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Missing something simple I am sure... Cant add a Blog Post
Asked by nicholas waterson:

Hi All

OK I have a space with permissions set to allow blog posts but as a user I cannot see any way to add a new blog post.

Any ideas??

Many thanks

Nick


Answers:
author: Steve Thornhill
body: You can use the create button again and change the posting date at the bottom left.

comments: author: nicholas waterson
body: Doh!!! Embarrased. Easy when you know how.

Cheers

Steve


author: Zuzana Urbanek
body: I am having the same issue. I want to add additional blog posts but have no way to alter the entry date, nor does "blog post" show up in the Create menu or anywhere else. Stumped.


author: Kinsey
body: I realize this post is several years old...I too am having the same issue as Nicholas.  
We are using Confluence in the cloud...so the version is the newest at the time of this post (1000.81.0).

I have no ability to add another blog post once I've added the initial ones...permissions are all correct.


author: Steve Thornhill
body: I take it that the blog template isn't showing when you click the "create" button?

I'd double check the space permissions, check if the group/user assigned to be able to perform the actions on that space are correct.

You could also check the global template for the blog entry is correct (reset back to default to test if necessary)

comments: author: nicholas waterson
body: Sorry I havent reported this very well.

I created a space and then selected blog on the side bar.

I then created an blog entry by clicking on the 'create blog post' button

Now having come back to the blog I see my original post in a navigator in the side bar and I can select my posting and view it.

So now I want to add a second post a day later but there is no 'Add' post button that I can see

If I click on 'Blog' in the side bar nothing happens. All I see is my original posting.

This is a pretty vanilla installation of confluence. I have double checked permissions

both Default space \& Space permissions are set to allow 'add' blog posts for the user

Hope that details things a bit better


author: C. Faysal
body: hi,

what confluence version is that?

if it is a recent version where you have a "create" button...click it...blog post is in there

comments: author: nicholas waterson
body: sorry its... by [Atlassian Confluence](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) 5.1.4,


Tags: blog
No "Space Tools" option while in "Documentation Theme" mode.
Asked by Michael Monette:

Hi I was trying to change the look and feel of a particular space because it didn't seem to change with the rest of the site. (Blue defaults, rest of site took after the uploaded logo)

I found how to manually change it. But I also came across this problem. If the space is in "Documentation" mode, there is no sidebar for space tools. The sidebar is populated with the pages in the space.

I had to find another space that used the default theme called "Public"; steal the link and replace the key with the other space that is missing the Space Tools option.

[http://x.x.x.x/spaces/spacepermissions.action?key=](http://wikidev.2keys.ca:8090/spaces/spacepermissions.action?key=itadmin)Public

To

[http://x.x.x.x/spaces/spacepermissions.action?key=](http://wikidev.2keys.ca:8090/spaces/spacepermissions.action?key=itadmin)Accounting

This was able to bring me into the Accounting's space tools and then I was able to change the theme to match the rest of the site.

Am I blind? Or is this a bug that hasn't been noticed. Where is the space tools option when the space is in Documentation Theme? In Confluence 4, the Space Tools was located at the top bar menu where you would go to the Admin Console.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Michael Monette
body: Edit: Found it, there is a "Browse" menu at the top which I missed

Thanks

comments: author: Carolyn McDonough
body: Don't feel bad. That is not where I expected to find it either.


Tags: space-tool
How do links affect the search or search results?
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Hello,

I know that if I have a website that has loads of links going to it from other sites, this will mean my site appears further up a set of search results.

Does something similar happen within Confluence? IE, will a page containing the search term and several links appear higher in the results than a page with the search term but fewer or no links?

Or do links have no affect on the search at all?

Cheers.


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: It does not appear to affect the Lucene results (Lucene is the search engine that Confluence uses) according to the docs:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Ranking+of+Search+Results>

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Matt, thanks. That's what I thought. I had an idea that I read something about it affecting the results in Confluence, but couldn't find that info anywhere. Cheers.


Tags: link

result

search
Work Log Tab queries
Asked by KP11:

We want to be able to query the fileds in the Work Log tab.

Is there a JQL/filter query or gadget that can show a specific user that has logged work on all records?

If so what would the query be? I do not see any of the fields can be queried and filtered by user.

Can the Time Tracking Report include USER or filter by user?

The User Workload report, can it be changed to show a date range or specific user? If not a query that will do it?

Any filters for Activity stream?

Is there a Oracle query that can do it?


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: Too many questions. There are a couple of reports that will help you. Apart from the below ones if you need to get specific queries on JQL, you can use Jamie's script runner - <https://jamieechlin.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GRV/Scripted+JQL+Functions#ScriptedJQLFunctions-Writingyourownfunctions>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Time+Tracking+Report>

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins?category=Worklog+%26+Time-tracking>


Tags: log

report

worklog
Have the "os_username" and "os_password" parameter in the Confluence JIRA issues macro been deprecated?
Asked by Steve Goldberg:

I upgraded my Confluence instance from 5.1.2 recently, and the JIRA issues macro from 4.0.29 to 5.0 and the XML URLs that I put into the JIRA issues macro no longer work when I append a username and password to it. It reported the following issue: "Error rendering macro 'jiraissues' : com.atlassian.confluence.macro.MacroExecutionException: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out"

I rolled back JIRA issues to 4.0.29 and now I get a different issue: "Error rendering macro 'jiraissues' : Unable to determine if sort should be enabled." The only troubleshooting help I can find is the following: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Unable+to+Determine+if+Sort+Should+be+Enabled+When+Using+the+JIRA+Issues+Macro>

But this doesn't help. The issues table renders correctly if I remove the parameters for the username and password (which I've checked are correct) but not if they're present.


Answers:
author: Steve Goldberg
body: The answer is "no".

I left on Friday feeling annoyed and frustrated having spent a few hours trying to fix it, and then I come back on Monday and see that it's working perfectly fine.


Tags: addon-confluence.extra.jira

jira
How Do I Abort Confluence Space Export Process?
Asked by Richard Kim:

Hello, I'm trying to export a large space - "Exporting Space as PDF - In Progress" - and it appears to be stuck at 50% at the conversion of intermediate HTML to PDF.This has slowed Confluence to a crawl. How can I abort the operation? Thanks!


Answers:
author: Richard Kim
body: Thanks, that's what I ended up doing by killing the java process and restarting the application from the CLI.


author: Timothy
body: As this is a background process, the only way to abort it would be to shut it down.
KBSurvey Error rendering macro 'kbsurvey' : null
Asked by BQG Kortex admin:

Hi,

I am getting an error message when using the Kbsurvey macro: "Error rendering macro 'kbsurvey' : null".

I am using Confluence 5.1.5, and Refinedwiki theme. Let me know if there are other options to get user's feedback and reports.

KR


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

How about if edit the default question? It works?  
Also you may I want to try to Flush the Cache (_Confluence Admin \> Cache Statistics \> Flush All_).  

I hope this helps.  

Cheers,

WZ


author: Cedric DEVAUX
body: Hi,

I have exactly the problem with Confluence 5.4.4 (test instance) and Confluence 5.3 (production instance).

Someone have a solution?

Thanks,

Cedric


author: Robert Dahlborg
body: Hi,

II'm getting the same error message "Error rendering macro 'kbsurvey' : null" when inserting the Kbsurvey macro in Confluence 5.3.4. I can't edit the deafult question. Any idea how to workaround or solve this issuse?

![](../../upfiles/Capture_181.PNG)


author: ETL
body: Yes, if you edit the default question, it works.


author: BQG Kortex admin
body: closed question. no answer


author: BQG Kortex admin
body: I could not figure out if the kbsurvey plugin was compatible with Confluence 5.1.5. I tried to enable/disable via the confluence add-on admin interface without result. I guess it is not compatible then. Pity, would have been very usefull for our users.

Thanks for your help anyway.


author: Alex Perez
body: Same problem [here](/questions/191830/npe-in-content-survey-and-reporting-confluence-plugin)


author: Renjith Pillai
body: This might help you <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/26252/macros-not-working>


Tags: addon-confluence.plugins.knowledgebase.survey

confluence-administration
Customware Page Approval Plugin won't install in 5.1-OD-9
Asked by Andrew Drury:

The above plugin won't install in my instance o fConfluence. I get an error maessage saying:

"An error occurred while installing the add-on. Please refer to the logs for more information."

Any advice, please?


Answers:
author: Andrew Drury
body: (host-manager.2013-08-09.log) (localhost.2013-08-09.log) (manager.2013-08-09.log) (catalina.2013-08-09.log)

Hello Ryan,

I'm not sure which log is relevant, so I've included these from C:/Program Files/Atlassian/Confluenceaug9/logs.

Hope that the righ tsource. "Confluenceaug9" is the instance I am running.

Thx

comments: author: Andrew Drury
body: Hello Ryan,

Any response to my Aug 13 comment?

Thx


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Andrew,

Those look like your catalina logs. Your atlassian-confluence.log is going to be in the logs directory of your \<confluence_home\>. This is the same place that your attachments folder lives.

What version of the plugin are you using? You can look at the marketplace page and ensure that you the version of the plugin you are using is supported by your version of Confluence.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.pageapproval>

The OD version of Confluence are going to be a bit tricky. I would think that you would have to be using a version of the page approvals plugin that supports at least 5.1 and likely up to 5.1.5.

Your logs will show us more.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Andrew,

Can you include a snippet from the atlassian-confluence.log referencing the error when trying to install the add-on? The logs are located in the confluence.home directory.

For some direct troubleshooting, you can ensure that the baseUrl of your instance is properly configured and that you're accessing confluence using that exact url in the browser:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL>
hide confluence page from index
Asked by David Gersh:

Is there a way to tell confluence to not index a single page?


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi David,

I've open a improvement request for you here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30555>

I suggest to vote and watch to increase the popularity of the ticket and the chance to be implemented in the future.

I hope this helps!

Rodrigo


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Not really, but you can hide it from the results page by setting permissions. Users who cannot see the page will also not be able to see it in the search results.

comments: author: David Gersh
body: Thats a shame


Tags: confluence-administration
how to export Confluence space to separate XML files to third party translators
Asked by patric liu:

Can anybody help me? great thanks.

If exported to XML files, after translation, import these translated XML files, can they show well? such as French, German languages?


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: We have yet to test this out and couldn't guarantee if it would work. Do you plan to have each Confluence space translated to a different language? If you wish to translate page content, this document might help: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=345637421>


Tags: translate
Deleting Personal space fails - Long running task error
Asked by Heily Hindrea:

Hello!

**Confluence version** 5.1.3

A user wants to delete her Personal Space but it fails with "Long running task: Space removal long running task". "Could not find attachment folder to remove at."

I searched for an answer and came across this[site in Atlassian Confluence Knowledge Base](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Transaction+Timed+Out+when+Deleting+a+Space).

Could this be the solution? And what causes that kind of error?

Found also [this source](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Unable+to+Delete+Space). In the log the last one listed 'org.springframework.dao.DataIntegrityViolationException' was found. But on the site it is said that this problem was fixed for Confluence 4.1.2.

Cheers

Heily


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: If you're hitting problems, you might find it helpful to clear the trash for the space before removing it. On earlier versions of Confluence this helped us get around the issue of "missing attachments" a few times. The attachments in this case belonged to pages which were in the trash.


author: Heily Hindrea
body: Thank you! I already contacted Atlassian Support also and they are dealing with it. Seems that something has went wrong in the database.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Heily,

If the error in your logs matches that error in the article, then that is very likely the solution. As mentioned in the article, if there is data inconsistency - which could be the problem (missing attachments) - then confluence hangs on trying to delete those things when deleting the space. You'll need to confirm that is the error message in the atlassian-confluence.log file. If you confirm it, follow the instructions in the article. ENSURE you have database backups before manually manipulating the database in any way.
Confluence HTTPS tomcat problems after imported CA certificate
Asked by pmelchiori:

Hello world!

I've a problem with Tomcat I guess... My **Confluence** (ver 5.1) is working very good under **HTTP** , so I've follow these clear instructions: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+Over+SSL+or+HTTPS> but my system doesn't answer on 8443 https port... I'm stopped myselt at "*Step 2. Modify the Server Configuration File in your Confluence Installation*"

How can I test the system? where is the problem?

thanks

Paolo


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Paolo,

Confluence logs is a good starting point, they usually show if there's any error to bring up HTTPS. Some other tests you can run are checking if the HTTPS port is opened and test if you can connect through SSL.

Example:

```
telnet atlassian.com 433openssl s_client -connect atlassian.com:443
```

I hope it helps.

Cheers


Tags: confluence-administration

http

https

tomcat
Edit German locale
Asked by Delete.Me:

Hi,

i want to edit the German locale. More specificly: I found the English version in

confluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-5.1.3.jar/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ConfluenceActionSupport.properties

But i searched everywhere and can't find the German locale. Can you tell me where I can find it?

Thanks!  
Yaron


Answers:
author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: Do you looking for that?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+eMail+Templates>

comments: author: Delete.Me
body: This is where I came from. The email text is generated from a velocity template.

I read <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Modify+Confluence+Interface+Text>  
I found the file confluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-5.1.3.jar/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ConfluenceActionSupport.properties

There is written:

```
user.create.email.body=Hi {0},\  &lt;br/&gt;\  &lt;br/&gt;\  Join me and the rest of the team on {1}!\  &lt;br/&gt;\  &lt;br/&gt;\  It''s the one place to create, share, discuss and store ideas, projects and documents.\  &lt;br/&gt;\  &lt;br/&gt;\  You''ll send less email, have fewer meetings, and get more done.\  &lt;br/&gt;\  &lt;br/&gt;\  Your account has already been created, and your username is &lt;b&gt;{2}&lt;/b&gt;.\
```

This is the English version of the text I need to modify, but I need the German one.

But where is the german text located? I grepped now the whole file system and searched in the sql database - I can't find it...


author: Julian Be
body: Hello Yaron,

I'm actually stuck with the same problem, did you find a solution? I want to translate some interface text to german, which is persisted in the CAS-property-file.

regards

julian


author: Delete.Me
body: I did not find a solution yet and surrendered. If anyone knows how to resolve it I'd be happy to know...


author: Delete.Me
body: I want to edit the existing German locale (to customize the welcome email)


author: Julian Riedinger [Decadis AG]
body: Want you to set another language to your system or want you to modify the language-proberties?


Tags: confluence-administration

language

translate
Cannot see "Export to PDF" option in the tools menu
Asked by Sandra Campbell:

Hello,

recently upgraded to Confluence 5.1.3. Am running Windows 7. Have full space admin rights (including space export).

The "Export to Word" function is in the Tools menu, but not "Export to PDF".

Option was there before upgrade. (We moved from v3.x)

Any suggestions?

thanks very much

Sandi


Answers:
author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: Hi Sandra,

could you please check the following settings in confluence administration?

1. Log in as Confluence Administrator
2. Open Confluence Administration Section and navigate to Manage Add-ons
3. Serach for "Confluence PDF Export" with System in Drop Down

May be this module will be disabled. That could be the reason, why you cant see this option in the user front end.


author: Sandra Campbell
body: Brilliant! That fixed it. Thanks so much for your help Christina,

Sandi


author: pan dawill
body: [ainol](http://www.ainoldigital.com) professional brand website !


author: Raju KC
body: You can find this at:

Browse-\>Space Operations-\>PDF export

comments: author: Sandra Campbell
body: thanks for your response. We can't see that option either.

(And I think that's the space export function rather than page export?)

Sandi


author: Raju KC
body: We can either select whole space or required page/s.

At the top, or go from browse-\>space admin-\> Space Operations-\>PDF export


author: Sandra Campbell
body: thank again. However the PDF export option is not showing on the Space Operations page. Can see HTML export and XML Export, but not PDF export.


author: Raju KC
body: Which version=?
Image property panel doesn't appear
Asked by Emily:

Hello, I have inserted an image into my page, but I can't "select" it to get the image properties panel. I can highlight it, right click and view the image in a new tab, but no properties panel. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Did you deactivate JavaScript somewhere inbetween. If I deactivate JavaScript I get a similiar behaviour. No panel appears.

comments: author: Emily
body: It probably has something to do with that - I have no issues when I work with the image on firefox. Right now I use chrome, and must not have it installed. Thanks for your help!


author: Steffen Heller
body: I am not really sure where you are because you can do things that I can't do, at least not in Edit mode. Perhaps you can describe in more detail what you did so far?

comments: author: Emily
body: Sorry, I have a page open for editing, so I believe I am in editing mode. I insert an attachment, which is the image I attached to the page, and I wanted to resize the inserted image with the image property panel instead of reuploading a smaller version of the image. The online help says the "image property panel" appears when you select the image, but it doesn't for me. I can't do anything to the image except highlight it and/or delete it. Did that make more sense? Thanks for your help!
Pagelist based on labels
Asked by Ole Kristensen:

I have created som lists based on Content by Label macro - works fine.

But now I want to add a completion date inserted in each page as a part of those lists.

Example:

page1 label: Open Completion date: 01-09-2013

Content by label macro will then display "page1"

but I want this: "page1 01-09-2013"

Any ideas how to achieve this??

/Ole Kristensen


Answers:
author: Ole Kristensen
body: It turned out I can insert the Excerpt macro to hold the value "Completion Date: 01-09-2013"

And then in the Content by value macro turn on the parameter:

\<label for="macro-param-excerpt"\>Display exceprts (\</label\>Displays the first line of excerpts for each page)  
Then the list based on labels will display pagetitle + excerpt = "page1 Completion Date: 01-09-2013"
One Confluence license for several individually-branded styleguides?
Asked by Max Ustermann:

We would like to host the online style guides for several of our (SMB) clients with one single Confluence license. Our aim is to offer each client a completely customized style guide with no visible hint that it is provided by us (and therefore no branding whatsoever from our side). Each client would therefore need a customized template, including header visual etc. We would admister the accounts, provide support etc. for all these guides. Is this feasible with one license? Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Max,

I believe this is possible but you will have to create a very good permissions structure so one client will acess only one space where you will place the styleguides.

Also, make sure that the number of clients which will access the application doesn't exceed the total number allowed by your license.

The idea is to allow the customer A to access space A and so on.

I believe that these pages will give you a overview of permissions.

[Global Permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview)

[Space Permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Space+Permissions+Overview)

I hope this helps.

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration