youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Inserting links in a template
Asked by sabina_szablowska:

I can't find this information in the documentation: can you add a link (internal, external, to an anchor, whichever) in a template? I can't seem to be able to do this (the link button does not react). I thought it was a problem with my browser, but I can create links on regular pages, just not in templates.

thanks in advance for your help :smile:

S.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Sabina, you should be able to do so, for now there is a [know issue](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26897) with anchors, so you may need to manually as outlined in the bug description.


Tags: confluence-administration

link

template
In Custom Space User Management Plugin a user can't be removed from a space group
Asked by Stefan Baader:

We are running CONF 5.5.2 and are using the Add-On "Custom Space User Management Plugin". A space owner is complaining that he is not able to remove one of the users from one of his space groups. I checked that and he's right. The click on remove end in a confirmation that the user has been removed. But he is still shown in the list. When I check the user and his groups in the Admin area I see that he is indeed removed from that group.   
I tried then to add more users and remove them again using the plugin. It was successful. That special user is also not disabled or has other criteria.I created a new space group with the plugin and added that user and removed him. Also successfully.

But in that one group it is not possible to remove that one user.

I flushed the cashes and rebuilt the index.  
What could be the reason for that?


Answers:
author: Gary Weaver
body: Let's discuss here: <https://github.com/sillycat/confluence-space-user-management/issues/24>

Thanks!


author: Gary Weaver
body: I don't think this is related. Will put more in answer below.


author: Stefan Baader
body: We still have that issue. I recognized the following old issue <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-9035> cloded with "won't fix". Any idea from anybody?


Tags: confluence-administration
can you encrypt the password in the confluence.cfg.xml file?
Asked by Dan Campbell:


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: You can configure the db connection in tomcat's jndi binding.

comments: author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: That would put the password in clear text in the server.xml file.


author: Paul Pasler
body: Could you be a bit more specific what the problem is? Maybe there is an other / easier way to achieve what you want

comments: author: Dan Campbell
body: Clear text storing of password in application is prohibitted. Current condition would enable unaudited access to the high privilge Oracle account.


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: The application needs access to the database, so the password has to be located somewhere on the disk. Since you have access to the security policy of your company, is there a place where they recommend storing the password?Besides, some DBMS (PostgreSQL for instance) allows OS-user-authenticated connections. It means if an application runs as the user "confluence", then it has access to the "confluence" database on the same machine. Is that the kind of feature that would make you satisfied?
uninstall plugin javamelody
Asked by Dana Jansen:

How do I uninstall a plugin - Javamelody


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Do you have any problem uninstalling it as per [Uninstalling add-ons](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Uninstalling+add-ons)? If that fails you may want to try [How to Manually Remove Malfunctioning Add-ons](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Manually+Remove+Malfunctioning+Add-ons).


Tags: confluence-administration
Embed EazyBI dashboard in Confluence(Cloud)
Asked by raghuveerreddy panduga:

How can I embed EAzyBI Dashboard in confluence page?

Iam using JIRA Cloud


Answers:
author: AlexM
body: Can you please provide an update?


author: Lauma C?rule
body: eazyBI for JIRA Cloud uses [Atlassian Connect](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/AC/Atlassian+Connect) integration to display [eazyBI hosted service](http://eazybi.com/) pages inside JIRA pages. As a result some functions which are available in installable eazyBI plugin for JIRA (for example eazyBI gadgets) are not available in eazyBI for JIRA Cloud.

These restrictions are described in our documentation <https://docs.eazybi.com/display/EAZYBIJIRA/Restricted+functions+in+JIRA+Cloud>. We are working with Atlassian to find solutions for these restrictions and I expect these functions will be available in future.

Kind regards,  
Lauma

comments: author: raghuveerreddy panduga
body: When can we expect this functionality ?


author: Lauma C?rule
body: The Atlassian Connect functionality to support dashboard gadgets is in progress. Please see more details here <https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/ACJIRA-235>.When such functionality is possible in Atlassian connect, it will be implemented in eazyBI.Kind regards,Lauma


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

eazybi

jira-cloud
Is there any resource at Atlassian available in the London area to provide a demo of the confluence plug ins?
Asked by Umesh Mohabeer:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Atlassian themselves do not do this sort of thing, they use their expert partners to do it. There are many of them with a presence in London, and I'd suggest reaching out to one of them.

<https://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts> allows you to search by country - if you select the UK, you'll get a good list, I don't think there's any UK based expert who is not able to cover London easily - most of them have London based staff.

In the interests of being open and honest, I should point out that I've been working for one of the Experts as a consultant for the last 18 months, but you should probably pick out the ones who may be the best for you, not just go with the first one who offers any demos.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Hi Team,I am using confluence 5.3.1. I am looking to findout what pages are created by particular person, what changes are made and what have they have deleted.
Asked by Ranganath HV:

I have tried to find the answer for my above question using "Recently Updated" macro. But this does not seems to be accurate.   
Because I have taken a report and sent it to one of my director by filtering number of pages created on particular space. But there seems to be missing information which my director has created one page and that this was not listed when I used the "Recently Updated" macro.

I request you to suggest me the solution either using macros r tools to monitor and capture the real time information of each users activity on Confluence and particular spaces as well.


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Are you up to developing your own macro?

I suggest to look at <https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/PageManager.html#getPagesCreatedOrUpdatedSinceDate(java.util.Date)>

and additionally at <https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/TrashManager.html>

To compile a list of pages that were modified/created or deleted

You can do it with user macro as well, pageManager is available in the content and for trashmanager you can use the techniques mentioned for example here: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11463431> See the comment by [Davin Studer](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/users?username=davin%20studer)


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Suggestions:

* You can watch the person and change your settings so your watch notifications are sent by email.
* You can look into the person's activity stream (in is profile).
* You can't see modifications if you don't have permissions on the pages modified by that user.

comments: author: Ranganath HV
body: How will this be captured? - If I have created one page under Space 1 and the other person has moved that page to Space 2.


author: Ranganath HV
body: @Adrien Ragot \[Atlassian\] I have already tried the steps you have provided to me. But this is not what I am looking for. As I am and Confluence administrator, I'll be receiving n number of emails from confluence and this will not be helpful at all.I want each page and every space activity to be monitored. Is there any possibilities for this?


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Since you're the administrator, you can see everything they're doing. If you don't like it sent by email, go to the Network tab of your profile and you'll see a list of the modification of all people you follow. I don't think it's presented under any other form.


Tags: confluence-administration
Whether Confluence can associated with Sub-task in Jira?
Asked by Ollie Guan:

As shown in figure?whether Confluence can directly Create Sub-task?

sub-task.jpg  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Whether-Confluence-can-associated-with-Sub-task-in-Jira/qaq-p/45518?attachment-id=12184){#link_1188f3c8833d1f}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/7723/1/sub-task.jpg){#display_1188f3c8833d1f_0}


Answers:
author: Paul Pasler
body: It seems not to be possible at the moment, but there's an improvement request:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24570>

You can vote to push it!


author: Ollie Guan
body: Thanks!


Tags: confluence-administration
Cells with links ignore table width style
Asked by Kevin Murphy:

Hello Confluence Users,

I'm having a devil of a time getting Confluence to play nice with a table I have. I can format the column width successfully for all but two of my columns. Two of my columns have links in them and they do not want to behave and shrink down to the width specified in the width attribute. I should note I've tried a few different ways to accomplish this with no luck (colgroup/col style, CSS formatting with max-width, section/column macros (won't work for the type of table), and div tags which are the current method that the table uses).

Here's a copy/paste of the table source, the column in question is the "Links to Release notes"

...

```
????? <th>
```

```
??????? <h5>Release Type</h5>
```

```
????? </th>
```

```
????? <th>
```

```
??????? <div style="width: 300.0px;">
```

```
????????? <h5>Short Description <em>(One to two </em> <em>sentences)</em>
```

```
????????? </h5>
```

```
??????? </div>
```

```
????? </th>
```

...

```
????? <th>
```

```
??????? <div style="width: 50.0px;">
```

```
????????? <h5>Link to Release Notes</h5>
```

```
??????? </div>
```

The "Links to Release Notes" is taking up more space then the Short Description. I'd like it to take up somewhere between 50px and 100px (not sure since I can't get it to work). Any ideas on this one?

Kevin D Murphy


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: HTML table cells ignore the width setting if the content is wider. You might be able to use table-layout:fixed in CSS to change this. See <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11090544/td-widths-not-working> for a discussion.
RocketService Scaffolding started being switched off
Asked by Tony Montana:

Who faced such? All Scaffolding macroses turned off.  
Confluence 5.4  
Java 1.7.0_03


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Viktar, you can trace the *atlassian-confluence.log* files looking for errors at *net.customware.confluence.plugin.scaffolding -*in case you are uncertain, please post the stack trace excerpt to this thread as seach people can chip in.


Tags: app

confluence-administration

confluence-app

scaffolding
migrating confluence database to new instance
Asked by mydogspot:

I've read the documentation for migrating confluence db to a new database, but it doesn't quite answer my question. I need to move our existing confluence mysql instance to a new mysql instance because the old one is choking. I tried mysqldump and then importing the database into the new instance. I changed the db server name in `confluence.cfg.xml` and I can see that I have a connection successfully hitting the new mysql instance, but my confluence page is not showing up. It's not timing out or anything, just getting a blank page. Did I miss something, or is trying export/import not kosher?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You've done most of the right stuff, possibly all of it.

But you need to read the application log to see what is failing.


Tags: confluence-administration
Activity Stream Incorrect Links to JIRA Issues
Asked by Stephen Gurnick:

In Confluence users have the Activity Stream gadget configured on pages to see what work has been done in our JIRA instance for a given time range.

The gadget provides links to the JIRA issues where the user updated the comments, added attachments, etc.

When I click on these links, the URL contains the name of the Confluence server rather than the JIRA server. Therefore when I click on the link I get a page not found error.

For example, a link to a JIRA issue in the Activity Stream looks like this:

```
https://&lt;CONFLUENCE-FQDN&gt;/browse/&lt;JIRA-ISSUE-KEY&gt;
```

Whereas I would expect it to look like this:

```
https://&lt;JIRA-FQDN&gt;/browse/&lt;JIRA-ISSUE-KEY&gt;
```

On other Confluence pages we are using the JIRA Macros add-on to link directory to issues and those links work as expected.

The problem only seems to be with the Activity Stream linking to JIRA issues.

I am running Confluence 5.5.7 and not sure of how to troubleshoot this.

Thank you for your help.


Answers:
author: Stephen Gurnick
body: This might have been an issue with the version of Confluence I was running at the time (version 5.5.7)

I have since updated to Confluence 5.7.4 and I no longer see this issue.

comments: author: Alberto De Luca
body: I'm on Confluence 5.7.4 as well, but the issue seems to be still present for me when linking to Jira projects - what Jira version are you using?


author: Stephen Gurnick
body: We are now at JIRA 7.6.6 and Confluence 6.6.3. I haven't see this issue since my update to Confluence 5.5.7 back in 2016.


author: Alberto De Luca
body: Our environment is currently running JIRA v6.4.13 and and Confluence 5.7.4:  
links to JIRA issues opened from the Activity Stream in Confluence have the wrong url (pointing to the Confluence server rather than to the JIRA server) - is there any known workaround or tweak to get this fixed? I'm brought to think it may be related to Confluence settings only - anyone who can provide some more insights?


author: Alberto De Luca
body: [@Stephen Gurnick](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853651): Do you know if in your environment it was needed to add the script mentioned here [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-41293?focusedCommentId=1841629\&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-1841629](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-41293?focusedCommentId=1841629&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-1841629) or if the problem got naturally fixed with the software version?  


author: Stephen Gurnick
body: [@Alberto De Luca](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/112326): After our update from version 5.5.7 to 5.7.4, this issue went away. I did not have to add any scripts or perform additional actions.


author: tcerami
body: I am experiencing the same issue. Any updates on this?


author: thekngmkr2015
body: Same problem here.. any updates?


Tags: activity-stream

confluence-administration
Does Confluence accomodate Adobe Captivate files/content?
Asked by Bob Slauter:

I believe there has to be a way to do this, curious to know if it works well or if there are issues. Maybe there is an application that works better in Confluence similar to Captivate.


Answers:
author: billshanahan
body: Hi Bob,

I use captivate all the time and have not run into any issues embedding it into a wiki page. I used the multimedia macro and inserted the SWF file.

The one thing to note is that I think it works better when you set it up to autoplay. Add a pause on the first page of the captivate file to force the user to get it to play.


author: Hugh Bathurst
body: Hi Bill - I've not been able to get Captivate outputs to work by clicking links within Confluence (to Captivate files). Could you share any details of what you're finding successful to do this?


author: Bob Slauter
body: Do you use any of the additional functionality of Captivate i.e. Quizzing within Confluence? Thanks for your response.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
OneLogin with Confluence Local
Asked by Samuel Gatica:

How can we integrate OneLogin with Confluence?

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Paul Pasler
body: How about these Links:

* <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/171665>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Configuring+the+Google+Apps+Connector>
* <https://www.appfusions.com/display/GAPPSAUTHC/Home>

Does any of this help?


author: Samuel Gatica
body: We have Confluence 5.5.4 and we want to integrate SSO with OneLogin (users imported from GoogleApps).

So we want to know if this is supported and how can be accomplish.

Thanks,

Samuel


author: Paul Pasler
body: A bit more details would help here, i assume you want 1 login for different Atlassian products (Confluence, JIRA, etc.)?

Does this adress your question:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11986976>

Altough there are many other solutions for single sign-on (SSO)


Tags: confluence-administration
ASAP! Does not enable plug-ins!
Asked by Tony Montana:

Some plugins themselves disconnected and no longer enabled!  

clearing the cache does not help - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache>   

Help!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What does the log file say? You need to read that to establish what the fault may be.


Tags: app

confluence-administration
edit restrictions - page creator
Asked by Margherita:

Hello,

I have some templates and users create pages following these templates. Is it possible set automatically the edit restrictions only to the creator of a page?

As administrator, once that one page is created I can restrict the edit permission only to administrators and to the creator of the page, but is it possible to set this in the template?

Thank you for your time and help!

Margherita


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: I am afraid this is not possible, but there is a feature request for it: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30812>

comments: author: Margherita
body: Thank you Alex


Tags: cloud

restriction
How do I get Confluence to recognize a date so that users can format it as they like
Asked by Michael Suissa:

Essentially the problem is one of localization. Confluence is being used across the globe and the dates entered by the Americans MM/dd/yy are not understood by the Europeans who expect dd/MM/yy and vice versa.

I would like to be able to to type a date in a column in a table and for each user to view the date in the format they choose.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Michael,

I'm not sure about formatting it the way they would like, but since Confluence 5.5 you can put in a date using the double slash ("//") and it should update the date format for each locale.

comments: author: Michael Suissa
body: This works for me. The dates now appear in the language of my browser. :-)


author: Mike Rathwell
body: Michael,

I just had a look at it as I have the same consideration. I wonder if this isn't an improvement request to Atlassian to have the date displayed based on the LOCAL user's locale setting rather than imposed by Confluence? I can't find a way, currently to do this....


Tags: date

locale
How do I add data to a Confluence chart?
Asked by barbarat:

I have the chart drawn using the chart macro. Created a table that looks like:

Date \| Unresolved Issues

01/12 \| 88

01/13 \| 80

I tried adding the values "Date, Unresolved Issues" as well as "1, 2" in the section that asks for the Table or Column fields. The chart is not plotted with the data.

*Comma separated list of IDs or numbers (starts from 1) in the macro's body to use as chart data.*


Answers:
author: barbarat
body: Nevermind, figured it out. You have to select vertical or horizontal (default is left blank).


Tags: burndown

chart

cloud

confluence-cloud

macro

table
JIRA is Internal and Confluence is External -- What ports?
Asked by Kathy Plamann:

Hi

I have JIRA inside the firewall and Confluence is External in the DMZ. Do you know what ports need to be opened for communication between the two environments? Also does anyone know where I can get more information about Atlassian Crowd for user integration between the two environments?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What ports have you set the applications to run on? I'm afraid we need to ask because the ports are up to your installations, and the best we can do is assume you've used the defaults (8080 and 8090), but even that is guessing that you're using http and not https, and the versions matter, and we don't know which applications are inside or outside your DMZ, and, and, and...

Start with a look at the urls you use to access the two applications though. Do they have port numbers in them? (e.g. the 8881 in <http://ourserver:8881).> If the urls don't contain ports, then you've got a proxy or DNS trickery locating them, and you should be able to use the raw ports. In other words port 80 for http and port 443 if you're using https  

As for the Crowd question - there's plenty of docs on Atlassian's Crowd docs space - what are you looking for specifically when you say "more information"?


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence export audit
Asked by Karie Kelly:

What is the best solution to capture who has exported Confluence content, what was exported, and when? Also, which solution is best for tracking who is accessing Confluence (as I have [read this article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Enable+User+Access+Logging), but didn't know the safest mechanism to pursue and one that didn't affect performance. At one point about a year ago, I tried google analytics, but it seems to negatively affect performance).

We are needing this level of auditing and reporting as a way for protecting the IP that we manage on the site.

Appreciate the suggestions!


Answers:
author: Linda Armystone
body: Sorry, I pressed enter too soon. We keep confidential documents in Confluence, and when someone leaves the company for example, I would like to be able to see what he has exported. I know you can control who exports (a privilidge I always disable from our soon to be ex staff) , but I need to see what that person has exported.


author: Linda Armystone
body: I was about to send the same question, since this is an absolute must for us. I would also like to know if we can get reporting on this :)


author: Beverly Flegel
body: I would also like to know about ways we can get reporting on this - please!


Tags: confluence-administration
Can I create a Space specific URL to share product documentation in Confluence with our users?
Asked by Brad Ross:

We currently use the Atlassian Cloud products (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket) and would love to use Confluence to write all of our product documentation (user guides, training materials, etc.). We'd like to create a prettier URL than what is generated by default. Is this possible and if so, how?


Answers:
author: Nick Muldoon
body: Hi Brad,

[Instant Websites for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/instant-websites) enables you to do exactly this. [Our product documentation](http://docs.arijea.com/documentation/redaction/redaction-for-confluence-user-guide/) is created and maintained in Confluence and as we update it the pages are converted into a mobile responsive and static website and then published for public consumption at docs.arijea.com.

Happy to walk you through it, feel free to give me a call on +1 415 568 7064.

Cheers,  
[Nick Muldoon](mailto:nick@arijea.com) ([@njm](https://twitter.com/njm))  
[Arijea](http://arijea.com/)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

instant-website