youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Create a link with the name of the current page included
Asked by ericq de beer:

I want to create a template with a set of links to sub pages. The sub pages must have the name of the page created with the template.This will be something like this  
The page pagexyz is created with the template

pagexyz  
pagexyz\\pagexyz - clients  
pagexyz\\pagexyz - software  
pagexyz\\pagexyz - providers  
pagexyz\\pagexyz - etc

I tried to do this with user macros the macro is displayed as text.

```
[link]as [link]or[$content.getTitle() - software]as[pagexyz - clients]
```

<br />

<br />


Answers:
author: ericq de beer
body: I got what i want now. First i created this User Macro:

```
## @param Name:title=Name|type=string|required=true|desc=Page name<ac:link>    <ri:page ri:content-title="$content.getTitle() - $paramName"/>    <ac:plain-text-link-body><![CDATA[$content.getTitle() - $paramName]]></ac:plain-text-link-body>  </ac:link>
```

This did what i first intended. This i realized i also want the pages to be created with a specific template. So i found the Servicerocket Linking plug-in. I use this with the Servicerocket Suppliers plug-in for the prefix page name content.

I use the link-page macro of the linking plugin. This creates a link that checks if a page is available or not. If not it can create a page with a template specified.

Eureka!


author: Davin Studer
body: Would the children macro work for you? Another thought would be to label the subpages that you would like to appear and use the content by label macro. If you have 5.8 then the content by label macro also allows you to define an ancestor so you could limit it to a certain branch.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can I limit the access of a group user to certain sites
Asked by Christina_L_:

e.g. my GROUP/ AREA is "TEAM" and my sites are "Marketing" \& "Controlling" and I want the Marketing guy in my group/area "TEAM" to only view the site "Marketing" and not "Controlling". Is this possible, if yes, how?


Answers:
author: pawarsachin84
body: Hello Christina,

As per your question, you want to provide permission to user to specific Confluence space. If this is the case then you can refer below link for more information and setps.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/assign-space-permissions-139460.html>

Regards,

Sachin


author: Davin Studer
body: You could do something like this. Create three group One called "Team" one called "Team - Marketing" and one called "Team - Controlling". Give the "Team" group access to both spaces. Give each of the other groups access to their respective space. From there all you have to do is put the marketing guy(s)/gal(s) in the marketing group and they will only have access to the marketing space.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there any possibility to switch the type (for example from warning to info) on an existing block without creating a new one and copying the content of the old one?
Asked by roman_baeriswyl:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Info, Tip, Note, and Warning Macros](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=51872369)*

Is there any possibility to switch the type (for example from warning to info) on an existing block without creating a new one and copying the content of the old one?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Yes, it is very possible. You have two options:

1. Click on "Edit" to get to the macro options, click the "Select Macro" link in the bottom left corner, choose the new macro, and you should now have the same text but in the new macro.
2. If you have the Confluence Source Editor installed, then you can update all the macros on a page in one go. Open the source code (by clicking the \<\> button), search for something like: ac:name="warning" (for the warning macro) and replace with: ac:name="info" (for the info macro). Then simply apply the changes and you should be good to go.

comments: author: roman_baeriswyl
body: Great thank you! Absolutely didn't see the "Select Macro" link. As for the second option, there's also an ac:macro-id which is different. I guess that one should be adjusted as well.


Tags: documentation
Search for pages restricted to a user
Asked by Anne EQS:

Is there any way to search for all content (pages and blog posts) for which a defined user has viewing and/or editing rights for a complete confluence instance?

I know about the space admin function but what I'd need is a search string to serach for all contnetn tah user xyz has viewing or editing rights (of course minus the ones every user has rights for)


Answers:
author: Tim
body: It is possible to get the information with a user macro. Here is a similiar one, which lists all pages in every space having group permissions:

```
## @noparams#set ( $pageManager = $action.getPageManager() ) #set( $allSpaces = $spaceManager.getAllSpaces() ) &lt;table class="confluenceTable"&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;      &lt;th class="confluenceTh"&gt;Space&lt;/th&gt;      &lt;th class="confluenceTh"&gt;Page&lt;/th&gt;      &lt;th class="confluenceTh"&gt;Group Permission&lt;/th&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;#foreach($space in $allSpaces)    #set( $allPagesInSpace = $pageManager.getPages($space, true) )    #foreach($page in $allPagesInSpace)      #if($page.hasContentPermissions())        #set( $permissions = $page.getPermissions() )        &lt;tr&gt;          &lt;td class="confluenceTd"&gt;$space.name&lt;/td&gt;          &lt;td class="confluenceTd"&gt;#contentLink2($page false false)&lt;/td&gt;          &lt;td class="confluenceTd"&gt;            &lt;ul&gt;              #foreach($permission in $permissions)                #if($permission.isGroupPermission())                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;$permission.type&lt;/em&gt; to&lt;strong&gt;$permission.groupName&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;                #end              #end            &lt;/ul&gt;          &lt;/td&gt;        &lt;/tr&gt;      #end    #end#end&lt;/table&gt;
```

It can be adapted with minimal effort to work for blogpost and userPermissions as well. Be advised, that depending on your server hardware and size of your Confluence instance, running these kinds of macros will put the system under **heavy load** for quite some time, so use with caution or on a separate test server.


Tags: confluence-administration
Slack integration
Asked by Jan Erik Hermansen:

Is the slack for confluence integration available when Confluence is hosted by Atlassian in the cloud?


Answers:
author: Ben Romberg - codefortynine
body: There is a new addon available that also supports the cloud version of Confluence: [Slack for Confluence Pro](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.madein49.slack-for-confluence/).


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Does the marketplace entry for it say "Cloud" or not?


Tags: cloud
Display SQL query inside chart without a table
Asked by Simon Boland:

I'm following the steps here to embed the results of a SQL query inside a chart.

<https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SQL/How+to+Create+a+Chart+with+SQL>

Is it possible to just show the chart and not the table? For example, in the above link suppose I only want to the pie chart and not the table underneath. Can I do this?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Yes. Set the **Display rendered data** parameter to **none**.

comments: author: Simon Boland
body: Thanks for your help.


Tags: bob-swift

chart

query

sql
Using system setting
Asked by Julian Requejo:

I have one suggestion regarding [the article for configuring proxies](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-web-proxy-support-for-confluence-117068.html).

Quite often it is more convenient to use the system settings, particularly if these tend to be changed by the administrator. For completion, I would suggest to add the following option as an alternative.

    -Djava.net.useSystemProxies=true

I think it would make the article more complete and help others

Thanks

Julian


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's a good point, I'd recommend raising it with Atlassian at support.atlassian.com


Tags: confluence-administration
Disable comment "pin" on images
Asked by Kelly Schroder:

How do I disable the "pin" comments on images? I am OK with the Image lightbox in theory, because I don't mind of my users want to enlarge an image. But I do not want them to be able to add comments on the images.

Atlassian's own Confluence for customers has this option disabled, but I can't figure out how to do it on my own.


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Look for the Confluence Previews system addon and disable the **Enable Annotation plugin for the File Viewer** module.

comments: author: Kelly Schroder
body: Thank you! Worked perfectly! I was pulling my hair out over it.


Tags: confluence-administration
where is Content Indexing - seems to be missing
Asked by Andrew Wozniak:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Content Index Administration](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148844)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Hugh Brown
body: Hi,

I have the same issue. I want to rebuild the Content Index so that I can tag users. [This article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF58/Content+Index+Administration) says I should find it under Cog -\> General Configuration -\> Administration -\> Content Indexing.

But it isn't there (as you can see from this screenshot)!

content-indexing.png

It is hugely frustration that I cannot tag users in Confluence.

I am on Atlassian Cloud, we are paying for the licence and I am the system admin.

Can anyone help?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/where-is-Content-Indexing-seems-to-be-missing/qaq-p/426873?attachment-id=4032){#link_1187bd45571ee1}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/197945/1/content-indexing.png){#display_1187bd45571ee1_0}


author: Andrew Wozniak
body: Thank you for the quick reply. I tried your suggestion and it fails with:  

Not Permitted  
You are not permitted to perform this operation.  

Perhaps this feature is restricted because of our evaluation account? We have been test driving Confluence for the past few weeks.

btw, I am the only user and administrator.


author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: You should be able to hit it from here:

[https://\<domain\>/wiki/admin/search-indexes.action](https://rapidratings.atlassian.net/wiki/admin/search-indexes.action)

Note: replace the domain


Tags: documentation

index
About 10 users License for Confluence.
Asked by Bruna Griebeler:

Hi Guys, long time no see :wink:

I Have a question about License. My company already have a license for Confluence 10 Users, but for another team.

Now, I want to implement Confluence as Knowledge Base for my Team. Is there a problem for the same company to have 2 licenses for the same product?

Cheers!


Answers:
author: paulo_miguel
body: Hi Bruna,

Glad to see you again :wink:

After consulting our Customer Advocates I can rest assure you are able to have two or more Confluence licenses under the same company for different teams, this happens all the time in Server and Cloud instances. You can check this link if you are using Confluence Server: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/121269>

Let me know if you have any further questions, I'll be glad to help you :smile:

Paulo Miguel

Atlassian Support \| Cloud


author: Alexander Penev [ByteSource]
body: As far as I know no problem at all
How do I change my space name?
Asked by Lisa St George:

I repurposing a space that was started some time ago to include a variety of information. I've converted the content originally contained as the space home page to just a "page" within the space and created a new home page with the title I'd like to use. However, the old "space" name still appears in the sidebar and under the list of "spaces" when others are looking for our site.


Answers:
author: Paul LaBarbera
body: As long as you're a Space Administrator, this works:

1. Click Space Tools.
2. Click Overview.  

   image2015-11-5 14:15:21.png   
3. Click Edit Space Details.   

   image2015-11-5 14:15:36.png
4. The Space name can be edited on this page. Click Save when you're done.   

   image2015-11-5 14:16:25.png

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-change-my-space-name/qaq-p/83990?attachment-id=8505){#link_1187bd8460625a}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/14130/1/image2015-11-5%2014%3A15%3A36.png){#display_1187bd8460625a_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-change-my-space-name/qaq-p/83990?attachment-id=8506){#link_1187bd8460625a_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/14130/2/image2015-11-5%2014%3A16%3A25.png){#display_1187bd8460625a_2}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-change-my-space-name/qaq-p/83990?attachment-id=8507){#link_1187bd8460625a_1}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/14130/3/image2015-11-5%2014%3A15%3A21.png){#display_1187bd8460625a_4}

comments: author: Lisa St George
body: This worked exactly. Thanks!


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Upgrade - 3.5.13 to 4.3.7 - Broken Calendars
Asked by Peter Milakovich:

We recently upgraded confluence from 3.5.13 (wiki-markup) to 4.3.7 (xml).

In the process, it appears that we've broken the calendar macro.

I researched, and it looks like the calendar macro no longer exists on 4.3.7, so during the upgrade, it slapped the calendar macro in a wiki-markup box and left it at that.

So when we go to the page containing the calendar, we can see a calendar, but everything is frozen. No matter what you click on, nothing works.

I've seen other documentation indicating that you should download the calendar to an .ics file which will then be used to create a new Team Calendar in the upgrade version (4.3.7). However, since our screen is frozen, and we're doing this after-the-fact, that doesn't appear to be an option anymore.

My thought is that we're stuck, and will have to rebuild those lost calendars from scratch in the new version unless someone much smarter than I knows a trick to get around this. Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Peter Milakovich
body: Reviewed a little further, and it looks like since noone thought about downloading their calendar to an .ics file until after we did the upgrade, we're out of luck.


Tags: confluence-administration
WebDAV Office plugin and Office365
Asked by Ed Schriger:

Hi Answer People -

I'm getting the following error message from Excel when trying to open a spreadsheet embedded in a Confluence (On Demand) page:

image2015-11-5 8:54:28.png

The environment is Firefox and Office365.

I rechecked and reconfigured the Office WebDAV plugin

image2015-11-5 11:12:16.png

Anyone know of any issues with the WebDAV plugin and Office365? Are there workarounds? Config suggestions?

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/WebDAV-Office-plugin-and-Office365/qaq-p/342354?attachment-id=8624){#link_1187bda8f3b281}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/57873/1/image2015-11-5%2011%3A12%3A16.png){#display_1187bda8f3b281_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/WebDAV-Office-plugin-and-Office365/qaq-p/342354?attachment-id=8625){#link_1187bda8f3b281_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/57873/2/image2015-11-5%208%3A54%3A28.png){#display_1187bda8f3b281_2}


Answers:
author: Ed Schriger
body: Well this is the answer I got from Atlassian after opening a support ticket (which still seems to work better than this Answers portal...)

I have been informed that the WebDAV Office connector is not compatible with Office 16. Office 13 and OpenOffice 2.x-3.x are supported.  
There is a JIRA ticket to expand the functionality - go vote on it.  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38024>  

BTW - it doesn't work with Microsoft Edge (their new browser) and even if you try to natively open in IE10, I am still getting the error.


author: Mario G?nter
body: Seems to be the same here: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/31685073/edit-in-office-excel-fails-pluginsconfluenceservletconfluenceeditinword>


author: Ed Schriger
body: Also - the Office links are not supported on Microsoft Edge apparently.

When attempting to edit an embedded spreadsheet in Office from Microsoft Edge, Edge throws the following:

image2015-11-5 11:6:5.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/WebDAV-Office-plugin-and-Office365/qaq-p/342354?attachment-id=10237){#link_1187bdb8460fc5}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/57874/1/image2015-11-5%2011%3A6%3A5.png){#display_1187bdb8460fc5_0}


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Kimono API Integration with Confluence
Asked by Daniel Nolan:

What is the most effective way to integrate an API creator such as Kimono into a Confluence page? Specifically, this API is a news crawler that pulls google results for a particular keyword, and I would like this information pulled into the page daily.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You could add a script right on the page using [Scripting for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SCRP). Or you could generate a page with an external script and update the page using [Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) by a script in your favorite job scheduler.
JIRA and Confluence
Asked by santosh srirangam:

Can we host JIRA and Confluence on same Webserver. We use Tomcat for hosting website.


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Santosh,

You can host the apps in the same server without problems, but we do not recommend using the same tomcat for both apps.

Make sure you have plenty hardware specs for running both apps (RAM, disk space, external database) and you should be good.

Cheers!

Rodrigo

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'd like to emphasise Rodigo's "we do not recommend" sentence. It's correct, but I'd prefer to say it more simply as "Do NOT run the apps in the same Tomcat"


author: Mario G?nter
body: Hi santosh, if your instances are public I'd like to recommend a proxy, such as apache, independent from running both JIRA and confluence on one server, too. <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/16387764/confluence-and-jira-security---diffie-hellman-for-tls>


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Yes, you can install both on the same machine. But...

They must have different hostnames or context path, such as:

* [![tick](/html/@FB21E167CF5FC78FA9216CD8178453B3/images/emoticons/tick.png "tick") https://jira.example.com](http://jira.example.com) and <https://confluence.example.com>
* [![tick](/html/@FB21E167CF5FC78FA9216CD8178453B3/images/emoticons/tick.png "tick") https://example.com/jira](https://example.com/jira) and <https://example.com/confluence>
* This won't work: ![cross](/html/@77EA5FC57E1DC12A33F294DD6D952DFD/images/emoticons/cross.png "cross") [https://example.com:2990](https://example.com/jira) and [https://example.com:1990](https://example.com/confluence)

**A different port isn't enough**. The reasons is, the authentication cookies are both JSESSIONID, so when you log into Confluence, you're logged out of JIRA and opposite. Prefer a different hostname.

Have a look at the system requirements: [JIRA system requirements](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/jira-requirements-185729596.html), [Confluence system requirements](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/system-requirements-126517514.html).

You can't install both in the same Tomcat. If I remember well, deploying in your own Tomcat isn't supported anymore because people misconfigure it every time - You must use the versions of Tomcat embedded in the product (it's in [the Confluence requirements](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html))

I've found it easy to install them on the same machine on whatever port, then using Nginx. Nginx redirects port 443 (https), provides the SSL authentication, and chooses whether to redirect to JIRA or Confluence.


Tags: confluence-administration
Disable mention function in Confluence
Asked by Steffen D?ll:

Hello everybody,

can i deactivate the mention function on Confluence 5.8.(Server)? It shouldn't be possible for any kind of usergroup to list the entire Users via the "@"-Function. I am aware that after the this, i can't assign tasks etc.

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Mario G?nter
body: Hi Steffen,

if you want to still be able to mention, but only show users within the own groups assigned:   
Maybe you can take a look: <https://www.appfusions.com/display/PPARTS/Home>

Cheers,   
Mario

[](https://www.appfusions.com/display/PPARTS/Home)


author: Mallmann
body: Hi Steffen,

You can disable the plugin responsible for the mention feature:
> * **Disable the user mention feature** -- The functionality is provided by a plugin called the 'Confluence Mentions Plugin'. If you need to remove the user mention functionality from your site, you can disable the plugin. See [Disabling or Enabling a Plugin](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Disabling+or+Enabling+a+Plugin).

For further details you can check this documentation: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Mentions>

I hope it helps,

Eduardo

comments: author: Steffen D?ll
body: Is this still possible in Confluence 5.8.? I can't find it in the Systemadministration/Add-Ons


author: Yves Martin
body: Notice other plugins will be disabled at the same time: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-mention-plugin-dependencies-975044563.html>


Tags: macro

mention
Can special characters be inserted via shortcut?
Asked by Birgit Matuolis:

In order to insert special characters (like German or French quotation marks, which we need for our translations), you need to always click Insert \> Symbols and choose the right symbol or character you want to insert. This can be quite tedious and time-consuming if there are many terms in quotation marks. Is it possible to insert such characters via keyboard shortcuts into the Rich Text Editor to save time?

Confluence version 5.8 Server


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: You could also use alt codes. At least on Microsoft Windows, it is possible to insert the special style quotation marks by pressing Right Alt and 174 or 175 on the number keypad (on the right side of the keyboard).

comments: author: Steffen Heller
body: Does it really work in confluence and how? When I press the key combination in Edit mode nothing happens (except that the screen is tilted 90?)


author: Milo Test
body: On a Mac, use option+shift+w for ? and option+\[ for ".
How to delete all Content Notifications in Database for Confluence?
Asked by Bastian Kippelt:

Hi,

i want to delete alle Content (Page) Notifications for all Confluence Users. Which SQL Statement i need for this request?

Best regards


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Generally, none - don't mess with the database behind Atlassian applications.

However, if you insist, then you'll need to be a bit more clear on what you mean by "content notifications". The record of what Confluence thinks it has sent? The config that tells it who to notify? etc?


Tags: confluence-administration
Some users not able to sync with LDAP Directory
Asked by venu pyatla:

Hi Team,

We are running with confluence 5.4.1, Here User directory synchronize happening successfully.

But few users are complaining that they are not able to login, upon checking user details, i could see Last failed login time stamp and failed login count are up to date.

But user last updated time is one month old, it should be current date.

regards,

venu


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Venu,

I suspect the directory sync in not fully functional. I recommend to perform the following:

1. Login as local administrator of Confluence
2. Disable the LDAP directory
3. Create a new LDAP directory using the exact same settings as the first one
4. Sync the new LDAP directory
5. Check if the users are able to login (including the affected users)
6. If all is good, remove the old directory

Always backup Confluence before attempting a major change like this.

Cheers!

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration