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Migration to new server
Asked by Daniel Haas:

After following migration guide to move confluence 3.4.1 to a new server I am presented with the installation page more specifically the load content page.

Where are using confluence 3.4.1 on Centos 5.6 with postgres 8.3. We are migrating to Centos 6.2 with the same DB version.

Steps I've taken.

1. Shutdown running confluence

2. Put postgres database into hot standby mode.

3. Dumped a copy of DB.

4. Restored copy to development DB server

5. Rsync all files in confluence directory to dev server

6. Changed confluence.cfg.xml to point to dev db server.

7. startup


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, have you updated the path to the Confluence home directory? Is it in the same location for this dev instance? If it can't pick that up, that might explain why.


author: Giuliano C.
body: Can you please be sure if you've copied the "confluence.cfg.xml", this is what you trigger the installation again. If you have finished the installation on your previous server it should not give this problem again.

Cheers


author: Matt
body: Is this a question? :}


Tags: migration

postgres
How do I prevent client's from seeing 'All Updates' change history on the home page?
Asked by M:

I provide clients with a login user/pass. Each has their own space with documents I maintain. They have view authority only - they cannot add or edit pages.

How do I prevent them from seeing the changes made to those documents on the front page?


Answers:
author: Matt
body: If you give them permission to see documents, they will be able to see them in the activity stream.

However there is a solution to you.

You may customize Confluence dashboard in order to manage content viewable by users.

Create a new dashboard, it can be any confluence page, viewable by anyone.

Then go to this link:

<https://wiki.office/admin/editdecorator.action?decoratorName=decorators/global.vmd>

look for something like that:

```
#if ($mode == "dashboard")                #parse ("/decorators/includes/dashboard-navigation.vm")                #requireResourcesForContext("dashboard")                #rssautodiscovery($action.rssDescriptor)                #permitSearchEngines()            #else
```

and add line:

```
$helper.renderConfluenceMacro({include:MYSPACEKEY:Dashboard})
```

as a line before else

Remember to change MYSPACEKEY for you space key :}

You'll get something like this:

```
#if ($mode == "dashboard")                #parse ("/decorators/includes/dashboard-navigation.vm")                #requireResourcesForContext("dashboard")                #rssautodiscovery($action.rssDescriptor)                #permitSearchEngines()                $helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{include:MYKEY:Dashboard}")            #else
```

comments: author: M
body: Doesn't work for on-demand. Thanks though.

Another problem is that users who arent' authorised to other projects can still see them by name. At the top of the screen there is a drop-down called 'projects'. Users who are not authorised to these can still see the list.

Any ideas how to address these problems?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

update
Customize BreadCrumbs
Asked by Vimaleswary Sugumar:

Hi,

In Atlassian Confluence, the breadcrumbs are generated based on the page's hierarchy. I have got a requirement to display breadcrumbs based on the navigation. Do you know a plugin, to generate breadcrumbs based on navigation the user does instead of based on content's hierarchy.

Thanks,

Vimala


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I don't know of a plugin. However, the place to start would be the breadcrumbs.vm file in the /confluence directory. It uses Velocity, so if you can get, say, the previous page from within Velocity, then you can make that your breadcrumb.


Tags: breadcrumbs
List pages where last mod date is prior to X months ago?
Asked by Patrick Illian:

So, if I wanted to pull a list of pages that were last updated prior to, let's say, 6 months ago, is there a way of doing this using the SQL plugin (Or any other way for that matter)?

I'm hoping that instead of putting a specified date I can set up a function so that I get a list of pages that are always over 6 months old. Instead of always having to change the date, I'd prefer to have it be a rolling constant.

Thus far I've been scavenging/stealing SQL script from here and other sites and modifying it somewhat. Just missing this piece of the puzzle. I'm assuming/hoping that this is just a really simple solution that i'm in the dark about. Any assistance or direction is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

```
{sql:jndi=confluence}select c.lastmoddate, c.TITLE, c.VERSION, c.CREATOR, c.CREATIONDATE, s.spacename from "Confluence"."dbo"."CONTENT" c,"Confluence"."dbo"."SPACES" swhere c.spaceid = s.spaceid and s.spacename='Knowledge Portal' and contenttype='PAGE' and content_status='current'order by lastmoddate desc{sql}



```


Answers:
author: Cyrille Martin
body: Hi Patrick,

To do that you can use the plugin [Reporting](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting) from Customware.

With the following code you should cover your question:

```
{report-list}{content-reporter:space=KEYOFYOURSPACE|types=page}{date-filter:page:modification date|beforeValue=-6m}{content-reporter}{report-body}Last modification:{report-info:page:modification date}, Title: {report-info:page:title}, Last version: {report-info:page:latest version}, Creator: {report-info:page:creator}, Creation date: {report-info:page:creation date}, Space name: {report-info:page:space &gt; content:name}{report-body}{report-list}
```

Regards

Cyrille

comments: author: Patrick Illian
body: Cool, does what I need, thanks!


author: Martrice Denson
body: What would I need to add to the above markup to only show pages that the creator has created, not all pages?


author: Midori
body: **[Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving) provides configurable rules for reporting pages not viewed in the last N days or not updated in the last M days.** There is no need to program anything, the whole thing runs *automagically*.

You define the period as number of days, and it is a "rolling constant". Note: there is a ton of other features you may be interested in ([archiving the outdated pages](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-archiving), [consistently configuring the rules](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/#configurations) for hundreds of spaces, etc.)


author: Martrice Denson
body: What would I need to add to the above markup to only show pages that the creator has created, not all pages?


Tags: report

sql
Multiple tomcat instances
Asked by Adolfo Casari:

Is it normal that the JVM that runs Tomcat spawn multiple instances?

This is the list of processes in the server (every long line is a JVM):

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Radu Dumitriu
body: I think you're looking at the list of threads, not processes.

Threads inherit some parts of the process env (hence the command line args) .

Do not run top with -H
confluence to confluence using UWC. Is it possible?
Asked by Prasanna Santhanam:

We have a confluence wiki version 4 and wanted to migrate to a version 3. But since we don't own the destination we need to migrate and thought UWC might be suitable. However, it appears we can't convert confluence wikis using the converter? Is this right?


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Universal Wiki Converter was a tool that would help with migrations but not from one Confluence to Confluence (e.g from Mediawiki to Confluence). Migrating from Confluence to Confluence was possible for example on space level (exporting individual space and importing it to the new instance)


Tags: universal-wiki-converter
How do i add confluence to my jira ondemand?
Asked by Julio Faerman:

How do i add confluence to my jira ondemand?

Should i ask a separate evaluation or is there a way to add it to my current jira ondemand?


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: Now you can add applications to you Cloud instance at any time from the "Discover new Applications" section :wink:

For more info <https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/cloud/managing>

Cheers!


author: PauloP
body: Hi Julio

All you have to do is sign/add the new service in the related account at <http://my.atlassian.com> system. For further details, please review the following link as your guideline:

Atlassian Ondemand FAQ \><http://www.atlassian.com/licensing/ondemand#managingatlassianondemandsubscription-4>

Cheers,

Paulo Renato


Tags: cloud

jira-cloud
Is it possible to change the Date Time Range Picker format to 24h format?
Asked by Ville Murtonen:

We are using the 24h format here in Finland, so the US format in the Date Time Range picker is a bit distracting to our users.

Is it possible to change it to 24h format?


Answers:
author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Hey,

check this:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/__date+and+time+formats>

You can manually set the time format.

Cheers

Christian
Confluence upgrade (3.4.9 to 3.5.13)
Asked by Wetter Ji??:

I have same problem already solved in <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22040> - but there is no solution.

I followed these steps <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence+Manually> without success on our testing environment.


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi, I would strongly encourage you to raise a support request in <https://support.atlassian.com>. So that we could look into your ticket and analyze it accordingly.


author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, can you explain what issues you had? Were there any errors with your manual upgrade?


Tags: cwd_user

upgrade
How to find pages where plugin is used in confluence
Asked by AbrahamA:

Hello

Can you please tell me if there is a way to tell which pages in confluence use a particular plugin.

Thanks

Abe


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, Sarah wrote a blog on this earlier - <http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/>. It's a good read.

In particular, in Confluence 4.x you can do macroName:include\* to search for all pages with the include macro.

comments: author: AbrahamA
body: Hello Harry

Thanks for the response.

Is there anything similar for 3.4.9?

Thanks

Abe


author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, for older versions of Confluence we have been using <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/268>. It's a bit slow but quite detailed.


author: JamieA
body: This one is also good for older versions: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/162>

Although called "search and replace", it can be used just to search in wiki markup.


author: AlysonA
body: Hello,

In addition to Sarah's recommendation, I created a simple query that should show you which pages are using an specific macro:

```
select spaces.spacekey, content.contenttype, content.title, content.contentid, bodycontent.body 	from bodycontent, spaces, content 		where spaces.spaceid = content.spaceid and content.contentid = bodycontent.contentid			and bodycontent.body like '%Macro%'
```

Hope it helps.


author: SarahA
body: Hallo Abe

The solution described in the blog post for 3.5 should work for 3.4.9 too, See near the bottom of the post: <http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/>.

In short: You can use the normal search, and enter the curly brackets and the macro name surrounded by double quotation marks, like this:
> "{excerpt-include"

I hope this helps!

Cheers, Sarah

comments: author: AbrahamA
body: Hello

For 3.4.9 <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/268> errored out for me.

Regarding "{macroname" search

Let us say I am searching for macro "{page" used by Documentation theme. It came back with several hits. I opened 1 of the pages and it just had the string "page" (without double quotes) on it. I clicked on edit button and expected to see macro {page} but no macro usage tag was present.

I am wondering if this search is correct?

or did I understood it wrong.

Please let me know.

Thanks

Abe
How come my blog posts don't show up on the dashboard
Asked by Rose Rose:

How do I get my blog posts to show up on the news feed in the dashboard for everyone to see? I'm blogging from my personal space, should I be blogging on a page or space instead?


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hi Roseha,

A quick way to see if permission is the problem is by browsing to the Space Admin section of your personal space and seeing if it is restricted only to you. If it is, simply add further permissions so others can see it as well as the Recently-Updated section can display it.


author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, do other people have view permission to your personal space? It might have been created as a private space.


Tags: blog
Confluence and Crucible Integration Plugin or Macro
Asked by Aaron Booth:

Hi,

I would like to know if anybody knows of any plugins or macros for Confluence that allow Crucible reviews to be displayed on confluence pages simliar to the Confluence \<-\> JIRA Macro.

Ideally we would like to be able to paste in the crucible review URL and have a Crucible Macro that displays information about reviews.

We currently have Confluence and Crucible linked together as a trusted application but I dont think it takes advantage of this link.

Thanks,

Aaron


Answers:
author: Sergey Svishchev
body: There is one now: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.crucible-plugin>

comments: author: Aaron Booth
body: This plugin has now been removed? Any idea where we can find one that supports the newer version of confluence?


author: Aaron Booth
body: The solution for what I am talking about is located here:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Plugin+Tutorial+-+Extending+Autoconvert>

I will now give this a shot and develop my own version of this plugin.


author: Aaron Booth
body: Just FYI - I am aware you can add the Crucible Gadgets to the External Gadgets list and use this to display your Inbox, Hassle or Outstanding Reviews. This is not what we are looking for.


Tags: fisheye-crucible
MS SQL 2012 and Confluence
Asked by Jason Hensler:

I know it does not show up in the offically supported list but, has anyone tired it? I found [this](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26369?page=com.atlassian.streams.streams-jira-plugin:activity-stream-issue-tab "This") issue on Confluence's support site that seems to indicate someone at Atlassian thinks it should be added to the list as supported.


Answers:
author: PauloP
body: Hi Jason

Regarding the changes between the supported and not supported SQL versions, I believe that the best approach would be waiting until get SQL 2012 compatible. However, feel free to download the latest Confluence version and try it in a trial environment.

Cheers,

Paulo Renato

comments: author: Jason Hensler
body: On the ticket I linked to above they have added a link to an internal build ticket so, I think support is forth coming. I was hoping that the ticket that I linked to ment they just needed to add it to the supported systems list. I do have an sql 2012 server that is up and running so if I get extra free time I may point a new Confluence installation at it.


author: Joe Clark
body: I checked with the Confluence team on the status of this - support is forthcoming - we're in the process of setting up our automated test suites to run against SQL Server 2012. I would guess at this stage that we'll be able to support it in the next Confluence release (Confluence 4.4?) - we'll have a better idea once the tests are running and we can see if any changes are required.


author: Joe Clark
body: Support for MIcrosoft SQL Server 2012 will be forthcoming in Confluence 5.2 - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26369> - which is due for release pretty soon :-)


Tags: sql
Crowd for Users, and Confluence for Permissions and Groups
Asked by Jennifer Redman:

Is it possible to use AD via Crowd to Confluence (and Jira) for user authentication (and ACLs), but use Confluence or Jira for group management. I'd rather not set up the groups in AD - I'd like the flexiblity to allow people to admin groups in Confluence but not in AD.

Thanks,

Jen


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Jennifer,

Actually the Crowd is read-write with any Atlassian product, so you will be able to edit the groups from Confluence/JIRA that are stored inside Crowd.

So in a nutshell you can add AD to your Crowd, and then Add this users to your Confluence/JIRA and then manage them inside it.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Integrating+Crowd+with+Atlassian+Confluence>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Integrating+Crowd+with+Atlassian+JIRA>

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Guilherme


Tags: active-directory

crowd

group

jira
Confluence Menu at top right not rolling when Team Calendar is activated
Asked by Frima Studio Inc.:

We have Confluence 4.2.13 and Team Calendars 2.4.4 installed

When this module is activated under Team Calendars:

Calendar web resources

(calendar-resources)

The base web resources for rendering the calendar.

the menus (Space and UserName) are not scrolling.

- They scroll, only on the dashboard main-front-page, but as soon we select a page, the problem appears.

- It looks like the menu is displayed behind the space.

- The other menus (Change,Share,Add,Tools) are scrolling well

- I try to select/deselect logo, that'S not the raison.

Thank you of your quick help, because each time I need to set new permissionning, I had to de-activate Team-Calendar.

Do not hesitate to contact me.

Luc


Answers:
author: Frima Studio Inc.
body: FOUND!

I checked the plugins, and the problem was coming because of the Subspace Plugin : the module 3.X compatibility mode was activated. I disabled it to keep only the 4.X module compatibility up, and all is working fine!

Luc  


author: Laercio PTI
body: On mine, 12 of 13 modules are activated, the same as you said above.

Well... we are thinking about stop using subspace plugin, and start using this one ( <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.refinedwiki.confluence.plugins.theme.original> ) to keep our space hierarchy.

Thanks for answering me.

Best regards,

Mateus.


author: Laercio PTI
body: GREAT!

Good job man!

I was going crazy with this bug...

Tried a lot of approaches with atlassian support, did dot stepped close to this plugin module.

But now I can't create any subspace, it gives me this error cause:

### Cause {#toc-hId-1423375928}

org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource '/spaces/includes/createspace_permissions.vm'  
at com.atlassian.confluence.util.velocity.ConfigurableResourceManager.loadResource(ConfigurableResourceManager.java:401)

Did you pass through this one?

Thank you.

Regards.

comments: author: Frima Studio Inc.
body: No problem with my subspaces, on my supspace plugin (1.7.4) 13 of 14 modules are activated:

Create Subspaces  
Add Space  
Subspace Configuration  
Subspaces Dashboard Panel (CF 4)  
subspaces  
subspace_breadcrumbs  
subspaces-quicksearch  
Subspace Resource  
Subspace Breadcrumbs Resource  
Subspace Search Resource  
Confluence 4 Standard Theme Integration  
subspaceHelper

Be sure that **Subspaces Dashboard Panel (CF 4)** and**Confluence 4 Standard Theme Integration** are activated.

Luc


author: Frima Studio Inc.
body: FOUND!

I checked the plugins, and the problem was coming because of the Subspace Plugin : the module 3.X compatibility mode was activated. I disabled it to keep only the 4.X module compatibility up, and all is working fine!


author: Laercio PTI
body: Well.. I have the same problem.

I'm trying to solve it with Atlassian support now...

I'll come back here if we find the right answer.

Thanks.


Tags: layout
Automatic structure of pages in Confluence
Asked by Olivier Morin:

Hello,

I have a 900 pages Confluence space with a poor tree structure. I would like to generate an automatic structure in this space.

What does automatic mean? It means that pages are clustered in categories thanks to analysis of user's paths.

For example on one day the paths of ten users are exactly the same in the space. An automatic algorithm clusters the pages this path contains.

The pros : no webmaster.

Would anyone know any macro/plugin on Confluence which does that?

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Danielle Zhu
body: I might completely miss the mark for this one. Just want to see if you are looking for automatic tagging: <http://poolparty.biz/products/poolparty-powertagging/>

Can you elaborate what you mean by path?

comments: author: Olivier Morin
body: By user's path I wanted to refer to the series of pages a user consults on a given website. (ex: home page, childofhomepage1, childofchildofhomepage1...). I'd like to extract these webanalytics in order to cluster pages together and to suggest a structure for the site.

The more the structure fits typical user's preferences, the more the browsing will be easy and natural.

Automatic tagging seems rather good, but I've understood it suggests tags like abreviations of title words... I would say I'll not work for very technical content.


author: Danielle Zhu
body: Thanks. That makes sense. However I don't think either Confluence usage tracking plugin or other analytics plugin keeps track of the paths you are looking for though.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: What do you mean by user's paths? If you mean the way that a user browses around the space, that would require analysis of the paths taken perhaps using sometime like Google Analytics or Mixpanel.

It would also require that you want to then restructure the paths into a tree (provided that the paths never cross).

This is likely possible, but I havent seen a plugin that automatically restructure a space based on web analytics.

One possible downsides to this:

The 10s of users could be stumbling around down in a very inefficient manner because of the way the content is written or linked together. Encouraging this inefficiency could waste your company more money than the possible saving from replacing your webmaster with an automated algorithm.

A better alternative would be to use web analytics reports to guide your own expert knowledge (or your webmaster's) of your own business and restructure the content using a combination of these factors.

Take a look at [Mixpanel Flow](https://flow.mixpanel.com/) and [Google Analytics Visitor Flow](http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1709395).


author: Matt
body: I think there is no macro or plugin which would handle this one for you.

However you may check out Atlassian CLI Tools from Bob Swift.

It is a superb tool for any bulk operations.

Here it is a website with example usage:

<https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Examples>
Is it possible to add issues to a rapid board for a sprint that has already started?
Asked by Mason Fitch:

I have setup a rapid board for Sprint 1 and while planning have started the sprint. I thought I'd be able to ad additional issues by dragging the tickets avove the Sprint Marker in the baclkog and updating the sprint. It's not showing the items above the Sprint marker on the Work view for Sprint 1.


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: Check the release notes of 5.9.1, this feature was added from that version.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/GreenHopper+5.9.1+Release+Notes>


Tags: backlog

board

sprint