youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Anyone licensing confluence content to customers?
Asked by James Taylor:

We have a confluence repository full of our best practices. We have a client who has asked about licensing it. Anyone got any tips or suggested plugins for helping us manage licensed content? If we just give the client a confluence repository there's no way to stop them making copies and giving it to someone else but every search for licensing and conflunce just returns information about confluence licensing not about licensing the content stored there.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority
body: I would just include some identifying metadata in it, and have a ToS and NDA attached with each sale. If you spot that metadata in the wild, you can hold them to it. If someone wants to strip the metadata and share it anyways, then there is likely no way to stop them. They could just screenshot anything you gave them.

comments: author: James Taylor
body: Thanks but that won't work as 99% of these would be behind a firewall and would not show in public. I was hoping someone had developed a licensing plugin or similar


author: Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority
body: I am not sure I understand. Is your worry that 1 team will have bought the best practices, but others haven't? And that it will get shared internally?


author: James Taylor
body: My concern is that we license it to a company who then install it on premise. At that point there is no way to stop them exporting it and giving it to another company to install on a different on-premise confluence repository.

I'm looking for something that will let me manage this and, ideally, help me update them or see when they need to be updated. E.g. a plugin that communicates with a license server and that prevents access if it can't communicate periodically or simialr.


Tags: licence
How do I enable the sidebar?
Asked by Kevin Meggs:

I have tried everything I can think of. I work for a tiny company now and we just started using confluence so no one knows anything. I've worked with confluence at other locations before and it currently looks nothing like I remember. Here are some images to show the situation. Someone else initially set it up

The current "sidebar:"

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3619i0882F60D5F1A3C8D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

My Current Permissions:

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3620i332F5089BBF23E25/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

Current Theme:

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3621i8064CC7D63862891/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

My "Sidebar" options:

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3622i9F457BA249AD7C24/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")The desired sidebar (taken from official confluence 6.3 notes. Just want something close to this):

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3623i3C0FDD973F7FF6F4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Kevin,

Do you happen to be on a Confluence Cloud server? You can tell if you are if your URL ends with \*.atlassian.net.

If so, it appears you may have opted into on the [New Look Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/new-navigation-and-a-new-look-for-confluence-881536766.html). You can read more about this new look as well as where your favorite features went from the above article.

If you decide to turn it off for now, you can do so by clicking on your avatar photo in the bottom left-hand corner and select the option to turn it off. Please be advised in the future it will no longer be possible to disable, so it will be helpful for you to review the above post I sent you to get familiarized with the new Confluence.

Let us know if you have any questions!

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Kevin Meggs
body: Sad to hear that, Reminds me of Win8 which had no place being on a non mobile device.

Realy dislike the current sidebar set up where I have to dig through multiple menus to get a proper navigation sidpar containing the page layout.


author: Shannon S
body: Kevin,

Thank you for your feedback. When you turn off the New Look on Confluence, you can submit your personal feedback there, and it will help to improve the New Look Confluence for the future!

Take care!

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Display a date relative to another date in Confluence
Asked by Hannah Ling:

Hi everyone,  
I've done some googling and searching for this already, but I was wondering if any of you could help me. Is there any macro that would help me display dates relative to a single date? For example, if our release is August 28th, and I needed something done 5 days before then, it would display August 23rd, but if I changed August 28th to August 30, it would automatically change to August 25?

Is there anything like this that exists already, and if not, do you have any advice to help me create it?

Thank you so much!


Answers:
author: John Corwith
body: how do you see you/your user configuring this? and updating it?

2 parameters in a macro?

1 parameter in the macro and one in the macro body/box?

I assume you will be setting more than just the release date and one item, like you will want to set the release date and a number of things that have to be done before the release. So you will want to set the release date, descriptons of what has to be done and the number of days before the release for each description. Then you will want the descriptions and the dates displayed...


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Hannah,

This is not currently possible in Confluence, but you may be able to configure a [User Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html) for this if you are on Confluence server.

This was discussed a bit in [another Community post](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Calculate-a-date-based-on-another-date/qaq-p/134611), so you can have a look at the solutions there.

Let us know if you have any questions about this.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Failed to add user directory
Asked by Mark Mercer:

The instructions on this page (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/connecting-to-crowd-or-jira-for-user-management-229838465.html>) lead me to an error.

Connection test failed. Response from the server:  
Failed to create remote crowd client

I've set up the proper account in JIRA and tried adding the user directory in confluence, but when I click on Test Settings it always returns that error.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Mark,

There are a few things that might cause this. Here are a few things you can try to start:

1. Can you ensure that the Confluence Server instance URL (or IP Address) has been added to the [JIRA User Server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver074/allowing-connections-to-jira-for-user-management-881683364.html) or [whitelist](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver074/configuring-the-whitelist-881684186.html) settings?
2. Configure any proxy or firewall that might block the access. You can try following this: [Configuring Web Proxy Support for Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-web-proxy-support-for-confluence-117068.html)
3. Bypass any proxies you may have set up. For example, if JIRA and Confluence are on the same server, use 127.0.0.1 to connect.

Alternatively, you may be able to review your Confluence logs and it may give you more details on why the failure is occurring.

Let us know of any progress or if you obtain further details, or if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Mark Mercer
body: \[SOLVED\]

it was as simple as this:

for Server URL I entered: 192.168.2.180

but when I changed it to: <http://192.168.2.180> everything worked perfectly.


author: Shannon S
body: Mark,

Glad it was a simple fix and you were able to resolve the issue!

Take care!

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


Tags: jira

user
Problem with Content by Label Macro
Asked by jou gr:

Hello,

I have a problem with this macro. I created new label "tab-contract-activities" and I created this macro with label, but the macro does not return date.![1.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3616i66C83A16CE54916A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "1.png")

The othe macro with label "kb-partner-information" works correctly.

The macro is the same, only change the label:

![3.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3617i5A112D968671C953/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "3.png")![2.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3618iCF894D1F82F7725D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2.png")

Can you help me please? Is there a wrong configuration?

NOTE: The "tab-contract-activities" is new and created by me and the "kb-partner-information" is old.

Thank you,


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello there!

Have you [Reindexed Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-index-administration-148844.html) lately? I would recommend giving that a shot, as it tends to resolve this issue.

Let us know how it goes or if you continue to have issues displaying the data.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Is there a way to move the contents of a section to a new page?
Asked by Matthew Layfield:

Outside of creating a new page first and then copying and pasting, is there a way to quickly move sections on a page to new pages? I frequently find myself rethinking how I should be structuring things, and this would make things much easier.


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: I don't know if I understand your use case correctly. Especially if 'section' adresses a logical section of a page (starts with a heading and some content), the section macro or layout sections.

If you use the Confluence [Section Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/section-macro-51872531.html), you can easily drag and drop the content within a page. If you use the [Excerpt Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-macro-148062.html) you can reuse this content via transclusion in another page.

I personally do not use any of the two. I use the [Section Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/ugNk) from our [commercial projectdoc Toolbox](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/EAFk) (I'm one of the developers, therefore I'm biased :-)). It has the following advantages:

* easy drag-and-drop **within** a page
* has a title (with heading level that gets adjusted according to the context - see [Heading Level Transposition](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/display/PDAC1/Heading+Level+Transposition))
* supports multi-transclusion - see [Content Reuse](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/display/PDAC1/Content+Reuse)

More about sections in [Section in Action](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/gAlwAg).

If you only need drag-and-drop within a page, then there is a [free but limited version of the Section Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/p4aj) (without transclusion or heading level adjustment).

If you are looking for drag-and-drop between pages, then this all does not help you. :( But if selecting a macro (with all contents) with a single mouse click, cut/copy it out of one page and paste the whole thing into another page (with adjustment of the title heading level) suits your use case, you might want to give it a try.


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Matthew,

Can you let me know how you would like to see the sections work when moving between pages?

I considered your question and made the following feature request:

- [CONFSERVER-53033](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-53033)

I think it would be beneficial if you could simply drag-and-drop entire sections elsewhere on the same page, or even between pages.

If this is what you're looking for, please feel free to vote on my feature request. If not, can you please clarify what you would require?

Thank you!

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Confluence REST API, Create new page does not work, update are working well
Asked by Aliaksandr Shchurko:

Hello,

I'm trying to use postman tool to create API call for creation of new confluence page.

I've also used python console too for that, but in any casese it's does not work.

```
POST /confluence/rest/api/content/ HTTP/1.1
Host: leverxeu.atlassian.net
Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 986c9484-c4e6-87be-891c-6ba1b7e079dd

 {
 "title": "My new title",
 "type": "page",
 "space": {"key":"LXEMP02"},
 "body":{
 "storage":{
 "value":"<p>New page data.</p>",
 "representation":"storage"
 }
 }
 }
 
```

System always return the same response if you will call the same endpoint with GET method. No errors no messages always code 200

Could somebody help me with that?

REST API for updating page are working well.

```
PUT /confluence/rest/api/content/91980485 HTTP/1.1
Host: leverxeu.atlassian.net
Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 911456d9-b5b1-1440-4686-7de6f51d492c

{"id":"91980485","type":"page",
"title":"new page","space":{"key":"LXEMP02"},"body":{"storage":{"value":
"<p>This is the updated text for the new page</p>","representation":"storage"}},
"version":{"number":2}}
```


Answers:
author: Aliaksandr Shchurko
body: I've used wrong documentation and end point:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+REST+API>

comments: author: Robert Metcalf
body: I have the same problem. I am sending a POST to <http://wiki.xx.ac.uk/rest/api/content/>

It dosen't matter if I give invalid JSON all I get back is a 200 OK and the results as if I ran a get.

I am able to update pages by sending a PUT to

<http://wiki.xx.ac.uk/rest/api/content/913>

The documentation you point to is the one I am using. Can you tell me which documentation you are using, which you were using and why there is a difference between the two?


author: Spencer Gilbert
body: Did your issue ever get resolved [@Robert Metcalf](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/38877) ? I'm having the same issue right now as well. The confluence server API always returns a list of pages I didn't request to GET when I try to POST a new page to a wiki.


author: Matt Leicht
body: Make sure you are using HTTPS. I was using HTTP by mistake and I believe the server was redirecting it to a GET request thus always returning response 200.


author: deniskutovskiy
body: [@Matt Leicht](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1974359) Accidental using of HTTP was my issue. Thanks!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

developer

rest-api
Confluence Price Increase
Asked by Jen:

The recent price increase nearly ++doubled our monthly committment++, I image this has caused a scramble in other orgazations as well. We all have budgets.

I've been searching for a ++**benefts sheet**++ that clearly outlines the benefits which sustantuate the abrubpt price increase shift.

Does anyone have any feedback, information, resources that will allow me to **reconfirm the financial Value in Atlassian Confluence**?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Vronik
body: Have you managed to see it?


Tags: cloud

licence
My Spaces - Font White on White Background
Asked by David Novak:

In the "My Spaces" list in the left nav all my space names are in white and I'm using a white background. Occassionally with Modzilla I see black font in the "My Spaces" section, chrome never, it's always white.

Is there a setting to control font color in the left nav?

To note - all other font is black on my white background. It's just the "My Spaces" section where I'm having white font on white background issues.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi David,

The left nav can be customized but if it's white instead of grey then it's probably already customized somewhat.

Please let us know more: Are you using a custom theme? What version of Confluence are you running?

Please attach a screen shot (using the little camera button) so I can better understand what the My Spaces section looks like in your sidebar.

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: David Novak
body: Hi Ann.

I was just going to get you that screen capture but now it's a gray bar with black text. No more white. No config changes here on my side.

We are on the latest version of Ondemand. I'll admit I'm having a tough time finding the exact version number.

It has mysterously fixed itself and all team memebers are now happy.


author: AnnWorley
body: "All team members are now happy" that is music to my ears. Have a great week!
How can I include an ampersand (&) in a code block macro?
Asked by Michael Lowry:

I would like to include literal ampersands (\&) in code blocks using the code block macro. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Could you be more specific? As far as I know, the Confluence Code Block macro supports ampersands in the code. Is there something specific you're trying to do or some specific problem you're running into?

comments: author: Michael Lowry
body: I discovered that the ampersand (\&) is replaced with the corresponding HTML entity (\&amp;) whenever it is followed by a dollar sign ($).

![Ampersand in code block macro.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3596i9CBE1FF04E75D737/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Ampersand in code block macro.png")

Other ampersands are rendered correctly.


author: Michael Lowry
body: I found that the problem does not happen when the default syntax highlighting is enabled, but only when we use a [custom one](https://community.automic.com/discussion/7915/syntax-highlighting-for-ae-scripting). I gather the problem lies therein. I'll see if I can fix it.


author: Matthias Pigulla
body: Just stumbled across this as well.

Using a "code block" macro,

```
foo & bar
```

will be shown as-is, but

```
http://host/foo&bar?
```

will turn into

```
http://host/foo&amp;bar
```

I suspect that's bug, probably some filter trying to escape URLs for \<a\> tags?
Impossible to add empty line for space inside the page content
Asked by Hananya Beck:

Hi

I am using the cloud version with the new interface.

When i write\\edit a page and press some times the Enter key in order to insert empty lines for spaces then in the edit mode all works fine (i see the empty lines).

But when i publish the page (in Watch mode) there are any empty lines. All these lines are removed.

How i can insert empty line for space inside the page content?


Answers:
author: Ang?lica Luz
body: Hello everyone,

As this thread is from 2017, I would like to give an update about how to add empty lines on Jira and Confluence Cloud when using the new editor.

**Confluence:**

To add empty lines, you can use Shift + Enter or just Enter.

**Jira:**

The new editor was introduced on the new issue view and it uses markdown.  
To add empty lines on comments and description you can use Shift + Enter, Enter or**//** , it will depend on the version of the editor.  
As the new issue view and next-gen projects are constantly being improved and the rollout of the changes don't happen for all instances at the same time, if you have the previous editor, you may use **//** and for the new editor, you can use Shift + Enter or Enter. If you have the previous version, don't worry, soon your instance will receive an update with the new version.

**Previous version:**

![Screen Shot 2019-05-31 at 13.00.49.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/56294iE214263B79B70252/image-dimensions/537x73?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2019-05-31 at 13.00.49.png")

**New version:**

![Screenshot 2019-05-31_14-48-31.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/56295iB142F8BA618D3910/image-dimensions/419x114?v=v2 "Screenshot 2019-05-31_14-48-31.png")

Hope this clarifies!  
If you have any question about the editors for Jira and Confluence, please raise a new question.

Regards,  
Ang?lica


author: Hananya Beck
body: "Shift + Return" should do the trick.

comments: author: Ilguiz Latypov
body: Someone please unaccept this answer. Atlassian in its wisdom did not map Shift+Return to a non-visual construct and did not take care of testing it in bullet lists.


author: Ilguiz Latypov
body: The proper answer that works in bullet lists and JIRA comments follows:

* Use the "text" edit mode.  

* Type two backslashes in one line and two more backslashes in the next line:  

  \\\\  
  \\\\  

* Switch back to the Visual mode.  

* Ask the vendor to reconsider the year 2008 bug, part of their package to do away with the text editor.  

  <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-5928>
Panel macro not working after space copy
Asked by Vladimir Stankovic:

Hi guys,

We are using confluence for our online documentation / user guide.

Our latest version doc is one space, but we also archive to other spaces for previous versions of our software.

Our home page consists of Panel macro widgets with feature pages which are selected by given labels.

However, when we archive / copy space to another these widgets don't work, event though labels are copied just fine.

Please find images:

Current version doc (fine): ![Current doc.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3594i8F1EB58EECC8C242/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Current doc.png")

Archived version doc (not fine): ![Archived doc.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3595i4ECC2193199A86C9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Archived doc.png")

Do you perhaps have an idea how to workaround this problem?

Or, could it be corrected?

Thanks,

Vlada


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Vlada,

Thank you for confirming that. It appears that indeed the Content by Label macro no longer works at least as of 5.10.X according to the bug ticket [CONFSERVER-43769](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-43769). We can verify it worked as of 5.7.

Can you confirm your Confluence version so we can see if this applies to you?

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Vladimir Stankovic
body: Tnx Shannon,

I'm watching this bug now.

I can't verify earlier work, unfortunately.

Our current version is 5.10.2.

All the best,

Vlada


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Vlada,

Do you happen to have any filters set on the Content By Label macros? I've conducted a test on my own instance, and I'm able to break it when I have a filter set, for example, labels for **Current Space** only.

![Screen Shot 2017-07-27 at 2.36.23 PM.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3654i81B01C3FDFD054A9/image-dimensions/586x363?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2017-07-27 at 2.36.23 PM.jpg")

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Vladimir Stankovic
body: Tnx Shannon,

Yes, I have Current space filter.

I was able to copy labels now, but for some reason I am not able to Archive space to verify if labels will apply then.

I will get back with update as soon as I have it.

Cheers!

Vlada


author: Shannon S
body: Vlada,

Thank you for your confirmation! We will await your response.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


author: Vladimir Stankovic
body: Hi Shannon,

I've reproduced the issue.

Labels are gone now that I've archived the space.

So, Content by label macro doesn't work while space is archived.

Any ideas how to fix it?

Tnx,

Vlada