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Making a child of a different page using 'Create from Template' Macro
Asked by Drew Halbert:

I would like to place a "Create from Template" Macro on Page A, and have it create a new page as a child of Page B. Is this possible? I see that you can define what space the new page is created under, but I cannot find a way to specify page.

Thanks


Answers:
author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi [@Drew Halbert](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1192306)

Our Page Tree Creator adds this kind of feature to Confluence. So you can create a page tree with buttons on the created pages and configure parameters like: which template to use, which label to add, which target page to use as parent page, etc.

You can find the [Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214062/page-tree-creator-blueprint-creator?hosting=server&tab=overview) on the Marketplace.

Regards,  
Stephan (CEO of EPS Software Engineering AG, the vendor of The Page Tree Creator)


author: Jimi Wikman
body: There is a request for this and more features like it: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-33098>

There is a workaround discussed here as well, but I have not tried it myself: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Create-from-Template-and-Specify-Parent-Page/qaq-p/290661>


Tags: macro
Does "Relates To" issues link keep related stories from closing?
Asked by Joe Ferrer:

Hi dear friends. I was going to use the issues link "Related to" for simply letting my peers know certain user stories had similarities or associations. They were in no way dependent on each other, nor did I want to cause any of the "Related" stories from closing if they were done. So question: Does "Relating To" keep the related story open? If I "Relate To" another story, am I causing a problem for the other story maybe staying open until mine is closed? I was thinking "Related to" was strickly informational, not binding. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks so much.


Answers:
author: MoroSystems Support
body: Hi Joe, yes, it is only the information. You can create your own issue link types so you can describe the 'type' of relationship more precisely.

Martin

comments: author: Joe Ferrer
body: Martin, thank you kindly. Appreciate it.


author: Joe Ferrer
body: Martin, if you know this answer, would appreciate it as well. Do I need special Admin rights to create a new type of issue link, does my Jira Admin need to set that up or does any user that can edit a story have that capability? Thanks again.


author: MoroSystems Support
body: Yes, user must have JIRA Administrators global permission to create new issue links type and Link issues permission to link issues. You can check documentation here for details:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/configuring-issue-linking-802593137.html>


author: Joe Ferrer
body: Thank you.


author: MoroSystems Support
body: You're welcome Joe, can you accept the answer if it answers your question? Thank you


author: Joe Ferrer
body: Yes gladly. I would definitely be glad to, but there is no icon or acceptance button on my screen. Would a screen shot showing this help? I'm using a current firefox browser on Windows10. Let me know. Thanks again.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Look to the left of the answer you want to accept - you should have "Dark grey tick on a light grey circle" / "Votes" / "Poster's avatar" / "Poster's name" / "day of posting" on the first line. Hit the tick, it should go green to say "accepted"


Tags: issue

jira

link
Does the Altassian Server Version support nested tables?
Asked by Cassi_Fisher:

I know the Cloud-based version of Confluence no longer supports nested tables, does the server version?


Answers:
author: srikanth duggineni
body: I use Confluence V6.13

Nested tables does not work here.


author: carolyn french
body: Hi Cassi, Welcome to the community!

According to this post, it looks like Cloud is only affected by this change to not support nested tables.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Improvements-to-the-Confluence-Cloud-editor/ba-p/691463>

Carolyn


Tags: questions-for-confluence

table
How can I display child pages for all pages?
Asked by Brian Biswas:

Is there a way to setup a space up so that each page will automatically display a list of child pages for that page?

I know you can add the Children Display macro for a particular page, but we would like this to be the default behavior.


Answers:
author: Vasiliy Zverev
body: You could try to create a template with this macros and crate pages form this template.

comments: author: Brian Biswas
body: That will work for future docs. But what about the hundreds we have now?

Is there a way to have them show child pages without modifying them all?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, you'd need to visit each page and add the macro to it.


author: Brian Biswas
body: We recently upgraded from 5.10.7 to 6.7.1. We were using the documentation theme where child pages \*were\* listed by default. In other words, this functionality (listing child pages by default) has gone away in 6.7.1?


author: Vasiliy Zverev
body: If it means table of content macro on side panel - then it is a bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-39960>.


author: Brian Biswas
body: No, the page itself. In 5.10.7, the documentation theme would automatically include child pages in the page itself. That theme, apparently, has been removed, and we don't see a way to replicate that behavior (without individually updating all of our docs).


author: Vasiliy Zverev
body: If you have lots of docs your could try use REST API for bulk page update.


author: Vasiliy Zverev
body: Also you could try to change lool and fill section into admin panel.
Confluence pages not showing correct linked issues
Asked by Brian Taylor:

Have users who are experiencing issues with the number of linked JIRA issues not displaying on the confluence page as linked items.

