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Can cloud-Confluence requirements auto update with cloud JIRA?
Asked by Pete Conti:

We are in the process of deciding how to manage a requirements database, and are considering implementing through a cloud instance of Confluence. Currently, we use a cloud instance of JIRA to manage work and tests, and want our requirements to live there and link to those items as well.

I looked into defining requirements in a table through the provided requirements document template and creating them as issues in JIRA. This works for ticket creation, but after the issues are created, there's no active updating between the table of requirements statements in the confluence document and the issues now existing in JIRA.

This makes the feature minimally useful -- it allows for the requirements document and the requirements issues off which work will be based to drift and deviate from each other.

It appears that 'Requirements Yogi" solves this problem, but that is only for a server implementation. Is there a way to get this functionality with cloud versions?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello [@Pete Conti](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2211636),

Thank you for contacting us about this. I noticed that you were able to raise the same question with Support, so I will summarize what they said for other users.

The following feature request was made on your behalf:

* [CONFCLOUD-67815](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67815) *Changes on the ticket should update the table on Confluence and vice-versa*

The ticket created should be added automatically to the table as a link, but this is not occurring due to the following bug:

* [CONFCLOUD-35077](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-35077) *No JIRA issue link will be created in Confluence page when creating multiple JIRA issue from pages.*

Regarding **Requirements Yogi**, they recommended that you get in touch with the vendor to see about their plans to implement a cloud version.

Do let me know if you had any further questions!

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

cloud

confluence-cloud

jira
Displaying satisfaction rating in confluence using jira filter
Asked by kyle toppazzini:

Hi we have set up a jira macro filter and included the field for customer satisfaction rating. The filter displays all fields but does not display the satisfaction star ratings from jira help desk. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?


Answers:
author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: You could try this way: export your filter to Excel, then embed the resulted spreadsheet in the Confluence page.

The [Better Excel Exporter app can export the rating only](https://midori-global.com/products/better-excel-exporter-for-jira/server/documentation/integrations/jira-service-desk#configuring-satisfaction), or both the rating the customer satisfaction comment like this:

![jira-service-desk-tickets-with-customer-satisfaction](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/94674i62889C4305B15202/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "jira-service-desk-tickets-with-customer-satisfaction")


author: kyle toppazzini
body: I was able to export the issues and the satisfaction rating i.e. the stars shows up in the report. In confluence the satisfaction shows up as blank. If I set the filter to only bring in star rating of X and above it will filter the issues properly but again the satisfaction is blank. The problem appears to be something blocking the display in confluence. I find it odd because other images like that on status will show up in confluence.


author: Ismael Jimoh
body: Hi [@kyle toppazzini](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3546286)

I have not tested this but if memory serves me well, not all custom fields can be displayed from JIRA macro similar issue occurs with exporting of a custom field value.

As this is the case a workaround would be

1. Create a new custom field
2. add a custom event that listens for customer satisfaction event.
3. Pull the value of the stars using the script
4. Update the custom field using the script.
5. Add your custom field to your Jira Macro filter.

Please note you may need an addon like scriptrunner and the above still needs to be tested.

Cheers

comments: author: kyle toppazzini
body: I was able to export the issues and the satisfaction rating i.e. the stars shows up in the report. In confluence the satisfaction shows up as blank. If I set the filter to only bring in star rating of X and above it will filter the issues properly but again the satisfaction is blank. The problem appears to be something blocking the display in confluence. I find it odd because other images like that on status will show up in confluence
Tomcat Configuration issue
Asked by Johnson Ngocorai:

I changed the DNS name of a newly configured confluence server in the active directory. After that, I am able to access the confluence but I am getting a "Tomcat Config Incorrect" error message. We are hosting our server on AWS EC2 instance behind a load balancer. How should I approach this from AWS and AD?


Answers:
author: Kurt Klinner
body: [@Johnson Ngocorai](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2747525)

Hi Johnson

could you share your tomcat configuration (server.xml)#

Cheers

Kurt

comments: author: Johnson Ngocorai
body: [@Kurt Klinner](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/734136)

Hi Kurt,

Where do I find server.xml?


author: Kurt Klinner
body: [@Johnson Ngocorai](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2747525)

Hi Johnson,

you will find it at below the folder where jira is installed (subfolder conf)

$JIRA_installation_folder\\conf

Cheers

Kurt


Tags: confluence-server

server
whats the API syntax for accessing a Confluence child page?
Asked by Asim Soofi:

Looking for the correct syntax so that I may test the Confluence connection via Postman to display the content of a wiki child page underneath 5-6 child levels


Answers:
author: Asim Soofi
body: Thanks Jira guy. Just so I am clear on what I am trying to do. Here is my GET string which I am using in Postman: <http://wiki.xxx.com/rest/api/content/189042490?expand=body.storage>

where 189042490 is the ID of the page whose content I want to read/display.

However, Postman doesnt display any content, it just gives a return code of 200.

Where do I put the parent ID ?


author: jira guy
body: Use the atlassian community python module. <https://pypi.org/project/atlassian-python-api/>

All you need is the page id and parent id. Doesn't matter which levels they are on
Use Data Center plugin license in Confluence Server
Asked by Cristiano Mariano:

Hi guys! How are you doing?

Is it possible to use a Data Center plugin license in Confluence Server.

We will upgrade to Confluence Data Center soon, but will have to buy a new plugin before that and we would like to avoid to make the purchase process twice.

Thank you very much!

Cristiano


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The licence for an app must match the main application licence.

I would get in touch with the app vendor and ask them for partial licences or temporary ones!


Tags: server
Empty space versus Personal space
Asked by Jan Richter:

Hi there,

I'm little bit confused by page editor in cloud Confluence.  
There is a situation: If I'm creating new space, I can choose few types of space - Empty space, Personal Space etc.

I see different page editor between Empty space and Personal space. Personal space page editor has more features (including sections). How is that possible? I want to have this rich editor also in space created with "Empty space" preset.

Editor with "Empty space":

![editor_empty.JPG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/65072i313569BE58572592/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "editor_empty.JPG")

Editor with "Personal space":

![editor_personal.JPG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/65073i4591878DDCAB1E9C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "editor_personal.JPG")(the highlighted icon is missing in "empty space" editor).

Thanks for any advice because I don't understand how to manage this problem and how to resolve it.


Answers:
author: Yevhen Rohovets
body: Maybe because this is the Home, not a page with content for empty space?

For personal, you immediately get to the page, so there is a layout icon

After creating an empty space, try creating an empty page there, there should be a layout icon

comments: author: Jan Richter
body: When I create empty page in the space, editor is the wrong one without layout icon. It doesn't have any logic. Why are there two editors? :D

This editor problem (missing icon) is not connected do the type of the page (if it's space homepage or regular page..).


author: Yevhen Rohovets
body: Cloud Confluence is very strange, do you try to write to Atlassian support?


author: Jan Richter
body: I didn't but I will.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how can I embed an spreadsheet into page
Asked by Niky Lyon:

Need to embed an spreadsheet into confluence page to be editable for my team


Answers:
author: Michael Kuhl _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Niky Lyon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3546050) - You can [embed a spreadsheet for editing](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/edit-files-170494553.html) in Confluence, but it requires the user have the a confluence helper app and spreadsheet software installed on their desktop. Check out [Excellentable Spreadsheets for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211672/excellentable-spreadsheet-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) if you want editing directly in Confluence without needing to have spreadsheet software installed on the user's desktop.

comments: author: Niky Lyon
body: Thank you Michael, I used to attach my spreadsheet and with "Insert More Content" choose the Excel to display the spread sheet on the preview page. No link, No Thumbnail. I need it to be complete display for people to be able to look at the page and find their information.

Today I see the Excel document is missing from the confluence page, when I click on the insert more content, I don't see it anymore.

How Can I embed the spreadsheet to be visible?


author: Michael Kuhl _Appfire_
body: Try using the [View File macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/view-file-macro-170494360.html). It allows you to embed attached Office and PDF files.


author: Jaclyn Mazzarella
body: Hi Niky, I am wondering if you had a chance to use Excellentable? I think it can really help with your issues of having an editable spreadsheet directly in Confluence. Check out the Youtube playlist to see how this works! <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE9WUHg1PW437az1BWvb8pjw5rxfAj6DV>


Tags: confluence-server

server
Why can I no longer put the Expand macro into a table?
Asked by Katrina Elliott:

With the old version of confluence it was possible to use the Expand macro function inside a table. This was very useful and it has been removed.


Answers:
author: Michael Kuhl _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Katrina Elliott](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1789106) - it sounds like you are on Confluence Cloud. Atlassian recently made allot of [changes to the page editing experience including tables](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-editing-improvements-945107733.html#ConfluenceEditingImprovements-Tables). That change is likely why you can no longer use the macro.


author: jira guy
body: I am using latest server version confluence and the feature is still available. Try reproducing in a new page.
Incoming links macro: How can I include tiny links and page-ids?
Asked by Siegfried Steins:

I just tried the incoming links macro in order to receive the infomation, which confluence pages are referring to my page.

Unfortunately, it seems not to work with pages, which refer to my page using a tiny (shortened) URL oder a link containg the page-id.

(We never use links including the written title of a page, as the title might be changed during the lifecycle of a page. This would cause broken links.)


