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How to create a task inside a page comment in Confluence
Asked by Amparo D?ez:

I would like to create tasks inside a page comment, but I see that in not enabled in the menu inside the comment. How can I add it then?

Thank you and regards


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi everyone,

I came across this question while searching a more recent one, and I just wanted to mention this feature request:

* [CONFSERVER-26784](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-26784)

It's not clear if you saw this, but it is worth watching and voting on to help show the number of users would would like this feature.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Milo Test
body: I thought I would be clever and use markup to trick Confluence. Unfortunately the task list can not be rendered in comments:

image2016-10-21 10:31:5.png

One idea would be to use the Mention (@\[name\]) followed by the directive, followed by the date (//), followed by the Status Macro:

image2016-10-21 10:30:7.png  
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Bluehost
Asked by Steve Lawson:

We have a Bluehost account and will move to their cloud service soon. Are we able to use Confluence on their service?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If their servers run java and a database server (postgres ideally, but MS-SQL, Oracle and MySQL are all fully supported too), then yes, you'll be able to install Confluence Server on their kit.
You are not permitted to perform this operation.
Asked by Joshua Lessing:

I am trying to see my pages and no mater what I select I get

"Not Permitted  
You are not permitted to perform this operation."

Please write me back at joshualessing@gmail.com


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: That error message means that you do not have permission to view those pages. A space admin will be able to give you view permissions to individual pages within a space.


author: Joshua Lessing
body: Rob,

Thank you for your reply.

This is all very confusing because I am the admin. This is my personal wiki.

comments: author: Rob Woodgate
body: That's an interesting problem! Are you able to see the space permissions page? If you can, you should be able to make sure you've got the appropriate permissions. If you can't, then someone (or you, inadvertently) has removed your permissions.

If you can't access the space permissions page then a site admin should be able to help.

If you can access it and everything looks fine, your next step will need to be a support ticket so Atlassian can look into it for you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Draw.io strips out part of base URL.
Asked by DERRICK ROCHA:

I am using [draw.io](http://draw.io) in a confluence page and trying to add a URL. When I click on the added URL it strips out part of the URL even though the shown text in [draw.io](http://draw.io) is correct when I re-edit the link.


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: This issue is fixed in the 6.2.0.0 release.


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We've recreated the issue and we're working on a fix.


Tags: confluence-administration

draw.io
Can the Search Results Macro be ordered by create date descending (most recent first)?
Asked by Chris Wallingford:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Search Results Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139511)*

Can the results be ordered by create date descending (most recent first)?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: A simple answer: No.

There are macros that allow you to do this, but only if you're searching by label.


Tags: confluence-cloud

documentation

macro
I need to know what version of Confluence is needed in order to support the ability to add links to a task item within the roadmap. We currently have 4.3.7 and that functionality doesn't seem to exist the way it does for the demo environment.
Asked by Mike Finley:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It was introduced in 5.something, but I can't remember the exact number. I'd hazard a guess at 5.5
What does "No duplicate emails in the user base" really mean?
Asked by Daniel Sandbecker:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Atlassian account rollout status](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=828769421)*

According to the rollout status page, to be eligible for Atlasssian account rollout the instance must have "No duplicate emails in the user base". What does this mean? The explanation says that "each user must have only one email address" which to me appears to be a different thing? Should it be "each email must only be associated with one user"?


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: Perhaps grammatically poor explanation

but you are correct

what it means is you cannot have two user accounts with the same email address, and each user account has one email address where all the notifications are sent to


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

documentation
Indexing/Searching/Phonetics of Imported Documents
Asked by Jeach:

I really, really wish that Confluence would beef up the indexing/search/phonetics functionality and provide a full Document Management System (DMS) feature set.

Every time I'm at a company that use shared-drives or Sharepoint and try to convince them to move to a wiki like Confluence (recommending you BTW), the very first question is ... "what do I do with my 2,000 existing documents"?

Over and over again this is a big concern and I don't understand why you overlook this?

The other day I was giving a Confluence demo to a potential company with 50+ employees and the first thing they wanted to see was the indexing/search. So I imported a PDF document with very unique business domain terms and keywords.

Typing keywords that I knew existed in the PDF document couldn't find anything. So I assumed that you have delayed indexing. A few hours later I did find an exact matche. But if I typed the first 6 letters of words that I know existed in the document (not the complete word), it wouldn't find it. I also tried to make spelling mistakes and it wouldn't find it either. I was really, really disappointed!

You do realize and understand (I hope) that clients that need/require a wiki, also have many documents of all types and they need to be able to manage them from their new content management tool (Confluence)?

Because of this, the client will not move over to Confluence.

My experimentation with open-source libraries has shown me that you have close to no reason or excuse not to have full indexing/search/phonetic capabilities at this point. It has to be something political inside Atlassian!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If there's one thing I want Atlassian to fix, it's the search in Confluence. We said it again at Summit repeatedly "we all use google to search your Confluence installations, because search does. not. work."
how to embed a link into an image?
Asked by ddapjt:

I have an image and I want to embed a pdf link into it. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Sure.

1. Add both the image and PDF to the page
2. Save the page
3. Right click the PDF and select **Copy link address**
4. Edit the page
5. Delete the PDF
6. Select the image and click **Link**
7. Click **Web link** , select the **Address** field and paste
8. Click **Insert** and save the page


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Increase Plant UML plugin image size
Asked by Jonathan Huet:

Hi,

In the PlantUML plugin for Confluence Cloud, the image generated has the limit of 4096 pixels set by default in plantUML.   
There is a way to overwrite it as suggested in <http://plantuml.com/faq> -\> "I want to generate huge diagrams!", please?

Thanks for the plugin!!

Regards


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: <https://drawio.atlassian.net/browse/DP-1>


author: David Pr?vost
body: Possible to have bigger size is really a must since just with 30 then we cannot even read the class name when looking at the image in confluence. There above around 10 class this plugin is not really the right tool just because of the image size

comments: author: David Pr?vost
body: I tried to use the command below but the page hang forever

scale 10


author: David Pr?vost
body: I suggest to not try scale 10 since now I'm unable to open my page....


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Is there an error in the browser console?


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: If you know the page ID of that page, go to <https://YOUTSITE.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpreviousversions.action?pageId=PAGEID>, replacing the bold parts and revert to a working version.


author: Jonathan Huet
body: Thanks for the fast answer and include it!   
We like big diagrams :wink:  

<br />


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Sounds very reasonable. We've a todo to update the PlantUML source soon, so we'll add this to that task.

comments: author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Size increased from 4096 to 8192 in 14th May 2019 deployment


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.plantuml

cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I review which/how many Include Content macros use a particular Content Block?
Asked by Graham Campbell:

It'd be useful to know that a Content Block is being used by one or more Include Contents, and on which articles.

In particular, if I'm reviewing an article for potential deletion, I might keep it if parts of the content are being used elsewhere in Confluence.

There are two ways in which I can see this being useful:

1. An option in the Content Block macro itself, a 'click to view' report of where the content is being used.
2. An admin option in the space Content Tools, showing the full list of each article that has a Content Block being used and which pages are using it in Include Content macros.

So we'd have the name of the page followed by a list of the other pages that use the content from the page.

Obviously there are the permissions that would hide from my view the pages I can't normally see, but perhaps there's a way around that by merely stating "Pages you do not have permission to view are using the content in this Content Block on this page."


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: @Davin Studer made a user macro that does that:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/32534246>


Tags: brikit

content

macro

theme
Error:unable to start vm due to insufficient capacity
Asked by masud:

I got this error message when I was creating instances. what can i do?


Answers:
author: masud
body: I have a lot of space and can also create instances from other user but can not create from my admin user. Here showing this error [Error:unable to start vm due to insufficient capacity](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/43342628/answers/43342997 "Error:unable to start vm due to insufficient capacity") Please check attachment.1.JPG  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Error-unable-to-start-vm-due-to-insufficient-capacity/qaq-p/93764?attachment-id=12036){#link_11863debb4d1df}  
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author: Piyush_Annadate
body: It's talking about storage space/disk space. You need to check your settings for allocated spacfe and required free disk space.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I prevent a page from appearing in search results, while allowing its excerpt to be included?
Asked by Michael Faux:

I'm using Confluence Cloud. I have a page where I keep an excerpt, and some text explaining what the excerpt is for, and when to use it.

Can I prevent this page from appearing in search results, while still allowing my excerpt to be included in other pages?

I've modified my question and description after @Darren's original comments. I'm writing about this here because Atlassian says I don't have enough 'points' to continue contributing to the conversation via comments.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can't - the index itself contains information on who can see a page. If a user can see a page, it is searchable for them, and you need them to be able to see it for excerpts to work for them.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: One option is to put that page in an archived space. It will still be searchable if someone clicks the box for "Search Archived Spaces", but won't show up otherwise.

comments: author: Michael Faux
body: Thanks Stephen. That's a nice work around for internal searching. Archived pages are still available to external search engines:

"Archiving a space has no effect on search results of external search engines. For example, a public space will still appear in Google search results."

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/archive-a-space-284368719.html>


author: darrenpegg
body: Scrap using Excerpts altogether.. You can't have a half way house here unfortunately.. :smile:


author: darrenpegg
body: Just allow yourself access to that Space/Page - it will show in the search for you but shouldn't be searchable by anyone with no access. Try page restrictions 1st, if not create a space specifcally..


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Lively Blogpost - Documentation
Asked by JPfeiffer:

Hi,

I can't find the documentation for Lively Blogpost. I would like to set a blogpost as important with a label to stick it at the top. How can I do that or where is the documentation?

Thank you very much for information.

Kind regards

JP


Answers:
author: JPfeiffer
body: I found it: in Configuration -\> Settings under Lively Blogpost the label can be changed.


author: JPfeiffer
body: The only thing I found was to set a tag on the blog post named "important" but not how to change this in another word.
Confluence https rest requests fail, http rest requests succeeds
Asked by Andreas Lundstr?m:

Hi, how would cause rest requests towards an confluence instance on https fail while rest requests towards http succeed?

**An (truncated) example:**

curl -D- -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic \<base64 encoded user:pass\>" <http://mydomain/confluence/rest/api/content/12345>

*HTTP/1.1 200 OK*   
*Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:36:50 GMT*   
*Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1*   
*X-ASEN: SEN-4713507*   
*X-Seraph-LoginReason: OK*   
*X-AUSERNAME: \<username\>*   
*Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate*   
*Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT*   
*X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff*   
*Content-Type: application/json*   
*Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=A5CC9394A692F4333B8A13A5061693E0; Path=/confluence/; HttpOnly*   
*Connection: close*   
*Transfer-Encoding: chunked*

*{"id":"33505798", ... }*

<br />

curl -D- -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic \<base64 encoded user:pass\>" <https://mydomain/confluence/rest/api/content/12345>

*HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found*   
*Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:36:44 GMT*   
*Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1*   
*X-ASEN: SEN-4713507*   
*Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate*   
*Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT*   
*X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff*   
*Content-Type: application/json*   
*Connection: close*   
*Transfer-Encoding: chunked*

*{"statusCode":404,"data":{"authorized":false,"valid":true,"errors":\[\]},"message":"No content found with id: ContentId{id=12345}"}*

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Jonas Andersson
body: Looks like something in the https rewrite goes wrong as it returns a 404. I assume you are terminating SSL and http at a mod proxy in front of confluence, and point the traffic to the high port of tomcat after that? Is this a implementation that works while using a regular webbrowser, or is it all a new setup?

comments: author: Andreas Lundstr?m
body: This is an existing setup (1y+), but integration via REST to update certain pages is new.


author: Andreas Lundstr?m
body: Perhaps 404 is a bit misleading as well, as the response actually tells us that nothing by that id was found... which should not mean that the request did not reach the endpoint?
Confiform data storage
Asked by Mohammad Ebrahim Kalami:

How can we find stored data of my form in confluence database for integration purpose?


Answers:
author: Robert Jober
body: Here is an example of the function for a simple form we use to enter weekly highlights:

```
CREATEFUNCTION [dbo].[ConfiGetWeeklyHighlightReport] ()RETURNS @tbl TABLE (	RecordGuid			NVARCHAR(32)	NULL,	RecordId			INT				NULL,	Date				DATE			NULL,	Status				NVARCHAR(100)	NULL,	Reporter			NVARCHAR(100)	NULL,	Description			NVARCHAR(MAX)	NULL,	OwnedBy				NVARCHAR(32)	NULL,	CreatedBy			NVARCHAR(32)	NULL,	CreatedTs			DATETIME		NULL,	IsDeleted			BIT				NULL)ASBEGIN	DECLARE @OffsetSecond INT = DATEPART(TZOFFSET, SYSDATETIMEOFFSET()) * 60;	DECLARE @XmlData XML = (		SELECT XmlData = CAST(text_val AS XML)		FROM ConfluenceStore.dbo.OS_PROPERTYENTRY		WHERE entity_key = 'confiform_contentitassistWeeklyReport'			AND entity_id = 39485704 -- page id	);		WITH Items AS (		SELECT 			RecordGuid			= item.value('(id/text())[1]', 'NVARCHAR(32)'),			RecordId			= item.value('(recordId/text())[1]', 'INT'),			Date				= item.value('(fields//date/text())[1]', 'NVARCHAR(32)'),			Status				= item.value('(fields//status/text())[1]', 'NVARCHAR(100)'),			Reporter			= item.value('(fields//reporter/text())[1]', 'NVARCHAR(100)'),			Description			= item.value('(fields//description/text())[1]', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)'),			OwnedBy				= item.value('(ownedBy/text())[1]', 'NVARCHAR(32)'),			CreatedBy			= item.value('(createdBy/text())[1]', 'NVARCHAR(32)'),			CreatedTs			= item.value('(created/text())[1]', 'NVARCHAR(32)'),			IsDeleted			= item.value('(deleted/text())[1]', 'BIT')		FROM @XmlData.nodes('/list/entry') AS Requests(item)	)	INSERT INTO @tbl	SELECT			RecordGuid,			RecordId,			Date = DATEADD(SECOND, (CONVERT(BIGINT, Date) / 1000) + @OffsetSecond, '1970-01-01'),			Status = CASE Status				WHEN 'success' THEN 'REPORTED' 				ELSE Status			END,			Reporter,			Description,			OwnedBy,			CreatedBy,			CreatedTs = DATEADD(SECOND, (CONVERT(BIGINT, CreatedTs) / 1000) + @OffsetSecond, '1970-01-01'),			IsDeleted	FROM Items	;	RETURN END
```

comments: author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Ohh, you better dont "integrate" on the database level.

We believe in teh same approach as Atlassian advices - use APIs and SDK, but never access your database directly.

We do have [APIs for ConfiForms](https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/REST+API) as well, as strongly advice to use APIs for incoming integrations and ConfiForms IFTTT macros for outgoing integrations


Tags: addon-com.vertuna.confluence.plugins.confiforms

confiforms

confluence-administration
Scroll Office text format not coming through as expected
Asked by Kate Hanna:

I've created a Word template and uploaded it to Confluence.

My normal text, and some of my headings, are coming through with a yellow background highlight, which is not on the Word template.

Scroll office help talked about unwanted HTML tags, but I can't see these, and I don't understand why that would be as the Confluence document I'm exporting was not previously imported from somewhere else.

Has anyone encountered this or got some tips for writing your own Scroll templates?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: If some of your source in Confluence was pasted from another HTML source, you could have unwanted classes and span tags. As a test, highlight one of the offending headings and clear the formatting, apply paragraph, then the heading format again, and try. If it clears your problem, then that is the issue. At that point, you have two options

* Copy out all the text and paste into something like notepad to remove all the formatting. Delete all the text currently in the page, paste in the new text and reformat.
* Get the source editor plugin so you can look at the actual page code to see what is causing the issue. You can then manually clean up the code, or use the RegEx capabilities of the source editor (good skill to have).

comments: author: Kate Hanna
body: Thanks Bill, after reading your post, I realised that my problem was probably in my Word template which had been created from a client's document. I made a new template from scratch, and my formatting problems went away.

I will keep your post in mind if I encounter this problem again - some of my Confluence documents were imported from Word in the first place, then extensively modified, so may have this issue.
attachments saved to file share
Asked by Martin Aparicio:

Trying to see if Confluence or even JIRA can be a front door to our dropbox-like file submission that will need to save files to a network share. Does anyone know if this is possible with a add-on?

I prefer not having a secondary backend copy process since some of these files may be large.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can, but the file structure won't make a lot of sense to people browsing the file share, and it **must** be read only for other people, they won't be able to add or update files in it.


Tags: confluence-administration
Disabling LDAP users in Jira/Confluence
Asked by Dennis Roche:

I have JIRA and Confluence integrated with our Microsoft Active Directory and want to know how I manage users that are disabled in Active Directory. I have an AD Group that is what access to both JIRA and Confluence are based on. I would like that if a user is removed from that group they are marked as disabled. This does not seem to be the case with my configuration. User's that are disabled In AD are still active in JIRA/Confluence. Is there a configuration I am missing? I have been scanning Atlassian Answers and have yet to find a solution for this. I do NOT want to manually disable users within JIRA/Confluence.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Dennis Roche
body: Below is my configuration. I still have "Confluence Internal Directory" enabled because I was worried if i didnt it would disable the local "admin"

I have checked the logs and performed a sync with no errors at all. When users are disabled in AD, we move them to an OU and remove them from all the groups except "Domain Users."

UserDirectoryConfig.PNG  
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author: Shamith Shankar
body: Dennis,

You may need to check the configuration of your Active directory in JIRA.

Ideally 'Microsoft Active Directory (Read Only, with Local Groups)' should do it , also you may need to check sync errors and also how AD user disabling is managed. If they are just moving the users into separate group, JIRA could not be able to read as disabled users


Tags: confluence-administration