youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is there a way to order the items in the 'Saved for later' page?
Asked by Timo Siniranta:

I have quite a few pages in my 'Saved for later' page. Standing meeting agendas, ongoing project docs etc. Would be nice to have a way to order them by the page title.


Answers:
author: J?rgen Buchinger
body: Displaying such a list unsortable is generally not a good solution. A sort function for this would also be very important for us.

The proposal of [@Timo Siniranta](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3561440) would be optimal and sufficient. The implementation would certainly not be very difficult for Atlassian and would make life easier for many users.


author: CYRIEL RICOUT
body: sounds like it's still not the case


author: Daniel Wong
body: Hi Timo,

As far as I know, it's currently not possible to sort items in the 'Saved for later' page.

Someone else asked this sometime ago and also had the same response - <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/In-Confluence-is-there-a-way-to-sort-the-quot-Saved-for-Later/qaq-p/699384>

comments: author: Timo Siniranta
body: Would this be worth suggesting an enhancement request to have a column heading 'Title' to the page and the two triangles to sort the results alphabetically. I'd also suggest to add 'Creation date' with the same sorting feature to this page.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Jira, Confluence are unavailable
Asked by maria.koladzho@accenture.com.:

Hello!

Jira Software and Confluence are unavailable for a long time. Could you please resolve this problem?


Answers:
author: Petr Van??ek
body: Hi,

you are on Community site. For support you should go to support site, but in many cases like that try to first check out Status page here:  

<https://status.atlassian.com/>  

As you can see there are some problems with Cloud.


Tags: jira-software
How can I create a task report on a site restricted to that site?
Asked by Stefan Meier:

I tried it with the task report macro and the task report is empty, although there are unfinished tasks on that site. I didn't use any other filters.


Answers:
author: Stefan Meier
body: I used the wrong reference site becuse the filter field is so small and I could't read the full title.

Why can't I remove a question?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Is there any duration limit for page history?
Asked by Nivedita:

For Instance I use a particular page for two years and more.

Will I be able to view the page history for the entire two years , or will confluence limit it to viewing changes made in the recent past alone?


Answers:
author: Sudhir_Appfire_
body: Hi [@Nivedita](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3508205),

As of now, there is no duration limit for viewing the page history. That is, you can view the page history for the entire 2 years. Confluence will not limit to viewing the changes made.

Regards,  
Sudhir


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

page-history
Confluence Page Restriction Setup
Asked by angielalala:

Any suggestions to setup Confluence page View Restriction based on Client, something like:

* Anonymous User: should see #public labelled Confluence pages only
* Client 1: should see #public labelled Confluence pages only - they should only be able to search #public and #client1public labelled pages
* Client 2: should see #public labelled Confluence pages only - they should only be able to search #public and #client2public labelled pages


Answers:
author: Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_
body: Hi,

restrictions on *parent* pages are inherited.

Here's a truly great presentation that covers organizing with some collector / parent pages.

[Become a Confluence Whiz Kid: Organized Spaces and Beautiful Pages](https://www.atlassian.com/company/events/summit-us/watch-sessions/2017/featured/become-a-confluence-whiz-kid-organized-spaces-and-beautiful-pages)
Space and page restriction
Asked by Ankit Agarwal:

I have provided 1 group of users the space permission of editing the page.

Then in one of the parent page I have restricted the same group to view only.

So do the view rights wouldn't be transferred to all the its child pages.

or the child pages will have edit rights as space permission is of edit.


Answers:
author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@Ankit Agarwal](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3561280) ,

View restrictions are inherited, which means a restriction applied to one page will cascade down to any child pages. Edit restrictions are not inherited, which means pages need to be restricted individually.

The restrictions dialog will tell you when there are inherited restrictions that might affect who can view your page.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html>
Sorting in two dimension Jira table
Asked by Sarunas Tankeliavicius:

Is there a way to sort descending by values of one dimension in two dimension jira table? Thanks.

I tried to include ORDER BY "some column" DESC clause in filter field of the pivot table, but it didn't help.


Answers:
author: kammili tejraj
body: Hi [@Sarunas Tankeliavicius](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3561264) ,

Did you get any answer for this??


Tags: confluence-server

server
Want to build a dashboard with SQL connection
Asked by Arif:

Please anyone help me.

I am able to get the tables from SQL, I want so plot some graphs and charts over the able. Correct me if I am wrong, available gadgets are only for JIRA issues, or we can use them for SQL data also?


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: [@Arif](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3561168)you are right that all built in gadgets work around Jira Issues or Jira entities and not external data source like SQL.

To achieve SQL gadget you have two options,

1. Using External Plugin
   * There many SQL related plugin available on Marketplace, you can pick the one that meet your need
   * "Power Database Fields Pro" is a great option, it has good number of installs and is provided by Top Vendor - [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/630415/power-database-fields-pro-external-data?hosting=datacenter\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/630415/power-database-fields-pro-external-data?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview)
2. Custom Plugin
   * Developing a Custom Jira Gadget is easy, it require knowledge of Java, Javascirpt and HTML
   * Here is link for this - <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/writing-a-jql-standalone-gadget/>

comments: author: Arif
body: Really thanks for the reply. Can we able to build dashboards using this?


author: DPKJ
body: The external plugin link I have given provide Dashboard Gadgets.


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to get the Index macro to do what an index should rather than create a fresh problem?
Asked by Richard Martin:

The index macro alternates as it goes down the page.

Who had the bright idea to do this and how do I stop it?

Left side starts with 0-9, then the letter A on the right, then back to the left with the letter B and so on down the page alphabetically.

I do not want the index to take up two columns.I looked at the documentation for the Index macro but there are no parameters available to set.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/page-index-macro-724765237.html>

Anyone know where to modify the macro and / or make a new one and then broadcast it to the Confluence Cloud Community so this does not continue to be a problem?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Richard,

Thank you for bringing this up to us.

I've created a feature request below to provide some parameters to adjust the display of the Page Index Macro on a page:

* [CONFCLOUD-67956](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67956) *Include a set of parameters to adjust appearance of Page Index Macro*

It's not possible for you to modify the macro since with Cloud you do not have direct access to the source files as you do in Server.

It's possible to [develop an add-on](https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/getting-started/) and offer it on the Marketplace.

For Server users, it's also possible to write a [User Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html) and share that with other users, but this feature is not available on Cloud for security reasons.

I hope that's clear, but do let me know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how to order by date created for Content Report Table Macro
Asked by Jae Jeon:

Hello,

Is there a way to list the pages that are found by the "Content Report Table Macro" by date created? It seems that I can only sort by 'title', 'creator', or 'modified'.

Thank you,

Jae


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Jae,

Welcome to Atlassian Community! It's nice to meet you.

There's not a sorting functionality for this yet, but we have a feature request for it below:

* [CONFSERVER-31438](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-31438) *Content Report Table macro should have sorting parameter*

Please vote on this request, and you will automatically be added to the list of watchers and receives updates on this in the future.

It should be possible to write a [User Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html) for this, so have a look at that documentation.

Let me know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Jae Jeon
body: Thank you!

Jae


author: Shannon S
body: You're welcome, Jae! Just let me know if I can help you with anything further. ?

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace
Change the owner of a confluence article
Asked by artjailadmin:

I'm in the process of migrating our company wiki from wordpress to confluence. One of the crucial aspects of the original wiki was that individual staff members felt ownership over the articles they've written. Since I'm doing all the migration, all of the content is now attributed to me. I would like to reassign the articles to their original, correct authors, not simply the person who happened to copy and paste the text. How do I do this?


Answers:
author: carolyn french
body: Hi [@artjailadmin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3523562) and welcome to Community!

In fact, it's not easy with Cloud, but there are some work arounds you might be interested in using.

Check out this previous thread:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-change-the-creator-of-a-page-on-Confluence/qaq-p/715774>

There are also a few scripting apps for Confluence that look like they can do it: Power Scripts, Scriptrunner.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Usage Statistics
Asked by Beau Le Blanc:

Is there some way for me to see how many pages are created and submitted, and how many users are active, over a given period of time?


Answers:
author: Shawn Masters
body: The Site-Admins administration page will let you pull a CSV of users and their last log on dates, which you can use to draft up a activity report.

As for pages created/submitted and activity for them you would have to find something 3rd party to handle that as Confluence doesnt have that functionality out of the box. It does however let you navigate to a specific page and view its "Page Information" which contains Recent changes with timestamps....so you may be able to whip something up using the Confluence API.

comments: author: Beau Le Blanc
body: Thanks, that's what it seemed like from everything I was reading about the plug-ins, just wanted someone to confirm.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Custom fields using Issue Collector
Asked by Harish Jujjuru -CONT-:

Hi All,

I created a Jira request Intake form using Issue Collectors. I was able to create story successfully using the form too.  
I have hard coded some of the fields in the form. But the problem I am having is, I see the hard coded fields are getting assigned to their default names - How do I get the same hard coded fields in the story created? Can someone help on this please.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shawn Masters
body: "I see the hard coded fields are getting assigned to their default names - How do I get the same hard coded fields in the story created?"

May need some clarification on what you are seeing vs what you expected.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to edit a confluence page I authored
Asked by Saige Fraiha:

I authored a page in confluence, which I have edited successfully many times before. As recently as September 3rd I was able to make changes. Normally an edit button appeared on the top right hand side of the page.

I've attached a screen shot below of what I've been seeing since last Wednesday or Thursday. I gave it the weekend and still see the same today.

I contacted our admin, and he assured me that my permissions are still in tact. What would cause the edit button to disappear? How can I edit this page?

![Screen Shot 2019-09-16 at 3.04.57 PM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66447i97CEE1A8D1620137/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2019-09-16 at 3.04.57 PM.png")


Answers:
author: Shawn Masters
body: If the admin is reporting no permissions changes or restrictions to editing on the Space/Parent Page i would check your browser to ensure it is up to date. I have seen users come in with some odd issues when their Chrome is out of date, clearing your cache/cookies as well can help resolve issues.

I would also check with a peer to see if they have the same issue or if its specific to you.

comments: author: Saige Fraiha
body: I cleared my cash and restarted the laptop, that seems to have cleared it up. I'm now able to edit again.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Livesearch macro width not changing
Asked by Claudia Linquanti-Sue:

We're putting together a Knowledgebase, and the home page has a Livesearch macro at the top. Even though I changed the size of the macro from Medium to Large, the width of the search bar is still only as wide as a Medium size search - although it has the look of the Large search. When I edit the macro, I can verify that it's set to Large, and the macro preview shows the expected width. As soon as I apply those settings, the width remains narrower than in the preview. I've tried removing and re-adding the macro, placing it into a table with a single column, and otherwise changing the layout of the page to allow the Livesearch width to expand, and nothing works. I can't find any other reference to this issue, so I hope there's already a solution out there.

Additional notes: We are currently using an out-of-the-box version of Cloud Confluence, we don't have any user macros or plug-ins installed.

![kb search issue 2.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66431iF56E861A0AFFB18E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "kb search issue 2.jpg")![kb search issue 1.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66430i05F41FC5F0A17A92/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "kb search issue 1.jpg")


Answers:
author: Tim
body: Still affected. When will this be fixed?

comments: author: Shane Hill
body: They tried to fix it recently, years later and still failed. Same width execpt the text now spans 2 lines and over laps. Released to Confluence Cloud, doubt they even tested.


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Claudia,

Welcome to Atlassian Community! It's nice to have you.

I've been able to replicate this issue, and indeed, you're running into a bug with the Livesearch Macro on the New Editor.

There's been a bug raised below:

* [CONFCLOUD-67396](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67396) *Livesearch macro does not respect the field size*

For anyone affected by this bug, please click **This affects my team** and you will automatically be added to the list of watchers on this case.

Thank you for your help!

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Brian
body: Hi, this is affecting our team. We will be watching this issue / awaiting a resolution. Thanks.

Regards,

-Brian


author: Matthew Harrison
body: This issue is still affecting our team. I have commented on the bug reports, hoping for a resolution soon.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

live-search
Data Center for in-house add-ons
Asked by Doug Swartz:

My company has built a few internal use addons for Jira and Confluence. In preparation for a possible move to Data Center, how do I get access to the 150+ architecture questions used for evaluating marketplace apps for Data Center?

Thank you.

Doug


Answers:
author: jira guy
body: Try posting this question in Atlassian developer community

comments: author: Doug Swartz
body: Good idea. Thank you.


Tags: data-center
I'm Suddenly Unable to Edit my Wiki's Overview Page.
Asked by Sean Manseau:

I logged out and back in. The buttons (Publish, etc) that used to be in the lower right hand corner are no longer there. Is this happening to anyone else?


Answers:
author: Sean Manseau
body: ![NoEdit.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66719i12199B18EB0176BD/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "NoEdit.jpg")Seriously where did the edit button go??
no edit ability to edit and table formatting is gone
Asked by Thomas_Reinke:

Today, for the first time, when I access a Confluence page on my laptop computer, I cannot edit content. Additionally, the entire toolbar that comes down when scrolling up is missing and the formatting of tables are missing. That is, no grid lines, no color in headers.

When I access the same pages, under my same account, on a different computer, everything is normal.

On both machines, I'm running Chrome (Version 77.0.3865.75) under Windows.


Answers:
author: Thomas_Reinke
body: Erasing the cache in Chrome resolved the problem.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Grant access to service account
Asked by Reena Deb Barma:

Hi,

I have a requirement to grant wiki access to a service account. I tried to add it to Confluence-users group but getting error and not allowing me to perform this action.


Answers:
author: Reena Deb Barma
body: It's a AD account.

Directory : Active Directory Service Accounts


author: Raynard Rhodes
body: Whoops, I mis-read. What does your server log say?


author: Reena Deb Barma
body: I need to add this user to "Confluence-User " group which is not in AD, hence if I edit the member of in AD for this service account, will not get this group there in list.


author: Raynard Rhodes
body: Right, but you have to edit the membership so the user can be added to the group through AD.

I'm sure if you right-click the group in AD and check members you should be able to add it there. This is from memory but this should work.


author: Reena Deb Barma
body: This service account is already in AD.


author: Raynard Rhodes
body: You have to add the user in AD and the update then the directory in Jira (or wait until it updates automatically)


author: Raynard Rhodes
body: Is the group local or being pulled through LDAP?


author: Reena Deb Barma
body: ![Wiki_Error.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66428i884A5DAD0AAF9599/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Wiki_Error.PNG")Hi RR,

I am getting this error.  
The following error(s) occurred:  
?Failed to modify group memberships. Check your server logs for more information.


author: Raynard Rhodes
body: What error are you getting? Are you the admin?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Unexpected HTML returned from user macro
Asked by Vitor LC:

Hi.

I created a user macro that accepts a confluence-content type parameter and uses it as the href attribute of an \<a\> tag. It works perfectly even if I add a title that doesn't exist, the class I provide are the one being applied, etc. No surprises there.

The only big surprise is that as soon as I define an external URL (for instance, [www.atlassian.com](http://www.atlassian.com)) it immediately changes the value of the class attribute to "external-link" and the value of the href turns into "\<base_url\>/display/\<space\>/\<external_url)" (e.g. http://localhost:8090/display/KM/[www.atlassian.com](http://www.atlassian.com)).

Code (compact):

```
## @param Title:title=Title|type=string|required=true

## @param Url:title=URL|type=confluence-content|required=true

## @param Type:title=Link Type|type=enum|enumValues=standard,light,no-decoration|default=standard



<a class="link-type-${paramType}" href="${paramUrl}">$paramTitle</a>
```

Parameter Values

* Title: Google Search
* URL: [www.google.com](http://www.google.com)
* Type: standard

Result:

\<a class="external-link" data-hasbody="false" data-macro-name="custom-link" href="<http://www.vitorcastelo.me/km/display/Support/www.google.com>" rel="nofollow"\>  
Google Search  
\</a\>

Expected:

\<a class="link-type-standard conf-macro output-inline" data-hasbody="false" data-macro-name="custom-link" href="[www.google.com](http://www.google.com)" rel="nofollow"\>  
Google Search  
\</a\>

Did anyone already bumped against this kind of behavior in a user macro?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: jira guy
body: I believe Atlassian recently made changes to how external links are viewed. External links will open in new window. It might have something to do with this behavior. Try creating a support ticket with Atlassian


Tags: user-macro
Which the correct configuration for anonymous access to confluence cloud recommendation
Asked by Marcela Junyent:

Which the correct configuration for anonymous access to confluence but restricted to my employees?

site-access : only invited user?

Confluence: allow anonymous access?

regards, Marce


Answers:
author: Marcela Junyent
body: if I set the site access to only invited users, anonymous users access don't have access to my site, therefore they cant see my confluence sites even if I set the global configuration to anonymous access allowed.

So, if I add an employee to my site , but not to confluence, they can get into the site site and see the spaces with anonymous access.  
Isn't that correct?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can't do it on Cloud. If you enable anonymous access, the world has access. If you need to restrict people, you need to identify them to know what they can do, so they can't be anonymous.


Tags: cloud
Display Pages with Label Macro
Asked by Robert Hoogen:

Is it possible to have a navigation at the end of the list? In my macro the list stops after the max. number of entries (e.g. 10) and there is no navigation to switch to the next 10 entries.


Answers:
author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hi [@Robert Hoogen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1268300) - did you set the number of shown pages to 10 maybe? You can maximize the number of shown pages up to 500. (-\> see also Macro Display Options [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-by-label-macro-145566.html))

Or did you use another macro?

comments: author: Robert Hoogen
body: I use the original macro. It works if i use the max of 500. But i want a shorter list seperated in 10 or 15 list items and the navigate to the next 10 or 15 items.


author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hmm I'm sorry but I don't think there is a out of the box solution for that. But would be interesting. A connection of the macro with a user macro may work.... let me have a thought on that.