youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Application 'confluence' / 'jira' failed authentication
Asked by xufenfei:

crowd: 2.4.0

confluence: 5.4.2

jira: 6.1.6-standalone

In crowd log,as follow:

2015-06-29 16:00:40,435 http-8095-25 INFO \[plugin.rest.filter.BasicApplicationAuthenticationFilter\] Application 'confluence' failed authentication  
2015-06-29 16:05:17,778 http-8095-35 INFO \[plugin.rest.filter.BasicApplicationAuthenticationFilter\] Application 'confluence' failed authentication  
2015-06-29 16:14:15,014 http-8095-27 INFO \[plugin.rest.filter.BasicApplicationAuthenticationFilter\] Application 'jira' failed authentication  
2015-06-29 16:17:20,047 http-8095-37 INFO \[plugin.rest.filter.BasicApplicationAuthenticationFilter\] Application 'confluence' failed authentication

where i use my user log in wiki admin:

The password you entered is incorrect.

<br />

I can't login "confluence admin"

I DON'T know why, and how to correct it ?!

<br />

<br />


Answers:
author: Sateesh Chandra
body: Please check the application login credentials in crowd.properties. Did you configure the confluence and JIRA login credentials in crowd.properties file in the crowd server. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/The+crowd.properties+file>

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You only need that file if you're doing SSO with Crowd. The basic connection details are handled in the Crowd UI


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The application needs a password to read crowd, the password you have given in the directory settings is incorrect.

To fix it, you need to log in as an admin and correct the setting for the directory. You'll need to use one of the internal admin accounts to do that, possibly having to disable external crwod to get to them, and possibly with a new password. See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights>


Tags: confluence-administration
Footnotes add on Support for Confluence v5.8.4
Asked by Kamlesh Rao:

Are you close to releasing the version to support Confluence v5.8.4 ?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I can't give you a set date, but the issue is in the development team's queue and it's had some work done on it recently, so I expect it will be along soon


Tags: addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.footnotes
How to enable sidebar (showing page, blog etc) in a Space while site Theme is Documentation Theme?
Asked by Suzanne Liu:

Our site Theme is Documentation Theme. At space level we want to enable sidebar but cannot figure out how to do it as only available space theme options are either Global Look and Feel or Documentation Theme.

What we want is a side bar like below is shown.

image2015-6-29 13:43:34.png


Answers:
author: Siddheshwar mhetre
body: Hi,

You need to change **Theme** from administration section.

Go to the **confluence-administrator** -\> **Look and Feel** -\> **Thames** -\> select **Default theme** -\> **confirm**

regards,

Siddheshwar


Tags: confluence-administration
I've been trying to migrate Confluence...
Asked by Diana Coman:

Hello,

I've been trying to create an exact copy of our production Confluence site on another server - in order to have a test site. This document <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers> seems to be missing a lot of steps and no matter how hard I tried to combine the other docs talking about installing Confluence, setting up Confluence, migrating the database and what not, I can't make up the exact procedure to get the test site up and running.

I have installed and setup Confluence from scratch, I installed SQL from scratch, restored a .bak file, copied the home/install Confluence directories, updated the pointers to the right locations but with no luck. I get Java 500 errors, or Page cannot be displayed - depending on what steps I've performed.

The server OS version is identical Win 2012 R2 Std, Confluence is 5.7.1, Java is the exact same version on both...

Is there a document out there or a reference that's more detailed?

Please let me know,

D


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I can't see the docs missing any steps - lots of people have used it to move many Confluence systems. It does rely on other documentation (like installing confluence), as there's no need to repeat the basics.

I've no idea where you're getting a .bak file from though, that's not in there anywhere.

We can't really tell you more than what is in there without you explaining which bits you are doing differently from the doc though. The basic idea is "set up new confluence, get it to work, get data out of old one and put it in the new one", but we don't know what you're doing.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way to disable the Full Name field in user registration?
Asked by viktor mason:

Hello. I would just like to have members register with Usernames and omit the required Full Name field. I would also like it if the usernames were displayed instead of names. I couldn't find a setting for that under user management. Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You'll need to amend quite a lot of core code in Confluence to do that - users prefer the use of their real name, and it's a lot more sociable and friendly to use a display name, so Confluence does this correctly and allows a display name.


author: viktor mason
body: Well that's unfortunate. Page edits for instance lists my full name instead of my username. Usernames are the norm for the majority of collaboration and forum CMS. There's lots of situations where privacy is a concern. Especially for the 10-25 user licenses, these are not for the fortune 500 companies where real names and employee IDs are required.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Nothing to stop you entering a username or "Raymond throatwobbler Morgan" instead of a real name.And it doesn't matter if you're a small organisation if you're in a field that is regulated (it's illegal to not use identifiable names in finance for example - doesn't matter where you are, who you are or you have 1 employee or 100,000)


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I change the PDF export for date picker
Asked by bricin:

Our team is standardizing on the built in Date Picker widget so we ensure normalized dates throughout the wiki (i.e. no more June 30th, 6/30, 30/6, 6/30/15 just a nice simple 30 Jun 2015). Unfortunately when exported to PDF this looks really clunky with the widget showing a dark gray box around it.

I'm spelunking through the PDF export stylesheet docs; is there a way to alter the export look/feel for macros like this?


Answers:
author: BenoitP
body: Customize this macro with the following CSS style in your pdf space stylesheet (the example below cancels any formatting and shows a normal format):

```
.wiki-content time{  background-image: none !important;  background-repeat: no-repeat !important;  background-position: left center !important;  background-color: #FFFFFF !important;  border: 0px solid #FFFFFF  !important;  border-radius: 0px !important;  padding: 0 0px 0 0px  !important;  white-space: none !important;}
```

comments: author: bricin
body: Thank you Benoit, that is perfect!


author: Milo Test
body: Really nice solution! And thanks for asking the question; this was one of those things I didn't know I cared about until I saw the better result.
import fail
Asked by Registered User:


Answers:
author: Registered User
body: Sorry, I was searching for a question and ended up posting this. It can be deleted. It is being handled by support.


author: petry
body: Can you please specify your question? What kind of import are you performing? Is there any errors appearing?

If not, I'd suggest you to contact the Cloud Support to further check what can be causing this, since they have access to your log files and can see something related there.

Cheers,  
Andre


author: AnnWorley
body: What error was showing in the UI and what error in the logs?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to use User Macro fields in Page Properties Report
Asked by Tomas Markus:

Dear Community, I am kindly sking for help with the following:

**Situation**

I have a User Macro that renders a table in the format of a \>Page Properties\< macro. This macro is embedded in the \>Page Properties\< macro body.

**Goal**

Now I would like to use the \>Page Properties Report\< macro to show the data entered in the User Macro but it will not work.

**Assumption**

The logical assumption here is that the User Macro stores its metadata in a way that makes it not actual part of the "content" of the page and it is therefore inaccessible to the \>Page Properties Report\< macro for extraction. Yet there might be a smart workarround I have not figured but some of you may know about.

Many thanks!

Tomas


Answers:
author: Tomas Markus
body: So do I, but it might be worth exploring and maybe even getting it to a feature request as the use case is good, I think: You have a template with e.g. 3 fields and over time it gets used dozen of times at which' point you decide to add one more field to the page properties. That is the point when, if done via user macro, would yielld its benefit....


author: Tim
body: I had the same experience with the include and excerpt-include macros. If there is a smart workaround, I would love to hear about it, but I think it is unlikely.
Is there a way to share editing privileges on team calendars?
Asked by Diane Ko:

There's a way to edit a calendar that's super hidden (I don't even know where to find it anymore minus that it's in my history) called My Calendars at /wiki/calendar/mycalendar.action. From there, you can remove added calendars and edit a variety of features that aren't allowed from an embedded calendar.

Is there a way for me to share ownership of those calendars with other users so that if they were to go to that same page, they would be able to see the shared calendar?


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hello Diane,

The page mentioned on your description is related to the calendar of the logged user. So if you want the other users to see the same calendars that you have on your own calendar, they need to add the same calendars you've got.

See this page to get an overview: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/team-calendars-quick-tour-241566246.html>

i hope it helps,

Eduardo


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

team-calendars-for-confluence
Clarification needed regarding confluence
Asked by keshav kumar:

Hi All,

I have couple of questions regarding Confluence capabilities

1. Can we add a group of people as experts based on topics and when someone selects the topic a notification has to go to expert on that topic. if Yes please tell me how to do that.
2. once i accept an answer in questions and somebody has posted better answer to the same question, now i want to mark the latest answer as better one. can we do this.
3. Do we have any approval cycle for document publishing. for example user A has written one troubleshooting document but before publishing the document it has to go to some approvers in the team.Can we do this in confluence.

Thanks in Advance

KK


Answers:
author: keshav kumar
body: Thank you so much @lavitz slambert for the valuable answers

comments: author: lavitz slambert
body: You are more than welcome Keshav, if I adressed all the points mind accepting my previous comments :D? If not, let me know how I can help further help you.


author: lavitz slambert
body: Hey Keshav,

Replying your questions:  
1 - Confluence questions does not offer that functionality, what your users could do is to add theirselves as watchers of that topic so when a question is added they would get a notification.  
2 - Yep, you can change the accepted answer at will :).  
3 - Kinda, through a built in way in confluence, nope. Adding a third party plugin to your Confluence instance, yes:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=179438967>  
Thanks and Regards,  
Lavitz - the guy that uses Confluence on Windows as a Hobby!


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence - Jira Macro Plugin results issue
Asked by Sri Sri:

We are using JIRA macro to display total. While the edit view shows accurate results, confluence final view doesn't in some cases.

JQL Query works fine in Jira; Macro results works fine in edit mode which proves that there are no issues with the query itself

any known issues with page rendering ?

can you please review and suggest a solution


Answers:
author: Letitia Meenan
body: We are experiencing a similar problem. Did the proposed resolution work for you?


author: lavitz slambert
body: By any chances you are using a proxy in front of confluence/JIRA or using SSL communication?

I had that kind of problem in the past and instead of investigating this in the network level I created a second connector to bypass those just for the application links as described in below guide:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/KB/How+to+bypass+a+reverse+proxy+or+SSL+in+Application+Links>

As our network is secure I did not saw any problems in making a "un secure" "proxy less" communication between JIRA and Confluence.

![information](/html/@4DF2F60CA30FBCA0CD7B960B5D0F871B/images/emoticons/information.png "information") It worked as a charm btw :smile:.  
If you agree with the above try that and let us know if it will work or not.  
Lavitz - the guy that uses Confluence on Windows as a Hobby!


Tags: jira

macro
Confluence - search function to a home page
Asked by Julio Valdez:

Hi,

How can I add a search function to the home page where it will only search within our confluence space?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: You can use a number of macros:

image2015-6-25 11:27:4.png

Which results in:

image2015-6-25 11:28:31.png

For Page Tree Search, specify the home page of the space in question.

For Livesearch, specify the spaceKey of the space in question.

For Search Box, the default is the current space or you can specify a certain spaceKey or spaceKeys.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-search-function-to-a-home-page/qaq-p/368519?attachment-id=8271){#link_118846612a42ae}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/62266/1/image2015-6-25%2011%3A28%3A31.png){#display_118846612a42ae_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-search-function-to-a-home-page/qaq-p/368519?attachment-id=8272){#link_118846612a42ae_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/62266/2/image2015-6-25%2011%3A27%3A4.png){#display_118846612a42ae_2}


author: Davin Studer
body: The live search macro will give you this ability.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I make headers for table of contents
Asked by Greg Baskerville:

I have created a table on my page with a header row but when I try to create a table of contents it doesn't list any of those headers, it just creates a blank TOC. I can't seem to find what I'm doing wrong.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: The table of contents macro will create a table of contents based on the h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6 sections in the page. It doesn't do anything with table headers.
Confluence CLI how do I easily just clear a page leaving it empty?
Asked by Chris Hodgens:

If I try modifyPage and specify content it just adds the text before what is currently there. I would like to clear the page completely or just overwrite everything there with new content instead of inserting at the start.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Use [storePage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference#Reference-storePage) with an empty content parameter.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Tabs
Asked by Raoul Kaiser:

Is there a way to do tabs in Confluence Cloud?


Answers:
author: Tim
body: Hi Raoul,

We've created a Tabs macro as part of our toolbox of useful Confluence Cloud macros. It's pretty easy to use and it sounds like it could help you out.

Try it here: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1215202>

Keen to know if it's what you're looking for :smile:

Tim

comments: author: Raoul Kaiser
body: Yes that is what I was looking for, but since it was almost a year ago I can't remember what my plan was for them. LOL! :smile:


author: Prakhar Godbole
body: [@Tim](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/510087) The link seems to be not reachable as of now. IS this still active ?


author: Zoriana Bogutska_Adaptavist_
body: Hi [@Prakhar Godbole](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4900894)

This app is not available anymore.

But you can try other apps from the marketplace. For example

* [Tabs for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1222536/tabs-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&utm_source=Atlassian-Community&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Comment_Tabs_20221004)
* [Content Formatting Macros for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/247/content-formatting-macros-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud&utm_source=Atlassian-Community&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Comment_Tabs_20221004)

The first one helps add Tab macro, and the second one - has a list of different macros (including tabs) that help to improve content view on confluence pages.

The last one is created by my team, so if you have any questions - I can help :)


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: I don't see any reason that it couldn't be made available as an Atlassian Connect addon for Cloud. Maybe I'll think about implementing this if I have time.

comments: author: Raoul Kaiser
body: That would be awesome!


author: Prakhar Godbole
body: [@Stephen Deutsch](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781490) are there any updates on this ? I needed this feature too :)


author: lavitz slambert
body: If by tabs you mean one of the following:

* [Navi Tabs Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.navitabs)
* [Sibling Tabs user macro](https://davidsimpson.me/2013/10/07/sibling-tabs-user-macro-for-atlassian-confluence/)

The answer is no ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad"), navitabs is not listed on the cloud available add ons list and you can't create user macros in cloud.

One thing you could do is to raise a feature request at <https://jira.atlassian.com> asking for the navitabs plugin to be added on that list.  
Thanks and Regards,  
Lavitz - the guy that uses Confluence on Windows as a Hobby!


author: Andre Borzzatto
body: Yeah, the answer Iavitz has given us is actually the correct one.

If you want, you can alternatively let us hear what you would like Confluence to have with a little more details by creating a private ticket at https://support.atlassian.com so we can correctly address the improvement request for you.

Thanks!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence database can't create attachements table?
Asked by Timothy Harris:

A collegue of mine did a confluence upgrade that went bad. I am trying to roll back to previous version.

Steps:

* Restore backed up HOME directory
* Restore backed up INSTALL directory
* Restore backed up database

It is going bad when trying to execute the SQL file on the database with:
>
> ```
> ERROR 1005 (HY000) at line 1667: Can't create table 'confluence.ATTACHMENTS' (errno: 121)
> ```

Anybody have any ideas?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: MySQL right? Looks like your indices have gone bang. When you "restored backed up database", did you completely drop the target first and recreate a clean empty database?

comments: author: Timothy Harris
body: I ended up wiping the database and recreating it then doing the import. Worked fine.
Presh
Asked by Jennifer Allan:

Is the Presh plugin is compatible with 5.5.6 and the latest version of Confluence? It's odd that it is supported, but only up to version 5.1.5 so I thought I'd ask.


Answers:
author: lavitz slambert
body: Hey Jennifer,

That supported tab only means that the plugin is supported by someone, in presh case is [inflow](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/1210786). The version range of the plugin is updated by the vendor when he uploads the jar. As this plugin was released in 2013 this is why the version is up to 5.1.5 (it only have one version so is quite old ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")).

As for the compatibility I installed the plugin on a fresh Confluence 5.8.4 and had no problems during the upload process, however you would need to test it locally and see if the add on will work properly.

I would advise you to send inflow an email asking about that:

```
401 E. Sonterra Blvd.San Antonio Texas 78258United States of Americatech@inflowlogistics.com
```

However when I tried to reach the vendor page it was unreachable ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad"):

<http://www.inflowlogistics.com/>

Based on that and the fact no newer versions were added for more than two years I don't believe you will be able to reach the vendor that easily....  
Again I would advise you to test locally on a fresh 5.8.4 version before trying the add on in production.  
Thanks and Regards,  
Lavitz - the guy that uses Confluence on Windows as a Hobby!


Tags: confluence-administration
Control over history of workbox notifications
Asked by Victor Gleim:

In Confluence manual, it's stated:

* *Read notifications are automatically deleted after 2 weeks.*
* *Unread notifications are automatically deleted after 4 weeks.*

But is there any way to change how long the notifications are shown in workbox?


Answers:
author: Victor Gleim
body: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38131> was raised to make it possible one day.


Tags: confluence-administration

notification

workbox
import pdf
Asked by Rodrigo Segovia:

How to import the content of a PDF into confluence?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You can also render out an attached PDF on a wiki page using the PDF macro or the new functionality depending upon your version.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: David, which PDF macro are you referring to?Cheers.


author: Davin Studer
body: The built-in PDF macro that has been there since at least version 4.


author: Shashank Singh
body: [@Davin Studer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1018164)Can we import the content of a PDF into confluence?  
I am using Confluence cloud right now and am not able to import ther content of pdf file. Although it is possible with word document.

![import_word_or_pdf.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5024iBF676FE0DAD6EE93/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "import_word_or_pdf.PNG")


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can't do it directly - reading and parsing a pdf is potentially a nightmare because of all the stuff it might contain and an importer for confluence would be, at best, primitive and clunky, probably having to skip large sections of more complex pdfs.

It would be better to take a pdf and use a tool dedicated to converting them into word-processing formats, so the humans have a good interface designed to help them migrate the contents, then use Confluence's "import from word"


Tags: confluence-administration
Licence error on free plug-in?
Asked by Jan Orlandini:

Error: The license could not be verified!

Have Installed Customware Page Approval PlugIn via "Manage Add-Ons".

But when trying to use the plug-ins, I get the license error...

<br />

What shall I do?  


Answers:
author: Nelson Carranza
body: Hi Jan,

you need a license from their page <http://marketplace.servicerocket.com/product/page-approval-plugin>

<https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/PA/Installation+and+Licensing>

for questions related to service rocket products you should look at <https://community.servicerocket.com/servicerocket>

Regards

Nelson

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: You do indeed need a license from Service Rocket, but the license is free.


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

confluence-administration