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Create Event Types in the Confluence Calendar
Asked by Vasyl Boroviak:

Is there are way to create my own Event Types in the confluence Calendar?


Answers:
author: Brian
body: Hi Vasyl,

Not at the moment, but we're evaluating this as a future enhancement. There's a feature request in place, and you can vote on it and add your ideas as to how you'd like to see custom events work.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1643>

Hope this helps!


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
can't add confluence page gadget
Asked by jangil oh:

Hi   
after I search confluence page in page gadget , I clicked the page .  
then I went to the confluence page  

I would like to set page field a page.  

Could you help me this issue?


Answers:
author: Nicklas Kittelmann
body: There's an even better ticket at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30255> and that has a workaround that works great!


author: Nicklas Kittelmann
body: There's a bug reported in JAC: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30929>

comments: author: Jangil Oh
body: Thank you for your help


author: Nicklas Kittelmann
body: No, I haven't received any answer. I'm about to open a support ticket to it - I'll try to get it done tomorrow.


author: David Swinton
body: Has there been an answer to this problem? I have run across the same problem with this gadget.


author: Nicklas Kittelmann
body: I think I can explain it , since it happens to me as well.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Add a Confluence Page Gadget to a JIRA dashboard, and it enters edit mode.

2) Enter some characters in the textbox "Page". A listbox is opened below the textbox showing some matching confluence pages.

Incorrect/Current behaviour: When clicking on a line in the listbox the browser navigates to that page.

Expected behaviour: When clicking on a line in the listbox the page should be selected and entered in the textbox. Then the listbox should be closed.

Consequence: I can not in any way add a confluence page to a JIRA dashboard, nor can I edit an existing confluence page gadget and change which page it displays.

This error is consistently reproducible on Firefox 24.0 and Internet Explorer 10

Edit: We're using OnDemand with JIRA 6.1-OD-09-WN (build 6144)


author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Jangil,

Could you perhaps elaborate further on what is the issue that you are facing? What did you mean that you want to 'set page field a page'?


Tags: gadget

jira
Confluence - JIRA Issue Macro and Filter Linking
Asked by Joshua Kench:

I've run into a couple things that I'm having trouble finding answers for...

1) Does the JIRA Issue Macro work when using the OnDemand instances? I'm contantly getting the "No Macro Metadata" message when tyring to use it.

2) How do you insert a link to filter from JIRA into Confluence? I've figured it out for individual issues but none of the URLs I use for filters are displaying the list of issues.

Thanks for any help.


Answers:
author: Brian
body: Hi Joshua,

It may be best to handle this through the support channel at [https://support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com.), as it would be difficult to answer your questions without more detailed information provided by your log files.


author: Joshua Kench
body: The support team was able to help me enable the workbox plugin.


author: Joshua Kench
body: The atlassian support team helped enable the workbox plugin. This resolved the issue with adding JIRA Issue Macro.


author: Brian
body: Hi Joshua,

1. I'm assuming you're both administrators? What happens when you try to enable the plugins? Is there an error message?

2. When you do an issue search in JIRA with that JQL, does it return results?

comments: author: Joshua Kench
body: Brian,

1) We are both administrators. I don't see any "enable" option. Here is what I see <http://imgur.com/D771WOM>

2) I do see results when doing a regular JQL search. I first do the search, then I grab the URL, and then I paste that URL into confluence. Here is an example search with the URL at the top that I would copy/paste <http://imgur.com/L7fPXKA>

Thanks for all the help with this.

Josh


author: Brian
body: Hi Joshua,

1. The JIRA Issues macro does work with Confluence OnDemand. It sounds like you're running into this issue: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/No+Macro+Metadata+When+Trying+To+Insert+JIRA+Issue+Macro>

2. It sounds like your JQL could be off. Have a look at this document, which describes JQL in more detail and displays the specific fields you can query against: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Searching>

Hope this helps!

comments: author: Joshua Kench
body: Brian,

Thanks for following up. Here is the issue I'm running into still...

1) I tried this but I can't enable the plugins. I suspect this may be a permissions issue? I also had the person who set up our initial confluence instance log in and he also couldn't enable the plugins.

2) For this I've tried the following URLs...

<https://voxiva.atlassian.net/issues/?filter=10301>

<https://voxiva.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CFL%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC>

<https://voxiva.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=project+%3D+CFL>

I get a URL link but not a display of the fiters. Linking to individual issues works great.

Thanks.

Josh


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I Upgrade from 3.5.2 to the latest version of Confluence?
Asked by Dave Tait:

Let me know. Cheers


Answers:
author: Brian
body: Hi Yohan, I also recommend checking out this document about upgrading from Confluence 3.5 to 5.1:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+from+Confluence+3.5+to+5.1+-+Simplified+Guide>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes.

That answers the question, but I suspect you've really got more than that. Have a look through <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence> to begin with...

comments: author: Dave Tait
body: Thank you. I read through the article but wanted to get confirmation that I can upgrade my version of confluence 3.5.2 directly to the latest version without any issues. Cheers


author: Dave Tait
body: Directly from 3.5.2 to the latest version without any issues? simply download the latest version and upgrade it manually, yes?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Possibly, but I wouldn't do that, I'd go via 4 - there's a lot of changes between 3.5 and 4.0. It also depends on your plugins and data that you're working with. A direct jump might work, but it might not. The absolutely very latest version will also tend to have some issues with plugins, as the developers need a bit of time to catch up.


author: Dave Tait
body: Thank you. I read through the article but wanted to get confirmation that I can upgrade my version of confluence 3.5.2 directly to the latest version without any issues. Cheers
Get partial info from an table into an new page on another space
Asked by Chris:

Hi,

I'm not sure if it's possible but i trying to achieve the following.

I have a 10 spaces (Lets call it Space Clients 1-10)  
I have 1 "Mother" Space (let's call it Space Master) That space contains one big table with all kinds of information of all my clients.

Can i do a lookup from Space Client 1 to the Space Master Table and only get that information that is related to that client?

And if it's possible can i push it a little bit futher:  
Can i edit the info in Space Client 1 and will that be automatically updated in Space Master Table?

<br />


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 3
body: Hi mate,

I'm soon going to sell a plugin for that (soon = 1 or 2 weeks). You'll be able to enter data into tables, then you can display those tables in other spaces.

It will be the next version of Play SQL. [Follow the blog](http://www.play-sql.com/all/?utm_source=AAC&utm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=playsql) to be posted.

Cheers,

Adrien

Edit: The plugin is out, it's a paid plugin, Play SQL: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.playsql-plugin>

comments: author: Chris
body: THanks! is your plugin out already?


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Hi Chris, Yes it is out. You can query the table from your Space Master, from any of your Space Client X.


author: EddieW
body: Wow, that is one of the most expensive plugins I have ever seen. Good for you.


author: Adrien Ragot 3
body: Hi Eddie, What is the expected price for a plugin?

* [The](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.sql) [other](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.gliffy.integration.confluence) [plugins](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow) [I've seen](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.zenfoundation) were all more expensive. I'm established at 25% of the price of Confluence ($15/seat vs $60/seat).
* [Cheaper plugins](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.simplenia.confluence.plugins.customdashboards) are usually more simple.

Feel free to talk here or get my email/tweeter/the channel you like, on my support page.


author: EddieW
body: Unfortunately no. There is no native or plugin functionality (currently) that would allow such lookups and updates.

But you could use the sql plugin for the view aspect, but you would need to put the data into a databse.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Confluence+Reporting+HOWTO+-+2.+Retrieving+Data+Into+Tables>


Tags: confluence-administration

table
CSS is not working like it was last week.
Asked by Trina Peck:

I created a custom css stylesheet to use when we do an HTML export. It's very basic, just wanted to tweak a few things.

It was working fine last week but this week when I do an export it's ignoring my css and a lot of the other css like the overall font. Here's a couple of screen shots to show what I mean.

Last week my export looked like this:  

![](../../upfiles/css_9_17.png)

<br />

Today, September 23, it looks like this:  

![](../../upfiles/css_9_23.png)

I have done the following to add the css to the page.

1. css macro right on the page.
2. include page macro pulling css from my Inclusions Library (this was working great)
3. using {style} and my css in the Space Admin \> Themes \> Configure Theme \> Header

Here is a copy of my css:

```
h1, h2, .wiki-content h1, .wiki-content h2 {color: #00478d !important;font-weight: bold;}/* hides child page list */div#children-section.pageSection{display: none;}/* used for info, note etc macros */.fpanelInfo{padding-top:12px;padding-left:10px !important;display:inline-block !important; background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #AAB8C6;border-radius:5px;line-height: 1.4em;}.fpanelNote{padding-top:12px;padding-left:10px !important;display:inline-block !important; background-color:#fffdf6;border:1px solid #ffeaae;border-radius:5px;line-height: 1.4em;}.fpanelWarning{padding-top:12px;padding-left:10px !important;display:inline-block !important; background-color:#fff8f7 !important;border:1px solid #d04437;border-radius:5px;line-height: 1.4em;}.fpanelTip{padding-top:12px;padding-left:10px !important;display:inline-block !important; background-color:#f3f9f4;border:1px solid #91c89c;border-radius:5px;line-height: 1.4em;}.fTitle {font-weight:bold !important;margin-top:-22px !important;margin-left:26px !important; }.fContent{padding: 0px 12px 12px 26px !important;width: 700px !important;}/* hides meta-data that displays at top of page */div.page-metadata{display:none;}
```

We are using the Documentation theme.

Thoughts? Ideas? Help!


Answers:
author: Trina Peck
body: I created the following ticket: <https://support.atlassian.com/browse/JST-77326>


author: Trina Peck
body: Update....I looked at the site.css for each version of the page.

The site.css from today starts here:  

![](../../upfiles/site_css_9_23.png)

And my site.css from last week:

![](../../upfiles/site_css_9_17.png)  
Is a ticket needed?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

css

export

html
keeping content fresh with content manangers
Asked by Michael Brennan:

We are moving from an intranet to confluence. In our intranet, we had the concept of a "content manager" who was assigned a number of pages. Each year they could view a list of their pages and they'd sign off on each page as being 'current'.

I was thinking about how to achieve this with confluence and it seemed possible with tags. I could add a tag "review" for any content that gets reviewed. I could add "reviewer-username" to attach a manager to a piece of content. I could then have these people add "reviewed-YYYY" for the year they reviewed the content.

This would allow me to use the content by label macro to see all content that is reviewable but hasn't been reviwed in a certain year for example.

This seems like heavy usage of the labels - does anyone have a better approach for how to have content managers using out of the box tools?


Answers:
author: Midori
body: [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving) is a Confluence add-on developed for exactly these use cases.

The nicety is that it makes the whole thing automatic. You configure the rules, and then the list of pages to be reviewed will come to the content managers, so it's fire and forget. Page expiration can be set to exact dates, or "this page expires in N days from its last update", "this page expires in N days from its last view", etc.

You can easily [install the plugin](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/installation) from here, and [read the user manual](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/) here. You should definitely try it!!
why can't I see image files in Confluence?
Asked by Christy:

My designer is having troubles viewing PNG image files while working with the Confluence online site. He's working on a Mac. He sees them just fine in edit or proview mode, but when he saves the changes and views the result, the images aren't showing up. I am working on a windows machine however, and I can see the image files just fine. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Christy
body: I never got an answer to this question, but I'm answering it because Atlassian keeps prompting me about good housekeeping and karma points. I would "close" this instead, but apparently I don't have enough Karma points yet.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Christy.

Please double check if the images have extensions on their names (eg. png, .jpg). Basically Unix understands an image even if the file does not have an extension, or if this extension is wrong (a jpg with a png extention). Windows do not understand that and will try to interpret the file as it stands on its name.

Hope it helps!

comments: author: Christy
body: Hi Bruna. My designer tells me that all of his images have extensions. The only thing he's noticed is that Confluence seems to want to preview images in the insert image dialog box before inserting them on the page...but the spinning wheel just keeps spinning. He just clicked to insert anyway. Not sure if that means anything here....but thought we'd share it.

Also - he's running on Mac OS X 10.7.5 and Safari 6.0.5. He says it seems to work slightly better in Firefox...but Safari used to work. Does he need a plug-in refresh or update or something?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence Attachments macro cuts document names off
Asked by ElizabethC:

The Attachments macro displays uploaded document names column as much narrower than there is room for, and therefore cuts the names off. There appears to be no way to change the Name column width to stretch ove to the second column by simply editing the macro attributes.

Is there a way to fit this?


Answers:
author: Brian
body: Hi Elizabeth,

There was a bug report that addressed this, and a fix was implemented in July for versions 5.2 and 5.2-OD-13.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22002>

Hope this helps!


Tags: attachment

column

edit

macro

width
How can I create a link that acts like the "Create from Template" button?
Asked by GollyJer:

* When clicking Create \> Decision, Confluence pops up a form.  
  Good.  

* When using a "Create from Template" button for a new Decision, Confluence pops up a form.  
  Good.  

* When copying the link used for the button and using it on a page as a link, a new page in edit mode based on the template is presented.  
  Not good.

<br />

I'm trying to put a New Decision link on my home page that will add the page as a child of a page that is not the home page. Adding \&fromPageId={pageID} works great for this functionality. Now I just need it to pop up a form instead of a new page. How?


Answers:
author: Simon Gilmore
body: I am also interested in this as I would like to use an image as the button. I have tried using the URL that the button uses and embedding that into the image as a link but it just takes me to the dashboard.
About page permissions in Confluence
Asked by Vladimir Kolesnik:

Hello,

Confluence allows to restrict page view/edit access using Page Restrictions (which override space permissions). However, is it possible to grant view or edit permission for specific page without adding that user to space permission? I've a space which has several pages inside. The user should be able to read only 1 specific page in that space, other pages should be not accessible.

Of course one solution would be to grant user space read right and then manually go into every single page within space and restrict view access for some specific user, but I hope there is some alternative like: find your page - edit page permissions - select type of access (read/edit) and username. The user will have read access only to that specific page, while the rest of the space content will not be available for browsing.


Answers:
author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Vladimir,

As far as I know, this isn't possible in Confluence right now. The closest item that I managed to find this improvement request here - [CONF-26979](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26979), which talks about bulk changing the page permissions. This way, you can bulk restrict pages, and then you can edit it to be available to whomever you please.

For now, I would recommend that you do the following on the feature request ticket :

* Vote, so that it will receive more attention
* Watch it, so that you will receive any and all updates
* Comment, and give your opinion on the matter

Please note that the implementation of new features and improvement requests falls under [Atlassian's Implementation of New Features Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy).

comments: author: Vladimir Kolesnik
body: Thank you for your answer!


Tags: confluence-administration
Dragons Stage 3 Step 5
Asked by Paolo Botti:

Hi,

in Stage 3 Step 5 SubItem 6 I have to insert a **JIRA Issue** but after search list of issues (i watch 3 issues) and select insert as a table if I press "preview" only columns descriptions are list, no issues.

I also save it but I can watch any issues under colums.

Any suggestions ?

Best regards


Answers:
author: Paolo Botti
body: Hi Bruna,

thank you for reply.

I'm newbe of "Atlassian's galaxy",

I understood that "answers" is not the right place and I had open a issue.

Yestarday, after a remote session, the issue became a ticket **CONF-30959** (bug).

Best regards

Paolo  


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Paolo,

First thing is to double check if the Application Links between your Confluence and Jira are okay.

After that, I suggest you to check in your Confluence logs for any message that can lead to the cause of this. If you see something relevant on the logs, post it here.


Tags: confluence-administration

dragonslayer
Pages view per default?
Asked by Bj?rn Eitmann:

Hi\*

Is it possible to view the pages per default on the space-home. Since 5.2.3 we always have to click on pages to start work with our pages?

Best,

Bj?rn


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

Please refer to our customizations on customizing default space content by visiting the link below.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Default+Space+Content>

Hopt this helps.

Regards,

Hossein


Tags: confluence-administration
existing page template Adjustment
Asked by adam glegg:

Currently our database team has constructed a knowledge base of Approx 200-300 pages. Managment has advised they would Like to incorporate another panel of information into approx 100 of these pages. Is there anyway we are able to incorporate these changes without individually adjusting these pages?

Kind regards.

Adam


Answers:
author: AndrewA
body: Hi Adam,  
Assuming there is dome defining mark to the pages and the format is known script could be written to alter the intended pages. There is a plugin that helps with mass changes like this called the Command Line Interface plugin.

[CLI Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.acli)

Without knowing more details it is hard to say how it would be writting but starting with this tool is likley a good start.

Cheers,  
Andrew
Confluence 5.2.5 - Unable to add new pages
Asked by starwarsfan:

Hello

I'm using Confluence 5.2.5 but I miss an important feature: How/where can I add new pages? I can't find a button or menu entry to do this!? Where is this feature hidden?

Kind regards,

Yves


Answers:
author: starwarsfan
body: Hi

I got it and it was my fault. The used theme needs an update too but this necessary step was only visible inside the theme editor. After updating the button to add pages is visible as before.

Kind regards,

Yves


author: RambanamP
body: To create a page, you need the 'Create Pages' permission which is assigned by a [space administrator](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF32/Confluence+Glossary) from the Space Administration screens,

check this document

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF32/Creating+a+New+Page>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Creating+Content>
What does Confluence have, out of the box or add on, for records management; ie document repository?
Asked by Edward Glasheen:

What does Confluence have, out of the box or add on, for records management; ie document repository?


Answers:
author: Midori
body: **Tracking** ,**lifecycle management** and**archiving** are important aspects in *Record Management*.

[Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123) implements these practices for Confluence pages, allowing to figure out what's outdated, what is not is use anymore, what should be archived.

If some content is picked up by the automatic tracking or some user suggested this to be cleaned up, the plugin will archive it along with its comments, attachmets, labels, and other assets.

[Learn more in the manual](http://midori.hu/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/)


author: Jason Plumhoff
body: You can create pages in confluence and upload attachments to those pages. They have a special page called a "file list" that presents the uploaded files along with some basic information/properties about the file. Check out their documentation - it's pretty thorough.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud