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[ { "author": "Janusz Gorycki", "body": "Hi Bernd,\n\nThe easiest way to install IDE Connector for Eclipse is to follow instructions at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/IDEPLUGIN/Installing+the+Eclipse+Connector>\n\nBest Regards,\n\nJanusz Gorycki\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "eclipse", "ide-connector" ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "In your pom.xml, make sure that your dependency on the java servlet API is set to \"Provided\":\n> \\<dependency\\> \n> \\<groupId\\>javax.servlet\\</groupId\\> \n> \\<artifactId\\>servlet-api\\</artifactId\\> \n> \\<version\\>2.3\\</version\\> \n> **\\<scope\\>provided\\</scope\\>** \n> \\</dependency\\>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Bjarni Thorbjornsson", "body": "Hi,\n\nYour class is called \"XlsExport2\" but your definition is using \"XlsExport\"!\n\n-Bjarni\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "class-exception", "servlet" ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "At a very basic level, yes. Just add the database connections to the Tomcat (or other application server), and you'll be able to access the databases.\n\nThere is nothing built into Confluence that actually uses them, so you'll need some code that actually uses them.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David Soldan", "body": "And then when the Databases are connected how i can include staff from the databases to confluence pages??? With the sql plugin/macros??\n\nAm i one the right way if i follow <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+MySQL+Datasource+in+Apache+Tomcat> and this <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/SQL/SQL+plugin+datasource+configuration> ??\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Yes. the instructions are in the docs for the database plugin as you've already found.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Jean.\n\nI could only find this documentation which I'm not sure if you are aware of: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/SiteMinder+Custom+Seraph+Authenticator+for+Confluence>\n\nMaybe this can help you to implement the Siteminder :)\n\nregards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Ryan Goodwin", "body": "Isn't that the same link as in Jeans question?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jean de Laulani?", "body": "I have switched to shibboleth instead, easier to integrate with Confluence.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)", "body": "Looks like Team Calendars might do what you need.\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TEAMCAL/Subscribing+to+Team+Calendars+from+Microsoft+Outlook>\n\nThe integration seems to be fairly limited - I'd suggest trying an evaluation and seeing if it meets your use case.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Dimitrios Traskas", "body": "Hi thanks\n\nfor the reply. Unfortunatelly at the moment we only have Outlook 2007 so we will need to find a different solution.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Martin Cooper", "body": "Sounds like a firewall / Network security issue. Whilst the port may be forwarded there can still be a rule that prevents any port being accepted as part of a URL. I have seen this a few times where only plain URLs were allowed.\n\nI would check that out first and also that there are no ip range rules on the firewall blocking access from any unknown IPs.\n\nYou might want to set up an apache server in front of Confluence as is normally more firewall / security friendly and can then easily serve over port 80. This could also be a good quick test, as if can see the apache welcome page externally, then you know the problem lies with the port on the URL.\n\nAlso just to doublecheck - the hostname is recognised externally and is not just on an internal dns (I know you said you could telnet to it I assume thats externally, but just trying to cover all bases)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "Hi David,\n\nIt looks like you opened a support ticket with us and we were able to figure it out. Please accept this solution if that's right. From what I can tell, it's this:\n\n1. From confluence.cfg.xml, remove \\<property name=\"hibernate.connection.isolation\"\\>4096\\</property\\>\n2. On the database, run:\n\n```\nALTER DATABASE confluence\n```\n\n```\nSET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION OFF\n```\n\nWe'll write a KB article for this.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "sql", "upgrade" ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Browse to:\n\n```\nConfluence Admin | Look and Feel | Custom HTML \n```\n\nIn **At end of the HEAD**, add some javascript similar to this:\n\n```\n<script>\n\nif (AJS.$('#login-link').length > 0) {\n AJS.$('.ajs-drop-down.most-right-menu-item li').hide();\n AJS.$('#view-attachments-link').parent().show();\n AJS.$('#link-to-page-link').parent().show();\n AJS.$('#action-view-source-link').parent().show();\n}\n<script> \n```\n\n```\n \n```\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Alex Samad YB", "body": "Hi\n\nI have confluence 4.2.2 neither of the above seemed to work. Is there a way to do it in 4.2.2\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Eric Riddle", "body": "Alex, check that you change the last \\<script\\> to \\</script\\>\n" } ] }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Related question: [Is it possible to control what an anonymous user sees in the browse menu?](/questions/5039/is-it-possible-to-control-what-an-anonymous-user-sees-in-the-browse-menu)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jon Cotter", "body": "You can also edit the template itself. You can find some related info here in this old post:\n\n[http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?messageID=257351387\\&#257351387.](http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?messageID=257351387&#257351387.)\n\nIn that post i outlined how I disabled certain features for anyone other than an admin... you could use the same concept to not show sections for people who arent logged in.\n\nLet me know if you need more info.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "AlexH", "body": "Why do you want to prevent that? One of the main reasons to have multiple spaces is so that you can have multiple pages that have the same name.\n\n\"Meet the team\" sounds like a great name for a page that introduces the team, and as long as users get used to looking at the breadcrumbs to see which space they are in the confusion should be temporary.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "vincent beudez", "body": "Hi,\n\nI also have the same question, it would be really usefull. If somebody has an answer... :)\n\nThanks,\n\nVincent\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "embed", "faq" ]

[ { "author": "Ronald Horner", "body": "So it turns out that this feature is not supported by Atlassian - for whatever reason I will not know. However you can get it to work by following these easy instructions!\n\n* Head to the plugin's page and download the source code : [https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/source/browse/CONFCRUPLUG\\</li\\<\\>\\>](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/source/browse/CONFCRUPLUG%3C/li)\n\n[](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/source/browse/CONFCRUPLUG%3C/li)\n\n```\nsvn checkout https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/svn/CONFCRUPLUG/trunk CONFCRUPLUG\n```\n\n* Edit the pom.xml to point to your version of Confluence, I am using Confluence 3.5.7, but you can change it to any version\n\n```\n<properties>\n```\n\n```\n ... \n```\n\n```\n <atlassian.product.version>3.5.7</atlassian.product.version> \n```\n\n```\n ...\n```\n\n```\n</properties> \n```\n\n* Build and package the plugin. From the command line *cd* into the root of the source directory ie */home/jsmith/confcruplug/*. This is going to download a mess of artifacts to do the build. If your build environment cannot touch the internet, make sure your maven proxy is configured to use Atlassian's maven repositories.\n\n```\nmvn clean package\n```\n\n* The plugin will now be available in the _target_ directory.\n* Log into Confluence as an administrator and install the plugin manually\n* Browse -\\> Confluence Admin -\\> Configuration -\\> Plugins -\\> Install -\\> Upload Plugin\n* You may need to enable the plugin and/or restart after install\n* Make sure your settings match what I posted in the question and you should be good to go!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Ronald Horner", "body": "Since Confluence is version controlled it is essentially the same thing as a source code repository except instead of viewing source code you view wiki markup. This has allowed our users to review specific versions of their confluence pages with all of the integration available with source code integration.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "EddieW", "body": "What is the goal here? Why are you treating Confluence as a soruce code repository?!\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "fisheye-crucible", "repository" ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Browse to:\n\n```\nConfluence Admin | Look and Feel | Custom HTML \n```\n\nIn **At end of the HEAD**, add some javascript similar to this:\n\n```\n<script>\nif (AJS.$('#login-link').length > 0) {\n AJS.$('#browse-menu-link').parent().hide();\n}\n<script> \n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Terence McGhee", "body": "Thank you so much David!\n" }, { "author": "Terence McGhee", "body": "This is the script I ended up using and I had to put it at the **end of the body** section.\n\n\\<script\\>\n\nif (AJS.$('#login-link').is(\":visible\"))\n\n{\n\nAJS.$('#space-pages-link').hide();\n\nAJS.$('#space-blogposts-link').hide();\n\nAJS.$('#space-attachments-link').hide();\n\nAJS.$('#space-mail-link').hide();\n\nAJS.$('#space-advanced-link').hide();\n\nAJS.$('#whats-new-menu-link').hide();\n\nAJS.$('#gadget-directory-link').hide();\n\n}\n\n\\</script\\>\n" }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Cool. That will likely do the trick :)\n" } ] }, { "author": "Stephen Thompson", "body": "My worry is, if you run these scripts, you will lose the edit menu too and be locked out. Any plan for that scenario?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Adrian Wieczorek", "body": "None of the above will work for OnDemand. Any other ideas?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Eric Riddle", "body": "I was able to combine the two above answers and make it work in Confluence 4.2.\n\nI put this script at the End of Body\n\n```\n<script>if (AJS.$('#login-link').is(\":visible\")) { AJS.$('#browse-menu-link').parent().hide();}</script> \n```\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jodie Miners", "body": "There is also the excellent Menu Manager Plugin from CustomWare that does the trick brilliantly. <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/13460>\n\nBut remember, once you have hidden the commands, the user can still access many of the Confluence features by the URL as definined in this great post <http://www.divingintothedetails.com/confluence/urls-to-access-confluence-wiki-functionality/.> but most of these do require the confluence pageid.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Related question: [Can I control what anonymous user sees on the Tools menu?](/questions/5040/can-i-control-what-anonymous-user-sees-on-the-tools-menu)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "ket.pjwstk", "body": "What version of confluence do you use? I had some problems with locale settings in confluence 3.5.2., which were fixed in 3.5.6.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Alexander Johannes", "body": "The best thing would be, that you report your locale (including keyboard layout), operating system and browser in a new issue on <https://jira.atlassian.com/>\n\nFor instance: i'm from germany and use a mac with german keyboard layout. I can type the ? just by hitting \\[alt\\] + E without activating something else in confluence.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Thomas Vlerick", "body": "Never mind, for some unknown reason it works again after several restarts of Confluence :).\n\nEdit: but not for all the plugins. I did some random checks and I found at least two plugins that are not up to date.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "BenW", "body": "UPM will only display updates that are compatible with your current product version. It is very possibly that even though there were new plugin versions on the Plugin Exchange, that those new versions were not marked as being compatible with your Confluence version.\n", "comments": null } ]

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

[ { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Do you wish to disable the {gallery} macro? What do you mean by loading them in a normal web page?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Umm, you do understand that if you did this, every anonymous user would simply get a list of all the recently viewed pages by ALL users? Which is probably useless unless you're doing web-stats, in which case you should be using the statistics modules or proper hit analysis\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Adam Laskowski", "body": "The best way to get an accurate count of the number of pages in the instance (excluding their previous versions) is to run this query against your database:\n>\n> ```\n> select count(*) from content where contenttype='PAGE' and prevver is null and content_status='current';\n> ```\n\nLimiting the contenttype to PAGE removes space and global descriptions, user info, drafts, and blog posts; only returning rows with a null previous version ensures that only the current version of the page is counted; lastly, content that has been deleted will have a status of \"deleted,\" so you only want the rows that are still in the \"current\" status.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Alex Bobrovski", "body": "If I use the {sql} macro, is it dangerous in terms of security? Is it true that any user can run the macro and get any data?\n" }, { "author": "Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)", "body": "Yes, the {sql} macro opens up your whole database to any user who can edit Confluence content.\n" } ] }, { "author": "K. Yamamoto", "body": "For Confluence Cloud users, consider using REST API as below because Confluence Cloud doesn't support SQL, Macro, and some Add-ons for stats.\n\n```\nA_USER=\"admin\"A_PASSWD=\"__YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE__\"INSTANCE_HOST=\"__YOUR_SUBDOMAIN_HERE__.atlassian.net\" # Total number of pagescurl -sGLu ${A_USER}:${A_PASSWD} \"https://${INSTANCE_HOST}/wiki/rest/api/search\" --data-urlencode 'cql=type IN (blogpost, page)' --data-urlencode 'limit=0'\n```\n\nRefer my related answer at [For Confluence Cloud, how do I find the total number of pages?](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/10417309/answers/44613435) for more detail if you needed.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "K. Yamamoto", "body": "As of 2022, use the API token instead of the account password <https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens>\n" } ] } ]

[ "count", "page" ]

[ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "Add the group to your user search filter, eg,\n\n(\\&(memberOf=CN=ConfluenceUsers,OU=SharedGroups,DC=XYZ,DC=local)(objectClass=user))\n\nNote: You can use this same construct in the group search filter to select groups you want to show in confluence.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Ishtiaque Omar", "body": "|---------------------------------------------|\n| Jim, This worked perfectly. Thanks a bunch. |\n" } ] }, { "author": "Adam Laskowski", "body": "When connecting Confluence to an LDAP or AD server, you want to specify a base DN that is sufficient high enough in the tree such that Confluence can search the lower branches for users and groups.\n\nIf you created the Confluence security group under the OU \"org\" (eg. *cn=Confluence,ou=org,dc=org,dc=com*), and search all depths is enabled (only applies to Confluence 3.4.9 and earlier), then Confluence should be able to find the group assuming the group has an attribute matched in the group search filter; the default group search filter is (objectCategory=Group). If this key value pair is missing in your security group, Confluence won't know it's a group and it will not show up in the Manage Group UI.\n\nYou can use the Additional User and Group DN spaces to append RDNs to the Base DN to narrow the search. If you store your users in *cn=Users,ou=org,dc=org,dc=local* , you can add *cn=Users* into the Additional User DN to start all searchs for users at that depth.\n\nOne solid test to narrow down whether this is an issue with DN assignments or with search filters/attribute mapping is to set your Base DN to the root of the dirtectory, remove any Additional DNs, then see if Confluence can find the group. If it does, it's an issue with your Base DN/Additional DN combinations. If it does not, try asjusting your search filter so that it matches a unique key value pair in your security group entry.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Ishtiaque Omar", "body": "|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Adam, thanks for the explanation behind how this works. Much appreciated. |\n" } ] }, { "author": "Ishtiaque Omar", "body": "Jim, This worked perfectly. Thanks a bunch. And Adam, thanks for the explanation behind how it works as well. Very much appreciated.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Andrew Ardill", "body": "Ish, you should think about converting this 'answer' into a commnt on the other answers.\n" } ] } ]

[ "active-directory", "group", "ldap" ]

[ { "author": "Robert Glover", "body": "Hoo boy, do I feel foolish. As soon as I posted the question the answer struck like lightning. A simple \"html\" macro solves the problem! (Assuming, of course, that the html macro has been activated; by default in a vanilla Confluence install the html macro is not active).\n\nTo whit:\n\n(left brace)html(right brace) \n\\&lt;center\\&gt; \n\\&lt;form action=\"https://foo.com/up\" method=\"GET\" target=\"_blank\"\\&gt; \n\\&lt;label for=\"emailaddress\"\\&gt;Enter your e-mail address: \\&lt;/label\\&gt;\\&lt;input type=\"text\" name=\"emailaddress\" size=\"60\" maxlength=\"60\"/\\&gt;\\&lt;br /\\&gt; \n\\&lt;input type=hidden name=\"app\" value=\"tsgoar\" \n\\&lt;br\\&gt;\\&lt;br\\&gt;\\&lt;input type=\"submit\" value=\"Request Something\" onClick=\"return confirm('Submit request for app to be pushed to your BB?');\"\\&gt; \n\\&lt;/form\\&gt; \n\\&lt;/center\\&gt; \n(left brace)html(right brace)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "The html macro is a fairly serious security issue, ie, allowing any page write to add arbitrary html to a page.\n\nBetter to write the html in a user macro!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "The html macro is a fairly serious security issue, ie, allowing any page writer to add arbitrary html to a page. The sky's the limit. That's why it is not active by default.\n\nBetter to write the html in a user macro. You only allow one considered action, not just anything. It's possible to limit access to html macro with another plugin but using the user macro is simpler.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "forms", "http" ]

[ { "author": "Michael S", "body": "You're able to upgrade to any version that was released before your license expired. One thing to be aware of if you're upgrading to a version pre 2.10.4 is that we updated a bunch of our old versions to remove 3rd party code, the license can sometimes be tripped up on this as technically they may have been released after your license expired (see: [http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ArchiveConfluenceDownloads.jspa](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ArchiveConfluenceDownloads.jspa \"Downloads archive\")).\n\nIf this is the case for you, you're best off creating an evaluation license for the upgrade.\n\nCheers, \nMichael\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Richard A. Ehlinger", "body": "Hey Michael, So can I get an evaluation license for my issue(see the rest of this thread? Or is it as Nic says, it's ok to upgrade with an expired license as long as it was after 13 March 2014(and it was), and so don't worry about? Thanks, Rick\n" } ] }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Yes, in theory, you should, but as the manual says, it does throw errors into the log file.\n\nAs you're only using it temporarily though, I'd simply use a developer license from the Confluence you are moving into (assuming that is licensed? If not, then you could try an evaluation license)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Richard A. Ehlinger", "body": "Here is my issue. I have a clustered install of 4.3.1. The license expired on June 30th 2015. Atlassian will not give me either a temporary license nor sell me a clustered license, but says I must buy Data Center license, as this is the new cluster software. That's fine. But I am in the middle of an upgrade from 4.3.1 to 5.4.4(the old cluster software). I have already upgraded development and staging environments to 5.4.4 when the license was still valid. Can I finish my upgrade to 5.4.4 in production with an expired license?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Was your licence valid after 13th March 2014?If it was, then the answer is \"yes\", you can do the upgrade.\n" }, { "author": "Richard A. Ehlinger", "body": "Thanks Nic. It was valid until June 30th, 2015. The thing that worries me are the errors in the log files. For those of us who know how to turn logging on and off, more and less, in the GUI, it's better to keep the chaff minimal. But I'd hate like hell to not have enough logging and miss some critical fact. I do have a qual instance that is still 4.3.1, so I will do the upgrade there first and then prepare for production.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "If you only need a couple of users, buy a 10 user license for $10.\n\nAs a sweetener, the $10 is donated to Room to Read :)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Candid Dauth _K15t_", "body": "I found the problem now. Our server is running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, whose Apache version (2.2.8) is quite old, a lot has been changed since then (see [Changelog](http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.2)).\n\nI tried several versions through and found out that the first version where it works is 2.2.12. The important change is probably this:\n\n```\n *) mod_rewrite: When evaluating a proxy rule in directory context, do\n escape the filename by default. PR 46428 [Joe Orton]\n```\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "JamieA", "body": "In the conf/server.xml, in the \\<Connector\\> element do you have URIEncoding=\"UTF-8\" ? This is on by default for the 8080 connector but probably not for the Ajp one. You could try it... I would have thought the ajp protocol handled this but worth a try.\n\nAlso, for the working confluence instance, is that configured to store attachments in the database or on the filesystem? Same question for the failing one...\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Candid Dauth _K15t_", "body": "All of the instances store attachments on the file system (which should not make a difference as they are stored by ID). Also, I already have the URIEncoding set on the Connector.\n" } ] } ]

[ "attachment", "encoding" ]

[ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Confluence does not have a built-in spell checker. Most of the popular browsers -- Chrome, Firefox, Safari -- have their own spell checkers or extensions are available.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "Which then spell checks any site you use...\n" } ] }, { "author": "JGB Atlassian Cloud Admin", "body": "I use Google Chrome which does spell check automatically.\n\nSee this ticket for other suggestions: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1212>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Gavin Bunney", "body": "Check out the new spell check plugin \\[Spellproof for Confluence\\|<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/au.net.bunney.spellproof.plugins.spellproof-confluence/server/overview>\\] now available on Atlassian's Marketplace.\n\nYou can check spelling and grammar on your Confluence pages in three different languages - English, French and German.\n" }, { "author": "Maggie Secara", "body": "Sadly, Spellproof only appears to be in UK English, even in our US installation. It says US is available but there's no way to select settings.\n" } ] }, { "author": "JGB Atlassian Cloud Admin", "body": "What browser are you using?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "spell-check" ]

[ { "author": "ITops123", "body": "Confluence 3.5.1 with RefinedWiki theme.\n\nI'll check the logs and no, I'm not seeing a pattern in the people having issues.\n\nWe also just found that the Adaptavist Content Voting Plugin is causing problems by making some pages uneditable. Disabling the plugin, making an edit and then re-enabling the plugin seems to fix it.\n\nI suspect that this may be our trouble plugin, but we'll see.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "Also, you mentioned it's some users. Do you know any patterns? Is it always those users? Can you capture what the page content is?\n\nMy guess is that it's an invocation of a macro that's doing it. That is, it's similar to the kb article you found, but a different plugin.\n\nYour logs will help as well. If you can check the atlassian-confluence.log when it's happening, you can probably narrow it down. Post a log snippet here if you can correlate it.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "What version of Confluence are you using?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "create-page", "error" ]

[ { "author": "Adam Laskowski", "body": "This is more of a general approach to working with plugins that are throwing errors in the logs and not specific to the Linking Plugin, but here goes!\n\nFirst, check that your plugin is compatible with your current version of Confluence. You can find the Plugin version by going to Browse \\>\\> Confluence Admin \\>\\> Plugins. If you are using the Universal Plugin Manager (bundled in Confluence 3.4+), you can use the Upgrade tab to determine this in the Plugins view. If not, check out the compatibility matrix [here](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/166).\n\nIf your plugin is up to date and still throwing errors, try removing the persistent plugin cache directories from the Confluence home folder (will require a shutdown of the instance):\n\n* \\<confluence-home\\>/plugin-cache\n* \\<confluence-home\\>/plugins-osgi-cache\n* \\<confluence-home\\>/plugins-temp\n* \\<confluence-home\\>/bundled-plugins\n* \\<confluence-home\\>/bundled-plugins_language\n\nRestart your instance and see if the issue persists when you use the Macro Browser. If so, you will want to follow Sergey's advice and contact CustomWare.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sergey Markovich", "body": "Looks to me like an issue with CustomWare's plugin.\n\nYou can contact their customer support at <http://www.customware.net/contact-us.html> or probably they'll find your question here and answer.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Lis Riba", "body": "You want updates for ***all*** spaces?\n\nBefore vacation, subscribe to daily updates \\[Your name \\> Settings \\> Email\\]\n\nYou will then receive daily emails listing all changes (that you have permission to view)\n\nIt's not precisely the same format as {recently-updated}, but will list all the changes that you've missed.\n\nIf you just want changes in a particular space, then start watching that space, and you can compile the emails when you return.\n\nHope this helps, and have a nice vacation.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "SarahA", "body": "Hallo Alex\n\nArun and Lis have given the two answers that I would recommend. However, I'd recommend that you use them both. :) So:\n\n* Add yourself as a watcher of the spaces that interest you.\n* Subscribe to an RSS feed for the spaces that interest you.\n\nThe reason for doing both is this:\n\n* If people check the \"Minor change\" checkbox when they edit a page, their changes will not appear in your notifications from the \"watch\" option.\n* The RSS feed does not report on deleted pages, only on added and updated pages.\n\nI hope this helps!\n\nCheers, Sarah\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "abhalla", "body": "I like to use my RSS reader to track space updates across an entire Confluence instance. It's pretty easy to create an RSS feed link within Confluence by using the top-level Browse menu and click on \"Feed Builder.\" From there, you can select the type of updates you want to track, which spaces, and if you click on \"Advanced Options,\" you can specify the number of entries in the feed. For performance reasons, the maximum limit is 200 entries, which may be suit you fine when you come back.\n\nIf you want to ensure you track *everything* that changed while you're away, you can plug the generated feed link into your feed reader and have the reader refresh the link frequently (daily or every few hours).\n\ncheers,\n\nArun\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Alex Bobrovski", "body": "Thans a lot, guys.\n\nThank you very much!\n\nAll advice is really helpful.\n" } ] }, { "author": "MatthewC", "body": "You could use a basic SQL Query (assuming SQL Server):\n\n> SET ROWCOUNT 300;\n>\n> select content.title, content.lastmodifier, content.lastmoddate , spaces.spacename, spaces.spacekeyfrom content, spaces where contenttype='PAGE' and content.spaceid=spaces.spaceid order by lastmoddate desc\n\nIf you're using MySQL you could use the Limit keyword instead of setting the rowcount\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Radu Dumitriu", "body": "Look here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support\\</p\\<\\>\\>](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support%3C/p)\n\n[Vim rules!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support%3C/p)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Tobbi Gudmundsson", "body": "Thanks for that Radu. I had looked into Vim (MacVim on my side) but gave up quickly as I suspected it didn't have what I needed. It is time for another look it seems!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "I've not seen one - our users simply use Confluence.\n\nBe warned though - Confluence 4 is binning wiki markup (with some back-porting stuff to enable you to type it and have it automatically formatted to the new structure, and macros to display it if you must keep older stuff in markup)\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Tobbi Gudmundsson", "body": "Yeah, I like the markup editor within Confluence as well but when working on long markup heavy pages it is easy to get lost, effectively slowing the editing process down (a complaint point which I believe contributed to the markup editor being binned).\n\nNot too happy about markup going away, regardless of how great the new editor will be. But I guess I'm just an old dog that doesn't like change ;)\n" } ] } ]

[ "editor", "markup", "syntax-highlighting", "text" ]

[ { "author": "Lis Riba", "body": "I ended up using the Confluence CLI (Command-Line Interface) - ***extremely*** useful tool, that.\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": "Martin Cleaver", "body": "Check out Ad hoc Canvas' List functionality.\n\n<http://www.adhoccanvas.com/features/>\n\nDisclosure: I work with Comalatech.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Laura Kolker", "body": "There isn't a facility in place (in the UWC) to automatically add a label to every page using a property only. That being said, you could try leveraging a combination of a UWC property with adaptavist's [add-label macro](https://www.adaptavist.com/display/AtlassianConfluence/add-label+macro).\n\nSomething like:\n\n```\nmywiki.1234.addalabel.java-regex=(.)${replace-with}$1NEWLINE{add-label:foo}\n```\n\nThis would add a newline and your addlabel macro to the end of every page\n", "comments": null } ]

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

[ { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "You might be able to see more information about the error message inside the Confluence logs \\[1\\], which usually tells you the underlying cause such as insufficient privilege or error in connecting to the database\n\n\\[1\\] <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Confluence+Logs>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Sergey Markovich", "body": "Just an idea. Not sure if it helps. Grant permissions for localhost user too.\n\nGRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON confluence.\\* TO 'confluenceuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'confluencepass';\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Harry Chan", "body": "Hi, you said that you have configured MySQL on 172.17.42.107\n\nBut your JDBC url is: jdbc:mysql://172.17.42.108:3306/confluence?useUnicode=true\\&amp;characterEncoding=utf8\n\nNote that 1 is 107 and 1 is 108. Please ensure that the URLs are the same.\n\nCheers,\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jose Montanez", "body": "you must issue the command:\n\nflush privileges;\n\nin mysql after granting the user....\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "mysql" ]

[ { "author": "Hans-Peter Gier", "body": "I never asked this question.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Someone using your account did. You might want to change the password or check with your colleagues\n" }, { "author": "Hans-Peter Gier", "body": "might well be, as we outsourced our infrastructure to a partner company, \nI was just wondering because the question dated from Jul 2011 ... :)\n" }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "I think Atlassian are going back over old unanswered questions recently, picking up some really old ones without answers.\n" } ] }, { "author": "AlysonA", "body": "Hi Hans,\n\nThere isn't any plans on that as far as I'm aware of. You can probably raise a feature request at <https://jira.atlassian.com> regarding this matter as such we can evaluate the possibility of including this in the future.\n\nCheers.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "moderators" ]

[ { "author": "AlexH", "body": "With a little guidence from Atlassian Support I found out that the Documentation theme is actually a bundled plugin located in a jar (doctheme-1.9.jar) inside:\n\nConfluence_install\\\\confluence\\\\WEB-INF\\\\classes\\\\com\\\\atlassian\\\\confluence\\\\setup\\\\atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip \n\nI ripped this jar apart and found main.vmd inside the jar at:\n\n```\ndoctheme/decorators/main.vmd\n```\n\nI replaced the following section:\n\n```\n <form id=\"quick-search\" class=\"quick-search\" method=\"get\" action=\"$req.contextPath/dosearchsite.action\">\n #if ($sitemeshPage.getProperty(\"page.spacekey\") && $docThemeHelper.isSpaceSearchEnabled($spaceKey))\n <input type='hidden' name='where' value='$generalUtil.htmlEncode($sitemeshPage.getProperty(\"page.spacekey\"))'/>\n <input type='hidden' name='tooltip' value='$action.getText('doctheme.search.tooltip')'/>\n #end\n <fieldset>\n <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"spaceSearch\" value=\"$docThemeHelper.isSpaceSearchEnabled($spaceKey)\"/>\n </fieldset>\n <fieldset>\n <legend>$action.getText('quick.search.legend')</legend>\n <input class=\"quick-search-query\" id=\"quick-search-query\" type=\"text\" accessKey=\"$action.getTextStrict('search-pages-action.accesskey')\" autocomplete=\"off\" name=\"queryString\" size=\"25\"/>\n <input class=\"quick-search-submit\" id=\"quick-search-submit\" type=\"submit\" #if ( ($spaceKey) && $docThemeHelper.isSpaceSearchEnabled($spaceKey)) value=\"$action.getText('doctheme.space.search.name')\" #else value=\"$action.getText('doctheme.global.search.name')\" #end/>\n <div class=\"aui-dd-parent quick-nav-drop-down\"><!-- Quick nav appears here --></div>\n </fieldset>\n <fieldset class=\"hidden parameters\">\n <input type=\"hidden\" id=\"quickNavEnabled\" value=\"$!settingsManager.globalSettings.enableQuickNav\" />\n #if (!$settingsManager) <!-- Quick nav disabled. SettingsManager could not be found --> #end\n </fieldset>\n </form>\n```\n\nWith our customized search form:\n\n\\<form id=\"quick-search\" class=\"quick-search\" method=\"get\" action=\"http://gsa.company.net/search\"\\> \n\\<fieldset\\> \n\\<input type=\"text\" value=\"\" maxlength=\"255\" size=\"25\" name=\"q\"/\\> \n\\<input type=\"hidden\" value=\"wiki\" name=\"site\"/\\> \n\\<input type=\"hidden\" value=\"wiki_fe\" name=\"client\"/\\> \n\\<input type=\"hidden\" value=\"wiki_fe\" name=\"proxystylesheet\"/\\> \n\\<input type=\"hidden\" value=\"xml_no_dtd\" name=\"output\"/\\> \n\\</fieldset\\> \n\\</form\n\n<br />\n\nThen I rejar'd the files and uploaded/installed a new version of the doctheme plugin (doctheme-1.9-gsa.jar) via the UPM interface.\n\nClearly this means I've signed up to re-customize the doctheme plugin everytime Atlassian releases updates, but at least search is once again consistent for us across all confluence themes.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Cassandra Targett", "body": "I also tried the page-break macro, but tried it at the beginning of the real one, and it didn't work at all. I didn't even think of trying page-break-after at the end of the preceding page.\n\nI mostly solved it by buying the Scroll PDF Export tool. It's really nice once you figure out all the options, and it handles the page breaks \\& bookmarks much better than the default PDF export (although we're still using the one in 3.4.3, so perhaps it has improved).\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Steffen Heller", "body": "I had the same problem when I tried automatic pagebreaks.\n\nI now add pagebreaks manually with a little makro. But even this only works when you add the makro to the end of the preceding page instead of the beginning of the real one (and use \"page-break-after\" instead of \"page-break-before\").\n\nThis won't work as a solution for 200+ pages documents but it probably shows that your interpretation of the problem is correct.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "export", "pdf" ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Molloy", "body": "Hi Karen\n\nWe have two instances of Confluence running; one for internal use and one customer facing. We have been running this for a number of years and it works very well. The advantage is that we can give the customer information on our products and services in a simple format.\n\nWe encourage customers to add information, particularly on older generation products where we no longer have manuals, etc. Sometimes our users know more than our support staff so we encourage them to share tips and tricks.\n\nEach customer has their own space, open to anybody within their organisation who gives us their email address. A good way of finding more contacts.\n\nWe can tailor their space to give them personal information, such as their system or support agreements, customer installations, site information, visit reports, preventative maintenance schedules and reports, etc.\n\nThere is also a common space that gives more general information.\n\nRegards, Kevin\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Rushina", "body": "Thank you, Karen, for asking a question that I was just searching for answers to.\n\nHi Kevin,\n\nWe are moving from PDFs to more interactive solutions for our documents. If I use the above solution, I don't need to create separate HTML for my knowledge base?\n\nLinking the confluence page to the KB on our website will work?\n\nPlease clarify. Thank you in anticipation,\n" } ] }, { "author": "Robert Heynen", "body": "Is there someway to implement a solution that does not require a customer creating a log in account?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Brandon Murphy", "body": "We are dealing with this issue as well [@Robert Heynen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/223832). We don't find it reasonable to pay for an entire license for a read-only login.\n" }, { "author": "Jan Sondergaard", "body": "[@Brandon Murphy](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1142201)It is possible to have a Confluence space with Anonymous access. No sign in required.\n\nAnonymous Access {#toc-hId-1788775517}\n--------------------------------------\n\n> *If your Confluence site is public, you can grant permissions to people who are not logged in. Anonymous users can be granted almost any permission, but we recommend you limit this to viewing and commenting.*\n\nHowever, I found that the user experience is far from ideal, so either I am missing something, or Confluence is still not ready for public spaces in my mind. See my comments below.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "Hi Karen,\n\nYes! We did this ourselves at Atlassian. I'm curious to watch other answers to this question, to see what others have done as well.\n\nFor what Atlassian has done with [confluence.atlassian.com](http://confluence.atlassian.com), start with [Developing a Knowledge Base on Confluence Wiki](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Developing+a+Knowledge+Base+on+Confluence+Wiki) and/or [Developing Technical Documentation on Confluence Wiki](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Developing+Technical+Documentation+on+Confluence+Wiki).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Karen_Mustain", "body": "Thanks so much this was very helpful.\n" }, { "author": "Jan Sondergaard", "body": "Jeremy,\n\nWould like to see more information on how we can replicate the user experience seen on confluence.atlassian.com.\n\nFollowed the steps outlined here\n\n<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/use-confluence-as-a-knowledge-base-218275154.html>\n\nI easily got a customer facing (public) FAQ style confluence space published. However.\n\n1. We need one that does not include the menu (Dashboard, Get app, Give Atlassian feedback, Log In) and other items that will confuse our users.\n\n2. The space (when viewed on iOS device) include an invitation to download the Confluence Cloud app. We do not want to get users confused with that. confluence.atlassian.com does not do that.\n\n3. The Live Search element (when view on iOS device) says \"Tap to see livesearch content, which will prompt the user to go to the App Store, instead of simply letting the user search. confluence.atlassian.com does not do that.\n\n4. How to set up CNAME for the space so customers could go to faq.mycompany.com instead of <https://mycompany.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/myspace/overview>\n" }, { "author": "Jeffrey Bistrong", "body": "Is it possible to have a customer facing portal restricted to user who have an email with specific domains\n" }, { "author": "Ersin Gulacti", "body": "Jan,\n\nYou can use [Hide Elements Plugin by Scandio](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211757/hideelements-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview?) which is free. Quote from marketplace\n> you can now hide different Confluence pages components. Disable and enable comments, likes, any buttons and other elements as you please.\n" }, { "author": "Ersin Gulacti", "body": "Jeffrey,\n\nIt is possible to use Jira Service Desk and Confluence together. Have a look at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/confluence-evaluator-resources/confluence-mixing-public-facing-without-login-articles-and-internal-content>\n" } ] }, { "author": "Karen_Mustain", "body": "No. Our IT group decided to implement a Sharepoint solution. We still use Confluence for our intranet.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "ori ben-yehuda", "body": "hi Karen,did you implement Confluence for customers ?can you share your implementation, strategies and best practices. ?thanks [email protected]\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Irene Yuen", "body": "Hi Karen,\n\nWe are using Confluence as a customer-facing documentation site. I have some info on what we did at the Confluence User Community pages: [How we use ePublisher and Confluence for user documentation](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/How+we+use+ePublisher+and+Confluence+for+user+documentation). Some of it is a bit outdated but it should give you an idea of what we do.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Karen_Mustain", "body": "Thanks so much this was very helpful.\n" } ] } ]

[ "external" ]

[ { "author": "Bonnie McDonough", "body": "Sorry we abandoned it when we couldn't figure it out :(\n", "comments": [ { "author": "MICHAEL O'Neill", "body": "Oooph. Sorry to hear that. We're looking at shibboleth as well.\n" } ] }, { "author": "MICHAEL O'Neill", "body": "Did you ever make your way through this? Can you share what you learned?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "MICHAEL O'Neill", "body": "-deleted-\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "iis" ]

[ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "You can attempt to use the Confluence Command Line Interface, but other than that I don't think so.\n\nhttps://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP/Confluence+Command+Line+Interface\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Matt", "body": "I too think that the CLI is your best bet. [See here](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/x/NoLSAw) for info about how to get CLI help, support, and fixes.\n" }, { "author": "Rhyne Armstrong", "body": "CLI seems to work fine if the files are in .txt or HTML. Unfortunately, it doesn't properly parse the HTML that these files are marked up in due to being converted from a microsoft product.\n" }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "Word and HTML have never played nice. That's pretty much been the story for years and even more so recently with 2007. That's why Atlassian is pretty much remaking word inside of their Confluence 4.0. I can't wait till it is released.\n" }, { "author": "Rhyne Armstrong", "body": "I don't mind taking a few more steps to get from where I started to a fairly-well laid out Confluence page. I am at a loss though how to get a .pst or MBOX to nice HTML.\n\nThe MBOX import to Confluence is great...except I want the mail as pages, not as email.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Renjith Pillai", "body": "1. Write a small program in C# or VB to load each of the 1000+ word documents and save as 'HTML filterered'\n2. This should save the files in pure html format (no office specific keywords)\n3. Import them using confluence CLI\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "There's a utility called message export that I've seen but haven't used that might do what you want. \"Looks\" ok, not free.\n\nhttp://www.encryptomatic.com/messageexport/\n\nIf the html is messcrosofted there are ways of cleaning up discussed eg at\n\n<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/67964/what-is-the-best-free-way-to-clean-up-word-html>\n\nAlso a nice little free windows utility called ssr.exe that you use in batch files to seacrch and replace in multiple files.\n\nYou could then CLI your html files into Confluence.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Michele C", "body": "Sorry, about the red. It was red when I edited the question. I found out now how to change it.\n\nThank you. Your solution worked!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "ugh, red, not nice to read\n\nTry IIS APPOOL\\\\\\\\Defaultapppool - the slash may be being interpreted as a control character. The page content is already being searched, it's just not finding it because of the \\\\\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "search" ]

[ { "author": "Daniel Hebb", "body": "I have both Jira and Confluence running on the same server. The Jira context is /jira and the confluence context is /confluence, and they work perfectly on the same system. Does that answer your question?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Rodrigo Arruda", "body": "Yes, but context is not optional, right?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Andrei [errno]", "body": "we are running all Atlassian tools on the same (capable) server with no issues - the key is to put an Apache proxy in front of them and route to different tomcats (different ports) depending on a request:\n\n* example.com/jira -\\> example.com:8080\n* example.com/confluence -\\> example.com:8081\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "jira" ]

[ { "author": "Radu Dumitriu", "body": "Confluence is ideal for paranoia-free organizations. The entire philosophy of Altassian is centered around the idea of openness (mind, business and software alike). Confluence is all about collaboration and it's for people who have not much too hide - not naked, though.\n\nVitaly above is right, but in my opinion you should revise your security concerns versus the need for collaboration and see if Confluence really fits you.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "VitalyA", "body": "Jasmine,\n\nThe products you mention are for data transfer rather than content management, so comparison is not possible.\n\nConfluence does not encrypt stored content. More information on Confluence security is available here -\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Security>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "security" ]

[ { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "[Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) should help :). Use **--action addPage**. It will not help with the formatting though.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Rhyne Armstrong", "body": "Thanks Bob. I am looking through the information for the Interface and having trouble figuring out how to specify the source directory for the addPage action.\n" }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "**--file** is the parameter you need to specify. You will need to script it to get all files in a directory for instance. Another option is: **--action loadFiles** which will work over a directory automatically.\n" }, { "author": "Rhyne Armstrong", "body": "I must be doing something wrong. I was able to add the files as attachments using --action loadFiles, but not create pages from them. I will try converting to HTML first as this was with RTF files.\n" }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "mime type of text/html or text/plain will get get pages. Extensions like .txt for instance will be added as pages.\n" }, { "author": "Rhyne Armstrong", "body": "It looks like the conversion tool is setting the mime type in a non-standard manner. It can be read by Firefox, but none of the content is added to the pages that are created. Is there an example of this syntax anywhere? I could just have something wrong.\n" }, { "author": "Rhyne Armstrong", "body": "They are all .html I will try converting to .txt to see if it helps.\n" }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "What are the extensions on the files? It is likely you need to rename them to txt for instance.\n" }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "Create an issue at <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/CSOAP> and attach a couple of example files (RTF and HTML).\n" }, { "author": "Bob Swift (personal)", "body": "I thought I posted this comment earlier, but I don't see it now. Please create an issue and attach a couple of examples (HTML and text) and I will have a look. Normally you want text if possible as HTML gets wrapped in a HTML tag so it displays, but not good for edit.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Rhyne Armstrong", "body": "The command line is adding the files as \\<directory name\\> - \\<Title\\>.txt with nothing in the content. I am using:\n\nconfluence --space \"Knowledgebase\" --action loadFiles --file \"d:\\\\test\"\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "Do you have anything else running on the server? Like a website or sharepoint or anything like that? What happens if you are outside of the server and type in http:\\\\\\\\\\<server name\\>?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "AlexH", "body": "Easiest way that I know of is to use direct SQL queries against the database.\n\n1) Install the SQL and Cache plugins for Confluence \n2) Install the macro-security plugin for confluence and restrict SQL to admins only \n3) Configure a datasource in your \\<install\\>/conf/server/.xml config file with a read-only user that has access to the confluence database. \n4) Create a wiki page and add the markup to query and render the results directly in the wiki page:\n\n#### This macro will render a table with three columns: \\| page total \\| space name \\| space key \\| {#toc-hId-1310871062}\n\n```\n{cache}\n{sql:dataSource=confluenceread|output=wiki}\nselect count(distinct CONTENT.title) as \"Pages\", SPACES.spacename as \"Space\", SPACES.spacekey as \"Key\" from CONTENT, SPACES where CONTENT.spaceid IS NOT NULL and CONTENT.spaceid = SPACES.spaceid group by CONTENT.spaceid order by Pages DESC\n{sql}\n{cache}\n\n\n```\n\n#### This macro will render a pie chart and a table that displays the totals across you entire site for: Pages, Attachments, Comments, Mail, Drafts, and User Status. You should be able to modify the query to select only from specific spaces quite easily: {#toc-hId--1241285899}\n\n```\n{chart:title=Confluence Content|type=pie|displayData=true|width=500|height=300|dataOrientation=vertical|pieSectionLabel=%0% - %1%|legend=false|tables=content | attachment=^Confluence Content.png | attachmentVersion=replace}\n{sql:dataSource=confluenceread|id=content}\nselect contenttype as Type, count(distinct CONTENT.title) as \"Count\" from CONTENT group by contenttype having Count > 0\nunion\nselect contenttype as Type, count(*) as \"Count\" from CONTENT where contenttype='COMMENT' group by contenttype having Count > 0\nunion\nselect \"ATTACHMENTS\" as Type, count(distinct title) as \"Count\" from ATTACHMENTS having Count > 0\norder by Count DESC\n{sql}\n{chart}\n```\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Juan Miller", "body": "You can try using LongPathTool software. It will help you resolve your specific problems regarding File name too long. Thank you.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kurt Jackson", "body": "You can use \"long path tool\" program to solved this issue. this tool is very useful to solved this issue.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "Which version of Confluence are you using? in 3.5 they shortened the file paths.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "Yep, you can change it in the database.\n\nThe table is cwd_app_dir_mapping\n\nYou want to change the list_index field\n\nThe other thing you can do is disable the LDAP directory (in the table cwd_directory) and then it will only use the internal Confluence directory\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Thomas Vlerick", "body": "Changing the sequence in the cwd_app_dir_mapping table and restarting Confluence did the trick. Thank you for that quick answer!\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "Martin Cooper", "body": "IE 9 is not officially supported - but works\n\nChrome and Firefox work fine\n\nThere are issues with embedded media files, from my experience IE 9 ( the unsupported verison) is the only browser that will play wmv video files, using the media macro. The supported browsers don't ( confirmed by Atlassian support). This on 3.5.7 and 4.0\n\nI have seen other comments about flaky performance with other media files in other browsers, but thats the only area I have heard of issues.\n\nI use all three main (windows) browsers on a daily basis and have not had any issues, other than that mentioned. (Doesn't mean there are'nt any and the broswers are updating very aggressivley so things may change)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "I disagree that Chrome works fine. It works *well-enough* that I use it exclusively, but there are some things that don't work. It isn't officially supported, but we are hoping that is added to Confluence V4.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Martin Cooper", "body": "Chrome Support is officialy added at Version 4.0. I use it as my main browser for 3.5.7 and 4 and have not had any major issues. ( I find as many things don't work in other browsers so the point becomes moot, or at least swings and roundabouts, and nothing stops me working.)\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "cvanhasselto", "body": "I'm doing something similar to this. I don't quite follow what you mean, when you say you need to edit the name of the child page. I haven't tried that in what I am doing. I use the {create-child} macro, nested in another macro that takes parameters. The {create-child} macro is nested in a {run-now} macro. This \"silently\" creates the scaffolded page without actually visiting the page. Then, I can go in later and update the scaffolded page.\n\n```\n {run-now} {create-child:$paramlname, $paramfname|parent=$init|template=TAInformation} {run-now}\n```\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "Of course. As you can see from the example you use # infront of the if, else, elseif and close them with #end\n\nThis is what you would put in that section it says to replace. This may or may not work correctly as it is not tested.\n> #set($username = $req.userPrincipal.name)\n>\n> #if($username == \"Fred\")\n>\n> \\<h2\\>$action.getText(\"change.password\")\\</h2\\> \n> \\<fieldset\\> \n> #assistiveLegend(\"accessibility.profile.password\") \n> #bodytag( \"Password\" \"label='cur.pass.name'\" \"name='currentPassword'\" \"theme='aui'\") \n> #param(\"required\" \"$action.getText('required.field')\") \n> #end \n> #bodytag( \"Password\" \"label='new.pass.name'\" \"name='newPassword'\" \"theme='aui'\") \n> #param(\"required\" \"$action.getText('required.field')\") \n> #end \n> #bodytag( \"Password\" \"label='new.pass.confirm.name'\" \"name='newPasswordConfirmation'\" \"theme='aui'\") \n> #param(\"required\" \"$action.getText('required.field')\") \n> #end \n> \\</fieldset\\> \n>\n> #else\n>\n> \\<h1\\>Dear User,\\</h1\\>\\<br\\> \n> \\<p\\>\\<font size=\"3\" color=\"red\"\\>You cannot change your password, this is disabled.\\<br\\> \n> Please continue to use your actual password\\<br\\> \n> If you have any complains contact the Admin.\\<br\\> \n> Regards your Admin.\\<br\\>\\</font\\>\\</p\\>\n>\n> #end \n", "comments": [ { "author": "MICHAEL O'Neill", "body": "I owe you a beer. Thanks!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Sergey Markovich", "body": "You might be interested in reviewing introductory Velocity user guide here: <http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.5/user-guide.html>\n\nConditionals are described here: <http://velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.5/user-guide.html#conditionals>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "MICHAEL O'Neill", "body": "Thanks Sergey!\n\nI stumbled on this shortly after my foray into implementing this fix. Good resource there. It seems like a very powerful framework.\n\n-Michael\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "Try this <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Disabling+Password+management+from+User>\n\nand this\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Disabling+Profile+Edit+from+User>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "MICHAEL O'Neill", "body": "Thanks Richard! That looks like it's the way I'm going to want to go. FYI: I've posted [a followup question](/questions/4366/can-vm-files-contain-if-then-logic-look-up-currently-logged-in-users) based on the direction this sent me in.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "Check out [Disabling the Built-In User Management](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/9R0C). I think that might have what you're looking for.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "MICHAEL O'Neill", "body": "Hi Jeremy!\n\nThanks, but it looks like that feature is buggy and [may be getting removed](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-16709).\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "David Soldan", "body": "Thanks for your answer!\n\nBut i meant something else.\n\nFor example: the company i work for got different Sql Databases. The question now is if it is possible to get Information/Files from this databases with some sort of tool/plugin, to show them on some pages so you don't have to update every attachment (manuals(for products which are paged in the wiki), processes etc.). I know now that there is a SQL- Plugin for Confluence, but i have to get into it .\n\nGreetings David\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "Your question is a little vague but if you are talking about displaying html information from a different webserver you could create a User Macro to do this. The macro below would display a page on the company product database using page macro like\n> {showproduct:1049}\n\nTo create the macro, go to Admin \\| User Macros \\| create a new Macro\n\nName: (eg) showproduct\n\nTitle: Display product page page\n\nNo Macro Body\n\nOutput HTML\n\nTemplate:\n> \\<iframe src=\"http://products.company.com.au/page.php?id=$param0\" border=\"1\" width=\"90%\" height=\"400px\"\\> \n> \\<p\\>Unable to display external content - iframe tag is not supported by this browser\\</p\\> \n> \\</iframe\\> \n> \\<div class=\"description\"\\>Open this external \\<a href=\"http://products.company.com.au/page.php?id=$param0\" target=\"_blank\"\\>product page\\</a\\>.\\</div\\>\n\nYou can vary this to suit your needs. Allowing any arbitrary web address could be a security risk so it is better to only allow the macro user to specify the page id not the full url.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Sergey Markovich", "body": "Hi Terrence,\n\nAs Colin and Joseph have already mentioned Confluence comes with its own web server called Apache Tomcat. If you don't have apecific requirements for using IIS (e.g. high scalability) there is no point in using it for Confluence although Confluence's Tomcat server can indeed be configured to run behind IIS.\n\nTo assign domain to your Confluence instance I believe you should do the following:\n\n1. Register a domain (e.g. via Godaddy) and set its NS records to point to your machine running Confluence.\n\n2. In your C:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\system32\\\\drivers\\\\etc\\\\hosts file map your newly created domain to your IP address.\n\n3. Go to confluence's conf directory and edit its server.xml file replacing port=\"8080\" with port=\"80\" in the \\<Connector\\> element to run on the default web server port, also change defaultHost attribute value in \\<Engine\\> element and name attribute value in \\<Host\\> element to your new domain.\n\n4. Restart Confluence.\n\nI believe that is pretty much what you need to do although I am not really that good in system administration and never did it myself so take what I say here with a grain of salt.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Terence McGhee", "body": "That didn't work Sergey, but I do sincerely thank you for trying. All I get is the standard IIS7 welcome page when I try to access my confluence site through the domain name that I registered.\n\nI also tried similar instructions found [here](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/How+To+Run+Confluence+Standalone+and+Apache+on+Port+80+%28Different+IP+Addresses%29), but that didn't work either.\n" }, { "author": "Sergey Markovich", "body": "Hi Terrence, you should shut down IIS which apparently occupies default HTTP port 80.\n\nInstructions by the link you mentioned are for configuring Confluence behind Apache web server. I believe that should work the same with IIS on Confluence's side but in order for this to work you should also configure IIS to forward requests from port 80 to Confluence's port 8080.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "Hey Terence,\n\nIt sounds like to me then the best solution is to disable IIS on the machine hosting Confuence. Or at least switch it off port 80,\n\n1. Use tomcat directly \n(using named based virtual hosting - http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Guide+to+using+Apache+Tomcat's+Virtual+Hosts) or\n\n2. Put an Apache webserver in front of Confluence and use a named based virtual host that points to Confluence's Apache Tomcat\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+behind+Apache>\n\nAlthough the 2nd point sounds redundant, you'll find most people to it that way as it can be better performing due to Apache webserver proxying and also for future if you expand to other Atlassian apps.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Confluence is written in Java to run under the [Java Servlet API](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Servlet) - it can run in any web server that provides a servlet container to its hosted applications. Unfortunately, IIS is not one of these.\n\nLots of Java-based web servers will run fine on Windows. A version of [Apache Tomcat](http://tomcat.apache.org/) is bundled within the [Confluence-standalone download](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/downloads/binary/confluence-3.5.9-std.zip) and is pretty easy to get up and running with, as long as you can get a Java JDK installed on your server.\n\nWe have some pretty comprehensive installation instructions, and you can always ask specific questions about them if you get stuck: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+Confluence+Standalone+on+Windows+from+Zip+File>\n\nAs Colin mentioned, it is possible to setup Confluence so that IIS is logically \"in front\" of Confluence's web server, so that to the end user it appears as if the content is coming from IIS. This can be done using the Apache foundation's AJP connector for IIS: <http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/reference/iis.html> However, unless you really have specific need to have IIS as a proxy for Confluence, it's really more trouble than it's worth.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "There is some documentation on Atlassian's site about it, though I can't comment if it works :)\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+up+Confluence+with+IIS>\n\nHopefully you have found out that the installation of the Standalone instance is just fine on Windows, the main issue would be proxying the Confluence Tomcat server via your IIS server\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Looks like Colin beat me to an answer, and his is more detailed anyway. :-)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Terence McGhee", "body": "Wow... so many responses so fast. That's really cool.\n\nLet me please clarify what I'm trying to acheive. First... I don't care about IIS at all. It doesn't matter to me if IIS is not in the picture.However, what I do care about is assigning a host name to the \"site\". By this I mean that,\n\n* if confluence is accessible through localhost:8080/confluence,\n* I want to be able to go to godaddy, create a domain,\n* Come back to my server machine and somehow \"assign\" the site name to the confluence install\n* My users access my confluence installation through [http://mysitename.com](http://mysitename.com/)\n\nThe only reason I mentioned IIS, is because it's extremely easy to assign a host name to a site and I didn't see any way of doing this in the confluence admin (which is where I assumed the setting would be).I hope this better clarifies what I'm after.And thanks so much for the very detailed responses thus far.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "It's definitely a breeze to do in IIS, with you on that one!\n\nBecause Confluence is designed to be run in various different web servers and the configuration for this kind of thing is done at the web server level, Confluence itself doesn't provide any way to make this kind of configuration within the Web UI.\n\n<br />\n\nGenerally speaking, you'll need to edit a configuration file on disk to change the host name for Confluence. I'll post instructions for Tomcat as a separate answer.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Terence McGhee", "body": "I agreee. Thank you, and sorry for the ambiguity.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "Can I suggest changing the title of your post to reflect the Windows installation (IIS) nature of the question? It will help funnel people to answer.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "install" ]

[ { "author": "TomC", "body": "HI David,\n\nA workaround I've used is especially helpful if you have a whole slew of attachments to add and want to avoid generating an email for each one. Just temporarily View-restrict the specific page you are attaching files to, to just yourself ((Tools\\>Restrict\\>Me) while you are doing the attaching. \n\nWhen done, you just have to remember to remove the restriction by following the same path and clicking the Remove restriction button next to your name.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "JohnA", "body": "Hi David,\n\nI'm sorry to say that there isn't a workaround that I am aware of for this issue, aside from disabling the sending of notifications to users, which can be useful when you need to make a large number of changes but isn't much good for stopping notifications in everyday use. There is currently an open feature request to ask that we implement a function to stop the sending of notifications for adding attachments, so at this stage I can only suggest that you watch/vote/comment on the ticket to encourage our developers to prioritise its implementation: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7612>\n\nAll the best, \nJohn\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "You want the reporting plug-in, probably in combination with the scaffolding plug-in. It can get metadata and the other items you listed.\n\n* **Main Page Example:**\n\n{table-plus} \n{report-table}\n\n{content-reporter:spaces=@self\\|types=+page\\|scope=@self \\> children} \n{text-sort:content:title} \n{content-reporter}\n\n{report-column:title=Title}{report-info:page:title\\|link=true}{report-column} \n{report-column:title=Person Last Changing}{report-info:page:modifier}{report-column} \n{report-column:title=Last Changed Date}{report-info:page:modification date}{report-column} \n{report-column:title=Little Bit Of Text}{report-info:data:Text}{report-column} \n{report-column:title=Actions}{report-link:content:url\\|postfix=?\\\\\\&redirect\\\\=false}View{report-link} {link-to:page edit}Edit{link-to}{report-column}\n\n{report-table} \n{table-plus}\n\n* On each child page, use scaffolding macro with something like this:\n\n\\*Text:\\* {text-data:Text}{text-data}\n\n<br />\n\nIf you wish to have all descendants of a page, instead of just first generation children, change from \"children\" in the content-reporter to \"descendents\". You could also use {excerpt} on the child pages instead of the scaffolding.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Norbert Krupa", "body": "This was very helpful.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Michael S", "body": "It may be a bug. What version of Confluence/PDF export are you running?\n\nIt's probably worth creating a support case at <http://support.atlassian.com> - we may not be able to fix the problem but we can at least try to replicate it and verify if it's a bug or not.\n\nCheers, \nMichael\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Esteban Villate", "body": "Thank you for your answer.\n\nI don't know if it's a bug or not, but as soon as I insert a .PNG image, all the text looks in Bold. I tried everything and nothing worked. I finally changed the PNG's for JPG's all the problem is solved !\n\nWhy does this happen ? No idea, but my text is OK now.\n\nRegards,\n\nEsteban\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "No. here's a very black-and-white fact here - either you need no control (allow anonymous access, and for heaven's sake, do not allow access to Confluence outside your organisation), or you do need control. If you do need control, then you **have** to know who the users are, which means some form of login. There's no in-between I can work out.\n\nThere are work-arounds - have an account called \"the user with no name\" and give the password to people who need it. Or customise the code to hide the display of certain (or all) names. But there's no getting away from the fact that you need to know someone's identity if you need to control users.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Robin Fernandes", "body": "Makes sense. I was thinking, for example, of a case in which you want to collect anonymous feedback on a page, or an anonymous poll, etc...? In those cases, you might want to be confident that the user is authenticated, but not want be able to easily associate them with their contributions within a specific page / space. Thanks for the workaround ideas.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Renjith Pillai", "body": "Why do they want to login to Confluence? Just give anonymous read permission and everyone can see the contents.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Dimitrios Traskas", "body": "The rest of the company is using a different wiki engine so they would just like to have a look at ours.\n\nAre you talking about creating a user with read permissions only?\n\nCheers\n" } ] }, { "author": "Dimitrios Traskas", "body": "The rest of the company is using a different wiki engine so they would just like to have a look at ours.\n\nAre you talking about creating a user with read permissions only?\n\nCheers\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Dennis Kromhout van der Meer", "body": "Hey David,\n\nThis is definitely possible as XAMPP is just a bundle of Apache (+PHP) MySQL and other tools. If my memory is correct, you have a root and a non-root account for XAMPP MySQL. Create a new database with the root user and be sure that the non-root user has the necesarry rights to interact with the new database. From thereon out, follow the instructions from the documentation on setting up Confluence: [Database setup for MySQL](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+For+MySQL).\n\nGood luck!\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "The PDF contains a form to fill out. I did some research and the viewpdf macro in Confluence 3.2.1. has issues with complicated PDFs that contain forms or tables. I uploaded a simple PDF and it viewed correctly. The issue is resolved in later versions of Confluence. We are in the process of ugrading our clients systems so the issue with the PDF will be resolved.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "Check if the PDF has changed. Try a different PDF. The viewer won't display all pdfs made by all authoring tools. If you are able to recreate or edit and resave the pdf it might fix your problem but this isn't always possible.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "The PDF contains a form to fill out. I did some research and the viewpdf macro has issues with complicated PDFs containing forms or tables in Confluence 3.2.1. I uploaded a simple PDF and it viewed correctly. The issue is resolved in later versions of Confluence. We are in the process of ugrading our clients systems so the issue with the PDF will be resolved.\n" }, { "author": "Sue Hallwood", "body": "The PDF contains a form to fill out. I did some research and the viewpdf macro in Confluence 3.2.1. has issues with complicated PDFs that contain forms or tables. I uploaded a simple PDF and it viewed correctly. The issue is resolved in later versions of Confluence. We are in the process of ugrading our clients systems so the issue with the PDF will be resolved.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Renjith Pillai", "body": "Are you able to get any exceptions in the logs? And is the pdf file too big (more than 10-15 MB)?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi!\n\nI could find another answer that may help you: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/58779/how-to-modify-the-columns-in-the-jira-issues-macro](/questions/58779/how-to-modify-the-columns-in-the-jira-issues-macro)\n\nI hope this helps!\n\nRegards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Likely you need to do this instead:\n\n```\n{style}\n.ppp { /* the dot/period denotes a class selector */\n text-align: center;\n color:#FF0000;\n font-size-adjust: 2;\n}\n{style}\n```\n\n```\n{span:class=ppp} Hello world{span} \n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "Yep, that should do it - not the 'class' parameter for {span} also, very important! :)\n" }, { "author": "Richard Crane", "body": "Sorry, but I don't understand this comment -- would you clarify?\n" }, { "author": "Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]", "body": "Is it possible to do this in Confluence 4.0 still? I am not able to currently.\n" }, { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "That will depend on if Adaptavist has released their update for the Complex Formatting Plugin. Check with them is my suggestion.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Richard Crane", "body": "Your changes worked -- I was following an example (that I can no longer find).\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "Renjith Pillai", "body": "A very dirty workaround:\n\nYou can create a mailbox and configure that mailbox in Confluence and request all users to send all their attachments as email-attachments to that mailbox.\n\nAnd give permission only for those to access the space.\n\nAnd I am wondering myself, why then a Confluence space is needed? May it is better to store things in Wiki, even if it comes from mail, so that anytime it can be opened up for everyone to use.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "STEAKNSHAKE STS", "body": "sensible as it may seem, some organizations have a need to allow multiple users accross multiple departments to upload data which only management should be able to view and download. is their another way to do this with confluence?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "But the original uploader still has the original attachment, and where I've seen this implemented, they immediately stop sharing it because they can't see it any more. It's human nature. And organisations that think they have a need for this are causing themselves problems.\n\nI'm not aware of anything that would let you do this at all. Oddly enough though, Jira does it - it's possible to rig it so that someone can create an issue (with attachment!) and never be able to see it again (and then spend a lot of time whinging at the admins/helpdesk because they can't!)\n" }, { "author": "STEAKNSHAKE STS", "body": "we are not worried about the original uploader viewing their own attachment. we just don't want them viewing anybody else's.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "No - you can't attach things to pages you can't see.\n\nThat's quite sensible though - users get **really** annoyed when you do things like that to them - they uploaded it, why on earth can't they see what they uploaded? You'll rapidly find them refusing to upload stuff and keeping local copies and then telling you that they aren't using confluence because they can't see the results.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "ITops123", "body": "Here is what we did for the restricted space:\n\n? Created an \"Oops. That page is restricted\" page to redirect to an unrestricted page in another space on the wiki.\n\n? Installed [Visibility plugin](https://www.adaptavist.com/display/AtlassianConfluence/Visibility+Plugin) for {show-to} macro\n\n? Modified restricted space layout:\n\no Added the following to the Header: {show-to:groups=confluence-administrators}\n\n{html}\\<script\\>location.replace('http://DOMAIN/SPACEKEY/Oops.+Restricted+page')\\</script\\>{html}\n\n{show-to}\n\nAny confluence admin who needed access to the restricted space was removed from the confluence-administrators group, but retained sys admin privileges.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Markus P?hler", "body": "I have managed to solve this as follows:\n\n1. Create one dedicated Confluence User as global ADMIN account, name it however you want.\n\n2. Add this User to the global group CONFLUENCE-ADMINISTRATOR.\n\n3. Login with this new user.\n\n4. REMOVE any other user, that previously was a member of the group CONFLUENCE-ADMINISTATOR from the group CONFLUENCE-ADMINISTATOR.\n\nFrom now on the previous Admins, that arre usually authorized to manage users are just normal restrivted users without any admin previleges.\n\n5. Go to the global settings -\\> \"Global Permissions\" page.\n\n6. Add the users that need elevated permissions to manage the confluence configuration and manage users \\& groups to the \"individual users\" pane and assign them the CONFLUENCE ADMINISTRATOR permission.\n\n7. Logout and re-logon with one of the accunts you added the permission to in step 6. Now, this user has permission to manage setup, manage user accounts and group membership. BUT this user is NOT allowed to see or enter any SPACES or PAGES that he does not have explicitely permission to by adding the account or ANY group this account is member of to the space permissions.\n\nConclusion: The CONFLUENCE-ADMINISTRATOR group has more previleges that pre-defined in the \"Global Permission\" page. There is something special about this group you can neither see or change. Individual users not member of this group but granted the \"Confluence \"Administrator\" Permission in \"Global Permission\" Page have less previleges than this group has.\n\nDisadvantage: The admin users defined this way have the ability to change all of that back again or add users to the CONFLUENCE-ADMINISTRATOR group and override this configuration. But if they are aware and don't, any spaces content is secured from previleged confluence users eyes as long they are not granted to access it.\n\n:-)\n\nFeedback if it works for you is appreciated.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "St?phane Gras", "body": "Thanks for the info, I'm going to try that\n" }, { "author": "Erik Ellingsson", "body": "Thanks Markus for your description it was very valuable for me.\n" }, { "author": "Augustin Luton", "body": "Thank you also, that is a very reasonable approach. It works for us.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Steve Meier", "body": "I figured it out. It's working now.\n\nOkay, I won't be that guy who says it's fixed and not tell you what he did to fix it.\n\nHere's what I found, I can't explain why, but it works.\n\nThere is apparently a difference between the permissions of users in the local confluence-admins group vs an AD synced group with the same exact permissions.\n\nFor example, we have an admin group that i'm part of that has Personal Space, Create Space(s), Confluence Administrator, System Administrator permissions.\n\nThe local confluence-admins group has the same permissions.\n\nIf i'm logged in with my account, if I click on the padlock, I get taken to a page that says I must request permission to view this page.\n\nIf i log in with the admin account we have in the local confluence-admins group and do the same thing, it take me to the page info and I can remove restrictions.\n\nAnother confluence admin and myself have been looking at it for the last 10 minutes speechless trying to figure out why in the world this works.\n\nHope that helps some of you.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sergey Svishchev", "body": "Considering how many ways there are for tech team to view page content (f.e. run some SQL code against backend database), consider using something like <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.vault>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Stephan Haslinger", "body": "We had the same issue. Our admin users now have two seperate accounts. One with regular user rights and one with administration rights. They are asked to only login as admin when required.\n\nSo they won't see hidden pages by simply using Confluence.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jon Cotter", "body": "Try setting the view restrictions specifically on a page and see if that works. If you find that it does work for you, any child of that page will inherit its restrictions. I use this to prevent Admins from editing certain pages, not sure I have ever tried to restrict viewing though....\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Restrictions>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "ITops123", "body": "Yeah, that doesn't work, unfortunately.\n\nI am assuming that the answer to my question is, \"you can't restrict viewing for confluence admins,\" but I wanted to ask here just in case.\n" } ] } ]

[ "restriction" ]

[ { "author": "LuizA", "body": "Hello Diego,\n\nBased on your description it seems that this is a kind of limitation of the plugin itself, so I think this unfortunately natively would not be possible, maybe by some customization. So in case you want to try some customization then you can obtain more assistance with our Atlassian Experts, please see how to contact them by the following link:\n\n<http://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts>\n\nHope this helps.\n\nKind Regards,\n\nLJ.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "app", "editor", "rich-text" ]

[ { "author": "Matt", "body": "You'll need to [customise the theme](/questions/592/how-do-you-customise-a-bundled-theme)'s Page Layout (ie. page.vmd) to achieve this.\n\nYou'll need to edit confluence-install/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/setup/atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip/doctheme-x.x.jar/doctheme/decorators/page.vmd and remove the following line of code:\n\n` #parse (\"`[/decorators/includes/page-metadata.vm](http://mattsmbp.local:8080/confluence/spaces/viewdefaultdecorator.action?decoratorName=/decorators/includes/page-metadata.vm&key=DOCS)`\")`\n\nSo you need to either [extract the jar, modify and rezip it](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+Files+within+JAR+Archives) to atlassian-bundled.plugins.zip, or you upload the modified jar as a plugin which will replace the bundled one. You might want to refer to this documentation.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "James Doman", "body": "How can I make the metadata be seen by logged in users only?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Sorry, what text are you trying to hide?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Stefan Prenner", "body": "I mean the text bellow the page title, where the author and the \"Last editor\" are shown.\n" } ] } ]

[ "documentation-theme" ]

[ { "author": "David Peterson", "body": "You can use the Reporting Plugin to achieve it, but I'm not sure exactly what would be best for your use case. Who will be viewing the report, and would it be for specific users that haven't had a comment reply?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "You can get at this with an SQL query and the [SQL plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/225). Have a look at the 'content' table. There's a column PARENTCOMMENTID. I haven't dug into the exact query you'd want to construct, but add a comment if this seems like a solution and you get stuck with the SQL.\n\nBe careful with the SQL plugin if you've got a big instance of Confluence, or a userbase that could go nuts with it! It's a powerful (and fantastic) plugin but can have scaling problems if you're users aren't thinking about performance.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Renjith Pillai", "body": "Isn't this plugin(s) a better choice than relying on comments?\n\n<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/144>\n\n<http://www.adhocworkflows.com/display/public/AWP/Ad+hoc+Workflows+Documentation+Home>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Daniel Stavrou", "body": "We would like to make sure that changes made to some important pages are commented and a reply of approval (As an example). To also see if comments are being addressed when it may have to do with content important to a busy page (another example).\n\nHope that makes sense.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Renjith Pillai", "body": "Mostly no.\n\nBut would it be possible to explain what is the usecase of this?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "comment", "report", "track" ]

[ { "author": "HuseinA", "body": "You can [customise theme](/questions/592/how-do-you-customise-a-bundled-theme)'s Page Layout (ie. page.vmd) to do that. For documentation theme, you'll need to edit confluence-install/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/setup/atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip/doctheme-x.x.jar/doctheme/decorators/**page.vmd** . And add anything you want after where the content is. You can create the content as a [user macro](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Writing+User+Macros), and then add the macro in the layout, for example:\n\n```\n<div class=\"wiki-content\">\n```\n\n```\n$body\n```\n\n```\n</div>\n```\n\n```\n<div id=\"additional\">\n```\n\n```\n$helper.renderConfluenceMacro(\"{cheese}\")\n```\n\n```\n</div>\n```\n\nIt's either you extract the jar, modify and rezip it to atlassian-bundled.plugins.zip, or you upload the modified jar as a plugin which will replace the bundled one. You might want to refer to [this documentation](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+Files+within+JAR+Archives).\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Alex Bobrovski", "body": "Super! Thanks a lot!\n\nBy the way, is it true if we upgrade our Confluence instance from 3.5 say to 3.6 or whaterver, such changes will be lost?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Matt", "body": "Yes, those changes will need to be made manually when upgrading to a newer version of Confluence. Please refer to our documentation for guidance on this process:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Custom+Layouts>\n\nWe're currently building a new Windows/Linux Installer for Confluence 4.0 which will address issues with upgrading customisecd instances in a future release.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Alex Bobrovski", "body": "and can I insert Wiki markup this way?\n", "comments": [ { "author": "HuseinA", "body": "I believe you meant macro, which is a yes, I have edited my answer above. If what you meant is a wiki markup, you might want to create that as a user macro, then just add the user macro in the layout.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "(Are you really sure it won't log attachment requests? It's a http request...)\n\nAlternative would be to turn on Tomcat page logging, see my answer here for how:\n\nhttps://answers.atlassian.com/questions/984/logging-user-s-browser-and-version\n\nNote that Tomcat logging doesn't get the username, only the ip\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "leonizm", "body": "This is how I manage and use Confluence user access logging data <http://www.leonizm.com/parseaccesslogs.html>.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "justindowning", "body": "If you use Apache to proxy the connections, you should see the relevant GETs in the access logs. From there, you can parse deatails and generate counts.\n\nMore on proxying here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+behind+Apache>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "Create a User Macro called, eg, **reload60sec**\n\nNo body\n\nHTML Output code\n> \\<script language=\"javascript\"\\> \n> // Assign an anonymous function to the onload event \n> window.onload = function(){ \n> // The time out value is set to be 60,000 milli-seconds \n> setTimeout(' document.location=document.location' ,60000); \n> } \n> \\</script\\>\n\nVary the time to suit. Too many reloads will distress the users and the server :)\n\nYou then add the macro *once* to each page you want to reload.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Lashonnee N Melton", "body": "* Why\n" } ] }, { "author": "Renjith Pillai", "body": "If the auto refresh usage is for any public display (like tv or beamer as information radiator), the simplest way is to load the confluence page in Firefox and use the auto refresh extension of firefox.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "I think the easiest way would be to create a plugin that uses Javascript to do the refresh, or insert the meta refresh tag into the HEAD element.\n\nWhy do you need auto-refresh though? Just wondering, if this is for a custom plugin, probably should just do straight AJAX\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Damian Knight", "body": "Thanks for the reply, Colin.\n\nWe want the Dashboard to auto-refresh, for example, so that people can see new activity. Also, we have pages with SQL reports in them where the data is changing on a half-hourly basis...\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Adhip Pokharel", "body": "Hi errno,\n\nYou can use this add-on to restrict attachment based on file types <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.elitesoftsp.confluence.attachment.tool.plugins/server/overview>\n\nIt works well with my system.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "Have a look at overriding the 'attachfile' action\n\n```\n <action name=\"attachfile\" class=\"com.atlassian.confluence.pages.actions.AttachFileAction\">\n```\n\nYou can do this via the conveyor plugin\n\n<http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/AtlassianPlugins/Confluence+Conveyor+Library>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matt Ryall", "body": "You can implement this as a [servlet filter module](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Servlet+Filter+Module) in a plugin which intercepts all multipart requests and allows or denies them based on the filename in the request.\n\nI'd look at the AttachFileAction in the Confluence source code as an example of how to handle multipart requests.\n\nOverriding the actions in Confluence as Colin suggests is probably not a great idea. His example there only covers some of the ways in which attachments are added to Confluence.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Tuelle", "body": "Hi Matt,\n\nI want to write a plugin that prevents users to update attachments in Confluence. The only way I see is to check during the file upload if an attachment with the same name aleady exists. If yes the request should be canceled (ideally with a note for the user) or the file should be renamed. If I understand you correctly, this should also be possible with a servlet filter module. I read the description, but I am not sure how to identify upload requests. Can you provide some help?\n" } ] } ]

[ "attachment" ]

[ { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "In general we steer people away from using the XML backup in Confluence. Everything you need to do is better done with a native db backup tool, except for migrating to a new database. Upgrading doesn't need it, backing up is more reliable using a native backup tool, and even moving to a new server is better done using a db dump.\n\nAll that is described in the [XML Backups Troubleshooing](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/XML+Backups+and+Space+Exports+Troubleshooting), the parent knowledge base article.\n\nHaving said all that, you can indeed troubleshoot the XML backup (we just think it's not a good strategy; the XML backup is not reliable and it's time to change your backup strategy). From your stack trace, this is the line to focus on:\n> net.sf.hibernate.ObjectNotFoundException: No row with the given identifier exists: 18776102\n\nThe knowledge base article for this is [Cannot Create XML Backup Due to ObjectNotFoundException No Row with Given Identifier](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Cannot+Create+XML+Backup+Due+to+ObjectNotFoundException+No+Row+with+Given+Identifier). Notice the warning at the top...\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Martin Cooper", "body": "I would recommend raising a support call, and providing them with the full details of your installation @ support.atlassian.com\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Tom Moors", "body": "I encountered the same problem and fixed it by including some Javascript. Go to the Confluence Administration pages -\\> Custom HTML and add the following snippet to the \"At the end of BODY\" section:\n\n```\n<script type=\"text/javascript\">AJS.$('div#top_logo_wrapper > a').first().attr(\"href\", \"/confluence/homepage.action\");</script>\n```\n\nThis works in an installation with the RefinedWiki theme.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "I think also in \\<confluence_installation\\>/confluence/decorators/main.vmd...and the equivalent for each theme installed (if necessary)Maybe replacement of the href attribute b JavaScript would be easier?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "This will require a modification to the source files (Confluence uses Velocity). One place that I can think of is inside the \\<confluence_installation\\>/confluence/template/includes/macros.vm.\n\nReplace the line\n\n```\n<a href=\"$req.contextPath/display/$spaceKey\">\n```\n\nwith what you need.\n\n```\n \n```\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Stefan Kohler", "body": "Best way it to create a own user macro in Confluence. ie: {contentforpagetitle}\n\nIn user macro you can use Velocity, so you do something like {contentbylabel:label=$\\<tt\\>renderContext.pageTitle}\\</tt\\>\n\nMore information about User Macros : <http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/UolYDQ>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Jason Skrzypek", "body": "thats awsome, thank you\n" }, { "author": "MarkC", "body": "This is a bit dated now. Does this still work? I attempted to create a macro using the information above for this (and I've created other macros, just not ones that use another macro within them to expand upon its functionality), but I can't get this work.\n" } ] }, { "author": "Sascha Rose", "body": "Hi,\n\ncan you give me the complete User Macro? I am new here and not worked with Velocity yet.\n\nThank you !\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Stefan Kohler", "body": "This is a duplicate of [How to create a list \"People who can view a current page\"?](../3895/how-to-create-a-list-people-who-can-view-a-current-page)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "report" ]

[ { "author": "Adam Laskowski", "body": "Cluster panics have [a number of root causes](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/%27Database+is+being+updated+by+an+instance+which+is+not+part+of+the+current+cluster%27+Error+Message), so narrowing down which particular scenario you're encountering will determine what you can do to prevent or prepare for the fallout from failures. In most cases, the panic occurs when one node becomes unresponsive and the cluster safety check can't be completed properly.\n\nThe major benefit for clustering your instance is balancing the load for requests against your instance across more than one server. If your instance as a single node would slow considerably during peak hours of the day, splitting the load across more hardware usually reluts in better performance. There are [some other considerations](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Cluster+Checklist#ClusterChecklist-GeneralConsiderations) that you should look over, as well, before making the decision to go to a single node environment, but it's normally possible to performance tune a single node to perform well under load such that a clustered instance might not be necessary.\n\nTry running a single node in production for one day and monitor performance during your peak hours. If the performance hit is quite large (an additional 5-10+ seconds load time), you might still want to keep clustering. If it's a minimal change to performance, you should be able to make a few [performance modifications](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Performance+Tuning) and run a single node long-term.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "data-center" ]

[ { "author": "JohnA", "body": "Not quite perfect, but take a look at the [run macro](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/RUN/Confluence+Run+Plugin), which lets you pass parameters to a page and then modify page content based on those parameters. Great for changing parameters to an SQL macro, but can also change content of the page itself. You could possible rig it to activate a nodisplay macro to hide content.\n\nActually, even better would be to use it to pass a parameter to Adaptatvist's [cloak macro](https://www.adaptavist.com/display/AtlassianConfluence/cloak+macro) which can show/hide content.\n\nIf you're really adventurous, you could include content to toggle CSS styles to show/hide information, much like the [Confluence Documentation Theme](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/DOC/Confluence+Documentation+Theme) shows/hides a side panel. Mark secitons with a [style macro](https://www.adaptavist.com/display/AtlassianConfluence/style+macro) and then create a trigger mechanism.\n\nLet us know how you go!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Michal Zebrowski", "body": "The solution with CSS styles sounds promising. Could You give me some hints?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Rian Rian", "body": "I'm using the metadata plugin to add metedata in a similar situation, and I am finding it has many useful capabilities (and a few problems, too).\n\nThat doesn't solve your other problem: importing content from Word in such a way that the marcos aren't \"escaped\" (\"{color:red}\" becomes \"\\\\{color:red\\\\}\"so that you have to go in to each page and unescape them.\n\nThis is a workaround for that:\n\n-- add all the macros you want to use to your Word documents.\n\n-- Save each of your Word documents as a text file.\n\n-- Put the text files in some directory on the Confluence server. (Best to create one especially for them.)\n\n-- Go to the space you want to import the pages into and go to \"Space Admin\" (assuming you have the permissions to do so).\n\n-- Click \"Import Pages from Disk\" (last choice in the left menubar).\n\n-- Use this mechanism to import the text files. Each one will become a new Confluence page in the space, with all macros intact.\n\nThe problem I'm dealing with now is that these pages are NOT imported as children of the home page -- if you want them to show up in the normal space hierarchy, you have to move them manually. (Of course, maybe someone wiser than I has a workaround for that -- anybody?)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Tom Moors", "body": "Hi Francis,\n\nFor the import you can use the bundled Office Connector plugin, documentation can be found here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+an+Office+Document+into+Confluence> . I'm affraid there's no bulk import/API that can be scripted - no experience in this field.\n\nFor the classification problem can I suggest to take a look at the Metadata plugin (<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/META/Confluence+Metadata+Plugin>) which will help to add metadata to the pages like title, creation date etc. It is possible to generate reports based on these values, I also thought they were indexed to enable easy searching.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Nils Bier _K15t_", "body": "Hi everyone,\n\nI just stumbled across this thread and wanted to give you an update on the ImageMap app Stefan mentioned.\n\nWe've released a new version of this app two years ago. Now you can easily draw your imagemaps on the image itself via the UI. There's no need to calculate any coordinates; simply draw the clickable area, link it, save the imagemap and you're ready to go.\n\nPlease feel free to evaluate the new version via the Atlassian Marketplace: [Scroll ImageMap for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.dl.confluence.plugin.imagemap.ImageMapPlugin/server/overview)\n\nCheers, \nNils\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Renjith Pillai", "body": "The easiest workaround, is to split the images in multiple images and include each of them with a link. Isn't that easy. A The simple mspaint (in Windows of course) will do the job to split the images.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Stefan Kohler", "body": "Jim is refering to the ImageMap plugin : <https://plugins.atlassian.com/253>\n\nI can confirm that the plugin works on Confluence 3.5.5, although it doesn't say so on the plugin page.\n\nOnly downside of the plugin is that you need to figure out the coordinates for the image map but tools such as <http://www.image-maps.com/> are making that a little bit easier :)\n\n```\n{imagemap:name=[somepage^testpicture.jpg]} {map:link=[1. Gesch?ftliches Umfeld und Auswirkungen analysieren]|coords=120,193,224,261|target=\"_blank\"} {map:link=[2. Businessl?sung definieren]|shape=circle|coords=300,300,150|title='A beautifull hint-text'} {map:link=[3. Infrastruktur designen und planen]|shape=rect|coords=257,174,363,233} {map:link=http://www.google.com|coords=115,98,225,155|title='Jump to google!'} {map:link=http://www.theserverside.com|coords=685,98,785,157}{imagemap}\n```\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joerg Bencke", "body": "BEWARE - Chrome says the \"UTILITIES\" Link leads to a site with malware on it. proceed at your own risk\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nishadha Silva", "body": "I think Renjith has give the easiest solution. No need to bother with setting up cordinations etc.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jim Birch", "body": "You want something like this: \n{imagemap:name=\\^imagemaptest.gif} \n{map:link=\\[http://www.google.com\\]\\|shape=rect\\|coords=10,10,110,30} \n{map:link=\\[http://www.yahoo.com\\]\\|shape=rect\\|coords=50,50,150,70} \n{imagemap}\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Ayron Jungren", "body": "Well, by the advice from Atlassian Support, I've fixed the issue (somewhat) by switching to mod_proxy_ajp, and changing the protocol to AJP/1.3 in the server.xml file.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Thomas Krug", "body": "Did you check the tomcat logs (stdout and stderr)? This sounds like the proxy parameters are missing in the server.xml\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Ayron Jungren", "body": "Yes, there's literally nothing in the logs, sadly. I tried both with the proxy parameters in server.xml and without, and neither works. Although I've read that I don't need them, as I'm using ProxyPreserveHost, it doesn't work either way, sadly.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "MatthewC", "body": "Hi there,\n\nWe've got a similar situation. We started with Sharepoint 2007 run by IT and no-one expect the PMs and IT wanted to use it, it was just plain horrible in it's default configuration. We've about to roll out Sharepoint 2010 and the same questions are being asked. technical users love Confluence, business users prefer Sharepoint. They don't care if they don't have the flexibility or the ability to hook into so many data sources, they rarely have needs outside of Word or Excel.\n\nBusiness users consider the Sharepoint interface to be \"professional\" and the Confluence interface to be \"not-for-business\". It's a harsh call \\& I don't agree with it but it's what we get every week.\n\nI've also asked the same question of Atlassian \\& partners at the local user groups but the answers are usually vague \\& come down to use the connector. In an ideal world it's good advice, use each software for what it's good for but in reality it's never that clean. With you the Sharepoint is in the cloud, with us, there no appetite for purchasing \\& hosting it because it doesn't belong to any one budget (even if everyone would us it if it was there!).\n\nWe've started giving the general advice:\n\n* If you need to put a workflow around your documents, then use Sharepoint\n* If have a business process to model, then use Sharepoint\n* If you want somewhere to keep project documents for management that no-one uses day-to-day (project costs, PCB reports) then Sharepoint works.\n\nHowever,\n\n* if you want a place to colloborate then use Confluence\n* If you want to create a friendly jump off point for documents, use Confluence\n* Confluence is the daily heart beat of your teams, Sharepoint is the reference platform behind Office\n\nIt's still a bit vague \\& people aren't entirely comfortable with it but if your re-enforce the point that Confluence is always the place to go to find what you need, they tend to take to that.\n\nWe're also using Adaptavist's Theme builder plugin to help build a more Office feel to Confluence to make business users feel more at home.\n\nI don't have a simple answer for you but I don't think one exists. I would recommend you look at the reasons why your company thinks Confluence isn't enough \\& why they want to use Sharepoint. Use these reasons to draw the line between the two. Confluence isn't Sharepoint \\& never will be thankfully!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "It's always a curly question trying to work out how to fit both Confluence and SharePoint into your business workflow. While SP2010 is a marked improvement over SP2007, the general consensus still seems to be that the editing experience in Confluence is still superior. I'm certain that this gap will widen even further with the release of Confluence 4. As a document manager/repository, SharePoint is the hands-down winner.\n\nThe SharePoint Connector can help in this situation (in particular, the integrated search can make a big difference), but as you say, we don't support Office 365/SharePoint Online yet.\n\nMy advice echoes Matthew Cobby's answer: use SharePoint to manage information that is:\n\n* Changed infrequently\n* Requires fine-grained workflows and/or permissions\n* Needs to be stored as word docs\n\nUse Confluence for:\n\n* Working on new content that may go through many revisions from many authors before it is complete\n* Content that needs to embed rich multimedia, or content that is hosted on the wider Internet\n\nThe SharePoint search experience is far more powerful than Confluence's, so I'd recommend that you spend some time setting up a good search landing page to direct people to to find content in any system. Even without the SharePoint Connector, it might be possible to setup some kind of search integration (I am unsure of the capabilities of SharePoint online in this regard).\n\nAlso, you can still use the Confluence Office Connector to migrate content between the two systems (as it can import/export word docs), or use the Universal Wiki Converter to import SharePoint pages into Confluence.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Manse Wolken", "body": "We are using Confluence and SP here. And we have the Confluence Connector.\n\nWell, our SP Users find Confluence Pages using the Corporate Search. Our Confluence Users do not use SP.\n\nSales Department and Customer Relationship department just got to use Confluence, turned out, they wanted a Wiki, not a Sharepoint.\n\nSo the use for Sharepoint became the same as a shared file storage. Sharepoint hosts Word and Excel files, everything else, including actual information is in Confluence.\n\nSo I tell our users: Sharepoint is for Word and Excel, if you want to work with the developers: Use Confluence.\n", "comments": null } ]

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[ { "author": "MatthewC", "body": "If you're just running a demo version then maybe you don't have the drivers installed? You'll have to download these yourself from Oracle.\n\nSee Nic's link for what version is supported \\& this ones for how to set it up.\n\nhttp://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+for+Oracle\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "See [http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms\\</p\\<\\>\\>](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms%3C/p)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "You might think about using something like <http://www.adhocworkflows.com/display/WWW/Home> Ad Hoc Workflows if you can afford to purchase something. This will allow you to have \"reviewers\" who can overlook material before approving it and the new content will be in \"draft\" mode until approved and anyone logged in will only see approved content.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Pee Wee", "body": "Thanks! This would definitely be an asset but it is unfortunately not exactly what I'm looking for. Everyone should be able to edit the site (and see all versions), but just some should be able to approve a version that should subsequently be displayed as such.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "The Ad Hoc Workflows plugin is scriptable and allows you to do just that. Feel free to contact the company with any questions you have and they'll be able to better help you with specific examples.\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "It seems that the plugin is the only solution at the moment. Good news it has been updated for Confluence 3.5.x. <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/241>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Sanjiva Nath", "body": "Here's the zAgile webinar which shows how to use the open source Wikidsmart plug-in \\& platform to bi-directionally integrate content between JIRA, Salesforce, and Confluence for maximum interoperability, traceaiblity, and federated search:\n\n[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woXmp9H6xgs\\&context=C4ab96adADvjVQa1PpcFO2zuZDdQq4-xVhEGPLXVbcWUm4hXmy8ic=](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woXmp9H6xgs&context=C4ab96adADvjVQa1PpcFO2zuZDdQq4-xVhEGPLXVbcWUm4hXmy8ic=)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "salesforce" ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "Azwan's answer is probably the simplest. Alternatively, download the specific plugin manually through your web browser from [plugins.atlassian.com](http://plugins.atlassian.com) and then manually upload it to Confluence - it should overwrite the existing version. See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+a+Plugin#InstallingaPlugin-Uploadingyourownplugin>.\n\nThe advantage of this approach is that it will work even if the version you want to downgrade to is not the version that is shipped by default with your version of Confluence.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Try uninstall the plugin and restart Confluence. The bundled version should be loaded back into Confluence.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "Try browsing to the page /confluence/display/EEMEADO/SOD+Checks+-+HK and check the contents. There could be some form of link markups that Confluence could not encode.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "It could be external too - it looks to me like a user has tried to connect to your Confluence site using an instant messenger client!\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Betsy Walker", "body": "I think it's caused by what it says it is: a malformed URL. [This page](http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=15825) describes some typical causes.\n\nIf this is a new install of Confluence, check the web app context set in the ROOT.xml file in the /confCatalina/localhost folder. In our case (an EAR/WAR install), for instance, our URLs don't have /confluence at the front of it.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "MatthewC", "body": "Can you not use the {include}macro?\n\nYou would have a pages in each customer space that mirrored the structure of your common documentation that contain the included content from your common space.\n\ne.g. if you had a page called Glossary in the customer space it would be\n\n{include:COMMON:Glossary}\n\nYou could create this for every referenced page just once in blank template space \\& use the Copy space plugin to create every customer space.\n\nThe only problem with this is that any links between common included pages would link to the Common space, not the customer space but with careful writing you could avoid this.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Juha Kuusama", "body": "ThankYou Matthew!\n> Can you not use the {include}macro?\n\nYes I can, now that I know about it. :-) This is exactly what I was asking for.\n\nRegards,\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "How are you currently showing the hierarchy tree? Is this just the page template for Confluence?\n\nWhat is the expected max number of parts and modules? What about customers?\n\nDoes your part/module documentation all have a common parent page, by any chance?\n\nDo the customers each have their own accounts?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "How are you currently showing the hierarchy tree?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "It seems to be 60 x 60 pixels :)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Mark Nixon", "body": "Thanks guys for your input. I guess there is no real way to change the photos except by resetting passwords, which we cant really do. I have submitted a feature request to Atlassian so fingers crossed......\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Zeke Crater", "body": "Atlassian still fails to provide a method whereby a Confluence administrator, logged in as himself, can upload a profile picture for a user. Atlassian's customers still need this feature.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Javier O'Neil", "body": "This is ridiculous. Is there really no way to do this, as an admin? How can this not be resolved? It's really hurting adoption of this product in my organization.\n" }, { "author": "Grady Drew", "body": "I've had to send out mass mail to my entire org providing instructions on how to do this. This is certainly less optimal than if an administrator had control of the account.\n" }, { "author": "Andy Watson", "body": "I can't believe this isn't an option!\n" }, { "author": "Mike Stone", "body": "still not an option?\n" }, { "author": "Ljiljana Juric", "body": "Still not an option???\n" } ] }, { "author": "HuseinA", "body": "The best workaround I can think of is to replace the default profile picture: \\<confluence-install\\>/confluence/images/icons/profilepics/**default.gif** . You might want to make sure you replaced it with the same dimension GIF picture. If you want to overwrite the profile pictures of all the users that already set one, you can do that by a hackery job, update **OS_PROPERTYENTRY** table in Confluence database. The **entity_key** is 'confluence.user.profile.picture' and the column that holds the path is **string_val**. For example, you'd need to run this to overwrite all the profile picture to the default.gif:\n\n```\nUPDATE OS_PROPERTYENTRY\n```\n\n```\nSET string_val='/images/icons/profilepics/default.gif'\n```\n\n```\nWHERE entity_key='confluence.user.profile.picture';\n```\n\n```\n \n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Fabio Genovese", "body": "thanks for suggestion. I test in a develop environment and it's good :-).\n\nA question for @Husein Alatas \\[Atlassian\\].\n\nI can use the same way to set profile picture for all confluence users?? I mean. I have a customer with severe policy about employees photos (there is a ufficial photo for each employee and only this photo can be used). Can I create a Stored procedure to automatically set ufficial photo as profile picture?\n\nTo see new photos, tomcat's restart is mandatory??\n\nthanks in advance\n\nFABIO\n" } ] }, { "author": "erikmergeport", "body": "Any news? \nBumped into this problem as well.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "lovetheidea", "body": "Same here! Just want to add a simple profile pic -- can do everything else why not this?\n" } ] }, { "author": "Christian Schaal", "body": "Any news on this? I'd also like to replace the profile pictures of my team members by individual pictures. This is no problem in Jira, but still not possible in Confluence i'm afraid. :(\n\nWe share accounts between Jira and Confluence using Crowd, but profile photos are not being synched.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Ethan Foulkes", "body": "The Sudo plugin works great for this. I don't think they are updating their compatibility but it works fine for me on 5.1.4\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Kay Brown", "body": "I recently replaced Profile photos for some users by having the Infrastructure team temporarily reset each users LDAP login information and then provide the information to me.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "You can generate a set of the labels used on all descendent pages with the reporter plug-in. It will not be a single unique set of labels, however. Maybe it gives you what you are looking for.\n\n--------------------\n\n```\n{report-table} {content-reporter:spaces=@self|types=+page|scope=@self > descendents} {text-filter:content:labels|minLength=1}{text-sort:content:labels} {content-reporter} {report-column:title=Labels}{report-info:content:labels}{report-column} {report-table} \n```\n\n```\n \n```\n\n```\n-----------------\n```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Royce Wong", "body": "Thanks for the reply Kevin! I tested the code, but as you stated, it doesn't display single unique set of labels, so it's not quite what I am looking for, but maybe I can find ways to improve it. Thanks again.\n" } ] } ]

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[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "The Plugin Manager in Confluence is, in itself, a plugin. If it fails to initialise properly during Confluence's start-up, then the links it provides may be missing from the administation console.\n\n<br />\n\nCheck the Confluence logs to see if there are any errors during start-up. See our [Working with Confluence Logs](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Confluence+Logs) documentation guide.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "HuseinA", "body": "Joseph was right. Most likely, Universal Plugin Manager (the new plugin manager in 3.4.x onwards) failed to initialise properly upon startup due to [this known issue](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Unable+to+Start+Confluence+or+Some+Plugins+are+Disabled+upon+Startup). You should still be able to access the old plugin manager by direct accessing it at *[http://confluence-path/admin/viewplugins.action](http://confluence-path/admin/viewplugins.action.)*. If UPM turned out to be disabled (which most likely is the case), then you just need to enable it to make the link appear in Admin Console as normal.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Nic Brough -Adaptavist-", "body": "Ouch, could you not capitalise every word? It makes it VERY hard to read.\n\nYou need to check your permissions first - do you have all the admin rights? Next, check the list of plugins to see if any are disabled because of loading errors.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "The answer is: use date-sort instead of text-sort for date fields.\n\n> {report-table}\n>\n> {content-reporter:space=@self\\|types=+page\\|scope=@self \\> descendents}\n>\n> {**date-sort**:content:modification date\\|order=descending}\n>\n> {content-reporter}\n>\n> {report-column:title=Title}{report-info:page:title\\|link=true}{report-column}\n>\n> {report-column:title=Last Modified}{report-info:page:modification date}{report-column}\n>\n> {report-table}\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "There is the [Usage Tracking Plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/271), but it can cause some performance problems on large instances and can quickly blow out the size of the lucene index, so I'd recommend trialling it before going the whole hog with it.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "What about using the Webtrends Analytics Connector?\n\n<https://www.appfusions.com/display/WTRDSC/Home>\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Vijay Sv", "body": "If your using MS SQL, here is how you get Confluence Usage via DB.\n\nselect 'Total Spaces', count(\\*) from SPACES -----Total Spaces \nselect 'Personal Spaces', count(\\*) from SPACES where \\[SPACETYPE\\] ='personal' ---Personal Spaces \nselect 'Site Spaces',count(\\*) from SPACES where \\[SPACETYPE\\] = 'global' -- Site/global Spaces \nSELECT 'Content (All Versions)', count(\\*) FROM \\[CONTENT\\] ---- Content (All Versions) \nselect 'Content (Current Versions)', count(\\*) from CONTENT where PREVVER is null; --- Content (Current Versions) \nselect count(\\*) from \\[dbo\\].\\[cwd_group\\] ---Local Groups \nselect count(\\*) from \\[dbo\\].\\[cwd_user\\] ----Local Users \nSELECT 'Blogposts',count(\\*) FROM \\[CONTENT\\] WHERE CONTENTTYPE = 'BLOGPOST'; \nselect 'All Pages',count(\\*) from CONTENT where CONTENTTYPE ='PAGE'; \nSELECT 'Comments',count(\\*) FROM CONTENT WHERE CONTENTTYPE = 'COMMENT'; \nSELECT 'All Content Attachments', count(\\*) FROM \\[dbo\\].\\[CONTENT\\] WHERE CONTENTTYPE = 'ATTACHMENT'; --All Content Attachments\n\nHope this help!!\n\nThanks, \nVJ\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "AbrahamA", "body": "Hi Betsy\n\nIs it possible to share your sql queries.\n\nThanks\n\nAbe\n", "comments": [ { "author": "hsuhailah", "body": "This might help: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/70444/how-to-get-confluence-stats/70485\n" } ] }, { "author": "Betsy Walker", "body": "The [How Do I Get More Statistics from Confluence article](http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=154239308) has some good suggestions. In our case, i just run a set of SQL queries once a month that give me stats for the previous month, such as # of spaces, attachments, users, count by contenttype, top 10 largest spaces based on content, etc. I've found that some of the metrics-oriented plugins are very performance-intensive.\n\nAs we're in the process of adding Webtrends analytics to our Confluence installation, the statistics gathered there may suffice going forward.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "IT KnowledgeSystemsManagement", "body": "BetsyW,\n\nLove to hear how your webtrends test works out.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "You need to install Confluence as a Windows Service.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Edwin Chan", "body": "A quick way to do it is to use service.bat in /bin\n" } ] }, { "author": "Elvir Hadzic", "body": "Did you check the Confluence (error) logs?\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Network Administrator", "body": "I tried the instructions on <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Start+Confluence+Automatically+on+Windows+as+a+Service>.\n\nBut I get a message saying that:\n\nWindows could not start the Apache Tomcat Confluence on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 0.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "David at David Simpson Apps", "body": "Are you running the 64bit version of Java? If so, you'll need to update the bundled services fro the 32bit version.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "Martin Cooper", "body": "I would need to check the various details - but you should be able to use the xml export import method.\n\nexport your current data to xml then import that into your empty new version and DB.\n\nYou may be better off hopping to an intermediary verison first rather than try to go all in one step, and that may enable you to move using the more automated in-situ db upgrade.\n\nElse follow the instructions for moving to new Database:\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrate+to+Another+Database>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "timrmoore", "body": "Hi Martin, I didn't think you could do an upgrade and a DB migration at the same time?\n\nI'm thinking 2.9 might be the next step as it Supports 2005 and works with 2000, but then I'll need yet another DB created.\n\nAtlassian support have advised I shouldn't need another step (already gone 2.6.0 to 2.7.4), but I can't see how else to do it.\n" }, { "author": "Martin Cooper", "body": "In normal circumstances, its not advised you want to de-risk as much as possible - but the xml is database independant making your confluence data pretty portable in reality. As always would test first of course.\n\nFrom a quick check, 2000 support was last mentioned in 2.8. 2.9 only lists 2005\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF29/List+Of+Supported+Databases>\n\n(2.7.4 is the minimum version from the confluence side)\n" }, { "author": "timrmoore", "body": "Yeah, this is the test migration. Will give it a go\n" } ] }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "I upticked Martin's answer, it's basically the same one I'd give. One caveat - the XML backup is notoriously unreliable. If you hit an error you can troubleshoot it. Start with [XML Backups and Space Exports Troubleshooting](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/XML+Backups+and+Space+Exports+Troubleshooting) and find the error in the logs for the article you need from there.\n\nAlternatively, you can run the upgrade to 3.5, then use a native database tool to migrate your data from 2000 to 2008 (I bet it will work, it's just not supported - it had performance problems and we deprecated it for that reason).\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Kevin Buchs", "body": "Well, here a beginning of something you might try: put your scores on other pages, and make the text on each page be set to a color based on a label. The {include} all those pages into one master table.\n\nother pages, for example Page a, Page b and Page c contain:\n\n```\nMy number is {show-if:label=small}{color:blue}24{color}{show-if}{show-if:label=medium}{color:green}24{color}{show-if}{show-if:label=large}{color:red}24{color}{show-if}\n```\n\nWhere the number of interest is 24 or others. Change the colors to match your requirements. Then label each page with one of \"small\", \"medium\", \"large\". The roll-up page can look like this:\n\n```\n|| Values ||\n```\n\n```\n| {include:Page a} |\n```\n\n```\n| {include:Page b} |\n```\n\n```\n| {include:Page c} |\n```\n\nThis will render a table with three colored numbers in it.\n\nI tried to think of how I could combine this with the reporting plug in, but it spits out all the {show-if} macros.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Jason Skrzypek", "body": "based on this link <http://community.customware.net/customware/topics/using_the_show_if_macro_with_scaffolding_data>, ive created a text box where you can enter 1,2, or 3. The the report block produces text and a background colour based on the content. I just need to get this to work with the eval-data macro\n\n\\|{text-data:test}{text-data}\\|\n\n\\|{report-block}\n\n{local-reporter:data:test}\n\n{text-filter:@self\\|include=1}\n\n{report-body}{bgcolor:yellow}test1{bgcolor}{report-body}\n\n{text-filter:@self\\|include=2}\n\n{report-body}{bgcolor:green}test1{bgcolor}{report-body}\n\n{text-filter:@self\\|include=3}\n\n{report-body}{bgcolor:blue}test1{bgcolor}{report-body}\n\n{report-empty}Nothing is selected.{report-empty}\n\n{report-block}\\|\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "condition", "format" ]

[ { "author": "HuseinA", "body": "You can [customise theme](/questions/592/how-do-you-customise-a-bundled-theme)'s Page Layout (ie. page.vmd) to do that. For documentation theme, you'll need to edit confluence-install/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/setup/atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip/doctheme-x.x.jar/doctheme/decorators/**page.vmd**. And add anything you want before where the content is:\n>\n> ```\n> <div class=\"wiki-content\">\n> ```\n>\n> ```\n> $body\n> ```\n>\n> ```\n> </div>\n> ```\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Stefan Prenner", "body": "o.k. thanks, i'll try it.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "JamieA", "body": "Are you sure that this information is not in active directory? Or could it be that you just don't have permission to view certain attributes... Exchange needs a certain amount of information to work. If that information is not stored in AD where is it stored?\n\nAlternatively... I have had a certain amount of success running my own openldap server for the atlassian tools, which is populated from the corporate ldap server. I configured pass-through authentication with SASL so users are authenticated against the corporate ldap, not mine. It's a hassle to set up but works nicely once done, and also allows you to use ldap groups (which generally you cannot do with ldap in a large corporate).\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Mike Jansen", "body": "I am 100% sure it is not available in the Active Directory that contains our domain logins. It's a \"security measure\".\n\nWe may try our own LDAP server at some point. In the mean time, Tiago Comasseto of Atlassian Support gave me a solution: the Delegated LDAP User Directory which is basically what we do in JIRA (but it's called LDAP Password-only authentication). It meets our needs very well for the time being in that we validate the password against LDAP but the email/display name are in Confluence.\n\nMike\n" }, { "author": "Mike Jansen", "body": "Thanks for the thoughts on using our own LDAP server; we may use that in the future.\n\nMike\n" }, { "author": "Mike Jansen", "body": "I am 100% sure it is not available in the Active Directory that contains our domain logins. It's a \"security measure\".\n\nWe may try our own LDAP server at some point. In the mean time, Tiago Comasseto of Atlassian Support gave me a solution: the Delegated LDAP User Directory which is basically what we do in JIRA (but it's called LDAP Password-only authentication). It meets our needs very well for the time being in that we validate the password against LDAP but the email/display name are in Confluence.\n\nMike\n" } ] }, { "author": "Julius Juurmaa", "body": "I ran into a similar issue a while back. We have a Confluence 4 installation configured to use internal/LDAP authentication -- so users are authenticated against LDAP and local profiles are created.\n\nOur LDAP server stores only the user's full name and a bunch of other things that hold no relevance for Confluence. E-mail addresses, for example, are not stored. I solved this problem by letting Confluence get the missing information from a \"dummy\" field. The LDAP server simply gives a blank result, which is then stored in Confluence. Job done.\n\nHowever, the internal/LDAP authentication scheme also means that, on every subsequent login, user details are overwritten with values from the LDAP server. So, if a user changes his/her e-mail address in Confluence, it is overwritten with a blank value next time he/she logs in. I did a little digging; it appears that Confluence's internal Crowd has an attribute \"crowd.delegated.directory.auto.update.user\" which stops the overwriting. So I set it to false:\n\n```\nUPDATE `cwd_directory_attribute` SET `attribute_value`='false' WHERE `attribute_name`='crowd.delegated.directory.auto.update.user' AND `directory_id`='&lt;your directory id&gt;';\n```\n\nAnd now it works properly.\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "jira", "ldap" ]

[ { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "There doesn't apear to be, however, probably wouldn't be too hard to modify the source from the recently updated macro and include the parent page as an optional parameters\n\n<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Recently+Updated+Macro>\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Michael Roff", "body": "I guess the degree of difficultly is relative to experience writing macros for Confluence.\n\nUnfortunately, I am not experienced, thus, it's probably not easy for me.\n\nThanks for the response.\n" } ] } ]

[ { "author": "BernardoA", "body": "Sometimes the fix is just restart the application or clean and rebuild the bundled plugin directories. However to better investigate this problem is necessary to analyze the log.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Richard Yale", "body": "To me this is saying that there was an error during setup because the variable isSetupComplete is Null. I would suggest trying to install Confluence again following all of the installation steps to a T.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "In case you need some help to find the log file, try this [doc](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Confluence+Logs)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "We'll need some more information. Can you provide full exceptions from the logs in your confluence home?\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "You might just be limited by your Confluence version here. In newer versions, there's a setting in the UI to tweak this. From the [documentation](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Searching+For+and+Managing+Users):\n> To specify how many results should be shown per page,\n>\n> click a number '**10** ', '**20** ', '**50** ' or '**100**' near the top of the page.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Richard Crane", "body": "I know about the option on the Manage users page -- I want to change the default selection, which is 10, to 50.\n" }, { "author": "Jeremy Largman", "body": "Ah ok, got it. If you don't want to change the source code or write a plugin, one way to hack your way through this would be to add a [mod_rewrite](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html) rule that adds those parameters to your URL. Click on 20 or 50 and check the URL - you can add all those parameters when you hit the default path. Not ideal - ideally you'd write a plugin for this - but it'd be a lot easier, especially if you're already using Apache in front of Confluence.\n\nDo you want to modify this in the code?\n" }, { "author": "Richard Crane", "body": "I don't mind editing the source -- just having trouble finding where (appears to be part of a pager routine used in various places).\n" } ] } ]

[ "administration" ]

[ { "author": "AlysonA", "body": "Hello there!\n\nPerhaps you can put the string inside the Code Macro plugin?\n\n* http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Code+Block+Macro\n", "comments": [ { "author": "Pat Schaub", "body": "That is great! Thanks so much!\n" } ] }, { "author": "Joe Clark", "body": "There is also the noformat macro, which is similar in function to the code macro, but doesn't apply any fancy formatting or highlighting: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Noformat+Macro>\n", "comments": null } ]

[ { "author": "Nick Muldoon", "body": "Hi George,\n\nLong time since you asked this question. For anyone stumbling upon this I'm just flagging [Instant Websites for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/instant-websites) which addresses your need.\n\nCheers, \n[Nick, Arijea](http://arijea.com/)\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Matt", "body": "Here's an example of a public Confluence site that uses the Zen Foundation Plugin and has a blog:\n\n<https://www.appfusions.com/display/blog-Dashboard>\n\nAppFusions are an Atlassian Partner so I'm sure they'd be happy to answer any questions you have.\n", "comments": null }, { "author": "Colin Goudie", "body": "Sounds like you just need to use the blogpost macro on the home page. You may want to look into the parameters for this macro if you need to pull in blog posts from other spaces. You could also set this home page as the home page for the wiki so it's the first thing people see when logging in.\n", "comments": [ { "author": "George Breahna", "body": "wow, that was exactly it!! nice, thank you very much\n" } ] }, { "author": "Azwandi Mohd Aris", "body": "You might want to take a look at [Skinning Confluence](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEVAL/Skinning+Confluence). I'd say a combination of custom themes and some macros can make this work :)\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "blog", "instant-website", "space" ]

[ { "author": "Rodrigo Girardi Adami", "body": "Hi Theresa,\n\nAfter researching a bit about bookmarking plugin and I could find this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Adding+a+bookmark>\n\nAccording to it, You can add a bookmark via: \"A bookmark icon [on your browser toolbar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Adding+a+Bookmark+Icon+to+your+Browser).  This is the quickest way.\"\n\nAlso, according to the same page, there are necessary fields that must be filled before adding the bookmarking. I believe this is the normal behavior. Please open a support ticket so we can investigate the possibility to open a feature request for you on this matter.\n\nRegards,\n\nRodrigo\n", "comments": null } ]

[ "bookmark" ]