youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How do I force open an IE window from Confluence if our Confluence is on Firefox?
Asked by Todd Domingo:

Our Confluence is on Firefox (and it has to be) but there is an appication I have to link to that MUST run on IE. Is there a way for me to create a link where it will open the link in a new window and in Internet explorer instead of it opening on Firefox?


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: It's not possible, so you have to just tell your users. Create an interstitial link page that only forwards correctly in IE. for all other browsers, display a friendly message ordering them to change browsers.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. The choice of browser is up to the user's machine.


Tags: firefox

internet-explorer

link
PDF Export not honoring html macro?
Asked by SallyD:

My document includes a numbered list interrupted with graphics. To get the proper numbering on the steps, I used the html macro to force the correct number. For example:

```
<ol start='6'><li>Do this. 
</ol>

The wiki page is very happy with all the correct numbers in place.  However, when I export to PDF these 
list items are all numbered 1.  

Has anyone else seen this?  Is there something else I can do to make it work?  
```


Answers:
author: SallyD
body: Response from Atlassian Support:

Hello Sally,  

Thanks for waiting. I was able to replicate the behavior here and thus, I've opened a bug report for you: [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25634
Seems](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25634%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3ESeems) the issue is only caused by the HTML macro, so I replicated using a standard content to show the devs how to replicate the issue too.  

I suggest to vote and watch the bug report for further updates. I'm sorry about the inconvenience.  


author: Joe Clark
body: The HTML "start" attribute on the OL element is deprecated - see <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#adef-start>

Instead, you could try using the "counter-reset" CSS Style - see <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#propdef-counter-reset>


Tags: pdf
Can images/attachments be deleted from the editor
Asked by Florin Eberenz:

I am useing confluence to write manuals and guides for a quality management system. I am useing Firefox 12.0, where I can use drag\&drop to insert images into pages, which is very fast and therefore very useful.  
When using drag\&drop to insert an image, the filename is automatically set by the system, useing a date and time stamp. This means that the filename of an image, that gets uploaded to a page multiple times changes for every upload.

Is there a nice way to:

1. delete images/attachments of a page from within the editor?

2. a nice way to use the powerfull drag\&drop funcionality in combination of the existing versioning feature for attachments in confluence?

P.S. Verry cool and usefull website you have here :)


Answers:
author: Ashley C
body: If you're looking for a way to upload an image once and use it on several pages, then I don't believe there is a way to do that. As far as I know Confluence forces you to attach an image to each page it will be used for.

If there is a way around that I have not been able to find it.

Ashley


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: For the first question, the answer is no. I'm not sure I understand the second question, but I think the answer is also no.
How to use flyingpdf pdfpageexport to automatically save a page to a PDF file
Asked by Walt Fles:

Is there a URL I can use to have flyingpdf to automatically save a page to pdf, without having to answer "where" (i.e., put the save to path on the URL), i.e.:

https://\<confluence URL\>/spaces/flyingpdf/pdfpageexport.action?pageId=12345?saveFile=\<pathtofile\>

Id like to be able to do this via Curl or the Rest API without exporting the entire space.


Answers:
author: Walt Fles
body: I need to be able to construct the URL for the pdf. If I do this on the browser web address:

https://\<confluence URL\>/spaces/flyingpdf/pdfpageexport.action?pageId=12345

I get the window's "save file" dialog.


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Add an entry to your favorite scheduler (cron) to use wget with the URL for the pdf. Specify -o option for wget to store it in the required location. If needed dynamically construct the file name also as per date/time.


Tags: flyingpdf

pdf
Can I view Plugin usage from the databse
Asked by showkat ally:

Hi

I have Confluence - 3.3

(Plugin Repositiory is not working)

I would like to view the plugin usage - using a script from the database.

Is this possible..

Thanks


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Showkat Ally!

This is possible by referencing the bodycontent table, body column which is the storage location for content in Confluence 3.3.

What I use to find out what the literal string I'm going to put into the sql script is, navigate to a page using the macro you want to identify the usage for. Click on the Tools menu \> View Wiki markup

```
select count(*) from bodycontent where body like '%{toc}%';
```

For Confluence 4.0 and newer, you'll use Tools \> View storage format and the query would look something like this:

```
select count(*) from bodycontent where body like '%&lt;ac:macro ac:name="toc" /&gt;%';
```

Hope this helps!


author: LuizA
body: Hi there,

Unfortunately this is not possible, what you can view from the database would be which plugins you have installed by the following query:

select \* from plugindata;

As you're having problems with your plugin repository, then I would like also to suggest you to clean the plugins cache to try to solve this problem, by the following procedure:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache>

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

LJ.
User macro for tracking Confluence pages
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

on eof my project admin user requested a macro (or plugin) which is tracking the page usage in Confluence: He would like to see the number of the page visitors and based on these numbers he could focus on developing the heavy used pages.

Have you got any solution, suggestion for this?

Thanks in advance!

Rumi


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: I would recommend the [Confluence User Engagement](http://www.appfusions.com/display/CONFENGAGE/Home) plugin from AppFusions :)

It tracks:

* Content creation, views, updates, and deletes by individual and by space
* Spaces, pages, blog posts, comments, attachments, search terms, logins
* Real-time data for all content types including attachments

It has none of the drawbacks of Javascript-based analytics such as missing reports for attachments.

Here's a couple of screenshots:

![](http://i.minus.com/ibtfMpJlSDju1c.png)

![](https://dq1dnt4af4eyy.cloudfront.net/files/com.appfusions.confluence.plugins.engagement/screenshots/3b449d54-a44d-420f-a11c-d21ae1b34a49.png)


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: I would recommend the [Confluence User Engagement](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.appfusions.confluence.plugins.engagement) plugin from AppFusions :)

It tracks:

* Content creation, views, updates, and deletes by individual and by space
* Spaces, pages, blog posts, comments, attachments, search terms, logins
* Real-time data for all content types including attachments

It has none of the drawbacks of Javascript-based analytics such as missing reports for attachments.

Here's a couple of screenshots:

![](http://i.minus.com/ibtfMpJlSDju1c.png)

![](https://dq1dnt4af4eyy.cloudfront.net/files/com.appfusions.confluence.plugins.engagement/screenshots/3b449d54-a44d-420f-a11c-d21ae1b34a49.png)


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: I would recommend the [Confluence User Engagement](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.appfusions.confluence.plugins.engagement) plugin from AppFusions :)

It tracks:

* Content creation, views, updates, and deletes by individual and by space
* Spaces, pages, blog posts, comments, attachments, search terms, logins
* Real-time data for all content types including attachments

It has none of the drawbacks of Javascript-based analytics such as missing reports for attachments.

Here's a couple of screenshots:

![](http://i.minus.com/ibtfMpJlSDju1c.png)

![](https://dq1dnt4af4eyy.cloudfront.net/files/com.appfusions.confluence.plugins.engagement/screenshots/3b449d54-a44d-420f-a11c-d21ae1b34a49.png)


Tags: track

user-macro
problem with login, both in JIRA and WIKI
Asked by Richard Hierro:

Hi

I have a problem with login, both in JIRA and WIKI. I type the login and the password, and I do not log in. No error message.

This is a random problem, sometimes it occurs, sometimes not. I tried with the last versions of Paradox, IE and Chrome.

Please, have a look at: <http://screencast.com/t/q30cWxFy>

I lost the identification, too. As you saw, this time, I had no difficulties to log in Confluence. But 5 minutes later, trying to navigate, I lost the connection and I had to login again.

Thanks you for your help

Cordially

Richard


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Richard,

As mentioned on the ticket, judging from your screencast it seems that the cause of your issue is due to no context path configured on both Confluence and JIRA which cause by overwrite JSESSIONID.

Please refer to this KB for detailed information

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

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Richard Hierro
body: Thanks, Septa. It works, I had too change the base URL too, and now it works.


author: parthiban subramaniam
body: I have this problem from time to time when working with multiple instances that refer to same crowd for authentication and the only thing that resolves it for me is to clear out cookies and authentication data from the browser.

To test this, go to private browsing mode and try it out.


Tags: jira

login
User Macros in OnDemand?
Asked by K Kelly:

It seems that OnDemand clients cannot create user macros - is that correct? Or have I overlooked something?


Answers:
author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Indeed, Confluence user macros is one of the restricted functions in OnDemand. See the full list in here - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how to modify the size of thumbnails image on gallery macro...
Asked by liljoint:

I need to modify the size of thumbnails on gallery macro... when it is displayed, exceed the width of the page, and inside the confluence macro VM I found **"$thumb.getThumbnailImageHtml(null)"**... this function paste the htmlcode of the image (with width and height)...

PLEASE HELP...

![](../../upfiles/imagenshow.jpg)


Answers:
author: liljoint
body: but, without css... I need help about the code of the macro....


Tags: attachment

gallery

page

thumbnail
Exclude content from PDF export
Asked by K Kelly:

In older versions, there was a noprint macro that you could use to encompass content that you didn't want to be included in a PDF export. This was helpful when you want to export multiple pages into a pdf, but wanted to exclude the See Also or individual page TOCs.

How do we do this in the current Confluence version?


Answers:
author: SPodjasek
body: If anyone is still interested, please read 'Hiding Text from the PDF Output' chapter in here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/advanced-pdf-export-customizations-198806890.html>

comments: author: Mar?a Fern?ndez Castro
body: It works. Thank you


author: RaeRo
body: This doesn't appear to be an option for Cloud users.


author: Matthew Warren
body: Using the Cloud supported **Div** macro with a class of "noprint" and CSS from the cited example will get the intended result.

    .noprint { display: none ; }


author: Martin Groller
body: Is there a Cloud supported DIV macro?


author: Matthew Wittemeier
body: Hi guys, same issue - need to be able to exclude content that is for internal purposes to export final documentation for customer... Atlassian, please help!


author: Coen Huijsmans
body: I have exact the same question. Can somebody please respond?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

server
How do I disable clustering (temporarily)?
Asked by Chloe Sowers:

I would like to disable the cluster for a Confluence installation and load test it with only a single instance, and completely bypass Coherence. How can I change that setting?

Then I would like to change it back.

This is for version 3.4.8.


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hi Chloe,

Details on disabling clustering can be found in our documentation - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/How+to+Revert+from+Clustering+to+Single+Node>

Hope this helps! :-)

Joe.


Tags: data-center
hiding Browse, Tools to certain users in Confluence 4
Asked by Ashley C:

Hello,

My group is building a product manual/knowledge base for our customers. We want it to be read-only for them, which was easy to set up, but there were a few more capabilities that are proving harder to remove. At this point we just need to hide a few items, namely Browse, Tools and the little edit link in a user's profile.

Browse and Tools need to be hidden mostly to keep users from poking at them and getting confused, we've used the Menu Manager plugin to remove any potential problem items from both lists.

Some of our users will have shared logins, so it is imperative that they not be able to edit their profiles and change their passwords. We haven't found a way to block the capability entirely, but hiding the link should keep them from trying.

We've been looking for solutions for a while and haven't had any luck. We need all of these features for our own internal use, so we can't turn them off completely. If anyone can point us in the right direction, that would be great.

\~Ashley


Answers:
author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi Ashley,

Here I found a possible workaround, sadly you will need to do a little development, but it might work!

Check here: <http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=36668>

comments: author: Ramiro Pointis
body: And here it is link for a plugin:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=179439020>

That plugin indicates you can manage the menu items, not sure if it is that what you're looking for.

This is the plugin:

<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.menumanager>


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hmm... Maybe it is because of the Confluence version, as you can see that post is from 2009, so I'm sure it would work but for an older confluence version.


author: Ashley C
body: Yeah, we found that too but weren't able to get it working, looks like at least part of it has deprecated since it was posted. Thanks anyway though!


author: Ashley C
body: Yes, we have both of those plugins. Menu Manager allowed us to thin out many unwanted items, but it works across all groups at once. If I used that to disable Browse and Tools I wouldn't be able to use or see them myself, and I still need them.

Visibility has been a bit of a let down so far, it uses macros to hide page content, since it's all wiki markup I can't use the hide-if macro in custom layouts. All the things I want to hide are not within the reach of Visibility it seems.

And yeah, if we had an older version of confluence that first link probably would work, unfortunately it's been less than functional ;)


author: Ashley C
body: Well, we've \*hopefully\* found ways to disable browse and profile editing, but hiding that Tools button remains an annoying blemish with no discernable solution. So, let's focus on that, hiding the Tools button from certain users/groups.

Ashley


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Annoying Tool button! I've searched a lot but I really didn't found anything! :(


Tags: permission
How do I stop Confluence sending duplicate emails for edits to pages
Asked by Nigel Longton:

As far as I can tell I only have a watch on the space, but for every edit i get two identical emails.

How do I track down why this is occuring and kill it off. Is there a database table listing the watches I can check?

Interestingly for comments I only get a single email.


Answers:
author: Thomas Krug
body: Confluence stores watches in the notification table, check the schema here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=179439242>

You can select your username and see pageids or spaceids you are watching.

comments: author: Nigel Longton
body: It has a single entry for each of the 4 spaces i'm watching


author: Nigel Longton
body: zero emails. add it back and I get two again


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi,

This is an old case about this but it looks the same as you and maybe this can help you, check here:

<http://forums.atlassian.com/message.jspa?messageID=257231693>

Hope this helps!


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: What happens, if you disable the space watch ? One email or no email ?
Virtual Hosts for all my Atlassian products
Asked by Network Administrator:

We are using Confluence, JIRA, and Crowd. We want all of them to be run over SSL (at least the login pages). Also, we want them to be all under one site. We want to get rid of all the port number stuff, for ease of use for our end users. So instead of server:8090 for Confluence, server:8080 for JIRA, and server:8095 for Crowd; we would like to have example.com/Confluence, and example.com/JIRA, and example.com/Crowd. We are a little more used to IIS, so Apache/Tomcat is new territory for us. With each of the three products, we used the built-in Tomcat. To do what we want to do the virtual hosts, do we need to install the full-blown Apache Server and do all the configuration that way?


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: It's not hard with apache but the best solution is what you're most familiar with. Have you looked at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Integrating+JIRA+with+IIS> ?

For each app you need to change the context path, update the base url, change the proxyName and proxyPort in server.xml.

For bonus points you should set up IIS/Apache to listen on the old ports, eg 8080, and use a redirect to the new host/url. That might mean running jira on a new port to avoid a port conflict.

It's easier if you do this when you first install the tools of course...


Tags: crowd

jira

virtual-machine
Scaffolding Plugin
Asked by Mike Tangorre:

Do OnDemand customers have any options when it comes to using the Scaffolding Plugin from CustomWare? This plugin is a popular plugin and highly rated -- does Atlassian have plans to incorporate it into the available plugins for OnDemand Customers?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

this is no official Atlassian Announcement Forum. I think, if there are any news on plugins for the ondemand-Version, you will get an information or it will be announced here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy>

Best regards

Thomas


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

scaffolding
plugin repository displays error - caching failed
Asked by showkat ally:

Hi

I have Confluence version 3.3 installed.

When ever I try and access the Plugin Repository - menu option

the following error displays -

Caching failed \[retry or go offline\]

Is this normal..


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: hi there!

I was looking into some old cases and this was related to a old bug corrected last year. I believe now should be working :)

Anyway, additionally you can shutdown Confluence and remove the plugin cache folders to force confluence to rebuild the plugin repository as well.

Please see here for the details: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache>

I hope this helps!

Rodrigo

comments: author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: This can also be caused by some web filter in front blocking the communication between confluence and the web.
Change Notification via Mail in Confluence
Asked by Muge Cevik:

Hi,

If anyone adds a new document to a page in Confluence or renew a document in a page I want that this change will be automatically sent via mail to all users. Is there a way without everyone should subscribe to that page?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You can mention others or share pages in Confluence 4.2+ and they will get notification.
Lower index in wiki markup
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

how can I write the lower index in wiki markup in Confluence?

I would like to write the '-1' number in the lower index:  
(X\<sub\>-1\</sub\>-1)-15


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "lower index", but it looks like you mean "subscript" to me. If so, then try

```
(X ~-1~ -1)-15
```

comments: author: Rumceisz
body: Many thanks, Nic!

Great help!


author: Rumceisz
body: hi All,

any idea?


author: Rumceisz
body: this is for:

```
x&#8329

x?

but how can I do '-9'?
```


Tags: markup

wiki
global theme doesn't fit in a space
Asked by Elisabeth Friedrich:

I've got a theme for the entire systme which is configured in the admin-area under Custom HTML.

The ptoblem is: on the dasboard it works fine, but in some spaces it is not adopted.

right:

![](../../upfiles/right_1.bmp)

wrong:

![](../../upfiles/wrong.bmp)

I thought that such settings were adopted everywhere!


Answers:
author: Elisabeth Friedrich
body: There are a couple of reasons why this might be happening:

1. Space admins can override the global theme in individual spaces
2. Or they can apply custom HTML
3. Or, if it's only happening to one or two people and not to everyone, they might have enlarged the font on their browser (eg in Firefox) by using Ctrl-+ (to fix that, ask them to use Ctrl-0, which resets it to normal size)

comments: author: Elisabeth Friedrich
body: Thanks for your suggestions!

The Space Admin was the fool! ;-)


Tags: global

theme
Confluence - LDAP integration: Members of sub-groups exported like a members of their top group
Asked by delterreno:

Hi,

I'm using Confluence 3.4.9. My Confluence is integrated with an Active Directory. Here is an example of I want to do:

In AD, group memberships are:

**consultants** --\> sub-groups: **editors** ; users: **Peter**

**editors** --\> users: **Will**

Using **userSearchFilter** I get all **consultants** members, including membres of the nested group editors.

Using **groupSearchFilter** I get only **consultants** group (I don't want its sub-groups).

This is the result:

**Peter --\> Member of consultants**

**Will --\> Member of any group.**

But I want this:

**Peter --\> Member of consultants**

**Will --\> Member of consultants.**

I want all the members of sub-groups are exported like a members of their top group (because I don't want export sub-groups because the permits are granted to top groups, I need sub-groups for nothing)**.**

How can I do this? Can anyone help me?

Thank you.

PD: Sorry for my English.


Answers:
author: Jacob Prather
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory>

It seems like "Advanced Settings" -\> "Enable Nested Groups", is only available in confluence 3.5 and later.


Tags: ldap