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Updating Table Filter Add-on
Asked by Ryan Hargreaves:

Currently we have v1.5.1 of Table Filter installed on our Confluence instance. We need the latest version to address the Page Properties Report issue. Even though we have installed it via the Marketplace the 'Manage Add-ons' section still shows the old version is installed. Does anyone know if we have to restart Confluence for the changes to take effect or any other resolution?


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

I've answered to your support ticket. Please, let me know if you received my reply.

comments: author: Ryan Hargreaves
body: Hi Andrey

I didn't receive your reply, my company mail server must have blocked it. Are you able to post the answer here?

Thanks

Ryan


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Ryan,

You do not need to restart Confluence. But I think there is an issue in Confluence or UPM. Please, try to uninstall Table Filter add-on and then install it again.


author: Ryan Hargreaves
body: I only see a 'disable' option for the macro. I assume i need to disable it before the uninstall option appears? Currently there are 121 instances of Table Filter being used within our confluence site. When I reinstall the macro will those pages need to be updated again to use the new version?


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Everything will be fine with existing macros on pages after uninstalling and installing it again.

Usually, only one "Disable" button appear for System add-ons, not user installed. What version of the UPM (Universal Plugin Manager) do you use? Can you update it?


author: Ryan Hargreaves
body: Currently the Table Filter Macro is showing up a System Add-on not a user installed one, is that correct? I will ask our Confluence Admin to upgrade the UPM and get back to you. Thanks.


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Table Filter should be shown as a user installed add-on, so this is a UPM misbehavior. UPM update might help.


Tags: confluence-administration
Adding Multiple Retrospective Users at Once
Asked by Jessica L. Uth:

Is there any way to do this? I've tried searching for some of our AD Managed member groups. I can't add or use locally created groups since it would, effectively, duplicate each users account. I've also tried to copy paste a number of names into the participant field but neither has been successful. Is there anything that can reduce the burden of manually entering each name for the participant group each time we have a retrospective?


Answers:
author: Sasha Reminnyi
body: Hi @Jessica L. Uth!

Is this "group mentions" you are looking for?

If yes, then this is one of the most upvoted feature requests (<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23015>)

Although there is no straightforward solution to solve this, there is a set of workarounds in the issue comments, like the following by @XALT Commercial Account

"we are using a workaround for years now which is actually working great. Just add one user (with the name of the group) per group into your AD and add a group e-mail address as that users e-mail address. Then you actually have the functionality you desire for the cost of a few user licenses used."

I hope that helps!
How do I move Product Requirement pages once completed?
Asked by Richard Siebels:

Once a feature has been released, I would like to move the requirement page to a subpath or somewhere that I can access for historical means, but keep the left menu and product requirements list uncluttered by only showing current and future requirements. It would be nice to have this automated after the linked release is done, but for now a method of manually moving them would suffice.

I tried to copy the existing Product Requirements page to 'Archived Product Requirements' and use additional label of 'released' but this did not work as the labels are not an AND match, it seems they are an 'OR'. So all requirements pages show up in the list on both container pages.

How have others managed clutter over the lifecycle of a product?


Answers:
author: cptBarbosa
body: Hi Richard, I read some answers about the same question you have, and I found an add-on that does it.

[Archiving](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving/server/overview) - other than that I would suggest labels but you already tried.

Hope it helps. :smile:
AUI Buttons
Asked by Rolf Eckardt:

Hi , in Confluence "additional macros" I can see AUI macros , e.g. AU Button Hyperlink button.

When I insert the macro it gives a license warning but I cant find any related plugin. Which one is it ? Is there a free version ?

Opening the add-on manager doesn't really help and also the AUI documentation doesn't really tell me how to deal with it.


Answers:
author: Marina Ferraz McCashin
body: Hi Rolf

I saw your post and was wondering what you were hoping to use the AUI Button Hyperlink for?

If you would like to add a button to a page, or a call to action, I think our [Custom Button](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.glintech.confluence.plugins.button-macro/server/overview "Custom Button") add-on could be what you are looking for.

Please reach out if there is anything else you'd like some help with.

Marina.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Rolf,

AUI is a User Interface Framework from Atlassian. This framework is used in a lot of plugins. What is the text of the license warning? Do you see anything in the logs?


Tags: aui

confluence-administration
I am a site admin for our atlassian suite, but I can't delete spaces that others have created. How can I do this?
Asked by Joshua Seckel:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Delete a Space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139524)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: cptBarbosa
body: Hi Joshua, in confluence administration go in Space permission and check site admin permissions and any possible restriction in the spaces.

And if it's not the case, come again so we can try to figure out a solution.

Good luck. :smile:


Tags: cloud

remove

space
Cateegories and Subcategories
Asked by support:

Hi,

I'm setting up a knowledge base for my company and have 2 questions, which I unfortunately couldn't solve with your documentation:

* **++Creating Categories and Subcategories++**

I'm trying hard to set up a category navigation. I mean I have e.g. 5 main categories (installation, configuration, etc..). When I click on main category "installation" I want to get further sub-categories. And so on. Just like a simple tree. In these sub categories I want to place my articles, how-to etc.

image2017-3-15 12:49:56.png

* **++Creating Articles outside of Editing Wizard++**
  * Is it possible to create how-to/ troubleshooting articles outside of the editor? Like a link to a form where I can create the article and save it under the desired page I want?

Thank you in advance,  
Julian  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Cateegories-and-Subcategories/qaq-p/105817?attachment-id=11028){#link_1185981dfd4ef7}  
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Answers:
author: support
body: Thanks for the help.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to extend the selection tool bar actions?
Asked by ceving:

When I select some text in one of the pages of my Confluence installation the following tool bar pops up.

selection toolbar.png

In the example I have selected a regular expression. I would like to give the users the ability to copy the extension of all possible values of the regular expression into the clipboard (in this example two lines).

Is it possible to extend the selection tool bar in that way?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-it-possible-to-extend-the-selection-tool-bar-actions/qaq-p/242638?attachment-id=86){#link_11859822e69c9d}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/41100/1/selection%20toolbar.png){#display_11859822e69c9d_0}


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Cev,

there's a tutorial for this: <https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/tutorials/extending-the-highlight-actions-panel>
Page access using credentials
Asked by Michael Sarafidis:

Hi,  
We want to share some pages from our Confluence to our Site under members area. We do not want to be anonymous access because we do not want the URL to be shareable outside the member area. Thus we need to create a user that will have access to specific pages from different spaces (not the whole spaces). We also do not want the user to be able to change its personal settings (ex. password).  
Finally, we do not want our members to know the user's credentials, thus we need to make a post request using the confluence API in order to access the pages.  
Could you please tell us if all this is possible and also give us a hint of how to implement it?  
Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This isn't going to work the way you think it is, and @Jen Roberts instincts are right.

For a user to see a Confluence page, **they must have read access to the space** . You need to set up the spaces so that they all have a public and private sections, so that your user can see the right pages, and then restrict **all** the private areas in any spaces you've let the user see.

If you don't use anonymous access, you'll need to have a user who can see the spaces and then public pages. People logging in as that person **will** be able to modify the passwords and account settings.  

So, on to your API suggestion - yes, that's the only way. Have a read-only user, then write something that scrapes the pages you want to publish over REST and load them into another web-server as static pages (consider a regular refresh).


author: Jen
body: In my experience with the Confluence Cloud, this request would need to be done manually - meaning each page would need to be set - Restrictions/Access (any open Spaces would need to be set to Restrictive as to keep the Said User outside).

I'll be following your question as to learn if other options are available!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to upload website contents to Confluence
Asked by Rathea Chem:

Hi everyone,

Do you know how we can upload website contents to Confluence? HTML and Java files.

Thank you for your idea.


Answers:
author: Thomas B
body: If they are just attachments of code (for reference, learning, ect.) you should use the "Code Block" Macro. This will allow you to set your Syntax to HTML or Java for you to insert code. If you are trying to do something else, I wouldn't recommend it and I can't help with that.

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-upload-website-contents-to-Confluence/qaq-p/164051?attachment-id=1656){#link_1185985d77bf4a}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/27480/1/image2017-3-15%2014%3A15%3A30.png){#display_1185985d77bf4a_0}


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Are you trying to convert them into Confluence backed web-pages, or just attachments?

Or do they make up a web-application in themselves? (If it's this, then the answer is "don't" - you don't want to run any applications in the same container as Confluence)


author: Thomas B
body: Are you trying to upload these files to use in Confluence or just to reference?
Compare two pages in same space?
Asked by Stephen Kairys:

**Confluence Server 5.9.7:**

Hi,

Confluence has a cool page-comparison tool within a page history: you can compare two selected versions.

Is there a way to do the same with two separate pages (e.g. "VENDORS-OLD" and "VENDORS-NEW") within the same space?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Duplicate question: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/63897881>


Tags: compare
I want to create a user that will go directly to a space in confluence. Currently a new user goes to Jira Service desk first.
Asked by Steve Darlington:

I have tried the group permissions, etc.


Answers:
author: Steve Darlington
body: Cassiano,

Thank you.

I will give it try. I am new to this, so even finding "site Adminstration" can be a challenge.

Steve

comments: author: cptBarbosa
body: No problem Steve, any question you have, I will be here to help you. :smile:


author: cptBarbosa
body: Hi Steve, you have to go in Site Administration -\> Application Acces -\> User defaults.

In the bottom, you will see homepage, select Confluence.

Hope it helps. :smile:


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
JIRA Charts are not available
Asked by Thomas:

Reindexing of JIRA and Confluence did not fix the problem.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/jira-issues-macro-jira-charts-are-not-available-for-your-version-of-jira-777004808.html>

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Thomas
body: Hi Niclas,  
we have Confluence 5.10.8 + JIRA 7.2.3

It work?s now. So reindexing was the solution.

Thank you  
Thomas

comments: author: David Puchosic
body: For out of the box JIRA Chart vs gadget. I ran into this as well and ended up re-indexing Confluence from scratch to resolve. (Confluence 6.0.4 + JIRA 7.2.2 appeared restarts \& add-on upgrades)


author: Niclas Sandstroem
body: Hi Thomas,

Not know what version your on make this a bit harder. Have you reviewed <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf57/adding-jira-gadgets-to-a-confluence-page-701435363.html> ?

Br, Niclas


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to let Confluence users develop macros
Asked by Fredrik Abbors:

I read in the Confluence documentation that only users with admin rights can develop macros. My question is: Is it possible to give certain users the proper rights to develop macros without giving them full administrative right in confluence? So in other word, only granting users the right to develop their own macros. I work in a large organisation and we don't want to give full admin rights to users that want to develop their own macros. We are looking for a way to ONLY grant them rights to develop macros. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, it's restricted to admins for good reasons - you can break pages or even spaces with macros. I'd recommend getting them to write in a sandbox, and then your admins can upload ones that have been **tested** properly.


Tags: confluence-administration
Does Confluence Cloud support AD LDAP integration?
Asked by Lei Jiang:

Hi Team,

Does Confluence Cloud support AD LDAP integration? Or if there is any addin to resolve this?

Thanks.

Lei


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, it does not.

There is a beta test for some connectivity, but it's very much in beta and not generally available yet.
Can we use confluence while rebuild or reindex is in progress. If so what type of issues may occur when we use confluence while reindexing is in progress
Asked by Lakshmi:

Hi Team,

I am doing reindex on confluence 5.5 version it is taking more time rather than expected. but I am able to access the spaces and pages. Can I continue my work normal or again we have to do reindexing? what types of issues we may face in the above scenario. As I am doing rebuild for first time hence want to know if I can continue work on confluence while reindex is in progress,

<br />

<br />


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, you can continue to use Confluence, although you may find it's quite slow sometimes.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can you make the Page-Tree horizontal?
Asked by Katrine Borge:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page Tree Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=163414255)*

I wanna make the page-tree horizontal and not vertical, is that possible?

Just turn the list around 90\*


Answers:
author: cptBarbosa
body: Hi Katrine, actually it's not possible to turn page tree in any direction, but you can open a feature request for this.

* [Feature Request](https://jira.atlassian.com/) - you can also vote and watch it.

Hope it helps. :smile:


Tags: page-tree
access external database
Asked by Jim Gordon:

Is there a plugin to access an external database (mysql) from cloud hosted Confluence?


Answers:
author: Steffi Frank
body: Try pocket query <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.scandio.confluence.plugins.pocketquery/server/overview?_ga=1.207990102.55867201.1483347037>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
running initial create space crashes
Asked by Bob Tournoux:

having difficult time installing Confluence.

OS= Ubuntu

Database = mysql

Confluence version 6.0.6

The Confluence Setup / Database setup kept failing when trying to use DataSource connection to jdbc. The error indicated a connection failure. Therefore I used Direct Connection and this appeared to work.

Then I seem to have gotten the installation complete but when I went through the last part of the setup which had me attempt to create a Space, something killed the process. I submitted a ticket but have heard nothing. Hoping to find someone who has successfully installed on Ubuntu


Answers:
author: Bob Tournoux
body: I am running Ubuntu 15.10.1

I am actually running on a GoDaddy Virtual Server; They supply the OS and I supply everything else.

My Mysql is 5.6.31

I tried today to uninstall Confluence and I also uninstalled the /opt/Atlassian and /var/Atlassian folders then reinstalled and this time selected the trial version. It dies when creating the database. I've attached the catalina.out and atlassian-confluence.log

I'm not sure if this helps.

catalina.out  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/4282/1/catalina.out){#display_118599b63ed82a_0}  
atlassian-confluence.log  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/4282/2/atlassian-confluence.log){#display_118599b63ed82a_2}


author: chucktalk
body: Hi Bob,

It may be your version of MySQL if it came bundled with Ubuntu 16.04 or later. You may want to check which version you have against the supported platforms for MySQL. I think that it is 5.7 (currently unsupported) that ships in Ubuntu 16.04, but without logs, it's hard to reach any conclusions.

What errors are in the logs?

Sincerely,

Chuck


Tags: confluence-administration
Meeting notes: gathering goal info
Asked by Gretchen Helms:

I have a very long list of Meeting Notes for my project. Each Meeting Notes page has a Goal listed for that meeting (using the standard Meeting Notes template, the Goal is just a Header2 format, nothing special). It's a headache clicking on all the Meeting Notes to find one with a specific Goal.

Is there a way I can have my Project page create a table with the date and link of the Meeting Note in column 1, and the Goal from that page in column 2? That would make it a LOT easier to manage my meetings.


Answers:
author: Gretchen Helms
body: Thanks, Steffi! I got the macros working and reporting. Now I have a new challenge.

My project info for my projects lives on a project page, with page properties macro called "project". I also have a status update macro created that uses a page labelled status-update and a page properties macro called "status-update".

I have a report that shows the pertinent project info: Name, Owner, State, Due Date (all from the project page/macro). I have a second report that shows the last status update in the past week.

Is there a way I can concatenate these macros? Ideally I'd like to show the status-update macro as the last item on the page properties report that shows me the project info.

comments: author: Steffi Frank
body: I am afraid I did not understood your intention. Maybe screenshots will help?


author: Steffi Frank
body: works with the macros page properties \& page properties report

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html>


Tags: meeting-notes
Can't find Labels List macro
Asked by Barry Prioste:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Labels List Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724765224)*

When I am editing a page and try to insert (cntrl+shift+A in a section field) the Labels List macro I cannot find it in the list of macros shown in the dialog box.

How do I find and use this macro?


Answers:
author: cptBarbosa
body: Hi Barry, if you click on the + and then in other macros, there is a search field, if you write "label" on it, how many (if any) macros appears for you? What is your confluence version?

try this step and give me a feedback, so we can go on.

comments: author: Barry Prioste
body: Cassiano,

We are on Confluence version 1000.1035.0

After following your steps the macros I see listed in the dialog box are: Content Report Table, Labels Gadget (JIRA issues), Page Properties, and Page Properties Report.

Thanks for your help.


author: cptBarbosa
body: Hi Barry, since you have 4 macros on your research and you should be seeing 10, I would advise you to open a ticket with Atlassian support. So they can access your instance and check some further configuration.

Sorry i could not help. ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

And good luck in your case.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

label

list
Confluence requires page 'add' permission to attach files to comments?
Asked by Christopher Lynn:

Confluence requires page 'add' permission to attach files to comments.

The group I have has attachments 'add' permission.

The user in the group cannot add attachments to the page or comments (which is more important).

The user group has All, Comments (Add), Attachments (Add) permissions.

I am required to add the user individually and give them Page 'Add' permission to add attachments. This is not show in the documentation I've found:

i.e. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/upload-files-139513.html>

And I need the attachment permissions to allow attachments, as I do not want the users to be able to page 'Add' or 'Edit'.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Attachments are considered to be content, so it makes sense that a user has to have page edit rights so they can add the content.   

There is nothing you can do about this, unless you're willing to start hacking the internals of Confluence's permission coding.

comments: author: Christopher Lynn
body: ok, but in all the documentation I've found from Atlassian indicates that if a user has attachment 'add' that is all that is needed. Adding an attachment to a comment is far from allowing a user to edit or create a page. I've read that adding an attachment to a comment, stores it behind the scenes as a page attachment but is allowed in comments for a user with 'add' attachment.

Makes no sense to give a user 'add' to pages (to create and edit...) when all you want a user to be able to do is add a file to a comment.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think you've given yourself your own explanation here - attachments are not "added to comments". Attachments are added to the page, so they're content. You can refer to them in comments, but they're still page elements.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I include a macro within the Expand macro?
Asked by Dboy Rivera:

I'm trying to organize spreadsheets by month. I want to be able to expand a month (using the Expand macro). Once the month is expanded, I want to be able to see a list of spreadsheets for that month. I've used the Expand macro for the list of months but I can't seem to figure out including the "Attachments" macro within.

2017-03-13_10-27-03.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-include-a-macro-within-the-Expand-macro/qaq-p/249228?attachment-id=5924){#link_11859a1ad17a70}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/42121/1/2017-03-13_10-27-03.png){#display_11859a1ad17a70_0}


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Did you try just adding the Attachments macro to the body of the Expand macro?

comments: author: Dboy Rivera
body: I added the Attachments macro to the Expand macro and labeled the spreadsheets by month to sort them.

Thank you!


author: Thomas B
body: You would just go:

1. Expand
   1. Office Excel
   2. Attachments

{office excel}


Tags: confluence-administration