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Linking content from one page to another in Confluence
Asked by lennon_x:

We have bunch of Confluence pages for each team to note down the leaves. Each such page consists of a table with team, team member name, month, week ..etc.

Now we want to have a consolidate page which shows information about all the teams in a single page. Can we create a consolidated page which uses the content in all other pages?

I read about macros/excerpts but couldn't understand how they can be used. Is it possible to use content from one page in another page dynamically?


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Yes,

You need to put the content you want to share with another page (for example the table) in an Excerpt macro.

You then use the Excerpt include macro to get that Excerpt block into your single page.

You could also take a look at the iframe and html macro's to include information from other pages.

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: lennon_x
body: Thanks for the answers.

I could use Excerpts macro to put tables in other pages, and then use all of them in a single page.

However, I wanted to combine the column content of those tables into a single table in new page.

That doesn't seem to be possible with Excerpts macros, I can't put column content of table into an Excerpt. I can only put the entire table into one Excerpt.

I found few post related to the subject:

[](/questions/198380/how-to-combine-content-of-two-different-tables-into-one-table)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/198380/how-to-combine-content-of-two-different-tables-into-one-table>

(This requires Confluence 5.X, we are running 4.3)

[](/questions/52764/recipe-for-using-reporting-plugin-to-combine-tables-from-child-pages)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/52764/recipe-for-using-reporting-plugin-to-combine-tables-from-child-pages>

(This uses third party plugins)

I am trying to divide the content with page layouts. [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Page+Layouts+and+Columns+and+Sections)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Page+Layouts+and+Columns+and+Sections>

I don't know how they are going to work though...


author: Mick Davidson
body: Lennon,

I've done this a few times using the Page Include macro. All you have to do is create a new page, the one where you want all the info to appear on, then add the Page Include macro.

Do this for all the pages you want to include.

A downside to this is that you can end up with a very long page. But you can always use the TOC so you can link to everything. If I were doing this I'd set the page up so it had two sections, with the right one being narrower. That's where I'd add the TOC macro.

Peter is right, though the excerpt macro is normally used with smaller sections of content, not the whole page. and you can only use it once on the page you are extracting content from.

Cheers.
User access
Asked by Fabian Nowak:

Greetings,

We re looking forward to use Confluence in our business.

I downloaded and installed this product on a Windows Server 2012 test-server.

The first impression was really good, but I can t manage it, to let clients access the wiki.

Is there any other programm necessary, or is this function not available in the test-version?

Best regards


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Fabian,

You can manage your users within confluence.

You'll need to use the administrator account you've created while installing the tool.

Then you'll need to add users or make it possible for them to create an account.

Take a look here for more information: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Confluence+Users)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Confluence+Users>

Best regards,

Peter
Migrating from Wiki to Confluence
Asked by louis ortega:

Hi ,

I am in an env that currently has google docs and wiki. I am having probs uploading from conversion from .doc extension from google download to confluence ...any suggestions or comments is great ... thank you


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's not enough information to start to help you here. "Having problems" tells us nothing. What are you doing and what is going wrong?


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I send email notifiactions to page watches via a plugin module
Asked by Chris Kent:

I am devloping a plugin, and I have a servlet in which I want to be able to send a custom email to all watches of the page, so it looks like a normal confluence notification, with the start of the body reading: "Your action is needed on this page" and then the usual page link and extract...

How can I do this?

I have found the NotificationManager, but I can't see how to send a custom email. Also I'm not sure how to find all the watches, or how to send to all watches. I would have thought this would have a simple API?

Please help...


Answers:
author: Chris Kent
body: I found out the answer, and it's not as easy as I thought, using the example: [](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Sending+Emails+in+a+Plugin)<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Sending+Emails+in+a+Plugin>

I need to go through every user in Confluence, verify if they are watching the page in question, then send off a custom email.

It's not nice and lots of code to send a confluence looking email.


author: Onkar Ahire
body: Hi Chris,

[](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Posting+Notifications+in+Confluence)<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Posting+Notifications+in+Confluence>

plugin module in confluence might help you...

Regards

Onkar Ahire!
Create Mail Server in Confluence 5.5.2
Asked by Manosh Malai:

### Dear Team, {#toc-hId-1509171195}

In our company we implement confluence server, We are not able to configure mail server setup in the product. we are using gmail , please do the needfull on the same.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: We can't do the work for you - you need to set up your server to connect to your gmail accounts.

What documentation are you following, if any? And what have you done to try to configure it so far?


author: Theinvisibleman
body: You can also follow this documentation on setting up mail servers - [Configuring a Server for Outgoing Mail](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+Server+for+Outgoing+Mail)


Tags: confluence-administration
Browse sequence
Asked by Sulekha Gulati:

Hello,

Is it possible to have the browse sequence type of functionality in confluence like we have in RoboHelp to provide with different type of sequence to different users?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You probably need to explain what "browse sequence" actually does if you want help from anyone who isn't familiar with Robohelp.
How do you remove the advertisement from the dashboard
Asked by Dean Poole:

I noticed recently that all the user dashboard pages are showing a Confluence University training advertisement in the top left of the screen. Can someone advise how to remove this as can't seem to locate where to switch this off.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Luciano Fagundes
body: Dean,

If you want to get this removed, please open a support ticket ([](http://support.atlassian.com)<http://support.atlassian.com>) select OnDemand project and request to have it removed.

Cheers

Luciano Fagundes


author: Dean Poole
body: Raised a support ticket.


author: Dean Poole
body: Thanks all for answering - I did indeed raise with the support guys and it is now removed.


author: BillA
body: More information about this can be found at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+Communication+Engine+FAQ>


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Dean, that can is something that can be taken care by the OnDemand support team, since at the present date there is no off switch in the interface.

Hope it helps!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
When I add an html table to a confluence page, it automatically adds lots of tags to cells.
Asked by g m:

When I add an html table to a confluence page, it automatically adds lots of \<BR\>\</BR\> tags to cells. What do I need to do to get this to not add these tags? Thanks


Answers:
author: Sabine Winkler
body: Hi,

to add HTML markup to the page you need to use the HTML Macro. This you can enable as an administrator - details provided here \[1\]. After enabling you can use the following notation \[2\]:

```
{html}&lt;a href="http://www.atlassian.com"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to see the &lt;b&gt;Atlassian&lt;/b&gt; website.{html}
```

HTH, Sabine

\[1\] [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Enabling+HTML+macros)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Enabling+HTML+macros>

\[2\] <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/HTML+Macro>

comments: author: g m
body: Thanks for the help! I should have specified that I am creating the table between the {html} tags. When someone edits the page it creates lots of \<BR\>\</BR\> tags in the table cells.

Thanks


Tags: html
Confluence->HipChat integration: no rooms?
Asked by Tim Yocum:

Installed the Confluence-\>HipChat integration, changed the API host to https://\<name\>.hipchat.com, put in an Admin-level API key. No errors on the administrative page where these two items are configured, however from within a document space settings, on the HipChat tab, no rooms are shown. Revealing JS console provides the following clue:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'rooms' of nullcom.atlassian.labs.hipchat.confluence-hipchat:space-config.js:93

Any ideas what's going on? It would seem that it can't read the list of rooms, but the API is not giving any errors; I've tried two admin-level keys. All that's visible is the following:

[](https://www.dropbox.com/s/dleugatwe1cltp7/Screenshot%202014-06-20%2017.45.24.png)[https://www.dropbox.com/s/dleugatwe1cltp7/Screenshot%202014-06-20%2017.45.24.png](https://www.dropbox.com/s/dleugatwe1cltp7/Screenshot%25202014-06-20%252017.45.24.png)

I have tried removing the plugin and reinstalling repeatedly as well as restarting Confluence, all without success.


Answers:
author: Tim Yocum
body: The Go2Group plugin works, but not without plenty of warnings from Confluence that it's not compatible with my version (latest) - any idea when you'll have it updated?

Shame that the official one doesn't work, but this works well enough - thanks.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Can you try this plugin and see if it is any different? [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.go2group.hipchat-confluence)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.go2group.hipchat-confluence>


author: Tim Yocum
body: I should mention that I have tried the [api.hipchat.com](http://api.hipchat.com)endpoint as well, with similar results (no rooms shown.)


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Are you trying Hipchat Server beta? If not, use [](https://api.hipchat.com)<https://api.hipchat.com>.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can a question emailed in outlook to a co-worker be tracked in Confluence Questions so others can see it?
Asked by Mike Francis:

Title says most of it... in our work environment a lot of questions get asked to subject matter experts via outlook. it would be great to have a plug-in or way to flag the email such that the thread got added to Confluence Questions. Then everyone could see the conversation. Is anything like this possible?

Mike


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Mike, you can receive a digest of created questions. You will receive notifications when a new one is created, as described in [this feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-483).

What we do here is to encourage that topics get created directly in that channel - Confluence Questions - prior to continuing with the email discussion thread.

Alternatively you can describe the functioning of the feature and add it to a ticket in <http://jira.atlassian.com>under Confluence Questions project, in that manner it can be [evaluated](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy) to become something delivered in upcoming releases.

Hope it helps.


Tags: ms-outlook

questions-for-confluence
Related articles doesn't exclude the current page
Asked by Nathan Reid:

When I create new pages, the related articles list for that page always lists that page. It is silly for the page to "relate" to itself and takes up one of the related articles slots, preventing another relevant page from being show in its place.  
How do I exclude the page from the list of related articles?

![](../../upfiles/relate.PNG)


Answers:
author: Rolando Granadino
body: I'm seeing this issue as well, we're on the cloud version of Confluence.


author: Chris Johnson
body: The problem remains after 2+ years. What's up?


author: Suha Aktan
body: 1. Edit **Content by Label** macro
2. Show Options
3. Exclude current page

Should be default, though!

comments: author: Mihai Ban
body: Unfortunately, that fix is only on the Server version, not the Cloud yet.

<br />

I'm following this issue here - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-5245>


author: Karl Hennermann
body: This a To-Do, see JIRA Service Desk issue: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSD-540>

comments: author: Annika
body: The Confluence loud Ticket is in the status 'Gathering Interest'

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-5245>


author: Carolyn Phillips
body: Did it gather enough interest yet?


author: Catherine Armstrong
body: While the fact that I'm searching for and reading this article I guess means this is still unresolved. Bummer.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi!

I couldn't find any bug report for this behavior yet. Would be possible to state which version of confluence you are using?

Can you try to use the latest version of confluence as such this might have been fixed.

If you can provide the exact steps to reproduce the problem in the latest version that would be great so we can open a bug report if we are successful.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Abe S
body: Stop being lazy, that's your job.


author: Krystian Du?y?ski
body: ?

Four years and still no such simple option? To simply exclude current page?


author: Bob Doiron
body: We just switched to confluence/jira and what a productivity killer. I'm always spending time trying to figure out why basic things are just broken or have stupid behavior. I guess their motto is "just live with it".


author: Carolyn Phillips
body: The exact steps are:

1. Use the **Content by Label** macro on a page.

2. Page itself shows up as a Related Article on it's own page.
External Cloud Storage systems to connect to confluence
Asked by Daniel Samuels:

Hi,

I am wondering if there are any recommended external cloud strogage systems to use with confluence. We are looking at a few different options ([box.net](http://box.net), [dropbox.com](http://dropbox.com), Alfresco...etc) that we would like to integrate with our conlfuence system, and wanted to see if:

A. Does Atlassian have a recommended cloud storage system we should use?

B. Has anyone else had any successes integrating confluence with an external cloud storage system?

Thanks,

Daniel


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

We have some customers that set their environment under AWS box, but I haven't heard about box.net/dropbox neither Alfresco. I'd consider using Amazon cloud system.  

Cheers,  
WZ

comments: author: Daniel Samuels
body: Hi William,

Thanks for the advice - ill definitely look into the Amazon Cloud and see what we can do with that.

Best,

Daniel


Tags: cloud

confluence-administration

storage
Daily report email not being sent
Asked by Kieren Johnstone:

Having enabled logging the message below is shown, despite the mail server being configured correctly, having tried recreating the settings, etc:

<br />

```
[confluence.mail.template.AbstractMailNotificationQueueItem] send Unable to send email since no mail server has been configured.
```

This feature was working fine, and 'spontaneously' stopped working one day - no changes to any config, no updates being applied, etc.

Any pointers or areas to look into would be greatly appreciated.


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

I'd recommend you to re-do the email that you have configured there, because from the message that you added here, it seems that Confluence couldn't find the server. If you're using an email powered by Google (Gmail) you might want to have a look in this documentation:  

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=42795030)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=42795030>  

Cheers,  
WZ

comments: author: Kieren Johnstone
body: Hi William, thank you, but I don't understand - the "test mail" works fine. It also doesn't give an SMTP error or say that there's a problem finding the server, it says that no mail server is configured. (I've seen from other things around the net that if there's an SMTP error, or the server isn't found, that isn't the message). I appreciate the advice, but could you let me know what makes you think the server is not being found?


author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hey Kieren,

Hmm, could you check if the other parts of the mail server is working well? For example, other notifications (such as changes on watched pages or blogs. Also, test if the 'send test mail' is working.

comments: author: Kieren Johnstone
body: Thanks Joe: Other notifications are apparently working fine; the Send Test Mail also comes through correctly. Is there anything else I can try?


Tags: confluence-administration
Disable Signup form for guest users?
Asked by Ian Mason:

How can I go about disabling the sign up form for guest users in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Pedro Souza
body: I believe this document may help:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+anonymous+access)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+anonymous+access>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access>

comments: author: Ian Mason
body: Thanks! Is there any documentation on removing the sign-up form?


author: Ian Mason
body: Or disabling public sign up altogether?
Why is my custom JavaScript not working in Confluence?
Asked by SebastianK:

As a workaround for this bug: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33273)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33273>

I'm trying to run the following JS via the "Custom HTML" at the end of HEAD:

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;AJS.toInit(function(){    AJS.$("#rte-button-publish").attr('data-tooltip','(Ctrl + S)');});&lt;/script&gt;
```

I've run the JS via console and it works but it doesn't seem to get loaded directly on the page and I cannot figure out why since I followed this [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Use+JavaScript+in+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Use+JavaScript+in+Confluence>as far as I can tell.

Any suggestions?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Your JS is probably running prior to #rte-button-publish existing on the page. Which is why it works in the console, but not during page load.

comments: author: SebastianK
body: I thought that might be the reason but then doesn't "AJS.toInit" take care of that problem? I thought it should but clearly it doesn't. Why not?

[](http://api.jquery.com/ready/)<http://api.jquery.com/ready/>

Why you no like me?


author: Davin Studer
body: If #rte-button-publish is being injected into the DOM by AJS.toInit() as well, then it might be happening after yours.


author: SebastianK
body: Maybe the property gets set after I've tried changing it with my hack. Not sure how I could resolve that... The injected property value depends on the OS... Does anybody know the source of the values that get injected? There seems to have been a version where the Save button tooltip is too long which messes up what I'm currently fighting...btw, when I tried to edit my answer above it didn't work at all (using Chrome)


author: SebastianK
body: ```
if (!AJS.$("#rte-button-publish").length) alert("all alone");
```

But that would mean that the code above should create the alert, right? It does on all pages except the edit screen. This is incredibly frustrating... The bug seems to be rare and my clearly not so genius workaround doesn't cut it either.


Tags: javascript
Why does Confluence Questions not index the content of answers?
Asked by Robert Petermeier:

It seems that the content of answers to questions in Confluence Questions is not indexed. This can be checked rather easily by searching for a word that appears in some answer, but not in the respective question. The search will only find questions which match the search input.

I tried rebuilding the index manually, but to no avail. Is that a (known) bug, or do I have to configure something?


Answers:
author: BillA
body: It is a known issue that we've got on the backlog. Please watch this ticket for updates <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-30>


author: zeph harben
body: Thanks, Bill! We'll follow CQ-30. Hope this gets resolved soon.


author: zeph harben
body: I'm evaluating Confluence Questions and just noticed the same thing!


Tags: questions-for-confluence

search
SSO not working with confluence
Asked by Shravanthi Sudarshana:

I have integrated crowd with jira successfully. SSo is also working fine with JIRA and CROWD.

However after i integrated confluence, users are able to login to confluence. But SSO is not working with CROWD or JIRA. I checked seraph-config.xml to enable SSO authenticator. I also checked crowd.properties file and all urls are fine. Am not sure why SSO is not working with confluence. This instance of confluence has a few users in internal directory as well .

Crowd, jira and confluence are all in same sub domain. The only difference is that jira has SSL enabled whereas crowd and confluence does not have SSL yet.

Am not sure what am doing wrong here but my SSO doesnt seem to work with confluence. Please help!


Answers:
author: Shravanthi Sudarshana
body: The issue is resolved. Catch was that i had to use the same user directory in crowd for JIRA and confluence. Unfortunately i couldnt find this in atlassian documentation.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Could be due to many things like domain name, proxy settings etc. Maybe this documentation is useful: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Troubleshooting+SSO+with+Crowd)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Troubleshooting+SSO+with+Crowd>

comments: author: Shravanthi Sudarshana
body: I checked all the steps mentioned in the link (except trusted proxy one) and they all seem to be working fine and i did not find any issue. When i login to confluence and the open crowd link, then am automatically logged in to crowd, however converse is not true. Also SSO is not working with jira yet.

Any idea what the issue might be?


Tags: confluence-administration