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User picker field is not appearing in Confluence
Asked by Pinaki Basu:

I am creating a JIRA change report page in Confluence. I have noticed that the issue picker field displays blank. However, the same query displays correct result (including issue picker field) in JIRA.

Why is that?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: One possibility is that the user running the report in Confluence does not have "browse users" permission in Jira (remember that the macros you are using may not be being run as the current user)

comments: author: Pinaki Basu
body: Nic

Thanks for that comment. I am the user who is trying to get this report going in the confluence. Just to let you know that I have been succesfull in creating JIRA report in confluence. I believe it is something to do with the type of custom field.

Cheers


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Excellent, what was the problem?


author: Pinaki Basu
body: I am trying to publish a JIRA report. The report consist of custom fields of different nature. One of the custom fields is Issue picker type. The confluence will display all all the fields except the issue picker type field. That particular issue picker field will just display the heading, but no records. Is it something in the issue picker type of custom field which is causing the problem?

Also, I have noticed that in the result in JIRA, I cannot sort the result based on that type of custom field.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I don't understand. You said you'd fixed it. And we already have the problem description


Tags: field

permission
Add header and footer into template when export word document
Asked by Mohamad bin Subakin:

I want to add header and footer into exported word document for specific page template.

Please help me to find a way to do this.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello there, there is an [open improvement](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30756) for the HTML Export to enable one to carry those parts of the page with the content. There is a chance we are seeing the same limitation with MS Word exports.


author: Mohamad bin Subakin
body: For now, i will use Scroll Office plugin. Thanks a lot


Tags: confluence-administration
How to attach/upload image in a Wizard of the Confluence Blueprint Plugin?
Asked by Sid Sethi:

Hi,

Is there a sane way to upload an image through the wizard of a blueprint? I want to be able to attach multiple images on the wizard, and on page creation, display the images along side other form content.

I tried to implement the .attachmentsPanel template but haven't been able to configure the file upload. Is there a way to handle file upload on postRender? Like you can handle labels using the name="lablelsString" in the \<input\> field.

```
If I put the following code in the form, is there a way to use an Ajax call on postRender to upload the 
selected files? 

<div class="upload-field field-group">                    <label for="uploadFile">Upload file</label>                    <input class="upfile" type="file" id="uploadFile" name="uploadFile" title="upload file">                </div>
```

```
I'm just stuck on trying to figure out a path to go about this issue. Any help would 
be appreciated.
```


Answers:
author: Sid Sethi
body: Use AJS postRender for the blueprint wizard page to make an ajax call to a servlet to create a dummypage/space. Get the dummy page/space homepage id, make an ajax rest call to upload image to the dummy page. On BluePrintCreateEvent, copy the attachment from the dummy page/space homepage to the created page/space homepage. Then delete the dummy page/space's homepage within the same EventListener class. Through postRender in the javascript make another ajax call to the servlet to delete the dummy page and its attachments on clicking back or close.


Tags: attachment

blueprint

image

upload
Problem with picture links in excerpt
Asked by Michal Raszkowski:

Confluence 5.5.2

After one of latest updates if article (for example page or blogpost) have pictures paste from another webpage (not image attachments) - the text of "excerpt" includes http links to these pictures.

Observed in standard Confluence "Blog Posts" macro and in Enterprise Theme "Blog Posts \& Pages" macro

It is recent Confluence version issue

How to remove these links?


Answers:
author: Michal Raszkowski
body: To be precise - how to force excerpt to not show these links ?
User Management is Broken
Asked by Eliot Harper:

I can no longer add a user to a group when editing a user or a group. Is this broken?


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: Sounds like it's broken for you. You might want to put in a [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)request.

comments: author: Eliot Harper
body: Thanks, have logged bug <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-7197>


author: Eliot Harper
body: Have tested in Chrome, Safari and Firefox and it's not working in any of these.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can we still earn swag with our points we earn in Confluence Questions?
Asked by Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]:

In the current system, at 1500, 5000, and 10000 karma, we can earn "swag". Will this still be in existence on Confluence Questions?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Yes, definitely! The design of the "karma king/queen" T-Shirt may change in the future (since Confluence Questions calls it 'reputation' instead)... so the current Karma King/Queen T-Shirt could become a collector's item :-)

comments: author: Mirek
body: "Reputation King/Queen"? :) .. No, that doesn't sound good :) ..

Just changing the word I think is not an best option.. This must be redisigned completly...

Any ideas already?


author: Joe Clark
body: Just some random ideas at this stage. Thinking about something like "Answers Guru" or "Answers Champion". Do you have any ideas?


author: Silviu Burcea
body: It seems that the answer to the question is no. I have ordered my karma king t-shirt on April 9th and here I am, still waiting for it without any information from Atlassian ...


author: Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]
body: Does this answer still hold true now that we're in the Atlassian Community?


Tags: community

karma

questions-for-confluence

swag
Can Watchers be added to a Template?
Asked by Brian Dunk:

I am creating a template. Since we cannot add a group as a watcher, can we pre add a list of users that are watchers to a template that will always be watchers on the page?


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

As of now Confluence does not have such feature available out of the box. I can understand why this could be a great addition to Confluence so I have created an improvement request for this here:

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33910)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33910>

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: watcher
Required Security Token was not present in request.
Asked by Alex Davidson:

My users are seeing this error when saving freshy edited pages in Confluence 5.4.4. We've been using 5.4.4 for sometime without problems. Any pointers?


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey Alex,  

May I ask you if you have Confluence and JIRA running under the same ip address and the only difference is the port? If yes, that is caused by the cookies that are shared by the two applications, so in order to fix it we need to apply a context path to it.  

Cheers,  
WZ  


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Alex,

Do you have SSO enabled? Are these users using another Atlassian product as well? If your SSO is not working properly, when te user logs in in another application (on the same domain), the session times out.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Usually happens when the session times out. Is that the case here?
Confluence behind IIS: Profile pics not loading
Asked by Robert Dailey:

I have setup Confluence to run behind IIS 7.5 using AJP/1.3 protocol. It works fine except that profile pictures aren't loading. The one I currently have set has the following URL:

```
http://m0014/s/en_GB/5501/a39771cd4bb7ab00a226a7ea8d6dd65e64226a7f.3/_/images/icons/profilepics/default.png
```

Confluence is setup to run under [](http://m0014/wiki.)<http://m0014/wiki>. The "/s/" part I doubt is being forwarded by IIS, thus the reason for the failure. Can anyone help me figure out how to forward profile pictures through IIS? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Robert Dailey
body: It took a crap load of searching on Google but I finally found the answer:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Profile+Picture+on+the+Top+Right+Corner+is+Missing>


author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Robert, I believe this issue has something to do with your context path. I see your profile picture URL is [](http://m0014/s/...)<http://m0014/s/>... (without /wiki) and your Confluence is configured to [](http://m0014/wiki.)<http://m0014/wiki>. You may check this configuration [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Integrating+JIRA+with+IIS#IntegratingJIRAwithIIS-jiraandconfluencewithiis) and make use it includes the context path, or alternativelly to AJP you may configure your IIS to forward requests with ARR as in this [KB](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Integrating+JIRA+with+IIS+using+ARR).

I hope it helps.

Cheers

comments: author: Robert Dailey
body: That doesn't answer my question at all. I managed to find the answer, please see my own accepted answer for the solution. Thanks.


Tags: iis

proxy
Confluence Questions Leaderboard
Asked by David Blades:

Can i configure the leaderboard in Confluence Questions? For example, to display the "Top Experts This Month". Also, can I access the underlying data on which the scores are calculated?


Answers:
author: David Blades
body: In terms of my latest question, what would be a suitable resolution is to be able to export the data from CQ. Looking into this I see that there is an open issue relating to this (CQ-359) and so I guess I need to wait for that.


author: BillA
body: There is no API right now. The leaderboard is based on a hard-coded SQL query so you'd need to directly query the database to get this information.

comments: author: David Blades
body: Okay, thanks Bill. I'm fairly new to Confluence so can you provide me with (or point me in the direction of) gudiance on querying the database to get the underlying 'score' data related to Questions?


author: BillA
body: I'm afraid I'm out of my depth there.


author: Shannon Davis
body: Has there been any update to Confluence since this question was answered?


Tags: leaderboard

questions-for-confluence
Remove users from Confluence
Asked by Gutro Tech:

Hi there,  

I'm having a hard time to remove some of our confluence users. In which permission group do you need to be a member in to be able to remove users?

![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2014-06-10_at_14.17.25.png)

<br />

<br />

Kind Regards / Magnus


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Gutro, this is [a bug](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-7144) affecting our Confluence OnDemand users it is already getting the team attention for a fix.

The workaround for the while is to do one of the following:

* Deactivate users by removing all groups and application access from the user to free up required license.
* Deactivate a group by removing all users from it and removing it from all permissions.


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Gutro,

Is this in OnDemand or your own hosted environment?

Best regards,

Peter


author: Gutro Tech
body: @Peter: It's OnDemand  

@Guilherme: Thanks. Now i know why.


Tags: cloud

confluence-administration

confluence-cloud
SQL to find the highest number of attachment revisions in Confluence?
Asked by LASER:

Is there any SQL (MySQL preferably) that one can run to find the attachments that have the highest number of revisions in Confluence? (I'm using 4.2 currently)


Answers:
author: FelipeA
body: Hi Ed,

I believe this is what you're looking for:

```
SELECT *,       MAX(ATTVERSION)FROM ATTACHMENTSGROUP BY TITLEORDER BY ATTVERSION DESC;
```

Please let me know if this works for you.

Best regards,

Felipe Alencastro


author: LASER
body: Worked perfectly, thank-you!


Tags: confluence-administration
Blog Space
Asked by Alexander Sch?tzle:

Hi,

is it actually possible to create a space, which only includes a blog.  
I would like to use that space as a kind of a newsfeed to publish news about everything.

The problem is, if I'm creating a space it will automatically asking for creating pages.  
But i would like to have the blog directly set as the "homepage" and now Pages is shown.

Thank you for your help!

Greetings

Alex


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Alexander,

I think it's possible to delete the Home page, but does that also allow you to set the main blog page as the new Home page? I don't know.

Another solution would be to rename the Home page to something like "My Blog", and add the Edit 'Blog Posts' Macro to the page.

That should result in your blog posts appearing on the front page.

We do something similar in a space. Its Home page has a number of panels plus this macro. That allows us to show the blog postings starting with the most recen.

Cheers.


author: Alexander Sch?tzle
body: Hi Mick,

thank you for your support.

I solved it already like that. You right as you said it would be the best solution.

Thanks a lot!

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Excellent! Well done. :)

Cheers.


Tags: blog
Limiting results in the Recently Updated Dashboard macro
Asked by Alicia Miller:

Hi All,

I am using the recently-updated-dashboard macro and wish to limit the number of results.

Does anyone know how to do this as it doesn't seem to be an option in the macro itself.

Thanks,

Alicia


Answers:
author: Alicia Miller
body: Sorry, after a quick search, I can see that this is a feature request already:

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-19096)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-19096>


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Alicia,

As mentioned by our documentation [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Recently+Updated+Macro), "Recently Updated Macro" have a configuration named "Maximum Number of Result" which by default the value is 15.

You should be able to configure the limit of the results by playing around with the value of the said parameter.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Alicia Miller
body: Hi,

Yeah I'm aware that the "max no of results" parameter is available in the "recently upated" macro, but I'm using the "recently updated dashboard" macro, which doesn't have the option of altering that parameter.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Recently+Updated+Dashboard+Macro)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Recently+Updated+Dashboard+Macro>


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I set up a page review system?
Asked by Jim Birch:

I am looking for a system that allows a page owner (or group)to be designated for specific pages and a work flow to prompt periodic reviews of page ocntent.

Ideally,

\* Not too complex  
\* Allows unmanaged pages  
\* Owner can be a group  
\* Uses standard Atlassian plugins if at all possible.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: The best plugin for this that I know of is [Ad hoc Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow).

comments: author: Jim Birch
body: Thanks. This is a little expensive for us. We have a big end license but the review system would only be used for a subset of users. Will consider...


author: Midori
body: **Another powerful solution for page lifecycle tracking is [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving).**

It does everything you mentioned: it is simple to use, can be flexibly configured to [ignore page trees or individual pages](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-expiration-tracking#labels), and supports the notion of [supervisors](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/#supervisors).

content-quality-statistics.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-set-up-a-page-review-system/qaq-p/44706?attachment-id=8110){#link_1189e3d4f9d969}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/7586/1/content-quality-statistics.png){#display_1189e3d4f9d969_0}
How do you monitor usage of Confluence OnDemand pages? (using Google Analytics)
Asked by Darayush Mistry:

How can we monitor usage of Confluence OnDemand pages and its content (via links/attachments). Tried using Google Analytics but it does not seem to work with the OnDemand product. How can we accomplish this or are there other products or recommendations out there for OnDemand pages.

Any suggestions from others using the OnDemand product? Seems like a standard page use requirement.

Thanks

Darayush


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Darayush, not sure if you have been through this information, the OnDemand has a b[undled statistics pane](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Viewing+Space+Activity) for popular content, active content and active contributors.

edit: note that the plugins needs to be turned on in order to function, and it may impact performance for large instances.

comments: author: Darayush Mistry
body: Guilherme, thanks for the clarification. We've gone ahead and requested that it be enabled. Looks like the Usage Stats link/info does not show up high enough on Google or in the Q\&A area when we started searching for Confluence OnDemand monitoring.


author: Tim
body: Hi Darayush,

We've created an add-on that provides some great usage statistics in Confluence Cloud. It includes an overview of activity but also the details like who has viewed a particular page.

You can find more information here: [Analytics for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.addonengine.analytics/cloud/overview)

It's a few years later, but I hope it helps you and the next person.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Outgoing Proxy Server and Confluence
Asked by Richard_Turrall:

My confluence server only has access to the internet via a proxy server. How do I configure the server to use a proxy. The link [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Web+Proxy+Support+for+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Web+Proxy+Support+for+Confluence>

appears to be missing some information on what file to change


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hey Richard,

Would you be able to clarify which information is missing in order to help you to use the server of Confluence with the proxy? In addition that, have you took a look at our [Apache with Mod_Proxy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Apache+with+mod_proxy) documentation?

Cheers,

Giu


Tags: proxy
export child pages in same html file
Asked by Srinivas Sunka:

Hello,

I'm trying to export confluence wiki using export tools option. Can anyone guide me how can I export HTML subpages/childpages in the same html file.

Currently I dont see them part of the html export file. This will really help me a lot


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Strange, the html export should include the child pageswhat is the Confluence version you are trying to generate the html export?

Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support


Tags: confluence-administration
Hi,I have configured the applink of Jira in the confluence to create Jira issue by using the OAuth authentication.
Asked by ravi shanker:

I have configured the applink of Jira in the confluence to create Jira issue by using the OAuth authentication.  
I have both Jira and confluence licensed version.

But when I am going to create the issue , I am getting below error .

Authentication failed!  
An error occurred while trying to obtain an access token. For application link "Likwid_JIRA (87c2ce28-f116-3443-8b95-b722df96ad70) [](https://likwidjira-dev.nike.com/)<https://likwidjira-dev.nike.com>com.atlassian.applinks.application.jira.JiraApplicationTypeImpl@319499ef"  
OAuth Problem Details  
Failed to get token from service provider. Response status code is '503'


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Ravi

In general, the [503 status](http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html) explains the following:
> The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The implication is that this is a temporary condition which will be alleviated after some delay

In case you're running your applications behind a proxy, you may temporarily recreate the application link bypassing the proxy to see if it works. This approach usually help to isolate the root case of the problem.

Cheers

comments: author: Systems Solution Lab
body: Hi,

How can I bypass the proxy? I am also getting same error


Tags: confluence-administration
No users in share list
Asked by Michael Hudson:

I have installed JIRA set up all the users, all fine. I have installed Confluence, shared the users, Ican see them in the user admin as active users. When I try to share a page with them, the system will not recognise them and no autocomplete appears. The only name that will work is my own.

The users can access the pages on their system, but they cannot see their own name in the auto complete lists nor can they see mine.

I have seen another question like this but can't find it again, it mentioned there may be a bug but the issue did not look like it had been reopened.


Answers:
author: salehparsa
body: Hi Michael,

When you're experiencing a search problem, it might be related to the Confluence indecies. I'd recommend you to **Rebuild the Content Indices from Scratch**by the steps that explanied in following documentation:

* **[Rebuild the Content Indices from Scratch](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch)**

Cheers,

Saleh

comments: author: Michael Hudson
body: Thanks Saleh this worked a treat.


Tags: confluence-administration
Old versions of attachments
Asked by Zeynep Donmezoglu:

How can we disable to install old versions of attachments in file lists? I want them reachable only by the creator of the space.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you want it to show for certain people you could add JavaScript into the custom html section in Confluence to conditionally set some CSS to hide the link to expand the file list. Granted that if someone wanted to go thorugh the page source they could still see it, but your average user wouldn't know how to do that. The CSS you would need is ...

```
.attachment-history {display: none;}
```

Here is some JS code that could do the trick.

```
AJS.toInit(function(){	var user;	switch(AJS.Meta.get("space-key"))	{		case "DEV":			user = "jdoe";			break;		case "HR":			user = "jschmoe";			break;		case "DOC":			user = "bgates";			break;	}	hideHistoryIfNot(user);});function hideHistoryIfNot(user) {	if(AJS.Meta.get("remote-user") !== user) {		AJS.$(".attachment-history").css("display", "none");	}}
```


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hi Zeynep,

Could you pelase clarify your question so we can better assist you?

What you need to disable?

What you mean by old version of attachments file lists?