youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Error during installation of Confluence: "Confluence is vacant, a call to tenanted is not allowed."
Asked by Furiia:

Hi,  

I'm trying to install Confluence on my Linux server but I always get an error during database initialization:

```
SEVERE [http-nio-10001-exec-5] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.custom Exception Processing ErrorPage[errorCode=500, location=/500page.jsp]
?org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: com.atlassian.confluence.tenant.VacantException: Confluence is vacant, a call to tenanted
[public abstract org.hibernate.Session org.hibernate.SessionFactory.getCurrentSession() throws org.hibernate.HibernateException] is not allowed.
```

I tried to install using installer, docker, tar.gz archive with postgres-9.6, postgres-10.1 and embedded H2. Sadly all combinations give me this error. There is no other error in the log.  
Java version: 1.8.0_152  

Hostname can be resolved to an IP address.  
I would appreciate all help.  

I didn't have any problems installing JIRA on the same server.  

Best Regards,  
Furiia


Answers:
author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: Hi Maciej,

Try adding or updating to a newer version of the database driver

comments: author: Furiia
body: Hi Edwin,  

I updated the driver to latest version but it didn't help.


author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: So you can access Confluence but when connecting to DB there is an error?

What version are you installing? Have you looked at the supported platforms for that version?


author: Furiia
body: I formatted my server and reinstalled everything and now it works. Thanks for your help.


Tags: error

install
List of Values for a Table Column
Asked by Ruth Beberman:

I have a table added to my Confluence page, and I want to restrict the values that people choose for the column. Is there a way to do that?


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hello Ruth,

You can try using [Handy Status](https://demo.stiltsoft.com/display/HM/Handy+Status?os_username=guest1&os_password=guest1&pagepropertiesreport.serverrender) macro ([Handy Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.handy.macros/server/overview) add-on) for this purpose.

comments: author: Ruth Beberman
body: I can see how the handy status macro could be used when you have a flow of values from A to B to C. What I want is for the user to only enter a choice of 25 values in one of the table columns... much like the functionality that exists in Excel to limit values of a column.


Tags: table
Confluence: How to create link that doesn't update AO_92296B_AORECENTLY_VIEWED?
Asked by John Tian:

I want to provide a list of recent viewers of a specified page. I've figured out how to do this, but the next step is to include a link to the page itself - however, I'd like to avoid updating the recent viewers of that page, if following such a link.

How can I format a link to a page, which avoids updating AO_92296B_AORECENTLY_VIEWED? Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@John Tian](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1138182) ,

this is an internal behaviour of Confluence and you can not change it.

Fabio


Tags: database

link
Confluence restricted blog pages not showing up in space admin
Asked by Walter Wu:

I typically use the space administration page's restricted pages tab to find all pages that have restrictions. We just noticed that blog posts that are restricted don't show up. Does anyone know where I can find a list of all restricted blog posts (or a list of restricted blog posts by space)?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Walter,

Firstly, the issue is currently a known bug:

* [CONFSERVER-37260](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-37260)

There's a SQL query workaround that you can use to get the restricted blog pages.

There's also a discussion on t[his previous Community thread](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-macro-for-getting-the-restricted-pages-for-any/qaq-p/219401) for ways to display this information in a macro that may help you.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Shannon
I have admin access but cannot save any pages I create in my space.
Asked by Shuba Swaminathan:

When I am logged in and attempt to save a page I create in my space, I see a dialog box with the following:

**Can't connect to the server**

Looks like your session expired. Log in again to keep working.[Login](https://confluence.sxm.telematics.net/confluence/pages/dashboard.action)


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Shuba,

Can you let us know what version of Confluence you're using?

There was a bug for this in the past, but it has been resolved in Confluence Server 6.2.1:

* [CONFSERVER-52393](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52393)

Regards,

Shannon
como restarle minutos a un DATE
Asked by dani16171:

hola buenas tardes, quisiera saber que herramienta en spoon me permite sumar y restar minutos a un campo date

que tiene las siguientes caracter?sticas

dd/mm/aaaa 00:00:00.00

gracias por su ayuda.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Dani,

This would probably need something like [ScriptRunner](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.onresolve.confluence.groovy.groovyrunner/server/overview) to do in Confluence. [Have a look at this thread](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/How-to-add-days-to-a-date-field-to-populate-another-date-field/qaq-p/496544).

I recommend having a look at that, and let us know if you have any questions!

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: language-es
'What did you change' text box not expandable
Asked by Howard Fulmer:

Often when I edit a Confluence (wiki) page, I want to supply detailed information in the 'what did you change' text box when I notify the watchers. However, this text box only scrolls left and right and it is difficult to navigate/edit the entire text. It would be helpful to have this text box *expandable* so the user can edit the text in a paragraph style.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Howard,

I've submitted this as a feature request in our system:

* [CONFSERVER-54974](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54974)

Please vote on this and comment on it with your exact usage case.

Let me know if you have any questions about this!

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Howard Fulmer
body: Thanks, Shannon. Now how do I get our in-house folks to take notice of this wish-list feature?


author: Shannon S
body: This would certainly not be an easy task, but they could modify the source code directly in Confluence to their needs. This is something that I would not be able to assist you with.

Note that this isn't supported or recommended, but you can forward them the information from our [Confluence Developer pages](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/building-confluence-from-source-code/).

Regards,

Shannon
How hiding the User list for an external user in confluence?
Asked by Mari Car:

Hi together,

I created an account for a customer of our company in Confluence, the customer is in an extra group for external users. I logged in with his Mails to check the permissions and noticed, that he can see the list of our confluence users, of all employees of our company and of an other customer we have. Can I hide the user list for an user oder a group of users?

Thank you very much in advance

Mari


Answers:
author: Mari Car
body: It?s really crazy, that Atlassian developers did not think about a such important feature, like hiding the Users lists for external users. No external Users should know which custumers a company has.


author: Danny Zuccaro
body: Hi Mari,

If I'm reading the question correctly, you can try the steps outlined [here.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-restrict-users-from-accessing-people-directory-or-search-users-from-quick-search-688883545.html)

Hope this helps,

Danny

comments: author: Mari Car
body: thank you, very much, I found the same explanations and hoped there was another way!!

It?s really crazy, that Atlassian developers did not think about a such important feature, like hiding the Users lists for external users. No external Users should know which custumers a company has and see names of other users.

Have a nice day Danny and thank you again
Docker build fails building confluence
Asked by Volkan Tas:

The confluence docker image page states that the product is not supported under openJDK and suggests building with oracleJDK.

<https://hub.docker.com/r/atlassian/confluence-server/>

When the advice on the following page is followed:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/update-the-confluence-docker-image-to-use-oracle-jdk-829062521.html>

the line from the confluence docker image is changed from:

```
FROM openjdk:8-jdk-alpine
```

to:

```
FROM oracle/serverjre:9
```

This causes an error when building the confluence image with the new base image:

```
/bin/sh: apk: command not found
```

This makes sense as apk is a package manager for alpine and I just removed it when changing the base image.

There is a clear conflict when following instructions to create a supported docker image.

How can I create a supported docker image?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Volkan,

I found a few more suggestions online for users trying to build a Alpine based docker image. Perhaps they could help you?

1. Try apk update and apk add, ***or***
2. RUN apk add --no-cache bash (keeps the image small) ***or***
3. Someone also mentioned to try using RUN /bin/sh instead of bash, or even RUN /bin/sh -c "apk add --no-cache bash"

Let us know if you have any success.

Regards,

Shannon


author: AnnWorley
body: The way I understand the documentation, you download and install the Oracle JDK before the build and then you won't need a package manager to install it, you would use:

```
FROM oracle/JDK:8
```

Please note that JRE 9 is not a supported platform for Confluence 6.6.x: [Supported Platforms](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html)

comments: author: Volkan Tas
body: Thank you for pointing out that JRE 9 is not supported.

The apk package manager is not being used to download and install Oracle JDK. That process is done in a previous step.

The second build process uses the apk package manager to do the following:

```
RUN apk update -qq \    && update-ca-certificates \    && apk add ca-certificates wget curl openssh bash procps openssl perl ttf-dejavu tini libc6-compat \    && rm -rf /var/lib/{apt,dpkg,cache,log}/ /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
```

That is within the confluence docker file at:

[https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/docker-atlassian-confluence-server/src/37d9ecc3ad569e0c49935e6ee296ddc46bc2c0fa/Dockerfile?at=base-6\&fileviewer=file-view-default](https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/docker-atlassian-confluence-server/src/37d9ecc3ad569e0c49935e6ee296ddc46bc2c0fa/Dockerfile?at=base-6&fileviewer=file-view-default)

Which is where the build process fails.


Tags: docker
Can I rename "Blog" in my own space in Confluence?
Asked by Joanna Abramowicz:

How I can rename "Blog" in my own space in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not easily, it's part of the structure of Confluence, rather than configuration.

You could translate it to a modified language, and some themes might let you rename it.

comments: author: Joanna Abramowicz
body: thanks for rapid answer!


Tags: blog

rename
Can I add subspace to my own space in Confluence?
Asked by Joanna Abramowicz:

Can I add subspace to my own space in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, spaces are a flat layer, there's no sub-spaces.

There is an add-on called sub-spaces which makes it look like you can nest spaces, which might help you.

comments: author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: Hi Joanna,

<br />

as Nic already mentioned there is the "Subspace for Confluence" add-on. In older versions of it there was a pure space hierarchy configuration that ended up being a navigation bar on the top of each page.

The add-on itself evolved from this feature set to a more broad navigation concept in the past versions (since 3.0). So now you still have the navigationbar on each page but you are able to configure a wide range of navigation nodes like internal link, space, cql query, folder....

Cheers,  
Sandro


author: Joanna Abramowicz
body: I am amazed, how fast I received answer! Thank you!


Tags: subspace
Meeting Notes Blueprint
Asked by Paul McClements:

Hello, I've followed the instructions to create a meeting notes blueprint at the link below but the resulting page does not create an Index page, table of meeting notes or include the Create meeting note button, all of which appear in the example shown here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/meeting-notes-blueprint-937893665.html>

All that happens is that a new meetings page is created so what am I doing wrong?

Best regards, Paul


Answers:
author: Paul McClements
body: Ignore my question - I hadn't switched over to the Space shortcuts which now I have, and has resolved my query.
Are personal spaces included in the "subscribe to daily updates" setting?
Asked by Dominik Tschopp:

User can "subscribe to daily updates" in their email settings (<https://plattform.schluesselsituationen.net/users/viewmyemailsettings.action>). Do these updates include changes in personal spaces?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Dominik, the updates do include changes in personal spaces the user has permission to see. Each user is a space admin of their own personal space and can restrict the permissions to limit who would be able to see the content and hence receive daily updates on the personal space.

Please see details on [Email Notifications](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Email+Notifications)

The Daily updates email contains:
> Pages and blog posts that are added, edited or deleted.  
> Comments on a page or blog post that are added, edited or deleted.  
> Updates by users who have changed their personal profile.
Images within html not loading
Asked by Eimantas Puscius:

Hello all,

I have created a page within Confluence, containing the html macro. Within the macro I have links directing to images, which I have used as icons. Until recently these images were working fine, however they no longer display properly when other people open the page.

Has anyone had any similar problems, or could perhaps suggest any solutions?

Many thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Eimantas,

It depends on where the links are pointing. When you say other users aren't able to open the images, does it mean that they are still loading for you?

It may be that the user themselves don't have access to the server that hosts the images, or that something in your Confluence server is blocking them.

You can try using Developer Tools in your browser to see what the issue is, and see if it works for other users, from other browsers, and other machines, but I don't believe this to be a Confluence specific cause.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Eimantas Puscius
body: Hello Shannon,  

You were in fact 100% correct. It was simply the case of the users not having the access to the pages where the images were hosted.  

Thank you very much for your help.  

Eimantas


author: Shannon S
body: Eimantas,

You're welcome! Happy to help.

Kind regards,

Shannon
Use Confluence blueprints in JIRA Service Desk
Asked by Th?ringenForst:

Hi Community,

is it possible to add more Confluence blueprints when creating a page from an JSD-Issue. I've just two options and would like to add my custom blueprint.

Here is a screenshot what i'm talking about and where i'd like to have more options.

![screenshot.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/12509i6B196977FB088560/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "screenshot.PNG")

Thanks for your replies and best regards from Germany,

Robert.


Answers:
author: Ivan Lima
body: Apparently, this is a suggestion that has been captured through the Atlassian ticket system which explains why you can only create articles using the built-in "Troubleshooting" and "How-to" blueprints from Confluence. I encourage you to vote on this feature so we can increase its visibility for future consideration.

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSDSERVER-460>

Cheers.


author: Shannon S
body: Robert,

Can you help verify what you need exactly? Do you want to add more blueprints in general, or include ones from Confluence which don't display here?

What options are you currently seeing?

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Th?ringenForst
body: Hi Shannon, thanks for your answer. Sorry for the late response i was ill.

Actually i've 2 "blueprint" options in JSD to create a page in confluence. The 1st one is "knowledge base article" and 2nd is a "How-to-article". Now i want a 3rd option e.g. "Decisions".

I have no idea where to configure a confluence blueprint to be visible in JSD.

Thanks for any advice,

BR Robert.


author: Andre Lehmann
body: Maybe an other explaination:

I have linked a Confluence-Space with my Jira Service Desk Project.  
As an Agent I can create Confluence-Pages out of a Jira-Issues

=\> Create an article

There I can only chose from 2 Confluence-Templates: HowTo-Article and Troubleshotting-Guide.

Is there any way to add existinge Confluence Templates to that select-List in Jira?


author: Th?ringenForst
body: Exactly what i need ;-)


author: khairul.anwar.sajali
body: Yes, currently what is being offered when creating an article from JSD is;

* How-to
* Troubleshooting

I created a new template (under User Created Templates in the KB space - not Global), but this template is not showing up as an option when I want to create an article from JSD. I need the template that I've created to be listed in JSD's Create an article as additional option that my guys can select.


Tags: blueprint

jira-service-desk

template
We have an issue to finish Confluence install in Server Linux Opensuse
Asked by Alvaro Navarro:

We have 2 issues when we install Confluence in the Server after the configuration of local Database:

1-

    java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set

2- Displays an error in logs "Confluence is Vacant"

How to configure the Linux Server to avoid this error?

Have you some additional guide?

Thank you


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Alvaro,

Ideally if you have two separate issues you will want to create two separate questions for them, which makes it easier to help and track.

1. For the first error, there are a lot of things that can cause this, so you will want to go over this article: [Confluence does not start due to spring application context has not been set](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-does-not-start-due-to-spring-application-context-has-not-been-set-218278311.htm).
2. For the second error, have a look at this: [Confluence generates Confluence is vacant error on install](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-generates-confluence-is-vacant-error-on-install-779164449.html)

Go ahead and review both of those articles thoroughly and do let us know if you have any trouble or questions.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Alvaro Navarro
body: Thank you Shannon,
Customize confluence dashboard/UI same like support.atlassian.com
Asked by Siddheshwar mhetre:

Hi,

I want to create page/dashboard in confluence same like support.atlassian.com

![Capture.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/12506iBBAFAFB1570F6BBE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")

How can I create same page/UI in confluence?

How can I use Viewport plugin to customize the same?


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: I've only used Redefined Wiki which you could do something like that in Confluence.

But you're in for a long ride as I am quite sure that support.atlassian.com is not a Confluence instance.


author: Shannon S
body: Hi there,

I know we do use Viewport for the individual Confluence pages, but as Timothy mentioned, I do believe that either that main page is not Confluence, or highly customized.

Regards,

Shannon
Confluence data center login issue
Asked by jameers:

Hi,

I have deployed confluence data center in AWS.

My infra is: ELB, 2 EC2 instances, RDS, EFS (shared). I did clustering. when i login into the application with admin credentials , it is getting in and immediately getting logout when i use ELB endpoint. if i login with ip address individually it is successfully login. but when i use endpoint login is not happening. i checked the cluster, it is working. Can you please tell me reason.

No errors thrown in the **atlassian-confluence.log** . The following warning flashes quickly and user is redirected to the login page

Thanks


Answers:
author: Kiran Panduga {Appfire}
body: Hi [@jameers](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1165927),

It appears the ELB configuration is not accurate, sticky session should be enabled.

can you check ELB configuration for HTTP and HTTPS access ? by following the instructions given in the below Atlassian KB articles

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/integrating-jira-jira-data-center-with-aws-elb-http-https-and-redirection-942841242.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-configure-amazon-web-service-elastic-load-balancer-with-confluence-6-0-859515417.html>

If possible, share the warning error message, so that, I can review and give additional inputs.

Thanks,

Kiran.


Tags: confluence-data-center
automatically adding labels to an uploaded attachment in a particular space
Asked by Ian:

How can I define labels and add them automatically when a user uploads an attachment in a space and then make the attachment searchable?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Please elaborate, what pages would you like to be labeled when an attachment is uploaded to a specified space?

In case you would like to attach labels to make the attachments searchable, please consider that most attachments are already searchable: [Full search](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/search-139528.html#Search-Fullsearch)
> The search will also look at the content of the following types of attachments:  
> Word  
> Text  
> PowerPoint  
> Excel  
> PDF  
> HTML

comments: author: Ian
body: [@AnnWorley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502040) Thank you for your reply.What I want to be labelled is the actual attachment and not the page itself.For example I have sample.docx which I want labelled with two or three labels and when I view the attachments I can see the labels.


author: Ian
body: [@AnnWorley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502040) I want when a user uploads a document,a prompt to appear to allow the user to enter labels that will be pegged on the document and not the page.


author: Tracy Maxwell
body: [@AnnWorley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502040) I have a request from our leadership team for this same feature. How can I have labels automatically added to attachments that I upload to Confluence? Is there a way to have the attachments inherit the labels on the page?


Tags: attachment

label