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Cannot create a project space
Asked by Edgar Salcedo:

I am trying to create some space but the systems is not showing the create space option.

I followed:

Create the space {#toc-hId--1440322119}
---------------------------------------

1. Choose **Spaces** \>**Create space** from the Confluence header
2. Select the **Blank space** option and choose **Next**
3. Enter a**Space name** -- for this space, we'll call it 'Mars Colony', as it's being used for the Mars colonisation project.
4. Change the **Space key** to 'MARS' -- this step isn't absolutely necessary, but it helps people if they're navigating to this space by name. The space key forms part of the URL, so making it a word or name makes it much easier to associate with your project.
5. Click **Create**

But even so I cannot create it, can you provide information please on how to do it?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Sanjana _Alacriz_
body: Hi [@Edgar Salcedo](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3023853) ,

You would need the Global "can use" and "Create Space(s)" global permissions in order to create a confluence space. If you are not a confluence administrator, please contact your admin for the same.

Thanks,

Sanjana
Is it possible to create an HTML form in Confluence that saves to the page?
Asked by mf:

Hello,

I'm trying to create a Confluence page with a form on it that saves it's values in the Confluence page. I need things like check boxes and selects and they should remember their states and, ideally, also create page history, when being changed.

Is this possible by using the HTML macro and aui forms? Or is there any way to achieve that?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: This is possible with the help of 3rd party add-ons - <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=forms>

Quite a complex task to do yourself (as a plugin), but possible...

comments: author: mf
body: Thanks for the answer!

We have now decided to keep it as simple as possible and just use the edit mode of Confluence. It doesn't have a strict guiding for users (no validation, required fields, etc.), but it should be ok as it will only be used by our internal users anyways. We didn't want to increase development effort that much and then still miss the page history feature, so edit mode it is!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Is there a way to use the Recently Updated Macro to get everything EXCEPT updates by me?
Asked by Julie Spradley:

I would like to monitor a Confluence space for updates by other users so that I can proof them for grammar and spelling. Is there any way to get the Recently Updated Macro to exclude updates that I make?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Julie,

Thank you for reaching out! Happy to help you with this.

I did some research, and I found this thread on Community discussing a possible workaround:

* [How to Exclude/Filter Out an Author from Recently Updated results.](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-Exclude-Filter-Out-an-Author-from-Recently-Updated/qaq-p/276728)

You could either use SQL to filter this out, or [write a User Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html):
> I would write a user macro to generate a list of recent updates. The Page object has a getLastModifier() method that you could use: maybe build a List of contributors, and then walk the tree of pages to get a count of pages that the user was the last modifier for. Spit out a table of users and the # of pages they updated, with a link to drill down into which pages the user was the last modifier for.

There is a feature request on our site in order to add this feature into the Recently Updated Macro:

* [CONFSERVER-20956](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-20956) *Allow exclusion or limitation of recently updated content to certain users only*

I encourage you to click \*Vote for this issue\* and provide your feedback there, as it can help to implement the feature request in the future.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
Reset values of hidden fields in Confiforms datasets
Asked by Dennis W:

Dear community,

I'm trying to purge data from a hidden field in a Confiforms data set. Reason for this is that I populate this field in a complex approval process, and in rare cases fetching the data I want to put in there via IFTTT fails due to DNS lookup errors. So I need to reset the data and run the process again.

I tried an IFTTT ActionButton and put as "Action to perform"

```
confluencelink=[empty]
```

but this won't empty the field "confluencelink".

```
confluencelink=NULL 
```

or just

```
confluencelink=
```

also doesn't work. How am I supposed to tell the macro that I what confluencelink to be empty?

Thanks a bunch!


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi Dennis

See the simple demo below

![reset-demo.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/51284iFA77F5C5619C4CF5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "reset-demo.png")Where the "confluencelink" field is of type "link" and I have also a checkbox field for "reset" field

So, when a "reset" field is checked then the link is cleaned up

The IFTTT macro configuration is as follows

![reset-demo-ifttt.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/51285iFF002AFD2A427C52/image-dimensions/494x665?v=v2 "reset-demo-ifttt.png")


author: Dennis W
body: Hey Alex,

thanks for your answer! So the trick is to provide the entryId, as well? Or switching field types?

comments: author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: The type of field you want to "reset" does not matter.

```
entryId=[entry.id]
```

tells ConfiForms IFTTT macro to set the parameters on "current" ConfiForms entry. Basically, this is the way to tell ConfiForms action to "Create/Update ConfiForms Entry" to update the entry.

Leaving it out will actually create a new entry / record in ConfiForms form


author: Dennis W
body: Thank you! Your solution seems to work with 1 value I want to reset, but full disclosure: it's 2! :) And with two the changes are not applied.

Any idea?

```
entryId=[entry.id]&confluencelink=&jiralink=
```


author: Dennis W
body: Sorry, my previous message was wrong. I have an error downstream that re-creates the entries.

As we're already talking: do you know how to check whether ${iftttResult_0.id} has a value in the IFTTT conditions?


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: I think what you are looking for is to use the ! with the expression (this is evaluated as [Velocity template](http://velocity.apache.org/engine/1.7/user-guide.html) anyway, see "Quiet Reference Notation" section)

```
$!{iftttResult_0.id}
```

it will set the empty value if there is no iftttResult_0 or no id property in this IFTTT result


Tags: confiforms

ifttt
Making the Side Bar Responsive
Asked by Heather Janas:

Is there a way through CSS or javascript to make the sidebar responsive (wrap) in Confluence 6.13.1?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Heather Janas
body: Solved my own problem. Look at the following post: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-set-sidebar-page-title-auto-line-break/qaq-p/893556>


Tags: confluence-server

server
'create issue' pop up in confluence customisation
Asked by Tom Mason:

Is it possible to edit the conditions that appear when you highlight text in confluence and select 'create issue'?


Answers:
author: Ed Gaile
body: Tom - When you highlight text in confluence and select the 'create issue', the dialogue pops up for you to enter the project, issue type, and any supported required fields.

Can you clarify what you are trying to do or what conditions you are thinking about?

-Ed

comments: author: Tom Mason
body: So at the moment when i highlight text in conflunence and select 'create issue' a pop up appears and asks me to select a project, issue type, summary and description of the issue i'm trying to create.   

I'd like to be able to add extra fields in this pop-up, so I can assign it to specific teams within our project or other variables. I've attached a screen shot to show you an example. I want to be able to add different variables than the ones with red \*

![Screenshot 2019-04-11 at 15.39.30.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/51273i139527917ED0F044/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2019-04-11 at 15.39.30.png")

Hope this helps!


author: Ed Gaile
body: The ones in red mean they are required, so you need to have those at a minimum in order to create an issue for that JIRA project/issue type.

So what you would need to do is to make the fields that you want to show up in that dialogue required for that JIRA project/Issue Type. You can do that in the field configuration in JIRA associated with that project/issue type. Reference link: [field behavior](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/specifying-field-behavior-776636443.html)

once the fields are required, they should show up in that dialogue box for subsequent issue creation.

Make sense? Let me know if you have any questions about this.

-Ed


author: Tom Mason
body: Ed, you're a l**Ed**gend, thank you


author: Ed Gaile
body: awesome! Glad I could help.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Cannot add a Space's Team Calendar to any page within the Spave
Asked by Steve Arrants:

I have created a Team calendar for a space. When I try to add it to a page with the team Calendar macro, using the /, the name doesn't appear in the macro. If I save, a calendar appears, but it cannot be edited on the page. And sometimes the widget just presents a spinner.

I've been able to get this working in another space, but using the { to add the macro.

Do you have any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Steve,

Thank you for reaching out! I had a look into your issue, and I realized you've also raised a ticket with Support for a very similar issue.

Could you confirm if this is the same issue here? If so, I'll start watching your ticket so we can make sure to add the resolution here once the issue is determined.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Shannon S
body: Steve,

Oh, I just saw that N?gila linked you to this bug ticket:

* [CONFCLOUD-65260](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65260) *Can not embed Team calendar macro on the new* editor

I can read from the ticket that the problem exists in the new editor, and it's unfortunate that there's no workaround in the meantime.

I've included details for your case on that ticket internally, so we can collect as much data as possible on the issue. If you haven't already, make sure to click \*This affects my team\*. This helps us to keep track of the prevalence of the issue.

Thank you, and take care.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Steve Arrants
body: Yes it is the same issue and they provided a workaround until the issue is fixed. Thank you!


author: Shannon S
body: Thank you for confirming, Steve!

Take care, and have a pleasant week.

Regards,

Shannon


author: benny nord
body: how long until this issue gets fixed? I am a new customer and am paying for an essentially useless plugin. Is there a way to go back to the old editor if you are using Cloud in order to at least get this basic function up and running?


author: benny nord
body: What exactly is the workaround? CONFCLOUD-65260 doesn't actually propose a workaround, so why is Atlassian saying there's a workaround when there isn't?


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Benny,

Welcome to Community, and thank you for contacting us about this.

In my previous post, I did mention there is **no workaround** after having a look at the bug ticket. However, Steve worked with my colleague [@N?gila Marques](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/527609) in a private ticket, and she recommended the following:
> When creating a new meeting notes template in which you need to add the Team Calendar macro, here's what we can do:

1.
   > Generate a new meeting notes template
2.
   > Copy the content of the template
3.
   > Create a new page regular page
4.
   > Paste the content
5.
   > Fill with the necessary information and add Team Calendar macro

Could you give that a try and let me know how it goes?

Regards,

Shannon
Creating an internal link in a document does not seem to work
Asked by Marc van der Peet:

Dear all,

I am inserting markup where I place a H1 header called "testing" (H1. testing"). Now I would like to create a link to this header. Therefore I create an advanced link where the link is "#testing" and the linktext is "click here". However when I am doing this it does not seem to work. Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?


Answers:
author: R H
body: Did u tried to use the "Content" macro?

Sry the screenshot is in german.  
![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/51260i5508D12B7067543D/image-dimensions/722x227?v=v2 "image.png")
does a starter license have an accompanying developer license
Asked by Michael Kuschnir:

in our environment we mirror every production server with a test server.

is there a developer license with a starter license? it is no present in my atlassian licenses.

if not what tier do you have to purchase for a developer license.

thank you


Answers:
author: Tarun Sapra
body: Hello [@Michael Kuschnir](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/277723)

Please read the official KB article about it.

**Atlassian Starter, Community and Open Licenses** do not include free Developer Licenses. If you need a development environment for your Starter License please [purchase](https://my.atlassian.com/purchase) an additional Starter License. Community and Open source license holders please contact [sales@atlassian.com](mailto:sales@atlassian.com) if you need a license for your development environments.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-get-a-confluence-developer-license-152044449.html>

comments: author: Tarun Sapra
body: Hence all commercial licenses except Starter have a free developer license available.


Tags: confluence-server

server
The most edited page on the space in Confluence
Asked by br00no1:

Hi everyone.

I need to find out how to get the most edited page on the space in Confluence (server).   
I've tried to use REST API but I've got no results.  
Would you be so kind to help me, maybe you've got another ideas.

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards  


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

We have a SQL query documented that will help you out here. There's a [short article about it in the Atlassian knowledgebase](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-find-pages-with-most-historic-versions-in-confluence-936516579.html), but it will return the pages with the most number of edits sorted descending. We provide these in PostgreSQL, so you might need to make some syntax tweaks if your database is Microsoft SQL or Oracle.  

    select title,MAX(version) from content where contenttype = 'PAGE' group by title order by 2 desc limit 25;

Cheers,  
Daniel


author: Tarun Sapra
body: Hello [@br00no1](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2671154)

I am not sure it's possible to get the kind of list of most edited pages which you are lookin' for out of the box.

There is a paid plugin which you can evaluate for this kind of reports

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215795/analytics-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215795/analytics-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

comments: author: br00no1
body: Hi [@Tarun Sapra](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781576) thank you for your answer.

Certainly i will check it.
Can I set document level permissions in confluence?
Asked by Nischal Sharma:

I have a particular document in a space. I want only certain people who have permission to view everything in the space to be able to view this particular document. Is it possible?   

To give more context, I am creating a space for my team where I will document all our team resources, meetings and reviews. I will give everyone in the space the permission to view all documents. Just to make my life easy I would like to keep my team's performance review documents also in this space for easy access but I would obviously want only the specific people to be able to view the document and not everyone in the space. Can I set up document level permissions in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Nischal,

You can control view access on a specific space by adding **Restrictions** to a page, which are great for limiting view access for personal information as your use case describes.

For usage info, see Restrictions see [Add or Remove Page Restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/add-or-remove-page-restrictions-724764891.html). To see how restrictions interact with other types of permissions in Confluence, see [Permissions and Restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/permissions-and-restrictions-724765432.html#PermissionsandRestrictions-page).

I hope this helps!  
--Zak


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confluence-cloud
Migrating from Confluence Server to Confluence Cloud
Asked by Shaun Parker:

Hi.

We are going to be migrating from Confluence Server to the Cloud in the coming months. I need to know whether we can still keep the Confluence Server version as read-only so that this can be used to view historical data.

