youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How do I set the default space for specific user group?
Asked by Joe Lindsay:

There are two big groups that use the same instance on Confluence. When we log in is there a way to set the space that you default to?   

i.e. setting a user group to all have the same landing page?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: I am afraid the users will have to do it themselves as it is a personal setting. Or you will have set it for all of them via the database.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to create a static jira issue list in Confluence
Asked by Marcel Plomp:

We are frequently using the JIRA-issue-macro in Confluence to show a list of issues over a period.

After adding the macro to a page it must be static "forever", meaning it must not change when refreshing the page, after editing and when pushing the refresh button at the end of the list.

Adding the parameter static to the resource code of the jira-issue-marco is not working. When you push the refresh button at the end of the list, the list will still be updated.

BTW: Adding the parameter to the source code is not an option for "normal" users (not being a developer). A new user macro is maybe an option but I do not know how to create/code this.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Marcel Plomp
body: Copy/paste from the page with the issue list generated by the JIRA macro, is not working in IE, as IE adds a lot of blanks to each cell in the table. Using another brower is not an option as we are stuck to IE (for most common users)

The following workaround is available and acceptable:

* Find the page with the dynamic JIRA macro
* Hit the link at the bottom of the table   
  25issues.PNG
* The list will open in JIRA
* In JIRA, export the list to Excel (Current Fields)
* Copy the relevant cells from the Excel file
* Paste the cells on the page where you need them

The only thing that stays dynamic on the page is the link to the JIRA issue. All other cells are plain text.

Workaround as described is based (for us)on standard functionality in JIRA and Confluence and availability of programs like MS Office.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-create-a-static-jira-issue-list-in-Confluence/qaq-p/314116?attachment-id=8999){#link_11891482ef820f}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/53117/1/25issues.PNG){#display_11891482ef820f_0}


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: There are a few techniques you could use.

1. Use [JIRA Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI) and [getIssueList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI/Documentation#Documentation-getIssueList) to produce a static csv file that can be included on a page using the [CSV Macro](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL/CSV+Macro). There is an example on a Confluence page here: [getIssueList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI/Example+output+with+augments#Exampleoutputwithaugments-getIssueList)
2. A more general solution is to capture a point in time of a dynamic page. In this case, just using the standard JIRA macro. See [How to archive pages with dynamic content](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RUN/How+to+archive+pages+with+dynamic+content)

comments: author: Marcel Plomp
body: Actually, we do not want another (paid) plugin, at least not one with a lot of functionality that we are not going to use initially.


author: Marcel Plomp
body: Unfortunately this will not be fixed.... <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-36155>
How to create a Confluence page with Simple Groovy script usage with onDemand Confluence ?
Asked by CHETAN GUPTA:

Hi,

As part of evaluation, we want to check how we can create the forms

for small document collection applications ensuring the data can be validated for non unique etc.

I tried analyzing the documentation, but was not clear on

1. If Groovy is external or inbuilt plugin.
2. At some documentation it is mentioned that we can not install any third party plugin (groovy plugin !)
3. How to create a simple page with dynamic content coming from Groovy.

When I try to use "Other Macro" on the page, I do not find groovy macro as part of it.

Kindly answer or point to the appropriate documentation. Will appreciate assistance on the same.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The script runner addons are not available on Cloud, so you can't do this. There's not much more to say I'm afraid.

However, if you could explain your validation and requirements a bit more, we might be able to help you without the script runner.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Group Membership in User Objects not displayed
Asked by Jim:

Hello,

we?ve switched our authentication ressource from one LDAP to another LDAP - System. The usernames are the same in both systems.

We?ve exported the group memberships of the users via CLI to a CSV file to save them, switched the LDAP Ressource, synchronized and imported the CSV again.

The Group Memberships seemed to be imported so far, because we can see users in the groups.

But when we have a look at a user object, there are no group memberships displayed.

When a User logs in, the user has the correct access, but in the administration section there is no association to any group displayed.

How can we fix that?


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

This is not a problem that I'm expert with, however my bet is that there is inconsistency in the database group memberships or indexes of the instance.

If you have an old copy of the database, I recommend to restore it to another database and compare the membership table.

On a sidenote, if both LDAPs are the same, by creating a new user directory in Confluence pointing to the new LDAP, it should sync the users, groups and memberships located in the LDAP directory.

I hope this help.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
Can I use a 3rd party blog writer (Windows Live Writer) to submit blog entries?
Asked by eddy jones:

I would like to use Windows Live Writer to write to my blog in Confluence. I have a choice of several different protocols, will any of them work?

WordPress  
Blogger  
Atom Publishing Protocol  
LiveJournal  
Community Server  
dasBlog  
MetaWeblog API  

Any of these usable protocols to connect to the Confluence blog?

<br />

Eddy Jones


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence blogs are pages that are published, searched and rendered slightly differently to other Confluence pages. There's no real support for blog protocols because Confluence is designed as a wiki over a blogging portal. It's got a SOAP and REST interface which you could use to poke blogs in if you wanted to, but that's about it.

So, without that, the question really becomes "does Windows Live Writer produce output that Confluence can understand?".

comments: author: bc3tech
body: Since WLW produces HTML I should *hope* the answer to that is "yes".


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It can read \*standard\* HTML from files on the disk - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+Pages+from+Disk> (I say "standard" because my experience with WLW is that it does some really terrible html sometimes, because it has to botch it to "work" with bad browsers like IE)


author: bc3tech
body: but... WLW doesn't publish to disk. If Confluence can read pages from disk, then why can't the same endpoint be standardized to accept the HTML coming across from WLW?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Why bother? There's a perfectly good editor built into Confluence. Why use another tool (that could generate rubbish which you'd then have to try and handle) when you can do it in the application directly? The imports are there to help you move from an old redundant tool to Confluence, which implies importing a saved static site, not use a different editor.Let me ask you the same in reverse - does WLW allow you to accept Confluence's dynamic xhtml?


author: eddy jones
body: Offline editing/creating, for one. In terms of simply generating text with some basic formatting, you are right: Confluence is a perfectly good editor. However, WLW allows you to generate much better layouts, handles images and inserts much better. And simply, I prefer to use it for writing my blog entries. My WordPress blog has a perfectly good editor as well, but I still prefer to use WLW for creating my entries.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's about the only use I could think of too. I save the stuff I'm writing and upload it later, but that works well for me because I always write (text) first and worry about formatting later. So plain text is fine for me, and I don't have to think about all the terrors of translating "clever" html into another format.


Tags: blog

cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence - 'Search Index Size'
Asked by Steve Hsieh:

In 'Confluence Admin' -\> 'System Information' - 'Confluence Usage' section, there is a figure for 'Search Index Size'.

Where/how does this figure come from/calculated? is it from the database (if so, which table) or from the 'index' folder in 'Confluence Home'

Many thanks.


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

I've setup a confluence 5.6.3 and I couldn't find this part "Search Index Size". In my Confluence usage section, only this appears:

|          Confluence Usage          ||
|--------------------------------|----|
| **Total Spaces**               | 2  |
| **Site Spaces**                | 2  |
| **Personal Spaces**            | 0  |
| **Content (All Versions)**     | 18 |
| **Content (Current Versions)** | 15 |
| **Local Users**                | 1  |
| **Local Groups**               | 2  |

Can you confirm and paste some screenshot showing this information?

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
Prevent deactivated user from showing up in autocomplete
Asked by Optiver US Admin:

Is there a way to prevent a disabled user from showing up in auto-complete?

Our confluence instance has two user accounts with the same name (say, Bob Smith) but different LDAP identities. One of the accounts is active and the other disabled. When other users try to tag Bob in an article or comment, two identical entries appear in the auto-complete box. It is not clear which name to pick.

Ideally, I'd administratively remove the inactive account from the list of suggested names. If this is not possible, I think deleting the inactive user's name might work (note, the account itself cannot be deleted). Of course, I'd rather not use such a kludge unless I have to.


Answers:
author: Optiver US Admin
body: After a little more digging, I was able to remove the user by excluding accounts marked disabled in AD. This link has more detail: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/59972>.


Tags: confluence-administration
ERROR [http-bio-8090-exec-306] [jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse] logException Mapped exception to response: 500 (Internal Server Error)
Asked by Juan Pablo Gomez:

After restarting the server I have the following error communication between JIRA and Confluence:  

Logs:  
/var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/logs/atlassian-confluence.log  

URL: [http://jira.com.py:8090/500page.jsp](http://asusisv-atlassian1.sis.personal.net.py:8090/500page.jsp "http://asusisv-atlassian1.sis.personal.net.py:8090/500page.jsp")  
URI: /500page.jsp  
Servlet Path: /500page.jsp  
atlassian.core.seraph.original.url: /500page.jsp  
javax.servlet.error.status_code: 500  
2014-11-24 15:17:44,855 **ERROR \[http-bio-8090-exec-306\] \[jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse\] logException Mapped exception to response: 500 (Internal Server Error)**  

error_confluence.PNG  

Any ideas?  


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Juan,

Did you got any of the following questions?

* Did you had any DNS change?
* Proxy Changes?
* Does this happens when you try to add a JIRA issue in any Project or just a specific project?
* Are you able to reach confluence links from JIRA?
* Are you able to ping JIRA from Confluence server and vice-versa?  

Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.


author: Juan Pablo Gomez
body: Hello Deividi Luvison. I answer the questions:

<br />

Did You Had any DNS change?  
We have not had changes in DNS

Proxy Changes?  
We have not had any changes or headdress PROXY parameter.

Does this happens When you try to add a JIRA issue in any Project or just a specific project?  
If, for any type of project.

Are you reliable to reach confluence links from JIRA?  
Yes, I confirmed that you can access from the links at the Confluence JIRA.

Are you reliable to ping from Confluence JIRA server and vice-versa?  
The JIRA and CONFLUENCE server are on the same server.

Thanks and Regards.
How can we apply in Atlassian for the right to provide certificated trainings ?
Asked by Ivan Hanzl?k:

Our customers demand Certificated trainings.   
How can we apply in Atlassian for the right to provide certificated trainings ?   
We are Atlassian Experts, and we do provide various trainings.   
May we just issue our certificates ?


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Unfortunately, there is not any certified training yet. It is not a certification but you can check [Atlassian University](https://university.atlassian.com) for free training in some Atlassian products. Alternatively, you could hire an [Atlassian Expert](https://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts) to provide on-site training.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: My (limited) understanding is that Atlassian are looking at providing their official certification, it came up at Summit. But I'm not sure where they are in the plan.


author: Ivan Hanzl?k
body: Thanks. As I wrote - we are Atlassian partners and we want to provide our customers with certified trainings. I wanted to know if there exists any kind of approval from Atlassian to provide customers with certified trainings. My understanding is, that we as an Expert may claim that the training is "certified" and we may issue certificates. I see that more partners do it in this way.


Tags: jira

training-and-certification
Is there a way to get page views of Questions?
Asked by Mike Chang:

I'm in the middle of evaluating Questions as a product for our team. One of the chief concern is whether or not people are using it. Usage statistics is nice, but it doesn't have aggregate page view over time. It's one thing to have people answer questions, but what about people reading the answers? Is this already available?


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hey Mike,

There's a "view counter" feature request for questions that might help with this. You can visit: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-477>

Cheers

comments: author: yieryi
body: So what?


Tags: community

questions-for-confluence
Changed my operating system from windows to Mac OSX
Asked by Shathahijazy:

Hi,

Im about to buy JIRA and Confluence license yet i have a plan to change my working computer from windows to Mac OSX do i have to buy another license or i will be able to use the same license on the new laptop and migrate data from the old one to the new one?


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Shatha,  

Adding to what Norman said, no, you don't need to buy a second license. You can go to your my.atlassian.com and generate a developer license or a trial one.  

Cheers,  
wZ


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Looking at the Confluence migration guide, it looks like you can use the same license. You just need to use your developer license first. Shut down the old system and then replace with the production license. If you are only using starter licenses, you probably need to buy a second license since a developer license might not be available.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers>
Page versions (not) changing for attachments
Asked by B_ Normann P_ Nielsen:

Its kind of a "problem" in Confluence that Page versions (and dates) are not affected by changing attachements (upload etc) or changing in a Gliffy... is it possible to create a new Page version each time?


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

This is the expected behavior of the application. I could test in a new Confluence instance and confirm that attaching files doesn't create a new version.

I have created this improvement to you: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35857>

Vote and watch it to increase popularity of the improvement. Also comment in that ticket to check for updates.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: B_ Normann P_ Nielsen
body: Thanx, I was pretty sure it was as designed, and that is fair enough, but I have a customer looking into Confluence (migrating from Sharepoint) that did not like it. So the next point being: is there a 3rd party plugin or something else to "fix" it until it is part of the core feature :-)


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Can you specify the use-case?
User is disconnected when switching from JIRA to Confluence
Asked by Antoine Richard:

Hi Atlassian,  

I have a problem since I added Confluence on my server, JIRA was already installed on this one and was working well.  
Now each time an user use Confluence everybody is disconnected from JIRA. The same thing happens when someone is using JIRA, people are disconnected from Confluence.

I installed JIRA and Confluence using Linux installers so they are supposed to work on different Tomcat containers, not sure about that...  
I also use JIRA to manage Confluence users, maybe the problem come from here.  

Does somebody have an idea on how to fix that?  

Thank you


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Antoine,

This problem is most often caused by the cookie being overwritten when accessing JIRA, Confluence or potentially any other applications with a web-login on the same domain or IP.

On this link you can find more details and how to fix it:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/User+is+Constantly+Logged+out+of+JIRA>

Regards,

Renato Rudnicki


author: rrudnicki
body: This another link explain the same situation, but in a more simple way.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Logging+into+Another+Atlassian+Application+Logs+Me+Out+of+Confluence>

Cheers,

Renato Rudnicki


author: Antoine Richard
body: Thank you Renato.  
It is exactly what I was searching for. It solved my problem.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Cloud status page
Asked by RPT Admin:

Looking for a Confluence Cloud status page and came across [this](https://www.atlassian.com/software/ondemand/status)- can anyone confirm whether this is the correct status page? I'm slightly thrown by the fact that it refers to OnDemand instead of Cloud.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: OnDemand is the old name for Cloud. It's still used in a lot of places.

You're in the right place :smile:


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how do i share documents between confluence and jira
Asked by Lisa May:

We use both JIRA and confluence, I want to be able to associate my project documents to JIRA project tasks - can this be done?


Answers:
author: Lisa May
body: Hey Everyone - thanks heaps for the suggestions, we are trying to move away from network drives as to store docs and we want to link word / excel / visio etc. between the confluence and JIRA - I'm going to give the Share Attachments and pages as it sounds just the ticket.... cheers :smile:


author: Gorka Puente _Appfire_
body: Hi @Lisa May,

You could use [Share Attachments and Pages](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.keinoby.confluence.plugins.share-attachments). With this add-on you can generate unique links for your attachments (or pages), like in Dropbox, so you don't need external services to share your documents between JIRA and Confluence.

Give it a try!

Disclaimer, I'm from Keinoby, the developers of this add-on.

comments: author: Lisa May
body: I should have mentioned that we are using on demand so Share Attachments and Pages this won't work for us - any other suggestions?


author: Gorka Puente _Appfire_
body: Sorry for that @Lisa May!There's an open ticket in our public jira<https://keinoby.atlassian.net/browse/SA-14>Could you add yourself as watcher/voter?Regards,Gorka


author: Lisa May
body: how do I get to that page - it asks me to login each time and it fails even though details are correct?


author: Gorka Puente _Appfire_
body: Hi,I don't see your user. Can you send me an email to gorka ( a t ) keinoby (d o t ) com? So I can create a new user for you.Regards,Gorka


author: Justin Justin
body: Are you talking about documents, as in attachments to pages that you have in Confluence, or actual pages in Confluence?

If documents (PDFs, Word docs, etc.), you could store them in an external repository like Box, Dropbox, Google, Egnyte, Alfresco - and link them to JIRA via an integration by AppFusions. Then you can embed the JIRA list for your project in Confluence. Or you could also have same docs integrated with a Confluence integration.

You are describing an interesting use case btwn both platforms. Can you please describe more?

comments: author: Lisa May
body: Actual files - we want to try and eliminate our shared network drives - information gets lost.. we use JIRA as issue logging and sometimes the project docs are related to an issue or to an milestone in the implementation and we only want to maintain one document so being able share it is really important - does that make sense?


author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: You could link the relevant Confluence pages to JIRA issues. I don't know how many docs you have associated with a single page though.

You might want to check these links:

<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/02/link-jira-issues-to-confluence-pages-automatically/>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Integrating+JIRA+and+Confluence#IntegratingJIRAandConfluence-InsertingJIRAissues>

Cheers

Christian


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Link to an anchor in different page using a HTML macro
Asked by Iria:

Hi, I have tried to link to an anchor which is located in different page by using a HTML macro:

**Story :**

Page A: there is an anchor called "bottom"

In Page B, I want to link to the bottom anchor located in Page A and open Page A in a new tab and thus i use below HTML macro:

```
<a href="Page A#bottom" target="_blank">Click to open Page A bottom in a new tab</a>
```

**Result:**

This html does NOT work now (it works before!). It does open the Page A in a new tab, but it has not direct to the bottom of Page A.

Appreciate if anyone could provide me any feedback :smile:


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Iria, did you try following the instructions at the bottom of the page? When using an HTML macro, you don't have any access to the "magic" link-making methods in Confluence, so you have to use the following format: Page A#PageA-bottom"

comments: author: Iria
body: Cool, I try it and it does work :) Thank you so much!


author: Iria
body: I have refer to the syntax mentioned in below Confluence User Guide:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Working+with+Anchors>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
is there a way i can reply to notification
Asked by Lakshmi:

hi , I am looking for an option to reply for notification. for e.g when I am watching a blog/page whenever user commented on blog/page, will receive a notification. would like to reply to that notification and reply should go and add it to comments. will that possible?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Himanshu Chhetri
body: @SumaRamki Not sure if it integrates with the built-in email notifications of Confluence in a manner that you can reply to it directly. However, "Send Email To Page" plugin does have feature that comments can be added by sending email to an address defined for a Confluence page:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.plugins.confluence.send-email-to-page>

<https://artemis.atlassian.net/wiki/display/EMPLG/Send%20EMail%20To%20Page%20Plugin%20Documentation#SendEMailToPagePluginDocumentation-Example3-Addingcommentstoapage>:

comments: author: Lakshmi
body: Thanks Himanshu. will do evaluation of this plugin.


Tags: notification