youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How to change the displayed link of the page
Asked by Admin Admin:

How to change the displayed link of the page

<https://telphin.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=10125350>

for example on: [https://telphin.atlassian.net/wiki/UAPI30](https://telphin.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VNUAPI30)[/UnifiedAPI](https://telphin.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=10125350)


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What do you mean by "displayed link of the page"? What's wrong with what you've got - it goes to the right place?

comments: author: Admin Admin
body: Problem in that after installation of a backup the "pageId" changes. It represents inconvenience, by provision of links to our clients on different pages. Therefore there is a wish to have links without "pageId". As it is made for 4SPA. Example: <http://wiki.4psa.com/display/VNUAPI30/Create+Simple+PhoneCalls> - the link without "pageId".


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The page ID links are perfectly valid and are a requirement of the way Confluence works.You don't have to use them, as all pages can also be reached via the human friendly name, but Confluence will often give you the page ID link because of the way it needs to work, and the cases where the "friendly name" is not actually a valid url in its own right and needs to be escaped.If you're seeing pageids used on just "view" then check that the name of the page does not have unusual characters in it first.(Also, all pages have a fixed "short url" if you look at the page information view)


author: Admin Admin
body: Thanks for responses.

Tell more please: Where can I set / change friendly name? For each of pages?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's the name of the page.


author: Ganesh Punalkar
body: Coflunce page:h <https://atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/pages/420185865/Post+Cloning+Checklist>

text: https://INSTANCENAME/abc.html

<https://atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/pages/420185865/Post+Cloning+Checklist>**?INSTANCENAME=dev**

https://dev/abc.html

<https://atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/pages/420185865/Post+Cloning+Checklist>**?INSTANCENAME=test**

https://test/abc.html

I watn to change URL dynamically passing the valur in URL is it possible
Moving Confluence space/pages from one instance to another
Asked by Rethabile Morena:

Good day,

Please advise how do we go about importing a Confluence space from one instance to another. Both instances are on different servers.

Regards Rethabile M


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hey Rethabile,

In case both instances are running on the same major version, you can simply export the space/page to XML and then [import](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+a+Space) it into the other instance.

Please see [this documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+XML) to better understand this procedure.

I hope it helps

Best regards,

Eduardo Mallmann


author: Asael Sep?lveda
body: Be careful with project keys when importing them to your new instance. Make sure that your new instance doesn't have any olther project with the same key as the one you are importing


Tags: confluence-administration
Can't switch between pages on "Product Requirements"
Asked by Yotam Levi:

After opening a "Product Requirements" page, and adding the label "requirements", I now have many "titles" in the "Product Requirements" page.

but, when I try to switch pages (at the end, there are 3 pages to choose from) I can't choose any other page number, except the 1st page. when I hover with the mouse over the buttons for pages 2 and 3 have, it only has an addition of a "#" after the current link, which leads to nowhere...

any ideas why I can't switch to pages 2 and 3 ? see an attached image for reference.

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[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-t-switch-between-pages-on-quot-Product-Requirements-quot/qaq-p/68561?attachment-id=6257){#link_11892d7eb33d5f}  
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Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi there,

This might be a bug with the application. I recommend to test the following:

1) Check if this happens with all product requirement pages. Try to create a new page and verify the functionality.

2) Is this the latest version of confluence? If not, I suggest to test with the latest version of the app if the problem persists.

3) Check if any error regarding product requirements appear in logs. They might indicate a error with some operation of the plugin.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Yotam Levi
body: couldn't resolve. I ended up allowing up to 100 items to show per page, which solved it in my case..

happy holidays


author: Yotam Levi
body: Thanks, will contact Administrator to have this checked.
export to document does not display images
Asked by Monika:

Hi Team,  

Recently noticed that in a confluence page, when i export a document, the exported document doesn't show the images. The image is marked as cross with red symbol.   

I am using confluence version 3.5.13 and my machine is Windows machine. The document reader is Microsoft office. Is this a known bug?? Is there any alternative in which i can pull the images?  

Side Note: Export to pdf does work FINE. Issue noticed only for Export to Doc.  

Also for confluence version of 5.6.3, is this issue fixed?  

Please let me know if you need any details further.  

Thanks,  
Monika


Answers:
author: JeffP
body: This "bug" has existed for a very long time. If you desire to see the graphics on your pages, I suggest doing a PDF export.

Hope this alternative idea is helpful!


author: Paula Silveira
body: Hi Monika,

There's a bug for this issue you are facing. <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33937>

You may vote and comment to increase this bug's visibility.

On this question <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/52151> you'll find some possible workarounds.

Hope this works for you.


Tags: confluence-administration
how do you post an article
Asked by Tom Byers:


Answers:
author: TinA
body: Hello Tom,

There are many different kinds of articles that can be created within a space. Once a space that holds the pages are created you can create a page with the content that will be stored in that space. For step by step information please take the time to review this article as it goes over all the features involved in page and space creation.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Creating+your+Technical+Documentation+Space>

-Regards,  
Tin Nguyen \| Confluence Support.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Write a page as appropriate (blog or page). Click create.

I think your question needs more detail before we can help you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I increase the visibility of a certain section in a wiki document when viewed using the SEARCH field from a specific space?
Asked by sidhartha:


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Sidhartha,

There is a good reference for how search ranking works in [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Ranking+of+Search+Results). There are also a number of add ons that can improve and provide different functionality for the search within Confluence, [listed here](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=search). Further to that you may need some custom code to accomplish changes in Confluence search interface, task that the [Atlassian Experts](https://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts) can assist with.


author: Davin Studer
body: Well, that's the part that confuses me because the top right search box doesn't show sections of pages ... unless you have edited it in some way. By default it only shows the page title and the space.


author: sidhartha
body: Yes...the one on the top right side


author: Davin Studer
body: Which search box are you using? Are you using the one in the top right hand section of the page? A screenshot would do wonders to help explain what you are seeing.


author: sidhartha
body: I will try to explain it to you using an example. I have a wiki page. By page, I mean a document. In that page, there are multiple sections related to opening a bank account. However, I want to make sure that when a user make a search in wiki with keywords such as bank, a particular section is displayed first in the search box. So, I want to increase the probability of a user viewing a particular section in a wiki document. there may be similar content in the same document.


author: Davin Studer
body: I guess I'm still not sure what you mean by "particular sections in some wiki documents". Are you saying that you want the search results to look at different parts of the page with a different weighting scale? I guess another question I have is when you say "wiki documents" are you referring to pages, attachments, spaces?


author: sidhartha
body: While using the SEARCH field in wiki, I feel that particular sections in some wiki documents should be displayed first,followed by other related sections.


author: Davin Studer
body: Please expand on what you are referring to? Your question is somewhat vague.
Disable Certain Tool Options for Anonymous Users
Asked by Talitha Pascual:

Is there a way to hide/ disable the following options from the 'Tools' dropdown menu for anonymous users:

1. Page History (so they are not able to view previous versions of the page)
2. Export to Word


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Talitha,

You can put a javascript in the `Confluence Admin >> General Configuraton >> Custom HTML` to hide those element.  

Here's the javascript to hide those option for annoymous user.

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;    AJS.toInit(function(){        if (AJS.params.remoteUser == ''){          AJS.$('#action-view-history-link').hide();        AJS.$('#action-export-word-link').hide();        }    });&lt;/script&gt;
```

For more detailed explanation regarding the usage of javascript in the Confluence, you may refer to this documentation <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Use+JavaScript+in+Confluence.>  

Hope this helps!

<br />

Regards,  
Jing Hwa


Tags: custom-field
I cannot export to PDF a Confluence page that contains the Spectrum Formatting Horizontal nav group macro
Asked by Nicolas Kiss:

Hi, when I use the 'SP Horizontal nav group' macro on a page, I cannot export this particular page to PDF. I get an error message.

To reproduce the error: create and name blank page -\> insert 'SP Horizontal nav group' macro and save page -\> 'export to pdf' ==\> error message (webpage not found)

I've tried every other Spectrum Formating macro, and the error seems to be specific to the 'Horizontal nav group' macro. Word exporting works, but that's not what I need.

Is this a known issue?

Many thanks for your input!


Answers:
author: Anis Othman
body: Hi Nicolas,

I am sorry for the delay.

You can find a fix bug in the 1.0.2 version.

Regards,

Anis

comments: author: Nicolas Kiss
body: Anis, thank you very much, it worked!Best regards,Nicolas


author: Nicolas Kiss
body: Help, I still haven't solved my issue. Where should I post this to receive an answer?

Thank you in advance


Tags: confluence-administration
How to create spreadsheet formulas in confluence ?
Asked by Micheal Jordan:

In Microsoft Excel, when the value of cell1 depends on the value of cell2, we can use a formula to set the value of cell1. Is there a similar FREE feature in confluence tables (no paid plugins please) ? Please suggest a tutorial for this.

thanks !


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You could use the [Create Your Own addon](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.createyourown) and embed a Google Spreadsheet Widget. Aside from that I don't know that there is anything like what you are looking for.


author: CelesteCS
body: Hello!

Among paid macros the best option for you is [CelesteCS Math for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.celestecs.confluence.celestecs-math).

Assume you have a table with three columns and three rows on your page -- from A1 till C3, where row 1 is the header row. The sum calculation formula for rows 2 and 3 will be simple:

|-------------------|
| SUM(Table1.A2:C3) |

There is a plenty of other functions in the macro, so you may perform any calculations using formulas in EXCEL style.

Thanks!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I see JIRA activity stream on my Confluence?
Asked by Nigel Finlayson:

Hi,

I am not able to see JIRA activity stream on Confluence page, please help here.


Answers:
author: Brian
body: To be able to access that data, you would first have to set up an application link to JIRA (Confluence Admin \> Application Links), subscribe to JIRA's gadget feed (Confluence Admin \> External Gadgets), and then add JIRA's activity stream gadget to the Confluence page via the Insert menu on the Edit screen. If you did all that and it's not working, there could be a problem with the connection to JIRA. What errors (if any) do you see?

comments: author: Nigel Finlayson
body: Hey Brian,I already have created the Application Links and subscribed to JIRA's gadget feed.I am not getting error but I am not able to the activity stream from JIRA on my Confluence Dashboard --\> All Updates.


author: Nigel Finlayson
body: Confluence feeds are going on JIRA without any issue, but its not working with Confluence.


author: Brian
body: What version of Confluence and JIRA are you running? And are you able to add a JIRA Issues Macro to a Confluence page and see the issues?


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I switch to the Russian language in the interface of Confluence?
Asked by Svetlana Goryavskiy:

It describes the process <https://translations.atlassian.com/dashboard/download?lang=ru_RU>, but I could not find in the Manage add-ons to add a new plug-in with the Russian language. There is no Browse button, so I can download it.

When I try to download the plug-in according to the instructions <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+a+Language+Pack>, I get the error:

Image 2.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-can-I-switch-to-the-Russian-language-in-the-interface-of/qaq-p/23596?attachment-id=2593){#link_11892e342fbd23}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/3889/1/Image%202.png){#display_11892e342fbd23_0}


Answers:
author: Andre Borzzatto
body: Hi Svetlana,

Are you using Atlassian OnDemand/Cloud?

If so, unfortunately, there's no way to change the language to Russian.

Here's Atlassian Documentation on Language Support for OnDemand:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Language+Support+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

Thanks

comments: author: Svetlana Goryavskiy
body: If I buy a Server licenses - <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing/?tab=download>, in which case I can switch to the Russian language in the interface of Confluence?


author: Andre Borzzatto
body: Sorry for the late response!If you have a server license you'll have to host if for yourself, as you may be aware of it, but you'll be able to install the Language Support package.Cheers! :D


author: Svetlana Goryavskiy
body: Thank you!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Does the Jira plugin come free with confluence? do I need ot pay extra for this when I buy confluence?
Asked by Kurt Whitsel:

I am looking to buy confluence and I am already running a licensed copy of JIRA.. do I need to pay extra for a JIRA plugin or does that come free when I buy confluence?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's built in.

You install confluence, and then if you want to connect it to a Jira, you'll find all the options are there off-the-shelf, no plugin install needed, and certainly no extra cost.


Tags: confluence-administration
Installing Confluence in distrubuted/Cluster Environment
Asked by Vijay Arumugam:

Hi,

This is vijay from Guycarpenter, Hoboken, NJ.

Please help me to setup confluence in cluster or distributed mode.

We have current setup in single machine, Now we are in plan to setup in distributed mode having two liniux servers. So please help me send some guidlines /steps to do that.

Thanks

Vijay


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Could you explain what version of Confluence you are using?

Confluence Server

Confluence Clustered

Confluence Datacentre

comments: author: Vijay Arumugam
body: Hi,

We are using Confluence server 5.3 .


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, ok, well the short answer is "you can't". You can technically cluster your servers, but you won't be able to cluster the application. The best you can do is an active/passive failover.


author: Vijay Arumugam
body: Thanks Nic,

Please let me know for clustering application from our side(purchase or others). Also can you please share me some document for active and passive failover.

Thanks for your prompt reply.


Tags: confluence-administration
User does not appear in "People" listing
Asked by bfrancoeur:

Hi Everyone:

We just started using Confluence and we are authenticating through LDAP and it seems to working fine, with one problem. I have a new user who just started last week. He can login using his active directory credentials and he is listed as a user in the Users directory, but he is not showing up in the People directory. I tried [this](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ONDEMANDKB/Existing+Users+do+not+Appear+in+Confluence+People+Directory,+Team+Calendars,+Share+Feature+and+Watchers+List)workaround, but it didn't seem to work.

Is there a workaround for this or is there a step I'm missing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!  
Bryan


Answers:
author: TinA
body: Hello,

Sorry to hear that you are having issues with the people directory. It sounds like the user index task may have not triggered. Generally you can see the user after the schedule job to index the user is completed. I suggest you take the time to look into this article and review the time set of when this occurs on your environment.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Scheduled+Jobs>

Now a work around would be to perform a manual index of the instance. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+Index+Administration> and if that doesn't work, rebuilding the content index from scratch:<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch>

How ever if this keeps happening with every new users and the scheduled job is not adding them then I suggest you put in a support ticket with the version of Confluence you are running, the SEN for your account, the AD system version and configuration you are using so that we can better assist you.

-Regards,  
Tin Nguyen \| Confluence Support.


author: bfrancoeur
body: Thanks Tin, rebuilding the index worked perfectly.


Tags: confluence-administration
Hosting Confluence on a hosted server?
Asked by Mosh:

Hello

<br />

Please let me know if it's possible to install Confluence on a hosting server that I have ++non-root++ SSH + ftp access only.

This server is running CentOS Linux.

If possible, please send me a link how to get started...

Thank you


Answers:
author: Nagy Orsolya
body: Up to the server and log in to set it up, but you can do it as a non-root user. It's less than ideal - I'd usually recommend running it as a user dedicated to the application, and you won't be able to run it on a port lower than 1024


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Installation+Guide>

You'll need to ftp the installation files up to the server and log in to set it up, but you can do it as a non-root user. It's less than ideal - I'd usually recommend running it as a user dedicated to the application, and you won't be able to run it on a port lower than 1024 because that needs root, and you might want to contact the admins to get it added as a service for start-on-reboot.


Tags: confluence-administration
Why can?t I check space activities no longer than 3 months back?
Asked by Nicole Stolze:

How can I show more than 3 months of space acitivies?   
It says "No data available"


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Nicole

Did you enabled the **Confluence Usage Stats**prior those 3 months?

You will only have data displayed from the moment you enabled the plugin, as mentioned in the notes of [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Viewing+Space+Activity).  
If you had the plugin enabled prior that time what could case to lose this data is any xml restore activity or rebuild of the content index from scratch without saving the proper directories.  
Hope it helps.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Confluence Support Engineer


Tags: confluence-administration
Odd characters on macros
Asked by DDEX Secretariat (NR):

Hi there, I have a Confluence 4.3.7 installation which works well. When I edit pages, alas I see this instead of the normal macro code:

2014-11-17 11.36.03 am.png

Does anyone have any ideas as to what happened here? And, more critically, how I can change it? I have tried accessing the site using Firefox 33.1 as well as Safari 7.1.

Thanks,  
Niels  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Odd-characters-on-macros/qaq-p/25900?attachment-id=3954){#link_11892e9d6c1c8e}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/4339/1/2014-11-17%2011.36.03%20am.png){#display_11892e9d6c1c8e_0}


Answers:
author: DDEX Secretariat (NR)
body: Well, it seems the problem is local. After trying to correct the character coding (and crashing the site in the process -- thanks to backups!!!!), I see that I can see all using Chrome. Whereas on FF and Safari I see the garbled macros as shown above.

Don't ask me why...


author: DDEX Secretariat (NR)
body: I will let you know @Kirstin Seidel-Gebert...


author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Hello Niels,

we are also experiencing issues like that (see [Strange character added to macro body](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/207318)) and couldn't find the problem. So I'm very interested if you can find a solution. :smile:

There also seem to be others suffering from this: [Strange ? character in Confluence Editor - no URL rewriting](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/300362/strange-character-in-confluence-editor---no-url-rewriting). This thread could be interesting for you, too, @Benjamin Ingersoll.

Cheers,  
Kirstin

comments: author: Benn Ingersoll
body: Thanks for the mention, @Kirstin Seidel-Gebert!


author: DDEX Secretariat (NR)
body: Rodrigo: Thanks! Let me try that. I am on the road at the moment so I will need a day or two...

GIuliano: It happens on all pages (well, all pages that I looked at) and with all macros (well, all macros I have seen - including when I add a macro. So typing "{info" will lead to immediate gobbledegook...


author: Giuliano C.
body: Can you confirm if this is happening with all the macros or is it only with specific ones?

Also, will this happen with different pages?

Regards,

GIuliano


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Niels,

that's a interesting behavior. I believe we might be facing a encoding issue with confluence database. Was there any change to the DB lately?

Can you run the encoding test located in [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Character+Encodings) and check if the issue happens?

If the issue happens, then I recommend to follow the step 2 of that doc to correct the encoding.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
PDF Layout
Asked by Uththira pandi:

Hi,

How to insert the user macro on pdf style sheet.For example I have a user macro for current date and time,and i need to insert the current date and time on pdf when export.Is any possibilities to insert user macros on pdf style sheet codings.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: What I would do is insert it into you page and wrap it in a div tag. Give the div a css class called "hideonscreen" and then in your global or space stylesheet add this.

```
.hideonscreen {display: none;}
```

This will hide it when people view your page, but in the export (if you don't add the same thing to the pdf stylesheet) it will show there.