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Improvements to the Confluence editor?
Asked by Karen Villarreal:

Hi all,

I just got an Atlassian email telling me that there have been major improvements in the Confluence cloud editor, but those improvements aren't reflected in my instance.

They were showing up at one time a couple of months ago, but they seem to have reverted back to the old editor. Is it something I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Karen


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Karen,

Welcome to Atlassian Community! It's nice to have you here.

I am not able to have a look at your instance specifically, but each Cloud instance may have a slightly different configuration since the updates were being rolled out slowly to all instances.

My recommendation for you would be to contact the [Cloud Support Team](https://support.atlassian.com/contact) directly. They will then be able to look at your instance in particular and let you know if there are any problems, or what exactly has been rolled out to your instance.

Let me know if you have any trouble reaching them through the above link.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Karen Villarreal
body: Thank you, Shannon. Will do.


Tags: cloud
Limit user access to specific pages?
Asked by Michael Bellandi:

We're trying to restrict access to a specific set of page and sub pages within a particular space for a certain group (confluence-contractors) and we don't want them to have the ability to view any other pages within the space.

At the same time, we don't want to affect the permissions the main confluence-users group's access.


Answers:
author: Inactive Stephen
body: Hi [@Michael Bellandi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3175377)

There's two options I know of - the first is to restrict access to all the 'other' pages in the Confluence space to the main confluence-user group. To do this:

* Open a parent page (attached to the root of the space)
* Click the padlock (above the title)
* Move the parent page to 'Viewing and editing restricted'
* Add the 'confluence-user' group to view access
* Apply

This will hide that tree from the other group. Just to note - view permissions are inherited by child pages, but edit restrictions are not.

The other option I've seen:

* Move the page tree you want to give the 'confluence-contractors' to the root of the space (i.e your home page is the same level as this page)
* Add a page restriction to allow both groups to see this page
* Add a page restriction to your home page (same as above) to restrict access to just the 'confluence-user' group

\^ It depends if you need these pages separated from the rest or the restricted group need to see it as part of the hierarchy of pages.

Ste


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to create the button on the page which will start a Create/Idea dialog?
Asked by Milan Djordjevic:

I want to create a Confluence Page with the button which will automatically start the Create -\> Idea dialog.

The employees will navigate to the Ideation Page Space, where this button will be located.

I want to do this because it will force the employees to create the ideas within the curtain Space, in this case it would be the Space where the button is.

Is this possible to be done?

"Create -\> Idea" is a part of the Ideation Plugin.

I have managed to create the button, but I don't know how to call any functions from the Create (...) drop down menu.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Milan Djordjevic
body: The problem is solved.

When imported the "Ideation Summary Macro" has the "Add Idea" Button on the top.

It is a little bit confusing. E.g. what the "Ideation Summary Macro" by its context has to do with the "Add Idea button"?!

Thank you!


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Add attachment from another Confluence page
Asked by Chak Lai:

The ability to add attachment from another Confluence page has been deprecated in the New Confluence Cloud Editor.

Our team used this feature to avoid having to upload images across multiple pages every time an image is updated. For example, we would upload all our images to a Files list page. And then we would add images using the ! shortcut to add the image from another Confluence page (Files list page). Any time an image is updated, we just replace the image in the Files list and the image would be updated every where it was used.

Is there a work around for this in the new editing experience? We will probably not switch to the new editor if we have to re-upload our images on every page. Also using the excerpt/excerpt include macros would add more overhead than necessary.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Chak Lai,

Thank you for contacting us about this.

The deprecation is mentioned on our [Confluence Cloud Editor Roadmap](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-cloud-editor-roadmap-967314556.html) page, as well as the workaround:
>
> ### Add attachment from another Confluence page {#toc-hId-1083665706}
>
> This feature would let you add an attachment to one Confluence page and then display it on multiple other pages. This would cause a number of dependency issues, such as where someone would unknowingly delete the image from the first page, and it would leave an error on all the other pages. In order to prevent this from happening, we've removed this functionality.
>
> If this functionality was important to you, you can achieve the same thing by using the **[excerpt](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/excerpt-macro-724765191.html)** and **[excerpt include](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/excerpt-include-macro-724765190.html)** macros. The **excerpt macro** lets you put some Confluence content into an excerpt, which you can then use the **excerpt include**macro to display on a number of other pages.
>
> Any changes you make to the **excerpt** will flow through to all the pages that the **excerpt include** is used on.

If you have any feedback at all about this change or the new editor, there is a public discussion going on here on Community. Feel free to add your feedback here.

* [Try out the new editing experience](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/Try-out-the-new-editing-experience/td-p/1000813)

Please be advised that although you may be able to retain the old editor at this time, the new editor is slowly being rolled out to all users and will eventually completely replace the old editor.

I hope that helps but do let me know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-cloud
Do you really want a reduced colour palette?
Asked by Rodney Hughes:

I have just read (12019-07-10) a Confluence Cloud Editor Roadmap announcement about the new features being rolled out.

<https://tinyurl.com/y6lsda92>

It states:
> *"this means a reduced color palette as we want to ensure that any colors in the editor are all visually distinguishable from each other."*

Whilst I understand that intent, most organisations have spent a LOT of money investing in a corporate image which includes certain colours. Quite often organisations want colours for certain text (chapter/section headings etc,) with a very specific RGB colour assignment.

In other cases User s just want full "creative control" over basic text format.

I am very worried that a reduced colour palette will be a HUGE backward step in our organisation if that reduced palette is also rolled out in Server... verging on a disaster for the corporate image.

What we (on behalf of our instance's 4500 global Users) have been hoping for is full RGB control over text colour.

And whilst I am posting this ... the other common frustration is not being able to select fonts.

What is your opinion?

I have also raised a feature suggestion <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58565>


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Oh for so many of us, PLEASE, yes to simplification. Please can we have an internet we can actually read? Most women have a far wider range of colour perception than men, but find stuff designed by men overwhelming. Most of what designers think is "clever" fails.

I have recently discovered that what I've spent \<mumble\> years thinking of as "normal" eyesight is horribly biased towards one end of the spectrum. I've got monitors that can display a single pixel in millions of colours. But none of them understand my colour weaknesses.  

Stop screwing around with minor colour changes that help none of us and please start thinking about it. There is a cheap, quick and reasonably useful trick - design something, then render it as greyscale - if it does not work, you've failed almost all of us.

We've gone too far with "clever" colours. Can we take a step back to what works?


author: Davin Studer
body: As a color deficient person myself I would say "No". Bring on the colors.
Passing multiple entires from Multiselect to IFTTT
Asked by Ryan Nacker:

Hello!

A user created an example Check-In/Check-out form for equipment which I've adapted a bit. Currently, I'm using a multi select listing all the items we currently have and if you select one item to check out, it will proccess it succesfully. If you select multiple, I have it where it will pass the IDs of the items selected using the entry (entryId=\[entry.item.transform(id).asList\]\&status=moved\&borrower=\[entry.name\])

But, instead of checking out each individual item it recognizes them as one item, and doesn't update but rather creates a new entry with the ID's seperated by comma, like so: <https://imgur.com/a/s9Aarhp>

Links removed.

Any help would be appreciated here.


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: ConfiForms behaves correctly here

I suggest you to run your update with a Update by Filter ConfiForms IFTTT action instead and have a filter dynamically constructed like this

```
id:[entry.item.transform(id).join( OR id:)]
```

PS, I suggest to remove links from your original post or obfuscate them

comments: author: Ryan Nacker
body: Hi [@Alex Medved _ConfiForms_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781630)

Thanks for the reply.

Awesome! It seems to be working now. I had actually figured it out after you sent it, but my spacing was in correct. Thanks :)

\*\*edited so many times, was too early this morning haha!


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Please let me know how I can complete a task.
Asked by Drew Parker:

Value.


Answers:
author: Inactive Stephen
body: Tasks in Confluence are created next to check-boxes.

To complete them - check the box :)

You can see a full list of your tasks and complete vs incomplete in the user profile area - choose your user icon (far-top-right) and in the drop-down select 'Tasks'.

Ste
The create button has disappeared from Confluence 6.14
Asked by Sondra Menthers:

Cannot find create button, cannot find my templates, the plus just gets rid of the header, I have full permissions for everything.


Answers:
author: Ismael Jimoh
body: Hi [@Sondra Menthers](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3405004)

Check your logs to see what error is being thrown.

What you described makes me suspect something went wrong with the application itself or a key addon.

Unfortunately, I cannot tell unless I see the logs.

Cheers.

comments: author: Sondra Menthers
body: It was just moved to the bottom of the page, it is NOT intuitive, the admin had to show us where it is, its just a plus sign now, I suggest you put the create button back on the top of the page in the next release, nobody in my company can find it.
How do I disable the recently viewed plugin in Confluence 6.15.2?
Asked by MIke Krell:

I have tried going into the manage apps page, but it doesn't give me the option to disable the recently viewed plugin. I also tried to temporarily disable it using --disable-addons command, but when I did that, Confluence wouldn't load. I also tried to move the .jar file out of the bundled-plugins folder, but once again, Confluence wouldn't load.


Answers:
author: MIke Krell
body: I figured out a work around since Atlassian doesn't support turning off the Recently Viewed App/Plugin. I was able to create some custom HTML for the header of every page which doesn't allow that div to be rendered on the page for specific users.


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to creae a new page with GOOD old LEFT centered full screen content
Asked by AZOR1984:

Hi,

can someone help me a little, I have a confluence - the cloud version, hosted at Atlassian, they decided to change (wrongly..) the template and now everytime I create a page I have a centered small nudle, completely worthless, the page is barely half of the screen. After they have changed the new template they were offering the GOOD old version of left aligned whole screen page. The confluence is not offering this anymore, also I had my own GOOD old style page as a template, so I was using this, Unfortunately it is not working anymore - a page from that template is not possible save (saying some server issue.. )

Can someone help me with this nonsence. I am not paying confluence to not be useful and populate half of screen.

As the old template that was perfect - left aligned, full screen nothing special.

Thank you,  
Vaclav

![conf.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/60066i51676A318411B09E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "conf.png")


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hey Vaclav, thanks for giving us your feedback about the new editing experience in Confluence Cloud!

So, this feature has been out for a couple of months and a lot of stuff has been happening around it. Our aim is to always provide the best experience for our customers, which is why we value any and all feedback given.

The new editor aims at a simpler and modern way of interacting with the content! You can read a lot more about it here:
> * ++***[A New Year will bring a new Confluence Cloud editor](https://blog.developer.atlassian.com/new-year-brings-new-confluence-cloud-editor)***++
> * [++***Confluence Editing Improvements***++](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-editing-improvements-945107733.html)

With the feedback that our Community provided, we raised this request:
> * ++***[Choose Between Editor View Style](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65654)***++

Considering all the feedback we received, there are a few changes coming to this new editing experience:
> * ++***[The new editing experience: we're listening Edited](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/The-new-editing-experience-we-re-listening/td-p/1044540)***++

This new route aims at bringing the full-width editing back as an option. If you want to, check this other thread about the matter:
> * ++***[Change New fixed-width page to Full](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Change-New-fixed-width-page-to-Full/qaq-p/1000805)***++

Thanks for taking part in this Vaclav!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
In Confluence, is it possible to get combined page histories for all child pages?
Asked by Aniket_Sapkal:

For an example, below highlighted is parent page and others are child.

Can I get all page histories at one place instead of going to each page history separately?

![ConfQ.JPG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/60056iB33FD1015091583B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ConfQ.JPG")


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi Aniket,

I found an interesting post that may have the answers that you are looking for: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Show-Page-Revision-History-for-Parent-amp-Children-Single-View/qaq-p/714832>

Regards
Error with Checkbox macro in forms
Asked by srikanthnarreddy:

Hi Team,

When using Forms plugin "Insert 'Forms - Checkbox matrix' Macro"

Getting below error

**Error rendering macro 'checkbox-matrix'**

null

No other options are given.

Please help on this


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: HI Srikanthnarreddy,

Can you provide more information on the macro that you are using? Is this a third party Plugin?

Thanks
Edit attachments
Asked by Lena Trofymenko:

I loaded attachments to the confluence page. This is .xlsx file. When i whant to edit its, i have not problem. Microsoft Exel is opened and i can edit and update file. But another users in our organisations can not. Wnen they press edit the message appears![image001.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/60047i2F89BD428472B50E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image001.png") : Download the Atlassian Companion app ......


Answers:
author: Shakti
body: Hi Lena,

To edit files, you'll need to install the [Atlassian Companion app](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/edit-files-170494553.html#EditFiles-AtlassianCompanionapp) and allow it to connect to your Confluence site. Once the Companion app is installed and running, you can start editing.

Please check if the other user is trying to edit the file from a system where Companion app is installed already. Moreover, To edit a file you'll need the 'Add Attachments' space permission.
Cannot Export Space
Asked by Toby Edmonds:

We have one particular Space where the pages only appear on the sidebar and are not listed as Child pages. The full list of pages is visible under Pages, List Pages - Tree View but if we go into Advanced and try the PDF Export we get the message 'No pages found to export'.

How do I get the system to recognise that those pages are part of the Space so I can export the Space itself to PDF?


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: I guess you are saying that you have a number of pages at the same level as the Home page for the space. If so, you need to make then children of the home page - see [move-and-reorder-pages](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/move-and-reorder-pages-146407727.html)

If you mean something else, attach a screen cap of the page tree (from the space tools).

comments: author: Toby Edmonds
body: Thanks Bill!

In this case I had to do the opposite: the pages were already children of the home page but moving them onto the same level meant that the Space could 'see' them and allowed me to export the entire Space to PDF. Naturally, I did this with a copy of the Space so the original's integrity wasn't affected ;)


author: Bill Bailey
body: It might have just been a glitch. Trying moving them back to see if they are still visible.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Does "Insert JIRA Issue/Filter" works when pasted multiple jira link in confluence?
Asked by Ponds ponds:

When I paste single jira link in confluence the same is converted to JIRA macro.

But when I paste multiple JIRA link in confluence it is converted to Link and not to JIRA macro.

I need to convert all the links to JIRA macro.


Answers:
author: Saumya Sunder[Appfire]
body: Use the JIRA macro to insert JIRA issue or Filter.

1. From your page call out the JIRA macro "{Jira " and insert the macro.
2. Enter the issue number/name or an issue related search keyword (for example, project="Project_name" and fixVersion=version_name) in the search input text box.
3. From the server dropdown menu, select the server where the issue is located.
4. Hit search.
5. You will see the list of issues that match the search criteria, select the ones that you want to include in your page.
6. Click Insert and Update.

I hope this helps!

comments: author: Ponds ponds
body: I know this way, but why do I want to add new macro every time.

I have all the JIRA links, so why can't I just paste it and it converts into the macro.

If I have a large number of Jira, then it will be difficult.

Anyways if I paste link one at a time it gets converted to Jira macro, then why not for more number of links.

Not sure if I need to raise a feature request and how.


Tags: jira
Share text on several pages
Asked by Michel Meester:

Is there a way of sharing several pieces of small text from one page to another?  
When you change one piece of text on one page, it automatically changes on the other.

I tried the excerpt macro, but don't seem to be able to share than more than 1 piece of text and can't give the excerpt a name.

Does anybody has a good solution fo this?

Regards,

Michel


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You've hit the right idea - this is exactly what the excerpt macros are for. The built-in one only supports fetching one excerpt from each source page (so you can have say 30 excerpts on a page, but each macro will have to point at a different page).

Also, if you're happy to have your snippets on their own single pages, the "include page" macro can do the same.

There is a multi-excerpt macro in the marketplace, which does exactly what it says on the tin - you can flag many things on one page as for excerpting elsewhere.

Finally, you're not expected to give excerpts a name - they're supposed to be a seamless part of the page you add them to. If you want to highlight or name them, it's up to you to wrap them in something that changes their highlighting.

comments: author: Bill Bailey
body: This is the exact use case for the multi-excerpt macro. I highly recommend it. In some cases, I place all of my excerpts on a page at space root level (so it doesn't show up in the left-hand nav panel). Makes it easier to maintain.
Error while implenting Survey and vote
Asked by srikanthnarreddy:

Hi Team,

Getting below error while implementing

plugin :****Survey and Vote (V2.12.5)****

**Insufficient information.**

You have to add ballots to the survey to start voting (one line, for each vote)


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi [@srikanthnarreddy](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3357799)

If you are paying for the app, I recommend you contact the vendor directly: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/195/survey-and-vote-macros?tab=support\&hosting=datacenter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/195/survey-and-vote-macros?tab=support&hosting=datacenter)

Regards


Tags: confluence-server

server
Hi, Is there a way for me to create statistics out of certain columns in a comprehensive table?
Asked by Kartik Dokania:

I'd like to create a table, where stats shall be automatically updated based on the entries made on another table. These stats may be based on the entries under certain columns of the parent table only.

Is there a macro that allows me to do this?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Kartik,

Thank you for contacting us about this.

This is not a feature of Confluence, but you might be able to use a 3rd party macro from Marketplace to do this.

I'm including your question in the Marketplace Apps collection, in case anyone has something to recommend you. One example add-on I know can do things a bit similar to this is called [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview). I haven't used it myself, but I've seen it help other users build tables from data. Maybe it can help in your case?

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Kartik Dokania
body: Hello Shannon,

Thanks for your response. I'll give the mentioned add-on a try to see if it addresses my needs.

On another note, is there any plan to expand on the current set of freely available macros to include some of the capabilities of paid Add-ons like the one you highlighted?

Regards

Kartik Dokania


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Kartik,

There's one macro in Confluence that does something similar but only in key/value pairs. That's the [Page Properties Report](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/page-properties-report-macro-724765250.html) macro.

You can also use the [Excerpt Include Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/excerpt-include-macro-724765190.html) to reference ane entire table, but not individual portions.

Only an add-on could really give you the functionality you require, and they are created to extend Confluence beyond its built-in capabilities, thus the reason that many of these add-ons or paid.

You can also reach out via [jira.atlassian.com](https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa) to suggest any feature requests that aren't already in Confluence, but please note that if a feature already exists in an add-on, the feature request may not to be high priority, since there's a workable solution.

I hope that's clear! Do let me know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon


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