youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
The End of Life date for Confluence version 6.15 is 14-Mar-2021. To ensure you're still fully suppor
Asked by FORFIRM ITALIA SRL:

Hi, what is this message?

after may the 14th what will happen?

how to upgrade it?

thanks


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Your installation will blow up like the Death Star! ;-)

Actually nothing happens, just once your installation reaches EOL:

* No new bug fixes will be released
* No new updates will be available for third-party plugins
* No technical support for your version.

But it will continue functioning as it is currently.

Here is the link to the docs on the upgrade process: [upgrading-confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/upgrading-confluence-4578.html)

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The no technical support actually means any support request could be answered with "upgrade it and try again". Atlassian don't usually do that, they'll still try to help you with links to docs or bug reports, fixes and advice on trying to find it. But they don't have to.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence - display current date
Asked by Georgie:

A couple of questions regarding dates and calculations within Confluence.

- Is there a simple way to display a current date in confluence?

- Is there a way to calculate and display the number of days between two dates?

Ideally I'd like to have a custom date, the current date, and a field telling me the number of days between those two dates.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Not sure if you are on the server or cloud version. On the server version, you can create a user macro to do what you want it to do. You also need admin privileges to install a user macro (or have admin willing to do it for you).
Jira filter using the macro to bring it into confluence-- I can see this but no one else can
Asked by heather.meadows:

I have used the Jira Issues macro in confluence to bring in an issue filter from Jira Service Desk - I can see the output fine when I publish it, but none of my colleagues can see it (all have Jira and JSD licence) theu all have access and view rights to see it, - they get this image

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/110750i563402907D92A809/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Answers:
author: Sramanth Pandeti
body: Hi [@heather.meadows](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3986942) It's possible that you might not have shared the issue filter with your teammates.

You can share your issue filter by hitting details next to the filter name -\> edit permissions and select either Project (role)/group/logged in user and hit save.

![Screen Shot 2020-09-17 at 10.28.14 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/110848iCB898208D3F5DEBD/image-dimensions/362x247?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2020-09-17 at 10.28.14 PM.png")


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confluence-cloud

issue-collector

user-macro
Search Tool
Asked by Matheus Alves Ribeiro da Cunha:

Good morning people, everything fine ?

Could someone please inform me how to put a search tool on the Confluence homepage?


Answers:
author: Sramanth Pandeti
body: Hi [@Matheus Alves Ribeiro da Cunha](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4089291) Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You can edit the homepage and use the livesearch macro by hitting the /livesearch or "+" on top menu -\> more and search for live search macro.

Instructions here to customize your site homepage: <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/configure-the-site-homepage/>

comments: author: Matheus Alves Ribeiro da Cunha
body: Sorry I miscalculated, I would like to put a search tool there in this part of the print, which would be defining the location


author: Matheus Alves Ribeiro da Cunha
body: ![3052d0c1-97b3-4600-96b1-2f782e0819e1.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/110759i3FCFC0F3DA3F387C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "3052d0c1-97b3-4600-96b1-2f782e0819e1.jpg")


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confluence-cloud
Adding trusted domain to Atlassian Companion fails
Asked by Erik M:

Hi,

I am trying to edit files on Confluence with Atlassian Companion. This worked fine, however this morning when i hit the Edit button i got the 'download the atlassian companion app....' message instead of the 'Edit with...'.

Atlassian Companion is running in the task bar. In my anger i clicked on it and cleared the trusted domain, only to discover there was no way to enter a new one :-(

The only way according to forum was to set an environment variable like:

COMPANION_TRUSTED_DOMAINS="<https://confluence.atlassian.com;https://support.atlassian.com>;"

With my own values of course. But that doesn't work.

I quit the Atlassian Companion app, deleted it and after reboot reinstalled it from the confluence site we use, but no luck. And no trusted domain either, at least, no way to clear the trusted domain.

The very very first time when i installed Atlassian Companion, when i first used it, i got a question pop-up if i wanted to trust the confluence site. Now there isn't even any question.

Does anyone have a clue what to do next? It's just like something has to be cleared somewhere.

Thx

Erik

Used:

MacOS Catalina

Safari or Firefox latest versions

Atlassian Companion 1.2.2

Confluence 6.15.10


Answers:
author: Alex K
body: Hi [@Erik M](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4089252) ,

Once you clear the trusted domains, the next time you try to edit from Confluence, Companion should prompt you again to trust the domain. The only cases where this would fail are if the domain has been blocked/untrusted (you can clear untrusted domains from the menu too) or if Confluence cannot connect to Companion.

There are issues with Companion in versions of Confluence before 7.3. It will not be able to connect on some browsers if your Confluence site has SSL. You may be hitting this issue, although it is odd since it used to work - could you try Chrome? Once your administrator upgrades to Confluence 7.3+ the experience will be much better.

Do you see any errors in the Companion logfile? Which can be seen by clicking the Companion icon -\> View logs.

Also as a side note, if you are doing a clean reinstall of Companion, which isn't necessary here, you should remove the Application Support directory from Home/Library/Application Support/Atlassian Companion (delete this entire directory)

Regards,  
Alex

comments: author: Erik M
body: Thanks [@Alex K](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1882108) for your reply.

At first I didn't get the prompt that you mention. Also tried deleting the Application Support dir, but with no luck. And i'm not seeing any errors in the logs. That's on my macbook running Catalina.

Then i tried on a domain joined windows 10 machine, tried Edge and IE but no success. Downloaded chrome and it works!

Back to the MacBook, installed Chrome, got the Trust question popup and after that all is working fine. Now also in Firefox and Safari :-)

Chrome did the trick,

Thanks!

Erik


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server
Export to PDF
Asked by laura_tlepina:

Hello! I created a document in Confluence. I wanted to export to PDF with all sections and subsections. But it didn't work out. Can you please tell me how to export a whole document to PDF?


Answers:
author: Soumyadeep Mandal
body: Hi [@laura_tlepina](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4089186) ,

You can follow up this documentation <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/customize-exports-to-pdf-190480945.html>


author: Thomas Rough _K15t_
body: Hi [@laura_tlepina](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4089186)

Had you considered using an app to generate the PDF export from Confluence? We, K15t, develop [Scroll PDF Exporter](https://www.k15t.com/software/scroll-pdf-exporter) and using this app you can control how your content is formatted and styled from Confluence to PDF. This includes being able to preserve the multi-column page layout formatting if you are using these elements on your page. You can [learn more](https://youtu.be/Ro8yoaRQ-6k) about getting started with the app here. Should you wish you can also evaluate the app for free from the [Atlassian Marketplace listing](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview). Thanks, Thomas (K15t)


author: Stephen Addis
body: We've found that using a chrome plugin like GoFullPage will let you print the screen to PDF, including everything that is scroll down page. There are a couple of other companies that provide the plugin, and some work better than others due to the code that makes the card popup.


author: Stephen Addis
body: If your stillhaving trouble and need to do it quick, just highlight all the text on the webpage, click CTRL + C ... then drop it into a word file, with CTRL + V and save as PDF.  

OK, not as automatic, but does give you a bit of control if you want to highlight stuff in yellow or reduce font size of irrelevent bits etc to concentrate focus.


author: Guilhem Dupuy
body: Hello Laura,

As far as I know, the only way to export a Confluence page in PDF is to click on the page menu using the **...**icon, and then to select export to PDF.

If this doesn't work it means something is wrong, and you can raise a ticket to Atlassian using the following link and going to the "**Suggestion and bug reports"** :

<https://support.atlassian.com/>

Let me know if it helped or not ,

Guilhem


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confluence-cloud

pdf
How to Stop Email notification to watchers using REST API?
Asked by KOSHTI NIKHILESH:

I have been using confluence API to update page contents and attachments. But with each activity, there are email notifications to the watchers.

For e.g:- If I execute my script 10 times, there will be 10 different email to the watchers.

So is there any way to stop these Notifications in the API call itself?


Answers:
author: Rudy Holtkamp
body: Hi [@KOSHTI NIKHILESH](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3975041)

This is currently not possible, see: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Rest-API-how-to-disable-page-creation-update-notifications/qaq-p/1316180>

comments: author: KOSHTI NIKHILESH
body: Thanks for your reply. I have used minorEdit:true in the (1) create page API (2) Page content update API. But still receiving mail/notifications


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confluence-cloud
I am trying to use the Insert Page macro to pull content from one Confluence site to another site
Asked by Robert Kirchmann:

I am trying to use the Insert Page macro to pull content from one Confluence site to another site. It does not seem able to pull this content.


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Do you have a link to the details on the **Insert Page** macro? If you mean the **Include Page** macro, it will *not* work cross Confluence sites. In fact, I am not aware of any macro that works cross sites.


author: Kristina Radeva
body: Is this what you do:

1. You have a **Page 1** that has content

2. You create a new page, **Page 2**, and add the "Include Page" macro to the page.

3. You publish **Page 2** and see the included page content of **Page 1**

Any more information is appreciated to help you with the problem :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Pulling data from SAP System
Asked by sushant.tawde@vistaprint.com:

We need to pull some data from SAP into Confluence. Is this possible?

Basically there is a requirement for getting some SAP details (user, roles, t-codes, etc) through queries which will be run in Confluence page. This will avoid users going into SAP to get the required details.


Answers:
author: Thomas Opiolka
body: Hi [sushant.tawde@vistaprint.com](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4089016),  

As [@Rudy Holtkamp](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/636802) has kindly indicated, we offer 2 apps in this area. One is called [External Fata for Jira Fields](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219994/external-data-for-jira-fields?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) and the other is called [External Data for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221733/external-data-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview).

Both apps can connect to a variety of data sources and pull data either into Jira or Confluence, depending on where is more useful to you.

There are also some videos available in the [documentation](https://codefortynine.com/external-data-for-jira-fields/) that highlight the main features.

I would recommend that you start a free trial and see if you can get your use case working. Of course you can always contact our support if you have any questions on the way.

I hope that this will help.

Best,  
Thomas


author: Rudy Holtkamp
body: Hi [sushant.tawde@vistaprint.com](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4089016) ,

You can pull data from other sources with the help of an app. A nice one is External Data for Jira ( [@Thomas Opiolka](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1803507) take it away).

Rudy


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

sap
How to use css count for a user macro? What is missing?
Asked by CSS Akademie:

Hello,

I have created a user macro with this content

## @noparams

\<style\>  
.ourtest body {  
list-style-type: none !important;  
counter-reset: css-counter 0 !important;  
}

.ourtest p {  
counter-increment: css-counter 1 !important;  
}

.ourtest p::before {  
content: counter(css-counter) ". " !important;  
}

\</style\>

\<body\>  
\<div class="ourtest"\>$body\</div\>  
\</body\>

expecting to enter text, which will be numbered automatically

HTML:

\<p\>text1\</p\>

\<p\>text2\</p\>

\<p\>text3\</p\>

Result:

1. text

2. text

3. text

But the numbering is missing on the page. Any idea?

Thanks for any support.


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: If no numbers are appearing, then you may have a conflict with the space CSS overwriting your CSS. Take a look using the browser inspect function to see if your class is actually being applied and then see what rules are overwriting yours.

Also, you may want to change your structure to add the class to your p tag, rather than the wrapper around it.

More details will help ;-)

comments: author: CSS Akademie
body: Thanks for your reply. I will check it.


author: CSS Akademie
body: Yes, the problem was that the class wasn't overtaken to the p tag. But I changed the structure a little bit and it works:

## @noparams

\<style\>  
.custom-counter {  
margin-left: 0;  
padding-right: 0;  
list-style-type: none !important;  

}  
.custom-counter ol {  
list-style: none !important;  
padding: 0;  

<br />

}  
.custom-counter li {  
counter-increment: step-counter;  
margin-bottom: 20px;  
padding-left: 50px;  
text-indent: -3.3em;  
list-style-position: outside !important;  
}

.custom-counter li::before {  
content: counter(step-counter);  
margin-right: 10px;  
color: white;  
font-weight: regular;  
padding: 2px 16px 2px 12px;  
background: url('<https://academy.css.de/_images/bg.png>') center no-repeat;  
background-size: contain;  
line-height: 20px;  
height: 20px;  
}  
\</style\>

\<body\>  
\<div class="custom-counter"\>$body\</div\>  
\</body\>


Tags: confluence-server

server

user-macro
Grant access to a specific space only to selected external users (customers)
Asked by Marco Serafino:

Hello everyone!  

Does anybody know how to set-up a confluence space with a hybrid permission ruleset, giving access only to specific users (based on email or other sorts of type of authentication)?  

Thanks in advance  

Marco


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Your specific users will need to be added as Confluence users so that you can give them the right to use a space or page.


author: Bill Bailey
body: You could place your instance behind a web proxy that requires log in. Then set up your instance to have anon user view rights. It won't be based on email *per se*(unless that is the user name), but you could at least restrict access, but not have to set up user accounts.

comments: author: Rudy Holtkamp
body: That would be a good suggestion if it was a server instance. But this is a cloud instance.


author: Bill Bailey
body: Yeah, if you want to be able to customize an instance, server edition is the way to go. Far more control over your own destiny. Then your only option is to purchase more user accounts.


author: Rudy Holtkamp
body: Hi [@Marco Serafino](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4019613) ,

You can either make a space publicly available or you can narrow access down by specifying users or groups to the space permissions. In that case users will use a license. Since you are on a free-plan this will not hold up for a lot of users.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Exapnd Macros not showing pretty in one page but is on others
Asked by David:

I somehow was able to make expand macros look really nice in my product page. I have a template that I created but for some reason it seems that when others try to replicate my macro, theirs pages don't format as "pretty".

As you can see in my screen shots, the differences between to the two usages of Expand macros.

The first, "prettier" version is mine. I am not sure how it came out this nice but I suspect there is something enables in the backend source that allows it to appear this way.

![mine.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/110657i6D9EBFB688FBC300/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "mine.PNG")

Versus the second version, below which uses the same type of Expand macro, however it does not look as nice. For some reason, I am unable to replicate what I did above... Does anyone know how I can make the other Expand Macros look as nice as my original above?

![others.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/110659i6D8E948056DAF816/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "others.PNG")


Answers:
author: Peter Bengov
body: Hi [@David](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4088677) can you share the pages in Edit mode? Maybe the Expand macro is inside of another macro?


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confluence-cloud

expand

macro
Jira issues creation in Confluence user permissions
Asked by Ilaria Lavagi:

What permissions should a user have in order to be able to create a Jira Issue from Confluence?

I would like to restrict the users permissions to write inline comments (by highlighting the text and selecting the comment icon) but not to write jira issues.

How can I solve this problem?


Answers:
author: Rudy Holtkamp
body: Hi [@Ilaria Lavagi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3999496) ,

To create a Jira issue you need to have permission in Jira to browse a (certain) project. In Confluence there is no permission to allow/deny the creation of a Jira issue. See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html> for space permissions.

comments: author: Ilaria Lavagi
body: Hi [@Rudy Holtkamp](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/636802) ,

many thanks for your reply!

Should then users have only "View" and "Comment" permissions in order to write inline comments?


author: Rudy Holtkamp
body: You are correct Ilaria!


author: Ilaria Lavagi
body: Many thanks for your quick reply!
How to create four columns on a page?
Asked by Brammy Geduld:

Is it possible to create four columns within one layer without having to create a new layer?


