youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
My manager asks me " what it takes to install in -house confluence wiki" and also the costing model. Can anyone help me?
Asked by Rahul Karn:

My manager asks me " what it takes to install in -house confluence wiki" and also the costing model. Can anyone help me?


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hello Rahul,

This guide may also help you on planning the hardware requirements for your instance: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Server+Hardware+Requirements+Guide>

Are you currently using our Cloud Service? :smile:

Best regards,

Eduardo Mallmann


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Pricing is at <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing/?tab=server> and have a look through <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Installation+Guide> to get an idea of the processes and the hardware requirements


author: Rahul Karn
body: Thanks!!!
Is there a way to print a wiki page with all its subpages and links?
Asked by Jensen Kwong:


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: There is no ready-made function for this.

You have to first build your own wiki page or PDF that contains all the pages you want and then print that.

**wiki page**

The other thread [How to display a list of sub-pages AND their content on parent page?](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11445711/how-to-display-a-list-of-sub-pages-and-their-content-on-parent-page-)describes how to create a user macro that automatically retrieves content from subpages. For hyperlinked pages you have to somehow extend that macro or include them with the [include macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Include+Page+Macro).

**PDF**

With Advanced \> PDF Export \> Custom Export you can chose which pages to include in the PDF. Including all subpages can be done with a single click on the parent page, but hyperlinked pages must be manually searched for and activated one be one.
Confluence: saving a draft revision without publishing it
Asked by Simon G_:

Hi!

I use confluence to propose some documentation to my customers. I see that we can restrict a space or a single document to my staff users, but what about a revision?

In fact, my staff must be able to perform some modification visible by all staff member, but not by the customer. So is that possible to save a revision as draft so only my staff will see it?

If not possible, I think to create a space "Work in progress" to create my documentation and then copy my change in the space for customer. Unless you have a better idea?

Best regards.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence doesn't have that level of granularity in the page history - you can either see a page (and all its revisions), or you can't.

The Comala Workflows addon does implement history protection though - the users can see the current "published" version, and that there were or are drafts but not the content of the unpublished drafts.

Your "work in progress" space is probably the best option without addons, but it's a little onerous as the users will have to copy the "publishable" version of a page into the public area when they're ready - can't just move it, as all the history will move with it.


Tags: draft

publish
A group I added doesn't show up as available under Space -> Permissions -> Group
Asked by David Hess:

Using the Confluence cloud trial.

I added a new group by clicking the link in the Confluence Settings which took me to the Site administration groups.

However, this new group doesn't show up as available to add in the Spaces -\> Permissions -\> Groups UI.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

A contributing factor? I started with JIRA as an enabled app and then disabled it.

I also get this error if I try to delete the group:

```
Error communicating with Confluence: Internal Server Error
```


Answers:
author: David Hess
body: Not sure if somebody fixed something for me, but it's working now this morning. A little mysterious.


author: Scott Kleist
body: Not working for me right now ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

I definitely have the group created and saved, yet doesn't show up in the permissions section of the spaces. Super strange.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I don't see 'upload add-on' link on the 'manage add-ons' page
Asked by Bill Leonard:

I don't see 'upload add-on' link on the 'manage add-ons' page.

Details:

I'm using confluence for wiki pages; it's hosted on atlassian. I'm trying to have the capability to publicly share my wiki pages. It looks like I need to buy, install the comala share it plugin.

I downloaded the plugin's jar but, again, when I go to the 'manage add-ons' page, I don't see the 'upload add-on' link. The page says *'Manage add-ons. You can install, update, enable, and disable add-ons here*.'

Note that on the top of the page I see '*You have temporary access to administrative functions. Drop access if you no longer require it. For more information, refer to the documentation*.'. I don't understand what this means.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can't upload addons into Cloud - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Cloud/Restricted+Functions+in+Cloud+Applications>

That addon is not on the list of available addons either, so you can't install it on Cloud.

The message about admin rights means what it says - you have admin rights at the moment, and you should click on the message to drop back to normal user rights when you've finished with admin tasks.

comments: author: Bill Leonard
body: Thanks. This is quite annoying. I'm going to have to look for another company.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There are a number of other providers who will host Atlassian stuff for you. The list of experts is the best starting point - <https://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts>(I should add that I work for Adaptavist, who are on that list)


author: Bill Leonard
body: Thanks very much -- I'll take a look


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
User specific AUI Flags
Asked by Aviram Gabay:

Hi,

Is it possible to generate user specific message via the AUI flag component?   
If not, is there a similar way to pop live notifications to a specific user? (aside of the workbox)

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: Not out of the box. You can use Wittified's Announcer for Confluence ( <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.wittified.atl-announcer-confluence> ) to target dialogs, banners and full page announcements to a specific group of users.

comments: author: Aviram Gabay
body: Thanks Daniel, we are actually already using it :)but for this specific goal its a bit of an overkill.


author: Daniel Wester
body: In that case, can you drop me a line at daniel at wittified.com. I would love to understand the use case more. It direct user communication might be something we could add in a future release.


author: Aviram Gabay
body: will do thanks!


