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Macro that display short summary of all releases on one page
Asked by Illia Mozghovyi:

*Hello,*

*We have a Confluence space where we keep information about our releases. One space page contains information about one release. Name of the page is a* release name *(see Picture below* )*. Details about each release like **Customer** , **Location** , **Release Date** and **Description** are displayed in form of table on a page (see Picture below).*

*2.png*

*We need some macro that allows showing* *summary information (* ***Release Name*** *and **Description,** see Picturebelow* *) of all releases* *on one separate page of the space. But Release Name and Description should not be "copy-paste" into the summary. It should be somehow retrieved from pages with release information.*

*3.png*

**Which macro can I use to display short summary of all releases on one page?**  
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Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: I think the [Page Properties](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html) and [Page Properties Report](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html) (please refer to "Columns to show") macros will help you to achieve this. These are part of the Confluence installation.

If these macros do not support all your use cases, you may have a look at the [Document Properties Marker Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/rgNk) and the [Display Table Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/wgNk) of the commercial [projectdoc Toolbox](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/EAFk) (where I am one of the authors of). Here is a (maybe biased :smile:) [comparison of features](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/QABgAQ).

comments: author: Illia Mozghovyi
body: Thank you! :smile:


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: I'm happy that I could help! :smile:


Tags: jira
Exporting content into PDF-document
Asked by Illia Mozghovyi:

*Each chapter of my User Guide is a separate page in hierarchy of pages. Now I need to export my User Guide into PDF-document where the hierarchy of pages should be equal to the document chapters' hierarchy. All the formatting of the pages should be preserved in the final document (body, headings, headers, footers etc.).*

*How can i do this?*


Answers:
author: GG
body: Check out Content Exporter for Confluence addon for exporting a whole page tree at once: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.metainf.confluence.plugin.pagetreeexporter.pagetree-word-exporter-plugin/cloud/overview>


author: Rodney Hughes
body: Have you looked at the top bar Browse\>Space Operations\>Export PDF
redirect pages
Asked by Ron_Kanbier:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Try the redirect macro?

comments: author: Ron_Kanbier
body: Thanks, but what is the exact name of that Macro add-on? I have to install that right, its not set as default?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Correct, it's an add-on - see [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.redirection/server/overview#](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.redirection/server/overview)

It is also possible to code it yourself in a user macro, but that's a bit of a pain to debug and use reliably compared with the add-on.


author: Steve
body: [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) you mention coding the macro yourself. That's what we did as we were not happy with what was available.

It's a redirection for Confluence cloud, I know lots of us are needing to look for cloud options to see about moving to cloud (eventually). In cloud can't technically do a redirect, but that said the workaround in cloud does allow for some user friendly ways to create a redirect for Confluence pages, spaces, even attachments.

If have questions about Confluence redirection in cloud let me know or take a look at what we created - [Easy Redirection](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1224699/easy-redirection-for-confluence-cloud?hosting=cloud&tab=overview).


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Licences
Asked by Michael Carr:

Hi, I work for a corporate where we have a 500 user licence of Confluence. Currently there are 484 staff using our Confluence site, we want to add another 30 users, do we have to now purchase a 2000 user licence or can we just increase it by 50 to a total of 550.

Thanks,

Michael


Answers:
author: Yogesh Mude[Jira]
body: Hi @Michael Carr

You could not upgrade your confluence licence in random number like 30, 50 bcz that won't be available .

if you want to add another 30 users then you have to buy 1000/2000 user licence confluence.

thanks

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Indeed, the product licences are done in tiers. Go 1 over the current tier and you need to move to the next tier. So 500 users = 500 tier, 501 users = 1000 tier.
How to set up public space with different formatting
Asked by Deborah Cross:

We're using Confluence for our Intranet and want to set up an additional space for our Customer knowledge base. The configuration which works for our Intranet (items on the menu bar, Confluence/JIRA logo etc.) do not really apply to the customer space.

Can I configure each differently? Apart from just the colours? Our Customers don't need access to the dashboard or to our menu items.

We're on cloud too, so we don't get themes.


