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Add users in a bulk as Watchers of Confluence Wiki page
Asked by TY:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Manage Watchers](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=829077779)*

Is it possible to import somehow many users in a bulk to watch a page instead to add them one by one using full name or user name? I tried it using several separators, but it seems impossible, so to import hundreds of users will be real burden.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Trifon,

It's not possible to bulk load watchers, and unfortunately you can't get a Group to watch a page either.

However, there are add-ons in the Atlassian Marketplace that allow you to do more with watchers - [Notifications for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.enterpriseNotifications/server/overview) is one such add-on (although it's not free). [Here are the search results](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=watch) from Atlassian Marketplace that might be useful for you.


author: Bernardo Andreeti
body: Hey guys,

I know it is a bit late, but I would like to share a possible workaround here for future reference. We can follow this KB to bulk add users as watchers through the Remote APIs:

* [How to add all Users of a Group as Watchers of a Page or Blog](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-add-all-users-of-a-group-as-watchers-of-a-page-or-blog-957497342.html)

Hope it helps!


Tags: confluence-administration

watcher
back up
Asked by Walther Jonas:

Is there a problem with cloud supported back up? Since 3 weeks we weren't able to create a backup.

The backup stocks about 6h in "zipping export"...


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Walther,

According to [the Status page](https://status.atlassian.com/) there are no known issues with Atlassian's Cloud offerings. However, there are maximum storage sizes (which you can find [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/atlassian-cloud-storage-policy-744721619.html)) so you might want to check the size of your backup as that could be the problem.


author: Walther Jonas
body: Hi,

I don't think storage size is the problem. We have about 5GB for confluence and under 1 GB for JIRA.

The problem occured, whenwe added JIRA and connected JIRA with confluence.

anyway, we try to delete our JIRA account and go further with confluence only... We don't have time to take care about the back up feature.

comments: author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Walther,

Atlassian store disaster recovery backups for the last 7 days, but if you want a quick and easy way to backup critical information, you can export individual spaces whenever you want to a local machine, and store them where ever you want. If you're just looking for a way to make sure you don't lost the content that might be the simplest way to achieve it.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Support for Confluence 6.0
Asked by Application Management:

When will there be support for Confluence 6 for this add-on?  
We have purchased a license for this addon, but under Confluence 6.0 this addon / plugin does not work anymore.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi,

Atlassian Answers is a forum for general questions about Atlassian products. Unless someone who works at the company that supplied your add-on is watching this topic, you're unlikely to get an answer.

If you go to the add-on page in the Atlassian Marketplace you should be able to find support information from the company who created your add-on, and you can ask them directly.


Tags: confluence-administration
Who visit the page
Asked by Ji?? Josefus:

Hi,

is there any possibility with select in database, how to find if somebody is visiting the page? I don? know pay for viewtracker plugin.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Jiri,

If you're using a hosted instance (as in, you're not using a Cloud instance) you can [turn on the Global Activity page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/viewing-site-statistics-123043962.html), which provides some statistics.

However, other than that there isn't much available. Lots of people want this, hence all of the plugins that do it are paid-for and not free. I'm not sure if you can pull real-time information on user activity from the database; hopefully someone else here will be able to tell you.


Tags: confluence-administration
Update JIRA notification by changes from Confuence
Asked by Miroslav Philipp:

Hello,

We need to get notification in JIRA ticket when is Confluence page change / updated.   
**How to send the Confluence comments -\> to JIRA ticket** *(ID we know)*   
Is it possible to make it by some macro or integrated service ? Thank you.

*Confluence page is using for detail information about project.*

* *Some users, have problem : " I do it ! , I wrote / updated to confluence."*
* *Another people want see this information in JIRA ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad").*


Answers:
author: Vasiliy Zverev
body: I do not how exaclty do this, but it seems that you could use REST API for this.


Tags: comment

integration

jira

notification
Plugin or macro to vote/like in content
Asked by Nils Ove Erstad:

I have a simple table for suggestions/improvements that everyone can brainstorm and suggest stuff. This does not mean it is tasks or anything yet, only a list of random stuff.

I am trying to figure out a nice way to give people a way to upvote one or more suggestions, either by liking the item (row), +1 or similar to indicate popular suggestions

Edit: If there was an easy way to add the Like function added to the bottom of every confluence page yourself without it being connected to the page itself, that would be very useful

Surprisingly enough I have not found an existing plugin that suits this purpose or something close to this simplicity.  

Does anyone have a suggestion to plugin, macro or another approach using an existing "larger" plugin?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Nils,

Like Nic I don't know of anything that will do this in Confluence, but your situation is one of the use cases for JIRA - you can add items to the backlog and people can vote on them. Of course this is only a sensible suggestion if you also have JIRA.....

comments: author: Nils Ove Erstad
body: I agree it kind of is. But as I mentioned it is kind of brainstorming and I really did not want to mix that with backlog tasks. Of course one can argue for an own JIRA project for that kind of stuff, but wanted it to keep it a bit more simple.  

Also, I would think that the possibility to add a like function anywhere you like would be a use case for many things in confluence also, same as the voting in Jira.

If there was an easy way to add the Like function added to the bottom of every confluence page yourself without it being connected to the page itself, that would be very useful


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Nils,

Yes, being able to use the Like function as a macro wherever you want would be great.

You could use [Confluence Questions](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/questions) (which is what Atlassian Answers is) and have people upvote or downvote, or [Polls for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.simplenia.confluence.plugins.polls/server/overview), but those might be overkill for what you need (and neither is free).


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Might be worth a look at the "rate macro" on the marketplace. I'm not sure it's exactly what you need but might be close.
Lively Blogpost on Dahsboard using Refined Wiki
Asked by Anne EQS:

We're using RefinedWiki and would like to use Lively Blogposts on the Dashboard.

Unfortunately - assumedly due to Refined Wiki - the Blogposts are not showing up on the dashboard.

Is therea way to implemnet the macro manually? Is it the same as the 'normal' Livel Blogpost macro available for other pages or are there major differences?  


Answers:
author: Maria Heij [Refined]
body: Hi Anne!

I have tried the Lively Blogpost macro out, and it seems that when you add it, the default value for the parameter space is "@self", which means that the macro will take blogposts from the space that the macro is placed on.

For RefinedTheme, the dashboards are not part of a regular space, and therefor nothing shows up when you add it. However, you can change the parameter to either say "@all" to show blogposts from all spaces in your Confluence, or you can set the spaces keys separated by a comma, "BSN, SN, BB" etc, which would be necessary if you place the macro on a dashboard.

LivelyBlog.png

Best Regards,   
Maria Heij  
RefinedWiki  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Lively-Blogpost-on-Dahsboard-using-Refined-Wiki/qaq-p/157878?attachment-id=5338){#link_11861113d48137}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/26452/1/LivelyBlog.png){#display_11861113d48137_0}


Tags: addon-com.refinedwiki.confluence.plugins.theme

confluence-administration
Confluence edit mode impossible
Asked by Paul Lechner:

Hello,

I installed recently the latest version of Confluence, and restored the data from an older version.

Everything went well, now I can see all my data with attachments and all.

The problem is; when I try to edit a page, the page stays hanging, and after a while I get an error message:

**Failed to load the collaborative editor error.**

This happens when I try to access confluence from a different computer, but when I do it on the same computer where confluence is installed, this doesn't occur and I can edit with no problem.

do you have any idea what might cause this?

Thank you in advance


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Paul,

Atlassian recently released collaborative editing functionality - if you restored a backup from a version of Confluence that didn't have this, that might be causing the problem. I'm not sure how to resolve this though, so unless someone else has any ideas you should log a support call with Atlassian. It seems likely this is a problem they've encountered before and will know how to resolve.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: From that description, the most likely reason is your network settings blocking Synchrony.

Check over <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/troubleshooting-collaborative-editing-858772087.html> looking at the proxy and websocket sections first (as it works locally, I don't think it's the other culprits on that page)


Tags: confluence-administration
Scroll PDF Exporter: Use landscape format on pages with wide tables
Asked by Marcel Woschek:

Hey :smile:

I have seen that there is the possibility to define the landscape format for the pages. I am also aware of the possibility to only set landscape format for pages with odd numbers etc.

What I need though is the possibility to use the landscape format for pages with wide tables. Right now the table is just getting cut off...

Any solutions there?

Thanks,

Marcel


Answers:
author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: In the meantime it's possible to control the page orientation on a page level base using our Scroll Landscape / Scroll Portrait macro.

You can find further information about this in our documentation: <https://help.k15t.com/scroll-pdf-exporter/latest/server/change-the-page-orientation-165944642.html>

comments: author: James Yau
body: I've tried this and it doesn't seem to be working at all.


author: Thomas Rough _K15t_
body: Hi [@James Yau](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2382258)

were you using the Scroll Landscape or Portrait macro within a Confluence multi-column page layout? If so, these macros are not supported in these page formats and have to be added on page without these multi-column layouts in order to function.

If you have added these macros to a page without this formatting and the issue still persists, please can you send us an [XML export](https://help.k15t.com/creating-a-xml-export-of-a-single-page-111903666.html) for your affected content to help@k15t.com. We can then investigate this further.

Cheers, Thomas (K15t)


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Marcel,

we have a couple of tweaks documented in our PDF documenation on how to deal with wide tables. Please have a look at the following page: <https://help.k15t.com/scroll-pdf-exporter/how-can-i-deal-with-wide-tables-75367879.html>

I hope any of those workarounds helps.

Unfortunately our current library does not support setting landscape format for specific pages only (see <https://k15t.jira.com/browse/EXP-374>). We're currently working on a switch to a new library, that should also support this feature.  
As this is a big change, I can't give you an ETA currently. Please sign up at <https://k15t.jira.com/secure/Signup!default.jspa> to watch, comment on or vote for this issue. We'll then send a notification for every status update.

Let me know if you have any further questions. I'll be happy to help.

Best,  
Nils


Tags: addon-com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf
Applink: Using Jira in Confluence but not vice versa
Asked by Matthias Schmenner:

I plan to "applink" a partners JIra System to monitor the ticket progress in our Confluence system. The partner shall be not allowed to use our Confluence.

On which side do I have to configure the AppLink: in our Confluence, in their JIRA or in both systems?

Matthias


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: HI Matthias,

I believe you need to configure the applink in both systems. If you don't want any of the JIRA users to access Confluence, just make sure that none of them are given access to groups that have permission to view spaces in Confluence.


Tags: application-link

confluence-administration
List of "created date", "last modifed date" and "last modified by" on each pages in space
Asked by Hisamitsu Koga:

I would like to extract a list of "created date", "last modifed date" and "last modified by" on each pages in our space. Is it possible?

For example,   
Each pages have "Created by xxxxxxxx, xxxxxxx \| xxxx, last modified by xxx, xxxxxxx \| xxxx on Nov 18, 2016" on the top of page. It is good if we can extract such information from all of the pages in our space.


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: I do not know if this could be achieved with Confluence macros. Probably there is a solution with user macros (but I'm not an expert for this). Therefore I suggest another possible solution.

You could use the [Display Document Properties Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/sgNk) of the (commercial) [projectdoc Toolbox](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/EAFk). You would also need to add the [Document Properties Marker Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/rgNk) (which is similar to the [Page Properties Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html)) which would supply the information you are looking for.

This is how the *Display Document Properties Macro* is used:

screenshot.png

The Template is something like this:

```
${Creation Date}, ${Last Modification Date}, ${Last Modifier}
```

You may also add any text like this

```
The document has been created on ${Creation Date} and has been last modified on ${Last Modification Date} by ${Last Modifier}.
```

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of the projectdoc Toolbox - which is [available on the Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1212629). :wink:  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/List-of-quot-created-date-quot-quot-last-modifed-date-quot-and/qaq-p/314298?attachment-id=312){#link_1186116ac6604e}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/53148/1/screenshot.png){#display_1186116ac6604e_0}

comments: author: Hisamitsu Koga
body: Thank you for your prompt reply.

Is there any possible solution / way to achieve this request by Confluence standard function only without any plugin?
can i use this gadget in confluence
Asked by Balaji Saravanan:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Adding the Issue Statistics Gadget](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=720417074)*

Is it possible to add this gadget to a Confluence page


Answers:
author: Sam Hall
body: Balaji,

Yes. If you use the cloud version of Confluence, it will be available as a Macro.

If you are using a server version, have a look at this question / answer: [How to insert the JIRA "Issue Statistics" chart in a Confluence page?](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/17899318)

Sam

comments: author: Sam Hall
body: P.s. Here's the Atlassian docs page on about registering gadgets from JIRA so the gadgets appear in the [macro browser](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/macros-139387.html): <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/registering-external-gadgets-204050482.html>


author: Balaji Saravanan
body: Thanks a lot Sam, this really helped.


Tags: documentation

gadget
where is custom macro values stored in database
Asked by indra:

I created Custom Drag drop Macro, I give Yes or No Options that Drag drop macro,I selected Yes option but it can n't be Stored.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The options are stored in the content of the page you use the macro in. Bodycontent is the table if I remember correctly, but that's not much use to you because the parameters are **part** of the page and the table stores the whole page.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can pages on a public Confluence be restricted by location?
Asked by Nicole Commander:

Howdy,

I'm thinking about using Confluence for help documentation. Although there is some content that would only apply to certain countries. So I would like to know can pages on a public Confluence be restricted by location?

Cheers,

Nic


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Nicole,

No, there is no way to restrict access to spaces or pages in Confluence by location of the user. It doesn't matter whether you host or use a Cloud instance, this isn't something Confluence does. However, if you host yourself you could restrict users based on their IP location, but that's done at the network level, not the application level.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
We have different brands, but want to maintain one documentation. Is it possible to replace e.g. brandname on each page (text, urls) upon pdf export?
Asked by josef florian:


Answers:
author: josef florian
body: Many thanks for your answer.

But the brand names are included in the continuous text as well as in links or tables. means it would be a lot of work to separate the parts.

While doing further research we found another solution using HTML marco which we might consider.

Replace every occurrence of the brand name with 2 span tags using (class=brand1 and class=brand2) and before exporting to pdf add the following to the export style css:

```
.brand1 {  display: none;  }
```

The same can be done to the space style, in order to hide one brand on the regular wiki page


author: Milo Test
body: I think your best bet is to build pages for text blocks, then create pages for each brand and use Include Page macros to build the pages around the specific brand info.

This way you only have to update the text block pages and all the brand pages will update automatically.
is there a way to show RoadMap timeline on a daily base?
Asked by Christian:

Hi,

the Confluence RoadMap internal add-on has dropdowns to show things on a weekly and monthly base. Is there any chance to display the data on a daily base? See screenshot below.

The goal would be to see on which day the Approval_1 starts exactly. Not just the approx. week.

roadmap.png

Cheers,  
Christian  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/is-there-a-way-to-show-RoadMap-timeline-on-a-daily-base/qaq-p/283142?attachment-id=11200){#link_118611cfab34c6}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/47993/1/roadmap.png){#display_118611cfab34c6_0}


Answers:
author: Sam Hall
body: Hi Cristian,

Unfortunately, it's not possible as far as I know.

There is an open feature suggestion here, which you can add your vote to if you want: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-40412>

Hopefully Atlassian will consider it.

Sam

comments: author: Christian
body: Thank you


author: Troy S
body: I would like to see a daily feature added to this as well.


author: A Frenz
body: I agree a daily roadmap option would be very helpful, especially on smaller projects.


Tags: confluence-roadmap-plugin

roadmap
get macro body in string format + which is included in page
Asked by ambar14:

I have added one macro on page, here I am trying to fetch page body as string.   
all my actual content are on inserted macro and I was able to see content. But when I am using

```
page.getBodyAsString();
```

I am getting

```
<ac:structured-macro ac:macro-id="f69b6594-8771-47" ac:name="scroll-ignore" ac:schema-version="1">
```

now here I wants to get all content from inserted macro as string. I am trying to do this with the help of Groovy Script Runner.   
Any one suggest the better way to do this.

```
class StringBody{	RenderContext  r = new RenderContext();  	public String getBodyString(Page page,XhtmlContent xhtmlContent){  	return xhtmlContent.convertStorageToView(page.getBodyAsString(),new DefaultConversionContext(r));  }}
```


Answers:
author: Jonny Carter
body: I'm not sure I fully understand what you're trying to do.

I'm assuming that you're creating a [scripted macro](https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/confluence/macros/CustomMacros.html), I'm just not clear what you're trying to get out of it? Is it the macro's body as HTML, the entire page's HTML, or what?


Tags: scriptrunner
How to move the server?
Asked by Thomas Theda:

Hi,

i am searching for a documentation, how to move the server for my Confluence Installation. Actually i am using Windows XP, but i will migrate the System to Windows Server 2012.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That should be relatively easy. First hit on google is <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-confluence-between-servers-184150.html> (but I know to use the word "migrate" in my search)

comments: author: Roman Samorodov
body: That will not be easy. I did it twice and there are a lot problems that were not noticed in documentation.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The problems you have are probably environmental or peculiar to your installation.

On a standard recommended setup, following that document works perfectly, and in fact, for quite a range of non-recommended setups.


author: Thomas Theda
body: oh i found something

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-confluence-between-servers-184150.html>


Tags: confluence-administration
is it possible to force enable the "No email storm" plugin for all users in our system?
Asked by Artur Pileckij:

The question is, we have around 200 users that don't take their time to enable the "No email storm" plugin in their user accounts, this is causing a huge amount of unwanted emails because most forget to un-tick the "Notify watchers" checkbox. Would it be possible to somehow change a global setting for all our users ?


Answers:
author: Vadim Rutkevich
body: Hello, Artur.

Yes, you can specify one or multiple user groups that the add-on is enabled for. Please see this <https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/NoEmailStorm/No+Email+Storm>.

Thanks.

Best Regards,  
Vadim Rutkevich


author: Sam Hall
body: Hi Artur,

I haven't used this add-on myself, by the documentation [here](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/NoEmailStorm/No%20Email%20Storm) seems to imply that admins can enable the add-on for specific groups, and that overrides the settings defined by the user:

noemail-storm-docs.jpg

Does that help?

Apologies if you have already looked there.

Sam  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/is-it-possible-to-force-enable-the-quot-No-email-storm-quot/qaq-p/166889?attachment-id=9183){#link_118612ca43b06b}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/27924/1/noemail-storm-docs.jpg){#display_118612ca43b06b_0}


author: Artur Pileckij
body: Thank you, both answers fit and have solved my problem, Thank you very much for a quick response!


Tags: addon-confluence.extra.noemailstorm

confluence-administration