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Visibility of Spaces
Asked by Ken Dangerfield:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Space Permissions Overview](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724764760)*

Are authorized users of one particular space able to see the existence of other spaces, even though they may not have any access to those other spaces?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's some stuff to ask about admin access and so-on, but the simple answer to the question is for most of your users - no.

If a normal user does not have the right to read a space, then they can not see it. They won't get it in the list of spaces, they won't see it in the activity stream and their searches won't give them pages in it. It's invisible to them in all ways. They won't know it's there.

comments: author: Ken Dangerfield
body: Thanks for the prompt reply. So, in concrete terms I am considering Confluence for a small online consulting practice. I would like to create one or more Spaces for each client and, for reasons of confidentiality, not have any of them be able to discern the existence of any other client.

For that matter, I may have more than one Space for a particular client and have the authorized users of one Space not be aware of the existence of the other Spaces with the same client.

Your answer seems to confirm that this is possible. Is it breakable?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's a mixed answer.

You're fine on the Spaces. If Alice can see space A, Bob can see B and Chuck can see both, then Alice has no knowledge of B, and Bob has no idea about A.

What could let you down is the user visibility. If Alice wanted to mention Boba Fett in space A, then she would probably start typing @bo... at which point it might suggest Bob and Boba Fett. So she'd accidentally find out that Bob is a user. Locked down correctly, all she'll know is that there's a Bob in the system, no contact details, emails and so on, but she will know about Bob. Not much of a problem if the name is not unusual, there's a lot of Bobs around. But if it's Slartibartfast, it's a bit more identifiable.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: only qualification is that the People Directory shows everyone in the system regardless of Spaces they access or not access


Tags: cloud

permission

space
how to create a techincal sds document in the trial confluence version
Asked by l:

Hi,

can you help in creating sds for trail version of confluence


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: This is how I would set up Safety Data Sheets. If you are talking about something else referred to as SDSes, chances it will be similar.

1. Create a space called Safety Data Sheets
2. Create a page for each section that will be same, e.g.  
   a. First-aid measures  
   b. Handling and storage  
   c. Toxicological information  
   etc.
3. Create a template that incorporates the layout of text and tables and uses Page Include macros pointing to the repeated information in step 2 previously
4. Modify the PDF Stylesheet to add logo, company info, copyright, etc. when the page is exported to PDF


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You haven't defined what a "technical sds" document is. So all we can really tell you is "go ahead and write a page or set of pages for it". The trial is no different to a production install, and anything you enter will be retained after you buy a licence.
Confluence articles not loading in Service Desk
Asked by Nathaniel Erlandson:

I'm getting an issue within Service Desk/Confluence right now that I'm not sure how to fix. Confluence is currently set up and linked within my Service Desk application. The article titles are now coming up when searching within the service desk portal, however upon clicking one, I get the error page shown. jira9.PNG

I'm assuming it's because it's attempting to connect to 'localhost:8090' and not by the ip address of the appserver, however I don't know how to change this properly, or whether that's the actual issue. The confluence site is accessible otherwise via '\<IP\>:8090', and that is how it is showing in the applications portion of JIRA, however it seems like the service desk portal still wants to point to localhost. What should I check in trying to fix this issue? Thanks\~  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-articles-not-loading-in-Service-Desk/qaq-p/95181?attachment-id=4417){#link_11863994f3e0bd}  
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Answers:
author: Tom Van Rossom
body: I have the same problem, I think.

My application links are fine: I can navigate from jira to confluence and back via links in the top left.

But when I search on a keyword in the 'knowledge base' modal, confluence articles are found, but clicking on the link displays an empty modal: the content of the article is not loaded!?

![confluence articles not loading.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/24692iB59E4430CD90321E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence articles not loading.png")

Any ideas why?

comments: author: Tom Van Rossom
body: I found my problem, and yes, it was in the application links!

I had configured 2 different urls in 'Application URL' and 'Display URL': the first with 'http**s**' the second with 'http' :(


author: Meck
body: Hi [Nathaniel Erlandson](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/users?username=557058%7Cb5fdb6bb-a3bd-4d81-b0ed-acf892b95b19),

You need go to General Configurations \> Applications \> App Links and edit Confluence's link. Set up the Base URL to new with 8090.

Regards.

P.S.: Lemme know if it works.

comments: author: Nathaniel Erlandson
body: Lameck tried it, so now I can access the site normally through the application link in the top left of the JIRA page (I couldn't before), however the article links in service desk still do not load. If I open an article from SD in Firefox, the page just loads endlessly. In Chrome, it fails with the same message I posted above.


