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Adding Button to Global template
Asked by Harpreet Matharu:

Hi there,

I am looking to add a form with a button that should submit form information to a specified email .

I tried using the form.aui element.I included variables in the template where Confluence will display a form prompting to supply values for the variables when user adds the page: [Create a Page from a Template - Form fields displayed by the template](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-page-from-a-template-296093793.html#CreateaPagefromaTemplate-Formfieldsdisplayedbythetemplate). But this didn't work as expected.

Also, tried using 3rd party plugin to help with the feature: [Forms for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/261/forms-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&_ga=2.193765613.1328257649.1596420352-1321210707.1576615233)

This one did work but we don't want to go with this option.

Could you please confirm if there is any other built in feature that could help us with the same?

Thank You,

Harpreet Matharu


Answers:
author: Thomas Bowskill
body: Hi [@Harpreet Matharu](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4039380)

This isn't an answer for a built-in feature (as far as I know there isn't one), but I have had a similar situation to you. I also tried Forms for Confluence and didn't really get on with it. What I did find useful was [ConfiForms by Vertuna](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211860/confiforms-data-forms-workflows?hosting=cloud&tab=overview). They've got some really good documentation examples and their support team is very helpful.

Pretty sure you can't do this out-of-the box, so would recommend looking at ConfiForms.

comments: author: Harpreet Matharu
body: Thanks for a quick response [@Thomas Bowskill](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1252132)

[ConfiForms by Vertuna](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211860/confiforms-data-forms-workflows?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&_ga=2.21411709.797217140.1596565710-1438640203.1594750209). looks good but I don't want to use a third party tool.

I was hoping to find a built in feature but couldn't find one. Thanks for the confirmation.


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Well, you will need one for this case - as creating a button and drawing a form is half the way. You need to send an email when the form is submitted. And this is when you definitely need a help of some "service / app / plugin"


author: Harpreet Matharu
body: Thanks for your help.
not user login
Asked by Bahman Sharzad:

Is that shit working correct for someone?

i have a runuser\[169\]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session closed for user confluence

in systemctl status confluence.

and no permission for user to logon.


Answers:
author: Bahman Sharzad
body: i login to confluence and under bin folder start ./startup.sh

and it's ok now. Thank you [@Nic](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/460231)


author: Bahman Sharzad
body: my runuser under pam.d is normal

auth sufficient pam_rootok.so  
session optional pam_keyinit.so revoke  
session required pam_limits.so  
session required pam_unix.so


author: Bahman Sharzad
body: i used confluence user to start services ( as systemctl service and as manual startup)

but the result is the same i don't have permission to login as otherr users.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Do not start the service as root, it will take ownership of some of the files and prevent the "runuser" from using them when the service is started as them.

I do not understand why you have messed with file permissions when I said you need to fix the permissions for the runuser in the operating system. Or why you have runuser when you have a confluence user that you should be using.


author: Bahman Sharzad
body: this is not permission as simple groups. i add 777 to all files i still has problem to login as domain user. i can see all user.


author: Bahman Sharzad
body: not help. i have a user confluence . and all confluence home and confluence is owner for all files. i start as service root has a problem. then i change i start with ./start-confliuence from command line. The result is the same. user not permission to login


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's a security setting on the operating system. You'll need to give your runuser the right permissions. This might be as simple as the groups that they belong to though.

I usually do something like running confluence as a user called (say) conf, in group conf, and all the confluence directories and files are owned by that user and group.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Default color
Asked by Silke Baumgarten:

How can I change the default text color in confluence? Or how can we change the color sceme, where you can pick the color you want your text in?

Why do we need it?

We change the color of the text for example to show changes in documents to colleagues to pink. After the colleague has seen the changes we want to change the color back to the default color so the document has one color.

Now the problem: the default text color is not in the box where you can choose what color you want. So all our documents have different colors in it because the default color is not available. It looks nearly the same but it is not a oerfect match.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Heth Siemer
body: The default text color (learned this the hard way) is actually the *very dark grey*on your color palette (assuming you used the same out-of-the-box Confluence color scheme I am)

![2020-08-05 09_07_07-Add Page - Siemer, Heather L - CHALK.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/105637iA37F2C1ACCB33A62/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-08-05 09_07_07-Add Page - Siemer, Heather L - CHALK.png")![2020-08-05 09_09_53-Add Page - Siemer, Heather L - CHALK.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/105638i7A891B5867072A5D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-08-05 09_09_53-Add Page - Siemer, Heather L - CHALK.png")

comments: author: Charlie
body: Exactly what I needed, thank you.


author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Silke, welcome to the Community!

Provided there's not other formatting involved, you could also consider clearing the formatting on a section. This resets the color back to the default:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/105706i8B36FB13135493FA/image-dimensions/512x229?v=v2 "image.png")

If there's other formatting involved however, [@Heth Siemer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1178715) 's suggestion of choosing the right color from the palette will mean less effort is involved.

For the use case you've outline though, I'm wondering if the Page Comparison Views that come as a feature in Confluence might be useful. [Details are available on this article if you're unfamiliar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-history-and-page-comparison-views-139379.html). In short, you could select two versions of the page (any previous version and the most current version, as an example) to compare. Your colleagues could then see the changes between the versions highlighted automatically, with no need to modify the actual page formatting:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/105708iC0518944D1D1436F/image-dimensions/573x299?v=v2 "image.png")Cheers,  
Daniel \| Atlassian Team


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server
What is the structure of a ConiForms parameter to append a value to a Smart Multi-Select field?
Asked by Wade Meredith:

I cannot seem to structure a parameter string correctly in an IFTTT Create/Update ConfiForms Entry Macro to append a value to an existing Smart-Select field. I can set the value completely by feeding it an \[entry.id\] string, but that removes existing values. If I just get the existing values and .append() an entry id, it breaks. Does anyone know how to do this?


Answers:
author: Wade Meredith
body: I figured this out with help from [@Alex Medved _ConfiForms_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781630)

A multi-value field wants a comma separated list of id's. So, to append to it rather than just set the value, you have to first get the current value, transform it into a list of id's, append your new id to that list with a leading comma, and then set that as the value. The function looks like this:

someMVField=\[entry._func.asRef(\[entry.someMVField.transform(id).asList\])\],\[entry.id\]

This isn't a completely straightforward solution, because of some other things going with my particular setup referenced in the link posted by Alex above, but it should get you close.


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: This looks like a duplicate of your earlier question <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Setting-appending-values-to-a-ConfiForms-Smart-Select-field/qaq-p/1448786>, Wade... no?

comments: author: Wade Meredith
body: Yes. I had just made some progress on that one, so I was able to ask in a clearer way. Now that we got on that other thread, I'll post the solution here.


Tags: confiforms

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Creating link and sub page in one action
Asked by markgillespien:

We are creating a top level list of product requirements in a table, containing the JIRA link to the agile code task, a brief user story, and then finally, if required a detailed design. This can often get very wordy, so need it's own page.

<br />

We are creating over a hundred of these in this top level table. Currently, I appear to have to go to the top of Confluence, click + add a blank page, add some content, then go back to my original page, and then add a link to it in the top level table.

This seems **REALLY clumsy**. Can I not create a link to a new page in one go?

Using confluence 7.6.1


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Almost. I create page stubs all the time.

Imagine you've got pages AAA, BBB and main. AAA and BBB live below main.

On main, you put in \[AAA\] and \[BBB\] to link to those two pages, but you can also put in \[CCC\]. When you save the page, it will show as a link (in a different colour to indicate it is a dead link) and when you click on the link, it will take you to the page create process for CCC

comments: author: mark_gillespie
body: Perfect. That's what I was looking for,

Many Thanks.


author: Heath Raftery
body: Nice.

Note it's [now](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Square-bracket-for-undefined-link-not-working/qaq-p/2049205): \[CCC\]()  

In other words, the square bracketed link name needs to be followed by empty parentheses.
Confluence not perform
Asked by Bahman Sharzad:

I have confluence 7.4 on ubuntu 20 server.

i don't have any page or doc. on it. it's very slowly. just login take a 2 - 3 min.


Answers:
author: Thomas Bowskill
body: Hi [@Bahman Sharzad](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1524631)

There is a plugin ([Melody](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/20909/javamelody-monitoring-plugin?hosting=server&tab=overview)) that might help understand if you've got underling memory issues

And check out [Atlassian's guide on troubleshooting](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/troubleshooting-problems-and-requesting-technical-support-776659671.html).

Hope these help you


Tags: confluence-server

server
[ and { shortkeys don't work in Confluence Cloud
Asked by Osman Beyaztas:

With conlfuence server i'm able to create links to pages by starting with a \[, but in the cloud version it doesn't work. Does anyone know how to "solve" this? I know it's possible to do this via ctrl+k, but this is a pitty to have this extra handling.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The / can be used instead of { to get to macros and some other shortcuts, but I can't find anything for link to another page.

comments: author: Osman Beyaztas
body: \[ is more important :-) Let's wait till someone helps me with that :-)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'd agree - I use that all the time to create stubs - pages that don't exist yet, but I need to write later, when I'm done with the current page.


author: Osman Beyaztas
body: [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) i've found the solution :) It doesn't work as good as the "on premise" way but you need to do it like this:

\[New Word\]()

This will search for the "new word" and if it's not defined it will create a link to create the new page like you've in the onpremise/server version.

I hope they will "fix" this and make it work like on the server version.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ohh, that's really good to know! Thank you!

I too hope they fix it and put back in the basic \[\<space\>: new page title\] linkage that server still has.


Tags: cloud
Create your own navmap theme - navigation map color
Asked by Rouven Thum _DE_:

I want to change the color of the navigation map cells. I found this guide in the community but I think it is outdated:

[How to cutomize Navigation map ?](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/How-to-cutomize-Navigation-map/qaq-p/462488)

I followed the updated [official guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/navigation-map-macro-145242.html) and created a new file navmap-mytheme.vm and also linked the navmap in confluence with the custom theme "mytheme" but the page stays blank. I put the file in the following directory:

WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/plugins/macros/advanced

Can you tell me if I need more files (css, js) to make it display correctly. I just want to switch the color from blue to yellow.


Answers:
author: Rajeswari Saravanan
body: Hi [@Rouven Thum _DE_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4037057)

You got any solution for this. We are facing the similar issue.

Thanks


Tags: colour

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activation of colleagues in confluence
Asked by Helen St?rk:

How can I unlock people on Confluence?  
The persons have already clicked on the link, but are still not findable and therefore unlockable


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@Helen St?rk](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4028044)

Do you mean how do your users activate their accounts?

To confirm - are these the steps you took to invite them:

1. As a Site Admin, go to Jira Settings \> User Management
2. Select the blue "Invite Users" button on the right-hand side
3. Provide their email address, then choose what role and application access they'll have and send the invites

\^ If you have done this, what do the users see when they try to login? They will need to login **at least once** to be "active" on the site.

If they are unable to access Confluence, check you provided them application access by:

1. Go to Jira Settings \> User Management \> Users
2. Select a new user who has logged in
3. Ensure the user has both site access and access to the product Confluence - toggle on if not

Let us know if this helps resolve the issue - if not, please provide some more specifics so we can advise further :)

Ste

comments: author: Helen St?rk
body: Hi Ste,

thank you for your detailed answer. i will try and come back to you if there are any further questions.

Helen


author: Ste Wright
body: No worries! Let us know if this works :)

Ste


author: Helen St?rk
body: it worked. thank you very much :-)


author: Ste Wright
body: Awesome - glad to hear!

To let other users who come across this question with a similar query know the solution worked, would it be possible to select "Accept Answer" above the original answer?

Ste


author: Helen St?rk
body: of course. :-)


Tags: cloud
Confluence 6.2.1 supports TLS 1.2?
Asked by Tony Montana:

Confluence 6.2.1 supports TLS 1.2?


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Tony Montana](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/618001) !

As I understand, you need to use TLS 1.2 with Confluence.

Currently, this is not the default for Confluence when setting the mail server. However, we should be able to enforce the usage of version 1.2.

You can take a look on how to do so here, under this Suggestion:
> * [++***\[Confluence Server\] Enforce TLS v1.2 for the Confluence Mail Server SMTP Protocol***++](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-57873)

I hope this helps!
Can I use my domain name?
Asked by Tony Montana:

Hi!  

Can I use my domain name for Confluence Cloud Site?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, Atlassian Cloud sites all live at \<something\>.atlassian.net

Atlassian recently announced that this is not going to change in the near future. They have "allow other domains" story open and they were working on it, but they've said it's not going to happen in the next few years.


Tags: confluence-cloud
How to make a reference to the contents of a table field to another table
Asked by Oleh Tsvilenko:

![](chrome-extension://gafjimepaiecpbmbmgaefokbekhoecaj/images/right-arrow.png)Hi everyone!   
I have a table with general information about projects, which is formed on the basis of other tables with detailed data about the project  
I can change the values ??in individual tables of the project and then the general table will change, but I need to make sure that in this general table I can change the value (for example, the budget) and it will change in the project table  
How can i do this?

Example of the table: ![example.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/105587i4528D41578D8A865/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "example.png")


Answers:
author: Natalie Paramonova [Stiltsoft]
body: Hi [@Oleh Tsvilenko](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3937705) ,

There is no ability to change the content directly in the Page Properties Report macro in Confluence by default.

You can try the [Handy Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214971/handy-macros-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app. The Handy Status macro allows you to change statuses within the predefined lists on the go in the page view mode including the Page Properties Report macro. And these changes are automatically applied to the individual pages with Page Properties.

![2020-08-05_16h56_39.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/105627i556F31D450241E8D/image-dimensions/839x304?v=v2 "2020-08-05_16h56_39.png")![2020-08-05_16h57_03.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/105626i1457A473AC6AC4D5/image-dimensions/886x406?v=v2 "2020-08-05_16h57_03.png")


Tags: cloud
Can we import a space in parts?
Asked by younoos:

Exported a space and package size is 18.2GB from a Confluence site and while import it in another confluence site, it failed after 90% of import with some attachment error. I do not have access to logs in the server.

Can we export the package in pieces say 4 or 5 in source Confluence and then import it in the target Confluence. If so, how it can be?


Answers:
author: Heth Siemer
body: I read this wrong, ignore my initial comment.

When exporting a *space* in parts, I don't think there's an easy way to do this. Hypothetically the closest you can get is to manually split the space into parts, export the parts, then merge them back together in the new instance.

comments: author: younoos
body: Hi Heth

Thank you very much for your answer.

If I do custom export and made it 4 or 5 part of the exported package from source Confluence. But how can I import these parts in the target Confluence as they will have same space key.

Wouldn't this prevent me to do import repeatedly?

You suggested merge them together in the new instance, can you please let me know how it can be done.

++**Note**:++ Creating package at source Confluence either a single big package (\~18GB) or 4 or 5 parts of packages can be handled however, while importing how can do import with these pieces of packages?

Thanks

Younoos


author: Heth Siemer
body: I would break the spaces up into separate spaces by just simply moving the pages into new spaces with different keys designated just for this move; KEY (original space), KEY1, KEY2, KEY3, etc. Then export those and import them with their adjusted keys, then move the pages back to the original space and delete the now empty spare spaces.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Can I use Livesearch Macro in Clonfluence to return articles from the Service Desk portal?
Asked by Ana-Maria Erascu:

Hi,

I'm using Confluence in order to share knowledge articles in Service Desk customer portal. I want to use the Livesearch Macro to enable my clients to search through articles but the returned search results are Confluence articles (pages from Confluence) where my clients don't have access since they only have access to the articles from the portal (those have a different link).

Is there a way where I can use the livesearch macro to provide article results with the portal link so that my clients can read them?

Thanks a lot!

Ana


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Ana-Maria Erascu](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3745123) !

As I understand, you need to search for Jira Service Desk articles directly from Confluence interface.

Currently, this is not possible to achieve with the Livesearch macro. The macro functionality is limited to Confluence itself. You can take a look at the macro documentation here:
> * [++***\[Confluence Cloud\] Insert the iFrame macro***++](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-iframe-macro/)

What we can do is embed the Jira article search page directly in Confluence with an iFrame.

Here is how we can do it:
> 1. Create a new Confluence page
> 2. Insert the iFrame macro in the newly created page  
>    ![Screen Shot 2020-08-07 at 12.16.10.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/105996iD887749FC0BDC3D5/image-dimensions/239x178?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2020-08-07 at 12.16.10.png")
> 3. In the URL field, insert the Jira Service Desk search page (it will look like this: <https://mysite.atlassian.net/jira/servicedesk/projects/PROJECTKEY/knowledge/search?q=>)
> 4. Set the Width value as 100%  
>    ![Screen Shot 2020-08-07 at 10.52.01.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/105997iBF5E680836E66BE8/image-dimensions/243x148?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2020-08-07 at 10.52.01.png")
> 5. Set the Height as desired (in my example I used 600px)
> 6. Save de macro
> 7. Publish the page  
>    ![Screen Shot 2020-08-07 at 10.51.43.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/105998i799F176132772BE8/image-dimensions/458x222?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2020-08-07 at 10.51.43.png")

Users now should be able to search Jira from within Confluence by using the now embedded Jira Service Desk Article search page.

Using this method may inflict a penalty to page loading times. This happens because you will need to load two pages instead of just one.

I hope this helps! Let us hear from you!


Tags: cloud

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Confluence ? G suite ??????????? account ? control ?????????
Asked by ??:

Confluence ? G suite ??????????? account ? control ?????????

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????????????????


Answers:
author: Tomoko Suzuki
body: ?????????????????????????  
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[???????????????](https://ja.confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/give-users-admin-permissions-964957877.html) ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

??? [G Suite ??????????????](https://ja.confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/troubleshoot-your-g-suite-connection-873871245.html) ???????????????


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language-ja