youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Why does the color disappear when I merge cells in a header row?
Asked by Steve Schaefer:

I merged cells in the header row of my table, and it removed the color.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: I can't replicate this, but sometimes things happen. Are you able to select the new merged cell and apply the color?


author: Rodney Hughes
body: I suspect the problem is that header rows allow you to sort the rows by clicking the header name so once you merge two header cells it doesn't know how to treat the cell as a header .. since it doesn't know which of the two columns to use as the sort reference so it basically tuns off the header setting for the that row and hence loses its colour - try making the second row a header row.


author: Steve Schaefer
body: Here's what it looked like before I merged the header cells and added copy:

Download Installer-before merge fields.png

And here's after:

Download Installer - after merge columns.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-does-the-color-disappear-when-I-merge-cells-in-a-header-row/qaq-p/384015?attachment-id=3335){#link_118629744371d9}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/64956/1/Download%20Installer%20-%20after%20merge%20columns.png){#display_118629744371d9_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-does-the-color-disappear-when-I-merge-cells-in-a-header-row/qaq-p/384015?attachment-id=3336){#link_118629744371d9_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/64956/2/Download%20Installer-before%20merge%20fields.png){#display_118629744371d9_2}

comments: author: Milo Test
body: Are you using Table Plus or some other advanced table macro?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Page owner change without database manipulation
Asked by Jeff Kempson:

I am working on setting up a new Wiki using confluence. It is a very powerful and easy to use program. However while making my page tree I have become the owner of everything. I am looking to assign the responsibility to the smart people who can actually populate the info.

I have read the page about database manipulation, but I don't have the knowledge or experience to do that, so I'm looking for another way to do this. It should be very simple and a extremely easy feature to implement,

Is there a current plan to have it available on the next version. Or is there another way to do this?

Thanks

Jeff


Answers:
author: Jeff Kempson
body: For this section of the implementation I am using it more of a knowledge sharing utility, and don't want too many people to have editing accessibility. Much of this data is standard processes etc. I want to lock it down just to the owner who received all the comments etc.

I do know I can turn on and off watching, but if there is a comment improvement or question about the process i would like a e-mail send to the page owner and not allow them turn off this feature. This gives them the responsibility to improve the page and maintain the data

Thanks for he help

jeff


author: Rodney Hughes
body: It depends on what you mean by "page owner"

Confluence is a collaboration tool where Users are granted certain access Permissions which define what they can do in each Space .. possibly different Permissions in different Spaces.

Generally speaking they would therefore all be co-authors creating/editing content depending on their individual Space Permissions.

But assuming you have say 100 people who can access a Space in whatever Permission allocations, you can restrict who sees a page by using Restrictions settings for View Page so you might want say only 10 people and/or whoever happens to hold certain Permissions groups to see the page. Any child page automatically inherits the same View Restrictions

Independently you can assign Restrictions for who can Edit the page ... noting to Edit they must be able to see the page. This is not inherited by the Child pages so you have to do it page-by-page but clearly adding a Child page is an Edit function. So you could have a page with no View Restriction but only a select few people can Edit ... those people would be considered the "page owners"


Tags: confluence-administration
New to Confluence...
Asked by Stacy Dow:

I'm a tech writer and I'm working with a new documentation space in Confluence.

I've treated pages like topics and xrefed them within the same tree/space. When we send to PDF output, the xrefs break (try to point to the confluence page rather than the equivalent PDF page). Help?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: How are you doing the ref-ing? Using Includes works fine when exporting to PDF.

comments: author: Stacy Dow
body: Is there more than one way to xref? I'm using the link and linking to other pages... Also, where is the "Includes" option? (again, sorry! Still new!)


author: Milo Test
body: The main way to reuse information in Confluence is to use the Excerpt macro plus the Include Excerpt macro or just the Include Page macro.

So since it sounds like you have a separate page for each topic, on the target page, use the Include Page macro for each page you want appended.


Tags: documentation
Need to do a global search & replace
Asked by James Lawton:

The tool seems to work okay on a space by space basis but the global option is what is key. It would be very time consuming to go thru each space and run the tool. We have way too many spaces for that. I continue to get errors when trying to run the global option.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Need-to-do-a-global-search-replace/qaq-p/97472?attachment-id=11723){#link_118629a124d55c}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/16350/1/Search%20and%20Replace%20-%20Dell%20Labs%20wiki.pdf){#display_118629a124d55c_0}


Answers:
author: Pavel Potcheptsov
body: First of all it's not clear from start post that you're using add-on.

Secondly you definitely need to post bug request to developer of this plugin.


author: James Lawton
body: I mean, when I try to do a global replace using:  

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/at.rumpelcoder.confluence.search-and-replace/server/overview>  

and I end up getting


author: Pavel Potcheptsov
body: What you mean by replace? Replace same piece of content in different spaces?

