youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
When will the mobile app be available for the server version?
Asked by Jim:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Confluence Mobile](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724764728)*

When will the Confluence mobile app be available for the server version?


Answers:
author: Nick Reilingh
body: No idea if there's been an official announcement, but my hope is that it'll be a feature of 6.0.

comments: author: Michelle Vincent
body: This is really key to us moving forward in our collaborative use of Confluence. Why is the server version so far behind the cloud version? HipChat is already available for server.


Tags: confluence-app

confluence-cloud

documentation
Delete user
Asked by marco_agliani:

Hi, I'm trying to delete some user from confluence server. I'm logging with administrator user and the user is saved in "Confluence Internal Directory", but in users page I see only the disabled button.


Answers:
author: Robert Dzido _Almarise_
body: It looks like the user has some content published. Read more here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/delete-or-disable-users-138318.html>

comments: author: marco_agliani
body: No, is a testing user who has not published anything


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I restrict new users to certain Confluence spaces only?
Asked by Bar T:

As an admin, I want to add a new user (contractor) to certain Confluences spaces only.

By default, they should not be able to see other pages on Confluence (cloud) unless specifically added to do so.

Currently when I add a user, they are by default "confluence-users" and area able to see all spaces. I tried restricting the access under

[wiki/admin/permissions/viewdefaultspacepermissions.action](https://3403yb.jira.com/wiki/admin/permissions/viewdefaultspacepermissions.action) but when I uncheck the "All" box for "confluence-users" they disappear from the permissions page. Help!


Answers:
author: Paul Dennis
body: This is a problem if you remove from confluence-user from they cannot see any space.

I have created a new "user manual" space and also a new group for permission. I have a new user and I am trying to restrict the permissions so that new user can only see the user manual space. The new user is only a member of the new group and the this group has permission to view and edit the user manual space.

However when you log on the user does not have any permissions and cannot see any space. It would appear this is because the user is not a member of confluence-users only the new group. If I make the new user a member of confluence-user they can then see the spaces.

I do not want the new user to be a member of confluence-users as this will then give permission for my other spaces.

Has anyone seen this ? the only workaround I can think of would be to now edit all of my space is to restrict confluence-users which I do not want to do.

Paul

comments: author: Paul Dennis
body: User have to be a member of confluence-users there is no other solution conference uses this group to populate the drop-down user search option within a page. Therefore you cannot remove a user from this group. I had to go through and edit my space missions to resolve this.


author: Bar T
body: Got my answer from support.

All new confluence users are automatically added in to the 'confluence-users' group which is allowing them to view the contents of any spaces that allows that group permission. You would want to remove the entire 'confluence-users' group if you're wanting new users to not automatically see content from everyone's space. You can then edit permissions to allow specific groups or users access to the space to view or make changes.


author: Milo Test
body: Just remove the contractors from the confluence-users group.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

group

permission

space
Confluence turn off REST API
Asked by Dirk Stubbs:

Is it possible to turn off the rest api in Confluence? We recently performed a webscan of Confluence using HP WebInpect and it reported numerous criticals due to the rest api. This could be easily resolved if I can restrict or turn off the rest api.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Lot of the default functionality in Confluence uses REST and hence it is not possible to disable it. Maybe you can put something like Apache in the front to prevent calls to certain urls!

comments: author: Dirk Stubbs
body: I thought the REST api was just to integrate other applications with Confluence. Does Confluence itself post to the REST API?


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Yes some functionality of the product uses the REST API.


author: MattS
body: False positives are common from most automated security checking tools. Can you say what kind of results were found? Atlassian is most likely aware of the results from their own security checks - they use these tools too


author: Benjamin Weinheimer-Erben _mgm-tp_
body: The only thing you can disable is the "**Remote API (XML-RPC \& SOAP)** " as described here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/enabling-the-remote-api-150460.html>

But it is deprecated from Confluence 5.5 on, so they will turn it of someday anyway.


Tags: confluence-administration
Issue with tinylinks on confluence
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

Hi Everyone

We are on confluence 5.9.7 version. We are migrating a few spaces (using xml export / import feature) into another confluence instance.

During the migration, we faced some issues.

We observe that some of our users have used tiny links feature to link two wiki pages. But the moment i perform the space migration to the other server, all such tinylinks point to the old instance wiki page.

How can i make the tinylinks point to the wikipage on new instance?

Is there any workaround?

Rahul


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: How large of an impact is this? I would probably consider writing a custom script to GET page content, transform it, and PUT it back.

Otherwise, you can consider buying ScriptRunner for Confluence and leveraging groovy.


Tags: confluence-administration

link
how can I create a table with calculations
Asked by Mathijs Groen:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Table of Contents Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=182682099)*

Hi, I have a table created in Excel, with contains calculation on rows / columns (simple calculation like adding numbers).

I want to create same table in Confluence. So including the calculations so that table is updated if the numbers change.

I have looked at Macros -\> Other Macros -\> Table Plus but this table doesnt allow me to calculate on rows (right?).

It would be perfect if I could import the Excel table into Confluence and the markup and calculations would remain.

Is this (or something similar) possible in Confluence? If so, how to do it?


Answers:
author: cirosantilli
body: Possible duplicate of: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions/Is-it-possible-to-perform-sum-calculation-in-a-confluence-table/qaq-p/189923>


author: CelesteCS
body: Hello!

For any calculations in Confluence, including calculations over tables, you may use [CelesteCS Math for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.celestecs.confluence.celestecs-math). There are versions for both Confluence Server and Confluence Cloud.

Assume you have a table with three rows and four columns: A till D with two rows and want to summarize elements from B2 to D2. Then here is the formula you should specify in A2:

```
SUM(Table1.B2:D2)
```

If you want to calculate average value, use AVG function:

```
AVG(Table1.B2:D2)
```

As you see, it is very simple and is similar to EXCEL with equal set of functions.

There is a plenty of other functions in the macro, so you may perform any calculations using formulas in EXCEL style.

Thanks!

comments: author: Abyakta Lenka
body: your site is not working to see the documentation .

can you please check.


author: CelesteCS
body: Hi Abyakta,

Here is a direct link to the documentation page: <http://celestecs.com/support/documentation/math>. Can you open it? What is shown?

Thanks!


author: Chad Corman
body: Alexey - I get a timeout when trying to access your site. Can you please advise when it is back on line?


author: CelesteCS
body: Hi Chad!

It should work now.

Thanks!


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Mathijs,

You can try Pivot Table macro from [Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/cloud/overview) add-on.


Tags: cloud

table-of-contents
Attachments only in local file system?
Asked by Jens Rapp:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Attachment Storage Configuration](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=166876)*

Hi,

What if i am not able to store attachments in the local file system? Is it still possible to configure WebDAV or Database functionality and how long will it take until it won't work anymore?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm afraid you don't have many options

It is still possible to trick Confluence into using database storage in later versions, but it's not done in the UI, it is totally unsupported, it could vanish at any time (with an upgrade simply failing, and there's potentially no route to fix it), and requires fiddling with the internals. So there's no circumstances under which I could recommend it.

I don't know when WebDAV will be fully removed.  

I think the next question is "why can't you use local storage"? Although, when it says "local", it really means that the storage needs to **appear** to be local. The little Confluence I run at home runs on one disk with a NAS on the other side of the room mounting the attachments directory remotely. It looks local to Confluence, but it's not.


Tags: attachment
Tableau Embedding Capability
Asked by Cameron Merten:

Does the All-In-One Tableau Connector for Cloud plugin make it possible to embed Tableau reports in Confluence Cloud?


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: Looks like it's only available for JIRA Cloud. I would suggest reaching out to the vendor to see if they have a Confluence cloud plans.


Tags: addon-com.kaanha.jira.tableau

cloud

confluence-cloud
Pages with meeting-notes label not showing up in 'Content Report Table? macro.
Asked by Eric Paapanen:

I have a Meeting Notes page that was created automatically when I created a confluence space. The page has a Content Report Table macro that generates a list of all the pages in the space that have the label 'meeting-notes'. Unfortunately, none of the new meeting notes created after June 14, 2016 are showing up in the list when the page is refreshed.

Any help is greatly appreciated


Answers:
author: Andrea Carl
body: Has the meeting note template been changed? If someone edited the templatle and removed the label, this would explain it.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Yes, you should talk to your own Confluence administrator and point them to the **Content Indexing** section. You may see a long list of queued items. He can manually kick off a index to temporarily correct the problem, but I've noticed sometimes Confluence needs to be restarted to correct the problem.

I've seen this happen when Confluence is attempting to index large quantities of Microsoft documents with weird formatting.


author: Eric Paapanen
body: I have Space Admin permissions. I don't see the Confluence Administration option under the 'sprocket' menu, so it sounds like I don't have the permissions to check Content Indexing.

I believe we have an on-premises deployment of Confluence.

Sounds like I'll need to file a ticket with our administrator. Does that sound like the next step?

Thank you so much!


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Do you have Confluence Cloud or are you hosting Confluence on-premise?

If you are an admin, please check **Content Indexing** out inside of Administration. It's possible that your content is no longer indexing.
Does confluence turn my pc into a server?
Asked by Juan Noveron:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Confluence FAQ](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=154001)*

Does confluence turn my pc into a server?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not really. In the broadest sense, a "server" is simply a computer that is running services. Modern operating systems tend to run loads of things as services, even if they're only accessible on the current machine. Confluence is another service that you've added - it doesn't make the computer a "server" any more or less than the other services running on it.

Why do you ask?

comments: author: Juan Noveron
body: I was wondering if shutting down my pc would mean that people would lose connection to the wiki would make using Confluence. Based on your answer, does this mean that I can access my Confluence account from any computer without taking up CPU on said computer?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You've installed something on your machine to provide a service.

I'm not sure how you'd expect that to be running if you turn it off.


author: Juan Noveron
body: Oh ok, thank you for your time and help!


Tags: confluence-administration

documentation
Can i create more than one site?
Asked by Bruno Delfino:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Administer your site](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=744721603)*

Can i create more than one site?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, but each one will be a separate Confluence installation (and hence licence/cost)

You can create many spaces within a Confluence installation though, if that helps.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

licence
Conversion from wikipedia DataBase to Confluence
Asked by alex sh:

Hi,

We would like to move our organisation database that is kept in wikipedia to confluence.

We have big knowledge base in tree-kind structure in wiki and we would like to convert the data to confluence,

We would like to convert it fully and not just show it from external HTML link.

<br />

Is it possible? could you help with some ideas how to make it?

Thanks,

Alex


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: I've done migrations writing scripts that parse the exported results from other wikis. I like that approach for large migrations because there's a fair amount of control that can be exerted and it works well at scale.

<https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/REST/latest/>


author: Midori
body: Yes, see: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/12265453>
reorder blog pages
Asked by Kaylie Ogweno:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Getting Help and Support](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=304578653)*

How can I re-order blog pages?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Blog dates can not be edited yet.

This feature suggestion exists here -- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11740>


Tags: blog

sort
can't edit meeting minutes
Asked by Terri Caldwell:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Do you have the right permissions in that space?

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, there's a lot more information over at [As of last week I can no longer edit meeting minutes? We did update our SSL cert on our server. Could this be related?](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/39228701)


author: Terri Caldwell
body: As far as I know--yes. We've not had a problem with this in the 4 years we've been using Confluence. We did just update our SSL cert on the server we're using but no other change was made. I'm the Admin on this account and have admin permissions. Is there a different permission setting someplace?
How to change Font, FontSize
Asked by Christopher Deck:

All I want to do is make some text bigger. That is it, how do I do this?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: You can use the Div or Span macros:

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[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-change-Font-FontSize/qaq-p/322599?attachment-id=4265){#link_1186b387c0a5fc}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/54464/1/image2016-6-27%209%3A6%3A13.png){#display_1186b387c0a5fc_0}


author: TomC
body: Milo had a great answer. As an option, a lot of us use one of the six choices in header styles to make text larger, or the superscript/subscript options to make text smaller. Along with bolding and colors, we accomplish most of what we need (though I will be exploring Milo's options further as well). Keep the simple options in mind for simple/quick text changes on a line-by-line basis.
User manual, different versions and languages
Asked by Sam Heijens:

We're using Confluence Cloud as our internal knowledge base, and also single public space for Customer Support. We're looking into putting our manuals also in confluence to make them easier to access for our users, and faster to update for our developers.

We need to create our manual in different languages. As the content is the same, only the language is different, I would want to avoid having different pages for each language. The approach taken by <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.language/server/overview> seems pretty good. Only downside is the language should be user-selectable, and not coming from the user-settings.

In addition to this, we need to *snapshot* our manual for each release, and make them separately accessible as not all of our users are on the same version. I've found the scroll versions plugin, which seems to provide the 'different versions' part. <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions/server/overview>

<br />

BUT... we're using the cloud, and none of these features/plugins are available for the cloud.

How would you create such a system using the cloud?


Answers:
author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Steven,

Thanks for mentioning Scroll Versions here.

Besides Scroll Versions we also have Scroll Translations (see <https://www.k15t.com/software/scroll-translations>), allowing your users to pick the wanted language.

Unfortunately our Scroll add-ons are currently not available for Confluence Cloud - we have an improvement for tracking the compatibility with Confluence Cloud here: <https://k15t.jira.com/browse/VSN-1828>

We've started working on a cloud compatible version for our Scroll PDF Exporter already (private Beta to be available soon, see <https://www.k15t.com/blog/2016/05/atlascamp-2016-bringing-big-news-to-barcelona>), so Confluence Cloud is definitively on our roadmap.

However, currently I can't give you an ETA, when Scroll Versions and Scroll Translations will be available for Confluence Cloud, as it's quite complex and can't be transferred to the Cloud architecture easily. Please vote and watch the mentioned issue to get an update on every change.

Best,  
Nils


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

documentation

translate

version
Location of the server question
Asked by Berthold Neldner:

1)If our customer purchases licenses under the legal entity " his firm name" - is there a restriction where the servers can be hosted?

2)Currently there is no separation between the Atlassian Products (JIRA \& Confluence). Could they be seperated with not too much administrative effort?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: 1) There are no restrictions on the Atlassian side - they've sold you a licence. Local laws are up to you

2) JIRA and Confluence are independent and separate products, off-the-shelf. It takes administrative effort to get them to work together (albeit not a lot).

comments: author: Berthold Neldner
body: Thank you for the quick and informative answer!

Let me ask the first question more detaily to avoid missunderstandings:

To the situation: We are Atlassian Partner and one of our customers purchase licenses under the legal entity "the firm name" - is there a restriction where the servers can be hosted? E.g. the License is purchased in Germany can the customer deploy in any of customers locations e.g. in Austria or the U.S.?

and a second new question from our customer:

2) Which is the binding Agreement for End Customers? Is it the EULA or the Customer Agreement?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's the same answer. Restrictions are down to your local laws, the licence does not have restrictions.

The customer agreement is binding for the purchasers of the licence and the users, and the EULA is for the end users. (In other words, both of them)


author: Berthold Neldner
body: hi!

i have a new question from our customer to the second topic (EULA or Customer Agreement).

In case of conflicts between the EULA and Customer Agreement (if existent) - which document is valid?

I think, there should not be any conflicts?!?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Indeed, they cover different things.


author: Berthold Neldner
body: The Issue is, our customers lawyer thinks, that he found some conflicts between the two documents

Example: the EULA does not mention affiliates .. Customer agreement does...etc.

Which document has precedence then?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not a lawyer, I'd assume the documents themselves would make it clear.

I'd be surprised if there are conflicts though, as Atlassian do have lawyers too.


author: Berthold Neldner
body: Yeah I think so too!

Sorry to get too much on your nerves :smile: but i get new questions to this topic:

If Atlassian changes Customer Agreement and/or EULA -- how does the Atlassian Customer notice this? Is there any information service?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, this one I know - last time they changed the EULA, it was covered in the release notes for the version (which we're all supposed to read on upgrading!)


author: Berthold Neldner
body: And what if Atlassian change it in between of 2 versions? ![laugh](/html/@BEA1CC333F4D830F5303329D7DC07DE4/images/emoticons/laugh.png "laugh")


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Changing it is effectively a code change, so they can't.
How to filter issues that are linked to a Confluence page?
Asked by Jo?o Pedro Meijinhos:

Hi,

Is there anyway that I can filter all the issues in JIRA that are linked to a Confluence page?

This would be used to check how many times did our team use the wiki page, and see how many issues didn't have a solution available in Confluence.

Thanks,

Jo?o.


Answers:
author: Jo?o Pedro Meijinhos
body: Thnaks for your answer.

With went another way around, we created a field while solving an issue that basically says "Yes there is a confluence page about this", so that we can run a filter and check those missing confluence pages.

This would be a nice feature to have on future versions of Cloud instances.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You can not do that from JIRA Cloud at the moment. JIRA Server has options like JQL Tricks to do it.

With cloud, the best you can do is to go to a confluence page and see all mentioned issues on the top of the page. They don't necessarily mean that those issues has remote link going back. You will have to go to individual issues and figure it out.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence - permissions
Asked by Davor:

Hi,  

There are Site permissions and page permissions.  
Do the site permissions affect page permissions?

<br />

If i have one person in Site permission with edit permission.  
And than on specific page i set edit permission without mentioning that person, can this person that is not mentioned in page restrictions still edit the page?

How can i limit permission to set restrictions on certain page?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Site permissions set up who has the *potential* access to its pages, and page restrictions set up who has*actual* access.


Tags: permission