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How to use image effects in a Confluence template?
Asked by Charles Hall:

Does anyone know how to use one of the new image effects in a page template when using Confluence 4.1?

Defining a page template relies on old fashioned wiki markup, so I'm fine inserting the image. I've tried the following markup, but the effects are ignored.

!my image.jpg\|effects=border-simple,blur-border,tape!

Thanks,

Charles


Answers:
author: Matt
body: It's not possible to use Image Effects with wiki markup. We need to allow the use of the new editor to create page templates. There's an existing issue for this which you can track here. We hope to ship this in a future release.

In the interim here's a workaround:

1) Create a new page and restrict editing to yourself -- this page will become ytour page template

2) Add all the content you wish to be in the template to this page, including the image with an effect

3) Save the page

4) Click on the tools menu

5) Right click on the menu item -- Copy -- and select 'Copy Link Address'

6) On another page create a link with an alias like 'Create a new \<template name\> page', using the link you just copied

When users click on this link Confluence will copy the page (template) you created in steps 1 to 3.

Hope that helps.

comments: author: Michael Zahendra
body: [@Matt Hodges](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1707022)

Answer no longer valid. Current workflow GUI does not contain "Copy Link Address"

Please remove from current Community and/or link to correct workflow GUI answer.

Thanks!


Tags: image

template
Running Atlassian On Demand - Can't get to Global Permissions - Only admins can log in at all.
Asked by stephen walcott:

I've finally upgraded and imported some old spaces into On Demand(Jira + Confluence + others)

I've added groups and users, but for some reason, only users in the administrators group can log in.  
The download version has "Global Permissions" that would allow me to set the Jira-User permissions.. however, in On-Demand I can't get to anything resembling "Global Permissions". I am logged in as Administrator.

Note that I'm still running trial version. (I'm committed to Confluence, but I have not finished evaluating the other tools yet.)


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: Administrators should be able to see JIRA's Global Permissions page. Please submit a [support request](https://support.atlassian.com) and we'll try and find out why you can't get to it.


Tags: confluence-cloud

cloud

jira-cloud

login

permission
Is the User Date Metadata Framework (UDMF) plugin going to be made compatible for the latest version of Confluence (4.1)?
Asked by Ted Huntington:

If no, how can we change the author of pages imported from other wikis?


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: The UDMF update for up to Confluence 4.2.X is now officially underway ... will be released next week.

Please check [here](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.steepdevelopment.confluence.udmf), next week.


Tags: app
how to get an overview of headings
Asked by Yuri Zats:

Hi,

Is there a good way to get an overview of headings used in the page ? I have a page that has a mix of headings and various fonts, so looking in the editor it's hard to tell the difference between headings and other text. For example, bold paragraph text and h6 look very similar.


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo yzats

The Table of Contents macro (toc macro) gives a list of headings on the page. It's quite versatile with some good parameters allowing you to set some useful options.

This page has an overview of the macros in Confluence:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/working%20with%20macros>

And this page describes the Table of Contents macro in particular:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Table+of+Contents+Macro>

You can also display the headings in just a portion of the page, using the Table of Contents Zone macro:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Table+of+Content+Zone+Macro>

I hope this answers the question.

Cheers, Sarah

comments: author: Yuri Zats
body: Thank you, this helps. Is there any other way to get same overview of the same information without modifying the page ? That would be ideal.
Macro to get a user's group membership
Asked by Adolfo Casari:

I need a user macro that for a given username, it returns the list of groups this user belong.

Any hints about the object I should use to get this info?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Colin Goudie
body: You can use GroupManager from atlassian-user which can return a Paging object of Groups for a given User object

comments: author: Adolfo Casari
body: Hi colin,

Can you provide a sample code on how to use these objects?

Thank you.
Problem with permissions
Asked by Pedro Sousa:

I'm experiencing a problem with my installation of Confluence (3.3.1) for the permissions.  

I have a space that there are some pages that are public, but users with permission confluence-users can only see through the direct link in your browser. If he tries to navigate through space it receives the notice not allowed.  

Anyone know what might be happening? If space is an issue or page specific?  

The pages have no individual restrictions, so I'm finding it very strange that event

Best regards

Pedro Sousa  


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: If there is a difference between how you get to the page (direct vs navigate) then there may be something in the authentication? How are your users logging in / authenticating? This sounds like an unusual problem so we may need more info or screenshots?
Confluence: 20 Spaces,15 Departments: Suggestions to report to managment
Asked by Freedom Is Not Anarchy:

TOPIC: Confluence: 20 Spaces,15 Departments: Suggestions to report to managment

Are there simple metrics I can gather and report to managment, based on the 20 Spaces we have designed for our company ?

(1) Space Consumed. For example, would I need back-end/host access to tell me that Space_01 consumes 2.3-Gig, Space_02 consumes 0.53-Meg, etc. ?

(2) Total number of Pages, per space

(3) Total number of Edits, per space

(4) Total number of WebLog postings, per space

---------

Quick, simple, easy metrics I can give to Mgment. Guidelines, friends ?


Answers:
author: Matt
body: You might find this document useful -- [Obtaining Confluence Instance Metrics](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Obtaining+Confluence+Instance+Metrics)


Tags: metric

report
Customize People Directory Page
Asked by Fabio Genovese:

Hi to all,

I need to show others information of user, like mobile + phone number, in the people directory page.

There is an easy way to customize that page and show that information?

thanks in advance

FABIO


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Fabio,

There's a commercial plugin that I think will do what you want - <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userprofile>

Would that work for the customisations that you want to make?

Andrew.

comments: author: Fabio Genovese
body: Hi Andrew,

thx for help :-). I'll test this plugin.


author: Susan Woster
body: I tried the plugin but couldn't figure out how to customize what displays in the People directory. Did you figure it out?


author: Eric_Mertens
body: Why can't we edit/change/customize the People Directory view.

At the moment it is just a random listing of users. Whereas i would like more structure ...

Please someone, anyone, shed some light.... and please no plugins!

comments: author: Eric
body: [@Eric_Mertens](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1056651) we are currently looking at building something for this at Atlassian and was wondering if you'd be able to spare some time to talk to us and give us your feedback? I'd love to hear from you if you can: esaboia@atlassian.com


author: Sherif Mansour
body: [@Fabio Genovese1](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/570646), we are currently looking at building something for this at Atlassian and was wondering if you'd be able to spare some time to talk to us and give us your feedback? I'd love to hear from you if you can: smansour@atlassian.com
How to create formula in confluence tab?
Asked by Eugene Frankel:

How to create formula in confluence tab?


Answers:
author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: Unfortunately this is not possible with Confluence right now. However, we have an open feature request which you can view here: [CONF-4632](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-4632)  

I recommend voting on this ticket and commenting with details on your use case. Customer feedback is one of the things that helps our developers decide what to work on next. I'd also suggest watching the issue so that you'll receive emails when the developers work on or comment on the issue, or when other users comment regarding workarounds.  
For more information on how Atlassian implements new features, bug fixes and improvements: [Implementation of New Features Policy](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy).

As a workaround it might be a possibility to embed a Google Doc spreadsheet that allows you to do calculations.

comments: author: Eugene Frankel
body: Thanks a lot! I will do so.


author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: Please mark the question answered if this helped you, which makes it easier for future users :)


author: Eugene Frankel
body: I need to create in Confluence's tab a cell where I will summarize integers from another cells/pages.

How I can do it please?

Also, is there anyway to make progress bar or something similar?

I am expecting to have some thing like in Excel or so.

Thanks.

Eugene


author: Parva C. - Narva Software
body: Hi Eugene,

If you are looking to write math formula in Confluence pages, you can use add-ons which provide that feature.

We recently released an add-on which allows rendering LaTeX as well as AsciiMath and MathML expressions in Confluence.

Please try out [**LaTeX Math for Confluence**](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1226109/latex-math-for-confluence-math-formula-equations?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) available at Atlassian Marketplace.

Let us know if you face any issues.

Thanks,

Parva


author: CelesteCS
body: Hello!

For any calculations in Confluence, including any manipulations with table data, you may use [CelesteCS Math for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.celestecs.confluence.celestecs-math). There are versions for both Confluence Server and Confluence Cloud.

Assume you have a table with three columns and three rows on your page -- from A1 till C3, where row 1 is the header row. The sum calculation formula for rows 2 and 3 will be simple:

```
SUM(Table1.A2:C3)
```

There is a plenty of other functions in the macro, so you may perform any calculations using formulas in EXCEL style.

Thanks!


author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: A formula? As in LaTeX?


Tags: calculation
is it possible to create a greenhopper project template from an existing project?
Asked by bmoomaw:

i designed a workflow for a project and did all the stuff to build myself a custom task board with all the columns i needed, mapped to the workflow states, and now i'd like to make a template out of it. is there any way to do this? or do i need to just recreate it all, building a template from scratch?


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: This is possible. Refer <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/Specifying+your+Project+Templates#SpecifyingyourProjectTemplates-aboutcustomtemplates>


Tags: jira-software

template
Testing a Confluence 4.0 upgrade
Asked by Kevin Buchs:

Is there a clever way to find problems with the upgrade of the content, such as macros/plug-ins that are broken or missing? I searched for "Wiki Markup" and didn't find any hits. I am wondering if there is a better way than me looking at each page for errors?


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Kevin,

Have a look at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Wiki+Markup+to+XHTML+Migration> which gives some information on migration/upgrade logs where you can check if there were any problems with the upgrade. Also on that page Dick Visser has provided some SQL statements to identify problem content.

Also, if you suspect that certain macros may have problems there's a useful guide on how to check where certin macros are used on Sarah Maddox's blog at <http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/>

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

comments: author: Kevin Buchs
body: Thanks, Andrew
Make Sticky functionality in Confluence
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Hello,

I'm running Confluence 4.0 and am finding, on a seemingly random basis, there is an ption under Tools called Make Sticky.

This does not appear in all spaces and there is no obvious reason why it appears in some and not in others. For example, some pages have other macros running, but this has no effect on whether this option shows.

Also, there is no macro that I've found that enables this functionality - as one of the senior admins, I'd expect to know when things like this change, so it seems to have happened quite randomly.

Also, I can't find any info on this in the user info, so am not sure what it's actually for.

Anyone got any ideas about why this is happening and what "make sticky" is used for?

Cheers,


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Mick,

It sounds like you're using Community Bubbles - <https://www.adaptavist.com/display/Bubbles/Sticky+Topics> - and the option to make things sticky is available to people who have the appropriate permission - <https://www.adaptavist.com/display/Bubbles/Forum+Permission+Management>

Andrew.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Yes, you are right, thanks!

I didn't realise this would happen as I'm just setting this up ad skiing up the learning curve.

Thanks.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: You're welcome. Happy skiing :-)


author: Mick Davidson
body: Andrew,

Thanks again. I'm now following your blog and yourself on twitter.

I'll be launching a new blog on being a tech author using Atlassian products very soon. Will keep you informed of it's progress. :) Were you in London for the Unite day?

Cheers,


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Cheers. Followed back and also from the real me (@SphericalN). Look forward to the blog.

Unfortunately I couldn't make it to Unite.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Thanks, and thanks! :)

London was fabulous, I shall write about it in my first blog.


Tags: sticky
Internal vs. External User Admin rights
Asked by Chris Flynn:

If I create an internal user in Confluence and assign them to the confluence-administrators group they have more permissions than if I assign a user from the external AD. I noticed this with the User Directories. The Disable and Edit links are only available for the internal user and not for the user created in AD even though they are both part of the confluence-administrators group. Please explain how to fix this issue.


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Chris,

I think what you're seeing is the safety feature to stop you accidentally breaking an AD configuration if you're logged in with an AD user.

If you log in with an AD user Confluence doesn't let you edit the AD directory because you could potentially break the AD configuration and stop yourself being able to administer Confluence. If you need to edit the AD configuration you need to log in with an admin user that is not in AD, i.e. an internal admin.

It's just a safety feature for the user directories, but all other admin rights should be the same whether the user internal or external.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

comments: author: Chris Flynn
body: that is exactly right, thank you very much for your response!
How can I define Parts of a Page to be easy reused?
Asked by a.haaken:

Whta we need is some kind of Partial Template to insert in a page. I think this could be solved by a content macro?

Any other suggestions?


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi,

You could use the Excerpt Include macro - <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro>

Create a library of excerpts and then use them in whichever pages they are needed.

Andrew.

comments: author: a.haaken
body: Thanks, thats something i need too!

But my question was not specific enough. Lets say, i need a table for some vaules, that I want to include on several pages. But i dont want to write the Table from scratch every time.

Some kind of contentsnippet to reuse?


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Ah ok, Struggling with this one a bit. If the table and its values are the same you the excerpt include would work for that as well, but if it's just a skeleton table and the values are different then a User Macro (<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Writing+User+Macros>) might work. For a user macro you could have something like:

```
## Macro title: My Macro## Macro has a body: Y or N## Body processing: Selected body processing option## Output: Selected output option#### Developed by: My Name## Date created: dd/mm/yyyy## Installed by: My Name## This is an example macro## @noparams<table>  <tbody>    <tr>      <th>Year</th>      <th>No. of Widgets</th>      <th>No. of Grommets</th>    </tr>      $body  </tbody></table>
```

where $body would be the text you entered between opening and closing {tablemacro} tags. The problem with this is that what you would have to enter for the body would be the raw HTML, e.g. \<tr\>\<td\>column1\</td\>\</tr\>\<tr\>\<td\>column2\</td\>\</tr\> , which is more timeconsuming and error-prone than just selecting Insert -\> Table in the editor .

Another really low tech option if it's just a table skeleton is create a page with different table layouts and copy and paste the one you want each time.

Andrew.
can't get internal links to work
Asked by Yuri Zats:

I can't seem to be able to link to another page#heading. Are there any limitations on naming, or any other suggestions? This is all within same space

Page Name: "Specifications {WHMG_UG}"

Heading Name: "Power Supply"

The link that I'm attempting to enter is: "Specifications {WHMG_UG}#Power Supply", right into the Advanced tab of Insert Link. As a result, the dialog shows "The markup provided is not a valid link markup". Any suggestions ?![](../../upfiles/Anchor.bmp)


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo yzats

The curly bracket is confusing the part of Confluence that still recognises wiki markup. :)

Have you tried escaping it with a slash, like this:

Specifications \\{WHMG_UG}#Power Supply

comments: author: Yuri Zats
body: Thank you, that was it. Is there a list of safe (or unsafe) characters that wouldn't create confusion like this?


author: Joe Clark
body: This would be the closest thing we have to a canonical listing: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Wiki+Markup>


author: Joe Clark
body: At a guess, I'd say it's because of the curly braces in the page title - "{" and "}" are reserved in wiki markup to indicate the start and end of macro tag. Try pre-pending each of them with a back-slash, eg.

Specifications \\{WHMG_UG\\}#Power Supply
Generating Appendix sections with Confluence export
Asked by Yuri Zats:

Can someone help me to figure out how Confluence pages should be structured or what macros to use so that export would generate an Appendix with subsections (e.g. A,B,C..). I'm using Scroll Docbook Export


Answers:
author: Joerg Bencke
body: its not about exporting, but about building the page in the wiki.

The export itself uses the wikipages, found in the pagetree you export. So you would first have to create a page or a pagetree, which generates the pages in the wiki. Once that looks good, you can then build your export-template around it. Check out Sarah Maddox her blog about using scroll office for exporting. She uses the "import" makro and te "builder-show" Makros to finetune her exports. Looks pretty smart.

Regards, Josh
Google Gears Support in Pre-HTML5 Browser
Asked by Joerg Bencke:

In Pre-HTML Browsers like IE 8, Google Gears is needed, which is not supported any more.

As of tonight, this link still did work. So if you are forced to wait for IE9, go here :

[http://dl.**google** .com/tag/**gears** /**GoogleGearsSetup.exe
(I declare this quesiton answered ;) )**](http://dl.google.com/tag/gears/GoogleGearsSetup.exe)


Answers:
author: Joerg Bencke
body: As for installing Google Gears in IE8 : Here is the DL Link, that still worked as of tonight

[http://dl.**google** .com/tag/**gears** /**GoogleGearsSetup.exe**](http://dl.google.com/tag/gears/GoogleGearsSetup.exe)


author: Sean King
body: Anyone else getting a server side error when trying to use that setup file?
Deleting users
Asked by Mick Davidson:

We'd like to delete ex-users, but we can't do that if they'd edited or commented on anything.

We'd also like to either re-assign their pages to someone else, or at least be able to show that the content was created by someone who is no longer a user.

Is it possible to do either of these things?

Cheers,


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: See related query: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/41900/renaming-users](/questions/41900/renaming-users)


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Mick,

What a lot of people do is either disable former users (<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Removing+or+Deactivating+a+User>) or remove them from all Confluence groups that have the "Can Use" permission (confluence-users, etc.) and create a new "former-users" group and add them to that. With either of these approaches the former users are locked out of Confluence and do not count towards your user license count, but you don't have to look at messy procedures to re-assign content.

To visibly mark them as former users you should be able to do this via Browse -\> Confluence Admin -\> Manage Users and edit their name. If you're using LDAP and are unable to edit user details in Confluence do your policies allow you to change their name in LDAP to something like "Joe Bloggs (Former Employee)"?

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Andrew, thanks.

We don't use LDAP at the moment, your info is interesting - I'll discuss setting up a former user group internally.

Cheers,


author: Dave Donnelly _Sensata_
body: I edit their username with \<username\>\[LEFT YYMMDD\] (where YYMMDD is their leaving date) to indicate they are no longer current employees. I then deactivate them as a user so they no longer count towards the license user limit.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Good idea, at least then we'd have a record of when a person was de-activated as well as being able to see that they are de-activated. Thanks.


Tags: assign

delete

user
Renaming users
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Hello everyone,

We've come up against an issue with users changing their names.

For example, a female colleague married recently and changed her surname. So we had change her user name throughout the company.

In the wiki, we can't change her user name, so we had to set her up as a new user.

We'd prefer to be able to swap her new name for her old one and keep all the pages that she's associated with linked to the new user name. That doesn't seem possible - how can it be done?

Cheers,


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Mick,

look here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Changing+Usernames>

Best regards

Thomas


author: Mick Davidson
body: See also related question: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/41901/deleting-users](/questions/41901/deleting-users)


author: Dave Donnelly _Sensata_
body: Known issue for Confluence and JIRA. Please vote for:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-4063>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-1549>


Tags: user-management