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Similar fill-on-demand like Google gcloud documentation
Asked by mingchin_hsieh:

Dear Atlassian Community experts,

Just curious if Confluence code field support similar fill-on-demand feature appearing in Google gcloud documentation. For example,

<https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk>

Originally look like this:

![Screenshot 2022-02-09 at 9.08.17 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/182395iCCAD120A5970A80D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2022-02-09 at 9.08.17 AM.png")

After click on 'DISK_NAME' and enter the text (e.g. 'AtlassianGCEDiskName' in this example), the 'DISK_NAME' in this whole page under gcloud tab would change together, and click the copy icon on the top-right corner would copy down with the after-change code.

![Screenshot 2022-02-09 at 9.11.31 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/182397i1F145B3C55EBA78F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2022-02-09 at 9.11.31 AM.png")

Just curious if the Confluence code field support this. If yes, please how to enable it.

Thanks a lot.

Best,

Mingchin


Answers:
author: Pramodh M
body: Hi [@mingchin_hsieh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3737242)

Dynamic variables can be achieved with any of the plugins from the marketplace

Although the functionality is a bit different from what gcloud offers, its near to that I would say

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217150/easy-confluence-variables?tab=overview\&hosting=server](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217150/easy-confluence-variables?tab=overview&hosting=server)

Here's a feature request on the same from Atlassian

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-70336>

Thanks,  
Pramodh

comments: author: Pramodh M
body: FYI

For Cloud, the plugins are not available.

You would need to go with the templates option as of now or the Dynamic content macro (<https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/modules/dynamic-content-macro>) which loads the data from another place


author: mingchin_hsieh
body: Hi Pramodh,

So the second one is for Confluence Cloud? My employer uses Confluence Cloud, so my only hope would be there's something ready / approved on Confluence Cloud.

Thanks,

Mingchin


author: Pramodh M
body: Yes [@mingchin_hsieh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3737242)

It's a feature request as of now!!

Till then we have to go with templates.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Embed Google Sheet no longer available - bug or intentional?
Asked by Paige Meekison:

Recently the functionality to embed a Google Sheet into a Confluence page has been removed.

Using the widget connector, the URL does not embed anymore - it will merely add a link to the page. And if you go to the list of functionality to insert, it no longer appears in the list as a separate item.  

My old embeds are still functioning but I cannot copy the Confluence page and change the URL on those either. The box will disappear and be replaced by a link.

I'll be very disappointed if Atlassian has removed this functionality to make it a paid feature. That would diminish Confluence's usefulness significantly as a way to collaborate with external users who do not allow access to their Confluence instance.


Answers:
author: Pramodh M
body: Hi [@Paige Meekison](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4524322)

Here's a guide on how to do it

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/Deprecation-of-Google-Drive-and-One-Drive-macros-1108685493.html>

Choose Display embed option!!

Thanks,  
Pramodh

comments: author: Paige Meekison
body: Thanks - so difficult to catch and grok the myriad updates. Appreciate it


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

google-sheets
Change/Outage Notification System
Asked by jrc2308:

I'm looking to create a change/outage notification system where a user will input data pertaining to the who/what/when/where/why of an event and then notify a list of users based on data entered on a second table. To sum it up, scheduled work in Table 1 and people who are interested in being notified in Table 2. Take the data from Table 1 and query it against Table 2 and notify users the data for the change in Table 1. I hope that i'm explaining that correctly. I feel like i'm running in circles here trying to find out if this can even work.


Answers:
author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@jrc2308](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4749422) ,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

We already have a confluence template for incident management which should be useful to you. I recommend you to go through the below template.

[Incident communication.](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/templates/incident-communication)

I hope the above template will help. Take care and have a good day.!

Thanks,

Srinath T
Why we use interactive pdf, sometimes the PDFs never ends the loading?
Asked by Leandro Rodrigo Massari:

![ScreenShot_20220208181438.jpeg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/182368iF8CC5489CC8F9C1F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ScreenShot_20220208181438.jpeg")

When i click on the item where has PDFs interactive, it seems like infinite load and generate infinite requests..


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Leandro Rodrigo Massari](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4749238) welcome to the Atlassian community

Just wsnt to make sure I understand the issue. If you add a pdf to a page and view it is it working as expected? When you add an interactive pdf to a page and view it then it fails to load. Is that correct?


Tags: bug

cloud

confluence-cloud

pdf

report
Please define "users" in page restrictions under free plan
Asked by Sarah Catherine Megas:

I'd like to understand what you mean by "You're on the free plan, so anyone who's logged in can view and edit this page. To set page restrictions, upgrade your plan."

Who's "anyone who's logged in"?

Does it mean that absolutely anyone can see my page as long as I'm under the free plan, or does it mean that any member of my team, to whom I have given access to my space, can see all my pages?


Answers:
author: Andy Gladstone
body: [@Sarah Catherine Megas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4749309) Welcome to Confluence.

On the free plan, there are no page restrictions available. That means all content created by a registered user on your free instance is visible to all registered users. You cannot make a Space or Page restricted to any of the other users.

Here is a the Confluence Plan Comparison:

<https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing>

Let us know if you need any other help as you journey further into Confluence!

comments: author: Sarah Catherine Megas
body: Thank you, Andy.

I'm still not sure I understand: when you say "registered user", does that mean just anyone with a Confluence account? Or does it mean someone I have added to my space as a team member?

For instance, does it mean that you, [@Andy Gladstone](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3498028) could see anything I post on my space just because I'm using the free plan?

Cheers,

Sarah


author: Andy Gladstone
body: [@Sarah Catherine Megas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4749309) Sorry I was not clear. It means only registered users that have a login to **your** instance will be able to access it. Not all Atlassian users - only those that you have invited to your instance. The Free Plan does not expose your content to the public, only to those that you have created user logins for to your instance.


author: Sarah Catherine Megas
body: Ah, that makes sense! Thanks [@Andy Gladstone](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3498028)


author: Andy Gladstone
body: [@Sarah Catherine Megas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4749309) if my answered helped you, please mark it as accepted so other community members searching for similar or related issues can find it easier.

Cheers!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I view published/last modified date for all pages in a space?
Asked by Jennifer P:

How can I generate a report that lists the age of every page in a single space?  
I just became admin of a knowledge base with hundreds of disorganized and out of date pages. I need to see the publish date or last modified date for each page so I can determine content age and how/when they should be scheduled for updating or archiving. There isn't a label, author, search term, or macro that appears on every page since they were created by different people at different times.   
Advanced search displays correctly but I can't export that to a report since results are on 50+ pages. Page Properties Report won't work because it's not on every page. I can't pull based on labels because some articles don't have any.


Answers:
author: Tibor Bal?zs
body: Hi [@Jennifer P](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4310018)

You can do this in multiple ways depending on how your setup looks like: Do you have Confluence Cloud or Confluence Server?

1. If you use Confluence Server, you might want to look at this article: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-export-a-list-of-pages-and-if-possible-their-space-the/qaq-p/787013>

2. If you use Confluence Cloud I can give you a couple of ideas:

a. Try Confluence Premium and it will give you Analytics: Go to Analytics-\> Pages and you can export from there

b. In the Space Sidebar if you click on "Pages" it will show you the whole list of Pages in the Space and when it was last Modified. There is no export button, but you can copy/paste that data into another tool and have exactly what you need.

c. You could export your Space as an .xml and get rid of all the unnecessary data from it (really hard manual work)

d. You can anytime use APIs to get your data using CQL: <https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/advanced-searching-using-cql/>

e. And of course there are always 3rd party apps just like Lorenzo suggested, but usually these require a paid license based on the number of users you have in your whole instance. Require admin access to setup and manage in your whole Confluence instance.

I hope I gave you some options that you find helpful.


author: Lorenzo Phillips
body: [@Jennifer P](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4310018) give [Instance Auditor (Confluence)](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1222890/instance-auditor-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) a try. Once installed, go to the admin panel and click on the Global Content Audit link in the left menu bar. Then click on the Space Details tab and select the desired space in the drop-down. This should pull up the information you need "and" allow you to export the data to csv, xlsx, or pdf. If necessary, you can also copy the data to the clipboard and paste in the app of your choice.
How can I change the layout of the sidebar tree?
Asked by Jake Reisenbichler:

I'm an end user of confluence (no admin rights). This issue only appears on one computer (windows 10, chrome browser), on a different computer (linux, Chromium) the view appears as I prefer. No one else at my workplace is experiencing this issue.

When viewing confluence on my work pc, the pages in the tree keep spreading to the right (see attached image) as if they were all children of eachother. What I need is for all the pages to be in a vertical line and only have children pages start indenting in the view.

![ConfluenceTREE.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/182360iF6F94EEBDE2EA6EA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ConfluenceTREE.png")


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Jake Reisenbichler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4749124) Welcome to the Atlassian Community

Have you tried clearing your browser's cache? If you look at the page in Edge does it look the same as in Chrome?

comments: author: Jake Reisenbichler
body: Yes I have tried clearing the cache, no change.

The issue is not present when viewing the same page with Edge.


author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Jake Reisenbichler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4749124) do you have any Chrome browser plugins installed?


author: Jake Reisenbichler
body: Two, I've tried disabling them to no effect.


author: Brant Schroeder
body: Do you have a different computer with chrome on it that you could test on. It seems to be an issue isolated to that browser it would be nice to see if it is something with the browser on just that computer.


author: Jake Reisenbichler
body: After clearing my browser's cache (and rebooting...) the issue has been resolved! I don't know why simply closing and restarting chrome wasn't sufficient after the cache clear but at least Confluence is usable again.

Thank you for the help,

Jake


author: Jake Reisenbichler
body: This issue came back the following day. I need a persistant solution.

I get the same behavior with Edge, Chrome, and Firefox.

![ConfluenceCascade.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/236776i50A27D7600B81C90/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ConfluenceCascade.png")


author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Jake Reisenbichler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4749124) It sounds like a caching issue. Are other users have the same issue?


author: Matthew Morris
body: yes, this happens to me as well. I came here looking for a solution.

* I've deleted my cache, and my cookies, and then rebooted.
* I've uninstalled Google Chrome.

Still busted. This happens in MS Edge as well.


author: Jake Reisenbichler
body: Come on Atlassian, how many complaints is it going to take for you to address this issue? It's not a cache issue. This is ridiculous!
How do we create a report of all pages in a space and their page history ie. version number, last up
Asked by ekkoagility:

How do we create a report of all pages in a space and their page history ie. version number, last updated and creator


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@ekkoagility](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4749120) Welcome to the Atlassian community

Confluence provides analytics if you are on cloud premium or enterprise. You can learn more here: <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/view-analytics-to-see-how-content-is-performing/> If you scroll to the bottom you will see the different information you can glean. It might meet your needs.

If you need more information or need to create your own reports you should look at easyBI [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219504/eazybi-reports-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219504/eazybi-reports-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Formatting error importing docx
Asked by Richard McBride:

Hello,

I've been extensively researching how we can migrate our years and years of PDF files into our Confluence to create a Knowledge Base. When use Adobe to export my PDF into a docx (same results with .doc) I get some strange formatting errors. I"ve tried exporting with Retain Position and Retain Flowing Text. Retain position is a garbled mess on upload (none of the header links work either) but I do have a screengrab from Retain Flowing Text

RETAIN FLOWINGTEXT

Mostly everything is in good position however I have this formatting error where the pictures aren't loading and I get !worddav error whatever that is. Is there a way around this?

![Retain Flowing.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/182350i32962C8498EB8596/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Retain Flowing.PNG")


Answers:
author: Richard McBride
body: hello


Tags: cloud

document

import

page
How do I create a new *independent* Confluence space instance?
Asked by Robert Heller:

I am presently part of an existing space "Wendell Website Committee", but whenever I create a space it seems that it is a "child" (?) space of the "Wendell Website Committee" space (not sure if "child" is the correct term -- it is all under <https://wendell-website-committee.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces>). I want to create a \*completely\* independent space that is not in anyway connected to the "Wendell Website Committee" -- it is for an org that is completely separate from the "Wendell Website Committee" and has no connection to the "Wendell Website Committee". How can I do that? Is that even possible? I even tried logging in with a different E-Mail address and I ended up with at a place that tried to connect the new account to the "Wendell Website Committee". What is going on here? Is there no way around this?

I am totally confused...


Answers:
author: Mikael Sandberg
body: Hi [@Robert Heller](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4748923),

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

You can set up a new instance if you go to <https://www.atlassian.com/try> and sign up for a new Confluence instance.

comments: author: Robert Heller
body: This is very non-intuitive... :-( Why isn't there a link to this anywhere on my account page? I think there should be.


author: Andy Gladstone
body: [@Robert Heller](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4748923) there are no instructions since what you are looking to do is create a new **instance** , rather than a **space** in your current instance.


author: Robert Heller
body: I found things very confusing and felt "trapped" with no visible exit. Almost every other site like this (eg github, sourceforge, AWS, etc.) has some toplevel home page where one can create a new fresh "instance" of whatever, that is linked to from someplace like the account page. What I found weird was that from my base account page there was no way to get off the Confluence instance I was in and there was no "exit" link or "create new instance" link or anything like that. And in fact that my base account page seemed to be on the Website Committee Confluence instance which I found strange and very confusing. That is an important, but \*missing\* navigational link -- \*I\* would consider it a \*major\* bug in the Atlassian website. And even the fact that I needed to create a new Confluence instance was not clear anywhere -- I just ended up going in circles and was clueless about how to "escape". It was more than a little freaky.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can't access Confluence
Asked by Angie Elliott:

I have a person on my team who is unable to log into his Confluence account. It constantly sends him in this loop where he must enter a CAPTCHA and a password reset, then it dumps him back to the main login page.

I had him try on several browsers, Google, Edge, etc. Then I had him clear the cache on the browsers, shut them down, then open again, and try again. He still can't access Confluence.

Can anyone help please?


Answers:
author: Pramodh M
body: Hi [@Angie Elliott](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4010675)

If you are the Confluence administrator, clear his unsuccessful login attempts, change the password and check once loggin in!!

Let me know if this works

Thanks

comments: author: Angie Elliott
body: I will try that. Thanks!


author: Angie Elliott
body: It worked! Access is restored. Thank you Pramodh!


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to change how files are opened
Asked by Lisa K:

Currently, to open a file, you have to use Ctrl+ enter to open the file. How do I configure this to where it's either just a single or double-click to open them? Thanks


Answers:
author: Pramodh M
body: Hi [@Lisa K](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4748770)

Welcome to the Community!!

Please refer the below documentation for changing the shortcut in Confluence

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-change-the-keys-for-keyboard-shortcuts-228066005.html>

Thanks,  
Pramodh

comments: author: Lisa K
body: Hi [@Pramodh M](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3691224),

I don't have the ability to change code. I was hoping it was just an admin setting I would be able to do. But I have sent your answer to our IT person who can change the code for us.

Thanks for your quick response!

Lisa


author: Pramodh M
body: Please mark the answer as accepted ?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Is it possible to create a client specific permission based knowledge base?
Asked by Clare Hale:

I am investigating the possibility of a knowledge based which will be accessed through Jira portal. However we have at the moment generic non client specific documents which feed from the knowledge base in confluence.

Going forward we would like it possible for clients to be able to view both the non specific articles and the articles which are specific to them (but other clients are not able to view)

all articles also need to feed into our jira project - Related knowledge base articles to help the helpdesk solve issues more efficiently.

Any guidance is greatly received


Answers:
author: Pramodh M
body: [@Clare Hale](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4748617)

Welcome to the community ?

Even though the links are visible in Jira, clients will access the page only if they have permissions to view the page

So you need to mange the permissions in confluence using space permissions and page restrictions

Have the pages that needs to be open for all the clients in one place and restricted ones in another space

Let me know if you have any queries

Thanks,

Pramodh

comments: author: Flick Winter
body: Hi [@Pramodh M](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3691224)

Are you able to provide some more details about how we can have multiple ''tenancies'' within our Knowledge Base so we can segment our knowledge-base for users based on their domain?

Thanks,


Tags: confluence-server

knowledge-base

server
Macro resets after confluence page is updated
Asked by Adina Paraschiv:

Macro resets after confluence page is updated

Reproduction steps

1. Create a Confluence page with drop down macros

2. After the page is created someone else selects the macros

3. Anyone but the page creator edits the page and press on Update button

4. Macro resets after the confluence page is updated

Using: Confluence 7.1.0

Browser: Google Chrome Version 97.0.4692.99

Anyone has this problem? Is there a fix for it, or at least an workaround?

Thank You


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Adina Paraschiv](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4748616) Welcome to the Atlassian community

Does this occur in all browsers or only in Chrome? Have you cleared your browser's cache? Does it happen to others or only to you?

comments: author: Adina Paraschiv
body: Hello Brant. Thank you.

Couldn't reproduced it on Firefox. Yes, cleared cache. Happens for all my colleagues.

We can't reproduce the issue each time, we didn't find reproduction steps exactly, happens randomly: sometimes resets next day or sometimes after couple of hours.

Thank you

Best Regards

Adina


author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Adina Paraschiv](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4748616) Sounds like it might be browser specific. Do you have any browser plugins installed in Chrome? Since it is happening to your colleagues is there a plugin that everyone has installed?


author: Adina Paraschiv
body: On chrome we have some extensions installed like QR code, pixi inspector.


author: Brant Schroeder
body: Does running chrome with the extensions disabled resolve the issue?


author: Adina Paraschiv
body: I don't think that are related, but I will try. Thank you


Tags: macro

reset