youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Add-ons, plugins and extras?
Asked by Davet:

In this mad-cap world that is Atlassian plugins err...I mean add-ons...errr...whatever, the "Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager Plugin" is in fact not a plugin but an add-on.

You also may be forgiven for thinking that the "Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager - Plugin License Storage plugin" is a plugin but alas it is also an add-on. You can tell because it has an "Add-on key"

Something about not seeing the trees for the forest may be appropriate here!

It is just as well that Atlassian have the resources to manage this correctly or it could easily end up appearing to be amateurish.

When will it all end?

<br />


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: They're in the middle of renaming "plugins" to "add ons", so it's all a bit muddled at the moment.


author: MatthewC
body: It will only end when everything is a "add-on". If you've ever looked at Stash, it's pretty much 100% "add-ons" (even if the term plugin is perhaps more appropriate for core functionality!) Ultimately, you'll pay for the functionality that you use, whether that's Atlassian or 3rd party add-ons.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: You are correct in your assertions abt the term inconsistencies -

Add-on is not just an Atlassian term - is it pretty common in the industry now, and Atlassian is evolving to that logically as well.

But honestly, in product development, these types of prolifically entrenched term changes where the term is deeply seeded in legacy code, UIs, plugins, interfaces, APIs, documentation, etc. across many products - well, one of those "easier said than done".

Not always as simple as it looks to make the changes and not break or introduce bugs or instability, *which is more important*. Its not always \*just\* a label change.

I would guess that the PMs are trying to work these term changes through bit by bit with each release.

Give it time - it will work itself out in the wash.


author: Davet
body: That would be really confusing since NEW York references the original (OLD) York which still exists.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Davet,

Yes in the new version of UPM, we have changed the word 'Plugins' to 'Add-on'. From now on we should handle as Add-on.  

Cheers,  

WZ

comments: author: Davet
body: Your answer confirms that Atlassian does not understand the breadth of this absurdity and as a consequence has no idea how poorly this reflects on the product.

UPM stands for "Universal Plugin Manager" not "Universal Add-on Manager"

The Universal Plugin Manager (v2.9.1) by [Atlassian](http://www.atlassian.com/)

<br />


author: Kinto Soft
body: ... and NEW York is a more than one hundred years old city. Everybody shoukd name it OLD York and change the name in all the maps in the World ;)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: New York is only about 350 years old, and before that, was called New Amsterdam anyway, York is getting on for 2000 (from memory, it was founded shortly before 100AD). Pablo is spot-on with his analogy. Things change. Sometimes names keep up with the changes, sometimes they don't.


Tags: app

jira

universal-plugin-manager
How to access JIRA issue data from Confluence via User Macro velocity script?
Asked by Chris Rocco:

I have recently started wrting user macros. They are cool and powerful. I am really looking forward to further customizing my confluence site. Here is what I am trying to do and am looking for some help:  

I want to write a marco to very similar to the JIRA issue macro, but with a twist. I want to:

1. Allow a user to drop the macro on a page
2. Click edit macro
3. enter a JIRA URL for a list of issues (e.g. XML)
4. I want my new macro to:
   1. Have access to the jira issues
   2. And be able to act on them in my velocity script - e.g. count the number of issues, access the values in certain fields, etc.

I am not sure how to do everything in 4 above. Can I read the XML into an array? Can I loop through the data in the XML and parse it?   

Can I view the source code on the JIRA issue macro and start from there?   

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: StephenG
body: Did you find an answer to this in the end?


author: francis
body: Did you consider the [SQL plugin for confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.sql). It allows you to query the jira db directly, not really the jira issues macro but a valid alternative imo.
Cannot Edit My Own Page
Asked by David Zuccaro:

Hi,

I created a new "Space" in Confluence then I created a page within that space. However I cannot edit that page or pages in other spaces for that matter. How do I give my self permission to edit pages in Confluence?


Answers:
author: David Zuccaro
body: Fixed by support. We had some users in the systems-administrator group which is for atlassian use only.


author: Roger Stebler
body: Hi, I have the same issue, can you kindly look into it

Thank you.

Roger


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi David,

Please refer to our [space permission](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Assigning+Space+Permissions) documentation to ensure tha you have the necessary permission to add pages into the space. Also, double check that you are not [restricted](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Restrictions) to edit a page that may cause this issue.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: David Zuccaro
body: The problem was fixed by support which was probably due to an internal error.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Stash as a service
Asked by gkennedy1:

Hi all,

I successfully got Stash running as a console application and set it up to connect to a sql server db using integrated authentication. The next piece of the puzzle is to get it running as a windows service (I'm using 64bit Win2008R2). I followed the instructions, installed the 64 bit JDK, altered the tomcat exe \& dll to use the 64 bit versions etc. but I can't get it to work.

The browser just seems to try to load and the tomcat.exe process on the server spins right up to 99% CPU usage.

An excerpt from the log file says this -

2013-03-15 14:59:41,991 ERROR \[localhost-startStop-1\] c.a.e.i.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher There was an exception thrown trying to dispatch event 'com.atlassian.plugin.event.events.PluginModuleDisabledEvent@4fa860ba' from the invoker 'SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker{method=public void com.atlassian.stash.internal.event.EventListenerRegistrar.onPluginModuleDisabled(com.atlassian.plugin.event.events.PluginModuleDisabledEvent), listener=com.atlassian.stash.internal.event.EventListenerRegistrar@2bc7005b}'.

java.lang.RuntimeException: PermGen space

I did some research into the PermGen exception and tried increasing the STASH_MAX_PERM_SIZE to 512m without luck. This is a brand new installation so it shouldn't need anything out of the ordinary however.

A side note that may or may not be relevant is that the JDK paths did not match what was in service.bat.

ie: if not exist "%JAVA_HOME%\\jre\\bin\\java.exe" goto noJavaHome

I needed to alter (all instances of) to

if not exist "%JAVA_HOME%\\jre7\\bin\\java.exe" goto noJavaHome

Any help is appreciated.

Greg


Answers:
author: cofarrell
body: Hi Greg,

A few things. The JAVA_HOME you want should actually include 'jre7'. That is to say JAVA_HOME should always include a 'bin' directory with 'java'. What you're actually using is the JDK_HOME which is slightly different, the scripts themselves are fine.

More importantly , 512m should definitely be enough permgen to get Stash running. What is possibly the case is that your actual Windows service hasn't been updated. Apparently when you modify the service.bat you will need to re-install the service to see the changes. You can also manually do what our permgenservice.bat is doing and add the parameter:

//US//%SERVICE_NAME% ++JvmOptions "-XX:MaxPermSize=512m"

This is similar to what we talk about here regarding max memory:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Running+Stash+as+a+Windows+service>

I hope this helps.

Charles

comments: author: gkennedy1
body: Hi Charles,

Thanks. It was an issue with the environment variables. I had both JAVA_HOME \& JDK_HOME defined. Once I removed JAVA_HOME it started working correctly.

Greg


Tags: bitbucket-server

service

windows
Library of templates
Asked by Hansg:

To get a quick start, I would like to use (a library with) already predesigned ready to use templates. Is that available and where to find it?


Answers:
author: Jeison
body: Hi Hans,

Adding external templates is actually restricted in Atlassian OnDemand. (see [restricted functions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand))

Have a look at the page below to find out more information on working with your own templates:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Working+with+Templates>

Hope it helps.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I configure the Confluence sidebar in the default theme?
Asked by Chris Ewe:

1. I have several spaces and want the same sidebar in each of them, in fact, I want to change the sidebar only one time.

2. I want the surrent space tree above the Space Shortcuts  
3. The whole space tree should be shown (withou the "3 more pages" part)  
4. I want that for the "normal user" (no editing permissions) that the "Space Tools" are not shown.

Thank you for helping me.

Best regards, Chris


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Chris,

We have the Documentation theme that will give all pages in a space a left sidebar. Enabling the page tree option in confuguing this theme will put a full space tree on each page. You will need to have Confluence Admin permissions in order to switch this theme on for a given space.

comments: author: Christopher Lohman
body: I found this post in search of a similar goal. The 5.x sidebar is ok, and has the potential to be superior to the documentation theme sidebar, but it needs to be configurable. In our case, we want to see the full tree at all times, with the current page highlited. Please consider this post an enhancement request.


author: Sandra Warmbrunn
body: We have the same problem.


author: Helen Gosper
body: Likewise


Tags: side-bar
Confluence: How to hide from others that I created or edited a page in a restricted space?
Asked by ishmain:

In our Confluence site, we have a space for the managers only.

I created a new page with a self explanatory title there. Then developers saw the title of the page on our Confluence dashboard and started asking about that page. They could not see the content, but they new that i created that page and they saw the title. We keep everything pretty open for the whole team, but I did not want them to find out about this page too early.

How can I prevent mentioning of restricted pages on the site's dashboard which is seen by everybody?


Answers:
author: Jaime S
body: Hi, Igor.

You said this space is restricted to managers, right? You can set the permissions of the space to only be visible to managers. I tested in an instance and that made the pages' titles not appear in the updates in the dashboard.

To go to the permissions page for a space, you can:

* Go to a page in the space, click 'Space tools' (bottom left) and click permissions (space tools is not visible in Documentation theme)
* Use this link: \<instance\>/wiki/spaces/spacepermissions.action?key=\<space_key\>, and replace \<instance\> for the instance name and \<space_key\> for the space key name
* Go to Spaces \> Space Directory and click the Space detail icon (the 'i' in a circle) and then 'Permissions'

There, changing the permissions should be easy. This will apply to the entire space.

I hope it was helpful.

Kind regards.


Tags: cloud
Is there a question and answer plugin for Confluence?
Asked by Chris Reddick:

Hi,

Is there a Question and answer plugin for Confluence? Or is the answerhub the best tool to use for that? If answerhub provides the best tool - what does the answer hub integration with Confluence do?

Thanks,

Chris


Answers:
author: Boots Wang
body: Looks like as of today there is, directly from Atlassian. Still in beta: <https://www.atlassian.com/questions>


author: Rachel Robins
body: Hi Chris,

You might want to have a look at the new Confluence Questions add-on for Confluence 5.3. The beta was released just a few hours ago.

Read about it [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/QUESTIONS/Confluence+Questions+Home) or sign up to the beta program at <https://www.atlassian.com/questions>.


author: DZone
body: AnswerHub actually is working on this plugin right now. We'll actually have some neat two-way integration between the Q\&A side and the Wiki side planned - allowing you to see related items and easily created new Q\&A's and Wiki documents from either side.

comments: author: Jorge
body: I have created an issue in JIRA asking the Atlassian guys to make this too:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/i#browse/CONF-29096>


author: LuizA
body: Hello Chris,

Actually we don't have a plugin for the answerhub to be used with Confluence but we have another plugins that can be used for this purpose, as the Survey Plugin from the Adaptavist, see below:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.survey>

Or the DFORM plugin from the DERS s. r. o., see below:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/DFORM>

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

LJ.


author: Svante Gustafsson Bj?rkegren
body: Hi, I have asked the same question but regarding Askbot

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/143750/using-confluence-live-search-for-external-knowledge-bases](/questions/143750/using-confluence-live-search-for-external-knowledge-bases)

Does anyone know a way to integrate such tool with Confluence? It would be great to be able to search both Confluence and the knowledge base in one shot!


author: Jorge
body: It would be great to have a plugin for AnswerHub
Windows Background Image not working
Asked by Michael Babb:

I recently downloaded Zen Foundation 5.2.7 and the Windows Background image seems to not be working. It was working on the previous version, but now it just displays the background color...


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: Hi Michael,

I assume you're using Confluence 5, if so, there was a structural change in the HTML. You should be able to resolve this if you have a custom brand, by adding this CSS:

```
body.aui-theme-default {            background: $zenBackgroundColor #if ($textUtil.stringSet($zenBackgroundImage)) url($zenDirectURL/designs/brands/$zenBrandName/images/#devImage($zenBackgroundImage)) $!zenBackgroundImagePosition #end;            padding: 0;}
```

Please let me know if that doesn't do the trick, or if you're not on Confluence 5.

(Yes, that patch will be in Zen 5.2.8, so this is a temporary need.)

Cheers,  
Darryl

comments: author: Michael Babb
body: Thanks Darryl. Yes we are using Confluence 5 and that worked like a charm.


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
How can I easily import a table from Word (or PDF) into a table on a Confluence page?
Asked by Jennifer Peterson:

I'm trying to avoid cutting and pasting the contents of individual cells, since they are large.


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg
body: Hey Jennifer,

I think you can just copy and paste the entire table. Let me know if this does not work for you.

Cheers,  
Boris

comments: author: Fabian Yanofsky
body: It does not:-(


Tags: table
Trying to Integrate Jira and Confluence, but having issues
Asked by Kathleen Jacobs:

Jira is onDemand

Confluence we are hosting ourselves.

When I go to one or the other, through Application Link, it's not able to auto-detect the information.

Is there something else i need to do?


Answers:
author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: While this is not officially available for other than FishEye and Curcible, but I have heard some people that got it to work. First thing is to check which port your hosted Confluence is running on, it must run on port 80 or 443 to be picked up by OnDemand.


Tags: cloud

integration
How to configure Confluence logging to prevent multiline events?
Asked by Enrique Cadalso:

Hi,

I need Confluence to log events in one line, not multiline events. Confluence logs span across multiple lines. Default ConversionPattern setting in "...\\confluence\\WEB-INF\\classes\\log4j.properties" is

```
log4j.appender.confluencelog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%t] [%c{4}] %M %m%n
```

Where m% is

> "Used to output the application supplied message associated with the logging event"
>
This means newlines are already inside the %m, supplied by Confluence, so no way to configure this in log4j properties.

Is there any way to prevent Confluence from logging events in multiple lines?

Is there any configuration file/setting where the format of the "application supplied message" can be formatted to use only one line?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg
body: Hey Enrique,

There is no one place to configure that. You would have to download the source and rewrite every single error message to meet your needs.

Cheers,  
Boris

comments: author: Enrique Cadalso
body: Hi Boris,

That sounds like bad news to me. I was trying to use Hyperic log tracking but Hyperic just ignores multiline events, so not very useful, as user name, referrer, page and action fields are in the second line of a multiline event. I suppose I can look for a a solution somewhere else but I believe this could be a useful configuration option.

Thanks a lot for your answer.

Cheers, Enrique.
Widget formatting? Currently macros line up serially, I want them side-by-side.
Asked by Cynthia Baute:

Hi, I know this is probably a VERY basic and silly question, but I cannot find the answer ANYWHERE in the documentation and I've been going in loops through the pages in the current documentation literally for hours.

I have two widgets on my page that I added using the Widget Connector macro. Currently they show up one above the other on the published page (photos from Flikr and the weather). I want them to show up side by side. What they are showing is definitely small enough to do so.

Please, can anyone tell me how to format these to show up in the same row versus one above the other?


Answers:
author: Kay Brown
body: Use the columns macro and place each widget in a separate column.

Regards,

Kay

comments: author: Cynthia Baute
body: Wow- thank you! I am trying to rapidly learn about wiki markup, etc., and had just found the nested macro info, but couldn't put it all together. I have been trying to figure this out for about 4 hours, I \*knew\* it had to be dead simple, but I couldn't get it. Took me about \~3 minutes to get exactly what I wanted (which includes figuring out that I needed to nest the columns in the section macro first). Thank you so much.


author: Raj Karan
body: Hi Cynthia,

I wanna know how you added the weather widget. I am working on Confluence 5.4 and didn't find any add-on fro this prupose.

Please let me know How did you achieved that.

Thanks

Raj


author: Kay Brown
body: You are welcome! I am happy to help.

Kay


Tags: format

macro

widget

widget-connector
What's a Confluence Gadget?
Asked by Sam Hall:

Years ago I disabled a bunch of system plugins relating to gadgets somewhat out of paranoia coupled with the fact I didn't see a need for people putting garbage in our wiki that connected to 3rd party sites. It just seemed fairly useless yet a great opportunity for security flaws. This was back on Confluence version 3 something. Back then I remember seeing a bunch of junk available to the end user labeled as "gadgets" that just seemed dumb.

Now we've upgraded to 4.3.7, and based on some weird log file errors I've reenabled all those system plugins. I can't see any difference in the user interface and I can't actually remember where gadgets used to live. I've had a look at the Confluence documentation and it seems like Gadgets are very limited, much more than I remember them. I can't see any where that end users can utilise anything related to "gadgets", even in the macro browser. Does anyone have any clues as to what it means to have gadgets enabled? Can I just relax now days?


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Sam,

Here in this link you can find all the information available for the Confluence gadgets (just to confirm if you already saw this article):

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Gadgets>

So basically if you have the gadgets enabled at your instance then you'll be able to use the above features, just this. If you disable the gadgets, the only restriction that you'll have at your instance will be that you'll not be able to use the above features. If your users will not use this kind of feature then no worries in disabling it. I think you can relax, no worries.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

LJ.
Programmatically add attachment to page
Asked by Nate Smith:

Is there a way to add an attachment to a page programmatically? I want to make a gallery where the content will change on a day to day basis based on content we generate. Ideally I could do this through a cron.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP "Confluence Command Line Interface") has the [addAttachment](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-addAttachment) action.


Tags: content

gallery

widget
What is the correct way to upload a Power Point presentation? The only way I can see is through Attachments, but why isn't there an import, as there is for Word?
Asked by Kathy Martie:

What is the correct way to upload a Power Point presentation? The only way I can see is through Attachments, but why isn't there an import, as there is for Word?


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: You can upload Power Point presentation as an attachment into Confluence and you may choose to display/embedded it on a Confluence page by using Office Connector Plugin. Here's the details: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Embedding+PowerPoint+Presentations+in+a+Page>

Confluence only offers the ability to import Word document so that the document's content is copied onto one or more Confluence pages and there's no import Power Point feature.

comments: author: Hope Wyss
body: When embedding a PowerPoint presentation in Confluence 5.1.2, the slides never appear. The loading symbol displays and churns.......and churns. I have tried both "drag and drop" and attaching the file then using the macro. Same results either way. I can embed and display Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, and PDFs, but not PowerPoint presentations. Any suggestions?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Importing (rather than just displaying) parts of a presentation is vastly more complicated than importing prose from a document.

Essentially, a word processed document is a big block of text, with some formatting. Confluence uses it's own formatting, and there's mostly a simple 1:1 relationship (italic:italic, bold:bold, heading 1:h1, and so-on), and you can ignore the stuff confluence can't handle without losing any of the text.

With a presentation, there's a whole complexity of visuals that could be there, and no simple 1:1 rules. So there's no really useful generic way to write an import. Confluence can't possibly guess what you want to import.


author: hsuhailah
body: Is the PowerPoint file saved as .pptx? If that's the case, try to covert it to .ppt and check again. If problem persists, the issue might lie on the content of the file which cannot be successfully rendered by the Office Connector Plugin.


Tags: ms-powerpoint