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Confluence Workflow Plugin
Asked by Neeraj Sharma:

Hi,

We are using Confluence 3.5.1 for our organization's documentation requirements.

By default, content created on Confluence doesn't have any wrokflow associated with it.

After searching on Google, we came to know that there is an 'Adhoc Workflow Plugin' which makes the content published on Confluence go through a workflow.

Is anyone aware of **other Workflow plugins** that could be used to achieve the same?

Thanks,

Neeraj


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Neeraj,

Another popular workflow plugin to implement a simple approval process is the [Page Approval Plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.pageapproval) , alternatively have a look at   
[https://plugins.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence\&q=workflow](https://plugins.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&q=workflow)

Hope that helps?

Andrew.


Tags: confluence-app
Confluence: Display history of changes (and author of the change) inline in the page? (like word coloured modification view)
Asked by Sven:

Hello,

sometimes it is important to see exactly which part of a wiki page has been edited/modified by whom. E.g. this could be done by colouring text differently. A little bit like the modification view in microsoft word.

How can this be done?

The version history is not really useful for this. Especially with pages with a lot of edits, it takes a long time to find out who added/changed what...

Any hint would be really appreciated!

Thanks,

Sven

One solution could be to use this existing view (which would compare the original with the last version):

/pages/diffpagesbyversion.action?pageId=12583787\&originalVersion=2\&revisedVersion=21

=\> But e.g. on mouse-over over text it would display a tool-tip with the author of that line.

That would be already a great solution to our problem!

PS: Advanced question: If there is no existing solution, how could this be done? How to find out about a current page who changed what (to colour it accordingly)?


Answers:
author: Natasha Eilbert
body: You may want to vote for this relevant feature: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-5884>


author: Joerg Bencke
body: Hi There is this "history slider" plugin - I never got around to testing it completely, maybe that does your job.

Josh

comments: author: Sven
body: Thanks for the answer. We use this plugin already, unfortunately there is no information about WHO changed what...


Tags: history

version

view
Recently updated section on Dashboard is not showing the latest updates
Asked by Ryan Alexander:

Hello,

On our recently updated section on the Dashboard the recently updated is not updating with what was recently updated.

It seems to have stalled around the 19th of March and I know content has been updated since then.

This is happening to all users.

Thanks,

Ryan A


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Ryan,

On most cases, recently updated issue cause by two causes:

1. Corrupted indexing cache.
   * To fix this you could try to [rebuild indices from scratch](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratchhttp://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratch). This process will refresh all the cache of your indexing. If issue still appear after running this process, the cause of your issue might be the other on
2. Attachment indexing issue

*
  * Due to some attachemts that are not able to be indexed by Confluence, the indexing process stop which result to recently updated list does not get updated. In order to fix the easiest action is to [disable attachment indexing](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/How+do+I+disable+indexing+of+attachments) altogether. This would stop Confluence to index the content of your attachments. Attachment title is still searchable.

Hope it helps.

<br />

Cheers,

Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: cloud
SSO and logout.action need to point to another logout url
Asked by Jaime Romaguera:

Hi,

We are are using confluence 3.5.13 with custom SSO, we want to make the logout in confluence use a different url e.g <https://company.com/web/logout.htm> instead of <http://wiki.company.com/logout.action>.

I tried what was suggested in this link <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Changing+the+Destination+of+the+Logout+Link>

But it didn't work, wondering if there something I am missing?

We are using Linux Redhat Linux 2.6.18-274.el5 with Tomcat 6.033

Regards

Jaime


Answers:
author: Denise Unterwurzacher [Atlassian]
body: The documentation was missing the crucial final step - you need to re-jar the files once the change has been made.

The alternative (if your system allows it, most Linux systems do but I'm unsure about Windows) is to edit the xml file directly in the jar. Either way, the application won't pick up the xml file if it's directly in lib/, it needs to be in the jar.

I've updated the documentation to reflect this.


author: rbalusu3
body: Instead of updating server files , the following script will work. add the below script in

generate configuration-\>look \& feel-\>Coding HTML

\<script\>  
if(jQuery('#header-details-user-fullname').text().indexOf(" ") ==-1 \&\& window.location.href.indexOf("/login.action?logout=true") != -1)  
{ window.location = contextPath+"/your Logout page"}  
\</script\>

It worked fine for me

comments: author: Kevin Suter
body: Thank you. Still works with Confluence 6.14.1.
Rest API for Confluence OnDemand
Asked by Rodrigo Garcia Segovia:

Hi Guys,

I was reading the documentation for Confluence API and I was wondering which is the correct path to consume the REST resources. Following the documentation I get this path

https://\[myInstanceName\].atlassian.net/wiki/rest/prototype/1/space/ds

And I get a Tomcat Error. Anyone knows the correct path to consume this resource? Thanks!


Answers:
author: TimT
body: You've basically got it, but the "ds" part is just an example space key. Change that to whatever space you're trying to access, or chop it off to get a list of spaces.

For example:

* <https://developer.atlassian.com/rest/prototype/1/space/> (list of spaces)
* <https://developer.atlassian.com/rest/prototype/1/space/CONFDEV> (single space)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to increase number of search results using federated searching via opensearch
Asked by kevin schoon:

Any thoughts as to how I might increase the number of search results from a query via opensearch? Federated searching seems kind of silly if it will only display 10 results and then bounce you back to Confluence..

Thoughts?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: You can pass in a "count" parameter to the URL to control the maximum number of results returned from the search (the default is 10 if no count is specified).

eg. [http://confluence/plugins/servlet/opensearch?query=hello\&count=200](http://confluence/plugins/servlet/opensearch?query=hello&count=200)

comments: author: Miguel De Dios
body: Joseph,

Sorry to budge in, but I had a question for you. What would be the correct endpoint URL to use OpenSearch in let's say Get Satisfaction in connection with Confluence?

Any ideas?


Tags: result

search
Can I configure tables to permit independent editing? Not using the Edit button on a page
Asked by Liz drachnik:

Assume that a page has multiple tables. I would like to be able to edit the tables separately, not having to open the Edit for the entire page. does Confluence have this ability? Other wikis/twikis sometimes do.


Answers:
author: martin sandven
body: Hi,

Has there been made any updates to functionality now? (3 1/2 years since the original question was asked).

For example mediawiki has a solution for this called tablemod: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TableMod>


author: Colin Goudie
body: This is currently not supported


Tags: table

table-plus
Padding below the noformat macro
Asked by Dave Parker:

I find the lack of padding below the noformat macro in Confluence 4 to be bothersome. When I create a bulleted or numbered list, and the list items contain noformat macros, the list comes out looking very compressed and unprofessional (in my opinion). This was not an issue in Confluence 3 because there seemed to be some padding at the bottom of the macro, so I could insert a macro by editing the page in wiki markup, like so:

```
# This is a list item# This is another list item\\{noformat}This is some unformatted text{noformat}\\# This is the next list item
```

In Confluence 4, I can't edit the wiki markup of the page (grrrr!). In the WYSIWYG editor, there appears to be some padding between the macro and the line below it, but when the page is previewed or saved, there is no padding at all. If I insert a single blank line between the macro and the line below it using Shift-Enter, this creates an inexplicably huge gap (much larger than one single line of text) when the page is saved. I just can't win.

Is there any way to edit the noformat macro definition and add padding to the bottom? Or is there some other way I can accomplish this?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Dave,

I've been playing around with this and you can add padding by overriding the CSS with:

```
li .preformatted.panel {	margin-bottom: 10px;}
```

To override the CSS you can either enter the CSS directly on the page(s) containing the list by enabling the HTML macro (Browse -\> Confluence Admin -\> Plugins -\> Confluence HTML Macros -\> Manage Plugin Modules) and enclose the above CSS with \<style\> \</style\> tags, or you can include the CSS on every page by default by selecting Browse -\> Confluence Admin -\> Look and Feel -\> Custom HTML and inserting the above enclosed in \<style\> \</style\> tags in the "At end of HEAD" section.

Hope that's of some help?

Andrew.

PS. It has to be done with CSS as I tried using the new [Confluence Source Editor](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor) and there are no extra HTML tags being entered that could be removed, it's the default Confluence CSS that's setting margins to 0px and causing the spacing between the list item and the {noformat} macro to be removed.

comments: author: Dave Parker
body: Thanks, Andrew. This is exactly what I needed. I added it globally to the Custom HTML and it works perfectly on every page.
can I get the body page only?? I need to write the body content on a popup page... Without header and footer.
Asked by liljoint:

I need to show a page content on a jquery Shadowbox (popup)... is the same if you displayed hidden header and footer...

please help...


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: You can normally send url parameter: decorator=none ... but there is not enough context here to be sure.


Tags: pop-up
Editing the Main.vmd
Asked by MPal Pal:

Hi All,

I need to edit the main decorator of the documentation theme. Confluence frustratingly doesn't allow me do this through the web interface. It throws an error:

***You can not customise the site look and feel while a theme is active. You must first disable the currently configured theme.***

Is there any workaround for this please? I just need to include a few bits to the header of the documentation theme.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: ***You can not customise the site look and feel while a theme is active. You must first disable the currently configured theme.***

This is an expected behavior on Confluence. You can only customise a layout from the layout default theme. Also, to better understand how this customising question works or how to create a theme, refer to the following articles:

* <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF27/Customising+Layouts>
* <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF27/Creating+a+Theme>

About the main.vmd, it's used to control the header and footer of each page, not the page specific presentation logic. And we have the Decorator Macro that works with it in customisations, please, see the following page:

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+With+Decorator+Macros>

Also, If the layout has changed so extensively as to not be visible, you can browse to the URL directly:

**http://\<confluence base url\>/admin/resetdecorator.action?decoratorName=decorators/main.vmd**

Substitute the base URL and the appropriate vmd file.

Don't forget to perform a backup of those files before the changings. Hope it helps you.

Kind Regards

comments: author: Jimmy P
body: I managed to find main.vmd in the decorators folder -- then tried to make a simple edit. However, the changes did not load when I refresh the page in the browser.

I have even tried to restart Confluence server, no luck! It still didn't pick up my changes (as if it loads from cache or somewhere else).

Any ideas how I can make changes to the main.vmd and get it applied? Thanks!


author: AnisB
body: I have the same problem. I would like to add some macros to the page layout and it is not allowed. I tried to add a modified docmentation theme but that didn t work too


author: MPal Pal
body: Is there any way to change the Main.vmd of the documentation theme pls?


Tags: configuration

virtual-machine
I want to integrate Confluence (hosted by Atlassian) with Crowd ? Is it possible ?
Asked by zuchos:

I want to integrate Confluence (hosted by Atlassian) with Crowd ? Is it possible ?

When I'm running standalone version of Confluence I have option "User Directories" in administration console. In hosted Confluence this option is missig. Is it possible to integrate hosted confluence with Crowd ?

There is some checkbox to integrate with JIRA (I'm not using JIRA) so it's disabled but I guess that is not I'm looking for.

2nd thing: Is it possible to have Crowd hosted by Atlassian ?


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Lukasz,

I'm sorry to say that we don't support Active Directories with Hosted instances of Confluence anymore, nor do we support external links to self-hosted applications such as Crowd, so the short answer to your question is that it isn't possible for Atlassian-hosted instances.

Having checked our records, I believe that you are referring to an OnDemand instance of Confluence, so you might be surprised to discover that your instance does actually contain an embedded Crowd for user management already, (as do all AOD instances), so, to answer your second question, it is certainly possible to have Crowd hosted by Atlassian, but only when it is part of the OnDemand package.

Finally, the option to integrate with JIRA is so that JIRA can perform the user management for both instances through an OAuth trusted communication link. However, this is not relevant for OnDemand instances because the user management for all applications in an OnDemand instance is handled by the embedded Crowd I referreed to earlier.

I hope that has sufficiently answered your questions but if not then please don't hesitate to request further clarification.

All the best,

John


author: Ivan O-Neill
body: I created an issue for this. Please upvote!

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33263)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33263>


Tags: cloud

crowd
How can I control image quality in a PDF export?
Asked by Jason Plumhoff:

We recently generated an entire users manual for one of our products as a Confluence (v4.1) space. It looks great - until we do a PDF export. Many of the screenshot images in the export appear to have been resampled. Some of the text in the images is now unreadable. I know we can work around some of this by carefully choosing the size of our original images, narrowing the scope of the image, etc. But what I am wondering is this:

Are any settings in Confluence or in the PDF stylesheet (or anywhere else, for that matter) that we can use to modify how the images are being resized/resampled during conversion to PDF?


Answers:
author: HuseinA
body: You might want to try tweaking this CSS bit in your [PDF Stylesheet](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF#CustomisingExportstoPDF-CustomisingthePDFStylesheet) (the following are the default PDF export CSS that can be found from [confluencedefaultpdf.css](http://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/190480945/confluencedefaultpdf.css)):

```
img{   page-break-inside: avoid;   -fs-fit-images-to-width:6in;}
```

comments: author: Jason Plumhoff
body: Hi Husein,

Thanks for responding! I'll look into this ASAP. Are there any other image related parameters I might look at? I've never worked with stylesheets before, and poking around on line is hard when I don't have decent keywords to search for...

Thanks,

Jason


author: Steffen Heller
body: Follow the above link. The information is in the other thread.


author: gredwhite
body: Can you explain in details about workarounds ?


author: Steffen Heller
body: We had a lengthy discussion about image quality in PDF export at [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/93381/column-width-and-pdf-export#comment-148155](/questions/93381/column-width-and-pdf-export#comment-148155)

It developed quite a bit so it can be confusing. Bottomline is you need very big images on the wiki page to get good images in the PDF. Using thumbnails to make the images smaller often causes even worse results in the PDF. But there is some kind of a workaround...


author: Thomas B?hmer
body: Hi Husein,this option only changes the size of the images not the quality.RegardsThomas


Tags: pdf
Highlight or jump to search result on page
Asked by name:

Is there a way to either highlight a search result on the result page or jump to the part on the page containing to best result?

With highlighting I mean similiar to the google search.

I know, that the search result page is showing the pages and found key words, but I would be much more interested in the page I can find my key words on...


Answers:
author: Atlassians
body: I need the same feature. Currently there might be a workaround going via the search provider and using a 3rd party tool highlight the search key words, but I prefer to have a plugin within confluence or have this feature implemented directly into confluence.

If not, I guess we will develop a plugin for this (if possible).

comments: author: name
body: Hi ease,

did you find a way to realize this?


author: patricks
body: even a simple p.m. wiki can do that.

atlassian, don't be lazy!


author: Caroline Browne
body: I need the same feature. Is a third-party or Confluence plugin available yet?


author: name
body: Hi Matthew,

I would need highlightning on the result page, not on the "SERP".

Even better would be to direct the user to the part on a page, where the key words were found.


author: Atlassians
body: I need the same feature. I am currently looking into using the search provider and a 3rd party tool/JS to highlight the search words, but it would be great if there is a confluence plugin for this.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: What version of Confluence are you using? On 4.2.3, for example, the search term is highlighted on the SERP (Search Engine Result Page) in bold.


Tags: app

confluence-app

search
Sitehome page not redirecting to space specified
Asked by Jaime Romaguera:

Hi,

Client trying to set default home page in confluence to there space.

via user profile setting --\> click edit and select the space under "site homepage" and click save

The problem is when client login into confluence e.g [wiki.company.com](http://wiki.company.com), it goes to [http://wiki.company.com/dashboard.action](http://company.com/dashboard.action) instead of going to there space <http://wiki.company.com/display/myspace>

Funny thing if I open a new tab on the same web browser and [goto wiki.company.com](http://goto%C2%A0wiki.company.com), it works and go to the correct sitehome page <http://wiki.company.com/display/myspace>

Same thing happens firefox, Internet Explore, Google Chrome (latest version)

Has anybody seen this issue and has a fix?

Many Thanks for any help you can provide.

Jaime


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I would set up a redirect at the web server level.
import external rss into confluence page
Asked by Hyeran Kang:

How can Confluence 3.5.13 dynamically import an RSS from an external site into a Confluence page?   


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: Is this what you are looking for ? <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/RSS+Feed+Macro>

EDIT: But I do not know whether this is supported in OnDemand.


author: kimberly anderson
body: I would like to use the RSS macro on the on demand version too. Thank you.


author: Jonathan Flower
body: I am also very interested in using the RSS Feed Macro, but it is not available in the Macro Browser. I see that there are a lot of restrictions for On Demand: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

But the RSS Feed Macro is not explicitly restricted. It does say "user macros" are restricted, but I believe the RSS Feed Macro is not a User Macro.

I will try requesting the feature be turned on by submitting a ticket here: [https://support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com/browse/JST)


Tags: confluence-cloud

cloud
Confluence chart plugin displaying command text but not chart
Asked by stuartu:

I have upgraded a clone of our Confluence 3.2.1 system to 4.1.6 recently and doing some testing at present.

Under 3.2.1, charts worked fine, but after I upgraded Confluence and plugins to 4.1.6, the charts just display the text rather than the chart.

```
{chart:type=bar|title=Fish Sold}|| Fish Type || 2004 || 2005 |||| Herring | 9,500 | 8,300 ||| Salmon | 2,900 | 4,200 ||| Tuna | 1,500 | 1,500 |{chart}

The chart plugin looks to be part of Confluence 4.1, as when I look at the Administration - Plugins, it is under System Plugins.

Am I missing something?  

```


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Use insert -\> wiki markup to get the old behavior or use the macro browser -\> chart for a new chart.

comments: author: stuartu
body: Thanks. I knew it had to be something daft I was missing.


Tags: app

chart
View another users page watch list
Asked by MarkW:

Is it possible to view another users page watches? I know you can see who is watching a page but I want to view all the pages a user is watching for issue research. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: So far, this can't be done through the UI, but you can try querying the database i.e. the 'notifications' table. For example: select \* from notifications where username = 'myuser';

comments: author: MarkW
body: Great. Thanks for the response.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: It is a good idea that this is not possible through the UI. If we could do that, we would have a big problem with our work council...