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Is there a way to publish changes that you've made without publishing others' changes?
Asked by Meghan Sullivan:

Upon trying to publish changes to a confluence page, I received a pop-up that if I publish I will also publish changes by another user. Is there a way to only publish your own changes?


Answers:
author: Gregor Kasmann_Actonic
body: No, it is expected behavior of Confluence Collaborative editing:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/collaborative-editing-858771779.html>
> Collaborative editing introduces a new type of draft, a *shared* draft. Previously, when you edited a page but didn't save it, Confluence would create a draft that was only visible to you (a personal draft). Now, Confluence creates a shared draft whenever anyone edits a page. All page editors work on this same shared draft, and it exists until someone publishes the page.

comments: author: Valerie Parham
body: I receive an error when trying to publish the other user's edits. The other user is getting the same error. "Unable to communicate with Server. Saving is not possible at the moment." The unpublished changes button at the top of the page is active. Any thoughts on how to get this page to publish?


Tags: collaborative-editing

publish
Working with Tabs in Confluence
Asked by Alyson Reis:

Hi,

Is there any "Tab" macro capability as part of the native plugins? I've researched a little bit and was able to find a third party plugin ([Navitabs](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.navitabs/server/overview)) that pretty much fits my needs. Since I'm still evaluating Confluence I'd like to understand if there's any free solutions that I can use for now.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Mikael Sandberg
body: If you are using Confluence Server you could use [Refined Toolkit for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.refinedwiki.confluence.plugins.uitoolkit/server/overview) to created tabs, and it is free.

comments: author: Alyson Reis
body: Thanks Mikael, I'll give that plugin a try!
How to install the {livesearch} macro in the global header
Asked by John Corwith:

[This](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Hot-to-add-macros-to-a-header-footer-or-sidebar/qaq-p/623306/jump-to/first-unread-message)was close to what I wanted to do but I'd like to add the livesearch macro to the global header bar. I've messed with the header removing extraneous controls and added my own background image using #header .aui-header, but what I'd really like to do is have the search tool in the header only do the local space.


Answers:
author: Gregor Kasmann_Actonic
body: When you customize "Sidebar, header and footer" it affects only Global theme. So just check selected theme on space where you want to add livesearch macro.

I've just checked and it works for all spaces with Global Look and Feel:

![2017-11-01 16_57_20-Sidebar, header and footer.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8636iEC731FE749E252EC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2017-11-01 16_57_20-Sidebar, header and footer.png")

comments: author: John Corwith
body: Been there, trying to move beyond that. I've eliminated a number of controls from the global header using the Style Sheet and would like to reuse the page space. I've been able to insert an image in the global header and I was hoping there was a way to put the macro up there to replace the global search that I removed.
Is it possible to allow page editing in a Confluence Space but restrict adding?
Asked by Adam Humenansky:

I am a Confluence admin and I have a space "CM" that is used for Document control. The CM space has permissions as such:

Me: All  
confluence users: View

Now I want to add a page in the space for draft documents, which would allow editing. I added this page, and then I manually added restrictions to my controlled (i.e., the previously existing) pages to ensure *they* could not be edited. Unfortunately, under the settings above, my users still did not have the ability to edit the unrestricted draft pages.

I referenced [This Question](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/User-with-View-Edit-Privileges-on-a-Page-can-view-it-but-not/qaq-p/294450?) which helped me understand that they were restricted at the space level.

When looking at the Space Permissions, I only see options for: Add, Export, Restrict, and Remove.

Confluence help yielded that "Add" would give permissions for "Create" and "Edit," but I do not want to allow users to add pages under the controlled document section. Honestly, I don't want users adding pages in the draft area, either, since that could muddy the waters.

Is there a way to achieve what I want? Or should I add another Confluence Space with a different set of restrictions? Or should I just put out a business policy that users should not add pages to this Space, and any pages added will be moved.

PS: If I have to issue the policy, what is the best notification scheme to apply in order to see when any new page is added?

Thanks for the help-  
--Adam


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, the permission for edit and create is entirely the same single flag.

When a user has create/edit, they can create a page in the space, and edit any that have not been restricted from them.

I like your idea about a second Confluence space, but the policy (with a little bit of admin monitoring) is a good answer too.

comments: author: Adam Humenansky
body: Rad. Well-explained answer.

I'm gonna set up a separate space. I just can't allow the possibility that a page in the controlled area has not been approved and signed, even if the chances are remote.

Thanks, champ!  
--Adam
How to calculate column totals in a table in Confluence?
Asked by Luis Marques:

Hi,

I would like to calculate totals (sums or counts) from a table in Confluence.

is there a way to do it?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Luis,

You can use [Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/cloud/overview) add-on for this purpose:

1. [Pivot Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/How+to+use+Pivot+table+macro) macro.
2. [Table Filter](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/How+to+use+Table+filter+macro?src=contextnavpagetreemode) macro option [Total Column or Total Row](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/Managing+Look+of+the+Table+and+Filtration+Pane#ManagingLookoftheTableandFiltrationPane-OutputtingtheTotalColumn).

comments: author: LuisM
body: Thanks Andrey! Will try it.


Tags: column

table
Is markdown / auto-complete not working right now?
Asked by Nick Wheeler:

Simple autoformatting tags (like h1. or h2.) don't seem to be working in Confluence right now. Was that functionality removed? Is it a temporary issue? Is it just me?

Some insight would be much appreciated. Thank you!


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I tested the headings on a couple of Cloud test instances and it was working inconsistently.

In order for us to take a closer look at your specific instance, please open a ticket at [https://support.atlassian.com/contact](https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/). I would do it on your behalf but when I looked up your email address in our system I was unable to find your Cloud URL, needed to open the request.

comments: author: Nick Wheeler
body: Thank you, Ann! I've submitted a support request for launchpadmts.atlassian.net as JST-341754. I have a big documentation project in the pipe, and point/click formatting is a pretty big pain! :)
Confluence on Windows 2016 Server results in Page Table growing by 4k every few seconds
Asked by Technical Team:

Confluence 6.4.3 on Windows 2016 Server appears to do be doing \*something\* that results in the Page Table growing at the rate of about 4k every few seconds. Verified by using SysInternals RamMap to inspect the discrepancy between running processes and free memory.

Within about 26 hours the Page Table usage has grown to about 800MB. On any other box I've looked at this is no where above 100MB at most, even after running for 3 or 4 weeks.

Eventually as the Page Table size increases more and more things get pushed to the pagefile and the box starts thrashing the disks. This results in Confluence and other things on the box getting increasingly sluggish.

Page Table usage never decreases when Confluence is running. The only way to reduce it entirely seems to be completely rebooting the box. When Confluence is stopped the Page Table never increases.

If Confluence is not started at boot then the Page Table usage does not creep up.

Logs show nothing of much use. Not really sure where to look next. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Issue appeared at some point within the last few weeks.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: So that we can investigate more thoroughly, I have created a support ticket on your behalf. You will get an email from our support portal soon.

Thanks!
SSO: How disable default notification for users
Asked by FFL:

Dear Atlassian Team  

We use confluence with the Plugin "**SAML Single Sign On (SSO) for Confluence: Evaluation".**All works fine. But know all Users receives per default a big amount of notification emails, if a new page was created, modified or deleted.

How we can configure, that all users in the group "confluence-users" not receive any notification mails per default?

Thanks

Sincerely


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Each user may modify the emails settings in their profile to limit the notifications they receive.

Confluence does not have a mechanism to control email based on group.

If you don't need email at all, you may disable the SMTP server.


Tags: global

notification
Export Confluence page to excel formats
Asked by Mayur T:

Do we have any custom plugin available which can export confluence page to an excel?

Br

Mayur


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: 3) [Table Filter and Charts](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/cloud/overview) can [export tables](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/Exporting+Table+Data#ExportingTableData-ExportingFilteredDatatoCSV) to CSV.

comments: author: Mayur T
body: Thank you. And it exports tables only.


author: Anton Chemlev - Toolstrek -
body: 1) Smth. like this - <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.fabianwelz.confluence.plugins.csvtableexport/server/overview>

2) Or you can use "bookmarklet" <http://iamdav.in/2014/10/24/bookmarklet-creating-csv-html-table/>

Not Excel, but .csv.

comments: author: Mayur T
body: Thank you
Gliffy is NOT WORKING
Asked by Emilio Schiavone:

I try to create or edit a gliffy diagram, and a I get a blanck page.

Is somthing wrong with the new version?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Emilio,

Can you let us know what version of Confluence you are using? Are you on Server or Cloud? Which version of Gliffy do you have?

I've tagged Gliffy on the case as well so they will be able to assist us if there is an issue on their end.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Kenneth Yu
body: Hi Shannon,

We are experiencing the same issues as Emilio describes. We are using Confluence Cloud 1000.0.0-44566f6 and Gliffy 1.4.15-AC

Best regards

Kenneth


author: Shannon S
body: Hi [@Kenneth_Yu](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1160649) and [@Emilio Schiavone](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1160418),

I contacted Gliffy support directly, and they let me know they reported the issue and made a public statement here:

[Gliffy For Confluence Cloud - Blank Page When Attempting To Edit Diagram](https://support.gliffy.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014364468)

I was able to find the ticket where they reported the issue to us. However, it has since been closed by Gliffy, stating they were able to find the bug on their end, and a fix has been pushed out.

Can you both confirm if you're able to use Gliffy as expected now?

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


author: Kenneth Yu
body: Hi Shannon,

Thanks for the quick response. I can confirm that it is working on our side.

Best regards

Kenneth


author: Shannon S
body: Great news, Kenneth! Thank you for confirming. :)

Take care and Kind Regards,  
Shannon


author: Enik? Rozsny?i
body: Hello[@Shannon S](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/510046)

i am experiencing the same issue today. When I am trying to edit a Gliffy diagram, i get a blank page. I am using Confluence Cloud.


author: Shannon S
body: Enik?,

This was an issue before on Gliffy's end, and I don't see an update from them currently.

I found your other question in the community and tagged it appropriately to get the attention of Gliffy, but please feel free to also [contact them directly](https://support.gliffy.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) to see if this is still an issue.

Regards,

Shannon  


author: Enik? Rozsny?i
body: Thank you Shannon.


author: Eduardo Scheffer
body: Hey Guys,

It is still not working for me, getting the blank page when trying to edit it.

Thanks

comments: author: Samie Kaufman - Your Gal at Gliffy
body: Hi Eduardo!

If you haven't yet, please reach out to support@gliffy.com. :)

Samie


author: Linda Hayden
body: Are there multiple layers within the Gliffy diagram? If so, try to group as best possible.


author: Emilio Schiavone
body: Thanksa a lot Shannon!

It works perfect!

comments: author: Shannon S
body: You're welcome, Emilio!

Take care.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


Tags: addon-com.gliffy.integration.confluence

atlassian-marketplace

gliffy
Misconfigured site decorator file results in 500 error
Asked by Taahir Harnekar:

I'm running Confluence 6.4 and made a change to the space layout site decorator file as per <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/customizing-site-and-space-layouts-149374.html>. I wasn't too careful as I thought I'd be able to reset the decorator if anything went wrong.

Unfortunately, something did go wrong and now I receive a 500 error when I try to visit the space, so I cannot get to the page to reset the layout. Is there any other way I can reset the decorator?

I'm pretty sure that the change that resulted in the error was that I removed " = $theme.hasSpaceSideBar() \&\& $spaceKey" from the following line:  
#set($useNewSpaceIA = $theme.hasSpaceSideBar() \&\& $spaceKey)  

Is there any way I can get my space back?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Taahir,

Can you try the resolution from ['java.lang.RuntimeException Error rendering template for decorator root' in a Page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/java-lang-runtimeexception-error-rendering-template-for-decorator-root-in-a-page-217743738.html) and see if you're able to reset it that way?

If not, can you check your Atlassian Confluence log file and let us know what error messages are being triggered when you see the 500 error?

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Taahir Harnekar
body: Hi Shannon  

I didn't try the resolution from ['java.lang.RuntimeException Error rendering template for decorator root' in a Page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/java-lang-runtimeexception-error-rendering-template-for-decorator-root-in-a-page-217743738.html). However, after clicking your link, one of the related content links was to <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/custom-decorator-malfunctioning-223223923.html>. I was able to use the resolution in bullet two on this page to access the space decorator and re-add the text that I had removed.

This fixed the issue and the space is back up and running.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your swift support!

Kind regards  
Taahir


author: Shannon S
body: Super! Glad I was able to eventually get you in the right place to fix your issue. :) And thanks for sharing your resolution.

Take care, and have a pleasant rest of your week.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


Tags: decorator
Cant find the option to hide author name and page tools for anonymous access in confluence
Asked by Remya T:

I referred the below link to hide the page tools in confluence for anonymous users. But couldn't find an option to set custom HTML.Is this feature still supports or deprecated?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-hide-page-tools-and-comments-section-for-anonymous-users-in-confluence-697139365.html>


Answers:
author: Domenico Manzo _Actonic_
body: This feature is available only for Confluence on-premise, but not for Cloud.
Confluence CLI command fails with JAVA remote error
Asked by Kota Sreenivasa Shravana Kumar:

Greetings

I am using the following cli command to retrieve the users from a group in confluence. It works fine for some groups and throws error for others.

confluence.sh --action getUserList --group "confluence-users" --server \<confluence server\> --user \<confadmin\> --password \<confadminpassword\>

The error message is as follows. Any pointers to resolve this issue would be helpful.

Remote error: java.lang.NullPointerException: null


Answers:
author: Domenico Manzo _Actonic_
body: Do you have any other User Directory except "Confluence Internal Directory" ?

comments: author: Kota Sreenivasa Shravana Kumar
body: Our confluence is integrated with windows Active Directory.


author: Domenico Manzo _Actonic_
body: So requests of which groups throws exception? Only internal or only AD ?


Tags: addon-org.swift.confluence.cli

atlassian-marketplace

cli
How do I link to a Dropbox file?
Asked by Maxwell Kennedy:

Can I link to a dropbox file so clicking the link will open the shared dropbox file?

Ta


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Sure. Highlight your text and select the link icon in the toolbar. Then in the modal popup window select Web link and fill in the URL that Dropbox creates for you to share the file.

![Capture.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8736i90F753ABDC77A13B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, as dropbox files have urls when you use it online, rather than via a shared folder or client.
How can I creat a new page with web-item and xwork
Asked by Kong FanLiang:

I want to create a link to a new page.  
I user the following code but it is no work, and the message is the page does not exist.  
?atlassian-plugin.xml  
\<xwork key="knowwho.actions.global" name="Targeted Search Admin Actions"\>  
\<description\>Actions for configuring Targeted Search criteria.\</description\>  
\<package name="targetedsearchadmin" extends="default" namespace="/plugins/targetedsearch/settings"\>  
\<default-interceptor-ref name="validatingStack"/\>  
\<action name="configurefilters" class="knowwho.actions.search"\>\</action\>  
\<result name="success"\>/targeted-search/templates/search-configuration.vm\</result\>  
\</package\>  
\</xwork\>  
\<web-item key="configurefilters" name="Configure Search Filters" section="system.header/left" weight="60"\>  
\<label key="Knowledge Search"/\>  
\<link\>/plugins/targetedsearch/settings/configurefilters.action\</link\>  
\</web-item\>  
?search.java  
do nothing but just return success  
?search-configuration.vm  
\<html\>  
\<body\>  
\<h1\>Kitchen Duty Plugin - Planning Page\</h1\>  
\<p\>Now it looks nice :)\</p\>  
\</body\>  
\</html\>

I had try for 2 days, but It still not work. Can someone tell me how should I do?  
Thank you very much.


Answers:
author: Kong FanLiang
body: [@Domenico Manzo _Actonic_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1160116)

It may be cause by package name. I creat the project again and add the package in the xwork. It works!

Thank you very much


author: Domenico Manzo _Actonic_
body: [@Kong FanLiang](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1160115)

atlassian-plugin.xml looks good and I think issue in something else.

Could you share all your project (pom.xml + src folder)?

comments: author: Kong FanLiang
body: It may be cause by package. I creat the project again and add the package in the xwork. It works!

Thank you very much


Tags: questions-for-confluence
Can we find out who deleted a question or an answer in confluence questions?
Asked by Mustafa Abusalah:

I'm trying to find out who deleted an answer in Confluence Questions, I have used the below query:

select um.username, c.title, s.spacename, c.lastmoddate  
from content c  
join user_mapping um on c.lastmodifier = um.user_key  
join spaces s on c.spaceid = s.spaceid  
where c.content_status = 'deleted' and contenttype = 'CUSTOM'  
order by username;

But it looks the answers once deleted are removed from the DB? Is that true?


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Looks like it is true.

I have checked on backup and test db, really different.

Hence better way is review backup file.

comments: author: Mustafa Abusalah
body: Going back to the backup is not the solution, I need to know who deleted the answer, in my case it is one of the system administrators, but who did it?


author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: I have idea, it is review access logs.

Just create a sample answer and after delete it.

Then you can create a specific pattern for review for example your nginx/httpd logs.

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov


author: Mustafa Abusalah
body: I agree, I tried to understand what is the url hit when an answer is deleted.


author: Jeremy M
body: Dear Mustafa,

The query that you are using on the database will not work. When a question is deleted, the database entry will also be removed. The only way you can restore the answer is through a back-up.

As for seeing who exactly deleted what, within Confluence as a whole.. this is simply not a feature within Confluence. As an example I will take page deletion history;

[https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-4792](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-4792 "https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-4792")

This feature request has been open since 2005, which is asking for more detail into who deleted pages.

It seems that the team behind Confluence is not, at least for the time being.. considering deletion history as something they would like to implement.

So;

You will not be able to find out through Confluence who deleted the answer.

Friendly Regards,

Jeremy Mooiman

comments: author: Mustafa Abusalah
body: Sure, I can retrieve it from the back up, but who deleted it?


author: Jeremy M
body: Dear Mustafa,

Like I said in my answer.. unfortunately.. you cannot see this right now.

Friendly Regards,

Jeremy


author: Andrii Tkachenko [BeastieHut]
body: Hello!

You can try to use <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1220751> plugin to track pages deletion by spaces - in admin menu and in space tools.

Thank you


Tags: questions-for-confluence
How to get the actual version of the page
Asked by Sean C:

I would like to display the actual version of the page.

I tried creating a user macro with $content.version. It displays the versions correctly, but when I export a previous version of the page (e.g. v2) from the history, it always shows the most current version (e.g. v8).

Does anyone have an idea how to do this? Or is this a bug?


Answers:
author: Domenico Manzo _Actonic_
body: "Export to PDF" uses current version of the page.

As a workaround, if you need to export some previous page:

1. Open page history

2. Select required previous version

3. "Restore this Version"

4. Export to PDF


Tags: version