Answers:
author: Deborah Cross
body: Thanks Nick - appreciate the response. I was prepared to turn off the space directory entirely, but you can't do it in cloud, so we'll just have to live with it. Actually most of the things I'm trying to 'hide' don't seem to be possible in cloud.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The dashboard and space directory are configured globally - you can't turn them off for external people and have them enabled for internals (although removing "browse users" from external users will help a bit)


author: Deborah Cross
body: Oh, and get rid of the dashboard.


author: Deborah Cross
body: So I figured out how to hide our menu items, but the space directory is still there. If I could disable that, I think we'd be close to happy.

comments: author: Trina Morrow
body: [@Deborah Cross](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/527669)How did you hide the menu items?


author: Deborah Cross
body: Hi Trina - this post was before the current look and feel for confluence was rolled out. Now I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing or what our public users see!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
inserting google into search confluence cloud
Asked by Damian Ball:

Hi Guys,

I'm helping a client setup a basic confluence site and they have asked about embedding some HTML. It seems very easy in a server based installation, but more problematic in a cloud version.

Specifically, they are after two a google search box (that searched the internet not the confluence site).

I downloaded an add-in that enable embedding html. Is that the best way to do this given these guys are a cloud instance?

I'm also struggling to find the right code that will allow a google search. Can't believe it's not plastered everywhere!

Assistance would be appreciated.


Answers:
author: Tim
body: Hi Damian,

I've just had a go and have got a search box working using the HTML macro included in our add-on, Macro Toolbox for Cloud (<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1215202>). I've tested it in Chrome/IE11, attached the code I used and a screenshot of how it looks.

Let me know how you go, happy to help with any issues :smile:

```
&lt;form method="get" class="aui" action="https://www.google.com/search" target="_blank"&gt;    &lt;input class="text long-field" type="text" name="q" placeholder="Enter your Google search"&gt;    &lt;button type="submit" class="aui-button aui-button-primary"&gt;Search&lt;/Button&gt;&lt;/form&gt;
```

google-search-example.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/inserting-google-into-search-confluence-cloud/qaq-p/91079?attachment-id=2385){#link_1186d60fda84ee}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/15271/1/google-search-example.png){#display_1186d60fda84ee_0}


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Setup Database Failed
Asked by wang sike:

The following error(s) occurred:

* configuring.db.failed
* Couldn't lock file 'lock' in directory /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence Make sure the directory is not being used by another Confluence instance.

When setup database with mysql

Here is the log:  
atlassian-confluence.log  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/57236/1/atlassian-confluence.log){#display_1190921aa3f5c8_0}


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Look at the first error in your log - it tells you exactly what you have missed when you set up the empty database.

comments: author: wang sike
body: I have fix it, the charset=utf8

i feel main question is this:

```
com.atlassian.confluence.tenant.VacantException: Confluence is vacant, a call to tenanted [public abstract net.sf.hibernate.Session net.sf.hibernate.SessionFactory.openSession() throws net.sf.hibernate.HibernateException] is not allowed.
```


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's the sort of error that happens when you have encoding errors earlier on.

If you have fixed the encoding error, then your log should be cleaner - could you show us the ne wlog you get after having fixed the encoding?


Tags: administration

mysql
you got to be kidding me
Asked by devzer0:

This question statement is about <https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/changing-the-cloud-instance-url-address-or-migrating-to-a-new-cloud-instance-691011835.html>

there was a time when Atlassian was really great company, but after reading this documentation to simply switch a DNS name there has to be a new instance created and data to be export/import sounds like something a company would have done back in the 80s? And also it doesn't support a domain of the account holder??

do you remember the time INTERNIC was doing domain registration process via email? this approach to me feels even more ancient.

I am seriously questioning the technology leadership of Atlassian now. I use to be a big promoter of JIRA/Confluence to everyone i meet. Reading this document made me seriously ill.

All good things comes to an end, and seems like Atlassian has come to an end.

You are marketing something call **cloud,** and this reminds me 20+ years ago how we (the internet) created a **unix** account and rented out **public_html**directory and charge people paid money for it.


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Cloud solution is having a loooong way until it will be as good as Server. Atlassian from some reason heavily promote Cloud to be primary selling product (instead of server) but looking at all of those limitations it would be really hard and time consuming task. Couple of things are not easy to bypass and this is one of them...


author: devzer0
body: if you ask me it's merely a lack of prioritisation of development efforts, until feature like this exists it does not qualify the term **cloud** you can use **hosted**, i really hate to see when good companies are stirred in the wrong direction due certain decisions made by the leadership. i don't know enough about Atlassian internal org structure to try to guess why such a trivial yet vital feature has gone over-looked, and i was also surprised to realise even 2 factor authentication (a vital component of a hosted cloud system that has mission critical data) is not available
styling is not working
Asked by Anton Zharkikh:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Duplicate of <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38835638>


author: Steffen Heller
body: Duplicate of [Export to pdf](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38845525/export-to-pdf).


