youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Tooltips confluence editor
Asked by Patrick_Vanhoof:

Hi,

Is it possible to display tooltips in the Confluence editor? It would be useful for users to know what the buttons stand for in

Tooltips.JPG

Thanks,

Patrick  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Tooltips-confluence-editor/qaq-p/124956?attachment-id=8989){#link_11896078a94f5d}  
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Answers:
author: Patrick_Vanhoof
body: Running version 5.5.3.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: **Intended:**

image2014-10-2 11:32:11.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Tooltips-confluence-editor/qaq-p/124956?attachment-id=1862){#link_11896082039226}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/20834/1/image2014-10-2%2011%3A32%3A11.png){#display_11896082039226_0}


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: This is a bug. The editor has tooltips and they should work fine. I would suggest contacting support at [https://support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com/customer/home) and see if they're aware of similar situations.


author: Geert Graat
body: What Confluence version do you use? Because in the versions I have running here (5.3.4, 5.4.4) it see the tooltips just fine, under Chrome/Firefox/IE.
include page in e-mail
Asked by Dafydd James:

Hi, I'm trying to increase adoption of Confluence across my organisation, but many of the senior stakeholders travel a lot and are wedded to their smartphones. They are huge fans of reading content offline in their e-mail inboxes, and it's hard to move them away from this feature, which I must admit is a very useful feature. The big problem with Confluence is that it's not available offline, so if someone sends out some useful information then the only way for those people to read it offline is to send the content in an e-mail.

I was thinking that one compromise would be to allow users to easily embed the contents of a Confluence page into an e-mail. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be possible using in-built Confluence functionality; I am reduced to advising my colleagues to create a Confluence page, then copy\&paste into an e-mail (clunky). The alternative is to export to PDF then attach to the e-mail, but this process is even more lengthy and doesn't exactly show Confluence in a good light.

This may be a feature request rather than a query, but is it possible to do what I want? A suggestion would be to check a box when sharing a page (or a blog post) that converts the page contents into an e-mail and includes it in the notification that is sent out when a page is shared.

Thoughts and suggestions are appreciated! :smile:


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Confluence doesn't have this option and I don't know of any plugin which does it. It is quite difficult to render Confluence pages outside of Confluence because they come with a few attachments such as javascript enhancements, images, urls, which are difficult to ship in an email.

Of course attaching a PDF to the email could be a solution for your issue. However, don't forget that:

* If people don't see the page in Confluence, they won't be in the context of commenting and interacting;
* Thanks to the workaround of seeing their page in the email, they may even forget their password.

It is generally good for a website when people browse it often. Of course, I understand your motivations for offline browsing and if you find a plugin with this feature, please share it with us!

comments: author: Dafydd James
body: Thanks for your response! Yes, I understand the potential difficulties of rendering some types of content into a HTML e-mail, but I wouldn't expect any of the JS or anything to work; just a best-effort version of the page, even putting placeholders in to substitute for difficult-to-render components.You are correct about the users not engaging as much with Confluence if they don't see the information in context. Unfortunately, some of the recipients of the e-mails are unlikely to ever even log in to Confluence. I suspect that a PDF might be the best compromise. It would be excellent if a plugin existed to "e-mail as PDF", because, like it or not, a lot of people still distribute information by e-mail.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Cnfluence Timeout Issues
Asked by Timothy Harris:

Hi,

I keep running into timeout issues when editing confluence pages:

The following error(s) occured:

```
Your session has expired. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page.
```

I tried changing the values of these c3po values in confluence.config.xml but it didn't help.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Timothy Harris
body: @Rodrigo Adami - That value is set to 60 minutes? I am wondering if this is because I am logged in as system admin when making changes?

Is there another setting regarding websudo I should look at?


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Timothy,

These are errors regarding the login session and not the database session. I recommend to set an higher value for the session timeout in confluence :smile:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Adjust+the+Session+Timeout+for+Confluence>

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
How to handle tasks in recurring meetings?
Asked by D:

Hi,

I have several weekly recurring meetings with tasks. For these meetings, I copy the previous meeting notes and paste them into a new one. I need to keep track of tasks, which usually span multiple meetings. When I copy a recurring meeting in Confluence, it creates a duplicate of all the tasks. How can I keep the tasks there, without creating a copy of them, and still create new meeting notes?

The only workaround I can think of is to continue using the same Meeting Notes and updating it each week. This is not ideal as we'll lose meeting history for a given week.


Answers:
author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Hi Derek,

perhaps you could maintain the tasks on a separate page and include this task page in every meeting page?

Cheers,  
Kirstin


author: Steffen Stamprath
body: Hi,

please look at the Plugin "Meeting Time for JIRA". Maybe it helps you for the meetings:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/aptis.plugins.meetingTime/server/overview>


author: D
body: Thanks Kirstin. I ended up using your suggestion and created a separate Action Items page. Then embedded it in the weekly meeting notes using Include Page macro.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Are tasklists with audit features available?
Asked by Alan S. Yu:

Would you be able to display audit information for a checkbox? Basically who checked it along w/ a timestamp of when it was checked? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Alan S. Yu
body: Thanks Davin. It is a bit hard to isolate which specific checkbox was ticked off and the specific timing of it. The page history definitely does have some of the info, but it requires you viewing the old pages and sorting thru the page a bit to see. I'm looking for a solution to visualize on the page itself.


author: Davin Studer
body: Your page history should show an audit trail of the checkboxes being checked and unchecked.
Questions about Confluence SharePoint connector - has anyone gotten external customers to work?
Asked by IT Team:

We currently have SharePoint 2013 on an extranet using Windows Authentication tied into Active Directory. We also have Confluence set up with Forms based authentication running on Tomcat synchronizing users from the same Active Directory repository.

The SharePoint system contains our main customer portal - newsletters, upcoming events, calendars, etc. and the Confluence site contains all of our user documentation. We want the customer to log into SharePoint and when they click the Documentation link to go to Confluence we want them to be automatically logged into Confluence.

I am evaluating the SharePoint Connector for Confluence and am having issues getting automatic login (sso) working.

From what I've read I need to have the browser "trust" both our SharePoint and Confluence site AND I need to make sure the browser supports "automatic login". Is there any way around this?

As an alternative, is there a way to configure confluence to allow anyone access who is accessing it from our SharePoint site?

I also set up a page in SharePoint to connect to the Wiki via Confluence page\\space web part but there are several issues with this (missing images, poor formatting, etc.)

Just wondering if anyone has done something like this or has any ideas? My suggestion to drop down to one system wasn't accepted...

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: We can help you getting this SSO issue resolved I believe. [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com)

It is tricky but given that I don't know enough about your network, I'd rather not mis-steer the answer here out the gate. Once we do help you, you can report back here though. :smile:  


Tags: confluence-administration

sharepoint
Sync Active Directory Fields
Asked by sherlack:

Hi, i'm working on a confluence instance for over 2000 users and we are trying to sync up the active directory users information with confluence. We were able to sync all users but it only sync 4 fields, Username, FirstName, LastName and email. We would like to be able to sync other information like, Phone, IM, Website, Position, Departmen, Location, etc...   

profile fields.jpg

Is there away to sync more fields?   

Thanks in advance!  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Sync-Active-Directory-Fields/qaq-p/410523?attachment-id=12928){#link_118961920b7915}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/69478/1/profile%20fields.jpg){#display_118961920b7915_0}


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not natively, the list of fields for confluence profiles is pretty much hard-coded at the moment.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userprofile> works really well in my experience, although I think there are a couple of others that will do the same job for you.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: AppFusions' [Enterprise Directory and Org Chart](http://www.appfusions.com/display/EDIRC/Home) reads and displays some or all of your AD (or other LDAP flavor) fields, including profile images. It also supports some additional views for lookups and org charts.

It's a little beyond what you are asking for - but maybe interesting nonetheless. We find that larger organizations (with lots of users - go figure!) are the ones that like this integration the most.

If you'd like to try it, email [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com).

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EELtQZsZr2s>


Tags: active-directory

confluence-administration

ldap

profile
How do I make an entire cell selectable with dropdown?
Asked by Dana Fischer:

I am trying to use **Checklist select** macro in order to make an entire cell (every row) to have selectable items with a drop down but this is not working for me, or maybe I still don't understand how to use it. I am trying with this <https://comalatech.jira.com/wiki/display/CHK/Confluence+Checklists+Plugin#ConfluenceChecklistsPlugin-Example11> but it's not working. Do you have maybe a better and more detailed explanation?


Answers:
author: Stiltsoft Support
body: Hi [@Dana Fischer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/822611) ,

If you are looking for a way to create a sort of dropdown selection in a Confluence table, you could try our [Handy Macros for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214971/handy-macros-for-confluence-formatting-and-interactive-ui?tab=overview&hosting=server&utm_source=atlassian-community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=handy-macros-traffic-sources&utm_id=1216111&utm_content=_dropdown_table) app. Handy Status, one of its macros, can be used to create status sets with custom options, switch them in the page view mode, and track the history of changes if needed.


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Dana, not sure which is the ultimate goal of the operation, but it looks like [Confluence Advanced Tables](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.table) can help you. In case you are looking for something else, please describe the ultimate goal for this feature usage as such we can provide alternate paths for the solution.


author: Dana Fischer
body: maybe a little "hack" for it, if needed? developing... etc


Tags: confluence-administration

macro

select-list

table
Display excerpts in browse by labels view
Asked by Paul LALANNE:

Hi,

Is there a way to display pages excerpts in the browse by labels / labelled content view?

Conversely, is there a way to display labels for each page in a search result?

Thanx in advance


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: You can search by label by typing "labelText:chocolate" (discovered in [Search Syntax](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Syntax#ConfluenceSearchSyntax-Searchingforlabels)), so you'll see excerpts in the search results.

As of the Atlassian Developer's Summit 2014, Atlassian plans to expand the search syntax so you'll soon get amazing power from it. Stay tuned!

comments: author: Paul LALANNE
body: Thanx for your answer...but that's not exactly what i was looking for.

I knew that i could search labels using search syntax.

But, even in this way, the result page doesn't display the labels attached at each result as they are shown when using the browsing by labels view.

On the oposite side, it would be very usefull, when navigating by labels, to display on the result page an excerpt of each page/element shown as a result.

In other words, what i'm looking for is not to improve the search itself, but to display more elements on the result page.

Should i understand that it is not possible at this time? Even with a third party addon?

Hope i made it clear...and sorry for my English.

Thanx in adavance.


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: You're right, I skipped that part because I don't know any way of showing labels in the Confluence search, but I know some people have more expertise of the search and I hope they'll see your question.


Tags: confluence-administration

excerpt

label
How do I delay publishing a blog post on confluence?
Asked by mattkatz:

I send out a weekend reading email with some fun links to my team every friday at 5. I use Outlook's delayed send feature to compose the email as a draft during the week and outlook sends whatever I've got at 5pm on Friday.

How do I do something similar in Confluence? I'd like to make this just another kind of blog entry, but I'd like to have time to draft this in private and just publish what I've got at 5pm on friday. Is there a way to do this? Is there a plugin that helps?


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: I haven't heard of any plugin improving this experience but in the footer, you can set the date of a blogpost:

image2014-10-1 16:30:4.png

That's when it appears in everyone's RSS feed. Unfortunately you can't set the time, you can't restrict it with permissions and you can't plan for an email to be sent.

Also, pay attention when you create a private page in Confluence and you copy it in a blogpost: Images will still be attached to the private page and may not be visible.

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-delay-publishing-a-blog-post-on-confluence/qaq-p/284386?attachment-id=9982){#link_118962009eba84}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/48147/1/image2014-10-1%2016%3A30%3A4.png){#display_118962009eba84_0}
can I limit confluence ondemand access by ip address?
Asked by MEJ @ WTP:

Currently, my locally hosted confluence is on an internal network with anonymous access and I am considering moving it to the OnDemand version of confluence but I need to be able to limit anonymous access to only a few networks.

Thanks,

mike


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. They won't do it.

See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand> and <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-2636>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Where are the email templates
Asked by Trond Teigland:

I need to change the invitation email, but cannot find any place to edit the template.  
Surely that must be possible... ?

We are using Confluence OnDemand.

Best Regards  
Trond T


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: I found that the follow person notification template was set in the i18n translation. It is a good bet that it is there too for the invitation email.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: <https://translations.atlassian.com/dashboard/translate?lang=en_US#/48/0/undefined/ALL/ALL/Join%20me%20and%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20team>


author: Davin Studer
body: You could download the language pack .jar file ... which is really just a zip file. Rename it to \*.zip. You should then be able to go in and make the changes that you need and then upload the translation into your system.


author: Davin Studer
body: Oh, but if you are using OnDemand I'm not sure if it could be changed or not.


author: Trond Teigland
body: Thanks for your efforts :-)But yes, we are using OnDemand, and I fnd nowhere to down- and upload a .jar file.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how to find pages that have comments
Asked by Andre van der Elst:

How can I find pages that have comments ?

I know you can subscribe to a space (watch), but this will only notify me of new comments and I would like to see pages that have old comments as well.

Is there a macro trick to give me a summary of pages in a space that have comments attached ?


Answers:
author: Geert Graat
body: You can find all comments by searching for type:comment. This will also give you all pages that have comments, but the question is what you want to do with these pages.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Andre,

I believe that the application doesn't have this functionality bundled, however you could do that using some SQL query to get the pages which have comments on it. I've created this simple query to you that will show any page which have comments.

```
Select distinct (title) from contentwhere contentid in(select pageid FROM content where contenttype = 'COMMENT');
```

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Andre van der Elst
body: We have a space where only a few accounts have rights to create/edit pages but everyone can add comments to suggest improvements (yeah I know, it's a wiki....). Anyway, it would be nice to create a page in the space that summorizes the pages that have comments on them. For now searching for type:comment is sufficient. Thanks for the quick reply!


Tags: confluence-administration
how to display more than one excel sheet on a page?
Asked by blubbfisch:

Hi, as the title says, i want to display an excel calender with confluence, where every month has its own sheet.

im actually using this code, but it just shows me the last viewed sheet.

```
{viewxls:name=nameofdoc|language=DE}
```

is it possible to let the user browse the 12 sheets?


Answers:
author: Amol Dongare
body: You can refer this <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/display-excel-sheet-on-confluence-page/qaq-p/1619539>


Tags: ms-excel
Defining a variable in a page
Asked by Gianni Pucciani:

Hello,

Is there a way to define a variable in Confluence and pass its value to some macros in the same page?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Gianni


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Gianni,

The easiest way is to use the run macro:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.run>

You could also do it using a user macro, but it would be much more complicated.

Best regards,

Stephen

comments: author: Gianni Pucciani
body: Indeed the run macro is a good solution, thank you!


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence - User shows up upon search, but not for adding permissions
Asked by Jason Moerbe:

I have added some new users to confluence - all with the same group associations and settings. Of the five that I added, three of them work as expected. However, there are two of them that DO show up when I do a user search, but when trying to add them as individuals to the space permissions, I get "No Matches Found".

It sounds similar to the issue about users not being added to the people directory. But since they DO show up when doing a simple user search, I'm not sure what else needs to happen.


Answers:
author: Jason Moerbe
body: To verify against Julia's question above - a background reindex did NOT solve the problem. But a full reindex rebuild (the option where you lock users out of using the system for the duration of the reindex) DID solve the issue for me.

comments: author: Linus Lindroth
body: How do you reindex Confluence? Do you mean Content Index?


author: Jason Moerbe
body: We have our Jira and Confluence linked (under application links in Jira). They have synchronized account databases. The re-index takes place within Jira. Jira Admin \> System \> Indexing


author: Linus Lindroth
body: Oh ok, we have LDAP connection directly from Confluence. No connection with JIRA.


author: Jason Moerbe
body: ah, sorry. I won't be of much help then.


author: Linus Lindroth
body: Just for your info, I have suddenly the same problem.


author: Julia Wester [Wittified]
body: i don't know if this will help at all, but have you reindexed?


Tags: confluence-administration

permission
How to set "permission-private" checked by default, when creating a new space?
Asked by Michael Maertin:

Is there a way to automatically set "permission-private" checked?

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Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Michael,

I couldn't find any configuration for this in our documentation while searching. I don't think this is possible without modifying some layout file.

I'll leave this question open as other people may know how to perform this configuration.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
where do i set up fonts used by confluence
Asked by Tracy Pierce:

we write docs with MSWord, some get pasted into confluence, then later that text needs to be copy/pasted back to word.

confluence lets me choose HEADING1 HEADING2 etc but where are fonts associated with same?

if we can coordinate these fonts things might work better.


Answers:
author: Mike Rathwell
body: I *think* that the only serious way that you can do that is with a Confluence plugin that allows the use of a .dotx file from MS Word to be used to create MS Word style sheets to export into. From what I have seen the basic export to word is rudimentary, works, but takes formatting work after the fact to make the word doc look the way you want.

An example of a plugin (and there are others as well) would be Scroll Office on the Atlassian Market Place.


Tags: confluence-administration