youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is there a plug in for a dashboard with a drop down menu
Asked by Gordon Walsh:

Hi is there a plugin with a drop down menu / filter that can be used for display purposes for the dashboard.

See excel example attached.![](../../upfiles/Excel_Example.PNG)


Answers:
author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: It looks a little bit like "Table Filters". You will find the description in the atlassion marketplace here: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter>

and a product demo here:

<http://demo.stiltsoft.com/display/tblfilter/Confluence+Table+Filter>

To use it on the dashboard you can do this:

* Create a page with your table and the table filter
* Include this page on the left column on your dashboard via confluence administration

Cheers, Christina


author: BernardoA
body: I didn't find anything exactly to your example. However I'd suggest you to try these external plugins to customize your dashboard:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.simplenia.confluence.plugins.customdashboards>

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.boxes>

Cheers,

Bernardo
Writing from Right to Left
Asked by Nir Shoham:

As a Hebrew and Arabic speaker, I want to know if there is a way to write with a curser from right to left?


Answers:
author: yaniv_shoshani
body: Hi,

You can try our App for RTL support in the Cloud or Data Center from the Atlassian Marketplace:

Cloud: [RTL for Confluence \| Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1228597/rtl-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

DC: [RTL for Confluence \| Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1228597/rtl-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview)

Cheers,

Yaniv


author: Shavit Gur
body: Hellow NIR,

Can you conntact me , please.

Shavit

[sg.sapir@gmail.com](mailto:sg.sapir@gmail.com)


author: EddieW
body: Not currently, express your interest here, <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1373> to encourage an implementation.
Editing page from section header masses up Code Block macro content
Asked by Tamara Tchavtchavadze:

When editing page contents in confluence v 4.3.6 from the "Edit" link in any of the section headers then it messes up contents of Code Block Macro v 2.0.16 in some other place in the page. Does anyone else have the same issue? maybe you've found workarround?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Sean King
body: Are you using custom html/css?

By "messes up" what do you mean? What happens?
Options for blogs
Asked by Tech Support:

Hi,

We're currently using a blog on our dashboard to keep our users informed. We're also using it as a social networking platform/forum where people can discuss things. The blog macro works quite well, but there are a few things that would make it better for our demands:

* Only blog posts are displayed. It would be great to have comments displayed as well, without having to click the actual blog post (and therefore leaving the dashboard)
* Sorting blog posts not by creation date, but by date of last activity (in other words: when someone comments on a blog post, this blog post is sorted on top again)

Do you know if there's any way to do this in OnDemand? I think it might be possible with a user macro, but they're not supported in OnDemand. Would there be any way in the Download version to do this? (we're still toying with the idea of switching to Download)

Thanks, Chris


Answers:
author: Tech Support
body: We created a new custom dashboard, and added (amont other things) a blog post macro to it. It's set to "Content Type to display = entire" which displays the entire blog posts, but not the comments.

comments: author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Full spec for blogpost macro.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Blog+Posts+Macro>

Looks like Content Type "Entire" is not documented.


author: red sonja
body: how do you use blogs on the dashboard?

comments: author: Daniel Borcherding
body: I would bet that they are editing their dashboard and including a blog post macro. Check my link to for "full" spec on the macro.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Content Approval for Confluence onDemand
Asked by Daniela Gav:

Is there a way to seak content approval from users in Confluence onDemand?

I have found few solutions for desktop version but they dont support the ondemand version.

Thx

Daniela


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hello Daniela,

I did some searches as well, and it seems that Ondemand is very strict in terms of plugin usage. A good plugin for you would be the page approvals plugin, however it is not supported for on demand.

Therefore, I've created for you a improvement: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6694>

Please vote and watch the feature report for future updates and read how \[Atlassian approaches bug fixes and improvements requests\|http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Support/Atlassian+Bug+Fixing+Policy\].

I hope this helps you.

Regards,

Rodrigo


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Daniela,

You could work with a 'staging' space, this is a space in which everyone can create pages and edit them. These pages are considered drafts. Once a draft is ready for review this can be mentioned in the comments for example and somebody with approval rights can check it out and if approved copy or move the page to a 'production' space where people only have read rights.

This is just an idea that popped up in my head, I don't know if it would you out for the moment.

Best regards,

Peter


author: David Monticelli
body: 7 months later, is there now any possibility to handle content approval into Confluence?

If not, could you have a schedule date for the improvement [AOD-6694](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6694) ?

Regards,

David


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Editing by multiple users in confluence
Asked by Raju KC:

Editing by multiple users in confluence. Is it possible?


Answers:
author: Justin Leader
body: Unfortunately, no. If two people try to edit it, it will recognize the conflict and won't lose your changes. But you can't really do collaborative editing like you do in Google Docs.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Just an FYI. There is an outstanding feature request for this functionality.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8333>

6 years old and HIGHLY voted on.
Page editing status
Asked by Rudy Harnendra:

Hi,

Is there a plugin/macro/other tweaks to show page editing status?

Here's the usage case:

When I edit a page, I want other people know that I am editing that particular page so they don't mess around editing the same page at the same time. Let me finish editing first.

Probably using a live macro on the space home directory, or some plugins showing user activity?

--

Cheers


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hello Rudy,

Confluence already has a feature that shows a message when someone is editing a page, so other would be notified about that action.

Details can be found [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Concurrent+Editing+and+Merging+Changes).

I hope thst helps!

Rodrigo


author: Rudy Harnendra
body: Thanks for the info guys!

Maybe my Confluence is too fresh so I haven't seen that message :)


author: BernardoA
body: Basically if someone edit and save a page first than other user, the other user will see an error message showing where such user has changed the page.

I just found these feature requests related to this question:

\* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27867>

\* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11529>

Bernardo


Tags: confluence-administration
How to call space home from a macro
Asked by ashan:

Dear forum,

In a user macro, the following line gets me the home page of a space:

\<a href="$space.getHomePage().getUrlPath()" class="home"\>

My question is, this returns the URL as /display/\<space-key\>/\<home page title\>. But in my company's docs, we have internally added an extra /wiki part to the URLs. So our URLs read as wiki/display/\<space-key\>/\<page title\>. As a result, the macro doesn't work. How can I resolve this issue please?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Steve Goldberg
body: If that doesn't work you could always use:

```
&lt;a href="$req.contextPath/display/$space.Key/"&gt;
```

This will cause Confluence to redirect the user to the homepage of the current space.

comments: author: smaida
body: Hey Steve,

Thanks for the prompt help! I'm not sure what's going on, but it seems the issue is that $space isn't parsing. Your latest code works with the exception of just printing out $space.Key in the template.

-Shawn


author: Steve Goldberg
body: OK, my guess is that you can't use that where you're using it (e.g., in a layout) because when it is being rendered it is 'outside' of the space, as it were. This is the case with a number of other APIs.

Perhaps you could create a separate question on this site with more details about your problem so that it's separate from this one. Be sure to post a link here and I'll be sure to stop by and take a look (I don't want to hijack ashan's question).


author: smaida
body: Thanks Steve. I've created a new post here: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/213041/linking-to-space-home-from-a-decorator](/questions/213041/linking-to-space-home-from-a-decorator)


author: Nicolas Casel
body: Thank you [@Steve Goldberg2](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853449) ,

Based on your input, I managed to build url for labels

```
<a id="clickable-label" class="aui-label" href="$req.contextPath/label/$space.key/$label.getName()">$label.getName()</a>
```

(should it be useful for other people here)


author: smaida
body: Hello,

I'm trying to use $space.getHomePage().getUrlPath() inside of a velocity template, but it doesn't seem to be parsing. I'm trying to link to the space home page from a template of a custom theme. Any ideas?  

```
&lt;div id="logo"&gt;    &lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="$space.getHomePage().getUrlPath()"&gt;Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- /#logo --&gt;
```

Thanks!


author: Steve Goldberg
body: $content.getAncestors().get(0) lets you get the most top page in a space, which is usually the homepage. However, that won't render the URL path - I'm sure you can fiddle with it so that it does.

Alternatively, you could use some jQuery to re-write the URL (but it would be better not to have to do that).


author: ashan
body: Any chance of a reply please? :)


Tags: home-page

macro

url

user-macro

wiki
Delegating permission to add users
Asked by ITops123:

**CONTEXT**

I've been getting requests that temporary/seasonal staff be allowed restricted access to our wiki. In theory, I don't oppose this.

**PROBLEM**

These temporary staff members number into the several hundred and are hired independently and sporadically throughout the year by our 14+ sites around the country.

* I don't have the capacity to create user names and passwords for all these people, as they are needed.
* The users will need access to a different space, depending on which site hired them. The sites are best equipped to know what space that is.
* I don't feel comfortable giving out the "account request" link because it would be a total mess. I don't know who those people are and would still have to ask which space is the right one, if it's a legitimate request, etc.

**WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR**

The staff members at each site know who should have access and to which space the new user needs access.

Is there any way to delegate permission to site staff to add users to a specific group in Confluence? I certainly don't want to add 14 Confluence Administrators, since that's just too much risk and way more permission than they need.

<br />

I've considered adding a new LDAP directory to handle just those users.

Thoughts?


Answers:
author: J. Caldwell
body: There are a couple of ways you could skin this cat.

LDAP - As you said. Have your LDAP repository contain some AD groups. Those AD groups would correspond to specific "functions" and would be pre-build into the sites. Membership in those groups would get you "access." If there is a org that is staffed enough and already has access to add/remove folks from those AD groups, that would be a good way to go. Existance in this AD group would get you access. You'll need to create a User Directory that matchings what you want...maybe multiple.  

Internal to Confluence -

Create a group and add trusted folks to that group. They will have to be given the "Confluence Administrator" permissions through the "Global Permissions." There are plugins that give you an admin level view so you can review what has been happening.  

Just my thoughts.


Tags: confluence-administration
Mobile view confluence 5.1.5 not working properly.
Asked by Michael Monette:

Hi, just upgraded to Confluence 5.1.5. All is well, except the beautiful mobile view is not working properly. Popular shows "No Content". Blogs shows a few. But the most important is the search. It simply loads forever.

Even browsing to the mobile mode on my PC ( <http://confluence.x.com/plugins/servlet/mobile> ) I experience the same issue. I was not able to find any mobile issues on google for Confluence 5. Anyone have any ideas that could help solve this issue?

Thanks


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Mike,  

I just installed a Confluence 5.1.5 from scratch, and I was able to see my content under Popular tab. I've access through my iPhone 4S.

As far as I know, such problem could be caused by the index, because it just gets all the updates from the page. So I suggest you to do a rebuild of indexes from scratch to see if it will fix this problem:  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch>

I hope this helps.  

Cheers,  

WZ


Tags: mobile
Can't publish a Blog Post on-Demand Version
Asked by Arun Makkath:

Hi,

Since today we are not able to add a blog post to a given Space. I cross checked the persmision and notice that everybody has view persion and I have Admin rights on the space which includes adding blog. Another colleague of mine ran into the same issue.

Use case

1. Click Create button. Chose Blog entry.

2. Blog Entry page opens and enter data for the blog.

3. Click publish and you get re-directed to Page Not Found with below details

The page you were trying to reach could not be found. This could be because:

* The page does not exist.
* The page exists, but you do not have permission to view it.

We re-checked the global persmissions and Space Permission, everythings seems fine. Users have options to create and view blogs. Only Admin have right to delete blog. This happens on multiple spaces.


Answers:
author: Arun Makkath
body: The issue is resolved after the issue [JST-72629](https://support.atlassian.com/browse/JST-72629) was resolved.


author: Arun Makkath
body: We still have the issue. So I created an issue [JST-72629](https://support.atlassian.com/browse/JST-72629).

Another point to add was that a notification email is received by everybody who is watching the space/blog content. The URL in the notification email ends up with the same Page Not Found page.


author: Michael Knight
body: This could be the following bug that was introduced in this week's Confluence upgrade:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30350>

This can happen if users that were watching a space or page are deleted. Confluence fails to send out notifications to these deleted users and the transaction is rolled back. You will need to [contact Support](https://support.atlassian.com) to have this fixed up.

We're currently working on rolling out a fix for this (probably later today), so be sure to test the problem still exists before raising the issue.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I disable the "All Updates" tab?
Asked by Ann K.:

We use Confluence 5.1 and we do not want to burden our users with the All Updates tab. The answer from this [question](/questions/103812/how-to-remove-the-all-updates-tab-from-the-dashboard) does not work for me. It does nothing at all. This is something that is becoming important to our organization--people really dislike seeing all the activity, especially when it doesn't apply to them.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Ann K.
body: I just designed my own dashboard space. I think it's a little frustrating that the dashboard isn't very customizable out of the box, when the whole point of a wiki is to make it work for you. Confluence 5 also has a lot of "junk" in the upper left part of the screen--update your profile, add a page, etc.--which doesn't allow a user to see our spaces until they scroll down the page. So I just ditched it and made my own. Way cleaner, less clutter, more appropriate to us. Perhaps Atlassian can make the dashboard more customizable in a future release.


author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: I['](http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_de.html#/search=I%27m&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=basic&multiwordShowSingle=on)m afraid it is not possible with confluence standard functions. You can only disable the Populare tab in the confluence administration or the whole recently updated dashboard macro. But if you do that, you will get an error message on the dashboard.

What you can do is to customize the dashboard and remove the macro. Your developer will help you with this issue.
Knowledge Base Survey work accross spaces
Asked by Jorge:

I have been using the knowledge base plugin. And it would be really great for us to be able to show the results of the ranking from several spaces.

When using the **Top Ranked Articles** macro, there is a parameter spaces, but I don't know how to actually place more than one.

Does anybody know if this is even possible?

Thanks!!!


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Jorge,

I can't find a way to get multiple spaces to render out using the macro. I don't believe that it can rank based on more than 1 space. What you could do to get multiple rankings on 1 page, is create ranking pages for each space you want to display the rank for, put that in an excerpt-include macro, then create a master ranking page where you include the rankings from multiple spaces.

