youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Upload/Edit Excel Spreadsheets
Asked by Michael E Bowman:

I am somewhat new to Confluence. If I upload an Excel spreadsheet from a folder on my local machine--it needs to be attached, first, right to Confluence? If I then edit that spreadsheet--is the original file located in the folder then updated when the file is saved? or do I need to download the (edited/now updated) attached file to the original folder somehow?


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Michael,

Let me try to address your questions:

--it needs to be attached, first, right to Confluence?

Yup.

--If I then edit that spreadsheet--is the original file located in the folder then updated when the file is saved?

If you edit that spreadsheet from Confluence, you will be editing the uploaded file and **not the original one**(the one from your local folder).

--or do I need to download the (edited/now updated) attached file to the original folder somehow?

I believe my previous reply cover this one :smile:.

Hope it helps,

Tks,

David


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Yes, it needs to be attached. You can [edit the Excel file using WebDAV](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+an+Office+Spreadsheet+from+Confluence). It's quite annoying because it's not like Excel is embedded in Confluence, so you constantly have to manage your attachments.

Because of this, I've built a tool for [enterprise spreadsheets in Confluence](http://www.play-sql.com). It lets you create and manage data alongside your pages, then you show excerpts in your content. You can modify the data inline, filter, use the pagination, etc. See the Marketplace record: [Play SQL Spreadsheets for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.playsql-plugin).

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Displaying more information in single issue view in confluence
Asked by Bernd Pichlbauer:

Hi,

I'd like to display not only issue type, issue key, summary and status, but also some additional fields with the issue macro in confluence.

How can I achieve that? The information I found, was to display more data when in "table" mode.

Thanks for your help!

Kind regards,

Bernd


Answers:
author: Bernd Pichlbauer
body: Hi Guilherme,

Thats a bummer. Is it not possible to modify the JIRA Issue Macro by ourself. That should not be too much effort of coding...

Kind regards,

Bernd


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Bernd, indeed the detailed view is provided by the [JIRA Issues Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Issues+Macro), currenty the individual view is intended for a quick reference. Turns out there are few chances that we would see the implementation for both modes.

Hope this answers your query.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how to delete created by
Asked by John Pfotzer:

How can I delete "created by (name)" part of tag line under the title of each page? I want to keep "last edited by (name and time)".

thanks


Answers:
author: John Pfotzer
body: Yes, we are OnDemand.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm afraid you are stuck then.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: To do that in Confluence Server, you'd need to edit the template that provides it (code change, albeit minor), or change the theme to something that does not include it.

I don't think you can do either of those on Cloud.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why do some of my pages have a pageId as a URL
Asked by Jason Friedman:

Most of my pages have a URL like this:

[http://host/display/Spacename/My+Title](http://wiki/display/DataCenter/Autosys+Cleanup+Calendars)

A handful look like this:

<http://host/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7381>

Why do those few pages have the viewpage URL?


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Usually that is because the title contains a character that can't be in a URL.


author: Steffen Heller
body: Wow, the truth is so simple!? Amazing! :wink:


Tags: confluence-administration
Can we get the logged in users favourite spaces via user macro?
Asked by Niharika Shrivastava:

Class : com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.macros.dashboard has a method **[getFavouriteSpaces](https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/plugins/macros/dashboard/DashboardMacroSupport.html#getFavouriteSpaces())**`()` {#toc-hId-1649467898}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

can anybosy help, how can we use it in a user macro.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: This should do it.

```
## Developed by: Davin Studer## Date created: 06/10/2013## @noparams#set( $labelManager = $action.LabelManager )#set( $favRef = $labelManager.getLabel("my:favourite") )#if($favRef)    #set( $favorites = $labelManager.getCurrentContentForLabel( $favRef ) )    #if($favorites.size() &gt; 0)        &lt;ul&gt;        #foreach( $favorite in $favorites )            #if ( $favorite.getType() == "spacedesc" || $favorite.getType() == "personalspacedesc" )            &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="$favorite.UrlPath"&gt;$favorite.DisplayTitle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;            #end        #end        &lt;/ul&gt;    #end#end
```

comments: author: Niharika Shrivastava
body: Perfect!


Tags: user-macro
Migrating Confluence 5.1.3 to 5.6.1 from one server to another.
Asked by Ahmad Awadallah:

Hi,

We have Confluence 5.1.3 on one server (Windows) and 5.6.1 on another server (Linux).   

I know I will need to backup DB and home directory. When restoring them to 5.6.1 will the DB be upgraded automatically? Also, will things like macros and plugins work, or do I need to do something specific.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Ahmad,

Before jumping to the standard procedures from an upgrade, we suggest the users to [check the plugin compatibility with the next versions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Checking+Add-on+Compatibility+with+Application+Updates) to avoid further issues.

You don't have to worry about your database, with a [full XML backup](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Manually+Backing+Up+the+Site)(please add the attaches in this backup), Confluence will do the magic, I mean, populate the new database, make everything right. So, you don't need to do a clone of your database.

[In this link](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers) you can find more details related to Confluence migration.

I hope it helps.

Regards,

Renato Rudnicki

comments: author: Ahmad Awadallah
body: Thank you Renato for your response. That definetly helps. Do you think there will be issues since we are moving from Windows to Linux since Linux is case sensitive. Not sure if it will break anything like certain attachments, etc... Anything you see that we should be aware of? Thank you again.


author: Frank Stiller
body: i dont think there will be an issue migrating from windows to linux. the paths in the basic configs are different, but the application itself runs within a jvm and as such the operating system isnt that critical. I have migrated also quite some systems, to get more confidence i suggest you try it in a test/sandbox environment first ;)


author: Ahmad Awadallah
body: Thanks Frank! We will for sure be testing this. I just wanted to see if I can catch the issue ahead. Going back to what Renato stated about the DB. My understanding of doing a full XML backup is not recommended if the DB is large. I think ours is just under 20 GB. I think there is a migration utility if we are just going to upgrade the DB directly.


author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Ahmad,

I'm glad that I could help you :smile:.

If you have a large DB, you are right about maybe a full XML backup might not be the best option. In this case, you can increase the JAVA memory from your Confluence, or try to migrate your Database using a dump database.

Ahmad, if this issue is answered, do you mind to mark it as "Answered"? I'm saying that because it might helps other people who are having a similar question.

However, if you still have any questions, please feel free to post it here. We'll be glad to help you :smile:.

Best regards,

Renato Rudnicki


Tags: confluence-administration

confluence-app

macro
Is it possible to have update dates per section in a Confluence page?
Asked by Lee Cash:

Hi guys,

I have a Confluence page with lots of sections that are updated at different frequencies; some will be updated daily, while others are only updated once every few months.

What I would like is that when viewing the page I see a datestamp of when **each** section was last updated.

Is this something that is possible? Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Lee


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: The only way I can think to do something like this is to put each section into its own page and then use the page include macro to include all of the sections onto one page. Then each section will have a time stamp. Then you would need to create a user macro to embed in each section that display's the update time.

comments: author: Lee Cash
body: Thanks, David. That's actually quite clever. We're also using Scaffolding so I'm not sure how compatible this will be but I'll definitely give it a shot. Thank you.Lee


Tags: confluence-administration
SQL macro default, no results and formatting help
Asked by Eugene Domingo:

I'm using the SQL macro for inventory purposes. I'm very new to database queries. I pieced this together from examples and previous work by others. I was going to use Play SQL but the dynamic user field has been removed on the Confluence pages. I was looking into PocketQuery but I can't get the LIKE matching to work (question posted here as well). I have three questions:

1. I can't seem to figure out how to make the default values blank without the query being interpreted as a blank (waiting for user input). So, I just put NULL in the field for now.
2. If the query comes back with no results, it displays the query for some reason. Is there a way to hide that and only display "The query has returned no data."?
3. A third question but it's not too important. My query below uses LIKE. But if an exact match comes up, is there a way to highlight the value green?

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Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Using **LIKE '%NULL%'** will not work. The way you work with NULLs is below ...

```
...a.asset_description is NULL or i.itemnumber is NULL...
```

comments: author: Eugene Domingo
body: The NULL is just an arbitrary value I placed in the value default. It's actually the string called "NULL" and not the value of NULL. Because I can't figure out how to allow SQL Macro to have a default value that is blank without an error, I just place the string "NULL" in the default value field.


Tags: playsql

query

sql
how to get macro usage report for confluence 5.1.3
Asked by Rinku Saha:

Hi,  
Earlier version of confluence we run the report for different macro usage. Right now we are using confluence version 5.1.3, how to get the same report.  
as an examaple we using run the query like below . Please suggest. it really and urgent requirement.

```
SELECT b.BODYCONTENTID, b.BODY, b.CONTENTID, c.TITLE , c.VERSION, c.CONTENTTYPE, c.SPACEID,  sp.Spacename, sp.SPACEKEY FROM BODYCONTENT AS b INNER JOIN [CONTENT] AS c ON b.CONTENTID = c.CONTENTID INNER JOIN SPACES SP ON SP.SPACEID=c.SPACEID WHERE (b.BODY LIKE '%{macroname%')
```

Thanks'

Rinku


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: The problem is the **`b.BODY LIKE `** **'%{macroname%'**`. You need to specify the new storage format for macros. It should look more like this.`

```
SELECT	b.BODYCONTENTID,	b.BODY,	b.CONTENTID,	c.TITLE,	c.VERSION,	c.CONTENTTYPE,	c.SPACEID,	sp.Spacename,	sp.SPACEKEYFROM BODYCONTENT AS bINNER JOIN [CONTENT] AS c ON b.CONTENTID = c.CONTENTIDINNER JOIN SPACES SP ON SP.SPACEID=c.SPACEIDWHERE (b.BODY LIKE '%&lt;ac:structured-macro ac:name="macroname"&gt;%')
```

comments: author: Patrice Foerster
body: That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, mate!


author: Davin Studer
body: If you are on a newer version than 5.1.3 then you could use the user macro that I created at the below address. It is better than the above query. It requires at least Confluence 5.5.<http://iamdav.in/2015/01/06/confluence-macro-usage-report/>


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Rinku,

As far as I know, this query shows all pages that uses this macro. Unfortunately confluence doesn't have a bundled functionality to show the macros.

The query that you listed will work to show the pages that uses the macros.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
a way to see sent emails
Asked by Consu:

Hello,

I am trying to figure out if there is a way to see the emails that have been sent from Confluence. For instance when you share a space with someone or with an email address.

I would like to see to who those messages are sent? How can I do this?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: One thing you could do is to activate the email debug :

1. Shutdown Confluence.
2. Edit the \<Confluence Install\>\\bin\\setenv.sh (setenv.bat for windows)to add the following java argument:

   ```
   -Dmail.debug=true
   ```

3. Start Confluence.
4. Send one email and check the \<Confluence INSTALL\>\\logs\\catalina.out

Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Confluence Support Engineer


Tags: confluence-administration

email

notification
how do i update the digram.io on the confluence page
Asked by Ghani ADJEMOUT:

after editing the diagram, what should i do to get it to the confluence target page, i thought the macro will update automatically but no. Please


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Ghani, not sure if you actually refer to [Draw.io](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly) that has diagrams as a feature. For support with that add on customers can refer to [//SEIBERT/MEDIA](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/1210578) -- [support channel](https://support.draw.io/display/DFCS/draw.io+for+Confluence+Server).

comments: author: Ghani ADJEMOUT
body: Hi mate! thanks for your answer, i tried tried and found what was wrong and fixed it. Draw.io updates automatically on my confluence pages.have a good day, evening or night (sourire)
config viewing comments to Collapsed in Confluence 5.5
Asked by LongN:

As searched, manual show me that:

*** ** * ** ***

Comments in Confluence are displayed in one of two views which is configured globally by a [site administrator](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Confluence+Glossary):

* **Threaded** - this view shows the comments in a hierarchy of responses. Each subsequent reply to a comment is indented to indicate the relationships between the comments.
* **Flat** - this view displays all the comments in one single list and does not indicate the relationships between comments.

*** ** * ** ***

But this manual is for Confluence 3.5, is Confluence 5.5 has this setting ? if yes, please help me find out where to config it!

Many thanks!


Answers:
author: Kirti Pattar
body: Looking for same in 5.5. Is there option to collapse and expand?
Assigning taks to team calendars
Asked by Mike Fisher:

Is there a way to have tasks created in Confluence show up in Team Calendars?


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Mike,

At current moment Team calendars do not have that feature, one idea you can try is going to <https://jira.atlassian.com> and create a new feature request against team calendars project :smile:.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Confluence Support Engineer
unable to grant admin privileges to an user in confluence
Asked by Sam Rajagopal:

Our confluence admin is unable to grant admin privileges to another user. A screen shot of the problem attached herewith. The server log is not helpful at alladmin-error.PNG  
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Answers:
author: Wayne Wong
body: Hi Sam,

Can I know is your user from LDAP?

Have you check is your ldap configured with connector, read only with local group?

If the problem persists, could you please provide us a screenshot of your configuration and your atlassian-confluence.log so that we could review the log for you?

Thank you.

Regards,

Wayne Wong


Tags: confluence-administration
Why is internet explorer 11 crashing when using confluence ondemand?
Asked by Hugh Bathurst:


Answers:
author: Hugh Bathurst
body: Hi Nic, Ales. It's been crashing regularly when I try to edit in the Confluence OnDemand trial license we're researching. Pretty much whenever I try to edit a page (any page it seems), as well as crashing when editing spaces.

Mauro (from Atlassian support) kindly advanced this by email today (I believe Reference: JST-115331 ) by sharing (among other things) the following.
> .. was able to find this bug related to that IE11 version that causes the browser to crash: CONF-34440. There is an IE patch mentioned that I believe it should solve the issue.
>
> For what I understand so far, IE11 crashes when using Confluence Hard to pinpoint a pattern, but crashing appears to happen when creating spaces or creating pages Firefox works fine so it is IE11 specific. .. default settings still cause the problem. browser IE11 version is 11.0.9600.16428 (affected by this bug: CONF-34440)

I've sent a query to see of my IT helpdesk can assist with a patch - if anything else jumps out I'd appreciate hearing as can't really continue our trial license tests until resolved. Cheers - Hugh

comments: author: Serg
body: I've got the same problem: IE 11 crashes while creating or editing Conflence pages. Unfortunately I couldn't access CONF-34440 article (no permissions). What IE patch is mentioned there?


author: Ale? La?ar
body: Because it is Microsoft IE :smile: Do you try to check a settings? Compatibility mode? Maybe it will help you.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to do some more detailed debugging to find out why - when does it happen, what is the error message and so-on. Most importantly, you might want to find someone for whom it does not crash and check how your IE is set up differently from theirs (Cloud is working fine on my brief test on IE11 off-the-shelf, so it's either your configuration of IE, or I've not run into a page that causes an issue)


author: Ale? La?ar
body: If he will upload a screen or more details then I can help.


author: Nirmani K
body: I have the same issue. there is no errors, it just stop working/frozen and windows fan is running as if it is going to blow the computer.


author: Jennifer
body: We are having the same issue with MS IE 11 and being unable to utilize Confluence

Works \& looks great in Firefox \& Chrome but not MS IE 11


author: AnnWorley
body: Jennifer, please try the MS patch linked on [Create page crashes on unpatched IE11 RTM](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-34440)


author: Jennifer
body: Thank you much Ann.

Also, I just turned OFF compatibility view mode and that worked


author: AnnWorley
body: Oh yay! Thanks for sharing the resolution with the community. :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to manage mail archives in Confluence?
Asked by Jeff Vail:

I love that we can forward mail to Confluence for archival purposes, but is there a way to manage that archive over time? What if we rearrange Confluence and need to move mail from one space to another, or what if we merge two spaces together and want to merge the mail archives? Can we export the mail from one space in a Confluence instance for import into another? I am hoping to ditch my "Archive" folder in Outlook, but I don't want to lose all control of my email once it is in Confluence. Any insight around this topic would be appreciated.


Answers:
author: Jeff Vail
body: The instructions are a bit out-of-date. The steps are "Space Tools"..."Integrations"..."Mail Accounts". We have a space checking a POP mailbox and it pulls mail in perfectly. You can see the mail under "Space Tools"..."Integrations"..."Mail" or via a search in Confluence. I forward all of my I-might-need-this-someday emails to that mailbox and it's always easily searchable if I need it, and it gets that email out of my personal inbox and makes it accessible to the whole team.


author: Francisco Martinez
body: Jeff do you have the procedure to fw the mail to Confluence?I looks like the steps shown here <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=180294236> aren't working anymore.Thanks!


author: Jeff Vail
body: Am I the only one that wants more information/options around email archives in Confluence? It's a great feature, but until email is a first-class citizen in Confluence, its use is limited.


Tags: confluence-administration
PDF Export of a whole space including Secure Content blocks
Asked by adiedler:

Hello,

From time to time, we have the challange to export the information of a whole space to make it available to the customer. This cases was project was finished and was now live and the documentation should exported to PDF for administration usage. The problem is, that the content cannot be exported, it is hidden.

Do you plan any improvment to use e.g. PDF Exporter and through the export all hidden fields will be visible in the PDF export? Possible the security can be bound to the group membership of the user who want to export and he must have the read-only rights in all Secure Content areas in the space.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Hi! Can you tell us how you have hidden the content in the first place?
Is it possible to increase the number of items displayed in the All Updates tab on the confluence dashboard
Asked by Javier Perez:

Is it possible to increase the number of items displayed in the *All Updates* tab on the confluence dashboard

We have confluence 5.5.2 installed.


Answers:
author: Thomas B
body: I've done a lot of research into this and it seems as if the Dashboard is run on an internal "System add-on" that cannot be uninstalled.

* Go to General configuration
* Manage add-ons
* Type in Dashboard and search across all add ons

Here it will show you that the dashboard is being managed by Atlassian and changes cannot be made unless instructed by Atlassian Support. ![ConfluenceDash.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/277i528D4D35AD9D76AB/image-dimensions/777x207?v=v2 "ConfluenceDash.PNG")


author: Dennis Hack
body: Is nobody having any idea how to configure this part of confluence?

I think thats in general a good question.

Please help out with this.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Javier,

I believe that you can customize the confluence dashboard, but I couldn't find any mention to the size of the all updates tab in [this documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+Confluence+Dashboard).

I'll leave this question open so others may know a different way to customize this setting.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Dennis Hack
body: Hi folks,

i want to push this again although the question is about 2,5 years old.

Did somebody find a way get this to work? I did'nt really find any kind of information about that in the documentation.


Tags: confluence-administration