youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is it possible to create some sort of a space template?
Asked by Stefani Siqueira:

Is it possible to create a space template in order to create other spaces from it ?


Answers:
author: Andre Lehmann
body: Yes, we do that in our Environment.

We have a space-template and use that as a copy for new spaces.

Only thing you need is the "Copy Space Plugin": <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.copyspace>

Kind regards  
Andr?

comments: author: Stefani Siqueira
body: Thanks a lot. That works.
How to add search in confuence sidebar
Asked by Hoan Pham:

After spending hours looking into KB and documentation, we need some help to locate a how-to.  

Basically, we would like to add a 'pagesearch' from a root location, on the left sidebar, similar like the one in your KB:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/JIRA+Features+and+Best+Practices>

Left panel:  
- Profile, shortcuts...  
- Search box  
- Page tree view

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Mirko Skramusky
body: Hi Hoan!

The KB uses the documentation theme, which by default includes this search box. Switch the design via the space admin \> design \> documentation theme (click "Configure theme" to add some more links, e.g. via a macro in "Navigation", to the sidebar)

Hope this helps.

Regards, Mirko


author: Ale? La?ar
body: Hi, try to go to Space Layout and add here macro for search :smile:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Space+Layouts>

comments: author: Tom Birch Hansen
body: The link does not show how to add a search box to navigation pane. Any help?

I've tried adding livesearch wiki markup to navigation pane but it doesn't show well in the default theme.


author: Hoan Pham
body: Thank you Mirko and Ale?.

Very useful info.

comments: author: Susan Kraft-Yorke
body: not useful if you are trying to solve it yourself and not buy from the marketplace


Tags: confluence-administration

search

side-bar
Can we retrieve a space view count from confluence DB?
Asked by Amritha S:

I have taken the weekly report of space view count via usage tracking plugin like:

{usage:spaces=BancaRD\|types=page,blogpost\|period=daily\|timespan=1w\|events=view}

But i wanna generate the view count report for all the days since the above is showing only for the current week.

Can we able to retrieve the view count data from the table which are used in the usage tracking plugin?

If yes, what is the table name in confluence_dba to get the view count?


Answers:
author: Geert Graat
body: Hi,

This [page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=154239308) has some useful pointers on obtaining statistics from you Confluence instance, including a page with database queries.

Regards,

Geert
Can the Office Word Macro's content be searchable/indexable?
Asked by Brian Wilson:

One of the critical parts of our transition from SharePoint to Confluence is having the ability to easily drop in existing Office documents, specifically Word, into Confluence. Using drag and drop, the [Office Word Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Office+Word+Macro) seems to nail this, but it appears the content is not indexed and doesn't show up in our search.

Is this a limitation of the platform in general, something just with the Cloud version, or is there just a setting I'm missing as the administrator to enable the indexing of these word documents?


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Strange - well I don't know why it doesn't index on Cloud - but seems like it does (should) with server product.

We also support search like that with all same file formats if server product is integrated with Dropbox, Box, Egnyte, Alfresco, Google Drive (I.e., files still embedded - works similar to the office connector with remotely accessing files (yet feel native) and few more bells/whistles for file management)

You could also get managed hosting if you evolve to server product which can take away the admin responsibility (on you) if that is what is most appealing with Cloud..

So you have some options...


author: Brian Wilson
body: @Ellen Feaheny \[AppFusions\] - Nope, this is strictly within the Confluence Cloud/OnDemand instance. The page is rendered correctly as text from the Office Word Macro, but the content is not indexed and therefore, not searchable.


author: Davin Studer
body: According to the [Office Connector Prerequisites](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Office+Connector+Prerequisites) page these are the types that are supported. These should all index as well. They index in my server install. Maybe this is just an OnDemand limitation, but I'm not sure as I don't use OnDemand. I know that even in the server version you do need to wait for the document to be indexed ... which sometimes takes a few minutes.
> Confluence can display files compatible with Microsoft Office 97-2013, and PDF files, of the following types:
>
> * `.doc` and `.docx`
> * `.xls` and `.xlsx`
> * `.ppt` and `.pptx`
> * `.pdf`

comments: author: Brian Wilson
body: Yup! The file in question is a .docx (we've also tried a .doc) and it generates the page and renders the text just dandy and exactly as we would hope, but it's not indexing the content at all, so searching for unique words inside the document are not working.


author: Davin Studer
body: Hmmm you're right. I created a trail instance so I could test it. Apparently it doesn't index in OnDemand ... either that or it is super slow. I wasn't able to find any way to change that.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Are you using Office 365?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

macro

ms-office

search
Versioning of Content in secure content
Asked by adiedler:

Hello,

We use the secure content add-on in the daily work to secure the access credentials of user customers. We recordnized, that the content in the block was not versionized. So it was dangerous, if somebody changes the credentials for the customer and put in the wrong credentials. we cannot revert this changes so it would be helpful, if the content block is also versioned as the whole confluence site.

Best regards

Alexander Diedler  
tecRacer GmbH\&Co.KG


Answers:
author: Pepe
body: We are running the next release internally which implements revision control. There is one feature dangling out there that is preventing us from releasing it but we plan to shortly.


Tags: confluence-administration
Export to static HTML or to Help (similar to WebHelp)
Asked by Rakefet Zur:

Hi,

We are evaluating Confluence. We need to generate help for applications from Confluence. It can be static html pages but they must have a TOC and breadcrumbs.

The built-in export to HTML provides standalone html files with no TOC. We are also testing scroll html export but are having difficulties there as well.

Are there any other plugins or options to generate some sort of html help from Confluence?

(If the option is to export to Word and then use RoboHelp - we won't move to Confluence...).

Thanks,

Rakefet


Answers:
author: Jens Rutschmann [K15t]
body: Hi,

while this answer is a bit late, I'd like to refer you to the new version 3.3 of Scroll HTML Exporter that provides HTML exports with TOC and full text search feature.

See <https://www.k15t.com/display/HTML/Scroll+HTML+Exporter+3.3+Release+Notes>

Cheers,  
Jens


author: Paul LaBarbera
body: Curious if you've made any progress here. I'd like to know some tricks as well


author: Justin Justin
body: I think you want to try this: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-chm>


Tags: export
I would like to know if a user can log on, but not be able to edit, and if this user would need a licence?
Asked by dean bateman:


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Named logins require a license - yes. You can restrict their ability to edit if you wish.

Anonymous users do not count to a user count and also can't edit but that is only if the content is public (because they don't log in per se - just access a URL). You can make a space public in this case, yet other spaces are not.


Tags: confluence-administration
Remote Agent is not displayed on Online Remote Agent
Asked by Kavya Rani:

This is not an answer, instead an update to the existing problem.  

I am trying to install remote agent, after authenticating the remote agent client, sever displays this message,  

A remote agent is loading on client-name (ip-address).  

And in log it says following,  

WARN \[Thread-1\] \[BambooActiveMQConnectionFactory\] Unable to validate failover:(<tcp://VM_DEV_SYS_05:54663?wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration=300000>)?initialReconnectDelay=15000\&maxReconnectAttempts=10: [java.net](http://java.net).URISyntaxException: Illegal character in scheme name at index  
2: VM_DEV_SYS_05:54663?wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration=300000  

And throws "JVM exited unexpectidly" ERROR.  

If I add properties in bamboo-agent.cfg.xml as  

\<property name="bamboo.jms.broker.client.uri"\>failover:(<tcp://192.168.100.211:54663?wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration=300000>)?initialReconnectDelay=15000;\&maxReconnectAttempts=10\</property\>  
\<property name="bamboo.jms.broker.uri"\>tcp://0.0.0.0:54663?wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration=300000a\</property\>  

Error is thrown telling "delimiter ';' is missing after maxReconnectAttempts"  

Thanks  

Kavya


Answers:
author: Kavya Rani
body: I got the solution, I had to change bamboo.cfg.xml of Bamboo server not bamboo-agent.cfg.xml of remote agent. And I had to restart Bamboo server.
Identifying inactive spaces on confluence
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

Hi

On our confluence we have hundreds of spaces and most of them are very old and inactive.

We want to do a little bit of clean up.

Is there a way we can identify all such old/inactive spaces?

Rahul


Answers:
author: Steve Thornhill
body: I've used this plugin a few times - <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving>

Works well for maintaining old spaces and keeping them out of the way


author: Adrian Moerchen
body: Please define what is "old/inactive" for you?<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Viewing+Site+Statistics>


Tags: confluence-administration
Browser crash after login to Confluence (Firefox 32.0.3)
Asked by Mathias Heilmann:

After one of our employees logs into Confluence the browser crashes/closes after a few seconds. The strange this is, that most of our other employees use the same configuration and seem to have no problem with it.

It works fine when using Internet Explorer.


Answers:
author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi, maybe it's because an add-or or plugin in this user firefox. Have you tried disabling all the browser plugins and add-ons?


Tags: browser

confluence-administration

crash

firefox
CQL usage
Asked by Luk?? Maruniak:

We want to try using CQL according to this article:  
<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Advanced+Searching+using+CQL>

It should be available in Confluence version 5.5.6, but we are not success using 5.5.6 or latest version. Is there some settings to enable this option?

We tried to get all blogposts from ATOM space and sorted by date of creation:  
https://our-confluence.com/rest/experimental/content?expand=metadata.labels\&cql=space%3ATOM%20and%20type%3Dblogpost%20order%20by%20created%20desc

Another thing, we are wanted to get all blogposts with some label for example proton using this query.

https://our-confluence.com/rest/experimental/content?expand=metadata.labels\&cql=space%3ATOM%20and%20type%3Dblogpostand%20label%3Dproton%20order%20by%20created%20desc

Are these queries correctly typed?   
When we tried this, we received response with no page found.


Answers:
author: gregjm
body: I can't believe no one from Atlassian has responded to this - did you get this resolved? I'm also having some difficulty with the 'cql' syntax - the article does a terrible job explaining it.


Tags: confluence-administration
pull-request notifications displaying in confluence
Asked by Sam Pascua [Design Industries]:

I wish to display active Pull requests in a confluence page and be able to filter this by, "under review", "created", "Watching"


Answers:
author: Gary
body: Hi Sam,

Its not currently possible to show any development tools information within a Confluence page unless you physically copied over content, or images within Confluence. There currently is not any kind of integration or macros for this. There is a current open feature request that you can feel free to add any feedback, or ideas to:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35987>

Cheers,  
Gary


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Question about conflunce right setting
Asked by wangjinming:

Hi,

I am new customer of conflunce product. I deployed this product but I was confused with the conflunce right setting.

There are a few departments/divisons in our company, therefore, for each of those departments/divisions I create a dedicated space. The documents stored in thoses spaces are visible only for the people in corresponding departments, that is reasonable. But, when I want to share the document to people outside the departments, that seems impossible even I explicitly assigned the right to individuals/organizations.

So, my question is, how can I share the documents to people who are not in my space?

Thanks for your answers in advance!


Answers:
author: Julia Wester [Wittified]
body: If you are restricting access to a space to a certain set of people then you will not be able to ADD visibility to different users on the page level. If you would like to share content from a restricted space, you'd have to do something like:

* export to PDF and email that to said users
* make permissions on your space less restrictive and lock things down at the page level as needed
* Put shared content in a different space (you can use macros to ensure you don't have to maintain certain content in multiple places)

There are potentially other options, but just know that you can restrict further at a page level but you can't give more permissions.
Do you have any sort of free plan for academic institutions?
Asked by Delio Castillo:

We work in a school district and we would like to know if there was a way to get a complimentary license for Confluence?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Academic licences are half the price of Commercial licences. See <https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence>

Secular charitable organisations and open source projects can get free licences.
getting licence expired error after upgrading Confluence Dev
Asked by sanket nayak:

Hi ,

I upgraded my confluence - development from 5.2 to 5.6, but after upgrade i am getting the error: "Confluence support and upgrades for your current license have expired." My license is valid till March 2015 , but still i am getting this error.

Can i know why am I getting this error and what is the resolution?

Regards

Sanket Nayak


Answers:
author: sanket nayak
body: Thanks Davin for your comments. But i have some more questions:

1. why did this error occurred?
2. If i do it in production, will the same error occur and things will mess up or it is going to be smooth.

Thanks in Advance

Sanket

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: I don't know why it occured you haven't provided enough information to know that. Possibly did you create dev from a backup of test and maybe that had to do with it? I'm just shooting in the dark.As for upgrading prod I don't know if it would do it but you should ALWAYS make a backup of prod before you upgrade. If you are in a VM environment another step your should do would be to snapshot the VM prior to the upgrade. That way if anything goes wrong you can quickly revert by rolling back the snapshot. If you are in a VM I would still recommend the backup as well. This is because if you don't do the backup and only do a snapshot then if for some reason you don't want to roll back but do want to get at the old files prior to the upgrade you would be unable to without rolling back the snapshot ... and then you would have to upgrade again.


author: Davin Studer
body: Go to my.atlassian.com and get your dev license again for Confluence. Then go to **Confluence Admin-\>License Details** and try resetting the license.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can I create custom permissions for spaces that are only visible to certain users?
Asked by Helen Setchell:

In a scenario where Confluence is being used by a mix of staff and by external users (with various spaces set up for just staff, a mix of both, or just externals), staff will want other staff to see their room and number, but might not want external users to see that information.


Answers:
author: Helen Setchell
body: Hi Ellen - thanks for the response, although I think changing my original question title has made it different from the question I was asking - see response to your answer.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Changing your title from "custom profiles" to "permissions" vs profiles, which is the context that you are really referring to (and aligns with how documented)."Rooms" in Confluence are referred to as "spaces"


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Hello Helen -

You will want to get familiar with this doc (and sub sections) - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Giving+People+Access+to+Content>

You might also want to look at this plugin given your scenario with external users

<http://www.appfusions.com/display/PPARTS/Home>

comments: author: Helen Setchell
body: I need to know if it's possible (by developing or by plugin) to make certain fields on the profile page restricted to certain users only, i.e. add a level of granularity beyond page, i.e. set permissions by space, by page, and by section on page (in this case, the profile page)


author: Helen Setchell
body: PS ... so other/external people can see my profile page and they can see my name, description, etc, but can't see my location or my phone number (but a fellow member of staff can)
Confluence widget connector OnDemand doesn't work for Twitter
Asked by Dan Knapton:

It seems that the Widget Connector for the OnDemand product was never upgraded to support the latest Twitter widget.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: So, here is the open issue in JIRA. [CONF-29639](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29639) I have thrown my vote in the pile.

The issue and a workaround is mentioned [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Widget+Connector+Macro#WidgetConnectorMacro-Twitter), but due to restricted functions of AOD cloud instances you cannot add external gadgets on OnDemand systems. [Restricted Functions in Atlassian OnDemand](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand)


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Yes, I have to use the HTML macro which isn't available for OnDemand cloud instances.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
CQ installation problems - add-on says it's installed but it is not accessible.
Asked by Richard Bourne:

Hi there

I'm trying to reinstall CQ after a full Confluence reinstall and am having trouble. The add-ons manager is telling me that it has been installed but the Get Started link is giving me a 404.

The installation recognises that there is an existing licence key so perhaps the process is different in this case?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Richard


Answers:
author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi, if I remember correctly the 404 it's because the Get Started link takes you to a documentation that it's no longer where it was.

The problem could be because you have to clear the plugin cache, try this:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache>


author: Richard Bourne
body: Thanks Ramiro, clearing the cache along with resolving some issues where questions had lost their authors has fixed the issue.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can a person be limited to which page they are allowed to see?
Asked by dave geoghegan:

We want a collaboration tool per customer that allows us to invite only the customers for each account to their page and they have no access to any other information on the site/


Answers:
author: Elisa [Atlassian]
body: Hi Dave,

Yes it's possible with Confluence. :smile:

As a set up, you'd have to have a space for each customer and then you would be able to set permissions and restrictions to only those users. For more info, please refer to [Space Permissions Overview.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Space+Permissions+Overview)

Please let us know if you have any other questions!

Cheers!


author: Andrew Wolpers [BlackPearl PDM]
body: Are these pages within a space, or are you saying a page is a space?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I import questions into Confluence-Questions from an external list?
Asked by Santosh Murthy:

How do I import questions into Confluence-Questions from an external list?

I have a list of questions in word that we captured during a meeting? is there an easy way to create a question for each of them?


Answers:
author: TinA
body: Hello Santosh,

Currently that feature is not available. Our development team is working on a solution for this. I suggest reviewing this JIRA ticket and vote on it so that the feature gets more priority.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-359>

-Regards,  
Tin N


author: Steven F Behnke
body: This sounds like a Feature Request! <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-1498>
How can a user reset their password if using Confluence with Crowd
Asked by david.humeniuk@udri.udayton.edu:

I've integrate Crowd with Confluence (and JIRA, Stash, Fisheye, Jenkins) so the a single user/password is configured for a user. However, a user may need to reset their password if they don't remember when logging into Confluence. The user can go to Crowd to reset, but that is not very intuitive, the users should be unaware that Crowd even is running right?


Answers:
author: Andrew Wolpers [BlackPearl PDM]
body: You'll need to be logged in as a local admin (or someone who isn't using the Crowd directory) and navigate to: Administration \> User Directories

Then you need to hit "Edit" and check the "Read/Write" box. This way it will allow changes (like password resets) from applications go back and refresh with Crowd. Notice, this example is in "Read Only"

Screen Shot 2014-10-09 at 11.11.51 AM.png  
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[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/41656/1/Screen%20Shot%202014-10-09%20at%2011.11.51%20AM.png){#display_11895806416b3d_0}


author: david.humeniuk@udri.udayton.edu
body: Not sure where that would be configured exactly, but the application link is 2-legged Oauth for both incoming and outgoing authentication. I have the "modify user" and "modify user attributes" permissions enabled in Crowd for the Confluence app.


author: Andrew Wolpers [BlackPearl PDM]
body: Is your connection to Crowd read/write? Or simply read?


Tags: authentication

confluence-administration

crowd