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Invite guests for external collaboration
Asked by ashwinikumar.t.giri:

Hi Team,  

We are using Confluence Data Centre 7.19 and want to know if Confluence Data Centre has the option to Invite guests for external collaboration like Confluence Cloud.  

[Invite guests for external collaboration \| Confluence Cloud \| Atlassian Support](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/invite-guests-for-external-collaboration/)  

Please assist as this is a client question and we must address it as soon as possible.


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@ashwinikumar.t.giri](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5111574) and welcome to the community,

No, unfortunately this functionality is only for confluence cloud.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Changing the name of categories
Asked by Roman Karpov:

Good afternoon  
Is it possible to change the name of these items or delete them altogether - documentation, knowledge bases and teams. For example, I want the documentation tab to be displayed like this, but I didn't see the personal user instructions


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@Roman Karpov](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216748) and welcome to the community,

Were you suppose to attach any image? If yes, please do so because you might have forgotten to attach it.

If you mean that you want to disable the option to create certain type of spaces, then:

* GO to cog wheel (upper right corner) and click it
* Scroll down till you find "Global Templates and Blueprints" and click it
* Scroll down until you see "Space blueprints"
* Disable the selections you want

![space blueprints.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/256546i6E5E5909F0298A83/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "space blueprints.png")


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Restrictions on Viewing Pages
Asked by asumi.t:

When setting up the system so that members outside the company can only view certain pages, all pages are restricted and only the pages they want to see are made public.  
Is it possible to set that only certain pages of the space can be viewed, since it is difficult to set view restrictions on all pages each time?


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@asumi.t](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216729) and welcome,

Confluence has a permissive approach so that you need to make space public and then restrict pages that should not be accessible to everyone.

My suggestion is to create two main pages "Public" and "Private" and apply restriction to Private page and put as children all restricted pages. Children will inherit restrictions from parent.

Hope this clarifies,

Fabio


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to get all the page details such as PageName,CreationDate and Last modified date using usermacro
Asked by Mrunal Kumar Lokku:

Need to display the page details in table format using user macro in confluence


Answers:
author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: The general doc is here: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-get-all-the-page-details-such-as-PageName-CreationDate/qaq-p/2356767>

Note that when you work with user macro context objects, those are instances of the corresponding internal Java classes. Therefore, if you want to work with page objects,

Resources:

1. Context objects in general: <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-objects-accessible-from-velocity/>
2. Javadoc of the AbstractPage class: <https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/javadoc/8.2.2/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/AbstractPage.html>
3. Because AbstractPage is inherited from ContentEntityObject, you should look for the base properties here: <https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/javadoc/8.2.2/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ContentEntityObject.html>

All in all, the page name and creation date can be accessed like this assuming that the object is "$page":

```
${page.displayTitle}
${page.creationDate}
...
```


author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@Mrunal Kumar Lokku](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216701) and welcome to the community,

I would take a look at these documentations:

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf713/user-macro-template-syntax-1077914353.html>

comments: author: Mrunal Kumar Lokku
body: Hi Alex,

I tried the following macro but this macro is page specific. So, can you please help me for modifying this macro in such a way that I can get all the page details?

## [@Param](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1345631) Page:title=Page\|type=confluence-content\|required=true\|desc=Choose Page to get the Information for  
#set ( $colonIndex = $paramPage.indexOf(":") )  
#if ( $colonIndex == -1 )  
#set ( $spaceKey = $space.key )  
#set ( $pageName = $paramPage )  
#else  
#set ( $spaceKey = $paramPage.substring(0, $colonIndex) )  
#set ( $pageNameIndex = $colonIndex + 1 )  
#set ( $pageName = $paramPage.substring($pageNameIndex) )  
#end  
#set ( $requestedPage = $pageManager.getPage($spaceKey, $pageName) )  
\<table\>  
\<tr\>  
\<td\>Page Name\</td\>  
\<td\>Page Creator Name \</td\>  
\<td\>Last Modified Date\</td\>  
\<td\>Last Modifier \</td\>  
\</tr\>  
\<tr\>  
\<td\>$requestedPage.getTitle()  
\<td\>$requestedPage.getCreatorName()\</td\>  
\<td\>$action.dateFormatter.formatDateTime($requestedPage.lastModificationDate)\</td\>  
\<td\>$requestedPage.getLastModifierName()\</td\>  
\</tr\>  
\</table\>

Thanks,

Mrunal


author: Mrunal Kumar Lokku
body: Hi,

Can you please suggest the changes in the above macro for displaying all the pages details in confluence.

Thanks,

Mrunal


Tags: confluence-server

server
How do I create a page with same title listed under separate File List
Asked by Suhas Shastry:

As we see, under a Confluence Space directory, we can not create a page with a same title on the different file hierarchy level. There is a requirement where we need to allow the same page name in the file list heirarchy. How can we achieve this?

