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I am configuring Confluence behind an F5 using CAC authentication. Need help with server.xml
Asked by Leann Humphrey:

F5 is fronting the Confluence server over HTTPS 443.

Confluence is 8090

We have configured the F5 to accept Cac and perform the ldap queries and pass the headers onto the confluence server.

How do you configure the confluence server to accept the headers and authenticate the user?


Answers:
author: Lars Olav Velle
body: server.xml? Do you mean seraph-config.xml?

What is your goal here? Go2Group has a CAC app:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/G2G-CAC-JIRA/server/overview>


Tags: certificate

load-balancer

server.xml
Confluence: Exporting Spaces with attachments
Asked by chan sivaraman:

Trying to migrate data from Confluence to Sharepoint online. Using the export option, I can either export as html, PDF or xml. PDF is out of the question since it won't include attachments, but when I export as either html or xml, the attachments don't seem to be able to be opened correctly.

For example, a file may have 2 attachments in Confluence but when exported, those two attachments turn into 10 separate attachments, all in either excel or word files.

Does anyone have any similar issues? Or any solutions to how to fix this? Thank you in advanced - CS


Answers:
author: Anton Chemlev - Toolstrek -
body: Look here:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Export-spaces-and-attachments/qaq-p/135920/jump-to/first-unread-message>

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Export-Space-to-PDF-with-attachments/qaq-p/653786/jump-to/first-unread-message>

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Export-to-PDF-and-Include-attachments/qaq-p/369833/jump-to/first-unread-message>


Tags: attachment

export

html

pdf
How do I change the server base URL
Asked by Priscilla:

How can I change the server base URL while using a trial version of Confluence Cloud?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You don't.

The base url of Cloud systems is immutable and cannot be changed (yet - there is a request open for Atlassian to provide this ability and they do want to do it)

comments: author: AnnWorley
body: Nic is right, we are working on this functionality. Please see [More Easily Change Atlassian Cloud URL Domain](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-7184). There is an update from April 2017 that is promising. If you vote or comment on the bug (to communicate with the dev team) you will be notified when the ticket is updated.
Documentation space has no overview link
Asked by Olli-Peter Lutz:

Hi guys,

i created a documentation space. This site has a overview page but can only be accessed if go on a child page and click via the root in the header of the page on the overview site.

Also my sidebar has only the "settings" button and the "pages" button available.

Is this normal? Becuase it is a little bit annoying not able to move to the overview.

Thx![Bildschirmfoto 2017-11-09 um 17.14.37.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9136i830873540F04D2DF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Bildschirmfoto 2017-11-09 um 17.14.37.png")


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Olli-Peter,

You can click the ![Screen Shot 2017-11-10 at 2.10.45 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9185i89741DBE4895956B/image-dimensions/36x32?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2017-11-10 at 2.10.45 PM.png") icon in the bottom right-hand corner of your sidebar, and you will be able to add the missing options:

![Screen Shot 2017-11-10 at 2.11.59 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9186iA8DC414B1C3B62EC/image-dimensions/247x383?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2017-11-10 at 2.11.59 PM.png")

This is an example from my instance. If I click the + symbols, it will add those options to my sidebar.

Can you give that a try and let me know how it goes?

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


author: mikerusso_at_tsi
body: Nowadays, it's more buried:

Click Space Settings in your space navigation sidebar.

Then, under the Manage Space heading, click Edit sidebar.

Then on the Edit sidebar tab, tick the Overview setting.

(You can also add the Blog option from here.)


Tags: overview

space
Table of content
Asked by Soporte Hypersoft:

Hi! Im working on a space in Confluence and have been looking for a way to create a table of content from the pages. I want it to appear on the left side of the screen. Is it possible? I couldnt find any related information in the tutorials.Thanks for the support!![confluence ask a question.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9135i384ED3431FFA35B0/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence ask a question.png")


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Soporte,

It's not possible to include the contents of the space (known as a Page Tree) in that sidebar at this moment, besides the one you will see automatically as soon as you access one of the pages within the space.

We do have a feature request that's requesting it stay expanded, if you're interested. You can vote on it and watch it to show your support.

* [CONFCLOUD-56841](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-56841)

As far as the blue bar, it is not possible to hide this further.

Let us know if you have any questions about this.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Search for Pages with a specific Content Property
Asked by Christoph Kober:

My Confluence plugin uses content properties that are searchable via CQL Search Extension. (see [here](https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-server-rest-api/content-properties-in-the-rest-api))

I would like to search for all pages using a specific content property, no matter which value it has. Essentially, I need something like a NOT NULL or NOT EMPTY operator for strings/string arrays.

Is something like that possible? I know that NOT EMPTY works in JQL, so I would expect CQL to support the same.


Answers:
author: Bashir Sidani
body: Hello,

have you ever been able to overcome this? I'm facing the same issue.

comments: author: Christoph Kober
body: Hi,  
sorry to hear that, but no, I could not resolve this issue.  

As you can see, unfortunately Atlassian has little interest in answering community questions here :(


Tags: cql

property
Footnote in pictures
Asked by Emilia Mas:

Hi,

Is it possible to add a footnote to a picture/image? Better by default, ex. the title of the file?

Thanks,

Emilia


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Emilia,

It's not possible to add captions for images in Confluence at this time without use of an add-on. We do have a feature request for this that you're welcome to vote on and watch for future updates:

[CONFSERVER-2584](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-2584)

There does appear to be an add-on in Marketplace that could help you with this:

* [Image Captions for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/io.screenshout.confluence.captions.ImageCaptions/server/overview)

If you have Confluence Server you could give that a try and see if it works out for you.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Emilia Mas
body: Many thanks, Shannon! We'll give a try to the add-on to see how it works and if it fulfills our needs.

Kind regards,

Emilia
Search by comments in page history / previous versions
Asked by ian colenutt:

We currently add our dev job numbers to page labels so that we can search for all pages relating to a job (User Guides, Support docs etc).  

However this isn't sustainable as the number of jobs/labels for once page increases and it also fills up our word maps with numbers instead of words.  

I thought I had the answer by only adding the job number to the comments when editing a page (which is great for page history \& version control) but it seems only the comments in the ++current++ version of a page are included in searches rather than all versions.

Is it possible to extend search to include comments on previous versions of pages or is there another way to tag a page with a dev number it can be searched by which doesn't clutter up the labels?


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: As I understand the page properties macro, there is indeed one label required. But you can have additional properties in the table. One of these properties could be the Job ID and I thought you can use this property in your queries (see [CQL fields](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html#PagePropertiesReportMacro-CQLfields)). Maybe I am wrong ... ? Since I'm using our own macros for this use case I'm sorry if I remembered incorrectly.

The Display Table Macro definitively allows to select on any property defined with the Document Properties Marker Macro. And there is no need for an extra label. But this would require to install one additional (commercial) add-on.


author: ian colenutt
body: Thanks for the suggestion but the Page Properties Report is still based on a common label.   

I think my best option for searching by Job ID instead of label is just listing the Job IDs inside an Info macro in each page. However it seems like I'm best off continuing to clutter up the labels/heatmaps with Job Ids in order to see all pages related to a job.  

Users will then have to view the Page History comments and compare versions if they want to see which change the job relates to.  


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: The [Page Properties Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html) and [Page Properties Report Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html) may be helpful for your use case. The first macro allows to add properties on a page that can be used in the report with the second.

Another solution could be the [projectdoc Toolbox](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/1YEp), a commercial plugin for Confluence server [available on the Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1212629), with similar features provided by the [Document Properties Marker Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/rgNk) and the [Display Table Macro](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/wgNk).

**Biased alert**: I'm one of the authors of the projectdoc Toolbox! :)


Tags: comment

page

page-history

search

version
Is it possible to automatically create a ticket in Jira from a form in Confluence?
Asked by Veruska P?rez Guerrero:

We would like to create a ticket in Jira Software, from a form created on confluence.

The ticket does not exist yet. We would like to create it, for the first time, from a form on Confluence.

?Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you have an application link to Jira, you don't even need a form. You can highlight text (bullet points), hover over them and a "create in Jira" icon will appear, allowing you to directly create.

If that's a bit too simple, then a second option is to create an "issue collector" in your Jira project, and embed the code for it in Confluence, giving you a button to click to get a form popped up to fill in details.

A third option is a "user macro" you could write that could look a bit like a form inside a page, and when given details and a "go" clicked, it could post the issue over REST

And then two more options that rely on add-ons that my employers (Adaptavist) provide :

"Script runner for Confluence" could be used to parse data from a page and create issues from it. You'd need to think carefully about when and what it should parse though!

And, finally, I think the add-on "Forms for Confluence" can embed forms and create issues from them. I've not tried it (I know it does the forms well, I've just not tried the Jira create, as I've always used option 1 or 2 above)

comments: author: Veruska P?rez Guerrero
body: Thank you so much??


author: Tilmann Vogel
body: [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454)

Hey :) Seems like you have some experience with that.

I want to do the same like [@Veruska P?rez Guerrero](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/560724)but the new ticket entered in the form in confluence also needs to be documented there - not just in Jira.

E. g. the Issue-Collector just creates a Ticket in Jira - not in Confluence :(

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Why duplicate it all in Confluence again? You're creating the issue from a page already, so surely you already have some data that you are working from? (And Confluence is not an issue tracker, it does not have issues/tickets)


author: Siya Ramtri
body: [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454)

I need the function that once a confluence form is filled out it is automatically turned into a JIRA, issue collector is unsuitable for this as it is one button \& the user would have to fill out our confluence form then the jira issue collector form again.

my administrator will not allow me to download scriptrunner or confiforms.. how would i go about achieving this?
How to enable sslv3 protocol on Confluence tomcat server?
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

Hi All

I have confluence 5.10 installed on with the packaged tomcat on windows platform.

We have a third party application which can communicate to confluence only over sslv3 protocol.

My question is how can enable the tomcat on confluence server to accept handshakes in sslv3 protocol (in addition to tlsv1, tlsv1.1 and tlsv1.2).

Rahul


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I would stop using this third party application until it is made safe.

sslv3 is broken and not secure. It's regularly probed by bots looking for security holes and when found, used as an attack vector.

You really do not want to enable sslv3.


author: AnnWorley
body: [@Rahul Aich \[Nagra\]](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781531) If you are running Confluence *as a service* on Windows the setenv.bat parameters are ignored so you will need to add the option as described in:[Configuring System Properties](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-system-properties-168002854.html) There is a command line and a registry method in the guide as well as screen shots.


author: Mizan
body: This protocol is disabled at jvm level you will need to enable it using the below jvm argument

    -Djdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=

No value, it means SSLv2 and SSLv3 are now enabled as they are disabled by default.

In the Tomcat configuration add SSLv3 to the ssl protocols

Please try on test first. I am assuming you are using Tomcat 8 as it is the only compatible version with 5.10

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Please, don't do this.

They are disabled for good reasons - you will be opening yourself up for easy attacks.


author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: Thanks Mizan and Nic i understand the risks involved and will not disable them permanently. But in order to confirm my root cause of our connectivity issue i would like to disable them on my test confluence server.

Do you know how to do it on windows platform?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Good good. Yes, it's pretty much the same in all operating systems.

Find the setenv.bat (setenv.sh on Unix-like systems). Open it up with a text editor and look for where -D is used. Jira's setenv files tend to have a line near the top which says "put debug arguments in here", followed by JVM_ARG="", and it's best to use that for Jira.

Confluence varies by version. In 6.3, there's a lot of lines like

CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true ${CATALINA_OPTS}"

You can add one for this:

CATALINA_OPTS="-Djdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=

${CATALINA_OPTS}"

Note that this enables a number of other insecure protocols, not just sslv3
Confluence decision log vs. Jira task
Asked by lufft_swdev:

We are currently establishing confluence and jira in our company. We also want to use the "meeting notes" and "decision log" blueprints to manage meetings.

But one thing I am currently struggeling with is to differeate between when to create a decission in the decision log and when to create Jira tasks

Let me give you an example:  
During a meeting it turns out that there is a specific task to within the project, that needs additional clarification and work to be done. We can now create a new decision log entry to specify and log progress on this job OR we can create a jira task.

For me the purpose of these approaches is identical and I am not sure what would be bast practice here?

thanks in advance.

Martin


Answers:
author: Teamcision
body: This is late, but for those who are still looking. Here is our [decision log for JIRA](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1227148/teamcision?hosting=cloud&tab=overview), then you can combine the advantages. The decisions are collected in a decision log but you can still plan them in JIRA.


author: Caroline Saavedra
body: I also agree when it comes to tracking the progress of a task - JIRA should be used.

To discuss and reach a decision use the Decision log.


author: Davin Studer
body: I would say if you have JIRA use that. I think Confluence tasks are most helpful for organizations that do not have JIRA, or if the users the task is assigned to cannot log into JIRA. But if that is not the case I think JIRA is the place to put it.


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: I think that both tools could be used for the task you are describing. I assume that the decision blueprint is especially for users that have no JIRA.

I like to think of a decision as something that has impact on the future. You want to make sure that the reason for the decision and the alternatives that have been rejected are recorded for further reference. This includes decisions like why a certain software has been bought or this software architecture has been chosen. So you may need to provide more structured information and I prefer to put this to Confluence. See our [decision blueprint](https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/x/vwdk) as a possible structure for the information that may be relevant in the future (note that this blueprints requires commercial software to be used; I added the link for an example for how this information could be structured). If you need this detailed information, a decision blueprint could be the better solution.

JIRA provides - in my opinion - better support for tasks that need to be scheduled and tracked. So if the concern is tracking a task and not providing detailed information, you could use a JIRA task.


Tags: decision

jira
Confluence: Best approach to upgrade SQL Server from 2008 to 2014
Asked by Arno van Hemert:

Atthe moment we're running Confluence on SQL Server 2008. As this is already out of support since Confluence 5.8 I mant to migrate to SQL Server 2014. On documentation sites I see several ways to do this migration. Which way is the best proven?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Depends. Is the DB on the same server as Confluence or a different server?

comments: author: Arno van Hemert
body: Th DB is on the same sever.


author: Arno van Hemert
body: We're talking about an inplace upgrade on the same machine from SQL Server 2008R2 to SQl Server 2014.

The question is; do I need to run all steps from the documentation when I only plan to update from 2008 R2 to 2014


author: Davin Studer
body: No, you should not need to do all that. All you need to do is upgrade SQL Server. If the machine\\instance doesn't change and neither does the database user and passwords Confluence should be just fine with it. However, before you do that make sure to stop Confluence. Also, take a backup of the database and Confluence home folder ... just in case. Better yet if you are on a virtual machine take a snapshot of the server prior to upgrading SQL so that you can rollback if need be.


author: Tayyab Bashir
body: Check this documentation: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf58/migrating-to-another-database-771892814.html?_ga=2.166668862.1806634465.1510219894-178365290.1510219894>

comments: author: Arno van Hemert
body: I indeed read that documentation. Does it means I also need to do a reinstall of Confluence into a new directory? Why is that?

#### Step 4. Install Confluence (same version number) in a new location {#toc-hId-1371885824}


author: Davin Studer
body: That document is referring to moving Confluence to another server.


Tags: ms-sql
Team Calendars - recurring events
Asked by Milan Jeli?i?:

Hi,

we are trying to repeat task once a month throughout the whole year on our team calendar.

The problem is as follows - on the first month the task is on a Monday, on the second month the task is on a Friday.

Is it possible to somehow set the event to be the first Monday of every month?

This is very important to us, because now me make task for each month. It would mean a great deal to us to have this automated.

Kind regards,

MilanJ


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Milan,

We do have a feature request for this, that you can vote on and watch to show your interest:

* [CONFSERVER-51365](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51365)

Please feel free to comment on it as well with your specific usage case.

A workaround you could do is instead create an event that repeats every 4 weeks, for example:

![Screen Shot 2017-11-09 at 1.48.31 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9103i2E4AE27F96DBEAD2/image-dimensions/254x544?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2017-11-09 at 1.48.31 PM.png")

You can see there that my test event then occurs only on Thursdays, and not the specific day of the month.

I hope this helps! But let me know if you have any issues.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Shannon S
body: Hi Milan,

I wanted to let you know that feature I mentioned earlier is now going to be released in Team Calendars 5.5.0!

Do let us know if you have any trouble with it. Enjoy!

Regards,

Shannon


author: suvarna dixit
body: Hi shannon, created calendar but not appearing all project events for all team members , can you please suggest
Confluence (server) does not load remotely
Asked by Balaji:

Confluence server page (\<IP\>:8090) does not load if accessed remotely. On the same system where the server is installed, it loads fine. As such the link seems to be fine, since the Application link to Confluence inside a bitbucket server installation is fine.


Answers:
author: Andrew Golokha
body: Hi Balaji,

Is it possible that a proxy or some other network device sits between the workstations and the server? Sometimes servers are set up on a backbone to "talk" to each other directly (so the application links would work) but workstations have to go through a firewall or proxy to reach the servers. For example, if the port 8090 is not accessible through the firewall it would cause you to be able to reach the other applications on other ports but not Confluence.

To gather more information, please try some network tests like trace route, ping and telnet. I can provide syntax if you let me know the operating system on the desktop computer.

Thanks,

Andrew


author: Lars Olav Velle
body: Let us know what you have tried so far? With this little information we can just guess and provide you with an endless number of things to check.

-Lars

comments: author: Balaji
body: Well I have installed bitbucket, jira and confluence servers. And connected one another in the application links. Except for Confluence, I am able to access the urls.

If I access Confluence locally (\<server-ip\>:8090) on the same server it works fine. Even created a trial "space" in Confluence.
Why can I suddenly not edit a file?
Asked by Joanne Harding-Smith:

Hello people, my first time doing this. Something isn't working as it usually does.

I go to my file list and edit a file, this usually then brings up the document and on the top right side the edit icon scrolls around and then I can edit and save. Except for the past week the edit icon keeps scrolling around and it doesn't open in excel. I have tried a number of times with different documents and it's the same. Has this happened to you? What do I do?

Thank you very muchly!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Joanne,

Can you let us know the versions you're using of the following:

* Confluence
* Microsoft Office
* Browser
* OS

Thank you!

Kind Regards,  
Shannon