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Importing a Word doc as a child page
Asked by Tristan Howell:

I'm trying to import a vast amount of resumes into confluence and have each candidate as a page. I'd like to easily have these pages for each candidate as a child page of certain jobs. The problem is when a word document is imported it will either create the page under the overarching topic space or replace the current page. Is there a way to import as a child page without having to make the child page then overwrite with the import? Advanced blueprints might be something that would work if I could click a button to create a child page quickly and all I'd have to do would be import and rename.


Answers:
author: Meck
body: Hello @Tristan Howell,

I did some dig, and unfortunately that doesn't seem to be possible. ![](https://support.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customershim/images/icons/emoticons/sad.png)

There's a long-standing feature request about this matter here: [CONF-31033](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31033). You should vote for it and add your self as watcher to be notified of further changes but honestly I don't really think that this is at Atlassian's short term backlog though.

So far, seems that creating the child page, then importing the .doc file onto it is the best option.

If I can be of any further assistance, please, let me know.

Regards,

Lameck.

comments: author: Tristan Howell
body: Alright, thanks anyways.


author: Meck
body: Tristan, I never heard about it. But lemme dig a little. And I'll comeback here. Ok?

See you later.
Lost Admin Privileges in Confluence with Crowd SSO
Asked by Kevin Klein:

I updated local installation of confluence to add Crowd SSO. I've now lost all Admin privileges. I tried to disable SSO but that didn't even work. Since this is a production environment that people use, I need a solution that doesn't require a lot of downtime.


Answers:
author: Kevin Klein
body: I figured out the problem. There appears to be an issue with 5.9.6. The crowd.properties file doesn't take precedence over the GUI configuration. So if you need to change this like I did because I didn't remember the crowd application password you need to update it in the gui in Crowd and Confluence first.

If you can't authenticate with Crowd, the internal directory won't work either. So I stopped Confluence, Then I got the id of the crowd directory from the DB using this query

select [d.id](http://d.id), d.directory_name, m.list_index from cwd_directory d join cwd_app_dir_mapping m on [d.id](http://d.id)=m.directory_id;

Then I updated and verified that I disabled the Crowd directory using the following queries.

select id, directory_name, active from cwd_directory where id = 18087937

update cwd_directory set active = 'F' where id = 18087937

After that I started Crowd and was able to use my local directory admin account to log in and reconfigure the Crowd authentication.


author: Benjamin Weinheimer-Erben _mgm-tp_
body: Hi Kevin,

have you tried to put yourself in the group "confluence-administrators" within crowd?

greetings

Benjamin

comments: author: Kevin Klein
body: Benjamin,

I did try that. It didn't work at all. Also, new members added to Crowd also don't appear to be able to access confluence at all either.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a method to export all the pages as individual word documents?
Asked by Varun Arulmani:

Hi All, We are planning to export all the knowledge documents from our Confluence as individual word documents as part of a project. Is there any method to import all the pages in a single go? I tried using content exporter plugin. But it either exports all the webpages into a single word document or i have to do it page wise. It will be a tedious process for me to do that as i have over 1500 pages to export. Any help is greatly appreciated.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you use the WebDAV plugin with Confluence you can map your Confluence instance as a drive. Each page will be represented as a folder in the drive with a .txt file in the folder with the same name as the folder. The .txt is your page contents. With the pag folder is another folder called @exports. Within that folder there is a .doc and .pdf version of the page. So, with a fairly simple batch file/script you could recurse through your space and get the .doc files. The below screenshots are what it looks like. It's another option for you.

image2016-6-7 15:43:16.png

image2016-6-7 15:45:9.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-method-to-export-all-the-pages-as-individual-word/qaq-p/338562?attachment-id=4460){#link_1190863f9323af}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/57173/1/image2016-6-7%2015%3A43%3A16.png){#display_1190863f9323af_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-method-to-export-all-the-pages-as-individual-word/qaq-p/338562?attachment-id=4461){#link_1190863f9323af_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/57173/2/image2016-6-7%2015%3A45%3A9.png){#display_1190863f9323af_2}

comments: author: Varun Arulmani
body: Awesome. Thanks Davin. I will try this.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: No, not natively.

A talented scripter or an Atlassian Expert could help you here, there is an API method for PDF Exports. Combining a script to parse all pages in a space, individual PDF's could be generated per page and downloaded. I don't know if you can get to Word Documents in the same fashion though.

The Scroll Export add-on includes bulk-export functionality as well.

comments: author: Varun Arulmani
body: Thanks Steven.


Tags: confluence-administration
Html in Confluence
Asked by Tristan Howell:

How do I have my own Html code displayed on my page. I'm aware of the html Include macro but I'm wondering if I can write it directly into the edit part of the page or place it somewhere in the confluence source editor and have it displayed on the user side. Additionally, if it's possible to do the first part is their a way to have my code enacted for the layout of the edit side (change formatting and allow dropdown menus inside of edit, etc).

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Benjamin Weinheimer-Erben _mgm-tp_
body: Hi Tristan,

your admin have to enable the HTML-Macro. Here you can simply write or paste your HTML-Code in and it should work with all the possibilities HTML gives you.

Here is the link to the given documentation:

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/html-macro-38273085.html>

greetings

Benjamin

comments: author: Tristan Howell
body: Hey Benjamin,

I went in and enabled all 8 modules for the "Confluence HTML Macros" and then went back and tried again with all modules labeled legacy disable and left the rest, each time I got an error when pulling up the html macro that I have displayed below. It says "The macro 'html' is unknown. It may have been removed". What am I doing wrong here?html error.PNG


author: Benjamin Weinheimer-Erben _mgm-tp_
body: Hi Tristan,

I am not quite sure as your macro-browser seems to know the macro. It is hard to say without knowing your system in detail, but maybe a restart will do here.

greetings

Benjamin
Html macro "macro 'html' is unknown" error
Asked by Tristan Howell:

I went in and enabled all 8 modules for the "Confluence HTML Macros" and then went back and tried again with all modules labeled legacy disable and left the rest, each time I got an error when pulling up the html macro that I have displayed below. It says "The macro 'html' is unknown. It may have been removed". What am I doing wrong here? I'm running version 5.9.7.html error.PNG  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Html-macro-quot-macro-html-is-unknown-quot-error/qaq-p/96918?attachment-id=11048){#link_1186ca66aaf852}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/16261/1/html%20error.PNG){#display_1186ca66aaf852_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Html-macro-quot-macro-html-is-unknown-quot-error/qaq-p/96918?attachment-id=11049){#link_1186ca66aaf852_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/16261/2/enabled%20modules.PNG){#display_1186ca66aaf852_2}


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Perhaps perform a reindex of the application? Also consider disabling and enabling the add-on entirely.

comments: author: Tristan Howell
body: Thank you, it's working now.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: @Tristan Howell, can you indicate which fix solved the issue? I'm personally curious.


author: Tristan Howell
body: Disabling and enabling again, something I should have tried but overlooked. Thanks.


author: Jonathan Vezinat
body: This worked for me, thanks


author: Tristan Howell
body: Attached below, let me know if there's anything else you need.enabled modules.PNG


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Can you show the modules that are enabled/disabled?
'Share' button is missing with Confluence 5.9?
Asked by Nicolas Casel:

With Confluence v 5.8.16, I have a 'share' button on every wiki page:

share-button.png

But this is no longer the case with Confluence v 5.9.11:

no-share-button.png

Any idea of the reason?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Share-button-is-missing-with-Confluence-5-9/qaq-p/122233?attachment-id=6671){#link_1186ca9a9647fa}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/20357/1/share-button.png){#display_1186ca9a9647fa_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Share-button-is-missing-with-Confluence-5-9/qaq-p/122233?attachment-id=6672){#link_1186ca9a9647fa_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/20357/2/no-share-button.png){#display_1186ca9a9647fa_2}


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi Nicolas, if the SMTP mail server is not properly configured, the 'Share' button will disappear.

comments: author: Nicolas Casel
body: Thanks Guilherme, indeed, there is no configured mail server.


author: Shamvil Raza
body: Try checking the sharing plugin :smile:

1. Click on **Cog Icon**
2. Select **Confluence Admin**
3. In your **Conflulence Admin Panel** select **Manage add-ons**
4. From drop-down menu select **System**
5. Search for **Share Page**
6. **Expand** the Share Page
7. Click on **En** **able**

comments: author: Nicolas Casel
body: Thanks Shamvil for your feedback. However, this is already 'Enable'...


Tags: share
import requirements from Word
Asked by Annette Grannetia:

I need to import a large number of requirements which are currently stored in separate Word documents.

When I import from Word, the pages are not shown under Product Requirements, so obviously need to be changed to a different type, blueprint or however this is arranged.

Is there a way I can import immediately in the correct category or can I move them to correct category after import?


Answers:
author: Annette Grannetia
body: I found the error:

The Product Requirements page uses the Page Properties Report macro. This macro shows the info which is stored on individual page in the Page Properties macro. As the imported pages didn't have the Page Properties macro, there was nothing for the report to show.

This means that after importing a Word document, the Page Properties macro needs to be manually added, as well as the "requirements" label.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: For some reason I'm not getting email alerts.

The API is vastly more powerful than the existing importers. As you noticed you can also place pages in the hierarchy via the API, which is great.

If the pages aren't showing up on the Product Requirements Index page, can you try checking out the Confluence Content Indexing admin page? Perhaps the content is failing to index? Perhaps a single re-index will fix the issue?

We can follow up with Atlassian Support if there is a recurring issue.


author: Annette Grannetia
body: This is a great concept and I'll definitely want to use it in other ways as well - I can put documents in a hierarchie in the page tree, while showing them collected in the links.

The only problem at this moment is that the blueprint isn't showing all documents labeled "requirements". I've checked the macro and it's only filtering on the label and the space, but only showing a small number of requirements. What else can I check? I've tried saving the documents again with the label, even if I can add the label without editing...

Thanks for any help!


author: Steven F Behnke
body: The blueprint is filtering for labels. The label it needs is `requirements`. You could import these from API which would let you set the label automatically, otherwise if you use the Word import you'll have to label them manually.


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Enable SSL on Confluence
Asked by jaydeepch:

I am referring below document to make our confluence server to SSL

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/running-confluence-over-ssl-or-https-161203.html#RunningConfluenceOverSSLorHTTPS-serverconfig>

We have our certificates from our DNS service provider. As mentioned in above mentioned documentation link, we do not have any keystoreFile or keystorePass.

Is it possible to make Confluence SSL or HTTPS without this two (keystoreFile or keystorePass.)

We make JIRA to liten SSL / HTTPS with our certificates and making changes in server.xml

Is it possible for Confluence to without keystoreFile or keystorePass.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Tomcat uses Keystores. Period. If you have a certificate and you want to use Tomcat to terminate SSL, you must import them to a Keystore file. If you want to use the raw certificates, you could use Apache HTTP server instead as that is configured with raw certificates.

Using the JAVA Keytool program, you can add your certificates to a keystore and obtain a keystore file and a keystore password.


Tags: confluence-administration
How many user macros have you got in Confluence?
Asked by Martin James:

I was just wondering how many user macros everyone has on their system?

We currently have 28 and I'm not sure if this is too much or not. I want to understand if this impacts your system performance and if you experience any bug related issues.

Also, is it possible to categorise user macro?

Cheers :smile:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I help out with a lot of systems, and there's a pattern - a lot have zero or a tiny handful (less than 5). Then there's a bit of a gap - very few systems have between 6 and 20, but a good number have a lot more than 20. I think the largest I've seen was 200, but part of my job there was "housekeeping", and I was able to more than halve it (the author didn't use parameters and a lot of the macros were easy to merge). Amongst the systems that I see that use them, I'd say the peak is about 40.  

When they're working, it doesn't seem to affect performance, but you do get the odd one that loops or crashes or causes problems. They are a pain to find, but once you get to "this page is slow/fails", you can usually find them quickly and yell at the author :wink:  

Categorisation would be nice. I tend to document my macros in Confluence pages, so I can label them or add page properties, but for systems with bigger numbers, it would be really helpful to have that on the macro lists. I'm not aware of an add-on that does that, sadly.


author: Davin Studer
body: You can categorize user macros. Honestly, I think user macros are one of Confluence's most powerful, underused, and on Atlassian's part underdeveloped features. I wish Atlassian would put a bit more work into the feature. As for performance it's all a matte of how it is coded. A regular addon can bring your system to it's knees. User Macros are no different in that regard. Simply having lots of them will not affect the system.

image2016-6-7 15:52:50.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-many-user-macros-have-you-got-in-Confluence/qaq-p/312514?attachment-id=11500){#link_119086e128e4de}  
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How can I change to the pagetree view in the sidebar site wide using the default theme?
Asked by Philipp Salzgeber:

With Confluence 5.9 we have changed from the documentation to the default theme. Apparently the users are confused by the sidebar format, and want to change back to the pagetree view - is there a way to configure that site-wide or do we have to change this per space?


Answers:
author: joanna ransome-wallis
body: Confluence Administration \> General Configuration

Scroll down to 'Look and Feel' and select 'Themes' (it's the top one)


author: jwuestefeld
body: You need to change that in each space. Click on Space Tools in the sidebar and select Configure sidebar. Then you get set the page tree view.


author: Philipp Salzgeber
body: ok, that's how I change the theme - I did that already, but the new (default) theme shows "child pages" in the sidebar, but I would like to change to "pagetree" per default for the whole site - is this possible? Of course the other option is to change it for every space individually...


Tags: confluence-administration
Issue removing Spaces dropdown menu from an entire space
Asked by spearheadsoftware-admin:

I am trying to remove the Spaces drop down menu from a single Space in Confluence. I have looked at this page :  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-hide-elements-in-confluence-using-css-or-javascript-313458894.html>

[and ended up selecting](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-hide-elements-in-confluence-using-css-or-javascript-313458894.html)

Spaces \| Space Directory \| MySpace \| Edit Space Details \| Look And Feel \| Stylesheet

I have added the following:

#space-directory-link {

display:none !important;

}   

and saved the changes. Upon reloading my Space, the Space drop down menu is still there. I am not sure what I am doing wrong here. The web linbk above says that because I am doing it in the StyleSheet I do not need the \<style\> and \</style\> tags and I cannot see anything obviously wrong with what I have entered.

I have tried the same with the people-directory-link selector and it works as expected but the space-directory-link selector does not.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: It seems like the name has changed in more recent versions of Confluence. It is no longer "space-directory-link", it is now "space-menu-link". If you use that name, it should work.


Tags: confluence-administration
Adaptavist Community Forums - Topic/Page security
Asked by Tim Twisk:

To give a user permission to "+ new Topic" you have to allow group confluence-users "Add Page" permission via the Space Tools permissions. Problem with this is that Topics/Pages are not Creator protected, so every user can change the topic or its description from other users too. How can i change this?


Answers:
author: Tim Twisk
body: I found the following in the documentation, this is exactly the solution for my problem. Apart from the fact that i cannot find the parameter in the macro ;P

Topic Editing Restrictions {#toc-hId-1676224963}
------------------------------------------------

Topics can be restricted to only allow the topic creator to edit the topic, using the "Restrict editing of topic to author" parameter in the Forum macro. This will automatically add a confluence restriction on the page when a new topic is added limiting editing of the page to the topic creator. For this to be enforced, it is necessary to turn on Confluences "Add/Delete" permission at the space level (see screenshot).

In-line with Confluence permissions, this means that a commenter will not be allowed to add attachments to the topic. This is because attachments are added to the page, not the comment.  
The "Restrict new topic to creator" macro parameter has been disabled from v.2.3.1 of Community Forums.

comments: author: Tim Twisk
body: Anyone with a solution? All users in the forum are member of confluence-users and the group can add/edit/view all forums (as intended). Problem is that they can edit each others Topics (pages/comments). How can i restrict that now the macro parameter is deprecated?


author: Meck
body: Hi, Tim.

Did you try use the page restrictions?

This documentation will help you: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html>

Regards,

Lameck.

comments: author: Meck
body: And if you want to restore any content, you can restore in view history at the page.


author: Tim Twisk
body: Thanks for reply, Lameck.

Since it is an open user forum the Space is restricted to users who login (confluence-users) this only protects from anonymous. So if any of the users create a topic by adding a page, they all have access to it.

We do have set up some protected pages where only our moderators can edit. But in open part we dont know who is creating the topic. If for example USER1 creates a topic/page i want only USER1 to be able to edit the title or description. And USER2, USER3, USER## only to be able to comment.

Sort of a "only Creator can Edit" function.


Tags: confluence-administration
Roadmap planner macro lane colour problems
Asked by Deborah Cross:

Is anyone having trouble with the colour picker not appearing for the lanes in the roadmap planner?

I select the lane colour picker, but then no colours appear.

Tried in both Chrome and Microsoft Edge. As per the image, there's just nothing dropping down even though selected.

roadmap.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Roadmap-planner-macro-lane-colour-problems/qaq-p/45656?attachment-id=12327){#link_1186cb3b575a8b}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/7753/1/roadmap.png){#display_1186cb3b575a8b_0}


Answers:
author: Meck
body: Hello Debbrah,

I have the same problem, and I opened a ticket to Atlassian a few minutes ago. :/

And the colour picker is behind the macro I saw when I closed it.

image2016-6-7 3:25:39.png

When they answered my ticket, I'll put here as comment.

Regards,

Lameck.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Roadmap-planner-macro-lane-colour-problems/qaq-p/45656?attachment-id=11437){#link_1186cb3f1c35b9}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/7754/1/image2016-6-7%203%3A25%3A39.png){#display_1186cb3f1c35b9_0}

comments: author: Meck
body: image2016-6-7 10:14:28.png


author: Meck
body: @Deborah Barlow, you can follow here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-41451>


author: Deborah Cross
body: Thanks Lameck - good to know.

For now I've just created 10 lanes until the colour I want appears, then delete or reorganise the rest!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud