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WHITELIST ISSUES ON CONFLUENCE CLOUD 6.6.6 VERSION
Asked by Roja Gurram:

Hi All,

We have enabled the WHITELIST for some of the services like Sharepoint. Though we have access to the sharepoint it's saying that Permissions denied. And we are using the "HTML INCLUDE MACRO " with the help of this macro trying to fetch information from Sharepoint, GIT etc. What could we do in this case please? Any configuration do we have missed ?

Please leave your thoughts quite URGENT!


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Roja,

The whitelist/allowlist in Confluence controls which sites are allowed to bypass CORS protections (for incoming links) and which sites can be used in some macros such as the HTML include macro. This should let you embed unauthenticated content via the HTML macro.

One snag might be if your Sharepoint instance requires authentication. If you navigate directly to the library, you might be getting access to Sharepoint via NTLM authentication (at the Windows level) and don't realize there's an authentication flow happening. Depending on the setup of Sharepoint, it's possible the HTML embed macro isn't able to use the same passthrough authentication, and you're getting a permission error from Sharepoint. This would be something you'd need to investigate on the Sharepoint side.

Authentication like this can be a bit tricky. And once it's sorted, you still might not love the way that Sharepoint content is displayed in the HTML macro. For these reasons, I'd recommend having a look at [the Sharepoint apps on the Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=server&product=confluence&query=sharepoint). Many of these handle authentication for you, and usually offer ways to display libraries or content from Sharepoint a bit cleaner inside Confluence pages. Some even have features like two-way integration and search. Generally the experience will be better for users, and the setup will be less tricky for administrators and page creators.

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: Roja Gurram
body: Hi [Daniel Eads](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1527694),

Thanks for your response and providing clearer info.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to set up a variable
Asked by asd asd:

Hello everyone,

every time we set up a new page on confluence for a new release we copy the old one and change each Jira filter.

Is there a way to set up a variable/macro wich can be used to add a simple jql statement,

for example *"AND Release in (13.0, 13.1)" ,*

to other Macros/Filters?

So that we only have to change one the variable/macro each time.


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi Asd,

Natively you won't be able to do this. However, there are some plugins that are listed here that may help you: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Variables-in-JIRA-JQL-macro/qaq-p/1381620>

Regards


Tags: new-to-confluence
Is there a Confluence Macro that can add a JQL statement to additional jira filters ?
Asked by asd asd:

Every time we set up a new page on confluence for a new release we copy the old one and change its Jira filters.

Is there a macro wich can add a simple jql statement,

for example *"Release in (13.0, 13.1)" ,*

to the filters of other Macros ?

So that we only have to change one filter each time.


Answers:
author: Florian
body: Try PageTree Creator. It allows you to use variables that are being replaced like you may know it from templates. PTC brings a macro that can be wrapped around the original Jira macro. As the Jira macro needs valid JQL before it allows you to save it, you cannot work with placeholders directly. The wrapper takes everything without validation.

So it should look like this:

\[PTC Jira macro with JQL "project=MyProject AND release IN (__releaselist__)" \[Jira macro with some valid JQL\]\]

The inner JQL query will be replaced completely so it does not matter what you write here as long as it is valid. The outer macro will vaporize in the final page.


author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: I don't think that's possible (to have a filter which can be applied to all filter macros at the same time).

Workaround could be to open up the copied page with the source editor: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210722/confluence-source-editor?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210722/confluence-source-editor?hosting=server&tab=overview)

Search for all JQL queries and add / replace the desired releases

![jql.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/112967i2A50BD2525A719D9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "jql.png")

Alternatively I would work with the versions in Jira, e.g. just filter for unreleased versions.

3rd option could be to just reference the filter in your JQL queries, e.g. filter = '10100' . That would at least save you a tiny bit of time.


Tags: confluence-server

jira

jql
Data interface summary with references to documents
Asked by Kirby:

I have eCommerce project/s, with tons of documents, some of them related to integrations, some of them works on backend level only, some of them related to frontend/storefront.

Within all this mess, I want to have clear picture, where an attribute is used.

We have FSD for frontend part, and ISD for integration layer, TSD for backend

Let's say target data attributes mentioned in page:

* ++ISD - Stripe payment++
* ++FSD - Banner System++

I want to have a data summary, similar like following:

\| entity \| attribute \| area \| documents \|

\| customer \| super_id \| FSD, ISD \| ++Stripe payment++ , ++Banner System++ ++\|++

Are there any options to make it?


Answers:
author: JiraJared
body: You could try a page properties report macro - allows you to automatically list multiple pages based on tags and show a summary of each page on one page.


Tags: confluence-server

property

server
Access Confluence by Domain
Asked by Christopher Barnofsky:

Hi Atlassian Team,

I have installed Confluence and JIRA on my own Virtual Server. Everything works fine and I can access both installations by the IP:PORT.

Now I want to access them by two subdomains (confluence.domain.com + jira.domain.com) I have created especially for this case, but I have no idea how to link the subdomains with the ports.

Maybe with a SRV record? Maybe a complete different way?

Can you please support me.

Last information:

- I'm using JIRA and Confluence on an Linux (Ubuntu) Server with Plesk

- my Webhoster is Ionos

Thank you very much in advance and best regards,

Chris


Answers:
author: Pritam Kumar
body: [@Christopher Barnofsky](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4111734)Welcome!

There are two important step here,

1. Mapping both APP.domain.com to IP address of server.
   1. After doing this you will be able to use APP.domain.com:PORT to access both Jira and Confluence.
2. **Setup reverse proxy**
   1. You can use some reverse proxy server for example (Nginx or Apache HTTPD) and run it on default HTTP port (80) on server which has Jira and Confluence installed.
   2. Later, you can create virtual host for both Jira and Confluence to redirect to their respective local port.
   3. You can find this documented here,
      * <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/configure-jira-server-to-run-behind-a-nginx-reverse-proxy-426115340.html>
      * <https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/proxying-atlassian-server-applications-with-apache-http-server-mod_proxy_http-806032611.html>

Bonus - once your reverse proxy is set, you can block traffic on both Jira and Confluence port from external source and allow localhost only.

I hope this helps.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Is it possible document dynamic import?
Asked by ???:

The word document dynamic import is too ambiguous, Here's what I'm trying to do.

I have dozens of documents and these documents have a common section.

Because this section is commonly used in all documents, if there are any modifications to this section, we will have to modify all documents.

In adoc, if I import another document, it will automatically be reflected in all documents when I modify the imported document.  

Is there a way for Confluence to import other documents similar to adoc, and to reflect them in all documents when there is a revision in them?  

Thank you.


Answers:
author: ???
body: oh, I'm stupid

I was able to do what I wanted using Insert the include page macro.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to import Word document with pictures?
Asked by Alex S:

I tried to import Word document as a new page.

All pictures lost.

How can I import a document with embedded pictures, drawings, graphs?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Alex S](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4111334) !

I tried to replicate the behavior you are experiencing but was unable to do so.

If I import word files as new pages, the images are correctly displayed. The error (lost images) comes up if I use the option to replace the existing page, like what is described here:
> * [*++**\[Confluence Cloud\] Image not displayed during Import using Replace option**++*](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68871)

With the behavior described in the ticket above, I would like to ask you a few questions:
> 1. *What file type is used in your word file? (doc or docx files)*
> 2. *How many images do you have in your word file?*
> 3. *What is the image format"(png, jpg, gif)*
> 4. *Are you still being affected by it?*

Let us hear from you!

comments: author: Alex S
body: I found that problem happens if Word drawing tools were used when creating the document: Drawing Canvas, textbox, lines, callouts ...


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
PDF export format user mention
Asked by Filip:

Hi!

I have confluence page that contains users mentioned with '@'. I am exporting this page to PDF, and my name is styled in differend way (it has got the blue background color). Could you, please, help me, how to style all user mentions equally?

Mentions in my confluence page have weird css selectors:

**- sc-cGDfzg**

**- dxCfSB** for my mention or **dxwBDt**for another user mention

and configuring them doesn't work in PDF stylesheet settings

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Filip](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3369943) !

The behavior that you noticed is the expected behavior of the mentions in Confluence. The mentions will always be differently styled to show the current user (if mentioned) highlighted. I tried to style it using different classes names, such as:
> * *Current-user-mention (from the source view of the page)*
> * *mentionView-content-wrap (from the editing screen)*
> * *ifvbZX (from the view screen)*

The stylesheet customisations did not affect the mention macro because it is not one of the classes specified in the confluencedefaultpdf.css class.

You can check more details here:
> * ++***[\[Confluence Cloud\] Advanced PDF export customizations](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/advanced-pdf-export-customizations/)***++
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] confluencedefaultpdf.css***++](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/files/724764825/724764826/1/1427771626612/confluencedefaultpdf.css)

Let us hear from you!

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

Thank you for your answer :)

So, if I understand correctly, there is no way to customize style of user mention in generated PDF file?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
CSS issues with fresh installation of Confluence 7.6.0
Asked by Saxon Mailey:

Hi All,

Just installed a fresh version of confluence using the inbuilt DB and straight away there are page formatting issues. looking at the dev tools in chrome I can see that batch.css is not loading correctly, which explains why the page looks like a HTML page from the 80s :)

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the product thinking this was maybe a freak issue but I have the same problem again.

I have searched the install and data dirs for batch.css however this file does not exist.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: [@Saxon Mailey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4110050) Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

With information you have provided it is pretty difficult to predict about issue. Here are few questions that might help in better diagnosis,

1. What OS you are dealing with?
2. Did you see any error in Confluence logs (located inside Confluence Home)?
3. What browser you are using and have you tried it with different browser (along with cache clear etc)?

Now coming to batch.css,

* There are multiple batch resources in Confluence
* Batch doesn't tell that which file, it is cumulative resource file generated.

comments: author: Saxon Mailey
body: Hi There,

OS is RHEL8

Logs:

/opt/application-data/confluence/logs/atlassian-confluence.log - this log isn't showing anything when i load the home page of confluence, id does show periodic info but this is more related to scheduled tasks.

Looking through the log the only errors I can see are trying to connect to the marketplace.

Saxon


author: Saxon Mailey
body: ok interestingly this is only happening in chrome... Just fired up firefox and it looks good. (little embarrassed I didn't try this before)

Will have a closer look and post what I find


author: DPKJ
body: Take your time.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence Server in Docker - Tomcat config not generated
Asked by cyphern:

Hey Everybody,

I am having some trouble setting up the confluence server via the official docker image. I am setting the environmental variables as described on Docker Hub, but I am getting the same error everytime:

**Tomcat config is incorrect**

The Tomcat server.xml has an incorrect configuration:

**scheme** should be '\<recommended scheme\>'  
**proxyName** should be '\<recommended proxyName\>'  
**proxyPort** should be '\<recommended proxyPort\>'

I am aware of the cause of the problem but i am not understanding why this is happening. I have set up jira before a lot of times and the server.xml is getting generated correctly. I have checked the server.xml file inside the container and there is no connector defined there, which is the root cause of the problem. From setting up jira, i am used to this getting auto-generated with the environmental variables.

Is this not the case with confluence?

What am i missing here?

I am setting the following env variables with the appropriate values:

ATL_PROXY_NAME, ATL_PROXY_PORT, ATL_TOMCAT_SCHEME

Thanks in advance and best regards


Answers:
author: Dennis Ma
body: I know this is a year late... but I found this to be the answer for my setup:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/SOLVED-Docker-error-behind-NGINX/qaq-p/1353626>

Editing the /opt/atlassian/etc/server.xml.j2 file

So that the scheme, proxyname and proxy port contains relevant information.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence is slow
Asked by Alex Laurent:

Hello.  

I've just remade my roadmap 3 times using Roadmap planner.

Yes 3 fucking times. And guess what, 3 times when i clicked on "Insert" (because yes when updating an existing Roadmap the button is called "insert" but whatever), it just lost everything? and like no draft nothing, it just doesn't save shit.  

Like seriously, I wouldn't expect any software to not bug trust me, but like this is a wiki...what else there is to do but saving one's page edits?!  

And since this piece of garbage is slow as hell, I'm really wondering what is your server CPU doing if not saving my stuff?! Are you guys mining bitcoins? How old is confluence to be that unreliable?  

So many questions.  

Anyway, that's it, I just wanted to highlight this, I don't expect any solution or anything, I don't care at this point, good night everyone.


Answers:
author: Alexander Bondarev
body: Hi, [@Alex Laurent](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/11535) !

It's a pity you had to face difficulties and remake your work several times.

Could you describe your actions in more detail, preferably with step-by-step screenshots.  
I'll try to play it myself and then I'll raise the request to Atlassian Support. We can try to fix everything with you, don't worry.


author: John Frian
body: Confluence is indeed slow, and I'm sharing this sentiment that I do not like confluence even a little.

Anything I press leads to waiting time and full switch in interface, as in a lot of the screen has to show something else now. I'm really confused about "home page" vs "child page" vs "parent page". Do I have to "Move" every document I want put under another? How do I make a parent page?

Trying to figure out all of this is a pain when every click leads to a 4-8 second waiting time.

Right now I would rather make my own document system so I won't have to sit around being confused and getting annoyed at every single click.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Access the site
Asked by Liron Katz:

Hey community

I'm on the free plan.

I'm trying to understand what should I define within the settings in order to only enable the access of users who got invitations from me.

Is that possible using the free plan?

Not able to fully understand the settings in this page:

<https://admin.atlassian.com/s/b8e46fb9-9239-4015-9155-f498bec7db9a/signup>

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Jimmy Seddon
body: Hi [@Liron Katz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4107932),

Welcome to the Community!

