youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Content by label - is what?
Asked by Mick Davidson:

I'm evaluating our test instance of Confluence 5.4.3 and am wondering what the purpose of the Content by label section is in the sidebar. I can't find anything on this in the docs for v5, so I'm hoping someone here will know.

If you go to Themes (we're using the Docs theme) and edit it, you can see the code shown below. So removing this isn't a problem, but before I do that, I'd like to see how it's used and how it helps our users.

Cheers.

```
{section}{column:width=0px}{column}{column}{contentbylabel:labels=runescape space|type=page|showLabels=false|showSpace=false|operator=AND|sort=title}{contentbylabel:labels=runescape subspace|type=page|showLabels=false|showSpace=false|operator=AND|sort=title}{column}{section}
```


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Mick,

<br />

This **Content by label section** is make by the customised code in your documentation theme. It does not come with Confluence by default.

<br />

Normally, Content by Label macro allow you to list a list of pages based on the label which they are assigned with. You can refer to this [document](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+by+Label+Macro) for more information.

<br />

<br />

<br />

Regards,  
Jing Hwa

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Jing,

thanks for your answer. Do you mean that we've added it ourselves? I'll check with our admins, but it seems a bit odd. We don't use it in our live instance, so adding ourselves to our test instance seems a bit mad. :)

Cheers.


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Mick,  

I can't tell you for sure who added the code but from what I know but from I know, a newly installed Confluence should not have any code in the Documentation theme.

It does sound quite odd if the code was there but it was not added administrator.

<br />

Regards,  
Jing Hwa


author: Mick Davidson
body: Jing,

thanks, I'm awaiting a reply from our tech admins. I'll update this question when I find out. Cheers.


Tags: content

content-by-label

label

side-bar
How can I remove "like" from Pages?
Asked by Susan Paulson:

We need to be able to dis-allow users from Liking pages, because when they do that, then other users can view their profile. We cannot allow this due to cross-client confidentiality issues. We have eliminated the People Button, but now you can still get to it by clicking on the person who liked the page!


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hi Susan,

You can disable the "like" functionality by disabling the "Confluence Like Plugin" from the administration console. Here's the relevant documentation on how to do this: [https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Likes+and+Popular+Content#LikesandPopularContent-Disablingthe'like'feature](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Likes+and+Popular+Content#LikesandPopularContent-Disablingthe%27like%27feature)

Cheers,

Joe.

comments: author: Susan Paulson
body: Thanks, I actually ended up finding that after I wrote the question :)


author: Paul Macey
body: This seems to be a system add-on. How do I disabled that?


Tags: like
No External Gadgets link in Confluence Admin
Asked by Dani Pfettscher:

I want to register an external gadget from JIRA in Confluence, but I do not have a link in the Confluence Admin called "External Gadgets". Why can't I see this link?

I already have a trusted application link set up between the two applications and using SSL. I am running Confluence 5.4.1 and JIRA 6.1.5.


Answers:
author: sinan.ucak
body: Did anyone find a solution for this ? I'm having the same issue and would like to add a burndown chart to my confluence report.

Any news ?


author: Herve Frydlender
body: Same issue here. And no information in documentation. Anybody from Atlassian?


author: Timothy Harris
body: I also have exactly the same problem. It is a confluence 6.1 instance with oAuth impersonation application links to Jira 7.3 instance.

Whitelist is not visible either...


author: jim phillipps
body: i have exactly the same problem..... anyone...anyone....?


author: Dani Pfettscher
body: I already have a trusted application link set up between the two applications and using SSL. I am running Confluence 5.4.1 and JIRA 6.1.5.


Tags: confluence-administration

gadget
Simple Confluence Macro to Store Passwords
Asked by ihugo:

Hello friends,

I think this will be a pretty awesome addition to confluence, by simple adding a macro that helps to encrypt/decrypt a password.

Here is my idea when editing:

{pass:HelloWorld}

When click on save that password will be encrypted and saved into the DB.

Here is my idea when viewing:

A link will be show that says: "click here to view protected data" (or something similar), and when click it will shows the password decrypted.

-----

I think this way we can safety save passwords in confluence and have all our client information in confluence at the same time.

Thanks and I hope you can help to vote this up and/or help with ideas.

I guess this feature can be as an add-on by default for on-demand instances.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Azwandi _ServiceRocket_
body: You might want to take a look at Security \& Encryption for Confluence app. It allows you and your team to share, access and restrict sensitive information in Confluence with peace of mind using industry-grade, end-to-end encryption to protect and secure data.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/6484/security-and-encryption-for-confluence>

Disclaimer: I work with ServiceRocket, the maker of the app. Enjoy!


author: Felipe Rodrigues
body: It could automatically keep it redacted when the document is printed, or not allow "decryption" based on user access (logged in users vs public)


author: ihugo
body: We can add a limit of characters to encrypt, in order to avoid long text be encrypted.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
$currentDate is outputting strange values (ex. 2014.56.03)
Asked by Michael Guimet:

The $currentDate variable we use in out meeting notes template is outputting strange month values: 2014.53.03, 2014.53.03 etc.

Note we have the date format defined as yyyy.mm.dd.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Michael Guimet
body: Solved. My bad, mm refers to minutes, MM to months!

I tried:

* dd.mm.yyyy: 04.11.2014 X
* dd.MM.yyyy: 04.03.2014 OK!
* yyyy.MM.dd: 2014.03.04 OK!

Thanks for the help!

Best,

Michael


author: Violette
body: How do I insert the $currentDate macro (variable?) into a new template? I tried creating it with the 'Template' dropdown but all I get is a form prompting the user to enter the date. It doesn't work the same way as on the 'Meeting Notes' blueprint template.

comments: author: Michael Guimet
body: Sorry Violette, can't really help you. In the "Meeting Notes" you just write $currentDate and that brings up the date when the user creates new notes for a meeting.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: What happens when you change the format?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Configuring System Properties
Asked by Mathias Heilmann:

I'm currently trying to install a backup from our production Confluence to our testserver and got following problem: "Confluence will not start up because the build number in the home directory \[4396\] is newer than the Confluence build number \[4394\]."

Ok, I checked the documentation an it says to configure the system property `com.atlassian.confluence.allow.downgrade=true`

I went to the `<confluence-install>/bin/`**setenv.sh**(using Linux here) and edited the first line to:

JAVA_OPTS=" -Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m $JAVA_OPTS -Djava.awt.headless=true com.atlassian.confluence.allow.downgrade=true "

The log (catalina.out) tells me that the main class` com.atlassian.confluence.allow.downgrade=true couldn't been found.`  


Answers:
author: Luther Hargrove
body: `If using Confluence 4.3.2 and above and you need to start Confluence with an upgraded home directory, you need to set the com.atlassian.confluence.allow.downgrade system property to true. `  

`If using a version of Confluence older than 4.3.2, you can change your build number in <Confluence-Home>/confluence.cfg.xml file as:`  
`<buildNumber>1627</buildNumber>`  

`That is the build number for Confluence v3.0.0_01. After it's corrected, restart Confluence.`

comments: author: Mathias Heilmann
body: I'm using Confluence 5+. What do you mean with "`start Confluence with an upgraded home directory"? I tried to set the property to true, but I must have done something wrong as mentioned in the original post.`


Tags: confluence-administration

downgrade
Advanced Macros - compatibility with Confluence 5.4
Asked by Iakov Dlikman:

Hi!

I would like to update Confluence from version 4.2.7 to version 5.4 and I get a list of incompatible Plug-Ins. One of them is Advanced Macros.

What do you recommend to do?

Kind regards

Iakov


Answers:
author: Patrice Rompas
body: Hi Iakov,

I'd recommend you to proceed with the upgrade. Confluence Advanced Macros is a bundled plugin, hence the version will be compatible once you reach version 5.4. As long as in 'Manage Add-ons' screen, the version is 2.4.3, you should be fine.  

The issue lies on information in Atlassian Marketplace which is out dated and used by compatibilty checker tools ([](https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/AMKT-9337)<https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/AMKT-9337>).

Regards,  
Samuel

comments: author: Iakov Dlikman
body: Hi Samuel,

thanks for your reply!  
Kind regards

Iakov


Tags: confluence-administration
Is Confluence 3.4.3 affected by the critical security vulnerability
Asked by Heiko Kleinsorge:

Hello Support Team,

Confluence 3.4.3 isn't mentioned in [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+security+advisory+2014-02-26)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+security+advisory+2014-02-26>

Is it too old for this security vulnerability, or affected?

Thanks in advance for answering.

Best regards

Heiko


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Heiko,  

Yes, The vulnerability affects **all versions of Confluence** up to and including 5.4.1.

Thanks.  

WZ  


Tags: security

vulnerability
Unique page titles, why?
Asked by Paul Hatcher:

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Confluence, but I'm struggling to organise my pages because within a space page titles have to be unique.

This creates a problem where we have common pages for specific customers for example. In a directory structure we may have something like.

"CustomerA/feedback"

"CustomerB/feedback"

So feedback is common to each customer. The string "CustomerA/feedback" is unique, just like a URL, it's the complete path that's unique. To replicate in Confluence I have to create a unique title.

"CustomerA/feedbackA"

"CustomerB/feedbackB"

Which is clunky and ugly, and is counter to directories, URLs et al.

So is there any way to get around this ? Can we make document titles non unique? Or am I barking up the wrong tree.

Regards,

Paul


Answers:
author: Andre van der Elst
body: even when you create spaces for each customer you run into issues. We have spaces for each customer, but some customers have more than 1 product developed by us. So to prevent duplicate page names we now have to create a different space for each of these product. After years of using Confluence we now have 329 spaces which is not ideal.

I ran into the same problem when we tried using Confluence as a simple document store for our sales team with this structure:

\* 'Sales' space  
\*\* potential leads  
\*\*\* potential client A   
\*\*\*\* offers  
\*\*\* potential client B  
\*\*\*\* offers \<duplicate page name error\>

I know a wiki isn't the same as a document repository, but a google search shows up this page on Atlassians own wiki about the advantages of using Confluence as a doc repository: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=180291149)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=180291149>

Maybe that page should be edited and list the limitations of using Confluence as a document repository.


author: Jennifer S
body: Although a paid plugin, Scroll Versions allows duplicate page titles: [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's because it's not really a tree structure - each "space" is a collection of pages. That's it. They have to have unique names because there isn't a tree behind it.

Atlassian have said they're not going to change this approach - [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2524)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2524>

In your case, I'd think about inverting the structure - have spaces for each customer. Or capture feedback differently. If you have separate spaces and wanted to join them all together, you could do something like including their feedback pages in one place.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: The reason for requiring unique page names probably goes back to an earlier version, and now hurts the product going forward.

I could not come up with a workaround, and unfortunately, the issue is considered closed by Atlassian:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/126782/pages-with-same-name-in-space>
Active Directory
Asked by Caesar Sulapat:

We use confluence as Intranet in our company, and we maintain two directory, one is link to AD and the other is internally created . My question is, whenever I click the picture on the blog post (excerpt) macros, it leads me to the profile link to Active Directory not to the localy created account from which I upload and created the blog. Is there a way to point this to locally created account eventhough both of the account are active. Thanks.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Caesar, in case you have two user accounts with the same username (one in each directory) Confluence will use only the user account that belongs to the directory listed on the top position at *"Confluence administrtion \> User Directories*".

In case you want to use only the internal user account, you can either move the internal directory to the top position or remove the LDAP user account from the synchronization (it can be done with a filter, see [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/How+to+write+LDAP+search+filters)).

I hope it helps.

Cheers

comments: author: Caesar Sulapat
body: Thanks Tiago, we are having some trouble with our link to AD, thats why we use the local account for easy log in, will try your suggestions when we fixed the issue on our end. Thanks.
Is there any way to add link to Confluence via Browser?
Asked by Adam Mucha:

The deal is I would love it if I can can add link to one my space straight from browser (without necessity to run confluence online and adding it manually).

So, is there a way to do that\>?


Answers:
author: BillA
body: I don't understand what you are asking. Confluence is hosted on a server which you access from your browser. Are talking about running the server locally in the client machine?


Tags: browser

cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence - When to use start-confluence.sh vs startup.sh
Asked by Andrew Khoury:

I'm attempting to install the latest version of Confluence (5.4.3) via the unpackage method in linux.

I'm looking to find or write my own init script so I can start the service using the command "service start confluence".

I'm a little confused about if I should be using start-confluence.sh or startup.sh within my init script.

start-confluence.sh # executes either catalina.sh or startup.sh

startup.sh # executes catalina.sh

catalina.sh # doe the real work, also reads in data from setenv.sh \& setclasspath.sh

This article suggests startup.sh:  
[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Start+Confluence+Automatically+on+Linux)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Start+Confluence+Automatically+on+Linux>

This article asks a simliar question but no answer:  
[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-23953)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-23953>

This article suggest "start-confluence.sh" is the new script and should be used:  
[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=261752746)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=261752746>

The information I have so far appears to be conflicing, can anyone give me any insights into this?


Answers:
author: Patrice Rompas
body: Hi Andrew

All the articles you mentioned has a valid information.  
For additional information, running startup.sh will execute the application using the current user. But start-confluence.sh will execute the application using the user mentioned in user.sh. If the user.sh doesn't specify any user, it will execute the application using the current user.  
This affects the directory/file permission when running Confluence.

Regards,  
Samuel


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I add the rest of Jira OnDemand Users to Confluence OnDemand?
Asked by Nathan Norton:

I've been using JIRA OnDemand for at least a year now, and just last week, I added Confluence OnDemand, ensure to add it to the same OnDemand grouping so that I could import my users and have the same URL for my dashboard. It worked, except

* Only 4 of the 9 users I have are now able to access Confluence. They can log in to and are redirected to their JIRA dashboard, but when they click on the Confluence tab, a message appears saying that they do not have permissions to use Confluence.
* When I go to the "People" tab at the top of the Confluence page, I only see the 4 users who are able to access Confluence.
* Everyone has the "confluence-users" group, yet the only people that seem to be able to access Confluence are those who have the "site-admins" group enabled (admittedly, this may be a custom group - I don't remember creating it). Also, this may be coincidental.
* On the permissions page for the spaces I have created, I can both see and have permissions enabled for each individual user as well as the confluence-users group, but this seems to only affect whether they can view/edit once they have permission to Confluence at all.
* In the global user admin, in the "Application Access" tab, I can see that everyone has application access to both JIRA and Confluence. To be sure, I granted the permission for everyone.

This all seems to be to no avail, as once again, the other 5 users cannot use Confluence. Is there a setting I'm missing, or does this sound like a bug?


Answers:
author: Tom Spence
body: Sounds like the same issue as [](/questions/267579%20)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/267579>- I'm having the same problem!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

user
Is Ad Hoc workflows messing with our Google Analytics setup
Asked by James Fehon [CP Alliance Web Team]:

I've noticed a variable sent to our Google Analytics account which we didn't set.

It's Custom Variable 1 Key:username, Value:\[a random? number\]

Is this the mechanism Comalatech use for usage stats, and why isn't it turned off when I opt out of sending this!!


Answers:
author: Miguel Reimer
body: Hi James,

Sorry for the late response, Answers didn't notify me of this post.

Just to let you know that we made some changes in Ad hoc Workflows 4.3.7 that isolates our Google Analytics use with different JS variable names. Please give it a try and let us know if you have any further issues.

Thanks,  
Miguel


author: JoeI
body: I'm guessinfg that you've already upgraded to the latest version of the AdHoc Workflows add-on.

As you probably know Ad Hoc Workflows adds its own Google Analytics tracking by default. You can disable this by visiting Confluence Admin \> Workflows (section) \> Configuration \> and then disable "Send Anonymous Usage Statistics"

If you've already disabled anonymous usage stats, then perhaps your version of Ad Hoc Workflows isn't smart enough to disable any of its custom GA codes.


Tags: addon-com.comalatech.workflow
Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager Self-Update Plugin not registered with Marketplace
Asked by Sergey Svishchev:

Funny that 'upgrade check' in Confluence says this about com.atlassian.upm.atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-selfupdate-plugin
> These add-ons have not been registered with the Atlassian Marketplace, so their compatibility with Confluence 5.1.5 is unknown. We recommend performing your own testing before you proceed.


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Sergey,

The self-update plugin is designed to uninstall itself immediately after updating the UPM. As a result, you should never really see it in your installed plugins list, and there's no reason for us to register it on Marketplace.

Somehow, the process must have been interrupted and the uninstall didn't happen. You can go ahead and safely uninstall the self-update plugin.


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Once in awhile, human error comes into play. I have seen this type of error for Atlassian products all the time.

Here is an example of one that I reported.

[](/questions/188850/why-is-remotable-plugins-i18n-plugin-showing-up-as-an-user-installed-add-ons)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/188850/why-is-remotable-plugins-i18n-plugin-showing-up-as-an-user-installed-add-ons>

comments: author: Norman Abramovitz
body: ![](../../upfiles/atlassian_add_ons.jpg)

John, I am sorry you felt hurt by the truth(voting down my answer), but bugs do exist. Why would HipChat exist in my user installed list, since I never downloaded HipChat even to experiment with. By your definition, the UPM should not show up either, but it does.

Personally, I do believe UPM should show up in the User-installed list since I can install it from the marketplace and I can uninstall it without huring normal operations.

The only reason why Sergey got his error is because of an UPM plugin configuration error or the UPM was not updated yet to reflect the new configuration. In either case, human failures.

Oh, BTW I am running Jira 6.1.7.


author: JohnA
body: No worries Norman-- I only downvoted your answer because I wanted to surface my more specific reply. Sergey is referring specifically to the presence of the UPM's self-update plugin, which is a transient plugin that is supposed to uninstall itself immediately, and in his case did not.

I agree that UPM is a bit wonky on occasion when it tries to distinguish user-installed vs. system plugins.


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Okay, the self-update is part of the UPM and it was broken around the UPM 2.7.X releases. Sergey should check that he has an UPM installed. Looking back at my notes, I needed to manually install the UPM after removing the self-update plugin to get things back to normal.


author: Sergey Svishchev
body: Wow, how would the app even work without UPM?


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: The UPM really simplifies installation and status reproting for plugins. You can manually install any plugin. There are rare instances when you need to do that.


Tags: addon-com.atlassian.upm.atlassian-universal-pl

confluence-administration
Why is my Space Restore Failing with a Missing "exportDescriptor" file?
Asked by Phil Gochenour:

I am trying to restore a space from a .zip file, and when I attempt to upload, it fails because of a missing exportDescriptor file. However, the file is clearly in the original export, and when I unzip the zip file, it's in the folder, and in fact is even listed in the contents of the zip when the failed restore reads back the contents. It's not in any sub-folders.

I'm using Stuffit as my compression utility, on Mac OSX 10.9.2.


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Phil,

Since you have confirmed that the **exportDescriptor.properties**is in the backup zip file. I suggest you to use compression tool such as 7Zip or WinZip. They are known to be more reliable.

Regards,  
Jing Hwa


Tags: confluence-administration

restore