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Domain user not showing up after initially created as local Confluence user
Asked by Owen Jones:

I have a user that signed up with a local confluence account. His account does not show up in the AD groups or users. I tried deleting his local confluence account and re-syncing the AD account. He still does not show up either in users or in a AD group we have verified he is in.


Answers:
author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Owen Jones](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3487263)

in most cases AD connection to Confluence are read-only. Means, creating users in Confluence will not populate them to AD.

Create the user in AD. Then he will show up.

I have in mind, that Atlassian announced in the past a new feature to exactly do what you wanted. But I am unsure if this was for Confluence or Jira ...

So long

Thomas

comments: author: Owen Jones
body: Sorry, I must have explained it incorrectly.

The user already exists in AD. Somehow they made a local confluence user and now their AD account doesn't show up in the searches or even groups.

So user created in Confluence that exactly matches an existing AD account.

Local user deleted from Confluence.

User does not show in searches or groups in AD.

Thanks.


author: Thomas Deiler
body: Ah! Disconnect AD before deleting from internal directory. Then connect AD again and sync. The user should show up. If not then you have to manipulate the LDAP settings.


author: Owen Jones
body: I already deleted the user so not sure what else to do. I disabled the AD. Checked if the user existed and it does not. I then re-enabled it and sync'd. The user still doesn't show up as a user or any of the groups I know he is part of.

I verified that he is in AD through another system as well as the groups I'm searching via confluence.

I'm guess maybe he still exists but can't be seen but now sure how to verify or clear that out.

Any other ideas?

And thanks for your help.


author: Owen Jones
body: I think I got this working. I disconnected from domain. Recreated the local user. Then deleted and re-connected domain. They are showing now. Very weird.

Thank you for your help.


author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Owen Jones](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3487263) ,

I did this in a similar way to remove a project role relation. A user was deleted from AD. The Integrity Checker Plugin reported this dead reference, but it got invisible in the users and roles tab. Just added the user to the internal user directory, relation got visible again and then I could delete it.

Anyhow this external user management is always tricky, because Jira does not control it, but changes will affect Jira.

So long

Thomas


Tags: confluence-server

server
Change mysql configuration or add a Session Variable in the connection string
Asked by Leinad:

For a new installation of confluence, what do you this that can be a good solution,

If this server ( MySQL ) is shared with Jira, Jira can be affected?

Add to my.cnf this:

```
[mysqld]
...
transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED
...
```

or make the connection string like this :

    jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/confdb?sessionVariables=tx_isolation='READ-COMMITTED'

Ref :

<https://ja.confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-fails-to-start-and-throws-mysql-session-isolation-level-repeatable-read-is-no-longer-supported-error-241568536.html>


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: That one is ok. One minus is to have many commits

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/169440iDE9A93AB886E85B1/image-dimensions/375x293?v=v2 "image.png")


Tags: confluence-server

jira

jira-server

server
Trying to add an attachment to a title page of exported pdf
Asked by katie.primm:

I am trying to add an attachment to the Space Export title page. I attached the photo and then got the link address for the source, but it still won't attach when i go to export.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Katie,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. It's nice to meet you. I'm happy to help you with this issue you're running into.

Can you just confirm with me if this is on Confluence Cloud or Server?

From my understanding, you're trying to add an attachment to a page by attaching the photo directly, but also attaching it as a link to a URL of the photo? Can you confirm?

You then mention that it doesn't attach when exporting. Can you confirm exactly what the issue is? Does the photo attach but just not appear in exports?

Has anyone else reported this issue? Does it happen on all pages with all photos?

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: attachment

confluence-cloud

export
Can you bulk add watchers to blog post?
Asked by Jeremy Price:

When viewing a blog post within a Confluence space, you only have the one option of "watch this Blog". Whereas on pages and spaces you can click on the "watch this space" option and add multiple users to watch the space or page all at once.

Is there something I can possibly do through an API call that might allow me to add a couple hundred users to watch a blog post?

Currently the only way is to make every user go to that specific page and watch the blog. Which can be a daunting task when you have hundreds of users that would have to do this action.


Answers:
author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Jeremy Price](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/981152) ,

I think not possible out-of-the box. But If you have a list of user logins you could do with small script from outside via REST API:

<https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/REST/6.6.0/#user/watch-addContentWatcher>

Let me know if this could work for you - I can assist in scripting.

So long

Thomas

comments: author: Jeremy Price
body: Thank you for your response. Something like that would work as I'm just looking to add multiple users to watch the blog space and nothing more.

If you have time I would appreciate your help in the scripting portion, as I'm not too well versed in making that myself.


author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Jeremy Price](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/981152) ,

to add a single user (watchman) as a watcher to a page with id 123456:

```
curl -X POST https://my.confluence.net/rest/api/user/watch/content/123456?username=watchman -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Atlassian-Token: no-check" -u admin:pass
```

The user "admin" needs administration privileges for the space. Now you just need to wrap a "for" loop around so that you can add multiple watchers to one page or multiple users to multiple pages. :)

So long

Thomas


author: Jeremy Price
body: Thank you for this, I will test it out on a blog page and see if I can add more than one user at once to a blog page;. Thanks again.


author: David_Henriksson
body: Hi!

The above solution is for a particular blog post if I understand it correctly. Is there a way to bulk add users to watch the entire blog aswell? I cannot find any REST endpoint for that. I can find an AJAX action (addspacenotification.action) but seems not to be possible to input multiple users on that action (only logged in user by default).

![watchThisBlog.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/251525iABEEB9A3EC1E1142/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "watchThisBlog.PNG")


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to install Confluence into Synology DSM?
Asked by David Ling:

Are there detailed instructions for installing Confluence into a Synology Network Attached Storage - DSM (Disk Station Manager) 6.1 or 6.2? <https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm>. I have heard mentions of something called Docker but can't find details on where to get Docker, how to install Docker, how to configure Docker, and how to use Docker with Synology.

Thanks.

David


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello David,

In regards to running Confluence within a Docker container, there are docker available sources to getting started. But there are a few things that need to be considered before starting your journey with running Confluence within Docker. In order to ensure your instance of Confluence will run as expected, you want to consult the following to confirm your platform and hardware is capable of meeting the requirements. You may find more about this at:

* [Server Hardware Requirements Guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/server-hardware-requirements-guide-30736403.html)
* [Supported Platforms](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html)

Once you've confirmed all is well for platform and hardware then you can start with the following guides covering Confluence and docker:

* [Confluence Installation Guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-installation-guide-135681.html)
* [Docker hub \| atlassian/confluence-server](https://hub.docker.com/r/atlassian/confluence-server/)

If you're wanting to get started with Docker to under a better understanding we would recommend reviewing their start guides at <https://docs.docker.com/engine/docker-overview/>.

I hope this information proves helpful and you're able to find the information you need to progress forward.

Regards,  
Stephen SIfers

comments: author: David Ling
body: Hi Stephen,

Thanks very much for your detailed answer and all the links! I'll review them and get started.

David


author: Van Tor
body: Anyone any luck to get the docker working on Synology? I have had trouble with it. Thanks.


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

docker

server

synology
Unable to add users restrictions to a page
Asked by Francisco Pedraza:

Hi,

I'm having problems to add users restrictions to a page (I belong to the 'administrators' group).

When I tried to enable or update restrictions to a page, after I accept the changes, Confluence show me the nextmessage:

"There was an error submitting the page restrictions. Please try again later."

The message is shown also if I change from 'Without restrictions' to 'Restricted' and I accept the changes (without add any new group or user).

I read that this was a known error with the limit of users on the restriction list, but in this case there are only 3 users/groups in the list.

Could you help me?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Payconiq SRE
body: Hi [@Bill Bailey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502089)

I am unable to add users to restricted pages. When i try adding users the names are not loading. We have recently upgraded confluence from 6.2.4 to 7.0.1 version.

![Screenshot 2019-09-30 at 15.04.08.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/67779iDE562897EB306F6C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2019-09-30 at 15.04.08.png")

Even have admin rights but unable to load users to add in restricted page. Could you please help me

Thanks in Advance!

Lakshmi A


author: Bill Bailey
body: I have not used 7.0.1 yet. I would suggest trying to remove all restrictions, then retry. If not, this may be a bug.


author: Bill Bailey
body: Take a look at the answer to a similar question to see it helps you:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Admin-cannot-change-restrictions-on-pages/qaq-p/1125777>

If, not, please report back.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
import spaces into one unifying
Asked by Alexander F?rster:

Situation: many topics, which should be in one space, are separated into different spaces. Now I'd like to unify existing spaces, but how?

<br />

Intuitive approach:

I'd like to export a space, let's call movable (work's fine)

now I'd like to import movable's pages into to the root of an other space "host" \<-- possible?

even better: import movable's pages as sub-pages of a page in space "host" \<--??

Alternatively: is it possible to link a space "movable" into the "host" ?

Any known workarounds:  
like export each space and do some work to join them manually, then re-import the union?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Alexander,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. It's nice to meet you!

The problem with exporting and importing a space is that it's not possible to add to an existing space using this method. The import process checks that the space doesn't already exist before importing content. The only way to merge the spaces is by moving each page over to the new space.

* For Server instances, see [Move and Reorder Pages](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/move-and-reorder-pages-146407727.html).
* See [Move, Copy, and Hide Pages](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/move-copy-and-hide-pages-724764858.html) instead if you're on the Cloud version of Confluence.

Note that when you move a page, any attachments, comments, and child pages will also be moved. You can use this as a workaround to move more pages in bulk by making them children of a parent page. Then you would only need to move the parent page, and you can reorder the pages after moving them.

We do have a feature request to provide a merge spaces functionality, so please feel free to login to jira.atlassian.com if you aren't already and vote for the following request:

* [CONFCLOUD-7024](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-7024) *Function to merge Spaces*

Let me know if you have any trouble or questions.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-cloud
Pop-up "Would you recommend Confluence"
Asked by Maik Andreas [Communardo]:

When I log in to Confluence, a **pop-up** with the survey **"Would you recommend Confluence?"** appears in the upper right corner.  
This should no longer be displayed. Where can I disable it?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Maik,

Thank you for contacting us. Navigate to **Settings \> General Configuration \> Administration (on the sidebar) \> Analytics** . The URL for this will be **BASE-URL*/plugins/servlet/analytics/configuration***. Here, you will see the option to prevent Confluence from sending data back to Atlassian.

Can you disable that and let me know if that also prevents the pop-ups from appearing?

Regards,

Shannon


author: Maik Andreas [Communardo]
body: Looks like it's the right configuration item. Thanks =)

comments: author: Shannon S
body: Great, thank you for letting me know!

Take care, and have a pleasant rest of your week.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
API status 200 but with empty body when using HTTP Basic Auth
Asked by Wang ZY:

A confusing problem when using Confluence REST API / SOAP api /json-rpc api ?

when i send a request to a confluence api using http basic authentication , i got http status 200 but with no repsonse body,

for example, using curl on confluence server and call ..**/rest/api/accessmode API** for testing , i got some response when using no auth but an empty response body when using HTTP Basic Auth :

**curl -i http://localhost:8090/rest/api/accessmode**

```
HTTP/1.1 200 
X-ASEN: SEN-L13792150
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=FC801E48AD3BA0A7207D80D10A94D726; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:35:25 GMT

"READ_WRITE"
```

**curl -i -u admin:passwd http://localhost:8090/rest/api/accessmode**

```
HTTP/1.1 200 
X-ASEN: SEN-L13792150
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=78A33380D09EFC4511DA4162AD2CD801; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly
Content-Length: 0
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:37:12 GMT
```

same thing happens when using SOAP or json-rpc API.

In addtion, we are using Seraph and a customised Authenticator for Single Sing-on and it works well , is that a possible cause?

or which log should i view to help me solve the problem?

---------

Confluence server version : 6.15.4


Answers:
author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Wang ZY](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1694591) ,

I tried to reproduce what you described. With Confluence 6.15.6. all curl commands worked as expected. Regardless if taking an admin or non-admin account.

Have you already tried with a REST client?

So long

Thomas


Tags: api

confluence-server

rest-api

server
Allow access to a confluence page for a groupe but not to the parent page and space
Asked by David Coulon:

I have a space which contains a page and child pages i want to give access to a few users. But i want to restrict access of the whole space.

I have done the following :

* Space1 (restricted)
  * page1 (restricted)
  * page2 (access granted)
    * page2-1 (access granted)
    * page2-2 (access granted)
  * page3 (restricted)
  * etc

But unfortunately the users in access granted cannot see the page, either with direct links or space browsing

Any help or idea appreciated.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: \<removed promotional content\>

View restrictions are inherited. If you restrict the home page, all its child pages will be restricted as well (view restrictions just cascade down your page tree).

So, you should open your space for users and make, for example, two page branches - restricted and free.

Home page (open)

* page 1 (open)
* page 1-1 (open/locked)
* page 2-2 (open/locked)
* page 2 (locked)
* page 2-1 (inherited restrictions, locked automatically)
* page 2-2 (inherited restrictions, locked automatically)

comments: author: David Coulon
body: Hello,

Thanks, that's what i was afraid of...

I created a new space with a manual pdf from the first page to give access to this particular content.

Sad there is no automated way to do it.

Thanks anyway, i can switch to another subject.

Regards


Tags: confluence-server

server
Tiny links
Asked by Hector Ghizzoni:

Is there an actual way to solve tiny links after a Confluence Space migration or to change them before the migration using some automation?

(I don?t have access to the database)

thanks


Answers:
author: Ramona Scripcaru
body: Hey Hector,

There is no easy way to bulk change the tiny links, and currently, the only option is to manually review and change them.

We usually recommend our customers to run a database query and export a list with all these links from the server database and recommend them to change these tiny links to normal links before the migration.

In your case, as you do not have access to the database, the option that I can recommend is run a test migration and to raise a case with us from <https://support.atlassian.com/contact/> , we can then run this query on the cloud database and generate an export with all tiny links and their correspondent page title.

I know that this will not resolve your issue, but at least will provide you with a complete list of links and hopefully, it will be easier for you to identify and change them.

Cheers,

Ramona

Atlassian Cloud Support Migration team

comments: author: Hector Ghizzoni
body: Thanks a lot Ramona we are studying how to replace manually the links.


Tags: confluence-server

link

migration

server
Confluence bug: JPG preview doesn't return if the JPG filename has a "+" in it
Asked by Admin David Tonhofer:

On confluence on-premise 6.15.1:

If I attach a jpg whose name contains a "+", the preview doesn't return.

Anyone else see this?


Answers:
author: JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_
body: Hi,

you should create a bug report / support request with Atlassian:

<https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/>

Best

JP


Tags: confluence-server

server
Show incoming links filtered by label
Asked by Richard Cross:

Is there a way to show incoming links to a Confluence page, filtered by label? There used to be an "Incoming Links" macro, but it's no longer compatible with the latest version of Confluence.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Richard,

Thank you for asking about this! This is something you would be able to build by writing a [User Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html), since you are on Confluence Server.

A few examples can be seen on the thread below:

* [Get incoming links with-in a user macro](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/Get-incoming-links-with-in-a-user-macro/qaq-p/538128)

There's also a feature request to get this implemented in Confluence:

* [CONFSERVER-35218](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-35218) *Macro: incoming links*

Lastly, I found an add-on that also could help with this task:

* [Stagil Incoming Links](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215391/stagil-incoming-links?hosting=server&tab=overview)

Have a look and let us know if you have any questions about this.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
Make drafts accessible to others
Asked by Silvia Engbers:

How can I make my own drafts available to other users so that they can make changes?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: You can hit the plus button at the top right of your editor and invite your colleagues to edit this page with you (no matter if it is a draft or a new version of the previously published page). But note that the Collaborative Editing feature should be enabled for your instance by your Confluence administrator.

\<removed promotional content\>


author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@Silvia Engbers](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3483181) ,

I think the draft should be private, you can edit and save it, then let other users edit it based on this latest version.


Tags: confluence-server

draft

server
List of all spaces with created user in confluence cloud
Asked by Charan goud:

Hi Team,

For auditing purpose, I need all spaces in the wiki with created user

example:

Space name created a user name last update space

A Jhon date

B Mark date

C Mike date


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: You can use REST API to get all spaces

<https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/#api-space-get>

and to get the last updated date you might need to get content history and check the latest update date..

<https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/#api-content-id-history-get>

or

<https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/#api-space-spaceKey-content-get>

and sort this date by date and return the earliest date (that would be your last updated content per space)

Wen you want to find who created that space (usually is the creator of home page) so in get space api you have ability to get that info from "homepage" parameter


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there any way to watch the particular space except click "watch"?
Asked by Min young Cho:

Hello All,

Is there any other way to watch the space except click "watch"?

I made a space and gave "view" permission to all my company members.

And some of them "watch" that space and want to know if they cliek "watch" or just be autowatched - but is there any way to be autowatched even not edit or create in that space?

I don't think they changed their personnel option in their "settings" menu neither.

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: By default, Confluence will assign you as a watcher of any page or blog post that you create or edit. This behavior is called 'autowatch', but there is not such a thing related to entire spaces. You need to manually choose **Watch this space**button to do this.


Tags: watcher
The date shortcut of // and the user mention of @ doesn't work
Asked by Zac Smith:

Hey guys,

The date shortcut of // and the user mention of @ doesn't bring up either pop-up window.

For user mentions I'm having to hit the + icon then "User Mentions" but for date I cannot find a workaround.

Any ideas :)


Answers:
author: Marko Petelin
body: I report similar problem,   
// for dates does not work, neither if I try to use from "Insert more content menu"

then also checkboxes for lists are not rendered, I see bullets instead.

* [Confluence](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) 6.15.7


author: Katerina Kovriga {Stiltsoft}
body: Hit + icon and choose 'Date' from the menu.

Vote for browser checkup: we use Chrome, Firefox and Opera, everything works just fine. Ask your colleagues about this strange behavior - // and @ are standard Confluence tools.


author: Mirek
body: Is this the same behavior for all browsers? Did you check that on a different on? Are you using Cloud or Server?

I suggest to check that and verify if any browser extenstion is not blocking it (run browser in safe mode)