youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Recovering or seeing a page unsaved drafts over the last few hours
Asked by G Miramontes:

Hello,

I was editing a page and my computer restarted, my draft was not saved.

When I re-opened the pages - I saw a draft from earlier in the morning, but not the latest one I had worked on. I resumed editing the morning's version but there was info that I cannot replicate.

Is there a way to see the changes to the page / drafts - per hour and select which one to resume working on?

Thanks,

G


Answers:
author: kennyngkk
body: Hi G,

The draft should have been save, as it should save every 5-10 secound. It is very weird that the draft is not saved.

On your dashboard, can you go and look for it under **Recently worked on?**For more information you can refer to the link below

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/drafts-149040.html>

Best Regards,

Kenny


author: Brian Pokroy
body: while ying an email I pressed somethig unaware and the draft disappeared
how do I tell if my table is inside a page layout?
Asked by Buck Haberthy:

Trying to utilize the Sticky table headers in view mode, but can't tell if my table is inside a page layout which is preventing the header row (row 1) from sticking while scrolling down the table page.


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Buck!

You can tell if your content is in a [page layout](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-layouts-columns-and-sections-275188613.html) by whether or not there are dotted lines around the content in the editor or when viewing the page source (![ellipsis](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27754iD567CBB56C750BB0/image-dimensions/28x15?v=v2 "ellipsis") \> **View source**).

For example, here are the contents of a page **without** a page layout, viewed in the editor:  
![Screen Shot 2018-07-24 at 2.55.46 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27756i646529F3F3F4EECB/image-dimensions/473x232?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-07-24 at 2.55.46 PM.png")

...and here are the contents of that same page **with** a page layout, viewed in the editor (notice the dotted line border):  
![Screen Shot 2018-07-24 at 2.56.23 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27757i801D6C409CB8BE60/image-dimensions/472x224?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-07-24 at 2.56.23 PM.png")

I hope this helps!  
-Zak


Tags: confluence-server

server
Who needs a Confluence license?
Asked by Andrea_Kenner:

Is it true that anonymous users within my organization can view Confluence pages without needing their own Confluence licenses? I have told my boss this on multiple occasions, but he doesn't seem to believe me. We've had this discussion so many times now that I'm starting to doubt it myself. So... I wanted to see if I could get a definitive answer from someone who knows.

Is there any one page I can point him to?

[https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing](Confluence Pricing FAQ page) answers the question "What is a Confluence user?" but it doesn't answer the question "What is an anonymous user?" And it DOESN'T specifically say whether anonymous users need licenses.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Andrea,

You are correct! If your boss doesn't believe it, link him to [Confluence: Read-only access and licensing](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/confluence-evaluator-resources/confluence-read-only-access-and-licensing):
> Confluence also offers "anonymous access" which means the site visitor does not log in and thus does not need to be licensed...

Cheers,

Ann

comments: author: Andrea_Kenner
body: That was EXACTLY what I was looking for!


author: AnnWorley
body: I am happy to hear it. :)


author: Andrea_Kenner
body: Thank you!
Status of knowledge base articles
Asked by Karen:

I am trying to write a query to get a list of knowledge base articles in Confluence by username and I need the status of those articles. Status on the front end are approved, completed, in review. But in the database I can not find the field that contains the status.

Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Peter Bengov
body: Hi Karen, can you please add more info on how you manage these statuses? Doesn't sound like OOTB setting for Confluence.


Tags: knowledge-base
Displaying the user profile macros in-line.
Asked by Michael Mok:

Working on a team page, hoping to use the user profile macro, but the profiles stack when displayed. There is plenty of space to display them horizontally. Is there a way to do this?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Michael,

Short answer is to put the macros in a table to display them horizontally.

I noticed that when I create a new Team Space in Confluence Cloud the team members are displayed with the 'Profile picture' Macro and a web link to their email address (like mailto:charlie@domain.com). The team member macros are each in a cell in a table, that's how to get them side by side.

You can use the user profile macro in a table to keep it from stacking. In the screenshots, I added a column to the table and the user profile macro (for Charlie) in one cell and a profile pic and web link for the same user in another cell. (The two "Ann" profiles were added automatically when I created the space.)

Edit mode:

![Screen Shot 2018-07-18 at 1.42.30 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27254iDE90E1A8586CEF2B/image-dimensions/473x196?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-07-18 at 1.42.30 PM.png")

And published:

![Screen Shot 2018-07-18 at 1.43.02 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27256i837429D757230C81/image-dimensions/458x178?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-07-18 at 1.43.02 PM.png")

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Michael Mok
body: Thank you so much!


author: AnnWorley
body: My pleasure! Thanks for marking the answer as accepted, that could help other Community members who are searching the forum. :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a way to filter a list of page titles when using the Content by Label macro?
Asked by Eric Bloodsworth:

My company is still on Confluence 5.5. I'm viewing the latest documentation from Confluence which state to "Add a Filter" in order to do this. However, in my version, there is no option for this within the parameter section, and no macro called "Add a Filter".


