'No Macro Metadata' error for 'Questions List' Macro. Help?

[Don Donzal]

We upgraded Confluence from 5.9.4 to 5.9.8, and now we are seeing:

No macro metadata

There is no metadata configured for this macro which means no configuration screen can be presented here.

If this is a user macro then you can add metadata to the template using the User Macro Administration console.

Clearly this is not a user macro. So I thought I might just delete the macro and insert it again, but the "Questions List' macro no longer appears on my list. So I looked up some help files and was recommended that I look to see if some plugins or add-ins needed to be re-enabled. I saw no admin plugins that needed to be enabled that looked related to Confluence Questions. All modules in Questions for Confluence Add-In were enabled except for one, questions-welcome-file, but it reads that the module cannot be modified when I hover over it.

Not sure if this helps as well, but we've been noticing that a number of items mysteriously get disabled, breaking many things in our Confluence instance. Enabling them again fixes it, but it's sometimes a pain to figure out which it is and we can't figure out why this is happening.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Don 

[rrudnicki]

Hi Shelly, 

This behaviour might happening for different factors. 

Can you check into your proxy if it wasn't add some rule to block that page/domain?

Are you trying to whitelist a domain or only a page? I'm asking this because there is this opened bug that says domains won't work in whitelist:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-15981

Another test would be you try to bypass your proxy to make sure if this works or not.

Regards, 

Renato Rudnicki

[Deleted user]

Actually, I am getting this error for every page I am including, even for google.com. I have disabled whitelisting for testing purpose.

[Deleted user]

Oh, I guess its' the configured proxy that is causing the issue as I removed it from the Dev server and tested those pages again and the problem is resolved.