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Jira Issue Macro with alternate displays?
Asked by Charlie Hubbard:

I'm trying to use the Jira Issue Macro in Confluence to create a dynamic table on information. Currently I'm displaying a single Jira Issue, but I can't control what pieces of information are displayed about that issue. I'd like to display an issue but add/remove relevent Jira attributes to that issue. Is there no way to do this without writing my own macro? This is a big problem for OnDemand customers because we can't add our own macros (serious bummer). I could use the table, but it's so limiting. I have a more compact display of multiple issues. Is there a way to change the display of multiple issues?


Answers:
author: Earl McCutcheon
body: Hello Charlie,

I believe what you are trying to accomplish if I understand your question fully is to have the JIRA issue macro display More than a single issue from multiple projects, as well as edit the Fields that are displayed.

If this is correct this can be accomplished by inserting the Macro and using a JQL query in the search field to narrow down the results to the desired result range (The Query can be as simple as a single project or as complex as you need it to be, see [Advanced Searching](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Searching "Advanced Searching") for more information)

exe JQL for multiple project search: Project = "Demonstration Project" or Project = "Test Project"

You can select from the issues listed in the search, or select all issues. Then to edit the content of the table sleect Display options at the bottom to determin which fields will be displayed as columns.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
When I share a space, do user get notify automatically?
Asked by Amanda Chu:

If I share a space and then I create/make changes to child pages under that space. Do the user get notify automatically?


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Nope, the user need to mark hinself/herself as a watcher to get the notifications, sharing the space will only send the user a notification email :).

tks,

David

comments: author: Amanda Chu
body: Thanks David!


author: Deividi Luvison
body: You Welcome Amanda,

In case I was to reply your question could please mark this as 'Answered'?

That will help our community in case more people have similar doubt's :).

Thanks and Regards,

David\|Atlassian Support


author: Amanda Chu
body: Is checking the check mark indicating you answered my question?


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Yep, thanks a ton :).


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a minimum page title length for Confluence?
Asked by Marco Peters:

Hey all,

We have a page with the title "BE" that is not found when searching on the word "BE". The word 'be' is not a very practival and descriptive title and the author should try to find a better title but we are also wondering what caused the search engine not finding this page.

Is there a minimum title length for pages for the indexing of pages?

Kind regards,

Marco


Answers:
author: Marco Peters
body: I found out that Lucene uses a STOP FILTER. This filter contains a number of words that are not searched for because they tend to be used very often. One of these words is 'be'. This was the reason why our page was not found.


author: Davin Studer
body: Most search engines throw out common words such as; the, and, an, a, be, is, etc. The returned hit would typically be too large if those common words were included in the search index.


author: Marco Peters
body: Hello John,

We've made some steps in analysing this problem. It seems there is no problem with having a page title of only two characters. It seems that it is the word 'be'. It is a very common English word and this maybe causes Confluence not generating a search result.

Searching for the word 'is' also results in 0 hits.

We are using Confluence 5.4.

Do you know how Confluence or Lucene deals with very common words that have a very high chance being part of almost every page's content?

Kind regards,

Marco


author: JohnA
body: Hi Marco,

I don't believe there is a minimum length for page titles to be indexed, although if you are using a version of Confluence earlier than 5.2 then your search will be running on the old Lucene version and that is significantly less reliable than the new version we are now using. I forget exactly which versions of Lucene we upgraded from and to, but I believe it was at least 2 major version, (from v2.x to v4.x), and that has significantly improved Confluence's indexing and search capabilities so upgrading might be something to consider. You can read a bit more about the new and improved search in the v5.2 release notes: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.2+Release+Notes#Confluence5.2ReleaseNotes-Fasterandcleanersearch>

All the best,  
John


Tags: titlepage
Is it save to clean "delete" the content of the viewfile - Folder?
Asked by Gilbert Janeselli:

Hi;

after upgrading from Confluence 5.2 to the recent 5.3 the Powerpoint-Previews did not work anymore - so i looked around a little bit and found the folder "viewfile" with tons of -i think- previews in it.   
So i stopped the server, moved the files away, restarted the server and now the Powerpoint-Macro works again and obvioulsy makes new previews of PP-files in the folder.  

So - my question - is it save to solve such problems by deleting the preview-files?  

<br />

thks...


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Gilbert,

Deleting the files from the \<Confluence Home\> directory is not a show stopper, since during the startup Confluence will recreate any missing files that are necessary to start up, except for those kind of temporary files like the previews, which you already notice, the indexing stuff and etc.

Replying your question, yes is it safe, but always make a backup of the folder so you can avoid headaches by restoring these temporary files in case you get any unpleasant surprises :).  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support


Tags: confluence-administration
Crystal reports reporting tool
Asked by Yumidu Jayarathna:

Is there any Crystal reports reporting plugin which can be used with both JIRA and Confluence ?

It is better if this plugin would have functionality to add most commonly used measeures.

For an expmple if I configure this plugin with JIRA, it should have a in built function to get "Days in transition state"


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Crystal reports **is** a reporting tool itself.

If you want to use it, I'd strongly recommend a read-only user is used to read the database, and unless your installation is quite small, only running it against a replicated copy of your database (because it's quite easy for your users to create complex and often useless reports that load the database server). You'll need to build and maintain a data dictionary for each system, and update it on potentially every upgrade (that includes plugins too - since Active Objects arrived...)


Tags: jira
Converting content from another system
Asked by Ilana Sacknovitz:

We have legacy content that's currently in FrameMaker, being published to HTML5 via WebWorks e-Publisher. Can this content easily be converted to a Confluence Wiki?


Answers:
author: Ilana Sacknovitz
body: No simple solution available


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: The answer is "not really". No matter how much effort you put into it, any converted doc is going to get broken along some lines when moving between platforms. You could spend a week building the perfect template for migration, and then two weeks trying to figure out why it doesn't work.

Or you could just spend a week manually importing the docs. You can manually import/format ALOT of docs in a week. :)


author: Adrian Moerchen
body: Hi Ilana,

you may have a look at [Importing Content Into Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+Content+Into+Confluence#ImportingContentIntoConfluence-Importingwebcontent). There is a section about importing HTML and a [HTML to Confluence Importer](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/HTML+To+Confluence+Converter) noted. You may give this a try.

Another solution might be to let FrameMaker output into a more import-friendly format (if this is possible somehow) and still use some of the available importers.

Or just [hire us](http://www.communardo.de/home/atlassian-loesungen/) for helping you out ;)
Archiving Plugin for Confluence on Demand (web hosted)
Asked by Scott Paterson:

Hi all,

I'm new to Confluence, so sorry for the stupid question. I am trialling Confluence on-demand (web hosted) and desperately want to take advantage of the "Archiving Plugin for Confluence " feature (page expiry functionality). I have attempted to purchase the add-on and have been stopped by the fact that this option only looks to be for the internally hosted instance of Confluence only. Is there any way I can achieve this functionality without this plug in (with my on-demand instance?). Or is there another way I can upgrade my account or something to make this possible?


Answers:
author: Midori
body: Hi Scott!

We are the developers of the Archiving Plugin. There is a public feature request for this, please come and vote on this to increase its ranking: <https://midori.zendesk.com/entries/42610107-Archiving-Plugin-for-Confluence-On-Demand>

When it gains enough traction, we will most definitely implement it.


author: Sonesh
body: Hi @Ferenc Kiss \[Midori\] do you guys have plugin for this now?

comments: author: Midori
body: Make sure you vote for this: <https://midori.zendesk.com/entries/42610107-Archiving-Plugin-for-Confluence-On-Demand>

This is not available yet, but I cannot disclose more details at the moment.


Tags: confluence-cloud
simultaneous editing in a global space
Asked by Chris Seraidaris:

Can several authors access the same page in a Global Space at the same time? If not, what will B experience, if A is currently working in the same Global Space.

In other words, what is the best practice for 2 or more writers making changes to the same global space?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Chris,

Confluence will always do its best to ensure that nobody's changes are lost when multiple editors are working simultaneously on a page, and recently we also added in-app notifications to warn other authors that someone else is editing the page. You can read about Confluence's behaviour for your version by editing the following URL and changing the "DOC" section for "CONF\<VERSION\>", (for example Confluence 4.3 would be CONF43 and Confluence 5.1 would become CONF51 etc): <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Concurrent+Editing+and+Merging+Changes>

All the best,  
John
Provide a user with a drop down list to select from
Asked by Tony Stoughton:

Trying to have a field in a table, but want to limit users to pre-defined choices. The goal is have better filtering of issues. Is there a way to do this?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: It happens because HTML is stateless, unless you make it stateful (either with cookies or query string params or some other mechanism).

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Thanks Matthew.


author: Luther Hargrove
body: You should be able to add HTML to a confluence page depending on what version you are using. It could look something like this:  

\<select\>  
\<option value="volvo"\>Volvo\</option\>  
\<option value="saab"\>Saab\</option\>  
\<option value="mercedes"\>Mercedes\</option\>  
\<option value="audi"\>Audi\</option\>  
\</select\>

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Luther,

Thanks for this. I've tried it and it works. However, when you navigate away from the page and then re-open it, the option you selected reverts back to the option that is first in the list. Which makes it not very useful.

Do you have any idea why this is happening and how to stop it? I've added it using the HTML plugin (and direclty into the page's HTML). It works with the plugin.

Cheers.
How do refined wiki menus work?
Asked by Jonathan Simonoff:

I'm trying to understand what you can do with the menus in Refined Wiki. The only documentation I can find is [](http://demo.refinedwiki.com/display/rwot/Global+menu)<http://demo.refinedwiki.com/display/rwot/Global+menu>, but that seems to be talking about a single menu to which you can add items. On that very page, there is a menu bar with four mega menus, which is more the kind of thing I'm looking for. How do you do that with Refined Wiki, and what can you put in those menus? Can you have different menus in different spaces


Answers:
author: Andreas L?fgren
body: Hi Jonathan!

I am not sure which menu you are refering to. The link you provided describes the global menu found on the right-hand side. On the image you can also see the category drop-down menus on the top of a page, which are described more in detail here:

<http://demo.refinedwiki.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=30868471>

Categories can be used to organize spaces, external links etc. Let me know if you need more help!

// Andreas

comments: author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Thanks, Andreas.

I'm still unclear about this. Do you mean that the menus along the top are populated from the space categories? I'm talking about these menus (from that page):

![](../../upfiles/refined_menu.png)


author: Andreas L?fgren
body: Each one of the menus correspond to a category that you usually fill with spaces. However, the menus are global and not connected to specific spaces.

"Product Documentation" on [](http://demo.refinedwiki.com/)<http://demo.refinedwiki.com>is one category for example. When you click on it, that category then contains three subcategories (Themes, Plugins, FAQ) and those three contains different spaces. In addition to spaces, one can also fill the categories with external links. So basically, the menus are used to navigate between spaces.

Hopefully that clears things up!


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Thanks, Andreas!


author: Ethan Foulkes
body: Hi Andreas,How does RefinedWiki know which menu a space belongs to? I believe it used to use the space categories but it no longer seems linked to that...


author: Andreas L?fgren
body: Hi Ethan,In the past it was connected through labels, but since 4.0, a mapping between space -\> category is saved in the database instead. It is not connected to the space categories in confluence.


author: Ethan Foulkes
body: Slick! Have a little reworking to do but helpful that I can now use space categories for other things.


Tags: confluence-administration

menu

refined-wiki
Confluence page edits attributed to "Anonymous" on OD to DL migration
Asked by Scott Hung:

I am migrating OD Confluence to DL Confluence (5.4-OD-5-x64). I did a complete backup and restore - which works, on the whole. One thing wrong is numerous pages in different spaces attribute page edits to "Anonymous". In some cases, the page history also shows "Anonymous" and in other cases the page history shows the correct name (but the page will say "Created by Anonymous). The page \& page history in our OD instance shows correctly. Any ideas or similar experiences?

Thanks,  
Scott


Answers:
author: Scott Hung
body: It seems this is an Atlassian bug that's fixed or to be fixed: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31021)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31021>


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I control a Confluence macro from a custom field in JIRA?
Asked by John Seiferth:

I want to control the Status macro in Confluence (see screenshot) from a custom 'Project Status' field in JIRA (see screenshot). The idea is to be able to update the status of a project within the JIRA issue and have the results automatically display via a colored graphic (Green, Yellow, Red) on a Confluence page.

![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2014-02-25_at_11.08.57_.png)

![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2014-02-25_at_11.07.52_.png)

![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2014-02-25_at_11.28.25_.png)


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to do some coding in both Jira and Confluence to achieve that, including hacking the status macro to support it


author: Samuel
body: * [Nic Brough](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/users?username=nic%20brough)  
  Any idea of showing the custom status only in confluence?


author: Samuel
body: * [John Seiferth](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/users?username=john%20seiferth)  
  Were you able to find the solution for this?


Tags: custom-field

jira

macro
Is it possible to have Confluence content which is user-specific. Example John in the UK wants to see a UK weather report but Bob in New York wants New York weather.
Asked by douglas grant:

Is it possible to have Confluence content which is user-specific? Example: John in Glasgow wants to see UKweather forecast, Bob is New York wants New York weather forecast.

![prod-icon](../../m/atlassian/media/images/products/confluence_logo.png)


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Douglas,

I think the closest we have at the moment is the Language plugin, which identifies the users preferred language from their browser and then serves content specific to them: [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.language)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.language>

I don't know whether it would be possible to embed content in one of their macros and then deliver that to different users but that is about as close as we currently have to the functionality you are describing.

