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Confluence and Outlook
Asked by Steve Hastings:

HI there. I'm a new user of Confluence and I love it. What I'm staggered to see though is that Atlassian declines to build a native link into Confluence for Outlook. Outlook is not a pretty program but it's still a global standard for mail, calendar and tasks. I found ways to link calendars but I cannot find any inbuilt functionality or apps for Confluence Cloud for linking Outlook mail or Outlook tasks. Forgive me if I'm missing something here. At the moment for example when I generate tasks in Confluence I'm copy and pasting them to Outlook. Pretty dumb way to do this. With Outlook emails I'm saving them as PDFs and adding them as files to Confluence. Dumb again. This is probably an old subject for you long term Confluence users but I'd love to hear your and Atlassian's views on this Confluence /Outlook relationship subject. Many thanks, Steve (Melbourne, Aus)


Answers:
author: Steve Hastings
body: Meg, thank you so much for those valuable thoughts. I'll investigate your ideas...


author: Meg Holbrook
body: Hi Steve!

<br />

I was using the JIRA for outlook addon for a bit and it was a little clunky, so I tossed it. With that being said, I do agree that there should be a stronger connection with Outlook for all of the Atlassian task tracking and scheduling functions within both JIRA and Confluence.

I think the biggest move towards managing confluence for me was actually getting away from email altogether, which entailed making really solid JIRA boards, and linking to our confluence instances in specified spaces.

In this way, I'm using the infrastructure that Atlassian built to best work together, and now am relying more on email for the day to day noise instead of project/documentation management and deadlines. In email reminders, I'm substituting the actual content for links to Confluence and JIRA pages.

Best of luck to you, let me know if there's any ideas you want to toss around.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

ms-outlook
Is there any way of automating exports?
Asked by Rob K:

I have about 300 spaces that I need to export, and I'm looking for some way of automating them. At the moment the only way I can find is to use Javascript and the UI, but it seems like there should be a way of using the CLI or python where I can just put in the space keys and let them download. The documentation I've been able to find so far seems to indicate there's no native way of automating it. Am I missing something?


Answers:
author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: The Confluence CLI app has an action that exports a space.

See: <https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSOAP/pages/266177968/Actions#Actions-exportSpace>

comments: author: Rob K
body: That looks like it'll work. Thanks!


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence Links broken after brikit theme update
Asked by David Daniel:

After updating the Brikit theme to 2.2.3 and disabling the Confluence Mobile Plugins, and then enabling the Confluence Mobile Plugin, the links on our main landing page load with multiple events most of the time. About every 4-6 refreshes of the page, sometimes it loads the buttons with only the correct actions.

<http://support.companioncorp.com/>

Would it be best to remove the Brikit theme in the Add-ons, then install the older version again?

Or should we shutdown Confluence, and replace the theme folders from a backup and restart Confluence?


Answers:
author: David Daniel
body: Also, we were asked to follow these instructions by Brikit, and we did and it did not resolve the issue:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-clear-confluence-plugins-cache-297664846.html>


Tags: confluence-server

server
Unable to add a link
Asked by Dilip Srinivasan:

Was trying to add a link on a confluence page:

"http://....=(FSM_STEP3%20eq%20%22yes%22)". Have not mentioned the full link to maintain the confidentiality. However the concern I would like to raise is the last part to the link.

After pasting the link and pressing "Insert", the link seems to get altered automatically in the following manner:

"http://....=(FSM_STEP3%2520eq%2520%2522yes%2522)".

Why does "25" get appended after each "%" to the above link?? How do I avoid it?

Please advise.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello Dilip! Well, it seems we just hit a know bug in Confluence 6:  

[CONFSERVER-45966](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-45966?_ga=2.52370785.975070952.1536067114-539280650.1531161958)

<br />

The bug was fixed in a later version, 6.2.1. When inserting the % symbol, it gets re-encoded to %25 and renders your link unusable.  
As a workaround (described in the bug report) is to directly insert the link into the editor.  

Let us know if this helps your case!
Direct editing of a Confluence page without losing focus
Asked by Rahav:

Can we get a Confluence editor that allows us to simply click where we want to start writing or editing. The Pencil icon and Edit menu can stay but it is really annoying that as we view a document it would loss focus as the editor enters Edit mode.

I know that some users would want their pages to be protected against accidental editing, so how about you allow us to define which option we want -- per page. Either enable direct editing, probably good for often edited pages, or not allow editing unless you specifically used the Pencil or typed "e" as we do today.


Answers:
author: Roxanne Gingras
body: Did you find a way?

I am currently looking for this as well


author: Rahav
body: Thank you [@Fabienne Gerhard](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/971720), I check it out.


author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hi [@Rahav](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1196512) - I fully understand your trouble - I heard about an addon on one of our last Usergroups in Munich.

This will directly let you edit the content right at the point where you are -\> [Diary for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218275/diary-for-confluence)

I know it's only available for Server but maybe there is a chance getting it for Cloud.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

editor

usability
Copy/Paste Table or Row in Editor?
Asked by Justin Hanzlik:

How can I copy/paste a table to create a copy of that table or copy/paste the data from a row into another table?  

Whenever I highlight, copy/paste a table only the values in the cells are pasted OR all of the values are pasted into the same cell.


Answers:
author: AhmadDanial
body: Hi there, Justin.

May I know which version are you using on your end and how did you copy the table / date from one table to another? The reason why I wanted to check on this is the current functionality of these works well on my end:

![Screen Shot 2018-09-10 at 10.52.14.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/31774i0C34082C5C1EA2DA/image-dimensions/525x51?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-09-10 at 10.52.14.png")

So, I would like to understand the behavior you are seeing on your end better. Additionally, please provide the version of Confluence that you are running on. Thanks!
Which Authentication I can use for Confluence REST API requests?
Asked by Yash Chaudhari:

As mentioned on <https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/security-overview/> following are three different Authentication available for Confluence:

1. **Basic authentication**

2. **Atlassian Connect JWT authentication**

3. **Atlassian Connect OAuth 2 JWT token exchange**

Currently I am using first that is **Basic Authentication** for REST API requests. Can I use **Atlassian Connect JWT authentication** and **Atlassian Connect OAuth 2 JWT token exchange** for REST API request from my app or these two are only for **Atlassian Connect app?**


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi!

I am server side using app links like this

```
ApplicationLink applicationLink = ComponentAccessor.getComponentOfType(ApplicationLinkService.class).getPrimaryApplicationLink(JiraApplicationType.class);
```

But my app works with other Atlassian products, hence it based on SAL API.

Therefore I don't need to think about Oauth connection, it is delegated to admin/configuration side.

Hope it helps

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov


Tags: confluence-server

server
What is the restore folder in Confluence home directory for?
Asked by Stephen Garber:

I see a restore folder holding some large .zip files in my confluence install directory.

Is confluence activity using these files? What consequences will I have if I delete these files?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: They're backups, often generated by upgrades. You can remove them assuming you don't want to do any roll-backs.

comments: author: Stephen Garber
body: Thanks for the quick answer. This is what is looks like, but I didn't want to assume.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Replace an URL with Macro after inserting it in Confluence
Asked by Martin Boehme:

When you insert a YouTube URL to a confluence page, **it gets replaced by the YouTube macro within a second**. Also, the URL will be but as paramter of the macro.

When you insert a Jira URL (of a application linked Jira), **it gets replaced by the Jira macro within a second**. Also, the parameters are set automatically.

How can I achieve this with my own User Macro?

I want a specifiy URL (linke https://**foo** .net/bar) to always get transformed to my **Foo** macro.


Answers:
author: Gregor Kasmann_Actonic
body: We've investigated it previously and looks like it is implemented not by macros, but by Confluence editor, which based on TinyMCE. So the editor has some predefined hooks on text insert and replaces some text patterns to macros on the fly.  
We've found a workaround with a custom event listener for "Page Created" and "Page Updated" events which replaces our URL patterns to macros. Of course, a user will not see the changes right after inserting some text but the proper macro will be on a page after saving.

comments: author: Martin Boehme
body: Thanks for the answer, Gergor!

Unfortunately, this workaround is not a real nice solution :/


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to navigate to the source of an anchor in confluence?
Asked by Anusha_Raju:

Hi all,

While giving links to text using anchor macro, can we navigate to the source of the anchor.


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: This would be a browser function and not something Confluence could/should do. And I don't know of any browser that supports this.


author: Krisztian Kovacs
body: Hi there,

not automatically, at least not that I now of. You'd have to add a reciprocal link yourself.

However having that said, maybe this helps: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-find-out-what-links-to-a-page/qaq-p/160882>

Let me know what you think.


Tags: anchor
Need a postgres query to manually change base URL and banner of Confluence using postgres database
Asked by sudhakar yala:

Hi Team,

I am trying to automate the deprod confluence after refreshing the non prod environments, as after refresh application comes up pointing to prod url, application is using postgres DB.

Need a postgres query to manually change base url before application comes up.


Answers:
author: Krisztian Kovacs
body: Hi [@sudhakar yala](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1243773),

I wonder if using a reverse proxy would help you along the process, though that is mainly used with Jira data center, however pointing it to one instance or the other you could alternate between the two (first one being prod then the second one).

