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Is it possible to embed an excel file into confluence and have it update every time it is saved?
Asked by Dan Mouck:

I have a list of existing documents hosted on a shared drive that I want to integrate into Confluence. Is it possible to link or embed those files so that every time someone edits the file in the shared drive it is updated in confluence. I tried the Excel Macro but it did not update the file.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: If you use your operating system to link the shared directory under a **script** directory in the Confluence home directory, then you should be able to access it directly with the **file** parameter - see [Excel Macro](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/XL/Excel+Macro).
CSS displays in Preview but not when I save.
Asked by AUDREY WATSON:

I have attached a style sheet and referenced said style sheet in my html macro, everything looks as it should when I preview, however after saving, the changes do not show. Is this a bug in Confluence 3.5.3 (version I am using)?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: The CSS in the preview mode is different than the CSS in Confluence. You cannot rely on the preview function to decide what CSS will be valid.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Probably not - the html macros are rendered in the body, long after the header, and hence css, is loaded.

You might want to guve us a bit more detail on how you've coded the macro, but I suspect the full answer is going to be that you need to put the css in the space rather than the macro, and 3.5 is too old to be supported anyway.
Why doesn't a Confluence anchor produce an HTML anchor?
Asked by jason_s:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Anchors](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139442)*

I added an anchor in a Confluence page, and I can see the anchor, but it doesn't produce an HTML `<a name="...">` element. Why not? I want to send email links specifically to this anchor.


Answers:
author: Bruno Raymundo
body: Hi Jason,

What version of Confluence are you using? This is a known issue. Please check the following bug:

[CONF-24703](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24703)

Regards,

Bruno


Tags: anchor
Is it possible to create a retroactive blog post?
Asked by Dave Noonan:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Working with Blog Posts](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=428803509)*

Is it possible to create a retroactive blog post, that is, one with a different date than todays?


Answers:
author: yoann buch
body: According to the documentation you can: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/organising-content/working-with-blog-posts>

However it doesn't work. It used to work so I think there is a bug now.


Tags: blog

documentation
How is 'Popular updates' -feed created on Dashboard
Asked by Erkki_Aalto:

We are in the process of upgrading our hardware and I have the new servers up and running with a snapshot from our production server contents. The Confluence version is the same, 5.8.4, but the OS changes from RHEL5 to RHEL7. The new system does not show Popular updates either to anonymous user or to logged in user , it just loads the updates forever. All updates are shown correctly. Reindexing did not help. Any ideas about where to look for the cause?


Answers:
author: Erkki_Aalto
body: I loaded a new dump to the new system and now the feed is OK. Probably there was some kind of inconsistency caused by the dump being taken from an active database. When the new system is really taken into production the database dump will of course be consistent.


author: Erkki_Aalto
body: I think this log entry shows the problem:128.214.229.20 - - \[11/Dec/2015:13:55:22 +0200\] "GET /rest/popular/1/stream/content?days=7\&pageSize=20 HTTP/1.1" 404 48757


Tags: confluence-administration
Linking probem
Asked by Olle Friman:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Confluence 5.7 Release Notes](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=692781381)*

I would like to link to the section "Simplify your team's feedback loop" but under some circumstances, which I also have seen before, it is not possible to link to anchors including special characters. I would really appreciate if you could remove the special character from this header so I can directly link my users to this very useful section.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Olle Friman
body: I can see this is related to <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26765> , but as we are running Confluence 5.7, this should have been resolved.


Tags: documentation
Team Calendars
Asked by Alex Perez:

Hi all!

In our confluence instance we have been using the "team calendars" plugin in trial mode. Once the 30-day period expired, the users interested in trying this plugin told us that they don't want to use it anymore, as this didn't matched his expectations ...

All pages that used macros/functionality provided by this plugin are raising errors about "unknown macro",

Is there any smart way to get the complete list of pages that are referencing this plugin? I have extended the 30-day period for now, but i want to edit all pages that included calendars and uninstall it properly.

Thx.


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hey Alex,

Check this article: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Find+All+Pages+and+Spaces+that+Use+a+Specific+Macro+via+SQL>

This is specifying how to identify all the pages that would be using a macro, in our case, Team Calendars one. It will be required to run the first query from the and just remember to change the \*\<macro_name\>\* value with the calendars one. If you're not sure how it is used in the XHTML of the page, you can go to the **Tools** option, in the right side and select **View Storage Format**

<br />

```
PS: the name would be calendar
```

<br />


Tags: confluence-administration

team-calendars-for-confluence
Will Confluence Google Drive will work?
Asked by Aleksis Geske:

Hi,

will your add-on: Confluence Google Drive (<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence-google-drive/cloud/overview>) will be supported for latest Confluence cloud verstoin?

We are using JIRA/Confluce cloud and we would really appriciate this add-on :smile:

Best regards,

Aleksis


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Silva
body: Hi Aleksis,

I believe this add-on is already available for the latest version of Confluence Cloud:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence-google-drive/cloud/overview>

Cheers,

Rodrigo Silva \| Cloud


Tags: addon-confluence-google-drive

cloud

confluence-cloud
How to Add a Parent Page to the side Page Tree
Asked by Craig Doran:

I am sure this is an easy tasks but I have I have searched and search the help files with no luck. I have a number of knowledge base articles I have created using the How To Template. Now all these pages all appear in the side pane under the parent title of 'How to Articles' as follows

* How to Articles
  * Add a Case
  * Add a Complaint
  * Add a brief
  * Edit a brief

I want to Create other parent titles in my page tree such as ?ase Management, Brief Management ..

* How to Articles
  * **Case Management**
    * Add a Case
    * Add a Complaint  

  * **Brief Management**
    * Add a brief
    * Edit a brief

I just cant see where to create this Parent Titles


Answers:
author: Siddheshwar mhetre
body: Hi Craig,

I will suggest you to create a new page in same space like create a page with name of **Case Management, **Brief Management****

After that move the pages to new parent using following

**To move or reorder a page:**

1. Go to the space and choose **Space tools** \> **Reorder pages** from the bottom of the sidebar
2. Expand the branches to locate the page you want to move
3. Drag the page to a new position in the tree

If you're using the Documentation theme go to **Browse** \> **Pages** \> **Tree** and then drag the pages to a new position as above.

![](https://eu2.proxysite.com/process.php?d=x5B99E2XEF5eks7RVlKdj9BKNmgTg2p84Ma4zWWPs%2FHpEWysbXp1Fj4av0C2mrjaUmj2nCl3j%2BMXrTCAqN%2BEvDBsJQ%3D%3D&b=1)

Alternatively, you can choose to order a group of child pages alphabetically by choosing the **Sort Alphabetically (A-Z)** icon. The **Sort Alphabetically** (A-Z) icon only appears next to the parent page if the page family is currently sorted manually.

If you change your mind, you can use the **Undo Sorting** icon to revert back to the previous manual page order. This option is only available immediately after sorting the page, while you're still on the **Reorder Pages** tab, and haven't performed any other action.

Regards,

Sid


author: Giles B
body: Hi Craig,

I think [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Create+a+Blueprint-Style+Report) has the steps you need to accomplish that type of arrangement. The example's a bit different, but the principles should be the same.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can we also include search result from google?
Asked by Johan Goh:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Searching Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=590259445)*

*Beside searching within confluence KB system, can we also include search result from google based on the keyword? If yes, is there addon or settings for it?*


Answers:
author: Bruno Raymundo
body: Hi Johan,

Do you want to include external search results from Google inside Confluence or do you want to use Google as the internal search engine? If it is the former, I believe the following article can help you:

[Setting up confluence to index external sites](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/setting-up-confluence-to-index-external-sites-190077.html)

Best regards,

Bruno


Tags: google

search
how do I add a user to the system-administrators group in confluence cloud?
Asked by Chris Swain:

I am using Confluence Cloud and am trying to provide a user with full access to administer the site. I went to User Management \> Username and added all of the Groups that are available. The groups are:

administators

balsamiq-mockups-editors

confluence-users

jira-administrators

jira-software-users

site-admins

However when I log in as this user he cannot do full site administration - e.g. he cannot delete a space, he cannot access all the space tools, etc.

What do I need to do to provide users with full admin permissions to everything in Confluence Cloud (same as what I have)?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: The system administrator global permission is restricted in Atlassian Cloud applications. The sysadmin account is for Atlassian engineers for troubleshooting purposes. Below are a couple links that explain this in greater detail.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CLOUDKB/Logging+in+with+the+Systems+Administrator+Account+in+Atlassian+Cloud>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ConfCloud/Restricted+functions+in+Confluence+Cloud>

The administrator and site admin permissions should allow you to administer the instance.

Please note that in order to [delete a Space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/delete-a-space-724764816.html), you'll need to be the space administrator. Having the global Confluence administrator permission doesn't grant that access, so you'll need to make sure that you get the admin access under \*Space Tools \> Permissions\*.


author: Yusuf_Mayet
body: Hi,

I want to import a space in my Confluence Cloud, but it fails with an error that I dont have system-administrators priveleges.

How do I fix this?


author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: "same as what I have" Just put them in all of the groups that you are in. Simple.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Made an edit to a page and saved but not reflected. When in edit mode I see my edits but they aren't saving.
Asked by Gina Bustos:


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: We could have different possibilities for issues related to content not saving, Gina. For example, specific content avoiding it to be saved, configurations on Confluence, the browser used...

It might be worth to check if this is happening with all the users of your instance, with other pages and also if you have recently applied any specific modification on the instance environment. Better than that: Give a try to check for the symptoms of your atlassian-confluence.log file, located in the Application data directory of the instance, if you are running a **server** version of Confluence.

<br />

Once you have this, if you are still not sure on what it could be, try to raise a new ticket with us (<https://support.atlassian.com)> so we can help you to fix it. :smile:

Regards,

Giuliano T.

Atlassian Support
How to add tooltip to link or url
Asked by Jo Desmet:

The documentation suggests

You can append a link tip, which appears as a tooltip. Example: \[pagetitle#anchor\|link tip\]

However, when I try this, it simply does not work. The URL appears as a non-existing target. I have also tried several variations using the Insert URL GUI, without success. I am however able to insert those as \<a\> tags with href and title to make a tooltip to work in the source editor, but that defeats the benefits of relative links to internal page references.

Anyway to get this inserted correctly?


Answers:
author: Michael Kalnicki _M20_
body: Try the free [Tooltips](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.m20tech.tooltips/server/overview) add-on if you're still having trouble.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: There may be a bug here, I get really inconsistent results when trying to use tooltips.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Please link the documentation you are referencing and please also post the version of software you are using.


Tags: link

tool-tip
How to set up HIGH AVAILABLITY for applications
Asked by Young__Hahn:

I am currently trying to build high availability for all the applications that my company is building..

all the applications are currently in AWS..

I want to use ELB to do this..

For example.. Confluence

So far.. I have exact same configuration files (installation directories and Home-directories) in 2 servers

I was using one server until now..

When i try to access to the second server.. it is asking me to rebuild (even with all the same files)..

in this case.. do i have to create another database for it?

how does Load Balancer work for this applications?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Really simple question to get us started - are you using Confluence Server, or Confluence Data Centre?

(And a partial answer - if it's Confluence server, you can NOT do load balancing...)

comments: author: Young__Hahn
body: @Nic Brough \[Adaptavist\] I am using the server.. so what will be the best way to do Confluence HA?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Two options1) Go to Confluence Data Centre instead ( See <https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/data-center/> )2) Accept that you can NOT cluster/load balance Confluence and build a system that is as close as you can get.On point 2, the best you can do is to have an active/passive config. One active Confluence server running normally, and a second \*offline\*. You can replicate the database behind them, and a lot of the data so that your failover process is "stop broken Confluence, flip the database from passive to activer, start second Confluence and re-index it", but you can't do active-active (You can, of course stick this behind a load balancer to handle traffic during failover)


Tags: confluence-administration

high-availability

load-balancer
Confluence page reviewing tools
Asked by Ed Waugh:

Hi,

I'd like to be able to review pages my team have created in Confluence in a similar way that I can review a document in Word. I would like to be able to:

* Have inline comments
* Have edits made by me highlighted and marked with my initials
* For them to be able to edit the version that shows the differences so they can go through the changes and confirm them

Does anyone know if this is possible? If a plugin exists? Or if a plugin with this functionality is even possible? Or should I be doing something completely different!?

Thanks very much for your time

<br />

Ed


Answers:
author: Ed Waugh
body: Hi Nic,

Thanks for your response, in my experience of Confluence people do use it for this kind of reviewing, they just use the comments box at the bottom of the page which is a bit clumsy on large documents. Being able to mark things up inline would be really handy.

Cheers

ed

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Er, I already pointed out that inline comments are there.


author: Ed Waugh
body: Except they are not, you can add various decorative boxes that contain text but that's no the same.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: My guess is that you are using an older version of Confluence that doesn't have in-line comments


author: Ed Waugh
body: I thought we had the latest, any chance of a screenshot?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Look at the bottom of a Confluence page for the version (or system information in the admin section if your admins have removed the versions). The latest version is 5.9, I think the comments arrived in 5.7, but possibly earlier


author: Ed Waugh
body: Hi Nick, we have 5.8.9, I had another look and can't find anything that looks likely, what menu do you find it in?Cheersed


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: None. A menu doesn't know where you want to place it. Try highlighting some text and use the context menu there. Should be a speech bubble


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: A wiki is very different to a word processer and basically won't do this in the same way. So yes, "you should be doing something completely different"

But, not that different... To answer your points:

* Recent versions of Confluence have inline comments, and discussions in place after them
* Look at the page history
* Confluence is about swift collaboration and sharing, not controlling what people do and getting "authorisation"

Having said that, take a look at Scroll Versions and Comala workflows - they can help you with point 3.
Lozenges
Asked by Christian Ramiez:

How do I add an Icon to a lozenge.

I enter the editor, and there is a space to enter the icon, but I am not sure how to associate one of my images as the icon to use... I have seen some examples, where the value of the png is prefix with an explanation mark, but I have not clue how to load my images so that they can be found? do I need to be system administrator to do this? I have not found any thing clear in the documentation.


Answers:
author: Christian Ramiez
body: Figured it out. The picture icon has to be associated with the page (by attaching it and loading it)


author: Christian Ramiez
body: questionToAtlassian.jpg  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Lozenges/qaq-p/15976?attachment-id=1792){#link_11915161361d20}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/2702/1/questionToAtlassian.jpg){#display_11915161361d20_0}


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Please add a screenshot or further explain your question. I'm not sure what you're looking for and you marked your question with "AUI" which is the ui developer resource.


Tags: aui

lozenge
Can you restrict a space and its content to a set list of users only (also stopping the admins from getting access)?
Asked by Mike Ukandu:

We have an old version of Confluence 5.5.1 which will be upgraded at some stage but for now on the old version. I am being asked for a secure space, secure meaning only a set list of people can get into the space and the Confluence admins cannot get access.

I am guessing i know the answer to this but thought i would ask anyway.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Restricted spaces are easy - just don't add the users you don't want in them in the permissions.

You can't hide from your admins though. They don't have to be part of the space, but admins can always see spaces and amend the permissions to let themselves in.

You have to trust your admins.


Tags: confluence-administration
is it possible to turn off notifications when comments are deleted?
Asked by Claire Lingham:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Comment on pages and blog posts](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139483)*

is it possible to turn off notification emails when comments are deleted?

We are using comments to request changes to a page; once the comment is addressed we reply to the requester's comment to advise them it's addressed and then delete the two comments. However, the requester gets an email for both comments that are deleted.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Doesn't look like a good idea. Have you looked at inline comments instead?

They disappear once resolved and you still can trace them if needed.


Tags: notification
Content By Label and Content Report Table - exclude current space
Asked by Hans-christian K?ller:

We often have the problem to be uncertain, in which space to place a specific information.

To mitigate this, I thought about establishing a label for each space. In every space there should then be a page that aggregates all pages containing the spaces label. In order to keep this list straight, I would like to exclude all the pages from the current space.

My idea is to use the "content report table" or the "content by label" macro.  
But I don't see an option to **ex**clude a space.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: I saw your more recent question, but I thought I would answer this one instead. It does not seem possible to currently exclude a space from the Content Report Table macro (although it would be possible to duplicate the functionality on Confluence Cloud via the [CQL Search](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/cql-search/cloud/overview) addon).

It is possible to exclude a space using the "content by label" macro, though, but it is not very intuitive. This requires that you be running 5.9 which includes the new CQL features. What you need to do is to add a filter for the space, then type the negative/minus symbol (-) and start typing the name of the space. Once you click on the space name, the minus symbol will be included in the name, and now it will exclude that space from the results. You can also further restrict your results to type "Page" if necessary by adding an additional filter.
Display excel contents from another Confluence page
Asked by Flemming S. Nielsen:

**I have my data set in several worksheets in the same Excel file. I want to share parts of it via different Confluence pages, e.g. the contents from one worksheet goes into one page and from another worksheet it goes into another page etc. How do I avoid uploading the file more than once? The viewxls does not seem to support a reference to a file on another page...**


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: What version of Confluence are you using? Because I see the option in mine ...

image2015-12-10 6:3:14.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Display-excel-contents-from-another-Confluence-page/qaq-p/205169?attachment-id=3109){#link_118795bb5efeac}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/34565/1/image2015-12-10%206%3A3%3A14.png){#display_118795bb5efeac_0}


author: TomC
body: Hi Flemming,

As another approach - which bypasses the reference issue on other pages and may be convenient for the user to avoid the lag of navigating to other pages - have you considered trying to list the various worksheets in order on the same page using multiple instances of the viewxls macro?

You could incorporate links at the top associated with anchors on the page that allow quick navigation to particular worksheets. You could also add 'back to top' links associated with a top of page anchor for quick movement around the page.


Tags: ms-excel