youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Confluence Decision table displays code, not an icon - why?
Asked by Charlie Johnson:

I made a Decision table in Confluence. When it's viewed, code displays in the second pane of the Status row insead of an icon that displays the status. I get this results in IE 8 and Chrome, but haven't tried yet in Firefox. Is this a JavaScript browser setting? We are not able to upgrade to IE 10 at this time.

This is what displays on the Status row: \<ac:macro ac:name="status"\>\<ac:parameter ac:name="title"\>Not Started\</ac:parameter\>\<ac:parameter ac:name="colour"\>Grey\</ac:parameter\>\</ac:macro\>

Thanks! Charlie Johnson

(I tried uploading a png of the screen shot but it won't display.)


Answers:
author: Charlie Johnson
body: Here's an example of the page
Confluence Search Default Operator
Asked by J?rgen M?ller:

When I search for two or more terms, the default operator is OR. Is there a way to switch this to AND ?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I think the default is to apply equal weight to each term in the box (not really an "AND", but not really an "OR", either).

This document explains it in more detail:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Syntax>


author: J?rgen M?ller
body: Thank for your Answer.

I don't find in this documentation anything for searching two or more terms without Operator respectively without quotation marks.

The result of a search inculde results with only the first term and results of only the second term. That's in my Opinion an OR query.

EDIT: @ Matthew

Sorry, you are right. As a first all results are displayed with two terms.


Tags: confluence-administration
Creating Jira issues from Confluence when on internal directories
Asked by HalHockersmith:

My boss recently decided that he didn't want everyone in JIRA to have a Confluence login. He has intentions to have many more JIRA users than Confluence users. The only way I knew how to do this was to not use JIRA for the Confluence user directory. Now both JIRA and Confluence are on their internal directories but with an application link between them. Recently with Confluence 5.4 you can create new JIRA issues just by hilighting text then clicking on the pop up.

The trouble comes in that when using the pop up widget we can only add tickets to one project, our intro "playground". Users are logged in with both systems but 'playground' also allows annymous access. The question I have is what do I need to do to allow users to add directly into their JIRA projects? Is this related to them being in seperate user directories?


Answers:
author: Wayne Wong
body: Hi there,

I would like to suggest you to create a new group in your JIRA and confluence, then assign whichever user that you would like to grant them access to confluence to the group, and assign "use permission" to that group in confluence, so that and remove the "jira-user" in group in your confluence, so that, not everyone from JIRA can use confluence, only the user from the newly created group can access to confluence.

If you still not so sure how to configure it, could you please provide us a screenshot of your confluence's global permission and a screenshot of all your jira's group so that we could explain it to you.

Thank you.

Regards,

Wayne Wong


Tags: confluence-administration

jira

jira-administration
Custom "Single Date" option in Confluence Team Calendars?
Asked by Phillip Yero:

Is it possible to add a custom "Single Date" field option under the JIRA Issue Dates event type in Confluence Team Calendars?


Answers:
author: Phillip Yero
body: So it looks like the way to do this is to create a custom date field in JIRA, apply it to the appropriate scheme and it will show up in Confluence Team Calendars. For some reason, the first time I tried this it didn't work. Then I posted this question. The second time I did it, it worked fine.


Tags: confluence-administration

team-calendars-for-confluence
Can only Print Confluence Page in Landscape when Using Chrome
Asked by Jimmy Park:

I have an odd situation. I primarily use Google Chrome and usually have no issues. However, when I try to print a Confluence page, the page will only print in landscape mode. I tried printing a Jira page, and it will print in profile mode. Anyone else see this issue?


Answers:
author: Derrick Hardison
body: @Jimmy,

Actually, I've found that using your suggestion:

@page:first{size:auto;}

will only fix the first page and still not let you orient the rest of the pages. Instead, I was able to use:

@page:right{size:auto;}

@page:left{size:auto;}

to achieve success.


author: Graham Meaden
body: I am using OnDemand, without team calendars and I have the same problem in Chrome, not Safari.

