youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How can I link Epic to the bars in Roadmap template.
Asked by Sona Evanesyan:

Hi Everyone ,

I have created a roadmap in confluence using JIra confluence roadmap template , where bars have names of epics , However I want to link epics to the bars not confluence pages and in case of necessity just go to epic right form the bar.

Or is there any other table type with timeline where I can put epic links on it.


Answers:
author: Kirk
body: Since you can link Confluence Pages to the bars in the Confluence Roadmap, you may want to create Individual Confluence Pages for each Issue, then simply insert an Individual Jira Issue Macro to the Individual Confluence Page.

![cdev-3.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144822iE12EFB669C476ACA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "cdev-3.jpg")

comments: author: Amie Scarpitti
body: This actually worked for me - my problem was I didn't realize it was working because there was a lag. It took like 4 or 5 seconds after I pasted the confluence page link where it says "Link page" for it to show up properly.


author: Walter Buggenhout
body: Hi [@Sona Evanesyan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3079384),

That does not seem to work. While you can add Confluence pages to a bar in the roadmap planner macro, it is not possible to include other *(clickable)* links there.

As a workaround, you could add the issue key of your epics to the description of the bar and add a table with your Epics below the Roadmap planner macro on your page. If you use the Jira Issues macro for that, an advantage of that approach is that you will be able to even see the actual status of the epics on your page.

In requirements gathering it is also not an uncommon scenario to elaborate your epics in Confluence before they even exist in Jira. Should you choose such an approach, then linking the Confluence page in the roadmap macro would make sense too. And you can still combine it with the Jira issues macro I mentioned before.

Hope this helps!

comments: author: Sona Evanesyan
body: Hi Walter ,

I actually did this way.

Thanks


author: Walter Buggenhout
body: Glad to hear that helped, [@Sona Evanesyan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3079384). If you are happy with the provided workaround, could you be so kind to accept this answer? That makes it easier to find for other folks with a similar question!


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SEO Title and Meta description
Asked by Tal Levin:

Hi,

How do I add/optimize SEO meta tags to the confluence pages? We are using Refined theme. What is the best solution?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The best option is to write good content.  

SEO has become a biased game that changes all the time, and it is nearly dead as an idea because the main search engines are all refining their searches to get people what they need, not a pile of adverts.

Most attempts at SEO are now seen as simple spam and hence ignored. The Atlassian community welcomes all interactions but blocks stuff that might be spam or SEO because it simply doesn't need it.


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server
How to calculate change percentage in pivot table and show on chart
Asked by emagnun:

Hello,

I have a table that has products sold on yearly basis.   
![table.JPG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144490i21EC6ADFFEF78310/image-dimensions/342x356?v=v2 "table.JPG")

Below is my chart and pivot table generated from the table. As you can see product-A increased from 1 to 2 (100% increase) between FY2019 and FY2020. How do I get to show this change % in the chart ??? Similarly, Product-B has 50% decrease (2 to 1) between FY2019 and 2020. How to do I display that information in my chart and pivot table?

![count.JPG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144493i2E389BECFA9CB4FA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "count.JPG")


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@emagnun](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4359249) ,

You may try the following: create a sequence "your table \<- Pivot Table \<- [Table Transformer](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Transformer+macro) \<- Chart from Table".

![Mon 1-1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144506i6F91187F09FE44F1/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 1-1.png")

And set your macros as it is shown on the screenshots:

**Pivot Table macro**

**![Mon 1-2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144507i2C0C87D0F7D088C6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 1-2.png")**

**Table Transformer macro**

![Mon 1-3.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144508i7E118D85BC474DE8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 1-3.png")

SELECT T1.'Product Type', T1.'Count FY2019', T1.'Count FY2020',  
ROUND((T1.'Count FY2020'\*100/T1.'Count FY2019' - 100), 2) AS 'Growth, %'  
FROM T\*

![Mon 1-4.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144509iD9EDFA7945E3CFF6/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 1-4.png")

**Chart from Table macro**

![Mon 1-5.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144511iCD5850A767A5765B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Mon 1-5.png")

It seems that the result is pretty close to your case, hope it helps.

comments: author: emagnun
body: Thank you.

However, this exactly doesn't suit my needs. I would like see this from FY perspective in the X axis.

Is it possible to view the growth as something like this???

![growth.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144546iB1CFC79C8E0F93D4/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "growth.png")


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: I'm afraid that such custom graph where you show both absolute numbers and percent of growth in comparison with the previous period is not possible within our macro.


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Is bamboo stopped issuing trial licence
Asked by Shyama:

I am unable to get Bamboo trail license. Any idea how to get it


Answers:
author: Kurt Klinner
body: [@Shyama](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4405188)

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

Have you tried to login to <https://my.atlassian.com/> and to generate a new trial license for bamboo there?

![Screenshot 2021-05-23 at 06.08.23.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144455iDC0E656EA818EFED/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2021-05-23 at 06.08.23.png")

Let me know if it works

Cheers

Kurt


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I couldn't able to sign up for Confluence
Asked by CAPPM:

Hi,

I've signed up for Bitbucket but I couldn't able to sign up for Confluence/Jira. I'm getting the following message while signing up.

"It's taking longer than expected to get you started. Please check your inbox to see if the order has completed successfully, or contact us."

Let me know how to proceed.


Answers:
author: CAPPM
body: It works now.


author: Mohamed Adel
body: Hi [@CAPPM](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4405329) and welcome to the community,

Can you please inform when did you tried to sign up for confluence? you can check the Atlassian Confluence service status here <https://confluence.status.atlassian.com/> and report problems if still persist for several hours

Regards,

Mohamed Adel

comments: author: CAPPM
body: [@Mohamed Adel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1185930) I'm trying it for the past two hours. Service status is fine and operational. But the issue still persist.


author: Mohamed Adel
body: [@CAPPM](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4405329)

If the case still persist then please report a problem and you can find the link on the status page


author: Djamely
body: i am facing the same issue

comments: author: CAPPM
body: [@Djamely](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4405350) It worked now for me.


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IOs browser not supported
Asked by Werner Conzelmann:

I want to open a Confluence cloud area on my Ipad, IOS 12.5.3.

Confluence tells me ?browser not supported".

How can I fix this?


Answers:
author: Kurt Klinner
body: [@Werner Conzelmann](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4384904)

Hi Werner

welcome to the Atlassian community.

The list of supported browsers can be found at <https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-account/docs/supported-browsers-for-atlassian-cloud-products/>, like stated there i think the best approach is that you check out the [Confluence Cloud app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atlassian.android.confluence.core&hl=de&gl=US)

Hope that helps

Kurt


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confluence-cloud
Need Help to get setFields in GreenId from vixverify
Asked by Ali Yousaf:

getting fatal error in php, while getting response, error is below

error -\>

```

Fatal error:  Uncaught SoapFault exception: [env:Server] An unexpected error occurred. in C:\xampp2\htdocs\prjs\soap\check.php:36
```

my code -\>

try {

$paramsForSetFields = array('accountId'=\>$aid, 'password'=\>$pass, 'verificationId'=\>$verifid, 'sourceId'=\>'nswregodvs', 'verificationToken'=\>'', 'inputFields'=\>array());

$setFieldsResponse = $client-\>setFields($paramsForSetFields); } catch (SoapFault $e) { echo $e; }

echo "\<pre\>";

print_r( $client-\>setFields($paramsForSetFields) );

echo "\</pre\>";


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Could you explain what this has to do with Confluence?


author: Ali Yousaf
body: $client = new SoapClient('<https://au.vixverify.com/Registrations-Registrations/DynamicFormsServiceV3?wsdl>');


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confluence-cloud
How to find the most common sites, pages and key words being used in confluence
Asked by Stephen Clark:

We are trying to consolidate our duplicative site data nd therefore are looking to find the most common sites, which are the most popular pages being hit on these site and what key words are getting people to these site. I was wondering if anyone lese has tackled this problem before?

* The top 100 sites being hit/viewed
* The top 200 key words being searched
* Top top 100 pages on the popular sites being hit/viewed. I found this one, but still looking for answers to the others <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-can-i-find-which-pages-users-have-recently-viewed-954251927.html>


Answers:
author: Suhas P
body: There is a nice plugin you could take a look at.

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215565/page-views?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215565/page-views?hosting=server&tab=overview)


Tags: analytics

confluence-server

report

server
Add a shared folder link
Asked by Marcus O_Brien:

Hi,

I would like add a link to a file on my **Confluence Cloud** page, when clicked, have it perform the equivalent of a double click in Windows. If not at least open an Windows Explorer where the file is. The location of the file

\\\\10.10.10.10\\folder1\\folder2\\FW-SW Development Process.mp4

I have tried adding the file: with various random slashes, but I cant close the insert URL box in the page editor. I presume its parsing the URL, and if its not valid I can't use it.

If this can't be done this way, what is the correct way to have files accessible from pages ? Is the only way to embed/attach the file ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: While \\\\\<server\>\\\<path\> links are valid as UNCs, they're not valid URLs (partly) because they refer to things that might not be on the network as others see it. Confluence is a web application, when working with links, it rightly expects them to be valid URLs.

Confluence can't close the "insert URL" box because you have not given it a URL, you've only provided a UNC and those are not (always) URLs. So, yes, you are spot-on - it's trying to parse a URL, getting an invalid one and "computer says no"

To make a file accessible from a page, yes, you can attach them, but you have a couple of other options - one is to serve the files up on a service that supports presenting them as proper urls, and the .other is to configure your browser to understand links of the form file://\<server\>/\<path\>.

comments: author: Marcus O_Brien
body: Haha yes "Computer says no", story of my life - I miss LB. Anyway awesome answer, thanks for the options. I will aim to get all these remote resources served properly so I can get URLs, as they are currently on a share, forgive my ignorance but what is the way to do that ? A HTTP File Server ? As these files are video could this also be done with a video streaming server ? Then we wouldnt need to download the files before playing, or would they not be URLs if it was streams ?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, a video streaming service would probably be the most friendly option for your people!


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Working on the plugin tutorial
Asked by Devin Grace:

I have been trying to complete the Confluence blueprint plugin tutorial and have been doing it inside a Windows 10 Virtual machine. I have completed the install of the plugin with "atlas-create-confluence-plugin" in the command line and now I used "atlas-run" to get the server up.

When it runs, sometimes it finishes, sometimes it will freeze. If it does finish, I go to the local host site like instructed but can never seem to connect to it through the browser (I am using the vm browser to try and access it). This also applies to the Atlassian Plugin SDK tutorial.

Does anyone have experience with creating plugins within a virtual machine and/or know how to consistently get the server to complete as well as access the plugin through the browser?

Any help is welcomed!

The Confluence Blueprint tutorial: <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/write-a-simple-confluence-blueprint-plugin/>

The Atlassian Plugin SDK tutorial: <https://developer.atlassian.com/server/framework/atlassian-sdk/set-up-the-atlassian-plugin-sdk-and-build-a-project/>


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What does the terminal output say when the service is running and fails? And the log?

comments: author: Devin Grace
body: For the jira plugin these are the last 5 lines before it freezes:

<br />

\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] 2021-05-24 05:47:52,539 Caesium-1-4 INFO \[c.a.jira.upgrade.UpgradeScheduler\] Plugins upgrades completed successfully  
\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] 2021-05-24 05:47:52,539 Caesium-1-4 INFO \[c.a.jira.upgrade.UpgradeIndexManager\] Reindexing is not allowed after this upgrade and there is no immediate reindex requests  
\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] May 24, 2021 5:47:53 AM com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl _initiate  
\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] INFO: Initiating Jersey application, version 'Jersey: 1.19 02/11/2015 03:25 AM'  
\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] 2021-05-24 05:47:57,071 Caesium-1-4 DEBUG \[c.a.activeobjects.osgi.ActiveObjectsServiceFactory\] getService bundle \[com.atlassian.troubleshooting.plugin-jira\]

No errors given. And here is the Confluence plugin 5 lines:

\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler \["http-nio-1990"\]  
\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] May 24, 2021 6:03:48 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start  
\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler \["ajp-nio-8009"\]  
\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] May 24, 2021 6:03:48 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start  
\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] INFO: Server startup in 41120 ms

This also does not give any errors in the command line. Thanks for your interest in this! As for when the Confluence completes, the website just gives a 404 error.


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How to add a custom time filter to a linked JIRA table?
Asked by Eric Vaughn Heisler:

I simply want to see how many JIRA tickets have been reported by a user over a period of time.

I have the Confluence page created and have the table setup for how many tickets have been reported by a user but am having trouble implementing a time filter. Ideally it would be custom so I could filter however I choose otherwise being able to look at the "last 3 months" would be beneficial as well for quarterly reviewing.


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hi [@Eric Vaughn Heisler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4404660) ,

We can suggest using our app to filter your Jira Issues macro - [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) app.

Its [Table Filter](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Filter+macro) macro works with the Jira Issues macro perfectly well - you'll be able to show as many issues as you have by the Jira Issues macro and filter them by any column (and several columns at once as well) from the page view mode.

![Wed 1-1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144488i50E743E28FF3EBD8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Wed 1-1.png")

You may filter on the fly or save changes for your colleagues to see the pre-filtered table.

You may also go further and create [real-time Jira dashboards in Confluence](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/Using+Table+Filter+and+Charts+in+Combination+with+the+Jira+Issues+Macro) using the [Pivot Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Pivot+Table+macro) and [Chart from Table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Chart+from+Table+macro) macros.


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Created a nested task list
Asked by Grant Allen:

Let's say I have 3 pages: A, B, and C.

A depends on Page B.

B depends on Page C.

On Page B I can define a task report that includes tasks from Page C, that's pretty basic.

On Page A I would like to define a task report and tell it to include action items from Page B and because B has a dependency on C, it would automatically know to include action items from page C.

Things I've tried:  
- On page B "Include Page: C". Now both B's action items and C's action items are visible on page B, but when I create a task report on A that points at B, I only see B's action items.

- I cannot make C a child of B, and B a child of A. This structure would break as soon as I need page D to also depend on C (can't have two parents for 1 child).

Having to manually define page A's task report as dependent on both B and C, and then also having to define page B as being dependent on C creates a redundancy problem and becomes very difficult to keep every page updated when things change.

Am I missing any way to do nested task lists?


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Grant and welcome to the Community!

It sounds like you're hitting the limitations of scaling Confluence tasks, base on your example above. Normally, this leads folks to start using Jira to create issues to more easily track the progress of their tasks (issues) and have a simplified way of reporting on tasks (issues) between pages and reports.

This may be an opportune time to review Jira (We offer free plans) as part of your task management. Some articles we would suggest reviewing to help on your discovery of scale are:

* [Task management with Confluence and Jira](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/task-management-confluence-jira)
* [Link Jira issues to Confluence pages automatically](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/link-jira-issues-to-confluence-pages-automatically)
* [What are issue types?](https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/what-are-issue-types/)
* [Insert the Jira issues macro](https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-the-jira-issues-macro/)

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


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confluence-cloud

report

task
Best ways to share Confluence content with non-Confluence users
Asked by Samantha Sharkov:

Hi there,

I am using Confluence page for Release Notes. I need then to share in a Word format with my org. Copy-pasting is not great because the styles get messed up. Any ideas on sharing the content with minimal effort? PDFs don't look great either...


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: I think you might look at third party plugins.. There is one example - Scroll Office (Scroll Word Exporter)

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/24982/scroll-word-exporter-for-confluence?hosting=cloud\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/24982/scroll-word-exporter-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

This plugin for example allow you to use a REST API URL that would speed up whole process of exporting and even you can thanks to that automate it!


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confluence-cloud
Automatically displaying CSV file from S3 bucket into Confluence Page
Asked by aakif shaikh:

We have a script that runs every night and throws the CSV file into an S3 bucket. We were wondering if there's a way we can directly consume that CSV file to display on the confluence page. And because the script runs every night- s3 will have a new CSV every day and so the confluence page that displays the data will always be up-to-date.

Please advise us on how we can achieve this or any other approach. Remember my goal is not to show the s3 bucket into the confluence page but instead display the CSV file that's residing in S3.


Answers:
author: Katerina Rudkovskaya [Stiltsoft]
body: Hello [@aakif shaikh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4404495),

You can try the [Table from CSV](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+from+CSV+macro) macro of [Table Filter and Charts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) app in this case.

It allows you to output a table from CSV or TSV data source on the Confluence page.

![2021-05-21_21h50_20.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/144414iB83FEBB90AAB245E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2021-05-21_21h50_20.png")  

Katerina  
Stiltsoft

comments: author: Nikki Leonard
body: I don't know that manually adding the CSV is ideal. It would be good if that could be automated even if its is a download-only option on the confluence page. For example, S3 gets new file in certain folder then adds a download option in confluence. Not sure if this would require some method of SSO for organization/domain level OR password holding external users.


author: Akshara
body: Hi can I know how you are sending CSV files into S3 bucket


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server