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Who is watching topics in Confluence Questions?
Asked by Gry Jansen:

Is there a way to see who is watching which topic in Confluence Questions?  
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Answers:
author: john
body: Hello Gry,

Yes, on the side of every topic page you will see a list of the people watching that topic with their profile pictures and the total number of watchers. If you're not seeing this - then you need to upgrade to the latest version of Confluence Questions, which you can do at [Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-questions).

Hope that helps.

comments: author: BillA
body: It was added in 1.0.387 on Mar 05.  


author: Man Che
body: It can only listed 12 watchers(I guess space limit) there and number of watchers is 39.

How can I see the list of all 39 watchers?


author: Man Che
body: Topic watcher.jpg


author: Anant Kumar
body: To list all the watchers of Questions, is the no of watchers of the space. There is no seperate list of "Questions" watchers.

Hope this make sense.


author: Gurce Isikyildiz
body: I had the same follow-on question as Man Che.

When you visit the topic page, it gives you a total tally of watchers (E.g., "WATCHERS (39)"), but it only displays the graphical avatars of the first 12 watchers.

This to me is an oversight/shortcoming worth highlighting.

It's also quite cumbersome to have to hover the mouse over each avatar to figure out the names of each person (particularly if they have a default avatar logo).

So I feel it's definitely worth putting the matter on your radars in consideration for fixing/improving in some manner.

Perhaps a link to the complete textual list of names of all watchers of the topic?

In the interim, I learnt more about your rest api and figured out I can retrieve the list via this url (replacing \<topicid\> token below with the topicid you want to assess):

```
http://your.confluence.host/rest/questions/1.0/topic/<topicid>/watch
```

Figured this out via the documentation links below:

* <https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence-questions/rest/index.html>
* <https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence-questions/rest/resource_TopicResource.html>

<br />

Is it possible to select fields via the confluence REST api? I tried something like the following:

[http://your.confluence.host/rest/questions/1.0/topic/\<topicid\>/watch]()**?fields=fullName**

...with the hope that it would retrieve just the fullName field, but it just returned all the fields.

Anyways, I'm content with this workaround for now, just wanted to provide further feedback to you, all the same.
History for Confluence Questions
Asked by pcondal:

We are evaluating Confluence Questions as a quick Q\&A repositiory a la StackOverflow.

However, we are concerned about that is very easy to impersonate others without any (apparent) history edit that can be tracked.

That is, somene asks a question about a new Human Resources benefits policy. Another user answers the legit question. A thid user "The Joker", edits the question or the answer. There is no way to know that the question or answer text or images were changed by the "The Joker", who remains anonymous, at least on Confluence Questions.

Are we missing anything to make history of changes evident? As it is now, the Q\&A system seems too easy to troll anonymously by someone how does not have her day.


Answers:
author: Sam Tardif
body: Hi Josep,

Administrators are able to edit questions and answers created by other users, but it shouldn't be possible for other standard users to do so. If you're seeing that behaviour then it's a bug that we need to look into. Would you mind confirming that for me?

Cheers.

comments: author: pcondal
body: I confirm that (at least on 6.1.7), it only happens if the Administrator is the one who edits. Non-administrator users cannot modify questions from other users.

This mitigates a lot things because only Administrators are able to impersonate someone else without leaving any trace. However, I think it would be best if at least there was some indication in the UI that the question or answer has been edited by someone (either the OP or an Administrator).

In any case, since users can edit their own questions, one "Joker" user can make a question with a likely answer of "yes", and then modify her own question with "Do you smell?" or something similar.

I think that some basic traceability in Confluence Questions could be useful to disencourage certain behaviours, even if it's just for fun.


author: BillA
body: I'd be happy to speak to you more about this. Feel free to email me at bill at atlassian so we can schedule a time.
Updated topic on a question does not a notification sent out
Asked by Tony Pilote:

Scenario: A question is asked with a wrong topic. Someone add and change the topic for a question.

Poeple wathcing that newly added topic are not notified of the question.

Is this design intent?


Answers:
author: Julien H.
body: Hi Tony,

It's not by design, it's a bug. I've raised an issue for it: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-642)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-642>
Questions space - how do I access a question after searching for it?
Asked by Kathy Martie:

I have a trial version of Questions. I added some questions and then did a search on some text. I can see the questions appear that have the text, but when I try to click on one of the questions that appears but it does not bring it up. The "dropdown" then disappears.


Answers:
author: Sam Tardif
body: Hi Kathy, I'm a developer on the Confluence Questions team. We'd like to get some more information from you and help fix the problem. The best way to do that is through a support ticket at [](https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CQS%20)<https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CQS>, so if you'd like to create one and include as much detail as possible we can help you out.


author: HosseinA
body: Hi Kathy,

You may be hitting into a known bug here. Please visit:

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-641)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-641>

Regards,

Hossein


author: Kathy Martie
body: I'm all set. If I move my cursor to a question brought up with a search and click on it, the questions disappear. However, if I use the arrow keys to move to the question I want and hit Enter, the question is brought up to edit.
What lessons have you learnt from rolling out Confluence Questions?
Asked by Steve Goldberg:

We've purchased Confluence Questions but haven't yet opened it up to our users yet. I basically want to hear from other users/administrators who have rolled it out.

* What have you learnt about it since you started using it?
* Is there any advice you'd give to me prior to rolling out?
* How did you announce it to your users?
* How have you found the management of topics? Have they become a mess yet?

Anything else you'd like to add would be great. I'll vote up/accept any answers which are good!

Thanks.


Answers:
author: john
body: Hi Steve - I'm the lead product marketing guy for Confluence Questions, so I've been heavily involved with rolling it out internally at Atlassian. I gave some tips based on that experience in a presentation at Summit this past fall. You can see it on [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiNSMR_0POg#t=874).

Overall, the main takeaways were:

* Seed it with content: Before doing a major roll out, get some questions and answers in there so people have some content to start with.
* Enlist help: Identify a few internal "experts" on various topics of interest to ask and answer a few questions and watch topics, so they are ready to answer questions as they come in.
* Work with existing incentives: I generally believe most people want to help others and this tendency helps encourage adoption. You can also incent people - a prize for the person on top of the leaderboard after the first month perhaps - or simply by explaining how this will help people do their jobs faster, interrupt others less, and waste less time answering the same questions over and over again.
* Think longterm: it takes time to get people to adopt something new and build a community. Don't worry if the questions and answers trickle in at first - we continue to see adoption increasing.

I give some specific use cases in the presentation and examples of how it played out and what worked well.

I'd love to hear what you end up doing, how it works out, and any product feedback you have. Drop me a note at jwetenhall at [atlassian.com](http://atlassian.com)if you have a chance!

John

comments: author: Steve Goldberg
body: Thank you for your response.
How do I translate the word "incidencia" (issue)?
Asked by Francesc Grau:

How do I translate the word "incidencia" (issue) in Spanish for "tarea"(task)? In on demand. It's possible?


Answers:
author: Francesc Grau
body: Yes, but I want to change INCIDENCIAS for TAREA.

comments: author: Paul Greig
body: Hi Francesc, changing Incidencias to tarea is not possible within OnDemand. Just as you cannot update Issue to be displayed as Task within an English configured site.


author: EddieW
body: OnDemand uses the language packs generated from Atlassian and community support translations. I'm not sure if you're suggesting missing translations, or corrections, but you can contribute them for all to use.

<https://translations.atlassian.com/>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Translating+JIRA>


author: Paul Greig
body: Hi Francesc,

I can confirm if you update your default language via 'System' \> 'Edit Settings' and updating 'Default Language' to Espanol you will see Issue represented as Incidencias.

The issue type, 'Task'/'Tarea' will require configuration as discussed in [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Translating+Resolutions,+Priorities,+Statuses+and+Issue+Types)[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Translating+Resolutions,+Priorities,+Statuses+and+Issue+Types](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Translating+Resolutions%2C+Priorities%2C+Statuses+and+Issue+Types)

Cheers,

Paul


Tags: cloud
How to I export or import data from Confluence Questions?
Asked by Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix):

I am wondering how can I export or import data in/from Confluence Questions?

Is this data related to any Confluence Space? Can I move Questions from one Confluence instance to another one?


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Sorin,

This question is related to what you're asking : [](/questions/250310/exporting-confluence-questions-pages)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/250310/exporting-confluence-questions-pages>

Best regards,

Peter


author: BillA
body: Questions don't belong to spaces...they are global entities. Your questions do get included when you do a site backup and restore. Are you trying to do something specific or are you just asking for future reference?

comments: author: Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)
body: I do have two merge two Confluence instances and I am wondering what happens with Questions. At this point I do have questios only on one of them but that's the small instance, the one with less than 10 spaces, the other one is huge.

And yes, I that's also a question for reference. I do think that we need at least a minimal documentation regarding how the data is stored for Questions. For spaces it was clear that we could export / import them. Probably it would make sense to map questions to special space, so we could use normal import / export functionality too.


author: BillA
body: Okay. you'd probably want to do a per-space import to pull in the spaces from the large instance to the larger instance. We're looking to build a Questions-specific importer which would allow you to "migrate" your questions content from your small to your larger instance. That feature is being tracked at [CQ-359](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-359).
Include Confluence page picker created dates in calendar?
Asked by David Kovar:

We just started using Team Calendars because we hoped to be able to collect all of our scheduling dates from various pages into one calendar view. These dates are created with the date macro ('//').  

Is there a way to auto populate these dates and their associated text and possibly meta data into a Team Calendar?  

If not, what is a good way to create a common calendar like view of all of these dates?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there David!

Exporting the Date Macro dates into Team Calendars is not currently possible. With this in mind, we could **create a page** and then, insert a **Team Calendars** macro into it.

The macro has different view modes, such as:
> > 1. Month
> > 2. Week
> > 3. List
> > 4. Timeline

Auto population of a Team Calendar with Date Macros dates is not currently available. You could **manually create** a page and also a **new calendar** in Team Calendars:
> 1. Create a new page (make sure the necessary users have access to this page)
> 2. Insert the **Team Calendar**macro
> 3. Select to **Create New** or **Already Existing**
> 4. Select the **view mode** (Month, Week, List, Timeline)
> 5. Publish the page

Let us know your thoughts on this David!

comments: author: Andrew Gaspar
body: Hi

Has there been any update on this?

We have a form for upcoming requests and would like them to auto populate the share team calendar.


Tags: cloud

confluence

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to display the Event type in Confluence Calendars
Asked by Rafael Reder:

Hi,

I want that the event type is displayed in the calendar, not only the event color. Is that possible? I was not able to find out hw to configure this.

Thank you for your help

Regards

<br />

Rafael Reder


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Rafael,

The icon that you apply to be associated with the event type also represents it, if you don't want to go by just the color.

* [Event Types](https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/event-types-660966804.html)
* [Custom Event Types](https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/custom-event-types-659785408.html)

It's not possible to display the name of the event type in the calendar, but if I feel it's not clear, I tend to write it in the description, such as "meeting" or "annual leave".

I hope that helps!   

Take care,

Shannon
Team Calendar - Users migration - users lost their accesses to the calendars.
Asked by Rafa? ?ydek:

Hi.

I've migrated all local users to AD users, also groups memberships.

Migration tables: user_mapping, cwd.membership and cwd.users.

It seams to everything working fine right now beside team calendar.

I've checked all AO_950DC3_TC_\* tables serching, where team calendar use login instead hash from user mapping table, but I found nothing. Seams to team calendar in every place use user hash or group name.

Do you have any idea how to deal with it?


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: I would submit a support ticket to Atlassian: <https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/>


author: Rafa? ?ydek
body: I've handled with this problem with direct backup old db to the new one. Problem was internal backup zip file and restore procedure.


author: Jim Abraham
body: I have this problem as well -- I need to migrate users (that is, ownership of objects) to AD accounts which are not writable. I cannot believe there is neither a tool to do this nor documentation. Does anybody out there have a complete list of what they did to accomplish this?
Cannot add Confluence calendar
Asked by Z Rahman:

I am unable to add Confluence Team calendar to either my outlook or google calendar. I have followed the <https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/subscribe-to-team-calendars-from-google-calendar-273285887.html> but this still does not work.

I would be grateful if you can assist in this.

Regards,

Zubaid


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Zubaid,

Could you help us understand what exactly isn't working when you try that? Please list each step you took and what happened after the step. If you can explain any behaviors or error message you are seeing it will help us.

Lastly, please confirm your Team Calendars and Confluence versions, as well as your Outlook version.

Shannon


Tags: confluence
Calender
Asked by Aaron Fach:

We use the team calender for birthdays and stuff. A colleague of mine activated the reminders but doesn?t get any notifications. I am a little clueless what could have went wrong in anyway since you either just can activate or deactivate those notifications.

Does any one else had that problem and knows a way to fix it?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Aaron,

Can you let me know what steps your colleague took to activate the reminders? Are they also watching the calendar and have permissions to the space?

* Check [Watch a Calendar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/watch-a-calendar-247070749.html) for details on how to confirm if they are watching the calendar itself.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Aaron Fach
body: Hi Shannon,

he clicked on the three dots to activate watching the calender but didn?t get any reminders so far. Since it is a restricted work-space he has all the permissions he would needs. A colleague from the same team, with the same permissions, gets the notifications. Yesterday i thought i might be something he edited in his profile and restricted himself by not getting any notification emails. But that was an dead end. So at the moment im out of ideas.

Best regards,

Aaron


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Aaron,

Thank you for confirming that.

Could you tell me what version of Confluence you're on?

Have you been able to check the logs of Confluence to see if the notifications are going out?

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence
Populating "Where" field with Outlook Meeting Room?
Asked by PF:

Hi, I recently installed the Confluence Team Calendar add-in and have a question.

Is it possible to link the "WHERE" calendar field to Active Directories/Outlook's meeting rooms? Users would like to book meeting rooms connected to our AD environment similar to Outlook functionality.  

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Paul,

This is not possible natively in Confluence, but you might be able to use an add-on for this, such as [Outlook Calendars for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217554/outlook-calendars-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview&_ga=2.76274193.583528909.1543311272-372196427.1536227950).

Have a look at that, and do let us know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Shannon
When is the next upgrade to Team Calendars for Confluence?
Asked by George de los Santos:

Next version upgrade please.


Answers:
author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@George de los Santos](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/221996),

please understand that the Atlassian Community has none to litte influence on the road map of Atlassian's products.

And btw: What do you expect to be new/better with the next upgrade of this plugin? I doubt, that it is just the version number increased.

Please write your suggestions down.

So long

Thomas


Tags: atlassian-support

confluence
Entries for recurring events are multiplied with each synchronization
Asked by WEAVE PSO:

We synchronized our Outlook Calendar with Confluence using Team Calendars and we are using the Team Calendars macro to share the calendar via a Confluence webpage but our calendar becomes saturated because every time Outlook synchronizes with Confluence, for every recurring event, a new entry is created in the calendar. The entries for recurring events are multiplied with each synchronization. How can we solve this problem?![team_calendar_sync_outlook_problem_example.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37053i86972B96FCD14072/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "team_calendar_sync_outlook_problem_example.jpg")


Answers:
author: James Richards
body: Hi,

That's a gnarly issue. Are you using an .ics to view the data in Outlook or the new CalDav?

I can't see any bugs that might be related to this, so to fix this we might need to dig into the database to remove the extra entries.

As a start, please make sure you're running the latest version of Team Cal first.

Regards,  
James

comments: author: WEAVE PSO
body: Hi James,

thank you for your reply.

We are using the new CalDav implementation and tend not to work with ICS files unless it's absolutely essential.

We are running version 6.0.20.

Regards!


author: James Richards
body: Hello,

I've been going through other support tickets and recent Team Calendar bugs ([https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-56020?jql=project%20%3D%20CONFSERVER%20and%20component%20%3D%20%22Add-ons%20-%20Team%20Calendar%22%20and%20text%20\~%20%22outlook%20caldav%22](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-56020?jql=project%20%3D%20CONFSERVER%20and%20component%20%3D%20%22Add-ons%20-%20Team%20Calendar%22%20and%20text%20~%20%22outlook%20caldav%22)) and I can't see anything similar.

We don't have many people on Outlook here so if possible, can you open a support ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com/> so we can get really dig into this?

Regards,  
James
Showing tasks under epic on Confluence Calendar
Asked by Daniel Brvni??an:

I have created a calendar with JIRA issue filters.

My business users would like the see campaigns (=Epics in JIRA) and under them the tasks (=various types of issues in JIRA).

The calendar doesn't represent the JIRA hierarchical structure in any way, it just tries to fit as many issues in the given space as possible.

I would like to have something like swimmlanes on kanban board, the swimmlanes being the epics.

Any idea how to achieve this?

Thanks,  
Daniel


Answers:
author: Lizzie_Rogers
body: Sounds like you're talking about the JIRA Dashboard calendar plugin/gadget as opposed to the Confluence Team Calendar.

The calendar gadget is designed to show a set of issues based on a date field, therefore it's not designed to showcase hierarchy of tickets. I'd recommend having one calendar with just epics and another with tasks.

comments: author: Daniel Brvni??an
body: Hi Lizzie,

I was trying to set it up in Confluence Team Calendar.

Would it be possible in JIRA Dashboard calendar plugin/gadget then?

Having two separate calendars doesn't match the requirement - seeing the campaing epic with it's tasks :(

Thanks,  
Daniel


author: Lizzie_Rogers
body: Hmmm I've never seen the Confluence Team Calendar used for JIRA issues, we use it for team events and meetings, etc.

And like I said earlier, the JIRA dashboard calendar gadget is based around a date field, so not sure how to show heirarchy in that.


author: Daniel Brvni??an
body: We combine both in it - it has a configurable JIRA filter event type:

![Calendar.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/36448iB464D294D42A15BD/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Calendar.PNG")