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Hello all, (Kind-of side note: I'm surprised there are not more questions and discussions here, about it. Is there a different forum for Gliffy users, maybe not one that Atlassian runs?) I suspect I already know the answer to this, and that the idea I had is not quite workable in Gliffy. Large diagram, with a lot of boxes,…

Hello, all. I finally decided to at least give a try to cutting down re-work by modularizing things with Excerpt and Excerpt Include. I had previously only used these two in the construction of a glossary. I will say that it's not the end of the world if I can't fix this, but it's annoying! What's happening is that in the…

Hello all, I'm revising some long-ignored pages where for emphasis in text formatted with Paragraph, I would use bold. For quite a while, now, though, I've been italicizing text for emphasis, rather than using bold. Once I come across such a page, I've actually figured out how to quick-change all of that with a pair of…

Hello all, Wow. Haven't posted here in quite a while! I'm experiencing a problem that's odd, to say the least. I'm on Windows 10, we're on server 7.8.x for Confluence, and my Photoshop version is 21.2.0. If any of that matters. What's happening is that the onscreen appearance of characters starts lagging the typing of same…

Good day. Surely someone has had this same experience. You deliberately leave a blank paragraph, formatted as just Para or any kind of heading, between some text and the top of the table. You want that breathing room, in the rendered page. And Confluence completely ignores that: It seems as though this doesn't happen 100%…

Hello all, First off, this absolutely builds on the shoulders of giants. I developed this idea from one I suggested to @Jen in this question/topic: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-make-a-glossary-in-Confluence/qaq-p/417091 And in fact that built on something suggested by @Alex O_Donnell in…

Good day. Hmmm, it's been a while since I posted about anything! So, here's what's going on. We're on Confluence 7.8.0 / server. I have a persistent rendering problem on a page. Well, let's say I suspect this will happen on any page. I have an Expand macro, then a Note one immediately after that. It seems that no matter…

Good day to one and all. I yesterday converted a story into an epic, then added a lot of stories to that epic. I have applied no labels, yet. The stories basically fall into one of four categories. And I can certainly add those labels. See the next paragraph for where I was thinking those labels would come into play. What…

Hey folks, Haven't posted here since...well, it's been a while. I've been involved in a few reorganizations of one Confluence workspace, but on the horizon is my boss wanting me to merge at least 2, and maybe 3. Gulp! What I've done for the single-space reorgs is basically replicate the existing structure in my personal…

Hello all, New boss #3 in less than 2 years is pushing for a re-organization of the space I spend 95% of my time on. They want to flatten; want fewer clicks to get to things. I'm concerned about things getting too busy at lower levels. We've discussed. What I'm looking for, and am having trouble finding, is resources /…

Good day to all! I'm in the middle of re-designing a glossary that was one of my first projects when I started with my current employer, nearly a year ago. I've decided to implement something mentioned more than once here:…

Good day. We have been on Server, by the way, and that's not changing. By the way, I have much sympathy for those I've seen on here that are frustrated with Atlassian puts out many announcements that are specific to Cloud, and almost none about Server. I'm an end user, by the way, not a server admin. We're staging the 7…

sigh Earlier today, in part of a cluster of related pages, I diverged from the way I had been putting placeholders where I need them (SME consult needed / need to look at my notes / have the info, but just need to figure out how to write it). Why I did is known only to my subconscious. To re-align things, it meant copying…

Hey everyone, I am frequently quite irritated with Gliffy. No, scratch that. Infuriated. Profoundly frustrated. It's almost, but not quite, what it could be. One of the its key failings, for me, is not being able to: * Draw just a part of a circle: an arc, * Have an arrow on one end of it, and * Have more control of the…

Hello, Just writing this in the hopes that it'll help someone to avoid the same experience. A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to create a great big table, for the status of all pages descending from a certain one. The children display macro was the obvious starting point. I was uncertain if I wanted the end product of this…

Hello, Running on server 6.9.0. I've had a recent need to see both of these in a CD macro: * All pages in a different space from the one I primarily work in. * All of the children from a certain page in the space I primarily work in. I'm having no trouble with #1. I cannot get #2 to work. Let's called the page I want to…

Good day to all and sundry, I've been thinking about an alternate way to present long instructional sequences of text and images. This is something I've done quite a bit, so far, for my employer, and I want to at least have the end user not feel that the page goes on and on and on... A more obvious fix, and I've considered…

Good day. We're on 6.9.0 and on our own server, not cloud, as far as I know. I am trying to give my engineers advance notice of changes that I make to the workspace we use, so that they're not flailing around looking for things, and maybe complaining about "I can't find this!" BUT...yesterday, had an impromptu sit-down…

Hello, Technical writer on the job for about a month and a half. I had the interesting experience of my first face-to-face sit-down with my manager, yesterday. I reiterated a couple of my key frustrations with Confluence, one of them being not being able to do a search-and-replace in more than one page at a time. Across a…

Hello all, A search six ways 'til Sunday finds nothing about this here, in the community. I'm wondering if it's because it's such a basic question. At this job, and a new Confluence user, for 1 month and a bit. I've got a draft style guide, in Word. (I haven't brought it into Confluence yet. I find Confluence very…

Hello, Only in my second week of work at a new employer, and using it here is my first time using Confluence. Our version is 6.9.0. I think that we host our own server, i.e., we're not using the cloud product. I'm a technical writer, so a bit frustrated with the (whee!) eight whole text styles available. Also, there's no…