youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Need Workaround: Embedding the issue collector is not currently supported in Confluence Cloud.
Asked by Robert Jacobs:

Use Case: Capture feedback at the page level from Confluence users with view-only access as issue in JIRA. A solution is needed for Cloud.


Answers:
author: Vladimir Horev _Raley_
body: You can try Jirassimo IntakeForm and embedd it using this macro: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.jirassimo.addons.intakeforms.confluence/cloud/overview>

Vladimir


author: Jason Pamplin
body: Absolutely... We can embed JIRA issue collectors in our application and our websites. It is everything we need except... we need to be able to collect this information on our help documentation as well. I understand why embedding JavaScript in the Cloud version would not be good for Atlassian... but an issue collector add-on makes alot of sense and should be safe. I can put all kinds of other JIRA stuff on my confluence page... why not this?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
What special characters shouldn't be used in Confluence page names?
Asked by Nathanael Motz:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Search](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139528)*

What qualifies as 'special characters' in this context (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/search-139528.html>)? Might be nice to link to that information in the documentation.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: This should help:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-page-urls-contain-pageid-instead-of-the-page-title-278692715.html>


author: Hans Ginzel
body: It's a bug in Confluence. Vote for [CONFSERVER-11285](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-11285).  

Why does not Confluence support at least standard [latin1](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Latin1)/[latin2](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Latin2) characters when even open source Wikipedia does support Unicode chars in ulr. Most modern browsers do transparent url encoding/decoding. E.g. [https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/K??](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/K?? "Horse") (See page "Horse" in Wikipedia in different languages and check uris).  

Confluence should not reinvent the wheel and support standard [RFC 3986](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986) for "not plain alphanumeric" urls, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding "URL encoding").

comments: author: Bill Bailey
body: Notice the issue will turn 10 years old on April 1st and is not considered a bug. It will *never* be fixed/addressed.


author: Hans Ginzel
body: Why not? Even free/open source [Wikipedia](http://www.wikipedia.org) is able to handle nice [uris](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier).


author: Bill Bailey
body: Well having worked with Confluence for nearly 10 years, I have seen a number of these zombie issues that clearly aren't on Atlassian's radar. And eventually they get closed as "won't fix"


Tags: documentation

search
Why doesn't the sort order persist on a PDF export from Confluence?
Asked by Katie Milham:

I have a page with various tables that use the Table Enhancer Macro for sorting. When I export my page to PDF, the sort order doesn't persist. Why is this happening?


Answers:
author: Katie Milham
body: Is there a way to do this without an add on?

comments: author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Not sure it is possible currently, because table is sorted on a client and PDF export is generated on a server that knows nothing about client sorting. So Table Filter caches clients table state for export and makes it possible export.


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Try [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/cloud/overview) add-on. Table sort order remains when you export page to PDF.
Get the permissions of a space as a confluence table
Asked by Michael Ruderer:

Hello,

because we have to document the confluence authorization concept it would be nice if i have a macro that lists the given permissions to that space. I want to type in the space key i want to know the permissions and the result should look like the permissions view in the space tools:

image2016-10-6 14:41:14.png

Are there any free plugins that provide that or some user macros you have already written?

Thanks in advance!

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Get-the-permissions-of-a-space-as-a-confluence-table/qaq-p/48620?attachment-id=9345){#link_11864ab8b26aba}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/8229/1/image2016-10-6%2014%3A41%3A14.png){#display_11864ab8b26aba_0}


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Not free, but here are examples of how to do this:

* [How to get all space permissions](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CCLI/How+to+get+all+space+permissions?src=sidebar)
* [getSpacePermissionList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Example+output+with+augments#Exampleoutputwithaugments-getSpacePermissionList)


Tags: confluence-administration
What is the default timeout for regular users of Confluence 5.10?
Asked by Tom Wolff (Admin):

The Confluence documentation includes a full page on changing the secure session timeout for administrators. Atlassian Answers contains several topics related to this question, although they are for JIRA or older versions of Confluence. I don't understand why the issue of session timeouts for regular users isn't better documented and a session for changing the timeout isn't in the general Confluence configuration, or if it is, why it isn't more obvious.

To recap:

* What is the default timeout (auto logout) for regular users of Confluence 5.10?
* How does a Confluence administrator change the session timeout for all users?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Jonas Andersson
body: Regular users have a 300(5 hours) minute timeout default, admins have 300 seconds (5 min), if memory serves me well.

comments: author: Tom Wolff (Admin)
body: Thanks, Jonas. You are having the same issue that I am, namely, having to recall the defaults because it isn't so easy to find documentation on them or any configuration to change them. I wish an Atlassian staffer would help us resolve this definitely. In the meantime, I'm going to test the 5 hour timeout. Thanks again.


author: Tom Wolff (Admin)
body: I am seeing auto-logout at about 2 hours or less for a regular user. That seems about what I recall. I would still like a definitive answer from Atlassian.

Tom


Tags: confluence-administration
Task report: Tasks assigned to me AND tasks created by me
Asked by Lukas Rohrer:

Is it possible to create a report which contains all tasks assigned to me AND created by me? So far I only achieve one or the other.


Answers:
author: Z He
body: Has a same requirement, end up creating separated reports


author: Lukas Rohrer
body: Thank you. This is what I tried (sorry for missing to mention that). The outcome was a List with only the Tasks "Assigned to" me. The description of the fields you mention are:

image2016-10-6 15:34:36.png

4a --\> Tasks only assigned to

4b --\> Tasks created by

I assume that the two filters are combined "AND" instead of "OR" as I would wish.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Task-report-Tasks-assigned-to-me-AND-tasks-created-by-me/qaq-p/402426?attachment-id=8194){#link_11864b1432bc02}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/243682/1/image2016-10-6%2015%3A34%3A36.png){#display_11864b1432bc02_0}


author: David Skreiner
body: 1. Create or open a Confluence page.
2. Click the "+ Insert more Content" button
3. Click "Other Macros" and select "Task Report".
4. In the "Insert 'Task report' Macro" popup, you should see fields in the left column:  
   4a. Enter your name in "Assigned to".  
   4b. Enter your name in "Created by"
5. Click "Insert" and save the page.  

   Result: The page now contains a "Task Report" Macro which only lists tasks that you have created AND which are assigned to you.
Links within PDF document preview window not working
Asked by Shane Arnold:

Since upgrading to Confluence Server 5.10.4, links within a PDF document are not functional when being viewed via the built-in previewer. The PDF documents are working outside of Confluence as expected.

This affects all PDF documents when previewed, including newly generated PDF documents.

This was working in Confluence 4.3.

**Expected Behaviour:** Links within PDF Preview windows should be clickable

**Supporting Information:**

**Browsers Tested:**Internet Explorer 10, Internet Explorer 11, Chrome 53.x

Element Inspection of text that should be a clickable link.

```
&lt;div data-font-name="Helvetica" data-angle="0" data-canvas-width="328.8792" style="position: absolute; left: 410.203px; top: 333.301px; font-size: 16.6px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: rotate(0deg) scale(1.00398, 1); transform-origin: 0% 0% 0px;"&gt;spreadsheet pulled from TRIM D14/0398340&lt;/div&gt;
```

Empty LinkLayer DIV

```
&lt;div class="linkLayer"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
```

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Links-within-PDF-document-preview-window-not-working/qaq-p/333214?attachment-id=12221){#link_11864b1a28fa99}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/56300/1/image2016-10-6%2011%3A43%3A55.png){#display_11864b1a28fa99_0}


Answers:
author: Shane Arnold
body: [CONF-43511](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-43511)
Tableborder
Asked by Andreas Gerlach:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Tables](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=136463)*

*Is it possible to create a table without borders or to delete the tableborder in some tabelcells?*


Answers:
author: Jonas Andersson
body: It is indeed.. Like this:

Screenshot-3.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Tableborder/qaq-p/199255?attachment-id=5252){#link_11864af92a90ec}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/33496/1/Screenshot-3.png){#display_11864af92a90ec_0}


author: Bill Bailey
body: I assume you want this on a case by case basis (global/space just requires updating the CSS). Create a user macro that wraps the body with a classed div tag.

```
&lt;div class="noborder"&gt;$body&lt;/div&gt;
```

Update your global/space CSS with

```
.noborder table {    border: none;}
```

Then you insert the table inside this new user macro on a page. Of course, you can create any kind of special styling this way, or make the macro have options so a user can select from different kinds of styling.

comments: author: Andreas Gerlach
body: thanks a lot - that's it :smile:


author: Andreas Gerlach
body: Thanks, but that's not what I mean.

I'm looking for a possibility to create a table without any border

```
&lt;table border="0"&gt;
```


Tags: moderators

table
restrict access from home
Asked by imays76:

I want our employees access Confluence cloud only at office. For confidentiality, I don't want they access our documents at their homes.

If I use Confluence cloud, can it do that?

I heard that there is no IP restriction if I use Confluence Cloud. But I don't want using Confluence Server at our office because there is errors while installing Confluence Server in our office. (I will post this issue in other thread)


Answers:
author: Jonas Andersson
body: Hi,

As far as i know you are right, you can not restrict Confluence cloud to a ip or subnet. If you post the error, feel free linking to it and maybe we can be more helpful. Have Confluence Server would allow you to restrict this.

comments: author: imays76
body: Thanks for your answer.

In Confluence Cloud, is there recommended way for employees to access workspace only at their offices other than IP restriction?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Cannot view confluence whilst logged in
Asked by Tim Ellis:

There is a confluence set up at work for documentation of our API. We also have JIRA. Whenever I am logged into JIRA and then attempt to access the wiki, I get a "Not Permitted" error. The only workaround is either using another browser or an incognito browser. My question is why do anonymous users have more access (view permissions) than a logged in staff member? I understand that the company has limited licenses for edit permissions but why should that affect the viewing? It seems like a backwards step.

Can someone from Atlassian please enlighten me?

Cheers,  
Tim.


Answers:
author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: I think that you want to vote and watch: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30161>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
cant access confluence after install
Asked by Magnus Larsson:

Hi after installing confluence the install program asks if I want to open it in the browser. I click YES but it won't open

I get : ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I have added the port in inbound rules but that shouldn't really affect localhost calls

I tried to temporaily disable the firewall without any luck

I recently installet Bitbucket and it worked with localhost:7090 without problems


Answers:
author: Magnus Larsson
body: I did actually install it on my local machine.   
The installation seemed to be all done and the service started. At the end you get the question if you want to open confluence in your browser and i directs you to it. (localhost:8090)


author: Jonas Andersson
body: When you install confluence it will open up on localhost:\[port goes here\] but i assume you did not install it on your local machine, so attempting to connect to it on localhost would only get your browser to try to connect to your own machine. If you installed it on a machine called server1.yourcompany.com the address to it would be http://[server1.yourcompany.com](http://server1.yourcompany.com):\[port goes here\] Think the default port is 8080 for Confluence, but i am not sure. You can find this in the server.xml file on the server you installed it on.


Tags: confluence-administration
version string in confluence from Jira query
Asked by Jonathan Bensen:

I'm building a page in Confluence that pulls data as a JIRA query.

The Planned Version column shows up as some sort of unformatted version code, instead of what we see in JIRA.

Expecting something like 5.0,5.1, etc... Getting 10700, 12050.

I cant make sense of it.... is this a bug?


Answers:
author: David Skreiner
body: This also happens in our Confluence; I presume it's a bug in the JIRA Issues Macro. (I couldn't find an Atlassian bug about this, though).

Repro: Add the "JIRA Issues" macro to a page, configure it to display the Planned Version column.

Result: Instead of the version numbers from JIRA, Confluence lists various numbers.

I'd suggest asking Atlassian Support - they will probably either send you the bug ID or create a new entry, and may even know of workarounds.


Tags: confluence-administration
how to restrict the user viewing for confluence space for a particular project ?
Asked by prabhu kumar:

Hi Team,

i am using JIRA cloud instance \& i am using confluence too . My request the users out of particular project are able amend the other project people documents . How could we restrict the users in confluence for a particular project viewing ?.

Thanks

kumar


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: There are different ways to do this

You can have multiple Spaces i.e. one per project, with different Users allowed to access the different Spaces

or you can have one "project Space" with all users having access but then set up a top level page per project - then place View Restrictions on that top level Parent page with only the nominated people on the list, then all Child pages to it will automatically inherit the same View Restrictions. only the people on the list will see the Parent page and its children - if the person is not on the list of View Restrictees they will not even know the page exists.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I unsubscribe to watch changes in confluence pages
Asked by Amit Tzur:

Hi,

I constantly get complaints from the Project team about receiving endless notifications for certain pages, although the general notification scheme is switched off and the users are not individually tagged in most of these pages.

Can you help please?

Much appreciated!


Answers:
author: David Skreiner
body: Look up "Confluence Notification Storm" - the Notification system is implemented in a way that Atlassian likes ("Our users love getting notifications all the time!"), but many other companies hate, because the spam really can get too much.   

You're getting these shit-tons of SPAM because Confluence adds you as a Watcher to any page you make any change on. You'll then receive a nice notification whenever the next person editing it hits Ctrl-S to save, which for many users is like every other word or four times per minute. If you tell Confluence to send a Digest, it'll send a digest in addition to the massive amount of SPAM. Broken by design in my view.

To get rid of the SPAM you are getting now, open your profile page, click "Watches", and you get a list of all pages you ever worked on. (15+ pages worth in my case, because it includes space imports.) Then click "Stop Watching" next to each one.

To get rid of this SPAM in the future, open your profile, click email settings, and untick everything (especially "Autowatch").

It's not possible for an Admin to turn off Autowatch for all users, so we've taken the more painless route and have not attached Confluence to an email server.

I just saw there's even a plugin that addresses this problem.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.extra.noemailstorm/server/overview>

comments: author: Nicolas Sprauel
body: Thank you, thank you, thank you! That's a life saver, I was in despair considering quitting IT when I finally found your answer. Brilliant


author: Christine Diamond
body: Good workaround advice, David Skreiner. One issue is there is no option to Not Notify when you add pages, import documents as pages, move pages, or delete pages from a space. It would be nice to provide the option to Not Notify when performing those tasks as well.

comments: author: Francisco Corvalan
body: Fully agreed with this option in need to be added please!

My colleagues complain about too many emails, at the end, the "collaboration" becomes overwhelming

thanks!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

email

notification
Task reminder sends to first user only
Asked by Reinhard Mayr:

I use Confluence 5.10.6 and TaskReminder 1.1.6.

When I have a task with multiple users then only the first gets notified. Is there a way to notify all users that are mentioned in the task?

Thanks! Reinhard


Answers:
author: Roman Kirilenko
body: Hi Reinhard,

As an alternative, you can try to use a [Handy Reminder](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/HMFC/How+to+use+Handy+Reminder+macro) macro from [Handy Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.handy.macros/server/overview). You can flexible configure as many reminders as you need and send emails to any Confluence users and groups.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to unpublish a page (or revert a state) in Comala Workflows?
Asked by Teresa Hollidge:

We use a global space workflow that is applied to all pages within a space. Increasingly we find that we have one or two pages in some spaces that we do not want to publish and we do not want the contents of the pages to be returned in the search results. Unfortunately, these "do no publish" pages frequently get published despite our efforts to the contrary.

Is it possible to "unpublished" these pages? Or is it possible to somehow mark a page as exempt from the workflow that applies to rest of the space?

Resetting the state of the page back to draft doesn't help because the page still has a published version. I need a way to remove the published version or prevent the published version from ever being created for these specific pages. I'm happy to do this what needs to be done for the individual pages - there are only a few pages that need this special treatment out of the thousands that we expose to our customers.

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Miguel Reimer
body: Hi Teresa,

If you are using a version of Comala Workflows after 4.9, we have a feature where you can specify that pages with a particular label don't have the workflow enabled. In other words, the workflow will still work on all the existing pages as it does now, unless the specific label is added to the page. Adding the label on an existing page will de-activate the workflow.

Say this is the top line of your workflow markup:

```
{workflow:name=Workflow}
```

and we don't want pages with the "noworkflow" label to get a workflow. The top line of the workflow markup would then look like this:

```
{workflow:name=Workflow|label=noworkflow|invertlabel=true}
```

You can also add "\|stickylabels=noworkflow" to the above line, which means only admins can remove the label from the page.

That all said, de-activating the workflow on pages means that our draft/published functionality is disabled and all viewers of the space will be able to directly see the page content. So to hide those pages we'll need to add a new global workflow to all the spaces to add page view restrictions at the same time the main workflow is deactivated. Here's a sample workflow to do that:

```
{workflow:name=Hide Pages With No Workflow}{trigger:labeladded=noworkflow}{add-restriction:type=View|user=USERS}{trigger}{workflow}
```

Replace "USERS" with a comma separated list of the users who can view/edit the page or alternatively use "group=GROUPS" with a comma separated list of the groups who can view/edit the page. You can also use both the "user" and "group" parameter at the same time to add page restrictions for a combination of users and groups.

Please give that a try and let us know if you have any further questions.

Thanks,  
Miguel


Tags: adhoc-workflows

comala

confluence-administration
Confluence Cloud - Modifying Decisions Template
Asked by John Sanders:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Decisions Blueprint](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=339739406)*

I'm using JIRA and Confluence Cloud. I want to modify Decisions so that "Owner" is changed to "Decider," and the constraint to select JIRA users is removed, as I have non-users who need to make decisions. I want to do the same thing for "Stakholders," changing them to "Supporter(s)." Any help is greatly appreciated.


Answers:
author: Giles B
body: Hi John,

You can modify the template used by the decisions blueprint by going to **General administration** \> **Global Templates and Blueprints** , then clicking **Edit** next to *Decision*.

You can change the row headings easily enough. There's actually no constraint on who you put in any of the fields, but an @mention will only allow you to mention registered Confluence users. To mention anyone else, you can just type their name in without the @.


Tags: blueprint

cloud

decision

documentation