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How do I paste an excel table into one table cell in Confluence?
Asked by barbarat:

I am trying to move data across Microsoft apps (powerpoint, excel, word) into Confluence. When I copy a table from powerpoint/excel, the contents are copied into multiple table cells in Confluence. I would like the entire table copied to only one cell - is this possible?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: I guess you have two options:

1. You could copy the data and paste it into a text editor (like Notepad), recopy, and then paste into a single table cell, but of course you would lose the separation between cells
2. attach an excel file as an attachment (i.e. by dragging and dropping into the editor view), and then you can insert the Office attachment preview into a single table cell.

I don't think there's any way to insert a table inside of another table, if that's what you're looking for.

comments: author: Christopher Yeleighton
body: It is possible to insert a table into a table cell. However, if I paste content containing a table into a table cell, the whole content of the cell is removed and replaced by the first table in the clipboard.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

copy

ms-excel

paste

table
confluence and jira count total comments
Asked by Paul DeSousa:

Hi all,

I am looking for a way to get the total number of comments in all space of confluence and on all issues in JIRA. I have admin access and can access the database as well.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Paul DeSousa
body: SELECT contenttype, count(\*) FROM CONTENT c GROUP BY c.contenttype; did it.


Tags: confluence-administration

jira-administration
Embedding confluence content in an external website
Asked by JiaZhen Guo:

Someone has already asked it before, but the answer was using CLI to pull the content. However, this is not an option for me as my site is just a couple of static HTML pages.

So is there a way to generate the embeded code to share the content? The usage is we have 2 teams inside the organization - dev and cs. Dev team created some documentation and want to share with CS team, but Dev team do not want to give CS team full access to confluence.


Answers:
author: Anand Inamdar_Amoeboids
body: You may want to take a look at our plugin '[Embedder for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/amoeboids.embedder/cloud/overview)'.


author: Daniel Wester
body: You can with the new rest api <https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/REST/latest/#d3e833> - you'd need to format the content etc through a dynamic layer.

Might be too much work than it's worth - the Dev team could just lock down the pages they don't want to share.
link to attachment in another space?
Asked by Cathleen McGuire:

How do you link to a file that's in a whole other space. I don't want to link to the page. I want to link to the actual attachment, but in another space. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: The search should return the actual attachments as well, not just pages. You can then select the attachment you want to link to.


author: Cathleen McGuire
body: Nope, spoke too soon. All the Search input does is bring you to the page where the file lives. I want to go to the *file*, not the page where the file is.

(There could be 50 files on a page for example, and the user would be forced to find the file they want. So a link to the page is not very helpful.)

Surely Confluence can force some kind of anchor link to get to the file on the page (versus the page in general)

Help?


author: Cathleen McGuire
body: Doh, found my own answer. In Link, Attachment window go to Search, click on the Spaces dropdown, and paste in the name of the actual file.
expand macro problems in Safari
Asked by Randy Hansford:

Anyone else had the issue when using safari on an ipad, i can see the items in the expand macro, if i click on one and go to the page, then click the back button it won't allow the expand function to work until i refresh the screen.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Randy, please add details such as the iOS version being used and, if possible, the page source (_Tools \> View Storage Format_) with that info at hands we can check if this is something happening for everybody too.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
What version of confluence am I using?
Asked by William Trent:


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey William,

By your Tags I can see you are using Confluence Cloud which is currently on version 5.7 :smile:.

img.png

In the future all you need to do is to click in to the Upper right question mark \> select about Confluence, that will show you the version in a similar way as the above screenshot.  
Hope it helps.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.  
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Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can Confluence be used for design models, wireframes, mockups and data models
Asked by Joseph Pursel:

I would like to know how to use Confluence to store data models, EA models, wireframes, mockups, etc.


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: More details?

You can easily upload attachments to pages. Use various diagraming tools (Balsamiq, Gliffy etc all integrates with Confluence).

So can you explain more detail what you're trying to do?
How does one modify the layout of the user profile?
Asked by Nabil Ahmad:

I'm looking to remove the recently updated column and can't find the layout for the page in the administration anywhere.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's not in administration, it's in the code - you need to hack the template file that renders the page.

comments: author: Susan Woster
body: Can anyone tell me the template file that we should modify? I need to ask somebody to make that exact change for me.


Tags: confluence-administration

user
Is there a Gantt / Schedule add on for Confluence ?
Asked by Michael Colwell:

Hi, is there a gantt / schedule add on for Confluence. Am interested in creating high level plans for the various teams so that these can be seen in the teams Confluence space.

So is there an add on?

Or can I import a gantt / schedule view and display on Confluence?

Regards


Answers:
author: mlavender
body: Hi Michael

Currently there is no macro that is specific to Gantt charts however the Chart Macro does handle some Gantt type data. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Chart+Macro#ChartMacro-GanttChart>

The link above should take you directly to the Gantt macro portion of the page.

Does this help you out?

Cheers  
Marty


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Breadcrumbs broken
Asked by Jan de Vries:

Hi everyone,

Some time ago we decided to hide our breadcrumbs so we applied *display: none;* to the **#breadcrumbs** selector. However, now that we want to display it again, after removing the display: none;, it's not displaying the breadcrumbs any more. It only displays a "Pages" link and not the pages we browse behind it. Obviously this way we can't use the breadcrumbs.

I think this problem is not CSS related, because the breadcrumb code in the HTML is also missing the page entries, except for the first one "Pages".

image2015-3-6 15:32:31.png

Does this have something to do with the breadcrumbs.vm? I'm a little at a loss here.

/Jan  
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Answers:
author: Jan de Vries
body: I managed to recover the breadcrumbs, it was a css thing after all.

I have another problem though, the breadcrumb trail starts with ++Pages++ for some reason, instead of the space homepage. Any idea why it does that? And how to remove or change it?

I don't want my end users to see the raw list of pages.


Tags: breadcrumbs
Confluence: Some users are logged frequently without any action of their own. What could be the reason?
Asked by Evelin:


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Evelin,

Is your Confluence instance also tied to another application, such as JIRA? The problem could be the one stated in this article:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Logging+into+Another+Atlassian+Application+Logs+Me+Out+of+Confluence>

If you continue to have issues, and the problem is replicable across browsers, I recommend creating a support ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com> and we can investigate for you.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-administration
Would it be possible list all Team calendars on a webpage
Asked by Jeremy Stanek:

We would like to see if we can list all the Team calendars on a webpage but still have it tied into permission sets


Answers:
author: Accounting Go2Group
body: You should be able to get them using the Team Calendar API.

* /rest/calendar-services/1.0/calendar/search/subcalendars/all

comments: author: Jeremy Stanek
body: where exactly is this located? sorry I am new to Confluence
I am no longer receiving email notifications.
Asked by Kay Brown:

I stopped receiving email notifications a couple of days ago.

Thank you for your help.

Kay


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Kay,

I recommend opening a ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com> so we can determine why you might not be receiving notifications. Describe which notifications you are expecting and we can investigate and see what the problem might be.

Thank you,

Shannon

comments: author: Kay Brown
body: I Shannon,I am referring to the email notifications I normally receive from Atlassian Answers when people ask questions. This problem is happening to others as well.Thank you,Kay


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hi Kay,

We raised a ticket internally to check what is happening, on we get a update I will reply in this post:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/12917699>  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Confluence Support Engineer


author: no_longer_in_sudoers_file
body: Thank you, Kay for reaching out to us. The problem should now be resolved. We've tested things and they are all working. Please let us know if you see anything else.Thanks,Sam


author: Kay Brown
body: Thanks, Nic.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I don't think any of us are.
End user tool to create blueprint and blueprint index
Asked by Javier Molina:

Hi all,

If you are familiar with out of the box blueprints, you will see that most of them follow the pattern:Template for actual content, template for index. See image below

image2015-3-6 12:18:6.png

In the most simple situation (and most common I would say), there is no need for a custom wizzard or any logic before creating a page based on a blueprint.

With the scenario above in mind I see that both templates (content and index) can be created just as standard templates in Confluence, yet I see no other way than plug-in development to make the index page be created automatically.

Is there a way, either an Atlassian or third party add-on than can perform such a simple task? I think that creating a whole Add-on project in Eclipse for such a simple task is just overkill.

I'm pretty sure I am not alone here but I can't see anything relevant in the market place.

Thanks,

Javier

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Answers:
author: Stephan Sutter
body: Hi Javier,

We ran into the same Problem as you and decided to write a plugin, which can substitute templates and blueprints by normal confluence pages. Have a look at our Page Tree Creator plugin.

Try our [**Live Examples**](https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PEPSMarktExample/Marketplace+Examples) (no Registration needed).

