youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
copy a blueprint
Asked by Marla Landolt:


Answers:
author: Phill Fox
body: Hi @Marla Landolt

To edit a blueprint please refer to the instructions at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/working-with-blueprints-658736938.html>

To create a new blueprint (including amending existing ones) see <https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-blueprints>

If these do not help please provide more detail on what you are trying to achieve so that the community can assist you.

Phill


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi Maria,

Our Add-on Page Tree Creator works a bit different than the Confluence blueprints / templates. The PTC-templates are based on normal confluence pages and therefore creating a PTC-template is as simple as creating a Confluence page. Of course you could start creating your PTC-template based on an existing Confluence page.

Try our [**Live Examples**](https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PEPSMarktExample/Marketplace+Examples) (no registration needed).

**[Marketplace link: Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)**.

Regards,  
Stephan


Tags: confluence-administration
Change blueprint
Asked by Thorsten Hoppart:

Hi, is it possible to change the blueprint of a site which is already created?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: A blueprint helps you build a page or space initially, but it's not structural.

It's like a recipe - you can use it over and over to make cakes. But if you add more chocolate to the blueprint, it has no way of going back to add chocolate to all the cakes you made before.

comments: author: Thorsten Hoppart
body: Thank you, unfortunately not the answer I'd like to hear but if so I've got to search for another solution....


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What elements of a page are you trying to change globally?


author: Thorsten Hoppart
body: We used a theme for our knowledge base with some additional functions implemented by macros. Now we had an upgrade of our basic user licence to 250 and the additional users for the theme are to expensive. So we try to build in the needed functions in a blueprint like an additional search which is limited, rate macro...  
If I deactivate the theme and apply a standard theme I need a way to bring all this additional functions to the existing pages and it would be very simple if it would be possible to realize it by changing the blueprint of a site.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, I'm afraid there's not a lot to do there, the macros have been used as content, rather than in the structural stuff, and the nature of content is that it can't be mass-updated easily

There's three basic approaches I would think of. A bit of analysis on each macro (including a search, as it does let you at least say macro:x) you need to drop will tell you which approach is better for it, and then:

Option 1 - the easy, but very ugly one - leave it. Ask your users to edit and update pages whenever they encounter it. Probably most suitable for complex macros that have not been used a lot.

Option 2 - the hard ugly one - get the list of places its used and write a script that can pull each page and delete or replace the macro

Option 3 - the sneaky one - turn off the add-on that provides the macro and then write a user macro with the same name and parameters. At a minimum you can make it put something on pages with "please replace me", which is better than "broken macro: x", but you may be able to replicate some of the functionality, or even call other macros that can do something similar (the user macro acting as a translating wrapper)


Tags: blueprint

confluence-administration
How do I give space permission to a user to create attachement?
Asked by Samantha Parsons:

I've trying to give someone the ability to move an attachment to another page.

So I read the official documentation which says that you need to edit the attachments properties in order to move it and for that you need 'create attachement' permission. But when I look at the permissions there is no 'Create attachment' permission to give!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html>

To save a click though, it says "add" permission covers adding, editing and attaching.

comments: author: Samantha Parsons
body: Hi Nic

In these instructions (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/moving-an-attachment-658737041.html>) it says that you click on 'properties' next to the attachement. But I don't have the option of properties next to our attachements or at least we can't see one. At the top of this article your see that it says that in order to do this you have to have the space permissions set to <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/space-permissions-overview-658737073.html> I check and we have all those permissions and yet we still can't see a properties link next to the attachements.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Are you on Confluence 5.6?
assignment of issues
Asked by Bernd Broksch:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Getting Help and Support](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=740098452)*

I can only assign uses to myself. Issues cannot be assigned to project member.


Answers:
author: Rebecca M.
body: Hi Bernd,

Using "@BerndBroksch" assigns the task to you. To assign it to another person, use "@personname".

Hope this helps!


author: Bernd Broksch
body: Hi Nic,

I just saw that my answer from last week didn't been stored. However, when I am editing a page which runs "task macro" I am creating tasks as described. works fine,but when using @ @Bernd Broksch my name is selectable only.

Hope this helps

cheers

Bernd

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That sounds like you don't have the ability to see other users.


author: Bernd Broksch
body: I am using the German version and I may haven't translated the term "Aufgabe" correctly. I am talking about confluence. A better translation may be: activity (this can be created when edtiting a page runing the corresponding macro.)

hope this helps?

PS: JIRA is working fine.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation. I'd call them "tasks" as that's what we get when we're using the English language setup. Atlassian tend to use different words in their systems even when they're often similar concepts (Confluence has spaces, JIRA has projects - they're both ways to logically group up objects so they have the same configuration and purposes). It's often helpful, but also breaks translations annoyingly.  

Could you explain how you're trying to assign the tasks?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: As you say "issues", I assume you mean JIRA, rather than Confluence.

If so, take a look at the permission scheme for the project. What does the line "assignable user" say?


Tags: assign

cloud

jira
Space links broken in Space Directory
Asked by JordanB:

I just reinstalled confluence. The confluence before my current installation was completely blank. When I click on Spaces -\> Space Directory and then select a space from that view, it brings me an unable to connect to localhost:8090, but if I switch localhost:8090 with the address (example 10.127.102.60:8090) it goes to the space just fine. Once I have visited the space like this, if I hover over spaces then I see the space in "Recent Spaces" and from there the link works.

I have tried restarting confluence via the suggestion of another thread I found via google, but that did not help.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, and thank you in advanced


Answers:
author: Heider Garcia
body: Were you able to address this? I am having a similar problem with the links in my space directory, they point at localhost. If I edit the address and replace it with my actual hostname they work fine, but I don't know how to tell confluence to stop using localhost.


Tags: confluence-administration
add on user
Asked by Stephen Schalkhauser:

Do Add-on "system" users and "system admin" count against our billing?


Answers:
author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: No. Neither add-on users or the sysadmin user count against your billing usage limits. If you find that they are then that is a serious bug and you should report it to support.atlassian.com immediately.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I set overall site restrictions on default confluence-users group permissions?
Asked by Bar T:

When toggling the allow Confluence access, the user is put into the group "confluence-users". At first this is fine, I can't see other spaces and such when I hit the URL.

After I click on Create button \> I am able to see ALL spaces now and data in these confluence pages.

What's the best way to restrict users/groups to certain spaces only? They should be able to edit, create within those spaces only.

It looks like "confluence-users" is required for someone to be able to get into Confluence at all.


Answers:
author: cptBarbosa
body: Hi Barbara, I didn't fully understand your question, the group confluence-users is the standard group so they can access the application, other than that you have to create groups with special permissions or restrict it directly in the space, page etc...

I will leave this [page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/permissions-and-restrictions-724765432.html) as a reference.

Hope it helps. :smile:


author: Bar T
body: Yes, in the Cloud right now.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Are you using Confluence Cloud?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

permission

space
LiveSearch Macro - Confluence
Asked by Eric Zucker:

I am trying to add a LiveSearch Macro to a Child Page that will ONLY search documents from that specific Child Page.

I am unable to figure out the correct code to input in the "Spacekey" section to achieve this. So far I am only able to restrict the search to the Home page but not the specific child page that the search bar is located on.

In short, the live search is pulling documents from our entire CHOP Wiki and I would like to restrict the search to only the specific child page that it lives on.


Answers:
author: Benjamin Weinheimer-Erben _mgm-tp_
body: Hi Eric,

in fact you cannot restrict the LiveSearch on child pages. LiveSearch can be restricted only to whole spaces.

What you want to do can be done with the PagetreeSearch-Macro.

greetings  
Benjamin
Amazon Cloud search for JIRA and Confluence
Asked by Gaven Ray:

Has anyone set up Amazon Cloud Search to search both JIRA and Confluence?

As anyone here that has used Confluence knows the search in Confluence is not the greatest and while there are plugins that seem to make it better (though not much). We have a request to find a good search tool that crosses JIRA, Confluence, Salesforce, Zendesk, and others. I am most concerned with JIRA and confluence being an Atlassian Administrator.


Answers:
author: TomC
body: I'll be curious to see what search tool suggestions come in. Enterprise search tools that I have been aware of in the past have been so costly that we have not been able to justify moving forward. Perhaps something new is on the horizon.

I am curious to know what is lacking in the Confluence search that you/your team see as lacking? We have a space with over 6000 pages of terms and can find any page with a few keystrokes. If we are looking for any of our 50,000+ pages and know pertinent words in the title, bam, it shows up in the dropdown as we are typing, same for names of attachments.

When looking for keywords and terms buried in a document or page granted it could be better, but to be honest we don't get complaints. I think that's because its search tool works better than the search tools do in the legacy (server-based) software we have had for years.


Tags: jira
Variables in Confluence 5.9.10
Asked by Danish Mistry:

I'm creating a product specifications template and trying to insert a list variable into my form. I'm following the documentation, and can't seem to be able to add variables to my form.

There is no drop down to add a variable in the form, and when I prefix my field with $ it doesn't work either.

Are variables supported in this version of Confluence?


Answers:
author: Andrea Carl
body: When you are in a template, type $variable name - DO NOT HIT Enter, but instead select the text in the dropdown.

Then you can select the variable, and it will give you options to set dropdown values.


author: Danish Mistry
body: Thanks, I discovered this late last night, works exactly as mentioned. The problem that I had was around the permissions in the space which meant that I couldn't set up a space template. But all sorted out now.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I make tab based forms using confiforms in confluence?
Asked by Shubham Garg:

I want to make a form which consists of different tabs and each tab has different fields.

Is it possible using confiforms, If not what is the alternative?


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: ConfiForms supports custom designs and layouts for your forms, <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Form+with+custom+layout>

You can have it combined with some add-on like navitabs to have a tabbed view for your input form

comments: author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Also, some discussion on using tabs in forms - <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confiforms-Tabbed-View-in-Dialog-Mode/qaq-p/975906>


Tags: confiforms

tab
Is there a way to use a page properties key value (or some other variable value) to auto-populate a template's page title?
Asked by Barb Zivney:

Example...

Page Properties Macro Table:

| Project Name | Project XYZ |
| Kickoff Date |             |
|--------------|-------------|

Template to create project requirements, or project minutes, or etc, creates page titles based on the "Project Name" value:

Project XYZ - Minutes

Project XYZ - Requirements

If not off the page properties macro, is there some other variable that can be used to populate page names automatically?


Answers:
author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi Barb,

Our Add-on Page Tree Creator can do such things. Use a PTC-tag __Project Name__ in the template title and on the template page. Place a PTC Default Value macro in the page tree and you have this funktionality.

Try our [**Live Examples**](https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PEPSMarktExample/Marketplace+Examples) (no registration needed). Test Example *Create Project* and then create a *Meeting Minutes*. Check out the project leader name.

**[Marketplace link: Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)**.

Regards,  
Stephan
Is there a way to use suggested topics on the Ask a Question button?
Asked by Joe Lindsay:

When using the ask a question button you are presented with this pop up:

image2016-6-22 10:55:43.png

Is there a way that the topics box can generate suggestions?

So that the questions coming in are all notifying the correct people.

Thanks,

Joe  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-use-suggested-topics-on-the-Ask-a-Question/qaq-p/416367?attachment-id=9789){#link_1190745ce81601}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/70510/1/image2016-6-22%2010%3A55%3A43.png){#display_1190745ce81601_0}


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Hi Joe, There are some ways that Questions can help generate suggestions for topics:

1.) You can set specified topics as 'featured'. Do that in the Topics page (I believe you need admin rights to set those).

2.) Popular topics are auto-generated and displayed.

See examples of both of those in the below screenshot:

QuestionsAsk.jpg

Additionally, as your topics grow, topic suggestions come up as one types in the topics box. Sometimes similar topics are created by various people, so periodic 'gardening' by a person or team to rationalize topics can keep things organized somewhat. Questions obviously is a crowd-sourced thing so there is a bit of the herding cats aspect when it comes to topics creation when hundreds or thousands of people engage with it, but generally it works. *Featured topics* are a good consideration if you have a few topics du jour that you want to drive questions to, such as large ongoing projects that you want to invite questions on.

3. There are also 'suggestions as you type' in the topics box, once there are topics to pull from (as your Questions instance grows, this will naturally occur). The number of questions per topic - which you can see adjacent to the topic suggestions - can sometimes be a guide to the user as to which topic(s) to choose or not choose, especially if two or 'close'. In this case, I'd go with the top option with 10 questions vs the near 'sap-portal-training' with 0 questions which likely has fewer or no 'watchers'. (indeed, this screenshot suggests there are a few topics to investigate and perhaps delete, i.e. the topics with no questions).

QuestionsSuggest.jpg

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-use-suggested-topics-on-the-Ask-a-Question/qaq-p/416367?attachment-id=11188){#link_11907461debdf1}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/70511/1/QuestionsAsk.jpg){#display_11907461debdf1_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-use-suggested-topics-on-the-Ask-a-Question/qaq-p/416367?attachment-id=11189){#link_11907461debdf1_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/70511/2/QuestionsSuggest.jpg){#display_11907461debdf1_2}

comments: author: Joe Lindsay
body: Thanks for all the great information Tom!


Tags: questions-for-confluence
Macro to list all spaces created by a user
Asked by Romain Burgot:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Spaces List Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139375)*

I'd like to add on my personal page a macro to list all the spaces I have created

Any macro can achieve that without using labels or any other trick?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Because you are using Confluence Cloud, you are probably limited to the Content by User macro, which lists all the pages you created.

comments: author: Romain Burgot
body: Thanks for your answer but unfortunately it lists all content, not only the pages (which would have been already appreciated). The presence of attached files, for instance, makes it impossible to read.


Tags: cloud

space-list
Picking out first letter from page title
Asked by Martin James:

May sound like an unusual thing to do but is there a way to pick out the first letter from the page title with User Macros?

Example:

**Page Title:** *Text Document*

**Key (Result):** *T*


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: $content.title.substring (0,1)

Or to capitalize the letter,

$content.title.substring (0,1).toUpperCase()

comments: author: Martin James
body: Perfect thanks :smile:


Tags: user-macro
Where can we get detailed data security related documents?
Asked by BITS Trainees:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Confluence Security Advisory - 2015-01-21](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=702712783)*

Where can we get detailed data security related documents?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You're already in the right area, but you'll need to expand on what you mean by "detailed" to get more guidance


Tags: security
How to link to Confluence Pages from JIRA
Asked by Jim Johnson:

I'm a total newbie with both. A major use for Confluence will be to comment on application requirements and design documents that will be created in a variety of formats (Office, Open Office, PDF, etc).

I understand how to do the commenting in Confluence.

What I'm looking for is what are the various ways people link from JIRA pages to Confluence, and which ways are used most commonly.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Jim,

This page on [Atlassian App Links](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/APPLINKS/Link+Atlassian+applications+to+work+together) may be a good place to start. Basic info with links elsewhere and terminology. [This page from Atlassian](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/using-applinks-to-link-to-other-applications-802592232.html)documentation has a bit more practical detail. Finally, this blogpost, [Display JIRA Issues in Confluence: More Power, More Control](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/07/display-jira-issues-in-confluence-more-power-more-control/) has some great examples with images. Hope it helps.

comments: author: Jim Johnson
body: Thanks for the leads. I found what I was looking for here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/linking-issues-776997756.html>

"Creating a link to another issue on the same JIRA site" - the link page has an option to link to Confluence, and do a wildcard search for the Confluence page.


Tags: jira
Does Confluence support Microsoft SQL 2014 Always On Availability Groups?
Asked by CSULB ITS SSG:

Does Confluence support the use of Microsoft SQL 2014 Always On Availability Groups?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Confluence supports SQL 2014. As for "always on" I would tend to think that that should be transparent to Confluence as it is more and internal workings thing rather than having anything to do with DDL or DML.


Tags: confluence-administration
confluence cloud version export error
Asked by Ming Ho:

I am a space owner for a confluence cloud space. when doing an export of confluence space, i am getting an error at 99% complete:

"There was an error in the export. Please check your log files. :No WorkContext set"

has anybody encountered this before?


Answers:
author: Al Keeling
body: I get the same error for every space - ranging from 96% to 99% complete. Any new space without image attachments will pass. Add any image to any page of the new space or even add any image then delete it, then the same error is shown.


author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: That seems weird. You should raise an issue at support.atlassian.com if the problem persists.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
move space
Asked by Mark Timonera:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Create a Space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724764752)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: To where? Spaces are the top level container, so there's nowhere for them to actually go.

comments: author: Chris Rehberg
body: To another account. You can export as XML then import, but can you simply add a new user to an existing space, make that new user the owner, then remove all other users from the space so that it is effectively moved to the other account?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

documentation
Maybe you should add, to look at all add-ons or system add-ons
Asked by DMC Jira Admins:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [PDF Space Export is complete but download button does not appear](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=691013418)*

Maybe you should add, to look at all add-ons or system add-ons


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not sure that there's any question or information here. Could you explain?


author: DMC Jira Admins
body: In the explanation on the page it doesn't inform you to use the dropdown menu to look at all add ons or to open system add ons.

It would certainly be more clear. I know I was searching for where to find that : Confluence PDF Export Plugin


Tags: pdf