youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Will new editing experience in Confluence have full view and can pages then be retrofitted?
Asked by Stacey J:

I like the new editing experience, but the title centered in that small space is awkward and looks rather clumsy. Is a full-screen view on the backlog? If it is, can pages that are created in the new editing view now be updated to use the full-screen view?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Full view is currently being worked on. The below post talks a bit about it.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/The-new-editing-experience-we-re-listening/m-p/1044540#M4249>

comments: author: Stacey J
body: Thank you David. Will we be able to apply the full width to existing pages created with the new editing experience, once it is available?


author: Davin Studer
body: I cannot say for certain as I have not seen it in action, but it sounds to me like you would be able to.


author: Stacey J
body: I can! It is so wonderful. Thank you. I'm able to see more on my page when I'm working and it makes all the difference!!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Sync confluence community hosted on server 6.10.1 with cloud confluence
Asked by Gennady Kornilov:

We have internal Confluence server with number of communities. One of communities, that updates quite often, needs to be accessible to customers and partners from outside of internal network. Not the whole community, but number of pages from it.

The best option we thought is to have separate cloud confluence instance and sync content of the community partially to cloud, but we were surprised that there is no way to sync communities or even pages between server and cloud instances.

any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Matthias Gaiser _K15t_
body: Hi [@Gennady Kornilov](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3352077),

welcome to the community.

Have you tried [Comala's Remote Publishing functionality](https://wiki.comalatech.com/display/CWL/Remote-space%20publishing)? According to their docs, they support writing in Confluence server and publish it to a Cloud instance.

Cheers,  
Matthias.

comments: author: Gennady Kornilov
body: Hi [@Matthias Gaiser _K15t_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853318)

yes I saw this add-on. As per description it requires [Comala Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/142/comala-workflows) that is a great product, but it costs equal to it's great functionality ;) however we need only one simple sync function)

Thank you


author: Matthias Gaiser _K15t_
body: I understand.

Of course, you could also try to script it yourself using the [server](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-server-rest-api/) / [cloud](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/) REST API, but to be honest, I would not recommend it - mainly due to all the macros you could use which won't be easily transferrable.

Does the external instance need to be a confluence with all its functionality like permissions, comments, etc.? Otherwise you could also try to export your content to HTML and serve this to partners or customers. There are several [exporter apps](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=export%20html) in the marketplace. This way, you would not have to pay for the Confluence Cloud instance based on users, but needed to host the HTML/JS files somewhere.

Since I work for K15t, I can obviously recommend our own product, the [Scroll HTML Exporter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/420604/scroll-html-exporter-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) which is able to export the hierarchy and also search in the exported pages.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

confluence-server
How can I make "page" left biased?
Asked by Haeryong An:

As you see, the page is made in center.

How I make it left biased? I want use it wider.

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59338i8197C996CBE51206/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Answers:
author: Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_
body: Hello,

you probably tried the *new editing experience* which doesn't have full width (at the moment).

comments: author: Haeryong An
body: Then how I change it into "old" editing experience? :)


Tags: confluence-cloud
Confluence won't start after upgrade
Asked by neurostatus-uhbs:

I've upgraded Confluence from v. 6.7.1 to 6.15.2 and now Confluence won't start.

It started locally on the server after the upgrade. I stopped the service to update the server.xml file and restarted the service, but when trying to open confluence from web browser (though the reverse proxy) I get the following error:

Proxy Error {#toc-hId--1414581823}
----------------------------------

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.  
The proxy server could not handle the request *[GET /](https://confluence.neurostatus.net/)*.

Reason: **Error reading from remote server**

Jira and Bitbucket are working fine. Did I miss any changes that should have been done to the reverse proxy config file? I didn't delete the Confluence service and reinstall it as it said on the "Upgrading Confluence" instructions, since I didn't know how to do it. Could this be the problem?


Answers:
author: neurostatus-uhbs
body: I restartet the Apache Service and now it works :-) Didn't try that before because Jira and Bitbucket worked. Issue can be closed, thank you very much!


Tags: confluence-server

server
How do I re-post a blog post of one community in another?
Asked by Sandra Fraedrich:

If I want to re-post a certain blog post of one community into another to avoid to create duplicates how can I do it?

I just found a macro that allows dynamic re-posting of several blog Posts but not for a concrete one.

Thx


Answers:
author: Nicolai Sibler
body: Hi Sandra,

the easiest way to achieve this is probably using the Include Page Macro in the second blogpost.

Please remark that users of the second space (I assume "space" is what you meant with "community") need to have view permissions in the first space.
Find confluence-users that haven't logged in for six months
Asked by Mark Thornhill:

Hello

I'm trying to find Confluence users, in the *group confluence-users* , that have not logged in for *X days/months* and are *not disabled*.

With my limited SQL I've got this far.

```
select cu.USER_NAME, cd.DIRECTORY_NAME, li.SUCCESSDATE
from LOGININFO li 
join user_mapping um on um.user_key = li.USERNAME 
join CWD_USER cu on um.username = cu.USER_NAME 
join CWD_DIRECTORY cd on cu.DIRECTORY_ID = cd.ID 
where SUCCESSDATE < '2019-01-01' AND cu.ACTIVE = 'T'
order by SUCCESSDATE DESC;
```

But I don't know how to add to the search, to include just users who are in *confluence-users*group.

Can anyone help with this?

Thank you

Mark


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Mark,

Thank you for contacting us about this. I'm not certain myself, but I think perhaps you could use this article to help guide you. Have you seen it?

* [How to identify inactive users in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-identify-inactive-users-in-confluence-214335880.html)

It doesn't specifically refer to that group but identifies all licensed Confluence users who have not been active.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Mark Thornhill
body: Hello Shannon

My SQL already looks for active users, but I need to also find users in the group **confluence-users**, as they are the ones I need to remove.

I don't understand how the cwd_user and cwd_group are linked, as I think these tables have the info I need to look for, to be able to find the confluence-users.

Mark


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Mark,

If the purpose of restricting your search to the **confluence-users** group is to ensure the users are licensed in Confluence, this step isn't necessary. The query is already only showing licensed Confluence users.

At any rate, the **cwd_membership** table is what links the relationship between the users and groups. Have a look at the [Confluence Data Model](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-data-model-127369837.html) page if you have not already.

Let me know if that helps!

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

developer

server

sql
Is there a feature to wite an SRS in atlassian products?
Asked by mathagician:

I want to write an SRS (Software requirements Specification) for a technical project. I am exploring the tools but have not found one. Can anyone help or suggest something on this?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Harshit,

Thank you for asking about this! We have an article below that might help you, on writing product requirements in Confluence:

* [How to Document Product Requirements in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/blog/2015/08/how-to-document-product-requirements-in-confluence)

I've also tagged your question in the Marketplace collection, in case there are any 3rd party add-ons that could help you with this, the Community will let you know!

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: mathagician
body: Thanks. It was useful.


author: Shannon S
body: You're welcome, happy to help!

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

development

requirement
Questions for Confluence: Error message HTTP Status 401 when answering from email notification
Asked by Jan Priebe:

When I try to answer a question directly from an email notification of Questions for Confluence, I keep getting the following error page

HTTP Status 401 -- Unauthorized {#toc-hId--1414583622}
------------------------------------------------------

*** ** * ** ***

**Type** Status Report

**Message** Expecting claim 'qsh' to have value 'bb3c9f292942a584555628110c589e49e2b0600ab11887705495419843141bce' but instead it has the value '5aa8d4767c36f05d5a9980001c5dc2cbf991c0b0397151abf31677fa41fd8cb8'

**Description** The request has not been applied because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the target resource.

*** ** * ** ***

### Apache Tomcat/8.0.53 {#toc-hId--724022148}


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi Jan,

I recommend you visit this post which has some options on how to fix your issue: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Error-401-when-attempting-to-log-in-to-confluence-using-rest-api/qaq-p/1143303>

Regards


Tags: confluence-server

questions-for-confluence

server
my requirement is to install jira service desk and confluence datacenter on AWS
Asked by suresh Raman:

my requirement is to install jira service desk and confluence datacenter on AWS. Can you please help me with the designing.


Answers:
author: Steffen Opel _Utoolity_
body: Atlassian provides readily available AWS CloudFormation based reference deployments for their [Data Center on AWS](https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/data-center/aws) deployment option - the Quick Start landing pages on AWS provide resp. architecture diagrams that should get you going:

* [Jira products on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/jira/)
* [Confluence Data Center on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/confluence/)
* [Bitbucket Data Center on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/confluence/)

Please note that these are meanwhile based on the [Atlassian Standard Infrastructure (ASI) on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/atlassian-standard-infrastructure/).

Once you have gotten acquainted with this reference design, you can customize the resp. [AWS CloudFormation](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/) to match your specific production scenario.


Tags: jira-service-desk
Cannot find "Create space" under spaces dropdown
Asked by guibo wu:

I'd like to create a new space for my team, but I can't find 'create spaces' under the spaces dropdown...

Does that mean I don't have the authority? If so how could I get it?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: To create a space, you need to either be an admin, or be in one of the groups named in the global permission "can create space". Your admins can help you with the second one.
Gliffy Diagram - If I remove the license, are the created graphics no longer visible?
Asked by Alberto Fernandez Rosales:

We have contracted the Confluence APP "Gliffy Diagram for Confluence".  
Due to its little use at present, we were thinking of canceling the license of the Atlassian plugins.  
The question is: if I remove the license, are the created graphics no longer visible? Could the graphics already created be seen but could not be edited?


Answers:
author: Petr Van??ek
body: Hi, if you uninstall Gliffy (or any add-on with own macros) add-on then you will see "Unknown macro" message in any of Confluence pages where it is used.

comments: author: Alberto Fernandez Rosales
body: Hi Petr,

Thanks for your response.

That is, if I want to remove the Gliffy add-ons, I must first export all the graphics to avoid losing them, right?


author: Petr Van??ek
body: Yes, exactly


author: Alberto Fernandez Rosales
body: Great.

Thanks for your response.

Have a nice day Petr!!


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: If you remove the license, but don't uninstall, you should find the diagrams are visible on the page, but you can't edit them.
Restore a damaged confluence site
Asked by Marijan Grandverger:

Hi folks,

can somebody help me?

I made a big mistake in my backup/restore-session.

I am running two different instances of confluence, both with different settings concerning spaces, users and content.

Now I wanted to export one specific space from instance A and import it into instance B.

By mistake I did not export the space but the complete site. The import on instance B worked, but, as you can imagine, I have imported the complete site of instance A. Instance B is now a complete copie of instance A. That means that the previous content of instance B now is lost

Due to Murphy?s Law the last backup of instance B was corrupt and therefore the easy way to restore the site is not possible.

So is there another way to restore the previous content of instance B? As far as I can see the attachments of the previous content are still available on the filesystem, I suppose the database might also contain the corresponding entities. But how to tell Confluence to use these old settings again?

Can anybody help me?

Instance A runs on Windows with PostgreSQL, instance B on Linux also with PostgreSQL.

Kind regards

MArijan


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm afraid not. The import of a full site backup starts by cleaning out all the existing data. It's been destroyed.

Your only hope is that site B has a backup, either an older xml one that is not corrupt, or a database backup.

comments: author: Marijan Grandverger
body: Thanks for your reply, even if my hope for another solution is blown away.

Elder backups exist, but of course the last changes are gone, as for my private sites I do not use daily but only montly backups.

I should rethink this decision for the future ;-)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Chart not being displayed
Asked by Atilio Ranzuglia:

I'm trying the simplest example to display a chart with a table in it's body, but nothing gets rendered.

We're using Confluence Cloud, is there something to enable?

![2019-07-02-191918_1920x1080_scrot.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59302iF769ADA9ABC91A20/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2019-07-02-191918_1920x1080_scrot.png")


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, there should be nothing more to enable. Those two charts should come out, as far as I can make out - my Confluence displays them fine.

Could you show us what you get when the page is saved?

comments: author: Atilio Ranzuglia
body: Thanks Nic.

Unfortunately nothing gets displayed when I saved the page, or when I refresh the preview button while editing the chart.

Looks like the URL to grab the image doesn't work.![2019-07-03-122449_1920x1080_scrot.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59426i742768903901E679/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2019-07-03-122449_1920x1080_scrot.png")


Tags: chart

cloud

confluence-cloud
User directory Confluence
Asked by Patrik Ytterstr?m:

Our company is using Crowd as a user directory for Confluence but we have some old users that belongs to the internal directory. How to filter out which users that belongs to the Confluence Internal Directory in some simple way ?  
In Jira you can just choose what directory to list from but in Confluence I dont find anything except look up against the database.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there Patrik!

Your Crowd interface should have filters that allow this type of selection. Here is what I see within my Crowd instance when I go *Users \> Search Users:*

![Screen Shot 2019-07-12 at 17.01.24.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/60450i05A1CAEF0B19CB7B/image-dimensions/536x89?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2019-07-12 at 17.01.24.png")

Could you clarify if you have this showing up for you, Patrik?

Furhter, could you clarify:

1. Which version of Crowd are you using?
2. Has this worked at some point?
3. Is there any error on screen when you try to filter

However, if the management must be done only via Confluence, you can try and check the user profile itself and this information should be displayed there as well:

![Screen Shot 2019-07-12 at 17.07.27.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/60453i0FBAEAA62A496C43/image-dimensions/507x340?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2019-07-12 at 17.07.27.png")

Filtering the users, however, is not a feature that is implemented within Confluence. What you could do is filter the users based on a group that is present solely in one of the directories that you need to filter to. This group must be "global", though. This will ensure that every user located on that directory will be present within that group.

This solution is not really ideal, as it created overhead to group management.

Let us hear from you Patrik!


Tags: confluence-server

crowd

server
Adding links in Comments as Anonymous
Asked by Tristan Michael Booth:

G'day All,

I am wondering if anyone knows a way to prevent Anonymous users from being able to include links in their comments.

We dont want to take away comments from Anonymous users as we see this in our case as a way to gather feedback from professional users on our published standards.

We would like to take away the ability to include a link in these comments. It is no great issue if some malicious user writes something inappropriate in the comments, we can just delete it. The concern would be people adding malicious links the kind you get in phising emails into a page and someone clicking on it before we admins can delete it.

I cant see any way to limit the functions of comments only prevent it entirely or allow it. Hoping someone else may know of a way and if not if others think this would be a good feature to add to Confluence in the future.

We are using Confluence Cloud for reference.

Cheers

Tristan


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's no way to do this on Cloud.

On a Server/DC installation, there's a couple of apps that can do it in the marketplace. Years ago, I wrote one for server that would remove all links from a posting from anonymous or new unproven users (self-sign up was enabled) automatically. Nowadays, I'd try to do it with ScriptRunner for Confluence.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

security
How to share account with partner?
Asked by Thanh Truc Phan:

I want to share account with my partner. I want them can access and visit my account.


Answers:
author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@Thanh Truc Phan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3427041) ,

Welcome to community.

What is the purpose of sharing an account with a partner?

You can share your account and password with your partner, but I don't think this is a good practice. It can make many problems, such as security, task tracking, etc.
How do I add a new team space?
Asked by Anthony Lloyd:

My team is new and we are not listed in the space directory.

When I go to add a space I can't select my team.

How can I add a new team to the space directory?


Answers:
author: Yoga Reddy {Appfire}
body: Hi [@Anthony Lloyd](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3426567)   

similar kind of ticket has been discussed [here](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-remove-edit-a-member-from-a-Team-Space-in-Confluence/qaq-p/195466). Please verify

Thanks

Yoga
SourceTree update on Macs
Asked by Randy Berzinji:

I manage Macs in the environment via Jamf Pro. I have some 40 clients that are running outdated SourceTree clients. I am not good with scripting and bash.

Does anyone knows how to update SourceTree client to the latest version via command line that I can put in a script or policy and update my 40 clients to the latest SourceTree version?


Answers:
author: Randy Berzinji
body: I will have to test. I hope it works


author: Han Zou
body: Homebrew cask has the SourceTree package, does it fit your needs?

```
brew cask install sourcetree
```

And

```
brew cask upgrade sourcetree
```


Tags: bitbucket
Is there a way to add a blurb to a picture if you hover over it?
Asked by Danielle Adsit:

Looking to add a "biography" to each team members picture. So if you were to hover over the persons name or picture their biography would appear. Looking for any alternatives if this is not a feature.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Danielle,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. It's great to have you!

You can do this by customizing your page with Javascript or HTML. You can do this using the [HTML Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/html-macro-38273085.html) in Confluence.

For more information have a look at [How to Create Tooltips](https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_tooltip.asp).

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: developer