youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Excel Multiple line in the Wiki
Asked by Lee Hong:

It is noticed that the multile line in the excel dont work well in the wiki when it is published in the wiki. It is publised at the one line instead. Could you advise how to fix it please?


Answers:
author: AhmadDanial
body: Hi, Lee Hong.

The issue was brought up back then in 2012 but due to the lack of impact and absence of update, it was closed as **won't fix** by the confluence bug master.

* Server: [CONFSERVER-39101: Excel macro does not display cells with multiple lines of text correctly](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-39101)
* Cloud: [CONFCLOUD-39101: Excel macro does not display cells with multiple lines of text correctly](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-39101)

Should you be interested to bring this matter up again, I will be happy to create a new bug report on your behalf. Let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks.

comments: author: Mark Kyprianou
body: I'd be interested in a fix for this. I use export import to "clone with edit" set of tickets.


author: HurleyDS
body: I am also interested in this being fixed. Makes it much harder to read and understand our big software table.
How can I aline the text when exporting to PDF?
Asked by Catherine:

Hello!

Sorry to say I'm not a professional in css, that is why I need your help with exporting:

I have headers and footers (they are working ok), but the body of my documents should be alined and sized 20pt (and they are not working).

My code:

@page  
{  
@top-center  
{  
content: "TEXT";  
font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;  
font-size: 8pt;  
font-style: oblique;  
}  
@bottom-right  
{  
content: counter(page);  
font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;  
font-size: 8pt;  
padding-bottom: 3em;  
font-style: oblique;  
}  
{  
font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;  
font-size: 20pt;  
text-align: justify;  
}  
}

How can i solve the problem?


Answers:
author: Shawn C
body: Hi Catherine,

After looking at a few [other examples](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/Templates-CSS-whatever-to-make-PDFs-like-Atlassian-s/qaq-p/531333) on the Atlassian Community, it looks like you're just missing the relation for "Body" in your CSS code. Try updating the last part to something like this:

```
...
font-style: oblique;
}

body,p,li,td,table,tr,.bodytext,.stepfield 
{
font-size: 20pt;
font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
text-align: justify;
}
```

Cheers,  
Shawn

comments: author: Catherine
body: Thank you, Shawn!

You are quite right! I have done it!

Sincerely yours,

Catherine


Tags: atl-adm

css

export

pdf
how do I move a comment from one page to another page?
Asked by Rodney Hughes:

Hi

Some users have posted their comments on the wrong page - how do I move a comment to another page


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I am sorry to say Confluence does not have a "move comment". The closest you can get is "copy and paste the comment on to the right page, then delete the one that is in the wrong place".

I would also like to look at why people are commenting on the wrong pages, but that is not what you're asking about, and it's probably a conversation for your organisation to have about where and how you write stuff.

comments: author: Rodney Hughes
body: Thanks

How annoying!!!

The reason they are on the "wrong" page is we have implemented a system in our world-wide industry association system where the audience at a conference can post comments to a page about the particular conference topic ... but despite lots of "don't post on this page" messages, on the conference home page, they inevitably do !!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I would restrict the page so that they cannot comment directly.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: But the point is to say for example there are two pages, both of which are open fr comments - they just happen to post the comment on the wrong page


Tags: confluence-server

server
Single update across multiple calendars
Asked by Tom Edmonds:

Hi - I couldn't find the info by searching so hoping someone can help:

We currently use Team Calendars to mainly track Leave, Absence, work from home days, Training and team meetings etc...

Current set up has team members belonging to a project/delivery team, each with their own calendar:

![CaptureTeam Cal.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33686i399650B11B1D466F/image-dimensions/290x72?v=v2 "CaptureTeam Cal.PNG")

Team members also belong to a group for their discipline. In the example below Group 1 are Visual Designers reporting to a Visual Design/Group 1 Lead.

![CaptureGroup cal.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33685iFAE9406632A8E47F/image-dimensions/291x70?v=v2 "CaptureGroup cal.PNG")

This is currently managed by having separate calendars for each Group and Team and the team member must keep both updated.

Is it possible to somehow have a single calendar to be updated by individuals with filtered views for the relevant Team Leads, Group Leads (I can think of further groupings of individuals for resource management if this is the case) / what's the cleanest way to deal with my scenario?

Kind Regards

Tom


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Tom,

This is not possible unfortunately. Currently, if I watch more than one calendar, I can toggle events on for all calendars on my calendars view page and will see all the events at once. I think this would be your best option but then you'd need to have everyone watch all of those calendars.

There are two feature requests for this that may interest you:

* [CONFSERVER-51227](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51227) *People are resources: every users should have a personal calendar - team calendars should be about an aggregated view of personal calendars*
* [CONFSERVER-51244](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51244) *Ability to add one event to multiple calendars*

Please feel to vote on the feature requests that are of interest to you and provide your usage case there.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Tom Edmonds
body: Thank you for the reply Shannon - Sadly not the answer I was hoping for. I have voted as it seems this is something people have been asking for/expecting as a fundamental functionality for a long time.  

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author: Shannon S
body: Tom,

Thank you for your support! I agree it would indeed be very helpful.

Take care, and kind regards,

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

cloud

confluence-cloud

team-calendars-for-confluence
Confluence vs Workfront in project management
Asked by Maria Martinho:

Which software is more suitable to project management? Confluence or Workfront?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence.

But, I suspect you are always going to get that answer from a place where the focus is Atlassian.

To be fair, I have used WorkFront on a couple of projects, and it works, but it's a blessed relief to come back to Confluence so I can work without needing to think. It is better software, if you can ignore a couple of formatting bugs in the editor (I can - I write, then format later, which means quirks and bugs don't affect me much)
When you publish a blog post, is it possible to automatically send out a notification to users?
Asked by Amy Lyes:

Wondering if there is a function where when a blog posts e.g. a company announcement or update, is published, all users in the space get a notification that a new post has been published and a link for them to read it?


Answers:
author: Dave Bosman [Realdolmen]
body: Hi [@Amy Lyes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2054526)

Only the space watchers will get a notification automatically. This means that if they do not watch the entire space they will not get notified.

A workaround could be, that you create a page, add all users as watcher on that page and after you created your blog post, you modify the page with a link to the new blog post.

Regards

Dave
page not found when lunching confluence in browser
Asked by Mehdi Jmiai:

i have installed jira software on debian and it works well, but after installing confluence, and even it said that everything is ok, i get a ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED when going to <http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8090>.

after installation complete, installer tell me to find the app on http://localhost:8090

same probleme with bitbucket.

thanks to help me


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This usually means Confluence is not running. You will need to check if it is, and read the logs to find out why it is not starting or not serving


Tags: tomcat
Reading confluence page.
Asked by Poreddy Shiva kumar:

My project uses [Atlassian Confluence](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) 6.8.3 and What I am looking for is to read a confluence page with the URL provided, I am trying to build desktop utility which will read confluence content and does the necessary changes in S3 storage. is it possible to read the confluence content with just URL of the page? Please do let me know your thoughts.

I am trying to achieve this using java.

Thanks in advance, I am looking forward to the best solution.

Shiva.


Answers:
author: Burak Kocak
body: Hi, you can read confluence page with the URL. It will be in HTML format so you need to use HTML tags for finding content. You need to integration user to read pages and this user needs view permission to get the content.

comments: author: Poreddy Shiva kumar
body: *[@Burak Kocak](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1289653) Thanks for responding. Can you give any code snippet reference that can help me out?*


author: Burak Kocak
body: [@Poreddy Shiva kumar](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1579212)You can check this ([https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/how-to-get-full-content-body-html-using-confluence-REST-API/qaq-p/710532)](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/how-to-get-full-content-body-html-using-confluence-REST-API/qaq-p/710532)?) page out.


author: Poreddy Shiva kumar
body: [@Burak Kocak](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1289653) The examples over here use the url something like this https://hostname/rest/api/content/id but i have plain url like this

https://hostname/display/spacename/pagename. I would like to read content from this url.

Thanks,

Shiva.


author: Burak Kocak
body: So you can split the URL its easy to split like

    String url = "https://hostname/display/spacename/pagename";String[] url1 = url.split("https://hostname/display/");
    String[] url2 = url1.split("/");String spKey  = url2[0];  //spacekey
    String pName  = url2[1] ; //pagename

and get the pagename and use rest below ( there is url class in java but use have to split it again). It will return a json, and you can get the page id in it . Then you can use it in

https://hostname/confluence/rest/api/content?title=**pagename**

now we have page id and

https://hostname/rest/api/content/**pageid**?expand=body.storage

Returned json will have the content of the page.

You will get lots of problems with this way, because of the spaces and other characters as will harder to work while spliting.

It's better to ask pageid from the user. When the page name changed pageid still same thus it will have a consistency. On the other hand if your user use ASCII char in the name, page URL turn to https://hostname/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=xxxxxxxx way.


author: Poreddy Shiva kumar
body: [@Burak Kocak](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1289653) Thank you.


author: KamalSingh
body: Did this work for you Poreddy. Can you share the code snippet
I can't understand why my PUT request for confluence doesn't work, 400 Bad request, please help me
Asked by ??????? ??????:

HttpResponseMessage responseGet = await client.GetAsync("rest/api/content/671023592?expand=body.view,version");  
PageType components = await responseGet.Content.ReadAsAsync\<PageType\>();  
++components.Version.Number;  
components.Body.Storage = new Storage(components.Body.View.Value, components.Body.View.Representation);

HttpResponseMessage responseUpdate = await client.PutAsJsonAsync\<PageType\>("rest/api/content/671023592", components);

![444.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33660i7797A206FBC44994/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "444.PNG")


Answers:
author: ??????? ??????
body: i've found the answer. Using code  
var errorResp = await responseUpdate.Content.ReadAsAsync\<Object\>();

i see error message.

"Must supply an incremented version when updating Content. No version supplied."

It is confusing me because i specify the (incremented) number of version in the request...

comments: author: ??????? ??????
body: I fixed error with version.

Now i have error

{StatusCode: 500, ReasonPhrase: 'Internal Server Error'

without any additional info...

Maybe the reason is in the body value (HTML table with links), that i try to update...
Confluence on Mac OS 10.11.6 - change max number of processes
Asked by Dan Ivan:

Hi,  
Health check comes up with "maximum number of processes" error.  
It doesn't show how many processes are running.

I am running Confluence as root, please advise how to increase to 4096.

Thank you,

Dan


Answers:
author: Daniel Wong
body: Hi Dan,

You can follow this KB to increase the maximum number of processes Confluence uses - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/health-check-thread-limit-858578685.html>

However, I recommend installing Confluence on Linux/Windows OS as MacOS is not recommended for a production instance of Confluence. Please see this guide for Supported Platforms - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html>

This guide will also help with determining hardware requirements - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/server-hardware-requirements-guide-30736403.html>

comments: author: Dan Ivan
body: Hi Daniel,

The KB info provided doesn't apply to Mac OS.

I only have Macs, so we should be able to run Confluence here.

My Macs meet the hardware requirements.


author: Daniel Wong
body: Hi Dan,

Unfortunately I'm not a MacOS expert so can't help you further. You could try installing Linux on your Mac if you have spare hardware and see if that helps get around the max process limit.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence expand macro collapse immediately. How to fix this?
Asked by Rajendra KASHI:

Confluence expand macro collapse immediately. How to fix this?


Answers:
author: AhmadDanial
body: Hi, Rajendra.

Can you give more context on the behavior that you are seeing with the expand macro here as well as the version of Confluence that you are on? Perhaps you have some screen shot(s) to share so we can understand the scenario better before we troubleshoot the issue further as well.

The reason why I am asking for more details is due to the fact that we have the following KB that could potentially be related to the issue that you are seeing here but of course, we need to be certain of it:

* [Expand Macro collapses immediately upon expanding it](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/expand-macro-collapses-immediately-upon-expanding-it-849165907.html)

Please keep me posted. Thanks.


Tags: expand

macro
Why am constantly logged out of Confluence in the middle of editing? (No JIRA installed)
Asked by Verena Themsen:

Server version 6.11, Browser Firefox, Confluence is the sole installed application and has no addons; evaluation license

I keep getting logged out in the middle of my work. It's as if the system didn't notice my activity and just logs me out after the default 60 minutes (didn't measure that, it's just a feeling). I just log in again (I always click the "remember me" button) and can then save my work and proceed, but it is quite annoying.

I first suspected this is a limitation of the evaluation license, but I can't find any information on such restrictions. If it is something I also have to expect when starting to pay for my installation, I need to know how to get rid of that in advance ...


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi again,

this is strange... There is a default session timeout of 60 minutes, if no activities happen on the client browser window. This is independent of the evaluation license, which has no restrictions apart from the 30 days limit.

Could you give us more information on your installation? What OS are you running the Confluence server on? Did you try another browser to rule out an issue on that side? Are you the admin of the server?

Best

JP

comments: author: Verena Themsen
body: My OS is Win10 Home V. 1803 (64bit). It is a local installation, I am admin (as far as you can be admin in Win10 Home - it keeps asking me for confirmations when I do admin stuff, and if I want a program to run in admin mode, I have to set it manually to admin mode in the preferences - and have to confirm each time it starts).

I'll check tomorrow if there is any difference if I use MS Edge, but I am wondering if this problem is maybe somehow related to the other one, were using MS Edge didn't help.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Why does "Go to Included Page" just show me the page it is included in instead? HELP!
Asked by Verena Themsen:

Server Version 6.11, starter license; Firefox browser on Win 10 Home edition

When editing a page (let's call it page 1), when I click on an "Include Page" macro, it shows me the option to "Go to Included Page" (page 2). But when I click on this, a new tab opens showing me just page 1 again instead.

Is it a matter of browser settings? Or a bug?

Edit: Changed license, and eliminated the possibility of it being caused by the license being an evaluation license.

I suspect browser settings and played around with security settings but nothing helped so far. All browser add-ons are switched off on my Confluence installation.And anyway, it happens on any browser I try, so t has to be something more general.

More suggestions are very welcome!


Answers:
author: cka74
body: I don't have an answer, but have the same issue. Could this be taken care of?

Thanks

comments: author: Verena Themsen
body: Actually this works in the mean time for me; it was purely something in the browser settings. Unfortunately I have forgotten what exactly it was, but at least you know now where to look ... sorry. Should have posted it here then.


author: cka74
body: I went through several settings in Firefox, but to no avail. I wonder what this setting could be.


author: Verena Themsen
body: This is still not resolved, doesn't anyone else have a suggestion?

comments: author: Qingfen Lin
body: Yes, I have the same problem. Very annoying. It used to work.


author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi Verena,

I can assure you that the evaluation license is not restricted in any way apart from the time limit. We can rule that out.

I just tested on my 6.11 server with Firefox \& it works as designed: Clicking on "Go to included page" opens the included page in a new browser tab. Have you tried another browser to rule out a Firefox bug?

Best

JP

comments: author: Verena Themsen
body: Thanks!

I just tried Microsoft Edge (which I usually never use, so no addons etc.), same result. Could it be something with the general network/internet security settings? It's set on medium, not customized. Not sure if the connection is running through this even if it is a localhost connection.  

Any way to track what is happening in a console? I am not very experienced with such stuff, but I can follow instructions and understand what I'm doing.


author: Verena Themsen
body: Can we maybe compare internet settings to find out where the problem might come from?


Tags: confluence-server

macro

server
Trying to utilize my custom domain name to access my confluence instance.
Asked by Brandon Rowland:

My domain name points to the IP of the server that runs the Confluence instance. How do I redirect my custom domain name to confluence and use that domain name as my base url?


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi Brandon,

by default a Confluence server doesn't run on Port 80 or 443 (http / https), but on port 8090.

So to access your server from the internet, you probably have to use:

http://YOURIP:8090

Please check, that your firewall allows access from the internet to port 8090.

If you want your Confluence server to run on port 80 (Default HTTP) you might want to read:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/change-listen-port-for-confluence-165823.html>

I strongly suggest, using encryption (https), otherwise all data (username,...) cross the internet open for everyone.

My approach is to have a standard HTTPD server (eg. Apache) before the Confluence server acting as a proxy. HTTPS is much easier to configure on Apache HTTP then on the Confluence application server (Tomcat).

You might want to check:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/using-apache-with-mod_proxy-173669.html>

There are other solutions that work as well.

Is this a good starting point for you for further research?

Best

JP

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The other part of it is "ow do I redirect my custom domain name to confluence" - to which the answer is that you need to set up DNS to resolve the custom domain name to the base url


author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: I thought from the precondition "My domain name points to the IP of the server that runs the Confluence instance" that this is working already..,


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think I need more coffee, that first sentence just did not go into my brain!


Tags: confluence-server

server
How does the Content Body endpoint work
Asked by Clayton Salem:

I'm trying to create a page from html using the create content api endpoint: <https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/#api-content-post>

In the documentation there's reference to the body object, which has a number of possible keys, view, export_view, storage, etc. But there's no explanation what those do. The \`storage\` key sort of works, but errors on any html more complex than heading tags. The \`view\` tag allows the same page to be created, but there's no content when I view it.

Any explanations? Also, which should be used for html content?


Answers:
author: Tudor Munteanu
body: The closest I got to an answer for this is the JAVA API:  
<https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/javadoc/6.13.0/com/atlassian/confluence/api/model/content/ContentRepresentation.html>


Tags: api

confluence-cloud

content

developer

html
Create dynamic table(4X4) on a click
Asked by vj j:

How can I create a table dynamic table, I want to create a button when you click it should generate 4?4 table with just static column headers. But it should happen over click


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, there's a button for inserting a table in the editor's menu bar


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to create a copy of a page while changing some values?
Asked by Brian Sung:

Let's say I have a page, and within the page there is a snippet of text such as "Version: A". Is there a way to copy the contents of the page and then a way to programmatically increment the version such that the new page will have a snippet of text like "Version: B"?

I know that one can just copy the page, then change the value manually in edit mode. However, I want to be able to accomplish this with a click of a button that says "Increment Version."

Thanks in advance!

-Brian


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi Brian,

out of the box I would say no...

I could think of an user macro embedded into a page, showing the version number of that page. In this case the number would be updated for the viewers of the page always showing the current version number related to the page version history. But apart from this solution this is not possible without an additional app from the marketplace.

Best

JP


Tags: confluence-server

server