All the best,  
John


Tags: condition

content
How can I upgrade to the premium version of Adaptavist Content Formatting Macros in ondemand?
Asked by Peter Drier:

#### Adaptavist Content Formatting Macros {#toc-hId-1231478887}

Mentions having a premium verison in the store. Basic version is already enabled/included in OnDemand Confluence.

Can I upgrade to the Premium version? Store doesn't seem to have that option..


Answers:
author: Monika Turska [Adaptavist]
body: Hi Peter,

The premium macros, of the Content Formatting Macros add-on, are available only for Confluence Server (previously: behind the firewall) at the present day. Free macros are pre-installed on Confluence Cloud and therefore available for all users.

Thanks,

Monika Turska

Product Manager at Adaptavist


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Peter,  

I'd contact them through their contact information:  

> Adaptavist
>
> [plugin-support@adaptavist.com](mailto:plugin-support@adaptavist.com)
>
> [](http://www.adaptavist.com/w/about/contact-us/)<http://www.adaptavist.com/w/about/contact-us/>
>
I hope this helps.  
Cheers,  
WZ

comments: author: Peter Drier
body: This smells more like an atlassian question to me though. You guys built the store, other things in the store have an upgrade/try/buy option.. this one doesn't, and considering it doesn't say on the Formatting Macros store item how to upgrade to pro manually (nor to contact them), it seems like you're guessing.


author: Peter Drier
body: That answers the question.. unfortunate answer, but answered none the less.. Thanks.

If anyone else has an idea/plugin for having tabs on a confluence page (in the content), that's really what we were looking for.


author: Dave
body: It's not possible in OnDemand, the vendor would have to release an Add-On that was built for the platform.


author: Nathan Meor
body: I too am looking to use tabs in my on-demand instance. Anyone have any ideas on how to get this feature?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I import an excel file to a Confluence calendar?
Asked by Amanda Chu:

We have many weekly and monthly excel spreadsheet with important dates on it that it would be really helpful to import it to a Confluence calendar. The excel spreadsheet is an export from a 3rd system which cannot be replace by Confluence but having the calendar view would be really helpful for collaboration purposes. Can this be accomplish in Confluence calendar?


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Amanda,  

Confluence's calendar more known as Team Calendar only accepts files .ics. So if you could use a third party tool to do this conversion I believe it could work.

Cheers,  
WZ


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way to create and update all Confluence user profiles in a batch?
Asked by Amanda Chu:

We have 250 employees in the JIRA/Confluence system already and now we are ready to roll this out to the whole company. There are still 650 employees we need to create profiles for. Ideally we can link the profile image to a server so the employee don't have to update their own profile. Can this be accomplish?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Does you company have an LDAP or Active Directory server for machine logins? If so you can hook Confluence/JIRA up to it such that when a user is added in LDAP/Active Directory the user will be added automatically into Confluence/JIRA as well. In Confluence Admin go to Users \& Security -\> User Directories. I'm not sure where it is locatede in JIRA as I don't have JIRA but I know JIRA can do it too.

comments: author: Amanda Chu
body: Davin,

I forgot to mention, we are using our Google account to sync up with Confluence/JIRA. So we cannot connect to our Active Directory. Instead, is there a way to update user profiel using a file? Thanks!


author: Davin Studer
body: Check out the Confluence Command Line Interface like Bob mentioned. That would probably do what you need.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) has [addUser](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-addUser) . Depending on where the information is for the users, you may want to combine that with one of the run actions like: [runFromCsv](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-runFromCsv) or [runFromSql](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-runFromSql).

There is similar function in the [JIRA Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI)


Tags: confluence-administration
Jira issues macro tempMax not working
Asked by Marteinn Haraldsson:

I m creating a new macro that uses jiraissues and the tempMax is not working .. why ? can i change some how the jiraissues option totalissues value ?

it only shows the first 20 as it is the default value of the jiraissues option totalissues value.

\<ac:macro ac:name="jiraissues"\>

\<ac:parameter ac:name="anonymous"\>false\</ac:parameter\>

\<ac:parameter ac:name="renderMode"\>static\</ac:parameter\>

\<ac:parameter ac:name="columns"\>key;summary;assignee;status;type\</ac:parameter\>

\<ac:parameter ac:name="url"\>\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\&tempMax=1000\</ac:parameter\>

\</ac:macro\>

Can any one help me ? any suggestions?

i m using

* [Confluence](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) 5.3.1

<!-- -->

* by [Atlassian JIRA](http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira) (v6.1.1


Answers:
author: Marteinn Haraldsson
body: I found the solution my self ...

\<ac:parameter ac:name="maximumIssues"\>1000\</ac:parameter\>


Tags: jira