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Problem with link browser
Asked by Pedro Sousa:

When I try to edit a page and try to include a link through the insert icon (edit) link, confluence displays the following alert

![](../../upfiles/errolink.JPG)

Could someone help me how to get around this problem  

Thank you in advance


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Which browser are you using? Also the version? See if it is supported : http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms

comments: author: Pedro Sousa
body: My version of Firefox is 3.5.1.0 it's compatible with Confluence 3.3.1

This problem started yesterday


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You can check if there is an error in Javascript browser and if it was caused by a plugin or some html code in the page. Does it happen on all pages btw?


author: Pedro Sousa
body: This error happens on all pages with many users. I read a solution proposed by Atlassian in <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-19024> , but in my version of Confluence(3.3.1) not work. This problem is happen only in Production environment. Test Environment and development environment is OK


author: Renato Cherullo
body: I just bumped into this problem and solved it reinstalling the Confluence REST API plugin.

Check the state of this plugin on your Plugin Manager. Make sure that all four modules are installed and running:

ConfluenceRESTAPIPlugin.png

If the "Confluence Rest API" module is missing (it happens every time that I disable it), just reinstall the plugin.

The plugin JAR is "confluence-rest-plugin-3.3.1.jar" and can be found in \<CONFLUENCE-INSTALL\>\\confluence\\WEB-INF\\classes\\com\\atlassian\\confluence\\setup\\atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Problem-with-link-browser/qaq-p/170074?attachment-id=11980){#link_118da3c849b657}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/28392/1/ConfluenceRESTAPIPlugin.png){#display_118da3c849b657_0}
Generating a message that is sent to specific users automatically in Confluence?
Asked by Mick Davidson:

I'd like a reminder message sent to a set of users reminding them to update a report in confluence.

Once created it should be sent once a week on a Friday.

Ideally, it should contain a link to the page they have to update.

Thank in advance.

(PS, is it possible to have Confluence automatically generate a copy of an existing page which is saved into the same sub-area and renamed with a new date?

For example, the existing page would be called: 13/02/12 Projects Report.

The copied version would be re-named: 20/02/12)


Answers:
author: Alex Suslin
body: JIRA and Confluence have an API and web services, so it is very simple to create your own cron task or windows service to do that job, on my previous working place I have created the same for my team: every friday service looks through all the worklogs and send emails to those users, which have no or not enough of them. It's really simple and took me like 2h (with testing and publish to our server).

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Alex,

thanks, I didn't recieve a notification of your reply, hence its lateness.

I'll pass your info on to our techncial team, I've no idea what a cron task it but I'm sure they do.

Cheers.


author: Midori
body: **[Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving)** **automates expiration tracking!**

In fact, it offers [two types of triggers](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/#triggers), one for periods and the other for specific dates:

1. ["Email people in every 7 days if this page is not updated"](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/#age-based). The disadvantage here is that it is not tied to an exact day, but the "too old" period defines the alert schedule. For example, if the page was update on Wednesday, then it won't alert on Friday, but next Wednesday. (If you people don't touch that page, only on Fridays, then it behaves like you requested.)
2. ["Email people on an exact day about this page"](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-expiration-tracking#labels). It works, as you requested, but the problem is that you have to define the expiration date by adding the label "expire-yy/mm/dd" (where "yy" stands for year, "mm" for month, "dd" for day). That means, every Friday, you need to update the label to the next Friday.

We use the second trigger with great success in our company, to update the "monthly sales" report page on the very first day of each month, which is 100% your use case.


author: Renjith Pillai
body: May be you should use Confluence Command Line and do your own cronjob in your server. You can copy pages and also rename with the new name and the script can also send an email to people to update it.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Renjith,

thanks, I didn't recieve a notification of your reply, hence its lateness.

I'll pass your info on to our techncial team as well.

Cheers.


Tags: automation

email

report
search in confluence 4.0 html code
Asked by Barinia Vidal:

I'M USING A PLUGIN TO INJECT HTML CODE IN THE CONTENT OF A PAGE OF THE SITE, BUT TO DO A SEARCH FOR THE TITLE OF THE PAGE DISPLAYED AS THE RESULT OF THE PAGE CONTENT CODE HTML

![](../../upfiles/IMAGE_1_2.png)  


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/36114/how-can-avoid-to-html-code-will-be-visualized-in-a-search](/questions/36114/how-can-avoid-to-html-code-will-be-visualized-in-a-search)
An error occurs when loading the file into your system.
Asked by Rem Brandt:

An error occurs when loading the file into your system. I'm waiting for a long time the file is loaded. But in the end nothing happens.  
I cancel the process, and I go see my attachment.

I see them, but I can not download, says the error.  
System write "**Page Not Found** ",  
<https://migpbp.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/590303/%D0%90%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81.+%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8B%D0%B9+%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80+%D0%B2+%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%85+%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%85+N106+%28%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C+2012%29.pdf>

And I can not remove it from the attachments. The system writes:

**Not Permitted You are not permitted to perform this operation.**

This may be due to the fact that the file name in Russian language.  
Name of file: "?????. ????? ??? ? ????? ????? N106"

How to be?

Rem


Answers:
author: LucasA
body: Hello,

We have a known issue that describes this: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-5767>

Please raise a support tikcet if you still facing this error.

Cheers,

Lucas Lima

Atlassian Support


Tags: confluence-cloud

cloud
Search Capabilities for Imported Files & New Data
Asked by John DeLong:

We are in the process of designing and implementing our Confluence configuration, and want to ensure we maximize the function of the search tools.

How do we best accomplish the following:

A) Structure the system to "find" imported files \& content stored in MS Office 2003, 2007 or 2010 formats.

B) Accomplish the same as item "A" with newly created files and content.

I suspect that this will involve both the approporaite use of core capabilities and some other tools or plugins.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: Structuring your system for optimal search results is a trade off with useful/usable space count. Too few spaces and there is too much in one place, too many and it may become non intuitive in locating the right space, see <https://www.adaptavist.com/display/AtlassianConfluence/Content+Organisation>

AFAIK all files are indexed and therefore searchable and all files are considered equally important. Your ability to locate content is based on the search parameters you provide. Searching by keyword is one way, searching by labels that you allocate is another, uou can also limit searches to type eg blog, or by page.

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Syntax>

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Searching+Confluence>

There isn't anything specific you can do to improve/affect searching outised confluence search criteria. The only thing I can think of is that the 'extractors' that are run against uploaded files may not be compatible with the latest microsoft office format, Im sure someone will clarify.
urgent problem html code!!!
Asked by Barinia Vidal:

I'M USING A PLUGIN TO INJECT HTML CODE IN THE CONTENT OF A PAGE OF THE SITE, BUT TO DO A SEARCH FOR THE TITLE OF THE PAGE DISPLAYED AS THE RESULT OF THE PAGE CONTENT CODE HTML


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ouch, there's no need to shout.

If you want anything resembling an answer, you need to tell us what Atlassian product you're using. And read Andy's comment - your posting is rambling and unclear.

comments: author: Elvir Hadzic
body: It seems he/she 's talking about Confluence: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/35918/search-in-confluence-4-0-html-code>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ta, I'll close this one as "mostly useless" then ;-)


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Me too wanted to ask the same, and wondering whether the question itself is related to any Atlassian project or spam?


author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: a) why on earth are you SHOUTING

b) consider punctuation, it helps readability

c) the quetion is unclear. Consider restating the question to have a hope of anyone spending time answering it


Tags: code

html
'Page Not Found' when clicking on Demonstration Space & others
Asked by Ray Scott:

I've performed a brand new, clean install of Confluence 4.1.2 and it breaks immediately when I click on the link to view Demonstration Space.

The link in question is http://localhost:8090/display/ds which gets redirected to http://localhost:8090/spaces where I'm presented with a 'Page Not Found' page.

I've attached the log file, as I have absolutely no clue why it is doing this. It seems to break during execution of code in the Spaces Directory Plugin, and seems to also be complaining about a missing session and lazy initialization that has failed.

If anyone can help with this, it would be very much appreciated.

Thanks, Ray.

(catalina.2012-02-15.log)


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Ray

Just checking the simplest solution, in case it's the right one... :)

Is it possible that your Confluence site doesn't include the Demonstration space? When you install Confluence, you can choose to include/exclude that space. The choice is offered during the Setup Wizard. If you chose "Production Installation" and then "Empty Site" (instead of "Example Site") then the Demonstration space is not installed.

The documentation has some screenshots that will help explain what I mean:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Setup+Guide#ConfluenceSetupGuide-6ProductionInstallationLoadContent>

Cheers, Sarah


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Ray,

Are you using MS SQL Server? If so you might be hitting the issues documented at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF210/Known+Issues+For+SQL+Server>

The above document suggests updating the jTDS driver to 1.0.3 or later.

Hope that helps,

Andrew.

comments: author: Ray Scott
body: Hi Andrew,

I'm actually using Tomcat so unfortunately that issue isn't the solution. And I was so happy when I saw a reply :)


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Ray,

Tomcat would be the app server, but what database server are you using? The errors in the log file indicate something is going wrong when Confluence is trying to talk to your database.

Andrew.


author: Ray Scott
body: Hi Andrew,

I should have remembered earlier to just use the first line of the Java Exception message to search Support. I've found the issue is already known and still unresolved, but it seems that if you don't choose the Demo data during the install, you can bypass the bug. So I just reinstalled choosing to go with an empty site. Thanks for your diligent help.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24282>
Customizing search result display
Asked by Anuradha Sreenivasan:

I've included the search result macro in one of my pages.   
I'd like to see only the page title in the search results and not part of that content. Is there a way to do that? Looking into the docs didn't give me much of an idea.


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Anu, there's a tutorial on writing a plugin to customise the search results screen at <https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Writing+a+search+result+renderer> Hope that helps, Andrew.
Is MySQL 5.5 compatible with Confluence 4.0.x?
Asked by Shreya Rawal:

Is MySQL 5.5 compatible with Confluence 4.0.x?

I was unable to find any direct information in Confluence documentation.

Thanks,

Shreya


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Shreya, I think MySQL 5.5 falls under "not supported, but it works". I've installed Confluence with MySQL 5.5 a number of times and have never had any problems, I think it's just that it's not a version that Atlassian have tested yet and is therefore not officially supported. Whether you use MySQL 5.5 or not depends on how important it is to you to be running a supported configuration. As mentioned I've run several instances and not had any problems, but I accept that if I did run into problems then Atlassian may not be willing to support my installs unless I could prove that any problems I encountered we're also present on a supported configuration. Hope that helps? Andrew.

comments: author: Shreya Rawal
body: Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the reply. That answers my question :)

Currently we are runnin MySQL 5.0.77. Is it the latest version that is supported?


author: Shreya Rawal
body: Perfect! Thanks Andrew.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Shreya, the latest supported versions are listed at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/System+Requirements> , currently 5.0.28+ and 5.1 so 5.0.77 would be a supported version. Andrew.
Required Form Fields for Templates?
Asked by Mike Siekkinen:

Is it possible to make a [form field](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Form+Field+Markup+for+Templates) a required input before it will allow a user to continue creating a page from a template? If not specifically form fields, is there some other sort of input prompting templating mechanism that requires **something** to be specified?

I'm using Confluence 4.0


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: To answer Mike's question,the Scaffolding plugin does offer this capability, and in Confluence v4.x.


author: Joseph Ramsey
body: This could be done in older versions of Confluence with Scaffolding plugin by inputting a required=true parameter on certain macros!

My question is is it possible to require an answer or selection using variables when creating templates in Confluence OnDemand. In OnDemand the form fields and drop-down lists disappear by default after Step 2. I am hoping it is possible to work around this issue.


author: Tobbi Gudmundsson
body: Hi Mike,

Not sure if it is exactly what you are looking for but if I understand you correctly you could use User Macros. Essentially the whole content of a page (even if based on a template) can consist of a User Macro. Depending on how many forms you need filled you can specify the $body or $paramXXX as mandatory ultimately requiring the user to provide the information before creating the page.

Cheers,

TG.


Tags: template
How do I find orphaned pages?
Asked by Anthony Newnam:

I would like to find all pages that do not have an incoming link, but I don't want to include parent pages as an incoming link. Ideally I would like a table of page titles with number of links.

I'm attempting to ensure that all of our pages are accessible without using the hierarchy viewer to make the page flows better.


Answers:
author: Midori
body: An alternative way to detect pages that cannot be found (for any reason) is to activate the [page view tracking](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/view-tracking) feature of the [Archiving Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123).

Instead of checking the incoming links, it will **check if there is any actual visit on a Confluence page** in the given period.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi,

Does <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Orphaned+Pages> do what you want?

Andrew

comments: author: Anthony Newnam
body: I should have put that in my original summary, but no, unfortunately that page does not, because it only shows pages who have no incoming links. Confluence considers having a parent page as 1 incoming link.
How to backup / restore a single plugin?
Asked by M.R. van Kleef:

Is it possible to backup and restore a single plugin? If I install a newer version of an existing plugin I want to do so for the case the newer version doesn't work.

Michiel


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Michiel, no you don't need to use JIRA. Do your plugins install/uninstall via Confluence Admin -\> Plugins? If so just uninstall the newer version of the plugin and then install the old version. Have a look at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Removing+Malfunctioning+Plugins> for where plugins might be located, most third party plugins are stored in the database. Hope that helps, Andrew.


author: Oli S
body: Take a look into the folder \<Conf-Installation-directory\>\\temp\\

I found my plugins there.


author: ChaiY
body: Hi Michiel,

You can manually install the older version of plugin by putting the plugin jar file into the \<JIRA_HOME\>/plugins/installed-plugins directory.

Sincerely,

Chai Ying

comments: author: M.R. van Kleef
body: Hi Chai Ying,

Currently I don't use Jira. Do I need to do so?  
There is a directory "bundled-plugins", but this seems to be only for system plugins. I don't see my own plugins.

Michiel
How to import data from an excel attachment into a chart macro (Confluence 4.1)
Asked by Jagbir Singh:

I have an axcel sheet which I have displayed using the Office Excel Plugin.

But I would also like to display a few charts on the same confluence page. For this purpose I would like to use the Chart Plugin as the charts from the excel sheet do not show up very well.

But I would like to use the data which I have in my exsiting attachment.

Is there a way to using the data from my excel attachment in my Chart Plugin?

Thanks

Sunny


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: If I am not wrong, we used to export the data into CSV from the excel and directly use the chart macro with data as csv.

comments: author: Jagbir Singh
body: could you please mention the steps or some link which explains how to do that?


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: The chart plugin just needs a table (in the right format for the chart type) in the macro body to work. Both the excel and csv macro produce this. The outline of what you can do is:

```
{chart:...}{excel:...}{chart}or {chart:...}{csv:...{csv}{chart}
```


author: Jagbir Singh
body: Thanks for the reply Bob. Sorry i am a little confused. When i try to in the use the chart plugin i have to fill in a whole bunch of fields in plugin edit section. so where exactly do i mention what you wrote above. i would be grateful if you could explain using an example.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: In the macro body - use insert wiki markup from the insert pulldown


author: Cole Parsons
body: From googling around myself I have found this solution:

You'<https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TBL/pages/67830715/Converting+CSV+Data+into+Tables>

you'll wanna export a .csv file from your excel document and paste it into a macro like shown in the link and that should work.


author: Matt
body: What version of Confluence are you using, Jagbir?


Tags: app

chart

data

ms-excel
Confluence team calendar: events with geographically distributed teams in different time zones
Asked by AM:

Any ideas how to setup events with geographically distributed teams in different time zones ....?


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: A-M, I think this might be the issue you are after? <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-265> it's an outstanding feature request. You may want to comment/watch/vote on that issue to stay updated.


author: Fabian Lopez
body: Is there a way to see what time zone team calendar is using? Server time zone? user timezone?

Can we decide the time zone when we create the event? I am traying to publish events for multiple zone users and they are seeing the wrong time.

Here is the new location of the issue but it looks like it is inactive

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-265)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-265>


author: AM
body: Okay, Sherif answered the question (thanks!) - it's an outstanding feature <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-265> - so currently Confluence team calendar is not option (for us) for teams working in different time zones.

Thanks to all  
A-M


author: Bernhard Hofmann
body: If I create an entry scheduled for 9am, is that 9am my time? Does that show as 10am for people who are in a time zone that is 1 hour ahead of me? I.e. is the time zone set per entry, or for the whole calendar, or the entire wiki?

comments: author: Fabian Lopez
body: Any news about this question?. I have the same problem, trying to understand which timezone is the user seeing. Browser based, user preference, computer timezone(system)


author: Matthew Erickson
body: Hi A-M,

Can you elaborate a bit about the issues you are having with users in different time zones?

Cheers,  
Matt


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
How do I import stuff from external issue trackers?
Asked by AdRoll Ops Team:

I'm trying to import data from pivotal tracker.

I've seen your documentation here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/Importing+Data+From+Pivotal+Tracker>

The documentation refers to "Select **'Administration' \> 'System' \> 'Import \& Export' \> 'External System Import' \> 'Pivotal Tracker** '."

But that menu doesn't exist in my on demand instance even though the JIRA Importers Plugin is installed and is the right version.


Answers:
author: AdRoll Ops Team
body: I found the answer in another question... I find it completely unprofessional that there is simply no warning anywhere about the fact that pivotal tracker imports cannot be done in the on demand instances but you need to install your own jira.


author: Sunjay Pandey
body: Agree with this - completely frustrating and not user friendly interface and documentation.


author: Sunjay Pandey
body: Agree with this - completely frustrating and not user friendly interface and documentation.

comments: author: Michael Knight
body: Proper support for the [JIRA Importer Plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/32645) is coming for OnDemand. This will remove this intermediary step for some issue trackers.


Tags: cloud

import

jira-cloud
trouble with delayed keyboard response
Asked by john walter:

I am doing basic data entry into our Confluence wiki and having real trouble with the keyboard being delayed. i type fast, but inaccuratly, so im always using the backspace key...with the delay (and its on this site as well), im constantly mistyping and miscorrrecting.

any idea what causes this - is it me, or is there some setting that can be changed?

(also, its just on confluence, not my PC on other apps)


Answers:
author: john walter
body: yes different browser helped, but is there any reason for this? I would prefer to use IE (company standard). My version is 8.0.6001.18702. The solution might help other oddball issues with IE.

thx


author: NikE
body: I remember something similar to what you are describing and it was browser specific (I believe it was with Firefox 3.5 and 3.6). I type the same way, so I feel your pain.

Is there any chance you can try this with a different browser (ideally a newer version of Chome or FF)?


Tags: content