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confluence on windows
Asked by marshawnm:

I have inherited a confluence data center cluster

that was deployed on linux using a windows file share,

because of this it is an unsupported configuration.

I am looking to patch the confluence app server but past attempts have broken the application.

I am not familiar with what broke but in short the data on the shared mount was deleted.

Any one else trying this with notes on what I need to look out for


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello [@marshawnm](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3727032),

Welcome to Atlassian Community! It's nice to meet you.

Could you let me know a little more about how your site was originally deployed? I assume you're using the Windows file share as a place to store your home directory and other files?

This setup should work fine, because as long as Confluence has the right permissions, it can store its home directory anywhere that the system can access as the executable user. Permission can be an issue here though. I have also heard from another engineer that symlinks, which most Samba installations depend on, may cause Confluence to break.

Can you let me know what kind of behavior you were experiencing when it started to fail? Was this before or after you noticed there were missing files? Confluence shouldn't have deleted the content on the mount. We would need to be more familiar with your system to know what might have had access to those files.

Do you have a backup of your content from this Confluence site? It would be best to setup Confluence from the start and restore your content, then if you want to move the home directory back to a share, you can do that from a known working Confluence installation.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
Editing Columns in Tables?
Asked by caw_405:

Can anybody tell me how to edit table column width in edit mode in Confluence? It definitely doesn't function like MS Word! Try as I may to drag the column width, it doesn't change. Nor does forcing a return to change width adjust the columns.


Answers:
author: Carlos Garcia Navarro
body: Hi caw_405,

I wonder if this other post can help:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/how-to-fix-the-column-width-in-confluence-tables/qaq-p/586>

comments: author: CATHERINE_WOODWARD
body: Carlos,

Thanks so much for your on-point, revelatory answer! Changing that table option did the trick! thanks very much for your answer

Catherine Woodward


author: Carlos Garcia Navarro
body: I'm glad to hear that I could help, Catherine! Take care!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Null Value in Merged Table
Asked by Jason Tracey:

I am attempting to Merge multiple Tables from various pages for a roll-up report. In my merge report, I am seeing an additional data row entry with NULL or FALSE entered in the cells. I also have a DATE column and in that extra row entry is a 1 JAN 1969 input.

Looking to somehow remove or filter out this erroneous data row in my merged table.


Answers:
author: Jason Tracey
body: Table except

embed within

Table Transformer -\> merge

then embed in

Table Filter

onto Advance Tables - Table Plus

comments: author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Please, try to update the [Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app to the latest version (Confluence administrator can do this).


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Jason,

How do you merge tables?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Import Corewiki Content to Confluence
Asked by Keya Jaekel:

How do I insert multiples documents from core wikis under certain headings/pages? For example: how do I go about inserting the following word documents with their designated headings.

![Capture.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80757i2EADDA7E9145EF86/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")


Answers:
author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi [@Keya Jaekel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3729254)

Welcome to the community.

Have you tried the import from Word functionality that Confluence is offering?

You can find further information [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/import-a-word-document-into-confluence-170493136.html).

Cheers,  
Nils
I cannot get exact match search to work
Asked by Andy Hockey:

I'm looking for the phrase "Waiting for first successful write" in confluence. However it just returns a load of partial match and documents that have those words scattered throughout.

If I wanted those other results I would not have added the quotes. How do I only return matches with that phrase in it?


Answers:
author: Lenin Raj
body: Hi [@Andy Hockey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3051794)

Some words are considered as "stop words" and may influence how "exact search" works. Please see this issue <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-14910> and <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ConfCloud/Confluence+Search+Syntax> for more details

comments: author: Andy Hockey
body: I have found a list of stop words, but not through the above link. The onward link from there redirects to o'reily media and is out of date. Where do a raise a Jira for this?

So I spent my own time searching for a answer and this stackoverflow page gives an answer <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17527741/what-is-the-default-list-of-stopwords-used-in-lucenes-stopfilter>

The words are:

    "a", "an", "and", "are", "as", "at", "be", "but", "by","for", "if", "in", "into", "is", "it","no", "not", "of", "on", "or", "such","that", "the", "their", "then", "there", "these","they", "this", "to", "was", "will", "with"

Assuming this is correct, then why when I search for the exact phrase "Module Choose File" I still receive a lot of results and the results with that exact phrase is the second returned result and not the first. It returns 52 results. If the exact phrase I'm searching for is not the first result how do I know it's not the 52nd result and the rest of the results are things I have not searched for?

Also the third result has the words 'files' and 'chooser' highlighted which are not even words in the original phrase.


author: Richard Broadhurst
body: You will also find hyphenation being ignored and worse creating two new word vaiants to search for!  
We have a handful of pages with a certain phrase on them, but searching for it returns several thousand pages and I have never got far enough to find any of the pages in question.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I create, publish, then delete a Child page without going to my Confluence administrator?
Asked by Lori.Malvey:

OK, I am tasked to be my department's Confluence sub-administrator (I don't know what else to call it; if you're in a large corporation, Confluence seems to be geared toward small business, not enough tiers above "Space", but that's another story). Being in a large corporation, we were given a "Space" (I've got no say over templates and all those great features I can't use), and I quickly learned if I create a Page, publish it, then want it deleted, I need to go to the Administrator for him to delete it. QUESTION: I need to play around with Confluence to learn it (just the way I am, I need to experiment once I learn something), and can I create Child Pages and delete them myself? I'm afraid to try since I already have a Page that I need to ask someone (admin) to delete. Let me know and thanks.

ALSO...are there templates on the Page level? This is where I'm at, I need to do a lot at the Page and Child Page level only (that's my playground, since it's a large corporation). Thanks.

OKAY, I am putting my reply here (won't take a "reply").

Thank you. I created 3 pages as you instructed. There is no ability to delete the Page nor the Child Pages (I can copy, I can move, but not delete). Bummer.

Thanks for the pointing out the templates (I knew that but wasn't sure if that was all there is).

Have a great day.


Answers:
author: Mike Bowen
body: Hi Lori,

A quick way to see if you can do any of the above is to create and publish a page - Call it A. Then from page A click the + in the sidebar and create another page and publish it. Call it B. Repeat the step again and call the next page C.

Your breadcrumb menu at the top should look something like this:

![C.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80758iDE44B4E6FA41EF86/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "C.png")Click the three dots on Page C. Do you have an option at the bottom to delete the page?

If not, - you can't delete any pages, in which case you need to request these test pages to be deleted.

If yes, then you have permission to delete C, and B and A.

You should always have a landing page, so what ever page you have there, always create the pages from that one.

For example create a page called **Lori's Landing Page** and then create all your sub-pages from that page.

There are templates on every page level. Simply click the + sign and any of the templates you see can be used.

![Templates create.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80760iA9FD3B955AFBAF90/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Templates create.png")

-Mike


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can you have 1 child page that has 2 different parent pages
Asked by Michael Edinger:

How do you go about this ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Mike Bowen
body: Hi [@Michael Edinger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/932202)

No! it is the other way around. 1 Parent page can have multiple child pages. Those child pages can then have multiple child pages as well.

Why would you want two different parent pages? Can you provide and example and maybe I can understand.

-Mike

comments: author: Michael Edinger
body: Yes two pages who want display their children visually. One Parent Page displays this child page. Another Parent Page also wants this Child page to be displayed under it,


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I can't think of a use for multiple parent pages itself, it just messes up your tree and navigation.

However "having the same content under different pages" (not quite the same) does have some uses, and you can do that with "include" macros.

For example

* Page: Top
  * Page t1: Child of top 1
  * Page t2: Child of top 2
* Page: Upper
  * Page U1: Child of upper that should contain the content from "child of top 1"

The physical content of "child of top 1" is your shared content. Page U1 simply reads "{include t2}"


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Creating local variable on confluence page
Asked by Kacper Szczepanek:

Dear all,

I'm looking for a solution, which lets me create a sort of local variable, that I can assign and use in the Confluence page.

Some example:

var tblLength = length_of_the_table_on_the_same_conflu_page;

Later in the text, I can call the variable like this:  
'Lorem ipsum contains {tblLength} items'  
And receive output like:  
'Lorem ipsum contains 43 items'

I'd really appreciate any help :)


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Kacper Szczepanek](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3728919) !

I believe that I understand the desired behavior. However, ++*natively we are not able to perform such in our Cloud platform.*++ Here we can check the differences between Confluence Cloud and Server:
> * ++**[\[Atlassian Cloud Support\] Compare Atlassian cloud vs server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/compare-atlassian-cloud-vs-server-744721664.html)**++
> * [++**\[Confluence Support\] Functional differences in Confluence Cloud**++](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/functional-differences-in-confluence-cloud-734070955.html)

In ++*Confluence Server we can achieve something pretty close*++ to that by using User Macros or Plugins available from our Marketplace:
> * ++**[\[Atlassian Marketplace\] Easy Confluence Variables](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217150/easy-confluence-variables?hosting=server&tab=overview)**++
> * ++**[\[Confluence Support\] Writing User Macros](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html?_ga=2.48112611.534234240.1580126222-1229912396.1578067063)**++
> * ++**[\[Confluence Support\] User Macro Template Syntax](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/user-macro-template-syntax-223906130.html)**++
> * ++**[\[Atlassian Community\] Can I use a variable with a macro? I am trying to create a custom template and use variables and a JIRA macro together.](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-I-use-a-variable-with-a-macro-I-am-trying-to-create-a-custom/qaq-p/203566)**++

I hope this shines some light into your objectives, Kacper! Looking forward to your reply.

comments: author: Kacper Szczepanek
body: Hi Diego,

You were right, Easy Confluence Variables will do the job. But unfortunately, we are using the Cloud platform and can't switch to the server version.

Anyway, I really appreciate your help :)

Kacper


author: Diego
body: Thanks for keeping the thread alive, [@Kacper Szczepanek](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3728919) ! Come share with us sometime in the future.


author: Yu Jin
body: Is this still the case, that Cloud platform does not support it?


author: James Tome
body: I found a suggestion posted by others on this subject. <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-70336>  
Go vote it up!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to recovery a page model?
Asked by Pedro Moura:

I accidentally deleted a page template that I need to retrieve.


Answers:
author: Ivan Lima
body: Hey [@Pedro Moura](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3502439) , to my knowledge, unfortunately, there's no easy way to restore a deleted template. You most likely need to access it on your database backup. You can find some insights at the following links:

* [How Can I Restore a Deleted Template?](https://help.k15t.com/legacy/scroll-pdf-exporter/how-can-i-restore-a-deleted-template-90407361.html)
* [How to Recover Page Content from the Database and Import Using Source Editor](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-recover-page-content-from-the-database-and-import-using-source-editor-686860695.html)

Also, according to [CONFSERVER-52048](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52048), this feature won't be implemented. Perhaps, it will be reevaluated in the future.

When it comes to restoring a page, you can check at:

* [Delete or Restore a Page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/delete-or-restore-a-page-139429.html)

Hope it helps.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Licensing and upgrading as we grow
Asked by Tim N:

Hi Guys,

we are currently using some open source wiki as our IT knowledge base and are evaluating confluence as a proper replacement.

I've worked with confluence at my previous company, hence I'm quite fond of this product

As of right now we will probably only need the 100 users licence as we migrate from our existing wiki to confluence but since im working for university IT (a rather small one) we will probably expand confluence usage to many more departments and even some student projects later on.

It's quite hard to justify such a massive bill (even with academic pricing) for like 2000 users (estimated for later) in the beginning, while we run the pilot within our IT department.

As far as my research goes, a 1 user licence is occupied as soon as the LDAP Query confirmes a user is eligible to log into confluence.

While the data center licensing plan is somewhat flexible with the growing user base the reoccurring costs per year will quickly outpace the one-time-payment for the server license.

My questions are:

* What are our options as we expand?
  * Can we purchase a 500 / 2000 user server license at a discount later on?
  * Or do we really go with the 2000 upfront?
* What happens to the occupied license when user has logged in, created some content and leaves the university / is removed from access groups / our systems?

Thanks,

Tim


Answers:
author: Adam Rypel _MoroSystems_
body: Hello [@Tim N](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3728674) ,

to answer your questions:

* If you purchase 100 users license right now, you can always upgrade your user tier to 500 or 2000 users for lower price later on - no need to buy a new license. Check out this page to find the pricing for that: <https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence#server-license>
* Confluence is divided to user tiers, so it does not matter who was previously using it, but how many users are currently using it. If you deactivate the user in Confluence, the license gets free for another user.

Hope that helped!

Adam


Tags: confluence-server

server
Show linked Jira issues on a Confluence page
Asked by Brian Fischer:

I'm able to create a nice linking between Jira and Confluence like described in following two stories

* **As a PO, I want to define detailed requirements in pages on confluence and user stories in Jira**
* **As a Jira user, I want link Jira issues with Confluence pages using the "Link page" feature i Jira**

but I'm not able to see linked issues in Confluence

* **As a Confluence user, I want to see all linked user stories on a requirement page**

Questions:

Can I construct a JQL query to extract Jira issues linked to current Confluence page?


Answers:
author: James Conway
body: you could consider using:

```
"Epic Link" = KEY-1234
```

or

```
labels = common-label?
```

another option would be to look at a an app on the marketplace, I am aware of Requirements Yogi that can link Confluence and Jira, there may be other apps that fit your use case.

comments: author: Brian Fischer
body: I have thought about your solutions but it will require users to remember to tag Jira issues and adding a custom JQL to all Confluence pages... we will for sure miss links when it's based on manually tagging.

I would prefer a smarter solution (if possible).


author: Ashley Wallace
body: I am interested in an answer to this. Was this ever solved ? It seems like it should be basic functionality to see a list of JIRA issues where the confluence page has been linked.


author: Joshua Giese
body: Also curious if anyone has come up with a solution for this. We want this for EUP pages to show the issues that are related to that EUP.


Tags: confluence-cloud

jira

link
how can I use 2 ATTACHMENT in one page?
Asked by Andreina Diaz:

![Captura.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80704i46ADA0EF2EB1F448/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Captura.PNG")

When i try to add one document this file show duplicated in macro 1(Proyecto 1) and macro 2 (Proyecto 2)


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, that looks correct to me. You seem to have put the attachments macro on the same page twice. As it lists attachments on the page, I'd expect to see what you are seeing there.
Show only excerpts in the list of blog posts
Asked by sergiizaitsev:

Currently, when I have a list of blog posts with excerpts and choose "excerpts" mode in the Blog Posts macro - I see a list of blog posts with titles, excepts AND some body text following the excerpts, if those are too short.

For Pages (rather than blog posts) I see a different behavior - when I create a Children Display macro with "excerpts" mode I get rendered page titles and excerpts ONLY (without page content following the excerpts).

The question is if it is possible to achieve the same appearance with Blog Posts macro?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@sergiizaitsev](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1475519) !

I was able to replicate the behavior you described. With this in mind, I was able to find the bug report that is tackling this issue. Here, take a look:
> * ++**[\[Confluence Cloud\]\[CONFCLOUD-55789\] Setting the view mode as excerpt on Blog Posts macro does not work](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-55789)**++

A good approach would be to vote and watch this report. Currently, there is no workaround for the situation. Voting helps to increase the issue visibility and watching it will keep you up to date with everything posted there.

Let us hear from you!


Tags: blog

cloud

confluence-cloud

excerpt

page
Confluence Calendar Views (per team)
Asked by Yana encheva:

We are currenlty using this calendar Globally and it gets really crowded

I was wondering if i can create different views of it for each team so they can only see the team members that they are interested in :?


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Yana encheva](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3541517)

How do you differentiate between teams in your calendar? Are you pulling the items via jira tickets?

Thanks


Tags: calendar

confluence-server

server
Can you have 2 instances of Confluence connected to a single JIRA instance?
Asked by Robin Geary:

We are using JIRA cloud which is currently integrated with System Confluence.

As we are different software project, so we have a server version of confluence we would also like to integrate with JIRA cloud.

The project application links exist in our space on the Confluence server.

The application link to the Confluence server exists in JIRA Cloud.

When attempting to create a page via JIRA it will only allow links to the System Confluence instance.

Is this behaviour related to the System Confluence being marked as primary and is there anything I can do about this?

![Screenshot 2020-01-28 at 10.22.59.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80694i7151C3108C0441C2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2020-01-28 at 10.22.59.png")![Screenshot 2020-01-28 at 10.27.30.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80695i97038A6184E839FE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2020-01-28 at 10.27.30.png")


Answers:
author: Radhika Shinde
body: Yes, you can have two instance of confluence linked to single Jira instance, the outgoing request goes through application that is marked as Primary

Thanks,

Radhika

comments: author: Robin Geary
body: Thanks for the response. I have marked the confluence server as primary but now they both are primary and it still does not function.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Is there a way to convert a plantUML diagram to a draw.io diagram ?
Asked by fcoppolani:

Hi,

we are using Confluence 6.13 with Draw.io 9.0.3. Some of our users import PlantUML diagrams into Confluence. It works well enough, nevertheless some of them would like to 'convert' the PlantUML diagram into a 'real' Draw.io diagram that would be easier to update for them.

Today if you create a diagram with the PlantUml functionality, you cannot edit it like a diagram (move the boxes, edit the layout or the text) without generating another PlantUML code.

Is there a way to convert a plantUML diagram to a draw.io diagram ?

Thanks in advance for your help.


Answers:
author: Marija Radovic
body: Hi,

At this time draw.io doesn't understand the PlantUML format i.e it is not possible to convert a plantUML to a draw.io diagram. There were discussions about this, but we felt declaring a diagram and drawing a diagram were distinct use cases, so it's not something we're planning.

Thanks for understanding.

Kind regards,

Marija

draw.io support


author: Vagner Santos Araujo
body: follow the steps  
Arrange \>\> Insert \>\> Advanced \>\> PlantUML

If you know how to do the reverse, get in touch, as I haven't figured it out yet.

comments: author: Aldo Wachyudi
body: It works! Thank you\~


author: Andrew Mosey
body: Thanks!

By reverse do you mean to edit the diagram once inserted this way?

I can do this by double-clicking the image.

Cheers


author: Ig Ig
body: For me conversion works for state diagram only by [ConvertDrawIoToPlantUml.java](https://github.com/igor-suhorukov/state_machine_example/blob/master/src/test/java/ConvertDrawIoToPlantUml.java)

Example files [is here](https://github.com/igor-suhorukov/state_machine_example/tree/master/src/test/resources)


author: Russell Glaue
body: Create a Draw.io file with inserted PlanUML textual content and rendered PlantUML SVG.

<https://github.com/rglaue/plantuml_to_drawio>

This does the same as \[Draw.io\]Arrange\>Insert\>PlantUML, but from the command line.

```
bash# plantuml_to_drawio.sh diagram.plantuml.txt > diagram.drawio.xml
```


Tags: confluence-server

draw.io

server