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How do I add a page...
Asked by Ian Kaplan:

I've been using Confluence for years. But the format has changed. The getting started page says "click create" and add a page. Where is create? This is so annoying and frustrating.


Answers:
author: Ian Kaplan
body: I contacted Atlassian and it turns out that there was a bug in my instance. This has been fixed and I now see the Create button at the top of the page. I also see my dashboard as the login page, which I didn't before.


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello Ian,

please take a look here to easily find "create" button [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Creating+Content)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Creating+Content>

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: Ian Kaplan
body: Thanks, Fabio. This is helpful. I still don't understand why I don't see the button. Perhaps this is because I'm editing from the Administrator account and I need to create a user account for myself and edit from there. But I don't see this button in the mode that I'm in. Yet I can edit pages. I just can't add a child page.


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi Ian,

probably you haven't grant to add pages. Please take a look here [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Space+Permissions+Overview)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Space+Permissions+Overview>.

Your user should have add permission otherwise you can't view the create button.

Regards,

Fabio


author: Ian Kaplan
body: I think that this may be a misunderstanding of the structure on my part.

On the main page, which is apparently the parent of all of the spaces, I've been wanting to add a sub-page. But I think that what it wants is for me to add a sub-space (at least at this level).

I suspect that part of the disconnect is that Confluence has evolved into an enterprise application. What I really want to do with it is document the project that I'm working on. I am not at the enterprise level let. So I just want a main page and a bunch of sub-pages.

I did check my space permissions and I do have permission to add pages.

Anyway, thanks for your patient answers.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: There is a 'Create' button on the top navigation bar. Hard to miss that one!

comments: author: Ian Kaplan
body: "Hard to miss". Well, apparently not. I don't see it.

Perhaps the problem is that I am using the administrator account. I don't know.

I do not see a "Create" button.

Fabio's link was helpful. At least I see an example of the Create button, which does not appear in the administrator account.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Can you check if you have the permissions to add content atleast one space? You can also create a personal space and see if the button appears after that.
Confluence wildcard (* and ?) prefix search not working
Asked by K:

When we try to execute a wildcard search in our confluence instance using a prefix of \* or ? we do not receive any results. For example, "\*ale" or "?ale" returns no results, even though we do have documents that have the word "sale" within. There are no other filters added on the search criteria. I am seeing the same behavior on our testing instance. Is there any setting in the admin console for this or has anybody else dealt with this issue?


Answers:
author: K
body: Working with support, they have identified this to be a bug. [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33631%20)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33631>is the associated bug task


author: Michael Kornatzki
body: After more then two years no fix ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")


author: K
body: Using 5.4.3. A content re-index did not change the results of the search with a wild card. I recently (about a week ago) also built the indices from scratch. That was prior to this issue being discovered, but I am fairly sure this is the first time we have tried this type of complex searching.


author: Timothy
body: What version of Confluence are you using? Have you tried the content reindex?


Tags: search

wildcard
Confluence plugins: How to use custom .vm files properly?
Asked by Daniela Scheiwe:

Hi,

I'm quite new to plugin development but had some success already :-)

Right now I'm playing around with web panels for displaying information in certain places.

What I didn't get is: What do I have to do to make velocity-stuff really work?

According to [this](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Web+Panel+Plugin+Module#WebPanelPluginModule-ResourceElement) example I created a new .vm-file that holds my code and defined it as resource location in the xml:

```
&lt;web-panel key="myPanel" location="atl.dashboard.left" weight="1" &gt;   &lt;resource name="view" type="velocity" location="velocity/myupdates.vm"/&gt;&lt;/web-panel&gt;
```

My .vm just contains this for testing purpose:

```
$action.remoteUser.name()
```

The result:

I get the webpanel displayed, the .vm is loaded but obviously am I missing something, because all I see is "$action.remoteUser.name()"

I can use #set and all this stuff, but I seem to lack the connection to the classes that provide the data. What do I have to do?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Webpanel will not have an action object in context. You will have to add the objects you want to display in to the template context using a [context provider](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Web+Panel+Plugin+Module#WebPanelPluginModule-contextElements).


Tags: app

velocity
after Import a Confluence Site
Asked by jonghwasu:

Take a full backup of version 5.1 data import version was 5.3.

Check the results after completion of the normal import import only the information the user space is not import.

5.1 Where the existing data will disappear?

Note that the file size is 500MB.


Answers:
author: jonghwasu
body: This is because the end I do not read the FAQ I had problems.   
Import data from the accounts and privileges as the recovery was   
Import a new account is created, but the data because there is no authority for that article was not found and problems.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Jong,  

If you have a backup of version 5.1, is very important to make sure that you're importing it on a 5.1 version as well. Then you'll be able to upgrade to version 5.3.  

Since you're importing data fro another version is possible that's the reason why this space is not appearing.

<br />

Also, make sure to **perform a reindex from scratch after the import** , and then check if the content appears after that: [https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch\<br\< a=""\>\>
Kind Regards](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch%3Cbr)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not sure I have understood this, but are you saying you have taken a backup of a 5.1 system and used that to create a new 5.3 system?

And you have found that the users are missing their personal spaces?

If that is true, can you explain your user setup for us - LDAP, Crowd, Jira, internal, something else?
I want to have a recommendation pages when someone updated/created pages related to 'my keyword'?
Asked by Ezra Andhika:

Yea, I have a task from my company to create a function whereby we will have a bunch of pages recommended by Confluence when we save any keyowrd or label or words.

So, basically if I want to know more about "Miley Cyrus", then everytime anyone posted a pages related to Miley Cyrus will trigger function in Confluence to give me notification/updates that there is new page related to my keyword.

Hope anyone can give me suggestion regarding this.


Answers:
author: Ezra Andhika
body: Yes exactly! it's not only for label but any words including title and content should be searched and compared to this "keyword".

any idea how to do this?

comments: author: discountrobot
body: That depends on the execution: do the matching pages have the keyword as a label or is it just the body aswell?


author: Ezra Andhika
body: As for now, we don't use label. So we think the keyword is either the title or the body. Any idea?


author: discountrobot
body: The problem with this is that you're basically searching for words that both pages have in common - which will give you very bad results.


author: Ezra Andhika
body: But basically, what we want actually similar like macro called "Search Results" on Confluence.

But we have built in notification/trigger when there is a new pages/data related to "Search terms" posted, then it will notify watchers or follower of this feature.


author: discountrobot
body: So there is the [related labels macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF54/Related+Labels+Macro), which finds pages with identical labels, but i get a feeling that you're after something that basically searches for everything in the body and matches labels of other pages.
Experiencing difficulties message
Asked by beth b:

I'm a new Confluence On Demand user but every day I receive the "we are currently experiencing difficulties" message intermittently. This happens even when trying to access the online help page. Why is this? Can this be avoided? It's a huge productivity killer. Thanks.


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Beth,

This is likely an issue with reaching the destination where your OnDemand instance lives. There have been reports of customers who continuously get this message while Atlassian OnDemand is up and running fine. It usually boils down to a network issue.

My first suggestion would be to contact your ISP and ask them questions regarding your service. Then I would talk to Atlassian support regarding where your connection is coming from (routed via your ISP) and if they have any kind of blacklisting going on with your ISP.

There have been instances in the past where Atlassian's hosting service has pushed their own blacklists (mistakenly - which was corrected) to Atlassian's services.

Atlassian is very good about announcing outages so if they haven't announced it and you are still seeing this message, my instincts say networking issue.

Hope this helps!


author: beth b
body: Thanks Ryan! Will investigate further.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Restart service before index rebuild completes?
Asked by Davin Studer:

Anybody know if it is ok to restart the Confluence service before the index rebuild completes? We are wanting to give the virtual server and jvm more memory but the re-index is going very slowly. We want to do this irrespective of the re-index ... the machine just needs more but I'd rather not wait a day or two more to add it if possible.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: The reindex will begin all over again after the restart, because it was not completed properly.

A good thing do to - after is to perform your changes - is to perform a Rebuild from Scratch:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch,)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch>, so you next rebuilds (using the UI) should run more quickly.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: It's actually doing a rebuild from scratch right now ... SLOWLY. I started it last night and it went from 0%-66% in about 10 minutes and has spend the last 9 hours getting to 67%. The server needs more RAM anyway, so hopefully adding more will help with the index rebuild faster.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: How big is this confluence? 9 hours implies it's absolutely vast, or you're running it on Commodore 64...


author: Davin Studer
body: I don't think it's vast ... I'm sure it is something else like disk performance or ram ... one reason why I am adding RAM tonight.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The Commodore 64 answer then ;-)


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Davin,  

In the worst case the index will not be completed which means that some content might not be searchable for a while (until you rebuild the indexes again).

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: I figured that was the worst case, but should it in the best case just continue on with the rest if it hasn't been indexed yet? Or will it always require a re-index?


Tags: confluence-administration

index
How do I embed Jira Agile Sprint Burndown Chart in a Confluence page?
Asked by Ben Edelstein:

We have a project status page in Confluence and I'd like to be able to embed some of the Jira reports and gagets (Version report, Sprint Burndown). Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Ben,

YES! I would say one of the greatest things about Atlassian suite applications is their ability to integrate fairly seamlessly. You'll want to ensure you have application links configured as described here:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Linking+to+Another+Application)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Linking+to+Another+Application>

Then you will just add the desired gadgets to a confluence page and configure:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Chart+Macro)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Chart+Macro>

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Confluence+Gadgets)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Confluence+Gadgets>

Hope this helps!

comments: author: Ben Edelstein
body: Thanks Ryan -- just what I needed!


author: Peter Saulesleja
body: Cloud: There don't seem to be any Version reports, or Burndown reports (Sprint, Version , Epic) from Jira that can be embedded on Confluence. This is a pretty glaring omission.

I'm reduced to linking, throwing a date and a screenshot on Confluence.


Tags: jira-software
Confluence Edit in Office does not respond
Asked by Frank Litjens:

I have a question about editing a word document in Confluence 5.5.

After uploading a word document into my confluence page I see that version 1 is created. When I double click on the file itself it opens protected in Word. So far so good. However when I try to edit the document by pressing "Edit in Office" nothing happens.

What I expect is that I receive a banner that Word wants to open a document from an untrusted connection which I can accept. After saving the modifications the document should have Version 2. I had this setup working but this morning I upgraded confluence from 5.4.4 to 5.5 because I hoped it solved a problem with my application link issues in combination with virtual hosts and SSL. I am not sure if the problem occurs due to modifications I made or if it occurs due to the upgrade. I am a bit lost at the moment.

Additional information:

Base URL: <https://confluence.company.com>and I access confluence via the same URL.

WebDav plugin installed in confluence Version 4.0.3  
Office Connector installed in confluence Version 3.3.3  
WebDav Launcher installed in Firefox Version 1.0.7

Hopefully anyone can help me out since I am a bit lost at the moment.

Thanks,

Frank Litjens


Answers:
author: Suren Raj
body: Hi Frank,  

Can I know what is the version of Mozilla Firefox you used to open the Confluence?  
If you are using Firefox 29 and Firefox 30 , you should have a look at this [Bug Report](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33469).

It seems the office connector not working with Firefox 29 and Firefox 30.  

The workaround is to downgrade to Firefox 28.

comments: author: Frank Litjens
body: Hello Suren,

Thanks you very much, you made my day. Problem solved,

Thanks again.

Frank Litjens


author: Frank Litjens
body: Hello Suren,

Thanks you very much, you made my day. Problem solved,

Thanks again.

Frank Litjens
Where to find Space ID
Asked by Kevin Schrauth:

Hi,

is there an easy way to find out the space ID of a space?

Thanks,

Kevin


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: If you really need it :

1. Go to \<your-confluence-instance\>/admin/findspaceattachments.jsp
2. insert your space key
3. the last directory name will be your space id (should be a number)

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Sonya Spangelo
body: i get an error


author: CelsoA
body: Hi there,

You can query the database:

select \* from SPACES;

Or you can narrow the search:

select spaceid from spaces where spacename = 'name_of_the_space';

Regards,

Celso Yoshioka


author: Kevin Schrauth
body: Hi Peter,

thanks for your answer.

This is great!

Kevin


author: Kevin Schrauth
body: Hi,

Thanks for the fast reply.

Yeah that was not the answer i was looking for.

If there is no easier way i have to go with this solution...

But i do not really understand how you can create the Hierarchical File System Attachment Storage like this : [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Hierarchical+File+System+Attachment+Storage;jsessionid=EC6814B60BD67544D023161BF3B98974)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Hierarchical+File+System+Attachment+Storage;jsessionid=EC6814B60BD67544D023161BF3B98974>

Regards,

Kevin

comments: author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Kevin,

This is automatically created for you, you shouldn't do it yourself.

Best regards,

Peter


author: Timothy
body: Im sure this is not the answer that you are looking for but the easiest way is the DB..
Creating duplicate accounts for users
Asked by Rinku Saha:

Hi,

We sync-up with LDAP directory for confluence profile. For last couple of users we are facing issue, like it is creating two accounts for single user. one in LDAP directory and another one is on internal directory. Please refer attached screenshot for details.

Please help me to overcome on this issue.

Thanks'

Rinku


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Rinku,

How are you creating the users? (Through Confluence or Through LDAP)

Is your LDAP read-only or read-write for Confluence?

In which order are you directories in the user directories administration screen?

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Rinku Saha
body: Hi Peter,

Thank you for your immediate response.

How are you creating the users? (Through Confluence or Through LDAP)

Thriugh LDAP.

Is your LDAP read-only or read-write for Confluence?

I am not sure on this, i am assuming its read-only. how can i check this?

In which order are you directories in the user directories administration screen?

I am not getting this, can you please clerify?

Thanks'

Rinku


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Rinku,

I just noticed that you are using conflluence on demand.

That isn't even able to connect to an ldap, so are you sure about the information in your question?

Best regards,

Peter


author: Rinku Saha
body: Hi Peter,

we are using confluence 5.1.3.

The information i have shared is correct.

Thanks'

Rinku


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Rinku,

I just wanted to make sure that we are talking about the rigth edition :)

To see the order of the user directories you should go to your Confluence Administration page and search for the User Directories menu.

This should contain both your internal Confluence Directory and your LDAP directory.

Here you can see their order and you should also be able to see how the LDAP directory is configured.

Best regards,

Peter


Tags: ldap
How can it be possible to open Confluence page in a new Tab?
Asked by Xiangfei.Li:

<br />

Could anybody help me with this?   

<br />

The situation is, we are using the "Advanced Search" to search for something in a Confluence instance, and a list of pages will be shown, when the user click on the page title which was searched, the page could be opened in a new tab.  
I tried the method on the page [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Force+Links+to+Open+in+a+New+Window?focusedCommentId=592281615&#comment-592281615)[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Force+Links+to+Open+in+a+New+Window?focusedCommentId=592281615\&#comment-592281615](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Force+Links+to+Open+in+a+New+Window?focusedCommentId=592281615&#comment-592281615) , but seems it doesn't work.

<br />

<br />

Is there anybody knows something about this? Thanks in advance.

<br />

<br />

Regards

<br />

Li

<br />


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Li,  

It seems that this customization is not working with the latest confluence versions. As I could see, it was made for confluence 3.0 onwards, however from that version to 5.5 one, lot of changes happened.  

That HTML customization may require some work though.  

As a workaround, what I use to a open a new tab is just clicking with the scroll button above the link and it will automatically open in a new tab. Its simple, but very fast and always work.

Also, I recommend to vote and watch and ask other colleagues to vote to increase the popularity in this[feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11194).   

Cheers,  

Rodrigo


Tags: link

new-window
As a Conf Admin I want to prevent Space Admins from Deleting Conf Admin Permissions
Asked by MichelleW:

Space Admins can delete the Confluence Admin Permissions for the Space which makes it hard to manage the spaces if they need to be archived, etc.

Any ideas on how I lock down Confluence Admin permissions so that they cannot be deleted by the Space Admin?


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Michelle,

You currently can't do this, you can always restore your permissions through the space permissions page in the Confluence Administration screen.

You can also simply ask the space admins why they removed you and explain them that you can't archive their spaces,export,... if you don't have the necessary rights

Best regards,

Pete

comments: author: MichelleW
body: Ok, thanks for your response Pete. Seems like this would qualify as an enhancement then :-)


Tags: confluence-administration

space-administrator
Can you create a Confluence page from a Jira Issue?
Asked by Michael Cruz:

We'd like to be able to create a Confluence page from a Jira issue direclty - and ideally have it linked after creation. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Yes. [CLI Plugin for JIRA](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLIP) provides this capability for download Confluence. Not available for OnDemand currently ([JCLIP-31](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/JCLIP-31)).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Errors after upgrading to 5.4.4 - Workbox
Asked by Rajeev Kapur:

Trying an upgrade to 5.4.4 from 5.1.5, after the upgrade the workbox plugin reports below errors in the logs.

```
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint 'U_AO_9412A1_AOUSER_USERNAME'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.AO_9412A1_AOUSER'. The duplicate key value is (8a
```

It appears to be this issue [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32046,)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32046>, I have asked support about the impact of the workarounds, but has anyone else had this error?

```

```


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Rajeev  

As a reporter of that bug, I remember that we had some customers with this issue.  
They did the 2nd workaround and it worked fine to them. Of course, is always prudent to create a database backup since you'll perform a delete query, but it works just fine.  

Kind Regards


author: Rajeev Kapur
body: Followed the advice in [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32046)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32046>which does work.


Tags: confluence-administration