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Creating a link to a heading on the same page.
Asked by Evan Morton:

In Confluence Cloud, I'm trying to create links to headings in the same page. I've tried several solutions given in Confluence documentation and in this community forum, and none have worked. When I try to create a link with "#foo" to link to heading foo, it doesn't create it.


Answers:
author: Sven Schatter _Lively Apps_
body: You are right, according to [CONFCLOUD-66773](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-66773) this doesn't seem to be possible right now with the new editor right now. :(

comments: author: Evan Morton
body: Thanks. But see my comment in that ticket.


author: Sven Schatter _Lively Apps_
body: Yep, seems a bit confusing. For all I can tell you it's not working for me either. So I guess you should contact the support team as mentioned in the ticket.


author: Evan Morton
body: Thanks, but a couple of questions. First, one of the comments was "However, you can navigate to your headings with #", which seems to mean that you can manually create links with #. I can't even do that. Can you? If so, how?

Second, I'd like to contact the support team, but I don't see the link for that in any of the pages I've looked at. Do you know how to contact them?

Thanks.


author: Sven Schatter _Lively Apps_
body: No, I can't either. Played around with it a little bit and it only seems to work if the page is already loaded. Definitely buggy.

I think you should be able to contact them here: <http://support.atlassian.com/contact>


author: Evan Morton
body: Thanks, but I'm still not understanding. A page needs to be loaded to work on it at all. So what do you mean "only seems to work if the page is already loaded"? I'm looking to make links within a page, so there's only one page involved in this situation.

Thanks.


author: Sven Schatter _Lively Apps_
body: If you add the anchor part (<http://host.domain/path?query=value#anchor>) to the URL after a page is loaded and press enter it works (sometimes). But if it's already in the URL upon load it doesn't work (which it should).


author: Evan Morton
body: If you look back at the ticket, Sunny Xu's last comment on 28 October tells you the feature that replaces it. And my comment right after it tells you what's wrong with the new feature!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
No Top Navigation Bar
Asked by Mark Roshop:

I just started with Confluence and unfortunately I don?t have a top navigation bar. The whole navigation takes place in the sidebar. Is this adjustable somhow in the settings?


Answers:
author: Sven Schatter _Lively Apps_
body: In Confluence Cloud that's the way it's meant to be.

However there is a [browser extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/atlassian-navigation-exte/flioipdmdipioibnnoekkadfcoelelil) with which you can make it look like more like the horizontal navigation from Confluence Server.


author: Andrew Dildy
body: Hi Mark,

We are actually planning on moving to top navigation in Confluence Cloud. Check out this post for more detail, <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/New-navigation-and-Home-are-coming-to-Confluence-Cloud/ba-p/1211418>, and let us know what you think!

comments: author: andrelindner
body: Hi Mark,

any news?


author: Joaquin Bravo
body: Same question


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Links contained in Draw.io images are broken after XML Space import
Asked by thgmx:

Hello community,

some pages in my space contain draw.io images with links. When I import this space via XML into another site all those links are broken. I know, that importing pages with links based on page IDs will point to the old site where the imported space comes from (if these links are between spaces). That is painful enough but the problem with draw.io is even worse: the links point to nowhere.

this happens with Confluence 6.13.4, Draw.io 9.1.0

Can anybody help?

Best regards

Humbalan


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: When migrating spaces and/or instances, please follow <https://desk.draw.io/support/solutions/articles/16000096859-how-to-migrate-draw-io-between-confluence-instances>

We export the pageID mappings from the old instance and import them into the new one, correcting the links on diagrams.

comments: author: thgmx
body: Thanks a lot, David, that helped.


Tags: confluence-server

draw.io

export

import

link

server
Search icon browsing/ confluence plugin
Asked by Pierre Damay:

Hello !

Does anyone know if the browsing / Searching plugin used on this page exists for confluence ?

<https://docs.atlassian.com/aui/7.9.3/docs/icons.html>

![plugin.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/70833iD70B6AA12D77FEF1/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "plugin.png")

Thank you in advance !


Answers:
author: Sven Schatter _Lively Apps_
body: Not that I know of. For our Lively Theme button macro we just implemented this ourselves using an [AUI Select2](https://docs.atlassian.com/aui/7.9.3/docs/auiselect2.html).

![lt_btn_macro.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/70841iFF1166EE9F40BF22/image-dimensions/556x353?v=v2 "lt_btn_macro.gif")

comments: author: Pierre Damay
body: That is the beginning of an answer ! Thank you !


Tags: app
When I go to create a Table of Contents on a "Blank page" it gives an error and no TOC shows
Asked by Antonia Manohar:

I am getting the following error when I try to insert a Table of Contents:

Error rendering macro 'toc' : \[com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxLazyException\] com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Duplicate attribute 'src'. at \[row,col {unknown-source}\]: \[1,12919

Nothing is showing on the page. This is not a template. I chose "Blank page" to start.


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Antonia and welcome to the Community!

Thank you for coming to Community with your Confluence Cloud issue while creating a table of content macro.

From the error you provided and its output we're able to see this matches a reported bug within the product. This bug impacts the TOC when it's created with a content by label option.

Further information on this bug for Cloud products may be found at [CONFCLOUD-67977](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67977). If this the issue you're experiencing we would ask you to vote and watch this bug to receive future updates to its status.

There is no workaround for the Cloud products currently.

Further information on this bug for Server products may be found at [CONFSERVER-53138](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-53138). If this the issue you're experiencing we would ask you to vote and watch this bug to receive future updates to its status.

The workaround is as follows;
> Place TOC macro after Content by label macro.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers

comments: author: Antonia Manohar
body: Hi Stephen,

How do I place TOC macro after Content by label macro? I don't see a Content by Label Macro on my page and when I tried creating one before the TOC I still got the following message on the PDF when I exported to PDF:

Error rendering macro 'toc' : \[com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxLazyException\] com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxParsingException: Duplicate attribute 'src'. at \[row,col  
{unknown-source}\]: \[17,9755\]

Your help is really appreciated. Thank you very much


author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Antonia,

I realized there was an error in my answer above. I've since correct this error by linking and proper bug reports for the cloud product and not for the server product.

For Cloud, there is no current workaround for this issue. I would ask you to provide your feedback on the linked bug above.

Regards,  
Stephen SIfers


author: Antonia Manohar
body: Ok thank you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Change indexing language
Asked by Dominique T:

Hello,

How do I change the indexing language in Confluence (cloud solution). It requires sys-admin group membership and I cannot find that group anywhere (because of cloud?).

Thanks


Answers:
author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: You must contact Atlassian Support to have the indexing language changed. It's listed as a Setting under General Configuration, but when you try to edit it, the message is displayed about contacting Atlassian.


author: Youssef Kassidi
body: How do I contact Atlassian Support to change language when I just signed up for the free version? There doesn't seem to be a way for to contact them.

Also, I created the new instance for us from the french localized page thinking it would default to French when it gets created, but that didn't happen.

Thanks for any help.


Tags: confluence-cloud
Can you change colors of bars in roadmap swimlane?
Asked by Maegan Womack:

Is there a way to change the colors of individual bars in a swimlane on the roadmap macro? i am needing to change the color to indicate dependencies across multiple teams and this would be the easiest visual way to do so.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Maegan Womack](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3614731)

As far as I know you can't with the roadmap planner macro - it's a colour per lane.

You'd need a more powerful roadmap for this - such as [Product Plan](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219081/productplan-for-confluence-server?hosting=server&tab=overview) (which can be displayed in Confluence).

Ste


Tags: confluence-server

macro

server
Panels not supported in new templates
Asked by Jake Handley:

Confluence templates have recently moved over to a new format. The Panel macro is not available for selection, and when trying to copy one over from an old template; it appears as an empty table cell..

Has this macro been removed, is there a way to get it to work in the new templates.. is it going to be supported going forward?


Answers:
author: Manon Soubies-Camy
body: Hi [@Jake Handley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3614715) and welcome to Community!

Panel macros are not available in the new Confluence editor, you can only add info/note/warning/error/success panels from now on:

![panel.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/70842i5570BC7107986980/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "panel.PNG")

You can vote for this feature request to show your interest: [Add Customizable Panel Macro to new editor](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67825)

Hope this helps,

- Manon

comments: author: Jake Handley
body: considering i have a tonne of templates which use panels .. which i need to continue making to contain panels.. this doesn't help at all no


author: Bill Bailey
body: Maybe you could replace them with a user macros and custom CSS?


Tags: macro

template
Confluence Fails to start and throws an error
Asked by mduduzi ndlanzi:

Hi there,

I'm currently experience the following problem with my Confluence installation after a server reboot. There were no changes made on the installation except the config file confluence.cfg.xml. But now when i startup Confluence i get the following error in the browser:

Description : Could not load bootstrap from environment

Exception : NullPointerException:


Answers:
author: robert Mugabuhamye
body: [@mduduzi ndlanzi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3135380) that means that your cfg.xml is somehow corrupted or not conform.  
you could start by downgrade it to the previous version (make a back up ) or regenerate a new one :  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-generate-a-new-confluence-cfg-xml-425461512.html>

comments: author: mduduzi ndlanzi
body: i have removed the cfg.xml file and restarted confluence and still getting the same error.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Can't insert row
Asked by Jamil Rahimov:

I can't **insert row after** current row.

