youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Tables within tabs not working
Asked by Mack Baczynski:

When using Tab groups and tabs I'm getting the following error when putting a table with content in it. If I avoid putting content in the table, the table renders properly. When I avoid the use of the table, the content renders properly. Is this a result of nested tables not being supported in confluence cloud or something else?  

Error: \[com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxLazyException\] Unexpected close tag ; expected . at \[row,col {unknown-source}\]: \[1,436\]  

![problem.gif](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29602i61A3B51C4260A758/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "problem.gif")


Answers:
author: Azwandi _ServiceRocket_
body: Hi Mack,

Azwandi from ServiceRocket here. I'm pretty sure you're using our new Beta for Composition Cloud. I can reproduce this problem and our team is already investigating a fix. Will keep you posted here.

comments: author: Mack Baczynski
body: Thanks Azwandi. I am using the beta and figured this might be just something that isn't ready yet. I wanted to make sure it was recognized as a known issue. Thanks for keeping me updated. In the mean time, I've switched my content to be raw text separated by hyphens. Not ideal, but it works.


author: AhmadDanial
body: Hi, Mack.

While we have the following suggestion created to keep track of nested table support - [CONFCLOUD-58656: Nesting tables are unsupported](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-58656), let us try to understand the issue better:

* Are you using the C**omposition for Confluence** add-on for this feature?
* Can you please confirm that this is reproducible across every page where you try to use a table (with content) within the tab?
* Was this working properly before and if yes, do you recall any new add-on / configuration changes done to the instance?
* Is this issue reproducible on different browsers (including Incognito / private browsing mode)?

Keep me posted. Thanks.

comments: author: Mack Baczynski
body: Though it seems Azwandi's reply acknowledges the issue, I'll answer your questions to make sure its captured properly.  

1. Yes, using the composition for confluence cloud add-on. It's currently in beta form, but release notes didn't suggest this was a known issue. I understand the risks, and appreciate any attention to this given that its beta.  

2. Yes it happens for any page I try.  

3. This was not known to be working before as this addon was just added to our cloud instance. I have successfully used cards/deck of cards in the past with a server instance, and did not have this problem  

4. It follows each browser I've tried. (Chrome, Firefox, Edge)


author: AhmadDanial
body: Hi, Mack.

Thank you for the details. While I am glad that the issue has been rectified by [@Azwandi _ServiceRocket_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/744424) as an issue in the Beta deployment of the add-on, the information you provided will be useful for future references.

Until then, please let me know once the issue is solved on your end. Thank you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

tab
How to find pages that DON'T include a specific macro?
Asked by Michelle Rau HP:

Being able to find pages that include a specific macro is incredibly helpful, however I have the opposite challenge: finding pages that do NOT include a specific macro.

In this case the macro is the "include page" macro. I've tried many variations on search syntax but no joy. Help?

(In our wiki, most pages include a customized search bar and help links via an included page. I want to find the pages that \*don't\* include that page so I can add the search bar where it's missing.)

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Michelle Rau HP
body: Hi Kurt, I took a look at this. Since I'm not a wikispace admin, just a lowly and humble wiki admin :-) I finally got ordinary search parameters to work:

type:page AND NOT macroName: include\*

This found all pages in our wiki that DON'T include the "include page" macro. This will help me find and update all the pages that still need a specific page include.

There is probably another search parameter that can help me narrow it down further to pages that don't include a \*specific page\* (instead of pages that don't have any includes at all) but I haven't worked that out yet.

Thanks for getting me on the right track learning about search though!


author: Kurt Klinner
body: [@Michelle Rau HP](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1142241)

Hi Michelle

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-find-all-pages-and-spaces-that-use-a-specific-macro-via-sql-747837116.html>

shows how to list pages that have a macro in use, so i think by modifying the where clause

you could get the results that you want

    AND bc.body not LIKE '%ac:name="<macro_name>"%'

instead of

    AND bc.body LIKE '%ac:name="<macro_name>"%';

you might need to add additional clauses to get to the final result

Cheers

Kurt


Tags: confluence-server

server
How can I fix the placement of text labels in Roadmap macro?
Asked by William Franco:

Labels for the Roadmap macro, once published, show miss placed making the graph not useful.

