youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Better way to display excel?
Asked by Deborah Cross:

When we've embedded excel spreadsheets in confluence (cloud) they never come up looking like a spreadsheet. It shows like a PDF with no gridlines instead of showing, what I think would be more valuable, the worksheet grid view.

Is this just the way it is, or is something strange going on for us?

![Screen Shot 2020-03-06 at 1.26.09 pm.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85524i7021729509E17B84/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-03-06 at 1.26.09 pm.png")


Answers:
author: Shardul Juyal {Addteq}
body: Hi Deborah,

I assume you are embedding the excel. Try bordering the excel before embedding, that sometimes solves the issue,  

if you are Ok with Add-ons you can try[Excellentable for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211672/excellentable-spreadsheet-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview).  
You will be able to import and edit spreadsheets right inside confluence with this plugin.

comments: author: Deborah Cross
body: I'm not sure about embedding, I'm just using the file attach option, then click on the link to open it and it looks like that.


author: Shardul Juyal {Addteq}
body: Yes, just attaching.  

Try adding all borders before attaching to the confluence page. Here is a comparison  

**Sheet Imported**

![Capture 2020-03-10 at 13.35.15.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85959iD47E3278322DADCC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture 2020-03-10 at 13.35.15.png")

**Attached to Confluence with Insert--\>File\&Images**Note the slight margins of below table disappear, but remain in the above table "All borders"

**![Capture 2020-03-10 at 13.35.29.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85961i33499D5C784CB730/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture 2020-03-10 at 13.35.29.png")**

**Excellentable Attach**Shows the complete spreadsheet editable within confluence

**![Capture 2020-03-10 at 13.35.57.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85960i60D07F750819B7A8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture 2020-03-10 at 13.35.57.png")**


author: Deborah Cross
body: Thanks Shardal, I appreciate you trying to help, but I think really that it has just answered my question - there's no decent option in confluence natively. Confluence seems to make it's own page breaks where-ever it likes and doesn't honour the spreadsheet settings.

I am reluctant to do it via plug in, I'll see what the appetite is to spend for such a feature.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why does /jira macro not work from within Confluence?
Asked by Shelby Moledina:

I signed up for Confluence within Jira, and I believe the accounts are linked. When I try to use the /jira macro within Confluence, it says that I need to connect the accounts. When I try to do that, it says no admins have an email address specified. I do have an email address specified on my account, and I am the admin.

![Screen Shot 2020-03-05 at 5.26.58 PM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85520iBCE229AD663036F3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-03-05 at 5.26.58 PM.png")

![Screen Shot 2020-03-05 at 5.27.09 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85522i410D175A1831A506/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-03-05 at 5.27.09 PM.png")


Answers:
author: Jack Brickey
body: [@Shelby Moledina](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3797763) , are you still experiencing this issue? I have been unable to reproduce the problem on my instance.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira
Viewing Jira comments in Confluence
Asked by nisha.yates:

Hi,

We set actions being created in Confluence and comments that need to be addressed in Jira. It's getting really difficult to keep track of it all. How can I view all of my actions and comments from Jira, all in Confluence, preferably by clicking the Notifications button?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Nisha


Answers:
author: Patrick Meunier
body: I am looking into the same requirement. For now I am testing the activity stream macro since it can be filtered.

I tried using the RSS macro but I gives me a "page not permitted" error even with the application link.

I also tried the html-include macro with the same result.

If any of those hack don't work I will try with a listener script in Jira that will call the Confluence REST API and update the page. I wanted to start hacking to integrate / automate them for a while.

I could let you know if I ever get to try it.

Cheers,

Patrick


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira
How do you make a comment anonymous?
Asked by Ethan:

I recently received an anonymous comment and it caught us all surprised! Our configuration is definitely no anonymous users allowed.

I read the questions raised to community but understand that it cannot be done.

How is it then that I get such a message in my email of a comment from "Anonymous"? See screenshot in comment section


Answers:
author: Ethan
body: ![anonymous.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85505i69F03F6F9708DE28/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "anonymous.jpg")


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why after creating a Page I cannot Edit that Page?
Asked by Tony Douglas:

I have the ability to Create/Edit and Delete, but when I go to create a Page for my Documentation Page I am not able to Edit that page. The most frustrating part is when I leave the page, it's being saved as a Draft! Did I miss a step somewhere?


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Tony Douglas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3511821)

Can you send us a screenshot of what you're seeing on the page?

Ste

comments: author: Tony Douglas
body: Actually, it's the strangest thing... Support was able to create and edit (just like my sysadmin was able to do) however, they were using "their" machines. Which gave me an idea.. I used my tablet (Samsung Tab 5e with DeX) and was able to create and edit Pages! So, it's my laptop and it's configurations that is stopping me!

Thanks for all the help! I knew it had to be something silly!


author: Poorvi Jhawar
body: Hi [@Tony Douglas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3511821)

Are you able to create any page from the same space as your Documentation Page?

You might need the space specific permissions. Have a look at the documentation here. It should help.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html>

comments: author: Tony Douglas
body: No, it looks like it is a computer based issue! There is a permission setting that I do not have access to that is preventing me from editing after I create a page!


Tags: new-to-confluence
URL mismatch - "undefined" appended to correct url
Asked by Tadas Osmolskis:

After a long time where it was down, I started up my test Confluence server. After running OS updates (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS), I'm now getting the following message ("mydomain" replaces the actual domain name):

<br />

"Your URL doesn't match  
Confluence's base URL is set to <https://cl-confluence.mydomain.com> but you are accessing Confluence from <https://cl-confluence.mydomain.comundefined>.  
\<link\>Update base URL \</link\>"

I'm using Apache to handle the proxying and certificate. I get the error with both Chrome and MS Edge. The DNS is set up correctly, and the certificates are valid and installed correctly.

When I click on the "Update base url" link, I get redirected to "<https://cl-confluence.mydomain.com/admin/undefined/admin/editgeneralconfig.action>"

Any idea as to what's amiss?


Answers:
author: Aaron Thompson
body: I ran into the same issue and spent a whole day debugging before figuring it out: I had a Header set Content-Security-Policy setting in Apache that was messing things up. Check for any recent adds to httpd.conf!
After we have upgraded to Confluence 6.15.10, the backup stopped working
Asked by Kenneth Abutan:

We have upgraded our Confluence server almost a year ago and we would like to migrate now to the cloud version. The problem is we couldn't generate a backup and we have also noticed that the scheduled backup stopped working. Looking at the backup administration, there are history of scheduled backup but we couldn't find where the backups are being stored.


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

depending on the size of your instance, you might run into a timeout when creating a backup manually.

By default backups are created inside the backup folder of your Conflunce data directory.

Best

JP

comments: author: Kenneth Abutan
body: Hi JP,

Thanks for the reply.  

Right, that export from the web even totally crashed the web.

About the default scheduled backup, it stopped working after the upgrade and I'm trying to get that backup working again but no luck.

Regards,

KA


Tags: confluence-server

server
outlook PDL in confluence
Asked by Hayath Khan K:

is it possible to use OUTLOOK PDL to grant access in confluence?


Answers:
author: Andy Heinzer
body: Hi

If I understand your request here you have a distribution list in Outlook and want to use this in some manner to grant users access to Confluence. To the best of my knowledge this cannot be used either by Cloud or Server editions of Confluence directly grant access to users.

However you might be able to pull the email addresses in that list in order to then invite users to your Confluence site. But this would be a one time event, it would not be syncing Confluence with your list at any time. For Confluence server, I'd recommend the link of [Add and invite users](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-and-invite-users-138313.html) to understand options to get users in. For Confluence Cloud, I'd recommend checking out the guide [Invite and remove users](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/invite-and-remove-users-744721624.html) for options here.

Regards,

Andy


Tags: ms-outlook
Where is the Delete function?
Asked by elizabeth_wilcox:

According to a Confluence Help page, the Delete option is under the ... in the upper right. I don't show the Delete option there.

How else can I find it?


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@elizabeth_wilcox](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3797366)

You need to ensure you have the delete permission within that space. To edit these, you'll need to be a Space Admin and then:

1. Go to Space Settings / Space Tools (depending on if you're on Cloud or Server)
2. Select Permissions
3. Ensure your user group or your individual user permissions for that space have delete checked with a green tick against the "pages" permission
4. If no, then you can press "Edit Permissions" to edit existing permissions or add new permissions for just yourself or a group of users.

If you're not the Space Admin, you can still select Space Settings / Space Tools and on the Overview page, look who the space administrators are. You might also be able to view but not edit the permissions.

Let us know if this works!

Ste
Creating an "Is this page helful?" submit form in Confluence
Asked by PetesPiece19:

I'd like to create a form that asks readers if the page they're reading is helpful. Ideally, we'd include a **Yes** and **No** Option, as well as a **Submit** button. We'd communicate with a PHP file which stores responses submitted by the form. The form would live on each page, ideally being inserted via a macro (eventually).

**Yes**: Submits a Form_Yes notation to the PHP file

**No**: Submits a Form_No notation to the PHP file

I'd also like to include an option for readers to supply more details depending on their selection.

So we'd also include these to be inserted to the PHP file: yes_no_text, or yes_with_text

no_no_text, or no_with_text

Each "...with_text" option would include the feedback as well as the response. The reader would click the **Submit** button to send the response.

After **Submit** was clicked, we'd send the info to the PHP file, and then display a "Thank you" note on the page. We were thinking it could be an HTML form POST method.

Is this possible now? Are there any plans for doing something similar in the future?


Answers:
author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: There are ready-to-use apps that do exactly what you want.

This is one example, but you may find others on Atlassian Marketplace: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/181/ratings-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/181/ratings-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Hi, I can't install apps to Confluence even if I'm the site admin.
Asked by Jan Mikulecky:

I can see just "Request button". What do I do wrong?


Answers:
author: Dario B
body: Hello [@Jan Mikulecky](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3666278) ,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

I am not sure what "Request Button" you are referring to since you are not providing enough information on what you are doing.

However, being a site-admin, you should be able to install add-ons on your Confluence instance by following below steps:

1. Go to **Confluence Settings** \> **Manage Apps** (<https://YOUR_SITE.atlassian.net/wiki/plugins/servlet/upm>)
2. Click on **Find new Apps** (this will bring you to <https://YOUR_SITE.atlassian.net/wiki/plugins/servlet/ac/com.atlassian.confluence.emcee/discover#!/discover>)  
   ![find-new-apps.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85634i8FA432C2663C92D5/image-dimensions/432x175?v=v2 "find-new-apps.jpg")
3. Search for the app you'd like to install, select it and click on the **Try it Free** button.

In case this won't work for you, please provide the exact steps you are following as well as a screenshot showing what you see.

Cheers,  
Dario

comments: author: Jan Mikulecky
body: Hi Dario, I saw Request button instead of Get or Try it free button on the right side. But it was yesterday. Now it seems to be ok and I'm able to install the apps I want.

![GetButton.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85648i808BA3C1707FF14E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "GetButton.png")Thanks for help.


author: Dario B
body: Hi [@Jan Mikulecky](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3666278) ,

It might have been a temporary glitch, happy to know the issue is now solved! :)

Cheers,  
Dario


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Error al loguearse
Asked by leandro.l.lopez:

Hello Team,

I can't login to <https://confluence.uk.jpmorgan.com/confluence/dologin.action>

Please could you help me?

I am trying to login with SSO.

