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Search in Confluence
Asked by Hubert Brzuchalski:

Hey Atlassian Community,

I am testing the Confluence 'Search Engine Optimization.'

I created many articles in Confluence. As a test one called Google Service and the other one Google with a description of what is Google and I have even labeled it the following, ' what is Google' and 'whatisgoogle'. How come, when I search for either 'whatisgoogle' or 'what is google' the first suggestion is the Google Service and how do I fix it, so the SEO gives me the 'more correct' suggestion first?

Thanks a lot, you have always been of great help!


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Hubert,

You can affect the search rankings in Confluence a bit - here are the elements that [weight a search result](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-understand-the-ranking-of-confluence-s-search-results-785614686.html):
>
> ### Document Age {#toc-hId-1199048179}
>
> Newer Documents will be given a slightly higher score than older documents. Keep in mind that doesn't mean that newer documents will appear first, just that they give a slightly higher weight.
>
> ### Title {#toc-hId--608406284}
>
> Confluence will look at the number of words within a title (excluding minor words, such as "the", "and" etc), and will check how many times a word appears in the title.
>
> ### Content {#toc-hId-1879106549}
>
> As with the title, Confluence will look at the number of words within the content, and check how many times the number of words appear in the content.
>
> ### Popularity {#toc-hId-71652086}
>
> Popular pages are those that have more incoming links. A page that has more incoming links will be ranked higher than other pages that share similar content.

So for example, cross-referencing your pages and providing more incoming links to particular pages could bump them up in the search results.

In addition to trying to manipulate rankings through the factors above, we also have an open feature request to simply adjust the rankings as an administrative function: [CONFCLOUD-15619](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-15619). For more information about how Atlassian prioritizes feature requests made on jira.atlassian.com, [check out this Community post](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-does-the-JIRA-team-use-jira-atlassian-com/qaq-p/475688).

Cheers,  
Daniel


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confluence-cloud
Confluence Version 7.8.1 support for AJP Connector
Asked by Wisam Abdelaziz:

Hi All,

i am having trouble accessing confluence 7.81.

Our confluence is configured via IIS using the AJP Connector as per this procedure <https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/integrating-jira-applications-with-iis-938847749.html>.

The method works fine with version 6.12.1 , however it is not working with Jira 7.81. i was wondering if Atlassian has dropped the support of the AJP connector in confluence 7?

Also worth noting that localhost url for confluence 7.8.1 works fine.

Any advice in that regards would be highly appreciated.

Thanks \& Regards,

Wisam


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: This is from their latest documentation. "We only provide HTTP/HTTPS connector examples. You can't use the AJP connector (for example, with Apache mod_jk), as Synchrony, which is required for collaborative editing, can't accept AJP connections. " - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf78/proxy-and-https-setup-for-confluence-1021242838.html>


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server
Integration of zephyr with confluence
Asked by Prasad Hegde:

Is it possible to integrate the Zephyr Plugin with confluence page. Basically the way we are able to integrate the JIRA issues in confluence similarly would like to integrate the test case from ZQL to confluence page?


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Prasad Hegde](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4148017)

Yes, it's possible. Below are the details:

Link: <https://support.smartbear.com/zephyr-scale-server/docs/reports/live-reports-in-confluence.html>


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server
Export of space to PDF has grown substantially
Asked by Jeremy Hranko:

Prior to today, I last exported a space which contains about 1,500 pages in November, 2018. At that time the total size of the PDF export was 5.5MB.

Today, I tried to export the same space to PDF and the resulting PDF output was **1.4GB**. Nothing substantially has changed in this space in the past two year, a few dozen page creations, but nothing that would explain such an astronomical increase in size.

The pages are almost heavily text-based, very few images, and are all based in the "old" editor. Each does contain a few macros (e.g. "info", "code block") available in the old editor.

What could explain this growth? How can I get it down to a size that I can actually distribute again?


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: Jeremy,

As Pavel stated this is a known issue that Atlassian is trying to gather the impact on. I would encourage you to vote on the following issues to help them know what to move forward.

* [Page PDF export size significantly increases if page consist of .jpeg/jpg images](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58911)
* [PDF export increase in size when using info, tip, warning and note macro](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55314)

Once the PDF is created you can compress is. You can use Acrobat (If you own it) or a free online compression tool like [Small PDF](https://smallpdf.com/compress-pdf). I know that it is an extra step and not an ideal solution but it is a work around for the time being.

comments: author: Jeremy Hranko
body: Thank you for your direction to the documentation of these issues. I've found the equivalent issues for the Cloud version and upvoted those.

I do have a full copy of Acrobat and had already thought to do the compression as you have suggested, but the file is so big that the application freezes when I try to do much with it. I'll try it again on a more powerful computer.


author: Pavel Potcheptsov
body: Nobody at Atlassian care about that.

Look [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58911) and [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55314).

Instead of fixing this and many others REAL bugs and feature requests they continue to release versions with useless features.

Hope you are satisfying with that kind of service)

comments: author: Jeremy Hranko
body: Thank you for the links. I'm all too familiar with the way Atlassian prioritizes their resources but thought I'd ask the question anyway.


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confluence-cloud

export

pdf
Option to create page with old editor no longer shows
Asked by TJPII:

I just tried to create a page and the option to use the old editor is no longer available. What happened. The link below says we will have access going forward but the option is no longer shown.

[https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/Change-to-your-content-is-in-your-hands/ba-p/1324476](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/Change-to-your-content-is-in-your-hands/ba-p/1324476 "Change to your content is in your hands")

Am I just not seeing some option to click? I've not found any support info showing what I need to do after doing some digging. I was able to copy one of my old pages, delete all the content, and use it for my new pages but that is such a huge workaround.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@TJPII](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2366136)!

As I understand, you *need to use the Legacy Editor* (tinyMCE) to create and edit pages.

For you to achieve this, a ticket needs to be created.

++*You can reach out to your Confluence Site Administrator and request for this ticket to be raised.*++ This ticket is needed because the editor can only be activated by Atlassian Personnel.

Your Site Administrator can raise tickets here:
> * [++***\[Atlassian Support\] Contact Support***++](https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/)

Let us hear from you!


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confluence-cloud
Natural Sort Sidebar Page Tree
Asked by Jason Tolotta:

Now that I have migrated from Atlassian Confluence Server (as per the Atlassian's [ultimatum](https://www.atlassian.com/migration/journey-to-cloud)), as a Confluence Space Administrator I want to sort the sidebar using natural sort rather than position so that I do not have to manually re-order the pages again.

Anyone have a solution to this?


Answers:
author: Kat Warner
body: The ability to keep the pages sorted in alphabetical order is not available. Atlassian has a ticket gathering interest which you may want to add your vote to:

<br />

[CONFCLOUD-65062](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65062) *Allow for persistent sorting of pages*

comments: author: Jason Tolotta
body: I regrettably accept this as the answer...for now.


author: Thomas W?lti
body: The post below is not that wrong. At least it allows you to manually sort, even if it is only on-demand/once.


author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@Jason Tolotta](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/601858) ,

Select sort alphabetically in Space Settings.

![QQ??20201106091111.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/117300i7351330150D31938/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "QQ??20201106091111.png")


author: Simone Hilpert Simone Hilpert
body: The capacity to keep the pages arranged in sequential request isn't accessible. Atlassian has a ticket gathering interest which you might need to add your vote to [read](https://www.thedailyaquarium.com/best-heater-for-10-gallon-tank/) this.


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confluence-cloud
Replacement for Page Property and Page Property Report macro?
Asked by Carlos Fry:

Since the **Page Property** and **Page Property Report** macros do not work,

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-66556>

and there is a known bug with displaying the **Page Property Report** on the Confluence page, I am hoping someone has another idea of how to get what these macros promise... is there a commercial product that works?

We are trying to use a standard table within the Page Property macro to document about 8-10 attributes of a document. Then, we want a Report page that let's us see all the documents and their properties - a simple status report. Any guidance is appreciated. If Atlassian would fix this bug, we would be all set.


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@Carlos Fry](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3886535) ,

You may try the [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app and its [Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Excerpt+and+Table+Excerpt+Include+macros) macros.

These macros allow you to collect multiple-row tables from the current page, specific page, page and childpages, page and all descendants or pages with labels.

Please check an example of the use case in our recent [blog post](https://stiltsoft.com/blog/2020/10/how-to-create-reports-from-multiple-confluence-tables/). Hope it helps.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Google Drive doesn't show embedded documents
Asked by Erika Silva:

Embedded google drive documents do not load properly on pages in Confluence and only show the attached image when viewing the page. This issue appears for all google documents I view embedded in Confluence, both those I have added and those added by others in my company. Most others in the company are able to view and edit these documents normally.

Other posts here have recommended to switch google accounts, but no button is available to switch the account as shown in the attached image.

The document opens normally in drive when I click on the "View in new tab" button.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/117275i27377F65B02AABB3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Erika Silva](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4151020)!  
Recently, we had a similar question here in our Community. You can check the thread here:

* ++***[\[Atlassian Community\] Embedding Google Drive document in Dashboard does not work](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Embedding-Google-Drive-document-in-Dashboard-does-not-work/qaq-p/1308570)***++

This is most likely happening due to privacy limitations set on your Google account.

Let us hear from you!

comments: author: Erika Silva
body: Hi [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952), you just linked back to this same thread.

What has me thinking this might be more than privacy settings is that other people in my organization are able to view and edit the documents normally.


author: Erika Silva
body: [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952) You still have not answered my question. It has been over a week since I asked my question and I still cannot use documents embedded in confluence.


author: Diego
body: Thank you very much for pointing out my error in my first reply, [@Erika Silva](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4151020). I have fixed it now

This is the thread I meant to link earlier:
> * ++***[\[Atlassian Community\] Embedding Google Drive document in Dashboard does not work](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Embedding-Google-Drive-document-in-Dashboard-does-not-work/qaq-p/1308570)***++

There is also Google documentation on how to set this:
> * ++***[Make Google Docs, Sheets, Slides \& Forms public](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/183965?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en)***++

Also make sure to be logged into your Google account so privacy and sharing settings are correctly applied when you try to see the file via Confluence.

Again, thanks for keeping the thread active and correcting my error!


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confluence-cloud

google-drive
How to export pdf via REST API?
Asked by ABoerio:

Hi,

I'm trying to write a simple Groovy script to communicate with our Confluence server instance and get done automatically the export to pdf o a page whose ID number is known.

I already communicate with Confluence this way to get information about pages, etc... but for this particular task I'm not getting to a solution.

How to get the pdf exported and downloaded to my local download folder, which is what normally happens when I click on the pdf export button?

In the picture the code I'm trying to use and the response I get from the call.

![Immagine 2020-11-05 175815.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/117234i1F41D73232CF8945/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Immagine 2020-11-05 175815.jpg")

Thanks, ciao, Andrea


Answers:
author: Urban_Pettersson
body: Having struggled with this for a bit I took the liberty of creating a [GitHub gist](https://gist.github.com/castodius/84c5ec49cceca5eb9a667dec3058364e) detailing the necessary steps. The gist is using NodeJs, but should hopefully be easy to translate to any language.

comments: author: Iker G?mez Eiras
body: I was trying to figure out how to do exports through powershell, and your code has been a god damned light in the darkness! Sure, I can't use it in powershell, but it helped me understand how the process works and manage to more-or-less reproduce the same steps.

Thank you!


author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@ABoerio](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2035799) here is a previous community post on this using other languages but the web service call will be the same. <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Export-page-to-pdf-using-rest-call/qaq-p/1085529>

comments: author: ABoerio
body: Hi [@Brant Schroeder](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/769100) sorry for very late feedback. Thanks for your hint. I'll give it a try for sure.


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export

groovy

pdf

rest-api

server
How to include a Word document when using an Excerpt macro?
Asked by Loretta Lott:

Is there a way to include a Word document when creating a an Excerpt macro?

![2020-11-05_11-11-09.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/117226iA3DD1557B7805A55/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2020-11-05_11-11-09.png")


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!  
Here is how we can insert the attachment inside the Excerpt Macro:
> ![Screen-Recording-2020-11-09-at-1.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/117571i8F365221F04A499A/image-dimensions/273x213?v=v2 "Screen-Recording-2020-11-09-at-1.gif")

I hope this helps!


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confluence-cloud
configuring SSL
Asked by ??????? ?????????? ????????:

How do I import a PFX certificate to the storage?

I tried to disable Https and make a certificate on nginx, but I am redirected from 8090 to 8443 for some reason constantly and the site does not open.


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi [@??????? ?????????? ????????](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1804327) ,

If you have nginx available, I would try working on getting HTTPS termination happening there and using it as a proxy for Confluence. Here's the ideal configuration:

1. nginx listens on ports **80** (redirect to 443) and **443** (HTTPS). Connects to Confluence over port 8090
2. Confluence listens on port 8090, and has these values in the active connector in its server.xml file

   ```
          scheme="https"       proxyName="APP.DOMAIN.org"       proxyPort="443"
   ```

3. Confluence's base URL inside the application is listed as "http**s**://\<yoururl\>"

Although it's nearly 4 years old, I have [a sample nginx configuration for Confluence that you can look at here](https://bitbucket.org/danieleads/nginx/src/master/).

If you get stuck, I'm happy to look at your server.xml file or the active nginx server for your Confluence proxy. You could post those here, or use a service like pastebin if the files are longer than you want to post on Community. Let me know if I can help out!

Cheers,  
Daniel


Tags: confluence-server

server
Table of Contents copying from another version & linking to other policies
Asked by Binita Parmar:

Hi wanted to check

1) I've copied and pasted a protocol (to make a new updated version) do the table of contents links automatically transfer across with the links or do I need to take any further actions? here is what the protocol looks like in draft (please see attached image)

2) also![helpconfluence2.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/117213iDD40B3029893A9E3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "helpconfluence2.jpg")![helpconfluence1.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/117212i3DE59E5A110822DB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "helpconfluence1.jpg") how do I link other policies to this protocol?

sorry for the newbie questions! :)

Binita


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

I see you're editing two pages that use the legacy editor.

