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Link Macro not displaying search results
Asked by Patrick Ainslie:

When my colleague types the link command, it shows him Confluence pages he's recently viewed, but doesn't allow him to search for others. It looks like if he navigate to the link outside the editor and copy/paste the link, that would potentially allow him to link other pages.

Is there a permission to allow for all pages to be visible in search?


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: This change was introduced with the new editor.

Have a look at this page to understand all the differences:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-cloud-editor-roadmap-967314556.html#ConfluenceCloudEditorRoadmap-Featurecomparison>

There is a request to bring this back:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65363>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
An user who has been granted a permission has no access to Space.
Asked by Tatjana Nedeva:

Hi there,

An user, added to a group is not able to have access to a Space. All other users in this group have access.

What I am missing?

Thank you in advance

Kind Regards


Answers:
author: Darryl St_ Pierre
body: Hi [@Tatjana Nedeva](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2961366) !

Does the user have access to any other spaces in your Confluence instance?

There are a couple of group considerations involved with access in Confluence Cloud. The first is the group that has permissions to a specific space, and I assume that is what you are asking about. The permission for this group is set under Space Settings in the space.

Additionally, a user also needs to be a member of a group that has access to the Confluence product. This is configured in Settings by an administrator. For example, in the screenshot below, if the user is not a member of at least one of the groups shown, they will not be able to access any spaces.

![Product-access.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80036i635EFB4574A24794/image-dimensions/454x258?v=v2 "Product-access.png")

If this does not address your question, could you provide more details about your environment and how the user is setup?

Darryl

comments: author: Tatjana Nedeva
body: Hi Darryl,

Thank you for your reply. All users' permissions were fine. However, I found another level of restrictions set up on the space overview. So I added this user and he has access now.

unfortunately, it was not straight forward finding it. it took me quite long to figure it out.

Have a nice day ahead

Tatjana


Tags: confluence-cloud
How do you run custom code at page startup?
Asked by David Hunt:

On my main Confluence page I'd like a big red banner that states "Website [www.xyz.com](http://www.xyz.com) is down!" whenever that site is down. Is there a built in way to do this, or is there a way to run a block of HTML code that could check this? I don't want the banner to appear if the website is available.

(Atlassian Confluence 6.15.8)


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: [@David Hunt](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2276218)There is no default way of doing this. But you can customize look and feel of page header section in Confluence.

So I would suggest you to add empty \`div\` as a placeholder and a custom JS, that verify if the site is UP and in case site is down, insert some text in div.

You can learn this from here - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-add-a-site-wide-banner-165609599.html>


Tags: confluence-server

html

server
Can I display an active, responsive sprint in confluence
Asked by OliverD:

Hi All,

I want to know if it's possible to display an active JIRA sprint in confluence, I have looked for a gadget / macro that provides this functionality but can only find an overall process macro based on story points.

Is there anything that details issues and allows you to filter between team members in the same way the roadmap macro does? Or at least with similar functionality?

Thanks

Oliver


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@OliverD](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3669362) !

I believe I understand your situation and would like to be straight to point with you. ++*Natively, Confluence does not have a tool for such.*++

The closes to that would be for us to include the sprint page itself within our Confluence pages. Here is how:
> 1. *Go to your Jira instance*
> 2. *Get the sprint link (the screenshot down here shows where you can get this link) ![share.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80955i838D1A135D07C4AF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "share.png")*
> 3. *Go to Confluence*
> 4. *Create or Edit a page*
> 5. *Insert the iFrame macro:**[\[Confluence Cloud\] iFrame Macro![macro.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80956i624D73D686A6AE3B/image-dimensions/477x291?v=v2 "macro.png")](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/iframe-macro-950276528.html)***
> 6. *Use the link you got from Jira earlier*
> 7. *Set the macro width as 100%*
> 8. *Set the macro height as desired (I used 700px for a better viewing experience) ![page.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80957iF9446D4495E52535/image-dimensions/477x268?v=v2 "page.png")*

This solution is not as easy or well polished as a macro or gadget, but I believe that it can help with the situation.

Let us know if this helped, Oliver. Looking forward to your reply!

comments: author: OliverD
body: This is great, thanks Diego, this essentially achieves what we are looking for.


author: Diego
body: Wonderful to hear that! I noticed that my previous message did not include the screenshots I mentioned. I edited it to include those.

Come share with us in the future, Oliver!


author: Kavitha_Rani.Sinha
body: [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952) Can this also be accomplished on server side?  
since we done have iframe macro in our instance.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira-software
Image are being reorder after submitting page changes
Asked by Esraa Ahmed:

Hi, Recently we are facing an issue with any page which has uploaded images, after adding the data and the images, submit, the images will be reordered (last image will go with the first paragraph and the first img will go somewhere else)

We only faced this issue recently, before it was working fine, Any idea how to solve that?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Esraa,

Thank you for reporting this issue to us.

Can you confirm with me your Confluence version, and if this is only happening on certain pages/spaces? Do multiple users run into this issue?

Can you check if that happens when you enable [Safe Mode](https://confluence.atlassian.com/upm/disabling-and-enabling-apps-273875716.html) and disable all add-ons?

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server
How to convert page/pages to HTML ?
Asked by Skotarenko Fedor:

Hi Support

Could you please describe How to convert our documentations on confluence/page spaces to HTML format ?

We need option for one page and for all pages from tree structure:

<https://avi-spl.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SYM/pages/634847570/SAL+SDK+-+Intro+-+Symphony>

tree:

<https://avi-spl.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SYM/pages/10616845/Technical+Designs+-+Symphony>

I've followed by this scenario below but can not find option Export to HTML:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/export-content-to-word-pdf-html-and-xml-724764824.html>

Thanks,

Regards,

-Fedor


Answers:
author: Skotarenko Fedor
body: Hi Support

Thanks for quick response.

Tried by link below but got this message on page:

<https://avi-spl.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/exportspacewelcome.action?key=SYM/pages/605978625/SAL+API+-+Symphony>

----

This is a restricted page {#toc-hId--1381130189}
------------------------------------------------

If you think you should have access, try asking the person who sent you here for help

---

What is wrong now ?

Regards,

-Fedor


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@Skotarenko Fedor](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3568457) ,

go to

[https://\<your-cloud-url\>.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/exportspacewelcome.action?key=\<your-space-key\>]()

There you can export your space (or part of your space) as HTML.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

html
Could not create a space
Asked by Yerkin Makzhanov:

Dear team,

I have a site [https://qpaykz.atlassian.net/ but when I try to create a space for my project I see this ![Confluence.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/79929i578CB056EB9076BC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence.PNG")](https://qpaykz.atlassian.net/)


Answers:
author: shetty
body: Hi [@Yerkin Makzhanov](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3718322)

Make sure that you have confluence admin access, then only you can create space

if you don't have access ask your jira admin to create it for you


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to add a timestamp to a blog entry?
Asked by e_baum:

Hi, when I create a blog entry there is only the date but not exact timestamp. In our blog there will be several blog entries over the day and it is important to see the exact time.

Is there any possibility?

Thanks a lot.

We're using the server edition


Answers:
author: Nicolai Sibler
body: Hi [@e_baum](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3718361) ,

please read [this article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-add-time-stamp-after-the-date-on-last-updated-information-298977923.html) - I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for as it may add the time stamp to pages only...

Hope that helps.

Best regards,

Nicolai


Tags: blog

confluence-server

server

time

timestamp
Incomprehensible line of code on each page
Asked by Vladimir Obukhov:

Hello, i update the confluence server, from 6.9.0 to 7.2.1 version, after updating I observe an obscure line of code on all pages in all spaces. I use default template for web parts.

How can this be removed?

```
#trackbackRdf ($trackbackUtils.getContentIdentifier($page) $page.title $trackbackUtils.getPingUrl($page))
```

I also see that this problem is not only mine, example:

<https://kb.nocproject.org/display/SITE/About>

<https://docs.onapp.com/display/35AG/Copy+Billing+Plan>

[https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9011888\&navigatingVersions=true](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9011888&navigatingVersions=true)


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You've used the "trackback" macro on these pages. This was deprecated a while ago and removed from Confluence 7.

In the long term, you will want to remove all usage of it.

In the short term, you can pretty it up - write a new "user macro" called trackbackRDF that does nothing at all. This will

* remove the display you're getting from every page
* enable you to use the "macro search" in Confluence admin to find and remove them

As you're seeing it a lot, I would guess you have embedded it into a theme, or possibly some page templates. I'd remove the macro from there first.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, sorry, you have misunderstood.

The code you are seeing is a block that is a macro. **That macro was removed from your install by your upgrade**.

Glad the fix helped though, even better that it was in the Layouts, so it's easy to remove!


author: Vladimir Obukhov
body: Strange, I didn't change anything at all, maybe something went wrong when updating confluence.  
And yet thanks, your advice helped solve my problem.

**My solution:**

Admin page -\> Layouts (look and feel)

Page Layout (or more) -\> Reset to default


Tags: confluence-server

server
Can I create a link that will open in a new window with the new editor?
Asked by efg:

Hi all,

Is it possible with the new confluence editor to create a link that will open the page in a new window?

Thank you


Answers:
author: Pete Singleton
body: Opening links in a new window rather than the existing one is a browser setting, not a Confluence one. I think in Chrome you can hold down "Ctrl" when clicking a link and it will open in a new tab.

For IE you can enable this as default: <https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/microsoft-office/force-internet-explorer-to-open-a-new-browser-window-from-an-office-link/>

comments: author: ?????? ????????
body: Have the same question. In old editor when you add link and add new name of the article confluence automatically create a link to creation of new article. But in new editor there is only search between existing pages and I didn't found how to create a new one.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

editor

link
Unable to see attachments in posts
Asked by Doru Valentin Ciupilan:

Hello,

It seems that for some reason, after the migration to the online version, many attachments in the posts are not visible, like they are not loaded. Did this happend to anyone as well? What was the solution/workaround?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Doru Valentin Ciupilan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3001228) ! After reading your description of the issue, I am inclined to believe that your instance is affected by a known bug that happens during migration.

The filed bug report can be found here:
> * ++**[\[Migration Platform\] \[MIG-33\] Attachments are missing after Confluence migration to the cloud, error message "Attachment File Not Found"](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/MIG-33)**++

++*Currently, the workaround revolves around deleting the affected space and then re-import the space into Confluence Cloud.*++

++*It is also a good idea to watch and vote that report*++. By watching it you will be notified about any change that might be applied there. Voting will also help to increase the visibility of the report.

I hope this helps you! Looking forward to your reply.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Where can I get sale_point_id for integrating the site with the premiumbonus API.
Asked by Sergey Shmer:

Where can I get sale_point_id for integrating the site with the premiumbonus API. And why are requests from this API executed without this parameter, if it is required?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to explain where and how you are storing this "sale point id" in Confluence. Then what the premiumbonus API is


author: Veera
body: Sorry, I never know there is something called premiumbonus API.

Can you please share some details what do you mean by premiumbonus API?
How fix this problem?
Asked by ????? ??????:

How fix this problem?

|-------------------------------------------|---------------------|-------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Could not load bootstrap from environment | 2020-01-22 10:10:49 | fatal | JdbcSQLException: Row not found when trying to delete from index """"".I357: ( /\* key:25825620 \*/ 25825620, 'LaasPerformanceLoggingJob', TIMESTAMP '2020-01-14 12:54:17.354', 58, 'A', 'LaaS performance logging is turned off')" \[90112-196\] |


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There are two things I've seen cause this

First, your index is badly damaged. If you move the index files out of the cache, you may be able to restart Confluence and rebuild the index.

However, the far more likely culprit is that you are using the h2 dev/test database and that has failed. To recover from that, you are going to need to find a backup and restore it.

comments: author: ????? ??????
body: How rebuild index in H2?


author: ????? ??????
body: and where index files of cache


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, ok, there's a slight misunderstanding here.

Confluence keeps its data in a database, although it only uses it as a data store. Ideally you use one of the four supported databases, but if you want a dev/test/demo Confluence that you don't mind rebuilding or throwing away, you can run the installer and tell it to use the "embedded database".

The index is a copy of the database on the file system, re-ordered and optimised (mostly) for searching.

These are separate things.

The index is kept in \<confluence home\>/index (note - do not delete the files in here, but stop Confluence, move them all somewhere safe, make sure the index directory is still there, with the same permissions, then restart)

To rebuild an index, go to Admin -\> Indexing and click the button.

But if it's the h2 database (which is known to catastrophically fail without warning), you won't be able to get in at all, and you'll need a backup.


author: ????? ??????
body: Can only restore backup, but now not work smtp-sender

All setting is correct, and work in other programs

if I send test e-mail -this log

An error has occurred with sending the test email:  
com.atlassian.mail.MailException: javax.mail.MessagingException: Exception reading response;  
nested exception is:  
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out  
at com.atlassian.confluence.jmx.JmxSMTPMailServer.doSendWithMessageIdSupport(JmxSMTPMailServer.java:120)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.jmx.JmxSMTPMailServer.send(JmxSMTPMailServer.java:79)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.admin.actions.mail.SendTestEmailAction.execute(SendTestEmailAction.java:57)  


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That means your confluence is not correctly configured to connect to your email service, or your email service is not running.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Why does my space (that I created) say a Former User is the administrator?
Asked by zaralord:

I can't add space shortcuts to my space, that I created and am supposed to be the administrator of - Administrator says "Former User" but we have no former users... please help!


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@zaralord](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3560986)

Is this space the default space you created?

For the default space in the free version of confluence cloud, there is a known bug: [CONFCLOUD-68319](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68319)

Also in this [community answer](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-questions/Can-t-work-with-or-delete-space-created-during-onboarding-flow/qaq-p/1205497#M1049) described.

Hope this helped.

Regards, Dominic


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Excel macros | "Error rendering macro 'viewxls'"
Asked by casey.bingham:

I have a spreadsheet I would like to have live in Confluence for additional viewers. My goal is to have it as an image, or a link, but it cannot be editable.

What are the requirements of the Excel document in order for Confluence to refresh that data, so it reflects changes? I have followed several how-to articles for adding an Excel macro, but have not been successful in seeing the Confluence document reflect the updates I make within Excel. When I click the "edit" option on the uploaded document, I get this error message for the macro:

**Error rendering macro 'viewxls'**

The viewfile macro is unable to locate the page " Embedded Excel Files" in space "TEST"


Answers:
author: Shardul Juyal {Addteq}
body: Hi Casey,  

Since the permissions are based on page and space, any-one with edit access to the page will also be able to edit the macro.  

There are two solutions i can think of:

1. Create a the image/table in a space that does not give the rest of the users edit permission and then use include macro in the destination to dis-allow edits

2. Use a spreadsheet tool like [Excellentable](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211672/excellentable-spreadsheet-for-confluence), and protect the sheet  

The **Error rendering macro 'viewxls'**IIRC was an issue with some of the larger spreadsheets. What is the size of your spreadhsheet? is it more than 2-3 MB?


Tags: confluence-server

macro

ms-excel

server
How to use Live:Reminder macro in confluence
Asked by Mirmelshtein_ Roi:

Hi All

Our confluence has a 'Live:Reminder' macro which seems to be something worth using but I cant get it to function and I cannot find any documentation on how it set it up correctly...Can anyone direct me to to its user manual?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Roi!

I found the "Live:Reminder" macro showing up in the documentation of a third-party Confluence plugin, [Live Input Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215287/live-input-macros?hosting=server&tab=overview). Here's a link to the section in their documentation where they specifically address usage of the "Live:Reminder" macro: [Live:Reminder.](https://ossapps.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LIM/overview#LiveInputMacros-Live:Reminder)

I hope this helps!  
-- Zak

comments: author: Mirmelshtein_ Roi
body: Thanks Zak it does.

But actually my Macro seems a bit different - see below

And it always gives me the "Error rendering..." no matter what I do

![Capture.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/80107iAFB51C4C8B68F656/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to recover Meeting notes?
Asked by Michael Tat:

I created a meeting notes page and documented the minutes of meetings but when i logged back in the next day the meeting notes page was blank? My understanding is Confluence automatically saves on the fly so there is no need to save meetings notes. Can someone assist how i can recover my lost meeting notes?

See printscreen showing the page was created prior day at 4pm![Meeting Notes page.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/79889iEB7F94319AE2BD8B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Meeting Notes page.PNG")


Answers:
author: Ollie Guan
body: Hello [@Michael Tat](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3717127) ,

You can revert back to an old version if you decide you don't like some of the recent changes.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/create-edit-and-publish-724764831.html>

![TIM??20200122094111.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/79899i81D7FF2C13F619FE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "TIM??20200122094111.png")


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Old school inline link to new child page
Asked by Sean Ogden:

Old school confluence allowed you to simply type \[Text to be displayed\|ChildPageLink\],

you could then publish the page and a link would be created that you could select and it would create a child page. Great for document decomposition.

I can't for the life of me find the equivalent function in the current version.

I'm trying real hard not to Flame. Please don't tell me I have to exit, create a child page, re-enter the parent and edit the link.

EDIT: Just discovered the Create\>Blank Page (Old) has the behaviour I expected. Atlassian WTH. Improvement my foot.


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Sean Ogden](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3716963)

This question was asked in another community post: See [here](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-create-a-link-to-a-page-that-doesn-t-exist-yet/qaq-p/1240674).

Short term: This feature is in the short term backlog:

* [CONFCLOUD-67129](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67129) *Link to an undefined page (a page that doesn't exist yet)*

Hope this helps

Regards, Dominic

comments: author: Sean Ogden
body: I'll accept this is a work around.

If anyone else reaches this 'answer', please take the effort to go to [CONFCLOUD-67129](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67129?_ga=2.202828433.1024903703.1579641658-1393306794.1566273752) and vote it up. This regression needs to be put right.


author: Sean Ogden
body: Actually, the work around does not work. See the issue and my comment there.


Tags: confluence-cloud