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Jan 9 Space UI changes reverted?
Asked by Jake Wills:

The Jan 9 release changed some UI elements on Spaces and Home Pages, which were then rolled out over a couple months to all the Confluence Cloud instances. Noticed last week those changes are no longer in place in our instance. Anyone else see the same?

"What's New" page description of Jan 9 release changes:

"Keep the things that matter to you close at hand with your dashboard sidebar now accessible even when you're viewing a page or space. This is the sidebar that includes your All updates, Recently worked on, and Saved for later lists; when your space sidebar is also visible, the dashboard sidebar will collapse into an icon-only version that sits next to it.  
Your space sidebar has been decluttered, and will now display only the content type - such as pages, or blogs - that you're currently browsing. Go back to your space home to switch to a different content type. Space tools has moved to the top right corner of your space home, and sidebar customizations are still supported, but can only be added in as custom content using wiki markup.  
When you click on a space, you'll now land on a space home, which features a tabbed browsing experience. The content that was previously in your homepage will display in your space overview tab, while pages, blogs, and any add-on content such as calendars and questions will also have their own tabs, giving you an overview of all the content and content types in your space."

Specifically, the left sidebar is back to the old version showing the page tree, and the home page tabbed UI is gone. Really tough to drive adoption in an organization when the UI appears to be unstable and unpredictable.


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi,

The idea of Cloud is that it would get updates very often. Not sure exactly about this specific case, but it is good to track what is coming and what is changing on a regular basis.

In order to follow this is good to check the blog

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/blog>

Or more technical stuff can be found here

<https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/changelog>
Unable to add a label to a global template
Asked by Mathilde Escudie:

I used to be able to add a label to confluence templates but now the label symbol has disappeared. It is not next to the title or at the bottom of the page (neither on the right or left). I can still add label to pages, just not to a template.

![template without label.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/856i4F5F91C97EE22809/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "template without label.png")


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

could you point out your Confluence version \& if you are using cloud or server. I'm using 6.2.1 server \& still got the option to set a label on the template.

comments: author: Mathilde Escudie
body: I use 6.0.4 and on a Server.

But now the issue is fixed. The label came back after upgrading add-ons but also after using Atlassian support, so not sure what fixed it.

But thanks you.


Tags: label

questions-for-confluence

template
Is it possible to have the change-history macro show only the latest version?
Asked by Rosana Borgen:

I have the change-history added to a page. I would onlu like to show the latest version (and not the whole history). I saw this in some page but not sure how to implement.

Also it is extrange that when implemented it has the veriosn, date and Comment, but actually the comment field has the author ... Is this a known issue?

Thanks very much for any help you can provide!

Rosana


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Basically when you add the macro then you need to edit it and there should be a field to show how many versions you would like to have (default is to full history)

![https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/files/154632795/1005333512/1/1589961747976/change-history-params.png](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/files/154632795/1005333512/1/1589961747976/change-history-params.png)

comments: author: Vicki Renee Ledergerber
body: Hi Mirek,

I have the same question but my Edit Change History Macro screen doesn't have these options. There are no parameters to change??

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/198027i19E7E6B40FA11EE6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")
Confluence Article Creation Stats
Asked by LatoriaJ:

Is there a macro or a way to get a count of the number of Articles created within a specific space, for a specific time period?

Also, is there away of getting Space statistics in general and displaying the results in a end user accessible report?


Answers:
author: Hermance NDounga
body: Hey Latoria,

Currently, there is not such statistic/metric features in Confluence. I think the add-on that would work for you would be [this one](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.addonengine.analytics/cloud/overview). There are other [analytics add-ons](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=analytics), but it looks like there are more for you to track who saw your content, and not who created it.

Hope it helps,

Hermance
Jira Issues Macro CSS
Asked by Kurt Lorenzen:

Is there a way to customize the style of Jira Issue Macro tables?

We use these tables for project management reports and sometimes the formatting is not ideal. In one case, we are displaying a Jira feild with a URL but since some of the URLs are very long this column ends up consuming a large percentage of the table width when all I want is enough of it to be selectible.

I tried to use custom CSS but could not get anything like td:last-child to work. I was able to change all Jira Issue tables to fixed layout using the CSS below but this effects all tables that use the Jira Issue Macro and is also not ideal. I would like to be able to wrap these somehow so I can customize them and make beautiful custom reports.

table.aui {  
table-layout: fixed;  
width: 100%;  
}

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

Thank you, Kurt


Answers:
author: StephR
body: A couple of questions:

1. Are you trying to target very specific tables? It sounds like you do not want to target all tables with the JIRA Issue macro. Are you only targetingJira Issue Macro tables within one space or one page or is there some other profile of tables you would like to change?
2. Can you attach a screenshot of your table with some guidance on what you are trying to change?


Tags: css

jira
Need help with CSS for breadcrumb font color on body pages...
Asked by Laura:

Hi!

I have been updating the stylesheet in CSS to change the look of my Confluence space. So far so good! However, I made the links in the page tree white because I made the left nav. background dark blue. I want those to stay white, but because breadcrumbs are tied to them I can't see the white breadcrumbs on the white background on the body pages. I'd like to change the color of the breadcrumbs, and also the links that are in the pop-up messages from Confluence telling me I have a draft of x page saved when I open the page.

I have picked around trying to find the right code to make this work and just can't find it.

Please help. I'm so close to finishing my lovely space and I'm excited to see it complete! If you can think of any other gotchas that might have been affected by the white page tree font please let me know.

<br />

Sincerely grateful,

Laura


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: Laura,

Only apply the link style to the following:

.acs-side-bar-space-info a {color:#fff; . . . .}  
.acs-side-bar-content a {color:#fff; . . . .}  
.acs-side-bar-space-info a:hover {. . . .}  
.acs-side-bar-content a:hover {. . . .}  
etc.

This will contain it to the left hand navigation and not change the link color accross confluence.

Brant

comments: author: Laura
body: Thanks so much Brant! I will change that up. While I've got you, any chance you could tell me if I can rearrange the space name in the left nav to go under the image?


author: Brant Schroeder
body: I forgot to say you might need to add !important or additional classes to get it to take. I just looked at the code so I don't know at what level you will have to apply the change to override the core css.  
Brant


author: Laura
body: It worked as is.

Thanks.


author: Brant Schroeder
body: Laura,

Great. Can you mark it as the answer to your question. In order to have the text display under the icon you will have to play with the following:

.acs-side-bar .acs-side-bar-space-info .avatar {....}  
.acs-side-bar-space-info .space-information-container {...}

Changing the display: block; and updating the padding should get you what you want.

Thanks  
Brant


author: Laura
body: okay I'll try that. Thank you.
Display a nested directory/file tree on a Confluence page, similar to Windows Explorer
Asked by Daniel Miller:

Given a nested hierarchy of directories and files (the data only, with no access to the actual system), I'd like to generate a display similar to Windows Explorer, with each directory level expandable and collapsible. Such displays could include up to 25K files. I'm aware I might be able to do this with nested Expand macros but this seems ugly and wastes a lot of vertical space. Is there a better way? Thanks!


Answers:
author: Vincent Mann
body: The T[able of Contents macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/children-display-macro-724765170.html) can do this without the expanding part. The sidebar is where you can expand and collapse your directory. I get by with those. Did you find another solution [@Daniel_Miller](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/939030)?

comments: author: Daniel Miller
body: [@Vincent Mann](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3651171) this was to create a single page displaying a directory hierarchy of some other system. I ended up writing some code that would generate output that looked like the Linux "tree" command, and also had UP/PREV/NEXT links (and the appropriate anchors) following each directory entry for easier navigation. No expand/collapse, unfortunately.


author: Vincent Mann
body: Oh that's cool, thanks for sharing.


author: Paulie Pena IV
body: [@Daniel Miller](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3611823), can you give an example of what sort of output was generated by your script (and was that output something that could be copied as text and pasted into Confluence), or even better, could you share the code you wrote?
after upgrade confluence form 5.6.6 to 6.1.3 we have a double confluence only search pull down
Asked by FoxIS Fox:

After a successfull upgrade we have a strange double confluence only pull down search.

We have the sharepoint connector plugin installed (latest)

When I switch to sharepoint and clonfluence and refresh the paga I have only one search pulldown. When I select Confluence Only and refresh I get a double pull down again.![double-search.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/845i9AD50B63E80D02DA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "double-search.PNG")


Answers:
author: Branno
body: Sharepoint uses two different search modules, one for Confluence 5.6.x and below and one for Confluence 5.7.x or above. There is a bug in the connector where it does not disable the unneeded version of search after an upgrade from 5.6.x to 5.7.x or above. All you should need to do is:

1. Go to Confluence Administration \> Manage Add-ons
2. Search for SharePoint Connector
3. Expand Enabled Modules
4. Disable the "SharePoint Integrated Search" module


Tags: connector

sharepoint
Confluence Cloud BluePrint Create Link Description and Icon not showing
Asked by Test07 Zephyr:

Hi,

I'm trying to add custom blueprint item for confluence cloud. I'm able to add link. But description and icon is missing there.

<br />

**Screen 1: Create**

![Screen Shot 2017-05-02 at 10.25.44 AM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/844i0A6B4BC6AC0BB6E7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-05-02 at 10.25.44 AM.png")

**Screen 2: BluePrint Description.(atlassian-connect.json)**

![Screen Shot 2017-05-02 at 10.24.20 AM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/843i39BF0E8512E5932E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-05-02 at 10.24.20 AM.png")

Have any idea?

Thanks

Masud


Answers:
author: thais
body: Hi, Masud,

I could not replicate this behaviour on our test instance.

If it's still happening, please raise a ticket with us at Support: <https://support.atlassian.com/contact>.

This way, it'll be possible to do a more in depth troubleshoot.

Thanks!


Tags: blueprint

cloud
Where is the "hide toolbar" button in Confluence page Edit mode on Cloud?
Asked by Bruce Cannon:

**Issue**   
When I last tried confluence, there was a chevron icon button on the far right of the toolbar when in edit mode, which hid the top and bottom toolbars and gave a lot more space for working.

It's also described in this article: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/creating-content/using-the-editor>

I don't have such a button. I'm using Confluence Cloud.

**Questions**

1. Do other Cloud users have this button?
2. Can it be hidden or something? Maybe that's why I can't see it.

![Confluence editor toolbar with hide button.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/840iD91D95A671C161AB/image-dimensions/687x59?v=v2 "Confluence editor toolbar with hide button.png")

![My hide-editor button is missing in Confluence.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/841iE3E5545F5E9622FC/image-dimensions/690x156?v=v2 "My hide-editor button is missing in Confluence.png")


Answers:
author: Takayuki Hirota
body: I noticed that Confluence Server(5.10) doesn't have "hide toolbar" button too.

I could not find any documentation about this change.


author: AnnWorley
body: It is gone from my Cloud instance as well. It is part of the infrastructure changes we are implementing to update the Cloud environment. Most of the features, like the CSV export, will be coming back once the updates are complete.

comments: author: Bruce Cannon
body: Why is this still missing? The narrower notebook screens get, the worse this broken feature impacts users.


Tags: confluence-cloud
Unable to apply developer license
Asked by apolloraptor:

When I try to update my developer env with the dev license, I get an XSRF check failed. I saw some previous posts about this and am not sure how to resolve in my environment. Does the URL have to be the same? My prod environment is using https and dev (for now) is using http. Is that the root of my problem? If not, how can apply my developer licence to my Jira and Confluence instances. I am using data center ed.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: You should be able to use your developer license despite running the dev environment without SSL. Please see this page for conditions that will trigger the XSRF errors:

[Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection changes in Atlassian REST](https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-protection-changes-in-atlassian-rest-779294918.html)
is there a way to copy Global Templates down to a Space without having to recreate them manually
Asked by Jyoti Singh:

is there a way to copy Global Templates down to a Space without having to recreate them manually?


Answers:
author: minxyMormont
body: I know you do need the Confluence administrator global permission to be able to manage global templates. Does the answer to this related post help?

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions/How-do-you-copy-a-template/qaq-p/132464>
How to restrict users (from a group) from accessing people directory from other page (!=layout)
Asked by moebattou:

How to restrict users (from a defined group) from accessing people directory from other page aka other that the layout/menu page.

I have already added the fix on this page and it does hide it from the dashboard...only:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-restrict-users-from-accessing-people-directory-or-search-users-from-quick-search-688883545.html>

However, the user directory is still accessible from, for ex, clicking on another user in the same groupe and selecting "people" by the user profile image.

Is it possible to close this back door access?

PS: search box is also hidden for the user group, hence, can't search for other people (desirable).

Thank you!


Answers:
author: M Amine
body: You will need to use marketplace apps.
Can you host a newsletter on confluence?
Asked by Ishbel Macleod:

I work for an SME and am looking for a place to act as an 'intranet' to host a newsletter (there would be an email sent around, but need a place to link back to?)

I just wanted to check if that's easy enough to do on Confluence?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: JoCo
body: Hi, Ishbel.

One of the great things about Confluence is that it's very flexible. There's a number of ways to do what you're describing.

My suggestion would be to use the "Blog" feature for a newsletter.

Each space in Confluence gets a blog, so you can have a personal blog and a team blog, for example.

This will lead you to more info: [Pages and Blogs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/pages-and-blogs-724764829.html)

comments: author: Ishbel Macleod
body: that sounds perfect - thank you!
Update used templates in Confluence
Asked by Yanick Belart:

Hi there,

I recognized that "already used" templates pages are not updated, after modifying the template itself (e.g. adding an additional row in a page proberty table in the template). Is there any way to update all pages (adding the row) which have been created by using the template?

Many thanks for helping me.

Best regards,  
Yanick


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's no record of what template was used to create a page, so I'm afraid there is no way to even begin to do this.

You could take an educated guess and hope the users have not moved it too far away from the template so you can still identify pages made with one. But that's hard work and may miss pages, as well as relying on the user not changing the bit you want to change.

Templates are exactly what the dictionary says they are - standard starting points, irrelevant once used.
Create new drop down menu on the page
Asked by michal.marko:

Hi Team,

I would like to have on our home page of one space something like that, what you can see on the attached print screen. I am talking about the right part of the page, There are tabs and by choosing one of the item in drop down list, the content of the selected page should be displayed in the body of the page, so that means below.

![Profile_dashboard (1).png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/838i5276A46056963166/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Profile_dashboard (1).png")

Please, could you help me how to reach this solution?

Many thanks!

Mike


Answers:
author: M Amine
body: you need marketplace apps


Tags: developer
Internet Explorer 11 Issue (all of a sudden)
Asked by Normann P_ Nielsen _Netic_:

Since this friday we (a Customer of mine) have has several issues with IE11 , the Confluence has not been updated or anything - and things works from FF or Chrome.

Any word / info on IE11 updates - I have a feeling that the Customers IE11 has been updated / patched.

![2017-05-02 Fejl ved tryk pa? save efter oprettelse af ny side.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/834i80D98E5E13C33671/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2017-05-02 Fejl ved tryk pa? save efter oprettelse af ny side.png")![2017-05-02 Fejl ved tryk pa? save efter ?ndring af eksisterende side.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/832iE621E2687870D5DA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2017-05-02 Fejl ved tryk pa? save efter ?ndring af eksisterende side.png")![2017-05-02_10-03-05_Confluence_EditMissingTest.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/833i315EE82902CEFBC6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2017-05-02_10-03-05_Confluence_EditMissingTest.jpg")


Answers:
author: Eduardo -Eddie- Felix
body: I'm unable to find Scriptrunner as a plugin, is there anything else I can look up?


author: Normann P_ Nielsen _Netic_
body: Hi,

This was actually caused by Adaptavist Scriptrunner 5.X for Confluence (5.0 I think) - seems that Scriptrunner 5 in the first versions from Adaptavist was pretty faulty. Besides replecting on IE, some creations from REST also failed. Upgrading the plugin solved issues.


author: Thomas Bithell
body: We continually experience problems with IE rendering in JIRA and Confluence. About all I ever find for possible solutions are to clear the cache/cookies and uncheck Compatability View settings. Those only work about 1/3 of the time so our best solution is to have them switch to Chrome, Safari or Firefox.


author: Normann P_ Nielsen _Netic_
body: Confluence restarted, the problem remains.


author: Normann P_ Nielsen _Netic_
body: Database (postgres) has also been restarted


author: Normann P_ Nielsen _Netic_
body: Cache have been flushed, no restart of Confluence though.

IE Version:

![image001_01D2C349046B1040.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/835i82AF2F7F81FB97FB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image001_01D2C349046B1040.png")
Instructional text: different behaviour in different browsers
Asked by Patrick_Vanhoof:

When trying to modify instructional text in an existing template via IE one has to double click on it (a single click seems to select the object). In Firefox and Chrome one click is enough.

Is this expected behaviour?


Answers:
author: Jack Brickey
body: [@Patrick_Vanhoof](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/518573) , I am working to clean up old unanswered posts. I assume this is no longer an issue for you. IE support has long sense passed. Do you see this in any current supported browsers (Edge, Safari, Firefox, Chrome)?

comments: author: Patrick Vanhoof
body: Indeed no longer an issue.


Tags: instructional-text
Blueprint template at:rawxhtml not working
Asked by Alex Mitchell:

In the hello-blueprint example provided by Atlassian (<https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/hello-blueprint.git>), there is an example of a variable containing xhtml content:

```
<at:var at:name="xhtmlString" at:rawXhtml='true' />
```

This is defined in the context provider (HelloContextProvider.java) like so:

```
context.put("xhtmlString", "<em>Hello I am emphasised</em>");
```

However, when I create a page using this template, the content is encoded, so the page storage format contains:

```
<p>&lt;em&gt;Hello I am emphasised&lt;/em&gt;</p>
```

Is there something else that needs to be done to get the at:rawXhtml=true attribute to work correctly?


Answers:
author: Hans Pesata
body: Hi!  

You need to take care of case-sensitivity with at:raxhtml

```
<at:var at:name="xhtmlString" at:rawxhtml='true' />
```

Regards,  
Hans


Tags: blueprint

developer
Can you change the colour of the Info, Tip, Note, and Warning Macros?
Asked by Eric Sara:

We find the standard yellow used on the Note macro to be dull and thus it does not get the attention of the user as we think it should.

Is there way to set this colour as we would like to bring it up about 10% in brightness?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I was able to change the note color to a very bright yellow by adding this to the Global stylesheet:

```
.confluence-information-macro-note {
background-color: #FFFC33;
border-color: #F0C000;
}
```

Here's the doc I was working from:

[Styling Confluence with CSS](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/styling-confluence-with-css-166528400.html)

comments: author: Eric Sara
body: Thank you so much. Just want I needed.


Tags: macro