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Not able to add tasks in Confluence
Asked by Anurag Jain:

Reading the documentation, the "add task" option is supposed to show up in "workbox".

When I click the "WorkBox" icon on the screen, it shows notifications but not the tasks.

I am using an onsite deployment of Confluence. Am I supposed to load some other software for tasks to work.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: You add them inline on pages now, they do not live outside of pages. The idea was to keep it just like page content, instead of the old (siloed) macro and the initial Workbox implementation. They function similar to a Ordered List or Unordered List within a page. You "assign" the task by `@mentioning` someone in the task, and you set a due date by adding a date-thingy with the `//` shortcut.

The interface is much better, since you can include reports on pages with the [Task Report Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/task-report-macro-590260009.html). You can read more about this via the [Add, Assign, and View Tasks](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-assign-and-view-tasks-590260030.html) page.

* For instance, I will provide screenshots with the typical interface --   
  ![](http://i.imgur.com/jVDQdSs.png)![](http://i.imgur.com/0pvVrwZ.png)

<!-- -->

* This let's you create tasks like so --   
  ![](http://i.imgur.com/BXwRJkT.png)

<!-- -->

* You can view personal tasks in your profile --   
  ![](http://i.imgur.com/0h56Hho.png)![](http://i.imgur.com/RAlYUHu.png)

comments: author: Anurag Jain
body: Thanks for your help. It did work for me.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: You are VERY welcome. I'm glad everything is well. Please let me know if I can help further :)


author: roman
body: Is there a way to get them back to the workbox? Going into profile-\> tasks is always two steps further away!


author: Anurag Jain
body: Understood.

Unfortunately, thats the only mention I could find for how to add tasks in Confluence.

There is no option anywhere in my installation for adding Tasks anyway.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: You're looking at old documentation. Make sure the version of documentation you're looking at matches the software. Tasks are not accessible through the Workbox anymore, **notifications** are really the only purveyor of the workbox.


Tags: confluence-administration
Upgrading Confluence 5.2 to 5.8 using XML backup
Asked by Steve Rhodes:

I have a Confluence 5.2.5 installation running on MS SQL Server 2012 that I want to upgrade to 5.8.x. Can I do this via an XML backup/restore?

Reason I ask, is that I have been unsuccessful with a regular upgrade because of problems with collation changes required in 5.5.3.

In my test environment I did this with the installer/standalone zip upto 5.5.2 and then went from 5.5.2 to 5.5.4 with an XML backup after a clean 5.5.4 install and then used the installer or standalone zips to get to 5.8. Rather than roll back my test environment and attempt this I thought i'd ask if its possible to go the direct route with XML backups.


Answers:
author: Steve Rhodes
body: I'm actually worried that I've already lost the watchers that I had when I upgraded to 5.2.5 (see CONF-33769) I think i'll install a parallel new version of Confluence 5.2.5 with an empty database with collation CS_AS and then XML backup restore to it. After that I should be able to just run the 5.8.14 installer from there.


author: Marco Friedmann
body: As far as I know, the page ID will change with an XML backup/ restore. This is probably not what you want. We also evaluated this method during an upgrade.


Tags: confluence-administration
dashboard modify tool survey
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

Is there any suggestion for modify confluence dashboard visually ? We don't know how to modify the code as listed as below:

**#foreach ($webPanel in $webInterfaceManager.getDisplayableWebPanels("atl.dashboard.left", {}))**   
**\<div class="dashboard-item"\>**   
**$!webPanel.getHtml($req.getParameterMap())**   
**\</div\>**   
**#end**

So we would like to find visual tool for modify confluence 4.2.1 dashboard. Thank you.


Answers:
author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Dear Nic Brough,

We would like to add new tab item or add tab menu at the page or space, how can we finish the function ? (refer to the address of <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxriXuT0xeaFdW5INERaSEhlYTA/view?usp=sharing> )

Thank you.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, well messing around with the dashboard template is not going to help you on that one.That view is a predefined function built into an "add on" that Confluence ships with by default. To change that to add tabs, you will need to pull out that add on, and write your own to replace it, which is not going to be pleasant.If you are willing to approach it slightly differently, you have some easier options- Install a theme addon that can give you a different dashboard with more customisable views- Create addons that implement your own menu items- Create your own home page using macros to show what you want and make that the default "dashboard"


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not really. There are some editors which will help you edit velocity, but I'm not aware of any that would WYSIWYG it. Velocity is quite flexible, so it's hard to code for known outputs.

What are you trying to do with it?

comments: author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Because we have find the code which we should modify, we don't how to modify it's code. So we tried to use visual tool to adjust the same result.Thank you.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Eh? A visual tool isn't going to help you find code that you don't know is doing the stuff you think you might want to change.Forget tools and technology. Look at the screen the dashboard draws for you. What are you trying to change in there?


author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Dear Nic Brough,

How do we know "add on" which we should use ? We have also tried install theme option to solve the problem.

Thank you.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's a good question, but I can't give you a specific answer - you'll need to read up on, and try the various options to work out which one is best for you.I know it can be done with Adaptadist's Theme Builder (Yes, I can be seen as biased here, as I work for Adaptavist, but I'm saying that based on my pre-adaptavist experience with TB), and I'm pretty sure you can do it with both RefinedWiki and Brikit theme add-ons. Other individual themes - I don't know, I've not seen any that change the dashboard like that. You might also want to look at the "custom dashboards" addon.


Tags: confluence-administration
Horizontal Line
Asked by Mark Foden:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Thin eagle, eye, wiggly line, bird sitting down, wiggly line, man with a stick

(Sorry, couldn't help it)

comments: author: Milo Test
body: ??????


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Exactly, the question is pretty poor.


author: Midori
body: There are a lot of these search-term-like questions here on Atlassian Answer. This is, I think, because many people think that the "what do you want to know" input box is a search box. There is a search box in top right, but that is out of sight. Result: questions that are actually search terms. :-)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yeah, I know, that's why I don't down-vote them - most of the one liners are the result of someone being a bit too happy to belt enter when searching. I comment to see if the user genuinely has a new question to ask!It's not a great design IMHO, I'd try to capture it by doing what an older version of Questions did - require a minimum length of question body. That way, the users wouldn't commit search terms accidentally. Even if they had a full question in the subject and had to think to put in "subject says it all", it would stop 99% of these.


author: Milo Test
body: Insert -\> Horizontal rule?
Which formats exactly can I import?
Asked by M.Evans:

Hi!

Importing Content into Confluence <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf57/importing-content-into-confluence-701434924.html> does not provide detailed information on the formats I can import with the

Space Tools \> Content Tools \> Import

functionality. There it does only say "You can use this action to import text files". But which formats exactly can I use? Is XML or HTML possible?

Thank you in advance  
and best regards,

Mel


Answers:
author: M.Evans
body: Hi there,

Thank you. i think it is a pity that there is no detailed description for imports available. I believe, we will have to go with copy and past.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Well, if you tell us what format you have, we might be able to help you with a quicker route.There's some details on HTML, Word and Text, and loads on XML, but a lot of what you can do depends on what it is.


author: Milo Test
body: The Space tools import is mostly (only?) used for importing previously exported Confluence spaces. If you simply want to create a new page from imported data, you can use ??? -\> **Import Word Document**, or simply open your text or whatever doc, select all, copy, create a new page, title it, hit the Return key and paste.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It does cover xml and html in that doc - both are "sort of" answers - xml must be formatted in a way Confluence can read (which pretty much means it has to be Confluence exported xml) and the section "importing web content" talks about html.

I think you need to look at the last section though, for "importing other content" and then ask us for a bit more help if that's not enough - basically, what **exactly** are you planning to import?


Tags: confluence-administration
Major difference between Sharepoint and Confluence
Asked by Digamber:

Major difference between Sharepoint and Confluence.

Thanks,

Digamber Hampa.


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hi Digamber,

In this [other Answers article](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/65469/comparison-between-confluence-and-share-point-features), you can find some good points on Confluence and Sharepoint. However, this could be a bit old and Confluence/Sharepoint have introduced even more features in order to have a better usability for the instance. Also, there's another blog that you could be interested to take a look: <http://blogs.atlassian.com/2009/03/comparing_sharepoint_to_confluence/>

Hope it helps ya! :smile:

Cheers,

Giu


Tags: sharepoint
Confluence file attachment issue using the REST API
Asked by Phani:

This is the error response i get..

"{ statusCode: 400 message: "At least one attachment file must be included." }".

I know the HTTP POST message is well formatted as a multipart/form-data, any suggestions what might be missing


Answers:
author: Jesper Balle
body: Well yes, I dowloaded curl, tried the examples from the documentation and compared the requests in Fiddler. The main difference was actually that the Content-Disposition name in the multipart must be "File". Apart from that I actually ended up building the multi part my self

So the request that worked for me became:

```
POST https://&lt;mywiki&gt;.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/&lt;pageid&gt;/child/attachment HTTP/1.1X-Atlassian-Token: nocheckAccept: application/json, application/xml, text/json, text/x-json, text/javascript, text/xmlContent-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=-----------------------------28947758029299Host: &lt;mywiki&gt;.atlassian.netCookie: studio.crowd.tokenkey=&lt;myvalue&gt;Content-Length: 40797Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate-------------------------------28947758029299Content-Disposition: form-data; name="File"; filename="&lt;filename&gt;.png"Content-Type: application/octet-stream PNG&lt;Removed for readability&gt;-------------------------------28947758029299--
```


author: Do Giang
body: I got this error, too when used Application Link on JIRA 7, did you resolve it?


author: Jesper Balle
body: I have the same issue, did you solve it?

My request is looking like this (with the actual values in the \<tokens\>

```
POST https://&lt;mywiki&gt;.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/&lt;pageid&gt;/child/attachment HTTP/1.1X-Atlassian-Token: nocheckAccept: application/json, application/xml, text/json, text/x-json, text/javascript, text/xmlUser-Agent: RestSharp/105.2.3.0Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=-----------------------------28947758029299Host: &lt;mywiki&gt;.atlassian.netCookie: studio.crowd.tokenkey=&lt;myvalue&gt;Content-Length: 40797Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate-------------------------------28947758029299Content-Disposition: form-data; name="&lt;filename&gt;.png"; filename="&lt;filename&gt;.png"Content-Type: application/octet-stream PNG&lt;Removed for readability&gt;-------------------------------28947758029299--
```

Thank you


Tags: confluence-administration
How Can I solution This Problem ?
Asked by Alper AYKUT:

Hi,

Conflunce Version : 5.4.4

JIRA Version : 6.2.2

JIRA Link Problem.

error;com.atlassian.confluence.macro.MacroExecutionException: The JIRA server returned a trusted apps error: OLD_CERT; Certificate too old. Application: {0} Certificate Created: {1} Timeout: {2}; \["confluence:5288519","Tue Oct 20 13:55:41 EEST 2015","10000"\]

How Can I Solution.

Where is the Problem ?

Thankyou.

Best Regards


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Once you have the certificate issue fixed, as mentioned by Nic, remember to keep using only the **Oauth** authentication for the Incoming and the Outgoing tab of Confluence, which is recommended by Atlassian. For the Trusted and the Basic one, you can keep it disabled. :smile:

Cheers,

Giu


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It means one of the certificates involved in your SSL setup has expired and needs to be renewed.


Tags: confluence-administration
If 2 or more people are working on same page under confulence. The text is getting merged. What can be the resaon behind this.
Asked by Dhanshree Agrahari:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's trying to avoid losing the edits made by both users. Merging what they are doing is the best option at present.

Last year, Atlassian demonstrated a basic dynamic collaboration on a page, so that you can see other people actively editing it, but we don't have a firm timeline for when that will be available.
Confluence Knowledge Base - Possible to remove "Spaces" Top Menu
Asked by Gerhard Degel:

Hello everyone,

within the template for a Confluence Knowledge Base is it possible to remove the "Spaces" Top Menu (and what need to be changed)? As this space is available for the "world" we do not want that the TopNavigation Menu is being displayed.

Thank you in advance

Gerhard


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The Top menu is part of Confluence and not the content, so the templates won't affect it. It's mostly a necessary part of Confluence too (how do you know what spaces you might use if it's not on the screen anywhere?)

The solution my brain wants to blurt out though:

* Find/Write an add-on that can provide a Theme, specifically one that does not have the link
* Apply the new space-free Theme to any spaces that are Knowledge bases


Tags: space

template
Confluence Installation - Connect with JIRA Error
Asked by Jason Rider:

I am trying to setup Confluence 5.8.14, and trying to connect with JIRA 7.0. I get to the part where I connect it to JIRA, and it errors out, giving an error on the JIRA Base URL.

Connection refused. Check if an instance of JIRA 4.3 or later is running on the given url.

My JIRA is behind the Apache Proxy with SSL. My JIRA Base URL that I enter is https://jira.server.com

If I bypass the proxy ([http://jira.server.com:8080/),](http://jira.server.com:8080/),m) then, all is good.

Googled issues, and I think the error would likely be SSL. I couldn't find anything in the logs (/opt/atlassian/confluence/logs/catalina.out or /opt/atlassian/jira/logs/catalina.out).

I grabbed the public key from JIRA by doing:

```
sudo openssl s_client -connect jira.server.com:443 &lt; /dev/null | sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' &gt; JiraPublic.crt
```

I then added it to the Confluence Java KeyStore:

```
sudo /opt/atlassian/confluence/jre/bin/keytool -import -alias JiraServer -keystore /opt/atlassian/confluence/jre/lib/security/cacerts -file /location/of/JiraPublic.crt
```

I restarted Confluence. **This caused an major error**. Apparently, restarting confluence in middle of Setup is bad (I thought it would just pick up from where I left off).

So I just uninstalled Confluence (and removed both the Home Directory and Installation Directory. I tried removingn the configuration.cfg.xml file, but didn't work)

Reinstalled Confluence

Stopped Confluence

Installed the keystore from above

```
sudo /opt/atlassian/confluence/jre/bin/keytool -import -alias JiraServer -keystore /opt/atlassian/confluence/jre/lib/security/cacerts -file /location/of/JiraPublic.crt
```

Started Confluence

Ran Setup Again.

Got the same error.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Jason Rider
body: Update, I have figured it out. When I initially did this, I think I forgot to install the PublicKey into the keystore the 2nd time (right after I reinstalled Confluence). Once I added the key to the Confluence JRE KeyStore, BEFORE the setup, I was able to connect to JIRA fine after that.

comments: author: Graham
body: Thanks @jaesun, you sent me the right direction. Worth adding that in my case this was a self-signed cert (as these servers are for our company's internal network only) so when installing the cert to the keystore I also had to add *-trustcacerts*to explicitly trust this cert without a CA,


Tags: confluence-administration

jira-administration
Different start time in Youtube Widget Connector video
Asked by Dmitry Smirnov:

Hello!

I have a problem to paste Youtube video with different start time.

Sometimes it approximately work but with delta about 30 sec. Unfortunately rather I have video starts from first seconds.

Could you help me to make a proper video cut-in with different start time?

Link for the sample:

```
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whp2Y_MjTXs&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=93
```


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Dmitry,  

I just did a local test and I see that the Widget connector plugin isn't respecting the time that we added there. Being that said, I raised a bug report on it, as you can see below:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-39622>

I would strongly suggest that you vote on this issue to increase its popularity and add it to your watchlist for future updates. I also suggest you to comment in the bug, that way our Bugmaster can see how this problem is impacting your business.

Cheers,  
WZ

comments: author: Dmitry Smirnov
body: Thank you, William!
How to set up a suggestion forum in Confluence?
Asked by Nathan Meffert:

I want to create a forum for our employees to use to submit improvement ideas in every area of the business.

Ideally, there would be subforums for areas like "Administration", " Manufacturing", "Projects",   
"Maintenance", "Human Resources", etc.

Employees would have the ability to ask a question or to make a suggestion and managers and other employees could comment on those threads.

Threads should therefore be categorizable (and searchable) by operational area, topic tags, and post type (comment or suggestion).

How would I do this? I'm considering that this should be it's own space in Confluence (separate from our training and operating procedures site, for example).

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: There are a number of add ons that mimic forums:

* [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence\&category=\&cost=\&hosting=\&marketingLabel=\&q=forum](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=forum)

Why not use Confluence Questions just like this site does?

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Or bung them in JIRA so you've got more clever reporting and a workflow. (Actually, I'd continue with the forum idea in Confluence as it's better for fleshing out ideas, then you can use the select-right-click to create batches of JIRA issues when you're sure you've got a good task list)


author: Marco Friedmann
body: you could use the metadata macro in combination with a page template if a flat Forum would be ok with you. It would Show you a table with the columns you defined and the number of likes and comments


author: Anuj B
body: You could use **Issue Collector** in JIRA for this, and plugin the html/js script in your webpage. The end user can submit a bug or improvement that automatically creates an issue of a pre-defined issuetype in your designated project's backlog.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to customize the header/nav and footer
Asked by Brendan Quinn:

While in the "Look and Feel" I see options to insert a header, footer, and sidebar text (html macro cannot be enabled). This however, only prepends the text to the main content area for the header, and appends it to the footer. My purpose is to completely change the default header/nav and footer. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Bruno Raymundo
body: Hi Brendan,

You can do this by altering the .vm files under \<confluence-install\>/confluence/decorators/includes

More information on [How to edit the footer in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+edit+the+footer+in+Confluence).

Regards,

Bruno


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to create pages for page tree structure
Asked by Yohan Courbe:

Dear all,

I'm looking for a way to create non clickable empty pages just to sort my page tree properly. Like for example

* Page
* Head
  * Page
  * Page
  * Head
    * Page
    * Page
* Page

Where I want to put content in *Page* but not in *Head* which is just used as title to have proper hierarchy and shouldn't be clickable. Right now I just create empty pages but I'm looking for a proper way to achieve that.

Thanks ahead


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: My first reaction was to give an answer that explains how to import a whole page structure from a word file. But reading the question I am not sure I really understand what is meant:

* What are non clickable pages?
* Is that something cloud specific?
* Can you do word imports with the cloud version?
* Is all that just about a page structure where some pages are children of others or is it about something else?  

comments: author: Yohan Courbe
body: Hello Steffen,Thanks for your time. Sorry if my question is confusing: my point is that now if I want to structure my pages on the page tree, I create an empty page "parent" and then create "children" pages under it. It's working, but my problem is that the parent page is a clickable link on the page tree while there is no content, the page is empty, it's just there for the structure. I hope I'm more clear now !Thanks !


author: Steffen Heller
body: Okay, as far as I know that is just the way it works in confluence.Confluence doesn't have directories. If you want to create a hierarchy you must do as you described: with parent pages and children. And the parent page will still be a normal page and clickable, even if you only use it as a container for its children.I don't know a way to make these pages non clickable


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

page-tree