youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How can a power point presentation be added to a page, but not as a link to select?
Asked by Stephen Hickman:

The user is requesting to have a PPT to appear on the page, but not as a link. Such as select a PPT page and the first slide of the PPT appears. Then the user can continue to view the PPT via the presentation mode by selection the Enter key to advance or use the down and up arrow keys to move within the PPT.

I suspect this might need to be a widget but I am not a programmer. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Thomas B
body: Hello [@Stephen Hickman](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3825995) - to insert a Powerpoint into Confluence, you must have the powerpoint added to the Confluence page before using the macros:

* If you are on Confluence Cloud, type in **/Office Powerpoint** and select the powerpoint to show
* If you are on Confluence Server, type in **{Office Powerpoint** and select the powerpoint to show

Hope this is useful, thanks!

comments: author: Stephen Hickman
body: Thank you, very much appreciated.


Tags: cloud
Finding pages with phantom parent; pages not listed in space
Asked by Wojciech:

++What I have:++

I have pages A,B,C... (and more) that are children of page X.  
Page X was deleted with children, whole-space-purge failed, page X was restored, deleted.  
Pages exist and are visible to all users, despite having previously view restrictions from parent.  
They can be found with search, but **are not listed** in the left panel. When opened, "sidebar pages" are selected.

Children link to parent X. When using link i see that X is outdated. When clicking "show current version", information "This page is deleted" is shown.

When X is restored, children link to outdated X with id 739. When clicking show current version, restored page X with id 738 is shown.

Page information of X shown no children. Adding **new** child to X shows list of all children which sums to 1 child.

++Confluence version:++ 6.13.8

++What I need to do:++

I need to delete all children of X.

++Related:++

* "Purge all" fails - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-57823>  
  * Purge X fails with
    * org.springframework.dao.DataIntegrityViolationException: Hibernate operation: could not execute statement; sql=n/a; SQL \[\]; ORA-02292: integrity constraint (CONFDBM.FKSQB1AF9H7FVQTGY73O8JDCUUE) violated - child record found
* <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/page-not-showing-in-page-list-but-can-find-via-search/qaq-p/611819>
  * Reorder pages doesn't show A,B,C...
  * Manual page-by-page move is out of question, as I don't know which pages I'm supposed to process.


Answers:
author: Wojciech
body: After seeing [this suggestion](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-find-list-of-pages-created-by-specific-user-in-confluence/qaq-p/1247759) I was able to prepare proper search query.  
I had to add filter with any page as an ancestor, search and then change pageId inside url to id of page X.

Now I can identify all the children


Tags: confluence-server

page

server
Change URL
Asked by Celina_Merz:

Hey!

I would like to change the URL of my Confluence Workspace.

Do you know, how I can do that?

Thank you for your help!  

Best regards

Celina


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Celina_Merz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3826103) ! As I understand, you need to update the URL that is currently assigned to your Confluence.

Changing the Base URL of your site is documented within our knowledge base. The detail behind this procedure is that we need to perform a Cloud to Cloud migration, not simply rename the URL.

You can check further details on how this works here:
> * ++**[\[Atlassian Cloud\] Changing the cloud instance URL address or migrating to a new cloud instance](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/changing-the-cloud-instance-url-address-or-migrating-to-a-new-cloud-instance-691011835.html)**++

There is also a request that aims at the simplification of this method. You can check it here:
> * ++**[\[Atlassian Cloud\] More Easily Change Atlassian Cloud URL Domain](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-7184)**++

I hope this gives you the necessary information! Looking forward to your reply.


Tags: cloud

url
6.13 patching
Asked by jal58:

The latest release for 6.13 is 6.13.11. However the release notes advise patching to 6.13.10. Is there a reason not to patch to the latest version?

<br />

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-6-13-release-notes-959288785.html>

Thanks,

Anna


Answers:
author: Mike Rathwell
body: Hi [@jal58](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3355211) ,

Short answer is that no, there is no reason to not go to the latest release. I have often found that quite often the documentation runs a bit behind (or doesn't yet exist) for the latest version of an application. Since that is an Enterprise Release of Confluence, go ahead and load it up.

comments: author: jal58
body: Thank you!
Problem with I18N in Javascript/hbs for a confluence cloud plugin NodeJs
Asked by emir:

I did not find a method to apply the i18n for the front part of a cloud confluence plugin with nodejs technology


Answers:
author: Dario B
body: Hello [@"NEWSCRIPTALERT("1HELLO"1)/SCRIPT](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2442165) ,

I might not be the best person to help here, but let me try anyway.

I believe what you are looking for is documented in below pages:

* [Internationalization](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/internationalization/)
* [i18n-property](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/modules/i18n-property/)

Other than this, you may also want to look at the [Tutorials and guides](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/tutorials-and-guides/) section.

Finally, for the future, please notice that this is not the best place to get help on development related questions. The right resources are listed in [https://developer.atlassian.com/resources.](https://developer.atlassian.com/resources "https://developer.atlassian.com/resources")

Specifically:

* [Ask the Developers Community](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/ "https://community.developer.atlassian.com/")
* [Create a Developer Support Request](https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/14 "https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/14")

Cheers,  
Dario


author: emir
body: Hello sir,

thank you for your effort and your kind attention,

yes I consult these two pages but these pages speak of the i18n at the level of atlassian-connect-json w it works for me in this context, but I am looking for the i18n in the front end part in my code.

comments: author: Dario B
body: Thanks for your quick reply [@"NEWSCRIPTALERT("1HELLO"1)/SCRIPT](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2442165) !

If the provided docs don't help I advise to [Ask the Developers Community.](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/ "https://community.developer.atlassian.com/") That's the best place to ask for development related questions.

Have a nice weekend,

Dario


Tags: cloud
Is it possible to exclude 'contributors' within a certain space from the Confluence Serach site?
Asked by Nina:

I'm in the process of finding all the pages within a specific space during a specific time period.

I want to identify the pages with no contributor/contributors who are no longer in the organization. I have filtered the search result by members of the team via the 'contributor' filter - however, it does not seem possible to exclude the identified contributors, so the remaining pages can appear.

So, my question is, if there's any way to exclude certain contributors from the search results?


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi,

do you mean exclude from auth? or only from macro results?


Tags: contributor

exclude
Can I insert a word from confluence page title into the JQL in the two dimension filter macro ?
Asked by miketsubasa96:

1. Currently I have a Confluence page.This page has two dimensional filter macro.
2. The two dimensional filter macro lists all open bugs.
3. I want to create another page by cloning this page.In the new page,I want the two dimensional macro to filter only issues that belongs to a particular project.The name of the project is already in the page title.  

4. Can I somehow dynamically use the project name in the page title to filter the bugs in the two dimension filter macro.

Note: There are a lot of different projects and the above would help me a lot in creating pages that are scoped to particular project.

I already know I can add scopes to JQL in the two dimension filter macro to scope to specific projects.I just want to know if the value of scope in the JQL can be taken from the page title of the confluence page


Answers:
author: Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]
body: Sadly, the value of scope in the JQL cannot be taken from the page title of the confluence page


Tags: jira

macro
Unable to get watches for newly created page through REST API
Asked by Volodymyr Batrukh:

I have a user A who is subscribed to wach all the content in the space.  

But whenever new page has been added (by some another user B) to the space I cannot find the user A in the list of wachers of the page using Confluence Cloud REST API call:  
GET /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/notification/child-created  

When you navigate to the newly created page under user page A, you will find user A waching the page.  
Is this an API issue? How can I get the waches of the page for new pages?


Answers:
author: Volodymyr Batrukh
body: I found solution to my case. I need to use another endpoint to get watchers for the space: GET /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/notification/created  

So to get ALL watchers of the page a need to call  
GET /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/notification/child-created  
and  
GET /wiki/rest/api/content/{id}/notification/created  


Tags: cloud
Table of Contents links to headlines on the same page
Asked by Christopher Jeckl:

Hi, I am using confluence since a couple of days and I am not able to link in the table of content to the headlines followed later on the same site. I only can link to another page.

Does anybody know how to link to another topic on the same site?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Christopher Jeckl](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3825578) !

As I understand, you need to link your table of contents to the headers on your page. By reading your question, I believe that you need to create anchors to specific parts of your pages. Anchors work as a way to reach a specific part of the page.

If this is what you need to achieve, we can go ahead and use the Table Of Contents macro. Here, take a look in the documentation:
> * ++**[\[Confluence Cloud\] Table of Contents macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/table-of-contents-macro-724765294.html)**++

Here is an excerpt of what the macro does:
> *The Table of Contents macro scans the headings on the current Confluence page to create a table of contents based on those headings. This helps readers find their way around lengthy pages, by summarizing the content structure and providing links to headings.*

Now, if you need to manually create anchors to specific parts of your page, the new editor only allows this to be done with headings. When you create a heading, there will be an option exactly on the left side of said heading that allows you to copy a link pointing straight at itself.

Here we have more details on links, headings, and anchors:
> * ++**[\[Confluence Cloud\] Insert Links and Anchors](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/insert-links-and-anchors-724764900.html)**++

The following links are for customers from our Server Platform. I am adding them here in case someone else from server falls into our thread while searching for the same topic:
> * ++**[\[Confluence Server\] Table of Contents macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/table-of-contents-macro-182682099.html)**++
> * ++**[\[Confluence Server\] Anchors](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/anchors-139442.html)**++
> * ++**[\[Confluence Server\] Links](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf613/links-964960436.html)**++

I hope this helps! Looking forward to your reply.


Tags: cloud
learning how to write confluence macros processing Jira
Asked by tzur.vaich:

What is the best source for learning how to wirte a macro that get Jira issues, process them and print.

Example: I want to be able to get just from a a single Jira one field and display it.


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Hello, take a look at this:   
<https://davidsimpson.me/2014/06/23/jira-release-user-macro-atlassian-confluence/>

It's likely not the correct answer, but may help you a little.

comments: author: tzur.vaich
body: Hey,

I'm getting :

Data cannot be retrieved due to an unexpected error.

++View these issues in Jira++

the link takes me to the project.

In any case it looks it results as a table.

All I want is to be able to print one field.

General question: what is the best source to learn macros and how to debug them ?

Thanks,

Tzur


Tags: jira

macro

new-to-confluence
Login to Atlassian Account via Microsoft works only sporadicly
Asked by Henning Butz:

Hello everyone,

we have been using Confluence for our Teams internel Knowledge-Base for a few months now and most of the Time it works without any problems. When creating their accounts most of my colleagues chose to use the Login with Microsoft option to create their Atlassian accounts using SSO via our AzureAD. Now there seems to be an issue with our AzureAD that was not existent before. What do we need to configure in our AzureAD to enable the SSO again?

The recieved error message looks like this:

![AtlassianLoginIssue.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/87680i0D29BA90AF787EBE/image-dimensions/394x344?v=v2 "AtlassianLoginIssue.png")


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Please, checkout <https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/saml-single-sign-on-943953302.html>


Tags: cloud

login

sso
Digital Signage Confluence
Asked by RobWieleman:

Hello,

i have in Confluence different spaces. One of the spaces is a teamblog that I want to show on a screen with Zebrix which is a digital signage platform. When a copy the url link of my teamblog into Zebrix, I have a pop-up screen asking my username and pasword.

Is there a way to bypass this?

Best regards,


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Rob,

Welcome to Atlassian Community, and thank you for contacting us about this.

You'll be asked to login when you access a page that that is not public. You need to be a licensed Confluence user in order to access the page.

When you paste the URL into Zebrix, you're not already logged into the page there, so it will ask you to login.

If you believe that the page is supposed to be public, I would recommend getting in touch with your Confluence administrator. They'll be able to check the permissions for you and get in touch with the Atlassian Support team if there's an issue.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud
How do I update a template using the APIs?
Asked by Tony Cantin:

We have multiple spaces (6 in total) that all want to leverage the same template. Ideally, as we make updates to the template, we could push the changes to all 6 spaces via the restful api. Is there a way to do this? We were looking at the APIs and thought maybe we could use property key update assuming it supports "entity id".

The other option we are going after is doing a global template. The problem is our company has over 3,000 spaces and doing a global template would show up for everyone. Our admins are exploring the possibility of doing this, but I'm pretty confident it's not something they'll do.

We explored combining the spaces into one space but it's been determined we cannot play nice together.

As a last resort, when template changes are made, I'll just manually update all of the spaces.

Any thoughts?


Answers:
author: Monique Khairuliana[ServiceRocket]
body: Hi [@Tony Cantin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3824748) , actually ServiceRocket's [Scaffolding Forms \& Templates](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/190/scaffolding-forms-templates?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) provides this capability:
>
> ### Live templates simplify updates {#toc-hId-1199857373}
>
> With Live Templates, pages dynamically inherit the template's structure and layout in Confluence. Thousands of pages can be updated with just one click, making maintenance and updates faster and more accurate.

The app is available in Server, Data Center and Cloud. Hope this helps!


Tags: api

cloud

confluence-cloud

template
How do you opt into the new top navigation bar in Confluence Cloud?
Asked by Musa Musayev:

As the question states, "How do you opt into the new top navigation bar in Confluence Cloud?"

I saw the message pop up once when I first created the space. I believe I skipped it. Now that I'd like to try it out, I'm not finding any way to enable it again.

P.S., this is what I'm talking about regarding the top navigation bar:

* <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/New-navigation-and-Home-are-coming-to-Confluence-Cloud/ba-p/1211418>


Answers:
author: Ajay _view26_
body: Hi [@Musa Musayev](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3486734)

You can turn the new top navigation from your profile settings

![Screenshot 2020-03-24 at 9.55.57 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/87658i9F31E269281CB689/image-dimensions/180x140?v=v2 "Screenshot 2020-03-24 at 9.55.57 AM.png")

![Screenshot 2020-03-24 at 9.56.11 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/87659i994EE65951115E89/image-dimensions/241x374?v=v2 "Screenshot 2020-03-24 at 9.56.11 AM.png")

comments: author: Musa Musayev
body: Hey Ajay, thanks for the quick response! When I go to my profile, this is what I see:

![Screen Shot 2020-03-23 at 11.29.02 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/87661iCE77C7CD14BFA347/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-03-23 at 11.29.02 PM.png")


author: Ajay _view26_
body: Hmm .. it should be available if the site supports the feature

Have a look at

<https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/new-jira-cloud-navigation/#NewJiraCloudnavigation-faq>


author: Musa Musayev
body: Ah, interesting. We're still on the free plan until we sort out a couple of things with SSO and Cloud. Any way to get bumped for the feature on our site? I can't open up a support ticket under the free plan ?????

Thanks!


Tags: cloud
Problem with Insert Office Word macro when creating template
Asked by Richard Pace:

I'm editing a new template from my Confluence space settings under content-controls. I'm trying to use the **Insert Office Word macro** and after filling in the page location and selecting the word document to insert (yes, the word document is attached to a Confluence page in my space), nothing happens after I press the **Insert**button. I've tried using Firefox and Chrome browsers with same results (no results). Chrome console appears to have more information than Firefox, so I've attached a picture of the space with the Chrome console information:

![Confluence_Insert_Office_Word_macro_error_2020_03_23.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/87637i3E9215D802148FEB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence_Insert_Office_Word_macro_error_2020_03_23.PNG")


Answers:
author: Richard Pace
body: It turns out that the Insert Office Word macro is not what I wanted to do in this template. I think using sections is what I was after. Somehow I thought I would be able to import a word document already formatted, but that's not the case. That's why it says "I'm new here" next to my name!!!


author: Hazwan Ariffin
body: I believe this is a bug - [CONFCLOUD-68979](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68979) Try attaching the file onto the page, rather than call it from another page and see if that works

comments: author: Richard Pace
body: Thanks for the reply. From the Template Editor I don't see an option to attach a file. So I'm not sure how to accomplish what you ask.


Tags: cloud

format

macro

ms-word

template
Combining confluence pages
Asked by Rebecca Fajon:

I am new to confluence so sorry if this is an obvious question! Is it possible to combine confluence pages? Eg - if teams were merging, could we have a 'master' page ('intro the org'), which then links out to other, pre-existing team pages (eg 'team A click here', etc)? I want to avoid having to rebuild anything from scratch, but rather link existing pages under a new 'master' intro page.

Or, is it simple as hyperlinking and no real issue?


Answers:
author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hi [@Rebecca Fajon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3824465)

there are several ways to combine pages (or in this case spaces maybe) - you can insert

* [Page Tree Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/page-tree-macro-792499177.html) and link to the existing content
* you can mirror content using [Include page macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/include-page-macro-139514.html)
* another way could be using [excerpt macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-macro-148062.html) to show some parts like the TOC macro from existing pages

Totally depends on what you want your user to do - simplest way would be just to [set a link](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-server-documentation-135922.html) to the existing page/space

If you need more help - keep us informed! And a warm welcome to this wonderful community

comments: author: Rebecca Fajon
body: Ah thank you! Much appreciated!
Upgrading Confluence
Asked by Timothy Burmeister:

I tried to upgrade to Confluence 7.3.1 from my previous version. The upgrade failed miserably and now I am not able to restore the previous version because I cannot get to the configuration section.

I have tried to re-install the previous version but it will not connect to the original database. I created a temp database just so I could get to the original version and try to restore. The backup runs for about 10 seconds and then breaks Confluence.

I am at a 100% loss and would like to get this up as fast as possible.


Answers:
author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: Hi [@Timothy Burmeister](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1160235) ,

Full steps can be found here: [Upgrading Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/upgrading-confluence-4578.html#UpgradingConfluence-1.Determineyourupgradepath)

Please add or attach errors that you're seeing in atlassian-confluence.log

[Working with Confluence Logs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/working-with-confluence-logs-108364721.html)
Configuring multiple User Directories
Asked by Al Genzlinger:

We would like to automatically assign users (on first login) to the correct access group based on a property in the AD Directory. I have setup 2 directories that are the same except:

- in the first directory I assigned object filter with term "(!(employeeType=Vendor))" with automatic group assignment to groups "regular" and "confluence-users"

- in the second directory I assigned object filter with term "(employeeType=Vendor)" with automatic group assignment to groups "vendor" and "confluence-users"

I had a regular user login and they were correctly added to the "regular" group. However, when I had a vendor login, they successfully logged in, though they were not added to either group.

When I look at the user record, it does show they were found correctly in the 2nd directory. What do I need to fix to have them added to the desired groups?


Answers:
author: Al Genzlinger
body: This was actually working correctly. My vendor had not actually completed successful login as the cause of the problem.