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@Siegfried Steins](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3545953) this is an interesting question.

Are you on confluence premise, or on cloud?


Tags: incoming-link
Reapearing bar with Breadcrumbs and Edit Button
Asked by Fabian Schmidt:

I have a question about our internal confluence, as I see a different behavior about the area where the breadcrumbs and the buttons are located.

On some pages, only very few this menu bar reapear as soon as I scroll a little bit up again, if I'm within a longer page, but not on all pages.

Can somebody explain, why I see the different behavior, and how I can set the behavior equal on all pages.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards  
Fabian Schmidt


Answers:
author: Yevhen Rohovets
body: This is the standard Confluence behavior you need to get used to.

When you are in page editing mode, breadcrumbs are at the top of the page, this is a fixed position. When you are in long page view mode, all controls and breadcrumbs disappear when scrolling, and appear when you return the scroll a little back

<br />

You are Welcome to Atlassian))

comments: author: Fabian Schmidt
body: But that's exactly the thing, this bar does not reapear on all pages in view mode, when I scroll a little back. Only on a few pages this is working.

Can you imagine why this is happening?


author: Yevhen Rohovets
body: All tested pages are long pages? And if you open one long page in one browser tab, and another long page in another browser tab, scroll and bar work differently?


author: Fabian Schmidt
body: Yes all tested on long pages and tested also in seperate tabs in the same brwoser.


author: Yevhen Rohovets
body: Its a very strange, sorry(


Tags: confluence-server

server
How we can affect the Confluence search results
Asked by Alex Kiselev _Itransition_:

Is there any way to lift up some articles in Confluence search by keywords?

As I see - there are 4 factors (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-understand-the-ranking-of-confluence-s-search-results-785614686.html>):

* Age
* Title
* Content
* Popularity

It would be useful to add some additional factor, that can be used by space admin.

For example - we have some space as Knowledge Database.

Scenario is following:

Space Admin knows that standard confluence search by keyword 'a' returns ranged list of articles a1, a2, a3, a4.

Space Admin's goal is - pop up article a4 on first position in confluence search by keyword 'a'.

Thanks in advance,

Alex.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello, [@Alex Kiselev _Itransition_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/591562)!  
Currently, we can not alter the ranking of search results within Confluence.   
We can, however, use labels to better organize your content. We have a thread about this. Here you check it:
> * ++***[Improving search results in Confluence (Cloud)?](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Improving-search-results-in-Confluence-Cloud/qaq-p/822553)***++

Further down our reports, I have found an old request about this here:
> * ++***[CONFSERVER-15619 \| Ability to adjust ranking of search results is required](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-15619)***++

For short, we can use labels to improve "searcheability" of our content. As a third-party solution, there is a possibility that a plugin might help your case. Take a look here:
> * ++***[Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218076/better-search-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)***++

Looking forward to your reply, Alex!


author: Cortlandt _
body: Alex Kiselev says that "popularity" is a factor in ranking.   
I'm not sure what "popularity" means. As of today Popularity is not mentioned on the documentation page <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-understand-the-ranking-of-confluence-s-search-results-785614686.html>
How Many Number of Pages can we create in One space?
Asked by eshwarp:

Hi Team,

For one our project requirement, we need to build a document of 400 page or more than this in confluence .Is it possible to create such huge document in single space?

What is the maximum number pages that we can create per one space?

Thanks,

Prabhu Kumar


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Prabhu,

There are no limits to the number of spaces or pages you can have in Confluence. As your pages grow in length, the server resources required to edit and render the pages will increase. It's logical to expect that *at some point* your server will have trouble keeping up with the length of a particularly long page. It's not really possible to explain where that length is because it depends on the contents of the page, your server's resources, how many users are active, what types of plugins are running, etc.

While you can use the native PDF export tools to export a page or space, it might be worth looking at the Marketplace depending on what you're trying to do. [There are a variety of Marketplace apps that can extend or change the behavior of PDF exports in Confluence.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=server&product=confluence&query=export) I'd recommend looking at several plugins and reading about their capabilities. You may come up with a different way to meet your needs after reading what's possible with some of these apps.

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: eshwarp
body: Thanks Daniel for your info.


author: jira guy
body: I don't think there is any limit.

comments: author: eshwarp
body: i created a template at global level by capturing of 20 pages data in a single Page . Going further this i need to embed 400 pages data into a single page ?

is it can be done or possible?
How to change document title attributes for PDF export
Asked by Toomas Kiisk:

Hello,

how do I change document title attributes for PDF export? I tried something like this in PDF export stylesheet (space stylesheet, not global);

#title-text a { font-size: 150%; text-align: center; }

but it doesn't work. There's very little info available on selectors available. Maybe #title-text isnt right thing?

Confluence server 6.15.7


Answers:
author: Herve Frydlender
body: Got it!

```
...
/* Title */
h1:first-child {
? ? text-align: left;
? ? font-size: 34pt;
? ? font-variant: small-caps;
? ? font-weight: bold;
? ? padding: 200px 0px 100px 0px;
}
...
```

comments: author: Mel DuPont
body: I'm having trouble with this fix. When the Confluence page I export has a Heading 1, then that heading ALSO receives the h1:first-child styling. How can I divorce the page's title from Heading 1 -formatted text?


author: Mel DuPont
body: I found your updated answer elsewhere!

```
/* Title */

h1.title-header {
? ? text-align: left;
? ? font-size: 34pt;
? ? font-variant: small-caps;
? ? font-weight: bold;
? ? padding: 200px 0px 100px 0px;
}
```


author: Herve Frydlender
body: Hi Toomas,

Looks like we have the same issue : <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Export-to-PDF-and-headers/qaq-p/1201186>

Did you find a solution?

comments: author: Toomas Kiisk
body: Hello,

I gave up :\|


Tags: confluence-server

export

pdf
How to remind user to use a label when creating a page?
Asked by Frederick Roeser:

Is there any way to remind a user to use a label for a page once created?

Something like a short warning/reminder "please label this page" would be good.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Anna,

Thank you for contacting us.

There is not a way to force or remind users to add labels. You can add the reminder to the page itself, or you can even set up a reminder in your Confluence header or footer.

See [How to edit the footer in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-edit-the-footer-in-confluence-163415355.html) and [Basic Styling Tutorial](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/basic-styling-tutorial-170000548.html) for more details.

Otherwise, there may likely be an [add-on in Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=label) that could help you with this task.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: label

warning
Can I create a number of jira issues from a selection of rows in a table?
Asked by Philip Lewis:

I can select a table and then choose create multiple issues and it will create issues for each row in the table. If I subsequently add a few more rows and then try to select these to create multiple issues I'm told it will create new issues for every row in the table. This includes the issues I've already created?? Is there a way of only selecting a subset of rows to create the issues for?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Philip,

Welcome to Atlassian Community.

Unfortunately, this is not possible and although a feature request was raised in the past, we have closed it as there are no plans to implement this in the near future:

* [CONFSERVER-40171](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-40171) *Let users select which rows to turn into issues when creating JIRA issues from a Confluence table*

Perhaps you may be able to find a [Marketplace add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=create%20jira%20issues) that could assist you in this?

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

integration

jira
Confluence Logs generating entry every 0.006 seconds
Asked by Jonas Brandt:

We have a problem on our confluence server, it is running on a Synology NAS and the logfiles catalina.year-month-day.log are being filled every day with more than 60 gb of data.

We have no idea where it comes from. The log puts out this:

![Unbenanntlog.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/65015i28FC7BAB6F7CF257/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Unbenanntlog.PNG")

Maybe you can help us.


Answers:
author: GMK
body: Which Confluence version are you using?

It looks like a bug [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58522.](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58522.?)

The most recent versions (according to bug report: [7.0.1](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project+%3D+CONFSERVER+AND+fixVersion+%3D+7.0.1 "7.0.1 "), [6.13.7](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project+%3D+CONFSERVER+AND+fixVersion+%3D+6.13.7 "6.13.7 "), [6.6.16](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project+%3D+CONFSERVER+AND+fixVersion+%3D+6.6.16 "6.6.16 "), [6.15.9](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project+%3D+CONFSERVER+AND+fixVersion+%3D+6.15.9 "6.15.9 "), [6.13.8](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project+%3D+CONFSERVER+AND+fixVersion+%3D+6.13.8 "6.13.8 ") contain a fix to this problem.

comments: author: Jonas Brandt
body: We are using Version 6.15.6, but only on one server it is happening.

Thanks, I will try updating as soon as there is a fix to another problem.


Tags: confluence-server

health-check

server

synology
Upgrade Confluence with expired subscription to fix CVEs
Asked by Egor:

Hello!

Is it possible to upgrade self-hosted Confluence with expired subscription (till 2 Apr 19) from 6.15.1 to 6.15.8-9 to fix CVE vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-3394 and CVE-2019-3398 and CVE-2018-20239)?  
Or may be it is possible to get only patches for thoose CVEs?


Answers:
author: jira guy
body: Take a look here for answer. <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/JIRA-server-migration-with-expired-maintenance/qaq-p/694789>

Probably the same applies to confluence. You might only be able to upgrade to a version released before april 19


Tags: confluence-server

cve

cve-2019-3394

server

upgrade