youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
In an excerpt include can I dynamically change the page
Asked by Catherine Lassen:

My team creates a dashboard every week that goes on a new page to denote the week for that dashboard. I want to include an excerpt from the latest one on the team space. Is there a way to dynamically do this so that I don't have to go in every week and edit the space?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: My strategy is hard to explain but here goes.

What if you had the current dashboard retain the same name and just archived the older ones by making copies of them? Similar to the way the latest Atlassian Confluence documentation is always the one in the doc space whereas legacy docs are on spaces according to product version.

From a step buy step perspective it would mean

naming the current page something static like "current dashboard

Copying the old dashboard page as a child page to a placeholder page where you keep all the old pages

Edit the "current" page as the new page. It's excerpts should appear in the excerpt-exclude macro on the other page on the team space.

I tries it out and it worked as far as I understand the use case:

![Screen Shot 2018-04-30 at 3.12.09 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/21016iCD2A881F506B34AB/image-dimensions/835x424?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-30 at 3.12.09 PM.png")

comments: author: Catherine Lassen
body: Thank you for your reply - and you do understand the use case. Your solution will work, but it moves the manual intervention from changing the space to making a copy of the current space to the archive. I have some user compliance issues that probably won't make that the best solution.

What I'm looking for is some fancy macro coding that will always show the excerpt from the most recently created page with a particular tag on it.


Tags: confluence-server

excerpt

server
Deploying document management (DMS) on Jira, Confluence
Asked by Qais:

How to create DMS


Answers:
author: Consulente Atlassian
body: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Deploying-document-management-DMS-on-Jira-Confluence/qaq-p/153006>


Tags: bitbucket

jira

jira-service-desk
the change history for any given space
Asked by Ron Jacob:

Is there any way to find the change change history for any given space in Confluence ?


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: Hi [@Ron Jacob](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1175782),

Are you trying to capture changes to space permissions / creation of templates / etc?

comments: author: Ron Jacob
body: Yes thats one of the use case


author: Jonathan Smith
body: Thanks, just wanted to confirm the question. I also would like the SQL code for this.


author: Scott Theus
body: Hi Ron,

If you click on the ellipses on the top right you should see a menu item "page history." That will bring up a screen that shows all the versions of the page. Clicking on one will open that version. From there you can compare it with the current version, navigate between versions, etc.

Hope this helps,

-Scott

comments: author: Ron Jacob
body: what about at space level, whether can see any history


author: Scott Theus
body: You may find what you need in the audit log the Application Settings...go to Site Administration, Application Settings (select Confluence) and scroll down to the Audit Log in the Administration section.

-Scott


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to restrict a panel to some users
Asked by Richard Coffre:

Hi all,

I need to create pages in Confluence.

But in these pages, I need to collect some confidential information, only accessible for some users.

I gather all this information in a panel.

Therefore this panel must have a restricted access.

Is it possible to do this?

Best regards,

Richard


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: Hi [@Richard Coffre](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1187858),

Out of the box, Confluence restricts down to the page level.

One thing you can try:

1. Create the panel in a child page under the parent page
2. Lock down the child (panel) page with proper restrictions
3. Surround the panel with the {excerpt macro
4. Put the {excerpt include macro on your parent page, then point to the child page
5. The panel should be invisible to users who don't have access to the child page
6. **Test this before putting in sensitive data**

\*This suggestion might not be the best solution if you have to go into sub pages to capture additional data.

comments: author: Richard Coffre
body: This solution is quite perfect.

But it seems there is an issue with Admin privileges which can override all the restrictions.


author: Jonathan Smith
body: If some of the admins on your space are the target audience... they would see content (or at least be able to expose it) regardless of what you do. It would be interesting to see if the Visibility add-on noted above would trump the admin privileges on a space.

Another option: Store the secure pages in another space, then use the {include page macro to pull those onto the desired parent page. Think of it as an iframe.


author: Manon Soubies-Camy
body: Hello Richard,

It is possible using the free app [Visibility](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility/server/overview): it embeds show-if and hide-if macros that will let you hide content from users, groups, users based on permission, etc.

But note that:

* Users will still be able to see the whole page by clicking on ... \> View source, so the hidden part is not that hidden.
* Content in show-if and hide-if macros is indexed so users can find it when doing a search.

I've just found a great article from [@Thomas Schlegel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781483) on hiding content: [The Admin's tale - Hidden Treasures](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/The-Admin-s-tale-Hidden-Treasures/ba-p/595803), it may help you further.

Hope this helps,

- Manon


author: Jonathan Smith
body: ++Scratching the page properties = hidden suggestion++, view source using the Confluence page displays Waldo :(


Tags: confluence-server

server
Move conflunece and jira to the cloud / cant upgrade self hosted server
Asked by Roman Wienert:

I'd like to move our local installation to the cloud.

