new confluence issues

[Jason]

in "legacy" confluence, i could add a panel and put stuff in it, it was then nice and easy to showcase specific sections of the document and also made it easy to move things around.

Diagrams, i was able to edit and save.

in the "new" confluence, panels are considered legacy and don't show up on "new" pages.

Instead, i'm left with aura panels which seem to not allow me to drag/drop items into them ("legacy" allowed this), which means i have to recreate items from scratch for those items i can put in an aura panel.

Table of contents works fine in the editor but when  i save it, the box is blank. if i move the table of contents out of the aura panel, it works fine.

the table of contents zone seems rather bizarre and doesn't work in the aura panel either.

is there a way for confluence to bring back the simple (yet effective) panel that is basically an old school AmiPro frame?

Also, can they look at stopping it from saying "this is a copy of a different diagram, i'll make a fresh copy and plonk it at the top of the page for you and not give the option to drag it down to where you saved it".

thanks in advance

[Kristian Klima · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jason and welcome to the Community.

Generally speaking, nesting of macros is limited on Confluence Cloud. S

As for the Marketplace app compatibility (I believe you're refering to Aura formatting macros by Seibert - Appanvil), I suggest that you get in touch with the app vendor for workarounds, best practices, and customer feedback.

[Anwesha Pan (TCS)]

Hi @Jason 👋🏻

First of all Welcome to the community! 😊

The "panel" macro of legacy Confluence is kind of replaced by macro "background" which is by Mosaic. It allows you to add custom colors or images as the background for sections of a Confluence page. 

Example: 2 Background macros in different colors. Below one with links and photo

You can also refer this documentation for more details.

I hope this help! 😊

Thanks,
Anwesha

[Jason]

thank you, i will have a look.

Is there anybody who has some friendly help over the 
"this is a copy of a different diagram" error?

Just happened again to me, it's really frustrating, there's no logic i can fathom in it, it just does it randomly. Diagram i've been editing for a over six months, did work on it this morning, saved it, all good, edited again, saved it, all good, opened it for edit again, it errored with duplicate copy, i've now got two copies of the diagram.

I also had it lose a lot of my work (about two days' worth), on a confluence at a different site that was an on-prem instance, whenever it lost my work, if i edited the page then tried to create a new drawio diagram, my work would suddenly appear. This was a saving grace. But in the cloud version, i can't seem to recreate this. My work once lost, is now lost.

[Jason]

thank you all for your kind help and good advice

It seems the new version of confluence has some limitations compared to the older one. I hope that atlassian do a trawl through here and spot some of the issues.

As a user, i don't see apps, i just see confluence and macros and whatever is supplied to me. I've a user at various companies, where confluence was all on-prem and whatever they had, I used.

Panels was always there. If panels was indeed a 3rd party app, then this makes perfect sense. If it's part of the core confluence product then it makes less sense to remove it and replace with a 3rd party app.

Confluence keeps telling me to upgrade my older page from legacy to new improved style, i'd expect the new improved style to retain functionality and performance. I now ignore this option and stick with the legacy style as it retains panels, draw.io diagrams don't get lost and page load time is very quick.

It doesn't.

New confluence pages are slower (legacy pages load in an instant, new style pages (or conversions) can take up to ten seconds to render), they are buggier and have stripped away some key functionality that make life easier for heavy users like me. According to the logs,I do over 15k updates a year.

Sad news to accept for me. I've been a massive supporter of over the years and always recommended it. Given the new product and that I can't seem to create "legacy" pages from scratch, I can no longer recommend.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Jason I'm not sure what you mean by panels not showing up on new pages. I've only used the new editor on cloud, and, when I create a new page and type /panel, I get the following list of panel macros to insert:

Are you not seeing this? Or maybe I've missed something in your explanation or a change announcement from Atlassian.

[Jason]

hi, this is the confluence panels i'm mentioning, they're the ones i've used way too many times!

Here's how you get it (but your page needs to be on-prem/legacy format for it to show up)

Once you have the panel you can do whatever you want inside it, including colour coding the panel so each panel can mean a different thing. they very visual and good for organising pages.Here's what it would look like on a page. I've used these for ten years or so, they are very versatile and when you're moving stuff around, they really helpful.

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Jason Thanks for the additional information, so I know that you are not referring to the native Confluence panels. Please see the response from @Kristian Klima with regard to 3rd-party macros and contacting the provider of the app.