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Importing from Media Wiki
Asked by jeff.pollack:

We are looking to move some things from Media Wiki to Confluence. Any recommendations on methods used or tools used?


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: I am currently doing this kind of conversion for a client, starting with the code base of the Universal Wiki Converter code with some modifications, with some custom scripts to clean up the input to UWC. Then UWC writes to a test instance of Confluence.

I would say that if you have a 100 or less pages, just quicker to manually move the content over. Since it is a one-time thing, not always interesting to spend tons of time on a solution for a smaller number of pages.


author: Peter T
body: Hi Jeff,

when you say some things what more precisely do you mean? Only the wiki pages, what about attachments, comments, history etc.

This page describes the generic mechanisms:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf51/importing-content-into-confluence-336169436.html>

They can give you some success but i you want a full and flawless migration, I'd suggest you hire some of the Atlassian Experts that have experience with that to do it. At the end of the day it will be cheaper, better and faster.

If need more information about the experts let me know.

Cheers,  
Peter T
Is there any way to reduce padding within table cells?
Asked by Kim Ladin:

I'm working on a couple of pages within an enterprise Confluence installation, so I don't have access to the site-wide stylesheets.

I want to insert a long table into a wiki page I've made, and I need to reduce the padding on all the table cells.

So far I've been stymied. I'm able to use custom page-level CSS (through the macro) to address the table and the table-row, but my styles for the table-cell (where the padding declarations are needed) are always overwritten when the page renders. I've tried using very specific css selectors, and using "!important," but it seems like my css just get stripped out altogether.

The only way I can figure out to do this is to use the Adaptavist Table macro, but display in the editor is so cumbersome there is no way I could use this for my large table.

Is there anything else I can do?


Answers:
author: Darren Tonnessen
body: Did you find an answer? I'd too like to shrink the whitespace around cells.


Tags: css

table
Unable to move a page to another Space
Asked by Katherine Dantis:

Hi,

I am unable to move a page to another Space. I have all the admin permissions and was able to move a page from the Space previously, but now it is only giving me a "Browse" option to move it within the space, but not outside of it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,  
Katherine


Answers:
author: Ravi Patel
body: Hi Katherine,

Currently I am facing the same issue too, and as per my understanding your manage version is active, and that's holding you back to move pages from one space to another. I believe you are getting same error " You cannot move a page to be underneath itself or its children."

Sorry, I don't know the solution, but any chance if you have fixed your issue then please let me know, so i can fix mine too.

Thanks,

Ravi
Confluence Creations and Edits
Asked by Matthew Dartez:

How can I get a grand total of articles created, edits and comments from our confluence page? My CIO would like to know how active we've been so we can justify another licence buy. This also will help us with trending so we can have status reports.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: A lot of us would recommend monitoring page hits etc, but there's a quick and dirty way to get some basic information.

Look at the system information page, it will list numbers of

* Pages (which is actually current active pages, not the old versions)
* Total number of pages (i.e. all the old edits)
* Comments
* Users (numbers that can log in, not useful for "activity", but knowing how close you are to a new licence tier)

The bit that distorts this is page deletion and personal spaces. Deletion loses the history, and personal pages can often be full of junk. (Well, if other people use personal spaces the way I do, then it's definitely a lot of junk)

comments: author: TomC
body: Nic,

Could you clarify...I see on our System Information page information for: 'Content (All Versions) and Content (Current Versions), which may map to your 'Pages' and 'Total number of pages'? I don't see 'comments' or 'Users', but do see 'Local Users' but it's misleading (a huge number that is 3X our employee base, so maybe includes everyone's email aliases, as we are sync'd with Active Directory?).

We are running Confuence Server 5.6.6. Did the terminology change or am I looking in the wrong area?


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I get a listing of user activity for a specific user?
Asked by Patrick James:

I need to see all activity for a user in our confluence system.

<br />

First login, every login, documents viewed and edited....

Patrick James


Answers:
author: Michael Partyka
body: Hi Patrick,

I don't know if it reach what you're wanting, but you can Enable User Access Logging to generate a basic log indicating which users are accessing which pages in Confluence. Please, refer to the following KB:

Check these:  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Enable+User+Access+Logging>

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.ext.usage)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.ext.usage/versions>

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.tracking/server/overview>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Decision Log not showing up, when creating a new Decision?
Asked by Jakob Lee Gunnloegsson:

So - when I create a new decision, the decision log doesn't show up in my Space, as it automatically should.  
Earlier it was showing, but not working properly (decisions didn't show up in the decision log). So I deleted all my decisions and the decision log in hope of, that it would work again, if I created a new decision log.   

But now it doesn't even show up?


Answers:
author: Joshua Sneed Contegix
body: Clearing index queue contents and rebuilding works for me, but I have to do it regularly. It is possible that the index is broken and needs to be rebuilt from scratch.


author: Naveen
body: Having same issue.. Any solutions?


author: Debra Brucato
body: Hi Jakob, did you ever get this resolved? I also created a decision and no decision register (log) was created, but I want one.


Tags: confluence-administration
can we import excel files and make concurrent changes by multiple users at same time in wiki
Asked by Shivakumar:

can we import excel files and make concurrent changes by multiple users at same time in wiki


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Attach the files - no, as the attachments are distinct editable objects in their own right and have to be downloaded and uploaded when being changed. The office connectors can make that a bit more transparent, but it's still not concurrent.

Importing the files so that they become Confluence pages - yes, although you need to be on Cloud to have that feature (it's in Confluence 6, so not there for Server yet)
How to extract excel data on Confluence
Asked by Mohammad Babar Siddiqui:

I want to display my time sheet report that is on Excel format on Confluence. Please guide me folks. Thankyou


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: If the data is on the first sheet, then just drag the Excel doc to the page and it will be displayed.


author: Alex Yasurek
body: Hi,

You can use the Bob Swift Excel plugin which will do exactly what you need. It will display an excel file on the page in a table format.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.excel/server/overview>


author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: On top of using the Bob Swift macro, you can use the built in Office Excel Macro to view your Excel doc:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/office-excel-macro-375849173.html>
_blank
Asked by Jon Mason:

how do I create a link to a new page target="_blank"


Answers:
author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: Here is the HTML for creating a link that opens in a new tab:

\<a href="<https://URL.SOMETHING>" target="_blank"\>TEXT FOR THE LINKS\</a\>

comments: author: NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE
body: You can use the HTML code above in tandem with the HTML macro:

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


author: Jon Mason
body: I know the raw code. Just don't see a way on the confluence page to set that target. My pages keep opening up in the same browser window. Where do I set the target window?

image2016-3-9 10:54:40.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/blank/qaq-p/265255?attachment-id=1504){#link_1190f1ba917641}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/44794/1/image2016-3-9%2010%3A54%3A40.png){#display_1190f1ba917641_0}


author: Milo Test
body: Do you mean to a page that doesn't exist yet?
Pls, I need help because I can't find this add-on for Confluence with Google Drive.
Asked by Raul Benavente:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Google Drive macros](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=737182322)*

I have followed the instruccions of this page

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/google-drive-macros-737182322.html#GoogleDrivemacros-install>

but I' cant find de add-on

Anyone Knows if is available?

I'm using my own instalation v5.9.6


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Could you confirm that you are using Confluence Cloud, and not your own installation?


Tags: confluence-administration

confluence-cloud
How can I implement SSO with Atlassian Cloud tools?
Asked by Jim Mellor:

We use Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket and Bamboo. My company has an identify provider that speaks SAML2.0, could probably speak other protocols too. We can't use Google for compliance reasons. What are our options?


Answers:
author: Ross Lindell _Information Officer Pte Ltd_
body: @Nic Brough \[Adaptavist\] is correct.

In case you are thinking 'What about Crowd?' which is Atlassian's SSO product. Crowd does not work on the Atlassian Cloud, but might help if you elect to upgrade from Cloud to the Server product (for example on Amazon Web Services).

Migration from Cloud to Server, and Server to Cloud is straightforward.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: None.   

Well, actually, there's always options - move off Cloud to a provider who will let you do this, or drop the idea if you're staying on Cloud (and hope Atlassian add something soon)

Cloud will only has the internal user directory or google accounts, so there's nothing you can do to hook it up to a SAML enabled directory


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to delete users with active directory
Asked by Giovanni:

Dear all,

we have a problem with the users' number imported with active directory.

Our license is for 10 users but we imported in the confluence server 11 users.

Now we deleted 2 users and after we made a synchronize to active directory group but the counter of the user license is not updated.

But now the number of users signed is 9.

How fix we the problem?

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Andris Grinbergs
body: Try to remove those 2 users in Confluence from all groups.


Tags: confluence-administration
how to add Jira user group as participants
Asked by Bibin Joseph:

While creating Run a **Retrospective. I wish to use My JIRA User group as participants.**

**Please let me know how do I do that**


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Groups are not people, so you can't add them as participants. All you can do is add the individual users.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
confluence sidebar and livesearch, macro receives focus page and page edit shortcut keys stop working
Asked by Gavin Fowler:

Hi

I've added the `livesearch` macro to the global confluence sidebar configuration (Confluence Administration / General Configuration / Sidebar, Header \& Footer), adding this content to the sidebar:

```
{livesearch:spaceKey=@self}
```

The search works very well, adding space search to all confluence spaces, **however** , one anomaly raised is that the `livesearch `macro receives page focus (it has a blinking cursor ready for text entry), and as such page short cut keys, such as pressing "E" for edit, simply adds E into the `livesearch` box rather than the desired behaviour which would be to open the page for editing.

Does anyone know if there are any techniques to shift page focus away from the `livesearch` macro when the page first renders?!

Many thanks!


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Gavin,

There is a [ticket](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-40338) in Atlassian Jira. You can vote for it. There is a description in the ticket, but in short the first text input within a \<form\> receives focus after page load.

comments: author: Gavin Fowler
body: Many thanks Andrey - I'll vote as suggested.


Tags: live-search

side-bar
Login Page based on Groups
Asked by Gian Carlo Pace:

**As a System Administrator** in Confluence**I want** to set different Login Page (the page a user lands on after submitting credentials) **So that** I can explain to different group of users what permissions they have in the Confluence instance.

Two questions on this:

* is it possible with a Vanilla Confluence? How?
* if no, is there a plugin to achieve this? Which one?
* if no, is it possible to develop this without huge coding efforts?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Alex Yasurek
body: Hi,

I think you are looking for a plugin like the one below. You can redirect users based on group to a different home page. So after they they log in, it will redirect them to a specific page based on what group they are in.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.homepageredirect/server/overview>


Tags: confluence-administration
Using a variable as default value for macro parameter?
Asked by Wouter Veeken:

Hi,

I have a user macro where one of the required parameters is the 'page owner', i.e. the username of the person charged with keeping the page up to date. I want the default value for this parameter to be the username of the page creator. This I am trying to achieve by passing $action.remoteUser.name to the parameter:

```
## @param Owner:title=Owner|type=username|required=true|default=$action.remoteUser.name
```

However, the string '$[action.remoteUser.name](http://action.remoteUser.name)' is simply rendered as plain text in output. I have also tried to do it by setting a custom variable first, i.e.:

```
#set($ownerName = $action.remoteUser.name)## @param Owner:title=Owner|type=username|required=true|default=$ownerName
```

But the result is the same. Can I pass a variable default value to the parameter somehow? It seems like this would be a trivial thing, so perhaps I am going about it the wrong way? Thanks in advance for any help!

Best,

Wouter


Answers:
author: Ksdmg
body: Hi, I'm currently facing the same problem. Did you found out by now how this can be achieved?

Thanks


author: Wouter Veeken
body: Hi, I'm afraid not. Have put my project on hold for now... :/


Tags: confluence-administration

macro

user-macro

velocity
TOC in crelore markup
Asked by Hongsoog Kim:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Add a table of contents to a wiki](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=221451163)*

Unfortunately I have a few wik pages that contain space in wiki title.

For example, "introduction wiki"

It seems that \<\<toc\>\> does not hand the path that has space.

Is there workaround for \<\<toc /introduction wiki 1\>\> ?

I have tried \<\<toc "/introduction wiki" 1\>\> but got error message.

*Wiki macro error:* Could not find file wiki'

Thanks for your reading.


Answers:
author: Hongsoog Kim
body: ```
a soliloquy
```

if wiki page name contains space in the middle, it translated into underline char.

Hence, \<\<toc introduction_wiki 1\>\> works in this case

if the wiki page is located in the sub folder such as a/b/c/test_case.wiki, use

\<\<toc a/b/c/test_case 2\>\>


Tags: table-of-contents
How to add a new team member to a Team Space
Asked by Steve Berichon:

On creating a new Team Space there is an option to include Team Members. This will create a Profile view of those team members in a separate section of the Team Space.

How do I add new team members to this section once the Team Space has been created? Struggling to find a way to do this without reverting to using one of the Macros (either Profile Picture or User Profile), neither of which is consistent with the format of Profile Views of Team Members when the Team Space is first created.


Answers:
author: Deborah Fulkerson
body: I have the same question.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Unable to Auth to Cloud WebDAV
Asked by Julien Bonastre:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Upload data via WebDAV](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=744721622)*

I am unable to login regardless of which admin details I provide to my cloud WebDAV folder either in browser or windows 7.

Is there somewhere I need to link/enable the accounts to WebDav? users attempted were definitely in administrators group


Answers:
author: Bob Beers
body: @Julien Bonastre: did you figure out how to login to webDAV? Im experiencing the same issue. Please help?


author: Giles B
body: Hi Julien,

I notice this message on the page:
> Your actual username may be different from the one you use to log in into your Atlassian Cloud site, as the login page also offers the option to use your email address.

Might be worth checking your username to make sure it's right. Otherwise, I'd say it's best to [contact support](https://support.atlassian.com).


Tags: confluence-cloud

documentation
embed google docs on Confluence page
Asked by RVal:

Hi

According to <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24927> showing google docs in Widget Connector macro should be fixed in latest version of Confluence. I have installed Confluence 5.9.6 today in my VirtualBox but it is still showing grey box instead of google document snapshot. Am I doing something wrong or is Widget Connector update still in progress ?


Answers:
author: Raul Benavente
body: Hi, I'm experimenting the same problem. What can I do?


Tags: confluence-administration
Calendar template not showing up in my confluence space
Asked by eric wood:

According to the Atlassian page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/create-add-and-edit-calendars-654213559.html>

I should be able to:

Create a calendar {#toc-hId--1325866371}
----------------------------------------

To create a brand new calendar:

1. Do either of the following:
   * **Create a calendar in a space** -- Hit **Create from template** ![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/files/654213559/Create+from+template.png) in the Confluence header, then choose **Calendars** in the create dialog (choose the right space too, if you're not already there)

but "Calendars" does not show up on the ... create from template dialog. Is there something I have to do to be able to enable or creaet te template first?

Thanks


Answers:
author: eric wood
body: I see that the calendar template is a purchased add-on from atlassian. I enabled the add-on and now it is available. It would be nice to have the pages indicate that this functionality is provided by an add-on and not part of the base product. This pages does not: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/create-add-and-edit-calendars-654213559.html>

Its "parent" page does, but I was directed to this page by a google search.

Just learning the product so sorry the confusion on my part.


author: Anupama Singh
body: To use the **Team Calendars** feature in Confluence Cloud, you will need to subscribe to the add-on and then you will be good to go.  

To activate the add-on, you will just need to click on the **Free Trial** button next to it on the **Manage add-ons** menu:
Back Dating a Blog Post
Asked by Colin Bowern:

We want to move older content stored in regular wiki pages into the blog structure. The interface supports the setting of an older date, but when we go to publish it, the post takes today's date. According to [CONF-1711](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1711) my understanding is backdating of blog posts is supported, but I cannot seem to make this work in Confluence Cloud. Is anyone else experiencing problems back dating a blog post?


Answers:
author: Adam Leadoux
body: Please add backdates for posts - struggling to comprehend why this feature is not present.


author: David Brewer
body: Yep, I hit that problem too. I'd like to move old blogs posts so new ones make sense.

So one more vote for this fix.


author: Colin Bowern
body: Looks like there is a known issue at the moment - [CONF-40283](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-40283).


Tags: blog

cloud

confluence-cloud
JIRA Macros
Asked by Rebecca M.:

When inserting JIRA Issue and Chart macros on a Confluence page, is there a way to define the JIRA project it pulls from?

Currently, the charts include issues from all projects. I know that when inserting an issue filter, I can uncheck the JIRA issues I don't want to include, but this can be very time-consuming. Also, there's no way to do this for the Chart macro.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Yagnesh Bhat
body: You can specify the JQL in the filter or even give the JQL in the form field for the filter , so that it includes issues from a project : for e.g. something like project = \<projectname\> in the filter or JQL should do it.


author: Rebecca M.
body: Thank you, Yagnesh - worked great!
Give my blogs a name
Asked by Alice:

I just switched in to default theme and love how the blog shows up in the sidebar. However, I would like to give my blogs a name. Is there any markup I can use within each space to change the name from just "blog" to something else?


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: No. But you can hide this link and create a space shortcut in the sidebar with the name you want.


author: Janet Dixon
body: I feel the way about this. Hard to believe Atlassian has not added this by now. I don't like having multiple blogs throughout the system and every one is titled, "Blog". It makes no sense!! We have a blog for every team and I would love to be able to name the blogs "Shared Services Blog", "Support Team Blog", etc. I should be able to create a blog and give it whatever name I want. Likewise, when users see a blog posting within a blog module that is displaying posts from more than one blog, I want users to know which specific blog each post is coming from. You can't rely just on who the author is to determine which blog it is, as some staff may post in more than one blog.

comments: author: Bas Zwaan
body: The first question about this was coined back in 2012:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Rename-blog-to-news-throughout/qaq-p/47828>

It's ridiculous.


author: Janet Dixon
body: I looked at that post from 2012. I'm not going to do that. It should be a simple edit in the application. Personally, I would like to see blogs re-done so that a blog can be added to a space and the blog can have whatever title you want to give it. And I could have more than one blog in a space.


Tags: blog

confluence-administration
How can I add a "subscribe" button?
Asked by Alisa Garcia:

I am looking for a simple subscribe button that will allow visitors to subscribe to updates via email? Thanks so much!


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: I'd swear there's an easy way to do this, but I did find a couple of similar questions. Maybe you can get one to work for you:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/107067>

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/220843>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can just ask them to click "watch" if it's a specific page they want to get updates for.


author: Michael Partyka
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/managing-changes-and-notifications-and-tasks/subscribing-to-email-notifications-of-updates-to-confluence-content>