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Convert Office Doc to Confluence Page
Asked by felipe_almeida:

How can I convert a Microsoft Word doc file to a Confluence page? There is an outdated documentation on that subject bellow and no alternative besides attaching or embbeding the file to a page.

<https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/import-content-into-confluence-cloud/>


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: [@felipe_almeida](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5587902) welcome to the Atlassian community

You can still import Word Documents and the links you shared is still relevant. On a newly created page in edit mode you can import a Word Document by doing the following:

![2024-09-09_11-58-00.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/346401iC1FE307A42771852/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2024-09-09_11-58-00.gif")

comments: author: felipe_almeida
body: Perfect, thank you.


author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: [@felipe_almeida](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5587902) I've never tried to import a Word doc to a Confluence page, but I have seen others mention that the easiest way can be to copy everything from Word (or just the parts you want) and paste them into Confluence.

If you do it in chunks, you can update formatting as you go or create child pages with some of the content, if desired.


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I am setting up a JIRA macro in Confluence comments option is not displayed
Asked by ew88:

I setup a JIRA macro in Confluence and setup what fields I want to display, one of which is the comments that have been added to the issue. Looks like that is not what is being displayed. Is there a way to get the comments field in the issue to display in my Jira macro?


Answers:
author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: [@ew88](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5124740) Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

I found a Jira ticket for this issue (<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-32764>), but then noticed that you are on Data Center, rather than Cloud.

There is an equivalent Server issue (<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-32764>), which I *think* also applies for Data Center, but it does not sound hopeful that this feature will appear.


Tags: confluence-data-center

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Using databases - views definition per page and size settings
Asked by AZOR1984:

Hello,

we have recently started using databases. This is amazing feature,. absolute lovely. However I have two questions on usage and limitations.

1) You create a database which is somehow special confluence page that works well, but when you want insert it into a page as embedded database window -\> I am pretty much fine with width and option to set width as wide as I want, how about **height** , that does not seems to be possible to set ? That makes it pretty much not useful as together with top page, bottom header etc it is about 30% of efficiency as page is mostly empty showing only a few rows - **can I hardcode / fix / set minimal height of embedded database part ?**   

2) Am I missing something in filters? - you can create a database and specify view with filters (btw amazing) However is it possible to embedded database into multiple confluence pages but have **everywhere different filters (but not have them everywhere)** For example: I have a database with tasks and would like to have a view for all opened tasks (a column tag) but then I would like to have separate pages where I am reading from the same database but would like to have a filter on project (another column tag) only. As of now I have the view definition everywhere. Which would not work if you would have lets say 10 reads from the database with 10 different filters and want to project them on 10 different pages but dont want to see another 9   

<br />

Thank you so much  


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello [@AZOR1984](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2003961),

Glad you're enjoying Confluence Databases! Thank you for sharing this feedback.

**Adjustable height**

We're investigating the possibility to customize the height of embedded databases in the feature request below:

* [CONFCLOUD-79091](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-79091) **Customizable Embed Height for Databases in Confluence**

You can help visibility by clicking **Vote for this issue**. That will also add you as a watcher, so you will be kept up-to-date on its progress. Feel free to add a comment to the request with your experience, which our product management team will be able to see.

**Specifying a filter in embed view**

If I understand you correctly, you want to link to a specific view in embed? You can use the link to the view which will show that view, as I have done below:

![Screenshot-2024-09-12 at 10.40.45.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/347043iB1229B3914D356C2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot-2024-09-12 at 10.40.45.png")![Screenshot-2024-09-12 at 10.40.52.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/347042i9B7583855A8CF4DF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot-2024-09-12 at 10.40.52.png")

Can you help me understand what you mean when you say you don't want to have the view everywhere? Do you mean you want to hide the view on the other pages?

Looking forward to hearing back from you!

Take care,

Shannon S   
Confluence Cloud Support


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Personal space: Cool, useful, innovative ways to use it
Asked by bill.cushard:

I have never really used my Personal Space in Confluence. Is it a wasted opportunity?

Recently, I've started using my personal space to:

1. **Take notes:** I have a page with notes on how to use goals and projects (formerly Atlas). I have a page called, "Notes: Atlassian Team 24 Keynotes" others like it. Informal. Notes from courses, webinars, conferences, workshops, etc.
2. **Ideas:** A few pages and a single page of running ideas for things to do. A "someday maybe" kind of page.
3. **Running log of accomplishment for the week:** Sometimes I just roughly write down things I did during the week......that I can use in my weekly report. Yes, I have my "sometimes resolved Jira issues" :-) to get that...but it's a quick reminder for me of what I did.

These seem a little useful for me, but also superficial.

What other ways do you all use your personal Confluence Space?


Answers:
author: Dan Breyen
body: Hi [@bill.cushard](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5515113) welcome to the community. In addition to what you've referenced, I will use my space to do some prototyping or testing of existing functionality if I'm having issues in my regular spaces.


author: Barbara Szczesniak
body: Hi [@bill.cushard](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5515113) I use mine to create pages that I plan to use as templates in my main space. This way, I can put some boilerplate text/sections and publish the page to see how it looks before then copying that into a template I create in my other space.

I also sometimes copy a page from my main space to my personal space before I make major changes to it in the main space---particularly when it involves removing text temporarily ("we're not going to go live with that new feature yet") or when I feel I might want that text again in another page or sometime down the road ("oh, we decided not to remove that feature after all"). I know there's the page history, but this way I don't need to remember what version to go back to.


Tags: cloud

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Send e-mail to Confluence Questions
Asked by J?rgen Starek:

Hi everyone,

our organization is starting to think about introducing Confluence Questions. We have a strong requirement, however, that users should be able to use the system via e-mail, i.e. not only receive notifications via mail, but be able to read and answer questions just like on a mailing list. It is understood that those users would lose the ability to vote and see "accepted" statuses.

Is this possible in Confluence Questions? Or is anyone aware of a "wishlist" bug in Atlassian's Jira?

Many thanks in advance

J?rgen


Answers:
author: Sam Tardif
body: We have a few issues open around interacting with Confluence Questions via email, but currently it's not possible.

You might want to vote and watch <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-542> and <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-530>.
Is there a way to restrict some users from viewing certain topics?
Asked by Scott Kullman:

In Confluence Q\&A, you have have topics for the questions. My question is if you can designate users to be able to see only certain topics. For example, support personnel for one Product do not need to see information about a totally separate product. They only need to see Q\&A on there product. Can this be done?


Answers:
author: Vitor LC
body: Hi Scott.

Can you elaborate?

Thank you.

comments: author: Scott Kullman
body: Done in the comments section of the question.


author: Scott Kullman
body: I did elaborate. Do you have an answer? Thanks!
Questions - MY QUESTION IS ABOUT
Asked by Patrick Nolan:

When someone asks a question via Questions, we want them to choose the version of our product for which the question is related to. Similar to the setup Confluence has used for their My Question is about where you can choose the Product, then the version etc.

Does anyone know how this is configured?


Answers:
author: J D
body: Hi Patrick,

What about labeling the question with like "confluence 5.6.3"? This is my first thought.

Would that help?
Is there a Webhook for Confluence Questions?
Asked by Tyler Y:

Looking at the documentation here: <https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/modules/confluence/webhook.html> I do not see how to use webhooks with the Confluence Questions product. Is this possible? e.g. to detect when a new question has been posted or to post a new question.


Answers:
author: Bruno Raymundo
body: Hi Tyler,

It seems that this is currently unavailable, so I created a suggestion:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-2191>

Cheers,

Bruno


author: Nathanael HANIA
body: +1 get questions posted on slack


author: jotadepicas
body: +1


author: Rune_Engseth
body: +1


author: Ken Logan
body: + for wanting to have new questions posted to Slack


author: Jan Schwoebel
body: +1 anyone has a solution?


author: Ken Hilburn
body: +1 to the posting new questions in Slack comment


author: Xavier Boubert
body: +1 If someone has a solution


author: Daniel Larsen
body: +1 we would like this to post new questions in Slack


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Confluence Questions release 1.0.730 not on the Marketplace?
Asked by Geert Graat:

Hi,

On October 7th I received a notification from the Atlassian Marketplace that Confluence Questions 1.0.730 is available. On jira.atlassian.com the Confluence Questions project also shows that this version was released that date. It also shows that this version contains the ability to [convert an answer into a comment](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-411), which we can really use for our questions installation as we now see this go wrong very often.

The version however is nowhere to be found on the [Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-questions/versions). The latest version it shows is 1.0.618.001, which was released in August.

Our installation does not have a live connection to the Marketplace, so instead I need to download a version from the Marketplace and then upload it to our instance.

Anybody knows when this version will be available on the Marketplace?

Regards,

Geert


Answers:
author: Geert Graat
body: **Update**: asked the same question to Atlassian Support, this is their response:
> I have found out that the development team had to pull that release, as they had found potential for a problem with one of the upgrade tasks.   
> Not to worry as they are in the process of making another release now, which should make it out really soon.
How do I hide a "Questions" link in the top bar?
Asked by A:

What plugin module should i disable?

I understand it could be smth like (system.header/left)

I am talking about a link in the system top bar which is added once Confluence Questions is installed. I'd like to keep CQ installed, will just build a different navigation route to it.

thanks


Answers:
author: Geert Graat
body: Hi,

You can disable the *Confluence Questions Header Item (confluence.restricted.header.item)* module in the Confluence Questions addon. This disables the top navigation, but allows you to still access Questions.

Regards,

Geert

comments: author: Patrick Heidel
body: Hi Geert,

sorry but i could not get it. Where do I do the described disabling. Within the Questions Configuration i am not able to find any setting.

Thank you for your reply

kindest regards

Patrick


author: Patrick Heidel
body: With Custom HTML we were able to hide OR rename the Navigation Bar Entry  

\<script\>  
jQuery(document).ready(function() {  
// $('#confluence-questions-link').hide(); //Hide Navigation Bar Item "Question"  
$('#confluence-questions-link:first-child').html("YOUR TEXT");  
jQuery(".external-link").attr("target", "_blank");  
});
Watching topics is not working?
Asked by Silviu Burcea:

Hi!

I have tried to watch a topic from that topic's page (<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/topics/754068/addon-com.keplerrominfo.jira.plugins.jjupin>). Clicking watch will change the button to unwatch, but this setting is not persistent, I have reloaded the page and it's like I've never clicked the Watch button. Is it just me or is a common problem? Is it just a UI issue or the subscribing mechanism is not ready for prime time yet?

Best,

Silviu


Answers:
author: Silviu Burcea
body: All right, this seems to be fixed, it was indeed a bug.
Can I either pre-filter Confluence Questions or make it Space-specific?
Asked by Terry Cotant:

While I think Questions is going to be very useful, I believe it could be used more if I could have Space-specific question areas. There may be situations like segment or project based knowledge that we'd want to discuss, but not with the entire company.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: BillA
body: There's an open feature request for making questions space-specific. See [CQ-684](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-684).

In the mean time you might check out our [documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/QUESTIONS/Integrating+Questions+with+your+spaces) on how to integrate Confluence Questions with your spaces.[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/QUESTIONS/Integrating+Questions+with+your+spaces)
Confluence Questions licensing
Asked by NathanG:

Can I use confluence questions in a public setting without paying $2,000 for 100 users?

I LOVE the idea of Confluence Questions... but I wanted to use it in a more public setting (e.g., I wanted to mimic answers.atlassian.com but for my own software/projects)

Thanks\~!


Answers:
author: Andrew Wolpers [BlackPearl PDM]
body: Nathan,

Unfortunately the licensing is per-seat. You are able to open this up to the public, provided that your Confluence instance is reachable to outside the organization, without sacrificing any internal security if configured correctly.

For example, you would also need users to register- I don't believe there is an option to allow users to ask questions anonymously. However, check out this issue: [CQ-318](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-318)

Depending on your Confluence settings already, Anonymous users can browse questions. For more information, check out the documentation [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/QUESTIONS/Permissions).

In the meantime, I'd suggest dumping questions into there and answering them if you don't want to afford the additional licensing costs until the above are made active. At least it would be searchable!


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi Nathan,

If I'm correct that's not possible. Since CQ is an add-on of Confluence you are forced to use the same license. I think you can make it possible to anonymus access but they won't be able to ask questions or give answers, just be viewers.


author: NathanG
body: I wish... I actually use Atlassian products for church... managing all the tasks and things we need to do... and the open source license specifically excludes religious organizations


author: Steven F Behnke
body: If it's open source maybe you can get an open source license!
How do i delete a topic in Confluence Questions
Asked by Rita Kumar:

I created two topics as a test and it does not let me delete one.?

Second, is there a way to have it so that certain topics are only visible to certain groups?  

Thanks,

Rita Kumar


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Rita,

You can only delete a topic if you have Administrator permission and if there isn't any comments or users assigned watching it. [In this link](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/QUESTIONS/Topics) you can get more information.

To change the permissions on Confluence Questions (if the user doesn't have it yet), please check[this link.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/QUESTIONS/Permissions)

All the best,

Renato Rudnicki

comments: author: Rita Kumar
body: Thanks one other question... when i was asking about permissions...

<br />

I mean is there a way to restrict certain topics to certain groups... the page you shared does not discuss that. If not, are there any plans to add that?

<br />

Thanks


author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Rita, Sorry, but I'm afraid I didn't understand your question about sharing the page... Could you clarify it to me or give an example? Cheers, Renato Rudnicki


author: Rita Kumar
body: What I mean is... I create a topic called development- is there a way for one to restrict q \&a on that topic to a group both viewing and comments... or is it everyone (who is granted permissions to questiosn) has access to see all topics in questions


author: Eran Brown
body: @Renato Rudnicki your answer is helpful, but I seem to have a topic with 0 watchers and 0 questions but no "delete" link.What else is required to delete a topic ?


author: Trejkaz
body: Why would you restrict deleting tags to admin users, when you let literally every half-wit with less than a brain cell create new tags?

In my opinion, you have these permissions backwards. You should be restricting creation of garbage tags instead.


author: Michal Potyrcha
body: Hi, I need to do a slighly different thing - delete a topic under a question. I'm a space admin on confluence, some users while asking questions are adding topics. Very often those topics are not correct. How do I delete / change a topic under a question? If I try I get "Access denied" message.

![topics.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/12805iAA002F6018BDFDA8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "topics.png")


author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Rita, I'm afraid what you want to do isn't possible. If you allow a group or a user to see / answer on Confluence Questions, he or she will be able to do it in all topics. I didn't find another way to restrict access by topics. However, there's this [feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-364) for it. Please vote on this case to increase visibility.

All the best,

Renato Rudnicki
Edit button is visible for other users
Asked by Jose M.:

I cannot imagine, this is correct: I can see the edit button from another user on "answers.atlassian".

This is just an example:

screenshot_edit.PNG

I do not know, if I really can edit the posting, but I won't try.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/Edit-button-is-visible-for-other-users/qaq-p/380137?attachment-id=6082){#link_1154ff3e135498}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/questions-for-confluence-questions/1128/1/screenshot_edit.PNG){#display_1154ff3e135498_0}


Answers:
author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi Jose, like moderators in forums when you have enough karma you are allowed to edit other users questions and answers. It's with the idea that users can maintain it without much help from Atlassian.

In my opinion I think it's great. I myself have sometimes changed some to get more clear Q\&A.

comments: author: Jose M.
body: Hi Ramiro, yes, it is certainly useful, if a notification is sent to the owner.


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Right, didn't about the notification. That would be a good thing.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It can be very useful to convert comments to answers when a comment is truly deserving of being an answer. It is a bit counter-intuitive though - often the conversion breaks the flow of a conversation, which makes it less useful, because you can get a bit of a disjointed explanation of something. When I convert comments to answers, I try to judge if it might be confusing and add a "I converted this from..." type comment to explain where it came from if I think it might be confusing.It is often useful to convert answers to comments as well. I see a lot of answers that are repeats of answers already given (which is unfair on the original poster if the newer answer is accepted first). There are a lot of answers that are clearly follow-ups to existing answers and so should also be comments. I see the odd answer which is frankly wrong, but I really don't think it's right to remove these, even when I can - it's better to convert them to comments and then explain why. More people learn that way.In both of the cases above, it's mostly because people aren't sure when they should answer and when they should comment. Or don't even know that there is a difference.I'm less certain about the ability to edit other people's comments. It feels like it could be censorship, and could easily be political or manipulative, so I avoid it. I don't feel right doing it, and when I do edit a question or comment, I keep it minimal and I only do it for clarity, and I tend to comment to explain why I did it. Unless it's questionably spam, or it's my own posting (and the edit won't affect any following comments/answers)


author: Tim
body: In the old answer system this functionality was related to your karma value, I think above 500 points you could edit other question. I do not know if this is still the case with Confluence Questions.


author: Udo Brand
body: I could edit your question (changed "Ich can ..." to "I can ...")
How to add watcher in Confluence Questions?
Asked by Bjarte Nilsen:

How do I add watchers to a topic after the topic has been created?


Answers:
author: Julien H.
body: As an admin, you can add watchers from here:

Questions about "confluence-questions" - Atlassian Answers 2014-09-10 10-38-47 2014-09-10 10-39-31.png

comments: author: Julien H.
body: You can also do it in the edit topic dialog.