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Creating Jira issues from Confluence Table
Asked by Jackie Klass:

I can create multiple jira issues from a confluence table, however the only fields i can bring over are summary and description (and either story or task).

I would like to bring over the components from a column in my table. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Kian Stack Mumo Systems
body: [@Jackie Klass](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3552815), this is not possible to do with the current functionality.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I stop ALL email notifications?
Asked by Olman J Quesada:

I have turned off all email notifications in settings, but I still get dozens of emails any time I'm mentioned or get assigned tasks. Any way of turning these off?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Olman J Quesada](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4134779) !

Currently, mentions (or @mentions) are not configurable. Every time you are mentioned on a page or assigned a task, you will be notified.

Task assign triggers a notification because it uses the mention system to attribute that task to your user.

The ability to disable email notifications from mentions has been filed as a suggestion here:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Allow users the ability to disable the @mention email notifications***++](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-25479)

Let us hear from you!


author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Olman J Quesada](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4134779)

I think, you get these mails because you are watching a lot of pages.

What you could do is to unwatch these pages ([see here](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/watch-pages-spaces-and-blogs/)).
> The '**Watches**' page in your user profile displays a list of all pages and spaces you are currently watching.
>
> **To manage your watches:**
>
> 1. Choose**your profile picture** at top right of the screen, then choose **Watches**
> 2. Choose **Stop Watching** for any unwanted spaces or pages.

Regards, Dominic


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confiforms Required Field Asterisk shifted with update
Asked by Brian Karst:

[@Alex Medved _ConfiForms_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781630)

We recently updated from 2.3 to 2.14 and many have reported that the red asterisk that indicates a required field that used to be oriented next to the field label has now become right Justified with the field label line. Is this a known issue or is there a setting or something that the users can do to fix it?

Example:

![asterisk.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/115167iD1CDA9BEFE9BEBBF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "asterisk.PNG")


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Oh, that is a huge jump between versions!

No, we are not aware of this. It looks like you are using a custom layout for your form, right?

Does this uses a ConfiForms Field macro with parameters to show a label and to show this label on a new line?

Update:

---

You can quickly address it with a custom CSS (while we fix it for 2.15.2)

|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| ``` <style type="text/css">span[data-macro-name="confiform-field"] > label > span {  float: none !important;}  </style> ``` |

comments: author: Brian Karst
body: Yes, this one in particular is a custom layout with field macros showing label on own line. Without custom format the asterisk is still right justified with the label but ends up adjacent to the field input.


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: This is sort of a "by design" now... for non-custom layouts. Do you think the old way was better?


author: Brian Karst
body: If I understand your question correctly, I think non-custom layouts are for super simple forms and/or people just starting with ConfiForms. I think that the ability to put the label on its own line makes the form look crisper. I tend to put my forms in a table with cells sized appropriately for the field, so I noticed the change but it wasn't drastic like the one I sent in the image; but especially if label is on it's own line the asterisk needs to be adjacent to the label or field. I just saw enough posts about it in the organization that I figured I should ask about it.

And yes it was a huge jump in versions, lots of red tape; hopefully whatever contract was negotiated allows us to keep updated. I waited 6 months to be able to use the htmlToWiki VF and the ball was already rolling with the contract when it was made.

Still waiting on a way to get WYSIWYG coloring and Jira to play nice :P

It would also be nice to be able to insert a table into the WYSIWYG without coding it in, the VF seems to convert the HTML table to Wiki Table just fine


Tags: cloud

confiforms

confluence-cloud
Best template for Internal Processes?
Asked by Andrea Nari?o:

Hi Team!  

I'm looking for the best possible templates to start a clear/consistent knowledge base. Specifically regarding Billing related content for customer facing teams.   
Would you mind giving me some suggestions?

Or if there isn't a template you recommend per se, maybe some tips for this scenario in particular.   

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Andrea Nari?o](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4134279) !

While I do not have something that specifically tackles billing to recommend, I believe that the "How-to Article" template is generic enough that it might help you:
> * [++***\[Atlassian\] Confluence -- Templates \[How-to Article***++](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/templates/how-to-article)

I also encourage you to look into our Template catalogue:
> * [++***\[Atlassian\] Confluence -- Templates***++](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/templates/categories/featured)

We also have some Atlassian made documentation that may help you extract the most of our tool to create and enhance your internal processes and documentation. Here, take a look:
> * ++***[\[Confluence Support\] Use Confluence for technical documentation](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/use-confluence-for-technical-documentation/)***++
> * ++***[\[Atlassian\] The Workstream - How to ace internal documentation](https://www.atlassian.com/work-management/documentation)***++
> * [++***\[Atlassian\] The Workstream - The ultimate guide to process documentation***++](https://www.atlassian.com/work-management/documentation/process-documentation)

Let us hear from you!


Tags: atl-gruland

cloud

confluence-cloud
Are there macros for tables?
Asked by Lara Kim Gresak:

Hi,

I'd simply like to create one data table (of columns with 4 headings) and repeat it as a macro in a number of other places so there is only one place to update/ one source of truth


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@Lara Kim Gresak](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4134634) ,

Try the [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app.

This add-on includes the [Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Excerpt+and+Table+Excerpt+Include+macros) macros that will fully cover your case.

Here is [one of our latest blog posts](https://stiltsoft.com/blog/2020/06/how-to-aggregate-and-reuse-data-from-multiple-confluence-tables/) describing how to reuse tables and aggregate data if required. Hope you'll find it useful.


author: Bill Bailey
body: Another solution lets you reuse any block of content: [multiexcerpt](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/169/multiexcerpt?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

I have used this macro for years to enable easy reuse of blocks of content. In your case, you could host the table inside the source macro, then just pull it to wherever you need. I often have a single page in a space hold a bunch of blocks of reusable content.

comments: author: Lara Kim Gresak
body: Thanks Bill

I have used the page incerpt as a work-around

Dont think my company pays for the add-ons


author: Bill Bailey
body: Is that a religious position? ;-) That was why I was suggesting a more broad use case plug in -- more bang for the buck.


Tags: atl-curate

cloud

confluence-cloud
Very Slow Attachment downloads
Asked by phowlett@perdingus.co.uk:

Hi, I am suffering from really slow attachment downloads. I'm running version 7.4.4 and initially had it installed on a Windows 2019 Server virtual machine (ESXi). I then moved to a virtual Linux (Ubuntu 18.04) as the support tool that runs agaist /index produced significantly better results than when run on the Windows VM. Unfortunately no difference, In desperation I built a physical server running Linux, exactly the same issue. Hardware has ranged from SSD to SAS disks and always more than 32GB memory and at least 4 CPUs. Physical server has 128GB/12 Cores.

DB is MySQL 5.7 on the same server. htop shows a server consuming around 4.5G of memory.

Any help gratefully recieved!

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: pablo-casado
body: Any progress on this? I am also experiencing very slow attachment downloads.


author: Daniel Ebers
body: Hi,

welcome to the Atlassian Community!

As you say you already switched to a different VM (even on a different OS) have you by any chance checked your network connection somehow? This seems to be one topic you haven't said anything to - is there a likeliness that the network is somehow restricting bandwidth or is saturated somehow?

Cheers,  
Daniel


Tags: confluence-server

server
Mysql upgrade from 5.7 to 8.0 -- Confluence crashes database on plugin installation
Asked by Moritz Wagner:

Hello,

I was just trying to port our system (Jira/Confluence/Crowd to Mysql8.0 everything worked fine, until the point I try to update a plugin in Confluence. Once I start the upgrade it crashes the whole database leaving me with a mysqld service thats fully locked at full CPU load and producing logs like:

Difficult to find free blocks in the buffer pool...

This fills all the logs forever, DB-Connection is no longer possble and service restart doesn't change a thing. Is there a parameter I have to set in the Config to tell Confluence to use the MySQL8 syntax? like the mysql57/mysql8 in jira dbconfig.xml? I just swapped the mysql connector jar and changed the DB-connection string to also include

```
"&amp;serverTimezone=Europe/Berlin"
```

Namely when upgrading the plugin "Scriptrunner for confluence" this issue happened.

Oh and Confluence is running in Version 7.8.1 here.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!  
Thanks!

Moritz


Answers:
author: Daniel Ebers
body: Hi Moritz,

have you checked if there is something wrong with the database server by any chance (from logs)? I am just asking as the error message is more kind of a "basic" (by means of "low-level" - not as in "easy") trouble with the database as it seems.

If you actually only encounter the database going crazy when you are trying to upgrade Scriptrunner App - then I would call out to Adaptavist support to be honest.

As you said Jira is also connected to that database host - can you confirm that with Jira everything is running absolutely okay? If so this would probably really mean it is linked to the ScriptRunner for Confluence in some manner...

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: Moritz Wagner
body: Hi Daniel,

thanks for your ideas!

The database works before triggering this update. And Jira of course stops working after Confluence crashed the database. But before everything was fine. I'm almost certain, that it is a mysql query that's issuer by either the plugin manager or scriptrunner during the upgrade, but I don't have the time to check if it is only Scriptrunner, or just any upgrade. Just thought this problem might have showed up somewhere else.

Have a good Day,

Moritz


Tags: confluence-server

mysql

scriptrunner

server

upgrade
Concurrency
Asked by Mikael Bokell:

Have a simple confluence page with an Excel attachment.  
Using attachment control on the page so it will have version control on it.  
But it seems to not handle concurrency issu.  

Example scenario  
3 People (1,2,3) open same version at the same time (version 3).  

Person 1 saving  
Person 2 saving  
Person 3 saving  

so now the latest version is 6.  
But that version has no information from version 4 or 5 !  

We are using Attlassian Companion for edit excel on desktop


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Mikael Bokell](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4134382) !

Currently, the Atlassian Companion App is not capable of operating with concurrent files edits.

Here we have the Suggestion report tackling this:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Implement concurrent editing of documents using Companion App***++](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65595)

Currently, there is no workaround to this situation. The best course of action would be to vote and watch the report.

Let us hear from you!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Page Properties Report macro and multiple instances of Confluence
Asked by John Steele:

My company has multiple instances of Confluence. Is it possible to use the ***Page Properties Report*** macro to display information "broadcast" by ***Page properties*** macros in pages from multiple Confluence instances?


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Many have wanted that, but there is rarely any communication between instances. This would require a custom solution, reading the content via the API from another instance. Doable probably even in a user macro, but will take some work.


Tags: confluence-server

instance

page-property

server
Connecting confluence server to confluence cloud.
Asked by Tyron Deonarine:

Hello, is it possible to connect my local confluence server to a cloud instance of confluence? So both servers can sync and have the same data. Even maybe in the event of migrating to a cloud instance of confluence.


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: I have used this plugin to sync in one direction to an external server instance: [comala-remote-publishing.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/42115/comala-remote-publishing?hosting=server&tab=overview)

Maybe they are working on a solution that will publish to the Cloud?

comments: author: Tyron Deonarine
body: Thank you. Will check this out.


author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Tyron, welcome to the Community!

Currently there's no official tooling for syncing two Confluence (Cloud or Server) instances together.

There are some ways you might go about doing this with scripting, although the instances will be out of date with each other nearly all the time...

* [Using the Confluence Cloud backup scripts](https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/automatic-cloud-backup/src/master/) on a schedule, then importing to a Confluence Server instance
* [Exporting your Server instance using the built-in backup](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/manually-backing-up-the-site-152405.html) , then import the whole instance into Cloud
* [Bob Swift's Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSOAP/overview) marketplace app has functions to copy items, with some work you could rig up a script to sync things that you run as a cron job or scheduled task

Instead of doing any of these though, I would advocate for working on a migration. Keeping two instances up to date and trying to guide users through which to use is not a job I would want anyone to try.

The [Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence-cloud-migration-assistant-973486571.html) can copy selected spaces (or *all* the spaces) to Confluence Cloud. You can do this multiple times without harming the data on your local Server instance. This lets you try out a migration, see what your site looks like in Cloud, correct any issues, and copy the data again. When you're ready, migrate up and remove permissions from the Confluence Server instance so that users don't edit page there by mistake. Check out [the Cloud migration hub](https://www.atlassian.com/migration/cloud/guide/introduction/overview) for more detailed info on planning and carrying out a migration.

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: Tyron Deonarine
body: Thank you for the information!


Tags: confluence-server

migration-customer-care

server
Zoom Recordings+ for Confluence - Doesn't work?
Asked by DB:

How can we tell if an APP in the store doesn't work.

This one is giving me errors and it has no reviews. So I'm guessing I should avoid any apps that have no reviews as well as those with poor reviews.


Answers:
author: Eduardo Santos
body: Hi [@DB](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4134058)

Actually, this app was not developed by Atlassian, so you can contact the vendor directly if you have questions or if something is not working. They can be contacted through this page - [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1223133/zoom-recordings-for-confluence?hosting=cloud\&tab=support](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1223133/zoom-recordings-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=support)

Best regards,  
Eduardo


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I create a project team in confluence
Asked by Rob Crick:

I would like to create a confluence team that I can use in @Mentions to avoid having to mention a large number of individual people.

Confluence in the Cloud help suggests it can be done in the People listing. However I can't see this option in the On Prem version using V7.4.0.

Is this an option that Admin could have locked down or is the feature not available in the server version ?


Answers:
author: Monique Khairuliana[ServiceRocket]
body: Hey [@Rob Crick](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4133928) , I don't think it's available in Server. This is the documentation about [mentions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/mentions-251725350.html) in Server and they only suggested about the [Feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-23015) to extend to group mentions.

comments: author: Rob Crick
body: Thx Monique - this explains why I can't use the feature. Many thanks, Rob


author: Sedera Randria
body: Hi [@Rob Crick](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4133928)

Do you know that using the Share function you can notify several users or even groups? What do you think about this workaround?

![2020-10-21_16-51-39.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/115206i8281CCA1D65B0E21/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-10-21_16-51-39.jpg")

comments: author: Rob Crick
body: Thx Sedera - not quite the workaround I needed for a large number of mentions, Rob


author: Rob Crick
body: Workaround for a big list of mentions:

1) Create a "reference Page" with all the team listed as mentions for example 20 mentions. (at creation it will broadcast to all mentioned)

2) Refer to the reference page each time you want to broadcast to your team, copy the full list of mentions

3) Paste mentions into your new text that you want to broadcast.

Not neat but effective.

Rob

comments: author: Sedera Randria
body: [@Rob Crick](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4133928) , a quick addition to your Reference Page : list all participants in an Excerpt block.

Then, when I have to list people (without spaming everyone with notifications) in other pages, I can do it very easily :-)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Is there any way to update the comment of an old version of the attachment of a confluence page
Asked by JinquanZhang:

I want to find a way to update the comment of a old version attachment of a confluence page. I've tried the rest api /rest/api/content/{id}/child/attachment/{attachmentId}, but it seems that this rest api can only update the comment of the latest version of the attachment of a confluence page. If I tried to update old version one, the confluence log will throw an exception:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The attachment to be moved must be the latest version.  
at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.persistence.dao.hibernate.AbstractHibernateAttachmentDao.moveAttachment(AbstractHibernateAttachmentDao.java:392)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.attachments.CachingAttachmentDao.moveAttachment(CachingAttachmentDao.java:208)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.DefaultAttachmentManager.moveAttachment(DefaultAttachmentManager.java:408)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.DefaultAttachmentManager.moveAttachment(DefaultAttachmentManager.java:419)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.DelegatorAttachmentManager.moveAttachment(DelegatorAttachmentManager.java:181)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.CachingAttachmentManager.moveAttachment(CachingAttachmentManager.java:143)


Answers:
author: Shai Shapira
body: Hi, Were you able to find a solution for this?


Tags: attachment

comment

confluence-server

rest-api

server
SAML SSO failed - Confluence
Asked by Krishna Kumar Yadav:

Hi All,

We had recently copied all the confluence data from dev to test environment. SAML SSO configuration were also copied as part of copy. After this activity, we are not able to login using SSO and displays below error. we have updated all the configuration of test environment.

**Handling SAML-message failed: no UserID found in attribute UserNameAdjusted or UserNameAdjusted is not present.**

Kindly assist to resolve this issue.


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: SAML SSO is not out of the box functionality for Confluence Server, so here are the steps for help:

1. Go to **Confluence Admin \| Manage Apps** and locate your SAML SSO app
2. Expand the listing and click on **Support and issues** to find out about their support
3. Ask the relevant vendor for support

---

Here's a list of SAML SSO apps that it might be:  
[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence\&query=SAML](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=SAML?)


Tags: confluence-server

server
WAF rule SQL injection
Asked by kumar_ankush_in_bosch_com:

My Confluence search engine is working. Whenever user is try to search it automatically change to logout screen.

After checking the root cause, This is happening beacuse of the WAF rule configured for SQL injection is blocking this particular request. SQL injection is also important for us.

We have hosted our application on AWS servers and WAF is also provided by AWS only.

Is there any workaround, Which we can perform on AWS WAF rule or application side to solve this issue.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The short and brutal answer to this is that your WAF rule is inadequate.

Confluence searches are done in CQL (well, the "advanced" ones anyway), which does look a bit like SQL, so I understand the failings of the more primitive injection protection methods there - they're throwing false positives based on plain input instead of an understanding of what it's actually going to do.

But CQL entry (and the rest of Confluence) isn't a SQL injection vector, CQL is sanitised and totally divorced from the SQL. All you can do is correct the WAF with something like "If Confluence, allow it" type rules.


Tags: aws

confluence-server

server
Does anyone have information on good templates that may be available for for technical docs?
Asked by Bradley_Cramer:

Looking to see if there are solutions for solid technical content layout that would work in Confluence.


Answers:
author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hi [@Bradley_Cramer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4133538)

welcome to this wonderful community

Which version are you running? I made the best experiences creating my own one.


Tags: confluence-server

documentation

server

wiki