youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
A space I have created is not available in the site homepage drop down list
Asked by IT Dept:

I have confirmed that confluence-users group is granted permission to my new space but it does not appear in my site homepage drop down list in settings? version 6.5.2


Answers:
author: IT Dept
body: The problem is in the site homepage drop down from the further configuration tab, The Spaces are listed by Space KEY and not the Space NAME. Very confusing. I figured it out.


author: Thomas B
body: In Admin Settings \> General Configuration \> Space Permissions you should see all spaces. Once you find the space that you are having trouble viewing, click on Manage Permissions and add a group of users to view the page. If this doesn't work, I have additional questions to try and figure out why you cannot view the space. Remember to refresh upon any administrative changes.
How do I manage the content/columns in my Task Report? (status, duedate, completedate)
Asked by Wanning Luo:

1. I want to set my Task Report so that I only see complete or incomplete tasks, but every new task seems to be defaulting to "complete." How do I get the Task Report to reflect the statuses of my tasks correctly?

2. How do I change what is displayed in my columns (i.e., description, duedate, assignee, completedate)? I am particularly interested in duedate and completedate.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Wanning,

In the [Task Report Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/task-report-macro-590260009.html) you can edit the columns that display and which task status displays by default:

![Screen Shot 2018-04-05 at 1.20.25 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18763i20A6E61A1B9C95AF/image-dimensions/419x260?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-05 at 1.20.25 PM.png")
> Columns to include in the table. Available columns include description, duedate, assignee, location, completedate and labels.

You said you want to change what is displayed in those columns. What do you mean by that? You would need to edit the actual task in order to change what is being displayed in the column.

Regards,

Shannon
Is there a way to add a shared calendar in Confluence w/o an add on? if not, what is the add on?
Asked by Angelina Sommo:

Is there a way to add a shared calendar in Confluence w/o an add on? if not, what is the add on?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You could iframe a Google Calendar, or some other such web enabled calendaring app if you don't want to buy a Confluence add-on. If you just want to do it in Confluence then the other option would be to get the [Team Calendars add-on for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.extra.team-calendars/cloud/overview).


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Is it possible to create a Space template w/ a page directory in left column and content on right?
Asked by Tony Fugolo:

I like to create a space in confluence that mirrors Atlassian's product guidelines: <https://atlassian.design/guidelines/product/overview>

Or more specifically, I'd just like there to be a page directory on the left that navigates the content on the right.

Is this possible? (I'm a Confluence novice.)

Thank you


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Tony,

In Confluence, the directory should already be in the left sidebar with the content on the right. Or do you mean separate from the sidebar that's there?

The design page itself is very similar to how Confluence looks in Cloud and the newer versions of Confluence. Is this the look you're referring to or a specific guideline?

Can you confirm your Confluence version?

Shannon
how can i add a new macro on confluence cloud?
Asked by Sebastian casabonne:

hi

how can i add a new macro on confluence cloud? , for example, "page break"...([https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=DISC\&title=pagebreak+user+macro#pagebreakusermacro-Purelysingle-linemacro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=DISC&title=pagebreak+user+macro#pagebreakusermacro-Purelysingle-linemacro)) , because this instruction is not same on the admin cloud like in the example...

regards


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: It takes little more effort in Cloud, but its fairly trivial to add your own Static Content Macros - I covered this at Summit a few years ago.

You can use low-cost static content hosting options as long as they support HTTPS (you don't even need a domain).

