youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How to find exact match for Table Filter's Free Text search
Asked by Casey Maynard:

I found a page that lists some options, but I do not see a way to match exact

<http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/redev2.shtml>

I have cells that have

One

OneTwo

One Three

And I only want the cell that has 'One' to be displayed.


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Casey,

Try this one:

```
^one$
```

Character '\^' - is the start of string, '$' - is the end of string.

comments: author: Casey Maynard
body: Hmm what about "In R\&D"? \^In R\&D$ does not seem to find only the ones that say 'In R\&D' only, it displays zero results, (and I do have some that have In R\&D as a value

Thanks


author: Casey Maynard
body: This issue may be related to the fact that my filter is trying to filter a row of cells excerpted another page.

Note: it seems any of those cells (even if they are not displayed on my current page will still produce results.

Here is the scenario I have a page1 with

Version - Release Date - Status - Project Code - Project Summary columns

One page2 I have filtering each one of those row/columns into their matching column with the same header (so that only 1 of the 5 cells displays in page2's corresponding cell

Frustrating complicated to use just so that I can map cells to another cell on a different page, but it is what I have to do without buying another add-on


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Do you use Page Properties Report macro with pagination?


author: Casey Maynard
body: No. I am not familiar with that macro.


author: Casey Maynard
body: That works.
Confluence Experts
Asked by katie:

Hi all,

I work in a start-up and we are going to use Confluence for our Intranet. Perhaps a naive question but I want to work with folks to 1) help us figure out the information architecture for our Intranet and 2) help us with graphic design to have it match our brand and help with layout.

I am not sure however what skills are most necessary to do this and work with Confluence. Java, is that right and what else would you be looking for in persons? I am not technical myself.

Welcome any advice on how to find Confluence experts and designers.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Katie,

a good starting point to find help in your region might be Atlassian's partner search:

<https://www.atlassian.com/partners/search>


Tags: design

intranet

layout

user-interface
Missing images on old confluence pages
Asked by Rishi Chheda:

We have bunch of pages and spaces. Recently (roughly around the update to confluence with "new look" couple of months ago), we started seeing missing images on the confluence pages. There are no attachments on the page. When I looked at the page source, the url of the images pointed to googleusercontent. Did atlassian change the image store and not move the older images?

Sample attached.

![Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 11.05.13 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19553iE40D9B49311F38F9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 11.05.13 AM.png")


Answers:
author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: Chances are your images have become disconnected from Confluence because of a path change (due in part from the upgrade).

Similar issues related here:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Images-Missing-Not-Displaying-After-Upgrade/qaq-p/449614>

comments: author: Rishi Chheda
body: Thank you for the response. My Admin will look into it.
How to isolate external contractors, so they land only on a specific site.
Asked by Huldar Sigurdsson:

We have a Space dedicated to a project. We would like the external consultants to land on this space and not beeing able to see anyting else on the site, including the feed of recent changes in other sites. How can we fully isolate consultants like this?

Huldar


Answers:
author: Kian Stack Mumo Systems
body: Hey Huldar,   

I would doublecheck with some test users, but you should be able to create a different user group to be used in the global permissions just for the contractors. Make sure that the group is given the "Can use" permission within Confluence. You can then lock your other sites down so that members of the "confluence-users" group have access while the contractors do not.  

This should work, as I believe if you can't see a space you don't get updates when changes are made to it.

comments: author: Huldar Sigurdsson
body: Thank you Kian, I think I am on the right track. But I am now being asked if I can limit the contractors group from beeing able to view the People directory, so the contractors are not able to see the names of other contractors for example. Would this be somehow possible to accomplish?


author: siboconnection
body: [@Huldar Sigurdsson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/548434), I have the same issue and would like to find a solution for Confluence Cloud. If you are on Confluence Server consider the[Space Privacy Plugin.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216602/space-privacy-extranet-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

FYI, in case you have not seen these links (These do no answer the concern about hiding users from other users)

* [How to grant access to one space only](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-grant-access-to-one-space-only-to-a-user-in-confluence-815244321.html?_ga=2.217252694.1383149054.1528403484-754659685.1521841501) (See related content links on this page as well)
* [Restrict external users/groups to certain spaces](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/restrict-external-users-groups-to-certain-confluence-space-s-417366815.html)
Jira Log Rotation Daily
Asked by drew_mace:

How can i use a similar tactic on our confluence logs:

<Appenders>

<RollingFile` `name="file"` `fileName="${sys:aomewhere.home}${sys:file.separator}logs${sys:file.separator}api.log"` `

filePattern="${sys:somewhere.home}${sys:file.separator}logs${sys:file.separator}archive${sys:file.separator}api-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log.gz">

<PatternLayout` `pattern="%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n"` `/>

<TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy` `/>

<DefaultRolloverStrategy` `max="10"/>

</RollingFile>

</Appenders>


Answers:
author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: Hi Drew,

This can be done by editing the log4j.properties file

```
/opt/atlassian/confluence/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties
```

an example:

```
log4j.appender.confluencelog=com.atlassian.confluence.logging.ConfluenceHomeLogAppender
log4j.appender.confluencelog.File=/opt/var-atlassian/application-data/confluence/logs/atlassian-confluence.log
log4j.appender.confluencelog.Threshold=DEBUG
log4j.appender.confluencelog.MaxFileSize=20480KB
log4j.appender.confluencelog.MaxBackupIndex=5
log4j.appender.confluencelog.layout=com.atlassian.confluence.util.PatternLayoutWithContext
log4j.appender.confluencelog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%t] [%c{4}] %M %m%n
```


Tags: log
How can I see my comments after my requested changes have been made in Confluence?
Asked by Rob H:

I am asked to provide comments to documents in Confluence, and my comments appear next to the highlighted text.

Once the developer has made my requested change, the document version is updated and my comments are no longer visible. How do I view the document AND see my comments, with the corrected text? Sometimes the developer changes the text to something other than what I want, and I can't see what I originally said to go back to them with additional fixes.


Answers:
author: Irina_Bel_Stiltsoft_
body: Hi [@Rob H](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1226016) ,

There's no way to correct a place where an inline comment was made without deleting it with native comments. If you consider the apps, the [Talk app for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/978531/talk-advanced-inline-comments?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview&utm_source=Atlassian&utm_medium=atlassian_community&utm_campaign=talk-traffic-sources&utm_content=tech_writers) addresses your case. The talk comments on the page are highlighted with a megaphone icon. In edit mode, you can [move the icon to another place](https://stiltsoft.com/blog/confluence-best-practices-for-technical-writers/?utm_source=Atlassian&utm_medium=atlassian_community&utm_campaign=talk-traffic-sources&utm_content=tech_writers#edit-mode) to save the required edits in case the place where an inline comment was added needs to be corrected.

So, you kill two birds with one stone:

1. Have the context for edits at hand

2. Fix the place in the text without deleting a comment.


author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Rob,

If the comments are being **resolved** as described in [Comment on pages and blog posts](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/comment-on-pages-and-blog-posts-139483.html) you may view them from the ellipses menu, choose ... \> Resolved comments:

![Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 3.55.37 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19595i22F0C23A540F47C3/image-dimensions/187x377?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 3.55.37 PM.png")

![Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 3.55.49 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19597iECA3900B663EA8D1/image-dimensions/360x203?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 3.55.49 PM.png")

If the comments are being **deleted** you would have to go to the Page History option to find them on the old versions.

Thanks,

Ann
Confluence Users and others
Asked by Jordan Batho:

Hi there!

I'm just wanting to ask, within confluence, are users defined as persons who can create and edit items within. in regards to other people, are they able to search and view items but are not a billed/chargeable entity?

For example, a Conf. User may create a page, but anybody within my company can search it (dependant on permissions) without having to pay for an account?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Jordan,

a licensed Confluence user is anyone, who is able to login to Confluence. The permissions are not important.


Tags: billing
Aged deprecations in Confluence API
Asked by Manuel Kummerl?nder:

Hi everybody,

we use Confluence's UserProfileService quiet a while and discovered by pure chance that this component is deprecated:

```
@@deprecatedsince 5.7. CONFDEV-28074 User profile related services will be extracted to a plugin.
```

Since we do not find any alternative or new implementations we will simply continue using this service (we are now compatible with 5.10 - 6.8). Is this a good decision? Does anybody know about such deprecations and how Atlassian usually handles them? What could we do to get more informations on that ... ?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards  
Manuel


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: The way I read [Provide an user profile service on the user avatar plugin](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFDEV-28074) it sounds like the plan is to leave the service in Confluence Core until they can expose the service as part of a plugin.

To interact with more developers with the same sorts of concerns and possibly answers, please try the [Atlassian Developer Community](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/)  

comments: author: Manuel Kummerl?nder
body: Thanks Ann, I have no access to CONFDEV-Tickets so unfortunately I could not read by myself or watch it. Is it possible to get access there?

And thanks as well for the reference to the developer community. I knew there is something like that, I just didn't find :). Nevermind, thanks!


Tags: api

atl-dev

confluence-development

development

java
Stop Confluence from adding extra space to beginning of each table cell
Asked by Pete P:

Confluence has the annoying "feature" in that an extra leading space is added to each table cell when I click into it. I end up having to go in and edit the page repeatedly to line up my cells. How can this be turned off? I am using Edge and IE11 browsers both exhibit same effect.


