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Cannot sort (drag) links in Confluence Space sidebar
Asked by Reuben Sivan:

Until a few months ago I could sort entries in the Confluence Space sidebar by just dragging them to a new position.

This is not available any longer, I think it is a regression.


Answers:
author: Reuben Sivan
body: Sidebar, as I said in the title subject.


author: Martin Sauter
body: Are we talking about reordering the page tree or are we talking about reording space shortcuts in the sidebar?

The latter is unfortunately not possible anymore in the new UI as far as I know.


author: Reuben Sivan
body: It doesn't seem to apply for reordering the sidebar.


author: Liron
body: Also, there is now a "Reorder pages" button in the "Pages" tab on the top right hand side.

![reorderpages.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5155iB27F53526C945C33/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "reorderpages.png")


author: Martin Sauter
body: [@Reuben Sivan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/707539)In the top right corner you have a dropdown menu, and in this menu you have a command \<\<View in hierachy\>\>. This takes you to the page where you can reorder pages by drag and drop.

![hierarchy.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5113i038E889A37360D7F/image-dimensions/386x420?v=v2 "hierarchy.png")


author: Reuben Sivan
body: I honestly can't find ANY way to rearrange the sidebar on the current version. Can you tell me how you do that? I recall being able to do it before one way or another.


author: Sandy Johnson
body: I use version 5.8.13 server and I can rearrange the pages. I can't do it directly in the sidebar, I have to go to another page to do it. However, this feature does not work in Internet Explorer, I would have to use Chrome or Firefox or some other browser.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Yes, Martin, I also think, rearranging the pages in the sidebar never worked.


author: Martin Sauter
body: [@Reuben Sivan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/707539)[@Michael Corvin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/695608)Are you sure that it was ever possible to rearrange pages ++directly in the page tree on the left hand side++? I was just discussing this with an Atlassian team member, and maybe we are wrong: You always had to switch to that specific page to reorder pages. And maybe this is a good thing because it prevents users from moving pages accidentially while browsing.


author: Martin Sauter
body: I didn't realise this before, but it very much looks like another drawback of the new Confluence UI.

There is an ongoing discussion about the new sidebar here:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/What-just-happened-to-Confluence-Cloud/td-p/622890#M301>


author: Michael Corvin
body: Is this another wonderful (NOT) feature of the "New Confluence Experience"?
Error says it exceeds the number of users enabled, but the number of users enabled is correct.
Asked by Javier Nu?ez:

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We have a starte license for 10 users.

In the user list there are 13, of wich 10 are active users, and 3 are disabled.

When i want to perform an action such as saving a page, the system does not alloe it and indicates that the number of user is exceeded.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Hmm. The only thing I can think of is that there's a problem with one of the deactivated users that is making it think they are active.

Can you check that none of the deactivated users are in any administration groups? And then activate and re-deactivate each one?

comments: author: Javier Nu?ez
body: Thanks Nic! Follow your instructions and solve teh issue.


author: Javier Nu?ez
body: and this is the message whith the error when I try to save a page:

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/4648i05EB004E21074FF5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Could you show us the user list?

comments: author: Javier Nu?ez
body: ![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/4646i8BF183F24867B599/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/4647i3EE346E59160F2AC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")
How to create a customized Table of Contents in a Confluence space?
Asked by Amy O'Neal:

Hello,  

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a customized Table of Contents for a Confluence space (not a TOC macro on a page, but for an entire space), that meets the following requirements:  

- It is auto-updated  
- It details what are 'new' pages within the space, and when they were added  
- shows when the pages were last updated

- shows which pages were most recently updated  

If so, it would be great to know how to customize a space to meet these requirements...thansk for any answers!


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Please check out these two macros:

[Recently Updated Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/recently-updated-macro-139519.html)

[Activity Stream Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/activity-stream-macro-313465337.html)

I look forward to hearing whether either of them suits your use case.

comments: author: Amy O'Neal
body: Thanks, but I'm actually speaking to the page tree navigation on the right side...anyway we can visually indicate which pages are new, or which were updated recently?


author: AnnWorley
body: Here is an example of a recently updated macro on the right side:

![Screen Shot 2017-08-14 at 2.39.23 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/4653i215F42191A0781CA/image-dimensions/710x377?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2017-08-14 at 2.39.23 PM.png")

Do you mean the sidebar on the left, where it says Overview, Pages, Blog, etc? If so, and you are in Cloud, that content is no longer customizable ([Deprecating custom content in the space sidebar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/blog/2017/05/deprecating-custom-content-in-the-space-sidebar)) but if you are running your own instance you can add macros to the sidebar using wiki markup.


author: Amy O'Neal
body: Apologies, yes I meant left....yes we do run our own instance...do you happen to know if wiki markup a built in feature, or do we need to do something to access?


author: AnnWorley
body: It's built in. You don't have to enable anything, etc.

You may use the [wiki markup example](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/recently-updated-macro-139519.html) at the bottom of the linked page, changing the author name and space name as appropriate.

The tricky part is, it's not under Configure Sidebar. You have to go to Space Tools\>Look and Feel\>Sidebar, Header and Footer, then paste the wiki markup in the sidebar section.


author: Amy O'Neal
body: Hi Ann, Thanks again for this information. When I click on space tools dropdown on the bottom of the left sidebar, I do not see Look and Feel as an option?


author: AnnWorley
body: It should be there if you have admin permissions on the space:

![Screen Shot 2017-08-15 at 2.24.48 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/4710i539F3B0AB1B97F47/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-08-15 at 2.24.48 PM.png")

If you are the administrator of the instance you can add your permissions to the space at Confluence Admin\>General Configuration\>Space Permissions.
How do I submit feedback in the new Confluence?
Asked by Dave Noonan:

There used to be a "Feedback" link in the Help menu, it's not there any more.

### Confluence 1000.1821.1 {#toc-hId-1564551576}


Answers:
author: Jack Brickey
body: Hi [@Dave Noonan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/626330) , I am working on cleaning up old posts. Given Atlassian has announced end of life for their server products I assume that this is no longer a relevant question.


Tags: cloud

feedback
How can i extract automatically the name of the page i'm currently at?
Asked by le tu:

I have a certain line of code which I've defined to appear in any of my space's pages.

This line of code calls a certain script that needs to take as a parameter the page's name, but I don't know how to automatically extract the page's name...

maybe there's a certain code-word for this or another solution you could think of?

For example:

If my line of code is:

[http://sde-cgi....\&tag=](http://sde-cgi....&tag=){{++***PAGENAME}***++}....

I want ++***PAGENAME***++to be automatically replaced with the name of the page.

Thanks,

-Le


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Well, there's two ways you could do this:  
1. Generate the link on the backend in a user macro. It would look something like this:

```
## @noparams
<a href="http://sde-cgi....&tag=$content.title" target="_blank">name of link</a>
```

2. Generate the link on the front-end with some Javascript. If you have the HTML macro activated, then you could do something like this:

```
<div id="tag-link"></div>
<script>
    $("#tag-link").html('<a href="http://sde-cgi....&tag=' + AJS.params.pageTitle + '" target="_blank">name of link</a>');
</script>
```

the target="_blank" is there to make the link open in a new tab. If you don't care about that, you can just remove that part.

comments: author: le tu
body: interesting, I'm pretty new to this stuff so I couldn't understand the first option, and if you could guide me on where I can learn how to implement the second option it would be great...I know BASH/C++ so I think I'll be able to deal with JAVA if I'll have a good link to guide me...


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: The first option is a user macro: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html>

This is based on Apache Velocity, which Confluence uses in the background as a templating language. It's basically Java, and has access to many of the Java libraries.

The second option can be placed in the HTML macro, as long as it is activated:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/html-macro-38273085.html>

once you have activated the HTML macro, just insert it in a page and paste the text there, and it should work :)


Tags: macro

page
is it possible to send email to create Question in confluence question?
Asked by ofer ROZENBERG:

I would like to use email to create a new question in confluence question is it possible?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Ofer,

It's not yet possible to ask (or even answer) questions via email, but we have feature requests for this:

* [CONFSERVER-51771 - Ask a question by email](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51771)
* [CONFSERVER-51755 - Answer a question by email](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51755)

Please add your vote to the above requests and watch the cases in order to be updated when there is any progress.

Thank you for your support!

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Can I create 1000 or more pages in "one" space?
Asked by Mona Saad:

Can I create 1000 or more pages in one space?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Yes, I checked one of our spaces, and it has over 1500 pages, so you should be able to do that, and Confluence won't even break a sweat ;)

comments: author: Mona Saad
body: **Thank you =)**


author: Bob Do
body: Yes it is possible. We have 100.000 in on space and have no technical problems.


author: Aron Gombas _Midori_
body: We did quite some load testing with Confluence in the last months, and I can confidently say that you can easily 100K pages in a space and 1M in the instance. Absolutely no problem.
Loss of images and entire child pages after the new Confluence new UI rollout
Asked by Alan Schmoll:

Anybody else experience this? Able to replicate across multiple browsers.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: According to this earlier question: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-t-find-Child-Pages-after-Confluence-rolled-out-new-UI/qaq-p/621853>

the problem may have resolved itself over the weekend.
Integrate Jenkins with Jira , change in build should change ticket status
Asked by Ashish Karnad:

we want to integrate Jenkins with Jira so that change in build results change ticket status


Answers:
author: Ravindu Kumarasiri
body: Try using this JIRA Plugin. <https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/JIRA+Plugin>  
You may also need to add Jenkins Add-on in JIRA as well. <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.marvelution.jira.plugins.jenkins/server/overview>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You could include a REST call in your builds, but a better option is a Jenkins plugin. I've used <https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Jira+Issue+Updater+Plugin> in the past, but there are a couple of others that do it


Tags: build

jenkins

jira
Accessing HTTP parameters from a Confluence Web Item
Asked by DanielG:

Is there any way to access the underlying HTTP request when creating a web-panel. According to the documentation you need to extend a JIRA only class, which is clearly incorrect (and didn't compile).

The only class available for the context provider is com.atlassian.plugin.web.ContextProvider and

```
public Map<String, Object> getContextMap(Map<String, Object> context)
```

but this doesn't seem to have anything in the context which would let you figure out things like the HTTP request parameters.

I can't believe that web panels are fully featured in JIRA, but stunted in Confluence.


Answers:
author: Aleksandr Zuevich
body: Ok, how is your action described in atlassian-plugin.xml? You can use web-item and xwork elements and extends ConfluenceActionSupport in your action class. It'll allow you to invoke getCurrentRequest() method.


author: Aleksandr Zuevich
body: Hi Daniel,

try to use ServletActionContext.getRequest() to get the HttpServletRequest and then getParameter(paramName).

comments: author: DanielG
body: I thought of that as well, but ServletActionContext.getRequest() returns a null object.


Tags: atlassian-sdk
Remove HTML tags from search results
Asked by Shirly Tsang:

Hello! I am using Confluence for my documentation website. The search works fine, but the search results contain HTML tags such as "\<br/\>\</span\>\</span\>\</span\>\<ul\>\<li\>\<span style="color: rgb(85,85,85);"\>." Is there a way I can remove these tags from the search results?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Shirly,

Are the results containing HTML tags due to any HTML macros, or is the HTML from another source? Is there an example you're able to show us?

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Multiple users editing office file with Companion App
Asked by Albert Vila:

How does companion app handle it when multiple users are editing the same file?

Is it possible to notify the user that someone has opened the file before uploading it?


Answers:
author: Nadja Agreiter
body: Hello,

using Confluence since 2016 I must say Companion App is way worse then the former Office Connector. Selling Confluence as collaboration tool and not handling multiple editing office files is kind of shizophrenic. The office connector could lock the opened file. I would really appreceate, if you could consider a feature to adress this issue with one of the next releases.

Best regards

Nadja


author: sreuter
body: Thanks for your question/feedback, [@Albert Vila](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/760445). I can echo [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) answer, as we're currently not supporting "attachment locking" and do not have any plans regarding that at the moment. As always tho, we'll keep track on the general customer demand for such a feature!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It doesn't, because it can't.

The process of editing an attachment is: download a copy, edit it locally, upload the new version. The server cannot know what is being done to a copy of the file it holds.

There are some add-ons which put a form of lock on attachments so that people can tell someone else is editing and has the intention of uploading a new copy, but there's no way to know what is happening on other machines.

comments: author: Jason Reisz
body: That is not true, its not that it can't. GoEdit has been doing this for years as an addon.


Tags: companion-app
User configuration changes access to wrong server
Asked by Manfred Theiler:

We were running Confluence temporarily on a server ("192.168.111.74") and moved it to another server ("atlassian.anywhere.com").

I set up Confluence on the new server and restored the data with a backup of the old server. Now I wanted to delete some users, but that does not work. Removing a user from a group does not work either.

Confluence takes users from Jira which has also moved to the new server.

Log file give a hint that there is communication to the old Confluence server (192.168.111.74). So there seems to be the old servers IP address still be stored anywhere in the system.

How to fix this?

=================================

2017-08-11 23:08:39,272 WARN \[http-nio-8090-exec-4\] \[confluence.impl.hibernate.ConfluenceHibernateTransactionManager\] doRollback Performing rollback. Transactions:  
-\>\[null\]: PROPAGATION_REQUIRED,ISOLATION_DEFAULT (Session #111193677)  
-- referer: [http://atlassian.anywhere.com:8090/admin/users/removeuserfromgroup.action?atl_token=a19ede5a1d8cf814a61dbb21863824374b6bac52\&membersOfGroupTerm=confluence-users\&username=at002](http://atlassian.anywhere.com:8090/admin/users/removeuserfromgroup.action?atl_token=a19ede5a1d8cf814a61dbb21863824374b6bac52&membersOfGroupTerm=confluence-users&username=at002) \| url: /admin/users/removeuserfromgroup.action \| traceId: 3f9b9f29a5b51c8b \| userName: at003 \| action: removeuserfromgroup  
2017-08-11 23:09:12,833 INFO \[Caesium-1-1\] \[atlassian.crowd.directory.DbCachingRemoteDirectory\] synchroniseCache FULL synchronisation for directory \[ 294913 \] starting  
2017-08-11 23:09:17,872 INFO \[Caesium-1-1\] \[atlassian.crowd.directory.DbCachingRemoteDirectory\] synchroniseCache failed synchronisation complete for directory \[ 294913 \] in \[ 5039ms \]  
2017-08-11 23:09:17,909 ERROR \[Caesium-1-1\] \[atlassian.crowd.directory.DbCachingDirectoryPoller\] pollChanges Error occurred while refreshing the cache for directory \[ 294913 \].  
-- url: /setup/longrunningtaskxml.action \| traceId: 7e69673fa54f031d \| userName: anonymous \| referer: http://localhost:8090/setup/setup-restore-local.action \| action: longrunningtaskxml  
com.atlassian.crowd.exception.OperationFailedException: org.apache.http.conn.ConnectTimeoutException: **Connect to 192.168.111.74:8080 \[/192.168.111.74\] failed: connect timed out**   
at com.atlassian.crowd.integration.rest.service.RestExecutor$MethodExecutor.andReceive(RestExecutor.java:425)


Answers:
author: Manfred Theiler
body: \<to be deleted\>


author: Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority
body: Did you update the baseurl? <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-the-server-base-url-148592.html>

comments: author: Manfred Theiler
body: Yes, that was updated.  
The application seems to run quite ok apart from that and I have not detected any warnings yet.


Tags: migration

user
In confluence space. Issue with Macro
Asked by KRC:

HI

In one of our confluence space home page, we generally have a search bar to search for pages or child pages but since morning we do see some code instead of the search bar. In edit mode, i do see that's a macro for the search bar and in the macro preview, i do see the obvious code from space home page.

How to troubleshoot this and other confluence issues like confluence being slow and lazy responsive or/and users unable to save edited pages. We have confluence in a server running 6.2

![InkedCapture_LI.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/4479i7F1029045C968ECC/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "InkedCapture_LI.jpg")


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: From the macro text, I can see that the macro you're calling is from RefinedWiki. You'll want to make sure the **Refined Theme for Confluence** add-on is still installed and enabled.

If for some reason you've decided you don't want to use that plugin anymore, the **Live Search** macro should also do what you need and it comes with Confluence.

comments: author: KRC
body: Thank you for sharing your knowledge.


Tags: search
Is there a way to Sync spaces between confluence cloud and confluence on-premise servers
Asked by kiran jonnalagadda:

I want to sync a space from confluence cloud to a confluence on-premise server. The changes should be synchronized from both directions.

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Kiran,

It's not currently possible to sync Confluence spaces across instances with a Cloud instance out-of-the-box. I created a feature request for this last year, that you can vote on and follow for any updates: [CONFSERVER-40456](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-40456).

You can have a look at Bob Swift's answer to a similar query on this [older Community post](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/Sync-Confluence-between-Atlassian-Cloud-instances/qaq-p/345488). He has a Command Line Interface add-on that could help you to accomplish what you need.

Let us know if you have any questions!

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: kiran jonnalagadda
body: Hi Shannon,

I think Bob swift plugin cannot copy space more than once. If I do copy space again, it causes duplicate space key issue.

I have voted for this issue. Thanks for the reply.


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Kiran,

Thank you for letting me know that! I haven't personally tried out Bob's plugin so I was unaware.

Your vote helps us to properly prioritize the request, so thank you again!

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


author: VaibhaV Sharma
body: Hey Jace,

Dalfry here. Did you ever solve this use case with any plugins or some other method?

--

VaibhaV


Tags: atlassian-marketplace
Is my Confluence_log.ldf file supposed to be this large?
Asked by Tom Rasmussen:

Is this normal a normal size for my Confluence_log.ldf file? Is this where my attacments are stored? I am running SQL 2016 as my database.

Confluence_log.ldf 25.5 G

Confluence.mdf 119.2 MB


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You've enabled logging on the MS SQL Server side, and it's writing a log for everything.

Confluence doesn't need that.

Attachments should be in \<confluence home\>/attachments.

comments: author: Tom Rasmussen
body: I just found that my backups have run in a month. So I'm pretty sure that is why.

Now I trying to figure out my my server can find the XP_cmdshell procedure that is use to know about.