The Table of Contents macro will make links to any headers on the page it's added to, for that page. Copying/pasting the macro to a new page means that the table of contents macro on that page will make links to the new page also. Generally this is what you'll want.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/118890i73C6CE8287E78CF4/image-dimensions/464x248?v=v2 "image.png")

As for the links shown with bullet points here - these most likely link to another page somewhere else if you've copied and pasted these to your new page. You'd have to click on each link to inspect the link target to see where they point.

To create links to your new page, you can copy the the link URL from your Table of Contents macro when you're viewing the page. This will give you a link address that points to specific sections in your page. On the page you want to add the link to, either use Cmd+K (or Ctrl+K on Windows) to bring the link dialogue up, or do it from the toolbar at the top of the editor:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/118891i4BD5A0EF5EB4A95C/image-dimensions/719x277?v=v2 "image.png")

Then you can either search for the new page you created, or use the Advanced tab on the left sidebar and paste the link you copied from the table of contents.

I hope that helps answer your question, but if anything was unclear or you have more questions, I'm happy to answer more!

Cheers,  
Daniel


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confluence-cloud
How to order sidebar blog posts in reverse creation (not modification) order?
Asked by Ian Willats:

*We recently updated our Confluence server installation to 7.8.1. Since the upgrade we have noticed the blog post list in the space sidebar no longer shows the posts in the expected order, i.e. most recent first. The blog posts are correctly grouped by day but within posts for a given day the order is wrong.*

*Our Confluence server is running on RHEL 7.5 64-bit. The database is stored in PostgreSQL 9.6.*

*The problem we are seeing is similar to what is reported in <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-59388> . Do you know the cause of this problem and what needs to be done to fix it?*

*Please could you suggest a way for us to ensure our blog posts are displayed strictly in creation order?*

*Thanks.*


Answers:
author: Iqbalkhan move on
body: Payment for your credit card


Tags: confluence-server

server
Using "Attachments" macro: not possible to upload
Asked by Val?rie L_:

Hello,

I've created a new page with the "Attachments" macro.

I've been able to upload one file. Since then, it is not possible to add some more attachments as .gdoc documents.

I have tried to start over several times but it doesn't work. I have loaded documents via the Windows window and also via drag and drop.

Can you help me on this ?

Here is the link to the page: <https://praxedo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SALES/pages/edit-v2/1791623181>

Thank you,

Val?rie


Answers:
author: Chris Buzon
body: The link you've provided here indicates the page isn't publically available, so we can't really help diagnose that way.  

Have you tried manually adding the attachments on the page through this GUI option?  

![chrome_2020-11-05_14-40-09.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/117276i52D71BEF77B1FD31/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "chrome_2020-11-05_14-40-09.png")  

<br />


author: Val?rie L_
body: I've tried many different ways and finally, I had to download original .gdoc documents to my PC into .doc.

Then, I've been able to add each of them (20), one by one through the "search for new documents" command.

Thank you for your answer anyway.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Tabs/Spaces missing in PDF Export
Asked by stefan:

Hi,

if i export a confluence page to pdf, sadly the tabs/spaces are missing in code block.  
Any idea how to fix this?

Steps to reproduce:

- Add confluence site, add some content and a code block.  
- how do i add a code block?:  
"+" \> "other macros" \> "code block"

- Export page to pdf.

If i copy \& paste the code block text, all tabs/spaces are missing :(

<br />

<br />

BR  
Stefan

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/117203iA0974CE88010FEE3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


Answers:
author: Daniel Navarro
body: You can try this in Notepad++:

**Edit** \> **Paste Special** \> **Paste Binary Content**


author: Monique Khairuliana[ServiceRocket]
body: Hi Stefan, this might be an issue with the PDF viewer itself? I found this [link](https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker/copied-text-from-pdf-is-pasted-without-spaces/td-p/5723306?page=1), might be related.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Hello. will the server work after the specified date?
Asked by Andrey Anastasiadi:

![54b6-a147-b4d0-a5a0.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/117195i8381E1700C9E7FAB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "54b6-a147-b4d0-a5a0.png")


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If this a true Server licence (and not Data Center), then yes. The licence is "perpetual" - you can continue to use the server exactly as you do now for as long as you need it.

After that date though, you will not be able to upgrade to newer versions, and nor will you be supported.

But it will still all work. The only difference is that your admins will be warned that the licence has expired sometimes.


author: Andrey Anastasiadi
body: Thank you so much!


Tags: confluence-server

server