youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How do I pull data from a parent template and populate the data to all the child templates?
Asked by Sue Dlhy:

I need to be able to take a parent page, which is a template, and feed different data on it to the child pages, which are all different templates. For example, if I have a start date on the parent page, I need that start date to populate on all the child pages that are under that parent page. I have looked at the MultiExcerpt plug in and its not what I am looking for.


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: If you are hosting your own Confluence site (rather than Confluence Cloud), then you might find creating your own User Macros to build what you need could help here. There are methods you can use to inject contextual variables into existing macros or reduce the effort of setting up defaults. If you combine this with other techniques, like using page naming conventions and labels, you might be able to achieve this.

For example, not quite your use case, but I built a set of custom macros for a client that provided an automated list of related articles based on matching a controlled list of labels on other pages. However, you could also override with manual selections on a page if the automated links weren't hitting the mark for users. This was all achieved using out of the box macros and User Macros.


Tags: child-page

hierarchy

import

server
I cannot see my uploaded files listed in the Attachments Macro for Cloud Confluence.
Asked by James DonFrancesco:

I've checked my permissions several times (I am the owner and admin and site admin for my Confluence space and still cannot see attachments listed in the attachment macro. I can see the file associated to the page by clicking the paperclip or viewing "attachments" in the ... options menu.

I've requested a Reindex of my site as a last ditch effort, but I really need this macro to work!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello James,

Thank you for contacting us about this. Were you able to solve this issue? If not, can you tell me if you're using the Attachments macro in the new editor? If it's the new editor, you'll see the publish button in the top-right.

When viewing the attachments from the options menu, are you able to preview that attachment?

I understand that this is for Cloud, which requires a support ticket be created for a reindex. I wasn't able to find the reindex request under your email address. Was it under another account? You can let me know the ticket number if so, I just want to tie the two threads together.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
What happens if you delete the extensions, do the old charts disappear?
Asked by Anna:

Wondering what happens if extensions are deleted, do the old charts/graphs/etc disappear?

Specifically looking to get rid of:

- draw.io Diagrams

- Markdown Extensions

- Excellentable Spreadsheet for Confluence


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: For draw.io uninstalling the plugin will mean the diagrams are not displayed on your Confluence pages. However, the data is still stored as attachments to the pages on which they are displayed, you don't lose the data.

If you simply do not want to pay for the plugin, leave it installed, but unlicensed. The diagrams will display on the pages, you just won't be able to create new ones or edit existing diagrams.


author: John Fetzik
body: We had a Jira instance where we removed the Gliphy add-on. If we just unsubscribed, but did not uninstall the add-on, we were able to still view any existing diagrams. Uninstalling the add-on made the diagrams no longer viewable.

Not an exact answer, so I would suggest checking directly with the add-on supplier.


author: Jaclyn Mazzarella
body: Hi Anna, We pretty much follow the same policy listed above by David from [Draw.io](http://draw.io/). If you don't renew Excellentabe, it will still display your Spreadsheets content and you may only lose your ability to edit depending on the version you are on. We don't remove content from your instance when you uninstall the app. So, even if you remove Excellentable for a long period of time and then reinstall it again, all of your content will show up again. Hope this helps and sorry for the delay in responding.
Dynamically create confluence pages
Asked by Samuel Ampipoikayil:

Hello all,

My requirement is I have all details to create a page based on details on an oracle database table.

My plan is to run a script which my page with all the markup language syntax and manually copy the output of the script to create a page.

The output will be a predefined format in markup language.

I need advise,

- Can i directly use confluence to query the database from time to time and update the page

- Can I do a Rest API call to update a page using the output file as I mentioned above(with markup language tags)

Regards,

leaumas


Answers:
author: Najjar _Innovura_
body: Hi Samuel

We launched a new app that allows you to create pages from templates through Jira Workflow post-function and store the Confluence page in a Jira customfield to apply more actions like:

Workflow postfuntions

* Update page permissions
* Update page content
* Update page title

Workflow conditions

* Check if page was modified after a certain status transition
* Check if page still has a placeholder

And so much more.

Please give it a try, I believe it would streamline alot of repeated effort on your team

[Jira Confluence Workflow Extensions (JCWE)](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221971/jira-confluence-workflow-extensions-jcwe)

Give it a try I am confident you'll love it.

If you have any inquires or requests please drop me an email at [admin@innovura.io](mailto:admin@innovura.io)


author: Pavel Potcheptsov
body: 1) you can't. There're plugins to query database but they won't help you to update page.

2) you have to prepare json file for Page and include content in storage format there, then you can update page with api.

comments: author: Samuel Ampipoikayil
body: Thank you Pavel!


author: Andrii Maliuta
body: Hello Samuel.

You can try Confluence CLI ([https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/284/confluence-command-line-interface-cli?hosting=cloud\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/284/confluence-command-line-interface-cli?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)) to bulk update pages from prepared text files or files hierarchy etc.


Tags: page

rest-api
Why does page properties report not show all content even when everything is labeled/formatted right
Asked by Melissa Schwartz:

We use the page properties to house a small table with information on project status. As far as I can tell everything is properly formatted and all pages are labeled with the correct label that is being called for in the report. The report shows up on our homepage and is set to call up everything from our space with the requested labels. We have given it the table length of 30, but it is only showing 4-5 and it does not show all of the called for content. I've tried relabeling and deleting and replacing the page properties tables in the pages and none of this has fixed the issue.


Answers:
author: Bastian Stehmann
body: Hi [@Melissa Schwartz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3367389) ,

Welcome to the Community.

Are your tables formatted right with the header column? And is the spelling of the "attributes " correct?

comments: author: Melissa Schwartz
body: I forgot to add that originally all of our page properties were showing up in the report and a few weeks ago (about 4 weeks) some of them disappeared without the settings being changed. This leads me to believe that I did have the header column correct as well as the attributes. Have you ever seen it work and then disappear?


author: Bastian Stehmann
body: I'm sorry, never experienced something like that.


author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: Melissa,

If you look at the Page History, is there nothing in any of the versions showing any changes to the Page History Report macro, or the source table?


author: Melissa Schwartz
body: There haven't been any changes to the page properties report macro since the time we noticed the issue.


author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: Sorry, I've run out of ideas. You may want to open a ticket with Support (if you're on a version with support) as they can take a deeper dive into what might be going on.


author: Melissa Schwartz
body: The issue has been resolved. It required opening read/write access on the server that this program is stored. Once that was granted all page properties tables showed up in the report.


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Melissa!

I've followed up with you on your new case, [Why is CONFSERVER-34141 bug fix not working?](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-is-CONFSERVER-34141-bug-fix-not-working/qaq-p/1119794#U1121940) to let you know that I have created a support ticket for you for this issue.

As I mentioned on the new question, please follow-up here once the issue is resolved, so the community can also know.

Thank you!

Regards,

Shannon


author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: [@Melissa Schwartz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3367389) , as additional info to what [@Bastian Stehmann](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1186496) has provided, your table headers must match exactly what's entered in the macro. Also worth noting, if you have multiple tables within the macro, it will only read the columns from the first table. Not a common occurrence, but I ran into someone doing this just last week.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Do page likes affect rank in search results?
Asked by Majken Longlade:

Does liking a page in Confluence get it ranked higher in the search results, or does it just affect the popular macro?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Majken,

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

Page Likes are not factored into search results. The search ranking considers popular pages differently, as mentioned in the article below:

* [How do I understand the ranking of of Confluence search results?](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-understand-the-ranking-of-confluence-s-search-results-785614686.html)

> Popular pages are those that have more incoming links. A page that has more incoming links will be ranked higher than other pages that share similar content.

I hope that answers your question! Let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
How do I request Admin access to an existing space?
Asked by Brian Madrigal:

The previous space Admin left the company and I now need to manage the space going forward. I have edit access but not able to provide anyone else with edit access. Would you please provide guidance on how to gain Admin access rights. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: You will need to contact your friendly Confluence administrator and request "Space Admin" access.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Switch to SSl
Asked by Markus Steinke:

I followed the instructions [https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/running-confluence-over-ssl-or-https-161203.html.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/running-confluence-over-ssl-or-https-161203.html)

Everything works fine.

But if i switch in the server.xml to

    <Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"    maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25"                        protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"    enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"    acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"    clientAuth="false" sslProtocols="TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2"             sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2" SSLEnabled="true"    URIEncoding="UTF-8" keystorePass="<MY_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD>"/>

Confluence is not longer reachable.

if i switch back to

\<Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"  
maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"  
enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"  
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"/\>

Everything works fine.


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: I wouldn't recommend doing it that way. There are two big reasons why. First is security. If you want to listen to TCP port 443, you will need to run the Confluence Java process as root/administrator. This means that if there is a vulnerability in Confluence or Java, it is possible for an attacker to take over your server relatively easily. Second is that this is doing things the hard way. When you need to make changes, such as when a cert expires, you need to restart Confluence.

