youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How to use bookmark with anchor to link to specific section of confluence page?
Asked by Debbie Buswell:

We are interested in using anchors in Confluence with bookmark to link to a specific section of a Confluence page. So far, the syntax of "anchor\\bookmark" or "anchor:bookmark" has produced a syntax error?

What is the proper way to set up an anchor with a bookmark?


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: In the Advanced tab of the "Edit link" dialog use the hashmark and then the name of the section.

Eg. if the section has a heading "Assets" use "#Assets". If you refer to another page, add the page title in front of the hashmark.

For details please refer to <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF57/Working+with+Links>, Link to an anchor on a page: `spacekey:page name#anchor name`

For instance: The key of the space you want to link to is "DOC", the page title is "My Page" and the heading of the section is "Important Information". The link in the advanced tap input field would be:

```
DOC:My Page#Important Information
```

Note that you use the heading as is, not the generated ID on the HTML element.

Here is more information on anchors:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF57/Working+with+Anchors>

comments: author: Imagine Software Inc.
body: Perfect! Thanks.


author: Debbie Buswell
body: Robert,

Thank you for the assistance. This works at the space level very well.

We are also trying to anchor to a specific page in a space and then to a specific section of that page (with a heading)? Is that possible?

Hierarchy is:

1--Space

2--Page

3--Heading (not at top of page, but within body of page)

comments: author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: I don't know if I understand your question correctly. So I tried to add an example to explain the linking to a section in another space. Hope this helps.


author: Debbie Buswell
body: Robert,I now have the link working.Thank you so much for your help.Debbie


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Thank you for your feedback!


author: Diwash Bajracharya
body: [@Debbie Buswell](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/327660) I am trying to do something similar ie link from an external website to a particular section of a confluence page (particular question in a FAQ confluence page).

Could you tell me what you did? I tried going over the articles [@Robert Reiner _smartics_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853340) mentioned and it says to use this format:

<http://myconfluence.com/display/spacekey/pagename#pagename-anchorname>

But it did not work.


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Maybe your page or anchor name contains special characters or a space? In case of a space you need to remove them.

The easiest thing would be to inspect the heading you would like to point to in your browser. Check the id attribute of the heading.

```
<h2 id="BreadcrumbMacro-TemplateforLabel" ...>Template for Label</h2>
```
Storing data into database from connect plugin
Asked by Riyaz A Shaikh:

Hi,

We are developing a plugin for Confluence cloud version. Our plugin has to store user specific data into database.

Example:

When user click on link to access to plugin, he will be requested to provide some information to access the plugin. After providing that information, user will be able to access the plugin.

We want to store that information into Confluence database.

How we can achieve this? We are new to Atlassian Connect and still exploring development documents.

Thanks in advance.

\~Riz


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Please read <https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/concepts/hosted-data-storage.html>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think this blog is a bit better a starting point than the docs <https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/03/settings-storage-in-ace/>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Page content modify restriction
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear sir,

Would it be possible to make a restriction while somebody has modified some page, other account can not modify the same page content at the same time ?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Darren Pegg
body: An addon but will do what you ask..

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.arsenale.plugins.lockpoint>

Comala will work but only if they are assigned to Blueprints not Templates because if you have edit rights templates can be fudged, where as Blueprints cannot be fudged unless you an admin of the system.

comments: author: JenniferC
body: I think Lockpoint is only for securing attachments from edits?


author: Darren Pegg
body: Correct I was obviously half asleep :-)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not natively, although there are some plugins that can do it (Comala workflows and Scroll versions are the two I've used that do it, there may be more). Confluence will try to merge changes if two people edit at the same time.

And in version 6, it becomes redundant because you will be able to see the other editors and collaborate with them directly.

Without plugins, the best you can do is open a page for edit, stick "only me" on the "who can edit" restriction, and then remove it when you're finished.

comments: author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Dear Nic Brough, Do you mean the setting <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxriXuT0xeaFU1Q5MDdZV3RjcmM/view?usp=sharing> Our confluence is version 4.2.13. Thank you.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes.
UPM 24 Jul Update Crashing Confluence 5.8.6?
Asked by Neal Culiner:

Looks like an emergency release of UPM came out yesterday, installed on all Atlassian products (Jira, Stash, Bamboo) but Confluence is dying on the install blocking SQL Server, team calendars fail, etc. etc. Anyone else having this issue with confluence? Using Windows Server 2012 R2.


Answers:
author: BenW
body: We haven't received any other reports of this problem. I recommend filing a [UPM support request](https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/UPM) with any information you have (including stacktraces) so that we can investigate further - thanks!


author: Neal Culiner
body: Anyone else seeing this issue in trying to update UPM on Confluence 5.8.6?


Tags: confluence-administration

universal-plugin-manager
Documentation available to customers
Asked by supername:

Hello,

This is a question about: JIRA Service desk and Confluence in the Cloud

our organisation offers support to other organisations. One of our requirements is to provide our customers with documentation. Some documentation(pdfs, docs) are specific for a customer and other documents are more general and should be available to all our customers. Is there a way to integrate a solution to this requirement in the system. The information we provide is just normal info, not confidential at all, but sometimes specific to particular clients.

Regards


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Put the shared stuff in spaces that are accessible to everyone, and then you have a choice:

If there's the odd page within the shared stuff that is only for some customers, put a "restriction" on it such that only some customers will be able to see it.

If it's big numbers of pages, consider putting them in their own space, and limiting access to that space to the few customers who should see it.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Issue with background-size: cover?
Asked by Blake Manosh:

I'm a space admin who doesn't have the permissions to edit CSS files, however I do have a source code editor that allows me to add styles to tables.

I'm able to use a background image on a table cell with along with other properties such as background-repeat, background-color, and background-position, however when I try to use:

```
background-size: cover;
```

It is either ignored or removed. Has anyone else had this issue? Is it a bug?


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi @Blake Manosh

well, I think "background-size" is simply not supported.

I had similiar questions and opened a thread years ago: [PDF-Export: Which CSS properties do work and which ones not?](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/50936/pdf-export-which-css-properties-do-work-and-which-ones-not)

My findings then:

Not all CSS is supported. Most CSS 2 does work, most CSS 3 don't. "background-size" falls into the second category.

Unless nothing much has changed since then this should still hold true.
Do you need a specific macro to take advantage of Anchor links in confluence?
Asked by Jeff Scattini:

I am getting a "The markup provided is not valid link markup" error when trying to link to an anchor macro in the same page.

Do you need an additional macro to use anchor links?

(I'm setting up templates in a new wiki instance)


Answers:
author: Nathanael Motz
body: Have you looked at this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/anchors-139442.html>?


Tags: confluence-administration
toggle cloak + cloak macros are missing?
Asked by Bill Leonard:

A client I provide services for uses Confluence and I've written some wikis for them, especially liking the toggle-cloak + cloak macros.

I'm now considering Confluence for use for my own company and just started the full-featured, free trial. However, I don't see the Toggle-Cloak \& Cloak macros.


Answers:
author: Kay Brown
body: They appear to be a part of the Composition plugin:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.composition>

Regards,

Kay

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Kay is correct. However, there is the expand macro that is installed with Confluence and provides basically the same functionality.


author: Bill Leonard
body: Thanks -- At the client, I have toggle-cloak \& cloak; wondering if they're the same as this?- It looks like the plugin isn't available if using atlassian cloud to host - which is what I want- We found that 'expand' doesn't allow us to format the expand text itself (correct?). Whereas, the text after the toggle-cloak macro could be formatted and then the cloak macro added after that text.


author: Tim
body: Hi Bill,

We've created a Heading Expand macro as part of our toolbox of useful Confluence Cloud macros. It lets you show and hide content under any heading style and also if it should be expanded or collapsed by default.

Try it here: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1215202>

Keen to know if it helps you out :)

Tim


Tags: macro
How can I move the chat 'window' in Confluence so it doesnt block the 'Save' or 'Cancel' buttons?
Asked by HuwM:

I have a number of users complaining about the chat window getting in the way of the 'Save' or 'Cancel' buttons in the bottom right hand corner of the browser. Some have asked for it to be turned off. Is there a way to re position the window, or what is the shortcut key to 'Cancel'? I'm using Confluence version 5.4.7


Answers:
author: Darren Pegg
body: Hi Huw,

I'm guessing this a problem with all browsers? Also is this in the way when editing pages? There is a hide in editor option within the chat configuration section.

<https://github.com/muchino/confluence.chat/blob/master/src/main/resources/faq.md>

There is reference to your question on this page :smile:

Darren

comments: author: HuwM
body: Thanks Darren, that works perfectly! The 'bubble' is hidden when editing the page, but then comes back when viewing the saved page.


author: Darren Pegg
body: Good stuff :-)


Tags: confluence-administration
How to hide Comala workflows icon from Confluence Spaces
Asked by Areg Vrtanesyan _Work_:

Hi

I would like to check if there is a possibility to hide the button from the Space page?

I am designing the home page and I was able to hide most of the elements using the macros or HideElements PlugIn but I am not able to hide the Workflows button...

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Hide+Elements+in+Confluence+Using+CSS+or+JavaScript>

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.scandio.confluence.plugins.hideelements-macro>

Capture.PNG

Regards,

Areg  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-hide-Comala-workflows-icon-from-Confluence-Spaces/qaq-p/344602?attachment-id=4285){#link_118826c6717983}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/58261/1/Capture.PNG){#display_118826c6717983_0}


Answers:
author: JenniferC
body: Usually I hide elements using CSS. What styling have you tried?


author: Areg Vrtanesyan _Work_
body: Is it some kind of button that only visible to editors or who has access and not to viewers?


Tags: addon-com.comalatech.workflow
Confluence Cloud email notifications stopped working
Asked by Vicky Andrews:

We had Confluence in the Cloud as a trial and the notification's worked and emails were sent to the appropriately. We are now starting to use Confluence and we have noticed that the email notifications have stopped working (We have had Confluence in total for 6 months). We still get the notifications in the Confluence Notification tray just not to our emails. We haven't changed anything drastically in Confluence which would block this, do you have any ideas why this would stop working. Our JIRA email notifications work absolutely fine.


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Silva
body: Hi Vicky,

In this case I believe you need to contact [Atlassian Support](http://support.atlassian.com), that way we'd be able to investigate it properly.

Cheer,s

Rodrigo Silva


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do you change position of labels?
Asked by Ben Jines:

I would like to display the labels-section on one of my pages inside a panel macro. I tried to do a .clone().appendTo() to display the labels in another div and that did not work. I have also tried changing it's position using CSS but that also does not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Confluence v. 5.1.3


Answers:
author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Hi Ben,

what CSS did you use to change the position of the labels section? I tried it in Confluence 5.5.7 and it worked.

```
div#labels-section   { position: absolute; left: 200px; top: 100px; }
```

Cheers,  
Kirstin


author: Ben Jines
body: Okay,

I ended up figuring it out. It was a brain fart on my part more than anything. If I use negative values I can move it past the boundaries.

So I made two separate ones a

div#likes-and-labels-container {} - with a relative position rather than absolute

And

div#labels-section{} with a left: -34%

and I was able to move the entire container up to the Y position I needed and then moved the labels a negative amount to the left after hiding the likes section to move it past the X boundary it had.

Thanks, I probably would have just kept it with the macro and had two labels if you didn't post this and motivate me to give it another college try.


author: Ben Jines
body: Hello Kristin,

The CSS I used was about the same as yours - I just used bottom instead of top. I ended up getting a display page information macro so it would work, but when I use that it does not leave the bottom of the page no matter what I type. I can have it like this and it ends up staying in the same Y position and moving along the X plane until about the mid-way point.

{ position: absolute; left: 100; bottom: 200 }

But as I said, I got it to at least display the tags with the macro, so it functions for now - we are updating to 5.7.x sometime soon so hopefully the CSS will work when we do that.

Thank you,

Ben


Tags: confluence-administration

label
Community bubbles macro ?
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

Hi All

We used to use community bubbles plugin to have forums etc.

It seems this plugin has been deprecated since Confluence 5.1.

Now we have tens of forum discussions using thismacro in our earlierversions. How can we migrate those content (forum discussions) over in the newer confluence versions?

I am on confluence 5.5

Rahul


Answers:
author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: You are maybe looking for <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.forums>

The forum feature was put in this new plugin, and you they changed the license to comercial...

Regards

Steve


Tags: addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.bubbles

confluence-administration
Upgrading Confluence from 5.3.1 to 5.7
Asked by Marina Lebedeva:

We are planning an upgrade from 5.3.1 to 5.7. Some core add-ons are not yet marked as compatible with newer Confluence version. Should we expect any problems with them? The list is like: Chart Plugin, Confluence Mobile Plugin, IM Presence NG, User Lister, Widget Connector


Answers:
author: JenniferC
body: I wouldn't worry about system plugins, which the ones you have listed are. Unless Atlassian have specifically said in their release notes that a plugin is being deprecated, the versions of those plugins that are bundled with the new instance will be compatible.

I'm not sure where you are seeing that information, I have 5.8 running here with those plugins there and no complaints about incompatibility.

Alexander is right of course. You definitely must perform a staging upgrade first!


author: Alexander Sch?tzle
body: My recommendation is to set up a test instance where you can import certain spaces, which are using espacially this add-ons.

My experience is, that sometimes even if an add-on is declared as not compatible, it still is working on a non compatible version. But I would not do an upgrade until I did it on a second instance....


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible for issue type "bug" to automatically produce trouble shooting article in confluence?
Asked by DionP:

I would like to have all bugs issues to be logged in confluence, so we can use this as a knowledge base.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You can use the [CLI Post Function](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLIP/CLI+Post+Function+and+CLI+Validator) from [Run CLI Actions in JIRA](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLIP/Run+CLI+Actions+in+JIRA) to do various Confluence actions. Add that to the create issue transition and condition the action on the issue type being a **Bug**. Other information:

* [How to create Confluence pages](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLIP/How+to+create+Confluence+pages)
* You will need to position the post function after **Creates the issue originally**


Tags: confluence-administration
Can I display a (Confluence) task creation date in the Task Report macro?
Asked by Gregory Dubois-Felsmann:

I can filter on that date, so I should be able to display it. But "createdate" does not work.

The only documented working columns are "Allowed columns are description, duedate, assignee, location, completedate, labels".

<br />

Thanks!


Answers:
author: M. Beerens
body: We would also like to see this functionality. Currently newly created tasks ar not automatically shown at the top. and the last below. With 10 pages of tasks this gives a very unclear overview.


author: Magnus Fr?berg
body: This is a function that we need too. It should be possible to add a column for creation date and it should be possible to sort the list on creation date.


author: Dmitry Kim
body: There is the suggestion in [Including start date in Confluence tasks](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Including-start-date-in-Confluence-tasks/qaq-p/865809) to specify two "due dates" and come to an agreement that the first one is the "start date".


author: Dmitry Kim
body: Looks like, according to [CONFSERVER-42908 ticket](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-42908) from [Task start date \| Bruce Cannon \| Jun 15, 2016](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Task-start-date/qaq-p/391422), Atlassian will never implement this feature:
> **Atlassian update**
>
> Thank you for raising this suggestion. We regret to inform you that due to limited demand, we have no plans to implement it in the foreseeable future. In order to set expectations, we're closing this request now. Sometimes potentially valuable tickets do get closed where the Summary or Description has not caught the attention of the community. If you feel that this suggestion is valuable, consider describing in more detail or outlining how this request will help you achieve your goals. We may then be able to provide better guidance. Thanks again.  
> Regards,  
> Confluence Product Management


author: Svetlana Novikova
body: Hi, any update here? Is it possible to display creation date not due date?


author: Darren Pegg
body: Hi Gregory,

`I can see `**Created**` ?`
Where is the macro for the Adaptavist "Progress Bar" ?
Asked by Steve Heard:

I'm using Confluence Cloud and the documentation screen shots under Manage Add-Ons for the pre-installed Adaptavist Content Formatting Macros show a progress bar macro that renders a horizontal progress within your pages. The screenshot caption describes the feature as:

|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Show workflow with the progress bar macro Progress Bar macro displays pages in an intuitive, consecutive sequence |

I don't see any macro matching this behavior though.


Answers:
author: Monika Turska [Adaptavist]
body: Hi @Steve Heard,

The "Progress Bar" macro is a premium macro available only for Confluence Server edition, not Confluence Cloud. The list of all free macros, which are pre-installed on Confluence Cloud instances, is available in the documentation: <http://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/CFP/Content+Formatting+Documentation> Our Dev team will take a look at how the UX of Content Formatting Macros can be improved, so it's not misleading for Confluence Cloud users regarding the premium macros availability.

Thanks,

Monika

comments: author: Steve Heard
body: Thank you Monika.


author: Simon Mann
body: On <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros#cloud>, there is no mention of free vs premium versions of the macros and instead just states that "This add-on is free and pre-installed on your Cloud instance", when having clicked on the 'Cloud' tab within the pricing overview section. Very misleading.


Tags: addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.contentformat

cloud

confluence-cloud
confluence: numbers in numbered list run into image
Asked by Wade Koehn:

numbers.PNG

See how the numbers are on the inside of the picture border? When I save this page it cuts off everything but the periods. Any ideas how to format this better?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/confluence-numbers-in-numbered-list-run-into-image/qaq-p/376230?attachment-id=8211){#link_118827a215bce6}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/63609/1/numbers.PNG){#display_118827a215bce6_0}


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: How is this laid out?

* Just an image flush left
* Quick sections
* Old section/columns
* Table

You could try all of these. Give us more details of your current layout, and we will work on a solution.


author: Wade Koehn
body: This was laid out with just an image flush left. I was able to fix the problem with either the second or third suggestion easily. Thanks!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud