youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
404 after confluence upgrade from 5.10 to 6.13
Asked by Dave Fontaine:

Getting a sweet 404 error after my upgrade (via .bin)

"The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists."

I have my export XML file/files, willing to blast the whole darn thing and startover. Should I troubleshoot? or should I try to blank everything?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hey Dave,

My teammate Diego fielded a similar question recently - [take a look at his response here](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-not-starting-after-upgrade-to-6-11/qaq-p/871917#M118228). That's where I'd get started if you're going down the troubleshooting route.

Prior to joining Atlassian, I was a Confluence and Jira administrator for 5 years. You could say I saw my fair share of upgrades. My personal preference would be to try and troubleshoot the existing setup before blowing it away.

The advantages of starting fresh are that it's a known amount of work. Troubleshooting may or may not be completed faster than starting from a clean install and reimporting. However, it *will* take a decent amount of time to blank everything and start over. If you have the personality that does not get easily frustrated when things don't start up or are willing to potentially sink a little extra time and get familiar with the Tomcat / Atlassian setup, I'd recommend troubleshooting. I haven't talked to anyone yet who was disappointed that they got familiar with the setup (despite maybe a couple curse words here and there if it took some extra learning).

I'll be here to help if you start troubleshooting and hit some more errors after starting on those steps.

Cheers,  
Daniel


Tags: confluence-server

server
Vertical line between images
Asked by Steve Iribarne:

Confluence page with a simple layout.

I want to have two images separated by a vertical line (think grey line).

I thought there would be a vertical line macro but I couldn't find it.

Thanks.

-stv


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Steve and welcome to the Community,

What you're looking for is called "Divider", selecting this will present a page divider. Screenshot below:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39938iF3D5634808F794C2/image-dimensions/571x212?v=v2 "image.png")

The old term for this was called a "horizontal line" within Confluence server:

#### **Horizontal Rule** {#toc-hId-1456845968}

To create a horizontal line across the width of your page or content block, type four dashes (like this: ----) at the beginning of a line, then press Enter or space.

Make sure that the dashes are on a separate line from the rest of the text.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39939i758E341C743AD58A/image-dimensions/545x160?v=v2 "image.png")

Source document: [Confluence Wiki Markup](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-wiki-markup-938044804.html)

If you're not seeing the horizontal rule, please provide a screenshot as to what you're seeing.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers

comments: author: Massimo Carro
body: Hi,

the question is for vertical line...


author: Joe Cotton
body: Seriously - why is this the accepted answer?


author: Ani Jamadagni
body: I have been looking for this for a while now and i was excited to see that there is an accepted answer, but unfortunately this is not correct. Even the word *++**vertical**++* is not used in the answer once.

This is a very basic feature and given that we have a horizontal divider, it should be fairly straightforward to have a vertical divider as well. Please implement this feature as my documents always have multiple sections and without a proper divider they are quite confusing to read and very messy to look at.


author: VJ
body: Alternatively, you can also use HTML macro as below:

1. Insert HTML macro

2. Inside the HTML macro box, add the below details and then click Save.

\<hr style="width:200px; transform:rotate(90deg);"\>


author: VJ
body: Hi,

I was looking for vertical line and this worked find for me if you are using Confluence Server.

1. Insert a Div macro

2. Click Edit and in the Style field enter the below details:

width: 0px; height: 300px; float: left; border-radius: 2px;border: 1px inset;

3. Click Save


author: Anthony Chan
body: use /layouts


Tags: atl-gruland

cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I create a url scheme so that I can open a url with an external application?
Asked by Grady Drew:

I would like to be able to be able to open "bjn://XXXXXX" links with the appropriate application (blue jeans).

However, after creating a link to a "web" url using "bjn" rather than "http", it strips the link, but retains the link formatting.

Is there any way to add a scheme for external applications, or a way to get around the stripping of what i put into the link value?

Thank you...


Answers:
author: Grady Drew
body: Is there any work-around for Cloud for inserting links via straight HTML?


author: Diego
body: Hello there Grady!  
I was able to insert a **custom URL scheme**using the advanced link insertion:
> 1- Enter edit mode  
> 2- Click the chain icon (link) at the top bar  
> 3- In the left side of the dialog box, click Advanced  
> 4- Copy the desired link in the Link field  
> 5- If need be, define a text to be shown instead of the link itself in the Link text field

When I clicked the link created this way, I was able to select and open it with an application native to my computer.   

I hope this helps Grady. Let us know about your findings!

comments: author: Grady Drew
body: I have tried this. When typing the link in the Advanced editor, I get the following error:

"The markup provided is not valid link markup"

It strips the scheme, and when clicking on the link generated on the page it just tries to create an empty Confluence document.


author: Grady Drew
body: ![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39899iDCE38A22D6B59BDF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Grady Drew
body: It seems to strip everything after "bjn", and then tries to make a "bjn" page because it's a link to a non-existent page.


author: Diego
body: Grady, thanks for replying!  
I have tested this on Confluence Server, thanks for clearing that you have already tried it and the procedure **does not work**. I have now tried to implement this in Cloud and was unsuccessful. For Confluence Cloud, we have a open report right here:

**- [CONFCLOUD-14393]( https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-14393)**

<br />

Let us know your thoughts.   


author: Grady Drew
body: Yep. I'm on Cloud.

The ticket you pointed me to is from 9 years ago. I assume this isn't going to get addressed any time soon?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to build a FAQ confluence using how-to and troubleshooting with multiple departments?
Asked by Tiara Bennett:

I'm looking for a way to contain multiple different departmental how-to and troubleshooting guides. I currently have spaces set for the following department:

* Engineering
* Finance
* HR
* IT
* Legal
* Web Design

Within those spaces, I have pages labeled how-to and troubleshooting guides. Is this the best way to build and organize this?

Lastly, I will be adding more departments to the list. I'd like for these spaces to remain in alphabetical order for consistency, how do I properly rearrange these spaces?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Tiara,

That sounds like a good way to organize them. By labelling them you can then use another macro to display your content such as with the [Content by Label macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-by-label-macro-145566.html).

In terms of sorting your spaces alphabetically, can you let us know which page you want to do this on and which version of Confluence you're using?

They're supposed to sort alphabetically but there's a bug where this isn't happening under Favorite Spaces and My Spaces:

* [CONFSERVER-41340](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-41340) *Dashboard Public Spaces and My Spaces not sorted*

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Tiara Bennett
body: Thanks for your response, Shannon.

On the main Dashboard under My Spaces is where I've been trying to sort by alphabetical order, with no luck. From the looks of it, I'm currently running the Confluence version 6.13.


author: Shannon S
body: Thank you, Tiara.

It does appear that this applies to your case. I would recommend to comment on the request with your findings.

Take care,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
Don't list the title first in a Page Properties Report macro?
Asked by Scott Beeson:

I have a list of "contact" pages that I want to put in a Page Properties Report macro. One of the property fields is a photo of the contact. I would like this to be in the first column. However, no matter what I put in the "Columns to show" box, the title is always first.

Is it possible to move it?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Scott,

The title will always appear first in [Page Properties Report macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html) and it's not possible to change this behavior.

Below there is a feature request to hide it, in case you are interested, please vote and comment on it!

* [CONFSERVER-34231](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-34231) *Hide 'Title' column in Page Properties Report macro*

Let us know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon
How does Confluence not have any type of Dropdown functionality???
Asked by Scott Beeson:

I want to design a very basic contact management page. I'd like some pages with a label of "company" and then I'd like a page with a label of "contact". On the contact page, I'd love to create a properties table with a dropdown for "company" that lists all "company" pages and then links to them. This seems so basic to me, am I just wrong?


Answers:
author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: Hey [@Scott Beeson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2036480)

as mentioned in my reply to Nic, I also wanted to achieve things like that for a loooong time.

That's why I think you should have a look at [Orderly Databases for Confluence](http://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1227131/orderly-databases-for-confluence), which my company (K15t) has developed and should exactly do what you want.

You can also have a look at the release announcement here on the community: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Announcing-Orderly-Replace-Confluence-Page-Properties-with/ba-p/1915196>

Cheers,  
-Stefan

comments: author: Scott Beeson
body: This looks interesting. I will be signing up for a trial.


author: Stiltsoft Support
body: Hi [@Scott Beeson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2036480) ,

I believe you can get what you need in your Confluence instance combining the native Page properties and Page Properties reports. The combination of these macros is perfect to create an overview of the information distributed across many pages. Once you have an overview page, you can filter it by the company name. We have the [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=server) app that could help you here.  

Another option is creating dropdowns with company names using [Handy Macros for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214971/handy-macros-for-confluence-formatting-and-interactive-ui?tab=overview&hosting=server&utm_source=atlassian-community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=handy-macros-traffic-sources&utm_id=1216111&utm_content=dropdown_functionality). These dropdowns can be connected with page labels, so once you click the label you get the list of pages with the same label (=company name).


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's because the focus for Confluence is unstructured pages, not structured data that's probably better held in other systems.

But I'd like to see better table content like this too.

comments: author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) True. OTOH I have seen people (including myself) who wanted to store structured information along with their unstructured pages.

That's why we've created [Orderly Databases for Confluence](http://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1227131/orderly-databases-for-confluence).

I'd love to hear what you think about it.


Tags: select-list
german umlauts in create dialog
Asked by Basti G_:

Hello,

i habe a problem with german umlauts in the creation dialog and in "space -\> content".

It looks like:

![dfgdfg.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39760iDC5253CD721311A4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "dfgdfg.PNG")

![dddd.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/39759iF2184D16763D4CAA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "dddd.PNG")

I have set encoding of all files (blueprint.properties, atlassian-plugin.xml and all XML templates) to UTF-8.

The umlauts in the XML templates show correct.

Can you help me why the umlauts in creation dialog and in the space section "content" dont look right?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there Basti!  
You could also check your **database and Confluence encoding:**
> **[Configuring Character Encoding](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-character-encoding-174010.html)**
>
> **[Configuring Database Character Encoding](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-database-character-encoding-177698.html)**
>
> **[Troubleshooting Character Encodings](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/troubleshooting-character-encodings-167194.html)**

We can also run the **Encoding Test**:
> **1-** Go to \<confluence-url\>/admin/encodingtest.action   
> **2-** Follow the prompts to paste a line of text and start the test. You can also paste text in a specific language. In your case you could use german  
> **3-** if the text displayed by the test is correct

Let us know your thoughts!


Tags: developer
How to create sticky headers in tables?
Asked by Jenny Beamish:

Hi All - I am having issues creating sticky headers in the tables I'm creating. I have some pages where magically the header is sticky but other pages it is not. I have tried the recommendation of creating a new 1x1 table and click and dragging the content. I've tried copy and pasting my table with a sticky header to others but it is still not working. Can you please advise on how to resolve? I have table with several rows of information and it makes it difficult to read when the header row does not stick.


Answers:
author: Alexis Robert
body: Hi [@Jenny Beamish](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2125574)

if you're using Confluence Server , the headers will stick in [view mode](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/tables-136463.html#Tables-stickytableheadersStickytableheadersinviewmode).

If you're using Confluence Cloud (also applies to Server), you can use the [Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) addon, it has an option called **Fit table to screen area**that will keep headers visible when scrolling.

Keep in mind that:

Table headers aren't sticky when your table:

* Is inside a page layout, or inside another table.
* Has no header row or there are cells in the top row that aren't marked as headers.
* Has a header column, instead of a header row, and scrolls horizontally.
* Contains another table, that has its own header row.

Let me know if you have any questions,

--Alexis

comments: author: Jenny Beamish
body: Where do I find this Macro to fit table to screen areas? There is no demo to walk through how to find this and the documentation is confusing


Tags: developer
Possible bug generating <p> in Confluence editor
Asked by Jennifer Hemmens:

A colleague just pointed out that a paragraph in one of our documents was completely illegible because it extended way past the screen, meaning endless amounts of scrolling to the right.

I opened the source editor in the Confluence editor and saw that that particular piece of text was generated as a \<span\> instead of \<p\>. To check if this was the problem, I changed one of the sentences to \<p\> instead of span, and it behaved normally again.

I managed to quick-fix the issue by selecting the affected text and re-selecting "Paragraph" in the heading options (the text was already defined as paragraph style in the editor).

Has anyone else had this problem, or know how it could have occurred? There is one Draw.io diagram after the paragraph in question, but all previous paragraphs are regular text...


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: This sounds like what happens when people copy and paste content from another HTML view of either a Confluence or web page. Sometimes, I have seen this happen with Word imports.

At any rate, I have saved a set of ReGex expression that I can use to clean up a page. Or you have to highlight all text and clear format, and redo it manually.

comments: author: Jennifer Hemmens
body: Ah that sounds plausible, might have been a Word import. I've never seen it before but will keep it in mind!
> Or you have to highlight all text and clear format, and redo it manually.

That's how I solved it, seemed the quickest option...

Thanks!


Tags: bug

confluence-server

editor

paragraph

server

source-editor
Is it possible to open default browser with Confluence logged in from external app?
Asked by Micha? Wiland:

I have a C# app. What I'm trying to do is to open the default browser (for example Mozilla) with Confluence logged in.

I tried to create a simple html file (and run it from C#) with a function that creates a request and passes the Authorization header:

```
function myFunction() { 
 var parameters = location.search.substring(1).split("&");
 var lAuthHeader = parameters[0];

$.ajax({
 
 url: "https://myconfluenceurl?", 
 type: "GET",
 beforeSend: function(xhr) {
 xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Basic ' + lAuthHeader);
 },
 success: function() { 
 window.location.href = 'https://myconfluenceurl?'; 
 }

});
}
```

But I'm getting a 403 in the console. Is there any way to do it?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Get your application to use SSO, or create a login token for the Atlassian application it needs to get into.

comments: author: Micha? Wiland
body: Can you provide an example? I need to pass it to my default browser (Mozilla). How can I do it?
How to have many similar looking pages with dynamic variables?
Asked by R?bert Harkai:

Hey!

**Problem**

I'd like to create many similar looking Confluence pages with certain JIRA macros. The only difference being is the different pages would have different "label" criteria in their JIRA macro's JQL query.

**Approach**

We already implemented the [JQL Filter Allowing Variables](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Using-template-variables-as-input-parameters-to-jira-gadget/qaq-p/189292#M31801 "JQL Filter Allowing Variables") macro, and another one which is resolving the [page title](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Get-Page-Title-in-template/qaq-p/435016#M73730).

My idea was to make a template page which contains in an Excerpt macro block all the JQL FAV macros that I want with the "Page Title" macro inside their body as the variable for the label. This resolves nicely on itself, but when I Excerpt include this page into a different page, the "Page Title" still resolves to the name of the template page.

The labels won't change in the long run, but I would like the pages to be extendable, thus currently I don't see the Confluence Template variables.

**How would you solve this?**

Currently I only see the Excerpt as an option, but I don't know how to "inject" information into the included content

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: I was thinking about something similar (I think) regarding having variables with the mutliexcept macro, so that I could have the same description appear multiple places, but replace the product name as appropriate.

My thinking on how to solve this (short asking the vendor to implement, or provide access to the source code -- low percentage), was to create a user macro that wraps the multiexcerpt include. The user macro would render the content of the multiexcerpt to an object, look for the variable name in the source, and replace it with the variable, and then render object on the page.

Hopefully, this will get you started.


Tags: confluence-server

excerpt

jira

jql

macro

server

template

variable
when we share a blog post, can we customize the email? (adding html or images) Thank you!
Asked by Valeria Rossi:

- create a blog post

- share -\> emails/user

Can we modify the email and change the design?   

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Valeria and welcome to the Community!

Using Confluence blog posts can make for great delivery of content. Using the email feature to send out the blog posts extends this delivery even more. There are options to customize your email templates within Confluence.

As [@Ollie Guan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853638) pointed out, there are marketplace place add-on which would allow for simpler supported options to use. We would encourage you to review the [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=email) and available add-ons for customizing email template.

If you did want to consider customizing your own email template, then you can find further information at [Customizing Email Templates](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/customizing-email-templates-168001822.html).
> Customizing the Confluence email templates is **not supported**. If you do decide to edit the templates we strongly recommend you use a test instance of Confluence.
>
> Any customizations you make to the Confluence email notification templates will need to be reapplied after upgrading Confluence.

I hope this clarifies your options for customizing your email templates within Confluence.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@Valeria Rossi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2406694),

for Confluence Cloud or Server?

If it's Confluence Server, here's a free plugin that can help you.

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217983/e-mail-this-page?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217983/e-mail-this-page?hosting=server&tab=overview)


Tags: atl-adm

atlassian-marketplace
Is it possible to display todays events from a calendar in a space?
Asked by Warren McGrail:

So you have a couple team calendars with schedules. Is it possible to have a separate page that shows a summary for the day of each calendar?

For example, say you had a calendar with an on-call schedule. Is it possible to have a feed showing the current days event from a specific calendar, so the result is always up-to-date on who is currently scheduled?  
Page 1 has the calendar.  
Page 2 has a box displaying what todays events are (conveniently named SoandSo is on call).

Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!  
You can surely change the way Team Calendars show events in a page within Confluence.   
However, showing the events for **only one specific day is not available natively**. We can set it to show events as a List:
> 1- Create a new Page  
> 2- Insert the **Team Calendars macro**   
> 3- Select to **Add Existing Calendar**   
> 4- Add the desired calendar  
> 5- Select **List** as the display mode  
> 6- Publish the page

After this is applied, you should see the events related to the space as a list in your page. The **topmost day is today,** days before the current day are not shown in the list.

This will not show all events that exist in a given calendar, the display list is limited to a specific time-frame of approximately two months.  

Let us know if this helps you!


Tags: confluence-server

server