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JIRA project reports on Confluence page
Asked by Agata Szybowska:

Hello all,

I am trying to achieve something, that I thought will be simple, but not only I can't do it, I can't even find any information on it with help of uncle google.

I have a page in confluence on which I am tring to include a specific report from JIRA. You know, in JIRA when you click on a project you have a reports link, where you can generate several reports. I have a custom one creating traceability matrix, which is pretty cool and all the info neede to generate it is kept in the URL, so I can just use that URL and send it over. But I would like that table to be included directly in the Confluence page (and updated real-time as well).

Anyone, anything?


Answers:
author: mindpixel
body: Hi Agata,

have you made any progress regarding your issue? I have a similiar problem, but I would like to embed third-party reports. I've tried using the [HTML-Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/HTML+Include+Macro "HTML-Macro"), but it didnt work - Jira requires login, and I dont know how to pass current user/pw.


author: Agata Szybowska
body: Hello Deividi and thank you for your reply.

I am no expert in the systesm, but from what I have learnt, the JIRA reports blueprint allow only for list of issues or pie charts, while the JQL within Jira Issues list allows me to list all linked issues - so it kind of shows coverage, but it is not exactly traceability matrix. Also, the linked issues are displayed without a direct link and I do not know the way to display execution status of a linked test...


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Can't you just create that custom report via JQL or calling it using the JIRA report blue print in Confluence?

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Report+Blueprint)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Report+Blueprint>  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support
What happens with diagramly diagrams after upgrading to confluence 5.5?
Asked by Dieter Retter:

I want to upgrade to confluence 5.5. However I dont't know yet if we will purchase the new draw.io for confluence. What happens with the old diagramly things then? Will they be lost or are they just not changeable anymore?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: The data is retained in any case. If you upgrade to draw.io from Diagramly there is full backwards compatibility, nothing is lost, everything can still be editted.


author: Timothy
body: The add ons data should still remain after the upgrade.

comments: author: Boris
body: It should be noted that diagrams are not actually treated as add-on data. The are attachments of the page. Upgrading/removing the plugin does not touch the attachments in any way.


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly

confluence-administration
Limiting the decision register on a page subtree?
Asked by Andreas M?hlhausen:

Hi,

Is it possible to limit the decision register to the decisions in a particular subtree? I.e. I want to have multiple decision registers in one space, with a different set of decisions. Having an global space wide decision register additionally would be nice too.

I just do not want to create a space for each decision set, because the structure of the decision sets does somtimes not match our intended space structure.


Answers:
author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi Andreas,

Our Add-on Page Tree Creator works a bit different than the Confluence blueprints / templates. The PTC-templates are based on normal confluence pages. So you can build different PTC-templates to fulfill your needs.We also will add the possibility to add labels when the page is created over a PTC-Button.

Try our [**Live Examples**](https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PEPSMarktExample/Marketplace+Examples) (no registration needed).

**[Marketplace link: Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)**.

Regards,  
Stephan


author: Hanju
body: It's not available.

I found the related issue. It is still OPEN.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29499>
Can you and if so how do you edit the Team Calendars macro?
Asked by Daniel Sandbecker:

If I insert the Team Calendar macro I'm given the option to select what calendar to include, and then the hover-menu lets me chose to edit the macro, toggle between month/week/list/timeline view, add another calendar or remove the macro.

But clicking Edit does nothing.

I'm looking for options such as using the correct time format (as the default doesn't pick my global setting).

Is there any settings available under the Edit menu? If so why can't I get to them?


Answers:
author: Daniel Sandbecker
body: This was a bug in the OnDemand instance/version I was using. I opened a support case that caused a [bug ticket](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-2323) being filed and it seems to be working now.


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Can you send a screenshot of the moment you are trying toe dit?

I want to better udnerstand your scenario :).

Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: Daniel Sandbecker
body: In the context of the (retina double sized) screen shot below, the edit button does nothing. If I click it, the hover-toolbar disappears, but the blue selection of the macro remains. It doesn't seem to matter which calendar view I'm using. I don't know if there are any unreachable settings behind it, but if not the button is only confusing.:calendar:

I was primarily looking for possibilities to limit the number of entries list view, and the time format in month or week view.


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Strange, I did not hit that behaviour, could you please let me know the Confluence version and the team calendars version?


author: Daniel Sandbecker
body: This is Confluence OnDemand, the About Confluence entry in the help menu shows:

### Confluence 5.5-OD-22-001 {#toc-hId-1155333932}

I'm not sure where/if I can determine the version of Team Calendars?

(Also, I'm on Safari Version 7.0.3 (9537.75.14) on OS X 10.9.2. Haven't had any troubles with the other widgets though.)


author: Deividi Luvison
body: In that case I suggest you to open a support case to onDemand support team so they can further troubleshoot what is going on.


author: Daniel Sandbecker
body: Thank you Deividi,

I've opened the support case.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Can subdomains be used in crowd across components as long as they're in a common domain?
Asked by Matt Ingenthron:

If I have, for example...

Crowd at [http://www.example.com/crowd\<br\< a=""\>\>Jira at](http://www.example.com/crowd%3Cbr)<http://www.example.com/issues>  
Confluence-A at <http://www.example.com/wiki>  
Confluence-B at <http://confluence.internal.example.com>[](http://www.example.com/crowd)

And I have it set up with .example.com the domain for SSO, should everything work?

At the moment, I'm finding the ones at .internal.example.com seem to auth, and even get their cookies in the .example.com domain, but there is no SSO when going to one of the others. The same login credentials work, but one must re-login.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Matt, Crowd SSO depends on creating a cookie in your browser and cookies can't be created with more than one domain, so SSO won't work across domains. You should set the domain cookie in Crowd according to the example in this [doc](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Domain).

I hope it helps.

Cheers

comments: author: Matt Ingenthron
body: There is a common domain though. See my question above. Both ".internal.example.com" and ".example.com" are in the .example.com domain, so if the cookie is set there, the browser sends it to both.I later learned this is possible with upgrades to crowd and confluence. Earlier versions didn't handle cookies properly (IMHO).


Tags: confluence-administration

crowd

sso
Unable to setup Confluence Questions
Asked by Michael Juliano:

I began a trial of Confluence Questions for my Atlassian OnDemand subscription, but I've been unable to set it up.

I go to the Manage Add-ons section of Confluence Admin, expand Confluence Questions Plugin, and click the Get Started button which brings me to a page that says:  

**Not Permitted**You are not permitted to perform this operation.

I try clicking on the Documentation button under the Confluence Questions Plugin section, and I get taken to a page that says:  

We are currently experiencing difficulties.  
Visit our status page for more information.

The status page shows all services are green.

Additionally, any links related to the Confluence Questions Documentation bring me to the "experiencing difficulties" page.

I'm under the impression this shouldn't be behaving this way, but I don't really know what to do about it.


Answers:
author: Michael Juliano
body: Apparently, I had to grant permissions on the Permissions page under the Confluence Questions sub-heading. I granted use permissions to the "users" group, and I can now proceed past the Get Started button. However, the documentation still appears to be broken.


author: Rachel Robins
body: Hi Michael, Sorry to hear you got off to a bumpy start with Questions. Our documentation site was down for an hour this afternoon for some urgent maintenance. It is back up now and you can get to the Get Started docs here [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/QUESTIONS/Get+Started)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/QUESTIONS/Get+Started>

Confluence Questions should automatically grant access to your default users and administrators groups. When you went to Questions \> Permissions did you see any groups listed? (e.g. confluence-users rather than users?) If you raise a support issue, they'll be able to investigate further for you, and check everything is as it should be.


author: BillA
body: really sorry about this Michael. Could you please file a support ticket?

comments: author: Michael Juliano
body: I come from the StackOverflow community, and this sort of answer would be totally unacceptable there. You can get chewed out pretty badly on there. Is this place not so strict?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

questions-for-confluence
Can we avoid the blank what's new pop-up after Confluence upgrade?
Asked by Veracode:

We upgraded confluence from 5.3 to 5.4, and at login we get a blank "what's new" pop-up. We disabled the What's New plugin to make this stop, but is there some "what's new" information that we should be sharing with the users? Disabling the plugin feels like a drastic action.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi, we have this [KB article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Blank+%27What%27s+new%27+dialog) to this issue, you may want to check whether this applies to your case.

Cheers


Tags: confluence-administration
Migrating a 500 User License Confluence Developer Instance to a 100 User License Production Instance
Asked by Phil Gochenour:

Hi, I've wound up in a situation where I have a Developer instance of Confluence with a 500 user license limit, and I want to be able to migrate that instance to a production instance with a 100 user license. I originally thought I could do this with a backup of the developer instance and restore to the production instance, but I'm conerned that this won't work because the licenses don't match.

I've wound up in this situation because I used my developer instance to build out what has turned out to be a completely new Confluence installation that is separate from our current production instance, and I want to launch a second, licensed production instance with what I have created in the Developer instance. The developer instance only has 69 registered users who were my beta testers, and I don't expect to exceed the 100 user license for at least six months.

If backup/restore won't work to migrate the developer instance to production because of the license problem, is there some other means by which I can achieve this migration? Could I export/restore the spaces one-by-one?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The good news is that you don't really have a big problem.

Your data is just your data - if you import the whole lot into a new Confluence, it'll work fine with a 500 user licence as you'd expect. It'll also work fine with a 100 user licence, unless you have more than 100 \*active\* users. If you are over that 100 limit, then bits of it will not work until you get the user count down below 100. Your data will be untouched, it'll move fine, and you'll be able to read it. But functions like "edit" will be locked until you reduce the user count. User maintenance is obviously not one of the functions that will fail...

comments: author: Phil Gochenour
body: Thanks Nic, I was unsure if the export was just the data, or if it carried configuration/license information with it.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It carries most of the config (all the bits stored in the database at least), and the licence details too, but it'll spot that it's on a different server and ignore the old licence on import.

One of the things I've always liked about Atlassian is that they strongly believe your data belongs to you and they don't drop bits of it or render it useless just because you don't have a current licence. Even if you let a licence expire, you can still use the systems (you're unsupported and can't upgrade, but it will still work in full), and the licences behave reasonably sensibly in cases like yours. It's a bit of a faff, but you don't lose anything.
Can we hide page links on a confluence page?
Asked by Srinivas Patruni:

I would like to hide page links for the users who are not having access to linked page. Is it possible?


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Srinivas,  

By default in Confluence there isn't a way to do it. However I believe it's a valid request, so I decided to create a feature request for you as you can see here:

<br />

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33603)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33603>  

I would strongly suggest that you vote on this issue to increase its popularity and add it to your watchlist for future updates.  

Cheers,  
WZ


author: Davin Studer
body: Not easily ... no. You could use the ServiceRocket Visibility plugin, but that requires you to wrap each link in a macro.

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility>
User can't view a page when EDIT permission is granted
Asked by Fused Team:

It's just plain stupid not to allow user to view a page when he's got an EDIT permission.

Or am I missing something?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, it is a bit of a silly design - read access should be implied by edit. It does have uses in something like Jira with a more complicated access scheme, but it's no use in Confluence, in my opinion

It's only a minor issue though, and most users can remember to grant view.


Tags: edit

restriction
Display only labeled attachements
Asked by Ileana Popp:

Dear all,

I would like to display on one page ONLY attachements from a space with have a specific label.

For example, I created a page "Sales materials". On this page I would like to display all attachements from a specific space which were labeled with "sales".

I already tried to us the space attachement macro but unfortunately it is showing all attachements from the space and not only the ones with the label "sales".

Could you please help?

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi there!

I believe you can achieve this by using the content by label macro. As you can [see here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+by+Label+Macro), you can add this macro to a page and use the *Include this Content Type Only`(type`)* to show only attachments.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Ileana Popp
body: Thank you Rodrigo! Unfortunately it didnt work to inlcude only a content type - dont really know why. But at least it is showing me only that content which is labled with "sales".

Once again - thank you for you help!

Cheers,

Ileana


Tags: attachment

confluence-administration
Can you expose parts of a page to certain users?
Asked by Daniel Kemp:

I am hoping to build out a single knowledge base where articles can be created such that our user community can see information within the articles tagged as \<public\> to enable self-service and not see information tagged as \<private\> to allow us to protect sensitive information like IP addresses and server names.

The intent is to avoid having to manage permissions page-by-page and to avoid having to create 2 pages on the same topic, 1 customer facing and 1 internal.

We are currently running Confluence 4.1.9


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Check out the visibility plugin.

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility>

comments: author: Daniel Kemp
body: Davin, thanks - certainly seems like a match, I'll give it a go.


author: Davin Studer
body: Feel free to mark the question as answered if it meets your needs. Thanks.


Tags: confluence-administration
Answering Questions using e-mail
Asked by darcfinn:

Many forums work the way that you can interact with it using only e-mails. We have a large group of knowledgeable people in our Services department that thinks it is inconvenient to log in to Confluence each time they have a question. Also, when they get questions in their inbox they would like the ability to give their answer just by replying to the e-mail.

This opens up a discussion on whether it is allowable to have anonymous users contributing to Questions, and even collecting expertise points (!), unless there is a way to identify the valid user through looking up the from-address in Crowd user list details.

Would like to get some information on whether this has been evaluated by Atlassian, like you are considering allowing [comments on pages through e-mails](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5002).

Thanks!


Answers:
author: john
body: Hello Dagfinn,

Thanks for your suggestions. We are exploring a tighter email integration for the ability to Ask and Answer questions via email. You can follow those issues here:

* Ask via email: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-530)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-530>
* Answer via email: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-542)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-542>

Regarding anonymous users, you can turn on anonymous viewing of questions just as you would enable anonymous access to a Confluence instance. See the [documentation here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access). Note: anonymous users cannot answer, vote, or otherwise act on questions.

If you have more specific feedback about how you'd like this to work, make a comment on those tickets linked to above, or shoot me an email at jwetenhall (at) atlassian dot com.

Thanks,

John


Tags: questions-for-confluence
macro to create a simple url link
Asked by Robyn Skaling:

Hi, I am new to creating macros so I am sure this will be childs' play for most of you. A collegaue mentioned that she believes you can use a confluence macro to basically alias a url link. After spending hours reading online I still have not found anything related and I am just wasting time for what I suspect is something so quick and simple.

We basically want to create a macro to link to our svn repository and another macro to link to a file path on a shared network drive. We have a reoccuring problem of servers changing addresses and we can't keep changing the hardcoded links on each page in every space. We believe by using a macro this will provide a way to change the new server addresses in one easy location.

In the case of the file path macro, text will need to be appended to the end of the file path such that references can be made to specific directories on the shared network, so I assume it needs to take in a string parameter, that's about as far as I got.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Answers:
author: BillA
body: Give shortcut links a try ... [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Shortcut+Links)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Shortcut+Links>
Personal Tasks aren't accessible after upgrading to 5.5
Asked by ghiyasimehr:

I upgraded Confluence 5.4.4 to 5.5. I didn't setup Email Notification. So now I couldn't access my Personal Tasks because of [this note](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.5+Upgrade+Notes#Confluence5.5UpgradeNotes-Personaltaskstabremovedfromtheworkbox).

How can I access to my tasks?

[](https://myserver_Address/plugins/inlinetasks/mytasks.action)<https://myserver_Address/plugins/inlinetasks/mytasks.action>doesn't show me any task.


Answers:
author: ghiyasimehr
body: I restored backup in another machine then moved tasks to new confluence.


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Hi Hossein,

This is covered in the [Upgrade Notes for Confluence 5.5](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.5+Upgrade+Notes#Confluence5.5UpgradeNotes-Personaltaskstabremovedfromtheworkbox): You should have received your personal tasks by email. If you want to reinstate your personal tasks, create a page in your personal space.

Cheers

comments: author: ghiyasimehr
body: I don't use Email Notification and I didn't setup it. So JIRA can't send me any notification by email. How can I access to already defined tasks?


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: If you don't have email activated, then the upgrade notes don't specify the behaviour of Confluence. I assume you have lost your personal tasks, so:

* The upgrade notes (linked above) mention that a back-up is performed before upgrading, so you can use this back-up to restore your tasks,
* Alternatively, submit a support ticket and ask for help. If they answer you, please share the answer with us!

Thank you!

Adrien


Tags: task
Formatting Fields In Confluence in the Jira Issues Macro
Asked by Tamara Blake:

I am using the Jira issues macro in Confluence to display several types of queries on high level dashboards. I have found that any Jira "number" custom field displays with a decimal point in Confluence even though a decimal was not input in Jira and I also have had requests to color code some of the fields.

Are either of these possible to format in Confluence using the Jira Issues Macro?

Currently we have Confluence Version 4.3.7


Answers:
author: Dave Pacifico
body: I'm having this problem too. I essentially want an integer custom field, but I think there's only a numeric custom field. It wasn't a big deal in JIRA, so I just used that type, but now that I'm showing a list of JIRA issues in Confluence all of these ints are coming through with .0 on the end, which is very distracting/unnecessary.

comments: author: Henno Gous
body: Has anybody found a fix for this yet?


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence has an issue with the Oauth stating is not configured even though the UI is showing that it is
Asked by Steve Ernst:

Receive the follwoing:

ava.lang.IllegalStateException: OAuth Authentication is not configured for application link Everware-CBDI (da0158ea-905f-329e-9b36-cf76dbf87e12) <http://54.221.218.22:8881>com.atlassian.applinks.application.jira.JiraApplicationTypeImpl@630fcd9d


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi, it looks like the reciprocal application link was not created in JIRA. You may check if you can the application link created on both sides and that the OAuth authentication is configured.

Cheers

comments: author: Steve Ernst
body: Both JIRA and Confluence are configured.


Tags: oauth