youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is it possible to put the last modified date in a page properties field in Confluence?
Asked by Katie Milham:

**Use Case:**I have an individual page for each member of my team. Each week, they enter their status (what they did, what they plan to do, blockers) into their page's Page Properties Macro fields. I use the Page Properties Report Macro to consolidate their information into a Weekly Dashboard. I would like to add the "Last Modified" date as a field in the individual team member Page Properties list of fields so I can look at the consolidated view (using the Page Properties Report Macro) to see who did not update their status for the week.

**Question:**Is it possible to add the "last updated date" information to a field in the Page Properties table?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Not with the Page Properties macros. You could do with some of the form creations macros such as ConfiForms.
Can't I have a TOC without "bullet points?"
Asked by Wliliam Rudy:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Table of Contents Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=792499210)*

My headings already are marked 1.0, 2.0 etc by me. I don't want any bullet points of any kind. Isn't it possible to delete or mask those somehow?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-t-I-have-a-TOC-without-quot-bullet-points-quot/qaq-p/418857?attachment-id=10561){#link_11865880dbad5d}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/71018/1/image2016-9-23%208%3A54%3A46.png){#display_11865880dbad5d_0}


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: To remove the bullet points you could set "List Style" to "none".

image2016-9-23 8:54:46.png


author: Wliliam Rudy
body: Thanks Rob, greatly appreciated. PS your movies rock :wink:


Tags: table-of-contents
is content from the HTML Include macro indexed
Asked by Tig:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [HTML Include Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=771892339)*

To use good Knowledge Management practices, we'd like to have only one source of truth, which sometimes will not be on Confluence. However, the content will need to be seen/used by Confluence.

Found the HTML Include macro, and to know if this will do the trick, I need to know one thing ... is the included content found when someone does a search? so if a user searches for "whosiewhats" and the only place this resides is on the included content, will this page appear in the Confluence search results?

thanks!


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Generally, Confluence can't index content included from outside Confluence. However, you can use [Cache for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CACHE) - see [How to index external content using the CACHE macro](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CACHE/How+to+index+external+content+using+the+CACHE+macro?src=sidebar).

comments: author: Antigone K
body: thank you!


Tags: documentation

html-include
View pages as generic user
Asked by muxedup:

When creating pages with view permissions, it would be helpful to be able to test out these settings by viewing as a generic user with a customizable set of permissions. This way the user doesn't have to track down other users in different groups just to see if their page is visible.

Is there currently a way to do this? If not, it may be a handy feature to include in the future.


Answers:
author: Geoff Wilson
body: This does sound like it could be useful and I have not seen a way to do this myself yet.   

I recommend that you first search here <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-43964?jql=project%20%3D%20Confluence%20and%20issuetype%20%3D%20Suggestion> to see if this Confluence Suggestion already exists, and if not, create it.
I'm a JIRA/Confluence administrator (Cloud version). Our team is interested in using Draw.io but your pricing model is not clear from your "Pricing" page. Is it (a) Free for JIRA cloud users? (b) a one off payment ? (c) a monthly payment?
Asked by Ken Evans:

I'm a JIRA/Confluence administrator (Cloud version). Our team is interested in using [Draw.io](http://Draw.io) but your pricing model is not clear from your "Pricing" page. Is it (a) Free for JIRA cloud users? (b) a one off payment ? (c) a monthly payment?

* I'm being blocked from replying because I don't have "Three points" whatever that means - so this is what I tried to reply:
* OOPS! The fire is not yet out!

  How to I enable [Draw.io](http://draw.io/) for my team (JIRA \& Confluence)

  See error message below:

  I don't have a clue what OnDemand is or how to sign up for it - I now remember I went round in time-consuming circles several days ago.

  Ken  
  **Error**

  You must [signup for OnDemand](https://my.atlassian.com/ondemand/signup) before you can try an OnDemand Marketplace add-on. If you already have an OnDemand account please check that it is linked to your current username.


Answers:
author: noamdah
body: The Draw.io is currently free for JIRA and Confluence cloud. See this [link](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.mxgraph.jira.plugins.drawio/cloud/overview)for JIRA and this [link](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly/cloud/overview)for Conflience.


author: Ken Evans
body: Thanks for your quick reply - and for the good news :smile:

Ken

comments: author: noamdah
body: Glad to help. Cheers!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Error when exporting a space to XML or PDF
Asked by Kasper Vad:

Hi

I am trying to export a space as either XML or PDF.

I am administrator and the space is rather small.

When I start the export job it "completes" the job (withion 19 seconds), tells me I can download and then nothing happens. But there is a link called "Running task".

When I click the "Running task"-link I get the following message: "Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page."

I have tried to re-submit, but no luck...

Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: David Skreiner
body: Just entered your error message into Google search and found a gazillion results.

a) Try with a different browser. If it doesn't work, ask Atlassian Support, they're always fast and friendly and competent.

Atlassian Support linked the following issue in here: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/218903>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23148>

b) I found someone linking a wall of text about token handling, maybe this will help you

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11987972>

c) Someone else recommended increasing a timeout value

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/154885>

d) Your Confluence files may have been modified (WTF?)

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/unable-to-add-a-comment-to-an-attachment-with-required-security-token-was-not-present-error-600115060.html>

...


Tags: confluence-administration
How do you get the page you create to appear as a subpage of the one you're currently on?
Asked by Stuart MacMillan:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Create from Template Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=317196995)*

I'm using the create from template macro and the only option available, regardless of which page the macro button appears on is to create a page that sits at the top level of the hierarchy under the space.

How do I use the button to create a sub-page of the page I am currently on?

When you create a page from a template by clicking create at the top of the screen, it creates the page as a sub-page so why not the same when using the macro?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: That bug link states that it was fixed in 5.2.3. Have you tried upgrading?


author: Stuart MacMillan
body: Mentioned here - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29859>

We're currently on v5.2 and still have the problem


Tags: documentation

template
Confluence export to PDF: preserve layout
Asked by Tom?s Crespo Garc?a:

Hi,

I'm exporting a page to PDF using Confluence 5.10.2. The page is designed with section and column macros (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-layouts-columns-and-sections-275188613.html>) . You can see an example of the page in this image:

layout_page.png

However, when I use the "Export to PDF" option the layout is not preserved in the resulting PDF, as you can see in the next image:

resulting_pdf.png

How can I obtain a PDF that preserves the original layout?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-export-to-PDF-preserve-layout/qaq-p/42975?attachment-id=9827){#link_1186590d48642e}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/7298/1/layout_page.png){#display_1186590d48642e_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-export-to-PDF-preserve-layout/qaq-p/42975?attachment-id=9828){#link_1186590d48642e_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/7298/2/resulting_pdf.png){#display_1186590d48642e_2}


Answers:
author: Jonas Andersson
body: The built in PDF exporter is not good at retaining a lot of stuff, designs being one of them. It also does not preserve results hidden under the expand/expando macro, or many other dynamic macros for that reason. During my years supporting confluence i raised a number of bugs that never got taken seriously enough to ever lead to a feature request or a bugfix, as this is a 3rd party component. If you already played around with PDF layout in Look and feel, i warmly recommend you to use a client side PDF exporter (like a browser plugin) to do the export instead. It will render a lot closer to the source than the native flying pdf plugin ever will.


author: Mari Car
body: Hi everybody, I have the same question of Tomas Crespo. There are some Updates? I?m using Confluence 5.10.7.

Thank you very much in advance

Maria
What is the best way to get page statistics from Confluence OnDemand?
Asked by Derek Meixell:

I can't find any recent posts about this and any questions asking about Google Analytics are from years ago. Any help here would be appreciated.


Answers:
author: Jonas Andersson
body: Depends on what you want to see. If it's simply a hit counter, or who read your page the Viewtracker plugin does this very well, if it's more about general statistics i believe confluence cloud stores this in the admin interface. Describe what you are trying to accomplish, to give us a better idea of what you need, in case i am barking up the wrong tree.


author: Tim
body: Hi Derek,

As you mentioned above we've recently released our first version of [Analytics for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.addonengine.analytics/cloud/overview). It's the only analytics solution currently available for Cloud (OnDemand) and makes it really easy to track page views, blog views and more. It works across all pages automatically without the need to manually add macros and the chart can be filtered by date so you can just see views from Sept 1 to today.

Feel free to give it a try. We're actively improving it based on feedback so if you have any thoughts, issues or ideas you can let us know here or via email at [ideas@goodsoftware.co](mailto:ideas@goodsoftware.co) so we can make it better suit your needs.

Hope it helps! :smile:

comments: author: Derek Meixell
body: Tim - it is great to see specific page stats but is there functionality for overall stats. i.e. what page is getting the most views, etc?


author: Derek Meixell
body: When i search plugins for "Viewtracker" I do not get a hit. the only statistics plugin that I have found

Analytics for Confluence Cloud - is this the one you are referring to - it appears this only has 4 installations and no feedback as of yet.

Goal: basic hit counter but ideally within a time range. i.e. from Sept 1 to today - how many times has this page been viewed. would be nice if it captured blog posts too. Would be the cats meow if I could use Google Analytics even if that meant putting a macro on every page.

Many thanks for the quick response!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Who can see the Analytics for Confluence Cloud reports?
Asked by erlendb:

Is there any permission settings we can use to limit who can access analytics?


Answers:
author: Tim
body: **Update 2:** And also for groups across all of Confluence via admin settings.

**Update:** You can now restrict access to analytics via space tools.

Hi Erlend,

Currently [Analytics for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.addonengine.analytics/cloud/overview) allows any logged in user who has permission to view the page to see the analytics for it.

We're planning to add support for more fine-grained control over who can access analytics. There's many ways we could approach it so we're looking for some feedback from those who need it to guide us to the best solution.

Is there any chance you'd be willing to share a bit more about what type of permissions you'd like to set? You could reply here or if you'd like we can chat via email at [ideas@goodsoftware.co](mailto:ideas@goodsoftware.co).

Really appreciate any help you can give! :smile:

comments: author: erlendb
body: Our use case is pretty straight forward; we just need to restrict viewing of analytics to a set of users and/or groups per space.


Tags: addon-com.addonengine.analytics

cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there any way to share Knowledge base created in Confluence to non Confluence User?
Asked by Atinder Sodhi:

Hi,

I want to know can a Knowledge Base created in Confluence be shared with a client who is not using confluence. If yes, How?

If some video tutorial is available for same do share.


Answers:
author: noamdah
body: Yes, allow [anonymous access](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/setting-up-public-access-156.html)to the relevant space.

You also have to make sure you give anonymous users access to the instance first before you give them access to the space.

You can check this by going to the admin area under Users \& Security -\> Global permissions


author: Atinder Sodhi
body: Thank's Noam, for the quick response. Just a little more on the application part.

How to give Permission to Confluence Space. As I am created a new user it is getting sending confluence access only.

As you said I have given Anonymous access.

comments: author: noamdah
body: **To access the permissions for a space:**

1. Go to the space and choose **Space tools** \> **Permissions** from the bottom of the sidebar

2. Choose **Edit Permissions**.

Check out this [link](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/assign-space-permissions-139460.html).


author: Atinder Sodhi
body: I have created a Knowledge Base now when I am sharing this with non-confluence user it is taking them to confluence login which I don't want. How to solve this. I want help should be similar to Microsoft Word.

I don't want URL to show confluence or Atlassian when a user opens Knowledgebase.

I can create context-sensitive help using confluence.


Tags: documentation

user
need to create a account
Asked by ramona f. hale:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Get started](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=777010817)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: noamdah
body: After installing c[onfluence server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/installing-confluence-183468566.html) or getting [confluence cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/getting-started-with-atlassian-cloud-744721598.html). See this [link](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-and-invite-users-138313.html) on how to create user account.


Tags: getting-started
get SchedulerService from annotated Component in Confluence
Asked by rollin_crittendon:

I have an annotated component that works well.

However I could not get access to the SchedulerService through annotation.

```
@Component@ExportAsService({HealthCheckMonitorService.class})@Named("health-check-monitor-service")public class HealthCheckMonitorServiceImpl        implements InitializingBean, DisposableBean, HealthCheckMonitorService {
```

When I tried to get the SchedulerService this way.

```
@ComponentImportprivate SchedulerService schedulerService;
```

I got the following error.

```
did not enable within 5 seconds.The plugin should not take this long to enable. Will only attempt to load plugin for another '25' seconds...actualEnable Unable to start the following plugins due to timeout while waiting for plugin to enable
```

When I tried this.

```
@Qualifier("schedulerService")private SchedulerService schedulerService;
```

Instead I saw this result.

```
found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.atlassian.scheduler.SchedulerService] found for dependency:
```

My workaround was to do the following in my constructor.

```
@Injectpublic HealthCheckMonitorServiceImpl(HealthCheckService healthCheckService){    this.schedulerService = ComponentLocator.getComponent(SchedulerService.class);    this.healthCheckService = healthCheckService;}
```

**Question** : Is there any way to get that component through annotation? It would be ++*much*++ more elegant.

Note: This is Confluence 5.9.11.


Answers:
author: rollin_crittendon
body: This appeared to go away when I switched my pom.xml to 5.10.5 for Confluence.

In other words, the following works great.

```
@ComponentImportprivate SchedulerService schedulerService;
```


Tags: schedule
where do I upload the font file for Confluence
Asked by Nino Dungo:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Configuring the look and feel of your JIRA applications](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=802592278)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Here's how to use web-served fonts:

<https://davidsimpson.me/2011/12/09/wiki-web-fonts/>

And here's how to upload and use custom fonts:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/9386799>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What "font file", and do you mean JIRA or Confluence?


Tags: documentation

jira-administration

look-and-feel
There was an error submitting the page restrictions. Please try again later.
Asked by Adam Buckley:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Unable to Manage Page Restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=266634309)*

What is this issue in OnDemand? The UnHelp page was about Hosted. Is it possible to get real support?


Answers:
author: Adam Buckley
body: I worked around this by cloning the page. The clone by default has no restrictions on it, which is what I wanted, as I am relying on my Space restrictions.

comments: author: louisdj
body: I had the same error, and used the same fix as there was not a lot of time to investigate the issue.

If you have more time and need a solution, I suggest to create a support ticket and include the log files to it.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

documentation
Get Space page hierarchy using the REST api
Asked by Andrew Reeman:

We are looking into using the REST api to create backups for all the content on our confluence cloud page. We would like this content to match the structure within confluence. Is there a simple 'view space structure' REST call to get the hierarchical structure of the pages within a space?

At the moment the only way I can think of is recursively accessing the "/content/{id}/child/page" starting with the space root page until it returns an empty list. However this could end up being a ridiculous number of requests.

Thanks for your help and I'll be happy to clarify anything.


Answers:
author: Peter Geshev
body: Hi Andrew,

I think that if you use the [space content](https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/REST/latest/#space-contents) API rest point(with depth=all) and expand the ancestors you will be able to collect the structure in one call

Regards,

Peter

comments: author: Andrew Reeman
body: Thanks for your help Peter. Perhaps I've not been setting up the pages correctly but my ancestors entry appears blank:

```
_expandable: {...	ancestors: "",...}
```

I can get the descendants though of each page returned by doing:

```
expand=descendants.page
```

Unsure if this is the best of doing it but it seems to work!

Thanks for your help again,

Andrew


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Delete page automatically in Confluence?
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi Everyone,

we'd need a functionality in Confluence: we create a page for our customers but each page should exists 30 days and then these have to be deleted. Because we will have a large number of pages, we cannot maintain them manually. Is there a feature, plugin, etc. for Confluence which would delete the page after a determined period?

Thanks, Rumi


Answers:
author: crochaju
body: Hi Rumi,

have a look in [here](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11050/deleting-confluence-pages-automatically-after-a-certain-period-of-time/130845), its about combining the [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123) with [CLI](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.acli).

It requires two steps, but it is dead simple:

1. Set up the Archiving Plugin to archive the pages that should be deleted. Please note that this will move the pages to spaces whose name ends with "(Archive)". Configure the Confluence managed archiving job to run at 01:00AM, for instance.
2. Set up CLI to delete all spaces whose name ends with "(Archive)"! Configure a cron job to run it at 05:00AM, for instance. (It leaves 4 hours for archiving to complete, which is more than enough even for very large Confluence instances.)

Cheers


author: Ranganath HV Gowda
body: You can refer this <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11050>. This should solve your problem :smile:

You can change period to number of days.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there an add-on for navigating to the same-named page in a different space?
Asked by Nick Reilingh:

All of Atlassian's documentation pages (take [this one](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/navigation-map-macro-145242.html), for example), have a dropdown menu at the top that is used to easily navigate to a different space, when those spaces contain a page with the same name as the page the menu is being displayed on. This works well for their documentation versioning, because each previous version's documentation has a different space key.

I could have *sworn* that I saw an add-on in the marketplace at one point that did exactly this, but I'm not able to find it right now. I would like this menu to be generated by a macro in the page body.

The problem I am trying to solve is a content-organizational one. We are not doing documentation versions, but reports from a number of different people. Each person's reports would be organized into their own space, and named according to a specific event. Since the reports are all named the same, but in different spaces, using a space switcher like this would be ideal for someone reading those reports to easily switch between the reports from different people for the same event.


Answers:
author: Nick Reilingh
body: I realized that the macro I was thinking of is the "Space Jump" macro. This macro will insert a link to a page with the current page's name in a different space. I am not sure how I might employ this -- it seems either I can use these links to pages that don't exist to enforce consistent naming, or I can use a template to create the pages to have the links be created automatically.

comments: author: Nick Reilingh
body: Aaaand I just learned that Space Jump is removed in Confluence 6. Back to the drawing board!


Tags: app

confluence-administration

navigation