youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
I can't link text and icons to relevant pages
Asked by Hubert Brzuchalski:

Hey everyone,

How do I link an icon and text to another page? I watched youtube videos on how to do it but I cant find a 'insert macros' or any of suggestions given. Please help! This is what I get!

![Annotation 2020-07-23 165930.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/104048iCC393334762C191A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Annotation 2020-07-23 165930.png")


Answers:
author: Hubert Brzuchalski
body: So what do you suggest now? To use the old version or? Thanks.

comments: author: Dominic Lagger
body: I suggest you to view and vote for this issue and wait for august, that's very soon


author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Hubert Brzuchalski](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4024336)

* Which video did you watch?
* Can you share a printscreen whit the whole screen, I can't see a thing.

Have a look on this page: [Insert links an anchors](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-links-and-anchors/)

This should help you.

Regards, Dominic

comments: author: Hubert Brzuchalski
body: Thanks but it doesn't. I can do it with the old version but not the new one. I need to attach a hyper link to the icon and the title, which is Team not 'people and culture' which is what pops up when I change it. Have a look. Please help. I REALLY appreciate it!

![Annotation 2020-07-24 200408.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/104202i5951702D7C4600A0/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Annotation 2020-07-24 200408.png")


author: Dominic Lagger
body: Oh okay, now I got you.

Thank you for the whole printscreen. I can confirm that if you click on the image, the link icon is greyed out.

This is a "buggy" behaviour in the new editor, which will be solved in August, see:

* [CONFCLOUD-65640](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65640)

> Hey all - update from Atlassian PM here. We're aiming to get this feature out in August.

Regards, Dominic


Tags: cloud
Change background colour for some pages
Asked by Geeks:

I'd like to be able to help recognition of the type of information on page by having a set of standard background colours. So, for example, a page about "How To" might have a pale yellow background - across all spaces.

Templates don't seem to allow me to change the background colour, is there any way of doing this?


Answers:
author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: The [Content Formatting Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/247/content-formatting-macros-for-confluence) app offers a macro to change the background color of a page or a section.
Macro (similar to children display) that lists pages in other work spaces with the same page title?
Asked by David Langan:

Hi there, We have two different spaces called "Vendor information" and "Technical documentation". I'd like to have a macro at the top of all child pages in these two spaces that essentially provide cross-links between similarly named (or labeled) pages.

Where should I begin my search for something like this?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: David Langan
body: I think I may have found a solution... I'm going to see if the "Include Page Macro" will do this for me...


Tags: confluence-server

macro

server
JIra Security compliance
Asked by WAJDI ALZINATI:

Hello,

In regards to Jira Compliance with security standards and certificates mentioned in following URL <https://www.atlassian.com/trust/compliance>

We would like to use or mention the compliance certificates in our company business profile in order to convince our customers about our systems security that we are using (JIRA Cloud) to process their requests.

So is it allowed to use these details in our business profile which will be definitely referenced to JIRA and clearly mentioned to be powered by atlassian.


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: As this is a duplicate of another question, I'm locking the thread. For answers/further discussion, please see: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/JIRA-Security/qaq-p/1440309>

Cheers,  
Daniel \| Atlassian Team


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira
Editing a table in a confluence page
Asked by sara.s:

Everytime I hit edit on this page : <https://convertrinc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/scs/pages/320831660/Education+Friday+Requested+Topics>

The table in this page disappears hence I can not really edit the page.

Other users have also tried to edit the page and the same happens.

Can you help?


Answers:
author: Thomas Bowskill
body: Hi [@sara.s](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4023882) that Confluence link won't work for people outside of your organisation, so cannot see the problem.

Maybe add some screenshots so we can see what problem you are getting. Unless the below guess helps:

It could be that the table has been removed in a draft -- if you see the table when viewing the page, but when you go to edit it isn't there, then someone may have removed the table by accident in a draft and not discarded their changes (just a guess here). When people go to edit a page, it will resume the draft. You might want to read up on drafts and how to [Revert to the last published version](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/drafts-149040.html#:~:text=distracting%20your%20viewers.-,Resume%20editing%20a%20draft,keep%20editing%20and%2For%20publish.)


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Sara,

Welcome to Atlassian Community, and thank you for bringing this issue to us.

If you mention this issue to one of your Confluence site admins, they can also report the issue to [Atlassian Cloud Support](http://support.atlassian.com/contact/). There, they'll be able to provide us with access to the Cloud site, so we can troubleshoot and diagnose the issue.

Thanks again, and take care!

Shannon


Tags: cloud

edit

table
Can you "live edit" and collaborate w/ users on documents such as what you can do in Google? sheets?
Asked by ebennett:

collaborate with other users in real time on documents


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: On native Confluence pages, yes.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: On Cloud and Confluence Server/DC 6.0 and higher versions (it can be turned off there too, so you may sometimes find 6.0+ installs without it)


Tags: cloud
Contains Label macro simply stopped working: seen this one?
Asked by Tracy B:

I have a longstanding Confluence page with Contains Label running on it for "retrospective" in a certain space. The pages are all still there; the space is there; nothing has changed on the related page. But suddenly all I get is "There is no content with the specified labels." But that content exists! I can see it! Are macros being discontinued without notice? I sure hope not!


Answers:
author: Sachin
body: Hello [@Tracy B](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/728303) , I have Content by Label macro on one of my pages and it still works for me :). Try to refresh your page and see if it loads. If not, you can goto --\> **...** --\> Page history --\> Restore your page to previous version (make sure there are no major changes in your current version before you restore it to previous version).

comments: author: Tracy B
body: Refreshing and restoring both have no effect; the macro remains broken.


author: Sachin
body: That's a bummer! Do you see any error on your screen? Did you try re-adding the macro back? Do you see this happening on any other pages?


author: Tracy B
body: And here is the solution: wait until the next day and it will suddenly start working again by itself.

I don't understand it, but things work now.


Tags: cloud
I tried to install confluence 7.6 version after installing confluence is not starting.
Asked by sai:

It showing localhost connection is refused. i tried to check in log file it showing following error.

22-Jul-2020 13:47:25.470 SEVERE \[main\] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer Could not contact \[localhost:8000\] (base port \[8000\] and offset \[0\]). Tomcat may not be running. As i am just beginner of confluence anyone can help me ?


Answers:
author: repi
body: [@sai](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3996284)

Your information is too little.  
Which log file is the data from?

Is there more in this file?  
What is your operating system environment like? Is https used, is there a reverse proxy?


Tags: confluence-server

server
How can i have confiform? i even can not see apps (manage apps) in Header menu.
Asked by Zahra Mohammadganjee:

In the Header menu of confluence that I created at home, there is "apps" tab. but in the confluence in the company, I can't see it.

I wanted to have ConfiForm. Is there anyone to help me to find ConfiForm in my confluence? and perhaps "manage apps" in my header menu?


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi

If the plugin is not yet installed then you can find it in the "find apps" menu, searching for ConfiForms

If it is already installed then just start with creating a new page and creating your new form - <https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/FORMS/Creating+a+form+in+Confluence>

Welcome!

Alex


Tags: confiforms

app

cloud
External Data for Confluence
Asked by Matthew Buchanan:

Is anyone using this app (External Data for Confluence)?

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221733/external-data-for-confluence?hosting=cloud\&tab=support](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221733/external-data-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=support)

I am having some difficulty in setting up the connection for a MSSQL database. I have worked with our vendor to make sure the external IP addresses were whitelisted. I have also tried multiple combinations of usernames, passwords, database names (including paths and not including paths, etc. and continue to get an error message that I have not been able to resolve:

**Connect Error: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 35 - An internal exception was caught) - A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 35 - An internal exception was caught)**

I have not emailed their support yet - I wanted to check with the Atlassian Community first.


Answers:
author: Matthew Buchanan
body: Good afternoon!

Since I posed the question, I thought I would also pose the answer.

After much assistance from codefortynine and the company that I contract our network support through, we determined that the answer was to update TLS on our SQL Server from 1.0 to 1.2.

Once this update was performed, I was able to connect to my database and am now happily posting data to my Confluence page.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Thank you - we all appreciate a good answer, whatever the source!


author: Thomas Opiolka
body: Thank you [@Matthew Buchanan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3650739) again for your patience in support. I am glad that a solution was found in the end. Don't hesitate to contact us again in case you have further questions.

Best,  
Thomas


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think you need to head for a support issue - it looks like the app cannot handle whatever authentication your ms-sql is doing (while I suspect you've got other tools that can)

comments: author: Matthew Buchanan
body: Thanks Nic!

I did email their support around the same time that I posted my question here. They have been responsive, but I cannot say (yet) if they have been helpful.

Once I find what the issue is, I plan to post how I resolved it here so that if anyone else has issues, they will have something to give a shot.


Tags: confluence-cloud
Custom Field Value from Jira not showing in Confluence Page Jira Issue Macro after upgrade to 7.4.1
Asked by KMuthukumar-RP:

Hello,

We had Confluence 6.12.1 earlier and upgraded to 7.4.1 just last weekend. We have had Confluence page showing different jira issue queries showing various fields including custom fields and the values were showing fine before the upgrade. But for some reason, weirdly for some custom fields (not all), the values from Jira does not show in Confluence page. Suddenly it starts to show the value for one field and then not for the other and the way it has been behaving is very strange, as there is no pattern on when \& what affects it to show/not show is not very clear. Nothing has changed on the JIRA side before and after the upgrade of Confluence.

When I export the JQL query/result in XML, the XML does have the value for all the troubled custom fields. If the values are showing correctly in JIRA issue navigator and showing correct in XML export, not able to figure where the issue is happening with it displaying in Confluence Jira Issues macro. Any help is appreciated. Thank you


Answers:
author: Deepesh
body: There was bug for this behaviour:

* [Custom Fields are missing in Jira Issue Macro after upgrade to Confluence 7.4.1, 7.5.0, 7.6.0](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-60050)

Issue is fixed from [7.6.2](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project+%3D+CONFSERVER+AND+fixVersion+%3D+7.6.2 "7.6.2 "), [7.4.3](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project+%3D+CONFSERVER+AND+fixVersion+%3D+7.4.3 "7.4.3 ") onwards.

comments: author: Steve Henrie
body: This is happening in Confluence Cloud as well,


author: KMuthukumar-RP
body: Since my prod instance of confluence was having issue showing some custom field values, I had connected my dev confluence to the same instance of Jira to test. Weirdly, in dev instance of confluence, it shows the value for some cf's, lets say CF1 \& CF2, but not CF3 and the prod instance of confluence shows the value for CF3, but not CF1 \& CF2. Both dev and prod instances of Confluence run the same version 7.4.1

Not sure what is going on. Any help is appreciated.

comments: author: jonespa3
body: I have observed similar issues, and a restart of Confluence seems to resolved it. Has happened two times in the last 4 days. Not sure of the cause.


Tags: custom-field

macro

velocity

xml
Page Properties Report macro - no content found error - for page properties macros on other spaces
Asked by ?ukasz Handke:

We've been using page properties macro + page properties report macro combos for over a year now. Suddenly all Page Properties Report macro show "no content found".

We have dozens of Confluence spaces within same instance with page properties macros in them.  
We have other spaces made specifically for reporting, that include page properties report macro filtered by labels.

Everything was working fine until recently - now page properties report macro fetches data only if page properties macro is on the same space. Otherwise it just shows "no content found".

Yes - I've double checked labels and filters and it's filtered by "In space - Site spaces" as it always had been. We filter only based on labels site wide.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello [@?ukasz Handke](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1909008) and [@Justin Tardiff](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3316977),

This was indeed a reported issue on our end, and we've since been able to resolve it. My apologies that you weren't able to access your reports during that time.

* [CONFCLOUD-70472](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-70472) *Page Properties Report and Content By Label won't return pages outside of the Current Space*

Glad to hear that the fix is working now for you both!

Take care,

Shannon


author: Justin Tardiff
body: Thanks for the post, Lukasz. We're having the same issue this morning -- hope ours suddenly starts working too.


author: ?ukasz Handke
body: It suddenly started to work.


Tags: cloud
Insert symbols in new editor
Asked by Richard Herzog:

Hi all,

the new editor does not provide symbols (e.g. greek letters) anymore. Instead it is recommended to use the operating system symbols. (see <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/use-symbols-emojis-and-special-characters/>)

Basically, this works, i.e. I can generate symbols in MS Word and copy them to the editor, but this is very inconvenient. Does anyone have a smart solution to avoid this copy-paste-workaround?


Answers:
author: Sharon Helms
body: Hi [@Richard Herzog](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3840584) ,

There's no need to generate the symbols in MS Word and copy them to the editor -- you can generate them while you're working on a Confluence page, using your native operating system functionality.

**macOS:**

Type Control-Command-Space to pull up the Character Viewer. You can double-click the special character you want to use (such as this ellipsis ...) [Here's more from Apple on the Character Viewer](https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/mac-help/mchlp1560/mac).

**Windows 10:**

[How to quickly insert symbols on Windows 10](https://pureinfotech.com/insert-symbols-windows-10/)

I hope this helps! Best wishes, Sharon

comments: author: Richard Herzog
body: Another hidden windows feature :) Thanks for the info!


author: Alicia
body: And if you want to ask for them back, please vote on the Jira ticket about it here:  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67811>


Tags: cloud
other user
Asked by Bahman Sharzad:

I install confluence with other username.

I can't start confluence as service on ubuntu. i set the new user and confluence in the same group. and all permission is ok for confluence user.


Answers:
author: repi
body: [@Bahman Sharzad](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1524631)

You should start the service as root and define the user with whom the confluence should run in the configurations file.  
You should also carry out the installation and updates with this user.

File is: /etc/systemd/system/confluence_ps.service  

OS: Debian

```
[Unit] 
Description=Atlassian Confluence mit Postgresql (Wiki) 
After=syslog.target network.target 

[Service] 
Type=forking 
User=confluence 
#Environment="JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_191" 
#Environment="JRE=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_191/jre" 
ExecStart=/data/atlassian_ps/confluence/bin/start-confluence.sh 
ExecStop=/data/atlassian_ps/confluence/bin/stop-confluence.sh 

[Install] 
WantedBy=multi-user.target

```

The environment variables are commented out and can be omitted.


Tags: cloud
Permisions
Asked by Mike Findlay-Wilson:

just setting up a trial version of confluence and the first step is to change the name, however doing this i then get a message that i dont have permission to do that and can go no further


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Mike,

Welcome to Atlassian Community, and thank you for bringing this to us.

Can you confirm with me which name the site is asking you to change? Are you referring to the Site Title?

It will help if you can share with me a screenshot of the screen where you're stuck, and the error message that you see.

Thank you!

Shannon


Tags: cloud
Include Page shows images with wrong text wrap ;-( Any ideas to solve it?
Asked by Robert:

I have a Page   

Text   
Text  
IMAGE  
Text  
Text

When including with Include Page Macro, I get:  

Text  
Text  
IMAGEText  
Text  

Onyl workarround is aligning the image in center, but is not how it shall look like in the page its included.


Answers:
author: Matt Reiner [K15t]
body: [@Robert](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3928235)

Are you seeing this in the new editor? If so, there are current issues with how page inclusions are displayed.


Tags: cloud

include
Possible to collaborate on unpublished draft?
Asked by Keli Wong:

I have a draft page that I would like a small group to review and edit BEFORE publishing so the wider organization can see it.

I've tried to invite people to that draft but the link doesn't open for them to see the draft page.


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Keli Wong](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3852743)

When you create a page it will create a draft with a draft ID.

You should be able to invite other people who should be able to edit the page as well.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/104193i233E480DE477318F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

If this doesn't work, have you tried to just copy the URL?

And if this doesn't work, what error do the get? Do they have the correct permissions to edit the page?

Regards, Dominic


Tags: cloud
Space Blueprints with predefined Pages
Asked by Michael Atzm?ller:

Hello Atlassian-Community,

I need to develop a Space Blueprint with predefined pages like "Documentation" or "Notes". I've done the tutorial ([Write a Simple Confluence Space Blueprint](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/write-a-simple-confluence-space-blueprint/)) for Space Blueprints and this worked quite well.

Unfortunately I can't find any documentation about predefinded pages within such a Space Blueprint.

Thank you for your help!

Michael


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@Michael Atzm?ller](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4023108)

Blueprints are global whereas templates can be used space-wise. What about this one <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/write-an-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/> ?


Tags: confluence-server

server

space-blueprint
How can we download the attachment(.csv) from confluence page using PowerShell script. ?
Asked by Gurjot Singh:

How can we download the attachment(.csv) from confluence page using PowerShell script. ?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Gurjot,

In order to download the attachment, you can use a REST-API to get the attachment:

* [Confluence Cloud REST-API \> Get Attachments](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-content---attachments/#api-api-content-id-child-attachment-get)

There are a few suggestions on the thread below on how to work with Confluence REST-API and PowerShell:

* [Anyone have an example of creating a confluence page using Powershell/REST API?](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/Anyone-have-an-example-of-creating-a-confluence-page-using/qaq-p/559224)

The examples that are mentioned:

* [PoshConfluence](https://github.com/thomykay/PoshConfluence) (*Note that this is not officially supported by Atlassian*.)
* [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/284/confluence-command-line-interface-cli?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

Another similar add-on is called [Scriptrunner](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215215/scriptrunner-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) which might also help you, so I would recommend having a look there.

I hope this helps, but let us know if you have any questions about it.

Take care,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

powershell
User forms in Confluence
Asked by Jasho Mitra:

What is the best way to create a user form in Confluence? I want to design a form to be used by more than 1 team. Some of the fields will be populated by a team 1 while the remaining fields in the form will be populated by team 2. At the end of the day, I want to see all the fields as one form.

I found about 'Easy Form' and created a form using Easy Form Macro. However I am not able to figure out how does the other team member enter the remaining details in the form. Also after I submit a form, am not able to see the form I submitted.

Appreciate if someone can guide me the best way to achieve this...


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: You should probably contact the vendor of the EasyForms plugin to get support.

We are the vendors of some other plugin for building the forms and workflows - [ConfiForms.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211860/confiforms-data-forms-workflows?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

And in our plugin you can make the fields restricted to be filled by "other team" (restrict edits, restrict field's visibility, etc) and a lot more.

comments: author: Jasho Mitra
body: Thanks Alex!


Tags: confluence-server

server