youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Can I embed a Youtube Playlist into Confluence?
Asked by Michael Arndt:

The Widget tool works fine for single Youtube videos but how can I embed a playlist?


Answers:
author: Ramarao Gaggara {Appfire}
body: Hi [@Michael Arndt](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3049482) ,

Please try to use URL in below way to be able to embed Youtube playlist into your Confluence page.

**[https://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=playlist\&list=](https://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=playlist&list=)** ***PLAYLIST_ID***

Thanks,

RamaRao

comments: author: Michael Arndt
body: No, doesn't seem to work. I might try the iframe tool next but this isn't a high priority for me right now.

Is there a way to request features?


author: Ramarao Gaggara {Appfire}
body: Hi [@Michael Arndt](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3049482) ,

You can request features in Confluence through below.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/CONFSERVER/>

Thanks,

RamaRao


author: Ramarao Gaggara {Appfire}
body: Hi [@Michael Arndt](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3049482) ,

If you feel like my answer helped you, kindly mark my answer as accepted.

Thanks,

RamaRao


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a way to keep a table of contents as you navigate down the page?
Asked by PetesPiece19:

I've created a section with two columns. On the left is my content that consists of multiple individual topics defined with--and delimited by--H2 titles. These height of the topic is variable, depending on volume of content within each topic.

In the right column, I've added the Table of Contents (TOC) macro and have defined it with a maximum level of 2: All topics using an H2 will be seen as links. Clicking the links navigates to the respective topic. This works great, but...with topics located lower on the page, the TOC disappears, remaining at the top of the page.

I'd like to make the table of contents "float" with the topics, so it always remains visible on the right side, no matter where you are on the page.

Please let me know if this is possible and if so, how to do this.

If it's not, how do I make a feature request?

Thank you,

Pete


Answers:
author: Michael Yang - Shinetech Software
body: Try this one, you don't need to understand or use any codes by yourself: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1221271>


author: Mikael Sandberg
body: Hi Pete,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

Wade Tracy created a user macro that creates a floating TOC, take a look at his article, <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Boise/Widget-Wednesday-Floating-TOC-in-Confluence/gpm-p/1095431>


Tags: confluence-server

server
HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set
Asked by bintou traore:

error : HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set

on linux


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Here is an existing thread that may help: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Spring-Application-context-has-not-been-set/qaq-p/1367730>

But it's hard to figure out the root cause since you don't provide a lot of details.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence Upgrade successful but no login
Asked by Richard:

Hi, I upgraded our Confluence 6.2 to 6.13.5 and the log stated:

entireUpgradeFinished Upgrade completed successfully

However, when going to the url I get an NGIX error as per image below, not very helpful in its direction. I checked the upgrade tasks from intermediate release notes here....

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/migrate-from-the-jtds-driver-to-the-supported-microsoft-sql-server-driver-in-confluence-6-4-or-later-939505122.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-6-9-upgrade-notes-949755515.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-6-10-upgrade-notes-952058231.html>

.... but to no avail.

I'm biting bullet and going to restore snapshot and try again on Monday but thought I'd ask in case someone has a lightbulb moment for me.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Richard
body: Resolved it!

The upgrade, for whatever reason reset the proxyname port numbers from 8092 to 8090 so it obviously then had trouble connecting using the proxyname we use in our links (and set as the base URL in settings).

I noticed we had to nginx dir on our drive and I typically managed to pick the wrong one when viewing the log file hence no evident reason for my connection error.

Confluence was upgraded successfully and was requiring the servername:\<portnumber\> or IP:\<portnumber\> in order to allow access. our host proxyname is "apconfluencetest" as can be seen below.

The nginx error was:

2019/06/10 23:08:55 \[error\] 1632#11472: \*10 upstream timed out (10060: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond) while connecting to upstream, client: 10.128.12.159, server: apconfluencetest, request: "GET /dologin.action HTTP/1.1", upstream: "<http://10.242.130.12:8090/dologin.action>", host: "apconfluencetest"

Changed port numbers in the nginx.conf file, restarted nginx service and all seems well.

Thank you for responses.


author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Confluence will always modify the server.xml file when being upgraded. That's why you get a list of modified files that you should review.

Glad you solved it,

JP


author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

we cannot see the image...

Best

JP

comments: author: Richard
body: ![NGINX.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/57072i7F1214FEB0B581B4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "NGINX.JPG")

apologies, not sure how that happened:


author: Richard
body: It doesn't point me to specific log and having checked the NGINX directories I don't see anything of note in the log files that exist there
Excel macro, is there a way to change starting row and column?
Asked by Michael Fenz:

Confluence's Excel macro: Is there a way to change starting row and column? my hope is to have 1 excel file but rather than creating sheets for each page, just use 1 sheet and change where the macro begins its display.

Currently you can pick last row and column. Is there a way to change first row and column?


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hello Michael,

Maybe filtration of the table will do the trick? There is the [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) macro for this purpose.

comments: author: Michael Fenz
body: Thank you
Is it possible to secure confluence page or some content of it?
Asked by Tosh Siddhapara:

Sorry if this question has been posted earlier. We have Confluence version 5.9.8. Self hosted. We need to store some login information but would like it to be secure. Is there anyway to secure page or some content of the page? Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Tosh,

Welcome. Please look into [Page restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html).

victor

comments: author: Tosh Siddhapara
body: Hi Victor,

Thanks for your reply. When I go to "Restrictions " tab I get the following error "**You're not allowed to change these restrictions. It's either due to edit restrictions on the page, or permissions settings for this space."**

I can't find where I can add/modify permissions. The user I use has administrator privileges.


author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Tosh,

Have your space admin restrict the pages on you behalf or request to be made an admin as well or be given permission to edit the page.

"**To add or remove page restrictions, you'll need to have permissions to edit the page and 'Restrict' or 'Admin' permission in the space.**"

Victor


author: Tosh Siddhapara
body: Thank you Victor we figured it out. Can you also tell if it's possible to have password protected document inside confluence?


author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Tosh,

Glad that you were successful. There could be an add-on out there in the marketplace, however, i'm not aware. The method that you used should work.

Victor


author: Tosh Siddhapara
body: Thanks again you were big help.
I'm relatively new to Confluence, and wondered where most firms kept significant stakeholder emails?
Asked by Randall Hoff:

Do you store client/stakeholder emails in JIRA or in Confluence? Pros/Cons? Assuming you have both JIRA and Confluence in your shop.


Answers:
author: Arthur Mack
body: Trying to get some users to use comments and or create JIRA tickets instead of E-Mail requests is a constant battle. I typically create JIRA tasks (use the app in Outlook) to create JIRA tasks. If the E-mail is about a page in confluence I will paste in in as a comment. If its totally new I will add it to a confluence forum page.


author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: No emails in Confluence or Jira on our side. Emails are considered a PRIVATE communication channel even if you share with cc (or even worse bcc). Either you communicate open by using Jira and/or Confluence or you stay to email for specific communication.

When I get an email considered a task for me (Jira) or relevant for documentation (Confluence), I create an issue in Jira by forwarding the mail to a specific project email address. Then I change the creator/reporter to the person I got the mail from \& let him know that I now got a Jira issue to track his task. Same is true for Confluence: I create a page in Confluence, copy the content of the mail \& share it with the relevant audience. It's a tough, every day, task, but one has to educate the staff to stay away from email for internal communication \& documentation...

Best

JP


Tags: email

new-to-confluence
Date/time format in Jira Issues Macro
Asked by Michael Gaskin:

I have two custom fields named "Start Time" and "End Time" which are displayed in a Jira Issues macro. Currently, they are being abstracted so that the value of "18/May/19 12:55 PM" shown in Jira is displayed as "May 18, 2019" in Confluence.   

This is not useful for me, since the time of day is important for this report. Is there any way I can override this default formatting?


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Michael,

There was a feature request submitted for the time not displaying within the Jira Macro within Confluence. This feature request was reported as "won't fix" as there is a workaround that can be used to allow for time to be displayed. The workaround is as follows:
> Set the Date Format in **Confluence Administration \> General Configuration \> Formatting and International Settings** to include time (matching the Date Time Format):
>
> MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm

The feature request was: [CONFCLOUD-41529](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-41529)

I hope this workaround proves helpful and allows you to display time within your Jira issue macro within Confluence.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers

comments: author: Marcel Kleinl?tke
body: Is there any way to set this for spaces or templates? I need "day of the week" and dd.mm.yyyy

Otherwhise it would help me a lot if I can cerate date fields that are automatically updatet.  
A table and the first date is today the second is tomorow and so on  
If today is gone and tomorrow is today the dates should be automatically adjusted  

:D I know crazy! :D


Tags: confluence-cloud
Can task lists be assigned to a group instead of single users
Asked by Philipp Morath:

The task list macro shows all tasks for all users. There is the possibility to restrict this by groups?

Like the user list macro shows me all users from Active directory. it would be great to see the tasks by department.


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Philipp,

If you're wanting to have a macro view of all tasks across a team (group) then you're going to want to use the Task Report blueprint to view this. Within this blueprint, you can configure it to view tasks by team, project or custom options. Further information on this may be found at [Add, Assign, and View Tasks \| In a Task Report](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-assign-and-view-tasks-590260030.html).

I hope this proves helpful for viewing tasks by requirements.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


Tags: confluence-server
Is it possible to get a list of all links to a specific anchor in confluence?
Asked by PPI Atlassian Administrators:

Is it possible to get a list of all links to a specific anchor in confluence?


Answers:
author: Sebastian Krzewi?ski
body: Hi [@PPI Atlassian Administrators](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1214428)

You can use Macro usage (YOUR_CONFLUENCE_URL/admin/pluginusage.action) and check where anchor macro was used.

Regards,

Seba

comments: author: PPI Atlassian Administrators
body: Thank you for the solution. But the user has just administration rights on his space. I tried to search with "macroName:anchor" which provides a result list of all pages with anchor usage. How can I set an additional filter for the anchor name?


author: Sebastian Krzewi?ski
body: Hi

I think that you are able to search pages where macro is used only.

You can try CQL (<https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/advanced-searching-using-cql>) but I see that you will list only pages where macro is used.


author: PPI Atlassian Administrators
body: I tried this: macroName:anchor and text \~ "myNewAnchor"

But it does not work.

Basic Search: too many results (even pages without anchors or substring "myNewAnchor")

Advanced CQL Search:

**Oops, something went wrong with your search.**

We could not successfully complete the search. Could not parse cql : macroName:anchor and text \~ "myNewAnchor"
SQL to duplicate restricted pages report
Asked by Neil Gower:

We need to provide details for out attestation process from confluence on everyone who has access to restricted pages.

The inbuilt space level report that is provided in Space Tools \> Permissions \> Restricted Pages provides all the information we need, I just need the same data via a sql satatement that I can get in a csv or similar for upload into our attestation platform.

Has anyone done something similar can someone help with the SQL code (I am not a coder!)

Any help very much appreciated.


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Neil,

This is a great question, how to get Confluence page restrictions and space permissions via a SQL statement to export into a CSV format. With this said there are two guides which will assist with getting the information you need. You may find these guides here:

* [How to Check Permissions for a Space via SQL Queries](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-check-permissions-for-a-space-via-sql-queries-717062216.html)
* [How to List All Pages Restricted to a Specific Group](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-list-all-pages-restricted-to-a-specific-group-951412334.html)
* [How to remove all restrictions from a specific page via the database](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-remove-all-restrictions-from-a-specific-page-via-the-database-834207785.html)
  * The statement to find the restricted pages is within the delete statement.

The above references will help to discover the data you're looking for. We would suggest working with your DBA to discover this data and ensure you're using a query only account as to not delete or change and production data.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers

comments: author: Neil Gower
body: Okay thanks will grab some of the DBA's time and see what we can do, thanks for pointing us in the correct direction. Will post when I have an update, and post the sql we use here as well


Tags: confluence-server

server
Will "Delete Own Permission" come to confluence cloud?
Asked by Administrator:

Hi guys

This has been requested for quite a while now. The permission to let users delete the pages they created is available in the server version - but not in the cloud. We really need this feature as well.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Makisa Appleton
body: Hi [@-DJ- BKB](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3165318)

Just noticed that your question could do with an update for anyone that may not be aware. We released "Delete Own" permission last year in Confluence Cloud. Space admins can now enable it in Space Permissions for users and groups. Read more: here: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Permissions-just-got-a-little-easier/ba-p/1412781>

Thanks

Makisa \| Senior Product Manager, Confluence Server and Data Center


author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello DJ,

You are correct in how a user that creates a page within a space which they don't have delete permissions is unable to delete the said page. If they create a page within their own space they can delete this page.

One of the items I can see which would impact the ability to delete a page without having delete permissions would be compliance. If a user creates a page, said page exists for years and contains proprietary information or process and is then deleted by the creator, it would cause a major issue with compliance. Further information about Compliance may be found at [Compliance at Atlassian](https://www.atlassian.com/trust/compliance).

The workaround to this would be to grant users delete permissions of content if you wanted them to delete pages. A second workaround is to create a process to have users add a tag/label to a page called delete and have an admin process those pages for deletion.

There is an outstanding feature request for this issue which may be found at [CONFCLOUD-3542.](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-3542)

I hope this proves helpful and gives some insight into why a user deleting their own page may cause compliance issues.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
blog post macro does not list all blog posts
Asked by Andreas Ljungstr?m:

Hi,

I have a page that lists blog posts using the macro.

It is not limited by a specific label or anything but should simply list all the recent (last 200d) blog posts on that space. It works for 3 posts, but I just created a new blog post (using the ... \> blog post function) and the created blog post will not appear through the macro.

Under Site Admin-\> Blog I can see all 4 posts.

The only difference I can tell between them is that the newest one has a different URL than the others - the pages are "blabla+blabla+blabla" whereas the one post that does not appear is "....pageId=127404549"

Any clues?

Andreas


Answers:
author: Andreas Ljungstr?m
body: I found the cause and was able to fix it myself. Indeed, the special characters were the culprit.

I had quotation marks around a phrase in the title of the blog post. I removed those and voil?, the post now appears in the macros. :)

Thanks [@JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1135065) for leading me on the right path.

Andreas


author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Try rebuild your search index. Once in a while it might need a refresh. Is the application log printing anything? Is the new blog post already published?

Confluence creates URL with a pageId, if the title of the page or blog post contains any "special" characters, so this shouldn't be a problem.

comments: author: Andreas Ljungstr?m
body: thanks, [@JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1135065) ! I'll ask the admins to re-index. We haven't checked the logs yet - will do if needed.

Yes, the blog post was published immediately, just strange that the macro is not picking it up.


Tags: blog

confluence-server

macro

server
Created/deleted users are indicated as System in audited log
Asked by Rajbabu Gunaseelan:

We are checking through the audit logs of Confluence , to troubleshoot which administrator account has deleted these users. However for events that are related to creation or deletion of users, the audit log shows the user account as "System" instead of the corresponding user who has performed the action.

We need detailed logs to ascertain which user has deleted these accounts. Is there any other way we can check this?


Answers:
author: Dario B
body: Hello [@Rajbabu Gunaseelan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3306179) ,

The behavior you are experiencing has been caused by the introduction of the Unified User Management as described in:

* [ID-57 - Audit logs don't show author of user and group changes after introducing unified administration](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ID-57)

At the same time, I can see that we are now implementing unified audit logs in Atlassian Access as the result of:

* [ACCESS-577 - Audit log for user management](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ACCESS-577)

Please review the description of the above ticket since there is an update from the Product Manager providing more details on this and, in case of questions, you may want to send him an email using the email address provided in there.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,  
Dario
Confluence Issues - Unable to Save Pages and No Side Bar and Search Broken
Asked by FreeSoftwareServers:

I have been having issues with my site for a while now and got some time to try to fix it. Things haven't gone well and unfortunately I can't document/remember exactly everything I did and in what order...

Here is the site --\> <https://www.freesoftwareservers.com/>

Here are some facts:

\* I upgraded to the latest Confluence

\* My main page has a macro to show all pages/children etc and that works

\* My side bar does not show anything, but is there. I even tested giving it a header and that didn't show up

\* Nothing shows up "Spaces" when I click on it at the top of the page, but it does show when I'm in "General Configuration" --\> Space Permissions etc

\* When I click the search bar it says "Something went wrong" Refresh the page or contact admin"

I fixed all the errors under "Troubleshooting/Instance Health Checks" but am still getting one error under "Log Analyzer".

[https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55399?utm_source=STP\&utm_medium=logScan](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55399?utm_source=STP&utm_medium=logScan)

[MySQL Java Driver 8.0.11 does not work with Confluence](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55399?utm_source=STP&utm_medium=logScan)

I did have this Java driver and may have had it during upgrade. I have since deleted it and injected the 5x driver, but I still get the error. I somehow feel this is related the ticket gives no resolution steps other then to put the correct driver, but I feel like I may be missing some AO tables?

Any help is much appreciated!


Answers:
author: FreeSoftwareServers
body: I was able to resolve this by re-running the setup and choosing "upgrade" even though it was the same version of Confluence. I had the correct jdbc driver and that fixed it!