youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Make a nice overview over 30 employes in alfabetical order
Asked by Heidi Braaen:

I would like to make a page in Confluence with a nice overview over 30 employees with their picture and name and profession underneath. So when a new person is hired, I avoid having to change everything if that person has a last name which begins with a letter early in the alfabet. That new employee should just jump right into the proper alfabetical place. Does anyone know of a simple plugin in Confluence or have any other suggestions to how I can do this


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: If you would have a separate page per employee you may use the [Page Properties](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html) and [Page Properties Report Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html) to list them on a overview page. But I'm not sure if you could add images as properties or if you have enough control over the rendering for your use case.

An alternative solution may be the [projectdoc Toolbox](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/EAFk). This is a commercial add-on where I am one of the authors.

The toolbox allows to run queries on documents and transclude sections. So the approach is the same: one page per employee, but this time you would use the [Document Properties Marker Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/rgNk) to specify properties (which may include images) and the [Section Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/ugNk) to add more information in text form.

Then use the [Transclude Documents Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/7ADe) and select those properties and sections you want to show. Or you could use the [Display Table Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/wgNk) to render the information in a table. Typically the overview page is the parent of the employee pages.

The example [Transclude Child Documents](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/display/PDAC1/Transclude+Documents+Macro#TranscludeDocumentsMacro-TranscludeChildDocuments) may given an impression on how the *Transclude Documents Macro* would work. In [The Workhorse Macros](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/GIBAAg) there is a hands-on example on how to use the *Display Table Macro*.

The advantage of the transclusion approach is that you have full control over the section content you transclude. Selection (and sorting) is based on the properties. The table approach allows only to control the order of the columns. I assume that this is not enough for your use case, so I would recommend to try the *Transclude Documents Macro*.

The add-on is [available on the Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1212629).


author: Steven F Behnke
body: If you have Confluence Cloud you could write a [Connect](https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/index.html) add-on for a macro.

If you have Confluence self-hosted you could write an [add-on](https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev) or add a [User Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html) into Confluence.
Is it possible to create "auto" variables in a (confluence) template? (in an out of the box solution- no 3rd party)
Asked by Niklas Eyle:

- which generate system information automatically when a page is created from the template? like "currentDate" (would result in the current date)? Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi Niklas,

With our Page Tree Creator Add-on you can create templates based on normal Confluence pages. The Add-ons supports the following "auto" variables:

|             Default Tag             |                         Description                         |
|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| __Current_Country__                 | Place the current country                                   |
| __Current_Date__                    | Place the current date                                      |
| __Current_Day__                     | Place the current day within the month, e.g. 15             |
| __Current_Month_Number__            | Place the current month as number, e.g. 8                   |
| __Current_Month_Text__              | Place the current month as string, e.g. April               |
| __Current_Time__                    | Place the current time                                      |
| __Current_User__                    | Place the current user                                      |
| __Current_WeekDay__                 | Place the current week day, e.g. Monday, Tuesday...         |
| __Current_Year__                    | Place the current year                                      |
| __Template_Creator__                | Place the user, which created the template                  |
| __Template_last_modification_Date__ | Place the modification date of the template                 |
| __Template_last_Modifier__          | Place the user, which has most recently edited the template |
| __Template_Space__                  | Place the space of the template                             |
| __Template_Title__                  | Place the title of the template                             |
| __Template_Version__                | Place the version of the template                           |

Try our [**Live Examples**](https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PEPSMarktExample/Marketplace+Examples) (no registration needed) and see how it works.

**[Marketplace link: Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)**.

Regards,  
Stephan

comments: author: Niklas Eyle
body: So an Add-on ist the only way?


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: I'm afraid, there is no quick solution.

["$currentDate" \&amp; "$currentUser"](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/32026720)

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30567>

Here is the hard way: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/86518>

Regards,  
Stephan


Tags: confluence-administration
Constant max_allowed_packet-error
Asked by Jens Koblitz:

Hi there,

since we updated our System to "El Capitan", we face once per day a crash where we have to restart JIRA and Confluence stating

* Hibernate operation: could not load: \[com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject#360565\]; SQL \[\]; Packet for query is too large (3715 \> 1024). You can change this value on the server by setting the max_allowed_packet' variable.; nested exception is com.mysql.jdbc.PacketTooBigException: Packet for query is too large (3715 \> 1024). You can change this value on the server by setting the max_allowed_packet' variable.

We now tried everything we found and have now reached 512M as the value for max_allowed_packet in both the mysqld and mysqldump section but no success. Anyone an idea on how to solve this?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: 1. OSX is not a supported server platform for Confluence. You really should consider a supported server-grade OS.
2. How do you know the system crashes?
3. Have you restarted Confluence + MySQLServer after making this change?

comments: author: Jens Koblitz
body: 1. I know, but that has been no problem in the last 4 years and everything worked fine so far
2. I know that the system crashes due to all the error messages and the non-working system.
3. Yes, since I need to restart the systems to get them back to work again.


Tags: confluence-administration
conditional formatting for public/private view
Asked by Udhaya Kulandaivelu:

Is there a way in Confluence to reveal only certain columns from a table for public view?

There's a situation in my group where in a table with many columns, some of the columns are private info while the rest of the columns are okay for the public. Any ideas on how to dice this?

I tried using:

**only:: Partners**

designation on select private columns and nothing happened!

--UK


Answers:
author: Meck
body: Hello [Udhaya Kulandaivelu](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/users?username=udhaya.kulandaivelu737361741),

I'm afraid to say that we do not have this level of customization where you can set selected content of a public page into private, but I agree with you that this feature would be useful, and Atlassian too.

They raised the suggestion [CONF-42844 - Possibility to turn private selected content in a public page](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-42844) regarding your request, please vote on it, to increase the suggestion visibility and you can set yourself as watcher to receive notifications about any updates on this page.

Feel free to add comments on this suggestion if you think that you have any information to improve the suggestion or explaining how it can be useful for your environment.

Regards,

Lameck.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: not a definitive answer but can you use the Excerpt and Excerpt Include macros somehow?? Might not wok well as part of a table

But perhaps in your public page have a table but in the private page have the Excerpt Include from the public page plus a second table??

Does sound a tad messy ....


author: Udhaya Kulandaivelu
body: Davin,

Thanks for the suggestions. Will try them.


author: Davin Studer
body: I would say maybe put the data into an SQL table and then use an SQL addon to select the columns that you want to display and pipe it out to a table. Here are some SQL addon's that might do what you want.

[SQL for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.sql/server/overview)

[Play SQL Base](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.playsql-base-plugin/server/overview)

[PocketQuery](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.scandio.confluence.plugins.pocketquery/server/overview)
Expression for Total Days
Asked by Karan Fielding:

I created a Conference Request form (Confi Forms) and am using a Simple Date field type to capture the startdate and enddate (field names). I would like the next field (totaldays) to auto populate the total days.

startdate to enddate = totaldays (how many days our employee will be gone to the conference)

I set totaldays to a Calculated field type and am hoping there's a simple expression that I can add to do the math.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If your users might edit the entry after it is created then you would want to use a formula type instead. Calculated fields are only evaluated on creation of the entry. Formula fields are evaluated on every save. Anyway, the expression to use is below.

```
(([entry.enddate]-[entry.startdate])/86400000) + 1
```

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: FYI, the reason for this is that the dates are stored on the backend as milliseconds since January 1, 1970. So, you can subtract the two numbers and divide by 86400000 (the number of milliseconds in a day) to get the number of days between start day 00:00 and end day 00:00. The +1 at the end is because the date is stored as the beginning of each day and you probably want them out all of the the end day ... hence the need to add 1.


author: Karan Fielding
body: Thank you! Front-end web and multimedia designer -- very new to anything outside of HTML, CSS and light JavaScript. Help is so, so appreciated.


author: Karan Fielding
body: Also -- thank you for taking the time time to explain why.


author: Tony Gump
body: Hi Davin. Would you be able to help me with a similar formula?

I'm attempting to subtract two time entries using the confiforms "calculated" field option. Working off of what you did I tried using this\> "((\[entry.Timeclientrequested\]-\[entry.firstattempt\]) /3600000)" thinking I could use milliseconds in an hour and accomplish the same thing. No dice though, the format is AM PM for time, maybe thats throwing it off.

This would be a great help.


author: Davin Studer
body: I'll answer it over on [your other question](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-questions/Formula-for-subtracting-two-time-entrys-in-confiforms/qaq-p/767342#M42456).


Tags: addon-com.vertuna.confluence.plugins.confiforms
How long are logs files retained in Confluence?
Asked by Jae Evans:

How long are the log files retained in Confluence (Server version)? Do they stay around until I delete them?


Answers:
author: Robert Dzido _Almarise_
body: Confluence keeps 6 log files, 20MB each. You can configure it as decribed here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/working-with-confluence-logs-108364721.html>

comments: author: Jae Evans
body: Thanks, Robert. Do you know what happens when all of these files reach 20MB? Is the oldest file removed and replaced by an empty new file? Of do we have to do something manually? I can't find these details in the documentation.

Thanks,  
Jae


Tags: confluence-administration
Can't create software-project space with a space key modified
Asked by David Rodriguez Ruiz:

Hi,

I can't create a software-project in confluence 1000.119.0.

I change the space key that it suggest because it already exists and it open a dialog like this:

We can't create that blueprint right now.

Invalid space key: null

Can anybody help me with this? I did'nt find documentation related.

P.D. Changing our JIRA Projects names it's not a solution.


Answers:
author: Lou-Guardia
body: ok we are at 5/21/2021 and this issue still persist. How can it be going on this long? I just encountered the same issue.


author: Stewart Green
body: I had the same issue, was using Chrome then tried Firefox but problem still existed. The workaround I found was to create under a different Space Name (I just rearranged the letters), then once it was created, I went into the details of the space "Edit Space Details" and renamed it to what i wanted it to be called in the first place.

Seemed to work, hope this helps.

comments: author: Sune Vester Lindhe
body: This worked for me as well - just remember to change the Space Name \*after\* changing the Space Key.


author: reiner.rudolph
body: The bug still exists. Just created a project space with IE, that was not possible to create with Chrome.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Sounds like you need to pick a new unused key?

comments: author: David Rodriguez Ruiz
body: That's not the problem...

It seem to be a Chrome problem.. it can't read the space key once we edit it.

Whatever unused space key I write in chrome it would show the invalid space key null.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, ok. I'd log this with Atlassian as a Chrome related bug.


author: David Rodriguez Ruiz
body: It happens with Chrome.

I could do it with Firefox.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a limit to how many viewers you can restrict to a page? I seem to run into a problem where the login to view won't work when I have 35 or more restricted viewers.
Asked by Eric Wong:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Permissions and Restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139557)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: same problem? we have Groups certainly with a few dozen members and of course "Confluence Users" groups has hundreds of people.

So I haven't come across the problem so I haven't needed a work around ... but maybe if there is a limit I might be hit with the problem later, hence my interest :smile:


author: Eric Wong
body: Hi Rodney, I had tried creating a group but ran into the same problem. Thanks for the suggestion, though! Would you have another workaround?


author: Rodney Hughes
body: I don't know the direct answer as to whether there is a limit but am interested in it

But you could create a Permissions Group e.g. "Department Alpha" with everyone in that Department a member

Then in the Restrictions instead of having to remember to add/remove Fred or Mary to each page, you just use the Permissions Group - then when you add John and Sue to the "Department Alpha" group, they automatically get that View/Edit access to the Restricted pages


Tags: permission
Can I change the Highlighted color?
Asked by Chris Wallingford:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page History and Page Comparison Views](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139379)*

I've reviewed this question: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/17631>

But that looks to be Server instead of Cloud.


Answers:
author: Meck
body: Chris, you can't. Only on Confluence Server. :/

Regards,

Lameck.


Tags: colour

page-history
Enabling Label Cage messes up the layout of the add Event dropdown of TeamCalendar
Asked by Koen Gillard (CalmWare):

Dear

I noticed that enabling version 3.0.5 of Label Cage seems to mess up the layout of the add Event dropdown of TeamCalendar.

Steps to reproduce

1. Normal behavior of the Add Event dropdown

1. Normal behaviour of TC Add Event.png

2. View on the enable/disabled addons

2. Addon status during first screenshot.png

3. Enable Label Cage

3. Enabling Label Cage.png

4. Behavior of the Add Event dropdown after enabling Label Cage

4. Layout of the Add Event after enabling Label Cage.png

Please help me out here, because we would like to have both addons working fine. Can or should I file a bug?

Kind regards

Koen Gillard  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Enabling-Label-Cage-messes-up-the-layout-of-the-add-Event/qaq-p/104743?attachment-id=11448){#link_1186c720249f37}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/17538/1/3.%20Enabling%20Label%20Cage.png){#display_1186c720249f37_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Enabling-Label-Cage-messes-up-the-layout-of-the-add-Event/qaq-p/104743?attachment-id=11449){#link_1186c720249f37_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/17538/2/2.%20Addon%20status%20during%20first%20screenshot.png){#display_1186c720249f37_2}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Enabling-Label-Cage-messes-up-the-layout-of-the-add-Event/qaq-p/104743?attachment-id=11450){#link_1186c720249f37_1}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/17538/3/4.%20Layout%20of%20the%20Add%20Event%20after%20enabling%20Label%20Cage.png){#display_1186c720249f37_4}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Enabling-Label-Cage-messes-up-the-layout-of-the-add-Event/qaq-p/104743?attachment-id=11451){#link_1186c720249f37_2}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/17538/4/1.%20Normal%20behaviour%20of%20TC%20Add%20Event.png){#display_1186c720249f37_6}


Answers:
author: Daniel Bajrak
body: Hi Koen,

It seems to be bug in Lablels cage. Can you create ticket in InTENSO Service Desk: <https://intenso.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/8> You can attach logs from confluence and check if there is any errors in java-script console.

Best Regards


Tags: addon-com.intenso.confluence.labelscage.labels-cage

team-calendars-for-confluence
not permitted error after first login in confluence via crowd
Asked by Christian Zandee:

We have Confluence attached to Crowd and configured our User-Directory in Crowd with a default group on first login.

When a user logs into Confluence for the first time, the following happens:

* User gets added to the configured default group in Crowd (the group having "can use" permission)
* User gets a "not permitted" error in Confluence
* However, after the directory synchronisation interval of 60' the local user group in Confluence is correctly updated and the user can log in as expected

How can I configure an "immediate synchronisation" between Crowd and Confluence on changes in Crowd?


Answers:
author: Bruno Vincent
body: Hi Christian,

So far you can't but this issue will be resolved in Crowd 2.10 as far as I can tell from the following issue tracking: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-2650>

comments: author: Christian Zandee
body: Thank you Bruno! As I understand from the issue, in addition to <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-2650> also <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23957> is required which unfortunately doesn't seem to be on the Roadmap.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: I know this doesn't help much but customizing the SSO Authenticator is *very approachable*. It might be worth looking into.


author: Christian Zandee
body: Sorry, this topic was created by mistake (instead of a support request), however, now that the question is created I'll give some more information of course:-)


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Can you provide more information?


Tags: crowd
Is there a way to prevent comments on the draft page from appearing in the published page?
Asked by Shoko Jin:

We would like to hide the comments on the draft page from appearing on the published page. Is this possible? How, if at all (and if the answer to the posted question is yes), would this affect comments that are directly posted on the published page?


Answers:
author: Shoko Jin
body: The draft page is only made visible to the wider public/group when the "publish" button is clicked (although for both the draft and published page one can set view/edit access permissions for individual persons or groups of people). The draft page is the work-in-progress page that is only synced with the published page when it is explicitly "published".


author: Steven F Behnke
body: What's the difference between a draft or published page?
Confluence produces an error when logged into JIRA
Asked by Eoghan McCarthy:

Hey,

Some of our customers have reported, and we've reproduced this behavior with invited people, that when navigating to Confluence, while logged into JIRA, they get this error:

Screen Shot 2016-06-03 at 11.53.44 AM.png

What's going on? What can we do, if anything, to resolve it?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-produces-an-error-when-logged-into-JIRA/qaq-p/225479?attachment-id=8479){#link_1186c7539b9219}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/38079/1/Customers.png){#display_1186c7539b9219_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-produces-an-error-when-logged-into-JIRA/qaq-p/225479?attachment-id=8480){#link_1186c7539b9219_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/38079/2/Screen%20Shot%202016-06-03%20at%2011.53.44%20AM.png){#display_1186c7539b9219_2}


Answers:
author: Eoghan McCarthy
body: Guessing nobody knows the answers here?!


author: Eoghan McCarthy
body: Is there another line of support I should possibly follow? Thanks


author: Eoghan McCarthy
body: Service Desk (Cloud I believe)

This is what I mean by customers:

Customers.png


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Can you clarify what you mean by Customers? We don't know what tools you're using.


author: Eoghan McCarthy
body: How do I check that? Sorry


author: Ignacio Pulgar
body: Are they Service Desk Customers, with access restricted to the Customer Portal?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I signed up for the SitePoint free subscription but have not received any email
Asked by mitchell_gould:

I have signed up for the free subscription to SitePoint however, I have not received any email telling me my icloud is ready so that I can access my SitePoint subscription.

How can I get this email?

Thanks

Mitchell


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think you need to ask this of SitePoint. This is a place for questions about Atlassian products and SitePoint is not one of them as far as I know.