youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Confluence Intranet and Extranet with one License?
Asked by Bastian Kippelt:

Hi,

we use Confluence in our Intranet and want to put some of these Data / Spaces to the extranet. But we dont want to put the whole Confluence to the Extranet, just some Spaces. Our first Idea ist to setup a second Confluence and sync some Spaces. But we dont want to buy all Plugin Licenses twice. Is it possible to use one License? The Second Confluence is just to show the Data for Externals. No Login, no one will work with it.

Best Regards


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Bastian,

Each license must be used in one instance. If you do not want to buy another license for the plugins and Confluence itself, you can use the evaluation license/trial for a few days and then check which plugins you'll really need on your Internal Confluence.

Kind Regards


author: Malik
body: It should be possible to do this with a single instance.

- You'd want to \[grant public access to a space\](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access#SettingUpPublicAccess-Grantingpublicaccesstoaspace) for that specific space that will be for your extranet.

- Configure the networking settings of your infrastructure hosting Confluence to accomodate for independent domain name to map to the same Confluence server host.


author: javier carrasco
body: We expect to do the same project. The advantage of having 2 instances of confluence, one for the extranet and one for the intranet is that each one could use an independent domain name.... But the presentation of the data on the extranet (sync) with the intranet is no so easy.... could you give me some advises concerning this construction?

Thanks


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence activity stream in JIRA
Asked by Fabian Toth:

Hi,

i have connected JIRA and Confluence and synchronized the users. My first jira user (admin) now can see all of the confluence activities in his dashboard stream. But if i create a new user in Jira, this user can't see any Confluence information in his stream. How can i configure which jira user can see the Confluence stream and which not?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Randall Robertson
body: Is your new user able to log into Confluence? Do you have the new user in the correct group to inherit Confluence permissions?

comments: author: Fabian Toth
body: Yes the user is able to login, and i have a new group "group-x" in which the user is a member. The permissions in my space are defined that this group can read the content of the space. But if i login the user to jira, there are no stream infos.


author: Fabian Toth
body: Is it required to add the users which are in confluence through the synchronization with jira in the confluence-user group? If i try them to add in this group there is an error.


author: Fabian Toth
body: I have solved the problem now, i dont have seen the auhtorization notification in confluence. Every user must commit this before the stream can be shown within jira. Thanks =)


author: Randall Robertson
body: Are you managing users through a JIRA user directory or through the internal confluence directory?


author: Randall Robertson
body: Glad to hear it. Thanks for sharing what you found.


Tags: confluence-administration

jira
Why a sidebar is not hiding in global theme (Confluence 5.1.5)?
Asked by Vladlena:

After installation Confluence 5.1.5 I faced with such problem: the sidebar is showing even in the spaces with global theme. May be somebody knows any other way to hide the sidebar just from one space?


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: The new default theme, introduced with Confluence 5.0, includes a sidebar with contextual navigation. It is by design and it's best to hide it instead of completely disable it to avoid missing some important links for navigation.


author: Vladlena
body: Thank you for your help! But unfortunately I can't remove the sidebar at all, I have to hide it just from certain spaces.


author: Vladlena
body: Thank you for your help! But unfortunately I can't remove the sidebar at all, I have to hide it just from certain spaces.


author: T I
body: What do you mean with "global theme" ? There is a Default Theme and a Documentation Theme. You can choose one of them for global use. If you choose Default Theme as global all spaces will have the sidebar. If you don't want a space to have a sidebar change the theme for this space to "Documentation Theme".

PS: Is this the sidebar you mean?: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+Sidebar>

comments: author: Vladlena
body: I meant with "global theme" a "default theme". The matter is "Default theme" in Confluence 4.2.2 did not have a sidebar and it was great for us, but default theme in Confluence 5.1.5 has a sidebar. And what about "Documentation theme", I tried to apply it and the sidebar was still there.


author: T I
body: Maybe this link is helpfull for you: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=330796984>


Tags: confluence-administration
Suggest search for anonymous user?
Asked by Dieter Rothacker:

Hi,

in my installation of Confluence-5.2.3 the anonymous user does not get suggest search results (i.e. no suggest layer coming up because the request result is 401 forbidden).

I understand that the "GET recent" call will result in 401, but the "GET search" should not.

However, the search itself correctly works. Is there a permission setting for the suggest-function or is this a bug?


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi there,

<br />

<br />

I believe you have hit into this [known bug](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30591). The new Quick Navigation plugin which is used by the confluence search does not allow annoymous access which is why the annoymmous user do not get search suggestion.  

I suggest you to vote and watch this [bug report](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30591) for the latest update. To show my support, I have also cast a vote on this bug report.   

Hope this helps!

<br />

Kind Regards,  
Jing Hwa


Tags: confluence-administration
Disable Task Canvas and Strategy Canvas blueprints
Asked by James Fehon [CP Alliance Web Team]:

When a space is listed in Disabled Spaces for boards or lists, Task Canvas and Strategy Canvas blueprints are still available, but cause an error when used (as the add on function is disabled for that space)


Answers:
author: Ulrich Kuhnhardt [Comalatech]
body: Thanks James, that's clearly a bug. I have created an internal issue to get this fixed. My apologies for the inconvenience.


Tags: addon-com.comalatech.adhoccanvas
How can I add stylesheets back into header when serving static content outside of confluence
Asked by Peter Kahn:

**Backstory**

We product javadoc for our product and want to serve it to customers via confluence. We presently, import in into confluence as xml which doesn't quite work as well as we'd like. We are moving it outside of confluence but control access via confluence seraph (see [extend confluence security](/questions/206366/can-i-extend-confluence-security-to-cover-my-external-javadoc-website)).

Our current problem is that the javadoc can't load their stylesheets because their header is replaced with the one from confluence.

How can we get confluence to leave the header alone?


Answers:
author: Peter Kahn
body: We can use AJS to inject the stylesheet info into the header. This allows the javadoc files to locate their stylesheets and render properly.

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;!--AJS.toInit(function(){    AJS.$('head').append('&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../stylesheet.css"&gt;');});//--&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
```

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Viewtracker plugin displays this as user name: $userAccessor.getUser("$user.getUsername()").getFullName(). How do I fix this issue?
Asked by Rosemary Donato:

Hello,

In the Viewtracker plugin, one of the user names is displaying as $userAccessor.getUser("$user.getUsername()").getFullName(). Does anyone know how I can fix this issue?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Rosemary,

<br />

Do you mind to share the username? The issue might be related to some character in the username. Try to run the [Confluence Encoding Test](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Character+Encodings) to see if you have set you encoding properly.

You might be interested to contact the vendor directly to get a more accuracte resolution. I have attached their contact information below:
> Hardturmstrasse 101  
> Z?rich 8005  
> Switzerland  
> info@bitvoodoo.ch  
>
> +41 44 515 14 16

Hope this helps!

Kind Regards,  
Jing Hwa

comments: author: Rosemary Donato
body: Excellent! Thanks, Jing. I'll contact the vendor.

The user name displays as:

$userAccessor.getUser("$user.getUsername()").getFullName().

All other user names display properly.


Tags: confluence-administration
Need ideas for an Oracle SQL query to find all Space Administrators
Asked by Brett Creech:

Hello,

I asked a question several days ago looking for help with finding all of our space administrators, and I thank those who responded. We have tried a user macro to try to generate a list of all space administrators, but we have 50,000+ users and about 180 spaces. Our best bet (with minimal pain/stress on our system) is likely an SQL query.

We are using an Oracle database for our Confluence installation. Unfortunately, some of the SQL queries we have found or that have been provided to us will not work with our database.

Has anyone ever written an SQL query to create a list of space administrators for an Oracle database?

Thanks,

Brett Creech  
Purdue University


Answers:
author: Brett Creech
body: Mirek, unfortunately the macro didn't return the list of space administrators - it did return each space but no administrators.


author: Mirek
body: Hi Brett,

Take a look at my user macro solution to list all spaces and administrators.

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/111002/confluence-identifying-all-the-space-administrators?page=1#153040](/questions/111002/confluence-identifying-all-the-space-administrators?page=1#153040)

I am using this on a instance that have around 200 spaces and it is working fine for me.

I hope that will help.

Best Regards,

Mirek

comments: author: Brett Creech
body: Hi Mirek, just to verify this macro will return a list of all spaces and the space administrators?

Thanks!


author: Mirek
body: Yes (but only global spaces not personal). In addition I have used expand macro to make view as a list and then if you want you can show only admins from specific space.

I hope you will like it

Best Regards,

Mirek


author: Brett Creech
body: Mirek, unfortunately it didn't work for us. The macro did indeed return a list of all spaces, but it didn't return the space admins.


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I hide content from the search in Confluence?
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Evening All,

I want to hide the content of a page from the search but can't find any way of doing so. I want the content to remain visible on the page however, and the page must still be visible to all those with the correct permissions.

The page itself has dozens of links (to non-Confluence and internal addresses) with plenty of words that just clutter up the search results.

I've tried the Code macro but that doesn't do it, and none of the other macros seem suitable.

Cheers.


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: There is no way to exclude a page from showing up in the Confluence search. You could either use a more configurable search engine and replace Lucene with it, or maybe try excluding that particular document from the results with a little JavaScript trickery in the SERPs decorator.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Matthew, thanks, I was hoping you wouldn'y say that, but it's what I thought. There ought to be a hide macro. :)

Cheers.


author: Deividi Luvison
body: We also have a feature request [CONF-33161](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33161) raised to address that :).


author: jaredleonmorgs
body: I'm wondering if you could create an Archive parent at the Space root, and then apply either a group or individual permission to the tree that hides it from all Confluence users except a select few.

Surely pages that are hidden wouldn't be indexed by confluence, particularly if they didn't have any incoming links to them.


author: RPT Admin
body: If you're using the documentation theme and restricting searches to a single space, a workaround is available by creating the page as part of another space.

You could then use the Excerpt and Excerpt Include macros to import the whole page into your main space. It would still appear in the search results for all spaces - but not for the individual space.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Alex,

Good idea, but unfortunately that would make the process of creating and updating the content much more complicated, and we don't want to make it harder for users than it needs to be. It's a very neat idea though.

What I need is an 'Exclude from search' macro. :)

Cheers.


author: R Donato
body: This is an old post so you might know about this now. But there's a Visibility macro available where content on a page can be hidden and customized so that only specific people or groups can see it: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility>


Tags: content

hide
How can I add a left navigation like the Documentation Theme to my custom theme?
Asked by Felise Uy:

I'm creating a custom theme and would like to implement a left navigation like in the documentation theme. How can I do this? Which .vmd and .vm files should I look at? We have a corporate license and have access to the confluence soure code.


Answers:
author: Felise Uy
body: Note: I've followed the steps on this page --\> <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF32/Adding+a+Navigation+Sidebar>[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF32/Adding+a+Navigation+Sidebar)

But it does not give a left navigation like the Documentation theme, where the main content area will scroll independent of the sidebar.


Tags: custom-field

documentation

theme
Gliffy addon import error with ink file picker
Asked by Hendrik Sommerfeldt:

Import of vdx gliffy not working in gliffy-addon when ink file picker is activated


Answers:
author: Gliffy
body: Hi Hendrik,

For any Gliffy issues you'll want to email [support@gliffy.com](mailto:support@gliffy.com). Please include the following:

1. Version of Confluence being used

2. Version of Gliffy being used

3. Description of issue with steps taken

4. Copy of vdx file being imported

Thanks,

Gliffy Support

[support@gliffy.com](mailto:support@gliffy.com)


Tags: addon-com.gliffy.integration.confluence

app
Images disappearing in balsamiq mockups
Asked by Manu De Backer:

When editing balsamiq mockups between users (i.e. mockup created by one user and edited by another) images within the mockup disappear (although they remain uploaded). The user who wants to edit the mockup needs to add each image again. This happens with both Firefox and Chrome.


Answers:
author: Salvatore "Sax" Cammarata
body: Sure, you can send it to [support@balsamiq.com](mailto:support@balsamiq.com)


author: Salvatore "Sax" Cammarata
body: Hi Manu,

We have tried to replicate your scenario, but in our tests everything works fine.

Can you please record a screencast describing your malfunctioning using our tool?

<http://support.balsamiq.com/customer/portal/articles/1171793>.

Thanks!

comments: author: Manu De Backer
body: Can I send you a mail with the screenshots?


author: Salvatore "Sax" Cammarata
body: Hi Manu,  
Sorry for the snag.

We are trying to reproduce the malfunctioning you reported.  
Which version of Confluence and Mockup plugin are you using?

comments: author: Manu De Backer
body: Balsamiq: 2.2.10

Confluence: 4.2.7


Tags: addon-com.balsamiq.confluence.plugins.mockups

image
Saving Meeting Notes
Asked by Elizabeth McLaughlin:

Hi, I am using confluence for the first time and when I edit my meeting notes as soon as I click in the table to type in action items the save button at the bottom dissappers thus not allowing me to save what I just entered. Please help. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What version of confluence is it, and what tables are you adding? (Table from the formatting bar, or a macro, or something else?). Can you continue to type action items into the table (even though you can't save them later, I'm looking to confirm that the table is working ok on the inside)

comments: author: Elizabeth McLaughlin
body: Hi the version is 5.1.4. I am adding items to the pre-built discussion items table from the template. I click on the discussion items table and the navigation bar (with the options to add rows, etc) opens and then the save button disapears. Yes, I can continue to add items but can't save them.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Hmm, that's odd. It's working for me, when I close the nav bar, it seems to have a save bittonto present me with.

Could you do screenshots?


author: Elizabeth McLaughlin
body: How do I get this to you?


author: Elizabeth McLaughlin
body: Yes, see attached screenshots.


author: Elizabeth McLaughlin
body: It won't let me attach a word document.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: mm, lack of attachments (until your karma is high enough) is rather annoying.

There are a load of pastebin type sites that will host a handful of pictures for a while. I've used picpaste a couple of times
Confluence connected with Jira Userdatabase, now license problem
Asked by Fabian Ledwig:

Hello.

In our company we have installed and licensed Jira with 26 Users. Now I installed confluence and connect confluence to the jira userdatabase. Everything OK, 26 users are now in confluence, too.

Confluence is only used by 10 of this 26 Jira users, so we licensed 10 User in confluence and disabled the other users wich don'nt need confluence. But if I disable this 16 users in confluence, they're disabled in Jira, too. If I activate them, confluence says that there are not enough confluence-licenses and no one can work in confluence. Taking this users out of the "confluence-users" Group has no effect.

We need a solution, for now there are only 26 users and you could handle this with seperated user-databases, but in future there will be more users.

Changing in a few years will not be easy, because if a user worked in confluence, you can't delete this user anymore. I think there will be trouble when you want to connect Jira and Confluence when everey database contents the equal users...

Is there a solution?

Greetings from Northrine-Westphalia, Germany.

Fabian Ledwig


Answers:
author: Fabian Ledwig
body: ### Found a Solution from: {#toc-hId-1155213742}

### [**Septa Cahyadiputra \[Atlassian\]**](../../users/1386/septa-cahyadiputra-atlassian/) {#toc-hId-2042717423}

Hi Fabian,

The way Confluence configure the amount of users license are different compare with JIRA. Confluence does not count the amount of *confluence-users* member. Instead it count the amount of users that has "Can-Use" permission or able to log-in to Confluence.

For detailed information on this, please refer to our documentation [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview#GlobalPermissionsOverview-Overviewoftheglobalpermissions).

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

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Tags: confluence-administration

jira
Multiple user updates
Asked by Omar Sowan:

Hi!

We have a confluence page and many people need to occasionally update the same page. It seems that multiple update is not properly supported since we've occasionally lost some updates due to that. My question is that is there a way to know if someone else is updating the same page and in this case one would have the option to wait before starting new updates?

Thanks \& regards,

Omar


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Bernado is right Omar. There should be a warning message shown to the person editing alerting them to the fact that someone else is/was editing. This will ask them to choose which edits to save, or, if I remember correctly, asking them if they want to merge the two sets of edits. I could be wrong on that last bit. :) Cheers.


author: BernardoA
body: According to my understanding, If another user is editing the same page as you Confluence will display a message above your edit screen letting you know who the other user is and when the last edit was made.

This documentation may help you on this:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Concurrent+Editing+and+Merging+Changes>

Cheers,

Bernardo
Not able to create Active Object table with confluence 4.3.6.
Asked by tousifs:

Hi All,

I have confluence 4.3.6 installed.

Database Version postgress 9.2.

please let me know weather postgresssql 9.2 is supported or not for confluence 4.3.6.

i am getting below error.

**The following error(s) occurred:**

* There was a SQL exception thrown by the Active Objects library: Database: - name:PostgreSQL - version:9.2.4 - minor version:2 - major version:9 Driver: - name:PostgreSQL Native Driver - version:PostgreSQL 9.0 JDBC4 (build 801) org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: relation "AO_AEC866_Test_Test" does not exist Position: 28

please suggest me what should i do.

regard's

tousif shaikh


Answers:
author: HarryH
body: I think PostgreSQL 9.2 is not supported, please see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms>

Note only 8.3, 8.4, 9.0 is supported in the release doc.
how to suppress for a user the visibility on the users' list ?
Asked by Gilbert Brenet:

Hello,

I need to give access to a Customer (considered as a users, itherwise he cannot access to Confulence) on specific Confluence page, this point is OK, but I dont want he can access to the list of project'users. How can i do that ?

Regards,

Gilbert.


Answers:
author: Gilbert Brenet
body: Hello,

No this is not my need, When you access Confluence if I press People ("Personnes" in french, at the right ou the item "Spaces", I dont want to display the list of the users on this project. Is it clearer ?

Thanks for your support.

Regards,

Gilbert.


author: RambanamP
body: is this what you are looking for

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Hiding+the+People+Directory>

or this

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Display+Different+Appearance+for+Different+Users+Using+Confluence+Layouts>

sorry if it does't help!!
Migrate from SharePoint towards Jira/Confluence
Asked by Jakub Raszewski:

Hello all,

I am aware that this is very high lvel question - however there is a following:

We would like to migrate from SharePoint/Share Point PWA/Mantis/Heat towards Jira/Confluence.

There are some features we use currently in SharePoint - Timesheet, Intranet, PWA, HR stuff like holidays, etc. and we would like to retain them using Atlassian products.

Is there any info, how to compare Atlassian products and theirs features against what SharePoint does ?

cheers,

Kuba


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Have you Googled?

Sharepoint-Confluence: <http://bit.ly/18z114v>
> Timesheet, Intranet, PWA, HR stuff like holidays

Confluence Team Calendars should replicate those functionalities <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/team-calendars>)

Sharepoint - Atassian : <http://bit.ly/17DJvK8>


Tags: sharepoint