Have a page that has 10 issues and 1 Epic but only shows two issues in the JIRA Link (See attached). Is there some way to fix the number - I have tried deleting a link and adding it and the number doe into increase

![Confluence Bug.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/16076iD963B2D5DE6D79EB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence Bug.png")


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Please let us know the version of Confluence this is happening on and also, what method was used to add the links to Confluence (highlighting text on the Confluence page to create the issues, etc)

Please check out these materials and see if any of the conditions apply in your case:

[JIRA Link is not shown in Confluence when JIRA is not yet running while Confluence is starting up](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-46554)

[JIRA Links button missing](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/jira-links-button-missing-744522112.html)

I look forward to hearing more.

comments: author: Ihar Kanunnikau
body: Hi [@AnnWorley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502040)  

We are experiencing this problem in Conflunece 6.6.6.  

It is important for our customers so they kindly ask to fix it ASAP.

Please inform about additional information you may need from us and possible fix date

Thank you!


Tags: jira
HTML Include Macro view example
Asked by dshabalin:

HI all.

I have to check how **HTML Include Macro** will render other pages **But**

**HTML Include Macro** is disable on our site.

Where i can see some examples how it will be look.

PS: Or is there some playground for testing macros ?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Dmitry,

If you want to test out the HTML include macro before asking your admin to enable it, you can quickly setup a test instance to do so:

* [Installing a Confluence Trial](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/installing-a-confluence-trial-838416249.html)

You can get a free Evaluation license and also use the Embedded database. There, you will have your own instance where you can test whatever you want until the end of your Evaluation trial.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: html-include

macro
Deleted space name, trying to re-use name/key, forcing same style(documentation) as original/deleted
Asked by Lauren DeArment:

I created a Confluence space with the Documentation style. I then deleted the space and wanted to create it as a Blank space. For some reason, every time I create the space again with that same name, it uses the Documentation style.

Does this have something to do with the space key name? I am able to create other Blank style spaces, but I really need to use the name of the original that I deleted.


Answers:
author: Jason B
body: Hi Lauren!

There may be some settings in the database that aren't being deleted when you removed the space. Specifically in the BANDANA table. Try running the following query:

```
select * from bandana where bandanacontext = 'SPACE_KEY_HERE';
```

In the results, look for a record with a bandanakey value of 'atlassian.confluence.theme.settings'. It may set the theme of the space, like so:

```
<map>
 <entry>
 <string>theme.key</string>
 <string>com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.doctheme:documentation</string>
 </entry>
</map>
```

You can either just delete the record, or modify it to remove the 'com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.doctheme:documentation' part. Either should revert the space back to the default theme. I hope this helps!

comments: author: Lauren DeArment
body: Thanks Jason! I should have mentioned we are using the Cloud version - does this make a difference?


Tags: delete

name

space

space-key
Why are templates requesting permission when the person has been granted full page permissions?
Asked by Heidi Adams:

I have a properties report page with a button to create a document from a template which will then appear on the properties report. I gave full permissions to people for the space where these pages live. However, when these other people try to click the button to create a page from the template, they are given a "You need permission" popup. If they click "request permission" I do not receive a request.

How do I find what is blocking the permission for using this template?


Answers:
author: Bal?zs Szak?l _META-INF_
body: Hi there,

I think you lack of create page permission for some users.

If you use Server, you can try the [Ultimate Permission Manager add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/hu.metainf.plugin.confluence.ultimate-permission-manager/server/overview), which can help you to discover that who can view/edit which spaces/pages, and why :) There is no permission like "able user to create content from template", only Create Page. You can set up filters in the addon, like "show me what permissions have A user on B space", and it will show you what is misconfigured.


Tags: permission

template
Confluence extended support
Asked by Dave Makoski:

Seeing that Confluence 5.10 is reaching end of life, does Atlassian offer extended support say for a few more months of support?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, there's no extended support.

You can carry on running it, of course, and maybe asking a partner for something formal, but it is unsupported by Atlassian (although, they will still try to help if it goes wrong on the most part!)
In Confluence Cloud down?
Asked by Melissa Gerrier-Satagaj:

None of my drafts will launch - endless spinning giving the appearance that the page is attempting to load - yet nothing happens.

No errors occur - just page loading. I left it running approximately 7 minutes - no errors occurred or timeouts.

JIRA is working fine - issues only happening within Confluence.

Restarted laptop and cleared cache / cookies - still not working correctly.


Answers:
author: Michael McDaniel
body: I was having the same issue this morning so it's likely a performance problem is on their end. Tried again after lunch and seems to be running a bit faster now.

Cheers,

Michael
How can I edit wiki pages in an external editor?
Asked by Skip Montanaro:

I have never liked through-the-web editing of HTML content, in part because I've been using Emacs for 30+ years and its behavior is burned into my brain. (Not just a few keybindings either.)

I thought, "No problem." I'll just grab the \<tagged\> source from the edit window, run tidy over it to make it look, well, tidy, then have at it in Emacs. That didn't work so well. Tidy doesn't like that content. It doesn't appear to be complete (macro tags like \<ac:structured-macro\> are unknown), so it refuses to mess with it. It's unlikely that editing a copy of the actual page source will work either.

For now, I can make do with manually reflowing \<p\> and \<li\> tags. Is there some reasonable way to edit page content using an external editor?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: An external editor would have to fully understand the xhtml that Confluence uses. I've never seen any editor make that claim (as it would have to replicate the editor in Confluence, and why bother when you've got Confluence). No-one has even written an extension for Emacs to understand it.

A more simple option is to use basic text, paste it or upload with REST and then do the Confluence formatting when you are in front of the editor.

comments: author: Skip Montanaro
body: It isn't so much about replicating the editor, it's just that every through-the-web editor I've ever used has felt deficient. Searching sucks. Find and replace sucks. Then there is the key binding thing. Most key binding extensions are themselves sadly lacking. The authors figure, "Oh, if we make the arrow keys work, that should be enough." Bollocks. That doesn't make it Emacs (or vi). Mature editors don't lose unsaved work (and give you trivial ways to save your work on-the-fly).

I would be happy if the \<\> view in the editor displayed obviously text markup wrapped at a reasonable spot. Just wrapping \<p\> and \<li\> tags to something sane, like 76 columns, would be a big step forward. 90% of the time, all I want to do is just edit the content. I can tweak the presentation through the web. On those rare occasions where I want to fiddle with HTML tags, it's almost certainly going to involve something simple, like \<p\> or \<li\>, which Emacs' SGML mode (and similar modes in other editors) should handle just fine.
Filter in Excel
Asked by Gordon:

Hi,

Would it be possible to have a filter function in an excel section in WIKI?


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Gordon,

You can use [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/cloud/overview) macro for filtering tables.
Unable to see Layout tab under look and feel of the space
Asked by Leena Bakshi:

Hi

I have users who are want to make changes in Layout of a space however they dont see the layout tab in Look and Feel of the space. They are space admins. They can see the layout tab for another space though where they are admins too.

I am able to see the Layout tab being confluence admin.

Has any one came across this?

![Missing Layout tab.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/16048i822E490FC3061EEB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Missing Layout tab.png")

Thanks


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Leena,

What the space admins are seeing (rather, not seeing) is expected:

[Customize Space Layouts](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/customize-space-layouts-139512.html)
> You can modify Confluence's look and feel by editing the layout files. This page tells you how to customize the layout files for a space. You'll need the system administrator [global permission](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/global-permissions-overview-138709.html) plus [space administrator](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html) permission for that space.
>
> **To edit a decorator file:**

1.
   > Go to the space and choose Space tools \> Look and Feel from the bottom of the sidebar
2.
   > Choose Layout (Layout is displayed only if you are a Confluence system administrator.)You'll see a list of the layouts for the space

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Leena Bakshi
body: Thank you Ann.
How to delete two pages with same names in space?
Asked by Lena M?ller:

Hello,

I am trying to delete two different pages with same names in Space "Cookbook". To say specifically, there are two web pages with the same link

What could be the solution here?

Thanks in advance,

Lena


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Lena,

I'm curious to know how you were able to create two pages with the same name since Confluence doesn't allow for this.

At any rate, you can delete using the following pattern:

http://localhost/pages/removepage.action?pageId=999999

If you're not sure of the page ID, you can find it when you put your cursor over edit, it should display on the bottom of your browser.

Kind regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Lena M?ller
body: Thanks Shannon for a swift reply.

I tried running the above pattern. It ends in an error. Additionally, the page IDs are same as well.

And when I click on delete, the page gets deleted but the two boxes on the page remain without any content. On clicking those boxes, they ask me to restore the page I just deleted. I want those two boxes and this link to disappear.

Is there any solution to this?

Thanks


author: Shannon S
body: Lena,

What is the error that you're getting exactly?

The page IDs and title should not be the same if they are really two different pages. Could you share with me exactly how the two different pages were created?

Please also confirm with me what version of Confluence you are running.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Lena M?ller
body: Technically, they are just one page with two different boxes. I have highlighted those two boxes in the screenshot below.

Thanks for your help.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That looks like they are not two separate pages.

How are the boxes on that main page being built?


author: Lena M?ller
body: I work mainly on the front end and have got no clue how they are built on the back-end. However, I just **copy** and **publish** each one of those boxes from a different **staging space**.

in this case, I published the same box twice in this particular space.


author: Shannon S
body: I second Nic's question.

It looks like you may be using an add-on that's displaying the page twice in this way. Your delete screen is also not the typical Confluence delete screen, so I'd say either your instance is highly customized, or you have an add-on.

If you can tell us what add-on you're using for the boxes, then we can try to help you figure out how to get rid of the 2nd box which is showing the same page twice.

Shannon


author: Shannon S
body: I also want to mention that Confluence doesn't have any content that is displayed in boxes of any sort. You may want to check with your primary Confluence administrator or your system administrator as they might know who installed and setup this add-on.

Shannon


author: Lena M?ller
body: Turns out those boxes were drafts. I was able to delete them now.

Thanks for your help.
Question about File Lists
Asked by Ian Rowland:

Does anyone know if in pages containing File Lists, is it possible to make some objects visible on the page (Like an img/png/jpg for instance) but NOT listed in the file list box. So the image would be visible on the page but invisible in the File List box.


Answers:
author: Damien Tan
body: [@Ian Rowland](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1192158)

Yup, it is possible.

If you create a page from the [File List Blueprint](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/file-list-blueprint-792498917.html), the page basically consists of an [Attachment Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/attachments-macro-97911315.html) in it so any attachment that is uploaded to this specific page will be listed.

You're still able to add in pictures in the page and not having it show in the page if:

1. You've inserted the image from a web
2. You've inserted the image that is an attachment of *another page*

You can do this by pressing CTRL+M to open the **Insert files and images**window and choose the above selections
Search functionality in Page Attachments
Asked by Michael McDaniel:

We currently have a space that we are using as a document library. The space has several pages, each containing several attachment macros that hold PDF documents as attachments. When you "View" an attachment, the PDF opens in the browser normally and my question is: Is there a way to search the document while in View mode? I know you canleave comments, browse through different versions, zoom in and out, but I cant seem to find a way to search the document text. Ctrl/CMD F does not work.

Is there a workaround, trick of the trade, or perhaps some VB code I can add to make searching inside the attached document possible?

Thanks,

Michael


Answers:
author: James Richards
body: Hi Michael,

Well, that's not a great experience with Confluence. I've had a look at there's an open Suggestion for it here

\* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-40333>

I'd suggest that you go and vote for and comment on the bug report.

The workaround in the bug worked for me in Chrome

> There are currently two workarounds:

1.
   > In your preferred browser, lookup the Find menu in your browser options and select it
2.
   > Download the attachment locally and search in it

<br />

Hope that helps.

Thanks,  
James.
How to use NOT operator in a CQL query?
Asked by Mridula Menon:

I am trying to use a Content by Label Macro and I want a list of documents which do not have the word COMPLETED in their title.

What must be my CQL query?

Please note that I cannot add the label completed in the documents. Hence the question.


Answers:
author: JanR
body: Don't know how to use CQL in a content by label macro, but searching for pages with title not containing Completed would be:

title !\~ "completed"

I would restrict the search to a space or a parent page to not get too many results.
Inactive users Confluence
Asked by Valeriy:

Hi!  
I used this instruction, but I could not get a list of inactive users  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-identify-inactive-users-in-confluence-214335880.html>

I get the error message  
Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 3  
Invalid column name 'username'.  
Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 6  
Invalid column name 'successdate'.  
Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 1  
Invalid column name 'successdate'.


Answers:
author: Igor M.
body: Hello,

Can you confirm which version of Confluence you are running this against?

Column username does not exist in the version above 5.2, so you need to use the second option of KB, like this:

    SELECT u.user_name, d.directory_name, l.successdateFROM logininfo lJOIN user_mapping m ON m.user_key = l.usernameJOIN cwd_user u ON m.username = u.user_nameJOIN cwd_directory d ON u.directory_id = d.idWHERE successdate < '2016-01-01'ORDER BY successdate;

I tested this on my 5.10.\* and it returns results


author: Steven Behnke
body: Pardon, but this is elementary. Ensure your column names are cased appropriately. IE SUCCESSDATE =/= successdate.
Can we provide access on the basis of Active directory .So users from mktg/HR sees diff. dashboard
Asked by Manoj Nambiar:

So users from different department see spaces only related to their department. What is the best practice to implement segregation in an Organization.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you use groups in LDAP, then silo-ing users becomes very easy.

For each space that belongs to department A, only grant "use" access to the people/groups in department A. Do the same for B, C and D and so-on. People from different departments won't see see each others spaces then.

comments: author: Manoj Nambiar
body: Thank you NIC .What would you recommend to have a siloed approach for each department or project wise.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Personally, I'd never recommend a silo'ed approach - openness and collaboration is far more productive than silos.

If you do want silos though, then I can't really tell you without knowing a lot more about your organisations ways of working. Either might work for you, but I can't know.