youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Page Properties Report Sum/Total
Asked by Marinda:

A similar question was asked 2 years ago: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-any-way-to-sum-numbers-in-a-column-from-a-page/qaq-p/146405> but I want to see if anyone has any new news.

We love the Page Properties Report because it can create useful dashboards. However, our dashboard would be even more useful if the numbers in the Report could be summed up (to show total funding, for example - see numbers in red on the bottom on the attached image). I don't know enough about coding to write my own macro to do this - anyone know of anything?

Using Confluence Server 6.9.1. Thank you!

![Capture 2.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37516iCEC9E0C2387B28B3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture 2.png")


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

You can use [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) macro with [Total row](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/Managing+Look+of+the+Table+and+Filtration+Pane#ManagingLookoftheTableandFiltrationPane-OutputtingTotalsforcolumns) feature set to get totals for columns.

comments: author: Marinda
body: Thank you so much Andrey! I totally missed this feature in my previous Table Filter \& Charts research.

For anyone who is interested, here are some screenshots of the results and how to get there. I tested this on the [Table Filter and Charts demo site](https://demo.stiltsoft.com/display/tblfilter/Table+Filter+and+Charts+Demo).![macro user side.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37756iA68B8A18D9484907/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "macro user side.PNG")![macro behind the scenes.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37757i07EBE61255498342/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "macro behind the scenes.PNG")![Filter macro Edit.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37758iDCD2C743A4A2F4B6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Filter macro Edit.PNG")


author: Chris
body: Does anyone know if this is possible without purchasing a macro from the marketplace?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Search Button not opening field completely
Asked by Kristian Wells:

The button activates, the search field slides out and immediately disappears. This has happened with at least two different accounts for the same company account.


Answers:
author: Kristian Wells
body: I would also suggest allowing the site in any adblock or popup blocker extensions you may have active.


author: Kristian Wells
body: I believe it is due to a popup blocker in Chrome. I was able to allow the site by going into Chrome settings / Privacy and Security / Content Settings / Popups and Redirects and adding our Atlassian root URL to the allow list.


author: Marc Hanley
body: Can confirm this is also affecting our Confluence Cloud instance.

EDIT: Nevermind, looks like this was just fixed?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Issues with searching for text within PDF attachment
Asked by Angelina Cordaro:

Hello,

I am having trouble searching for text within an attached PDF doc. Could this have something to do with the document previously being a PNG file? Thank you!


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Yes. If the PDF was created from an image then there is no text actually in the PDF and hence you don't get anything in search results. I believe in Acrobat Pro there is an option to do OCR on the image and store a text rendition along with the pdf for search-ability. It stores it hidden in the PDF and should be indexed by the search engine.

comments: author: Angelina Cordaro
body: Makes sense, thank you Davin!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to bootstrap a Confluence application link integration?
Asked by Michael Hoagland:

I'm trying to get an application link up and running. I've read over the OAuth 2 documentation and have the type, alg, iss, and other claims, but I'm stuck. In trying to add where my application lives as an application link, I get an error and no more information that seems required by OAuth. Further, the iss claim I'm supposed to send is a Confluence issued app key. How do I get this key? How do I get the Confluence secret?

This leads to other questions such as the authentication handshake. I've not been able to find info on the nature or payloads involved. Is this different from requesting a JWT?

The whole mutual authentication part seems very opaque. Also, documentation seems stale depending on where you come in which is understandable with a platform history like Atlassian's but is frustrating nonetheless. Has anyone successfully integrated apps with app links?

This is for a custom integration for my environment with Confluence Cloud.


Answers:
author: Dario B
body: Application links are used to integrate Atlassian applications among each other. This is also mentioned on the top of the documentation page:

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/using-applinks-to-link-to-other-applications-779295829.html>

> This page refers to application links between Atlassian products only. For more info about links to third-party apps, check out [Jira Rest API OAuth Authentication](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-oauth-authentication/).

The link quoted above is for Jira, but it is enough to change the endpoints in the examples from https://HOST/ to https://HOST/wiki to have them working for Confluence Cloud as well.

For the rest, the documentation explaining how to integrate with Confluence Cloud is available at: <https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/integrating-with-confluence-cloud/>

Finally, in case of further issues, it may be a good idea to actually ask your questions in the developers community or to log a ticket in ecosystem (in case of any bug):

* <https://community.developer.atlassian.com/>
* <https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/14>


Tags: application-link

atl-adm

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to change the owner of an article?
Asked by Anna Bayliss:

We have articles which have past employee's names as owners and it would be great to update these to current people responsible  
- is this possible??

Thanks Anna


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: The only way I know how to do this in Cloud would be to do an XML export of the data. Then edit the XML and re-import it back in. It can be a hairy process and is not without risk.

comments: author: Anna Bayliss
body: OK - I think I will create new articles and archive the old ones with out of date owners


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Which JIRA Issues are being used in Confluence for a specific Project?
Asked by Calvin Senteza:

I want to know for a specific Project within JIRA which of its issues are being used within an Application Linked Confluence and on what space/page they are being used. Is this something I can do within JIRA/Confluence?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you have ScriptRunner for Jira you can use this JQL

```
issueFunction in linkedIssuesOfRemote("application name", "{Your Confluence Application Link Name}") AND project = {Your Project Key}
```

comments: author: Calvin Senteza
body: Worked perfectly! just had to remove brackets and insert into JQL search bar, I appreciate the help, Davin.


author: Davin Studer
body: Glad that worked for you.


Tags: confluence-server

jira

jira-server

server
Navigating to a Particular Section/Paragraph on a Page Based on Search Results
Asked by Tyler Brown:

Hey Community.

I've been looking into this use case and haven't been able to find any solutions as of yet.

Our particular use case is this:

* A user searches for a particular word/phase
* The user can then navigate to the particular paragraph on the page where that particular word/phase is located

Looking to make it easier for users to navigate directly to a particular word/phrase rather than having to search again on the page.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Tyler


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello, Tyler!

I just wanted to let you know that I created a feature request for this exact thing below:

* [CONFSERVER-54996](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54996) *Ability to jump to exact line referenced in search results*

It would help if you can vote on that to help show the interest for such a feature. Please also comment there with your usage case to help to understand how the feature should be implemented.

One more thing, we have another feature request you might be interested in here:

* [CONFSERVER-6174](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-6174) *Search terms should be highlighted in pages*

There are [a few third party add-ons that deal with search in Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=search). I'm not very familiar with them, but they might be worth checking out in case one of them helps with your requirement.

I hope this helps!

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
How can I add a Confluence user manually?
Asked by Paul Hands:

I want to set up a licensed user who doesn't have an email address. All help answers show a possibility of manually adding a user, but I cannot see any way to this. I am a sys admin.


Answers:
author: Miks Veltmanis (Mike)
body: This seems to be available only for non-cloud hosted versions


author: Bill Bailey
body: You should be able to add a user manually, but they have to have an email address. Otherwise, they are never accessible to the system (found out when the email address was left off a record).


author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Paul,

Hope this documentation will help.  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/add-users-and-set-permissions-792498553.html>

Victor


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Usergroup with access can't open space
Asked by Lars:

I have a problem with one space.

I created a space for internal things. The groups "adminstrators and site-admins" got access.

Now I want, that a new employee get access to this space. So i changed the group of her account from confluence-user to administrators.

When she tries to open the space, she have to request for access. I receive an email with this request.

After clicking on this link, i can't grant access and she still can't open the space.

Also I tried to give her permissions via "Individual User" section. But it is the same problem here.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Lars,

Can you show us how your current permissions look like on the space and the pages she's trying to access?

Please also share the global permissions you have set up currently.

Thank you!

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

permission
List of pages that I'm watching
Asked by Jena Yuen:

Is there a way to receive a list of pages that I'm watching? I can see notifications regarding pages that I'm watching and edits page to those pages. I would like to be able to navigate to a list of all pages that I'm watching.

Thanks for your help!

Best,

Jena


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: In cloud go to Profile picture -\> Settings. On the page it takes you to there will be a Watches tab.

comments: author: Wireball MacCarter
body: Thank you - that got me to the right area. Looks like they've buried it a bit further now - under Profile picture -\> manage Settings -\> Notifications tab.


author: Slava Gefen
body: Thanks, it helped!


author: Jena Yuen
body: Hi [@Jena Yuen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2282178),

Yes, you will be able to check the list of watches that you are watching. Navigate to your profile section and check for the watches section.

![community3.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37490i3334035281BE6307/image-dimensions/265x148?v=v2 "community3.PNG")

Thanks,

Sravya

comments: author: Jena Yuen
body: Hi @\[deleted\]

Thanks for your response. I do not have the same layout as your screenshot. I am using Atlassian Cloud. On my notifications icon, I can see the updates and changes made to the pages I'm watching; however, there is no icon for "Watches."

My profile icon is at the bottom of the page.

Best,

Jena


author: Nicki Repici
body: Hi,

I'm not sure which version/platform you're using for Confluence, but in 6.11 server, you can do the following:

Select your icon \> Watches.

A list of all spaces and pages you're watching will display here.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to hide content author name (created by) in a Mobile page
Asked by Olga Sachenko:

Following documentation in <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-hide-content-author-name-created-by-in-a-page-701600769.html> we have hidden author names for our confluence pages.

However, it turns out that mobile view is not affected.

Please let me know how can we make "Confluence Mobile Plugin" adhere to the CSS styles of the page.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Olga,

It's not yet possible, but there's a feature request for it below:

* [CONFSERVER-41149](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-41149) *Ability to Customise CSS Stylesheet for Confluence Mobile*

Please vote on the request in order to show how many users are interested in such a feature, and comment there with your usage case.

Thank you!

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
Always Display every child Page on Sidebar in Confluence in all Spacey by default
Asked by Christian Genette:

Hi, in Confluence, the Sidebar shows like this:

![wrong.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37467i986798E06CC49C39/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "wrong.jpg")

I always want to expand the whole tree by default in every Space, like this:

![right.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37468i9A71733A0C419709/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "right.jpg")

Is there any way to realize that?

Thanks, Chris


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Are you sure? What about spaces with several 100 pages... Did you try out the Page Tree option instead of the child pages:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37479iC259E2F1A8246E23/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Christian Genette
body: Hi, thank you for your answer. Yes, as a member of IT-Support I recommended that to our customer, but this is not his request unfortunately.

Maybe there is a solution to restrict the collapse to \~20 child-entrys?

Thanks,

Chris


Tags: expand

side-bar
Link to a page in another space subset or specific content
Asked by Chimakurthi Krishna:

Currently, we can link only pages and not a selected content inside the page. I have multiple pages and some context information is duplicated on every page. Changes are forced to apply in all pages. Is there any we can link specific content from the same page or another page? once we make changes in the master space it should automatically update in all linked pages.

Eg :

Page 1 has "employee information" in text format and table format.

Page 2 and page 3 is to be linked "employee information" from page 1.

Changes automatically to apply, when changes applied to "employee information" on page 1.


Answers:
author: Chimakurthi Krishna
body: I managed to add the grid and pictures.

Thanks.


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: You may have a look at the [Excerpt](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-macro-148062.html) and [Excerpt Include Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-include-macro-148067.html). These allow you to include parts of another page. There is also the [Include Page Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/include-page-macro-139514.html) which will include the whole page (in case your topics are small).

The excerpt macros provided by Confluence only deal with single inclusions. If you require multi-excerpt features for your use cases, there are [third-party products on the Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=multi-excerpt).
SSL issue on confluence 6.11
Asked by Dhanesh Balakrishna:

Hi All,

We are seeing below error message in our logs confluence and it keeps appearing everyday.

"Confluence Quicknav Gadget displays "gadget-quicknav-search" as default search value"

Below link says it is due to an SSL error.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-quicknav-gadget-displays-gadget-quicknav-search-as-default-search-value-794372434.html>

SSL is working fine for us, we use .pfx store instead of javastore. Also we have checked our rootCA certificate is available in \<confluencehome\>\\jre\\lib\\security\\cacerts. Do we need to import intermediateCA also ?

Can anybody please help to fix this issue ?

Many Thanks,

DhaneshB


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Dhanhesh,

Yes, you will want to have a look at this article to resolve your issue:

* [Unable to Connect to SSL Services due to PKIX Path Building Failed](https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/unable-to-connect-to-ssl-services-due-to-pkix-path-building-failed-779355358.html)

If you walk through the steps of this article, your SSL issue should be resolved.

Can you give it a try and let us know how it goes?

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
Deleting Unused Pages
Asked by Mukka Vishnupriya:

How can I delete Unused pages in order to free up space. Is their any other alternative to Script Runner to delete the pages which are not using by users since long back.


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: How to you define an "unused page"? There is a wiki gardener addon (free) which is pretty useful for this kind of stuff.

comments: author: Mukka Vishnupriya
body: yes I have gone through. Thank you


author: Krishnanand Nayak
body: you could write a powershell script using ConfluencePS module

[https://atlassianps.org/module/ConfluencePS/](https://atlassianps.org/module/ConfluencePS/?)

comments: author: Mukka Vishnupriya
body: The link you have provided shows an 404 error page. Could you please provide me the working one.


author: Krishnanand Nayak
body: did you try copy pasting the URL in the browser?


author: Mukka Vishnupriya
body: yes Now I got it, Thank you and Can I use Confluence-CLI to delete multiple spaces at a time?


author: Krishnanand Nayak
body: yes


author: Mukka Vishnupriya
body: Is their different kinds of Confluence applications. I didn't understand the concept of On Demand? Could you please say me how I can know it is Confluence-On Demand?


author: Krishnanand Nayak
body: Who maintains the conflunce instance for you? if you have in house server then its Server Edition else its cloud (old school On-Demand)


author: Mukka Vishnupriya
body: okay Thanks a lot.


author: Mukka Vishnupriya
body: Hi Krishnanand Nayak,

Regarding deleting spaces in bulk,I am not getting exactly how to pass those hundreds of spaces in a query to delete them at once.

Could you please suggest me the way to pass huge number of spaces.


Tags: confluence-server

server
System error occurs when I want to edit a page
Asked by Nicole Pollack:

Hi,

we run into an error randomly but more often when people want to edit a Confluence page they own and just saved. When click on "edit" this error message shows up. Does anyone know what happens here? Our workaround is to copy that page. Then the new page is editable.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37446i407DF3B93E262636/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Answers:
author: Paul Pasler
body: Is this the same error as described here? <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Unable-to-edit-or-delete-page/qaq-p/625416>

comments: author: Nicole Pollack
body: Hi [@Paul Pasler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/783245), thanks for the link. Yes looks like the same. I'll try follow hints and instructions from there.


Tags: confluence-server

server
As site admin I?m not able to change permission to specific space
Asked by Matus_Tomana:

Im in role site-admin, but I?m not able to manage permissions to specific space. As admin, I should be able to manage restrictions on each space, page or sub-page.


Answers:
author: Supreet
body: Ideally, site-admins are able to maintain the Cloud site - mostly users, which are shared across the applications that make up the site.

The most likely reason why you still can't see the spaces is that you do not have permission to view them and need to recover it. Go to Manage Permissions for that space, and recover permission.

I recommend going through the [Permissions and Restrictions Knowledge Article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/permissions-and-restrictions-724765432.html), as it explains the types of permissions available in Confluence, how they affect one another, and how they can be managed.

Good Luck!

Cheers,

Supreet Kaur


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Remove clickable URL from Code Block
Asked by Andreas:

When entering URLs in a code block, the URL is clickable when viewed on a Confluence page. This is in many cases very unfortunate, as the URLs are meant to be copied, not executed. I can see no cases where you actually want a clickable URL inside a code snippet.


Answers:
author: Paul Pasler
body: Is this Confluence Cloud or Server? On server I can't reproduce the described behavior, urls are not linked at all.

Nevertheless this seems to be more of feature-request for the code block macro.

comments: author: Andreas
body: Confluence Cloud, as indicated in tags. Thanks for the input for the Server version!

It sounds odd that the functionality of the code block macro should differ between Cloud and Server.

I regard this as a bug in the code block macro on Cloud rather than a feature request.


author: David Simerly
body: I have the same problem...on the server version. Is there perhaps a server setting to disable this behavior?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how to customize Atlassian Companion MSI
Asked by Stefan_Tolksdorf:

I would like to distribute the AtlassianCompanion.msi with parameters for setting up the trusted domain within. Is there any way?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Stefan,

Not that I am aware of; I checked with the development team and they agreed it would be a useful feature request.

I've raised this below here:

* [CONFSERVER-57525](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-57525)

Please comment there with your usage case and any other uses you could think of for such a feature, and vote in order to show your support!

Thank you,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server