youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Does turning off darkfeature notification.batch in confluence 6,2 do anything?
Asked by william:

I am still looking at ways to kill batching notifications emails and I came across the dark feature notification.batch.. There is at least some source in the notifications batch plugin that fail out if this value is et to false. I tried setting -Dnotification.batch=false in the setenv.sh script but it did not seem to do anything and notification.batch still shows up in the /admin/darkfeatures.action. SO am I really turning off anything or is this obsolete?


Answers:
author: kennyngkk
body: Hi william,

Currently for a dark feature for batch notification that is under the dark feature page is not able to be disabled.

However, there is a workaround to disable the batch notification.

1. Go to ![Cog](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19221i4A16B81359AC7622/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Cog") \>\> add-ons
2. Look for the plugin "Confluence Email Notifications Plugin"
3. expend the modules enabled session
4. Disable the modules that you wish to unsubscribe

Hope that answer your inquiry.

comments: author: william
body: The fun thing about the current miserable state of confluence notifications is some stuff still goes through the old core functionality. If you disable the email notifications plugin, and delete a blog post on a watched page, you get pages of stack trace in the logs because the core is looking for a soy file in the plugin you deleted. Joy.
Automatically update information from one table to another?
Asked by Yousaf:

Hello,

I would like to have two tables in confluence.

The first is for me, it has a lot of detailed information and different columns etc.

The second one is for my customers. It has the same information as the first by cut down just to the essential stuff. The customer should not see all from the first table.

When changes are made to the first one, the second just takes over the info automatically.

Is this possible in confluence?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Yousaf,

With the [Excerpt Include Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-include-macro-148067.html) you can include another table entirely, but if you want to include only parts, you would need an add-on for that.

There are a few suggestions on these pages:

* [Can you link a table from one page to another while displaying a few selected columns? (One data source)](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-you-link-a-table-from-one-page-to-another-while-displaying-a/qaq-p/232300)
* [How to update a column automatically from another page in Confluence?](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/How-to-update-a-column-automatically-from-another-page-in/qaq-p/508459)

Keep in mind, however, that if you have restrictions on content on one page, you won't be able to display it on the other. So if you lock down the table for you from your customers, if you're trying to reference that same information on a customer facing page, they won't be able to see the content.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace
Confluence server ran out of disk space and appears to be corrupted
Asked by Eric Helfrich:

The server ran out of disk space and we now are getting jsp compilation errors. I am assuming a working or or temp directory or both need to be cleaned out but want to know the best way to locate them and go about it. The site is unusable as is. We have version 5.8.14


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Stop Confluence, and clean out \<install directory\>/tmp and \<install directory\>/work - do NOT remove the directories in there, only the files.

However, these tend to be quite small and is unlikely to solve the disk space problem on their own. You should work out where the disk space has gone and then clean it or increase disk space available.


author: louisdj
body: Hi, I think you best create some disk space so you can work on the machine and contact the Atlassian support team to help you with the corrupt files.

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

comments: author: Eric Helfrich
body: Yep. That is what I did - -and it magically started working again. All is good. Thanks


author: Sloan
body: I am afraid since Confluence 5.8.14 reached [EOL](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/atlassian-support-end-of-life-policy-201851003.html), contacting Atlassian Support won't do much. :(

But you are right, extending disc space is the best way to go back to production here.

Edit: I was too slow. :)
Get creator name of user macro
Asked by Philippe Braxmeier:

Hello community,

I try to write a Page Approved User Macro.  
The variable $username should show who added the Macro.

#set ($username="$req.getRemoteUser()" )  
\<th class="confluenceTh"\>\<p\>Approved:\</p\>\</th\>\<td class="confluenceTd"\>\<p\>$username\</p\>\</td\>

But this shows always the loggend in user. I thought with #set its possible to save the current user and display it later with $username.

can you help me?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: $req is the incoming http call, not the page object, that's why it renders the current user.

You should be looking at $content
How can I get a daily summary email of all changes in a single space?
Asked by Jarmo Harju:

I don't want the daily update of all the spaces, since I have access to so many spaces.


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Jarmo Harju](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1199458) ,

please take a look to the following article <https://projects.tmforum.org/wiki/display/TFKB/Daily+Updates>

Hope this helps,

Fabio
Migration server to cloud
Asked by anton_prusak:

Hi! We want to move from the server to a cloud. How it is correct to make data migration?


Answers:
author: Sloan
body: Here is the official documentation: [Migrate from Confluence Server to Cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/migrate-from-confluence-server-to-cloud-724765529.html)

It will guide you through the process.

comments: author: anton_prusak
body: Thanks!


author: ManuR
body: Hello Anton!

In addition to the documentation provided by Niklas, I would suggest also having a look at the [Pros and Cons of Cloud vs. Server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/pros-and-cons-of-cloud-vs-server-691011844.html "Pros and Cons of Cloud vs. Server") documentation before moving.

In addition, if you are using add-ons that are critical to your business, please make sure they have a Cloud equivalent :)

Cheers,  
Manu  


Tags: migration
Office connector: viewfile macro: shape objects in ppt are not visible
Asked by Nitin Manohar:

I've a MS PPT/excel files with some shapes/drawing objects in them. These objects are not visible in confluence.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Nitin,

What exactly did you use to generate the shapes and drawings? It is likely a bug causing the issue and I'd like to track it down for you.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Nitin Manohar
body: Thank you for the response.

I simply used shapes under Insert-\>shapes menu in MS-powerPoint (2016).

I've attached screen-shots of how sheet looks like in power-point and how it looks like in confluence (test.jpg)

<br />

![test.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17601i6D8F10E0E08A8874/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "test.jpg")![test-actual.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17602i50EF1BCECF236EC6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "test-actual.jpg")


author: Shannon S
body: Thank you, Nitin.

This is a known bug:

* [CONFSERVER-39499](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-39499)

Please comment on that bug with your Confluence version as well as a sample PowerPoint file where it happens. You can attach it to the bug directly.

I see that Minh from the Development Team is asking users if the same issue occurs in document preview. Please feel free to test that and update the bug with that information.

Shannon


author: Nitin Manohar
body: Thank you Shanon. I've done as you suggested.


Tags: ms-office-connector

view-file
Error Chinese text input in Confluence when upgraded to latest Google Chrome
Asked by Winnie_Yang:

Confluence 5.8.8 and 6.2.2

Google Chrome: 65.0.3325.162

In the table in Confluence, when input Chinese, the first letters are English.

![Errors.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17477i5AB4B3ED6B0B37D2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Errors.png")![Chrome.jpeg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17478i2A165A21A7C39840/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Chrome.jpeg")


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Winnie,

I understand when you type Chinese characters in a Confluence table, the first few letters are displayed in English.

* Please let me know if the characters display as expected when typed elsewhere than a table, for example, in a regular paragraph.
* Do the Chinese characters display as expected in tables when you use a different browser?
* Was anything changed that your two Confluence instances (versions 5.8.8 and 6.2.2) use in common, for example, a database server upgrade?
* Please try the encoding test described in: [Troubleshooting Character Encodings](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF62/Troubleshooting+Character+Encodings)

I look forward to hearing more about the issue you are experiencing.

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Winnie_Yang
body: Hi Ann,

* It only happens in table.
* Only latest Chrome browser have this problem.
* We didn't change anything in Confluence.


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author: ???
body: I experience the same problem too on Chrome 66.0.3359.139 .

In my case, it often (not all the time) happens in any cell within a table., which is annoying.

Can this be fixed asap?

Thank you.


author: Ziming Wang
body: Similar bug also happens in Confluence Cloud. Bug created here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-59344>


author: Ziming Wang
body: Hi Winnie,

We have created a bug to track this issue. You can see its progress at:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55226>

comments: author: AnnWorley
body: @\[deleted\], the bug report linked by [@Ziming Wang](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/488771) is open to public votes and comments. Voting or commenting will emphasize your use case to the development team, and add you as a watcher so you will get notified when there is progress.


author: Ziming Wang
body: Following two points are tested on confluence Server and confluence Cloud.

1. When I type in other area on the same page within Editor, it is fine to type Chinese.
2. When type inside table cells other than table's column header, it is fine. Could be something related to the headers?
3. And It is fine in Safari as well. So only latest Chrome browser have this problem.
missing page confluence
Asked by ?????? ????????:

Missing page. Last seen 3 day ago. How to get it back?

what I see

Page Not Found {#toc-hId-1792463705}
------------------------------------

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* ?????? ???????? ?? ??????????.
* ?????? ???????? ??????????, ?? ? ??? ??? ???? ??????? ? ???.

The page has subpages that work correctly.


Answers:
author: ?????? ????????
body: The page itself returned.


author: Ferid Habib Djivan
body: Hi,

This is due to some issue on the Confluence Cloud tool currently. Try again later and the page should be there.
Confluence Page Edit Error
Asked by Cormant Systems Administrator:

Hi Atlassian Support.

We are having page error editing on confluence. I already restart the Synchrony service but it doesn't work. can some one help me about this issue?..Thanks in advance.

![confluencePageEditError.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17463i9875E176F8F339A9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluencePageEditError.PNG")


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi there,

I would start with this document:

* [Troubleshooting Collaborative Editing](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/troubleshooting-collaborative-editing-858772087.html)

If all the steps on that document fail, then please provide us with the messages in your error logs and the Synchrony log at the time of failure.

Thank you!

Shannon


Tags: synchrony
How to export users from Confluence Server to excel file?
Asked by HEESEOK CHONG:

How to export users from Confluence Server to excel file?

Did anyone find a 3rd party add-on for Confluence Server like Active user filter for Jira server? I need some information like user id, username, last logged-in and active status in excel or CSV file.


Answers:
author: Lasse Langhorn
body: Hi Heeseok,

You can use [Confluence User Export](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221278/confluence-user-export) to do the export of Confluence users. It support JSON, XML, CSV and XLSX.

Regards

Lasse Langhorn

comments: author: James Villa
body: Hi,

I installed [Confluence User Export](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221278/confluence-user-export?tab=overview&hosting=server) but I am looking for a way to export specific groups. I can filter then export only on a user level.


author: Mirek
body: You can check this third party plugin - <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.artemistech.confluence.plugins.bulkuserupload/server/overview> it should give you ability to export to CSV file all users.

comments: author: HEESEOK CHONG
body: Hi Mirek,

Thanks for your suggestion.

I would like to export users' information like last logged in and active status to excel or CSV file to keep real active users under my Atlassian Confluence price plan.

I installed the plugin as you recommended. Then I had some information from the confluence page, but could not see what I want information on the page. besides, I could not find a way to export the information from Confluence server to excel or CSV file.
Cant install add-ons
Asked by Pauchog:

Cant install add-ons.

I go to "find new add ons", And there nothing in the list of add-ons, i try different filters, but nothing appears.


Answers:
author: Mitchell Davison [EY]
body: It could be that there is a problem connecting from your Confluence server to the Atlassian Marketplace:

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/upm/problems-connecting-to-the-atlassian-marketplace-273875718.html](https://confluence.atlassian.com/upm/problems-connecting-to-the-atlassian-marketplace-273875718.html?)

comments: author: Pauchog
body: Im forgot to allow outgoing connection for Confluence (443 port). After I allowed the connection, it works.

Thank you.


Tags: app
how can I create a report automatically in confluence?
Asked by ABHINAV ASHOK CHAVAN:

Currently I make a manual report mostly in tabular form, which mentions status of different applications. There are certain procedures which convey whether an application is up or not. I want to automate the whole process, so that the procedures get executed and a confluence page gets created on a daily basis in a mentioned directory


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Abhinav,

Can you be more specific with what sort of report that you're automating? Are you referring to a specific template that you want to create within Confluence that a user could fill out with the desired information?

It's likely that you will need a Marketplace App for this, since Confluence doesn't have any automation, so if you can fully describe your business case, our Marketplace vendors will be able to fit you to a specific add-on.

Shannon

comments: author: ABHINAV ASHOK CHAVAN
body: Its not any specific template, its just a table with application names, its status and date.

For each application, I have ping pages (a URL that hits a given application) which give a response, that gives an indication about the application status and its env date. And I need to create a page for every working day, to summarize data in the table.


author: Shannon S
body: Abhinav,

Thank you for clarifying. This isn't possible in Confluence and would require some kind of add-on or possibly a User Macro.

I myself am not familiar with how you would create this or an add-on that might offer that possibility. As I mentioned I'm tagging the question appropriately so any users that might have this knowledge will be able to share it with you.

Regards,  
Shannon


Tags: atl-dev

atlassian-marketplace
Does anyone have an example of a custom html header?
Asked by Patrick Smith:

Does anyone have an example of a custom html header?


Answers:
author: Ben Crothers
body: Hi Patrick,

Here's a CSS block that I use for a custom header, for some of my Confluence pages. Try putting this in an HTML block:

```
<style>
#main-header {
background: url(https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1505413687799-90481dfc0203) top left no-repeat; margin: -30px -20px 0 -20px;
padding: 0; background-size: 100%;
}
/* Just replace the URL of the image (above) with the image of your choice */

#main #main-header {
margin-top: -20px; margin-left: -40px; margin-right: -40px;
}

#title-text {
color: #eeeeee; 
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(0,0,0,0) 0%, rgba(0,0,0,0.65) 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgba(0,0,0,0)), color-stop(100%,rgba(0,0,0,0.65)));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(0,0,0,0) 0%,rgba(0,0,0,0.65) 100%);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(0,0,0,0) 0%,rgba(0,0,0,0.65) 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(0,0,0,0) 0%,rgba(0,0,0,0.65) 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(0,0,0,0) 0%,rgba(0,0,0,0.65) 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#00000000', endColorstr='#a6000000',GradientType=0 );
padding: 0 0 10px 20px;
}

#title-text {
padding-top: 90px !important;
}
/* The pixel amount for padding-top controls how far down the text of your title appears. Experiment. */

.with-breadcrumbs {color: #ffffff !important;}

#breadcrumb-section {padding: 10px 0 0 20px; color: #ffffff;}
#navigation {padding: 10px 10px 0 0;}
#title-text a {color: #ffffff;}
li.page-metadata-modification-info {display: none;}
li.ajs-button a:link, li.ajs-button:visited {border: #ffffff;}
</style>
```

I've added a few comments to help you understand it. Mileage may vary, so try it on a private sandbox page first. ;)

comments: author: Patrick Smith
body: Awesome thanks so much , I'm a html css newbie

how about just a text header instead of a image?

thanks again


author: Ben Crothers
body: Try just using this CSS block (again, in an HTML block at the bottom of your Confluence page):

```
<style>
#title-text a {
color: #ff6600;
font-size: 3rem;
font-family: serif;
}
</style>
```

This CSS targets the link text within the page's title (i.e. the text header you mention). This should make it relatively easy to play around with different values for each property (color, font size and font family). I hope this helps! :)


author: Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority
body: ```
<p>Example</p>
```

But more seriously, I assume you're looking for something with styling that looks nice with the default Confluence theme?
user details for macro
Asked by Darren Johnston:

Hello,

trying to find what parameters are available in user macros as below.

As in I just want the users firstname to show but cannot seem to get the syntax correct.

$action.remoteUser.name (works)  
$action.remoteUser.FullName (works)  
$action.remoteUser.FirstName (nothing)  
$action.remoteUser.LastName (nothing)

is there any documentation showing this data?

thanks


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Here are some of the functions available to the Confluence User object:

<https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/6.6.0/com/atlassian/confluence/user/ConfluenceUserImpl.html>

Unfortunately, there's nothing available to pull the first name, as Confluence doesn't keep track of which part of the full name is a first name, middle name, or last name. However, you could assume that it is the first word of the full name string in most cases. Therefore you could use something like this:

```
#set ( $fullName = $action.remoteUser.fullName )
#for ( $word in $fullName.split(" ") )
    #set ( $firstName = $word )
    #break
#end
<p>$firstName</p>
```

comments: author: Darren Johnston
body: thank you Stephen


author: Lasse Kaiser
body: Use #foreach, not #for (source: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5683690/how-to-use-for-loop-in-velocity-template>)

Since I'm using the user macro inline, I've skipped the \<p\> \</p\> bit.

This code works for me:

```
#set ( $fullName = $action.remoteUser.fullName )
#foreach ( $word in $fullName.split(" ") )
    #set ( $firstName = $word )
    #break
#end
$firstName
```


author: Roman Joss
body: Hello [@Stephen Deutsch](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781490)

Ware are on the way to update Confluence from 7.13.x to 7.19.x and I have found out that the the following code does not work in 7.19.x

$action.remoteUser.FullName

Not work mean, that exact this string is shown in the page instead of the fullname of the user.  
Do you have an idea if there was a change in the code?  
I have several macros with the $action-function which do not work anymore.

Thanks for your assistance.  
Roman

comments: author: Roman Joss
body: Oh, after a several more searches I've found the following bug.

[CONFSERVER-82741](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-82741?focusedCommentId=3264886&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel)

This is my workaround!  
Most of my macroes work again and now I have to enhance the property with my needs.

Sorry for disturbing.  
Regards, Roman


Tags: user-macro
Restrict label options when organizing a space
Asked by Casey Hingtgen:

I need away to label pages within one of our confluence spaces but I need to restrict the potential names for the label so people label the content correctly.

This doesn't have to be solved by a label, but I do need a way for people to see all pages tagged with the "label". Perhaps there's a way to create a custom field that's then searchable / filterable?


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority
body: There seems to be a paid app which offers this functionality: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.softcrts.confluence.plugins.labels.restrict/server/overview> (not affiliated with them)

comments: author: Stephen Deutsch
body: This one too: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.intenso.confluence.labelscage.labels-cage/server/overview>


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: There's no such thing as a custom field in Confluence, but you can use the Content By Label macro to show all pages that have a particular label and use CQL to further filter the results.


Tags: label
Restrict label options
Asked by Casey Hingtgen:

I need away to label pages within one of our confluence spaces but I need to restrict the potential names for the label so people label the content correctly.

This doesn't have to be solved by a label, but I do need a way for people to see all pages tagged with the "label". Perhaps there's a way to create a custom field that's then searchable / filterable?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Casey,

This is not possible in Confluence, but we have a feature request for it here:

* [CONFSERVER-9742](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-9742)

Please vote on that request to help show the demand for such a feature, and feel free to comment there with your use case.

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hey [@Casey Hingtgen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1199029)

I don't know if it's to late now, but I found this plugin and thought, perhaps it helps you.

* [Labels Restrict](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218507/labels-restrict?hosting=server&tab=overview)

> Limit what users will add as labels, only allowed labels will be listed and added by users.

Regards,

Dominic