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Confluence pages: View in Hierarchy
Asked by Olivier Carbone:

Hi,

On the screenshot below, you can see a blue point on the icon of (Magic Quadrant for On Premises AI). I have not found information about that on the documentation.

**Do you know what's the sense of this blue point?**

![View in Hierarchy](https://network.talend.com/confluence.png)

Best Regards


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: I think it indicates that the page has been recently edited or other action taken place, eg, it's been moved. Cheers.


author: Olivier Carbone
body: I thought so ... Now I am sure:)  
**Thanks for your quick answer!**

Best Regards.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: You're welcome. :)
[Confluence] Can I move attachments to another page when I Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V from another page?
Asked by sasha maximova:

When I cut a part of a page with images, and paste it to a another page, it creates links to the original attachments. Can I somehow move all attachments instead of linking them?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Sasha,

You can use the [HTML macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Enabling+HTML+macros) and use HTML markup to refer to the attachments, they will not change when moving a page:

```
{html}	&lt; a href="URL"&gt;Link1&lt; /a&gt;	&lt; br /&gt;{html}
```

* Note that by doing that you can have the same attachments versions accross pages, and that will help to save some disk space too. :)
User Migration between confluence 3.4.9 and 3.5.1
Asked by rparkernz:

I am in the process of upgrading my confluence version. I have moved from 2.10.2 to 3.4.9 and now wanting to move to 3.5.1.

However due to the changes in cwd_usr tables from the os_user and user tables, there is an issue and they don't seem move accross to new tables.

Is this suppose to be an automcatic process on upgrade? Or do I have to dump and import the data into the new tables?

Machine: Centos6

Current Build: 3.4.9 Standalone

Upgrade to: 3.5.1 Standalone

DB: Mysql

Any help or suggestions are appreciated.


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: Is this what you are looking for? <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Internal+Users+Are+Not+Migrated+During+Upgrade+to+Confluence+3.5.x+or+Later>

comments: author: rparkernz
body: Thanks, but no. That doens't work. I have follow those instructions but no luck. Tables created, but no data migration. How can I do this manually? Or is there a tool that will migrate these for me?


author: rparkernz
body: Im open to suggestions? There must be someone who has upgraded this product?


Tags: confluence-administration
Back button or link at the end of the page
Asked by Laura de sabbata:

Hi, I have a chat in Confluence for my testphase I will receive several comments (feedback). It's much more comfortable for the user if he could click at the end of the page on back - so that he can turn back to the home page. What is the macro for it? Can someone help me out? Thanks Laura


Answers:
author: Jeison
body: Perhaps adding Navigation Map macros would be useful in this case

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Navigation+Map+Macro>
Link from Confluence 3.5 directly to documents on shared drive
Asked by Laura de sabbata:

Hi, I need urgently to know how we can link from Confluence 3.5 directly to documents to the shared drive.

We want to start a test phase with Confluence and have several excel sheets on the drive with big reporting data. This sheets will be updated several times a day and a week. So we need a direct access to the shared drive not a copy in confluence of the documents.

How can I link directly to the drive? Thank you for support

Laura


Answers:
author: Laura de sabbata
body: Hi Jeison, I know this links and I tried different things but I am not a technician and there are several explanations that are too complicated. So no, unfortunately this page is not helpful.


author: Jeison
body: Laura,

Have a look at these other threads, it may help:

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/151026/linking-to-folders-files-on-our-shared-drives-from-confluence-in-windows-and-ubuntu-linux](/questions/151026/linking-to-folders-files-on-our-shared-drives-from-confluence-in-windows-and-ubuntu-linux)

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21205/confluence-how-to-place-a-link-to-a-file-on-a-server-share-in-a-confluence-page](/questions/21205/confluence-how-to-place-a-link-to-a-file-on-a-server-share-in-a-confluence-page)


Tags: file

link
View wiki markup in 5.xx
Asked by John Pfotzer:

How can I view wiki markup in version 5.X


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello John, Confluence has changed to XHTML since version 4.X which enabled a series of new features in the application. If you want to get to code view detail, you can use the [source editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor), which will show you the tag blocks.

[Here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4+Editor+-+Customer+Feedback) is a page for posting your feedback about the changes, if you would like.

edit: You can still insert wiki markup by choosing "**Insert** \> **Wiki Markup"** from the editor menu. [Source](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Wiki+Markup)

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: In other words, you can't. There is no wiki markup, it's gone.


author: John Pfotzer
body: Hi Guilherme,

Great instructive answer. I love full answers with good information that lets me choose what outcome I want. Thank goodness for fellow wiki answerers like you. Keep up the good work.

Please keep an eye out for more of my questions. I want answers from you.

Great job.

Thanks

John


author: BernardoA
body: I found this article that explains why it's not possible and the reason that wikimarkup was removed:

<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2011/11/why-we-removed-wiki-markup-editor-in-confluence-4/>

I don't know of any add-ons which allow anything beyond that, but there could be some in the future.

Cheers,

Bernardo
Confluence setup not completing
Asked by Michael Gotshall:

I installed JIRA with the local information and then Confluence to connect to said JIRA users and the setup goes pretty much all the way and hangs up after the users are populated. it is pretty much this exact issue: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/109576/why-does-user-management-setup-not-complete](/questions/109576/why-does-user-management-setup-not-complete)

The only problem is that i cannot find the folders that are being referenced in that solution. Any help would be greatly apreciated!


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Michael,

First you have to find the installation folder, where the application is running from, you can do that by looking at the system task manager and follow the process back to its folder. After that you should be able to find the path within confluence/WEB-INF/classes, inside that installation folder, in the file **confluence-init.properties,**after "confluence.home=" parameter.

If in doubt please check this doco, that should provide further help: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Home+Directory>

comments: author: Michael Gotshall
body: Thank you that helped a lot!


Tags: confluence-administration
ASP.NET integration
Asked by Mauro Canosa:

Could Confluence be integrated with an ad-hoc develop in .NET ?


Answers:
author: Mauro Canosa
body: Thanks Nic!


author: Mauro Canosa
body: Yes, but i don't only need validate or dispaly information. I need add it in confluence from the ad-hoc application (writing code).

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: So your application needs to update wiki pages. Again, REST is probably your best bet.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes.

I think you need to expand on this question if you want more detail - "integrate X with Y using technology Z" is quite a vague question. The answer is generally "yes", but there's usually caveats.


author: Mauro Canosa
body: Thanks Nic. We are developing an ASP.NET application. En each screen we need to add a control (or something like that) to write something about the entity (e.g. the Client "Lopez S.R.L." pay the Budget number 23343) and that information must be sync with the wiki.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, so if I've understood this, your application needs to look up something in confluence to be validated and/or displayed?

I'd reach for the REST interface - you can use that to search and confirm the existence of a page from Confluence, and then scrape relevant information from the page to be displayed in your app.


Tags: confluence-administration
Image Slider License Issue
Asked by Peter:

Hi

I have just installed the Image Slider Add-on and paid for a starter licence, installed the license. When trying to access it displays

"Sorry, but we cannot find the required licensing support to execute the requested operation. Please ensure that the Plugin License Storage plugin is installed and enabled. Restarting this plugin should resolve the problem."

Thanks


Answers:
author: Peter
body: Thanks everyone. The issue has been resolved with the upgrade to the UPM. This had to be done manually as the auto-upgrade option was failing. Once installed, we were away.

Thanks


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Peter,  

It seems that you need to install the <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.plm.plugin.plm-plugin> in order to apply the license. You can check by going through Browse \> Confluence Admin \> Manage Add-ons, and try to find something familiar like "Plugin License". If that doesn't work, you can contact the plugin vendor through here:  

Simple Software  
Switzerland

[info@simplenia.com](mailto:info@simplenia.com)

Cheers,  

WZ

comments: author: Peter
body: Thanks William,

Yes, we have installed the Licence Manager - still to no avail. Shall try the Vendor

Cheers


author: Remo Siegwart
body: Hi William

The Plugin License Storage plugin is an official plugin from Atlassian to provide licensing support for the Marketplace and should be bundled with the UPM (Universal Plugin Manager). The PLM (Plugin License Manager) is a third party plugin from Adaptavist used to license their own plugins and has nothing to do with the Image Slider plugin.

Cheers  
Remo
How to see a personal space?
Asked by Sanu Soman:

Please suggest how can I see/access existing personal spaces in a confluence instance? I'm having admin access on this instance.


Answers:
author: MJ
body: Unless you have been provided the appropriate access by the owner of the personal space, you can't see it's contents, nor administer the space.

comments: author: Sanu Soman
body: Oh.. I feel some how the admin has to have the permission to see the personal space as this will required at the time of any insatnce upgrade or any configuration change.

Any chance is there to see the space admin for these spaces?

Anyway thanks for sharing the details. :)


Tags: confluence-administration

personal-space
Broken images with Firefox 22
Asked by Tom Birch Hansen:

I get "broken image" when I insert an image from the clipboard and then save the page, using the new firefox 22. In firefox 21 I did not see this problem.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: It appears that you are hitting this bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29799>. The workaround is to save the copied image to a file first using any image editor and attach the image from a file instead from the clipboard.


author: hsuhailah
body: The bug is fixed in Confluence 5.2.4 and 5.3 (you can see this from the fix version field). However these Confluence versions are not released yet. Confluence 5.2.4 is scheduled to be released towards the end of this September.

comments: author: Ben Peterson
body: Thanks for the update =)


author: Ben Peterson
body: I wonder why is this bug marked as resolved/fixed? I'm trialing Confluence 5.3 using FF 23 and I'm running into the same issue with pasting images. I get broken images in Preview as well as after I save. I have better luck with Chrome 29, but not 100% of the time.

At any rate, the recommended workaround should be sufficient. I'm very disappointed that paste doesn't work though - it's an incredible A+ feature when it works.

comments: author: Ben Peterson
body: Hmm, way down in the comments for the bug report it looks like the fix has been done but just hasn't been released yet. Looks like release is slated for next week?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I Stop Auto Watch on a Single Page ?
Asked by Neal Phillips:

Generally I like the Auto Watch facility so it's not something that I want to turn off globally, but there are a few pages that get updated so frequently that I'd like to turn off the Auto Watch feature for those pages.

Can this be done ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Neal,

You can disable the autowatch for all the pages, by going to your user "*Profile \> Settings \> Email \> uncheck Autowatch*". I believe that is the best we can do at the present time, to avoid the page updates.


author: Jeison
body: Neal, this is not possible. But why don't you simply 'stop watching' those specific pages?

comments: author: Neal Phillips
body: It's a page that everyone regulaly updates - We use it to track resources.

So every time you edit it you have to remember to stop watching the page (which of course you normally forget - until your inbox becomes full of update notifications)
knowing confluence version from backup zip
Asked by Dave Campbell:

is there any way from the zipfile of the backup to know which version of confluence the backup is from ?

I did some searching greps but couldn't find the version string i was expecting inside it anywhere.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Yes, there's a way! You can get this data by unzipping the backup file, look for exportDescriptor.properties, open it and check for the buildNumber. buildNumber indicates the version of Confluence. You can check Confluence version against the build number by referring to this page: <https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+Build+Information>

comments: author: Dave Campbell
body: awesome :-)


Tags: confluence-administration
Meeting Notes - Page Properties Report Macro
Asked by Steve Sweales:

I use the Page Properies Report macro all over the place within templates and processes I have set up witin our Confluence instance, however I have only just noticed something odd (now it is late for me, so I may just be being dumb) ...

When I look at the default Meeting Notes or File Lists screens (where we have loads of meeting notes and file lists), the report macro only shows 10 items, however the page clearly shows many more children than that.

In pages that I have created to use the macro to show other information, it isn't restricted to 10 entries.

Anybody have any thoughts on this?


Answers:
author: Jeison
body: Hey Steve, the ability to set max results for that macro was included in the 5.1.3 version of Confluence. Before that it was indeed limited to 10 results being displayed. Which version are you running?

comments: author: Steve Sweales
body: We are running 5.1.OD5. We will be upgrading when 5.2 is made available.

Thanks for the info, not me going mad then! :-)


author: Steve Sweales
body: Interestingly, the Confluence documentation for the Content Report macro shows an example where the macro has 12 items within it. It must be possible then?


author: Steve Sweales
body: I've just noticed that the Meeting Notes and Files Lists actually use the Content Report macro instead of the Page Properties Report macro.

Slight change in the question - How can I get the Content Report macro to show more than 10 entries?
confluence restoration from backup zip file
Asked by Dave Campbell:

when trying to restore the auto-generated backup zip file i'm getting an apparently corrupted restored version of confluence.

I'm restoring to a new machine (a VirtualBox VM) and the restoration seems to go fine, i install postgresql and make the user/database then setup pg_hba.conf and run through installing the product.

I select the zip file during nistallation as a source for the wiki content, and it chugs away for a few minutes before saying all is done!

.... Then it dosen't work...

I can login with my credentials, and i get my wiki spaces listed, but clicking any of them gives "page not found".

I can see recently changed pages, but clicking any of those gives a huge error \& stack trace which seems to begin with: java.lang.RuntimeException: "Error rendering template for decorator root"

In the atlassian-confluence.log file just before that stacktrace is: "ERROR \[http-8090-5\] \[common.error.jersey.ThrowableExceptionMapper\] toResponse Uncaught exception thrown by REST service"  
I have no idea where to even begin fixing this. If more logs are needed, just shout.


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi GNS,

Are you sure the the Backup is from the same version that you want to restore? Did you performa a Reindex after restoring the data?

Regards,

Mirek

comments: author: Dave Campbell
body: i did tick the create index box when restoring. The backup is 4.9 and the restore version is 5.1, i'll try restoring to 4.9 and see if it goes away.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence 4.1: custom wiki macro got broken and many pages aren't displayed properly
Asked by Artur Shnayder:

It seems one of custom macro got broken. It used to be wiki output format, now this field is missing.  
There're only 2 non-commented lines in its template:  

```
  h1. [$title] {include: $title}
```

All documents, which use the macro are not displayed properly, like below  

```
h1. [Add a system calculated ad serving fee] {include: Add a system calculated ad serving fee} h1. [View and edit ad serving fees by ad server] {include: View and edit ad serving fees by ad server} h1. [View system calculated ad serving fees] {include: View system calculated ad serving fees} h1. [View placement/package specific ad serving fees] {include: View placement/package specific ad serving fees} h1. [Reporting & extracts for ad serving fees] {include: Reporting & extracts for ad serving fees} h1. [Map ad server to supplier (Photon)] {include: Map ad server to supplier (Photon)}
```

Is there anyway to restore macro's output format or create HTML one with the same function?

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Artur Shnayder
body: Actually full "wiki" formatted macro is below:

```
## No macro body## Output is Wiki Markup#### Assume current space.## Default root is current page, unless caller specifies different root.#set ($key=$space.getKey())#set ($root=$action.page)#set ($thisPageTitle=$action.getPage().getTitle())#if ($paramroot)   #if ($paramroot=="parent")      #set ($root=$action.getPage().getParent())   #else      #set ($root=$action.page)   #end#end#set ($kids=$root.getSortedChildren())#foreach ($page in $kids)   #set ($title=$page.getTitle())   ## check title to avoid including self if root is above this page   #if ("$title"!="$thisPageTitle")      h1. [$title]     {include: $title}   #end#end
```

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Modify the header area in Confluence on Demand
Asked by Matt:

Wondering if it is possible to format the header area containing the logo, file/page path, and page title. They are incredibly crowded together on the page, and really take away from the rest of the layout (see attachment image)

It seems there are many restrictions in the onDemand version of this product, just want to see if I'm missing this somewhere.

![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2013-07-04_at_8.51.49_AM.png)


Answers:
author: Jeison
body: Hi Matt,

You can't actually modify that in OnDemand at the moment. I see that you're making use of the 'Documentation Theme' in that space, so how about changing to 'Global Look and Feel' instead? That will move the logo to the sidebar, possibly creating a "cleaner" look.

To modify the space theme, make sure you have "Default theme" set under the global settings (**Confluence Admin \> Themes** ). Then, follow the steps [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Applying+a+Theme+to+a+Space).

You may know that already, but just in case.

Hope this helps.

comments: author: Matt
body: Thanks for the tips. We are using Confluence primarily for documentation, so changing to the default theme might be counterproductive for us.

Unless there is a way to hack the default theme to look like the documentation theme, and still take advantage of the cleaner header?

Is it also true that I cannot change a space's logo when I'm using the documentation theme? I've changed the global default logo, but it seems I can't change it at a space level.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence Recognition Component
Asked by Noam Hamovitch:

Does Confluence have the ability to create a recognition program? Something that allows us to give a 'kudos' to an employee or something along the lines of recognizing ones achievements.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: I'd suggest to use [JIRA](http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira) for this purpose instead. You can create a project called for example Employee Recognition Program and then allow user to create an issue as Kudos. You can add field such as nominee, reason for kudos and the gift you would like to give, etc

comments: author: Wilfried Bastiaansen
body: Is there a workflow you can download for this?


author: aroa
body: Any option for this in Cloud?

Thanks


author: Wilfried Bastiaansen
body: Is there a workflow you can download for this?
how can i customize the header bar in confluence?
Asked by Lakshmi:

hi, i am using confluence 5.1.3 version and would like to customize the header bar at the top. can any one help me where to start? i am planning to add dropdown with some values.

thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Lakshmi
body: Hi i have tried the solution provided at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=358908020>. but it the given new link is appearing twice on header bar. any one help on this?


author: JohnA
body: Hi SumaRamki,  

I think you will find that using either CSS or Decorators would be the best approach for this, so I'd recommend that you check out the following two documents as these should give you some pointers to what is possible and how you can do it.  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Site+and+Space+Layouts>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS>

<br />

All the best,  
John

comments: author: Lakshmi
body: Hi John, thanks for the reply. when i navigate to http://\<baseurl\>/admin/listdecorators.action, i found many layouts. but none of them have code to change the header section ( where i have global navigation, Space directory and people directory link and Create button) at the top of each page. Not sure if i am missing something here. can you please guide me?

thanks in advance!


author: Lakshmi
body: Hi, i got \[this\|<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=358908020>\] link. after i have added the code to Custom HTML, i am getting links twice on heder bar. that means one link is appearing next to Create button and same link is appearin gafter noticifations icon and user menu.

can any one help on this?


author: JohnA
body: Hi SumaRamki,

I think you will find that using either CSS or Decorators would be the best approach for this, so I'd recommend that you check out the following two documents as these should give you some pointers to what is possible and how you can do it.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Site+and+Space+Layouts>

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Site+and+Space+Layouts)

All the best,  
John


Tags: header