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Can I use the "Edit in office" functionality with Office 365?
Asked by Paul Trauner:

Is it possible to directly open an attached document from Confluence in Office 365, edit it and then save it directly back into Confluence where a new version is created?

How would i go about setting it up this way?

Regards, Paul


Answers:
author: Paul Trauner
body: Hi Johan,

sorry I didn't actually get around to setting it up, I was just trying to find out about it in advance.

Regards,

Paul


author: Johan Lijffijt
body: Paul,

Could you do this? I am with the same problem? I have office 365 and when i use edit in office i get the message "Unable to create an ActiveX object to open the document, This is most likely because of the security settings of your browser." What security settings exactly?

Hope someone can help me out here .

Johan


author: Bruno Raymundo
body: Hi Paul,

I didn't find any specific information on Office 365, but you may want to check the following article:

[Office Connector Prerequisites](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Office+Connector+Prerequisites)

And also the following open suggestion:

[CONF-38024](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38024)

Best regards,

Bruno


Tags: confluence-administration
Create an application link between Confluence and Subversion
Asked by Eric ARNAUD:

Hello

We have two servers

* Server-1 : which is a Subversion server
* Server-2 : which is an Atlassian instance with JIRA, Confluence and Crowd

The Subversion server uses the Crowd instance from the Server-2 for users authentication.

We try to create an application link between Confluence installed on Server-2 and Subversion installed on Server-1. To do so, here are the operations we are doing :

* Connect to Confluence with an admin user
* Click on Cog icon - General Configuration
* Click on Application Links on the left side menu
* In the field Application, enter a Subversion URL : https://\<reverse proxy\>/svn/test/repo
* Click on the Create New Link button
* We have the message "No response was received from the URL you entered - it may not be valid. Please fix the URL below, if needed, and click Continue

Does anyone could help us to configure this application link ?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Eric


Answers:
author: Eric ARNAUD
body: Hello

Is there anyone that could help ?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Eric


Tags: confluence-administration
End of Support Announcements for view macros (Confluence 5.9)
Asked by Hans-Peter Geier:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [End of Support Announcements for Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=210239673)*

Refering to this annoucement:

With the release of Confluence **5.9** we will be ending support for the following macros, known collectively as the 'View File' macros:

* Office Excel
* Office Word
* Office PowerPoint
* PDF

What will be the replacement of this much-used :warning: functionality? The new image previewer?

Note that in various use cases, the 'view file' macros still do a better job than the new viewer. For example, you can see the documents inline in the page, in readable size, without having to click anything to open it in a viewer.

Also, all existing pages would need to be migrated to get the view-file macro replaced by something else.

I believe this is not a good idea! Where can we vote against it?


Answers:
author: Rachel Robins
body: Thanks for your feedback Jan-Peter. The best place to provide feedback on this issue is <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-39829>.


Tags: macro

ms-office

view-file
table-filter for each table
Asked by Bhoomi Patel:

I want to make a table in confluence with filter per column like in excel.

Can you please tell me how that is done ?

Thanks,

Bhoomi


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hello Bhoomi,

I need to clarify: do you use [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter) add-on and have some difficulties with it or are you looking for a such features?


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to style links in H2 style differently to just text in H2 style?
Asked by Ben Vost:

I want to differentiate how links using H2 look from titles in H2. Obviously, when the user mouses over, the fact that there's a link becomes obvious, but it's not a great way to present.

B

PS. We've done some tests and H2 seems to be impossible to modify? Even changing the colour with:

```
.wiki-content H2 a {   color: red;}
```


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: That is all no problem.

For link underlines you typically use:

```
text-decoration: underline !important;
```

If you want a different line you can also use borders:

```
text-decoration: none !important;border-bottom: 3px dotted orange;
```

If you want underlines to come and go for different link states you can also define different formats for:

```
.wiki-content h2 a {   }.wiki-content h2 a:link/a:visited/a:focus/a:hover/a:active {   }
```

```
?
```


author: Ben Vost
body: Excellent! Thanks Steffen that works for me. Red is a bit... strident ![laugh](/html/@BEA1CC333F4D830F5303329D7DC07DE4/images/emoticons/laugh.png "laugh") but I'll have a play. I'm no expert with CSS, do you think it would be possible to have a permanent underline for H2 links?

B

PS. Yes it is with text-decoration: underline


author: Steffen Heller
body: For me, it works with this:

```
.wiki-content h2 a   {color: red !important;}
```


Tags: confluence-administration

stylesheet
After Upgrade confluence from 5.4.3 to 5.8.10 error in the log
Asked by Dana Jansen:

I receive the following error: Even though Confluence starts and seems to be working.

2015-11-12 11:28:36,171 ERROR \[pool-2-thread-1\] \[confluence.impl.startup.ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventPublisher\] tryPublishEvent Failed to publish confluence.start event

java.lang.NullPointerException: null value

at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:204)

at com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap.entryOf(ImmutableMap.java:139)

at com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap$Builder.put(ImmutableMap.java:178)

at com.atlassian.confluence.impl.startup.ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventFactory.lambda$populateDatabaseProperties$196(ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventFactory.java:138)

at com.atlassian.confluence.impl.startup.ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventFactory$$Lambda$122/1652802866.doInConnection(Unknown Source)

at org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate.execute(JdbcTemplate.java:342)

at com.atlassian.confluence.impl.startup.ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventFactory.populateDatabaseProperties(ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventFactory.java:134)

at com.atlassian.confluence.impl.startup.ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventFactory.lambda$createConfluenceStartEvent$195(ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventFactory.java:78)

at com.atlassian.confluence.impl.startup.ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventFactory$$Lambda$121/393106552.doInTransaction(Unknown Source)

at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate.execute(TransactionTemplate.java:128)

at com.atlassian.confluence.impl.startup.ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventFactory.createConfluenceStartEvent(ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventFactory.java:71)

at com.atlassian.confluence.impl.startup.ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventPublisher.tryPublishEvent(ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventPublisher.java:99)

at com.atlassian.confluence.impl.startup.ConfluenceStartAnalyticsEventPublisher$$Lambda$114/155663459.run(Unknown Source)

at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)

at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)

at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

2015-11-12 11:28:36,239 INFO \[localhost-startStop-1\] \[com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle\] init Confluence is ready to serve


Answers:
author: Bruno Raymundo
body: Hi Dana,

It seems you're being affected by the following bug:

[CONF-38754](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38754)

It doesn't really affect your daily operations and is solved on Confluence 5.8.13

Best regards,

Bruno


Tags: confluence-administration
"statusCode": 403 - "Could not create content with type page"
Asked by Caleb Hawkins:

I'm having issues with creating a page (child of another page which I provide the ID for) in the company's Confluence wiki via command line. I get status code 403, which tells me I could not create content with type "page".

My command ("user" and "mycompany" being placeholder names for this post):

```
curl -u user -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{"type":"page","title":"new page","ancestors":[{"id":54362173}],"space":{"key":"TST"},"body":{"storage":{"value":"&lt;p&gt;This is a new page&lt;/p&gt;","representation":"storage"}}}' https://mycompany.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/ | python -m json.tool
```

It asks for my password and I provide the correct one, and then this is the output I get:

```
{	"data": {		"authorized": false,		"errors": [],		"valid": true	},	"message": "Could not create content with type page",	"statusCode": 403}
```

I have permissions to create a page via the Confluence interface (and I have, several times), but this seems to be telling me otherwise. Can anyone shed some light into why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?  

Also, I should mention I've gotten comment-posting via command-line to work, so I do indeed have permissions for the wiki. But for creating and editing pages via this method, I'm having this problem.


Answers:
author: Steve Bates
body: Check the space paramater. I had this error when this was not correct. The error is not informative.

"space":{"key":"My Project"}, Failed with the 403 error

"space":{"key":"MyProject"}, worked.

As per Steven Lancashire post using GET on the parent page will show you the exact name for the space:

```
curl -u admin:admin?https://mycompany.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/54362173
```

comments: author: Caleb Kirksey
body: This was my issue as well. Thanks!


author: Jason Jason
body: There is definitely some problem with this. I'm using a password that can successfully download and edit the page, there are no restrictions on the page, I'm admin on the space, and I created the page I'm trying to make a child page of.

Worse, this was working correctly last week, but this week I get a 403 error. Is there any way for a hosted user to get additional debug information to see what the problem is?


author: Steve Lancashire
body: It looks like what you are doing is correct, and so I have to assume it is a permission problem. As you probably know, the return code 403 indicates that you are forbidden from performing the action.

Do you have permission to create pages under the ancestor? And does the ancestor definitely exist?

```
Try performing a GET on?https://mycompany.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/54362173
```


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
confluence installation
Asked by Andrew Walker:


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi Andrew,

All instructions on how to install Confluence can be found in the following article: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-installation-guide-135681.html>

Thanks!

Regards,  
LM


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There are quite a few, yes.


Tags: confluence-administration
space description macro with Confluence 5.4.2
Asked by UWA Systems Support:

Hi there,

we are in the process of upgrading Confluence 4.3.7 to 5.4.2 (and than latter on to 5.8.x).

After the upgrade we've noticed the Adaptavist Theme Builder plugin does not include this macro:

##### space-description {#toc-hId-1841620387}

(space-descripton)  
Includes the space description text

Please advice how can we include the above macro since this change is affecting us quite heavily.

Thank you.

Regards

Dean D. Babic


Answers:
author: Sharon Hinde
body: Hi,  
we don't remember having a macro called space-description in any version of ThemeBuilder. There is a way to get the space description with the new panel-info macro in ThemeBuilder <http://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/tb/Panel+Info>  

I suspect you have many pages using a macro called 'space-description'. To make the macro work without changing all the pages you could add a user macro which calls the ThemeBuilder panel-info macro:  

1. In Confluence Administration \> User Macros \> Create a User Macro
2. Add these details, leaving options as default if not specified

* Macro Name = space-description
* Macro Title = Space Description
* Description = Shows the description for the current space
* Categories = Confluence Content
* Template =   

```
## @noparams$action.getHelper().renderConfluenceMacro("{panel-info:type=space.description}")
```

<br />

All the pages using the space-description macro should now show the information.  

If you want to create a user macro that doesn't use the ThemeBuilder panel-info macro then use this code:  

```
## @noparams#set ( $spaceDescription = $space.getDescription() )&lt;p&gt;$spaceDescription.getBodyAsString()&lt;/p&gt;
```

<br />

Hope this helps  
Sharon  

Senior Webmaster \| Adaptavist  

<br />


author: Paul Wray
body: Hi Sharon,

Just adding to my colleagues comments - when editing the 'Space Description' macro and you click on the documentation link, it attempts to take you to:

<http://www.adaptavist.com/display/Builder/space-descripton+macro>

which then redirects you to:

<http://www.adaptavist.com/w/products-plugins/premium/themebuilder/>

Hope this info is of value.

Regards

Paul


author: UWA Systems Support
body: Hi Sharon,

thank you for your reply and provided solution. The Adaptavist Theme Builder is ver. 4.4.1 with Confluence ver. 4.3.7

Kind Regards

Dean D. Babic


Tags: addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.themes.sitebuilder

confluence-administration
where is the task macro
Asked by Dewa Dorje:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Confluence 5.8.16 Release Notes](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=789090716)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What task macro? That page doesn't mention it.

What happens when you open the macro browser and type in "task"? And what are you expecting?


Tags: documentation

macro

task
What is the best way to include videos in your Confluence content?
Asked by Justin Cooke:

I have some videos that I would like to include in various pages in Confluence. These videos can be anywhere from 2 to 15 minutes long and in a high-as-possible resolution. The problem I have with the multimedia macro is that you have to download the plugin and there are various other little issues with it such as sizing, etc... Is there a better option or plugin for this? I realize I can add these to YouTube but I would like to add them directly to confluence using a better option than the macro. Any thoughts?


Answers:
author: Mario G?nter
body: Hi Justin,

you could use the "HTML"-Macro and use HTML5 functionality to display e.g. attachments of a page as video.

html_macro.png

Insert following code into HTML-Macro:

```
&lt;video width="70%" controls="controls"&gt; &lt;source src="https://confluence.yourdomain.tld/download/attachments/123456789/Attachment_Name.mp4?api=v2" type="video/mp4"&gt;&lt;/source&gt; &lt;/video&gt;
```

Hope this helps?

Cheers, Mario

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/What-is-the-best-way-to-include-videos-in-your-Confluence/qaq-p/52108?attachment-id=1741){#link_1187b5a0819583}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/8776/1/html_macro.png){#display_1187b5a0819583_0}


Tags: confluence-administration
page security
Asked by Dana Johnson:


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Silva
body: Hi Dana,

I believe you might want to check these docs for further information:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Security+Overview+and+Advisories>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html>

comments: author: Dana Johnson
body: Actually i'm looking for security at the section level or object level, currently i can restrict the page as a whole , but if i have section , let's say for a specification that needs restricted access(financials/budget) then i need to create another page.Thanks
is there a way to backout a plugin to a prior version?
Asked by Elena Lurye:

We are trying to find a way to backout a plugin to a prior version in case we have issues with latest version. Is there a way to do that?


Answers:
author: Jonas Andersson
body: Hi,

Its all covered in this article :smile:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Downgrading+an+Add-on+to+an+Earlier+Version>

And specifically for confluence:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+manually+remove+malfunctioning+add-ons>


author: Guilherme V.
body: I like to uninstall the plugin directly in the database(in the plugindata table) and then manually install the previous version.


Tags: confluence-administration

confluence-app
How do i exclude user profiles from the table of contents
Asked by hzqmrk:

When I create a table of contents on a page that has user profiles the table of contents contains the names of the users from the profiles. I don't want this to happen. How can I remove them?

I tried various combinations of "\\{profile\*\\}" to no avail.


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi,

there is a similiar question at <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/12282937> and the answer is more or less the same. You must use a syntax that includes/excludes all the headings you want to get rid of.

**Example:**

If I include a user profile for myself it creates three new headings:  
"Heller Steffen", "Personal" and "Company".

To get rid of them I go to the "Exclude Headings" field and enter:

(Heller\|Personal\|Company).\*
Hyphenation in sidebar
Asked by ??????? ???????:

Hello

My page titles are long, so they not completely display at sidebar. Are there any approach to hyphenate titles?


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hi there,

I could find an existing suggestion to improve the way that pages with long titles are displayed on the sidebar: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31127>

Currently I'm not aware of any workaround for this issue. ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

Eduardo


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to share all users, i.e. use group "confluence-users"?
Asked by Vladim?r Kut?lek:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Emailing a Page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658736962)*

Is it possible to share all users, i.e. use group "confluence-users"?

I can share to group(s), user(s) but not only to this group :-( Is it somehow blocked? How can I unblock this group for share? In the best case just for administrators, not for all users.


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hello Vladim?r,

There's an existing bug for this behaviour right here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33616>

In this case I'd recommend you to add this bug to your watch list so you'll be updated when the status of the bug changes and any other notifications related to that bug.

I hope it helps,

Eduardo


author: Jonas Andersson
body: In the meantime a workaround would be to create a generic account with your default [all@your.organisation](mailto:all@your.organisation) address as the mailing address. This "user" will never login, but simply be used as a "make everyone a watcher" or simply share a page with everyone..


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way of making surveys/voting in confluence?
Asked by Attila Gecse:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not natively, but have a look in the marketplace for the Survey macro.


author: Remo Siegwart
body: You may want to try our [Polls add-on for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.simplenia.confluence.plugins.polls), which allows you to create quick polls easily within Confluence.
Migrate Confluence to other domain
Asked by Sergey:

Hi all,

We want to migrate Confluence to other domain. We are already have a new domain with the same set of users. All users will use new accounts from the new domain.

Can we reassign users with the same names from one domain to other in Counfluence?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Is it just migrating the existing Confluence to a new server? Or is it moving certain spaces and users to another instance?

comments: author: Sergey
body: Hi Jobin,We have Counfluence on dedicated VM. We plan to move this VM to other location and add it to other domain. Users will not be migrated, there will be new accounts for all users in new domain. Is it possible to reassign or link old user accounts to new accounts in new domain inside Confluence?


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Are the user names different? Are they all in the internal user directory?


author: Sergey
body: Yes, user names are same, and yes, local AD domain.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: If the usernames are the same and is in AD, why do you say the users will not be migrated. When you move a Confluence instance to the new server, it copies over all the settings including the AD connection details.If the new server cannot reach the old AD, I would suggest moving the users from AD to internal directory first and then move the instance.


author: Sergey
body: Old AD domain will be retired and users will use new accounts from the new AD domain. I mean that user accounts will not be migrated from old AD domain to the new one.Did you mean that I can convert AD users to local users in Confluence? I found the following article for JIRA, will it work for Confluence? <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/migrating-users-between-user-directories-426116517.html>


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: That won't work for Confluence. You will have to write some SQL scripts to do the job in DB. Something similar to this: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/298928/migrate-users-to-new-user-directory-confluence-5.4.4>


author: Sergey
body: Thank you, Jobin,Will try to do it on test site first.


Tags: confluence-administration
Bought a karma license, but when updating the License key, I get this error- "Your add-on license is invalid. Ensure that the entire add-on license, including line breaks, is exactly as provided." Am I getting the format wrong?
Asked by Sri Geeta Banda:


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi there,

Is this the software you're referring? <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.karma>

Please make sure you're inserting the correct license. You can access the license information on my.atlassian.com, logging in with your account. In case the same behaviour persists, please contact the vendor support at <https://support.communardo.de/display/support/Support+Center>.

Regards,  
LM


Tags: confluence-administration