youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is anyone implemented mysql database clustering for confluence? Appreciate your inputs.
Asked by Kamalanathan:

Confluence DB -- Specifically we'll want to discuss DB clustering and Confluence support for that. From the research I've done online so far, it does not seem like DB clustering is supported for MySQL. So, we want to ask on the DB Cluster support. If DB Cluster is not supported, please let us know what alternatives are available to us in providing HA for the DBs or as close to HA as we can possibly get.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence Data Centre is the way to do this. See <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/enterprise/data-center>

comments: author: Kamalanathan
body: Hi Nic,

Thanks for the quick response.

Yeah. Data Center for Jira and Confluence look to be the same. It's HA for the actual application, meaning getting HA for the web interface, but they all show diagrams back to one DB making the DB the potential single point of failure. I've been doing some research on MySQL Cluster support in Jira and so far what I've found is that Jira does not support it because the DB type "Node DB" is not an official format supported by Jira. Your thoughts?


Tags: confluence-administration
Syncing Confluence Calendars with Personal Calendars
Asked by Ofir Barashy:

Hi there,

Is there a way to sync a Confluence calendar with my calendar, so that every time the Confluence calendar updates, it puts it on mine? I do not want my calendar, however, to sync with Confluence (that is to say that I don't want my events on my calendar to show up in Confluence).

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: [Team Calendars supports subscriptions out of the box.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/subscribe-to-and-from-team-calendars-273285883.html)  
> **Subscribe to a Team Calendar from Microsoft Outlook**
>
> ++In Confluence:++
>
> 1. Choose ![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/files/686856690/687639590/1/1416289688422/ellipsis.png) to the right of the calendar name, then choose **Subscribe**
> 2. Copy the calendar address  
>    ++In Outlook:++
> 3. Choose **Calendar** at the bottom left of the app
> 4. Choose **Open Calendar** \>**From Internet** in the ribbon
> 5. Paste the calendar address and choose **OK**

comments: author: Ofir Barashy
body: Awesome, you're the man!


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Hey, glad I could help! :smile:


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
When will Scroll ImageMap be available for Confluence Cloud????
Asked by David Gilbey:

Any ETA or insight??


Answers:
author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: It already seems to be available for Confluence Cloud: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.dl.confluence.plugin.imagemap.ImageMapPlugin/cloud/overview>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can you comment on files using an iPad?
Asked by Jesse Davila:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Share and Comment on Files](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=704578253)*

Can you comment on files using an iPad? It doesn't seem to be possible to drag a pin.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: You can, but it's definitely wonky. if you open a document, and tap on it, the tool bar will *momentarily* appear at the bottom. What I had to do was to tap near the bottom of the doc, then when the tool bar appeared, quickly tap the pin. This will add a pin just above the tool bar tap the tool bar and it will disappear but the pin will remain and you can then enter the comment.
Migrate Confluence server license to the new server on the same OS platform
Asked by Anand Sudabattula:

Hi,

Please help.

We just migrated Confluence server alongwith with JIRA and Stash servers to new infrastructure on the same OS platform, Linux.

Like to know how we can manually copy the existing licenses to new servers.

Regards

Anand


Answers:
author: Kay Brown
body: You can get your licenses at my atlassian.com. Put a developers license in your old Production instances (if you have not already removed them). Then you can put Production licenses in your new Production instances.

Regards,

Kay


Tags: confluence-administration
Team Calendars: howto make custom event field mandatory?
Asked by alex leo:

Hello.

We are using Team Calendars v.5.3.11. We are trying to create some custom event types. While creating we can choose event name, icon and notification:

0.jpg

But when someone adds new event of this type - **Who** field ++is not mandatory++ (no \* symbol near it):

2.jpg

How can I make this field mandatory?

Thank you.

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Team-Calendars-howto-make-custom-event-field-mandatory/qaq-p/177552?attachment-id=3629){#link_118668b0e27e75}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/29674/1/1.jpg){#display_118668b0e27e75_0}  
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[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/29674/2/0.jpg){#display_118668b0e27e75_2}  
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[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/29674/4/2.jpg){#display_118668b0e27e75_6}


Answers:
author: alex leo
body: So the answer was that it's not possible for now.

Therefore, I have created an improvement request which can be found in the link below :  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-3966>

In addition to that, you might be interested in the following improvement request link below as well :  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-523>
I have admin access but i cannot remove page restriction?
Asked by Amr Youssef:

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.


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: Page level Restrictions are different to your Admin permissions to the Space.

First your Permissions need to be set to allow you to add/remove Page restrictions.

View Restrictions means you must be included in the list to be able to see the page. That Restriction is inherited by all the Child pages.

Edit Restriction however only applies to the page where it is applied. If you are not included in the Edit Restriction list for that page then you can't add/remove Restrictions


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can we host Wiki and Knoweldgebase on one server?
Asked by Shahbaz Ahmad:

I want to install Confluence Wiki and Knowledge base on one server. Is it possible?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence provides many spaces. It's very easy to set up some spaces as generalised wiki spaces, others as knowledge bases, others as project spaces and so-on.

You just install Confluence once on one server.
How to create "Select another version" drop-down list
Asked by anhlq:

Hi,

I'm new user of Confluence. I would like to know how to create "Select another version" drop-down list that has options of same pages but from other spaces.

Please see demo in one project from atlassian: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo0511/getting-started-with-bamboo-827358727.html>

Image for more details:

image2016-9-7 18:5:58.png

Thanks for reading!  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-create-quot-Select-another-version-quot-drop-down-list/qaq-p/139383?attachment-id=4155){#link_119024ffcb9623}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/23095/1/image2016-9-7%2018%3A5%3A58.png){#display_119024ffcb9623_0}


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: That drop-down menu is generated using [Atlassian User Interface](https://docs.atlassian.com/aui/).

comments: author: anhlq
body: Hi ,

Thanks for your answer. Could you please guide me how to add it to an article? by creating an user-macro or other else?

Thank you!


Tags: version
System Administrator
Asked by Amr Youssef:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page Restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139414)*

i am in the administrator group but i cannot remove page restriction


Answers:
author: Hemant
body: Hi Youssef,

Pls find below link, it might help you.

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38044633>

Thanks,

Hemant


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

restriction
Does edit office files work for office 2016?
Asked by Sheena Mclennan:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Office Connector Prerequisites](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=428803450)*

The editing of office files in a confluence page is not working on our confluence server set up. I am using IE11, we have wedDAV enabled and are using office 2016.

I can use the edit Document link which launches the office application but I want to be able to edit the documents on the confluence page

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Wendi Lewis
body: It does not currently work for Office 2016. Please add your vote to this improvement ticket.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38024>


author: Adam Janecke
body: I am having the same issue.


Tags: ms-office-connector
checkbox in table not working
Asked by .mike:

i want to create a checklist inside a table where users can choose what they like (on the viewpage not editpage).

\[ \] apple   
\[ \] pear

i create the checkboxes using the "checkbox-symbol" from the confluence toolbar.

placing the "checkbox-symbol" OUTSIDE the table (somewhere on the page) and saving the page will create a checkbox that users can click on the viewpage. the box shows the state "checked".

placing the "checkbox-symbol" INSIDE the table and saving the page will create a checkbox, but users cannot click the checkbox. the box keeps its state "unchecked".

where do i go wrong?


Answers:
author: Optile Service
body: Hi,

that's unfortunately a crap workaround. it used to work with immediate response without having to refresh.

comments: author: .mike
body: what is "immediate response" and how is it used?


author: Optile Service
body: the checkboxes would be be ticked or unticked immediately without having to refresh the page.

I opened a ticket related to this and was referred that it's a known bug - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-43602>


author: .mike
body: i got the following tipp:

users have to click the checkbox, then have to RELOAD the page to get the checkbox into state "checked"

that was easy :wink:


Tags: checkbox

cloud

confluence-cloud

table
Confluence - Can I replace text with a user link across a Space
Asked by David Musson:

I have a template Space with multiple Pages with each Page containing Tasks. I want to be able to copy this template Space, for each new project, to a project Space. Each Task on the template pages has a place-holder for a user link to be inserted (eg. "_consultant", "_projectmanager"). When I copy the template space to the project Space, I want to be able to perform a 'Replace All' type function across all Pages in the project Space. I want to be able to replace the text place-holders with a proper User link that will in turn become the Assignee for the Task.

Is there any way to perform this function or is there a better way to do it?


Answers:
author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi David,

Our Space Tree Creator (STC) Add-on can help you. You can place tags (e.g. __projectmanager__) within the STC-Template page tree. During the creation process the STC searches all tags an present them in the STC-Form. The user can fill in the form (there is an autocomplete user picker) and create his page tree.

Check out our **[LIVE EXAMPLES](https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PEPSMarktExample/Marketplace+Examples)** (no registration needed).

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

Regards,  
Stephan


Tags: confluence-administration
What's the best way to contain a messy Confluence environment and move it to a clean Confluence environment?
Asked by Heather Cunningham:

My company is currently working on completely overhauling our Confluence instance.

We are looking for a way to contain the chaos of our current Confluence and create an environment that we can consolidate, clean, and re organize all the information in our current Confluence environment, and then move it to a newly architected Confluence environment.

We're wondering what the best way to do this is. Is it possible to set up separate Confluence instances, or is there a way within the same Confluence instance to do this?


Answers:
author: Scott Selberg
body: Hi, I don't have an answer but I appreciate the problem. Our instance is pretty new - and I've those I've talked to have been unable to provide any insight about designing confluence so it doens't become sprawl. Would you mind sharing some of your learnings for your newly architected Confluence environment?
How to create Jira Items from Confluence with Formatting?
Asked by Jason Thompson:

When I create Items from Confluence Requirements, the formatting in Confluence is not passed to JIRA in the Description. Is there something I am not doing correctly, or is this a feature request?

Example, if I have in **Confluence**:
> The Widget will do the following:
>
> * Open Dialog box with message
> * Show user three buttons
>   * Button 1
>   * Button 2
>   * Button 3
> * Save button choice

I will get the following in **JIRA** ,which creates a horrible looking concatenated line of text:
>
> ```
> The Widget will do the following:Open Dialog box with message Show user three buttonsSave button choiceButton 1Button 2Button 3
> ```

So I am left with copying and pasting, which gets me this:
>
> ```
> The Widget will do the following:Open Dialog box with messageShow user three buttonsButton 1Button 2Button 3Save button choice
> ```

So I have to manually add the \* to create the bullet lists, number lists, etc.


Answers:
author: Vicky Irvin
body: Did you ever find a solution for this? It seems strange to me that this is not easier to do!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

format

jira

jira-cloud

jira-software
Can we add a group (instead of a single user) to watch a page?
Asked by Elena_Lurye:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Manage Watchers](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=792499302)*

Hi,  

Wondering if there is a way to add a specific group to be watching a page (instead of adding single users one by one)?  
That would help us to make sure that the whole group is watching important announcements on the main page.  

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Pavel Potcheptsov
body: It's not possible.

You might want to create feature request for this and it'll be very useful.

comments: author: Elena_Lurye
body: Thank you, Pavel


Tags: confluence-administration

watcher
Why are inline Comments in Confluence not possbile since today?
Asked by michael_riha:

Today i can not mark a line and comment. It always fails!


Answers:
author: Lorenzo Bueno
body: Hello Kate, thanks for providing more info.

I've also found this bug [CONF-43601](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-43601) which affects cloud versions, can you check it?

If it's not the case, does it show any error messages?

Could you provide me the address to check it?

### Workaround {#toc-hId-1157003992}

Temporary fix is to flush caches in Confluence.  
Cloud customers will need to report to a Support Engineer to run this for them.

I hope this helps!

comments: author: Kate Barrett
body: Yep, that's the bug! Funny thing is, went I went to go test and give you the error messages, the feature is working!! I'm so confused because it hasn't been working for the past 5 days. My colleagues have also been saying it's intermittent. I will comment back here if it happens again.


author: Lorenzo Bueno
body: Ok, I'm glad we could identify it. I'd recommend to watch and vote for the bug, and if it happens again please provide me your instance address to help you! ![laugh](/html/@BEA1CC333F4D830F5303329D7DC07DE4/images/emoticons/laugh.png "laugh")

If it's not too much to ask, could you kindly upvote my answer? So other users who may face the same issue know that the information is correct. Thanks for your patience!


author: Lorenzo Bueno
body: Hello Michael,

There's a bug reported for this issue, please follow link:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-36415>

I hope this helps, you can vote for this issue and watch its development.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

comments: author: Kate Barrett
body: Lorenzo, but this bug appears to be only for macros. Our pages mostly consist of h2s, paragraph text, and tables-- and i'm not able to comment on any of it. We are on the cloud version.
How can i capture the Date & Time whenever a page is printed in confluence
Asked by Muhanad:

Hi, For compliance reasons i need to capture and report whenever a user exports a page to PDF / Word ? Is this possible in confluence at all ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Ash
body: please refer <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/25481>

comments: author: Muhanad
body: Hi, this is not exactly what i was looking for, but thanks anyway. I wanted to capture the date \& time everytime a page is printed as well as update a counter. I also wanted to display this info somewhere whenever the admin needs to. Something like printing history for confluence pages.

Thanks


Tags: confluence-administration
How to allow editing only for a single page?
Asked by Michael Kolb:

I got a confluence space with the pages A, B and C. There are also 3 Groups "authors-A, authors-B, authors-C". Each author group should be able to edit their top-level page, including all pages in the tree that are located below the top level page.

I've tried several approaches:

* Restrict editing of A for B and C --\> Does not work practically, as editing restrictions are not inherited to child pages
* Do not allow Page Add for authors-A, authors-B, authors-C in space permissions--\> Does not work, nobody can edit anything. Even if the restrictions for the page allow editing for its authors

How to restrict the authors group to their space?


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: The only way I can think of to solve this type if issue is through a workflow. I have used [comalatech workflow](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow/server/overview) in the past for managing complex review processes, and you can use it to set page permissions based on events, assigning them to individuals or groups. Would take some work to write the workflow, but could then be fairly automated after that.


author: Milo Test
body: I stand corrected: view restrictions are inherited, edit restrictions are not.

So you're only options are to monitor the space and manually lock down each newly-created page OR break it up into different spaces and lock them down by group.


author: Michael Kolb
body: According to the Atlassian documentation, editing restrictions are not inherited.


author: Milo Test
body: Page restrictions should be inherited by child pages. Let's focus on that, and describe what is happening.


Tags: confluence-administration
notify on my actions unchecked but i still get emails
Asked by Will Wilson:

In Confluence, I go to Settings \> Email, and I see a checkbox labeled "Notify on my actions", and it is unchecked. However, I still get emails from Confluence informing me of the changes I just made. I like Confluence and use it a lot, but the emails are getting annoying. I need to get the notifications when someone else edits a page, so I can't just block them all. It seems like I have it setup to not notify of my own actions, but it still does. Is this just a bug, or do I need to update some other setting somewhere?

Confluence_Notify-on-my-actions.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/notify-on-my-actions-unchecked-but-i-still-get-emails/qaq-p/318609?attachment-id=11747){#link_11866a9934460f}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/53813/1/Confluence_Notify-on-my-actions.png){#display_11866a9934460f_0}


Answers:
author: Lorenzo Bueno
body: Hello Will,

Can I ask if you've configured yourself as a watcher on the page?

If you are, try to remove yourself as a full watcher and test editing a page/space.

Also, if you have any doubts on how to do that, follow these KBs:

* [Watch Pages, Spaces and Blogs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Watch+Pages%2C+Spaces+and+Blogs)
* [Email Notifications](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Email+Notifications)

If even so you still face the issue, please let me know!

comments: author: Will Wilson
body: Lorenzo,

Thank you for your response. Currently I am watching this page. If I stop watching it, will I still get notifications when someone else updates the page? Ideally, I would like to get an email when anyone besides me edits the page -- is that possible?


author: crochaju
body: Hey Will!

Have you checked the global permissions?!

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-globally-disable-e-mail-notifications-with-page-content-718670714.html>

Cheers

Carlos Rocha

comments: author: Will Wilson
body: Carlos,

Thank you for your response. I have 2 concerns:

1. That page says that it does not apply to Atlassian Cloud applications, which is what we have.
2. If I follow the instructions on that page, it seems like it is going to disable ALL notifications -- is that correct? (I want to get notified when someone else edits the page, but I do not want to be notified of my own edits)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to retrieve Page ID, Page Title, and Page Tiny link
Asked by Greg Della-Croce:

I would like to run an excel spreadsheet report with the following columns: Page ID number, Page Title, and Page Tiny Link. We are running the Confluence Wiki (V5.8.14) on a MySQL database, which I have read access to. If I could capture if a Page is the Home page of a Space that would be an added bonus!


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Not sure exactly what you want to do with the spreadsheet, but I often see people trying to use tools outside of Confluence that can be more easily resolved inside of Confluence. I have used the [customware reporting plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting/server/overview) to generate sophisticated spreadsheet like reports within Confluence. Takes some work to set up and to figure out the correct key sequence, but works well for this type of thing.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there any plugins to know who and how many times an attachment was downloaded?
Asked by Ahmed Saleh:


Answers:
author: David Skreiner
body: Answer by Nic Brough: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/14165>

Answer by Tom Crespi: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/15829126>

Atlassian page on how to get more statistics - in case you want to try programming it yourself:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-get-more-statistics-from-confluence-154239308.html>

Atlassian Marketplace lists several download plugins, but at a first glance none of them seems to have download counters.
How do I add shapes onto my images in Confluence ?
Asked by Marlene Fernandes:

I wish to add a rectangle on a part of an image for the sake of highlighting it/drawing attention to it. How can i insert such shapes in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: I don't think you can, out of the box. You'll have to bring the image into a 3rd-party, image-editing program to add the rectangle.