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Overflooded Dashboard Problem
Asked by Alexander Sch?tzle:

Hello everybody,

in my company we are using Confluence for an international knowledge sharing tool.  
The problem that we have is the high use of our employees. That means the dashboard of Confluence is permanent changing, especially under the section "All Updates".

I know that the users should regulate that via favoured Spaces or Pages, but even though for a lot of people it is difficult to be well-informed.

Do you have any experience which could help me?  
I already thought about a kind of a filtering of the Spaces which are shown on Dashboard.  
The main problem is for example if i would attach a lot of attachments. Then it looks like that:

image2014-10-9 18:4:49.png

For the user it would be enough if they just get displayed the update of the Page, not of all the attachements.  
Can i influence that while I am creating a page for example? Because in another case it can be important that the users get displayed every attachement.

Thank you very much!

Greets Alex

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Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: I worked in a 500-1,000 company which used Confluence intensively.

* It's correct to note that the "All Updates" tab is too much to watch. If you need to watch everything happening on your wiki, you may have an issue of centralization. When "All updates" is too much to watch, **it's a very good sign**: Your organization is moving to peer-to-peer collaboration in lieu of a centralized culture.
* We used the "Popular" tab all the time.
  * It contains the most commented and liked content.
  * It's interesting to see that not only blog posts but also pages are displayed, so if the document of one department is heavily discussed within a team, it would sometimes appear in the Popular tab. It's a good thing because a long discussion is probably a big discussion that has a broader scope.
* People would watch their own space and actors.
  * They would subscribe and get a small dozen of updates to read per day, which is easy enough to read (When Confluence is popular, you don't get any "unmanaged" emails - Every bit of information goes through Confluence and shared from there).
  * The first watchers create the first dozen "likes" which propel an article to the dashboard. Once on the dashboard, the whole company tends to read it and they jump to 200-400 likes.
  * Important articles are explicitly shared with a department/team via email using the "Share" button. Managers and team information always goes through this channel.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: An Activity Stream Manager that could be personally modified per preferences is a good idea. :)   
Would need to build a plugin for that - probably not that hard tho... depends on how complex you want to get.

Email [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com) if this is a really big deal to you. Happy to discuss to make it real.
Search Disappear from Top Nav
Asked by sherlack:

Hi, I logged today to confluence and I noticed the search textbox disappeared from the top nav bar. Also the Directory link disappeared.  

screenshot:

topnav.JPG  
Can someone help me figure out why this happend?   

Thanks in advance!  
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Answers:
author: sherlack
body: NVM, Just noticed what was. The license had expired! Thanks anyway :smile:

comments: author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: I was just about to ask that question... Yes, when licenses expire, all sorts or random symptoms show up.. Good you sorted quickly.


author: sherlack
body: Thanks Ellen!


Tags: confluence-administration
Are Confluence's tiny links (shortened URLs) static?
Asked by Kyle Moseley _blueridge_cx_:

Are those Tiny Links static or do they ever change?


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Thanks for the confirmation Kyle, I'm afraid those are static and based in your content id as you can see in below improvement ticket ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad"):

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27049>

Tks,

David

comments: author: Kyle Moseley _blueridge_cx_
body: That's actually what I was hoping for! Thanks for figuring this one out.


author: Bruce von Kugelgen
body: Agreed, static links are very useful for me as well. I'll go check out the ticket.


author: Kyle Moseley _blueridge_cx_
body: From Tools, it's the "Tiny Link" provided when you click "Link to this Page...". It's offered as an alternative to the link based off of the page's name.Example: <http://myhost/confluence/x/pBI4Aw>


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Kyle,Just to get a better picture of which "tiny links" you are refering, can you send us a screenshot of those?Tks,David


Tags: link

url
How to use Windows Authentication with PocketQuery?
Asked by Lyne Farley:

How to use Windows Authentication with the PocketQuery addon?


Answers:
author: Bruno Vincent
body: If your Confluence instance uses Crowd for user management, you can deploy the IWAAC plugin (Integrated Windows Authentication for Apps using Crowd) by Cleito: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.cleito.iwaac>

This plugin is compatible with any web app using Crowd for user management and SSO, including Confluence, Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket Server (Stash), FishEye, Crucible, Jenkins etc.


author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Alternatively to the plugin, you may yet implement IWA via [IIS](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Access+Confluence+using+Integrated+Windows+Authentication+via+IIS+with+SP+2010), or via [Jespa](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Access+Confluence+using+Integrated+Windows+Authentication+via+Jespa+with+SP+2010).

Cheers


author: Ale? La?ar
body: Hi,

If you want SSO, so that Confluence get windows credentials for login, you have to use kerberos.

