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Page version history
Asked by Dan Kontorovskyi:

Hello,

Do somebody knows how you can get all previous page version dates in efficient way?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: When on a page, click on the Tools Menu (or ??? in newer versions on the upper right corner of the page), choose "Page History", and then it should show all the previous version dates in a nice table.

Or are you asking about getting version dates for all pages at once?

comments: author: Dan Kontorovskyi
body: I'm asking how to do this in Java.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: ContentEntityManager (<https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ContentEntityManager.html>) has a function called [getVersionHistorySummaries](https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ContentEntityManager.html#getVersionHistorySummaries-com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject-), which is just a list of objects. Then you should be able to step through the VersionHistorySummary objects and call getLastModificationDate() on each one.
How do I Remove the Last Updated and Created By Text?
Asked by Guillaume:

I'm using confluence as a portal, and the home page of the space is cluttered by this "Last Updated and Created By" info that is not relevant in this case. Anyone as an idea how to remove this?


Answers:
author: Panos
body: Use css:

```
.page-metadata{	display:none;}
```

or javascript

```
$(".page-metadata").hide();
```

comments: author: Stephen Deutsch
body: From your question, you seem to be on Confluence Cloud, so you will have to use the CSS macro in your page to be able to accomplish this. Just paste the text from Panos's answer :smile:


author: Guillaume
body: It worked. Thx so much


author: Tim Oliver
body: This is not possible in confluence cloud as of 2018.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
can I attach a zip file?
Asked by Diane Reiter:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Uploading Files](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=701435129)*

Can I attach a zip file in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Of course, you can attach any type of file to Confluence. If it's not a recognized filetype, it will simply not show any preview (i.e. it won't show you what's inside the zip file), but there is no problem with uploading/downloading. You just have to make sure to stay within the file size limits of Confluence set by the Confluence Administrator.


Tags: attachment
Having trouble using the Content by Label Macro
Asked by Sandy Johnson:

I tried using the Content by Label macro, but not all the pages with that label showed up. The pages with the given label that existed before today were displayed. The pages where I added the macro right before or after I used the macro are not displayed. I thought maybe there was a timing issue here, but I've waited more than 2 hours and still have the same problem. Any ideas why some pages will show up and some won't? I'm using Confluence version 5.8.13


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Did you try rebuilding the Search Index?

Gear --\> General Configuration --\> Content Indexing (under ADMINISTRATION) --\> Rebuild

comments: author: Sandy Johnson
body: Worked like a charm, thanks for your help!
How to access to the breadcrumbs.vm file?
Asked by Nicolas Casel:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [How to disable hiding (ellipsing) of breadcrumbs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=289964105)*

Hi all,

In order to change the default ' / ' symbol (by ' \> ' ) in the breadcrumb, how can I access to the breadcrumbs.vm file?

Via the 'General Configuration' menus or do I need to edit the file directly on the server?

Thanks in advance,


Answers:
author: Panos
body: edit the file directly on the server.


Tags: breadcrumbs

confluence-administration

documentation
How do I disable/hide the Recently Updated Pages macro?
Asked by Jesse DeRose:

I noticed a lot of macros are cluttering our content pages. How can I hide/disable these macros (e.g. Search This Document, Featured Pages, Recently Updated Pages, Popular Topics)?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: I don't know what "Search This Document" is, but everything else is deletable from the Edit view.

comments: author: Jesse DeRose
body: Is that in the page template? I want to do this for each page's template so the macros don't have to be individually deleted for each page.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

layout

macro

view
Alternate storage location for attachments?
Asked by Ricardo Garcia:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Attachment Storage Configuration](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=166876)*

Is it possible to configure the location of attachment's local storage, to select an alternate directory and/or network location?


Answers:
author: Ricardo Garcia
body: Found the answer. Thanks!  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-relocate-the-attachments-storage-directory-318668908.html>


Tags: attachment
How to create a table that links to other tables?
Asked by Javier Ferraez:

I want to create a confluence space for monthly release planning. I want to have a main page with a table with a list of projects and a column with a targed month.

Then for each month, I want to have a separate table in a separate page. If the main list of projects has an item listed under april, then I want to see it in the April page, but it it's changed to May, then it should automatically move to May.

Is this possible in confluence?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: I do all sorts of things like this using Page Properties macros --

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html>
I am not able to enable external user management
Asked by Tim Bachta:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Disabling the Built-In User Management](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=138741)*

When I attempt to check the enable external user management box I am not able to do so, system grays it out. I want to use my companies user directory for user management like we do with JIRA.


Answers:
author: Athirah Zolkefli
body: Hi Tim,

When you access the Security Configuration page, you have to click on the Edit button in the top right corner to make any changes to the Security and Privacy settings. By default, all options on the page are grayed out. Once you click Edit, you should be able to check the box and save the changes.

Regards,  
Athirah


Tags: confluence-administration

documentation

user-management
what is the expand macro wiki markup that works
Asked by Chris Riggins:

the wiki markup documented in the expand macro documentation "{expand:title}text to be displayed{expand}" does not work on confluence cloud. What is the correct wikimarkup??


Answers:
author: Barbara Snyder
body: It works for me. I don't type a closing command. Just the {expand then Return, then type the text, then double-click the box to change the title if desired. hth.


author: Chris Riggins
body: thanks - it does work in the menu frame just fine. Appreciate the quick response


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Send warning to user who's sharing a page to someone who can't see the page
Asked by CyrilC:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Share a Page or Blog Post](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=16482511)*

Often users share a page to people who has no permission to see the page or even the space holding this page.

It would be great if Confluence would warn the user for that, before sending the notification!

In my company, when it occurs, users ask to the helpdesk why they can't access to the page, or why the "share" function is broken. It's becoming very boring to explain the same thing : "Sharing does not grant access, it's not like google+, etc..."

Since most of our spaces are restricted, this happens very-very-very often!... ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

Is there any incoming feature, plugin or workaround?

(PS: Same issue with JIRA)


Answers:
author: Vitalii Petrychuk
body: Sound like a security issue - leaking someone's permissions.


Tags: notification

share
An error occurred while searching for spaces.
Asked by Harvey Yau:

On Confluence 5.9.7, getting an error message when viewing the space directory.

"An error occurred while searching for spaces."

Permissions appear to be correct, and indexes have been rebuilt. What might be wrong? No error messages.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What does the log say?

comments: author: Harvey Yau
body: I can't find any logs or relevant error messages, but the log parser support tool says that this is possibly related: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38483>.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I doubt that's relevant, as it's a bug in an older version, fixed in yours.

What does the log say at the time you try a search?

The best thing to do is have two sessions - one browser window ready to click search and a terminal logged into the server and running "tail -f atlassian-confluence.log". Click the search, get the error and show us everything that gets dumped into the terminal window.


Tags: confluence-administration
What are the best practices for how to name labels?
Asked by Frances Albrecht:

We're creating Information Architecture guidelines. Are there best practices for label names? I.e., should they be short, no more than two words in length joined by a hyphen, or does it matter? Pointers to any relevant IA guidance documentation (not already in the Atlassian help) would be much appreciated.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: We use underscores to separate words as some actually contain hyphens, e.g. microsoft_hyper-v


author: Alex Yasurek
body: All labels are lower case so if you have multiple word labels then you should use a hyphen to separate them since you can't use camel casing. For example: technical-documentation reads better than technicaldocumentation

The rest is really up to how you decide to create labels but I would suggest keeping them short. I would also create some standard certain type of pages, like pages that show help videos have a label "video" so you can then easily create a list of all pages that have help videos by just using the label "video". Similar for other types of pages like release notes or FAQ pages.

Just remember that labels are useful for creating list of pages that appear in different sections of your space or in different spaces altogether.


Tags: confluence-administration
problem when create a applink between cofluence and jira
Asked by jeff gao:

the error is :This application has the same ID as myself. Can't create link to myself.

how can i resolve it?

thanks.


Answers:
author: Risolv IT Solutions
body: I'm posting because I did not see anyone post the solution anywhere.

I suspect this issue occurs when you have Confluence and JIRA hosted on the same server but have configured them with two different FQDNs.

**The fix is to configure the link while logged in Locally to the server.**

I had to use the FQDN for friendly URL and the localhost:8090 for applicaiton URL then it connected without issues.


author: jeff gao
body: Hi Nic.

Thank you,I wanted to create a applink between JIRA and confluence ,and I used the Domain name of application ,such as A.company.com, B.company.com, and I am sure they are different.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What urls are you feeding into the systems? The unique IDs the systems use should be totally different, the only way I can think of getting the same one is to clone a service from one place to another, but you'd have to be trying to link JIRA to a clone of itself, not a Confluence.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to get rid of URL at the bottom of an exported-to-PDF Confluence page?
Asked by Morgan_Thompson:


Answers:
author: 105349
body: Hey Morgan!

Give this a try:

**(Cog Icon) -\> General Configuration -\> Look and Feel -\> PDF Layout** or**PDF Stylesheet**

From there, you should be able to modify the format/layout of exported PDFs to your heart's content.

Also check out:

[Customising Exports to PDF](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/sharing-content/exporting-confluence-pages-and-spaces-to-other-formats/exporting-confluence-pages-and-spaces-to-pdf/customising-exports-to-pdf)[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/sharing-content/exporting-confluence-pages-and-spaces-to-other-formats/exporting-confluence-pages-and-spaces-to-pdf/customising-exports-to-pdf)


author: Morgan_Thompson
body: When I export a Confluence page to PDF, it automatically generates a footer section that includes my name, the date, and the URL of the page I am exporting. How do I modify the default footer section? I definitely do not want the URL.


Tags: confluence-administration

pdf-export
maven-confluence-plugin
Asked by Oleg Kalinin:

Hi,

I need to install this plugin - <https://github.com/bsorrentino/maven-confluence-plugin>

Is it compatible with my instance? [Atlassian Confluence](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) 5.8.4

I can't find this plugin by searching (Add new plugin) and can't find the corresponding jar file to install.

Thanks for your help.

Oleg K


Answers:
author: Oleg Kalinin
body: Thanks, guys, for clarifying!


author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: It does not look an Atlassian P2 plugin; it looks like a maven plugin. I think you are supposed to add this maven plugin to your maven configuration and then it will generate documentation and send it to a Confluence instance.

comments: author: Alex Yasurek
body: Yes I agree. Seems to be a source code for a plugin you have to build yourself. You don't directly add this project to confluence.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there any way to track who used the Run CLI Actions in Run with user form ?
Asked by Yvan Le Texier:

Hello,

I'm evaluating **Run CLI Actions** inside **Run with a user form** **and parameters** macro to allow JIRA project admins to add/remove users from selected project groups without being JIRA Admins

So basically,

* A generic JIRA admin user is defined in a profile inside **Run CLI actions** configuration
* Confluence page view is restricted to corresponding JIRA project admins

<br />

For Auditing purpose, we are required to track real Confluence users using this form and to see the action that was done.

Is there a way to do that, any existing log ?  

Can I use something based on [How to archive pages with dynamic content](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RUN/How+to+archive+pages+with+dynamic+content), will it work using **Run CLI actions** inside **Run with a user form** **and parameters**macro?

Yvan


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: I think there are a number of alternative depending on what you need. Perhaps the one you suggested is the right one for you. Here are some other idea that can be added to the form submit:

1. Insert a row into a database using the [SQL Macro](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SQL/SQL+Macro?src=sidebar)
2. Use the CLI macro to append text to a page or add a comment
3. Use one of the [scripting macros](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SCRP) to do something else

For #2 it would be something like the following using a profile that specifies **product=atlassian** and a common user and password.

```
--action run @DATA:jira --action getServerInfo --server https://jira.examplegear.comconfluence --action addComment --comment xxx --space XXX --title "my page" --server https://wiki.examplegear.com
```

comments: author: Yvan Le Texier
body: Thanx for the reply.

Do you think I can "*Use the CLI macro to append text to a page or add a comment"*but only if the previous CLI command succeeded ?


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Yes, this is possible. I will update my answer.


Tags: addon-org.swift.confluence.acli

addon-org.swift.confluence.run

confluence-administration
Scary typo on page
Asked by Barbara Snyder:

Re: the The Space Tools - Look and Feel tab: The "Choose new theme" area says "To change the default theme of this Confluence \*site\*", not \*space\*. Is it safe to assume that is a typo, and I am actually changing the theme for the space?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Scary-typo-on-page/qaq-p/150016?attachment-id=7186){#link_1190ddd6943825}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/25044/1/Screen%20Shot%202016-03-24%20at%202.01.36%20PM.png){#display_1190ddd6943825_0}


Answers:
author: Barbara Snyder
body: Can anyone at Atlassian confirm that the sentence shown above "To change the default theme of this Confluence **site** " should be "...of this Confluence **space**" when you are on the Look and Feel tab of the Space tools? If I want to change the theme of a single space to the Documentation scheme, I should be able to do it from that tab, correct? Thanks.


author: Robert G. Nadon
body: To set a theme to a space: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/apply-a-theme-to-a-space-139535.html>

As far as default theme it would make no sense for a space to have a "Default" as only one theme can be applied. So the "default" applies to the site, whereas to set an individual space theme see link above.

Just my two cents, in my words, Nic, is the one of the most knowledgeable people on Atlassian answers, just giving my description.

Cheers and hope this helps,

Robert

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's a really good way to put it :smile: (The bit about how the default applies, not the bit about me, but thanks for that too!)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I don't know which page you're talking about, but it could well be valid - as a system admin can change the global theme.

comments: author: Barbara Snyder
body: I said which page: Space Tools - Look and Feel tab. The top text says "theme for this SPACE" and the bottom text says "you can change default theme for this SITE."

In the Space Tools Look and Feel page, I would expect that I am only changing the default theme for the space, not the site.

So is the text incorrect? Should it say "you can change the default theme for this SPACE?"

Because if not, I don't see any way to change the theme for the space.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, the number in your labels led me to think you were talking about documentation. I'm with you now, sorry for getting confused.

There is no such thing as a default theme for a space. A space has a theme. If you don't set one, it takes the **site** default. In this screen, you get a link to the site space because you're an admin. I'd guess that as you don't see any options to change it for the space, you only have one theme installed.


author: Barbara Snyder
body: I see Documentation Theme at the bottom.

Screen Shot 2016-03-24 at 2.01.36 PM.png

I think the sentence should say theme, not site. How can I change the theme for a space?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Change default body text color
Asked by Craig Day:

The default body text of all of our confluence pages is RGB(51,51,51) . This is sort of problematic because while editing people will change fonts to colors and then try to change them back to what they beleive is the default color, black. But the default color is not black its RGB(51,51,51)....

I don't see anywhere in the Color Scheme settings to change the body text color. Any suggestions here? We want it to be black RGB(0,0,0)


Answers:
author: Alex Yasurek
body: Hi,

If you are a system admin then you can add CSS into the stylesheet page found under the "Look and Feel" section of the admin area.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to provide a client with access to a single space without setting them up an account?
Asked by Dean Evans:

**Background**

We are using Confluence to harbour all internal documentation but certain spaces we want/need to be able to share directly with specific clients. I am aware of the public access approach but this allows the client to see all shared documentation across the site that has been given this kind of permission, which therefore means Client 1 can also see Client 2's documentation and vice versa; which we want to avoid for security reasons.

**Question**

Is there a way to restrict the access so that if we have shared a space with a client via there email address; they can not access the Space Directory to navigate to our other clients documentation without registering them as a user on our instance?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No.

You need to have an account to be able to work out what a user can or can not see.

comments: author: Dean Evans
body: Thank you.


Tags: confluence-administration
problem with opening the date picker in Confluence 5.9.6
Asked by Keith Wallace:

Some users complained that the data picker ( // ) in Confluence is not working anymore. So far I could not reproduce it with my browsers (IE11, Chrome, Firefox). Is there a known issue regarding this functionality. It is the first time that I am getting this complaints.

We lately roll-out Refined Theme for Confluence 5.0.1. Could this be causing a sporadic issue?


Answers:
author: Dennis Andersen
body: Hi Keith,

This is not something that we've encountered or heard of and there should be no issues with it using RefinedTheme for Confluence 4.2.x - 5.0.x.

Could it be some custom HTML/CSS or other customisation that collides with the date picker? If you're able to reproduce the issue, feel free to raise an issue on the RefinedWiki support: [support.refinedwiki.com](http://support.refinedwiki.com) and we'll do everything we can to find and fix the problem.

Best regards,

Dennis Andersen

Product Lead, RefinedTheme

RefinedWiki


Tags: date-picker

refined
Does it make sense to place Confluence and HipChat together with JIRA?
Asked by Mosh:

Hello,

I've just installed JIRA Software on Windows Server 2008 R2 (using MySQL). There are 14GB RAM in total on this host.

I see that tomcat8 process takes 1GB RAM and mysqld process consumes 0.5GB RAM.

Now I'm wondering what if I install Confluence on the same machine. Does it make sense?

Do they need separate tomcat instances? separate mysql instances?

I'm concerned about performance and response time.

and what if I install HipChat on this host too? Does it makes sense? Do you think it's too heavy?

Thank you


Answers:
author: Nicolas Bourdages
body: On my own setup, I use Linux virtual machines. Easier to backup and to add CPU or RAM as usage grows. My own Confluence setup has 350 users, maybe maximum 200 online at the same time (we have office around the world) and I would say we're lightweight users. The java process uses about 3GB on a normal day, and uses 4 Intel Xeon 2.66 processors for peak usage.

No two situations are alike. Try having both on the same machine (I would use different tomcat instances, but I'm not a system expert) and monitor the performance. [This article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/performance-tuning-130289.html) should help. Make sure to tweak your java heap size until it gets just right.


Tags: confluence-administration

hipchat

jira

jira-administration