Best regards,

Leandro


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@leandro.l.lopez](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3797191)

It'll be hard for us to diagnose a specific SSO issue within your own organisation.

I would advise contacting your Jira Admins - if you're unsure who these might be, your Tech Support or IT Department would be a good starting point :)

Ste


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
can't not find com.sun:jai_core:jar:1.1.3
Asked by ???? ?????????:

can't not find com.sun:jai_core:jar:1.1.3 on maven repo

<https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.sun/jai_core/1.1.3>

<https://packages.atlassian.com/maven-3rdparty/com/sun/jai_core/1.1.3/jai_core-1.1.3.jar>

```
{  "errors" : [ {    "status" : 404,    "message" : "Could not find resource"  } ]}
```


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi

better ask this question at

<https://community.developer.atlassian.com/>

Best

JP


Tags: confluence-server

server
REST api post html content - ids from anchors deleted
Asked by Daniel:

Hello,

I'm using the REST api to post content to a page. The content is actually an html page.

For the style part, I added the needed style in the Space custom style. The problem that I have is related to table of contents. The page is actually a word document converted to html. Everything works ok when I open the file locally, but when I post it on Confluence, the ids of the anchors are removed and the links from contents table are not working.

I have to add manually a name attribute to anchors with the same value as the ids, in order for them to work. But that's not ideal.

What's happening when confluence receives an html content? does it do some kind of parsing on it? What should I pay attention to?

How can I solve the anchor ids issue?

Thanks,

Daniel


Answers:
author: steve_simon
body: not a solution but I have exactly the same problem.

I am uploading a single page

All my links link only to anchors on the page

all my anchors are replaced with plain text and all my links are marked as nofollow


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

html

rest-api
Bug when editing confluence pages
Asked by Sabine_Ameshofer:

Recently I cannot edit Confluence pages anymore.

Automatically lots of blank spaces are integrated![leerzeilen.JPG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85460i20513EA354A2D7E0/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "leerzeilen.JPG")

or as soon as I start writing it is inserted multiple times (it does never stop, you have to close the page)

![confluence.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85461i1DC875A805564A86/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence.png")

It is not only with my user, also my colleagues have the same problem. We work with the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome.

How can I find help?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Sabine_Ameshofer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3796556) !

The behavior you described is really unconventional. I tried to replicate it but ultimately was unable to. Since we do not have a step by step on how to replicate this behavior we can check few things, Here we go:
> 1. *If the behavior is present in other pages than the affected one.*
> 2. *If newly created pages show the same behavior once we try to edit them the second time.*
> 3. *If using incognito/private mode on your browser yields the same results.*

I am also curious about the machine and operating system where you and your colleague tested this behavior:
> 1. *What operating system was used to achieve this behavior?*
> 2. *Was the test (for both you and your colleague) ran using the same computer?*
> 3. *Is there any kind of macro or plugin added to the problematic page?*
> 4. *Which version of the editor is the affected page using?*

In Confluence Cloud we have two editors, the New Editor (Fabric) and the Old Editor (tinyMCE). You differentiate them by their toolbars:

**New Editor:**
> ![Screen Shot 2020-04-24 at 12.56.00.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92083iFBBC762D9694665D/image-dimensions/509x27?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2020-04-24 at 12.56.00.png")

**Old Editor:**
> ![Screen Shot 2020-04-24 at 12.56.11.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92084i7F07CAD2178E91E8/image-dimensions/521x25?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2020-04-24 at 12.56.11.png")

Let us hear from you!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Authentication error
Asked by Juan Jos? Marchal G?mez:

Hello,

I can't login in my confluence. I changed DNS and now, it is not working.

The error that appears is:

ERROR \[http-nio-8090-exec-7\] \[crowd.manager.application.ApplicationServiceGeneric\] authenticateUser Directory 'JIRA Server' is not functional during authentication of

Could you help me?

