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I don't get email notifications when someone shares a page
Asked by Justin Tan:

I used to get email notifications when someone would share a page with me, but now it only appears in my Workbox. I can't figure out how to turn on notifications for this. Does anyone know? I've looked through my Settings but nothing.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: are other users on your instance having the same issue?

comments: author: Justin Tan
body: Hi Patrick,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I've tested it on a few users and they were experiencing the same thing. It's my understanding that the default is that email notifications are turned on, but I havent found a way to even toggle it on/off.

<br />

Thanks,


author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: There could be an issue with your outgoing mail server. If your an admin check the mail queue and see if there are any emails in the error queue. You can find that in the mail queue section of Confluence administration.

A newly installed add-on might have caused an issue with your outgoing email and you'll need to flush it.


Tags: email

notification
Can we associate multiple labels with the same Topic in Confluence Questions
Asked by Shannon Davis:

For example -let's say I want to subscribe to all questions about a certain topic. Can I specify all the possible keywords someone might type and say these are all part of ONE topic and then I get notified?


Answers:
author: Maarten Cautreels
body: Hi Shannon,

Unfortunately not. A topic is in fact a label and vice-versa.

Best,

Maarten
Can we allow other peoplle (than the Questioner) change the labels on a question?
Asked by Shannon Davis:

We want to have our service desk look at all the questions and add additional labels or correct any typos to make sure that the labels are being used.

Even as admins of our space, we can't seem to edit the labels on a question. (or "topics").


Answers:
author: Maarten Cautreels
body: Hi Shannon,

I did some testing and I get a "Access Denied" when I try to add labels to someone else's question as a normal user. When I enable "*Reputation Based Permissions*" in the Confluence Question settings, normal users with a reputation of 100+ can change labels of others.

Maybe that could help?!

Best,

Maarten

comments: author: Shannon Davis
body: Thank you - now if there was any way to preset certain people with 100+ reputation....


author: Maarten Cautreels
body: Hi Shannon,

The only way that would be possible is by making changes to the Database itself and that's usually not a very good idea (+ I don't know which tables are being used by Confluence Questions).

Best,

Maarten
How can I title a blog stream (and by that I do not mean individual blog posts)?
Asked by Chip Sanders:

I want to title a blog stream on a space. How can I do that? (I do not mean that I need help in titling individual blog posts, but rather the whole stream of blog posts.) I.e., how do I replace the words "Blog stream"?


Answers:
author: Damien Tan
body: I'm not sure if i get what you mean. but if you are looking for a way to bulk change a series of blog posts to a different title, then you can probably do it from the database tweaking the method below:

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-manually-edit-a-page-title-through-the-database-with-synchrony-enabled-942838925.html>

There is another post here asking for a similar question as well:

* <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-bulk-rename-pages-in-confluence/qaq-p/382824>

comments: author: Nathan Wray
body: The "Blog Posts" macro renders with a really stupid name "Blog stream". This does not seem to be editable. Can you make this editable?


Tags: blog
Restoring Lost Confluence Pages
Asked by Sandeep Kesarkar:

Looks like a page that I created yesterday is lost, please help recover it

Actually, similar thing happened day before, a portion of page was lost, but I rewrote that one

Thanks,

Sandeep


Answers:
author: Sandeep Kesarkar
body: I could find the page back

The page was shared with another person, got link from that person

So when the person who with the page share shared couldn't open the open it with the link

But I could open it from the same email

Please take a look at the issue
Configuring daily mail
Asked by Lennart Kaepernick:

Hello,

I want to use the daily mail notification settings but I'm not sure, how this will actually work. My intention is to receive once a day a mail with an overview of articles, which have been created or edited with my account this day. So somehow a mix of the options "Receive daily notifications" and "show modified contents" would suit my needs. Or do I need a plugin for these specific requirements?

Regards,

Lennart


Answers:
author: Lennart Kaepernick
body: It seems, that this case is not covered by Confluence. Is there any chance to get a bigger granularity with the notifications?

Of course, much time has passed since the last update on this thread, but now this topic becomes relevant again for us. Also the supposed notification criteria have slightly changed. Every user should get a daily message, whenever some of the article with him as the owner have been edited or commented. The given options in Confluence don't seem to have this ability at all, so maybe there is an add-on or anything else.

Also it seems, that there are two ways of notification: one by notifying so-called "watchers" immediately, when the article has changed. The other one gives the user a weekly (or daily) update about the pages and spaces, he had opt-in for while considering the set notification options per user. Can I de-activate the "watchers" notification in general? We can't use this feature at all and it would also blow up our mail storages.

Thank you very much in advance and have a nice Advent season.

Lennart


author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: Hi Lennart,

What you've described ("once a day a mail with an overview of articles, which have been created or edited with my account this day") is what's in the **Daily Updates** email you can enable from the Settings on your profile.

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/14720i5C8886703B672DFA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

The email is generated and sent at midnight server time. For pages that were updated, there's a link to view the changes in the most recently published version. Here's an example of what comes in the email:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/14721i45BCF8CF62B0DD03/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

Cheers,  
Daniel

comments: author: Mamun Ahsan Khan
body: Hi Daniel,

so I tried these settings but now I get a summary of every edited or created article no matter who the autor was. As far as I have read through the documentation it should work like the option "Subscribe to daily updates" but without including all articles I can access. I just need a daily overview about every article I have created or edited.

Regards,

Lennart


author: Lennart Kaepernick
body: I accidentally used the atlassian profile of a colleague to reply. So don't worry :)
Migrate users to new user directory (Confluence 6.0)
Asked by ndespres:

Hello, I have researched this in the Community and documentation but I can only find supported methods for accomplishing the same with Jira. Hope there is a way to do this in Confluence.

My company ABC is merging with company XYZ.

My Confluence 6.0 instance is using ABC's Active Directory (read-only) which will be shut down soon. All users and groups have already been recreated in XYZ's AD, with the same usernames, but different UPNs. (jsmith@abc is now jsmith@xyz). Our Confluence logins are all "jsmith" only so hopefully that doesn't make too much of a difference.

My question is how to swing my users to log in to Confluence with their XYZ credentials, without losing edit history, permissions etc.

It looks like if this were Jira, I would add XYZ AD as a login source with a higher priority and that would pretty much do it (referenced [here](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/How-do-I-migrate-users-from-an-internal-directory-to-Active/qaq-p/538185) and [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/migrating-users-between-user-directories-802592357.html?_ga=2.115080580.2035917327.1518190584-131371486.1517422843)). For Confluence all I found is [this older database edit](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Migrate-users-to-new-user-directory-Confluence-5-4-4/qaq-p/106313) to change userids to match the old ones.

Is there a more supported method of accomplishing this?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Neil,

Even though the unique identifiers of the users differ between the Active Directories, since the user names are the same, the XYZ users should be seen by Confluence as the same as the ABC users.

I recommend setting up the XYZ User directory and moving it to the top of the list on the Confluence Admin\>User Directories page. Disable the ABC directory and test logging in with a user from XYZ. If their avatar and other content appears as expected you can leave the ABC directory disabled, and eventually delete it.

If you can try this operation on a test instance first you could avoid surprises in Production.

This guide has a lot of useful information: [Managing Multiple Directories](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf60/managing-multiple-directories-852732194.html)

Thanks,

Ann
Spring Application context has not been set
Asked by Fayte220:

I've installed and re-installed confluence every way from sunday and it keeps giving me this error. I've tried chown/chmod uninstalling and reinstalling with several users.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi,

That sounds frustrating.

The error you are reporting can have a variety of causes, described in: [Confluence does not start due to Spring Application context has not been set](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-does-not-start-due-to-spring-application-context-has-not-been-set-218278311.html) \< the article has 10 possible causes and resolutions, or I would paste them here for your convenience. I look forward to hearing what it turns out to be in your case.

Please keep us posted.

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Fayte220
body: As it turns out some files were left over from the failed install. I deleted the confluence.cfg.xml and restarted confluence and it immediately solved the problem.


author: AnnWorley
body: Thanks for following up! Feel free to reach out with another question if we can help with anything.
Can I make access for Home & Garden for an employee in my team?
Asked by Anna-Lena Frisell:

Can I make access for new spaces for an employee in my team?


Answers:
author: Ryan Kearney
body: This should have the answer: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html>


author: Ryan Kearney
body: Did that link answer your question? If so, can you mark this as answered? Thank you!
embeded database
Asked by Maxim Gusev:

I used a trial version of confluence after which I entered the key and the system swears on the h2 database since it is not suitable for the full version Can I use h2 database if I have 4 users and very little data?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: It sounds like you could benefit from [Migrating to Another Database](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-to-another-database-148867.html). Nic's remark was accurate regarding the catastrophic H2 failures. It usually entails data loss.

comments: author: Maxim Gusev
body: ty so much

on this holidays will trying to install conf+mysql(or postgre)


author: Igor M.
body: Hey,

per design h2 DB is only for evaluation purposes, as stated in official documentation

[Embedded H2 Database](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/embedded-h2-database-145098285.html).

If you are planning to use Confluence for production, regardless of a number of users, or contents, it would be best to just use external DB. There are several options to pick from as per [Supported platforms](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html)

There is no preference for DB vendor but I found PostgreSQL quite lightweight on resources and easy enough to manage.

Regards,

Igor

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There are good reasons for not using h2 in systems you might want to run as a trial or development - it doesn't scale and it can fail without warning, and when it does, it usually fails catastrophically.
The page tree in the side bar is not visible
Asked by Johnathan Browall Nordstrom:

When I am at the root of my space, there is no page tree in the side bar, even though it is configured to be there.

If however, I click on one of the pages under the "Recently edited", the page tree appears in the side bar as it should.

But again, if I go back to the root of the space it dissapears.

I have tried to delete the index and journal and re-build the indexes.

The issue is the same both for my account and the admin user I created when installing Confluence.

Using Confluence 6.7.0x64 on Linux Ubuntu 16.04


Answers:
author: Christo Mastoroudes _Adaptavist_
body: Hi,

Has there been any custom javascript or CSS code added?

Check Space tools \> Look and Feel \> Stylesheet / Sidebar, Header and Footer.

Check General Configuration \> Stylesheet / Sidebar, Header and Footer.

comments: author: Johnathan Browall Nordstrom
body: Hi.

No, I have just installed it and not added anything as of yet.


author: Johnathan Browall Nordstrom
body: I did some tests.

Created a new space and added a page. Here the page tree showed correctly.

Tried to re-trace my steps on what changes I have done recently and see if I could make the problem appear on the new space which is currently working.

Here are the steps

1. Create new space

2. Create page called anything ex "first page"

3. Create a child page under "first page" called ex "second page"

4. move "second page" to the root.

Current location: testnew \> testnew Home \> first page

New location: testnew

5. Remove page "testnew Home"

When removing the build in "testnew Home" page, the page tree in the sida bar breaks.

Do you know how I can reverse this?


author: Johnathan Browall Nordstrom
body: Seems I could re-create the page and assign it under Space Tools. Then moved my pages to under it. That solved it
How do I get a list of ALL labels in my Confluence cloud site, like on server?
Asked by Tig da Admin:

Back in version 5.x, I could go to https://\<sitename\>/labels/listlabels-alphaview.action to see a list of ALL labels used on our site.

When I use the exact same link in 6.x, this no longer works, even when logged in as an admin.

As a Knowledge Management Specialist, I need to see all labels so that I can help folks find content across the site.

What is the process to do this now, please?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

strange, this still works on my Confluence version 5.10 as well as in Confluence 6.7.0 (which I am testing right now).

comments: author: Tig da Admin
body: Interesting, because when I go there, it simply takes me to the sites homepage. Is it because I'm on the cloud version and not server?


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Strange, I checked it on Confluence Cloud in two different instances, and it worked fine. Just make sure you use the right URL: https://\<my-host-name\>.atlassian.net/wiki/labels/listlabels-alphaview.action


author: Tig da Admin
body: Thank you! That worked.


author: Susanne F
body: Hi! I have a similar problem. I can access the overview of all labels. But I definitely do not see all labels there. I can tell because some labels are displayed using the popular labels macro or similar. But they do not appear in the overview. Any ideas why that is?


author: Matze
body: Hi, I'm experiencing the same issue as Susanne.

https://\<my-host-name\>.atlassian.net/wiki/labels/listlabels-alphaview.action

I'm definitely missing some labels. I double checked with the respective pages and they have label 'x' and it is not displayed in the overview.

The labels are older ones (created and attached to the page), so probably no caching issue.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?


author: Ina Elena Irimia
body: The above link worked as of today, 24/06/2019


author: Susanne F
body: Any news here?

comments: author: Florent R_
body: No news, but I have the same problem with Confluence Server 7.3.1.


author: Russ Block
body: I remember having a page like https://\<sitename\>/labels/listlabels-alphaview.action when we hosted our own Confluence. I just got off a page (on web-based Confluence) showing all references to a particular label, I thought I might try manipulating that URL and it worked

I had to add the /wiki in front of the labels portion.

https://\<sitename\>/wiki/labels/listlabels-alphaview.action

Edit:Confluence version is 1000


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

confluence-server
Can I export the roadmap in confluence?
Asked by Raveen Panesar:

Hello,

Are you able to export the roadmap from confluence? I'm having trouble trying to get it to render and also it's quite fiddly when doing it. Is there any way to make this bigger?

Thanks,

Raveen


Answers:
author: Damien Tan
body: hello

if what you mean is to **export to PDF** then yes, when you export a confluence page with a roadmap macro in it into a PDF then the roadmap will be exported into the PDF.

in term of making it **bigger**, i don't think there is a way to enlarge it more natively..


Tags: confluence-cloud

roadmap
How to recover a deleted space ?
Asked by Iuliana Burgi Jurj:

Hello,

I am writing a lot of content on our Confluence WIKI, in my space, and I just realized that I can not recover deleted spaces.

I thought it is the same procedure as with pages - I go to "Space Tools" and "Trash" and I can find everything that has been deleted.

But in the case of a space, I can not find it anymore. And I have a message saying that the action is irreversible.

Could you please let me know if there is a way of recovering deleted spaces ?

I have Confluence system admin rights and I am using Confluence SaaS.


Answers:
author: Thomas Deiler
body: Dear [@Iuliana Burgi Jurj](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1159135),

you could recover, if you have a backup before the delete.

If you do not have any XML backup, there is a chance with the database you are using. If your DB supports snapshot technology, you can jump back to a specific date - how far back into the future depends on the capabilities of the database.

So long

Thomas


Tags: space
How can I use #usernameLink() inside a servlet
Asked by Alexander Bien:

Hello,

i created a macro plugin with a list of all spaces and their administrators. To display information about the administrators i used the #usernameLink() function inside the velocity template of my macro.

That worked fine so far but because we did not want any user to have access to that macro, we decided to create a servlet instead. I render the velocity template inside the doGet() method of the servlet:

```
renderer.render("templates/spaces-list-template.vm", velocityContext, resp.getWriter());
```

The velocity template looks like this:

```
<html>
<head>
<title>Bereichsliste</title>
<meta name="decorator" content="atl.admin" />
$webResourceManager.requireResource("de.it.confl.confluence-spaces-list:confluence-spaces-list-resources")
</head>
<body>
<table class="aui">
??? <thead>
??????? <tr>
??????????? <th>Bereich</th>
??????????? <th>Koordinierende</th>
??????? </tr>
??? </thead>
??? <tbody>
?? ??? ?#foreach($spaceData in $spacesData)
??????? <tr>
??????????? <td><a href="/confluence/display/$spaceData.key" title="$spaceData.name">$spaceData.name</a></td>
??????????? <td>
?? ??? ??? ??? ?#foreach($admin in $spaceData.admins)
?? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?#if($velocityCount > 1)
?? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?,
?? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?#end
?? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?#usernameLink($admin)
?? ??? ??? ??? ?#end
?? ??? ??? ?</td>
??????? </tr>
?? ??? ?#end
??? </tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
```

As a result, i get this:

![Unbenannt.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/14481i0EB247F652360F89/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Unbenannt.PNG")

How can i get the #usernameLink() function to render properly?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hello Alexander,

It's possible that the #usernameLink macro isn't available in your context. I found the source for #usernameLink in \\confluence\\webapp\\template\\includes\\macros-deprecated.vm:

```
#*
Link to a user, given their username. If the username doesn't exist, "Anonymous" is printed
deprecated since 5.2
*#
#macro (usernameLink $username)
 #trim()
 #if ("$!username" != "")
  #if ($action.getUserFullName($username))
   <a href="#userLinkUrl($!req.contextPath, $username)"
   #if($permissionHelper.canView($action.authenticatedUser, $action.getUserByName($username)))
    class="url fn confluence-userlink" data-username="$generalUtil.htmlEncode($username)"
   #else
    class="url fn"
   #end
   >$generalUtil.htmlEncode($action.getUserFullName($username))</a>
  #else
   <a href="#userLinkUrl($!req.contextPath, $username)">$username</a>
  #end
 #else
  $action.getText('anonymous.name')
 #end
#end
```

Maybe you could just include that in your .vm file.

comments: author: Alexander Bien
body: Hello Stephen,

that works! Thank you!
Confluence Blueprint delete the title of the children pages
Asked by Knorkenknuff:

Dear Community,  
My Confluence Spaceblueprint works very great but i want to change something but i dont know how.  

My Blueprint creates a main site with the titel "Test", and all children Pages that are createt have also the title "Test" and then a " - " + "ChildrenPageTestTitle". How can i delete or block this function to add "Test -" too every Childrenpage title?  

Thanks for your help


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Maybe one of the following provides a solution to your problem:

* [https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/How-do-I-set-titles-to-pages-in-a-space-blueprint/qaq-p/481380/jump-to/first-unread-message](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/How-do-I-set-titles-to-pages-in-a-space-blueprint/qaq-p/481380/jump-to/first-unread-message?)
* <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-add-default-Page-ID-and-prefix-to-page-title/qaq-p/608530>

comments: author: Knorkenknuff
body: thanks so much   
works like charm


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: I'm happy that it helped to solve the problem!

Thank you for your feedback!


Tags: atl-dev

developer