I would instead recommend using a reverse proxy server such as [Apache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/securing-your-atlassian-applications-with-apache-using-ssl-838284349.html). This can run on the same server. It is very simple to manage certificates this way and reverse proxy servers can do privilege separation built-in.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Default Welcome Message template
Asked by Darryl St_ Pierre:

I'm working on changing the default landing page in Confluence Cloud (**dashboard** by default) to a custom page.

I want to include the information from the existing Default Welcome Message template on the page, but I don't see a way to do it. Is it possible?


Answers:
author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: Update: A bug has been submitted to Atlassian. If you're currently experiencing or have an interest in this issue, please see [CONFCLOUD-66972 - Server base URL redirects to activity page instead of the homepage](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-66972).

comments: author: Shannon S
body: Thanks for reporting this, Darryl!

I'll be watching that issue.

Take care, and have a pleasant weekend.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Darryl,

Thank you for contacting us. I can see how this would be pretty helpful.

It's not possible to embed the system template in another page, but what you can do is create a new page in Confluence that would have your welcome message. It needs to be open to any users who should see the welcome message.

1. Surround your welcome message with an [Excerpt Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/excerpt-macro-724765191.html).
2. You can then use the [Excerpt Include Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/excerpt-include-macro-724765190.html) to embed this message on any page you require it.
3. Additionally, you could go edit the [original Site Welcome message](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/editing-the-site-welcome-message-724765520.html) template and replace the text with another copy of the Excerpt Include Macro.

When you do it this way, no one will inadvertently change the text there and expect it to be updated on the other pages. You could also add Instructional Text here telling them where to go in order to edit the one you are now using.

Another reason why it's useful to use the Excerpt Include macro on the original template is because you can then still use the default dashboard pages and it should still show the edited Welcome Message.

I hope that's clear! Let me know if you have any questions about it.

Regards

Shannon

comments: author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: Thank you Shannon. This would absolutely work. As I was trying things out, I stumbled across a bigger "problem" in that I cannot redirect the landing page in the way I expected to. The option in Settings prompts for the selection of a different space in place of "dashboard", but still drops everyone to the Activity page (wiki/discover/all-updates).

I've submitted a ticket to Support for clarification or Bug status.


author: Shannon S
body: Darryl,

Great that it should work for you! As for the behavior you're seeing, if possible, could you follow up here with the resolution to that? If it's a bug ticket I'd like it to be public as well so if anyone else runs into the problem, they can report it.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: Absolutely! I find it very helpful when others do this as well.


Tags: atl-adm

cloud

confluence-cloud
Backing Up Templates
Asked by Robert S Levy:

Is there a way to locally back up my custom templates and re-import them?


Answers:
author: Ang?lica Luz
body: Hello Robert,

Currently, it's not possible to export and import templates. We have a feature request suggesting the implementation of this ability:  
- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-30778>  
Please, click on vote and watch in order to hear about updates on the development cycle.

Regards,  
Ang?lica


Tags: confluence-cloud

cloud
How to create multiselect dropdown in confluence user macro?
Asked by Suresh Sakhare:

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to create user macro with multiselect params, but it rendering string input box.

Please help, where I am wrong.

adding params similar like this

```
## @param Region:title=Region|type=enum|enumValues=India,Global,North America,Noida,Bangalore, India|default=India|multiple=true|desc=Choose your region
```


Answers:
author: Suresh Sakhare
body: This is bug in confluence version 6 and later.

comments: author: Bill Bailey
body: Could be nice and accept my answer, please?


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi,

Till the bug is fixed, you could try our Easy Dropdown Menu. It supports the multi select option. You can find the [Easy Dropdown Menu](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216797/easy-dropdown-menu-drop-down-selection?hosting=server&tab=overview) on the Marketplace.

Regards,  
Stephan (CEO of EPS Software Engineering AG, the vendor of the Easy Dropdown Menu)


author: Bill Bailey
body: Well I had to delete the multiple=true. Here is the code that worked

```
## @param Region:title=Region|type=enum|enumValues=India,Global,North America,Noida,Bangalore|default=India|desc=Choose your region
```

I did find this bug, it may be affecting more versions that listed: [CONFSERVER-51624](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51624)

comments: author: Suresh Sakhare
body: Hi [@Bill Bailey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502089) ,

Thanks for reply, Single select is working fine. I want to create multiselect field, where user can select more than one options.


author: Bill Bailey
body: Yeah, I think you have found a bug for your version. I would add a comment to that bug with your version.

I saw the same thing you saw -- the drop-down rendered as a text box.


Tags: user-macro
I cannot restore my backup files on company's confluence.
Asked by dunajj:

++**Background**++

Our company installed standalone confluence and jira on server computer. Unfortunatelt few days ago server computer was attacked by anonymous chinese hacker. Since then we cannot access our confluence. So, We decided to move cloud. But, We must access confluence in order to migrate server to cloud. ( to excute cloud backup tool). So, We formatted server computer and restore jira with backup files.(this was okay. works properly) But, we tried confluence with backfiles. Install process was okay. But, Just after Restoring with backup file. We cannot login to our confluence. Exact the same ID and password properly working on newly installed confluence. (Not restored by backup files)

When We use jira and confluence, we created IDs on Jira and linked them to confluence.

++**Version**++: confluence 6.11.2 server (maybe Not Sure)

++**What we have**++ **?**

Backup file (zip from regularly generated by confluence)

confluencedb Backup files (mysql (sql extension))

++**What we Need**++ **?**

1. We need to restore our confluence server and contents with backup file. (Now, We cannot login after restored by backup file.)

2. If there's some other way to directly migrate server backup file to cloud. Please let us know.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there Jin!

It is really a shame that your server has been hacked. This can halt an entire organization workflow! Glad to hear that you do have backups from a point prior to this hack.

As I understand this situation, login to the *Confluence Instance*is currently impossible. Also, it seems that you were managing your Confluence users through Jira, is that correct?

If we are unable to login into Confluence, we can try to *Restore The Password*of an administrator account:

* [***++Restore Passwords To Recover Admin User Rights++***](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html)

After you restore this password, you should be able to login to your instance. Further, would you be able to clarify a few points for us? Here they are:
> 1. Is there *any kind of error*thrown at you when you try to login into Confluence?
> 2. Are you *unable to login* regardless of *user being used*to do so?
> 3. Do you have a *full site XML backup*of Confluence or only the database one?

Here is a little more information on site XML backups:

* ***++[Site Backup and Restore](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/site-backup-and-restore-163578.html)++***
* ***++[Manually Backing Up the Site](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/manually-backing-up-the-site-152405.html)++***

Let us hear from you Jin. Looking forward to your reply!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Page History Slider is not working (security token was not present in the request)
Asked by Vincenzo Parrello:

Goodmorning all,

since a couple of day, the add-on "Page History Slider" is not working properly.

No matter witch page I select, when I select the option "History (Slider)" I get the message:

```
ERROR: Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request.?
You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page.
```

All pages in all spaces faces this issue. Is the add-on no more compatible with my confluence? If it still compatible with my confluence, what could this error be related to?

<br />

Add-on name: Page History Slider  
Add-on version: 1.3.1  
Add-on key: net.customware.confluence.page-history-slider  
Confluence version: 6.11.1

<br />

<br />

<br />


Answers:
author: Mike
body: I know this is an old question, but I had the same issue and found it to be incompatible with my version of Confluence.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Is there a macro that can allow users to insert a file without being in the edit function?
Asked by Matt McCorkle:

I am looking for a macro to be put within a UI Expand Macro that allows users to directly add a file without having to go through the edit function, add files and images, browse for the file, and then upload it. The goal behind this is to allow users to go into a space I've created and populate the page with all the files and data in the easiest fashion possible. Without a macro that can allow users to easily populate the page with their data, my work creating the space will be utterly useless. Would love some feedback as soon as possible. Thanks everyone!


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You can always upload to a page by simply dragging and dropping without being in edit mode or having an attachments macro on the page if you have edit access to the page.

But to add onto what [@Heth Siemer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1178715) has suggested you could put the attachment macro inside your expand macro and it will show all you attachments. If you wanted it to only show a subset ... say for instance you have multiple expand sections ... you could put attachment macros inside each expand and then limit the attachment macros by label. You could then upload the attachment, apply a label, and then it would show up in the correct expand macro. Unfortunately, a label-filtered attachments macro will not apply the labels when you drag and drop a file onto it. There is a feature request to have it do that, but as of yet it doesn't do that. So, you would have to do the labeling manually right now.


author: Heth Siemer
body: The attachments macro lets you drag \& drop files directly to the page.

![2019-06-19 11_16_00-Attachments - Chalk Test for Upgrade - CHALK.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/58141iB7B33B762B97FC27/image-dimensions/784x208?v=v2 "2019-06-19 11_16_00-Attachments - Chalk Test for Upgrade - CHALK.png")

Here's the Atlassian how-to: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/attachments-macro-97911315.html>