youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Placeholder in #quick-search-query
Asked by Vignesh Suryanarayan:

I want a customized placeholder in #quick-search-query How can I do that? Current confluence version is 5.10

By default, when I inspect the #quick-search-query, I see this:

`<input id="quick-search-query" class="text app-search search quick-search-query" accesskey="q" autocomplete="off" name="queryString" title="Quick Search (/or g , g)" placeholder="Search" type="text">`

But the "`Search`" placeholder does not appear. Why? Moreover I need to customize this. How can I do it?


Answers:
author: Marcel Woschek
body: You could write an own macro where you define the placeholders as parameters and within this plugin you call the quick-search-query inserting your placeholders.

I did something similar on this [question](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/39992638/answers/39993269)for a different macro. (The last answer)

You could adapt from that
When copying a Confluence page the link to the embedded draw.io diagrams was broken. How can I now recover the diagrams?
Asked by Chris Leigh-Lancaster:

When copying a Confluence page in Confluence Cloud the link to the embedded [draw.io](http://draw.io) diagrams was broken. The diagrams still display in the copied page but when I edit the macro the diagram can't be found. How can I now recover the diagrams?


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: How did you copy the page? If the built-in page copy does not copy over the attachments on the page, I'd say that's a bug on Atlassian's side.


author: Josch Bencke
body: Hi Chris,

try the following:

1. Enter the new page
2. Edit the page
3. Insert a "Draw IO" macro
4. On the "Draw.IO" popup go to the "last opened" Page and choose the copied diagram.

That sometimes works :smile:


Tags: cloud

draw.io
When will SVG Out support the iOS Confluence app?
Asked by Peter Monks:


Answers:
author: Andreas Purde
body: Dear Peter,

we will support the iOS app as soon as Atlassian allows us to do so.

Currently the iOS app detects that SVG Out is a dynamic content macro and then displays some misleading messages indicating that the plugin is not responding. This is wrong as the iOS app is never contacting the plugin server.

This behavior affects all similar plugins in the same way according to my experiences (draw.io, Gliffy, PlantUML, ImageMap etc.).

Kind regards, Andreas

comments: author: Andreas Purde
body: I contacted Atlassian support regarding the insufficient documention for the iOS app - both for users and developers. This is what they answered:

*Hi Andreas.*

*Thank you for contacting Atlassian Cloud Support!*

*With regards to the Confluence iOS app, due to it still at a very early stage of it's development, there is a lot of information that is currently not available for us related to it. However, I have created 2 feature requests tickets, forwarding your requests for further information on this matter, as well as your suggestion for improvement. They should be answered by the appropriate team responsible for this.*

*Here are the tickets;*

* *<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-45619>*
* *<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-45620>*

*Please do let me know if you would like these tickets to be edited or further information to be added. Also please do vote on these tickets and leave a comment behind if there is anything else you would like to highlight. Your feedback is highly appreciated.*


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Errata - in setup of tomcat issues for confluence
Asked by Jay Personius:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Configuring a PostgreSQL Datasource in Apache Tomcat](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=218272013)*

Error in instructions: In Step 1, substep 2, it currently lists two files that need a backup - both should have CONFLUENCE_INSTALLATION as the start point


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Duplicate of [Errata - in setup of tomcat issues for confluence](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/44912892)


author: J van Leeuwen
body: Hello Jay,

The file, confluence.cfg.xml, is located in the \<confluence-home\> directory so I believe substep 2 (of Step 1) is correct. See more about the Confluence home directory in [Confluence Home Directory](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF54/Confluence+Home+Directory).

Cheers,   
Jennifer Bennett \| Confluence Support


Tags: confluence-administration

database

documentation

postgres

tomcat
how can I get the page numbering on the PDF export to show on the bottom right corner instead of the bottom left?
Asked by Josh:


Answers:
author: ole.bak
body: page_label.png

Look at this menu.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/how-can-I-get-the-page-numbering-on-the-PDF-export-to-show-on/qaq-p/403601?attachment-id=12129){#link_1185fec68d4610}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/174933/1/page_label.png){#display_1185fec68d4610_0}


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Josh,

Alternatively you could have a look at our [Scroll PDF Exporter for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf/server/overview).

It allows you to change the information in your header and footer via a simple UI (see [Defining the Page Layouts](https://help.k15t.com/scroll-pdf-exporter/defining-the-page-layouts-75367806.html) for further information).

Besides that the Scroll PDF Exporter offers additional information compared to the default PDF Export option coming with Confluence (e.g. multiple template per space or globally, custom placeholders, integration with [Comala Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow/server/overview), and more, see [5 Reasons to use the Scroll PDF Exporter](https://www.k15t.com/blog/2013/12/5-reasons-to-use-the-scroll-pdf-exporter) for further details).