It then only takes three files to create your macro:

* atlassian-connect.json (the add-on configuration file)
* An icon (image file) for your add-on
* A text file containing your storage format code

Provision through the marketplace as a private add-on.

comments: author: Jeppe
body: 50% of your answer is about how easy it is to do.. and 0% is about how to actually do it.


author: James Dellow
body: I posted that reply in 2018. However, last year I wrote an article with a bit more detail:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/How-to-create-simple-custom-macros-in-Confluence-Cloud/ba-p/1227422>

Particularly as things can change, bear in mind that you may still find it necessary to dip into the development documentation <https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/macros/>

PS I might have a "community leader" badge, but I don't work for Atlassian.


author: Jeppe
body: Apologies for the tone. I was a bit frustrated, and had just gone through 20 different links about how to do it, and all were outdated or answers that didn't actually show how to do it.. Maybe I'm just used to stackoverflow. Thanks for the link, - Have a nice day!


author: Max Foerster - K15t
body: Hey Sebastian,

user macros are one of the restricted features of Confluence OnDemand. Please refer to the documentation for further information:

[Restricted functions in Confluence Cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/restricted-functions-in-confluence-cloud-734070955.html)

Best,

Max

comments: author: Sebastian casabonne
body: ok, thanks


author: Max Foerster - K15t
body: Sorry to say! :D I love writing smaller user macros and that's one of the things that keeps me away from Cloud. Additionally working with customization/CSS


Tags: confluence-cloud

user-macro
Migrating table from wiki markup to Confluence in Confluence 5.10.8, table is only imported row by r
Asked by Patricia Pozon Aguayo:

Hi all,

Am attempting to migrate a 6x121 table from wiki markup to Confluence markup.

Am adding the table in a format similar to the help doc:

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| ||heading 1||heading 2||heading 3|||cell A1|cell A2|cell A3||cell B1|cell B2|cell B3| |

But this remains in pre-formatted format, and is not rendered into the table UI unless I add a carriage return after the row. Because of this, the rows are rendered one-row-at-a-time with a carriage return between them (it looks like an awkward table :) ).

Any ideas how I might migrate the whole markup block at once? (Or does it need to be entered manually?)

Thank you,

Patty


Answers:
author: Doug Swartz
body: Patricia, it's not clear from your question. Are you migrating the content by cutting and pasting it into the 5.10 instance through the UI, or through upgrading the Confluence instance, or some othe method??


Tags: markup

table
Confluence 6.7 docs
Asked by Casey Daniell:

I am working through the confluence 6.7 update and the docs are showing 6.6 in the breadcrumbs at the top of the page? This seems, odd and incorrect.

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-6-7-upgrade-notes-943529899.html](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-6-7-upgrade-notes-943529899.html?)

![Capture.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13785i85E0F88860CE4027/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Seems odd and incorrect to me, too. The doc does seem accurate despite being under the 6.6 pulldown and breadcrumbs. I have reported the issue to our tech writers and expect it to be fixed soon.

comments: author: AnnWorley
body: It's fixed!

![Screen Shot 2018-02-01 at 3.48.06 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13835i9B861E5347A38BF4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-02-01 at 3.48.06 PM.png")
Anchor jumps to top of page except in editing mode
Asked by Lisa Rademacher:

Hi,

I created page A containing a table with two columns (1, 2) and multiple rows. Column 1 contains terms; column 2 contains the corresponding definitions to those terms. I explain multiple terms = so multiple rows (for each term one row). I also created page B containing text using those terms. The plan was to link the terms on Page B to the definitions in the table on page A with anchors.

However, when I click on the terms on Page B it brings me to the top of Page A and not to the specific anchors in the table. However, when I am in editing mode on Page B and click the anchor, it redirects me to the correct anchor on Page A.

I tried in Safari and Chrome...same result.

Can anyone help please?


Answers:
author: Dugald MacDonald
body: I had the same issue, Confluence have a bug logged for this... <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-59098>

comments: author: Adithya Sri Kumar Saraswatula
body: Can you please let me know once this bug is resolved as we have halted our work because of this issue. Even not only only editing but in general also it is going to top of the page rather going to the specific headings


author: Vickey Palzor Lepcha
body: You might as well WATCH the BUG to get updates yourself.


author: Adithya Sri Kumar Saraswatula
body: Sure thanks...:)


author: Dugald MacDonald
body: I'd also suggest voting on the bug


author: Adithya Sri Kumar Saraswatula
body: The one vote is mine visible on the left...already done... :)


author: Lisa Rademacher
body: Thanks guys! I voted for and watch the bug. Hopefully it is resolved soon, the anchor macro could be of great use!


Tags: anchor
Team Calendar - Possibility to remove old dates automatically?
Asked by Knut_Luebke:

Dear support-team,

is there a possibility to remove old dates which are older than a specific time-intervall (for example a year) from our calendar automatically? If yes how can we realize it? And if not.. we think it will be a nice option.

Thanks for your reply.

Best Regards

Knut L?bke


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: We do not have that capability in Team Calendars so I created a feature request. You may vote or comment on it to become a watcher and get notifications: [As a user I would like Team Calendar events to be removed after a specified time](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54895)

Please do explain more about your use case on the suggestion ticket. In my experience people don't often scroll back to old events, or if they do it is to verify past events, The dev team may be curious about the circumstances you would want that functionality for.

comments: author: Knut_Luebke
body: We are using the Teamcalendar often, so that there are many events in our calendar. Our Teamcalendar is located on our server and published, so that our collegues are able to subscribe the Teamcalender (for example with outlook). The synchronisation will take longer as bigger the calendar is. So we think, it will be great to drop older events automatically, to reduce the synchronisation-time.
Is it possible to remove the top navigation for a space, only in that space?
Asked by Shannon Davis:

We have a space that wants to remove the top navigation for Confluence. But it is only one space, and we don't want to make it at an administrative level for all spaces.

Is this possible either with native Confluence functionailty or with add-ons?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's going to make Confluence a pain for users who use places other than that space if you remove their quick links to other places.

Because the bar is important, providing the main navigation, no, it can't be removed.

You can play around with it using add-ons though. I would look at Refined Wiki and Brikit that can easily re-skin a space, and may have enough off-the-shelf config to redefine the layout enough (I've never tried to remove the useful stuff with them, so I don't know if they go that far), and possibly Theme Builder if you want total control of the space (where I know you can. And you can do things like "Only show this bit if user is in group X and it's Tuesday")

comments: author: Shannon Davis
body: after looking at it, I agree. How could they login without a navigational bar? Our team is looking at Brikit. I will try to convince them not to remove the header.


author: James Dellow
body: You could try using the Style macro (via Space Tools \> Look and Feel) to hide that element using CSS.
Confluence Questions: A Leaderboard for a space
Asked by Shannon Davis:

I can't seem to find a previous question on this topic. I am at a large company - over 15,000 employees. We have one Confluence Server that serves multiple departments. My department would like to have a "Questions" space where people can ask questions and have them answered. All sounds easy so far.

What trouble we've run into is that the Leaderboards and any statistics appear to be on a confluence site-wide basis, and cannot be shown or seen on a space-limited basis.

Has anyone accomplished this?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I don't think anyone has accomplished this, though the people on this forum have pleasantly surprised me before.

I went ahead and created a suggestion for the development team to include that feature in a later version: [As a user I would like to see Questions for Confluence leaderboard on a space basis in addition to globally](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54901)

Please feel free to add your voice to the suggestion by commenting or voting. That will also add you to notifications for the suggestion.

comments: author: Mike
body: [@AnnWorley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502040) Any update on this user story? This would be great if implemented.


Tags: questions-for-confluence
How can i add links with the percentage sign?
Asked by Damian Kreis:

Hello,

I?d like to add a link on a confluence page via "add link". The problem is that the link contains the signs "%5" and the link is changed, if I insert it. It makes %255 out of it

**further e.g.**

The Link = %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6

will be changed to

"http://%251%20%252%20%253%20%254%20%255%20%256"

If I copy the link directly to the page it works fine but the link is completely written to the page. So it doesn?t look nice.

Does anybody have an idea?

thanks you very much


Answers:
author: Lei Wang
body: Hi,

I just tried in Confluence 6.7.0, the link %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 displayed as http://%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6, see the following screenshots

![Screen Shot 2018-02-27 at 4.37.19 pm.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15865iDF978AB305810737/image-dimensions/497x185?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-02-27 at 4.37.19 pm.png")![Screen Shot 2018-02-27 at 4.38.18 pm.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15866i9318F6EDFA0EA3ED/image-dimensions/374x283?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-02-27 at 4.38.18 pm.png")

comments: author: Damian Kreis
body: Hello,

many thanks for the answer. I?m using Confluence 6.0.6.

Could you try it with this version too? Maybe I can use a workaround.

best regards


author: Lei Wang
body: Hi,

I just tried in Confluence 6.0.6, it works fine as well. I'm using **web link**

![Screen Shot 2018-02-28 at 5.58.45 pm.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15997i9122B9EE35A37D28/image-dimensions/210x278?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-02-28 at 5.58.45 pm.png")


author: Damian Kreis
body: Hello,

I?m using also web link but I still have the described problem.

Any further ideas?

with best regards
If a user is a watcher of a deleted page, he still have this page linked in People/Watches
Asked by Carles Perez Gassio:

Page Watches on my People / Profile page remain although I deleted the pages.

Is it possible to have watches removed on pages that are deleted?


Answers:
author: Carles Perez Gassio
body: SOLUTION: the page must be also deleted from the trash.

comments: author: Thomas Deiler
body: Ah! I have misunderstood this - I deleted a whole space. But for single pages you are right! Well done.


author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Carles Perez Gassio](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1183362),

Have a look at this [JQL](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CONFSERVER%20AND%20affectedVersion%20in%20(6.4.2%2C%206.4.3%2C%206.5.0%2C%206.5.1%2C%206.5.2%2C%206.6.0%2C%206.6.1%2C%206.6.2%2C%206.7.0%2C%206.5.3%2C%206.6.0-beta1%2C%206.6.3%2C%206.7.1)). These are all issues, that affect your version and above.

My assumption is, that what you discovered is a bug.

So long

Thomas


author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Carles Perez Gassio](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1183362),

I reproduced what you described above. Create new space - added some pages - unwatched/watched them - deleted the space.

All links in my personal watch list where removed, as expected.

With which version happen this to you? Have you already checked Atlassians Jira (jira.atlassian.com), if there are known bugs with this subject?

so long

Thomas

comments: author: Carles Perez Gassio
body: Hi Thomas, thanks for your answer. I'm using Confluence 6.4.2


Tags: watcher
Confleunce on Linux with Oracle Backend. Moved to Virtual guest, lost front end vm. How to reinstal
Asked by John Garmany:

I have the oracle backend, how can I install a new confleunce front end that will connect to me current backend? To make matters worse, I "think" I was on version 5 or 5.1. Can I check that in oracle? Is the version stored in the database?

I really do not want to start over again with me data.

John


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Unfortunately, the confversion table only has the build number in it, and that's not readily translatable to a version of confluence.

If you're sure you were on 5.0 or 5.1, then download both, install one of them (using separate clean empty databases) and get them working, then stop it.

Edit the config file in the new \<confluence home\> and point it to the old database. Backup the old database and try starting Confluence. If it's the wrong version, it will tell you (and stop). You can also check the clean database for the build number in there to see how close you are getting.

If 5.0 doesn't work, try 5.1


author: AnnWorley
body: Hi John,

You can find the build number in the database by running:

```
select buildnumber from confversion; 
```

against your database and then cross referencing the build number on this page: [Confluence build information](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-build-information/)

If you lost your data directory you probably lost your attachments - they are stored on the file system for most instances. However, most of your content is in the database so here is my suggestion:

* Install a new Confluence instance of the same version you had before. Use a new database because the setup wizard overwrites the database.
* Close down the new confluence and edit \<Confluence_Home\>/confluence.cfg.xml (or \<Conflunece_install/conf/ server.xml) if you use a datasource connection) to point to the new database.

Those are the high level steps - for step by step details please see [Method two](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-to-another-database-148867.html#MigratingtoAnotherDatabase-Methodtwo%E2%80%93forinstallationswithalargevolumeofattachments). (It says its for large volumes of attachments but it is really an alternative to the XML restore method which you cannot use because you don't have the front end application server to make the XML backup.

Best wishes,

Ann
Bar duration in roadmap-planner storage format
Asked by michael_wild:

Dear all,

I'd like to automatically update roadmap-planner macros via the REST API. However, it seems that the choice of representation is a bit roundabout:

```
{
  // ...
  lanes: [
    {
      title: 'Some Lane',
      color: { bar: 'red', count: 1, lane: 'blue', text: 'black' },
      bars: [
        {
          title: 'Some Bar',
          description: '',
          startDate: '2017-01-01T00:00:00.000Z',
          duration: 3.456, // <========= PROBLEM
          rowIndex: 0,
          id: '57ab0b36-7ba5-4f89-957b-d83bd5ff7e3f'
        },
        // ...
      ]
    },
    // ...
  ],
  // ...
}
```

The problem for me with this format is that the duration needs to be specified either as a fraction of weeks or months, depending on the roadmap display option.

However, if selecting months, given a start and end date, it seems to be quite non-trivial to compute the months fraction, since not all months are equal length. If I understand the [plugin source code](https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/confluence-roadmap-plugin/src/3c391c5709102282bc72b2a09785fc54c580c407/plugin/src/main/resources/utils/roadmap-utilities.js?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default#roadmap-utilities.js-137) it looks like this calculation is based on the milliseconds in a month.

So, here the questions:

* Anybody got experience automatically updating the roadmap? How do you handle the duration?
* Isn't this model overcomplicating things? Wouldn't it be much more natural to specify an end-date? Would such a feature-request in the issue tracker have a chance?


Answers:
author: michael_wild
body: Besides my questions which I still hold up, here is a function which seems to accurately compute the months duration as expected by Confluence with the help of [moment.js](https://momentjs.com):

```
function countMonths(start, end)
{
? var s = moment(start);
? var e = moment(end);

? var sbom = moment(start).startOf('month');
? var seom = moment(start).endOf('month');

? var ebom = moment(end).startOf('month');
? var eeom = moment(end).endOf('month');

? var count = Math.round(ebom.diff(seom, 'months', true)) + 1;
? count += seom.diff(s) / seom.diff(sbom);
? count += e.diff(eeom) / eeom.diff(ebom);
? return count;
}
```


Tags: advanced-roadmaps
Searching for articles in Confluence
Asked by Ritinder Kaur:

My team uses Confluence. I would like the article search to be better and the results to be more specific. Is there any way - maybe use keywords?


Answers:
author: Christo Mastoroudes _Adaptavist_
body: Hi,

If by article search you mean the Confluence search, then you can filter your search results. Perhaps consider marking pages with labels too.

![Screen Shot 2018-02-01 at 15.55.26.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13775i3FBBD6D2411F75E4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-02-01 at 15.55.26.png")If this answered your question please mark it as answered.

comments: author: Igor M.
body: To add to Christos reply, you can also refine your search using [Confluence Search Syntax](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-syntax-158720.html) . You can use special words and punctuation marks to refine your search.

Regards,

Igor
Confluence: excerpt content-&gt;page Properties-&gt; page properties report. No content reported.
Asked by javier:

Hi support, I?m working with confluence from little time, so maybe my question has no sense...sorry if this is the case.

What I?m trying to do is next:

Same space

- Page A. Contains a table included in excerpt macro for reusing.

- Page B. Contains a different table included in excerpt macro for reusing.

- Page C, D, E, ..... Include some tables directly (under page properties macro) and reuse content from Page A and B as follows: excerpt include macro under page properties macro (for later reporting). whole tables are visible perfectly for each page.

- Page D. I use page properties report and table filter to arrange and search pages C, D, E,... The problem is that content from excerpt include macro (and page properties macro) is not shown. On the other hand, tables that are included directly on each page can be filtered and content is visible.

Confluence version: 5.9.4

Thanks in advance

Javier

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Answers:
author: Rolf Lader
body: Hi javier

I have the same problem/question. Did you find a solution or a workaround for your problem?

Thanks, Rolf