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I need to know what packages are required for Confluence on Ubuntu/Linux
Asked by admin admin:

So, I've been able to install confluence from an ISO delivery of Ubuntu 18 in a testing environment using an ISO installation of the OS, but when I sat down in our production environment to validate the installation earlier this week, I was unable to operate the Confluence server after installation on our PXE delivered Ubuntu server.

I have been requested for the packages necessary. from our PXE server administrator, for the installation/operation of Confluence in a Linux/Ubuntu environment so our PXE delivery can be added to, to provide the requirements of the Atlassian servers, or I can install them second-hand.


Answers:
author: Minh Tran
body: What problem have you met when running Confluence in your PXE? I would love to know any kind of errors / exceptions

comments: author: admin admin
body: I will redeliver the server in the previous environment later this week to provide those results to you, right now I am fully committed to installing the server successfully, and I am using a workaround by installing the OS from ISO.


author: Minh Tran
body: Sure, feel free to post back with the error


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to explain what a PXE server is to confirm this, but, if my best guess is correct, then the answer is "none".

Download the appropriate installer from Atlassian and run it. It'll install fine without any additional packages.

comments: author: admin admin
body: Preboot eXecution Environment

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment>  

It is generally what allows a computer/VM to be automatically installed with an OS when it boots up, as for the packages required, there are certainly MANY which are necessary, otherwise Confluence could be installed on any and every Linux distro, as well as rocks, and even your refridgerator. ;-)

Note that this isn't necessarily a functional requirement, but it is an operational one, as many different distros provide duplicate tools in different locations and/or files, and as such creating any form of automation which relies on utilities provided by the OS itself; grep, mv, cp, etc requires these utilities to be referenced in a duplicitous way.  

MY Fresh Ubuntu server, installed via PXE, with the confluence .bin installer does not provide some requisite of Atlassian's installation, and I am attempting to discover what that is.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, not the one I thought.

All your PXE needs to do is install an operating system that can run Java (ideally AdoptOpen as that's what Atlassian recommends).


Tags: confluence-server

server
How do I pull data from a confluence page using Excel VBA?
Asked by Alex Cristea:

I am trying to automate a data entry process by pulling information from a confluence table and putting it into an excel file for analysis. I have attempted to pull the data using basic web scraping techniques but VBA is unable to locate the information. Are there any tips to finding and pulling the information from the confluence table?


Answers:
author: Minh Tran
body: Hi [@Alex Cristea](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3698029)

Can you please elaborate more about this \`VBA is unable to locate the information\`?

From my thought, you can just transform Confluence content into csv file so you can read from excel file for analysis

Another approach, you can just use some excel library api like <https://poi.apache.org/> to write the excel file in native extension .xls


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I display an attachment, which is an image, on a page?
Asked by Hammed:

Hello,

I have uploaded an image to a specific page. I have edited the images name, and added various tags to the image. I can see that the page has an attachment (it is the only attachment to the page) How exactly do I get this attachment to display? When I select the "Files \& images" button, it only shows "recent uploads" (which contains the originally uploaded file, with the original name).


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Hammed,

Sorry to hear you're running into issues with the attachments! It looks like you've run into a known bug that's in our product team's short term backlog. You can watch the following ticket to see all updates and progress on a bug fix: [CONFCLOUD-67587 -- Not able to attach attachment from attachment page](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67587).

For now the best workaround we have is to upload the attachment directly into the editor, rather than select it from the existing attachments.

-- Zak


author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@Hammed](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3697892) ,

When editing a page, can you drag the local picture directly onto the page?

![TIM??20200108122926.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/78147i0AD8093EB14309E5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "TIM??20200108122926.png")

comments: author: Hammed
body: Hello [@Ollie Guan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853638)

Where, *or rather*, how do I access the files that have already been attached to the page?


author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@Hammed](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3697892) ,

Insert files and images when you edit the page.

![TIM??20200109122741.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/78293i57CCEC991F73F537/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "TIM??20200109122741.png")


Tags: confluence-cloud
Children page micro view
Asked by Ludmila Baklanova:

Is there a way to show children page micro nested under one page. Currently we have 2 level view one page link and under indented another one. What am I looking for is to nest all indented ones under the first one - is that possible?

Thank you,

Luda


Answers:
author: Brandon Viertel
body: If the pages are all created at the same level in the page tree, then they will appear at the same indentation in the Child Pages macro. Alternatively, you could use the Page Tree macro and set the root as desired.

Thanks!

Brandon

comments: author: Ludmila Baklanova
body: Thank you Brandon, should I just use page tree micro instead of Children Display micro?


author: Ludmila Baklanova
body: This is what we have on the left and what I would like to be on the right.

![Screen Shot 2020-01-07 at 4.42.11 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/78131iD95283BE79E4CF8D/image-dimensions/361x260?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2020-01-07 at 4.42.11 PM.png")


Tags: confluence-server

server
Image properties
Asked by SarahH:

Hello - I am trying to create an image as a link. I can do this in the overview page where the image properties show, but I cannot do this in a page. The properties bar for the image does not show. I am also not able to create the image as a link using the toolbar.

I am using Chrome and I have cleared my cache and I have tried using IE


Answers:
author: Kristine Sihto
body: I'd really like this functionality back. I'd also like to be able to specify the size of the image again. :(


author: Tiina Dunn
body: I have found another workaround to add a file to a page using a link before publishing it.

When you create a page Add an Attachments table to the page.

Create your page inserting the files as you go.

When ready to create your link, go into Preview mode for the page.

You can copy the link for the file from there.

Go back into Edit mode, create your link, remove the file icon and the Attachments table.

You will then have a page you can Publish with file links!

Again... it's a workaround


author: Tiina Dunn
body: I would also like this functionality back and have found a different work around. (not elegant though)

Once you publish a page, you can click on the Attachments paperclip to display all attachments associated with the page. From here you can copy the link --\> Go back and Edit the Page --\> then manually create a link ---\> then remove the Image icons.

Painful, but at least your page has the links displayed, not the icons


author: James Dellow
body: This is no longer possible with the new editor and the out of the box functionality.

While you can add custom in-line images as emojis, as far as I can tell you can't turn them into links.

You could try creating a custom macro to do this - see my article on "How to create simple custom macros in Confluence Cloud"

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/How-to-create-simple-custom-macros-in-Confluence-Cloud/ba-p/1227422>

comments: author: Naoufel Boulila
body: everything is not possible anymore with jira, what a waste!!!


author: Brandon Viertel
body: What do you mean by overview page?

After importing and placing the image on the page within the editor, you should be able to select it and have the toolbar pop up below the image.

Thanks!

Brandon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Unable to show a document as a link rather than thumbnail?
Asked by Jasmine.Hatherly:

I have added a document (have tried both Word and PDF) to a confluence page - on previous versions of Confluence, if I clicked the document on the page, it would give me the option to 'show as link', but this is no longer an option. Does any one know why or if I'm missing something on the newer version? Thanks


Answers:
author: Krista Parker
body: Hey there! Are you on Cloud or Server?   

This seems to be a new issue with the editor in Confluence Cloud: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Documents-Show-as-LINK-vs-THUMBNAIL/qaq-p/1255952>

comments: author: Jasmine.Hatherly
body: Thanks so much for this - appreciate your help! This will get around the issue for now :-)


author: Krista Parker
body: Awesome! Glad I could help!
Is there a simple way to make a customized Confluence Home Page with the side navigation bar?
Asked by MB:

Hello, I need my Confluence Yodas to please explain to me a straight forward way to create a customized home page that is the landing page when users login. In my research there seems to be a few methods that people use but not one seems to be comprehensive to flexible navigation. Also as most administrators that also where many hats for their company, I do not have the time to spend on coding in the solution, nor do I feel that I should have to in order to have this simple task be easily accessible. I do not want to buy an additional plug-in nor do I want to continue reading documentation that is either out of date for the cloud version or conflicting and time consuming. Please can someone Yoda me some kick-ass knowledge on how to create a simple kick-ass customized Confluence home page with a side navigation bar?

May the force be with you,

Mechelle


Answers:
author: Mike Bowen
body: Hi [@MB](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3592037)

1. The first thing you need to do is **create your landing page** in Confluence, Name and publish it (e.g. **Company Landing Page**).
2. If you are a Confluence administrator, click on **Space Settings in the side bar** , Under Space Details click **Edit Space Details** and **set the Home Page** to **Company Landing Page**. Ensure status = Current.
3. **Save**.

Now that your home page is set, when folk log in they see the home page. You will need to edit the page how you see fit. Any pages created going forth will appear under your Company Landing Page.

You can see these pages by opening the side bar, which can be maximised or minimised to show the pages below your landing page.

You can also customise the **Space Shortcuts** by hovering and clicking on the button and then adding your links to the shortcuts window, so not only do you have shortcuts but also access to the pages created.

![Space Shortcuts.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/78195iE81BB9076F9797E5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Space Shortcuts.png")

One further thing you can do on your landing page is add a **Page Tree Macro** left or right or center of the page and configure it to show the pages below the landing page or any other space pages.

For the best page navigation you'll have to buy a plugin. I can highly recommend **Subspace Navigation for Confluence.** You can see it briefly in my screenshot at the top of the page. It appears on every page.

-Mike


Tags: app

cloud

confluence-cloud

home-page
Hide / Unhide Columns in a Table
Asked by YPerepletchikov:

I have a table I want to insert with 10 columns, but want to be able to hide/unhide a few of them as I need to.

Is there a simple way to do this?


Answers:
author: Ashkan Malekly
body: [@YPerepletchikov](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3697705) Hii

If you are the admin of your board, you can go to the configuration of the board (at the right upside of your board) and then click on config and then click on the column (at the left side of your view). Here you can add a column. I hope I could help you.

comments: author: YPerepletchikov
body: Thanks for your response. I don't have an issue adding or deleting columns. I'm trying to hide / unhide columns from view when I don't need to look at certain information.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
In the free plan, is it impossible to import a word file?
Asked by Kyunghwan Bae_PO_ SM_:

I'm learning Confluence's features, but I think the import feature is not allowed to free plan users.

Am I right?


Answers:
author: Kelvin Hill
body: Hi [@Kyunghwan Bae_PO_ SM_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3697529) Like [@Jorden Van Bogaert](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3654119) said, it is definitely possible to import a Word file into a free account. I also just checked.

In my case, it was necessary to save the page and attach the Word document first (using the attachments page). After the file was attached, I edited the page and typed "/" and selected the Office Word macro. It offered me the attached Word document by default, and it rendered just fine.

In my paid account, I can drag a Word document into a page I am editing and insert it. For some reason, however, I can't do that in the free account. Dragging an attachment to the page does nothing. If you open the attachments screen, however, you can attach it that way.

comments: author: Kelvin Hill
body: Sorry! I've just realised you were probably trying to import rather than embed. I was referring to embedding, sorry.  

I've just checked, however, and I can import into the free version just fine. In fact, I don't remember it working as well in the paid version in the past.  

Have you experimented with a small file?  

Here's a screenshot confirming the import was successful.

![word-import.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/78075iAEAB87A338831A54/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "word-import.png")


author: Kyunghwan Bae_PO_ SM_
body: Thanks for your kind reply :)

I didn't expect this specific and kind response!

It works like a charm.


author: Jorden Van Bogaert
body: Hi [@Kyunghwan Bae_PO_ SM_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3697529)

I quickly checked and I'm able to import a Word file into my free Confluence plan. So you should be able to as well :)

Kind regards  
Jorden

comments: author: Kyunghwan Bae_PO_ SM_
body: Thanks for your kind reply!  

Actually, I was confused a little bit.

Yes! it works fine.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to search for Cyrillic text in REST API?
Asked by Alexey Miroshnikov:

'GET' '<https://infostroy.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/search?cql=label=stress>'` `

gives me HTTP Status: 200 "OK", while

'GET' '<https://infostroy.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/search?cql=label=??????>'

results in HTTP Status: 400 "Bad Request"` `

`the same for`

'GET' '<https://infostroy.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/search?cql=label=&#1089;&#1090;&#1088;&#1077;&#1089;&#1089>;'` `


Answers:
author: Alexey Miroshnikov
body: First of all, there is no problem with Cyrillic text search in Confluence REST API.

My problem was the search query specification for the utility I use to manage HTTP communications. Some parameters of the utility are a bit tricky, especially those dealing with all sorts of ANSI-Unicode encoding/decoding.

Finally, with a little help from the utility developers, I've got everything working.

comments: author: Shannon S
body: Hi Alexey,

Thank you for letting us know how you were able to resolve your issue.

Take care, and have a pleasant rest of your week.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Alexey,

Thank you for raising this with us.

Could you try including double quotes around your Cyrillic text? For example:

    'GET' 'https://YOUR-SITE.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/search?cql=label="??????"'

Let me know how that goes.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Alexey Miroshnikov
body: Checking...


author: Shannon S
body: Thank you for letting me know, Alexey. When you get a chance, please confirm if it worked out for you!

Regards,

Shannon


author: Alexey Miroshnikov
body: Thank you Shannon for your attention.

See the answer below.


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-cloud

rest-api
Cant update confluence licence 10 User Starter
Asked by S. G.:

hi everyone,

i renewed our license for our confluence server a few days ago. (expires 10.01.2020).

When i try to put the new license key on our server it says that it is not a valid key.

Does someone know what to do?

Kind regards  
Sven


Answers:
author: Minh Tran
body: Hi [@S. G.](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3697285)

Can you please file a ticket to <https://getsupport.atlassian.com/>? Our support engineers will help you sort out the problem

Regards,

Minh


Tags: confluence-server

server
Export to pdf
Asked by Iveta Flegrov?:

Hello,

we have a problem with export to pdf. There are missing czech letters in the text of new file. Could you help us?

Thank you

Iveta Flegrova


Answers:
author: Adam Rypel _MoroSystems_
body: Hello Iveta,

it is needed to install the font that supports Czech language to your instance. You can find the guide for setting that up here:

* Server: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-pdf-in-another-language-175473.html>
* Cloud: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/create-a-pdf-in-another-language-724764828.html>

In case of any problems, let me know!

Adam
Copying data with decimal points changes numbers to 1.
Asked by Dawid Nawrot:

I'm copying data from Excel to a table but numbers like:

7.94

5.12

are automatically changed to a numbered list 1.94 and 1.12

I can't copy using CTRL+SHIFT+V because then the data won't go into the cells properly. Can we disable this automatic list? It's a terrible experience!


Answers:
author: Mike Bowen
body: Hi [@Dawid Nawrot](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2831634)

Spotted on another post... Someone else has logged this problem with the Support Desk. They advise you click the link below and watch the issue (hopefully get resolved).

[CONFCLOUD-68744](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68744) *Pasting single digit decimal numbers in new editor results in numbered list replacing the first digit*

It appears to be related to the formatting, so pasting the contents into a code block or pasting from a raw text document appear to work without auto-formatting to a numbered list.

-Mike

comments: author: Mike May
body: Thanks for this link Mike. I am seeing the exact same issue.


author: James Conway
body: [@Dawid Nawrot](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2831634),

What i do sometimes is use text concatenation in to a helper cell with wiki markup. Then copying that in to a wiki markup marco.

E.g. in Excel Column D

```
Header Row function ="||"&TEXTJOIN("||",FALSE,A1:C1)&"||"
Other Rows function ="|"&TEXTJOIN("|",FALSE,A2:C2)&"|"
```

See more info about wiki markup for tables here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-wiki-markup-251003035.html#ConfluenceWikiMarkup-Tables>


author: Mike Bowen
body: Hi [@Dawid Nawrot](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2831634)

When you say you are copying data from Excel to a table, are you simply copying a couple of rows in your Excel and then dropping them into a blank page, which auto creates the table or are you copying into an already defined table?

I ask because I just copied a couple of rows from a sheet in Google \& Excel with numbers containing decimals and pasted into a blank page. It worked just fine.

I also copied and entire column of decimals, and it auto-created a table with all the values in it.

I also copied the decimals and overwrote my cells in a table and they too copied okay. I am not experiencing what you are experiencing.

I use Right Click Mouse and Paste - works perfectly,

I also tried CTRL+V to paste - works perfectly.

![row vs column paste.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/78081i05D2588036FFD7F6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "row vs column paste.png")

-Mike

comments: author: Dawid Nawrot
body: I already have a table because I built the structure in confluence and then copied the table and then filled it with data. Unfortunately it changes things like 8.25 to 1. 25


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Invalid server response
Asked by jolyonh:

Hi,

I am trying to inset image files into Confluence and I am getting an error saying:

"Invalid response received from the server"

If I reduce the size of the image, by resizing, then it is accepted.

I have checked the configuration and file size limit is set to 100MB, the latest file that fails is 3.6MB and none are much over that.

Thanks,

J


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello [@jolyonh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1584881),

Thank you for contacting us about this! Happy to help.

I'll just need a bit more information before we can proceed. Could you let us know the answers to the following questions?

1. How are you [inserting the images](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/upload-files-139513.html) into Confluence? By dragging the file directly onto the page or by using the **Insert** \> **Files and images** menu?
2. What version of Confluence are you using?
3. Are you running Confluence behind any firewall or proxy?
4. Could you have a look at your [Confluence Server logs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/working-with-confluence-logs-108364721.html), trigger the error again, and let me know the stack trace you receive when the error occurs?
5. Does this happen for any image type? (e.g. .gif, .jpg, .png)
6. Does this occur for other users, and on any page in Confluence?

Thank you for your help!

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server