**[Marketplace Link: Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)**

Regards,  
Stephan


author: Christian Ax?n
body: +1


Tags: blueprint
Insert reference to page title
Asked by Robert Strauch:

Let's say I have a page called "Project Overview". Inside this page I would like to insert a reference to the current page's title so that I don't have to edit all text occurrences if the page title is changed. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Robert,

You could make a user macro:

```
## @noparams$content.title
```

and insert it wherever you want the page title to be displayed.

comments: author: Dave Blaine
body: Thanks for that info. I must be doing some basic thing wrong. I Copy \& Paste those two lines but after saving the page there's no execution of a macro. Those lines are just displayed exactly as shown on this page.I've noticed, also, when editing a page the square bracket does not invoke autofill for a link; similarly curly brace does not invoke macro editor. I appreciate your time.
How do find what is the potential cost of ideation
Asked by Sunita Voleppe:

Hi currently I'm trying out Ideation for the team, but confused what the pricing would be for us. In the Add-on area, it says that the price is $300, but not sure if that is annually for the entire team or monthly, or even if that price even applies to us. I'm a user with temp admin access so unsure if we are on the server or cloud version. Where do I find that detail and how to calculate the price from there.


Answers:
author: Melek Jebnoun_Vectors_
body: Hello Sunita,

We thank you for your interest to our plugin.

Concerning your question:

The price depends on the Confluence license you have and the number of users allowed to use it.

For example: if you have a 50 users license, you need to buy an ideation plugin that fits to this license = 300USD license.

The price depends also from the support and maintenance period you will choose when buying the plugin (1 year, 2 years or 3 years) This includes the support period and engagement from our side and the free updates about the plugin you will get.

Other note: our Ideation plugin is only available on the server plate-form. The Cloud support is on the way.

Thanks again and please don't hesitate to contact us via our [email labsupport@spectrumgroupe.fr](mailto:email%C2%A0labsupport@spectrumgroupe.fr) or via our Support JIRA instance <http://lab.spectrumgroupe.fr/>
Confluence 5.6: how do I set size and placement for inserted images?
Asked by R Donato:

Hello,

I have a fairly large space with all the images with left justification and 500px in size. Is there a way to set the insert default so that images are automatically centered and 600px in size?

I'm sure I can do it with css. But I don't know how to reference images in Confluence. I've used wiki.content and ac:image and neither work.

Thanks


Answers:
author: R Donato
body: Hello,

Thanks for your response! I'm actually looking to set the default so I don't have to use the pop-up. I also want to automatically set the images to be centered when imported onto a page. Ideally, I also want to set the default and have all the existing images automatically re-sized and re-positioned so I don't have to do each page separately.

The current default is left justified, 500 px. How can I update that information?


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Rosemary, you can chose when inserting the image, while clicking on it there will be a pop-up menu with 3 options of sizes, and you can also choose a custom image size. You can [limit the filesize though](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Attachment+Size), if it is of any help.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence 5.6: How to get PDF export to print page tree macros
Asked by R Donato:

Hello,

I exported a space that has the Page Tree macro on several pages. After exporting the space, I reviewed the PDF'd pages and noticed that the Page Tree results don't display. Is there a script or css I can use to get the macro to display on the exported pages?

ConfluenceExample01.PNG

ConfluenceExample02.PNG

Any help is greatly appreciated.  
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Answers:
author: Marc Dvorschak
body: Hello!

There is an open issue about this: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-21186>. And it doesn't look like it will be fixed soon :wink:.

But the Children macro works with the PDF export. If it is possible use this instead of the Page tree macro.

Regards,

Marc


Tags: confluence-administration
No mail from Answers since yesterday?
Asked by JamieA:

I normally get quite a lot of notifications from AAC but I haven't had any since yesterday afternoon, despite quite a few new questions with tags I follow. Is this just me?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Sorry for this happening. For some reason the Confluence mail queue was not being flushed. As we started investigating, the Confluence server went into a GC panic and we were forced to restart the system to resume service. This had the unfortunate side-effect of clearing out all the pending notifications.

We'll be following up further investigation into the root cause and also chasing up better alerting so that we can identify when the mail queue is clogged up faster.

comments: author: MattS
body: The way JIRA and confluence do outgoing email is not very reliable. I wonder if Andy's new outgoing mail add-on preserves outgoing mail over restarts?


author: JamieA
body: Yeah... this wouldn't matter so much of I could do a search on all new or updated questions with tags I follow since wednesday, but afaik I can't.


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Let me check this internally and see if I can find something :smile:.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Confluence Support Engineer

comments: author: Deividi Luvison
body: Raised a internal case so our infra structure team can narrow this down, will update you guys once I get a notification.


author: no_longer_in_sudoers_file
body: I'm investigating right now. This comment is intended to trigger a test to see if the problem still exists.


author: no_longer_in_sudoers_file
body: Deividi, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Let me know if you see any further issues.


author: JamieA
body: sure


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Jamie, can you please mark this as answered so we can close this topic as the notificatios are working :)?


author: Udo Brand
body: Confirmed, no mails since Wednesday afternoon.


author: MattS
body: Take the day off guys!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Nope, me too - I've had a couple of Atlassian updates, but nothing from Answers.


Tags: community

questions-for-confluence
Is there a way to always show the header of a table in Confluence?
Asked by barbarat:

Loving the page properties macro (summary page pulls data from various tables in several pages).

Since this summary page can get long, is there a way to fix/lock the header of the table to always show when scrolling down the page?


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: [Table Filter add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter) provides this [functionality](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/Managing+Look+of+the+Table+and+Filtration+Pane#ManagingLookoftheTableandFiltrationPane-Fittingthetabletoscreenarea).


author: Bruno Rosa
body: Barbarat, I get your point and I agree with you, this is a good idea but I don't think this option is available at the moment. I did some research and I found an open feature request at **jira.atlassian.com** about this - it's currently being tracked here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-9267>. I'd suggest watching that to stay up to date on any progress, as well as voting/commenting on it to provide feedback to the dev team.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

macro

page-property

questions-for-confluence

table
What's the best way to backup data on a Confluence space?
Asked by barbarat:

I'm heavily relying on Confluence + page properties macros (pulls data from other tables into a summary page) for project reporting. What is the best way to backup the entire space and all pages underneath?

What is the best way to back it up for offline access to the data? Is there an export all to pdf type feature?


Answers:
author: Paula Silveira
body: Hello there,

You can export Confluence Cloud data with one of the following ways.

* For space exports (including moving from one Confluence instance to another): [Export Confluence data on a space-basis](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+XML)
* For complete Confluence exports (including moving Confluence Cloud data into local Confluence installations):[Exporting wiki data](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Cloud/Exporting+wiki+data)

These backups will allow you to restore the data on different instances.

You can also export pages to PDF as you can see on [Customising Exports to PDF](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF). The information will be available offline however it doesn't work for future imports.

Thanks and regards,  
Paula Silveira


Tags: backup
Convert system time back to readable date
Asked by Tom:

We had the tasklist plugin installed in our confluence instance, but after an upgrade (not sure from what but we skipped some version or other) to Confluence 5.6.6 it stopped working with a message of "unknown macro".

Using the "View Storage Format" option from the tools menu for the page I retrieved the data, and the put it in to the page using the wiki markup as the retrieved data was already in wiki markup format. Everything formats OK except the two date columns (CreatedDate, CompletedDate) that the tasklist mcro was using are showing what looks like a system date.

| Completed | Priority | Locked |  CreatedDate  | CompletedDate |   |   |
|-----------|----------|--------|---------------|---------------|---|---|
| T         | M        | F      | 1389111643041 | 1413289850182 |

Here is the same table in the retrieved raw data:

```
||Completed||Priority||Locked||CreatedDate||CompletedDate||Assignee||Name|||T|M|F|1389111643041|1413289850182|
```

Is there any way that I can get the system to convert these back to human readable dates, such as with a bit of wiki markup or similar?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Bruno Raymundo
body: Hi Tom,

It seems that the dates are stored in [Unix time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time). If you search for **unix epoch batch converter** you should be able to find converters on the web. But please notice that the timestamps in your file are in milliseconds; usually the unix time is given in seconds, so 1413289850182 would be something like 1413289850. I'm sure there are many ways of automating this for your specific case. I'll let you know if I come up with something better.

Regards,

Bruno

comments: author: Tom
body: Thanks Bruno,

The moment has long since passed, but I easily managed to find a tool that would have helped, now that I know what the time format is called. I searched for unix "timestamp epoch batch converter" and had plenty of useful hits.

Tom


author: Bruno Raymundo
body: You're welcome, Tom. Yeah, I always keep these converters in my toolbelt. :P


Tags: tasklist