Answers:
author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Eric,

Please use this documentation for your confluence version. Hope it'll be useful.  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF55/Content+by+Label+Macro>

Victor


Tags: confluence-server

server
Understanding question about Global Permission "Browse Users and groups"
Asked by Jamey Hawkins:

I am attempting to add an individual user to my Global Permissions page, however the browse user textbox does not appear on the edit page.

I am the system admin/creator of this instance.

Any suggestions?

![screenshot.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27242i47AA5A41B482343D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "screenshot.png")


Answers:
author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Jamey,

The image that you submitted shows that confluence-users aren't admins. It clearly shows that those in that group can use confluence and create own space.

Please take a second look at the attached image you submitted.

Victor

comments: author: Jamey Hawkins
body: I need my user (and currently the only this user) to be able to create non-personal spaces. I don't want all my users to create spaces. I also don't want this user to be an admin, because they don't need those permissions.

Honestly, I would like for the browse user field to be visible. And understand why it isn't visible currently in my instance.


author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Jamey,

Then create another group and add the user in it. Give the new group the global permissions that you desire. it's highly recommended to use groups.

Victor


author: Jamey Hawkins
body: The browse groups field is not visible either on the page. See screenshot. I cannot add anything to that page at this moment. That is what I am attempting to solve. I would be happy to create a 'space creator' group, but without being able to add group it won't help.


author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Jamey,

Why not add your user to the confluence-user group?  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/global-permissions-overview-724765488.html>

Victor

comments: author: Jamey Hawkins
body: I need this user to be able to create a space without making him an admin.


Tags: confluence-cloud
Confluence Rolodex
Asked by Mike Gehl:

Is there a way to create a space for business cards, then automatically generate an A-Z index by last name?


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Mike,

Interesting idea! There's not a native functionality in Confluence for storing contacts on business cards, but I can think of a few ways you can make this happen...

**File list blueprint**

This one manages business cards as a list of files.

1. Using the [File List Blueprint](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/file-list-blueprint-329975388.html), create a file list called "Rolodex".
2. Upload business card images, with the file name starting with contacts last name.
3. You will then see a list of all your business card images on the "Rolodex" page, which can be sorted by file name.

*Example:*   
![Screen Shot 2018-07-24 at 3.26.09 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27759i82BAB436F76F0140/image-dimensions/492x346?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-07-24 at 3.26.09 PM.png")

**Page properties report**

This one involves creating a page for each business card. This will take a little more work to set up, but it has a cleaner look and is more dynamic in the information it can show. There are many ways you could set this up, but here's an example:

1. Create a "Business card" page template with the following features:
   * A [Page Properties Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html) that includes a table to be filled out with any relevant contact info (e.g. "First name", "Last name", "Company")
   * A [label](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/use-labels-to-organize-your-content-724764874.html) to identify business cards (e.g. "business-cards")
2. Set a "Rolodex" page with the following:
   * A [Create From Template macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-from-template-macro-317196995.html), to add new business cards using the template.
   * A [Page Properties Report macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html), set to show all pages with the "business-card" label, sorted by last name, displaying whatever columns you want (based on the information you included in the Page Properties Macro).
3. View all your contacts on the "Rolodex" page. To add a new business card, simply click the "Add business card" button, upload the image, and save.

*Example:
![Screen Shot 2018-07-24 at 3.36.06 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27760iCE534B47B19403A9/image-dimensions/427x254?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-07-24 at 3.36.06 PM.png")*


Tags: confluence-server

server
Which is the correct Confluence API path to use?
Asked by t m:

The documentation for the REST API for Confluence (<https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/rest/6.10.1/>) appears to specify two different paths for most of the documented end point.

Am I understanding this correctly? Should the paths include 'api' or not?

![2.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27232iE3FAA1230D72AA8D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2.png")


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Sorry for the confusion! The "/rest/api/..." path is the correct one. I've opened a ticket with our team in charge of this documentation to have this corrected. Thanks for pointing this out!

-Zak


Tags: confluence-server

server
Can I set at the Find function to clear of select the input field before the next searching?
Asked by Csaba Schwarczinger:

When I edit a page, and press the Ctlr+F the Find dialog box appears.

If I've searched something previously that text is in the "Find" field, I have to always delete this expression and write the new one which I want to search.

It could be easier if

- the previous expression would be forgotten

- or the expression would be selected to could clear pressing just one button


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Csaba,

Unfortunately, I can't think of a workaround for making it easier to delete the previous query, but I think it's a great idea! I have submitted a suggestion to our developers here: [CONFSERVER-56165](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-56165). Feel free to watch, vote, and comment on the suggestion ticket to help our product team understand the impact of the request, which will be evaluated according to our [Implementation of New Features Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/implementation-of-new-features-policy-201294576.html).

Thanks!  
Zak

comments: author: Csaba Schwarczinger
body: Thanks!
Pertaining to display of excel file attached to a page
Asked by Lohit Rangaraju:

Hi, I have an excel file (two worksheets) containing Harvey Balls representation. I have attached the file onto a confluence page and using the "Office Excel Macro" i am trying to get the contents of the excel file to show up.

Though the contents show up, the intended audience have to scroll to the right to view the details. I was expecting the scroll bar to be restricted to the borders of the confluence page, however the displayed excel file exceeds the boundaries of page.

Please advise if there are easier/efficient means to accomplish this.


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Lohit!

I understand you have a large spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet content exceeds the width of the page. I did some testing and was able to reproduce this behavior. I played around with it a bit, and found I was able to reduce the scroll bar to the window width when I put the excel macro in a single-cell table.

Here are the steps I took (using Confluence 6.9.1):

1. Open the editor.
2. Insert a single-cell table above the excel macro (change the cell to not be a header if you don't want the gray background).  
   ![Screen Shot 2018-07-26 at 6.06.32 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28045i1D52831F3DDFAF9C/image-dimensions/235x273?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-07-26 at 6.06.32 PM.png")
3. Cut and paste the Excel macro into the cell.  
   ![Screen Shot 2018-07-26 at 6.07.20 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28046iE75D629DD8F5CDF5/image-dimensions/228x244?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-07-26 at 6.07.20 PM.png")
4. Save the page.
5. And viola! The scroll bar is the actual width of the page!  
   ![Screen Shot 2018-07-26 at 6.07.34 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28047iC823CEAE362C0E79/image-dimensions/482x174?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-07-26 at 6.07.34 PM.png")

I hope this helps!  
-Zak

comments: author: Lohit Rangaraju
body: Hi Zak,

Thank you for sparing time to address my concern. I attempted the solution and it does help.

What an ingenious solution. Very nice. Thanks
Ia it possible to add confluence to domain?
Asked by Bahman Sharzad:

HI,

Is it possible to add confluence to domain? Because of password sync.

if yes then how?


Answers:
author: Bahman Sharzad
body: do you have a document to show how?

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: How your DNS is done is not something I can know. I don't have your network architecture information, I don't know what DNS services you are using, even if they're internal or external.

You need to talk to your network administrators. Adding a DNS entry is not complex for the most part, but it does need the owners of your network to do it, and there are many many different setups.


author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi!

Sorry, your question a little bit unclear.

I mean is it server version or it is cloud version?

Also, possibility add to domain it means, set A or Cname record in DNS for the confluence instance?

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

comments: author: Bahman Sharzad
body: Hi,

Yes server version and adding to dna as A or cname record.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, if I'm understanding this, you need to ask your network administrators to set up the DNS so that your desired url lands on the Confluence server.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What do you mean by "add confluence to domain"? I am sorry, but the phrase does not tell us what you are trying to do.
Knowledge document creation
Asked by Oliver Butler:

Hello all, I am new to the software and am in the process of learning from scratch I will be looking to create documents from scratch but wish to have variants of those documents based on factors like different market places and platforms etc. The subject matter would be the same but the processes may differ based on these factors. So I am wondering what the best approach would be document wise? Links to other documents? Show/hide sections etc... If I could get a head start in looking in the right areas that would be fantastic

Many thanks


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Oliver Butler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1659801) ,

my suggestion is to put in place your own page template for your knowledge base space (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-templates-296093785.html>). It could be useful for the end users to start writing an article using a template.

Hope this helps,

Fabio


Tags: documentation

knowledge-base

process
Email address in markdown
Asked by Mark Thornhill:

I'm adding an email address to a confluence page, using the Markdown plugin.

How can I stop the email being a clickable email address and just a piece of text on the page?

Thank you


Answers:
author: Igor M.
body: Hey,

If you click on the email while in editor you can unlink it:

![Screen Shot 2018-07-18 at 12.59.36.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27213i984B3C73F5250F62/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-07-18 at 12.59.36.png")

comments: author: Mark Thornhill
body: Thank you for the reply.

Looks like that would work if you are using Confluence formatting, but I'm using the Markdown plugin and writing the pages in using Markdown.


author: Igor M.
body: Hey,

Sorry, misunderstood your question, you can replace "@" with it's HTML code, this should also prevent emails from being autolinked

```
&#064; 
```


author: Mark Thornhill
body: Hello Igor

That works perfectly!

Thank you

Mark


author: Mark Thornhill
body: I think I found the answer, use \` to surround email address, like this \`someone@email.com\`.

This is used for code, so will change the font to 'typewriter'.

Are there any other ways I could do this?


Tags: confluence-server

markdown

server
How to embed video on confluence without uploading the video,located on local system?
Asked by veepinsaroj kumar:

I have few video, learning mostly which I need to implement/view on confluence page without uploading those video.

I didn't want t upload on confluence server because of memory issue and don't wants the content to be uploaded on confluence server or on any server ( youtube ..).

Is there any way to achieve this?


Answers:
author: Grigory Salnikov
body: Hi!

You can upload your videos to any video-hosting servers (such as YouTube) and insert a link.

Here's an example from our system:

![Example.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27204iBFEE09C09B7E9468/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Example.jpg")

comments: author: veepinsaroj kumar
body: Thanks Greg, would be aagood option but need to check the confidentiality of the vedio.
Create user directly from terminal/server in Confluence
Asked by jairo cabello:

Hello!  

I have kind of an issue. We have one Jira instance where nobody knows the name of an admin user. I have direct SSH access to the machine hosting this Confluence instance.  

My question is:  

Can I directly create an user from the command line?  
Maybe I can create the user adding the entry to the Database.. somehow?

<br />

I'm open to any suggestions!

Thanks a lot beforehand!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html> for Confluence

And <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/retrieving-the-jira-administrator-192836.html> for Jira

comments: author: jairo cabello
body: Thanks you very much! Those where the articles I needed.

The issue has been fixed now
Testing Confluence 6.9.0 but collaborative editing turned OFF
Asked by Gerald MURIEL:

If collaborative editing is turned ON, no editing is allowed in any of our pages. Synchrony heap size was increased to 2GB but it is still giving the error.


Answers:
author: Shankar Asam {Appfire}
body: Hi Gerald,

The collaborative editing comes default with confluence standalone server version and hope you're using the same. Are you using any proxy front ended to your confluence server? If so, you may need to route /synchrony traffic to synchrony port on 8091 (default port). An example for nginx is below;

    server {    listen www.example.com:80;    server_name www.example.com;    location /confluence {        client_max_body_size 100m;        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;         proxy_pass http://localhost:8090/confluence;    }    location /synchrony {        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;        proxy_pass http://localhost:8091/synchrony;        proxy_http_version 1.1;        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;        proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";    }}

Here is the link from atlassian:- <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-use-nginx-to-proxy-requests-for-confluence-313459790.html>

comments: author: Gerald MURIEL
body: Thanks Shankar, I will let you know if this works out.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence Windows 64bit installer can't be launched on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
Asked by Yuzhu Zou:

I installed JIRA and Bitbucket with installer successfully. But when I was going to install Confluence with WIndows 64bit installer, I clicked the installer icon and the installation wizard was not shown. Nothing happened after I double-clicked the installer. It was strange. Please help to resolve it. Thank you!


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi! Welcome to the Community.

I understand the Windows installer for Confluence did not launch when you clicked on it. Please try running the installer "as administrator" at the command line.

The Windows logs (Event Viewer) might have errors that indicate what happened when you clicked on the installer.


Tags: confluence-server

server
API search request format errors
Asked by Blake Pitts:

When making a GET request, some text comes back with a bunch of @@@ inserted into the values. Any way to fix this?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Blake,

Which product is this related to? Can you show us an example of the call you made and the results?

Shannon

comments: author: Blake Pitts
body: Hey Shannon,

This is an existing project and I'm trying to implement a search feature into it.

Here is my call:

<https://mysite.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/search?cql=space=CCSD> and text \~ 'reports'

In my response for the excerpt key value I get:

"@@@hl@@@Reports@@@endhl@@@ Release - July 05, 2018\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nNew @@@hl@@@Reports@@@endhl@@@\\n\\nSales ... "


author: Blake Pitts
body: I'm using the Confluence Rest API


author: Shannon S
body: Blake,   

Thank you for confirming! I've moved and tagged your question appropriately so we can get some help for you on that.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Blake Pitts
body: Thank you, Shannon!


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-cloud

developer

rest-api

search