Answers:
author: Steve Shaw
body: As discussed in the ticket you opened, while we verified that the bug exists in the version of Confluence that you are using (5.10.8), which is soon approaching [End of Life](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/atlassian-support-end-of-life-policy-201851003.html), the bug doesn't exist in 6.x versions of Confluence. Considering this, we'd recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Confluence.

comments: author: Josh Barron
body: This is happening to me and I'm running the Cloud version of Confluence.


author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: Looks like this was an old issue that has since been "resolved"

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-11508>

What version of Confluence are currently running?

comments: author: Pete P
body: Atlassian Confluence 5.10.8


author: Pete P
body: looks like the bug is back, but unlike the link you sent my extra spaces are saved


author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: I would suggest contacting support for this:

<https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/>


author: Pete P
body: Thanks will do!
Can I license a trial Windows installation of Confluence long term with just me as a user?
Asked by David Stephensen:

I have a server-based product (a space that I want to eventually turn into a blueprint and put in the marketplace). I currently don't have a server available. Is it possible to apply my existing starter pack licence to my trial Windows installation and keep using it with me as the only user? That way I can keep my product on life support until I get access to a server instance.


Answers:
author: MoroSystems Support
body: Hello David,

when you are developing a product and using the instance only for testing purposes, you can generate yourself a trial license from My Atlassian. Don't worry about it expiring it, when it does, you still can use Confluence. It only won't be possible to upgrade it.

**EDIT:** trial license may indeed expire, please see Andrew's comment for complete information

Regards,  
Martin

comments: author: Andy Heinzer
body: Actually, when a trial license expires, the functionality of the product can stop working. But when a commercial license expires, the product still works, it just prevents you from being able to upgrade.

But yes, you can either create a new evaluation license from [https://my.atlassian.com](https://my.atlassian.com??) OR you could apply a starter license (10 user) and use that instead.


author: David Stephensen
body: Thanks, Martin and Andrew!


author: MoroSystems Support
body: Andrew, my bad, I have mixed up two things. I will edit my answer so it is clear that people should see your correction.


Tags: licence

trial
Does adding videos to the page may increase load times?
Asked by Waldemar G?bski:

I am inserting video files into Multimedia macro to show them on page. As my space gets bigger and I have more and more pages with video tutorials I am concerned whether it could impact performance of Confluence in any way?

For now, I have around 15 videos with size no bigger than 10MB each. But what if I get to 50 videos or even 100?

Does anyone have any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: I wouldn't recommend putting 50 or 100 videos on one page as it could definitely cause loading issues.

A minimal amount shouldn't cause too many problems.

Shannon

comments: author: Waldemar G?bski
body: I meant 50 or 100 in total on all pages, so i guess I will be fine.

Thank you for your answer!


Tags: macro

multimedia

performance

video
I just wanted to know if there are possibilities in the confluence page
Asked by deepika akshara:

to get the latest updated data from another child page created into the parent page when we refresh the parent page... If a parent page could get linked to a child page, then if data is changed in the child page that should automatically get reflected in the parent page


Answers:
author: MoroSystems Support
body: Hello Deepika,

I think what you are looking for is Excerpt macro (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-macro-148062.html>). It should suit your needs.

Regards,  
Martin


author: deepika akshara
body: Is this possible in the confluence page
purchase Confluence as a private person?
Asked by Martin:

I would like to buy Confluence for my own (private usage), in the purchase-form you have to fill company details but I don't have a Company. Isnt there a way to buy confluence withoute having an company?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi there,

You can purchase Confluence as a private person; no need to fill in the Company details.

Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Martin
body: Ok, I guess I misunderstood the formula, the "company" field is just the company I am working for, right?


author: Shannon S
body: You can just put your own name in that field. If you click the question mark next to the field it just says that what you put there is who will be billed.

I hope that's clear!

Shannon


Tags: purchase
Confluence Bugs
Asked by Roman Golbraich:

Hello Everyone,

I need some help to solve couple issues I have in my Production environment:

1. Confluence portal registration bug, when I add user and ask him to set his password or when I invite the user to create his own account I receive broken signup window: (the user cant even press the fields)  
   ![Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 13.39.54.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19529i90E80817422688AF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 13.39.54.png")
2. When I perform the internal search I receive the first result page and when I press the next button I receive the spinning wheel (the system is processing and nothing happens)  
   ![Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 13.44.51.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19530i43C6BF974EB9211C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 13.44.51.png")  

   <br />

Can someone help me to resolve those issues?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Do you have any customization on your instance? If so, can you disable it entirely and let us know if the problem persists?

Shannon

comments: author: Roman Golbraich
body: Hi [@Shannon S](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/510046),

No, I don't have any customization on my portal. Only standard plugins from the store.

Never tried to disable them because this is a production server and we have more than 50 users working on this server.


author: Mirek
body: Is this same behavior on different browser, network, laptop... etc? Does other users notice same situation?

comments: author: Roman Golbraich
body: Short version YES!

Long one:

Registration and search issue happens on Mac's and PC with different browsers.

Already tried everything and still have the same issue.


author: Mirek
body: Could you check build in every browser "developer tools" (like Firebug) and network tab and verify what is not loaded when you refresh/make action?


author: Roman Golbraich
body: Hi [@Mirek](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781521)

From what I see, I have infinity reload of "batch.js" file in the network and console tabs.
How to create a private page to publish to team later?
Asked by Teneil Taylor:

Suggestions?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@Teneil Taylor](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1223389),

create the page and set a page restriction on it, so that only you can see the page.

If you want your team to see the page later, simply remove the page restriction.

comments: author: jtuzman
body: What if your space doesn't let you change page restrictions without being an admin? It would be very helpful if there was a special case where you could simply set a page to public or private, accessible only to the page's author (or admin).
Can't browse the list page
Asked by kondaparthy sumanth:

Hi ,

We have a content in page and that consists of "page properties" .the content listed doesn't fit to one page and is split in to 2 pages .

And when user doesn't logged in ,they cannot switch to next page


Answers:
author: Javi
body: Hi Kondaparthy,

The issue you are referring to sounds related to Confluence. If this is the case, could you answer the following questions:

* What version of Confluence are you running?
* Is this page open to the public? Meaning, any user not logged in can view the page?
* Could you provide a screenshot or screenshots of the issue

If this issue is not related to Confluence, could you let us know which version of Jira you are running and provide us a screenshot of the issue

Regards,  
Javier A.

comments: author: kondaparthy sumanth
body: Hi Javier,

Yes it is related to confluence .

And the version is 5.8.17, and also any user who has logged in can view this page.![raj.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19789i71F549E1797249C4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "raj.PNG")

Thankyou.
Confluence installer not working under CentOS 7.4 ?
Asked by martin_angermeier:

Hi everybody,

I just wanted to install Confluence 6.8 under CentOS 7.4 via the installer.   

Everything went smooth until I had configured the database. It doesnt't matter if I want to install the testing database H2 or PostgreSQL, neighter worked and I always get the same error:  

    java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set

I tried exactly the same setup with JIRA without any issues.  

<br />

Regards,  
Martin


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Martin,

You'll need to go through this article to determine the reason for the error. Have a look below:

* [Confluence does not start due to Spring Application Context has not been set](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-does-not-start-due-to-spring-application-context-has-not-been-set-218278311.html)

Give that a try and let us know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Shannon
Macro Plugin Multiselect enum parameter
Asked by Maximilian:

Hey,

is it possible to create a multi select dropdown list in a Macro Plugin?

I thought of something like that in the atlassian-plugin.xml:

```
<parameter name="Fields" type="enum" multiselect="true">
    <value name="a"/>
    <value name="b"/>
    <value name="c"/>
</parameter>
```


Answers:
author: Patrycja Suwala
body: It should be, but there is a bug <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51624?_ga=2.55888619.1148028717.1575883108-286464044.1554790904>


Tags: atl-dev

confluence-app

confluence-development

developer

macro

select-list
Disable deleted comments from being shown in workbox
Asked by Martin_Nitschke:

Good day,

is it possible to stop deleted comments from being shown in workbox.

If someone writes a comment on a Confluence Page all subscribers are getting a notification in their workbox on the top right corner of Confluence. If the comment is deleted by the author or somebody authorized, the notification is still displayed in the workbox and doesn?t disappear.

The problem is that if you are trying to answer on that deleted comment via the workbox, you are getting the error: Unknown error. This can be really confusing.

Thank you


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Martin,

I found this bug ticket that mentions the Unknown error while trying to reply to a deleted comment from within Workbox:

* [CONFSERVER-53572](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-53572)

It suggests at least putting a message that the comment has been deleted.

I've commented privately this thread there but please also follow-up on the bug ticket and vote on it to help show the number of users who have run into the issue.

If you can also provide your Confluence version that will be helpful.

<br />

Thank you!

Shannon

comments: author: Martin_Nitschke
body: Thank you.

I searched a lot for a ticket about it.

Our Confluence Verison is: 6.6.0

But this ticket isn?t really handling the problem that the deleted comment stays displayed in the workbox. Is that a wanted behaviour? Wouldn?t it be better if deleted comments are removed from the workbox?


author: Shannon S
body: To be honest, it does look to be expected but it should definitely say something other than "Unknown error".

I would recommend that when you make your comment on the bug, perhaps suggest that another solution would be not to show the comment at all if it's deleted.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Martin_Nitschke
body: Alright, I?ll do so.

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards and a nice weekend

Martin