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How do I turn a wiki page into a template?
Asked by n0173439:

We have a wiki site with project-level documentation. We'd like to take a current page and turn it into a template for use across projects. Is there a way to do that or do we need to copy/paste the content into a template?


Answers:
author: Sam Lucas
body: Hi [@n0173439](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5105482) ! Currently the best way to do this is to just copy the contents on your source page and then go to Site Settings and create a custom global template. If you do not need the template for ALL spaces, you can create the custom template at your space level. You will need to be an admin of the space or site to do one or the other.

<https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/administer-global-templates/>

We have noted that our community would like an easier way to turn a page into a template for both a specific space or globally.

- How often do you turn existing pages into templates vs. create templates from scratch?

Thanks!

comments: author: n0173439
body: Hi Sam, thanks for the guidance. We will use this workaround.

It's not that often that we would need to do this, but the impact is fairly time-consuming. We create new templates a few times per year within our sites. The specific page that we'll copy into a template has a bunch of separate sections and formatted tables, so that's why we were looking for a workaround. No worries that there isn't one currently, but I'd love to see that in a future update!

Thanks!

-Jen


author: Jack Brickey
body: OOTB you would use copy/paste. I am unaware of any add-on that would change that requirement.

comments: author: n0173439
body: Thanks Jack


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I create table of contents from a table
Asked by Selina Khanam:

I have a large table with questions and answers - the questions being the main content to be applied. I wanted to create a table of contents so can easily navigate the to the question with the answers - is that possible? Thank you


Answers:
author: Srinatha T
body: Hi [@Selina Khanam](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5105480) ,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

We have a macro by name table of content which can be used actually.

* [Table-of-contents-macro](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-table-of-contents-macro/)

You might want to check on the same.

Thanks,

Srinath T

comments: author: Selina Khanam
body: Thank you, I don't fully understand this page (sorry). its just picking up headings from outside the table and not inside the table. :-(


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Dynamic Site naming/numbering
Asked by Flo:

Hi All.

We have a large word document (400+ pages with a lot of pics).

This should be migrated to confluence.

Importing is possible with some tools and Macros.

In word there is a numbering structure with dept of five levels.

I have imprted the doc with three levels.

So my site structure is (excerpt)

1. Txt

2. Txt

2.1 Txt

2.1.1 Txt

2.1.2 Txt

2.2 Txt

. . .

So there is still some numbering within the sites down to 5th level.

As the document is that large it has to have the numbering

All is ok until there is some reorganization with the chapter names or even adding or removing one site in the middle. Then all below Site Titles and headings have to be renamed to ne new number. Thats a mess.

I reduced effort using "numbered headings" within the sites but still this has to be manually adjusted and the First three levels have to be touched and renamed.

Is there a solution or a makro that could help renaming the sites itself ... and in best case as well the below numberings dynamically?


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Flo](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5105393) Welcome to the Atlassian community

There is not a dynamic page renaming function within Confluence. The best thing I was able to find was this app in the marketplace [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1222418/rename-page-descendants?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1222418/rename-page-descendants?hosting=server&tab=overview)


Tags: confluence-server

server
access pages
Asked by Ivan Andrieiev:

Is there a way to view pages that are not accessible in Confluence, access is blocked by the author.


Answers:
author: Jack Brickey
body: Either the author or an admin needs to provide you access. Otherwise a user cannot view the page as that would negate the purpose of the access permissions. What would the need or use case be here?

comments: author: Ivan Andrieiev
body: [@Jack Brickey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853369) Hi

If I'm a Confluence administrator?


author: Jack Brickey
body: Are you the Org admin? If so you should be able to find/access.


author: Ivan Andrieiev
body: I am an organization administrator. I can see that the blocked pages have been created, but I have no access to open them.


author: Jack Brickey
body: Hmmm, I did not think that was possible. Something may have changed. I will try to reproduce this later today. I would confirm this with Atlassian support though.


author: Ivan Andrieiev
body: Ok, thank you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can a Jira Macro in Confluence use the page name as a search predicate?
Asked by Daniel Cave:

Hi,

One of our users is looking to do something fairly complex. They have what amounts to a standard reporting page in Confluence which references a number of Jira filters.  

They are asking whether it is possible to effectively wildcard the Jira filter where clause and use the Confluence Page Name as the filter value.  

It doesn't feel possible but I figured I would crowd-source my response rather than just saying no.


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Daniel Cave](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/415912)

Not that I know of natively.

The Jira Filter macro is effectively referencing Jira Search / JQL - so cannot take into account the Confluence page name, or any wildcard capabilities to that effect.

Ste


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
List licensed user CFL 7.4.18
Asked by Comgest IT Team:

Hi

how to get the list of licensed user (CFL 7.x) as the following procedure is not working as i do not have any*atlassian-confluence-security.log* file

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-get-a-list-of-active-users-counting-towards-the-confluence-license-298978076.html>

thnaks


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Comgest IT Team](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/779409) You will need to follow the directions in the linked KB above and turn on logging. Once the logging is turned on the file will be generated and you can get the information you need from it.

comments: author: Comgest IT Team
body: thanks but the file atlassian-confluence-security.log does not exist

i enabled the DEBUG, browse CFL home to logs folder but nothing with atlassian-confluence-security.log name. i did a find but same, no result

see Screenshot![2023-01-03 09_19_03-Window.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/232781i22576ACBF370AF36/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2023-01-03 09_19_03-Window.png")![2023-01-03 09_20_22-Window.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/232782i5F0EE546C850959F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2023-01-03 09_20_22-Window.png")![2023-01-03 09_22_15-Window.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/232783iF2C7E6E49D04A705/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2023-01-03 09_22_15-Window.png")


author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Comgest IT Team](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/779409) after turning on the debug did you go to the license details page and click refresh? This is what generates the log file.


author: Comgest IT Team
body: hi Brant

yes i did but still no file created ... :'(


Tags: confluence-server

server
Some pages do not appear after space import and restriction removal
Asked by Pavel:

Hi everyone,

I have imported a space from a compatible Confluence-Server export file (name: Confluence-space-export-nnnnn-nn.xml.zip).

The import was conducted from the "General configuration -\> Backup \& restore -\> Import from the home directory" admin section (import file size is 4GB, it was stored in the restore directory).

The import was successful (no errors occur during the import).

I resetted the newly imported space permissions from "General configuration -\> Space permissions -\> Recover Permissions" admin area.

The site is now visible (including attachments).

The problem:

* There were a few restricted pages, which I saw in the "Space tools -\> Permissions -\> Restricted pages".
* I deleted all restrictions, but the pages are still **not visible**.
* The content resp. the pages are imported, because I can find them in the database.

Is there a way to fix this issue?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Kind regards

Pavel


Answers:
author: Pavel
body: The solution that worked for me was the following: directly in the database I searched for the pages that are not visible and checked if there were any (old) CONTENT_PERM_SET entries. After deleting the entries and restarting the Confluence instance, the pages were visible again and I was able to restrict them again.

Lessons learned:

* CONTENT_PERM_SET entries are not being (?) correctly deleted after import
* as Nitin suggested - remove all restrictions before export - this will safe an enormous amount of time and effort after import


author: Nitin Rastogi
body: Hello [@Pavel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4671168)

I just checked the issue posted by you and can see there's already a bug logged for the issue where restricted pages are not exported as part of Space XML export in Confluence Data Centre.

As a workaround you need to remove restrictions on Pages before initiating export of space instead of removing restrictions after import.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks

Nitin Rastogi

comments: author: Pavel
body: Hi Nitin,

thanks for the response.  

For future imports I'll remove the restrictions prior export, but now the import is already done, I can not revert it anymore, since the space is already in use in the new server. :-(

So there is now way to view this pages again, except fetch the content from the database and recreate the page manually?

Thanks and regards

Pavel


author: Nitin Rastogi
body: Hi Pavel,

Yes, since the export is already imported and in use, restricted pages needs to be created manually if required in imported space.

Thanks

Nitin Rastogi


Tags: confluence-server

server
Include page title in the same page?
Asked by Jochen Berdi:

Hello

is there a way to display the page title within the page?  
We need this because we want to use the feature of tagging and then Jira issue creation.  
And the Jira Issue should take the page title as a summary and link the two together.

Best regards  
Jochen


Answers:
author: Nitin Rastogi
body: Hi Jochen,

The page properties report macro displays content from pages with the page properties macro on them, including the title.

Pls refer below to response provided for similar query - <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/Include-page-title-in-a-page/td-p/829558>

Thanks

Nitin Rastogi


Tags: confluence-server

server
Roadmap - View full text
Asked by Jamie Capito:

Hello, I've created a roadmap in confluence, however, I am unable to view the full text within each of the bars. Even when I hover over it, it doesn't display. Is there a way to show all text within each of the bars? Including the side bars? Thank you!

![Screenshot 2022-12-19 at 6.08.48 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/231265iA9F0655A17DA4E1A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2022-12-19 at 6.08.48 PM.png")


Answers:
author: Bastien Coucke
body: Hello,

You can't change the bar view in the macro Roadmap in Confluence Cloud.

The best way to display the full text of your bar, when you are in the view mode on your page (not edition mode !), is to point your cursor on it and read the contextual text box that appears next to it (as shown below).  

![Picture 2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/232865i1D45B5AC81393F2D/image-dimensions/433x194?v=v2 "Picture 2.png")

![Picture3.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/232868i00B43719828E7284/image-dimensions/424x191?v=v2 "Picture3.png")

<br />

Best regards,

Bastien Coucke

comments: author: Shannon S
body: Hi Jamie,

Happy New Year, and welcome to Atlassian Community! In addition to what Bastien mentioned, we have the following feature requests for Confluence Cloud and Data Center, called *Roadmap Planner - Ability To Resize or Expand to Content/Preview Inconsistencies.*

* [CONFCLOUD-36401](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-36401)
* [CONFSERVER-36401](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-36401?)

Since we know this isn't the answer you hoped to hear, our sincere apologies. Please visit the [Implementation of New Features policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/implementation-of-new-features-policy-201294576.html) to learn more about how we prioritize our feature requests.

Take care,

Shannon \| Atlassian Community Support


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Customer Script in Sidebar
Asked by Christian Isaza Aguirre:

Hello, everyone.

My question would be if using JavaScript scripts on Confluence's Sidebar is supported, is it something meant to work smoothly or something like this?

The questions comes from one of the users using my company's Confluence spaces, he is running a JavaScript script that is retrieving information from somewhere else, but when they try to add more functions (alert, specifically) to the script it won't let them save the changes.

Per the documentation (although it does not say it clearly) apparently JS is not supported on Sidebar and the fact they got it running in the first place seems to be odd (they run it with the {html} tags from the html macro on Confluence).

So, I just would like to have a response regarding it.  

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Christian Isaza Aguirre
body: Hi everyone,

Any ideas what could this be? Thanks


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Christian Isaza Aguirre](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5104974) ,

welcome to the Atlassian community!

Javascript is something that works on client side and there is no limitation about where it works. So it should work also on Confluence sidebar side.

Here a guide about how to setup your javascript <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-use-javascript-in-confluence-313458839.html>

Fabio

comments: author: Christian Isaza Aguirre
body: [@Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781528)

Thank you so much for your response.

I was checking that documentation and this:  
[Configure the sidebar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configure-the-sidebar-317194694.html)

But I cannot find a solution to our issue. It seems there is a code error but we definitely cannot find where it is; myself, I am not a programmer so this is getting kind of difficult to me.

Note: The error they get when trying to save the changes to the code is:

Web Application Firewall - This transfer is blocked by a Web Application Firewall - But this only happens when changing that code specifically, anything else is not reporting such error.

More context:  

As mentioned before, our team is already using a script they wrote about 5 years ago, and now they try to ad alerts not working, and this is something the person writing the code has noticed:  

"I have started creating a minimal case that triggers the error. What I have found is that the code does not like "if" statements in javascript, not even when they are commented out!  

**So this works:**   
{html}\<script\>  
alert("hello world");  
var a=1;  
do { a=0; alert("hello again") } while (a==1)  
\</script\>{html}  

**This does not work:**   
{html}\<script\>  
alert("hello world");  
var a=1;  
if (a==1) { a=0; alert("hello again") }  
\</script\>{html}

**and this does not work either:**   
{html}\<script\>  
alert("hello world");  
var a=1;  
// if (a==1) { a=0; alert("hello again") }  
\</script\>{html}"


Tags: confluence-server

javascript

server

side-bar
make confluence page to global blueprint/template.
Asked by Lakshmi S:

Hi Team,

How to make confluence page to global blueprint/template.


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Lakshmi S](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/11952) ,

you can create a page template/blueprint at your convenience using the following guide <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/blueprints-323982376.html>

You need to copy page content into the related template and make it as global.

Keep in mind that you need to be a Confluence Administrator to do that <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/administering-site-templates-138439.html>

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: Lakshmi S
body: Hi [@Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781528) ,

User has already implemented all the process with lot of things in the page. Is there any option to move that same page to global blueprint/template. when I am trying to copy the page, its just asking to move to other space , not to global templates.


author: Sam Lucas
body: Hi there [@Lakshmi S](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/11952) ! When "copying" the page... you need to highlight all of the content on the page and then command C to copy. Then go create a custom template and paste the content into the custom template editor.

I suspect that you are using the breadcrumbs menu and clicking "Copy Page" which will not help you make a template. Does this help?

thanks!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Personal space shows created by other user
Asked by Adrian Esparza:

I have a user that did not have a personal space created for them automatically and does not have an option to create a personal space. When they go to create a space at all, it automatically shows myself as the creator not themselves. None of my other users have had this issue. Any help would be appreciated. Feeling pretty stuck.


Answers:
author: Nitin Rastogi
body: Hello [@Adrian Esparza](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5071306)

Did you checked the user is properly set up along with the permissions who is trying to create Personal Space ?

Also can you try this behaviour in another browser if same issue still exists ?

If above doesn't help, pls share some more details along with screenshot(if possible) to suggest further on this.

Thanks

Nitin Rastogi


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Are there email server controls for the Confluence "Mail Page" function?
Asked by Ed Yost:

We are considering [enabling the Mail Page function](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Enabling+the+%27Mail+Page%27+plugin) to allow Confluence authors to [email an HTML formatted page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/E-mailing+a+Page) for meeting and status updates. The Security department would like more information on email server controls, e.g., "granular control available (enabled for only specific spaces and/or accounts)" and likely to prevent emailing Confluence pages to email addresses outside of the corporate recipients.

I have not found any information on such controls and appreciate any further information.


Answers:
author: marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-
body: Hi [@Ed Yost](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1726205) ,

Your question is labelled Confluence Cloud, however this functionality is not built into Confluence Cloud. Can you check if you actually mean Server?

comments: author: Ed Yost
body: Hi [@marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1205132) ,

No, I did mean the Cloud as that is our implementation for Confluence. Another source indicates that this was discontinued or never built for Confluence Cloud.

One suggestion is to implement a third party app, called [Email Confluence Page](https://tracelink.jira.com/wiki/marketplace/discover/app/net.veniture.confluence.cloud.email.this.page). Does anyone in the community have experience with this and can you recommend it?  

It appears from the description that security controls are available to restrict to corporate domain(s) as I asked in my original question? Does anyone have experience with successfully using such controls?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

email

security
Duplicate Space name allowed?
Asked by Darryl St_ Pierre:

I know there is a restriction on duplicate page names within a space, but today I was able to create a space with the same name as an existing space. I was not aware this was possible. Yes, the suggested space key was duplicate, but that's not an unusual occurrence and I did not consider that the space might already exist.

Can anyone confirm this is correct behavior?


Answers:
author: Vamsi Kandala
body: Hi [@Darryl St_ Pierre](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3743898)

Yes, while the Space key is unique, Space name need not be unique even when importing the Confluence space.

You can create different spaces with the same name (though not recommended) but should have different Space keys between them.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,  
Vamsi


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Browser Not Supported: Firefox v108.0.1
Asked by Everett Morgan:

I'm getting a weird message that my browser is unsupported when trying to view Confluence even though I'm using the latest version of Firefox. Seems like a recent update messed up how y'all are reading the User-Agent string possibly?


Answers:
author: Nitin Rastogi
body: Hello [@Everett Morgan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5104698) ,

There's a KB around Browser troubleshooting guidelines for Atlassian products.

[browser-troubleshooting-guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/browser-troubleshooting-guide-330796533.html)

Can you please troubleshoot your scenario as per above KB and let me know if this helps to drill down the issue at your end ?

Thanks

Nitin Rastogi


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I set my personal default board in Trello?
Asked by C Wilson:

I want my initial board to be different than the team's default board.

Using Trello on a windows machine.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Alex W
body: Hey [@C Wilson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4339392) , we don't have the concept of a 'default board' in Trello, can you elaborate on what you're trying to do?

comments: author: C Wilson
body: I work across several boards. I am hoping the first board I see when opening Trello can be a specific board. Currently, the first 'board' I see is one the team no longer uses. It was closed by the Admin and I see a message that the board is closed.