youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is there a connector for Confluence and Open Text Content Server?
Asked by Tara Dragon:

I see that you have a Confluence-SharePoint connector. Is there one for Open Text Content Server?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Tara, as fair as I am concerned, there isn't such integration for Confluence yet.

You may look for any form of output from the application, to get information from it into Confluence, for instance PDF, Office Documents and HTML Exports, since they are widely accepted formats and read by Confluence as well.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to link confluence online help pages to our application to have context sensitive help?
Asked by Kiran Kumar:

Without adding any plugins, how to link confluence online help pages to our application to have context sensitive help?


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Kiran, did you get anywhere with this? We are also interested in using Confluence as help for our products.Cheers.


author: Mick Davidson
body: I was looking for this info too and found this answer from Atlassian:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/24018>

I'm not sure if it's still relevant.

Cheers.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey Kiran,  

Actually that isn't possible to achieve using Confluence's default tools. You might want to look for plugins/customizations in order to achieve it.  

Cheers,  
WZ
Work log descriptions in Confluence
Asked by Doran Sheftall:

I would like to display work log descriptions in a report in Confluence. It will allow us to remove redundant reporting on status for a particular project. We use Tempo, but I am unable to find the right report to do this.


Answers:
author: Mehmet Kazgan
body: Doran,

You are trying to display the report from JIRA and post it to Confluence?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

tempo

tempo-timesheets
Disable "Task marked complete" on watched page
Asked by License:

Hi.

Can I disable getting a notification on a page or for a user for "Task marked complete" only?

Sometimes pages contains many of these for personal use, task lists etc. and sometimes this can be to annoying for others. As a result they end up removing themself as watcher, ending up missing valuable changes.


Answers:
author: Sabine Winkler
body: Hi,

unfortunately the official documentation describes that is only possible to switch on/off completely. The administration UI does not provide a more detailed "switch". Sorry. \[1\]

HTH, Sabine

\[1\] <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Configuring+Workbox+Notifications>


Tags: confluence-administration
New User Invitation Email Not Sent Out (Confluence OnDemand)
Asked by David Dean:

Hello,

I have set up Confluence on demand, and added users (incuding one to myself), no invitations have been received by the users. I then used invite users, and still no emails where received.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello David, in this is known to have been caused due to browser when triggering the task. Would it be possible to attempt re-sending the notifications from a different web browser? Also note to check if there is any spam filter in between the sender and its recipients.

Please post your findings and respective versions to this thread in case the issue is not addressed.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
can't add user to confluence-user group
Asked by Don Schmitt:

I can't add new user to confluence-user group. This seems to be due to recent changes to Confluence On-Demand. That user reports that he gets the error "You are not permitted to perform this operation." when he logs in.


Answers:
author: HenriqueA
body: Hi Don,  

To add user to **confluence-users** group you need to belong to **administrators** group.  

Other important thing is to check if the user have **application access** to confluence.  

Could you please let me know which error you're receving when you try to add the user on **confluence-users** group?

Kind Regards,  
Henrique Lechner

comments: author: Don Schmitt
body: H Henrique,

I was able ultimately able to add the new user to the confluence-user group. He was then able to log in and access Confluence.

I changed permissions on one or two groups and then was able to add the confluence-user group to this user. Sorry, I don't remember the specific permission changes.

I am one of our administrators. And the new user did have application access.

There are a number of oddities with the new management scheme. I'm able to access the site administration panel without logging in and once there, I don't see the familiar link back to our dashboard. Also Confluence Admin panel, the user and group links are duplicated.

Also, there does not seem to be a way to disable a user.

I have started looking for discussion of these issues, but have not had to time to properly post them.

Thanks,

Don


Tags: cloud
View storage format
Asked by Jack Bates:

How do I view the underlying storage format of this wiki page:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Release+Notes)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Release+Notes>


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: This is what it would be ...

```
&lt;ac:structured-macro ac:name="panel"&gt;  &lt;ac:rich-text-body&gt;    &lt;p&gt;      &lt;strong&gt;On this page:&lt;/strong&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;      &lt;ac:structured-macro ac:name="toc"&gt;        &lt;ac:parameter ac:name="maxLevel"&gt;2&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;        &lt;ac:parameter ac:name="minLevel"&gt;2&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;      &lt;/ac:structured-macro&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/ac:rich-text-body&gt;&lt;/ac:structured-macro&gt;
```

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: You could get this youself too. Just view the source of the page and then recereate that same structure in your own Confluence instance. Then use the [Confluence Source Editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor) to view the storage format.


author: Jack Bates
body: Thanks Davin, that's what I needed!

How would I recreate that same structure in my Confluence instance without copying the storage format?


author: Davin Studer
body: When you are on the page view the source.

![](../../upfiles/Capture1_15.PNG)

This will popup a new window. In that window you will see what you would see if you were editing the page.

![](../../upfiles/Capture2_17.PNG)

You can see that that section is just a panel with some text and a table of contents in it. You can see thet the minLevel and maxLevel properties are set on the table of contents. On your system recreate it. You can also copy the source from the popup by highlighting it and pasting it into your Confluence ... worked for me.

Then use the Confluence Source Editor to view the source. Click the \<\> button in your toolbar.

![](../../upfiles/Capture3_2.PNG)

Voila! There is the storage format.

![](../../upfiles/Capture4.PNG)


author: Jack Bates
body: Oh wow, I had no idea you could copy and paste the panel like that. Cool, thanks!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can use the "view source" option to get close, but "storage format" is a function which isn't enabled on that Confluence installation, so you can't.

comments: author: Jack Bates
body: Hey thanks Nic, I want the source that I can add to my own wiki to recreate the "on this page" block from that page, so I think "view source" is not what I'm after.

I tried to grab the storage format with the XML-RPC getPage method, but it complains "incorrect username/password combination" even though I'm able to log in to that wiki with the same username and password.

Is someone with access able to please pastebin the storage format of that page for me?

Thanks!
How Do I Migrate My 4.2 Space with MS SQL Server DB to Cloud Confluence?
Asked by Rodney Eten:

We have an intranet Confluence version 4.2.13. The Server is installed in Windows and uses MS SQL Server for the DB.

We want to move a 'Space' from this one to our new Cloud Confluence site.

One way I to accomplish this is to install 4.2 locally and restore from a backup, and then upgrade to 4.3 and then the latest version, and then EXPORT that space and IMPORT into Cloud Confluence.

The Weekly backup isn't working - disabled, and I'm not sure how to get the backup.

How do I get the backup? Is there a better way?

Can I backup just by copying files and restore the SQL DB?


Answers:
author: FelipeA
body: Hi Rodney,

That's the roadmap I recommend for your case.

\* Copy your 4.2.13 Confluence home folder to another server

\* Clone your production database

\* On the new server point your home folder to the cloned database

\* Upgrade the new server from 4.2.13 to 5.0.3

\* Upgrade from 5.0.3 to latest version

\* Export the space to XML

\* Import it on your OnDemmand instance.

Best Regards,

Felipe Alencastro


Tags: confluence-administration
[Advanced?] Want to use variables in a JIRA Macro
Asked by Adam White:

I am wondering if this is possible...

We have many pages that have a table of JIRA macros that all are based on the same JIRA Issue Key, all we basically do across all of the pages in our spaceis change the Issue Key in this table.

It looks like this: [](https://www.dropbox.com/s/dkrpqfi15o6jix5/statusgraph.png)<https://www.dropbox.com/s/dkrpqfi15o6jix5/statusgraph.png>

I want to be able to just have one place in the page where I can specify the Issue ID and change all of the macros in the table. Is this possible at all?


Answers:
author: Mike Winston
body: I have the same question on this? Does anyone know if this is possible. We create a confluence page to manage a specific release. So we do lots of JIRA Macro queries on fixVersion. Some about remaining items, some about items needing validation, etc....I would like to be able to have a single entry at the top of the page (maybe a page property), that is used to determine the fixVersion to use in all the queries.


author: Adam White
body: Unfortunately it does not really answer my question. Each of the macros in the chart I posted have a different query, but they all share the same issue ID. Not quite sure how your blog post helps as all it does is list the basic JIRA/Confluence integration I'm already aware of.


author: HenriqueA
body: Hi Adam,  

It's possible to use only one JIRA macro at confluence page, changing only the JIRA filter on it, and it'll display the all issues resultant of this filter.  

To better help you I'm sharing this page on Altassian Blog:  
[](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/07/display-jira-issues-in-confluence-more-power-more-control/)[http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/07/display-jira-issues-in-confluence-more-power-more-control/\<br\< a=""\>\>](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/07/display-jira-issues-in-confluence-more-power-more-control/%3Cbr)Could you please let me know if it is what you're looking for?   

Kind Regards,  
Henrique Lechner


Tags: confluence-administration

jira
User unable to log in
Asked by Scott Lewis Jr:

User was previously inactivated. I activated the person again, but he is still unable to log in.

Things I've tried:

- Sending an invitation

- Resetting their password

- Making sure caps was off

- Deactivating and then reactivating

- Using Incognito to make sure there were no cache issues


Answers:
author: Scott Lewis Jr
body: After I contacted support, I found out that it's actually a bug and OnDemand Support had to fix the user in the database.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Scott,

I understand that the user might have been just disabled, but if he was removed from the application permission as well, this might be interfering. If you could check that before would be great just to make sure the problem is not related to permission.

If still you are running into this, then you can get in touch with the ondemand support on [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)and create a support ticket there.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Scott,

Have you checked if the user is enabled to login to the [applications in ondemand](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+application+access)? Double check that and if the issue persists for just one user, I recommend to get in touch with the ondemand support team to verify if some problem is happening to that instance.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Scott Lewis Jr
body: Rodrigo,

Thank you for responding so quickly. I double checked and the user is enabled to login. (This is what I was using to deactivate the user) How do I get in contact with the OnDemand support team?

Thanks -

Scott


Tags: confluence-cloud

login
Is there a way to check which pages are using the "Knowledge Base Survey Plugin"?
Asked by Veracode:

Hello. We must upgrade Confluence to 5.5.2 due to the security advisory. I asked if/when the "Knowledge Base Survey Plugin" will be available for that version of Confluence. The answer was "working on it...".

Is there any way to check which pages in our Confluence installation are using that plugin, so that I can warn users that their functionality will be affected before I do the upgrade?


Answers:
author: FelipeA
body: Hi there,

I believe the above query might return what you're looking for:

```
SELECT CONTENT.CONTENTID,       TITLE,       SPACEID,  (SELECT SPACENAME   FROM SPACES   WHERE SPACEID=CONTENT.SpaceID) AS SPACENAME,  (SELECT username   FROM user_mapping   WHERE user_key=CONTENT.CREATOR) AS CREATOR,  (SELECT username   FROM user_mapping   WHERE user_key=CONTENT.LASTMODIFIER) AS LASTMODIFIER,       CREATIONDATE,       LASTMODDATEFROM CONTENT,     BODYCONTENTWHERE PREVVER IS NULL  AND (CONTENTTYPE = 'PAGE')  AND CONTENT.CONTENTID = BODYCONTENT.CONTENTID  AND CONTENT_STATUS = 'current'  AND (BODY LIKE '%ac:name=\"kbsurvey\"%');
```

Best Regards,

Felipe Alencastro

comments: author: Veracode
body: Thanks! That's excellent. Just to be thorough, I changed the last line of the where clause to be

AND (BODY LIKE '%ac:name=\\"kbsurvey\\"%'  
OR BODY LIKE '%ac:name=\\"kbsearch\\"%'  
OR BODY LIKE '%ac:name=\\"kbtoparticles\\"%'  
);

It found my test pages, but found nothing in our production environment. Looks like we can disable the plugin and do the upgrade!

Thanks again!


author: Veracode
body: perhaps something like this search function?

[](https://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/)<https://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/>

Any macros that are specific to the Knowledge Base Survey Plugin?


Tags: addon-confluence.plugins.knowledgebase.survey

confluence-app
Different Landing Page per Group
Asked by MarkC:

Is there a way to redirect users of specific groups to specific landing pages when they log in to Confluence? I saw a post [here](/questions/53618/is-it-possible-to-prevent-dashboard-access-by-user) that showed something similar with using the dashboard in JIRA, but I'm not sure I know how, or if, this would work in Confluence. Has anyone tried something like this?

Also, I realize Atlassian shot this idea down in [CONF-26757](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26757), but we have a situation in which no one will be in more than one of two groups I'm looking to distinguish the landing page on. For example, we have internal and external users. No one in external will be in internal and vice-versa.


Answers:
author: Mark Ingle
body: I have a need for directing a group to a landing page....does anyone know if this feature is available on Confluence 5.8.4? Or is there some code that provides the feature?


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Mark,

Yeah, I can understand your point of view, however I believe this is not possible to be done since the application doesn't have this functionality implemented and probably this won't be inserted in the application in the future.

I think that only developing some plugin or change in confluence could do that. Also, the atlassian experts might be able to help developing some solution for you.

I'll leave this question open since some other user might know or have a different solution for you. :)

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
Viewing Everyone in People Directory (Confluence)
Asked by Anthony Mathers:

I am unable to view everyone with an account in the People Directory. There should be close to 20, but users are only seeing less than half. Changing the url to show decativated accounts remedies this, only, their accounts aren't deactivated. How can this be corrected?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Anthony,

First try [rebuilding the index from scratch](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch).

If the issue persists, please take a look here: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Duplicates+in+the+People+Directory)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Duplicates+in+the+People+Directory>

This KB is for duplicated users, but it shows the table where ths users are stored for the people directory, so you can take a look.


Tags: directory

user
Can I create default space permissions with no access like Anonymous?
Asked by Bob Kennedy:

I want to create a default permission with no access like Anonymous, so that when my spaces administrators need to permit access they do not have to remember the group names. They can simply click which permissions they want to assign to a group.


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Bob,

I believe that you can achieve this by creating a group in confluence and grant permission to this group to access that specific space. However to do this, you'll have to put the people inside that group and they will count towards the license.

Let me know if this is what you were looking for.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Bob Kennedy
body: Hi Rodrigo:

Thanks for the suggestion. Let me try to clarify. We want to create a default group that will appear like Anonymous does for global space permisssions. All permissions disabled--just waiting for a space admin to modify.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Bob,  

thanks for clarifying. I believe this is not possible from confluence interface and bundled functionalities.  

You may need to do some coding in confluence to change/add the current anonymous to be a kind of group, although I think this is going to be very difficult to implement.  

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Bob Kennedy
body: Thanks. Hoping somone might have another option or be able to provide a code sample.


Tags: confluence-administration
Finding experts in your company with confluence?
Asked by Raffaele Ciriello:

Finding experts on a topic is a common challenge for most employees in knowledge-intensive companies. How can confluence support this? I have seen that Confluence Questions allows to gain points for certain topics, but is it also possible for Confluence users to enter certain skills in their profile (e.g. like in LinkedIn), which then can be searched by others? Or what other possibilities exist?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Maybe create a template for the personal space where the users can capture their skills in a nice formatted way? Once the skill is in the page, you should be able to find those by searching the skill.


Tags: profile

search

skill
Confluence: how to change the ownership of a Space?
Asked by Vera Henrichs:

Hello,

We transferred a Space to an other server and we want different users there. However, one of the to be deleted users is the owner of the Space... How do I transfer ownership? Or is there an other way? Anything is welcome!

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Vera, you can either create a new space an copy the pages under it in bulk(you can nest them under a parent page) to the new destination or rename the referring user using [this guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Changing+Usernames).

comments: author: foldeslaszlo
body: The link no longer contains any information.


Tags: confluence-administration

space
Link to old versions in Confluence
Asked by ridwan nizam:

I have a wiki page A, it has many versions. i.e. V.22, V.23, V.24, V.25, etc.

In the page B, I want to add a link to the version V.22 of A.

In the page C, I want to add a link to the version V.23 of A.

Off course, I don't want to see the header '**You are viewing an old version of this page. View the** **[current version](http://dev.quwic.com/wiki/display/QMS/Cache+Configuration+and+Monitoring).** ' , when I open an old version of A.

in another word, can I define "Major" versions of page A.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Ridwan, using the bundled Confluence components, you would need to change the application UI markup as described in [this documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Site+and+Space+Layouts).

Alternatively there is an add on that provides improved functionality regarding version handling, [Scroll Versions](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions) you may like to consider evaluating that one.
Confluence button "Spaces" shows empty list of recent spaces
Asked by Samuel Titka:

Hi there!

Additional info:

* index rebuild from scratch did not solve this issue
* version of confluence: 5.4.3

Thank you for any ideas or advices on how to solve this issue.

Samuel


Answers:
author: Samuel Titka
body: Hello Guilherme,

no upgrade task has been performed. What do you mean with custom markup (=user macros?)? To be precise, this problem occured once before. That time, the reindexing from scratch fixed this issue. However, now reindexing did not help.


author: Andre Lehmann
body: Did you changed something in the global layout?  
[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/OgxRDg)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/OgxRDg>

comments: author: Samuel Titka
body: Hello Andre,

I think this is not the case. Space Directory is not empty. Empty si only the drop down menu after click on "Spaces" button.


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Samuel, first a couple of questions to determine the scope of the issue, did you just perform an upgrade task in Confluence? There is a chance that custom markup may be interferring with the spaces display, for such you can look into any customizations through a [support zip](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Problems+and+Requesting+Technical+Support#TroubleshootingProblemsandRequestingTechnicalSupport-CreatingaSupportZipFileviatheConfluenceAdministrationConsole) (it will bundle any modifications to the application default view in its archive).


Tags: confluence-administration
Not able to link issue to confluence - "Page You do not have permission to view this page"
Asked by Cedric DEVAUX:

Hello,  

Since several weeks, I have a problem that I'm not able to solve.  

4 weeks ago, JIRA team upgraded JIRA to JIRA 5.2.11 and me I upgraded Confluence 5.3 to 5.4.4.  

Since upgrades, I'm not able to link JIRA to Confluence.  

From Confluence:  

- I can link JIRA issue (Insert\>JIRA issue) and I can consult to JIRA  

From JIRA:  

- I'm not able to link, when I try to link (More actions\>Link\>Confluence Page\>Search for a Page)  

I try to search in Confluence spaces and I have "Loading ..." and no space result  

- When I link issue from Confluence, in JIRA I have this message " Page You do not have permission to view this page" but I can click on link and access to Confluence page.  

I did a lot of test (cross check), I resume in the following scheme.  
![](http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/161214schemaapplink.png)

I can conclude that my problem comes from Confluence test server ... but I don't find where is the problem  

Someone can help me?  

Thanks,  

Cedric


Answers:
author: Cedric DEVAUX
body: Hi All,

Finally, I found the solution :)

It's due to my Server Base URL, it was not correctly configured.

1. Check your server base url

2. If server base url isn't correctoly configured, use this procedure: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL>

Cedric


author: Cedric DEVAUX
body: Hello,

Nobody can help me?


Tags: application-link