youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Create JIRA Issues from Confluence when Field is required
Asked by Robin Peters:

Hey,

I can't use the new functionality of the interaction between JIRA and confluence to create issues "on the fly" with marking text. My Project has required fields that I can't full in this mask.  
If I chosse the JIRA Macro, this required field appears. Can I modify the "fast issue create"-dialog and add there the required fields?

Cheers,  
Robin


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Robin,

I believe this is not possible. I could [find this other answer](/questions/152182/adding-custom-field-for-create-jira-issue-screen-in-confluence) which has the same requirement.

This feature request is already in place: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32906)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32906>

I recommend to vote, watch and share with other employees to increase the chance of being implemented in the future.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi Robin,

this issue has been fixed into Confluence 5.4.4 Please, take a look here for more infomation [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23424)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23424>

What Atlalsian did, was to add a link to Jira creation panel if some required field have been defined for the issue type that you're trying to create from COnfluence.

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: Robin Peters
body: Thanks for your response. Will this effect the new "fast creation" too?  
If you mark a text and hoover above, you will get a small tooltip where you can *comment* or *create an issue*. And in this dialog, I have to add all necessary fields.


Tags: jira
Diagramly unwanted linking
Asked by Roswitha Gartner:

Hi,

I used diagramly (V 2.7.2) for a diagram, and hyperlinked some of the shapes.

The problem is, that other shapes have a hyperlink too, although I didn t set it.

So there is no link set, but it shows one - always to the Confluence page of the diagram itself.

This is not the case with every shape, but with some, and I need to get rid of that.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Roswitha Gartner
body: Hi,

the shapes AB, CD and XY are linked, the other shapes (IJ, EF, GH) are not. According to the UI, the properties are the same - there is no link behind them. Nevertheless in the confluence page AB, CD and XY link to the page of the diagram.

Exporting the diagram doesn t show the links, and uploading xml is not allowed, so atached is the xml as txt ;-) (diagram.txt)

```

```


author: Boris
body: Could you upload the diagram file here so we can analyze the problem?


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly
No Answers Update Notifications
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Hello,

I haven't recieved any notifications from Answers since the end of last week. Is anyone else experiencing this too? I don't think anything's changed on our IT systems, and all my other connections to the internet are all working properly.

Cheers.


Answers:
author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: Hey Mick,

I checked our servers and we're still churning out emails -- are you sure they are getting trapped by a spam filter somewhere?

Cheers,  
Dennis

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Dankjewel Dennis.

zeg, dat was de antword - doh! Hou dom ben ik? :)

Ik zal het nou fixen...

groetjes.


author: Mick Davidson
body: OK, Ik heb mijn email settings verandeerd en nou werkt het alweer.

Heel graag bedankt! :)


Tags: community

notification
How to sort array items in a user macro using velocity?
Asked by Stefan Baader:

I want to displays members of a group, sortet by the displayName instead of the username.  
Something like this:

```
{code}#set($memberslist = $userAccessor.getMemberNamesAsList($group))#set($myArrayList = [])#foreach( $member in $memberslist )  $myArrayList.add( {"fullname" : $action.getUserFullName($member) }) #end#foreach( $item in  $sortTool.sort($myArrayList, "fullname:asc") )   &lt;li&gt; $item.toString() #end{code}
```

```
  
```

This does not work for me. Can you help me?


Answers:
author: Stefan Baader
body: Sana,

many thanks. Sorry, I didn't reply to your hint.

Unfortunately that solution didn't work for me. I got an exception error.

So that request is still open (for me). Any idea (someone else)?

I have now a new similar task: I get the descendants of a given page in a user macro. I want to sort that pages by the last-modify-date. Again: how can that be done?

My user macro so far:

```
## Macro title: Page descendants## Macro has a body: N## List all descendant pages below a give page ## Developed by: Stefan Baader## Date created: 13/10/2015## Installed by: Stefan Baader## @param Page:title=Page|type=confluence-content|required=true|desc=Select a page do use#set( $pages = $pageManager.getPage($space.key, $paramPage).getDescendants() )Descendants of page "${paramPage}"&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Seite&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="white-space:nowrap;"&gt;Vers. Nr.&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="white-space:nowrap;"&gt;Aktualisiert am&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;#foreach( $page in $pages) &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="$req.contextPath/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=$page.id"&gt;$page.title&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;$page.getVersion()&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="white-space:nowrap;"&gt;$page.getLastModificationDate()  &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;#end&lt;/table&gt;
```


author: SanaS
body: Have you looked at this one: [](/questions/218237/sort-list-of-objects-in-velocity)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/218237/sort-list-of-objects-in-velocity>

It helped me with my sorting issues :)
How can i replace the checkbox image from the task-list li?
Asked by AndreasC:

Hi,

ive tryed to replace the checkbox images from the inline-task-list for the pdf export but cant figure out how to get that working, on the exported pdf i can see only the link but not the new image. Thats my code:

```
.wiki-content ul.inline-task-list li:before {          content: "url(/download/attachments/18122279/checkbox.svg)";    height: 22px;           }
```

Is there any (other?) way to get this working?

Thank you


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Try using [CSS Data URIs](http://css-tricks.com/data-uris/) instead.

Here's a handy online image to data URI converter:  
[](http://websemantics.co.uk/online_tools/image_to_data_uri_convertor/)<http://websemantics.co.uk/online_tools/image_to_data_uri_convertor/>


Tags: css

export

pdf
How to hide metadata ?
Asked by mika:

How can I hide the author / edit info running onDemand Confluence ?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Mika, that is something that could be achieved in *self hosted instances* using the following markup:

```
&lt;style&gt;  #com-atlassian-confluence .page-metadata  {    display:none;   }&lt;/style&gt;
```

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS>

Currently that is not achievable in OnDemand, there is a [feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6189) for this item under our issue tracker.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence 5.4.2 Changes Color Scheme when I switch from admin to space page
Asked by Sumit Kumar:

Is there a way to control this behavior ?

Thanks in advance..!!

Sumit


Answers:
author: Sumit Kumar
body: The default colour scheme for the site will also become the default for all spaces within it. However, it is possible for space administrators to configure a different colour scheme for spaces from the space administration screens.
Confluence text select popup disable
Asked by Steve Kuo:

In Confluence, when I select some text, a little popup containing "Quote in comment" and "Create JIRA issue" appears. This popup is annoying as it obsecures the text underneath it. I often use text selection to mark a location in the document.

![](http://oi60.tinypic.com/24fbcs7.jpg)

How can I disable the popup (without disabling JavaScript)?


Answers:
author: Tim
body: Disable "Page Highlight Actions" Plugin from System-Add-Ons.

comments: author: Steve Kuo
body: Is this configurable on a per user basis? I looked under Settings ([](https://climate.jira.com/wiki/users/viewmysettings.action)<https://foo.jira.com/wiki/users/viewmysettings.action>) and don't see any system add ons configuration.


author: Tim
body: No, it is not a per user setting. The option I referred to is in the admin section [](https://foo.jira.com/wiki/plugins/servlet/upm/manage/system#manage)<https://foo.jira.com/wiki/plugins/servlet/upm/manage/system#manage>It can be disabled by a confluence administrator and will disable the popup for everyone.


author: Rihards Olups
body: 5 years later, has an option to disable this per-user appeared?

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65113> seems to indicate that it's not there yet, but that issue was about "cloud", perhaps there's something in the normal confluence settings?

That popup is highly annoying when selecting pieces of text to anchor reading, re-type a phone number or any other reason.
Find macro with specific parameter
Asked by Bimmel:

In older versions of Confluence, one use to be able search for macros via a search string like this:

```
"{foo:bar"
```

This would return a list of pages that uses the foo macro with a parameter of bar. Now, I just see a list of pages with those items as text within the page or as attachments.

Is there no way to do this anymore? I've already consulted the [Confluence Search Syntax](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Syntax) and a blog post called [How to search Confluence for usage of a macro](http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/) and while useful and insightful, they don't produce the results I'm looking for.


Answers:
author: Cedric Weber
body: Searching for this as well. This Issue is resolved since CONF 5.5.2 <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24568> but no information on the search-syntax.


Tags: macro

search
User appear many times in Confluence > People section, but mentions not working
Asked by Amit Kucheriya:

Hello,

I have 2 issues right now -

1. I am the admin for the JIRA-Confluence site and I see that my name appears around 4-5 times under the Confluence \> People section. How do I get rid of additional instances of me appearing under users section. Since I am using On-demand verison, I do not have option to re-index.

2. Second issue I have is that other users cannot add me using the Confluence Mention feature (@*myname*). I know some other forum mentioned it to be an issue with user not appearing in index, but that does not seem to be the case, since my name appears more than once.

Any help to resolve it will be helpful.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi Amit,

you can ask support for this issue here [](https://support.atlassian.com/)<https://support.atlassian.com/>

Hope this helps,

Fabio


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Product requirements blueprint index doesn't display all pages
Asked by John Elstad:

I had been using the requirements blueprint successfully for a couple weeks to write and display a few product requirements. Yesterday, someone else started adding pages and I also changed the names of some of the requirements pages. Today I noticed that the requirements index doesn't include all of the child pages. However, all of them display in the Child Pages section below.

I confirmed that all the pages have the "requirements" label, so I don't think that's the issue. I also don't see a correlation between those pages whose titles have changed and whether they display in the index. Finally, there is no correlation between who created the requirements and if they display in the index?

Any ideas?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: John Elstad
body: Figured it out. The Page Properties macro had inadvertently been removed from some of the pages and as a result, were no longer showing in the index.


Tags: blueprint

requirement
Excel 2007 read-only issue
Asked by Iakov Dlikman:

Hi all!

We are using Confluence 4.2.7, and Excel 2007. Opening an Excel-sheet results in an error message saying the file is opened as read-only.

Any suggestions or possible workaround?

Much appreciated.

Iakov


Answers:
author: rsperafico
body: Hi Iakov,

I would kindly ask you to right-click on your (.xls) or (.xlsx) file and check if the same is marked as read-only. If so, uncheck this option.

Alternatively,

If you are running **Windows**, please do the following command on your terminal as Administrator:

calcls \<PATH\>/\<TO\>/\<FILE\> /e /p {USERNAME}:{PERMISSION}

where:  
\<PATH\>/\<TO\>/\<FILE\>, correspond to where your file is located (e.g.: C:\\temp\\file.xls)  
/e, Edit permission and kept old permission as it is i.e. edit ACL instead of replacing it.  
/p, Set new permission  
{USERNAME}, please add your User (e.g.: C:\\Users\\Iakov)  
{PERMISSION}, permission can be:

* R - Read
* W - Write
* C - Change (write)
* F - Full control

Further information can be found on <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490872.aspx>

If you are running **Linux/Mac OS**, please do the following:

sudo chmod {USER}+{PERMISSION} \<PATH\>/\<TO\>/\<FILE\>

where:  
{USER}, user(s) who will be granted:

* u - User who owns the file
* g - Group that owns the file
* o - Other
* a - All

{PERMISSION}, permission can be:

* r - Read the file
* w - Write or edit the file
* x - Execute or run the file as a program

\<PATH\>/\<TO\>/\<FILE\>, correspond to where your file is located (e.g.: /var/temp/file.xls)

Kind regards,  
Rafael


author: Iakov Dlikman
body: Thanks Timothy, thanks Rafael.


author: Timothy
body: Are you facing this issue ([](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27106)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27106>)?


Tags: confluence-administration

ms-excel

ms-office

read-only
Polish language pack missing fields for create dialog
Asked by Felix Grund (Scandio):

We installed the polish language pack on an enterprise Confluence installation and we found that many fields in the create dialog are still in English:

![](../../upfiles/screen.jpg)

Are these fields not translated in the language pack?


Answers:
author: jjaroczynski
body: Hello Felix,

As Timothy mentioned you are welcome to add/fix translations to Polish language pack on your own.

Atlassian does not support Polish out of the box and it is evolved by community. You can read more about how to start at [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TRANS/Atlassian+Translations)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TRANS/Atlassian+Translations>

Cheers,  
Jacek


author: Timothy
body: Have you tried this ([](https://translations.atlassian.com/)<https://translations.atlassian.com/>)?


Tags: language

translate
A way to use html include with macro code inside.
Asked by Tobias Widner:

Hi All,

I would like to import one html file to a confluence wiki page, in which there are macro code lines (like a dropdown {expand}) as wiki markup. But it looks like, that the html include only includes the text and normal html tags but does not parse the macros. The numbers and the titles of the dropdowns are dynamically. The html file gets generated from a java program.  
Inside the dropdowns I got some tables (which are getting displayed) but confluence does not parse the {flowchart} wiki markup macro which is also inside the expand macro.

I looked up on many sites and forums but I can't find a solution to display the flowcharts in another way, than with the markup {flowchart} macro or include them with an URL.

In Gliffy there is only an option to upload a specific file, but I want to get them over an URL and this at displaying the wiki page, because the html files with the flowchart macros inside get generated also in a java program.

My idea is the following:  
I got one file to include with the whole html code. Inside this file there are also includes for the different flowcharts (or expands).

With a normal include the wiki does not parse the macro statements inside this one html file.

Any idea, if its possible to import a gliffy diagram (which is manually generated and not in any gliffy editor) or to import the html code, so that wiki markup gets parsed and also every each macro which is defined inside?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Instead of icluding the content with the include-html macro you could actually create a wiki page with the content preformatted. Check out the WebDAV plugin(comes pre-installed) for Confluence. It's super slick. It maps Confluence to a filesystem layout so you can work with it just like you would with a file system. Each page has a directory with a corresponding name and inside the directory is a .txt file with the same name as the directory. The content of the .txt file is your page content. Any other documents inside the folder are page attachments. Any folders inside a folder would be child pages. Thus, any program that can write to a file system could write to Confluence. This way you could create the shell page and just write the html directly to the page. Below is an example of how it structures the filesystem and a screenshot of what it really looks like.

My page (folder)  
\|  
\| My page.txt (content)  
\| Blah.pdf (attachment)  
\|  
\| My sub page (folder)  
\|  
\| My sub page.txt (content)

![](../../upfiles/Capture_205.PNG)


Tags: html

include

macro

markup

wiki
Performance Check / Rise
Asked by Bj?rn Eitmann:

Hi\*

What is the best way to test the confluence performance and what do i have to check to rise the speed of the system?

Thanks

Bj?rn


Answers:
author: Boris Georgiev [Appfire]
body: Have you checked that guide ?

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Performance+Tuning)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Performance+Tuning>


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hello!

We had some time ago[these performance](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF51/Performance+Testing+Scripts) scripts which I believe won't work now as they were discontinued. You might want to test them on a staging environment though.

Other than that, I could find a page where the company Go2Group, which is a Atlassian partner, have some [tips here](http://www.go2group.com/services/atlassian-services/confluence-performance-scalability-and-clustering/) about performance and scalability. It may be of assistance to you :)

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
Add a digital signature to a confluence page
Asked by e:

Hello! I need to sign a page in confluence.

How do I do that?


Answers:
author: Baloise Open Source
body: Hi ET,

you can also check out our [digital signature](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.baloise.confluence.digital-signature "digital signature") plugin. It's free and open source.

Regards

Matthias


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello there, there is an add on that enables Confluence users to interact with signed documents, it is called [GroupDocs](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.groupdocs.plugins.confluence-groupdocs-signature).

Hope that helps!
how do I archive a space?
Asked by Nathan Johnson:

Under "Archiving a Space" step 1 says,

1. Go to the space and choose **Space tools** \> **Overview** on the sidebar.

There is no "Space tools" in the sidebar. So I am stuck.


Answers:
author: Nathan Johnson
body: I found it. Was at the very, very bottom and I did not originally see it.

comments: author: Sir Be
body: Accept your own answer please, so this topic is closed.  
(And you get your own bounty back.)
Cache plugin related error msg. in log files after Confluence upgrade
Asked by Thomas:

Since upgrading from Confluence v4.3.6 to v.5.3.4 and also updating the \[Cache plugin\|https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cache\] I'm seeing many error messages like this:

```
ERROR [org.swift.confluence.cache.util.CacheUtils] Confluence version &lt; 5.4.3 : Failed to find component: No bean named 'pageBuilderService' is defined
```

Sounds like a missing component in a dependancy of the plugin...

Is there anything I can do or is it a known issue?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You can ignore as it is being handled. It is an error we are logging that should not be. I created [CACHE-98](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/CACHE-98) to track. Thanks for pointing that out.


Tags: addon-org.swift.confluence.cache

confluence-administration
Required Security Token was not present in request.
Asked by gresham john:

We are trying to upload/restore our data to new server install of latest/greatest version of Confluence. We receive the following message "Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page". This is happening in both Crome and IE (IE11).

I do not see any helpful solutions to get by this error message. Can someone assist us ? We are trying to upgrade from Confluence 4.0 to 5.4.4.

Our data folder size is 4.6gb. After zipping the data folder its down to 2.6gb.

If any other info is needed please let me know.


Answers:
author: Ahmet Kilic _catworkx
body: The solution I've found that I went to Scheduled Job and I cleared all cache related jobs. And the went to Cache Management --\> Flush all.

It is working now.


author: jeff wang
body: enlarge the limit for attachment size. 10M is sometimes too small.


author: gresham john
body: Adrien,

Thanks for your help. What files did you upload? Was it a backup file or data folder? We are just trying to make sure we are loading the correct file. Check out the this error message below

![](../../upfiles/Conflunce_eror.jpg)


author: gresham john
body: () ![](../../upfiles/IMAGE$EE2D08E78085D4E.jpg)

comments: author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Hi John,

Alright, I understand where you are but it works for me. Hope we'll find someone else with the answer here!

Cheers,

Adrien


author: gresham john
body: We do not have the new server website is not up yet. We cannot access Confluence Admin.

We are loading the content of the site during the intial setup. It asks do we want to start an empty site or restore data. We are clicking restore data which is where we are getting the error message with red error message.


author: gresham john
body: We have copied the file directly on the server before launching the restore. When we click 'Restore' we still receive the same message. Any other ideas?


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: It is not possible to upload a 2.6gb file through the web interface. If this is what you're doing, you should copy the file directly on the server (the name of the folder is provided in the Backup/Restore page) before launching the restore.

comments: author: gresham john
body: We have copied the file directly on the server before launching the restore. When we click 'Restore' we still receive the same message. Any other ideas?


author: gresham john
body: Also. the file we are uploading is the 'data' folder if that helps. Does it need to be a backup file?


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: So please walk me through:

* You go to the Confluence Administration, to the Backup \& Restore page,
* In the section "Restore a backup from the Confluence Home Directory", you select your file and click "Restore"
* Then the same page reloads with the red error message "a required security token was not present in the request".

Is it correct?


Tags: confluence-administration
Space watchers
Asked by Mark Douglas:

How to manage space watchers? Administrators should have the abilty to remove space watchers. Isn't it?


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello Mark,

currently you can't. There's an open issue for this problem [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22313)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22313>

Please, vote it so that Atlassian can add this feature in the future releases.

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Currently, you can manage just page watchers. Take a look here <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Watchers>


author: Mark Douglas
body: Really? That's frustrating


Tags: confluence-administration