All of those setting are described in the documentation link on that page, which you can find here:   
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/specify-how-users-get-site-access-744721636.html>

For what you want to do, I would make sure you set the following:

* don't approve any domains
* new users can't request access
* Don't check the "Existing users can send invitations to anyone"
* Don't enable invite links

Then, from the "Users" page you can use the "Invite users" button in the top right of the page to send invitation to only the users you wish to give access to.

I hope that helps!

-Jimmy

comments: author: Liron Katz
body: Thank you so much Jimmy, this was super helpful!

Have a great day!

Liron


author: Daniel Alonso
body: [@Jimmy Seddon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/512822) I also am in the Free plan playing around with the tool, I have selected the 'Existing users can send invitations to anyone' but I tested out with an existing user and I don't see the option to invite new users, but I see the option when I set the existing user as 'Trusted user', is that the intended behavior or am I doing something wrong?

<br />

Thanks!


author: Jimmy Seddon
body: Hi [@Daniel Alonso](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3965709),

Yes that is expected only organization admins (site admins if they still exist in your instance) and users who have been granted the "Trusted User" access will be capable of inviting users.

I'm at a different company now from when I originally posted that answer and I do not have the ability to invite users anymore.

I'm a Jira Application Admin, but I'm no longer an Organization Admin or a Trusted User.

I hope that helps!

-Jimmy


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
changing page title breaks link
Asked by Jeff Brower:

I need to fix a mis-spelling for this wiki page:

<https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/API+Sub-committee>

But if I change the page title (remove the hyphen) it will break external links to the page. Is there a way to create an alias for a page, so that existing links still bring up the page ?

Thanks, Jeff


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: You are in luck. There used to be a redirect page macro as part of the standard package. Atlassian dropped it for some reason. But someone has a free replacement in the Marketplace:

[page-redirect-for-confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219235/page-redirect-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

There is another version that is free on server, but paid on Cloud

[redirection-for-confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/183/redirection-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

comments: author: Jeff Brower
body: Bill, thanks. I requested page-redirect-for-confluence and a dialog came up saying a request has submitted to my admin to make it available. How will I know the status ... by e-mail ... continue to check the available wiki macros ... other ?

Thanks.

-Jeff


author: Bill Bailey
body: Contact your admin for your instance. Admin privileges are needed to install any plugin.


Tags: wiki
How do you exit a code block, with the keyboard?
Asked by Leon Katz:

I'm done pasting code into a code block, how do I exit the code block and move to the next line with just the keyboard?


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi [@Leon Katz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4110382) , welcome to the Community!

In the Confluence Cloud editor, you can escape from a code block by pressing the down arrow on your keyboard while on the last line in the code block. This will pop your cursor out of the code block and put it on a newline (if there's no content under the code block already - otherwise it will go to the content).

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: Gurmeet Singh
body: Hi [@Daniel Eads](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1527694) ,

This thing does not work while i am working on MAC Machine. It works on Windows.

IS there some other Key that i need to use on MAC.


author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi [@Gurmeet Singh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4217455) - this applies to code blocks in the new editing experience in Confluence Cloud. I am personally on a Mac and was able to do this successfully at the time this answer was posted in the latest version of Chrome.

Sorry to hear you're having trouble now! Can I ask:

1. What browser are you using on your Mac?
2. Is there anything different about how you're using the Mac, for example, are you working over a remote screen session?
3. Can you confirm that the page you're editing is using the new editing experience? On the edit page, the Publish button is at the **top** of the screen in the **new experience** , whereas in the legacy editor it is at the **bottom**of the screen.

Thanks!  
Daniel


author: Ollie Roberts
body: I have a similar question. How do I exit to the right of the \`code block\` --\> to continue typing outside it?


author: Ferenc_Gyenezs
body: When you want to "exit out" from the code block, press the right arrow at the end of your current block, or click at the end of your current line. The annoying part is that there isn't any visual indication **at the cursor** that you just left the code block. But the text editing toolbar will change:

* inside the code block: Bold and Italic buttons are disabled, 3 dots are highlighted
* outside of the code block: Bold and Italic buttons are active, 3 dots are not highlighted anymore

Win10 / Firefox


author: Ollie Roberts
body: Yes, you are right, thank you. I can now see that annoying part you reference. Thank you for pointing that out!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I change the border color in a table?
Asked by Jeff Guthrie:

I'm using a table just to help line up images and text, but I really don't want it to look like a table. How do I get rid of the borders or set the border color to white?


Answers:
author: Niranjan
body: Hi ,

This discussion may help - <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-you-get-rid-of-Confluence-table-gridlines/qaq-p/220493>


Tags: atl-gruland

confluence-server

server