If we can do this, how do we go about this but more importantly, will there be a cost to keep the read-only version?

Thanks in advance.

Shaun Parker


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: A commercial Confluence licence will suit you fine here I think. They give you a year of maintenance, but at the end of the year, if you do not renew, Confluence continues to work. You wont be able to upgrade it to any version released after the licence expires and you won't be supported by Atlassian, but it will work.

So, when you move to cloud, do the export/import, check Cloud is working for you, then change the access to the server system to read-only (you may have to plough through a lot of space permissions to remove all the users and groups, but we don't know how you currently have it set up, so we can't be sure if that is needed or you could just delete some groups etc), then forget it - it'll work "in perpetuity"


Tags: evaluator-resources
Creating a page over REST breaks included attachments
Asked by Jens Iwanenko:

Hi all,

So, I wrote a user macro that copies the contents of a page to another content entity over REST. If the page has attachments, the macro then calls itself with a URL parameter and copies the attachments over to the new content entity using the attachmentManager. The page shows fine, images and everything are there and "Show storage format" shows a correctly formatted page. However, when I edit the page, all the attachments break and the "unknown attachment" image is inserted instead. The source code plugin shows a different code than the "Show storage format" option. If I save the new content entity, the image brakes completely and the "unknown attachment" image is hard saved into the entity as an image.

"body.storage.value" contains the correct markup, so do the other "body" formats over REST.

Reverting to the entity's v.1 after breaking the images restores the original images and makes the page editable without breaking the images again. I tried increasing the version of the entity by 1 via rest, but without any changes to the body it doesn't seem to register. When I open the entity in the editor and click 'Revert to last published version', the images are restored and the entity can be edited as if nothing happened. Funnily, when I call convertToHistoricalVersion on the entity, it breaks the images like when I'd go and edit and save the entity as described above.

Am I missing something? Does Confluence have a cache somewhere that notices missing attachments when creating content? I need the copied content to be editable by ordinary users straight away. I can't expect my users to edit and discard changes of the new content before doing actual changes.

Best  
Jens

PS: This is on Server 6.14.3.


Answers:
author: Jens Iwanenko
body: I would like to answer my own question:

I investigated the copy space plugin, because it does something similar to what I was trying to do, and that plugin calls saveContentEntity after making changes (like copying attachments or setting the original author). Calling saveContentEntity on the pageManager in my macro after copying over the attachments seems to fix the problem.


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

server
Confluence crash when configuring anonymous access
Asked by Gus Johansson:

***TLDR: When I configure Confluence for anonymous the site crashes but the service still runs and I cant see anything in any logs.***

This is caused by the settings that make a space available for anonymous users. I have a test space, I opened it up for anonymous access and site crashed. When I try to enter the site i get:

"**Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"**

Service is running. A reset of service does not work. A restart of server does not work.

**All I see in the logs are:**

04-Apr-2019 12:59:24.102 INFO \[https-jsse-nio2-8443-exec-23\] com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl._initiate Initiating Jersey application, version 'Jersey: 1.19.4 05/24/2017 03:20 PM'  
04-Apr-2019 12:59:24.133 INFO \[https-jsse-nio2-8443-exec-6\] com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl._initiate Initiating Jersey application, version 'Jersey: 1.19.4 05/24/2017 03:20 PM'  
04-Apr-2019 12:59:25.430 INFO \[https-jsse-nio2-8443-exec-8\] com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl._initiate Initiating Jersey application, version 'Jersey: 1.19.4 05/24/2017 03:20 PM'  
04-Apr-2019 13:00:13.709 INFO \[https-jsse-nio2-8443-exec-11\] com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl._initiate Initiating Jersey application, version 'Jersey: 1.19.4 05/24/2017 03:20 PM'


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

Gus, this behaviour is indeed strange. Can you confirm that you are following this documentation?

**[Setting Up Public Access](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/setting-up-public-access-156.html)**

[**How to give non Confluence users access to a Space**](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-give-non-confluence-users-access-to-a-space-779166002.html)

Also, are you able to revert those changes and access Confluence once again?

Further, could you clarify some points for us? Here they are:
> 1. Has this worked at some point?
> 2. Can you explain how you applied the anonymous access settings?
> 3. Were changes other than the anonymous access applied?
> 4. Is this your production environment?
> 5. If you revert the changes are you able to access Confluence?

Looking forward to your reply!


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server