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How do I create a link in a Confluence document, to another page/ attachment?
Asked by George Beckett:

In the new editing interface, the Create Link toolbar is greatly simplified compared to the previous version. It only shows what it thinks are recently visited pages, plus provides a text field in which to enter a search term. However:

- Rarely do I get the link I want when using the search field. For example, even if I type the full filename of an attachment to the current page, the pop-up finds no suitable links.

- Rarely does the pop-up actually show the most recent pages I have visited.

Is this a bug in the current UI? If so, how do I work around it?

Thanks in advance,


Answers:
author: carolyn french
body: Hi George,

Yes, I've noticed the same thing as you when trying to link in the new Editor.

I do think there are some kinks they are still working out...

I'm following 2 issues related to linking:

Link to an undefined page (a page that doesn't exist yet): <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67129>

Ability to link text to an attachment in editor: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65302>

The workaround given here:

```
By using the Attachments macro you can obtain the URL of an attachment, and link text to that by pasting the link into the Link Macro.
```

As far as the new Editor goes, I recommend watching issues to see when features/bugs are progressing on the roadmap.

Hope this helps in the meantime!

Carolyn

comments: author: George Beckett
body: Hi Carolyn, Thanks for the feedback, and the work-around. George.


author: carolyn french
body: You're very welcome :)

If it answered your question, you can click the Accept Answer button over my answer.

Thanks, and have a great day/week!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to access page properties in user macro?
Asked by Rene Minder:

Hi

I am trying to read a value from a page properties macro on every page with a given label. I've spent a couple of hours searching on how to read the value... but no luck.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Ren?


Answers:
author: Rene Minder
body: Hi [@Rene Minder](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/604320) ,

Page property will work on based on 2 macros page **Page Properties** and **Page Properties Report**macro. Using a label that is given to a page where page Properties macro is configured.

Example:  

* Create a page and insert **Page Properties macro,**now add a label to the page
* Now create another page and insert **Page Properties Report** macro, in this macro use the label that we used in or previous page. Now the content of the previous page is shown here.  

  You can refer to this page <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html>

<br />

-Sravya

comments: author: Rene Minder
body: Many thanks Sravya

Understand the relationship between the two macros. We would like to read some page properties in a user macro we would write. Done something like that too?


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

user-macro
Disable http basic auth
Asked by Daniel Huluka:

We run Confluence 6.15.1 - Standalone distribution and enabled two-factor authentication. But it still allows http basic auth. How can I disable that?

Regards,


Answers:
author: Alex K
body: Hi Daniel,

Thanks so much for your question.

Currently there is no officially supported method to disable basic authentication in Confluence. We recently introduced personal access tokens to Confluence 7.9 and have plans to allow basic auth to be disabled in the future.

Thank you,  
Alex K (Developer at Atlassian)

Confluence Data Center team

comments: author: Hannes Medwed
body: Hi Alex.

Can you please explain "***have plans*** " in more detail.  
Since our last PEN-Test our security team is paining us with the question when?  

Best regards  
Hannes


author: WW
body: Is there an update on this? I see the article [Disabling basic authentication](https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/disabling-basic-authentication-1044776464.html), but that is only for Jira and Bitbucket.

In which future version will the feature to disable basic auth in Confluence Server be released? Or will it only be in Data Center?

I see in the Preparing for Confluence 7.13 that this is "In Progress" with a link to the article I mentioned above.
> We plan to provide admins the ability to disable basic authentication, and will be recommending any integrations use personal access tokens instead. [Learn more about disabling basic authentication](https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/disabling-basic-authentication-1044776464.html). This change won't be in 7.13, but you can start testing now by manually upgrading the [SSO for Atlassian Server and Data Center](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216096/sso-for-atlassian-server-and-data-center?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview) to 4.2.0.


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server
Show xlsx file as link by default
Asked by joris_monten_cegeka_com:

Hi all,

Currently I'm using the following method to upload XLSX files to an page:  
- Edit the page  
- Click on the +-icon  
- 'Files and Images'  
- Drag and drop the files and click 'Insert'

but then the xlsx file's are shown as preview on the page.

What I want is that it will be by default an link.  
I know that I can use the 'Link' macro but then only 1 file at the time can be uploaded.

Any suggestions, help -\> Thanks!


Answers:
author: Mike Bowen
body: Hi Joris,

This is how I do it.

1. On a page I add the **Attachments** macro, then edit it and specify to view only XLSX files (.\*XLSX, then publish the page.
2. A single XLSX file can be dragged and dropped onto the "**Drag and drop to upload** " section and then listed in the File Attachments area.   
   ![Attachments2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74213i88E8C59276CFD73D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Attachments2.png")
3. **OR** if one has multiple files to upload the easiest way to do it is to click on the three dots menu at the top of the page right side, select attachments, and drag and drop multiple files on the square on the right. ![Attachments.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74210iCEB3C46E47F93706/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Attachments.png")

Mike

comments: author: joris_monten_cegeka_com
body: Thanks for your stunning answer!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Unable to edit a Confluence page
Asked by Olivia_Tournois:

Hi everyone ;)

We have had an issue here for a few month (June 2018) with one of our colleague being enable of editing one page.

We've checked his privilege on the space and the page, he has the rights to add/delete pages on his space, and to view and edit this particular page, so it's doesn't seem to be the issue here.

Whenever he tries to edit his page, by clicking on the Edit button, the window refreshes and only displays a "Print" button (see screenshots).

I have the same issue with my admin account.

Our Confluence version is 6.6.5.

We have found a workaround, which is to right-click the edit button and open in a new tab, but it is obviously not convenient.

Have one of you ever had such an issue?

Thank you in advance ;)

![2019-11-27 09_13_51-Window.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74215i2EF27754A70879ED/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2019-11-27 09_13_51-Window.png")![2019-11-27 09_14_45-Window.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74214i80AD1B3C52152AAF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2019-11-27 09_14_45-Window.png")


Answers:
author: Olivia_Tournois
body: Hi everyone,

Just a small update: I've found my problem!

It was a faulty html macro, designed to display a print button at the bottom of the page.

The code is fixed and so is the page :)

Thank you for helping me with this issue [@Fabienne Gerhard](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/971720) ;)

comments: author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Thanks [@Olivia_Tournois](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3643853) for sharing your solution with us.

Always those faulty html macros - shame on them!

Thanks for thanking on me - actually didn't give any help ;)


author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hi [@Olivia_Tournois](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3643853)

i had similar problems but different causes....

What could be a problem is 'Collaborative Editing' or 'Synchrony' you may wanna have a look on that!   
*yoursystem*/admin/confluence-collaborative-editor-plugin/configure.action

What also caused some problems where different versions of same page people worked on (see also collaborative) which we're unsaved - try make a copy of the page as a "fresh" version.

Hope this helps!

comments: author: Olivia_Tournois
body: Hi Fabienne

Thanks a lot for your reply ;)

I've checked our plugins, but it doesn's seem to be the issue :/

I'll try maybe to move the page on another space, as we've already deleted it and recreated it multiple times. That's really an odd issue.


author: Moses Thomas
body: [@Olivia_Tournois](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3643853) We are not able to see screen shot.

comments: author: Olivia_Tournois
body: I forgot to attach them, thank you for bringing that to my attention :)


Tags: questions-for-confluence

server
Unable to delete a space
Asked by PhillipsWDC:

I have two spaces, Space A and Space B. I am logged in and my user is an administrator.

Space A -\> Space Settings and the only tab I have is Space Details clicking on Integrations I get a permission error and I am presented with two links Admin and user which take me to the permissions page. Also the top row of links only has Overview Content Tolls and Integrations.

Space B -\> Space Settings I have Space Details Sidebar configuration and Delete Space. The top row has Overview, Permissions, Content Tools, Look and Feel and Integrations. All of these tabs work.

I would like to delete Space A but I cannot seem to be able to figure out how to get that to work. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_
body: [@Sharon Helms](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/976803) , thanks for sharing this.


author: Sharon Helms
body: Hi [@PhillipsWDC](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/268561) ,

This is a known bug with the free version of Confluence. Here's the relevant Jira issue where you can add comments: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68319>

The workaround is to upgrade to the Standard version of Confluence (while you're in the trial period, it won't cost you any money) and then you'll be able to delete that first space you set up.

Before the end of your trial, you can return to the free version of Confluence.

Best wishes,  
Sharon


author: PhillipsWDC
body: Yea looked at that and all of the groups are in the settings for Confluence

Administration -\> Confluence -\> Groups

Also my user account can delete other spaces.

This is the original space created on signup as I just signed up for a trial today. thinking about moving away from Basecamp 3.


author: Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_
body: Perhaps your admin groups are no longer added to Confluence [product access](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/update-product-access-settings-744721629.html).


author: PhillipsWDC
body: My user is in the admin and site admin group


author: PhillipsWDC
body: Yea that was the first thing I went digging for, I got stuck on this part...

**Space tools** \> **Permissions**

I dont have that in any of my spaces I only have space settings with the tabs :(


author: Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_
body: Hi,

please verify if you have the ***Admin*** permissions in space A.

Have a look at the [Space Permissions Overview docs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Open attachments in browser
Asked by Genhan Chen:

As a free plan user, how can I configure my Confluence to open attachments in browser instead of downloading the file?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: Per this post you will have to contact support requesting the change. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/attachments-no-longer-open-in-browser-and-users-are-instead-prompted-to-download-the-files-779166001.html>

comments: author: Genhan Chen
body: Hi Brant,

Since I am a free plan user, Atlassian only gives me two support options on their "Contact Support" page:

1. Getting help from the Atlassian Community
2. Check out our Confluence how-to guides

Do you know any other contact method which I can use to request the change?

Thank you!


author: Brant Schroeder
body: Sorry missed the free plan part. Since you are on the free plan you get what you get and that means better security for you and no files opening in the browser.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Please teach me about search word
Asked by Satomi Ito:

Hello, I'm a beginnger user of Confluence.

Please teach me about search criteria \& Filtering.


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: Confluence Search

Basic information- <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/search-139528.html>

Search Syntax - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-syntax-158720.html>

Advanced Search - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver/advanced-searching-939938733.html>

comments: author: Satomi Ito
body: Thank you for your information.

I understand word is "exact match search".

How is the display order (Top of the contents)?


author: Brant Schroeder
body: This document covers how results are ordered: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-understand-the-ranking-of-confluence-s-search-results-785614686.html>


author: Satomi Ito
body: I appriciate your kind response.

Thanks to you, I can understand thoroughly about "the algorithm of confluence" !!
Confluence email replies bounce
Asked by Capps:

When team members reply to an email from a notification, share or other they just bounce.

Has this been updated for the roadmap?

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-5002>


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Gary,

Thank you for contacting us about this.

This is not yet on our roadmap, and I don't have any information besides the last update. If you are already watching the request, you will receive updates via email whenever there is progress made on this.

Let us know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-cloud
confluence server has a failing health check
Asked by Vincent Fiset:

Hi, my confluence server 7.1 to which I just migrated my data from another instance has a failing health check: **Warning** Code Cache Memory.

I tired to bump the *ReservedCodeCacheSize* to *512m*, but it did not help.

```
17345 root 24.3 /opt/java/openjdk/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/atlassian/confluence/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=org.apache.catalina.webresources -Dorg.apache.catalina.security.SecurityListener.UMASK=0027 -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256m -XX:+UseCodeCacheFlushing -Djdk.tls.server.protocols=TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 -Djdk.tls.client.protocols=TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 -Dconfluence.context.path=/confluence -Datlassian.plugins.startup.options=-fg -Djava.locale.providers=JRE,SPI,CLDR -Dorg.apache.tomcat.websocket.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE=32768 -Dsynchrony.enable.xhr.fallback=true -Xms512m -Xmx3g -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m -XX:+UseCodeCacheFlushing -Dconfluence.home=/var/atlassian/application-data/confluence -XX:+UseG1GC -Datlassian.plugins.enable.wait=300 -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -Xloggc:/opt/atlassian/confluence/logs/gc-2019-11-27_02-43-29.log -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=5 -XX:GCLogFileSize=2M -Xlog:gc+age=debug:file=/opt/atlassian/confluence/logs/gc-2019-11-27_02-43-29.log::filecount=5,filesize=2M -XX:-PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:-PrintTenuringDistribution -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions -Dignore.endorsed.dirs= -classpath /opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/opt/atlassian/confluence -Dcatalina.home=/opt/atlassian/confluence -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/atlassian/confluence/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
```

What should I do ?


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: If you update the app you should no longer see the issue. I believe you are just dealing with a bug that Atlassian is working to resolve. Here are the notes from the latest update: Remove JVM Code Cache Healthcheck that was introduce in ATST version 1.21.0 If you update the health check app then it should go away.

comments: author: Vincent Fiset
body: Thanks Brant, that helped a lot. I was not even aware that the health checks were from a plugin!

cheers


author: Vincent Fiset
body: also, should I revert the *ReservedCodeCacheSize* config to the default ?


author: Brant Schroeder
body: We reverted ours back. Depends on your instance and how much ram you have to spare.


Tags: confluence-server

jvm

server
Please tell me how to invest authority for specific person per page
Asked by Risa Hashiguchi:

Please tell me how to invest?authority for specific person per page


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Risa,

Thank you for contacting us about this. Happy to help.

Can you help me to understand what you're looking to do exactly? Specifically what you mean when you say *invest authority*.

If you're referring to permissions, the page permissions are controlled by the [Space Permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html). A Space Admin has authority over all pages within the space. See [Page Restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html) if you want to manage the individual pages.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon
Cannot create spaces
Asked by Scorpion:

I am unable to create new spaces.

In "Your Work", there is a "Create Space" option but it never finishes.

In the Spaces section,

If I click on the +, I get the message -

Can't create new pages in this space {#toc-hId--1384850413}
-----------------------------------------------------------

Request permission from your Confluence administrator.


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@Scorpion](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3640605)

Your need is to create spaces or pages?

First things first: Since you are unable to create a page on a specific space, then you have to contact indeed your admin, since you don't have the permission to create a page (on that specific space).

Second, in order to create a space (team \& personal) your confluence admin must give your group the corresponding permission. When you say that the create spaces "never finishes", what do you mean?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Draft overwritten by blank page
Asked by Claire:

**Issue**: Yesterday I was working on https://\<redacted\>.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PROD/pages/edit/1234567 - and somehow when I hit save I overwrote it with a blank page and can't go back to automatically saved versions (collaborative edits are enabled)

**Impact**: Hours of compliance-related requirements work is lost; Maybe this was Chrome issue but autosave + collaborative editing was enabled (though no other colleagues were in the page) and viewing Drafts nor reverts have resolved

**Environment Considerations**:

* Browser - Version 78.0.3904.108 (Official Build) (64-bit)
* OS - MacBook Pro, software High Sierra build 10.13.6
* Confluence Hosting - Cloud
* User Type - Global Admin

**Tried to resolve**:

1. Revert to previous version (missing yesterday's work but has work from start - 25 NOV 19)
2. Went through browser history to grab draft IDs, goes to version I reverted to
3. Googled for insights, found these that didn't resolve:
   1. <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/HELP-Missing-Draft/qaq-p/869786>
   2. <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-revert-publish-page-back-to-unpublished-draft-in/qaq-p/980318>
   3. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/recover-a-page-after-a-failed-save-attempt-or-system-crash-264705972.html>
   4. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-drafts-work-on-confluence-938043306.html>
   5. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/drafts-149040.html>
4. Asked around my company in case I was missing something obvious - senior SRE suggested I contact support
   1. Submitted support ticket as P3
   2. Called support to which I learned there is none but a very nice Billing support specialist said she'd nudge the ticket
   3. 4 hours later, nothing from Atlassian, "escalated" to P2 (?)

If it's not possible it's okay but a timely reply would be appreciated.


Answers:
author: Sylvia N
body: Hi! Also had this issue. I'm a bit surprised there's no edit history for drafts especially since multiple people can edit a draft

comments: author: Tracy Moffat
body: This is a challenge that we've encountered as well. Bug.


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Claire,

Thank you for contacting us about this. I see that the support team was able to help you with this in the end and recovered your draft. Can you confirm?

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Angelika Fischer
body: I have the same problem. I have been working on a draft and then when I went into it the page is blank? I can't find my draft anywhere. Please help as I have lost a few days of work.


Tags: confluence-cloud
Copy paste loses the inline comments
Asked by Jeff Isenberg:

I have some content on a page that I want to move into an Include. However, when I copy and paste it into the Include the content loses any inline comments. Is there a way to accomplish this?


Answers:
author: Jeff Isenberg
body: It seems I can accomplish this if I open in the source editor and move the text including the tags representing the inline comments.


author: Irina_Bel_Stiltsoft_
body: Hi [@Jeff Isenberg](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/551469)

Actually there's a way to do this with [Talk - Advanced Inline Comments for Confluence.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/978531/talk-advanced-inline-comments?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview)

The app allows adding inline comments on Excerpt macro, and then see them on the Excerpt Include macro.

![Excerpt.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/201067iED7951545DAC3AFD/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Excerpt.png")![Excerpt include.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/201068iED14D014F1A6C51C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Excerpt include.png")


author: Jeffry Gamba
body: I think there is no way the inline comments when you move the content to the include macro. I also tried but it will not work.


Tags: comment

confluence-server

server