Best regards.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Juan Jos? Marchal G?mez](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/234462) ! As I understand, your server DNS address has changed and now it can not reach the authentication service that was previously being used with it.

Thee error excerpt you shared ++*tells us that Confluence is currently unable to communicate with Jira for proper authentication.*++ You can try to ++*login as the Confluence Local administrator and then reconfigure Jira for user management in Confluence*++. You will need to take the new settings you change in consideration for this to work.

If you have no internal administrator account in Confluence, you will need to create a new one. Here is our documentation on how to do so:
> * ++**[\[Confluence Server\] Restore Passwords To Recover Admin User Rights](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html)**++

Internal users are the users who are stored within Confluence itself. They do not rely on external user management tools to be functional. Here is our documentation on the internal directory of Confluence:
> ++**[\[Confluence Server\] Configuring the Internal Directory](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-the-internal-directory-229838753.html)**++

I hope this leads you into a solution for your situation! Looking forward to your reply.


Tags: confluence-server

jira

server
Bug in copy&paste table contents?
Asked by Melvin Isken:

I just found out that if a table cell contains a bullet list which only has one item "-" (dash), you cannot copy the table row into another table anymore (you can't copy the whole table either). As soon as I removed these entries, I could do the c\&p action for the whole table or single rows finally.

Element which can't be copied looks like this:

* -


Answers:
author: Melvin Isken
body: Just tested a little more, if a cell contains only a dash (-), then it gets converted to a bullet point list during pasting. Could be related to that.

Anyways: the dash should also not be converted to bullet points since in my understanding, the dash means "no content here at the moment" and the semantics is changed if its converted.


Tags: bug

cloud

confluence-cloud

editor
Is there a macro to display the page version number?
Asked by duncan.baillie:

For server version there is a published macro but the online macro choice is very constrained. A version number seems like a fairly basic requirement.


Answers:
author: Mike Bowen
body: Hi [@duncan.baillie](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3796097)

There isn't and I also thought it would be a fairly basic requirement, but **alas!**-sian ;-)

You can though download a plugin, which I would highly recommend called [QC Documents for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218839/qc-documents-for-confluence-cloud?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) and along with a macros for the version number, it also had a whole bunch of useful features for the Page Properties macro.

![version.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85780i8A27C3ACF18C29C9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "version.jpg")

![Snag_861b8c77.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/85781iA50767338B394996/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Snag_861b8c77.png")

-Mike

comments: author: duncan.baillie
body: [@Mike Bowen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1798821) thanks, good to know but I would need to convince the powers that be to download/pay for this which might in itself trigger a whole vendor on-boarding process for QC Analytics. Unfortunately.


author: Mike Bowen
body: Hi [@duncan.baillie](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3796097)

Yes, there is that problem... good luck!

-Mike


author: K Langford
body: [@duncan.baillie](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3796097)

I work for a non-profit. We can't buy anything, but we have a need. I have an unorthodox, dare I say - morally questionable way to find things I need. You can open your own free/trial version of Confluence Datacenter. Most macros have a Trial/Free period. Install the macro for the trial period, implement it on a page, inspect its use with your browser (Developer mode/inspect option), and quite often you will see the CSS styling and/or code making the thing you are looking for possible.

Grab that code and place in your own Space Style Sheet, CSS macro, HTML macro, etc and quite often you can achieve the same results.

comments: author: duncan.baillie
body: Interesting suggestion! Not something I can propose though!


Tags: confluence-cloud
Where can I find a "GOOD" Confluence automation tutorial/how to?
Asked by miss_tate:

I'd like to script creating/editing a Confluence Report Repo using the JQueries coming from Jira. Can this be done weekly automatically? I'd like to script things in python!


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi [@miss_tate](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3791646) ,

Please , take a look info in storage format in your page, then you can wrap using the below examples?

<https://github.com/atlassian-api/atlassian-python-api/tree/master/examples/confluence>


Tags: confluence-server

git

jira

jql

python

server