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team calendar
Asked by Xavier BARBERET:

Is it possible to sort/group JIRA events in a Team Calendar in Confluence ?

We would like something similar to swimlane in JIRA Agile.

Thanks :smile:


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Xavier,

I couldn't find this feature in Team calendar documentation. I believe it doesn't exists yet. I recommend to fill a [feature request for Team calendar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy) and ask your colleagues to vote and watch to increase popularity.

I'll leave this question open since other users may have a workaround for this request.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
What other uses does page properties have?
Asked by Christian Ax?n:

I'm currently testing to see if Confluence fit our needs. I'm curious to see what others are using page properties for. It is really easy to create index pages showing the properties but more uses than that I have not found. I am not a programmer but I would be interested to know what the possibilites are with page properties.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Christian Ax?n
body: Yes, Guilherme, I've tried the both options and I've come to realise those two are probably enough.The reason I asked the question is simply that I cannot think of any other uses than to create lists and categorise pages. Somebody must have done something creative with properties.


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Christian, you probably have seen the current available parameters for the Page Properties Report output - outlined in the following <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Properties+Report+Macro#PagePropertiesReportMacro-Parameters>.Another method for cataloguing pages is to use labels, being the bundled feature or third-party options - [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence\&category=\&cost=\&hosting=\&marketingLabel=\&q=label](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=label) Would it be possible to detail the type of functionality/parameter you seek since that can help possible participants in this post thread?


author: Christian Ax?n
body: Anyone??


Tags: confluence-administration
Show javadoc page inside confluence page
Asked by Jukka Vuento:

Hi, we have problem with documentation. We use Confluence, JIRA and Jenkins at the moment and use confluence for documenting the project (classes etc). Now we would like to show javadoc pages from Jenkins inside Confluence page as a part of documentation for class or service in question. Is this possible without writing own macro/plugin? Or if this is not possible can we somehow show it in JIRA story and link to it. What do you guys and girls use in this kind of situations?


Answers:
author: Jukka Vuento
body: Hi, thank you for answers. Problem with using iframe or similar is that javadoc is in structure including folders. So uploading it unzipped is not really what we are looking for. Is there a way to upload it as a zip file and then use html pages from inside it? We are trying to make it as easy as possible to keep documents in order so uploading zip file and using the class specs from the newest one automatically would be nice.

comments: author: Teresa Hollidge
body: I'm interested in this as well. We currently attach multiple Javadoc zip files to a Confluence pages for our partner developers on our customer facing Confluence instance. It's not very elegant and we don't want to grant our partners access to our internal systems.


author: Justin Justin
body: Teresa - I think you will be pleased with <http://www.appfusions.com/display/DOXYGEN/Home> Email info@appfusions.com to try it as it is based on the zipped set, maintaining all structure.


author: Justin Justin
body: [Doxygen](http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/) is free (well, donations are nice).

This plugin ([Doxygen in Atlassian Confluence](http://www.appfusions.com/display/DOXYGEN/Home)) only costs a donation to Room to Read also. There's also a [JIRA version](http://www.appfusions.com/display/DOXYGENJ/Home).

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uISYPvAoegk>

comments: author: Brian K
body: Justin - does the macro pick up .zip files? I tried this with our javadoc export and received: "you must upload a Doxygen archive file." What's it looking for?


author: Justin Justin
body: We have mostly been using .tar or tar.gz files - but it should support .zips too. I saw your comment in the support queue and the developer is looking into it. He could not replicate the issue with his local zips from Doxygen, but I think he was adding something to the code to more explicitly accept .zips or something. I say a skype message that he was making the update and a new release - so check back.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Jukka,

You could probably just put it in an iframe. You can use the [Content Formatting Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros) for free, and it includes an iframe macro.


Tags: javadoc
I complete/delete tasks by they don't disappear.
Asked by Szczesniak:

hi,

I have a few pages with tasks, which I want to complete. I have active buttons for completing or deleting tasks, but pressing them and accepting don't affect them. See the attachment for info.task delete.jpg

My confluence is 5.6.4  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/I-complete-delete-tasks-by-they-don-t-disappear/qaq-p/296069?attachment-id=3246){#link_118919b1f61ec2}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/50090/1/task%20delete.jpg){#display_118919b1f61ec2_0}


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi there,

I've just answered this question in another thread [located here](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11448756/answers/11451231). We have a improvement request opened [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35451?src=confmacro). I recommend to vote and watch to increase popularity of the improvement.

Cheers,

Rodrigo
How to copy a whole tree of pages with attachments
Asked by Thomas Schubert:

Hello,

we use confluence 5.1.4 and I wonder how I could copy a whole tree of pages with their attachments.

Do you have some suggestions please?

It I need a plugin, it has to be free as it is difficult to purchase plugins for me.

Thank you,

Thomas


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi Thomas,

Copy page tree plugin could help you on that. <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.nurago.confluence.plugins.treecopy>

Hope this helps,

Fabio


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Thomas,

If you don't have so many other pages in the space, why not just use the free [Copy Space Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.copyspace)? If there are extra pages, then you can just delete them.


author: Thomas Schubert
body: I want to copy a whole tree to another location (e.g. in the same space) with the aim to shift that copy to another space, were is is to bee changed.

So this copy of that tree is a kind of blueprint for the editors within the other space.

Any ideas?


author: Thomas Schubert
body: copy to another location with the aim to shift it to another space


author: Peter Bengov
body: Do you want to copy the tree into another location or to export the tree?


Tags: confluence-administration
Page properties macro reverse sort not working
Asked by KP11:

We have a custome filed called Value.  
When we use the Page properties macro and edit the macro we spcify revers sorting. The descending sort does not work. Everytime we enter the page the sort only sorts few of the Value column. Is this a bug?

Seems like it sorts only some numbers in the value field then blanks then more numbers. Ascending works fine

<br />

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Page-properties-macro-reverse-sort-not-working/qaq-p/398727?attachment-id=2296){#link_11891a6d74ead0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/67481/1/image2014-12-4%2020%3A48%3A13.png){#display_11891a6d74ead0_0}


Answers:
author: KP11
body: Is there a debug option that is needed to see output to log?


author: KP11
body: We looked at the logs. No errors or messages occur when the page is saved in standard setting or reverse.


author: Ale? La?ar
body: Hi, do you have some logs? Look at atlassian-confluence.log (standart setting) for see that what is happening when you try to reverse sort
Users changed password now can't login to confluence but they can login into Jira?
Asked by su@couchbase.com:

The following tries doesn't work:

tried resetting the failed login,

tried logging into JIRA and logging out of JIRA then logging back into confluence.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Are the users in Confluence coming from an external directory? If this is the case, make sure you can synchronize the external directory without errors and also place it in the first position of the list.


Tags: addon-com.intenso.jira.plugins.password-policy

password

user-management
pairwise analysis
Asked by Sholto Maud:

Once I have gathered requirements, can I do a pairwise analysis within confluence to evaluate different options which may meet the requirements?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes. Probably.

I'm afraid there is not a lot more to answer here. Confluence can do all sorts of things, but without an actual description of what you are trying to do, and, more importantly, how, there's not a lot more we can tell you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to force the page tree in the left sidebar to open by default when you access a page?
Asked by Lisa Lisa:

I need the page tree contained in the left sidebar to open showing all levels of the tree when a page is opened. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Ale? La?ar
body: Hi Lisa, if you have a some macro for theme, you should have a Space Layout in menu where is Space Tools.

There you can open a block where is macro for page tree, edit it and then set level of expand.
How to reset password from Confluence when authenticating against Jira?
Asked by mc:

We currently have our Confluence instance authenticating against JIRA and a lot of users are having password issues. In order to reset, they have to go to JIRA, reset their password, then go back to Confluence. Is there any way to reset their JIRA password from Confluence? Currently, if they click the forgot password link in Confluence, they get this message...

"You cannot change the password for this user via Confluence. Please contact your system administrator."


Answers:
author: Benito Picarelli
body: Hello there,

Honestly, I don't think there is a workaround for this, considering that you are using JIRA as your user directory base. I seems like your Confluence is read-only in JIRA. An option would be to set it as read-and-write, but that would allow the users to change the Password in JIRA as well as Confluence.

comments: author: Mallikarjuna Kaveti
body: Thanks a lot Benito. Could you please help me find out how to set the option to read/write in confluence. By doing so I believe one is making a choice to change the password for both JIRA and Confluence though they initiate the process of resetting from Confluence domain. Is that right? Please guide.

Thank you  
-Malli


Tags: confluence-administration
Benefits of Confluence
Asked by Samantha Kratzet:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's excellent for collaboration. With such a vague question, I don't think there's a lot we can tell you that <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence> can't.


author: Suren Raj
body: Hi Samantha,  

Confluence is a content creation and collaboration platform that connects teams with the content, knowledge, and coworkers they need to get work done, faster. Confluence spaces are great for creating and organizing rich content related to JIRA projects using Confluence pages -- meeting notes, project plans, requirements documents, release notes, roadmaps, and more.   

I can suggest you to read the bellow link to see Confluence features:

<https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/features>Hope it helps.  

Cheers  
Suren
How to import burndown charts in confluence from jira?
Asked by Tony Montana:

Hi, guys! How to import burndown charts in confluence from Jira? Need charts in confluence page with field for select projects.

thx!


Answers:
author: Elisa [Atlassian]
body: Hi Viktar,

You can add external gadgets from JIRA, Bamboo, FishEye or Crucible on your Confluence application. To do so, you can follow the instructions on this article: [Registering External Gadgets](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Registering+External+Gadgets).

Please let us know if this helps you. :smile:

Cheers!

comments: author: Tony Montana
body: Hi, Elisa! Thx for answer. But, i know about this method. But we need a field with a project choice directly on the page, but not in settings of a chart.Can you advise how does it perform?


author: Tony Montana
body: Hi, Elisa! Thx for answer. But, i know about this method. But we need a field with a project choice directly on the page, but not in settings of a chart. Can you advise how does it perform?


Tags: confluence-administration

confluence-app

jira

questions-for-confluence
private user space
Asked by Chris Owen:

Hi

I would like to know if this is possible, our CTO/CEO would like their own private space, this is where they can upload accounts etc. This would need to be private to them, no admin should be able to view the contents.

We would like it so only the user logged in would be able to access this information, the only way of getting access to the content is if you change the users password which would be logged etc.

Thanks

Chris


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Users can have personal spaces. In the Confluence global permissions there is a check box to allow personal spaces to individuals or to groups. By default a personal space is limited to that user. So if an admin goes to the personal space by default they will not be allowed to. However, an admin can assign themselves permission. There is no way around that. The is just a fundamental security issue. Someone has to be able to get to all information otherwise it could be possible to have information that is locked out to everyone without a way to retrieve it. Beyond that many Confluence system administrators also have database access, so at that point they could get at the information in other ways if they so desired. Really, there is no way to keep admins out of information if they so desired. This is really bigger then Confluence too. Any system with a good security model will have an administrator that cannot be locked out of content. Thus, the need to have administrators that you can trust.


Tags: confluence-administration
Why does Confluence File List show hidden Excel-rows?
Asked by Vera Henrichs:

In Confluence 5.6.4 when I use the page "File List" and I drag \& drop an excel-file there, it's not showing how it should show: e.g.

1. Hidden rows are shown.
2. A row which calculates to show a month shows "#Value!" in Confluence.
3. Where the lines in Excel have been made white to make it look more nice, Confluence shows the grey standard lines in Excel for all the cells.

How can I show the file in Confluence exactly like in Excel?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Vera, the item 1 has been [reported here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-16727), regarding the remaining items, there is an umbrella issue reporting things that need improvement for the viewing Excel files in Confluence, reported under [CONF-24692](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24692).

comments: author: Vera Henrichs
body: Thank you. Commented, Voted and Watched it there :-)


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: :)


Tags: file-list

ms-excel
In Confluence 5.6.3, the What's new popup is shown at any login even if the Don't show checkbox has been ticked. What could be the reason for this behaviour?
Asked by Evelin:


Answers:
author: Suren Raj
body: Hi Evelin,  

In order to prevent the "What's New" window to appear in Confluence, try to [disable](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Disabling+or+Enabling+a+Plugin) the "Confluence What's New" plugin, which is a System/Bundled Plugin in Confluence. Go to **Confluence Admin \> Plugins \> System Plugins** ,find "Confluence What's New" plugin, and disable it.   

Hope it helps.  

Cheers  
Suren


Tags: confluence-administration
Toggle section numbers in confluence document to match PDF output
Asked by Jason Border:

Hi Guys,

I'm wondering if there is a way to display the section ID's that are generated and displayed in the PDF outputs of a confluence document. Id like to be able to reference the ID for developers that use a printed spec and those happy to work on the screen version.

I know I can add section numbers to a TOC which is a start but would love to be able to be heading specific.

Thanks in advance

Jason


Answers:
author: Jason Border
body: Hi Steven,

Thanks for answering my question. After re-reading it I've realised i wasn't entirely clear.

Happy with current PDF output with section numbers but I would like a way of seeing those section numbers when viewing through confluence in my browser. Is that possible?

Thanks again

Jason


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Some of the "Scroll" products (like so:<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf>) might be beneficial for you, otherwise you can try to dig in to some custom work here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF>
Cannot progress past page 1 of search results
Asked by Melissa Henderson:

I am using the Documentation theme on Confluence 4.3. When searching via the global search in the upper-right, I have no trouble. When I use the space-specific search in the left nav, I can see that I have multiple pages of results, but clicking Next or a specific page doesn't work. The page refreshes, but never progresses past the first page of results. Has anyone ever had this experience or know how to fix it?


Answers:
author: Melissa Henderson
body: An update: I was able to find a version of Safari 5.x on an old laptop and experienced the same issue. Safari 5 came out two years before Confluence 4.3 though, so I'm not sure if this is a reliable test.


author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: It may be a browser issue related to using an unsupported web browser. Confluence 4.3 is pretty old and if you are using a current version browser, it's possible you may see some problems. You'd either need to use a browser that was current at the time 4.3 was released or upgrade Confluence to a modern version to test this theory, though.
Can you resize the roadmap confluence plug-in ?
Asked by Chag:

I just started using this plug-in <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-roadmap-plugin> but, wanted to see if it can be resized to be bigger? I really like using this tool but, need it show up bigger for management.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: I do not think so, there's an improvement request here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35511>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
ConfluenceCloud Storage for 25 users
Asked by Akshayraj Kore:

How much Space will I get if my company buys a subscription for 10-15-25 users respectively?


Answers:
author: Dave
body: 25GB - all Cloud instances are allocated 25GB TOTAL at this time, for all product/user combinations.

comments: author: Akshayraj Kore
body: Is Atlassian going to update its Storage Policy in the Future? What are your reasons for keeping the same storage limit for any number of users?
Entering period character
Asked by David Stubbs:

Very odd behavior.

I am unable to directly enter a period character "." at the end of text while editing a page.

I must enter a space character, then use the left arrow key to back up and drop in the ".".

IE 11.0.9600.17420 w/11.014 update

Any clues?

Thanks very much!

David Stubbs  
HP


Answers:
author: Norman Abramovitz
body: This seems to be a problem with Confluence. Here is a reported issue. Is your issue with Confluence as well?

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31609>


author: David Stubbs
body: Works fine for me in Chrome and IE 8. Removed and re-installed IE 11 (with Enterprise add-on), but still cannot enter a period character as the last character in a page text area. Sigh.


author: David Stubbs
body: Hi Norman!I am sure of nothing. I don't have the problem while entering text in other IE fields.If you have remote control capability, I would be happy to have you join me and watch or type for yourself.It's very unusual, I think. I've never seen the behavior before anywhere.Thanks for writing!David Stubbs


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Where are you seeing this behavior? Are you sure it is not some IE add-on causing this behavior?


Tags: text
How does Atlassian prepare and roll out updates to all OnDemand instances?
Asked by Rp Subhub:

I would love to know all the steps and tools used to prepare, test, execute, monitor etc.


Answers:
author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Maybe there is some stuff you can glean from this presentation.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Agile+Software+Development+on+the+Confluence+team>

There are other documents in that space that might interest you as well.

comments: author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Since you wanted to know the 'whole' process, this article came out yesterday.[http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/12/retrospectives-atlassian/?utm_source=newsletter\&utm_medium=email\&utm_campaign=jira-insiders-newsletter_dec-2014](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/12/retrospectives-atlassian/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jira-insiders-newsletter_dec-2014)


author: Rp Subhub
body: Thanks, Norman! These links are informative and helpful. Still I'd like to know more about OnDemand updates from the perspective of devops and admins.


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Understand.


Tags: cloud
Calendar plugin is working fine in confluence 5.4.1 now, how?
Asked by Shelly:

5 months ago, when I upgraded confluence 3.4.9 to 5.4.1, the page containing Calendar, was not working and we upgraded to Team Calendar plugin but, today when I again upgraded it in my local following the same path i.e. 3.4.9 \> 3.5.17 \> 5.0.3 \> 5.4.1, the calendar plugin is working fine. Does it mean 5.4.1 now support calendar plugin and we do not require Team Calendar?


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Shelly,

That's a strange behavior for sure. I can confirm that the calendar plugin is not supported and was deprecated after 3.4.x Confluence.

I recommend to disable and remove the calendar plugin to avoid corrupting Confluence and install Team calendar which is supported for the newer versions of confluence.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
Daily Email Updates for Single Page
Asked by MarkC:

We have a use case in which many users will be included as watchers on a page. Rather than spam them with emails for every update or comment, is there a way to set up a daily email to be sent with all updates within the past 24 hours for just that single page?


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Mark,

I believe this is not possible at the moment. I could find this feature request which seems to include a similar functionality for Confluence: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-12865>

I recommend to vote and also comment there to increase popularity of the feature.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration