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Show only specific items in a table
Asked by Kei Roberts:

Apologies if this doesn't make sense. I'm new to confluence so i'm not sure of all the terminology.  

I have a table with 50+ items in them and I'm wanting to be able to filter out some of the data.   

for example in Column 3 we have a Y/N identifier. I'm wanting to only show the items that have a Y in them.   

Is this possible.   

Apologies for the bad explanation


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@Kei Roberts](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3457860) ,

this is absolutely no bad explanation or question, it is a common problem in Confluence.

I wrote an article about building a simple table filter:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/The-Admin-s-tale-User-Macro-filtering-a-Confluence-table/ba-p/459369>

If you need a more sophisticated solution, there are some apps for filtering a table, e.g. the Table filter and Charts app:

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)


author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

are you using the Cloud or Server version of Confluence?

If you're on server, you might also check out:

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218080/smart-tables-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218080/smart-tables-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

This one works without using any macros in a page, allows sorting \& filtering out of the box.

Best

JP
Is it possible to recover lost pages that are caused of a crash from Confluence side?
Asked by anna sonesson:

I wonder if it is possible to recover lost pages and documentation that are caused by a crash from Confluence side. For example if Confluence goes down, and they loose my documentation. Is there any chance for me to get the pages and documentation back?


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@anna sonesson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3408971)

Let's say you edit a new page. Then, suddenly server goes down. After the restart of Confluence, your work is still stored in the unpublished changes, called [Drafts](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-drafts-work-on-confluence-938043306.html).

So therefore, Yes, it is possible.

Regards

Dominic
Pull jira task status
Asked by Raghavendra Chavan:

Hi,

Can you please let me know how to pull jira task status( to do, in progress or done) to confluence?

Regards,

Raghav


Answers:
author: Sireesha Dugginapeddi [Appfire]
body: Hi [@Raghavendra Chavan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3456994)

You can either -

* include [Jira issue](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/jira-issues-macro-139380.html) macro filter (shortcut cmd/ctrl + shift + j ) on a Confluence page to fetch the required ticket(s) customizing the info (ticket no, status, reporter...) you want to display in the page.  
  or
* copy the link of the ticket and paste it on a Confluence page, which automatically pastes the ticket number followed by description and status.

Let me know if this works for you!

Thanks

Sireesha
Admin cannot change restrictions on pages
Asked by Jan Folkert Kunst:

Hi All,

We have some authorisation issues. Somehow i am, as an admin, the only one who can change rights on certain pages. I have give the admin role to two more people, but they are not able to change admin rights. Once they select a user group to give access to an error message appears "cannot change...yada yada..try at a later moment".

Can you please help?

<br />

Cheers,

JF


Answers:
author: Jan Folkert Kunst
body: Hi Bill,

Yes, they do. Check the picture. However, i have now added them as individual users (and gave them all permissions) and will test if this works tomorrow.

Cheers,

JF

![Screenshot 2019-07-11 at 10.32.21.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/60288iDF88F19C509A1C44/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2019-07-11 at 10.32.21.png")

comments: author: Bill Bailey
body: Are all pages in the space impacted or only ones that have restrictions already set?


author: Jan Folkert Kunst
body: Hi Bill,

Thanks!

The ones that have restrictions set.

Cheers,

JF


author: Bill Bailey
body: IFRC, you can have permission set on a page, and an admin can't change the permissions there, but has to go to the restricted page listing in the Space tools.
> "**Space Admin and System Administrator access to restricted pages**   
> Users with 'Admin' permissions in a space, or users with the System Administrator global permission can remove restrictions from pages, even if the page restriction prevents them from viewing the page. Go to **Space Administration** \> **Restricted Pages** .

See this discussion here: [Confluence-questions/Why-could-restricted-pages-not-be-edited-by-a-space-admin](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-could-restricted-pages-not-be-edited-by-a-space-admin/qaq-p/139360)


author: Jan Folkert Kunst
body: Hi Bill,

Thanks!

JF


author: Bill Bailey
body: If you don't mind, please accept my original answer. We champions live for the points! ;)


author: Bill Bailey
body: Do these user have permissions to set restrictions in the space?

![permissionsgrid.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/60078i3AFA48FFA9E80CA3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "permissionsgrid.png")


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I can't create Product Space.
Asked by baptistemuller:

Hi everyone,

I have an error 500 when I want to create a new Product Space and I don't know why.


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

which Confluence version are you using. There's a known bug on creating spaces which was fixed with 6.15.4

Please check:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-57943>

Best

JP

comments: author: baptistemuller
body: Hi [@JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1135065) ,

I'm on the 6.14.3

thanks for your help

Baptiste


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@baptistemuller](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2120184) ,

it's difficult to say something meaningful without any further information.

Please have a look at your logfiles. Do you find an error there?

comments: author: baptistemuller
body: Hi [@Thomas Schlegel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781483)

In fact I made a mistake in my post, the problem is that i can't create a project in the the pilot page of a product space.

thanks for yout help,

Baptiste


Tags: confluence-server

server
I want to insert all contents(all rows and columns of table view of)a confluence form into database.
Asked by Inder:

I have to access to database, now I like create a page in confluence where user can fill the form and their record automatically pushed in our database. could u please help me in this.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I would remove your database access. You don't need it, because you do not want to use it to do this. You must never write to an Atlassian database when the application is running, because you will, at best, make what you've written useless, and at worst, lose everything.

Forget the database, write your code to push your data in over the REST API.
confluence log so huge
Asked by starxiang1945_Private:

After i started confluence service, the log files under the log folder is continuously accumulated, even if the set in log4j.property is left as unchanged.

    log4j.appender.confluencelog.MaxFileSize=20480KBlog4j.appender.confluencelog.MaxBackupIndex=5

and my logs go to size of 300 GB

And these huge files are of two kind of formats

one is "catalina.2019=07-08.log","catalina.2019=07-07.log"

another one is "confluence200619175351 -stderr 2019-06-21"

Please help me solve this problem


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hey, welcome to the Community!

The application logs in Confluence's *home* folder are controlled by the log4j flags. In the application *install* folder where you find **catalina.out**, the application settings don't have an effect.

We've got a [KB article describing how to use **logrotate** to trim these logs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-rotate-the-tomcat-catalina-log-file-224398003.html). Although the article mentions Jira explicitly, the same instructions apply for Confluence (just make sure you're using the right file paths). This is the best way right now to get the log files you mentioned under control.

If you walk through the steps in the article and still need help, let me know!

Cheers,  
Daniel


Tags: confluence-server

server
Migration from another server
Asked by Davide Ricardo:

Hello guys,

We have JIRA and Confluence self-host Server solutions and recently it was needed to move them from a server to another one.

The issue was, that the server was damaged so we'd to backup confluence and JIRA directories as the databases.

We moved them to the new server, which has a different domain and using SSL.

Besides this movement, we were using JIRA 7 so we would like to upgrade it to 8. And the same goes to Confluence (v.5.8.15), but it's not mandatory.

Regarding JIRA we were able to migrate it to v.8 and put it up and running, but it seems it's not completely ok, because we cannot, for instance, assign issues to users or change the status of the issue. We get an email saying that the task was processed, however on JIRA nothing changes.

Regarding Confluence, we're still using the old version, however, we cannot open any of the spaces that we have. Before we'd "An error occurred while searching for spaces", however, now and by using some of you support tickets says there is none (when on the homepage we can see some of them).

So, we have two different issues, that we don't know how to fix them.

We're also thinking of migrating from self-hosted to the cloud. However, first of all, we need to put the systems up and running correctly.

Can you help us?

Thanks

Davide Ricardo


Answers:
author: Craig Castle-Mead
body: Hi [@Davide Ricardo](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/87833)

Firstly, I would highly recommend that you isolate each of these changes - firstly, move servers and match the same JIRA/confluence versions, then ensure everything is working as expected. Once this is done (and ideally running without a problem for a week or two), then uograde the JIRA version. This approach should help as you halve the possible problems (was it the migration or the upgrade that caused the problem).

with the issues you're mentioning (can't view spaces and can't create issues), id check the application logs, but it sounds like the platform is somewhat working, so maybe start looking at users and groups related to key permissions.

