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Dynamic report in confluence
Asked by Sirisha b:

How do I create dynamic report in confluence?


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@Sirisha b](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4065590) ,

As usual, by the words "dynamic reports in Confluence" we understand the reports based on the Jira Issues, Page Properties/Page Properties Report and Content Report Table macros.

To create neat and easy-to-read tables and charts based on these standard macros, you can try to find additional apps for Confluence Cloud.

As a part of the Stiltsoft team, I can recommend to use our add-on - [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview). It works with all these macros perfectly well and allows you to filter information, create pivot tables and visualize everything using advanced [Chart from Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Chart+from+Table+macro) macro. As a result, you'll get a real-time dashboard.

As I'm not sure what exactly is your use case, let me give the links to the three short video tutorials for Confluence Cloud:

* [Page Properties/Page Properties Report](https://youtu.be/OiJ43YlminU)
* [Jira Issues macro](https://youtu.be/V66Jy6bwjxw)
* [Content Report Table](https://youtu.be/Svxz1MJBMv4)

The videos are 2 minutes long. The first part describes the macro, the second part shows how to amplify it with the help of the Table Filter and Charts app and get an advanced dynamic report.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Plugin for automatically publishing the pages in draft state
Asked by Ruhinissa Mehboob:

Do we have a plugin in Confluence, which can automatically publish all newly created and modified pages to the external documentation portal?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hi [@Ruhinissa Mehboob](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4065513) !

As I see the current situation, you need to publish all pages in your Confluence site that are still drafts at the same time by a given set of parameters.

I can tell you that Confluence does not have this kind of feature natively. However, I believe that the desired result can be achieved by using a third-party application for Document/Page approval and review.

You can check our Marketplace for plugins that perform those tasks:
> * ++***[\[Atlassian Marketplace\] Page review](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=page%20review)***++

I hope this helps!

comments: author: Ruhinissa Mehboob
body: Thanks for replying. We currently use most of the plugins that are mentioned in the Marketplace. But, we are not able to automate publishing all the pages that are in draft state every release.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Table of content on a video
Asked by geoffrey.mairlot:

Hi,

I have several Knowledge transferts that were done through calls \& recorded.

In order to make it available to everyone, i've uploaded the video in some pages.

As this is a very long video and several topics are talked about. I would have liked to setup a table of content of the video and have hyperlinks that make the video jumps to the correct timestamp. Similar to youtube comments when you type in a time (eg : "02:43"), the it's converted into hyperlinks to that particular time in the video.

This would be easily done if we were able to add hyperlink like these : javascript\&colon;document.getElementsByTagName('video')\[0\].currentTime=163;

But i'm struggling to do so. Does anyone have any idea on how I could add those kind of hyperlinks ?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: In order to do this with Confluence I would think you would need cut the video up into multiple parts and then you could put the smaller videos on a page and use the TOC macro to scroll to the different parts of the page.

The other option would be to host it on a platform that does support a time format in the query string ... such as YouTube.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Inability to edit table fields
Asked by Kseniya Krylova:

Good afternoon everyone.

We use Confluence to create contracts and other documents. We present these documents in tabular form and some of the lines we are automatically fills, using macros. However, users still want to fill in these cells in their own way and we asked ourselves a question, is it possible to block the ability to make changes to certain cells in the table? Perhaps there are some plugins or something else?


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi

If you are looking for a plugin with an ability to render tables and offers inline edit for these tables then have a look at [ConfiForms](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211860/confiforms-data-forms-workflows?hosting=server&tab=overview). The plugin we develop and support.

It offers the above mentioned functionality and lot more around data forms and collecting the structured information from your users.

comments: author: Kseniya Krylova
body: Hi Alex,   

I got acquainted with your plugin, but I still have a question, is it possible to add macros from another plugin to the ConfiForms fields?


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: It depends what type of view macro you use from ConfiForms

CardView and TableView operate only with ConfiForms plugin macros (fields and edit controls / viewer), but the ListView/CleanView can render anything what you put inside these macros - any Confluence macro


Tags: confluence-server

server
Page properties report sort by likes?
Asked by Papanito:

Page properties macro let's you show the like counts of a page. Is it possible to sort also by likes so that pages with most likes are shown on top?

There are no details on what I can sort:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html>


Answers:
author: John Corwith
body: For starters, the *Sort by* property in this macro has a long history of problems. I have never found/figured out a list of what you can natively sort by. The default is *modified date* . If you check the *Show likes count* box in the report configuration, the number of likes shows up in the report without a heading.

I did some playing around and it seems that you can put **likes** in the *Sort by* field it actually sorts by the number of likes. Did you try this? I created 4 pages, liked 2 of them and played around editing the files to assure myself it wasn't sorting on the modified date. I only have the likes value of not liked (null) and 1 (for myself) to play with but it sorted the 2 liked pages to the top of the report.

comments: author: John Corwith
body: An alternative and much more complicated solution might be to write a user macro that would retrieve the number of page likes and then include that macro in a table in a page properties macro with Likes as the table heading. This should correctly display a column titled Likes in the report and hopefully sort correctly by putting Likes in the *Sort by* property.


author: Papanito
body: Yeah I tried with likes, but this does not seem to work. I have 2 pages with 1 like, whereas the other 8 pages do not have any vote. So the result then is that one page with one vote is on top (that would be ok) but the other one is on position (7). So that does not seem to work properly.   
Yeah I know the possibility of writing a user macro, but honestly I would expect that the given macro to offer such a functionality.


Tags: confluence-server

server
How can I improve authentication times?
Asked by Daniel Santaella:

Dear community,

Since we have Confluence, we experience everyday slowness when authenticating to the server. Sometimes during the day, we just reload the page when it is trying to authenticate and enter credentials again and works fast. We never saw a pattern in this auth issues, so we would like to know how to troubleshoot this further.

Has anyone experienced the same kind of behaviour?

It has happened to us at least from version 6.10.1 onwards.

Best regards,

Daniel


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Daniel Santaella](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4049578) !

As I understand, authentication performance can become unreliable in your Confluence instance.

A good place to start looking for clues could be your Browser Console and a HAR file.

You could generate a HAR file while trying the login process and then check what is taking so long to be triggered:
> * ++***[\[Atlassian Knowledge Base\] Generating HAR files and analyzing web requests](https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/generating-har-files-and-analyzing-web-requests-720420612.html)***++

There are chances that the behavior is triggered by something within your network and not Confluence.

If the HAR file does not show anything too glaring, you could also take a look at the logs from Confluence itself:
> * [*++**\[Confluence Server\] Working with Confluence Logs**++*](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/working-with-confluence-logs-108364721.html)

If you are using Crowd to externally manage Confluence users, you can look at the Crowd logs as well:
> * [++***\[Crowd Server\] Finding the atlassian-crowd.log File***++](https://confluence.atlassian.com/crowd/finding-the-atlassian-crowd-log-file-167182956.html)

Since the behavior you described can be caused by a wide array of issues, I would like to ask you a few questions:
> 1. *How many users are usually active at the same time in your instance?*
> 2. *What browser are the affected users using when they face the described behavior?*
> 3. *How much memory is allocated for your Confluence instance?*
> 4. *What is your current version of Confluence?*
> 5. *Is there any other service running on the same server as Confluence?*

You can check the allocated memory for Confluence under the setenv.sh file. More details on memory allocation here:
> * [++***\[Confluence Server\] How to fix out of memory errors by increasing available memory***++](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-fix-out-of-memory-errors-by-increasing-available-memory-154071.html)

Let us hear from you!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Use Confluence as Internal Community forum
Asked by Sumit:

Hi everyone,  

I was looking towards using \`Confluence (Cloud)\` as forum instead of just knowledge base.  

My initial thought process is to have a good user flow where any internal company member would be able to ask questions and a notification goes out to everybody in a specific team.

I am looking for any case study or use-cases from people of the community.  

P.S.: Is \`Atlassian community\` is offered as a service?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I would take a look at "Questions for Confluence", it's not quite a forum, but it does a lot of stuff similarly to the way we tend to use this place for questions (and was actually the software behind the previous incarnation of what is now Community).

The other thing to look at is [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud\&product=confluence\&query=forum](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=forum) - the first handful of results there are well worth a look as they layer forum-like functions over Confluence pages.

Atlassian Community is a modified installation of [Khoros](https://khoros.com/platform/communities) , it's not available as a service itself (it wouldn't make a lot of sense, as it's heavily customised for Community), but you could run Khoros instead of Confluence.


Tags: confluence-cloud
how to integrate the confluence page into my application ?
Asked by JayaChandranadh Kommu:

Hi All,

We have a requirement where we need to **integrate** the **confluence page into my application** which is build on reactJS (Frontend) and Spring Boot (Backend).

The requirement is:

Instead of access and use confluence directly, we want integrate the confluence into my existing application. So, that we can have similar look and feel of confluence along with customised UI where we can upload/edit the content (with customised format) and download into as word/pdf document.

My Application is build based on reactJS and Spring Boot (DB: Postgres). Do we have any plug-ins/libraries to implement the above requirement with these stack.

Kindly someone please suggest me.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You would need to effectively recreate most of Confluence's code in your application, with all of its supporting libraries and tech, and get your application to handle a REST connection to Confluence such that it can get the working data out, and push changes back in.

I'd strongly recommend just using Confluence, I can't see any benefit of duplicating Confluence inside another application.

comments: author: JayaChandranadh Kommu
body: Thank you [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) for the reply.

We would like to have our own format when adding and downloading content and also it should be accessible to Application users. That is the reason we are planning to integrate it into our Application.

It would be helpful if you provide us the supporting libraries for reactJS/Spring boot applications. Thank you!!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There aren't any supporting libraries, you are going to have to write a massive chunk of Confluence functionality into your application.


Tags: confluence-cloud
High client CPU use in preview mode
Asked by Pierre:

Hi,

On some Confluence page, when I'm in preview mode, the CPU usage of my client become high:

![confluence_cpu.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/108155i4F1520C874074E85/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence_cpu.png")

The name of the process consuming CPU is Web Content, a process related to Firefox.

This issue also occurs when I'm editing a page during a few minutes.

I'm using Firefox 79.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS. I can reproduce this issue using Chromium.

What can I do to troubleshoot this issue?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi!

How about the macros on that preview mode ?

Is this related on exact page? or for any pages?

comments: author: Pierre
body: I made a test with an empty page with just a title (so without any macro). The effect on the CPU consumption is less important but the process "Web Content" still uses 30% on every cores.


author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: So time to double check on the another confluence version.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Homepage not loading after upgrade
Asked by Ankita Sinha:

Homepage and a few more pages are not loading after upgrade to 6.14.3. I get an error specific to cprime- 020-08-27 00:02:55,796 ERROR \[http-nio-8090-exec-2\] \[atlassian.plugin.web.DefaultWebInterfaceManager\] filterFragmentsByCondition Could not evaluate condition 'com.cprime.confluence.core.commons.ui.condition.UserIsImpersonatedCondition@36d40812' for descriptor: system.user/user-operations/switch-user-back-menu-item  
-- traceId: dea0f70fcfca5869  
java.lang.NullPointerException  
at com.cprime.confluence.core.commons.ui.condition.UserIsImpersonatedCondition.shouldDisplay(UserIsImpersonatedCondition.java:26)  
at com.atlassian.plugin.web.DefaultWebInterfaceManager.filterFragmentsByCondition(DefaultWebInterfaceManager.java:160)  
at com.atlassian.plugin.web.DefaultWebInterfaceManager.getDisplayableItems(DefaultWebInterfaceManager.java:113)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.descriptor.web.ConfluenceWebInterfaceManager.getDisplayableItems(ConfluenceWebInterfaceManager.java:78)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.web.ConfluenceWebMenuManager.getSectionItems(ConfluenceWebMenuManager.java:48)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.web.ConfluenceWebMenuManager.getMenu(ConfluenceWebMenuManager.java:32)  
at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1219.invoke(Unknown Source)  
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)  
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)  
at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.doInvoke(UberspectImpl.java:385)


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Ankita Sinha](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/744340)

Check for the Cprime (Anova Apps) app from manage apps and ensure that you have the latest version.

If the error continues, I would contact them directly.

Regards


Tags: confluence-server

server
Access Rights for child pages
Asked by vinay singh:

Hi All ,

We are having hundreds of web pages on Confluence .

They are structured in various levels..( see sample below )

-\> Parent _1

-\> child 1

-\> child 2

-\> Parent 2

My requirement is that I want to restrict access to the web pages .

For Ex : If I allow only "user_1" edit access to Parent_1 , how can I have this security rule apply to all the child pages of "Parent_1" automatically .

Thank you in advance.


Answers:
author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@vinay singh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4043065) ,

This feature is not supported yet.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-5095>


author: jeroentja
body: Would be nice to have!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

page

restriction
How to move attachment from one page to another in the same space?
Asked by Dmitry V Sidorov:

Just have a bunch of images attached to one page and would like to move some of them to another ;-)


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: You should just be able to copy and paste the images to the new page. Just open them both up in edit mode and copy the images you need to the new page and save.

comments: author: Dmitry V Sidorov
body: ... well, I guess that would do... thx Bran ;-)


Tags: attachment

confluence-server

server
"Status" Macro no longer fixed width?
Asked by Jason Young:

In the previous Confluence editor, the Status macro was a fixed width, making tables and other checklists looking very tidy.

![Old Status.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/108131i96587F75918421D1/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Old Status.png")

The Status macro in the "new"(er) Confluence editor appears to be dynamic in line with the text. I realize this is small, but the lack of uniformity is kind of a bummer.