It seems like we have to update confluence to 5.10 and this seems not to be coverend by our license. Do I need to buy al local license to move to the cloud or is there another way?

I already tried to renew your maintenance but when I click the link [renew your maintenance](http://www.atlassian.com/c/12521/buy-renewal)

in General Configuration \> Troubleshooting and support tools

the link is dead.

<br />

thanks for your help


Answers:
author: Jan-Peter Rusch
body: What is your current version? Is your licence still valid?


author: Gezim Shehu [Communardo]
body: 5.10 ??

That has reached End of Life a while back.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: True, and the recommendation is that you upgrade to "latest". You'll need to go to at least version 6.0 before trying it, and I'd strongly recommend 6.6


author: Francesc Arb?
body: In order to move your local instance to Atlassian cloud you must upgrade your local instance to the lastest version.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Admin rights to all spaces in confluence
Asked by Vasilis Gennaris:

Hi all,

I want to delete an obsolete page from a space in confluence that a user, that is no longer to our company, created sometime ago. Is there any way to do so?

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Scott Theus
body: Hi Vasilis,

I assume the page access for deleting is restricted to the user that is no longer with the company. If so, your administrator should have permissions to delete the page.

If the admin user can't delete it then ask your site administrator to reactivate the user's account in Confluence and click the "Log in as user" button" then delete the page. Once finished the account can be deactivated again.

Hope that helps,

-Scott


Tags: delete

page
Your database must be configured to use AL32UTF8 as the default character
Asked by Anjireddy Avula:

I'm trying to connect the oracle 12 database with atlasian conflunece . But i'm getting the above error. We checked with the database team they mentioned the oracle already set with UTF-8 format. How i can solve this problem.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I am sorry, but your database team is wrong. When Confluence connects to the server, it asks what the encoding is. Oracle is telling it that it is not AL32UTF8, so unless your database team has somehow configured the database to lie about it, it is not using that encoding.

You'll need to get them to set it up as AL32UTF8

To confirm, the question Confluence asks can be run when logged into the database with an SQL tool. Try

SELECT value$ FROM sys.props$ WHERE name = 'NLS_CHARACTERSET' ;

and you'll see that the database is not set correctly.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Export Gliffy diagrams in PDF exports on Confluence
Asked by tom1443:

I seem to have an issue on Confluence where PDF or Word exports don't include Gliffy diagrams.

Does anyone know how I could possibly resolve this?

Confluence version: 5.8.14

Gliffy version: 7.1.2


Answers:
author: Scott Theus
body: Hi Tom,

Have you tried printing to a .pdf file using the browser's print function? I haven't needed to export to Word yet, but when I need a .pdf I just print it rather than export.

It's a work around, but it may help.

-Scott

comments: author: tom1443
body: Hi Scott, yeah that seems to be a viable workaround - thanks.


author: Liam
body: I fixed the issue with the following steps:

1, Make sure you know the Gliffy Diagram name (what you saved the diagram as in Gliffy)

2. Edit the confluence page

3. Delete the Gliffy Diagram reference in confluence

4. Click Add a Gliffy diagram to confluence ( type \`/gliffy\` in new confluence editor)

5. In the first menu, select Search Diagrams and give the name in #1

6. in the bottom check the box 'link to original'

comments: author: Gray Webb
body: Confirmed this works. I would add that in Step 4 the way to "add a gliffy diagram" whilst you are editing the doc is to hit the "/" key first to bring up the list of command actions and search for "gliffy"


author: Sascha Nothofer
body: this works as long as you do not insert a Insight Object Macro into the page. In this case a un-identifiable small diagramm is placed in PDFs but it is not the correct one! No image is placed in word export.  
If you delete the insight macro again, the correct diagramm is rendered into PDF/word correctly without changing anything in the gliffy diagramm macro.  
Tested with Confluence Server (7.13.8)


Tags: confluence-server

gliffy

server
Create a form in confluence, save the data, and retrive the information when searched for.
Asked by Varsha:

I'm trying to collect data and create a repository and also search and retrieval of this information. The data has to be retrieved in the format of a form too.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence is a wiki, not a form-processing engine. If you want to use forms in Confluence, then you'll need an app to layer that functionality over the content. Take a look at Adaptavist's forms for Confluence, and Confiforms for a couple of good approaches to that.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Sidebar - customize
Asked by Darina Plekhova:

Good day.

Is there a possibility to change the color of a confluence sidebar and the layout of it (add icons into the sidebar etc.)?

I am aiming to meet the company identity more and make people recognize the company by landing to our startpage/spaces.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Darina Plekhova
body: Server.


author: Jan-Peter Rusch
body: Are you using Cloud or Server?
How can I set group settings for each user ?
Asked by Josh123:

Hi,

I Have a problem with group settings. There is a few companies which is named for example "AAA", "BBB" and "CCC". In every of these companies are 3 - 5 customers which have a access to send me reports. Every customer have their own login so " Josh " login like " Josh ".

Now, when someone send me report, it looks like " Josh " send you something, but I don?t know who is Josh and from witch company, or group exactly sad he is.

How can I set something what will be looks like :

"AAA" send you report, customer " Josh " Or something like that ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Who sends you a report has nothing to do with their group membership, unless you build the report to include that information.

Could you explain what these "reports" people send are?

comments: author: Josh123
body: These reports are on just simply messages like " Camera ona second floor stop working ".

I Know that reports have nothing to do with groups, but I wanna to find out if there is some opportunity to do something like signature. Because you now, when 20 customers send me something and I don?t know where they belong it is hard.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to explain what these "reports" are. You've tagged this with Confluence - are people really writing new pages as these reports?


Tags: customer

group
Can't see all page templates
Asked by Sinclair:

Have a space with all standard templates available.

Click + to add a page

It lists only a subset of the templates


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Sinclair](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1249390) ,

please check if specific template has been enabled for your space.

Space Admin -\> Content Tools -\> Templates

Hope this helps,

Fabio
MyJobPlanet - Email address settings
Asked by chaima:

Dear,

We are facing some issues regarding the email server setting of the MyJobPlanet.com website.

Indeed, only the [admin@myjobplanet.com](mailto:admin@myjobplanet.com) email address is working well (send and receive emails / linked to the contact us page).

We made series of testing regarding the other email addresses, please find them enclosed of the email; nevertheless, none of them was working and we did not receive any email after sending emails directly through the myjobplanet website.

That issue concern the Employer and Candidate Sign Up page, I reckon that it could be linked to the none setting of the employer and candidate email addresses.

Please provide quick answers on these issues as the project becomes urgent.

Thank you for your reactivity,

Best regards,

Chaimaa


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Have you set up the Atlassian stack to send emails correctly? Pick one of them and try the "test email" option in the email server admin screen (Jira has the most functional one) - what does that tell you the email server says?

comments: author: chaima
body: Thank you for your reply.

Actually, I am using cpanel and i am not sure about the service provider; since I would like the email configuration...


Tags: bitbucket

bitbucket-server

confluence-server

jira

jira-server

jira-service-desk

jira-service-desk-server

server
Task report macro does not list multiple assignees
Asked by Bar T:

I'm adding the Task report macro to the top of our AI page. If more than one person is tagged, only the first shows up under Assignee.

Also, sometimes a tagged person does not even show up under Assignee column. Is there a certain format this must be in for the macro to pull it?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Barbara,

It is not possible to assign a task to multiple users. We have a feature request for this below:

* [CONFSERVER-26786](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-26786)

Please feel free to comment on that request with your use case and vote to help show your interest in such a feature.

For commenting a task, it should go as follows:

\[\] @mention // date (if desired)

Can you let me know if this is the format you currently have?

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Prashant B
body: Thanks, have commented and upvoted. really a much-needed feature.
Render Html page resoureces(image,js,css,cdn) in confluence Html include Macro.
Asked by Mahesh Pawar:

I have a HTML page in apache with resources \& goes like (http://IP/EnvMgmt/Dash.html).

The HTML code includes

*\<link rel="stylesheet" href="bootstrap.min.js"\>*   
*\<script src="[https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"\>\</script]()\>*

Now i have used**HTML include** to show the HTML page via the Page URL (i.e. http://IP/EnvMgmt/Dash.html ) \& it shows the HTML .

**![confPage.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/20904i8CA7B89345DFFA5B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confPage.png")**

**But does Render bootstrap \& jqury.**

Please provide solution.


Answers:
author: Stefan Mueller
body: Hello,  
I face the same problem, including Bootstrap via HTML Macro

```
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
```

alters the buttons on the Confluence pages, which makes it hardly usable.

I found [Limiting scope of JavaScript source](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42217620/limiting-scope-of-javascript-source), could that be a solution, I haven't got it to work yet :(.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Update Docker Image of Confluence
Asked by yvonnearnoldus:

Hi,

I've tried to execute the guide: [Update the Confluence Docker image to use Oracle JDK](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/update-the-confluence-docker-image-to-use-oracle-jdk-829062521.html) but something is wrong.

When I run \`docker run atlassian/confluence-server:6.8.2\` the image starts fine.

But when I follow the guide, I get the following error: \[FATAL tini (6)\] exec /entrypoint.sh failed: No such file or directory.

I also tried it without changing anything to the files in the repository but got the same result.


Answers:
author: yvonnearnoldus
body: I found my problem. The guide does not work when you are running on Windows.

Some issues with line conversions from git to windows to docker.

I solved the problem by adding the following line to the Docker file.

\`RUN dos2unix /entrypoint.sh\`

and installing dos2unix with the apk add command.
Upgrade and Move Jira, Confluence and Crowd to Data Centre edition
Asked by Harman Singh:

Hi

I am working on upgrading and moving the Jira, Confluence and Crowd to Data Centre version to enable the High Availability in application.

In current setup, there is Jira version 7.3. Confluence 6.1.2 and Crowd 2.11.1 in Server.

All 3 applications are using Oracle 12c database in current setup which is planned to move to PostreSQL database.

Can you please provide the steps to achieve this feat which includes Migration from Server to Data Centre version, Jira and Confluence upgrade to latest versions, database server migration and VM migration as well.

Look forward to your help on this.

Cheers

Harman


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hio Harman,

Thanks for reaching out during the planning stage. It should reduce surprises during the implementation. Here is the recommended sequence of changes/updates:

**Upgrade existing instances to enterprise releases, here are the upgrade guides:** [Confluence 6.6.4](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf66/upgrading-confluence-943962880.html), [Jira 7.6,](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-7-6-enterprise-release-change-log-945544792.html) [Crowd 3.2](https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/upgrading-crowd-22544441.html)

**migrate DB from oracle 12c to postgresql:** Crowd: [Migrate to Another Database](https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/migrate-to-another-database-180290495.html), Confluence: [Migrate to Another Database](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-to-another-database-148867.html), Jira. [Upgrading JIRA applications](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/upgrading-jira-applications-938846936.html)

**migrate to the new vm's:** [Migrating Jira applications to another server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/migrating-jira-applications-to-another-server-802592269.html), [Migrating Crowd Between Servers](https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/migrating-crowd-between-servers-283642636.html). [Migrating Confluence Between Servers](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-confluence-between-servers-184150.html)

**migrate to data center:** [Atlassian Data Center migration plan](https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/atlassian-data-center-migration-plan-935363952.html),[Moving to Confluence Data Center](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/moving-to-confluence-data-center-203651.html), [Moving to Crowd Data Center](https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/moving-to-crowd-data-center-935372358.html)

I look forward to any follow up questions.

Thanks,

Ann

PS - test between each step so if something goes wrong we can catch it early


Tags: crowd

data-center

jira
Strange screenshots on my test page
Asked by marekbrze:

I've started confluence trial and I've created new page called "test".

After some time I came back to this site and to my surprise I've seen that there are some screenshots attached to this page. And what is most scary, these screenshots were supposedly attached by me and that is simply impossible. It is also impossible that someona had used my computer at that time.

Are these screenshots added automatically by atlassian?!

![Screenshot 2018-04-29 at 22.06.02.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/20896iB7626E94671F4F7D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2018-04-29 at 22.06.02.png")


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Marek,

I wasn't able to see those exact attachments on the instance associated with your email, but it's possible they were included with a template that was used to create the page.

So for example, if you use a template that includes images, it would attach them automatically.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

security
Space is existing but permission is not granted
Asked by Eddie Dubiel:

Dear community,

I have changed permission to a space to ensure it is only visible to administrators. The space is still visible in "space permissions" but I am not able to access "manage permissions" though I am admin to our confluence. Click on "manage permissions" only gives "Page not found". How can I restore access to the space?

Thanks in advance,

Eddie


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Eddie,  

You can recover space permissions using this method:

* [Assign Space Permissions \> Manage and recover space admin permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/assign-space-permissions-139460.html#AssignSpacePermissions-managepermManageandrecoverspaceadminpermissions)

Let me know if you have any trouble.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Eddie Dubiel
body: Hi Shannon,

thank you very much for your response. "Manage permissions" was available, but when clicking the link only "page not found" appeared.

I addressed Atlassian support directly and they were able to recover manually.

I appreciate your effort, best regards,

Eddie


author: Shannon S
body: Thank you for confirming, Eddie.

Can you please share with us the resolution here in case other users have the same problem?

Shannon


author: Eddie Dubiel
body: Sure, that's what I tried to say ;) I addressed Atlassian support directly and they were able to recover manually.

As I understand there would have been no way for me to recover it by myself, since I set space permission to only "administrate" before and with that step I kind of excluded myself from seeing that space. Therefore, the overwrite by atlassian support probably was the only way.

Regards,

Eddie