I know that won't be a master ranking for multiple spaces, but at least you'll have the top rankers from each space you're interested in.

Hope that helps!

comments: author: Jorge
body: Thanks Ryan for the quick answer. No quite what I was looking for, but will have to do for now.


Tags: addon-confluence.plugins.knowledgebase.survey

confluence-administration

knowledge-base-survey
Restricting access to user names in URLs
Asked by Damien Desrousseaux:

Hello,

We use email addresses as usernames in our Confluence instance and such we would like to hide the usernames in user profiles URLs like [/display/\~damien@example.com](mailto:/display/~damien@example.com)

Currently every user can view these URLs by entering a username into the search box, or with the mouse hover a user in the forum plugin that we use.

I found a similar topic here : <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1882> with a workaround to prevent access to user profiles URLs when you try to open it, but it doesn't prevent the users to view the URL on the link.

Is there a way to hide the usernames in URLs or to completely disable the links to user profiles maybe?

Thank you.


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

It seems that you were in the right track. :)

I couldn't find a option to hide the usernames in the URL, so I believe this would fall in the open improvements like [this](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28592).

I suggest to vote in those features to rise their chances to be implemented.

Regards,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Damien Desrousseaux
body: Thank you Rodriguo.

I have voted for it but as i understand it is quite hopeless (53 votes :( ).

Maybe I should consider writing a confluence plugin myself if it is not too hard for a beginner like me.

Regards,

Damien
confluence mobile page problem...
Asked by Taehoon Kee:

I'm using confluence 5.1.5. In mobile page like <http://myconfluence/plugins/servlet/mobile> , the main page consists of 3 blog tabs; popular, recent, network. But, curiously in may case, only the recent blog doesn't show recent blogs. It show a month ago pages whereas popular and network blogs show recent pages. What is the problem. Anyone saw similar errors?


Answers:
author: Taehoon Kee
body: Hi,

Rebuilding indexes from scratch didn't fix the problem last week.

But after several days, I found the problem fixed.

No one knows what the problem was and what fixed the problem.

Sorry for lack of information. I close this question.

SORRY.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi there!

I've just tested with my confluence 5.1.5 and the problem didn't appeared for me. I believe this list is related to the index in confluence.

I recommend to [rebuild indexes from scratch](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratch) to make sure that the index is not corrupted.

I hope that helps!

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
It is possible to apply an assignee to a group or role rather than an individual user?
Asked by Brendan Barber:

It is possible to apply an assignee to a group or role rather than an individual user?


Answers:
author: Brendan Barber
body: There are already two answers that are above this and this is confusing as to why I am continally getting emails to answer my own question.

comments: author: RambanamP
body: if you accept as a answer any answer then you own get any mails!!


author: RambanamP
body: check this document to know about hoe to assign issue to multiple users

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/How+do+I+assign+issues+to+multiple+users>


author: Brendan Barber
body: Thanks
Can an OnDemand Confluence user who is not a JIRA user see JIRA project information displayed on a page or space that is setup just for that Confluence user?
Asked by Greg, PM:

Can an OnDemand Confluence user who is not a JIRA user see JIRA project information displayed on a page or space that is setup just for that Confluence user?

What I mean by this is...

* OnDemand Confluence can have a different number of/more users than JIRA... So, let's say I've got 15 JIRA users and 500 Confluence users.
* So, now I want to restrict access for one (or a group) of my Confluence users to only see/access one space or page in Confluence. Fine.
* But, when I setup the space or page, I am embedding/linking issue(s) and live project data or a JIRA calendar from the connected OnDemand JIRA account to that space/page.
* If the Confluence-only user is NOT a JIRA user, and so obviously not a JIRA user on a project, will the JIRA-project(s) information posted that space/page be visible to the Conflunence-only user?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Greg, PM
body: And, so, now we are also considering the downloaded/hosted version, so I also need an answer to this regarding the downloaded/hosted version as well please. Thanks.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to import iGraxf file to the Confluence page
Asked by Ella Z?le:

Hello!

I need to import iGrafx file to the Confluence page with a possibility to edit the file, is it possible?

Have a nice day!

Regards,

Ella


Answers:
author: a display name
body: You will need to find or write a plugin that can read/write that type of file. <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.mxgraph.jira.plugins.drawio> might be worth a look


author: Ella Z?le
body: Thank You!
List all 'to be created' pages
Asked by francis:

When creating content, you can create a link to a 'to be created' page.  
Is there a method to lists all these links ?


Answers:
author: francis
body: Found the answer in the documentation - these 'to be created pages' are called 'undefined pages' and managing them is dead simple

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Undefined+Pages?src=search>