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Importing users from Google Apps
Asked by Aaron Kolysko:

This article (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/integrate-with-google-apps-744721642.html>) mentions that you can "save time by importing your Google Apps user directory", but I can't figure out how to do that.

The alternative is to create users as normal, but the problem with that? It sends users an e-mail with a link to set a password, an unnecessary confusion if we're asking users to login via Google Apps.

So how do I either 1.) avoid sending an invite to users upon user creation, or 2.) import my google apps user directory?


Answers:
author: Jaime S
body: Hi, Aaron.

To use Google Apps in Cloud, the first thing you need is to have a specific domain and be the administrator. The administrator must have a local account with the same username/email as Gmail.

Once done that, you connect that Gapps domain as per this documentation:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/set-up-google-apps-for-your-site-744721645.html>

After setting this up, any user with email in that domain will be able to access the instance. They won't receive an invitation (1) and a new login option will appear in the login page. They can use it to log in via Google Apps and once done a local user will be created, connected to that user (2).

I hope it was helpful.

Kind regards,  
Jaime Kirch da Silveira  
Atlassian Cloud Support


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to add JIRA filter to metadata list?
Asked by Paul Smith:

We're tracking our design documents in Confluence and tracking the implementation in JIRA. For documents we are adding to each design a metadata list macro to track the status of the design (draft, proposed, etc.) then on a summary page we gather all the designs and show their status.

That works fine, but during implementation we have a JIRA story or epic that is used to track the implementation of the design, and in the design page we can add a JIRA filter to show the status of the implementation via the status of the JIRA issue.

However I really want to make the implementation status visible on the summary page as well, so I really want to add the JIRA filter into the metadata list so that it is rolled up on the summary page.

But, I can't figure out how to do that: there doesn't seem to be any option that allows me to add this into the metadata list: I've tried to drag it there, etc. I can create a simple URL link but that doesn't show any status so it's not helpful.

Is there some way to make this work? Is there a text markup way to insert one of the JIRA issue filter things so I can type it in by hand in the metadata list macro?


Answers:
author: Paul Smith
body: We found it. You have to use the metadata markup to insert the JIRA issue filter; unfortunately finding this markup is not easy to do. However, fortunately once you figure it out it turns out to be trivial: just add {jira:\<issuid\>} to the metadata list field and Bob's your uncle!


Tags: filter

metadata
Retrospectives not showing on summary page unless reindexing
Asked by Katherine Burstein:

Updated the Retrospectives template and adding a new retrospective does not add to the retrospective summary page unless I Go to General Configuration \> Content Indexes \> Rebuild indexes


Answers:
author: Jonathan Soo
body: Hi Katherine,

Perhaps you can try rebuilding the index from scratch and see if the issue still persist afterwards : <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+rebuild+the+content+indexes+from+scratch>

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Jonathan
Can I find all the pages I that I Liked?
Asked by MattS:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Likes and Popular Content](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658736959)*

Marking a page as a Favourite is equivalent to bookmarking it in your browser and it's easy to see all those pages in Confluence. "Click the **Like** button to them know" according to the doc at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/likes-and-popular-content-278695530.html> is more for the page author than myself.

But is there a way in the app to see which pages I have clicked "Like" on?


Answers:
author: Jeremy Murray-Wakefield
body: An update for people reading this: The "Favourite" feature is now called "Save ++f++or later" and is the bookmarking function. The Like feature is not used for bookmarking purposes.


author: Giles B
body: Hi Matt,

Unfortunately not; you can see a list of your activity by going to **Profile pic** \>**Profile**, but it doesn't include likes.

Just FYI, in Confluence Cloud we've changed the 'Favourite' to 'Save for later' to more accurately represent what that option does. That'll also hit Server in the next major release.

Sorry I can't be more help!


author: MattS
body: So it would probably need a custom add-on to read from the DB table named likes.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=179439242>

The add-on at <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ZFIN.instantsearch/server/overview> lets you search for the most liked pages but not by user I think

comments: author: MattS
body: Somewhat related add-on code: <https://github.com/ic30r/ConfluencePluginLikeCounter>
Confluence Integration?
Asked by Chayim Kirshen:

The product looks great - and exactly what I need for Service Desk integration... but any chance there's confluence integration too? It's not listed on this page, but I saw a comment elsewhere (<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/222642>) and was hoping that you had that feature.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: MaxW
body: Hello Chayim,  

yes we have a confluence integration of two factor authetification since 4th january. You can find it <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.syracom.confluence.plugins.securelogin/server/overview>  

Best Regards,  
Max

comments: author: Michal Kub?t
body: Hello,

Is there any discount while buying a JIRA plugin version and Confluence version also?

Thanks

Michal Kubat
Is there a way to change the default settings when creating a new user?
Asked by Anne EQS:

I'm looking for a way to change the default settings for new users. I'd like to

* change the e-mail notification settings (so our companys recommendation is preset for new users)
* preset page/space watches for new users
* preset some favourites for new users

Does anyone know how this could be done without having to create a new user, then logging in as this new user and configuring the required settings?


Answers:
author: Christoph
body: We have the same issue here with Confluence 5.7.   
There doesn't seem to be a way of doing such a modification through the UI.  
And we are reluctant to edit the source code (if we would find the suitable lines ...)


author: dmachado1
body: Hi Anne,

This document may help you: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/changing-the-user-default-settings-444107050.html>

Is explains a little bit how to change the user default settings.

Hope it helps!

If you need any further help, please let us know!

Kind regards,  
Diego Gundel Machado

comments: author: Anne EQS
body: HI Diego, unfortunately this is about JIRA, not Confluence. Br, Anne


Tags: confluence-administration

default

user
Create From Template not loading
Asked by Florent Dulauroy:

I migrated my confluence server instance to cloud.

My template migrated correctly but when a user click on "Create From Template" the dialog loads indefinitely.I tried to disabled all the templates but it still loads indefinitely.

Would you have any fix for this?


Answers:
author: Giles B
body: Hi Florent,

I'd definitely recommend you [contact support](https://support.atlassian.com) about this one. They can properly investigate it for you.


author: Tecnologia AmericasTG
body: Please refer to this page:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/unable-to-create-pages-or-spaces-the-popup-loads-forever-after-confluence-upgrade-to-5-x-or-6-x-330793034.html>  

Worked for me, setting up the "bandanavalue" (Solution 2)


author: Gnanavelu Murthy
body: Is there any update on this, myself too facing the same problem.

Create from template is not working when i click the add button, it loads infinite.


author: BechVo
body: Hi,

we have the same problem after migration to mySQL Database.

Now we can't use Templates and we can't even add a new area.

Both loading indefinitely.


author: Damian Chisholm
body: I am experiencing the exactly same issue - was there a resolution to this?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Access Javascript files from the HTML Macro
Asked by Henrik larsson:

Is it possible to reference in a \<script\> tag an attached JS file from the HTML macro? And if it is what is the path to the JS file?

What I want is to be able to reference JS files from a page without having any admin rights.


Answers:
author: Adrian Reid
body: This works for me in the HTML macro "\<script type="text/javascript" src="http://URL/directory/example.js"\>\</script\>"

The js file needs to be in the Confluence directory, eg a js folder. A URL worked for me while a filepath didn't.

See <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/33136690/executing-javascript-on-a-single-page>


author: Confluence Man
body: Hmm I do not think you can because when you attach a file it becomes 'text/plain' so you can't execute it. If you can either change the MIME type checking or convert the text file into an executable when you fetch it, I am not sure if it is possible.

I had this issue with a JS file (I wanted table filters but refused to by the addon just for a small feature) so I ended up directly linking to the person's github file. You could try that, use github to store your js and pull it using the rawgit link.
can a user download the comparison to a pdf?
Asked by Dana Jansen:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page History and Page Comparison Views](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139379)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not internally, but clicking "print to pdf" in the browser works for me.

comments: author: Milo Test
body: It is unfortunate that while the ??? -\> **Export to PDF** is available on both the Page History list and Page History compare pages, only the current page is exported. But print to PDF is fine workaround.


author: Dana Jansen
body: Perfect

Thanks


Tags: page-history

pdf
Broken macro with Task list
Asked by Sebastien BLANDIN:

Hi all,

I created a template in which I implemented a task list (30 users) surrounded by a panel macro.

It's useful when somebody wants to create a page without typing the tasks assigned to the same 30 users.

Sometimes, after a user make an edit and click on his task checkbox, the page saved shows a broken macro and no other user can edit the page.

Have you any idea of what it could come from?

Thanks for your feedback

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Broken-macro-with-Task-list/qaq-p/385190?attachment-id=6410){#link_11876612783695}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/65161/1/Broken%20macro.jpg){#display_11876612783695_0}


Answers:
author: Sebastien BLANDIN
body: In Fact this issue is coming from the simultaneous edit of few different users. Each time a user is clicking the checkbox to indicate that the task is done, if another user is editing the page at the same time, the macro shows has broken macro.

Broken macro.jpg
How to disable adding users as a watchers when they edit Wiki page?
Asked by Tamara Djordjevic:

Hello,

Is there a way to disable the option for users to be added as a watchers after editing Wiki page, if they already removed themselves from watchers prior to the page editing?

Regards,

Tamara


Answers:
author: Tamara Djordjevic
body: Hi Giles,

I'm sorry, I didn't write one detail - we have a group of users which need to edit one attachment on the page.

If a user A who created page and added attachment removes himself from watchers on that page and disables "Autowatch" option (and all other email notifications, just to be sure), and user B edits that attachment, then user A will automatically be added as a page watcher again.

How can we disable this?

Best regards,

Tamara


author: Tamara Djordjevic
body: Good morning Giles,

This is what happens: user creates a page, removes himself from watchers of that page, set email notifications the way he disables the option "Autowatch", goes back to the page, he edit the page and automatically becomes watcher again.

Can we disable this?

Thanks and regards,

Tamara

comments: author: Giles B
body: Hi Tamara,

That doesn't sound like expected behaviour. If it's doing that, I'd suggest you [contact support](https://support.atlassian.com) so they can look into it and raise a bug if necessary.


author: Giles B
body: Hi Tamara,

Each user can set this themselves if they'd like to. Head to **profile pic** \> **Settings** \> **Email** and uncheck the **Autowatch** option.
when I see the blogs created in 2015,it is always in the state of being located,and I cannot see the content after waiting a long time at all.But I can see them by searching.
Asked by mashasha:

The blogs created in 2016 don't have the problem.I can see them normally. what is the reason?


Answers:
author: mashasha
body: Surely enough ,It's the server performance problems....what is the basic configuration of Confluence sever that it can run smoothly? My computer configuration:RAM :4G 64bit ...
What are good examples of what I should create in a space and what I should create in a parent page?
Asked by Caleb Kingston:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Customising your Confluence Site](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724765493)*

Hey Guys, I have been using confluence now for a little over a month and right now I have 2 spaces and a lot of pages inside them. But I guess, because I kind of stormed out of the gate with this, I want to step back and verify that I'm using confluence and structuring my spaces and pages consistent to, maybe, a best practice I haven't seen. I know I could structure it how I want and be fine but I want it to make the most sense to our company as it grows so I want consistency in how things are structured inside.

Could I please get some feedback on how these are structured and a possible better solution to structure things?

Thanks in advance,

Caleb

**Here's an example of my 2 spaces right now.**

Screen Shot 2016-01-27 at 5.43.12 PM.pngScreen Shot 2016-01-27 at 5.42.38 PM.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/What-are-good-examples-of-what-I-should-create-in-a-space-and/qaq-p/103225?attachment-id=4236){#link_11912272d8d539}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/17281/1/Screen%20Shot%202016-01-27%20at%205.42.38%20PM.png){#display_11912272d8d539_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/What-are-good-examples-of-what-I-should-create-in-a-space-and/qaq-p/103225?attachment-id=4237){#link_11912272d8d539_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/17281/2/Screen%20Shot%202016-01-27%20at%205.43.12%20PM.png){#display_11912272d8d539_2}


Answers:
author: Adrian Reid
body: It looks like you've got four departments there- Finance, HR, Online Marketing and Software Development, so I would recommend each one has its own space for their own how-tos and procedures. That 3d Animation article looks a bit lost in the HR space and could be moved into Software Dev space. Move the Online Marketing how-tos into the Online Marketing space. Move each sub-section on procedures in the HR space into its own space so there are only HR procedures in the HR space, finance procedures in Finance space etc. You could also make that Brainspin space a landing space which links onto all the other spaces. You could use that space for general announcements, who buys the cake this week etc. Btw don't forget about labels for similar pages in each space eg policies, how-tos.

comments: author: Caleb Kingston
body: Thank you! That was exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. The answer always seem so easy after it's given but going through it all I just seems so lost starting out. Much appreciate!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I want to create a calendar in a space, but when i click "..." in the confluence header, i did not see Calendars in the create dialog. why?
Asked by angie:

I want to create a calendar in a space, but when i click "..." in the confluence header, i did not see Calendars in the create dialog. why?


Answers:
author: Bhushan Nagaraj
body: Is your Team Calendars plugin active and enabled?

1. Go to Administration - Add-Ons
2. Choose to View All Add-ons
3. Search for Team Calendars

Ensure that is is enabled and has an active license.

comments: author: Bhushan Nagaraj
body: Hi Angie,

Were you able to resolve this issue?


author: angie
body: hi Bhushan, no, it needs calendar license to enable calendar plugin.


author: Bhushan Nagaraj
body: Yep. Please mark/upvote the answer so others find it helpful. Thanks :smile:


author: angie
body: Hi Guilherme,

Thanks for your reply.

1. How to enable **Global Templates and Blueprints** page? I logged in confluence portal as admin but I can't find the steps that described in the doc like "Choose **Browse** \> **Confluence Admin**." Where is "Browse"?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Global+Templates>

thanks,

Angie

comments: author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi angie!

Use the "quick search" on the top nav bar. Just type "**Global Templates and Blueprints"**in there.


author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi Angie,

Is the Calendar blue print enabled in the **Global Templates and Blueprints** page?


Tags: confluence-administration
is there a way to search directly on XHTML or Storage Format?
Asked by Brendan Patterson:

I am trying to see if there is way to enter a Confluence search query which finds pages containing a macro with specific parameters.

Partial solution: This actually still seems to work from a way back article by Sarah Maddox in so far as one can search: macroName: x\*

<https://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/>

OR another helpful solution would be how to create something like a regex which searches XHTML or Storage Format for Confluence pages matching the criteria.

Thank you for any insights!!


Answers:
author: Stephan Sutter
body: Hi Brendan,

If you are willing to wirte a plugin, this is the code snippet to find macros and their parameters:

MacroDefinitionHandler macroDefinitionHandler = new MacroDefinitionHandler() {

public void handle(MacroDefinition macroDefinition) {

String macroName = macroDefinition.getName();

if (macroName != null \&\& macroName.equals(MACRO_NAME)) {

buttonCaptions.add(macroDefinition.getParameter(PARAM_CAPTION));

}

}

};

try {

xhtmlContent.handleMacroDefinitions(pageInStorageFormat, conversionContext, macroDefinitionHandler);

}

catch (XhtmlException e) {

throw new PtcException("Couldn't extract button name from MACRO_NAME.",e);

}

I hope this gives you a good starting point.

Regards,  
Stephan


author: Chii
body: you can try using CQL to search for uses of macros (see <https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-rest-api/advanced-searching-using-cql#AdvancedSearchingusingCQL-macroMacroMacro>), but that doesn't let you specify the parameters unfortunately.


Tags: confluence-cloud

search

storage-format

xhtml
How to display plain text from certain queries
Asked by Phillip Jones:

I have a few queries that I cannot get to display correctly in plain text.

My query is: SELECT SUBSTR(pp_patch, 8) as " " from pp_version

It should return 2015.1.4.0, but it is returning: { =2015.1.4.0}

When I query it in the a sql tool, I get it correctly.   

I have a template that looks like this, which does remove some extra \[\] brackets and takes away the table formatting.

#foreach ($row in $result)  
$row  
#end

How can I fix this?


Answers:
author: Felix Grund (Scandio)
body: Hi Philipp,

Thank you for your interest in PocketQuery! You should be able to achieve what you want using the template parameter *plain.* Check out the section "Template configuration parameters" in the [PocketQuery documentation](https://www.scandio.de/en/atlassian/plugins-en/pocketquery-en/pocketquery-documentation/). I also prepared an example for you...

Query:

```
SELECT CodeFROM CountryWHERE Name = :Name
```

Template:

```
## @param plain:true&lt;h3&gt;First row:&lt;/h3&gt;$result.get(0).Code&lt;h3&gt;All rows:&lt;/h3&gt;#foreach($row in $result)$row.Code&lt;br&gt;#end
```

Let me know if this helps!

Regards, Felix (Scandio)
Confluence JIRA Gadget .json cannot be found
Asked by Jeremiah Landi:

Hello,

I have been using gadgets in my confluence dashboard without any problem. All of a sudden I am getting the following errors:

image2016-1-27 11:40:7.png

I have looked around and found a couple other people with this problem on the forums; however, I am struggling to find a resolution.

* <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/277819>
* <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/32506728>

Any help would be appreciated. It doesn't seem to effect all the gadgets. In my case it is just the ones dealing with the sprint. Other people who have the same setup are not having the issue within our system, so it seems isolated to my page...

I have the same setup as the others on my team successfully using the gadgets.

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-JIRA-Gadget-json-cannot-be-found/qaq-p/162703?attachment-id=5785){#link_118766c346af13}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/27254/1/image2016-1-27%2011%3A40%3A7.png){#display_118766c346af13_0}


Answers:
author: Jeremiah Landi
body: So I will put this out as an answer. I have no idea what happened; but, I deleted the gadgets, added them again, and they work like a charm!

Good luck to the next person and hopefully this helps you out.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

error

gadget

jira-cloud

json
Can you export from cloud confluence and import into server version of confluence
Asked by Chris Prendergast:

I was attempting to import an xml.zip that was generated from a cloud version of confluence. The import into the server version of confluence failed. Any input is appreciated.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, but it's not that simple, as your server version is unlikely to be able to pull in a later version of the data. See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/migrating-from-confluence-cloud-to-confluence-server-724765578.html> for the full procedure.
How can I turn off Autowatch globally
Asked by rmorstein:

I have users commenting on pages and they do not need to receive updates for the page. I as the admin would like to turn this off for them..


Answers:
author: Jonathan Soo
body: Hi Robert,

It's already been answered here :

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+Sends+Email+Notifications+despite+Autowatch+is+Turned+Off>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22070>

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/49971>

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/54126/can-jira-s-autowatch-be-disabled>

You may try out the workaround stated in the first two links. Do let us know if it doesn't help.

<br />

Regards,

Jonathan


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to see when data within a metadata macro is updated?
Asked by Carolin Mays:

When a user updates metadata on a page, is there a way to track when it's updated? Not when the page is updated but the actual item in the metadata table?


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Doesn't the user have to edit the page to change the metadata value? If so, then the change occurs on page save, so the save time = the metadata update time.

comments: author: Carolin Mays
body: Thanks Bill for responding so quickly.

Yes, but sometimes the user will update other information on the page that's outside the table containing the metadata. So I need a way to tell if the user updated the table, not anything else on the page.

thanks!

Carolin


author: Bill Bailey
body: Ah, well I have made extensive use of metadata before and don't know of anyway to get that info.