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Cross platform true single sign on for confluence recommendations
Asked by Alicia Miller:

Hi All,

I'm looking for a cross platform true single sign on solution for confluence within an AD environment.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Alicia


Answers:
author: Thomas Alfred
body: AppFusions' [Kerberos SSO Authenticator for AD \& Atlassian Servers](http://www.appfusions.com/display/KBRSCJ/Home) is a single sign-on authenticator for Active Directory and includes service deployment for Confluence, JIRA, Stash, Crowd, FishEye/Crucible, Bamboo and (I believe) some more.

It uses Kerberos rather than NTLM. [NTLM does not support any recent cryptographic methods](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc236715(prot.20).aspx) -- I believe NTLM is no longer recommended by Microsoft.

I'm told they've successfully deployed it 80 or more times and have some big enterprises using it, but you should ask [AppFusions](mailto:info@appfusions.com) for details of that.

comments: author: Ed Letifov _TechTime - New Zealand_
body: Just to be clear I absolutely agree with statement that NTLM shouldn't be used by any sane organization (though we see plenty of it in the wild). Our plugin does support NTLM as a fallback, but the primary technology/protocol is NTLMv2 - a very different beast.I have directed Alicia to a Kerberos plugin - there are several of them on the Atlassian Marketplace now. Since she is asking here, there must be something that doesn't fit her scenario in full.


author: Ed Letifov _TechTime - New Zealand_
body: Hello, Alicia.

I suggest you to elaborate on "cross platform" and "true" in this question.

Since you've already tried our [EasySSO Single Sign-On for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.techtime.confluence.plugins.easysso) and based on our email discussions I suppose "cross-platform" means "supporting Apple OS X devices" but perhaps it's more than that?

comments: author: Alicia Miller
body: Hi Ed,Thanks for your help earlier with EasySSO.Yes I mean windows and osx. In terms of "true" sso, I mean logging into a machine (with AD credentials), and being automatically authenticated to confluence without having to log in to another application.


author: Ed Letifov _TechTime - New Zealand_
body: So, auto-login just like ours but supporting Macs :) I wish browsers on Mac OS X would do NTLMv2.Have you tried:Katenga's Kerberos Authentication for Confluence <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/no.kantega.kerberosauth.kerberosauth-plugin.confluence>orPolar Shift's "Integrated Windows Authentication" (<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/fi.polarshift.confluence.plugins.kauth.config.iwac>)


Tags: confluence-administration

sso
How do I get a set of user notified whenever a question is posted?
Asked by Steve Vinyard:

Want a certain group of people to get emailed every time a question is posted.


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

As far as I know, this is not possible to choose the users to notify when you post a question. They must watch an specific topics in questions to receive emails. This is better explained here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Topics>

The best in this case is to open a feature request in jira.atlassian.com for this feature. I couldn't find any request for this feature yet.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
I used to have a trial license of Confluence, is there anyway to recover that?
Asked by Josh Schneider:


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Yes, 30-days evaluation licenses are time-limited, but you can purchase a perpetual license for your server on my.atlassian.com.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not sure what you mean by "recover"?

If you've lost your access details, you'll need to go through resetting the passwords.

If you really do mean the licence stuff, then you get an evaluation for a while and when it expires, that's it - either purchase or lose it (actually, Atlassian are more flexible and let you have a few extensions, but it's still purchase or lost it). That's all handled in your OnDemand/Cloud account, the one you used to set up the trial.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to create a JIRA & Confluence project at same time?
Asked by chris taylor:

I use to have on demand and I remember when you added a new project, you could have it create and link a confluence space automatically.

I now have JIRA \& Confluence server, is there a way to do this?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: It is not possible in Server versions unless you do some coding to make use of the remote APIs.


