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Why is the editor in Atlassian Answers performing so poorly?
Asked by Kevin Buchs:

Does anyone else have trouble trying to use preformatted formatting to enter Wiki markup code? The editor can really mangle and even delete one's text. And, once you mark off a region as preformatted, it cannot be edited or changed without having enough trouble that makes it easier to just re-enter all the text.


Answers:
author: Kevin Buchs
body: Per Jeremy's reply, the answer is that this poor performance is a known issue. Action is to submit specific bug reports on the ANSWERS JIRA project: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS>.

comments: author: Jeremy Largman
body: 'Preformatted' has been removed. There's 'code' functionality to replace it, and also a \[show preview\] button that'll show you formatted text as you type.

Please keep the improvement requests coming! We're still iterating.


author: Kevin Buchs
body: I noticed the new CODE item. It seems to work well in the finished result. Good work!


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Hi Kevin,

I was aware of something close to this. Here's the similar bug report:

* ['Preformatted' is rendering with line breaks](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-142)

I've added your question here to that report. More broadly, I'm wanting to create a proper code macro:

* [Need some sort of code/pre block for code snippets](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-57)

We'll definitely continue to improve the editor! If you're willing, the ideal thing to do is to open bug reports in the JIRA Answers project. The more specific the better...

comments: author: Kevin Buchs
body: Thanks for the reply, but see the comment above.


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Hi Kevin,

Yes I saw that it's about Answers. My response was about Atlassian Answers as well. I do still want to improve this, and we're iterating on solutions. The JIRA project referred in the links above is for tracking improvements to Answers.


author: Kevin Buchs
body: Ok, now I get it. Thanks. I appreciate your interest in improvement.


author: Kevin Buchs
body: My question is about the editor used in **Atlassian Answers**not in Confluence.


Tags: community

editor
Why am I getting notifications from answers-development.atlassian.com?
Asked by Jon Cotter:

I seem to be getting test questions from your dev server.

My favorite one so far:

What is the sound of GH Hopping? {#toc-hId-1820062247}
======================================================


Answers:
author: twong_atlassian
body: Hi Jon,

I'm not sure what the sound of Greenhopper hopping is, but for the sake of possibility of maybe getting a higher Google Page Rank and possibly more Karma, I'll answer: BoingBoing!

We're tracking the issue of answers dev sending out emails incorrectly here-https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-155

Thanks for the update.

Tim Wong

Atlassian Support-San Francisco

Free code hosting... forever. [http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/bitbucket/\</p\<\>\>](http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/bitbucket/%3C/p)

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Tags: community
Where should announcements go?
Asked by Wim Deblauwe:

Hi,

in the forums, not everything was a question. Sometimes people announce a new version of their plugin, sometimes people want to tell the community about a blog post they have written. Answers does not seem the appropriate place for this or does it? Maybe we should use specific tags for this?

regards,

Wim

PS: I came to this question because I wanted to show off [my baby steps with speakeasy](http://wimdeblauwe.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/jira-speakeasy-extension-to-show-key-summary-in-an-inline-dialog/)


Answers:
author: Jeremy Largman
body: We've posted a guide on how to market your plugin:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/MARKET/Plugin+Marketing>

comments: author: Wim Deblauwe
body: The link seems no longer valid


author: justindowning
body: For this example (announcing plugin updates, chages), I think this functionality should be built into PAC. That's where I go for plugin related information. If Atlassian could allow users to "Watch" a plugin for changes made by the developer (could be updates, documentation, compatibility revisions, etc), that would be most helpful.


author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: Agree, grabbing the 'announcement' tag for this purposes seems a sensible step. Need to get some input for my JEMH UI also [https://jemhui.brightidea.com/ideas](https://jemhui.brightidea.com/ideas%20)

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'd go with that, although we'd need moderators to keep an eye on the tags and remove any "announcement" tags that shouldn't be there.


author: Wim Deblauwe
body: I don't know if answers has an 'accept rate', but it would be really bad for your accept rate, because there would not be an answer to accept.


author: Laura Kolker
body: I spoke with someone from Atlassian at Summit about this, and it was suggested to use the Atlassian Developer's Blog for announcements.

I'm honestly not sure what I think of either of those ideas: Dev Blog vs. and announcements tag here. Announcements tag seems closer to the old Forum approach, but doesn't really seem right for the style of this system. :/


Tags: community

feedback-forum
Can the Atlassian reference application be used for a custom wallboard?
Asked by Colin Goudie:

Maybe just to host some open social gadgets at minimum? (I thought I had seen this in an Atlassian blog a while bacK), but ideally also run the JIRA Wallboard plugin


Answers:
author: Colin Goudie
body: I would imagine not without extensive modification since the refapp has no concept of a dashboard.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: This is cool -

* <http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/>
* <https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlasboard>

I think we need to try to get something like this going at AppFusions in not so distant future. #like


Tags: refapp

wallboard
Is there a way to view all comments on a thread?
Asked by Jo-Anne MacLeod:

Is there a way to view all the comments on the thread. I see that I can view the oldest one, or the newest one, or popular ones. Now sure how each one is defined, I guess that it has something to do with points. but points aside, I just want to see all the comments. the same behaviour as is on the forum now.


Answers:
author: Jeremy Largman
body: Hi Jo-Anne,

This is a feature request already, [ANSWERS-79](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-79). I'm hoping to implement it shortly. I hid comments originally so people wouldn't get confused between comments and answers, but I think the reverse has happened - the comments are too hard to discover. Seems like the way to go is to just show all comments.


author: NikE
body: Comments are in the process of possibly being re-worked. There is already a feature request to have the option added to have all comments expanded and visible.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-54>

I agree with being able to see all comments, as there is usually a story or debate going on about the top answer on anything interesting.


Tags: comment

community
Can people other than the author of a question add tags?
Asked by Colin Goudie:

Question in the title :)


Answers:
author: Andrew Ardill
body: Adding tags requires that you have permission to edit the question, or have the 'retag' permission. The people who have permission are the owner, and those with high enough karma https://answers.atlassian.com/faq/#edit

From the same page at https://answers.atlassian.com/faq/#karma you can see that you need 400 karma points in order to edit another persons question, but only need 150 karma points to retag.


Tags: community
Should we use answers.atlassian.com instead of forums.atlassian.com?
Asked by Colin Goudie:

Is the idea of this site to eventually replace the forums? If not, what are the guidelines for this vs the forums to prevent fragmentation?


Answers:
author: James Dumay
body: Colin, to the best of my knowledge we are shutting down the forums after the beta period for Answers has lapsed as Answers is the sucessor service to the forums. Not sure on the timeline but there will be more information about this shortly.


author: Akeles
body: I will recommend to keep this as a read-only site. It is a huge wealth of knowledge within it.


author: Wim Deblauwe
body: I would also recommend a way to easily put in snippets of Java/XML/..., especially if you want to replace the development forums.


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Yes, the plan is to spend a couple weeks doing some testing and improvements to answers.atlassian.com, then we'll make the switch!

comments: author: Sergey Markovich
body: Jeremy,

I believe the forums will be still available for reading but not for adding new posts, right?

It would be a pity to lose such a great source of accumulated information on Atlassian products.


author: no_longer_in_sudoers_file
body: ...and four years later, I'm sitting here on a Saturday night making even more improvements. ;-)


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: And thinking that now is a new platform complete and full of knowledge with nearly 8000 users. A great idea! Tons better than the forums! Well done Atlassian!


author: Brendan Patterson
body: Moving forward we should all use answers.atlassian.com

I asked Jonathan Nolen the question about [forums.atlassian.com](http://forums.atlassian.com), the answer: "It will be kept on in read-only mode"

So all is good, no need to worry or consider screen scraping that entire site :)


author: wendy handerson
body: How to draw a house use the equilateral triangle class in java example  
please anyone can help me :(


Tags: community

feedback-forum

forum
Can the tag list be alphabetized?
Asked by BrittanyA:

It would be easier to search for related tags and questions.


Answers:
author: rverschoor
body: For those that fail to see what Justin's URL is doing:  
Select *Tags* from the main menu.  
The list with tags is shown, sorted by popularity.  
At the top of the page, to the right of the *Tag List* title, two tabs are shown: *By Name* and *By Popularity* .  
Click the *By Name* tab and you get an alphabetically sorted list.

comments: author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: If the ordering went down the 1st column, then the 2nd \& then the 3rd it would be much easier for users to scan.

The current layout appears to be the simplest to markup, rather than the simplest to use.


author: justindowning
body: Yep: https://answers.atlassian.com/tags/?sort=name


author: Jon Silvers [Atlassian]
body: ![How to sort by name](https://img.skitch.com/20110629-m6i5cjd991ge45hsticx9yfbyn.png)

Click the Tabs link and sort by Name.


author: MattS
body: Please make the default to alphabetize it, otherwise the tags are really hard to search.


Tags: announcement

community

tag
Confluence re-index fails for 3 hours after database upgrade.
Asked by Mitsu Chatrola:

We are using PostgresSQL version 12 in AWS for Confluence database. We upgraded our database from version 12 to 14 and after that if we run re index. it is failing. If we run re-index after 3 hours of database upgrade then re index is passing.   

I have 2 questions,  
(1) Is this due to more disk space required after upgrade while doing re-indexing? If yes then why more disk space is not required after 3 hours?  
(2) Is it required to run re-index after database upgrade?


Answers:
author: Fadoua
body: Hi [@Mitsu Chatrola](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5592852)

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Please follow the guide below:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-installation-and-upgrade-guide-214864161.html>

Regarding the Database upgrade you will have to go to the vendor's website not Atlassian.

Best

Fadoua


Tags: confluence-data-center

data-center
Timeout when publishing page
Asked by Ian Davison:

seeing this message whenever I try to publish a page in Confluence

<https://bchcinformation.atlassian.net/wiki/home> Your session has expired. You'll need to log in again


Answers:
author: Dan Breyen
body: Hi [@Ian Davison](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5593332) welcome to the community!. Does this issue happen if you try another computer or another browser? Or if another user publishes the same content? Does the page have a lot of content? If you strip it down, does the page get published? I'm suggesting a few things to try to narrow down where the issue lies.

I've seen issues in the past with publishing/editing large pages. I couldn't find a specific issue on [Atlassian's Jira Site](https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa). If it continues to happen after you've narrowed it down a little, [Atlassian Support](https://support.atlassian.com/contact/?support_type=customer&inquiry_category=#/) could probably help identifying the specific issue.

Hope that helps.

comments: author: Ian Davison
body: Hi Dan - thanks for the suggestion. All the pages were very small and I was using Edge. Testing with another computer or another user would not have been straightforward. I found a way to work around the problem which eliminates the need for a 'proper' solution. I had a bunch of draft pages in the Confluence space which had been set up for a different team. I was trying to publish them into a new space I had created. When I recreated the drafts in the new space they published without any problems. This will be the process I will use going forward so I won't need to do 'cross space' publishing.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is this site powered by stackoverflow?
Asked by Wim Deblauwe:

I was wondering if this site is powered by stackoverflow site engine or did you re-build this from scratch ? If so, why ?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: ... and we've moved again. Lithium now.


author: Jeremy Largman
body: This site is powered by [OSQA](http://www.osqa.net/). We added a theme to it, and will continue to make modifications. You can make feature requests or report bugs in our [JIRA project](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS).

comments: author: Wim Deblauwe
body: Ok, thanks for letting me know. I feel a bit sorry for the stackexchange guys for having their brillant idea ripped off a bit in this way.


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Stack Overflow do indeed have a great model. They don't offer whitelabeling and have specific conditions for creating a site: <http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq>. So, alternatives like OSQA (which is open source) have sprung up for folks who want to host their own.


author: Andrew Reid
body: Also, the fact that StackExchange is owned by a competitor might have something to do with the decision :)


author: Contact [Develocenter]
body: Actually it's powered by Atlassian Confuence right now to be honest.


author: justindowning
body: The footer reads: [Powered by OSQA](http://www.osqa.net/)

comments: author: Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]
body: Ha! Sometimes the easiest answer is the one nobody sees.


Tags: community

feedback

feedback-forum
Meeting notes
Asked by Sapir Levi:

We'd like to use Confluence to keep meeting notes, share and view in Slack without directing the user outside of Slack (see and edit the form on Slack). Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Humashankar VJ
body: Hi [@Sapir Levi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5593313)

First, install the Confluence Cloud app in your Slack workspace by navigating to the Apps section, searching for Confluence Cloud, and following the installation prompts. This will link your Confluence and Slack accounts.

Once installed, configure notifications and link previews to enhance your experience. Receive updates on changes in specific Confluence spaces, pages, or blog posts without leaving Slack. Furthermore, when sharing Confluence links in Slack, previews will automatically appear, allowing users to view content without navigating away.

With the app installed, you can interact with Confluence content directly from Slack. View pages, reply to comments, and like pages without leaving the platform. While editing capabilities are limited within Slack, you can seamlessly transition to Confluence for more extensive edits.

For more help refer these help articles - [Use Slack and Confluence together \| Confluence Cloud \| Atlassian Support](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/use-slack-and-confluence-together/)

[4 ways to use the Confluence Cloud integration with Slack - Work Life by Atlassian](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/confluence-cloud-app-for-slack)

**Hope this helps - Happy to help further!!**   
**Thank you very much and have a great one!**   
**Warm regards**


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Embed Confluence page with dynamic macros to Sharepoint site
Asked by Maria Ahvenlampi:

Hi, is there an add on that allows you to embed Confluence page into SharePoint, so that SharePoint also **displays dynamic macros** and their content from the Confluence page? Especially assets..

**For example this add on does not support that feature:**

[Sharepoint Connector for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218247/sharepoint-connector-for-confluence)

''Confluence Page content type dynamic macros cannot be rendered.''

Thank you!

Maria A


Answers:
author: Lorenzo Manfredini
body: Hi [@Maria Ahvenlampi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5384521) ,  

I am part of the product support at Communardo and I would like to write a few words about why this feature is not supported by our App.

Support for third-party macros or where macros are hosted by vendors other than Confluence Cloud cannot be supported with remote page view within SharePoint web parts, due to browser security guidelines and missing allowed origin settings in the third-party macro iframe. These would also have to support SharePoint Online as an allowed origin. But that is in the hands of the vendors of these macros and not in the hands of us or Atlassian.

If you have further questions about the Add-on or want us to show you a tailored demo based on your curiosities, do not hesitate to contact us through our [support channel](https://communardo.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/4).

Here is the start page of the [product documentation](https://communardo-products.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SPONLINE/overview).  

Best regards,  
Lorenzo  
Communardo


Tags: add-on

assets

cloud

confluence-cloud

embed

sharepoint
How to write text in table vertically
Asked by Wolfgang Deininger:

Hi everybody in the community,

I have a question related to the confluence tables. Is there a possibility, that the text can ve written vertically (turned 90?, same as the function in MS Excel)?

Thank you very much and best regards,

Wolfgang


Answers:
author: Stiltsoft support
body: Hi [@Wolfgang Deininger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5572461) ,

We can suggest trying the app that we develop - [Table Filter, Charts \& Spreadsheets for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-charts-spreadsheets-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud&utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111).

If you are talking about native Confluence tables, you may use the Table Transformer macro and its [Stylesheet tab](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/tfac/cloud/stylesheet-tab-altering-table-display-with-css-172036808.html?utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) where you can apply CSS for formatting.

For example, you may try this code:

td {writing-mode: vertical-lr;  
transform: rotate(180deg);}

![Mon 3-1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/347491iA1564B6309196FD1/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 3-1.png")

And if you prefer to work with Excel-like UI, you may insert the [Table Spreadsheet](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/tfac/cloud/table-spreadsheet-83100938.html?utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) macro. Besides cell formulas, filtration, pivot tables and other basic functions, the option to rotate text is also present.

comments: author: Wolfgang Deininger
body: Thank you very much!


author: Nikola Perisic
body: Hello [@Wolfgang Deininger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5572461)

Sadly, this feature is only available for Data Center, not on Cloud. You can look on the marketplace for some of the application. So far, there on what I've found there are like 10 of them. Each has its own free trial that you can cancel at anytime.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

filter

table

table-filter

table-filter-and-charts

table-filter-charts-spreadsheets

table-spreadsheet

table-transformer
Send email notification limit in Confluence?
Asked by PJ Dal Pozzo:

Hi we have started using the Then:Send email when we publish a blog to all our users \~600 in group and when we did the first one, it only sent an AI Summary email to around 60 people randomly in the user group.

Is there a limit of email sent as we are on an enterprise so it is unlimited and wondering if the automation has an email limit set? As I read in the instructions, there is no limit of emails sent so wondering why it did this?

Any answers?


Answers:
author: Felipe P?rez _ServiceRocket_
body: Hi PJ

I'm Felipe from ServiceRocket Support team.

Regarding to your question:

++*Is there a limit of email sent as we are on an enterprise so it is unlimited and wondering if the automation has an email limit set? As I read in the instructions, there is no limit of emails sent so wondering why it did this?*++

As stated by Atlassian in their [documentation](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/what-is-confluence-automation/) (at the end of the page), the limit of notification per month is 1000 rule executions for every user on a  
**Premium plan**

Since you're on a **Entrepise** plan, it shouldn't be a limit on the number of executions.

I recommend you to reach [Atlassian support](https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/) on this to solve your automation issue faster.

Best,  
Felipe

comments: author: PJ Dal Pozzo
body: Thanks I will raise a Support ticket because yes we have unlimited emails


author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: [@PJ Dal Pozzo](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5091612) Is your automation cycling through a list of 600 users and sending individual emails? There may be some issue with this number or process. Could you instead create one or more email distribution lists for the 600 users and send emails to those?

(Note: I'm on Standard, so I don't have the Automation feature. This is just something that occurred to me as a possibility.)

comments: author: PJ Dal Pozzo
body: Yes tried that and it seems to select randomly any person on the list! We have now done this twicer and in both cases, different people randomly were selected! I will raise a support ticket. Thanks for your interest!


Tags: automation

blog

cloud

cloud-automation

confluence-cloud

send-email