youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Uploading HTML with a chart
Asked by Jon Heckman:

I am using jenkins to upload and replace the contents of a wiki page with an HTML doc.

I am trying to put in a line chart but I can't find the code that I need to put in for this to work.

So far I have either managed to completely break the page or only display the table for the chart (with a small box around it)


Answers:
author: Jon Heckman
body: ```
&lt;table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="chart" data-macro-parameters="type=line" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NoYXJ0OnR5cGU9bGluZX0&amp;amp;locale=en_GB&amp;amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"&gt; &lt;table class="confluenceTable"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th class="confluenceTh"&gt;?&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th class="confluenceTh"&gt;?&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th class="confluenceTh"&gt;?&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="confluenceTd"&gt;?&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="confluenceTd"&gt;?&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="confluenceTd"&gt;?&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;
```

This is the closest I have gotten to getting this to work. When the page is edited I will have an empty table with a gray box around it. If I go to edit the page it will show the widget for a chart.


author: Davin Studer
body: I would recommend getting thisplugin if you don't have it.

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor>

Next mock up a page in Confluence to look like what you want and then view the source of the page and find out exectly what the xml storeage format should look like and then replicate that.

comments: author: Jon Heckman
body: Does this give difference source then if I right click the wiki page and click view source or if I click tools (on the page) \>\> view source?


author: Davin Studer
body: Yes. The macros are stored in an xml format in the database. When the page is rendered Confluence replaces the xml with the rendered version of the macro.
"edit in office" password caching
Asked by Mark Chambers:

I have uploaded documents to Confluence and am trying to then edit them in office.  
Every time I do so I am prompted to enter my username and password. I am using Confluence onDemand with IE on Win 8.1 and Office 2013  
Is there anyway I can cache my login so I don't have to enter it everytime I want to edit a document?


Answers:
author: Maarten Cautreels
body: hi Mark,

If I'm not mistaken there should be a "Remember me" option in the login dialog. In fact it's a Microsoft Office Login dialog so I'm afraid we won't be able to really help you on that.

It's using the same technology as for Sharepoint called WebDav, maybe search on that to find a solution?

Best,

Maarten


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Automatic Backup (Confluence) vs Database server backup
Asked by Bill Mariasoosai:

All:

The automatic backup (Confluence) assumes a lot of space and we are planning

to use server back up.

**My question is:**

1) Does the Database server backup really backup everything?

2) Should we back up anything else to make sure that the backup is complete.

3) Any restore process to check if the backup works perfectly.

Thanks for your help.

Bzoo


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Mostly, but it depends on your config

There's a small amount of configuration in the application directories you might want to think about keeping (database connection settings at least, but then if you've done any core hacks, changed properties files etc)

Are you keeping attachments in the database or on file system? If they're on disk, you'll need to back them up outside the database backup.

You might want to consider backing up the application home directory as well, as that can give you a quicker recovery during a disaster.

As for proving it - that's up to your backup routine. The only way you'll know if your backup works is to restore the whole lot to a temporary system and test it.

comments: author: Bill Mariasoosai
body: Hi Nic:

Got it.

Thanks a lot for your quick response.

Regards,

Bzoo.
Dot Executable :/usr/bin/dot File does not exist Cannot find Grapviz
Asked by Prasanjit Sahu:

Dot Executable :/usr/bin/dot

File does not exist

Cannot find Grapviz.You should try

@startuml

testdot

@enduml

or java -jar plantuml.jar -testdot error is displayed


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, you need to install GraphViz. Or configure your system to look for it in the right place.

comments: author: Prasanjit Sahu
body: I get this error while creating a document using a PlantUML addin in Confluence:

Could you please let me know

1.how to check whether GraphViz is installed or not.

2. If installed, how to configure my system to look for it (it would be great if I would get the step by step guide in order to remove the above error).

Please help me and sorry to ask these question as I am newbie to plantuml and Graphviz.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The error message implies you are using Unix based server and it's not installed.

Some distributions may have it in their repositories (so use pacman, yum, apt, etc to look for it, then install it or configure your path if it's not installed in the standard place). If not in a repo, then head for [](http://www.graphviz.org)<http://www.graphviz.org>for a download and install.


author: Moses Thomas
body: Hello Nic,

Please could you explain second point ?

2. If installed, how to configure my system to look for it (it would be great if I would get the step by step guide in order to remove the above error).
Is there a limit to the size of a file that can be added?
Asked by Tina Shaw:

Is there a limit to the size of a file that can be added?


Answers:
author: RambanamP
body: **To configure the maximum size allowed for an attachment:**

1. Choose the**cog icon** ![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/157679812/Cog.png?version=1&modificationDate=1361250253653&api=v2) at top right of the screen, then choose **Confluence Admin**.

2. Choose **General Configuration** in the left-hand panel.
3. Choose **Edit**.
4. Enter the maximum size next to **Attachment Maximum Size**'.

   The default is 10mb.
5. Choose **Save**.

check the following doc

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Attachment+Size>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, there's a limit defined in the attachments section under admin. You can raise that very high, but bear in mind that uploading and reading them is network intensive and slow, and Confluence is not a document management system, so it's not well suited to handling very large files.


Tags: attachment

confluence-administration
Meaning of Recently Updated Icon Confluence 5.x
Asked by Jan M?ller:

This icon seems to show that a page has recently been updated / changed.

![](../../upfiles/icon-neu.jpg)

What interval triggers showing this icon?

There is a page for confluence 4.x that describes a little more about the icons and when they show up. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Icons+Used+in+Confluence>

How is this for confluence 5.x?


Answers:
author: Jan M?ller
body: Hi David,

thanks for taking the time to reply.   
It shows up in the output of the "incoming links" macro.

best,

Jan


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Jan,

Can you take a printscreen of a page where that icon is showing up?

I don't recall that icon in Confluence so maybe an image will refresh my memory :).

Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: Jan M?ller
body: Hi David,

thanks for taking the time to reply.   
It shows up in the output of the "incoming links" macro.

best,

Jan


Tags: confluence-administration
Create a new user/group with access to every space?
Asked by John Cromartie:

How can I create a new user/group for API access and give that user full read access to every space in the project? I've tried giving the group full global permissions, but I still have trouble with spaces via the API. It seems like the global permissions are overridden by the fact that the group doesn't have specific permissions on each space.


Answers:
author: FelipeA
body: Hi John,

If you add your user to the default confluence-administrators group he will have full access to every Confluence space/page.

Regards,

Felipe Alencastro
How to automatically group pages by creation month in the lateral bar?
Asked by Santiago Arias:

Hi, I'm from Argentina and I'm trying to make a kind of automated archive. I wanna group the pages created by the users by month and year of creation in the lateral bar, like a blog.

We create a page per requirment, and we have a lot of those.

Do you have any idea or know any plugin for that?

Thanks for your help!

PD: I'm using Confluence 5.4


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Can use you the blog functionality of Confluence or do they have to be pages? The only other option I would have would be to title the pages with the date preceeding the page title like "2014.03.19 - My Page Title". They would not be grouped, but they would be in date order in the nav bar because it alphabetizes the nav bar by default.

comments: author: Santiago Arias
body: They have to be pages because we use de Blog of Confluence for team news. Exists any way to create another "Blog" in the same site? So we can have a Blog for news and a Blog for Requirements

Thanks for your answer!


author: Davin Studer
body: There is no way to have two blogs in the same space. You would need to create another space and put it there.


Tags: confluence-administration
Macros not working
Asked by Alexander Afonyashin:

Hi,

Macros stopped to work. They are not shown in Insert -\> Other Macros. They are not shown when typing like { (only Open macro browser is shown). Macros plugins are enabled in UPM. No macros-like errors in log detected by Hercules. Any ideas?

Regards,

Alex


Answers:
author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: Did you recently update confluence?

Another user had a similar issue after an update, link here:

[](/questions/277436/after-update-to-5-4-4-no-macros)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/277436/after-update-to-5-4-4-no-macros>

comments: author: Alexander Afonyashin
body: Stephen, your link led me to disable plugins one-by-one. Really, it was two Adaptavist plugins. Thanks.

Regards,

Alexander


author: Mikalai Sniahurski
body: Hi

I have an ![Macro.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/70224iAAB5170FF44BAE9B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Macro.png")issue with macros (Excel and Word)

I attached a file, I choose it, but I cannot preview it or insert it

comments: author: Tin Truong
body: No One answer it


Tags: macro

universal-plugin-manager
modified search in Confluence
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Hello Chums,

Up until yesterday I'd been searching V4.3 using 'modified'. For example:

* modified:\[20130101 TO 20130731\]

However, we upgraded to 5.4.3 (download) last night and this search no longer works.

Has anyone any idea whay that would be? I'm wondering if this might be an indexing issue. IE, that having upgraded we should now re-index.

Cheers.


Answers:
author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Hello Mick,

we also updated to 5.4.3 last weekend and with our installation the search you described works fine.  
BTW, thanks for this tip - I never tried a search like this.

Maybe an indexing problem. We had problems with a plugin/add-on after upgrading and had to re-index, too.

Cheers,  
Kirstin

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Kirsten,

You're welcome. :) I find the search very helpful and have used it to find pages that need archiving.

It sounds like you had the same experience as us. Everything seems to be working now, but yesterday lots of macros etc weren't working. We re-indexed last night which seems to have helped.

Cheers.


Tags: modified

search
Setting duedate on inline tasks for the Confluence On Demand Tasks Report Macro
Asked by David_Hunter:

Im using the "Tasks Report Macro" in our On Demand Confluence and in the options for DIsplay Columns it has the following "Allowed columns are assignee, title, duedate, page, completedate, labels" .  

I guessed setting the assignee using @someuser and it shows up in the report fine, but where can i find documentation on this macro and specifically on how to set the due date?


Answers:
author: Agnes Ro
body: The task report macro has been properly shipped now to on demand :) You can insert due dates on tasks by typing // in the editor.


author: Agnes Ro
body: Hi David,

The tasks report macro isn't finished yet and wasn't supposed to visible to users just yet. We will be removing it until it is ready (should be a couple of weeks). Sorry about the confusion :(

Cheers,  
Agnes


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Update user profile information by batch
Asked by Masahito Shimauchi:

I would like to know if there is a way to update the user's profile by batch in Confluence. Please let us know of any plugins that may be able to achieve this.


Answers:
author: Masahito Shimauchi
body: Hi, I meant this information. And yes, update it through a batch job (unix or windows) if possible to achieve.

![](../../upfiles/info.png)


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Could you flesh out what you mean here. Update what information? From where? in a job?


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Questions and RSS
Asked by St?phane Genin:

Hi,

Is it possible to subscribe to an RSS feed in Confluence question?

For example, I want to subscribe to a RSS feed on, a particular topic.

Thanks

St?phane


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: This is now possible in recent versions of Confluence Questions :smile:


author: Dan Van Brunt
body: I found how to subscribe to a single topic... is there a way to do this with an array of topics as an OR?


author: bmamlin
body: I was looking for something similar -- i.e., RSS feed of new/unanswered questions within Confluence Questions to send to a twitter feed. I didn't find a solution either; however, [CQ-373](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-373) looks promising. Maybe we'll have RSS feeds from Confluence Questions soon.


Tags: questions-for-confluence
Confluence structure and usage best practice
Asked by Naama Lev:

Hi,

I would like to implement Confluenct in my company

Can you please let me know where i can find tips/best practice for implementation?

for example which spaces types are best to create, and their optional usage

Thanks

Naama


Answers:
author: John Paz
body: A good place to start is the official Atlassian documentation: [Organising Content](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Organising+Content)

And the topic of information architecture is something people write whole books about, but a good introduction to it can be found by former-Atlassian Tech Writer Sarah Maddox here: <https://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/information-architecture-bottom-up-stc14/>

comments: author: Federico Olmus
body: > Thank you, John. Still a relevant answer, despite the first broken link.  
> This helped me as well: <https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/confluence-101-5-things-about-creating-pages>


Tags: best-practice

space
Limit comments
Asked by Nancy Wang:

I would like to limit the display of comments so users do not have to scroll all the way down to leave a comment when there are hundreds of comments being left. Is there a way this is possible by limiting the comments displayed?


Answers:
author: Nancy Wang
body: Can't costumize this feature. Unless you are using JIRA they will limit it to 10 comments on a single issue.


author: Nancy Wang
body: Thanks for the responses! Really appreciate it.

Cheers,

Nancy


author: Maarten Cautreels
body: If I'm not mistaken this is automatically handled by JIRA:

<br />

As far as I can see, it starts as soon as there's 10 comments on a single issue.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Maarten


author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Nancy,

I'm afraid that such a customisation is not possible on Confluence OnDemand but they can always use the key "End" to jump all the way down :)

Cheers!  
Mauro


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Page properties issue in Confluence Page
Asked by kA:

Hi friends,

I created the template in my confluence and based on that template i created the page in my space. Then i display the list of pages created by template in another page by using the page properties report macro and it is works fine.

Then i perform the some modification in the table which is present in the page properties macro of the template. Then i created the pages based on that template. I got the some additional column in the same name in the page which shows the list of pages by using the page properties report macro, how can i remove that one.

Please refer the screen shot:

![](../../upfiles/Test.png)

Please share your thoughts,

Thanks in advance,

Karthik A.


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Karthik,

It looks like you have the same behaviour as: [](/questions/253906/page-properties-report-macro-not-showing-all-data)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/253906/page-properties-report-macro-not-showing-all-data>

We found that the cause is that when manually modifying a Page Properties table, a hidden tag (like \<p\> or \<span\>) might be present in the field text, making fields with same text be treated as different. This also makes impossible to list a column by it's name.

The bug report [CONF-32367](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32367) has all the details about the problem and how to workaround it.

Cheers!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can't tag a specific user in Confluence
Asked by Daniel DiAnni:

No one on my team can tag a specific user in any comments in confluence, he doesn't show up in the suggestions.

- He is logged in the same way he always is

- I've checked his permissions, nothing has changed.

Any thoughts?

Thank you


Answers:
author: Divyanshu srivastava
body: Hi [@Daniel DiAnni](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/574859) ,

You should try after re-indexing the confluence. This should solve the issue.

Thanks.

Regards,

Divyanshu Srivastava


author: RambanamP
body: same question here

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/252715/user-mentions-doesn-t-work-in-confluence>
Can I delete the Confluence database table that stores the pre-XHTML pages?
Asked by Paul Stahlke:

Hi, after we upgraded to Confluence 4 and the new XHTML storage format, our database doubled in size from 35GB to 70GB. I'm guessing that Confluence created a new database table for the new storage format and kept the old markup database table as a backup. After 2 years on the new format, can I just delete the old markup table(s)? And what table(s) would they be? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Paul,

That's a very good question and a dangerous one. I believe that there won't be problems deleting, however I couldn't find any documentation in Atlassian stating that you can do it. My worries is that this could cause some problem in the future or if the wiki markup is being referred somewhere in the database. if you'd like to test this, I recommend to do in a staging instance.

Also, I'll leave this question open so other people may give their thoughts.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration

database

markup

xhtml
Highlight rows/columns/cells in Cofluence
Asked by Marina Mikhayleva:

Hi,

I am trying to find a tool to highlight a row/column/cell of a table in Confluence.

Background Color macro is not highlighting the whole section, Panel macro is also not what I need.

Is there a macro or a button to highlight the whole section of a table with various colors?

Thank you,

Marina


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: In the editor toolbar there is a button for this for tables. It will highlight the currently selected cells.

![](../../upfiles/Capture_187.PNG)

comments: author: Marina Mikhayleva
body: Davin, thank you for your reply!

I have this button on the toolbar but I don't have color options (only default grey color). Is there any way I can enable them?

![](../../upfiles/Capture3.PNG)

I tried to switch to a different Space theme, but it didn't help.


author: Davin Studer
body: Hmm ... it looks like maybe the ondemand version does not have this button. Sorry. Guess I'm out of good options.


author: Marina Mikhayleva
body: I hope this is not the case:) Thank you for your help!


author: BillA
body: @marina- Are you sure you're using Confluence OnDemand? We introduced the feature Davin is describing in [Confluence 4.3](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.3+Release+Notes) (Sept 2012) so it's definitely in Confluence OnDemand. It looks like you're using your company's self-hosted instance of Confluence which is running a pre-4.3 version.


author: Marina Mikhayleva
body: Bill, you are right I am using Confluence 4.2.6 (I thought that it is an "ondemand" general type for the choice of installed version vs. hosted service).

Is there any way I can select colors to highlight cells in Confluence 4.2.6?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to view deleted Comments History
Asked by Roberto Durand:

Hello,

I have been searching regarding deleted comments, so far I have found that comments deleted cannot be restored.

Is it possible to view the history or log of deleted comments?

I want to see as much information of deleted comments like who posted the comment and who deleted it. If there is no way to see this log then we would have to restrict who is able to delete comments.

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Robert,

As far as I know, [deleted comments](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF40/Deleting+Comments) cannot be restored, so this implies that comments are not stored after a deletion and possible the comment doesn't leave any data in the database.

In order to retrieve comments and historic data, you will need to retrieve database backups.

regards,

Rodrigo


author: Paul Clark _Redmoon Software_
body: Hi Robert

If you are interested I have created a Comment History plugin for JIRA. It allows you to see previous edits and deletions. The change and deletion history is only collected from the point that you install the plugin. Its on the marketplace at [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.redmoon.jira.commenthistory.commenthistory)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.redmoon.jira.commenthistory.commenthistory>

Sorry just realised this was for Confluence.

Thanks

Paul

comments: author: Simon Merrick
body: Paul, are you aware of or working on an equivalent app for confluence?


author: Paul Clark _Redmoon Software_
body: Hi Simon

SorrySo am not aware of any confluence apps for comment history and I'm not working on a confluence version of comment history

Thanks

Paul


Tags: confluence-administration