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Dynamic text in confluence from JIRA
Asked by Kevin Shine:

Hi

I am trying to create a page template in the new confluence something like this:
\<th\>Jira Number\</th\>\<th\>Summary\</th\>\<th colspan="1" width=""\>Work Status\</th\>\<th colspan="1" width=""\>Date Started\</th\>\<th colspan="1" width=""\>Date Resolved\</th\>\<th\>Risk\</th\>\<th\>Notes\</th\>

|-----------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|-------------------|----------------------|
| $UserEnteredJiraNoRow | {getJiraData:$UserEnteredJiraNoRow,Summary} | {status description={getJiraData:$UserEnteredJiraNoRow,status} color=getJiraData:$UserEnteredJiraNoRow,RagStatus} } | {getJiraData:$UserEnteredJiraNoRow,DateStarted} | {getJiraData:$UserEnteredJiraNoRow,ResolutionDate} | *High/Medium/Low* | *Some notes go here* |

I want the users to be able to add rows to the table and populate the JIRA Number Field, the risk field and the notes field. I want the text in Summary,date started and date resolved to be pulled from the JIRA issue itself.

I don't want to use the JIRA macro plugin as its not really what I am trying to do as you can see by the above table and code sample.I made up the getJiraData to try and show what I am trying to do. Hope it makes sense.

I am new to Confluence, but this seems like a rather obvious and missing feature....or am I missing something. :smile:

Is there a 3rd party plugin that can do this? Seems odd that confluence cant do this.


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Hi Kevin,

The closest is to use the JIRA List, and you'll be able to select columns. Of course, you're asking to be able to comment on each row, and this is not currently possible. I'm not aware of plugins which can do that.

The way we usually work is:

* Plan workloads and estimates (at the smallest scale) in JIRA Agile:
  * Start a Sprint (1-week or 2-weeks period, see "Scrum" projects in JIRA),
  * Evaluate each issue in "points",
  * Move the bar so the sprint contains the right number of points for the team capacity,
  * Instead of estimating due dates on a page, discuss them during the team meeting and make them fit into a Sprint.
* To plan bigger projets: There are a few plugins on the JIRA side which let you create Gantt diagrams and estimate workloads.

As a conclusion, we don't usually feel the need to pull fields from JIRA because we mostly use Confluence for high-level requirements or detailed design, and we move to JIRA for "estimation" activities.

Cheers,

Adrien


Tags: content

dynamic

jira

variable
atlas-run-standalone always starts latest confluence version
Asked by Florian Z?llner _Communardo_:

Hi,

I'm always using atlas-run-standalone to start local Confluence systems to test confluence features, even with older Confluence versions (like 3.5.x or 4.3.7). Since yesterday it it always starts the lastest 5.1.3 Confluence version regardless of what I actually started e.g. with "atlas-run-standalone --product confluence -v 4.3.7".

Does anyone know what I might do wrong and how I can get a local older version of CF?

Cheers

Florian Zoellner


Answers:
author: Boris Georgiev [Appfire]
body: Possible problem might be that you've previously run anbother version of confluence in the same folder. According to the docs you have to always clean the folder before switching to another version of a product run with "atlas-run-standalone" command.

Please provide the output of the atlas-run-standalone command (or at least the first 30 lines) so more details are available like:

* Your SDK version / amps plugin version
* The actual call to mvn generated by atlas-run-standalone

I've tried to run the version you mentioned on my machine with the latest SDK and it runs fine.


author: Florian Z?llner _Communardo_
body: Thank Boris for your answer.

In the meantime I found that I can't start \< CF 4.0 with the new SDKs. (source. [answers thread](/questions/140924/cannot-stage-confluence-3-5-17-using-the-most-recent-sdk))

Correctly working with different folders might have also been an issue for me. ;-)


Tags: atlas-run
Diagramly plugin problems
Asked by Debbie Augusteyn:

I am trying to create an image using the Diagramly plugin but the image is not updating on the Confluence page. I created an image, saved it, went back to Confluence and then tried to edit it. After I edited the file, saved it and went back to Confluence, the Confluence page displays the original version not the edited version.

I have also noticed that the Diagramly files are saved as attachments to a Confluence page, but how do I display these files on the page and also edit them using Diagramly?


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Debbie,

Did you try it with different browser? Based on the discussion here [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/180132/diagramly-images-not-showing-updating-correctly-on-page](/questions/180132/diagramly-images-not-showing-updating-correctly-on-page,), it seem that this issue might be related to the security feature in certain browser (IE9).

<br />

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,  
Jing Hwa


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Debbie,

Did you try it with different browser? Based on the discussion here [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/180132/diagramly-images-not-showing-updating-correctly-on-page](/questions/180132/diagramly-images-not-showing-updating-correctly-on-page,), it seem that this issue might be related to the security feature in certain browser (IE9).

<br />

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,  
Jing Hwa

comments: author: Debbie Augusteyn
body: Thanks Jing. I tried with Firefox and it worked. Now the diagramly file is an attachment to the page. Is there a way I can now display this attachment on the page using the diagramly macro?

I have tried copying and pasting the flowchart into a new diagramly page on the Confluence page, but it does not paste. I have also tried exporting the file to xml and then importing it onto a new diagramly page through the confluence macro, but nothing happens.
Searching for Content Liked by a User
Asked by Trevor Hunt:

Is it possible to search for content liked by a user through the built in search?


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey, if you're using Confluence "bundled", I mean without customizations, it's not possible. Although I was able to do a search in our system, and I could find the following feature request:  

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7227>  

I would strongly suggest that you vote on this feature request to increase its popularity and add it to your watchlist for future updates.  

I'm not sure, but I believe you can have this feature, if you know how to customize Confluence, because through the database, is possible to return such query.  

Cheers,  

WZ

comments: author: Trevor Hunt
body: Yes, this detail is clearly available in the likes table. Thank you for the info. I'll vote it up.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: You're welcome! :)


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: You're welcome! :)


Tags: like

search
Look and Feel of Space icons
Asked by Imran Khoja:

Is it possible to change the color of the different spaces' icons? At the moment, they are all navy blue, and it would be nicer to be able to color code different spaces.


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Imran,

<br />

You can change the color scheme of space from Space Admin/Space Tool \>\> Color Scheme under Look And Feel \>\> Select Custom Color Scheme \>\> Edit. Try to experiment around the color scheme to see which one suit your taste.

Hope this helps


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
"Configure Sidebar" choice not appearing on sidebar
Asked by Joe Osborn:

The "Configure Sidebar" choice is not appearing for one of my spaces, so I can't change the space logo (yes, I've expanded the sidebar). What gives?

Many thanks in advance for your help.


Answers:
author: Joe Osborn
body: Never could figure this out.


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Joe,

<br />

Could it be that the specific space is using a different theme (eg. documentation)? By default Confluence have 2 bundle theme (Global \& Documentation). It might be possible that the particular space is using a different theme therefore you're not able to locate the "Configure SideBar".

You can check the theme which the space is using from **Space tools** \> **Look and Feel** \> **Theme**.

<br />

Other than that, it might be possible that the layout of the space has been customised. Go to **Space tools** \> **Look and Feel \> Layouts ,**reset all the layout to default.

<br />

I have included the documentation below for your references.

* [Appliying Theme](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Applying+a+Theme+to+a+Space)
* [Customising Layout](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Space+Layouts)

Kind Regards,  
Jing Hwa

comments: author: kajahno
body: This should be the accepted answer. Worked for me. Basically the sidebar won't show if the theme selected is not "Global Looks and Feel" either for the specific space or at global level, at least in my case (v5.8).


author: Larry Fast
body: Confirmed: The Documentation Theme disables access to "Configure Sidebar" It moves Space Tools from the Sidebar to the Confluence Title Bar but didn't include Configure Sidebar in its menus. To enable Configure Sidebar, switch the Theme from Documentation to something else. For me "Global Look and Feel" worked.

You must be a Space Admin

Browse =\> Space Admin (or Space Operations)

Left sidebar =\> Themes

Change the theme ... then see if Configure Sidebar shows up.


author: Max Bailey
body: I've been working on this one for a while and finally found it by mistake...

I'm using OnDemand. Adjust the url to include your sub-domain and the space key for the space you are working on:

https://\[YOUR-SUBDOMAIN\].atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/configurespacelogo.action?key=\[SPACE-KEY\]

comments: author: Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen
body: Thank you, this works in my self-hosted instance too :-)


author: Mark Hrynczak
body: You are probably not a space admin for that space.

You can either:

* Find out who is a space admin, and ask them to configure it
* Get the space admin permission yourself


Tags: configuration

side-bar
Not able to create spaces
Asked by Joe Osborn:

Just suddently, Confluence is not letting me create spaces. It gives me a "Page not found" message, for any name I try to give the space. Any thoughts? I need to get this fixed ASAP.


Answers:
author: Joe Osborn
body: Apparently this is related to a known but not fixed bug "Unable to create a Confluence Space when a default space logo is configured". If you turn off the default space logo, it fixes the problem.

comments: author: Robert Congdon
body: I was having this problem and this solved it. Took way to long to figure out however.


author: Robert Quinn
body: muchas gracias


author: BernardoA
body: First, double check if your server base URL is correctly set in Confluence admin \> general configuration and make sure if is the same as you access Confluence.


Tags: space
Keep together in PDF export
Asked by Karie Kelly:

Has anyone had any success developing a user macro that will allow you to put the content inside it and ensure that on PDF export, there are never any page breaks within it. Often, we want to make sure specific text and an image always remain together when generating documentation.

We have a pagebreak user macro. But, this keep together macro is provides better support such that you don't have to keep testing your exports, especially as content changes, to insert/correct manual page breaks - it's alot less overhead to maintain your exports, especially with ever changing content.


Answers:
author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Hello Karie

You could try something like

```
&lt;div style="page-break-inside: avoid;"&gt;	$body&lt;/div&gt;
```

if you don't need extra functionality provided by the Adaptavist plugin.

Kirstin


author: Steffen Heller
body: I am not aware of any real good solutions. I played around with different combinations of "page-break-before" and "...-after" plus manual page breaks. But I never managed to find a solution that would always work.


author: Steffen Heller
body: I don't know the correct syntax for the user macro. But perhaps this is not the real problem.

Support for "page-break-inside" is limited on the browser side. Especially the value "avoid" seems not to be supported by Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (at least it is said so [here](http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_print_pagebi.asp "here")). So perhaps this could cause your problems?

comments: author: Karie Kelly
body: I hadn't realized that avoid wasn't supported, which, as you indicate, is probably the reason it is being ignored (I'm a mac user, so don't use IE). Are you aware of any other options?


author: Karie Kelly
body: I did try something like this, but could never get it to work correctly:

## Macro name: keep-together  
## Has body: YES, Unprocessed  
## Generates: WIKI markup  
### Requires: adaptavist-plugin-contentFormattingMacros (div macro)  
{div:style="page-break-inside: avoid;"}${body}{div}
"t" log work shortcut in agile shows and hides
Asked by Alan Baum:

t shows and hides detail window instead of giving the log work popup any way around this besides the . and typing log work shortcut?


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg
body: Hello Alan,

Is there any place in JIRA where the t shortcut is mapped to logging time? Neither JIRA: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Using+Keyboard+Shortcuts> not GreenHopper: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/Using+Keyboard+Shortcuts> provide this shortcut as far as I know. It sounds like this is something provided by Tempo: <http://blog.tempoplugin.com/2013/tempo-tip-of-the-month-keyboard-shortcuts/> can you please confirm?

Cheers,  
Boris

comments: author: Alan Baum
body: Yes, you are right it is for tempo only. It was my misunderstanding. It looks like there are two Log Work actions one belongs to Tempo and the other to Jira. I wanted the Log Work for Jira and there is no shortcut for that anyway.

Still its kinda of inconvenient to have them named the same but I'm assuming I can change the name of one of them in settings somewhere. So I'll look how to do that now. Thanks for your help


Tags: cloud

jira-software

jira-software-cloud
Confluence Color Scheme - can you force a color scheme for ALL spaces?
Asked by Trevor Hunt:

I know you can change the default color scheme, but I is there a way to lock down the Confluence Color scheme for all spaces?

I want to prevent space admins from chaing color schemes on their spaces to maintain continuity through the site.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello there,

Yeah, that is something not available at this time, I did find a feature request for inheriting the same scheme global to spaces, filed [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29879). It is worth commenting and adding your concerns to such thread.


author: Trevor Hunt
body: If this isn't possible out of the box, can someone from Atlassian please say so at least?

comments: author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi, I have converted my "comment" to an Answer, could you please mark that as accepted? Thanks!


Tags: colour

permission

theme
Decisions Blueprint - Not available
Asked by Trevor Hunt:

I see the Confluence Blueprints for Business Teams Pack in the Add-ons and when I look at the detail I see the Decisions blueprint, but the Decisions Blueprint isn't showing up when I try to create a new page.

Any ideas? We're currently running version 5.1-OD-13 of Confluence.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi there,

The Decisions Blueprint has not been launched for standalone applications yet, please monitor the Atlassian website for the release announcement. I have checked that it is available in a 5.2-OD-3 OnDemand instance.

edit: It should be officially out next week.

comments: author: Trevor Hunt
body: When you say, "I have checked that it is available in a 5.2-OD-3 OnDemand instance," does that mean I won't be able to just do a simple update from the UPM to get it once available?


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi,

Regarding the following question:
> does that mean I won't be able to just do a simple update from the UPM to get it once available?

Not really, any component that is enabled through a plugin can be updated using UPM as long as it is compatible with the current version.


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi,

Regarding the following question:
> does that mean I won't be able to just do a simple update from the UPM to get it once available?

Not really, any component that is enabled through a plugin can be updated using UPM as long as it is compatible with the current version.


author: Boris Berenberg
body: Hello,

Please take a look at: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Working+with+Blueprints#WorkingwithBlueprints-Disablingablueprint> and verify that this has not been disabled at a Global or Space level.

Cheers,  
Boris


Tags: blueprint

version
PDF CSS - cannot change TOC font color
Asked by Sarah Hosking:

I'm following the doc instructions for "Adding a Dynamic Title to the Title Page". It works well.  
`/* Move and style this TOC item */`  
`.toclvl``0`  
`{`  
`position``:``absolute``;`  
`top``:``250px``;`  
`font-size``: ``42px``;`  
`font-weight``: ``bold``;`  
`margin``: ``72px` `0` `4px` `0``;`  
`text-align``:``center``;`  
`}`

I've been able to change these values, plus add others like font-family etc...

However, when I try to specify a different color by adding

color:#fff;

to this list, it doesn't do anything. Why????

This ONLY happens in the TOC. I'm able to change colors on the h1, h2, etc..

Help!


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: I don't fully understand the description at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Advanced+PDF+Export+Customisations#AdvancedPDFExportCustomisations-AddingaDynamicTitletotheTitlePage>

But I think if you want to change the colour of the .toclvl0 item you should use

```
div.toclvl0 a {color: pink;    }
```

Better don't try with "color:#fff;" because that will be white and white text on a white background will be hard to recognize ;-)


author: Steffen Heller
body: Take a look at the [confluencedefaultpdf.css.](http://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/190480945/confluencedefaultpdf.css?version=1&modificationDate=1243580667083)That is the standard css that you want to change in part.

Everything toc related starts with the same word. I think "div.toc" should cover the whole toc, "div.toclvl0" and so on are the different headline levels and sometimes it is necessary to change the format of hyperlinks with "div.toc a" or "div.toclvl0 a".

If you want to hide or show parts play around with "color: white;" or "display: none;".


author: Sarah Hosking
body: Thanks so much, that worked!

Oh, and btw - I had the #fff for colour b/c I had been also looking for a way to hide the TOC so ONLY the toclvl0 would appear on the cover page as the PDF title. If you know a more correct way to do this, I'm all ears.

thanks again!


Tags: confluence-administration

css

pdf
pagetree macro results are wrong in Confluence 5.1.4
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

I'm using the Documentation theme, modified to use a custom pagetree macro as described here:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21300/how-to-expand-page-tree-in-confluence-4-0-documentation-theme>

The macro is:

{pagetree:root=documentation library\|startDepth=1\|expandCollapseAll=true}

This works fine, except that "Expand all Collapse all" at the top of the tree is so far to the left that the E is cut off:

![](../../upfiles/pagetree_problem.png)


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: I can reproduce this in 5.1.3. This is a valid bug and I have created a bug report here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29949>

Please refer to the bug report for the workaround.

Cheers,

Amalia

comments: author: Robert Lauriston
body: The workaround is to add this to the space stylesheet:

```
#splitter-sidebar .plugin_pagetree {margin-left: 0px !important;}
```

It looks better with a higher value than 0px.


Tags: page-tree
How can I import a legacy space into confluence on demand?
Asked by Hendrik Sommerfeldt:

The Export has the creation date Jan 2011.

#Thu Jan 27 03:39:16 CET 2011  
exportType=all  
buildNumber=2036  
backupAttachments=true

I tried to download the trials (DMG for Mac) needed for the upgrade path but they fail to download with a 404 error.


Answers:
author: MJ
body: Based on the information above, you have a long migration path ahead of you before you can create a backup which is usable to import into Confluence Ondemand.  
First you will need to import your data into a version 3.5 of Confluence.  
Then you need to upgrade this instance to version 4.3  
The 4.3 version in turn needs to get upgraded to version 5.2   
In the 5.2 version you can create a backup which can get imported into an OnDemand instance.

Some details on upgrading Confluence can be found [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence)

comments: author: Hendrik Sommerfeldt
body: O Dear - and how to I get the versions? Can I upgrade the DMG Mac version just like a "regular" Linux Server version? As I said, the Mac Downloads seem broken.


author: Jeff Curry
body: <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives>


author: Hendrik Sommerfeldt
body: does this help?

#Thu Jan 27 03:39:16 CET 2011  
exportType=all  
buildNumber=2036  
backupAttachments=true


author: MJ
body: If you can determin from the backup itself in which version it has been created, it might be easier to provide you with an answer on which path to take to make your Confluence data ready for importing to an OnDemand instance.

comments: author: Hendrik Sommerfeldt
body: I just edited my post build is 2036 if that helps


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to restrict access for certain users to the people directory?
Asked by Bolder Thinking Admin:

Is it possible to restrict access for certain users to the people directory? If so, how do I do this?


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: No, it's only possible to hide the People Directory entirely. If you would like to do this, please raise a [Support case](https://support.atlassian.com) requesting it.

There is an open feature request for more control over the People Directory at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7837>.


author: Bryan
body: I've been researching this issue recently and came across an article on how to do it via editing the Atlassian code in a server instance. It's obviously not for the faint of heart, but will get the job done.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-hide-the-people-directory-from-a-confluence-group-720640250.html>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to automatically add horizontal rule under h1 and h2
Asked by Karie Kelly:

In the latest Confluence upgrade, Atlassian chose to change their h1 and h2 styles such that a horizontal rule no longer automatically appears under them when chosen.

We have this as part of our content user guide and, although there is a workaround to manually add this each time, we want these headings to always have this (the way Atlassian used to do it). Is there anything that we can do in our stylesheet to accomplish this?

Irritating when Atlassian removes features without communicating.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Karie, the original definition was the following:

```
h1, h2,.wiki-content h2{border-bottom: 1px solid #919699 ?;    padding-bottom: 1px;}
```

However, some elements have changed(in Connie 5.1.3), so we need to insert the attributes in a different path to make them work properly.

comments: author: Hector Ojeda
body: like where?


author: Karie Kelly
body: I can go into the Custom CSS and add something like this:

1. .wiki-content h1, h2 {
2. border-bottom: 2px solid #CCCCCC
3. }   

But, does anyone know what the original definition was for h1 and h2 so that I can put it back the way it was?