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Bad formatting/padding within Confluence Cloud Tables?
Asked by Jeff Scattini:

In the last two weeks (perhaps less), I've created a number of tables, or modified pre-existing tables within Confluence Cloud.

Everything looks alright in the Edit View (I've disabled the "new" editor template from appearing. It doesn't contain the functionality I need to actually make usable pages.), but when I publish the page, the tables are twice as wide as they need to be and there is no padding at all between the left-hand edge of the cell and the content. (default left-justified headers and content cells).

Is anyone else experiencing this?

When I look at the underlying XML, it all looks fine, it's just not being rendered correctly. Is this Atlassian releasing an update that screwed up their CSS? Is this an issue with Chrome?

Bueller?


Answers:
author: Jeff Scattini
body: I've submitted a formal bug: <https://getsupport.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/42/PSCLOUD-37380>

As we haven't heard from Atlassian yet.

Please watch and like to get this higher priority.


author: Sachin Acharya
body: Yes, I am also facing this issue. I tried it in Safari and it had the same issue. I don't think it is something to do with the browser.

I haven't been able to find any solution for it as of now.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

editor

format

table
Confluence stack not able to generate backup using Atlassian Backup Machine
Asked by Enrique:

Hi community,

We are using Atlassian Backup Machine ([https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Data-Center-articles/Introducing-Atlassian-CloudFormation-Backup-Machine/ba-p/881556\\](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Data-Center-articles/Introducing-Atlassian-CloudFormation-Backup-Machine/ba-p/881556)) to perform backups/snapshots in our Confluence 6.15.2 stacks defined by AWS Cloudformation template ([https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-atlassian-confluence\\](https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-atlassian-confluence)).

When backmac runs I'm getting the following error in DB nested stack:

An error occurred (ValidationError) when calling the DescribeStackResource operation: Resource ElasticFileSystem does not exist for stack conf-pr205-DB-xxxxxxxxxxxxx-MySQLDatabase-xxxxxxxxxxxxx: ClientError  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File "/var/task/backmac_mount_efs.py", line 54, in lambda_handler  
efs_id = backmac_utils.get_stack_resource_id(stack_name, 'ElasticFileSystem')  
File "/opt/python/backmac_utils.py", line 50, in get_stack_resource_id  
LogicalResourceId=logical_id, StackName=stack_name  
File "/var/runtime/botocore/client.py", line 357, in _api_call  
return self._make_api_call(operation_name, kwargs)  
File "/var/runtime/botocore/client.py", line 661, in _make_api_call  
raise error_class(parsed_response, operation_name)  
botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (ValidationError) when calling the DescribeStackResource operation: Resource ElasticFileSystem does not exist for stack conf-pr205-DB-xxxxxxxxxxxxx-MySQLDatabase-xxxxxxxxxxxxx

For some reason is complaining that mysql nested stack is not having a EFS, but that nested stack don't need one, EFS is defined at a root stack level.

Any suggestions/hints would be appreciated


Answers:
author: BaM
body: Hi Enrique.

The "Atlassian CloudFormation Backup Machine" is an Atlassian Labs style tool provided without support and "as is".

It was not built to work with the AWS Quickstart style demo stacks, but with the templates that are closer to those we use for our internal Production stacks (at <https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-aws-deployment/src/master/templates/>) .. These templates do not have nested stacks.

For any Confluence built with the "[ConfluenceDataCenter.template.yaml](https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-aws-deployment/src/master/templates/ConfluenceDataCenter.template.yaml)" in that repo, Backmac would work and allow you to then use the "[ConfluenceDataCenterClone.template.yaml](https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-aws-deployment/src/master/templates/ConfluenceDataCenterClone.template.yaml)" in the same repo to create clones for other environments (stg/dev) or DR instances of your Confluence.


Tags: confluence-server

data-center

jira-service-desk

server
Restrict 'Quick Navigation' to not show each meeting notes page
Asked by Mike Bailoux:

Hello,

I would like to only display the 'Meeting Notes' index page in the Quick Navigation section and not each Meeting notes page that is created.

Is this possible, as to not clutter the navigation section with all created notes?

Thanks,

Mike


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Mike,

Happy to help you with this.

I believe you're referring to the Quick Navigation search option in Confluence, but correct me if I am wrong. If this is the case, then it's not possible to configure the scope of this search. We have two features for this, one for Cloud and one for Server:

* [CONFCLOUD-5338](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-5338) *Make quick search scope a site configurable option* (Cloud)
* [CONFSERVER-5338](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-5338) *Make quick search scope a site configurable option* (Server)

As a workaround, you could add the Meeting Notes index page as a linked page [by configuring the sidebar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configure-the-sidebar-317194694.html) in Confluence, or you could use something like the [Livesearch Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/livesearch-macro-163415902.html) and restrict the search there using labels.

I hope that helps, but if there's a more specific use you want for this, please let us know, and we can recommend an add-on or another macro.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Mike Bailoux
body: Hello Shannon,

Thanks for the feedback. Using the page links will do the job.

Mike


author: Shannon S
body: No problem at all, Mike! Happy to help.

Take care, and have a pleasant weekend.

Regards,

Shannon
how to link Jira reports in Confluence when Jira is hosted on Cloud
Asked by Jayesh.Rao (CTL):

Would like to have Jira reports show up in Confluence


Answers:
author: Michael Kuhl _Appfire_
body: Hi Jayesh - If your report is or can be placed on a Jira dashboard then that dashboard report can be embedded in a Confluence page. There is a Confluence macro for every Jira dashboard gadget.

![Screen Shot 2018-05-09 at 1.10.54 PM.png](https://tnckb94959.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/21651iD08DE878FE784FAE/image-size/large?v=1.0&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-05-09 at 1.10.54 PM.png")

Another option is to use the [Jira macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/gadgets-724765454.html) to embed the results of a Jira filter as a table of data or a chart.

comments: author: Jayesh.Rao (CTL)
body: can you please share any screen shots for the "Another option is to use the [Jira macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/gadgets-724765454.html) to embed the results of a Jira filter as a table of data or a chart."


author: Jayesh.Rao (CTL)
body: Hi Mike ..Thanks a lot for responding


author: Michael Kuhl _Appfire_
body: Hi Jayesh - Here's an article from Atlassian that has step by step instructions and screen shots: <https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/display-jira-issues-in-confluence-more-power-more-control>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Need help with assigning priority within a page property report.
Asked by Robin MacDonald:

Need help with assigning priority numbers to multiple items within the Page Properties Report macro which is embedded in a Table Filter macro. We have this pulling in from at least 25 different source pages containing the same Page Property macro.

We currently have a row inside the Page Property macro defined as "Priority" using a numerical system on each source page. Our issue is that each time we have to update the "Priority" number inside the source page, we then have to go through each source page sequentially to manually update the "Priority" number.

Is there a better way or plug in to be able to update the "Priority" number and will automatically update the remaining priority numbers sequentially? The "Priority" doesn't need to live within the source page. Our goal is that on the page that houses the report, that the we're able to prioritize each item, and then it automatically update the sequential priority numbers.

Please note, this is in Confluence, and we have no immediate plans to move it into JIRA.


Answers:
author: Natalie Paramonova [Stiltsoft]
body: Hello Robin,

I'm with StiltSoft. We develop [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview).

You can consider the following macros included in the app:

* [Table Excerpt and Table Excerpt Include](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) macros. You can use them to **excerpt tables from any source** (current page, specific page, child pages, pages by labels) and include them on any page you need. The macros support multi-excerpt.
* [Table Transformer](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TableFilter/How+to+use+Table+Transformer+macro) macro. You can use it to **merge multiple tables** , including tables inserted with the help of the previous two macros and tables outputted with other macros and apps. Or using this macro you can **calculate priority** based on the values from other columns using SQL queries.

And the third tool you can use in your case is the [Handy Status](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/HMFC/How+to+use+Handy+Status+macro?src=contextnavpagetreemode) macro (one of the [Handy Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214971/handy-macros-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) app). You can add all the priorities in one status set, add these statuses to the page and change them on the fly by selecting from the dropdown menu. You can also change statuses directly in the Page Properties report and they will be updated on every page.

Please [contact us](https://stiltsoft.customercase.com/forums/support-requests/ideas/create?category=Table%20Filter%20and%20Charts%20for%20Confluence), describe your use case in more details and we'll find the macro combination that works for you.
Formatierung von Tabellen in Confluence
Asked by Lasse Holzmann:

Hallo Community,

wie kann ich Spalten in Tabellen erweitern bzw. verkleinern? Aus unerfindlichen Gr?nden taucht bei mir die Option "Ansprechbar" und "fixe Breite" nicht auf - sowie es in einigen Tutorials kommuniziert wird. Wer kann hier helfen? :)

Lasse


Answers:
author: Lasse Holzmann
body: hey Kathy, thx for the input.

I am working in the Cloud version.

The option "Responsive/Fixed" doesn't appear in my version, even though I am working in an actual table + I am in Edit mode.

Could be the problem that I am working in the cloud version?

Thanks a lot in advance!


author: Kathy Hart
body: I am in Cloud also, but perhaps you are using the "New Editing Experience".

It will look like this:

![New table layout.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/67323i23597A75FD889CA9/image-dimensions/427x162?v=v2 "New table layout.png")

There does not appear to be a way to change from fixed to responsive in this new editing mode.

We will have to wait for Atlassian to weigh in on this one.

Sorry I couldn't be more help.


author: Lasse Holzmann
body: here it is: ![Bildschirmfoto 2019-09-25 um 14.57.02.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/67321iE4E11515C5B2B846/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Bildschirmfoto 2019-09-25 um 14.57.02.png")


author: Kathy Hart
body: Are you working in Cloud or in Server version?

The option is only available in actual tables in Confluence, and does not apply to such things as Page Properties Reports or other roll-up reports like Content, etc.

You must be in Edit mode, and your cursor must be inside the table. Only then does the Responsive/Fixed width option appear.

If you adjust the width columns manually by grabbing the separator line and dragging it, the table will default to fixed width without you having to change the indicator. Occasionally, the indicator may show Responsive, when the table is actually behaving like fixed width. This is usually due to a manual drag. To undo this, change it to fixed width and then back to responsive, if that is your desire.

![responsive table.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/67319i3DE7ECE0F09BD942/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "responsive table.png")

I hope this helps.


Tags: table
Can I use confluence as public site that can be retrieved via search in browser?
Asked by Andre Rybalka:

I would like to create a simple website that have few pages. I want all published pages to be retrieved via simple search query in browser. So the target is not have closed from the entire world knowledge base, but to have a simple internet site that looks like Knowledge confluence page(and actually IS knowledge base with all Confluence functionalities and macros where I am administrator).

As an expected answer I would like to have direct link to the product that I have to purchase.


Answers:
author: Matt Reiner [K15t]
body: Hey [@Andre Rybalka](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3569990)

To make a space available online, you can [enable it for public access](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/setting-up-public-access-156.html).

To add SEO optimization and other site functions, you could try my teams app [Scroll Viewport](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211636/scroll-viewport-for-confluence). With the app, you can display and theme your Confluence content as a website. [Here's an example](https://www.k15t.com/blog/2019/08/we-created-a-help-center-in-confluence-and-you-can-too) of how we used Scroll Viewport to create [our own help center site](https://help.k15t.com/).
How can I create a link to a Google Doc but have it open in another tab?
Asked by Donna Walsh:

I want to link to a Google doc on one of my confluence pages but I need that google doc to open in another tab.

Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Manisha Kharga _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Donna Walsh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3570002) ,

Please review the following FAQ pages hopefully, it would help you start on this:

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Force+Links+to+Open+in+a+New+Window](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Force+Links+to+Open+in+a+New+Window?_ga=2.219439001.1870779238.1569217975-246696911.1568007834)

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Make+Confluence+Open+a+New+Tab+when+Clicking+on+the+Attachments+Link](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Make+Confluence+Open+a+New+Tab+when+Clicking+on+the+Attachments+Link?_ga=2.219439001.1870779238.1569217975-246696911.1568007834)

Hope it helps.

Thanks,  
Manisha
Upgrading to 6.15.9
Asked by Ernie Jennings:

I'm probably going to upgrade to Confluence 6.15.9 soon. Has anyone had any problems with this version?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there, [@Ernie Jennings](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/989523)!

Great to hear that you want to go into one of our most recent versions. Keeping our instances upgraded is a big but *++necessary effort++*.

While I have no specifics to point you to, I filtered some issues that have 6.15.9 listed as the affected version. Here, take a look at the filter:
> * ++***[\[Confluence 6.15.9\] Affected version](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58897?jql=project%20%3D%20CONFSERVER%20AND%20affectedVersion%20%3D%206.15.9)***++

Also, we might be able to get some information about issues in 6.15.9 by*++looking straight into the community++* posts:
> * ++***[Atlassian Community](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&q=6.15.9)***++

And for finals, we can take a look at what has been fixed in 6.15.9. We have the "Issues resolved in xxx" page for each Confluence release. Here it is:
> * ++***[\[Confluence Server\] Issues resolved in 6.15.9](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/issues-resolved-in-6-15-9-976753499.html)***++

Hope this helps you, Ernie. Looking forward to your reply!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Creating an app
Asked by Sebastien Auclair:

Hello,

What is the first approach to creating apps on Confluence ?

Our team members need to manage some internal information and we created a standard relational database schema to represent the data structure.

We need to deploy this model in a DBMS and make a frontend that we would like to be integrated to our On-Premise Confluence/Jira site.

We need this system to be SQL based or at least be capable of extrating the entire database content to migrate it into some other non Atlassian system in the future. (Possibly)   
So the relational structure must be SQL compliant.

Is there one standard generic way to approach this ?

Thanks !


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Start at <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/writing-confluence-plugins/>

One word of caution on the database side - your app is free to do whatever you want with the databases it needs to access, but do **not** use SQL to touch the Confluence database. Use the internal API to read/write Confluence, or you will find yourself with horrible performance killing read SQL queries, and if you were to attempt to write to its data, a broken Confluence, possibly irretrievably.

comments: author: Sebastien Auclair
body: Everything seams to be very "Frontend" oriented... Almost nothing about the data management layer of the plugins... And we do not need to touch any of the Confluence related data or data structures... Our application could even be made into a completely separated DBMS.

And again, we must implement the relational model we created in such a way that if one day we need to migrate into a new DBMS like SQL Server or MySQL, will be able to export the data and the relations... (We have NtoN relations, One-to-Many, etc)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Apps for Confluence are generally about adding functions to it, so there's a heavy focus on working with Confluence.

You can do whatever you want in your code though. Reading and writing a separate database is absolutely fine, but there's no reason for the Confluence docs to talk about that, as it's nothing to do with Confluence. You'll want to read docs for the language you are using to write the app ( I would recommend writing apps in something the Confluence system already supports so you don't have to include entire coding language support in your app)

As you are reading and writing data outside Confluence and want to be able to port it, you will need to write export and import methods in your code (and I'd recommend thinking about upgrades too)


Tags: app

confluence-server

server

sql
Inherit linked confluence page from Epic to Story
Asked by markus.eriksson:

We have Confluence pages for each epic in our system with alot of pre-development material, like interviews, sketches etc.

On each epic we have linked those confluence pages, now we would like to have all created stories, subtaks etc inside this epic to inherit these links. So if a developer takes this task he can directly see the link to the correct Confluence page without having to go up in the hirarchy of the story until he gets to the epic and finds the link.

Is this possible to do somehow?


Answers:
author: Pavan
body: [@markus.eriksson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/20034) you can achieve this by using JMWE add-on

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.innovalog.jmwe.jira-misc-workflow-extensions>


Tags: application-link

cloud

confluence-cloud

link
Creating an user in Confluence's internal user DB after LDAP is activated
Asked by Proiciu:

Hello,

I am new to Confluence and have a question for the more experienced users.

<br />

We have a Confluence instance that uses an Active Directory for user authentication. It has ticked the option "External user management" in the Security Configuration menu so no new local users can be created.

<br />

We need to add a new local user. Is there any issue with un-ticking temporarily the "External user management" option, creating a new local account and then ticking it back?

As far as I can see there is only one local user with a name that is not present in AD.

Will the LDAP server connection need to be setup again or the settings will remain as before?

Thank you for any reply.


Answers:
author: Shankar Asam {Appfire}
body: To create local user accounts in confluence, please do this:-

* Log in confluence
* Go to User directories
* Change the order so that Internal directory should come first
* create a local user account (internal user)
* Change the order back to its original position
* Try login with new user

-Shankar

comments: author: Proiciu
body: Thanks for the head-up about changing the order.

We did create the user and it went without any issue. LDAP settings were preserved and there was no outage.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Restricting Content by label macro to display a lists of pages only.
Asked by Ola Kuteyi:

I need help in restricting the macro to display a lists of pages only. I do not want to display blog posts.


Answers:
author: Avinash Bhagawati _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Ola Kuteyi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3330631) ,

with the help of **Add a filter** option in Content by label Macro, you will be able restrict display only pages. Please find below screenshot for your reference. [Click here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-by-label-macro-145566.html) to know more on this.

![Screenshot 2019-09-24 at 5.25.02 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/67185iB5F70B19E2032168/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2019-09-24 at 5.25.02 PM.png")

comments: author: Ola Kuteyi
body: Thanks


Tags: confluence-server

server
Is there an option to find and replace text in Confluence Cloud?
Asked by Nivedita:

I want to find and replace few words in a page? Do we have find and replace option in confluence cloud?


Answers:
author: Natalya_EasyApps
body: While the page level find and replace is useful we also wanted to do it across a space so we created Find and Replace by Easy Apps (not allowing me to add the link to the app on the Atlassian Marketplace).


author: Jessie Wang_ScriptRunner_The Adaptavist Group
body: Hi [@Nivedita](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3508205) this appears possible now: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Find-and-replace-text-in-confluence/qaq-p/1183474>

However if you ever need to find and replace text across an entire space rather than just a page you can use [ScriptRunner for Confluence Cloud.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215215/scriptrunner-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud)

There's a script you can copy and paste into the [Script Console](https://docs.adaptavist.com/sr4cc/latest/features/script-console) feature and run. It will find a replace text for all pages in a space. The script is available here: <https://library.adaptavist.com/entity/find-and-replace-text-across-space>

If you want to try ScriptRunner you can get a [30 day free trial](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215215/scriptrunner-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud) in the Marketplace.


author: Manisha Kharga _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Nivedita](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3508205) ,

As per the confluence native feature, will not be able to find and replace text.

There is Atlassian ticket raised for the Confluence server.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-2522>

For now, you can use third-party apps (Qron Replace - Search and Replace for Confluence).

Thanks,  
Manisha


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

search-and-replace