CCM


Tags: confluence-server

jira-software

jira-software-server

server
change db in confluence.cfg.xml but cause problem
Asked by Benjamin Deng:

Spring Application context has not been set  
\&nbsp;  
I want to start a new confluence service with the existing db.  
Pretty sure that I have the right permission. But when I change db info in confluence.cfg.xml, it cause context problem. How can I fix it?  
\&nbsp;


Answers:
author: Benjamin Deng
body: ![QQ??20190707230516.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59816i75CE3784CB5BA482/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "QQ??20190707230516.jpg")

Damn it! It's my mistake. I totally misunderstand the meaning of this sentence. It means you should at least create an available space and a admin user which makes sure that your wiki is OK to run. Then you can edit cfg file without damage on it. Thx guys!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Of the answers that you have already been given, what is different to your case?


author: Milan Chheda [INFOSYSTA]
body: There can be multiple causes for this problem to which there are different resolutions. Read [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-does-not-start-due-to-spring-application-context-has-not-been-set-218278311.html).

comments: author: Benjamin Deng
body: I believe that i meet all requirements.And still have the problem.?


author: Yoga Reddy {Appfire}
body: Hi [@Benjamin Deng](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2755942)   

The simililar issue has been discussed [here](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Cannot-restore-Confluence-from-existing-database/qaq-p/736817), please verify.  

thanks

Yoga

comments: author: Benjamin Deng
body: i Google the answer at very first time And still have the problem. The problem makes me crazy.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Delete Issue & Add User
Asked by mh:

Help! This software is just not intuitive.

I need to delete an issue and from my research, I've learned that there is some permission somewhere I need to change. I'm spending way too much time researching this. Can someone please help? I'm a project admin.

I also need to add a user. When I try to add them, I get a message stating I "can only add people who have joined the site. Site admins can change this in their site administration settings."

I cannot find the "site administration settings." I'm not seeing a site permission setting option by this name.

I'm using the Cloud version.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: To delete a page in Confluence, you need to have the "delete page" permission. This is set in the "space administration" section, which space admins have full access to.

Adding a user is a little different - users are maintained in the general Cloud settings, by "site admins", not application admins. You'll need the site admins to create the user (or enable self-sign up, so the person can create their own account), make sure they have the global "can use confluence" group(s), and then your space admins will be able to use that account in the space permissions.

comments: author: mh
body: Nic, thanks for your reply. To clarify, I don't need to delete a page. I just want to delete a backlog issue I added.

I'll request access as a master admin to add an external user.

This application has waaaaaay too many options and the back-end administration is much too complicated.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence doesn't have "issues", and you labelled this with Confluence and then talked as though it was Confluence.

My best guess now is that you really mean Jira, where you need to be granted "delete issue" in the project's permission scheme.

Jira admin is complex because Jira is powerful and flexible - that's the price of flexibility.


author: mh
body: Thanks, I did mean Jira. I was told I am an admin so I'm confused why a simple action like deleting an issue is turned off by default. I'll look at the project's permission scheme.

Also, how do I add a new external user?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's off by default because it's usually a bad idea to let people delete Jira issues. As soon as you've confirmed a deletion, the issue is gone. These forums are rammed with questions about restoring deleted issues, because people have been allowed to delete in error. Restoration is a nightmare at the best of times, you have to go to the last backup, restore it on a test system, then try to work out how to merge the issues back in to the main system.

As an admin, you can add users from the users menu in the admin section.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Keeping content updated between two pages?
Asked by Mirna Lessinger:

We have a page with a list of people that's updated regularly (in a table) and I'd like to use some of the columns in a different page, in a table that has different/additional columns. Is there any way to easily do this?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Mirna,

Good afternoon and thank you for contacting us.

The only options I can think that you can use which are built into Confluence would be the [Excerpt Include Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/excerpt-include-macro-724765190.html) or the [Page Properties Report Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/page-properties-report-macro-724765250.html). However, they wouldn't meet your requirements exactly, since the Excerpt can include a whole table but not individual columns, and the Page Properties macro is more just for showing key and value pairs.

You might be able to use something like [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) in order to do this. I would recommend having a look at that well as [some of the other add-ons that are available](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=tables) for Confluence Cloud.

I hope that helps! Do let me know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

cloud

confluence-cloud
Upgraded Confluence 6.9.0 - not not able connect
Asked by Gio Zanetta:

Upgraded confluence (no errors) and now when I run the batch file to load confluence the dos window is sitting on .... ClusterSetupConfig$1 Populating setup configuration if running with Cluster mode....

I do not have any Confluence Clusters.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Gio,

Welcome to Atlassian Community! It's nice to have you.

Can you let me know what version of Confluence you upgraded to from version 6.9.0? What method did you use, and what sort of database are you running?

Can you please show me the full stack trace from the [Confluence Server Logs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/working-with-confluence-logs-108364721.html) from when you try to start Confluence?

Regards,

Shannon
Change many pages and publish them later
Asked by Daniele Federico:

Hello there,

we use Confluence as a public online user documentation for one of our softwares.

As we are approaching a new major release and we have created a lot of new features (plus changed a lot of the current workflow), I was wondering if it's possible to create a parallell version of the docs and publish them at a later stage.

<br />

It's possible the changes will few days and I wouldn't want to:

* I wouldn't want to save a draft for every page and publish each one later.
* edit and publish the pages straight away as we are not going to release the new version of the software for another couple of weeks

The optimal solution would be to create a "branch" of the docs (sort of what you would do with git) and publish them at a later stage.

I hope what I said makes sense.

Thanks,  
Daniele


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: Confluence makes drafts by default and you can learn more about that here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-drafts-work-on-confluence-938043306.html>

I would suggest you use an app like this [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217917/page-branching-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview\&_ga=2.217165599.822234515.1562369574-1213479325.1559944477](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217917/page-branching-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview&_ga=2.217165599.822234515.1562369574-1213479325.1559944477) or this [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/143/comala-publishing?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/143/comala-publishing?hosting=server&tab=overview)

comments: author: Daniele Federico
body: Thanks,

comala publishing does exactly what I was looking for!  

Daniele


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Embed files inside a calendar
Asked by Joshua Hayhurst:

Hello,

I have a recurring task that happens twice to three times a week and are always planned for the entire month ahead of time. Users complete the task and update via a post analysis report. I currently am housing the report in expand macros filtered by year, month, then the day the task is due. However, I would much prefer to have a calendar widget to show all scheduling items, not just the task discussed. Is it possible to embed a text file inside the calendar on the day that it was completed? Users would then be able to click on the task and download the report or view in the browser. This would get rid of the need for the expand macro.

I'm sure there are better options, but for visualization purposes this would be much more preferred. Although, I am still open to all other ideas.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hey there Joshua! Thanks for sharing this with the Community.

Currently, there is no feature that allows the linking or attachment of files to Team Calendars events. We have this report, which still needs verification:

[CONFCLOUD-33463 \| link to an attachment from a team calendar event](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-33463)

The best course of action would be to vote and watch this report. Here is how the implementation of new features work:

[Implementation of New Features Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/implementation-of-new-features-policy-201294576.html)

As a workaround, you could use the *Description Field*in the events and add a link to your content there, as soon as the report is ready. Further, using this method we could:
> 1. Create a new page
> 2. Embed the Team Calendars Macro
> 3. Use the most adequate view mode for the calendar
> 4. Publish the page
> 5. Use the description field to add links to the events

Let us know about your thoughts Joshua! Looking forward to your reply.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence

atlassian-marketplace
Attempting to read corporate confluence page using python
Asked by polinag96@tamu.edu:

I am attempting to read contents of my corporate confluence page using a python script. I've tried using the python requests library and was not able to connect. I tested my request code on a non-corporate test confluence page and it worked. I've also tried using the confluence REST API curl command and was still unable to connect.

Whenever I run the requests library without my own credentials, I get a 404 error. However, if I run the requests library with my credentials I get no output of the page. When I run the curl command, I get a connection refused error.

Does anyone know what mistakes I might be making or any other methods I can attempt to read a confluence page?


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: You can reuse that one

<https://github.com/atlassian-api/atlassian-python-api/tree/master/examples/confluence>


Tags: confluence-server

python

rest-api

server
Display list of nested pages on parent page?
Asked by Michael Arndt:

How can I display a listed of pages nested underneath a main page?

For instance, I have a series of pages as seen here.

On the "Scorecards" page I want to list all linked pages nested underneath it.

![Snipaste_2019-07-05_11-43-44.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/59763i091959707B723195/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Snipaste_2019-07-05_11-43-44.png")


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The "child pages" macro does this.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to add a label to a default template
Asked by Maxim Shesterkin:

Hello, everyone.

How can i add group of labels in to a global template "Meeting-notes".

When i push button create from template i need to see on created page label "meeting-notes" and label with name of one of the team.


Answers:
author: Yoga Reddy {Appfire}
body: Hi [@Maxim Shesterkin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/570386)   

Please verify the following [link](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Adding-label-to-quot-Create-from-template-quot-macro/qaq-p/81608) and a good amount of discussion has happened related to your issue.  

<br />


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence actual version
Asked by Camille Puisais:

Hi,

I would like to know the best way to know in which version I currently use Confluence.

I need to use the option collaborative editing and I don't see it for now.

Regards

Camille


Answers:
author: Ismael Jimoh
body: If you are on confluence server do the following:

1. log out of confluence.
2. scroll to the bottom of the page
3. you should see the actual version along with various languages.

hope it helps.