youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Conflunce: MS Office "The address wasn?t understood"
Asked by morgan576@comcast.net:

SUMMARY:

======================

* \[ Edit in Office \] yields "The address wasn't understood" in Firefox.
* I discovered a workaround that doesn't really fix the problem.
* Is there a better workaround, or a real fix for this?

DETAILS:

======================

Firefox 49.0.2

WebDAV Launcher 1.1.3

MS Office 2007

In confluence, for an Excel doc, \[ Edit in Office \] works once, then you get "The address wasn't understood"

It doesn't matter what flavor Excel doc it is (xls or xlsx, etc).

If you delete the XLS extension from the WebDAV plug-in \[ Options \], then you can \[ Edit in Office \] again, just once.

Is there a real fix for this?

This version of Firefox used to work for me. I think the WebDAV plug-in auto-updated and got broken, but I cannot tell for sure.

The latest version of Firefox (52) has a completely different problem with the WebDAV plug-in that is completely broken, so that's why I use this older version of Firefox.


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Old environment required - hard to reproduce this issue now. In addition there is Companion App used by default instead old Edit in Office functionality. Closing.


Tags: ms-excel
"Error connecting to server" when pasting or attaching images or files
Asked by Joe Tarragano:

If I try and paste an image into Confluence or insert a file, I get "error connecting to server". I can happily click on the elipses, attach a file, then edit the document and insert the file from the library, so it's not a rights issue or anything.

But that method is much more cumbersom as I have to create, save and then edit the page rather than doing it all in one step.

I'm using Confluence cloud, have full admin rights, and using Chrome. It's not file type or size specific.


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Seems like a duplicate that was troubleshooted here:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Attaching-files-on-Atlassian-cloud-quot-Error-connecting-to/qaq-p/635192>
Providing style to a Space in 6.0.5
Asked by Jeffrey LeCours:

My goal is to style the background of inline code blocks to have a gray background, similar to the style on StackOverflow. In fact, [this SO comment](http://stackoverflow.com/a/20487368/18051) purports to allow just that.

I'm a Space Admin and can visit the **Look and Feel** page:

![chrome_2017-04-06_15-09-27.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/178iE15F325EB335EF40/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "chrome_2017-04-06_15-09-27.png")

Following the instructions on the SO link above, I tried to change the style in a few different ways but had no luck.

![chrome_2017-04-06_15-09-49.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/179i3FFDBA657ECAD549/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "chrome_2017-04-06_15-09-49.png")![chrome_2017-04-06_15-12-45.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/176iB657A1401B524774/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "chrome_2017-04-06_15-12-45.png")![chrome_2017-04-06_15-12-57.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/177i1640CCCFEC8A40F6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "chrome_2017-04-06_15-12-57.png")

Is this not the appropriate way to provide Space styling? Is the {style} macro something unsupported / 3rd party?


Answers:
author: Jeffrey LeCours
body: Ah... I think this might be my issue:

-------

**Notes**

Note: By default, only system administrators can edit the CSS for a space or for the site. To allow any user with Space Admin permissions to edit the CSS for a space, go to \> General Configuration \> Security Configuration and select Custom Stylesheets for Spaces.


author: Jeffrey LeCours
body: Looking at the first link you provided, the instructions are:

-------

**Getting Started**   
Editing the CSS  

To edit a space's CSS style sheets:

1. Go to the space and choose **Space tools \> Look and Feel** from the bottom of the sidebar
2. Choose **Stylesheet** then **Edit**.
3. Paste your custom CSS into the text field.
4. Save your changes. The new CSS will be visible on all content pages in the space.

-------

You can see in my second screenshot that **Stylesheet** isn't available to me.


author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: Give these a read:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/styling-confluence-with-css-166528400.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/basic-styling-tutorial-170000548.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/styling-fonts-in-confluence-174751968.html>
Can file uploads differ depending on which space you're uploading to?
Asked by youngadj:

I take HTML from Confluence, make some changes, then upload the revised HTML to the same page.

When this happens on my personal space, it works perfectly. When I attempt the same thing, but in a non-personal space, it will not upload. This only happens to specific pages, not every single one of them.

The UnexpectedRollbackException gets thrown.

It seems like an encoding issue. Could this be a permissions issue?

Has anyone experienced this before?


Answers:
author: kDay
body: Hi Adam,

The UnexpectedRollBack exception is usually thrown due to a form of corrupted content being encountered.

How are you exporting and then importing the HTML content which you're editing? I suggest using the free [Confluence Source Editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor/server/overview "Confluence Source Editor") plugin to do so rather than making an external copy of the the page's source code, modifying it, then trying to re-import this code into a different space.

You may also want to try using the [Copy Page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/copy-a-page-139013.html "Copy Page") function to make a copy of the page within your personal space to your destination space, then editing the copied page with the Source Editor.

Cheers,  
Kenneth Giorno \| Atlassian Support
Confluence equivalent to Jira's Application access page?
Asked by Eric:

Jira has a nice feature, where in the Applications -\> Application access page, I can assign specific Active Directory groups that can have access to Jira. So even though I'm pointing to an OU with lots of users, only those who are in the JiraUsers group will count aginst my user license seats.

This doesn't seem to exist in Confluence? If I point Confluence to the same Users OU as Jira, ALL those users get access to Confluence, and I go over my user license limit. Not all the users in that OU should have access to Confluence, so I have to move them to another OU, which is really annoying when I should just be able to assign access with a .

Is there a way to pick which users shoud use Confluence user licenses based on an AD group?

I did assign Global Permission to the ConfluenceUsers AD group, but any user that gets added to the Users OU is getting added in my user license count.


Answers:
author: josh
body: Hello Eric,

A similar page to JIRA's Applications page isn't there, but you can get an idea and limit the scope of the licensed Confluence users on the Global Permissions page. There, you can see which groups have the "can use" permission. The sum of the members of these groups is the number of licensed users. In this area, I would remove confluence-users from the "can use" permission or remove your active directory users from this group. I only use confluence-users for accounts stored in the Local Directory.

You should also review your Active Directory configuration. In my organization, I have one master group, and each of the divisions has a seprate nested group (make sure "Enable Nested Groups" is checked). I then add the Master group to the global permissions page with "can use" permissions.

Another advantage of this is that you can use the nested groups for individual space permissions if you don't want everyone to see everything, and you can also delegate user adding/removing to certain people in your organization by giving them permission to the right divisonal AD groups.

![Group Hierarchy.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/276iAC2CF116B320F38A/image-dimensions/414x161?v=v2 "Group Hierarchy.png")

I also use the following example settings for these directory fields:

Ldap Permissions: Read Only, with Local Groups

Default Group Memberships: \<BLANK, DO NOT USE\>

Base DN: OU=TopLevel,DC=domain,DC=com

Enable Nested Groups: \<checked\>

User Object Filter: (\&(objectClass=person)(memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=ConfluenceMaster,OU=Groups,OU=TopLevel,DC=domain,DC=com))

Group Object Filter: (\&(objectCategory=Group)(\|(sAMAccountName=ConfluenceMaster)(memberOf=CN=ConfluenceMaster,OU=Groups,OU=TopLevel,DC=domain,DC=com)))
Confluence REST API rate limit
Asked by Andrew Leonard:

Hi,

Can't seem to find any documentation on this so posting as a question.

When using the REST API for my confluence site, is there any limit around rates?

ie. is there a set limit of requests which can be processed per day?

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Sam Hall
body: The Atlassian Rest API policy does mention something about rate limits: <https://developer.atlassian.com/display/HOME/Atlassian+REST+API+policy#AtlassianRESTAPIpolicy-Resource/ratelimitsandpaging>

comments: author: Sam Hall
body: There's aslo a lively discussion going on about the (lack of a) limit on the REST API in JIRA: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-41876>

I couldn't find anything similar for Confluence, but I would guess it is the same.

p.s. Since your question is development related, you might want to try asking this over at: <https://community.developer.atlassian.com> as well (if you haven't already).

There are a lot of helpful and experienced people over there, so you will probably get a quicker response.

You can read more about the Developer Community in this article: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Feedback-Forum-articles/The-Atlassian-Developer-Community/ba-p/459061>


Tags: rest-api
How can I create a meeting page template? I created a global but it's not showing up in meeting inde
Asked by Sheryl Taberoff:

I created a global template for a specifc meeting but when I add it as the first meeting in a space the Meeting Index is not created. How can I make this template a Meeting Notes type


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: From specific version of Confluence there was a Meeting Blueprint available. It was possible to customize. More information can be found here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/meeting-notes-blueprint-329975386.html>


Tags: meeting-notes
How can I create a decision page in a specific location ?
Asked by David:

In the Meeting-Notes blueprint, upon creation of the page, you can click on the label icon to assign it a label and on the location icon to assign it a location.

This is useful if you do not want all your notes pages to be listed in the left side menu. It prevents it from being clutered with unecessary files which you can access from within a listing page. It also looks "cleaner" for the users.

I usually create "container page" located on the root level so users enter 1 label + 1 location upon each meeting note.

This method is used for sub-areas of a project so areas don't get mixed up.

I would like to the same with decsions but there is no location button to click on. Moving the page after creation is not an option.

Any ideas ?

I use Conf v5.4.4


Answers:
author: Scott Theus
body: Hi [@David](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/551101) ,

I tested this on my Cloud version, here's what I came up with:

* If I am on the main landing page of a space and I click the + to add a new page, then select the Decision template the page is created at the root of the space.
* If I click down into the left-nav menu to select a specific location in the space hierarchy and then click the + to create a and select the Decision template the new page is created in the selected location.

Here are some screen grabs to illustrate:

![Descision.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/53204i3120F5B9A583DC9C/image-dimensions/160x279?v=v2 "Descision.JPG")![Descision 2.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/53205iCF057CAFEE5869D2/image-dimensions/529x160?v=v2 "Descision 2.JPG")![Descision 3.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/53206iF9539AACDAAEAA81/image-dimensions/234x270?v=v2 "Descision 3.JPG")

Behavior may be different in your Sever version, I noticed there is at least one enhancement request to add the ability to change the location of the child page when you create it (see [CONFSERVER-54218](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54218))

Let me know if this does not work on your version, I'll ask some of the other Community Leaders with Server experience to chime in.

-Scott

comments: author: David
body: Hi Scott,

Just tested this and the behavior is the same.

This is probably due to the fact that I have migrated to a newer version.

Issue resolved even though it would be nice to be able to choose the location upon creation and not having to be in the location to create a decision (or any blueprint).

Thanks,

DB


author: Scott Theus
body: Hi [@David](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/551101) ,

I was searching though the Community for another issue and came across your question. Were you ever able to get it resolved? I know it is long past time to be helpful for you, but if you figured it out perhaps you could post the solution to help others?

-Scott

comments: author: David
body: I have since migrated to v6.7 and still have no answer to this.
Excel table connected to an automated Form?
Asked by Stefan Fricke:

For one of my spaces I would need an Excel table with pre-defined fields that are to be filled out by the users; e.g. for triggering a process. Ideally, I would like to have a form linked to the excel table, where these pre-defined fields have to be filled out and where related files can be attached/uploaded. Once the form has been filled out and submitted, it triggers a new entry in the table and sends out notification email. Important for me is that everything stays inside the secure Confluence environment (which makes e.g. the use google online speadsheets more or less impossible)

Do you have any experience with this kind of setup and any suggestions how this can be implemented?

Thanks bunches for your feedback!

Stefan


Answers:
author: Stefan Fricke
body: Is that also available for the Cloud Version? How do you guys use it?

comments: author: Steffi Frank
body: no, only for Server


author: Steffi Frank
body: Hi Stefan,

we had a similar request and spent money for a plugin which meets these needs: ConfiForms <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.vertuna.confluence.plugins.confiforms/server/overview> (I am NOT an employee of vertuna!) Notifications via mail included...

Let me know if you need more user experience

Steffi

comments: author: Steffi Frank
body: to attach files is possible too


author: Stefan Fricke
body: Thanks so much Steffi!! This looks promising indeed. I will give it a try and test the plugin.

Have a great Friday!

Stefan


author: Davin Studer
body: I have also used Confiforms extensively and it is by far the most valuable add-on we have purchased for Confluence. The cost it pretty reasonable too for the value it adds.


author: Stefan Fricke
body: Thanks Davin!


Tags: link

ms-excel

table
HTTP error video uploading
Asked by ????? ?????????:

Hello!

I have a problem with video uploading

Reprodusable for IE, Chrome, Edge

The video MP4 55 mb

Press upload file =\> choose the mp4 file 55mb = \> http error


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Maybe the file upload limit is set to a value under 55 MB.

Ask your administrator about that limit. Or, if you are the admin, look at the general configuration of your Confluence instance.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: where do you want to upload the file?

comments: author: ????? ?????????
body: ![httperror.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/163iA9E2E25A629E5B69/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "httperror.png")


author: ????? ?????????
body: in confluecnce page


Tags: http

upload

video
Uploading language - missing Browse button
Asked by Jan D?dina:

Hello,

I have tried to install manually Czech language pack according to these instructions - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/installing-a-language-pack-214860198.html>

But I got stuck at point 4 ("Choose Browse to find the plugin file you wish to install from your hard drive and select it, or enter a network location by URL.")

There is only "Upload" button, but no "Browse" button. Since I have the language pack (JAR file) on my harddrive, I cannot continue.

Could you help me, please?

Thank you for any advice!

Jan


Answers:
author: Ana Retamal
body: Hi Jan, are you on Confluence Server or Cloud? Note that the article you linked is for the Server version, as language packs are not supported in Cloud (you can read [Languages](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/languages-744721667.html) for more info).

Regards!


Tags: language

language-cs
Header text does not work
Asked by NM:

I have the following code added to the header via Space tools -\> Look and Feel -\> Sidebar, Header \& Footer.

```
{note:icon=none}*This documentation is outdated*. [View the home page of the latest release.|http://docs.test.com/]{note}
```

It does not render properly in the Header. What could be the issue, please?

I am using Confluence 6.


Answers:
author: Sanjevi Rau Krishna Rao
body: Hi Nirdesha,

I think there is no problem in your header code that you want to insert. Make sure that you have placed it in the correct place, for instance, below the **\<header\>** tag and make sure that you didn't alter or remove any existing code.

Hope that will help you.

Thank you.

comments: author: NM
body: Thanks for you reply!

Given below is a screenshot to give you an idea where we have added the code. It does not work.

![Screen Shot 2017-04-17 at 2.40.07 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/422i23BEED9EE126AAAB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-04-17 at 2.40.07 PM.png")


author: NM
body: Any help guys?


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Nirdesha,

your markup works fine with Confluence 5. I am not able to test on Version 6, we did not update yet. The problem seems to be in Confluence 6.

Can someone please try that with Confluence 6?

comments: author: NM
body: Yes, this worked fine with version 5 , which we used before upgrading.


Tags: header
Search box in the Content Formatting Macro
Asked by NM:

This is regarding <https://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/CFP/Search+Box>.

I tried to add this to my left-navigation panel in Confluence version 6.

Went to Space tools -\> Look and Feel -\> Sidebar, Header \& Footer and added the code {search-box}.

It does not render properly. I get the following error:![Screen Shot 2017-04-06 at 12.52.43 PM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/157i0B391D1C1C3E27A3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-04-06 at 12.52.43 PM.png")

Isn't the macro supported in the left-nav? If it is supported, is the code block incorrect?


Answers:
author: Rafael Franco
body: Hi all,

With the latest release of Content Formatting we've decided to remove the support for wiki markup since otherwise it would be hard to maintain both the new format and the wiki markup one.

The good news is that there is a workaround for it:

1 - Create a regular page in Confluence, let's call it "SearchBox"

2 - Edit that page and add a Search Box Macro

3 - Edit the sidebar and use {include:SPACE_KEY:SearchBox}

Let me know if it worked.

Regards,

Rafael

comments: author: AnnWorley
body: It worked for me! Thanks very much. I look forward to hearing whether it works for Nirdesha.


author: NM
body: Thank you! It works but we do not want to keep a separate page just with a search box. It has to be public nd therefore, is not a flawless solution, unfortunately.

We are now using the default search option and it works fine.


author: Davin Studer
body: Is there a reason you want to use Adaptavists search box? If not you could use one of the built-in search macros for Confluence. You could try ...

```
{pagetreesearch:rootPage=Space Root Page Name}
```

or

```
{livesearch}
```

comments: author: NM
body: Yes, we started using the default one, which is good. Thanks!


author: AnnWorley
body: I could not get it to work in the sidebar, either, though I tried lots of variations. I finally opened a ticket with Adaptavist, I will let you know what they say.

comments: author: NM
body: Thank you!


author: AnnWorley
body: I got a reply but not a satisfactory one as yet. Will keep you posted!


Tags: adaptavist

content-formatting-macros

macro

search

side-bar
Create a Macro for generating and editing mailto links
Asked by Murray Roke:

Hi,

I often have emails that need to be sent documented in confluence.

These have recipients, subject, and a body template.

Currently I use an online mailto link generator 3rd party website, and insert it as an HTML link

The pain comes when I need to edit this... I click the link which opens an email, I copy all the fields into the online mailto link generator then make my edits, regenerate the link and paste it back into confluence.

I found a gist with something that may work with the on-premise version of conflucence, <https://gist.github.com/segilbert/5968297/> but we're using the SAAS version (on demand)

Does anyone know a way to create this little bit of templated html/macro ?

Otherwise... atlassian... take this as a feature request. to create an option in the "insert link" dialog where we can build an entire email.

I've created a [feature request for improving the insert link dialog](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-54620)


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: That is nice idea unfortunately Confluence Cloud does not support adding user macros like on the on-prem version. However there is a way to add some static macros described in this article

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/How-to-create-simple-custom-macros-in-Confluence-Cloud/ba-p/1227422>

Maybe it would be useful for someone. If not lets hope that on Atlassian Marketplace we would find an app that could cover it.


Tags: confluence-cloud