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Hide content from admin's?
Asked by Vic:

From what I've learned from the confluence-documentation, it is not possible for users to exclude admin's from seeing their contents. They can do that, however the admin can set a permission allowing him to see the content and therefore have access to it. Is that true or did I missunderstand anything?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Admin rights mean admin rights, it's not an automatic "can see everything". You don't have to put admins into the space permissions at all, and if you don't give them "can use space" or you exclude them from restrictions, then yes, they will not be able to see the contents.

An admin can always get to the permissions for a space, and could always put themselves into groups or permissions that allow them to see the space.
How can a I schedule a meeting for when members are available in Confluence Team Calendar?
Asked by Gregory Schwedock:

I'd like to be able to select the participants who need to be in a meeting and have options shown for what time all of those team members are available and then schedule the meeting for one of those times.

How can I do this in Confluence Team Calenders?


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi there,

I don't believe confluence calendar provides this functionally.

Regards


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Are there sample confluence projects for import?
Asked by Kelley Marsh:

My organization has decided to use Confluence, but I need to set up some examples of spaces and templates to help stakeholders better understand the features and functionality before we plan our content and migrate into Confluence.

Are there any resources to import pre-made Confluence spaces to help demonstrate the features? I'm still learning Confluence myself - if I have to set up spaces on my own to demonstrate the capacities, that's going to take a significant amount of time...

Any sample spaces out there I can import and use as a base for a demonstration?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: When Confluence is installed, there is an option to create a Demonstration Space, it is populated with content.

Another resource is the Space Templates, when you create a space it offers you different types of space and there is sample content when you use a template. My recommendation is to create a space from each template, to get an idea of some common use cases. Here are the options:

![Screen Shot 2017-05-19 at 4.03.30 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1402i00AE8E28E26A4C3B/image-dimensions/555x213?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2017-05-19 at 4.03.30 PM.png")


Tags: import
edit a default macro
Asked by Nico n:

Hello,

I would like to edit a Confluence macro but i can't find where it is stored. I don't mean an user macro but those macro that come out-of-the-box with installation. Could you help me, please ?

thanks in advance

Nico


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Most of the built-in macros are bundled into "system" add-ons. You'd need to get the source code of those, make your changes and recompile them, then deploy them to your server, replacing the system add-on.

comments: author: Nico n
body: thanks Nic. For example, suppose I need the source code of "contentbylabel" macro.

As you told I found the addon "Advanced Macros" and inside the module "contentbylabel" but I can't find the source code.

Do you have more details, please?


Tags: macro
REST API content response empty after first attempt
Asked by James_Glen:

When we request something through the Confluence RESTful API (flybejira.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/), the first time, any type of request comes back with the correct content and 200 HTTP code, but any other subsequent request comes back as HTTP 200 but the body comes back empty.

After a certain time, If we request again it comes back with the body content. Does anyone know why this is and can it be fixed?


Answers:
author: navalarya
body: I have same issue. After first post call the page is getting created but no content is seen on page.

This is page data.

let pageData = { type: "page", title: title, ancestors: \[{ id: 343 }\], space: { key: "test", body: { storage: { value: "\<p\>This is a new page. this is not working yet.\</p\>", representation: "storage" } } } };


Tags: confluence-cloud

atl-adm

rest-api
Title placeholder on template
Asked by Pedro Felgueiras:

Is it possible to define the placeholder of the title on a page template?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I was able to pre-populate the title when I used the [Create from Template](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-from-template-macro-317196995.html) macro, please check out that option and let me know if it works for your use case.

My experience on my Confluence 6.3.1 test isntance is that whatever I put into the title field becomes the page template's name and the title is blank (it has instructional text, "Page title") when I use the template.

When I try to add [Instructional Text](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-a-template-296093779.html#CreateaTemplate-Instructionaltext) to the title field the option is unavailable.
Date Picker Macro Not Popping Up On Hover
Asked by Dwayne Lusk:

For some reason, when I hover on a date that was created with the Confluence date picker, nothing happens. I have to put the page in edit mode to change a date. I have seen cases where this can be done live in the published page.

Any ideas?

Besides that problem, the Date Picker macro seems generally veiled in mystery to me...

In the page editor, when I choose Insert more content \> Other macros, it is nowhere to be found.

For this apparent reason, you have to know the odd trick of typing "//" to make it magically appear.

Where is this thing documented?

Thanks for any feedback!


Answers:
author: StephR
body: There is no native way to display a date picker without going to the editor. You may want to have a look at this plugin: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.kentcom.live-input-macros/server/overview>

Similar to '@' mentions in the editor, dates are not listed in the keyboard shortcuts area but there is a feature request to have this added: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-43797>


Tags: confluence-server

date-picker
Alter dashboard welcome message size
Asked by project-march:

Hi!

We have just upgraded our Confluence webpage to 6.2.0 but I want to make some small changes to the way the dashboard looks. The problem is as follows:

![Naamloos.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1386iA180C2DD1784C489/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Naamloos.png")

In a nutshell, our "All updates" do not use a lot of space, but we do have a weekly update on the right that contains a lot of text. I want to make this box of text wider.

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Jack Brickey
body: cleaning up old issues w/o any response...

This would mot be possible w/o code changes. That said this version of Server is EOS anyway.


Tags: custom-field

dashboard
Wrong EpicLink in JIRA Issues Macro
Asked by Christof Hurst:

Hi,

we are requesting some tickets with jira issues macro. When we display the EpicLink the linking itself is correct but the name and color displayed is wrong.

It seems that tha t first request works fine and then for every row in result theres another request for displaying the EpicColor and name. And this additional requests went wrong.

Is it a bug?

Several reindexes changes the coloring and naming but not in the correct way.


Answers:
author: Richard Gee
body: Seems to be covered here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-31534>

Although I've heard "in the next release" before so many times...


Tags: jira

macro
Confluence Question Plugin Not Showing
Asked by trungcodeforce:

Hi Guys,

I try to buy Confuence Cloud version and make a payment included question plugin but it doesn't show in my Confluence i have no idea about this. Is there any way to uninstall and re-install that plugin.

This is my url:

<https://resales-online.atlassian.net>

Thanks


Answers:
author: Marcelo Horlle
body: Hey Trung,

I am not sure if I understood your challenge here, can you help me so I can help you ?

If I got it correctly, you are trying to make a plugin visible on your instance, but it doesn't work.

Did you buy this plugin through Atlassian Marketplace ?

What exactly are you doing on your side before trying to see the plugin ?

At a first moment, I recommend you to first ensure that you have the mentioned plugin installed on your instance by using this article to [check the status of a plugin on Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Viewing+installed+add-ons).

If it is indeed there, then you can provide more information so we can assist you, else, it is just a matter of actually installing it from the [Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/).


Tags: questions-for-confluence
Preventing unnecessary revisions with API and wiki markup
Asked by Alex Corcoles:

Hi,

We have some legacy processes which update Confluence periodically using the XMLRPC API and wiki markup.

Previously, Confluence was "smart" about updates and if you stored a page over an existing one without changes, it would not create a new revision.

However, at some point, after the storage format changes, if using wiki markup, it would create a new revision even if there are no changes.

Due to our processes, this generates a sizable amount of unnecessary revisions which we fear might have an impact on performance (not to mention making reviewing a page's history unbearable and messing around with watches).

We patched our processes to fetch the page's existing content, convert our new content to storage format and compare both- if they match we don't update the page.

This works in some cases, but we've noticed that convert to storage format does not actually match what is actually stored in all cases and thus, for some page, we still create unnecessary revisions.

We've found a few transformations we can apply to minimize this, as it seems that Confluence is somehow normalizing storage format after converting from wiki markup, but this feels very hacky.

Is there an alternative way to prevent this problem? Unfortunately, converting our processes to not use wiki markup is a huge amount of work and we would like to avoid that.

Cheers,

?lex


Answers:
author: Alejandro C?rcoles
body: Actually, the solution was much simpler in the end; just convert the markup to storage format using convertWikiToStorageFormat and then store the page with the v2 API, that seems to work.


Tags: api
confluence template with some ?logic? inside ?
Asked by ALO:

Hi,

Does anyone know whether there is a possibility to create a confluence template with some "logic" inside:

I would need following things:

? a combobox with concrete values i.e. the user can only choose from these values, when creating a new Confluence page based on the template

? a kind of history tab for either a text field or for the complete page (like in JIRA), where you can see what was changed

? related fields i.e. a 'read only' field, where the value is computed automatically from other fields on the confluence page.

Many thanks!

Best regards,

Loredana


Answers:
author: Craig Nodwell
body: Confluence has the page history, this will give you all the details of the changes that happen over time.


Tags: confluence-app

questions-for-confluence
User account auto active / deactive
Asked by Caitsith:

Hi,

I have a question with account control in confluence.

We use crowd and get user from crowd.

In this case,

1. We want to disable the user who not logged in over 1 weeks.

2. If some disabled user try to login, change the status to active.

I know first condition is already developed with Third-party plugin.

But second case, i heard "Disabled" status is an administrative function to prevent user's from logging in, and so the user would not be able login or re-Activate their state on their own when currently Disabled.

So, is there any Third-party plugin? or if i want to develop function,(such as make a pop-up screnn when disabled user try to login) which guide can help me?(such as crowd or confluence API guide)


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: If you ware looking for something that can handle your not used accounts by blocking it automatically and then allowing to someone that really need it, then you might want to check this plugin

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/Floating-licensing-for-Jira-Server/ba-p/1583851>


Tags: crowd
"No Restrictions" option to unrestrict a page - Confluence
Asked by Antony Congedo:

We're running version 5.7.4 - in the [documentation for this version](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf57/page-restrictions-701434765.html#PageRestrictions-Removerestrictionsfromapage) there is no mention of a "No Restrictions" option for a page.

We need to unrestrict a page, but having no luck.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Go to the restrictions section on the page where you add them, and click on each restrictions "delete". There's no "no restrictions" function I'm afraid, you just have to delete each one.


Tags: server
Error importing word document in the page created.
Asked by Amit Nailwal:

I tried to import a word document in the newly created page and received an error from the server which states, "Only word document can be imported."

Kindly check and confirm where is the gap.


Answers:
author: Kathy Barton
body: If you're in a cloud instance, this is a known bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-55085>

It's marked as "awaiting release" so hopefully we will see a fix soon.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The document you are trying to import from is not in a Word format that fits the specifications for that version.

It's a known problem with MS Office - the internal formats are so inconsistent and non-standard, you often run into files that tell you that they're office and turn out not to be saved to the documented standards. Office can read/write them, but other programs can't because they don't obey their own rules.

Try opening the document in Word, then using "save as" to save it in one of the older formats - that usually strips out the non-standard stuff and makes the file readable with other things.

comments: author: Kathy Barton
body: I'm having the exact same problem. I've tried saving my word doc as a .doc file, saving as .rtf and then saving as .docx, and using the "convert" option to get rid of "compatibility mode". Every time, I get the same "Only word document can be imported." error. I've tried importing a simple word doc that has nothing but Normal text in it. Same error.
Upgrade and migration of Confluence version 5.1.3
Asked by Hans Vangansbeke:

Hello all,

Since noone replied on my previous post, I'm relaunching my question. Any help would be much apreciated.

We are planning on upgrading and migrating our version of Confluence but I'm not sure of the path I should follow.

Currently we have version 5.1.3 instaled on a Windows 7 pc. The database is a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (version 09.00.1406). We are planning to migrate to windows server (2012 or 2016) and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (as 2016 is not (yet) supported).

I'm thinking of installing a clean version of the latest Confluence version in the new environment and then trying to import the data from the old version. Is this the correct way to go ? Any sugestions are more than welcome. Thanks !

Best Regards,  
Hans


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Hans, I am sorry to hear your previous posting was neglected. I will do my best to answer all your questions going forward.

My recommendation is to:

* move the old version to the new hardware and OS, (following [Migrating Confluence Between Servers](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-confluence-between-servers-184150.html)
* make sure it runs as expected,
* upgrade the database to Microsoft SQL Server 2014
* upgrade Confluence using the method in [Upgrading Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/upgrading-confluence-4578.html) to upgrade. *Please note that the doc says "XML backups should not be used to upgrade Confluence."*

comments: author: Hans Vangansbeke
body: Hi Ann. Thanks a lot for your answer, but as we don't have any experience with the upgrade/migrate process and as we don't want to take any risks, we decided to contact an Atlassian solution partner in Belgium to help us with this project.
How to hide the left panel (content tree) from a space?
Asked by Salman Anjum:

We want to give our products documentation the look of Atlassian documentation. A landing page where we could list all our products which can then lead to respect help sections. Can you please guide us on this?  
Also can you please help me out as how to achieve the content tree on the same page without loading the left panel, just like confluence use in its help pages.

Many thanks,  
Regards


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: The Atlassian documentation uses the functionality provided by [Scroll Viewport](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-viewport/server/overview). I suggest you install it as a trial in your test environment and see what the features can do. If you cannot figure it all out, just post in the Community again, we are happy to help.
Is Confluence able to publish final documents being protected from changes and deleting?
Asked by Vlad Chistyakov:

Hello,

My question concerns the basics of document handling.

Until the document isn't signed (approved) by the CEO it is actually a DRAFT.

Being FINALLY signed by CEO it comes into effect from this moment or from the date specified in its text.

From this very moment none symbol in this document cannot be changed. View for example <https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/24985/9781464808524.pdf>.

Otherwise it will be the NEXT VERSION of the document that should also be signed by CEO and should be once again registered with its specific date and number.

That means that FINALLY APPROVED document should be FINALLY FROZEN TECHNICALLY and nobody should be able to correct its text and cridentials (CEO, date, register number, storage link) or delete it. Even CEO, even accidentially.

I have not found in Confluence the mechanism of FREEZING FINAL DOCUMENTS. Manual downloading a document as a pdf file and uploading it back as an attachment doesn't guarantee that no corrections are made on this way or that it could not be deleted.

All its pages are actually only drafts: even if CEO signs a document via 'Comala workflows' and if 'APPROVED' label displays , this document is not protected from further changes or deleting.

Is there any solution?


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi,

I think when using Comala it is required to properly set page restriction on the workflow

<https://docs.comalatech.com/space/CDML/6832982006/Add%2C+remove+and+set+page+restrictions>

Thanks to that it should be possible to lock a page on a specific status.
What is the server specification when 1000 simultaneous users are using the confluence?
Asked by Sekyeong Yoo:

Hi,

We run confluence 6.1.13

Server : Window 2012

RAM : 32GB

CPUs Cores : 2

JVM memory : 4GB

Num Users : 1000 +

Server load is primarily driven so we would lkie to increase the server.

What is the maximum amount?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/server-hardware-requirements-guide-30736403.html>

This is out of date though - it does not account for the simultaneous editing, for which I would want to add another 2GB memory for a system with lots of users.


Tags: hardware
What is the server specification when 1000 simultaneous users are using the confluence?
Asked by Sekyeong Yoo:

Hi,

We run confluence 6.1.13

Server : Window 2012

RAM : 32GB

CPUs Cores : 2

JVM memory : 4GB

Num Users : 1000 +

Server load is primarily driven so we would lkie to increase the server.

What is the maximum amount?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Duplicate of <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/What-is-the-server-specification-when-1000-simultaneous-users/qaq-p/588866>
How can I grant access to an ext external confluence user?
Asked by Lalo Ruiz:

How do I give a confluence user from an external organization access to my confluence cloud without having to give them an account in my confluence instance?

Put another way, does one need a unique confluence account to access unique confluence url's?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: You may allow anonymous access to your instance, the anonymous users will not need to log in and they will not take up a license. Here are the instructions:

[How to give non Confluence users access to a Space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-give-non-confluence-users-access-to-a-space-779166002.html)

comments: author: Lalo Ruiz
body: Thank you for the response, I was looking into anonymous access but I need to control access to the content. Meaning I don't want just anybody to be able to view the information on that page. I am trying to share content with a customer, and they would not appreciate the content being open for just anyone to see. How can I keep that private?
Creating Pages from Blueprints in Confluence from JIRA Post Function
Asked by Matt:

I've got a script that's working to create a confluence page where I want it, but I'm unable to create anything but a blank page (with whatever text I add to the script). Is it possible to create a page from a specific blueprint that I've created for my Space?

I think this is the code you're looking for:

```
// set the page title - this should be unique in the space or page creation will faildef pageTitle = issue.key + " - CES Information"def pageBody = ""def params = [    type: "page",    //id: "11599873",    title: pageTitle,    space: [        key: "PPM" // set the space key - or calculate it from the project or something    ],        ancestors: [        [           type: "page",           id: "10977287",       ]     ],    body: [        storage: [ value: writer.toString(), representation: "storage" ]        ]]
```

I've tried a bunch of different things besides "page" and nothing seems to do the trick (the blueprint ID is commented out).

Any direction would be appreciated!


Answers:
author: Steven Behnke
body: No, the blueprints are not attached to a great API right now.


Tags: jira

scriptrunner

server
Macro with Last Modified Date that doesn't change
Asked by Shawn Wilson:

I want a macro that I can add to old pages that says something like "This page hasn't been updated since \<date\>"

However, once I've added the macro, I don't want the date to update any more. (I could add tags or something, but the date I did those is not important. I want to keep displaying the date of the last \*important\* update.)

Is such a thing possible in Confluence 6.1?


Answers:
author: Reinhard Piltz
body: Update is Update.  
Confluence does not distinguish between important and unimportant updates


Tags: macro

user-macro
Query hash mismatch using confluence api
Asked by Steve Poulton (mobedia):

I'm following the following tutorial:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/confcloud/multi-page-blueprints-with-confluence-connect-39985809.html>

I can register my app fine but when I receive the created webhook I get the error Query hash mismatch.

If I comment out the JWT validation then it works fine (obviously)

The full error is below

Auth failure: Query hash mismatch: Received: "523af7e79f412734fcc340db15ed53a44d6607245e0a7543699b60a1e4be6366" but calculated "40126869b793d7f50d4e848ab887e9dded514d60394cf63754acd70f13cdf821". Canonical query was: "POST\&/created\&__proto__=%5Bobject%20Object%5D\&lic=none\&user_id=admin\&user_key=ff8080815c1868bd015c1868e7df0001  
Authentication verification error: 401 Authentication failed: query hash does not match.


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: oops, that's not actual for confluence cloud.


Tags: api