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Confluence digest/suggested content emails
Asked by Derrick Schmidt:

Is it possible to disable digest emails for users who have restricted access?


Answers:
author: Matthew Hunter
body: Unfortunately, no, by default all users are subscribed the recommended updates email, and it is up to them to unsubscribe themselves. The good news is that users won't see any content in those emails that they can't see on the site, so if the user can only see a handful of pages or spaces, then their email will be similarly restricted.

comments: author: David
body: Hello Matt,

I just got this problem in a digest email. It reported the creation of a space which was restricted and users started to ask for access. This should not have been reported in the email digest to users who did not have access to this space. I am using 5.4.3.

Is this an expected behavior ?

Thanks,

DB


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
When will Zen Foundation support Confluence versions 5.3?
Asked by Nic Hart:

When will Zen Foundation support Confluence versions 5.3?

Is there an authoritative and more current realase summary than the one on the bbrikit (nee stepstone) site at : <http://www.brikit.com/display/help/Zen+Release+Notes>

I see that the Atlassian Marketplace listing is stating support for Conf 5.2 in Zen 5.2.10, whilst the vendor site is still listing Zen 5.2.8 as the latest version, and Conf 5.1 as its compatible release...


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: Hi Nic,

Zen 5.2.11 is ready for Confluence 5.3, but we are delayed in posting to the Marketplace (due to changes there).

Please email [support@brikit.com](mailto:support@brikit.com) and we'll shoot you the new jar while we sort out the Marketplace listing.


author: J. Caldwell
body: Have you raised the question with the vendor?

comments: author: Nic Hart
body: Stepstone direct all their user queries to this forum, and I hope that the answer to my question will be of general value to this community!


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
User Setup in Confluence OnDemand
Asked by Sarah Lathrop:

We are moving our Confluence site from hosted to OnDemand 5.3. Is it possible to create a file with all the user names, email addresses, passwords and import that into the OnDemand version?


Answers:
author: Marlon Aguiar
body: Hello there,

That's definitely possible, to do that you'll have to follow the instructions listed on the following page: [Importing Users](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Importing+Users)

Hope it helps!

Regards,  
Marlon

comments: author: Sarah Lathrop
body: Thank you. That looks like what I need.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Email Notifications when watching a Space
Asked by Andrew Kaeding:

User that are watching a Space are getting email notifications (that include Page content) when new pages are created in the Space, even when the Page restrictions should prohibit them from seeing that page at all.

Obviously this poses a problem if the intention is to create content privately...all one need do is watch a space and see all the content of new pages that are created.

This can't be expected behavior...right?


Answers:
author: Andrew Kaeding
body: If I had to guess...Bill is on the right track. Sounds like it's more likely user error than an actual issue.

Thanks folks.


author: BillA
body: perhaps they're adding the restrictions after creating the page?


author: Marlon Aguiar
body: Hello there,

This doesn't seem like an expected behavior. I've just tried to replicate a similar setup on a test OnDemand instance and was not able to, users following a specific space were not getting notified for other users's restricted pages, so at first sight it doesn't look like a bug.

This definitely requires further investigation, could you open a ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com> so one of our engineers can further troubleshoot what might be happening here?

Regards,

Marlon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Where are the diagrams in Diagramly
Asked by Patrick_Vanhoof:

Hi,

I installed the Diagramly plugin, when I select the option 'Select Diagram' the 'Search for Diagramly diagrams' opens. When I click on Search I get 'No diagrams have been found'. How do I get the diagrams available?

Thanks,

Patrick


Answers:
author: Boris
body: The search option as it's name might suggest, searches for **existing** diagrams. So you need to draw them first in order to find them.


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly
I'm using the Jira Issues Macro and would like to display the Resolved date field in a column. No data is displaying in the Resolved Column. Does the field have a different name or something?
Asked by Amy Kalina:

I'm using the Jira Issues Macro and would like to display the Resolved date field in a column. No data is displaying in the Resolved Column. Does the field have a different name or something?

Issues URL: [https://jira.firstcomp.com/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=issuetype+in+%28Document%2C+%22New+Business+Request%22%2C+Report%2C+Addendum%29+AND+status+%3D+Closed+AND+%22Affected+Departments%22+%3D+%22Compliance%3A+Work+Comp%22+AND+resolved+%3E%3D%22-45d%22\&tempMax=1000](https://jira.firstcomp.com/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=issuetype+in+%28Document%2C+%22New+Business+Request%22%2C+Report%2C+Addendum%29+AND+status+%3D+Closed+AND+%22Affected+Departments%22+%3D+%22Compliance%3A+Work+Comp%22+AND+resolved+%3E%3D%22-45d%22&tempMax=1000)

Columns: Key;Summary;Resolved


Answers:
author: Amy Kalina
body: lower case **resolved** works. Does not work when using Upper Case "R"


author: Amy Kalina
body: lower case **resolved** works


author: Matthew Hunter
body: It looks like you're running into the bug [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31708](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31708.). There's no workaround available at the moment unfortunately, so watch that bug for updates. :)

Cheers,

Matt


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Try **resolved**, all lower case.

comments: author: Kim Wall
body: Using **resolved** doesn't appear to work either. The column displays as empty.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Try comma, not semi-colon.

```
key,summary,resolved
```


author: Ricardo
body: I'm getting the same issue. Was about to create a ticket but thought I'd chime in.


Tags: jira
Survey Plugin by Frank Stiller
Asked by Tabscho:

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| Hi, I have a question about the survey plugin by Frank Stiller. After each vote, the page refreshes and the user must always scroll down so that he gets to his question, he has just answered. Is it possible that the page ist not reloaded after every question? I work with Confluence Confluence 5.1.5 and 3.5.17 and both versions is the same problem. Thank you very much regards |


Answers:
author: Frank Stiller
body: Hopefully this is your own opinion. If you are really working for Atlassian you should learn to think before you post.

I feel a little bit insulted. Better i stop writing now. If that would be true first thing were to tag the questions with the right tags, thats really annoying to have to watch every questions to be able to answer them.

P.s. i still cant be believe you just posted that \*s\*


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Looks like you have created two accounts and creating questions and posting answers :). May be use a Wiki to write a FAQ page for your add-on.


author: Frank Stiller
body: currently it is not possible, the current rendering of the macro (refreshing) depends on the reloading and works with redirecting / queryparameters.

To change that behaviour will need quite some refactoring, which is currently not in the focus.


Tags: addon-com.nearinfinity.confluence.survey-plugi
Reduce Confluence Users
Asked by Sreekar Achanta:

hello members,

I am getting an error "You have exceeded maximum number of users for your license. You will still be able to view content, but in order to create or edit content, you must reduce the number of active users in the installation " and it shows do two things disable or delete user. I did check the forums and found that users listed under can use will be counted as active users. Do i have a way where i give space creation ,content adding , editing to few users and just a viewing access to rest of all the users.?

Thanks,

Sreekar.


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

If you want to reduce the user counts, then you neec to remove the "Can Use" permission from the users. Just like ou removed them from Confluence-users group. But then you are right, this will not allow users to login anymore and they will get "not permitted error".

As you only want those users to have read only access, you may enable public access with view permission only, therefore, users do not have to login and they still can view Confluence. For more information you may refer to the link below:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access>

comments: author: Sreekar Achanta
body: Thank you so much Hossein and Rambanam Prasad , I shall try the above solution and will get back to you. Primary solution of removing users from confluence-users group and adjusting the users to the available licenses has been fixed . I shall try the above read only solution and will close this thread upon succesful results.


author: RambanamP
body: check this document

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Reducing+the+User+Count+for+your+Confluence+License>

comments: author: Sagar Sagiraju
body: Hi,

the document gives me info on all the things, but i was not able to get the users logged in success .. it was giving an error saying not permitted. I have actually removed them from confluence-users group . I had previously experienced this not permitted error when they were not part of confluence-users group so added them to that at that point of time. I would want to have them only a read only access. what do i have to do.?


author: Sreekar Achanta
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access>


author: Sreekar Achanta
body: THe documents provided in this thread have fixed my issue.


author: Sreekar Achanta
body: I have made the changes as per the documentation advised and it seems to work fine. thanks for getting this resolved. appreciate the efforts.


Tags: confluence-administration
change postgreSQL database to oracle database in confluence
Asked by SherryX:

Does anyone has experience for changing postgreSQL to oracle database for confluence?

I exported .xml file in confluence with postgreSQL database and imported to the same version confluence but with empty database (oracle), the import failed with error:

Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-12899: value too large for column "CONFUSER"."ATTACHMENTS"."ATTACHMENT_COMMENT" (actual: 259, maximum: 255)

I checked the data in postgreSQL database, the comment do have 255 characters, but why it became 259 characters in Oracle?

I ran the following SQL and returned is UTF8:

    SELECT pg_encoding_to_char(encoding) FROM pg_database WHERE datname = 'confluence';

The new oracle database is using UTF8 encoding.

Anyone can help? Thanks


Answers:
author: MJ
body: It is possible that certain special characters in the comment take up more than 1 value, causing the total value to go over the maximum of 255. Please have a look at [this](https://forums.oracle.com/thread/2173622) page to see if it contains any useful information for you.


author: SherryX
body: Thanks, Mick. The cause of the problem is more than that, some of the special characters have to be changed OR the value of the comment fields need to be shorten.

Hope this information help others.


Tags: database

oracle

postgres
Can you control word wrap of the JIRA Macro in Confluence?
Asked by Trevor Hunt:

When rendering the macro on the page, some columns are not set to wrap... these happen to be the free form text fields. Can I control this behavior and force it to wrap all columns?


Answers:
author: Trevor Hunt
body: Here's the solution I used:

```
$('table.aui td').removeAttr('nowrap');
```


Tags: macro
How to get the HTML export to respect the NoPrint user Macro?
Asked by Adam Barylak:

I would like to find out if it would be possible to get the HTML export to respect the NoPrint user macro in Confluence? We are upgrading to 5.3. I would ideally like to get this to work with the HTML export, Word export, and the Scroll PDF export. But I will be satisfied with one at a time for now.

Let me know if anyone else has had any success. Thanks.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you have modern browsers viewing the wiki you could use a css media declaration such as this.

@media print {  
.noprint { display: none; }  
}

Put this into your space or global stylesheet. Then in your user macro you just put a class of noprint on the outermost container. There is also a PDF stylesheet in space admin and confluence admin where you could put ...

.noprint { display: none; }

PDFs will then do the same thing and hide those blocks.

comments: author: Adam Barylak
body: I have added your exact text to the global stylesheet as well as the Space stylesheet, and it doesn't look like it is taking effect anywhere. I am using the most recent version of Firefox, and i can't even find the @media section in the source of the page, and it is definitely not there if i export it to HTML. Am i missing something here? Let me know. Thanks.


author: Davin Studer
body: Ah yeah, that wouldn't work for html export. However the PDF one should work. To get it to work for html export (assuming you use the documentation theme) go to Glbal Layouts and edit the Page Export Layout. Add the below to the html head section

\<style\>  
.noprint {display: none;}  
\</style\>


author: Adam Barylak
body: Thanks, that does work, i was kinda hoping for a more permanent solution that would completely remove the content from the HTML source and everything.

We are trying to use Confluence as a tool to build our documentation for users, but still allow our employees to place notes and confidential information in no-print sections that will keep the content permanently out of any printed or exported material. I can use the CSS for now, but would like a slightly better solution.


author: Davin Studer
body: If you want something like that you will probably have to resort to an add-on to do it.


author: l
body: Hi All

We are facing issues in noprint macro for html. can you please tell us where we can put the CSS configuration forhtml no print


author: Steffen Heller
body: @lynn_jira:

Didn't Davin already answer this above? (see "To get it to work for...")


author: Adam Barylak
body: Sorry, this did kinda get lost, and you are correct. The initial question as was stated was answered, but my more advanced question has no answer currently, I will accept this as the answer and create another answer to hopefully find a solution to completely removing the noprint text from even the source of the HTML after export.


Tags: confluence-administration
Add frequently used item to "Insert More Content" menu
Asked by Karl Ostmo:

In Confluence, there is an "Insert" dropdown menu with the mouseover text "Insert More Content". This menu directly contains about 15 macro items, only one of which (the "Table of Contents" macro) I use frequently. The other macro I use frequently is "Insert Code Block". But I have to go to "Other Macros" inside the "Insert" menu, click on the "Formatting" section, then click on "Code Block", then click on "Insert" every time.

Is there a way to put the "Insert Code Block" macro directly in the "Insert" dropdown menu, so I can save many clicks per use?


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Karl,Why not use the keyboard shortcut to enter a macro? In this case the left curly bracket, then start typing 'code block' the whole name should then appear. Select it and press return. This will enter the macro. You can then open the macro and edit it as necessary. This will save you a few clicks. I'd love to be able to add my macros as favourites though. Cheers.


author: Karl Werner
body: I can't "+ 1" the actual ticket (Cloud ticket), so am adding a comment here. I used Code Block as well on an almost daily (or more) basis (used 3 times in the last 5 minutes). If I could "+ 100" this feature enhancement, I would.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-28832>

comments: author: Karl Werner
body: Ah, now that I've logged in it did let me up-vote. I encourage people to up-vote that ticket...


author: Dirk Lindner
body: fine - i need this feature to :)


author: BillA
body: We have a feature request for this at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28832>

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Oh, nice this would be great.
Storing Large PSD files in Confluence
Asked by Miles Readman:

I am looking to see if anyone has used confluence as a file diposatory for large file types such as psd's. Currently our design department is using Sugarsync to store large psd files, version these files and communicate across our various locations globally. We currently user JIRA and Confluence as our main communication tools across all our other departments and I am looking to integrate the design component into this.

Confluence has a great versioning system and links with JIRA which is great for linking our components together. Has anyone had any experience with storing large psd files on confluence? is this something that is not recommended?


Answers:
author: Jason Plumhoff
body: We were able to get Confluence to work with large files, but had to do a bit of tweaking to prevent lockups:<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/125579/using-confluence-as-a-large-file-sharing-platform>


Tags: attachment

file
Confluence HSQLDB user credential
Asked by David Finney:

I am using HSQLDB Database Manager client for login. Is there any default username and password?


Answers:
author: RambanamP
body: check this doc

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Running+SQL+commands+in+a+HSQL+database>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+HSQLDB+using+DBVisualizer>


Tags: confluence-administration
JavaMelody Confluence 5.3 compatibility
Asked by Michael Simon:

Has anyone installed JavaMelody with Confluence 5.3 war installation. Oh running on Tomcat 7/JDK 7.

I get the following error.

<br />

java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch  
at net.bull.javamelody.JiraMonitoringFilter.hasConfluenceAdminPermission(JiraMonitoringFilter.java:212)

caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch  
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)


Answers:
author: Claus
body: Bug is beeing tracked here:

<https://code.google.com/p/javamelody/issues/detail?id=359>

There you can get a snapshot Version. Should be fixed in Verison v1.48.0

comments: author: Ulrich Nack
body: On my site (Jira 6.0.7, Confluence 5.3.4) Verison v1.48.1 is running  


author: Claus
body: Same Error in Confluence 5.3.1 and Tomcat 6.0.35

comments: author: Michael Simon
body: That should have been a comment.


Tags: confluence-app

javamelody
Prevent double editing
Asked by Michael Hoppenrath:

So in our office people will open a wiki page and wait an hour or so before saving there edits. The problem being is that someone else will come in and edit it before the other edit is saved and change it, and when the first guy saves the second guys edits will lost. What we are intrested in primarily is if we can get a plug in to see if some one else starts editing while we are. If that is not possible then we are intrested in preventing two editors at once.


Answers:
author: John Masson
body: Hi Michael, which version of Confluence are you using? There was a bug around merging that caused the behaviour you're describing, which was fixed in 5.2.

We've also made some further improvements since that will ship in 5.4 that further increase the quality of merging so you'll get less conflicts.

I'd also been keen to confirm that from what you're saying, people on your instance aren't seeing the edit message that David linked to at all?

comments: author: Michael Hoppenrath
body: Its more of the fact I'm asked to find somthing from my boss, He wants it more visibale. So do you know of a plug in that will make the diolauge box there more noticible, such as in the form of a pop up or simple max the box bigger?


author: Davin Studer
body: That functionality is built in to Confluence. You should see notification that someone is editing a page. Below is a screenshot illustrating this.

![](../../upfiles/Capture.png)
Can disable/deactivate/turn-off the sidebar with CSS - but can't re-enable.
Asked by M:

I'm iFraming a confluence landing page in a mashery portal. The mashery page isn't full screen so I want to turn off the side bar - just for the landing page, then re-enable as soon as the visitor goes to another page in confuence.

The disable *works*, but wierdly not the re-enable. It shouldn't even carry on to the second page, but it does and even when I try to turn it on, it won't. Any ideas?

Here is how I **disable** using a HTML macro on the page.

```
&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.breadcrumb-section {display: none !important;}#splitter-sidebar  {display: none !important;}&lt;/style&gt;
```

Then, on the subsequent page, I do the opposite and re-enable those elements (this doesn't work - side bar still disabled)

```
&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.breadcrumb-section {display: inline !important;}#splitter-sidebar  {display: inline  !important;}&lt;/style&gt;
```

```

```

```
Any ideas or have a bit of JavaScript that will re-enable it?
```


Answers:
author: M
body: Genius beside me solved it.

When the sidebar is disabled, a cookie is written to storage, which persists across pages.

To re-enable the side-bar then, just remove the cookie as the page unloads:

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var wunload = window.onunload;window.onunload= function(e) {    document.cookie = 'doc-sidebar=; expires=' + (new Date(0)).toUTCString() + '; path=/;';    if (wunload !== undefined &amp;&amp; typeof wunload === 'function') {        wunload(e);     }   }    &lt;/script&gt;
```


Tags: confluence-administration

css

javascript

side-bar
JIRA issue macro in confluence
Asked by kot Tzamaloukas:

I am using Confluence on Demand and I am trying to use JIRA issue macro. It's asking for an application url which i cannot guess - Should have I a licenced "JIRA on demand" for this perpuse ? [](https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-5515)


Answers:
author: Hieu Le Trung
body: Yes, you must have a linked JIRA application to use that macro.


Tags: jira