For now we are using the prefix of the folder name for the page and it can not be used for documentation in future.

Thanks,

Suhas


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Suhas Shastry](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4296861) ,

unfortunately you can't create two pages with the same title within a Confluence Space and there are no workaround for that.

Fabio

comments: author: Suhas Shastry
body: Any other suggestions or plans in future when it can be implemented? I think this is a basic ask and widely used application as it has integrations with Jira as well.


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: hey [@Suhas Shastry](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4296861) , I don't think that this constraint will be removed in the future. Btw, a naming convention is the right way. Also on user side having two pages with the same name could be confusing.


author: Suhas Shastry
body: If it is listed as a file list, I assume there should be an option to let users to create the page with the same title as it is an hierarchical representation.

I am sure in a Space, all the folders or pages are same as a page representation.


author: Matt
body: Confluence doesn't have a real concept of "folders". What you're referring to as folders is just hierarchal organization of pages.

If you navigate through pages within a space, nested or not, you'll notice that the hierarchy is not represented in the URL. This is because even though they are organized in a folder, or nested way, it's all a flat structure.

This is why two pages cannot have the same title, it's really just a flat namespace with the ability to "nest" pages.

Nesting is mainly good for space organization and using page restrictions.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Export space to pdf no longer using my custom stylesheet
Asked by Julia Williams:

The output produced by exporting a space to pdf from my custom stylesheet has changed in the last couple of weeks and many of the rules that used to work now no longer do.

I see that Atlassian has recently announced changes to pdf exports. Are custom stylesheets no longer supported?


Answers:
author: marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-
body: According to Atlassian, custom stylesheets use a fallback to the old export. My recommendation is to contact Atlassian support.

comments: author: Julia Williams
body: Thanks, will do.


author: Julia Williams
body: I notice that I can force some of the custom rules by tagging them !important but there's still quite a lot that's not working anymore.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
"Data cannot be retrieved due to an unexpected error"
Asked by subash:

1. Create a new page in Confluence using "JIRA report"  
2. Linked to my Jira "Demo"  
3. I get this error (as per the subject"

i tried seeing the fix suggested on the community pages but not helpful. Im using Jira on the cloud and Confluence on the cloud


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@subash](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216619) and welcome to the community,

Can you post some screenshots of what you are trying to do, and the settings of the jira report?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
User profile IM question
Asked by Kathryn Reddie:

Hi all,

Just wondering what the IM field in the User Profile of Confluence links to?

Say I want to link it to my Microsoft Teams chat, can I?

Thanks in advance,  
Kathryn.


Answers:
author: Nicolai Sibler
body: Hi [@Kathryn Reddie](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1117666) ,

I just tested this and can confirm it works as intended. The field is editable with any text or link.

Kind regards,

Nicolai

comments: author: Kathryn Reddie
body: Thanks [@Nicolai Sibler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2649119)

What link do I put in to make it work?

As my user id is the same for all of our internal apps I am presuming I need to add a bit of code to the start of the field to make it go to MSN Teams.

Do you know what that would be?

Thanks again,  
Kathryn.


author: Nicolai Sibler
body: Welcome [@Kathryn Reddie](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1117666)

I searched the net and

```
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=<username@example.com> 
```

seems to work. Replace \<username@example.com\> with your email adress used in MS Teams.

Best,

Nicolai


Tags: confluence-server

server
Need help with brand new JIRA and Confluence
Asked by Manaswini Vonteru:

Hello Community Team,

Our Company Kindercare already have a cloud Atlassian account, However we need new account , so that our partners can use it. Could you please help us to create brand new Cloud JIRA and Cloud Confluence.

and FYI - for the new account kindercare will manage payments and owns it.

Let us know if you need any information on this

Thanks,

Manu Vonteru


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Manaswini Vonteru](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216448) Welcome to the Atlassian community

You will need to work with your organization admin to setup additional instances. Please contact this individual at your company.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira-cloud
How can Super Admin CQL query pages that use a certain macro even on a page with restrictions?
Asked by Joshua May:

Trying to identify all pages on our Confluence instance that use the digi formatting macro and remove the macros since we are not purchasing it this coming year.

This could be the digi-accordion, digi-button, etc.

I have a CQL query to search ' type = Page AND macro = "digi-accordion" '

However, it is only showing pages I have direct access to that use the macro. I have super admin for confluence and would like to search through restrictions to find any instances that are hiding from me. I know for a fact there are more than I see as a fellow admin sees 1 extra then me and has confirmed it is due to restrictions on that page not giving me view permissions.

How do I bypass restrictions on a CQL query?


Answers:
author: Matt
body: Is the count available through the Admin Macro Usage section different for each of you?  
https://\<confluence-url\>/admin/pluginusage.action  

Another option for you, if you have access to query the DB itself, is to perform this query:

```
/* MySQL */
select c.CONTENTID, c.CONTENTTYPE, c.TITLE, c.LASTMODDATE, s.SPACEID, s.SPACEKEY, s.SPACENAME 
from confluence.content as c 
join confluence.bodycontent as bc on c.CONTENTID = bc.CONTENTID
join confluence.spaces as s on c.SPACEID = s.SPACEID
where bc.BODY like '%ac:name="digi-accordion"%'
```

I don't know for sure if the macro name is "digi-accordion" but that can be found by reviewing the page's storage format.

comments: author: Nicolai Sibler
body: [@Matt](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2006978) The Macro Usage Page is based on CQL as well - follow any link and check the URL of the search results page ;-)

[@Joshua May](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5202129) I'm not aware of any way to trick CQL. Best to hand over the SQL provided by Matt to your fellow DBA.


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to create no print macro
Asked by Meera.Amanullah:

Im not sure how to create the no print macro and use it in page. I found some Confluence documents to go to settings and create user macros, but im not finding those options in my confluence interface.

Need help in creating the macro.


Answers:
author: Matt
body: Documentation regarding User Macros can be found here (including an example for "noprint"), [Writing User Macros \| Confluence Data Center and Server 7.19 \| Atlassian Documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf719/writing-user-macros-1157467445.html)  

User Macro creation is limited to Confluence Administrators, if you are not an admin you won't have the ability to create them.


Tags: confluence-server

server
How i can add line break after each data insertions on smart-multi select
Asked by Brijendra Singh:

I have page where user filling information as per ask and I have use smart-multi-row in confiforms.

Exa : static from and user giving multiple as per ask

Like : Branch, country , customer

Abc abc2 abc3

Def def2 def3

But when I'm capturing this data in Html format using IFTTT macro for sending mail. It's all coming in the one row not as single row for.each insertion.

I did check other pages for similer issue and try to put html tag in the calling parameter.

But I'm not sure where I should give these static as smart multi row has confiform fields defination and field defination not supporting virtual fuction.

Now I don't have any clue to how fix this.


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi [@Brijendra Singh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216358) and welcome to this community

I understand that you are using \[entry.field_name\] notations when referencing the smart multi-row fields, is that true?

What is the reason doing so, if the answer was yes?

(And not using ConfiForms Field or ConfiForms Views macros)

PS, The iterateAndPrint [function](https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Virtual+functions) might help if you want to access the values through the \[entry.field_name\] notations...

Alex

comments: author: Brijendra Singh
body: Thanks Alex for the response....

My field name is :

\[entry.static.branch.aslist\]

Using that I'm accessing the values of smart Multi-row.

Structure is :

1. Confiform form defination : where i have defined all the required fields using confiform field definition .

Like :

Branch, country , customer

Abc ,abc2 ,abc3

Def ,def2 ,def3

2.i have another confiform form defination where I have called above fields into smart multi row from confiform field defination (static) smart multi row .

So now in IFTTT ( oncreated a page ) I getting all values as

(

\[Entry.static.branch.aslist\] -

\[entry.static.country.currency\]

But all values are coming in cell or all are coming in 1 line instead of new row for each insertion.

I have seen your other response for similer query but did not get properly.

I did try to

Entry.static.branch.aslist.replaceCRLFWithBR

I did try the transform function too

Entry.static.transform(branch).replaceCRLFwithBR.aslist

Nothing is work........

I really need your help on this.


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Nothing is work... Oh, how many times I have seen this.

MY question is still - why dont you use ConfiForms macros!? Why do you use \[entry.field_name\] notations? What is the reason behind this choice?

I will try to demo, what I have answered in my previous comment (showing the macros and iterateAndPrint)

<http://recordit.co/8wI6iCn6Wk>

Hope it helps

Alex


author: Brijendra Singh
body: Thanks Alex for the quick help , you video does help me and I havw used as per your advised.

Thank you so much , you are turly a Rock star.

comments: author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Thanks! Glad to help


Tags: cloud

confiforms

confiforms-smart-multi-row

confluence-cloud
I have a space with pages I use as a template. How do I copy from that space, to create a new space?
Asked by Jason Mahoney:

Space is called "client template" and I want to copy it, and rename the copy. Should be easy but I'm missing something here? I'm on the free cloud version. Thanks!!


Answers:
author: Dan Breyen
body: Hi [@Jason Mahoney](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216220) welcome! Based on this community post [Copy A Space](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-you-Copy-a-space/qaq-p/2161823) Spaces can't be copied at this time. You would need to create a new space, then copy the source pages into your new space.


Tags: cloud
Page version history
Asked by Patrick Gorre:

Hello

We want to use Confluence for architecture documentation among other things. For this purpose we have uploaded the Arc42 template into Confluence.  
Now we want to see on the start page, on which subpages were which changes made. The macro "Change History Macro" can only show on a specific page which changes have been made on that page.  
I wonder if there is also a macro or function that can show the last change of each subpage on the home page?

With best regards

Patrick


Answers:
author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: [@Patrick Gorre](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216118) Have you tried the Recently Updated macro? I'm not sure if this will address your situation, but you can find more info here: <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-recently-updated-macro/>


author: Ditte Simard
body: Hi [@Patrick Gorre](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216118) !

I would recommend that you check out "Scroll Documents for Confluence" by K15t. I don't know if it can do exactly what you are looking for but it is a very robust document management plugin!

<https://www.k15t.com/products/scroll-for-confluence>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Synchronisation AD with Confluence
Asked by Doc Snuggles:

Hello it's about connecting our AD and the groups there to Confluence, so that the AD groups can be used for permission control within Confluence.  
Of course, the existing groups in AD should be used and the nested groups should also be used.

So, as I said. Wildcards don't work here because LDAP doesn't allow them. In Confluence, it's even more limited, because this query doesn't return anything. No idea why.

In short; LDAP (in AD) can read groups in groups, but then only in ONE named group:

(\&(\&(objectClass=group)(memberOf=CN=confluence-user,OU=Confluence,OU=Company,DC=en))))

Confluence can't do anything with it, but I don't know why. Because the technology is in AD, or so I thought.

What Confluence can do is read users from groups that are themselves members of a group:

(\&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=confluence-Test,OU=Confluence,OU=Company,DC=en))


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Doc Snuggles](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216082) Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Depending on the version of Confluence that you are on it might not support nested AD groups. Even after they added support for nested groups it needs to be configured and it only works a certain way. More information can be found here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/managing-nested-groups-938847047.html>

comments: author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Doc Snuggles](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216082) if this was helpful can you accept it to help others?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Editing issues
Asked by Priyanka A Franklin:

I am facing the below 2 issues, does anyone know what could be the problem? I am not a first time user, I've been using this page for more than a year.

When I edit my own confluence page, it is blank. When I publish it becomes a new page, the old version got erased.

When I paste an image in that blank page or even in a new page and publish it, it says broken image.


Answers:
author: Elena Lurye
body: Hi [@Priyanka A Franklin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216090) ,  

About seeing an empty page while in the edit mode - it might be that someone else was editing it and erased the content but didn't publish it.  

In this case you would see full page content while in the view mode, but empty page in the edit mode. It is very easy to resolve - publish the page (with no content), and then just restore previous page version - this way you get your content back!  

About pasting an image - where this image was taken from? Does it happen to any image or some specific one?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Possible to add a column heading for a numbered column in cloud editor?
Asked by Bert Roos:

I'm trying to add a heading on a numbered column in a table, using the new cloud editor, but that doesn't seem to work. Am I doing it wrong? Or is this not yet implemented?


Answers:
author: Esther Strom
body: Hi, [@Bert Roos](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5216098) - welcome to the Community!

You're not doing anything wrong; you cannot add a heading to a numbered column. It's intended to behave the same way an Excel sheet does; you can't add any text to the corner piece at the top of the row numbers.

![2023-05-10 19_50_21-Book1 - Excel.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/256502i7AE10C768D8B72C8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2023-05-10 19_50_21-Book1 - Excel.png")

You can open a feature request [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?filter=98690).

comments: author: Bert Roos
body: [@Esther Strom](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2991092) Thanks for responding. I don't think that comparison is entirely fair. In Excel, that column is a very technical one. On a Confluence page, it's functional and it's used to refer to the xth solution option, feature, issue, etc. I've been using the legacy editor since long and pretty much always entered a heading for the numbering column.

As it's about Confluence Cloud, I cannot enter a feature request, but I can and will use the "Give feedback" option.


author: Esther Strom
body: Fair point on usage. I've seen a number of requests to bring more Excel-like functionality to tables in Confluence, so I'm just making an assumption about the behavior.

You can still enter a feature request at the link I provided; for Confluence Cloud you'd use the Suggestion issue type.

![2023-05-11 18_56_48-Create Issue - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products. - Brave.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/256808iB7D8CD3C0B3A586E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2023-05-11 18_56_48-Create Issue - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products. - Brave.png")


author: Bert Roos
body: The screen you show there relates to a bug. If I select Suggestion, I get this:

![Suggestion.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/256835i7FE0E8BBA1B0329C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Suggestion.png")

There's no button to create an issue for the combination of "Confluence Cloud" and "Suggestion". I've used the suggestion to send feedback through the help menu item.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud