youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Arrangement of table
Asked by James Lei:

How can I make the column "Impact" narrow and "Noosh" wider at [https://newlinenoosh.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ENG/ROF+and+answers?](https://newlinenoosh.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ENG/ROF+and+answers)

Thanks,

James


Answers:
author: Adam Saint-Prix
body: James,

I'm not sure if that's possible, but you might want to post a screenshot. Your link requires a login to view the page...


Tags: confluence-cloud

cloud
Team Calendars Doesn't Work For Users At Remote Facility (proxy issue)?
Asked by Gregory Sudderth:

Hiya! We're running Confluence 3.5.13, with Oracle, and the browser is IE8 with Team Calendars 1.9.0 and its running swimmingly, except for one class of users, "The East". These users that are in a different facility, remote, and while they have great bandwidth, it looks like Team Calendars is not working for them.

Symptoms: The user goes to the Confluence dashboard gets a swirly-wait-indicator. Also, the user clicks on My Calendars:

<http://blah.foo:8080/calendar/mycalendar.action>

...they see a page with only the top-nav, the breadcrumbs, an empty calendar and the Month Week List in the top-right,...with a twirly-wait-spinner going around and around, forever.

Is there some https: or some other twist in how TC works that we can't figure out? The users are otherwise able to use Confluence and its all good.

G.

p.s. We've tried it with FF and same thing.


Answers:
author: Matthew Erickson
body: Hi Gregory,

We haven't had a report of this kind of problem before. It is probably best that you raise a support ticket so we can help you get to the bottom of this.

Cheers, Matt


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Is there a spell check facility for new pages that I create in Confluence?
Asked by Hashim Mohamed:

Hi,

Is there a spell check facility for new pages that I create in Confluence?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Hashim,

There's no spell checker built in to Confluence as it relies on the spell checkers that are built in to web browsers, see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1212> for Atlassian's official answer to the feature request and this document (<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Add+Spell+Checking+To+Confluence>)linking to how to add spell check support to IE.

Hope that helps,

Andrew.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Any way to globally change the number of spaces shown on the dashboard?
Asked by Neil Arrowsmith:

I'm testing an upgrade from Confluence 3.0.2 to 4.1, and would like to get ALL my 31 spaces listed on the dashboard. Currently, only the first 20 are shown. I realise that individual users can mark favourites, but I don't anticipate a lot of people taking the time to do this.

Is there a config file somewhere that I can edit to increase the 20 to a higher number?


Answers:
author: Adam Myatt
body: I'm not 100%, but from my checking of the Confluence source code it seems this is buried in the Java code on the backend. The Dashboard action seems to call up to UserInterfaceState which has these params :

public static final int DEFAULT_MAX_RECENTLY_ADDED_PAGE_COUNT = 10;  
public static final int DEFAULT_MAX_RECENTLY_UPDATED_PAGE_COUNT = 20;  
public static final int LIMIT_RECENTLY_ADDED_PAGE_COUNT = 50;  
public static final int LIMIT_MAX_RECENTLY_UPDATED_PAGE_COUNT = 50;

I'm not positive, but tracing through code I can't find any other parameter set to 20 that would impact the dashboard list of spaces, other than com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.macros.dashboard.GlobalEntitiesContextProvider.MAX_RESULTS which is also 20.

comments: author: Neil Arrowsmith
body: Thanks Adam. It's not so important to me to justify messing round in the code and rebuilding. But thanks for looking into it.
Disabling Preview
Asked by Tim Milner:

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this one, but thought I'd ask anyway, as I get asked this a lot by colleagues.

Is it possible to disable the Preview pop-up for certain pages or users? eg. in our Sandpit/test area, where we are doing hundreds of page edits on the same page within a day sometimes, can we disable this feature?

I know why it's there, and understand how it supports Confluence processes, but want to ask so I can have a definitive answer when I get asked.

Thanks,

Tim


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: I don't think this is possible though. Looking through the plugin, I still don't think it's possible and such customization is not recommended as it may have an impact towards Confluence and produced problems.

comments: author: Tim Milner
body: OK, thanks Hanis.


author: Jeffrey Tsang
body: In my last compny we used a reasonably old version of confluence not sure exactly which but I guess V3 or there abouts had a wiki markup tab in edit mode. At the time, editing a page had 3 buttons, save (equivalent to publish) preview and cancel.

Is there any feature in the current confluence which allows us to bypass the preview stage rather than just disable it?
@mention only pulls google users, not external users
Asked by Tommy Joyner:

We use Atlassian OnDemand. When using the @mention feature, it only pulls back google account users - no external users in the user list return in the search results.

Is this a configuration issue on our part?


Answers:
author: Matt
body: Hi Tommy -- yes, this sounds like an issue best addressed by our support team.

comments: author: Tommy Joyner
body: Atlassian determined this was a bug in the online version - they fixed it and verified that our external users were available using @mention in Confluence

And the response to our issue was very quick!


author: Bill Rashid
body: Matt, we are having this same issue now. We are on the current Jira cloud version.


author: Bill Rashid
body: Actually, the issue is that our external users cannot use @mention at all. As an internal user, we can call out the external users with @mention.


author: Bill Rashid
body: Never mind


author: Tommy Joyner
body: Is it better to post these kind of questions on support.atlassian.com?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
What is the security model for our data. How do you secure our data in confluence On-Demand.
Asked by Santosh Kamlapure@cybage.com:

Hi,

Please help us understand:

how secure our data is with confluence OnDemand?

What is the security model for our data?

Thank you.

Santosh K.


Answers:
author: NikE
body: The doc below is our official security page for OnDemand. If you click through the different links (to our hosting partner for example) I believe all your questions will be addressed.

[https://www.atlassian.com/hosted/security](https://www.atlassian.com/hosted/security "https://www.atlassian.com/hosted/security")

Our general security page is at:

[https://www.atlassian.com/security/](https://www.atlassian.com/security/ "https://www.atlassian.com/security/")


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Attachment macro can not start, why ?
Asked by ahmed:

Hello everyone,

I try to insert a macro of attachment but i receive the following error :

Error rendering macro 'attachment' : null


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: Have you tried David's suggestions here?

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/26252/macros-not-working](/questions/26252/macros-not-working)


Tags: attachment

macro
How to make similar documentation using Confluence like it is set for all Atlassian products?
Asked by Mirek:

Hi,

I have a question regarding creating documentation in Confluence...

I was always wondering is this possible to achieve the same idea of preparing documentation that are used for all Atlassian products for each release.

When new release is coming the newest version of the product have the basic URL like

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+Documentation>

and older versions have automatically number in the URL:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA043/JIRA+Documentation>

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA042/JIRA+Documentation>

...

...

If you want to switch to older documentation you just simply change the URL and you get the same page with the same title. There is also information on the top for which version is this documentation like..

> This documentation relates to JIRA 5.0.x
>
> If you are using an earlier version, please view the previous versions of the JIRA documentation and select the relevant version.

> This documentation relates to an earlier version of JIRA ( JIRA 4.3.x ). The latest official version is JIRA 4.4.x
>
> View this page in the JIRA 4.4.x documentation or visit the JIRA 4.4.x documentation home page.

So my question is simple.. Can somebody can tell me how this is really working in practice?   

Thank you for help!

Mirek  


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Mirek,

Have a look at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Developing+Technical+Documentation+on+Confluence+Wiki> this explains how Atlassian create they documentation and manage the documentation lifecycle.

There's also <http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/space-jumping-in-a-wiki-documentation-theme/> for how they use Space Jump to do the "You're viewing an old version of the documentation, click here to view the new documentation" functionality.

And <http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/wiki-docs-release-management/> for another overview of the documentation lifecycle.

Hope that helps,

Andrew.

comments: author: Mirek
body: Hi Andrew,

This is very helpful! Thanks!

Mirek


Tags: documentation

release

view
How can i show lables in the respective space while adding a label
Asked by Kavita Parab:

I want to display already available lables to a user when he adds a lable to a page. Is there a way where he can select from those lables?


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Kavita,

I think the Label Tools Plugin might do what you want - <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/129>

Andrew.
Attachment version history isn't displayed
Asked by SherryX:

after upgrade confluence to 3.5.13, the attachment screen (under tools) isn't displayed attachment version history.

I used "edit in office" link to edit the document and after saved the document, no attachment version history can be displayed, there is no icon for me to hide or unhide the version history.

Any help? Thanks


Answers:
author: Alison Reid
body: Sherry, I am experiencing the same thing you are in Firefox (10.0.2) and IE (8 with compatibility view). However, I can see the arrow and can toggle it open to see past versions in Chrome (17.0.963.56) and IE (8 without compatibility view). You might see if a different browser helps.

However, in those two browsers that show the toggle, the icons are messed up. You can actually see a down arrow, a right arrow, a trash can, a pencil, and a gear. (see screenshot attached) They all function as the toggle to show attachment versions... they don't actually edit, delete, etc. Maybe the developers were planning a UI enhancement that didn't get finished. But that's a small concern for me - I was simply glad to see that I could view the previous versions.

![](../../upfiles/Screenshot__2012-02-28_17.41.jpg)

comments: author: SherryX
body: Thanks a lot! I tried google Chrome and it works.


author: Jerre Wattimury
body: Hi there,

Im experiencing the same issue. Im using the attachment macro on a page. Altough I have multiple versions of one document the macro only shows the newest one. I can see the + symbol, but when click on it, the macro wont show me a version tree..

I have tested multiple browsers on both Windows and Mac.. and updated all my plugins, software etc.. is this a bug? When I go to the normale attachment overview

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comments: author: SherryX
body: Hi Jere,

My problem is with browser, so it is a bug. If you have tried on different browsers and all displayed the same, I think you may need to check the macro on the page. You may refer to the details of attachment macro below, include parameter OLD to display history of the attachment:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF27/Displaying+List+of+Attachments+in+a+Page>

hope this help you.


author: hsuhailah
body: When [viewing a list of attachments](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Viewing+Attachment+Details), a **new version of an existing attachment** can be added simply by uploading an attachment with the same filename on the attachment view. Click the blue arrow next to an attachment to display previous versions of the attachment.

Existing files will be kept with the name '***Version x***', where the value of 'x' increments with each upload of an attachment with the same filename.

For details you may refer here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Attachment+Versions>

comments: author: SherryX
body: thanks for your information. My problem is - after uploading an attachment with the same filename or using "edit in office" link and saved the document, there is no blue arrow next to the attachment as expected.

Is this a bug in confluence?


Tags: attachment

upgrade
I'm unable to open documents in Office
Asked by Steve Perras:

I have downloaded the plug in to open and edit a document in Confluence. I've also enabled all plug in options as a System Administrator to edit a document in Office. All the options are visible to 'Edit it Office' but everytime I hit the 'Edit in Office' buttons nothing happens. What else needs to be done?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: We have had and continue to have occasional problems with this as well based on browser and different user PCs. In our case, IE usually works. FireFox has more difficulties even with a Microsoft patch - <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2123563>

comments: author: Ivar
body: I've more or less stopped using this function. Word documents are added to Confluence for historic reasons, not for editing. There are a lot of open issues in this regards, also in regards to possible issues with hardware, SSL, etc.


Tags: ms-office-connector

ms-word
In Confluence, is there a way a user can post something (row of a table, page, etc.) anonymously?
Asked by Aaron Hurley:

I'm looking for a way that a user can post a question to a page and that user will not be shown as recently editing the page (they will be anonymous). We want to give users the ability to freely ask questions without being afraid that their identity will be given away, any ideas?

I tried using the {table-data}/{text-data} macros but that updates the page.

The other solution I thought of was using the {checklist}/{checklist-wikiinput} macros but that requires me to make a list of empty pages ahead of time and seems sloppy.

Any other ideas?


Answers:
author: Jeremy Largman
body: I assume you mean that the user is currently logged in, but you want them to be anonymous? Just to be sure, you can in fact allow anonymous access - you just need to open it up (first in global permissions and then in space permissions).

If a user is logged in, this is quite tricky. I can't really think of a way, unless you were to write a plugin that somehow circumvented the update page method.

How about creating a theme or [customized css](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS) where the username isn't displayed - would that be sufficient?

comments: author: Aaron Hurley
body: I am familiar with the anonymous access ability but we don't want to allow that.

We also would like to avoid creating or customizing the theme because it is only a single page that we want to allow this on.

I just wanted to check and see if there were any simple ways to do this but seems like there might not be...
Is it possible to search google docs (contents) from within OnDemand?
Asked by Toby Rush:

We are using Google Apps and looking to move to Google Docs for document storage. We are using Confluence and JIRA as well. We want to be able to be working in Confluence/JIRA and do a search that would include all content from Docs as well as Atlassian.

How?

Toby


Answers:
author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: I am afraid it is not possible at the moment. If you wish, you can register your interest by logging an improvement request at https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to modify creation date of pages correctly
Asked by Thomas Fritz:

What is the preferred way of alter the creation date of some pages in a space? Is there a built in plugin to do this? If not how can i do this correctly. What do i have to think of when doing this - any cavats?

Kind regards


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Thomas,

I don't know a way to alter the creation date of a page. I think you'll get problems with the page history after changing the creation date. In our company, we would not allow such things.

Do you have a special reason for this ? Maybe there's another way to find a solution for your problem.

Kind regards

Thomas

comments: author: Thomas Fritz
body: A customer of us wants to alter the creation date of some pages back in time so they do not show up in the "new" tab of the spaces makro. And in some cases they want a earlier written page to show up on top of a custom written "news" widget on the Dashboard, when for instance a "news" was written in one space and gets moved into a "public" space. I know it is not really encouraged to do so, but our customer wants to have it in this way.

I have also said like you that it is not good to do so and problems could arise sooner or later.

But anyway, i am thankful for any hints either of how to do it in a "safe" way or why it shouldn't be done.

Thanks in advance


author: smaida
body: Hi Thomas,

Did you ever find a solution to this?

Thanks,

Shawn
Linking to files on our network
Asked by Mark Austin:

Is it possible to create a link on a page to allow us to open a document from a location on our network?

I don't want to attach the document to the page because the document is updated by various people on a daily basis but want to give a quick link in our wiki to open the document.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Mark,

you can create a link like this:

\[document.abc\|file:///X:/path/to/document/document.abc\]

But this only works in Internet Explorer, not with Firefox.

Best regards

Thomas

comments: author: Mark Austin
body: That's great, thanks.

I have also now found out that it can be used in Firefox but you have to install a plugin in Firefox.


author: Radek Kantor
body: Hi, can you post FF plugin link? According me, this is a security question and access is driven by web browsers, most of them not allowed this. Simply you can not link to some local file from link provided by web application like Confluence or JIRA, eg. file:///C:/path/to/document/document.txt


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: you're welcome :-)

If your question is answered, please mark it as answered.

Thank you and best regards

Thomas


author: Mark Austin
body: The firefox add-on we use here is called locallink and can be found at <http://locallink.mozdev.org/.> We use this already for JIRA.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Of course this is a security decision. We only use it in our internal wiki. The fileserver has its own security settings, so if the user is not allowed to see a document on our servers, he cannot open it through the wiki-link.

And of course, do not use this in an public environment !


author: Radek Kantor
body: locallink-0.5 not work for mee with FF 10.0.2 :(


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: "IE Tab" plugin should also do it. With this, you open an Internet Explorer within Firefox.


author: Mark Austin
body: I'm running FF 10.0.2 and it works for me but it was installed on a previous version of FF and has been updated to 10.0.2


author: AnnWorley
body: We have a new, comprehensive answer here:

[Confluence: How to place a link to a file on a server share in a confluence page?](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-How-to-place-a-link-to-a-file-on-a-server-share-in-a/qaq-p/258790#M84981)


author: Vishali
body: Mark Austin,

I am using FF 18.0.1 and have add-on Locallink 0.5. I am using this link 'file:///C:/path/to/document/document.txt'.

When I use 'Open link in local context', I see a blank page, although I have access to that file. Could you please help me in fixing this?

Thanks,


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: you're welcome :-)

If your question is answered, please mark it as answered.

Thank you and best regards

Thomas


Tags: link
disabled AD accounts in Confluence
Asked by Nariman Riahi:

I have delegated authentication with AD. So any user with AD account can login to Confluence and their account is created there. Problem is with users who leave the company. Is there a way that these users will get disabled automatically? Otherwise all these ex-employees are counting as active users against my license.

Is there anyway to figure out who is no longer in AD and disable them (just not one by one manually).

Thanks

NR


Answers:
author: RIsk
body: Disabled AD users show up in the wiki but are gone after you delete them from AD. You might already know that but I thought I'd note it in this thread.


author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: You probbaly have to write a Scheduled job to scan all users, determine if they are 'disabled' (through LDAP queries) in AD (the usual business process for a leaver) and if so, remove them from confluence-users.

See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Scheduled+Jobs>

If you fancy playing around with the solution interactively, I dumped some related Beanshell code in the [ldaputils](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CLDAP/LDAP+Util+library) project that may give you a start.

comments: author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: I should have drawn your attention to the link at the end, see Trigger Module...


author: Nariman Riahi
body: the page you mentioned does not show how to create a job. Only about existing jobs.
Confluence 3.5.13 Documentation theme and footer issue (confirm button is hidden)
Asked by Jaime Romaguera:

We are running confluence 3.5.13.

We are having a issue with documentation theme and footer overlaying the eg "confirm" button if you want to select a new theme, or if "confirm, apply or save" button is on the bottom of the page.

The problem doesn't seem to effected other themes.

Has anybod had this issue.

Would anybody have any solution to this issue.

I have included pictures of the issue with are experiencing. This also happens on our production server, so I can't blame "developer licence" bar effecting the theme or footer. I have tried modifying the footer but so such luck. The issue looks like the documentation theme is preventing to footer to float.

Thanks very any assistance you can provide.

Regards

Jaime

![](../../upfiles/documentation_theme#2.PNG)


Answers:
author: Jaime Romaguera
body: Just put this text

```
<style type="text/css">   #com-atlassian-confluence #main {      padding-bottom: 200px;   }</style>
```

into your "At end of the HEAD" box in the custom html option (confluence admin}


author: Jaime Romaguera
body: It' happens in latest version of IE, Chrome and Firefox.

IE does show some of the buttons


author: Gregory Sudderth
body: I have seen this problem too, but, its flakey. I can't repro it reliably.

If its happening to you, maybe you can file some comments/attachments on this issue:

<https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-72587>

...its frozen but it could be reopened. We are on 3.5.13, IE8. What browsers are you using?

G.