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Why are Confluence table grid lines randomly not showing up?
Asked by Mallory H:

Grid lines on Confluence tables are randomly not showing up (within a single table).

gridlines_missing.PNG

When I delete or copy or paste the row, sometimes the missing gridlines stay with that row, and other times that particular data will get its gridlines back but they will go missing from some other row. What is the deal? Thanks for any help!  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-are-Confluence-table-grid-lines-randomly-not-showing-up/qaq-p/26095?attachment-id=5865){#link_11876fa3edc3f9}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/4377/1/gridlines_missing.PNG){#display_11876fa3edc3f9_0}


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Try increasing the text size showing in your browser (Zoom in).


author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Are you guys using the Internet Explorer? I can't remember when, but I did encounter this behavior before (in JIRA) and it was related to an IE bug.

Cheers

comments: author: Attila Gaspar _META-INF_
body: Sometimes it can occur in Chrome too

BR: Attila


author: Mallory H
body: Thanks! We have tried copying and pasting the rows and cutting the rows, which hasn't helped, and modifying screen settings. It appears to be happening to everyone when viewing tables on Confluence pages.

comments: author: Mallory H
body: Everyone using our instance using a variety of devices -laptops, mobile, big monitors, etc.


author: RVal
body: Hi Mallory,

Try to use buttons at the top of the editor to add/delete table rows/columns and then copy/paste text cell by cell. I don't think copy/pasting the whole row or column is possible

The table editor buttons look like the below picture

image2016-1-20 16:37:26.png

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-are-Confluence-table-grid-lines-randomly-not-showing-up/qaq-p/26095?attachment-id=3856){#link_11876fb8db0b79}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/4378/1/image2016-1-20%2016%3A37%3A26.png){#display_11876fb8db0b79_0}


Tags: bug

table
Enable stylesheets for just one space
Asked by Deborah Barnard:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Styling Confluence with CSS](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=166528400)*

Hi! I need to be able to extensively style a space I just started, but we don't want to enable custom CSS for all the spaces in our account - is there a way to just enable it for one space?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: As far as I know, if you are logged in as a Confluence Administrator (or member of confluence-administrators group), then you should see an option in "Look and Feel" in Space Tools to change the stylesheet.

On Confluence Cloud, you can probably stick something like this in the header, sidebar, and footer section:

{style} \<css goes here\> {style}

comments: author: Deborah Barnard
body: Hi! Thanks for responding. Unfortunately I'm not a full admin - I can create spaces though. I don't get that option when I go to look and feel - just the PDF options, colour settings, themes, and limited options to change the sidebar/header/footer


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: You can try something similar to what I recommended for Confluence Cloud (but you have to have the [Content Formatting Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros/server/overview) installed), but I think unless you are full Confluence Admin, you don't have access to the space stylesheet options.


Tags: stylesheet
dashboard modify tool
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

If we would like to buy plugin or tools for confluence dashboard modify which is for personal use, is there any suggestion ? Thank you.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Have a look at the options at [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence\&category=\&cost=\&hosting=\&marketingLabel=\&q=dashboard](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=dashboard)

comments: author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Thank you for your reply.

Would it be possible to make or do dashboard in my personal computer and then copy it to another server used which it does not install dashboard tool . Thank you.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I am not sure that you understand what "dashboard" means to Confluence users. The dashboard is the default page for the system. If someone goes to "where we run confluence", the dashboard is where thy land. If they click on the home icon, that's where they land.

The default dashboard built into Confluence is a good generalised overview. You can't really customise it without code changes or add-ons (either theme or dashboard add-ons, which we've already linked to). You can tell Confluence to use another Confluence page for the landing point if you want, but that really is a Confluence page.

Asking to "make a dashboard in my computer" is pretty much nonsense in Confluence terms. The dashboard is served up by Confluence on the **server** . What your machine is doing is irrelevant.  

I think you need to explain your requirement in more detail. Where is the dashboard supposed to be running? (is a starter question)


author: Jonathan Soo
body: Hi Hsu,

Perhaps you can try out these plugins and see if it serve you purpose :

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.refinedwiki.confluence.plugins.theme.original/server/overview>

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.themes.sitebuilder/server/overview>

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Jonathan
How to get only value from JIRA macro?
Asked by Marketa Dvorackova:

Hi,

does somebody have a clue how it could be possible to get a field value out of the JIRA macro? I need to retrieve only one field value for one issue, which means JQL with issue key, format Table and select only one column. The problem is, that the macro always returns a formatted table and I only need the value inside. Isn't there some way, I don't know, to wrap it in a user macro and somehow extract the value retrieved? Having to rescript the whole JIRA macro only because of the final formatting not being suitable is like taking a canon to kill a fly.

Thanks for any suggestions.


Answers:
author: Valery Oster
body: very good question!!!


Tags: jira

macro
Include image in page export to PDF
Asked by Auke_Miedema:

I followed all the instructions in the Advanced PDF Export Customizations to add an image in the header of a page export, but it doe not work for me.

When I export the space and select the page, it works, but that is a lot of extra clicks.

Am i reading the instructions wrong?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: As Steffen notes, that's a current limitation. The feature request is represented by this issue -- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-17853>

The latest comments indicate a user has workaround that can be installed as a plugin in JIRA Server. You may want to reach out to them for a copy. You can hover over a profile in JIRA to see the email address of the user.


author: Steffen Heller
body: I guess you are talking about the instructions at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/sharing-content/exporting-confluence-pages-and-spaces-to-other-formats/exporting-confluence-pages-and-spaces-to-pdf/customising-exports-to-pdf/advanced-pdf-export-customisations#AdvancedPDFExportCustomisations-AddingImagestoHeadersandFooters>

With this approach it is as you said, this only works for **space exports**. I am confused but this info really seems to be missing.

If you want a **page export** with images in the header you must create CSS code and enter it at Space Admin \> Look and Feel \> PDF Stylesheet. I am not sure if there is an instruction for that. The idea is more like, it is CSS, if you know it you know what to do :wink:

But there are some examples how it can be done here in the forum:

* [CSS Version of Adding Images to Headers and Footers](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/64726/css-version-of-adding-images-to-headers-and-footers)

* [How to add Page Title, an Image and Date to the PDF export Header](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/17898616/how-to-add-page-title-an-image-and-date-to-the-pdf-export-header)


Tags: export

pdf
Open Word document for editing fails
Asked by claes_dahlberg:

I have Word documents saved in a filelist in Confluence but when I try to open for "Edit in word" it fails with error.  
I use Office2016. If I save the document to disk and open it up it works but I'd like to open it from Confluence and have nothing saved locally.

Any suggestions on how to slove this?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: It's worth reading the documentation in this case. This only works with some configurations. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/creating-content/working-with-the-office-connector/editing-an-office-document-from-confluence>


Tags: ms-word
lMy row settings do not contain the tabs like the tutorial
Asked by Lucas Marston:

When I try to customize some of the settings in a row I do not get the features as seen in this tutorial: design options, background, effect..  

Why don't I have these options?

<br />

\<link to Visual composer blog removed as it's slow and spammy\>


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This is not a forum for Visual Composer, it's for Atlassian applications. I suggest you ask in a VC forum.


Tags: mistaken-post
blog post listing not an option
Asked by Lucas Marston:

This tutorial shows the guy making a blog post listing on this page. Blog isn't even an option in my Visual Composer Library. Why could this be? I want my home page to list my blog posts.   

\<link to Visual composer blog removed as it's slow and spammy\>


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This is not a forum for Visual Composer, it's for Atlassian applications. I suggest you ask in a VC forum.
Is "cut and paste an attached image to another page" supposed to create new attachment or not?
Asked by Benny Wijaya:

According to the 'Displaying an image attached to a different page' on the help link below,

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/confluence-user-s-guide/creating-content/using-the-editor/displaying-images>

**Expected results:**

It says that the pasted image will refer to its original source.

**Actual results:**

But, what happened in my Confluence 5.9.1, it does not refer to its original attachment, instead it created new attachment to the page i pasted it in.

**Question:**

Can anyone help me on this one?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: If you take a look at the Confluence release notes for 5.9, you can see that this is an added feature:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-5-9-release-notes-785333580.html#Confluence5.9ReleaseNotes-Saygoodbyetounknownattachmentfails>

It's just that the documentation has not yet been updated to reflect this (it says that it is version 5.6 after all).


Tags: image
Can I link JIRA server version to Confluence cloud version?
Asked by Andrew Summers:


Answers:
author: Giles B
body: Hi Andrew,

If you do need to do this, this page might be helpful:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/link-to-server-apps-from-cloud-744721656.html>


author: Dwight Holman
body: I know this was answered long ago; when linking Jira Server and Confluence Cloud we encountered a problem that might affect others also.

We were unable to link our Jira Server to Confluence Cloud - the error from Confluence Cloud said "No response was received from the URL you entered..." (i.e. the Jira Server URL).

This message didn't make any sense since our Server was online and available. We logged a support ticket and after Atlassian investigated they determined this was due to our Jira Server SSL certificate not including the full intermediate and root Certificates for the Certificate Authority (CA).

This page indicates you cannot use a self-signed certificate (we didn't):  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/link-to-server-apps-from-cloud-744721656.html>

The Application Links troubleshooter doesn't mention intermediate/root certificates this either:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/applinks/troubleshoot-application-links-755338283.html>

The SSL troubleshooting page ++does++ mention intermediate certificates - but it took some time to realise this was the problem:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/applinks/ssl-and-application-link-troubleshooting-guide-790632063.html>

Atlassian have logged an improvement suggestion - to make the Confluence Cloud Link error messages more helpful. Feel free to vote for that if you've had difficulty troubleshooting links:  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-72988>


author: Andrew Summers
body: That does help. Thank you Giles!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What do you mean by "link"? There are some things you can do, but not everything.

comments: author: Andrew Summers
body: Thanks Nic. I was intending to ask whether they can be integrated together but my direction has changed and we'll be pursuing a Confluence server-based install instead of the cloud-based solution. We already have a server-based JIRA install and if both applications are server-based then is the integration better? In other words, are all functionalities available if both are server-based installs?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, good. With both on Server, you are unrestricted in what you can do with them. I'd recommend a look at shared user directories at the very least (manage all your users in JIRA and tell Confluence to use the list directly), but there's lots of other stuff - the JIRA macros in Confluence are really handy.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira
Workflow or Intake Plugins suggestions?
Asked by Victor Prasad:

Hello,

I am looking for a plugin for Confluence that would have workflow for projects or services. We want an intake system for our internal clients. Giving them a list of options which then drive the next step in the process. It could be sending an email or asking another question but ending with an approval. Sort of like intake at a hospital - they questions which drive the service required. We don't want workflow for actually Confluence pages.

Suggestions on how people are using workflow or doing intake with Confluence?

Thanks,

V


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That is a long way away from what Confluence is for. For some basic elements of it, there are some options, but the process you've got there really does need something with a proper generalised workflow engine.

Obviously, I'm going to recommend that you try JIRA. Probably with Service Desk


author: Steven F Behnke
body: I have to agree with Nic. Comalatec makes [a Confluence workflow plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow/server/overview), but that is for page approvals and works well in that context.

Personally for the work you're suggesting, JIRA Service Desk would likely be your best and cheapest option. It's powerful and let's you design simple forms for free 'customer' accounts, and your agents can move them from status to status.


author: Victor Prasad
body: Thanks,

I saw ConiForms - but that just makes forms.

Would JIRA work for a simple project intake? Simple end user ui - it gets passed the then next person to evaluate the form - deny approve - deny stop, approve - next step etc...

Think that is possible?

Thanks,

V

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That sort of processing is exactly what JIRA is for - a distinct workflow, simple fields etc.


author: Victor Prasad
body: Hi Nic,Steven

JIRA and JIRA Service Desk are separate products, correct? Plugin?

We only have JIRA. Could JIRA do it? Or would it be too clunky?

And thank you very much for your replies.

V


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes and no. JIRA Core is an application. JIRA Service Desk is an application that can be added to JIRA Core. It's also available as a bundled installation, which saves the hassle of installing the application if you are starting clean.  

If you're on Cloud, then you don't need to worry about installation, you just go to your "my atlassian" account and add Service Desk to your current system.

JIRA can easily handle your intake process without Service Desk. Service Desk adds a very simplified customer view, the ability to take requests from customers without full JIRA accounts, service level agreements and reporting on all of that. It's highly appropriate in this case, and would make your intake process a lot cleaner and nicer than having to design and build the whole thing in plain JIRA Core. I'd **recommend** it, but you don't strictly **need** it.
Manage watches from the email message does not work
Asked by Anne EQS:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Watch Pages, Spaces and Blogs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=771892521)*

The 'Stop watching' links in e-mails do not work.

We're using Confluence 5.8.5, this occurs to all links, the links in the mails look like this

http://\<our-domain\>/users/removepagenotification.action?pageId=xxxxxx\&src=mail\&src.mail.timestamp=1453470932225\&src.mail.notification=com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-content-notifications-plugin%3Acomment-created-notification\&src.mail.recipient=ff8081814b050ca6014b4a8fd86d0007\&src.mail.action=stop-watching

A click on a link leads to the personal Watches page (content of http://\<our-domain\>/users/viewnotifications.action, but with URL http://\<our-domain\>/users/removepagenotification.action?pageId=xxxxxx)

and the following error message:

The following error(s) occurred:

* Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page.


Answers:
author: Anne EQS
body: see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38555>


Tags: blog
what is the markup parameter for "Maximum issues"?
Asked by Corentin Menthonnex:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [JIRA Issues Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=701435019)*

what is the markup parameter for "Maximum issues"?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: `maximumIssues` I believe.

```
&lt;ac:structured-macro ac:name="jira"&gt;          &lt;ac:parameter ac:name="columns"&gt;key,summary,type,created,updated,due,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolution&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;          &lt;ac:parameter ac:name="server"&gt;JIRA&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;          &lt;ac:parameter ac:name="serverId"&gt;58f770a0-d3f1-39c5-afd6-d25c8e2asdd09&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;          &lt;ac:parameter ac:name="jqlQuery"&gt;key = JRA-1&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;          &lt;ac:parameter ac:name="maximumIssues"&gt;15&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;        &lt;/ac:structured-macro&gt;
```

comments: author: Corentin Menthonnex
body: Thank you!  
Seems to work with static mode but unfortunately doesn't with dynamic mode.  

Better than nothing, thank you again


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Sorry! Your post says Confluence 5.7, but that old JIRA macro was removed a long time ago, the one with Static or Dynamic options. I forget how that one works, but I'm glad it kinda worked for you.


Tags: jira
why is the search box only appearing in the sidebar of one of my spaces and not the other, using the documentation theme?
Asked by James Smolich:


Answers:
author: James Smolich
body: I know that the space tools link is supposed to be at the bottom of the side bar but it is not there on my space. not sure what is going on. I'm using v5.9.1. can you offer any assistance to help me find space tools?


author: Giles B
body: Hi James,

It might be because the theme has been customised. If you head to **Space tools** \> **Look and feel** \> **Themes** \> **Configure theme** , you should be able to see if there are any customisations. If **Page Tree** is deselected, the search box won't appear.
The link Customising blueprint templates is broken
Asked by boardtc:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Retrospectives Blueprint](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=427623496)*

The link Customising blueprint templates is broken


Answers:
author: Giles B
body: Thanks, tom and Chuck. I've fixed the link.


author: chucktalk
body: I believe that should go to: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Blueprints#Blueprints-Customiseblueprinttemplates> - just in case the Doc Team needs to know where it should go.


Tags: blueprint

retrospective
Right now I have two spaces that I want to be searched independantly within Confluence. I do not want search results from another space to appear in the space that I'm searching. how can I make this happen?
Asked by James Smolich:

Right now I have two spaces that I want to be searched independantly within Confluence. I do not want search results from another space to appear in the space that I'm searching. how can I make this happen?


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Hi @James Smolich

You can use [Confluence's livesearch macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/livesearch-macro-163415902.html) and configure it to only search the given space. The standard Confluence search bar is still there, so you just need to alert users - we just provide a few lines of text, formatted accordingly to attract attention - to use that specific search bar when desiring to search within that space only.

In some cases (we have almost 200 spaces, many available to all of our 8000 employees) we also employ special plugins, in one case a custom one, that suppresses Confluence's default search bar.


author: Steffen Heller
body: You don't use the [The Documentation Theme](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/the-documentation-theme-213523678.html), right?

The documentation theme automatically includes a space search that does what you want, see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/search-139528.html>

Search options for the Documentation theme {#toc-hId-1646459038}
----------------------------------------------------------------

When using the Documentation theme, the Confluence search offers a few options as described below.

(...)

Using the search box in the left-hand panel:

* By default, the Documentation theme's left-hand panel includes a search box. Enter your search term there, to restrict the search to the current space. Specifically, this will search only the pages that are children of the space's home page.
* If your administrator has restricted the main search to the current space, there will not be a search box in the left-hand panel.

For screenshots and a full description, see [The Documentation Theme](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/the-documentation-theme-213523678.html).
confluence calendar events not showing up after log in
Asked by ysri:

Hi there,

Iam having issues in confluence calendar.

When user view the calendar without logging into confluence events shows up, every time they need to add events they need log in, once they log in Calendar doesn't show up..


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Perhaps a screenshot? You might also open a ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com>


Tags: confluence-administration