I'm using API to do this: get current content, increase version number, post updated content.


author: James Lawton
body: Any information regarding this would be great,

Thanks,


Tags: confluence-administration
"Create JIRA issue" pop-up link error
Asked by Doods Perea:

When highlighting a word or phrase in Confluence 5.7 a pop-up to "Add inline comment" and "Create JIRA issue" appear.

When I click "Create JIRA issue", it shows the following message:

++++++

Create Issue

You do not have permission to access any projects in JIRA

++++++

I am an administrator for both our Confluence and JIRA systems. I should add that in Confluence, our JIRA is defined in the Application Links page.

The system installed JIRA Macros add-on has all its 34 modules enabled.

Has anybody experienced the same problem?  

Thanks,

Doods


Answers:
author: Doods Perea
body: Thanks Rob. I feel compelled to state that I have been a JIRA Admin since version 1 of this tool.

Anyway, I did some diggings and found this Confluence documentation: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/jira-issues-macro-139380.html>.

I am convinced that we are seeing this error due to our complex Field Configuration Scheme, among others.

I am disabling this module so we don't get to see the corresponding icon.

<br />

Regards!

comments: author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Doods,

Apologies, most of the time people ask this kind of question it's because they're not aware of the complexities of the permissions scheme. That's clearly not the case for you :smile:


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Unlike the simple permission structure in Confluence of users and groups, JIRA has users, groups, project roles and issue roles. Being a JIRA admin doesn't guarantee that you'll have any rights to, for example, create issues.

The [permissions overview](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/permissions-overview-764478244.html) documentation and [managing project permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver070/managing-project-permissions-749382918.html) documentation should help you figure it out. It looks like you don't have the Create Issue permissions in any project, but that can be changed at user, group, project role or issue role level.

(JIRA permissions are very complex, especially if you're not familiar with them, so don't lose heart if it takes you a while to get to grips with them. It takes everyone a while to get to grips with them.)


Tags: jira
Wiki-Markup from JIRA is not displayed correctly
Asked by Thomas Kupec:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [JIRA Issues Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139380)*

HI,

I want to display some issues from JIRA in our Confluence. The application link is established well (tried both OAUTH an OAUTH (impersonate) ) but the wiki markup is display is HTML-Markup.

What else could be the reason for this?

Issue appears with Confluence 6.0/7.2 . Perhaps it is an issue of the Confluence 6 update.

Best regards

Chris


Answers:
author: gbatalski
body: There is an application link between Confluence and JIRA established, but the problem exists. Our JIRA and Confluence installations are in a docker behind Nginx.


author: gbatalski
body: same issue here 6.0.1/7.2.4


Tags: confluence-administration

jira
Embedding Confluence Cloud Content in Sharepoint
Asked by Jacob O'Neill:

We would like to author our content in Confluence but display it in Sharepoint. In particular we are interested in Knowledgebase content. We are running Sharepoint 2013.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Jacob,

Confluence/SharePoint integration has been a sore point for some time, specifically because Atlassian's SharePoint Connector didn't support O365 and O365 has been the default version for a good long while. Atlassian have now moved responsibility for the Connector to a partner called Communardo, and you can find the documentation, FAQs and Support pages [here](https://support.communardo.de/display/SPCON/SharePoint+Connector+for+Confluence). It's not immediately clear whether SharePoint 2013 is supported yet, but the info on supported versions should be on their somewhere.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why only Space Admin can change css for a custom pages?
Asked by ??????? ????????:

Hi. I work like designer, and i don't need any other admin permissions, except edit custom pages css. Can you give an opportunity to admin to add personal user for edit layout css for custom page ?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-only-Space-Admin-can-change-css-for-a-custom-pages/qaq-p/419915?attachment-id=10047){#link_11862a9842762b}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/71193/1/123.png){#display_11862a9842762b_0}


Answers:
author: Jonas Andersson
body: In 99% of all cases this makes a lot of sense. To change the look of a whole space, you need to be a space admin. There are no workarounds for this. If you just want to play around with the look of a CSS you can always do this on your personal space, where you by automatic is an admin.

comments: author: ??????? ????????
body: You are not write. I create my own new space in my confluence, but i don't have tab stylesheet in "look and feel" part bc i am not an root administrator at confluence, i am just a designer, and root administrator can't add permission to me to edit stylesheet for space. You understand?   
123.png


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's because Confluence is for writing, not designing - your space admin is in charge of a consistent look and feel for that space.

You will need to ask your admins to give you space admin for the space you want to change. They could give you your own non-personal space to try things out in as a test.


author: ??????? ????????
body: I create my own space, and i have all rights for space, but i can't edit layout. This is a problem. Why i can't use css for my own space ?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You say "my own space" - do you mean a proper space, or a personal space.

Also, another thought we should have asked about before. Are you on Cloud or Server? CSS hacking is severely limited on Cloud


author: ??????? ????????
body: I am not a root admin of confluence on our server. BUT i can create space -\>  
Create - space. Here i have all rights.  
I am on Server.   
But i have all the same tab's like root admin at "look and feel" part except layout tab. So i can't understand, why... if i know what i can do with css to style my space, why i can't do it ?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Short answer is that you'll need to ask Atlassian why personal spaces don't have css options.

I thought they did on Server (and I know they used to) so I apologise for wasting time in answering this.  


Tags: confluence-administration
help with upgrade
Asked by Jacqui:

We currently are running Confluence 4.0 and would like to upgrade. The employee who set it up is no longer with us. Do you have any suggestions how we can find someone who can help us with this?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'd always reach out for an Atlassian expert partner in cases like this. The directory is at <https://www.atlassian.com/experts>

(Yes, I work for one of them, so I could do the "free advert" thing, but you should base your choice on your needs rather than just activity here)


Tags: confluence-administration
What linux OS is supported?
Asked by Oren Yehezkely:

Hello,

I need to install some of your servers. I could not find any indications which Linux OS flavors do you support.

This is very confusing.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's hundreds, if not thousands of Linux distributions. Atlassian don't refuse to support any of them, but instead give you a general guide to what they are willing to support or help with - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver072/supported-platforms-828787550.html> (yes, that's for JIRA, but the Confluence page just says "Linux". This goes into better detail)


Tags: confluence-administration
Conditional page bgcolor based on label
Asked by Erik_Mace:

Hi,

If any pages in my site has a "deprecated" label for example, I want the page background to change to red.

Is this possible?

Thanks, Erik


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Perhaps with a user macro.

Otherwise, instead of adding a label, just add the Style macro with this in the body:

```
#title-text a::after {content: '-DEPRECIATED';}#title-text {background: red;}?@page {background: red;} .wiki-content {background: red;}
```

TIP: Once you set up the Style macro, you can just copy and paste the whole macro.
Is there a way on the Confluence dashboard to sort the favorite sites (left panel)?
Asked by JONATHAN BOHLMANN:

Would like this ability. It appears that the favs show in the order you selected them. The "old" default dashboard does sort in alpha order.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: If you want to sort them by alphabetical order, you could include some custom HTML that is included in this answer:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38071589>

comments: author: JONATHAN BOHLMANN
body: Thank you! Didn't see that when I was searching for a solution.


author: Jennifer Magoon
body: Rather than navigating to the spaces from the dashboard I actually create a web shortcut (favorite) for each of my favorite spaces. I have them on my bookmarks bar for quick navigation. This also allows me to have multiples open if I prefer.
Recently Updated macro - limit to page and children
Asked by Robert Kirk DeLisle:

How do I limit the content of the Recently Updated macro to a specific page and its children? Currently it seems to list updates for the entire space, but I want a limited set of updates pertinent to the page where it is located and all children of that page


Answers:
author: Robert Kirk DeLisle
body: bump

Still trying to get this to work. No possibilities??


author: Kathryn Moye
body: Me too. ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")


author: Alex Miller
body: \^ Bump. I am interested in an answer to this question as well. Thanks!


Tags: macro

recently-updated
Filter last activity content by label
Asked by DavidF:

Hi,

I'm looking for an Add-on or a usermacro solution for the following usecase.

In a space we have a lot of content that gets updated quite often. We are looking for a solution, where on the same page users only see updates for content that is relevant to them.  

Maybe there is a way of organising your Users into groups ("Team A", "Team B") and labeling your Content ("relevant_for_team_ a", "relevant_for_Team_ B"). On the same page with an overview of the latest changes, members of "Team A" would only see listed changes for content labeld with "relevant_for_team_a", while members of "Team B" only see updated content with the label "relevant_for_team_b".  

I don't want to use page permissions as users of both groups should still be able to see all the content in the space.

Thank you in advance,

David


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: It doesn't look as if there is a plugin that will do this. However, in theory it should be possible, because there are existing macros, like the Favourite Pages macro, that display things based on the user that's logged in.

If no-one else knows of a plugin that'll work for you then it might be worth considering hiring someone to write it for you - it sounds like a really useful idea.


author: DavidF
body: Different users will look at the same page and see different content, based on (for example) their user group.  

I'm thinking of the space homepage for example.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Just to clarify, do you mean that different users will look at the same page and see different content, based on (for example) their user group?

Or do you mean different users will look at different pages, and those pages will update with different content based on page labels?


