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Disabling 'recommended' emails from including my pages
Asked by Natalie Grant:

Hi -- sometimes I get emails that say "Recommended Updates" with other people's updates to their Confluence pages. Getting these is fine, but what I want to disable is that I don't want other people getting MY updates in their 'recommended' emails. Is this possible and how can I do it? Thanks!


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: The emails observe permissions - so if you set the restrictions on the pages to only have you as being able to view them - then nobody else would receive links to them.

comments: author: Natalie Grant
body: I see. Well, it wouldn't be practical for me to be the only one to be able to see the pages, so I guess that means there's no way to prevent random people getting automated messages to see my pages as they are being edited and updated.

Thanks for your help!


author: Natalie Grant
body: Thanks for the suggestion -- I thought about that, but 1) there would be no way for me to know if that worked, because emails could still be sent out without my knowledge, and 2) that means I'd have to check that box EVERY time I made any updates to any page, which is dozens of times a day. I was hoping there'd be a known solution?


author: Mick Davidson
body: I'm not sure if you can do that.

What happens if you deselect the tick box that sends out updates when you save a page you've just edited?

comments: author: Natalie Grant
body: Thanks for the suggestion -- I thought about that, but 1) there would be no way for me to know if that worked, because emails could still be sent out without my knowledge, and 2) that means I'd have to check that box EVERY time I made any updates to any page, which is dozens of times a day. I was hoping there'd be a known solution?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Emebedding PHP in Confluence
Asked by Rajkaran Chauhan:

Here I am trying to embed a php file into Confluence page. I need to send logged in user credentials to the apache server and than create HTML page according to the Credentials.

Can any one tell me how I can do this.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Rajkaran Chauhan
body: Hi Daniel,

I have a php application and want to connect it with confluence so that I can utilize confluence features. After some research I find out that I can embed HTML in Confluence pages, But my PHP application populates pages according to the logged in user So I want to achieve this.

I just need to grab credentials of user logged in into conluence and than some how send them to PHP web page and perform normal functions what my PHP application does.


author: Daniel Wester
body: Can you give more details as to what you're trying to do? Confluence is Java based so you can't just embed a php file and have it running.


Tags: php
Confluence Calendar
Asked by srinivasp:

Are there any free calendars that could be shared available for confluence 4? If so which is the best.


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: Why don't you try and use a google calendar and then use a plugin to embed it in the page?

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.google.calendar>

You could also write your own user macro or enable HTML and use the embed code provided under your share option in Google.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/HTML+Macro>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Enabling+the+html-include+Macro>


Tags: community
Can you import content form confluence version 3.5 to 5.1?
Asked by Martin Moser:

Hello all,

we are running confluence 3.5 at the moment and thinking about upgrading to version 5.1.

I am wondering if it is possible (and maybe easier) to bring up a fresh, empty version of confluence 5.1 and only import the spaces and pages we actually want to keep versus upgrading the existing version 3.5 instance and all its contents to version 5.1. Maybe somebody has tried this already?

Thanks for all feedback!  
Martin


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Martin!

Since Confluence database changed after version 3.5, an upgraded is needed to change all the information to it's new format. This means that the data must "fit" on the database and at the same time, the content must be migrated from wiki-markup to XHTML (which is current used on the editor).

Another important thing is that you may try upgrading to at least version 4 (that already uses XHTML) of Confluence and after that export all Spaces to a new Confluence.

Cheers!

comments: author: Martin Moser
body: Hi Bruna,

thanks for the quick reply! If I understand you right, the conversion of content from the old wiki markup to the new xhtml format can only be done through a system version upgrade (i.e. 3.5 to 4 or higher) and not on any content exported from version 3.5 alone. In other words I cannot export a space in what ever way from version 3.5, convert that export to xhtml and then import it to a version 4 (or higher) system. Is that correct?

Thanks again,  
Martin


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Martin,

That's right! You'd need to export a XML from a version and import into the same version of confluence. In other words, this make the import into other versions impossible. It's not advisable to do so and the application should block this procedure if done for different versions.

You'd need to upgrade confluence first, then export the space, then import into a confluence of the **same major version** E.G. 4.1.2 to 4.1.3, **not** 4.0 to 4.1.

I hope this helps!

Rodrigo

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Tags: upgrade
All pages slow-to-open, only for some users/browsers
Asked by Lis Riba:

Running Confluence 4.3.2

Every time I open a page under Opera, there's a 5 second delay after the page loads before I can actually interact with it - click any links or even scroll the page. It's like the entire browser locks up for those 5 seconds.  

Checking the network log, the delay always occurs waiting for response on a GET request for

```
http://confluence/s/en_GB/3391/c989735defd8798a9d5e69c058c254be2e5a762b.36/819ac0d399862a49dfde5157822d7017/_/download/contextbatch/js/editor,macro-browser,-viewcontent/batch.js?trycatchwrap=true
```

When I open the same page in Chrome or Firefox, the page loads without delay.

I just sucked it up, assuming the problem was an unsupported browser, HOWEVER, I just witnessed another user experience this problem under Firefox.

Any clue what's happening and/or why it only affects some users/browsers, and (more importantly), how to fix it?


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

Unfortunately I believe the problem is indeed the browser incompatibility as of the supported platforms page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms>

If you have experienced the same in Firefox, then you may want to check if it is a supported version of the browser, also disable all browser plugins and antivirus software temporarily on your client machine to see if the issue persists. If it makes no difference, I'd go to debug it based on the following article by enabling profiling: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Slow+Performance+Using+Page+Request+Profiling>

If the above does not help, I encourage you to open a support ticket with us at href="http://support.atlassian.com%20"\>http://support.atlassian.com where we can help you to debug this issue.

Kind regards,

Peter

comments: author: David Grierson
body: The fact that we're seeing this in Firefox, Chrome and IE suggests that this is not a browser incompatibility issue.


author: resah
body: We observe the same problem for one of our customers. All browsers seemed to be affected.

Any news on that? Did you create a support ticket?

As far as I know Confluence 4.x shows these problems. Does anyone know if this problem still exists in Confluence 5.x?


author: David Grierson
body: Do you have Gliffy enabled on your Confluence instance?

This issue - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27796> suggests that it could be related.

We have Gliffy installed on our environment.


author: David Grierson
body: I don't suppose you ever found a solution to this question? I'm seeing exactly the same behaviour in all browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE - haven't tried Opera) connecting to my Confluence 4.3.7 instance.

Users are starting to get shirty with the performance too. :-(
Page edits won't save. Directs me to page not found.
Asked by Joe Catrambone:

A page was recently moved to a different space. To make a PDF viewable I have tp update the space key that links to the document. When I made this edit and saved it it directed me to "page not found". However when I go back to the page and click edit, I am able to see there was an edit that wasn;t saved and have the option to resume, merge, or discard the edit. When I try any of these features it still directs me to Page Not Found and the edit does not save. I don't know how to get around this.


Answers:
author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi Joe, have you tried this?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+Index+Administration>


Tags: confluence-administration
German Umlauts not shown in Templates
Asked by IT-Admins GBD:

Hello,

if I create oder edit a template (Confluence 5.1.2), German Umlauts (????) are only shown until saving of the template.

If I create a new page from a template, German Umlauts are not shown. Same if I re-edit the template.

Example:

New template -\> insert text: "F?r eine ?nderung muss der Fu? gek?sst werden"

Save the template

Edit this template or create new page from this template -\> now the text looks like this: "Fr eine nderung muss der Fu geksst werden"

The encoding-setting in Confluence is "UTF-8" and all language settings are set to "german" (Deutsch).

How can I change this behaviour? Or is this a bug and we have to wait until a bugfix?

Regards


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: This is a known bug, see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28971> for details.


author: Steffen Heller
body: When I do the same there is no problem, all the umlauts are displayed correctly (Confluence 4.3.7). But I don't know what the problem is. Perhaps this page can help:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Character+Encodings>

comments: author: IT-Admins GBD
body: Thank you for the Link. All Tests passed successful.

The problem exists only on the new templates in Confluence 5.x, called "Blueprints".


Tags: language-de
Create jira issue
Asked by RichardK:

Hi,

We have a Confluence space set up where we monitor all of our issues statuses across all of our projects and it is really good.

To improve this we are implementing "Actions" into projects, so we can track things such as decisions and actions that team members need to do but that wont follow a bug workflow.

Is it possible to create these issues via Confluence without having to go to Jira? If there was something similar to the Create Issue button in jira that could appear in Confluence pages being the ideal.

Anyone any tips on this. The ideal is just for a button called Create Issue and it knows the project to add the issue against as it is linked in the Space Admin.

Thanks,

Richard


Answers:
author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi Richard, have you read this doc? It seems to explain what you need.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Inserting+JIRA+Issues>

comments: author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Ramiro is right. But be aware that only a limited set of system fields is being displayed so you don't have that many options. If you want to create issue with mandatory custom fields for example you'll have a problem :-)


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: I'm not aware for any plugin that allow this, maybe doing some research ;)


author: RichardK
body: Thanks for that, although it's not what i am after. It needs to be user friendly solution, i.e. i dont want the users of the page to have to edit it.

Ideally i just want a button that says Create Issue and the user clicks it and it pops up with the Create Issue box for jira


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence link disappeared in Jira OnDemand
Asked by andykassell:

Hello,

Recently our confluence link from the top left menu in Jira disappeared, so we only had Bitbucket and Jira in there, but in the Confluence page Bitbucket, Jir and Confluence are all in the top left menu.

If we go to configure in Jira and add confuence, we then see 2 confluence links in top left when switching to confluence.

If we go to configure in confluence we see the two Confluence links(one with a manage tag and one without), click on the "manage" on 2nd confluence tab and it takes us to the Jira application settings with only 1 confluence setting in it.

Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: You might be running into this bug \> <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6541> . Please log a support case and we can fix this for you immetiatly :).

comments: author: andykassell
body: Logged with support and corrected, many thanks.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to integrate other HTML pages
Asked by ccudennec-24t:

Hi!

I would like to integrate some generated HTML reports into Confluence and wonder what the easiest / best way would be to to that. The generated HTML page consists of HTML, some JS- and CSS-files, images, etc.

* Is it possible to upload the files to a Confluence space and display them like other regular Confluence pages?
* Is it possible to attach all the files to an existing page and include the attachment using a macro or whatsoever (similar to the Excel macro)?
* any other ideas?

Thanks!

Christopher


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I've done this with out Confluence-based documentation site. We have a few hundred pages of API docs, including stylesheets and images that are included. These API docs are in addition to the COnfluence content and don't require Confluence's styling.

To do this, just copy the folder that contains all your HTML into the confluence/confluence directory on the server. At that point, you'll be able to access the pages at the same level as your the /display path. You might also have to tell Confluence not to render the pages with its decorators.

I tied our HTML pages in to Confluence's permissions system and prevented the Confluence decorators from being applied to the HTML pages. I blogged about it here: <http://www.confluenza.com/2013/01/04/protect-static-html-pages-using-crowd-and-confluence/>

comments: author: ccudennec-24t
body: Sounds good! I'll give it a try! :)

Thanks!


author: David P. Brown
body: Matthew, is this content published elsewhere? Confluenza is no longer active.


author: ccudennec-24t
body: * The users should be able to view them like real pages.
* The pages stand on their own. Styling like other Conluence pages is not neccessary.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Do you want the pages to be an attachment or for users to be able to view them? Do they need to look like the other Confluence pages, or do they stand on their own?
Quiestion about UWC + Confluence + JSPWiki
Asked by Konstantin Chekushin:

Hi! I've installed Confluence. And I have a JSPWiki content, which must be moved to the prepared space in the confluence. I've downloaded UWC for migration and I've installed new JSPwiki for test, where are only 3 linked pages:  
main (with attch.) -\>   
--- second page -\>  
------ third page (with attch.)  

When I did converting, I've got 3 unlinked pages in Confluence. First page have a link, but when i click it, then confluence offers me to create new page. The link to the second page was lost. (btw, attachments were converted correctly.)

Does this should work by this way, or this is a bug? Thanks!


Answers:
author: Konstantin Chekushin
body: Now I am sure, this is a bug. JSPwiki converting tool loose links, so it is useless.


author: hsuhailah
body: Hi Konstantin!

Not too sure on that but I'd suggest you to contact AppFusions at [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com) for further help on this UWC matter.
Anonymous use of a discussion forum in Confluence
Asked by Vishnukumar Vasudevan:

For an anonymous use (which means: nobody knows and can backtrack who wrote a new article) of the discussion forum, we need a solution. Is there a way to achieve this in Confluence ?

FYI, we use Confluence 4.2.2


Answers:
author: Norbert Janssens
body: If you do not want to make the complete Confluence site available for public access you can set up a space for your forum and assign the relevant space permissions to 'Anonymous':

See under <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Assigning+Space+Permissions> for your version.

comments: author: Vishnukumar Vasudevan
body: Thanks Norbert.

If I configure so, can users add/edit/comment under this space without login in ?


author: Norbert Janssens
body: To achieve that you have to grant following permissions to 'Anonymous':

* View Space (that's trivial)
* Add Pages
* Add Comments


author: Norbert Janssens
body: To achieve that you have to grant following permissions to 'Anonymous':

* View Space (that's trivial)
* Add Pages
* Add Comments


author: MatthewC
body: Would you consider making the site public access? That way, people could comment without loggin in.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access>

comments: author: Vishnukumar Vasudevan
body: Thanks Matthew for your suggestion.

But, I can't make it with public access.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Metadata Plugin 2
Asked by HP:

Hey, anyone using this plugin for confluence version 5.

And is there any issue encountered?

I am using it, and it seem that metadata report returning reporting results for oage that already deleted. This causing it will ask for new page creating when click the link.

Thanks,


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Hi there!

I've tested out version 3.0 of this plugin in Confluence 5.1.3 and it works just fine. Try to manually [rebuild Confluence index](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+Index+Administration#ContentIndexAdministration-Rebuildingthesearchindex) and see if that helps.


author: Kenn North
body: This is a known issue  
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29851


author: Kenn North
body: We manually rebuilt the index to no avail. We are on v 5.1.2 of Confluence.
Lost access to Space Admin tools
Asked by Harrison Fortier:

Using Conflunce On-Demand:

Recently I lost access to Space Administration tools. Either I or another administrator accidently did something.

I was reading through other answers like:

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/104442/system-admin-cannot-administer-certain-spaces](/questions/104442/system-admin-cannot-administer-certain-spaces)

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview#GlobalPermissionsOverview-supergroup>

I am part of the administrators group which has the following global permissions:

```
can use:                      trueattach files to user profile: falseupdate user status:           truepersonal space:               truecreate spaces:                trueConfluence Administrator:     trueSystem Administrator:         false
```

There are certain spaces that I used to have the space admin tools available on but I don't any more. One of the above referenced links says that I need to be apart of the confluence-administrators group.

But when I go to:  
Confluence Admin -\> Users \& Security -\> Groups

I see confluence-administrators listed. It has one user:  
sysadmin - who I don't know the password to and neither does the person who setup confluence.

There is no Delete or Edit Members options under Operations.

All the other Groups (except system-administrators) have delete / edit members links.

I don't see how I can add myself to the confluence-administrators group. When I go to edit my groups for my user, the confluence-administrators groups is not in the list of available groups.

What can I do?


Answers:
author: cbenard1
body: Hi Harrison,  
I've responded in your ticket as well. Please be aware that the system-administrators and confluence-administrators group are reserved for atlassian use only in the OnDemand platform. Access cannot be changed to those except on our end. Everything appears to be operating fine when I check out your instance. Please respond here or in the ticket, which features are you trying to access that you cannot?

<br />

Thanks

Turner

comments: author: Harrison Fortier
body: Thanks for the clarification about the other groups. It's possible (sadly) that I was looking in the wrong place for the space admin. For some of the spaces the admin / configure buttons appear on the left hand side. For the spaces I was concerned about - they were not visible there. The other administrator just pointed out that they are available from Browse -\> Space Admin.


author: cbenard1
body: That's correct Harrison,

I'll further respond in your ticket, but that is one of the UI changes! Sorry for not having more details about the changes!

Thanks

Turner


author: Paul Alexander
body: Harrison, I've been there, done that. You probably forgot to include yourself or your admin peers by name or by group (Administrators, perhaps) on that space. Without it, you have no space admin access. On the space admin page, goto the Permissions section, and assure you have space admin rights. Is that it?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence Notifications folders build child pages etc
Asked by KP11:

Is there a way for me to setup notifications when a wiki/confluence page has been created or updated?

We have a builds folder and new build release notes are created by folder:

[http://wiki.ibaset.com/display/BUILDS/CPBA1.0.2.3_20130428](http://wiki.ibaset.com/display/BUILDS/CPBA1.0.2.4_20130521)

<http://wiki.ibaset.com/display/BUILDS/CPBA1.0.2.4_20130521>

The above are child pages

Is it possible for me to setup a email notification to myself or a group of email ids when one is created or modified?


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Sorry, I can't access Confluence from home, but go to Tools and see if you are set up as a watcher. If not, add yourself. You could then edit the page and see if that generates a notification, that should only take a few minutes to arrive.

If it doesn't, you'll probably have to check with your admin staff.

Also, if you go to your profile, you should see something there about email notifications, see what's selected there. It might be that you need to select or deselect one of those options. Cheers.

comments: author: KP11
body: I saw another record that sub pages are not on the notification list. Need a plugin for DESCENDANT pages


author: Mick Davidson
body: Isn't it just a case of making everyone who needs to see the updates watchers of the pages in question? Ok, they have to do it themselves, but that's not too demanding. :) Cheers.

comments: author: KP11
body: The pages are created with new names every month. Is there a way to do it from the main BUILDS page?


author: KP11
body: I just checked, we are watching main page "BUILDS" but no emails generated. I am not admin. Anyway to check ?


Tags: email

notification

page
Archiving Plugin for Confluence 4.1.5 doesn't seem to show the global configuration settings
Asked by Priti:

We just installed the ver 1.3 of archiving plugin for confluence4.1.5 and according to the documentation I should be able to set global configurations for spaces, but can't seem to find the setting as mentioned in the documentation

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving/versions#b14>

Any help would be appreciated.


Answers:
author: Midori
body: @Priti we are the developers of the Archiving Plugin.

Please open a support ticket at <https://midori.zendesk.com> so that we can help you.


author: hsuhailah
body: Have you tried to login as Confluence administrator, then click "Global Configurations" in the Archiving section of the Confluence Administration screen?