youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
What is the format for linking to a Confluence anchor with a tiny link?
Asked by Daniel Tan:

Hi all,

I currently am running Confluence 5.3.1 and am trying to follow [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Working+with+Anchors#WorkingwithAnchors-Creatingalinktoananchor)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Working+with+Anchors#WorkingwithAnchors-Creatingalinktoananchor>to create a link to an anchor in my Confluence page.

<br />

My question is, how do I do this with a tiny link (just replacing the page title with the tiny link code didnt seem to work).

Thanks,

Dan


Answers:
author: Aseem Parikh
body: In order to get an anchor to work with a tiny URL, you just need to add the hashtag and anchor name to it. For example:

The tiny URL for the page you linked to is: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ywSBG)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ywSBG>

If I take the hashtag and anchor name from that page (#WorkingwithAnchors-Creatingalinktoananchor) and add it to the tiny URL, you end up with a somewhat less-than-tiny URL which has a working anchor tag: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ywSBG#WorkingwithAnchors-Creatingalinktoananchor)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ywSBG#WorkingwithAnchors-Creatingalinktoananchor>

I don't think there's a way to incorporate the anchor into the tiny URL unfortunately, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong about this.


Tags: confluence-administration
Unable to find In-app Notifications in confluence
Asked by bubaphex:

Hi there,

Im trying to follow these steps to enable the workbox:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Workbox+Notifications)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Workbox+Notifications>

I cant how-ever find the in-app notifications inside of the admin section.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Rob,

I'm sorry, that functionality is not available on OnDemand and I am currently updating the documentation to reflect that.

<br />

The correct documentation would be [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Configuring+Workbox+Notifications)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Configuring+Workbox+Notifications>(mind the AOD space instead of DOC) but still is not properly updated. I'm taking care of fixing it to avoid future misunderstandings.

Regards,  
Mauro

comments: author: bubaphex
body: Is there any plans in the future to add this on OnDemand ?


author: Mauro Badii
body: The Workbox is enabled by default on all OnDemand instances. I'm sorry, I meant that the "Change Settings functionaility" is not available. OnDemand customers shouldn't have to manually configure it or change the settings. For that reason, the configuration is disabled for administrators.

Information about the workbox can be found [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+Notifications+in+Confluence).

If you are having problems with the workbox not showing or having a strange behaviour, feel free to request assistance at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)as there might be another cause for the problem.

Cheers!


author: bubaphex
body: Is there any plans in the future to add this on OnDemand ?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
build public website based on confluence
Asked by Yijun Mao:

Hi,

I was wondering if it's legal to use build website using confluence software, the website will provide public service such as a user can signup, create space, make documents, etc. if so, is it legal to customize confluence such as add new feature by modify souce code, etc.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The short answer is "Yes". There are lots of organisations with publically accessable Confluence sites out there, and some of them are using modified source code.

For exact details of what you can do, you should get a proper lawyer to look at the licence agreement alongside the details of everything you actually want to do with it. But I don't think you've mentioned anything you can not do. I do know that you should not remove part of the footer that says "powered by Atlassian Confluence", but I don't think there's much esle you can't customise.
Confluence: Can not edit Excel or PPT through "Edit in Office" Option
Asked by Amol Mategaonkar:

We are using Ondemand version of Confluence. I am trying to use "Edit in Office" functionality to MS Office files. I am able to edit word files successfully. However, for Excel and PPT, nothing happens when I click on "Edit in Office" option. Please help.

Firefox latest 25.0.1  
MS Office 2013  
Confluence ondemand version


Answers:
author: Kai Gottschalk
body: Hi Amol,

I was just browsing for another related question/answer and found yours. I guess Word is explicit configured in your firefox-addon, while Excel and Powerpoint are not. Please have a look at [this guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+the+Firefox+Add-On+for+the+Office+Connector#InstallingtheFirefoxAdd-OnfortheOfficeConnector-ConfiguringtheAdd-On)to see how you can add them as well.

Hope it helps!   
Cheers

Kai

comments: author: salehparsa
body: Hi Amol

I just want to add something to your Kai's answer as he mentioned good point.

Please check the "[Configuration Matrix](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+an+Office+Document+from+Confluence#EditinganOfficeDocumentfromConfluence-Configurationmatrix)" of the office connector.

Can you reproduce this issue with MS Office 2003, 3007 or 2010 also?!

Cheers,

Saleh


author: Amol Mategaonkar
body: Hi All

Appreciate if I can get some help on this issue. The Pop-up is not blocked. The Edit in Office option works for Word but does not work for Excel and PPT. Is there anything that I need to do in Excel/PPT? Please help.


author: Amol Mategaonkar
body: No. I am able to see this Popup when editing Word Document. The same is not coming up for Excel and Powerpoint.


author: Paul Greig
body: Hi Amol,

Is it possible the following pop-up is hidden behind a window on your screen:

![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/145958/OCEditConfirmXLSFF.png?version=2&modificationDate=1379111083476&api=v2)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

webdav
can I get emacs key bindings in Confluence?
Asked by Pete Siemsen:

Ack! In almost every other application except Confluence, I can use Emacs-style special characters to do basic editing: Control-A, Control-B, Control-E, Control-F, Control-K, etc. I even used them in the web interface as I'm typing this message!

It wouldn't be so bad if Confluence just didn't do anything with those industry-standard special characters (ok, I'm a bit biased), but Confluence uses Control-B to toggle "bold", so I'm constantly cluttering up my Wiki pages with bold characters.

I don't expect you to change things, but I also can't believe I'm the only Emacs user who is frustrated by Confluence. Can you suggest anything?


Answers:
author: Harvey Thompson
body: Yup, I find this annoying. I've always fixed this in Confluence itself, such that on Mac systems only Command works (not Control).

Recently install Confluence 5.6.5, still has the issue, so I wrote a blog with details: <http://www.610yesnolovely.org/2015/01/17/fixing-confluence-key-bindings-on-mac-os-x.html>


author: Robert Lupton
body: Here's a fix: <http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/423899>(and vote for [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-21908))<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-21908>)
Can one page be included in multiple spaces?
Asked by knowshan:

Is it possible to include one page in multiple spaces? For example, page 'SSH configuration' is part of two spaces - 'Linux' and 'Mac' and changes in 'SSH configuration' page get reflected in both spaces.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can use the built in {include} macro to do whole pages


author: Aseem Parikh
body: If you have the need to do this multiple times throughout a space, the [Multi Excerpt Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.confluence.multiexcerpt.MultiExcerptMacro) can help.

\[edit\] There's also an excerpt macro in the [Confluence Advanced Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.macros.advanced) plugin if you don't need anything quite as sophisticated.
onDmand confluence open link in new window
Asked by Tony Hayes:

In the Confluence OnDemand product, how do I set external links to open in a new window and not re-direct the anonymous user off the site?


Answers:
author: Jaime S
body: Hi, Tony.

This question seems to have the answer to your question: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/74297>.

Particularly, one answer gives this link: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Force+Links+to+Open+in+a+New+Window>, which worked for me. However, where it says to go to 'Administration \>\> Custom HTML', it is actually 'cog icon \>\> General Configuration \>\> Custom HTML', under 'Look and Feel'. It will apply to every page in every space, but you can probably apply to a single space if you can find 'Custom HTML' in its configuration page.

Kind regards.


Tags: cloud
Ektron to confluence Migration
Asked by sandeep sankalapur:

I need to migrate complete contents of EKTRON CMS into confluence.

Is there any specific procedure for migration?

Appreciate if the suggestions include using specific tools for migrating the contents.

Thanks,

Sandeep.


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Sandeep,

What type of backup/export options do you have with ektron? What backup formats can you generate out of the cms? Some additional details about where in the process you are stuck would be great since familiarity with ektron is required to answer your question.

Here is a link to the documentation with the known ways of importing content into Confluence:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+Content+from+Another+Wiki)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+Content+from+Another+Wiki>

You're going to need to export the content from ektron to a format that Confluence is able to import.

comments: author: sandeep sankalapur
body: Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the reply. There is no direct option to migrate Ektron contents into Confluence. So we got an approach like "Integrating Ektron with Sharepoint", Below is the link to the documnetation provided by Ektron:

[](http://documentation.ektron.com/cms300/CMS300_sharepointIntegration.pdf)<http://documentation.ektron.com/cms300/CMS300_sharepointIntegration.pdf>

From above link we can integrate ektron with sharepoint and then try to migrate the Integrated Ektron contents in sharepoint to confluence.

Our question here is that, Is it possible to migrate the Integrated Ektron contents which is present in sharepoint to Confluence?

Thanks,

Sandeep.


Tags: confluence-administration
can we add like button on the top instead of bottom
Asked by Sreenivasaraju P:

Want to change the position of Like button on confluence page. Want move it to the top of the page.

Is this possible.


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi there,

<br />

You could add some CSS code in Confluence Admin \>\> Sytlesheet to move the like button. For example:

```
#likes-section .like-button {position:absolute; top:70px;left:500px}#likes-section .like-summary {position:absolute; top:70px;left:550px}
```

The like button will then appear as shown in the screenshot below:

![](../../upfiles/sample_1.png)

Feel free to modify the code to your as your see fit.

Regards,

JIng Hwa


author: cirosantilli
body: Possible duplicate of: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/70186/how-can-i-move-the-like-option-to-the-top-of-the-page>


Tags: confluence-administration
Auto Add to confluence-users from LDAP (Read Only with Local Groups)
Asked by Chris Swanson:

Following the LDAP documentation for Confluence 5.3.1 I have configured the LDAP connector.  
Works great but does not auto add the user to confluence-users so user is denied access.  

Name: LDAP server  
Active: true  
Type: CONNECTOR  
Allowed operations: \[CREATE_GROUP, UPDATE_USER_ATTRIBUTE, UPDATE_GROUP_ATTRIBUTE, DELETE_GROUP, UPDATE_GROUP\]  
Implementation class: com.atlassian.crowd.directory.MicrosoftActiveDirectory  
Attributes:   
"autoAddGroups": "confluence-users"

Looking for suggestions on where to look for why this does not work as intended.  
You have to manually login to Confluence and go into the user settings and manually add the user to confluence-users group, which then grants access.

thanks for any hints!

CTS

<br />


Answers:
author: Hector Vazquez
body: Hi Chris, Did you find a solution. I'm having the same issue with Confluence 5.7.3.Regards,

comments: author: Ludovic_DUSSART
body: Same defect here with Confluence 6.10 :(

They work fine until we need to manage also groups locally (capacity to add new group)


author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hey Chris,

The option [Default Group Memberships](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory#ConnectingtoanLDAPDirectory-AddingUserstoGroupsAutomatically) only works for users on the first login, see here:
> *In Confluence 3.5.2 and later, and JIRA 4.3.3 and later:* The first time a user logs in, their group memberships will be checked. If the user does not belong to the specified group(s), their username will be added to the group(s). If a group does not yet exist, it will be added locally. On subsequent logins, the username will *not* be added automatically to any groups. This change in behaviour allows users to be removed from automatically-added groups. In Confluence 3.5 and 3.5.1, they would be re-added upon next login.

Do you see this issue when trying log in Confluence with a newly created user that hasn't logged in Confluence yet?

Cheers

comments: author: Chris Swanson
body: Hi Tiago,

So, when an LDAP user attempts to log in for the first time they are rejected. This is due to them not belonging to the 'confluence-users' group upon login.  

Thanks!

Chris


Tags: confluence-administration
balsamiq mockup stopped working in confluence
Asked by John Edstrom:

balsamiq mockups stopped working recently. I see this message in the plugin management page: "This plugin could not be loaded by the plugins system. It has one or more errors which prevent it from being enabled." It happened after system restart.

confluence: 4.3.3

balsamiq mockup: 2.2.18

I just noticed this problem today when I went to modify a mockup, but mockup isn't used often and I can't tell exactly when it went south or why.


Answers:
author: Aseem Parikh
body: Have you tried re-enabling it from the Manage Addons screen? Have you checked the logs for messages related to this error? If so, please post that here.

I've seen hiccups like this with other plugins (including system plugins). It's possible you only need to re-enable it or restart Confluence.

comments: author: John Edstrom
body: Sorry to have taken so long to get back to this, but I was busy on something else and the old logs are gone.

To simplify things I deleted the plugin and then re-installed it as if it were a new package. All of the old mockups are there, so nothing was lost. It seems to be working fine now for the past few days. I'll get back if it fails again and I'll save the logs next time.


author: Aseem Parikh
body: Glad to hear you got that worked out, John!


Tags: addon-com.balsamiq.confluence.plugins.mockups

balsamiq
Can I hide page name and created by/last modified by from displaying on page?
Asked by Natalie S_:

We have a custom header we want to put across all pages within a space. I know we need page names for the urls, but is there a way to block it from displaying on the page? It looks odd for the header to come after that information.


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: OnDemand or hosted? You're best bet if you're using hosted Confluence is to modify the space's Layout decorators and as necessary. More info here:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Site+and+Space+Layouts)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Site+and+Space+Layouts>

hth,

matt

comments: author: Natalie S_
body: Thanks for your help!


author: Davin Studer
body: This addon sounds like it might help you out.

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.scandio.confluence.plugins.hideelements-macro)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.scandio.confluence.plugins.hideelements-macro>

comments: author: Natalie S_
body: Thanks for your help!


author: Shenice Parkyn
body: I'm still trying to figure this out on Confluence cloud... there must be a way of hiding this for public spaces especially.... And can it be hidden on a specific space and left on the others?
Without using LDAP, add every new user to a named group?
Asked by Martin Cleaver:

How would I automatically add every new user into a particular group? (Confluence 5.3.x)

In 3.5 I could add an authenticator ([](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Automatically+Add+LDAP+users+to+the+confluence-users+Group)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Automatically+Add+LDAP+users+to+the+confluence-users+Group>)

Not this is not to add to confluence-users, but rather a different group.

Thanks,

M.


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Martin,

You could use the Confluence CLI:

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli>

There is a method you can call to addusertogroup:

[](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-addUserToGroup)<https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-addUserToGroup>

You'd need a way to trigger this job to run when a user logs in for the first time. This most likely would take a trigger on the database, possibly on the logininfo table. Any time a user logs in for the first time it should be recorded there.


Tags: confluence-administration

group

user-group
Cannot Add To confluence-administrators
Asked by Quintin Holmberg:

I'm having trouble adding someone to confluence-administrators. When I try to do so through edit users, it tells me ...

Failed to modify group memberships. Check your server logs for more information.

When I try to do so through edit groups, it give no error message but does not add the user to the group.

This setup has always worked and nothing has changed recently.

After reading a couple articles, I've tinkered and tested with my AD settings but to no avail. I'm looking for someone to point me in my next direction. I don't know where the server logs are.

Here is what pertinent system inforation I can think of. Let me know if you need anything else.

* Confluence version 5.2.3
* Directory is Microsoft Active Directory (Read/Write)

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Quintin

We'll need to see the server logs to identify if there is an error on the confluence end or the AD side. The logs are located on the server filesystem at these two locations:

\<confluence-install\>/logs

\<confluence-home\>/logs  
The confluence-home/logs contains a file atlassian-confluence.log. Search for that file if you're not sure of the location.  
You may want to create a support ticket with Atlassian support to work through this as you'll not be able to attach a log file here, just copy/paste.

comments: author: enderandpeter
body: \`updatedb\` and \`locate atlassian-confluence.log\` for the win.


Tags: confluence-administration

external
Confluence Macro Auto-complete Fails to Load
Asked by Trevor Hunt:

I'm running into an issue where the autocomplete functionality appears to break.

This manifests itself as an extreme delay or no results being returned when using the "{" method to insert a macro. I thought it might be related to load, but it happens after hours when only one or two people are logged into the instance.

Any recommendations on where to investigate? Clearing the cache/rebooting Confluence is an extremely short-term solution but isn't an option during the day.

#########Update##########

Bumping this. I'm still running into problems where the macro auto-complete list has intermittent trouble loading.


Answers:
author: Martin Poirier
body: Hello,

We actually has this problem also when we used application link to some of our Jira that has higher latency. Do you have also lot of external gadget list ?

/admin/viewgadgetdirectory.action

comments: author: Trevor Hunt
body: Thanks for the response. We have 3 gadgets configured. Latency to our JIRA instance is in the 75-200ms range depending on network traffic throughout the day.


Tags: macro
How to get selected value in mysql where condition?
Asked by SKR:

I have a query regarding sql parameters.

Please find below attached image and also how do I get selected value from choose box to sql where condition?

At the moment it says where region ='india' but I need selected value over here

![](../../upfiles/Capture-1_1.PNG)![](../../upfiles/Capture-2_2.PNG)


Answers:
author: SKR
body: I found the answer for this question


Tags: bob-swift

macro

run

scaffolding
Note macro overlaps with table of contents - any fix?
Asked by Richard, Jr. Rabil:

We're looking to upgrade to Confluence 5, but in our test environment for the upgrade, we see that, at the top of a page, the note macro overlaps with the mini TOC. It thus hides some TOC entries and just plain looks terrible. See image below. (It's a bit hard to see since the note background color is so bright.)

![](../../upfiles/noteMacroOverlapsWithTOC_1.png)

On Confluence 4, this is not an issue. The note macro simply wraps to the next line and does not overlap with the mini TOC.

A little extra info: The mini TOC is currently wrapped in a div macro that has custom CSS float:right and position:relative properties. I took the TOC out of the div macro and applied these same properties directly to the TOC macro, but got the same results. In either case the note overlaps.

Does anyone know of any solutions or workarounds? Obviously we don't want to have to manually move the note macro above the TOC on hundreds of pages. If we could force the note macro to wrap to the next line once it hits the mini TOC, that would be a godsend.


Answers:
author: Richard, Jr. Rabil
body: Found the fix after playing around with the CSS. In the global or space-level custom stylesheet, you need to add the following code:

div.aui-message {  
overflow-x: auto;  
}

This solved the problem for us.


author: javabrett
body: In Confluence 5.9.12 the required style is:

```
.confluence-information-macro {  overflow-x: auto;}
```


author: A
body: Hi There,

I am also facing the same issue on one of my page after a recent confluence upgrade to 5.8.4.

I tried adding the below code to my global style sheet as well but to no avail.

div.aui-message {  
overflow-x: auto;  
}

Was there any other fix found for this ?

Thanks - Akshay
Expose contributors by entry
Asked by jeff scattini:

In Confluence,

Is there any way to expose contributors by the content they edit?

For example, if I have a bulleted list and each line is added by a different person, can I display which lines were added by which person?

* Entry sentence - Contributor1
* Entry sentence - Contributor2
* Entry sentence - Contributor3
* Entry sentence - Contributor2

I know I can display the contributors of the page through the "Contributors" plugin, but I need more granularity.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hi Jeff,

It sounds like you are lookging for a way to redline a document in Confluence. There is an old and commonly asked for feature request that you might want to add your voice to.

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-16299)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-16299>

I don't think this functionality is going to be added. You may have to content yourself with the view page history.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+History+and+Page+Comparison+Views)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+History+and+Page+Comparison+Views>

comments: author: jeff scattini
body: Hi Daniel,

I was afraid that this might be the case.

Thanks for the link, I'll do just that.

Thanks!


Tags: contributor