youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Advanced Search result can not be shown in Confluence 4.3.7
Asked by Xiangfei.Li:

Hello there,

Currently I'm migrating confluence/wiki system from Confluence 3.5.13 to 4.3.7, but during the migration, I came across a problem. I customized a search function in our confluence space with Advanced Search plugin, I have used {search-form},{search-input},{search-select},{search-option} and {search-results} to customize this feature. But the search result can not be shown, just like the attached capture shown.

![](../../upfiles/Capture_58.PNG)

I found from Atlassian marketplace that the plugin vendor can only support till Confluence 4.2.1,

![](../../upfiles/Capture_59.PNG)

So do that mean the plugin is not compatible with Confluence 4.3.7, and that's the reason why the search result can not be shown on page? Hope someone may help.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards

Li


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Li,

Yes, probably due to the incompatibility of the plugin with the Confluence version that you're using, as you found this plugin is only compatible till Confluence 4.2.1, so it is not expected to work with Confluence 4.3.7.

In this case I would suggest you to make a contact with the plugin's provider and see if there's a chance for a version of the Advanced Search for Confluence 4.3.7, normally most of the plugin's developers create new versions of their plugins to be compatible with the latest versions of our products, maybe here can be just matter of time. You can make a contact with the Adaptavist by the following:

<http://www.adaptavist.com/>

[help@adaptavist.com](mailto:help@adaptavist.com)

+44 1925 321 000

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

LJ.

comments: author: Xiangfei.Li
body: Dear Luiz,

Thanks for your kind reply, and I have contacted with Adaptavist support, they told me that the plugin won't support Confluence 4.x anymore. While, we have to use Confluence 4.3.x in our company now, and customized search function is also preferred. Since the "Advanced Search" won't be compatible with Confluence 4, do you have any suggestions that what I can do/use to replace "Advanced Search"? So that the search function can be used again.

It will be appreciate that you can help. Thank you in advance.

Best Regards

Li


author: Xiangfei.Li
body: Can anybody know or give any suggestions about this? Is there any solution can replace with the "Advanced Search" plugin?


Tags: search
How to create a cold standby for confluence
Asked by premtemp:

Hello,

I install confluence 4.3.5 on my Linux server with MYSQL as database. Now I would like to create a standby system. This is what I have done but I am getting a cluster error.

Make a backup of the production DB

Make a backup of the Production home dir

Install confluence on my standby server using the developer license

restore the production DB to the standby system

restore the production home dir to then standby system

Setup Rsync to copy the production home to standby home

Setup database replication from production to standby

restart confluence

This is the error I get::

Non Clustered Confluence: Database is being updated by another Confluence instance

Please advise

thanks


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello There,  

Per the description that you posted I would suggest you to perform the following steps to create a test/backup environment of your instance:  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers#MigratingConfluenceBetweenServers-HowtoCreateaTestorDevelopmentSite>

<br />

Then after you have your test/backup environment you can establish a kind of production backup strategy to perform the backup of your production instance, that would be a backup of the following:  

\* Backup of the Confluence's Database  
\* Backup of your Confluence-home Directory  

By your comments it seems that you already have a kind of procedure for your backups, but anyway I would like to share with you an article about Confluence backup that would be interesting to take a look:  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Production+Backup+Strategy>

<br />

So based on this, if you have the backup of the above items you'll be able to restore your Confluence into your cold standby instance. The point that you're receiving error is probably due to the database replication, that is a kind of procedure not recommended for the Confluence database, normally most of our customers just establish a backup routine and then if needed they restore the backup from a specific time stamp and not using replication from the production database. And about the Rsync this is not the problem here as it is just a copy procedure from the file system, not the case here, but our main problem is the replication of the database.  

In this case I would suggest you to create a backup routine of your Confluence-home directory (file system) and Confluence's database, and then restore from a specific point if needed in the future and do not use this kind of replication from the database side to avoid this kind of error, this is what we usually suggest to our customers.  

Hope this helps.  

Kind Regards,  

LJ.
Online Form Builder
Asked by tzigone:

Hi,

I'd like to build forms on Confluence using sth like Wufoo.

I am looking for alternatives of Wufoo.

Thank you,


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence is a wiki - you add and update the body of pages as a whole.

It is not intended to be a form-based application, it's for free format pages, and the closest you can get off-the-shelf is to use templates (which still aren't forms, they're just pre-population of standard data)

There are a number of plugins which enable you to build forms though. Off the top of my head, <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.frevvo.forms.confluence> and <http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/SCAF/Scaffolding+Plugin>


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Will update the list by Nic created in 2013, as the time changes and new options become available: take a look at [ConfiForms](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.vertuna.confluence.plugins.confiforms) plugin for creating data entry forms and workflows.


Tags: forms
Switching to External user management
Asked by Nick Gill:

I am trying to configure my OnDemand Confluence set-up to use external user management (from my OnDemand Jira set-up), but I can't for the life of me get it to allow me to change it. My only lead is that I need to somehow log out of my main admin account and log in as the 'sysadmin' user, however I haven't got a clue what the password is for this user, nor can I get the password reset to work for said user.

I'm not sure if this is a malfunction, or simply limited documentation. Could you please advise me how I can achieve a unified user base, and if my pursuit of the External User Management function is correct.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Nick Gill
body: I spoke to Atlassian support. It seems my question is likely not helpful, with there being no clear answer.

I was hoping to use a single user base for both Jira and Confluence, and while this is not exactly supported, I would need to use External User Management and LDAP to facilitate something closer to this.

Atlassian have informed me that this is in the works, and may become a feature in the near future on OnDemand. For now, the existing built-in user base will suffice.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Contact Atlassian OnDemand support - they have the "sysadmin" user and you won't have that access.

I'd have thought the user integration between OnDemand Jira and Confluence would be automatic, but it sounds like it isn't?


Tags: management

user
Redirect goes to insecure URL
Asked by Stuart Gilberd:

At the moment we have our Confluence instance mainly on HTTP access but we are moving it to HTTPS access so both are available. Unfortunately the login page seems to redirect to the HTTP login page when we hit the HTTPS page. Probably because the base server URL is HTTP.

How should we handle this?


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Confluence only supports 1 URL. Get HTTP to redirect to HTTPS. Set HTTPS as the base URL.
createpage.action vs createpage-entervariables.action and template
Asked by Shain K S:

URL 1 - /pages/createpage-entervariables.action?spaceKey=XXX\&title=XXX\&linkCreation=true\&fromPageId=xxx\&templateId=xxx

URL 2 - /pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=XXX\&title=XXX\&linkCreation=true\&fromPageId=xxx\&templateId=xxx

I would like to understand the difference between createpage-entervariables.action and createpage.action. I am trying to add a link to a page which will create a page if not exists, but will just behave like a link if it already exists. URL 2 above, the one with createpage.action does that, but it does not take in a parameter to specify template, it ignores templateId=xxx parameter. The createpage-entervariables.action (URL 1) does take the parameter templateId=xxx, but it always tries to create a new page, even if the one with the title exists.

I would like to know if there is a way createpage-entervariables.action can behave like createpage.action with respect to create behavior (that is create only if not exists) or for createpage.action to take the template as a parameter.


Answers:
author: Gabriel Lozano-Moran
body: We need exactly the same behaviour. Either create the page based on a template and if the page exists just open it like a normal link.


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: There is a feature request to add this functionality to Confluence API: [CONF-11393](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11393), but I do not think this is possible yet.


author: Nabil Sayegh
body: Me too, please :-)


author: Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)
body: Please le me know if you found a solution, I am trying to automate wiki page creation based on a template.


Tags: content
Custom date field & search it
Asked by tzigone:

Hi,

I need a custom date field in Confluence. I need to add old documents whose created date are older than Confluence created date. I want to search these fields.

How can I do that? If I update Created field in Confluence database, does that cause cancellation of maintanence terms? ( I assume that this is possible)

Isn't there a customization mechanism like the one that JIRA has?

Cheers,


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello There,

In this case to add a created field in the Confluence database is not recommended, anyway this does not cause the cancellation of the maintenance of the product but we will not be able to help you with your created field if you experience some problem with this change in the database or guarantee support to this kind of customization.

To this kind of customization that you need the best option would be to make a contact with one of our Atlassian Experts, that are a kind of certified partner able to develop customizations and provide support for this kind of change in a Confluence instance performed by them, since customizations are a little beyond of the support scope itself.

For more information about our Atlassian Experts please check the following link, probably here you'll find a partner that will be able to provide you more assistance to this kind of customization that you need:

<http://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts>

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

LJ.

comments: author: tzigone
body: Hi,

If I create a template and make this date field variable, can we reach that variable using Atlassian SDK?


Tags: custom-field
Confluence user connect JIRA SERVER failed
Asked by lily56:

Confluence connect JIRA Sever show error, I think it should be JIRA have some problem, I don't know how to fix JIRA Server.

Yesterday Confluence could connect JIRA Server, today suddenly Confluence can't indentify JIRA user, so

I reinstall Confluence, and can't connet JIRA Server longer.

![](../../upfiles/p1.jpg)


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: Isn't that error clear enough? It appears that you are using a wrong password to connect to JIRA.
i need to change the domain name url of my on demand confluence
Asked by David Jockin:

i fat fingered the url for my doman for confluence on-demand

please change it to

[3rd-gensolutions.atlassian.net](http://3rd-gensolutions.atlassian.net)

Thanks


Answers:
author: cbenard1
body: Hi David,

Currently we are unable to change OnDemand instance URLs. However you can follow the workaround found here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ONDEMANDKB/Changing+the+OnDemand+instance+URL+address>

Essentially you'll be creating a new instance with the desired URL and moving your data to it. If this is the route you would like to take please raise a ticket as Ellen said so we can deactivate your old instance when your move is complete as well as shift your billing to the new one.

Thanks

Turner


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Submit a request to [support@atlassian.com](mailto:support@atlassian.com)
Blog tab as default OR "Blog Posts" panel in blog macro?
Asked by Kelly Setzer:

I have created a page in my space that contains just the blog macro. I then set this page to be my space's default page.

However, there is no navigation available. I would like one of two things:

1) Instead of setting this page to be my space's default page, I'd like to set the "Blog" tab to be the default active tab when users select my space from the dashboard.

2) OR, I'd like to be able to add the "Blog Posts" panel that appears when viewing the "Blog" tab to the custom page I created.

Perhaps there are more creative solutions. As it stands, the blog posts macro is only part of the answer.


Answers:
author: JoeyA
body: Hi Kelly - can you advise what version of Confluence you are on?

I am not clear on what you mean by the "Blog" tab. I am hoping I can understand more when you tell me the version.

Maybe we should go up one level and understand what you are trying to achieve with the blog macro (I assume you are talking about the blog post macro here and not blog post report macro here). Are you trying to get the default home page of a space to display a roll of all the blogs published on that space? Or something else.

Thanks, Joey


Tags: blog

panel
Confluence for Windows Phone 8?
Asked by RobertD:

I noticed there's a new iphone app... Any chance one will be released for Windows Phone 8? Thanks


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Kurt,

Being honest with you actually we don't have an ETA or prevision for a specific interface for Windows Phone 8, but anyway this is possible in the future. Actually the supported platforms for Confluence Mobile are IOS and Android, you can see more details about Confluence mobile itself in the following article:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Confluence+on+a+Mobile+Device>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Notes+about+Confluence+Mobile>

And just as a side note, if there's a need to access Confluence in a Windows Mobile Browser you can install at your instance the RefinedWiki Mobile Interface plugin, that allows the access to Confluence through different mobile devices and mobile browsers (including Windows Mobile and others), you can see more details here:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.refinedwiki.confluence.plugins.mobile>

I hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

LJ.

comments: author: Brian Rayner
body: Have there been any changes to this plan? I'm curious about a Windows Phone 8 app as well. While I look at team collab solutions, this is an important function, as my organization is 100% Windows Phone. Thank you!


author: Matthias Morath
body: Because of Company policies Windows phone is a must in our Company....it?s time to go mulitble OS to enable everybody with this great Service......


author: Ash Helm
body: Us too. Our Company is all Windows phone also - was looking at adopting Blueprints - but this has put the brakes on - when will this be resolved?


author: Craig Emmott
body: This is a deal breaker for us.


author: Morten ?stli
body: Very interested aswell.. We are also using company Windows Phones.
Google iCal Subscription fails
Asked by delph.ine:

Hi,

I'm using Confluence 4.3.5 with newest team calendar plugin. I have a google apps calendar and tried to subscribe Google Cal to team calendars. But if I've entered all necessary data (iCal URL from Google Cal and working credentials) i get the error message, that

"Specified calendar does not exist. Possible problems: Check that the Calendar URL you provided exists and you have the correct permissions to access it."

All data is correct and verified but where's the problem? Any ideas?

delph.ine


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi delph.ine,

Since it's a private calendar that is accessed through credential, try to use the private address of Calendar and see whether it worked. Usually it needs to use the private address instead of the normal address.

Hope it helps.

comments: author: Sherif Mansour
body: Thanks for sharing.


author: Gabrielle Gagnon
body: What is the difference between a private address and the "normal" address, and how do you get the private address?


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
How to find out who added a label
Asked by Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]:

The Confluence LabelAddEvent does not provide the user who added the label... so how do i get that information?


Answers:
author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: Hmm i think one possibility is it to use the request object

```
HttpServletRequest request = ServletActionContext.getRequest();String remoteUser = request.getRemoteUser();
```

comments: author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: Unfortunatelly this does not work in Confluence 5.1 anymore. Any other ideas?


author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: Solution: ask the labeled page for its labelings page.getLabelings. There is a user name at the labeling.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Sandro,

I'm also interested in this functionality, but I could not find any more information about getLabelings. Could you let me know a little bit more information?


Tags: event

label
url links to documents in hansoft
Asked by Goran Aleksic:

Hi,

When we insert url link to a document stored in hansoft, Confluence does not treat it like a link, but rather like text in the page.

Here is example of hansoft generated url:

hansoft://hansoft.homeip.net;SomeProjetName;124dfw2/DocumentID/9876

If insert it while target Confluence page is in Edit mode, and click on it it works correctly and opens Hansoft. However, if we save the page, than link appears as underlined text and can't be clicked on.

We noticed that if we remove "hansoft" before "://", and save the page, link is correctly inserted and can be clicked, but then it does not result in Hansoft opening and displaying target document.

Whle we strive to keep most of our documents in Confluence, it is essential for our company to have the ability to insert links to docs stored inside Hansoft.

Is there any way we can force Confluence to accept these kinds of hyperlinks?

Thx,

-Goran


Answers:
author: John Masson
body: Hi Goran, you may find this will work in 4.3.7 and onwards as a result of <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24665> - add ability to create links using non-standard protocols - being implemented.

comments: author: Goran Aleksic
body: Thanks for response John,

Before going ahead with upgrade, I wanted to test it with Confluence On Demand.

Unofrtunately "hansoft://" protocol is still not being recognized.

I've added comment to [CONF-28103](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28103) bug to request hansoft protocol from being restricted.


author: Mike Orenich
body: Hi Goran and John,

I've successfully implmented a Hansoft link in my version of Confluence. The Hansoft protocol is working correctly with versions 4.3.7 and above! (I'm using v5.1)

-Mike Orenich
Customizing font color on the Children Display Macro in Confluence
Asked by Patrick Lim:

Hi there,

I'm trying to customize the color of the links that are coming from the Children Display Macro. I've tried enclosing it in divs, changing styling to h5 and adding css on h5 tags, I've tried inline CSS as well and nothing has been working. Looking at the source, logically it should work since the entire html code of the children display macro is wrapped on a div with css styles but it doesn't seem to apply it to the font.

Any help would be great!

Thanks,  
Patrick


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: It does apply but is overwritten by some other styles that are higher in the CSS hierarchy.

Try to add more classes to increase the position in the hierarchy, something like this:

```
.YOUR_THEME_CLASS .wiki-content .YOUR_DIV_CLASS li a {color: red;}
```


Tags: atlassian-support
sudo plugin for Confluence - anyone still has the code?
Asked by Andrei [errno]:

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.sudo](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.sudo%20)

it is really useful + still works for us in 4.1.   
does anyone still have the source code?   

it used to be hosted in SVN ( <http://svn.atlassian.com/svn/public/contrib/confluence/sudo-plugin/trunk> ), but now returns a 404...

thanks in advance


Answers:
author: rverschoor
body: It moved to <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/svn/SUDO/>

I just verified that it could be synced from there, all looks fine.


author: Jim Bethancourt
body: Yikes! It's of immense value for us too. The quick \& dirty solution I would propose is to download the Sudo Jar from Marketplace and decompile it with <http://java.decompiler.free.fr/> It's licensed under a BSD license, so I don't think you'll encounter any finger wagging. :-) Good luck!


author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: For those not wanting to decompile code and maintain plugins there is also [CONFSU](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.javahollic.confluence.confluencesu) (not free) which offers largely similar capabilities, and that SU-exit button!


Tags: app

sudo
File Storage Capacity
Asked by Tom Allison:

How much (GB) can I put onto this instance of Confluence? an Ondemand instance?


Answers:
author: Gary
body: Hi Tom,

Per this article:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=253231650>

"The initial storage available for each Atlassian OnDemand instance is 25GB. Accounts that exceed that amount will be billed an over limit fee of $1.00 per gigabyte per month, or if different, the then-current fee.

All components count towards the storage except the OS and applications, i.e. your database, attachments, source repository and application indexes. Logs are stored outside your instance, so they do not count towards your storage.

There are no bandwidth limits."

Cheers,

Gary


Tags: cloud
Attaching a PDF to a section on the page
Asked by minesh patel:

Hello,

I have setup a space called Reports. In this space is a page called Website Reports. On this page, I have 4 individual sections ([RegionalC.com](http://RegionalC.com), Social Media.....).

My question is, how can I attach a pdf document on a particular section? I want to display that pdf on the [RegionalC.com](http://RegionalC.com) section. Is this possible? Thanks.

minesh


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Minesh,

Are you trying to embed the pdf into the page or simply provide a link to it? We have a PDF macro that should allow you to embed a pdf file in a given location on a page.

We have the following document that goes into more detail about it's usage.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/View+File+Macro>

Please let us know if that will work for you.

comments: author: minesh patel
body: Provide a link to it.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: It should come bundled with your version of Confluence. What version are you using?


author: minesh patel
body: Theme Builder 4.2.3

Atlassian Confluence 3.5.7