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Attachment Version Question
Asked by Richard S:

We are running Confluence 4.1.4 and I am running into a problem with the attachments plugin as it will not expand (when the arrow is clicked) to show previous versions.

I know this has been address in the latest downloadable plugin version (3.3.2), however it says it is only suitable for Confluence 4.2 - 4.2.1.

Does this mean I shouldn't upload it for use with our Confluence version? What would happen? Is it actually possible to upload 1 new system plugin?

You'll have to excuse me as I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to system plugins / updates etc. =)


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Steve,

if it is not suitable for your version, I wouldn't use it. At least, you have to try it in a test environment and test carefully.

I would rather upgrade to a newer Confluence Version

Best regards

Thomas

comments: author: Richard S
body: I thought that may be the direction I would be given.

I'm taking it, it would be dangerous to upgrade the plugin, and if it didn't work correctly, go back to the previous version (if that is possible?) again?


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: that' s one of the things you have to test. Sorry that I've got no better answer for you.


author: Richard S
body: No problems. I appreciate the advice anyway. =)


Tags: confluence-app
How to disable anonymous access to all personal spaces in one time
Asked by zhou hu:

We have enabled anonymous access on site level to allow anonymous user to access to a public space which is anonymous access enabled. Then we find many people post contents, such as blog, on their personal space which is anonymous access enabled. But we don't want the anonymous users to access such contents on people's personal spaces. So is there any way to disable anonymous access to all the personal spaces in one time?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Use the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) with the [runFromSql](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-runFromSql) action with SQL to select all personal spaces for the [removePermissions](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-removePermissions) action - something like:

```
confluence --action runFromSql --sql "select spacekey as "space" from spaces where spacetype = 'personal'" --common "-a addPermissions --permissions view --userId anonymous" --database confluence-3.5.13 --driver postgresql
```

This is a legal Confluence activity, no need to shutdown Confluence or worry about database backup. Use the latest snapshot - [confluence-cli-2.6.0-SNAPSHOT-distribution.zip](https://bitbucket.org/bob_swift/confluence-cli/downloads/confluence-cli-2.6.0-SNAPSHOT-distribution.zip)

comments: author: Eric Sebian
body: Is this still a valid option for removing anonymous access permissions? If I go this route, will I need to run this periodically or does it also turn off the functionality?


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

Highly recommend you to create a **database backup dump** and execute the given SQL query below on your **staging environment** as a **safety precaution**

```
DELETE FROM spacepermissions WHERE spaceid IN (SELECT spaceid FROM SPACES WHERE SPACETYPE ='personal') AND PERMGROUPNAME IS NULL AND PERMUSERNAME IS NULL;
```

The above query will delete every anonymous permission on every personal spaces. Hope it helps.

Cheers,

Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Eric Sebian
body: Hi Septa. Will this account for any future spaces created? Meaning, with the option for anonymous access be revoked?


Tags: anonymous

disable

personal-space
SharePoint Connector + Confluence + Crowd: Is it possible and is there any point?
Asked by Logan G Hawkes:

My team has a cluster of half-dozen servers (Jira, Confluence, etc) all authenticating through Crowd using internal directories. We also have a very large SharePoint install used for the entire company. I have been asked to investigate using the SharePoint Connector to integrate SharePoint and Confluence to see if it's possible and worth doing. My research has been inconclusive but not promising. It seems that there are three possible answers:

1. No. You can't integrate SharePoint and Confluence using the SharePoint Connector if you want to use Crowd for authentication.
2. Yeah, you can do that but it's really difficult and requires a lot of complex configuration and doesn't really add all that much.
3. Yeah, you can do that. You'll have to re-configure Crowd to use a [Delectated Authentication Directory](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD022/Configuring+a+Delegated+Authentication+Directory) or somesuch to authenticate using an LDAP connection to [Active Directory](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD022/Microsoft+Active+Directory). That means that all Crowd brings to the party is granular permissions.

Has anyone tried this? Is it possible and is it worth it?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You can integrate Sharepoint and Confluence using Sharepoint Connector even if you are using Crowd but Single Sign On will not work out of the box.

Confluence uses Crowd Authenticator when using Crowd SSO but Sharepoint - Confluence SSO requires a separate authenticator.

You might be able to write a new authenticator which works for all of these but I haven't seen one yet.

So I guess the answer in short is: Integration works using just configurations but not SSO.


Tags: crowd

sharepoint
Dynamic Tasklist 2 - How to implement "Custom" sort?
Asked by Dave_Harrington:

I see there is a "Custom" option in the Sort by: drop-down list, but there is nothing in the documentation that explains how to use it... Does anyone know the secret?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: Isn't as per the custom sorting done by drag and drop of the items in the task list?


Tags: tasklist
Can anyone guide me on how to embed a TEDTalk into a Confluence wiki page?
Asked by James Hines:

I would like to embed a TED Talk into a Confluence wiki page, and am hoping that someone has already developed a User Macro or plugin to do this.

Example: <http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html>


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi James,

The easiest way would be to use the videos from TED's YouTube channel - <http://www.youtube.com/user/tedtalksdirector> - and the bundled [Widget Connector Macro](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Widget+Connector+Macro)

The official video for that Dan Pink talk is available at <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y>

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

comments: author: James Hines
body: Excellent. Thanks!


Tags: video
How to install a new plugin?
Asked by Rodrigo Paiva:

My plugin manager don t have an "install" option. In <https://plugins.atlassian.com> I don t have a install link, just download. How do I install a new plugin im my ondemand confluence?

Thanks,

Rodrigo


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Its not possible in OnDemand. See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to always show the full breadcrumb navigation?
Asked by Louise Beilfu?:

In our confluence there is a breadcrumb navigation at the top of each page, which reflects the current position inside the page hierarchy. By default this list will be collapsed, for example:

Overview \> Product X \> ... \> Current Page

To use it for navigation it is necessary to first click the dots to expand to a full list, then select the page you want to go to. When working with it a lot this extra click can become incredibly annoying, especially since we have hierarchies that would easily fit the available space in the navigation bar.

Is it possible to set a value somewhere so that the breadcrumb navi will be displayed in its full extent by default?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: This has been discussed here:

[http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?messageID=257217745\&#257217745](http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?messageID=257217745&#257217745)

The suggested user option to always shorten or always expand is what I was looking for. However, this post is form 2005 and contains only suggestions. Has this been implemented? If yes, where can I find this little checkbox?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: The easiest way to do this is to simulate a click on the ellipses when the page is loaded. To do that, add the following to your Custom HTML "HEAD" section:

\<script\>

AJS.toInit(function(){

AJS.$('#ellipsis strong').click();

});

\</script\>

comments: author: Louise Beilfu?
body: Thanks! I asked our admin to look into it (I can't edit anything ;) ) and will come back to this once I've got his answer.


author: Robert Sadler
body: Matthew,  

I know this is an old post but this solution was perfect for my needs. By adding the above mentioned script in the 'Custom HTML' section (Dashboard \> Administration \> Look and Feel \> Custom HTML) you can show the breadcrumbs WITHOUT modifying the breadcrumbs.vm in the install directory. I don't have access to the install directory but I do have access to the Administration section.  

Thanks for the easy solution.  
-Rob


author: Lisha Li
body: Atlassian proposes the following 'use at your risk' operation:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Disable+Hiding+(Ellipsing)+of+Breadcrumbs>


author: Nancy Jaiswal
body: we have released [Space Hierarchy \& Breadcrumbs](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.hivestone.confluence.plugins.spacehierarchy/overview) plugin which shows the full breadcrumbs at top of page. One can also create space hierarchy as per need (as for example a product related spaces or versions of product etc). Maybe this is one of solution you are looking for.


author: Ross Bender
body: I did the same thing as @Matthew J. Horn but wrapped it in a try-catch block just to be doubly safe:

```
&lt;script&gt;// show breadcrumbs on page loadtry {    AJS.toInit(function() {        AJS.$("#ellipsis").click();    });} catch(err) {}&lt;/script&gt;
```


Tags: breadcrumbs
Sidebar added to a space but no page tree is shown
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

in Confluence I added the sidebar to a space. The sidebar now appears but it's empty however there are a lot of pages and child pages already exist.

What happened? Is there anything else to set?

Can youplease help?

Many thanks,  
Rumi


Answers:
author: Joerg Bencke
body: Did oyu do that via "documentation theme" ? If so - are you sure that the pages and childpages are children of the startpage ? Check the "view in hiearchy" action from the extras menu. The pages must be below the startpage, not on the same level as the startpage.

comments: author: Novohit
body: Thanks! That was the answer I was looking for!
Hide individual archived global spaces from the dashboard
Asked by Chip Allen:

I installed the Confluence Archiving Plugin version 1.3.0 on our test system running conluence 4.0.3. We like it for the most part, but what we don't like that it creates a duplicate space with the (Archive) label. We can live with it creating the duplicate space, but we really don't want it displayed on the dashboard. It currently will display like this:

Information Technology

Information Technology (Archive)

We want to hide archived spaces from the dashboard. Does any one know if this is possible?


Answers:
author: Midori
body: Hey Chip,

**Archiving Plugin 2.1.0** was released a couple of days ago. It supports the "archive space" feature introduced in Confluence 4.3, and **removes the archive spaces from Dashboard, from search results, from all the usual navigation paths and from activity streams!**This is the perfect solution to your problem (we hope).

You can install the plugin with UPM or by downloading from the [Marketplace page](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123). See the user documentation [here](http://www.midori.hu/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/).


author: Midori
body: Confluence Archiving Plugin 2.0.0 was released last week!

One of the feature improvements is that **now you have an option to hide the archive spaces**. It will remove them both from the list of spaces, and from the search results.

This is just one of the features added, see details: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123#plugin-version-15>

Detailed user documentation: <http://midori.hu/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation>

Download: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123\</a\<\>\> (tip: use the Universal Plugin Manager built in to Confluence)](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123%3C/a)
[![](../../upfiles/4b3ef19f-8166-4a27-be27-b1f039d3457f_1.png)](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123%3C/a)


author: Joerg Bencke
body: Hi Chip,

this is a good example of keeping confluence-functions and plugin-actions separated in mind. A mixup happens quite frequently.

The dashboard lists all contents, which you are allowed to see. In order to be hidden from the dashboard, your user would have to be removd from the space-access list. Wether a space is copied, archived, cloned, created or whatever, is irrelevant to that.

One suggestion : Use space categories, move the archived spaces out of the category and make the homepage start with category-based list.

Another option would be to create a script (CLI or XML RPC API) or a plugin, which searches for "spacename=\*(Archive)" Spaces and removes the access-rights from them for must users.

Once solved, feel invited ot share your solution here or elsewhere :)

Regards, Josh

comments: author: Chip Allen
body: Hi Josh,

I have played with restricting viewing on the archived space, which will remove the archive spaces off the dashboard. The problem is that then the users can't find the archived pages on searches and such.

I setup space categories (archive, dashboard). How do I make the homepage start with category-based list?

Thanks,

Chip


Tags: archive

dashboard
How to redirect anonymous users to a specific space
Asked by francis:

Hi,

We have a confluence instance (3.5) with multiple spaces. One of the spaces is a public space.  
When a user accesses the site anonymously, the dashboard is currently being showed.  
What we want is that the anonymous user is redirected to the public space.  

How ?

Francis


Answers:
author: parthiban subramaniam
body: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Site+Home+Page>

enjoy
Is there a way to specify custom fonts in On Demand Confluence PDF exports?
Asked by Irina Parsina:

I have been trying to customose the way the PDF looks using the PDF stylesheet and layout.

I can't seem to be able to change the font. I would like my PDFs to be in Trebuchet MS. But It still comes out in Times.

Thanks ever so much!


Answers:
author: Jaime S
body: Hi, there.

Indeed there is a way. This will apply to an entire space, so be careful is you want to change only a page:

* Go to a page in the space
* Click 'Space tools' (in the left bottom corner) \>\> Look and Feel
* Click the tab 'PDF Stylesheet'
* Click 'Edit'
* Enter the following code in the 'PDF Export Stylesheet':

```
p {font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif;}
```

* Click 'Save'

From this moment on, all pages in this space should be exported to PDF in this font. You can also find other fonts here: <http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp>. Just change the code accordingly.

I hope it was helpful.

Kind regards.

Jaime Kirch da Silveira


Tags: cloud
Third party Search Engine for Confluence
Asked by Lee Greenberg:

Is there a best practice or best of breed for attaching a 3rd party search engine to allow our staff to search our confluence implementation? I know Google makes a search appliance, but I am looking for the right solution, not just the first one we find.


Answers:
author: Lee Greenberg
body: I know people are looking at this, albeit slowly. Any insight or comisseration would be apprecaited. Thanks


Tags: search
Why Space Directory is blank?
Asked by Pankaj Jangid:

The space directory under the browse menu is showing a blank page on our production system. However this is working on the development system.

On the development server I discovered that SubSpace plugin was creating the issue so I disabled the plugin and space directory started showing. But on production system when I disable the plugin (subspace), it is still showing a blank page.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

Please try the following steps

1. Shutdown Confluence instance
2. Remove the following directories (backup if necessary)
   * *\<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins*
   * *\<confluence-home\>/plugin-cache*
   * *\<confluence-home\>/plugins-osgi-cache*
   * *\<confluence-home\>/plugins-temp*
   * *\<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins_language*
3. Restart Confluence
4. [Try to rebuild indices from scratch](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratch)
5. See if the problem persist

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Jason Hensler
body: The above fixed this problem for me. I had just upgraded from 3.0.1 to 4.2.11.


author: Chnikki
body: I tried the above solution, but it did not work for me. I noticed the space directory was blank in 4.0, so I upgraded to 4.2.12. I followed all the steps above including rebuilding indices from scratch. The space directory is still empty.


author: Gerald Schneider
body: For me just rebuilding the index worked. I didn't have to shut down Confluence and delete any files.


author: Robert Ortner
body: solved it by resetting the Layout/Global Layout to default. I had some customizing there.

Robert


author: Andre Lehmann
body: We had the same behaviour, than I looked at the subSpace-Plugin and saw the module "Confluence 4 Standard Theme Integration" which was disabled by default.

After enabling the space-directory worked.


author: Jeff Dickerson
body: Resetting the Global Layout (Admin-\>Layouts-\>Global Layout-\>Reset to Default) fixed this for me as well. Thanks Robert.

Jeff


author: Armon Tiongco
body: I had the issue when we migrated the DB? Is this connected? Even the people directory is blank.


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Another possible cause in: Empty Space Directory Page after Upgrading Confluence: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Empty+Space+Directory+Page+after+Upgrading+Confluence>.

comments: author: Ethan Foulkes
body: We recently upgraded to Confluence 5 and I've found a space that is completely empty. Are your pages missing in these instances or just the directory structure? I'm wondering if this is the same issue.

Thanks,
Editing Confluence Pages in SharePoint with connector
Asked by ryan gritz:

Hi,

Does anyone know if i am able to edit a given wiki page from confluence using the sharepoint editor while in sharepoint? Essentially i am hoping that to edit a page from confluence in sharepoint i dont need to go to confluence to do that edit.. please advise


Answers:
author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: No, this is not possible. The Edit link in the Confluence Page Web Part will just redirect users to the page editor in Confluence.


Tags: sharepoint
Question re user name used in linux install
Asked by Alex Samad YB:

Hi

I had to reinstall my linux installation recently. I have now ended up with 2 new user ids jira1 and confluence1.

I would like to stop using these and removed them from the userid/passwd DB's.

can I just change the user.sh file to point to jira instead of jira1 and confluence instead of confluence1. presuming I change the permissions on all the directories as well ?

Thanks

Alex


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: Yes that will work fine.


Tags: jira

linux
The child page complication
Asked by MPal Pal:

Hi folks,

Let's say I have a space A. It has x and y pages. Both x and y have their own child pages.

I want to get all the child pages of page x and copy only those child pages to a different space B. So space B shouldn't have page x but it should have page x's child pages.

I want a team member to write a program to automatate this. Is this programatically possible please?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Yes, but only if you use the [descendents](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-descendents) parameter, otherwise it is just the direct children.


author: MPal Pal
body: Thanks Bob. You are a great help :)


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence CLI](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) will do this using [copyPageChildren](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copyPageChildren) action.

comments: author: MPal Pal
body: Thank you Bob.

Just one more thing pls, if the child page has its own child pages, will the copyPageChildren() method copy those as well?


Tags: child-page

page
z/Linux on the Mainframe
Asked by Eric Dickinson:

Has anyone installed Confluence on an IBM z Series Server

Formerly known as a Mainframe.

RHEL6.3 S390 architecture.

Thank you

eric


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yup, although it was with CentOS, and I can't claim any involvement on the OS side - as far as I could tell, I was handed a Linux box capable of running Java. Jira and Confluence ran fine on it.
Cannot Create Tables of Contents for imported pages
Asked by Skip Huffman:

If I import a page from our old wiki and include it's table of contents, all the links point back to the old wiki. If I create a new table of contents all of the links seem to point to the top of the page rather than the header that they should.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Skip!

Please check this [Bug Report](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25635). Seems to be same issue you are experiencing.

Cheers!