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Not sure what you mean by layer, but I think I answered a similar question here:

[Confluence-Column-Formatting](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Column-Formatting/qaq-p/1478156)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Auto-flow Content to Columns
Asked by barronkid:

Is there a way to link two (or more) Columns so that content overflows from one into another, with the goal of minimizing the overall vertical page length while still keeping the overall presentation responsive based on the browser's size?


Answers:
author: barronkid
body: Sorry folks ... after posting, I immediately found that my question duplicates this question ...

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Column-Formatting/qaq-p/1478156>


Tags: confluence-server

layout

macro

server
Confluence - Confiform Form Field Definition - Date
Asked by Gabe Belknap:

HI Folks,

On my form, I have included a Confiform Form Field Definition as field type "Date".

When exporting data though, items entered today are showing up as 1600267225637.

Any idea what that is, and how I can convert that to an actual date? :)

Thanks


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi

As I have explained in the earlier question asked by you - <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confiforms-Multi-Select-Seperator/qaq-p/1480561>

Create a "view" and set the parameter "Comma separated list of fields to export" to export the fields you want, and in the format you want (by transforming the values with virtual functions).

The function you are looking for is formatDate

So in the parameter "Comma separated list of fields to export" put something like

created.formatDate

And you will get the created date (of each record) exported in a formatted way

Alex

comments: author: Gabe Belknap
body: Thanks Alex,

It didn't occur to me that this is really the same issue.

I have it working now. Thank so much for the help.


Tags: confiforms

confluence-server

server
What happens when a user is deactived or removed from Confluence?
Asked by Susanne Moore:

What happens to the pages and comments created by a user that has been deactived or removed?


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: They are displayed with user name replaced with 'Former User'.

Take a look at this for more details - <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/delete-your-account/>

comments: author: Susanne Moore
body: Thank you


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Incorrect table upload to PDF
Asked by Maks Plyuhin:

Good time of day. Tell me, please, when uploading a table to PDF format, the document is uploaded in a strange way. The result is in the attachment. What is the reason for this?

![export to pdf.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/110596i4F3147C34399D311/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "export to pdf.PNG")


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Hi [@Maks Plyuhin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4088095)

I think you need to add a little more information here.

* What are the steps to "upload a table to PDF format"?
* Where is the table initially?
* Does the table begin as part of a Confluence page?
* Are there any interesting or unusual macros inside the table?
* Is the table just too wide to fit nicely on a PDF/ print format, so the formatting results in bad wrapping of the cell contents?
* Could the table be formatted with fewer columns so that it displays better in the PDF?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Do we have tutorials/documentation in Bahasa Indonesia language?
Asked by mat jung:

Hi All

I am facing the challenge of sharing a wiki space with Users from Jakarta who have limited access to PC resources and limited training in English.

They are going to internet cafes / libraries when doing something.

I am looking for tutorials in Indonesian language that explains the basics about creating Pages, Changing Pages, inserting Links, Bullet Points, Pictures.

Any form of documentation (html, pdf, doc, google doc - is welcome).


Answers:
author: mat jung
body: This one is for Jira

<https://glints.com/id/lowongan/jira-adalah/#.X2TB8WkxXqs>


author: Diego
body: Hello [@mat jung](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4065660) !

Currently, Atlassian documentation covers English and Japanese. Currently, there are no other localization efforts for our Documentation.

As suggested by [@Kat Warner](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1210828) it may be a good idea to reach out to local partners. They may be able to help you out with the creation of your own documents.

Let us hear from you!


author: Kat Warner
body: Use the search on <https://partnerdirectory.atlassian.com/> to find an Atlassian partner near you. There were 2 results when I searched Indonesia so I copied their websites below for you:

* [www.izeno.com](http://www.izeno.com/)
* [www.progrezconsulting.com](http://www.progrezconsulting.com/)

comments: author: mat jung
body: Thanks, I forwarded the query to them.


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confluence-cloud