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[ { "author": "NikE", "body": "The situation you are experiencing is due to a small bug in the current version of OnDemand. [The bug report.](https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-5515 \"Issue Tracker\")\n\nThis issue should be fixed in the near future, but in the meantime, if you open a [support request](https://support.atlassian.com \"Support Request\") we can apply the work-around on your account and have this issue resolved for you.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Ricardo Kriegler de Souza", "body": "I opened a support request and the workaround was applied. Now is working.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "NikE", "body": "The above issue has not yet been resolved. However, if you open a [support request,](https://support.atlassian.com/ \"Support Request\") we can apply the work around to your instance, which will resolve the issue for you until the full fix is implemented in an upcoming update.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Deepthy Ravindran", "body": "Can I please know if the above issue is fixed or not?\n\nI am having the same problem where I am not able to see Jira issues from confluence on demand. The search option gives the following error - 'The JIRA server didnt understand your search query. If you entered JQL, please ensure that its correctly formed. If you entered an issue key, ensure that it exists and you have permission to view it.'\n\nI have a JIRA project from which I have associated and synchnorised the confluence space. Please let me know if I need to do any additional setup to link JIRA issues to confluence.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "cloud", "confluence-cloud" ]

[ { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "You might be looking for this:\n\n<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Password+Hash+Algorithm>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Michael Demey", "body": "Apologies for the necropost, but is this also the case for Jira? I looked around and this is the only thing I found about password hashing.\n\nThanks.\n" }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "Actually necromancer is one of the badges :).\n\nYes. It's the same for JIRA. You can see a similar process over at the [JIRA password reset](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Retrieving+the+JIRA+Administrator).\n" }, { "author": "Michael Demey", "body": "Hi, thanks for answering!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Do you mean the regex to validate the password while the user sets a new one or the logic to generate a new password when the user wants to reset it?\n\nAs far as I know Confluence has no password policy except that it can't be empty. For better password control there was the [User Security Management plugin from Adaptavist](https://www.adaptavist.com/display/Plugins/User+Security+Management), sadly it is no longer being actively maintained.\n\nTo generate new passwords Confluence uses [java.security.SecureRandom](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/security/SecureRandom.html) to generate a random sequence of bytes.\n\nHope this helps\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "John Masson", "body": "Hi John,\n\nThanks for taking the time to provide this feedback and the steps to recreate the issues. I've made a note of both these issues which I'll recreate and log cases for, then add them to our [Editor Feedback Page](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Editor+-+Customer+Feedback). You might want to put a watch on that page to stay up to date with these and some other similar issues people have raised.\n\nI'm sorry you've had what sounds like a pretty bad experience with the new editor in these areas. We know there's some work to be done and are definitely focused on continually improving the editing experience, starting with fixing issues like these.\n\nThanks, \nJohn\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "moderators" ]

[ { "author": "Dennis Kromhout van der Meer", "body": "As this plugin is built by Comalatech, you have a bigger chance of them answering the question by emailing to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).\n\nGood luck!\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "adhoc-workflows" ]

[ { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "Hi Fedor,\n\nI think this is the feture request you are after: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-105.> You might want to watch/comment/vote on the issue to stay updated.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "Hi Fedor,\n\nI think this is t\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "calendar" ]

[ { "author": "Christoph Meier", "body": "Unfortunately this doesn't work, if the macro is part of a plugin (written as a Java class which implements com.atlassian.confluence.macro.Macro).\n\nOr i failed to reference it properly.\n\nNeither \n$helper.renderConfluenceMacro(\"{mgnl-space-jump}\") \nnor \n{mgnl-space-jump} \nworked, when i was adding the snippet into the header of the space.\n\nmgnl-space-jump is both the name and the key of the macro. The macro is registered in the atlassian-plugin.xml like this:\n\n```\n<xhtml-macro name=\"mgnl-space-jump\" class=\"info.magnolia.sys.confluence.plugin.mgnltools.macro.SpaceJump\" key=\"mgnl-space-jump\">\n <parameters/>\n</xhtml-macro>\n```\n\nCan anyone help, please?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matthew J. Horn", "body": "If you have permissions, you can edit the space's Page Layout and add the macro in the markup by using the $helper.renderConfluenceMacro() method; for example:\n\n$helper.renderConfluenceMacro(\"{testmacro}\")\n\nhth,\n\nmatt\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Vishali", "body": "Matthew,\n\nI want {Children Display} in all the pages and would like to use this in the Page Layout - $helper.renderConfluenceMacro(\"{Children Display}\"). Where exactly should I place this?\n\nThanks\n" }, { "author": "Matthew J. Horn", "body": "\"edit the space's Page Layout and add the macro in the markup\":\n\nEdit the space using a URL similar to:\n\n<http://yoursite.com/spaces/listdecorators.action?key=spacename>\n\nSelec the Space Admin tab.\n\nUnder Content Layouts, click Create Custom next to Page Layout. If you've already customized the page layout, click the Edit button.\n\nIn that decorator, add it where you want it to appear. Takes a little playing around before you might understand all the little pieces in there, but the HTML fragments should be sufficient to help you figure it out.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Vishali", "body": "Daniel,\n\nIt worked for me. But I get the page title and the navigation menu at the bottom of the page (wherein I wanted them to appear at the top of the page).\n\nThanks,\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Daniel Borcherding", "body": "Which of the sections did you place the markup? Navigation, Header or Footer?\n\nI think you may have put it into the header of the page. The header is rendered above the page title and edit dialog box on the page. If you want it to render of the body of the page you are going to have to go through on a page by page basis and insert this macro. There is no way to my knowledge to globablly apply a macro to all pages other than what Matt suggested.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Daniel Borcherding", "body": "Hello Daniel,\n\nMatt's solution to this problem is an excellent one. Modifying the layout of a space is a great way of injecting a macro into all pages in a space.\n\nIf you are using a Theme like the Documention Theme you will not be able to modify the layout of a space. Your option here would be to visit the Space Admin \\> Themes \\> Configure Theme. You can then place the {children} macro in the Navigation, Header or Footer portion of the teme.\n\nPlease let us know if that will work for you.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Vishali", "body": "Daniel,\n\nIt worked for me. But I get the page title and the navigation menu at the bottom of the page (wherein I wanted them to appear at the top of the page).\n" }, { "author": "Matthew J. Horn", "body": "Like I said, spend some time getting to know the decorators. I did this when I first started mucking around: I edited the global and page layouts and inserted a code (numbers and/or letters) every couple of lines. Then I requested the pages in Confluence, and cross checked where the codes showed up with what macro or Velocity syntax or HTML was in the decorator. Then I went in and commented the files and removed the numbers so I'd know where to start when I wanted to make changes. (I was working on a staging site, so I didn't have to worry about users seeing my \"numbering\".)\n\nNot the smoothest approach, but it really helped me understand the structure of these files. It's a shame they aren't better documented to begin with!\n" }, { "author": "Daniel Borcherding", "body": "+1 to improving the documentation on velocity syntax. If you notice any pages that need some attention please email dborcherding at [atlassian.com](http://atlassian.com) a link. I will do what I can to help with the docs.\n" }, { "author": "Joe Reyna", "body": "It looks like I'll have to switch themes, then edit the original theme, then switch it back. Is this safe to do without causing unwanted changes to the pages within the space?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Matthew J. Horn", "body": "If you have permissions, you can edit the space's Page Layout and add the macro in the markup by using the $helper.renderConfluenceMacro() method; for example:\n\n$helper.renderConfluenceMacro(\"{testmacro}\")\n\nhth,\n\nmatt\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "mike.howells", "body": "Maybe there's an easier way to do what you're trying to do. What outcome do you want from this from a user's point of view?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Emily Johnson", "body": "I would like this too!\n\n-Emily\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "child-page", "macro", "space" ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "You could do this with Confluence's WebDAV support:\n\nSome details\n\n* <http://blogs.atlassian.com/2007/02/webdav_in_confluence/>\n* <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/WBDV/Confluence+WebDAV+Plugin>\n\nI wouldn't suggest that WebDAV is for everyone, but it's likely to relieve the tedium of manually uploading lots of files.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "HuseinA", "body": "Out of the box, this is currently not possible yet, I'm afraid. I've raised this improvement request to track this on here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24041>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "James Kleinig", "body": "Hi Jenny,\n\nWell we ended up settling for less functionality. We had to create A LOT of calendars to meet all our different variables (one for each team and location combination = 47 calendars).\n\nNot ideal, we'll probably move to a more enterprise ready calendar product but this has been a great stop-gap.\n\nCheers\n\nJames\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Peter James", "body": "Hi David,\n\nHow about using the page link on the calendar item to link to a page that contains all of the extra information.\n\nUsing the metadata, table-filter and table-plus macros, you can then report on these pages.\n\nRegards,\n\nPeter\n", "comments": [ { "author": "James Kleinig", "body": "Hi Peter,\n\nI tried that but it means people need to duplicate all the info on the event into the page, as well as add the correct labels (which we can use the choose labels macro for). Working labels is okay for reporting, but you can't get date which is pretty critical, and client name is impractical to have as a consistent label.\n\nThanks anyway\n\nJames\n" }, { "author": "J", "body": "Hi James,\n\nWhat solution did you end up using to address all your needs? I'm looking to do the same thing, but right now just using JIRA Team Calendars in combination with a custom issue type \"event\" which has custom fields that captures all the information I need for a specific event/date. The only thing that's missing for me is being able to add additional fields to the calendar view so you don't have to click through to the Issue Detail View to see standard JIRA fields like Fix Versions or Label.\n\nThanks, \nJenny\n" } ] }, { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "Hi David,\n\nYou are right in that you could use JIRA for this, only to display custom dates, however. Team Calendars 1.6 supports custom dates from JIRA. This allows you to have any field that with a date and display that in Confluence. You can learn more about it here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TEAMCAL/Team+Calendars+1.6+Release+Notes.>\n\nI'm not sure this fully solves your problem, but. It really sounds like you want to extend the people calendar to capture your won custom fields, is that right?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "James Kleinig", "body": "He Sherif,\n\nThe Jira dates feature doesn't cut it for us actually. We REALLY need to be able to add some custom fields to Team Calendars.\n\nWe'll need to either hack it (not ideal at all) or find a completely different calendar peoduct, which would be a shame as we had a lot of faith in TC to be our answer.\n\nWould love to know if this may be on the road map at all?\n\nAlso, really like to see calendar events in search results too. Surprised they're not.\n\nCheers\n\nJames\n" } ] } ]

[ "team-calendars-for-confluence" ]

[ { "author": "parthiban subramaniam", "body": "Hi Jon,\n\nYou have another process/tomcat running on the same port \n**`INFO: Port busy 8009 java.net.BindException: Address already ``in` `use`**\n\n**`SEVERE: Can't ``find` `free` `port 8009 8009`**\n\nIdentify what it is kill it and then restart tomcat, this should resolve this issue.\n\nhope this helps\n\nParthi\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jon Briggs", "body": "Thank you, Thank you!!! That was it. I never could trace down what was taking Port 8009, but the restart of the CORE Tomcat (not the JIRA or CONF containers) did the trick.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Assuming you are using the documentation theme, in **Browse =\\> Space Admin =\\> Themes =\\> Configure Theme** you could either:\n\n* enable**Limit search results to the current space** to disable the search bar in the left frame and limit the search results of the top right search field to the current space\n* or disable the **Page Tree** option to hide the default searchfield \\& pagetree and add your own navigation controls with the *[pagetree search](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Tree+Search+Macro)* or *[pagetree](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Tree+Macro)* macros.\n\nHope this helps\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "To display the favorite spaces of the current user use the following markup:\n\n```\n{spaces:favourite}\n```\n" }, { "author": "Bruce Schlueter", "body": "Thanks a lot, that helps us. Right now I am trying to add the users favorite spaces to the navigation. Is that also possible? I tried with favpages but that only displays pages and not the spaces. What we want to keep are the favorite spaces to be able to navigate fast.\n" }, { "author": "Bruce Schlueter", "body": "I found it out by myself also ;-) Thanks a lot for your assistance\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]", "body": "First ... \\*rofl\\* about your last sentence.\n\nSecond ... create a folder \"plugins\" in the confluence folder and insert your html file there. This should help.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Dave Myers", "body": "Thanks Sandro that worked perfectly!\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]", "body": "This appears to be a bug in Confluence 4.x. I have opened <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24034> in hopes of getting this resolved.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]", "body": "If you are suggesting pointing two different versions of Confluence at the same database instance, the newer version of Confluence will upgrade the database schema and you will no longer be able to run the old version off of that database. If bad things happen, then your world begins to implode. :)\n\nYou can most likely create a second database instance on your existing database server. Unless it is already overloaded or low on disk space, there shouldn't any ill effect from doing this. It would be a good idea to have a different database user for the \"dev\" instance, though. This will prevent each version of Confluence from seeing the other's databases. You'll need to do a mysqldump of the data and load that in the new instance.\n\nIf you can't create another instance on the hosted database server, you can install MySQL on a local server, do a mysqldump of the hosted instance data and load your local database with the dump file. Point your \"dev\" instance of Confluence to that db and test your upgrade prior to upgrading the live \"prod\" data.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "database", "mysql", "upgrade" ]

[ { "author": "Stephan Kuempel", "body": "Hi,\n\nwe recently released a plugin called \"Outdated for Confluence\" which does exactly this.\n\nUsers can mark pages as outdated with an additional button.\n\nA outdated review table macro then lets you keep track and review the outdated pages.\n\nFor more info see:\n\n[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219467/outdated-for-confluence?hosting=server\\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219467/outdated-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)\n\n[https://emapps.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EAD/overview](https://emapps.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EAD/overview?)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Midori", "body": "**[Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving)** **has various features to manage obsolete ([non-uptodate](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-expiration-tracking)** **or [non-viewed](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-view-tracking)** **) content.**\n\nAlthough it is not available for Confluence Cloud, there is a [public feature request](https://midori.zendesk.com/entries/42610107-Archiving-Plugin-for-Confluence-Cloud-aka-Confluence-On-Demand-) for that. Anyone's vote is welcome there.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Andrei [errno]", "body": "on-prem Confluence: \n\ni added different user macros for {draft}, (out-of-date}, etc. \nthese display as a nice colorful divs - similar to {note} or {warning}\n\nput it on top of the page = done\n", "comments": [ { "author": "William Chan", "body": "I'm looking for a solution for OnDemand.\n" }, { "author": "Peter Poulos", "body": "do you have a link (or can you provide) further information on how you created a {draft} etc user macro. I am trying to find a way to create a {cleanup} tag that means the page requires attention. I would then need to create a master page that searches for all cleanup tags within the space so that we can work on them. Thanks for any assistance\n" }, { "author": "Per Hall", "body": "Looks like a nice generic solution; but as a newbie I'm afraid I need a step-by-step guide on macro creation with embedded images in an efficient way (by reference to a common image attachment, built-in, or how?)\n" }, { "author": "Jonas Marek", "body": "For future references:\n\nyou can use a status which you define by yourself.\n\nother macros =\\> status\n" } ] } ]

[ "cloud", "confluence-cloud" ]

[ { "author": "Dennis Kromhout van der Meer", "body": "90% of the time in support this is due to a wrongly configured Base URL, be sure that it's filled in to the same URL you're accessing your application with. To change this, read the following documentation: [Configuring the Server Base URL.](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL)\n\nIf that doesn't fix it, place these Valve elements in the Context element of conf/server.xml: \n\n```\n&lt;Valve className=\"org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator\" securePagesWithPragma=\"false\" /&gt;&lt;Valve className=\"org.apache.catalina.authenticator.NonLoginAuthenticator\" securePagesWithPragma=\"false\" /&gt;\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Dan Machovec", "body": "Thank you for your response. I will make the change and see if that works.\n" }, { "author": "Dennis Kromhout van der Meer", "body": "Have you tried adding those lines to the Context in the server.xml?\n" }, { "author": "Dennis Kromhout van der Meer", "body": "You would have to recycle the service :)\n" }, { "author": "Dan Machovec", "body": "I have modified the base URL and added the VALVE elements in the Contect element of sever.xml.\n\nI am awaiting a response from my users to see if the additions/modifications have resolved the issue.\n\nAre these immediate changes or does a service need to be cycled?\n" }, { "author": "Dan Machovec", "body": "After adding the elements to the server.xml, I received errors while running c:\\\\confluence\\\\bin\\\\startup.bat. The system wouldn't start up. I commented them out and everything gets running again.\n\nI am still awaiting feed back from my users, I will see where this goes from here.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Dan Machovec", "body": "Thank you. They do not match, in fact there is a server name listed in the URL rather than a full https DNS address. We use a non standard port, and the old HTTP port is listed rather than the new HTTPS port. I will make the change and see if that makes a difference.\n\nThank you for the response.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Adam Laskowski", "body": "We have a [knowledge base article](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Cannot+Add+or+Remove+a+Favourite+Space+from+the+Dashboard) that outlines how to fix this if you are able to confirm that you have overlapping contentids and spaceids. If the queries provided may need tweaks depending on your specific DB in order to run, but if they hit any FK constraint errors, please open a support issue (<https://support.atlassian.com/>) and we can help.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Todd Patterson", "body": "Same problem here. We recently upgraded from Confluence 2.7.1 to 4.1 and now users cannot add or remove entries from their list of Favorite Spaces. Running the above MySql query against our Confluence 4.1 db returns 35 rows. I just opened a support ticket and referenced this question.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "It might be worth mentioning CSP-55090 to the support engineer as the ticket with the solution. Just send me an email (jclark at atlassian dot com) if you have any problems with getting the right answer.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Larry Talley", "body": "As of today I am running Confluence 4.1. Before today I was on 4.0.3.\n\nI have no custom stylesheets defined. I haven't tried disabling plugins... but the fact that it happens with specific spaces, and doesn't happen with most spaces, seems to me to make plugins unlikely.\n\nSo far I can only confirm the behavior with one space. It is a space that was created on Sept. 15, 2006. According to your downloads archive, that would mean it was created with version 2.2.9 or below.\n\nI think I am probably experiencing the fringe case mentioned by Joseph. It is a fairly minor problem, but, if there is a way to confirm and fix I would like to know.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "The fringe case we had to deal with in a support case recently was because the customer had a Confluence database that had been upgraded and upgraded from quite old versions of Confluence... the problem was that their database had Spaces with unique IDs that were identical to the IDs of pages in the database. In newer versions of Confluence, this cannot happen, and the code that does the favouriting/un-favouriting assumes that there will never be overlap of IDs between spaces and pages.\n\nYou should be able to tell if this is the problem affecting you by running a query on your Confluence database:\n\n```\nselect SPACES.SPACEID, SPACES.SPACENAME from SPACES inner join CONTENT on CONTENT.CONTENTID = SPACES.SPACEID\n```\n\nIf you get one or more rows returned from this query, then you've got the same problem, and you'll need to raise a support request with Atlassian to get the queries you need to run to fix up your data (If this is the case, mention to the support engineer that CSP-55090 is the ticket with the solution on it).\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Aha! :-) Definitely the same problem. The solution is to update your database so that all your Spaces have unique IDs that are higher than any of the IDs in the content table.\n\nThe queries can be a little bit tricky to run as you need to temporarily drop foreign key restraints before making the changes.\n\nI'd strongly encourage you to raise a support ticket for this (<https://support.atlassian.com>) so that a support engineer can walk you through the process and ensure that the queries are going to work on your particular database and don't accidentally destroy anything.\n\nIf you send me the support issue key (ie. CSP-#####) I can add a note to the ticket that will direct the support engineer to the correct solution. You can post the issue key here, or if you'd prefer, email me (jclark at atlassian dot com).\n" }, { "author": "Larry Talley", "body": "Thanks, we are on the right track now:\n\nselect count from content where contentid in (select spaceid from spaces);\n\nreturns 7\n\nhere are the spaces: \nselect SPACES.SPACEID, SPACES.SPACENAME from SPACES inner join CONTENT on CONTENT.CONTENTID = SPACES.SPACEID;\n\nSPACEID,SPACENAME \n1,Demonstration Space \n3,NMFS Alaska Region Data Stewardship \n7,Sustainable Fisheries \n8,Data Clerk Organization Discussion \n10,GOA Rockfish Pilot \n11,Larry Talley \n12,Restricted Access Management\n\nand here are the pages: \nselect C.TITLE from content c where contentid in (select spaceid from spaces);\n\nTITLE \nJira integration \nUsing Spaces \nSource code \nThumbnail gallery \nHome \nSample content for thread demo \nSearch Confluence content\n\nI have tech support on the case. Thanks again for your help!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "What version of Confluence are you on? And also, what version of Confluence did you first use?\n\nI ask because:\n\na) there is a bug fixed in Confluence 3.4 that fixes a similar problem: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-20633>\n\nb) We recently had a support case that had similar symptoms, where the cause very old data in the Confluence database that had been upgraded and upgraded over time, where the original Confluence version was somewhere around the 2.0 timeframe.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Gregory Sudderth", "body": "What browser/version?\n\nI have an outstanding but with the JS that makes the star work, where I can click it infinite times and it counts upward. I can see that it might have a bug in the \"persist\" direction too! The star bug I saw only happened on IE8.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "NikE", "body": "OnDemand cannot be configured to communicate with a locally installed version of Confluence. The good news is that the Confluence importer should be available shortly.\n\nOnce you have your Confluence data imported into OnDemand, JIRA, Confluence, and any other apps you sign up for will all work together seamlessly (trusted communication / applinks are all setup and ready to go).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Vincent Giguere", "body": "Thank you for your answer.\n\nIs there a public ETA on the confluence importer? \nWhen you say shortly, is it a matter of days, weeks?\n\nThanks again.\n\nVincent\n" }, { "author": "NikE", "body": "As of right now there is no ETA (and when one is announced internally it is made public at the same time). My best \\*guess\\* is between two weeks and the end of the year.\n" } ] } ]

[ "cloud", "integration", "trust" ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Kevin, \n\nI couldn't locate the link you have pasted here. Usually the users and groups links are done by the: \n\n\\<membershipAttribute\\>member\\</membershipAttribute\\> \n\ninside the atlassian-user.xml file. if this is incorrect, AFAIK, the membership won't work. \n\nI recommend getting a LDIF from the user and verifying the membership attribute of one example and see if the setting is correct comparing to the atlassian user file. \n\nHope this helps! \n\nRodrigo \n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Sergey Svishchev", "body": "<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/115501/can-you-tweak-the-confluence-search-engine>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "lucene", "search" ]

[ { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "Hi Ted,\n\nCheck out the CRJW project from this svn URL instead:\n\n<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/svn/CRJW/trunk>\n\nCheers, \nLaura\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Ted Huntington", "body": "That solved the missing classes errors. Thanks!\n" } ] } ]

[ "build", "eclipse", "java", "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "I suspect it's the renaming - you probably followed the info in [http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA041/Advanced+JIRA+configuration+with+jira-application.properties#](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA041/Advanced+JIRA+configuration+with+jira-application.properties) to do that.\n\nThe default is:\n\n# The prefix added to the summary of cloned issues and the clone linktype name\n\njira.clone.prefix = CLONE -\n\njira.clone.linktype.name = Cloners\n\nSo I'd suggest (temporarily) creating or renaming a link type as \"Cloners\" and see if that does the linking correctly. If it does, then that's the problem, and you can either go back to using \"Cloners\" or contact OnDemand support to see if they can change it to match your link name.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Bradley Wagner", "body": "Thanks Nic. That looks to have been the case. An OnDemand support engineer corrected the problem for me.\n" } ] } ]

[ "cloud" ]

[ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "This should still work in Confluence 4.0 with the parameter **labelsString**, it works at least in our environment. They won't be displayed in the label editor, but they will be added to the page/blogpost after saving.\n\nI'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature. You can pass multiple labels with **labelsString=test1,test2** and then even add a third label (for example: **label3**) in the editor. Confluence will add all three labels to the page/blogpost. I can think of some use cases where hiding those passed labels would make sense.\n\nHope this helps\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Juha Meronen", "body": "Remo, thanks a lot! This resolves my issue completely. It is actually even BETTER that the label parameters passed over in URL are not shown in label editor (the user cannot remove them...).\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Exactly, that's the use case I was thinking about. I'm glad that this resolves your issue!\n" }, { "author": "KPAH", "body": "`&labelsString=label doesn't work in 4.3`\n\nor should I still insert the script code for it to work?\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "It still works, without any script code. Just use the following url:\n\n[http://path.to.your.confluence/pages/createblogpost.action?spaceKey=TEST\\&labelsString=label1,label2](http://path.to.your.confluence/pages/createblogpost.action?spaceKey=TEST&labelsString=label1,label2)\n\nNote that the labels are not displayed in the editor during the creation of the blogpost. But they will be visible after saving.\n" }, { "author": "KPAH", "body": "I actually tested that for several minutes before posting my initial reply.\n\nI didn't insert the code through the admin panel.\n\nI use the abovementiond url with corrections to my server url and spacekey, it doesn't show the labels in the labels and it doesn't show them after I publish the post either...\n\nI also tried the user macro to do that that is in the user macro repository or something here on Atlassian website, it also doesn't add the labels.\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Strange, I just successfully tested it in three different Confluence instances with different users and different permissions. Can you confirm that you are able to add a label to a blogpost over the default UI?\n" }, { "author": "KPAH", "body": "Yes, sure I can add labels. I even use links on my webpages that create _pages_ in a specified space and with a specified template, that works fine, confirming it's not a browser issue (stripping redirects or whatever).\n\nI'm using a standalone Confluence 4.3. The only code I added to the Custom HTML is the javascript to swicth off Notify watchers.\n\nAre there any other parameters I could test with the createblopost.action to make sure they pass or not?\n\nThanks.\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "There are other parameters like spaceKey, but I'm sure they'll work. Sorry, don't really know what to do here, maybe check the log for any errors or contact Atlassian support.\n" }, { "author": "KPAH", "body": "Remo, sorry I was incorrect.\n\nIndeed it works and passes labels on blog creation. Don't know why it didn't work for me yesterday evening, but it does today's morning.:) I'm planning to add some convenient buttons with those links.\n\nThanks.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]", "body": "Yes you can do this with a little bit of javascript. Insert the following code to your Administration \\> Custom HTML \\> \"At the end of the BODY\"-part\n\n```\n&lt;script type=\"text/javascript\"&gt; AJS.toInit(function ($) { //is it a create page action which is called?? if( window.location.href.indexOf(\"createpage.action\") &gt; -1 || window.location.href.indexOf(\"createblogpost.action\")) { //if yes is there a label given as request parameter??? var label = getUrlVars()[\"labelsString\"]; if(label) { //simply click the labeleditbutton jQuery(\"#rte-button-labels\").trigger(\"click\"); //insert the label parameter value jQuery(\"#labelsString\").val(label); //and close the label editor jQuery(\"#add-labels-editor-button\").trigger(\"click\"); jQuery(\".dialog-button-panel a.button-panel-cancel-link\").trigger(\"click\"); } }}); //this function is needed to get the parameters from the urlfunction getUrlVars(){ var vars = [], hash; var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&amp;'); for(var i = 0; i &lt; hashes.length; i++) { hash = hashes[i].split('='); vars.push(hash[0]); vars[hash[0]] = hash[1]; } return vars;} &lt;/script&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n```\n\nNow you can use your \"labelsString\" Parameter. Don't forget to clear your browser cache with Ctrl+R. Testet with my Confluence 4.0.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "eyrisone", "body": "It looks like the URL method is broken again (Confluence 5.9.3).\n\nSandro, your solution works perfectly for me (thank you!), but the labels window remains open after clicking the link.\n\nI tried changing \".dialog-button-panel a.button-panel-cancel-link\" to a couple of different things, but nothing I tried worked.\n\nAny ideas?\n" }, { "author": "Ingrid Schipper", "body": "We experience the same problems with the url method in5.9.4. Anyone any ideas how to solve it.\n" }, { "author": "Auke_Miedema", "body": "see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-37848>\n\nA solutiion that fixes the url method is installing the recently published free Bitvoodoo add-on Label Fixer\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "PRIMUS_DELPHI_GROUP", "body": "Hi,\n\ndo you maybe use special characters in the page headline like an \" : \" ? We also had the same problem. After we changed the page name, everything works fine.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Robert Czapor", "body": "Hi,\n\ndid you solve your problem. It seem to me that ia have the same issue. Could you help me if you know solution?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "ms-excel", "ms-office" ]

[ { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Hi, there. Looks like you are encountering a known bug in Confluence OnDemand - <https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-5735.> You might want to add a watch on that bug report for keeping up-to-date with the progress.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "cloud", "confluence-cloud" ]

[ { "author": "Adrien Ragot 2", "body": "There is [the Sign-Off plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.signoff/server/overview).\n\nimage2016-6-30 16:17:6.png \n[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-create-and-add-a-digital-signature-to-page/qaq-p/117131?attachment-id=3434){#link_118dde45aae3c8} \n[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/19509/1/image2016-6-30%2016%3A17%3A6.png){#display_118dde45aae3c8_0}\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "app" ]

[ { "author": "Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]", "body": "Couldn't find any existing properties, so added a new cleaner class to handle cross references. Works fine now!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nick Bailey", "body": "Hi - I know this is a bit of an old Topic - but I having the same issue. In my world I'm trying to import 2 webs from Twiki that both have links to each other.\n\nI tries using web to spacekey map properities with no luck.\n\nJobin you said you \"added a new cleaner class to handle cross references.\" - I don't suppoose you could give more information on how you did that could you?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "Just for future ref for other users, I would have thought the [web to spacekey map properties](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Twiki+Notes#UWCTWikiNotes-webtospacekeymap)would have handled that. The intent is for that map to handle links and image references across spaces.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]", "body": "Laura,\n\nI was thinking the same. had that mapping but it didn't work. No sure if it was because some other configuration was missing or not!\n" } ] } ]

[ "twiki", "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "Andrew Frayling", "body": "Sorry for last answer, was doing it blind.\n\nJust tried on my 4.0.5 install and I can Edit -\\> Insert -\\> Attachment -\\> Choose File and there's a \"Link Text\" field for entering custom link text at the bottom of the insert dialogue before hitting Save.\n\nWhich is better than my last answer :)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Robert Lauriston", "body": "I have a Link Text at the bottom of the Edit Link dialog, but to make it editable I have to go through that kludgy workaround I posted.\n" }, { "author": "Andrew Frayling", "body": "Just tried again and I think I know what you mean now.\n\nIf you're attaching a file for the first time and select Edit (as in edit the page, not edit on an existing attachment in the editor) -\\> Insert -\\> Attachment -\\> Choose File the Link Text box should be editable so you can enter the required text from the first insert and don't have to go through the upload -\\> delete -\\> insert -\\> search loop.\n\nIf you click on Ediit on an existing linked attachment in the editor then the Link Text field is uneditable, which seems like a UI oversight to me. I can't see an existing ticket for this behaviour so I'll raise one with Atlassian.\n\nIf you've got existing links to attachments that you need to edit the only other way I can think of is, in the editor, delete the link to the attachment, press \"\\[\" to trigger autocomplete, use down arrows to select search, start typing the name of the attachment and enter text in the Link Text field before hitting save. Potentially faster than deleting and inserting via the Insert menu as you can do everything from the keyboard, but not much better.\n\nEDIT: Logged with Atlassian as <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24017>\n" }, { "author": "Robert Lauriston", "body": "The \"Link Text\" field was editable today. Seems like maybe there's a bug but I don't know how to duplicate it.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Andrew Frayling", "body": "Hi Robert, you can edit the link text using the Link Browser (<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Linking+to+Attachments#LinkingtoAttachments-AddingaLinkusingtheLinkBrowser>) if that helps?Andrew\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Robert Lauriston", "body": "Hmm, kludgy but possible. I have to upload the file, delete that link, insert a new link, search for and select the file, and then I can edit the link text.\n" } ] } ]

[ "attachment", "download", "link" ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "I don't know about direct database update for this, but the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) does have actions for dealing with adding and removing permissions using standard Confluence remote apis.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Gaston Gaston", "body": "Hi Bob!\n\nYes, I'm using your plugin for several tasks, but for this one I was thinking to direct update the DB. If I don't get the right way to do that, I'm going to use the CLI.\n\nBy the way, you did a great job with the plugin, thank you very much!\n" }, { "author": "Gaston Gaston", "body": "Hi Bob, I tried to implement your solution, but I'm facing the following error:\n\nRemote error: com.atlassian.confluence.rpc.NotPermittedException: Not permitted to add space permissions\n\nI tried with this line:\n\n./confluence.sh --action addPermissions --space \"IT001\" --permissions CREATEATTACHMENT --userId \"gaston\"\n\nSo, It's correct to understand that this particular process is not supported by the remote API?\n\nThanks in advance!\n" }, { "author": "Gaston Gaston", "body": "Never mind. My mistake was to try to set permissions based on the space title not the space key.\n" } ] } ]

[ "database" ]

