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Using lock file in confluence
Asked by Denys Kovalenko:

Hello,

Does Confluence has lock file as in JIRA?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Aseem Parikh
body: Do you mean a lock file like one that's created once the Tomcat process is running?

If so, then yes. There should be a .pid file under the "work" directory.

comments: author: Denys Kovalenko
body: But our Confluence doesn't hahe one in working directory.

Do you know how to activate it?


author: Aseem Parikh
body: You can set CATALINA_ID in bin/setenv.sh although I suspect it may already be set. It will take effect when you restart Confluence


author: Denys Kovalenko
body: thanks you a lot.

i'm realy appreciate you help.


author: Aseem Parikh
body: No problem at all. Always happy to help!


Tags: confluence-administration
Resolution : unresolved
Asked by Yasmine Rifai:

Hello,

I am new to Jira, so I am not aware of all aspects . I am adding a bug/ story... , the resolution (down the status) is always unresolved. I am not sure what it is meant by resolution here.

Best Regards,

Yasmine


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Also have a look at [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOCSPRINT/Resolved,+Resolution+and+Resolution+Date)[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOCSPRINT/Resolved,+Resolution+and+Resolution+Date](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOCSPRINT/Resolved%2C+Resolution+and+Resolution+Date)


author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: Have a look at this URL

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Defining+'Resolution'+Field+Values](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Defining+%27Resolution%27+Field+Values)

You set resolution when you move the issue to resolved (or closed) status.

Rahul


Tags: resolution
Intend a ordered List.
Asked by Sozhavendhan M:

I need to intend the text as

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

i. Xxxxxx

ii. Xxxxxx

iii. Xxxxxx

iv. xxxxxx

But the below is what I get in when I need i, ii, iii, ... in wiki.

xxxxxxxxxxxxx

1.

a)

i. Xxxxxx

ii. Xxxxxx

iii. Xxxxxx

iv. Xxxxxx

I get this 1, a) automatically created. Is there any way to remove it?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I think there's two issues here:

1) You want to use lower-case roman numerals for your list numbers.

2) You are getting additional list items inserted into your list.

#1: To change the bullet/num character in a list, you have to decide if you want to do it locally (just on that page, or just on that list) or globally.

Globally:

You'll want to edit the global stylesheet and add the following selector:

.wiki-content ol {

list-style: lower-alpha !important;

}

Locally: Just add the same style, but in the same page in an HTML macro. Or, if you want to put the list in the HTML block, use something like this (to use lower case numerals):

\<ol type="i"\>

#2: It sounds like while you were using the visual editor to create your ordered list, you might have inadvertantly nested a new list within it. The best way to remedy this is to use the Source Editor plugin to edit the page's source code (mostly just HTML sprinkled with some Confluence-specific tags) and move the tags around as needed.

More information about that plugin is here:

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor>

(It's free)

If you can't use the plugin, you might be better off just deleting the list and starting over. It's really hard to use nested lists with the visual editor.
Confluence 5.4 - compatible with source editor and copy space plugins?
Asked by Jason Plumhoff:

The marketplace is showing the source editor and copy space plugins as compatible only up to 5.3.4. I'm hoping this is just an oversight - has anyone successfully tried them with 5.4?

Thanks,

Jason


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi Jason,

I have tried Source Editor on Confluence 5.4. It worked for me ;)

I have not tried copy space plugin wth Confluence 5.4 though, so I can't comment on that.

Regards,  

comments: author: Jason Plumhoff
body: Finally had a chance to test it out myself - both plugins work under 5.4.1.Thanks!


Tags: confluence-administration

copy

source-editor

space
How to embed/include other page content into another
Asked by Pablo Garcia:

Hi all,

the title can be confusing, as we already have a macro for displaying a whole page content into another. What I exactly want is to be able to show just a piece of a page. For example:

Page 1 with an anchor called #myheadings and a lot of stuff more.

Page 2, in which I want to include or embed page1#myheadings (just that, not the wholed page).

Is there any way to do that? I can format page1#myheadings with a div, tablet or whatever if that make it easier.

Many thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Parts of a page can be included in another page with the Excerpt Include Macro: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro>

Is this what you mean?

comments: author: Pablo Garcia
body: More or less...because this is not exactly an excerpt. What we have is "Headings", "Projects" and "Goals" (for example). And I only want to show "Headings". But I don't want to configure it as an excerpt...


author: Pablo Garcia
body: Sorry. YES.

It worked for me. I didn't test it well the other time...

I can select all the content to show, and put it under an Excerpt macro...what a dumb head..sorry!!!

It worked fine!
Personal space
Asked by kA:

Hi friends,

I created the personal space in confluence, now i want to share with every one. It is possible to share my personal space to every one in the public directory and provide the acces permission for them.

Thanks in advance,

Karthik A.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, go to Space Admin -\> Permissions. We don't know how your groups etc are set up, but in most cases, you'll be able to simply add "confluence users" to the "view" column and everyone will see it.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence Blueprint: Suppress Creation of Space Shortcuts (in left hand Navigation/Sidebar)
Asked by Gavin Fowler:

Using the excellent Atlassian Blueprint tutorials (beginner, intermediate, advanced), I've created a few blueprints. With one blueprint, I'd like to suppress the default blueprint action that creates a "Space Shortcut" (in the lefthand navigation/sidebar) on page creation (my page is an alternative/replacement for Atlassian's "Default \[Blank\] Page"). Obviously having a space shortcut (in the sidebar) make no sense for a "default" page as a high percentage of pages will be created from it (the space shortcut in the sidebar will return nearly all pages in the space).

Using the file naming from the tutorials, I think the Space Shortcut may be controlled / managed via atlassian-plugin.xml but I'm not sure which of the three component modules (content-template, blueprint, web-item) is responsible.

Can any shed some light on how to approach this?

Many thanks!


Answers:
author: Gavin Fowler
body: to give the question context (the real issue i'm facing), I've added some details (in another question) [here](../244998/confluence-promote-global-templates-like-blueprint-templates "here")

EDIT - this question has been answered (follow the link above), the answer was a resounding "no" you can't without custome coding.

comments: author: vsoued
body: Hello. The link to the answer is broken. Could you please provide it to me?


Tags: blueprint

shortcut

side-bar
Confluence is not indexing new content
Asked by Shravan P:

Confluence version: 5.1

Logging: Have added com.atlassian.confluence.search.lucene package and set it to DEBUG (both dev and prod)

On our production server, confluence content index queue is not being flushed automatically. I see that new entries are added to the queue:

2013-12-18 04:44:49,238 DEBUG \[http-8090-21\] \[search.lucene.queue.DatabaseIndexTaskQueue\] enqueue **Enqueuing** task: IndexQueueEntry{id=0, handle='com.atlassian.confluence.pages.Page-2005661', type=Unknown, creationDate=Wed Dec 18 04:44:49 CST 2013}

2013-12-18 04:44:49,240 DEBUG \[http-8090-21\] \[search.lucene.queue.DatabaseIndexTaskQueue\] enqueue **Enqueuing** task: IndexQueueEntry{id=0, handle='com.atlassian.confluence.pages.Page-2005661', type=Unknown, creationDate=Wed Dec 18 04:44:49 CST 2013}

But they arent being indexed/flushed.

However, on our dev server, I dont see this issue. More importantly, I see messages like these on dev server but **not** on production server**:**

2013-12-18 06:47:30,006 DEBUG \[scheduler_Worker-6\] \[confluence.search.lucene.DefaultConfluenceIndexManager\] **flushQueue flush requested**

I should be seeing these messages on production server too.

In production, under scheduled jobs, for Flush Index Queue History I see that it the job seems to have ran every 5 sec but I shouldnt I see log messages like in dev: "flushQueue flush requested" ? Also the Duration in production is 0 or 1 ms but in dev it is \> 2 ms. I agree our production servers are powerful but 0 ms seems suspicious.

I looked at this article:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+Fails+to+Process+Index+Queue+Automatically)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+Fails+to+Process+Index+Queue+Automatically>

but I dont see any "**getUnflushedEntries**" message in prod. I do see them in dev though.

I am suspecting the issue is with Quartz scheduler. Any pointers?


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

Have you tried rebuilding the index from scratch?

you can follow the instructions in the following link:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch>

Hope this helps


Tags: index
Confluence displaying incorrect locale?
Asked by Thomas Alfred:

I have Brazilian Portuguese installed as a language pack. My browser localeis **pt_BR** . My browser is reporting the locale as **pt-BR** (navigator.language).

Confluence (AJS.params.userLocale) thinks I'm **pt_PT** though. This browser is not in Portugal, or even pretending to be. What can I do to fix this so that the **pt-BR** language shows up?

![Brazilian](http://s13.postimg.org/cypk0gx5y/Screen_Shot_2013_12_18_at_11_12_22.jpg)


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

Have you checked the language settings of your profile?

you can check this from: User profile \> Settings

Make sure that the language is correctly set to pt-BR.

Hope this helps.


author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

Have you checked the language settings of your profile?

you can check this from: User profile \> Settings

Check if the language is correctly set to pt-BR.

Hope this helps.


Tags: locale
How to hide the confluence macro footer?
Asked by S:

There is a footer that always shows up while adding a conlfuence macro with external gadget. Unfortunately, it is of not much use to us and takes up some valuable space. Can it be disabled or hidden?

![](../../upfiles/confluence_macro_footer.png)


Answers:
author: Bharadwaj Jannu
body: see [](/questions/76883/disable-the-footer-content-in-confluence)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/76883/disable-the-footer-content-in-confluence>.It may help you.
Checkin/checkout add in
Asked by suny itec:

Recently upgraded to Atlassian Confluence version 5.2 - is the checkin/checkout add in still supported in this version? If so, where am I able to download the add in for install?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Kay Brown
body: You should be able to find it here: [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/home/confluence)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/home/confluence>

Regards,

Kay
Plugins with error when starting up Confluence
Asked by Nicolas Gonzalez:

I have a server with redhat, Tomcat 7 and JDK 7.

I configured Tomcat as described in the confluence documentation

but when I start it says there were error in the plugin's initialization and some parts ( like the add new content button) are missing from the web UI.

I read that it may be a timeout so I downloaded the version with 300 seconds timeout and added the parameter to the javaops but the errors are still the same.

I attached the log to see if it helps to find out whats going on..(atlassian-confluence.log)

Thanks in advance!

Nicolas Gonzalez


Answers:
author: Nicolas Gonzalez
body: The problem was caused by using Tomcat 7 instead of supported version of Tomcat (6).

Installing tomcat 6 and configuring it, solved the problem.

Thanks

comments: author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: That's right, it seems 90% of the people download the Confluence zip where Tomcat is embedded. You're one of the few who prefers to use the .war itself. It works well, since Atlassian does that for its internal Confluence instances.


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: The problem has probably started to happen when you've installed or upgraded some plugin, but you didn't see it. Try to upgrade all your plugins to the latest version, hoping they will all be compatible with each other. Apart from this, you should probably ask for help from [Atlassian's support](http://support.atlassian.com).

comments: author: Nicolas Gonzalez
body: Thanks Adrien for answering.

Unfortunatly It was a first time installation, so no new plugins.

I'll send a question to supports.

Thanks

Nicolas


Tags: confluence-administration
Bottom links dissappeared
Asked by chowdary evk:

In editor the bottom links(attachments, labels, watch etc..) have been dissappeared after the zen installation. Can some please let me know how to resolve this problem.


Answers:
author: chowdary evk
body: I have not installed Scafolding plugin or any of the third party plugins. I just installed Confluence and zen only but still the editor bottom links are not appearing, if we disable zen then these are working fine.

Any idea, how to resolve this?


author: Ubisoft
body: It may be caused by a conflict with the Scafolding plugin.

are you using this plugin?


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
Hide "edit label button"(right bottom corner) from confluence pages...
Asked by Dinoj D:

Is there any way to remove/hide "edit label" button from confluence pages..


Answers:
author: Dinoj D
body: Thanks

.labels-edit-container {display: none;} did not worked for me...

But the following is working well..

#labels-section {display: none;}

Dinoj


author: Davin Studer
body: You set up custom CSS globally or for individual spaces to hide the edit feature. This should do it.

.labels-edit-container {display: none;}

**Global change:**   
Confluence Admin -\> Look And Feel -\> Stylesheet

**Space change:**   
Space admin -\> Stylesheet
Not able to save any changes in Confluence
Asked by Michael Werth:

HI,

we have a lot of page where we not able to svae any changes any longer.  
One page have a history version 425.

We are running currently on Confluence Version 3.5.17

Do we have a possibility to delete the not needed history versions?

I already read the comment here:  
[](/questions/52630/how-can-i-delete-a-history-version-of-a-confluence-page)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/52630/how-can-i-delete-a-history-version-of-a-confluence-page>

Best regards

Michael


Answers:
author: Michael Werth
body: Hi,

thanks for your reply but it doesn't resolve the issue.

I am not able to make updates to the page.

So, the issue is not the history, it is an other issue.


author: Chung Park Chan
body: You can copy the page onto a new one and remove the old page. Refer to this guide:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Copying+a+Page)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Copying+a+Page>
How did you make this?
Asked by Meagan Bird:

I love how the [Atlassian's features list](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/features) looks and functions. I wanted to know if it was made using an available macro I just can't find? I'm completely new to Confluence, please help!


Answers:
author: Steve Goldberg
body: Hi Meagan,

I'm pretty sure they haven't built that site using Confluence so it's unlikely there's a macro or plugin for it.


author: Aseem Parikh
body: Meagan,

If you want a tabbed layout, you might want to check out the card and deck macros provided in the [ServiceRocket Composition](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.composition) add-on. It's not as fancy as the page you linked to, but at least it's free. At least this way you don't have to walk away empty handed :)


author: Meagan Bird
body: My goal is to find a macro that creates the tabbed table for [Atlassian's features list](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/features). I can't find one that creates the same thing I see on that page, so I was wondering if I was just overlooking it OR if that tabbed table doesn't exist as an available marco.


author: Kim Poulsen
body: Hi Meagan.

Maybe if you rephrased your question title a bit to be more in line with what you are asking about would improve your chance of getting an answer?


Tags: confluence-administration

macro
Set Default search as current space search
Asked by Chaithra N:

Hi,

We have a requirement to set search to do searching only for current space. Can anybody let us know how this can be set at space level or at gobal level.

We need this at the default search button

Note: We are using Confluence Version 5.1.3

Thanks,

Chaithra


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Just realized that this can also be set in the Theme Configuration if you are using the Documentation Theme. Go to Confluence Admin -\> Look and Feel -\> Themes. Click on Configure Theme and there is a check box for limiting search to the current space.


author: Holger_Wassermann_INT
body: Documentation theme is not included in Version 6.0.

How to solve this problem now?

Any tipps for an alternative theme with a function to limiting search to the current space?

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Here's a non-technical possibility for you. On your space home page you could put a search box on the page using the livesearch maco. One of the properties of that macro allows you to specify a space to search.


author: Holger_Wassermann_INT
body: Hi Davin,

thanks for your quick reply!

Yes ok, but I still have this issue with the main search box on the top. How to solve this?

I wonder that no plugin or theme address this function.


author: Davin Studer
body: That is why I provided a non-technical solution. If you want to do the searchbox you will need to do it with some Javascript. In Confluence Admins -\> Look and feel -\> Custom HTML add the below block.

```
<script type="text/javascript">AJS.toInit(function(){ AJS.$('#quick-search input[name="where"]').val(AJS.params.spaceKey);});</script>
```


author: Davin Studer
body: Actually, wait! It should already be limited to the current space. The above code will work, but looking at my install shows that when you type and hit enter the search page is limited to the current space. Are you referring to the dropdown that appears as you search? If so that would take some looking into.


author: Holger_Wassermann_INT
body: Thanks. Let me explain it more in detail.

We have several users. Some users should not have access to the space or even profiles and names of other users. But, if I log in with some user data and use the main search box, where I type in the name of another user. This other user is getting displayed with it's name. Then, when I click on the name of that user, the profile page of this user opens. Both functions, the search result showing the name of other users and the display of the user profil page should not be possible.

Hope this makes it clear. Looking forward to your reply.


author: Daniel Wal
body: [@Davin Studer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781467) - So, where did you find that setting in your 'install'?


author: Davin Studer
body: By default the top search box should only search the current space. In order to search other spaces you have to prefix the search with spaceKey:{key} {term} for a specific space or ALL:{term} for all spaces. The top search should by default only search the space you are currently in. If it doesn't then there is some non-default thing that is changing that.
Does Confluence support working with multiple excel spreadheets that have linked formulas and data?
Asked by Susan Parker:

This question was posted as a comment on Confluence's documentation, but has not been replied to

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+an+Office+Spreadsheet+from+Confluence?focusedCommentId=319390038#comment-319390038>


Answers:
author: Maarten Cautreels
body: Yes it works but only if your using Firefox or Internet Explorer (requirement for being able to edit Excels right from Confluence). And all excells need to be attached to the same document.

In case you edit Excel 1 which is referenced in Excel 2 you'll have to open Excel 2 as well before the updated data will be taken into account. Basically that's pretty normal as that's the same when using Sharepoint or a plain simple File Share.

I hope this answers your question? :-)

Best,

Maarten

comments: author: Susan Parker
body: Thanks, I think it does.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence slowness - profiling shows SiteMesh and Rendering Velocity template are major time sinks
Asked by Andrei Bergners:

Hi,

Our site has been getting slower lately. In particular, there are a few pages which seem to be consistently slow (btw, most of the pages don't seem special in any way (ie., no plugins, small amount of content and single digit page revision history)).

Anyway, after enabling profiling for a few of the pages I noticed slowness in the following areas. Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot further?

\[721ms\] - XW Interceptor: Before defaultStack: /pages/viewpage.action (ViewPageAction.execute())

\[642ms\] - XW Interceptor: After defaultStack: /pages/viewpage.action (ViewPageAction.execute())

\[3520ms\] - SiteMesh: applyDecorator: main (/decorators/main.vmd)

\[3313ms\] - Rendering velocity template: /decorators/main.vmd

\[144ms\] - Rendering velocity template: templates/editor-header.vm


Answers:
author: Andrei Bergners
body: Hi,

It seems that this slowness was related to enabling SSL functionality. Most likely the information above was a red herring.

thanks

andrei


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Andrei Bergners,  

Does this issue occur randomly in your Confluence? Do you exprience the slowness in pages in within similar a spaces? Have you done any customisation in your Confluence?  

You can do the following to narrow down the possible cause.

1. Navigate to Confluence Admin \>\> Plugins and Enable Safe Mode.
2. Navigate to Confluence Admin \>\> Themes, and select the \*Default Theme\* as the current theme.
3. Navigate to Confluence Admin \>\> Layoutsand reset all custom layouts to default (but make sure to make a backup of the custom layouts first!, by editing the layout, and copy pasting it to a text editor, to avoid losing your customizations)
4. Navigate to Confluence Admin \>\> Custom HTML, and make sure that you do not have any Custom HTML added to Confluence. If there are, edit and save them into a text editor as a backup, and remove all of them.
5. Navigate to Confluence Admin \>\> Stylesheet, save all custom CSS into a text editor and remove all of them.

<br />

Try to replicate the issue after performing each of the step above. This will help you narrow down the possible cause of the issue.  

Regards,  
Jing Hwa   


Tags: performance

velocity