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Can you display planned start / stop dates for Issues on Confluence Team Calendar
Asked by Derek Hong:

Can the Confluence Team Calendars plugin support things like displaying planned start / planned stop dates on the calendar for Jira issues? Something simliarly to Activity Timeline where I can see when a task is planned and also when it should complete? The pictures i've seen looks like it only shows the due date of an issue; though I see some pictures where vacation is shown to span days? I plan on evaluating this software, but it's a long process to get authorization to evaluate something.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Oleh Vasyliv
body: Thanks Derek for mentioning our ActivityTimeline Resource Planning add-on! By the way, we have released multiple new features since May!


author: Derek Hong
body: Just installed and looked at this today. You can map Jira issues by a date range if you use custom fields. It shows what tasks you may have overlapping based on planned start / stop dates, but doesn't show assignee unless you click on the Jira key. In addition, it doesn't display resource loading data like Activity Timeline.


author: Derek Hong
body: FYI, just installed and looked at this today. You


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
How can I hide the space administrators list on the space details screen from anonymous users in Confluence 5.x?
Asked by Dawn Havill:

Confluence 5.x displays the a list of the space administrators on the Overview tab in the Space Details section. I'd like to hide the list from anonymous users but let it display for logged in users. If this is not possible, can I hide the display for all users?


Answers:
author: discountrobot
body: Adding to what Ryan have already said.

To hide this field from users who are not logged in you could do the following:

```
&lt;script&gt;AJS.toInit(function(){    if(!AJS.params.remoteUser) {         $('#spaceCreator').parent('.field-group').hide()     }});&lt;/script&gt;
```

Add this to the Custom HTML field of the admin panel and anon users can no longer see the creator.

comments: author: Dawn Havill
body: Thanks for the information. You and Ryan (above) have pointed me in the right direction.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Dawn,

As for configuring to show this for logged in users vs non-logged in users, you would need to do some deeper customization.

For a quicker solution, I would recommend adding a style sheet rule that hides the element you want to hide. You can put this rule in the Global stylesheet so that all spaces inherit and respect this rule.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS>

I've included a screen shot of a working example of this value being hidden.

![hidden space administrators](http://i60.tinypic.com/mv5hyq.png)


Tags: confluence-administration
Centering a page in the default theme
Asked by Jason Plumhoff:

We're using the default (as opposed to the documentation) theme for all our spaces. We like the sidebar provided by the default theme and would prefer to keep it. However, one thing we really like better in the documentation theme is the way the pages appear to be limited in width and centered in the page window.

So with that in mind, here's my question: Is there a way in CSS (or other stylesheets) to limit the width and center the page, but otherwise keep the default theme (and do it on a space by space basis)? I was able to modify the space CSS to limit the width, but the page is left-justified, with a big gray bar running down the right side of the screen when on a bigger monitor.

Thanks,

Jason


Answers:
author: Branno
body: Jason,

You should be able to accomplish this in CSS by adding auto margins to the left and right of the element being limited in width. Example:

```
.element_being_centered{      margin-left: auto;      margin-right: auto;      width: 70%;}
```

Cheers,

Stephen Brannen \| Confluence Support

comments: author: Jason Plumhoff
body: Thanks Stephen - but do you have any idea what the element would be? I haven't been able to figure it out on the default theme. For the documentation theme, it's "main"... But that doesn't work on the default theme.


Tags: confluence-administration
Office Connector Plugin not responding.
Asked by Manny Sousa:

Hello,

Recently we have started having issues with our Office Connector plugin. It will no longer allow us to edit Office files directly in Confluence. When clicking "Edit Document", nothing happens. This is happening in both Firefox and IE, Mac and PC. Users were able to use this feature with no issues on Friday, but was no longer working on Monday.

Right now, we are using Right Click -\> Save As... to save the document, editing it, and uploading the updated version. This process works, but is a hassle and can easily lead to issues.

Any help would be appreciated.


Answers:
author: Manny Sousa
body: Turns out it was the new version of Firefox. WebDAV 1.0.8 fixed the problem.


author: FelipeA
body: Hi Manny,

You said it was working before, did something got altered on this meantime? Maybe Office Connector plugin got updated?

comments: author: Manny Sousa
body: Nothing has been updated or changed. I initially thought something in Firefox may have been updated, but the problem exists in IE as well.


Tags: ms-office-connector
Stuck at confluence install when connecting confluence to Jira for user management
Asked by Roman Baranov:

Hello,

Im trying to connect fresh install of Confluence to Jira for user management, but im getting the following error when entering paths for Jira and Confluence...

Failed to establish application link between JIRA server and Confluence server. For more information, please see troubleshooting guide in our [documentation](https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/docs-55/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management).

Jira and confluence are installed on 2 difference servers in same environment. Both are visible from outside. Jira has been running fine and is currently being used by users.

It seems like confluence can't reach Jira, but im not sure how to test this out to make sure thats the case. Can someone please help me with this?


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hi Roman,

Please try installing Confluence with internal user managing, create just an admin user internally. After you get your new Confluence up and running, you can go to Confluence Admin-\>User Directories, and add your JIRA as a directory repository over there.

Hope it helps,  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: Roman Baranov
body: thank you, that worked.
Confluence 4.2.8 and MS SQL 2012
Asked by Roshan Jhunja:

I have little flexibility in upgrading my existing 4.2.8 instance to Microsoft SQL Server 2012. I notice that SQL12 didn't join the 'supported platforms' list until well after confluence version 5.0.

Are things going to break? I'll have to test regardless but am interested in whether certification for MSSQL 12 was simply a formality of testing, or if there were some architectural changes required.


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

In addition to Tiago's answer, since we didn't test all features of confluence with the new database on that version, things may or may not break. We have seen cases where customers used newer databases with older versions of confluence, however we do not advise that, since it may break confluence and if some bug related to that database is found, it's not going to be fixed on a unsupported database for that version.

I recommend to stick with the supported software for specific confluence versions.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Roshan, it's not listed as a supported platform because we haven't exhaustively tested Confluence with this version of SQL server. Although, you may be interested to know that newer versions of Confluence support SQL server 2012 as you can see here: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26369)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26369>

Cheers


Tags: database

ms-sql
How to collect the last modification date of a page?
Asked by Evelin:

Is it possible to collect the last modification date of a page, and display it on some other page, for instance in a table cell?  

Imagine child pages that change now and then, and on the parent page would be a table with one row per child page, and for each child page the 'Last modified' date should be placed in a table cell.  

'Last modified' would be the date that you can see in the 'Recent Changes' section of Page Information.


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

From confluence side, you can retrieve page information from the database in the content table, which will have the last modified date on it.

I believe the page info macro from adaptavist may help you. [check here](http://www.adaptavist.com/display/AtlassianConfluence/page-info+macro).

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Evelin
body: Thanks Rodrigo. The plugin looks good at first glance but it's only available for Confluence 5.0 - 5.1.5 (we have 5.4.1) and there is no timeline for an update...  


author: Davin Studer
body: Often times the macro will still work. Try it out first. The version must be updated by the developer and sometimes they just don't say it is complatible with newer versions even though it really is.


author: Evelin
body: I tested some use cases with the help of Adaptavist Page Information Plugin: get the last modified date of a page, get the current version, and some more. It all worked very well. One handicap: There is no search for pages - you need to memorize the page title and add it manually but that's ok imho.


author: Midori
body: If your use case is to find the old pages that should updated or deleted (archived), you can eliminate the manual checks of this table using the [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving).

It will track you pages that are older than a threshold or not viewed by anyone for a period, and archive them (instead of deleting them) if you want to. **[Learn more here](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/)**


author: Monika Turska [Adaptavist]
body: Hi Evelin,

Try our [Page Information Tools add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.pageinfo), it's a great free add-on and now available for the latest Confluence up to 5.5.x.

Thanks,

Monika Turska \| [Adaptavist.com](http://Adaptavist.com)
not able to subscribe confluence team calendar
Asked by Paresh Gandhi:

when i try to add existing calender, it does not show up in my calendar after clicking on add to calendar button.

There is also no error message.

There are already 61 people subscribed to that calendar.

any help on this?


Answers:
author: Paresh Gandhi
body: Get the direct url of calendar who has already access to that. Click no that URL and add it to calendar


author: Paresh Gandhi
body: Main calendar itself is not getting added so I can't click on arrow


author: Paresh Gandhi
body: i dont think so...where i can check that


author: Bryan Trummer - ReleaseTEAM
body: When you go to the main Calendar view with the list of Calendars on the right side there is an arrow (next to the calendar name). Select this and it will bring up a dropdown menu with the option Restrictions. Select this and you can view if there are any view or edit restrictions on that calendar. I included a screenshot for you as well.

![](../../upfiles/calendar.PNG)


author: Bryan Trummer - ReleaseTEAM
body: Are there any viewing restrictions on this particular Calendar?


author: Paresh Gandhi
body: that is not happening to any other calendar.

there are no errors in atlassian-confluence.log file

confluence 5.4.2

team calendar 4.2.1.2


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi there!

is there some error in the application logs when you subscribe the calendar? Is this happening to other calendars? to other users?

Are you using the latest confluence and the latest team calendar version? if not, which versions?


Tags: calendar

team-calendars-for-confluence
How to highlight not being logged in
Asked by Hans-Hermann Hunfeld:

At our company many content can be accessed without being logged in. Unfortunately many users just start to search for any stuff but do not recognize that they re browsing anonymous and therefor not getting all possible results.

Thats why we re thinking about making missing login more obvious, as example change the header to red or add a banner...

Any ideas how to get this running?

Many thanks,  
Hans-Hermann


Answers:
author: discountrobot
body: ```
AJS.toInit(function() {	var msg = "booh! log in!";	var $container;	// is the messageContainer already visable?	if($('#messageContainer')[0]) {		$container = $('#messageContainer')	} else {		$container = $('&lt;ul id="messageContainer"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;')		    .prependTo('#full-height-container');		}	var $msgContainer = $('&lt;li id="confluence-message-websudo-message" class="confluence-messages noteMessage"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;')	    .appendTo($container);	// if AJS finds no username, the person should be anon	if(!AJS.params.remoteUser) {		var $msg = $('&lt;div class="aui-message warning "&gt;&lt;span class="aui-icon icon-warning"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;')		   .appendTo($container);	   $('&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;')	       .text(msg)	       .appendTo($msg);	}});
```

This adds a warning banner similar to the one you get when in the admin panel, if there is no username present (e.g anon user)

comments: author: Hans-Hermann Hunfeld
body: Hmm, sounds interesting!

But where to put this stuff into? In the "Custom HTML"?


author: discountrobot
body: ```
An eariler question indicated that older verisons of confluence does not run javascript when added via the Custom HTML.
I've tested the script on confluence 5.4 by adding the following to one of the custom html boxes.?
```

```
&lt;script&gt;AJS.toInit(function() {	var msg = "booh! log in!";	var $container;	// is the messageContainer already visable?	if($('#messageContainer')[0]) {		$container = $('#messageContainer')	} else {		$container = $('&lt;ul id="messageContainer"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;')		    .prependTo('#full-height-container');		}	var $msgContainer = $('&lt;li id="confluence-message-websudo-message" class="confluence-messages noteMessage"&gt;&lt;/li&gt;')	    .appendTo($container);	// if AJS finds no username, the person should be anon	if(!AJS.params.remoteUser) {		var $msg = $('&lt;div class="aui-message warning "&gt;&lt;span class="aui-icon icon-warning"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;')		   .appendTo($container);	   $('&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;')	       .text(msg)	       .appendTo($msg);	}});&lt;/script&gt;
```


Tags: confluence-administration
Team Calendars - Bad Request and TimeZone Requests
Asked by NickM:

Hi,

We have implemented Team Calendars however we are geeting a Bad Request (above the calendar) and you are asked for you Timzone everytime.

I have traced the error to a http verbs request issue (Delete Request) but have not found a resolution.

We are using a Microsoft Stack

* MS Windows Server
* IIS
* Tomcat Connector

If anyone has any ideas on how to resolve this, it woul be greatly appreciated.


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Nick, can check this KB and see how Confluence behave trying the listed resolutions?  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: NickM
body: I think this is a good start. However this looks at Apache and not IIS.

We found the issue.

The Tomcat IIS Connector needs to be properly configured (if you are using a proxy, the host localhost will not be sufficient in the connector)

Also, you need to make sure that HTTP Delete reqests are allowed on your network


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Flash no-longer playing in Confluence 5.4.4
Asked by Julio Mugabe:

We upgraded from 5.1.5 to 5.4.4 over the past weekend. We have several pages with flash files attached to them. These files appear as links on the pages. In the previous version, a user would link the link and it would load in the same window and start playing.

After upgrading, when you click the link, it does not load in the window but instead it downloads. Then we have to drag and drop the downloaded file into a new window for it to play.

What changed here? What do we have to do to get back the old behavior?


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Julius,

Could you please update to latest flash version and the try to [Clear Confluence Plugin Cache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache)?  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support

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Linking to specific place of page
Asked by Oleg Kolyada:

Hello!

I have a question about links. I need a link to a specific place of another page but i can't use anchors or headings because is necessary to input pagename - if i change pagename or heading name link will break.

Can you give me advice how to create unbreakable link to heading in another page?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: BillA
body: You'll get a permalink if you link to the page by page-ID.

You can get the page ID by going to Tools\>Attachments on a given page and looking at the page ID in the URL. It will be something like:

https://\[base-url\]/pages/viewpageattachments.action?\<strong\< a=""\>\>pageId=1234567890
Then get the permalink for the page using this format:

http:\[base-url\]/pages/viewpage.action?**pageId=** **1234567890**

comments: author: Oleg Kolyada
body: No, i'm trying to get permalink not to page but to specific place of another page.

I can't use anchors because link to anchors have syntax: "**page name**#anchor name".

If i change "page name" link will break.


author: Oleg Kolyada
body: I need link like something this: "page-ID#anchor". Does such links exist?


author: BillA
body: Damn. You're right...it doesn't work if you do "page ID#anchor name."

I assume you've looked at the anchor macro? <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Anchor+Macro>


author: Oleg Kolyada
body: Thank you for link. But i wrote her and did not find answer for my question. I asked product advocate team lead and he said this function is not supported at the moment.

I hope to see links like "page_ID#anchor name" in near future.

Bill, thank you for your time.


author: DimMai
body: I have solved the problem by using what it is known to be working: I have added a test link to the anchor in the same page where the anchor was defined.

After updating I clicked on the test link and it correctly jumped to the anchor but showing in the address bar the whole required link: .....pageId=xxxx#\<page-name-without-space\>-\<anchor_name\>

Whatever version you have, this way you will get the link you need.

comments: author: Derek Trudell
body: Worked good for me, Thanks for the tip!

Copying the link in the URL after clicking on a anchor link.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can you sort page order within the navmap macro?
Asked by Jacob Goodman:

Hi,

I'm using the navmap macro, and I'm trying to find a way to control the display order of the cells. It looks like it sorts alphabetically by default, but this macro would be much more useful if I could control the order somehow. Is there a way to do this?

The only workaround I've found is to rename my pages so that each page name starts with a number, but I really don't like this approach.

Thanks,

Jacob


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Ho Jacob,  

I believe this is not possible at the moment. I couldn't find this feature in the documentation.  

You could open a feature request in our bug tracker ([jira.atlassian.com](http://jira.atlassian.com)) asking for this feature and it might be implemented in a later version of confluence, depending on the complexity and priority the feature has.  

Also, you can ask your coworkers to vote and watch the feature request as well in order to increase popularity and the chance to be implemented sooner.  

Cheers,  

Rodrigo


author: Jacob Goodman
body: Unfortunately, I did not.


author: Jared
body: Hey, Jacob. Di you create an issue in the bug tracker as suggested below? If so, could you point me in the right direction so I can vote on it?! Seems like the macro should at least have the option to follow the sort order of the Child Pages if contained within the same Space or under the same Parent. That's what I'm looking for.


Tags: macro

navigation-map
organizing content in a knowledge base
Asked by louis ortega:

im fairly new to to Confluence. I am trying to organize content from another wiki into confluence. I need to organize using a tree structure such as page 0 -subject- with page 1,2,3,.etc either as children or embedded. I have some ideas however I wanted to see if anyone has any good suggestions to exepdite process


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Louise  

Confluence basically works with Spaces and Pages.  

So, inside a Space you can have Pages, and under those pages you can have Child Pages.  

By default, you can't have a space inside a space, so our suggestion is to follow the hierarchy:  
Space \> Page \> Child Page \> Child Page  

Which can lead you to a tree form:  

e.g.  

Space \> Page \> Child Page \> Child Page  
.....................\> Child Page  
..........\> Page \> Child Page \> Child Page  
.....................\> Child Page \> Child Page \> Child Page  
.....................\> Child Page  

For more details, please check our documentation about Spaces:  
[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Spaces\<br\< a=""\>\>
Kind Regards](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Spaces%3Cbr)

comments: author: louis ortega
body: Bruna,

great thank you that helped. I created my parent-child structure.

Best,

Louis