[ { "author": "Youri Tegelaers", "body": "Problem is known with Atlassian, vote and watch the issue here:\n\n[http://studio.atlassian.com/browse/PAC-1159](https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/PAC-1159)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "You can use the Confluence Remote API to access the raw content of a page (see <https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+XML-RPC+and+SOAP+APIs> ).\n\nAlternatively, if you just want to *see* the page as-is in your browser, without any of the Confluence \"theme\" around it, then just add \"?printable=true\" to the end of the URL. For example: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Documentation+Home?printable=true>\n\nThis displays the page in a \"print-friendly\" format.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "John Masson", "body": "Hi Kevin,\n\nTo answer the first part of your question, ues if you use 'Insert' \\> 'Wiki Markup' and paste your sample code in it will indeed convert it, but not if you paste it straight into the editor.\n\nI've also tried pasting in the contents of your attached file as it's formatted and it didn't have any freezing issues. I was using Chrome on OSX though, unfortunately don't have IE8 handy but I'll flick this on to someone who does to see if they can reproduce it.\n\nThanks,\n\nJohn\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "The file view macros are part of the Office Connector plugin that comes installed in Confluence by default.\n\nYou should be able to get the macro working again by going in to Confluence's plugin management console and ensuring that the \"Office Connector\" and its plugin modules are listed as enabled.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "You could try either of these approaches (Note that both these mechanisms are unsupported by Atlassian unless you are using the SharePoint Connector for Confluence):\n\n* <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Configuring+Tomcat-Connector+for+IIS+7.0+%28Windows+Server+2008%29>\n* <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Configuring+Confluence+to+use+Jespa+for+NTLM+Authentication>\n\nThere is also a third-party vendor who supports an NTLM solution for Confluence, but I am unsure if they support Confluence 4 or not:\n\n<http://techtime.co.nz/display/TECHTIME/Home>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sven", "body": "Another question: \nOn the suggested page about Jespa it is written \"for Sharepoint Connector Customers only\". What does this mean? Do I have to order the Sharepoint Connector to use this .jar-File? Do I need an additional Jespa-License in addition to the price of the sharepoint connector?\n\nThanks in advance for a short clarification...\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "It will work perfectly fine without the SharePoint Connector, but Atlassian won't offer any support to you.\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "Hi, tanks for the suggestions.\n\nI already contacted techtime, they say its compatible with 4.x! The Jespa-Pricetag is 200 USD from 25 to 500 Users, too. Hmm. I will look into the other options...\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "Ok, so I don't need a Sharepoint Connector license. But will I need a Jespa-License???\n\nOther related question: If we buy the sharepoint connector, is the jespa-license included?\n\nThanks for clarification\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "No SharePoint Connector licence required. Jespa licence *is*required - you will need to obtain this separately from IOPlex.\n\nThe Jespa licence is not included in the cost of the SharePoint Connector licence fee.\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "**Ok, using IIS is an option for us.**\n\nI've configured everything like indicated here: \n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Configuring+Tomcat-Connector+for+IIS+7.0+%28Windows+Server+2008%29>\n\nand I CAN connect to confluence (port 8090) via IIS (port 80), but NTLM is not working.\n\nWell in one step between there was a prompt for credentials in the browser, now it disappeared (good sign perhaps), but it takes me again to the confluence login-page...\n\nI checked all the ports and so on, AJP is listening on 8009... The only thing which is strange to me is that the file: \nC:\\\\tomcat_iis_connector\\\\logs\\\\isapi_redirect.log\n\nis still empty?\n\nAny clue where to look for an indication...\n\nThanks a lot\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Make sure that your IIS application pool identify has permission to read and write to the C:\\\\tomcat_iis_connector directory.\n\nYou can get additional logging information by editing your worker.properties file and changing the log level to DEBUG (recycle IIS to pick up changes).\n\nAdditionally, it may be helpful to use something like WireShark or Fiddler to examine the HTTP connection between your browser and IIS to see if the authentication attempt is actually successful.\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "Thanks for the hint. With some google-searches I've found this page: \n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON011/Access+Confluence+using+Integrated+Windows+Authentication+via+IIS>\n\nObviously in addition to the mentioned page, there was a special authenticator need to let confluence accept the security tokens, passend in by tomcat...\n\nPS1: Would be worth to collect the information from this answers-thread in a page in documentation which shows all the options?\n\nPS2: What's missing @Atlassian is a \"Mega-Search\" where I can search all wiki, documentations. old forums, this answers site and so on with one search... Ok, I've done it with google but would be much more comfortable ;-)\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "to PS2: Just found it ;-)\n\n<http://www.atlassian.com/en/search?query=attachment%20macro>\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "Hello,\n\nunfortunately, after upgrading today to confluence 4.1 SSO-NTLM stopped working. I get always the error:\n\n2011-12-14 07:55:19,875 ERROR \\[http-8090-1\\] \\[com.pixelpark.seraph.SSOAuthenticator\\] getUser Not logged in as REMOTE_USER (User: null)\n\n\\[...\\]\n\n2011-12-14 07:55:22,059 ERROR \\[http-8090-4\\] \\[com.pixelpark.seraph.SSOAuthenticator\\] getUser Not logged in as REMOTE_USER (User: null) \n-- url: /rest/shortcuts/latest/shortcuts/3126/5705083e4a21007aa8839555d8f746ae \n2011-12-14 07:55:24,228 ERROR \\[http-8090-4\\] \\[\\[Standalone\\].\\[localhost\\].\\[/\\].\\[action\\]\\] log Servlet.service() for servlet action threw exception \njava.lang.ClassCastException: com.atlassian.confluence.user.SessionSafePrincipal cannot be cast to com.atlassian.user.User\n\n=\\> Has something changed in 4.1 in comparison to 4.0.5 ?\n\nI've already done some searching, perhaps the \"Custom Authenticator\" is now outdated?\n\n#### Step 3.3: Add Custom Authenticator {#toc-hId-1280398842}\n\nBy default, Confluence will not understand the pre-authenticated requests that come through via the IIS Web Site. In order to allow this authentication information to pass through, you must modify the authenticator module used by Confluence. \n\\<colgroup\\>\\<col width=\"24\"/\\>\\<col/\\>\\</colgroup\\>\n\n|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n|  | **Custom authenticator is currently attached to this page** Currently, the Custom Authenticator is attached to this page as a JAR file. We are working on moving this to a better download location. |\n\n1. Download the [customauth-0.4.jar](http://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/218270156/customauth-0.4.jar?version=1&modificationDate=1271399366438) file attached to this page and place it in your `%confluence_install%\\confluence\\WEB-INF\\lib` directory.\n2. Edit the `%confluence_install%\\WEB-INF\\classes\\seraph.xml` file.\n3. Locate the **Authenticator** element and comment it out entirely.\n4. Add a new **Authenticator** element that looks like this: \n\n |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n | `<``Authenticator``class``=``\"com.pixelpark.seraph.SSOAuthenticator\"``/>` |\n\n5. Save your changes and close the file.\n6. Restart Confluence and ensure that the server initialises successfully.\n\nSource: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/zIkCDQ>\n\nPerhaps I just have to wait that this file gets updated? How to speed up things?\n" }, { "author": "Manse Wolken", "body": "The error sounds more as if IIS has not authenticated the user (i.e. allowed anonymous access) thus the plugin gets no user (REMOTE_USER NULL).\n\nCheck if IIS can use NTLM only as authentication source. If there is any other source, remove it.\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "Thanks for the suggestion. I've changed nothing in IIS configuration. I just double-checked it. No there is only Windows-Authentication allowed in IIS...\n\nI only upgraded from 4.0.5 to 4.1 and re-applied the changes...\n\n(Hmm. Do the configuration files change from version to version? I just copied \"my\" modified files from the previous version...)\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "The error you've reported against Confluence 4.1 is new to me - never seen that before. I'll take some time today to see if I can reproduce the problem; will keep you posted.\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "Thank you very much for all your efforts.\n\nDon't hesitate to ask if you need additional debugging information (don't know how to enable and where)...\n\nBTW: Are you the author of \"customauth-0.4.jar\" ? Is the source-code available? (should be as officially only the office connector-source is not available)\n\nIf nothing else helps I/we could introduce some debugging here...\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "just to say that we still have no solution. Thanks for any hints and happy xmas and good new year 2012! \n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "I've just setup a clean install of Confluence 4.1 on Windows 7 and successfully used the Custom Authenticator for the Sharepoint Connector (customauth-0.4.jar) and I am able to authenticate successfully.\n\nAre you able to post the full stacktrace of the error you are getting? Also, could you perform a test with any 3rd party and non-system plugins disabled?\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "An updated custom authenticator is now available for download that fixes the Confluence 4.1 incompatibility: [http://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/218271279/customauth-0.4.jar?version=1\\&modificationDate=1274934373463](http://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/218271279/customauth-0.4.jar?version=1&modificationDate=1274934373463)\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "after sharepoint connector 1.5 came out yesterday, I've done another try: and it just works. No idea why ;-)\n\nHope that after the next update it will continue to work, too... ;-)\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "ok, now I even perhaps know what changed from 4.0.x to 4.1:\n\nBefore 4.1 it was possible to have two connectors configured in server.xml:\n\n```\n <Connector className=\"org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector\" port=\"8090\" minProcessors=\"5\" maxProcessors=\"75\" enableLookups=\"false\" redirectPort=\"8443\" acceptCount=\"10\" debug=\"0\" connectionTimeout=\"20000\" useURIValidationHack=\"false\" URIEncoding=\"UTF-8\"/>\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t<Connector port=\"8009\" address=\"127.0.0.1\" enableLookups=\"false\" redirectPort=\"8443\" protocol=\"AJP/1.3\" tomcatAuthentication=\"false\" URIEncoding=\"UTF-8\" />\n```\n\nSo I was able to login to confluence on port \"8090\" with the confluence-user \"admin\" and on standard-port (via IIS) with all the LDAP-Active-Directory-Users.\n\nNow, if I try the same again, I'll get this already stated error:\n\n```\ncaused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.atlassian.confluence.user.SessionSafePrincipal cannot be cast to com.atlassian.user.Userat com.atlassian.confluence.user.AuthenticatedUserThreadLocal.getUser(AuthenticatedUserThreadLocal.java:25)\n```\n\n=\\> I have no problem with leaving the second \"connector\" permanetly out, BUT\n\nmy SOAP-Client is not working any more. It is throwing:\n\n401 - authorization failed, when I try to login with SOAP...\n\nAny hint how to solve this?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Andy Brook [Plugin People]", "body": "The project in the subject only broke a while back, I think when Oauth came in. The justification of effort to rewrite what is only an NTLM v1 'fakey' authenticator wasnt there. I dont support it and it should be pulled.\n\nJespa is the only native Java NTLM V2 authenticator library, +1 to TechTime for their impl and maintaining platform neutrality. I think that the product David refers to makes use of windows native DLLs making it platform dependant, which may or may not matter to you.\n\nThe issue with JESPA is that the license doesnt really work for resellers, its targetted at you, the end user who has the specific userbase.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Bill_Campbell", "body": "Where does one obtain the new edition of \"customauth-0.4.jar\"? ie: \"i've reported to atlassian and they send me new customauth-0.4.jar build which fixes errors for logg message \"java.lang.ClassCastException: com.atlassian.confluence.user.SessionSafePrincipal cannot be cast to com.atlassian.user.User\"\"\n\nThanks,\n\nBill\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "The latest version is linked for download from our [documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Configuring+Confluence+to+use+Jespa+for+NTLM+Authentication#ConfiguringConfluencetouseJespaforNTLMAuthentication-Step4AddCustomAuthenticator) - the latest version is currently 0.6 and is available for download [here](https://maven.atlassian.com/content/repositories/atlassian-contrib/com/pixelpark/seraph/customauth/0.6/customauth-0.6.jar).\n" } ] }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "Thanks a lot Tibor, with the help of this little updated .jar-file everything works again as before!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "I've done another try - and it just works again... Don't know why ;-)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "oh. yes, thats really something missing in here:\n\nsven (dot) schaetzl (at,at) gmail (dot) com\n\n(hope I'll not be spammed now, I doubled the \"at\" for fighting against spam bots... ;-)\n\nThanks in advance!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Eleveo Admin", "body": "paste here your email because there is no private messages.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "hey, yes, that sounds great! Yes please send it to me!\n\nthanks a lot in advance!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Eleveo Admin", "body": "Hi svenni, we had same problem as you wrote in comment on Dec 14 at 03:36 AM. steps you did we did same based on <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Access+Confluence+using+Integrated+Windows+Authentication+via+IIS+with+SP+2007>\n\ni've reported to atlassian and they send me new customauth-0.4.jar build which fixes errors for logg message \"java.lang.ClassCastException: com.atlassian.confluence.user.SessionSafePrincipal cannot be cast to com.atlassian.user.User\"\n\nso i can send you if you want it\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "/EDIT\n\nAs of confluence 4.1 this is not working any more ;-(\n\n/EDIT\n\nThank you everyboy for all your suggestions and informations.\n\nI got it working without 3rd-Party-Software following this guide:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON011/Access+Confluence+using+Integrated+Windows+Authentication+via+IIS>\n\nThere are some limitations, though. Perhaps I'll come back to a 3rd party connector ;-)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sven", "body": "Its working again, don't know why ;-)\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "For Info:\n\nWhat was not working any more with the downloadable \"customauth-0.4.jar\" is the following configuration in the server.xml-File:\n\n```\n <Connector className=\"org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector\" port=\"8090\" minProcessors=\"5\" maxProcessors=\"75\" enableLookups=\"false\" redirectPort=\"8443\" acceptCount=\"10\" debug=\"0\" connectionTimeout=\"20000\" useURIValidationHack=\"false\" URIEncoding=\"UTF-8\"/>\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t<Connector port=\"8009\" address=\"127.0.0.1\" enableLookups=\"false\" redirectPort=\"8443\" protocol=\"AJP/1.3\" tomcatAuthentication=\"false\" URIEncoding=\"UTF-8\" />\n```\n\n=\\> that means using two different connectors: One (port 80 via 8009) with IIS 7/NTLM/LDAP-ActiveDirectory authentication and the standard port \"8090\" to be able to still login with native confluence users (\"admin\") or SOAP-Clients.\n\nThis works again with the help of a new edition of \"customauth-0.4.jar\" (see comments to the original question).\n" } ] }, { "author": "Ed Letifov _TechTime - New Zealand_", "body": "Our NTLMv2/NTLMv1 authenticator supports Confluence 4.x as well as Jira 4.x. Our fees at the moment are one-off same as those from IOPlex. The authenticator works in Crowd environment as well as without Crowd. We are always open to requests if some killer feature is missing.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "This could be an alternative:\n\n<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/39713>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sven", "body": "Thanks for the answer! Only the pricetag is far too high ;-(\n\nWe have only a 50 user license, so about 1000 USD for a little more \"comfort and security\" is out of reach.\n\nIs there no version \"without install support\" available? (around max. USD 200 or so ;-)\n\nThanks,\n\nSven\n" }, { "author": "Ed Letifov _TechTime - New Zealand_", "body": "With all due respect, Kerberos may be theoretically better and the technology of the future, but in practice there are A LOT of caveats. As a company offering hands holding service to install your own solution in the clients' environments you should know that very well.\n\nThis is what I got in response when I asked Jespa's author for his opinion about NTLM vs. Kerberos:\n\n==\n\nKerberos does not work if they client does not have access to the DC (and under a variety of other conditions) so NTLM will never be deprecated in favor of Kerberos. At least not Kerberos in it's current form. I suspect Microsoft will eventually add some extension of Kerberos that does not have these restrictions. But if they don't have that on the drawing board yet it will be many years before they can shelve NTLM. \n\nNote that NTLM is actually better than Kerberos in many ways. Kerberos is very fickle. Kerberos clients must have direct access to DCs, DNS has to be exactly right for clients and servers, time has to be synchronized to within usually 5 minutes on the client, server and DC, if new Kerberos keys are distributed tickets can become stale and need to be purged. IOPLEX's first product was actually a Kerberos module for PHP. When I did Jespa I conscientiously decided to do NTLM instead because Kerberos is so fickle. I think that is one of the reasons why Jespa is so popular. It's easy to setup and once it is, it just works.\n\n==\n" }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "Microsoft does not even recommend NTLM technology any more..\n\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM>\n\nSeems a bit short-sighted to go down this path with impact to lots of users, imho.\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "I agree with Ed. Kerberos is undoubtedly a superior authentication mechanism to NTLM, but it does come with a lot of baggage that makes it unsuitable for use in all situations where NTLM could be used.\n" } ] } ]

[ "authentication", "ldap" ]

[ { "author": "Ludovic Lambert", "body": "I solved it and I'm ashamed...\n\nInstead of using the XML URL of the filter result, I was using the HTML URL of the filter itself...\n\n{jiraissues:url=http://myserver/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide\\&requestId=10500}\n\ninstead of\n\n{jiraissues:url=http://myserver/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/10500/SearchRequest-10500.xml?tempMax=1000}\n\nSorry for disturbing!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Dennis Kromhout van der Meer", "body": "The Jira Issues macro is picking up content from JIRA via an AJAX request. However, it appears that malformed data is retrieved, as the java.io.IOException seems to be the start of a stacktrace. Please create a ticket at [support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com) and provide the logs.\n\nGood luck!\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "You had the right terminology - it's 'autowatch' you're after. It's in your user preferences:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+User+Settings#EditingUserSettings-email>\n\n1. Go to **your name** (the 'User' menu) at the top of the page and choose **Settings**.\n2. Click **Email** in the left-hand panel.\n3. Click **Edit**.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Gregory Sudderth", "body": "**WHOA!**I have been using Confluence for 6 months and have never seen that menu (set of menus!). I guess that's what I get for being busy! Thanks! I think I'm going to file this as a bug...somehow I have about 80 pages on \"watches\" tab...and I didn't watch them (I don't generally). I'm a create-content-and-forget kinda guy right now.\n\nHas there been a case of random pages getting set to *Watch*?\n" }, { "author": "Gregory Sudderth", "body": "Now this is interesting: its even got me watching a deleted page...and there's no way to delete that watch...not a big problem (never gonna trigger unless the page is restored/replaced) but it looks like a bug to me! I will file it.\n" }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "It's likely that you're getting these as auto-watched because you created or commented on them, I suspect?\n\nNotice the discussion and update from Sherif (our product manager) about a potential global setting for this:\n\n<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22070>\n" } ] }, { "author": "David Skreiner", "body": "Atlassian refused to allow a global setting; and unless you enable email, users won't even be able to turn the setting off in their preferences. The argument was, I believe, that users enjoy getting mailbombed. <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22070>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "confluence-administration" ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "[Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) has a **copyPage** action that can be used to copy pages. Normally copies to the same instance, but there is also a **targetServer** parameter. Check the [Documentation](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation \"Documentation\") and [Examples](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP/Examples \"Examples\") pages. For Confluence 4.0, you will need 2.4.0 or higher.\n\nAppFire - <http://www.appfire.com/> has a commercial plugin for keeping instances in sync.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "export", "import" ]

[ { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "Hi Dave,\n\nIf you want the size, it's simpler using a {report-variable} instead, like so:\n\n```\n{report-variable:My Labeled Children}{local-reporter:value:label risk_open > label:content} {content-filter:@self|scope=\"My Parent Page\" > children} {local-reporter}{report-variable}{report-info:variable:My Labeled Children > collection:size} \n```\n\nHope that helps!\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David Dube", "body": "Awesome! Thanks David... works perfectly.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]", "body": "To count the child pages of a page with a specific label, please use a usermacro.\n\n```\n## @param label:title=label|type=string|required=true|desc=The label of the childpages#set($pageCount = 0)#foreach( $child in $content.children ) #foreach( $childlabel in $child.labels ) #if($childlabel.name == $paramlabel ) #set($pageCount = $pageCount +1) #end #end#endThere are $pageCount Child pages with label $paramlabel\n```\n\nYou can call this macro with \"{usermakroname:label=labeltosearchfor}\". I have testet this code with my Confluence 4.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "congming wang", "body": "Hey, i'm new confluence. If i want to count pages from all decendants within a pointed label. how can i update your code. In my mind , define a function with recursion to caculate all of pages from decendanta within pointed label, but tried without result. Here is my code :\n\n## @param label:title=label\\|type=string\\|required=true\\|desc=The label of the childpages \n#set($pageCount = 0) \n\n#marco(getTotal $node, $pageNumber) \n#foreach( $child in $node.children ) \n#foreach( $childlabel in $child.labels ) \n#if($childlabel.name == $paramlabel ) \n#set($pageCount = $pageCount +1) \n#end \n#if($child.children.size\\>0) \n#getTotal($child,$pageNumber) \n#else \n#end \n#end \n\n#getTotal($content, $pageNumber)\n\nPlease help!!!\n" }, { "author": "Fabian Schubert", "body": "Hi,the macro to count the children of the CURRENT PAGE by label works fine for me.Now I would like to count the children of a SPECIFIC PAGE by label. This specific page is being spefied as a parameter: ## @param parentpage:title=Page\\|type=confluence-content\\|required=true\\|desc=Select a page which children to countThen I use \"$paramparentpage.children\" to find the children of $parentpage:#foreach( $child in $paramparentpage.children ) But I am always getting 0 as a result for the number of child pages.Any hint very much appreciated.Here is the full macro:## @param parentpage:title=Page\\|type=confluence-content\\|required=true\\|desc=Select a page which children to count## @param label:title=label\\|type=string\\|required=true\\|desc=Specify a label to count#set($pageCount = 0)#foreach( $child in $paramparentpage.children ) #foreach( $childlabel in $child.labels ) #if($childlabel.name == $paramlabel ) #set($pageCount = $pageCount +1) #end #end#end$parampage$paramlabel: $pageCount\n" }, { "author": "Stephen Deutsch", "body": "This should work:\n\n```\n## @param ParentPage:title=Page|type=confluence-content|required=true|desc=Select a page for which to count the children ## @param Label:title=label|type=string|required=true|desc=Specify a label to count #set($pageCount = 0) #set ( $colonIndex = $paramParentPage.indexOf(\":\") ) #if ( $colonIndex == -1 ) #set ( $parentSpaceKey = $space.key ) #set ( $parentPageName = $paramParentPage ) #else #set ( $parentSpaceKey = $paramParentPage.substring(0, $colonIndex) ) #set ( $parentPageNameIndex = $colonIndex + 1 ) #set ( $parentPageName = $paramParentPage.substring($parentPageNameIndex) ) #end #set ( $parentPage = $pageManager.getPage($parentSpaceKey, $parentPageName) ) #foreach( $child in $parentPage.descendents ) #foreach( $childlabel in $child.labels ) #if($childlabel.name == $paramLabel ) #set($pageCount = $pageCount +1) #end #end #end <p>Under $parentPageName there are $pageCount pages with the label $paramLabel</p>\n```\n" }, { "author": "Fabian Schubert", "body": "Thanks a lot, Stephen! The macro now does its job perfectly! This was a great help!\n" }, { "author": "Kevin Godsey", "body": "I'm looking for a variation of this that would return the number of active pages in a space based on the spacekey passed as a parameter? I've looked at a lot of examples but nothing seems to work. I keep getting total pages (including deleted, previous versions, etc.) instead of just the number of current active pages in the space.\n\nAny help would be greatly appreciated!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Tansu Akdeniz", "body": "\n\nHi\n\nI want to write a macro that counts only descandants. For this example, the result is 4. We don't have to give the parent name parameter as a \"Quotes\" , we can just give labels to these 4 pages. How can I do it ?\n\nThanks in advance\n\nTansu\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "This is a known problem with switching from the rich-text editor to wiki markup and back again.\n\nThe short answer is that the rich-text editor isn't really much good at wiki markup.\n\nThe only fixes are to tell your users to stick to using one type of editor, or to upgrade (it improves in 3.4 and 3.5, but is still problematic. And it's all fixed in 4.0+ because there's no wiki markup for an editor to mangle)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "editor" ]

[ { "author": "Sander Brienen [Avisi]", "body": "The \"scripting\" code you see are Velocity macros. Confluence uses Apache Velocity as their templating engine. These macros can only be used in Velocity template files and not in normal Confluence wiki pages.\n\nSee here for more information: <https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Velocity+Template+Overview>\n\nAnd here for the Velocity project page: <http://velocity.apache.org>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Chris Severn", "body": "Thanks Sander. I'd seen a few mentions of Velocity previously, but never really found the main page that gives the basics of what it is, and how it's used in Confluence.\n" } ] } ]

[ "script" ]

[ { "author": "Jo-Anne MacLeod", "body": "Take a look at the command line plugin, <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/x/JYEi> as it has a add page option. It may allow you to do what you need to do.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "basecamp", "cloud", "confluence-cloud", "import" ]

[ { "author": "spuddy ?_?", "body": "Unforunately, trackbacks have not been working in JIRA since 4.3, see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-24628>\n\nIn JIRA 5.0, trackbacks are being replaced with Remote Issue Links. Existing trackbacks will be converted to Remote Issue Links on upgrade to 5.0. Please see this KB article for more information: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/2011/10/30/Trackbacks+being+replaced+with+Remote+Issue+Links+in+JIRA+5.0>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Michael Roff", "body": "That's a bit poor :(\n\nI guess I will wait until 5.0 is firmed up and released so I can get some sort of inter system tracability working again.\n\nThanks for the input Matt.\n" } ] } ]

[ "trackback" ]

[ { "author": "Gregory Sudderth", "body": "I bring in some Excel data for tables, but, I bring it in as a CSV, and attach it. The Confluence document refers to the attached CSV and makes a table out of it, and that is surrounded by a chart macro.\n\nThis:\n\n```\n{chart:type=timeSeries|timePeriod=minute|dateFormat=mm|dataOrientation=vertical}{csv:script=^501.csv}{chart}\n```\n\nLooks like this:\n\n\n\n...from data that looks like this:\n\nMinute,UserCPU,MemUse%,BsIN,BsOUT \n54,2,87.00,0,41 \n55,3,87.00,0,19 \n56,2,87.00,0,21 \n57,3,87.00,0,22 \n58,3,87.00,0,26 \n59,3,87.00,0,14 \n00,8,87.00,0,28 \n01,2,87.00,0,27\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Daniel Leaird", "body": "I previously tried an older XLS format, but it only looked worse (the jpg's at least). I'll give removing the spaces in the macro a shot, and update here.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Daniel Leaird", "body": "I tried removing the spaces from the macro, but it made no difference.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Gregory Sudderth", "body": "Try removing the spaces in your macro, make it like this:\n\n{viewxls:name=EquipmentScheduling.xlsx\\|formatColumn=true\\|heading=2}\n\nBarring that, try exporting into an older XLS format and importing that. Just an idea. (If I had a buck for every XML parsing error I've dealt with....hmm)\n\nG.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "ms-excel" ]

[ { "author": "Dave Loeng", "body": "Hi Gregory,\n\nDo you mind elaborating a bit more on what was challenging with nested tables? (and in fact anything else you found inefficient?)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Gregory Sudderth", "body": "I just meant it as an example. People have various \"how do I...\" type things here re: the editor.\n" } ] } ]

[ "app", "editor" ]

[ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "The error page should already be displayed in the language the user has chosen. The page is generated from the velocity template **404.vm** where you can also see the i18n keys used. As long as the language pack has translations for the i18n keys of the 404 template, the page should be displayed in the correct language.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "epohl", "body": "This had to do with useHttpOnly from:\n\n```\n&lt;Context path=\"\" docBase=\"../confluence\" debug=\"0\" reloadable=\"false\" useHttpOnly=\"true&gt; in server.xml\n```\n\nAll is well now :-)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Take a look at K15t's [Scroll Wiki](http://www.k15t.com/display/en/Scroll-Wiki) exporters or AppFire's [Firestarter](http://www.appfire.com/firestarter/).\n\n* Cc: @Stefan Kleineikenscheidt\n* Cc: @Ajay Goel\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Christian Sprenger", "body": "Thank you so much.\n\nI'll have a more detailed look into it but at the first glance it looks like our solution.\n" } ] } ]

[ "export", "offline" ]

[ { "author": "Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]", "body": "This is possible by writing a usermacro that iterates over all spaces and its pages searching for pages without a label. But such a usermacro will slow down your system dependent on how big your confluence instance is. Such a macro should only be shortly used by an administrator.\n\nHere is the usermacro code.\n\n```\n## @noparams## DO NOT USE THIS MACRO ON A LOT OF PAGES BECAUSE OF PERFORMANCE ISSUES. IT DEFINITELY WILL SLOW DOWN YOU SYSTEM!!!!!#set($containerManagerClass=$action.class.forName('com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager'))#set($getInstanceMethod=$containerManagerClass.getDeclaredMethod('getInstance',null))#set($containerManager=$getInstanceMethod.invoke(null,null))#set($containerContext=$containerManager.containerContext) ## the pageManager gives you access to the pages#set($pageManager =$containerContext.getComponent('pageManager')) ## the spaceManager gives you access to the spaces#set($spaceManager =$containerContext.getComponent('spaceManager')) ##over all spaces (WARNING THIS COULD TAKE SOME TIME ON BIG CF INSTANCES )#foreach( $space in $spaceManager.getAllSpaces() ) &lt;b&gt;Unlabeled pages in space $space.name&lt;b&gt; &lt;ul&gt; ##over each page in the current space ( WARNING THIS COULD TAKE SOME TIME ON BIG CF INSTANCES) #foreach( $page in $pageManager.getPages( $space, true) ) #if( $page.labels.size() == 0 ) &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"$req.contextPath$page.urlPath\"&gt;$page.title&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; #end #end &lt;/ul&gt;#end\n```\n\nTestet with my Confluence 4.0.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Bruce Schlueter", "body": "Thanks, I will try that\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Youri Tegelaers", "body": "The problem is now known with Atlassian, vote and watch the issue here:\n\n<https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/PAC-1159>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Tino Winkler _Communardo_", "body": "Thanks for pointing out the issue.\n\nBy the way, the problem seams to be fixed now. At least the Plugin Repo is working again for me.\n" }, { "author": "Olivier Olivier", "body": "Everything is working now. Thank you.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Tino Winkler _Communardo_", "body": "I'm having exactly the same problem with a Confluence 3.2.1_01 installation. Does anyone know more about this?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "confluence-app", "repository" ]

[ { "author": "Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_", "body": "We have established a connection to Confluence via Webdav and webfolders. That solved our problem as from now on we are able to adress the location of the different spreadsheats (via their URL (webfolder) or the specific letter of the mounted network drive)\n\nHere is how you do it:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+WebDAV+client+for+Confluence>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "ms-excel", "ms-office" ]

[ { "author": "Jonathan Simonoff", "body": "The only way I can think of to do this is to write an external program to use the API to read the page content and look for the links. You could do a similar thing with a plugin, bu that would be harder.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "cloud", "confluence-cloud" ]

[ { "author": "hsuhailah", "body": "There could be more information recorded in the \\<confluence-home\\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log, which may help to troubleshoot this error.\n\nIf you still have this problem, I'd suggest to contact [Atlassian Support](https://support.atlassian.com) for further assistance.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]", "body": "A simple way to implement feedback functionality is to create a page called \"Feedback\".\n\nNow you can create a \"add comment\"- Link to the \"Feedback\" page. This link can be inserted in all pages you want to have feedback for. By clicking the link the user will be forwarded to the \"Feedback\" page with an already opened comment window.\n\nTo create the \"add comment\" Link for the Feeback page:\n\n* Click \"add comment\" on the \"Feedback\" page\n* copy the browser url\n* Now you can use this url in every page you want to have feedback for\n * simply create a link with whis url\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Emily Johnson", "body": "Hi Sandro,\n\nIt's an interesting idea, and I didn't realize you could do that, but I don't want feedback givers to see other feedback or to be redirected.\n\nThanks for the suggestion though.\n\nEmily\n" } ] } ]

[ "cloud", "confluence-cloud" ]

[ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "What version of Confluence are you using? Did you try to rebuild the search index (go to: **Confluence Admin** =\\> **Content Indexing** =\\> **Rebuild**)? We had some customers with similar problems, rebuilding the search index helped in most cases.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Travis Krempa", "body": "Version 3.5.9.\n\nThanks for responding Remo and yes I have recently rebuilt the 'search index' which appeared to resolve the issue, but once again the dashboard is not refreshing. Could this be a possible issue with the local caches and the fact that I may need to flush the cache for certain things that are at 100% used? The problem is I don't know what the pros/cons are of flushing the cache.\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "I would check the log files if there are any related error messages. Otherwise i would suggest to contact Atlassian support.\n\nI assume you already tried to restart Confluence? You could try to flush the caches, but I'm not sure if it will solve the problem. The cons are that after flushing the cache the first X requests to the database for Confluence content like attachments, pages, users, etc. or to Crowd will take much longer as usual. This won't have much of an impact if your Confluence has not many users/much content, but in bigger instances it could have.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Ole Kristensen", "body": "If restart didn't work you probably need more RAM on the server.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "dashboard" ]

[ { "author": "Elizabeth", "body": "AppFusions' plugin Doxygen for Atlassian Confluence support this need. <https://www.appfusions.com/display/DOXYGEN/Home>\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uISYPvAoegk>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "elliott Bott", "body": "for anyone coming here later, it's now <https://docs.appfusions.com/display/DOXYGEN/Home>\n" } ] }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Our automated build produces the doxygen directory and copies (via a share) to a location under \\<installdir\\>/confluence. From there, we have a few links in Confluence into the doxygen generated output. Once user goes to doxygen, it just doxygen generated links within the documentation. Confluence doesn't know anything about the doxygen pages, it is just happens to be used to serve the html pages as a convenience so we don't need another web server to worry about. This approach seemed like the easiest approach while maintaining all the doxygen links.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Owens IT", "body": "I discovered this method for fully integrating doxygen docs into Confluence and am about to test it to see how well it works. I'll post my findings as soon as I have tried it.\n\n[http://colonelpanic.net/2010/10/integrating-doxygen-and-confluence/](http://colonelpanic.net/2010/10/integrating-doxygen-and-confluence/ \"Integrating doxygen documentation into Confluence\")\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Owens IT", "body": "I tried the article I posted and things appear rather horribly broken. I didn't have time to fix everything yet, but I would like to do so, as I do think it has the potential to work well. I'll update the question once I've found a way to get it all working.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Rumceisz", "body": "Hi,\n\nI met the same request. What are your experince with the feature?\n\nBest Regards,\n\nRumi\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "documentation", "integration" ]

[ { "author": "MinC", "body": "Did you include the Fix Version field on the screen in JIRA? Also, ensure that Fix Version field is not in a hidden mode which you can check this on Field Configurations page. You can refer to this Knowledge Base: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GHKB/Planning+and+Task+Board+Cards+are+not+Visible+when+%27Fix+Version%27+Field+is+Hidden>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Davor", "body": "Ok, i think now it is ok\n" } ] }, { "author": "sclowes", "body": "Hi Davor,\n\nYou haven't mentioned if you're using the new Rapid Boards or the existing Planning/Task/Chart boards. Assuming it's the Planning board you will need to make sure that the project is configured with a ranking field. The easiest way to do this is configuring the project to use the Scrum template, the documentation for this is at:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/Configuring+your+General+Project+Settings>\n\nThanks,\n\nShaun\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Davor", "body": "tnx\n\nbut now i have another problem, i cant see anything in planing board :)\n" } ] } ]

[ "jira-software", "rank" ]

[ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Parameters {#toc-hId-1651138093}\n--------------------------------\n\n\\<th class=\"confluenceTh\" style=\"padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 7px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 7px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: #000000; min-width: 0.6em; background-color: #f0f0f0; border-width: 1px; border-color: #dddddd; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;\"\\>\n\nParameter\n\\</th\\>\\<th class=\"confluenceTh\" style=\"padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 7px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 7px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: #000000; min-width: 0.6em; background-color: #f0f0f0; border-width: 1px; border-color: #dddddd; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;\"\\>\n\nRequired?\n\\</th\\>\\<th class=\"confluenceTh\" style=\"padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 7px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 7px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: #000000; min-width: 0.6em; background-color: #f0f0f0; border-width: 1px; border-color: #dddddd; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;\"\\>\n\nDefault\n\\</th\\>\\<th class=\"confluenceTh\" style=\"padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 7px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 7px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: #000000; min-width: 0.6em; background-color: #f0f0f0; border-width: 1px; border-color: #dddddd; border-style: solid; margin: 0px;\"\\>\n\nDescription\n\\</th\\>\n\n|----------------------------------------------|-----|-------|----------------------------------------------------------|\n| **RSS Feed URL** (`url`) | yes | none | The URL of the RSS feed link you want to show. |\n| **Maximum Number of Entries** (`max`) | no | 15 | Limit the number of entries displayed. |\n| **Show Item Titles Only** (`showTitlesOnly`) | no | false | Show only the titles of the news items, not the content. |\n| **Show Name/Title of RSS Feed** (`titleBar`) | no | true | Hide the feeds title bar. |\n\nExamples {#toc-hId--901018868}\n------------------------------\n\n#### 1. Limit the number of entries displayed {#toc-hId-448764457}\n\n|---------------------------------------------|\n| `{rss:url=http:``//host.com/rss.xml|max=5}` |\n\n#### 2. Show only the RSS feed titles {#toc-hId--2103392504}\n\n|-----------------------------------------------------------|\n| `{rss:url=http:``//host.com/rss.xml|showTitlesOnly=true}` |\n\n#### 3. Hide the feeds titlebar {#toc-hId--360582169}\n\n|------------------------------------------------------|\n| `{rss:url=http:``//host.com/rss.xml|titleBar=false}` |\n\nFind more information in the [documentation of the RSS feed macro for Confluence 3.5](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/RSS+Feed+Macro).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Christian Christian", "body": "Hi!\n\nThanks - is it possible to say that all macros which do exist in 3.5 do have the same syntax in 4.0?\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "It's not guaranteed that all macros have the same syntax, but you should be safe to assume that most of them have.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Sven", "body": "Finally I've realized this myself. I've coded a little SOAP-Program in .NET which takes the files from (FireFox -\\> Save page), attaches the pictures to a newly created page, inserts the HTML-Code from the page (.html) into the confluence page and rewrites all images links so that they point to the attached images.\n\nWas a straightforward process ;-)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Stefan Schlom", "body": "Hello Svenni,\n\nthis is great to hear, I was searching for hours for a Plugin u seem to have developed. \nI also have to import HTML files attached with lot of images to confluence (Typo3 -\\> Confluence) \n\nIt seems that you have a solution for the time intentsive copy paste method.\n\nIs it possible that you make this plugin public or send it to me by mail ( [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) )\n\nIt would be awesome.\n\nbest regards\n\nStefan\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "unfortunately it is part of a bigger program (outlook-plugin) and our policy does not allow to share it.\n\nBut as indicated the solution is straightforward (a developper can do it in some hours)\n" } ] }, { "author": "Alexander Polonsky", "body": "Check out Mediamark, the Multimedia Social Bookmarking plugin: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.cogniumsystems.confluence.plugins.mediamark> .\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "SarahA", "body": "Hallo Svenni\n\nCan you convert your content to Word documents? If so, then you may have a good result by importing the Word documents into Confluence. This blog post may be useful:\n\n<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2010/11/technical_writing_wiki_single_source_publishing/>\n\nIt's a pity that there isn't a reliable way of converting directly from HTML. That's a gap that really does need filling. :)\n\nI hope this helps.\n\nCheers, Sarah\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sven", "body": "Sarah, thanks for the suggestion. We are talking here about \"ordinary webpages\", blogs, etc. Just content which is worth to be \"completely integrated\" into the wiki...\n\nYes the \"word-bridge\" could be an idea... Or perhaps a Browser-Plugin which allows to select which parts to captures and where to store in confluence and then automatically exports this part of the page and imports it (by SOAP or JScript-JSON or whatelse method) into confluence...\n\nJust dreaming ;-)\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "Hmm. I did find nothing just some utilities to strip out unwanted parts of a webpage (before printing):\n\n<https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/print-edit/>\n\n<http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/>{#_Hlt297899609}{#_Hlt297899610}\n\nNow all we need it is \"save to word\"-printer driver which then automatically uploads the generated word-document into confluence...\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "That costs $$$ and is only for internet explorer but sounds good, too:\n\n<http://www.readonweb.com/guide/62.htm>\n\n(clean web page from clutter and edit \"main content\" directly in word...)\n" }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "<http://www.interclasse.com/scripts/html2word.php>\n\nWith some scripting-magic (and using Internet Explorer scripting and Microsoft Word Scripting) it is even possible to automate the task. With the Confluence CLI we could then do the auto-import of the created word-file. But... In this way all \"clutter\" (publicity, navigation, links...) would be imported into confluence, too.\n\nWe have to be able to select first which part of the page we want to copy...\n" } ] }, { "author": "Ole Kristensen", "body": "{iframe:width=1000\\|height=900\\|src=http://www.atlassian.com}{iframe}\n\nI made the above into a template called iFrames.\n\nYou can manage the web by setting White Pages in the Confluence Admin - allowing only certain websites to displayed inside Confluence.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sven", "body": "Thanks for the answer, I'm searching a way to copy content (including images!).\n\nI don't want that every time somebody reads the information in the wiki, the content is loaded again from the original server. Looks like \"print to pdf\" in the browser and then attaching the pdf to the page is for the moment the best way... (if I see new services like \"[www.clipboard.com](http://www.clipboard.com)\" there should be better ways to handle this...\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Browse to **Tools \\| View Storage Format** and you'll get something like\n\n```\n<ac:macro ac:name=\"profile-picture\"><ac:parameter ac:name=\"User\">david</ac:parameter></ac:macro>\n```\n\nWrap this is a user macro and you get...\n\n```\n## Macro title: My Profile Picture## Macro has a body: N## Body processing: None## Output: HTML#### Developed by: David Simpson## Date created: dd/mm/yyyy## Installed by: My Name## Display a picture of the currently logged in user#if($action.remoteUser)<ac:macro ac:name=\"profile-picture\"><ac:parameter ac:name=\"User\">$action.remoteUser.name</ac:parameter></ac:macro>#end\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Christian Christian", "body": "Hi David!\n\nThanks a lot - finally I got it. And finally I got the answer how to use macros wherever there is no macro editor available!\n\nT H A N K Y O U ! ! !\n" }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "@Christian Neureiter: If the answer was good enough, upvote it and/or mark it as correct :)\n" }, { "author": "Christian Christian", "body": "One more question to this. The macro is working fine and does exactly what it should. The only problem is that on the landing page it shows \"[](http://193.154.158.13/rkweb/display/%7E$action.remoteUser.name \"\") $action.remoteUser.fullName\" if the user has not logged in yet. How can this be hidden from users which are not logged in yet? As far as I know the hide-from and show-to macro is not yet compatible with confluence v4.\n" }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "@Christian Neureiter: Check the update. Hopefully it will fix your problem.\n" }, { "author": "Christian Christian", "body": "Works perfect - thanks a lot!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Volker Bliscz", "body": "Hi Christian, hi David,\n\nis it possible to use this macro with wiki markup, too? For instance defining template pages or where else wiki markup is still used.\n\nciao\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Henry Wilkinson", "body": "The Home page set for the Space was set with restricted access - meaning ony a defined group had access.\n\nRemoving the restriction allowed Anonymous access again.\n\nThanks go to Andrew and another tech at Atlassian Support for figuring this out!\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "anonymous", "login" ]

[ { "author": "nepakhatun", "body": "\\[url=http://www.fixtrox.com/\\]IT Support Singapore\\[/url\\]\n\n\\[url=http://www.fixtrox.com/\\]IT Server Support singapore\\[/url\\]\n\nWith over 4 years in the Smartphone repair and repair business, we have built strong relationships with customers all across the Singapore by providing certified repairs and with good customer service within takes short time within 45min repair\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Christian Christian", "body": "Thank you very much for your great help and really, really helpful answer ....\n" } ] }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "If I were to tackle this, I'd write a plugin that sets these to the required values on user creation -- likely using an [EventListener module](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Event+Listener+Module).\n\nFor existing users, I would write a script that cycles through each user and updates the required settings. Maybe @Bob Swift's Confluence CLI could help achieve some of this as it seems to be the Swiss Army Knife tool for Confluence admins :)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Christian Christian", "body": "Hi David!\n\nUnfortunately I am not a developer, hence writting a plugin on my own is unfortunately not an option ;-)\n\nHad a look on the CLI, but have not found anything to achieve this one. Maybe I should try <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/9475> ? Seems to be cumbersome as you need to do for each single user, but better than nothing ;-)\n\nChristian\n" }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Confluence SU would work if you've got a whole load of time, patience and enjoy ongoing maintenance chores :)\n\nHowever there are a whole lot of \"Atlassian Experts\" (e.g. AppFusions) who could write a custom plugin for you. Failing that, perhaps add a feature request in the core product and you *may* be surprised with a quick response.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Jeremy,\n\nAs far as I know, the RSS can be subscribed for Anonymous users and authenticated users. There is no way to allow restricted pages feeds to be accessed by anonymous users. They can only see public pages feeds.\n\nAs for the permissions:\n\na) That's correct. Even if they are going to see just one page, you must set a permission for each one and they will count towards the license.\n\nb) This is possible for pages indeed. For that you must place the users you want to restrict inside a group that doesn't have permission to access the spaces. Then you can just restrict the pages you'd like with a[view page restriction](https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/liAC). The user when login to confluence will just see the space and the page that they have access to view.\n\nFor the dashboard, you may want to [add a custom javascript to accomplish this](/questions/53618/is-it-possible-to-prevent-dashboard-access-by-user) since confluence doesn't have this functionality embedded.\n\nCheers,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "permission", "rss" ]

[ { "author": "Richard Scorgie", "body": "The version for 4.0 is out!! :)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "[Confluence 4.0 compatibility for Table and other plugins](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/TBL/2011/09/19/Confluence+4.0+compatibility+for+Table+and+other+plugins)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Richard Scorgie", "body": "Thanks Bob, \nI see it isn't even on the list. :( \nI can't even find it at the plugin exchange. \n\nIs 4.0 ready for production or should I have chosen a previous version?\n" }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "That was to answer your second question. My opinion on your new question is [Feedback on confluence 4.0 - your opinion](/questions/21282/feedback-on-confluence-4-0-your-opinion/21284) . It will still be a while before some of the critical plugins are all done (more than compatibility mode). I know the customware guys are working on Reporting and other plugins, customware site might have some more updates.\n" } ] } ]

[ "confluence-app", "content", "report", "survey" ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "If you want to remove the HTML tags, you could try something like this:\n\n```\n#set( $html = \"&lt;p&gt;xxx&lt;/p&gt;\" )#set( $plain = $html.replaceAll(\"\\\\&lt;.*?&gt;\",\"\") )$plain ## should give just \"xxx\"\n```\n\n...or similar.\n\nThis is clearly not foolproof but might be almost good enough.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Steve Goldberg", "body": "Hey David,\n\nYou are on to something. Technically what you've written is correct but it seems that when it comes to stripping out the code, it does not recognise the \\<p\\> tags when it's doing the .replaceAll function and so doesn't strip it out. This means that when it comes to putting in the URL, it still has the \\<p\\> tags in. I think it's because it doesn't see it as plain text until it reaches the URL.\n\nDoes that make sense?\n" } ] } ]

[ "include", "macro", "page", "variable" ]

[ { "author": "Sergey Svishchev", "body": "via <http://wayback.archive.org/web/20081003205231/http://opensource.atlassian.com/fatcow/index.html>\n> Fatcow has been put out to pasture. It is a neat use of Confluence macros, but experience has shown that as a testing tool, Fatcow does not scale. As Fatcow is no longer used within Atlassian, it has not been updated in a while and does not work with the latest Confluence builds.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "test" ]

[ { "author": "Andrew Frayling", "body": "Hi Matthias,\n\nTo configure Confluence to use a proxy you need to configure your System Properties in sentenv.sh (Linux) or sentenv.bat (Windows). Instructions on doing this are available at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+System+Properties> In setenv.sh or setenv.bat you need to add the following:\n\n```\n-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.example.org -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080\n```\n\nwhere [proxy.example.org](http://proxy.example.org) is your proxy and http.proxyPort is the port that your proxy uses.\n\nFull instructions on configuring web proxies is available at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configure+Web+Proxy+Support+for+Confluence>\n\nHope that helps,\n\nAndrew.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joerg Bencke", "body": "is there an alternate way to push a bunch of plugins into the system ? (dropping them into a certain dir ?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Erik Saline [BlackPearl PDM]", "body": "You can the jar file from the Atlassian Marketplace and upload it on the Manage Addons\n" } ] } ]

[ "app", "proxy", "universal-plugin-manager" ]

[ { "author": "SarahA", "body": "Hallo Jens\n\nThe Confluence team have been improving the page diff incrementally in later versions. In Confluence 4.3, you'll see the parts of the page that were changed, with an ellipsis (three dots) to indicate the bits that are not shown.\n\nFor example, take a look at the \"view change\" on this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Text+Tokenisation+and+Filtering>\n\nHere's a direct link to the diff: [https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/diffpages.action?pageId=11568016\\&originalId=311919729](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/diffpages.action?pageId=11568016&originalId=311919729)\n\nIn practice, this works well for some pages (such as the above page). For other pages, the wyziwyg nature of the editor means that you still get a lot of content in the diff. See this page, for example: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Searching+Confluence>\n\nHere's the diff: [https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/diffpages.action?pageId=139528\\&originalId=306349811](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/diffpages.action?pageId=139528&originalId=306349811)\n\nThe issue is complicated by the fact that Confluence shows a lot of \"formatting\" changes (highlighted in blue) where no change actually occurred.\n\nI hope this clears things up a bit. :)\n\nCheers\n\nSarah\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Bruna Griebeler", "body": "As far as I know using the UI all the page will be shown and the changes will be colored as red (old version) and green (new version).\n\nThere's a plugin that seems like Confluence's Page History that might be of help: [Confluence Page History Slider](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.page-history-slider)\n\nHope it helps!\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "compare", "page" ]

[ { "author": "Ryan Goodwin", "body": "Hi Farouk,\n\nConfluence 3.0 has passed it's End of Life. This question is 1.5 years old with no movement. If you've resolved the problem, possibly share your experience incase there are others who experienced the same problem. If this is no longer a question you are seeking assistance to, feel free to close it out.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "NikE", "body": "Wanted to confirm if this is Confluence-OnDemand (which would be v4.0) or if it is a local install of Confluence 3.0?\n\nIf it is a locally installed version of v.3.0, best to remove the OnDemand tags to get more eyes on your question as Confluence 3.0 has now reached \"End-of-Life\" status and not many people are still running it/able to help.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "cloud", "confluence-cloud", "ldap", "login" ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Cassandra,\n\nMy guess would be that the open office file might have caused this behavior. Have you tested using MS office document to verify if the problem is reproducible?\n\nI recommend to test in the newer versions of confluence as this might have been corrected.\n\nRegards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "export", "xml" ]

[ { "author": "Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]", "body": "?ehm let's extend the Macro\n\n```\n## @noparams #set($containerManagerClass=$action.class.forName('com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager'))#set($getInstanceMethod=$containerManagerClass.getDeclaredMethod('getInstance',null))#set($containerManager=$getInstanceMethod.invoke(null,null))#set($containerContext=$containerManager.containerContext) ## the contentPermissionManager gives you access to the page permissions#set($contentPermissionManager=$containerContext.getComponent('contentPermissionManager')) Users with view Permission&lt;ul&gt; ##iterate over all view contentpermissionssets #foreach( $contentPermissionSet in $contentPermissionManager.getContentPermissionSets($content,\"View\") ) #foreach( $contentPermission in $contentPermissionSet ) ##is the current permission a user permission #if($contentPermission.isUserPermission() ) ##if yes print the name &lt;li&gt;$contentPermission.userName&lt;/li&gt; #end #end #end&lt;/ul&gt;Users with edit Permission&lt;ul&gt; ##iterate over all view contentpermissionssets #foreach( $contentPermissionSet in $contentPermissionManager.getContentPermissionSets($content,\"Edit\") ) #foreach( $contentPermission in $contentPermissionSet ) ##is the current permission a user permission #if($contentPermission.isUserPermission() ) ##if yes print the name &lt;li&gt;$contentPermission.userName&lt;/li&gt; #end #end #end&lt;/ul&gt;Groups with view Permission&lt;ul&gt; ##iterate over all view contentpermissionssets #foreach( $contentPermissionSet in $contentPermissionManager.getContentPermissionSets($content,\"View\") ) #foreach( $contentPermission in $contentPermissionSet ) ##is the current permission a user permission #if($contentPermission.isGroupPermission() ) ##if yes print the name &lt;li&gt;$contentPermission.groupName&lt;/li&gt; #end #end #end&lt;/ul&gt;Groups with edit Permission&lt;ul&gt; ##iterate over all view contentpermissionssets #foreach( $contentPermissionSet in $contentPermissionManager.getContentPermissionSets($content,\"Edit\") ) #foreach( $contentPermission in $contentPermissionSet ) ##is the current permission a user permission #if($contentPermission.isGroupPermission() ) ##if yes print the name &lt;li&gt;$contentPermission.groupName&lt;/li&gt; #end #end #end&lt;/ul&gt;\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Steve Goldberg", "body": "Here we go! Yes, that's great - the formatting is a little off but I think I can handle that - as long as I get the information then I can make it look however I want.\n\nThanks for your effort!\n" }, { "author": "Steve Goldberg", "body": "OK, so I'm very grateful for this macro.\n\nNow - it is possible to adapt this to also include space's permissions too?\n" }, { "author": "Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]", "body": "Oh yes it is.... simply add the following lines below the existing code\n\n```\nSpace Group Permissions&lt;ul&gt;##iterate over all space permissions#foreach( $spacePermission in $content.space.permissions) #if($spacePermission.isGroupPermission() ) ##if yes print the name &lt;li&gt;$spacePermission.group ($spacePermission.type) &lt;/li&gt; #end #end&lt;/ul&gt;Space User Permissions&lt;ul&gt;##iterate over all space permissions#foreach( $spacePermission in $content.space.permissions) #if($spacePermission.isUserPermission() ) ##if yes print the name &lt;li&gt;$spacePermission.userName ($spacePermission.type) &lt;/li&gt; #end #end&lt;/ul&gt;\n```\n\nEnjoy and rate it :) . Testet whith my CF 4\n" }, { "author": "Steve Goldberg", "body": "I know I'm being picky here but is it possible to have the macro just print out the \"View\" permission for the space? I spent about 30 mins tinkering with it myself but to no avail.\n\nMany thanks for your continued help.\n" }, { "author": "Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]", "body": "Simply add an additioinal condition to the if statement for the VIEW Type\n\n```\nSpace Group Permissions&lt;ul&gt;##iterate over all space permissions#foreach( $spacePermission in $content.space.permissions) #if($spacePermission.isGroupPermission() &amp;&amp; $spacePermission.type == \"VIEWSPACE\" ) ##if yes print the name &lt;li&gt;$spacePermission.group ($spacePermission.type) &lt;/li&gt; #end #end&lt;/ul&gt; Space User Permissions&lt;ul&gt;##iterate over all space permissions#foreach( $spacePermission in $content.space.permissions) #if($spacePermission.isUserPermission() &amp;&amp; $spacePermission.type == \"VIEWSPACE\") ##if yes print the name &lt;li&gt;$spacePermission.userName ($spacePermission.type) &lt;/li&gt; #end #end&lt;/ul&gt;\n```\n" }, { "author": "Stephan Haslinger", "body": "Thank you! I had a similar use case. I've linked your macro in the JIRA issue <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-21661>\n" }, { "author": "David Yu", "body": "Thanks Sandro. Works for almost all cases. One situation where this doesn't work is when a parent page has more restrictions than a child page.\n\nFor example, Bob has view restrictions on Parent, and Amy has view restrictions on Child.\n\nThe macro will show Amy having View permissions on Child but if she attempts to view it, she will be denied.\n\nMaybe this won't be possible until there's an ability to check for [effective permissions](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8799).\n" }, { "author": "Steve Goldberg", "body": "Hi Sandro / everyone,\n\nIs it possible to write some velocity to check if a \\*page\\* has no permissions set? I've written some code which checks if a \\*space\\* has a certain permission group set to it, but I want to be able to check if a page within that space has that group ALSO applied.\n\nE.g.,:\n\n```\nif spacepermissions contain group:client\t$var = YESelse\t$var = NOif pagepermissions = NULL\t$var = YESelseif pagepermissions contain group:client\t$var = YESelse\t$ var = NOend\n```\n\nI can do the first bit fine. It's the check to see if the page permissions are non-existent that I can't do. Any help to help me further this?\n\nCheers\n" } ] }, { "author": "Chris Textor", "body": "Hi Sandro,\n\nI like the code a lot.\n\nIs there a way to show the user avatar instead of the userName?\n\nIn your code:\n\n##if yes print the name \n\\<li\\>$contentPermission.userName\\</li\\>\n\nThanks you in advance\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]", "body": "You can do this whith a little user macro. please see my example code from here:\n\n<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/3895/how-to-create-a-list-people-who-can-view-a-current-page>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Steve Goldberg", "body": "Hi Sandro,\n\nThanks for your answer but that doesn't achieve what I want. Your macro only shows the individual users assigned to the page. It doesn't show the user groups. Seeing as most of our permissions are set on a group-basis, this macro doesn't help me.\n\nThanks anyway.\n" } ] } ]

[ "permission", "restriction" ]

[ { "author": "Gert-Jan van de Streek", "body": "Wow... I am definitely late with an answer here... but we answer this question a lot, so I reply anyways.\n\nIf you want this, use the [numbered headings macro](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/nl.avisi.confluence.plugins.numberedheadings) inside the toc macro. The numbering from the numbered headings macro is used by the toc macro.\n\n{toc}\n\n{numbered-headings}\n\n{toc}\n", "comments": [ { "author": "James Leighs", "body": "is there a way to do this without using paid/free addons?\n" }, { "author": "Gert-Jan van de Streek", "body": "Not that I know of, it's the reason we wrote the add-on in the first place.\n" }, { "author": "James Leighs", "body": "Hmm OK thanks anyway. I am keen to avoid add-ons where possible due to needing to validate their functionality for ISO compliance.\n" }, { "author": "Gert-Jan van de Streek", "body": "What ISO do you need to comply with?\n" }, { "author": "James Leighs", "body": "13485\n" }, { "author": "Gert-Jan van de Streek", "body": "How can software providers help you meet those standards?\n" } ] } ]

[ "table-of-contents" ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "*At present,* this is not possible for Confluence OnDemand customers. Sorry.\n\n* You can't install [Google Analytics Reporting for Confluence](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/16722).\n* You can't add the Google Analytics tracking code [like so](http://davidsimpson.me/2009/03/18/tracking-atlassian-confluence-usage-with-google-analytics/) as OnDemand customers do not have access to: **Administration \\| Look and Feel \\| Custom HTML**\n\nFor your on premise Confluence, you could just add the tracking javascript and any client browser that has internet access will be tracked. You could also try an on premise web analytics package such as CoreMetrics, Webtrends, Omniture, ComScore, Urchin, Piwik, etc.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "Hi Robert\n\nHappy to help you with other managed hosting options so you can get any plugin, if you wish - and also the 24x7 support that is extremely appealing with onDemand.\n\nContact us at info at appfusions dot com and can review some options w/ you.\n\nBest,\n\nEllen\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Robert Lauriston", "body": "I'm not interested in hosting, I just want to see what kind of reports we'd get with Google Analytics. Out of the box, Confluence seems pretty short on reporting.\n" }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Robert, check the recent Atlassian blogpost [Measure Your Wiki's Activity with Google Analytics for Confluence](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2011/11/measure-your-wikis-activity-with-google-analytics-for-confluence/) for the kind of reports you get.\n\nAlso, there's a live demo of [reporting for an external website here](https://www.appfusions.com/display/GANLC/Live+demo+-+in+the+flesh) which has very similar reports.\n" } ] } ]

[ "analytics", "cloud", "google" ]

[ { "author": "DavidA", "body": "Hi John,\n\nYou can remove a calendar by first adding it to your personal calendar (accessible from the \"Calendar\" menu at the top right corner under your name). After you've added it, you could remove it from the system.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "John Price", "body": "David -\n\nThanks. There was something going on where the Delete option was not there, nor could I see the calendar entries (errors logged in confluence log). When I got in this morning it was gone, so it looks like deleting it from BANDANA worked and there was just some internal cleanup/cache expiration that had to happen.\n\nI think this was a one-off problem related to upgrading Confluence to 4 and not re-indexing manually before adding the Jira calendar.\n" } ] } ]

[ "team-calendars-for-confluence" ]

[ { "author": "Steffen Heller", "body": "Theoretically \"keep with next\" could be simply recreated with\n\n```\nh1+img {page-break-before:avoid;}\n```\n\nUnfortunatelly it is not that easy because in reality the image does not directly follow the h1 heading but has a hidden \\<p\\> in between.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Michele C", "body": "I haveon't gotten a response back? Does anyone have any suggestions? We added a custom macro to create a page break. It didn't fix the issue I was having.\n\nIt seems like \"keep with next\" would have solved the issue. Is there a feature request for it to be implemented?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Michele C", "body": "I haven't gotten a response back? Does anyone have any suggestions? We added a custom macro to create a page break. It didn't fix the issue I was having.\n\nIt seems like \"keep with next\" would have solved the issue. Is there a feature request for it to be implemented?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "page", "pdf" ]

[ { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "I assume you're referring to our \\*.atlassian.com sites? I though all those acronyms were just something we used internally!\n\nYou're right, this is a bit tricky:\n\n* [ANSWERS project](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS) (JAC)\n* [Website](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/WEB) (JAC)\n* [Plugins](https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/PAC) (Studio)\n* CAC doesn't really have one, it'd be the [Confluence project](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF) (JAC)\n\nBsaically, when in doubt, you can contact us in [support](https://support.atlassian.com) and hopefully we'll route it to the right place. I think if we made another project for it on [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com), we'd just have the yet-one-more-place phenomenon.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "cloud" ]

[ { "author": "Sander Brienen [Avisi]", "body": "The answer from support:\n\nYes, removing the user from AD does remove the user from Confluence's database (cwd_user table), and hence, removes his/her account from the ConfluenceAdmin \\>\\> Manage Users screen. The People Directory however, works differently. The moment the user is removed from AD, we can of course, remove the user from the cwd_user table, but for tracking purpose, we left the user in the Content table, which is where the People Directory fetches its inputs from, and hence, the user is still displayed in People Directory. But if you check in Confluence Admin \\>\\> Manage Users, the user is already gone, and will no longer be counted against your Confluence license.\n\nThis is actually raised as a bug here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11467> , which describes your issue perfectly.\n\nQuote from the Bug Report that describes your issue perfectly:\n> Now once you delete a user in LDAP/Jira or your external usermanagement, it will disappear from confluence user management, i.e. Searching Administration \\> Manage users will not find that user, however their userinfo still exists in the content table. When populating the people directory, confluence searches the CONTENT table pulling out all the people who have USERINFO rows in the table. However when it tries to display the person, it can't because the user no longer exists. If you have a number of these it can cause the display of people to be wierd (i.e. not displaying the same amount of users when clicking on next or previous when searching through the people directory) or in extreme cases it can cause the people directory to be empty.\n\nThe workaround provided in the bug report is very similar to the one I provided earlier, with the exception that my DELETE statement references the contentid directly from the output of the SELECT statement, which is more direct.\n\nAs of now, this bug is still not fixed, but do feel free to add yourself as a watcher to the bug report to be informed of updates. Of course, the only workaround you can do for now would be the database method to remove the USERINFO contents.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Daniel Weisser", "body": "We do have the same problem. We moved an user to a different ou within the directory and the user can't log on anymore. The message in the log states: \"... tried to login but they do not have USE permission or weren't found. Deleting remember me cookie.\" (WARN)\n\nVersion is Confluence 3.5.9\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "active-directory", "user-directory" ]

[ { "author": "Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]", "body": "Hello,\n\na small and simple way is using CSS. Insert the following CSS code to your \"Administration\" \\> \"Custom HTML\" \\> \"At the end of the BODY\"-part\n\n```\n&lt;style type=\"text/css\"&gt;.plugin_pagetree_children_span a {overflow: hidden;display: block;width: 150px;white-space: nowrap;}&lt;/style&gt;\n```\n\nWith this code the title max lengt in the pagetree is 150 pixel. Tested this code whith my CF 4.0.3\n\nI hope it works for your 3.2 too.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "page-tree" ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Another maybe slightly hacky approach would be to externally host your CSS file...\n\nIn **Confluence Admin \\| Look \\& Feel \\| Custom HTML**\n\n...reference your external CSS in **At the end of the HEAD**\n\n```\n&lt;link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"protocol://server/path/to/style.css\" /&gt;\n```\n\nIn the external CSS, prefix all your styles to be documentation theme specific, e.g.\n\n```\nbody#com-atlassian-confluence.theme-documentation h2 { /* formatting here */}\n```\n\nAs your CSS is loaded last, it will overide the default. The stylesheet would be loaded for all themes, but **body#com-atlassian-confluence.theme-documentation**prefix will target the documentation theme only.\n\nThis approach overcomes problems such as the global custom stylesheet not being displayed when the Documentation theme is not the default theme.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "tominwood", "body": "That's actually a pretty good idea...\n\nI wonder if I could reference a css file that is uploaded to confluence maybe...\n" }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Sure, why not. Reduce to...\n\n```\n&lt;link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"/path/to/style.css\" /&gt;\n```\n" }, { "author": "Alain Moran", "body": "Yes, you should be able to reference an attachment on a page, however this will lead to it not having been given the headers that are required to ensure the browser caches it (since most often when you want an attachment you want to do the opposite - IE ensure that the copy you download is the latest version) \n\nYou can also store files in the images folder (the same place confluence gets many of it's icons from)\n\nA final alternative would be to use a theme that is deliberatley designed around being customised - theme builder is a good example of this, however it has a pretty steep learning curve. Refined Wiki can also be customised to some extent.\n" }, { "author": "Sharon Hinde", "body": "Alternatively you could simplify David's answer by writing your css into the head instead of linking to a style sheet. This would work well for those who can access the Confluence admin section but cannot add resources to the filesystem.\n\nExample (In Confluence Admin \\| Look \\& Feel \\| Custom HTML \\| HEAD):\n\n```\n<style type=\"text/css\">#header { background-color: #cc3300;}</style>\n```\n" } ] }, { "author": "Miles Jordan", "body": "All of the above answers go way too far.\n\nYou just need to set the style for \".wiki-content h2\" instead of just \"h2\":\n\n.wiki-content h2 {\n\ncolor: red;\n\n}\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Bob Murata", "body": "This is exactly what I needed! Way simpler than some of the other answers. Thanks!\n" }, { "author": "Lilian Tong", "body": "Thank you! This is perfect!\n" } ] }, { "author": "David Boden", "body": "Atlassian team, I see people on this comment thread trying to update heading styles (.h1, .h2 etc.). Would you please consider improving the styles that come installed as standard? There's nowhere near enough difference between .h1 and .h2. Both are underlined and difficult to distinguish. Please treat this request to change the styles as an indication that the styles are not satisfactory at the moment. Thanks.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Hemal Patel", "body": "I so agree. The existing CSS is way too old-fashioned. The editor doesn't offer many options either. It becomes very difficult to create an interactive technical document.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Alain Moran", "body": "Depending on confluence version, global css will not be applied unless you are using the default theme.\n\nAlso to make your styles apply you will need to use css that is more 'specific' than that supplied by confluence, for example if you want to make a div and then style it you would need to refer to the css class applied to the div, eg:\n\n{div:class=mydiv} some content {div}\n\nwith css\n\ndiv.myclass { background-color: red; }\n\nNote that in css the 'type' of the element goes before the . and the classname applied to the element comes after, so your example css would apply to elements of all types whose css classname was 'div'.\n\nYou may find the w3schools tutorial pages handy: <http://www.w3schools.com/css/>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "tominwood", "body": "Hi Alain:\n\nI'm reasonably CSS proficient normally - the .div was just a typo and was meant to just be a div :)\n" } ] }, { "author": "Kenn North", "body": "The other way to do it is...\n\nThere is a CSS file within the doctheme jar called splitter.css. That contains the CSS for the theme. If you overwrite that will all you need you should be good to go.\n\nExtract, the atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip \nExtract doctheme-1.9.jar (or whatever version you have) \nEdit the decorators in \\\\doctheme\\\\decorators \nEdit the CSS in \\\\doctheme\\\\splitter-1.5.1 \n\nzip the files up again to doctheme-1.9.jar, overwrite to old one and zip up atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip.. \n\nPut atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip back where it goes on the server and restart. \n\nI have done this on 3.5.3\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Alain Moran", "body": "If you are going to go to this extreme, then rather than replacing the bundled plugins zip, I would suggest also editing the atlassian-plugin.xml file and changing the 'key' of the theme - you can then upload this in the normal way and it will appear as a separate theme to the inbuilt one (making it much more convenient for updating as you develop your changes)\n\nMore information can be found here: \n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF31/Creating+a+Theme> \nhttps://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Theme+Module\n" }, { "author": "Kenn North", "body": "Fair point and I think I'll do that, for the most part my response answers the question of how to modify the CSS of the documentation theme, which I didn't see answered very clearly and I had to figure it out myself. Your suggestion is a good one once you learn how to edit these themes.\n" }, { "author": "Kenn North", "body": "I changed the key and it repackaged the files, and uploaded the theme. However I cannot choose it as a theme in a Space. Not sure why.\n" } ] }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Another maybe slightly hacky approach would be to externally host your CSS file...\n\nIn **Confluence Admin \\| Look \\& Feel \\| Custom HTML**\n\n...reference your external CSS in **At the end of the HEAD**\n\n```\n&lt;link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"protocol://server/path/to/style.css\" /&gt;\n```\n\nIn the external CSS, prefix all your styles to be documentation theme specific, e.g.\n\n```\nbody#com-atlassian-confluence.theme-documentation h2 { /* fornatting here */}\n```\n\nAs your CSS is loaded last, it will overide the default. The stylesheet would be loaded for all themes, but **body#com-atlassian-confluence.theme-documentation**prefix will target the documentation theme only.\n\nThis approach overcomes problems sure as the global custom stylesheet not being displayed when the Documentation theme is not the default theme.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "tominwood", "body": "Hi Alain:\n\nI'm reasonably CSS proficient normally - the .div was just a typo and was meant to just be a div :)\n\nDavid:\n\nDo you mean this?\n\n#com-atlassian-confluence h2 { \ncolor: red; \n} \nI have also tried: \n#com-atlassian-confluence h2 { \ncolor: red !important; \n} \nand \n.wiki-content h2 { \ncolor: green !important; \n} \nBut this doesn't make much difference\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Try prefixing selectors with#com-atlassian-confluence selector { ... } This should aide things\n", "comments": [ { "author": "tominwood", "body": "David:\n\nDo you mean this?\n\n#com-atlassian-confluence h2 { \ncolor: red; \n} \nI have also tried: \n#com-atlassian-confluence h2 { \ncolor: red !important; \n} \nand \n.wiki-content h2 { \ncolor: green !important; \n} \nBut this doesn't make much difference\n" }, { "author": "Alain Moran", "body": "Confluence CSS can quite specific when it comes to heading styles ... your best bet is to use a tool like firebug to find out what is being used to apply the current style and then go one more layer more specific ... I've not done much customisation of the documentation theme since, oddly enough, we tend to use builder quite a bit :)\n" }, { "author": "tominwood", "body": "I've tried adding\n\n#main #content .wiki-content .sectionMacro .confluenceTd h2 {\n\ncolor: green !important;\n\n} \nto the global stylesheet - but it has no effect. \nDo I need to be more more specific than this? \nIt seems crazy that it is so complex to make minor CSS tweaks to the documentation theme (which is shipped as part of confluence - and which many people are using) \nT\n" }, { "author": "tominwood", "body": "It looks to me, like the contents of the global stylesheet page are not be applied to the Documentation theme at all (as in, the css file is not being referenced). So my only option currently is to copy and paste the same CSS to each space. And to update each space whenever I make a change. Is this really the suggested way of tweaking the appearance of the documentation theme?\n\nI have been using Jquery to add inline styles using the custom HTML page - but this isn't exactly efficient either!\n" } ] } ]

[ "css", "documentation", "theme" ]

[ { "author": "Matthew J. Horn", "body": "If it's a one-off, you could try using jQuery to modify the styles of the table on just that page with the html macro.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Um, there is no \"uninstall\" program in Linux and removing a program is generally done with a package manager. But it depends on how you installed it.\n\nI'm assuming you've installed \"standalone\" Confluence, which is a matter of\n\n1. Stop the processes\n2. Drop the database (if you have not used the built-in hsql one, which is the default)\n3. Delete the data directory (confluence home)\n4. Delete the installation directory\n\nIf you're struggling to delete the installation directory, then you need to investigate that - read the error message it gives you and fix that problem first.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "yang shuai", "body": "hi, Nic i've stoped the processes and drop the database in MySQL,I forgot where the data directory is , besides when i delete the installation directory there is not error message it just no response ,and the atlassian folder icon has a lock on it\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Assuming you're using Nautilus as your file manager here, you'll find the lock means \"you don't have permission to do this\". I'd guess you've installed confluence under a different user id - you'll need to swap to that user or change permissions on the folder using a process with root access.\n\nForgetting where your data directory, we can't help you with - you'll need to find it (look in your home folder, or that of the user you installed it as, to begin with). If confluence was running, you could just look in system info, but if you've dropped the database, I don't think it'll start up.\n" }, { "author": "yang shuai", "body": "yeah finaly I used the\n\n```\nsudo rm -r confluence\n```\n\ncommand to delete it ,and thanks for your answers\n" }, { "author": "Herman Daou", "body": "sudo rm -rf confluence-home\n\nsudo rm -rf confluence\n\nsudo rm -rf atlassian\n\nJust in case you come up with permission issues.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Remon van G", "body": "If you installed confluence as a service then you need to remove the start script as well\n\n```\nsudo surm /etc/init.d/confluence\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "patti Bresnehen", "body": "I did not but have a picture captcha that will not let me win. please help me.\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "You don't get a captcha when using a command line to issue a simple remove command on a file. I think you need to explain what you're actually trying to do.\n" } ] } ]

[ "uninstall" ]

[ { "author": "vchoy", "body": "Hi Victor:\n\nIn the log files: \n\nWe see that the \n\n{noformat} \n2011-11-19 22:18:08,835 INFO \\[main\\] \\[com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle\\] contextDestroyed Stopping Confluence \n2011-11-19 22:25:08,637 INFO \\[main\\] \\[com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle\\] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 4.1-m5-r2 (build #3109) \n2011-11-19 22:25:13,687 INFO \\[main\\] \\[springframework.web.context.ContextLoader\\] initWebApplicationContext Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started \n2011-11-19 22:25:19,393 INFO \\[main\\] \\[com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle\\] \\<init\\> Loading EhCache cache manager \n2011-11-19 22:25:52,206 WARN \\[com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner$PoolThread-#2\\] \\[mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool\\] run com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool$AcquireTask@1d3ac6e -- Acquisition Attempt Failed!!! Clearing pending acquires. While trying to acquire a needed new resource, we failed to succeed more than the maximum number of allowed acquisition attempts (30). Last acquisition attempt exception: \norg.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: password authentication failed for user \"confluence\" \nat org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.doAuthentication(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:291) \nat org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:108) \nat org.postgresql.core.ConnectionFactory.openConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:66) \nat org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Connection.\\<init\\>(AbstractJdbc2Connection.java:125) \nat org.postgresql.jdbc3.AbstractJdbc3Connection.\\<init\\>(AbstractJdbc3Connection.java:30) \nat org.postgresql.jdbc3g.AbstractJdbc3gConnection.\\<init\\>(AbstractJdbc3gConnection.java:22) \nat org.postgresql.jdbc4.AbstractJdbc4Connection.\\<init\\>(AbstractJdbc4Connection.java:30) \nat org.postgresql.jdbc4.Jdbc4Connection.\\<init\\>(Jdbc4Connection.java:24) \nat org.postgresql.Driver.makeConnection(Driver.java:393) \nat org.postgresql.Driver.connect(Driver.java:267) \nat com.mchange.v2.c3p0.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnection(DriverManagerDataSource.java:134) \nat com.mchange.v2.c3p0.WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.getPooledConnection(WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.java:182) \nat com.mchange.v2.c3p0.WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.getPooledConnection(WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.java:171) \nat com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.C3P0PooledConnectionPool$1PooledConnectionResourcePoolManager.acquireResource(C3P0PooledConnectionPool.java:137) \nat com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.doAcquire(BasicResourcePool.java:1014) \nat com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.access$800(BasicResourcePool.java:32) \nat com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool$AcquireTask.run(BasicResourcePool.java:1810) \nat com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner$PoolThread.run(ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner.java:547) \n2011-11-19 22:25:52,215 WARN \\[main\\] \\[sf.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory\\] buildSettings Could not obtain connection metadata \njava.sql.SQLException: Connections could not be acquired from the underlying database! \n{noformat} \n\nCould we please confirm that your password and database credentials have been set correctly in your \n\n\\<confluence home\\>/confluence.cfg.xml file? \n\nThank you. \n\nRegards \n\nVincent Choy\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Victor Hooi", "body": "Yup, this was an issue on our side - upgrade from Postgres 9.0 to 9.1...lol.\n\nCan we mark this as closed? =)\n\nCheers,\n\nVictor\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Robert Lauriston", "body": "I found a sort of kludgy workaround, I can just copy a checkbox in another application and paste it. ?\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "There are a number of macros that provide replacement for space name. For instance, [Run Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RUN) has [Pre-defined variables](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RUN/Pre-defined+variables). Or you can provide your own variables. However, this is on a page by page basis. I don't know of anything that does this on a space wide basis.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Andrei [errno]", "body": "new working link for Run plugin: <https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RUN/Run+Plugin+for+Confluence>\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "Daniel Brice", "body": "This works in Confluence 4 when you specify @LABELS@ outside of your macro as well. It does not work in Confluence 5. For that discussion see: [How do you add template variables as macro parameters or in plain text macro bodies?](../141785/how-do-you-add-template-variables-as-macro-parameters-or-in-plain-text-macro-bodies)\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Chris Tybur", "body": "I figured this out. I had originally tried adding a \\<style\\> tag to login.vm with a CSS rule for hiding the global logo, but I was putting it in the \\<head\\> tag and it wasn't being picked up. Moving it to the \\<body\\> tag worked, in IE 8, FF 3.6, and Chrome.\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "AM", "body": "Matthias, I think it's a good idear to give your to\n\n[Support substring (partial) searches for terms used in Confluence: page title, attachment names, etc.](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-10412) {#toc-hId-1843004319}\n===========================================================================================================================================================================\n\n<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-10412>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "tobias leenaert", "body": "for people working in Dutch it would be great too :-)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "tobias leenaert", "body": "for people working in Dutch it would be great too :-)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "This was opened as a feature request quite some time ago, but it looks like we (Atlassian) decided not to investigate it further. <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-13499>\n\nGranted this issue was filed nearly 4 years ago, so maybe the situation has changed - you could try creating a new feature request.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jaime Murillo", "body": "for anyone doing substring search this would be great. \ncorrection it is necessary.\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Adrien Ragot 2", "body": "Hi JohnnyMac,\n\nThere's [an add-on for enterprise spreadsheets in Confluence](http://www.play-sql.com) which allows you to create and edit tables online, then copy-paste rows or excerpts to display them on pages.\n\nSee the release notes: <https://documentation.play-sql.com/display/PUBLIC/Release+Notes+2.3>\n\nCheers,\n\nAdrien\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Gert Kuivenhoven", "body": "Hi Adrien,\n\nYour answer is the best fitting solution. The suggestion of JohnnyMac helps slightly, because the anchor-links are not shown while try to link to a page(s) containing the anchors. The <https://documentation.play-sql.com/display/PUBLIC/Column+Types+and+Renderers> specifies the possibilities with the Play SQL addon.\n\nThanks, both of you,\n\nGert\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Gert Kuivenhoven", "body": "Hi JohnnyMac,\n\nMy suggestion is to use the Anchor macro, create for every cell a unique Anchor Name (related to the content of the cell)\n\nThis macro content could be generated by using a script where the default-parameter is the variable. The following example could be inserted between the \\<td\\> and \\</td\\> tags:\n\ntestcel2 = the value of the anchor-name\n\n\\<ac:macro ac:name=\"anchor\"\\> \n\\<ac:default-parameter\\>testcel2\\</ac:default-parameter\\> \n\\</ac:macro\\>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "hsuhailah", "body": "Definitely, Allan. In a Confluence site XML backup, you can find a file called exportDescriptor.properties which contain a parameter called \"buildNumber\". Compare this build number with the information found in this page - <https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Confluence+Build+Information>\n\nHope that helps!\n\n-Hanis-\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "briburt", "body": "Thank you, Matt.\n\nI don't think we need further clarity on Atlassian's reasoning at this point. We just want a plain text editing option. If this feature is absolutely, unequivocally, no-arguments-to-the-contrary-accepted, gone forever from the product, just say so. The fact that many customers are not only calling for this feature, but actively seeking alternatives to Confluence because it is missing should be troubling to Atlassian at the very least. It is not our job to figure out how it can be done -- that's Atlassian's job -- and the fact that you are using some \"XML dialect that looks like XHTML\" sounds like a very limiting design decision, insofar as you are now limited in how you can deliver a feature that many customers are requesting.\n\nOn the other hand, it's not limiting if Atlassian's stance is that they utterly reject the feature now and in the future. If this is the case, I'd like the company to just come out and say it rather than trying to convince those of us who want the feature about how unreasonable we are being. I don't feel that wanting more granular control via text-only or \"source-like\" editing is unreasonable at all, and no amount of trumpet blowing from Atlassian in favor of the \\*wonderful\\* new WYSIWYG editor will convince me otherwise.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matthias Basler", "body": "Not sure if this \"question\" is just a voting point, but if you need comments:\n\n* As an advanced user I fell much quicker just writing wiki markup that using the mouse in the WYSIWYG editor. (I am aware that I can use wiki wiki syntaxt to insert makros, images etc., but correcting things this way is not possible.) For inexperienced users the WYSIWYG editor is better, althoug currently (4.0.3) it still has some reliability issues, that is, it sometimes doesn't produce the expected result and making the inexperienced user rather frustrated because of the lack of control for correcting it. (For example speaking about white spaces...)\n* Example: I copied text directly from within a word document into the WYSIWYG editor. For whatever reason the whole text was inserted underlined, which first went unnoticed because **the underlining it wasn't visible in the editor, only in the preview**. It took me several minutes in the WYSIWYG editor to manage to get rid of this invisible, unwanted formatting. A typical user would have given up!\n* Inserting an image with a caption next to it currently requires three makros: \"area\" (\"Bereich\" in German) and two times \"column\" (\"Spalte\"). The whole construct takes up a lot of space in the editor for a rather simple output. In wiki markup it would be **way more compact**. (A single (user) macro would probably be ideal.)\n\nI'm not saying the new editor isn't nice, but having the choice would be definitely better.\n\nMatthias Basler\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Shawn", "body": "I have to say, I hate the new editor. Which is to say, I hate that I have to use it all the time. Being able to type wiki markup into the WYSIWYG editor is nice, but sometimes I want to \\*view\\* the markups in the text and currently I can't do it.\n\nAlso, when editing a link text you can't edit the link text, and the link editor window hovers over the entire page is is unmovable.\n\nAll of this wouldn't matter if I could enter the markup editor and just correct some syntax. I just spent 15 minutes trying to edit one link that would have taken me 5 seconds in the old version.\n" }, { "author": "Frederic Iterbeke", "body": "> For inexperienced users the WYSIWYG editor is better, althoug currently (4.0.3) it still has some reliability issues, that is, it sometimes doesn't produce the expected result and making the inexperienced user rather frustrated because of the lack of control for correcting it. (For example speaking about white spaces...)\n\nJust wanted to support this statement as a new Confluence 4.x user, I spent way too much time on finding the right way to do things I need. Such as: linking to an anchor/heading in a page, inserting horizontal rules and some other round trip issues. These issues aren't nearly as easy to correct (if at all) as in the previous editor.\n\nFor example, I tried to do something similar to <http://www.atlassian.com/summit/2010/presentations/collaboration-and-projects/building-a-kick-ass-confluence-page.jsp> , but using the WYSIWYG editor. I found that inserting a second horizontal rule to finish a section automagically removes the first horizontal rule. Also, anchoring links does not work as stated in the documentation anymore. These kind of issues really impair my ability to work with the new editor.\n\nSo I think Atlassian should either make the new editor more correctable and more stable, or provide some way of bringing back or re-including the wiki markup.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "@fiterbek -- Were you referring to this documentation re: creating anchor links? <http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/siAC> If so could you let us know what does not work for you? I just tested this and it worked in Confluence 4.1.\n\nYou can inserting horizontal rules in the same way you would have in wiki markup - type ---- then press Enter. You can also insert a horizontal rule from the Insert Menu.\n\nI was able to replicate the bug with adding a secomnd rule and have raised it with the development team for you.\n" }, { "author": "Frederic Iterbeke", "body": "Matt, thanks for your reply, and for passing the horizontal rule issue to the dev team :)\n\nI was referring to the documentation page you mentioned, albeit in Confluence 4.0 (but it has the exact same information). After trying this again just now I did succeed in linking to a heading (not an anchor, I forgot to mention that in my last post). I can't recall doing anything differently yesterday, but I guess I must have made a mistake then.\n\nThanks for the help!\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "No worries, @fiterbek. One thing to remember is that when creating your anchor link to a heading, it is case-sensitive. For example, if your heading is 'Introduction', your anchor link must be '#Introduction', not #introduction.\n\nIf your heading has multiple words, there should be no spaces in your anchor link. For example if your heading is 'Background Information', your achor link should be #BackgroundInformation\n" } ] }, { "author": "John Fitzgerald", "body": "Can't believe you've removed this, absurd.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "A lot of customers have asked us why we don;t provide a method to edit the raw source of pages in Confluence 4.0. The main reason we don't to allow end-user editing of the raw markup is that the editor markup is not really XHTML. It is an XML dialect that looks like XHTML so that it can be edited in a browser, but that embeds a lot of important semantic information so we can turn it back into the storage format when you hit save. Please see [Why We Removed the Wiki Markup Editor in Confluence 4.0](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2011/11/why-we-removed-wiki-markup-editor-in-confluence-4/) for further clarity on this decision.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Dustan Ashley", "body": "As a side note from my issues with the Editor, I wanted to mention that I have just gotten around to installing the \"Confluence Source Editor\" plugin and I am pretty happy with it.\n\nIt's not as simple and obvious as the wiki markup was but it gives me what I really need most. The ability to remove the random formatting problems that occur through importing or editing in a GUI. There's also something wholesome about seeing the actual guts of the thing that I can't really explain...\n\nAll I can ask for at this point is that Atlassian commit to supporting the plugin so that I don't have to choose between it and upgrades and I will be satisfied.\n\nThanks very much for having this open thread on this subject. I was late getting to a 4.x having only upgraded from 3.x two weeks ago, and I'm glad to hear that Atlassian is already moving in the right direction on this.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Matthias Basler", "body": "I don't want a \"raw XHTML\" editor either, but in several times I felt the need to have the **markup language editor** back.\n\nThe document which you mentioned states:\n> Wiki markup as a storage format hindered our ability to add new features, like merge table cells, that customers had been demanding. This is because Wiki Markup is a very limited subset of XHTML and because any new editor feature had to be built twice\n\nWell, I believe I understand this problem, but then 'd say: Extend your Wiki Markup in a way so that it can completely cover all the old and new features and allows full round tripping. Would this really be impossible?\n\nOne point that became important for us just now is that up to now the wiki markup allowed to **easily exchange content between wikis** . Since confluence 4 there's no easy way any more to just copy the content or parts of a page to a text editor, send to someone else and have it inserted into another confluence wiki. (Support told me I could exchange raw XHTML using chrome or firebug, but hey ... this is **so** awkward, only wiki gurus will want to do this.)\n\nIf Confluence manages to make the WYSIWYG really stable and idiot-proof (people tend to copy/past all sort of stuff into the editor and expect it to cope with the content) and if there were a simple way of exchanging pages or pieces of content without loosing the formatting then I'd say we don't need a markup editor any more. But we're not there yet.\n\nMatthias Basler\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Oliver Keim", "body": "Absolutely agree! Give us our wiki markup back. I am author of 500 pages with more than 5000 printed pages. The WYSIWYG editor is for novice or intermediate users, for professional users the wiki markup is the only option.\n\nEditing XHTML is a no go!\n" }, { "author": "Stephan Esposito", "body": "Me too absolutely agrees! At least give people the possibility to use the old markup and pass out the new features if they want.. I definitively want!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Andreas Gounaris", "body": "My opinion, despite your decision to move away from markup, is that you don't have consistensy over the application any more. Custom templates demand the use of markup while there is no way of building a page and copy its markup. You simply destroyed the template functionality.\n\nYou declare you're giving the same opportunities to both developers and end-users but you forget the most important thing: developers drive the awareness, developers create the demand, developers are making your products shine. Nature is not playing with equal opportunities, that's why there is progress. Everything changes.\n\nHere is a tip that I found, a small but highly effective way to edit the source and fix all those problems created with the editor. It is called WebDav. You edit the storage format directly and \"voil?\". Wow, all problems are gone.\n\nLastly, I want to say clearly that I love your products, robust, innovative and blossom. Keep up the good job.\n\nThank you\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "Andreas. Sorry about that. We've got Templates on the roadmap ASAP <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11744> might want to watch/vote that issue to stay updated.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jonathan Simonoff", "body": "I hope you are reconsidering this. If not, you need to come up with some solution. Your editor does the wrong thing at times, and it is AFAIK impossible to fix some problems from within the editor. This isn't surprising to me -- I've never yet seen an HTML editor that produces glitch-free code.\n\nSo far (only using the 4.0.4 editor for a few hours at most) most of the frustrating problems have been related to tables -- I've got one situation where there is a series one one-row tables; the first one looks like it should, while the next two look like a row of separate one-cell tables instead of a table row. The appearance in the editor is identical.\n\nNot good at all -- if my users can't get things to look the way they want them to look, they aren't going to be my users for very long. I'm reluctantly considering looking at other wikis.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "While the new editing capabilities are really nice and an important advance for Confluence, for some use cases and integrations with other systems, keeping some sort of wiki alternative would be nice. Atlassian does continue to support compatibility mode (insert wiki markup) that is really important for migrating existing content and retaining wiki markup for legacy macros. Although they have indicated this support may be taken away at some point, hopefully not anytime soon. As long at that capability remains and the use case is restricted to existing (legacy) macros and editing, the **wiki** macro from the [Confluence Wiki Plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.wiki) can be used to continue to edit wiki markup and prevent migration of the macros embedded in it. This might help some people especially those with complex wiki markup never intended to be edited with a rich editor. In this mode, you are restricted to legacy macro support and the limitations that imposes.\n\nSee also the discussion: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Editor+FAQ?focusedCommentId=282175067#comment-282175067>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Graham Hannington", "body": "This is not an answer, but if you're interested in this question, you might be interested in Wikifier RT (converts Confluence 4.x rich text content to wiki markup), which is one of a few [Confluence resources](http://www.amnet.net.au/~ghannington/confluence/) that I have developed. (With apologies to any readers who are sick of seeing links to this. I don't know any better way to announce it.)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "DavidH", "body": "I haven't had time to read all the comments related to editing, markup, and the desire for direct acess to markup in Confluence 4.0. But I will say I ABSOLUTELY WANT ACCESS TO THE MARKUP, and it better be a standard HTML/XHTML or a close flavor, or I will find Confluence increasingly difficult to use, and will eventually find alternatives.\n\nI'm wasting far too much time trying to troubleshoot ridiculous formatting issues, both in the Wiki and in PDF export. I've worked on every type of publishing platform and typographic encoding scheme that has existed in the last 35 years or so, and I've never been so frustrated. I can hand-code everything from Linographic typesetting language to HTML, and while WYSIWYG is better in many ways, it's IMPOSSIBLE without the troubleshooting, customizing ability of having an underlying, low-level, code-based control mechanism.\n\nI vote FIX THIS.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Hey @docpro we just released the first beta of the new Confluence Source Editor Plugin. See here for more details:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Specification+-+Confluence+Advanced+Editor>\n" } ] }, { "author": "Karie Kelly", "body": "I do concur with many of the comments provided. Having only the one editor is like having a developer use only a visual designer for creating code vs being able to actually type or write the code themselves. Once the developer knows the language, writing the code, or at least editing the code, is often quicker. Therefore, even if wiki markup is not a familiar language like html, people have learned the language and have become adepts and productive using it -- many times it was much easier to correct an issue directly in the markup vs trying to use the options in the current editor.\n\nExample 1: The Note tags were incorrect and highlighting or encompassing all of my content as a Note. I could not remove only the note tag -- it you select remove, it removes the content as well. I had to copy and paste portions out of the note, into the page, and continue until all was out and then remove the note. If you select all of the note's content to copy or cut, when you paste, it pastes the notes tags back in -- so, you duplicate the note which is the issue that I was trying to resolve.\n\nExample 2: Two tables created, each with two columns. I wanted them to actually be one table and needed to remove the white space between the two tables to join them. In wiki markup, I just removed the space and the rows joined together and I no longer had two tables. But, in the current editor, there is no way to remove this space and join. I've had to add the rows and copy/past the content from one row to the other until all were done and then delete the empty table.\n\nExample 3: Because I learned the language, I could type out a formatted page much quicker than what it takes to highlight and use macros or select actions to apply the formatting. Thus, my productivity has reduced significantly and frustration has grown while trying to easily accomplish what I could using the wiki markup.\n\nYes, people will probably learn over time. But, this one change has affected the productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction level of much of the current user base. I'm just perplexed, trying to understand the value as to why the feature was removed vs choosing to enhance the rich text editor and still providing both. What is the cost to maintain both options? Or, what is the loss with choosing to remove one?\n\nIn this case, I'm using this product at a client's site and don't have a choice on whether to use or not. However, in my prior company, I was a decision maker on its use and ugprade and would have chosen to not upgrade due to removing this option. It will also affect my decision, should I have the option, at future companies or projects, in terms of utilizing the product or not.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Hi @kalynn\n\nRE: Example 1 -- This is the default behaviour. It is possible to edit the existing macro and change it using the Macro Browser as shown in this quick screencast -- <http://screencast.com/t/kYsLeew8g>\n\nThere has been a feature request raised on our public issue tracker for the ability to [remove a macro and retain it's contents](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24205). You may like to vote for and watch that issue.\n\nRE: Example 2 -- Did you know you can do this with Confluence's Cut and Paste Table Row Operations? See this quick screencast for a demo -- <http://screencast.com/t/dOpn4cincd>\n\nCould you please provide a little more detail on Example 3? Perhaps there might be something I can suggest to help.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Thanks for the reply @kalynn. RE: Example 3 -- you can still do all of this without picking up your mouse and using the same wiki markup you already know thanks to [Autoformatting](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/01/one-for-the-wiki-markup-pros-macro-and-link-autoformatting/). I recorded a quick demo to show you this in action with some of the content you provided above -- <http://screencast.com/t/sajXwtwGzC>\n" }, { "author": "Karie Kelly", "body": "I'll review the feedback provided above regarding the first two tips. However, as with example 2, instead of the one action that I had to do on the wiki markup (remove the blank line space), I have to highlight my rows, select cut, then paste, then delete the second table which is several more actions and alot of pointer movement.\n\nExample 3: Once learning the format, I could just write 'code' for my formatting. For example:\n\nh3. This is my Header\n\nI can type this \\*while bolding my text\\* or _underlining_ my text and never have to leave my keyboard or use my pointer to take action or format. I could then type my own tags,\n\n{note:title=My Note Title}\n\nTo create my note, again, without invoking a macro or using my pointer for that action.\n\n{note}\n\nAs well as easily create my tables without using the insert feature and ensure that they were formatted the way I prefer:\n\n\\|\\|Priority\\|\\|Description\\|\\| \n\\|P1\\|This is my first feature:\\\\\\\\ \n\\* First one\\\\\\\\ \n\\* _Second one is optional_\\| \n\\|P2\\|This is a next feature set.\\|\n\nI'm not a developer but am very keyboard-centric; previously, I managed our Confluence installation, developed templates, and encouraged our team to push all content to the wiki and manage it there for a single location of information. I was a heavy user of the wiki there and am here while at my client site -- I use it for documenting all of our product requirements and end user product documentation, with lots of images, macros, and attachments -- formatting and ease of use is important and I create or edit a significant amount of content each day. Therefore, it's been quite noticeable for me, as a heavy user, on how much more time I am having to spend to create and edit content than I was when I could previously utilize the wiki markup directly.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "You're most welcome @kalynn :) I'm glad I could help. You might also want to make use of this guide our Tech Writers put together to help with the transition to the new editor: [Confluence 4.0 Editor - What's Changed for Wiki Markup Users](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/AhGzDQ)\n" }, { "author": "Karie Kelly", "body": "Matt,\n\nThanks for taking the time for the quick replies and putting together the screencast. That was quite helpful and something that I will definitely use going forward.\n\nMuch appreciated!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jonathan Simonoff", "body": "Given the design decision (to let the xhtml be such that you don't want to allow source editing), you really need to be VERY proactive and responsive about formatting problems. If people are constantly spending time trying to make pages look like they weren't done by a kindergartener, they will find some other tool, and our wikis will die.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Matt", "body": "> you really need to be VERY proactive and responsive about formatting problems\n\nThat's exactly what we are trying to do, Jonathan. We've recently [shipped Confluence 4.1](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.1+Release+Notes) with a number of fixes and improvements and 4.1.2 is not far away with more bug fixes and improvements like [Autoformatting of wiki markup support for macros](http://screencast.com/t/WW9nMOvYPv) -- something many people on this thread have asked for.\n\nWe're also actively encouraging customers to give us specific feedback that we are responding to here -- [Confluence 4.0 Editor - Customer Feedback](Confluence%204.0%20Editor%20-%20Customer%20Feedback)\n" }, { "author": "daviderickson", "body": "Matt this is not sufficient, there will always be a time delta between when a problem is reported and Atlassian fixes it (if ever, looking at the patch I've submitted that has never been merged), and in this interim there should be a way to fix whatever issue exists by looking at the raw code of the page. If the syntax is ugly, fine, people will only be heading into this editor when it is absolutely necessary and they know what to expect.\n" }, { "author": "Mark Hrynczak", "body": "David, have you seen this plugin?\n\n<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/918877>\n\nThe plugin is called Invisible Ink, and gives you the ability to edit the Storage Format for a page.\n\nIt allows you to configure which groups have access to use it - I'd recommend restricting this as much as possible to save yourselves headaches as admins.\n" }, { "author": "daviderickson", "body": "Hi Mark- That looks like exactly what we need, but built into Confluence as it was in the 3.X series.\n" }, { "author": "Jonathan Simonoff", "body": "Matt: I think that is great, but upgrading can be a big hill -- on a production installation, it isn't something you just do casually for small reward. Better would be a way of fixing the editor without an upgrade -- perhaps a plugin that could be released frequently and installed easily and safely.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Chris Walker", "body": "A couple of things.\n\nPlease provide an official schema for your XML variant (like this one: [http://www.amnet.net.au/\\~ghannington/confluence/readme.html](http://www.amnet.net.au/~ghannington/confluence/readme.html))\n\nAlso, for complex pages, the editor as it is now can get very cumbersome. This is even true if you edit the XHTML directly. My users have complained that they would be able to create a big, tricky table in not too much wiki markup. Now, the same table is unwieldy and hard to edit.\n\nI don't think they would mind sticking to the new editor, but it should be streamlined.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Graham Hannington", "body": "I and other users have added many comments related to this question on the following Atlassian Documentation web pages:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Storage+Format>\n\n[http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Editor+-+Customer+Feedback](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Editor+-+Customer+Feedback \"Confluence 4.0 Editor - Customer Feedback\")\n\nIf you're interested in the markup source of Confluence 4 wiki pages, you might be interested in some of those comments.\n\nIn particular, you might be interested in the following:\n\n* Wikifier (uses XSLT to convert Confluence 4 XML to wiki markup)\n* The XML schema (DTD/XSDs) that I have developed to describe the Confluence 4 XML vocabulary, and the corresponding schema documentation\n\nFor more information, including links to Wikifier and the schema (I think it's useful to read the related comments, which is why I haven't provided direct links here), see those pages.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Scott Asire", "body": "Wow, is this difficult. All I want to do is update the content of my TOC that was added with a {toc} macro. No idea how to do that in the new editor. I can edit \\| remove the macro, but change it to add a new link? Completely un-intuitive. If I could just get to the markup I'd be done. But now I have to wade through docs, examples, blogs, forums, ask colleagues, etc. and after an hour I have given up.\n\nProbably really, really simple....if you know the \"trick\".\n\nPlease provide a way to view/edit the markup again.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Hey Scott - are you trying to change the paramters of the TOC macro? I'm unsure from your description about what you are trying to do.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Scott Asire", "body": "Wow, is this difficult. All I want to do is update the content of my TOC that was added with a {toc} macro. No idea how to do that in the new editor. I can edit \\| remove the macro, but change it to add a new link? Completely un-intuitive. If I could just get to the markup I'd be done. But now I have to wade through docs, examples, blogs, forums, ask colleagues, etc. and after an hour I have given up.\n\nProbably really, really simple....if you know the \"trick\".\n\nPlease provide a way to view/edit the markup again.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Dustan Ashley", "body": "4.1.6 and I still hate the editor. I spend so much time attempting to hold it's hand through the simplest of formatting operations that would have taken seconds in the wiki markup editor.\n\nAt this point I am seriously considering moving to alternatives as I expect the \"unsupported plugin providing essential functionality\" aspect of this to cause me untold misery in the future.\n\nI need a simple and fast way to edit the markup vomit produced by the WYSIWYG much more than I need JIRA integration.\n\nWhy Atlassian!? We geeks were good to you!\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Matt", "body": "> I spend so much time attempting to hold it's hand through the simplest of formatting operations that would have taken seconds in the wiki markup editor\n\nCould you please provide an example of something that's still not working for you in 4.1.6? There's a chance we're aware of the bug and a fix is on the way but it's hard for us to let you know without specifics.\n" }, { "author": "Dustan Ashley", "body": "Sure. Just off the top of my head, I regularly number my headings manually (again, not fond of unsupported plugins like \"Numbered Headings\" for forward compatability).\n\nIf I type \" 1. \" (That's \"1\" \".\" \\[space\\]) the editor, being smarter than I am, converts to a numbered list which uses paragraph style rather than my heading style. If I then click to unselect the \"Numbered List\" formatting button that it magically selected, my \"1. \" now vanishes. Repeat until you're so irritated you find this page.\n\nThere may be a special editor trick to get around this but I couldn't find it. I know what the trick would have been in 3.x though.... break out the wiki editor, change two or three chracters and go home happy.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Gotcha. You can just press Command/Control + Z (Undo) to get around this.\n" }, { "author": "Dustan Ashley", "body": "Thanks for that Matt, I had discovered that quirk as well by slamming my face down upon the keyboard, but it's not even remotely intuitive.\n\nIs this intended behavior then, or is it a bug?\n\nI also find it nearly impossible to make formatting changes across a large document. For example I imported a large word document (the import went swimmingly by the way, very impressive) and while it maintained the heading structure, it lost the indentation.\n\nI could not find any way to say \"Indent all h1 by 1, all h2 by 2, and so on\". In the past I would have loaded the wiki markup in VIM and a quick :%s would get this fixed up in no time. Last night I spent two hours doing nothing but fixing indentations in a single document.\n\nOh! Which reminds me. There is some really weird stuff going on when changing the indent of a large selection which contains lists (bullets). If you select a block of text which contains a bulleted list and try to indent, it will work for level 1, then start getting a bit funny at level 2 and so on. It seems that none of the indent changes after level 2 will be applied to the area below the bulleted list, regardless of what was selected. Again, no problem with wiki markup EVER.\n\nMaybe it's just us neurotic folks that don't like the editor, but it really makes things painful for me.\n" }, { "author": "Dustan Ashley", "body": "As a side note from my issues with the Editor, I wanted to mention that I have just gotten around to installing the \"Confluence Source Editor\" plugin and I am pretty happy with it.\n\nIt's not as simple and obvious as the wiki markup was but it gives me what I really need most. The ability to remove the random formatting problems that occur through importing or editing in a GUI. There's also something wholesome about seeing the actual guts of the thing that I can't really explain...\n\nAll I can ask for at this point is that Atlassian commit to supporting the plugin so that I don't have to choose between it and upgrades and I will be satisfied.\n\nThanks very much for having this open thread on this subject. I was late getting to a 4.x having only upgraded from 3.x two weeks ago, and I'm glad to hear that Atlassian is already moving in the right direction on this.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "> Is this intended behavior then, or is it a bug?\n\nYes, it's Autoformatting in action -- <http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whats-new/?tab=confluence-40>\n> I could not find any way to say \"Indent all h1 by 1, all h2 by 2, and so on\n\nSounds like this is solved by the Source Editor plugin.\n> There is some really weird stuff going on when changing the indent of a large selection which contains lists (bullets). If you select a block of text which contains a bulleted list and try to indent, it will work for level 1, then start getting a bit funny at level 2 and so on. It seems that none of the indent changes after level 2 will be applied to the area below the bulleted list, regardless of what was selected. Again, no problem with wiki markup EVER.\n\nThanks for this. I'll check with our QA team to see if this is a known issue.\n" }, { "author": "John Masson", "body": "Hi Mate,\n> All I can ask for at this point is that Atlassian commit to supporting the plugin so that I don't have to choose between it and upgrades and I will be satisfied.\n\nWe'll definitely be maintaining the source editor so you won't need to make that choice.\n\nThanks, \nJohn\n" }, { "author": "Mark Hrynczak", "body": "> There is some really weird stuff going on when changing the indent of a large selection which contains lists (bullets). If you select a block of text which contains a bulleted list and try to indent, it will work for level 1, then start getting a bit funny at level 2 and so on. It seems that none of the indent changes after level 2 will be applied to the area below the bulleted list, regardless of what was selected. Again, no problem with wiki markup EVER.\n\nI've raised a bug report for this - see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24943>\n" } ] }, { "author": "AM", "body": "Sometimes it helps to raise your voice in a constructive way ... and be patient ... \n\n**Message from the founders of Atlassian:** \n*\"We're building a source editor!\"* \n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Editor+-+Customer+Feedback>\n\nContribute here [here](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Specification+-+Confluence+Advanced+Editor \"here\") to help to get the best of both worlds. \n\n<br />\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "John Masson", "body": "Hi All,\n\nYou might like to like to read the update on our [Editor Feedback](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Editor+-+Customer+Feedback) page from the founders on what is happening on this, including the creation of a new, Advanced Editor for accessing source.\n\nJohn\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sven", "body": "Don't forget to vote here, the template-question is NOT solved with this new 3rd party plugin:\n\n<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11744>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matthias Basler", "body": "Having now worked several weeks with confluence 4.0.5 and 4.1 on mostly Firefox 8.x and 9.0.1 respectively I can only say that I can **not** recommend the combination of Confluence 4 and the latest Firefox browser. It feels like beta status, not more. Within the last days and weeks I had to file a dozen of bug reports, mostly concerned with copy/paste, working with tables other odd behaviours of the new editors. Too ofthe the only \"solution\" of correcting the problem is to do an undo and entering the text manually.\n\n(Using IE8 is slightly better, IE9 is not working at all for us and is not officially supported yet. I have no idea what those editors will do that have Win7 and therefore use IE9 by default, because it was installed by the admin.)\n\nBetter have a stable plain text (markup) editor than a feature-rich WYSIWYG edito that drives the editors mad!!!\n\nI am \\*really\\* considering downgrading to Confluence 3.5 before our wiki goes live so that the editors can have hassle-free content editing sessions, even if they have to learn wiki markup. Or maybe we should stick with MS Office and send documents back and forth ... I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Frederic Iterbeke", "body": "> For inexperienced users the WYSIWYG editor is better, althoug currently (4.0.3) it still has some reliability issues, that is, it sometimes doesn't produce the expected result and making the inexperienced user rather frustrated because of the lack of control for correcting it. (For example speaking about white spaces...)\n\nJust wanted to support this statement as a new Confluence 4.x user, I spent way too much time on finding the right way to do things I need. Such as: linking to an anchor/heading in a page, inserting horizontal rules and some other round trip issues. These issues aren't nearly as easy to correct (if at all) as in the previous editor.\n\nFor example, I tried to do something similar to <http://www.atlassian.com/summit/2010/presentations/collaboration-and-projects/building-a-kick-ass-confluence-page.jsp> , but using the WYSIWYG editor. I found that inserting a second horizontal rule to finish a section automagically removes the first horizontal rule. Also, anchoring links does not work as stated in the documentation anymore. These kind of issues really impair my ability to work with the new editor.\n\nSo I think Atlassian should either make the new editor more correctable and more stable, or provide some way of bringing back or re-including the wiki markup.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "markup" ]

