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How to use iframes in confluence pages?
Asked by ashan:

Hi,

I am using confluence 4.2.2. I want to display another confluence page in a confluence page(without copping). For that I used iframs. But it does not load.

{iframe:src=http://localhost:8090/display/AAATestSameFile/WSO2+Carbon+Secure+Vault}

Your browser does not support iframes

{iframe}

is there any error? or does confluence 4.2.2 support iframes???


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: There are a couple of other ways to do this. Use the HTML macro, for example, and use an iFrame within that. Or, you could also use the Include Page macro in Confluence.


author: Liam Keenan
body: 'Include' macro solves this


author: Thomas Wann
body: Try:

1. getting iFrame allow from the chrome app store.
2. put an "s" at the end of http in your web address


author: RianA
body: Hi Ashan,

Coould you please double check on your plugin whether you are installing [Content Formatting Macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros) version 2.0.2? In addition could you please double confirm on your Web browser whether it's compatible? Please bear in mind that IE7 does not support iframe.

Hope it helps,  
Josua

comments: author: ashan
body: Hi,

I can't install Content Formatting Macros through   
confluence UI. It takes long time but doesn't install.

Can I install it manually??to which folder should I coppy it in confluence installation folder??
Showing User's Space access and permissions profile
Asked by Rodney Hughes:

Is there a way to display a User's Spaces that they have Permission to access? Would be good to have this appear automatically in their Profile page for others to see - helps know whether this person is in a Group or not and may be able to assist..

Even better if it showed specifically what access rights they have so they know for themselves why they can/can't do something.

I use one download Confluenence instance and one On Demand


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: anyone got any ideas how to do this?
Extremely slow anonymous access to a Confluence when Crowd SSO session time out.
Asked by Suwon Jang:

When anonymous accessing to a Confluence the response time slows down extremely. It only occurs Crowd integration w/ SSO and login session is time out. A user never logged on or logged out explicitly doesn't suffer this problem.

Reproduction process:

1. Set confluence integrated w/ Crowd and make it SSO(editing seraph-config.xml and add crowd.properties)

2. Log-on to confluence.

3. Wait until crowd session timed out or make the user session expired using Crowd Console administration menu.

4. Now the user shows logged out. But he or she has still 'crowd.token_key' cookie in his or her browser storage.

5. Access to a confluence slows down extremely. (When logged in, it is about 100\~200 ms, but in this case about 20s!)

Could you confirm this bug or any resolution for this problem? I've already dig documentations and web documents.


Answers:
author: David Mason
body: This is caused by a bug in Confluence/Crowd. I've raised this at [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26124](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26124 "CONF-26124").

Please vote on the issue if you would like it fixed, and add yourself as a watcher to keep track of its progress.

Regards,

David
How to keep track of a curator for each page?
Asked by Ralph Poellath:

We'd like to assign each Confluence page a user who's responsible for keeping the page up to date (a.k.a. "curator") and display that user's name somewhere on the page.

We could of course do this manually, but we'd prefer a smarter solution, e.g.

* If no curator is assigned to the current page, display that parent page's curator (recursively).
* Whenever a page is created, automatically assign the creator as the curator (must be able to change later).
* Display the curator in a non-intrusive place, e.g. along with creator and last editor below the title.

I assume this is possible using a combination of metadata, templates, scripting and velocity template modifications.

Does anyone have a solution or concrete idea on how to implement this?

**Update:** We're looking for a free solution without commercial plugins.


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

Unfortunately there's no free solution I could think of for this. [Ad hoc workflows plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow) is a paid method to accomplish something similar, that's the closest I can recommend, sorry to say there's no other way known to me yet.

Kind regards,

Peter


author: Midori
body: Albeit you look for free solution, I wanted to mention that the **[Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving) automates the process of keeping your pages relevant and valid** , and it also supports the notion of [supervisors](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/#supervisors) (which is a synonym to "curators" in this sense).

Supervisors are space-scoped, at the moment, but there is a public feature request to support "page owners" (per page and per page tree). Please vote on that if that'd solve your use case: <https://midori.zendesk.com/entries/80451947-Custom-page-owners>

**[Check out the plugin documentation](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/)** to see if it fits you
disable / hide gadgets in bowse list
Asked by Wolfgang Krauss:

Hi together,

we are using confluence for our documentation and we have recieved the request to remove the "gadgets" link under the browse button.

How can this be achieved?

Thanks

Matthias


Answers:
author: Wilhelm Kr?ger
body: Hi Matthias,

if you want to remove the "gadget" link you have to go to "Confluence Admin-\>Manage Plugins"

The scroll down to "System-Plugins"

Search for:

![](../../upfiles/Confluence-Gadgets.JPG)

You can either deactivate the whole Plugin (all Gadgets are deactivaed)

or only the "Gadget Directory" - Modul.

Regards,

Wilhelm


Tags: gadget

permission
Examples of great wikis
Asked by Evan Goldin:

Hey all,

I've been using Confluence more and more, and I'm curious if people (or Atlassian) can share examples of beautiful or really well-designed wiki pages. I've been writing up specs and plans, and it would be cool to see how other people have stretched the design limits to make cool wiki pages.


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: The Documentation space of Atlassian is a great place to know how to put down your data.

And some guidelines from Atlassian documentation.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ALLDOC/Author+Guidelines>

And this excellent link from Sarah about how product documentation is maintained in Confluence.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Developing+Technical+Documentation+on+Confluence+Wiki>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can i have global images in confluence
Asked by Avinash:

Hi,

I have a side navigation bar on my master layout page which contains two images. i want these images to be rendered in all the pages in my space without having to attach them in each page. In essence like global images present throughtout my space on the side navigation bar.

Thanks,

Avinash


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Hi.

You can actually add a link to any file attached in confluence from any page. When you want to insert the image, just click on search, type the name of hte image in the box and click on the search button.

comments: author: Avinash
body: Thanks! but i found a solution. You need to add !.zen.master\^ image.png! in the master layout. by doing this the image is rendered throughout ur space. :)


Tags: branch

global

image

layout

zen
Security safeguards for OnDemand Confluence?
Asked by Kevin Buchs:

What data storage safeguards are used to protect a customer's data from access by other customers?

Has anyone outside Atlassian validated these?


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Kevin,

I hope you'll understand that we cannot go into details about some of the details of our security measures, and especially not in a public forum, but some of the most obvious safeguards we deploy are not allowing customers access to the file system of their instance and we also do not give system-administrator permissions to customer admin users to prevent privelege escalation.

Other measures that we employ to prevent the possibility of privelege escalation is to prohibit the installation of plugins, (unless they are bundled by our developers), and prohibit the use of arbitrary scripts to mitigate potential security risks. In fact, many of the restricted functions have been restricted for security reasons: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

Finally, we run a regular update schedule which means that fixes are released promptly and the code is constantly being reviewed to ensure that the applications and the platform remains secure. We also have monitoring and other protective measures that are implemented to monitor for suspicious activity on the platform to ensure that the integrity of customer instances remains intact at all times.

All the best,  
John

comments: author: Kevin Buchs
body: John, just a note: from what I have read, it seems like it is common today to consider revealing security measures in detail as a means of improving security and user trust.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

security
Image Slider (jquery) in Confluence
Asked by Miko Makela:

Hi,

<br />

I'm trying to integrate a jquery image slider ( <http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/09/05/slicebox-3d-image-slider/>) on a confluence page but without success. So basically, I put all the .css and .js in attachement and link to that in my Confluence page html code.

Is it possible to make it work in Confluence? does jquery work in Confluence?

thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: You may also want to check out [Image Slider for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.simplenia.confluence.plugins.imageslider), a new Confluence plugin I've built for this year's Codegeist Add-on competition.

comments: author: Remo Siegwart
body: Thanks Leroy!


author: Leroy Elendt
body: congratulation for winning a price :)


author: Leroy Elendt
body: Yes jQuery works in confluence.

You have to add something like this before the \<div id="sb"\>:  
`<script type=``"text/javascript"``>`  
` ``AJS.toInit(``function` `(){`  
` ``AJS.$( ``"#sb"` `).`slicebox();  
` ``});`  
`</script>`  
Btw you dont need to attach the jQuery library because it comes with confluence  
I hope this helps :)


Tags: jql
Problem with Publishing Confluence from the Intranet to Internet
Asked by William:

Hello,guys,

Now I want to publish our confluence wiki from the Intranet to Internet. while I failed several times. I used a sub_site IP address to map the Intranet IP,but it always can't skip to the dashboard (500 Dispatching Error). While I created a new IP for the wiki system (a parent site), other than a subfolder, it worked.

So, can somebody help me, What's the problem with the sub_site?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards

William


Answers:
author: William
body: It was really of great urgency. Does anyone know something about this? Thanks so much.

Best Regards

William


Tags: confluence-administration
User session timeout is too quick
Asked by Francois St-Pierre:

Hi,

Users (including the admin) of this confluence installation keep having to log back in, perhaps after \~10-15min of inactivity. In the web.xml file, the session timeout is 60min. Can you help me find out the reason for the discrepancy? Note that this is not a new problem, but this has always been the case. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Try changing the **c3p0.timeout** property in `<YOUR CONFLUENCE HOME DIRECTORY>/confluence.cfg.xml` file:  

```
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">30</property>
```


author: kgbvax
body: Have you been able to resolve this? We are having the same issue


author: RianA
body: Hi Francois,

May I know whether you have any custom authenticator? Or do you have any time out settings in your proxy? Please bear in mind if you have either or both, it will affect the timeout of the session. In addition to that, please restart your Confluence after any changes.

Cheers,  
Josua


Tags: session

timeout
How to remove calendar from blog posts?
Asked by Avinash:

I started using the blog post on my confluence page but a calendar gets included on every post. I cannot edit and remove it. I think its some kinda template which includes the calenar. Any ideas how i can remove the calendar?

Thanks

Avinash![](../../upfiles/Blog_post.png)


Answers:
author: Sean King
body: Hover over the Gear Icon at the top and choose "Zen Space Settings". Change the "Blog Post Master Layout". If you're a space admin you can change it for just your space. If you're a Confluence Admin you can change it for everyone.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: You should easily be able to hide it with CSS. I don't know the correct selector, but it should be straightforward.


author: AlysonA
body: Avinash,

If you can see the Space Admin option, then you have space administrator privileges, this should be enough to let you switch to another theme where this behavior is not present.

As for checking the plugins for Zen theme, just go to Confluence Admin \> Plugins and look for the Zen Foundation plugin under the User Installed Plugins, then check out the modules and see if there's any related to calendars that you can try disabling.


author: hsuhailah
body: Looks like you're using a third-party theme for your Confluence. There must be some configuration that can be made from the admin console to remove the calendar. If there is none, you will need to identify the plugin of the theme from Confluence Admin \> Plugins and check if there exist any module related to calendar that can be disabled. If that also not working, it's best if you directly contact the theme developer for more info.

comments: author: Avinash
body: I am currently using the Zen theme. I can only find the space admin. I don't have confluence admin privilages. Is there a way to check the plugins for Zen theme?


Tags: blog

calendar

zen
How can I get notified when a new plugin is launched?
Asked by Alexander Polonsky:

It would be nice to be get notified, via email or RSS, when a new plugin for a given Atlassian product comes to the marketplace. Is there no such function now??

It would also be nice to be notified if there is a new version of a plugin made by another company. For example, [Multimedia Social Bookmarking plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.cogniumsystems.confluence.plugins.mediamark) is an update of the Social Bookmarking plugin.


Answers:
author: Alexander Polonsky
body: Apparently, an RSS notification feed is planned.


author: Alexander Polonsky
body: Moreover, it would be nice to get email or RSS notifications of plugin updates as well. I don't see why I have to go to a special admin screen to see them...


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: In Jira 5 there is a little block in the Admin section where it indicates that you're installed plugins are out of date. Not sure if there's the same function on Confluence.

comments: author: Alexander Polonsky
body: sure, it's the same in Confluence. But what I'm looking for is not update notifications but rather \*new\* plugin notifications.


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Sadly, I don't think this would be possible inside the application. Maybe you can request like the Play Store for Android a section for the "featured" or "newest" plugins. I'm sure that would be a great option for everyone! Including myself ;)
Confluence Intranet Theme not working
Asked by Terry Glidden:

(Oops - an error has occurred.txt)

I am on Confluence 3.4.6. When I select the Intranet Theme for one of my spaces I get an ***Unable to find resource '/labels/labels-dialog.vm'*** error. I looked in the file system and that vm file is not on either of our confluence installs. Any ideas?

I have attached a text file with the stack trace.  
Thank you,

Terry


Answers:
author: Terry Glidden
body: Thanks for the response Hanis. We decided not to persue the use of that theme.


author: hsuhailah
body: This could be a compatibility issue with your custom layout. First, make sure that you're using the compatible Intranet Theme plugin with your Confluence version. It should be [Confluence Intranet Theme Version 2.1](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.intranettheme). Next, you can try to

1. Resetting the custom decorator from `Administration >> Layouts` or `Browse >> Space Admin >> Layouts`.
2. If you can't get to either of those pages, you can completely remove all decorators as follows:
   1. Back up your database using database-native tools.
   2. Save a copy of your customizations by saving the output of this query:

      |----------------------------|
      | `select * from decorator;` |

   3. Delete your customizations:

      |--------------------------|
      | `delete from decorator;` |

   4. Restart Confluence
Maintenance Ongoing?
Asked by Karyn Ulriksen:

Hi,

Today is the second day that I am seeing the confluence service in maintenance. I have documentation that I need distributed to developers in our confluence instance. When will this maintenance end?

Karyn


Answers:
author: NikE
body: Karyn - you should open a [support request](https://support.atlassian.com "Support Request") so we can look into what is happening with your OnDemand instance and resolve this for you right away.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Getting blank "Recommended in Company Confluence" emails
Asked by Stephen Cooper:

Hello,

I get emails for recommended content, yet they are always empty.

E.g.

Recommended in Company Confluence

Thursday, July 19, 2012 Go to Company Confluence

Switch to daily summary

I would like to know how to ensure that these emails actually have content in them.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: You are hitting this known bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25287> however it has been fixed. I'd suggest you to upgrade to Confluence 4.2.2 or latest version to eliminate the problem.


Tags: email

recommendation
after upgrading from confluence 3.3.1 to confluence 3.5.13 we "lost" our admin privileges
Asked by Djung Tran:

Hi,

we have the following setup:

confluence 3.3.1 \<---\> Crowd 2.4.2

we wanted to upgrade to the latest confluence 4.2

following the instruction on atlassian website, we first upgrade from confluence 3.3.1 to confluence 3.5.13

we were able to bring up conflucene 3.5.13 using crowd 2.4.2

Single signon works!

we are able to see the spaces and pages

but, we were neither able to login to confluence administration nor to space administration!

these options simply don't show up.

what happened here?

please help!

thank you very much

Regards,

Djung Tran


Answers:
author: Tiemco de Jong
body: We already found and used:

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+Administrators+Can%27t+See+Space+Admin+Link>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/How+to+audit+Confluence+-+enabling+user+access+logging>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+3.5+Upgrade+Notes#Confluence35UpgradeNotes-ForCustomersUsingCrowdforUserManagementandSSO>

Space administration is working, but the confluence-administrators group is empty in the CWD_MEMBERSHIP table. Manually adding myself is working until the User Management is synchronized with Crowd.


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi Djung,

Here I found a documentation with steps for this update in case you are using Crowd:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+3.5+Upgrade+Notes#Confluence35UpgradeNotes-ForCustomersUsingCrowdforUserManagementandSSO>

Could you check if you already done that?


Tags: download

upgrade
Remove the "added by", "last edited by" and "view change" line
Asked by Andrew White:

We want to remove the "added by", "last edited by" and "view change" line from page header for anonymous users. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Not possible in onDemand. It is pretty easy in the downloaded version for the "Global Look and Feel" theme. You can edit the "Page Layout" and replcae the following line:

```
#parse ("/decorators/includes/page-metadata.vm")
```

with

```
#if ($action.remoteUser)        #parse ("/decorators/includes/page-metadata.vm")#end
```

I won't work in onDemand because customizing layout is a restricted option. The other choice is Javascripts which also doesn't work in onDemand.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I get rid of the top bar and display ONLY the wiki as themed. I don't want the Dashboard/login/search confluence showing.
Asked by Sam Thomson:

I want to display a wiki to people not lots of options that would just confuse them. They don't need to search confluence if the theme has a search box. They don't need to log in or do anything else that's in the top blue bar. I want to just display the wiki.


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: It's not possible to customize layout on Confluence onDemand as mentioned [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand).


Tags: cloud

display

theme
Confluence - JIRA error message
Asked by David Hamlin:

Im trying to add JIRA issues into Confluence so i can view them from there. Using the JIRA issue Macro its displays the message -

*The JIRA server was not able to process the search. This may indicate a problem with syntax of this macro. Alternatively, if this table is requesting specific issue keys, you may not have permission to view one of these issues.*

*?????*


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Um, yes, the error message is telling you where to look first. Is the macro being used correctly according to the docs for it? Does your confluence user have the rights to view all the issues it should return? Is the link between Jira and Confluence working?
UPM won't upgrade
Asked by Scott Brown:

I cannot get UPM to upgrade. I found a refernce to a database setting problem but I cant seem to solve it. I am running MYSql. Can anyone help?


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Scott,

These two issues may or may not be linked, but without seeing the error from your logs I'm not going to be able to say whether the issue with upgrading the UPM is related or not.

However, for problems with upgrading the UPM you can try following the instructions in [this knowledge base article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Upgrading+the+Universal+Plugin+Manager#UpgradingtheUniversalPluginManager-AlternativewaysofupgradingtheUPM) as this will provide you with alternative options for upgrading your UPM in JIRA, Confluence and FishEye.

All the best,

John
Customizing the Serach Results in Confluence Space
Asked by William:

Hello, guys

I have a problem with Confluence space. when I search topics/keywords in a space, is it possible to

set the sequence of the search results manualy?

e.g. In our business, "tasks " takes a high rate in Consultation businees, and when search the

keyword in the space, the 4th searched result is the most suitable answer and is mostly used . so in

order to avoid the staff's operations of opening the 1st, 2nd, 3rd answer and go to 4th directly, I'd

like to know is it possible to set 4th result up to the 1st one? What can I do then?

Best Regards

William


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello William Li,

There is a chance this can be added to the already raised improvement request into [CONF-5785](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5785).

Other than that it would be something to be customized by an Atlassian Expert.

Hope it puts you in the right way.


Tags: search