Tags: confluence-administration

jira
Export a space from a local Confluence instance to an instance on Cloud
Asked by apoorvakiyawat:

Hello,

We need to transfer a Confluence space from our cloud instance to another cloud instance of another company. So I took a backup of the entire confluence from our cloud instance. I then installed confluence locally on my PC (evaluation copy) and imported from that backup file. Now I want to delete the unwanted stuff from the space and then export it again so that we can give it to another company so they can import it in to their own separate cloud instance of confluence. However, I am now not able see the option to export / import but I could see it before when I imported from my cloud backup. I am aware that the existing admin user gets replaced by the cloud one and I am able to login as admin with the new cloud user.

Thanks,

Apoorva


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You might be a system-admin, but use your system-admin rights to check that you are also a space-admin for that space...


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way to return to the exact point on a Confluence page (where your mouse was) when hitting back on your browser?
Asked by DebbieR:

Hi,

We have one of many user guides and use the documentation theme. When you drill down into a child page and then hit back on the browser, it comes back to the top of the list rather than holding the position on the page that it was on. If you're going through it one by one, you have to keep scrolling back to the point you were at?

<br />

Is there a way to return to the exact point on a Confluence page (where your mouse previous was) when hitting back on your browser?

<br />

Thanks


Answers:
author: DebbieR
body: Thanks very much @Fred Buntingunting. Appreciate your help :smile:

comments: author: Fred Bunting
body: You're welcome. Feel free to give it a vote ... or accept it as an answer. :)


author: Fred Bunting
body: I believe that remembering the scroll position is the default behavior for browsers, but some browsers have problems with this.

I just tried this on Firefox 17 on a Confluence 5.5 wiki page using the Documentation Theme, and the back button remembered the scroll position with no problem. (So there is nothing in the Confluence code that interferes with this.)

But this did not work on Chrome 27. I see this has been [reported as an issue with Chromium](http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=254198).

I see reports of this being [an issue in Firefox 19](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/955144), and [Firefox 26](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/984846), although attributed to the cache.

As such, there may not be much you can do inside the wiki, other than installing some complex JavaScript + cookies solution for something that is supposed to work in the browser.
In Confluence, is there a way for anonymous users to watch a page?
Asked by R Donato:

Part of our instance is made available to our anonymous customers. Many of them would like to be notified automatically when a page is updated. Is there a way to configure a space to allow anonymous users to do that?

Thanks for any help offered.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

Unfortunately it is not possible for Confluence to do that. Confluence need to know which e-mail address it need to send notification too, since anonymous users is not registered in Confluence, then it is not possible for them to get notified.

Hope it clarifies.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Tim Mohrbach
body: Has really no one come up with a plugin for this by now? Missing this feature could actually be a dealbreaker :(


author: Aidan Reilly
body: I agree. Confluence licences are expensive, and not everyone needs to interasct with the system over and beyond seeing what is happening.


author: Gavin Means
body: you can use a third part tool like <https://visualping.io/>


Tags: page

watch
How to change HTML page title per page?
Asked by ResearchGate:

Hi,

`I know that the HTML title is defined in the Main Layout decorator. Below is the definition from the default template.`  

```
#if ($sitemeshPage.getProperty("page.spacename"))  &lt;title&gt;$title - $sitemeshPage.getProperty("page.spacename") - #siteTitle()&lt;/title&gt;#else  &lt;title&gt;$title - #siteTitle()&lt;/title&gt;#end
```

But I am looking for an easy way to change the HTML title per page. Ideally, a user could do it when editing a page.

Any ideas or recommendations of add-ons?