Would that help?

comments: author: sudhakar yala
body: Hmm dint get that, if I can get some query to check what baseurl is pointing to and a query to change that query in postgres database.

Like we have below query for jira.

    select propertyvalue from propertyentry PEjoin propertystring PS on PE.id=PS.idwhere PE.property_key = 'jira.baseurl';


author: Dave Bosman [Realdolmen]
body: Hi [@sudhakar yala](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1243773)

You should be able to start your application and change the baseurl fom the interface.

No need for changing it in the database.

Regards

Dave

comments: author: sudhakar yala
body: Hi [@Dave Bosman \[Realdolmen\]](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1839428)Thanks for your quick reply, Yes we can do that and we are doing that currently but however we need that to happen even before application comes up as we do not want to take chances it being pointed to prod url.


Tags: confluence-server

server
25 Jira Users and 10 Confluence users
Asked by Evgeniya Morozova:

I purchased 25 users Jira plan and 10 users Confluence plan. All the users are syncing. I tried to delete users in Conflunece but they get deleted in Jira too. How do I set different users to Jira and Confluence?

Evgeniya


Answers:
author: Krisztian Kovacs
body: Hi [@Evgeniya Morozova](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1869862),

this is something you choose when you first set up Confluence. This is what happens when you connect them: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management?_ga=2.55768943.535786421.1535360498-452341326.1496140988#ConnectingtoCrowdorJIRAforUserManagement-ConnectingConfluencetoJIRAforUserManagement>

You need to choose not to sync the users with Jira.

The easiest way is to set up Confluence again and not let it to connect to Jira. Later you can do the connection yourself.

Let me know if this helps or whether you have more questions.


author: Dave Bosman [Realdolmen]
body: Hi [@Evgeniya Morozova](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1869862)

If you use jira as user directory it is normal that they sync to confluence even without access to it.

Just do not give the groups that you use for confluence access to the people that don't need it and it will be fine.

Regards

Dave

comments: author: Evgeniya Morozova
body: There is no access to confluence, but I cannot add new users. Conflunce still thinks that all Jira users are Confluence users as well for some reason, even there is not access specified for those users.


Tags: confluence-server

server
PDF export title with dynamic content in Confluence
Asked by Prashant Mali:

How to get Author name, Creator Date in pdf title page during pdf export in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Dave Bosman [Realdolmen]
body: Hi [@Prashant Mali](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/286095)

Out of the box this does not work. And in the past there was a plugin that was able to do this but i am unable to find it now.

You can create a user macro to add the name and date to the page.

You would need to add following 2 lines in the usermacro

$content.getCreator().getFullName()

$action.dateFormatter.formatDateTime($content.getCreationDate())

You can use some html and css to make it look prettier.

Add the macro to the page that you want to export.

If you want to hide it on the page and only show it in the export you can use [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1213333/pdf-macros-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1213333/pdf-macros-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

ps: i did not test it, but it should work.

Regards

Dave

comments: author: Prashant Mali
body: Thank you so much for the information [@Dave Bosman \[Realdolmen\]](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1839428) .

I am getting values in user macro of confluence page.

I have pdf layout HTML pages(Title,Header and Footer). My requirement is to show these values in Title page during pdf export.

Thanks,

Prashant


author: Anil Gupta
body: So you are getting values while you export pdf ?


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi [@Prashant Mali](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/286095),

In addition to the approach Dave mentioned, you might also want to have a look at our Scroll PDF Exporter to export your Confluence content to PDF.

In our graphical template designer you can easily refer to content taken from Confluence dynamically by using placeholders, also to the page creator, and creation date.

We have a full list of our [available placeholders](https://help.k15t.com/scroll-pdf-exporter/latest/customize-document-sections-147034016.html#id-.Customizedocumentsectionsv4.4-placeholdersAddplaceholders) in our documentation - those placeholders will then be replaced with the corresponding value for each export.

If you want to give it a try, [Scroll PDF Exporter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) can be evaluated via the Atlassian Marketplace.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,  
Nils
oracle 9
Asked by ROGIMO 03:

```
Good MorningI would like to know if it works with oracle 9
```


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi!

Let's check here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html>

I can say it is not supported, hence I suggessted to upgrade it.

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov


author: Dave Bosman [Realdolmen]
body: Hi,

You can check all requirements on this page

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html>

Regards

Dave


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to delete a space after accidently removing all admins from that space?
Asked by Design_Thinking_HSG:

As you can see on the screenshot below, we accidently removed all admins of a space by using the permission settings. We're now trying to delete this space, however, noone has the right to nor we can add users as admin, because we cannot access the permissions settings of that space anymore.

Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this issue?

![Screen Shot 2018-08-27 at 11.35.59.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30514i4DD8BF0320A624C9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-08-27 at 11.35.59.png")


Answers:
author: Dave Bosman [Realdolmen]
body: Hi,

As a global admin go to https://**YourOwnConfluenceUrl**/admin/permissions/viewdefaultspacepermissions.action

Search for the space and you should be able to change the permissions.

comments: author: Dave Bosman [Realdolmen]
body: For cloud use this link https://**YourOwnConfluenceUrl**/wiki/admin/permissions/viewdefaultspacepermissions.action


author: Design_Thinking_HSG
body: Thank you it worked!


author: Dave Bosman [Realdolmen]
body: HI [@Design_Thinking_HSG](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1780511)

I'm glad it worked. :-)

Regards

Dave


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

permission

space
Confluence Home Page
Asked by Jason Greenwood:

I'm trying to work out how to create a Homepage for Confluence. At the moment when you switch from Jira or click on the Confluence logo from within Confluence, it takes me to <https://mysite.net/wiki/my/recently-visited>

There is no edit on this page? I would like to be able to have my own page containing a macro or two or just a simple project status table etc


Answers:
author: Dave Bosman [Realdolmen]
body: Hi Jason,

You can't edit that page.

But you can change the default home page to a space and you can edit that page.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-the-site-home-page-138140.html>

Regards

Dave

comments: author: Jason Greenwood
body: Thanks Dave, worked a treat!

Appreciate that!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence JIRA fields integration customer tracking
Asked by Bruno De Vrieze:

Hi

I want the following: in Jira (cloud) i create 'stories' wicth custom fields where i track on a high level the projects of our customers. These are linked to various products.

I created drop down lists so I can easily add and remove customers.

What I want to do is to add these custom fields from Jira in confluence cloud so the meeting minutes are tagged too.

Is there a way to achieve this?

Rgrds

Bruno


Answers:
author: Krisztian Kovacs
body: Hi [@Bruno De Vrieze](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1868821),

When you add a link to a Jira issue in Confluence, Jira will note the mention on the issue itself. If you want to link pages, you can use the URL custom field or something similar.

When you add a list of Jira issues to a Confluence page, you are able to set the columns (representing fields).

![Image result for confluence cloud jira issue list](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/files/724765217/724765222/1/1427771715681/JIRAissuesMacro_View.png)

I hope that gives you some ideas, though I might be missing the point entirely.

Let me know if you're looking for something else.


Tags: jira
file list empty
Asked by Steve Hastings:

HI there,

I've created my first file list in Confluence and have tried to upload several files. None of them show in the file list when uploaded (if they have in fact uploaded). Would anyone know please what might be happening? Thanks, Steve


Answers:
author: Suren Raj
body: Hi Steve,

I have investigated this issue further and this sounds like a recently discovered bug with attachment macro that can affect how you can attach files in Confluence page.

This issue is tracked in our public bug tracker at

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-62272>

While we'd love to say this will be fixed soon, we're unable to give an estimate for the fix just yet. We will be following up with our bug fix team on your behalf for this issue, as they will need to continue to assess the impact and prioritize the issue against our current backlog. If you want to be updated on the progress, please feel free to add yourself as a watcher to the bug report.

**As a workaround**, until this bug is fixed, please use drag-n-drop to attach files.

Steve, if you have any other questions, please let me know and I'll be happy to help. Thanks again for following up with us and we are happy to push forward your feedback on this public bug report.

Have a great day ahead, Steve :)

Cheers,

Suren Raj

comments: author: Steve Hastings
body: Thank you Suren! Steve


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
which different formats can now be edited [Confluence 6.11]
Asked by Bernd Le:

With the new update, there should be a better way to edit files now, as [can be red here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-6-11-release-notes-953678666.html?utm_source=product-release-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PA_EML-3512&jobid=103556506&subid=1377576275), but it only states that it supports MS Office Docs, Photoshot and Keynote, any file with a ***Compatible Application*** installed.

So my question here is of course, **which are all these possible compatible applications**?

Also, with these applications, is there a specific version required or can i also use MS Word 2003 for example? (I know it's a harsh example, but it should still work with this wording: MS Office, no version specified)

Thanks for your Help :D

Bernd


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello Bernd!  
Good question. Well, as long as you have the Companion app and the correct software to use the file you have uploaded to Confluence you should be able use the open with feature.
> any attached file with a compatible application installed on your computer.

Excerpt from  

- **[Edit Files](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/edit-files-170494553.html)**   

So, as long as you have a default app for the file, Confluence should be able to work with it.


Tags: confluence-server

edit

questions-for-confluence

server