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Repeat headers in table?
Asked by TenLeftFingers:

After so many rows, I'd like to repeat the header in my table. At the moment I've worked around this by using seperate tables but they look messy because they're not aligned exactly. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi Jarlath,

there have been long discussions about repeating headers after page breaks. If you look for this these are two examples:

[](/questions/123562/stylesheet-export-to-pdf-for-tables)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/123562/stylesheet-export-to-pdf-for-tables>

[](/questions/144927/how-to-repeat-table-header-on-new-page)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/144927/how-to-repeat-table-header-on-new-page>

comments: author: TenLeftFingers
body: Thanks Steffan - thanks for your comment. I had seen your question but I just want to repeat the header on screen - I'm not concerned with printing. I've found that by using the \|\| markup I can make a row take on the formatting of a header so I can repeat the headings manually and keep everything in one table.


author: Josch Bencke
body: Maybe there is a CSS hack, but more probable, you will have to rely on table plugins, who generate tables from data for you.

I know for the checklists macro (generates tables out of childpages and/or metadata), that it can generate repeated headers. I am sure thre are others.


author: TenLeftFingers
body: Thanks Steffan - thanks for your comment. I had seen your question but I just want to repeat the header on screen - I'm not concerned with printing. I've found that by using the \|\| markup I can make a row take on the formatting of a header so I can repeat the headings manually and keep everything in one table.


Tags: header

table
The usage of {include:xxx}
Asked by lb zyh:

I'm currently working to extract part of the content of a few of pages to one page, I found that {include:xxx} can extract the who content of the page xxx to another page, so I'm wondering if there is a way to extract part of the content of the page xxx.

Does anyone know that?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: rambabu patina
body: We can include other pages to one page using the include macro. To insert this macro in your page follow*In the Confluence editor, choose Insert \> Other Macros.*

For more details see the [Include Page macro Documentatio](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Include+Page+Macro)n.

comments: author: lb zyh
body: Thank you, I need {excerpt-include}.

But there is another question, in page xxx I have some content is embraced by {excerpt} mark, when I using {excerpt-include:xxx}, page always show that 'The page doesn't not exist'.

If I change to use {include:xxx}, then the whole content of xxx can be shown normally.

I don't know why.
Content Report Macro glitches
Asked by Kristi Oetting:

I have been getting inconsistant behavior using the Content Report Table Macro. The default Meeting Notes page does not seem to be working correctly. Even though pages include the correct labels (meeting-notes), the Content Report Table Macro will be empty and say there are no pages. I also can't get the Macro to work on other pages I try to add it to manually. Any suggestions or reasons why it would not be listing pages with the indicated labels?


Answers:
author: David Hernandez
body: I have a similar problem. I have tried using content report table and content by label and both show the same list of 3 pages, but other pages don't show. I even tried "copy" on one of the pages so it is identical to an existing one that does show, and it won't show.

I also tried adding a different label altogether to a page, and it won't show up at all (removed meeting-notes and used a different label).

We're on 5.1 so I know we have to upgrade. Don't know if this used to be buggy and has been fixed?  

Dave


author: George Vaughan
body: Hi - I have the same problem - has anyone found a solution? Some meeting notes pages appear in the Content Report Table,some don't. I can verify that the non-appearing meeting notes pages exist and have correct label and space.

Thanks,

George


Tags: confluence-administration
Using Confluence as a Directory
Asked by Andrew Riley:

Hi There  
We currently have an internal contacts list/directory that we use in Sharepoint. We have confluence installed and used by a large part of our organisation. I want to see if we can use confluence to replace this contacts list. Using the personal profiles is the obvious choice. The limitation that I have found however is that you cannot search via anything other than the name.

Scenarios  
1. Staff don't know the name so search via title  
2. Staff don't know the name or title by start with the department/team.

Is there anyway that we could get Confluence to do this? We want to shut down Sharepoint and potentially replace remaining parts we still use Sharepoint with Confluence. We also have Google Apps but you can only search via name or email address.

Thanks, Andrew


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: What we are doing in our org is that we purchased the User Profile Plugin. We are are pulling in extra data into Confluenc that he have already populated in Active Directory with this ... so that it can be searched on. The challenge is that the search syntax is not user friendly. So, we have created a Speakeasy extension that hides the searchbox on the people directory page and create a search form. When the user clicks the submit button on hits enter in the name or contact number field the values are gathered from the inserted form and placed into the hidden search field in the correct Confluence Lucene search syntax. Then the hidden search form is programatically submitted. It is working pretty well for us. The below image is what our's looks like with the original search field unhidden for debugging purposes.

This is what is actually placed into the original"hidden" search field.  
-FirstName:(Admin\*) AND -UserName:(svc\*) AND -Department:(EX\*) AND (FullName:(Davin\*) OR FullName:(Davin)) AND (Extension:(xxxx\*) OR Pager:(xxxx\*) OR Mobile:(xxxx\*)) AND Department:(Information Systems) AND Location:(COLUMBIA TECH)

![](../../upfiles/Directory2.png)


author: Andrew Riley
body: Thanks Davin. Much appreciate your reply.


Tags: directory
Trial of confluence: user with no permission able to add a page
Asked by Paulie Rainbow:

I am testing out a trial of Confluence and I added a user who was able to add a team space, but not able to view that team space.

The user has not been granted any explicit permissions and I set the group "users" to not have any privileges except viewing.

What could I have set wrong? Could this be a function of the trial?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Paulie Rainbow


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Paulie,

You need to remove the can create spaces permission from your global user permission for the group.

You can do this by going to your Confluence Administration page and selection the Global Permissions menu item from the menu on the left.

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Paulie Rainbow
body: I'll give this a try!


author: Paulie Rainbow
body: This is not working for me. I am trying to evaluate the use of Confluence with JIRA using the OnDemand setup. I have set up a user that only belongs to the group "users" she does not belong to any other grou. I followed your instructions and stripped the "users" of the create space, but the user can still create a page. There is no global permission that specifies "create page"

She cannot add a page to a space that I created and is particularly locked down, but she can add pages to other spaces I have created. Is this simply correct behavior? How do we control the ability of "junior" users to not add pages?


author: rambabu patina
body: If the user has only view permissions, then they cannot add/edit the page. This is the default functionality of the confluence. If the user want to add/edit/delete page permission then we need to grant those perms in the space admin of that page.

Thanks,

Patina


Tags: page

permission

user
Delegated LDAP Authentication not working
Asked by Sean Gorman:

Having a horrible time of getting this working. Each time I attempt to login the username and/or password are incorrect.

Delegated LDAP is first in the User Directories order

**Server Settings**

Delegated LDAP Authentication

Directory Type - Microsoft Active Directory

Hostname - hostname verified as correct and being used by previous wiki and working

Checked - Copy User on Login

Default Group - confluence-users

Unchecked - Synchronise Group Memberships

**LDAP Schema**

Base DN - DC=domain,DC=com (same settings used by previous wiki's LDAP)

User Name Attribute - sAMAccountName

**User Schema Settings**

Object Class - user

User Object Filter - (\&(objectClass=person)(objectClass=user))

User Name RDN Attribute - cn

__________________________________________________________________

If I open Active Directory Explorer and search the user class with:

(\&(objectClass=person)(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=*FLast*))

My AD listing comes up. The *FLast* is what I am putting into Confluence when attempting to login.

Anyone have some suggestions to try? Have a feeling that the User Name RDN Attribute may be the issue, but tried this as sAMAccountName and still received the error.

<br />


Answers:
author: Sean Gorman
body: None of the logs in this folder are updated from failed login attempts, which was my other roadblock trying to view an actual error to get a next step.


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Sean,

It would be hard to troubleshoot your issue without any stack trace from your logs. Could you please try to review your atlassian-confluence.log which is located in \<Conf_HOME_Dir\>/logs/ and see if you could find any LDAP error that could help us deduce your issue.


Tags: confluence-administration
What is the frequency that Confluence updates it's database for page view/edits?
Asked by Bimmel:

I'm comparing the results using the Popular macro on space x to the results from an analytic system looking at the same space. Both come very close to the top five page views (order of most hits) but the the counts are off between 3-8%. I'm thinking the analytic system looks at the database at the very moment it's run while either the popular macro or Confluence itself doesn't update the stats that frequently.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Bimmel,

Popular macro and Confluence actually look into Confluence index to compose the result. Index should run every 30 seconds, and it could be modified in [scheduled jobs menu](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Scheduled+Jobs).

If the issue persist, you might have an issue with your Confluence indexing. For a start, you might want to [disable attachment indexing](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+Do+I+Disable+Indexing+of+Attachments) and [rebuild the indices from scratch](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch).

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Bimmel
body: Thanks Septa. I'll take a look at that.


Tags: analytics

confluence-administration
Thumbnail Image is Distorted
Asked by Melissa Henderson:

Confluence 4.3

When I insert an image (Insert \> Image) into a page and select the preset 100px or 300px size, the image looks distorted, as if it is not being scaled down correctly. Entering a manual size (for example, 200) has the same result. The only preset size that looks OK is 500px, which is too large.

If I use the Wiki Markup Macro and insert the image that way, with a width of 200px (as an example), the image scales down fine.

Any thoughts on why this is?


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Melissa,

<br />

It seem that you have encounter a known bug. When a image is resize to 300px and below, the Confluence will try to resize the thumbnail instead of the original image. Thumbnail is a reduced-size versions of the original image therefore when Confluence try to resize it, the image becomes blurry and distorted.

The bug is currently tracked in this ticket [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28189.)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28189>.

<br />

As a workaround, you can resize the image to 301px which will avoid the current bug.

<br />

Regards,

Jing Hwa   


author: Susanna Moore
body: Now, i'm plan to resize [created thumbnail](http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/winforms-net-imaging/thumbnail-creating/) [image](http://www.rasteredge.com/dotnet-imaging/thumbnail/) and annoyed by this problem. I've refered to the tracked page, but it seems this bug is not solved.

Just looking forward to the new release with bug fixed.  
Thanks!
JIRA/Confluence User Access
Asked by James Strangeway:

I have added Confluence to my OnDemand account and have added a new user to Confluence only and updated a user to have Confluence also. When I try to set up a team space and add users I see the user I added Confluence only when typing in the name but I do not see the name when typing in the user I added Confluence too that was already a JIRA user.


Answers:
author: AgentSmith
body: Check that the user has access to JIRA and Confluence here:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+application+access)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+application+access>

comments: author: James Strangeway
body: I ended up deleting the user and adding him in and that seemed to do the trick. This is obviously not ideal if the user has a bunch of stuff linked to them.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Table Drop Down Menu is not available?
Asked by Andreas Koller:

The drop down menu for editing tables in Confluence is not visible in edit mode of a page - even if I click into a table field. This happens only, if there is some other content in the same Confluence page. In empty pages the table menu is available. Any ideas?

We are using Confluence 5.1.3

Thank you very much!

Andreas


Answers:
author: Andreas Koller
body: I found out, that the ad hoc workflows plugin causes the problem.
Anchor Macro not working properly in IE
Asked by Vamsi K Nori:

I am working on Confluence 5.2.3. I primarily use Chrome while working. I had created Anchors in my pages and linked them from different sections on the page. It works well in Chrome. But when i check the links through IE they dont work. They dont jump to the location. How do i fix this problem? The browser on my system is IE8.


Answers:
author: RambanamP
body: it seems your problem related to following issue

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29728)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29728>

comments: author: Vamsi K Nori
body: Thanks Prasad


Tags: anchor

internet-explorer

link
User directory - internal/external groups
Asked by Ji?? Wetter:

Hi, we have connected our Confluence instance to external LDAP server with **more then 2000 groups** . It's very inconvenient to work with too many groups. Is there possibility to show only internaly created groups? I'm not intrested about external groups. Thanks for advice.


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Jiri,

You could try using the group schema settings :

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory#ConnectingtoanLDAPDirectory-GroupSchemaSettings)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory#ConnectingtoanLDAPDirectory-GroupSchemaSettings>

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Ji?? Wetter
body: Hi Peter, I dont uderstand how it can solve my problem. I need to "hide" all external groups and display only internal. Make "fake" group scheme isn't clear solution for me. But thanks for reply ;-)


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Jiri,

are you using LDAP only for authentication and confluence for the group management?

If so then I think you could simply create a group schema query that will return no groups from LDAP, this should still leave the internal groups available.

Best regards,

Peter


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Jiri,

I'm glad you found a workaround, but you're correct this should be a simple checkbox in the configuration.

You could make a change request about it here : [](http://jira.atlassian.com)<http://jira.atlassian.com>

Best regards,

Peter


author: Ji?? Wetter
body: Hi Peter, I did it as you said. I added prefix *fake* for every key in group scheme and it works, but as I said it's no clear solution for me. It's just workaround. I think that Atlassian should implement simple button "hide external" for internal groups management purposes. Thanks for help and your time.


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Jiri,

You a re correct, it is possible for you to make sure Confluence doesn't retrieve any groups from your LDAP server by using a fake parameter in the search filter which will result to no group will be retrieve by Confluence. For example:

```
(&amp;(objectclass=group)(cn=dummyValue))
```

I understand your point of view and I proceed to create a new feature request for you here:

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32159)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32159>

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: external

group

ldap
Why are there no logs when attempting XML backup of Confluence
Asked by Ravi Nair:

I do not seem to see any logs either in atlassian-confluence.log or in catalina.out when I attempt an XML backup of my Confluence instance.

I followed some steps in [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+failed+XML+site+backups)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+failed+XML+site+backups> and added the following lines to the log4j properties file :

```
log4j.logger.com.atlassian.confluence.importexport.impl.XMLDatabinder=DEBUG, confluenceloglog4j.additivity.com.atlassian.confluence.importexport.impl.XMLDatabinder=false
```

When I attempt an XML backup, I see an error 500 after a minute (presumably from Apache, I cannot directly access the Tomcat port due to firewall restrictions). However, there's no indication of any activity ongoing in the logs. I'm able to login to Confluence soon after and server seems to be doing ok.

Help..?

P.S : I'm running Confluence 5.1.3


Answers:
author: Ravi Nair
body: @Colin: Thanks Colin, yes I did restart Confluence after the changes.


author: Colin Goudie
body: Just a quick check, did you reboot Confluence after the log4j changes?


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way to create different tabs inside confluence on demand with custom tab names?
Asked by Betina Stapleton:

Is there a way to add different tabs within Confluence On Demand? I have found some documentation for Confluence, but cannot find an specifics for the On Demand version. My goal is to add tabs on a confluence page. Is this possible with the On Demand Version?


Answers:
author: Tim
body: Hi Betina,

We've created a Tabs macro as part of our toolbox of useful Confluence Cloud macros. It's pretty easy to use and can be placed on any Confluence page or blog.

Try it here: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1215202>

Keen to know if it helps you out :smile:

Tim


author: RambanamP
body: can you share what document you referred ?

following question may help

[](/questions/71800/how-to-add-tabs-in-a-confluence-page)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/71800/how-to-add-tabs-in-a-confluence-page>

comments: author: Betina Stapleton
body: HI Rambanam,

The document you refer to is the document I also found. However, I'm not sure if this can be done with the On Demand version on Confluence. Do you know? Thank you.


author: RambanamP
body: i am not sure on ondemand !!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Multiple LDAP sources for users and groups in Confluence
Asked by Robert Cooper:

Is it possible to set up confluence to get only users from one Active Directory forest and only groups from a differest forest? The user forest does not have any groups. The group forest does not have active user accounts; it has accounts tied to Exchange mailboxes but disabled and those mailboxes authenticate from a domain trust to the user forest. (don't blame me, I did not set this mess up and have no control over it.)


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Robert,

No worries, I won't blame you, I've already worked as Network/Infrastructure engineer, so I know sometimes we face some legacy structure that we need to deal :).

Well, as we know, this is a very peculiar environment, so I believe since your users and groups are being able to communicate on Active Directory environment even not being at the same forest, I believe this will also work with confluence as well. When you setup Confluence to authenticate against AD, then the AD is the responsible to manage the authentication and permissions. However, I strong recommend you to try this first in a staging environment.

The only thing you need to pay attention, is the users that will be authenticated on Confluence be tied with confluence-users group which based in your scenario will be in a different forest.

Good luck.

Renato Rudnicki


Tags: active-directory

confluence-administration

ldap
'Stop watching' link does not remove me as a watcher if I do not have permissions to that space anymore.
Asked by Heily Hindrea:

'Stop watching' link does not remove me as a watcher if I do not have permissions to that space anymore.

Our Confluence version 5.3.1.

A user watched a page or a space but now he doesn't have the permssions to access that page or space anymore.

If he goes now Profile \> Watches, then he can still see the page / space as he is still watching it. If he then clicks "Stop Watching" then after the refresh the page or space is still listed with a link "Stop watching". No error message is provided and watching is just not removed.

Does anyone have a clue why is this happening or how to solve it?

We have a workaround - a user with admin rigths can end the watches for the user but this is still a workaround...

Best wishes,

Heily


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Heily,

Did you take a look in your Confluence log files? Maybe there is an error message there.

It probably comes down to the permissions like you already mention.

You could log this as a bug here : [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF>

Best regards,

Peter


author: Heily Hindrea
body: We reported the bug and its trackable here: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32136)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32136>


author: Nadine
body: This bug is now in atlassian jira - [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32136)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32136>

While we used a workaround, it still seems a serious enough bug to be fixed.

comments: author: Nadine
body: Hi TanelYou mention a workaround - any chance you could post the details here or in the ticket?Many thanksNadine
Setup Active Directory user does not exist
Asked by Jeremy Rogers:

I am trying to add an active directory connection to our server. The basic connection succeeded. The test retrieve user is failing with error "Failed User\<domainname\\user\> does not exist." I have tried [](mailto:user@domainname.com)[user@domainname.com](mailto:user@domainname.com), domainname\\username, and just username, but it all fails with the same error. Any help getting this to connect would be appreciated. Thank!


Answers:
author: Peter Rangel
body: We are getting the same error and its not working. Not sure what is wrong with the setup.


author: Jeremy Rogers
body: Don't really know what I did different, but this time it took just the username and password. Weird.


author: Gurpreet Singh
body: Any solution?