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Add event to Confluence page
Asked by Robert Obuch:

Is there a way to add an event to a Confluence page?

As a user, I would like to link to the event and display the time on the Confluence page, e.g. for a software release. If the release date is changed in Team Calendars, I would expect the date to be updated on Confluence automatically.

If this functionality does not exist, please create a new feature reqest.


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi Robert, thanks for the feedback, we are tracking this one here: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1387)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1387>


author: Robert Obuch
body: Unfortunately, these steps appear to describe the process for adding a Calendar widget to the page. I just want to extract the date?


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Robert,

As far as I know, you can add team calendar events to confluence following [these steps](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TEAMCAL/Using+Team+Calendars#UsingTeamCalendars-IncludingCalendarsonaConfluencePage).

Since you are using ondemand confluence, the process should be similar. if you change some event on team calendar, the event should change in confluence page as well.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

date

due-date

release

team-calendars-for-confluence
Turn off Sort in Individual Tables
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Hello,

Does anyone know how I can turn of the sorting functionality for individual tables? According to the Confluence user info you can only disable the plugin that enables sorting.

So sorting is either on or off across the whole instance.

We're running 5.4.3 download.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: To my knowledge sorting will only happen if you have a header row. So, you could instead of creating a header row change the background color on the top row and bold the text. I would look like a header row, but wouldn't really be one.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: David,

Thanks for that, it worked! :)

Cheers.


author: Scott Beeson
body: Nice hack, thanks.


author: Maxim Bazarov
body: Thank you!


author: Sonu Bhatia
body: Could you also let me know how I could convert it back to the true header row and enable sorting back on the table?


Tags: disable

sort

table
Confluence does not ask which User directory to use
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

Hi

I am on confluence 4.3.2 and when in our confluence we have two user directories, 1. Microsoft AD and 2. Internal

Now when i am creating a user on confluence i expect confluence to ask me (or have a field) for me to select which user directory i want to use , but it does not.

I know on jira 6.1 we have this feature, you can explicitly tell jira which user directory to use for creating the user.

How can i get round this issue on confluence?

Rahul


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Hi Rahul.

The correct feature request is [CONF-22296](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22296). as the one Rodrigo raised is a duplicate.

At the moment Confluence creates the user in the Directory with the highest priority (listed first in the list of directories). As a workaround, you could put the user directory you want to create the user in the first position before you create the user. Please be aware this may affect the user directory a user authenticate against if the user is present in multiple user directories.

comments: author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: thanks Alex...that helps. I will follow this feature request.,


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Rahul,

Indeed, confluence doesn't ask in which user directory you'd like to create the user within while jira does this.

I've created a feature request for you here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34433>

I recommend to vote and ask your colleagues to vote as well to increase popularity and the chance to be implemented in the future.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration

user-directory
mention autocomplete fail in 5.5.3
Asked by Alex Perez:

Hi folks,

I've just upgraded confluence to 5.5.3 and there is a problem related to the "autocomplete" functionallity in comments or pages.

When mentiioning a user the popup windows frozes with only the admin user as possible selection. If I write the complete user login then confluence doesn't render this as a mention nor send the mentioned user an email ...

Is there a new permission to allow be mentioned ? I've found a release note in 5.5 about the improved mentionning system.

Thanks


Answers:
author: salehparsa
body: Hi Alex,

It might be related to the Confluence content indices. I'd recommend you to rebuild the content indices from the scratch with the steps which is mentioned in following documentation:

* **[Rebuild the Content Indices from Scratch](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch)**

Cheers,

Saleh

comments: author: Alex Perez
body: Good,

rebuilt indices through the application (took 1h!), and then the autocomplete mentioning started working.

Thanks.


Tags: confluence-administration

mention
Is there a way to show all confluence pages for each JIRA story and all JIRA stories automatically?
Asked by Tracy Qin:

We are using Confluence Cloud. Currently we are using a product requirement page named "{#OLE_LINK2}Sprint Page A{#OLE_LINK1}" to track a sprint named "Sprint1" and create one single confluence page for each story.

Since we need to list all the stories of a sprint and we have many stories in a sprint, so it is a large piece of work to manually input all the stories in "Sprint Page A".

Is there a way to automatically show all JIRA stories and all confluence pages for each JIRA story after filling in the Epic or the Sprint info in the "Sprint Page A" of "Sprint1"? We expected the result would like this:

User Story Link \| User Story Confluence Page \| Epic Link

Your help will be appreciated. J

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: There is a Confluence macro called "Filter Results." It is used to display the results of a saved/shared Jira filter on a Confluence page. First, you need to create a filter in Jira that results in the displaying of all issues that you want displayed. Using your example, you might use the following JQL: "project = XYZ and Sprint = "Sprint 1" " (where "XYZ" is the Jira project name) Save the filter and share it with "everyone" or the people that will access the Confluence Space/Page that corresponds to the Jira project. You simply add the Filter Results macro to your Confluence page, specifiy which fields you want displayed in the columns and save the page. As changes are made in Jira, they will display in the table containing the filter results on the Confluence page. There is a small gear icon at the bottom of the Filter Results that you can use to refresh the page, if needed. I think you'll find that will do what you want if you play around with it a bit. Regarding the organizing of pages that correspond to each story, you could make them child pages of the "Sprint Page A" page, which will logically group them together. On each child page, you could add a "Jira Issue" macro and reference the corresponding Jira issue. This will allow you to get basic status on the Jira issue by clicking the Jira issue icon on the page. We work with many clients on how to manage projects in Jira and Confluence, so we can definitely help you find a good working solution with a bit more information on your process.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Location of User Pictures
Asked by Sebastian Wolter:

We'd like to delete some old user profile pictures.

Where the are located. Or is there a way to delete (non used) profile pictures via the UI?


Answers:
author: Sebastian Wolter
body: Oh, sorry. I have missed the forest for the trees.  
I didn't realize that I can delete it via the UI when I select the picture.


author: Sebastian Wolter
body: Thanks, Bhushan.

That way I find the current picture, but I am looking for the no longer used ones.

If a user changes it's profile picture, the previous one remains in the avatar list next to the current picture.  
I found this in the database under attachments, but I think simple deleting the entry and the file isn't a good idea, since there seem to be any further dependance.

So the topic should better be "**How to delete previous user pictures?**" :-)


author: Bhushan Nagaraj
body: Hi Melino,

You can write a sql query to find the profile pictures not in use. Take a look at the answer here, it may be of help.

[](/questions/15018/retrieve-profile-pictures-using-sql)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/15018/retrieve-profile-pictures-using-sql>

Cheers

Bhushan


Tags: confluence-administration
Unable to link knowledge base to Service Desk
Asked by Damon Morda:

Hi everyone,

I've been attempting to setup a knowledge base connection from my Confluence server to my JIRA Service Desk server.

I've successfully created application links in both directions and they show up under application links section in JIRA and Confluence. However, when I visit the Customer Portal and goto the Knowledge Base section, the application link is not detected.

![](../../upfiles/no_application_link.png)

Has anyone encountered this before? Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: It sounds like something is wrong with your Application Links. Are you able to use other Jira macros on Confluence pages? If not, that confirms an Application Link problem. Check to make sure that OAuth is enabled on the Application Link in both directions. Application Links are very sensitive to strangeness with the URLs that they connect to. They tend to be more sensitive than web browsers. If you're doing SSL, make sure that everything is configured properly and if you're using self-signed certs, you'll need to import them in to the Java keystore for each app.


Tags: jira-service-desk
Confluence instance virtual Memory exceeds the set heap memory
Asked by Julio Mugabe:

Hi folks,

When I run the "top" linux command, it shows the confluence virtual memory is 49gb and yet we set the heap min and max as 20gb. What could be causing this spike?


Answers:
author: Pedro Cora
body: Julio,

Take a look at the following links that might explain this behaviour:  
\[JVM Exceeds Maximum Memory defined with Xmx\| [](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12292368/jvm-exceeds-maximum-memory-defined-with-xmx)<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12292368/jvm-exceeds-maximum-memory-defined-with-xmx>\]

\[Java Memory Overhead\| [](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2721258/java-memory-overhead)<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2721258/java-memory-overhead>\]
How can we move a confluence space to our new on demand server
Asked by Jason Briggs:

We have a server license for confluence that we bought a long time ago. We are at version 4.1.6, and we just now bought on demand. We want to take a couple of those old spaces and install them on the new on demand server. How do we do this?


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

In addition to Steve answer, just download the latest ondemand version [here](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-od) and upgrade your local confluence to this version, then export and import the xml into ondemand website.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Steve Thornhill
body: You can export the spaces from the existing confluence and import them into the ondemand system, but you will need to upgrade the old version to a current level before doing this process.

See the full process here - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Importing+a+Confluence+Space>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a way to list all contributors to a space with edits over a certain amount of characters?
Asked by Jesse Asklund:

We are trying to generate a table or feed that lists users and the number of contributions they have made as long as the contribution is over a certain amount of characters. Even if we had some form of RSS feed that shows all edits, we can create our own parser to only grab the ones with the character requirement.


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

As far as I know, you can use the contributors macro to retrieve a similar information according here:

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

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

It doesn't count the number of characters though.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Jesse Asklund
body: Rodrigo,

Thanks for that, I've actually played with the contributers macro quite a bit and we really need to have a minimum character count as we do not want to include "simple" edits. Is there perhaps an RSS feed we can use that shows the body of the edit or change?


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Jesse,

I couldn't find a RSS feed that could show the number of characters that were added or edited.

I have created a feature request for you here: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34431)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34431>

I recommend to vote and ask your colleagues to vote and increase the feature popularity. Also, please comment in that ticket with any additional information you might want to add.

I hope this helps :)

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
HipChat Confluence Integration
Asked by Daniel Samuels:

Hi Everyone,

Im sorry if these are silly questions, but I am tryng to install HipChat to work with Confluence and having some trouble.

1. How do I show/embed a hipchat room in my Confluence instance? Do I just have to use an Iframe? Or is there a macro?

2. I installed the [HipChat Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.labs.hipchat.confluence-hipchat), but so far all I can see is that it allows me to send notifications from confluence to a hipchat room? Is that the full extent of the integration (or did I miss something)?

3. Also for users - does it use the Confleunce User database? Or do I have to seperatly add each one of our users and they create an account in Hipchat, so they then have two seperate accounts - one for Confluence and one for Hipchat and would have to log into both to use them together?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Daniel


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Hi Daniel.

I am afraid the current integration is quite simple. Installing the HipChat plugin, Conlfuence will add a message in a HipChat room everytime one of the selected events happen.

There is no need to share users, as the message is posted in a room. There is no way to post a message to a particular user of HipChat.

I am not sure how to embed a HipChat room in Confluence. I imagine one option would be to use the html-include macro to include the room in HipChat web interface.

For further integration you could try developing your own plugin and user [HipChat's API](https://www.hipchat.com/docs/api) to produce the desired actions.

comments: author: Daniel Samuels
body: Hi Alex,

Fair enough. I'll jump over to JIRA and add these as 'New Features' for the future of HipChat.

Thanks for clarifying for me!

Best,

Daniel


author: Alexandre Tumlinson
body: I'm using iframe macro. It works for Chrome, but not for IE


Tags: hipchat
Edit Notifications in Confluence
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Chaps,Is it possible to set up email notifications so that ONLY the parts of a page that have been edited are shown in the email, rather than all the page's content?We're running 5.4.3 download.Cheers.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Mick, there is a filed improvement for increasing the granularity of notification for a page, [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-18153). You can add your concerns to that ticket, or create a new improvement suggestion in jira.atlassian.com.


Tags: edit

notification
Edit Notifications in Confluence
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Chaps,Is it possible to set up email notifications so that ONLY the parts of a page that have been edited are shown in the email, rather than all the page's content?We're running 5.4.3 download.Cheers.


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: This is probably not easy to make. You can try to edit the email templates as per [Customising the eMail Templates](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+eMail+Templates) but I doubt this can be made without changing the actual source of the plugin to get an excerpt of the diff of the changes, rather than the whole content.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Alex,

Thanks. It doesn't look like something that can be done easily so I'll leave it well alone. :)

Thanks!


Tags: edit

notification
Exporting Spaces from Confluence to Excel Spreadsheet
Asked by TJ Shanahan:

Hi All,

Is it possible to export the Spaces names into a spreadsheet? Possibly a macro or plugin? (without having to copy every single name click by click from confluence)

Thanks,

TJ


Answers:
author: Earl McCutcheon
body: Hi TJ,

This might prove to be difficult, since the content from Confluence export will not necessaly be on a table. The best thing I can think of would be to [export the data to XML](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+XML)and [import it to Excel.](http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/import-xml-data-HP010206405.aspx)


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi TJ,

You can export the results of the query below to a XLS spreadsheet which will contain just the spacenames:

```
SELECT spacename FROM spaces INTO OUTFILE 'path_to_file/example.txt';
```

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Elisa [Atlassian]
body: Hi,

You can do the XML export. First, find the space you want to export. When you are on it, click on *Browse (upper menu) \> Space Admin \> Space Operations and then XML export*.

Hope this helps! :)

Cheers!
SSO Confluence Authenticator does not add users to Internal Directory
Asked by Robert Knights:

I am having an SSO issue which is basically the same as below, but with Confluence.

\[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/222631/jira-ad-custom-sso\]

Previously, we have been using the Internal Confluence Directory autenticated via LDAP.

Addition of a custom SSO authenticator (written by a 3rd party) has been successful in a test environment, but only for users who already had a confluence account. Users who did not previously have an account are not added to {noformat}cwd_user{noformat}, nor are any default groups added to the internal directory.

I'm unwilling to hand over all control of users and groups to an external SSO provider since that would limit the use of user-groups within individual spaces. Ideally I'd like a way to use the default confluence authenticator if the user has not previously logged on via LDAP and otherwise use the SSO authenticator.

Does anyone have any suggestions on this?


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Did you set a external user directory (LDAP) which contains the users which should authenticate? I think you will need to set the [external directory in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+User+Directories) (and synchronize them) to be able to authenticate user from that directory using SSO.

comments: author: Robert Knights
body: Yes, the external user directory (AD) is set for use in authentication only, but the internal directory is used to determine whether a user exists and what group they belong to.

ie. The default confluence authenticator allows you to configure a combined user/group management solution in which Confluence Manages users and groups and AD (the external directory) is used for authentication only.

**Internal with External Authentication vs Full External user/group managemen**

Because this is a 3rd party SSO provider, I'm currently unsure whether their system is most appropriate for both group/user management as well as authentication and so was hoping to use the existing Internal Directory with the SSO service for authentication only until this is determined. The SSO provider and the Confluence Internal Directory both authenticate against AD.

I am also unsure how this will work in terms of making sure that new users are automatically added to the appropriate default user group in the SSO provider after beginning use of confluence for the first time and how easy it will be to migrate existing groups to the SSO service synced with AD while maintaining user/group memberships other user/group metadata from the existing Confluence Internal Directory.

Questions:

\* Is it possible to configure an SSO provider to only authenticate against AD while still copying users to the internal confluence directory and placing them in the appropriate default user group?

\* If the above is not the best solution, what are the steps in migrating existing internal user metadata (groups etc) from the Internal Directory with LDAP Authentication to a new confluence User Directory?


Tags: confluence-administration

sso
How can I indicate to others that an attachment has been updated?
Asked by Stephanie S.:

Hi,

We are new to Confluence and are currently building a document list.

In this list we attach the documents.

In due time they might need to be replaced with a newer version. At that point we would like to have an automatic flag made for the newly uploaded file attachment, 'new' and a date stamp of the upload date.

We are aware that if users are watching a space/page they will get notified of a change, nomatter how it would be great to have this additional feature.

Is there a way, plug in or other to realize our request?

Thanks in advance for your help


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

In addition to Joe comment above, I could find this feature request that might be of assistance:

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-4462)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-4462>

I suggest to vote and ask your colleagues to vote as well to increase popularity and the chance to be implemented in the future.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Stephanie, as far as I know, if you attach a new attachment with the same name (given that there is an existing one in Confluence already), it will be considered as a new version of the attachment.

It will also include the date which the new version was attached, as well as who attached it. I recommend that you take a look at this article [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Attachment+Versions) as well.
Add a label to a page: What can be the reason that existing labels are not suggested?
Asked by Evelin:

I view a page and try to add a label. The documentation indicates that existing labels are suggested (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/6xQC>). Very often this is not the case - some labels are suggested and some are not. Seemingly the space is important: When I'm in space A and type labels from space A, they are suggested. If I try labels from space B, they are not.

Can this be the case? Labels of other spaces are not suggested? But connecting topics over space borders is what I like to do with the labels, and the suggestions help a lot to keep at least some overview.

Rebuilding the search index did not help. I tested the very same labels on the very same page before and after a re-index, no difference.

Hints are very welcome.


Answers:
author: Tim
body: The AutoCompleteLabelAction runs your label input against a list of max. 50 label entries. The list of labels includes your personal recently used labels (recently added, created, removed and deleted) as well as the most popular labels in the current space. The ratio between these two pools should be 50/50. You can find the information in the source code of AutocompleteLabelsAction.java.

comments: author: Evelin
body: Thanks a lot for your explanation. With this knowledge I can watch how the labels behave and if the pattern does not fit I will create a support request.