Tags: aui

confluence-administration

flag
trying to figure out the pricing scheme for project doc?
Asked by Antigone K:

it looks like,

* $10/10 = $1/user
* $600/25 = $24/user
* $1100/50 = $22/user
* $2000/100 = $20/user
* $4000/250 = $16/user
* $6000/500 = $12/user
* $8000/2000 = $4/user
* $10000/10000 = $1/user
* $12000/10000 = $1.20/user

which makes absolutely no sense to me? are the numbers on the marketplace site inaccurate? thanks!


Answers:
author: Antigone K
body: thanks, Robert!

For instance, why would I buy a 25 user license instead of 3 10 user licenses? The difference is $570.

thanks!

comments: author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Hi Antigone, thank you for clarification!As far as I understand the license model, you cannot combine licenses on one server: <https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing#licensing-9>If the 3 teams work on three different server separately, then 3x 10 user licenses will certainly make sense. But if you need collaboration of 25 people on one server, you'll need to get the 25 user license.


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: It's a standard price scheme many add-ons apply.

Its 2$ per user per month, larger user bases get a discount. The 10 user license has a reduced price tag, which is also common on the Atlassian Marketplace.

You may want to compare this with that of Confluence: <https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence#serverlicenses-1>

May I ask you to get more precise about what does absolutely not make sense? I cannot see it without a hint ... :smile:


Tags: macro
System add-on "Atlassian navigation links plugin" in confluence disabled.
Asked by s_sukuma:

System add-on "Atlassian navigation links plugin" disabled in confluence. It is generating warning logs. What is this plugin all about? Is it necessary to enable this plugin? What happens when it is disabled?


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: You can enable it on **Manage Add-ons** page or you can enable all your users installed plugins by executing the following query:

```
update BANDANA set BANDANAVALUE='&lt;/map&gt;' where BANDANAKEY='plugin.manager.state.Map';
```

comments: author: s_sukuma
body: Thanks Guilherme! I would like to know what is the use of this system add-on. What will happen to confluence when this add-on is disabled?Is it really necessary to keep this add-on enabled? Please help me to understand the plugin.Thanks.


author: Adrian Moerchen
body: Same question here, this is still generating logs on every page load (CF 7.2.2 in Docker)
teamcalendar other SEN
Asked by Doris Sch?fer-Rothhaupt:

Dear Sir and Madames

It appears that teamcalendar is not working because of another SEN from Confluence. I do not know why and I went to the tutorial to paste both licences again into the admin. But I still have the message and on MyAtlassian there are also two differnet SEN how can I solve it. Went to this tutorial already :

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=302811278>

Greatings Doris


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey Doris,  

Contact our sales at atlassian dot com and just to see if we're adding the correct one there.  

Cheers

WZ


Tags: confluence-administration
404 error in communication between JIRA and Confluence - JIM version issue - How to downgrade
Asked by Stephen:

Hi,

I'm trying to insert a JIRA Macro in my confluence page but I get a 404 error from JIRA.

In the logs:

```
ao?t 13, 2015 2:37:52 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve customFINE: Processing ErrorPage[errorCode=404, location=/fourohfour.action]
```

It's weird as I'm using JIRA gadgets and the link between COnfluence and JIRA is set to allow a trusted communication.

I'm also able to use the JIRA macro (not external gadgets) when I'm filling the input field with the xml url that corresponds to a list of results (issues).

When I try to paste a JIRA url in the input field of the JIRA macro it is immediatly changed in keywords, and the communication is broken, resulting in a 404 error in the macro window...

Can someone help me on this? Is it a performance issue?

Confluence 5.6.6

JIRA v4.4#649-r158309

JIRA Macro downgraded to 4.0.29 instead of 5.6.2 as not working otherwise.

Many thanks for your help.

Regards,

Stephen


Answers:
author: Stephen
body: Hello?


author: Stephen
body: Can anyone help? I'm an Atlassian user and I've suscribed to the maintenance until the end of the year.

Thanks.


author: Stephen
body: Can anyone help?


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I freeze a table header while creating a template so that when a user creates a page based off that template they cannot change the information in that table header, just the table contents?
Asked by Jacquelynn Macy:

How can I freeze a table header while creating a template so that when a user creates a page based off that template they cannot change the information in that table header, just the table contents?

I am using the template for users to fill out a "form", where a project is then created off that page from they have entered. Some users are deleting vital information off the tables so that they can get around not having to answer the question. I want to make sure they cannot delete items from a table header to avoid the question.

is this possible?

example of a table I created below. I want to freeze the header, and allow the user to write in their responses on the right hand side of the table.

confluence.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-I-freeze-a-table-header-while-creating-a-template-so/qaq-p/225665?attachment-id=1373){#link_11881552bb0930}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/38121/1/confluence.png){#display_11881552bb0930_0}


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: I don't think that will be doable; at least not easily if at all.

One quick, albeit not very attractive, option is to use an image for the head:

image2015-8-13 18:17:33.png

Yes, someone could delete the entire graphic, but I'm guessing it's not very likely as it would be too obvious.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-I-freeze-a-table-header-while-creating-a-template-so/qaq-p/225665?attachment-id=8749){#link_11881559d046e0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/38122/1/image2015-8-13%2018%3A17%3A33.png){#display_11881559d046e0_0}

comments: author: Jacquelynn Macy
body: I think that will do! Thank you for that brilliant idea!


author: Jacquelynn Macy
body: @Milo Grika How were you able to get the image to align with the lines in the second column of the table? Did it just work for you right away or were you able to adjust it?


author: Milo Test
body: You'll notice that they aren't "really" aligned. The height of the Header cells is shorter than the fillable cells, but it's close enough to appear to be aligned.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

table
at com.atlassian.confluence.setup.actions.SetupAdministrator.validate(SetupAdministrator.java:49)
Asked by Frank Hamel:

Get above error while trying to create a Confluence Administrator account during the one time setup procedure.

Page URL is: <http://104.236.227.8:8090/setup/setupadministrator-start.action>


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: This is a self-help public forum. There are rules, including providing a complete description of the problem, with the full error (including all the lines starting with "at") and eventually a screenshot, and the steps you've already tried to resolve it. This is not a bugtracking database.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to redirect from one section to another on same confluence page
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

HI All

I know this is possible but cannot find how.

Basically, i want to navigate users from a link on top of the page to the appropriate sections within the same page.

How is this possible?

Rahul


Answers:
author: BenoitP
body: Use the Anchor macro and point a link to this macro:

use #myAnchor as a link for a anchor name "myAnchor"

comments: author: Stephen Deutsch
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Anchors>


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I set permissions on information referenced via excerpt macro
Asked by Katherine Burstein:

Using the excerpt macro and only showing part of the info on a restricted page. With the user not having access to the parent page they can not see the excerpt. Any way to set permission on "excerpt data"?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Another possibility is to put the excerpt on the public page and put the include macro on the private page.


author: Milo Test
body: I'm afraid not, but there shouldn't be any harm in giving users read-only access to the source page, especially if you "hide" that page by moving it out of the pagetree.
Confluence Slow to Respond
Asked by Kody Ensley:

Dear community,

My team's Confluence instance, while only around 100 users, has a prolific documentation team (working for about 3 years solid). In the last few months we have started to notice decent sluggishness when accessing Confluence and requesting pages.

I have checked the following:

1. No antivirus is running on that machine
2. Multiple users on different OS/web browsers are reporting the same thing
3. No proxy connection to the confluence server
4. No obvious errors in \<confluence-home\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log (tail -n 5000 atlassian-confluence.log \| egrep "warning\|error")

setenv.sh:

```
CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=384m -XX:+UseG1GC"
```

(I know the MaxPermSize flag is obsolete or not in favor anymore, I have yet to look into that)

On the System Information tab in our Confluence Instance the JAVA VM memory Stats:

```
Heap Memory Used Memory (62 %) Free Memory (38 %)38 % FreeMaximum Heap Size 1024 MBTotal Allocated Memory 1024 MBUsed Memory 630 MBFree Allocated Memory 393 MBTotal Free Memory 393 MBPermanent Generation Memory Used Memory (85 %) Free Memory (15 %)15 % FreeMaximum PermGen 384 MBUsed PermGen 326 MB
```

Any of this look glaringly wrong? Any suggestions on things to increase?

We are currently running Confluence 5.7 and are planning to upgrade to the latest release sometime next week.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Mike Rathwell
body: First thing is that I had 5.7 some time ago and I noticed it was a bit pokey regardless. That said, I have my heap set to 2048MB and I also set Xss=8M (thread space). That last gave me a significant overall boost; nothing definitive... it just felt lighter and quick. There's a LOT going on in a Confluence server and thread space could get tight.

All THAT said... Just don't hesitate to head to 5.8.x. I did that and the difference in performance was dramatic. I have over 500 users with *significant* activity on a 4vCPU 8GB RAM Windows Server 2012R2 (yes, I have reasons for Windoze rather than Linux; some of them good ones) and it just flies. Page redraws are essentially instantaneous. Insane fast. I suspect a lot of THAT comes from move to Java 8 and Tomcat 8.

comments: author: Karalee
body: We were talking about a similar issue at our Melbourne AUG and we've found that going to Java 8 made a big impact on performance improvement.


author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi Kody,

Just adding my input to the other comments. 1024 MB of heap size is a pretty low value. I understand the usage seem to be ok from the statistic, but we might have memory usage increased in certain moments.

I'd suggest you set 2048 MB for both Xms and Xmx values.

Thanks!

Kind regards,

Luiz Maia  
Atlassian Support


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Also, PermGen memory setting is quite low (try increasing it to 512MB)

1024MB as a JVM heap size for Confluence to run seems also low.

What is the server load and server settings (memory, database is on the same machine?)


Tags: confluence-administration
how do I insert a line break instead of a paragraph
Asked by michael_giroux:

Confluence 5.7.4

I'm trying to create a simple list of links to various external resources. I enter each link on a new line, but this creates a paragraph \<p\> in the wiki content. I prefer to have simple line breaks using \<br/\>. I see no way to accomplish this.


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: "Shift + Return" should do the trick.

comments: author: Trejkaz
body: Isn't the standard shortcut alt+return? Why is only Confluence using this different shortcut?


author: Bryan Diehl
body: How would you do this from an iPhone via the Confluence app or web browser as there is no "shift+return"?


author: Rupayan Mukherjee
body: That worked


author: Rupayan Mukherjee
body: Is there a way to set it as the default behaviour


author: Morgan de Boe
body: A white full stop does the trick.


author: Clint Buhs
body: I've recently found that Enter results in a line break, and Shift-Enter results in a paragraph break, when in a Preformatted text block. I was attempting to format code snippets and the behavior I've come to expect from most editors wasn't working. It's essentially the opposite as with a Paragraph block.


author: michael_giroux
body: thanks. As is almost always the case. After I posted the question, it occurred to me to search for keyboard shortcuts, and I did find the shift+return described [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF50/Keyboard+Shortcuts).
Can I automatically create and open a new page to when I select an item on an existing page and create a link?
Asked by Jack Danahy:

We have plenty of excellent user input about the way they will use our solution. We stick these, in list format with modest detail, in Confluence. I want to select each of the items, and do some magic to create a link, and to have that magic also open up a new page ( that the link will point to ) where I can edit more details about the actual request and get the team refining the idea on that sub-page.

My current process is to take the list, create files for each item, populate each file, the select the list item, create a link, and point it to the previously create file. For hundreds of items, this is a massive pain.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: One way would be to use wiki markup to create links to non-existent pages. Then when you click on the link, it creates a new page, you can even define what the title of the new page will be within the link. Furthermore, this creates a nice list of image2015-8-13 9:12:58.png links so you know where you left off.

So if you have a bit of user input like, "This solution is da bomb! But I want more videos." And you want to eventually create a page called "Training Videos," then you can insert Markup like:

```
[This solution is da bomb! But I want more videos.|Training Videos]
```

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-I-automatically-create-and-open-a-new-page-to-when-I-select/qaq-p/321261?attachment-id=5756){#link_118816145edd97}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/54226/1/image2015-8-13%209%3A12%3A58.png){#display_118816145edd97_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-I-automatically-create-and-open-a-new-page-to-when-I-select/qaq-p/321261?attachment-id=5757){#link_118816145edd97_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/54226/2/image2015-8-13%209%3A12%3A24.png){#display_118816145edd97_2}

comments: author: Jack Danahy
body: Perfect. Now I edit the original page, add a square brace to the front and back of the list item, save the page, and click on the red link. I save that, and I am all set.I appreciate your help and answer Milo. You have saved me hours.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: I love this answer. It's a simple functionality but it has very powerful uses.
Can I view traffic statistics in Confluence Cloud?
Asked by Brian Carideo:

How can I view traffic statistics in Confluence Cloud? Is there a way to view site-wide statistics such as most visited spaces, pages, etc? Is there a way to install some kind of analytics on individual pages? For example, our president keeps a blog and would like to know how many people are viewing it.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ConfCloud/View+Space+Activity>

You'll have to file a support request to get it activated, and it may slow down your instance a little bit.

Note that it will only start tracking views after it has been activated.


author: Tim
body: Hi Brian,

Since the old usage stats plugin is restricted and inflexible (Atlassian don't appear to be enabling anymore) we created an add-on that provides some great usage statistics in Confluence Cloud. It includes an overview of activity but also the details like who has viewed a particular page.

You can find more information here: [Analytics for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.addonengine.analytics/cloud/overview)

It's a couple of years later, but I hope it helps you and the next person.

comments: author: Tracy B
body: 2019 update on this answer: there is no cloud version of this anymore, it appears.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud