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Creating space stopped working after upgrade to Confluence 3.4.6
Asked by Ian Formanek:

We have recently upgraded our Confluence to version 3.4.6, and since then the "Create Space" stopped working - the 'Create Space' page is displayed, but if I fill it and click OK, it just goes back to the same page, no space created.

I have tried to tun on logging setting to Diagnostic, but nothing is logged.

Any idea how to debug this issue?


Answers:
author: Ian Formanek
body: It happens in both Google Chrome and Firefox.

In Firebug, everything looks good:

* AJAX GET on /ajax/spaceavailable.action?key=NAME after I fill the space key returns 200
* After clicking submit, POST /spaces/createspace.action returns 200 and the same HTML page content (the create space page)


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Which browser is it? Have you tried in another browser?


author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: Just a shot in the dark here, but have you checked your disk space? Can you add a page to an existing space?

comments: author: Ian Formanek
body: Plenty of disk space, and no problems adding pages.

Thanks for the ideas, though!
Copy a page content to another Confluence 4 site, how to?
Asked by Jimm Chen:

As a test procedure, I find it sometimes usefull to copy a page's content from one Confluence instance to anonther Confluence instance, e.g. to check the different behavior of a plugin's differenct versions . In CF3, we can easily copy the wiki markcup and copy the attachments. But now, with the XHTML storage backend, what is the best policy to do it in CF4 ?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) **copyPage** action with **--targetServer** specified. See example - <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/x/C4W0Aw>


author: Sherif Mansour
body: Jimm,

You might also want to try Tools \> View Source. From here you can CMD/CTRL+A (or select all), copy and paste it in another instance. Let me know if that doesn't work for you.

The only thing that won't copy is your attachments and any custom macros you might have on the page (which isn't on the other server).
confluence: how to install new speakeasy extensions from codegeist ? (.zip-files, no .jar-files)
Asked by Sven:

Hello,

I tried to install:

<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/44498>

But if I upload it in the plugin-manager I'll get an error message:

**Could not find a handler capable of installing the plugin at akelesspacelist.zip. Check that the file is a valid plugin.**

Same with this one here:

<https://bitbucket.org/dvdsmpsn/confluence-space-list-filter-speakeasy/downloads>

I've seen that these are no .jar-Files but only .zip-files.

I have installed the speakeasy-plugin (1.3.1) and I'm already running "favourite extension".

What I'm doing wrong?

Thanks for any suggestion --- these extensions seem to be useful ;-)

Bye

Sven


Answers:
author: Sven
body: ok, got it. As administrator it is not possible to install.

With another user, I have to go User \> Extensions where there is "Install"-Button ;-)


author: Don Brown [Atlassian]
body: You can only install zip extensions via the Speakeasy install dialog. The normal plugin manager will have no idea what that file is. Also, whether administrators can use Speakeasy or not is configurable.


author: Sven
body: Ah. ok. Thanks for the information.

Hmm. To retrieve all spaces is "already done", this could be taken from this extension:

<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/44008>

(it's working well in 4.x and displays a complete list of all spaces after a hover over the "Dashboard-Link"...)


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Not really, in Confluence 3.x, all spaces were listed on the dashboard, so client side filtering was easy.

In Confluence 4.x, you need to get a list of spaces from elsewhere. You could perhaps adapt it by taking a JSON feed of spaces from the Lucene index, then populating the list of spaces that way.

Sell me how you get on with that ;)


author: Sven
body: I've seen this ;-(

Any hint how to tweak it for 4.x ?


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: BTW: Space List Filter will not work by default on Confluence 4.x -- Atlassian rejigged the Dashboard.


Tags: install

speakeasy
How to copy page contents raw markup for temporarily backup?
Asked by Thomas Fritz:

Since Confluence 4.0 there is no wiki markup any more. But sometimes it is neccessary to copy the raw contents of a page, for instance the home page of a space, and paste it in a text file so one can simply backup this file and use it at a later time to paste it again into a page. It is possible to copy paste directly from one page to another page. But i want to paste it in a file so i can temporarily backup the file.

Is that possible in any way? What is the preferred way of doing this?

Kind regards


Answers:
author: David Peterson
body: Hi there,

Server admins can access the 'Storage Format' of the page, which is the new XHTML-style format for page contents, via the 'View Storage Format' link in the 'Tools' menu. However, there isn't any built-in way to actualy paste the markup back into the page. But there is a plugin called 'Invisible Ink' that will let you do it. It's commercial, but free to small server instances, I believe. The current beta test seems to work ok. I'm not sure if there are any security restrictions on who is allowed to edit pages either - I've only tested it as site admin.

Regards,

David Peterson

comments: author: Thomas Fritz
body: I have just tested it. Works great. But it is really bad that such functionality isn't anymore in Confluence core. Instead a commercial plugin is needed. really bad.

Thanks anyway.


author: Matt
body: We are currently working on an 'Advanced Editor' fopr Confluence 4.x that will allow you to edit the source of a page. You can [find the spec here](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Specification+-+Confluence+Advanced+Editor).


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) can be used to **getPageSource** and **storePage**(needs --noConvert on V4.x if it is in storage format as the default on store is wiki)
how to display specific columns and rows only with office excel macro
Asked by Jagbir Singh:

I would like to display only rows 4-8 and columns 4-8 of my excel sheet, using the office excel marco. How do i specify this detail of specific rows and coloums, while using the excel macro.

It takes only the last row and last column. And assumes first row/column to be 0. Is there a way to specify the first row and column also?

COuld someone please help me figure out, how to do this?

Thanks

Sunny


Answers:
author: Sean King
body: Bob Swift's Excel Plugin gives you more power than the normal Office Connector Plugin. It does cost money however: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.excel>


author: Joerg Bencke
body: @Christian - The VB macros would be for writing back (and overwriting the "sourceformular" in the field :

\* Example : Celll "A1" = "sourcetab!C42". Once change the value of A1, that is broken.

Your workaround of "editing the source-cell" will certainly work as well, but does require additional steps by the user.

Regards,

Josh

comments: author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: True.

Cheers Christian


author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Hi Sunny,

the Excel macro always shows the tab that was previously open while saving the document. That's why Josh's solution would work. I just don't understand why you would need some VB macros. If you linked the desired cell with cells in the "export tab" you would only need to apply changes to the original tab, open the export tab, save the document and close the Excel file... That way the updated export tab would be shown in Confluence...

This is just about viewing the Excel file not writing values back like what you could do in earlier versions with the "Edit in office", right?

So long,

Christian


author: Joerg Bencke
body: Hi Sunny,

when the developer did not include the options, you can't. Two ways I can think of to work with that :

1. Set up an "export" tab in the excel file and build a "mirror table" there, starting at A1 and containing only the data you want. Fine for reading. If you want to write back into the source tabs in excel, that might need some doing though. You would need an excel vb-macro, which writes back the changed values into the originial cells and resets the export-tab formulas.
2. You extend the excel macro to change its behaviour. If you cant do it yourself, make it a request in Jira and vote for it, hoping it will get attention by Confluence.

I hope, that helps. Maybe someone else has more.


Tags: macro

ms-excel
Is there any way to import *.dia files into Confluence?
Asked by Sarah Jacob:

Is there any way to import diagram files created in Gnome Dia into Confluence?


Answers:
author: vboerner
body: as workaround:

1. upload the dia file
2. in "dia" export as " scalable vector graphic" svg (multiple options available. use the scalable one)
3. upload that svg file with !\<pathToFile\> in the confluence editor

after changes are made in "dia" :

1. save the file and export the svg
2. klick on the dia file in the confluence page (outside of the editor!!) and klick the "upload new version"
3. klick on the svg-image in the confluence page (outside of the editor!!) and klick the "upload new version"


author: Michael S
body: Sarah,   

I'm not aware of any way to import these; the closest thing I know of is the [Gliffy Plugin](http://www.gliffy.com/products/confluence-plugin/ "Gliffy plugin").

As far as options, in order of preference I'd try this:

1. See if Dia can interact with Gliffy
2. Save the diagram as a .jpg and embed as normal
3. Talk to Gnome or an [Atlassian Expert](http://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts "Atlassian Expert") about the possibility of a custom plugin
Migrating documents from mediawiki to confluence
Asked by binayak silwal:

Hi,

We have heaps of documents in MediaWiki, and we want to copy everything across to confluence.

Is there any tool that can convert MediaWiki mark-up to confluence mark-up ?

Regards,

Silwal


Answers:
author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Hi,

try the Universal Wiki Converter as it support MediaWiki.

Cheers,  
Christian

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes>


author: Julian Green (KMIS)
body: UWC is unsupported and does not work for Confluence 5.x +

comments: author: Brian Amos
body: What are the \*current\* options for migrating from a mediawiki installation to Confluence?


author: Marcel Hamade
body: Any ideas? I have the same problem, I need to convert my mediawiki to confluence and include links \& images and attachments


author: Sergey Svishchev
body: UWC may be unsupported but it generally does work for Confluence 5.x -- please be more specific.


author: Marcel Hamade
body: Hey Sergey,I finally got it to compile and run and my MediaWiki-Connection works. But as soon as I start exporting it throws an error:2015-07-06 14:20:19,717 ERROR \[Thread-9\] - Error while: Executing statement: select page_id, page_namespace, page_title, page_latest from mywiki_page where page_namespace\>=100 or page_namespace=0 or page_namespace=2;2015-07-06 14:20:19,717 ERROR \[Thread-9\] -java.lang.NullPointerException at com.atlassian.uwc.exporters.MediaWikiExporter.getMediaWikiPages(MediaWikiExporter.java:405) at com.atlassian.uwc.exporters.MediaWikiExporter.exportMediawiki(MediaWikiExporter.java:238) at com.atlassian.uwc.exporters.MediaWikiExporter.export(MediaWikiExporter.java:159) at com.atlassian.uwc.ui.listeners.ExportWikiListener.exportWiki(ExportWikiListener.java:205) at com.atlassian.uwc.ui.listeners.ExportWikiListener$Worker.construct(ExportWikiListener.java:325) at com.atlassian.uwc.ui.SwingWorker$2.run(SwingWorker.java:110) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


author: Marcel Hamade
body: I found my solution: I had to set the Database-Prefix to myDatabaseName.myprefix_ in order for the SQL statement to run. It returned a Nullpointer exception because it wasnt operating on the real database


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, the UWC - start at <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/Universal+Wiki+Converter> for an intro, then you need

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes>

comments: author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Same instant:-)


author: Andrei [errno]
body: new MediaWiki Notes link : <https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes>


author: Bob Do
body: Hey,

can anyone help me to convert <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Periodic_table> to Confluence?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
mail notifications are not working in confluence 4.0.5 am not getting the problem...
Asked by poonam chaudhari:

how can i send emails on particular date


Answers:
author: Michael S
body: Poonam,

There could be a number of reasons why, take a look at the atlassian-confluence.log in your \<conf_home\>/logs directory - this should generally tell you what the problem is. If you're still running into problems please create a support request at <http://support.atlassian.com>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Now that bookmarks are gone in Confluence 4.1, how can I access the bookmarks that I had previously saved?
Asked by Jessamyn Donovan:

I can see that bookmarks are no longer available in Confluence 4.1 (which is bad enough) but I can't find a way to access my previous bookmarks, either. Which means I've lost all of those links (and comments associated with them). There has to be some way to access them, right??


Answers:
author: Jessamyn Donovan
body: Atlassian support was able to provide me a .CSV export of our bookmarks. Alternatively (in addition), you can access the bookmarks as individual wiki pages. The URL should have the following syntax:

...jira.com/wiki/display/\~SPACEID/.bookmarks

Each bookmark that was created in that space will show up as a child page (name of the page is the title given to the bookmark). Navigating to the child pages will display any comments associated with the bookmark and the description (if any) for the bookmark. The URL itself can be seen by editing the child page (the bookmark will appear inside a wiki markup macro.


author: Michael Knight
body: Unfortunately extra plugins cannot be installed into OnDemand. If this data is important to you, please [contact Support](https://support.atlassian.com) and we'll see what we can do for you (please link to this Answers question when you do).


author: Jessamyn Donovan
body: We're using OnDemand, do I just ask for that plugin to be installed?


author: Joe Clark
body: The Social Bookmarking Plugin is no longer shipped with Confluence 4.0 by default, but it's still available for download from [plugins.atlassian.com](http://plugins.atlassian.com) and is still kept compatible with new versions of Confluence.

comments: author: Kevin Buchs
body: Joseph, is the Social Bookmarking Plug-in intended to replace/improve upon the {bookmarks} macro that was available in earlier versions?


author: Joe Clark
body: Kevin, the Social Bookmarking plugin *is* the plugin that provided the original bookmarks macro, it's just no longer included with Confluence by default. :-)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence Attachments and SOAP API
Asked by Catherine Mora:

Does any of you know if it makes any difference to the SOAP API if the attachments are stored in the DB or in the FS? Is this transparent to the API and regardless of the storage method choosen I should be able to get this information right?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: The API will behave the same regardless of the internal storage mechanism.

comments: author: Catherine Mora
body: Great, thank you!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I use a {recently-updated} macro to always show results for the currently-logged-in user?
Asked by MICHAEL O'Neill:

I see how I can type a specific user's name, but I just want it to always show results for content recently edited by the currently logged in user. Is there a way to do this?


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: What Joseph said. Wrap the **recently-updated** macro in a user macro for the same ends.

In Confluence 4.x and above, something like:

```
<ac:macro ac:name="recently-updated">	<ac:parameter ac:name="author">$action.remoteUser.name</ac:parameter></ac:macro>
```

In Confluence 3.x, something like:

```
{recently-updated:author=$action.remoteUser.name}
```


author: Joe Clark
body: The macro doesn't have the ability to show content for the 'current user' built-in.

You could achieve this by creating a new user macro that wraps the recently-updated macro, passing in the current user as the macro parameter.


Tags: recently-updated
How to order the order of favourite pages?
Asked by Si Eun Kim:

Hello,

Is there any way to re-order the order of favourite pages?

Currently I am using the macros below to display the list of my favourite pages;

```
{favpages:maxResults=300}
```

I wonder if there is any way to move one in the list to other place.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: I don't think this is possible, but it sounds like it would be a useful feature request! If you are interested in this, consider creating a new feature request for Confluence on [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF](https://jira.atlassina.com/browse/CONF)

comments: author: Si Eun Kim
body: Thanks Joseph.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I show all metadata for a particular page, without having to give the keys of the metadata?
Asked by Martin Cleaver:

In Confluence 3.x, how do I show all metadata for a particular page, without having to give the keys of the metadata?

I want to know what metadata exists on a given page

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/META/Metadata+plugin+version+1+documentation#Metadatapluginversion1documentation-metadatareportmacro> doesn't help because it requires keys.

Thanks, M.


Answers:
author: Martin Cleaver
body: It turns out that the undocumented {metadata-values:pagename} provides this.

You do have to supply a page name, but using @self returns values for this page.

i.e.

{metadata-values:@self}

comments: author: Sven
body: How can I get this going in confluence 4.x ? (I know "insert wiki-markup" but the macro is unknown)

which plugin did you install for this?

Thanks ;-)


author: Sven
body: I got it, I had to install:

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/META/Confluence+Metadata+Plugin>


author: Martin Cleaver
body: Well, that's interesting, because <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/matrix/5295> says that this plugin doesn't work/isn't supported in 4.x. I assume you downloaded the jar and installed it manually? It won't show in the UPM.


author: Sven
body: see here:

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/36730/confluence-4-x-need-4-x-compatible-metadata-plugin-who-can-compile-me-a-jar-from-branch](/questions/36730/confluence-4-x-need-4-x-compatible-metadata-plugin-who-can-compile-me-a-jar-from-branch)

It SHOULD work in "Wiki-Markup-compatible-mode" (does not figure in Macro browser) which would be enough for me. But I get an error in the logs on every edit...

(but as it works well internally at Atlassian, the have perhaps a patched version somehow... I'll hope to get this version soon :)


Tags: metadata
Hyper link is not clickable when excel macro is displayed on confluence page
Asked by Jagbir Singh:

I have an excel sheet in which I have hyperlinks which link to various web pages. I would like to display this excel sheet on a confluence page, so I have used excel macro to display it.

But when the excel sheet is displayed on the confluence page, the hyperlinks are visible but I am not able to click them and navigate to the respective page. Is there a way to these hyperlinks clickable, while the excel sheet is displayed on the cofluence page as an excel macro? If not could you please suggest some other alternative.

Thanks

Sunny


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: What version of the excel macro are you using? It looks like it is a known bug that was fixed in version 3.7.1 of the plugin: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/XL-54>

Maybe @Bob Swift will have a better answer?

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Install the snapshot and verify it solves your issue. If so, I can make it a release soon.


author: Jagbir Singh
body: thanks for th help. BUt one question, the snapshot contains a jar file. How/where do I use/install that file?

Sorry, I am a liitle new to this.


author: Joe Clark
body: You can use Confluence's plugin management console to install the plugin by uploading the jar file. Here are the instructions: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+a+Plugin#InstallingaPlugin-Uploadingyourownplugin>


author: aravinth Renganathan
body: Is there an update on this issues? Has this been fixed?

I ahve the same issue. Confluence 4.1.4. Using viewxls macro.

Thanks,


author: Priyanka Dawani
body: Hello Sunny,

Kindly share if you find solution to this question.

Thanks


author: Priyanka Dawani
body: Hello Sunny,

If you find the solution to this question. Kindly share.


Tags: link

macro

ms-excel
Get information from last row of table in child page
Asked by Pedro Moreira:

Hi all,

I have several pages, each one with a table with several rows.

I need to have a parent page with a table that gets information from the last table row in each child page.

For usability purposes, my tables in the child pages need to be as simple as possible (few or no macros at all).

In the parent page I can use all the macros I need to get the information from the childs (no problems with usability because I want the content of the page to be generated automatically).

Is there any way to simplly "query" a table in a child page?

I've been looking around for solutions envolving reporting, metadata and even scafolding plugins but without any luck (I think that having several rows prevents me from using metadata plugin)

Thanks in advance for your help.

Pedro


Answers:
author: David Yu
body: I asked a similar question [recently](/questions/30156/assimilate-excerpts-from-within-a-page-into-one-summary-view?page=1#30302) and used the metadata plugin. It doesn't capture across table rows so you have to meta-tag each cell. I wouldn't describe what I did as simple however.
is there any log file maintained by confluence to store user data?
Asked by poonam chaudhari:

if yes then where these log files are stored? how to track them?


Answers:
author: NikE
body: What sort of data are you looking for? Additionally, is this an OnDemand Confluence instance (hosted by us) or a locally installed instance. (I ask because the account linked to your email address is a downloaded version license and the answer to your question will depend on which way you are running the application.)


author: poonam chaudhari
body: if possible how to read these files using java?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How difficult is it to convert from Confluence EAR/WAR to Standalone version?
Asked by Glenn Tremblay:

I'm running Confluence 3.4.1.


Answers:
author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: Id expect it to be relatively painless, especially as you would probably keep same revision initially?

Testing is always advised, copy the database, copy the configured HOME folder, test on a separate box, you may be pleasantly surprised.

See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Switching+to+Apache+Tomcat> for details.

comments: author: Glenn Tremblay
body: Thanks, Andy. I was able to test this in another environment and it did prove to be pretty painless. We're planning to convert our production environment to the standalone version very shortly.


Tags: server