Datasets:

---

youngmon

/

atlassian-qna

like 2

[ { "author": "Jenin C M", "body": "Hey..have found a solution. Initially the theme used for the space in question was \"Global Look and Feel Theme\". However, when I replaced this with Documentation Theme the issue seems to be resolved now.\n\nThe question now is why this issue with \"Global Look and Feel Theme\"?\n\nRegards\n\nJenin\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "If you add a very long comment, does it just repeat the first line of the comment? If so, it could be that the JavaScript expander function (show/hide) isn't working correctly. Does it only happen for your comments? Or other people's too?What theme are you using? Is it the same throughout the Confluence site?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Confluence 4.0 is now running on the Confluence Sandbox (<http://sandbox.onconfluence.com>) and is available for Hosted evauations of Confluence (<https://my.atlassian.com/hosted/signup/confluence>).\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "We've been working hard to provide lots of information and guidance to third-party plugin developers to ensure that they are ready to support Confluence 4 in time for its release. As @Matt suggests, you should contact the individual plugin developers for concerns about specific plugins.\n\nAll Atlassian-supported Confluence plugins will be compatible with Confluence 4.0 from Day 1. :-)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Barbara Green", "body": "Great to hear about the plug-ins! Thanks. As to the release date, I'm not sure I caught the planned date for 4.0, so a week after general release does not really give me an answer. Have you announced a possible release date?\n\nAlso, will there be an opportunity to test or at least get a peek at 4.0 in the hosted environment? Is there a sandbox? I am likely to be the one to train our folks on the new release, and would appreciate an opportunity to put something together before the fact.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "We plan to have Confluence 4 available for hosted customers to request upgrades within a week of the final release.\n\nRE: plugins -- I'd recommend contacting the plugin developer and asking directly their plans for support for Confluence 4.0.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Barbara, Atlassian does not pre-announce release dates. The best timeframe I can give you is sometime in the next 4 - 6 weeks.\n\nYou are able to dowload the first public beta of Confluence 4.0 to install on your own machine. Note that this release also brings new guided installers for Windows and Linux so installation is not a hassle. See here for more details:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/5AYBDw>\n\nIf you are not able to install Confluence 4.0, you will be able to try it out in the test space on <http://confluence.atlassian.com> when it is upgraded to Confluence 4.0 in the next couple of weeks.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Barbara Green", "body": "We're a Mac shop, so download is really not an option. Thanks for the clarification.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "UPDATE: Confluence 4.0 (RC2) is now running on <http://confluence.atlassian.com>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Barbara Green", "body": "It would be nice if there were a Demonstration space for 4.0 (even a Beta version). That would let me get some idea of what I need to do to help folks transition here.\n" }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Barbara, if you are logged in to <http://confluence.atlassian.com/> you can play with the new editor by adding a comment to any page in this space:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ds/Brief+Overview+of+Confluence>\n> what I need to do to help folks transition here\n\nCheck out our Reference Guides for the new Confluence editor:\n\n<http://bit.ly/confluence4>\n" }, { "author": "Barbara Green", "body": "Yes, I looked at that site and I've read the docs, but I would very much like a space to really use the new editor: adding pages, working with tables and links and macros. I realize the hosted users are probably a small subset of your business, but it would be nice if we could be part of your Beta group. Or failing that, at least have an instance of the Demonstration space that we can use for training. I don't think that is unreasonable, since you could link to the space from the Beta doc, which is publicly accessible, rather than include it in the production space.\n" } ] } ]

[ "beta", "confluence-server" ]

[ { "author": "Radu Dumitriu", "body": "helo handshaking failure means that your email server does not recognize the IP / NAME of the machine you are trying to send emails from (actually there can be more causes for this). Check again your configuration on the server side and Confluence side and make sure they match. What kind of server is it ?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Martin Stiborsky", "body": "Hello, \nthanks a lot for this hint! You've got right! It was problem with /etc/hosts configuration. I've added there ip of server where is Confluence running and all is ok now, so thanks again!\n" }, { "author": "Radu Dumitriu", "body": "Glad to be of any help\n" } ] } ]

[ "email" ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Tough problem. Can you tell us if the labels for all the pages start with ib and ibXX or are there some labels that are alphabetically prior to ib? How high and deep does XX go?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "label", "sort" ]

[ { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "On behalf of our developer who supports, created, and configures this authenticator for our customers (and who is not on Atlassian Answers), here is the answer:\n\nThe AppFusions Kerberos SSO authenticator does work with the Confluence SOAP API. You were getting a 401 because you were not using Kerberos in your request. To turn on Kerberos in your .NET code, use DefaultCredentials as Jamie Echlin stated. Unfortunately, the Confluence SOAP API itself does not care if the request is already authenticated by the Kerberos authenticator, so to do anything with the API, you still need to get a token by passing in username and password. \n\nFor example: \n\nConfluenceSoapServiceService service = new ConfluenceSoapServiceService(); \nservice.UseDefaultCredentials = true; // set to true to use Kerberos for the request \nString token = service.login(\"username\", \"password\"); /\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Thanks for your response, Ellen!\n\nThe client in this case is an ASP.NET app, so \"UseDefaultCredentials\" isn't appropriate. We do provide a Credentials object with the request, and this works against HTTP Basic and NTLM authenticators.\n\nI now suspect the customer has an incorrect configuration, or is using the wrong user account to try and authenticate. Now that I have your confirmation that this is a scenario that should function correctly, we can dig deeper into their encironment.\n\nThanks for your help!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "I will say this.\n\nWe have configured this Kerberos support for a few customers now. The ones we have eyes for (VPN access), 100% success but not 100% instant efforts - indeed we have uncovered incorrect configs, etc. like you say.\n\nWe had two customers who would not give us eyes (no-VPN) b/c of red-tape, and we \"consulted\" via Wiki collab and JIRA thread conversations. Though painful, one was successful. twice - internally and he replicated it also at a client house.\n\nAnother was not successful and likely we'll never know. Really needed eyes to figure out what was going on.\n\nDevil in the details. Good luck with that.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "JamieA", "body": "I have not used the AppFusions one, but with my own Kerberos authenticator it worked fine from .net, assuming you have set:\n\n```\nserviceProxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials\n```\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Thanks, Colin!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "I'll send an email with a link to this post to one of our devs\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "appfusions", "kerberos", "sso" ]

[ { "author": "Thomas Wendel", "body": "Hello Kay, \n\nIt is quite easy to add a link just above of below the list of spaces: \n- In the Confluence administration, go to Layouts and edit the Global Layout. \n- Look for the following lines:\n\n```\n<div class=\"dashboard-section\">\n $helper.renderConfluenceMacro(\"{spaces}\")\n</div>\n```\n\n- You can add your link just above or below that piece of code:\n\n```\n$helper.renderConfluenceMacro(\"[This is a link above the space-list|SpaceKey:This is a test]\")\n<div class=\"dashboard-section\">\n $helper.renderConfluenceMacro(\"{spaces}\")\n</div>\n$helper.renderConfluenceMacro(\"[This is a link below the space-list|SpaceKey:This is a test]\")\n```\n\n- Alternatively, instead of rendering a wiki link, you can of course use a HTML link:\n\n```\n<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">Click here to visit Google</a>\n```\n\nI hope this is what you were looking for \nCheers, \n\nThomas\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Kay Brown", "body": "Thank you, Thomas.\n" } ] } ]

[ "custom-field", "dashboard" ]

[ { "author": "Ronald Horner", "body": "Check your log file for the following error:\n\n2011-08-18 00:00:06,776 ERROR \\[pool-5-thread-1\\] fisheye.app LuceneConnection$IndexHandle-rollback - problem rolling back index writer REVIEW\n\njava.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/apps/jira/fecru-2.4.1/cache/cruidx/idx1/_sm.cfs (No such file or directory)\n\nat java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method)\n\nat java.io.RandomAccessFile.\\<init\\>(RandomAccessFile.java:216)\n\nat org.apache.lucene.store.SimpleFSDirectory$SimpleFSIndexInput$Descriptor.\\<init\\>(SimpleFSDirectory.java:78)\n\nat org.apache.lucene.store.SimpleFSDirectory$SimpleFSIndexInput.\\<init\\>(SimpleFSDirectory.java:108)\n\nat org.apache.lucene.store.SimpleFSDirectory.openInput(SimpleFSDirectory.java:65)\n\nat org.apache.lucene.index.CompoundFileReader.\\<init\\>(CompoundFileReader.java:70) ...\n\nTo resolve this issue you will need to:\n\n* Shutdown Crucible\n* Delete the /opt/apps/jira/fecru-2.4.1/cache/cruidx/ directory\n* Start Crucible\n\nWhen everything comes back up you should see your reviews in the activity stream and review tabs.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Tim Sheppard", "body": "This also works for permission denied errors etc.\n" } ] } ]

[ "activity-stream", "fisheye-crucible", "review" ]

[ { "author": "Mike", "body": "I would suggest searching how to mount an S3 bucket in Linux/Windows and then changing the Attachment Storage location to the mounted drive.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Aaron Bauman", "body": "This will give you storage benefits, but no CDN benefit. \nie. the request still has to be routed through your webhead.\n\nIs there any plugin that can provide pluggable storage and the benefits of CDN?\n" }, { "author": "Thayne McCombs", "body": "I've worked with s3fs before. Performance is terrible, and I've had issues with incredibly high memory usage.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Cristhian Benitez", "body": "Is there a way not to pay for an addone more than the S3 service?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "H", "body": "Hi Kris. Check out our [Amazon S3 Connector plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.hotovo.confluence.amazon-s3-storage-connector) for Confluence. It will allow you to connect your Confluence with S3 Bucket and present the content within Confluence pages.\n\nGlad to hear you feedback :)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Aaron Bauman", "body": "I don't see how displaying the contents of an S3 bucket addresses the original question at all.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "SarahA", "body": "Hallo Anant\n\nHere are a few ideas:\n\n**Option 1:** From RoboHelp, output to Microsoft Word. Then use the Confluence Office Connector to import the Word documents into Confluence. Here is the documentation for the Office Connector. The Office Connector is part of Confluence - no need to buy a separate tool:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Working+with+the+Office+Connector>\n\n**Option 2:** From RoboHelp, output to DocBook XML. Then use the Confluence Docbook Importer plugin to import the files to Confluence. The plugin is free of charge, developed and supported by Red Hat:\n\n<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/43179>\n\nI hope these help. :)\n\nCheers, Sarah\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Anant Sabane", "body": "Hello Sarah,\n\nI tried both the options before my query. With Microsoft Word as output, the problem is, all the hyperlinks are removed as it is bundled as print documentation. That makes me restore all the links manually.\n\nWith DocBook XML output, I got some error while importing it in Confluence. Can you please guide me on how exactly can it be achieved?\n\nThanks,\n\nAnant\n" }, { "author": "SarahA", "body": "Hallo Anant\n\nHmm, that's a nuisance that RoboHelp removes the links from all Word output. I wonder if there's a setting you can configure in RoboHelp so that it retains the links? It's worth checking with the RoboHelp guides or helpdesk.\n\nFor the DocBook import into Confluence, the best thing is to contact the plugin developer, Vlastimil Eli??. I've had a bit of correspondence with him on this page:\n\n<http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DocBookImportForConfluence>\n\nHe's also given a link to some DocBook files that do work, so you may be able to compare the DocBook XML exported by RoboHelp with his XML. For example, the importer accepts only book-style DocBook XML, not article-style.\n\nIt may also be worth contacting Gina Fevrier, who recently did a mass conversion from RoboHelp to Confluence. She has started a new blog recently, but her previous blog is where she talks about the conversion:\n\n<http://ginafromtampa.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/using-confluence-wiki-for-online-help/>\n\nGood luck. I do hope someone can help, as I've never done it myself. I'd be very interested to hear how it works out.\n\nCheers\n\nSarah\n\n.\n" }, { "author": "Anant Sabane", "body": "Thank you Sarah.\n\nI tried importing DocBook sample available on the first link you have mentioned above. I got an error. I have posted the details on that blog page in a comment and requrested Vlastimil Elias to help me with it. I have tried contacting Gina too. Hopefully will get a solution. I will let you know on the progress.\n\nWith regards,\n\nAnant\n" } ] }, { "author": "Karla Marsh", "body": "Robohelp does not remove hyperlinks from the Word doc. Here's an example in one of my smaller user guides: <https://help.globalscape.com/help/guides/DMZ-Gateway-v3-5-UserGuide.pdf>\n\nI export the Word doc from RoboHelp and then save the Word doc as a PDF and the internal document links are still there. I've been using RoboHelp since v6 and always had the links.\n\nMaybe it's Confluence who is dropping the links? If Confluence is breaking up the Word doc into individual topics (w/o preserving the links) then that would be a problem in Confluence.\n\nI love for this to work, though.\n\nKarla\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "B_ Normann P_ Nielsen", "body": "I do direct inject into the database at the moment, and it is realy not such a big deal - of cause there is a risk, but that is primarily when upgrading Confluence, my current injection of WIKI markup is not V4 compliant.\n\nI stumbled across this post searching for a way to refresh the body cache, calling the URL\n\n/admin/flushcache.action?cache=com.atlassian.confluence.core.BodyContent\\&redirectUrl=cachestatistics.action%3FshowDistributions%3Dfalse\n\nwill do it (similar to use the gui at /admin/cachestatistics.action?showDistributions=false - flusing the \"Content Bodies\")\n\nI just nedd to find the login parameters, somethin simelar to JIRA's os_user etc...\n\nThe CLI is a great tool, but I dont want page history as several pages are updated each day, and I use the pageId for getting data in.\n\nSee my scripts at <http://www.mos-eisley.dk/display/it/Confluence>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Short answer is \"don't do it\". You should not be even thinking about poking data into Confluence while it's running.\n\n\"Refreshing the cache\" would be a nightmare that involves rewriting core code. You could do it, but you'll need to retest all sorts of stuff, persist it through upgrades and frankly, there's far better ways to approach this. The first thing to think of is abstracting the call for data from the content of your page.\n\nI would write a macro that provides the current content from a database table outside Confluence (it can be inside the Confluence schema of course, but the point is to keep it separate and a separate table is the easiest way to do it). Before diving into that though, I'd look at <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/SQL/Confluence+SQL+Plugin> as that could solve the problem or at least give you a start on how to code something if it's not quite right.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Or write the content legally by running **storePage** using [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) or similar. Then you get page history as well.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Vegas,\n\nThis is not possible, however I've created a feature for you: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27473>\n\nI suggest to vote and watch this feature so it will increase it's popularity and the chance to be implemented.\n\nHope that helps!\n\nRegards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "attachment" ]

[ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "You need to set up a temporary 2.2.8 instance, restore the data, upgrade (maybe a couple of version steps, check the release notes), export and reimport. There would have been significant schema changes between 2.2 and 5.5, some of which will affect the xml data format.\n\nI would suggest raising a support ticket on this. Atlassian can advise you which versions you will need to pass through.\n\nYou can get temporary licences to do this.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Amey Nevrenkar", "body": "Hi Jim\n\nThanks alot for the answer.\n\nIn the interim I found another way to solve the problem.\n\nWhen we try to import between two major version i.e. 2.2.x - \\> 5.5.2 its not allowed by Confluence, because for the simple fact that its build number changes.\n\nThus one needs to just change the build number by going in the exportDescriptor.properties file and changing the build number.\n\nOnce we do this import it.\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "I wouldn't rely on that - it could create incompatible data as you're lying about the versions and potentially throwing complete misinformation at a server. If I were to use that, I'd be very worried, unless I tested at least every macro and function that had been used anywhere in the data, with every combination of parameters in use.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Matthew J. Horn", "body": "I've seen sites that do this with the comments. Each item on it's own page, and then a user bids on an item by adding a comment with his/her max bid. Works well, and users can set up notifications of the pages so they can see if they've been outbid.\n\nJust realized you posted this almost a year ago, so it may be too late.\n\nmatthew horn\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Royce Wong", "body": "We ended up using JIRA to facilitate the auctions, and have confluence display most popular items, items that need more bids, etc., that way we could bulk move all auctions to start and close to control the bidding process. That was easy and beautiful!!!\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "William Zanchet [Atlassian]", "body": "Hi Gabriel, \n\nYes, the reindex is a good call for this case. I highly suggest that you try to do a rebuild from scratch: \n\n<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch>\n\nThis documentation should do the work. \n\nCheers, \n\nWZ\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "Hi Sascha,\n\nAs you saw in Matts post - we are in Beta right now. Our goal is to have the final release in the next couple of months. Stay tuned!\n\nSherif\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "See [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/2892/release-date-of-confluence-4](/questions/2892/release-date-of-confluence-4) - it's a few weeks old, but the answer there is still valid. The Beta is out now, which means Matt Hodges \\*rough\\* estimate is probably good, but I wouldn't take bets on it. It'll be out when it's out.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Not really, I've done it before. Frankly, if anonymous access is working, then crawling with a restricted user ID is going to work fine too. Just make sure your user really does only have \"view\" and absolutely no other access.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Olivier FONTANNAUD", "body": "Thanks for your response Nic, but there is a big difference between anonymous crawling and authenticated crawling. Based on the tests I have maid, my GSA couldn't login to confluence for crawling with a restricted access. I search an issue for configuring GSA to login into confluence.\n\nRegards,\n\nOlivier\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "I think this works:\n\n\\[John Doe\\|http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Doe%20J%22\\\\\\[Author\\\\\\]\\]\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "Yes. You have a couple of choices:\n\na) update the [optional sql parameters](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes#UWCMediawikiNotes-OptionalSQLProperties) or [optional namespace properties](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes#UWCMediawikiNotes-OptionalNamespaceProperties) in your export config to identify the pages or namespaces you want to export\n\nb) export everything, but [write a custom filter](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Filters+Framework) to ignore the pages you don't want\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "export", "mediawiki", "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "J Madra", "body": "We had a similar issue - with us being unable to install or manage \\*any\\* plugin. For us, the issue was related to our base URL in Confluence. Once we corrected that, everything was fine.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Dan Machovec", "body": "I think this must be the case. I currently have Confluence running on another server that is using port 80 for IIS. We are publishing Confluence on port 8080. I have plans to break the font end off to another server, and I will modify the port back to the standard http one at that time. Thanks!\n" }, { "author": "Arunkumar Perumal", "body": "thanks, I've got the same issue \\& after changing my base URL it works like a charm\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jim Bethancourt", "body": "I have experienced similar symptoms where it takes a while to load. I recall that after a page refresh I was able to see the uploaded plugin listed on the list of Installed plugins.\n\nHTH,\n\nJim\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Dan Machovec", "body": "I just gave that a try, but alas no change. The system still shows no installed User plugins. I wonder if I will have to open a ticket.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jim Bethancourt", "body": "If you're developing a custom plugin, another option might be to deploy using the [Atlassian PDK](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEVNET/Plugin+Developer+Kit+for+Maven2) by using the atlassian-pdk:install Maven plugin goal, the atlas-install-plugin.bat / atlas-install-plugin.sh or the [AMPS plugin](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEVNET/AMPS+Plugin+for+Maven)\n\nI've used both the plugin installation goal and the command line too before with success.\n\nJim\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "DavidA", "body": "Hi Jeremy,\n\nWe've had a few accounts with this and they were caused by *not* accessing the page/Team Calendars via Confluence's base URL. That might be your problem. If not, please contact our support team at <https://support.atlassian.com.>\n\nThanks!\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "Check out the knowledge base articles:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Troubleshooting+Deadlocks+in+Confluence>\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/label/CONFKB/deadlock>\n\nIf it's hard to diagnose or none of those solutions work, comment back about what you find, or open a [support ticket](http://support.atlassian.com). Sometimes you have to hunt through logs and configuration files.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "EddieW", "body": "Are you using Crowd for the google authentication?\n\nIf so creating an alias for the confluence app is the way to go:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Specifying+a+User's+Aliases\n\nOtherwise I am not sure how you even have confluence users authenticating with openIDs.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Similar to Leo answer, you can use [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) to **addPermissions** for either spaces or pages. If the pages are in a hierarchy and you are talking about edit permissions, you can use the **--descendents** flag to make it easier (view permission is automatically works on a hierarchy.\n\nHowever, your question is somewhat confusing. Uploading attachments is a space permission. Page permissions deal with view and edit permissions to a page.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "cedrhoch cedrhoch", "body": "Thanks for your answers,\n\nI know that Uploading attachment is a space permission, but I have many groups which have the same global and space permission. I would like to enable the space permission of each group **just** **for some specific pages...**\n\nI'm going to do it with the command line Interface. Thank you for the link Bob.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "cedrhoch cedrhoch", "body": "This feature is very practical !! I've done a test with this command line:\n\n**confluence --action addPermissions --space SpaceKey --title \"My Page\" --permissions edit --group my_Group --descendents**\n\n*7 descendent pages had Edit permission added.\n\\[Edit\\] permissions where added to page: 'My Page' in space: 'SpaceKey' for: 'my_Group'.*\n\n*------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*\n\nHowever, some descendents (2) have not got the edit permission. I don't understand why !!!\n" }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Run the command with the **-v** option. If that doesn't help, open an issue here - <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/JCLI>.\n" }, { "author": "cedrhoch cedrhoch", "body": "I had this issue with a local installation. I've installed the Confluence CLI pack on my production site. And the --descendents parameter works.\n\nThanks for your help and Congratulations for your work !\n" } ] }, { "author": "Leo B", "body": "Using the remote API of Confluence you will be able to create a script or a program to add users and set the permissions of each one.\n\nYou can enable this feature on the \"General Configuration\" of Confluence.\n\nHope this help.\n\nCheers.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "Cedric, you can just paste the link plain, if you want. It will render as a link. To paste a link with an alias, type something first, highlight it, then click the link icon.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "cedrhoch cedrhoch", "body": "I found it in the old forum with \"{#257292179}add Permission to page using Remote API\" \nI'm sorry, I can't add link...\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Andrei [errno]", "body": "what topic?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "Hi Cedric. We are looking at doing the same exact things and I've been looking at the actual permissions code in confluence itself. I think Atlassian has stood by their \"restrictive\" not \"permissive\" policy.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "ket.pjwstk", "body": "String referrer = ServletActionContext.getRequest().getHeader(\"REFERER\");\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "java" ]

[ { "author": "Matt", "body": "You can enable user access logging in Confluence. See:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/n8oC>\n\nBy shared documents, are you referring to documents attached to Confluence pages?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Johan Lindroos", "body": "Yes correct assumption on the documents, what I would like to be able to track is (ofcourse we do not then have any anynomouos users):\n\n- Who added the document\n\n- Who has read the document\n\n- Who has updated the document\n\nAbove I would also like to do on page level?\n\nKind regards,\n\nJohan\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "Confluence is a standalone application. If you used the wizard then go to the start menu and all programs and then go to the confluence folder and there should be an uninstall. If you just installed through the folder then there is nothing to uninstall just delete it. \n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)", "body": "Just put a backslash in front of the curly braces.\n\n\\\\{site\\\\}\n", "comments": [ { "author": "briana wherry", "body": "Thanks Penny!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "Hi Briana,\n\nIf you don't use the Autocomplete features in Confluence (\\[, ! and {) you can just turn this off. It's a setting in your editor preferences. See [this article for instructions](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Autocomplete+in+the+Rich+Text+Editor#UsingAutocompleteintheRichTextEditor-EnablingandDisablingAutocomplete) on how to turn this off.\n\nIf you still want to use Autocomplete, you can easily cancel the trigger once-off by pressing \"ESC\" on your keyboard. Hope that helps.\n\nSherif\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)", "body": "Sherif: I just had a try in Confluence 3.5.9 and even if you cancel the autocomplete, you'll get {site} which displays as an error when you preview - cancelling the autocomplete doesn't escape it for you.\n" } ] }, { "author": "grundic", "body": "Maybe [EscapeTool](http://velocity.apache.org/tools/releases/1.4/generic/EscapeTool.html \"EscapeTool\") can help you?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Rayone Moyer", "body": "I had this same issue, can't get it to work and I created a parent page and child page and put the labels in. Still didn't work.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "Jonathan,\n\nAlthough it is possible to do what Richard or Jim have suggested, I stongly suggest you don't store your attachments in the database. Someone from our support time can probably jump in here, but long story short - there are lots of performance implications with regards to backing up your database. Given, you don't really have an option if you are using Clustered (attachments have to be stored in the database right now).\n\nSherif\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "I would second the idea of storing attachements in the database. This gives you a single point of backup for the real Confluence data.\n\nWe have a database of 5.7 Gb of which 4.6 is in the attachmentdata table and .3 Gb is free space. There are about 12000 current pages and comments or 84k including old versions. About 16k attachments, inc versions. Wiki markup is a fairly compact form of text storage so it's really the number and size of the attachments that will drive your data size. This relates to the style and purpose of your Confluence instance so there's no clear a priori way of guessing this.\n\nYou may be able exert some control on attachment volume by limiting the maximum attachment size. (You might also get told to increase it :) The biggest attachments will soak up a lot of attachment space. We allow up to 10 Mb, but occasionally we need to temporarily break the rule for someone.\n\nOur Confluence home directory is around 1 Gb and the application directory is 0.5 Gb.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "The best option is to have your attachments stored in the database. That way you need a larger database space than physical space on your server. This will allow your server to run faster.\n\nThen what you can do is have a dynamically scaling database which will increase in size as it is needed. Problem solved :)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "requirement", "server" ]

[ { "author": "StaceyA", "body": "This pdf plugin includes the page author [https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/7019](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/7019.) and let's you add extra fields about who did what.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Michael Roff", "body": "Thanks Stacey. I've been discussing this on another thread - [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/30717/css-for-pdf-export?page=1#31498](/questions/30717/css-for-pdf-export?page=1#31498) and this was the conclusion there also.\n" } ] } ]

[ "export", "pdf" ]

[ { "author": "David Chan", "body": "Hey JFR,\n\n1. When configuring LDAP, there is also a LDAP directory type labeled **'** **OpenLDAP Using Posix Schema'**. Try using that instead of the usual 'OpenLDAP'. The problem, however, is that Confluence's Posix integration is Read-Only. This means that you will not be able to manage users/groups within Confluence, everything has to be done within OpenLDAP.\n\n2. You can define the membership attributes if you expand the **'Membership Schema'** section within the directory configuration. You should be able to set the membership attribute to *(memberUid) .*\n\n3. When integrating LDAP, Confluence needs a base DN for users. Once defined, all user searches will only be within that set DN. You can then further define the users under the advance section labeled **'User Schema Settings'**\n\nCheckout this document:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "ldap", "user-management" ]

[ { "author": "Gabriel Sejournant", "body": "Hello Sarah,\n\nI'm using the version 3.5 (and testing the 4.0 beta) of Confluence.\n\nYou are rignt the auto complete macro work, but the goal was to provide a direct link for one macro, in a model of page, with scaffolding, to be sure all the users will be able to use the same macro at the same place for a kind of pages.\n\nIs their an other way to have this result ?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "SarahA", "body": "Hallo Gabi\n\nIt depends which version of Confluence you are using. If you are using Confluence 3.5 (or Confluence 4.0, now in beta release) in the rich text editor, you can use the macro \"autocomplete\" functionality. It's much quicker and less annoying than using the mouse to open the macro browser.\n\nTo use autocomplete, just start typing the curly bracket and the beginning of the macro name. A dropdown menu will appear, offering some suggestions. The suggestions will change to match your typing. As soon as you see the macro you want, select it with arrow keys or mouse. That will open the macro dialogue with the parameters.\n\nI hope that answers the question. :)\n\nCheers\n\nSarah\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "app", "link", "macro" ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "### [CustomWare *Redirection* Plugin - *Confluence* - Atlassian Plugin Exchange](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/183) {#toc-hId-1509947616}\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Brian Padley", "body": "What about for Confluence 4.x? Shouldn't this be a feature out of the box?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "AM", "body": "Hi Manual,\n\nunfortunately this won't work - check\n\n<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Various+Issues+Caused+when+Server+Base+URL+Does+Not+Match+the+URL+Used+to+Access+Confluence>\n\nIf you really need your Fortinet or Checkpoint to protect JIRA/Confluence, the only option I could think of is fronting JIRA and Confluence with Apache and the extensivly usage of mod_rewrite.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Anton?n E?er", "body": "Hi,\n\nwe have the same problem, If someone solved this mod_rewrite I need know how.\n" }, { "author": "Jakub Bobran", "body": "I second this.\n\nIt seems that the issue is more and more painful for people.\n\nedit: In my case it is both Confluence and Jira.\n" } ] } ]

[ "jira", "proxy" ]

[ { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "Well, the moinmoin module was user submitted, which basically means that it definitely worked for that user and their wiki. I don't happen to have any data about which version of moinmoin it was developed against. I did test out (successfully) basic functionality and operation against (I'm pretty certain) [this turnkey moinmoin](http://www.turnkeylinux.org/updates/new-turnkey-moinmoin-version-200910), but I don't have enough experience with moinmoin to be able to say whether that would be compatiable with your version or not.\n\nEspecially since you're having difficulty, I would think you would need some developer efforts to get it working with your dataset one way or another.\n\nGood luck!\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "Marilyn Daum", "body": "I got the same session expired message repeatedly, trying set a favourite for a page. Changing the URL to use the IP address for the Confluence server did enable me to set that favorite. Thanks to Peter for the tip.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "FLopez", "body": "Any comments from Atlassian about this issue?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Yannick R.", "body": "This error happens on our confluence instance too.\n\nHowever on our side we are able to create and save pages. The message appear when we are saving (Either new page or not) and we just need to click on the save button again and it works.\n\nI'll look the solution of Grigory Chernyshev but it does not seems to be related.\n\nThanks,\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "NicoDeluxe", "body": "I hate this issue!!!!!! Please fix it men!\n", "comments": [ { "author": "martinnobis", "body": "Excuse me, that is sexist.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Peter Shiner [BOSsAWDs]", "body": "I have recent run into this with one person on one page in our enterprise environment. By having the person use IP numbers in the URL he was able to edit and save the page.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Dave Furlani", "body": "A work around for this is to access the confluence server by it's IP.\n\nIf you're using HTTPS then this means that you'll see a certificate warning each time you reopen your browser, which is far less annoying than not being able to save edits almost every time.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Dave Furlani", "body": "This is easily the most frustrating issue ever in Confluence, if not of all time. Sometimes it will allow a save, most times though it simply will not save. A sometimes possible work around is to make a small change quickly then save. If you have to make a large change, this approach is very time consuming and may result in a page with some changes made before the bug won't allow another change to be saved. It makes me want to puch a kitten in the face.\n\nIt's not related to a page or user specifically, more so it's related to the content that has been added tothe page, or the way the change was made. Deleting never causes an issue, pasting, using Ctrl-B to bold, adding certain macros like tips or info seem to trigger Confluence refusing to save.\n\nSometimes we're lucky enough for an auto save to be made available when coming back into the page to retry the edit, however that seems to have disappeared since upgrading recenty, although the problem remains.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "grundic", "body": "Take a look at this: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+XSRF+Protection>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Stefan K?sters", "body": "After rebooting the computer adding a page now works. I will try the XSRF-hint next time this happens.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Mark Hrynczak", "body": "An easier workaround to get the original page back:\n\nRename the one showing to a different name. You can then access the original page using the original URL.\n\nNote that there is a bug report for this issue at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-17598>\n\nHope that helps,\n\nMark\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Richard Wilkinson", "body": "Thank you, this has worked. (I should probably have thought of it myself!)\n\nI had also raised a bug report / support issue for this (CSP-67025) but have resolved it as a duplicate.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "I would suggest going into your database and doing a SQL query select and try to find a page with the title and see what shows up. It may have indeed overwritten the old pages, but I don't know for sure. The old pages could still be in the database and if so you can change the title to something else through a SQL Update query and that will solve your problem.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Viewtracker will likely suffer the same performance problems as the [Confluence Usage Tracking](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/271) plugin (which is disabled by default because it has known performance problems in large installations). If you have problems with one, you'll likely see problems with the other plugin too.\n\nThe guys from BitVoodoo will likely know better though, so I guess they'll likely give you an answer sometime soon :)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Andrei [errno]", "body": "I eventually went with Piwik tracking all my Atlassian tools\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "analytics", "app", "viewtracker" ]

[ { "author": "m@", "body": "This error will be thrown when you try and load a class thats been compiled with an incompatible (usually future) version of Java.\n\nFrom your question it looks like the class you're trying to run was compiled using Java 6 and you're using Java 5 to run it. Try upgrading your JVM to 6 and give it another go.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Shivansh Singh", "body": "Hi Matthew,\n\nThanks for your reply.\n\nI have downloaded the uwc.zip from <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/Universal+Wiki+Converter> and its mentioned in the documentation that any version of Java 5 or higher should be fine for the installation and running UWC. So I was wondering why it didn't work when I have JDK 1.5.0_10 installed on my m/c.\n" }, { "author": "m@", "body": "I downloaded the converter, extracted the starting point class and confirmed its been compiled without java 5 support:\n\n```\n$ file ./com/atlassian/uwc/ui/UWCCommandLineInterface.class\n./com/atlassian/uwc/ui/UWCCommandLineInterface.class: compiled Java class data, version 50.0 (Java 1.6)\n```\n\nI'm going to do some investigating as to why this is the case or if its just an oversight.\n" }, { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "Yeah, that's my bad. I've updated the doc to say it requires Java 6 now. It's not so much that we couldn't support Java 5. It's just that at this point, I'm using Java 6, and when I build the UWC and one of the dependencies (confluence remote java wrapper), I happen to be using 6. So, if you need it to support 5, and you're willing to build from source, it _should_ be possible, but you have to not only build the UWC against 5, but also the CRJW library and update the lib directory with the resulting jar.\n" }, { "author": "Shivansh Singh", "body": "Thanks Laura !! I am sure it will avoid confusion to others who will be using UWC.\n\nOne quick question. Do you know if we can use UWC to export only subset of Mediawiki?\n" } ] } ]

[ "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "At my company which is a large Corporation one department has a space with 8,200 pages of content. It does take about 10 seconds to navigate to the space but other than that no real impact.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Betsy Walker", "body": "Our site, running Confluence v2.10.2 (for the next few weeks at least) several spaces with over 2,000 pages each. Largest one has about 5,000 pages. With our documented \"Wiki Best Practices\" and some hand-crafting of custom menus to allow for quick navigation through the space, they whiz right along.\n\nNote - our custom menu solution will most likely become obsolete once we upgrade to Confluence v3.5.x, as the Intranet and Documentation themes are quite nice for large spaces.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "My largest client has roughly the numbers below. The biggest space has about 700 active pages in it, but only 100-ish of them are \"real\" - the others are small chunks of documentation that are \"included\" in other places.\n\n|--------------------------------|---------|\n| **Total Spaces** | 1050 |\n| **Global Spaces** | 600 |\n| **Personal Spaces** | 450 |\n| **Content (All Versions)** | 415,000 |\n| **Content (Current Versions)** | 60,000 |\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "You need to install Adaptavist's plugin license manager and then license the plugin. Once fully licensed the content should reappear.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "jj jj", "body": "Thanks guys!\n" }, { "author": "jj jj", "body": "Do i have to use Adaptavist's manager? Is there any other way to license the plugin?\n" }, { "author": "Thomas Vlerick", "body": "Yes, but the license is free if you just fill in some question on the adaptavist website. License is free for 50 years.\n" } ] } ]

[ "community-forums-for-confluence", "forum", "macro" ]

[ { "author": "Betsy Walker", "body": "Have you heard of [Appfire's Firestarter portable Wiki appliance](http://appfire.com/firestarter/) that allows you to, basically, have your Wiki on a stick (i.e. USB drive) so that users can work with it offline and then sync to the mother ship when back in the office? I saw it a t last year's Summit and it looked very cool.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Damian Knight", "body": "I was interested in the Firestarter product, until their VP of sales told me there was a minimum order of 50!\n" }, { "author": "Rhyne Armstrong", "body": "This looks to be the best solution if we go with Confluence. We have at least 50 people who would/could use this in our company.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Martin Cleaver", "body": "You could probably use the Comalatech Content Publishing Plugin.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "Another pattern I've heard customers do from speaking to them is that sometimes all their users want is a copy of a page every so often. So what some customers do is setup a cron job that does a PDF export (using the Confluence Command Line Interface) and emails a group of users on a recurring period.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David Yu", "body": "I'll go ahead and plug Brenden's plugin here:\n\n<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/19471>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "It doesn't look like this is 3.5.X supported. There are a lot of differences between 3.4 and 3.5\n" } ] }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "I'm guessing you are talking about offline access to the information? Because otherwise as long as they can connect to your Confluence site the information will always be current.\n\nFor Offline Access:\n\nThe issue is that Confluence runs off a database back-end which means that in order for your clients(?)/workers to see the information they have to be connected to the database.\n\nYou may be able to use the internal HSQL database that is used for non-commercial applications and keep that in sync every time they connect to your servers. This however means that however big your Confluence instance is their laptops will need to have that much extra space to be able to store all of the information and keep getting newer information. This means you'll need to have large harddrive space if you have lots of attachments.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "m@", "body": "The PK problem may not be related to the backup/restore at all. Other common causes for this are migrating from a database without case insensitivity to one that does. Try the restore without the cloned space.\n\nAs for copying the space, I suggest giving the Copy Space Plugin (See: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CPSP/Confluence+Copy+Space+Plugin>) ago. Its much easier to use than manually manipulating the backup xml files and generally works better.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "TJ Baker", "body": "Sure would be nice if Copy Space Plugin were available in OnDemand instances.\n\nAs it stands, manually doing things is the only way for us OnDemand users, which sorta defeats the purpose of paying for a hosted solution.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "1) To install plugins through the UPM, Confluence needs to be able to connect to the internet. Do you have any proxy settings or NAT in place which could affect this? Try looking at the atlassian-confluence.log to see if there are any interesting errors which may indicate a problem.\n\n2) To upload plugins manually, I believe that the Confluence Base URL needs to be set correctly - have you done this? By default it gets set to \"localhost\".\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Ken D: Uemura", "body": "Hi Joseph,\n\nI've set the Confluence Base URL through General Configuration, and now I can install plugins smoothly :)\n\nThank you very much!!\n" }, { "author": "Fabe D.", "body": "Same for me, thank you very much!!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Ken D: Uemura", "body": "Hi Joseph,\n\nI've set the Confluence Base URL through General Configuration, and now I can install plugins smoothly :)\n\nThank you very much!!\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "administration", "confluence-app" ]

[ { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "Just FYI, the above would be several times faster with the following reporter instead:\n\n```\n{local-reporter:page:children}\n```\n\n```\n {text-sort:content:title}\n```\n\n```\n {local-reporter}\n```\n\n{local-reporter} is much faster than {content-reporter}\n\nHowever, to get a single 'if has child' type query, I'd suggest this instead:\n\n```\n{report-block}\n```\n\n```\n {local-reporter:page:children}\n```\n\n```\n {report-header}Has children{report-header}\n```\n\n```\n {report-empty}Doesn't have children{report-header}\n```\n\n```\n{report-block}\n```\n\nThe reason for using {report-header} instead of {report-body} is that the {report-body} will be output for every child, not just if there is 'one or more'.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "I was thinking of the reporting plugin. You can have it generate a link to a child page and other specified content if there is no child page. If this will work, then I can give an example.\n\n> {report-block}\n>\n> {content-reporter:space=@self\\|types=+page\\|scope=@self \\> children}\n>\n> {text-sort:content:title}\n>\n> {content-reporter}\n>\n> {report-body}Child Exists: {report-info:page:title\\|link=true} \\\\\\\\\n>\n> {report-body}\n>\n> {report-empty}No Child: \\[Go here instead\\|MyOtherPage\\]{report-empty}\n>\n> {report-block}\n\nThis does these things\n\n1. get a list of all children pages of the current page\n2. sort them by their title\n3. for each one found, output its title as a hyperlink to that child page\n4. if none are found, put out a link to MyOtherPage.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Wikified", "body": "Sure - please provide an example.\n\nThanks!\n" }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "see above.\\^\\^\n" } ] }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Do you want the link to point to the child page, if there is one?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jo-Anne MacLeod", "body": "Take a look at Adaptvists \\[Theme macro plugin\\|https://www.adaptavist.com/display/Builder/Macros\\], specifically builder-show/builder-hide, I believe that it will do what you want.\n\nWe use it when we want to display a warning if a user is not logged into Confluence yet.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "hide" ]

[ { "author": "DavidA", "body": "Hi Simon,\n\nIt's not possible to specify a different date range at the moment. However, a similar feature request has been filed as <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-215.>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Ken", "body": "Having the same issue as the OP. Has this ever been addressed? Would like to show lists of events for the next year at least.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "vchoy", "body": "Hi Gabriele,\n\nThe default homepage title can be modified via the source:\n\nIn\n\n```\ncom.atlassian.confluence.spaces.listeners.InitialSpaceContentListener\n```\n\n```\npackage com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.listeners;...public class InitialSpaceContentListener implements EventListener{ private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(InitialSpaceContentListener.class); public static final String DEFAULT_HOMEPAGE_TITLE = \"Home\"; <---- This is the place to change the \n\n\n\n\n\n```\n\nYou can also recompile the: com.atlassian.confluence.setup.settings.Setting.java\n\nprivate String defaultSpaceHomepageTitle = \"Home\"; and change this.\n\nHope this helps.\n\nRegards\n\nVincent\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "This will work, but it seems a bit sucky that we have an i18n definition for default.page.title and then ignore it and hard-code to \"Home\".\n\nI will see if there is a bug report in Confluence for this - we should be able to fix it.\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "This sounds like the same problem: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23054> please vote and/or comment if you are interested :-)\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Jens Gombert", "body": "Confluence need InnoDB since 3.5 or somethink like this. See the release notes.\n\nFor your MySQL Server have a look at 2.4 in this guide:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+For+MySQL>\n\nIf you have a DB you want to use update the tables to InnoDB.\n\nNot sure if this is the right answer...\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "administration", "mysql" ]

[ { "author": "Kimberly McKinnis", "body": "It is extremely difficult; I ended up reinstalling. I know, that's rubbish advice, but I was unable to successfully reverse the process after 3 days of really trying.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "You need to reverse the process at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Integrating+Crowd+with+Atlassian+JIRA>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "crowd" ]

[ { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Hello!\n\nThe \"content\" field means the total number of rows in the CONTENT table in Confluence database - this includes all versions of pages, blogs, status updates, comments, user information, drafts, etc.\n\nThe \"current content\" field, in the other hand, means all of the above except it only counts the latest version of each entitiy.\n\nIf you have access to the source code, you can find this information from the com.atlassian.confluence.status.service.systeminfo.UsageInfo class.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Szymon Hubar", "body": "Thank you @[Azwandi Mohd Aris](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781563)\n\nIn database:\n\nContent (All Versions): select count(\\*) from CONTENT; \nContent (Current Versions): select count(\\*) from CONTENT where PREVVER is null;\n" }, { "author": "Victor Prasad", "body": "Any idea of how to get a count of all documents (all and current version)?\n\nThanks,\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "> in the conf/confluenceSettings.properties i specify the url = http\\\\://\\<servername\\>\\\\:\\<port\\>, is this Correct ?\n\nThat should work.\n\nWhen you run the connection settings test, what error message do you get? (run_cmdline.sh -t conf/confluenceSettings.properties)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Hi Thomas,\n\nThere should be an exception message logged in your atlassian-confluence.log file. Could you please see if you can post the corresponding exception message here?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Trupti Kanase", "body": "@James Hurne : Did you solve this issue? I am having the same problem.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nimesh Biyagamage", "body": "Okay I think I found the solution to the problem, but this will only work if you have a local installation on your network.(considering the fact you have firewalls and proxy configured).\n\nInstead of using the url starting from https:// you can use the local host and re-try, it works for me.\n\nLet me know if this helps please.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nimesh Biyagamage", "body": "Hi all,\n\nI am trying to install a free plugin available for JIRA and unfortunately this is giving me an erroe which is as below and we are in need of a quick resolution please. This has been happening many times the hard refresh does not have any impact. Error is as below:\n\nInvalid anti-XSRF token provided. The valid token should be retrieved transparently, but you may want to perform a hard refresh in your browser and try again before creating a support issue.\n\nPlease help as this is an urgent request.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "F K", "body": "got this error also today, disabling mod_pagespeed in apache helped to solve the problem when using mod_proxy also...\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Savo Balac", "body": "I also get that error. Why is it so hard to install a plugin?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Gajan UMAPATHY", "body": "I'm having the same problem.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Hi Mark - It's not currently possible to do this. It would however be an excellent feature request -- i.e. more granualr notificaqtion options for autowatch. Imagine checkboxes for the following actions for which Aitowatch should be enabled.\n\n* Pages\n * Create\n * Edit\n * Comment\n* Blogs\n * Create\n * Edit\n * Comment\n\nI'd recommend creating a feature request on our public issue tracker at [http://jira.atlassian.com](http://jira.atlassian.com )\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sherif Mansour", "body": "There is a workaround to turn off autowatch globally, [it is described here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22070).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Mark Nixon", "body": "Hi Sherif,\n\nSeems like a lot of people want this sorted! Would be great having a setup similar to what Matt has proposed. What are the chances of seeing this in Confluence 4.0?\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Gah, no, it doesn't exist.\n\nForget the admin console and read the system info page in Confluence - that will tell you what it's actually using.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David Soldan", "body": "well i read the system info page... it says **Confluence-Home** c:/confluence/data\n\nwhat system info page you mean??? i read it in Confluence Admin \\> administration \\> system information\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "When you said \"admin console\", I ignored it because you could have meant the system info page, or any one of half a dozen other things, and it wasn't clear.\n\nIf system info is showing a Windows path and you're running on a Unix box, you've got a broken installation. How did you get it to this state? Importing data into an empty confluence? Creating one from scratch and pasting the wrong path into the home question?\n\nIdeally, I'd ask you to look at the config file in the Confluence home directory next, but you can't because we've got no idea where it is.\n" }, { "author": "David Soldan", "body": "Maybe it's because im running confluence on a vm which is on a server where severeal vm s are tested ... I dont know.\n\nWell i installed confluence with the embedded HSQL Database and followed the instructions.\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Running it on a VM shouldn't do anything like that - the point of virtualisation is that the guest OS still looks like a physical machine and works the same way. It's not that.\n\nWhat instructions did you follow, and if they're the official ones, why did you paste a windows path into a unix installation? It won't have defaulted or selected it for you\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "Hrm... That's pretty odd. I would expect it to just behave on a Win2K server, provided you have java installed.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Ok, so I understand you have your 200 links or so, which all reference the path H:/MainFolder/DepartmentFolder/. You only want to edit the path once. I could offer some suggestions on working your problem another way:\n\n1. Maybe you can use a Windows drive letter mapping, say P, that could be mapped to H:/MainFolder/DepartmentFolder. When the location of the dept. folder changes, simply change that mapping. Over a Windows Domain Network, I think this change can be propagated automatically. Thus in the wiki, your path will stay fixed, as P:/dept-file.xyz.\n\n2. Assuming H is on a network file server, then that drive letter, H, is mapped to \\\\\\\\server. You can create a second (additional) mount point on that server that references where the dept. folder is located. So \\\\\\\\server\\\\mountpoint can be used in your paths.\n\n3. Let a web server serve up the files you have in the department folder. Set up a server (many free choices) with its file space containing the directories of interest. If those directories change, just change in the web server. So, the wiki would have paths like <http://department-server/dept-file.xyz.> This option is nice because it works will all browsers.\n\nAs you can see, I am avoiding your original question. I think that is going to be a tougher problem to solve. The include macro comes with this Advanced Macros plugin: <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/145> . From my inexperienced vantage point, it seems that you don't get source for that macro. It would be hard to change it. So, I would pursue other options.\n\nI was thinking that with bookmarks, you can, at least, have everything you need to edit on one page.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Romain FEVRE", "body": "Thanks a lot.\n\nI didn't see the problem like that, and you're totally right.\n\nYet, as a trainee, I'm not sure to be allowed to do something like that, but when I'll have to explain difficulties and solution I had, I'll talk about it.\n\nThanks a lot Kevin.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "As an outside the box answer: I wonder if you have investigated bookmarks as an option for this. You could make your bookmarks point to the filesystem location and then use {bookmarks:labels=xyz} to customize the list of bookmarks based on labels attached to the bookmarks. Maybe this does not make the nice clean list it looks like you are hoping for.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Romain FEVRE", "body": "Hi.\n\nThanks for the answer. I indeed investigated bookmarks, but it's really what I need/want. First, as you say, it doesn't give me the list I wanted, but I could have dealt with ; Second, the deeper problem stay the same. Because with the bookmarks, to make my work achieve my goals, I would need a bookmark per file, and then, if the file sytem migrates (and that's expected for early september), I have to modify the whole bookmarks by the hand (I'm talking about around 200+ links).\n\nThen, it was a good idea, thanks, but not the solution...\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "I'm not 100% clear on your probelm but it sounds like you may be able to write your own user macro contains a base location? That would allow a move to be handled with a single change to the macro.\n\nUser macros have a fairly simple scripted format and can produce wiki markup or html. You would still have a problem of replacing the existing macros, unless you can somehow ditch the old macro and replace it with one of your own with the same name...\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "include", "link" ]

[ { "author": "Daniel Stavrou", "body": "I would but just as I was typing a response I tried a simple minValue parameter and got it. Thank you anyway!\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Andrew Ardill", "body": "Dan, can you accept this answer as the solution to your issue? Also, if you are able to write up the solution with slightly more detail it will assist others who have the same issue.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Could you share more about what you tried? What are the results you are seeing?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Andrew Ardill", "body": "Kevin, this should really be a comment on the original question. You should be able to convert this answer to a question.\n" } ] } ]

[ "date", "filter", "report" ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Not within Confluence - the code for the two of them is essentially the same. You can (almost) think of standalone as being \"EAR/WAR installed in a Tomcat and hooked up to a database for you so you don't have to do it yourself\"\n\nYou may hit some problems if you're changing the database and/or application server, but those will be environmental things, not directly Confluence itself.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Hao Doan", "body": "This is going from EAR/WAR Confluence 5.5.3 to Standalone Confluence 5.9.4. The upgrade must be manually done. This is on a CentOS 7. These are my steps and this worked for me. I'm not responsible for yours. I hope this help who are looking for details how to upgrade.\n\n#### \\*\\*\\*\\*ALWAYS BACKUP BEFORE UPGRADING\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\* {#toc-hId-1223857407}\n\n**Database Check**\n\n* Make sure your database Collation set to **COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS**\n* It should if you're already on version 5.5 or higher. **If not, you need to fix that before going any further, see the link below from Atlassian.**\n* Change database read committed snapshot.\n\n```\nALTER DATABASE?&lt;databasename&gt;SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ONWITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE;\n```\n\nFor more info: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/database-setup-for-sql-server-9258.html>\n\n#### Install \\& Upgrade Confluence 5.9.4 {#toc-hId--1328299554}\n\n1. Stop current Confluence\n2. Download the standalone version\n3. FTP to the server\n4. Untar the file.\n\n ```\n tar -zxvf atlassian-confluence-5.9.4.tar.gz\n ```\n\n5. Rename it to **confluence594** , and move it */opt/atlassian/*\n6. Edit server.xml file (/opt/atlassian/confluence594/conf/server.xml)\n 1. change the ports to the your current ports. These are my tomcat ports I've setup on the old version, and I want to keep it the same. You could also keep the default ports number.\n\n | Envir. | HTTP Port | Shutdown Port | AJP Port | Redirect Port |\n |--------|-----------|---------------|----------|---------------|\n | TEST | 8082 | 8012 | 8016 | 8544 |\n\n 2. Add the following under Context Path. Change the name to yours.\n\nTEST: \\<Context path=\"/confluence\" docBase=\"../confluence\" debug=\"0\" reloadable=\"false\" useHttpOnly=\"true\"\\>\n\n6. Edit the setenv.sh file (/opt/atlassian/confluence594/bin), Add export JAVA_HOME=/opt/java8 at the end of the line.\n\n**NOTE: Make sure you have JDK Java 8 installed and a symbolic link of java8**\n\n7. Copy **crow.properties, osuser.xml, confluence.init.properties** , **seraph-config.xml???** and **jtds** driver from the current Confluence and paste it in the new Confluence. The files are in LIB folder for driver \\& classes folder for all the xml \\& properties.\n\n**NOTE: I'm also using crowd as my authentication. Copy the files you need for other authentication, see the link at the end from Atlassian.**\n\n8. Start the new Confluence sudo /opt/atlassian/confluence594/bin/startup.sh. It should take awhile to upgrade.\n\n9. To stop Confluence sudo /opt/atlassian/confluence594/bin/shutdown.sh\n\nFor more info: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/upgrading-confluence-manually-255363437.html>\n\nGood Luck! I hope this help.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "This is not usually possible from a search. You can create links to a specific {anchor} on a page. Two alternatives you might consider are:\n\n1. Make an index page of links to the subjects. This could possibly, sort of, be done automatically via the reporting plug-in or it can be done manually.\n\n2. Break each of the sections of the page example you gave into separate pages. Then use {children} to display the tree. Make the Commercial Aircvrafts be a child page and Airbus be a grandchild, and so forth. The master parent page can be a subject of the search.\n\nNote, you can enhance this via the use of labels or other specific strings on the pages that contain the master indicies or parent view.\n\nIf you want more fine-tuned suggestions, share more about your scenario.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "I don't think so. Usually your search will always find more than 1 page, so which page does it send you to?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Ryan", "body": "Thank you for your reply.\n\nyes. that is what i am pointing at. the search results points to the pages related to the topic or at least related to the search key word.\n\nbut i am asking if confluence can directly point me to the section i am searching for. (the section is only a part of the page not a page itself). in my example, i will be having the following table of contents:\n\nI. Commercial Aircrafts\n\na. Airbus\n\nII. Fighter Planes\n\na. Stealth Fighter\n\nb. F16 Tomahawk\n\nfrom my example above, i have all these topics in one page and i want to search and be directed to the stealth fighter section. is it possible?\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Why not just add some custom CSS to the global stylesheet in the admin section e.g.#title-text { display: block; }\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Richard Wilkinson", "body": "No, I never got it to work despite trying the suggestions... Eventually we just got used to the title wrapping around, but it would still be nice to fix.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Restarting Confluence to pick up a a plugin change shouldn't be necessary - Confluence has a built-in system that reloads changed plugins. :-)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Random guess: try blowing away the temporary plugin directories in your Confluence home directory and re-starting Confluence. Perhaps a combination of the fact that the doc theme is (a) a bundled plugin, and (b) the version of your jar file is unchanged. The following directories are safe to delete:\n\n* /plugins-temp\n* /plugins-osgi-cache/transformed-plugins\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Richard Wilkinson", "body": "We did restart Confluence, although not sure about removing the temporary plugins first (our IT guys applied the change itself).\n\nI just tried the stylesheet suggestion, but the global stylesheet doesn't apply to spaces using themes, and we're using the Documentation Theme.\n" }, { "author": "Richard Wilkinson", "body": "(After a delay) I've asked IT to try the suggestion of deleting these directories. To clarify, it's just the transformed-plugins directory that should be deleted, not the whole plugins-osgi-cache, right?\n" }, { "author": "AM", "body": "I'm facing exactly the same situation:\n\n\\* logo size too large.\n\n\\* I would like to add a line break after the logo so the page title starts always in a new line.\n\nRichard / Joseph did you find a solution?\n\nLike Richard we are using the \"Documentation Theme\" as default for all Spaces (like probably 99% of all Confluence customer who are not working with Adaptavist add-ons).\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jo-Anne MacLeod", "body": "Becasue I have been working in windows recently...did you restart Confluence after you made the change? It might be worth a try.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Sounds like you need WTFilter:<http://codegeist.atlassian.com/entry/167988>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nick Muldoon", "body": "G'day @Jean-Paul,\n\n[Redaction for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.arijea.plugins.redact) provides a more granular level of content visibility, enabling you to hide words or paragraphs **within** a page. Redacted content is not included in page exports or search results, ensuring that sensitive information stays private.\n\n[redaction-for-confluence 1120x548px Marketplace.png](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.arijea.plugins.redact)\n\nMay be useful for your scenario.\n\nIf you want more details on the add-on contact me via [[email protected]^^](mailto:[email protected]) or +1 415 568 7064.\n\nRegards, \nNicholas Muldoon \n[Arijea](http://arijea.com/)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Using the reporting plug-in, you could create a table of violators:\n\n------------------------\n\nCode:\n\n-----------------------\n\n{report-table}\n\n{content-reporter:space=@self}\n\n{or-filter}\n\n{text-filter:content:body\\|include=dog,cat}\n\n{text-filter:content:title\\|include=dog,cat}\n\n{or-filter}\n\n{content-reporter}\n\n{report-column:title=Title}{report-info:page:title\\|link=true}{report-column}\n\n{report-table} \n------------------------ \n------------------------ \nThis only searches a single space (whichever space contains the page with this content. It can search all spaces by changed \"@self\" to \"@all\". It may be slow in refreshing, depending upon your volume. It may make more sense to do a database query. \nThis example searches for the strings: \"cat\" and \"dog\". Replace that with your blacklist. \nI do not know if you can subscribe to the page and it will run automatically. It may be a manual page visit, 1/day or whatever you need.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "If you are able to hit the database with an sql query, or schedule a report, you could use a variant of this query. Pros: no plugin; cons: sql.\n>\n> ```\n> -- Query to locate current pages containing a specified string-- Jim Birch 2011.01.28select -- 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 bc.BODY like '%sometext%' order by s.spacekey, c.title\n>\n> ```\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "addon-com.arijea.plugins.redact" ]

[ { "author": "Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)", "body": "This file doesn't exist on the file system - it is created at runtime. It's a batched-up version of all the CSS resources required for a particular request.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "jeff jia", "body": "Thanks for your answer.\n\nNow, I want to change the default font-size from 10pt to 9pt to make the page more clear.\n\nhow could I modify the content of the css since it is generated at runtime?\n\nPenny could you help me again? Thanks\n" }, { "author": "Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)", "body": "Rather than making changes to Confluence's files which will be lost next time it's upgraded, it would be safer to apply the custom CSS via the Space Admin section of the web UI.\n\nFull instructions are here - <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS>\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "Yes it can be done. Recently we have complete a couple of these migrations. (Generally an internal Crowd directory has been replaced with an AD connection)\n\nIt sounds like to me the steps in brief would be something like\n\n1. Remove ALL users from the internal Confluence directory\n2. Add new AD connection and sync, forcing new users to be created with their new usernames \n At this stage, all content in confluence will appear to be from invalid users\n3. Use the scripts you have identified from the link above (but fix it) to rename users to the new user name\n4. RE-INDEX :)\n\nI found for 3.5.x the script above was pretty accurate but I do recall a few minor changes I have had to make. Send me your email I can shoot an update through\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Moshe Hajaj", "body": "Colin, that would be great. you can mail me to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])\n\nThank you\n" }, { "author": "Moshe Hajaj", "body": "I got it, thank you.\n\nI still need to test it, but from first glance I noticed you dropped this statment (it is part od Atlassian doc):\n\nupdate OS_PROPERTYENTRY a, usermigration u \nset a.entity_name = concat('CWD_', u.newusername) \nwhere a.entity_name = concat('CWD_', u.oldusername);\n\nAny reason why?\n" } ] }, { "author": "_aseith", "body": "Fajar,\n\nto cut a very long story short: no, local groups were not preserved. We wrote a couple of ugly scripts and sql queries to work around it and luckily it has been working without any major issues so far.\n\nRegards\n\nAlex\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Pierre Major", "body": "Hi Guys,\n\nI had to move a user from the \"Confluence internal directory\" to a \"Delegated LDAP Authentication\". The user has the same username in both directories, so I did not had to change it.\n\nWhat I did is: put the \"internal directory\" down in the list of **user directories** (, under the \"ldap\" one. And tadada, the user got migrated. There is very little side effect to the process (in our case) because the user was the only real user in the internal directory.\n\nPierre\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "_aseith", "body": "Hi guys,\n\nare local group memberships preserved when doing this migration? For older versions of Confluence, this has worked for us pretty well, but recent versions seem to discard memberships. Or maybe I'm wrong?\n\nAlex\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Fajar Suryawan", "body": "Hi Aseith, how was the migration? Is the local group preserved? Let us know. Here we have to do the same migration process. :-)\n\nThanks\n\nFajar\n" } ] }, { "author": "Brendan Patterson", "body": "We have done this in the past but did so following that doc and though far from ideal is the only real solution.\n\nThere are only two other options I'm aware of.\n\nOne is integrating Crowd and determining if it's \"user aliasing\" features meet your needs.\n\nThe other is to implement a custom authenticator for Confluence which would replace usernames on the fly as you need. However all the Confluence content would still have the original names embedded in all but the first solution - which shouldn't really matter.\n\nBrendan\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "active-directory", "user" ]

[ { "author": "RyanA", "body": "You shouldn't need to do anything to configure incoming basic authentication into Confluence.\n\nI know it's confusing but configuring incoming basic authentication via Application Links is used to make it easier to set up a 2-way link between two Application Link aware applications. These are usually Atlassian applications. For example, JIRA and Confluence.\n\nThe trick to doing what you want is that Confluence won't send a basic challenge via a 401 http response but instead will try and redirect an unauthenticated request to the login screen. Therefore, your 3rd party app will need to send the basic credentials in its request without being challenged. Does this make sense?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "MICHAEL O'Neill", "body": "Interesting Ryan! So, you'd do something like this (python example)?\n\n```\nimport urllib\nf = urllib.urlopen(\"http://username:[email protected]/spacekey/pagename\")\nprint f.read()\n```\n\nStrange example I know. I'm just trying to verify the syntax for passing username and password through the request. You do it this way, and not via key value pairs or some other means, correct? \n\n<br />\n" }, { "author": "RyanA", "body": "No, you need to set the basic Auth headers. AFAIK, that syntax depends on your browser transforming the url into a proper Basic Auth request.\n\nI don't know python but you want something like\n\n```\nimport urllib \n```\n\n```\nopener = urllib.URLOpener({})\n```\n\n```\nopener.addheader(\"Authorization\", \"Basic \" + base64.b64encode(\"Aladdin:open sesame\"))\n```\n\n```\nf = opener.open(\"http://www.example.com/spacekey/pagename\")\n```\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "That doesn't sound too secure to me, which would be why it isn't supported. What you are saying is that you will allow anyone to access your server if they have authenticated with their own server, no matter what server it was. I think you'd be better advised to really determine who you will extend trust to.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "MICHAEL O'Neill", "body": "Hi Jim!\n\nI think the intent here is to do this: In instances of our web application, we have a certain class of users (administrators) who will be in and out of the confluence server (documentation). We will create accounts for these users in confluence, but want to provide them with a seamless experience so if they follow a link to a confluence page from our application, they will be logged in under their own account and won't be prompted for a PW.\n\nIn my initial description, \"users\" was a bit broad. It is NOT any user of our application...it is only administrators (and we will create accounts for each of them).\n\nSo I think what I am saying is this, \"Any administer of our system will have an account created in confluence, and can follow links from our apps to pages in confluence. Authentication will take place transparently to the user when they follow these links.\"\n\n-Michael\n" } ] } ]

[ "application-link", "authentication" ]

[ { "author": "Nick Yarsulik", "body": "I was able to get around this issue by using the \"content by label\" macro and then simply applying the targeted label within the \"add-page\" macro.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "If the page will have a fixed name, you can use the {link-page} macro instead, and provide the name. That name can be built based on the parent page also if you like, using 'injection'. For example, if you have a parent page called 'Foo' and you want to add a child called 'Foo - Bar', you could do this:\n\n```\n{link-page:%page:title% - Bar|template=Bar Template|live=true}Bar{link-page}\n```\n\nWhen 'Foo - Bar' doesn't exist, it will be a 'create page' link, and when it does, it will link to the page instead.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Not out-of-the-box. Try the Arsenal Lockpoint plugin: <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/36199>\n\nArsenale Lockpoint for Confluence gives your company an advanced, enterprise-grade solution for controlled checkout and checkin (locking) of Confluence attachments, allowing for exclusive editing of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents as well as Gliffy diagrams and Balsamiq Mockups.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "attachment" ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Brad,\n\nI've tried to find the root cause but I wasn't successful. have you tried to remove and install the plugin again? Also, are you running the latest version of that Plugin in Confluence?\n\nSorry for not being of much help here.\n\nRegards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "Hi Dan,\n\nI'm not sure what filter you were trying to use, as that is probably where the problem lies. However, to get all users from 'discovery_admin', just add the 'group' parameter to your {user-reporter}. Eg:\n\n```\n{user-reporter:group=discovery_admin}\n```\n\nHope that helps...\n\nRegards, \nDavid Peterson \nCustomWare \\| Sydney, Australia \\| [www.customware.net](http://www.customware.net) \\| [email protected] \nAustralia: +61 2 9900 5700 \\| Malaysia: +60 173 283 768 \\| US: +1 888 707 0088 (toll free) \nThe rocket has launched! [www.trainingrocket.com\\</div\\<\\>\\>](http://www.trainingrocket.com%3C/div)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Daniel Stavrou", "body": "Hi David,\n\nI actually have tried that as well. The odd thing is that it produces no results. It actually does not for many of the groups listed that we have. It does work for confluence-administrators (as an example). I also tried using the {User-list} macro to see if it could list out members in different groups and it would not detect groups I would list (such as discovery_admin).\n\nIs there a reason that the plugin may not be picking up on many of the groups we have created in our Confluence instance?\n\nThanks!\n" }, { "author": "Daniel Stavrou", "body": "Just wanted to add on to that but the difference between some groups is that the User field for when the report successfully reported those in a group (confluence-administrators) was filled with their unique ID (12 digit number) but the other groups that are reporting nothing have members in them but the Name field has lastname/,firstname or a username (jsmith11 for example).\n\nWould this impact the performace of the reporting plugin? Hopefully that all made sense.\n\nThanks again!\n" }, { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "Hi Dan, not sure why the naming convention would be affecting it. A more likely problem is if you have a mix of different sources for the users, such as LDAP, Active Directory, Crowd, etc. There have been reports of odd behaviour in some of these curcumstances, but I've never been able to test them due to not haveing an appropriate authentication server to test agains...\n" } ] } ]

[ "app", "report" ]

[ { "author": "justindowning", "body": "In Permissions (Space or Global), you can make sure Add Comments and Remove Comments is not checked for the groups involved. You can turn it off for the confluence-users group (or Anonymous) if do not want anyone to comment.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "You might be interested in...\n\n* This blog post -- [More flexible commenting in Atlassian's Confluence](http://davidsimpson.me/2011/01/23/more-flexible-commenting-in-atlassians-confluence/)\n* The documentation on [Confluence Permissions Overview](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Permissions+Overview)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "Nice comment control macros.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Thomas Vlerick", "body": "To disable the comment, you edit the permission scheme of the space.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "justindowning", "body": "You can setup multiple LDAP repositories in Confluence. In 3.4.x and earlier, just edit atlassian-user.xml and input to repositories with different usernameAttribute elements:\n\n```\n<ldap key=\"ad1\" name=\"ad1\" cache=\"true\">\n```\n\n```\n <host>ad1</host>\n```\n\n```\n <port>389</port>\n```\n\n```\n <securityProtocol>plain</securityProtocol>\n```\n\n```\n <securityAuthentication>simple</securityAuthentication>\n```\n\n```\n <usernameAttribute>sAMAccountName</usernameAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n <userSearchFilter>(objectClass=user)</userSearchFilter>\n```\n\n```\n <firstnameAttribute>givenname</firstnameAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n <surnameAttribute>sn</surnameAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n <emailAttribute>mail</emailAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n <groupnameAttribute>cn</groupnameAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n <groupSearchFilter>(objectClass=group)</groupSearchFilter>\n```\n\n```\n <userSearchAllDepths>true</userSearchAllDepths>\n```\n\n```\n <groupSearchAllDepths>true</groupSearchAllDepths>\n```\n\n```\n <membershipAttribute>member</membershipAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n</ldap>\n```\n\n```\n<ldap key=\"ad2\" name=\"ad2\" cache=\"true\">\n```\n\n```\n <host>ad2</host>\n```\n\n```\n <port>389</port>\n```\n\n```\n <securityProtocol>plain</securityProtocol>\n```\n\n```\n <securityAuthentication>simple</securityAuthentication>\n```\n\n```\n <usernameAttribute>userPrincipalName</usernameAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n <userSearchFilter>(objectClass=user)</userSearchFilter>\n```\n\n```\n <firstnameAttribute>givenname</firstnameAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n <surnameAttribute>sn</surnameAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n <emailAttribute>mail</emailAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n <groupnameAttribute>cn</groupnameAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n <groupSearchFilter>(objectClass=group)</groupSearchFilter>\n```\n\n```\n <userSearchAllDepths>true</userSearchAllDepths>\n```\n\n```\n <groupSearchAllDepths>true</groupSearchAllDepths>\n```\n\n```\n <membershipAttribute>member</membershipAttribute>\n```\n\n```\n</ldap>\n```\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "You can add youself as a space watcher under Space Admin, Advanced. Anyone else with Space Admin rights should be able to do the same but you can't do it for them.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Richard Hierro", "body": "\"you can't do it for them\", yes, that is the problem, and it is a suggegestion of a new feature, see the link posted by Azwandi.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "There seems to be no way to do this at the moment, see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22313> for more information.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Richard Hierro", "body": "Thanks for your answer. Any idea how I could vote for this feature?\n" }, { "author": "justindowning", "body": "Create an account on [jira.atlassian.com](http://jira.atlassian.com), log in, and click the Vote button.\n" }, { "author": "Richard Hierro", "body": "Well, I did not see a vote button, but I found a \"Add a vote\" under \"More actions\" menu, thanks :) .\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Jan Mueller", "body": "> i think, i understand your intention very well. One disadvantage of using hierarchies is, that your content have only one parent\n\nThat is the reason why this thread exists. \nSome sort of hierarchy has to exist.\n\nThe feedback came right from the userbase. They were seraching and found a large number of results. So they thought it would be faster to search by clicking through the page tree. Which is feasable when you have learned to work with folders / trees. I agree - with a lot of content this would be a painful process. That's where the links come in.\n\nthanks for your thoughts.\n\nJan\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Christina Schantin [Communardo]", "body": "The solution depends on how many of this topics you have: \n\nThink about this options: \n\n1. Horizontal Navigation: You can use the (free) SubSpace Plugin, to have an external link hierarchy in the horizontal navigation. Here you add for example also links to wiki-pages. \n\n2. You can add links in the sidebar above the page three. \n\n3. You can add one Wiki-Page with all links to your topics and include this page as a kind of header in all your pages in space. \n\nMaybe, you use one of this ideas or mix two ;-)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jan M?ller", "body": "Hello Christina,\n\nunfortunately this would not work in our case.\n\nIt's a \"browse-related\" issue. Users do not only discover content by using the search or labels. Sometimes they browse the wiki hirarchy and this is where some sort of a sim-link would come in handy.\n\nThink of a knowledge base where the same content is should be discoverable in different branches.\n\nOr is it merely an issue that our users \"think\" in an old-fashioned way? :o\n\nbest,\n\nJan\n" }, { "author": "Christina Schantin [Communardo]", "body": "Hello Jan,\n\n<br />\n\ni think, i understand your intention very well. One disadvantage of using hierarchies is, that your content have only one parent. \n\nIf you want to use content in more than one places without dublicating, you can only link to this content or include the page with the include page macro. \n\nFor linking, i gave you some ideas how you can do it. If you need links in the page tree, you can only use wiki pages with page includes. \n\nBut be sure not to underestimate the abilities of your users. A lot of users search for content first, instead of using (especially) komplex page trees.\n\nbest, Christina\n" } ] }, { "author": "JohnB", "body": "Problem with the includepage macro workaround is that:\n\n1. The page title of the page using the includepage macro cannot be the same as the real page\n2. the child pages will not show up under the includepage macro page like it does under the real page.\n\nAny idea if/when Confluence will get symlink like functionality?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jan Mueller", "body": "I would really like to know that as well.. Really does not sound like the best solution.\n" } ] }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Add the (original) page in one place, then create new (duplicate) pages in the alternative places in the Confluence hierarchy.\n\nUse the [Include Page Macro](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Include+Page+Macro) on the duplicate pages to display the original page content.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Anant Sabane", "body": "I tried this approach. Though it goes well with reusability of the content, it is not required to create a page even when we use static HTML. I thought an advanced wiki like confluence will have some facility / functionality that allows users to insert such pointers.\n" }, { "author": "Jan Mueller", "body": "Hello David,\n\nis this still regarded the best approach we have at this time?\n\nI will be running into the same \"issue\" some time soon :o\n\nbest,\n\nJan\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Gaston Gaston", "body": "Did you check the confluence-cli?\n\nI was using it to create pages from my machine via command line interface.\n\nI think you can use that in conjunction with some shell scripts (if you're using unix/linux)\n\n<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP/Confluence+Command+Line+Interface>\n\nHope this helps.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "refresh" ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "No. They are the same permission because it doesn't make a lot of sense to allow someone the right to do one and not the other. Especially on a wiki, where people draft stuff and are positively encouraged to edit later.\n\nWhat's the aim though? There may be a good way to achieve what you want without thinking about permissions.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Quote Light Randomness", "body": "You can use a tiff viewer chrome extension like the one I wrote.\n\n<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/inline-tiff-viewer/kkfncbfgbghoklckdmeljdjohpkknlma>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "arron lee", "body": "Hi, have you found your way out? Why not try to bulild a web tiff image viewer by your self to display the tiff images? I am learning about how to [create Tiff viewers](http://www.yiigo.com/guides/csharp/how-to-create-tiff-viewer.shtml) with the help of some manual tools which can be customized by users according to our own favors to help display and [read tiff files](http://www.yiigo.com/guides/csharp/how-to-read-tiff.shtml) these days. You can also google it and select one whose way of processing is simple and fast to help you with the related work. Remember to check its free trial package first if possible. I hope you success. Good luck. \n\n<br />\n\n<br />\n\nBest regards, \nArron\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jo-Anne MacLeod", "body": "The gallery macro will not work with tif images \"\n\n* Only the following file formats are supported: **gif** , **png** , **jpeg** . The *bmp* format is not supported.\n\nI've also had problem displayinig images with IE8. And it is a IE8 problem, becasue they will display in Firefox and Safari (I believe that it displays in Chrome, but I don't use it, so I can't confirm).\n\nWhat browser are you using?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jason Stoller", "body": "I use Firefox and Safari. Too bad no other file formats are supported. gif and jpeg are \"lossy\"\n" }, { "author": "Jo-Anne MacLeod", "body": "You can attach a tiff image though, you just can't get it to display a thumbnail. :(\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Jeff_Arnold", "body": "On 6.5.12, as Lukas Spangenberg suggests above, this behavior is wholly dependent upon browser, and I can reproduce it every time. It works in Chrome, but does not in Firefox.\n\nAs a workaround, use a different browser.\n\nIn the meantime, Atlassian, this issue needs attention.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Zarko Jakimovski", "body": "Tried Confluence 6.15.2 with trial license in Chrome 73.0, and could not log in with the admin user created during setup. I've set recovery_admin, but could not log in with it either. \nUninstalled 6.15.2 and went back to 6.0.1 only to experience the same issue. Could not log in through Chrome and Opera, but works in Edge 42 and Firefox 65!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Alexandr Kirilov", "body": "I've got the same!!! its made me crazy. I am trying to install it and restore password. All isn't working. This is not trial license too.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Bill Dorman", "body": "Is this still an open item. Im having this exact issue. I've installed Confluence 6 times (literally) tonight. Every single time I've taken care to ensure that I'm getting the password correct. The last time I reduced the password down to 8 characters using only letters and numbers.\n\nI tried setting the password using the recovery env variable, that didn't work either.\n\nThis is seriously crazy...\n\nEdit: this is NOT a trial license, it's one I bought - just in case someone things that may matter.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Dan Dragonetti", "body": "Good morning\n\nI was able to reinstall Confluence and finally got it to work. I had it working for a couple of days but now I am having a new issue. When I launch the startup.bat the command prompt opens up but shortly after it crashes. I wont stay open longer than a minute or two. Any suggestions?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Lukas Spangenberg", "body": "for me it didnt work. Installed confluence, copyed password out of txt file -\\> wrong password. Reinstalled 3 times. No success. Wrong password. Deleted confluence. Is there any program simmaler to confluence I can try? Confluence seems not to be a good programm if standard installation does not work.\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "There is no password to copy out of a text file.\n\nWhen you install Confluence, it asks you to create an initial admin user, and you give it a password. You need to remember that password to log in after completion.\n" }, { "author": "Lukas Spangenberg", "body": "Yes. Lets say you choose \"password\" and save it in a textfile to be shure that you do type it correctly. Then you log in with the password you copied out of textfile. Login sucessfull. Then you click on administration, enter the same password what was sucessfull before and voila: \"wrong password\". Tryed it with 3 new installations. Found out later, that in EDGE it was working to login. Exacly same password. Firefox: \"wrong password\".\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Sounds like you've set something wrong then. Are you using odd characters in the username or password (anything not a-z or printed on a number key on your keyboard?). Check the log file to see what the error is.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Dan Dragonetti", "body": "Thank you for the quick reply but this is the second time I have gone through all the installation steps and both times I get stuck when trying to login. I left the default \"Admin\" username with a very simple password but neither time was I able to log into the dashboard. I am using SQL server 2008 for the database, not sure if that has anything to do with it.\n\nThanks\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)", "body": "Hrm, interesting. I've just downloaded a clean version of Confluence 3.5.9 and run through the evaluation setup wizard, and after the admin account creation step, it didn't even ask me to log in, but logged me in automatically.\n\nObviously you're not getting this same experience - could you please clarify what happens for you? You start the setup wizard, create the admin account, complete the wizard, and then it's dumping you at a login prompt instead of the Confluence dashboard?\n\nSorry you're encountering such issues with what is normally a quick and easy process!\n" }, { "author": "Dan Dragonetti", "body": "I was able to reinstall Confluence and finally got it to work. I had it working for a couple of days but now I am having a new issue. When I launch the startup.bat the command prompt opens up but shortly after it crashes. I wont stay open longer than a minute or two. Any suggestions?\n" }, { "author": "Jo-Anne MacLeod", "body": "is you bring up a cmd window and run startup.bat (cd to the directory, the ,\\\\startup.bat) directly in the window, it will allow you to see what the problem is. My guess is that its trying trouble connecting to a database, or you are out of memory.\n" }, { "author": "Dan Dragonetti", "body": "I have already tried that. When i launch startup.bat from cmd window it launches the application and it seems like it is working but only stays open for a couple of minutes.\n" }, { "author": "Dan Dragonetti", "body": "Good morning\n\nAny more suggestions regarding the issue I am having? The application crashes within minutes of either running startup.bat through command line or when I double click on startup.bat.\n" }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "What \"only stays open for a few minutes\"? The cmd window or confluence in your browser? That we need to figure out first.\n\nSecondly, I would suggest installing Confluence as a service and not having it run the startup.bat because that is a domain account and not system account process.\n\nThird, it would help if you attached a zip of all log files from \\<confluence-install\\>\\\\app\\\\logs and \\<confluence-install\\>\\\\data\\\\logs.\n\nThanks,\n" }, { "author": "Dan Dragonetti", "body": "Good afternoon\n\nThe command window for Confluence only stays open for a short time before crashing. I tried to install confluence as a service but after setting it up I realized that you cannot set up confluence as a service on a 64 bit server, is this true?\n" }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "Check this out:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Problems+Installing+Confluence+as+a+Service+on+Windows+64bit>\n\n<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-12293>\n" }, { "author": "Dan Dragonetti", "body": "Ok. I was able to install confluence as a service. I was able to start the service but after a short amount of time the service crashes thus causing the browser to crash. The JDK version I am using is 64 bit, could that be an issue?\n" }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "It would be best at this point if you attached the logs from the two locations I provided.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)", "body": "So you created an admin user and set the password during the Confluence Setup Wizard, and immediately afterwards, weren't able to succesfully log in with the same username/password? I hate to say it, but the most likely cause - assuming you haven't done any imports or tried anything fancy with external user management - is just a simple typo when creating the user (or a caps lock issue).\n\nThere are instructions on recovering the admin account here - <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights> - but to be honest, since it's an eval and you haven't even got in yet, the quickest solution is just to wipe the database and start again:\n\n1) Stop Confluence\n\n2) Wipe the database - if you're using an external database system such as Postgres, drop and recreate the database. If you're using HSQL, just delete the \"database\" directory in the Confluence installation directory.\n\n3) Start Confluence again and go through the wizard.\n\nLet us know how you go, please!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)", "body": "Hi Dan, I've just updated the question title to be a bit more specific.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "BenA", "body": "There are no specific elements or restrictions on what you can customise (that is, you are able to modify anything), you're really only limited by how much CSS you want to write and maintain :)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Nick Yarsulik", "body": "Thanks! I was able to tinker around with \"Inspect Element\" in Google Chrome and found different things I can target. I had just hoped there would be an easier list of what was available instead of having to hunt around the code :o)\n" } ] } ]

[ "css", "custom-field", "theme" ]

[ { "author": "JamieA", "body": "Use the [Confluence CLI](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP/Confluence+Command+Line+Interface) - you can list pages, add labels to pages etc.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Lis Riba", "body": "Thanks. That did the trick.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Michele Lim [Cprime]", "body": "Hello! We have recently made a free plug in [Power Scripts for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219507/power-scripts-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) which you can download from the Marketplace to help automate Confluence administration, one of the features is bulk labelling. Here's a short video on how to do it [https://youtu.be/nM0a8JM2T2E?list=PLKTAla3ZrW8mMmYvgOVf3UPXU8V4nc-xj](https://youtu.be/nM0a8JM2T2E?list=PLKTAla3ZrW8mMmYvgOVf3UPXU8V4nc-xj?)\n\nHope this helps!\n\nMichele\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Tim Schmidt", "body": "Does the Label Manager work for blog posts aswell?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Mert Karada?l? _ K?stebek Teknoloji _", "body": "Hi,\n\nYou could do it with Label Manager for Confluence plug in.[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.kostebekteknoloji.plugins.confluence.confluence-label-manager)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.kostebekteknoloji.plugins.confluence.confluence-label-manager> \nYou could search for similar labels in a space and then merge them into one standard label. \nYou could also do bulk operations like appending , adding and removing labels. \nDocumentation is here:[](http://www.confluence.kostebekteknoloji.com/display/PLUG/Label+Manager+for+Confluence)<http://www.confluence.kostebekteknoloji.com/display/PLUG/Label+Manager+for+Confluence> \nRegards,\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Betsy Walker", "body": "We've had great success with the [Label Management plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/5076), however it officially is only compatible with Confluence versions up to 2.10.4.\n\n(We're on 2.10.2 and about to upgrade, so I don't know yet whether it truly will work with a more recent version. The compatibility listing on the Plugin Exchange is often out-of-date.)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "label" ]

[ { "author": "Betsy Walker", "body": "Try the [contentbylabel macro](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fconfluence.atlassian.com%2Fdisplay%2FDOC%2FContent%2Bby%2BLabel%2BMacro&rct=j&q=confluence%20contentbylabel&ei=mNY6TobaO4iatwfgyP2MAw&usg=AFQjCNGN71rMM81rhoJSvSBvT6zE5yqMBg&cad=rja), and label the pages so that they end up in the appropriate 'collections'.\n\nNote: this will list the page titles, not headings within a page... but maybe that'll work just fine.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "ITops123", "body": "The table of contents plugin allows you to create table of contents by including or excluding header styles (e.g., h1, h2, h3). By using these strategically, you should be able to create different tables of contents for the same content.\n\nYou can also exclude specific headers using the macro. The macro browser windows gives you all those options and is easy to use.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Anant Sabane", "body": "Thank you for your suggestion. However this navigation i am talking is not only about a single page. It is for a collection of pages across multiple spaces. To deliver a documentation set to the audience for a specific modular application, I need to create navigation. The same navigation is needed in online / static HTML / PDF forms.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Sergey Markovich", "body": "Hi Thomas,\n\nHave you set max_allowed_packet on MySQL server side too? When you set --max_allowed_packet=1024M parameter that is for MySQL client only. To change it on server change the my.cnf or my.ini file under the mysqld section and set max_allowed_packet=100M\n\nYou can also run these commands in a mysql console connected to that same server:\n\nset global net_buffer_length=1000000;\n\nset global max_allowed_packet=1000000000;\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Thomas Petersen", "body": "I opened up two consoles and had already tried those set commands and ended up getting the same error. Only thing I haven't done yet is trying to chunk the file? It's a 48M file so I see no reason it can't buffer this thing.\n" }, { "author": "Thomas Petersen", "body": "Got it. Had to resize max_allowed_packet in my.cnf and restart mysqld.\n" } ] } ]

[ "app", "export", "import", "mysql" ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Hi Mark,\n\n<br />\n\nIf you are running Confluence 3.5, you can use the \"Insert JIRA Issue Dialog\" to insert a reference to a single JIRA issue on a Confluence page (documentation here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Inserting+JIRA+Issues>).\n\nThis does only display a brief summary of the issue, though (issue key, issue status and summary). Unfortunately there is no way to embed the details of an entire JIRA issue into a Confluence page out-of-the-box.\n\nSome options you may consider:\n\n* Enable the {html} macro on your Confluence instance (note: there are security implications) and manually embed an iframe into your page for the JIRA issue).\n* Develop a custom Gadget definition or Confluence macro to render the information you require\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "jira" ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hello Dan,\n\nI've performed a search [here](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.pageapproval) and it seems that the plugin can only search within a single space. You might want to raise a feature request with the plugin vendor to add a functionality to use multiple spaces ;)\n\nI hope this helps!\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "approver", "page", "report", "space" ]

[ { "author": "minesh patel", "body": "This requires an additional plugin.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jo-Anne MacLeod", "body": "Try posting the question on the site for the button macro\\[http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/button+macro\\]. (I get the same error by the way)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "ITops123", "body": "Can you be more specific? What macro are you talking about? Where is the link to the documentation?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Nicolas Wildner", "body": "It seems that Confluence don't have such feature to store attachments on a NAS,\n\nHowever, as a former Linux sysadmin, i would suggest you(if running any Linux or UNIX variation) to:\n\n* Create a NFS filesystem export on the NAS giving RW permissions just for the Confluence Server\n* Mount this NFS on your Confluence Attachments dir, with the option -o soft, to avoid \"hard sync\" and performance problems;\n\nI think it would be a better solution than rely on \"Tool Side Configuration\", using directly a Network Filesystem ;)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "configuration", "nas", "scale", "storage" ]

[ { "author": "Alexander Johannes", "body": "Maybe you are able to mount your storage and put the confluence home on the share (the usual unix-foo).\n\nOf course you have to make sure, that the share is available, before starting confluence.\n\nBesides: this is no question specific to confluence, because confluence is doing nothing special here...\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "configuration", "nas", "scale", "storage" ]

[ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "You will need to go into the database and do a few different queries. The first for users will be the \\[users\\] table and you'll want to look at the \"created\" column. For the pages you'll want to look at the \\[content\\] table and you'll want to filter by the creationdate column and do a where version = 1 and contenttype = page.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "You will need to go into the database and do a few different queries. The first for users will be the \\[users\\] table and you'll want to look at the \"created\" column. For the pages you'll want to look at the \\[content\\] table and you'll want to filter by the creationdate column and do a where version = 1 and contenttype = page.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "user" ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "I would recommend the reporting plug-in. I think it is bundled with Confluence. Here is an example of a report that should generate what you asked for, over a given space.\n>\n> ```\n> {report-table} {content-reporter:spaces=@self|types=+page} {text-sort:content:title} {content-reporter} {report-column:title=Title}{report-info:page:title|link=true}{report-column} {report-column:title=Person Last Changing}{report-info:page:modifier}{report-column} {report-column:title=Last Changed Date}{report-info:page:modification date}{report-column} {report-column:title=Version History}{report-info:page:version history}{report-column}{report-column:title=Version Comment}{report-info:page:version comment}{report-column}{report-column} {report-table} \n> ```\n\nNow, maybe you just want the version number instead of the version history. See <http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/AtlassianPlugins/Content+Supplier> for details on the content-reporter (supplier).\n\nThe above reports on all pages in the current space. You can filter based on content, such as labels, if you wish. You can sort the resulting table based on any column or even a \"hidden\" column.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Midori", "body": "**[Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving)** **helps you to automate many aspects of *Content Lifecycle Management*.**\n\nAs you asked specifically about reporting, I'd recommend you to start reading here:\n\n1. [Content Quality report](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/#statistics) (no of up-to-date vs. expired pages, no of actively visited vs. non-visited pages, etc. per space - see below)\n2. [Tracking and reporting pages that are not viewed by anyone](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-view-tracking) (potentially irrelevant content)\n3. [Tracking and reporting pages that are not updated for a period](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-view-tracking) (potentially stale content)\n\ncontent-quality-statistics.png \n[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Reports-on-Pages/qaq-p/181009?attachment-id=11251){#link_118e3200dacf9f} \n[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/30307/1/content-quality-statistics.png){#display_118e3200dacf9f_0}\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "You might also wish to look at {pageapproval} and {pageapproval-report} macros. <http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/AtlassianPlugins/pageapproval>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Martin Cooper", "body": "My apologies Bryan.\n\nYes you can reorder the Child list at the bottom of the page. This again may be version dependant, but recent versions have re-order page link next to the display which takes you the hierarchy view which lets you adjust the sort order manually or select Alphabetical.\n\nThis functionality is avialable in 2.10 as well\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF210/Setting+a+Page+Family+to+Alphabetical+Order>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "bryan finch", "body": "it depends are you an adult, with no children, putting an ga before s on one of your famly mimbers so you can take away there prize money, for what thay have been working so hard for, if you are then you have no clue what im going to do,being that famly member\n" } ] }, { "author": "Martin Cooper", "body": "Not sure about in that specific version, but the current version the Children Display Macro allows you to select the sort order based on title, creation or modified values. It also has a reverse sort order.\n\nI've tested this and it lists the pages correctly.\n\n{children:sort=title}\n\nIt does look like your macro is sorting based on creation date.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Bryan Bae", "body": "i know that macro.....\n\ni mean children page list that is bottmon of a page...\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "For AD you will do better using a login name (security principal) formatted like **[email protected]** The full DN doesn't work in a lot of situations.\n\nFor you, this should be **[email protected]** based on what you posted.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "I was about to suggest this - spot on.\n" } ] }, { "author": "JamieA", "body": "If you can't bind to the ldap server using JXplorer it's just a case of \"contact your admins\". The principal DN or password or both is wrong... Not much point in trying to get it working with confluence til you've got past this point.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "G?ran T?rnqvist", "body": "Ok, thanks. \n\nThe AD admins won t be around for a few weeks so I guess its up to me to find the answer :( \n\nIf anyone have any idea on what settings in AD I should check, I would be grateful - policy settings etc etc.\n" } ] } ]

[ "active-directory", "ldap" ]

[ { "author": "john m", "body": "There't not enough info here to help you. Turn on debug in the log4j conf file to get some better logs.\n\nchange the question to include those logs and your conversion config files and some example files that were exported from the db.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "universal-wiki-converter" ]

[ { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "Atlassian do not support running multiples of their apps in the one servlet container. However, the war distribution (in your own container) and the standalone product are fully supported ways of installing their product.\n\nYou will find that the Apache Web server front end to Tomcat container setup is one of the most popular ways of installing their products and you'll find lots of help and documentation around\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "If you download the \"standalone\" version of Confluence, it comes bundled with a version of Tomcat. We also distribute a \"war only\" version, in case you want to host Confluence on your own pre-existing AppServer.\n\nPretty sure all our other apps are servlet-based too (well, I know JIRA and Bamboo are).\n\nI wouldn't recommend running the apps in a shared JVM... unsure on our official policy on that, though.\n\n**edit:**yes, do do indeed ship both a \"standalone\" (includes tomcat) and \"EAR/WAR\" (web archive only) distribution for Confluence.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Samuel Levin", "body": "Here's my dilemma. I have a 512mb RAM debian 6 squeeze VPS.\n\nDo you think I'd be ok to spawn 4x 64mb Tomcat Containers, one per Atlassian title, with that amount of RAM? Literally two people will be using each application. I didn't think that I would need a separate JVM for each application, initially.\n\nI wanted to have all of my atlassian tools in one instance of tomcat (9090), and my live application in it's own as well (9191).\n\nI already know how I am going to set up ProxyPass for each, so tomcat will run locally. I just need to know whether I need 5 JVM's, instead of 2.\n" }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "I can't speak definitively for the other products, but Confluence won't run happily in anything below 128MB... 256MB would be better.\n\nIt looks like our official support policy is a separate JVM for each product (see <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Deploying+Multiple+Atlassian+Applications+in+a+Single+Tomcat+Container>).\n" } ] } ]

[ "install", "tomcat" ]

[ { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "There's a bug report for this. See [CONF-6246](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6246).\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "export", "gliffy" ]

[ { "author": "Jason Skrzypek", "body": "Hi we use something similar using the macro found here\n\n<https://www.adaptavist.com/display/AtlassianConfluence/hide-from+macro>\n\nhope it helps\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Shannon Barnhart", "body": "Thanks! That's what i was looking for.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Joey McDaniel", "body": "I like the hide-from Macro, but sadly the content is still indexed. So they aren't able to used for security purposes.\n\nDoes anyone know of a macro that performs the same job, but prevents the indexing of the (hopefully) secure content?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "I can't recall such a macro or functionality but you could try use page include macro?\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Include+Page+Macro>\n\nFor users to see the included page they require view permission on it. Only problem would be if they see an error when they don't have the permission as that would look a bit ugly\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Nick Manville", "body": "You may want to follow this action: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TASK-34>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "date", "tasklist" ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Yes. Your configuration is incorrect.\n\nThat error could be all sorts of things, you'll need to read the log in detail to find out what it is. It's usually (but not always) that your configuration string doesn't point at a database that the server can see, or it has no access to (the root cause will be above this line in your log for most database servers).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David Soldan", "body": "now im getting org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (null, message from server: \"Host '172.16.1.100' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server\")\n\nwhat do i have to change at the sql server?? \n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "That's more specific, excellent.\n\nYour server security is incorrect - you need to tell it to allow access from the Confluence serer. I've not used SQL server for a long time, so you'd need to check the documentation for the correct way. (If it were MySQL, there's a \"grant access to user@server\" SQL statement to run, but you should do the access the way the docs for your database says are best)\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Rayone Moyer", "body": "Disabling the [Descendant Notifications Plugin from Adaptavist](http://www.adaptavist.com/display/Plugins/Descendant+Notifications) seems to have done the trick! Thanks for the help. Appreciate it.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Rayone Moyer", "body": "Uninstalled the plugin and now its working correctly. Thanks for all the suggestion.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "epohl", "body": "We have the same problem. Seems to happen when we watch the whole space.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jo-Anne MacLeod", "body": "Do you have the plugin installed though? We had the same problem until the plugin was actually removed. But maybe it was coincidental.\n" }, { "author": "Rayone Moyer", "body": "we do have the plug in installed I will try tremoving it and see if that works. Thanks\n" } ] }, { "author": "Dennis Benzinger SAP", "body": "We have the same problem too. Are you using the [Descendant Notifications Plugin from Adaptavist](http://www.adaptavist.com/display/Plugins/Descendant+Notifications)? \nThere's a thread about this problem in the Adaptavist forum: [Getting two emails when using the Descendant Notifications plugin](http://www.adaptavist.com/display/community/Getting+two+emails+when+using+the+Descendant+Notifications+plugin)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Rayone Moyer", "body": "We are not using the plugin. Seems to be happening Because we are watching the whole space? I have tried to modify the email settings on what alerts I get but stil getting the same two identical emails. Several others in the company are as well.\n\nAny suggestions would be appreciated.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Are these two emails identical i.e. same subject and contents? Did you receive them at the same time?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Rayone Moyer", "body": "They are identical. same subject, time, content, etc.If I stop watching pages then I get none, if I watch my space and te children of the space by default then I get two.\n" }, { "author": "Jon Cotter", "body": "Only for Watchers? or for all notification types (Reporter, Assignee etc...)?\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Adam Laskowski", "body": "In the navigation menu that appears beneath your name on mouse hover, select \"Calendar\" to go to your main Team Calendars view. You should have a list of calendars on the right hand side. Click on the Gear icon for the calendar you wish to link to, and click \"Share.\" This will give you a URL that you can then link to using the normal wiki markup style:\n>\n> ```\n> [link text|<Share_URL>]\n> ```\n\nIf you have trouble locating the \"Share\" option, there is an example image in the guide for [exporting calendars](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TEAMCAL/Exporting+Team+Calendars+Content+to+Other+Calendars) that shows the \"Share\" option right above the highlighted export option.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "John Price", "body": "Thanks. I was hoping for a shorter syntax like \"CAL:IT Team Calendar\" or something. This helps though.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Tatiana Dergay", "body": "Hi, the short link is not available as I see - I have no idea how to link to calendar, without embedding it on the page. Could you help me?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Paul Cummings", "body": "So is there a way go link (not embed) to a calendar? I'm not seeing one.\n\nTHANKS.\n\n(bumping this question as I have similar issue)\n" }, { "author": "John Price", "body": "[@Paul Cummings](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1163357) As a workaround, you can specify Web Link and just paste the URL. This will of course break if the link changes (like if the space name changes), but it'll keep Confluence from auto-converting the pasted URL.\n\nExample:\n\n[https://confluence.mycompany.com/display/TG/calendars#](https://confluence.ihsmarkit.com/display/TG/calendars#)\n" } ] } ]

[ "calendar" ]

[ { "author": "Mark Nixon", "body": "To all those interested,\n\nI stumbled accross a solution which may help us anyway: <https://appfusions.com/display/EDIRC/Enterprise+Directory+and+Org+Chart+for+Confluence>\n\nWhilst it focuses more on the directory and organisational chart, we will also use Personal Spaces to list individuals skills/competancies - we have set a template for this in Confluence Admin -\\> Default Space Content.\n\nHope this helps anyone else with the same question.\n\nMark\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Chris van Hasselt", "body": "Mark - I'd be interested in learning more about what you've done, as this sounds exactly like a project I am working on. We are using the default people directory, and we've got a lot of issues that have been solved, others that haven't. Have you found any good docs on search, people search in particular? For instance, a basic question: Confluence uses Lucene for search, but is that the same search engine used for people search? If not, what is used?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]", "body": "For more info on this -\n\n<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/09/marketplace-monday-enterprise-directory-and-org-chart-for-confluence/>\n\nVideo - <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJ8AS60bds>\n\nEval Licenses are available from AppFusions direct ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])) and this plugin is going through fast and active feature iteration these days, due to popularity. We just added image support.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Mark Nixon", "body": "Hi Chris,\n\nSorry for the late reply.\n\nWe Didn't end up going for this, as it didnt integrate properly, was cost-prohibitive and also our organisational security policy restricted appfusions creating something custom-built for us.\n\nI actually revisited this today, and we are simply going to have a page with Senior management (C-level and VP's) - with just a picture of them, and their name underneath. By clicking on this it links to their personal space. I will probably then have a list (simple table) of all people directly underneath them, linking again to thier personal space.\n\nIn the end, the complexity of any solution became too high - and at the end of the day we couldnt justfy the outlay vs benefit. In the end we will just get the poor student assistant to bash away at this for a few hours ;)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "BenB", "body": "Depends on the product. JIRA 4.4 will ship with an ActiveObjects beta, including backup and restore. No word yet on the next version of Confluence, but the Fisheye/Crucible team is working on integrating it.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "So, it will be built into future versions of each of the products, but currently only JIRA 4.4 has backup/restore capabilities for AO.\n\nIs that right?\n" }, { "author": "Samuel Le Berrigaud", "body": "@David correct.\n" } ] } ]

[ "active-objects" ]