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How to report a bug in Confluence?
Asked by oliverwi:

Hello, I used to have access to the JIRA so I could report a bug directly there. Is this no longer possible?


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@oliverwi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/741340)

Do you mean this page here? There, all bugs are transparent to the community.   
<https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/CONFSERVER/issues>

For this, you need an atlassian account. But for reporting a bug, the link from Haran is the right one.


author: Haran Kumar
body: [@oliverwi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/741340)   

You can use the following link to get support / Report bug,   

[https://support.atlassian.com/contact/](https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/)  

Regards  
Haran

comments: author: oliverwi
body: yeah, that's how far I got. So we no longer have access to your JIRA? I used to have direct access to your jira projects.. CONF, TEAMCAL, etc.


author: Scott Beeson
body: If you are on the free plan you cannot report bugs. Neat.


author: Scott Beeson
body: 1. <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD>
2. Click "Create" on the top menu bar.
3. Get redirected to support.
4. Get informed that you are on the free plan and you don't have access to support.

So in short, if you are on the free plan, you cannot report bugs.


author: Toan NC
body: I feel it's hard to report a bug and solution to resolve it. Can you help this one.  
+ Bug: In the lastweek, there is a bug that we can use the Dark Mode correctly like the image below (page content is still white),  
+ Solution: This is because the CSS background-color is "" there and it's invalid, this should be removed. [@Dominic Lagger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/601600) [@Ravi Sagar _Sparxsys_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853596) [@Haran Kumar](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1882587)   
![Capture99.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/249694i5010C27704BF1461/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture99.PNG")


author: Ravi Sagar _Sparxsys_
body: Hi [@oliverwi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/741340)

Are you talking about creating Jira issues from Confluence? May be the [applications link](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/linking-to-another-application-360677690.html) between Jira and Confluence is broken.

Ravi

comments: author: oliverwi
body: No, I mean reporting a bug I found in Confluence to the Atlassian development team.

Sorry for the missing clarity in my question.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Edit Files in confluence has no collaborative editing / synchronisation.
Asked by shashanktomar375:

Hi,

In confluence, we got to know a new implementation about editing files, we need to install and setup companion app to edit a file(Microsoft based files).

The problem is here with collaborative editing/ synchronisation when more than 1 users are editing the file.

Regards

Shashank


Answers:
author: Moses Thomas
body: [@shashanktomar375](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/239802) I suggest you restart synchrony server again hopefully this would help

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/administering-collaborative-editing-858772086.html>

Best regards,

Moses

comments: author: shashanktomar375
body: Hi [@Moses Thomas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1138700) ,

Thanks for your reply!  
We checked your solution in our instance but it doesnt work with file(Microsoft based files) i.e. Excel sheet as mentioned in Query Details.  
If 2 people are working on same excel file at a time, there will be no notification for both user(i.e. A and B are working together on same file) unlike confluence pages. and the changes of the person will be updated who has updloaded the file lately.

Regards

Shashank


author: Moses Thomas
body: [@shashanktomar375](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/239802) I think that collaborative editing only works on confluence page it self not on the excel files..


Tags: confluence-server

server
After copying page, how do i rename the page
Asked by Vidya Rao:

I have copied a page from one location to other, and it is copied with the name Copy of \[original page name\].

I am not able to see the option to rename the page.


Answers:
author: Avinash Bhagawati _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Vidya Rao](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3567485) ,

Please follow below steps.

1. Go to the page and click the **Edit** link. If you do NOT see this link, you do not have sufficient privileges to make edits on a page
2. Go to the page title area of the page and change the title
3. Click the **Save** button

Please find below screenshot reference.![Screenshot 2019-10-21 at 2.15.31 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/70014i1F4B9E1CE8DAEE08/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2019-10-21 at 2.15.31 PM.png")Thanks,

Avinash


author: Moses Thomas
body: [@Vidya Rao](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3567485)

**To rename a page:**

1. Go to a page in the space, and click **Edit** at the top to view the page in 'Edit' mode.

2. Change the page title as required.
3. Click **Save**.

Best regards,

Moses
mandatory checklist
Asked by sumit:

Hello,

I want to create a mandatory section in a post in confluence where if that is not checked/filled (multifield text table). Then the article can't be published.

Is it possible?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Haran Kumar
body: Hi [@sumit](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3543789) ,   

Currently such **features are not available** . yet you can use macros which makes a filed mandatory and this can achieved through template.  
But still user can remove the macro and publish the page.   

So practically there is no such possibilities to meet your current requirements in confluence.   

**Added info:** *Jira will help you if you wish to incorporate the action in jira.*   

Regards  
Haran

comments: author: sumit
body: Assuming user doesn't remove the macro.. then how can I do it through macros?


author: Haran Kumar
body: Scaffolding plugin might help you on that


author: Haran Kumar
body: make the macros and enter parameter as required and thus making the filed mandatory


author: Haran Kumar
body: You can refer <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Required-Form-Fields-for-Templates/qaq-p/130103> for more details


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I restrict a User to see one page within a project?
Asked by Liam North:

We are currently changing development partners, nad all Confluence pages created by the outgoing agency have been moved under an "Archive" page by the new agency. The new agency are building out the space with their own structure, but we need to give the outgoing agency to the "Archive" page and its sub-pages only, so they can prepare for a handover.

Is it possible to do this?


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Liam North](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3533775)

If I understand you correctly, you want to give someone permission for a page (with subpages), but all other pages should be invisible?

This is only feasible with restrictions. You have to set the space permission for the outgoing agency to read / write. Then you have to [restrict](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html) all other pages, so that everyone else can read / write, expect the outgoing agancy.

I think, the easier way would be to create a new space and move all "Archive" to this new space. And on the new space, set the permission for the outgoing agency.

I hope I understood it right and my answer helps

Regards, Dominic


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Macros disappear when editing a Blueprint
Asked by Martin Suarez-Viacava:

Hi,

I'm trying to edit the decision blueprint but when on the edit page, the macros disappear completely and I can't find a way to recreate them.

So what happens is that all the info passed over when creating a new decision is lost on the edited Blueprint.

If I revert to the original, it starts working back, but after editing again, the issue persists.

Essentially, I can't have a custom version of the blueprint, due to this issue.

Anybody got the same problem?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Martin,

Thank you for contacting us about this. Could you confirm with me your Confluence version, and which template you are editing exactly? Is it the Decision template or the Decision log template that's having the issue? Does the same occur when you try to edit other system templates?

I've tested this with the Decision template on Confluence Cloud by adding a few new lines. However, I'm not able to replicate the issue.

If you can tell me the changes you were making and if you have a screenshot of the problem, that will help as well.

Thank you!

Regards,

Shannon
Is a Mac OS Catalina Catalyst app (like Jira has) coming?
Asked by Richard Thornton:

Hi,

Apologies if this has been asked before but is a Mac OS Catalina Catalyst Confluence app (like Jira has) coming?

Thanks.

Richard


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: No news on this yet.

Atlassian Team Members can tell only if this is not closely guarded secret.
How do I make the sidebar TOC expanded by default?
Asked by Dee Elling:

The TOC in the Cloud sidebar is collapsed by default. In the Server version you can set the level of nesting for the TOC. How do I expand the TOC to 3 levels in Cloud?

thanks -Dee


Answers:
author: Marie Arellano
body: It's now 2023, is option to expand side bar parent menu by default still not available to Confluence Cloud?


author: Dara
body: I believe this is the same question as here: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-automatically-expand-show-all-child-pages-in-the-sidebar/qaq-p/333429>

In that case, it has already been answered :)

comments: author: Dee Elling
body: Um, that would be nice, but I'm not seeing it. There is no button to configure the Current Theme (Default Theme). According to that thread, the Cloud doesn't support this sort of configuration.

Is this a Support issue?


author: Dara
body: Oh, my apologies. In that case I think it is indeed not an option for Confluence Cloud. You could definitely raise this as a support issue, but unfortunately I think it will take quite some time to resolve, in the best case scenario. Atlassian is currently swamped with the roll-out of the new editor and the bugs resulting from that.


author: Dee Elling
body: Dang... I've been trying to switch to Cloud at different times since they rolled it out, but it still has so many feature regressions! Thanks for your help Dara!


author: Dara
body: No problem! Always happy to help :)

And the frustration is very understandable...


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I disable Spaces links?
Asked by Richard Thornton:

Hi,

Am I able to disable the navigation area (the area with the All Spaces, Site Spaces, Personal Spaces, My Spaces, Archived Spaces) in the image below, it takes up a lot of space and I don't need it?

Thanks.

Richard

![menu.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/69970iE4B622C6E210C4DA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "menu.png")


Answers:
author: Pavel Junek
body: Hi [@Richard Thornton](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3604604),

Welcome to Atlassian community!

To your question: I am afraid this is not, because it is the "Core" menu of controlling Atlassian products, in this case Confluence Cloud.

Cheers!

Pavel

comments: author: Richard Thornton
body: Thanks, if I self managed the $10 version could I do it then?


author: Pavel Junek
body: No, this setting applies equally to all users.
CSS Confluence Cloud
Asked by Anah Assumpcao:

Hello follks!

Is it possible to style css of spaces? When I tried to go in Security and allow Css stylesheet the option is disabled. I am running confluence cloud. Is there something I can do to enable it?

Thank you in advance,

Anah


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, it is designed not to allow this.


author: Michael J?nsch
body: very sad news .... and a bit strange.

why simple css code line like "font-size" or "font-family" is not allowed... ?

all the fancy hipster css i dont need, but why simple css styles are not editable like the sidebar colors ? just do some select boxes or show allowed css tags ...

not understandable at the moment


author: Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]
body: Hi Anah and Welcome,  

As Nic correctly pointed out, this feature is disable on purpose, check the following image:

![ksnip_20191020-133809.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/69988i25348BD56A5F2CB1/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ksnip_20191020-133809.png")

<br />

<br />

See [**Functional differences in Confluence Cloud**](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/functional-differences-in-confluence-cloud-734070955.html) page to discover all the differences between the two deployment options.  

Regards.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can you directly create a New comment in a Confluence page from a Slack Channel New conversations
Asked by Kurt Kunselman:

I post a new conversation in Slack.

I need this to update the Confluence page with a New comment.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Kurt,

Thank you for raising this with us. There's no feature currently for this, but I've raised it below:

* [API-188](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/API-188) *Ability to add comment to a page in Confluence via Slack conversation*

Please comment on the request a bit more about your requirement, for example in which circumstance it will be most useful.

Let me know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atl-int

atlassian-marketplace

confluence-cloud

slack
How to read xml file from git hub into confluence
Asked by madhuragujarati:

Hi..I am looking for having upto date file when I am on confluence page..it could be on click of some link etc ..I found there is add on available for that but I this you need to pay for it. Is there a way to do it without GIT add on ?


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: GitHub contain two places for, GitHub Repositories and Gist. If your repository or gist are public visible documents, you can embedded them in Confluence using HTML macro.

* For File in GitHub Repository,
  * Take a look at this project - <https://gist-it.appspot.com/>
* For GIST,
  * GitHub provide way to embedded it in HTML, it will hidded side bar.

You can copy HTML code provided here and paste it inside HTML macro, and you are good to go.


Tags: questions-for-confluence
Is it possible to transfer the updated confluence layout (with new editing) into email format?
Asked by Meghan Brill:

We like to send a weekly page via email to our team, as well as keeping it stored in the table in Confluence. Are there any tricks to paste into a clean email format (gmail for example) so it will be compatible to send?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Meghan,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. It's nice to have you join us!

Can you let me know how you will be sending the email to your team? In Confluence, you can share a page via email with your teammates, but it will only send a link to the page with the title, and you can write in your own text to include with it.

It's not possible to send the page itself out to users, unless you're on Confluence Server using the 3rd-party [Email this Page](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217983/e-mail-this-page?hosting=server&tab=overview) add-on. Note that this add-on is not available for Confluence Cloud.

If you want to physically email a page to your users, then I would recommend using sending them a PDF export of the page itself. You can export the page to PDF natively in Confluence, but there are also add-ons like [Scroll PDF Exporter for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) (available on Cloud and Server) would allow you to further tweak the export.

I hope that helps, but let me know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-cloud
Delete a space
Asked by Alexandre Truong:

Hi,

I have the free plan and I don't see any option to delete a space. Thx

![2019-10-18_15-04-08.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/69962i18FCFFF865D5667C/image-dimensions/608x307?v=v2 "2019-10-18_15-04-08.jpg")


Answers:
author: Avinash Bhagawati _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Alexandre Truong](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3604455)

You require space admin permission to delete the space. As you don't have space admin permission you don't see additional tabs.

Please refer below documentation for more details.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/delete-a-space-724764816.html>

Thanks,

Avinash


author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Alexandre and welcome to the Community!

Thanks for reporting this issue and providing detailed steps as to what you've done which resulted in the issue. The issue looks to be similar to a Cloud free bug which is preventing users (Admins) of a newly created space from being able to administer said space. Further information on this bug may be found at [CONFCLOUD-68319](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68319). We ask you to please vote and watch this bug to receive updates on its status.

Thanks again for reporting this issue within Community!

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


Tags: new-to-confluence
How to convert a text date into a formatted date for multiple values in a table?
Asked by oaguirre:

We handle a lot of tables with a lot of dates in the text format: DD-MM-YYYY or MM-DD-YYYY. I know I can add a date to a cell with //mm-dd-yyyy, but doing this one by one for two columns of 300+ values is kind of hard, so I'd like to know if anyone has done this, if there is a procedure to convert this:

![date-to-format-1.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/69956i1929AE6F07E9EA89/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "date-to-format-1.png")

into this:

![date-to-format-2.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/69957iBE4F494D7AA244FE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "date-to-format-2.png")

for all the cells in those columns, of course, these are two columns from a larger table, with about 10 other columns with devices information, i.e. name, description, S/N, P/N, address, country, etc...

If it can be done when I'm pasting the table from the source, the xls file, that could also work, I just need the dates to be in that format so it's clear to everyone which date 02-04-2019 is (April 2nd or Feb 4th?) reading the table.

thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello [@oaguirre](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3158532),

You'll need to call the macro directly, but you can do so using an add-on from [Atlassian Marketplace](http://marketplace.atlassian.com) to edit the source, such as [Source Editor for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215664/source-editor-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview).

You'll need enter the following in the Source Editor when you want to call a date macro:

```
<p><time datetime="YYYY-MM-DD" /> </p>
```

If I had a variety of date formats as you do, I would probably set up the cells in Excel so that when I enter a date it will [automatically format the date](https://smallbusiness.chron.com/autoformat-date-ms-excel-40216.html) to match what Confluence requires. You can then wrap the results in the the above formatting and directly edit your page using the Source Editor above.

You may be able to come up with a way to automatically format a list of dates as you have to the HTML table that you need to enter in the source editor, but unfortunately that's not something I'll be able to help you with on this end.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Shannon


author: priyanshi shah
body: Hello [@oaguirre](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3158532) ,

Where you able to resolve this problem? I am also facing the same issue. My concern is also I have lot of dates scatter all over the page and cannot change in each in above mention format (in answer) using source editor. Anything where we can place IF..then loop where it automatically pick confluence's formatted date would be more easier.

Please suggest.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Export filtered page to word
Asked by Whitney Kiriwell:

I've created a template with all the documentation our team should do. Only part of this documentation is relevant to higher level discussions. I would like to be able to export only certain sections of the page (from my template) into word and possibly re-arrange them. Is there a way to do this without exporting everything and then deleting parts, and manually re-arranging?


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Whitney Kiriwell](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3604320)

Look at this post, maybe can help you

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/export-content-to-word-pdf-html-and-xml-792498686.html>

Cheers
Workaround to Effect Client Certificate-Based (Passwordless) Authentication to Confluence?
Asked by Ben Jacobs-Swearingen:

I am aware that Confluence / Crowd does not currently directly support Client Certificate-based authentication to Confluence via PKI, per this [discussion](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-598). As any such support remains a distant and uncertain prospect, I am wondering whether there are alternate, more convoluted means to achieve the same result.

Specifically, is there a way to use client certificates to authenticate to an (Open) LDAP service, and then have the service broker authentication to Confluence over Crowd (which seems to support LDAP), with client certificates being used for the entire process from the perspective of user (i.e. user is never prompted for/enters a password directly)?


Answers:
author: Ed Letifov _TechTime - New Zealand_
body: I believe you can achieve what you are after by deploying a reverse proxy in front of the Atlassian application, configured to perform the client certificate-based authentication and then pass the extracted Subject to the Atlassian application as HTTP header value. We have customers who are using F5 appliances in front of their applications to do just this.

To stay secure, the proxy and the service must be configured in a way that it would be impossible to set this header from "outside" circumventing the proxy i.e. no direct access allowed, and the proxy must clear this header on the requests from outside.

You can then use our [EasySSO for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1212583/easy-sso-confluence-kerberos-ntlm-saml?hosting=server&tab=overview&utm_source=community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=easysso-server&utm_term=clientssl "EasySSO listing on Atlassian Marketplace - use HTTP Headers authenticator") app on the Atlassian application side, to take the username from the header, or apply some custom decoding code before that happens.

Please feel free to reach to our [24x7 support](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1212583/easy-sso-confluence-kerberos-ntlm-saml?hosting=server&tab=support&utm_source=community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=easysso-server&utm_term=clientssl "TechTime 24x7 support contact details on Atlassian Marketplace") if you require more details.

comments: author: Ben Jacobs-Swearingen
body: Yeah I have a reverse proxy deployed already - I'll check out the EasySSO appliance in the next few days, thanks!


author: Kat Warner
body: I don't know the answer to this myself but someone from the TechTime team will know. I'll follow up on Monday.


Tags: confluence-server

server