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Importing from PowerPoint or PDF
Asked by Andy McAleer:

What's the quickest way to turn individual PowerPoint slides or PDF pages into individual Confluence pages. I can't see a macro to do this and have tried various exports from PowerPoint and Acrobat Pro.

My only solution so far is manual pastes, but copying and pasting many elements on many slides or pages into many Confluence pages is very time-consuming.

Any advice gratefully received.

<br />

Andy


Answers:
author: Andy McAleer
body: That's a good idea. I'll try it. Thanks, Sattesh.


author: Sattesh M
body: Hello Andy,

There's no option to upload and convert powerpoint or pdf files into Confluence as pages as of now, and I could not find any add-on that does this, but there might be one out there I've missed.  

We can only upload the files, and just preview the attachments in a Confluence page.  

But since we can upload Word doc files, and convert those to pages, maybe you can convert the pdf and powerpoint files to word files first, and upload them to Confluence after that.  

Do let me know if this helps, and if you have any questions, just let me know.  

Cheers,  
Sattesh

comments: author: Rahul Bhole
body: [@Sattesh M](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1244849) I'm looking for a tool/plug-in for converting powerpoint or pdf files into Confluence pages too. I wanted to check if there any tools/plug-ins to do this.


Tags: import

questions-for-confluence
How do you delete users without deleting content that they've written?
Asked by Martin Bluck:

My workplace use Confluence which is integrated with Active Directory, we have a couple of AD users (ex-employees) that we could do with deleting so that they don't count towards the number of licenses that we have, the problem is that they have all created a fair amount of content and we don't want to lose it.

What are some recommended ways of dealing with this? Is there a simple way of changing the owner of a page?


Answers:
author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Martin,

Instead of deleting, just deactivate them. Please the documentation.

* Choose **Delete** if the user hasn't contributed any content
* Choose **Disable** to deactivate a user account if the user has contributed content

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/delete-or-disable-users-138318.html>

Victor


Tags: active-directory

delete
send E-Mail notification via Button
Asked by CPB:

Good day, Is it possible to send e-mails via Confluence with a java script?

I have a html form. I would like to send this via Confluence email notification


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@CPB](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1758248)

Look at this post, maybe can help you

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Adaptavist-questions/Send-a-mail-whenever-a-scripted-macro-i-e-button-on-a-confluence/qaq-p/910604>

Cheers


Tags: confluence-server

server
Why can't I install confluence on the Ubuntu machine?
Asked by Franklin:

I have a machine with Ubuntu and a machine with Centos. Both of them are new.I use the same way to install them. Centos can install and use confluence normally, Ubuntu can not.It will show http 500 on ubuntu.

I use the Centos 7 , Ubuntu Ubuntu 4.8.2 X64 and Linux Ubuntu 5.4.0

use same java 1.8.0.131

use same atlassian-confluence-6.3.1-x64

I don\`t know Why.

I try atlassian-confluence-6.3.1-x64 atlassian-confluence-6.5.2-x64 atlassian-confluence-6.4.3-x64 atlassian-confluence-5.6.6-x64 atlassian-confluence-5.8.10-x64 on ubuntu

They all have the same mistakes.

The mistake on ubuntu is

![QQ??20180817103955.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29855i238BB8BC8949A8E9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "QQ??20180817103955.png")


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: We need to see the full error for this. Could you read the application log ( \<confluence home\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log ) for everything after the first line of that error?


Tags: confluence-server

http

server

ubuntu
Why the users without group are available in role into Jira and aren't in permission into Confluence
Asked by ElodieB:

Hi,

I know the following resolved ticket : <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-42676> but it is focused on Confluence only.

I don't understand how Atlassian can maintain two different logical between Confluence and Jira on the autorisation behavior.

When a user isn't associated to groups and so don't consume a license :

- This user is available on the project for role assignation (Jira)

- This user is not available on the space for permission assignation (Confluence)

I understand that when an user does not have "Can Use" permission, he will not have permission to view any resources in Confluence" (see ttps://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-42676 comment) so what isn't the same justification in Jira and a different behavior... ?

Personally, I understand that the project administrators would like to assign Jira and Confluence permission before a new hire applies his first connexion which permits him to be added to the groups configured into the User directories and unfortunatly it is possible into Jira and not into Confluence....

Are there a work in progress to unify these behaviour ?

Best regards,

Elodie


Answers:
author: Sattesh M
body: Hello Elodie,  

Thank you for sharing your point with us on the issue.  

As of now, there seems to be no plan to unify these behavior in Confluence.  
The reasoning for it is given by Richard Atkins in the comment in the [CONFSERVER-42676](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-42676) ticket.  

However, I would suggest that you add your points above to the ticket above as well, as this allows the developers to see the different use cases and reasoning as to why we want Confluence to behave this way.  

Do let me know if you have any questions.  

Cheers,  
Sattesh


Tags: confluence-server

jira

jira-server

ldap

user-management
How to assign a specific user the permissions to create a space in confluence?
Asked by Pablo Galindo:

I have site admin rights, but I cannot find the way to assign a specific user the rights to create spaces in confluence.

Greets.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Put the user in a group that has "create space" permissions. The groups that have that are configurable under "global permissions" in the admin section of Confluence

comments: author: Victor Mutambuki
body: pablo,

Go to General Configuration - Global Permissions - Assign the Group that the user belongs to the necessary permission.

Victor


author: Pablo Galindo
body: Dear Victor,

I have several groups in confluence, and when I go to the Global Permissions tab, not all of them are listed there.

Just these groups are listed:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29866iA63A9EF2B613F354/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

When I try to edit the global permissions, by clicking on the edit tab, I have no options to add new groups or single users.


author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Pablo,

You'll need to reach out to the System Admin, who is an atlassian staff member. Let them know what you need done and they'll do that on your behalf.

See topic under Restricted Permissions  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/global-permissions-overview-724765488.html>

Victor


author: Pablo Galindo
body: Thanks Victor!


Tags: permission

space
Confluence user details - phone number and IM seems no longer available?
Asked by Rasmus Damsgaard Christiansen:

On the Confluence Cloud, in the people directly or user profile, we no longer have user details such as phone number and IM. According to the online documentation, this should be available. Have Atlassian removed this from the system, or do I need to change some configuration to re-establish this information. It's really annoying as we use this to find contact details on our colleagues!!


Answers:
author: Mike Reaves
body: I have this problem too.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how to publish a page from .net application
Asked by Soumen Chatterjee:

Hi All,

I have a task of publishing some data to enterprise wiki on a click of a button using c# code. Can anyone help me out on how to get started with this task?

Thanks

Soumen


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello Soumen! Interesting project you have in your hands.  
You could start by taking a look into the REST API:  

- [Confluence server REST API](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-server-rest-api/)  
- [REST API Examples](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest-api-examples/)  
- [Basic auth for REST API](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/basic-auth-for-rest-apis/)  

This could be done using REST calls in curl from your application. I have also found some more information on this here:  

- [Confluence/Jira communication from F# and C#](https://sergeytihon.com/2013/06/24/confluencejira-communication-from-f-and-c/)  

And another related question right here in our community:  
- [Add Macros To Page Body Programmatically (C#)](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/Add-Macros-To-Page-Body-Programmatically-C/qaq-p/554778)  

Let us knows if this give you the kickstart!
Macro Jira Links
Asked by pragosa:

Hello,

I know its possible to see JIRA links :

![Capture.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29825iC0E1A8856A236DAE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")

But is it possible to have a macro of JIRA links and add this to a board template for example ?

Or maybe the JQL is enough to create it for a template?

Thanks for your help !


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi Pragosa,

Unfortunately, this feature is not available.

Regards


Tags: board

cloud

confluence-cloud

issue-link

jira

jira-cloud

macro

template
Can't find custom html under "look and feel" section
Asked by Shaoye Rehnberg:

Hi,

I am looking for a solution to hide menu tool in a confluence space, and get some idea from atlassian community that i can hide element in confluence by using CSS in the custom HTML. When i tried to navigate to Custom HTML and notice that i can't find that alternative. We are using Confluence Cloud, so i wander if atlassian still support custom HTML for confluence cloud?


Answers:
author: Manon Soubies-Camy
body: Hi [@Shaoye Rehnberg](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1465601),

This is unfortunately one of the [restricted functions in Confluence Cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/restricted-functions-in-confluence-cloud-734070955.html):

![restricted-functions.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29826iA8682148E836E835/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "restricted-functions.png")

Hope this helps!

- Manon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
What is meant by <Confluence-Home>?
Asked by Robert E_ Schneider:

In a post in this forum I found a reference to  

\<Confluence-Home\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log  

What is meant by "\<Confluence-Home\>"?

Thank you for your advice!


Answers:
author: Yogesh Mude
body: HI [@Robert E_ Schneider](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1694170)

The \<Confluence_Home\> directory is the folder where Confluence stores its configuration information, search indexes, and page attachments. Another term for 'Home directory' would be 'Application data directory'

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-home-and-other-important-directories-590259707.html>

comments: author: Robert E_ Schneider
body: Thank you Yogesh! But apparently this only pertains to local Confluence installations.  
As a Cloud-user, do I have a chance to take a look at the logs at all?  

My problem is this: I am trying to import a pretty large (\>600 pages) Word document with plenty of pictures. The upload process completes and I press "Import" and set the parameters as needed. Then, after a while, I receive an error that the import failed with the hint: "word.import.error.download.file".   
I was hoping that in the logs I could find some more information on what want wrong and how I can remedy it.


author: Yogesh Mude
body: > do I have a chance to take a look at the logs at all?

Nope, as this is cloud we don't have access to the file system hence you need to contact with Atlassian.


author: Robert E_ Schneider
body: Ok, so whenever I hit such an Import Failure error, I need to turn to the helpdesk, right?


author: Yogesh Mude
body: Yes, please but maximum time you will get an Atlassian KB/articles related to the problem/error.


author: Robert E_ Schneider
body: Ok, thank you!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Could we keep the Confluence data after try expire until we purchasing ?
Asked by Dave Yu (MIS):

Hi Atlassian

We are going to purchase the Confluence solution ?

but the internal purchase process may over 7 trial days.

Could we extension the trial one week and keep our data until we make the payment ?

Thanks.

Dave


Answers:
author: Tansu Akdeniz
body: Hi,

**Server products:** You can evaluate a product for **30 days** (can be extended to a maximum of **90 days**) before purchase, allowing you to see and use Atlassian software before you proceed with a purchase. When your evaluation expires, your evaluation instance will become read-only.

**Atlassian Cloud:** Atlassian offers fully functional evaluations of our Cloud products for a period of **7 days** (can be extended to a maximum of **21 days** upon request). Please note that the data contained in the instance will be deleted shortly after the account is deactivated.

<br />

Here the links;

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/purchasing/what-happens-after-my-evaluation-period-is-over-321257640.html>
* <https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing>
Chart including number of records affects
Asked by Wiley Narron:

I am trying to create a chart in confluence that brings in the 'Number of records affected' from a Data Jira ticket. Is there a Macro in Confluence that will allow me to include this field from a data Jira ticket? I understand how to use the 'Chart' macro but I would rather have something that updates automatically when the Jira is updated.


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hello Wiley,

Please, tell me more about Data Jira ticket. Is it a custom field in Jira Issues?

comments: author: Wiley Narron
body: "Data" refers to the Issue Type and the "number of fields affected" is a field within that type of issue. From what I can tell this field is only incorporated in a the "Data" issues. I want to find a way to include the numbers in the field into a graph of some sort that I can put into confluence. In addition, if I update the numbers in the Jira the graph should also update in Confluence. I know I can do this with other information but I have not found a way to do it with the "number of records affected" field that I use.


Tags: jira
How to add excel attachment to multiple pages using REST Api
Asked by OToole:

Hi All,

I have a page with an excel attachment, I want to be able to create new confluence pages from Jira that have a link to that attachment so that all pages are editing the same document.

I get the link to the attachment using the get

{_links={base=http://\*\*\*\*\*\*:8090, context=, self=http://\*\*\*\*\*\*\*:8090/rest/api/content/5242957/child/attachment?filename=FM00872.xlsx}, limit=50, results=\[\], size=0, start=0}

```
// get attachment
def attach = "rest/api/content/"+ page_id + "/child/attachment?filename=FM00872.xlsx"
log.debug attach

authenticatedRequestFactory
 .createRequest(Request.MethodType.GET, attach)
 .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
 .execute(
new ResponseHandler<Response>() 
{
 @Override
 void handle(Response response) throws ResponseException {
 confResponse = new JsonSlurper().parseText(response.getResponseBodyAsString())
 log.debug confResponse
 }
})?
```

but now how do I add it to the new page? I have this code that will load a file as an attachment. But I don't have a file now, just a url link. So what do I use in place of .setFiles()

It doesn't matter to me if it shows up in the second page as a link or an excel attachment as long as the user can open and edit it.

If it is a link in the page rather than an attachment I would like to be able to just click on the link and have it open in excel, is that possible? if so I believe I would need the link to look something more like

\<a href="/plugins/servlet/confluence/editinword/5242957/attachments/FM00872.xlsx" rel="nofollow" class="office-editable-pathauth" title=""\>  
\<span\>  
Edit in Office  
\</span\> \</a\>

```
// Add attachment as child
authenticatedRequestFactory
 .createRequest(Request.MethodType.POST, "rest/api/content/" + page_id + "/child/attachment")
 .addHeader("X-Atlassian-Token", "nocheck")
 .setFiles(partList)
 .execute(new ResponseHandler<Response>() {
 @Override
 void handle(Response response) throws ResponseException {
 if(response.statusCode != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
 log.debug response.statusCode
 log.debug response.getResponseBodyAsString()
 throw new Exception(response.getResponseBodyAsString())
 }
 }
})
```

Thanks


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi!

Have you tried for the full generated page as Confluence storage format. I mean upload attachments, than create 2 pages. Where one is just link to another attachments.

After compare pages, You can regenerate page programmatically with correct link

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov


Tags: attachment

confluence-server

developer

jira-server

link

ms-excel

rest

server
How can I align Macros horizontally?
Asked by Noel Mendoza:

![Screen Shot 2018-08-16 at 3.17.59 PM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29780iCAEC70405BE84156/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-08-16 at 3.17.59 PM.png")Does anyone know how to align those two Info macros?


Answers:
author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: Hello Noel,

Your best bet to do this would be to use Section and Column macros together to get that aligned look and feel:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-layouts-columns-and-sections-275188613.html>
How to bulk disable users in confluence
Asked by Az:

Hello,

So we have about 500 people in our confluence instance. These users have all at one point or another created/edited some content on a confluence page. However, we are a volunteer organization and users come in an out. At this point, we only have a dozen active users.

We don't want these past users to have access to our system. I had initially thought of deleting them all, however, confluence doesn't let you delete users who have contributed. So then I wanted to disable them all, however, I couldn't find a bulk way to do this. I don't have the time to go through 500 user accounts and go the disable process manually.

My solution was then to remove all permissions from this confluence-users group and I created a new group 'current users' for the active members which had the necessary permissions. But when a new user is created, they are assigned to the confluence-users group by default and can't do anything.

How can I solve this issue? Ideally, I would like to be able to bulk disable inactive users but I couldn't find a solution for that. I tried the CLI but that didn't work.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Your strategy of removing the group that the 500 users are in from the global permissions is a sound one.

You may change the *Default Group Membership* group by editing the Confluence Admin\>User Directory and changing "confluence-users" to "current users":

![Screen Shot 2018-08-16 at 4.42.55 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29758iC5051869B7118520/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-08-16 at 4.42.55 PM.png")

comments: author: Az
body: Hi [@AnnWorley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502040)

We are only using the confluence internal directory and I don't see an option to make the changes you proposed

![tc conf.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29881iCDE0E373EA22545E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "tc conf.png")


Tags: confluence-server

server
Display Excel Sheet
Asked by Ian Lundy:

I need to display an excel sheet in Confluence. I've attached the sheet to the page as .xlsx but when I go to insert the Excel macro, I don't see the attached spreadsheet in the File Name dropdown in the 'Insert Office Excel Macro' modal.

Thoughts on why the spreadsheet isn't appearing in the dropdown?![ExcelMacro1.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29741iA5672B199EE58E74/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ExcelMacro1.png")![ExcelMacro2.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29742iA05263BCF057BFFF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ExcelMacro2.png")


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello Ian!  
It seems that you are being affected by a known behaviour. We have an article on this right here:  

- [View Excel Macro Will Not Load Attached Files](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/view-excel-macro-will-not-load-attached-files-779166031.html)  

There are two workarounds for this:  

**Resolution**   

**Option 1**   
- Download the file from the page  
- Enter the edit mode for the desired page  
- Open a file Browser window and navigate to the downloaded file  
- Drag the .xls or .xlsx file into the page being edited  
this will bypass the upload feature and attaches directly to the space, allowing the Excel macro to load appropriately.
> with this method it will continually fail to load when trying the upload from attachments method for future attachments.

<br />

<br />

**Option 2**   

- Copy all information from the page  
- Delete the page and create a new one  
- Past the information into the new page
> This method will only copy text and require rebuilding any macro configurations, and formatting

<br />

Let us know if this helps your case!
Changing Site Logo changes Panel macro border.
Asked by Jonathan Smith:

All,

After updating our Confluence logo (which has a darker color of blue in the background), the panel macro's border becomes bold or dark blue.

Does anyone know how to change the border back while keeping the new logo?

Note: I would be OK with global CSS which changes that macro's thickness or color back to gray.

![HELP.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29720i309A26A32B91DC4A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "HELP.jpg")


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: Figured it out.

1. Confluence administration
2. Color schemes
3. Borders and dividers got changed to a darker color.
4. Reverted that field back to #CCCCCC


Tags: confluence-server

server
Migrating Confluence to Cloud
Asked by Teresa Yette:

We are currently on Confluence 5.6.6 hosted in house and thinking of moving over to the Cloud option. Has anyone done this before on such an old version? We are out of maintenance license so want to understand what steps would need to be done to complete this.


Answers:
author: Manon Soubies-Camy
body: Hello [@Teresa Yette](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/169159),

This page: [Migrate from Confluence Server to Cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/migrate-from-confluence-server-to-cloud-724765529.html) describes the migration steps. Note the below warning:
> Confluence Cloud accepts site and space imports from Confluence Server instance running version **5.10.x or later**. If your instance is running an earlier version, you'll need to upgrade it before completing the site or space export.

You'll have to upgrade your Confluence Server from 5.6.6 to 5.10.x or later before migrating to Cloud. You should be able to do so using an evaluation license.

Hope this helps!

- Manon

comments: author: John O_Reilly
body: What if we can't upgrade from v5.5.6? We would have to pay $200k to backdate support \& maintenance which we won't do because we're migrating to the Cloud.

I need a way to manually export a handful of spaces from Confluence Server to Confluence Cloud, without using Migration Assistant


Tags: migration

cloud-migration

confluence-cloud

confluence-server