youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Can I make a link to an external site always open in a new window / tab?
Asked by Vadim Volodko:

I noticed that now any link opens in the same window.  
It is convenient, but in some cases, I still think it is better for the reader of my article to view the material in a separate window, close it calmly and continue reading.


Answers:
author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@Vadim Volodko](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4693414) Welcome to the Atlassian Community!  

On confluence cloud, this is currently not possible and there's already a feature request raised for the same - [Open links in new window](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68136)

I would suggest you to vote for it and watch it for further updates.

Users can use the following to open links in a new tab:
> * CTRL+Left Click (Windows) or CMD+Left Click (macOS)
> * Right click \> Open in a new tab

comments: author: Vadim Volodko
body: Thank you [@Kishan Sharma](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/554991) - I've voted there!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

issue-link
Tasks unticked when changing page content
Asked by Alexandre Ibach:

Hello

Does someone have also issues on tasks when editing a page ?  
This morning, I edited a page content (removing a line) and some tasks listed at the end of the page (for collaborators) were unticked !!  
Is this a known bug ?

Thanks for your help.


Answers:
author: Pramodh M
body: Hi [@Alexandre Ibach](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4693343)

It is possible some user in your team has unchecked the task, please check

Thanks,  
Pramodh
How to create page properties macro using REST API?
Asked by Nitesh yadav:

I am following the API reference given below:  
<https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-content-properties/#api-wiki-rest-api-content-id-property-post>

But, the example is not well-crafted. I am not getting how to pass my content in the page properties macro and nothing present about "value" keyword.

Basically I want to create a Table as page properties in the confluence page so that I can link it to some other page. For testing purpose the payload that I am using is given below:

\`\`\`  
payload = {  
"key": "spiderman_test1",  
"value":\[\],  
"body": {  
"storage": {  
"value": "\<p\>Enjoy the API\</p\>",  
"representation": "storage",  
}  
}  
}

\`\`\`

But it didn't reflected any change on the actual page.

Please help me out in what should be the payload for this api. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@nitesh yadav](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4693125)

I'm not sure, whether you can just update a table with confluence REST API.

What I would do is:

1. [Get the actual Content](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-content/#api-wiki-rest-api-content-get)
2. Change the content
3. [Put back the content](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-content/#api-wiki-rest-api-content-id-put)

Your payload code needs the storage value of a page. Would be something like this

```
"body":{"storage":{"value":"<ac:structured-macro ac:name=\"details\" ac:schema-version=\"1\" data-layout=\"default\" ac:local-id=\"4d09c679-fc74-42e0-b299-b42b0f2374d6\" ac:macro-id=\"9aaba42d-3e46-49e5-92e2-de133b81965f\"><ac:rich-text-body><table data-layout=\"default\" ac:local-id=\"ea2f8c8e-ec48-49ab-bc8e-3d635f6fc357\"><colgroup><col style=\"width: 226.67px;\" /><col style=\"width: 226.67px;\" /><col style=\"width: 226.67px;\" /></colgroup><tbody><tr><th><p><strong>Test</strong></p></th><th><p><strong>test</strong></p></th><th><p><strong>test</strong></p></th></tr><tr><td><p>a</p></td><td><p>b</p></td><td><p>c</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>d</p></td><td><p>e</p></td><td><p>f</p></td></tr></tbody></table></ac:rich-text-body></ac:structured-macro>","representation":"storage"
```

Hope this helps

Regards, Dominic


author: Sven Schatter _K15t_
body: Just as a general tip: if you're working with page or space properties a lot, I can recommend the [Property Inspector by Lively Apps](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1223854/property-inspector-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview). It's a free app that lets you view and edit properties in a UI. Quite helpful for debugging and changing pages to use the old editor. :)

EDIT: Whoops, I think you were talking about the Page Properties Macro and not about Page Properties? If that's the case: please ignore my answer.

Cheers,  
Sven


Tags: api

cloud

confluence-cloud

page
Search for pages created by a deleted user
Asked by Aaron:

I have a user that has been deleted (not disabled) from our service (they left the company and we're tidying up).

I can obviously still see their contributions, but what I'd like to be able to do is to search for the pages they worked on or ideally, created. Turns out this is tricky.

* I cannot add their name to a filter using the standard search page (as it isn't in the list).
* I tried to extract their anonymised userid from a page where they were listed as the creator and manually insert that into the search criteria (as that's what the filters do) - no results
* I tried the suggestions here:  
  <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Filter-content-search-by-disabled-user/qaq-p/85520>  
  * I had to tweak the url a bit to make the underlying search work, but to no avail - no results.
  * I tried with their name, email userid (from above) and different elements of their name - no results

Is there way to do this? Happy for it to be a bit hacky where I inject search queries into the URL (as per the help article above) as it's not something I need to do every day. I'll take what I can get :-)

Suggestions and ideas welcomed.

Cheers,

Aaron


Answers:
author: Pramodh M
body: Hi [@Aaron](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4083590)

It's simple.

Invite a user back, suspend the access, search for content.

Thanks,  
Pramodh

comments: author: Pramodh M
body: FYI,

Content is preserved even if the user is removed from site, inviting them back and suspending will restore the ability to search the user's content.


author: Aaron
body: Thanks Pramodh - I'll give that a go and let you know.


author: Dirk Lindner
body: We have the same challenge. I have found a solution via CQL, but it is not manageable for normal users.


author: Justin Tran
body: Hi [@Dirk Lindner](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3019740)

What was the CQL script?

We're facing the same issue.


author: CW
body: [@Dirk Lindner](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3019740) I would also be interested in the CQL query! Thanks in advance :-)


author: Dirk Lindner
body: not more :-) ![12-12-2023_10-55-09.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/296347i234F044268612473/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "12-12-2023_10-55-09.png")


author: CW
body: thank you for your quick answer!  
so you still need the user ID of the deleted user beforehand, it's not possible to search for all users with status "deleted" or sth., right?  
(I realize this is not what the original request was about though:-)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

delete

filter

search
How to create page properties macro using REST API?
Asked by Nitesh yadav:

I am following the API reference given below:  
<https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-content-properties/#api-wiki-rest-api-content-id-property-post>

But, the example is not well-crafted. I am not getting how to pass my content in the page properties macro and nothing present about "value" keyword.

Basically I want to create a Table as page properties in the confluence page so that I can link it to some other page. For testing purpose the payload that I am using is given below:

\`\`\`  
payload = {  
"key": "spiderman_test1",  
"value":\[\],  
"body": {  
"storage": {  
"value": "\<p\>Enjoy the API\</p\>",  
"representation": "storage",  
}  
}  
}

\`\`\`

But it didn't reflected any change on the actual page.

Please help me out in what should be the payload for this api. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: See same question here:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-create-page-properties-macro-using-REST-API/qaq-p/1900224>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

page

rest-api
Publishing a Confluence page via API does not display style & formatting. Version Comparison worked
Asked by Khai Nguyen:

Hi all,

We are trying to publish a page via the API, but it appears that when we apply any styles to things like DIV, TH, TD and other elements, is seems like the styles are removed at the time of the page being rendered.

When we look at the page in the history, we can see that the styles are applied correctly.

We are also getting inconsistent page creations, with some pages being fixed width, and other pages being full width.

We have looked but cannot find anything, but is there an article we have missed or is there some guidance about how we can do basic / standard formatting when creating pages via the API?

HTML template contains \`div, style, css classes\`:

![html-template.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/175818iEDCD2CBC7D9430BF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "html-template.png")

but the confluence page does not show \`div\` and it removed \`css class\` and \`style\`

![confluence-page.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/175817i818B652A38B0ED68/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence-page.png")

and i can see the red border in Version Comparison![2022-01-04_10-30.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/175961i2DD4547BA9A73957/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2022-01-04_10-30.png")


Answers:
author: marc -Collabello--Phase Locked-
body: [@Khai Nguyen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4691576) Confluence Cloud does not allow full html and css styling. These are filtered out during rendering.

comments: author: David Yonan
body: Hi Marc, thanks for the reply.

We are not looking to do anything particularly crazy with styling, and if anything we would like to maintain the default confluence styles.

What we would like to be able to do is have items like TH's being bold, and in the example above we would have the TD content be full width (not 50%).

We would also like to be able to specify the page content as being full width as the pages are currently rendering at the narrow setting.

Is there any guidance on what styling is available, or what styling won't be stripped out?   

Or is it a case of every bit of styling is stripped out when rendered?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
When click the 'save' button after edit some pages, the server prompt can't find page error.
Asked by Chuanjun Wang:

We opened some pages and edit these pages, after that, it prompts some error messages and says can't find the page(as shown in the image). But we can still create new pages and edit them. I have no ideas where might be the problem? We just move the server from one LAN to another LAN, and just revise the IP address of the server, then this problem happened.

![Catch(01-04-10-58-55).jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/175959iAE04A7C9A2A4DDC1/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Catch(01-04-10-58-55).jpg")


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Chuanjun Wang](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4693014)

Welcome emit the community!

I recommend you open a ticket with [atlassian support](http://atlassian%20support) for a faster response.

Regards


Tags: confluence-server

server
how Dynamically Creating a Confluence Page based on Page Tags
Asked by oosemwenkha:

Hi Team,

Looking to create confluence page tags to help us maintain a troubleshooting 101 page which can link off to different troubleshooting pages.

As a beginner, i don't know have an ideal of adding the tags to the page created, i searched for articles and watched some YouTube videos but still do not understand how it works.

Any assistance will be of great help.

thankyou.


Answers:
author: Kishan Sharma
body: Hi [@oosemwenkha](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4692971) Welcome to the Atlassian Community!  

I suppose you are looking to add labels to confluence pages. Any user with permission to edit a page can add labels to it. Any existing labels appear at the bottom-right of the page, below the page content.

**To add a label to a page or blog post:**

1. At the bottom of the page, choose **Edit labels** ![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/files/136419/945098795/1/1517274855801/label-icon.png) or hit **L** on your keyboard
2. Type in a new label (existing labels are suggested as you type)
3. Choose **Add**

You can read more about it [in this documentation.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-remove-and-search-for-labels-136419.html) Hope this helps!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Sharing Issue
Asked by DavidM:

I am having an issue that I can share a Confluence page using the "Share" functionality, but it is not being received to the designated recipient. I have been using this method for years without any issues until now. All recipients have access to what I am sharing.

I have tested sending to different recipients and having them try to share to me but no one is receiving.


Answers:
author: DavidM
body: Thank you for your responses. The issue has been resolved.


author: Carla Ann Rowland
body: Have you checked the settings on the page and the confluence instance? "

* Sharing or inviting someone to edit a page or blog post does not automatically grant any permissions - they will still need the appropriate Confluence permissions to access Confluence and view or edit the page. "

comments: author: DavidM
body: Thank you Carla for you comment. Yes I have checked and the settings are the same as when Sharing worked. Weird how I cannot even receive any shared pages I send to myself.


author: Andy Gladstone
body: [@DavidM](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1194859) have your users checked their Spam folders? If you are on Office365 I noticed that over the past few days Microsoft has tightened some of their controls and have found emails that were previously not going to quarantine stuck there. You may want to check that as well.

comments: author: DavidM
body: Thank you Andy. I looked into that and nothing there. But thank you for that info. I actually shared that with a team member which needed it.


Tags: confluence-server

server

share
Global Permissions View
Asked by Valeria Ivanova:

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to locate the following "Global Permissions" view in Confluence,

example 1:

![global permission view.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/175944i6C51274122E2330B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "global permission view.PNG")

and then would like to navigate to the "Edit Global Permissions" view

example 2:

![edit global permissions.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/175946iE14FA0093C605DE4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "edit global permissions.PNG")

However, when I Go to ![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/files/747833194/747833195/2/1517274813281/cog.png) \> **Global Permissions,**the view that I get is different from the example 1 above and looks something like that:

example 3:

![example view global permissions.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/175947iFAF1790A3821C86D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "example view global permissions.PNG")

Is the Global Permissions view in example 1 only available for Data Center and Server and the view that I am getting (example 3) is the view for Cloud?

Or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you very much,

Valeria


Answers:
author: Andy Gladstone
body: [@Valeria Ivanova](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4664953) welcome to Confluence Cloud!

Yes, I believe that you have already answered your own question. The Data Center and Server views of many of the Administrative Tools in Confluence are different. Additionally, the options in each differ as well.

comments: author: Valeria Ivanova
body: Thank you [@Andy Gladstone](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3498028) !

I was trying to follow the Configuring and Troubleshooting Permissions in Confluence training video and the view that they were displaying there as an example for global permissions (which looked like examples 1 and 2 that I posted) was not the view I had in our Confluence.

Thank you for confirming! :)


author: Vijay Patil
body: Hi All,

sorry for asking question here as I didn't find the correct place. It would be helpful if you provide your input on my below query as I am struggling for this.

We have an endpoint registered in Jira which is to whitelisted. For this, need global permissions to work on Allowlist page. We didn't find Allowlist link as shown in attached screenshots, even though we are Administrator.

Thanks


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a way to send email alerts from confluence pages?
Asked by Sara Creenan (M&T):

Looking to schedule emails from confluence on a regular occurrence to specific people from confluence?


Answers:
author: Jobin Jose
body: [@Brant Schroeder](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/769100) I too wonder if there is a possibility of sending emails from Confluence. To be specific, we have a list of tasks that need to be performed on specific dates. We would like to get reminders a week prior to the due date. Is it possible to send reminders based on text from a specific column?

comments: author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Jobin Jose](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3223043) you would need to use an app like [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214272/task-reminder-for-confluence?hosting=cloud\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214272/task-reminder-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) to do what you are talking about.


author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@Sara Creenan (M\&T)](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2631076) Can you be a little more specific as to what these emails will include? by default there is not an email scheduler in Confluence. There are some apps that allow you to schedule reminders for items like tasks. You can take a look at them in the marketplace - [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud\&product=confluence\&query=email](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=email)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a way to add a date to the checkbox without editing the page?
Asked by Sara Creenan (M&T):

We are trying to have users go to a confluence page and check the box and add a date without exiting the page for ease of use is there a way to do this?


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: I can think of no way to make this happen out of the box. I may want to search the [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence) to see if a paid plug in exists.

May this plugin would work for you? [time-tracking-for-confluence-cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1223106/time-tracking-for-confluence-cloud?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Saved for later is showing the oldest document first instead of the latest document first. Is there
Asked by Michele Gruwell:

Saved for later is showing the oldest document first instead of the latest document first. Is there a way to change this?


Answers:
author: Kian Stack Mumo Systems
body: [@Michele Gruwell](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4692770),

There isn't a way to do this out of the box. There are a [couple of plugins](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=server&product=confluence&query=favorite) which extend the functionality of the saved for later functionality, but none of them do specifically what you are looking for.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Cannot find space tools
Asked by Anita Block:

I am a site administrator but don't have either the space tools selection at the bottom of the navigation or the space administration selection so I am unable to export multiple pages. Is there a setting that needs to be enabled?


Answers:
author: Andy Gladstone
body: [@Anita Block](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2723671) did you create the space, or did another team member on your site create it? Site Administrators can be locked out of spaces created by other users based on the permission sets they assign the space upon creation.

You may need to use your Admin Key to access the space tools.

comments: author: Anita Block
body: Thank you! I've been playing around and found a way to do it through Space Settings. Appreciate your follow-up!


author: Arefeh
body: Hi, I have the same issue. May you please show me how you could fix it. Thanks


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
When saving page edits a System Error: Failed to lazily initialize a collection is given
Asked by Jonathan Welling:

When saving edits to a page a generic error box is given. When I then try to close the page I was trying to save, the following stack trace is thrown:  

### Cause {#toc-hId-1290542226}

com.atlassian.core.exception.InfrastructureException: net.sf.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: Failed to lazily initialize a collection  
at com.atlassian.hibernate.HibernateObjectDao.remove(HibernateObjectDao.java:212)

caused by: net.sf.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: Failed to lazily initialize a collection  
at net.sf.hibernate.collection.PersistentCollection.initialize(PersistentCollection.java:201)

caused by: net.sf.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not initialize collection: \[com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject.referralLinks#32735304\]  
at net.sf.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:58)

caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Invalid object name 'EXTRNLNKS'.  
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.SQLDiagnostic.addDiagnostic(SQLDiagnostic.java:368)


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@Jonathan Welling](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4692624)

Welcome to the commnuty, I found a similar issue, but there is not resolution: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-25772>

I recommend you open a ticket with the atlassian support team for a faster response.


Tags: confluence-server

error

server
LOG4J Vernerability
Asked by Inder Kumar:

Hi Team,

<br />

We have observed there is " Apache httpd and has the CVE2021-44790 vulnerability" going on world wide.  
Can you please confirm and check Atlassian - Confluence has also affected with CVE2021-44790 vulnerability

If yes , then please share your current status and action that you have taken and when it will be resolved.

Regards,

Inder Kumar


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This vulnerability has been found, as it says in the report, in the Apache httpd server.

Not Confluence or any other software.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud