youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Profile photo - Bigger than a thumbnail option?
Asked by Cathleen McGuire:

How can users display bigger versions of a profile photo?

Is it possible for users to hover over or click on any profile photo and be able to see a large version of the person?

Those thumbnails are way too small to see who's who. Doncha think?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: The weird things is that the Atlassian Design Guidlines specifically talk about a 96x96 avatar. I can't seem to get it larger than 48x48 though.

[](https://developer.atlassian.com/design/latest/avatars.html)<https://developer.atlassian.com/design/latest/avatars.html>

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: I did find that if you upload an image using the API at 96x96 it does store in the system at that resolution. Then you can use some CSS in the global stylesheet to override the avatar width and height and set them from 48px to auto.


author: Chung Park Chan
body: Hi Cathleen,

This has been raised before as an Improvement to Confluence, as you can see [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23006 "here").


Tags: avatar

profile

thumbnail
Space Permissions and Page Restrictions not working?
Asked by Justin Corcoran:

I have a user that created a space, and granted full access to anyone in a particular group. He also restricted all peremissions to "anonymous" users.

I'm not in the group with full access, but I can still access the space.

He also put page restrictions on the pages within the space, again restricted to a group I'm not in, and again, I can see the pages.

Any idea why this might be? I'm a confluence admin, but non-admins are able to see these pages too.

Confluence 4.2.3

![](../../upfiles/permissions_1.png)


Answers:
author: resah
body: Hi Justin,

you, as a confluence-administrator, will always see all contents. You can't deny access to a confluence-administrator by setting any restrictions.

As for the other users: are you sure that they are not in the group of "ccp ambassador team" (the one which has access to the space)? Or are they by any chance creators of the pages?

As far as I know there once have been issues with space/page permissions, but these were resolved quite a while ago and should not occur in Confluence 4.x anymore.

Regards

Theresa

comments: author: Justin Corcoran
body: The users that are seeing this content turned out to all be administrators. I didn't realize that restrictions don't apply to admins. Thanks for clearing that up!


author: Khuong Vu
body: Theresa, you are right. As a member of the `confluence-administrators` group, I can see restricted pages, as if I am **User One**, the system admin account created during the installation. Thank you.


Tags: permission

space-administrator
Automatically rendered content of a Confluence page in another page
Asked by Du?an Juh?s:

I would like to define text or status on a Confluence page. On another page I would like to see the same text dynamically changed if it is changed on source page.

Is there some macro that allows it?

(I'm using version 5.1)


Answers:
author: Beth Aitman
body: If you want to have multiple excerpts from one page, there's the [Multi Excerpt Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.confluence.multiexcerpt.MultiExcerptMacro). It's not compatible with 5.1 yet, though.

comments: author: Du?an Juh?s
body: Thank you Beth,

I would probably consider to purchase it but only if it is 5.1 compatible. The reason is that we recently upgraded from 4.x and like 5.1. I'll ask the support when approximatelly we can expect compatibility with 5.1.


author: Beth Aitman
body: From the Version History it looks like they update pretty frequently, so hopefully it'll be 5.1 compatible before long!


author: Natalie Hobson
body: Sweet, I'll be keeping an eye out for that upgrade too! :D


author: Natalie Hobson
body: Do you mean like the [Include Page Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Include+Page+Macro)? Or the [Excerpt Include Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro)?

comments: author: Du?an Juh?s
body: Thank you,

it seems that excerpt include macro does the work. It is a pitty I can't find a way how to define multiple excerpts on 1 page.

I would like to create a stutus page for multiple applications. The problem is that each app has it's own page with multiple versions and I would like to show all statuses for all version for all apps on 1 page.
Confluence Sharepoint connector 1.7 - is there an updated customauth jar file?
Asked by paintera:

With the release of the Confluence Sharepoint connector 1.7 - is there an updated customauth jar file that is compatible with Confluence 5+ for setting up Windows Integrated Authenication via IIS? The current 0.6 version has some issues that result in server 500 errors when a user first attempts to access a page in Confluence.


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hi Amos,

There was a bug that prevented it from working, which I have raised here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CSI-993>

I've released a new version of the custom authenticator that will work with Confluence 5.0. You can download it here: <https://maven.atlassian.com/content/repositories/atlassian-contrib/com/pixelpark/seraph/customauth/1.0/customauth-1.0.jar>

**Important Note #1:** You will need to delete the previous version of the customauth jar from your WEB-INF/lib directory before downloading and installing the new one, and you will need to restart Confluence for the change to be picked up.

**Important Note #2:**customauth-1.0.jar is not backwards compatible and will only work with Confluence 5.0 and later.

Hope this helps!

Joe.

comments: author: paintera
body: Great. Thanks Joe!


Tags: sharepoint
Searching for incoming links
Asked by Russell:

In this [question about incoming links](/questions/131062/show-incoming-links-on-a-page) I was able to find a macro to enumerate incoming links on a specified page.

I now have a heirarchy of pages that refer to each other and it is important that I know which pages don't have any incoming links at all since this implies that they have not been set up properly in the cross-reference web being created.

Does anyone know how I can search for pages that don't have incoming links?

Possibly a more generalised search based on existing incoming links would also be useful (say, all pages with incoming links from a specified page, or space).

Thanks for your help.


Answers:
author: Thomas Wendel
body: Hi Russell,

The following user macro lists all pages **without** any incoming links of a given space:

```
## @param Space:title=Space|type=string|required=true#set($space =  $spaceManager.getSpace($paramSpace))#set($pages = $pageManager.getPages($space, true))#set($containerManagerClass = $content.class.forName('com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager'))#set($getInstanceMethod = $containerManagerClass.getDeclaredMethod('getInstance',null))#set($containerManager = $getInstanceMethod.invoke(null,null))#set($containerContext = $containerManager.containerContext)#set($linkManager = $containerContext.getComponent('linkManager'))&lt;h1&gt;Pages without incoming links in space "$space.getName()"&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  #foreach ( $page in $pages )    #set($links = $linkManager.getIncomingLinksToContent($page.getContentEntityObject()))    #if($links.size() == 0)      &lt;li&gt;        &lt;a href="$req.contextPath/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=$page.getId()"&gt;$page.getTitle()&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;/li&gt;    #end  #end&lt;/ul&gt;
```

Cheers,  
Thomas

comments: author: Russell
body: That's perfect! Thanks Thomas. Using your "template" I was even able to enhance it a little for my purposes. Thanks!
Issues replying to comments in Confluence using IE 10
Asked by Steven Parsons:

Has anyone ran in to the problem with comments not working correctly with IE 10 and Confluence?

I have a machine in the office that's recently been updated to IE 10 and can now no longer reply to comments. When you try to replay it sits with a grey screen in the comments box and never continues.

The odd thing is if you actually create a new comment it allows you.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi Steven, it looks like IE10 it's not fully supporte on Confluence yet. I found this issue:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27181>

comments: author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Altought, in this page it says yes:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms>

Internet Explorer 10 in 'desktop' mode **does** support the drag-and-drop functionality.

The 'modern' mode of Internet Explorer 10 does not support drag-and-drop.

Could it be like the problem with the Drag and Drop?


author: Steven Parsons
body: Thanks. We tried compatibility mode but it was still the same results.

The drag and drop issue is separate and we use Firefox for a workaround.
Finding content on Confluence
Asked by Tom McKenzie2:

Are there any recommendations techniques to help find content on Confluence. Labels? Conventions for page titles? Hierarchy? Training users on search terms? Replacement search engine?


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Tom,

I think this page would help you start:

* [Confluence Search Syntax](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Syntax)

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Labels Not Persisting from Global Blueprint Template
Asked by Scott Wood:

Why are my lables not persisting to the other spaces from the global blueprint template?

Steps:

1. Create space
2. Enable and modify global blue print template with custom label
3. Create document using blueprint template
4. Save and view lablels

Expected:

Custom label to appear

Actual:

Original label from blueprint used "requirement" vs "requirements" in my case.... GRR PLURAL... a document is not a things.


Answers:
author: Jaime S
body: Hi, Scott.

The labels should be added to the page. I actually tested to be sure.

If their not, I think you should open a request at <https://support.atlassian.com/customer/servicedesk-portal> (choose 'Atlassian Cloud', the first option).

This may be as simple as an index problem, but only we can re-index Confluence Cloud for you.

Kind regards,  
Jaime Kirch da Silveira  
Atlassian Cloud Support


Tags: cloud
Adding Notations on the mockup
Asked by Eric Goldman:

I want to add notations for font size and column width on the mockup? What is the best practice for doing this? I am using Confluence.


Answers:
author: AgentSmith
body: Hi Eric,

I was able to locate general documentation here:

<http://support.balsamiq.com/customer/portal/articles/210720>

However, I recommend you post this question on the Balsamiq site given that the answers community is not as versed. That site would be as follows:

<http://community.balsamiq.com/balsamiq>

Good luck!

Cheers,

Jason \| Atlassian


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Any documentation on Confluence EAR-WAR installation on Ubuntu from the scratch?
Asked by mary john:

Hi,

I want to install confluence EAR-WAR distribution on my Linux system. I found

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+Confluence+on+Linux+from+Archive+File#InstallingConfluenceonLinuxfromArchiveFile-2.InstallJava>

but dint find the compelete steps for war-ear installation anywhere.

regards

mary


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Mary,

I believe this is the documentation you are looking for: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+the+Confluence+EAR-WAR+Edition>

All the best,  
John

comments: author: mary john
body: Hi but it says about a system installed with Tomcat. i have a doubt whether the EAR-WAR tar.gz download does it come with an embedded database. or should i add a Database.


Tags: install
Label searches return no results
Asked by Steve Loft:

I've written a macro plugin which produces a report based on searching for labels; this works fine in the SDK environment. Having deployed it to our server, it returns no results.

Investigation shows that label searching is apparently not working at all on this installation, e.g. putting labelText:somelabel into the search box gives no results even though there are pages with that label. Going to Browse -\> labels shows the label 'somelabel' but clicking on it gets a response that no pages are using it.

I have tried flushing the cache and rebuilding the search index. Normal text search works OK.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?

Steve


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: May be yoru index got corrupted and it is not getting updated anymore. I suggest you to [rebuild your index from scratch](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch):

1. Shut down your Confluence server.
2. Make a backup of your \<confluence-home\>/index/plugin directory if it exists. This is where the Usage Tracking plugin stores it's index for the usage statistics and it cannot be rebuilt.
3. Remove the \<confluence-home\>/index directory.
4. If in step 2, you have the \<confluence-home\>/index/plugin directory, create the \<confluence-home\>/index directory and copy in the backup of \<confluence-home\>/index/plugin directory made in step 2.
5. Restart server.
6. Now perform the manual re-indexing of your site to build a brand new index from scratch.

comments: author: Steve Loft
body: That fixed it - many thanks.

Steve


author: Steve Loft
body: I've just realised that it's specific to our space. It works OK in the demonstration space. So what could it be about our space that is causing this?
Can I be notified about new spaces
Asked by Andreas M?hlhausen:

Hi,

I want to be notified about the creation of a new space. I only found that it is possible to subscribe to daily updates. This will inform me about all activities and that is too much. I just want to know when a new space is created. Is there a way to do this?

Kind regards

Andreas


Answers:
author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Andreas,

It seems that this has already been raised as a new feature request in the past, but it's been closed as 'Won't Fix'. You can find the feature request [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-20952).

comments: author: Andreas M?hlhausen
body: Hi Joe,

the feature request you mentioned ([CONF-20952](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-20952)) is not quite the same I am looking for. For me it is ok, that the user opts-in. I just want to have the more specific option only to subscribe to the event of the space creation. I want that the creator of a new space doesn't has to notify everyone who might be interested in the existance of the new space.

Kind regards

Andreas


Tags: space

watch
Why am I unable to have similarly named pages in the same space?
Asked by Hanlie Ippel:

Hi there,

We are considering using Confluence to manage our technical communication and documentation. It seems however that you are unable to create similarly named pages in the same space. This is highly problematic due to the structure of documents that we will be using. We do not want to use prefixes or suffixes to distinguise pages.

Please assist in how to solve this issue.

Regards

Hanlie


Answers:
author: Faisal
body: Hi Hanlie,

Apparently, it is not possible for users to create a page using duplicated title. There's an existing feature request filed in our system, and you may kindly refer to it for more details on this:  
- [Enable creation of same-named pages within a space](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2524)

However, I am afraid that the resolution for the request was set to Won't Fix, hence at the moment it is not possible for us to create page using duplicated titles.

I hope that this helps to clarify the matter.
adding mockup shows error in confluence
Asked by sap:

Hi,

We tested the balsamiq plugin 2.2.6 in our confluence 4.3.7 environment.When we add the mockup on the edit page and save, it shows an error as below

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to move attachment (Attachment: mockup_again437.png v.1 (69402640) re00266) from \[D:\\confluence\\data-atlassian-confluence-4.3.7\\attachments\\ver003\\nonspaced\\145\\173\\69173395\\69402640\] to \[D:\\confluence\\data-atlassian-confluence-4.3.7\\attachments\\ver003\\192\\215\\59965442\\146\\173\\69173396\\69402640\] - check folder permissions.  
at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.persistence.dao.FileSystemAttachmentDataDao.moveAttachment(FileSystemAttachmentDataDao.java:384)  
at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.persistence.dao.hibernate.AbstractHibernateAttachmentDao.moveAttachment(AbstractHibernateAttachmentDao.java:235)

Has anyone encountered such a problem with the new version of mockup plugin?Also testing revealed that this issue started with balsamiq mockup plugin 2.2.5.Please let me know if anzone did find a worksaround for this?


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hey there,

From the look of the error you are experiencing something similar to the issue described in this document: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=307038241>

So, to test this theory can you try creating a directory as described in that document and see whether that works for you or not. Also, it could just be that the Confluence user doesn't have sufficeint permisisons to write to the Home Directory as this would also cause the same error.

Hope that helps,  
John


author: JohnA
body: Hey there,

From the look of the error you are experiencing something similar to the issue described in this document: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=307038241>

So, to test this theory can you try creating a directory as described in that document and see whether that works for you or not. Also, it could just be that the Confluence user doesn't have sufficeint permisisons to write to the Home Directory as this would also cause the same error.

Hope that helps,  
John

comments: author: sap
body: Hi John,

I have encountered the issue you have mentioned above.But in this case it seems entirely different as it says that it is unable to move the attachment from blah blah to some other location.I checked the permissions as well to ascertain if it has to something with that .however there wasnt any problem there as well.So this is something that went wrong since version 2.2.5 onwards.


Tags: confluence-app
Confluence OnDemand as customer facing but authenticated knowledgebase
Asked by Sundeep Amrute:

Are looking at confluence ondemand to build both our internal and customer-facing knowledgebases. However we want to require customers to log in to access the knowledgebase.

Is this something that can be done in confluence without using up OnDemand licenses? The customer accounts would be read-only consumers. I know we can allow anonymous access but a hard requirement is that access by customers is controlled.

Or is Confluence OnDemand not a good fit for this kind of application?


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Someone that can login and has read access counts as a user[.](https://www.cloudshards.com/confluencehosting.php) Anonymous is the only way around it[.](https://www.cloudshards.com)

comments: author: Sundeep Amrute
body: That's too bad. It means we would need something like zen desk for client facing docs when would rather have all articles in confluence


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Attachments macro cuts off file names
Asked by Natalie Grant:

Is there any way to reveal the entire file name? Or at least more of it? The attachments macro is displaying the list of attachments with very few characters in the title/name and then cutting them off with ellipses. But there is plenty of white space left over. So essentially I have a cut-off name that's indiscernable and an entire page-width leftover. Any ideas on how I could fix this? Thanks!


Answers:
author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: I believe this has to do with this bug:

- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22002>

I'm not sure if you are facing the same there. If you are, please comment on the bug report or read through the developers comments.

All the best.

comments: author: Natalie Grant
body: But this solution does not apply to OnDemand, correct?


author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: I believe you can, go to \<tt\>Confluence Admin \>\> Stylesheet\</tt\>. and add the workaround there.


author: Jon Verville
body: No, this does not fix the issue yet. Atlassian has not fixed it: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22002>


author: Bruno Romero
body: The fix CONF 22002 increases the column width somewhat but the attachment with long file name is truncated and have an ellipsis.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Attachment-table macro](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL/Attachment-table+macro) from the [Table Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL) might help. It is available for both OnDemand and Download.


author: Jon Verville
body: See this: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22002> Atlassian still has not fixed this!!!!


author: Robert Krueger
body: We are having the same issue with the file list blueprint making it virtually unusable. Is there a separate Jira issue for this?


author: Bruno Romero
body: Have the same issue.

After implementing the proposed fix CONF 22002 do I need to restart Confluence service?

Thanks,

Bruno

comments: author: RianA
body: Shouldn't be. However you could try to clear your browser cache just in case it's still adopting the default stylesheet.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Page Restrictions questions (4.3.7)
Asked by Kevin Murphy:

Hi There,

I have what I hope is a simple question but I can't seem to get this working for the life of me. I have a user who does not belong to any group that has edit rights to the space in question. However there is a page (and it's sub-pages) that I would like this user to have Edit rights to.

He can view the page and I added him to the "Editing Restricted to" group for the page via Tools \>\> Restrictions but when I log into his account I cannot edit the page. Any idea what am I doing (or am not doing) wrong here?


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Kevin,

It seems that there is a misunderstanding. Confluence permission works in tier scheme, in order for the users to be able to edit the page, it is necessary to have space level permission.

Page restriction means that the process is restricted to a specific users or groups. For example, as of now the edit process is restricted to the problematic user and other users and groups included on your page restriction configuration. However, as the user does not have edit permission, it is unable to edit the page.

Does that make sense to you, it is quite hard to explain in words :( sorry for that. Let me know if you have any doubts. I would be more than happy to clarify it for you.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Kevin Murphy
body: Yep, that was it. Thank you!