youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Integrated private messaging
Asked by Aleksandr Zhuk:

Hello,

I have been searching for the options available on Confluence 5.4.4 infrastructure to enable peer-to-peer private messaging functionality from within the wiki. I found [CONF-3028](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-3028), which has been "resolved" by closing it. I also looked at the following solutions:

1. Page-based "Share" option, which allows one user to contact another, but the conversation is one-way/one-time only. There is no way to maintain the thread--once the message is sent, the conversation is over.
2. [HipChat for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.labs.hipchat.confluence-hipchat) looks promising, but its present version does not allow two or more Confluence users to engage in an instant messaging session. First, one needs to have a HipChat account hosted outside Confluence. Second, at present, as far as I can tell, HipChat can be used to notify its users of changes to Confluence contents (e.g. if a page is added or revised), but all the actual IM conversations would have to take place outside Confluence.
3. [Confluence Chat](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.labs.hipchat.confluence-hipchat) appears to be the most promising solution out of those I was able to find. Alas, it has one serious limitation: its present version does not allow to send messages to offline Confluence users for later retrieval. In other words, all conversation participants must be online to start the conversation. This is a major shortcoming for a diverse Confluence user community, which is spread out across the globe and spans multiple time zones.

Do you know of any viable solution that I might have missed? Thank you very much!


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Hipchat allows rooms, for multi person chatting.


author: Davin Studer
body: Those are the methods that I would suggest. Maybe you could open a feature request to the developer of the Confluence Chat plugin to allow offline messaging.


Tags: confluence-administration
export confluence page landscape
Asked by ysri:

Hello there,

When I export the confluence page to a pdf, I cannot find a way to export to LANDSCAPE.

The page has a big table.

Please advise.

Regards

Yali


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Check this page. There should be a lot of answers:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/170484>


author: Mirko Skramusky
body: Hi! You can set this export mode globally or per space (Space Admin \> Design \> PDF Stylesheet) and add

```
@page {    size: landscape;}
```

As far as I know there is no way to define it for one page.

comments: author: Steven F Behnke
body: Correct, but you can Space Export just one page.


Tags: confluence-administration
Customising the content on the confluence home page
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

Hi

I want to customise the content of my confluence (4.3) dashboard.

How can i do it.?

Rahul


Answers:
author: Mirko Skramusky
body: Hi Aich! Have you read [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+Confluence+Dashboard) of the Confluence documentation? This should help you to customize your dashboard.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can I use single sign on with OnDemand?
Asked by John Pfotzer:

Can I use single sign on with OnDemand, or do I have to have a hosted version to do that?


Answers:
author: petry
body: At the moment a single login account isn't possible in OnDemand.

However, you can log [integrate your Google Apps account](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Google+Apps+Integration+FAQ)with your OnDemand instance, so all people within your company can log in with their Google Account, and use this same account for Bitbucket. (Bitbucket also supports non Google Apps accounts).

If JIRA and Confluence are in the same OnDemand instance, then you will only need a single login for both. Fisheye/Crucible will always need their own login now that they've been removed from OnDemand.

There's also a request for that, you can see it here:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33263>

Hope this information helps.

Cheers,  
Andre


author: John Pfotzer
body: Thank you very much and I got the answer fast.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Email page content rather than share a page
Asked by Neil Arrowsmith:

Hi

I'm about to upgrade from a very old Confluence 3.0.2 instance to version 4.3. The ability to email the contents of a page to an address, user or group has been removed in favour of the "Share" functionality, which just sends a link to the page.

This is not suitable for a particular use case, which is to send daily reports based on Confluence pages to a set of people. I understand the rationale behind removing the ability to email content, but the Share thing is fairly useless in this case.

Does anyone know of a way to get back similar functionality? I can't find a likely sounding plugin.

Thanks

Neil


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Neil, there is a feature request to bring that function back to Confluence, it is [registered here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22869). Other than that a workaround would be to export the page contents into a PDF file and send that as an email attachment.

Hope this can be of help.

comments: author: Marc Moroz
body: The PDF export is pretty ugly and I've found better participation when the contents are in the body of the email rather than in an attachment.


Tags: confluence-administration
Issue with Subspace Plugin
Asked by Adolfo Casari:

After installing the latest version of Subspace plugin, the ellipsis is lost in the Breadcrumbs, and long paths are wrapped:

Breadcrumbs.jpg  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Issue-with-Subspace-Plugin/qaq-p/41042?attachment-id=11993){#link_11895288df0a4c}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/6905/1/Breadcrumbs.jpg){#display_11895288df0a4c_0}


Answers:
author: Communardo Support
body: Hello Adolfo,

Sorry we have kept you waiting.

If this problem still exists, I would be happy to investigate it further. Do you still experience this error?

Kind regards,

Communardo Support


Tags: addon-de.communardo.confluence.plugins.subspace
How to link Confluence Question to Jira
Asked by Raoul Kaiser:

I would like to link a confluence question to a JIRA issue. I don't see the possibility to do that. Can you? Am I missing it?


Answers:
author: Mirko Skramusky
body: As a simple solution add a web link between your JIRA issue and confluence. Copy the URL and paste it into the JIRA issue (Link \> Web Link).


author: Raoul Kaiser
body: I was hoping for something with better integration. Thanks.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to match the content of two pages in Confluence wiki?
Asked by Punit:

Like the MS Word has a feature where it lets us compare content of two pages. Can we do that in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you enable the WebDAV plugin you can access the wiki as if it were a file system. Then you could use a program such as WinMerge to compare the pages. That is the best way I know how to do it.
backup and resotre exceed 2 G in confluence-3.2.1
Asked by Willam Won:

Confluence does not currently support backup and resotre of files larger than 2G in confluence-3.2.1.

If backup exceed 2 G, how can i restore in confluence-3.2.1?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You should be using a full, proper database backup, not the internal backups.

comments: author: Willam Won
body: Can you tell me how to deal with by introduction?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Production+Backup+Strategy>Note that it states that XML backups are only for "small installations" - 2GB is not small!


author: Willam Won
body: Thanks for the feedback Nic, it's appreciated.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I link Jira issues to Confluence Yogi Requirements?
Asked by Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix):

How do I link Jira issues to Confluence Yogi Requirements?

Let's say that I do have a JIRA issue that I need to link to a requirement made with Requirement Yogi. How can I do that?


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: *Edit: Here is the [JIRA connector for Requirement Yogi](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.requirementyogijira)* *.*

For the time being, you need to enter the full URL in JIRA. It will open the Confluence page at the anchor of the requirement.

Of course it doesn't allow the maximum of features that you get for JIRA-to-JIRA issue links. URLs will need to be updated if you move Confluence to a new domain and it's not as ergonomic as you would expect with a custom dialog box. Of course I intend to develop this feature but the first improvement requests I've received are rather about organizing/grouping requirements in Confluence.

comments: author: Mahnaz Ahmadi
body: Any update on this? Also, it is very important to be able to pass requirement key that is generated by Yogi to JIRA search. Otherwise, no tractability report can be provided between Confluence requirements and JIRA issues.


author: Mirza Obaidullah Baig
body: Any update on this? we were looking at Requirements Yogi to use within our organization but the lack of this feature is a deal breaker.


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Hi Mirza, No sorry there is no progress on this feature.


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Hi, the connector for JIRA was published: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.requirementyogijira>


author: Daniel Tita
body: Hi Adrian, we want to buy YR but nobody answers our questions and there is no Contact details. To start, how do we link Jira and Confluence as the solution in documentation does not work?


Tags: addon-com.playsql.requirementyogijira

confluence-administration
Confluence shows no style attributes, no admin-access possible ($soyTemplateRendererHelper.getRenderedTemplateHtml)
Asked by LEM:

Actually our Confluence seems to run without any style attributes, we are also not able to access the Admin-pages, because the Links are missing.

The following message is shown on the page: $soyTemplateRendererHelper.getRenderedTemplateHtml("com.atlassian.auiplugin:aui-experimental-soy-templates", "aui.page.header.soy", $templateParameters)

I found some kb-pages and tried to use them: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Comment+Box+Disappears%3A+$soyTemplateRendererHelper.getRenderedTemplateHtml)

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/236561>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Comment+Box+Disappears%3A+$soyTemplateRendererHelper.getRenderedTemplateHtml>

We tried the resolution with updating bandana and deleting the cache-folders, but it didn't work out.

We are using Confluence 5.4.4.


Answers:
author: LEM
body: After some help from Atlassian support we installed the same version of Confluence again, restored the database, did our company-specific changes and everythings working fine now.

We still don't know the cause of this. It seems it had to do with the prior server restart that led to some unknown behaviour. Very strange...


Tags: confluence-administration
Generate monthly report of changes
Asked by Maurice Pasman:

We are using Confluence to generate customer facing documentation. User groups have requested me to generate a (monthly) report of all changes in space, one that does not require any extra clicks.

I have tried the daily digest, but this only shows a page was changed, not what was changed.

I have tried the RSS feed, with the same problem.

I did not find any macro's either that work on space level.

What we need is the style of notification that is sent after a single page modification (changes marked in the message) but then accumulated for all changes in a month. But, if I make a change myself, obviously I do not get a notification for that, so the only way around it would be to create another user and have all notifications sent to a that e-mailadres, and monthly, print out all e-mails...

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.


Answers:
author: Maurice Pasman
body: Hi Rodrigo,

I find the issue you mentioned is already how it works now (single page notifications do include all changes), but I really need them aggregated to a space, for a certain timeframe.

So, I went ahead and created [CONF-35479](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35479).


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Maurice,

On this case, I believe confluence doesn't have this functionality bundled. Confluence just sends which pages where changes but not the specific content.

I could find this feature request which might help as well. I suggest to vote and comment in the feature request for more visibility: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35468>

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: administration
How to Export Confluence Quick Search Results to Excel?
Asked by Matt von Radesky:

To remove remnants of a prior corporate owner, I plan to run key-word searches of our Confluence instance (e.g; prior owning company name). I expect search to return pointers to Spaces, uploaded documents, etc., that contain the name of the prior corporate owner. I expect the list will have hundreds of hits. I want to export pointers to all identified items to Excel for review by a panel of people.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You could create a page with the "search results" macro. You would put the search terms i the macro properties. Then you could export that page to PDF or Word. Would that work for you?

comments: author: Matt von Radesky
body: Thanks Davin - Worked!


author: Bernd Schneider
body: Thanks for the suggestion. Good idea. But the Search Results macro doesn't provide all options, the search itself does. We are using Confluence as a documentation system and one of our Use Cases is to do proofreading (we also use ScrollVersions). So to see what I have to review, I am using a search with a defined:

* Space
* Version (using title:v\<version\>)
* Page tree (using the ancestor option)
* Time range of changes

I'd like to export this to Excel to be able to put a check mark on reviewed pages. And no, we don't use workflows because this causes trouble with ScrollVersions.

Is there a way to export such a search result without the macro then?

Thanks \& best regards,  
Bernd


author: Xiaoliang Wang
body: Hello, the "search results" macro is not longer supported. How should we do it now?
Excel hyperlink to conlfuence pdf
Asked by Navi Randhawa:

Hello Confluence

I'm creating hyperlinks from excel to pdfs on confluence, however, the links only take me to my dashboard. The links in question work in outlook but not in word.

example of link here; https://ims.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/download/attachments/7078049/SAF01%20Henry%20Wofford%20Signed%2026May14.pdf?api=v2

Any advise would be appreciated.

Many thanks Navi


Answers:
author: Navi Randhawa
body: Hmmm... I've found it and tested the 'tiny link' that it provides from excel.

The link leads to the parent page where the document list is but not direct to the pdf.

What has confused me about this situation is that I can link dierct to the pdf from Outlook but not from Excel or Word.

Further feedback will be appreciated.  
Kind regards  
Navi


author: Navi Randhawa
body: Thanks for your reply Christian  

No, I haven't tried Static links. I've tried searching for "Tools" -\> "Link this page" on the online pdf and on the pdf saved on my hardrive but with no luck.  

Can you guide me a bit more as to the where abouts of the 'Tools'?

Thanks!

comments: author: Navi Randhawa
body: Found it! Having a fiddle with it now, will get back to you!


author: Christian Sprenger
body: Have you tried "Static" Links?

"Tools" -\> "Link this page"


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

link

ms-excel

pdf
Can I reorder and create a hierarchy for space shortcuts
Asked by SSchoepel:

It would be very helpful for our purposes to be able to link to pages in other spaces but to put them in a tree hierarchy and be able to re-arrange them. Is that possible in Confluence Cloud or with a plugin?


Answers:
author: SSchoepel
body: I did see that feature, but as I need to link to a large number of documents, doing that method will take too long. I need to create "collections" of pieces from several spaces to make up the development files for our projects.

I may end up having to just have a page with a list of links, but that would be less than ideal as I also need to create a final output based on those collected links.


author: Davin Studer
body: So if the content lives in space A you can create a page in space B with the same name and then in the space B page use the Include Page macro to mirror the content of the page from space A. Whenever the space A page is updated space B will reflect the change.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how can I insert a web link to ssh into a router
Asked by Kamal Saheta:

how can I insert a web link to ssh into a router ?

I would like to insert the username and password into the link.

I tried [ssh://administrator:passWord@10.1.2.3/](ssh://user:pass@ip/repo/)[](ssh://user:pass@ip/repo/)[](ssh://user:pass@ip/repo/)

However it still asks me for password after I click on the link..


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Maybe including a link to a bash script file (like in this [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16937104/provide-password-to-ssh-command-inside-bash-script-without-the-usage-of-public)) that includes credentials and etc?

Cheers


Tags: confluence-administration
logout confluence
Asked by Paul DeSousa:

I may be losing it, but there is no log out action in confluence 5.6.3 for us to have a user log out?

We are directly tied to A/D and so i am not sure if that has anything to do with it... I would assume the log out feature would be, as it is on this page, in the upper right hand corner by clicking user id. Also we disabled people directory as we do that with a different tool, but that should not remove the logout I would assume. Also I have a ten second video to illustrate but I cannot find an attach files here...


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Are you aware if there's any custom authenticator implemented in your Confluence? You mentioned that you're auto-logged in, so it looks like there some SSO configured, maybe IWA with NTLM or something similar? The most common files to check if there's any custom authenticator are seraph-config.xml and web.xmlCheers


author: Paul DeSousa
body: Right, any thoughts on why we do not have the ability to "log-out"? We are auto-logged in so that is nice, but as an admin I was wanting to have a user log in as a different user to debug her problem (could not see the side bar page tree). Turned out it was a Firefox only thing, so the user is just switching to IE (yuck) I am try to still debug why she lost the side bar page tree for all spaces.


author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Robert, we don't have the feature to upload files in Atlassian Answers, but you me upload your video with some free repository and share the link here.Cheers


Tags: confluence-administration
Fix incoming links when replacing a page
Asked by matthew schwarz:

I have a page, let's call it Page1. It is old and I temporarily made "TempPage1" with it as the intended replacement. Now that TempPage1 is done I planned to delete Page1 and then rename TempPage1 to Page1. When going to delete Page1 I was thankfully informed of the 59 incoming links to it. So, I obviously want those to go to the TempPage1, especially once I rename it.

Can anyone recommend how at this point I should handle this transition? And for the future, is there a better way to handle a similar kind of evolution?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Copy and paste the content from TempPage1 into Page1. That is the best way. Then you don't have to re-point links.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Plus it gives you page history. If you do it the other way you loose all history.
cost for renewing zen foundation
Asked by Nick Meads:

Can you give me the cost for renewing the Zen foundation for a 2nd year for a 500 license please.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not sure you're asking in the right place - we're end users.

Brikit are here, but I suspect you want to talk to them directly. But it should be answered under the pricing FAQ at <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.zenfoundation>

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Normally it is half the price or the original license. So, $3200.
confluence autosave location
Asked by Paul DeSousa:

Confluence auto saves the files, when a user is editing them, at a given time interval. Where is the location in the HOME directory for said files?


Answers:
author: Mirko Skramusky
body: Hi Robert!

Do you mean when the user is editing the page? The files are not stored temporary, if you add or change a file in page editing mode, the file is directly stored to the page. If you aboard the page editing, you'll see the file is still attached to the page. Does this answer you question or do you mean an other editing function?

Best regards

comments: author: Paul DeSousa
body: No, sorry. What I am asking is that confluence auto saves drafts. I would assume that is on the file-system in the home directory. So we are running on Red Hat, and our home points to /opt/atlassian/data/ I would assume there is a file in /opt/atlassian/data/ with said auto save. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Drafts> I would assume that it is not in the database, and I know it is not in RAM as a reboot (of the host or stop-confluence.sh ; start-confluence.sh) retains the data.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The drafts are kept in the database. If you accidentally destroy your Confluence installation, create a new one (including a new "home" directory), and point it at your old database, you'll find your drafts are there...


author: Paul DeSousa
body: OK Thank you.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do Atlassian baselining Confluence content?
Asked by Hoan Pham:

Dear all,

We are organizing info into spaces, with different branches, very similar to Atlassian's documentation.

We can see that for each version of a product, a complete set of documents also available. So how do you do this? How are these sets of documents organized?

Given that you are writing the documentation for the next version that is not released yet. Where are you keeping the 'development' version of these documents? In the same space but another branch or in another space?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: I think you will also find some answers here.

<http://www.amazon.com/Confluence-Tech-Comm-Chocolate-Extraordinaire/dp/1937434001>

The book was recently taken out of print since it was created for Conf 3.X and 4.X versions, and some things have changed - much of it is all still relevant nonetheless. Worth it to get your hands on this if you are doing a major structuring of your content for product documentation. Sarah was involved in much of the foundational product documentation information architecture build out at Atlassian.


author: Geert Graat
body: Hi,

Atlassian provides good tutorials for this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Developing+Technical+Documentation+on+Confluence+Wiki> and specifically the part <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+the+Life+Cycle+of+your+Technical+Documentation>.

Regards,

Geert


author: Ege Su ?nan
body: Hi,

As OBSS , we developed a solution for " Baseline ". You can create baselines of your documents based on a date and time. The created baseline set allows you to easily access document versions of that time.

Here is the link to download [Baseline for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/tr.com.obss.plugin.confluence-baseline-plugin). You can also read the documentation of the product.

Thank you for your interest!


author: Hoan Pham
body: Thank you for your input.

These articles are great.

Thanks.


Tags: baseline

confluence-administration

content

process