youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Non-alphabetical Page Trees
Asked by Anton Prokhozhiy:

Greetings,

I am currently helping out our localization team figure out a nice way to keep the same structure of page trees for documents in different languages. The problem is, page names don't exactly match up to this structure in different languages.

So my question is: is there an automated or semi-automated method to force pages to appear in a custom order that disregards the alphabet (excluding the obvious numeration method, which is not really applicable due to the current workflow of the department)?

Thank you in advance for your time.


Answers:
author: Alex Yasurek
body: Hi,

I think the following link has the info you are looking for:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf51/changing-the-sequential-order-of-pages-336169197.html>

comments: author: Anton Prokhozhiy
body: Thank you, this completely solves the issue.


Tags: confluence-administration
Export Blog into a RSS feed
Asked by Simon G_:

Hi!

On my confluence, I use the blogs to announce new features of my product. But my (anonymous) users are obliged to go every day on my Confluence to see if there is a news. Is there possible to create a RSS feed from this blog so my customer could be subscibed to it? Or is there another way to notify the user when there is a new article in my blog?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Have you had a look at this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/subscribe-to-rss-feeds-within-confluence-139453.html> ?

Cheers,

Christian


author: Nicolas Casel
body: Important to know that: "The predefined RSS feed will return no more than 10 entries within the last 5 days."

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/subscribe-to-pre-specified-rss-feeds-144581.html>


Tags: blog

rss
Notifications in the workbox are not translated
Asked by Alexander Sch?tzle:

Hello everybody,

it looks like the workbox is not translated:

image2015-9-8 8:55:27.png

Does anybody know the reason, or how we can change that?

Thank you!

Confluence 5.8.9

Alex  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Notifications-in-the-workbox-are-not-translated/qaq-p/433611?attachment-id=8935){#link_1187f996ef1777}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/73508/1/image2015-9-8%208%3A55%3A27.png){#display_1187f996ef1777_0}


Answers:
author: Taha Khanzada
body: Hi Alex,

You have encountered bug <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33460>

and you can try the workaround mentioned in the link for fix the issue.

Taha


Tags: confluence-administration
Store logs for longer time
Asked by Artur Siwakowski:

Hi,

What do I need to change to store Confluence logs for longer time? I would like to have them for more then one month.

Best Regards

Artur


Answers:
author: chucktalk
body: Hi Artur,

Since I do not know which Server OS you are using, it could be that your **setenv** script (either batch or shell) has setup logging parameters for the JVM? If you are on Linux, you could use the script **logrotate**to compress and store as many logs as you like.

If you do require further assistance, you might want to [open a Support ticket](https://support.atlassian.com) to insure that you get your questions answered.

Chuck

comments: author: Artur Siwakowski
body: Hi Chuck,I think I will have to do this :)BR Artur


author: Taha Khanzada
body: Hi Artur,

Check for any cronjob or any script on your server for auto deleting logs file older than 1 month.

Taha

comments: author: Artur Siwakowski
body: Hi Taha,Thanks for the tip! I just checked this on our server and I can't find any :(Are there other possible solutions? Maybe there is something in confluence code that needs to be changed?BR Artur


Tags: confluence-administration
how do i add a team member into a team space
Asked by Charlotte:


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi Charlotte,

The profile picture on the Team Space, is a macro that must be inserted on the page for each user whose you want to have the picture displayed.

You'll need to edit the page, click the "+" icon, select the More Macros option and find the "Profile Picture Macro".

All users are automatically allowed to also view that page, unless there's a specific view/edit restriction for that space. You can check and edit the space permissions going to the Confluence Administration page and then selecting "Space Permissions" on the left sidebar.

Regards,  
LM


author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi there,

Could you provide more information about it?

You can also add an individual group or user directly in the **Space Permissions**.

Cheers,


author: Charlotte
body: Hey,

I have a created a 'team space' and so far I am the only member, it has my profile picture and name on the team space homepage. I want to add more team members to the team space, so that other members have their profile pictures, names on the homepage?

Many thanks

Charlotte
space restore function
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

We tried restore space and page data used the function as listed as below: (xml export)

space permission2.jpg

But why the permission of original has not been exported to another confluence space ?

space permission.jpg

Thank you.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/space-restore-function/qaq-p/110080?attachment-id=1846){#link_1187f9fb7b7f93}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/18386/1/space%20permission.jpg){#display_1187f9fb7b7f93_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/space-restore-function/qaq-p/110080?attachment-id=1847){#link_1187f9fb7b7f93_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/18386/2/space%20permission2.jpg){#display_1187f9fb7b7f93_2}


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

The permissions should be exported just for the space that was imported into the new Confluence. Have you exported a full space backup or just a set of pages? As far as I know, just exporting a full space will export the space permissions as well.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I upload an iterative pre-commit patch to Crucible (svn) ?
Asked by Marat:

Hello,

our team uses Subversion as a source code repository and Crucible (2.10) for code reviews. We'd like to follow pre-commit code review approach using patches. However we found it's impossible to do iterative reviews, since every new patch creates separately, preventing us from viewing diffs between them. I read docs, researched it on this forum and web, however couldn't find an answer. The closest I found was: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11989164> , however they use Mercurial, which is different from SVN and doesn't work for us. Please assist here.


Answers:
author: gustavo_refosco
body: Hi Marat,

You can only anchor a patch to a repository if the content you are editing already exists in the repo. This means that anchored paths are not possible for newly created files.

You may refer to the [Iterative Reviews](https://confluence.atlassian.com/crucible/iterative-reviews-298977456.html#Iterativereviews-Iterativepre-commitreviews) document for further information on this.

Regards,

Gustavo Refosco

comments: author: Marat
body: Hello Gustavo, here is the scenario:1. File exist in a repo2. Patch with changes is uploaded3. Devs leaves comments and a new patch is uploaded to address those4. A separate patch is created and it's not linked to a previous one anyhow. No iterations are created.Hence it is imposible to do pre-commit iterative code reviews as advised in the link you sent: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/crucible/iterative-reviews-298977456.html#Iterativereviews-Iterativepre-commitreviews>


author: Trejkaz
body: Did anyone ever figure this out? Someone here dropped a hundred-file review on me where I can't tell what changed from the previous hundred-file review, and I would rather not re-review all the code I have already reviewed as I could be using that time to do something useful instead.When I tried to follow the same procedure myself, I had exactly the same problem - it became a second unrelated diff with all the same paths in it as the first one, despite being anchored to exactly the same repo and path as the first one.


Tags: fisheye-crucible

patch

pre-commit

svn
confluence user
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

dear all,

We found the information as listed as below: (license details), Licensed Users : 500 (1 signed up currently)

license.jpg

And we also found the information as listed as below: Local Users :8052 (System Information)

local users.jpg

How is the difference between Local Users and Licensed Users ? Thank you.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/confluence-user/qaq-p/407292?attachment-id=9556){#link_1187fa299a82b8}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/68915/1/license.jpg){#display_1187fa299a82b8_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/confluence-user/qaq-p/407292?attachment-id=9557){#link_1187fa299a82b8_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/68915/2/local%20users.jpg){#display_1187fa299a82b8_2}


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Local users is the list of all users brought over to Confluence from a LDAP or created in the local directory by an admin. But not all of them will be able to access Confluence.

Access to Confluence is limited using the ++global permissions++ and licensed user count is determined based on who can log in to Confluence.


author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Thank you for your assistance. The information is useful for us.


author: Guilherme V.
body: Additional point:

Your users counts on the "Can Use" permission, set in the **Global Permissions** settings.


Tags: confluence-administration
Restrict a macro availability based on users group
Asked by Victor:

By default, Confluence allows to add any macro on a page. Is it possible anyhow to restrict such ability based on which group the current user belongs to?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not natively.

But I've used the secured macros add-on to do it a few times. See <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.macrosecurity>

comments: author: Victor
body: Hi Nic, thanks for the reply! But I'm not sure that Macro Security is what I need. I'd like to hide a particular macro from the Select Macro dialog (accessible via Insert option while editing a page) based on a group.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not possible - the fact the macro exists puts it into the select macro dialog.


Tags: confluence-administration

macro
confluence space view statistics
Asked by Rinku Saha:

hi

We are looking for the plugin or macro , where we like to see, is there is a way to gather statistics on which sub-pages/links most users are going to for specific space. I am aware of Activity tab but there we can see only top 10 pages. is there any way to increase this numbers? I am also aware of usage statics macro, but there we can see only the count. is there any option where we can check the page and user name also? is there any other plugin ( confluence supported or third party plugin ) where we can get this report.

Please confirm.

Thanks, Rinku


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You will need a plugin like this one: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.go2group.plugins.confluence-ga>


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I fix the FREAK vulnerability if I am running Confluence 5.6.3
Asked by Rinku Saha:

hi

We are using confluence 5.6.3 .we are getting FREAK vulnerability in our confluence site .How do I fix the FREAK vulnerability if I am running Confluence 5.6.3

Thanks,

Rinku


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: First, you need to understand where the problem lies. It's not Confluence at all. The vulnerability is actually in your browser, not the server, so you should upgrade/patch your browser as the first step.

But you can protect people using flawed browsers by turning off the affected encryption methods on your server.

