youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
New Editing Experience - attaching a file to a page
Asked by Antal Berenyi:

I have just updated a page to the "New editing experience" mode, and my new experience can be summed up as frustration when it comes to attaching files to a page. When I drop an Excel file to a page I can no longer:

1. Drag the file around on the page to any location.

2. I can not choose to display it as a hyperlink by clicking on it. It displays as a rectangle only. I want to change it to a hyperlink.

3. I can no longer display it inline, or type text next to it.

4. Change the text displayed on it.

5. If you cancel out inserting an file to a page via "Files \& images" menu, it will scroll to the top of the page instead of staying at the edit location.

If anyone's new editing experience is also frustration and has figured out a workaround, I'd like to know how to address the above issues!


Answers:
author: RPT Admin
body: This has been ongoing for at least a year. See the discussion here:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Cloud-link-to-attachment-not-possible/qaq-p/1051462>


Tags: attachment

cloud
What is the point of tagging in Confluence?
Asked by Abigail Mann:

I'm new to using Confluence for creating support documentation. When you create a How To/Troubleshooting document in Confluence there's an option to add tags/labels. However, what is the point of adding these tags/labels? Is it for ease of access for support agents when we try to search for articles? Do users search for articles via tags? It seems like Jira's ticketing system searches Confluence via text in the articles alone vs. using labels/tags, so hence why I'm asking who the tags/labels are intended for and what purpose they serve. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps
body: [@Abigail Mann](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3894888)when you get a lot of pages in a space, any space, it gets messy. In theory things are put in the right 'folders'. In reality someone has to keep things organized.

Labels are similar. They are useful to find and categorize content but not unless they are used well.

[@Matt Reiner \[K15t\]](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2246048)at [@K15t GmbH](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/720277) has a [good video on using labels](https://www.k15t.com/rock-the-docs/videos/confluence-best-practices/using-labels-in-confluence).

Basically we have had to grapple with labels ourselves and we decided to built an app that does bulk editing but restricts some features like merging. It's called [Label Manager by Easy Apps](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1232224/label-manager-by-easy-apps?hosting=cloud&tab=overview).


author: repi
body: <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/use-labels-to-organize-your-content/>

comments: author: Abigail Mann
body: Hi Repi,

This article doesn't answer my question because it seems like the Confluence search feature isn't searching based on tags but on the text of the article. There doesn't seem to be a way to modify the search for tags. So although your linked article claims that tags/labels are used to "make them (articles) easier to group and find" I'm not seeing the evidence of how that's accomplished.


author: Jason Hills
body: Probably too late, but ...  

There are at least 3 ways to search via search barsin Confluence.

Two of those ways can be setup to filter by tags.  

So, for example, in my internal knowledge base we filter our keyword-heavy whitepapers with a different label than regular, short articles, else a handful of whitepapers would push out dozens of other articles. Users have to go to the whitepaper section to get just whitepaper results.  

There's far, far more.  

Look up how to use page properties reports, filter by label, or content by label. If anyone wants, I can send screenshots of proof of concept pages about what that can accomplish. Along with detailed instructions that I can't find elsewhere.


Tags: label

cloud

jira

tag
I am having an issue with the Multimedia macro in Confluence.
Asked by Michael Chandler:

I am having an issue with the Multimedia macro in confluence. Specifically, it is not allowing me to select a video file.

![Multimedia Macro - Issue.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92780i3AA894024A7FACD6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Multimedia Macro - Issue.png")


Answers:
author: repi
body: Is the multimedia file also an attachment on the side where the macro should be used?  
Is it a compatible file?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Change x-axis in diagram from pivot table
Asked by Alexander Finn:

Hello everyone,

I have the following diagram, which was created by the 5 small pivot tables below

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92777i06B29725987943F8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

as you can see, the days of the week are on the top right of the diagram and "completed", "incomplete" on the x-axis... I need it to be to other way round, resp. I need the weekdays on the x-axis...

This is how it looks in the editor:

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92778iB9B3D182CF0CF61C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92779iD47FE1B0D4F9E2B8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

Thank you very much in advance


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hello Alexander,

Here is what I could get:

![2020-04-30_15h03_45.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92938i7DFFE9A97BE8B819/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-04-30_15h03_45.png")In the edit mode:

![2020-04-30_15h05_21.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92939i14E69700F51FC56E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-04-30_15h05_21.png")![2020-04-30_15h06_22.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92940i2341EDBC37F3B3D8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-04-30_15h06_22.png")![2020-04-30_15h06_39.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92941iC0558B8A81B396AA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-04-30_15h06_39.png")

The SQL query:

```
SELECT "Count" AS 'Value',
SUM(CASE WHEN T1.'Monday' = "Completed" THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'Monday',
SUM(CASE WHEN T1.'Tuesday' = "Completed" THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'Tuesday',
SUM(CASE WHEN T1.'Wednesday' = "Completed" THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'Wednesday',
SUM(CASE WHEN T1.'Thursday' = "Completed" THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'Thursday',
SUM(CASE WHEN T1.'Friday' = "Completed" THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS 'Friday'
FROM T1
```

![2020-04-30_15h08_03.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92942i9550C4C3F7BEE81E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-04-30_15h08_03.png")![2020-04-30_15h08_11.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92943i8ADAB7B9BFB1501B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-04-30_15h08_11.png")

comments: author: Alexander Finn
body: Legendary


Tags: diagram

pivot
Bug or feature ... in the Blog Posts Macro
Asked by repi:

In the blog post macro I notice the following error in the representation of the date and time.  
A newly created blog post always shows an incorrect hourly count of its creation in the macro.  
In the example in Figure 1, 18 hours are displayed, although it was only a few minutes ago.![Blogspace_Macro_Time_Error.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92773i05A3151818BC76A9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Blogspace_Macro_Time_Error.png")

In the second picture you can see the correct creation time in the blog itself.

![Test_Blogspace.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92774i4CD05FAFB680FE7B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Test_Blogspace.png")

In the third picture you can see a blog post that was created a few days ago on April 27th, 2020 at 9:32 pm. The blog post Macro shows 00:00

![Blog_Confluence_Update.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92775i35FE10B0AB4E3A8B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Blog_Confluence_Update.png")Can anyone confirm these malfunctions

Thanks and regards


Answers:
author: repi
body: Hi [@Luisa Falk](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/384025) ,

I also added titles under "content type to display"

![blogpost:macro.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/95049i973434E1F4302B12/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "blogpost:macro.png")

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-24905>

The problem should be fixed in version 4.1.7  
It's been a while now! :)

Version 7.4.0 didn't use 4.1.6 version code?

Unfortunately I only have a Confluence basic version and cannot open a support ticket.

comments: author: Luisa Falk
body: Hi [@repi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/302600)

I reported the issue and now there is a bug report:  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59857>


author: repi
body: [@Luisa Falk](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/384025)

Thanks for the bug report!


author: Luisa Falk
body: After updating to 7.4.0 we also noticed the behavior in the blog-posts macro (only on "Content Type to Display" is set to "title").  

I found an very old issue in Version 4.0 to this. See [Fixed Width table displays strange behaviors in the editor for Blog post](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-24559).


Tags: confluence-server

macro

questions-for-confluence
How to add link to top of the page in Template? By new editor.
Asked by Alexander Panov:

HI,  
I need to add "Up button" in Template - a text with link to beginning of the page.  
Before it could be made by anchor, but now I can't see a possibility to do this in template.

Here is some words about this:  
<https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-anchor-macro/>

But if I understand right, this only works with already created pages, not with templates.

Wiki markup also was castrated, or is there some persisted way?


Answers:
author: Joe Bloggs
body: Why do they always feel the need to mess with stuff that works. Grrr.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

editor
Insert a table between numbered list without breaking the sequence
Asked by mark.dignadice:

I inserted a table between two numbered steps in a numbered list. But the next numbered step restarted to number 1.

How do I insert a table between numbered steps in a numbered list without breaking the sequence of the list?

I searched a community for the same issue but did not find a similar question.


Answers:
author: mark.dignadice
body: Inserting tables between numbered steps without breaking the number sequence is a basic functionality in all editors. Why it's not in Confluence just amazes me.

comments: author: Anurag Kumar
body: I convinced my whole team to move to Confluence from Google Docs and everyone is now asking me how they can add tables between lists!


author: Emma Tseng
body: I have this same issue, just log an issue to Atlassian, it will be helpful if you could vote for it <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-73378>


author: Nicholas Wade
body: Maybe we should ask Confluence why they inhibit the editing of the CSS/HTML, which used to be (at least on the Server version) available, and is now ONLY available if you buy their editor app as well?

Personally, I think this is a joke - a number of the apps have been implemented badly with scant regard to users (I guess that's what happens when Dev seems to run things).

Reporting just goes into a bottomless pit, which once again is manged by Dev. This issue has been around for some years - it's not new (you may also see that wide tables STILL have problems. Absurd....


author: Josep Canet
body: I have the same issue and looks like that there is no answer from Atl community, correct?

comments: author: Emma Tseng
body: I have this same issue, just log an issue to Atlassian, it will be helpful if you could vote for it <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-73378>


author: Nikolay Pilipenko
body: I have the same question.

I can insert a picture without breaking the list, but I can not do this with the table.


author: Chhavi Sharma
body: I am facing the same issue. This is so annoying. I want to review the PRD, was this never a requirement?


author: Emma Tseng
body: just log an issue to Atlassian, they won't take actions until there's enough vote, it will be helpful if you could go ahead and vote for it <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-73378>

comments: author: Nicholas Wade
body: Why should we have to vote for a basic function of a word processor?


author: Benjamin Br?cker
body: I miss that too. Lists and tables are the basic tools for documentation and they need to be nested into each other. Reality is sometimes too complex to put everything into flat lists. Confluence team: Please help us!


author: Todd Tomaino
body: Total hack: Screen shot the table and insert it as an image. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Ugh, yuck.


author: lpqdev
body: As usual, no answer from the Confluence team. This is a basic function that we should be able to do.

comments: author: Nicholas Wade
body: Been no answer for a few years now.. The Devs are all walking round with white sticks..


Tags: cloud
Can?t move pages that have child pages
Asked by Tihomira_Hristozova:

Hi,

I can no longer move pages that have child pages in Confluence. When I try to move such page I am getting an error ?Move failed. There was a problem contacting the server" (pic). If the page that I am moving does not have child pages everything is fine and it is moved successfully.

I've tried to move the page from Page Reorder tool as well, there is no error but when I close it I can see that the page is not moved.

I am an admin and I have all of the necessary permissions. We also reviewed the confluence log, but there are no ERRORS or information that could lead us to the possible cause of the problem.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

![pic1.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92748i5B51C758BF3A12C6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "pic1.jpg")


Answers:
author: Krzysztof Daukszewicz [CoreSoft Labs]
body: Have you tried reindexing?

comments: author: Tihomira_Hristozova
body: Hi, Krzysztof! Thank you for your time.  
We tried your suggestion. Sadly, it didn't help.


author: Krzysztof Daukszewicz [CoreSoft Labs]
body: Maybe the ancestor table is corrupted? You can rebuild it by going to \<Confluence-url\>/permissions/pagepermsadmin.action \>\> Rebuild.


author: Tihomira_Hristozova
body: Hi, Krzysztof!

We've tried it but we are still getting the same error.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Can you provide a user access to a particular page only?
Asked by Jag.Tiwana:

How to provide a users access to a specific page


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Jag.Tiwana](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2780081)

Look at this post, maybe can help you

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-grant-access-to-a-specific-page-s-without-granting-access/qaq-p/771666>

Cheers


Tags: cloud
Help with notifications
Asked by Andrey Gooravlev:

We recieve too mutch notifications on our e-mails fron Confluence services. Please support us by answearing the question "How can we limit the incoming messages by maintaining our resources (to configure notifications to be sent via "General settings") or do we need your assistance to solve this problem?".


Answers:
author: Krzysztof Daukszewicz [CoreSoft Labs]
body: Hello, everyone can set it up individually by going to his/hers profile and changing the Email Settings. If you tick "Subscribe to daily updates" only, you will receive one email per day.

comments: author: Andrey Gooravlev
body: The problem is not only in messages. Our licence includes the limit in 50 000 messages. When we exceed this limit, we don't recieve the messages we need. Please, tell us how could we solve thid problem?


author: Krzysztof Daukszewicz [CoreSoft Labs]
body: [@Andrey Gooravlev](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1176704) - try <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-globally-disable-e-mail-notifications-with-page-content-718670714.html>


Tags: notification
confluence space
Asked by Blanca Navarro:

I have a problem, I used to have 2 different spaces with docuemntation and have disapers.

I remove some users that are not any more in the company.. maybe the docuemnts created by them also disaperds?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Krzysztof Daukszewicz [CoreSoft Labs]
body: Hello, even if the deactivated users have created private spaces, the spaces should not disappear after deactivating the users. The same goes for pages. I guess you'd have to provide some more details...


Tags: cloud
Add button to accept or reject
Asked by adam.devonshire:

Basically I have a build form that has an accept and a reject column. I want a button for each that I can have and when pressed it prompts for the users password and then adds the persons name into the field that is locked and cannot be changed

Would be ideal if this can lock the row in the table


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Have you been using some sort of a plugin to build your form?

comments: author: adam.devonshire
body: Nope, have no plug-ins currently... was hoping that this could be done simply using code... but don know what that code would be. I will then hope to put this into a template/blueprint


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Probably you will need to store it in the content properties... <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/content-properties-in-the-rest-api/>

Wrapping this into a user macro might have more sense (and hide some implementation details). But hardly will make this all secure enough, especially to satisfy your requirement around "that is locked and cannot be changed"


author: adam.devonshire
body: Help


Tags: confluence-server

server
bi-directional integration with OneDrive and/or Office365
Asked by Asen Zahariev:

Hello all,

I'm looking for solution/add-on to help me edit/read file thru OneDrive and to be saved in Confluence and vise versa.

Thank you in advance!

Asen Z.


Answers:
author: Nelson Pereira
body: Hi,

Check out this app, it should do exactly what you need:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1216862>  

Hope it helps. :)


Tags: confluence-server

ms-office-365

ms-onedrive

server
Confluence export to PDF issue : the PDF file generated is truncated on the right side edge
Asked by Admin:

Hi,

When i export the page in PDF format, all the confluence page PDF downloads are showing a Right side truncated content.

Yesterday, I have faced in Left truncated content issue while export the page in PDF format. I found one Script in Atlassian community and it is working fine for Left side content. Now I am facing Right side content cuts off issue.

PFB Script for Left edge truncated content issue.

**div.wiki-content { width: 150mm !important; align-self: center !important; margin: 18px !important; }**

Is there any script for both sides resolution?


Answers:
author: Angel Anderson
body: I've been fighting this issue as well. The original block I was using had a width of 190mm, which caused right-side cut off issues for me.

I adjusted the width property down to 180mm, exported, and saw that I still had some cut off. So I adjusted down to 170mm and for me, this fixed my cut-off issue on the right side \& left side.

Try modifying the width: 150mm to a different value and see how that effects your export. Adjust \& Export until you find the value that works best for your content. Not a perfect science, but it did fix my issue.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

pdf
How can i display my image in my velocity template ?
Asked by Amine Mekki:

I created a macro wich get data from an externel application and display the content in a velocity template , my problem is the data contains an image ( all the other data are displayed correctly ) so i create new image file and try to display this image in my template but the problem is the image is created in the target folder so how can i access this image from the target folder or is there another method to create this image the resources/images folder ?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Amine Mekki](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3547444) !

As I understand, you need to display an image within a User Macro. There are some older threads about this exact need here in our Community:
> * ++***[\[Atlassian Community\] images referenced in user macros](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/images-referenced-in-user-macros/qaq-p/532343)***++
> * ++***[\[Atlassian Community\] How to use Velocity to pull an image into a confluence user macro?](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-use-Velocity-to-pull-an-image-into-a-confluence-user/qaq-p/405457)***++
> * [++***\[Atlassian Community\] A user macro for Confluence server for creating image comparison slider***++](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/A-user-macro-for-Confluence-server-for-creating-image-comparison/ba-p/1089728)

The third thread mentioned here might be the closes to what you need to achieve. Other than that, I believe that you might find more assistance with within our developer Community, which is more specialized in this kind of request:
> * **++*[\[Atlassian Developer Community\] Confluence Developer](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/c/Confluence)*++**

Looking forward to your reply!


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

server
Chinese garbled issue
Asked by 13287561406:

Hi All,

When I imported a whole external space to a confluence, occur Chinese garbled issue, but I imported this external space file to another, eveything is ok.

Does anybody know how to fix this issue.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Ya


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@13287561406](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3887435) !

As I understand, you have restored a space backup into your Confluence instance the multi-byte (Chinese) text within it is not displayed as expected. ++*The platform where this is happening is not really clear, though.*++

If my assessment is correct, this is a known issue in Confluence Server. You can check our documentation about it here:
> * ++***[\[Confluence Server\] Non-ASCII Characters display as square characters in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/non-ascii-characters-display-as-square-characters-in-confluence-317948797.html)***++

Since we are not sure about where this is happening, let me ask you a few questions:
> 1. *From where was the backup taken, Confluence Cloud or Confluence Server?*
> 2. *Where was the backup restored, Confluence Cloud or Confluence Server?*
> 3. *Would it be possible for you to share screenshots of the issue with use?*

When taking the screenshots, be sure not to disclose any sensitive information with it. Our community is an open space and everyone can see everything posted here.

If you want more information on how to discern our Cloud platform from our Server one, you can take a look here:
> * ++***[\[Atlassian Support\] Functional differences in Confluence Cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/restricted-functions-in-confluence-cloud-734070955.html)***++
> * [++***\[Atlassian Support\] Compare Atlassian cloud vs server***++](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/compare-atlassian-cloud-vs-server-744721664.html)

Let us hear from you!


Tags: china

confluence-cloud

confluence-server

language-zh

layout

server