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Sticky heading row in tables and table borders
Asked by Debbi Sedlak:

I have a complex table that has three heading rows with some cells merged in the heading to go over certain columns (see picture) and the table is very long. The sticky headers does not seem to work (it is embedded in a page that goes on for many pages when printed). I cannot get the sticky header to work. I would also like to make heavier weights to the borders of some columns to set it off. What am I doing wrong? Also, how do I add colors that are not shown on the color icon - I would like varying shades of gray and blue rather than green.![Screen Shot 2018-01-25 at 3.09.24 PM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13345iCB2525C009673B8A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-01-25 at 3.09.24 PM.png")


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: The sticky header only works for real header rows. If you convert the row to a normal row and then give it a background color and bold the text then that functionality turns off.

comments: author: Debbi Sedlak
body: Well I tried that to start with and when I scroll, the header does not stay there, just scrolls to other rows.


author: Davin Studer
body: Based on your image above and the fact that you have merged cells that means your top row in not a header row. The header row is very limited. It only allows for one row with no merged cells. Once you merge cells it no longer works that way. Also, if you embed a table inside the header row that will also turn off the sticky table functionality. If I recall right even having row cells merged will turn it off. So, it really has to be a simple table with normal columns and rows and no merges.


author: Debbi Sedlak
body: What I am saying is that even with a simple table with two columns and no merged cells, the sticky header function does not work.

Is there any way to create a more complex table in Confluence like embedding Excell somehow and still getting tracked changes?


author: Davin Studer
body: What version of Confluence are you one? The sticky headers was added in 5.8.

As for doing this with a more complex table like you have without resorting to an add-on or something like embedding a Google Sheets doc there really isn't a way to do it.


author: Debbi Sedlak
body: 6.5 server

BTW thank you for trying to help
How can edit restriction be distributed / inherited to child pages
Asked by Ralf Becker:

Is there a way do (automatically) distribute a "not edit" restriction to all child-pages of a certain page? Or do I have to change that attribute at each single page manually?


Answers:
author: Xavier Tang
body: I have the same concern. When we need to restrict edit permission on one page, we would in general restrict on all its child pages. Is some one knows the reason for what Altassian made the different behaviour between View and Edit functions ? Would be it better Altassian make the evolution so that the same behaviour is applied to these two functions ? That's to say, by default, restrictions are automatically inherited ?

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: View restrictions being inherited makes sense because how would you even see a child page in the nav tree if you cannot see the parent. As for edit restriction being inherited it doesn't make sense for them to assume you want it to be inherited. I have many pages that have a restriction on a parent page, but I would not want the children to have the same editing restriction. So, the functionality as it is intended, it's logical, and is not a bug.

However, it might be nice if they added a checkbox or something when setting and editing restriction to opt into having is cascade down to the children as well. But, it doesn't seem that they have the desire to make that change. Also, there are a couple add-ons that can give you that functionality. My hunch is that one of the reason for them not adding it in is because it would essentially make those add-ons unnecessary. Which is great for customers, but not so great for the people that spent time coding the add-on to add the functionality that Confluence doesn't have. Below are a couple add-ons that can give you inherited edit restrictions.

[ScriptRunner for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215215/scriptrunner-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

[Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/284/confluence-command-line-interface-cli?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)


author: Davin Studer
body: View restrictions are inherited, but edit restrictions are not. You must manually make the restriction. There are ways to automate it, however. For a while we used the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli/cloud/overview) to do this. You could set up a scheduled task that would run on a certain period that could apply the edit restriction to a page and all its children. It worked well for us for a while till we decided that we would change up how we do some stuff and it was no longer needed.
How can I centralise a table in a two column Page Layout
Asked by Jason Chatham:

I would like to centralise my table in my left hand column so that it looks better


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Jason,

you can divide the left column again into more columns using the section- and column-macros:

* put a section macro into your left column
* put three column-macros into that section macro (or how much ever)
* embed your table into one of these column-macros

comments: author: Jason Chatham
body: Thank you, so is it just a best guess at the % for each of the two outer columns until it centralises ?


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Yes, I think so. You have to try and even then, it might look different on different screen sizes.


author: Jason Chatham
body: Thanks Thomas, most helpful.

