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confluence: creating space templates
Asked by red sonja:

Like very useful the page templates we would urgently need space templates too (subspace compatible!!)

is there any possibility to create such space templates (best if including subspaces)?


Answers:
author: Gorka Puente _Appfire_
body: Hi,

You could try Yoikee Creator for Confluence

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.keinoby.confluence.plugins.yoikee-creator)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.keinoby.confluence.plugins.yoikee-creator>

allows you create N spaces with the very same page structure. You just create a mind map, which is in fact a Space Blueprint, and you generate as many spaces as you need. Yoikee has three examples to start with: a new product, a new project and a new marketing campaign.   
Here is a video explaining all this [](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_B-bBwMUo)<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_B-bBwMUo>

Regarding subspaces, we're working on Yoikee Organizer and we might make it compatible with subspace plugin.  

Best regards,

Gorka


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi,

Have a look at our Add-on. It does exatly what you are looking for and it is really simple to use. The template is a normal confluence page tree and the end users simple press a button, filling out the form and the space is created.

**[Marketplace link: Space Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.SpaceTreeCreator/server/overview)**

Regards,  
Stephan


author: Judith Winkler (Communardo)
body: Hi Sonja,

Currently I don't know such a solution, but I discussed with colleagues already about templates that use our Subspace Plugin. Therefore it helps us a lot to understand your requirements afor such a template.

I would be really happy if you contact us via [confluence-support@communardo.de](mailto:confluence-support@communardo.de) with some more infomation about your idea. Later we can update the results here.

I'm looking forward,

Judith


Tags: template
Searching within Confluence
Asked by Peter Johanson:

The wiki I'm editing is quite complicated and it isn't possible to have a perfectly structured, user friendly format. Is there ways of entering search facilities for groups of pages/the entire wiki?

Would entering html code for the search box work? Or would that just search the page that it is on?

Thanks


Answers:
author: MJ
body: Assuming it is available on the version of Confluence you are running, would the [Page Tree Search](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Tree+Search+Macro) macro be of use to you?

comments: author: Peter Johanson
body: Yea that's perfect, thanks


Tags: search
Child Pages don't display using read-only login
Asked by RPT Admin:

I'm using Confluence on demand. One of my frustrations is the long-standing issue that child pages are always displayed at the foot of every page. I'm aware that you can amend this behaviour using the download version, but not On-Demand.

Only thing is - I'm now beta testing my site, so I've set up some logins for read-only acess. When I log in as myself, I see the child pages at the foot of the page as expected. But when I log in using one of the limited accounts - the child pages appear simply as a heading, which then expands if you click on it.

Does anyone know if this is the expected behaviour?


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Alex,

It looks like this may be resolved, but if it happens again please try to grab a screen cap. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around what is happening.

comments: author: RPT Admin
body: OK, will do. I'm kicking myself for not taking a screenshot at the time.


author: RPT Admin
body: OK, not resolved. Just saw the same behaviour again while giving a demo. I can't share a screenshot here as the wiki content is purely in-house, but if you email me alex.morrice\[at\]ros.gov.uk, I'll email it to you as an attachment.


author: RPT Admin
body: I'm uisng On Demand.


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Can you confirmed your Confluence release version.


author: RPT Admin
body: This is bizarre. I am now seeing the same behaviour using both logins. Pretty sure I haven't changed any settings meantime.


Tags: child-page

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confluence: show spacekey
Asked by red sonja:

I would need just to show the spacekey within the space homepage. (we use confluence 5.1)

I know that there's a space information macro, but this is too much.

Is there any possibility to have a text like this "spacekey: ..." ?

this would be VERY helpful - thx!!


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: You can create a user macro and add the following:

```
## @noparams$space.key
```

This will show the space key.

Alternatively, you can use JavaScript:

```
AJS.params.spaceKey
```

which will return the spacekey

comments: author: red sonja
body: wow it works, thanks!!!

i created my first user macro :)

but could I maybe add options like show the spacekey of the parent space?


author: Amalia
body: Glad to hear that :)

The concept of "parent space" is not available in Confluence. Are you using a third-party plugin?


author: red sonja
body: no, i'm using the subspaces macro and therfore have 'parent'-spaces.

(sorry for the late answer - i got a baby in the meantime ;) )

comments: author: Dogan Can
body: Hi, did you solve the problem? Can you get the spacekey of parent space?


author: red sonja
body: i would really only need the spacekey (ideally to be shown on any page). because there are some macros, eg the subspaces macro that needs the spacekey instead of the space name and its quite annoying being in the edit mode and then having to get out again, check the spacetools and so on just to get to know the spacekey.it would be cool if there was a macro named "show spacekey" with the parameter "space" that in the end looks like 'spacekey: xyz'then i could use it on any page for any space.for example: we have the subspaces macro to show the children and on other occasion show spaces of the same hierarchical order. so we sometimes need the spacekey of another space too.

comments: author: Daniel Borcherding
body: If this was a macro and you were editing the page wouldn't it just revert to being a box?

Can you just take note of the Key in the URL paramater before you go into edit mode?


author: RianA
body: Do you want the content of the Home page to only show the space key? Or is it the URL address?


Tags: confluence-administration

space-key
RefinedWiki Original Theme disables "Create" button
Asked by Sylvain:

Hello,

I have a very strange behavior which seems to be due to a mix. of the RefinedWiki Original + some network/firewall configuration I have at work.

At home, I am able to access my confluence server without any problem (it is hosted on a private server, published on tcp/80), and I use RefinedWiki Original Theme.

At work (where access to Internet is quite controlled (proxy, only access to 80/443, etc.), I am able to login to my Confluence website but I cannot see the button "Create" to create a new content. It might not be the only problem but this is the one I first noticed.

Then I discovered that when I disable RefinedWiki Original Theme, I get back the "Create" button and am able to use Confluence without any additional visibile problem.

Any idea ?

Regards.

Sylvain


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

Are you able to bypass the network settings at work in a test environment to confirm your thoughts?

What I would do to troubleshoot the issue in those cases would be to remove the customizations (layouts, scripts, etc.) which were running in the instance and test again.

Also, you might want to check the confluence logs and look for some error with customizations or the refinedwiki theme.

I hope this helps!

Rodrigo


Tags: addon-com.refinedwiki.confluence.plugins.theme
Should I pay again if I want to upgrade my Confluence from 4.x to 5.x ?
Asked by Jay Ji:

I think I'm going to buy Confluence 4.3.7

one day, if I want to upgrade my Confluence, do i have to pay for it?


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Jay,

For additional information, you could upgrade without no cost if your license's maintenance period is not expired when the release is out. For example, if Confluence 5.2 is release on October 2013 and your license maintenance period expired in September 2013, you won't be able to upgrade to Confluence release version 5.2.

Hope that extra information clarify your doubts on this issue.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: You can just upgrade at no cost.

You can also reach our Sales for such questions at:

Email: sales@atlassian.com  
Phone: <http://www.atlassian.com/company/contact>
Confluence Pdf ViewFile marco, with a click?
Asked by Paolo Torricelli:

is it possible to insert a pdf preview "minimized" (closed) so that if the user is interested it will open it?

i try with:

\* Link but it generate a direct download

\* File view it generate the embedded preview but it's quite large

\* File Attach it's nice but it costs lot of work if use is on per-file base


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Paolo,

Just wondering if you have tried [expand macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Expand+Macro) which could hide a content and display it by a click of a button. This macro could hide your pdf preview and users who are interested to see it could click the macro button to reveal the preview.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


author: Paolo Torricelli
body: Hi Septa, thank you for your hint, that of course works.

it's a bit expensive, maybe i can try to build up a user macro that compose both macro
Confluence Page Title Shortcut
Asked by Paolo Torricelli:

Because i often use keyboard, how is it possible to create a page, writing down the content and save it without a keyboard way to write the title?

I think i need a way to write the page title without using the mouse, and maybe it's the best to write it as the very first thing when start to typing, but anyway it's ok also to use an editor shortcut to jump to it just after writing down the page content.

thank you1


Answers:
author: BillA
body: When you create the page it will place the cursor in the editor. Hit shift+tab to move cursor into the title field. Type your title and hit tab again to type your page. When done type cmd/ctrl+s to save the page.


author: argosy_ops
body: Not sure I understood you correctly. You want to use only the keyboard and because the cursor is automatically placed in the content area, you are not sure how to add the title afterwards without clicking into the field with the mouse?  

If that is the case, just use the tab key on your keyboard. As with any decent made website, pressing tab will go from one interactive element on a site to the next. If you want to reach the previous element (which is the title field in this case), just press shift+tab to cycle to the opposite direction.


author: Paolo Torricelli
body: that you all for your answers: shift-tab in my opinion is a good workaround (and it's what i normally use) but in some situations can't work, for example when you instantiate a blueprint containings form.
Who is in the confluence-users group?
Asked by Janet Fisher:

If I have a Confluence server in the cloud (ie, <https://teamname.atlassian.net/wiki>...), and I give rights to the **confluence-users** group to one of the spaces (ie, <https://teamname.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ds>), who then can view the spaces on that site?

Can users who have other servers in the cloud see that space?

Can users of my server see that space?

Can only the users of the space see the space?


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: If no other users or no other groups are given permission to view that space, then only users in confluence-users group will be able to see the space.

Do checkout the following documentation from Atlassian. FYI, Confluence is based on 3 level of permissions: Global, Space, and Page restrictions.

[Global Permissions Overview](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview)

[Assigning Space Permissions - Confluence Latest - Atlassian Documentation - Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Assigning+Space+Permissions)

[Page Restrictions - Confluence Latest - Atlassian Documentation - Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Restrictions)


author: Janet Fisher
body: Also, from another post, "\[if you\] restrict it to confluence-users, ... only your registered users can see it."


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's your Confluence, it's only visible to people you explicitly choose to make it visible to. That can include "anonymous users", but it's still your choice. Doesn't matter if I was a user or an admin on the confluence on the same server, I wouldn't have any access to yours.

The exception is, as always, your system administrators - they can get to everything. This would be Atlassian people if you're using OnDemand, and support/admin if you're using someone else's services.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confidentiality of information in Confluence
Asked by Phoebe:

Hi,

I'm a psychologist and would like to use Confluence. Would you be able to ensure that information I write on Confluence pages would be able to be kept fully confidential?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Josch Bencke
body: Hi Phoebe - no. Not with confluence and hardly any other internetbased service.

You need to ensure that the complete system is kept confidential (secure DMZ, two factor authentication etc.).

Actually - you should not have the system reachable "via internet" at all. Its not only "McGee and Abby" who are able to break into internetconnected servers. Often, scriptkiddies can already, just having fun during computerclass.

IF you want to have a "wiki to go" - you could set up a "filebased" wiki, run from an usb stick, you encrypt with TrueCrypt.


author: LucasA
body: Hi Phoebe,

I believe that you're talking about Confluence OnDemand (our SaaS offering). This is our OnDemand privacy policy: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/About+Your+Data>

Lucas


Tags: restriction
Amend 'Blank Page' template?
Asked by Steve Sweales:

Is it possible to amend the 'Blank Page' template within Confluence?

I want to be able to force users to use a standard company template for a page rather than starting with a truely blank page (obviously, once they edit the page they could remove the contents to have a blank page).

Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Steve,

It appears to be an outstanding feature request.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-3697>

Looks like an old one, with a call for use case justification from the PM 4 months ago.

comments: author: Steve Sweales
body: Thanks for this - just what I was looking for. I have pinged the PM. =)


author: Chris M
body: How do you do this? From what I can tell the issue has been resolved but when I go into Admin/ Global Templates \& Blueprints I do not see the Blank Page template listed and therefore cannot alter it. The question remains: How do you alter the Blank Page template?

comments: author: Larry
body: damn good question!


author: hsuhailah
body: By default, this is not possible without customization or perhaps plugin development but I found this article which might interest/benefit you: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEVAL/Create+a+Page+Using+a+Default+Template>


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to migrate spaces from Confluence OnDemand to Confluence installed on site using XML export/import?
Asked by Shira Bezalel:

We would like to migrate a few spaces from 5.2 OD to a local Confluence installation. Is it possible to do that with the XML export/import functionality? Or do we have to use the method described on this page to move the entire site?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+from+Confluence+OnDemand+to+a+Confluence+Installed+Site>

We would rather only move a few select spaces and are hoping we can move them using the XML export/import method. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Yea, that is jsut fine. Just make sure you are running the very latest version of the Confluence OD distribution as in the article you cited.

Maybe one gotcha. Your users are not going to be migrated and will have to be recreated.

I don't think there is an easy way to automate this last bit.

comments: author: Shira Bezalel
body: We'll give it a try, then. Thanks!


author: Marlon Aguiar
body: Hello there,

You should be able to do it using the steps outlined on the following document: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+a+Space>

Hope it helps!

Regards,  
Marlon


Tags: cloud

confluence-administration

export

import

migration

xml
Lucene Compatibility Plugin - Confluence 5.1
Asked by Trevor Hunt:

Where can I re-download this plugin to install it? It was giving me trouble so I uninstalled it only to find other plugins had dependencies based on this one.

I'm having trouble finding it on the Atlassian Marketplace.

I find it a little odd that it showed up in the "user installed" plugins section. Had it been in the system section I'd have left it alone.


Answers:
author: Trevor Hunt
body: Solution was to uninstall and reinstall Team Calendars... then clear our a few folders so Confluence could rebuild my "contributors macro"


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Is this it?

<https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/confluence-lucene-compat/overview>

comments: author: Trevor Hunt
body: Yes, but not the solution to the problem. I actually had to uninstall and re-install Team Calendars.
Events Calendar
Asked by Scott Johnson:

What is the difference b/t Events Calendar and People Calendar in Confluence?

Can I update an existing calendar by importing an iCal? I don't want to create a new calendar everytime I need to import.


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: We've just gotten rid of this "Calendar types" concept in Team Calendars 4.0 (should be shipping to OnDemand shortly), it was adding a lot of complexity, and quite frankly we didn't do a good job of keeping it simple. What used to be the difference was the fields you got depending on the type of calendar you were in. We've removed this limitation in Team Calendars 4.0. Learn more about it here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TEAMCAL/Team+Calendars+4.0+Release+Notes>

Can I update an existing calendar by importing? No you can't import to an existing calendar right now. Would be a good feature request on [jira.atlassian.com](http://jira.atlassian.com), although this feautre would essentially give you the same thing: [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1012](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1012.).

I'm curious to hear why you need to import on a regular basis? What are you doing that requires this?

comments: author: Scott Johnson
body: Sherif - Thank you for your response. Outlook is our default calendar, so being able to update the Confluence calendar with information from Outlook would be very useful. Otherwise, we are forced to manage, create, edit events in two calendars.


Tags: calendar

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Editing a Confluence Page does not work (on new installation)
Asked by Ondrej Lisy:

Hi,

I'm facing the same javascript bug like kazoompa (<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/165916/editing-a-confluence-page-does-not-work?page=1#203791>). I can't create or edit any page. My second error appears when I click on root "Pages", when I get "java.lang.RuntimeException: Error rendering template for decorator root  
at com.atlassian.confluence.setup.velocity.ApplyDecoratorDirective.render(ApplyDecoratorDirective.java:186)"  
Thank you in advance for your help,

Ondrej


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Try to [clear of plugin cache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache). As this is a new installation, I believe there are no customization done on your end, hence it could be a simple plugin cache corruption issue.

If that is not the case, you might need to check the permission of your installation and HOME directory and ensure that OS user that run Confluence has complete privilege against those two directories.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


author: Ondrej Lisy
body: Thank you Septa. I did twice the instalation, which probably screwed up ...

BTW: I haven't found any plugin folders to clear on my fresh installation, so finally full delete and reinstallation have helped.

Have a nice day, Ondrej

comments: author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Not a problem. For clarification, you should be able to find those directories [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Home+Directory?src=search).


Tags: confluence-administration
Diagramly macro doesn't follow confluence links nature
Asked by Rostislav Simonik:

Diagramly macro links on diagram entities get broken after name(title) of page changes. It doesn't follow current confluence link nature where link is referenced by page id instead of page name.

Impact: When two different people, one works on diagrams and the another works on pages that are linked together through the link entity feature then the person who is going to rename the page is not familliar (is also unable to discover) of any dependencies and these links get broken.


Answers:
author: Boris
body: If I understood correctly you are creating links to pages inside the diagrams? And these links are broken after page has been renamed?

URL of the link is set by the user so we have no control over what is put in it.


author: Boris
body: We will investigate the issue shortly.


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly
Search could be better!
Asked by Norbert Haberl:

Hey guys,

awesome product but a major functionality feels really really neglected - searching  
Try to search for a user where I only know the lastname ?! Or do we have to know all the filed names by heart ? For example I look for tags more (which is called labelText in your case which is far from standard) than for full content.  

Some search examples should be fine also... what is the handle ??  

Ok, search could be better - really!  

Thank you for doing your best!


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: Hi Norbert,

This page describes the searchg syntax for Confluence: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Syntax>

You can certainly do a search for labels like this.

To do a focussed search on a user by name, either first name or surname, the People Directory is your best option I think.

Regards,

Charles


author: Mick Davidson
body: Mark,

Very good, but I normally save my questions as favourites, so it's my fault I can't find the conversation. :)


author: Mark Symons
body: *I can't find that conversation in Answers at the moment, but it's here somewhere.*   

So "Search could be better!" seems to apply to Anwers as well.... =)


author: Mick Davidson
body: Norbert,

there's an on-going moan about search, see here:

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/158080/search-returns-wrong-results](/questions/158080/search-returns-wrong-results)

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/162589/your-experience-on-using-and-improving-the-built-in-search-in-confluence-sought](/questions/162589/your-experience-on-using-and-improving-the-built-in-search-in-confluence-sought)

There's also a Jira in for the recent changes to the search involving labels. I can't find that conversation in Answers at the moment, but it's here somewhere.

Cheers.


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