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PowerPoint Macro does not recognize PPSX extension
Asked by Angela Goldsmith:

I am trying to attach a PPSX (PowerPoint Show) to a confluence page. The PowerPoint Macro does not seem to recognize this extension so I can't use the macro.

If I just embed the PPSX file in the page, if a user clicks on it, it downloads the file instead of playing the presentation.

Anyone have any suggestions to make this work? Or I am trying to do something that is not supported.


Answers:
author: Riley Venable
body: You can use the Office PowerPoint macro to display the content of a PPSX file in Confluence. To do this, you will need to attach the file to the page from the More actions menu when viewing the page, or use the Files \& images tool in the toolbar to upload the file. Then, insert the macro to display the content. Finally, delete the file from the page if you don't want it to show up as an attachment when others view the page.

comments: author: Angela Goldsmith
body: This does not work. I tried it a few times. It doesn't recognize the .PPSX extension as a PowerPoint presentation.

![PPTMacro_Attachments.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/243763i75E665BC7772548A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "PPTMacro_Attachments.png")![PPTMacro.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/243764i5A625BB8936F4EBF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "PPTMacro.png")


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Instance health check emails
Asked by David:

Is there a way to have Instance health check notifications sent to an email group, or to a user that isn't an Admin?

We would like to have our Security Monitoring team to receive these alerts, but don't want them to be Admins in Confluence.


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi [@David](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1107001)

I am afraid that it is not easily possible. Health checks are only available for admins after they log in and currently there is no way to send them over email.

There is a request tracked here

<https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/ATST-805>


Tags: confluence-server

server
Enable login for users outside of our organization
Asked by Tatiana Perry:

I want to make a Confluence space "public". We have documentation that needs to be behind a login for our customers. It can't not be indexed. If someone outside the organization tries to access the space, it should ask them to log in using the credentials they created when they signed up for the product.  

<br />

If you have used Zendesk, then I need to accomplish something similar.


Answers:
author: Riley Venable
body: Perhaps you can try service management with knowledge bases from the confluence.


author: Blue Ridge Consultants
body: Sounds like you are looking for the external user settings in Atlassian Access. Take a look at this document and if you have any questions feel free to reach out.

<https://support.atlassian.com/security-and-access-policies/docs/control-how-users-outside-your-organization-access-products/>

comments: author: Tatiana Perry
body: This is close, but it seems like only identity providers are accepted. I need something like JWT tokens


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Unable switch the nodes of confluence instance
Asked by aravind1516:

Hi we are running DC confluence on 2 instances. So when I try to switch from node 1 to node 2 it says 500 error. Can anyone help me with this issue.

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Benjamin
body: Hi [@aravind1516](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4903702) ,

Would recommend checking the logs on confluence node 2 to see what is causing the error on node 2? It would be difficult to know what the 500 error could be without the details. Sine that error could mean a number of things.

If you can pinpoint the part of logs of where that error show up, that could give some clues for the community to help. Also, raise a ticket to Atlassian support as well and attach the support.zip.

Thanks,

Ben


Tags: confluence-server

server
Automate fields in table in Confluence
Asked by Ana Luiza Chagas:

Hi everone!

I?m trying to find a solution that turns fields in a table into selection options in the documentation.

Example: select the Sprint in sprint field, the squad, the statuses, and after selection, the documentation returns the indicated values.

Has anyone done something like this in Confluence?

Thanks for to help!


Answers:
author: Blue Ridge Consultants
body: Natively Confluence does not easily support functionality like this. From the sound of your use case, I believe this app should have you covered:

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?tab=overview\&hosting=datacenter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=datacenter)


author: Ana Luiza Chagas
body: Thank you!!


Tags: automation

field

table
How to create Master Template and Child templates in confluence?
Asked by Debasish Biswas:

Hi I want to create a Master Template for FDD and want to create coupe of child Templates under that Master FDD template. Please advise how can i do that in Confluence.


Answers:
author: Dave Mathijs
body: Hi [@Debasish Biswas](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5158621) welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Templates in Confluence are not hierarchical, you cannot nest a template in another template.

What you can do is work with an **Excerpt Include Macro** or an **Include Page Macro**.

In Cloud, creating a blueprint with child pages isn't possible out-of-the-box either as far as I know.

Maybe a third-party app like [Page Tree Creator Pro](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214062/page-tree-creator-blueprint-template?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) can meet your requirements?

comments: author: Debasish Biswas
body: Thanks you


author: Riley Venable
body: You can create a master template in Confluence by creating a template with the content you want to use. Then, you can use the Create from Template Macro for child templates.

comments: author: Debasish Biswas
body: Thank you. I am trying that now but looks like missing some thing.

Actually, I want when I use a Global Master FDD template (created by me before in Global area) to create a page for FDD in my space then it should automatically create sub page for child template for the master FDD template (say FDD-Introduction, FDD- Process Flow etc.)

like

My Space

Page

FDD (master template)

FDD Introduction

FDD Process Flow

Please let me know if it is possible and the steps

Thanks


author: Dave Mathijs
body: Hi [@Riley Venable](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4584007) If that is the answer, I misunderstood the question, but yes, it can be that simple. ?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Dynamic rendering of the HTML page not functioning as intended in confluence page. How to fix this?
Asked by SRAMESH3:

Hey, I'm trying to create a UI on my confluence page in my organization. I have some dynamic content (CSS styling and JS components nodes, d3 etc.)   

I noticed that the dynamic elements are not loading in the confluence. I have attached snippets of how it actually should work vs how its actually working in confluence.

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/242873i3173E38FBABF0A22/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/242876i07C638F7B71DFA70/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

If you can observe that in confluence (image2) the contents in the node JS are not appearing, onclick events not working, Basically nothing dynamic is being rendered. Could you help me fix this.


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@SRAMESH3](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5158364) Welcome to the Atlassian community

What are you using to display the dynamic html? Are you using the JS and CSS provided by Atlassian or your own?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

html
How to edit custom field based on workflow
Asked by Mkurama:

Hi,

I just want to know how to make a custom field editable based on the status of workflow?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Diogo Teles
body: Hi,

Not sure there is an option to do exactly what you want. However, you may achieve something similar using transition screens.

You can add the custom field to a transition screen that pops up on a workflow status transition.

Alternatively, if you want to make that field editable while the issue rests in a specific status, you can create a transition unto itself and associate a transition screen to that. This generates a button next to the status button to bring up the transition screen with that custom field.

For example, you have a field called "Baseline Start Date" which you want to be visible but not editable. But while in the status "Admin Review" you want users to be able to edit that field. Here is a loose step-by-step:

1. Set up an issue edit screen which does not include "Baseline Start Date."
2. Make sure the issue screen associated with View includes "Baseline Start Date."
3. Associate those screens to the issue type you are using (screen scheme and issue type screen scheme)
4. Create an Issue transition screen that includes only "Baseline Start Date."
5. Edit the workflow for your issue and add a transition from the status "Admin Review" to the status "Admin Review" and set the transition screen as the one you created in the previous step. Call the transition something line "Update Baseline Date."
6. Publish workflow changes

In the issue screen, you will now have a button next to the status button called "Actions", when you click on it a dropdown menu will appear with the option "Update Baseline date". Select it, and it will bring up a screen where you can edit that field.

I missed a few critical admin steps on setting up the screens for this, above is just a general sequence. Please let me know if you want more details on any of the steps.

![Screenshot 2023-02-28 113523.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/242861i6805C00C97D98FEE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-02-28 113523.png")

comments: author: Mkurama
body: Thanks man


Tags: confluence-server

jira

server
Custom JS scripting for Confluence Space
Asked by Sushmitha:

Hi,

We want to inject custom JS script to help with some customizations for the space. We only want to inject this in a specific space .

Can you please let me know how this is possible?

I know that there is HTML macro <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/html-macro-38273085.html>

Looks like HTML Macros require us to add script to every page manually. We are looking for a space wide method.

Is there a way we can do this once but for the whole space ?

Thanks

Sushmitha


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You could do this by creating a new "theme" for Confluence, and embedding your JS in it. If you then set a space to use that theme, your JS will be used on every page in the space (themes do not affect the admin pages for spaces, nor the global functions like the dashboard and search, but they do apply to every page in a space)

You could also amend the global header page, adding your script(s) so that they run on every page Confluence serves up. If you need that to be space specific, you will need to encase it in an "if space = x" block to make sure it only runs in certain spaces.


Tags: confluence-server

server
how to add calander to page?
Asked by Noam Baum:

Is it possible that I am not able to do it because of using older version ?   
I have 7.5.2 version

Thank you


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, older versions of Confluence with Team Calendars work the same way. Start at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-add-and-edit-calendars-1044780370.html>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence Backup & Restore
Asked by G Ashok:

Hi, We have a plan to convert DB from MySQL to PostgreSQL in confluence, and I am trying to export the backup, but it's not generating the backup file in home directory or /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/backup, I am getting 504 time out error when I was trying to backup, Is there any other way to backup the files or any known issue for 504 error?

Confluence version - 7.19.4

DB version - 5.7


Answers:
author: Alexis Robert
body: Hi [@G Ashok](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4839464) ,

this will happen if you access Confluence through a proxy (that's usually the case as you'll have a URL like wiki.mycompany.com).

In this case, the proxy will send a timeout as the process takes more than 5/10 minutes for example, but it might still running in the background.

What you can do however, is access Confluence directly with its IP and port so that you don't have the proxy timeout. You will need to ask your Confluence administrator or the network team to give you some information, but the goal is to access Confluence with a URL like 10.4.3.1:8090 for example.

Let me know if this helps,

--Alexis

comments: author: G Ashok
body: Hi, Alexis   
our Confluence runs on localhost not the external IP address. Thank you!


Tags: confluence-server

server
If i have created a Page - how can i remove the "Recently updated" comments.?
Asked by Lakshay Arora:

Need to remove the latest updated comments / post coming on the pages section - there must be a option to hide and see the same.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

No, there's no way to hide or remove the comments, other than deleting them.

Why would you want to do that? What problem would hiding comments solve?
Migrate Confluence Data from Server to DataCenter
Asked by Shreesh Narayan Singh:

Hi Atlassian Community,

We are working on to migrate a Confluence server data(hosted locally in US) to a Confluence DataCenter(hosted on AWS).

Source server have around 300 spaces(Team \& Personal both) \& 150 active users as well as 2 add-ons namely Scriptrunner \& Talk - Advanced Inline Comments. Target server have 5 spaces \& 40 active users(which we want to retain after migration) and no add-ons.

Could you please provide us with the best suitable migration process(OR any add-ons) to migrate all the spaces, attachment, users \& configurations related to add-ons from source to target server?

Many thanks in advance,  
Shreesh Narayan Singh


Answers:
author: Alexis Robert
body: Hi [@Shreesh Narayan Singh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4604696) ,

what you want to do is actually merge 2 Confluence instances. In this case, you won't be able to export the full Confluence and import it.

You'll need to export each space and import it into the target Confuence instance, it's explained here : <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restoring-a-space-152036.html>

Since you have more spaces in the source instance, it might be interesting to go the other way around ...

Let me know if this helps,

--Alexis

comments: author: Shreesh Narayan Singh
body: Hi [@Alexis Robert](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1213386) ,

Thanks for the quick response!

To answer to the the other way round option, we have decided to go away from Confluence server instance, so we can't do that.

I have 3 questions regarding the above approach:

1. Will all the users be also exported \& imported by this space-by-space migration approach? OR We will have to create them manually before migration?
2. Add-ons should be installed before migration on target, right?
3. Is there any chance of erroring (corrupting the target data) during the migration as we will repeating the process for 300 times?

Also, this looks like a significant effort as for every space, if the size is more than 25MB, we need to import it from the home directory.

So, to reduce the effort \& time by significant amount, can we follow the following steps:

1. Take space by space export from target instance.
2. Generate site export from source instance.
3. Import the site export(from step 2) on target instance.
4. Re-import the 5 spaces exported in step 1.
5. Re-index the system

Let me know what you think about these 5 steps.

Thanks again,

Shreesh


author: Alexis Robert
body: Hi [@Shreesh Narayan Singh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4604696) ,

you can't use the site import feature as this will overwrite all the existing Confluence data. So space import is the best way for you to merge instance.

You will have to install addons first, not sure how it would work with specific addons however (you should test this first). Users will not be imported so that will need to be done before too.

I have not seen data corruption using this method before, but anything can happen so be sure to backup your data first.


Tags: confluence-server

server
create a group
Asked by Gina:

I read that you can do this by going to Space Tools - General configuration - groups but I don't have General configuration in my Space tools.


Answers:
author: Mayur Jadhav
body: Hello [@Gina](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5107023) ,

Only Confluence Administrator can add Users and Group and assign users to group.

If you are Confluence Admin, Follow below steps:

1) Go to User Management

2) Choose Groups in sidebar

3) Choose create Group button

4) Choose to add to add members in the group

5) After that you can give space permission directly to particular group.

Regards,  
Mayur

comments: author: Gina
body: How can I become an administrator if I am not one yet ?


author: Mayur Jadhav
body: [@Gina](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5107023) You need to reach out to your Confluence Admin ask them to add you in the Administrator group.


author: Gina
body: how do I find out who is my Confluence Admin ?


author: Gina
body: as you can see from attached print screens, I am set up as 1 of the adminstrators for this space but when I go to Space tools, I don't see User management.


author: Gina
body: ![snip confluence.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/242887i094167447BA787AA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "snip confluence.PNG")![space tools.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/242888i09F424F8F37B60C3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "space tools.PNG")


author: Mayur Jadhav
body: You are just a Space Admin and Group is a global and you need Confluence Admin Access.


author: Gina
body: ok so to whom I can reach out exactly to request to give me Confluence admin access


author: Mayur Jadhav
body: How would I know who is Confluence Admin in your organization, The person from your organization who is responsible for this application should have access. May be your IT team.
ConfiForms Form To Call Another Form
Asked by Rayman Bacchus:

I am thinking this should be simple to do but I just cannot figure out how to do it and am hoping the community can help me.  
I want a simple Confiform Form with one question:  
DO YOU WANT TO FILL OUT  

FORM A

FORM B  

I am hoping to make an action button so that when the user selects the action button FORM A it goes to another page with another ConfiForm and same for FORM B Action Button (it will go to a different page with a different ConfiForm).  

I don't have the HTML DIV option to merge the two forms into one and am limited with what I can do.


Answers:
author: Rayman Bacchus
body: Thanks. I was hoping the form would not go to a new page, but what you have demonstrated would work in the interim

comments: author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Well, it could be much more advanced, like having a one form that show/hides a bunch of fields based on the selection

But that would require some additional macros to use, like div.. so things can be configured simpler (showing/hiding the whole container and not the fields individually)

Alex


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi

With the limitations you are in, I suggest to have one form that does a redirect on submit t one or another page that has one or another form

Form could have a conditional redirect IFTTT (based on the choice) and IFTTT to delete data on submit, so it does not store anything

A little demo: <http://recordit.co/UpjmMYjGXV>

Hope this helps

Alex


Tags: confiforms

confluence-server

server
How do I use Google Analytics to track a page on Confluence?
Asked by Rajeev Desai:

Hi,

I'm trying to add a google analytics tag to a page on confluence but I can't see any tools to embed the code within the page. I don't want to use paid extensions or plugins. Would adding an iframe with javascript be detected by Google?

Thanks.

Regards,

Rajeev


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Rajeev Desai](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4973619) ,

you could try some external app for that like [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216936/google-analytics-in-confluence?tab=overview\&hosting=cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216936/google-analytics-in-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud)

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: Rajeev Desai
body: Hey Fabio,

Thanks for your reply.

I don't want to use paid apps or plugins. Is there another way to do it?

Regards,

Rajeev


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Aggregate data from child pages to parent page
Asked by Justine Hughes:

I have 5 child pages for different departments working under the same project. Each page has a table macro with a pie chart set up to track completion of the lines in the tables. I am looking for a way to pull the data from all 5 charts and have another pie chart on the Main Page (Home page) for a quick view of OVERALL completion as a company?

Is there a way to set that up to where as a department child page is updated, the home page is automatically sent that update as well?


Answers:
author: Katerina Rudkovskaya [Stiltsoft]
body: Hi [@Justine Hughes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5157916),  

If your company uses our [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud&utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) app, we can suggest trying its [Table Excerpt/Table Excerpt Include](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/tfac/cloud/how-to-use-table-excerpt-and-table-excerpt-include-macros-42241623.html?utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) macros.  

You'll be able to combine several tables into one master report, reuse your source tables and your master table several times, and aggregate/visualize them differently (create dashboards based on the same source data).  

Just don't forget to insert the [Table Toolbox](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/tfac/cloud/how-to-use-table-toolbox-macro-42245927.html?utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=table-filter-traffic-sources&utm_vendorID=1216111) macro to nest several macros on Cloud.


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hey [@Justine Hughes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5157916) ,

welcome to the Atlassian community!

You could try to use Page Include macro <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-include-page-macro/>

[Here](https://atlassian.servicerocket.com/adoption-blog/confluence-tips-stop-re-typing-content-just-include-it) you can find an useful article about that.

Hope this helps,

Fabio


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

filter

table

table-excerpt

table-filter

table-filter-and-charts
Restrictions on obtaining search results in CQL
Asked by ?? ?:

I want to ask about CQL in confluence.  
I heard that you can only retrieve up to 250 searches using CQL in the API.  
It seems meaningless to specify 1000 in the limit.  
So what if, for example, I want to retrieve more than 250 search results?


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@?? ?](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4679103) ,

if you are talking about CQL through rest api you need to use pagination (<https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v1/intro/#status-code>)

This approach avoid perfomance issues.

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: ?? ?
body: I self-solved.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud