youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Embed html in confluence document
Asked by Nicolette Hussey:

My company has a confluence cloud account. Can I embed html code on a Confluence document?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: [@Nicolette Hussey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3287668) Welcome to the Community.

To answer your question the answer is ... not by default. However, there is an app that does allow you to do it.

[HTML Macro for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1212279/html-macro-for-confluence-cloud?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

comments: author: Nicolette Hussey
body: Thank you!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to find a suitable version for upgrade
Asked by suruchi ablish:

I am seeing this alert in Health Check - "Confluence version 6.4 is approaching End of Life. Please plan to upgrade Confluence within 49 days."

I tried to find out the next version for confluence with which I can upgrade. But there are couple of plugins in use which are incompatible and some of them needs upgrade. Can you please suggest me what is the best approach?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@suruchi ablish](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3117052)

first of all - an end of life warning is not too serious. When the 49 days are over, your Confluence will continue to work. Atlassian will just not support it anymore.

Have a look at the [upgrade matrix](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-upgrade-matrix-960695895.html). The release and upgrade note will tell you when you have to walk a specific upgrade path.

I recommend to just set up a second instance from scratch and restore the confluence 6.4 dump. Figure out which obstacles appear and which plugins work with which version.

And keep in mind to install a version that is not affected by an actual [security advisory](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-overview-and-advisories-134526.html "Confluence Security Overview and Advisories").

So long

Thomas


author: Davin Studer
body: Often times even though a Confluence app says it is not compatible it may actually be. The Marketplace requires app authors t go back in and specifically mark the apps as compatible. If the author has not done that then it is marked as incompatible. If the APIs behind the app have not changed then the odds are the app will still work. The best way to figure this out would be to create a non-production version of your Confluence and upgrade it. Then test the "incompatible" apps.
Is it possible to have multiple HTML macros running on a page? Only one works right now
Asked by Ashwin Pozath:

I have two separate html macros that I want to run which essentially are image slideshows. Currently when I try to run both of them, only one of the displays work. Has anyone else had this issue?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You can put multiple HTML macros on a page. However, that is also a somewhat big security risk. A more secure way to do it if possible would be to create users macros for your HTML content and put those on the page. But regards less there is no issue with putting multiple HTML macros on a page. I would suspect there is something in the JS that is not working correctly because it is included multiple time on the page.


author: Aleksandr Zuevich
body: Hi,

I suppose it depends on image slideshows. Maybe there are the same global variables used in these two html/js fragments.


Tags: html
how to change JUST the parent page and not lose its child pages?
Asked by Anton Gojcaj:

I am not able to change out the parent page with a different created page. The workaround is to copy all the child pages and move them. This will take an enormous effort. When trying to restructure the alignment it does not save.


Answers:
author: Sid
body: Hi [@Anton Gojcaj](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3498916)

Have you tried reordering the pages

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/move-and-reorder-pages-146407727.html>

comments: author: Anton Gojcaj
body: **I have. The reordering of pages will not save once I readjust them.**


author: Anton Gojcaj
body: Note: I have full admin permissions


author: Sid
body: are there any page restrictions to these pages? some time page restrictions also cause this issues, if so, please remove the restrictions and try to save


author: Sid
body: If still there is an issue, try to rebuild the ancestor tables -<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/rebuilding-the-ancestor-table-153948.html?_ga=2.165234748.2083485860.1563157009-380395785.1563007526>

because - The ancestor table records the parent and descendant (child) relationship between pages. Please try rebuilding it to reflect the changes:


author: Anton Gojcaj
body: No restrictions. The job was ran today as well.

The pages I want to move from the old parent page to the new page...does that new page need to be already a parent page to do so?


author: Sid
body: it need not be a parent page, once you change that changes should reflect. I am not sure what is the exact issue

But if you run this in your database are there any results? If so it means the ancestor tables are broken.

    SELECT A.ANCESTORID, A.DESCENDENTID, COUNT(A.DESCENDENTID)FROM CONFANCESTORS A, CONTENT BWHERE B.CONTENTID = A.DESCENDENTIDGROUP BY A.ANCESTORID, A.DESCENDENTID HAVING COUNT(A.DESCENDENTID) != 1ORDER BY 3 DESC???

If not try to do the workaround maybe


author: Kais Tounsi
body: are you working with python, php, html, ?

comments: author: Anton Gojcaj
body: None. This is within the UI


Tags: atlassian-support
Extracting filtered data from multiple pages to one summary page
Asked by Frances Holbrook:

Hi, I'm very new to confluence and would like to know if there is a way I can filter tables on multiple pages and then extract all this filtered data on to one 'Summary' page ? All these pages are from one project space.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: It depends on your tables. If you are talking about a table with multiple rows and columns then there is nothing built-in that can do that. However, if your table is a single row, or a single column where it is used to mainly hold key/value pairs then yes. Have you looked into the page properties and page properties reports macros?

comments: author: Frances Holbrook
body: Yes its multiple rows and columns that I need to filter for 'red' issues to summarise at meetings. I haven't looked into page properties reports macro's yet but I will now. Thank you for your help Davin.


author: Katerina Rudkovskaya [Stiltsoft]
body: Hello [@Frances Holbrook](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3498785) ,

You can try the [Table Excerpt and Table Excerpt Include](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Excerpt+and+Table+Excerpt+Include+macros) macros of the [Table Filter and Chart for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence) app which are now [available for Cloud](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/Cloud+and+Server+versions+comparison).

You just need the latest version of the app, thus you'll be able to use these macros.

Katerina  
Stiltsoft


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Upgrade from Confluence 6.3.3
Asked by Jon Gray:

I need to upgrade Confluence. We are currently on 6.3.3 (installed on one of our servers) which is now EOL and are on starter license. What version should I upgrade to and where can I get download from? For the DB we use RDS.


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

if you are on the careful side:

Try on a stage / test system first...

Best

JP


author: Alexis Robert
body: Hi [@Jon Gray](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3498709) ,

you can upgrade directly to the latest version of Confluence by following [this guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/upgrading-confluence-4578.html#UpgradingConfluence-1.Determineyourupgradepath).

Confluence can be downloaded [here](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download).

Let me know if this helps,

--Alexis


Tags: confluence-server

server
How do I fix the broken webpage that occurs for some some service desk users
Asked by Russell Creek:

Some users receive a broken page with text that reads "The webpage at hxxps://\<website\> might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address." Please advise on possible causes and solutions to this problem. Thank you very much for any guidance on this issue![Error 5.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/60749i0947DBA61954E46F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Error 5.jpg")


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This is either a network problem with reaching the page, or you have a broken plugin. The server's log (\<jira or confluence home\>/logs/atlassian-\<application\>.log) will tell you what the problem with the plugin is.
Deleted page are displayed in Blog Posts Macro
Asked by Laurent Bierge:

Hi,

Users have asked me several time to remove something from the list of Blogs displayed in the "Blog Posts Macro".

The only thing i can do is to delete the blog post from the trash. That way, the blog post won't be displayed by the macro anymore.

Is there a reason why the "Blog Posts Macro" display deleted blog post ? Is there something to change to just have "living" blog post displayed ?

Regards,

Laurent


Answers:
author: Laurent Bierge
body: Hi,

Thank you for your answer :)

Actually it seems to be an index issue... On a dev environment when the blog post is deleted, it correctly disappeared from the macro.

On my prod environment my Index Queue is empty. If it's an index issue, the solution can't be reindexing every time I have the issue....

Do you have any suggestion ?

Regards,

Laurent


author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

could be a caching issue on your users side. Could be a bug in the blog post macro. Could be a corrupt search index.

Try a reindex of Confluence before deleting the blog post from the trash.

Best

JP


Tags: blog

macro
How to display a tree of pages including the parent page and its children on a separate page?
Asked by ??????? ?????????:

Hello!  
When using the "Child pages" and "Page tree" macros, only the child sub-pages are displayed, and the page that was selected in the macro setting (parent) is not displayed. How to display the full hierarchy of the selected page and its subpages, so that the parent is also displayed?

We need on one page to display the full hierarchy of the three sections in space:  
It should look like this.

**1. Parent page**   
1. Child Page 1  
2. Child Page 2  
3. Child page 3

**2. Parent page**   
1. Child Page 1  
2. Child Page 2  
3. Child page 3

**3. Parent page**   
1. Child Page 1  
2. Child Page 2  
3. Child page 3

When using the macros described above, only sub-pages are displayed, and the parent (specified when adding a macro) is not displayed.

Confluence 6.7.3


Answers:
author: Nicolai Sibler
body: Hi Dimitrij,

I think the closest way to achieve this out of the box would be to have the parent pages manually linked above the macro-generated page trees.

Regards,

Nicolai
After moving Jira and Confluence to a new server some link have old ip address
Asked by Marco Paris:

We have moved,

jira and confluence to a new server, we have follwed all atlassian documentaion changing the xml before import backup to new server and copy the home folder from old to new server.

We have changed tjhe base url in jira and confluence too but some confluence report jira reference wiht the old ip address how to solve this problem?


Answers:
author: Rafael Pinto Sperafico
body: Hi [@Marco Paris](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/629924) ,

Could you please provide a screenshot, so we can review where the IP address you have mentioned is being referred? This way we can provide you with more information on the problem you are facing and guide you to resolution.

Kind regards,

Rafael
Non-breaking space in page title
Asked by Alice:

Hi there,

Can you add a non-breaking space to a page title to control how the document title prints (for product names, for example)?

Thanks,

Alice


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: I can tell you how to do it on a Windows machine. Not sure if you can do the same thing on a Mac or Linux box. Put your cursor in the Title field and then hold the alt key and type 255 **on your number pad (not the numbers above the letters ... must be the number pad)**. It will put in ASCII 255 characters into the title, which is a non breaking space. Now, if this is a good idea or not is a different question. You could potentially confuse people as these look like spaces but they are not.

comments: author: Julia Anderson
body: On a mac it's option + spacebar. Thanks for inspiring me to find this and fix it!!


author: Alice
body: Thanks Davin, that did the trick. I will see whether that causes any other trouble, but it seems to work so far.

Alice


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to connect the old base Confluence (MS SQL)?
Asked by Alex Oreshkin:

1) Old server with Connfluence is currupted and cannot be recovered.

2) New server configured with new DB Connfluence

3) I replace the new base with the old one. Names and physical location are the same as on the old server.

result: Error while trying to connect to the service.

Stack Trace:\[hide\]  
com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set  
at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:149)

...

4) I return the new database (connection file MDF)

result: same error

How to connect the old base Confluence (MS SQL)?


Answers:
author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Alex Oreshkin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2077869) ,

I assume following, due to lack of information:

* you have copied the confluence.cfg.xml to confluence-home
* you adapted this file to fit to the new DB
* you configured the confluence-home path
* you have the right JDBC drivers for your Confluence/MSSQL version at place
* firewalls do not block any traffic between Confluence and DB
* you took the same confluence version as the crashed machine had

If you can answer the above all with TRUE, please post the complete log message.

So long

Thomas

comments: author: Alex Oreshkin
body: Thank you!

The problem was in the configuration of the JIRA.

Removed the old connections of the Confluence applications and user synchronization in JIRA. After that, I connected to the Confluence without errors (old DB).


author: Thomas Deiler
body: Ok. You didn't say that you also have Jira. Next time please provide as many information as possible.
Can I convert legacy FrameMaker 2015 files to Confluence?
Asked by Donna Burns:

The most recent posts re FrameMaker file conversion to Confluence were from 2016; has anyone found an efficient and painless way to make such conversions?


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: I am a huge fan of FrameMaker, but have turned to the dark side of Confluence because of the ease of collaboration. ;-)

I have not seen any workable methods. As strange as it may sound, it might be easier to export Frame to Word, then import the Word files. Then using the source editor, use regex to clean up the pages (or if you want, write scripts to do most of the cleanup).

While it is labor intensive, it probably ends up being the quickest way. And it would be possible to train clerical staff to do a lot of this work once you debug the process.

comments: author: Donna Burns
body: Many thanks for your quick response; turns out we are following in your footsteps for exactly the same reason :-)

As a trial, we are currently converting a smaller legacy FrameMaker 2015 document (along with its historical conditional text) into PDF, then using Acrobat Pro DC to export the PDF document into Word document. Heading numbers, etc. appear to convert well; however, cross-reference links are broken and will need tidying up in the Word document before importing the Word doc into Confluence....In your experience, once you import into Confluence:  

* Did you have to re-apply heading/paragraph styles in Confluence?
* \*IF\* you've imported conditional text in the past (which we wish to retain as a historical internal record ONLY and not share with our customers), did you find a way to retain that conditional text?  

  <br />


author: Bill Bailey
body: Well I would make the Word file as clean and plain-jane as possible. Don't try to preserve links. And maybe move away from things like numbered headings. Basically need to move from the FrameMaker to the Confluence domain.

Once you have a clean Word file, there is an import function, and you can set it up to break pages at heading levels (very useful for large docs). Headings will be preserved, but a lot of special formatting probably won't be (or may actually have to be cleaned out).

On the conditional text, how are you sharing your docs with Customers? On the same server, external server or via PDF?


author: Donna Burns
body: Hi Bill, and many thanks for your July 19 response. Discussions within our company are continuing re the way forward for our technical documentation (including several large legacy documents that are currently in FrameMaker); other newer documents from across our product range are in Word. As we move closer to a final decision re a collaborative writing/editing process, I would certainly like to continue our conversations (and perhaps invite one or two of the managers to join us, if you're OK with that).


author: Bill Bailey
body: Sure


Tags: confluence-server

framemaker

server
How can add Vertical or Horizontal Scroll bar in Table row ?
Asked by Aruna Auti:

How can add Vertical or Horizontal Scroll bar in Table row ?