Tags: confluence-administration
Appeared errors after migration of database
Asked by kskrypnyk:

Hi all,

Please help. I migrated database (mysql) from one server to new one. And after load dump to database i made all rules by documentation. I mean the steps (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-fix-the-collation-and-character-set-of-a-mysql-database-670958160.html>)

But I receive the next error in each page with data :

Error: The XML content could not be parsed. There is a problem at line 1, column 959. Parser message: Unexpected EOF; was expecting a close tag for element \<h2\> at \[row,col {unknown-source}\]: \[1,959\]

How to fix it?

P.S. Resolution by the link (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-throws-the-xml-content-could-not-be-parsed-error-when-viewing-a-page-333808277.html>), I told about step #2 didn't help me. And the first one didn't try, because this error is on all pages.

Thanks everyone for the help


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The data stored is very broken as something has caused all the pages stored to become malformed xml. I think you're going to need to start from the old data again.

I'd guess it was the "fix collation" stuff you did, rather than the migration. I assume the migration was a mysql dump and restore, so the new database was identical? Did you test against that before doing the collation stuff?


Tags: confluence-administration
How do you whitelist on confluence cloud
Asked by Farnzie:

We're trying to use the iFrame marco, and it looks like it's not working because of the need to whitelist the web address.

I can't locate anything on how to do this in the cloud.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-the-whitelist-381255821.html>


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: This is explicitly disallowed by the Cloud environment at the moment.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-2636>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Reassign all tasks from one user to another
Asked by Tim_O_Connor:

I work at an organization that has regular turnover of employees. I want to ensure that each task assigned to an employee who is leaving is reassigned to that employee's successor. Is there a simple way to reassign all tasks from one user to another rather than searching for and then editing each individual task?

We are using Confluence 5.9.3.


Answers:
author: Meck
body: Hi Tim,

I'll try help you out. I think that change all tasks in one action is not possible at Confluence. But you should try use find and replace at browser. Something like find "@name" and replace "\[\~username\]".

But the best is use JIRA to tasks and issues. You can use bulk operation and change all issues easily. You can read more here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/editing-multiple-issues-at-the-same-time-776997757.html>

Best Regards.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I report on multiple rows in a horizontal table?
Asked by Benjamin Berkompas:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page Properties Report Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=186089616)*

I want to use the *Page Properties Report* macro to display multiple rows from the *Page Properties* macro. My goal is to show a complete list of decisions across child pages, when each of those child pages contains a table with multiple decisions logged.

With the *Page Properties Report* macro, I'm able to show the *top* row from each of the child pages, but not *all the rows*. Am I missing something?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: The Page Properties macros report on Key/Value pairs, you can't roll up multiple dimensions to a two-dimensional table.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

page-property
Can I filter the Attachments macro by partial file name e.g. Fred*.PDF
Asked by Rodney Hughes:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Attachments Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=97911315)*

Suppose i have a set of 50 attachments with two types of file name structures:

Fred1.PDF Fred2.PDF Fred3.PDF .... Fred20.PDF

Mary1.PDF Mary2.PDF Mary3.PDF .... Mary30.PDF

Can I embed two versions of the Attachments macro (perhaps each in an Expand macro) and have them "filter" what is in the list e.g. one for files as Fred\* and another for Mary\*

I don't want to have to go through the list and add Labels to each file .. somewhat tedious! ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

Note also this (as yet unanswered) question about the downloading selction from that filtered list   
<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/43095217>


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Yes, you can use regex to filter what's shown in the Attachments macro.

```
Fred.*
```

Might do the trick.

And yes, you can have multiple Attachments macros on a page, each with its own regex-controlled list.

comments: author: Rodney Hughes
body: AHA!!

Setting the macro file name filter as Mary\*.\* works

Mary\*.PDF does not work


author: Rodney Hughes
body: still, it is a little disappointing that the filter doesn't apply to the Download All as per that other question I linked to


author: Milo Test
body: When I've had to have a specific collection in a download, I've created it myself, attached the .ZIP, created a hyperlink to download that .ZIP, and set the Attachments macro to NOT show the Download all button.


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: You can filter Attachments macro or Space Attachments macro with [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/server/overview) macro: add free text filter for name (file) column and type in Fred.\*PDF.

comments: author: dan brown
body: Andrey, can you supply and example?


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Please, take a look at these screenshots:

![2020-06-30_23h51_18.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/101150i24437988281752D0/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-06-30_23h51_18.png")![2020-06-30_23h51_10.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/101151i4617AD48DAD2F54F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-06-30_23h51_10.png")


author: Joseph H Sadove
body: Very misleading description of what the Attachment macro does. It doesn't filter on anything but file extension. You cannot, for instance, as far as I can tell, search on all file with "Biz" in the name. Eg., FirstBizPlan, SecondBizPlan, etc.  
Very dodgy or sloppy of Atlassian.

comments: author: Benn Ingersoll
body: Have you tried \*Biz\*.\*?


Tags: attachment

documentation
any option to change the rotation of an picture ?
Asked by florent hiebel:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Displaying Images](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658736836)*

is there any option to change the rotation of an picture ?

Capture.PNG  
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Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: There doesn't seem to be a simple way, though it wouldn't be difficult to rotate on your device first, then attach to the page.

On the other hand, you can rotate a div macro.

1. Add a div macro and put an image in the body of the div macro
2. Add this to the **Styles** field of the div macro:

   ```
   width: 333px; height: 333px; -ms-transform: rotate(90deg); /* IE 9 */ -webkit-transform: rotate(90deg); /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */ transform: rotate(90deg)
   ```

The problem is that it will rotate based on the center of the div, which stretches across the entire viewable area so you have to resize the div to match the image. In this case, when I edit the image, it says it's 333px, so that's the size I made the div. Then I applied the rotation to the div.

So really not a great solution, but it works in a pinch.


Tags: documentation
Can I manually delete files in <confluence_home>/temp?
Asked by WSST:

This directory contains files from over a month ago and taking up 54GB of sapce, running the scheduled job to clean temp directory doesn't clean them out. They are of type htmlexport-20160901-...


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Stop Confluence before you do it, then yes.

comments: author: WSST
body: Thanks, that worked without any apparent trouble.


Tags: confluence-administration
Page Tree (sidebar) missing on Home Page after changing Space's Home Page
Asked by Roy Currie:

I created a new Space and deleted the default "Home page", then I created a new page called "About" which I have set as the home page for the space.

However, the page tree in the sidebar is not working when I visit that page now. It just says "Get started by adding some pages to this space".

It works on every other page in the space, but not on the home page. I've checked the "Configure Sidebar" settings and it is definitely ticked. I've tried unsetting and home page and setting it again. I tried deleting the page and creating a new one again.

Does anyone know how I can resolve this?

It's the page tree in the sidebar, not a macro I've added to a page.

Thanks.

|------------------------|--------|
| **Confluence Version** | 5.10.8 |
| **Build Number**       | 6441   |


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: The sidebar pagetree is automatically generated IF the current page has child pages. I suspect that when you created a new home page you neglected to move all the other pages to be under the new home page.

1. Go to **Pages** --\> **Browse and reorder all page**s
2. Click and drag to place the pre-existing pages as children of the new home page

comments: author: Conn
body: Thanks, that seems to have worked.


Tags: confluence-administration
Possible to limit user access to only one specific field within a page?
Asked by Anna Theorin:

We have users accepting our requirements via our tool, looking at confluence, is it possible to limit user access so that a user type can only have write access to one specific field (Status macro and using handy macro)?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, Confluence can't do that, it's designed for full collaboration, not limiting people. Either you can edit a page or you can't.

You can kludge it a bit. Put the macro on a separate page that the user can edit, and then use include or excerpt-include on the main page which they can't edit. But it does require them to know where to go to edit it.


Tags: access

user
How to customize view for deployment projects, view release name
Asked by Luke McDonald:

I want to be able to select which deployment projects I can see. I'm a manager and want to see certain the environment and the current release for select deployment projects.

Is their a way to favorite the deployments for the deploy tab in the header? image2016-10-20 17:6:36.png

Or is there a way in Confluence to link the release to create a dashboard?

This is the info I want to display

image2016-10-20 17:12:3.png  
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Answers:
author: Krystian Brazulewicz
body: Please create a feature request on <https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/BAM> and describe your idea. Highly voted feature requests can end up on the product roadmap.


Tags: bamboo
Exclude a page by label in an include content by label macro
Asked by Will Childers:

If I have a bunch of pages about say fruit. They all have a label of 'fruit' and then a second label of the type of fruit it's about. Example 'apple' or 'orange' or 'strawberry'.

If I then used the Include content by label macro to include all pages with a label of 'fruit' but I wanted to exclude any apple pages how would I do that?

In the "Include content by label macro" labels form I have tried......

fruit,-apple or fruit -apple

+fruit,-apple or +fruit -apple

and have tired all of those with the operator of 'or' or 'and' and can't get it to work. What am I missing?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Exclude-a-page-by-label-in-an-include-content-by-label-macro/qaq-p/239320?attachment-id=7591){#link_11863b2682ba91}  
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Answers:
author: Will Childers
body: That makes great sense but I don't have an option to add a second label field filter.

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author: Rob Woodgate
body: The filtering by labels in content reports uses the inclusive OR. This means that if your filter says Label A, Label B then Confluence will return all pages with "Label A OR Label B OR Both":

AorB.png

(An exclusive OR, which Confluence does NOT use, would return pages with "Label A OR Label B but NOT pages with Both").

To perform an AND - i.e. to return only pages with "Label A AND Label B" - you need to add a new filter line:

AandB.png

That will return those pages that have both "Label A AND Label B", in other words it won't return pages unless they have both of those labels.

In your specific case, you need "fruit AND NOT apple", so on the 1st line have "fruit" and on the 2nd line have "-apple". This will give you "fruit AND NOT apple".
Why do your web pages look like they are formatted for a phone?
Asked by Kim Melan?on:

I am having trouble reading your website. I am not sure if it is my browser or your responsive formatting.

confluence.png

Please let me know if there is something that I can do to fix this. Thanks!  
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Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: No problems here. Try clearing your cache and reloading.
can I see a list of all my outstanding actions?
Asked by Jill McLean:

can I see a list of all my outstanding actions? I know I can go into individual meetings and see what I owe - I just wanted to know if there is a way to set up my dash board to show all my outstanding actions from all my meetings.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You can see all the incomplete tasks under your profile \> Tasks.

Or you can use the Task Report macro on a page to display those.
Remove history while migrating Confluence data to another server
Asked by Andreas Lechner:

Hi,

we want to remove all pages' history from our Confluence while or after migrating it to another server.

How do we best do that?

Thanks

Andreas


Answers:
author: Perry Tancredi
body: I don't think this applies to cloud - you may want to remove those tags and add server tags


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to default the blog page in a space.
Asked by Lee Thomas-Gray:

Hi, I have a space set as a landing page named News. The information I want shown is in the Blog part of the space and I want it to default to open on the blog. Has anyone managed this ?


Answers:
author: Lee Thomas-Gray
body: Thanks Benjamin, that did the job.


author: Benjamin Weinheimer-Erben _mgm-tp_
body: Hi Lee,

have you tried putting the blog-post macro on the existing home-page of this space?

Maybe this could be a solution.

greetings  
Benjamin


Tags: confluence-administration
Full edit permission on Space, but cannot restrict newly created page
Asked by Nicole Alef:

I have full edit permission for the Space, but when I create a new page and attempt to restrict it, I get a message that I do not have permission to perform that function.


Answers:
author: Scott Bevington
body: You have the permissions to add and edit pages, but you are missing the permission to add/delete restrictions. More info on [Confluence permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/assign-space-permissions-139460.html).


Tags: confluence-administration
Article Error?
Asked by Chris Kinsella:

Hi

in the article <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-the-server-base-url-148592.html> Notes step 5 states

\<property name="confluence.webapp.context.path"\>/wiki\</property\>

but this should be

\<property name="confluence.webapp.context.path"\>/confluence\</property\>  
??  
Thanks


Answers:
author: chucktalk
body: You are correct, the Context Path should be:

*\<property name="confluence.webapp.context.path"\>/confluence\</property\>*

I will pass this along to our tech writers to change.

Sincerely,

Chuck Talk \| Premier Support  
Atlassian
How to create recurring tasks in Confluence
Asked by Amparo D?ez:

I would like to creare recurring tasks in Confluence for example to be executed monthly, how can I do it? I see that there are other comments about it but I guess that there isn?t an implementation yet?

Thank you and regards


Answers:
author: Roman Kirilenko
body: Hi! You can try to use a [Handy Reminder](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/HMFC/How+to+use+Handy+Reminder+macro) macro from [Handy Macros for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.handy.macros/server/overview) to get recurring notifications. This macro [can be inserted in comments](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/43349625/how-to-create-a-task-inside-a-page-comment-in-confluence-) too.