Answers:
author: Ale? La?ar
body: You can create it as User Macro with parameter for page title. Then user can insert macro to page and change it.

```
## @param Title:title=Title|type=string|desc=Title&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;	document.title = "$!paramTitle";&lt;/script&gt;
```

I hope this will work :smile: I didnt test it but it should work :wink:

comments: author: ResearchGate
body: I tried to add a UserMacro that has a param holding the HTML title, then I extented the if clause above to test whether the param is defined and set the title accordingly. It is not working. It looks like the param is not (yet) defined when it renders the HTML header section. Can you maybe provide a working example?


author: Davin Studer
body: You would probably want to put the user macro on the page, not in the decorator. The user macro could have a user defined parameter and then just take what the user puts in and change the html title via javascript.


author: Ale? La?ar
body: Look at edit. Just add it like another macro :) If you want to use it with Title text in body, delete param and to the script put $body


author: Davin Studer
body: document.title = "@paramTitle";should be ...document.title = "$!paramTitle";


author: Ale? La?ar
body: Thank you David :) I wrote it on iPad :)


author: Davin Studer
body: Woah! Brave man ... coding on a tablet.


author: Ale? La?ar
body: :D only watched Confluence Answers :).... hmmm some IDE on iPad.... :)


author: Felix Grund (Scandio)
body: If you don't want to mangle with a mixture of Velocity and JavaScript code, you could do it with JavaScript only (in global HTML, as a user macro or in a plugin):

```
(function($) {		function getHtmlTitle(pageTitle) {		return pageTitle; // or do some logic here	}	document.title = getHtmlTitle(AJS.params.pageTitle);}(jQuery))
```
Table Cell Wrap in Confluence
Asked by richardofrugeley:

I used a table to format a Confluence page before I realised that wrapping around images was possible outside of a table. Text and pictures appear in separate columns. Text does not wrap so I have to insert manual line breaks.

How do I wrap text within a table cell?


Answers:
author: richardofrugeley
body: Thanks tousif. I am new at this - how do I write a user macro?


author: tousifs
body: i would suggest write small user macro to perform this activity,

you should write this macro within table cell and put text inside macro.

cheers.

tousif shaikh.
Is it possible to create a JIRA Issue (Standalone Task) from a Confluence Task
Asked by Wiel Vercoulen:

I know it is possible to create a JIRA issue from Confluence, but is it also possible to create a JIRA issue from a Confluence task, or create a JIRA issue and link it with a Confluence task?.

NOTE: We're using the OnDemand version of Confluence and JIRA.

Thanks,

Wiel V


Answers:
author: Robert Nadon
body: Turns out that this is already implemented. Just highlight the text and a popup will appear that has two choices comment and JIRA. Simply click on the JIRA and a JIRA issue will be created from the task.


author: Robert Nadon
body: Hi Wiel and Pedro,

I was wanting the same thing. Possible a special macro (JIRA Task or something) that I could add that has a button and a check box. The button creates a JIRA issue the check-box will mark the task as complete as well as transition the associated JIRA to closed.

If this has not been accomplished I will look into writing a macro/plugin that does this.

Please let me know if you found anything?

Thanks!

Robert


author: Pedro Souza
body: Hi Wiel,

If you are looking for some options to create a JIRA issue from a Confluence page, I believe this page below will give you some directions:

<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/12/5-ways-work-jira-issues-confluence/>

Cheers,

Pedro Souza.

comments: author: Wiel Vercoulen
body: Hi Pedro,Thanks for your answer, but I don't think it answers my question. I'm looking for a way to create a JIRA issue from a Confluence task.Thanks,Wiel V


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a way of creating a desktop icon for JIRA/Confluence
Asked by Steph Matson:


Answers:
author: Ale? La?ar
body: 20 secunds on Google :smile: <http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Shortcut-of-a-Specific-Website-to-Your-Desktop-from-Internet-Explorer-9>


author: Davin Studer
body: Also, if you use Chrome here is how you can do it.

image2014-9-26 10:19:19.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-of-creating-a-desktop-icon-for-JIRA-Confluence/qaq-p/360573?attachment-id=6359){#link_1193243206f83e}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/61011/1/image2014-9-26%2010%3A19%3A19.png){#display_1193243206f83e_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-of-creating-a-desktop-icon-for-JIRA-Confluence/qaq-p/360573?attachment-id=6360){#link_1193243206f83e_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/61011/2/image2014-9-26%2010%3A18%3A57.png){#display_1193243206f83e_2}


author: Magnus Gabell
body: I know this has been answered.

