhoda


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I store metadata in HTML tags in Confluence?
Asked by Giorgos Flourentzos:

Hello! I am creating pages on Confluence programmatically using the REST API. I need to store some tables that I need to retrieve (using an XML parser) and update later. In order to tell which table is which, I am trying to store attributes to the HTML tags in Confluence, but Confluence seems to drop them when saving the page content.

For example, when I send Confluence this

```
&lt;tbody tid="a-very-specific-table"&gt;	...&lt;/tbody&gt;
```

Confluence accepts it but later on when I retrieve the page the table drops the attributes I gave it:

```
&lt;tbody&gt;	...&lt;/tbody&gt;
```

Is there a way to store my own attributes or otherwise tag a table with some metadata so that I can retrieve it later?

Many thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: This is not ideal, but you could try something like this and I think it should work.

```
&lt;div&gt;	&lt;span style="display: none;"&gt;		meta data here.	&lt;/span&gt;	&lt;table&gt;		...	&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
```


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi,

What if when you create you page, you try to wrap your custom attributed tables in a HTML macro

```
<ac:structured-macro ac:name="html"><ac:plain-text-body><![CDATA[?TABLE here?]]></ac:plain-text-body></ac:structured-macro>
```

will this work or still will strip-off your custom attributes?

comments: author: Giorgos Flourentzos
body: My XML parser would not even allow me to do that in the first place because it's missing Confluence's namespace and XML descriptions. Even when I try to parse a confluence page that has \<ac:...\>\</ac:...\> tags in it, it strips them off. (<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11455197/>)


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: just wrap it as string value before sending to REST API... you do not have to work with this as with XML.or the actual problem is with reading it back?


author: Giorgos Flourentzos
body: well, I need to parse it as XML first, edit it, then stringify and put it back. It's meant to be a programmatically updated page.


Tags: attribute

cloud

confluence-cloud

html
For Confluence OnDemand is there a max number of documents which can be uploaded?
Asked by Gail Stewart MT:

We are using Confluence to store some of our documentation in attached files. Is there a size or count limit for OnDemand Users?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Number, no. But there's a 25Gb limit for your data storage (and some of that will be eaten up by the database too, so it's not just 25Gb of attachments)

comments: author: Gail Stewart MT
body: Followup question? As an administrator for my company can I see our usage of this 25 Gb?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm afraid there isn't. Last time I looked, there was an issue logged for "show us space usage", but I don't think it's moved on at all.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
can Confluence add comments from email?
Asked by Kevin Mote:

I have configured Confluence to send out email notifications when a comment or edit is added to a page. Now I want users to be able to reply by email and have their replies added as comments to that page. ([Just like in JIRA](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA052/Creating+Issues+and+Comments+from+Email))

Can this be done? The only documentation I can find about incoming mail handler for Confluence is the Mail Archive functionality. But that's not what I want.

NOTE: There is an add-on that claims to be able to do this, but it appears to be out-of-date (doesn't support vsn 5+), and doesn't look to be very popular. Isn't there any built-in functionality for this?


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hello Kevin,

I'm afraid to say that this feature was not implemented on Confluence yet.

However, we do have a *Feature Request* on-going for this functionality: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5002>

Please, have a look on our [New Feature Request Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy) to better understand how Atlassian deal with this.

I would strongly suggest that you vote on this issue to increase its popularity and add it to your watch-list for future updates.

Best regards,

Eduardo Mallmann


Tags: email
How to restore a question, deleted by mistake?
Asked by Jose M.:

How to restore a question, deleted by mistake? (it happened to me a few minutes ago ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad"))  
Is it possible to restore it?


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Jose,

Trough the UI that is not possible since once you hit delete all the database entries are removed ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad").

The only three possible ways are, restoring a xmlbackup prior the deletion of the question (which would cause you to recover it however you would lost any data added after that point).

Or restore the xmlbackup into a staging environment and then recover the information from the database so you can manually add that (which would require some testing).

Ask the user to re add the question and and the other users to re add their replies.  
Hope it helps.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.

comments: author: Mustafa Abusalah
body: Is it the same for answer? Can I restore a deleted answer?
Is it possible copy a space from OnPremise to OnDemand?
Asked by James Hurrell:

We are a software company considering using Confluence OnDemand for our documentation needs (see my question here: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11441578>) while retaining our on premise instance.

We are considering using this method: we would use OnDemand just to publish documentation to the public (i.e to publish documentation for our already released software versions) and use our existing in house instance to edit unreleased documentation versions. We would therefore need to be able to periodically transfer an entire space from OnPremise to OnDemand (i.e. when previously unrelased documentation needs to be publised). Is this possible - and if so, how can it be done?


Answers:
author: James Hurrell
body: Thank you both for your answers.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You can use the [Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) to copy selected pages or a space. For instance, use the [copySpace](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copySpace) action noting the [targetServer](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-targetServer) and related parameters. It supports a [replace](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-replace) option.


author: Maggie Modersohn
body: Hi James,

Have you seen this knowledge base article before: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Importing+a+Confluence+Space>

It pretty much describes what you're trying to do.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

documentation
How to stop Confluence from resizing the logo?
Asked by AlicjaC:

I am trying to design a new Confluence theme and I need the logo to be bigger then 48x48px. How do I prevent Confluence from automatically shrinking the logo?


Answers:
author: AlicjaC
body: I know there is a restriction, it only shrinks mine to 140x48px though. Is it at all possible to omit this restriction and have a normal sized logo? I expanded my logo container, but it still uses the small version so it's all blurry


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Alicja,  

Actually there's a restriction, we need to have the logo as 48px x 48px to remain the logo without shrinking.

Cheers,

WZ
confluence license
Asked by Alexandros Theofilou:

Hi

To be able to access confluence KB from the Service Desk portal with a customer account do i need confluence user licenses ?


Answers:
author: Alexandros Theofilou
body: And how do i create or link a customer with confluence user?

When i tried to create a confulence user with the same email or username i get an error that still exists.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Yes, customers must be Confluence users with [permission](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Space+Permissions+Overview) to view the space the or Confluence space must allow anonymous access.

See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SERVICEDESK/Providing+self-help+resources+for+your+customers+with+a+knowledge+base#Providingself-helpresourcesforyourcustomerswithaknowledgebase-IntegratingwithConfluence>
Does anyone know how to remove a review on a plugin?
Asked by Paul DeSousa:

I left a review as I thought it was a quick way to contact the vendor, but was not a true review of the product. Now that the issue is resolved, the vendor has asked me to remove my review, and I cannot figure out how to do this. It is really not a valid review as my user base uses the product but I have not, so it really should be deleted, but I cannot figure out how to delete the review.

I can change it but then I am also required to give it an amount of \* and without even having tried the product that is not really fair.

Anyone know how?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: I don't think you can. The vendor can ask Atlassian to remove it. In the meantime, I would suggest changing it to **Please remove** or similar.

comments: author: Paul DeSousa
body: Bummer, people sometimes mistakenly leave a review. Thanks Bob!


author: Paul DeSousa
body: Yes I try to change it, and I get, a red box that says: An error occurred while submitting your review. Try submitting the review here. With a link to the plugin site...
How to save Space as Template in confluence?
Asked by Tony Montana:

Please, help me.

How to save Space as Template in confluence?


Answers:
author: Suren Raj
body: Hi Viktar,  

Currently, Confluence does not have the feature you want. We have a feature request for this functionality to be implemented.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-4538>

Therefore, I highly recommend you to add yourself as a watcher of that report and vote for its popularity. You may also place a comment explaining your experiences and concerns about this new feature to give more meaning to our developer in regard to permanent resolution.  

Cheers  
Suren


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You can use [Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) to create new spaces and pages based on other "template" spaces or pages. See [How to create pages from template pages](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/How+to+create+pages+from+template+pages) or [How to create pages from template pages - self service](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/How+to+create+pages+from+template+pages+-+self+service).

In the case of doing an entire space, you can use [copySpace](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copySpace) or a combination with the techniques from the other links.

comments: author: Tony Montana
body: For managers?


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: It depends on your situation. Normal Confluence permissions apply for the CLI case. In the case of self-service, you can restrict who can view (use) the self-service page to whoever you want to have the capability.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Normally, for self service, you use an admin account for running the actions and control access via view permissions.


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi Viktar,

Our Add-on Space Tree Creator does nearly what you are looking for. You can use every space as a template. Based on that, the Space Tree Creator creates a new space, copies the properties from the source space and then copies / creates the page tree into the new space

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

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

Regards,  
Stephan


author: Davin Studer
body: You can create a template space and then use the C[opy Space](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.copyspace) add on to create new spaces based on the template.


Tags: confluence-administration