If you're interested you can try it out for free on the Atlassian Marketplace..

Cheers,  
Nils


author: Bhushan Nagaraj
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF510/Customize+Exports+to+PDF#CustomizeExportstoPDF-PageNumbering>


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Can you include your current PDF Stylesheet or PDF Layout that is providing this? I'm sure we can help you adjust it.


Tags: export

pdf
Any way to copy page properties from one page to another?
Asked by Case Larsen:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page Properties Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=184550024)*

I would like to add page properties to an existing page which wasn't created with them in the first place.

For example, adding the page properties from a particular product requirements or retrospectives page to an existing page, and later manually updating some of the copied property fields.


Answers:
author: Michael Haverbier
body: Just copy the page property macro with content from you source page to your target page.

After that, fix the values you need to.


author: Randy
body: Might be a bit hacky but maybe try the following:

1. Copy source page, then copy/paste contents from the target page into the newly copied page
2. Delete target page, move the newly copied page into it's place


Tags: page-property
Pressing CTRL+C on page view creates a new child page in Confluence 6.0.1
Asked by Max Pavlov:

Since we updated our server instance to Confluence 6.0.1, we noticed that we no longer can copy (Ctrl+c) from the page without this triggering a create new page action. Even if we go into Keyboard shortcuts and unchek "Enable General Shortcuts" there, although for Create it only shows "c", not Ctrl+C, we still get new page creation action.

What could be the problem and how to get us back the ability to copy and paste from View view of the confluence pages? Thank you in advance.


Answers:
author: Rafael Corredor
body: Hi Max,

Check it! <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-disable-keyboard-shortcuts-system-wide-in-confluence-321850378.html>. Basically:

1. Navigate to **`Confluence Admin >> `** **`Manage Add-Ons`**
2. Look for the **Confluence Keyboard Shortcuts Plugin**, after expanding 'Show System Plugins'
3. To disable only certain keyboard shortcuts, expand the plugin modules and look for the specific action that you wish to disable, and disable that manually


author: Jonathan Soo
body: Hi Max

According to similar cases happens previously, this issue was caused by RefinedTheme plugin. Just to make sure, can you please disable it temporary and see if that still triggers the page creation ?

Kind Regards,  
Jonathan


Tags: keyboard-shortcut
can't remove space in Confluence
Asked by Monica Webster:


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Monica,

Are you trying to delete or archive a space?

[Instructions for deleting a space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/delete-a-space-139524.html)

[Instructions for archiving a space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/archive-a-space-284368719.html)

(A word of warning: An archived space can be un-archived, but if you delete a space it is a permanent deletion and can't be undone. You might want to [take a backup first](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/exporting-confluence-pages-and-spaces-to-xml-658736972.html) just in case.)


Tags: confluence-administration
Comment ouvrir un lien internet dans un nouvel onglet ?
Asked by St?phane WUCHER:

Quand on ajoute un lien dans une page Confluence, aucune option n'est propos?e pour ouvrir ce lien dans un nouvel onglet.

Comment faut-il faire ?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Bonjour St?phane,

Cela devrait aider: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11194>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
is zephyr community edition is still supporting? and available for use
Asked by Jignesh Makawana:

I want to try zephyr for at least 5-6 users. is zephyr community edition is still available for free to use.


Answers:
author: Arun Ravindran
body: Hi Jignesh

Thanks for your interest in Zephyr.We have stopped support Zephyr community edition and there is Zephyr Enterprise Edition available with all new features and more scalability. Kindly post in the community of Zephyr ie "<https://support.getzephyr.com/hc/en-us>" for further queries

Thanks

Zephyr Support


Tags: zephyr
Confluence Jira Macro: Key not Linked to Ticked anymore
Asked by Tobias Zillmann:

Hi There,

We are using the JIRA Macro to display a list of Tickets in Confluence.  
Unfortunately the generated List does not contain any Links to JIRA anymore.

Does anybody know a fix to that issue?

confluence-bug-screen.PNG

Greetings  
Tobias  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Jira-Macro-Key-not-Linked-to-Ticked-anymore/qaq-p/147472?attachment-id=5526){#link_1185ff8d9ff9b8}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/24577/1/confluence-bug-screen.PNG){#display_1185ff8d9ff9b8_0}


Answers:
author: Nicolas Bauland
body: Hi Tobias,

I'm facing same situation here: confluence 6.0.2.and JIRA 7.2.6. But I don't have use this functionnality before, so I can't say it stop working.

I think I'll open a ticket.

comments: author: Tobias Zillmann
body: I am on Version 7.2.5 for JIRA and 6.0.2 for Confluence as well.  
The Bug startet with the update.

Did you open a ticket?


author: Nicolas Bauland
body: Yes, ticket is opened.


author: Nicolas Bauland
body: Issue is resolved by updating confluence to 6.0.3 version.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Tobias,

There are no public bug reports of this in the last 3 days at jira.atlassian.com, which means (but doesn't guarantee) that it's not a common problem. Was the macro working before, and when did it stop working?


Tags: confluence-administration
How to find the last Login for Users
Asked by Roman Joss:

In the following article is descripted how to find the last Login for users.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowdkb/essential-sql-queries-for-crowd-696519745.html>

But this somhow hase an error. When i open in Confluence (5.9.12) then there are three Dates showed:

Created, Last Updated, Last Login.

With the query shown with cwd_user_attribute.attribute_name = 'lastAuthenticated' there is displayed the 'Last Updated'-Date and not the last Login-Date.

When is this field updated and whats the meaning of 'Last Updated'?

Thanks for any help.  
Roman


Answers:
author: Mike Rathwell
body: Roman,

The query I am using for this purpose doesn't look like any of the ones in that example but does seem to present consistent data that I would find on a random sampling of users. Give this one a try. If you also happen to have more than one user directory configured, it will give you that as well.

```
SELECT u.user_name, d.directory_name, l.successdateFROM logininfo lJOIN user_mapping m ON m.user_key = l.usernameJOIN cwd_user u ON m.username = u.user_nameJOIN cwd_directory d ON u.directory_id = d.idORDER BY directory_name, successdate;
```

comments: author: Roman Joss
body: Hi Mike

Thank you for your query. Thats exact what i'm looking for. The table logininfo i have not seen.

Great!  
Have a nice day and thanks again for your quick help.  
Roman


Tags: crowd
How do I grant application access in Confluence server
Asked by mikola113:

In Jira, to grant a user application access, there's a menu Called Application Access, where I can select a group ,which grants application access to all contained users. But I cannot find that function in Confluence. I've integrated it with out LDAP. But the only option I've found so fat to grant any of those users access to confluence, is to select a user and add it to "confluence-user" group. But that is tedious. So, how do we grant access in Confluence?

P.S. BTW, how do we grant application access to individual users, rather than groups, in jira?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence is a single application, so it doesn't need "application access". You add users to one of the groups you have flagged for "can use" permission (see admin -\> global permissions, and note that although the default is just "confluence users", you can add other groups) and they have access.

You can't add individual users, you need to put them in a "can use" group.

comments: author: mikola113
body: Thanks for your help. I got it. But what does "single application0" mean?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It means it is one single application. When you install Confluence, you get Confluence.

JIRA is a Core application with the option of adding other applications (currently only 2 - Service Desk and Software). So a JIRA installation can be between one and three applications, which is why it needs to handle application access.


Tags: confluence-administration
WiKi (Confluence) database partitioning for SQL Server
Asked by Rakesh Sharma:

Our WiKi (Confluence) database which is running on SQL Server grown to around 600 GB, now there is one table attachmentdata that itself of size 520 GB, are there any guidelines to partitioning this table?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence doesn't care how you partition the table at the back end, as long as it looks like a single table to Confluence.

I'm not sure I would worry about it too much though - database storage of attachments has been deprecated and removed from later versions of Confluence. Although an upgrade will allow you to continue with internal storage for now, later versions won't support it at all, so you might want to consider moving to file based storage instead of database.


Tags: confluence-administration
[SOLVED] Tomcat strong SSL security
Asked by Konstantin Boyandin:

What are ciphers one should specify in Tomcat configuration, apart from

sslProtocols="TLSv1.2" sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1.2" SSLEnabled="true"  

?  

The corresponding [document](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/running-confluence-over-ssl-or-https-161203.html) has no recommendations for ciphers. Currently I see the latest Chrome reporting the below problem:  

The connection to this site uses a strong protocol (TLS 1.2), a strong key exchange (ECDHE_RSA with P-256),  
and an obsolete cipher (AES_128_CBC with HMAC-SHA1).

which means cipher list should be defined. Search over 'Net showed no definite up-to-date recommendations, all I have to do is to try list like  

ciphers="TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,  
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,  
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,  
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256,  
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA"

and experiment with adding/deleting ciphers, but if someone has better ideas, I would be glad to know.


Answers:
author: Roman Kirilenko
body: Hi Konstantin,

<br />

You can test your SSL with [this](https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/) tool. You'll get detailed explanations about insecure things in your SSL setup. After you correct them you should do SSL quality checks on a regular basis to maintain your SSL secure.

comments: author: Konstantin Boyandin
body: The site is private and can't be checked directly (not allowed to do port forwarding to it); however, I tested A+ graded site and got the list of ciphers from the output.  