How you do that depends on what the server is, so you need to know what server Confluence is being served up by. Is it plain Tomcat doing all the work? Or have you put Apache/Nginx/IIS/lightppd/etc in front of it?

comments: author: Rinku Saha
body: Hi Nic,

Thank you for clarifying on this. yes we are using Apache web server . I have applied the below work around but it didn't;t fix. till we are finding FREAK vulnerability.

<https://weakdh.org/sysadmin.html>

As you mentioned you should upgrade/patch your browser as the first step : what we need to upgrade can you please confirm?

thanks,

Rinku


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you've followed the instructions, then I'm afraid it has worked, unless you've got a very peculiar apache setup. I can't help you with "it didn't work" without the detail of what you have done differently from the documentation. It's no good trying other routes, you need to set up your apache correctly.As for "what you need to upgrade", I've already told you. Upgrade the browser.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence didn't show the Macro for some User
Asked by xinan liu:

We have userA userB, when userA login Confluence, he can see the correct Macro. But when userB login Conflunece, he can only see the blank page. I confirm that they have the same permission.

The situation shows as the pictures below:

userA.png

userB.png

So what is the matter? Thanks for help!  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-didn-t-show-the-Macro-for-some-User/qaq-p/376384?attachment-id=5715){#link_1187fa86d1cf39}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/63652/1/userA.png){#display_1187fa86d1cf39_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-didn-t-show-the-Macro-for-some-User/qaq-p/376384?attachment-id=5716){#link_1187fa86d1cf39_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/63652/2/userB.png){#display_1187fa86d1cf39_2}


Answers:
author: Taha Khanzada
body: Hi xinan,

If your JIRA site has restricted viewing (that is, people need permission to view issues) then they will need to authenticate before seeing the charts.

So make sure both users has same permission in JIRA as well not just Confluence and also for example if you are using OAuth then first authenticate to JIRA to view charts.

Taha

comments: author: xinan liu
body: Thanks for your help. I trust the userA and userB has the same permission in both JIRA and Confluence. Is that confluence has some cache on every user? Should I clean then?


author: Taha Khanzada
body: Yes, ask UserB to clear browser cache and cookies and try again.


author: xinan liu
body: I've tried to clear the browser's cache, but got the same error.
Add a watch link on a page for a different page in a different space
Asked by Stan:

Hi,

I want to add a link/button on a page that, when clicked, makes the user watch a certain page in a certain space (both different from the page where the link is on). How can I accomplish this?

Some background: we are running into the issue that using the "include page" macro to include a page breaks the watch functionality. The user has to watch the source page instead of the actual page, which is very confusing for end users. If there is a better solution than a watch link/button I'm all ears!


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You could probably use the josn-rpc api to add the watch. Another option would be to use the addpagenotificationaction.ajax page and POST the id of the real page ... this is how Confluence adds the watch itself. The form data to post is pageId(page id of the real page) and it looks like it also passes atl_token (the user's token ... you can get this via JavaScript using AJS.params.atlToken;). If you know javascript it shouldn't be too hard to use jQuery to do it using Atlassian's namespaced version of jQuery **AJS.$**

**addpagenotificationaction.ajax URL**   
http://wiki/users/addpagenotificationajax.action

**JSON-RPC url**   
http://wiki/rpc/json-rpc/confluenceservice-v2/watchPage


author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi there,

You could try using a third-party plugin for watching the page.

* [Enterprise Notifications](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.enterpriseNotifications)

Hope this will help you :smile:.

Cheers

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: I don't think that has what he is looking for.
Is it possible to show attached files as a link by default?
Asked by Bettina H?bner:

Hi,

when we attach a file to a confluence page, it is by default shown as a thumbnail image. Is it possible to change this default setting to show attached files as links and thus save one step of editing?

Thanks in advance

Bettina

(Confluence 5.8.6.)


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hi Bettina,

I'm not sure how we would customise Confluence to make this option be displayed by default. However, we have created the following request in the latest months and we are working with the developers to see how it would go for Confluence:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38610>

You can take a look there and share your thoughts there. :smile:

Cheers,

Giu
How to use Voting for Confluence (Polls) macro?
Asked by Rilwan Ahmed:

Can you please share the document on hoe to use

[Voting for Confluence (Polls)](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.poll) {#toc-hId-1817270730}
==============================================================================================================================


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

I believe that plugin is not working since I could just receive a "No preview available" message. I would recommend to try other pool plugins, but I'll leave this question open as such other people can participate and provide their thoughts as well.

Cheers,

Rodrigo
Confluence 5.7.4 XMLRPC storePage content renders as literal string
Asked by Amir Shahheydari:

Hi,

I have a simple Perl script, below, to create a new child page under a parent page identified by its ID.

However, the contents are being passed as literal strings and they do not render as described in the storage formatting guidelines. For example: when content is set to "h1. Test", that is the text which appears on the page: "h1. Test" instead of a heading "Test". I tried using {html} and different formatting suggested in the storage formatting guidelines as well as what have worked for others, posted around google and different forums, on lower versions of Confluence and end up with lines of text every time.

API 2.0 using jQuery also behaves the same for me.   

Any ideas what I may be missing?  
Any help is appreciated and thank you all in advance for your time and responses.

### Code {#toc-hId-1155247158}

```
#!/opt/local/bin/perluse strict;use XMLRPC::Lite;use Confluence::Client::XMLRPC;use warnings;my $username="myUserName";my $password="myPassword";my $baseurl="https://confluenecServer.mydomain.com";my $spaceKey="TST";my $parentPageTitle="MyTestPage"; my $object = Confluence::Client::XMLRPC-&gt;new("$baseurl/rpc/xmlrpc", $username, $password );my $parentPage = $object-&gt;getPage($spaceKey, $parentPageTitle);my $newpage = {    space =&gt; $spaceKey,    title =&gt; "New Child Page7",    content =&gt; "h1. Test",    parentId =&gt; $parentPage-&gt;{id},  };my $createdpage = $object-&gt;storePage($newpage);die "could not create child page" unless $createdpage;
```

### Result {#toc-hId-2042750839}

Capture.PNG


Answers:
author: Taha Khanzada
body: Hi Amir,

Try using below code and check if it helps

```
token = server.confluence1.login('username', 'password');confluence1.convertWikiToStorageFormat(token, content);
```

To use {html} you need to [Enable HTML Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-administrator-s-guide/managing-add-ons-and-macros/enabling-and-configuring-macros/enabling-html-macros) which by default is disabled.

Also most importantly XML RPC is **Deprecated since Confluence 5.5** try using REST API wherever it is possible <https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/REST/latest/>

Taha

comments: author: Amir Shahheydari
body: Thank you very much for your reply. I will give it a try and will update this post.


author: Amir Shahheydari
body: convertWikiToStorageFormat did the trick. Thank you Taha.


Tags: xml-rpc
Need a way to view all confluence charts without login.
Asked by aioria guo:

As we know, there are a lot of built-in chart to pull data from JIRA system, Zephyr or like, I want to know whether there is a way to let the audience to view these charts without login, it will help to spread chart broader outside to non-confluence user.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The standard answer would be to allow anonymous access to the tools (strongly recommend the access is **read only** of course)


author: Taha Khanzada
body: Hi Aioria,

May be there are other cleaner solution available. One option is to create one **service account** with offcourse read-only access to your page and share below URL so that users will be automatically logged in with this account when they clicked the URL.

\<confluence-url\>/dashboard.action?os_username=\<username\>\&os_password=\<password\>

or

your_page_url?os_username=\<username\>\&os_password=\<password\>

This is useful when you don't want each business users to login to confluence to see charts. WIth the help of this URL they will be automatically logged in to confluence and they can view the charts.

PS. there may be better solutions than this.

Taha
Atlassian Customer Agreement - Your Data
Asked by Drew W.:

According to the Customer Agreement and Your Data section, "you hereby grant to Atlassian a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to (a) collect, use, copy, store, transmit, modify and create derivative works of Your Data".

Our organization has confidential data that it does NOT want to share with Atlassian. It seems that a self-host instance is one way to keep Your Data private. Does the Customer Agreement apply when Confluence is self-hosted?


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

The self hosted application is not shared with Atlassian. Only your company have the data itself.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Drew W.
body: Cool, thanks for confirming. Is there a different Customer Agreement for self-hosted operation of Confluence?

comments: author: Ryan Anderson
body: Did you ever get an answer to this one, Drew?


Tags: privacy

server

storage
confluence mobile application
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear sir,

Would it be possible to watch confluence by mobile ? Our confluence is version 4.2.1. Or can we add other plugin to do it ? Thank you.


Answers:
author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Is there any setting about mobile view? Because we tried connect our confluence by mobile, but we failed.

It can not be shown. Thank you.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, you don't need any settings.A question though - what does "we failed" mean? What goes wrong?Also, you should upgrade to 5.8 - a lot of work has been done on the mobile html/css/javascript since 4.2 and you would see improvements there.


author: Jeff Tow
body: Is there a simple way within the html/css for mobile to change the logo and color in header at this time? Thanks!


author: Milo Test
body: Confluence is automatically mobile. In fact there are two built-in views: the full web version fit to the device, and a task list version.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?


Tags: confluence-administration