youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
I need to create link in a coordinate area.
Asked by Serg Serg:

Nice day. I need to create link in an area.

For example, in HTML I would write

\<area shape="circle" coords="100,150," 10="" href="circle.html"\>

or

\<area shape="rect" coords="1,2," 10,15="" href="rect.html"\>

But how can I do it in confluence, using edit mode Wiki Markup?

Sincerely Yours, Serg SSS.


Answers:
author: fsim
body: Hey Serg,

Just replied you in [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com), but pasting it here again:  
You can just enter that HTML directly using the HTML Macro (if it's enabled, see: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF32/Enabling+HTML+macros>), via \<tt\>Confluence Admin \>\> Plugins\</tt\>, and after that's enabled, you can enter this into the Wiki Markup:  

```
{html}&lt;area shape="circle" coords="100,150, 10" href="circle.html"&gt;{html}
```

Thanks and Regards,  
Foogie

comments: author: Serg Serg
body: Thx for answer, it works! And I have only one question: nor {JavaScript}, nor {Java} didn't let me run javascript on the page, so - how can I run JavaScripts/php in confluence, using edit mode Wiki Markup? Or were I could read about it?


author: Serg Serg
body: Thx for answer! It works! =)


author: Serg Serg
body: Oh, new trouble...

The problem - I can see the picture, but can't find a link, so I can't click on it (it's OK with coords, my javascript works like a clock =))  
Trying to make it works like this way:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

{html}

\<area shape="circle" coords="706,416,50" href="http://google.com/"\>

{html}

h2. Google

!google.png\|border=0!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

google.png - picture on the page.

coords - coordinates of link on the picture  
Result is worse if I try do it this way:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

{html}

\<img src="http://confluence.mysite.com/download/attachments/156665551/google.png?version=2\&modificationDate=1359539776855" width="1200" height="600" border="0" usemap="#map"\>

\<map name="map"\>

\<area shape="circle" coords="742,396,30" href="http://google.com/"\>

\</map\>  
{html}

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

because if I open the page in Rich Text mode (not Wiki Markup)- it brakes my html code, so I receive something like that when I try to edit it next time

\<AREA coords="742,396,30" href="../../../../../../../../../download/attachments/156665551/google.png?version=6\&modificationDate=1360235479904" shape="circle"\>\</AREA\>
Confluence : CCLI : Unexpected result for getSpacePermissionList
Asked by Regis:

Hi

I've got a test server and a production server.

When I try on my test server:

***ccli -s <https://atlassian-test.hq.k.grp/confluence> -u $USER -p $password -a getSpacePermissionList***

I've got a result (CSV formatted)

When I try it on my prod server, I get:

***0 permissions in list for 78 spaces***

I'm administrator of both servers.

Any idea of what's wrong? (for, for sure, I've got some permissions set for my 78 spaces :D )


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Open an issue](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/CSOAP) and follow [How to get CLI help, support, and fixes](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ACLI/How+to+get+CLI+help%2C+support%2C+and+fixes)

comments: author: Regis
body: Thanks Bob.

I've checked your set of known issues, and it is already entered (CSOAP-157). A pity for me, for I'm much interested in extracting the PermissionList, so as to parse it, and check the content is consistent with internal defined policies...


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Good find, I had forgot about secure admin session interfering with this.


Tags: cli
Can we configure default values of Standard gadget parameters in confluence?
Asked by chintu Parameshwar:

Hi,

When I add external(JIRA gadget) gadget, Standard gadget parameters has width 450px as default value. Is it possible to set 100% as its default value?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello There,

You can set to 100% using the 'auto' as described in the documentation of the standard gadget parameters:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Gadget+Macro#GadgetMacro-Standardgadgetparameters>

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

LJ.
Possible to schedule "Update content with incompatible upgraded macros" task?
Asked by Sam Hall:

I've just upgraded to Confluence 4.1.10 from 3.5.16 and would like to advise space admins to fix broken macros.

Is there a way I can schedule the "Update content with incompatible upgraded macros" task to run every ten minutes? I'd like to inform them that the new rich text editor will become available for any content they fix within 10 minutes of removing broken macro references.


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Sam,

Natively in Confluence this is not possible, being honest with you maybe developing some kind of customization you can achieve this goal. And to perform this the best option would be to obtain a help from an Atlassian Expert, you can make a contact with them by the following:

<http://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts>

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

LJ.

comments: author: Sam Hall
body: Thanks for your response, seems like too much effort if the functionality doesn't exist out of the box.

I've just asked the space admins to email me as and when they fix the macro errors and I'll click the button manually. There are only about 20 space admins impacted and of those I don't expect many will actually respond.


Tags: macro

migration
How to prevent new users form receiving email from Confluence
Asked by Erkki_Aalto:

We are using Shibboleth authentication and every new user gets a Confluence account created automatically via SOAP API. In 4.3 every new user gets an email notication with a link to change the password. When using Shibboleth changing the password does not make sense. How can we prevent the email notification or at least change the text of it?


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Erkki,

You'll want to look at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+eMail+Templates>

There is a default email message that is going out which you can customize the template for. In your \<confluence-install\>/confluence directory live several email velocity templates. Match the email you're wanting to change with the correct template and make the changes you want.

comments: author: Erkki_Aalto
body: I finally decided to change the script that creates the users. The user is first created with a dummy email address that directs to /dev/null, then correct address is set afterwards.
Filtering unwanted atlassian-confluence.log warnings...
Asked by stuartu:

I've upgraded a Confluence test environment from 3.5.17 -\> 4.3.7. Environment is RHEL5, Oracle 11.2.0.3, and using the ojdbc6.jar driver.

Now, whenever I go to a page, I always get a WARN message in the atlassian-confluence.log.

```
2013-02-11 10:46:24,804 WARN [http-8443-11] [confluence.velocity.introspection.AnnotationBoxingUberspect] lookupMethod Velocity template accessing deprecated method java.sql.Timestamp#getYear - getRenderedContent[line 2, column 53]

```

I suspect this is a warning that can be ignored, but how to get rid of it the atlassian-confluence.log? (I like to keep on top of my errors and warnings...)

For example, below is a link to get rid of the noise in a log file around an Office Connector plugin and reindexing. Can I use a similiar method for this issue?

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23376>


Answers:
author: Radu Dumitriu
body: modify your log4j configuration and set the level for that particular class on ERROR

comments: author: stuartu
body: Thanks. The following did the trick.

log4j.logger.com.atlassian.confluence.velocity.introspection.AnnotationBoxingUberspect=ERROR


Tags: log
Confluence - LoadRunner Scripts
Asked by AbrahamA:

Hi All

Anyone using load runner to test Confluence performance.

I saw one post here <https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PERF/Load+Testing+with+HP+LoadRunner>

Can you please share your experience / scenarios / sample scripts?

Thanks

Abe


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Abraham,

I've never tested the performance using HP load runner, but as two alternatives to this, you may use Apache Benchmark as the example bellow:

```
tiago@ecrnt-85:~$ ab -A user:password -n 100 -c 7 http://localhost:8090/jira/This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 &lt;$Revision: 655654 $&gt;Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/Benchmarking localhost (be patient).....doneServer Software:        Apache-Coyote/1.1Server Hostname:        localhostServer Port:            8090Document Path:          /jira/Document Length:        0 bytesConcurrency Level:      7Time taken for tests:   6.272 secondsComplete requests:      100Failed requests:        0Write errors:           0Non-2xx responses:      100Total transferred:      55350 bytesHTML transferred:       0 bytesRequests per second:    15.94 [#/sec] (mean)Time per request:       439.009 [ms] (mean)Time per request:       62.716 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)Transfer rate:          8.62 [Kbytes/sec] receivedConnection Times (ms)              min  mean[+/-sd] median   maxConnect:        0    0   0.1      0       1Processing:   252  421 101.4    406     753Waiting:      252  421 101.1    406     748Total:        252  421 101.4    406     753Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)  50%    406  66%    446  75%    469  80%    489  90%    556  95%    655  98%    748  99%    753 100%    753 (longest request)
```

And you may use Jmeter as described in this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Performance+Testing+Scripts>

Edit: I forgot to mention that you can live monitor the status of your instance using JMX interface: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Live+Monitoring+Using+the+JMX+Interface>

I hope this has helped.

Cheers
current disk usage in confluence
Asked by Tobias Beck:

Hi!

I am currently evaluating confluence (ondemand, 10 users). I have read somewhere that the quota is 25 GB. I am testing a few things (uploading files, creating pages) and now I would like to see how the current disk usage is. Where can I find this information?

Thanks for your help!

Best, tartrat


Answers:
author: LucasA
body: You have to raise a support ticket on [https://support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com.). A support engineer will take this info for you.

Cheers,

Lucas Lima

comments: author: Tobias Beck
body: Thanks, this is what I did yesterday.


author: LucasA
body: Hi,

This is the included quota. You can use more than this, however fees may apply to the exeeded limit.

Lucas Lima

comments: author: Tobias Beck
body: Hi Lucas,

Thanks for your confirmation that the quota is 25 GB. How do I check how much of that 25 GB I am currently using, i.e. what is my disk usage?

Thanks
PDF Methods/Properties for Custom Export
Asked by Katherine Wilson:

Where may I find a list of methods and properties available for use when trying to define a custom template for a PDF export? I'm trying to find methods and properties like "counter(page)" and "counter(pages)" as seen on this article... <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Advanced+PDF+Export+Customisations#AdvancedPDFExportCustomisations-headerfooter>


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Katherine,

I'm not aware of a full method list existing. The examples that are out there and things in the documentation come from user experience.

The resources we have available on customizing pdf exports are here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Advanced+PDF+Export+Customisations>

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/111305/help-with-confluence-pdf-export-css](/questions/111305/help-with-confluence-pdf-export-css)

The customizations achieved come from a combination of html and css applied to the export.


author: Steffen Heller
body: @Katherine:

We had a detailled discussion about this question at [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/50936/pdf-export-which-css-properties-do-work-and-which-ones-not](/questions/50936/pdf-export-which-css-properties-do-work-and-which-ones-not)

The bottomline is that [CSS 2.1](http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/ "CSS 2.1") is used for the PDF export with some additional parts of [CSS 3](http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/ "CSS 3"). Check this or some other documentation and you should find all the information needed.

Information about counter(pages) can be found here, for example: <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/#page-based-counters>


Tags: export

pdf
Is there an automated way to upload files to confluence?
Asked by angstd:

I am writing automated tests that generate a report . I am looking for a way to push these up to confluence with every run of my test; I want each result to create it's own page on confluence?

Is there some api I can use to push data up? Any other solution?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) using [addAttachment](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-addAttachment) or [storePage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-storePage). Or if you are using Bamboo, then the same action can easily be made a task using [CLI Plugin for Bamboo](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/BCLIP)

comments: author: angstd
body: Thank you very much.
Importing Confluence spaces to Confluence OnDemand
Asked by zied zaier:

When I do the first step of importing

1. If your version is older than the current Confluence OnDemand version, choose one of the following options. It is highly recommended that you use the 1st option because it does not impact your existing Confluence installation in any way.   

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Option 1 - recommended**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| a. Download and install the relevant 5.0-OD version from <http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-od>. b. Take a full Confluence backup from your existing Confluence installation. c. Import the full backup into the newly installed 5.0 OD one. d. Continue to the following steps. |

I get this message

* Backups made prior to Confluence 2.7.4 (build 1117) can not be restored. This backup had build number 1109.
* Could not determine the space key from contents of exportDescriptor.properties
* Restore denied. You can only restore space backups exported from the same major version (e.g. 2.2.x or 2.3.x).


Answers:
author: C. Faysal
body: So you should update you local installation first. The upgrade to the eap that ondemand is using. Export spaces then and try to Import them in ondemand.

comments: author: zied zaier
body: Thank you Faysal,

Unfortunately I don't have the possibility to upgrade the original Confluence.

Any other suggestion

Thanks

ZZ


author: C. Faysal
body: Can you upgrade on a local host?If so just grab latest export and import it into you local Installation which is the same version your exported file is from. Then upgrade confluence there and export


author: zied zaier
body: thank you, Faysal


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to create a page or space that lists all the attachements which have been uploaded on Confluence?
Asked by scbarmoy:

We are using Confluence 4.3. Users post attachments on various pages and in various work spaces. They are requesting a page or space which will show them all of the attachments that have been uploaded across various pages and spaces on Confluence. Is this possible within Confluence?


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: You can specify the space for the Space Attachments macro by editing it, you do not have to be in that space. So YES, you can create a page that shows attachments from ALL spaces. You just have to have separate lists. I would utilize a multi column layout or utilize sections to break up the list. Alternatively you can use child pages to view the list for each space in case there are too many to put on 1 page.

Hope this helps!


author: Timothy
body: For all spaces, that is not possible. But the Space Attachment marco does show all attachments from defined spaces (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Displaying+a+List+of+Attachments>)


author: twong_atlassian
body: You could use the sql macro to get a customized report out of Confluence, but the sql macro is non free:

```
select a.title as attachmenttitle, c.title as contentTitle, c.contentid as pageid,  s.spacename, c.creationdate from attachments a join content c on a.pageid = c.contentid join spaces s on c.spaceid = s.spaceid where c.creationdate &gt;= now()- interval '30 days';
```


Tags: attachment

macro
Stats on Document editors
Asked by Christian Farley:

Hi,

I am looking into Confluence for my Knowledge Base software. One of my requirement is to have statistics on how many document (per day/week/month/year) each users have created and updated.

Is there a way out of the box to do that in Confluence ? Is there a Plug-in ?

If not, I assume that from the tables directly, we can get this info ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello,

You may want to try the Confluence Contributors plugin.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.contributors>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Contributors+Macro>

This plugin can track edits and contributions of users over a set of pages. The second link I included goes into detail of how to configure the plugin for your specific needs.

Please lets us know if that wil work for you.
How do we change the default Group assigned to a new Space.
Asked by Guy Anela:

We don't use the confluence-users Group any longer; in fact, we completely removed it from our system. All of our users are assigned to an employees Group by default, so how do we get Confluence to assign the employee Group to a new Space instead of assigning the old deleted confluence-users group?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: AndrewA
body: Currently there is no way to do this in a downloaded version of Conflunce but is possible in OnDemand.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Configuring+Default+Space+Permissions>

This stems from the following feature request

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2559>

I believe the intent is to have this brought in during the release of the 5.0 series of Confluence, the best bet is to keep an eye on the feautre request and perhaps leave a comment inquriing to it's release date.

comments: author: Guy Anela
body: Thanks for the response!


author: Dominik K
body: Thanks for the response. It's now also possible in an own hosted version.

The doc link is broken, here's the blog post instead: <http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/07/quickly-create-and-set-default-permissions-for-new-spaces/>


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Hmm. Thats a shame. I think I've seen "confluence-users" hard coded as the default value in places, so you really ought to try and use that.

Can't you just make "confluence-users" an alias of "employees" in your user directory/LDAP -- that way, Confluence is happy and you could be happy too.

comments: author: Guy Anela
body: Thanks for the response!
status overview based on status macro
Asked by Judith Winkler (Communardo):

Hi,

The status macro is quite usefull to show a status on one wiki page.

But is there a way to create a "status overview" showing the status that are set on several other pages? This could be something like table with columns "Page" and "Status".

Thank you for your help,

Judith


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Judith,

Off the top of my head, you could wrap the status macros on your individual pages in a [excerpt-include macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro).

For example you have child pages a b c all with just the status macro contained in an excerpt-include macro referencing the id for each macro. This way you can create your 'master page' with the table of all the status macro's pulled in from different pages.

Hope this helps!

comments: author: Judith Winkler (Communardo)
body: thank you, smart and simple solution!
Page layout - how to?
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

I am lost: I need to create new pgae layout (see attached screenshot). How can I do this???

I read the admin guide but tin the Layout section, there are much different things about.

Can you please help? It might very easy way to do I gues...

Thanks in advance,  
Rumi![](../../upfiles/page_layout.jpg)


Answers:
author: RianA
body: You can achieve that using Column and Sections macro if you would like to have some custom layout. However, please bear in mind that this might not be GUI friendly. Here's the documentation on to achieve that.

\* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Page+Layouts+and+Columns+and+Sections>


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: If you are looking to create a new, custom layout, you can try combining the section/column macros and using the page layouts.


Tags: layout
Generating a list of users in a table with email, phone and im in it
Asked by Frode Haugland:

Is it possible to somehow generate a table/report of users with given properties from their personal spaces? Example a table showing: \| Name \| Email \| phone \| IM

frode


Answers:
author: RianA
body: We might be able to get the list of the user using [this commercial plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.appfusions.confluence.enterprise-directory). However to generate report, I am not too sure if that's possible. Hope it helps.


Tags: personal-space
Problem publishing Confluence through Juniper SSL VPN
Asked by Laurent T:

Hello,  

We are publishing our intranet Atlassian Confluence 4.3.6 through the SSL VPN Juniper IVE 7.2R5 in web core mod.  

This portal rewritte URL. Howewer, some css are not rewritted. Consequently, the rich text editor doesn't appear correctly when editing creating an article.  

Is someone has already meet and solve this configuration?  

Thank you in advanced  

Laurent


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Does this problem occur just with the CSS? Or there are others links (images for example) presenting this problem?

If you have a separeted css file, creating a redirect directly to this file on your VPN/proxy should help. Firebug can be of help to look at this.

comments: author: Laurent T
body: Thank you for your answer.

This problem appears only with the css of the rich text editor and the css of the personal notification.

I can't creat a redirect directly to this file because the VPN SSL rewritte all URL. My problem is that the content of these css is not rewritted as other files...

The problem is for sure in the side of the VPN configuration but i don't find any solution.


author: Michael Streb
body: Hi,

you have to configure confluence as a "Passthrough Proxy" ressource in the SSLVPN, in addition to this enable "Host-Header forwarding" and allow CustomHeaders.

With this settings confluence is running fine except some minor problems