In the print dialog, I see the portrait /landscape options appear and quickly disappear. Therefore the choice to change to portrait is withdraw somehow.


author: Brian
body: Hi Jimmy, do you by chance have Team Calendars installed, specifically version 4.1 or higher? If so, it may be interfering in some way with Chrome. If this pertains to you, downgrading to Team Calendars version 4.0.5.2 may resolve your issue. Additionally, using a different browser like Firefox may allow you to print in Portrait mode.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Brian


author: Andreas L?fgren
body: Hi Jimmy,

I've encountered the same issue and I believe it to be the cause of Team Calendars. Are you using team calendars?

When I looked at the css, it seems that Team Calendars includes a css file () that contains the following line:

```
@page{size:landscape;}
```

I've created a ticket: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-2027.)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-2027>and hopefully it gets fixed.

A temporary workaround is to add:

@page:first{size:auto;}

to the global stylesheet.


author: Andreas L?fgren
body: Hi Jimmy,

I've encountered the same issue and I believe it to be the cause of Team Calendars. Are you using team calendars?

When I looked at the css, it seems that Team Calendars includes a css file () that contains the following line:

```
@page{size:landscape;}
```

I've created a ticket: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-2027.)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-2027>and hopefully it gets fixed.
remove atlassian marketing messages
Asked by Steve Matt:

Confluence "on-demand": how do we remove this persistent nonsense from the bottom of all pages?:"Gliffy is unlicensed. Please install a license to draw diagrams in your wiki."


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's not marketing, it's telling you that you've got an unlicenced plugin installed.

Remove the Gliffy plugin from your Confluence installation (Admin -\> Manage add-ons) or get a licence for it.
Section macro stopped working
Asked by Karie Kelly:

While working in Confluence 5.1.5 this morning, our section macro stopped working.

Any pages that use the section macro are not displaying the content correctly. For example, we have two columns inside a section macro and the two columns now display on top of one another and not as columns for that section.

What could have happened and how do we resolve?


Answers:
author: Aseem Parikh
body: Is it possible that your Layout Macros system add-on is disabled?

Go to Manage Add-ons, select System from the filter dropdown, and make sure that all modules under the Layout Macros addon are enabled.

![](../../upfiles/layout-macros.png)

comments: author: Karie Kelly
body: Do you know what Confluence version you have associated with the screenshot? In our list of system add-ons, I don't have anything titled Layout Macros which explains why I was having such a hard time finding what was driving the section macro.

Our support team figured out it was the layout macro, but had to revert to an older version of the layout macro. Once we did, everything started working.

The reason I say it was odd is because it just happened out of the blue - the only thing we ever did was 2 weeks ago we updated several plugins...but we didn't upgrade confluence. And an replicate instance of our setup is working fine.

So, am confused as to 1) Why I'm not seeing this in the UI and 2) why one instance works with one version of the macro and another doesn't.
Documentation theme page sidebars disappeared
Asked by Karie Kelly:

This morning, our documentation theme pages' sidebars have all disappeared. We did not do any upgrade. We are 5.1.5. The other theme's sidebar displays fine.

We have a staging instance that is setup just like production and its sidebars are displaying fine.

What could have happened in our production instance or how do we resolve?


Answers:
author: Karie Kelly
body: Hi Septa,

The actual sidebar was only blank for documentation theme spaces; not for spaces that had the default sidebar (the newer one). You would have the sidebar visible, but no content.

To fix it, we had to uinstall and reinstall the page tree plugin.

Have no idea why this got corrupted; but, that fixed our issue.


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Karie,

Could you please provide us a screenshot of the issue. It seems that you might accidentally press (\[) which will collapse the side bar. Also, could you please see if the theme configuration changed by someone else? You could check this by accessing the space administrator page.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra
captcha bypassaed
Asked by Matteo Monfredini:

every day we receive about a dozen of spam comments by Anonymous user on our documentation website, that is powered by Confluence.

Our website settings require captcha before submitting a comment as Anonymous. Is it possible that the spammer is exploiting a bug that bypasses the captcha?

This problem is very annoying because it forces us to frequently remove unwanted comments. Is there a way to add a moderator or some sort of approval workflow on comments that are edited by an anonymous user?

Thank you in advance


Answers:
author: Matteo Monfredini
body: Alex, I am totally with you.

IMHO, Atlassian should:  
1- Implement comment moderation (it exist since a long time... why you don't have implemented?)  
2- Implement a series of different captchas (based on words, images), or better again, let developers write plugins to use wathever captcha verifications available on the net (recaptcha, mollom, identipic...)


author: Alex Yasurek
body: We have just started going through the same thing. It started out slowly only getting 1 or 2 spam comments so we had our hosting company blacklist the IP addresses, but each new spam comment had a different IP address. It then exploded over night and we had like 30 new spam comments. It's very time consuming to go through and blacklist the IP address of every new comment since they are all different. We had to disable anonymous commenting for now but this is not a solution for us since we want legitamate comments from real users. I hope confluence comes up with some solution or replaces their captcha system for a better one.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm afraid it's not a bug in Confluence, it's a general problem with the "Captcha" process. First, Captcha is easily bypassed by brute force - you can hire teams of people who will read captchas for you for fractions of a penny, and I know several sites that are constantly being hit by these. Secondly, last year, a security team demonstrated an AI that was capable of passing most schemes nearly as well as a human (but thousands of times faster).

So, your instinct to go for comment approval is probably the right one, but I'm not aware of any plugin that would do that for you. (Atlassian have said they won't do it inside Confluence - [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-13202)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-13202>)

<br />
What is the best way of extracting data from confluence?
Asked by Natalie:

We use Confluence as a knowledge management application as it grows in size the content is becoming harder to manage. What is the best way to extract data such as:

Broken links

Pages with no incomming links

Pages containing links to external sites

What pages contain a link to a certain attachment/image

Map of a module or space (similar to BPMN)

User (what they clicked on within a time span)

Top page hits

Attachments (were is linked to, where is it displayed)

Any halp on this would be appreciated.

Thank you


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Many of the items in your list of data to extract can be answered by integrating Google Analytics within Confluence. This is pretty straightforward and has been documented several times, including:

[](/questions/89931/google-analytics-on-confluence-pages)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/89931/google-analytics-on-confluence-pages>

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=154239308)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=154239308>

Some info, such as the attachment info can be had by writing a user macro.

hth,

matt


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Natalie,

some days ago I came across this blogpost: [](http://www.kikamaca.com/2012/03/managing-content-in-confluence-statistics-and-reporting/ "Managing content in Confluence: Statistics and reporting")<http://www.kikamaca.com/2012/03/managing-content-in-confluence-statistics-and-reporting/>

Maybe this is useful for you.

Cheers,  
Nils

comments: author: Nicolas Casel
body: This blog post no longer exists.
why would one user not match via mentions in confluence
Asked by Tony McCormick:

I have 10 users in a Jira/Confluence install. All ten pattern match on @mention in Jira, 9 of them work in confluence, one does not. There is no difference in permissions I can find (Jira and Confluence are sharing user integration)

That user can login to confluence and do everything. She's just unmentionable... :-) couldn't resist

--Tony


Answers:
author: Tony McCormick
body: Seems to be related to content indexing. Turns out I had 2 not working users, rebuilding the index fixed one of them, but not the other. Did it again and it worked for all.
Link to a Wiki Attachment
Asked by Karie Kelly:

How do you insert a link to a wiki attachment into another document?

For example, I have a link that I want to insert into excel as a reference. But, when I click on the lnk, I always get the Not permitted error. If I copy/paste the link into my browser, I can navigate to it just fine - but, not when using the link.

I expected that if I was not logged in, it would redirect to the login page and then allow me to access it. But, even though I am logged in to Confluence, I consistently get the Not Permitted error.

I'm getting the link by navigating to the attachment page, locating the attachment, selecting and using the Copy Link option from the popup menu.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Qian Zhao
body: Please look at this issue: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29144)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29144>


author: Rex Kidwell
body: I would check your space permissions. It sounds like an authentication issue - executing the link from a document would be a new session, and the assumption would be that you are not logged in. If the space does not have anonymous view access, then they would be able to access the page or the attachment. I have a simllar issue, although my users are getting the error when clikcing oon the attachment link added via the editor's link button feature. Removing the URL parameter allows access, where with paramteres the user get "not permitted".

comments: author: Karie Kelly
body: So, how do you get a URL to an attachment to provide in a document if you don't allow anonymous access? (we cannot do the latter due to security issues).


author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: I tried this for you with confluence 4.3 and confluence 5.3 and office 2010. it works fine with firefox and internet explorer.  

which browser is your default browser? do you have the same problem with links to files on other websites?

comments: author: Karie Kelly
body: Hi Christina,

We use office for mac 2011 and Confluence 5.1.3 and just upgraded to 5.1.4.

When I navigate to a page's Attachment page, locate the attachment and display popup menu and select Copy Link Location, then paste that into a document (whether excel, word, etc.) and then use that same link to navigate, i always get the Not Permitted error, regardless of whether I am logged in.

But, if I am logged in and paste the link back into the browser, it always downloads the document. An example URL is: [](https://jira.phytel.com/wiki/download/attachments/63015571/2013%20Nov%20PL.xlsx?api=v2)[https://jira.companyname.com/wiki/download/attachments/230129482/2013%2Dec%20Report.xlsx?api=v2](https://jira.companyname.com/wiki/download/attachments/230129482/2013%252Dec%2520Report.xlsx?api=v2)
Templates for blogs
Asked by Bimmel:

Why isn't there an option to create templates for blog pages? We're interesting in creating an internal blog that would use the same format that eventually gets posted the Dashboard/Home page of our Confluence instance. I'm trying to creating a system that is simple enough that even my grandmother could create a post without having to worry or remember what the proper format of a front-page blog page should include.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Geert Graat
body: There is a feature request for this: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-4174.)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-4174>. It is there long enough, but it will not get implemented anytime soon.


author: Sara Kosiorek
body: Ditto! I really need to create Blog Post templates. I keep thinking there's got to be a way.
Wiki T.O.C. Macro Issue
Asked by Matt Houstom:

Hello!

I have created a table of contents on multiple pages within my Wiki and i would like to exclude more than one heading within each page. How can i do this?

If I wanted to excude the following two headings: Index and Restricted Pages. How would i type that into the macro under the 'Exlude Headings' box?


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Matt,  

I have answered you question [here](/questions/250927/table-of-contents-formatting-wiki?page=1#comment-250941)


Tags: wiki
How do I export a large database?
Asked by Michael Hyzny:

Apparently, my database has gotten too big to be exported by the tool in Confluence. When I try to do a custom export, the system "times out" before it can load the page list. Is there a way to change the "time out" time.

Is there a way to group the pages so that the "tree" of pages will show up and then I can select subsets of data to export?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Steve Thornhill
body: A couple of thoughts -

Export the database separately and restore to the new location, then backup/restore confluence without attachments to the new location? I've not tried this, so test it first.

Individual space exports?


Tags: confluence-administration

export
large Excel spreadsheet
Asked by caralene kruger:

Can you please help me I want to upload a very large Excel spreadsheet what I want to share with viewers on the Confluence Wiki. I want users to be able to scroll around in the spreadsheet and still be able to see the Column and Row Headings. If you create a table in Excel it also gives you the ability to use pre-formatted tables that have colored cells and boldened fonts and alternating row coloring for easier reading. I want to be able to keep all of the previously described formatting in the web version of my spreadsheet


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: I had the problem of managing big amounts of data in Confluence and I've built a tool for [enterprise spreadsheets in Confluence](http://www.play-sql.com). You can edit columns and cells within the page, but in the back-end, it's a SQL database, so you can store millions of rows and still have optimal performance. For that purpose, Play SQL also supports pagination, auto-filters, caching and timeouts.

You mention colored cells and boldened fonts: Play SQL doesn't support it yet, but you can use Markdown to format your cell contents or you can put icons on them.

Editable with totals.png

See: [Play SQL Spreadsheets for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.playsql-plugin).  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/large-Excel-spreadsheet/qaq-p/209362?attachment-id=7521){#link_119457208ef0d3}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/35334/1/Editable%20with%20totals.png){#display_119457208ef0d3_0}


author: Mick Davidson
body: Caralene,

Does your spreadsheet have to be a proper wiki page? If not I'd advise using the Excel plugin instead.

This embeds the spreadsheet which can then be seen as it was originally formatted. You can also edit it if you are using either IE or Firefox.

Cheers.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Add confluence page to project
Asked by Marie Daly:

How can i add a confluence page to an existing jira project? I created a project but didn't add a confluence page, now i want to link one to a project.


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Do you mean a JIRA project?

* You can link Confluence to JIRA,
* You can link a Confluence space to a JIRA project,
* You can link a Confluence page to a JIRA issue, then the link appears directly on the issue.

All of this is managed by "Application Links" aka "Applinks".


Tags: jira
Table of Contents Formatting - Wiki
Asked by Matt Houstom:

Hello!

I have created a table of contents on multiple pages within my Wiki and i would like to exclude more than one heading within each page. How can i do this?

I have been succesful is excluding one heading, but i am unsure how to exclude more than one. Do i seperate each word that i want to exclude?

Thanks


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Matt,   

In Confluence Table of Content Macro, the Exclude Heading allow you to specify the Regex on the Heading you wish to excluded. Using the Regex, you can exclude more than one heading. Here the regex pattern used in the Exclude Heading [](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html.)<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html>.

Hope this helps!

<br />

Regards,

Jing Hwa

comments: author: Matt Houstom
body: I still cant seem to figure it out. If I wanted to excude the following two headings: Index and Restricted Pages. How would i type that in?


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Matt,

<br />

You can use a regex like this **Index\|Restricted Pages** in your Exclude Heading. Heading with the same title as Index and Restricted Pages will be excluded from your TOC

<br />

<br />

Cheers,

Jing Hwa


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Matt,

<br />

Did you make sure that is no empty space in between the regex?


author: Matt Houstom
body: I tried - still not working. I typed exactly what you wrote above....


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Glad I could help :).


author: Matt Houstom
body: It worked! Thanks!


Tags: wiki
PDF Export: Word-wrap
Asked by RPT Admin:

Problem:

Exporting part of a space to PDF, text formatted as hyperlinks breaks randomly at the end of a line. (For example, the link text *Source: BBC* breaks after the first *B*, leaving just the letters BC on the next line).

I have tried editing the PDF stylesheet, but

```
div {     word-wrap: normal; }
```

doesn't make any difference. My aim is to stop word breaks occuring at all.


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: I think this is the same problem as described at [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26230)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26230>

I have also had problems with word breaks but haven't really tried to solve them. Perhaps you want to try the proposed workaround and give your feedback here.


author: RPT Admin
body: Thank you, that sorted it. For the benefit of anyone else who has this problem, it seems to be

```
.wiki-content p {    word-wrap: normal;}
```

which sorted it. My stylesheet already had a variation of

```
body, p, li, td, table, tr, .bodytext, .stepfield {    word-wrap: normal;}
```

but that didn't resolve the error.

comments: author: salvatore
body: Something went wrong with my pdf reader. I wanna [convert pdf to text](http://www.pqscan.com/pdf-to-text/) first. Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud