Thomas Bowskill Rising Star

The email notifications are great for me -- a little noisy, but I actually find it's easier to see the things I am interested in now that I get an email each time; I never got to the bottom of the daily digests. Already has meant I am posting more in the community. Although this does need to go hand-in-hand with managing…

Hi @YJ Huang If the plugin creates macros, then you can use the Marco Usage section in the admin menu to get a report on what macros are used where. See: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-get-a-list-of-the-most-popular-macros-used-in-confluence-353764197.html

Hi @Peter Schupp while this doesn't really answer what you need, you might find some help from the "Macro Usage" report that Confluence admins have. That will at least show you the level of use and which pages have which macros. I don't know of a way to auto-replace them though.…

Hi @Geoff Chiang On your Pages, do your tables (within the Page Properties macros) have the same headers? I had this issue before, and the cause turned out to be the same table headers were used. Was getting an extra row for every duplicated header. Check to see if your tables have the same text as the headers -- if they…

Hi @Jessi Have you considered using the Table of Contents macro with headers instead of Anchors? I use this a lot as it gives the jump points.

@Grant Hogarth not that I have found; however, I often do as you describe and there are two things I find the help work around it: * Putting the instructions content in a panel (or info, note, tip warning) box * Headers above the video and instructions content Screenshots of examples I have my side of what pages like that…

@Rachel Robins that's really helpful, as I often create internal articles on how to use certain features of Confluence, but with the improved macros, it looks like my time can be saved by pointing to these (and I can focus a bit more on advising people on how to style the pages using Macros... which I think would be a…

Honestly, if I had that request, I would ask the local IT team, or the senior exec's PA to set up an auto-rule in whatever the email client is, or even the Exchange, if they wanted absolutely no emails coming through. @Kathryn Reddie when you said "you already have the checkbox" -- do you mean button from No Email Storm,…

@Ot this is something that the Space Admin controls, as it's under the Space Permissions section. If you have access to this, you can remove the "Add Comments" permission from everyone, but that affects the whole Space -- so it might not work if you are just looking to do this on a subset of Pages.

Hi @Ester Hirshman Assuming it is just regular page edits and updates, there are a couple of things: * You can change your Watch preferences, which Atlassian as a page on, (and there should also be a link at the bottom of the emails you get that lets you go to your watched pages to change these) * Ask the people doing the…

@tuxiaolin2367 depends on how you have added the form. What type of page do you have it in (is it a vanilla confluence page?) are there macros it's contained within. Got a screenshot of a form in edit mode? Maybe I'll be able to spot something. (If not try the vendor?) Realised after originally posting the reply that I…

@Robert Bjørndahl Norby I know what you mean -- I went from a 100,00-strong organisation to one sub 300. The ability to influence Confluence is much easier when you are the main driver for change and can encourage everyone to follow your approach. Best of luck in finding a workaround that doesn't frustrate!

Hi @Robert Bjørndahl Norby , @repi is correct - it can't be done. I get some of the gripes around searchability; at the same time I find that there are multiple ways to approach this that can live in harmony: * Naming the pages (as suggested above) in a way that gives them uniqueness and searchability * Structuring a…

Late to the party here, but this page is what I found when tearing my hair out with duplicate rows in a page properties report. My use-case is a little bit more detailed, but essentially I have pages with multiple page properties macros, which I aggregate together in several different places. (screenshot below) Turns out…

@Pedro Felgueiras this is a really interesting comment you have made, as I am currently looking to migrate from MYSQL to MS SQL, as we have more in-house experience with MS SQL (& we are working with an Atlassian partner who will do the migration work for us). Would you recommend we think a bit harder about what other…

Hi @Rommel Par A slightly creative approach would be to assign labels to your attachment, and then you can use the Attachments macro to add separate attachments lists, using the label to filter the results into the categories you have. It seems that the display as a link feature isn't there yet -- I've found a post related…

Hi, First, I would go about setting up user groups, as in the long-term it makes life easier. Lets say you have a simple case of an Internal and External user group for collaboration... Then with these groups, you can manage the permissions on the space for each group (this doesn't change what pages they see, but it's…

@Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_ many thanks -- this will help a lot :)

@Lorraine Horine I literally just purchased this macro for the exact same reasons. The Table Filter macro works a charm for us -- one of the biggest gripes people had with Confluence tables was the sorting in both view and edit modes. Table Filter makes it easier to do this -- you can only sort by one column, but it is…

Yes, the curve ball for me with labels was: 1) Case-sensitivity 2) Which macros need labels It's one of those ones where I instinctively always do lower-case labels, so I never have in my mind about casing. And with Macros that require labels, I am not good at remembering them -- when I add macros I focus more on what the…

@Kristin h not from the Atlassian out-of-the box one that I am aware of However, if you are the sys admin or can ask them, then Refined Toolkit has this functionality (and is free). Plus @Support RefinedWiki is helpful too :)

@Jaime Capitel funnily enough I just posted my thoughts this a few days ago when I passed the ACP-200 Confluence exam. Pasting the thread below for you - if you want to know any more of my experience, let me know :)…

I agree with you @Kat Warner about the fact they are not preparation courses - when you see the name, you expect more content. I still struggle with the pricing point of it relative to the value I got back from it. I felt it was just a little too brief to be worth the $150 price tag. It would be worth the cost if the…

@Dave Counts , one other option to consider for step-by-step guides is using the Page layout (with Panel macro to give boarders), which helps when you have lots of steps and relatively small screenshots. e.g. here is a step-by-step guide we have where we're using the 3-column page layout and Panel to reduce the downwards…

@Steve Watts not sure if this helps, but we've just changed base URL and the stumbling block we had was in the server.xml file, where our context path was incorrect. This guide by Atlassian gives details on where the file lives / how to change: FYI worth noting that some older Confluence versions get issues with links on…

Hi @Claysa Diamond I would recommend these options to try (in order): * Use the Confluence Office Connector functionality, which loads in the Word doc itself (not a copy and paste), which gives you a better chance of the document being understood correctly. Atlassian has a guide for importing Word documents that is worth a…

Hi @salwa md saad Sounds like your Confluence administrator hasn't granted you the access to do this. They need to enable your group to have "Create Space(s)" in the Global Space Permissions If you already have this permission, have you followed the guide for creating a Space?

Hi @Brandon Jackson For my case: there are change requests in JIRA, that are linked to Confluence pages where the underlying documentation resides. The Change Advisory Board (CAB) process should include checks to make sure the documentation gets updated with each release. Changes are approved if they evidence the…

Best of luck with that @Stacey Shearn -- I did have a few similar tools I have created but were a bit 'hacky' and ended up with the HTML macro being used, which generally has the downfall of being too custom (with Confluence I've found it always best to have as much standardisation as possible). When I installed Refined…

Hi @Shir_Glozman I'm not fully following you, but are you asking if it possible to take the results of one JQL query and use it to join on (/ reference) another query and filter the results down (opposed to merging them)? If that is the question, then no unfortunately JQL doesn't have the same functionality as SQL -- there…