Stephen Sifers Atlassian Team

Hello Leanne, I tested your reported issue by creating 2 new Epics (Epic1 and Epic3). From there I created Story2. When I go into each issue and click the link icon, I am able to see the following: From the Epic: From the Story: Creating a new task or story and viewing the Epic Link: Can you please include a screen shot of…

Hello Shrikant, Setting additional user properties can be very useful when setting up or adjust workflows to be more customized. Please note that within the API when accessing user properties the following is stated: Note: These user properties are unrelated to the Jira properties that can be set through the UI. Source:…

Hello Yusuke, Using the Jira REST API can be excellent for automation and time saving tasks. There is one change I would make to your API call to test. It would be following: curl -D- \ -u my_username@my-domain.atlassian.net:MY_JIRA_API_TOKEN \ -X GET \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck"…

Hello Danny and welcome to the Community! The Activity stream gadget can be very useful to find out when items are being changed or added to a Confluence space, a Jira Issue(1), or a user. The Gadget however cannot be focused on a project as a whole. It will only allow you to specify a Jira Issue Key (Which is a single…

Hello Jennifer, I attempted to recreate on the same versions you listed (Confluence 6.10.1 and Jira 7.12.0). I attempted to break the application links, recreate the application link and add additional custom fields. I was unable to recreate what you’re seeing on your end. The good news is it seems there is a bug report…

Hello Cindy, The Jira Issue/Filter macro is a reporting macro and not an issue linking macro. From what I am understanding, you are wanting to link a Confluence page to a Jira issue. There are multiple ways to link a Confluence page back to a Jira issue. To manually link a Confluence page to a Jira issue, complete the…

Hello Jennifer, I was able to take your example and test through without issue. I tested on Jira 7.12.3 and Confluence 6.12. I created a custom field with a single select drop down and created it with 5 versions. From there I created a Confluence page with the Jira issue/filter macro and displayed the issues from my…

Hello Chris and welcome to the Community! Writing blog posts within Confluence along with including images makes the content come alive. With this said, I tested blog post creation within Confluence Cloud and attached images, resized and confirmed I can click on the images and they open within a preview window (once the…

Hello Cindy and welcome to the Community! We need some additional details to understand what you are attempting to gain access to or resolve. With that said, can you please provide answers to the following; * Are you attempting to view linked Confluence pages to Jira issues? * Can you please provide a screenshot…

Hello Adrian and welcome to the Community! Your API is a perfect example and will update/overwrite the content on the page. The issue you are having is you are telling the REST API to replace ALL content on that page with new content as a new version. With this said, here are some steps to get a resolution to your issue. *…

Hello Tim and welcome to the Community! Using the Confluence REST API is a great time save for automation. The ability to change the sort order within Confluence from the REST API is not currently a feature. However, there is a feature request already placed to add this functionality as a feature. You can find more about…

Hello Therese, I tested your layout CSS on Confluence Server 6.12 and found it did not have the same issue you are presented with. Here are screen shots of what I am able to see in a test environment: So I may test further, which version of Confluence are you currently on? This will allow me to attempt to re-create to your…

Hello David and welcome to the Community! When you access a Confluence page over the REST API with a GET request, the response for the page’s content will be displayed in the storage format. Within that storage format you will be able to see the page properties macro and the listed items within. This type of request would…

Hello Tomas, To grant external users access into Confluence there are multiple different ways to accommodate this. When granting access externally to anonymous users you always need to be aware of what is publicly available and understanding anyone can see these pages/spaces if permitted. The first method is the simplest.…

Hello Miroslav, Congratulations on starting the undertaking to create a Confluence add-on. Something to be aware of is this is a support community and not often browsed by developers. We want to ensure you get the responses and answers you need so we would suggest you check out the Developer Community. The Developer…

Hello Debbie and welcome to the Community, The Velocity report is a report that is not adjustable in regards to sprint selection. The report is configured to always show the last 7 sprints completed by the team. There is more information about the Velocity Chart within the documentation. An additional option would be to…

Hello Rosario, Using the Confluence API allows for easier integration and awesome amounts of automation. When you’re editing multiple (hundreds of pages) at a time, and all those watches get notifications it can be painful to deal with. I have experienced the exact issue you are trying to avoid when bulk…

Hello Ana, Confluence Server and Cloud are different products are do offer different levels of customization. There are some options on Confluence server to customer user profile pages that are not available on Confluence Cloud. You can find more for Confluence Server at How Do I Modify User's Profile page source, yet this…

Hello Oscar and welcome to the Community, Awesome work on getting started with the developer Confluence Macro Tutorial! Something to be aware of is this is a support community and not often browsed by developers. We want to ensure you get the responses and answers you need so we would suggest you check out the Developer…

Hello again Paula, While access to the header/footer/sidebar are not an available feature. There are multiple marketplace place add-ons which allow you gain access to the header/footer/sidebar. Here is a marketplace search for those add-ons. These add-ons will also allow for additional automation opportunities. As far as…

Hello again Andreas, Drafts are shared with others who have access to edit the page. Meaning, if you are editing the page and someone else adds additional information to the page, you are now both sharing a draft. Another solution for your published page would be to set page restrictions to others can’t see your page until…

Hello Andreas, Confluence Cloud is an ever evolving product. With this said, there are 2 options to remove when it comes to drafts (Discard or Delete). Closing a page will save the page as a draft and not publishing the changes. Here is how to complete a discard or delete within Confluence cloud. Discarding unpublished…

Hello Arun and welcome to the Community! Webhooks for Confluence are a great idea. They would allow you to use a much simpler method to get data out of Confluence without having to interact with the REST API. While this is a great idea, it is not yet a feature as of today. We do however have a feature request to add this…

Hello Z, The Chart macro with an included table can make for great visual reporting metrics. Getting the data to display properly within the chart macro can be tricky at time, especially when dealing with complex tables. The table you presented is in a good format. The issue you are having seems to be related to content…

Hello Paula, Using the Confluence API to update and get data can be extremely useful. The REST API does have some limitations in regards to what it has access to within the application. With this said, the API does not have a request to GET/PUT space sidebar, header and footer information. To see all of the available…

Hello Samuel, The search functionality within Confluence is very powerful and helps to find the content you are looking for. The Confluence Live Search will allow you to focus on searching within a space or page tree. The Confluence Live Search will not allow you to focus search within the user directory. Attempting to…

Hello Adam, It looks as though you choose feedback, we should use suggestion when submitting a feature request. Please attempt to create a feature request and this time let’s select suggestion. Please let us know if you get an error again as something else may be causing this. Regards, Stephen Sifers

Hello Tanya, Using Jira Service Desk with Confluence as a knowledge base repository forms a power house duo. Using the tools in this configuration make self service and automation easier for all. There are some features within Confluence that do not function when displayed through Jira Service Desk, such as the table of…

Hello Peter and welcome to the Community! The Confluence whitelist is designed to allow content from sites when those sites have been added to the whitelist. This whitelist does not protect against malicious links or content. This whitelist does allow you to block content from sites you have not explicitly allowed through…

Hello Andrei, Confluence indexes are present to allow for easier and more accurate search and auto populate results. The main differences between Index and a reindex are objective to what you are attempting to index or reindex. Within confluence there is a Content Index which is responsible for your search results, space…