youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Chart Macro - line vs xyline
Asked by Dan Jatnieks:

What is the difference beween a "line" and an "xyline" chart in the Chart Macro?

When I use a table in the chart macro area line the one below, and then switch between "line" and "xyline" chart types, the chart does display differently, but I am not finding an explanation of what the difference is between them.

\<th\>

|---|----|----|----|----|----|-----|-----|------|------|-------|-------|
| A | 32 | 35 | 37 | 45 | 69 | 227 | 449 | 2328 | 5348 | 31474 | 80973 |
| B | 31 | 33 | 37 | 48 | 74 | 235 | 541 | 3265 | 7204 | 46676 | 92000 |
| C | 31 | 32 | 38 | 46 | 63 | 211 | 447 | 2239 | 5180 | 30096 | 62000 |


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: The charts are different for me :). Suggest you test again.

* line chart is plotting a point for each column (no matter what value) and then connecting with a line
* xyline chart is by x value with a linear x axis (x values from heading row must be numeric)

![Line vs XYLine hcart](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/41287854/line-xyline.jpg?api=v2)

comments: author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Nice - learned something! Cool Bob..


author: Dan Jatnieks
body: Thanks Bob, that explains it perfectly for me; it would be great the the documentation said this - can I file a doc jira to request that?

Before I noticed the graph differences, I chose the "line" chart over the "xyline" because it included the data points. It would be nice if the "xyline" chart also supported plotting the data points


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Yes, always good to track these kind of things with an issue.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: My guess is that they are the same and you are not crazy. ;)

Here's the full doc - maybe you already saw it.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Chart+Macro>

Bob Swift will likely comment.

comments: author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: (Doh - wrong answer - Bob jumped in to clear the cloud - yay! :))


Tags: confluence-cloud

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Error loading macro browser in Confluence
Asked by Brittany Walker:

![](http://monosnap.com/image/XlzTvy5zeraBoRnoDdqYUkYZy)

<http://monosnap.com/image/XlzTvy5zeraBoRnoDdqYUkYZy>


Answers:
author: Marlon Aguiar
body: Hi Brittany,

We have seen some similar reports such as this one, would you mind opening a ticket on [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) so we can further investigate this? There's a workaround available as well that might apply to your case.

We'll wait for your ticket.

Regards,  
Marlon

comments: author: Brittany Walker
body: Ok. But what about the 111 followers of this question that also want to know? :)


author: Dave
body: Hey Brittany,

How's it going?? We've seen this error a few times, and it is usually due to a rogue App Link ID in the Confluence database. Support has to go in and remove that entry to clear it up. It doesn't require a restart, but we do need to make a DB backup and directly access the DB to get it sorted. This is assuming you've tried all the things locally like clearing your browser cache and offline files.

Best,

-dave


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
pasting text in page causes scroll bars to appear
Asked by lance_lyons:

Hi,

When we paste in text on a new page in confluence 5.0.2 with Google Chrome, we get some scroll bars showing up in the editor.

Is there a fix for this?


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Hi Lance -

I looked through the release notes from Confluence [5.0.2](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.0.2+Release+Notes) \> [5.1.3](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.1.3+Release+Notes) (latest, as of today), and I do not see this logged as a bug (or fix) anywhere -

But since its been a while since 5.0.2, seems like it would have been logged by now.

Maybe you are using Chrome 27 and related to this:

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/152787/confluence-edit-page-in-chrome-27-look-bad](/questions/152787/confluence-edit-page-in-chrome-27-look-bad)

I think you should either upgrade to the latest (for other reasons too), or at a minimum, apply this plugin... and then RESTART (always :) ) and see if it clears your problem?

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor-height-fix>

Perhaps report back on this?

Probably helpful in case others find this.

Best,

Ellen


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Install this or upgrade to 5.1.3+:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor-height-fix>
Does anyone know what content Confluence indexes?
Asked by Robbie Lee:

I'm creating documentation on how to search for content in Confluence, and I'd like to tell our employees what content Confluence actually indexes.


Answers:
author: Robbie Lee
body: Attempt at answering my own question...

Content =

\* pages

\* blog posts

\* comments

\* attachments

\* status updates

\* profiles

\* space descriptions

For this content, text and titles (where relevant) are indexed.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Your list covers everything I believe. I don't think it searches macro names as that is not 'content' (or the maker of content) as such. I could be wrong though.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Robbie,

Do any of the following help?

* [Searching](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Searching+Confluence)
* [Advanced Search](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Syntax)
* [Results Ranking](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Ranking+of+Search+Results)

comments: author: Robbie Lee
body: "When you perform a full search, Confluence will search all content in all spaces (site and personal), mail, personal profiles, attachments and the space description."

While this documentation provides some relevant information, I think it's a bit lacking in specifics. What is considered "all content"? For example, are macro names and values searched. (I believe the answer to this is no.)


Tags: index
Using Confluence with NFS
Asked by Ken Wood:

We are running low on local storage on our confluence server (a VM instance). For performance reasons, I've gotten our OPS group to agree to double the number of CPUs and RAM on the box, but to deal with the disk space issue they are recommending moving the confluence data to NFS. Any know issues with moving to NFS?


Answers:
author: LucasA
body: Hi Ken,

No problem if you ensure that your network channel will give you the necessary I/O throughput for your VM. For Confluence, you'll still running into a local storage. NFS tipically has some issues regarding access latency that becomes more sensitive into virtualized environments.

If possible, iSCSI storage could be a very good option, giving you a better result than NFS shares.

Cheers,

Lucas Lima
Can I see my own messages in JIRA and Confluence
Asked by Arne Boye-M?ller:

I would have thought it would be possible to see the messages that we attach to 'shares' off pages / issuees in Confluence / JIRA. Is there a way to do this?

I realize, that this might be against the concept of both JIRA and Confluence but I find it annoying that I sometimes enter slightly specific messages that are meant for a targeted audience that only the recipients can see and not myself. Sometimes I remember too late that I omitted somebody in the first share and have to recreate the message.


Answers:
author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Arne,

As far as I know, this isn't currently possible in JIRA. However, I did manage to find an improvement request for this which you can find here -[JRA-32125](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-32125), which has not been implemented yet.

For now, I would recommend that you :

* Watch the request, so that you would receive any and all updates
* Vote for it, so that it would gain more attention
* Comment, and give your opinion on it

Please note that all feature and improvement requests are handled according to the [Implementation of New Features Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy)


author: Arne Boye-M?ller
body: Thanks for the heads up Joe. I've added my vote and a comment. My interest covers both Confluence and JIRA.

comments: author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Arne,

No problem :) Please feel free to accept my answer if you feel that it's, well, acceptable


author: Hilmar
body: I really really would like to see this feature as well. I use sharing to send pages to my employees sometimes and would like to be able to either receive a copy via email (worst way) or to have a history of shares I have made (best way). This would make sharing so much better!


author: Arne Boye-M?ller
body: I've looked everywhere I knew to look in both applications but to no avail.
Confluence User LDAP and smaller License
Asked by Philipp Altmann:

If I have only a 100 User License and would like to connect Confluence to our corporate LDAP with around 100.00k users how can I allow only 100 users of our LDAP to connect to Confluence and only count this users to our license.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Yilin
body: When setting up the LDAP user directory, you can create a more complicate user object filter to limite the number of the user synchronized in the JIRA with Confluence user permission:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/How+to+write+LDAP+search+filters>


Tags: confluence-administration
Page not showing in any search/report/tree
Asked by Bert Van Daele:

I have created a new page in Confluence, starting from the Blank template. Afterwards, I moved it from my personal space to another space using the 'Move' function and added some labels to make it show up in the 'meeting-notes' list.

Although this page does show up as a Child-page in the left-hand nav pane, it does not come up in any search results (e.g. when creating a link, or when using the Report Table or Page Tree macros...)

There is no restriction on the page itself, but there is on the Space it has been moved to.

Please help! Thanks.


Answers:
author: Joachim Ooi
body: How about try checking on your indexes? Have you tried flushing it all? Start your investigation with indexes first. A good troubleshooting page to try and further diagnose on indexing problem would be - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Searching+and+Indexing+Troubleshooting>

comments: author: Bert Van Daele
body: Thank you for your answer.

I also stumbled upon that page as I was also thinking in that direction, but unfortunately I don't know how to do this flushing? I am a user, not an admin...

Thanks for any hints on how to do this.


author: Andrew Culver
body: A newly created page wasn't appearing for me. It was within the tree structure under the main page of the space, but still wasn't appearing. I suspect a re-index may have fixed this, but first I tried moving the page to the same parent page it was already under, and then it appeared in the tree.


author: Joachim Ooi
body: No problem, glad to know that your problem is now resolved. :D


author: Bert Van Daele
body: I might be wrong, but it looks like the problem is even more severe than I thought.

None of the new pages I create appear in any search! I tried renaming, moving to another space, etc... Nothing works.

Thoughts?

comments: author: Bert Van Daele
body: OK. In the meantime our admin was able to solve the problem.In the end it indeed was related to the indexes, but Confluence needed a restart before the Rebuild would work.It was probably related to a memory issue...That's anyway for the help!


author: Joachim Ooi
body: Oh, if you're a normal end user then you do not have that permission. You are right... how about try contacting your admin? :)

comments: author: Bert Van Daele
body: I went to the admin, and he rebuilt the indexes. But unfortunately it didn't help.

Any other ideas? Thanks.
Yammer Connector
Asked by Aditya Phadke:

We are a big Yammer and Confluence Wiki user for different parts of our business. Yammer has connectors to several systems via tools like zapier, but that doesnt provide search capabilities across systems.

Is there a connector available to integrate yammer's universal search box with confluence wiki so that it is possible to have one universal search box.


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: You need an external search indexer or appliance to federate these search results together, and then a plugin to ideally return the results in a Confluence (or Yammer) page, collated.

The advantage of many external search engines is that you would also get some search calibration benefits (i.e., relevance metrics, advanced search filters, etc.)

Happy to discuss some options with you - but don't know of anything available off the shelf now.. [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Space Tools does not show. How to reset layout?
Asked by Kwanthar:

I have customized the decorator for the one of the Layouts, but now I cannot access the space tools, it appears blank. Is there a way to reset the layouts? I cannot even delete the space.

i.e. when at .../spaces/spacepermissions.action?key=MAINPAGE

It is just blank white space.


Answers:
author: Kwanthar
body: Just to update, I wasn't able to get permission to use SQL, but using the following did the trick.

Comment Jan-14 by Anonymous

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Deleting+a+Space>


author: Amalia
body: Hi Kwanthar!

All edited layouts are saved into DECORATOR table. I would recommend you to backup your Confluence instance and run the following SQL queries to see which layout you would like to delete:

```
select * from decorator where spacekey='MAINPAGE';
```

You can then delete a specific layout:

```
delete from decorator where decoratorid=&lt;ID&gt;
```

or delete all layouts in one go:

```
truncate table decorator;
```

Of course, you would need restart Confluence after marking those changes :)

comments: author: Kwanthar
body: Hi Amalia,

Thanks for your response, I will give that a go.
How to change name column size for attached files page?
Asked by Selcuk Savas:

Hi,

We have many attachment on the pages and we keep strict versioning and name convention for them.

When a new ataachment uploaded we cannt see the entire name of the document due the size (width) of the name column on attached files page.

Is there a way to edit the size and make it bigger/wider?

Cheers,

selcuk


Answers:
author: Danielle Zhu
body: There is an open request for this: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22002> They also mention a css workaround in that ticket.
Disable export to word (ondemand)
Asked by Mark Johnson:

I am wanting to disable the export to word option. I have read that this can done by disabling the 'issue-word' option under the View Issue Plugin in the administrator Manager Add-ons section.

My problem is that Atlassian is not allowing me to disable 'issue-word'. The following message is next to the option "Module cannot be modified".

Is there another way to disable users from exporting content to word and still alow them to export content to PDF?


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: Hi Mark,

I'm not sure what the "View Issue" plugin is that you're referring to. I can't seem to see a system plugin with that name in Confluence.

I believe this link is part of the "Content Action Menu Sections" plugin (it has a "Word Export Link" module). Unfortunately this plugin (and all of its modules) cannot to be disabled.

comments: author: Mark Johnson
body: Is there any other way to remove the ability for users to export to Word?


author: Mark Johnson
body: Is there any other way to remove the ability for users to export to Word?


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: OnDemand is for most commonly used and desired features - not for customizing them or changing them, in general. This is logical and normal for most SaaS solutions too, since keeping a common base system is key for stability with many systems and accounts..

If you would like to manipulate the functionality more, I would recommend that you move to a hosted "download" version of Confluence - and you can do this, and more (since many plugins also available).

Happy to help on you with this if need more info on how to go about this transition. [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Chrome 27. Confluence 5.1.3 Add Comments Editor does not load
Asked by Ivaylo Stanev:

Hey,  

We just upgraded to Confluence 5.1.3 Download.

All went smoothly except one issue. Add Comments Editor in Confluence did not work for me for all browsers I use: IE9, FF21, Chrome 27 on Win7. I reinstalled Java (now I have Java SE 7 Update 21) and restarted my PC. Now it works on all browsers except Chrome. My Chrome version is 27.0.1453.94 m. The RTE starts to load but never finishes. It is weird but for another team member, it works ok with the same browser version and OS.

I restarted the browser few times with no luck. Tried incognito mode, deleted the cache - no luck again.

Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Ivaylo Stanev
body: Simple Confluence restart seems to have helped.

Thanks!


author: Amalia
body: Hey Ivaylo!

Have you tried the following:

* [Enable safe mode](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Disabling+or+Enabling+a+Plugin#DisablingorEnablingaPlugin-DisablingEnablingalluser-installedpluginssafemode) to see if any third-party add-ons are affecting this issue
* [Clear plugin cache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache)
* [Clear customization](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=314447086)

If none of the above helps, you may want to create a support ticket at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)
Spreading a long TOC over 2 columns in Confluence
Asked by Rosemary Donato:

Hello,

I'm working with a team to create several pages. One of them in particular has a very long TOC. We discussed breaking the page up into several. But that's not the best way to present the information. Does anyone know if there's a way to spread the TOC over 2 or more columns?

Thanks much!


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

if there's a way to distinguish between the contents of the two columns: yes. otherwise no.

If it is possible to differ the two groups with a regular expression then you can do the following:

Create two TOCs and set the include-parameter of each one to different values, so they are showing the first or the second part of your headings.

Make a section with two columns on top of your page and put each TOC in a column.

That should do it.

Cheers

Thomas

comments: author: Rosemary Donato
body: That worked brilliantly! Thanks ever so. :D


author: Kuncheff
body: what if there are repeated words in the TOC?


author: Natalia Perminova
body: Have the same issue with repeated words in both columns. :(


author: Pooja Mu
body: Hi Thomas_Schlegel,  

I am using 2 TOC, One for h1 headings, and other for h4 headings. So only h1 headings is displaying content, not the other one. No content is adding in h4 heading TOC. Once i do hard refresh then it is adding the content in the second TOC. I can't do hard refresh every time. So please help me with this.  

Thanks!


Tags: community
Is there an easy way to find out what groups a user is in?
Asked by Mark_Booth:

I have just had a problem where a user of one of my spaces was unable to edit pages in that space. I was confused as the default permissions should have allowed him to.

I naively assumed that if I went to the users profile page, it would tell me there which groups he was a member of, but it seems that this is not the case.

I tried to find out from the documentation how I could find which groups he was in, but failed.

I ended up going to the confluence admin groups page and manually checking every group listed in the space admin permissions page to find if he was in any of the groups explicitly granted permissions. This was **very** tedious since some groups had hundreds of users and dozens of pages of names.

In the end I found that the user wasn't a member of the confluence-users group, as they should have been, but it was a long and tedious process to find this out.

So, if this happens again is there an easy way to find out what groups a user is in?


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Mark,

assuming you have Confluence admnin rights, you should:

1. Go to Browse/Confluence admin
2. Look under Users \& Security for Users
3. Click on Users to open the Find user screen
4. Enter the user's name and press Return
5. This will return a list of users or just the one, depending on what text you searched on
6. Choose the appropriate user by clicking on their name
7. This will open the View User window where you can see their details, including all the groups they belong to.

Simple really. :)

Cheers.

comments: author: Mark_Booth
body: Sigh, it's really not obvious that the profile page you get sent to from the admin page is different to the one you are sent to from the nomal user search page. It would be so much easier if both pages had a link to the other. Thanks for the pointer though Mick.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Mark,

sorry, my comment wasn't meant to be sarcastic. :) I meant as in 'once you know the answer...'.

I've had two of those moment myself today. :)


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there an equivalent to Sharepoint web parts
Asked by Andrew:

I want to load an excel attachement into Confleunce and have Confleunce display a named chart or table. So when I upload a newer version of the excel file the new chart / table is displayed. I would want to do this is bare Confluence (i.e without the use of 3rd party plugins). Failing this approach, can anyone recommend an alternative.


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: I am not sure if you have tried using [View File Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/View+File+Macro)? If this does not suit your need then I am afraid that you'd need to install a third party plugin.

comments: author: Andrew
body: The problem is that I have a few charts on the same worksheet in the workbook and have named them in excel so that I can be specific when referencing them in SharePoint. Thanks for the answer.
Space permissions on confluence
Asked by Bridget Austin:

I need one of my confluence users (dleung) to be able to view/edit/delete/comment etc. on a particular space on confluence (sambet).

I have enabled all the space permissions and individual permissions so that the user (dleung) can see the space, but they still dont have any access/permission to see the space.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Maybe it is worth to check some other things:

* do you have any page restrictions on the main page of the space that do not allow your new user to see it ?
* Does your user see any other spaces not visible to anonymous users ? Does she/he have the confluence-users group ?


author: Bridget Austin
body: Hi Thomas,

Yes I have logged in as dleung myself to check.

Thanks, Bridget.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Bridget,

the first answer of every Helpdesk: Did you check that your user dleung is logged in ?

Cheers

Thomas


Tags: permission