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@Aruna Auti](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3498189)

You can't manually. In the cloud version, a horizontal scroll bar will probably appear when your table exceeds the max width of your screen or of the viewport.
How do I intergrate Confluence with BambooHR?
Asked by Aleksandra:

We keep all the information about the employees and company structure in BambooHR, but unfortunately it cannot visualize company structure in the way we need. We'd like to integrate BambooHR app with Confluence to try the *Users in Corporate Structure* plugin. BambooHR can give the data via API key - how can Confluence take it?


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Aleksandra](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3498386)

There are third party tools that could do this for you such as: <https://zapier.com/apps/bamboohr/integrations/confluence> or <https://tray.io/connectors/atlassian-confluence-bamboohr-integrations>

Regards


Tags: api

bamboohr

confluence-server

integration

server
"sudo scons board=z1 toolchain=mspgcc bootload=/dev/ttyUSB0 oos_openwsn" from python script
Asked by Ilkin Huseynzade:

Hi guys,

I have the problem to run the code from python script. It works fine in bash script or manually from terminal, but inside python script it is not successfully finish.

I briefly described the procedures in stackoverflow. I would be glad if you help.

<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57020556/command-works-fine-from-terminal-or-inside-bash-script-but-not-from-python-scrip>


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Could you post the question properly here? We aren't going to wander off to stackoverflow because you can't be bother to post in a better place for focussed problems (Don't get me wrong, stackoverflow is great for a lot of stuff, but when it tries to specialise, you get some really appallingly bad stuff - Atlassian, and many community members can't face SO, because some of the Atlassian "answers" there are so bad)
Language selection on start page
Asked by Lukas Blauensteiner:

Hy,

is it possible to put the language selection, on the main page of my public access space? Furthermore can i put actions on my language selection? That for example several guides and space are only available on certain languages?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hi [@IT\&I](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2905401)

have a look on [Scroll Translations](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211616/scroll-translations-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) - that's an Addon (Macro.. App... - choose your wording) for using several languages.

You can switch between available languages easily on every page but pay attention that your theme works with the addon.

You can set one or more languages for a space. We tested it and will start using it. It's really comfortable. Get more information [here](https://www.k15t.com/software/scroll-translations).

Hope this could help you.

comments: author: Lukas Blauensteiner
body: Exactly what I was searching for - Thank you so much!


author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: You're welcome! Always happy to help


Tags: confluence-server

language

server

space
Not able to access confluence
Asked by THENMOZHI KUMAR:

Getting Not permitted Error


Answers:
author: Sid
body: [@THENMOZHI KUMAR](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3498211) ,

You might need to check the permissions you have with your confluence admin

comments: author: THENMOZHI KUMAR
body: I was facing this problem from last week. I can able to use it before
Fixed row or column in table
Asked by Sonali Zaveri:

Within the new editing experience, there are a few questions I have about styling tables:

1. Can I make a header row or column fixed?

2. Can I make some borders thicker?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Sonali,

Good morning! Happy to help you with your question. We have a feature request for both, one of which I have just created:

* [CONFCLOUD-45670](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-45670) *Be able to change the thickness/width of the Table borders*
* [CONFCLOUD-67182](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67182) *Sticky table headers in view mode for tables in new editor*

Please log in and vote on the requests. You will automatically be added to the list of watchers and receive any updates in the future.

Let me know if I can help you with anything further.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can't move page
Asked by shin:

Either by drag and drop reordering in sidebar or by operation of moving to another space, I am blocked from moving a certain page. Upon drag and drop attempt, in top left corner, this modal appears.

How could I avoid this?


Answers:
author: Carlos Garcia Navarro
body: Hi Shin,

This page may help figure out the permissions needed to move pages to a another space:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/move-and-reorder-pages-146407727.html>

More specifically:

Notes about permissions {#toc-hId--1413630377}
----------------------------------------------

To move a page, you need the following permissions:

* 'Add' permission on the page you're moving, and
* 'View' permission on the page's parent page. If you're moving the page to a different parent, you need 'View' permission on the new parent.

To move a page into a different space, you also need:

* 'Delete' permission on the space you're moving from, and
* 'Add' permission on the space you're moving to.

If the page has restrictions, and you want to keep the page restrictions in the new location, you'll also need 'Restrict' permission on the space you're moving to. Alternatively, remove the page restrictions before performing the move.

Hope it helps,

Carlos

comments: author: Carlos Garcia Navarro
body: BTW, were you attaching a picture? I don't see it


author: CHARAN_KUMAR.PULIPAMPULA_EXT
body: Hi Team,

Getting an error while the pages moving from one space to another space was **the page name already exist**in the target space.

My question here is:

Can we create a page with same name in the two different spaces in the confluence cloud. if yes why i am getting an error?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud