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When we try to share page external not working they do not have access
Asked by Davide Palo:

When we try to share page external not working they do not have access


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Davide Palo](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3919965) ! As I understand, you need to share Confluence pages with users who are external (not part of your organization) and it fails because they do not have access.

If you need to share content from within Confluence with users who have no access to your instance, you need to enable Public Access for that content.

Public access works by opening specific content to people who do not have Atlassian accounts with access to your instance.

What you need to take into consideration is that by enabling Public Access, all pages to which you made this change will be publicly available. No authentication will be required to access them.

You can check our documentation about Public Access here:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Set up public access***++](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/set-up-public-access/)
> * ++***[\[Confluence Cloud\] Make a space public](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/make-a-space-public/)***++
> * ++***[\[Atlassian Support\] Confluence: Mixing public-facing without login articles and internal content](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/confluence-evaluator-resources/confluence-mixing-public-facing-without-login-articles-and-internal-content)***++

However, if you are trying to share content with authenticated users and they are unable to access such content, you might need to look into the Space permissions and page restrictions for the content which you need to share.

Here, take a look into our documentation about permissions and restrictions:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] What are space permissions?***++](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/what-are-space-permissions/)
> * ++***[\[Confluence Cloud\] What are Confluence Cloud permissions and restrictions?](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/what-are-confluence-cloud-permissions-and-restrictions/)***++
> * ++***[\[Confluence Cloud\] Add or remove page restrictions](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/add-or-remove-page-restrictions/)***++

I hope this helps!


Tags: cloud
is read aloud a feature of confluence?
Asked by Vivek Singh:

Is read aloud a feature of confluence or we expecting to have this feature rolled out in near future?


Answers:
author: Sven Schatter _Lively Apps_
body: Hi Vivek,

The easiest way would probably be to use [a browser plugin](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-aloud-a-text-to-spee/hdhinadidafjejdhmfkjgnolgimiaplp?hl=en) for this. For Confluence, there is [a ticket from 2018](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55599) but it doesn't have a single vote. So I personally wouldn't really expect a feature like this to come to Confluence.

Cheers,  
Sven


Tags: confluence-server

server
Looking for a search or customizable content report table macro
Asked by Steve Gibbons:

Looking for an option that allows me to search all spaces for specific labels and create a table with custom headers. Something like

Page Name \| Date last modified \| Label \| Page Owner \| etc...

The content report table macro has non editable headers and the search macro was discontinued


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@Steve Gibbons](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3833079) ,

It seems to me that the Content Table Report macro is the most suitable one for your purpose.

To change its headers to the more understandable ones you can use the [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app.

Wrap your Content Table Report macro into the [Table Transformer macro](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Transformer+macro) and insert simple SQL query to change the standard headings:

![Wrap TT.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/94854i480CD22267E6987C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Wrap TT.png")![TT Settings.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/94855i06F2BD698669B0D5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "TT Settings.png")![TT result.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/94857i612DC4BCD24B4CAA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "TT result.png")

comments: author: Steve Gibbons
body: [@Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1464746)

Hi Katerina. Thank you for the suggestion. At this time we do not have the "Table Filter and Charts for Confluence" add-on to be able to use the Table Transformer macro.

I appreciate the reply though :)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence 7.4 with postgresql 11.7?
Asked by Chris Schulte:

I would like to upgrade Confluence from 7.2.2 to 7.4. I've been using postgresql 11.7 without any problems so far but when I run the pre-upgrade checks, it says that my database version won't be supported.

Has anyone had a problem with that? Is there any plan to support postgresql 11 in confluence?

Thanks,

Chris


Answers:
author: Daniel Ebers
body: Hi Chris,  

PostgreSQL 11 is not yet supported, the corresponding suggestion is to be found here:  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-57432>

From my personal view using an unsupported database is nothing I would do in a production environment.  
There is a reasonable risk that you are denied support as the database is an unsupported one.

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: Chris Schulte
body: Thanks [@Daniel Ebers](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/800113)

We were using PostgreSQL 11 for the original setup because that's what we were using for Jira. I made the update and it seems to be working ok. From the comments on the link you gave me, it looks like a lot of people are waiting for psql 11 support (last post: 30/Mar/2020). It looks like Confluence with psql 11 is almost there. Hopefully, this question will be obsolete in the next few months.

Thanks again!

Chris
How can I integrate a Confluence Space as a context-sensitive help into an Angular App?
Asked by Martin_Drenkelfort:

My general idea is to implement a context sensitive online help which pops up after clicking the help icon and then automatically presents the relevant help articles from the corresponding Confluence Space.  
How can this be achieved?


Answers:
author: Martin_Drenkelfort
body: Hi Diego,   
Thank you, I think this will help. So a search for labels via API CQL might be a good way?  
In order to open the right help topic in the application, a CGL query would be performed (e.g., search for a page with a certain label...)?  


author: Diego
body: Hello [@Martin_Drenkelfort](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3896737) !

As I understand, you need to send a search query from your application into Confluence and then display the content that results from such search. Since this looks like a development issue, I believe that we will be better served by the people from our Developer Community.

Here, take a look:
> * ++***[\[Atlassian Developer Community\] Confluence Developer](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/c/Confluence)***++

One thing that might help you out is using REST API to send this search to Confluence:
> * ++***[\[Confluence Server Developer\] Advanced Searching using CQL](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/advanced-searching-using-cql/)***++


Tags: confluence-server

server
Export to PDF with image within header and footer on all pages
Asked by Ted Lin:

I am not a developer or programer however, I have been trying to play around with the pdf stylesheet and cannot get it working as I would like it.   

I am trying to place an image within the header and footer on all pages that are exported however, with the code below. I am only getting it on the first page. Any ideas?  

on the @bottom-right. If I remove the background-image within that section. the page counter displays on every page. However, when having it there. It only appears on the first page...

[@pagetTeng](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2589484)  
{  
[@Top](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1903495)-center  
{  
background-image: url("download/thumbnails/888766476/Artboard2%20(2).png?api=v2");  
height: 250px;  
width: 100%;  
}  
@bottom-right  
{  
content: "Page " counter(page);  
font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;  
font-size: 8pt;  
background-image: url("download/thumbnails/888766476/Artboard2%20(2).png?api=v2");  
height: 250px;  
width: 100%;  
}

}


Answers:
author: Thomas Rough _K15t_
body: Hi [@Ted Lin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3882182) , thanks for the post. Had you also checked the answer provided in [this post](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-add-header-with-image-and-footer-with-page-number/qaq-p/1104615) which covered a similar topic?

Additionally, had you considered using a Marketplace app to achieve the formatting for your PDF exports? We (K15t) develop [Scroll PDF Exporter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) which comes with a built in template editor that makes it easy for non-programmers/developers to achieve the required formatting for their exports. If you're interested you can [read more here](https://help.k15t.com/scroll-pdf-exporter/latest/server/6-benefits-of-scroll-pdf-exporter-132320753.html) and can trial the app for free from the [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) listing.

Hope this information helps.

Cheers, Thomas (K15t)


Tags: cloud
how to fix this error anytime i logon with local administrator
Asked by mouzakirou yaya:

![Conf.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/94677iEEAF93B97002C519/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Conf.png")


Answers:
author: Grigory Salnikov
body: Hi [@mouzakirou yaya](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3348668) !

I see that this user though it's named "administrator" is not in **confluence-administrators** or **system-administrators** groups.

May it be the reason? Please, check these groups. They should have at least 1 user.

comments: author: mouzakirou yaya
body: that's the problem the local confluence admin has been deleted!

The questions are:  
? how can you put it back on?  
? where can I find the groups confluence-administrators or system-administrators  
? I can add the newly created user to these groups


author: Grigory Salnikov
body: Oh, I see. If I were you I would raise a support request describing all my situation. I don't see an easy way out of this. If it was a Server instance, perhaps, there were *something* we could try to do.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Create inventory with confiforms plugin
Asked by ofer ROZENBERG:

Hi

i would like to create inventory management. i created a form with fields name, license ex. date and status. i would like to do the following

* check if date is More than 90 before ex. date status is OK
* check if date is less than 90 before ex. date status is warning
* check if date is after ex. date status is expired

can it be done automatically every day?

is it possible to send e-mail when status changed

u tried to find a kind of action trigger by date .....

thank you guys in advance


Answers:
author: ofer rozenberg
body: Any ideas how to make it?


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: ConfiForms app does not have any background processes and there is no way to "schedule" something within an app.

This needs to be done elsewhere, outside ConfiForms... and integrated via ConfiForms REST API for example


Tags: confiforms

confluence-server

server
How to import page templates to on-premise Confluence server?
Asked by Tuelle:

I have found an interesting page template which I would like to use with my on-premise Confluence server: <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/templates/weekly-meeting-notes> .

How can make this template available in my server?


Answers:
author: Zoi Raskou
body: Hello! I am afraid you can't import page templates designed for Confluence Cloud to Confluence Server. You can always recreate it though!

comments: author: Russell
body: Hey any suggestions on the best way to recreate the templates? I've found copy and pasting from the cloud version in Edit in to Confluence Server doesn't always capture all the layout and content very well.


Tags: confluence-server

server

template
Why can I no longer post comments?
Asked by Oliver Frank:

I used to be able to post comments on the CSIRO's Confluence page, but now I can't. Why is this?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to ask the space or system admins for CSIRO what has changed.

We're not your admins, we're a community of people with an interest in Atlassian. Most of us don't know what you mean by CSIRO


author: Grigory Salnikov
body: Hi [@Oliver Frank](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3919126) and welcome to our Community!

I'm agree with [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) here. It looks like the permission to post comments has been revoked.

P.S. I think by CSIRO is meant <https://confluence.csiro.au/>


Tags: comment

permission
Confluence Cloud's editor has some problems with the rendering of a macro preview
Asked by Kevin Kyei:

Hi Community,

We have been creating macros in the new Confluence Cloud Editor and are having problems with the way the editor renders a macro preview.

It seems that the editor randomly decides whether or not to trigger the rendering of a macro so when our macro is not called by the editor, we get an empty macro placeholder. I was just wondering if anyone faced similar challenges?

I will raise a support ticket regarding this also.

Kind Regards

Kevin


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Kevin Kyei](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1811733) !

As I understand, the rendered of our editor does not behave as expected with the software created by you. Since this looks like a development issue, I believe that we will be better served by the people from our Developer Community.

Here, take a look:

> * ++***[\[Atlassian Developer Community\] Confluence Developer](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/c/Confluence)***++

comments: author: Kevin Kyei
body: Thanks Diego, I have raised this issue in the Developer community also.


Tags: confluence-cloud

confluence-development
What are analytics option in Confluence apart from the options via ViewTracker?
Asked by Vivek Singh:

Hi ,

I am having multiple wiki pages on confluence grouped by different topics where multiple users from different teams can navigate the pages. Currently I have viewtracker plug-in installed but it only provides basic analytics like which user visited which page along with timestamp.

I am thinking of having a metrics which can provide me details like if user is on x page and clicks to something else --what is the something else, hi and low outliers and call them for feedback to understand/validate the use cases,attachments downloaded x times, raw data looks at who looked at what and when.

Is there an option already in Confluence to do that, if yes - how and if no- what's the best way/tool which can do such analytics on the pages.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Vivek Singh


Answers:
author: Zoi Raskou
body: Hello, there aren't too many metrics offered out the box. Apart from View Tracker and eazyBI for Confluence the information you need to report on are very specific and to my knowledge there isn't an app that offers this.

You could create this feature by doing some serious scripted automation (either using Scriptrunner for Confluence or by writing your own scripted plugin).


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to get name of current user
Asked by Bo Chen:

Hi,

In my page, I would like to say something like:

Hello "user"

Where "user" should be dynamically replaced by the currently logged in user. How can I do that?


Answers:
author: Marc Jason Mutuc
body: Try this

issue.getAssignee().getDisplayName()

comments: author: Marc Jason Mutuc
body: errr.... currentUser()


author: Bo Chen
body: i am using confluence cloud. how would i type that in?


Tags: cloud
Is MySQL database still a free database to use with JIRA & Confluence latest version.
Asked by Bhartesh:

Hello Team,

Could some one please let me know, if MySQL database is still a free database to use with JIRA \& Confluence latest version.

As some people say post Oracle has purchased MySQL, they provide community version/s of MySQL for standalone applications only.

Could some one please explain on this.

Thank you in anticipation.

Regards,

Bhartesh.G


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It is still supported, and it is still free.

You should probably ignore people who don't know what they're talking about and look for yourself.

comments: author: Bhartesh
body: Hello [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) ,

Thanks a lot for your quick reply.

Regards,

Bhartesh.G


Tags: confluence-server

jira-software

server
How do I add variables in a Confluence template?
Asked by John Schram:

I've had an issue adding multiple instances of the same variable to a template in Confluence 6.15.8. When I select an existing variable name from the insert dropdown it adds the variable with an incrementing number of $'s prepended (i.e. first instance is $var1, second usage gets called $$var1, etc.)

Each one needs to be entered separately, which feels like a bug. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello John,

Thank you for reporting this, and welcome to Atlassian Community.

This appears to be an issue with the Template menu, which I've logged in the bug below:

* [CONFSERVER-59826](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59826) *Additional $ added to variable when reusing variables in templates*

I'm able to reuse a variable if I type the **$** shortcut instead, and choose the desired variable. Just make sure not to select the ones that start with $; those are your duplicates.

Please vote on the bug to help us properly prioritize this according to our [Bug Fixing Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/atlassian-server-bug-fix-policy-201294573.html). You'll also be automatically added to the list of watchers to get updates in the future.

Let me know if that workaround doesn't work for you!

Shannon
Add shared links to Space directly from mobile device?
Asked by Aniket Sawant:

Hello, is there an easy way to share links from the Confluence mobile app on iOS so that they can directly be added to the "Shared Links" page in a Space?

Currently, going to the "Shared Links" page on the mobile app shows an awkward-looking bookmark that opens up the desktop site for "Shared Links".

From there, one has to horizontally scroll, click on the "Create shared link" button as on desktop. This opens up an overlay with more horizontal scroll into which one can theoretically paste a link.

However, likely because of how the overlay is handled on mobile devices, one can't actually hit the "create" button to create the link page (horizontal scroll doesn't work). And the "go" button on the iOS keyboard doesn't create the link page either. See attached.

Is there a way to solve this? My team and I would like the ability to instantly add web links directly from our mobile devices to the Shared Links page. Ideal would be to use the Confluence mobile app, but we're open to hacks using mobile web \& Slack integrations as well.

Thank you.

![IMG_1AB90299CF5A-1.jpeg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/94593iDD59B88F0F5E6804/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "IMG_1AB90299CF5A-1.jpeg")


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Aniket Sawant](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3381480) ! As I understand, you need to be able to use the "*Shared Links Bookmarklet Button*" macro from within your Mobile device running our Mobile Application.

Currently, there are some limitations to what is available to the Mobile Platform, one of them is Macros. This is an excerpt from our Documentation:
> ***Not all macros are available***
>
> *Not all macros will display on the app or mobile web. If a macro can't be displayed, you'll see the message below, and have the option to tap through to the desktop version of the page, in your device's browser.*

This excerpt is taken from here:
> * ++***[\[Confluence Server\] Confluence Mobile](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-mobile-284365706.html)***++

Currently, we have no documentation on the Cloud counterpart of the mobile app, it is still being worked on. However, according to this very document, their functionality is very similar:
> *While the functionality of the two mobile apps is very similar, you will need to download the Confluence Server mobile app to be able to authenticate with a server site. You can't use the Confluence Cloud app with a Confluence Server site or vice versa.*

You should be able to work around this by using the Full Desktop Site in your mobile site and possibly the horizontal orientation on your phone if you are still unable to scroll the dialog box sideways.

I understand that this is not an ideal situation, but as of today, that is all information I have at hand.

Let me hear from you!

comments: author: Aniket Sawant
body: [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952) Thank you for your response! Understood. I look forward to using this functionality whenever it becomes available. Best wishes.


Tags: cloud

mobile
Usage statistics available in Confluence
Asked by Roja Gurram:

Hi All,

Do we have usage stats available in Confluence (tpwiki), who / when / which sites / pages were visited?


Answers:
author: Andrii Maliuta
body: Hello [@Roja Gurram](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3627350) .

It depends on the representation and type of data you need.

Confluence has its default functionality for tracking major activity that is disabled by default - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/viewing-site-statistics-123043962.html>

Confluence admins can turn it on, if it meets the needs and criteria.

Also, there are macro like 'Recently Updated', 'Popular Content' (also disabled), 'Activity Stream', 'Top users' etc. - by combining these macros you can make page look like the dashboard you need for tracking activity.

And of course, there are 3rd party add-ons for more complex tracking.

Hope this helps.

Thank you

comments: author: Roja Gurram
body: Hi [Andrii_Maliuta,](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/484201)

Ok, Thanks for your response.

I have Enabled "Confluence Usuage Stats" Plugin though it's not showing the Exact data which am trying like "Who, When,Which Sites, Which Pages" were visited. Which one should match all these four please ?

Could you please help on this any other possible ?


author: Andrii Maliuta
body: [@Roja Gurram](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3627350) ,

If you need to see the statistics in the exact "Who, When,Which Sites, Which Pages" pattern, then some custom functionality is required: 3rd party or custom developed for your needs, as Confluence macros and the menus you enabled have their own predefined parameters and interface and are not flexible for configuration.

So, you can try to:

1. Find more flexible add-ons related to statistics in the Atlassian Marketplace - [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=server\&product=confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=server&product=confluence)
2. Develop your own User macros - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html>
3. Develop your own add-on - <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/>

I hope this is helpful.


author: Roja Gurram
body: Hi,

No, this is not useful.


Tags: confluence-server

server