youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How to stop unknown keyboard shortcut from losing data in Confluence?
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

I'm using Confluence 5.3.1 with Firefox. When I'm editing, occasionally I hit some unknown keyboard shortcut and suddenly I'm on some other page, the edit session is not in the browser's "Forward" or "Back" list, and I've lost my work.

Any suggestions other than constantly saving and re-editing?


Answers:
author: Robert Lauriston
body: I don't want to disable all shortcuts. I'm not even sure it's a Confluence shortcut.

I switched to Chrome and it does not seem to have the problem. It also pastes text differently so that Preformatted tags appear at the beginning and end of a block instead of at the beginning and end of each line.


author: Chung Park Chan
body: I would recommend for you to disable the keyboard shurtcut, if you don't need it.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Keyboard+Shortcuts#KeyboardShortcuts-Disablingandre-enablingkeyboardshortcuts>


Tags: keyboard-shortcut
ondemand performance
Asked by Jelle:

I work in a small starting company and we have opted to use atlassian ondemand because we don't really want a server infrastructre (yet).

Now we are working on a ondemand instance for several months and the performance is really terrible. I have found some questions about people asking questions around this topic but they were a bit dated. Is there already a european hosting for the ondemand instances?


Answers:
author: Jo?oS
body: Hello Jelle!  

Unfortunately there's no servers in Europe. Ondemand instances are hosted in Ashburn, Virginia (USA).  
If you are having performance issues, you should definitely contact the Support so they can look if there's something wrong with your instance.  

<https://support.atlassian.com>G'luck!  


author: Jelle
body: Thanks, I'll create a ticket


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Nested groups, how to exclude from search in UI
Asked by Thomas Langvann:

Hi!

I'm having the following pseudo LDAP-structure:

```
ou=groups|_ou=internal|         ||         |_cn:myInternalGroup|                    member:uid=foo||||_ou=wiki          |          |_cn:myWikiGroup                     member:cn:myInternalGroup,ou=internal,ou=groups
```

The internal tree is full of groups that are irrelevant for Wiki-users, so I want to limit the groups that are shown in the UI to only "ou=wiki".

The problem is that if I add a "Group Object Filter", confluence is not able to resolve the subgroup, as it sits under ou=internal.

How can I hide groups from the user interface without breaking the nesting of groups that are necessary to resolve membership?

Best regards,  
Thomas


Answers:
author: Thomas Langvann
body: Confluence does not have such ability to filter out groups in UI only while still synchronizing those groups from LDAP server.


author: J?rgen M?ller
body: Do you have testing to configure the Additional Group DN like this:  
`cn:myWikiGroup,o``u=groups`


author: J?rgen M?ller
body: I had the same problem. You can find a documention and create a filter based on the structure of your directory: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/How+to+write+LDAP+search+filters>[e](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/How+to+write+LDAP+search+filters)g. **userSearchFilter**   

(\&(objectCategory=Person)(sAMAccountName=\*)(memberOf=cn=myWikiGroup,ou=wiki,ou=groups,ou=XXX,dc=XXX,dc=XXX,dc=XX))

Grettings   
J?rgen

comments: author: Thomas Langvann
body: Thanks for your reply, but if I understand you correctly, this still does not solve my problem, as it would also prevent confluence to resolve the subgroups (which resides in the tree I'm trying to hide).

From the documentation: "*In essence the filter limits what part of the LDAP tree Confluence syncs from*"

I still need confluence to sync from the "internal"-tree, but I don't want to show the "internal" groups in the User Interface when end-users search for groups.


Tags: confluence-administration
Indexing in Confluence
Asked by kA:

Hi friends,

In my confluence space,I have 4 child pages under one parent page. The child pages are refer the same template to create a pages for them by using the same label in the template. so if the 2nd child create page using the index, then it will also reflect into the index of the other childs too. How can i avoid these one.

Thanks in advance,

Kathik A.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: It seems to me that you have two options. You could manually change the label when the page is created or you could create four identical templates with different labels.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
iCal event
Asked by kA:

Hi friends,

May i know where i can get the iCal of the Event in confluence and what is iCal.

Thanks in advance,

Karthik A.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You might want to check the internet for what iCal is, there are search engines.

I don't think there's any point in talking about iCal and Confluence events until you know what they are.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence plugin: custom servlet path
Asked by Thibaut Wavreille:

I am developping a confluence plugin for confluence 5.3.4 and I would like to get rid of "/plugins/servlet" part of the URL. How can I achieve that?


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: I am afraid this is not possible. By design all servlets have a common /plugins/servlet root. You can find more information in [Servlet Module](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Servlet+Module).

As a workaround, may be you could deploy your "plugin" as a standalone application and listen in the context path you want and then apply the changes to Confluence using Confluence API.

comments: author: Thibaut Wavreille
body: Thank you a lot for your help !


Tags: confluence-app

servlet
"no pages at the moment" for "Recent Edits" tab even I did have lots of activities in confluence
Asked by SherryX:

on people's profile screen, there is "Recent Edits" tab, but it always displayed the following message even I have lots of activities in confluence, anyone can help? Thanks.  
This page shows the content that you have recently created or edited in Confluence

*There are no pages at the moment.*

*![](../../upfiles/recent_edits_1.png)*


Answers:
author: SherryX
body: this is something to do with community bubbles plugin, it is not working in either confluence 4.3.2 or 5.2.5. We recommend users to use recently update/recently view Macro instead.


author: CharlesH
body: Hi Sherry,

I'd advise checking whether Search is operating correctly in your Confluence installation. The search engine is used by some standard Confluence features and macros to deliver the content you expect.

Some resources which may be useful to you:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Search+Results+are+Missing+Content>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Searching+and+Indexing+Troubleshooting>

If you have access to the Confluence log files, then scanning those for ERRORs or WARNINGs related to search may point you in the right direction.

Regards,

Charles

comments: author: SherryX
body: Thanks for your information, Charles. This tab seems something to do with plugins and re-indexing didn't help :(


Tags: confluence-administration

confluence-app
Does the search look at the content of tables?
Asked by Janine:

I often use the confluence search to find pages that need updating when something changes but I noticed today that some pages I would expect to find the word I was searching for were not included in the search results. When I looked at the pages I noted that the word was contained in a table.

Does the search ignore tables? If yes, can that be changed?


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: Hi Janine,

In all my experience of Confluence (2.8 to 5.0) the contents of tables are included in the full text search.

A quick test on my platform, and I can see that in the search results page it even highlights text matches which are in tables.

What version of Confluence are you running, and what was your word in this case?

Regards,

Charles

comments: author: Janine
body: Thank you for the reply Charles. It may have just been an issue with the word I was searching as I've tried another today (although I thought I did this yesterday) and it is working. Unfortunately I've changed the documents that had the word I was searching for yesterday so I can't try that one specifically. Good to know that it should work though :-)
Regarding the blog in confluence
Asked by kA:

Hi friends,

I need some clarification regarding the blog in conflence. If i have parent blog and it is child blog and i specified the watchers and share for the parent blog. Whether this watcher and share can be Inherited by the child blogs or not.

How can i set the watchers/Share only for the spcific blog.

Thanks,

Karthik A.


Answers:
author: Bharadwaj Jannu
body: go through

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Watchers>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Watching+Pages%2C+Spaces+and+Blogs>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
BAD_REMOTE_IP; Request not allowed from IP address: {0}; ["10.106.149.150"]class com.atlassian.confluence.extra.jira.TrustedAppsException
Asked by srinivasp:

JIRA instance is configured to run behind the proxy configuring with f5.

I do not know from where this IP 10.106.149.150 is referring as I have not set in the application links configuration.

I have checked the below kb article and set the proxy IP in the incoming authentication section of application links, refreshed cache and restarted confluence but it is still giving me same exception.

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=120521133](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=120521133 "Follow link")

None of the confluence gadgets are working.

How to resovle this?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That IP address is the other one you need to add to the list - ALL of the proxy IPs should be listed in the match box, not just one of them

comments: author: srinivasp
body: I have added this IP also and tested but I got same error message on UI and also the gadgets are broken

In the incoming authentication section of confluence application links, i have added the three ip addressed in the IP Patterns text box

10.106.148.85 (this is JIRA ip)  
10.106.149.150  
10.106.148.210 (thisis proxy ip)


author: Srinivas Patruni
body: Hi Atlassians, Any help please?
Where's confluence?
Asked by Rod Contreras:

I activated confluence through atlassian site, but I can't see it in our site. We have been using Jira Agile the last 3 weeks, and now we added this new addon.

Help please!


Answers:
author: David Maye
body: You should see a three line button to the left of where the JIRA logo is (top left of your screen). If you click that button, it drops down and you should be able to select Confluence from there. If you do not see a three line button, then I'd recommend opening a support ticket and have us look into it for you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
When will plug-ins be available on demand?
Asked by Vassi Koutsaftis:

Our confluence instance is on demand. I've found several macros crucial for our functionality and none of them are available on-demand. Some of these are from Atlassian (RSVP plug-in). When will these be available for the on demand version? Is there a work around to this?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: They probably won't. Getting plugins added to OnDemand is up to each plugin author, talking to Atlassian to negociate full support. However, the current style of plugin is not really the way forward, Atlassian now have the "Connect" system, which will let you write and upload plugins, and that's the recommended way of getting plugins updated and available. But you're relying on plugin authors to move to the new method.

The work-around is to wait until plugins are made available (Ask the authors how they're getting on with asking them to be added, if at all), wait until the plugins are converted to Connect, or migrate to a host who will support them (self-hosted if necessary)

comments: author: Vassi Koutsaftis
body: How do I get in touch with the author? The 'get help' button on the add-on page brings me to another page where I need to sign in and my confluence / Atlassian admin credentials don't work.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Depends on the plugin. For the RSVP one, I'd raise a Jira issue for it at <https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/RSVP> - at the very least Jens will probably be able to tell you what the future plans are.


Tags: app
Confluence 3.1.1
Asked by Genevi?ve Rouleau:

I try to migrate my confluence server from one machine to another. On the new machine I install the lastest version of JDK (7 update 45). I transfer my confluence instance. I do the setting for the new server. When I try to start the service I receive the message Windows could not start the Apache Tomcat Confluence on servername. In the event log I found the event ID with service-specifi error code 0. I want to know if the confluence 3.1.1 works with lastest verion of JDK???


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Genevi?ve, Confluence vesion 3.1.x does not support JDK 7 as you can see [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF31/Supported+Platforms). JDK 7 is only supported in newer Confluence versions.

Cheers

comments: author: Genevi?ve Rouleau
body: THank you for quick answer
Changing a home page for a space
Asked by Garry Payten:

Tring to change the home page for a space to a newly created page. When I make the change the Children Pages do not show up


Answers:
author: Garry Payten
body: Hi Adrian, thanks for the reply.. we are on Confluence 5.1.3.. We are using the Document foramt. I was expecting the pages to show at the bottom of the page.. or to the left. On the existing home page that is where the child pages show up. I will try what you did too

Cheers


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: I've just tried the same (Confluence 5.4 Beta) and it works for me:

* I went to any page in my space, titled "A Note...",
* Created a child page,
* I went to the Space Overview (in space tools) and set "A Note..." as the home.
* I clicked on the space logo (in the sidebar) to come back to the home,
* The page "A Note..." displays and I can see its child in the sidebar.

Which version of Confluence are you using? Where do you expect to see the children? Do you have children for this page?
I'm embedding a pdf on a confluence page, but the pages of the pdf are coming up totally blank. How do I fix this?
Asked by Vassi Koutsaftis:

My pdf's aren't showing up in the pdf macro, they just appear blank. Additionally, in the excel \& word macros the images in my documents don't appear - can only the text come through when using this macro?


Answers:
author: Joe_Hardin
body: Very late with a response here, but hopefully someone will find this helpful since I just ran into this issue and figured out how to fix it.

When you open the PDF macro settings there is a Page Name field, which is typically pre-populated with the name of the current page you are on. If you clear this field value out, the PDFs suddenly appear in the next field (where you pick the PDF to be shown).

It's still no explanation for why this issue is happening, but it's a workaround at least.


author: Pedro Rodrigues
body: Hi,

This is a late response, but you might find it usefull:

The Link Preview ([](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.xpandit.plugins.linkpreview-confluence)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.xpandit.plugins.linkpreview-confluence>) is a great Confluence Utility. You can preview PDF documents, images and webpages, simply by hovering them.

Try it now.

Best Regards,

PMRodrigues


Tags: pdf

user-macro
Search in Confluence
Asked by Clarisse Messey:

I have created a file list and deleted a files form that page however the deleted files are still searchable, how is it possible and how to fix that? I have also renamed files in the file list and when I search for these documents I have the renamed file plus the old one. Please help.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Clarisse, the file and its contents should not be searchable after the next time Confluence builds the searcg index. You can trigger this manually by using the Rebuild function in the Confluence admin panel.

To get to this, open the panel and select "Content Indexing" under Administration. Then click the Rebuild button in the Search Index section.

hth,

matt

comments: author: Clarisse Messey
body: It worked! Thanks


Tags: confluence-administration
Does Confluence 5.3 support SQL Server 2012
Asked by Robin Roos:

We plan to upgrade from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2012. Is the new version supported by Confluence 5.3 ?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms>


Tags: ms-sql
Is there such thing as a "viewer" license for Confluence?
Asked by A:

Currently we use Confluence internally, but we would like to create pages that could be shared with our customers. Is there a way to do that? Is there a special license that allows our clients to view pages? Or would it be charged as a normal license?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If someone logs in, they use a licence.

However, you can make spaces accessible by "anonymous" in the space permissions, which means people don't have to log in to see them.

comments: author: A
body: Thank you Nic! It has worked fine!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

licence

view
Confluence Database permissions
Asked by Fabian Toth:

Hi,

i am trying to install an productive Confluence and using a Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

I have configured the Database how it is described in the documentation (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+for+SQL+Server>)

However, the following error message occur if im trying to connect to the database during the installation config:

> The following error(s) occurred:
>
> * Configuring the database failed. Couldn't create the database schema.
> * java.sql.SQLException: Login failed for user 'confluenceusers'.

The user "confluenceusers" is created and have all permissions, can somebody tell me what i am doing wrong?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You're giving it the wrong name/password combination, or you haven't granted the user access to the database correctly.

Go back over the installation of the database side, and check the username/password combination with another tool like squirrel or the SQL Server tool.


Tags: confluence-administration
Adding a font to Confluence editor
Asked by Thomas Kvist Nielsen:

Is it possible to add a font to the default ones given in the Confluence Editor? Our University has their own font...


Answers:
author: Thomas Kvist Nielsen
body: Thanks for both answers - we will be going with a (the) plugin to resolve the request for more fonts.

Best regards

Thomas


author: JohnA
body: Hi there,

If you'd like to change the font used in Confluence UI, you can change that using CSS as explained in this doc:<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Fonts+in+Confluence>  
If you're not comfortable using CSS then you might also find the [Confluence Fonts plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.tngtech.confluence.plugin.fonts) is useful as I believe it allows you toupload and use custom fonts, (along with those that come bundled with the plugin).  
All the best,  
John


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi,

does the given information on this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Fonts+in+Confluence> help you?

If you want to export your Confluence content to PDF with your own look and feel you could have a look at our [Scroll PDF Exporter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf) giving you full control of the styles in your exported PDF file.

Cheers,  
Nils
How to remove "search box" in left sidebar above the Pagetree?
Asked by Thomas Kvist Nielsen:

In order to lessen confusion for our users, we would like to remove the search box on top of the pagetree in the sidebar - this without having to use ThemeBuilder - has anybody got some expertise in this on the most recent Confluence release?


Answers:
author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi,

try to add the following CSS to the stylesheet (space admin \> stylesheets):

```
#pagetreesearch {   display: none; !important  }
```

Does that work for you?

Cheers,

Nils


author: Thomas Kvist Nielsen
body: Nils solution works - thanks for your time and effort...


author: Thomas Kvist Nielsen
body: Hi Nils,

Thank you very much for your answer.

Best regards

Thomas
Confluence Space
Asked by AKASH BHARDWAJ:

Hi All,

I am customising my dashboard, i have an issue when i bring my Space over Menu list with White Color i am not able to See it. Any Suggestions on this.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I don't think there's a question we can help you with here yet - "bring my space over menu list" doesn't make sense to me?

My best guess is that you mean "cursor", not "space" and you've changed your colour scheme to something that has white on white for the menus (in which case, go to Admin -\> Look and feel, and correct the colours) But I'm really not sure


Tags: space
How to Implement Style - Zen Foundation
Asked by Ray Sanchez:

Hi Guys:

I'm new to Zen Foundation so I have a newbie question. How I can implement this in Zen?

.body3 {background:url(../images/img2.png) center top no-repeat;position:absolute;height:353px;width:327px;top:13px;left:50%;margin-left:160px;z-index:10}

most of the parameters and values I found them in the zen section but what about z-index for instance? It is best to load my css and used it in Zen or Should I use the section values?


Answers:
author: Kelli Hoyt
body: Hi Ray,

It's best to use the Brand Designer and Section Designer where you can - this will allow you an easier path as Confluence upgrades. Within the Brand Designer itself, for example, you can set a background image for Window Background, Header, and Canvas (see below.)

![](../../upfiles/brand-designer.png)

If you'd like more control than is offered through the Brand Designer settings (looks like you might), you can use the Zen Body Class macro to add that class where you'd like it (if you apply it to a .zen.header or .zen.footer you can then apply it across an entire space or multiple spaces.) You can then add your custom CSS within the Brand Designer.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Kelli

comments: author: Ray Sanchez
body: Hi Kelli:

Thanks for the explanation. Just to clarify. I will use the designers as much as I can but if I want to add a custom class I must add the Zen Class macro, is that right? If yes my question is If I add this macro, all the styles I defined at the designers are going to be overwitten or they will complement the class in the macro?


author: Kelli Hoyt
body: Hi Ray,

First, one clarification: the Zen Body Class macro is just for adding classes to the body - you can add classes to other elements of your design/page using the Zen Wrap macro.

When using either of the macros, what is affected depends on what you are targeting and how you are doing so - you are essentially just inserting CSS to your brand, so it will follow normal CSS (cascade) behavior. Your Brand Designer settings should be respected, unless you specifically write your CSS to override them (with more specificity.)

Hope that's helpful!

cheers,  
Kelli


author: Bharadwaj Jannu
body: see [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/178693/rotate-images-macro-zen-foundation](/questions/178693/rotate-images-macro-zen-foundation)

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/180228/table-border-in-confluence](/questions/180228/table-border-in-confluence)

they may give some idea.


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation