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Sort page tree in sidebar by title
Asked by Adil Nasri:

Hi,

is it possible to sort the displayed child pages on the left sidebar by title? I know that it is possible with the page tree macro, but I can't find any settings for the sidebar. I appreciate your help!

Regards,

Adil


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: For the default theme go to the bottom of the left-hand navigation and click on Space Tools. Select "Reorder pages". Expand a parent page and you will see an icon that looks like this image2015-3-11 15:30:24.png appear next to the parent page. Click the icon and all of the sub pages will sort by title. They should also continue to sort alphabetically going forward ... unless you manually move a page and change the sorting.  
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comments: author: Walter Mart?n Villalba
body: [@Davin Studer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781467)

Hi Davin, I used to follow these steps and everything worked fine, but recently it stopped working. When I click on the icon the existent pages get sorted, but new pages always go to the end of the list, not respecting the alphabetical order. Any ideas? Thanks.


author: Greg Della-Croce
body: Davin, I do not know if your answer help Adil, but it was the advice I need. Thanks!

Greg DC


author: Adil Nasri
body: I am using the default theme.


author: Davin Studer
body: What theme are you using ... Default or Documentation? The process if different depending upon the theme you use.
Task Report macro not available
Asked by Hanna Kutkowska:

Hi we are using Confluence 5.4.3 and there is no such a macro as task report.

Neither in the meeting index blueprint I cannot find such variable. Is it because of the version?  


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Yes, the task report macro was added in 5.5. You will need to upgrade to get it.
Cluster HA
Asked by John Lewis:

Hello,

I've read through your documentation on clustering and had some questions regarding High Availabilty for Confluence Clustering.

So my understanding is this: Confluence clustering can be set up to be scalable but not for HA, although a cold failover is an option for some resiliancy: correct?

My real question then is when will HA be available? I saw in another question posted back in April 2014 that this was being looked into. Are there any results on this yet or a projected timeline when this will likely be finished?

Thanks in advance for your help.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The stuff you've seen for clustering and HA is effectively deprecated, although the non-clustered principles of "replicate production and have a warm standby" still stand. Older versions of Confluence did have functions for clustering, but support for Confluence clusters has been dropped as of 5.5.

For 5.5 and above, you need to consider Data Centre, which is fully supported and has been deployed on a number of client sites.

See <https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/data-center>


Tags: confluence-administration
Updating an attachment causes the comment to disappear (Confluence 5.7)
Asked by Robbie Lee:

1. Insert an image on a page.
2. View the image in the previewer.
3. Add a comment.
4. Attach an updated image to the page (using the same file name).
5. The comment disappears.

This seems like a bug, but I would like some feedback before filing an issue.

Problem: if I ask a user to update a file and she does, the user is then unable to resolve the comment. I would need to add the comment a second time.


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Hi Robbie,

I answer this cautiously because I have not yet personally worked with Confluence v5.7 (can't wait!), but in the demo of the inline commenting feature at Summit 2015 I believe it was said that the comments 'stick' to the version of the file (Office document, PDF, image) or page you are working on. If that is the case, then if one uploads a new version of the page or attachment, they would disappear from view (but still be associated with the previous version of the file).

Unfortunately, I can't find that addressed either in the [v5.7 Release Notes](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.7+Release+Notes) or @Ryan Anderson \[Atlassian\]'s blogpost, "[Introducing a New Feedback Loop in Confluence 5.7](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2015/02/introducing-new-feedback-loop-confluence-5-7/)". If Ryan sees this, he can surely clear this up for both of us.

Also in the comments on that blogpost page there are some interesting items touched on, including Ryan's mention of something that Atlassian may be working on to address inline comments when in the edit mode.

comments: author: Robbie Lee
body: If this is the case, it seems that resolving a comment is pointless. Most often, one comments on an attachment b/c the attachment needs updating.
Sharepoint connector 1.9.3 for Confluence 5.7.1 fails to load
Asked by Arne R?diger:

Hi Guys,

im just trying to install the Sharepoint connector plugin.

It will not download vie UPM so I downloaded manually and copied the jar to /opt/atlassian/confluence/confluence/WEB-INF/lib and restaret confluence. Sadly it won?t load.

Any idea whats happenig?

image2015-3-11 14:36:9.png


Answers:
author: Thinh Quang Hua
body: Hi @Arne R?diger,

SharePoint connector is quite different with other Confluence plugins which cannot be installed directly from Confluence UPM.

Depend on version of SharePoint you can follow the installation of SP connector as this guide.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/SharePoint+Connector+Installation+and+Upgrade+Guide>

Im summary, the software package of SP connector is a zip file contains 2 parts of the plugin. The jar file for Confluence plugin and the wsp file for SharePoint solution package. To install plugin in Confluence, you have to go to UPM and upload the jar file not copy it into WEB-INF/lib


author: Arne R?diger
body: Thanks,

uploading the jar directly worked as described.


Tags: sharepoint
Attachment download path outside base path
Asked by der_bran:

I changed the base path of confluence from / to /confluence and now all attachment download links still point to /download instead of /confluence/download. Is the download root absolute and not relative to the confluence base path? Is it separately configurable?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Did you followed the instructions in [How to Relocate the Confluence Home Directory](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Relocate+the+Confluence+Home+Directory)? Did you updated the new path in the file *\<confluence-install-directory\>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties?*

comments: author: der_bran
body: I did not relocate the confluence home directory, hence the setting in confluence-init.properties is still set to the correct location on the file system.I think it's a rendering problem, because the generated attachment links still refer to <http://hostname/download/attachments/xxx/yyyyy.zz> instead of <http://hostname/confluence/download/attachments/xxx/yyyyy.zz> although I changed the base directory to /confluence.


author: der_bran
body: just to clarify: I'm talking about the setting General Configuration \> Server Base Url


Tags: confluence-administration
ldap pics - can I import thumbnails?
Asked by Consu:

Hello, I am just wondering if there is a way of importing also thumbnail pictures with the LDAP synchronization.  
Our LDAP sync works well, but I don't manage to have it import pics from our Active Directory (attribute name is thumbnailPhoto).

is there any setting I can change to have it syncing also the pics?

Many thanks to everyone


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

Confluence does not have such feature out of the box. However, there is a third party plugin that could help you on this:

* [User Profiles Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userprofile)

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Consu
body: Thank you Septa!


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: My pleasure :)


Tags: ldap

thumbnail
YouTrack Integration and cloud
Asked by Marcus:

Is there a reason why YouTrack integration is not available for Confluence in the cloud?


Answers:
author: Robert Sirre
body: This question still is valid and is unanswered.

Confluence is great for documenting current state. True decision-making and tracking it's process is more natural in an issue tracker.  

It would be fantastic when these two products could complement each other.


author: Flowingly Admin
body: I too would like to know the answer to this question. The Marketplace page does not specify that it work only in the server version. I've spend 1/2 day trying to figure out why I could not get it to install in the cloud version. Pity. I was too hopeful that I could use this to solve the integration between the two products.


Tags: addon-youtrack.integration.plugin

integration

youtrack
Confluence @ mention notifications
Asked by Florian Raab:

Hy,

recently we had to restructure some pages in Confluence and therefore we had to move some pages. In those pages also meeting minutes were included and in there a lot of people were mentioned (with @.....) so when we moved those pages everyone mentioned got an e-mail to every page he was mentioned in. (also some of our clients who participated in those meetings)

Is there a way to move pages without triggering an e-mail storm to everyone who is mentioned?

Thanks for your help :smile:


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Florian,

We are sorry to inform you that such notification is not configurable for now. However, you might want to use this method as a workaround:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Globally+Disable+E-mail+Notifications+with+Page+Content>

Please note that it is not practical ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad"). Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: confluence-administration
Does the admin account count towards the Confluence licence limit?
Asked by SuchiG:

I have a Confluence licence for 10 users--does that include or exclude the admin acccount?

To put it another way, if I had, say, 1 admin + 9 users, have I used up the 10-user licence limit?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: For server version, yes

For the Cloud version, the **system** admin that Atlassian use does NOT count, but your owner/admin account does.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I keep focus at the position I pasted in a table?
Asked by David Fogarty:

I have a table that is over a screen in height. Pasting in a status macro into a cell pushes focus all the way to the bottom - leaving me unsure if the paste worked, and making it really hard to work my way down the table.


Answers:
author: David Fogarty
body: First thing that makes this problem "interesting" is that I think its limited to**long tables inside comments**. The

```
||Text style comment|| Status Pasting Column || Another Column for more status|| A checkbox or not column || ...||| Text | One more status | zero or more status pastes | (/) || Text | One more status | zero or more status pastes | (/) || Text | One more status | zero or more status pastes | (/) || Text | One more status | zero or more status pastes | (/) || Text | One more status | zero or more status pastes | (/) || Text | One more status | zero or more status pastes | (/) || Text | One more status | zero or more status pastes | (/) || Text | One more status | zero or more status pastes | (/) || Text | One more status | zero or more status pastes | (/) ||  | | X |  || Text | One more status | zero or more status pastes | (/) |
```

I just reproduced in the comment by trying to paste a status in the second to bottom row (at the **X**, which was blank. After the paste, it focussed about 2/3 of the way up the table. My table is about two natural screens high.

Hope that makes sense


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey David,

Mind sharing with us if this is reproducible in all supported browsers (IE/FF/Chrome)?

If it is then send us a screenshot of how the page is displaying after you add the macro.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello David, I have performed a test with a similar scenario, and if I understood - I could not reproduce the issue using Confluence 5.7. Please add details to this thread so we can check if something was missed.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

questions-for-confluence
How does Confluence handle permissions for in-line and attachment comments?
Asked by Robbie Lee:


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Robbie, do you mean who may view the comments? A user with permission to view a page or an attachment may also view the comments. If you mean who may add comments, there is an "add comment" permission at the space level.

comments: author: Robbie Lee
body: Confluence 5.7 allows you to add comments in-line and to attachments. I was testing the permissions for these features. As an example...# I added a comment to an image in the previewer.# I removed the Delete Comment permission for a test user. # I logged in as the test user.# I was able to delete the comment.


author: AnnWorley
body: I followed your steps and reproduced the issue on a Confluence 5.7 test instance.Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I created a bug report so it will be fixed in a future version of Confluence: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-36859>Please vote for it so it will get more attention from the development team.


author: Robbie Lee
body: Thanks, Ann!


Tags: confluence-administration
Can i have just view persmission for users in confluence without being counted towards license
Asked by Maha Balan:


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Only if you turn on Anonymous access. If a user needs to log in, it is counted towards license.

comments: author: Maha Balan
body: Thanks Jobin. I appreaciate your immediate response. Even though i turn on the "Can Use" function for anonymous users, unless they login they won't be counted towards license is it. Thats nice thanks.


author: Maha Balan
body: It worked. Thanks


Tags: confluence-administration
Unknown macro: {table}
Asked by Shelly:

I am working with confluence 3.4.9. I was using table macros earlier and they were working fine but, now I am getting an error like:

"Unknown macro: {table}"

I have checked and "content-formatting" plugin is enabled properly. What can be the reason of this sudden change?


Answers:
author: Shelly
body: "table" macro module is enabled and spaces are also good. I enabled "Compatibility" macro and that made the error go but, the table macro is still not working.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, I think you'll need to read your log to see what the error actually is.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Someone turned off the module providing the "table" macro? Check for spaces around the braces?
Confluence goes down everytime
Asked by AKASH BHARDWAJ:

Hi,

We have Confluence Instance with MSSQL database. Our Confluence Instance goes down pretty often.

I was looking for Database Pool connections but i couldn't find it under confluence-cfg.xml file.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

AKash


Answers:
author: Mike Rathwell
body: Akash,

The tomcat datasource statements are in \<conf-install\>/conf/server.xml. The pool connections are in \<conf-install\>`/``confluence/WEB-INF/web.xml`. This last, when I upgraded to 5.7 perhaps isn't necessary (had some problems that Atlassian helped me out with) as they were commenting that it really doesn't add much to the performance.

I think, first, let us know if anything shows up in the log files that might provide a clue. Personally, I might take out the connection pool statements from the web.xml as well in case that is giving SQL Server fits with trying to handle too many connections at once.

On a more technical personal note, I would really consider just not using SQL Server; I've had nothing but anguish anytime I've had to touch it and, if you have the choice, go to PostgreSQL being, in my experience, faster, lighter, and far more reliable.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What does the log file say is going wrong?


Tags: confluence-administration
When will there be a support for Oracle 12.10
Asked by Jens Kasperek (Bosch GmbH):

Internally, we will get a new verison of Oracle soon which is 12.10.

Resulting from <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms>, there is no chance to get confluence work with Oracle 12.10.

So, when will there be a support for Oracle 12.10?


Answers:
author: Jo?o Palharini
body: Hi Jens!

According to the document you referred, **Confluence 5.7** (the latest one) supports **Oracle 12c** . That being considered, you can go ahead and setup with **Oracle 12.1** with no risk of problems. :wink:

Cheers!

Joao


Tags: confluence-administration
SVG attachment added to search index?
Asked by Gert Kuivenhoven:

Currently the SVG-out plugin support scaling for SVG images, but the content is not (yet) added to the search engine. Is this possible to implement and is this an action by Atlassian or by the plugin vendor?