![roadmap macro.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29597iD2796357BE00EC57/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "roadmap macro.png")


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: William - This is usually caused by two things.

1. The browser you are using is not supported. Make sure you are using one of the following browsers - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/supported-browsers-744721663.html>
2. Your browser cache needs to be cleared. Sometimes after updates the JavaScript changes and your browser caches the older version causing issues.

Thanks  
Brant

comments: author: William Franco
body: Thanks Brant. The chart shows fine in the Confluence app for IOS but it is corrupted in both Chrome and Edge. Restarting the browsers or even the PC didn't make a difference.

Another oddity is that there is a big gap (space) between the page title and the chart. This space is not present when I edit the page but it is after publishing.


author: Brant Schroeder
body: William can you inspect the page in chrome and see if there is some odd HTML that somehow got inserted into the page? Also can you clear the browser cache not just restart them.


author: William Franco
body: Brant, when I got home I tried my home MAC with Safari and had same result, so, obviously a code issue but it was faster to remove the macro and add it back again, too much code to go through otherwise.

It shows perfectly fine now.

Thanks.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I turn off autocomplete of the username field in the Confluence login screen.
Asked by Christopher Reitci:

How do I turn off autocomplete of the username field in the Confluence login screen. I am using Confluence 6.10.


Answers:
author: Mikael Sandberg
body: You can't unless you use an old version of a web browser. The support for autocomplete=off has been removed in the latest version in all major web browsers, see [How to Prevent Password Autocompletion in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-prevent-password-autocompletion-in-confluence-941591391.html). If you you are using Chrome you could take a look at this solution, [jquery.disableAutoFill](https://github.com/terrylinooo/jquery.disableAutoFill)

comments: author: Christopher Reitci
body: I was able to accomplish this for Jira 7.11 so I thought Confluence might be a similar case. Maybe Jira interacts with the web browser in a different way?
Link to a page that opens in edit mode
Asked by Wolfgang G?bl:

Hi,

I have two spaces.

One is only editable by admins, it is the officially released content.

The other space is a copy of the first one, but users can edit -it is the work in progress version of the content.

Only admins are allowed to edit content in the officially released space.

standard users can view and comment on officially released content, but whenever they want to edit they can do that via a link a copy of the page in the second (work in progress) space.

Is there a way to set a link to a page which is opened in 'edit mode' in a way that the user does not need to press the 'edit button'?

Regards

Wolfgang


Answers:
author: miikhy
body: Hey Wolfgang,  

You can hover your mouse on tope of the edit button and right click "Copy Link Address" which will give you something like:

https://\<host_name_here\>/pages/editpage.action?pageId=XXXXXXXX

With that link, the page will be in edit mode once opened.

Hope this helps!

Cheers
Upgrade error message: Cannot update schema
Asked by Duane Hamby:

6.4 Standalone Upgrade to 6.11 - Standalone SQL Server

Upgrade completed, Confluence starts up with this error:

Pre-upgrade validation failed. Check the Confluence application logs for more details. You'll need to fix these problems and restart Confluence before you can upgrade. Upgrade error message: Cannot update schema


Answers:
author: AhmadDanial
body: Hi, Duane.

While confirming on the questions asked by Mikael, the error could also mean that there is a mismatch on the database name since it is case sensitive as mentioned in the [KB](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/the-component-of-the-database-name-of-the-object-qualifier-must-be-the-name-of-the-current-database-error-on-upgrade-to-confluence-6-1-902076143.html?_ga=2.207400019.1924449737.1530555953-1860184449.1530218812) here.

Can you go through the resolution steps to confirm if this is the case? Thanks.


author: Mikael Sandberg
body: Hi Duane,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

What error do you see in the application log? What version of SQL Server are your using?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Where do I enable HTML macro?
Asked by Brad:

I don't see a "System" when I click the cogwheel. I have looked at the site administrator settings and the space settings. I am trying to follow [these instructions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/html-macro-38273085.html?_ga=2.14402354.480951569.1534347603-1132568580.1534347603).


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: If you click on "Manage Apps" from the cogwheel (as admin), then on the next page there is a selection box reading "User Installed". One option there is "System".

comments: author: Brad
body: Thank you. I see system but I don't see anywhere to enable anything. When I find on page "HTML" I only have the one result below called Atlassian XHTML![Screen Shot 2018-08-15 at 1.43.19 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29591iFF800060531265DF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-08-15 at 1.43.19 PM.png")![Screen Shot 2018-08-15 at 1.43.29 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29592i1CE8DA71F1500C9D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-08-15 at 1.43.29 PM.png")


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: I'm talking about the Server version of Confluence. On our system there is an entry for "Confluence HTML Macros".

Here is a snapshot just to make sure that we are talking about the same thing:![snapshot.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29655iD18F8C3F6F9C56FF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "snapshot.png")

I assume that the plugin is version independent. But maybe the version of Confluence matters. May I ask you which version of Confluence you use?
User add-on is not displayed in Confluence
Asked by Manish Sinha:

Hello,

I developed user add-on using SDK and deployed on Confluence. 'Manage add-on' activity had upload jar file successfully, however, user add-on is not visible. Please suggest how to verify it.

Thanks,

Manish


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello Manish, thank you for sharing your question with us.  
You could try to:  

**Shutown and Clear**   
1 Shutdown Confluence  
- Make sure that the process is not running  
- You can check that with ps -aux \| grep confluence in linux and via the Process manager in Windows  
2 Go to \<confluence-home\>  
3 Remove the following folders:  
- \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins  
- \<confluence-home\>/plugins-cache  
- \<confluence-home\>/plugins-osgi-cache  
- \<confluence-home\>/plugins-temp  
- \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins_language  
- \<confluence-home\>/index  
4 Check permissions for \<confluence-home\>  
- The user running Confluence must have full read/write/execute permission on this folder  
- You can use the following commands to set this. Keep in mind that the user confluence here is just a placeholder, you must use the user that exists in your system  
- sudo chown -R confluence:confluence /path/to/\<confluence-home\>  
- chmod -R u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx /path/to/\<confluence-home\>  
5 Start Confluence  
6 Click **Cog Icon\>General Configuration**   
7 Search for **Content Indexing** in the left menu bar  
8 Click the \*Rebuild\* button  

This will re-index your instance from scratch and also clear the plugin cache. Further, you can also try to manually install another plugin from our marketplace and check if the issue happens. If it does not, this may be linked with how you developed the add-on:  

[Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/)  

Let us know if solve the issue!


Tags: atl-dev

atlassian-marketplace

atlassian-support
Setting JAVA_HOME
Asked by Edward Gillotti:

I need the line of characters to update my JAVA_HOME and PATH envirement variables for JDK SE 10.0.2


Answers:
author: Igor M.
body: Hello [@Edward Gillotti](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1812527),

Confluence, along with most other Atlassian applications does not support Java 10 and will most likely not work with it. See [Supported Platforms](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html) for more information. In my own tests, I could not get service to start with Java 10.

Regards,

Igor
Automating Export of Confluence for DR
Asked by Laura Phoenix:

Hi folks,  
We use confluence heavily for runbooks and wikis. In case there is some kind of issue where we cannot reach the pages (say DNS is borked) we need to have access to our knowledge base.  

I can see how to make backups on the server and that's fine and dandy. You can't read it straight out of the hat and would need to move and install on a new server.. yada yada.  

Is there a way to automate PDF/HTML exports into another cloud platform in case we need to be able to read the wiki when everything is on fire and we cannot access confluence?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: josh
body: This isn't possible out of the box. You'd have to do some kind of scripting, add-on or integration but I'm not aware of any specifically.

I would suggest that if your Confluence data is that vital that you look into implementing Confluence Data Center

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Scripting html/pdf exports will cripple a medium+ server unless you limit it as much as possible as well.

DC will work up to a point - losing one node would be fine, but if you lose the data-centre the nodes are in, you still have a problem. You need a redundent replicated failover in a remote location really.


Tags: automation

backup

disaster-recovery

export
AutoSSL (Let's Encrypt) with Confluence over HTTPS
Asked by Amit Dhaka:

Hello,

I currently have an instance of Confluence Server running on my VPS and I'm trying to get it running over HTTPS, but I'm having a few issues.

Is it possible to use Lets Encrypt with Confluence Server?

The SSL's are not password protected, and I don't think they store .keystore files, or at least none that I can find on my server.

I can access cPanel and WHM over HTTPS on the same domain so I know the domain has an SSL issued, I just can't get it working with Confluence. I've changed the server.xml file and changed the base URL, but https and port 8443 just brings up a "cannot connect" error in the browser. I could be doing something completely wrong though.

Has anyone achieved this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Alexis Robert
body: Hello [@Amit Dhaka](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1566656),

there is a good explanation provided [here](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/configuring-lets-encrypt-with-tomcat-6-x-and-7-x/32416) to automate Lets Encrypt certificate renewal for Tomcat.

However, this is quite complicated and if it's possible I would rather suggest that you use a Proxy server like Apache to achieve this.

With certbot it will be very easy, you'll only need to create a vhost file like this:

```
<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName confluence.mycompany.com
 DocumentRoot /var/www/
 ProxyPreserveHost On
 ProxyPass /.well-known !
 ProxyPass / http://10.0.0.1:8090/
 ProxyPassReverse / http://10.0.0.1:8090/
</VirtualHost>
```

and then use the certbot command to perform the SSL configuration (it will automatically add certificates and HTTPS to your vhost):

```
certbot --authenticator webroot --installer apache
```

If it works fine, you'll need to add a cron job with the "certot renew" command and that's it.

You'll find more info on how to install certbot on your server [here](https://certbot.eff.org/).

On your confluence instance, you'll only need to add 3 parameters to your conf/server.xml file, int the connector block:

* scheme="https"
* proxyName="confluence.mycompany.com"
* proxyPort="443"

Let me know if this helps,

--Alexis

comments: author: 905jay
body: Hi folks

I was curious if anyone got this to work?


author: Julia Giering-Gauch
body: Hi,

my Debian 9 Confluence server runs with a Letsencrypt certificate and Apache. I was using other instructions when I configured it.

Here's what I used:

1. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/proxying-atlassian-server-applications-with-apache-http-server-mod_proxy_http-806032611.html>

2. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/securing-your-atlassian-applications-with-apache-using-ssl-838284349.html>

3. <https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/debianstretch-apache>


Tags: confluence-server
Retrospectives in Confluence
Asked by Joey:

Hi All - looking for any fun / creative ways to run \& document retrospectives in confluence? Any add-on recommendations?


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: Hi [@Joey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1257142),

In our environment, we are capturing retrospectives utilizing **global templates**.

The content in the page properties macro would then populate into a dashboard for further review/discussion.

Here is what our template looks like:

![sprint.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29574iA926E0144B9E0029/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "sprint.jpg")


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to disable/remove the "sort alphabetically" button?
Asked by Aviram Rabin:

Is there an option to disable/remove the "sort alphabetically" button?

I don't want that unintentionally one of the many admins will reorder the pages. just leaving the manual order option.

Thanks,

Aviram


Answers:
author: AhmadDanial
body: Hi, Aviram.

This concern was brought up in the following **Suggestion** and the Confluence dev team confirmed that it will not be implemented due to limited demand:

* [CONFSERVER-42952: As a Confluence administrator, I would like to have additional sorting options in the Page Tree Macro](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-42952)

Take note that if you are on Confluence Cloud, the suggestion is still open as we can see [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-42952). Hope that helps to answer the question that you have.

comments: author: Aviram Rabin
body: Thanks Ahmad for your reply.


author: AhmadDanial
body: Hey, Aviram.

You are most welcome. Please let me know if I can assist you with anything else related to Confluence. Else, feel free to accept my answer above as a solution. Thanks!


Tags: sort
Load old version restricted to admin only
Asked by Wolfgang G?bl:

I need to restrict the "load old version" functionality of a page to admins.

I can not find a setting to do so.

Is there a way?

Regards

Wolfgang


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@Wolfgang G?bl](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1496375),

there's a suggestion for that:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-13247>

Maybe you want to vote for it.

Here's an example for preventing anonymous users from using page history:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-prevent-anonymous-users-from-using-page-history-317196367.html>

Maybe you can customize this example to fit your needs.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Use includet data with Page property
Asked by Konrad G??mann:

I am trying to use Page Properties to generate an aoverview over Page type A. Each Page of Type A has a corresponding Page of type B, from wich it use some table data. When wrapping the include with Page Properties, the includet information does not show up in Page Properties Report.

Any help, solution, work-arround is appreciated.


Answers:
author: Moses Thomas
body: [@Konrad G??mann](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1796802)So if i understand your question correct "it means that when you Creating a page and adding 2 Page Properties without ID, Will only show one of them in the report after adding the label for instance to the page, even though no ID was entered yes" ?

Best!

comments: author: Konrad G??mann
body: [@Moses Thomas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1138700)Not really. I create the page and one table is directly surrounded by a Page Properties Macro, the other table is inserted using an Excerpt Include Macro which itself is surroundet by a Page Properties Macro. In the Page Properties Report, only the data from the table on the page, not the date inserted by Excerpt include, is shown.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

excerpt

page-property
Content of a central source (page) used - displayed - in multiple other pages
Asked by Rudolf Hirschbeck:

Hi Confluence Experts,

I would like to create a single page of knowledge to be used a the source and I would like to mark different sections / content on this page and to include - display only - those content on other pages.

Let assume I describe (in short) some sub processes on the source page and on some other pages I would like to show this description. One single source, multiple time used - display only - on other pages. How I do this?


Answers:
author: Rudolf Hirschbeck
body: Sounds good. Seems to be exectly what I need.  
Will check / test it the next days. Thanks a lot for your help.

Rudolf ;-)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There is an app that supports this rather well. It's called the multi-excerpt macro, and it allows you to surround many blocks of text on a single page with tags that can then be used to call the block into any other page.

If someone edits a page that is calling it, all they see is the macro with a pointer back to the main content. If you edit the main content, than any changes are reflected in the calling page next time someone reads/refreshes it.

(It's a variation on the built-in excerpt macro, which also surrounds a block, but can only be used once on a single page - I use that a lot for building compound pages like "here's a list of servers with some core information about each", with each block of core information being an excerpt from a more detailed server description page)
Yearly Calendar View
Asked by ortal ohayon:

Yearly Calendar View is much necessary.

Does it exist?if not, is there an eta when you will have that feature?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: There's a feature suggestion here:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51320>

Maybe you want to vote for the issue.

comments: author: ortal ohayon
body: [@Thomas Schlegel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781483) I Commented. any eta for this feature? this ability is our crucial part if to purchase the calendar app.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@ortal ohayon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1135098),

the heading does not match the content. What is your question exactly?

comments: author: ortal ohayon
body: Hi Thomas

Updated

Sorry about that I have no idea what was the previous title.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: No problem, I just didn't know, which question I should answer ;-)