youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Trying to Setup a TL;DR Page For Daily Information
Asked by Jon Simone:

Hey hey,

I know there aren't any direct macros for this so I am just open to ideas here. We are trying to set up a page that 3 people can go into and add short daily NEED TO KNOW snippets into (manually pulled from blogs, emails, etc). We want people to be able to watch this page so they receive email notifications when it is updated. We want everything to be archived. We want it to only show information for the last 7 days. We have tried setting up a private blog and then using the Blog Post Macro (with details) to accomplish this but the problem with this is that it send notifications to watchers.

We also tried manually updating one page and then deleting any entry past the seventh day but then we have to manually archive.

Any work arounds for this? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Nick Muldoon
body: Hi Jon,

Perhaps:

1. one blog post per day (the three people collaborate to draft and publish)
2. use [Better Blogs](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.arijea.plugins.betterblogs), add a group ('employees'?) as watchers and know that everyone receives the update via email

You've then got a) an archive of the contents as past blog posts, b) a place to discuss the days updates, and c) email notifications to all relevant parties.

Regards,  
[Nicholas Muldoon](https://twitter.com/njm)  
[Arijea](http://arijea.com/), creators of [Better Blogs for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.arijea.plugins.betterblogs)

comments: author: Jon Simone
body: Unfortunately, we are on Cloud. Hopefully, we will be moving to server soon! Thinking about going with Contegix.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: I don't quite understand the "problem" of sending notifications - isn't that what you want?... but I'll offer this

The standard \<\<Create\>\> button allows a Blog post to be created. Then when you \<\<Browse\>Blog posts you see all the historical blogs

On another page in Edit mode

select Insert\>OtherMacros\>BlogPosts

Configure the Time Frame to show posts in last "7d" or "8w" or "2m" ...


Tags: blog

cloud

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notification

watcher
Is there a way to create a site template from one of your spaces?
Asked by joshua jaffe:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Customizing Default Space Content](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=61015351)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: No there is not. Right now Blueprints are added as add-ons using Space Blueprints. <https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-blueprints/space-blueprints>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

template
How could I setup a leaderboard at my Confluence?
Asked by Meck:

Could I setup a leaderboard at my Confluence? How can I do that?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-could-I-setup-a-leaderboard-at-my-Confluence/qaq-p/74681?attachment-id=3459){#link_1186ce07cb7cb7}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/12643/1/image2016-6-4%204%3A17%3A25.png){#display_1186ce07cb7cb7_0}


Answers:
author: 811planon
body: I see this feature at atlassian, but not in my Confluence Questions. I would like to use it too.


author: ?? ??
body: I also want to try to use it if possible....


author: Meck
body: Hello Rodney,

Something like that:

image2016-6-4 4:17:25.png


author: Rodney Hughes
body: Define "leaderboard" - what do you want to display?
Migrate Mediawiki -> Confluence
Asked by Casey Daniell:

I see a few older threads about migrating from MediaWiki -\> Confluence

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/32751>

using <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/archive/com.atlassian.uwc>

however, nothing is too recent or active.

How do we go about doing this now? Am I missing something simple?


Answers:
author: 105349
body: Hey Casey!

You're not missing something simple, sadly. This is a super common question, and one that has a few answers. Check out these threads:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38837798>

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38839988>

Basically, you can use either an HTML dump from MediaWiki, or use the deprecated UWC and hope that it mostly works. I wish there was a better solution, but there are so many variations of wikis out there, there's no one size fits all solution.

Good luck!


author: Bill Bailey
body: Yeah, this does take some work. I have done it recently for a client. To do intelligently, you also need to convert any MediaWiki templates to Confluence macros to save on manual work later, which also implies creating some user macros for the mapping. It takes time, but reduces user anxiety over moving to Confluence. You should set aside about 80+ man-hours for the task.


Tags: confluence-administration
Accidentally deleted "Configure other Applications" entry in JIRA.
Asked by Craig Coburn:

Now I can't log in to Confluence.

I tried deleting my Confluence Config file and starting over. That does reestablish the link to JIRA and I can log in with those accounts again.

BUT when I restore my Confluence data (probably the whole site) then I am not able to log in.

Unfortunately I don't know the root Confluence account or if there even is one since it was configured to use JIRA users from the get go. I can see a whole mess of local users from Windows AD in the backup file.

Thanks for any help.


Answers:
author: 105349
body: Hey Craig!

That is a frustrating situation. ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

If it were me, the first thing I would probably do is get a local admin password configured for Confluence ASAP. Even though user management was delegated to JIRA, there should still be a local admin you can log in with, (or you can create a new one).

If you can't retrieve those credentials from whoever was responsible for the instance before, you'll have to go through these steps:

[Restore Passwords To Recover Admin User Rights](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html)

It's going to require a fair bit of DB work, but it may be a blessing in disguise. Having a local admin account is insanely handy.

Aside from that, do you have backups from before you deleted the entry in question?

Good luck!

comments: author: Craig Coburn
body: Cody, thanks for the link. That worked like a charm. I was hesitant since I have little experience with SQL, but it worked verbatim in our MS SQL instance. I added a "local" (local to Confluence) admin account and we are back in. I'm thinking we never actually created a local admin account since we just latched it right up to our JIRA install. I will be latching it back up to JIRA again, but I'll leave that local admin count in there as well.

Thanks Again.


author: 105349
body: Awesome! Great to hear, Craig.

If you have a second, I'd appreciate you marking this as answered. Thank you!!


Tags: confluence-administration
Can't get the Gantt Chart working
Asked by jbrassard:

Hi, I'm trying to use the Gantt Chart form Google Charts but can't seem to get it to run.

Based on my investigation, it may be due to some [limitations of Google Charts](https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/basic_load_libs#basic-library-loading) or the specific version you're bundling with Pocket Query (not sure if you're bundling or loading from CDN?)

What version of GChart is included? I'm using Pocket Query 2.1

Here's my current template content:

```
#set($sprintLenghtInMs = 13 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;		PocketQuery.loadCharts(['gantt'], {		dataTable: [		#foreach ($story in $result)			#set( $Int = 0 )			#set( $year  = $story.StartDate.substring(0,4) )			#set( $month = $Int.parseInt( $story.StartDate.substring(5,7).replaceFirst("^0+(?!$)","") ) - 1 )			#set( $day   = $story.StartDate.substring(8,10).replaceFirst("^0+(?!$)","") )			["$story.Id", "$story.Title", "$story.Team", new Date($year, $month, $day), null, $sprintLenghtInMs, 100, null]#if($velocityHasNext),#end		#end    ]	});&lt;/script&gt;
```

And get the following error:

<br />

?file=visualization\&v=1.0\&packages=gantt\&async=2:3 Uncaught Error: Module: 'visualization' with package: 'gantt' not found!

Thanks for your awesome plugin!


Answers:
author: Felix Grund (Scandio)
body: Hi Julien!

The Gantt Chart is currently the only chart type that is not supported by the PocketQuery API, unfortunately. There is also a note in the docs:
>
> ```
> The Gantt chart is in beta and may be undergoing substantial revisions in future Google Charts releases.
> ```

You can't use another chart type for your purpose? If not so, there might still be a workaround. If you are good in JS programming, you can use one or more of the methods PocketQuery.queryArray(queryName), PocketQuery.queryObject(queryName), PocketQuery.queryColumns(queryName). These will return your data as JavaScript structures. Using these, you can use the Google Charts API directly as written in [their example](https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/ganttchart#a-simple-example), without using PocketQuery.chart. But this will require some time experimenting with JS Code, I fear.

Let me know if you need further help!

Regards, Felix (Scandio)
How do I make tabs on the header in page
Asked by Jeannene Schelski:

I am trying to make a header on the top with tabs that correspond to the pages that I will use. How do I make these. I did it before with a macro but cant remember the name i think it was card or something like that can you assist.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I suspect you were using the card and deck macros from the [Composition add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.composition/cloud/overview) or possibly [Navitabs](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.navitabs/server/overview)
Is there a means of swapping the rows and columns in the 'page properties report' macro ?
Asked by Ralph Kringhs:

Is there an option to the page-properties report macro to have the properties rendered as rows and the matching pages shown as columns ?


Answers:
author: Al Genzlinger
body: Shouldn't this be an easy to add option (checkbox) to swap column/row display of the Page Properties Report?

I would also be interested in this option.


author: Davin Studer
body: There is not.
Export any marked text from the page.
Asked by Alexei:

Hello All.

Does anyone know how I might export all marked text from the page? (confluence 5.85)

Text can by bold/italic/underline.

Example

++source text:++

1. On the **Navigation** menu, point to **Customer Information Management** and then click **Residential Customers**.
2. On the toolbar of the Customer Accounts table, click **New Residential Customer** .   

++export text:++

**Navigation**

****Customer Information Management****

**Residential Customers**

****New Residential Customer****

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Marcel Woschek
body: You could write a small plugin extracting the body of the page and filter the content with a regular expression.

The page content is stored in XHTML so the bold text looks like this: **\<strong\>some Text\</strong\>**.

The RegEx might then look something like this: **\<strong\>\[A-z,-\\s\]+\<\\/strong\>**

To get the substrings out of the page content you might use something like this:

```
Pattern p0 = Pattern.compile("&lt;strong&gt;[A-z,-\s]+&lt;\/strong&gt;");Matcher m = p0.matcher(pageContent);while (m.find()){  System.out.printf("%s%n", m.group(1));}
```

**Edit:**

I guess this RegEx should be even better, because it matches any character except line breaks. Also you need two backslashes, one for Java and one for the RegEx syntax:

```
Pattern p0 = Pattern.compile("&lt;strong&gt;(.*)&lt;\\/strong&gt;");
```


Tags: export

text
Any idea if this will be updated to support Confluence 5.9.4+?
Asked by Aidan Reilly:

:smile:


Answers:
author: 105349
body: Hey Adian!

I suggest that you contact the plugin vendor directly. You'll probably get an answer quicker than here. :smile:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/1212089>

I'll also CC the contact from that page:

cc // @Takashi ITOH?????????


Tags: confluence-administration
How to link to page with a colon in the page title?
Asked by Robert Riemann:

Hi,

we are writing our software documentation in Confluence.

Some Confluence pages need a colon ":" in their page title.

And sometimes it is necessary to set a link to such a page from another page. When I try to do so, Confluence says, that it does not recognize the part in front of the colon as a valid spacekey (which is correct).

How can I even so link to such a page (except of renaming the targe page)?

Thanks in advance

Robert


Answers:
author: Ken Williams
body: I discovered that this can work if you use the "Advanced" tab for editing the link, and include the Space ID in the link. It seems to know the first colon separates the link from the page, and the second colon is part of the page name.

If you go back to the link editor, it will forget that you gave it a space name explicitly (maybe only when it's the same space as the space of the page you're editing?) and you have to type it back in each time you edit.

To link to an auto-generated anchor (e.g. from a Table of Contents) on the target page, you can append "#" and the portion of the named anchor that corresponds to the header of the section you're linking to. This means stripping off the portion of the named anchor that corresponds to the name of the page itself.

Example: I'm linking to

* <https://example.com/display/FOO/WARP:+WindLogics+Archive+of+R+Packages#WARP:WindLogicsArchiveofRPackages-ConfiguringaGitLabbuildforanRpackage> .

I need to insert

* FOO:WARP: WindLogics Archive of R Packages#ConfiguringaGitLabbuildforanRpackage

as the Link in the Advanced link editor, and keep prepending "FOO" every time I subsequently edit the link.

Tested using Confluence 6.1.1.

comments: author: Tim H_
body: Helpful, Ken! Using Confluence 6.6.7, I was actually able to accomplish this by prepending just a colon to the anchor link (no space name required).


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm afraid you can't - the : is used by Confluence to separate Space:Pagename so, although you can use it in a page name, it can't be referred to by the internal linking system.


author: Milo Test
body: By "link" are you referring to a hyperlink or include page?


Tags: issue-link

link
I want to add new links in my children dispay, how can i do it?
Asked by harsh verma:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Topics](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=407724479)*

I want to add new links in my children dispay, how can i do it?


Answers:
author: Meck
body: Hello @harsh verma,

Are you talking about Children Display Macro?

Are you looking for something about it? <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/children-display-macro-139501.html>

Lemme know.

Regards,

Lameck.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: ????

So you have created a new Child page ... go to the page, press the "Edit" at top right (or just press the letter "e" on your keyboard.

Now just copy and paste the URL into the page body

or on the wiki toolbar select Link or Insert\>Link


author: Milo Test
body: If you want to add more linked pages to the Child Display macro, just view the parent page (the one with the macro or referenced by the macro) and click **Create** to start another page under that parent.

If you want to show the children of the children, select the Child Display macro, click **Edit** , and alter the number in the **Number of Children** field (blank will show all the descendents).


author: joanna ransome-wallis
body: What sort of links are you referring to? other pages in confluence, url's, files within a network?


Tags: child-page

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confluence-cloud
How to import organizational information into Draw.IO from Active Directory
Asked by Adam S.:

Is there any way to be able to import organizational information from Active Directory into a Draw.IO org chart? I don't mind exporting this information out of AD, but so far I can only see certain file formats supported by Draw.IO. The XML format (if it expects a similar layout to the exported XML document) looks a bit convoluted to have to go from basic information to all the necessary cell stylings and geometries and properties (etc.).

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: We don't currently support automatic import, but you're welcome to suggest it as a [feature request](https://draw.uservoice.com/forums/266072-feature-requests/filters/top). Is there a link to the formats that AD can export to somewhere?

comments: author: Adam S.
body: Hi David, I have created a feature request as suggested.

Perhaps not ideal - extracting data from AD can be done with powershell. There is an example of going from AD to CSV [here](https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/powershell-script-to-5edcdaea).

However, food-for-thought, Confluence has the ability for creating user directories with AD. It also can sync with a remote JIRA directory which might be synced with AD as well. Furthermore, there is a JIRA add-on that can gather more attributes from AD than the standard called "Active Directory Attributes Sync" [here](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.intenso.jira.plugins.ad-integration-manager/server/overview). I might be pushing it here though - but it's interesting to know that the functionality is there.

User's do have some limited profile information in Confluence that is org related. But I would hesitate using that information if users can change that data via a customer portal


Tags: confluence-administration

draw.io
Keep expand close when prinitng or PDF / Word export
Asked by Michael Pirker:

is there a way to keep an expand close when I want to export my documents?

I have the document tree in an expand section which I use in every of my documents. It is impossible to print these documents when for every page 2 pages of document trees will be added. So I need a good trick to keep this expand macro closed for exports or print activities.


Answers:
author: m@
body: You can do this by customising the stylesheet for PDF exports from your space, I did it by setting the space PDF export style sheet (see: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Advanced+PDF+Export+Customizations>) to:

```
.expand-container?{?display:?none?} ?
```

Good Luck!


Tags: expand

macro
How can I add a column to "File list" (Attachment Macro)
Asked by Tom Dunaway:

I would like to add an additional column (or two) to the standard confluence "File List" list view. A similar question has been asked and answered by using the comments section in the attachment properties. This doesn't solve the problem I'm working on. I would like to be able to see and sort by additional fields beyond just "File" and "Modified" which are the only two fields that appear today in the list view.

Please let me know if you are aware of a way for me to add another sortable column to the File List.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Try the [Attachment Table Macro](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL/Attachment+Table+Macro?src=sidebar) from [Advanced Tables for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to have an anonymous template page? Maybe share a tiny url somehow, template gets filled in, saved and thats all they see.
Asked by Robert Woodhead:

[Is it possible to have an anonymous template page within Confluence? Maybe share a tiny url somehow, template gets filled in, saved and thats all they see.](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38764051/is-it-possible-to-have-an-anonymous-template-page-maybe-share-a-tiny-url-somehow-template-gets-filled-in-saved-and-thats-all-they-see.-) {#toc-hId-480786618}
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Please clarify what you are wanting.


Tags: confluence-administration
TOC Macro hide headers by class
Asked by Laker Sparks:

On my page I use the Questions List Macro which creates content with H2 and H3 headers. I would like to include H2 and H3 headers in my TOC, but I don't want the ones from the Questions macro to show up. I noticed that these inserted headers have a class. Is there a way to exclude headers not by a regular expression but by class? Or is there another approach that I'm not thinking of?


Answers:
author: joanna ransome-wallis
body: Can you exclude them from the TOC using the exclude field?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Export to pdf
Asked by Anton Zharkikh:

Hi,

at exprt pdf stylesheet i have this css:

.fsTitlePage   
{  
margin-top: 0mm;  
margin-right: 0mm;  
float: right;  
}

how can i put this div to each page of pdf on export?


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: It works a little different. If you want to give your pages a certain style, you must

1. find a html element or .class or .id at the right place in your wiki page
2. define the styles for that in the PDF Export Stylesheet


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I want to stop pages in a space from being accessed in Search, but still available for their images
Asked by LightWave Docs:

My Confluence wiki, the first I've made, has been a sequence of learning exercises. As such, I have older pages that were made as imports from InDesign pages and largely reworked in Confluence. My problem is that these imports contain images that I expected to be moved to the edited pages, but are only referenced from these original imports. This means I can't just delete the imports, or move them to a different space, because then the images break in the edited pages. So, I need a way to either repatriate these images to the new pages or I'd like to find a way to hide the original imports from any searches that users do (right now, it's beta users that have an account, but once the software is released it will be for users of our application without a login).

As an example, users searching for HyperVoxels find not only current references, but also references to the original import pages. I would like to restrict the searches to only new references to HyperVoxels.

Thanks for help in advance,

B


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: The "links" shouldn't break if you delete the original; the images will remain in the space when they are copied to a new page and the original is deleted.

comments: author: LightWave Docs
body: That doesn't seem to be true for me. Killing pages also kills the links. And if I have to copy each image over that will be a long and laborious nightmare.Especially since Confluence has no multiple page functions. Everything has to be done piecemeal.

B