Is there any restriction for inserting row?

![1.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/70815i4817251050EE7678/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "1.PNG")


Answers:
author: Jamil Rahimov
body: [@Jack Nolddor \[Sweet Bananas\]](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1504038)   
I found problem.

First line doesn't contain line for comment section.  
Table wasn't created correctly that's why I couldn't add new row to table:  
![2.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/70896iCA41C7E6DFAB516C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2.PNG")  

comments: author: Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]
body: Thanks for telling us where the problem was.


author: Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]
body: Hi [Jamil Rahimov](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1305037),

Does a new row appear after pressing the Tab key within the last Colum/row?

Regard

comments: author: Jamil Rahimov
body: [@Jack Nolddor \[Sweet Bananas\]](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1504038)   
I tried this but it didn't work.


Tags: confluence-server

server
I cannot add Blog to my Space
Asked by marie mogridge:

I 'create' Blog

The only options I have available are to change the colour

Please can you tell me how to resolve this ?

I have checked all permissions and I am site admin and even I cannot add a blog

Hi [@Ollie Guan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853638)

Yes the only option I have is to change colour (as above) -

Everything else is greyed out and I am unable to create a Blog

Also I am unable to reply to your comment - So I have had to amend my original post


Answers:
author: Ollie Guan
body: Hello [@marie mogridge](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1549720) ,

What do you mean by changing the color here? Change the color of the font?

![QQ??20191028214406.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/70816iC1BDEE92EF7C20C5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "QQ??20191028214406.png")

comments: author: Ollie Guan
body: [@marie mogridge](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1549720)

Can you create other types of pages? Such as a blank page, etc.

By the way, the permissions to create a blog and create a page are two different permissions.

![TIM??20191030100950.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/71064i1099CFD06BA081BC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "TIM??20191030100950.png")


author: marie mogridge
body: Hi [@Ollie Guan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853638)

Yes I can add a blank Page. I have checked permissions and all are correct as your screenshot.

I cannot add a screenshot myself to show you.

When I create a Blog - It created the page but I am unable to add any content at all. All of the options are greyed out. The only one that is not greyed is the colour option


author: Ollie Guan
body: You can contact by creating a support ticket

[https://support.atlassian.com/contact](https://support.atlassian.com/contact?_ga=2.25553848.426660145.1571625361-1478559027.1570682324)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
why I cannot link to attachment / file?
Asked by Nurjan K:

Why I cannot do as described in this video

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekC8p62H7I>

there is no option to link to file, only pages ((((

Linking to file does work for server but not for cloud confluence, why is that?


Answers:
author: Sven Schatter _Lively Apps_
body: As per [this thread](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Linking-to-an-attachment/qaq-p/148596) the only way seems to be manually copying the URL from the attachments overview and pasting it into the page.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Need RTL support for Confluence Server
Asked by Mosh:

I need an advice how to support Right to left (RTL ) in Confluence Server (latest versions).

I'm not sure if it's supported built-in. I'm wondering if an add-on is necessary - and if so - which one would you recommend ?

Thank you


Answers:
author: yaniv_shoshani
body: You can use Methoda's RTL for Confluence addon:

[RTL for Confluence \| Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1228597/rtl-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview)

comments: author: Shelly Nizri
body: [@yaniv_shoshani](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/744448) , this plugin's css looks a lot like the css from my open source plugin. Some credit would have been nice.


author: Shelly Nizri
body: Try [this](https://gitlab.com/shelly.goldblit/confluencetinymce-directionalityplugin) plugin.


author: Diego
body: Hello there, [@Mosh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/680595) !

As RTL (Right To Left) I believe that you r++*eferencing languages that are written from right to left*++.

If my statement is correct, can tell you that we are indeed looking into this! You can take a look at the original request here:
> * ++**[\[Confluence Server\] \[CONFSERVER-1373\] Support RTL languages (e.g. Hebrew, Arabic, Persian) for editing and searching](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-1373)**++

There we have a workaround for the implementation of RTL. This objective can be ++*achieved via user macro.*++

However, if you are interested in having this implemented natively for Confluence, you could vote and watch the following report, as suggested in the original report:
> * ++**[\[Confluence Server\]\[CONFSERVER-55860\] Support for RTL languages (Hebrew, Persian, Arabic) when editing content](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55860)**++

I hope this guides your search for a solution, Mosh!


Tags: confluence-app

confluence-server

server
Max recommended frequency of automated page updates
Asked by Tom Svaleklev:

We use Confluence (+ refined Theme) as our intranet and some of our departments wants to update status pages from our own internal systems automatically using Confluence APIs.

This evolves in a page update every time something displayed on the page changes which in their case is hundreds of times a day.

From a page history and log perspective this worries me a bit and I wonder if someone has experience or best practices to share on this topic. tried to Google recommendations from Atlassian but didn't get any hits.


Answers:
author: Sven Schatter _Lively Apps_
body: This doesn't really answer your question of what frequency is best for this or whether the growing history is going to be a big problem but if you're concerned with pushing this data into your Confluence all the time you could go the opposite route and pull it upon page view.

Using a tool like [PocketQuery](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211199/pocketquery-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) you could execute arbitrary REST requests upon page view and display their result using a macro. You can even configure your own cache period so your pages being hit "hundreds of times a day" shouldn't be a problem (as long as you're fine with the data only being updated every 5 minutes or so).

If you're sticking to the push method it would probably be a good idea to find a way to frequently delete old page versions. It seems [this app](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218985/purge-page-versions?hosting=server&tab=overview) would do the job in that case.

Best,  
Sven (Scandio, makers of PocketQuery)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Local Confluence Server is not responding for Rest API (404 page)
Asked by Darshan_Rudresh:

Hello,

I am also facing a 404 whenever i try to request a rest api call in my local confluence server.

I tried the request in postman as well still ended up in the same 404 page.

I am using this URL: http://localhost:8080/confluence/rest/api/content . My Server is up and running when i try hit this URL in the browser i can see that page not found (404)

Could anyone let me know why is this?

Thanks

Darshan


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Darshan,

Thank you for contacting us about this.

Can you confirm if localhost:8080 is the URL you're using to connect to Confluence? Port 8080 is usually the default Jira port, but 8090 is the default for Confluence, unless you've modified it.

The 404 error is telling you that the endpoint doesn't exist at the URL. It's most likely that you're using the incorrect port or URL to start.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Darshan_Rudresh
body: Hello Shannon,

Thanks for the update. Basically I have not installed JIRA server so I customized the confluence to 8080 the mistake I was hitting a wrong URL the exact URL is http://localhost:8080/confluence/rest/content ( I had added API aftet the rest so I was getting a 404 error message)

Thank you for the information

Regards,

Darshan


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Darshan,

Thank you for pointing that out. I missed the additional 'api' added as well. Glad you got it working in the end.

Take care, and have a pleasant week.

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
How can I avoid pages being shared with an external user?
Asked by Werner Anders:

I do NOT want to grant access to anyone outside of our organization. Our instance of confluence is meant to be for internal access only.

On "Site access", I have selected "Anyone with one of the following email address domains can join:" and provided our company email domain.

I thought this would be good enough. However, if I share a page with a user on a different email domain, i.e. gmail.com. They receive an email that allows them to create an account and gain access to our site. This is NOT good.

FYI, I also have ++**NOT**++ enabled the following options:

- Users can invite others

- Allow anybody to share a link to Confluence


Answers:
author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: [@Werner Anders](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1353548) ,

Based on the information you provided, the external user would be able to Request an account, but unless that request was approved, they would not have access to your site.. You would need to ensure that your administrators are clear about your access policy/requirements.

Darryl

comments: author: Werner Anders
body: Thanks for your reply. In my test, it did not play out that way. The external user received an email sharing a link to a page. They clicked on that link and were navigated through setting up their account. Once they completed the account set up they were navigated to the site and had access. No administrator had to get involved.


author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: Interesting. I just recreated this scenario myself. This concerns me a great deal.

My system settings are even more restrictive than yours, in that they're set to Invitation Only. Unless it has to do with my being an administrator and sharing the page, this seems like a security hole as it's not expected behavior. I'm going to try sharing again with a non-administrator account.


author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: And that seems to be the answer.

When the non-administrator user Shared a page, it sent the request to the Administrator instead of directly to the person being shared with.

As long as your administrator users are trusted and informed, you should be alright with this.

Darryl


author: Werner Anders
body: Thanks Darryl! I've confirmed the same on my end. It would be better if we could prevent users from sharing content with external users at all. In other words, don't even allow them to enter an email address that is outside of the organization's email domain.

This behaviour will work for now, but I would like to follow up with Atlassian to see if there is another setting that can prevent these requests in the first place.


Tags: access

cloud

confluence-cloud

user-management