Answers:
author: Andreas Purde
body: Dear Gert,

sorry for the ultra late answer. I was not getting a notification on your question. Confluence does not index SVGs and therefore you won't find them in the search results. In case this feature is still important for you please add a feature request on [https://bitbucket.org/apurde/svg-out/](https://bitbucket.org/apurde/svg-out/wiki/Home) so that I can see whether other users are also asking for this.

Kind regards,

Andreas


Tags: confluence-administration
Bug: show error when creating two spaces with same ID
Asked by Marco Soldati:

In our evaluation installation of Confluence one of my colleagues created a new Space called "MGMT".

As he did not give me access I could not see it. When I tried to create another space called "MGMT" I clicked "Ok" in the creation dialog, but nothing happend. No Error message, no warning, the dialog just stayed.

Looks like a bug to me. Not sure if this is the right place to report it.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's a good place to get help from the community, but Atlassian don't automatically raise bugs for their developers from questions.

To report a bug, visit <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF> - but before you raise it:

* Decide if it's really a support request - if it is, then you need to check <https://support.atlassian.com> instead
* Have a look around the existing issues to see if it has already been raised as a bug
* Have a close look at the "create space" dialog and play with it. The designed behaviour is that the "create" button is actually inactive when your space key already exists. That means it should be
  * Greyed out
  * Not clickable at all for duplicate spaces
* The problem with it, to my mind, is that the difference between an active and inactive button is very minor and easy to miss. So the bug might actually be just "button is unclear". If you could test that before raising a bug...

comments: author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Marco,

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. We proceed to create a bug report in regard to this issue here:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-36840>

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra
Why isn't my PHP page displayed inside the html-include macro?
Asked by Fynn K:

Hello,  
I tried to include an external php page inside Confluence using this tutorial:   
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Use+PHP+inside+Confluence+Pages>  

When I try to use a php page the Confluence page just stays empty (Not even an error code).  
With html pages it does kind of work, even though the css is not applied.   

Anybody has got an idea why?   

PS: The page(s) that I am trying to display are all located on a local server.


Answers:
author: Fynn K
body: I found a workaround to the problem by using the normal html-macro combined with an iFrame, instead of using html-include.   
\<iframe src="myURL" width="300" height="300" frameBorder="0"\>Browser not compatible.\</iframe\>


Tags: html

html-include

php
How can we manage read only users and permissions?
Asked by Tim Mohrbach:

Hi,

we are close to changing from our old wiki software to confluence. It's a powerful tool, but we have one major blocker and would like if there is any way around it.

We have some knowledge we need to share among a few hundred users. But it is too highly confidential to share it with anyone on the web.

Means one space requires us to create something like 300 read only users (not authors). But that would require a really big license fee, where we are actually only 8 people editing pages and spaces.

Is there anyway to achieve user logins for read only users for certain spaces without buying the huge license for a few hundred authors?

Thank you and best regards

Tim


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: In order to know what access someone should have, Confluence needs to know who they are. So they need an account to log into.

Unless you enable "anonymous" (never for any access other than read, of course, or you can't track the activity).

What you need is the ability to **authenticat** **e** people, but not **identify** them. So that anonymous access can work for authenticated users without them logging in. There's no way Confluence can do that, so your instinct to reach for something else is spot-on.

I have done this before a few times by using certificates in the Apache front-end. You give every user (readers and editors) a certificate and that has to be presented before Apache will let them get to Confluence. Editors then log in as normal to get their edit rights (unless you get a bit more sneaky and replace the Confluence login with something that reads the certificate and pulls out their used account from data embedded in it).

I've not worked with Tomcat Realms, but it does sound like another good way to do it.

comments: author: Tim Mohrbach
body: tomcat realms with basic authentication and digested passwords was the way to go... I can scale this as far as I like and have full control over who can use the anonymous user to read.


author: Tim Mohrbach
body: Could the tomcat realms be a possibility to achieve this actually?


Tags: confluence-administration
All Types of campaigns are working fine but reports Publisher Impressions, Outgoing Bids, Contract Impressions, User Totals are not working. Basically data is not getting inserted into respective tables. Please guide.
Asked by Vinayak Jadhav:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: We don't know what your "campaigns", "publisher impressions" and so-on are.

Please could you explain what they are in Confluence and what you are expecting it to do with them?

comments: author: Vinayak Jadhav
body: This is about NGINAD application. 'Online Help' link on [nginad.atlassian.net](http://nginad.atlassian.net) wibsite landed me on this page.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, you're in the wrong place.Answers is for users of Atlassian products. NGINAD is not one of them, it's a product that happens to be using Atlassian Cloud for bug tracking. You'll need to raise this question with nginad, not us. I suspect your best option is to go back there and click "create" to create an issue with them.