youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Suppress Picture link in Profile - anyone know which decorator(s)?
Asked by Paul Paul:

I want to remove the option for the user to add their own picture by suppressing the 'Picture' link in the profile view. Trouble is I can't figure out which decorator this is stored in, can anyone help me out? Ideally I would like to re-assign the right to add a picture to Admins only but one step at a time now.

thanks


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: It's a web-item in the bundled "Profile Tabs" plugin, which you can't disable.

In my opinion the simplest solution would be to hide the link with some custom CSS:

```
#section-list-yourprofile a[href="/users/editmyprofilepicture.action"] {	display: none;}
```

Though the action would still be available, but the user would have to know the exact url to access it.

comments: author: Paul Paul
body: Perfect! I am moving from a locked down 2.7.3 to doing some dev and testing in 3.4.6 and the last couple of days it has dawned on me how much I can do with CSS and user macros, completely changes my perspective! Many thanks.


author: Remo Siegwart
body: Great, I'm glad that this works! If this answers your question, you may want to accept the answer to mark the question as answered.
Is it possible to configure which integration application is shown as default for the .jira.com?
Asked by bits4fun:

Hi,

We're an OSS project that has been granted OnDemand licenses. We have received Jira + Confluence + Fisheye integration.

When using the domain, Jira is always loaded.

If I have a public (anonymous) wiki space, it will be shown if I use \<projname\>.jira.com**/wiki**

What I would like is to have the wiki as being the default application for the domain, not Jira.

Our public face is the wiki (with a nice welcome page and lots of informative spaces). Anonymous users can browse the issue by accessing the tab.

Kind regards

Gunther


Answers:
author: NikE
body: Unfortunatley, due to platform limitations, there is no way to customize the landing page / set the default application.

You are not the first to want to setup their OnDemand instance this way, but because the platform limitaiton is a blocker, there is no open feature request.

comments: author: bits4fun
body: thanks. Then I will use links appropriately, like domain/wiki to have the wiki as entry point.

Also, the dashboard has to be edited as general welcome page.

No problem.


Tags: cloud

integration
Footer floats defect Confluence
Asked by simon roberts:

Hi

In confluence sometimes the footer (powered by atlassian...) will detach from the base of the page and as you scroll it will move up and cover the text on the page.

Has anyone had this issue, ideas on how to fix?

Thank

Simon


Answers:
author: Naman Mandli
body: I am also facing same issue with my confluence. Is there any luck of in fixing it. My confluence version is 3.4.6.


author: simon roberts
body: IE 8, confluence 4.2, documentation theme.

I am trying to do some funky card/deck macro pages with Jira gadgets. It seems to be intermittent, as i rolled back a version and do it again and it is fixed.


author: JamieA
body: I have seen this before, possibly it was with an old or unsupported theme. Can you check if it happens when you are using the default theme?


author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: what version of Confluence are you using? What browsers are you seeing this problem in?


Tags: footer
How often does the jiraissues cache refresh?
Asked by Neil Arrowsmith:

I've set up a few instances of the jiraissues macro recently, and thought it would be a good idea to use the cache option. But now it turns out that the cache never refreshes. Is that true, or is there a timespan after which the cache refreshes?

Because otherwise, it's very misleading to users.


Answers:
author: Neil Arrowsmith
body: This came from a Support issue raised with Atlassian. The recommendation was to NOT use the cache option on the jiraissues macro. Apparently, caching doesn't improve performance much anyway.
Passing parameters to Confluence from an external source
Asked by Lloyd Kinsella:

Currently we have Confluence set up to allow anonymous access however most of our users come from a bespoke software application and we'd like to do certain things based on who they are but without them having the need to have a user account within the actual Confluence system.

Is there any way of passing arguments to Confluence and doing something based on this arguments when the user arrives? I'm thinking in terms of a plugin or somesuch though i'm new to that so wouldn't know where to begin.

For example: [http://wiki.example.com/?user=larry\&from=Accounting](http://wiki.example.com/?user=larry&from=Accounting)


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: You could build a custom plugin with a [Servlet Filter Module](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/PLUGINFRAMEWORK/Servlet+Filter+Plugin+Module) to filter the requests and redirect the users based on the request parameters.


author: Lloyd Kinsella
body: Could the run plugin (<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/189>) do the trick?

Cheers, Philipp

comments: author: Lloyd Kinsella
body: Interesting but I don't think it's quite what I'm after.
Unable to acces Confluence Administration
Asked by vincent beudez:

hi,

My jira environment is <https://externis-test.jira.com>

I'm in the general administration part. <http://i.imgur.com/5pT7C.png>

When I click on wiki to administrate confluence, <https://externis-test.jira.com/wiki/admin/console.action>, I have the following error:

Erreur 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS) : Trop de redirections

It is the same in every browser. I managed the cookies but still doesn't work. It happened yesterday, don't know why because it worked before

Thanks,

Vincent

Problem reported from URL: <https://externis-test.jira.com/templates/admin/helpandsupport.vm>


Answers:
author: Bastiaan Jansen
body: This issue could also be caused by a permission issue in Confluence. If your account is part of the administrators group but this administrators group is not set as administrator in the [Confluence global permission scheme](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview) then this redirect error will occor. (Confluence will redirect back to Jira to verify admin access, Jira acknowledge Admin access and tries to redirect to the confluence admin page which redirects back to Jira)  

We can further look into this if you open a support case.


author: Felipe Cuozzo
body: Please for any OnDemand related problems your should ask for help using the <http://support.atlassian.com> website, if you're not the Admin of the service on your company, I would suggest contacting the IT departament on your company and asking for help as they should know hot to contact Atlassian and get the problems sorted out.

In regards to the 'Too many redirects' problem I sounds like something like a temporary failure, if you are still facing problems please let us know through the website I linked above.

Cheers,  
Felipe Cuozzo  
OnDemand Developer

comments: author: Felipe Cuozzo
body: I will just point out that in OnDemand the Adminstration console has some restricted functions that are only available to a restricted group of Atlassian employees, you can see more details of the restrictions [here](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand).


author: JamieA
body: I don't know who the supplier is, but if it's ondemand, I don;t think they should be directing their support requests to this forum.


Tags: cloud
Team Calendars usage
Asked by Adolfo Casari:

Hi,

When I add an event to a Calendar, the window does not close after I fill the event details and click OK. Sometimes it stays 15-30 sec open. There is no progress indicator in the meantime. More strange is that the event doesn t show in the calendar after it closes.

I have tried this in a copuple of instances and have noticed the same behaviour.

Is this how it works? I have tried in Confluence 3.5 and 4.0

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi Adolfo,

Thanks for the feedback. There seems to be a few issues here:

1. Adding an event gives you no feedback in the dialog (but it does after the dialog to refresh the calendar). I've raised an improvement request for you here: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-381> thanks for the suggestion.

2. It sounds like there are some specific performance issues in your instance 15-30 seconds is far too high. That is not how it works at all. I've got a test instance setup with 12 calendars and adding an event takes under a second. You might want to raise a support case for this with [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) for that one.

Hope that helps,

Sherif

comments: author: Adolfo Casari
body: Thank you. I will open a case for it.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Forgot Password does not send email - Confluence 3.2.1
Asked by JT:

Confluence 3.2.1 with Crowd 2.3.3

Forgot Password does not always send an email to users. No errors showing in log. This is an intermittent issue - some emails are sent, some are not.

No mail in error Queue. Test email works.

Has anyone else run into this issue?


Answers:
author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: I've seen this problem where a company has more than one email assigned to a user, and the primary email is not set up as the email in Confluence or JIRA (and I would assume that its the same in Crowd).

What I mean is this, lets say that at your company you have an email, [joe.smith@company.com](mailto:joe.smith@company.com), but you also have an email, [jsmith@company.com](mailto:jsmith@company.com). Both emails resolved to your one address. So regardless of what a user types you will get your message. However, if you check your properties in email in your system you will probably find that you have several settings smtp: \<email address\>, but only one set as SMTP (uppercase). You need to have this one defined as your email in Confluence/JIRA, otherwise it doesn't appear to get to the user.


author: Ben S
body: I'm having this problem in Crowd 2.3.1.
Finding the {extract-link} macro for Confluence
Asked by Jacob Courter:

I have seen the extract-link macro in some code examples for Confluence. Where can I find this macro?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: It is part of the [Run Plugin](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/RUN), but only available in the latest 2.2.0 snapshot. That is why it is not externally documented yet. See [How to do SQL database operations on lists of data](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/RUN/How+to+do+SQL+database+operations+on+lists+of+data "How to do SQL database operations on lists of data") for instance.

comments: author: Jacob Courter
body: Thanks again Bob. I was running version 2.1.0.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: The 2.2.0-SNAPSHOT got left behind in the site migration - I added it back into the Downloads page.


author: Pangianto Pang
body: So how to do the redirect after the run?


Tags: export

link

macro
Integrating Jira OnDemand with in-house Confluence
Asked by Natalia Usmanova:

Currently we have JIRA Studio where the Wiki component is almost not used, and a heavily used in-house instance of Confluence.

We are planning to migrate to the onDemand JIRA. Is it be possible to integrate OnDemand JIRA with the in-house Confluence (after we upgrade it to 4.0) ? By integration i mean

a)having automatic links created when a title of Confluence's page is entered into a JIRA ticket, and vice versa

b)ability to add JIRA's gadgets to Confluence pages


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: I would guess that due to firewall issues, that will almost certainly not be possible. The ondemand server needs to be able to speak to your server.

But if you are paying for a wiki component, why don't you just dump your wiki to xml and have support import it? Then you don't need to worry about upgrades and availability and so on.

comments: author: Natalia Usmanova
body: I was thinking if this integration was possible for in-house instances sitting outside the firewall, then we could figure something out on the networking side in terms of how to actually configure the firewall around it.

As for why not use the onDemand Confluence, the answer is simple: custom plugins. Our content depends on quite a few plugins that are not available for onDemand customers. Nothing too fancy, almost all of them from Customware or Adaptivist, but they are vital... If Atlassian made its onDemand offering more flexible in terms of plugins, it probably would be close to perfect :)


Tags: cloud

jira-cloud
Getting "You are not permitted to perform this operation." for every user account
Asked by Objectivity:

For everyone that tries to log into our Confluence system, they are getting You are not permitted to perform this operation. message...even the local admin account. We are using LDAP authentication, but local account is the same. Our system did get rebooted which brought up this issue. We are running on a CentOS VM.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: They need to have the global "can use" permission as well as any space related permissions. The default setup is to allow "confluence-users" that right, so you usually find that the answer to your question is "yes, they need to be in confluence-users"

The "can use" permission boils down to "can log in" really, although it's not quite that simple behind the scenes. Have a look at Admin -\> Global permissions (same area as the other user maintenance functions)

You've got options - add their group to the global "can use" permission, allow anonymous access, set up another group (or set of groups) to allow "can use" on a more structured way and so-on.

comments: author: Dale Edney
body: Thanks Nic. That helped!


author: Camille
body: Thanks Nic this was what worked for me, confluence-users did not have "can use" allowed.


author: JamieA
body: Sounds like the users are not members of the group confluence-users. This could happen if you recently upgraded and something went screwy converting your ldap config to user directories.

What version of confluence do you have?


author: calvin.dike
body: **General Configuration** \> **Global Permissions** \> Add the confluence-users and give 'can use' permission. If you migrated to another confluence then check the group AD group that has all the users being migrated and assign 'can use' permission. Assigning Personal Space and Create Space permissions are up to you.


author: Francis Vidal
body: This happened to me when I enabled "Synchronise Group Memberships" from the LDAP server. Users who logged in suddenly disappeared from the confluence-users group.


author: Dale Edney
body: Thanks Nic, that helped!


author: Dale Edney
body: Do users need to be members of the group 'confluence-users' or can they access a space if they are just a member of one of the groups that has permission to view the space?

I have a situation at the moment where a user isn't a member of 'confluence-users' but is a member of one of the gorups that has permission to view a given space, but when they try to log in they get the error message 'You are not permitted to perform this operation'.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Best way to add content to every page in a space?
Asked by Walter Stabosz:

I'm new to Confluence administration, but not Confluence as a wiki editor.

I have an onDemand wiki, and I wanted to figure out the best to create some content that will be applied to all the pages in a space.

I imagine the fasted way would be through some sort of plugin (if one existed)

However, my research suggests that I'll have to create a custom theme and put the content there.

Or an easier alternative to a custom theme is to put the content in a Space Template, and create all my pages from the template, but I don't like that solution because I'd never be able to change the content.

Or maybe creating a theme isn't all that hard.

For now, I just want add the Google Analytics JavaScript include to all my pages. So maybe if there is a plugin for that, let me know about it.

Thanks,

Walter


Answers:
author: Walter Stabosz
body: I found this <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding+a+Site-Wide+Banner> which describes the Custom HTML feature, and does suit my needs, however I don't appear to have a "Custom HTML" on my Confluence OnDemand site.

And this confirms it <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>, onDemand does not have Custom HTML


author: JamieA
body: I'm not familiar with the SaaS confluence, but I believe the custom HTML is not disabled, in which case that's the best way for this particular task.

Admin -\> custom html -\> add the javascript to the section "at the end of head".

For the theming in general, as you probably can;t upload plugins, the best way might be to do it entirely in javascript, and include the relevant files using the mechanism above.

comments: author: JamieA
body: Oh... that's surprising. You can do a lot with that custom html thing, and difficult to see why it's restricted. It's not as though it parses velocity or something.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Unable to connect confluence to jira
Asked by Harald Lapp:

Hello,

we are running jira 4.4 standalone and now would like to use confluence (standalone), too. User authentication for confluence should be done using jira. This seems to be possible, at least the setup wizard let's me specify this option. However: the setup wizard of confluence keeps telling me "This is not a valid url for JIRA 4.3 or later." for the url of my jira server location.

Isn't it possible to connect confluence 4.0.3 to jira 4.4?

thanks!


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Are you able to ping the URL from the confluence server? Maybe you can attach a screenshot here?


Tags: integration

jira
Can we please change our Server Base URL
Asked by Peter Laytham:

Currently our server base URL (i.e. the URL by which people access the site) is set to

[minesite.onconfluence.com](http://minesite.onconfluence.com)

As Mine Site already has [minesite.jira.com](http://minesite.jira.com) as an established site, this will likely cause problems when both wish to migrate to on demand. We want to maintain them as separate instances as well so having them joined is not an option.

So can we please get some help to move [minesite.confluence.com](http://minesite.confluence.com) to a new URL:

[minesite-wiki.onconfluence.com](http://minesite-wiki.onconfluence.com)

Thanks

Peter Laytham

Mine Site Technologies


Answers:
author: Colin Goudie
body: Peter, you might want to log that request through [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com). I think they'd handle those type of things better than answers.


Tags: cloud
tips for Confluence 4.0 LDAP troubleshooting?
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

OpenLDAP is set up and the directory has been synchronized, but I can't log in with my LDAP credentials and if I try to add an LDAP user to a group I get the error, "User \<name\> could not be found. Please confirm his or her existence with a Confluence Administrator." One of the IT guys fiddled with the settings and said they're correct.


Answers:
author: Robert Lauriston
body: If anyone else has a similar problem, we eventually got OpenLDAP working for us in Confluence without saving a username or password in the settings.

The key was setting LDAP Permissions to Read Only with Local Groups.

We also set the Base DN, Additional User DN, AdditionalGroupDN, User Object Filter, User Name Attribute, User Name RDN Attribute, User Display Name Attribute, User Email Attribute, User Password Encryption, Group Object Class, Group Object Filter, and Use the User Membership Attribute.

All other settings are at their defaults.

I have no tips for troubleshooting other than contacting Atlassian support.


Tags: authentication

ldap
Question about indented list in confluence
Asked by Adolfo Casari:

Hi,

I need to create a list like this:

A

\*a1

\*a2

\*a3

B

\*b1

\*b2

(\* means indented)

The problem is with B, it get allways indented and aligned with a3. I have tried with the wiki editor too but it always makes B indented.

This is confluence 3.5

Thank you,


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Trying again as it munged formatting on my first post

```
A* a1* a2* a3B* b1* b2
```

comments: author: Adolfo Casari
body: Hi andrew, I tried that too (SHIFT - ENTER)

The list is within a table, I think that is causing the problem, because in plain text it works OK.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Adolfo,

You're right it looks like a problem with the lists being in tables. One alternative is to use sections and columns instead of a table, e.g.

```
{section:border=true}{column:width=50%}Column OneA* a1* a2* a3B* b1* b2 {column}{column:width=50%}Column Two{column}{section}
```

but that's going to get messy if the table is more than just a few columns.


author: Adolfo Casari
body: Do you know if there is a case open for this issue?


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Looks like it was logged at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-4435> and is reported as fixed in 4.0.x with the new editor. Might be worth asking Atlassian Support for a backported fix for 3.5.x?


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Adolfo,

If you add a line break between a3 and B it should work, e.g.

A

\* a1

\* a2

\* a3

B

\* b1

\* b2

Hope that helps,

Andrew.
How to move a page that uses the macro Powerpoint viewer?
Asked by Heering Ligthart:

Try to move a page with the tools option "move", but the pop-up screen for moving a page is behind the Powerpoint.

As a result, the move to page can not be entered.

Any one an idea? (other then removing the macro powerpoint view)


Answers:
author: Heering Ligthart
body: I have the same problem with adding labels to a page where a powerpoint or pdf is viewed.

The labels are solved by going into "edit" mode of the page and modify the labels there. Moving a page with a view is possible after showing the attachments on the page. The "move" action of the page is still available under "Tools" and the page itself is no longer blocking the pop-up screen.

Little work around.


author: Heering Ligthart
body: Hi Jo-Anne, we are using confluence 4.0


author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: what version of confluence are you using?


Tags: macro

move