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confluence permission app - master page, page
Asked by Learner:

Hi, I'm a novice at using Confluence so please bear with me!

From my understanding of the space and permission settings against users, there doesn't seem to an easy way add a user to only see a "single page" within a space.

Currently my team has a space (NB: users to this space are restricted to my team) however we have pages where we engage other stakeholders whom we would like to see those particular pages pertaining to them only. ie we have meeting notes with these stakeholders. However our other team pages should not be viewed by them for privacy reasons.

Is there a plugin that would like ease of users and permission settings easy. ie to be able to allow certain users to see master page and other users to only see "sub pages".

Hope this makes sense!

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Learner
body: Hi [@Tom Lister](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2065062) thanks for your response. Ok, understand however as we have multiple pages on our team page, it would be quite time consuming to individually restrict each page just so the stakeholder can only view the specific page we want them to see.

For example, we have 10 existing pages which are purely for our team. We then create 1 page which we want the stakeholder to view.

It appears in order to achieve what we want - we need to individually restrict each of those 10 pages accordingly?

And if we were to add subsequently add "new"pages, the page restriction settings would need to be updated accordingly so the stakeholder doesn't then view those "new" pages?

comments: author: Tom Lister
body: Hi

you can set space permissions as usual but then add a restriction to the page you want to keep private


author: Tom Lister
body: Hi [@Learner](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2420048)

yes you can set the restrictions you want on pages but you will need to configure them all by careful use of groups

see

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/permissions-and-restrictions-139557.html>

And

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html>


Tags: jira-service-desk
how to change the cell color of confluence table storage format?
Asked by Shaurya Chawla:

I am trying to change the color of either the text of table cells or the background color of a cell. I tried this way but when POSTing through REST api to confluence it results in error " parsing xhtml".

I tried below ways in my code:

tableData += "\<td\>\<span style = color:#FF0000;\>" + some text + "\</span\>\</td\>"

In a html editor it does show the text for the cell as red colored but when posted using Confluence cloud restful API it gives 400 bad response error.

I did explore here but no luck <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf612/confluence-storage-format-958777608.html#ConfluenceStorageFormat-Texteffects>

Any helpful suggestions?


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Shaurya,

As an example, I have created a 3 Column/3 Row table. From that I set highlighted colors and font colors (only the first column has font colors applied. The example below will show you what the storage format for this would look like (this is also what you will use when you make your PUT REST request).

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39999i34B34F662EC36934/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

```
"<p>Testing page</p><table class=\"wrapped\"><colgroup><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><tbody><tr><th>Header 1</th><th>Header 2</th><th>Header 3</th></tr><tr><td class=\"highlight-grey\" data-highlight-colour=\"grey\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255,255,255);\">Row 1A</span></td><td class=\"highlight-red\" data-highlight-colour=\"red\">Row&nbsp;1B</td><td class=\"highlight-green\" data-highlight-colour=\"green\">Row 1C</td></tr><tr><td class=\"highlight-grey\" data-highlight-colour=\"grey\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255,255,255);\">Row 2A</span></td><td class=\"highlight-red\" data-highlight-colour=\"red\">Row 2B</td><td class=\"highlight-green\" data-highlight-colour=\"green\">Row 2C</td></tr><tr><td class=\"highlight-grey\" data-highlight-colour=\"grey\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255,255,255);\">Row 3A</span></td><td class=\"highlight-red\" data-highlight-colour=\"red\">Row 3B</td><td class=\"highlight-green\" data-highlight-colour=\"green\">Row 3C</td></tr></tbody></table><p class=\"auto-cursor-target\"><br /></p>"
```

Please note that highlighted colors will be restricted to what available colors are in Confluence. Font color may also apply to this as well. Meaning you may not be able to use hex color to apply colors outside of HTML macros.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers

comments: author: Richard Houde
body: This has been a while for this but I get error 500 when I try to use this


Tags: api

atl-adm

developer
Bulk Copy of links into a Table
Asked by Jeff Flora:

Want to copy multiple links into a table. I'm using excel to create the links, and use a short name. Trying to do this with Markup. I have a lot of theses. I don't want to use the wizard.

**My Project Name:** 12ABCD

**My URL:** *https://someapp/projects/12ABCD/home*

Trying to insert: \[12ABCD\|*https://someapp/projects/12ABCD/home*\]

It always copies over as a string "\[12ABCD\|https://someapp/projects/12ABCD/home\]" into the table, but I want a link name as "12ABCD" that directs me to "https://someapp/projects/12ABCD/home".

If I could see the mark-up, this would be really quick. XWIKI makes this super easy.

Thanks in advanced. - Jeff


Answers:
author: Joe Klimovitsky
body: I know this is an old question, but maybe it will help anyone anyway.

The easy way that can save you some time in the future is to create a template in excel and format it as follow:

With the example above it if the headings were in row 1, and the rest of the data was in rows n+1.

You'll use concatenation to format your table headers in C1:

=concat("\|\|",A1,"\|\|",B1,"\|\|",C1,"\|\|")

And for the rest of the data in C1+n:

=concat("\|",A2,"\|",B2,"\|","\[",A2,"\|",B2,"\]","\|")

If you need both A \& B in your confluence table, use the above concatenation. If you only need URLs in a table use something similar to:

=concat("\|\|",C1,"\|\|")

=concat("\|","\[",A2,"\|",B2,"\]","\|")

Next, you copy all of column C. Back on the confluence page, you need to add a macro called **Markup**. You paste in the box what you copied, and it should format the table and the URLs correctly.

I hope that helps
Team Calendar - cannot get to event settings.
Asked by Roland Beauregard:

When you click on the ellipses alongside an event type you should be able to get to the settings and to change the color for an event. When I click on the ellipses, the drop down flashes for a second and then disappears before I can do anything (see attached gif). I have this problem in all the browsers I use. Does anybody know what causes this problem or if there is a workaround for it? ![event settings.GIF](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39904i55483E301FC7256E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "event settings.GIF")


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: He [@Roland Beauregard](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1704677)

I would check if you have permissions to change events with the space admin.

Link: <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/restrict-a-calendar/>


Tags: confluence-server

server
Upload images in a custom confluence macro dialog
Asked by Stefano Arnone:

Hello, I want my custom macro to insert images in a page but I don't like the fact that I have to upload the files beforehand and look for them in the page attachments.

I was looking at the create attachment api (POST rest/api/content/pageid/child/attachment) and I was thinking to use that inside my dialog js,

Is there an easier way to do this? For example, would it be possible to override the existing upload image macro in some way?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Stefano and welcome to the Community!

Something to be aware of is this is a support community and not often browsed by developers. We want to ensure you get the responses and answers you need so we would suggest you check out the [Developer Community](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/). The [Developer Community](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/) may have more available resources to answer or address your developer questions.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

file

image

macro

server

upload
Customizing the layout of the Confluence dashboard
Asked by Susan Parker:

My Confluence dashboard (the main content to the right of the navigation pane) currently consists of the activity stream - All Updates \| Popular on the left, and the "default welcome message" on the right. I am able to figure out how to edit the default welcome message to customize its content, but I am not able to figure out a way to have the default welcome message content on the left, and the activity stream on the right; and I'd like to give the two sections more equal widths. This seems like a more logical way to present the content. Am I not able to make this change? I've searched Atlassian/Confluence documentation and can't quite pinpoint the right articles to help me.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hi there Susan!  
To address your question, I would like to say that Dashboard Customization is currently something that **only Server has:**

**[Customizing the Confluence dashboard](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/customizing-the-confluence-dashboard-169117112.html)**

However, you could set **another Site Homepage** and then customize that page as needed:

**[Configuring the site homepage](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/configuring-the-site-homepage-724765517.html)**

Let us know if this helps your case!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Create Custom Template In Clonfluence
Asked by Andrew Cohen:

I am confluence admin and am trying to create a space template and the options "add a new template" or "create a global template" are not available.

Any suggestions.

Thanks

Andy


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Andrew,

Creating Confluence templates do require appropriate permissions to be able to create:
> **Space templates:** These page templates are available in a specific space only. If you have [space administrator permission](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html), you can define templates via the space administration screen
>
> **Global templates:** These page templates are available in every space on your site. If you have [Confluence Administrator permission](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/global-permissions-overview-138709.html), you can define global templates via the Confluence Administration Console.

Once permissions are confirmed, you can create template by completing the following:

**To create a new space template:**

1. Go to the space and choose **Space tools** \> **Content Tools** from the bottom of the sidebar
2. Choose **Templates** \> **Create new template**.

**To create a new global template:**

1. Go to gear icon \> **General Configuration** **Global Templates and Blueprints**.
2. Choose **Add New Global Template**

Additional information can be found in regards to templates at: [Create a Template](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-template-296093779.html)

If you're still unable to create a template, please send a screenshot of what you're seeing instead of the create options.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers
Jira Issue/Filter column Header
Asked by Diego Mariani:

Hi,

I?m wondering if is possible to eliminate the headers from the Jira issue/filter macro control. ?

thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Diego Mariani
body: Hi [@Diego Mariani](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2131724),

There is not a way currently available to remove headers from showing up when we use the JIRA issue filter macro. There have also been community posts, in the past, from multiple folks looking to do what you are trying to, but with no luck. There have however been suggestions to take the javascript route for removing the unwanted elements [here](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Change-or-remove-headings-for-Jira-Issue-Filter-Macro/qaq-p/378163).

Thanks  
Kalyani

comments: author: Diego Mariani
body: Thanks you Kalyani
how to add video with video controls
Asked by Joseph Yarborough:

I need to add videos with video controls enabled. how can i do this?


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Joseph and welcome to the Community!

There are two available methods to display video content within Confluence Cloud. Here are your available options (without an add-on);

**[Widget Connector Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/widget-connector-macro-724765314.html)**

Embed online videos, slideshows, photostreams and more directly into your page with the Widget Connector macro.

The macro currently supports content from these sites:

* YouTube
* Vimeo
* MySpace Video
* Flickr
* Twitter
* Slide Rocket

**[Multimedia Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/multimedia-macro-724765227.html)**

Use the multimedia macro to embed attached video, animation, and other multimedia files to your page. The macro uses the HTML5 \<video\> tag, so the type of video your page viewers can see depends on the video formats their browser supports with the HTML5 \<video\>tag. For example, Quicktime videos (.mov or .qt) can only be viewed in Safari, as that file type is not supported by other browsers.

Something to be aware of about this macro is it will be deprecated soon, you can find more about that at [We're cleaning up the macro browser](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/we-re-cleaning-up-the-macro-browser-946028471.html)

Additionally, if you wanted to explore add-ons which would extend the capabilities of Confluence, you can review add-on within the marketplace. You can find more at a search for [Atlassian Marketplace for Video](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=video).

I hope this helps to clarify how you can use the product to display video content along with options for add-ons to extend the products capabilities.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


Tags: confluence-cloud
Confluence Server Mobile APP has excessive notifications
Asked by Belinda Tinsley:

We recently installed and configure the Confluence Mobile Server APP and one of my users reported the excessive number of notifications (16 million and counting). The number continues to grow....

The user has confluence settings-\>push notifications-\>all activities

Anyone else having this issue?


Answers:
author: Belinda Tinsley
body: .


author: Diego
body: Hello there Belinda! This is indeed a strange behaviour.   
Could you clarify a few things for us?
> 1- is the user receiving those notifications **via push on their phone or email** ?  
> 2- are **other users** having the same issue?  
> 3- **what OS is running** on his smartphone?  
> 4- what happens if the **all activities** setting is turned off?  
> 5- what **type of notifications** are received?  
> 6- **since when** is the user facing this issue?  
> 7- has the user **tried to reinstall** the application on their phone?

Let us know your findings!

comments: author: Belinda Tinsley
body: sorry, I put the answer to your questions in the wrong place!

1. phone

2. nope

3. ios 12.1

4. notifications stop

5. activity notifications. "you have x new notifications" amount kept doubling until 16m

6. since install and using of app

7. no


author: Belinda Tinsley
body: we turned off notifications and turned it back on. It's back to doubling the totals.

"seems as though if i don't go into the app after the first few notifications, the count just grows exponentially "


Tags: confluence-server

mobile

server
Infinite horizontal scrollbar on left nav regardless of size?
Asked by Scott Beeson:

It doesn't matter how wide I make the left nav I always have a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom. As you can see, none of the content is wide enough to need a horizontal scrollbar.

![2018-12-10 09_45_43-.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39890i0F0D7311B0777F6A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2018-12-10 09_45_43-.png")

I poked around the inspector and it looks like the padding on this div is the culprit:

![2018-12-10 09_49_43-Fusion Constructive - Confluence.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39891iD44D0793DEEB8F6A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2018-12-10 09_49_43-Fusion Constructive - Confluence.png")

It was \`padding: 0px 12px\`. I forced it to 0 and the scrollbar went away.


Answers:
author: Scott Beeson
body: Until I get a better fix for this, I'm using the following CSS in a Chrome extension called "[Web Override](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-override/lllllobkincmdnjfkbknjacacmnlajll)"

```
.sc-iQKALj.wBJYs {
? ? padding: 0 !important;
}
```
@ mentions in a copied page
Asked by Graham Atkinson:

If I copy a page (such as a meeting minutes page) with lots of @ mentions on it (e.g. the list of attendees) - so I can have a new minutes page for a similar meeting on a different day - will each @ mention receive an email when I save the copied page ?


Answers:
author: Graham Atkinson
body: Hi [@Graham Atkinson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/327907),

My suggestion would be to create a minutes [page template](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-templates-296093785.html) so you are able to start from the page framework?

comments: author: Graham Atkinson
body: The attendees for my calls are the same every day. It's really useful just to copy the page and use that for the next day. Then I can see the comments and actions from the previous day so we can catch up on those before adding comments and actions for the current call.

I'd like to set up the minutes page ready for the meeting but if I copy and save then I worry everyone on the attendees list will get emailed.

I hope that sort of makes sense!
Links in Jira not always clickable in Confluence
Asked by James Gardiner:

I am using the Confluence Jira Widget to link between Confluence and Jira.

In Jira, I have a field defined as a URL which l links to a related page in Confluence.

In Jira, this link is always clickable and works fine.

Within Confluence, the Jira Widget always shows the URL but sometimes it is clickable (blue) and sometimes it is shown as text (black)

I am expecting it to always be clickable as it is a link. What can be done to improve this?

I am using the cloud-based Jira and Confluence.

Kind regards

James


Answers:
author: Tyler Brown
body: Hey James,

I've found the best way to ensure that the link is clickable (on the Confluence side) is to copy/paste the issue url into Confluence.

I've also found that if there is anything after the issue number in the url (i.e. abc-123/\*\*\*) that the link is not always clickable.

Hope this helps,

Tyler
Changing my account email to/from an alias of itself
Asked by Steve Gallant:

Hello there,

I tried looking this up, but was unsuccessful as I didn't really know how to phrase the question. Here are the details:

* My email account has been switched from first.last@domain.com to first@domain.com
* first.last@domain.com is now an alias to first@domain.com
  * This is now the real account
* When I try to change my email Manage Your Account, I get an email to first.last@domain.com saying that I should check first@domain.com, however I never get the email at first@domain.com
  * I wonder if the fact that the email is an alias of itself is causing issues with the mail even being sent

I'm a site admin for our cloud instance, so I imagine I should be able to make whatever change necessary from your impending solutions :)

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I suspect something might be wrong with your email system. Jira has no knowledge or understanding of email aliases - it simply fires the email off to the address its been given.

If you're getting emails from it ok on the old address, then it's able to send, so it must be the aliasing on the email server.

comments: author: Steve Gallant
body: Thanks Nic - I'll check internally here to see if there is some sort of filtering going on. Never thought of that.


Tags: bitbucket

cloud

confluence-cloud

jira

jira-cloud
When are editing improvements coming to wikis ?
Asked by T?o METZ:

Hello, I'm interested by these [editing improvement features](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-editing-improvements-945107733.html).

But if I understand correctly, they have currently only been rolled out for blog posts.

My question is, do we know when these features will be available for confluence wiki pages? Will it be on the December 14 update mentioned in the article? Will all confluence cloud spaces be updated then?

Thank you for your answers


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello T?o,

This is still being rolled out at this time. For the 17 December update, a small portion of users will now receive the new editor for any new pages.

My recommendation would be to keep an eye on that page for any future updates, but this is something that we will be slowly rolling out throughout the next few months.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: T?o METZ
body: Great, thank you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Permissions and restrictions
Asked by Kamil:

Hi all.

Problem with Confluence : let's say that we have 1000 users permissions on a space with lots of pages in it. And there are a some pages, where about 10 or less different users shold have no permissions at all. How and where should I name these 10 users in order to give them restrictions? Or there is the only (terrible) way - to give other 990 users permissions to each page needed?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: \>How and where should I name these 10 users in order to give them restrictions?

You don't. It's not about stopping people seeing stuff it's about allowing them to.

Either do not give them permission to see the space, or put restrictions on pages that do not allow them to see them.

comments: author: Kamil
body: Bad. Just imagine, 10 pages and 1000 users. On each page there should be (-10) different users. So to do this, i have to give 9900 separate permissions instead of 100 restrictions...


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's a better model than imposing restrictions. And if you have 9900 users, I'd be suggesting you look at groups rather than individuals.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Automatic reorder pages lost
Asked by Christian Bell:

Hello,

I have within a space subpages below a page. There are 40+ items there until now, growing.

Until recently when a new page got created, it was ordered alphabetically into the tree. This was great.

However, somehow this stopped working. I now need to go to the space settings frequently and click on the A-Z button.

In stackoverflow, I found this info:

*"When you drag a page to a new position, the order of the page family changes to Manual. Newly added pages will not be sorted alphabetically, but will appear at the bottom of the list."*

But how do I revert back to alphabetical auto sorting?

Thanks for your help!


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello Christian!  
As you have noticed, this behaviour in Confluence **has changed** . This change comes with the effort to provide drag and drop capabilities to the page tree.  
This was recently implemented and you can take a look the post giving more details about this change here:  
**[Update to default sort order for newly created pages](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/Update-to-default-sort-order-for-newly-created-pages/m-p/955068#M3298)**

comments: author: Christian Bell
body: Thanks Diego.

Even if your answer is indeed answering my question, the behaviour / change is really annoying. To update now alphabetically, I have to do each time a workaround.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

organization

page-tree

sort