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Team Calendar macro not appearing
Asked by ITops123:

I have recently installed the Team Calendar plugin. After uninstalling the old calendar plugin, I am able to see My Calendars and add new calendars in My Calendars.

I can also see the Team Calendar macro in the macro browser but the wiki is not recognizing it.

* Confluence 3.5.1
* We have a RefinedWiki theme applied
* License is up to date

Before I log an issue, I am wondering if anyone has any insight on why this macro isn't working for me? I can't figure out whether I should log the issue with RefinedWiki or Confluence.


Answers:
author: DavidA
body: It looks like a the problem we've seen with some configurations - could you please contact our support team at <https://support.atlassian.com>?


author: hsuhailah
body: When you mentioned that the wiki was not recognizing it, what was the error displayed? Have you made sure that the correct base URL has been configured in Confluence Admin \> General Configuration?


author: Ron Dinwiddie
body: I have this exact same issue. I put in a ticket with support. Glad I'm not the only one.


author: DavidA
body: It looks like a the problem we've seen with some configurations - could you please contact our support team at [https://support.atlassian.com?\</p\<\>\>](https://support.atlassian.com?%3C/p)


Tags: calendar
How can I get a list of users in a group along with the fields in their profile?
Asked by Steve Goldberg:

We have clients who use our Confluence and we ask all of them to put their company name into their department. It would be great if someone (please!) could write a macro that would print a list of users in a specific groups (e.g. 'client') along with what they have entered for the 'department' field.

Could anybody help?


Answers:
author: Stefan Kohler
body: Would the [Mugshot Plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/35064) work in your situation? I wrote it once with more or less the same usecase.

comments: author: Steve Goldberg
body: Well my goodness, Stefan, that'll definitely do for the time being. Ideally - *IDEALLY -*I would love for it to be in a table (even a table-plus) where I can easily organise the information but that plugin is certainly very useable.

<br />

Thank you so much!


author: Andrei [errno]
body: are therre any performance impications for large groups (as userlister macro has)?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: If you work with the SQL plugin, you can get at the values directly from the database. It was pretty difficult to find this info: it's actually stored in the OS_PROPERTYENTRY table, with the "department" being defined not as a column but as a string value in the entity_key column. The key in this table matches up with the user entity in the content table, so you'd have to do some fancy SQL to get user and group info, but it can be done.


Tags: department

macro

profile

user
how to grant time-limited access only to confluence ? time-permission
Asked by Klaus Feldmann:

for a certain number of users we plan to grant only a limited time of working hours wherein employees can access confluence.

Does anyone has an basic idea of how such a task could be achieved.

I think a user would still need to log in to check time-permission but to redirect him to a "timeout message page" with no further access instead of entering dashboard.

Your ideas and suggestions are appreciated.

----  
Update 8. Jul. 2011

Thanks for all of your suggestions until now. I did some testing with reporting-plugin meanwhile. My setup is now as follows:

An employee becomes a member of a timeout-group. I check this group membership on a global bases and I did set a time-frame which will be checked against global time. If the user belongs to this group and he is not within this time-frame, he will be redirected to a specific page that shows a timeout message and than redirects this user again to the log-out page.

This works now for working hours and for saturdays and sundays. I would need to embed a calendar to get a fully working version of this setup, because I would need to embed all kinds of holidays too -- quite complicated.

May you have more suggestions of how to achieve such a task.


Answers:
author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: Imho the most straight forward way would be a servlet-filter. That filter checks whether the user is allowed to use confluence at that time and redirect the user to a page about the usage restrictions.

comments: author: Klaus Feldmann
body: OK -- would I need to program a plug-in using a servlet-filter or is there anything available that just needs to be modified?


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: This would be custom development.


author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: As David says, I am not aware of any plugin which already does that. (Unless the Adaptavist guys have something in their magic hat ;-)


author: Klaus Feldmann
body: We solved this meanwhile by training the personnel in entcroachment or violations of copyright and its consequences and limited access to certain spaces -- but NSA made us aware of that there is no working data security excisting, so we have to trust our personnel and get rid of those we cant trust.


author: Jim Birch
body: You should be able to script external timed batched processes to add and remove users from groups (etc) using the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP/Confluence+Command+Line+Interface) tool. (I have not tried it...)  

This could block their login totally or restrict them to (say) a single read-only space.

comments: author: Laura Kolker
body: That seems like it might be a bit of a dodgy plan if you have a large number of users you were bouncing between groups on a twice daily basis.


Tags: permission
Disable indexing in Confluence
Asked by AlexH:

We've replaced the built-in confluence search with a Google Search Appliance that we've customized to produce better (for us) search results and we've been using Confluence that way for a couple years now.

Since we're not using the built-in search to search for any type of content, would it make sense to completely disable the indexing tasks to save system resources? Or are there other features (such as macro autocomplete) that rely on the indexes to function properly?


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: So many aspects of Confluence require content indexing with Lucene. e.g. link automcompletion in the rich text editor, the contentbylabel macro and more.

Unless you've also replaced this functionality, disable indexing and all this rich functionality is likely to stop working.

comments: author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: @Alex Holtz: Did this help? If so, please vote/mark as answered. Otherwise comment some more :)


author: AlexH
body: Interesting... didn't get any email notification that this post had been updated, that is until your comment a few hours ago.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: @Alex Holtz: It looks like there's a bug in email notifications - see [ANSWERS-117](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-117 "ANSWERS-117").
Forum move
Asked by Dave Puttock:

In the old forum it tells me that it will only be live for another week and then the questions will move to this forum. But when I did a search I found loads in the old forum that is not in this one, so obviously this is just a continuation and does not contain the original content. My question is where is the old content going? will it be searchable where it is or will it disappear.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: As per Atalassian, old forums will stay read only for some time and they are not planning to close it down soon. I hope they won't close it down at all but no plans in the near future anyways!

They won't be moving those questions to answers is what I understood, not if they are not asked again here!

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: At first, Atlassian people asked and answered a number of the very popular and common questions, presumably to pre-load Answers with a body of knowledge to get it started.

I was hoping to see something with a bit more "have you seen this previous question" or improved searches in Answers, because the forums suffered from a significant chunk of "new" questions that had already been answered and a lot of answers were "see this older post" (and the temptation to just say "try the forum search" was very strong at times), but it's not improved.


author: Jeremy Largman
body: We've fixed a couple search bugs so far, and we definitely want to continue to improve search. The parent issue for search improvements is [ANSWERS-87](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-87).


author: JamieA
body: Agree with Nic. People seem to be using this exactly as the old forums. Some users are definitely not clued up for this either.


Tags: community
Replicating collapsible list functionality used by pagetree macro in Confluence Documentation Theme Navigation
Asked by Wayne Cheng:

Hi,

I am using the Confluence Documentation Theme and would like to append multiple links that go directly to anchors within various Confluence pages. However, these should be nested and collapsible similar to the pagetree macro that the navigaton uses in this theme.

Is this possible or is there a similar collapsible list that I can use within the navigation after the pagetree macro? We are using Confluence 3.5.6.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: I'd do the following...

* Create a simple macro based on wrapping a normal nested list in a div,
* Include a jQuery tree view plugin e.g. [Simple jQuery Expand/Collapse Unordered Lists](http://www.milaju.com/post/simple-jquery-expandcollapse-unordered-lists)
* Edit the theme config page for your space \& include your new macro

I'd image the syntax to be...

```
{treeview}
* [link1]
** [link1a]
** [link1b]
* [link2]
** [link2a]
{treeview}
```

...or something similar

comments: author: Wayne Cheng
body: This sounds like a fair workaround. Thanks.


Tags: documentation-theme
Can i use sharepoint connector to embed a SharePpoint calendar in a wiki page?
Asked by JohnK:

As listed. we would want to embed the team SharePoint Celendar in a wiki page, can we use SharePoint connector to do it?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hi John,

<br />

You can embed the Calendar data into the Confluence page, but it will appear in a tabular format, like any other SharePoint List (ie. the events won't actually appear as a calendar).

There are a couple of open feature requests in our JIRA project for improved calendar integration (see [CSI-226](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/CSI-226) and [CSI-442](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/CSI-442)), if you'd like to vote for them.

<br />

We recently released a brand new calendaring plugin for Confluence ([Team Calendars](http://www.atlassian.com/en/software/confluence-team-calendars)). I am hoping that in the next release of the SharePoint Connector I will be able to integrate the two plugins in order to easily embed SharePoint calendar content into Confluence.

comments: author: Patrick Gimenez
body: Hi Joe,

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but any news on this? Is it possible to embed a SharePoint calendar within a Confluence page and have it appear as a calendar that one can interact with?

Thanks


author: Lorenzo Manfredini
body: HI [@JohnK](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/712051)   

thank you for your interest in the SharePoint Connector for Confluence.

I would like to offer you to contact us using our official [Support Portal](https://jira.communardo.de/servicedesk/customer/portal/2), in order to check deeper on your question.  
When/if you do so, could you also please let us know which Confluence and SharePoint hosting do you use (Server/Data Center or Cloud/Online)?

I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Regards,  
Lorenzo  
Communardo Support


author: Jamie B
body: I'm looking for the same as Charley. I would be okay with a read-only view of the day's meetings or the week view, even if I can't edit "in-line". anything?


Tags: sharepoint
Page Feedback Tool
Asked by Emily Johnson:

Hi, does anyone have a good plugin for adding "How useful was this page?" at the bottom of each page? It would be extra nice to have a field you can have emailed to the administrator with feedback. I've searched around but haven't found anything that seems mature.

Thanks!

Emily


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hi Emily!

You could try out the [Content Survey and Reporting Plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/24440), which was developed by some of Atlassian's support engineers to rate the content in our knowledge base articles on [confluence.atlassian.com](http://confluence.atlassian.com) (for example, check out the [Confluence Knowledge base](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+Knowledge+Base+Home)).

The plugin has a few other features, in addition to content feedback, so it might be overkill for your needs, but it's still worth checking out. It's downloadable for free on plugins.atlassian.com

**Caveat Emptor:** although written by Atlassian employees, the plugin itself is unsupported. :-)

comments: author: Emily Johnson
body: Thanks, Joseph! I am checking it out.


author: Joe Clark
body: Awesome! It would be great if you could let us know if it suits your purposes on this answer thread, so that others can learn from your evaluation. :-)


author: Sherif Mansour
body: For the Confluence 4.0 EAP and Beta program, we created a simple "Got Feedback?" button that essentially is an iframe to a WuFoo form (which you can change yourself). We found this to be pretty sucessfull. You could easily take this and adapt it to your use case. [Source is here](https://bitbucket.org/sherif/confluence-eap-feedback-plugin).
Duplicate names
Asked by Wouter Veneklaas:

Hi there,

I have 2 questions regarding confluence.

1. when i link to a page there will appear a ? before it why?  
so it will look like this ?\[Vis:Highscores\] instead of \[Vis:Highscores\]  
This only happens after some time so not directly after the page is saved.

2. Is it possible to have the same names for pages like this:

1. Vis  
   1. Salmon  
      1. Highscores
   2. Lobster
      1. Highscores

Because when i try this it will say the name already exists. Is there anyway this is possible?  


Answers:
author: Alain Moran
body: There are several approaches to this, IMO the most effective is to use the parent page name in the child page's name, eg:

\* Salmon

\*\* Salmon - Highscores

\* Lobster

\*\* Lobster - Highscores

Other solutions are to append a number to the duplicated pagename, or use separate spaces for each hierarchy of duplicated pages

comments: author: Wouter Veneklaas
body: OK, strange why cant the url just be

/Vis/Salmon/Highscores

instead of

/Vis/Highscores

Then the problem would also be solved


author: Wouter Veneklaas
body: So that is not possible to have the urls like that?


author: Alain Moran
body: correct, it is not possible to namespace pages in the way that you are suggesting.
Connecting JIRA with Confluence
Asked by Fredrik Stark:

I'm having trouble connecting Confluence with JIRA.

After I add the Application Link (using the Trusted Applications-auth), I try to add the link to my newly created space, i get the "Sorry, there are no links available when using anonymous access, check the permission configuration of the remote application."

I tried to remove the Trusted application authentication method and use OAuth instead, and that gave me "java.lang.NullPointerException: You have to be logged in to use OAuth authentication".


Answers:
author: John Chin
body: Hi Fredrik,

"Sorry, there are no links available when using anonymous access, check the permission configuration of the remote application."

By some chance, please try to remove and recreating the application links again.

Regards.

John

<br />


author: Martin Cooper
body: Can you also include the urls you are using, whether running with SSL (https) or http behind apache (reverse proxy), or behind apache with ssl terminating at apache.


author: Colin Goudie
body: What versions of JIRA and Confluence are you running?


Tags: application-link

jira
Error when migrating a user
Asked by Nithya Kannan:

Hi,

I migrated a user from one domain to another.

Old username : 'xyz@abc' to New username : 'xyz'

The migration was completed and all his groups were migrated to the new username. But his old username along with the new username is still appearing in the 'Manage Users' section.

I tried flushing the cache and restarting the server but still old username is available in the System and when i click on that i get an error - 'No user with the specified email address exists.'

I guess there is some reference in any of the confluence table with the old username but am not able to figure it out.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Nithya


Answers:
author: Colin Goudie
body: When you say you migrated it, do you mean you ran the user rename migration SQL scripts? Or migrated this in an LDAP directory or similar?
the transformed-plugins folder grows heavily
Asked by Michael Regelin:

Hello,

our EAR instance of confluence has the following folder that is 8.3Gb:

/confluence-data/plugins-osgi-cache/transformed-plugins

There is inside every version of plugins deployed on the server.

Can I delete the content of this folder, and reboot the server?

We dont connect to the Atlassian Plugin Exchange because of firewall and security reason.

Thanks for help.

Michael


Answers:
author: Alain Moran
body: You should be able to safely move all of the plugin cache folders out of the way, the plugins themselves are stored in the database \& copied out to the filesystem on startup.

You may find that startup takes a little longer the first time around though ;)


author: Michael Regelin
body: OK thanks. I will do that tonight...

sincerly,

Michael


author: Michael Regelin
body: that sounds clever.

Do you mean renaming the "transformed-plugins" folder ?

comments: author: Alain Moran
body: I would go with renaming the entire cache folder (eg: plugins-osgi-cache -\> plugins-osgi-cache.bak)

Note: shut confluence down before you rename the folder, it should get recreated as it comes back up.


author: Michael Regelin
body: Thanks Alain,

I will remove all the files then....

Michael

comments: author: Alain Moran
body: Personally I would rename the folders, I only delete things when I've confirmed that it works as I expect it to ;)
What will happen to the mailing lists and list archives when forums.atlassian.com goes into read-only mode?
Asked by Gary Weaver:

As of June 29, 2011, the following page states:

<http://lists.atlassian.com/mailman/listinfo/confluence-user>

"To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the [Confluence-user Archives](http://forums.atlassian.com/forum.jspa?forumID=96)."

The link "Confluence-user Archives" goes to [forums.atlassian.com](http://forums.atlassian.com), which is going into read-only mode in July 2011 from what I've been told. As of June 29, 2011, there is a note at the top of each page in the forums: "**The forums are moving!** This site will be live for another week, after which all discussions will need to take place on [answers.atlassian.com](http://answers.atlassian.com/). Please set your bookmark for the new site and give Atlassian Answers a try."

The Atlassian mailing lists will stay online even after the forums go into read-only mode in July 2011, correct?

Where will new messages be archived, since the old ones were archived in forums.atlassian.com?

Are the mailing lists going to be kept online for the foreseeable future? If there is a rough date for them to be taken offline, what date would that be?


Answers:
author: Gary Weaver
body: I think that the answer to this is that forums will continue to be updated via the mailing-list, but people won't be able to post to the forums without using the mailing list. Now that the forums have shutdown, I still see new threads showing up in the forums from the mailing list, so I assume that is what is going on. And, I assume there are no plans to remove the forums or the mailing lists, because some have complained that they only have access via email and restricted or no access to answers.atlassian.com.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, um, no, you can still post via the front end. I've raised it with Atlassian, but they're tinkering with Jira at the moment, so I can't refer you to the issue I raised (summary of response was "oh, oops, we'll look into it")


author: Gary Weaver
body: As of 7/13/2011, [forums.atlassian.com](http://forums.atlassian.com) now reads: "**The forums are read only!** All new discussions will need to take place on [answers.atlassian.com](http://answers.atlassian.com/). These forums will remain available as a read only resource. See the Answers FAQ for more information."


Tags: community

forum
How to insert placeholder links (to pages that don't exist) using Confluence 3.4 RTE?
Asked by Craig Schardt:

We are upgrading from 2.10 to 3.4 and I'm having trouble figuring out how to add placeholder links to pages that don't exist in 3.4 using the RTE.

In 2.10, I could click on the "add link" button and simply type the name of a page that hadn't been created. In 3.4, when I click the "add link" button, I get a dialog that allows me to search for exiting pages, but doesn't allow me to create a link to a page that doesn't exist. I've tried auto-completion also by typing the '\[' but this doesn't seem to work either.

Can placeholder links to pages that don't exist be created using the 3.4 RTE, or do we have to use wiki markup?

Thank you for the help,

-craig.


Answers:
author: Colin Goudie
body: I don't believe there is an intuitive way to do that without wiki markup. However, it is coming in Version 4 as I recall at Summit it was mentioned. (Obviously I suppose as there is no wiki markup :) )

You can use the URL field in the link browser as documented here as a workaround

<https://wiki.usask.ca/display/wiki/2010/06/22/New+Page+Links+in+the+new+RTE>


author: Matt
body: Colin's 100% correct. Here's how you'll be able to do it in Confluence 4.0:

<http://screencast.com/t/2giPRPXg>

If a page in the Space with the same title already exists you will not be able to create a placeholder link.


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: I didn't watch the screencast, but the information in the link (

<https://wiki.usask.ca/display/wiki/2010/06/22/New+Page+Links+in+the+new+RTE>) is currently incorrect -- it inserts an HTTP link. To insert a link to a non-existent page, click the "Advanced" tab.