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How to create number counting with plus icon
Asked by Pavel Perl?k:

Hi i want create page for FAQ and i want measure how often is questions viewed.

Now i create page with table and just simply add column for number, but always must edit page and increase that number. So I'm asking now **is there macro for show number and after them show plus icon that will automatically increase that value?**

May-bye existing another better approach, so if you know I will thanks for that


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: For a small Confluence, I'd enable the analytics which captures the page views. For larger ones, I'd get the Viewtracker add-on (or look at some of the others in the marketplace - I'm not that familiar with them as I've only ever used viewtracker and embedded google analytics).

comments: author: Pavel Perl?k
body: Its good for style, when have one question on page. I don't want have many pages, now its fine have only one... maybye later
Watch space for new pages
Asked by Harald Jentzsch:

Hi there,

is there a way to watch a space and get notified only if a new page is added? Normally a watcher is also notified if a page is edited, but since there are lots of updates that will result in too many notifications.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: No, but you could watch the space and set up an email rule to delete page modification/deletion emails.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Harald,

No, there is no way of doing this with native Confluence functionality.

However, you may find the [Notifications for COnfluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.enterpriseNotifications/server/overview) add-on useful - I've not used it but in the description of it's functionality it says "Optionally watch any new pages that are added to the hierarchy", which sounds like what you want.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: Not that I know of ...

But can I just say that Confluence is a Knowledge Management System ....

... and Knowledge is not knowledge unless the Users know when new knowledge is created or updated

In the past when people created or edited something they would send an email so I don't necessarily agree that Confluence creates too many emails

I do concede that perhaps site administrators might have some reason for just knowing when new pages are created ... but why would they need to know just that?? If they are doing their job to the full, they should keep an eye on what people are doing on each page so they can offer tips and suggestions on how to do things better .. or identify when a new plug in might be helpful

That is my two cents worth ...
>>> How to get the old Confluence dashboard back?
Asked by Francesco Borchetta:

Installation ---\> Confluence 6.0.3 \<---

A user might want to reenable the old dashboard for various reasons.

Is there the way show "give me the old dashboard" button?

Or in other words ... Is there the way to restore the old dashboard in Confluence 6?

Thanks to all.

Have a nice day!

Francesco


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm afraid it's gone.


Tags: confluence-administration
watch emails in confluence
Asked by nic johnson:

Our users are getting multiple emails (one user got 15 identical emails) generated by 1 change of a page they are watching. How can this be stopped?


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: I doubt it was one change on the page - probably 15 individual changes - what does your Page History tell you?

You need to educate the people who are doing the edits ...

If "Notify watchers" is ticked down near the Save button, EVERY time they click Save, an email is sent to all the Watchers

Solution: The editor user needs to untick the option and only reinstate it when they are doing the last edit


Tags: confluence-administration
Please add shorthand for Date (//) to this page
Asked by Scott Beeson:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Autocomplete for links, files, macros and mentions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=249858190)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Scott,

This a Q\&A forum for users who have a question about how to do things. Most of the people who'll answer your questions are other users, not Atlassian staff. If you've got a request for Atlassian to change something (including their documentation), you can create a ticket here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa>


Tags: documentation

macro
Creating a space just circles and does nothing.. Help
Asked by Lee Prinkkila:

I cannot create a space it just circles....


Answers:
author: Sam Hall
body: Hi Lee,

Are you still having problems?

Did you try clearing your browser cache or using a different browser?

If you are still having problems it is probably best to contact Atlassian Support directly here: <https://support.atlassian.com/customer/servicedesk-portal>

Sam


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Importing A Word Document: How to Convert Square Brackets
Asked by Rodger Vitkens:

When importing a Word document, how can you convert square brackets (\[\]) literally? That is, not to have it expand as a link? The normal techniques for the editor do not seem to work.


Answers:
author: Rodger Vitkens
body: Thanks for the reply! I tried that and it has seemingly inconsistent results. The escape (\[afda\]) below expands, the second one (\[asda\]) doesn't. It also seems to add carriage returns where it wants to. What am I missing?

EscapeTest.PNG  
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comments: author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Rodger,

That's interesting, the first escape character has been ignored, then the escape characters in the H2 section have been treated as a carriage return. I'm not sure why.

I've not had to escape square brackets so I've not investigated their treatment in any great depth. If you need a definitive answer then in the absence of anyone else commenting here you might be best off asking Atlassian directly.

However, if you just want it to work, you've got the option of doing a global search and replace in your Word document to change a left square bracket to an unused character (e.g. a pipe) and then do a search and replace in Confluence after the import to get the left square bracket back. It's a bit clunky, but if you're just concerned about being able to get the import done then that would probably be the easiest way.


author: Rodger Vitkens
body: Thanks for the reply and the workaround.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Rodger,

The standard escape character for Word imports is a back slack: \\

I haven't tried it with square brackets, but \\\[\] should render as \\\[\], not as a link.

You'll have to remove the slash in Confluence after you've imported (unless you want to keep it/don't mind it being on the page).
Draw.io Confluence doesn't show in addons
Asked by Jim Rainaldi:

I was able to add the Draw.io JIRA to our cloud hosted service but the confluence add-on doesn't seem to show up. Any thoughts?


Answers:
author: Aylin Kohls
body: Hi James

Where did you look for it? I use it and it?s showed in edit mode, under "+" -\> Draw.io Diagram.

Regards, Aylin.

comments: author: Jim Rainaldi
body: Sorry I figured it out.

There are separate add-on install locations for JIRA and Confluence.

Both have to be installed in their respective site.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to merge changes from edited versions of files in a file list?
Asked by Peter Dawson:

If two or more users have been editing a file simultaneously, two new versions will be saved.

Can the changes in these two versions be merged?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Check out [Arsenale Lockpoint](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.arsenale.plugins.lockpoint/server/overview). It lets you lock files so that only one person can work on it at a time.


Tags: file
Can I see if another user is currently editing a file in a file list?
Asked by Peter Dawson:

When editing a file in a file list in Confluence, there does not seem to be any indication if another user is editing the file at the same time. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You will need an add-on for this. The only one I know of is [Arsenale Lockpoint.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.arsenale.plugins.lockpoint/server/overview) We use it and it works pretty well.


Tags: file
Resize heigth of lanes in roadmap
Asked by Patrick_Vanhoof:

Is there a possibility in the Roadmap Planner macro to resize the heigth of the lanes? If two lanes have the same start of the title (e.g. Design Phase One and Design Phase Two), you see 'Design P...' on both lanes. Annoying...

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Patrick,

Sadly, no. There are lots of Roadmap Planner [feature requests](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-37071?jql=project%20%3D%20CONF%20AND%20text%20~%20%22%5C%22roadmap%20planner%5C%22%22), including this one which you might want to vote for: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-36103>


author: Sean Poris
body: Slight work around - if you add more bars, the lane widens. If you can decompose one of your bars into two (or three), it will give you the real estate you need.


Tags: advanced-roadmaps
Image preview not showing in IE
Asked by Admin2:

Has anyone else come across this issue? We have just found out that people using IE 11 to view our site cannot see the "previews" of images that have been attached to a page within the last few months or so: all they see is a placeholder (see below). However, if they click on the placeholder, the image is shown in the viewer full size in the normal way.

We did not realise this as we use Chrome as our browser of choice ... and everything works fine in that! Some further investigation has shown that anyone using Edge or Firefox can also see the images, but everyone using IE 11 appears to have this issue!

Is this a bug in IE or in Confluence and is there a workaround?

Thanks in advance for any light you may be able to shed on this :smile:

Capture IE 11.PNG  
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Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: IE is NOT fully HTML5 compatible

It is somewhat random what ways it exhibits its "annoyances" - it is not consistent across all machines, even with the same Windows version or browser version - some suffer, some don't - some weird interaction of hardware and versions .. ?????

ONLY solution is to use a HTML5 compatible browser like Firefox or Chrome etc

Here is another known weird issue of not allowing copy/paste which has us scratching heads ... solution : a different browser!!!!

<https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie11-windows_7/internet-explorer-11-cannot-use-copy-paste-within/5b4489fc-9208-45d9-ac1d-b027fc494e7d>


author: nick
body: Sorry wrong platform.


author: Stefan Baader
body: We have the exactly same issue after updating from CONF 5.10 to 6.9


author: Admin2
body: Update: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-45822>

Older images were displayed at full size, hence they show properly in IE.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Automatic email sent after editing a page
Asked by Pamela Jones:

I would like to know what triggers the sending of emails when I update a page.

Why only some users receive the email.

Can I stop this from happening?


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: It first depends on what settings each User has applied for email notifications - and there are two types of notifications as instantaneous and daily

they each need to click the menu next to their icon/picture top right \> select Watches

At the bottom of the Watches screen is the email settings - if everything is tuned off they get nothing

assuming things are tuned on then they may also want to set their personal Watches per page or per Space - e.g. on the Home page of a Space, click the watch icon top right to select how to watch

Then the last thing is the person editing the page may choose to disable Notification on the edits (but daily updates would still be sent)


author: Beate Kriener
body: Hi Pamela,

at the bottom of the page in the editor is a checkbox with something like "notify viewers". Remove the check mark and no mails should be sent.


author: Vasiliy Zverev
body: Only watchers will receive email about page update.


Tags: confluence-administration
What happened to the confluence sidebar?
Asked by Andrew Mast:

I am on Confluence 1000.847.1

My sidebar used to have a nice nav-tree that included important pages for my space. Now I see a sidebar that simply has "Discover, My Work, My spaces" that are unrelated to the space.

I feel really stupid that I'm missing some important announcement or change. Whats going on?  
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Answers:
author: Martin Sauter
body: Atlassian made a major UI change recently which affects the sidebar / page tree. For example you don't see the page tree anymore when you switch to a different space (but it will be displayed if you open a specific page in that space). The page tree itself it no longer configurable as it used to be.

Overall a couple of changes, and not for the better.


author: James Dellow
body: You are describing the global dashboard (the default home page for your entire Confluence site) - this isn't within any one space - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/the-dashboard-724764714.html>

It is possible to make a space your default site home page - perhaps someone has changed this setting?

(This is an admin function - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/configuring-the-site-home-page-724765517.html>)

comments: author: Andrew Mast
body: James, thank you for the answer but I am talking about this sidebar

<http://atlassian.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/21-600x409.png>

There IS a space specific sidebar. I see settings for it and it used to show up when I visited a space's default page. Now its gone and I want to know if it is possible to get it back.


author: James Dellow
body: Yes, that screenshot is the sidebar you should see when ever you are browsing a space.

However, if you are seeing the dashboard sidebar with "Discover, My Work, My spaces" while browsing the pages in a specific space then I would raise a support ticket. I'm not aware of any configuration options in Confluence Cloud that would allow you to use it in a space (as you have highlighted - the functionality it provides doesn't make sense in the context of a space).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Hide Space from Specific User
Asked by Peter Kahn:

How can I hide a space from a specific user who is a member of a group to which has read access?

Is my only option to move the user from read-access group to forbidden-group which lacks access to my space? I looked and confluence permissions/restrictions all appear to be additive and I have a...subtractive... use case.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You are right, you need to remove them from the groups that give them access to it.


Tags: permission
Site Admin no longer exists
Asked by C?sar Torres:

The person administering the site confluence, no longer works in the company and we can not edit the permissions since he was as an administrator.

Is there a solution?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: "Site admin" implies Cloud. You'll need to either be able to read his email and issue a password reset email, or contact Cloud support over at <https://support.atlassian.com>

For Server installations, see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html>


Tags: confluence-administration

password
contributors macro shows different information per user
Asked by Julia Erdel:

Hey,

I am the system admin and I see that person xyz made 265 edits (contributors summary macro). But a space admin see that person xyz made 400 edits.

Did someone know what is wrong or has an idea?

Regards

Julia


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Julia,

Although you are a system administrator, that doesn't mean you have permissions to view every page (although as a site admin you could change the permissions to allow yourself to see everything). The macros, like everything else in Confluence, take into account what you can and can't see based on your permissions.

In this case, person xyz has made 400 edits, and 135 of those edits are on a page (or pages) that you don't have permission to view, but your space admin does.

comments: author: Julia Erdel
body: Hi Rob,

thank you for your answer. This was my first idea but! I am also the space admin for the space. And we checked with the other space admin every site. We have the same permissions.

So there must be something else creating the change.

Kindly regards

Julia


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Julia,

Ah. If it's not permissions then...I'm really not sure. The only thing that affects the results in that macro is space/page permissions, so you might have found a bug. You'll need to raise a ticket with Atlassian and get them to look into it.

(Also, how have you managed to check that you and the other space admin have the exact same page-level permissions for every page in your site? I don't know of a way of doing this quickly and easily (we've got thousands of pages and it's essentially a manual process), so any tips you've got would be appreciated :smile:)


author: Julia Erdel
body: Hi Rob,

the space hasn't so much pages but yes, it was a manual process. And we did a mistake. We missed ONE single site :smile: no bug :smile:

So your solution was great. Thank you.

But I had an idea:

So copy and paste the restricted pages of both persons into excel ((space configuration/ tab Permission/ tab restricted pages)), clean up the data and try VLOOKUP() function? Could that probably work?


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Excellent, I'm glad you got it sorted :smile:

We've got some quite a lot of restrictions across quite a lot of spaces, so anything that makes it easier to do a diff on 2 users is welcome. The idea of pouring it into Excel and using the tools there is a good one, I'll play around with it. Thanks for the suggestion!


Tags: confluence-administration
Import word document with Expandable section to Confluence
Asked by Lokesh Prajapati:

I have a word document in which some of the sections I'd like to be expandable after I import it to Confluence. I know there is a macro "Expand" which does that. But the question is, what do I put in my word document so that Confluence interprets it as Expand section and makes the section expandable?

I have tried covering my expandable section with this in my word document and importing it into Confluence without success:

{expand:ExpandMe}

This text will be hidden by default but reader can expand this.

{expand}

Confluence treats the {expand} block as plaintext and writes it as it is without converting it into a macro.

I am automatically generating this document many times a day so I cannot add expand sections manually every time.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Lokesh,

I'm pretty sure you'll have to add expand sections manually every time.

I wanted to do something similar with the code block macro for code snippets, but it turned out not to be possible. (Unfortunately I didn't ask in Atlassian Answers, otherwise I'd be able to link to the info.)

comments: author: Lokesh Prajapati
body: Thank you Rob, I was afraid this would be the case.


Tags: import
Would like to embed Confluence into an iframe on an external corporate site.
Asked by Brad Lauzon:

Should be as simple as adding the https:// url for the Confluence page but get security errors that it is against policy.

Any other site, internal or external, works when the url is plugged in. Using REST API is not an option.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Might be a permissions problem. You probably need to add anonymous read access to the site and space.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can I have more than one glossary in Confluence?
Asked by Peter Marshall Vining:

I'm using the Glossary add-on to create a glossary in Confluence. Our Confluence administrator made a Glossary space for me, and that's where I'm making the glossary.

Is it possible to have another glossary? Would my Confluence administrator have to make a second space called, for example, Glossary of Technical Terms. Going further, could I have several spaces like Glossary of Technical Terms, Glossary of Marketing Terms, and Glossary of Solutions Delivery Terms?

If creating separate glossary spaces isn't the way to go, what do other people do when they need more than one glossary?


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Hi Peter,

You said, "what do other people do when they need more than one glossary?"

We have just one instance, to avoid people having to think, "Hmmm, which glossary might I look this term up in?, or ".which..to add this term to?"

We actually widened the concept from "glossary" to a Company '-pedia', as that can include items that aren't necessarily glossary terms per se. That wider umbrella can include almost anything an employee might need information: our locations, information about our suppliers or customers, and so forth.

Also, we are seeing a growing number of company-sanctioned apps in the enterprise, and that was becoming hard for employees to keep on top of. They can find links to some of them in our portal, but our '-pedia' goes a step further by helping to point out to them not only *where* company-sanctioned applications are, but *what* they are - via a link to it's -pedia page, which includes other helpful details (how to provision, how to install, etc.).

A collection of these listed apps are listed in a special page in the -pedia, linked from the home page; it includes both a direct link to the application (where that applies, i.e. the application doesn't require downloading or licensing but is available to all employees) and a direct link to its -pedia page.

We have over 6000 terms/items entered so far. We do use labels to help delineate content types from each other, but many just use the search option in our "one-stop shop".

Hope this helps.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a filter macro like what SalesForce uses to filter out content dynamically?
Asked by Mireille Gennaro:

Looking for a similar filter mechanism to what SalesForce uses to present Release Notes dynamically:

<https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/spring17/release-notes/salesforce_release_notes.htm>

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Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Mireille,

You need an add-on like [Scroll Versions](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions/server/overview) (as used by Atlassian for their versioned documentation).