Not something I like to do .... hack a page together, but it kind of works at least.
Is there an Add-on in Confluence for Award Nomination form
Asked by Shirley Simmons:

I am looking for a Confluence solution to a problem. We are currently looking to create an Awards Nomination form, collect the data for voting on an Award winner.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: We use [ConfiForms](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.vertuna.confluence.plugins.confiforms/server/overview) for collecting that kind of data in our environment. It is a super powerful add-on and can do so many different kinds of things. It is by far the most useful add-on we have purchased for Confluence. Some other ones that I am aware of are [Forms for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.formMailNG/cloud/overview) and [Easy Forms for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.artemissoftware.confluence.easyforms.EasyForms/server/overview).

comments: author: Shirley Simmons
body: Thank you Davin for your feedback. I will take a look. Do you have any examples that you can share. Best Regards,


author: Davin Studer
body: No, our Confluence is an internal network only installation.


author: Shirley Simmons
body: Thank you.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Shirley,

If you find that Confiforms is more than what you need, you might also consider the free [Multivote](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.tngtech.confluence.plugin.multivote/server/overview) app. Inserting a new user is a little more difficult, but voting is super easy.

comments: author: Shirley Simmons
body: I'll take a look. Thank you.


Tags: confiforms
can i email an event to a confluence calendar?
Asked by Lisa Marino:

I have a team event calendar in confluence to show when team members are off on vacation, at a drs. appt., etc. The problem is that any such event that I add to my personal Outlook calendar, I have to duplicate on my team event calendar. Or, if I add an event to the confluence team calendar, I have to duplicate it on my personal Outlook calendar.

Has anyone had this same dilemma? If so has anyone solved it?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Lisa,

There's no way right now to create an event by sending an email to Team Calendar, but there's an open feature request:

* [CONFSERVER-49160](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-49160)

We also have a request open for CalDAV support:

* [CONFSERVER-51340](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51340)

Please vote on the above features if you are interested, and comment with your feedback on them as it will help us.

Now, for your issue, you can work around this by subscribing to [Team Calendars in Outlook](https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/subscribe-to-team-calendars-from-microsoft-outlook-251005307.html), or try John's workaround in [this past Community post](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Re-How-to-share-a-team-outlook-calendar-on-Confluence/qaq-p/158237/comment-id/26518#M26518).

Can you have a look at those and let us know if you have any questions?

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Lisa Marino
body: Thank you, Shannon. I'll vote on the feature request.

I appreciate the links to the team calendar posts, but we are specifically looking to cherry pick events from individual calendars that we'd like to include on our Confluence calendar. Not everyone uses Outlook, so even creating a team calendar in outlook would not work. Thank you, though.


Tags: event

ms-outlook

sync

team-calendars-for-confluence
What is needed to migrate license from evaluation instance to production instance.
Asked by Matthew Wall:

Our license was installed on the server running the evaluation copy. Per the documentation, after the evaluation has expired we are required to migrate to a production database/new instance. If the license has already been applied to our evaluation instance, what do we need to do in order to migrate it to our production instance?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You paste the new licence in. Atlassian tend to expect you to continue with the trial installation, not create a new instance. But if you've got a separate production, paste the licence key into it, and remove the one on the old system.
How to block documents in the office connector
Asked by Franky:

Hi,

we are looking for a way to attach a Word-Document in Confluence, that ist blocked for other users, when someone is editing it. We tried the "office connector", but this software allows "multi editing" at the same time. Is there a possibility to block a document or another Tool that can do this?

Thanks a lot

Frank


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Frank,

This is not possible in Confluence but we do have a feature request for it:

* [CONFSERVER-2841](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-2841) Provide locking for attachments

You may also find this request useful:

* [CONFSERVER-40677](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-40677) Show if attachment is in edit by Edit in Office feature by someone else

Please vote on these requests if you would like to see them implemented and feel free to comment there with your usage case.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: ms-office-connector

ms-word
Does anyone know how I can get a hold of someone at Atlassian that can help with a W-9 and ACH?
Asked by Alan Tragarz:

Our company requires a W-9 to be completed along with an ACH authorization form. Emails to advocates@atlassian.com have gone unanswered. Has anyone been able to get a hold of a real person that can provide billing support at this company?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Thanks for letting us know you need help with the W-9 and ACH auth.

I have opened a ticket for you on our support portal, at <https://support.atlassian.com/contact>. Please stand by for an email from that system.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Alan,

have you already tried reaching support at <https://support.atlassian.com/> ?
JIRA Issues macro does not show time portion for JIRA custom datetime fields
Asked by David Dibert:

Providing real-time reports from JIRA in Confluence is great feature, but we have a long outstanding problem where time portion for JIRA custom datetime fields will not show.

Does anyone else have a workaround other than changing the default for all users on all reports?

Atlassian has decided not to implement this due to a "limited demand", and a good portion of that demand come from this community. They say votes count, so please consider voting on the issue at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-26381> . Thanks!


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@David Dibert](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/579173) and welcome,

for my knowledge there is not a workaround for that.

Fabio


Tags: jira
Has Confluence's Auto Formatting changed?
Asked by Rex Bigger:

Hi all,

I use the cloud version of Confluence and went in today to create a new page (first time since xmas) and h1. doesn't work.

I bring up the contextual help and it tells me that # is now H1 and ## is H2 etc..   

Is this some kind of late/early April fools joke?

![crazy-confluence-crud.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13322i4676B82F9D381216/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "crazy-confluence-crud.png")


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Rex,

Unfortunately it's probably not a joke. Confluence Cloud seems to be moving away from wiki format and closer to Markdown (at least that's what they mentioned in the Summit last year). I don't see why they couldn't keep them both, though.


author: Rex Bigger
body: ![crazy-confluence-crud.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13321iF54FA5A16F88AF8C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "crazy-confluence-crud.png")
Can you display JIRA gadgets on Confluence pages?
Asked by Cyber Sprinters:

I would like to display Sprint Burndown Gadget on the team page in our Confluence Wiki.


Answers:
author: josh
body: Take a look at these instructions. Should be possible if you're on Server versions of Jira and Confluence: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-bring-jira-and-jira-agile-reports-into-confluence-779163801.html>


Tags: gadget

jira
Hip Chat
Asked by Iuliana Burgi Jurj:

Hello,

In our team we are using (still at a beginning level) Confluence SaaS and I just saw the feature that allows integration with Hipchat. I think it's really interesting and I would to give it a try.

I found the page on the community with the steps to integrate. But before launching the idea, I wanted to check are there any additional costs related to the usage of this integration ?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Iuliana,

There are no additional costs other than the cost of the software itself for the integration.

If you have any further questions about it please let me know.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: hipchat
JIRA Issue/Filter does not auto expand
Asked by Casey Maynard:

My JIRA Issue/Filter does auto expand to show me the results.

I have a similar query that does show auto expanded, but I have one that does not show the results, unless I click the grey arrows in the column title that is displayed.

I had hoped this filter would allow a better display of the results. I do not want the column header to display, nor do I want the 'Showing 1 of 3' section.

I really only want the results to be displayed, not anything else.

Is there a way to fix the autoexpand issue?

Is there a way to customize the display layout of the issue filter?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Casey,

You may customize the way the filter is displayed by editing the macro and choosing Display Options:

![Screen Shot 2018-04-05 at 11.55.15 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18799i320CC639A80F9F4E/image-dimensions/711x456?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-05 at 11.55.15 AM.png")

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Casey Maynard
body: Maybe my title is not clear on what my issues are

1. I have a JIRA filter that does not display the results by default. I have to click the expand button to have the results show. Note: I have a similar query that does 'auto-expand' to show the results, so I do not know why the first one does not auto-expand.

2. The other issue is that the results for the JIRA filter has 'extra' content

I do not want the column header to display,

I do I want the 'Showing 1 of 3' section.

I really only want the results to be displayed, not anything else.

Thanks


author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Casey,

Please edit the macro that expands and the one that does not and compare the settings to find which setting is different.

I was unable to eliminate all the column header rows. If you have feedback for the development team regarding the way the macro should display for your use case, please create a suggestion on our bug tracker: <https://jira.atlassian.com>

Thanks,

Ann
How do i create Permission and Restrictions
Asked by Abbas Mir:

I'd like to create a space for a resource to able to create, amend documents and so forth. For all other spaces I require this resource to have read access only for some of the Spaces, is this possible?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes. Create a new space, look in the permissions in the admin section and add your user to the right permissions.

Then only add them to "read" in the other spaces they are in.

Note that spaces may contain default access groups, which may contain your user. You'll need to rework that so only the right people have the access.
Permission and Restrictions
Asked by Abbas Mir:

I'd like to create a space for a resource to able to create, amend documents and so forth. For all other spaces I require this resource to have read access only for some of the Spaces, is this possible?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi there,

You can restrict all other spaces for the user to View only.

Have a look at this:

* [Space Permissions Overview](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html)
* [Assign Space Permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/assign-space-permissions-139460.html)

I would set VIEW only for all the other spaces, and in the space in particular they should edit, you can give them edit permissions.  

You will also want to make sure to update the Default Space Permissions in your Administration panel as well. This will ensure that new spaces will give the user proper permissions.

Let me know if you have any trouble.

Regards,

Shannon
Migrating a Space from Cloud Confluence to a Data Center edition
Asked by Navin Kumar:

How to migrate a user space from cloud confluence to data center edition.


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Navin Kumar](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1181059) ,

try to export space from your cloud instance (<https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/import-a-confluence-cloud-space/>) and import it in a confluence datacenter.

Please check that data center instance is upgraded to the latest available version first.

Fabio
change behavior of 'Create from template' button marco
Asked by William Antjoule:

Hi All,

I have a page with a create page from template button macro on it, currently when you click the button the "Page Template Wizard" appears that shows the page with input boxed for the template variables.

How do I get the button/template to show the same sort of splash/form like the one below, instead of going directly to the " Page Template Wizard"?

![template-variable-form.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13306iE1090415A63CF62C/image-dimensions/457x271?v=v2 "template-variable-form.png")


Answers:
author: Christo Mastoroudes _Adaptavist_
body: Hi,

You might find that the blueprint wizard does something very similar, but it is launched from the ellipsis create button.

<https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/write-a-simple-confluence-blueprint-plugin/>

I noticed that once you have a blueprint wizard created then you can launch it from the "create from template" macro and it will do exactly what you ask, but this does require coding knowledge.
I am facing error "The Sauce VMs failed to start the browser or device"
Asked by Sindhoor S:

I am facing error "The Sauce VMs failed to start the browser or device"

I went to saucelabs documentations and added required capabilities

platformName:iOS",

"automationName:XCUITest",

"deviceOrientation:portrait",

"platformVersion:11.0",

"deviceName:iPhone 6 Simulator",

"appiumVersion:1.7.2",

"platformName:iOS",

"browserName:"

with sauce-storage path.

But still I am facing the same issue. Please help me on this


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Could you explain what this has to do with Confluence?
Can I create sub Space under another Space? So that, I can segregate questions to each sub space.
Asked by Ankur Kakkar:

The idea is to have segregate Questions for each page or Sub Space.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There are no sub-space functions in Confluence.

There are a couple of add-ons that implements something like sub-space, have a search in "find new add-ons" for sub-space

comments: author: Juliane Neumann {Communardo}
body: Hi Ankur,

as Nic mentioned it already there is e.g. a Communardo app available in the Atlassian Marketplace called [SubSpace Navigation for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.subspace/cloud/overview).

It enables you to configure a wide range of navigation nodes like e.g. an internal link, space, CQL query or folder in addition to the navigation bar on each page.

If you think this might be a good solution for you, I invite you to sign up for a free 30-day trial.

Cheers,

Juliane


Tags: questions-for-confluence
Anonymizer for Support ZIP
Asked by roman:

Atlassian has a [page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-anonymizer-for-data-backups-134795.html) about anonymising content of a space export. Do they have anything similar for Support ZIPs?

Cheers,  
Roman.


Answers:
author: Andy Heinzer
body: Hi Roman,

To the best of my knowledge there is no such anonymization tool for an Atlassian support zip. We have guides on anonymizing XML data backups for Jira or confluence, because we recognize that some environments are unable to provide our support teams sensitive data contained within. However even those anonymized backups can be useful for our support teams to try to recreate unusual problems with configurations. When you anonymize this data, it is specifically looking at set fields such as summarize, descriptions, text fields, etc, and in turn is replacing characters with a series of XXXXX characters. This process still leaves in tact most application settings and other configuration.

But typically the support zip does not contain that same kind of information as the database/XML backups. To anonymize the support resource I would expect to actually have it obscure important logging information that is useful when troubleshooting a lot of different possible problems. I believe that is why it does not exist.

However when you are creating a support zip, you do have the options to select which resources to be included: logs, application logs, application data, tomcat configurations, user directory configurations, etc. So there still tends to be some granular control you can have over what data to share with support.

comments: author: roman
body: Thanks


Tags: support-zip