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[ { "author": "JamieA", "body": "You need to set the user object filter under \"user schema settings\". There you need to filter for only users that are members of your group... using the memberOf attribute.\n\nEclipse directory studio or JXplorer is useful for testing this stuff.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "ket.pjwstk", "body": "I've done as you wrote and it helped. Ie. I got specific group with users, however I get the following error:\n\nINFO\\] \\[talledLocalContainer\\] com.atlassian.crowd.exception.OperationFailedException: org.springframework.ldap.InvalidNameException: CN=Deleted Objects,null: \\[LDAP: error \ncode 34 - 0000208F: NameErr: DSID-031001F7, problem 2006 (BAD_NAME), data 8350, best match of: \nINFO\\] \\[talledLocalContainer\\] 'CN=Deleted Objects,null' \nINFO\\] \\[talledLocalContainer\\] \\]; nested exception is javax.naming.InvalidNameException: CN=Deleted Objects,null: \\[LDAP: error code 34 - 0000208F: NameErr: DSID-031001F7, \nproblem 2006 (BAD_NAME), data 8350, best match of: \nINFO\\] \\[talledLocalContainer\\] 'CN=Deleted Objects,null' \nINFO\\] \\[talledLocalContainer\\] \\]; remaining name 'CN=Deleted Objects,null'\n" }, { "author": "JamieA", "body": "Hrm, you might not have permission to that DN. See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/User+Management+Limitations+and+Recommendations#UserManagementLimitationsandRecommendations-SpecificNotesforConnectingtoActiveDirectory> , 4th or 5th point.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Amit Girme", "body": "Temporary solution is remove incremental synchronization check box.Atlassian working on it <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-2581>Hopefully it wont take long.\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Check that all the plugin modules for the Documentation Theme are enabled. Specifically:\n> Turning on the Velocity Helper from the plugins administration screen\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David Dube", "body": "Wouldn't you know it... 9 of 10 modules were enabled. The one not enabled... Velocity Helper. You Nailed it Matt! Everything is working as expected.\n\nThanks!\n\nDave\n" }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "This is a favourite answer to a number of plugin related problems -- go to the plugin and check that all the modules are enabled. Plugin modules occasionally have a habit of disabling themselves.\n\nNote that for Confluence 4 plugins which are backward compatible with 3.x, the Confluence 4 specific modules will not be enabled for Confluence 3.x.\n" }, { "author": "David Dube", "body": "Yeah... sadly I went and looked at the PageTree plugin... not the Documentation Theme. DOH!\n" } ] }, { "author": "SarahA", "body": "Hallo David\n\nThe most likely cause is that the pages in your space are not children of the space's home page \n\nEach space has a single page designated as its \"Home\" page. The theme constructs the table of contents from all pages that are child pages of the space's home page. If your pages are at the same level as (i.e. siblings of) the space home page, they will not appear in the left-hand navigation bar. \n\nMore background: The theme uses the {pagetree} macro to produce the table of contents on the left. When you use the {pagetree} macro on a page, you can choose the top page to be displayed. The Documentation Theme chooses the space home page as the top page. \n\nThe fix: If this is the cause, then there are two ways to fix the problem:\n\n* You can change the designated space home page for the space. You need space administrator permissions. Go to \"Space Admin\" and select \"Edit Space Details\".\n* Or you can drag and drop all your pages to make them children of the current home page. Go to \"Browse\", \"Pages\" and click the \"Tree\" option.\n\nI hope this helps!\n\nCheers, Sarah\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Martin Geck", "body": "> You can change the designated space home page for the space. You need space administrator permissions. Go to \"Space Admin\" and select \"Edit Space Details\".\n\nFixed my issue.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Maximiliano Arguelles", "body": "Thanks for the quick response Lucas.\n\nWe can't accomplish what we need with the {jira} or {jiraissues} macros. We need to get the path information of the files which were changed and that is information that is not in the JIRA Issues.\n\nAny ideas?\n\nThanks!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "LucasA", "body": "Hi m.arguelles!\n\nYou may use the {jira} or {jiraissues} macros to configure a table according you want to. [Here](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Issues+Macro) you can get more information about the configuration from both macros. A common use of the {jira} tag is:\n\n|----------------------------------------------------------|\n| > {jira:project = \"MyProject\"\\|server=\"My Company JIRA\"} |\n\n(replacing the \"My Project\" and \"My Company JIRA\" tags according your JIRA instance.)\n\nBest regards!\n\nLucas Timm\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Craig Solinski", "body": "Atlassian added a section on page: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/SHBL/Confluence+Shibboleth+Authenticator> called How to Allow Anonymous Access to Certain Parts of Confluence.\n\nPrimarily: Configure Shibboleth for Lazy sessions in mod_shib: \n\n```\nmodule configuration (\"ShibRequestSetting requireSession 0\")\nAlso found in seraph-config.xml that the login.url and link.login.url in our environment could be set in form like:\nhttps://xxx.iu.edu/Shibboleth.sso/Login?target=${originalurl}\nwhere the first portion points to your shib app.\n\nShib is now running over Confluence and allowing both Anonymous and users that can login.\n\n-craig\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Nice investigation :-)\n" }, { "author": "Gary Weaver", "body": "Our home in Jira Studio is going away, so you can find the Confluence Shibboleth Authenticator renamed as Confluence HTTP Authenticator at [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/shibauth.confluence.authentication.shibboleth](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/shibauth.confluence.authentication.shibboleth%20)and <https://github.com/chauth/confluence_http_authenticator>\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Thomas Vlerick", "body": "I stopped testing it some time ago, but found some time today to clear out this issue. Appearantly, there is a apache running on port 80 who does proxypass and reverse stuff.\n\nEven when I updated the original, it was showing up on the clone which was very strange.\n\nThanks for pointing in the right direction :)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Thomas Vlerick", "body": "See previous comment\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Sounds strange. If you could access the clone machine via localhost (bypassing any proxy), I'd advise you to change the server base URL through it.\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "LucasA", "body": "Hey Lucas! \n\nThe newest versions of Confluence needs some specific resources from Oracle 11, so it is not able even to installing with Oracle 10.x. What I can suggest you, since Oracle database is a great application but expensive also, it's to migrate from your old 3.3 version to Confluence 4.0 with a free database. You can use both MySQL and PostgreSQL, and PostgreSQL is a **very interesting database** . It's able to run well with low and high workloads. You can test in a trial version to assure that. ;) \n\nCheers, \nLucas Timm\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "stuartu", "body": "Oracle 10g is old, and you are probably paying high fees for extended support. Even if 10g did work with later versions of Atlassian, you are only going to spend time upgrading it later. It really is time to move on to the newer version (11.2.0.3 is the latest, and it works fine with Confluence).\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Tiago Comasseto", "body": "Hi,\n\nActually it is not possible to import an XML backup from an old version of Confluence (eg v2.10) into a new installation using version 3.5.x. Instead of using the XML backup, please consult this link with the steps to create a clone of your production Confluence:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF210/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers>\n\nAnd after consult this steps to proceed the upgrade from 2.10 to 3.5.x:\n\n<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/51/what-is-the-best-practice-to-upgrade-confluence>\n\nI hope this helps.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "You could just try disabling and reenabling the **TinyMCE Editor Plugin.** it might just do the trick :)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Try this:\n\n1. Browse to **Confluence Admin \\| Configuration \\| Plugins**\n2. Click **Show System Plugins**\n3. Click on **TinyMCE Editor Plugin** and look for modules that are disabled. Enabled them. In Confluence 3.5 it says \"22 of 22 modules enabled\" if all modules are enabled :)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "ITops123", "body": "All plugins are enabled (22 of 22). Is there one I should disable and re-enable?\n" }, { "author": "ITops123", "body": "Sigh, I did that and it was unsuccessful.\n\nI'm getting a weird message about our license support expiring yesterday, despite the fact that it is up to date in MyAtlassian, so I'm going to get that resolved and see if I can work on this then, since it says changes to plugins won't register with an expired license.\n" }, { "author": "ITops123", "body": "Alright license has been updated and there is still no change when I disable and enable the TinyMCE Editor. Next step, uninstall and reinstall all system plugins?\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "Tiago Comasseto", "body": "Hi Gangadhar,\n\nRodrigo is right about the two authenticators. It's not possible to set two authenticators at the same time. However, could you share with us the reason you want to set non-SSO authentication to only some URLs? We may find some alternative to reach your goal.\n\nCheers\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi there,\n\nHonestly talking, I believe you can't leave 2 authenticators in the seraph-config.xml working at the same time. This won't work and I think the application won't come up with this setting.\n\nAnyway, I'll leave the question open so another person might know how to implement this.\n\nRegards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "CharlesA", "body": "It looks like you're running into this issue: [Unable to Upgrade on SQL Server Due to 'Foreign key has implicit reference to object which does not have a primary key defined on it'](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Unable+to+Upgrade+on+SQL+Server+Due+to+%27Foreign+key+has+implicit+reference+to+object+which+does+not+have+a+primary+key+defined+on+it%27). The cause of this issue is missing foreign keys in your database. Often this is caused by restoring from an SQL Server db dump that did not contain foreign keys, but it could just be that Confluence somehow failed to add them.\n\nIf the steps listed on the linked page don't help you solve the issue, I'd recommend you open a support ticket on <http://support.atlassian.com> so a technician can walk you through fixing the problem.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Aaron McClimont", "body": "Thank you, I have resolved this issue by exporting the content from Confluence 3.5.13 as an XML backup (including attachments), installing a clean install of Confluence 4, and using the XML backup as the restore archive during the setup process of Confluence 4.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "jing_hwa_cheok", "body": "Hi all,\n\n<br />\n\nJust for your information, feature request is tracked in [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse)<https://jira.atlassian.com/>therefore you will not see any activity regarding this feature in Atlassian Answer.\n\n<br />\n\nYou might be interested in voting this feature request [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28812)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28812>raised in JAC which is exactly the same feature mentioned in here.\n\n<br />\n\nFeel free to comment and watch the bug for the latest update on the feature progress.\n\nRegards, \nJing Hwa\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "J?rgen V?hringer", "body": "had this been followed up upon at all?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Fabrizio Galletti", "body": "Would be a nice features\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "I'm not aware of anything either, although it would be a handy plugin to integrate with the Reporting plugin. You could write one which had a Supplier that would load the provided URL, and load it as text. Eg:\n\n{report-info:url:\"http://blah/blah.txt\" \\> resource:as text\\|render=true}\n\nWouldn't be that difficult to write, although it could be considered a bit of a security risk...\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Security is handled for csv and others using [Macro Security Plugin](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CMSP), so that can be covered. It would be pretty simple to add if only there was some spare time :).\n" } ] }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "No, not that I am aware of. But there are similar examples, for instance the [CSV Macro](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/TBL/CSV+Macro \"CSV Macro\") can get CSV data from a url. You can also use the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) to copy external content into Confluence pages.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Ryan", "body": "Hi Wen, have you previously tried updating to Confluence 3.5 before going to 4.0?\n\nAlternatively, have you lodged a support request for this?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Wen Batiz-Vegas", "body": "Hi Ryan,\n\nNo, we have not upgraded to 3.5 first. The goal was to invest little effort in getting off of the old server and onto the new one.\n\nI will lodge a support request if I can't figure this out, or I might just upgrade the existing instance of COnfluence to see how it behaves.\n" }, { "author": "Jim McCaskey", "body": "Just FYI. According to the below link, you MUST upgrade to 3.5 first. Thats the way I have interpreted the documentation anyway.\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Release+Notes#Confluence40ReleaseNotes-ReleaseNotices>\n" }, { "author": "Wen Batiz-Vegas", "body": "That was not mentioned in the 4.0 upgrade info that I reviewed, and might be the missing link.\n\nThank you for pointing that out.\n" }, { "author": "Wen Batiz-Vegas", "body": "By the way, do you know where to find the 3.5 bin file? I don't see a collection of prior releases here on your site.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_", "body": "Hi Howard,\n\nwe have release Scroll Wiki Forms EAP (early access program) yesterday. Status-wise this means the forms work quite stable on Chrome and Safari and should be ready for testing. Firefox and IE are working ok.\n\nOverview and short Video: <http://wiki.k15t.com/display/en/Scroll-Wiki-Forms-for-Confluence-Overview>\n\nDocumentation: <http://wiki.k15t.com/display/FORMS>\n\nRequest free 30-day eval license: <http://wiki.k15t.com/x/XoAJAQ>\n\nBest Regards, \n-Stefan\n", "comments": [ { "author": "howard tiersky", "body": "stefan-\n\nlooks interesting and seems similar to scaffolding. 2 questions for you - first, any advantages to this over scaffolding or this is basically a version of scaffolding that works in c4? Does it work with tempaltes the same as scaffolding? (live update?)\n\nAlso, is there a \"reporting\" side to this tool or we'd still need to wait for a c4 version of reporting\n\nthx!\n" }, { "author": "Fabian Lopez", "body": "Stefan,\n\nIs there a way to import existing informaiton entered in live template to your Scroll wiki form?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Robert Castaneda[ServiceRocket]", "body": "Scaffolding and Reporting are now released for Confluence 4.0! http://www.customware.net/blog/2012/04/scaffolding-4-0-has-been-released/\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "MattS", "body": "Scaffolding will be released for Confluence 4.x in the first quarter of 2012. The latest information will be posted at <http://www.customware.net/store/confluence/connectors/scaffolding_plugin.html>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "You should perhaps watch this page: <http://community.customware.net/customware/topics/confluence_4_0>\n\nAlso, [Scroll Wiki Forms](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/563990) looks very promising.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "howard tiersky", "body": "Thx! Yes I like the video...is there anything more on Scroll Wiki? Like documentaton or a release date?\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "Adam Laskowski", "body": "There is a known issue for SQL Server that causes upgrades to fail due to some exisitng database constraints. The bug is outlined here:\n\n[CONF-23193](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23193)\n\nThe provided SQL queries in the workaround should allow you to complete your upgrade:\n\n```\nalter table CONTENT_PERM drop constraint cp_unique_user; alter table CONTENT_PERM drop constraint cp_unique_group;\n```\n\nSince your upgrade failed, you'll still need to roll back to your backup before running the queries.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Dennis Bayer", "body": "Hi, \nexecuting the given commands solved the issue. Confluence 4 is running. :) thx.\n\nNevertheless I had to execute an additional command:\n\n```\nalter table CONTENT_PERM_SET drop constraint cps_unique_type;\n```\n" } ] }, { "author": "Mezzanotte", "body": "I had this bandana problems too.\n\nWhat solved my problem is:\n\n1. Do an upgrade from 3.5.7 to 3.5.9\n\n2. Run the SQLs\n\n```\nalter table CONTENT_PERM drop constraint cp_unique_user;alter table CONTENT_PERM drop constraint cp_unique_group;alter table CONTENT_PERM_SET drop constraint cps_unique_type;\n```\n\n3. Do the upgrade to 4.0\n\nRegards,\n\nMezza\n\n```\n\n```\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Steffen Becker", "body": "We're running into the same Problem upgrading from 3.5.9. After the first failure we thought it might be a good idea to upgrade to 3.5.13 first an then going to 4.0. But the error allready occures when trying to upgrade from 3.5.9 to 3.5.13.\n\nI can post the full log if it helps as there are some more errors in the eventlog\n\nRegards\n\nSteffen\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "HuseinA", "body": "That sounds you are hitting this new bug [CONF-23248](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23248). The current workaround is to run the following SQL queries before you re-run the upgrade:\n\n```\ndelete from CONTENT_PERM where CPS_ID is null;delete from CONTENT_PERM_SET where CONTENT_ID is null;\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Dennis Bayer", "body": "Hi, \nI tried these queries too, but postgress reported that none rows were affected. Thx anyways for the quick response. :)\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "HuseinA", "body": "This [Master Plugin List](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/masterlist) might be handy.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "The latest versions of these are compatible plugins...\n\n* Adhoc Workflows\n* Balsamiq\n* Gliffy\n* Google Analytics For Confluence\n* Scroll Wiki Forms\n\nThere are many more, but not off the top of my head.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Andrej Spisiak", "body": "The version 3.1.2 of Ad hoc workflows which is the latest available (as of Sep 20) is not compatible with 4.0. So where is the new one ???\n" } ] }, { "author": "howard tiersky", "body": "RedfinedWiki Original Theme works on 4.0 (there is a demo on their site).\n\nWhat woudl be really great is if there were a place where plugin creators could notate what their intentions are-- do they plan to make it avail for 4? if so when (aprox)...\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "At the moment, page tempaltes remain in Wiki Markup. We hope to change this. We are tracking that feature request here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11744> we hope to implement this over the next couple of releases. Stay tuned. You can watch/comment/vote on that issue to stay updated.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "Basically, not using the {date-data} macro. You could try adding a javascript query that removed the extra values in the drop down I guess, but it would have to be hardcoded manually. I'd suggest a User Macro...\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "William Zanchet [Atlassian]", "body": "Hello,\n\nIt will disable all the updates, but, not sure if disable notify watchers too. Since Confluence doesn't have a option to completely toggle the Notify Watchers checkbox, the best workaround we can provide to you is to remove the \"watchers\" of the page or better than yet, you can make the checkbox unchecked by default:\n\n1. [No Email Storm Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.extra.noemailstorm) which says on the description: Get rid of barely noticeable \"Minor change\"/\"Notify watchers\" checkbox and use \"Save \\& Notify\" and \"Save\" buttons.\n2. You can try to apply the customization mentioned above:\n\nNavigate to Confluence Admin \\>\\> Custom HTML \nInsert the following At the **End of the HEAD**: \n\n```\n<script type=\"text/javascript\">AJS.toInit(function () { AJS.$('#notifyWatchers').attr('checked', false);});</script>\n```\n\nYou can also add you vote on this [Feature Request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8276) to share your thoughts with Atlassian.\n\nCheers,\n\nWZ\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David Sandberg", "body": "As I said in the original question, unchecking the \"daily updates\" box does NOT stop this particular daily email, and it is not associated with watched pages either.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Could you please post a screenshot?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Egbert Jansen", "body": "I would like to, but how? \nHow can I upload a screenshot?\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Click on the Insert Image button in the toolbar of the editor.\n" }, { "author": "Egbert Jansen", "body": "I'm sorry, but the picture is not on a website but on my local disk. So there is no url available.\n\nHow can I insert a picture which is on location \"c:\\\\dump\\\\Confluence\".\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "If you're using a SaaS version, ask your supplier to upgrade.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Pklease follow the [Atlassian Hosted Upgrade Procedure](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/BIbmD).\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Izhar Ravid", "body": "The link seems to be about upgrading a hosted environment. I am using the online (sass) version...\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]", "body": "Here is the documentation : <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Izhar Ravid", "body": "The link seems to be describing the hosted solution upgrade process. I am using the online (saas) version...\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "LuizA", "body": "Hello Alessandro,\n\nIf you can export your pages from Bizagi in .HTML or as a Word page, then you can import into Confluence by this method:\n\n<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+Content+Into+Confluence>\n\nThis would be the best way to import content from your Bizagi, since actually we don't have a plugin that could perform some integration between these applications.\n\nHope this helps.\n\nKind Regards,\n\nLJ.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Mariya Halka", "body": "Are there any updates about the possibility to import xml or xpdl files from **Bizagi** into **Confluence**? Thanks in advance!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Daniel Amaral - Autoglass", "body": "And now? We have something new about **Bizagi** HTML publishing to **Confluence**?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Not that I can find. I don't think there's enough interest for anyone to have written anything for it.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "AlysonA", "body": "Hi Grant,\n\nStarting in Confluence 4.\\*, content in Confluence is no longer stored in wiki markup format, it is now stored in XHTML-based format, which is why you're not able to access the wiki markup tab.\n\nYou can still create content in wiki markup by selecting the wiki markup screen in *Insert \\> Wiki Markup* while editing a page. Alternatively, you can make use of the [Source Editor plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor) that allows users to view and edit the underlying storage format for a Confluence page.\n\nI also suggest that you take some time to read the [Confluence 4.0 Editor - What's Changed for Wiki Markup users](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF40/Confluence+4.0+Editor+-+What%27s+Changed+for+Wiki+Markup+Users) page that is ideal for people that were used with the wiki markup editor.\n\nPlease let us know if you have further questions or concerns.\n\nCheers.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "Hi Travis,\n\nSounds like you might be hitting a new bug. You should raise a support case at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)\n\nSherif\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "What version of Team Calendars are you using? You might be experiencing one of these known issues:\n\n<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-152>\n\n<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-30>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Travis Krempa", "body": "Matt,\n\nTeam Calendar Plugin version: 1.2.3 \n\nEnterprise Wiki version: 3.5.9\n\nI saw the workaround listed on teamcal-95 but I don't know which system to set? It looks like its already set on the confluence and before I export from outlook its already set as well. Any help would be appreciated.\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "Martin Loruenser", "body": "Look at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Wiki+Markup+to+XHTML+Migration> under \"Re-running Migration\"\n\nMartin\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Hannu S??skilahti", "body": "Thanx a lot, didn't find that article! Cheers.\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "Jens Zastrow", "body": "Seems that the install4j installer or maybe the bundled jre has a problem with ip4/ip6 binds.\n\nDefault debian is /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf\n\nnet.ipv6.bindv6only = 1\n\nif its changed to 0 the installer will detect the free ports and can resume.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "m@", "body": "I can't easily tell what ports you're trying to use from your output, if you are installing Confluence as a non-root user you will need to use a port above 1024 as they are all reserved ports. Its also likely that most of the ports under 1024 are being used.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sascha", "body": "Hello,\n\ni got the same error during installation:\n\n```\nThe Control port you have chosen appears to be in use. Please choose a different port number.Configure which ports Confluence will use.Confluence requires two TCP ports that are not being used by any otherapplications on this machine. The HTTP port is where you will accessConfluence through your browser. The Control port is used to Startup andShutdown Confluence.Use default ports (HTTP: 8090, Control: 8000) - Recommended [1], Set custom value for HTTP and Control ports [2, Enter]\n```\n\nSo if i choose any port \\>1024 everytime the installer fails. Do I need to open the firewall first?\n\nI checked netstat -tulpe and there is no application running under port 8000.\n\nThanks,\n\nSash\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "michael wojciechowski", "body": "Hi,\n\nsetting net.ipv6.bindv6only = 0 does not work for me.\n\nI use: Linux u15984723 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 16:22:28 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux\n\nBoth ports (suggested as well as new picked are not used - I checked)\n\nI keep getting:\n\n--- snip ---\n\nroot@u15984723:\\~# ./atlassian-confluence-4.2.3-x64.bin\n\nUnpacking JRE ...\n\nStarting Installer ...\n\nThis will install Confluence 4.2.3 on your computer.\n\nOK \\[o, Enter\\], Cancel \\[c\\]\n\nChoose the appropriate installation or upgrade option.\n\nPlease choose one of the following:\n\nExpress Install (uses default settings) \\[1\\], Custom Install (recommended for advanced users) \\[2, Enter\\], Upgrade an existing Confluence installation \\[3\\]\n\n2\n\nWhere should Confluence 4.2.3 be installed?\n\n\\[/opt/atlassian/confluence\\]\n\n/var/www/confluence\n\nDefault location for Confluence data\n\n\\[/var/atlassian/application-data/confluence\\]\n\nConfigure which ports Confluence will use.\n\nConfluence requires two TCP ports that are not being used by any other\n\napplications on this machine. The HTTP port is where you will access\n\nConfluence through your browser. The Control port is used to Startup and\n\nShutdown Confluence.\n\nUse default ports (HTTP: 8090, Control: 8000) - Recommended \\[1, Enter\\], Set custom value for HTTP and Control ports \\[2\\]\n\nThe Control port you have chosen appears to be in use. Please choose a different port number.\n\nConfigure which ports Confluence will use.\n\nConfluence requires two TCP ports that are not being used by any other\n\napplications on this machine. The HTTP port is where you will access\n\nConfluence through your browser. The Control port is used to Startup and\n\nShutdown Confluence.\n\nUse default ports (HTTP: 8090, Control: 8000) - Recommended \\[1, Enter\\], Set custom value for HTTP and Control ports \\[2\\]\n\n2\n\nHTTP Port Number\n\n\\[8090\\]\n\n8090\n\nControl Port Number\n\n\\[8000\\]\n\n8100\n\nThe Control port you have chosen appears to be in use. Please choose a different port number.\n\nConfigure which ports Confluence will use.\n\nConfluence requires two TCP ports that are not being used by any other\n\napplications on this machine. The HTTP port is where you will access\n\nConfluence through your browser. The Control port is used to Startup and\n\nShutdown Confluence.\n\nUse default ports (HTTP: 8090, Control: 8000) - Recommended \\[1\\], Set custom value for HTTP and Control ports \\[2, Enter\\]\n\n--- snap ---\n\nAssistance would be appreciated - thanks,\n\nMike\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jens Zastrow", "body": "Seems that the install4j installer or maybe the bundled jre has a problem with ip4/ip6 binds.\n\nDefault debian is /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf\n\nnet.ipv6.bindv6only = 1\n\nif its changed to 0 the installer will detect the free ports and can resume.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jens Zastrow", "body": "I'm facing the same problem with a brand new debian 6 system with any product (confluence, jira 5, etc...)\n\nMaybe some external package is needed to do the port-check?!\n\n```\nThe following default options cannot be used. You will be asked to provide alternatives for these options.* Control Port (In use)\n```\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Anatoli", "body": "When you chose the port numbers installer checks if they are available by trying to bind to the given ports. If it can it assumes the ports are available and proceeds (it cleans up by closing the ports after it checks). If it cannot then it prompts you to chose alternative ports. \n\nIt looks like in your case it cannot bind and always asks you for alternative ports. I wander why it talks about \"Invalid argument\" as it is probably the problem. \n\n```\nbind(23, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(8000), inet_pton(AF_INET6, \"::ffff:127.0.0.1\", &amp;sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)\n```\n\n<br />\n\n<br />\n\n<br />\n\nCan you please contact support so that we can work out exactly what's happening?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Ryan", "body": "From the initial output it looks like the ports you have specified (the default ports) are in use - do you have any other webapps or Confluence instances running on this machine?\n> The Control port you have chosen appears to be in use.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sven_Paulus", "body": "As you can see from the installer log (answer \"1\") and the strace output (htons() in bind()), I'm trying to use the default ports 8090 and 8000.\n\nPorts below 1024 aren't accepted by the installer:\n\n> Use default ports (HTTP: 8090, Control: 8000) - Recommended \\[1, Enter\\], Set custom value for HTTP and Control ports \\[2\\] \n> 2 \n> HTTP Port Number \n> \\[8090\\] \n> 1023 \n> For security reasons the port number must be above 1023. Please enter a port number in the range from 1024-65536.\n\nBtw this error message is wrong: the maximum allowed port number is 65535 (unsigned 16 bit integer value).\n\nI tried various ports, each port I enter as the \"control port\" gets rejected.\n\nThis is on Debian Linux using the 3.0.0 amd64 kernel.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "install", "linux" ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "This sometimes happens when the Confluence user session has (or appears to be) expired.\n\nPagetree will then redirect to the login page, but this site has a custom authenticator directing to an external login page.\n\nFirst step would be to remove the custom authenticator and then troubleshoot.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Hrmm. I would check if the server base URL is set correctly, and that the URL that you are using to access Confluence matches the server base URL.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "this is the base url: <http://74.213.178.249>\n\nIt re-directs you to the customized login page at:\n\n<https://admin.fpsyip.com/_samWiki_lib/wikiLogin.php?os_destination=/plugins/pagetreesearch/pagetreesearch.action>\n\nIt should be going to:\n\n<http://wiki.ymca.ca/display/submit/Facility>\n\nEvery instance of Confluence has a customized loggin page.\n\n<br />\n" }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Hrmmm, this sounds like there is an intervention of a custom authenticator or a URL whitelist requirements...\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Maybe you now need to take a larger mallet to your index. Delete and reindexing from scratch?Do you have much content to reindex?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "There is a fair amount as this is the clients main instance of Confluence. We are checking to see if Confluence is running out of memory or disk space as this will also have to be resoled in order to fix the indexing issue.\n" }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "Hi Sue,\n\nYes, it could indeed be OutOfMemory. Here's the [knowledge base article](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Recently+Updated%2C+Mail%2C+and+Search+Are+Not+Updating+Due+to+OutOfMemory+Error) on this.\n" }, { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "I have also added the com.atlassian.confluence.search.lucene package to logging and set it to DEBUG. I am waiting to hear from one of my team members to restart Confluence so the looging of the package will take affect as I do not have that kind of access to the server.\n" }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "It sounds like you have access to the admin console. If you're have \"Atlassian Support Tools\" (depends on your version - you might need to install the [support tools plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/37243)), you can run Hercules to scan your logs (log scanner). He might identify that knowledge base article I linked above (or a similar one). It's worth a shot!\n" }, { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "I do have access to the admin console as I am a confluence-Administrator with site-wide permissions. Thanks I will try instalingl the support tools plugin if it isnt already as we just recently upgraded to Confluence 3.5.11 and run the scan.\n" }, { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "according to System Information in Confluence admin there is only 37% of the heap memory remaing. Once we have resolved the issue with the heap memory will we still need to recreated the index?\n" }, { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "These are the results:\n\nHercules didn't find any known problems in the following log file: \n/var/confluence-data/logs/atlassian-confluence.log\n\nIf you're experiencing problems, please create a support request using the [Support Request feature](http://wiki.fpsyip.com/plugins/servlet/stp/view/#create-support-request-module) or visit <http://support.atlassian.com/>.\n\nDo I need to wait until Confluence has been restarted?\n" }, { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "I read the article at the link you gave me above and I guess i do need to recreate the index after allocating more memory.\n" }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "At this point David's original comment is correct. You'll want to [re-index from scratch](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratch).\n\nThis is definitely a known issue, so I'm a bit surprised there isn't an Out Of Memory error. It might be in an old log. If you get with your administrator, make sure s/he looks through all the old logs for the text 'OutOfMemory'. We've seen this issue a lot and it's usually this cause.\n" }, { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "Thanks for all your help. My team member is resolving the memory issue right now and we are planning on recreating the indexes at 8pm when there are no users logged into the system.\n" }, { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "Thanks for all your help. Allocating more memory and re-creating the index has fixed the problem.\n" } ] }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "This likely points to a problem with the [Content Indexing](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+Index+Administration).\n\nBrowse to:\n\n**Confluence Admin \\| Administration \\| Content Indexing**\n\nCheck the Queue Contents tab for problems with the indexing queue and maybe even rebuild the search index.\n\n**Note:** A full rebuild can take a long time depending on the size of your Confluence instance.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "Will rebuilding the search index affect any users currently logged into the system?\n" }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "It shouldn't drastically change things. If this doesn't fix your problem, then next step is to [remove the index and rebuild it from scratch](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratch). This will mean until the index is rebuilt, you will have no search index, so functionality that depends on it (e.g. recently updated, the search and certain parts of the editor) will be affected.\n" }, { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "rebuilding seemed to fix the issue with recently updated and the site search but today it is not updating again. I notice that even though I have rebuilt the search index twice now I still see:\n\nQueue is currently idle\n\nQueue Last Processed\n\nStartedSep 16, 2011 16:33\n\nTime taken 48ms\n\nTasks processed 3\n\nIndex recreated NO\n\nIndex optimised NO\n\nWhat would have caused the the queue to go idle and does this mean I need to remove the index and rebiuld it from scracth?\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "It means you need to import the 'com.atlassian.confluence.\\*' package into your plugin in the \\<Import-Package\\> section of the 'maven-confluence-plugin' plugin. You will probably also need to import some other packages once you've done that, such as com.atlassian.plugin, com.atlassian.user, etc, depending on what packages your Actions and components are using. Example is below:\n\n```\n&lt;Import-Package&gt;com.atlassian.confluence.*;version=\"[3.4,4)\",etc,etc.&lt;/Import-Package&gt;\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "ket.pjwstk", "body": "It works. Thanks!\n" } ] }, { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "Hi Raffy,Firstly, in case you haven't found them, read the docs here:<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/LIBCNV/Conveyor+Plugin>Secondly, the Conveyor Plugin will be installed alongside your plugin, not bundled inside it. You can bundle them together in an OBR file, rather than a .jar file.Thirdly, if you're installing into Confluence 4, change the above to '\\[3.4,5)' so that it will match to Confluence 4.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "dy raffy", "body": "Hi David. Thank you very much for your answers. I am installing the plugin into Confluence 4. What does the parameter '\\[3.4,5)' mean?\n" } ] }, { "author": "dy raffy", "body": "Could you please tell how? I am trying to use the conveyor-Plugin too, But getting a lot of Problems with it.\n\nDid you bundle the conveyor-Plugin into yout Plugin or just used it and installed it manuelly?\n\nWich Packages did you add to the \\<import-Package\\>...\\</import-Package\\>?\n\nIs it exactelly as above to override the File editcomment-preview.vm?\n\nRegardy\n\nRaffy\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Ivar", "body": "We had the same problem as you do. An exact solution was never really provided, most likely it was due to a internal infrastructure issue.\n\nThe support case I had open with Atlassian support is not public available, but some links you can check out for indications:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Files+Opened+with+Office+Connector+Cannot+be+Saved>\n\n<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-8179>\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/%27The+Internet+Address+...+Is+Not+Valid%27+Error+Message+Due+to+Corrupt+Ancestor+Table>\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Performance+and+Stability+Issues+with+Office+Connector+1.6+or+1.7>\n\n<http://www.winserverkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/iis/13446/Unable-to-download-files-from-https-with-Internet-Explorer>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Did you try running the installer as an administrator? Righ click on the EXE file and choose \"Run as administrator\"\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "install" ]

[ { "author": "Rob Moser", "body": "I think a lot of this discussion misses the point:\n\nYes, we can train ourselves and our users to use the new system. I don't want to train anyone to use a new system. The old one worked great, thanks. The entire point of a wiki for us was quick-and-easy collaborative doco that _didn't_ require training.\n\nYes, you can use keyboard shortcuts and auto-completion and mouse buttons to accomplish the same input, but you can't edit it. You can't see exactly where the markup begins and decide to put your cursor on one side or the other. Markup is useful over WYSIWYG - among other reasons - precisely because you can see things that are invisible formatting. Also, WYSIWYG editors - this one included - insert a lot of formatting automatically, because it guesses what I want next (e.g. another bullet point.) I don't want to have to keep looking up at the screen to see what the auto-formatting has done with my text; I _know_ what formatting I told it to use, and there shouldn't be anything else there. And anything that makes me take my hands off the keyboard or do multi-key shortcuts is just slowing me down.\n\nI applaud the idea of improving the editor for those that use it, but I fail to see why it helps anyone to take markup away from those who prefer that instead. We upgraded to 4.0 because our main Confluence admin wasn't aware of what it entailed, but I don't think we'll be staying with it if we can't find some way of going back to text-only only-do-what-I-said editing.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "briburt", "body": "Bravo! Exactly our thinking. We, too, are looking elsewhere unless/until we get some indication from Atlassian that some soft of plain text/source editing will be brought back to the product. Luckily, we didn't just upgrade to 4.0 and are able to stick with 3.5 in the meantime.\n" }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "Hear your complaints - even myself, I still am getting used to the new Conf 4.0 way - but overall, I am pleased with the improvements.\n\nQuestion tho - Do you think there should be a developer wiki and a business wiki?\n\nBusiness users, who often have budgets to purchase collaboration systems - have a very hard time dealing with developer mode.\n\nAtlassian can't grow Confluence to be an Enterprise-wide system, at the market-level, if it is mainly a developer mode system.\n\nIt is however very concerning that your admin is not working in a staging area for upgrades to an Enterprise system FIRST (or plugin validations, etc.)\n\nNot the best of ideas for ANY system administration. These are Enterprise systems, not desktop/browser software upgrades.\n" }, { "author": "Gary Weaver", "body": "The short of it is that Atlassian had to remove the wiki markup editor (except for inserts) because of the numerous support issues caused by the conversion back and forth between rich-text and wiki markup. Atlassian and others were heavy users of markup, so they built a rich-text editor that would be an easier transition for those that used and love the wiki markup editor. But this was not so much a new feature as a required change to decrease the number of support issues. They made the business decision to do this and took the risk to increase the product quality for new customers (and many existing ones that make the transition), even though they knew they would lose customers doing it. If you haven't, please read the discussion here: [http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=51646\\&start=0\\&tstart=0](http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=51646&start=0&tstart=0)\n" }, { "author": "briburt", "body": "So I still don't understand why this decision precludes having a plain text editing option of some sort. It doesn't have to be wiki markup or even another simplified markup language like Markdown. We'd be happy just to have an option to edit the XHTML source, if nothing else.\n\nAnd yes, some MBA type at Atlassian did the spreadsheet calculations and figured that it was worth it to leave a chunk of their user base out in the cold, but that they would make it up by appealing to the enterprise crowd who want something more like MS Office. It's certainly not the first time that such a \"business decision\" has been made by a software company. That leaves those of us for whom a plain text editing option is a requirement with no real option except to vote with our feet.\n" }, { "author": "Gary Weaver", "body": "To correct myself I should not have said conversion back and forth between rich-text and wiki-markup- I meant conversion back and forth between wiki markup and the XHTML and the RTE and that XHTML.\n\nAs for directly editing the XHTML produced by the RTE, note Charles Miller of Atlassian said in [this](http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=51646&start=45&tstart=0) thread, \"The main reason we are reluctant 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.\"\n" } ] }, { "author": "David_Rosen", "body": "For those of us who use a Wiki specifically for the Wiki Markup functionality, what are some reasonable recommendations?\n\n1. If we wait long enough, is it possible that someone will develop a plugin to allow editing Wiki Markup in a page that already exists?\n2. Can we downgrade to Confluence 3.5 (if I..err 'we' foolishly upgraded without testing properly)?\n3. As a last resort, does anyone have a reasonable alternative Wiki that is easy to migrate to from Confluence 4.0?\n\nPlease note, item 3 is not a flame request...I just want my data returned to me in the same condition that I left it in ;-)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "You won't win a battle with Atlassian to get wiki markup retrofitted into Confluence 4.They've been dogfooding the new editor for months internally and everyone there is sold on it. Your options are likely to be either to adapt, stand still or migrate elsewhere.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "One more thing. They are listening intently, so viable improvements to the editor that they can glean from discussions here will likely make it into future releases.\n\nMy biggest wish currently is for [Mobile Safari/iOS support](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-19524), but that is likely only after iOS 5 is released.\n" } ] }, { "author": "BillA", "body": "Hello folks,\n\nI've noticed a recurring theme in this thread that people want to be able to set macro paramters without using a mouse. One of the macro autocomplete refinements we made over the many months of dogfooding within Atlassian was to only open the macro browser if you're inserting a macro with madatory properties. Otherwise, it just inserts the macro with the default parameters set - For many macros, you just want to use the defaults.\n\nBut what we're hearing you say is that you do sometimes want to set optional macro parameters (e.g. code:language=bash) when using autocomplete. So one idea we have is to open the macro browser if you type a colon (':') while inserting a macro with autocomplete. This would signal that you want to set some paramaters.\n\nSo in the {code:language=bash} example above you'd type \"{code:\" and then the macro browser would open with the first field of the code macro selected. You could then tab through to change your parmaters and hit ENTER at any point to insert the macro in the page all without using the mouse.\n\nDo foiks think this would solve some of the problems you're having?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Gavin Fowler", "body": "Hi Bill, I've been playing around in the new editor some more and I think you may be on to something.\n\nAs you've correctly identified, the difficulty is setting macro fields outside the default. So the current behaviour, using our example, is type \"{code\" in the editor, and from there we have two options\n\n* Select the macro (which uses default values)\n* Search Macro\n\nObviously we'll select the macro we intended, but then it requires editing the macro and changing default values (time consuming and new muscle memory my fingers and mouse hand will struggle to acquire)\n\nI think the suggestion of suffixing the macro name with a semicolon, to immediately bring up that specific macro fields editor would certainly save some extra key stokes / mouse clicks, is definitely more intuitive characteristic and would certainly assist the user for the macros whose syntax we're not 100% familiar with (and therefore can't use within \"Insert Wiki Markup Dialog\").\n\nI also see there is an added bonus, hardened wiki notation users like myself (old dog, new tricks?) will undoubtedly type wiki syntax. I've noticed if you don't select any pop options and blindly keep typing, the current editor assumes you're entering in normal text - so I've been typing the text {code:language=bash} a lot (not interpreted as a macro). Having the macro fields dialog open on semicolon will also mitigate that newbee (old dog?) mistakes.\n\nJust my thoughts, but I support your idea!\n\nEDIT: Typo's\n" }, { "author": "JamieA", "body": "+1 from me.\n" }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Sounds reasonable\n" }, { "author": "Jens Melgaard", "body": "This only seems to bring us half the way, and this only solves the least annoying scenario.\n\nWhat really annoys me is if I suddenly wan't to change 10 code macroes on a page. \n\nAlso for other macroes, especially diagrams etc. it is much back and forth to see if it fits the page correctly (The preview inside the macro browser can't help here)... \n\nAn idea is to let the \"parameters\" area be editable, giving it autocomplete and all that \"crap\" doesn't matter to me for now, I would be satisfied with a red exclamation mark telling me i fucked up, and as a result the parameters I entered needed correction before they could be persited.\n" }, { "author": "BillA", "body": "Please keep an eye on [CONF-24038](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24038) for allowing quick insertion of macros with parameters.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Hey @Gavin Fowler, @Jamie Echlin and @Kevin Buchs - thought you might like to know that when Confluence 4.1.2 is made available in the next few weeks - you'll find some nice improvements to Autoformatting when working with macros. When you close a macro with }, Confluence automagically inserts the macro in the page for you. You can even define macro parameters like this...\n\n<http://screencast.com/t/WW9nMOvYPv>\n\nNote: You can't see it in the video but typing } triggers the autoformatting magic\n" }, { "author": "Gavin Fowler", "body": "@Matt, many thanks for the heads up on this one. I've just downloaded 4.1.2 and installed (for non production) and this new functionality looks great. Much more intuitive and fewer \"grabs\" for my mouse. excellent stuff. Looks like a production rollout is imminent :)\n" } ] }, { "author": "Douglas Pierce", "body": "Without the markup language, it was way too slow to enter the standup notes during our daily standup. Can you please give us the option of using the markup language? Now it seems that it is easier to use Word, which at least has keyboard format shortcuts. I tried and i can't do this simple format effectively anymore:\n\nh1. Day...\n\n\\*+Person+\\*\n\n\\*Yesterday\\*\n\n\\*\n\n\\*Today\\*\n\n\\*\n\nPlease bring back the markup view...\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "BillA", "body": "> Tried about 30 minutes to get a stupid image centered !...\\|align=center! simply doesn't work anymore\n\nAligning images works the same way as aligning text...select the image and use the align buttons in the editor toolbar to align it. Sorry for not explaining that better in the [what's changed for wiki markup users](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Editor+-+What%27s+Changed+for+Wiki+Markup+Users \"What's changed for wiki markup users.\") document. We've now updated that page to explain more clearly and updated the general documentation.\n\nPlease let us know what other specific challenges you encounter as you progress.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "dvayanu", "body": "Thanx Bill, I figured that out too. Once you accept the paradigm shift, things works as expected.\n\nI never used the RT Editor before, that made migraton harder.\n" }, { "author": "JamieA", "body": "There's a lot to like in the new editor, particularly if you're not an advanced user. However there is plenty room for improvement if you are. Eg start typing a macro name, the macro browser comes up and you select it. Then you have to actually get your mouse, click it, click edit, rather than be able to type in the parameters. Everytime I reach for the mouse a little bit of me dies. Being able to do everything from the keyboard should be possible in the new editor.\n" }, { "author": "Gavin Fowler", "body": "I've been testing Confluence 4.0 on a development instance. We all will transition to the new editor, BUT i do agree strongly with what Jamie Echlin has stated - **\"Every-time I reach for the mouse a little bit of me dies\"**. The entry of complex macro syntax has to (a) be improved (b) made quicker. I document a huge amount of Linux configuration how-to's and/ development code snippets. Transitioning something like: {code:language=bash} in the new editor now requires three button clicks, where as before i could just on typing.\n\nI guess keyboard shortcuts wld be better, or mechanisms to insert macro parameters in a more intuitive manner. Even something like \"code complete\" wld be better than mouse. I'm sure you guys will improve it...just my 2 cents worth for now.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "> Eg start typing a macro name, the macro browser comes up and you select it.\n\n@Jamie - When you say Macro Browser, do you mean Macro Autocomplete? The Macro Browser should only come up if the macro you are inserting has a requred parameter.\n\nFor example, the Info macro does not have any required parameters so it is just inserted in the page, but the Widget Connector does so ther Macro Browser is launched. See:\n\n<http://screencast.com/t/7Pz2iCrev>\n\nWould you want the Macro Browser to open every time you inserted a macro using Autocomplete regardless of whether it has any required p\\[aramters oir not? This would mean you wouldn't have to pick up your mouse?\n> Transitioning something like: {code:language=bash} in the new editor now requires three button clicks, where as before i could just on typing.\n\n@Gavin - You can still achieve this without picking up your mosue if you use the Insert Wiki Markup Dialog - Command + Shift + D. You can then type in your markup, press tab and hit enter. See:\n\n<http://screencast.com/t/3jobjlAW>\n" }, { "author": "JamieA", "body": "Hi Matt, Yes I meant macro autocomplete.\n\n\\> use the Insert Wiki Markup Dialog - Command + Shift + D.\n\nDoesn't seem very intuitive or natural to me. I selected it with the keyboard and tried shift f+10 but windows context menu key but it just brought up the browse context menu. If it could bring up your menu that allowed me to edit the macro parameters that would be an improvement.\n" }, { "author": "Gavin Fowler", "body": "Matt - liked the advice, love your style - thanks!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Andre van der Elst", "body": "I too miss the forums, this site seems to be for questions \\& answers only, not for discussions.\n\nAnyway, I have yet to try the upgrade to 4.0, but will probably have to test a very long time (and have this same discussion with a lot of my users!) before I can upgrade to 4.0 (if at all).\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kai Stian Olstad", "body": "There is another problem/challenge with the new editor.\n\nIf you have a separate Confluence installation on your laptop that you use for documenting meeting, seminars and so on. And then you would like to transfer pages and/or part of a page to another Confluence installation on a separate and isolated network were transfer of data can only be done with a USB disk you got a problem.\n\nIn earlier versions you could just copy the markup, save it to a file on the USB drive. Transfer it to the other network and just paste the markup code in a page. The removal of this feature is a huge deal breaker.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "JamieA", "body": "Can't you do View Wiki Markup then paste that in? Even if you have to paste it into the wiki markup macro thing?\n\nIf you can't I agree this is a problem. If I have a long complex page to write I will often do it in a local confluence instance, then transfer to production instance when done. I do this with Edit in Word, particularly if I have lots of screenshots, because it's the easy way to get screenshots in.\n" }, { "author": "Kai Stian Olstad", "body": "Confluence 4 dosen't have View Wiki Markup.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "The 'View Source' option in the Tools menu allows you to copy content from one Confluence instance to another. See:\n\n<http://screencast.com/t/oJF7T707p>\n" }, { "author": "Kai Stian Olstad", "body": "In the scenario I described View Source doesn't solve my problem.\n\nIn you screencast you are copying and pasting on the same computer. I have to do the copying on one computer and the pasting on a another..\n\nThe reason for that I'm not allowed to put my laptop on the network. Any information has to be transfered by a USB drive. So if I copy from View Source and paste that info an text editor I lose all the markup.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "What if you exported the page from the instance on your laptop to Word, and then imported that word document into Confluence at work?\n" }, { "author": "Kai Stian Olstad", "body": "That might work for a hole page but not part of a page.\n\nWhen I try a export to word and then import it again I get \nThe selected file is not a valid binary Word 97-2003 document\n\nRunning Kubuntu 11.04 AMD64 on the client and server.\n" }, { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "KiaiS- sounds like you might be hitting a bug with that document. Can I suggest raising a support ticket at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) so we can help you out.\n" }, { "author": "Kai Stian Olstad", "body": "@Sherif - I probably should do that, but since I just evaluate the new editor and found it more or less useless I'm not going to put in the effort since I'm not going to buy the product.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Henrik Henrik", "body": "Hi, \n\nI'm speaking as a regular user here. \n\nThe advantage of wiki markup is that I do not focus on layout, a very advantageous benefit of using Wiki markup. As a Customer I focus on value and content, and not layout; this is exactly what a wiki markup helps me focus on From my perspective it seems that you have forgotten all about value in using a wiki, and instead focused on presentation. \n\nAt our company we choosed a wiki (where we could use markup) in order to focus on content, with an Atlassian focus on layout, and ultimately an explicit decision not to focus on content, we would in all likelely-hood never have chosen Confluence. \n\nWe use JIRA heavily. For user stories we have a need to paste in wiki markup, due to poor integration between Confluence/JIRA; if we are unable to extract wiki markup the analysis that some of us are making will be unformated in the user stories that our scrum teams are to take in. This is a far from ideal situation, as it effectively results in a loss of information. \n\nFurthermore, when I am analysing a user story I would much rather focus on value than visualization, with a new layout I may spend too much time on this, something that should be kept in mind when evaluating the value of a feature. \n\nIf I were a prospect I would say that all of this would be sufficient reason to use another wiki.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "Perhaps try and understand Confluence 4.0 before judging. They did test this internally (dogfooding) for months - and with customers.\n\nHere's a plethora of resources:\n\n* <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Planning+for+Confluence+4.0>\n* <http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/demo.jsp>\n\n**And they have a live webinar next week**, Sept 27, 2011 - so get in on it.\n\n(Don't know for sure, but indeed they might record it - or capture the many questions you have in earnest. Of course you are not alone - and they know this - so working the input is important to them).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "dvayanu", "body": "Hello Ellen et al,\n\nyes I tried. Tried about 30 minutes to get a stupid image centered !...\\|align=center! simply doesn't work anymore, and there is no edit mode. That's what bothers me most, I can enter markup, but I can't edit it. Do I know have to keep all my text in an external editor until its final and I can let confluence transform it into something irreversible?\n\nI checked out this page:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Editor+-+What%27s+Changed+for+Wiki+Markup+Users>\n\nAnd I find that the new features in the editor are great, except for one thing, there is no wiki markup anymore. And a wiki without wiki-markup is not really a wiki. Do you know any serious html producer who works with wysiwig dreamweaver only and never edits the code? Do you know any serious developer who works exclusively with code generator and never writes code by himself? Same applies here, the most accurate document is still produced manually and this has been taken away :-(\n\nAs for testing with customers, well maybe they did. They most certainly read Inspired by Marty Cagan and other great product development books. Still they didn't warn: \"Before update, please note, that we removed the key features from the product\". I have the confuence 4 mail right here, and I don't find a word of a warning.\n\nUnless you understand\n\nFaster. Richer. Simpler. {#toc-hId-1842947658}\n==============================================\n\nas warning. {#toc-hId--709209303}\n=================================\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Leon, if you click an image in the new editor you can center it using the alignment options in the toolbar.\n" }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "I hear your frustration - and two things come to mind.\n\na) Remember you are on the cutting edge. YOU are using it on Day 2 of its release. So - that is mighty admirable! :) EVEN if you are only testing at this time.\n\nb) I would love to hear your thoughts in two weeks - and see if they are the same as today. Would be an interesting check point.\n\nReally not trying to call you out - but you are funny. Cutting edge is always an interesting learning curve - and you are not even giving yourself this credit.\n\nPlease report back.\n\nYou might not even remember the old way by then..\n" }, { "author": "dvayanu", "body": "@Ellen\n\nas for a) I actually not testing, cause we simply upgraded our major confluence installation, the one we use for almost everything without testing, such great was our trust in atlassian and hence the frustration ;-)\n\nb) yes, I also think things will be different in two weeks, guess I had to let some steam out. I also totally understand (and agree) with technical reasons behind this decision, which makes its easier to accept.\n\nI'll report in two weeks nevertheless ;-)\n" }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "@Leon Ouch on prod move right away - fair enough on the frustration.\n\nThe UX changes alone are going to make you very busy in next couple weeks - you will be a power Conf4 user FAST as a result. Good luck with that.\n\nJust off a call a moment ago with customer wanting to move to Conf 4 - I am pushing staging pilots ASAP; orgs need to buy-in for good/right excitement.. Atlassian is very good - but no matter what, alot of users can't handle the instant UX shock on a prod system, regardless.\n\nHowever, there's enough delight in there they should get converted fast - so I expect it will be ok after people dig in..\n\nLooking forward to your update - good case study.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "You can watch a recording of this morning's Introducing Confluence 4.0 webinar here:\n\n<http://atlss.in/q0vZrS>\n" }, { "author": "Ole Kv?rn?", "body": "\"Perhaps try and understand Confluence 4.0 before judging. They did test this internally (dogfooding) for months - and with customers.\" \n_And they didn't even miss **search \\& replace?** _ \nCome on - They skipped the dogfood - went to a bar and got ...\n" }, { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "@olekva: We do want to implement this and have this feature in the short-term roadmap. You might want to watch <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2522> to stay updated when the issue gets implemented.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Gary Weaver", "body": "As an advanced wiki markup user, I've been very cross about the loss of it. They're not going to bring it back, but I have to give Atlassian credit for their relentlessly cheerful attitude in the face of abuse and scorn while they attempt to make the editor work for everyone.\\[1\\]\n\nThey're also introducing this: <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor> which at least will let us get back to the source of a page so we can edit it.\n\nHaving said that, I am still angry and unhappy about the huge waste of my time that this decision has introduced.\n\n(a) I didn't think it was broken before and I still want wiki markup back \\[2\\]\n\n(b) I don't WANT to use my mouse for things I can already do in my sleep on the keyboard\n\n(c) or learn a gazillion new weird and interesting keyboard shortcuts (like \"shift + up arrow\" to do, what? remind me again?)\n\n(d) or work in XHTML.\\[3\\]\n\nSo, the choice is learn to use it, or go elsewhere.\n\n\\[1\\] Much of which scorn and abuse has been from me because I (still can't) believe they were serious. I thought they'd come to their senses, realise how evil it is and gracefully retreat. There's still time! Come back, Atlassian. We forgive you.\n\n\\[2\\] OTOH, a lot of the XML/CSS/HTML people I work with truly **despise** wiki markup because of its stupid handling of code. Eg a slash \\\\ escapes a semicolon ; but \\\\\\\\ doesn't escape another \\\\. And it's impossible to highlight a section of code, say in a different colour to point out a specific noteworthy bit.\n\n\\[3\\] The same class of techie users all went \"Oh! How interesting\" and smiled when I said it's going to be XHTML underneath now. So maybe it's not all bad, especially if the new editor actually works.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Gary Weaver", "body": "> I don't WANT to use my mouse for things I can already do in my sleep on the keyboard\n\nThis is what I thought, too, and learning something new is not only a pain but a cost in time. However, this change was warranted, even if it wasn't totally desired. Technically, **the conversion between the WYSIWYG/rich text editor and wiki markup in the old Confluence didn't work properly and would never work properly**. That was a major cost to Atlassian support and a drag on users. Atlassian spent a good deal of time working on this issue, and the best they could come up with was to form a hybrid- something that was the WYSIWYG/rich text editor that supported quick editing of documents via keystrokes in a very similar way to that which was previously offered.\n\nI'm absolutely sure that Atlassian hears and feels your pain. I just look forward to the day that everyone either gets cool with the new keystrokes and editor, or Atlassian comes out with something even more amazing that solves all of the world's problems. I loved the wiki markup a lot, and it should mean a lot to Atlassian that everyone loved wiki markup and Confluence so much that when they took away the full editor, it was like it was ripped from our souls. However, it's time to read the forum thread, read all Atlassian has to say about it, and move on. Maybe we could request that Atlassian come up with some new type of markup that would be a true 1:1 with the RTE and would magically never have conversion issues. But aside from that, the old markup just isn't compatible, and never was.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Robert Mark Bram", "body": "I love the new editor but badly want back the ability to write pure markup. For me, I would use [Text Editor Anywhere](http://www.listary.com/text-editor-anywhere) to edit a page's content in UltraEdit, where I have a whole suite of macros, templates and other customisations specific for Wiki markup.. and in one revision they are all suddenly useless. The insert markup function doesn't help - I want to use markup on existing content.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joerg Bencke", "body": "sorry to put it bluntly : read the first comment of this thread.\n" }, { "author": "Gary Weaver", "body": "This answer has a wealth of information as to why they made the decision, but just to post it again, here is the related forum thread: [http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=51646\\&start=0\\&tstart=0](http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=51646&start=0&tstart=0)\n" } ] }, { "author": "David Dube", "body": "Did you happen to make a backup? If not, any chance you have s \"snapshots\" of your data directory? You could use either to jump back to 3.5.X.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kathleen Newman", "body": "Can a user code a sidebar menu in the html code? If so, how? Are there any examples? Thanks.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kathleen Newman", "body": "I am a bit frustrated about the expandable wiki menu I am coding and using. I cannot make it so it has 2 or 3 levels or sub categories underneath it. The wiki code menu seems very limited in its capability. Also the main drop down topic can't link to anything either.\n\nAlso this weird natural menu is showing up above that. Is there any information on how to code these menu's? \nIt is slightly frustrating not being able to do more with wiki code.\n\nHow do I get a hold of support. I really need to speak to someone about being able to configure a better working main sidebar menu.\n\nThanks,\n\nKathleen Newman \n[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Wiki-Markup-in-Confluence-4-again/qaq-p/220665?attachment-id=11259){#link_118e15d7b311d2} \n[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/37385/1/menu%5B1%5D.png){#display_118e15d7b311d2_0} \n[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Wiki-Markup-in-Confluence-4-again/qaq-p/220665?attachment-id=11260){#link_118e15d7b311d2_0} \n[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/37385/2/menu.JPG){#display_118e15d7b311d2_2}\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Steve Ragle", "body": "Were we the only ones who used to copy / paste a lot back and forth between jira and confluence since they shared a simple common base markup language? That is broken now.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Brian Gallew", "body": "So, what's the answer for auto-generated content? When the wiki is your primary source of documentation, you **need** to be able to insert machine-generated content.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Please ask your question as a separate question.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Graham Hannington", "body": "[Wikifier RT](http://www.amnet.net.au/~ghannington/confluence/) is a web page that converts Confluence 4 rich text editor content into wiki markup. It's not perfect, but I hope that people think it's better than nothing, rather than just a waste of their time.\n\nIf Wikifier RT does not correctly convert your content, feel free to let me know (contact details on the help page).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Graham Hannington", "body": "I have developed a Greasemonkey user script that adds a [Wiki markup button](https://wikitechcomm.onconfluence.com/x/zYM0) to the Confluence editor toolbar. Clicking the button displays the page contents as wiki markup in the Wiki Markup dialog.\n" }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Nice :) !!!\n" } ] }, { "author": "espow uriah", "body": "i dont konw how to answer it,i just want to show my [iphone 4 case](http://www.espow.com/wholesale-apple-accessories-protective-cases-iphone-4-cases.html)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "AM", "body": "Please check:\n\n<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21735/occupy-confluence-markup-provide-a-wysiwyg-xhtml-markup-editor-to-edit-the-markup-source-of-confluence-4-wiki-pages>\n\n-AM-\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Rhyne Armstrong", "body": "I am having issues with the lack of Markup, but I can't see my problems in the 2 pages of comments and back-and-forth.\n\n1. Able to edit macros for undocumented and un-labled parameters - It seems that many of the macros have items you can specify in wiki-markup that aren't added as labels in their dialog.\n\n2. Able to copy a page layout into a Template. I should be able to select the source for a page and add that to a global template. I can't figure out how to do that since one is WYSIWYG and one is wiki-markup. If you are going to take it away from one place, please make sure it is gone everywhere.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Gary Weaver", "body": "The question is where did this discussion take place, so to answer, here is at least one of the places where this discussion took place:\n\n[http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=51646\\&start=0\\&tstart=0](http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=51646&start=0&tstart=0)\n\nHope it helps.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "Looks like the online Sandbox was just updated to Confluence 4.0 - so... that's as good as any I think to try it out fast!\n\nhttp://sandbox.onconfluence.com/dashboard.action\n", "comments": [ { "author": "dvayanu", "body": "So, one week later.\n\nI was working a lot with the new editor in the last week. I can do most of the things I need. Many of the things are going smoother. Table editing is much easier. Image positioning is ok. All in one I don't miss the wiki markup except for:\n\n1) copy \\& paste in tables is completely broken.\n\nTake simple table, enter two values:\n\n```\n&lt;tr&gt;\n```\n\n```\n&lt;td&gt;app01&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;172.20.255.65&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;\n```\n\n```\nNow take another row and copy the ip adress into a cell:\n```\n\n```\n&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;biz01&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;table style=\"margin-left: 0.0px;\"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class=\"confluenceTr\"&gt;&lt;td style=\"text-align: left;margin-left: 0.0px;\"&gt;&lt;p&gt;172.20.255.67&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n\n```\nwtf? What does this additional table does here? And, how can I remove it?\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n2) Picture sizing\n```\n\n```\nTake a picture, upload it and size it via one of three relative size buttons, take the smallest one for example.\n```\n\n```\nTake another picture, which is slightly different in size from the first picture.\n```\n\n```\nNow try to make both pictures have same width.\n```\n\n```\nGave up? Now replace the first picture with a smaller one. The sizing turns to be absolute based on the previous total size of the picture.\n```\n\n```\nWhy can't I just simple enter the size I want?\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n3) copy and paste a log of text/markup\n```\n\n```\nAbsolutely impossible.\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n4) Broken tables\n```\n\n```\nI have a broken table (one row is incomplete and has less columns) left over from 3.5. No chance to repair it.\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n\n```\nAll in one... I can work with the new editor and it has an overall enjoyable ux, but there are a lot of small errors which can be corrected in the source format, but can't\n```\n\n```\nin the RT Editor. I think Atlassian must provide an easy and convinient possibility to edit the storage format directly. \n```\n\n```\nOtherwise they will probably need one year to resolve all the bugs and tweak the new editor.\n```\n\n```\nStill, its better than my first impressions was ;-) And the new editor is awesome, at least for a wysiwyg editor.\n```\n\n```\nSo, as Barney would say, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead ;-)\n```\n\n```\ntrue story\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n\n```\n" }, { "author": "dvayanu", "body": "err, and sorry for the formating of the last comment, can't figure out how to paste code properly here...\n" }, { "author": "Matthew Erickson", "body": "Hi Leon,\n\nYou should be able to set the width of an image in pixels by clicking in the XXXpx on the left of the image property panel. Does that help with your image sizing issues?\n" }, { "author": "dvayanu", "body": "Thanx Matthew,\n\nthey are clickable ;-) They didn't look clickable :-)\n\nFine, one less ;-)\n" } ] }, { "author": "David Dube", "body": "When I saw the new editor at Summit I was very impressed. I did have ne question then which I could never get a solid answer (granted I only asked a few people)... I should really install a local copy to test it out...\n\nThat said... how do you go back and edit complex macros? For example, I have several examples of nested reporting macros... I'll undoubtedly have to go back and add/tweak/modify one of the reports... even something simple like adding a new column to local-reporter, let alone tweak/edit a text/date/number filter.\n\nHow would you go about tweaking an already coded \"complex\" macro instance?\n\nDave\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Hi David - I believe you are referring to the Reporting Plugin from CustomWare. CustomWare have yet to upgrade the Reporting Plugin for 4.0. All that's means is that Reporting plugin macros will not be repesented with Macro Placeholders yet.\n\nI don't know yet how CustomWare plan to represent complex plugins in 4.0 but know they are working on it. Until thewn if you have plugins like the Reporting Plugin which are not yet 4.0 \"copmpatible\" and you do upgrade to 4.0 they'll look something like this in the new editor:\n\n\n" }, { "author": "David Dube", "body": "Yup... I'm refering to the Reporting Plugin and is the main reason why I'm holding off upgrading. With that said, if it renders like the above pic in edit mode and still renders when saved, then I'd be a happy camper. I just need to pull the band-aid. :)\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "With that said, if it renders like the above pic in edit mode and still renders when saved, then I'd be a happy camper\n\nI'd definitely suggest a test upgrade first on a staging server. Here's a great resource for everyone on this thread for planning for 4.0:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Planning+for+Confluence+4.0>\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Leoon could you please provide some more details around this issue: \n`3) copy and ``paste` `a log of text``/markup` \nPerhaps you could provide the text/markup. Were you just trying to paste the text into a blank page? Did the formatting not come across correctly?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Have you tried Autoformatting? Confluence 4 autoformats wiki markup for you as you type.\n\nYou can also insert wiki markup into pages. I created this short video for you to show how you can create the stand-up notes you provided above in the new editor:\n\n<http://screencast.com/t/COOZ0WqZlL>\n\nAlso, I'd strongly recommend taking the time to watch the short demo videos on this page to get an idea of all the new features in Confluence 4.0.\n\n<http://www.atlassian.com/en/confluence-content-collaboration>\n\nHope that helps, mate.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Douglas Pierce", "body": "Hey Matt, no offencse, but the Autoformatting is relatively slow and very broken. Try to markup bold and underline using Autoformatting. Doesn't work. I think it is great to improve the editor, but taking away wiki markup really pisses off people who like using wiki markup. For certain tasks, the wikimarkup is faster to use. Now we just have the insert wiki markup. I want to return our 50 user license and get our money back. I certainly won't recommend confluence to anyone.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Autoformatting is relatively slow and very broken\n\nIs anyone else experiencing pefformance issues with Autoformatting? It's not something that I have come across in my own use so I would be interested to learn about other's experiences.\n> Try to markup bold and underline using Autoformatting\n\nThat's an annoying little bug that I wish we had found sooner. Is there anything else you've found that doesn't work for you in Autoformatting, Doug?\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "The short answer is 'No', and there isn't really any way around it at this point. You can hack around it by using custom themes and macros that let you store alternate titles, but it's not a real 'name', just a display name.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "Page titles become URLs, so a slash is just wrong.\n" } ] }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "You can in Confluence 4.1 as [CONF-984](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-984) has been resolved.\n\n*(I thought someone had already posted this answer though.)*\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Oli S", "body": "Or for a quick answer, take a look to the release info for the next update :-)\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.1-rc1+Release+Notes#Confluence41-rc1ReleaseNotes-8NoMorePageTitleCharacterRestrictions>\n\nI love this change ;-)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "This question has already been answered here:\n\n[Any future plans to allow Conf Page Titles to contain \" / + ( or \\[ ' characters?](/questions/15928/any-future-plans-to-allow-conf-page-titles-to-contain-or-characters)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nicolas Wildner", "body": "Here you could find additional information about Restricted Characted on during a page creation:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Creating+a+Page#CreatingaPage-NotesaboutPagenames>\n\n;)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "BernardoA", "body": "Try first remove this plugin from database as we can see here:\n\n<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Removing+Malfunctioning+Plugins>\n\nAfter that, try again install it.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Daniel Borcherding", "body": "I think Bernardo is suggesting that you remove the Universal Plugin Manager and try this operation again.\n\nAn important piece of Information to know here would be the version of the Universal Plugin Manager you are using. We can then run a test locally to see if we can reproduce this issue.\n\nAn further benefit of upgrading to a more modern version of the UPM is that communication with the marketplace is rolled into the UPM settings.\n\nPlease let us know how you would like to proceed and we will be happy to help from there.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "confluence-app" ]

[ { "author": "LuizA", "body": "Hello Leo,\n\nIn this case I would suggest you to try to configure the Apache with the mod_proxy, see below how to perform this configuration:\n\n<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Apache+with+mod_proxy>\n\n<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+behind+Apache>\n\nHope this helps.\n\nKind Regards,\n\nLJ.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "The UWC is definitely capable of handling ISO-8859-1. I've tested it against the common encodings that don't overlap nicely with UTF-8, including ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15and Cp1252. To start, you should make certain you have set the encoding property in your converter.twiki.properties file. Here's some doc on that:\n\n[UWC Character Encoding Feature](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Character+Encoding+Feature)\n\nThat will probably handle the problem, but here are some other ideas, if the above is insufficient:\n\n* check your confluence encoding setting in your admin console, also your confluence database settings\n* you can also use a tool like iconv to transform the encoding of your pages into UTF-8 before using the UWC on them. Some examples on that idea can be found in the [UWC FAQ on encoding](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+F.A.Q.#UWCF.A.Q.-Somecharactersinmyfilesareturnedintoquestionmarks.WhatdoIdo%3FOrhowdoIfixaproblemwiththecharacterencoding%3F)\n\nGood luck!\n\nLaura\n", "comments": [ { "author": "hans-peter.geier", "body": "Thank you! I got it to work.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Christian Janzen", "body": "Hi Laura,\n\nI tried to convert a SharePoint wiki and have the same \"german umlaut problem\". But entering Sharepoint.1234.encoding.property=iso-8859-1 at the end of the file converter.sharepoint.properties doesn't work. Even Sharepoint.1234-encoding.property=iso-8859-1 is not working.\n\nAny other idea? I am working with version 3.13.0\n\nBest regards,\n\nChristian\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "EddieW", "body": "The easiest way to hide fields would be using a custom sylesheet, or editing the global layout for user profiles. As for translations.\n\n\\\\\n\nDid you get the pack from atlassian's translation site? <https://translations.atlassian.com/> the sam,e site priovides the ability to priovide translatiosn to support thier effort.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "You need to call [the open() method on the window object](http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_open.asp), not the other way around:\n\n```\n{html}&lt;input type=button value=\"Open Jira\" onclick=\"javascript:window.open('http://jira.__.com')\" /&gt; {html}\n```\n\nHope this helps\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Kevin Kraemer", "body": "Oops, thanks, but in fact, that was a typo in my original post - I was actually trying window.open(), but seeing the \"nothing happens\" behavior. Something appears to be blocking the execution of JS.\n" }, { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "What version of Confluence are you using? I tested your code in 3.5.13 and 4.0 and it worked like expected. I just had to enable the **html** macro of the [Confluence HTML Macros plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/163) which should be preinstalled in Confluence. Do you have the setting **\"JavaScript served in header\"** in **Confluence Admin =\\> General Configuration** enabled?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Todd Katz", "body": "Thanks for the tips. I'd done a recent installation and, in fact, the html macros were not enabled!\n\nSo this code works for me. I'm hoping to do something with images so if I can't figure it out, I'll probably be back begging for more help :)\n\nBut in the meantime thanks for the great community support and happy holidays!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Todd Katz", "body": "I too would like to know how to use Javascript routines such as mouseover and onclick on Confluence pages.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "app", "html", "javascript" ]

[ { "author": "Stefan Baader", "body": "Same question. Would be interesting to know. How to handle $userAccessor.getUsersByEmail()?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Robert Collier", "body": "I have found UserAccessor.getUsersByEmail and tried the following but it does not work and pager().isEmpty() returns true every time even if an already registered e-mail address is passed to it. Does anyone know of another method that can be used from within the Velocity context similar to UserAccessor.getUsersByEmail that is working?\n\nfunction validateform() { \nemailtocheck = document.signupform.email.value; \nif($userAccessor.getUsersByEmail(emailtocheck).pager().isEmpty()) { \nreturn true; \n} else { \nalert ('ERROR: A user with this e-mail address is already registered. If you think you already may have an account please try to recover your password using the Forgot Password tool instead.'); \nreturn false; \n}\n\n\\<form ... onsubmit=\"return validateform()\"\\>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "access", "duplicate", "email" ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Seb,\n\nHere is a more elaborate example. This creates a journal entry that is dated, has fixed string included as well as a string defined with metadata on the page.\n\n```\n{text-data:Prefix}EXPR{text-data}----h2. Create New Journal Entry{add-page:template=JournalEntry| parent=@self| prefix=%data:Prefix% Journal Entry %global:current date &gt; date:yyyy-MM-dd% }Click to add new journal entry{add-page}\n```\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "You can't have duplicate names because Confluence provides the wonderful capability of preserving hyperlinks to pages even when that page moves around in the space. It is keyed off of the page name. It does this by associating the name with an ugly page ID. One name to two IDs would break the system. With a hyperlink to the named page, which one would you have Confluence choose to go to?\n\nOne approach is to go wide with space creation.\n\nAnother option is to use unique prefixes to create page names, so that hierarchical names cascade down to descendents. One mechanism is to apply unique name/date/timestamped names using the {add-page} macro. So, each parent leaves his mark on his children, in a sense.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "You need to fully specify you pages. We use prefixes. Instead of a plain \"Requirements\" page defined by its point in the hierarchy, we have \"Microsoft Office - Requirements\", \"Landesk - Requirements\", and so on. All the Pages under \"Microsoft Office\" will have the prefix.\n\nThis works well with search too.\n" }, { "author": "seb dostie", "body": "Thx.\n\nKevin, About the unique name/date/timestamped names using the {add-page} macro. Do you mean manually put the date and time or there is an \"Add-page\" macro for that ? Cause I can't find that macro.\n\nSeb.\n" }, { "author": "seb dostie", "body": "found it in the plug in page..\n" }, { "author": "Ben", "body": "The solution is to not use the page name as the page ID/key. They need a separate \"Display Name\" field.\n" }, { "author": "antony terrence", "body": "@\\[deleted\\] The links can be constructed using the page IDs too if the Atlassian really wants to solve the problem. Link text can continue to be the titles but the actual links could be created using the topic IDs. So I don't think it's a valid reason.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Bob Sampson", "body": "I still don't understand, doesn't the Url have a unique page number? \n\nE.g. \n/wiki/spaces/CAUI/pages/**964312356**/Components\n\nWhy can't Confluence just have: \n/wiki/spaces/CAUI/pages/964312356\n\n???\n\nI don't see the point of the unique page name.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "evanbartlett", "body": "Came here with the same frustration. I'm trying to get my org to use confluence for meeting notes, but everyone is getting \"can't create page with same name\" errors. If you have a lot of people doing this, it puts a huge amount of the burden on them to constantly come up with unique names for pages. Almost makes it unusable.\n" }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "There's a practical benefit using real page titles in URLs.\n\nkb.xyz.local/display/ABC/Management+and+Planning\n\nor\n\nkb.xyz.local/display/ABC/5467835480\n\nIt would arguably be possible to use only page IDs, include the tree, or use an ID plus the title. Note also that the system has to cope with page moves and renames. The design choices were made a long time ago and I think they were ok. Confluence offers both a flat and heirarchical page access.\n\nThe solution is to include a consistent section name in the title of all pages in a section. So *Jira - Email integration a* nd *Confluence - Email integration*are different pages and you don't have to scan past the titles to find what you want in a search.\n\nThat requires a bit of consistency work practice and perhaps education but, really, it results in better page titles. If you are getting name clashes your names aren't really specific enough, include a bit of simple hierarchy in your page titles and the problem is solved.\n" }, { "author": "evanbartlett", "body": "Thanks for the context, makes total sense for documentation, it makes them better. We're trying to use it for meeting notes, so it's probably more of an outlier use case. But making people type new names so frequently adds up.\n" }, { "author": "Johan Bergens", "body": "I think causes a lot of tedious work even for other things than meeting notes. We have documentation about internal systems and it quickly gets boring to write \"SystemA servers\", \"SystemB servers\", etc. It also makes it hard to change the names after.\n\nI do understand that it is a part of the base architecture and may be very hard to change now but as a user I don't like it.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Helena Makarchuk", "body": "It is a very pity that the functionality to create pages with the same name (but, of course, with the different path) inside the space will not be implemented\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Spyros Mylonas", "body": "I agree with you. I have decided not to migrate from Nuclino (more expensive up to 10 users) to confluence (cheaper).\n" }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "The original wikis were flat page spaces joined with links, not page parent-child relationships. That gives quick unique access to any page.\n\nAs the page count goes up a hierarchical model is going to be needed to keep things under control. Confluence used a hybrid flat + hierarchical model, on a best-of-both_worlds strategy, I guess.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Mariano Del Rosso", "body": "Shameful.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Emrah Urhan", "body": "Year is 2021!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Adam", "body": "Latin script can be use in subtle fashion to make titles with the same names differentiated. Looks a tiny bit odd, but definitely worth it then adding a bunch of prefixes which can make product documentation look confusing. You don't want users questions what the prefix means, as opposed to glancing at the letter D that is rendered as Latin script.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Bob Sampson", "body": "Yeah I've been using emojis, but looks unprofessional.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Denise Unterwurzacher [Atlassian]", "body": "FYI, there is some thorough discussion of this issue here:\n\n<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2524>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "There are a few of options available.\n\n1. AppFusions' [Google Analytics for Confluence](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/16722) plugin which works with Confluence 3.5 and 4.0 -- there's a [live demo here](https://www.appfusions.com/display/GANLC/Live+demo+-+in+the+flesh)\n2. AppFusions' [Webtrends Connector for Confluence](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/39438)\n3. Adaptavist's [Statistical Analysis](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/16146) plugin for Confluence 2.10 to 3.0.2\n\nI did a presentation at the last London Atlassian User Group about \"Analytics and Confluence\" -- here's the [slides](http://www.slideshare.net/appfusions/analytics-confluence-london-atlassian-user-group) and a [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKLqtI9q2RE).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Disclosure: I wrote the first 2 plugins in the list above :)\n" }, { "author": "Rumceisz", "body": "Hi David,\n\nare these plugins proper for measuring the page usage?\n\nOne of my project admin user needs to measure which pages are heavily used in his space. (In order to focus on developing the heavily used pages)\n\nBest regards, \nRumi\n" } ] } ]

[ "analytics" ]

[ { "author": "francis", "body": "No - not yet.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matthew J. Horn", "body": "Did you ever find a way to do this?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "search" ]

[ { "author": "NikolayS", "body": "I tried to repeat steps from Atlassian Achors tutorial, but confluence could not find my anchors (strange). [This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7jpko_2-qE) helped me to make links to anchors work.\n\nBriefly:\n\n* create an anchor with name \"anchorname\"\n* show \"Insert link\" popup -\\> Advanced tag -\\> in Link field enter \"#anchorname\" (without quotes). Save link, save draft.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "pasquale.gagliano", "body": "I had a need to add a link to a paragraph in the same page; to do so I have added a Table of Content that has generated all the links to all headings in the page. Then where I needed to add the link I have simply added the link as per ToC\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "James Brown", "body": "I just wasted hours trying to do this. I added the anchor macro to the bottom of a page and gave it the name Bookmark. \nI navigated to another page in a different space and inserted a link using the advanced option. I entered IHopeThisWorks as the link text followed by spacekey:pagename#Bookmark (obiviously using the actual space key and page name and it did not work. \nIs there an issue when using special characters in a page name?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "BlueberryCake", "body": "I don't think there is an issue with special characters in this regard only. Just tried the following: Inserting an HTML link via code editor as \\<a name=\"anchorname\"\\>xxx\\</a\\> and it won't work , too. The tags are deleted while being parsed, creating a blank output of \"xxxx\" I checked the code, there are no tags anymore an dlinking doesn't work. This means it wouldn't be possible to set alink to an achor from outside the system at all. \\*sad\\*\n\nNever use capitals or special chracters in identifier's or variable's names.\n\nI just discovered the following workaround:\n\n> ### Link to a heading on a page {#toc-hId-1055754641}\n>\n> Choose **Link** \\> **Advanced** then enter the heading in one of the formats below. Heading text is case sensitive and must be entered without spaces.\n\n*\n > For a heading on this page: `#MyHeading`.\n\n<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/insert-links-and-anchors-724764900.html>\n" }, { "author": "BlueberryCake", "body": "But in order to answer your question: Never use special characters or capitals when naming variables or identifiers\n" }, { "author": "BlueberryCake", "body": "Sorry for crossposting my own comments. Found a solution to link from outside. It's a little bit crude: Confluence uses the following syntax when it comes to anchor linking: <http://domain.com/display/SPACESHORTCUT/pagename#pagename-anchorname>\n" }, { "author": "Jon Wilkins", "body": "I've also spent *hours* (if not days) trying to get linking to Confluence page anchors from external pages (including in some cases, ironically, Jira tickets) and the above info finally solved most cases for me.\n\nHowever, I've figured out some nuances that are worth adding here to save others' time:\n\nUsing the basic structure above:\n\n*<http://domain.com/display/SPACESHORTCUT/pagename#pagename-anchorname>*\n\n1) Page titles with punctuation (specifically brackets \"(\" \\& \")\" but may include others:\n\nThe punctuation marks are \n- removed from the pagename in the URL *path* (left of the #) \n- retained in the pagename in the URL *fragment* (right of the #)\n\nexample\n\nFor a page title \"This \\& That\" with anchor \"001\", the link would be\n\n[http://domain.com/display/SPACESHORTCUT/This+That#This\\&That-001](http://domain.com/display/SPACESHORTCUT/This+That#This&That-001)\n\n2) Page titles that start with a number:\n\nThe pagename in the URL *fragment* seems to get prefixed with \"id-\"\n\ne.g For a page title \"1 Guide\" with anchor \"001\", the link would be\n\n<http://domain.com/display/SPACESHORTCUT/1+Guide#id-1Guide-001>\n" }, { "author": "Danny Oliva", "body": "[@Jon Wilkins](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/293736)thanks Jon! your examples helped me out a TON!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Firstly, as Kevin says, you can't type anchor links like that directly into the Rich Text editor using wiki markup syntax - you should either swap to the wiki markup editor, or use the \"link browser\" dialog in the Rich Text editor to type in the link.\n\nSecondly, I'm fairly certain you need to include the page title in the link, in addition to the name of the anchor, so try:\n\n```\n[PageTitle#anchorName]\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Shivansh Singh", "body": "To link to an anchor I followed following steps: -\n\n1. In the rich text editor edit mode, pressed Ctrl+K to open link browser.\n\n2. Typed the page name. As I started typing the page name confluence automatically lists the page names which inlucde that keywork which I am typing.\n\n3. After entering page name I added anchor name like this - Home#Overview\n\n4. Saved the page.\n\nWhen I click on the link, it navigates me to the top of the Home page and not the Overview segment of the page. I check the wiki markup of the page for the link and it is as follows:\n\n\\[Overview\\|MySpace:Home\\]\n\nAbove markup is in the form: -\n\n\\[\\<Link text\\>\\|\\<space name\\>:\\<Page title\\>\\]\n\nIt doesn't include the anchor name, even when I specified the anchor name at the time of specifying the link in the link browser. When I modify the above markup in the \"wiki markup\" view as below it works fine.\n\n\\[Overview\\|MySpace:Home#Overview\\]\n\nSo, it seems to me that there is some bug in Confluence. When we give anchor name from link browser it doesn't include it in the markup, but when I explicitly mention the anchor name in the \"wiki markup\" view, it works absolutely fine.\n" }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "I think this is beyond the scope of the rich text editor in Confluence versions \\< 4.0. It is most reliably done in Wiki markup.\n" }, { "author": "Shivansh Singh", "body": "Is it the problem with ver. \\< 4.0? How about ver. 4.0 or greater?\n" }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Everything related to such problems changes in 4.0 and such problems are excluded by design. It is a whole new editor.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "You cannot simply past the markup in the Rich Text editor. You need to select the \"Insert Macro\" tool bar button (looks like a little scroll), choose the Anchor macro and then enter your anchor label as the target, with # preceeding. Then I believe the best choice is to insert your hyperlink using the Link macro.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Shivansh Singh", "body": "My anchor has been created properly because when I save page and see the view it doesn't shows the anchor tag.\n\nBut the problem is I am not able to link to the anchor I have created. When I write \\[#here\\], it displays the text as is with \"#\" symbol.\n" }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Go ahead and paste the Wiki markup for your page here. We can probably explain it better that way.\n" } ] } ]

[ "anchor" ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "No. They are systems which do two different things, and I'm not even sure how you'd envisage this working!\n\nThere is a plugin which does workflows in Confluence, but they're not as rich as Jira workflows (simply because the nature of the data in Confluence is very different to Jira). It does work rather well, but I've found you do need to put quite a lot of effort into it. <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/142>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "You can run a sql query on the confluence db to get a list of pages that haven't been updated for (eg) a year. Something like the query bellow (I haven't tested this exact code)\n\nIf you wanted to you could pump the results into Jira using the command line tool but this might be overkill. Reviewers should put a \"Reviewed: person/date\" stamp at the bottome of the page to get them off the list. if the page really needed a rewrite you could maybe then create the Jira job.\n\n```\n-- Query to locate \"expired\" pagesselect -- top 100 s.spacekey, c.TITLE, c.CREATOR, c.LASTMODIFIER, c.LASTMODDATE --, bc.body from dbo.CONTENT cjoin dbo.BODYCONTENT bcon c.CONTENTID = bc.CONTENTID-- note: spaceid is null on old page versions so join on-- space id selects only current pages. Nice.join dbo.SPACES son s.SPACEID = c.SPACEIDwhere DATEDIFF(day, c.LASTMODDATE, GETDATE() ) > 90 order by s.spacekey, c.LASTMODDATE\n\n\n```\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "jira", "workflow" ]

[ { "author": "David Dube", "body": "You need to make sure both confluence, the application server and your database are using UTF-8 character encoding. You can find more information about it [here](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Database+Character+Encoding). In confluence, you can look at the System Information section within the Confluence Admin Area.\n\nThis [page](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Character+Encodings) is helpful to determine where the character encoding issue resides.\n\nIf your database is using a different character encoding scheme, all is not lost... you can still convert your database to UTF-8 using [the following method](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Database+Character+Encoding#ConfiguringDatabaseCharacterEncoding-UpdatingexistingdatabasetoUTF-8).\n\nOnce everything is converted, you'll likely have to re-copy the content back.\n\nRegards,\n\nDave\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Did you use the RTF editor to paste the characters? Or, can you say how you entered them?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "JamieA", "body": "Should not be a problem if your database setting is utf-8. Can you get back to use with what database you're using and how it was created?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "BernardoA", "body": "Is not clear for me yet your comment, you just want everybody as read only but the add page is still enabled, correct?\n\nI suggest you first to check this doc which explains with more details how page restriction works:\n\n<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Assigning+Space+Permissions>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "If you used the Tools-\\>Copy method, then you are only going to have a single page copied and all links on that page will then point to the prior space. If you Tools-\\>Move the page (or other ways to do the same), the you can move the page and all descendents and the links amongst those remain intact. A handy way to fix up all page links, is to ensure you move all the referenced pages in one lump. That is, move them all under a parent page (perhaps newly created) in the first space and then move the parent to the second space.\n\nAnother option is to backup content from one space and restore to another, empty space. This is not easy to get it to work manually, but an add-in was recommended to me that you may wish to try. See [here](/questions/6524/cloning-a-space-key-conflict-upon-restore).\n\nIf you just want to correct a handful of pages, you can search the new space for the key of the other space and find the pages to edit that way.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Adolfo Casari", "body": "Thanks for your suggestions.\n\nI used your last option. Since I had 00s of pages, I used the SearchReplace plugin to find and replace.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Barbara Green", "body": "I would really like a way to turn off Confluence's link management when I copy a space. I have two spaces that are public, and two corresponding spaces that I use for staging new material. All links that refer to pages or attachments within a given space are specified without the space key. I only use the space key when I have to link to a separate space (for example, to an earlier version).\n\nAt release time, I backup all the spaces, remove the public spaces and copy the staging spaces (using the space keys for the public spaces, so customer's bookmarks don't break). Just like dropping and recreating a database. I have to reconfigure the theme (nav pane, header and footer), but that's trivial.\n\nIt works like a charm except for link updates that insert the staging space key where I intentionally left it out. I use the third option above, searching the space for the key and manually deleting each one.\n\nIt would be much kinder if the Copy Space function included a toggle that would turn off Update Links. My doc isn't going to get any smaller, and I can see updating all the links after copy as becoming tedious over time.\n\nWe have considered using restricted pages for staging, but it just doesn't seem to win much support here. Developers (who are my main contributors) are very used to the Staging-\\>Production model and don't want to have to figure out a restriction scheme every time they add a page.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David Dube", "body": "Content reporter is not the most efficient of all the reporters. I find local-reporter to be much faster. You could do something like (BTW: You said you wanted the 10 most recent pages... reflected the sort below):\n\n```\n{report-block:maxResults=10} {local-reporter:value:label meeting &gt; label:content} {content-filter:@self|scope=\"your parent page\" &gt; descendents} {date-sort:content:creation date|order=ascending} {local-reporter} {report-body} * {report-info:page:title|link=true} \\\\ {report-body}{report-block}\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Thanks, David.\n\nThis makes a tight list, without hyperlinks, so it is easy to select for copy/paste into the editor.\n\n```\nCopy and paste the name from this list into referenced meetings:{report-block:maxResults=10} {local-reporter:value:label meeting &gt; label:content} {content-filter:@self|scope=\"homepage\" &gt; descendents} {date-sort:content:creation date|order=ascending} {local-reporter} {report-body}&gt; &amp;nbsp; {report-info:page:title} \\\\{report-body} {report-block}\n```\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "William Zanchet [Atlassian]", "body": "Hi Jared, \n\nAll users imported by an JIRA User, must be imported to confluence-users and/or confluence-administrators groups, otherwise the \\*Not Permitted\\* page will be shown. Also, is important that these both groups have the \\*Can Use\\* checked on \\*Confluence Admin \\> Global Permissions\\*. So please check if this is set in your Confluence instance. \n\nI hope this helps. \n\nWZ\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "confluence-administration" ]

[ { "author": "Christ Christ", "body": "We use Active Directory to manage our internal users/groups and Confluence to manage our external users. We solved this issue by creating groups in AD that were prefaced with \"CG\" (Confluence Group). For example, we have CG Development, CG Marketing, etc. Then our internal user ids are placed in those groups via AD. The external users are managed within Confluence but we don't have them associated with any groups since we have very few external users (less than 10 users).\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "administration", "group" ]

[ { "author": "David Dube", "body": "Do you have access to the Confluence Admin section? If you do:\n\nUnder Administration -\\> System Information -\\> Confluence Information Table (1st Table) -\\> Confluence Home (The path displayed should point you in the right direction)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Michael Harris", "body": "Which claims it is /var/lib/confluence, however the upgrader also refuses to recognise it as a valid install directory :(\n\nWill have to look into if there's a bug with the installer.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Craig Skipsey", "body": "I found mine in /opt/atlassian/confluence\n\nThis was on Ubuntu 14\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "There's a difference between the 'confluence home' and the 'confluence install' directories. The answer by Dave Dube is for the confluence home directory, which is why the installer is reporting an error.\n\nYou want to find the directory called \\*-std. In the above example, the confluence-install directory is /usr/local/confluence/confluence-3.5.5-std.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nicholas TenBrink", "body": "I am having this exact same problem, i know the home directory but the installer for v4.x just states is not a valid Confluence Installation Directory.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David Dube", "body": "Do you need to migrate the content to Confluence? Could you use the [Google Docs Connector for Confluence](http://www.appfusions.com/display/GDOCSC/Home) plugin by AppFusions as an alternate solution? There is [Google Apps](http://www.appfusions.com/display/GAPPSAUTHC/Home)authenticator that may also be of help.\n\nJust a thought.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)", "body": "Failed to specify the pricing of 10$-20000$ !?\n" }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "That price has come down a bit since this was posted btw.\n" }, { "author": "Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)", "body": "Thanks, up to $12000 now, so if the price is going down with the same rate in two more year we may consider it.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jason Caragan", "body": "The [Universal Wiki Converter](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/Universal+Wiki+Converter), our free conversion tool, doesn't currently offer a converter module for Google Sites.\n\nIf you need some hands-on additional assistance with the conversion, the best option is to work with an Atlassian partner, as many do specialize in Confluence conversions and can write a custom converter for you. Feel free browse the [partner directory](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/APW/Partner+Wiki+Home). A couple to mention:\n\n* [Appfusions](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/APW/AppFusions)\n* [Artemis Software](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/94AlDQ)\n\nI've also spotted an archived thread in our old forums, where Laura Kolker, one of the lead developers for the UWC, has mentioned some workarounds: [http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=41131\\&tstart=0\\&messageID=257373633](http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=41131&tstart=0&messageID=257373633 \"Google Sites\").\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joe Steele", "body": "Unfortunately all these links appear to be broken or unavailable to me.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "In additon to all the above comments, you might also want to to watch / vote on these issues:\n\n* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38192>\n* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38193>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Julie Elman", "body": "You can also manually embed doc files to a page, but this is a much more time-consuming approach by using the word doc import macro. It also does not enable you to edit the doc later. That requires the copy and paste (formatting has improved significantly for Drive to Confluence over the past several years.) or third party tools.\n\nTo complete the embed, you just need to drop the file in on a page and Confluence will embed the contents on the page from your file. see more information about the macro <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/insert-microsoft-office-macros/>\n\n![Office-Word-Confluence-Macro.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/147157i8D78756976A9A478/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 \"Office-Word-Confluence-Macro.png\")\n" } ] }, { "author": "Thom", "body": "You can export the entirety of your Google Site using the tool found at <http://code.google.com/p/google-sites-liberation/>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Barbara Green", "body": "I am also interested in this, but I think half the problem is on the Google Sites side. I thought the new Google Sites API would help, but it looks to me as if it lets you copy a site (to create a new Google Site), not export the content. You can get all the attachments from a site, but I did not see a way to get the pages out in any usable format. Someone correct me if I'm wrong about that; it would be a relief to see some easier way to migrate to Confluence.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "google" ]

[ { "author": "Kim Wilson", "body": "You can't drag and drop, but you can move it by going to the tools drop down menu.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jo-Anne MacLeod", "body": "As already said you can move. One heads-up, is that if you are running a confluence install older than than 3.5.3, it may not work. There used to be a problem moving pages between spaces. That has, however been resolved in 3.5.3\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David Dube", "body": "To follow on Dave's great suggestion... if by chance you ever need to copy the content into a different space, check out the [Copy Partial Space](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/22213) plugin.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "You can't drag and drop, but you can choose **Move** from the **Tools** pulldown menu on the parent page that you wish to move.\n\nThe will bring up a dialog that allows you to choose the new space and new parent page from which to \"hang\" the new page.\n\nThe dialog:\n\n<http://twitpic.com/6ktrep/full>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Matthew J. Horn", "body": "You should be able to do this with the html macro.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "jason hong", "body": "thank you for your answer\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "In Confleunce, the number of registered users includes only users who have the 'Can Use' global permission, no matter if the user is an administrator or normal user.\n\nSame goes to JIRA, but for anyone who has the 'JIRA Users' global permission.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "licence" ]

[ { "author": "Daniel Brice", "body": "I think this is a duplicate of: [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 } ]

[ { "author": "twong_atlassian", "body": "I see that happen when there's some kind of broken formatting on the print layout. I would identify which space he's looking at, and check the Space Admin \\> layout for print. Probably worth it to just reset to defaults if it's deviated.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "twong_atlassian", "body": "Oops! I apparently have necro'ed a topic! Bad Tim!\n\nThanks for responding back Ian- Guess I wasn't paying attention to what I was clicking on :/\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Ian Crew", "body": "I asked this question 15 months ago, and I'm no longer involved with the project in question. Still, Tim Wong's answer seems the most plausible, so I'm accepting that one just to close this question out and not waste anyone else's time with it. Thank you both!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Giuliano C.", "body": "Hello Ian\n\nIt could be something regarding the customization settings on your Confluence instance. If you have some custom theme or something regarding customization on your Confluence estructure, could you please try to default them?\n\nHope it helps!\n\nKind Regards,\n\nGiuliano\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "print" ]

[ { "author": "Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]", "body": "When you setup Applinks, have you given the ip addresses? Try removing it because JIRA and Confluence both have applinks plugin installed.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Kris W", "body": "I can't edit the IP patterns or URL patterns.\n\nJira has nothing in the IP Patterns or URL patterns under Outgoing Auth. Under Incoming Auth there's 1 IP pattern and a bunch of URL patterns, the ones mentioned in the documentation.\n\n/rest\n\n/plugins/servlet/applinks\n\nplugins/servlet/streams\n\n/rpc/soap\n\n/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest\n\n/secure/RunPortlet\n\nEach on a separate line. But I can't edit either field. When I click and start typing, nothing happens.\n" }, { "author": "Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]", "body": "If you scroll down, you will see a 'Modify' button. Click on it and then you can change the ip patterns and urls.\n" }, { "author": "Kris W", "body": "Thanks for pointing out the modify button.\n\nI removed the IP patterns and it's working now -- thank you.\n" }, { "author": "Martin Herzog", "body": "You da man. That was my problem. Thanks.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Roman Samorodov", "body": "Try to turn on the oauth authentication in both JIRA and Confluence. \nIn **JIRA** go to **Application Links** click **Edit -\\> Outgoing Authentication -\\> Oauth** and click **Enable** . \nThe same steps for **Incoming Authentication** in **JIRA** . \nAlso you should do the same in **Confluence**.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "I'd check if the server base URL is correctly set both in JIRA and Confluence. If that does not help, review the atlassian-confluence.log for any related error messages.\n\nIf you are using trusted app for outoging authentication, make sure that the same username has access in JIRA.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "application-link", "jira" ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "The macro is disabled, or not installed at all. Check the plugins list, and the application log. Is it working anywhere else?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Thomas Zobel", "body": "Yes, the macro was disabled!\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Midori", "body": "You are on the right track! You **can actually do this by combining the [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123) with [CLI](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.acli)**.\n\nIt requires two steps, but it is dead simple:\n\n1. Set up the Archiving Plugin to archive the pages that should be deleted. Please note that this will move the pages to spaces whose name ends with \"(Archive)\". Configure the Confluence managed archiving job to run at 01:00AM, for instance.\n2. Set up CLI to delete all spaces whose name ends with \"(Archive)\"! Configure a cron job to run it at 05:00AM, for instance. (It leaves 4 hours for archiving to complete, which is more than enough even for very large Confluence instances.)\n\nVoila! You have clean content each morning by 05:10AM!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "You didn't explain what you expected and why the plugin didn't do what you wanted, so it is hard to say what you are looking for. Specifically, what criteria determines whether a page should be removed? You can use [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) to script logic to make determine what needs to be removed and use **removePage** . Optionally, you can save the page source to a file or copy it to some other space or Confluence instance before you remove it. If you can construct a select statement against your Confluence database for pages that need to be archived, then it is easier to use the **runFromSql** action to do the archiving and removals.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Tsuyoshi Ito", "body": "Hi Bob,\n\nThank you so much for your advice. Yeah, I also notice my question was not clear enough to ask. Sorry for that.\n\nAnyway, I think Confluence Command Line Interface is the good place to start. Let me play with this first, then.\n\nAgain, thank you so much for your prompt assistanse. I appreciate it a lot.\n\ntito\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Paul Curren", "body": "If you want to be ahead of the game and get your user macros over to 4.0 as early as possible (good on you! :-) )then you could make use of the 'view-storage-format' plugin.\n\nYou need to be an admin to do this...\n\n1. Create a new (dummy) page and create the content that you want to be the body of your user macro\n2. Restrict this page to just yourself before saving (since it's a temporary scratch pad)\n3. Save the page and choose 'view-storage-format' from the 'Tools' menu\n4. Copy and paste the content to your user macro\n5. Delete the page, or not.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joerg Bencke", "body": "Hi Paul,\n\nwith 4.1.3, that wont work for usertemplates. I pasted the XHTML and it was stored like \"code\" tagged content - unrendered.\n\nOnce i manually wrote it down as wikimarkup, using the XHTML just as reference source for macronames and parameternames, it worked.\n\nAlternative I prefer : use the 3.5. Documentation to read up the wiki-markup codes\n" }, { "author": "Paul Curren", "body": "Hi Josch.\n\nI have just checked and this still work with 4.1.3 and newer. Remember you need to set the macro body processing to 'Rendered'\n\n(The explanation on the screen says it best: The body will be rendered so most HTML entered will be passed to the template unmodified but Confluence specific mark up such as macro definitions will be rendered.).\n\nI hope that helps.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Paul Curren", "body": "Hi there.\n\nYou can actually leave your wiki formatted user macros as they are at the moment.\n\nThe administration screen will show you a warning stating -\n\n*\"For these macros to continue working in future versions of Confluence they must be manually changed to use HTML templates.\"*\n\nSince we don't have the XHTML Editor enabled in places such as user macro creation we have left support for wiki markup in the meantime. It is unlikely that we will drop support for wiki markup in user macros until we offer a more feasible alternative to expecting you to enter XHTML formatted data into a plain textarea.\n\n(This is being investigated for 4.1 but I can make no guarantees at this stage of when it might be ready.)\n\nFinally though, for your user macro to be readily available in the new 4.0 Editor you will need to make sure you have configured Macro Browser metadata. See the [Quick Administrator Tips](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Quick+Administrator+Tips+To+Prepare+for+Confluence+4.0#QuickAdministratorTipsToPrepareforConfluence40-4Upgradeyourusermacros-Now) for more details.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "I'm afraid you will need to convert them - 4.0 doesn't have wiki markup any more. I haven't tried it myself, but there is a macro that will let you use markup inside it, so maybe wrapping that into your macros might help, but in the long run, you should convert to HTML\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Gavin Fowler", "body": "Thanks for the feedback Nic, appreciate your insight here. One further question if you don't mind. How can i leverage standard features within confluence, such as table of contents {toc} (as in my example) - will I essentially have to make calls to the API using java like syntax? just want to get a handle on what sort of challenge i'm setting my self up for.\n" }, { "author": "Paul Curren", "body": "The \"correct\" way to make use of other macros within a new user macro is to specify it in XHTML format.\n\nSo for a toc macro with all default parameters you would specify -\n\n*\\<ac:macro ac:name=\"toc\" /\\>*\n\nTo set a style on the toc macro -\n\n*\\<ac:macro ac:name=\"toc\"\\>\\<ac:parameter ac:name=\"style\"\\>circle\\</ac:parameter\\>\\</ac:macro\\>*\n\nYou can probably derive the pattern for specifying further parameters.\n\nObviously this could get unweildy pretty quickly which is why we hope to get a proper Editor available soon.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Alex Bobrovski", "body": "Hi, how to call body of the macro? In my macro I use the **info** macro .\n\n*\\<ac:macro ac:name=\"info\"\\> BODY? \\</ac:macro\\>*\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Tobbi Gudmundsson", "body": "Hi Alexander,\n\nI believe that would be:\n\n```\n$body\n```\n\nMore information: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Writing+User+Macros#WritingUserMacros-Template>\n\nTobbi G.\n" } ] } ]

[ "macro" ]

[ { "author": "JamieA", "body": "Not sure if you're reading the right thing... you need to set jira up as a user server. Information here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Jamie is absolutely right, you're looking in the wrong place. You don't need trusted apps at all, when using Jira users as Confluence users, follow the link he's given.\n" } ] } ]

[ "application-link", "authentication", "jira" ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Confluence 4.0 isn't available just yet (very soon, though!), so 3.5.13 is currently the latest version.\n\nBoth Confluence 3.5 and Confluence 4.0 have some fairly major upgrade steps. If you want to play it safe, I would recommend upgrading first to 3.5 and then to 4.0 in a second step - this will give you a better chance of identifying the cause of any upgrade problems you encounter.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "If you upgrade to Confluence 3.5 first (recommended) you'll be able to try the [new guided upgrade process](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Release+Notes#Confluence40ReleaseNotes-NewConfluenceInstallerandGuidedUpgrades) in the new Windows and Linux installers for Confluence 4.0.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "Use multiple images.\n\nConfluence doesn't have any native image highlightling or annotating.\n\nUsing a plugin or some css code might work, then again it might screw up somewhere down the track on different browsers, versions, whatever.\n\nBy the time you've done that you might as well have pumped out the set of images and have a simple, robust solution! :\\]\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "JamieA", "body": "If you can enable the html macro you might be able to do it all through css and js eg <http://odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect/>\n\nPretty sexy jquery plugin...\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "It's likely quicker and easier to just keep and original and Photoshop the highlight areas as appropriate.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Would the ImageMap plugin help? <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/253>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "C.Magoley", "body": "Thanks \nThat's also a great tool and I think about integrating it. But it doesn't offer highlighting options though (like a red arrow etc.)\n\nOr does it?\n" }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "No, I don't think it does...\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Akeles", "body": "Hi Dave,\n\nThere are no feature to turn it off.\n\nYou can insert the following css in the space stylesheet\n\n```\n#shareContentLink {display:none;}\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Exactly .\n" }, { "author": "Dave Drexler", "body": "Unfortunate...\n\nAtlassian: consider this an enhancement request. Features should generally be controllable by permissions.\n" } ] } ]

[ "share" ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Reporting plugin (<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/186>) has user information. Also, the [Run Plugin](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/RUN) has [pre-defined variables](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/RUN/pre-defined+variables \"pre-defined variables\") including those you listed.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Kit Cargile", "body": "I went with Run Plugin as it had the variables predefined and I may find other uses for it.\n\nThe way I ended up implementing this was a wiki html form posting to SalesForce and it works perfectly. Below is a format example of how I implemented it.\n\nTHANKS!\n\nHello, {run-now}$current_user_name \n\nPlease use this form to submit your request. This will create a case in SalesForce \n{html} \n\\<form action=\"https://www.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.WebToCase?encoding=UTF-8\" method=\"POST\"\\> \n\\<label for=\"name\"\\>Name:\\&nbsp;\\&nbsp;\\</label\\>\\<input id=\"name\" maxlength=\"80\" name=\"name\" size=\"20\" type=\"text\" value={html}$current_user_name{html} readonly style=\"border: 0\"/\\>\\<br\\> \n\\<label for=\"email\"\\>Email:\\&nbsp;\\&nbsp;\\</label\\>\\<input id=\"email\" maxlength=\"80\" name=\"email\" size=\"20\" type=\"text\" value={html}$current_user_email{html} readonly style=\"border: 0\"/\\>\\<br\\> \n\\<input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\"\\> \n\\</form\\> \n{html} \n{run-now}\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Matt", "body": "How about trying the Readability browser extension?\n\n<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readability/>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Tiemco de Jong", "body": "Readability helps somewhat. Some browser extension like <http://www.colorblinds.org/> is also needed, but should be locally hosted (for sensitive images) or <https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/color-management/>\n" } ] }, { "author": "Akeles", "body": "Hi Tiemco,\n\nHow about changing the colour scheme?\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Colour+Schemes>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "As far as I can tell there's probably two issues:\n\n1) Some of your attachments that are linked don't exist anymore. The mindtouch module was created off sample data (didn't have access to real data), and so this case seems to trip people up occasionally. So your missing attachments cause Mindtouch to pass back 404 responses.\n\n2) The exporter really should be outputting each file as it downloads it, and just fail out on a page by page basis rather than cause the whole export to fail when it hits this sort of problem. That's my bad, but I don't have time to fix it right at the moment.\n\nYour options:\n\na) Use the export logs to identify the missing attachments, and clean up the mindtouch content?\n\nb) Update the mindtouch exporter code to handle these situations more gracefully? I'm happy to answer dev questions, but you should start here: [uwc dev doc](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Developer+Documentation)\n\nCheers,\n\nLaura\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "dimitri de graef", "body": "It seems to me that if you write an exporter , it should at least be able to authenticate (basic authentication seems to be a problem) and if possible at least export some pages.\n\nconcerning twiki and mindtouch i have seen many recurring questions on these forums but never solutions, it always seems to boil down to \"fix it yourself\"\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "crash", "export", "mindtouch", "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Are you trying to run Jira and Confluence inside the same Tomcat as Jira?\n\nThree points on doing that\n\n1. It's not recommended or supported\n2. You need to do quite a bit more than just tweak server.xml to get it to work if you really do want to run them inside the same container.\n3. Jira standalone is built to run Jira, if you really want to run both apps in the same Tomcat, standalone is a really bad place to start, and you really should download a clean Tomcat, then Jira and Confluence WAR versions separately.\n\nAnd we'd need a lot more info on your configuration of that to help you out - the contents of the conf directorty, the other files you've changed to set up your classpath, your full environment settings and so on.\n\nIf that is not what you are doing, could you explain what you are actually doing?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Josef Boudnik", "body": "I want start both apps in the same tomcat. So I donwlonded Jira WAR and Confluence WAR. Thanks\n\nI thought that Confluence is added to exists Jira standlone... \n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "No, it's a bit of a pain to add anything to the standalone installations. It's much cleaner to start with an empty Tomcat and configure the WARs independently. You should be able to follow the instructions for each pretty much independently!\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Hi Sujeet,\n\nWhat version of the SharePoint Connector are you using?\n\nCan you check your SharePoint Logs for errors (see <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Analysing+the+SharePoint+Logs>)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "sujeet giri", "body": "I am using SharePointConnector-1.4.5.\n\nHere is the detail of Diagnostic tool resuts:\n\nTest Login - Pass\n\nTest License - Pass\n\nTest Get Spaces - Failed\n\n**Error:**\n\nThe AXIS engine could not find a target service to invoke! targetService is permcheck-v2\n\n**Stack Trace:**\n\nat System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall) \nat System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object\\[\\] parameters) \nat CSIDiagnostics.ConfluencePermissionCheckerWebService.PermissionCheckerService.getSpacesForUser(String in0, String in1) \nat CSIDiagnostics.Form1.TestGetSpaces(String confluenceUrl, String token, String username, String password) \nat CSIDiagnostics.Form1.TestGetSpaces()\n\nI will look into the logs and post the findings soon.\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Can you check in Confluence that the version of the SharePoint plugin you have installed is also version 1.4.5?\n" }, { "author": "sujeet giri", "body": "Plugin Versions is 1.2.1.\n\nThis is the lastest one that I can see from the list of Plug-in List.\n" }, { "author": "sujeet giri", "body": "I have been able to fix this issue.\n\nThe issue was coming because there was a version mis-match between the plugin installation at Confluence and SharePoint end.\n\nIn the confluence I was installing it from the Plugin Manager which was displaying the latest SharePoint plugin version only upto 1.2.1, I think this is the last supported version for Confluence 2.10.\n\nHowever, at Sharepoint end, I was simly downloading the latest version of connector, so I was getting this issue.\n\nThe issue has been fixed when I downloaded the same 1.2.1 connector version at SharePoint 2010 end.\n\nHowever I have run into a new problem that is:\n\nVersion 1.2.1 of this plugin, does not have web parts related to Blogs page and Blogs Tree, so I can not display the blogs on my page.\n\nAny ideas??\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Unfortunately the blog post web parts were only added in SharePoint Connector 1.3, and the minimum supported version of Confluence for 1.3 is Confluence 3.0.\n" } ] } ]

[ "sharepoint" ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "I get the impression that the number of boilerplate pages is less than 50. I would suggest that you create the boilerplate pages so they each contain all the variable content they might need. Just embed it right on that page. Then use the {show-if} along with lablels on just those pages to control what shows. This will make it easy to copy the content and then you can just toggle the labels as needed. You might attach a label \"boilerplate\" to those pages. Then you can search on that when you fork a new space and make your checklist of pages to visit. Ctrl-MB1 to open each in a new tab and you are done in a flash.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Mitch Balsam", "body": "Manual will be 50-70 pages long. We will have 3 variations to start.\n\nMy guess is that it there will be the normal hiearchy of pages and that the, License and system requirments will be on this first page. But there might other boilerplate section to be incldued. I could see some tutorial sections in common between each product variation.\n\nJust so you know, i have a software development background, so i approach all problems as thought its a program, so this might be overkill.\n\nBut I've also used systems like RoboHelp and have found that you always want to do things like i've described, or you will have to spend hours updatding each release..\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "To help you think outside the box, I would suggest this [page](/questions/8969/how-to-handle-unique-page-names-in-confluence?page=1#8982) and [this one](/questions/9308/how-to-organize-our-software-documentation-within-confluence?page=1#9347).\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Ok, I'll bite on this one even though I don't necessarily have better ideas (yet).\n\nCan you tell us how much content you expect to have. Are you wishing to assemble just one page for each product, which is built of the include/excerpts or more than one?\n\nIs there a reason not to just control the content on the home page (or how ever many you answer for the last question) instead of including from other pages?\n\nMaybe you would spell out the structure a bit more..., i.e.\n\nHome Page contains:\n\nLicense\n\nSys Requirements\n\n...\n\nOther page...\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Mitch Balsam", "body": "I guess since noone has commented on this, its not a popular way to do things??\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "re: Confluence 4 beta 2\n\nThe latest version of the UWC hasn't been tested with the latest version of the beta. Last I checked there were a few Remote API issues specifically involving upload of comments, but that was a while ago, and I would not expect syntax transformations to be affected. In other words, its probably not the beta that's at fault here.\n\n\\>\\> I cannot beleive that Atlassian delivers such a incomplete conversion tool to their customers.\n\nAtlassian doesn't actually deliver the UWC. It is a free 3rd party as-is tool that you use at your own risk. Many people have been able to leverage it to faciliate their data migrations, but it's not a push-button import tool. It can be a useful part of your migration process, but the more you think of it as a tool to be used by you, and the less you think of it as something that will do your migration for you, the better your results will be.\n\nYou say that you have a pretty standard mediawiki, but please note that all wikis are moving targets. Perhaps the mediawiki syntax that you consider standard wasn't available in an earlier version when the mediawiki module was being worked on, or maybe it was, but no one's ever cared enough about that particular syntax to write a converter for it. Maybe you're using a specialized extention, or you're hitting an edge case caused by a combination of syntaxes that happen to interfere with each other.\n\nAdditionally, some [configuration options](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes#UWCMediawikiNotes-ConfigurationOptions) are mutually exclusive and data dependent. Your mileage will vary considerably based on your config.\n\nOk, so back to your original question:\n\n\\>\\> Is there a special Confluence 4 UWC version. Or would it be a better approach to migrate the MediaWiki to 3.5.x first and then migrate the Wiki to 4.0.\n\nSince it hasn't been tested against 4, and 4 is in beta, and its easy enough to install a version of Confluence 3.5 for testing purposes, I would use 3.5. That being said, I would not expect syntax problems to be related to your version of Confluence.\n\nIf you would like to supply an example of the mediawiki syntax that's not working for you, I would be happy to review it and see if I can suggest a workaround.\n\nCheers,\n\nLaura\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Andreas Heidrich", "body": "Thanks for the comprehensive answer Laura.\n\nI understand, that the uwc is a kind of \"use as it is tool\". Thanx for the clarification.\n\nI did more testing now with version 3.5.x and found the results far better then with the RC3 version of Confluence 4.\n\nMost of my picture mess was indeed version 4 related. Now the pictures are complete.\n\nThe only problems left are tables that are messes up. This seems to be due to a complex table definition.\n\nBeside that, the import using 3.5.x produces far better results than the direct 4.0RC3 import.\n\nThanx for the directions you gave me. If you don't mind, I will send you an example for a table. perhaps you have some hints for me how I can avoid the table mess.\n\nAndreas\n" }, { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "> If you don't mind, I will send you an example for a table. perhaps you have some hints for me how I can avoid the table mess.\n\nSure, I'd be happy to take a look at the syntax. Maybe post the syntax here as a comment?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "Updates are posted - have at it!\n\n<https://twitter.com/appfusions/status/253905889482903552>\n\nThanks [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and recent client for their support on this effort!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Justin20523", "body": "Is the UWC update for Confluence 4 still forthcoming??\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "Hi Heimi\n\nWanted to also pipe in on this one, though Laura did a stellar answer already!\n\nAgree fully - the UWC is a tool, ***not*** the solution.\n\nOne example on the complexity (and ONLY one) that might resonate with you is the consideration of moving from a non-hierarchical Mediawiki (flat) to one like Confluence, that has spaces. This is not a simple push-button problem if you toss is the fact that wiki's in general are people driven, not machine driven - meaning all content will not necessarily be uniform in style or syntax - even if it should... let alone the many ways that links can be formed. (http link, wiki syntax link, space namespace link, internal/external, etc.)\n\nTo understand more migration considerations - see our checklist on our website here:\n\n<https://www.appfusions.com/display/Dashboard/Wiki+Migration+Checklist>\n\nLaura by the way is also on our team, and also the main developer behind the UWC - including all the MANY flavors supported - which is a huge leap frog step compared with starting from scratch.\n\nIf you would like a solution, that includes data review, analysis, possibly conversion scripts for corner syntax cases in your MediaWiki, and controlled rollout and user acceptance, among other - then I would recommend contacting AppFusions and we can help you. ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]))\n\nOur migrations are controlled methodical diligent efforts to ensure that the end results in Confluence are far superior than what you started from - regardless of versions - with built-in efficiency given our experience.\n\nBest,\n\nEllen\n\nAppFusions \nwww.appfusions.com\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "stanley_nyadzayo", "body": "Migrating a MoinMoin private wiki. Which version of UWC is available and where can I find the working version or one that I can tweak to meet my needs? The download links on your page do not download UWC.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "The UWC update for Confluence 4.2.X is now officially underway ...\n\nCouple dev days into it \\>\\> Magic eight ball says: prognosis looks positive, for release in Sept.\n\nWill update when released.. in mid/late Sept 2012.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "RianA", "body": "would you like to make Confluence like facebook or only the group? If that's the case either way, perhaps you could raise a feature request at our <https://jira.atlassian.com>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Bernd,\n\nI was investigating this request, but it seems Confluence does't have this implemented. I can suggest you to open a feature request so we can verify if this would be feasible in the future. :)\n\nHow to create a [feature request](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Creating+a+Feature+Request).\n\nI hope this helps!\n\nRegards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Patricia Wiebe", "body": "If you are just trying to format the URL nicely, how about the \"no format\" macro? I threw together a quick table:\n\n\\|\\| URL \\|\\| Something else \\|\\| \n\\| {noformat:nopanel=true}http://www.google.com{noformat} \\| Hello \\| \n\\| {{TBD}} \\| There \\|\n\nand it looked fine.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Ed Treijs", "body": "Thanks--yes that works! I checked it in Firefox and IE. (We are using Adaptavist as well, if that makes any difference.)\n\nThere's a bonus: the blue colouring and underlining is removed. And it's no longer enabled as a hyperlink. That's good, because I'm illustrating how to assemble the final URL (it's getting data from a service), and the partial URLs won't work. Even the complete URL examples may not work, depending on the data available.\n" } ] }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Is it just URLs that are the problem? If so, as a workaround try adding the 'h' as it's HTML entity instead. Let me know if it works :)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Ed Treijs", "body": "Yes, I think it's only URLs. When I put in a {{TBD}} in the table, it works fine.\n\nI am not sure where to add an 'h'.\n\nFor reference, the URLs are like: \n<http://xdsrvjboss01:18080/appl/rest/myfoo>\n\nThey don't absolutely have to be in code, but they're a lot more readable if they are. And I'd like to be consistent with my treatment of the same URLs when they're not in a table.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Yes. We use csvde to extract AD information to a csv file. Then import csv into a database table using a database copy from csv function (postgresql copy function works nicely). This is done every 6 hours and makes the results available for query in Confluence for things like a people finder page using the run and sql macros. Also have a custom user-info user macro that can be placed anywhere like home page of personal spaces.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "NielsJ", "body": "You could also use our User Profile Plugin ;-) It can synchronize those data from your Active Directory into Confluence and display them as part of the standard user profile.\n\n[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userprofile)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userprofile>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Nicolas Coppens", "body": "no one can help me :(\n\ni close the answer\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nicolas Coppens", "body": "no one have an idea ?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Appfire has some sync tools as part of Firestarter - [Learn more about Firestarter](http://www.appfire.com/firestarter/)?. If you want to script your own, [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) has actions for copying pages and comments between instances or general actions that can be put together to do more specialized things.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "external", "firewall", "internal", "publish" ]

[ { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "I think it's fun to work out the SQL query, so here it is:\n\nselect \\* from content where contenttype = 'PAGE' and prevver is null order by creationdate asc;\n\nHope that also helps!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Alex Bobrovski", "body": "ok, I had to watch the database. Found.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "sort" ]

[ { "author": "Roberto Dominguez", "body": "You mean Confluence 3.4.8, right? Yeah, the new features are not supported there :-( \n\nThe Confluence 4.0 is a big change so in order for us to support 4.0 and pre 4.0 we had to focuse on a single version, which is 3.5\n\nUpgrading to 3.5 is not as complex (and actually required to upgrade later to 4.0) so when you upgrade you can give it a try :)\n\nRoberto\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Roberto Dominguez", "body": "Bernhard,\n\nOops! Forgot to mention that Ad hoc Workflows 3.2 works with Confluence 3.5 too :-)\n\nRoberto\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Elias Tscharf", "body": "Hello Roberto,\n\nthanks for the info, but it doesn't help because we are using JIRA 3.4.8 and i think the new features are available only with ad hoc workflowversion 3.2?\n\nGreetings from Tirol/Austria\n\nBernhard\n" } ] }, { "author": "Roberto Dominguez", "body": "Hi Bernhard,\n\nAs Matt said, we have made major user experience and task management improvements in our new forthcoming version. Have a look at <http://coma.la/awp32>\n\nAnd there is more coming, as we are fully committed to the Confluence community :-)\n\nGive it a try and feel free to contact me if you more info.\n\nRoberto\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Elias Tscharf", "body": "Hello Matt \\& Roberto,\n\nthenks for the info!\n\nI would like to test it but i've to wait with updating confluence until some plugins we need are compatible with the new version.\n\nBut then - of course - I will give it a try.\n\nGreetings from Tirol/Austria\n\nBernhard\n" } ] }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Ad hoc Workflows released a major update to their plugin alomgside the Confluence 4.0 release. Watch the [video on this page](http://www.atlassian.com/en/confluence-content-collaboration#add-ons).\n\nThey also offer free 30-day evaluations so you can make the decision about ease-of-use for yourself.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Elias Tscharf", "body": "Hi there!\n\nI'm also very sad about this fact. taskdock was very nice and exactly that what we are looking for.\n\nI already know adhocworkflows, but I don't think that it is this easy to use?! Or am I wrong?\n\nAny other alternatives?\n\nGreetings from Tirol, Austria\n\nBernhard\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Akeles", "body": "There is another similar plugin that allows task management.\n\nYou can check out <http://www.adhocworkflows.com/display/WWW/Usage>\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "The [Google Analytics for Confluence](http://www.appfusions.com/display/GANLC/Home) plugin now displays data on who has viewed a page:\n\n\n\nImportantly, this is done without sending personally indentifiable information to Google Analytics, so complies with the Google Analytics terms of service.\n\nThe **Mixpanel Engagement Analytics** add-on will also let you track all wiki activity.\n\nIt's available on the AppFusions website here: \n[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.appfusions.confluence.plugins.engagement%20)<http://www.appfusions.com/display/CONFENGAGE/Home>\n\nAlso, here's a quick video demo I did this week: \n[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enx3VJQb_xc)<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enx3VJQb_xc>\n\nDisclosure: I'm the add-on author for both of these.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sergey Svishchev", "body": "AppFusions is no longer on Marketplace. What happened?\n" }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "AppFusions add-ons are now available from the [AppFusions website](http://www.appfusions.com/) rather than Marketplace -- fully supported and regularly updated.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jim Bethancourt", "body": "There's also the Piwik server -- <http://piwik.org/>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Kavita Parab", "body": "Jim, could you please tell how is your experience with Piwik? I am thinking of exploring it.\n" } ] }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "You could hook Confluence up to a web analytics package and track users that way.\n\nI've previously used Webtrends to record metrics such as page/blogpost views, edits, deletes, attachment downloads against users and built reports based on these.\n\nYou can report across the wiki or specific to a space.\n\nOther web analytics packages should do this, e.g. Coremetrics or Omniture. Alas, Google Analytics will not permit you to track identifiable users using personally identifiable information (PII).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Colm Byrne", "body": "There is a version of google analytics available as a plug-in I thought. Is this not true?\n" }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Yes. There's the [Google Analytics Plugin for Confluence](http://www.appfusions.com/display/GANLC/Home). Check the video.\n\nDisclosure: I wrote the plugin :)\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jim Bethancourt", "body": "It's kind of heavy, but you can implement the [Community Equity](http://wikis.sun.com/display/ceqdoc/Home) server and install the [Community Equity Confluence Plugin](http://wikis.sun.com/display/ceqdoc/CeQ+Confluence+Plugin)\n\nI've experimented with it and we may end up rolling it out once other things get taken care of. I've checked out the source at <http://kenai.com/projects/community-equity/> and the plugin is pretty well up to date.\n\nThe installation instructions are relatively straightforward, though it deploys on Glassfish 2 instead of Glassfish 3.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Vincent Lecomte", "body": "Hi,\n\nI have the same need, to be able to build metrics on which pages are viewed by users.\n\nCan this info be accessed directly through queries to the confluence database objects ? If so, in which table the 'viewed' data could be found (I did not find anything on it in the database model) ?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "discountrobot", "body": "This should be available (to some extent) somehwere as the REST api implements a \"recently viewed\" method.\n\n<http://localhost:1990/confluence/rest/recentlyviewed/1.0/recent>\n" } ] } ]

[ "analytics", "report" ]

[ { "author": "B_ Normann P_ Nielsen", "body": "Site is active as <http://www.mos-eisley.dk> now...\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Just for the record, it's relatively an ancient bug :0\n\n<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7588>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "AFAIK Active directory creates the backlink entries for group membership automatically, ie each *member* entry in group should have a corresponding *memberOf* attibute in the user object. If you are using AD I'd check that there isn't something wrong with your query or the rights of the account read to the member attribute.\n\nOther LDAP directories may not do this - I wouldn't know.\n\n(BTW If you need a tool to view or query an LDAP server, I've found Apache Directory Studio very useful.)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Peter Meier", "body": "Thanks Jim,\n\nThat solved my problem. The user hadn't had enough permissions to view the membership.\n\nThanks\n\nPeter\n" } ] }, { "author": "Konnie McCauley", "body": "is there a limit to how many users are brought into confluence through an AD group?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "The cache macro renders the data at a point in time. The rendered data will not change until the cache expires or you edit the content within the cache macro (slightly different behavior if not using cache plugin 4.1.1). You can decrease the expiration time or you can add a refresh button on the main page (showRefresh=true).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jodie Miners", "body": "Thanks for the reply Bob,\n\nI do have a refresh button on the page, but clicking it in the public space does nothing - it does not show the page content at all. (The cache content is showing in the Draft space, but not in the public space).\n\nIs there a limit as to how much content can be in the Cache? Would that be why the cache is not refreshing?\n\n(and how do I fix it if I don't have access to the server?).\n\nThanks\n" } ] } ]

[ "cache", "publish" ]

[ { "author": "Andreas Heidrich", "body": "Yes, another me-too. I would also like to import a bunch of Office Docs (mostly Word) into Confluence. Not as attachments, but as native conflucence docs. Any solution for that problem ?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Carsten Sch?fer", "body": "Hi Andreas,\n\nin the meanwhile, did you find any solution for this problem?\n\nCheers Thorsten (resusing company atlassian account)\n" } ] }, { "author": "Irene Daminelli", "body": "I would like to import a bulk of documents as Confluence pages. How do I do?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Victor Crittenden", "body": "I am looking for how to do this as well; did you ever figure it out?\n" } ] }, { "author": "hsuhailah", "body": "Hey Oliver,\n\nWould you like to import these documents as attachments to Confluence or importing these documents as Confluence pages?\n\nThis post seems related to this as well: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/106429/how-to-conduct-bulk-import-of-word-documents-to-confluence>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Oliver,\n\nYou can attach multiple obejcts in Confluence. Just go to tools -\\> attachments and in that window you can select multiple doc files to attach at once. I'm not sure if that is what you were looking for so I'll leave this question open.\n\nI hope that helps!\n\nRegards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "import" ]

[ { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "Hey Bob, we at AppFusions are always happy to help out, so you can contact us if you like.\n\nAlternatively there is an Atlassian Partner directory located here\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/APW/Partner+Directory+Home>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Yes, we support deploying the SharePoint Connector on a Linux host.\n\nYou'll need to make sure that Confluence is configured to trust the SSL certificate from SharePoint (see <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Connecting+to+SSL+services>).\n\nSupport NTLM when running on Linux is limited, though (in particular, NTLMv2 and Kerberos may be troublesome to get working). Since you're using HTTPS, you should look at downgrading the password encryption on your SharePoint site to NTLMv1 or HTTP Basic Authentication to ensure a trouble-free integration.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Jim Yanko", "body": "This seems to have worked out for me.\n\n```\n{set-data:app_APPNAME_include}{report-block:maxResults=1}{local-reporter:variable:app_included}{collection-filter:@self}{text-filter:data:appname > reference:value|include=APPNAME}{collection-filter}{local-reporter}{report-body:trim=true}true{report-body}{report-empty}false{report-empty}{report-block}{set-data}\n```\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "Hi Jim,\n\nJust FYI, what is actually happening with {set-data} is that it stores the wiki markup, not the actual 'true/false' (or 'truetrue', or whatever) result. As such, it gets executed every time you view the value on the page, and if you want to process it, you have to render it, otherwise you're processing '{report-block....}', rather than 'true/false'. Hope that makes sense...\n\nIt would help if I knew two things:\n\na) What does 'variable:app_included' contains - how is it set?\n\nb) What are you trying to use the 'app_APPNAME_include' value for? Is it for further processing on the same page? Is it for use on other pages doing a report? Does the value need to survive beyond viewing the current page?\n\nThat said, I'll take a guess at providing something that might get you on the right track. Something like this:\n\n```\n{report-variable:app_APPNAME_items}\n```\n\n```\n {local-reporter:data:app_included}\n```\n\n```\n {text-filter:data:appname|include=APPNAME}\n```\n\n```\n {local-reporter}\n```\n\n```\n{report-variable}\n```\n\n```\n{report-variable:app_APPNAME_include|value=%variable:app_APPNAME_items > collection:is empty > boolean:negate%}\n```\n\nThis should give you a 'true' or 'false' value in 'variable:app_APPNAME_include'. If you need to store this as a 'Scaffolding' data value via {set-data}, you probably need to use {replace-and-render}, since injection causes issues, and you can't just use the {report-info} here, due to what I said earlier about how {set-data} stores its values. That would look like this:\n\n```\n{replace-and-render}\n```\n\n```\n{replace-item:%app_APPNAME_include%}{report-info:variable:app_APPNAME_include%}{replace-item}\n```\n\n```\n{replace-body}{set-data:app_APPNAME_include}%app_APPNAME_include%{set-data}{replace-body}\n```\n\n```\n{replace-and-render}\n```\n\nIf you don't actually *need* it to be stored in Scaffolding, then skip that stage. Your mileage may vary...\n\nHope that helps!\n\nRegards,\n\nDavid Peterson\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jim Yanko", "body": "Thanks for the explanation of the order of ops with {set-data} macro. I was wondering if there was something like that going on under the hood. I previously used twiki for a few years and ran into similar ordering issues there as well).\n\nAs for HOW some of the vars are set:\n\na) variable:app_included is previously set using {report-variable} and\n\n{local-reporter}\n\nb) all variables set are intended for processing on the same page\n\nsome are used directly within a {report-table} to display the collected\n\ninfo and again used to set {replace-item} variables for later use in the\n\npage\n\nAs I previously commented, I found a workable solution by setting the maxResults=1 attrib to the report block.\n\nIt looks like setting {report-variable:name} to the report results may be more efficient way of setting vars than my current model of a {report-block} inside a {set-data}. I'll look into how I might be able to do things that way instead - as it might save me many lines of wiki syntax down the road.\n\nCan you point me to a good online reference/documentation on the scaffolding macros and injection?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jim Yanko", "body": "I think I may have found a workable solution by restricting the report results to only one matching row.\n\n*\\* {set-data:app_APPNAME_include}{report-block:maxResults=1}*\n\n*{local-reporter:variable:app_included}*\n\n*{collection-filter:@self}*\n\n*{text-filter:data:appname \\> reference:value\\|include=APPNAME}*\n\n*{collection-filter}*\n\n*{local-reporter}*\n\n*{report-body:trim=true}true{report-body}{report-empty}false{report-empty}*\n\n*{report-block}{set-data}*\n\nSince the report would already be returning only rows that were set to include=true (the report variable:app_included would only contain rows that matched true) I can be fairly certain that any rows of data within have a value of true.\n\nAt the moment, this seems to be giving me what I want, a final value of just 'true' or 'false' in the app_APPNAME_include variable.\n\nWill report back after a bit of pressure testing to see if this really does solve this issue.\n\nOf course, if there's another way to do it, I'm open to hear it :-)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jim Yanko", "body": "Actually, that's not working out 100% for me.\n\nWhen I define the *myBoolean* variable to *falsefalsefalse* directly, I seem to get valid results from the report block and text filter.\n\n\\* Before: {set-data:myBoolean}falsefalsefalse{set-data}\n\n\\* After: {report-block}{local-reporter:data:myBoolean}{text-filter:include=.\\*true.\\*}{local-reporter}{report-body:trim=true}true{report-body}{report-empty}false{report-empty}{report-block}\n\nHowever, when I tried moving this to work with a scaffold variable -- app_APPNAME_include -- which has it's value previously set to the result of a report, it does not work for me.\n\n\\* Before: {get-data:app_APPNAME_include}\n\n\\* After: {report-block}{local-reporter:data:app_APPNAME_include}{text-filter:include=.\\*true.\\*}{local-reporter}{report-body:trim=true}true{report-body}{report-empty}false{report-empty}{report-block}\n\nThe two code sample above render as below...needless to say, it is not desirable to have \"false\" getting translated to \"true\"\n\n* Before: falsefalsefalse\n* After: false\n\n<!-- -->\n\n* Before: false\n* After: true\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jim Yanko", "body": "I think I found a way to make this work...if there's a better or more efficient way to do this, please follow up here and let me know...\n\nWiki code follows:\n\n```\n* Before: {set-data:myBoolean}falsefalsefalse{set-data}\n```\n\n```\n* After: {report-block}\n```\n\n```\n{local-reporter:data:myBoolean}\n```\n\n```\n{text-filter:include=.*true.*}\n```\n\n```\n{local-reporter}\n```\n\n```\n{report-body:trim=true}true{report-body}{report-empty}false{report-empty}\n```\n\n```\n{report-block}\n```\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "scaffolding", "variable" ]

[ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Just stumbled upon your question and wanted to confirm that your report works for me (Confluence 3.5.13). The error could be related to a problem during the installation of the plugin or a compatibility issue with your Confluence version. I would try to reinstall the reporting plugin and check whether all plugin modules are enabled.\n\nI know this is an old question, but maybe it will help someone in the future.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "app", "confluence-app", "report", "space" ]

[ { "author": "Jon Verville", "body": "Here is quick solution I put together. It involves putting a macro within each page you want to disable autowatch on: <http://jonverve.posterous.com/confluence-control-auto-watching-behavior>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sergey Svishchev", "body": "that link is now broken\n" }, { "author": "Martin Zeller", "body": "try the the archive \\^\\^:\n\n<https://web.archive.org/web/20130315070444/http://jonverve.posterous.com/confluence-control-auto-watching-behavior>\n" } ] }, { "author": "Kay Brown", "body": "In page edit mode, there is a Minor Change? checkbox. If you check this checkbox, no notifications will be sent.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jon Cotter", "body": "Thanks, but I need a solution that doesnt require our users to do anything extra.\n" }, { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "Another suggestion is to implement this hack: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/12799/usability-of-minor-change-checkbox/12821](/questions/12799/usability-of-minor-change-checkbox/12821) and modify the javascript so that it only happens for a particular set of pages that you've defined\n" } ] } ]

[ "watcher" ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "I believe that Theme builder now needs Adaptavist's Plugin License Manager to be installed first in order to work. (FYI: this should be a comment, but I'm on iOS, so can't due to a bug in Answers)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "Yeah, the Menu Manager turns stuff on and off for everyone, not specific users or groups. There isn't anything built in, but you could use the Theme Builder plugin to create your own theme, and use stuff like {builder-show} to control who sees what menu items. Otherwise, you're looking at a custom plugin that could either hack the \\<web-item\\> elements and add some extra permissions checks, or a filter to actually block access to the specific locations.\n\nHope that helps!\n\nDavid\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Lloyd Kinsella", "body": "Tried to get Theme Builder but the plugin refuses to install and Adaptivist's site doesn't seem to want to play ball at present :(\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Jason,\n\nI couldn't find this option in the macro unfortunately. I'm looking to this page, which you could find useful: <http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/AtlassianPlugins/add-page>\n\nYou may want to verify with Customware if that is possible by editing the macro in some way.\n\nI hope this helps!\n\nRegards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "page", "template" ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "You could probably do something simple with Scaffolding and Reporting plug-ins. It would depend on the organization required. However, integration to calendars or, especially, Exchange, may be a challenge. JIRA could give a similar level of capability as using Scaffolding and Reporting in Confluence.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "time-tracking" ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "See [SCRP-119](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/SCRP-119) comments for instance. I think you need to install whatever libraries you want to use in WEB-INF/lib.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Erik Zaroban", "body": "Ok, thx I will try that for the next change.\n" } ] } ]

[ "jython", "module" ]

[ { "author": "Robert Collier", "body": "You could try extracting xwork.xml out of confluence-x.x.jar and putting an edited version in /WEB-INF/classes/xwork.xml so that it will then supersede the one in the JAR file.\n\nfind this entry: \n\\<action name=\"dashboard\" class=\"com.atlassian.confluence.dashboard.actions.DashboardAction\"\\> \n\nchange the success result to where you would like it go to, such as: \n\\<result name=\"success\" type=\"velocity\"\\>/users/peopledirectory-results.vm\\</result\\>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Use **getPageSource** to get existing source, modify how you like, then do **storePage**. If you like, create an issue to provide an append capability.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David Soldan", "body": "Ah ok if that's the only way. I thought there is a parameter or sth. else with which you can just append new stuff.\n\nWhat do you mean with create an issue?\n\n(sorry for my bad english! )\n\ngreetings\n" }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "You can create a improvement request issue for the Confluence CLI tool at [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/CSOAP \"Browse Confluence Command Line Interface project\")\n" } ] } ]

[ "cli" ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Dirk,\n\nActually it's not possible to move attachments to trash. We have a improvement for that already: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6824> I suggest to vote and watch.\n\nAs for attachments permissions, you can set that in Confluence space permissions and state if a person or group can add or remove attachments for that space: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Assigning+Space+Permissions>\n\nHope that helps! :)\n\nRegards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "attachment", "delete", "history" ]

[ { "author": "Lloyd Kinsella", "body": "Seraph, which Confluence uses seems to allow multiple authentication methods outside of SSO:-\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF256/HTTP+authentication+with+Seraph>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "It does, Seraph is the library for authenticating users. Most SSO options for Confluence are plumbed in via Seraph, it's not SSO in itself.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Vivek Shanmughan", "body": "Is there a better way to do this? I want users to automatically login to confluence from my web application so that they are not prompted with username/password while accessing a confluence link\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "This posting is 7 years old, but actually, Seraph is still in use if you want to do it that way.\n\nThere are a lot more options now though, but they all boil down to \"you need an SSO solution that works for your web application as well as Confluence\". (Seraph is one of these, and Atlassian use it for their applications)\n" } ] }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "This is \"Single Sign On\" (which is not quite a username/password token thing - once someone logs into a SSO system, they can log into all the other systems that are in the same SSO setup, but there's no up-front exchange of username/passwords really)\n\nConfluence does work with SSO systems - the most obvious one is Atlassian's own Crowd, but it can be hooked into others. The important thing here is what SSO systems your other web-application can provide or be hooked into?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Lloyd Kinsella", "body": "As far as I understand they don't provide any other mechansim apart from simple API calls, and this is all pretty well integrated now too so moving to some other system would be very problematic, I was hoping Confluence would be just as easy to integrate.\n\nThe API does have a login() call but this seems only for API calls :(\n" }, { "author": "Lloyd Kinsella", "body": "Seems Seraph does what I want?\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF256/HTTP+authentication+with+Seraph>\n\nIf I run login.action?os_username=\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\&os_password=\\*\\*\\*\\*\\* that seems to go through.\n" } ] } ]

[ "confluence-app", "login" ]

[ { "author": "Remo Siegwart", "body": "Take a look at the [Tasklist Suppliers](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/13447) plugin. In combination with the [Reporting plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/186) you would then be able to create advanced reports.\n\nIf you want to get all tasks for the current user from all tasklists in all pages in a space, you can do something like this:\n\n```\n{report-table:injected=true}{expanding-reporter:tasklist:@all|as=task} {local-reporter:content:space > space:all pages} {date-sort:task:created date} {boolean-filter:task:is assignee @self|value=true}{expanding-reporter}{report-column:title=Name}%expanded:task > task:name%{report-column}{report-column:title=Assignees}{report-info:expanded:task > task:assignees}{report-column}{report-column:title=Priority}%expanded:task > task:priority%{report-column}{report-column:title=Completed}%expanded:task > task:is completed%{report-column}{report-column:title=Locked}%expanded:task > task:is locked%{report-column}{report-column:title=Created Date}%expanded:task > task:created date > MMM d, yyyy%{report-column}{report-column:title=Completed Date}%expanded:task > task:completed date > MMM d, yyyy%{report-column}{report-column:title=Source}{report-info:expanded:item|link=true}{report-column}{report-empty}_You do not have any tasks assigned to you._{report-empty}{report-table}\n```\n\nFind more examples [here](http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/AtlassianPlugins/Tasklist+Supplier).\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Would the Navigation Plugin work for you?\n\n<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/170>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Darragh Bailey", "body": "Very close, if it could retrieve child pages using the key **page:sorted children** it would do what I want, unfortunately it sorts by alphanumeric. Think I'll have to change how I'm naming the pages to get this idea to work. Shame as it would have been very useful to be able to reorganise documentation by simply changing the order of the pages without needing to edit each page.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Just to be sure, I'll start by saying perhaps what you consider *hardcoded*is actually soft coded. When you move pages around, the name of the page in a \\[ \\] link will still find the page.\n\nYou may be saying you have some hierarchy (family) of pages which is dynamic, but you want a to present links to each node in the hierarchy. Assuming *Overview*remains the root of the tree, you can use some simple solutions:\n\n{pagetree:root=Overview}\n\nor\n\n{children:page=Overview\\|all=true}\n\nIf you really want to use the reporting plug-in, I am not sure how to get a hierarchically organized tree from it. Here is the basic list of all descendants:\n\n{report-table}\n\n{content-reporter:space=@self\\|types=+page\\|scope=SVN \\> descendents}\n\n{content-reporter}\n\n{report-column:title=Title}{report-info:page:title\\|link=true}{report-column}\n\n{report-table} \nAn alternative for you is to create the page tree map manually on another *table of contents*page and then {include} that page on each of your family pages. That would actually free you from having to worry about having the pages organized in a certain way.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Darragh Bailey", "body": "True hardcode may not have the right meaning, but it's the difference between identifying the page to which the link should always point too and having confluence dynamically determine what it should point to based on where it lies relative to other pages.\n\nI'm already using the {children:depth=1} on the sub-topic pages, and that works pretty well for vertical lists.\n\nWhat I'm looking to add to each page is something similar to what can be seen on the following page:\n\n<http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/s1-archinfo.html>\n\nWhere if new pages are inserted between \"child page 2\" and \"child page 3\" the wiki macros produced links that are correctly updated to point the next link on \"child page 2\" and the prev link on \"child page 3\" to the new page in sequence.\n\nTo do what I'm looking at, on \"child page 2\" in my layout above I need some why to pick out the sibling pages currently organised before and after the current page, but use of {report-xxx} appear to order the results differently to the manual order you can impose on child pages.\n\nThe output from the following 2 snippets does not result in the same ordering, even though they have the same content:\n\n{children:depth=1}\n\n{report-list:depth=0} \n{content-reporter:space=@self\\|types=+page\\|scope=@self \\> children} \n{content-reporter} \n{report-body}{report-info:page:title\\|link=true}{report-body} \n{report-list}\n\nIf it's not possible, I can add in links using the standard format and update them as changes are made, it would just be nice to have it work without needing any maintainence.\n" }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "If you are able to alphabetically name your pages in the child 1, 2, 3 order, you can add a {text-sort} to the content reporter output. Let me know if you need an example of that syntax.\n\nAnother possible option for you is to organize the ordered set of children pages as a linear tree organization where each next child is the only child of the current child. Then your prev and next hyperlinks can be driven by the reporter macros giving parent and child. Up/Home can be fixed links. Use {link-to:@parent}Prev{link-to}.\n" } ] } ]