Tags: atlassian-marketplace
LABEL CAGE
Asked by simona galletti:

When adding multiple labels to a page, only 1(the first added) is actually saved.


Answers:
author: Jonas Andersson
body: Works as it should (i.e all labels are added) i insert them on a confluence page like:

```
apache modproxy rewrite
```

Not sure how you did it, but works fine in 5.10.2. You could elaborate more on what version you are using, browser, JSD, errors in logs, cloud or server.. This one-liner helps noone i am afraid.


author: Ivan Sergreevitch
body: I've got the same issue. Have you found any solution?
Do Deactivated Users Drain Resources
Asked by Adam Wei?haupt:

We would like to use Confluence Server for our NGO with ca. 1000 volunteers and a high turnover-rate. Will we need more resources than normal with all the deactivated users we will have accumulated after a couple of years?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: As far as I am aware, deactivated users do not drain resources (and they also do not count towards your active user count. The only thing that it might be a drain on is your management resources (you have to deactivate users), but that would have to be done in any case :smile:


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence - Statistics on Page Contribution
Asked by Y Rossi:

Hi,

When Confluence is used as a Knowledge Base ti would be very useful to be able to measure agent contributions.   

We have taken a quick look at the possibilities mentioned <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-get-more-statistics-from-confluence-154239308.html> but are still not able to make a distinction between Creating (authoring) an article and Modifying (updating) an article.  
Confluence seems to only take into account Edits which is a sum of page creations and page modifications.

Has someone already encountered this issue?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Confluence's inbuilt auditing isn't very detailed. If you want more metadata and stats you'll need to [find a plugin in the Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/home/confluence) that meets your needs.

Although it's quite expensive there is a [Google Analytics plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.go2group.plugins.confluence-ga/server/overview) which I've heard anecdotally is pretty comprehensive, but I'm sure others here can recommend other plugins that fit your use case.


Tags: contributor
I was able to connect using OpenLDAP but I can't get a domain user to login though
Asked by Kirk McCoskey:

more details  
Note: our domain no longer accepts 389, the non-ssl port. since we have to use the SSL port, do we need to also use HTTPS for the site? For testing, I've removed https

Name Delegated LDAP Authentication   
Directory Type OpenLDAP   
Hostname [directory.csuchico.edu](http://directory.csuchico.edu/)   
Port 636  
Username uid=confluence_svc,ou=services,ou=auth,dc=csuchico,dc=edu  
Base DN ou=services,ou=auth,dc=csuchico,dc=edu   
User Name Attribute cn=users

the message in the log file, atlassian-confluence.log is that the user doesn't have permissions.

Confluence_LDAP_settings.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/I-was-able-to-connect-using-OpenLDAP-but-I-can-t-get-a-domain/qaq-p/177480?attachment-id=8851){#link_118fe7ad44aa38}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/29650/1/Confluence_LDAP_settings.png){#display_118fe7ad44aa38_0}


Answers:
author: Kirk McCoskey
body: found out I didn't need an LDAP entry because I use CAS to authenticate user into confluence using the university credentials


Tags: confluence-administration
What information does this show exactly?
Asked by Evan Hart:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Space Details Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139575)*

What information does this show exactly?


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Whatever you see in:

* https://domain.com/spaces/viewspacesummary.action?key=\<key\>


Tags: documentation

space
How do I remove un wanted <span>s from documents on confluence cloud
Asked by Brett Evans:

For server hosted clients they can use the sourcecode editor but this option is not available to cloud users ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")


Answers:
author: Brett Evans
body: Seem to have found a slightly less extreme way by switching the text to preformatted (CMD + 7) then back to the desired style seems to strip out the spans.  
Makes sense as having styled preformatted text doesnt really work so guess it strips the span when you apply that style!  


author: Rob Woodgate
body: HI Brett,

If there are unwanted HTML elements in your content, the easiest way to remove them in Confluence Cloud is probably to copy the content into Notepad (which will strip out formatting and hidden layout items) and then back into Confluence as plain text.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
What happened to my draft Confluence page?
Asked by Mark Paquette:

I worked on a requirements page in Confluence, and the page always said "Changes Saved". Later I had to restart my computer and now I can't find the draft version that I put all that time into! Can I get it back? If not, why not? I really trusted that all changes would be in fact saved.


Answers:
author: Mark Paquette
body: Thanks. There was nothing there when I went back (it had never been saved), so I was panicking. Then I read in another answer that one's drafts are available under the Profile link in the upper right corner, and I found it waiting there. Whew. I'm now less of a Confluence newbie :smile:

comments: author: Perry Tancredi
body: Great! glad you found them


author: vegabeyond
body: You saved me


author: Perry Tancredi
body: The changes are still there but not published. If you go to edit the page again, you should see the changes there.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud