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Added my colleague to view and edit but he still sees that page is restricted
Asked by Nataliya Bershova:

Hi, I added my colleague to the group who can view and edit my pages. I see the person was added to the list. However, he keeps getting same message " This is a restricted page" .

Any advise? Thanks


Answers:
author: Parvaneh Zand
body: Hi [@Nataliya Bershova](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3743500)

Make sure the user has **View** permission in the whole space.

Go to space setting \> Space Permission \> Grant View permission to user/group.

If you want him/her to be able to edit the page, you should check the **Add Page** permission too.

Also, check the parent page, if a parent page is restricted, the child page inherits the view restriction.

comments: author: Nataliya Bershova
body: Thank you!


author: Vickey Lee
body: [@Parvaneh Zand](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2797120), if I give view permission to a person in the Space, does it mean by default, s/he will be able to view all pages in the space unless a specific page has literally restricted some person to view only?


author: Parvaneh Zand
body: Yes exactly! He will see all unrestricted pages unless they have a restricted parent page.
Disable Recommended in.....emails
Asked by K Langford:

I've looked for similarly posted questions on the community but haven't found this specific request so please forgive if this is repetitive. Our instance isn't quite ready for prime time, we are still building out content. Our users have been configured. Currently they are receiving weekly "Recommended in ..." emails from the platform. They have nothing on watch. I want to disable all of these emails. In my instance of Confluence 6.1.4 I have the "Recommended Updates by email" option but I have already unchecked "Send by default". I don't want any email sent ever.

I was able to find the following setting regarding app emails but I'm not sure disabling this will actually disable all system emails or the Recommended Update email. Thoughts?

![Confluence-Email-flag.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/90373i9F6E1F8D19E489BE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Confluence-Email-flag.png")


Answers:
author: K Langford
body: Found and fixed my own problem! There is a bug in the Atlassian platform (Confluence server version). When a user goes in to Settings/Email it shows no items are selected for email. However when they click EDIT, the subscribe option is revealed to actually be checked. There appears to be a bug when it is retrieving email settings for display purposes. We then turned it off for real and saved settings.


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email

recommendation

server
Vendor Management Database
Asked by liz.williams:

I've been told that there is a way to build out a database in Confluence to manage vendors. This would allow us to utilize the other features of Confluence and JIRA to manage the vendor sign up process, including collection of documentation and running the risk analysis. Core to this, however, is the base storage/management of all our vendor data.

I'm new to Confluence, and am not seeing a clear tool to effect a database within the program like what we're looking for. Is this possible, and if so, how?? Thank you!!


Answers:
author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: Well, there is no built-in feature for that, but you could definitely implement this using apps.

There are many [form-related apps](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?query=form) that allow you capture the vendor data using intelligent forms and store that. (I am not familiar with these, but I'd think that you can also edit the data originally submitted.)

As an alternative, if your vendors can be described by records with a fairly low set of attributes, then you could eventually just insert an [online spreadsheet](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=spreadsheet) to a Confluence page.

comments: author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Our forms plugin fits well here, thanks [@Aron Gombas _Midori_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502447) for suggestion to look at forms related apps for Confluence.

[@liz.williams](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3861955) if you need help with [ConfiForms](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211860/confiforms-data-forms-workflows?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app then dont hesitate to ask us [directly](https://wiki.vertuna.com/x/S4GW)


author: Lisa Heath
body: I came across this chat. I have the same question and situation, but it's been 3 years. Are there any new solutions? Ty


author: Craig Schwarze _ProjectBalm_
body: Hi Liz, I'm not sure about vendor management in general, but this tool may help you conduct a risk analysis: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1213146/risk-register?hosting=cloud\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1213146/risk-register?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)


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cloud

vendor
What happen to bullets in Confluence???
Asked by Jorleen Aguiles:

In the past, I have created Confluence pages and inserted link pages as bullet points. Lately however, this is not an option and the system gives me an icon instead of a bullet. So now my pages have a mix of bullets (from the past) as well as icons which makes it look pretty inconsistent and weird. Can you please help? See see attached screenshot and thanks for your help here! ![Capture.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/90369i9F2A63CA8F062019/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@Jorleen Aguiles](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3863943)

You can click on the links and edit them. Each link can be a smart link or a URL. If you choose URL you can edit the link and instead of the whole URL you can place just a name/sentence. This is what happens on your image. All bullets are links with a dedicated name, except one which is a smart link.


Tags: cloud
Insert an internal link doesn't search in all titles
Asked by Roman Leventov:

When I edit a Confluence page and hit Cmd + K to insert a link to another page, some page titles are not "searchable" - even if I type in the whole title of the page correctly (or any word from it, FWIW), the page doesn't appear in the popup among the options and cannot be selected.

What is the reason for this issue?

To workaround this, I open the desired page in a new tab, copy the address, and then insert to the page being edited. Then, the link is correctly "condensed" to the title, which is a proof that the problem is not that I try to search for an external page or a page in a different space (all pages are in the same space).


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hey Roman, welcome to the Community!

With the new editor, it's currently possible that some pages aren't returned by the autocomplete when you're trying to insert a page link. This is a documented bug with the new editor currently; you can see the bug issue at [CONFCLOUD-67714](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67714) on our public Jira instance.

You've discovered the known workaround for this; simply pasting the full URL and letting Confluence convert the URL to a linked page title. I'm sorry that there's an extra step involved here! Right now we know that the link searcher only pulls the most recently linked pages, and only goes back 90 pages worth of most-recently-visited. We're working on fixing this up to provide the link search experience you expect in the near future.

Cheers,  
Daniel \| Atlassian Team


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
When rebooting the system, Confluence does not start, we have to do it manually
Asked by Richard Shinnick:

When rebooting the system, Confluence does not start, we have to do it manually.


Answers:
author: Kian Stack Mumo Systems
body: Richard,

What sort of server is this on? With Linux, you'd need to make sure you have Confluence installed as a service. Typically, we install by unpacking the tar file and manually adding it to the startup tasks using chkconfig. If you use the installer, I believe it will perform this step for you. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/installing-confluence-on-linux-143556824.html>  

With Windows, you'd need to make sure it is installed as a service. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/installing-confluence-on-windows-255362047.html>
Insecure content while editing a confluence page
Asked by Lars M?ller:

Hi experts,

I think I found an error in confluence. My base URL is set correctly "https://" but while using e. g. the "Info" macro, the Chrome browser shows an insecure connecton.

In the network log with the dev tools of chrome I found the connections, made by the info macro (my base url but without "s" of "https".

How can I fix this?

And: The Draw.IO plugin also makes a "http" connection, probably to their servers.

++**Edit 15.04.2020:**++ In case of the "info" macro and the Draw.IO plugin happen "http" connections just internal, though the base url is set correctly "https".

Regards

Lars


Answers:
author: Lars M?ller
body: Can anyone from Atlassian help me?


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Can you show the network tab of the browser debugger where draw.io makes this call?

comments: author: Lars M?ller
body: GET /confluence/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2RyYXdpbzpib3JkZXI9dHJ1ZXxkaWFncmFtTmFtZT1VbmJlbmFubnRlcyBEaWFncmFtbXxzaW1wbGVWaWV3ZXI9ZmFsc2V8d2lkdGg9fGxpbmtzPWF1dG98dGJzdHlsZT10b3B8bGJveD10cnVlfGRpYWdyYW1XaWR0aD0xNDUxfHJldmlzaW9uPTF9\&locale=de_DE\&version=2 HTTP/1.1  
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36

With our base-URL (configured as https) but just as http at the beginning.

It is the Image of the row:

![drawio#1.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/90436i1CA116BAD8A1D625/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "drawio#1.PNG")


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: That's a local call to your Confluence instance by Confluence, not draw.io. It happens to get the draw.io icon, yes, but it's not the plugin making the call. Someone from Atlassian would need to answer that.

To be clear, draw.io does call remotely draw.io servers from a user's browser at any time.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Editing Meeting Notes Blueprint Spinning Wheel
Asked by Mark:

Hi,

Is anyone else having trouble editing blueprints in Confluence?

Specifically its the default "Meeting notes" template I'm trying to edit.

I just getting a spinning wheel, think it might be a bug. Can't report bugs as I'm on the free plan currently.

Regards

Mark


Answers:
author: Ulrich Bervoets
body: Hi, you do not mention if you're using server or cloud. In the cloud version, i assume the cloud version, because I'm having the same problem.

comments: author: Mark
body: Sorry, yes I'm using cloud also.


author: Mark
body: I tried again just now. Still the same.


Tags: cloud
Won't let me edit a confluence page
Asked by Andy Mallinson:

I am trying to edit a page in Confluence which says that it has no restrictions on it and the padlock symbol is unlocked. But when I click the edit pencil it won't let me make any changes on the page and the Publish button is greyed out. My only option is to click Cancel.  

I am able to edit other pages without any problems.

Can anyone help?


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Andy Mallinson](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3863393)

It sounds similar to a problem I've had. You can edit pages from "the old editor" and can't edit pages from the "new editor" (That's my guess)

I used Chrome and all the edit functions are greyed out and i couldn't edit.

Can you try another browser?

If this is the problem, look at that issue here:

* [CONFCLOUD-68168](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-68168)

Regards, Dominic

comments: author: Andy Mallinson
body: Thanks [@Dominic Lagger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/601600) . That wasn't really the issue, however I seem to have solved it. I think there was a conflict going on with one of my Chrome extensions. Not sure which one, but got got rid of a bunch and it now seems to be working.  

Thanks for your response,


Tags: cloud
how to restore unpublished changes after reverting to a published version
Asked by Katherine_Renwick:

Hi, wondering if there is any way (I think the answer is no) to restore unpublished changes after reverting to a published version

ie - had notes on a page, had a meeting, added notes without publishing, made changes to original notes and made a mistake, selected restore published version and the meeting notes taken are now gone and no record of them in previous versions

this seems like a really dumb feature if I can't restore changes that were made but not published. please help!


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there, [@Katherine_Renwick](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3863337) !

As I understand, a set of Unpublished Changes (a draft) was deleted and this set of changes need to be restored.

As you have specified in your question "*I think the answer is no*", we are not able to restore deleted draft. The Unpublished Changes mechanism is in place so we can start to create changes in our pages and then come back to them later. It works as a fail-safe if something is wrongly added or removed from out content.

Here is an excerpt of our documentation that talks about this topic:
> ![Screen Shot 2020-04-15 at 18.33.48.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/90609i0AA6FB0565547B5C/image-dimensions/546x134?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2020-04-15 at 18.33.48.png")

You can check the entire document here:
> * ++***[\[Confluence Cloud\] Create, edit, and publish](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/create-edit-and-publish-724764831.html)***++

I hope this shines some light into the situation!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
table add row button
Asked by Christian Schimmel:

Hi.

I have a table with a lot of edits per day. I would like to have a kind of "add row" button, where a given number of values is appended to the table without going into edit mode -\> scroll down 24 pages and insert a row there. And ideas?


Answers:
author: Ivan Lima
body: Hey [@Christian Schimmel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3863323) ,

The short answer is that there is no such feature out of the box in Confluence. To my knowledge, you might find something similar in the Marketplace but nothing as you described. Have you taken a look at the Atlassian Marketplace to check out how the add-ons can help you with this? Have a look at some of the [Confluence apps](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=table).

Now, at a glance, it sounds to me a use case for [using Jira and Confluence together](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/use-jira-applications-and-confluence-together-427623543.html). If you were also using Jira, I would explore the option of embedding a Jira table. Besides, depending on the type of information that people are adding to the table, you can explore alternatives as page properties report, etc.

Hope it helps.

IL.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Table: data validation
Asked by Christian Schimmel:

Hi, I'm looking for a feature to validate the data inserted into a table. e.g. the user can only insert "1" or "2" into a specific row.


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi Jack,

You will have to use a third party plugin. Look at some options from this thread: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-put-a-drop-down-menu-in-a-table/qaq-p/1605903>

Regards


Tags: confluence-server

server
"We couldn't load your content" - how to fix?
Asked by Jana Wichmann:

Error message received when opening page: "We couldn't load your content. Refresh the page and try again. If the problem persists contact Atlassian Support"  

Reloaded page and restarted computer - the page title is still there but the content seems missing still.  

How to fix? Or is this a know issue? When will this aprox. be fixed?  


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello [@Jana Wichmann](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3200458) ! ?As I understand, you are currently unable to view a page within Confluence. When you try to access the page, an error message pops up.

With this in mind, I would like to ask a few questions for clarification:
> 1. *Is this happening with any other page in your Confluence Site?*
> 2. *Is there any other user that also faces this issue with the same page?*
> 3. *Is the problem present if you access the page while using another browser?*
> 4. *Were you able to access this problematic page at some point in the past?*
> 5. *Was any kind of change applied to the page prior to this issue?*
> 6. *Are you still able to click the Edit button when you visit the page?*

<br />

Also, would it be possible for you to ++*share some screenshots of the actual error that is displayed when you try to access the page?*++ Just be careful not to share any sensitive information within this screenshot.The community is an open space where everyone can see everything.

Looking forward to your reply.

comments: author: Jana Wichmann
body: 1. not for me

2. unknown

3. unknown, if I remember correct, then yes

4. yes

5. not that I am aware

6. cant remember, I restored an old version now and can access that one  

No screenshots for this page's issue anymore, Another user had the same error on another page of mine though.  

This user JF is not restricted to open the page/ I checked the permission![Capture.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/91460iFF6A3760AEC90340/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.JPG")


Tags: cloud
Confluence BaseURL from Jumphost
Asked by Telematik Netzwerk:

Hello Atlassian Support,  

<br />

we have a problem with our Confluence Instance. Our Confluence Server is in secure a network. To get access from the outside (eg. our intranet, or VPN) we got a proxy running. But the proxyserver got its own ip. So the warning "Change Base-URL" is continuous popping up.

Also we had to disable the syncronity module because you could not edit article on the proxy. Confluence tried to access the baseurl which is not available from the proxyserver.

Do you have some suggenstions on how to fix these problems?

Best regards

Julian


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Your base url must be set to the single url that you access Confluence over. As you have a proxy server, this must be the url that the proxy is serving Confluence on.

You say "base url is not available from the proxyserver" - that means your proxy is incorrect, it is supposed to be serving the base url up.

comments: author: Telematik Netzwerk
body: hi nic,

thank you for your answer.

The problem is, we use NGINX directly on the wiki server to use port 443 (non-root port binding). So we set the server ip address as the base url. This is the access from the same network segment.

To allow access from another "insecure" network segment, a reverse proxy in a DMZ is used. Of course the ip address or the DNS entry (the name of the reverse proxy) changes.

Is it possible to store another "secure base url" or to deactivate the message?

Thank you very much in advance and best regards.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, you must use a single base url for Confluence, you can't have more than one.

If it's server, then yes, you can fiddle with it a bit to deactivate the message, but I wouldn't bother. Using Confluence on a secondary url fails a lot, as it will always eventually take you back to the base url.

You will need to change your setup so that Confluence is served up on a single url.
I can't open the link
Asked by ????? ?????????:

Hi! My college share several links, but i can't open it

<https://uchiru2.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/G/overview>


Answers:
author: ????? ?????????
body: ![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/90316iCF7500366C351B3E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm sorry, but I can't read any non-Latin language, and I can't paste an image into a translator.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What errors or warnings are you getting when you say you "can't open it"?


Tags: cloud
About authority when returning to the free plan
Asked by Osamu Araki:

If I change the space permissions during the trial period, what are the permissions when I return to the free plan?


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Osamu Araki](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3863112)

I'm not sure, but I think, that it will be defaulted like every free plan. So this means, every user has all permissions.

Regards, Dominic

comments: author: Osamu Araki
body: Thanks !


Tags: cloud
Confluence Goes back to intial setup after exiting Docker
Asked by Asif AlWaqfi:

Hi Everyone,

At first I have Confluence, JIRA and MySQL database hosted separately on different Docker container.

I finished setting up confluence and was able to link it with JIRA and everything seems to work perfectly so I closed Docker and turned off the machine (my PC).

The next day, I started Docker and MySQL \& Confluence Containers then when I tried to access Confluence I went back to initial setup.

My issue is similar to the link below, but issue closed as answered but I don't think it did.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/When-I-restart-quot-atlassian-confluence-server-quot-docker/qaq-p/1172621>

Now I am not sure what to do now and how to fix it? Why did it work in the first place then after container restart it stopped?

Also, setting up confluence is like a flip coin. I had to do the setup (including remove image/container) almost 3 times before it worked for some bootstrap issue but this another story/issue.

Thanks for help,


Answers:
author: repi
body: Please check whether this is available after a restart.

comments: author: Asif AlWaqfi
body: After Docker restart, it overwrite the whole folder.

So what I did is I made a copy of confluence.cfg.xml inside the same folder and restarted docker. So all previous files (after setting up confluence) were deleted and replaced with fresh setup files.

I also compared permission to file after I finished setting up Confluence and after Docker restart, and all have the same file permission.

After Conf. Setup: -rw-r----- 1 confluence confluence 5762 Apr 18 13:31 confluence.cfg.xml

After Docker Restart: -rw-r----- 1 confluence confluence 3706 Apr 18 13:38 confluence.cfg.xml


author: repi
body: But how does it look like the content of confluence.cfg.xml changed after the Docker restart?  
Because the file sizes are different!


author: repi
body: Please check the content!

Please also check whether the file ... /WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties is retained. The path to the data storage is defined here.


author: repi
body: In my experience, the Confluence always does an initial setup if the confluence.cfg.xml file does not exist or cannot be read (rights problem)

comments: author: Asif AlWaqfi
body: Thank you,

But what kind of permission I need to set? I can't find anything about that .