youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How can you modify the space key of a space?
Asked by gmchen:

How can you modify the space key of a space?


Answers:
author: Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)
body: Although this feature isn't currently supported in Confluence, there is a workaround documented here - <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Copy+Or+Rename+A+Space>


author: calvin.dike
body: here

You can use this to change the space key.

Copy the space with this plugin. While copying the space you'll be prompted to type in the name of the space and space key. After changing those, export the space you copied with the new space key and import it to the confluence instance you want.

Download the Copy Space for Confluence plugin and install it

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/212/copy-space-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/212/copy-space-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

For manual installation;

Administration \> Global configuration \> Manage add-ons \> Upload add-on \> browse (select the jar file you downloaded) \> Upload

To use plugin;

Spaces \> Space directory \> click on the space you want \> Space tools \> Content Tools \> Apps \> type in new space name and key (you can check the boxes to copy the options specified) \> Save

Your Space Directory should have your copied space with the new name and space key. Now you can delete the space with the old name.


author: Emily Johnson
body: Hi All,

I'm trying to find a way to redirect anyone going to the old URLs to the new URLs. Anyone know of a space-wide redirect option? Do I have to put the redirect macro on every page?

Thanks,

Emily


author: J. Caldwell
body: One word of warning having gone through this a couple of times, make the old space read-only for a period of time before you delete it. I've had some issues with content after a move being odd and the data owner needing the originals.


author: gmchen
body: copy to a new space? set the new spacename and new spacekey.
Confluence 4 EAP, how to repair broken tables?
Asked by David Yu:

How's everyone like the new tables in Confluence 4 EAP? I've been playing around with it but haven't found a way to repair broken imported tables.

For example, if a table is missing a cell:

\| A \| B \| C

\| 1 \| 2 \| \|

I can't seem to find a way to split a cell to fill in the missing cell.


Answers:
author: Matt
body: I see -- thanks David. This isn't a fix but you can always just remove the broken columns and insert new ones. I understand that's not ideal though. I'll be sure to pass this feedback along to our Dev Team. Sorry I don;t have a solution for you right now :)


author: Ta Minh Thuy
body: Hi there,

I'm using Conf 6.15.9 and having this issue. Are there any solution for this issue in this higher version?

Thank you!


author: Pierre van Wyk
body: A quick workaround for single tables: I found that if you Cut/Paste the table from Confluence to Word and then Cut/Paste it back that the missing cells will be filled in.

Still looking for a better solution...


author: Matt
body: Can you please post a screenshot so I can visualize what you are asking?

comments: author: David Yu
body: Certainly (I wish there was a way to upload images here)

![](http://oi56.tinypic.com/2ch54t3.jpg)

So here's an example of a broken table as one might see in Confluence 3.X, which occurs pretty frequently especially when new users start editing tables.

When imported into Confluence 4, I don't seem to have a way to repair this by filling in the missing cell.s


Tags: early-access
Does Team Calendars support full time tracking?
Asked by Jeffrey Davidson:

We'll be moving to Team Calendars with our upgrade of Confluence this weekend. Does Team Calendars support vacation tracking and on-clock tracking with approvals and such? We're hoping to get away from our current system (Replicon), and was wondering if this kind of functionality is either available now, or planned to be available.


Answers:
author: Matt
body: Team Calendars does not support this functionality. You can browse, vote, and create new feature requests for Team Calendars here: [https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL\</p\<\>\>](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL%3C/p)


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Reporting Plugin question: Is it possible to use the reporting plugin to create a list of a users favorite spaces?
Asked by James Hines:

Is it possible to use the reporting plugin to create a list of the currently logged in users favorite spaces?  
I know how to create a report listing all of the spaces, but I don't know how to filter by favorites.


Answers:
author: Matt
body: Even easier -- you can use an out-of-the-box macro :)  
`{spaces:favourite``}`  
Docs: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/byAC>

comments: author: James Hines
body: Doh! I should have known that. Thanks


author: Andrei [errno]
body: still - has anyone seen a solution with the reporting plugin? it gives more powerful styling features and can display a nicer error message if a user is not logged in or does not have favorites... thanks


Tags: addon-net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting

reporting-plugin
Possible to modify a comment (used when saving a page on the edit screen) afterwards?
Asked by Yasushi Shiba:

Hi again.

Sometimes I forget or put wrong comment information when saving on the edit page. Is it possible to modify this information afterwards if you have a space admin right?

Also, is it possible to "force" comment to has some information (i.e. not a blank) for saving in the edit page? (I would like to have this to enforce a good version control; put the reason for any change after an official release is made).

Any advice will be appreciated.

- Yan Shiba


Answers:
author: Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)
body: Looks like it's not possible through the UI to modify a change comment (as opposed to a normal page comment) - <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Recording+Change+Comments>
> "Note that once a change comment has been added and the page has been saved,
>
> it is not possible to update or remove the change comment."


Tags: comment
Confluence error: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
Asked by MASH Trust Atlassian ICT Team:

Hello,

I've been trying to run plug-in updates for the past 3 days and have the above error...

Any ideas how to resolve this ?

Grunta


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: If applicable, make sure you have done this...

[Configure Web Proxy Support for Confluence](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configure+Web+Proxy+Support+for+Confluence)


Tags: app
Statistics of search words used in the live search macro
Asked by Daisuke Niwa:

Hello,

Is it possible to get the statistics of key words used in the live search macro?

For example, we'd like to know key word "A" used 100 times during this months.

Or, if you happen to know some plugin to achieve similar aim, please share it with us.

Regards,  
Daisuke Niwa


Answers:
author: Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)
body: The live search macro sends its requests via GET, with the keywords in the URL querystring. Hence, if you have logs covering the period you're interested in (e.g. Apache access logs), you can search them for strings like:

/wiki/plugins/livesearch/livesearch.action?decorator=none\&queryString=test\*+OR+test\&where=

(where in this example, the search string was "test").

There are also plenty of apps out there on the web for performing log analysis.

comments: author: Daisuke Niwa
body: Hi Penny,

Thank you for your response. We will try your suggestion.

Regards,

Daisuke Niwa


Tags: live-search
Release date of confluence 4?
Asked by Ashley Russell:

Can anyone let me know if there is a final release date of confluence 4 yet?


Answers:
author: Darryl Lucas
body: Here's a countdown clock: <http://www.atlassian.com/en/confluence-content-collaboration.html>

comments: author: Ashley Russell
body: Atlassian doesn't publish release dates in advance. \<--- lol at the official atlassian response


author: Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)
body: Atlassian doesn't publish release dates in advance.

Speaking personally as a QA engineer - although teams are usually working towards some kind of a target date, in the end you get a better product if the "OK! Ship it!" decision is made based on whether it's reached a desired quality bar, not a fixed date. It's the old "Time, Scope, Quality - Pick any two" triangle :-)

There are a lot of significant changes in Confluence 4.0 - with the new editor and storage format - so the Confluence team is working very hard on making sure it's right.

comments: author: Jim Birch
body: The *last* thing that Atlassian want is anyone saying that Confluence used to be a good thing before they introduced the new editor in V4. It's a major innovation that hits every user; I expect they'd rate the editor usability and reliablity at non-negotiable.


author: Ashley Russell
body: wats with the countdown clock then? :)


author: CharlesA
body: Back in the day, the lag between "We're done coding" and the actual release was the time it took to upload the binaries to the website and write the announcement email. These days the ship is a lot bigger and there are a lot more people and things that have to be set in motion. The countdown clock went up about the same time *we* knew what the release date was. :)


author: Matt
body: As mentioned in the [Confluence State of the Union](http://blogs.atlassian.com/confluence/2011/06/new-enterprise-wiki-wysiwyg-rich-text-editor.html) at Atlassian Summit, Confluence 4.0 is a scope based release, not a time bound release.

Introducing a new editor is an enormous change for users and we need to make sure we get it right before shipping it to our customers.

We hope to ship Confluence 4.0 by the end of the quarter (end of September). That's our current **goal**.


author: Matt
body: Confluence 4.0 has been released:

<http://www.atlassian.com/c4>

comments: author: Ashley Russell
body: have they fixed that bug that was in the beta with the code block thing that deleted the contents when u edit the first line?


author: Matt
body: I believe so:

<http://screencast.com/t/1FJ6cfWKclg0>


author: Matt
body: Can't reproduce - must be fixed.


author: Ashley Russell
body: where u type editing, try adding a new line at the top, then delete the misterious space that appears in front of the origional first line


author: Ashley Russell
body: excellent news! :) nice job guys :)


author: justindowning
body: If I were a betting man, I would bank on a deadline of EOQ. With that in mind, the week of 9/19 seems as good as any week. :)


author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: Hehe - nice question. I bet you won't get an official answer (except just before the release). ;-)
How does a 10 users Confluence license works with a 100 users Jira license?
Asked by Rosalinda Mu?oz:

I had a 100 users Jira license, but I want to use Confluence and Bonfire with 10 users license. Can I do that? Or I have to buy 100 users license?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Yasushi Shiba
body: Hi.

Jira and Confluence are totally separate applications. For example we have unlimited number of users for Confluence but only 100 for Jira. Note that if you buy a plug-in (for either Confluence or Jira), you will have to buy the same number of users of licenses (e.g. Greenhopper works as a plugin for Jira so we had to buy 100 user license). Don't know about Bonfire but if it is a sepearate application, it should work similarly.

- Yan

comments: author: J
body: But what happens when I connect a Jira 100 to Confluence 10 and I want the users to not have to login again. I read somwhere that one can configure confluence to also use the jira user management, so that Jira users do not have to login again to confluence. Now when the confluence license has only 10 users how is that controlled?


author: Eric S
body: Hi Rosalinda,

Great to hear you're interested in Bonfire and Confluence.

For Bonfire, as it is a global plugin for JIRA (similar to GreenHopper) your user tiers do need to match one another. If you have a JIRA 100 User license you will need Bonfire for JIRA 100 Users. The good news is, for a limited time, new Bonfire commercial licenses are 40% off their regular price!

For Confluence, your license tiers do not need to match JIRA. The two applications are independent of one another and can have different user tiers.

As Yan metioned, a good rule of thumb is most commercial plugins will need to match your Atlassian license user tier.

I hope this helps!  
Cheers,  
Eric Snyder
\<div\>sales@atlassian.com \| +1 415 701 1110 (San Francisco, USA)


Tags: jira

licence
PDF Export Stylesheet
Asked by epohl:

I need to create a PDF stylesheet for my Confluence site, and am a bit of a CSS dummy. Does anyone have an example they can post of theirs, which includes the following:

* Title Page with image
* TOC
* Footer with page numbers and maybe a graphic

If I have that I think I can manage a basic version.

Also, is it possible to have widow/orphan control in a CSS stylesheet?


Answers:
author: HuseinA
body: Most of them is covered in our documentation:  
* [Adding an Image to your Title Page](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+the+PDF+Stylesheet#EditingthePDFStylesheet-AddinganImagetoyourTitlePage)
* TOC should be included by default if you export Space to PDF. But we do have it [documented here](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+the+PDF+Stylesheet#EditingthePDFStylesheet-CustomisingtheTableofContents) as well if you'd like to customise it.
* [Page Header and Footer Customisations](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Advanced+PDF+Stylesheet+Customisations#AdvancedPDFStylesheetCustomisations-PageHeaderandFooterCustomisations)

The best starting point is to refer to the default PDF Stylesheet here: [confluencedefaultpdf.css](http://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/190480945/confluencedefaultpdf.css?version=1&modificationDate=1243580667083). From there you'll get more clues on where to customise which.
> Also, is it possible to have widow/orphan control in a CSS stylesheet?

I don't think so. But perhaps you can explain further on what are you trying to achieve here?

comments: author: Laura Schneider
body: [@HuseinA](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/783229) Thanks much for your link to confluencedefaultpdf.css, that is just what I was looking for but not finding anywhere. I think it will solve a bunch of problems for me. Cheers!


author: MS
body: I don't know about newer versions but I am using Confluence 3.1.1 and its PDF output is based on the Flying Saucer PDF engine. In 3.1.1, widow and orphan control is not directly supported.


author: Steffen Heller
body: > Also, is it possible to have widow/orphan control in a CSS stylesheet?

As far as I know orphans and widows are part of CSS 2.1. Their specifications are explained at   
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-CSS21-20070719/page.html#break-inside>

I tried using it myself but couldn't get it to work the way I wanted. So I am still looking for a working example and I can't answer if or to what extent this functionality is implemented in Confluence (=\> hints and answers are welcome!).


Tags: pdf

stylesheet
Show comments in the edit page mode?
Asked by Yasushi Shiba:

Hi.

I am using Confluence with the "Documentation" theme for a requirements specification. We provide feedback via comments. To implement the comments on a page, it is edited but during this time, the comments are not visible and hence it is difficult to implement all the comments.

The workaround is to copy the URL before editing and use in a new tab but it would be much nicer if while editing, the comments could be visible. And I believe this is a useful feature for others.

Anyone know if this is possible? I am using verison 3.3.1 currently.

Thank you all for your support.

- Yan


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: In confluence/decorators/page.vmd, try copying this:

```
        #applyDecorator("root")
            #decoratorParam("sitemeshPage" $sitemeshPage)
            #decoratorParam("page" $page)
            #decoratorParam("context" "comments")
        #end
```

below here:

```
    ## EDIT || PREVIEW-EDIT
    #elseif ($mode == "edit" || $mode == "edit-preview")
        $body
```

You'll likely have to repeat this for each theme.

comments: author: Yasushi Shiba
body: Thank you for your help. Unfortunately our admin got a system error. when she tried it out. Do you know whether this works with version 3.3.1? (I wanted to attach the screenshot of the erro but it seems not possibel with this forum)...


Tags: comment

edit

page
How to use add-page macro to copy an existing scaffold page?
Asked by Adam Adam:

I have currently setup an add-page macro link as follows:

{code}

{add-page-form:labels=open\|parent=@self\|type=page\|source=Case Template\|prefix=Customer Case }Add Case{add-page-form}

{code}

In the page Case Template, I have scaffold data entered.

When I attempt to execute this macro, it appears to bring up the source of the source page, but when I hit save, it says Page Not found.

It never actually saves the cloned page.

When I add a scaffold tag at the top and bottom of the page, it does allow the cloning to occur, but the reporting plugin cannot view the scaffold data.

Since I am forced to copy existing pages as my templates (Space admin won't allow us to have our own templates), is there anyway for me to accomplish this?

<br />


Answers:
author: David Dube
body: From what I gather... you're kind of limited not being able to use templates. I think your issue is that you need to specify a unique name for the wiki page... so if you did something like:

{add-page:labels=open\|parent=@self\|type=page\|source=Case Template\|name=Customer Case %child-counter:next% }Add Case{add-page}

You'll generate a unique name (Customer Case 1, Customer Case 2, etc) each time the page is saved. You will still see the source code when you click on the link to add the case, however if you click save, you'll then be shown the form where you can fill out the contents. Not ideal though...
Japanese characters in page titles appear as '?'
Asked by Jeffrey Harris:

I am importing localized documentation into Confluence, which seems to have some trouble displaying the Japanese kanji (double-byte characters), particularly in Page Titles, links, and the ToC. Rather than displaying the correct characters, I see a string of question marks "?????".

I also get messages about duplicate page titles when I know they are not. And while all of this happens, the page content seems to display just fine.

Any ideas why this would happen?

Note, I'm not a Japanese speaker, just trying to get content into the Wiki so our Japanese translator can take over.


Answers:
author: Jeremy Largman
body: It sounds like you have an encoding problem. Check [Troubleshooting Character Encodings](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Character+Encodings). Often it's the database - that's the most likely.


author: Jeffrey Harris
body: In my case, Jeremy is exactly correct.

When we installed Confluence, somehow the database was set to "Latin-1" character encoding. Not good for displaying double-byte characters. Once we changed the database encoding to UTF-8, and confirmed that both the App Server and Confluence application were also set to UTF-8, then things started working famously.

I haven't had any trouble with Japanese character display since.

comments: author: David Dube
body: Did you just follow [this procedure](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Database+Character+Encoding#ConfiguringDatabaseCharacterEncoding-UpdatingexistingdatabasetoUTF8), or is there an easier way?

Did you lose any content? Of the content that was already saved (using Japanese characters)... was the content retained or did you have to re-copy/add the content?

Dave


author: Jeffrey Harris
body: We followed that procedure. Resetting the database encoding was a bit of a pain, but it was necessary to get things working.


author: David Dube
body: Hi Timplooker,

I'm having the same issue... were you able to resolve this on your end? I was able to find a [language pack](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/20758 "language pack"), but it's reportedly only compatible with v3.2 - v3.2.1, and I'm running with 3.4.1.

Dave
Confluence Macro Plugin - Customise Input Parameters
Asked by diego diego:

Hi,

I tried set label and description of input parameter element in atlassian-plugin.xml, see example:

```
....
```

```
<parameters>
             <parameter name="param_name" type="boolean" default="false">
                    <label>Some label (asdasd)</label>
                    <description>... some description...</description>
             </parameter>
```

```
</parameters>
....
```

<br />

But this dont work... is any way to set label and description for input macro parameters?

Second question: Is possible disable input field (parameter) with name "Body Text" in macro inserting?

Thanks for answers


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Check this:

<http://www.atlassian.com/en/about/events/atlascamp/2010/day2/making-confluence-macros-easy>

..particularly slide 33 onwards

comments: author: diego diego
body: Thanks a lot, it was very useful :)


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: @Diego Elos: If it helped, up-vote it or mark as answered. Thanks!


author: diego diego
body: new question:

```
<parameter name="draw" type="enum" required="true">
       <value name="line" />
       <value name="fill" />
</parameter>
```

How I can set different string of name element value? Because I want use string "line" only as code name, not display string.

comments: author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: I would guess at...

```
com.example.confluence.plugin.macroname.param.paramname.value.valuename.label=XXX
```

So in your case, perhaps...

```
com.example.confluence.plugin.macroname.param.draw.value.line.label=Lin
com.example.confluence.plugin.macroname.param.draw.value.fill.label=Fill
```


Tags: descriptor

macro

parameter
How to show specific pages in a list?
Asked by Steffen Hall:

Hi!

I am trying to figure out how I can show a list of documents that have been labeled with "specific_label".

The "Blog Post" macro, is doing more or less what I want. However, on my dashboard there is a section showing all news items. The documents with "specific_label" should not show on the dashboard.

Does anyone know of any way I could do this ?

The point of this, is to have a section on the front page (dashboard), that shows current events (ie. ongoing projects, works, problems etc etc).

I have to get some help here, as I have no clue of how to get this working without using "news".

Thank you in advance,  
Steffen Hall


Answers:
author: Laura Kolker
body: You may also find the following useful from the dashboard customizing side of your question:

answers question about customizing the dashboard


author: Richard Yale
body: You mean something like this?

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+by+Label+Macro>


Tags: blog

content-by-label

dashboard

macro