Thanks, the answer is, as usually, obvious.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to adjust column width in Excel Macro
Asked by Rick Zhong:

When using the Excel Macro in the wiki page, it doesn't allow me to adjust the column width like regular columns, and it looks very funny on the wiki page, please advise.

image2016-12-9 10:48:46.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-adjust-column-width-in-Excel-Macro/qaq-p/396501?attachment-id=12390){#link_11860091a32d9e}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/67107/1/image2016-12-9%2010%3A48%3A46.png){#display_11860091a32d9e_0}


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: See [Controlling the Width of Table Columns](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL/Controlling+the+Width+of+Table+Columns?src=sidebar). The [Excel Macro](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/XL/Excel+Macro?src=sidebar) has the same parameters as discussed in the how to.

comments: author: Rick Zhong
body: Hi Bob, thanks for the avice, however due to the company police I'm not allowed to use any add-ons, otherwise it's gonna be a headache to apply and waiting for approval, but thanks


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: My understanding from your question is that you already have the [Excel Macro](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/XL/Excel+Macro), so there is nothing else you need to install.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Rick,

The Excel macro is a 3rd party addon. The best place to get help with this is on the supplier's help and support page here: <https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/XL/Getting+Help+And+Support>

@Bob Swift \[Bob Swift Atlassian Add-ons\] - one for you, I think.

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Thanks for the alert.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: My pleasure :smile:


author: Rick Zhong
body: Hi Rob, thank you for your comment, I read through the supplier's page but they don't have an existing answer for this, I'm trying to raise a ticket right now, thank you for the advice.
Why do the cell borders randomly disappear when typing content into the cells??? I don't see any way to prevent or fix it and it's extremely annoying and disruptive to workflow.
Asked by heidic:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Tables](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724764903)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Heidi,

This happens to me occasionally as well, and it is very annoying. If you go to jira.atlassain.com and search for "cell borders" you'll find quite a few tickets where people are complaining about borders disappearing or not rendering properly in several different situations. Unfortunately none of these tickets have a high priority, and so are unlikely to be fixed. That doesn't help you, but be assured you're not the only person with this problem.

You might want to check out some of the table add-ons [here](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=table). Some are paid, some are free, and they should help you get a better table experience.

comments: author: heidic
body: Hi Rob,

Thanks for the tip! I was on Firefox so I tried using Chrome and haven't run into the issue there... at least not yet. so maybe there is some browser-specific bug.


Tags: confluence-cloud

table
Is it possible to find the available anchors in a page when creating a link.
Asked by Dennis King:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Anchors](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724764900)*

Once the system knows what page is being linked to, it should also know what anchors are available for that page and be able to provide a selector.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Dennis,

No, that functionality is not included in Confluence, and Yes, it would be very useful.

There are no anchor addons in the Atlassian Marketplace, and I can't find any bug/feature requests for this functionality at [jira.atlassian.com](http://jira.atlassian.com). But if you search for "anchor" amongst the bug/feature requests you'll find a lot of annoyed customers complaining about how user-unfriendly anchors are. If you put a feature request in for this functionality you'd probably get quite a bit of support.


Tags: anchor

confluence-cloud
Is there a way to copy information from one sidebar to another
Asked by Debbi Sedlak:

I have a bunch of links on the sidebar that I would like to add to every page in my site.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Debbie,

Thanks for the extra info. There's no way to do this natively in Confluence, so the simplest way to do this would be to create a template space that contains all of the links you want, then use the [Copy Space for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ac-copy-space/cloud/overview) add-on. It is paid for, but it's very cheap.


author: Debbi Sedlak
body: I want a standard set of links for all spaces and pages in my project. Some are links to pages, some are links to spaces, some file lists, some are web links. Thanks for any help. Have a good weekend!


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Debbi,

The Sidebar holds various types of links.

Are the links you want:

1. Links to pages?
2. Links to blog posts?
3. Shortcuts to pages?
4. Links created using the [Shared Links](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/shared-links-blueprint-724765035.html) template?

And you said you'd like to add them to every page; do you mean you want the links to appear in the content of every page, or you want the links to appear in the Sidebar, no matter what page you're on?


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence setup wizard is not creating data database schema after entering postgres direct jdbc url . Please help ?
Asked by Phani Sitaram Tekumalla:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to read the log to find out what is going wrong. The usual culprit is incorrect database settings or the database user not having full privileges on the database you've created for it.

comments: author: Phani Sitaram Tekumalla
body: I have configured the URL correctly and used database owner for connecting.I have confirmed this by checking the db logs as the connection is going through successfully.

Once connected instead of creating the tables , application is querying the tables and since they don't exist it is failing with a exception.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Once it's gone through an attempt to set it all up, it's expecting there to be a valid set of tables there. You'll need to step back and start again really (starting clean is not completely necessary, **but** it's by far the easiest approach)

I would stop the system, move everything in the \<confluence home\> directory to a safe place, and then re-run the installation in full.


Tags: confluence-administration