Pasting an Excel chart not working

Rodney Hughes

Has anyone else experienced a new problem with pasting an Excel chart onto a Confluence page?

It has previously worked fine as follows:

1. Create a chart in Excel.
2. Copy the chart
3. Paste onto a Confluence page - Confluence creates a PNG file "on the fly" as the attachment

EASY!   Very User friendly 👌👍😁

But as of a few days ago when we save the page it now shows an "error line" as follows

com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.XhtmlException: Missing required attribute: {http://atlassian.com/resource/identifier}value

And that error message hyperlink is to a "404 page not found"

We have replicated the problem in different Spaces using different spreadsheet and dummy data

We have been on v 7.2.1 for a few years now.

the page has successfully pasted images earlier in October .. but now Confluence won't even show the new pasted charts as at attachment .. i.e. it doesn't even appear as an attached file like the older charts do.

Anyone know what has happened?

the temporary and annoying work around seems to be:

1. Select the chart in Excel, press Copy
2. Then Paste the chart into Powerpoint or Word etc
3. Right-click the image in Powerpoint and select <<Save as Picture>> - best choice is probably to save as a PNG file
4. Then in Confluence insert that PNG file

 

Tinker Fadoua

@Rodney Hughes 

Why do you copy/paste?

• Add the attachment to the list by clicking on the icon in Confluence. But don't insert it in the page
• You click on Macros -> Excelsheet, you should be able to see your chart directly in Confluence