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Confluence Can access to a SVN server??
Asked by Fabio Genovese:

Hi to all,

there is a way, for confluence (by plugin or other way) to access a SVN repository??

thx in advice.

FABIO


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes.

That's the short and cheeky answer - there's not really enough information in your question to tell us what you mean. I've made Confluence talk to a couple of the many repos I've got "access" to in a couple of ways, but I've no idea if anything I've got could be of any use to you. You need to expand on what you're trying to do before we can tell you much more than "yes".

comments: author: Fabio Genovese
body: ok. :)

My target is:

- read document (Word, Excel, pdf) stored in SVN repository;

- Create page on Confluence from Word document, stored in SVN repository;

Is it possible?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's two targets there.

Displaying a file from a remote source is quite easy. I've not tried it with Word docs (simply because if their content should be in Confluence, we import them and dump the document as no longer being the source), but if you try the "excel" macro, that can display bits of worksheets from remote documents. Give it a SVN URL and what you want out of it, and it will display the data for you. I think there's much the same for .pdf and I can't imagine Word readers would be difficult to implement if the existing ones don't do it.  

Creating a page is a totally different story. You can easily create Confluence pages from Word docs using the importer, but it doesn't have read-from SVN because it's pointless. Let me put it this way - for any give piece of documentation, you really need an authoritative source. If that's a set of word docs in a svn repository, that's fine (and you should use answer 1 above to display info from them). If it's Confluence, then that's also fine. But you can't do both. You need to decide if the authoritative source is Confluence or SVN and work from there.
How do I get the Author metadata to show up in the checklist-metadata macro?
Asked by Allan Johnstone:

In 3.2 and 3.5 I was able to set the Author metadata in a page that was a subpage of a page with a checklist macro in it. If I added an "Author" column to the checklist using the checklist-metadata macro, that author information would show up. I can't get that working in 4.1 so far.

Here's my editor view in the sub-page where I set the Author metadata, which seems to be working as expected:

![](http://www.allan-johnstone.ca/ConfluenceSetMetadataCorrect.png)

And here's the editor view of the checklist markup:

![checklist-metadata mark-up, editor view](http://www.allan-johnstone.ca/ConfluenceEditChecklistMetadata2.png)

But sadly I cannot get this to show up in the checklist. Here's the page view of the table created by the checklist and checklist-metadata macro:

![Author metadata not showing up in checklist (page view).](http://www.allan-johnstone.ca/ConfluenceChecklistMetadataMissing.png)

Am I marking this up incorrectly in the editor? Or is this macro broken in 4.1?


Answers:
author: WolframS
body: Propably I have the same problem, but I can't see your code or your implementation.

You are talking about the"Author": did you place a "Metadata Details" Macro into the child page to generate the new field "Author"?

What is working is this:

* On Child-Page you have the Metadata Details:  

<!-- -->

* Which leads to a table like this (on the upper summary-page):  

  in Editor:  

**BUT**: what does NOT work: to get this "Author" information into a "checklist"-summary-table.

Is this your problem? If YES - I have the same problem: you only get this information in an extra summary table.

Cheers

Wolf

comments: author: WolframS
body: unfortunatelly the screenshots are not visible (but in edit mode they are visible...)

They won't be visible in IE, FF and chrome: IE and chrome are showing placeholders for the picts.
Dynamic Task List 2 Plugin cannot sort by date or sort by completed
Asked by Jaime Romaguera:

Hi,

We are running confluence 3.5.13 we upgrade from confluence 2.10.3

We are having issues with Dynamic Task list 2 plugin.

The problem is that we cannot sort by date or completed all the other sorts (priorty, name, assign) work.

Wondering if anybody had this issue and how did they fixed.

Thought it may have been the Index. I had the index rebuilt.

Disable re-enable plugins

Wondering if could have to do with date formatting not reconginise

Any help would be greatly appreicate.

Many Thanks

Regards

Jaime

<br />


Answers:
author: Don Willis
body: Fixed in version 4.1.3 of the plugin, which will be bundled in Confluence 4.3.


author: hsuhailah
body: This is a bug in Dynamic Tasklist 2 Plugin and a bug report has been raised here: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TASK-189>. Unfortunately, there's no fix/workaround for it at the moment.
Can I embed soundcloud widgets in a confluence page?
Asked by Darren Wilson:

I'd like to have soundcloud widgets (<http://soundcloud.com/>) in confluence pages. Is that possible?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: EDIT: Sorry, only just noticed this is for OnDemand, my answer was for download version and I'm not sure if Atlassian allow you to enable the HTML macro.

Hi Darren,

Yes, you can embed Soundcloud widgets in Confluence if you enable the HTML macro (bundled, but disabled by default).

Login as a confluence administrator and select Browse -\> Confluence Admin -\> Plugins -\> Manage Existing -\> System Plugins -\> Confluence HTML Macros. Expand "Manage Plugin Modules" and enable the HTML module.

You can then use the following markup to embed your Soundcloud widget:

{html}  
YOUR WIDGET CODE HERE  
{html}

Tested with the HTML 5 Soundlcoud widget on Confluence 4.1.4

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

comments: author: Darren Wilson
body: Thanks, Andrew. That's a big help. I may end up on a download version.

I'll look into the HTML macro enabling for OnDemand.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Darren


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
One page at several locations
Asked by Christian Neureiter:

Hi!

Does Confluence provide any functionality to show one and the same page at several locations? I want to create one page and show it at different locations in the "tree", maybe also in different spaces. The page should always be linked to one page, so that a change in the page is also reflected to all other page.

regards,

Christian


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Christian,

I think I'd approach what you want to do by using the Include Page macro - <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Include+Page+Macro>

1. Create a master page and, name it with an underscore prefix and move it above the root of a space so it doesn't appear anywhere in the navigation (see <http://blog.networkedcollaboration.com/2011/11/28/seed-your-wiki-with-labels/> for an example of what I mean)

2. Create the "real" pages wherever you want in the navigation and in whichever spaces you want.

3. Use the include page macro in the "real" pages to include the "master" page

4. Whenever you want to make any changes, make them in the "master" and they will automatically be reflected in all of the "real" pages

An advantage of this approach is that you can also include supplemental content on the "real" pages if you want to without affecting all of the other "real" pages.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.


author: Renjith Pillai
body: May be a simple workaround. Where ever you want to show the page, create a new page with just the {include} macro which points to the orginal page

comments: author: Jan Mueller
body: All this is good and probably works for the end-user. But you have to undertake several steps to get to the "master" page, or am I overlooking something?   
If I want to know which page was the master for the current page (assuming I am currently on the "real" page), I'd have to edit the page and dig through the content (specifically the include-macro). Or is there another, easier, way?
Theme Builder and OnDemand
Asked by Justin Dorfman:

Hello,

If Atlassian is hosting Confluence for you, could you still install [Theme Builder](https://www.adaptavist.com/display/Plugins/Theme+Builder)?

If so is there a way to make certain Jira Projects public facing with that theme?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Justin,

It's not possible for you to install third party plugins with OnDemand and you're limited to the plugins that Atlassian provide by default and unfortunately Theme Builder is not one of them. See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy> for details.

It may be possible for you to request plugins to be installed or asking if there are any plans to include Theme Builder with OnDemand by contacting [support@atlassian.com](mailto:support@atlassian.com)

Even without the Theme Builder plugin it should be posisble to make certain JIRA projects public through a public page in Confluence. If you had Confluence Space that was visible to anonymous users you could use the JIRA Issues macro (<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Issues+Macro>) on a page in that space to display the issues from a JIRA project in a public Confluence page. IS that along the lines of what you wanted to do?

Hope that's of some help?

Andrew.

EDIT: See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand> for details of the general restrictions with OnDemand

comments: author: Justin Dorfman
body: Thanks Andrew. I will contact support and update this thread.


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confluence-cloud
How do I change the color of the text in my TOC (added as a macro)?
Asked by Geraldine Flanagan:

I added a TOC to my page but I want to change the color of the text so it is different than the other text on the page. I assume I have to use CSS but I have no idea what to add into the CSS stylesheet. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Answers:
author: BenA
body: You need to edit the TOC and add a CSS Class Name via the dialog, eg. "mytocclass". That gets applied to the DIV around the TOC list.

Then style away (I'm assuming you already know where to put the CSS), noting some selectors will need to be quite strong to apply over the existing CSS. A simple trick is to start with an ID selector eg:

#com-atlassian-confluence .mytocclass ul li a { background: green; color: white; }  
Hope that helps.

comments: author: Geraldine Flanagan
body: Thank you so much Ben, that did the trick!!!


author: John Guerra
body: I am using the 'Table of Contents' Macro and would like to edit the CSS. I am assuming this is done via the "CSS Class Name" field in the macro.

However, it seems that if you are using OnDemand, you can not do this. Can you explain "where to put the CSS"?

Thankyou.


author: Steffen Heller
body: @John:

You could try the following:

Enter something like "mytocclass" to the "CSS Class Name" field of the toc macro and then define the mytocclass in the Browse \> Space Admin \> Look and Feel \> PDF Stylesheet by entering something like

```
.mytocclass a {color:red;}
```


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

css
Confluence OnDemand PDF Macro blank view?
Asked by Bryan:

I have a pair of PDFs generated by Visio (Save As PDF...)

Neither of them displays in the PDF macro (just a white block where the diagram should be, but the viewer buttons show up ok).

All text is English, and it's basic lines and boxes and text, black and blue on a white background.

Is this a known bug?


Answers:
author: Laurel Michaels
body: It is now several years after the original post, but I am on Confluence Cloud and am experiencing this same issue.

Is this still a known bug?

Is there a workaround?

comments: author: Laurel Michaels
body: For anyone else who might encounter this, I filed a ticket on this and the answer as of today (20 July 2015) is that embedding PDFs is still a known bug. The less-than-professional workaround that we are using for now is to embed the Attachment macro, which opens the PDF in a PDF viewer, assuming the reader has a PDF viewer installed.


author: John Masson
body: Hi Bryan,

If you're still having problems you might want to raise a ticket with <http://support.atlassian.com>

John


Tags: cloud

macro

pdf
userlist sorted by number of comments
Asked by Nikolai Merk:

hello

i want a list of all user.

The list should be sorted so that people who have posted the most comments will be listed as the first.

is there a macro that can do it?


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Peter,

I think the Contributor Summary macro (<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Contributors+Summary+Macro>) will do what you want:

```
{contributors-summary:spaces=@all|columns=comments|showAnonymous=true|showZeroCounts=true}
```

The above should show a list of all users with the number of comments that they have made and will include users who have not made any comments at all.

If you have a look at the documentation you can tweak the macro paramters to also include the pages/blogpost on which the comments were made, restrict to pages only, etc.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.


Tags: report

user
Wiki space permissions
Asked by Anni R:

Hi,

If I have wiki permissions:

1.exampleproject-users (all permissions are selected)

1.it-users (only view permissions)

User are both groups and which permission get the best permission? I mean which group will give the permission?

One permission is restricted (only view) and other allows to do all actions.


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Deepnight

Each user will always get the most powerful rights that he/she is entitled to. So if John belongs to both of the groups, John will get the full permissions as assigned to group "exampleproject-users".

Cheers, Sarah


author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: I am puting this on my own words, correct me if I did not get your point.

If Individual X has View privilege only for a Space A and All rights for Space B, there is no confilct, hence he will access both spaces according to right given.

In another hand, if Individual X has an Individual right let's say View only for a space A and at the same time belongs to a group which is granted All privileges then All privileges will dominate.

Hope that's clear :)


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Frankly, the question is a bit confusing, at least for me. Possible to reword it?


author: Anni R
body: I get the answer alreadey :)
Is there a way to export a global template for use in another instance of Confluence?
Asked by Sarah Jacob:

Is there a way to export a global template for use in another instance of Confluence?


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Sarah,

There's no way to export a template that I know of, but you could log in as an administrator and select Browse -\> Confluence Admin -\> Global Templates then edit the template you want to use in the other instance and copy and paste the markup into a new GLobal Template in the new instance.

If you're not an administrator of the instance you want to export from you could create a new temporary page using the template you wish to export and select Tools -\> View Wiki Markup (Confluence 3.x) or Tools -\> View Storage Format (Confluence 4.x) to see how the template is made up and copy an paste that into a new GLobal Template in the new instance. If the source instance is 3.x it's easier as templates use old wiki markup rather than the new XHTML format, if the source instance is 4.x it's a bit trickier as although the stoarge format is XHTML templates still use old wiki markup so you'd need to convert the XHTML to wiki markup, e.g. if a template in 4.x has the following XHTML when you view storage format:

```
<ac:macro ac:name="info">  <ac:parameter ac:name="title">My Title</ac:parameter>  <ac:rich-text-body>    <p>Some Text in the Info Box</p>  </ac:rich-text-body></ac:macro>
```

The that would be the following in wiki markup:

```
{info:title=My Title}Some Text in the Info Box{info}
```

Finally, if you want to create templates that can be installed on multiple instances of Confluence you could create a Template Bundle plugin. A tutorial on how to create these is available at <https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Creating+A+Template+Bundle>

Hope that helps?

Andrew.


author: Leo Diaz DEISER
body: Hi Sarah!

Template Ops is intended to solve this problem. <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.deiser.confluence.template-ops>

Leo
Where can you see the view count on a page?
Asked by Al Bermin:

When browsing pages in the system I can see the history of the pages but it would be nice to see the view count and other metrics such as how often the attachments were downloaded. Is this information recorded at all? I know that other systems like MindTouch record them.

Thanks,

Al


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

there is also a tracking plugin from customware that works well:

<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.tracking>

Unfortunately it is not yet available for Confluence 4

Best regards

Thomas


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi, see <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Viewing+Space+Activity> for details of enabling the built in stats tracking. A lot of people also use Google Analytics and David Simpson has a great blog post on how to set that up at <http://davidsimpson.me/2009/03/18/tracking-atlassian-confluence-usage-with-google-analytics/>. There are also plugins for Google Analytics (<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/G2G-GA-CONF> and <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/me.davidsimpson.confluence.plugins.googleanalytics>) and Webtrends (<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/WBTRNDS>). Hope that helps, Andrew.

comments: author: Al Bermin
body: Thanks guys. These links are helpful but I think I'm looking for a page counter like the one at <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.viewtracker> (aside from analytics which you covered pretty well). I give that plug-in a shot and see how it goes.
Is my OnDemand Confluence content available to anonymous internet users?
Asked by Liam Smith:

I'm looking at Confluence at the moment in the aim of using the OnDemand version initially as a proof of concept then moving to a internal hosted instance down the track.

I can't see this mentioned explicitly anywhere and apologies if it seems too straightforward a question, but is a OnDemand instance of Confluence available to anonymous internet users without having to log in?

ie, anyone could access the content in the OnDemand instance (and I guess Google/bots index the pages and present them as search results?)

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: Hi Gorlaz,

Yes, it's possible to do this by configuring Confluence's permissions to allow anonymous access. You can read in detail how to do this here:

* <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+up+Anonymous+Access>

comments: author: Liam Smith
body: Thanks Michael.

So without enabling that option, my Confluence instance is essentially private and non searchable by Google/bots?


author: Michael Knight
body: Exactly right :)


author: Liam Smith
body: Many thanks


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Adding other products to an existing OnDemand instance
Asked by Chris Buckley:

We have had Jira OnDemand for a couple of months now and we wanted to add other products(Bamboo, Confluence, GreenHopper) to it and after quite some time of reading and trying we were unable to, the most confusing thing is that when I selected "Buy" from MAC and tried to add one of those this is what I got:

If you have an existing Atlassian OnDemand instance, you can add more products to your instance using the "Configure" link under the [Licenses](https://my.atlassian.com/products/index) section.

After checking the Licenses section I didn't saw any "Configure" link, I'm not sure why is this happening, any help will be appreciated.


Answers:
author: Zu
body: Now you can also add products directly from you onDemand instance. Click the cog gear at the top right banner and click **Discover new applications**. From there you can turn any new applications on and off and it will spin up a new 30 day evaluation for you.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Chris, more detailed instructions are available at <http://www.atlassian.com/licensing/ondemand#evaluatingatlassianondemand-9> If you click the + icon next to your existing OnDemand license on the licenses page to expand it you should see a configure link on the right hand side of the page. It's a bit more buried than it probably should be, but hope this helps? Andrew.

comments: author: Zu
body: This is correct, however there is even easier way to do it now straight from teh product cog gear \> Descover new applications.


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jira-software
Link-window does not work with a URL that contains a query string
Asked by Mark Newell:

This works

{link-window:http://www.somesite.com}http://www.somesite.com{link-window}

This doesn't

{link-window:http://www.somesite.com?id=whatever}http://www.somesite.com{link-window}

I tried using the escape sequence for the ? but that didn't work either. Anyone else have this issue and know how to get around it?


Answers:
author: David Peterson
body: Hi Mark,

For URLs which include an '=' character, which most URLs that have a query string do, you need to use the 'href=' parameter name, or Confluence thinks you are providing an unusual parameter instead of the URL. In your case, this will fix it:

```
{link-window:href=http://www.somesite.com?id=whatever}http://www.somesite.com{link-window}
```

Hope that helps!

Regards,

David Peterson

comments: author: Mark Newell
body: Thanks David, that did the trick.


author: Abyakta Lenka
body: My Version confluence is 4.3.7


author: Abyakta Lenka
body: ```
{link-window:width=800|height=700|href=conf:User Search}User Search{link-window}
```

![](../../upfiles/Link-window.PNG)

```

```

Above code is not working.

I am using space key instead of whole url.

Kindly help.

Regards

Abyakta


author: Mark Newell
body: My version is Confluence 3.5.4


Tags: link

link-window
text drag and drop in confluence 4.1.3
Asked by none:

can't drag and drop text inside the editor in 4.1.3 and firefox 10.0.2

I see image copy and paste is fixed in confluence 4.1.6 but no mention of simply dragging and dropping text inside a page


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi,

Do you mean dragging and dropping a text file to be added as an attachment, or just dragging and dropping text that's been highlighted in an open file?

Dragging and dropping any type of file should work, it was just the copy and pasting of files that broke in Firefox 10 and the fix was related to the version check on the browser so would be fixed for all file types.

As far as I'm aware it's never been possible to drag and drop text as if you're highlighting text in an open file to drag it you'd just copy and paste it into the editor instead. The drag and drop/copy and paste functionality of files is to automatically add the file or files as attachments and embed them in the page where possible.

Does that make sense?

Andrew.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Sorry, my misunderstanding.

It looks like dragging and dropping text has been broken since 4.0 and is an open issue tracked at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23454> so it's not possible to drag and drop text in versions of Confluence higher than 3.5.x

Andrew.


author: none
body: "Drag and drop text inside the editor" and "simply dragging and dropping text inside a page"

not sure how to make this any more clear, just grab a word and try to drag it elsewhere on the page, it doesn't work.

not sure if this is fixed in 4.1.6, I see other drag and drop functions are for firefox?