youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
The tools of Confluence move button disabled, how to settle the problem?
Asked by Willam Won:

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Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The move options gets disabled when you do not have edit rights on the page.

comments: author: Willam Won
body: But I am the administrator?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: So? That means you have admin rights. Not edit.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Sorry, hit return too quickly.As an admin, you will be able to check the permissions on the space and make sure you have edit for the page, and you'll be able to see any page restrictions that may stop you from editing as well.


author: Willam Won
body: thank you!


Tags: confluence-administration
sharepoint not coming in Find new Add-ons
Asked by Rodrigo Segovia:

When trying to find the Sharepoint add on in the market place the plug in is not shown


Answers:
author: Kay Brown
body: Go here: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.extra.sharepoint>

Scroll down and click the Download link.

Kay


Tags: confluence-administration
embed confluence page
Asked by Ian Wells:

How do embed a confluence page in another confluence page? I use the COnfluence Page Gadget and I dont have control of the height, only the width. I want it higher.


Answers:
author: Midori
body: If you are embedding a Confluence page in another Confluence page, why don't you use the [Include Page macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Include+Page+Macro)?

(You could have better control over the size using the [page layout](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Page+Layouts+and+Columns+and+Sections) features.)


author: Ian Wells
body: yes, that does it


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
My URL
Asked by Andy Aschenbrener:

Where in the heck can I find out what my confluence URL is?? I can't find it anywhere.

Thanks!  
Andy


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: In your my.atlassian account, you will have created one or more names for your Cloud installs. Go to \<name\>.atlassian.net and if your default is not Confluence, use the "hamburger" menu on the left to find it.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Attachments can be edited even when the page has restrictions on Editing
Asked by Devo:

I have restricted editing of a page. the function works when i try to use the Edit button.

but if i have attachments in the page, i can edit them. how do i overcome this?

Thanks,

Amiram Fuerst


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Amiram,

What is the Confluence version you are using?

Also send a screenshot of the page with the attachments so we can it looks on the UI.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.
Do you plan on releasing Glossary for cloud version?
Asked by Sebastien Brault:


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Sebastian,

There is no official plans for adding that [third party glossary plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/fr.spectrumgroupe.confluence.plugins.glossary) into Confluence Cloud, based on your feedback I created the following feature request:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-37580>

With the above you and any other user can that come to this post can vote up for the ticket and add it's thoughts to increase the relevance.  
Hope it helps.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.


author: Peter Eigenschink
body: Hi Sebastien,

There is a recently released [glossary add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/glossary/cloud/overview) for the cloud version of Confluence.

It is not completely identical to the glossary add-on for confluence server, but the core features of the add-ons are similar. Technical terms can be managed in a glossary per space and during reading a page they can automatically be looked up together with their definitions. When looking for a definition of a specific term you can also search across all glossaries.

Regards  
Peter Eigenschink


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there anyway to compare snippets to one another?
Asked by Gina Lafferty:

I have a file with two versions that we do not want to save to our repository. Is there anyway to compare them using the snippet reviews or as attachment files?


Answers:
author: Paulo Junior
body: Hi Gina,

Using 'diff' linux command won't help you?

diff file-1 file-2.

If you are using Windows, this might help you.

<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6877238/what-is-the-windows-equivalent-of-the-diff-command>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do i publish pages to people who dont have Confluence account at all?
Asked by Devo:

i would like to send pages \& attachments to some customers, but they don have any Confluence account.

Is there any way to do it, not by just sending emails with attachments?

Thanks,

Amiram Fuerst


Answers:
author: Martin Cleaver
body: Try Comala ShareIt plugin

(disclosure: I do a lot of work with Comalatech)

comments: author: Devo
body: I dont understand the answer. Using Shareit Plugin creates a link, but if i send it to a customer, he needs a Confluence account, oherwise he can not access the link. I have many customers, so each of hem needs a Confluence account?


author: Martin Cleaver
body: No, if you send a Comala ShareIt link to the customer they do not need to log in. <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.keinoby.confluence.plugins.share-attachments>


author: Devo
body: i use this plugin. Do i eed to click the "get Link" button, or can i directly click the e-mail button and select the customer? when i use direct access, the customer fails to access the link.do i need to do anything else?


author: Alok Singh
body: This question has already been answered here

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/208452>

comments: author: Devo
body: I use this plugin, but it does not work OK.The actions i do:1. Click Share it button.2. In the screen i get, i click the e-mail button, select a customer email address and send3. The customer gets an email with a link, but when he clicks on this links, it says URL not foundDo i miss any step?


Tags: confluence-administration
Button for creating pages cannot be forced under another page
Asked by Ray DR:

I have a tree with 3 sub pages. I want the home page to have a button to create a page under one of the sub pages but it only creates the new page under the parent page.  

A - Home  
1 - Sub  
2 - Sub  
3 - Sub  

I want the 3 buttons to live on A and each will tie to one of the sub pages.   
If a user clicks on the button that says 2-Sub I want the page they create to live there. Instead they live under A - Home.  

I have tried creating the buttons in the sub pages and showing them on the home page via the excerpt macro but that does not work.   

Is there a way I can do this?


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi @Ray DR

you can simply go to page "1 - Sub", create a sub page there, make a copy of the URL of the "New Page" and enter it as a link on page "A - Home".

The link must be something like "http://YOUR_URL/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=\~YOUR_SPACE\&fromPageId=NUMBER_OF_PARENTPAGE


author: Nelson Carranza
body: Hi Ray,

You can use the add-page macro from Linking Plugin, which is free.

[https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/LIN/add-page?desktop=true\&macroName=live-template](https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/LIN/add-page?desktop=true&macroName=live-template)

Regards

Nelson


Tags: blueprint

button

confluence-administration
How to create JIRA issues from Confluence when you have required custom fields?
Asked by Liz Heier:

I'm trying to create a new JIRA issue from Confluence 5.6.6 using the Insert JIRA Issue/Filter macro. The Create New Issue dialog allows me to select my JIRA instance, project and issue type correctly. I can see all the fields required (some of which are custom fields). When I try to submit the form, I get the following error for each custom field:

Field 'customfield_14071' cannot be set. It is not on the appropriate screen, or unknown.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hello Liz,

We have a few improvement tickets for that:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31867>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-39600>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32906>

Confluence only allows the **summary** field(globally).


author: Dave Collins
body: Same issue here. I have a custom field that is not an option in the bulk creation. So, it will error out. I can not find where to make the custom field show up in the create step in Confluence.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to list all inline comments in one page
Asked by Billy Wang:


Answers:
author: Andrii Tkachenko [BeastieHut]
body: Hello!

You can refer to <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1219786> plugin to form the table of comments (simple comments or inline (resolved/unresolved)) from current or other pages and descendents).

Thank you


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: A Cloud addon was recently released that would help with this:

[See All Unresolved Comments](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/see-all-unresolved-comments/cloud/overview)

Not only do you get a counter at the top to see how many unresolved inline comments are in a page, but you can also click to jump directly to the first comment. You can even search (run a report) to see all unresolved comments filtered by space and/or commenting user. For longer pages, there's also an overview report that shows just the headings and the commented text, so you can get a quick overview of what's on any particular page.
I'm using a simple page template. I want to import a word doc and have the created pages (split by heading) all use my template. Possible?
Asked by Phil Schwab:

My template contains no form macros. Just a simple header and footer style template. I want to import a word doc with a large list of nested headings (30 pages worth). The word doc would have no other content (i.e, just headings, sub headings, etc. and related heading styles). I want the Confluence pages, child pages, etc. that get created to all use the simple template.

Does a source doc other than word, such as excel, make the task characteristics any different?


Answers:
author: Andy J.
body: Hi Phil,

I want to share the findings from our support case in case anyone else is looking into a similar question. I did some more testing on this inquiry and it looks like importing using a pre-determined space template is not possible natively at the moment. The import will create a page with the content that is in the word document and not put it into a default/existing space template.

You may be able to get a similar functionality by adding content between the headings of the word document getting imported, so that the import includes this data as well as part of the page.

Andy Jean
label not displayed on kanban board
Asked by Kallol Modak:

I have added labels in my issue but when the issues are displayed on the kanban board labels are not displayed there

Please let me know if there is a configuration required for doing so


Answers:
author: Divya Balakrishnan
body: Still looking for this. How do i make the tsk label show up on my kanban board. I can see trhe epic label, but i'm looking for the "task label" that i set within the individual tasks/ subtask/bug etc.


author: Pablo Fernandez
body: Did you manage to do it? I'd really like this too. I'd like labels to be displayed the same way epics are.


Tags: confluence-administration
Community forum with Confluence cloud
Asked by Royal Home:

I was told that community forum is only available for Confluence server. Just wondering if there is a similar plugin or any way to get this working with Confluence cloud?

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.forums>


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm afraid not, there are no equivalents for Cloud, and no way to make that one work on Cloud either. (Yet, I'll ask the product manager if there's any chance of a "Connect" version)

I think the closest you can get is probably "Confluence Questions", which is not really a forum, although it has some similarities. (You're looking at it now, although this version does have a few tweaks)

comments: author: Royal Home
body: Thanks for your response. "Confluence Questions" only satisfies one of our requirement. But we are looking for hosting a discussion board which includes Q/A, Announcement, Discussion, Voting etc etc.

I was doing google and found following plugin. Any one using the discussion plugin and have any feedback/opinions/insight which can be shared.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/fr.spectrumgroupe.confluence.plugins.discussion>

Thanks


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Again, that's not available for Cloud.


author: Royal Home
body: Sorry, just realized. Thanks for the response.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I can never remember the full range of options on Cloud, but I remember some of them ;-)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Integrating Hosted HipChat and Confluence
Asked by Pritesh Davda:

We are integrating the server editions of HipChat with Confluence and Jira. While enabling HipChat, confluence redirect it to the cloud instance of HipChat.

I dont see any option to change the Url of the target HipChat server.

Has anyone encountered this issue? How to fix?


Answers:
author: David Simpson ? AppFusions ? v3
body: Hi @Pritesh Davda,

You *should* be able to integrate Confluence Server with HipChat Server. The screenshot below shows the configuration screen for JIRA \& HipChat:

35545854-4D39-40C1-B56B-918DE3184045.png

See more details in the comments on this page:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+HipChat+and+Confluence+together?focusedCommentId=722145650#comment-722145650>

By the way, update to the latest version of the Hipchat integration, and you'll see a different UI:

Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 16.48.39.png

The top one is the preinstalled version. The middle and bottom are the updated version.

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Integrating-Hosted-HipChat-and-Confluence/qaq-p/267950?attachment-id=4117){#link_11923bc26db45e}  
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author: Pritesh Davda
body: Hi David,

Thanks for the details you have shared. It was helpful and I was able to resolve the issue to the first part. After updating the plug-in, the prompt for HipChat server got enabled.

Unfortunately, after providing the HipChat url, confluence redirects to HipChat and a prompt was shown to accept installing the additional plug-ins. Following error message is shown on the Confluence page.

*"Error encountered creating your hipchat link*

*Something went wrong integrating Confluence and HipChat. We probably had trouble connecting to the HipChat server. Check that the connection between your server and HipChat is working correctly and try again.*

*Try uninstalling the existing integration from HipChat before trying again."*

The HipChat site (https enabled) is accessible from the browser as well as from the Confluence server (http only).

comments: author: hsuhailah
body: I believe you'll need to install HipChat Server certificate into Confluence keystore before the two servers can communicate with each other successfully. Do give that a try and then restart Confluence for the changes to pick up. You can refer here for details on how to install the certificate into the keystore: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+Over+SSL+or+HTTPS>


Tags: confluence-administration

hipchat

integration
How do I buy more Gliffy Licenses?
Asked by Lee McCarley:

We upgraded our Confluence license to 50 users, but we did not upgrade the Gliffy license yet. I do not see such a thing as a gliffy license, is it included in another package? We need to have the ability to use Gliffy for up to 50 users.


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Lee,

You can buy Gliffy licenses directly from Atlassian sales team or from Gliffy team. Just open a license request at Advocates project in support.atlassian.com for additional details on how to proceed.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
HipChat chats in to Confluence spaces
Asked by Matt Garcia:

Hello. Is it possible to get HipChat chats integrated into my Confluence space? For example, I want a particular HipChat room chats to post on the page within a Confluence space. Im running Confluence 5.2.3 (server) and have HipChat 3.2.1.


Answers:
author: Matt Garcia
body: Really all I want to do is have our team post a quick update or announcement (about 140 characters in length) via HipChat, which then also posts on our Confluence dashboard. Am I complicating things or is there an easier way to do this?


author: Timothy
body: Well.. You're meant to chat in the client not in Confluence. =\| All integrations I have seen is Atlassian XXX -\> Hipchat and not the other way round.

Though, the Hipchat's API is there for you to mess around with (<https://www.hipchat.com/docs/apiv2/addons>).
Does the Office Excel macro show all worksheets (tabs) in an Excel file? I'm not able to see any tabs.
Asked by Michael Bond:


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi Michael,

It only shows the worksheet you specify when you're attaching the Excel file.

If you don't specify, the first worksheet on your Excel file will be displayed by default.

Kind regards,

Guilherme Viana

Atlassian Support

comments: author: Michael Bond
body: ok thanks, maybe a future enhancement?
Is IP:Port/Database the only way to connect Confluence to a SQL DB, or is there a way to connect with a DNS entry Servername\InstanceName?
Asked by Chad Lane:


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Chad,

Both IP Address and DNS hostname work on database connection.

For a JDBC connector, you can use the following:  

|------------------------------------------------------|
| `jdbc:jtds:sqlserver:``//<server>:<port>/<database>` |

If MS SQL is clustered, use this format:  

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `jdbc:jtds:sqlserver:``//<server>:<port>/<database>;instance=<instance>` |

On this link you can find more details:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+for+SQL+Server>

Best regards,

Renato Rudnicki


Tags: confluence-administration
how do you add a click button?
Asked by Cheryl Burnham:


Answers:
author: roam_scott
body: I use a 1x1 table to simulate buttons.

![2018-03-13 10_26_17-Servers - Documentation - Confluence.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/17035iA03C4BA4F5118F87/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2018-03-13 10_26_17-Servers - Documentation - Confluence.png")

It's hard to believe there is no option in the link macro to make it look like a button, but there you have it.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Good point, I should have explained more. My apologies.

A button is an html element that gets drawn by your browser when it draws a page containing the right code. You have a list of **links** that you want to render as buttons. The standard way for a browser to render a link is with some text and some indicator (usually an underline) that is clickable. Confluence does this with any text you define as a link.

But it doesn't have anything to format them as a button instead of a link. This is where a "user macro" becomes useful - these are snippets of code you can add to Confluence that add macros without needing you to write addons. What you want to do is enter your link inside a "user macro" that does all that html rendering you need. You can't (easily) embed html into a Confluence page to do this work, and it's horrid for any editors when you do, but a user macro takes all that away.

I think your user macro should read something like

\<form method="link" action="$url"\>\<input type="submit" value="$text on button"/\>\</form\>

To expand on how to do that and how to get $url and $text-on-button in there see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Writing+User+Macros>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, that's not a "radio button", it's just a button. I'd write a short user macro that wraps "format me as a button" around a url to do that.


author: Cheryl Burnham
body: I have a list (of pages) that I have placed on our main page. I want to create a "radio button " for them so people can just click on it and it will take them to the page. Similar to the "Save" button below.

comments: author: Cheryl Burnham
body: I am not literate in this lingo, please explain how to "write a short user macro that wraps "format me as a button" around a url "


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: To what? You'll need to be more specific.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way of exporting a site map for a space with details of the pages (i.e. date of creation, update, etc)?
Asked by Dawn Barsley-Dale:

I need to review 1800 pages of content and want to start by being able to identify old or unused pages. Is there any way of being able to download a sitemap with page details on?


Answers:
author: Midori
body: [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving) displays you a report about old and unused pages, and the status computed from that, like the one below.

You can flexibly input your desired interval when a page becomes out-of-date or non-viewed, and there is lot of features to clean up the old and unused pages.

Make sure you [read the manual](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/).

page-status-browser.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-of-exporting-a-site-map-for-a-space-with-details/qaq-p/265804?attachment-id=8188){#link_11888035ebff26}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/44864/1/page-status-browser.png){#display_11888035ebff26_0}


author: Dawn Barsley-Dale
body: Is anybody out there?
disk storage space required for confluence 5.7
Asked by Shelly:

We are upgrading to confluence clustered version 5.7, soon. Currently, we are on 3.4.9 and have around 400+ wiki spaces that we are going to migrate. I need to decide about how much disk storage will be required by the upgraded version of confluence i.e. 5.7 on the application servers. I know, I should probably take help from the infrastructure team on this but, can anyone here please help me figure it out on my own? And, if we plan to switch to data center version then, how is it going to affect the disk storage requirement?


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi Shelly,

It's a bit difficult to determine how much space will be required, since this can't be only stipulated by the number of spaces/pages. The number of attachments also have a important influence on it. We can have an idea from Use Cases on the below page:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Server+Hardware+Requirements+Guide>

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Kind regards,

Luiz Maia  
Atlassian Support