![New Status.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/108132iDD87DC73B27AB758/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "New Status.png")

Is there another core macro type that I need to be using to achieve the original look?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Jason Young](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4064922) and [@Ste Wright](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1166470) !

Yes, the behavior of the Status macro is different if we look at both the Legacy and the New editor.

In the legacy editor, there is a ++*fixed minimum size*++:
> ![Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 16.53.09.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/108254iDD9166DBC518BE50/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 16.53.09.png")

In the new editor, there is a ++*fixed maximum size*++:
> ![Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 16.54.46.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/108255i6468E76AF9B92465/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 16.54.46.png")

To create a more even look for the new status macro, I used an empty Unicode character to fill space. Here it is:
> * ++***[Unicode Character "?" (U+2800)](https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2800)***++

And here is what it looks like in the editor itself:
> ![Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 16.55.15.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/108256iA4FE2BEB59471D62/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 16.55.15.png")

I hope this helps both of you!

comments: author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952)

Awesome!

I knew it was a minimum size in the old macro - but hadn't been able to utilise the unicode approach in the new one.

It's great to know this is actually possible!

Ste


author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Jason Young](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4064922)

There isn't another macro natively - this is how the status macro appears to work now!

You can still create a Legacy page as an option? When creating a page, one of the templates is "Legacy Editor Page". The macros within this page type work using the old method.

If you don't have an option to create the Legacy page, contact [Atlassian Support](https://support.atlassian.com/) who should be able to activate this for you :)

Ste


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Preciso saber se ? poss?vel copiar uma pagina sem levar os anexos contidos nela.
Asked by Silvia Soares Bonfim:

Tenho um esquema de passagem de turno feito no Confluence, onde existe a necessidade de inserir anexos, esses est?o sendo inseridos atrav?s da macro anexos, por?m a cada termino de turno ? feito uma c?pia da p?gina para iniciar o novo turno, como isso ? feito diariamente a lista de anexos dentro da p?gina est? ficando enorme impedindo anexar mais arquivos.

- Fazer a copia ? um passo que facilitou muito o trabalho da equipe ao inves de abrir uma nova e copiar e colar.

- Movi uma das paginas para o meu espa?o pessoal e funciona.

Gostaria de n?o perder a op??o de copiar a p?gina.

Existe alguma configura??o que possa ser feita onde ao copiar a p?gina os anexos n?o levados junto?


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Silvia Soares Bonfim](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4064875)

Look at this post, maybe can help you

<https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/move-copy-and-hide-pages/>

Cheers
Any way to restrict "Livesearch Macro" to a specific page tree?
Asked by macintacos:

The [Livesearch Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/livesearch-macro-163415902.html) doesn't see to have the ability to search within a particular page and it's children, but rather can only be limited by labels/spaces. It'd be nice if Livesearch could function similarly to how the [Page Tree Search Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-tree-search-macro-163938353.html) works (by being able to say "only search for things in this tree"). The disadvantage of the Page Tree Search Macro is that it's not "Live", and the search opens a new page.

Is this functionality possible with Livesearch? Can it be added?


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi [@macintacos](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3543998) ,

Unfortunately you've outlined the possibilities with the livesearch macro; it can only limit against spaces or specific page labels. A feature request [was open in the past](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-41237) about potentially restricting the macro to a specific page tree, but was ultimately closed due to limited interest.

While I don't know of any specifically that offer something like livesearch and can limit by page tree, it is worth noting that there are [several search plugins on the Atlassian Marketplace.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=server&product=confluence&query=search) Definitely worth checking out to see if any have macros that support the source limiting you're hoping to add. Another workaround might be to [use an app to manage the labels in bulk](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=server&product=confluence&query=label) based on the page tree or some other criteria, as livesearch does support filtering by label.

Cheers,  
Daniel


Tags: confluence-server

server
Unable to see drawio diagrams in confluence
Asked by Cecille McCutcheon:

I created a diagram using DrawIO on Confluence and am unable to see it. Other members of my team can. Where the diagram should be states 'Diagram Not Found'.

Anyone else experience this and get this resolved?


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Do you have read attachments permission on that space?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

draw.io
Confiform - Ability to have items horizontally?
Asked by Gabe Belknap:

Hi Folks,

Right now on my confluence page i have multiple questions with drop downs and they are all vertically placed one before the next.

Example:

1

2

3

4

Is there a way to introduce a grid or table that will allow them to be horizontal like the below?

1 2

3 4

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: You can have forms with absolutely custom layout as shown in our tutorials

* <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/ConfiForms+Form+with+custom+layout>
* <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/FORMS/Creating+a+form+view+with+custom+layout>


Tags: confiforms

confluence-server

server