[ { "author": "Sam Hall", "body": "*Update, this is fixed in the latest version (for youtube atleast).*\n\nBest solution I've come up with for this is to create a user macro. I eventually gave up on Widget Connector and logged this bug... <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/WC-27>\n\nThis is the user macro I came up with for youtube incase anyone else needs a decent solution for this...\n\n```\n## Macro title: YouTube Embed## Macro has a body: N## Output: HTML#### Developed by: Sam Hall## Date created: 24/04/2012## Installed by: Sam Hall## @param vid:title=Video ID|type=string|required=true|desc=ID for the video## @param width:title=Width|type=int|required=false|desc=Width (default 425)## @param height:title=Height|type=int|required=false|desc=Height (default 350)## Check for valid width, otherwise use 425#if (!$paramwidth) #set ($paramwidth=425)#end ## Check for valid height, otherwise use 350#if (!$paramheight) #set ($paramheight=350)#end&lt;iframe class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text/html\" width=\"$paramwidth\" height=\"$paramheight\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/$generalUtil.escapeForHtmlAttribute($paramvid)\" frameborder=\"0\"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;\n```\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Vladimir Alexiev", "body": "With Widget 1.3.8 I get error \"\"widget: A widget Id is required!\". Posted as <https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/WC-76>. We also started using a user macro (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/YouTube+user+macro>) and replaced \"http:\" with \"\" (i.e. the URLs should start with \"//www.youtube.com\", yep that is a valid URL).\n\nAdded [comment to KB](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Widget+Connector+not+Displaying+Embedded+Content+when+Using+Firefox+or+Chrome?focusedCommentId=425460814&=#comment-425460814)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "ssl", "video", "widget" ]

[ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "We created a user macro with similar functionality. Maybe something like this:\n\n```\n## @param Group:title=Group|type=string|required=true|desc=The group to check permissionsAll spaces where group \"$paramGroup\" has VIEWSPACE permission:#set($allSpaces=$spaceManager.getAllSpaces())&lt;ul&gt; #foreach($space in $allSpaces) #set($spacePermissions=$space.getPermissions()) #foreach($permission in $spacePermissions) #if ($permission.getType() == 'VIEWSPACE' &amp;&amp; $permission.getGroup() == $paramGroup) &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"$req.contextPath/spaces/spacepermissions.action?key=$space.key\"&gt;$space.name ($space.key)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; #end #end #end&lt;/ul&gt;\n```\n\nHope this helps\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Steve Goldberg", "body": "That's really helpful, Remo.\n" }, { "author": "Steve Goldberg", "body": "That's really helpful, Remo.\n" }, { "author": "Julie Driscoll", "body": "Hi, this looks very helpful, but I'm not quite sure how to use it. I created a macro using the cod you pasted above. Referencing it like\n\n```\n{my_get_spaces_macro:title=my_group_name}\n```\n\nresults in a list of users. Would you mind giving an explanation as to how to use it? Thanks, Julie\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "If you create a user macro called \"group-permissions\" using the code above and reference it like:\n\n```\n{group-permissions:Group=confluence-users}\n```\n\nThen you should see something like the following output:\n\nAll spaces where group \"confluence-users\" has VIEWSPACE permission:\n\n* Demonstration Space (ds)\n* Testspace (test)\n" }, { "author": "Julie Driscoll", "body": "That's terrific! Saves lots of time. Thank you!\n" }, { "author": "RodneyH", "body": "is it possible to do the same thing for each User individually - i.e. list the Spaces that Fred has access to, followed by John's Spaces, followed by Percy's Spaces .... for all Users?\n" }, { "author": "Felicity Chapman", "body": "The user macro here is brilliant, but like Rodney I'm struggling to modify it to display the same information for an individual user. Not sure what I'm doing wrong but replacing group with user doesn't work and I can't find anything helpful in the Confluence documentation\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "The following macro should work for individual users:\n\n```\n## @param User:title=User|type=username|required=true|desc=Select user to check permissionsAll spaces where user \"$paramUser\" has VIEWSPACE permission: #set($allSpaces=$spaceManager.getAllSpaces())&lt;ul&gt; #foreach($space in $allSpaces) #set($spacePermissions=$space.getPermissions()) #foreach($permission in $spacePermissions) #if ($permission.getType() == 'VIEWSPACE' &amp;&amp; $permission.getUserName() == $paramUser) &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"$req.contextPath/spaces/spacepermissions.action?key=$space.key\"&gt;$space.name ($space.key)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; #end #end #end&lt;/ul&gt;\n```\n\nHope this helps\n" }, { "author": "Felicity Chapman", "body": "Thank you - that was an amazingly quick reply. It works better than what I was trying, but doesn't report on the spaces that a user has access to via group membership. Presumably it would be possible to extend it the macro to report on all spaces that a user can see (via group membership or user permissions)?\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "The goal of the macro was to find spaces where the group/user has been given explicit permissions, not implicit via group membership.\n\nMaybe this macro is what you are looking for: \n<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/73701/macro-to-get-all-permissions-for-a-specific-user>\n" }, { "author": "Felicity Chapman", "body": "Thank you for pointing me to the other question. I'll experiment with the macros there. I didn't find that one when I was searching before - I often find it hard to find what I'm looking for in \"Answers\" although there is so much useful information here.\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Yep, same for me. I often just search on Google instead of Answers...\n" } ] }, { "author": "aaron wideen", "body": "Is it possible to do the opposite?\n\nFor each space see what groups have access...\n\nThank you!\n\n-Aaron\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Bartosz Czy?ewski", "body": "Hey Aaron,is it possible? Did you find any resolution?\n" } ] } ]

[ "administration", "report" ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "### [Site Statistics](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Site+Statistics) {#toc-hId-1456626565}\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "Thanks Bob.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Vijay Sv", "body": "Here it is...........\n\nselect 'Total Spaces', count(\\*) from SPACES -----Total Spaces \nselect 'Personal Spaces', count(\\*) from SPACES where \\[SPACETYPE\\] ='personal' ---Personal Spaces \nselect 'Site Spaces',count(\\*) from SPACES where \\[SPACETYPE\\] = 'global' -- Site/global Spaces \nSELECT 'Content (All Versions)', count(\\*) FROM \\[CONTENT\\] ---- Content (All Versions) \nselect 'Content (Current Versions)', count(\\*) from CONTENT where PREVVER is null; --- Content (Current Versions) \nselect count(\\*) from \\[dbo\\].\\[cwd_group\\] ---Local Groups \nselect count(\\*) from \\[dbo\\].\\[cwd_user\\] ----Local Users \nSELECT 'Blogposts',count(\\*) FROM \\[CONTENT\\] WHERE CONTENTTYPE = 'BLOGPOST'; \nselect 'All Pages',count(\\*) from CONTENT where CONTENTTYPE ='PAGE'; \nSELECT 'Comments',count(\\*) FROM CONTENT WHERE CONTENTTYPE = 'COMMENT'; \nSELECT 'All Content Attachments', count(\\*) FROM \\[dbo\\].\\[CONTENT\\] WHERE CONTENTTYPE = 'ATTACHMENT'; --All Content Attachments\n\nThanks, \nVJ\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "activity", "sql" ]

[ { "author": "Sander Brienen [Avisi]", "body": "There isn't really anything wrong. But apparently your screen is relatively small. Do you have a custom theme installed? This theme might introduce the problem with not being able to scroll down.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "SherryX", "body": "we use Adaptavist Theme Builder, before upgrade it is OK. I'm not familiar with the builder, can you give me some advice what should I check and fix this problem? Thanks\n" }, { "author": "Sander Brienen [Avisi]", "body": "Hi Sherry,\n\nIt has probably something todo with the stylesheet in your theme. Theme Builder by itself is not doing much. It must be configured and customized. If you are not familiar with CSS or with configuring theme builder I'd advise to find someone with more experience to look at it. We've been implementing a site with theme builder and it worked fine for us. But our customer is not doing any changes on the configuration of theme builder.\n\nHope this helps you\n\nSander\n" }, { "author": "SherryX", "body": "Thank you very much for your help, I have a close look at the CSS within the layout and fix the problem. Now I have other problem displaying contents on dashboard, I believe it is the CSS issue. The question is - I don't know which layout I'm using as this is not a page within spaces, there are dashboard screen. In our theme builder, there are similar layout names, e.g. Dashboard, DashboardWIKI, etc. How does confluence know which layout is for the dashboard? We can change the space layout via Manage Spaces within Admin Screen, but I don't know how to change to a different layout for the dashboard.\n" }, { "author": "Sander Brienen [Avisi]", "body": "The layout of the dashboard can be changed in the file global.vmd in your theme plugin. This can also be done within Confluence Admin. See changing the global layout here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Layouts>\n" }, { "author": "SherryX", "body": "thanks for your help\n" } ] }, { "author": "SherryX", "body": "we use Adaptavist Theme Builder, before upgrade it is OK. I'm not familiar with the builder, can you give me some advice what should I check and fix this problem?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "macro", "upgrade" ]

[ { "author": "Matthew J. Horn", "body": "I wrote a macro that does this:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Next+and+Previous+Links>\n\nhth,\n\nmatthew horn\n\n<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/confluence_users/>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "navigation", "page-tree", "scrollbar" ]

[ { "author": "Matthew J. Horn", "body": "I would check the \"Apache Tomcat Confluence\" service in the Server Manager. If you can start and stop that, then you're good.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "install", "permission", "tomcat" ]

[ { "author": "Jeff leigh", "body": "I guess the answer to this is its not possible.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "This depends on the type of notification that the user is subscribed to. Check out this [documentation](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Watching+Changes) to learn about types of notification and how to subscribe/unsubscribe to/from it.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jeff leigh", "body": "I haven't touched any settings. Got my instance up and running, logged in, been adding and changing content and started getting emails right away.\n\nBecause I'm the author of the docs I believe. Which kind of makes it worse - I know I edited it - I don't need an email to tell me.\n" }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "As far as I am concerned, users are not automatically subscribed to notifications in Confluence. Is this not the case for your instance?\n" }, { "author": "Jeff leigh", "body": "So everytme I have a new user I have to show them how to turn off notifications? There isn't a way to tell Confluence to just stop sending them at all?\n" } ] } ]

[ "cloud", "confluence-cloud" ]

[ { "author": "Oli S", "body": "perhaps this would help:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Duplicates+in+the+People+Directory>\n\n[http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Duplicate+Users+Appear+in+the+%27external_entities%27+Table](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Duplicate+Users+Appear+in+the+%2527external_entities%2527+Table)\n\n<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11467>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "JT", "body": "Thanks Oliver, but my issue is different. I actually have duplicate users in CROWD. The users only show up once in the Confluence people directory, but multiple times when you search for a user while adding restrictions to a page.\n" } ] } ]

[ "crowd" ]

[ { "author": "Daniel Borcherding", "body": "Hello Bryan,\n\nI don't think that issue is going to be visible to you. We believe your problem relates to the following bug\n\n<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/ADVMACROS-227>\n\nThe solution outlined in that case is to downgrade your Confluence Advanced Macro to a version previous to 2.0.30\n\nCan you visit your Confluence Admin \\> Plugins section. Expand the System Plugins section to view the Confluence Advanced Macro. Expanding that container will show you the version of the plugin you currently have installed.\n\nPlease let us know if you have any further questions.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "BernardoA", "body": "This same ticket gives the resolution for this as we can see here:\n\n<https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-72143>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Yes, with a bit of css. See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Fonts+in+Confluence>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Mick Davidson", "body": "Ah yes, thanks Nic. I know about that, but I meant on the page itself, not globally.\n\nSorry, I should have made that clear.\n\nThanks.\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Ah, ok. In that case, what mitch827 said :-)\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jeff Howell", "body": "Not being able to select font type and size in WYSIWYG mode is really a PITA. When I cut/paste information from another source, it often carries font \"baggage\" with it. I have found the only way to fix this is to use the \"Inspect Element\" from the right-click menu, then edit out all the font tags from the HTML. Very ugly and error-prone, as one actually has to understand the underlying HTML to do this.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Janet Courtney", "body": "Agree with Jeff... I'm trying to set up a program management page.. this is not looking good at all.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Martin Gregory", "body": "This is ludicrous. What WYSIWYG editor doesn't let you change the font of a word!? I want to \"preformat\" a file name in a sentence. I can't. FFS.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "It's a wiki, not a publishing platform\n" }, { "author": "Martin Gregory", "body": "What wiki doesn't let you change the font of a word? I would say \"get with the times\", except that even the most basic wiki of 10-15 years ago had \\[ preformat \\] or similar.\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "So, you've not bothered to try the formatting that is available? My point stands though - this is a tool for collaboratio, sharing information, it's not about making it pretty. If you look at the best information tools out there, they remain visually simple and consistent - jumping around with fonts and colours makes it harder and more annoying to read and detracts from the content. Take a look at the most popular one people know (wikipedia) - there's very little formatting there (and last time I looked, Confluence had a slightly wider range of formatting options than those used in wikipedia, although it really could use a better reference and citation system)\n" }, { "author": "Martin Gregory", "body": "Sorry - you lost me there. Is there something basic I've missed? As I said, I came to this page looking for answers how to get 'preformat', which is a fixed-space font representing a technical term. I can see how to bold or italicise the existing characters in the current font, but I can't see how to get a fixed-space font?\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Ah, I see. Try using preformatted in the drop-down.\n" }, { "author": "Martin Gregory", "body": "```\nThe preformatted dropdown affects the whole paragraph.\n```\n\nWikipedia, that most basic of wikis, supports [preformatting selected words](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GreenAsJade/sandbox).\n" }, { "author": "Fencer", "body": "There are two dropdowns:\n\n1) The first determines the format of the paragraph (contains Paragraph, Heading 1, ..., Preformatted, Quote)\n\n2) The dropdown next to the Colour-Choice in the same area as bold-formatting and so one. There you can choose 'Monospace' which will only affect the current selection.\n\nI had the same problem, when I found this thread and thought a real solution might useful for others here.\n" }, { "author": "Fred Bunting", "body": "Sorry, I'm late to the party, but I had to throw in my 2 cents. It is not \"ludicrous\" that Confluence (like other wikis) does not allow font-switching from word to word. I consider it a *blessing*.\n\nIf what you want is to switch to a fixed-width (a.k.a. monospace) typeface, then just say so. This is a valid use-case that is far more reasonable than allowing willy-nilly changes of fonts from word to word within a paragraph -- and Confluence supports it, as it always has.\n" }, { "author": "Martin Gregory", "body": "For me, the main use case is indicating code by a fixed width font. For example, I want to describe the authenticate() function. That word (and the parens) should be fixed width.\n\nHow do you do that?\n" }, { "author": "Mike", "body": "It's silly you cannot change fonts. It's super basic, I disagree that having \"pretty\" ( aka inviting \\& usable ) documentation isn't a priority.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Raymond Gan", "body": "The problem is you used Ctrl-V (or Command-V) to paste. Confluence treats this as \"preformatted\" text and won't let you change anything about it. \n\nInstead, use Shift-Ctrl-V (or Shift-Command-V) to paste, as \"unformatted.\" Now you can change its style and edit it.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Tino Rossi", "body": "Strange Ctrl-Shift-V pasted nothing for me.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Imerys UK Ltd", "body": "I had a similar issue, but by clicking the button to the right of the colour formatting button, and then selecting \"clear all formatting\" I was able to remove all the \"baggage\" and format specific parts of the copy/pasted text in the way I wanted. Hope that helps someone.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Douglas Kretzmann", "body": "best way to format headers and so on in existing text is to use the \\<\\> 'open in source editor' and then edit the html directly, adding \\<h3\\> your simple header \\</h3\\> etcetera. \nThe wysiwyg is beyond my feeble understanding.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Mikael Mikkola", "body": "Where do you find that 'open in source editor'?\n\nIs there then a high risk that the page gets really broken or that at least you loose the formations when you next update Confluence? Or even if you use some strong plug-in?\n" }, { "author": "Douglas Kretzmann", "body": "In our install, when editing a page, top R of toolbar has 3 icons - magnifying glass, the symbols \\<\\>, and a question mark. \nThe middle one is 'open in source editor'. \n\nI was able to completely break the page I was editing in wysiwsg, had to revert to the plain text (created and saved in a text editor, since this has happened before). For me editing html is safer than the wysi..\n" } ] }, { "author": "Michael Weintraub", "body": "Hi. Has anything happened on this front? I'd like to select font types and colors. I see in this answer block I can do the other types of font manipulations - underline, bold, extra.\n\nMy students report cutting and pasting from word doesn't generally preserve the formatting.\n\nI'm only finding ways to jigger the css. What I'd like is a pull-down on the page with fonts and with colors. Can anyone point me in the right direction?\n\nThanks.\n\nMike\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Fencer", "body": "There are three options I know of:\n\n1) You can determine the font for a whole paragraph (Heading 1, Quote and so one) by using the first dropdown in the toolbar.\n\n2) You can use the formatting options right of that dropdown to make a word bold or monospaced.\n\n3) You can use the insert-dropdown insert custom markup.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Mikael Mikkola", "body": "**Make the font in Word and copy-paste into Confluence** . Usually works for both fonts and for font sizes (but not in this comment box. Like this: Strange font.\n\nHowever, when I then copy it from the wiki page and paste it elsewhere in the wiki, it becomes normal text!\n\n**Html macro** may also help (you could use html code to select fonts?).\n\nFont and font size should be easily available. Why did I not find the copy-paste hint anywhere and why are there no menus for fonts and sizes in Confluence?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Richard Cross", "body": "I'm not sure which version of Confluence you're running, but in 5.7.1, when I paste from Word, the font size and type information are stripped out, and only basic things like bold or italics are preserved.\n" }, { "author": "Mikael Mikkola", "body": "I had 5.7. Sometimes it works like that, sometimes font and font size are preserved. But html macro works (if you have enabled it). True, there should be an easier way.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Diego Cagnoni", "body": "yes using the {style} macro from Adaptavist ([link](https://www.adaptavist.com/display/AtlassianConfluence/style+macro)) ad putting in some css attributes.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Mick Davidson", "body": "Thanks to you both.\n\nThe Adaptavist macro cuold be useful, but not in this case. We want users to be abel to do this in wysiwyg mode, nothing complicated like CSS.\n\nI think we'll have to see this as a non-starter and badge Atlassian to add the functionality to the editor at some point.\n\nCheers,\n" } ] } ]

[ "font", "size" ]

[ { "author": "SarahA", "body": "Hallo Robert\n\nYes. The Documentation theme uses the Page Tree macro, and uses the default settings for that macro. You can configure the theme to use the Page Tree macro with your own parameters defined.\n\nHere is the documentation on how to configure the Documentation theme. You will need to deselect the '**Page Tree**' check box then add your own page tree in the 'Navigation' text box:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Documentation+Theme>\n\nHere is the documentation for the Page Tree macro, showing how to use the \"**Start Depth**\" parameter for the macro:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Tree+Macro>\n\nI hope this answers the question. :)\n\nCheers, Sarah\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Robert Lauriston", "body": "Thanks. Is there documentation for the wiki markup somewhere? I had to edit a page, insert a Page Tree macro, and set the start depth to figure out what I needed to add to the theme configuration. I also want it to sort the page tree by \"position\" and it's not clear to me how to add the second parameter.\n" }, { "author": "SarahA", "body": "Haha, long live wiki markup. :)\n\nHere you go: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Pagetree+Macro>\n" } ] } ]

[ "expand", "page-tree" ]

[ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "You can hide the images by inserting the following CSS into your space or global stylesheet of Confluence:\n\n```\nul li a[href^=\"#\"] + a img, ul li a[href^=\"#\"] + a + a img { display: none;}\n```\n\nHope this helps\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Hi Bruce, sorry there was a typo in my answer. Could you please try it again?\n" }, { "author": "Bruce Schlueter", "body": "thanks Remo,\n\nI am new to Confluence and maybe I am going wrong somewhere. What I did is go into the Space Admin and then chose \"Stylesheet\" and added the lines. But this did not have any effect on the toc. Perhaps I have not described the point precise, I now have pages with headlines and in the same line two images. These pages are included into another page which has the toc and shows all headlines from the included pages with the images. What we would like is that in this toc only text is visible and no image. Your help is appreciated.\n\nBruce\n" }, { "author": "Bruce Schlueter", "body": "Hi Remo, thanks a lot for the help but this does not help. I have found out that it has to do with the link defined to the image. As soon as I unlink the image it will not be displayed in the toc anymore. Do you have any more ideas?\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Made another small change to the code in my answer. It should now work for image links in the toc. Let me know if this works.\n" }, { "author": "Bruce Schlueter", "body": "thanks, we are getting nearer. What happens now is that the first of the two images is not displayed.\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Sorry, seems like I didn't read your comment properly... I added a CSS selector for the second image link in my answer.\n\nThis would be a simpler solution with CSS3, but I'm not sure if it's compatible with your browsers:\n\n```\nul li a[href^=\"#\"] ~ a img { display: none;}\n```\n\nHope this works now for you\n" }, { "author": "Bruce Schlueter", "body": "Thanks a lot, tha \"simpler\" solution works great in IE, Firefox and Chrome\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Great! Good to know!\n" } ] } ]