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Confluence Page not in Use Since 6 month's.
Asked by tousifs:

Hi All,

i want to find Confluence Page's which are not in used since last 6 month's.

also i want to know how to find plugin's which not used in confluence system.

i want to improve performance of confluence if anyone can suggest confluence analysis tool it's great help

thank you.

regard's

tousif shaikh.


Answers:
author: Jeff Thomas
body: Tousif: To find unused pages, you can use the [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving). If you have access to run queries on the database, you might be able to modify the queries used on [Finding Unused Spaces](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Finding+Unused+Spaces) to find unused pages.

This query should give you all the pages that have not been modified in the last 6 months.

```
select contentid, titlefrom content where contenttype = 'PAGE'and lastmoddate &lt; (sysdate - INTERVAL '6' MONTH);
```

I'm not sure of a way to determine if a plugin is unused. Hopefully someone else can provide more details.

Check out the [Performance Tuning](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Performance+Tuning) tips to help speed up your Confluence.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Tousif,

You can try running this query in the normal search field in the space you want to look in:

* modified:\[yyyyMMdd TO yyyyMMdd\]

For example:

* modified:\[20130615 TO 20130715\]

This works for me.

Cheers.


author: Midori
body: As Jeff wrote, **[Archiving Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123) finds you both the [pages not viewed](http://midori.hu/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/view-tracking) and the [pages not updated](http://midori.hu/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/#h4) in the last 6 months**, or whatever period you configure. (You haven't explain what "not in use" means exactly.)

Furthermore, it can [archive those pages](http://midori.hu/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/#archiving) for you (which is probably a better idea than to delete them).

Check out the [plugin's user documentation](http://midori.hu/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/)
Strange email from jiar@ourcompany.atlassian.com
Asked by Eric Greenwald:

Hi,

The administrators for our Jira/Confluence suite received a strange email from jira@\<ourcompany\>.atlassian.com. \<ourcompany\> obviously being the placeholder for our confluence/jira URL.

The contents of the email were exactly as follows:

templates/email/html/contactadministrator.vm

Even stranger, the reply-to address was an individual in the company that has never used confluence/jira nor was even registered to do so. Furthermore, there are no references to this individual's email address anywhere in the configuration of the suite.

Can you provide any information on this email?

Thanks,

Eric


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: Hi Eric,

I'm assuming you mean "ourcompany.atlassian.net" rather than "ourcompany.atlassian.com". It looks like you are experiencing the following bug:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-34885>

Someone has used the 'Contact Administrators' form, which is currently broken in OnDemand. I would suggest reaching out to whoever attempted to contact the admins of your JIRA instance to see what they want.

comments: author: Eric Greenwald
body: That definitely seems to be what is going on here. Thanks for the info!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

email
Is it possible to extract Confluence page content as CSV/XML (or like)?
Asked by sharma-shweta:

Hi,

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I want to extract Confluence page content as CSV/XML or any similar format. Is there any free plugin or script I could use to achieve it.

Also, is it possible to schedule this job of extraction in Confluence?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I think you're easiest approach would be to extract the data from the Confluence database that stores the pages. The table you want is the "BODYCONTENT" table. That stores the contents of the pages.

On your server, you could schedule a cron job, but I don't think this sort of scheduled job functionality is built into Confluence.

comments: author: sharma-shweta
body: Hi,

Thanks for the reply! Very useful!


author: Davin Studer
body: If you go to Space Operations there is an option for XML export. One caveat is that the XML is pretty obscure ... all of the data is there though. There is also a RSS feed under Space Operations that you could use as well to get at your page content.


Tags: export

page

schedule
Confluence - move table rows up or down easily
Asked by Jonathan Cogley:

It would be nice to easily move table rows up or down when editing a wiki page. We often have tables of data and need to reorder them easily. You can cut and paste a table row but it is slow and tedious. Having an easy up and down button would be great.


Answers:
author: Andrei Latyshau
body: In the new Confluence use ctrl+shift+X and ctrl+shit+V to cut and paste rows. By that you don't need to select the whole row: just put cursor in some cell of it. Very convenient!

comments: author: Steffen Heller
body: That actually works, thank you.


author: Sascha Rinaldi
body: ctrl+shift+X and ctrl+shit+V doesn't work for me on a Mac. Any ideas?


author: David Bishop
body: On a Mac: command-shift-X and command-shift-V


author: mila.dubas
body: It still not working on Mac... =(


author: Ron Shinall
body: ++In the new editor:++   
Select the row, hit Command-X to cut the row, insert new row where you need it, Command-V to paste it into the new row you added.


author: Kenichi Takahira
body: Can't we just drag and drop like other table editors?


author: Amanda Harvey
body: I would encourage adding a vote here: [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-25847](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-25847?)


author: victor.bouhnik
body: found a great and easy workaround:  
1. copy the table  
2. paste in google sheets  
3. reorder  
4. copy and paste back to Confluence

comments: author: Vladislav Sozonov
body: wow! The future is near! thanks anyway


author: Cronje van Heerden
body: I do the same with copy/paste to OneNote which has allowed for easy reordering of rows or columns since like forever ..

It's encouraging to see that this feature is being worked on for Confluence Cloud at least [\[CONFCLOUD-25847\] Drag \& Drop to reorder table rows - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products.](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-25847)

While I love the collaboration opportunities that Confluence Cloud enable, I'm frequently surprised at how it managed to become so popular with so many limitations and essential features that either require a plugin or an upgrade to Premium.


author: Michael Merrifield
body: Drag and Drop would be ideal. I added my vote to CONFSERVER-25847

Meanwhile, I found it's pretty simple to do the following

* select the row (one click) or rows
* use cut (ctrl-x)
* add one row (one click on +)
* click in a cell and paste (ctrl-v) which works even for multiple rows

This even works between pages (while editing both in separate tabs).


author: HosseinA
body: hi, you can do this easier by installing source editor . when editing a page, and uou wish to move rows, you can click on \<\> and edit your table source code to move the rows by cut and pasre of certain row of table. it should be faster ;)


author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: I raised an improvement request regarding this on your behalf. Kindly watch it and feel free to comment: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31046>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Recent update section does not show correctly
Asked by Guruprasad Balachandra:

"Recent updates" or "Activity" section should show any addition or updates to pages by users. it used to show them until a date post which it stopped. we thought it was due to license. the license is renewed but still can't see get the "Recent update" or "Activity" section to reflect the changes made by users.

i tried the re-indexing option but no use.

help please..


Answers:
author: Guruprasad Balachandra
body: finally got it working by restarting the server and then full re-index

the root cause: regular backup consumed all the drive space and hence just re-index did not work.

cleared all the backups and restarted the server and then did a full re-index and it worked.


author: HosseinA
body: Hi, you may try: Rebuild the Content Indices from Scratch by following the link below.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch>


author: Guruprasad Balachandra
body: thanks for the input. tried again but no luck. will restarting the whole application an option ?


author: Mick Davidson
body: I've experienced this problem in the past and re-indexing always fixed it. Can you see if that ran properly or give it another try? Cheers.


Tags: confluence-administration
Code Macro Plugin : Changing Themes
Asked by peterm:

Hey guys,

Code macro plugin is great. However, if I go into edit and change the theme (eg. Midnight -\> Django) and save nothing updates.   

Pete


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hey Peter,

Do you have more than one code macro on the same page? Due to a limitation in the macro, all code macros on the same page will have the same theme.


author: Davin Studer
body: Just to check when you say "save" do you mean save the macro edit or save the page. Simply saving the macro edit will not update the look in page edit mode. It should change the look though when you view the page.

comments: author: peterm
body: Hey Davin,

thanks for the prompt reply. To clarify I'm saving the macro (with the new theme selected) then saving the page. When in the 'view' page state the original theme persists. Oddly though, when I go back into edit page \> edit macro the correct theme is displayed in the preview area and selected in the theme dropdown.

Confluence v 5.1.2.

Hope that helps,

P


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Default Theme: Change Font Size used in Sidebar
Asked by Gavin Fowler:

Hi

For years (?) my chosen theme for Confluence has been the Documentation theme. However, with the introduction/expansion of Blueprint and the sidebar capabilities (such as space short-cuts) I'm looking to move back to the Default Confluence Theme (this will be undertaken when we upgrade from 5.2.x to 5.3.x).
My one observation made during testing, is that the Default Theme Sidebar font is larger than that used by the Documentation theme. My QA team has asked whether the font size for the sidebar and only the side bar can be adjusted to something slightly smaller. I know the change is cosmetic, non functional, but I do sympathise with the request. In our instance we have quite a deep tree structure and in some areas some long page titles. The end result is that operators navigating using the sidebar (configured for page tree mode), are being forced to expand the sidebar area to see the page name, then contract it to see the content of the page..this then repeats when they return to the navigation. I'm aware the sidebar can be collapsed, but that's not a desirable state for the requirement.   

Is changing the font size possible?  

Many thanks!

Gavin.   


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You can add custom CSS in the Confluence Administration to override the font size(Confluence Admin --\> Look and Feel --\> Stylesheet). For instance to override just the nav tree portion of the side bar this should work.

.ia-fixed-sidebar .ia-secondary-container .label {font-size: 9px;}

comments: author: Gavin Fowler
body: Many thanks Davin! I'm not too familar with CSS, the following syntax work for my needs (as it resembles the font-size being used in the Documtnation theme I'm migrating away from), this applies change to the entire sidebar navigation (as far as i can see). great stuff!

```
.ia-fixed-sidebar {font-size: 0.9em;}
```


author: Andreas Rudischhauser
body: I think this does not apply anymore? At least I cannot find any stylesheet except the pdf stylesheet options...

comments: author: Judy Bergstresser
body: I have a similar need - we use the default theme but I want to change the sidebar display to show all child pages.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Customize-sidebar-of-default-theme/qaq-p/18321> shows how to change text wrapping iin the default theme sidebar using CSS in the stylesheet configuration - so the method is consistent - just need the correct code or macro.


Tags: configuration

default

theme
Seraph SSO Module Ignored by Confluence when Using LDAP/AD?
Asked by J M:

I'm trying to create a custom SSO module in Seraph. The modual is trivial; it reads existing information available in the request object and returns the username of the previously-authenticated user. For Confluence, it's already a working installation. The users already exist in Confluence, Confluence is set to LDAP integration, and new users are created at first login when they don't exist. Based on the Seraph documentation, I've created a jar with the package in it and put it in the lib directory. I've configured web.xml and seraph-config.xml as specified in the documentation. However based on the log output, the SSO module is never consulted for a login request; I have a number of logging statements at the level of INFO that never appear. Is Seraph bypassed entirely when Confluence is using LDAP integration? Is the Seraph documentation still right for Confluence 5.x?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: J M
body: I finally realized that the Seraph documentation is wrong and you have to extend ConfluenceAuthenticator and not DefaultAuthenticator.


author: Davin Studer
body: Are you trying to do NTLM authentication? If so, then I would direct you to the below link.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Configuring+Confluence+to+use+Jespa+for+NTLM+Authentication>

comments: author: J M
body: Not directly. The server-side is Linux + Apache + Tomcat where the Apache service has already performed an authentication based on SPNEGO+Kerberos.


Tags: seraph
CONF Upgrading from 5.1.5 to 5.3
Asked by Michael Monette:

I when we were going to upgrade from Conf 5.1.5 -\> 5.2.5 we were lucky to recieve a very critical bug warning from Atlassian on the same day regarding problems with restrictions. The fix was to upgrade to 5.2.4 then to 5.2.5. We ended up holding off on the upgrade.

Just wondering, is this still the case if I wanted to go from 5.1.5 -\> 5.3? Or have those bugs been fixed so that I can upgrade directly without any view restrictions going missing?

Thanks


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Looks like you were mentioning about this bug/issue: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/User+specific+page+restrictions+are+removed+during+upgrade+to+Confluence+5.2.4>

Actually, this bug only affects customers who upgraded directly from version 5.1.5 or earlier to 5.2.4. The fix was NOT to upgrade to 5.2.4 and then to 5.2.5 but instead to rollback to the previous/pre-upgrade Confluence version or follow through the next steps mentioned in the documentation.

You can upgrade 5.1.5 directly to 5.3 and you shouldn't be encountering the same problem doing so. The bug has been fixed in 5.2.5 and 5.3.

comments: author: Mike Monette
body: I meant 5.2.3

The fix (workaround) was to install 5.2.3 first then 5.2.4.

I don't see how you won't classify it as a workaround/fix. Because it is.

But thanks for the info. We should be fine going right to 5.3.
Follow up to question on missing headers and footers in PDF export
Asked by Joshua Palmer:

I posted this custom code for my PDF title page in the hope somone could explain why my headers and footers aren't showing.

I'm still waiting on a follow up. Any help?  
Here's the custom code so far:

.pagetitle  
{  
page-break-before: always;  
}  
.fsTitlePage  
{  
margin-left: auto;  
margin-top: 10mm;  
margin-right: auto;  
page-break-after:always  
}  

.frontpagelogo  
{  
text-align: right;  
}  

.fsTitle  
{  
font-size: 42px;  
font-weight: normal;  
margin: 150px 0 4px 0;  
text-align:center;  
}  

.fsTitle2   
{   
font-size: 42px;   
font-weight: normal;   
margin: 20px 0 4px 0;   
text-align:center;   
}   

.fsPubDate  
{  
font-size: 18px;  
font-weight: normal;  
margin: 100px 50px 4px 0;  
text-align: right;  
}  

.fsDisclaimerTitle  
{  
font-size: 24px;  
font-weight: normal;  
margin: 200px 0 4px 0;  
text-align: center;  
}  

.fsDisclaimerCopy  
{  
font-size: 15px;  
font-weight: normal;  
margin: 20px 0 4px 0;  
text-align: center;  
}


Answers:
author: Trina Peck
body: I can't give you an answer but hopefully I can guide you in the right direction. I know that a product called Flying Saucer is what's used to generate the PDF from CSS.

Here's a link that may help: <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8712854/flying-saucer-hide-header-and-footer-on-first-page>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Edit office files?
Asked by Dharma Monie:

I juts need to know one thing.

Can I upload my office files to confluence (excel \& word), and then let my users edit them "online"?  
With that i mean - NOT downloading a copy of the file locally to edit it.

IF possible - is there somewhat of versioncontroll? If one file is editied by multiple users?

If I'm editing and someone else starts to edit the same file - what will happen?

Anyone who anser this question will make my day.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Yes you can do that. It does version the documents for each save. It utilizes WebDAV to do this. There is a macro in the marketplace that will lock the file if someone else is editing it. It is called Arsenale Lockpoint - Attachment Checkout.

The edit in office functionality will only work with IE or Firefox(after installing an extension) ... not Chrome or Safari.


author: BernardoA
body: Hi,

I think this documentation answer your question:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+an+Office+Document+from+Confluence>

Cheers,
Modify the login form for allowing user auto sign up
Asked by Jorge:

Background:

* We have 2000 license installation of confluence (probably will grow more).
* We are using a connection to the Active Directory
* The user name in the AD is not "name.lastname"
* We wanto to avoid administrative work of having somebody creating users manually.

The problem we have is that the "username" field autofills the field based on the Email field. That is confusing our users since in our LDAP our username is not "name.lastname" like our e-mails. 50% of the new users will just leave the username name.lastname (even if we wrote in the description above to edit that). In result, this will create a user that is not able to logon (because that username doesn't exist in the AD)

How can we disable that automatic filling in of the username field based on the e-mail?


Answers:
author: Jorge
body: Here is what I finally did to work around this:

1. 1. In the **User Directory Settings**, for the AD connection I ticked the copy user on login. This will create the user in Confluence fetching information from AD ( only in the first login).
2. 2. I added the default group membership: confluence-users. Without that user group they cannot see any content.
3. 3. In the User Schema Settings you can map the parameters that Confluence copies. I had to change the *User Display Name* field because it was set as "Lastname, Name" and that is not a user friendly name to have in Confluence. I instead used wrote "*givenName\&sn* " to get the natural "*Name Lastname*" format.
4. 4. In the User Directory menu where it shows what directory to use first I changed Confluence Internal Directory to first option. Because after the first attempt the user is created already. It will still use AD for authentication.
5. 5. I disabled the option "Allow users to sign-up". Now they won't need to do it the just log-in.


Tags: access

confluence-administration

user-management
Is it possible to drag drop attachemnts from an email to Confluence - ondemand?
Asked by Mariam Zniber:

I tried drag n drop an attachment from Outlook email and it din't work.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Maybe there would be an email client that would allow this, but most probably won't. Best thing to do is drag it to your desktop and then drag it to confluence.

comments: author: Mariam Zniber
body: thanks Davin


author: hsuhailah
body: This is not possible at the moment. There is a feature request open which is to allow copy \& paste and/or drag and drop of attachments straight from Outlook to Confluence which is tracked here fyi: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28812>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Attachments on Root Pages
Asked by Natalie:

Just checking my understanding, If we create a central page and attach all images to it (for each space) and then make that Image page a root page, Will that allow us to display images on multiple pages but the images will not appear in the search?

Thanks Natalie


Answers:
author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: We attach images that are used by multiple pages to a sub-page of a root page (which is not the space homepage). These images are found by Confluence search.


Tags: confluence-administration
migrating ondemand to hosted
Asked by Wolfgang Seidler:

ence OnDemand to hosted.

Gliffy Installation seems not to work with Confluence 5.3-OD-7.

Is there a special version for this OD conf version?

Thanks for any help on that.

Kr Wolfgang


Answers:
author: AgentSmith
body: Looks like you've encountered a bug with the latest Ondemand release ([AOD-6822](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6822)). Support can apply a workaround for you, but a restart of your instance is necessary for the changes to take effect.

Confluence will be unavailable for about 15min during that time but you can schedule maintenance to occur to non-business hours to reduce any impact to your users.

Note: I believe this only appears to be an issue with Confluence OnDemand. JIRA OnDemand is not affected AFAIK.

Hope this helps!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Change the Server Base URL
Asked by Mario Johnson:

Hi all,

I am trying to change the Base URL used to access Confluence but even after I have completed these instructions [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF52/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL). The url does not changes. Is there anything else that needs to changed with this?

Thanks,

Mario


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Did you restart Confluence after changing the server.xml?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The base url in Confluence is to tell your Confluence where it is. To change where Confluence lives on your network, you'll also need to tell your Name Servers what the new url is and where it should land (i.e. your confluence installation)


Tags: base-url

confluence-administration
How do the mobile apps work with Confluence OnDemand?
Asked by Stephan Dohrn:

Trying to set up the mobile apps (iOS) for confluence OnDemand but I only get a "We are on maintenance" message when I add the URL.


Answers:
author: Stephan Dohrn
body: I deleted the /m at the end of the URL and that seems to have done it. Still got an error message before it loaded the site.


author: AgentSmith
body: Maybe its true, are you certain your site is up and running?!?!? Assuming the site is up, try it on another mobile device just to factor out whether its the mobile device.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud