youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
ConfBox support for confluence 5.8
Asked by Frank Sonntag:

Hi,

When will this add-on be available for 5.8?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Tomas Paral
body: HI Frank,

we have released the new version of Confbox plugin. It contains all mentioned features.

Best regards,

Tomas

comments: author: Pietro Palumbo
body: Hello Tomas,

I have downloaded the latest version of ConfBox but I get an error while trying to install it:

Product: ConfBox -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action install_service, location: cmd.exe, command: /C ""C:\\Program Files\\ConfBox\\install_service.bat" "C:\\Program Files\\ConfBox\\" 56284"

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

Pietro


author: Tomas Paral
body: Hi Frank,

thank you for your question. Please, accept my apology for your inconvenience. We have been working hard on the new version of the Confbox.

New version will contain

* compatibility issues solved
* synchronization on demand (user can switch auto sync / manual sync of files)
* new notification tray (no more popups with information about synced file)
* and more

The release will be available in several days. I will keep you informed.

Cheers, Tomas


author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi Frank,

As this is a third party add-on we don't have any information on new releases for this.

I'd suggest you contact the vendor (MoroSystems) to confirm if they can provide a preview of a new release for the ConfBox plugin.

MoroSystems: <http://vsadnajira.cz/> / info@vsadnajira.cz

Let us know should you have any questions, thank you!

Kind regards,

Luiz Maia  
Atlassian Support


Tags: addon-cz.morosystems.confbox.confbox

confluence-administration
Inline comment notification
Asked by Roy Lu:

Hi there,

If someone leaves an inline comment on a Confluence page I watch, do I get an email notification? If yes, do I get the notification immediately after the inline comment is posted? In other words, I will get 25 email notifications if someone leaves 25 inline comments on my page?

Thank you,

Roy


Answers:
author: Manuel Kummerl?nder
body: "Choose **Watch** at the top-right of the page to receive an email notification whenever anyone edits or adds a comment to the page." (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Commenting+on+pages+and+blog+posts>)

Based on my experience I would answer "yes" and "yes" :smile:


author: Robert Gates
body: Yes. The answer is that simple. I am not getting email notifications right now, just push alerts on the mobile app. It may be a bug or user error if the email notifications for inline comments left in edit mode take more than a "watch" to get email alerts.
Secure Login via 2-Factor Authentication For Confluence
Asked by Sagar Parikh:

Do you have a timeline on releasing this plugin for confluence? We are currently testing on JIRA and would like to use it on confluence as well.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Vikas Nare
body: For Confluence Server \& Datacenter, you can also refer to the [miniOrange Confluence 2FA/MFA](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1221328/mo-two-factor-authentication-2fa-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview) addon which provides a rich set of 2FA methods, such as TOTP applications(Mobile Authenticator), OTP Over Email, Security Questions, Backup Code.

It supports Mobile Authenticator applications like Google authenticators, Authy authenticators, Duo authenticators, Microsoft authenticators, Symantec VIP \& so on.

Note:- Plugin is also compatible with all SSO addons.

Thanks,  
Vikas

PS: I work for miniOrange one of the top SSO \& 2FA/MFA vendors in the Atlassian Marketplace.


author: Alexander Kueken
body: A version for confluence is now avaible at the marketplace:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.syracom.confluence.plugins.securelogin/server/overview>


author: Alexander Kueken
body: Dear Sagar,

I am not able to give you a definite timeline, yet. But I got this question a lot at Atlas Camp in Prague a lot and here on Answers is the same. So yes we are looking forward to provide a version for Confluence as well. I will let you know here as soon as we have a timeline for you.

Thank you for testing our plugin. If you have any questions or suggestions about it, please let me know. Every feedback here or on the Marketplace is highly appreciated.

Regards,

Alexander

comments: author: Sagar Parikh
body: Any update on a ETA for the 2 factor for confluence?


author: Frank Polscheit
body: Coming soon ... main parts are already running on Confluence ...Kind regards,Frank


author: Gert Kuivenhoven
body: Hello Sagar,

Maybe you can verify "[SAML Single Sign On](https://resolution.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SSSO/How+SAMLSingleSignOn+works)" from [Resolution.de](http://www.resolution.de/)check this is possible with their plugin based on SAML?

[info@resolution.de](mailto:info@resolution.de)

Regards,

Gert

comments: author: Anton Storozhuk
body: Hi [@Sagar Parikh](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/752725)

There's a 2FA plugin for Confluence Server available: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220359/2fa-u2f-secure-login-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220359/2fa-u2f-secure-login-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

Please note that this app has Data Center edition.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to customize Confluence icons
Asked by Stephen Torra (x111):

Screenshot.pngI am on version 5.8.

Is it possible to change the default Attachment Office Icons. I would like to upload Word, Excel, and PowerPoint .pngs and use those instead of the default Confluence Office icons; they are not intuitive.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-customize-Confluence-icons/qaq-p/132374?attachment-id=7209){#link_11884a5d8e3238}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/21977/1/Screenshot.png){#display_11884a5d8e3238_0}


Answers:
author: Stephen Torra (x111)
body: Screenshot.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-customize-Confluence-icons/qaq-p/132374?attachment-id=12959){#link_11884a62a9ce78}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/21980/1/Screenshot.png){#display_11884a62a9ce78_0}


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Confluence Server is by far the easiest application to modify visually since you can apply custom HTML Layouts and styles from within the application, without modifying source files.

It looks like the question was answered best by David Simpson of App Fusions. You should check this answer out, it's a great answer, but you should essentially:

1. **Upload new icons** to a stable location, perhaps in the home folder as suggested by David.
2. Use **CSS to select the appropriate elements** (pdfs, excel files, etc) and and modify them appropriately.

This is the most lightweight and flexible solution. You must ensure that you 'bring' the update along when you upgrade the application.
> [Is There a Macro for Returning a File Type's Icon?](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/22161)

comments: author: Steven F Behnke
body: I should note: I haven't tested this, although I'll give it a shot at some point.


author: Stephen Torra (x111)
body: thank you :smile:


author: Stephen Torra (x111)
body: Thanks Steve..please see attached


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Could you give us a screenshot so we know what Icons you're trying to replace?


Tags: confluence-administration
Default Group problems
Asked by Raul Comerzan:

Hey everyone,

I have a small big problem.. In my confluence platform in this moment a have 3 default groups, what is not ok. this 3 groups are: JIRA-users (this one is ok), confluence-recognos and recognos-users.

So what I want to do is:

* to remove recognos-users group, not to be a defapult group, I want to be just a simple simple group like other groups;
* and the confluence-recognos wich is the group who grant the access to confluence to rename it into the "confluence-users"

I need to do this settings sooner is possible, can you help me guys?!

Or can you propose me another option to reach the same result?

Thanks a lot!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think one of your colleagues may already have asked - <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/16881621>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I have edit permissions for a page but can't see the Edit button.
Asked by Nicholas Shockett:

I have edit permissions for a page but can't see the Edit button. How can i get access to edit? The page owner gave me view permissions first and that worked instantly, I urgently need the edit access too.


Answers:
author: George Lewis
body: I have the similar issue. This started a few days ago.

I can no longer edit in chrome. But I can edit in Firefox.

Permissions are correct and have not been changed recently.


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: You may not have edit permission for the space.


author: Prashanth-GB
body: Same issue appearing for me as well. I am using Confluence Cloud and edit button along with other options\[start/stop watching, share this page with others and ...\] on top right of a page were appearing till yesterday. Unable to find it on any of the pages. But edit button is visible in Overview section of the Space but not on any of the pages in that space. I have checked the Permissions and they are fine. I am the creator of the page and edit button should be visible to me atleast.

<br />

I am using Chrome Version 59.0.3071.115 (Official Build) (64-bit)

comments: author: Terry McInerney
body: Ever solve this I have the same issue?


author: Rick Hanson
body: I held down the ctrl key and clicked on refresh and I got them back.


author: Gunilla Gunness
body: Thanks!!! That solved the issue for me too!


author: Anupama Nandihalli
body: Thanks Rick !!, It solved the issue for me too.


author: Akiva Kennedy
body: Cheers Rick, worked for me too!


author: StephanieC
body: LOL, did not work for me. I checked all permissions. Sometimes rebooting helps, sometimes it doesnt. Switching browsers does not make a difference. Its only in one space. I have full permissions to the space and pages Im trying to edit. :-(


author: shannon.mcdowd
body: Out of desperation, I just tried something I thought was probably ridiculous, and it *worked*!

Try clicking the "..." then "Restrictions" then give yourself permission to edit there. I didn't think of this earlier, because the lock icon for editing/viewing restrictions wasn't showing up on the page I wanted to edit either. I have universal permission to edit anywhere in Confluence, but had to give myself permission to edit our main page \>_\<


author: Ken Clark
body: Jonathan,

So, if I don't have edit permission for a space, how is it I can be granted permission to edit a page in that space? Is that a bug or is there some rationale? Thanks.

comments: author: Gauthier de Spa
body: ++Same issue here, must be an aging bug :(++


author: Nicholas Shockett
body: What if I should only be allowed permission to edit that one page within the space?
How to schedule individual space backup in Confluence rather than backup the whole Confluence site with all spaces?
Asked by Karen:

How to schedule individual space backup in Confluence rather than backup the whole Confluence site with all spaces?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's not what the backups are for. Backups are for keeping a backup. Which is clearly of everything.

If you want a separate space export, then all you have is the space export, which is a manual operation. I'd script that with curl or something, because there's nothing for doing partial backups.


author: Karen
body: Hi Nic and Chander, thank you. I am aware of the manual individual space xml export. We have quite a lot of spaces on our Confluence. The non functional requirement for few particular spaces requires a daily backup. It will be useful to automate the individual space xml export for this purposes rather than doing the whole site backup for all spaces. Do you have any experience on scripting this? I am new to Confluence, not sure which script in the Confluence config file does this? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.


author: Chander Inguva
body: I agree with Nic, If you want individual space backups then you have to have permssions to export the individual space and import back when needed and again Scheduling a backup is for whole instance rather than single spaces.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to make confluence searchable
Asked by Jonas Andersson:

I remember reading an article about the limitations in the lucene search engine and how to make sure content was easy to find, but atm i can't find it :smile: I remember it had to do with labeling content, last updated pages, summary having a higher search weight than text on a page or comments, but now when i need it i can not find it. Does anyone know what page i am looking for, or can point me to a similar point of information?


Answers:
author: Gustav Engvall
body: Could you be looking for this? <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-remove-and-search-for-labels-136419.html>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: My guess is that you're looking at one thing I've got bookmarked - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Ranking+of+Search+Results> which is obviously rather old and unmaintained. I don't know if it's still accurate either.


Tags: confluence-administration
Migrating Confluence Between Servers Question about start up
Asked by Kathy Plamann:

Hi

I have been working on Migrating Confluence Between Servers from Atlassian documentation. I am stuck on understanding step 13 below. I am use to setting up Confluence as a Windows service--how can I do this with a migration? This is Confluence 5.5..6

Thanks

Kathy

image2015-6-22 8:58:47.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Migrating-Confluence-Between-Servers-Question-about-start-up/qaq-p/408098?attachment-id=2543){#link_11884ad5b39042}  
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Answers:
author: lavitz slambert
body: Hey Kathy,

The atlassian migration guide was made for large instances as the xml backup export/import is not very reliable when you have large amounts of data.

If you are migrating using those steps make sure you set up the latest oracle JAVA 1.7 as the JAVA_HOME environmental variable.

After you do that start confluence trough the start-confluence.bat file as per step 14 and test if Confluence is working fine. Once you confirm that shutdown Confluence and follow below guide to set it up as a windows service:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Start+Confluence+Automatically+on+Windows+as+a+Service#StartConfluenceAutomaticallyonWindowsasaService-ManuallyInstallingtheConfluenceDistributionasaService>

![information](/html/@4DF2F60CA30FBCA0CD7B960B5D0F871B/images/emoticons/information.png "information") That should do the trick.

If you are dealing with a small instance then try generating a xml backup from the source environment, installing a fresh confluence on target environment and then restoring that xml backup :smile:.  
Thanks and Regards,  
Lavitz - the guy that uses Confluence on Windows as a Hobby!


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I create a group/distribution list?
Asked by Andrea Guzman:


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Andrea,

Can you give us more details about what kind of list do you want to create? I mean, are you thinking in a email distribution list or something related to user list from Confluence.

If you want to get a user list from confluence, maybe the User List Macro can be useful for you:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+List+Macro>

<br />

In case you are thinking about a distribution list into your email server, you can create a dummy user with read-only access and give it the email address of the list.

Also, this answer has some more details:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/33782/can-you-trigger-emails-to-a-distribution-list-based-off-of-the-chosen-component-of-a-jira-issue>

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Renato Rudnicki

comments: author: Andrea Guzman
body: Hi Renato. In terms of creating a "dummy user" how would i go about doing that?


author: rrudnicki
body: Basically you should add an user into Confluence and then setup as its email, the email address of the distribution list.


author: Andrea Guzman
body: Can a shared mailbox be considered a "user"


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Does Confluence support AIX server installations?
Asked by Bruce Hartsell:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, and Yes.

Officially, AIX is not on the list of operating systems that Confluence is supported on. (It's Windows or Linux for the server, that's about it).

However, Confluence generally works on any system that you can run a JVM on. It's been a while since I worked with AIX, but if it still runs Oracle's java ok, then you c**an** run it. As it's not officially supported though, if you do run it on AIX, the response to a support call might be "please move to Linux", but generally you'll find Atlassian try to help before resorting to that.


Tags: confluence-administration
Restore a Backup from Confluence 5.1.3 to a newer version 5.8.2
Asked by herold_operating:

Hello!

I want to update our Confluence, so I made a new machine and installed Confluence 5.8.2. I read that it is possible.

During the Setup I tried to Restore the backupfile from our Confluence (version 5.1.3), but the restore failed because of:

Invocation of method 'isShowSignUp' in class com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.LoginAction threw exception java.lang.NullPointerException: Application cannot be null at /login.vm\[line 6, column 28\]

I also tried to make an empty installation and create the user "admin" and then restore the file, but I get the same error.

When I get the error the whole installation isn't working any more and I have to uninstall and install Confluence again.

I also want to try if Confluence installs the needed Plugins with the restore on its own.

I hope you can help me.

Kind regards,

Daniel


Answers:
author: Chander Inguva
body: Hey Rene,

When you wish to Upgrade confluence It is always a good practice to upgrade existing installation rather than restoring back up file.

* Before Upgrading, check the availability of existing add-ons for the 5.8.2 version of Confluence.
* Read the known issues and Upgrade Notes of Confluence 5.8
* Also check for supported platforms for Confluence 5.8 which includes JAVA, Database, browsers etc
* Then download a standalone zip file of confluence 5.8
* Update all configuration files like server.xml under \<Install Directory\>/conf, setenv.sh and catalina.sh \<Install Directory\>/bin
* Point the existing Confluence Data directory by editing confluence.init.properties file under \<Install_Dir\>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes
* Start the confluence and Upgrade should be successful.


Tags: confluence-administration

restore
Manually restore confluence install
Asked by Zout:

Situation:

* I got my confluence_home dir, with the hsqldb in /database.
* I lost the confluence.cfg.xml and installation dir.
* I don't have a backup in the form of a xml file.

I figured I could just use the db files and the other files from confluence_home but I'm not having any succes so far. Which dirs do I need to remove to get it working?

Or perhaps is there a way to manually create a restore.xml? Or could I create a clean install and import the actual site files?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You could have lost this one. Your best bet would be your last suggestion, sort of.

I would try creating a new installation in an empty directory, of **exactly** the same version you have already. Go all the way through the installation to the point where it has let you log in as a user and see an off-the-shelf Confluence install. (While installing, make sure you select the HSQL option for the database)

Now, shut it down.

Then go into the "home" directory for it and find the files that make up the hsql data - these are database.script and database.properties. Move them somewhere safe, and then **copy** the same files from the broken installation. Make sure the permissions and ownership are correct. You also need to copy the full directory \<confluence home\>/attachments to the new installation although that really is a flat copy.

Now restart the new Confluence. Once it's running, log in and run a full re-index.


Tags: confluence-administration
Scripting for confluence
Asked by Avinash Ramdin:

Good Day,  
Please note that we have been going through the different add ons for confluence and we came across the above mentioned scripting tool.  
We want to use this add on, but we would like to know more about it, for examples can we do customization on customs and defaults confluence fields through this add on and also if you could provide us with other feathers that this add on provides.

Many Thanks

Kind Regards,

Avinash Ramdin

Team Lead Tools admin Team


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Avinash,

There's some examples of scripts and some ideas about what you can do on this link:

<https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SCRP/User%27s+Guide>

Here there's a good example about what you can do:

<https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SCRP/Script+-+Editable+Paging+Tables>

In case you need more information, I recommend you to raise a ticket with Bob Swift, who is the vendor and Support this :smile:.

Regards,

Renato Rudnicki

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Open a support issue if you need assistance - <https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/SCRP>.


author: Avinash Ramdin
body: Hi Nic,The add on I"m talking about here is called Scripting for confluence.Regards,Avinash


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You probably need to explain which addon you have found - there's no indication of what you're looking at here.


Tags: addon-com.onresolve.confluence.groovy.groovyrunner