But this is nice way of getting a "Jira Application" in Windows 10. Kudos [@Josh Lyon](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1189547)

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Is-there-a-Jira-Windows-app/qaq-p/875086>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
AddOns
Asked by BastianO:

Is it possible to enable an AddOn just for one Space?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. AddOns are global.

Some provide functions that you don't have to use though (e.g. if it provides a macro called "penguin", you don't have to actually use that on a page in any space)

As an example, most of the theme addons require that you choose to use them on a space-by-space basis (or set them globally, but you can still turn them off by space). And some addons have functionality that limits their use to selected spaces in other ways.


author: BastianO
body: Thank you for the answer!

Kind Regards

Basti


Tags: confluence-administration
PDF title page to include the first page of page OR header to be only on 1st page
Asked by Alicia Miller:

Hi All,

So I am trying to get my company logo on the first page of a PDF export.

I'm trying to achieve this through the PDF Layout HTML not the stylesheet as images are not scalable though the stylesheet and look terrible when exported.

So what I want to do is either:

1. Configure the title page so the it has the logo in the top left hand corner and the contents of the exported page starts on the title page and not on the next page.   

   OR  

2. Configure the Header so it has the company logo and only appears on the first page of the exported document.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Alicia  


Answers:
author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Alicia,

did you already checked out the [Scroll PDF Exporter add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf)?

Using this you can define a [separate title page](https://www.k15t.com/display/PDF/Creating+a+Title+Page) via the template designer or define your headers and footers in your [page layouts](https://www.k15t.com/display/PDF/Defining+the+Page+Layouts) (with the option to have other headers on your content pages than on your title pages).

Please have a look at the following blogpost for further advantages: [5 Reasons to Use the Scroll PDF Exporter](https://blog.k15t.com/2013/12/5-reasons-to-use-the-scroll-pdf-exporter)

I hope that helps.

Cheers,  
Nils :smile:


Tags: confluence-administration

header

html

pdf

titlepage
Google Ads on Atlassian Connect addon, is it possible?
Asked by Victor Hugo Garcia:

I made an addon using Atlassian connect that works for confluence only, can I add Google Adsense for support the infrastructure of it? The addon is FREE.

Hope it can be possible, so the addon can be up and running for several more years.

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: I would suggest reading through the various agreements that you sign off on in order to publish something on the marketplace.

From a technical perspective - I would be careful though since you're in a semi-iframe placing the content - something that Google AdWords wouldn't be able to understand.. You might get some odd caching.

Why not just charge for the product? You'll probably get more income that way (just charge low if you're just interested in covering the hosting).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

google
How do you connect confluence v5.6.1 to an external MySQL database?
Asked by Some Body:

I have a Confluence v5.6.1 installation that has an external MySQL database prepped for it, yet when I go through the setup for Confluence I never get to the page to configured the connection to the external database. I have the MySQL JDBC driver JAR file in my \<confluence_home\>/WEB-INF/lib directory with the appropriate file ownership and permissions. Does Confluence require a full license to be configured this way (i.e., with an external database)?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence 5.6.3 is out now and has a fix for the bug I mention.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, yes, there's a bug in 5.6.1 - if you give it an evaluation licence, it will skip selection and go with the HSQL internal database.

Your options are

* Use a full licence, or a developer licence
* Install 5.6.0 and upgrade it
* Go with HSQL and swap over after installation
* Wait for 5.6.2 where it is fixed

comments: author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

Just for your reference, here is the mentioned bug by Nic : <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34288>.  
As mentioned, this bug has been fixed in the latest release of Confluence which was out today.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: confluence-administration
What is the best way to copy a page to a different Confluence server?
Asked by Darin Webb:

Right now I seem to be stuck manually copying and pasting. I've got pages with multiple sections, macros, labels, etc.

I understand that if the environments are set up the same, certain macros, links, etc. won't work, but even structure is difficult at the moment.


Answers:
author: Darin Webb
body: Awesome, unfortunately I don't have access to the file system of the destination server...

...yet.

comments: author: Steven F Behnke
body: Yeah, that's going to be your best bet @Darin Webb. Best of luck to ya!


author: Davin Studer
body: You can use the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Confluence+Command+Line+Interface) for this.


author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: An option might be moving all the pages you want to copy into a dedicated space. That will allow you to export the space from one instance and import it into the other (assuming version compatibility.) If you're a Space Admin, you can use the [Reorder Pages](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Changing+the+Sequential+Order+of+Pages) function to move all the pages to be a children of one page, and then just move one page to the space you intend to export. Hopefully that gives you some ideas.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Importing pages from disk would help wouldn't it?

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+XML>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+Pages+from+Disk>


Tags: confluence-administration
How to copy a page from one confluence (v2.5) to another (v5)?
Asked by Alice:


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Alice,

It seems that you are talking about a very old version of Confluence. The best way to do this is indeed to use the export to word, however it is not available for Confluence 2.4 as it was introduced at 2.5. You might want to upgrade to 2.5 first.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


author: Alice
body: Hi mehmet,

Thanks for the detailed instructions. Unfortunately, I only see "Export page as PDF" in our Confluence (actually version 2.4.4).


author: Mehmet Kazgan
body: If you are talking about the version of the page:

1. Go to the page
2. Click tools\>page history
3. Click restore on v5.

If you are talking about Confluence versions:

1. Go to the page in Confluence v2.5
2. Click Tools\>Export to Word in v2.5
3. Go to a space you want to copy the page to in Confluence v5
4. Create a page
5. Tools\>Import Word document
Jira agile velocity graph in Confluence?
Asked by Andrew Nisbet:

Hi, Is it possible to add the Agile Velocity graph to a confluence page, in a manner similar to the Burndown chart? We have looked, but have been able to find anything any information.


Answers:
author: Andrew Nisbet
body: Yeah, probably should have done a bit more digging before asking the question.

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/237301>
In Confluence, how to send Meeting Notes agenda to someone not in my @mentions network?
Asked by George Vaughan:

In Confluence, how do I send the Meeting Notes agenda to someone not in my @mentions network? Meeting Notes uses @mentions to email meeting note agneda


Answers:
author: Andrew Wolpers [BlackPearl PDM]
body: George,

You should be able to email a page to someone using the "Share" button in the top righthand corner on any page, and this is done through email. Should they have permissions to view the actual page, then it will be visible.


author: George Vaughan
body: Great - Thanks!

comments: author: Andrew Wolpers [BlackPearl PDM]
body: No problem! If that works for you, feel free to mark it as your answer and the question will be resolved :)
How to make a robots.txt that disallows 'label' paths
Asked by Cassandra Targett:

I have a robots.txt on my Confluence site and would like to disallow crawlers from crawling the labels. I've got the following DISALLOW lines in my robots.txt but it doesn't appear to be working:

```
Disallow: /label/Disallow: /labels/Disallow: /*label*
```

I borrowed the last line from <https://github.com/childnode/atlassian-confluence-config/blob/master/robots.confluence.txt> - I thought DISALLOW didn't support regex, but I threw it in there anyway.

Does anyone know a better path to disallow that would prevent the label pages from being crawled?

(By the way, I know it's not working because I have a crawler that is crawling the site. It is possible there is a bug in the crawler, but is respecting all my other rules so it seems unlikely that it would just arbitrarily ignore a valid rule.)

Thanks in advance for any help.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: The robots.txt looks correct to me. I don't have ways to test it at this moment, but just wondering, have you restarted the application so that it can pick up the new settings?Cheers


Tags: confluence-administration