author: Anton Zharkikh
body: Hi,

at exprt pdf stylesheet i have this css:

.fsTitlePage   
{  
margin-top: 0mm;  
margin-right: 0mm;  
float: right;  
}

how can i put this div to each page of pdf on export?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Unable to access a page
Asked by Bill Langton:

We have a link to a page in one of our cloud based Confluence spaces. Trying to access the page gives the following error:

*Page level restrictions have been applied to a parent of the current page. These restrictions limit access to certain users or groups and apply to all pages underneath the parent.*

So it must exist? But can't find the page in the page browser, Space content manager, trash, etc. I am have admin and space admin permissions. The parent of the page is the space home page and that is accessible.

Is there a way to recover the page?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: As a space admin, go to the settings section and find the restrictions bit - it will list all the restricted pages in the space, even if you can't normally see them because you're not listed in the restriction.

comments: author: Bill Langton
body: Good to know about that feature, but the missing page doesn't show up there either.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
can I use the '-' sign to exclude labels in the 'Restrict to label(s)' field?
Asked by johan iojo:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Livesearch Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658736882)*

I want to provide a Livesearch macro for my users from which they can look up information.

But i want the result to be confined to pages with certain labels, even exclude pages with certain labels (in this case i normally have to use the '-' sign in front of the label). But i have the impression that the latter is not working in the Livesearch macro

For instance, I used the following string of labels: vereiste,-test,-overbodig,-handleiding,-on-hold

So I expect the search results to include all pages having the 'vereiste' label, but to exclude those that also contain one of the labels 'test', 'overbodig', 'handleiding' OR 'on-hold'.

What am I doing wrong?


Answers:
author: Erik_Mace
body: much interested in this capability for something like-deprecated


Tags: live-search
Is there a way to automatically update the Confluence copy of a file with the new version of the source file on a daily basis?
Asked by Melinda Phan:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Attaching Files to a Page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658737033)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Melinda Phan
body: Rodney, it has to do with aggregating info from/to different systems/sources.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: I'm confused by the use case ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

the Excel file seems to be on a general file server which people can edit.

Then once a day you want to store a back up of that file in Confluence which will hold all previous versions of the file as archived copies - why??? i.e. after one year do you really want Confluence to hold all 365 daily versions of that file?

Why can't your people changing the Excel file on your server, instead of opening the server file, changing it and saving, they just access Confluence, download that file, do their changes and upload it again? I know it is a little different to just double clicking a file on your PC browser.

Or if it is a simple table stored as an excel spreadsheet, just create a table on a Confluence page so people just edit the Confluence page


author: Peter T
body: Everytime you attach a file with the same name you will get a new version. You can attach files using REST API and curl. Here is an example:

```
curl -v -S -u admin:admin -X POST -H "X-Atlassian-Token: no-check" -F "file=@myfile.txt" -F "comment=this is my file" "http://localhost:8080/confluence/rest/api/content/3604482/child/attachment" | python -mjson.tool
```

The localhost URL needs to change to your wiki URL. The example is from this page:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-rest-api/confluence-rest-api-examples>

Cheers,  
Peter T


author: Melinda Phan
body: It's just an excel file on a network filestore location.

Do you have any recommendations of websites with example code I can modify?


author: Steven F Behnke
body: What is the source file? Confluence has an extensive API so you could **easily** do this with *any* scripting language outside of Confluence.


Tags: attachment

documentation
How to install custom confluence macro on cloud?
Asked by shraddha:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can only install Connect add-ons in Cloud - if you can write the macro in Connect, then that will do it.

comments: author: shraddha
body: Can the connect add-ons be developed in C#? Or do I need to use only Java? Also, tell me the process of how to do it?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Start at <https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/index.html> - it'll answer those questions for you


author: Alex Hurtado
body: Broken Link


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Given a 2 year old post against a system that has significant releases every 3-6 weeks, I don't think that's a surprise. The docs move on.

But the original answer is still right, as is the idea in the doc pointed to - have a look at the Connect Developer docs.


author: Gomez, Daniel
body: <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/confluence-cloud-uncheck/mndfdglbjiklkaadbpbndpegplbacohb>

found in confserver-37184

works good if you use chrome. I chose chrome so I can use jira/conf in dark mode!

chrome://flags

search "dark", then enable flags


author: Neha Sharma
body: How do we install a custom macro to confluence server ? I created a new macro using the documentation <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/creating-a-wikipedia-macro/> .

Any insights please?

Thanks,

Neha


author: Riccardo
body: Atlassian Connect seems to do the trick. Proper documentation is found

<https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/getting-started/>

comments: author: Shawn Norton
body: Thanks for posting the updated location instead of taking a few unhelpful paragraphs to be snippy; explaining why it's apparently unreasonable to expect a company who's product is a system to provide high document accessibility to provide their own documents in a highly accessible manner.

You're the real Community Champion, here.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I set the "sort = modified" for Page tree (Sidebar)
Asked by Alexander Katashkov:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Configuring a Sidebar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658737060)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: By Confluence 5.10 you have the ability to define the sidebar entirely by yourself. This means you could hide the default page tree and add your own with that parameter. I am not certain you have any way of controlling this before that version of Confluence.
Invite user as Space Administrator but not Confluence Administrator
Asked by Renato Furter:

Hello

How can a Space Administrator invite (non existing) users to a Space without having Confluence Administrator rights?

Thank you

- Renato


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: I am afraid that there is no such a option in Confluence. You might try to use some workaround like remote API in order to add users to the specific spaces and granting permissions automatically.


Tags: confluence-administration
What are the different types and what are the differences between them?
Asked by Kevin Foad:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Create a Space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724764752)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: 105349
body: Hey Kevin!

**Personal Space:** The best analogy I have for this is that it's like a personal planner. If you create a personal space for yourself, you have full control over it, and can do pretty much whatever you want to it. It's great to task management, personal notes, personal plans, documents, etc. Think of it as your own 'Home' in Confluence. This Space is for **me.**

**Site Space** : This is more comparable to a standard wiki, or in broader terms, a knowledge base. Generally these are used for information that lots of people will collaborate on and, potentially, modify. These Spaces are great for company-wide projects, clients, etc. This Space is for **us.**

This is just a very broad overview, but hopefully it'll give you an idea of the difference. Here's some more light reading, just in case you're curious!

[Create a Personal Space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-personal-space-203191.html)

[Organize your work into Spaces](https://www.atlassian.com/collaboration/confluence-organize-work-in-spaces)

Good luck!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

documentation
Creator in Confluence DB
Asked by john davison:

Hello , I am trying get a list of users who have created spaces but looking at the Spaces Table how can i ascertain the Creator's name as its held as a ref rather than a name.

Thanks

John


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Look at **user_mapping** (has user_key and username) table and then **cwd_user** table (has other user details, by username)


author: joanna ransome-wallis
body: When you go to the space directory, can you click on the i to get the space details including the creator? You may have to create a macro, this one will list all the space admins and the query could be adjusted to show the space creator instead: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-view-a-list-of-all-space-administrators-for-all-spaces-346325879.html>

comments: author: john davison
body: Sorry , what i mean is I am using the sql query below to query against the table but the creator shows up as

8ab0814e4c9d2ba9014c9d300af8003d rather than the name. How can i get the name?

select s.SPACENAME, c.TITLE, c.LASTMODDATE, s.CREATOR from CONTENT c

join SPACES s on s.SPACEID = c.SPACEID

where CONTENTTYPE = 'PAGE'

and PREVVER is NULL

and c.LASTMODDATE \< '20160101'


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it somehow possible to include attachments from subpages? Doing this would allow to have a list of all attachments from the space on the main page, and from there would allow download of all attachments of all pages of this space ...
Asked by Klaus-Peter Beck:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Attachments Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=97911315)*

Is it somehow possible to include attachments from subpages? Doing this would allow to have a list of all attachments from the space on the main page, and from there would allow download of all attachments of all pages of this space ... For me that would be a big help as I need to provide documentation from Confluence to external parties.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-it-somehow-possible-to-include-attachments-from-subpages/qaq-p/110331?attachment-id=5574){#link_1186d7b8495388}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/18410/1/image2016-5-27%2013%3A45%3A16.png){#display_1186d7b8495388_0}


Answers:
author: Klaus-Peter Beck
body: Thanks Joanna for your input. I know that option, and basically that is what I am looking for, but it does not allow me to download ++all++ attachments. If that would be the case: perfect ...

comments: author: joanna ransome-wallis
body: are you looking for something like a button to download all attachments at the same time?


author: joanna ransome-wallis
body: This may be of use: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/109475>


Tags: attachment

documentation