youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
confluence rest api difference between cloud and server
Asked by aturch:

Is there any difference between Confluence Server and Cloud REST Api?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: They may be slightly different, but not by much. Since Confluence Cloud is always "up-to-date", you can always be sure that it is running the latest version of the Confluence API.

For Server, it might be slightly different depending on the version of Confluence you have installed (although it should be mostly the same especially for recent versions like 6.0). You can go here and choose your version of Confluence to see the REST API documentation for a specific version:

<https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/REST/>


Tags: cloud

confluence-administration

confluence-cloud

confluence-server
Nutzer - Suche im Confluence
Asked by Enrico Peter:

Hi,

kann man im Confluence die Suche nach Nutzern deaktivieren ? Ggf. vielleicht sogar nur f?r Nutzergruppen ?

Gru?, Enrico


Answers:
author: Marcel Woschek
body: Wenn ich dich richtig verstehe k?nnte dir das helfen:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-restrict-users-from-accessing-people-directory-or-search-users-from-quick-search-688883545.html>


Tags: confluence-administration
Wiki file import size
Asked by Lokesh:

Hello,

I need to know what is the size limit for import(Word file) the file to confluence, can i increase it. If yes can i get the steps for the same.


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: The import size limit for attachments is set to 10mb by default. So you can't import Word documents that are larger than 10mb (you'll get a "you are not permitted to perform this operation" message).

To increase this limit go to Confluence Admin \> General Configuration \> Attachment Settings.


Tags: confluence-administration
how do I re-enable a user in confluence?
Asked by Stacey Sundarrajan:

I need to re-enable a user in Confluence. We use LDAP and I have his permissions restored in Jira. We are hosting our own instance.

I can't find any flag in user management that I can change to re-enable him.

Can anyone assist?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: If you **deleted** the user in User Management then you'll have to create a brand new account for him.

If you **deactivated** him, search for him in User Management with Inactive Users switched on (Inactive Users is in the dropdown next to the search box in User Management). There will be an **Activate** option on the right hand side.

(Caveat: This is how you normally reactivate a user. I don't know if LDAP integration will affect that.)


Tags: confluence-administration
Search and Replace by RumpelCoders - Replace Page Properties
Asked by Lana Wright:

Is it possible to do a bulk search and replace to search for a string, and replace it with a Page Properties macro containing a table?


Answers:
author: Lukas Knoch -Rumpelcoders-
body: Hi, yes, this is possible. You have to extract the page properties macro's storage format and use it as replace string. Feel free to contact us if anything is unclear. Best, Lukas


Tags: confluence-administration
How to add more spaces to this list on the Announcer For Confluence add-on?
Asked by Jeremy Price:

I'm in the process of setting up this plugin and when i go to advanced options to select the spaces that I want this information to show on it only gives me 3 options which isn't what I want. When I go to the groups list however it shows all of my groups that I have in JIRA and I just want to see how I can add all my spaces to this list as well.

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[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-add-more-spaces-to-this-list-on-the-Announcer-For/qaq-p/138755?attachment-id=4619){#link_11862640f006f0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/23005/1/Screen%20Shot%202016-11-08%20at%201.39.59%20PM.png){#display_11862640f006f0_0}


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: Hi Jeremy,

There are a couple of reasons why you might not be seeing all of the spaces. Can you check to see if the addon specific user (every Connect addon) would have the browse permission for one of the missing spaces? If not, could you add it?

Otherwise, can you drop us an email at [support@wittified.com](mailto:support@wittified.com) and we can help you out (since we'll probably have to ask more instance specific questions).

comments: author: Jeremy Price
body: That was the issue on my side, I didn't have the Announcer add-on with the correct browse permissions. I appreciate the help.


Tags: announcement-banner

cloud

confluence-cloud
build configuration style files with fields?
Asked by Ed Vasek:

Hello,

Is there anyway to build configuration style files using confluence to build out a form to fill in fields and it dumps out a config that you can copy/paste into a config file on a server?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Not natively, but any of the form-building add-ons should do it (pretty sure I could do it with ConfiForms).
will be supported ToolTip on clould
Asked by R?bert Schill:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.m20tech.tooltips/server/support>


Answers:
author: Michael Kalnicki _M20_
body: Hi Robert, see the answer posted to this question: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/37056399>


Tags: addon-com.m20tech.tooltips

cloud

confluence-cloud
convert page to template
Asked by Tim Cass:


Answers:
author: Jennifer Magoon
body: can you share the answer? I too am interested. Can I convert a page to a template, or do I need to create the template first?


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi,

We did add the functionality to create a PTC Template (template / blueprint) to our Add-on Page Tree Creator. Check it out under <https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PPTCDOC/Using+the+PTC+from+Tools+Menu+4.0>

Give it a try: [Marketplace Link](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)

Regards,  
Stephan


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Jennifer,

No, you can't convert a page to a template. But you can create a template and copy the contents of your page into the template.

comments: author: Masco
body: :( :( :( :( :( :(


author: Jennifer Magoon
body: Thank you!


author: Tim Cass
body: I found this question <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/47523>

and related feature request <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23644>


author: Jennifer Magoon
body: darn... thank you.


author: Tim Cass
body: Sorry, intended as a search not a question. I have the answer thanks.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Are you asking if it's possible to convert a page to a template?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
can i use jira password to login and test confluence trial version
Asked by Daniela Rebic:


Answers:
author: Alexander Pampushko
body: Because you need set user-directory in Confluence

See "Connecting to Crowd or JIRA for User Management"

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-user-directories-229838212.html>


author: Daniela Rebic
body: I have an account with Jira. I downloaded the free trial Confluence version. Tried logging in to Confluence with JIRA login info but can't access it. Why not?
confluence anonymous access edit issue
Asked by Sandeep Warrier:

When I am trying to edit anonymous access of a space in confluence under space permission, anonymous access section remains uneditable whereas remaining individual user access and group access section changes into edit mode.


Answers:
author: chucktalk
body: Hi Sandeep,

Have you checked the Global permissions for Anonymous users in the application, and have you checked that the file system permissions are correct for the Confluence user in the server?

Please open a support ticket as well, so that our team can assist you sir.

Sincerely,

Chuck


Tags: confluence-administration
Can our Blog be displayed on another web page like a Twitter feed?
Asked by Admin2:

In order to increase the number of people reading our Blog posts and so being aware of changes in policy, I wondered if it is possible to "send" our Blog entries to a page on our organisation's intranet. Unfortunately, our antiquated intranet cannot "call" the contents of the Blog to it and there is no prospect of this being upgraded in the near future. However, we have succeeded in displaying our organisation's Twitter feed on our intranet home page ... so we wondered if the same effect could be achieved with our Blog being "fed" to the same page.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Try using an iFrame.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I change the domain in atlassian cloud?
Asked by Jukka-Pekka K??ri?inen (TB):

How can I change the first part of the URL (domain?) in Atlassian SaaS hosted Confluence? Is it possible from some setting or configuration?

For example **nnn-nnn** .atlassian.net -\> **abc-def**.atlassian.net?

Thank you!

J-P


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: For Cloud, you can't change it. Atlassian won't do it for you.

You have to get another Cloud system set up and then migrate over to it - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/changing-the-cloud-instance-url-address-or-migrating-to-a-new-cloud-instance-691011835.html>


author: Rob Woodgate
body: You're talking about changing the server base URL, and yes it can be done - see [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-the-server-base-url-148592.html) for instructions for a hosted instance. As you're a Cloud customer, Atlassian will have to do it for you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence vs. JIRA licence
Asked by Marek Vejrosta:

Hi, currently we use JIRA for 100 users. We want to start using Confluence, but only for 50 users. It is possible to have for both products difference number of licenses?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Yes. You're billed separately for JIRA and Confluence, so you can be on different licensing tiers for each product.


author: Ross Lindell _Information Officer Pte Ltd_
body: JIRA and Confluence are separate. To expand a bit:

100 User JIRA and 50 User Confluence is OK.

Marketplace Addons, like Gliffy need to match the number of Users. Gliffy for JIRA would need to be 50 User, or Gliffy for Confluence would need to match at 100 Users.

Finally, other products like JIRA Service Desk are Agent based, which means designated users are 'Agents' and you only need licenses for that number users (usually a subset of all users).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Like button is not visible for me
Asked by Patrik Svennerstam:

Hi,

The "Like" button in the bottom of all confluence pages is not visible for me.

I've tried Chrome and FF. I'm a Confluence-administrator but that should not disable the button I hope?

Cheers

Patrik


Answers:
author: Patrik Svennerstam
body: Problem resolved by a Confluence upgrade!

comments: author: Rob Woodgate
body: :smile:


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Has somebody disabled the **Confluence Like** plugin in the **Manage add-ons** page? (The notes on enabling and disabling plugins are [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Disabling+and+enabling+add-ons) if you need them.)

comments: author: Patrik Svennerstam
body: Hi Rob,

No its on and work for "all" others. So far its just me that can't see the like button/thumb.

Regards

Patrik


author: Rob Woodgate
body: You won't have the ability to like things if you're just an administrator and not a user. Are you a member of the confluence-users groups, or any other user groups?


author: Rob Woodgate
body: (And you can't like content you've created, which you probably realise, but just in case....)


author: Patrik Svennerstam
body: I added myself to the default confluence-users group just to be sure, but no difference unf...
Confluence "recently updated" macro shows links to restricted material
Asked by Sihan Goi:

Hi,

I have a Confluence space that is not restricted, but some pages within the space that are restricted. Under "Recently updated", users who do not have permission to view those restricted pages can still see their links, but access is denied when they try to click on them. How do I have it such that the links do not appear for these users at all?


Answers:
author: Rob Woodgate
body: Simple answer: You don't.

In 2007, this <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7772> was raised, which is the same as your issue, and the Support person said "*the recently-updated macro and dashboard component show different lists to different users, depending on their permissions*"

The ticket was resolved as Support couldn't reproduce the issue.

But in 2012 this <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27241> was raised, requesting the ability to restrict what people saw in the Recently Updated macro based on their permission level, and the response from the Support person was "*While I can see how this feature would be useful, we have no plans to implement it in the foreseeable future.*"

So it looks like the Recently Updated macro ***used*** to restrict what users saw, based on permissions, but ***now***it doesn't. It's odd that Atlassian would take away sensible functionality like that, but that's what they've done.


Tags: confluence-administration
What does "Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in your request"
Asked by Greg Della-Croce:

I received an error report from a user with the following problem:
> *When I hit save (This has happened 4 times now), I get this message: "Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page."*   
>
> *It also wipes out the name of the page.*

The user is a registered user of the Confluence wiki. When they cancel the message and reenter the page name they get the following error
> *Sorry, your changes cannot be merged automatically*   
> *Anonymous has saved changes to this page and your changes cannot be merged with theirs. You can overwrite, cancel or review their changes and continue editing the page below.*   
> *Content in green will be added Content in red will be removed Content in blue will have its formatting changed*   
>
> *None of the content is ever highlighted.*   
>
> *I hit overwrite and finally have the page SAVED!*

I do not have any other users reporting this problem. So I am a little confused as to where to start looking for an answer. Can someone please give me an idea of what may be going on here?

Greg


Answers:
author: Greg Della-Croce
body: Thank Rob, I will give those ideas a try. Seem strange that she is able to update the page after she says "override". But I see what you mean about not signed in Confluence ID her as Anonymous. It is really strange since everyone is required to log in to get into Confluence. I wonder if SSO has anything to do with that.

comments: author: Rob Woodgate
body: It's definitely possible. But it never fails to surprise me how many times a fresh, clean browser fixes things, even when I'm *convinced* that's not the problem. Can you let us know if that solves the problem?


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Hi Greg,

It looks as if Confluence doesn't think that your user is logged in. Try the usual things - clearing the browser cache, running the browser with all browser plugins turned off, using a different browser, etc - and see if that makes a difference.

If none of that works, do you have collaborative editing turned on? That's not got every single bug ironed out yet, so try turning it off and see if that stops the problems.

If none of that works then, unless someone else has any suggestions, put a ticket into [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) and ask them to investigate.


Tags: confluence-administration
Show a specific page version of a page/attachment
Asked by Gaurav Tapadkar:

We are looking for showing an old version of the page/attachment on the current version. Is there any macro or code we can use for this?

There is a "Page information" macro which provides this feature but it shows all the previous versions of the page and not a specific one.

We also found a page which described below syntax but it is not longer working.

{pageinclude:page=\<page name\> \|version=v.18\|space=\<space name}

Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Radek Janata
body: This article is related to showing historical page versions, please check my answer there:  
<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-include-a-specific-version-of-a-page/qaq-p/334516#M167995>

As for attachments, you refer to attachment's version in the URL, e.g.:

https://confluence/download/attachments/12345678/filename.png?**version=1**\&amp;modificationDate=1504598704000\&amp;api=v2


author: Milo Test
body: The only thing I was able to do was add a link to an older version:

https://BaseURL//wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=12345678\&pageVersion=18

So you can use the HTML macro to add a redirect to a page that takes the user to the version you want.

Other than that, the markup for the Include Page macro is now:

{include:SPACEID(optional):Page name}
I/O error writing PNG file
Asked by Alexandr Zhuk:

com.atlassian.confluence.macro.MacroExecutionException: javax.imageio.IIOException: I/O error writing PNG file

What is problem?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The problem is that Confluence doesn't have the access it needs to a file - permissions or the file not being there.


Tags: confluence-administration
java.io.IOException No space left on device
Asked by Nick Dring:

Hi

In Confluence daily log email I got this error.

How do I check the disk space? I can only see the VM memory in the system info.


Answers:
author: Pavel Potcheptsov
body: In Linux:

```
# df -h
```

Will show you totals.

```
# du -sch /*
```

Will show you totals per directory.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to log into the server on the command line or use monitoring or access tools. You'll need to do that to free up space anyway.


Tags: confluence-administration
Navigation Sidebar displays content cascaded
Asked by Tom Knipphals:

The content of the navigation sidebar is displayed cascaded.

I am using a Windows 7, newest Chrome web browser without any plugins.

image2016-11-7 9:35:55.png

I already wiped all browser data, without any success. Also tried with Internet Explorer who displayed the side bar correctly. Colleagues of mine have no issues with the same machine set up.

I thank you and wish a nice week!

Bye

Tom

@Update

The problem was the zoom of the site. It seems that everything else than 100% zoom destroys the sidebar navigation display.

This is a bug in my opinion.

Thanks Rob for your suggestions.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Navigation-Sidebar-displays-content-cascaded/qaq-p/77960?attachment-id=8665){#link_118628e773008b}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/13147/1/image2016-11-7%209%3A35%3A55.png){#display_118628e773008b_0}


Answers:
author: Kate Peterson
body: Erasing answer as I meant to reply not "answer"


author: Rob Woodgate
body: It looks like someone has changed the Sidebar navigation from **Page tree** to **Child pages**.

comments: author: Tom Knipphals
body: Where can I change this option? I looked in several menus but could not find it.


author: Rob Woodgate
body: In the bottom left of the sidebar there's a **Space tools** option.

Click on that and select **Configure sidebar**.

You'll see radio buttons marked**Child pages** and **Page tree**.

If**Child pages** is selected change it to **Page tree**.

Click **Done** and - hopefully - that'll solve the problem....


author: Rob Woodgate
body: Side note: If you don't have the **Configure sidebar** option then you'll need to ask a space administrator to do this for you.


author: Kate Peterson
body: One of our users is seeing the same issue (or what seems to be the same issue). It doesn't seem to be a Configure Sidebar issue. Wouldn't all users see the problem if someone changed the sidebar configuration?

The sidebar is cascaded only for one issue and it does this on both Chrome and Edge (haven't tried anything else yet).
Grouping attachments in Confluence
Asked by Geoff:

Hi

We are currently using Confluence 5.10.4 and I would like to find a way to group attachments. At the moment we upload attachments to a page and then use the 'Attachments' macro to display the list of documents. This works well but I would like to find a way to group attachments to make it easier to identify documents by type. e.g. Requirements, Specification, UI, API, Archived, etc.

I thought about using the label but you can't group or sort by the label field.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

Regards

Geoff


Answers:
author: Tim Eddelb?ttel
body: Hello Geoff,

you can put a label to every attachment and restict the attachments macro to the specific label

Regards,  
Tim


author: Vasiliy Zverev
body: You could try to store document type into file name and with attachment macro filter it with regurar expression.

comments: author: Milo Test
body: This is how I've done it at a couple of companies; works great.


author: Geoff
body: Thanks for the suggestions. The using labels will be the best for us since we don't want to change the files names.
Why personal spaces don't have css options?
Asked by ??????? ????????:

We are on server. I need to edit css for custom page / or for space, that i created. But only root admin have tab "stylesheet" at look and feel part. Why ?   
P.S. root admin take me all permission at this space. But i am not an a root admin


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Root admin is not an official designation.

Admin levels:

* System Administrator --- Full control
* Site Administrator --- Control of an instance
* Space Administrator --- Control of a space

If you can create a space, you are made the space administrator and have access to the Look and Feel sections.

If you just have permissions to create a page in a space, you might not have space permission, and therefore, won't be able to apply a custom stylesheet.


Tags: confluence-administration
Importing from Word
Asked by Holly Abrams:

Can you import from Word while using the trial version?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Yes

comments: author: Holly Abrams
body: Thanks for the one word response Milo! I actually found the import menu options...they're kind of hidden off to the right.

I was able to import my project and will present Confluence to upper management later this week to decide on our content management solutions. Is it possible to get an extension to the 7 day trial?

Also, how would you rate your customer service?


author: Rob Woodgate
body: (I'm not answering for Milo, but if you're looking for anecdata) Atlassian's customer service has been excellent every time I've needed it. Quick, knowledgeable, friendly, probably the best tech support I've experienced.


author: Milo Test
body: Customer service is pretty good, but keep in mind that first and second level support is email only, and only if the issue can't be solved by email will it potentially go to phone support, though sometimes level three support is also email.

And while they are usually very quick to answer, sometimes you have to hit the Escalate button, which is a bit of a misnomer as it doesn't send the ticket to the next support level, but merely flags it so that support gets back to you sooner.

All that said, any issue I've had, and some were pretty extreme (and sometimes self inflicted), they've always managed to solve.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How does pricing work for Add-ons work?
Asked by Michael Dotson:

If i sign up for a (25 Users @$80):

* Is that Monthly Billing or Yearly Billing?
* Is that a Net Total or the Total Per User?

\*Basically, what is 25 users @$80 going to cost me?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Net total/month (you will be charged $80 every month).