youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
using host name not able to open confluence page
Asked by Rinku Saha:

Hi,

we are using both Jira and confluence in our enterprise.

on Jira site we use confluence link as Application link. since we cant use https://.. as application link we user host name with port number. it is working for us but for few users iys not working. but the same user able to open the site using alais name. please help me to find the root cause of this issue.

thanks'

Rinku


Answers:
author: FelipeA
body: Hi Rinku,

During the setup of your application link, you can point it to host name with port number, but you have to set display url to be exactly the same as in your base-url's. Can you confirm if it's set this way?

Best regards,

Felipe Alencastro


Tags: confluence-administration
Upgrade Path for Confluence 3.1.1 to 5.4.4
Asked by Tarique Abdullah:

Hello,

I am trying to upgrade from Confluence 3.1.1 to 5.4.4 as per documentation it appears that there are intermediate steps involved for upgrade.

**STEP1**- Upgrade from 3.1.1 to 3.5.17 (please provide link to upgrade documentation)

**STEP2**- Upgrade from 3.5.17 to 5.0.3 (please provide link to upgrade documentation)

**STEP3** - Upgrade from 5.0.3 to 5.4.4

Q1) I read that prior to 3.5 version requires manual upgrade, does it means that STEP1 will be manual and STEP2 \& 3 will be via some assistant? or all step1 to 3 will be manual.

Q2) Is it possible to have fresh install of 5.4.4 and export/import content from 3.1.1 to 5.4.4? is there any export/import facility that can be used for exporting from upgraded 5.4.4 instance to freshly installed 5.4.4?

Q3) Please help me with upgrade documentations \& known issues and their resolutions, that can be reffered on each of the STEPs?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, your upgrade path looks correct to me.

Bascially, you've answered your own questions though. [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence>is the link I'd start with and it looks like you've read through this already, so you should have found the relevant links. Me posting specific documents here is only going to cover stuff you've already found by reading that doc.

comments: author: Andris Grinbergs
body: Step1: Upgrade documentation: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Confluence+3.5.17+Upgrade+Notes)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Confluence+3.5.17+Upgrade+Notes>

Step2: Upgrade documentation: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.0.3+Upgrade+Notes)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.0.3+Upgrade+Notes>

Step3: Upgrade documentation: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.4.4+Upgrade+Notes)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.4.4+Upgrade+Notes>

Q1: All will be manual.

Q2: No you can't do export/import.

Q3: Issues are different case by case. You will most likely have problems with plugins, they act a bit differently, some become commercial, some was not anymore in 5.4.4. Trying upgrade in test environment first is a must I think.


Tags: confluence-administration
Automatically revert the version of multiple pages?
Asked by Greg Miller:

Does anyone know how to revert multiple pages to a previous version? For example, suppose I want to revert all pages from the current version to one version back. I don't see anything in the API on how to do this. The version of Confluence we have is 4.3.7

Thanks,

-Greg


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi Greg,

you can do that just developing a custom plugin that uses PageManager API. [](https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/PageManager.html)<https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/PageManager.html>

It contains getPreviousVersionsOfPageWithTaskId method that could help you.

Hope this helps,

Fabio


Tags: confluence-administration
People Directory on Confluence on demand
Asked by Moey Osta:

Hi there

I would like to see if there was anyway of hiding the people directory on the top tool bar so this is not visible on confluence on demand.

Thanks in advance

Moey


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Moey,

Please contact support to do so at [](http://support.atlassian.com)[support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)

Here it is the feature request: [](/questions/99620/can-i-hide-the-people-directory-in-confluence-ondemand)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7837>

and more infor on previous Answers: [](/questions/99620/can-i-hide-the-people-directory-in-confluence-ondemand)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/99620/can-i-hide-the-people-directory-in-confluence-ondemand>

Cheers! :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
password policy?
Asked by L:

I'm in the process of moving from an old version of confluence to 5.4. in the existing install (3.1.1) , when users sign up for an account, they are made to choose a password with one of each of the below

a-z

upper/lowercase

numerical

special character

In the new install (5.4) i need to know if this is enforced, and if so, how to make changes so users can select just alphabetical and numerical.


Answers:
author: L
body: no default password policy in place in confluence


author: Andris Grinbergs
body: I suggest you to try it out. If it don't meet your requirements, consider this plugin [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.intenso.confluence.plugins.confluence-password-policy)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.intenso.confluence.plugins.confluence-password-policy>.


author: L
body: Thanks will wait for the install and then test


Tags: confluence-administration
A question about labels.
Asked by Alex Davidson:

Anyone know how to force a user to pick labels for a page before/as the page is being saved? I'm on C5.4.4


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Alex, that is possible though it is not enforced, there used to be a [feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-15224) for such, it has been closed a while ago. Nevertheless there are a number of [add ons that extend](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?q=label) the bundled application functionality that would be a feature to be sough through this Confluence extensions.
Is there a way to limit the content that is displayed in the updates or digest?
Asked by Shawn Sanders:

Is there a way for an individual user or space to prevent Confluence space updates from appearing in the 'updates' on home page or digest that is viewed by all users potentially? I have a user who is concerned that sensitive data is being sent to the updates page and digest that can be viewed by members outside his team even though page restrictions may preclude them from accessing the space further.


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: The dashboard page and email digest should be taking the permissions into account.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Subscribing+to+Email+Notifications+of+Updates+to+Confluence+Content)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Subscribing+to+Email+Notifications+of+Updates+to+Confluence+Content>
> You can subscribe to the following email summary reports:
>
> * A daily report of updates to all spaces that you have permission to view.
> * An immediate report of all blog posts added or changed, in all spaces that you have permission to view.
> * An immediate report of all updates made by the people you are following, in all spaces that you have permission to view.
> * An immediate report when someone follows you.
> * A daily or weekly report of recommended updates, in all spaces that you have permission to view.

Not sure about which page restrictions fits into the above but it sounds like they might want to apply space permissions to the space.

Oh and hi :)

comments: author: Shawn Sanders
body: Hi Daniel! Great to hear from you. Thanks, that's what I discussed with them, and they are testing now. Wanted to run it through this forum in case I missed something. Hope all is well. Take care.
Label Management
Asked by Sean Gorman:

Is there no way in Confluence to create global labels which are allowed to be chosen from?

Seems like basic functionality that should exist. If I leave the labels open to anyone to create we are going to get a large variation of the same thing. If the labels are created before hand and chosen from then there's a standard.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Sean, there is a feature request for such registered under [this ticket](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-3936). In addition to this, curently there are a number of [add ons that extend](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?q=label) the bundled application functionality particarly, [Labels Cage](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.intenso.confluence.labelscage.labels-cage).


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Sean, if this answer helped you, kindly mark it as accepted at the top right corner, as such it can help other people too. :) thanks


Tags: confluence-administration
In a particular Jira project, I am trying to push (link) the user to a Confluence Wiki space page after the user has clicked on "submit" to create an issue.
Asked by Leslie Coleman:

In a particular Jira project, I am trying to push (link) the user to a Confluence Wiki space page after the user has clicked on "submit" to create an issue. Anyone have an idea?


Answers:
author: Jonathan Muse
body: Is it a static link or is the page different every time?

You could use JJUPIN to "watch" the submitt button and create a pop-up message containing the link text.

Example of JJUPIN live fields - [http://confluence.kepler-rominfo.com/display/JJUPIN/How+%27Live+Fields%27+work](http://confluence.kepler-rominfo.com/display/JJUPIN/How+%2527Live+Fields%2527+work)

Example of JJUPIN message - <http://confluence.kepler-rominfo.com/display/JJUPIN/lfDialogMessage>

comments: author: Leslie Coleman
body: Thanks Jonathan. Yes, it is a static link.


Tags: automation

link
Does any body use confluence to write their taste cases?
Asked by Gary Bermudez:

Use Confluence wiki to create taste cases


Answers:
author: Mehmet Kazgan
body: Yes, by adding JIRA gadgets to a page with the ability to create issues from there.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: In addition to Mehmet answer, you can achieve that by creating application links between confluence and jira as [see here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Integrating+JIRA+and+Confluence). You can then insert JIRA issues from confluence side and mention them in confluence pages as well. :)

Cheers,

Rodrigo
How to add macro inside code block
Asked by Scott Branden:

We are using Confluence 4.3.7.

I would like to embed a user-info macro inside a code block. That way a set of commands will have the current username inside the code block example.

This doesn't seem possible as no macro can be inserted inside a code block?

So, is there a way to format a set of text+macro so that it looks like a code block?


Answers:
author: Scott Branden
body: I found a much simpler approach:

Use a panel macro and use macros inside it.


author: Mehmet Kazgan
body: I don't think you can insert macro into a code block. You can play with the css by adding the macro into a container and add custom css to make it look like the way you want.

comments: author: Scott Branden
body: Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately I'm not a web developer and not familiar with CSS at all. I managed to google and play with some parameters to make a border around text. But the box does not extend cleanly like the "code" macro. How do I find out what the code macro settings are so that "fred1" text matches"fred2" below?

Fred1 properly formatted using code macro:

\<ac:macro ac:name="code"\>  
\<ac:parameter ac:name="language"\>none\</ac:parameter\>  
\<ac:plain-text-body\>\<!\[CDATA\[fred1\]\]\>\</ac:plain-text-body\>  
\</ac:macro\>  
\<p\>

Fred 2 improperly formatted as I do not know what CSS settings are used in code macro:

\<ac:macro ac:name="span"\>  
\<ac:parameter ac:name="style"\>border-style:dashed; border-width: 1px; padding: 10px 10px; border-radius:5px;\</ac:parameter\>  
\<ac:parameter ac:name="class"\>Code Block\</ac:parameter\>  
\<ac:parameter ac:name="atlassian-macro-output-type"\>INLINE\</ac:parameter\>  
\<ac:rich-text-body\> fred2\</ac:rich-text-body\>  
\</ac:macro\>  
\</p\>
What is my user count?
Asked by Morgan Friberg:

I have a 50 seat Confluence OD account. I used to be able to go to Admin and then on the bottom left was an item 'License Details' that showed me how many seats I have, and how many are open.

This 'License Details' link is no longer there. Where do I find this information? I'm not going to count my users which aren't 'disabled'!

I've googled, searched Answers, docs... nothing seems to reflect what I'm looking for.


Answers:
author: Morgan Friberg
body: It was a huge oversight that Atlassian removed the ability to count users in Confluence OnDemand. They are aware via bugs and support tickets, so for now, the best workaround is to export the users to CSV and filter on the 'status' column.


author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Morgan,

The 'License Details' feature has been removed from OnDemand.

You should be able to count the user licenses from the Application Access section in OnDemand user management but if your instance doesn't have the new user management, then vote on the following bug report I created to track the feature loss: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33417)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33417>

New User Managemet info can be found at the [User Management FAQ](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/User+Management+FAQ)

Sorry about the inconvenience.

Regards,  
Mauro

comments: author: Morgan
body: Thanks for the information. I could not find it anywhere. Any idea when I'll know how to count my users? Can you find this information out for me and let me know how many active users I have. I need to add users and need to know if I should drop some, or upgrade.


author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Morgan,

I updated [the bug](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33417) with a workaround.

Feel free to create a support request to count the amount of users.

Regards,  
Mauro


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence: File Upload without Drag and Drop
Asked by Danny Brooke:

We are running Confluence 5.1 and we'll be upgrading to 5.4 later this spring.

We've had a request from a user to only show the "Browse Files" version of the uploader (pictured) in the attachments macro. They do not want to expose the Drag and Drop uploader.

![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2014-04-22_at_12.52.18_PM.png)

Is there any easy way to show just this on a page without the drag and drop functionality? We've considering creating a custom macro, but I wanted to check here first.

Thanks!!!


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi Danny,

try to use the following javascript code :

```
&lt;script&gt;jQuery().ready(function() {    jQuery(".attachments-drop-zone").hide();});&lt;/script&gt;
```

Add this code into COnfluence Administration -\> Custom HTML

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: Danny Brooke
body: Hey Fabio - thanks for providing this. I've confirmed that it indeed removes the drag and drop from the attachments page.

What we're looking for here, though, is a way to hide the drag and drop functionality within the attachments macro itself OR show only the "browse" version of the uploader on a specific page as a standalone macro/feature.

Thanks again!!


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello Danny,

you can try to embed the provided code in a HTML macro. I didn't try it. [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/HTML+Macro)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/HTML+Macro>

Hope this helps,

Fabio
Upgrade from 2.10.3 to 5.4.4
Asked by Vitaliy Khurtak:

Hello everyone. I have an instane with attchments more than 30Gb. And according to this [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence>I need to create additional 2 backup more than 30Gb.

I tried to set confluence home directory at the 5.4.4 and even 3.5.13 to confluence home for version 2.10.4. But server was runnig with 404 error(3.5.13) and hibernate exception (5.4.4).

Please could you help me to resolve this issue without additional backups!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello, Vitaliy!

In order to upgrade your instance from 2.10.3, you will need to do incremental upgrades. You will want to do the following steps, (first on a [test instance](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+a+Test+Instance+from+Production) to be sure everything goes smoothly.)

1. Upgrade [manually](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence+Manually) from 2.10.3 to 3.5.17.
2. Upgrade [normally](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence) from 3.5.17 to 5.0.3.
3. Upgrade normally from 5.0.3 to 5.4.4.

Once you confirm everything works smoothly on the test instance, you can proceed with the production instance. You can find the archives for previous versions of Confluence [from our website](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives).

If you continue to have issues with the upgrade after following those steps, please open a ticket with our Support Team.


Tags: confluence-administration
Enabled Anonymous Access, but still requiring Login
Asked by Larry Eisenstein:

I just allowed Anonymous access to a space that I would like to be public.

I gave View All permissions, but when I navigate to the page, it still asks me to log in.

Is there anything else I need to do?


Answers:
author: salehparsa
body: Hi Larry

Assign **Can Use** permission to your anonymous users by **Edit Permissions** in **Confluence Administrator Panel \> Global Permissions**

I would like to recommend you to take a look at **[Global Permissions Overview](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Global+Permissions+Overview)** and **[Setting Up Public Access](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Setting+Up+Public+Access)**for Conflunece OnDemand.

Cheers,

Saleh


author: Iasmini Gomes
body: I'm having the same problem. I've done these configurations already but it's still not working.

![anonymous.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10918i78DCE5ECE9E983AA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "anonymous.png")![anonymous2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10919i307CC00ACDD0DB7F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "anonymous2.png")![confluence.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10920i1DE9653024512031/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence.png")![space.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10917iF7D52BB7191B61BF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "space.png")


author: Christian Mele
body: I have the same issue. Permission have been set correctly both in global and for the space but it still requires login.

Any help?


author: MJ
body: You will be required to provide the "Can Use" permission through the global permissions in Confluence to Anonymous users. Unless this permission has been granted, Anonymous users will not have access to your instance, despite setting up Anonymous access on a space level. More details on setting up public access can be found on [this](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Setting+Up+Public+Access) page.


author: Andris Grinbergs
body: Take a look there: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access>


Tags: anonymous

cloud

confluence-cloud

permission
Add user to confluence.. API
Asked by pb:

Hello,

It is very tedious to add multiple users in Confluence using the GUI. Is there a Rest API or confluence API that I can use to create account?.Basically, I would iike to submit a list a users and have the accounts created

Any links or example would be helpful. I am using confluence 5.4.4

Thanks for your help


Answers:
author: Boris Georgiev [Appfire]
body: You can use the confluence remote API

[](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Remote+Confluence+Methods#RemoteConfluenceMethods-UserManagement)<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Remote+Confluence+Methods#RemoteConfluenceMethods-UserManagement>

[](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+XML-RPC+and+SOAP+APIs)<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+XML-RPC+and+SOAP+APIs>

comments: author: Boris Georgiev [Appfire]
body: And a sample for adding user

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Add+a+new+user+with+a+personal+space)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Add+a+new+user+with+a+personal+space>


author: Kudimov Mikhail
body: Boris, Hello!

remote API contains the method "addUser"

    void addUser(String token, User  user, String password)?- add a new user with the given password

But I do not understand, what kind of entity is this "User"?

Could not you help me?


author: ????????? ?????????
body: Have the same issue, don't understand how to pass this data with soap xml


author: yassine hlioui
body: is it possible to add new users with the REST API?

a POST request on "http://confluence-server/rest/api/user" is not allowed even with admin user.

comments: author: Rafal Kaminski
body: Exactly! I have the same issue when I want to delete user: #\<Net::HTTPMethodNotAllowed:0x00000002691d68\>

Any news on it?


author: Aaron Axelsen
body: Are there examples of how to do this with the REST API?


Tags: confluence-administration
ServiceRocket Scaffolding - Confluence plugin error while startup
Asked by Sumit Kumar:

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Hibernate operation: Could not execute query; uncategorized SQLException for SQL \[\]; SQL state \[60000\]; error code \[604\]; ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded ; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded

\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*

**Confluence : 5.4.2**

**Plugin Version : 5.1.4**


Answers:
author: Sumit Kumar
body: No Fix Available yet

comments: author: Andre Lehmann
body: Hi Sumit,

I already got a snapshot-Release where the devs changed the code for the data-migration for oracle-database.

The snapshot worked on our test-servers so we are now waiting for a "final-release".  
The support of ServiceRocket is quite slow right now, because the main supporter is on holydays and one of the main devs had an accident.

I think there will be a final resolution within the next few weeks.

Kind regards  
Andr?


author: Global Tools
body: As a workarround version
4.6.2 can be installed which doesnot have any error.I have raised a case with servicerocket as well and waiting for thier response.  

<br />

<br />

<br />


author: Andre Lehmann
body: We have the same problem...

default for our oracle-db was 300.

I opened a support-case at servicerocket and we raised that value up to 1500 for our test-server. But we still can't update Scaffolding... Always getting the same error:

ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded


author: Sumit Kumar
body: I can see from the log that open_cursors are exceeded but wanted to know if there is any specific limit of open_cursors which is required by this plugin to perform proper execution


Tags: addon-net.customware.confluence.plugin.scaffolding

server

servicerocket