I try it on webserver side, but I finally end there:<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/no.kantega.kerberosauth.kerberosauth-plugin.confluence>

They have a free version for 4.x,x version: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/fi.polarshift.confluence.lib.kerberosLib>

These guys are really awesome and they will help you with everything for setting this plugin :smile:


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence evaluation on external database
Asked by Timothy Harris:

I am installing a confluence instance for a customer. Right now it will run on an evaluation license. But after a month it will run on a comercial license.

BUT I can't connect it to an external database? When I enter the license, even though I selected production environment in the wizard, in sets up confluence on the HSQLDB...

NOW we have to do a database migration when we get the commercial licenses, which basically consist of RE-INSTALLING, confluence from scratch again...

ANY specific reason confluence with an evaluation license can't be installed on an external database????

This is possible for Jira, Stash and Bamboo...


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Let me guess, you're running Confluence 5.6.1?

Where there's a bug that means it skips the database question...

Try 5.6.2 or 5.6.3

comments: author: Timothy Harris
body: Yes. Thanks for the answer. I will get 5.6.3 and install that.


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Timothy,

Just complementing Nic's answer, below is the bug for reference:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34288>

Also download 5.6.3 since that is the one that contain the fix (we did not released 5.6.2).

tks,

David

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Oops, sorry, I forgot 5.6.2 was skipped!


author: Timothy Harris
body: I have one other issue I encountered with confluence. As sysadmin I am constantly getting a session timeout. I can't even edit a space for 2 minutes without getting session time out or token errors.Any ideas about this?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's unrelated - I'd raise a separate question (although I'd start by checking your browser - try others and see if it still happens)
upload images by IE9 doesn't work
Asked by Mark Wittig:

We using Confluence 5.6.3

Steps to reproduce the bug:

1. Create a page
2. Insert an image
3. Click on the Button "upload images"
4. browsing to choose the image(s) that should be upload
5. Click "ok"
6. nothing happened

In Chrome it works fine. A workaround is to upload the images via page attachement and insert the image afterwards.

What can we do to fixing the bug?


Answers:
author: Ale? La?ar
body: The best way to fix 80% of bugs is this: <http://www.wikihow.com/Uninstall-Internet-Explorer-Completely>

:smile: So you can try to watch into log file. But i think that you have a bad build of IE :/ try update to newer.
Upload no scripts and executables
Asked by Kevin Ahrens:

Hi,

It is possible to attach any kind of script or executable into Confluence. Is it possible to disable this? And is it possible to scan theses files with virusscanner?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Kevin, Confluence is naturally prevents scripting attacks, as described in [this page, into the Script Injection section](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Security+Overview+and+Advisories). This can be added through add ons such as [Scripting](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.script) or [Script Runner](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.onresolve.jira.groovy.groovyrunner).

As for the anti-virus, it will sweep all the add on jars, stored at system level checking for any malicious code.
Account time outs randomly
Asked by Atos Origin:

Hello Everyone,

We have an issue in our Confluence installation wherein whenever we try to use redirect macro or include macro while editing a page, we are logged out. When we login again, we are unable to save the page as we are logged out again (in other words, we are stuck in a loop).

The only way to get out of this loop is to close the browser and clear cache and login again to Confluence. But the downside to this is all the changes we made in a page are lost. This is literally made it impossible to use Confluence in our production.

Please see the screenshots attached.

Before.PNGAfter.PNG

Can somebody from this awesome community help us out?

Regards,

Navin Vijaykumar  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Account-time-outs-randomly/qaq-p/332082?attachment-id=2625){#link_118958a38c0178}  
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Answers:
author: Andrew Wolpers [BlackPearl PDM]
body: Do you have any other applications installed/running on that machine?


Tags: confluence-administration
Unable to remove view restriction from a Home page in Confluence
Asked by Neeraj Tiwari:

Hi, by mistake I added a view restriction (view restricted to only confluence-users group) on a Home page of a space in Confluence. This has obviously created issues for our consultants who are in not in this group. So they are unable to view any of the pages in this space.

The solution is simple: remove the restriction. So, I hit the red padlock on the page and hit remove restriction and hit save. The window doesn't do anything. It just stays opened without any activity. So, I hit cancel. I hit edit on the page and then go to restriction and try to do the same thing. This time I am able to remove the restriction and hit save without any issues. Now, I try to save the page as I am still in the edit mode and it does the same thing. The page stays opened, looks like its trying to remove restrictions from all of the child pages. Basically, it just keeps doing this but it doesn't save. Hence, the restrictions still do not get removed. During the regular business hours when we have like around 300 users using Confluence, this operation even increases the CPU usage up to 100% - making Confluence very slow.

Can anyone suggest what we should do?


Answers:
author: Neeraj Tiwari
body: I was able to remove the restriction during non-business hours, but even then I was able to do so after 45 mins.

The real question is why does Confluence requires so much CPU usage and time to perform such a simple task as removing a restriction from a page?

comments: author: Mark H_ Williams
body: I'm having a similar issue and I believe it's because it has to traverse through all the pages and update the restrictions.


Tags: restriction
Confluence TagCloud
Asked by Helen Gosper:

Is Confluence TagCloud now supported for versions 5.5.4 and above? Or if not is there an alternative yet to the Popular Labels, which will allow me to exclude a label from the report?


Answers:
author: Helen Gosper
body: Hi Davin, no I haven't. I just assumed it wouldn't be compatible if Atlassian said so. Will revisit. Thanks for the advice.


author: Davin Studer
body: Have you actually tried it on 5.5.4. Just because the marketplace does not say it is compatible does not mean that is the case. Developers must go back into the marketplace listing and update that is works with the newer version. Often times it will still work if the underlying API's have not been changed in a way that breaks method signatures. If you have not tried it out and you have a test system you can mnually download the jar file and upload it into your installation and test it. Just for kicks and giggles I installed it into my 5.5.6 test environment as it looks like it works just fine.


Tags: confluence-administration
move like and labels to top of page
Asked by Gary Rosenstein:

I want to encourage our Confluence users to use the 'LIKE' feature and labels in confluence more regularly. What I find is with these items buried way at the bottom of the page content they are most commonly ignored - out of site out of mind.

Is there a way to move these items to the top of the page? Ideally on the same line as the 'Created and Last Modified by' section - or immediately below it.

I saw [this post](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/1706/would-like-the-labels-to-be-on-top-of-pages-instead-of-the-bottom.-is-this-possible) which explains how to move the labels. I would imagine there is a similar way to move the Like button as well.

Also, would this affect all existing pages, or only pages created after the change is made?

Thank you for any help!


Answers:
author: Gary Rosenstein
body: Hi Ale?,

I want to do this for all spaces in our Confluence instance. I think Space Layout only affects the one space? Is there a global way to do this?

Thank you.

comments: author: Ale? La?ar
body: Answer is updated :)


author: Ale? La?ar
body: Hi Gary, do you try Space Layout?

If you need it to ALL spaces, you can try export and then import, here is it: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Space+Layouts>

We are using refinedwiki, so I dont know what is default without Refined, but i think that you should be able to find a global settings in admin console, Look and Feel and there should be something for you.

You have a clean look from Confluence?

I think that Confluence should be able to change current spaces via their templates, then look at this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Applying+a+Theme+to+a+Space>


Tags: label

like
How do I update Confluence Questions from Version: 1.0.618.001 to Version 1.0.730?
Asked by Malcolm Cook:

When I look in the "Manage add-ons" there is no upgrade button.


Answers:
author: Sam Tardif
body: We had to pull that release, as we found potential for a problem with one of the upgrade tasks. We're in the process of cutting another release now, which should make it out next week. Stay tuned ![laugh](/html/@BEA1CC333F4D830F5303329D7DC07DE4/images/emoticons/laugh.png "laugh")


Tags: confluence-administration

questions-for-confluence
I am upgrading Confluence 5.2 to 5.6, do the upgrade updates the tomcatan jdk/jre version as well?
Asked by sanket nayak:

HI ,

My old confluence runs on Apache Tomcat 6.0 and Java 1.6. As per upgrade guide for 5.6 , apache tomcat should be on 7.0 and Java should be on 1.7.

Please let me know that do we need to update Apache tomcat and Java manually or the confluence upgrade take cares of it?

Regards

Sanket Nayak


Answers:
author: Andrew Wolpers [BlackPearl PDM]
body: Yes, if you're using the confluence installer. This is bundled within the installer.


Tags: confluence-administration
Collect Space Activity Information for Several Spaces on one page
Asked by James Roberts:

Is there a way to get the graphs that are presented in the Space Activity area for several different spaces into a single page/location. Ex: I need to see the Space Activity information for Spaces A, B, C but not D. I need to see them all at the same time in separate graphs but do not want to have to go and look at the Space Activity for spaces A, B, and C each time that I need to see the information.

I've used the Confluence Usage Stats to get the information in a table form but the user/customer wants to see it in graphical form.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: +1

James:

In a word: custom

In something more digestible: I asked our lead dev on our [AppFusions' analytics plugins](http://www.appfusions.com) (David Simpson) about this and he said that indeed we could extend the plugins with some new or adapted macros.

For example, with [the Google Analytics plugin](http://www.appfusions.com/display/GANLC/Home), we currently only show all the stats or states for the current space. We could extend to allow a way to select a space - then you could insert the macro twice in the page, with different space-selections or something like that. Just initial thoughts.

==

The next question is what stats do you want? It's all collected - just needs to a way to be displayed.

(We have another called [Mixpanal Analytics for Confluence](http://www.appfusions.com/display/CONFENGAGE/Home) - and similar answer; different model of displays than the GA plugin. Preference/choice thing, I guess. Of course, other analytics engine flavors are all possible.)

Email [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com) if you want to explore / trial this. We agree it's a good idea.


author: Davin Studer
body: It's not possible with that plugin. You could use a combination of the view tracker and the reportingplugin to get this result. Thew [view tracker](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.viewtracker) is free and the [reporting](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting) plugin is $799 for anything above 500 users.


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I embed a Javascript Widget on Confluence?
Asked by Gary McCormick:

I want to embed one of these but the HTML macro doesn't work: <http://www.wolframalpha.com/widgets/gallery/view.jsp?id=2f1e0f79bf8e30d846b3dc75b4a0f2cf>

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript" id="WolframAlphaScript2f1e0f79bf8e30d846b3dc75b4a0f2cf" src="http://www.wolframalpha.com/widget/widget.jsp?id=2f1e0f79bf8e30d846b3dc75b4a0f2cf"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
```


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: **If you want it on every page**

Confluence Admin -\> Custom HTML -\> At end of the BODY.

**If you want it just on one page**

HTML macro (disabled by default)

**Update:**

image2014-10-8 11:31:19.png  
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comments: author: Gary McCormick
body: As I said, I tried the HTML macro and it doesn't render.


author: Davin Studer
body: Oops. Sorry. Missed that part. Hmm. What version are you on. I tried the html macro on 5.5.6 and 5.4.4 and it worked. See screen shot above in my update.


Tags: confluence-administration

javascript

widget
Managing watchers
Asked by Kevin Pearce:

It appears that in order for me to add watchers to a page i am creating, I have to create the page, then manage watchers, and then edit the page in order for them to get some kind of notice. Is there any way to do this all in one step? I don't seem to be able to manage watchers in page creation. Am I missing this?

Also, is there a way I can set auto-watchers on a section of a space rather than the entire space? For example, every page of this template or every page created under this heading in the hierarchy automatically gets these users as watchers.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: The [Enterprise Notifications](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.enterpriseNotifications) add-on has the ability to set watches for descendants. You could also use the [Confluence Command Line Interaface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation) and run it on a schedule to set watches for a page and its children. As for doing it during page creation that is a no go.
The base URL configuration of your instance does not match the URL in your browser.
Asked by Menso Heus:

We have Confluence installed behind an Apache proxy and there is a redirect from http to https, so we always use an https connection.

The problem we have is that when we go to Manage add-ons there is a banner which says: "*The base URL configuration of your instance does not match the URL in your browser. This can prevent operations on this page from working correctly. See UPM documentation for more details about this error.*"

The base url is set to *<https://domainname>* of the site and in the server.xml I have added:   
*proxyName="[d](http://vps781.greenhost.nl/)omainname" proxyPort="443" scheme="https" secure="true"*   
I would think that this is exactly how it should be. So what is wrong?

Strangely enough, when I enter <http://domainname as> the base url, so not https, the message disappears. But that seems wrong.

Should I just use http instead of https and not worry about it? Or will this bit me in the behind in the near future?


Answers:
author: Menso Heus
body: Any suggestion yet on what this problem is and how to fix it?


author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Roelof, this excerpt called my attention:
> Strangely enough, when I enter [http://domainname as](http://domainname%20as) the base url, so not https, the message disappears.

So that means you can access Confluence either via http and https, is that right? That's strange, since you mentioned that you have a redirect from http to https.

Also, when using the following parameters in your `server.xml` you would have being redirected to the https URL:*proxyName="[d](http://vps781.greenhost.nl/)omainname" proxyPort="443" scheme="https" secure="true"*

Have you restarted the application after adding those parameters?

Cheers

comments: author: Menso Heus
body: When you access the server via http then Apache redirects it directly to https. Only then does it proxy to Confluence. So you can only access Confluence via https. That exactly is why it seems so strange to me that http as the base url would work but not https.

Somewhere there must be a error in a syntax, but I have no idea where.

And yes, every time I change the server.xml or any of the Confluence files I restart the application server.


author: Menso Heus
body: Sorry. There are two configs.One is just a rewrite from port 80 to 443.The other is a SSL proxy with config:ProxyRequests OffProxyPreserveHost OnProxyPass / <http://localhost:8090/>ProxyPassReverse / <http://localhost:8090/>Is that enough?


author: Timothy
body: Need your Apache configs too.


Tags: confluence-administration