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Editor - Restricted area (Chrome only)
Asked by Dave_Harrington:

I have a user on our site who is experiencing an odd thing when using Chrome to Edit a page... As you can see in the screen shot, the scroll bar is shortened, although the editing "area" appears much larger...

In IE or Foxfire, he doesn't have this problem.

No other user is experiencing this in Chrome, and this user only started seeing this.

I just thought I'd post to see if anyone had any experience like this...

Thanks!

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


Answers:
author: NielsJ
body: Atlassian just released a Plugin that fixes the issue: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor-height-fix>


author: Petch
body: This is being tracked in [CONF-28415](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28415)

It only affects Chrome 27.x (in the Chrome beta channel).

Chrome 28.x is fine (the dev channel).

comments: author: Dave_Harrington
body: This was, indeed, the problem... Thanks!


author: Petch
body: There's a work-around you can apply in that ticket (it'll probably be in 5.1.3), I'd suggest if you apply the work around you watch the ticket in case there's any updates to the work-around (e.g. to cover a case we may of missed).


author: RIsk
body: Similar thread for this issue at [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/154068/how-to-resize-edit-window-when-editing-a-wiki-page](/questions/154068/how-to-resize-edit-window-when-editing-a-wiki-page)


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: If that's a problem only for that browser but for that user and you can't reproduce it probably doing some cache cleaning to the browser would be the solution. That indeed it's a weird problem.


author: Ivan Tse
body: Can you have the user start an incognito window and navigate through Confluence a bit? I wonder if there's something weird cached or an extenstion creating an issue. It's odd that it's only happening for this single user.


author: Ivan Tse
body: Does that user use a beta, dev or chromium version of Chrome? I've seen some weird happenings with Chrome 27 which is currently in the beta branch.


author: Dave_Harrington
body: Same question I asked the user (and I should have indicated that before)... He is not... "standard" Chrome...


Tags: chrome

editor
How do you copy a partial space page hierarchy to same space under different hierarchy
Asked by Colin Griffiths:

Hi, We have all our documentation in a public space that is not linked to any Jira project. For instance

App1

Doc-Pages Hierarchy

App2

Doc-Pages Hierarchy

App3

Doc-Pages Hierarchy

What we would like to be able to do is keep versions of documentation and with each iteration copy the previous version. For example

App1 3.4

Doc-Pages Hierarchy

App1 3.5

Doc-Pages Hierarchy

App1 3.6

Doc-Pages Hierarchy

Sp when we want to create documentation for version 3.7 we simply copy App1 3.6 and it's entire hierarchy as the base for App1 3.7 and then make appropriate changes to the App1 3.7 hierarchy.

Is this possible? I've been looking around on Atlassian sites - Jira, Confluence etc. and it appears not at first glance other than possibly using the export/import although a little messy and potentially dangerous. Anyone else achieved this or handle this differently. Interested in anything that can help with management of documentation with respect to versions.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Colin Griffiths
body: Reponse from Atlassian:

It isn't currently possible to copy a Space in Confluence, so usually customers use the Copy Space plugin, but unfortunately that isn't available for OnDemand customers. However, as an OnDemand customer you can still use Bob Swift's [Confluence CLI tool](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli), (that you run locally), which has a 'copySpace' function that uses the remote API and that can be used by OnDemand customers. I'm sorry to say that I don't know much about using the CLI plugin because it's outside [the scope of Atlassian Support](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Support/Atlassian+Support+Offerings#AtlassianSupportOfferings-HelpwithUnsupportedIssues) but this is what I would recommend to you to use for this purpose.


author: Colin Griffiths
body: Raised JST-62277 with Atlassian.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Display icon for external links?
Asked by Beth Aitman:

Is there any way to display an arrow icon after external links (the way wikipedia does) in Confluence 5.0, to make it clear to users that they're leaving the site? It looks like there used to be, according for the [documentation for 3.5](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Showing+Link+Icons), but it doesn't exist any more.


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: In **Confluence Admin \| Custom HTML \| Add the end of the HEAD**, paste:

```
&lt;style&gt;a[href^="http://"], a[href^="https://"] {    background: url(http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.22wmf1/skins/vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.png) center right no-repeat;    padding-right: 13px;}&lt;/style&gt;
```

That should do the trick. Maybe get your own icon though.

comments: author: Beth Aitman
body: Thanks for that! Is it right that this uses the latest version of CSS, so it'll only be supported by the latest browsers though?


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: I think this should be good for IE7+

Attribute selectors in CSS have been around for some time now. If youre using Confluence 5, then you'll need a reasonably modern browser: IE8+ or the latest version of the other browsers.

If you like it, mark it as correct ;)


author: Diego
body: **Updating with working link to arrow image**and \<style\>\</style\> tag applied:

```
<style>
a[href^="http://"], a[href^="https://"] {
??? background: url(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/skins/Vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.png?325de) center right no-repeat;
??? padding-right: 13px;
}
</style>
```

The link used points directly into Wikipedia sources, so it may become unavailable with no previous notice. Hope this helps someone else who comes across this need!
Confluence manage watchers function
Asked by Jiannan Tang:

Hi:

manage watchers only space administrator have this perssion.

How to set the space user can manage watchers.


Answers:
author: nriley
body: Confluence locks down this permission to Space Administrators (see: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/18091/is-there-a-possibility-to-allow-manage-watchers-for-users-although-there-are-not-space-administrators](/questions/18091/is-there-a-possibility-to-allow-manage-watchers-for-users-although-there-are-not-space-administrators))

As mentioned by Sherif, perhaps a plugin could do this, however I do not know of one currently available.

comments: author: Jiannan Tang
body: I got it. Thanks for you answer.


Tags: watcher
How can I let users create space templates without granting space admin rights?
Asked by simon semrau:

Hi,

I would like to let people create some templates within a space in confluence 5.0, but I do not want to grant them full space admin rights.

Is there a possibility to just grant rights to specific users to create a space template? Or a global template?

Thx a lot


Answers:
author: simon semrau
body: solution: admin transfers personal space template to become a space or gloabl template.


author: LuizA
body: Hello Simon,

I have to be honest with you, unfortunately the user needs to have space admin rights. One other option here would to try some customization, but probably this would require sme development and it's not so simple. If you want to try a customization I would suggest you to make a contact with an Atlassian Expert, that is a kind of certified partner able to provide assistance with customizations, you can contact them by the following:

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

Kind Regards,

LJ.

comments: author: simon semrau
body: Ok, thx for the answer.

What about: I let someone create a template in their personal space (where they have the ability to create templates) and then as an admin grab this template and make it available for a specific space (or as a global template)? Would this be possible?

Thx, Simon


author: loretta rinaldi
body: Luiz - Is there any way to give LIMITED space admin rights. I have a user that needs to create templates for many of our spaces, but that is the ONLY space admin right they should have, nothing else.


author: loretta rinaldi
body: Please advise on comment of September 18. Thanks.


author: Russell Zera
body: I would like to request this ticket be looked at for a future enhancement for Confluence Cloud. It would be VERY helpful to have, in the Space Permissions tab, a column added in along with "All (View) / Pages (Add, Delete) / Blog (Add, Delete) / Comments (Add, Delete) / Attachments (Add, Delete) / Restrictions (Add, Delete) / Mail (Delete) / Space (Export, Admin)" an option for "Content Tools (Add, Edit, Delete)"


author: Doron Gill
body: indeed ridiculous. in order to enable one person to edit one template I need to give that person the keys to the entire castle...
Attachments macro exclude filename patterns
Asked by Kienz:

Actual in the attachments macro you can define which files (with patterns) will be displayed.

Is there also a way to exclude files?

e.g. Display all files except .jpg files

Thanks.


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

I could not find a feature for this in the attachment macro, so I've created a new improvement for you: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29082>

I suggest to vote and add your comment to the ticket to increase the chances to be implemented in the future. I hope this helps! :)

Regards,

Rodrigo


author: Todor Plachkov
body: I've created a macro with a drop-down list of fileType to Exclude. If you want, add more type of files in the "enumValues" part of the parameter definition:

## Macro title: Exclude File Type Upload Area  
## Macro has a body: N  
##  
## Developed by: Name  
## Date created: dd/mm/yyyy

## @param fileTypeExc:title=File Type to Exclude\|type=enum\|enumValues=png,jpeg,bmp,xlsx,xls,docx,doc,pptx,ppt,zip,rar,pdf\|default=png\|desc=Select type of file to exclude (ask the Confluence administrator, if you want to exclude more than one type of files)

\<p\>\<ac:macro ac:name="attachments"\>\<ac:parameter ac:name="patterns"\>.\*.\[\^($paramfileTypeExc)\]$\</ac:parameter\>\</ac:macro\>\</p\>
Create > Product Requirements > Let's Get Started freezes
Asked by Bashierah:

Hi,

I can't acces the Product Requirements feature. When I go to Create \> Product Requirements, I get a Let's Get Started dialog box that freezes; displaying no content or exit/skip functionality.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Kind regards,  
Bashierah


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Bashierah,

I'd like to see what firebug/developer tools show on the network traffice when you're trying to perform that action. Can you reproduce then check out the developer pane and see if there's an error message in the network tab? (Thats chrome specific, not sure what the firebug equiv tab or page is but I'm sure it's similar).

comments: author: Bashierah
body: Hi Ryan,

Here you go:

<br />

<br />

![](https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=2a07f51420&view=att&th=13e5a7165f7563a5&attid=0.1&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1)


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: The picture didn't come through. Looks broken on my screen. Can you try again?

Also, please check if you have Adhoc canvas add-on installed? I've seen the product requirements list creation feature in that add-on.


author: Bashierah
body: Here you go:

![Warnings and Errors](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39275014/image001.png)

The Product Requirements feature came with the version 5 upgrade. It's listed third in the New Features list: <http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whats-new>

Thanks for helping me try to figure this out.

Kind regards,

Bashierah


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Bashierah,

I have not been able to replicate the error you are seeing. Strange that no errors have been logged when you try to create a new page from a blueprint. We did release Confluence 5.1.2 last week. You may want to upgrade to that version and see if your problem persists.

comments: author: Bashierah
body: Hi Daniel,

We've upgraded to 5.1.2 but the problem remains :(


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: This is not the specific forum to provide support like this so it may be time to log a request to <http://support.atlassian.com> so one of the engineers can provide you with some 1 on 1 support.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Where does the "product requirements" feature come from? It sounds like an add-on or a blueprint, but you've not specified which it is

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, I think that's a built-in blueprint - could you check the log file for errors?


author: Bashierah
body: It's one of the new features that came with 5.1. (one of the reasons we upgraded, really). We didn't add anything special. Just upgraded from 5.


author: Bashierah
body: No errors seem to have been logged. One suggestion is that it's due to a slow connection but everything other than the blueprint features work.


author: Carter Snowden
body: We're seeing the same thing in 5.1

comments: author: Bashierah
body: Have you had any luck yet?


author: Bashierah
body: Is anyone else having this problem? Is it merely a case of needing to upgrade to an incremental version?
Image problems in Confluence 4.3.6 - using IE 8
Asked by JEB:

We do not use plug in templates. As such, we have created our intranet using graphics buttons to give a gui experience to our end user. We have recently upgraded to Windows 7. Last week, we noticed several problems with our navigation buttons:

1. Graphic is not displaying - error message when clicking on image states: "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later". In some cases, we have had to manually go in and reattach the image.

2. Link from the graphic displays an unusual path name: http:/vwikp1:8090/pages.viewpage.action?pageID=54297763 instead of what would be expected of http:/vwikp1:8090/display/space/pagename

Confluence is being hosted internally by our company and we do not have full access to change things, so any information that we can pass on to our techo's is appreciated.


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Might be caused by a couple of [bugs with IE8](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CONF%20AND%20text%20~%20%22ie8%20AND%20image%22). Perhaps you could try with IE9 or some other browser (highly recommended) and see if there's some improvement.


Tags: image
Why is embedded powerpoint jumbled?
Asked by Natalie Grant:

Hi, Found a great feature where, instead of uploading ppt as attachment, you can drag and drop into page while editing -- this creates an embedded player. So convenient -- except when viewing it, the formatting is all scrunch and incompatible. I believe it's auto-changing the aspect ratio, or something like that. Does anyone know how I can fix this problem? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Kathy Tempesta
body: It's probably a font issue. This might help: [https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/The+Text+in+a+PowerPoint,+Excel+or+Word+Document+Looks+Different+when+Using+the+Viewfile+Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/The+Text+in+a+PowerPoint%2C+Excel+or+Word+Document+Looks+Different+when+Using+the+Viewfile+Macro)

comments: author: Natalie Grant
body: Thanks! Exactly what I needed.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Are table widths adjustable in the wiki?
Asked by Jo Guthrie:

The way Confluence has set my defaults on my wiki's table forces it off the page by about half another screen. Is there a way I can either assign widths to my columns or affect the text (without having to manually install wraps, I have over 100 rows) so that I could control the width of each column?


Answers:
author: Alex
body: Hi Jo,

Unfortunately, I don't think you can assign widths to columns in confluence. Please see this bug filed here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1398>

Another user had a similar issue on this forum (see here: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/24705/basic-table-formatting-in-confluence-4-0](/questions/24705/basic-table-formatting-in-confluence-4-0)) and a workaround that was suggested was to use sections and columns to create a table structure and set widths on the columns there....

Sorry -

Alex

comments: author: Jo Guthrie
body: Thank you. I appreciate the response. It might be something to work on in future versions, it certainly exists in HTML easily enough.

Unfortunately the section solution isn't going to work for what we need. May have to switch to a Googledoc (which I'd rather avoid).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Restricting Readers.
Asked by minesh patel:

Hello,

I have a list of members on confluence that have only read access rights. I have noticed that these readers also have the ability to attach documents.

Can you restrict the ability to attach documents to confluence users with read access? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Alex
body: Hi Minesh,

Yes, you should be able to set separate space permissions to restrict users from adding attachments but still grant them view access.

See the Confluence Documentation here for more info on Assigning Space Permissions: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Assigning+Space+Permissions>

Hope this helps!

Alex
How to open new windows when user click this button on Confluence Zen?
Asked by lily56:

![](../../upfiles/3_5.png)


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: You can wrap any Confluence content with Zen's New Window macro . . . any links in side it should then open in a new window.

comments: author: lily56
body: If I use Zen Button macro ?how to link a new window? It seems not can.


author: Darryl Duke
body: You're right ... that's a bug that Zen Button doesn't open a new window when placed inside the New Window macro. I've create an issue for this, and also to add an "open in new window" switch as a parameter to the Zen Button macro.

For now, you can place a regular link, or use Zen's older Active Button or Active Image macros. They require a tad more work (attaching your own image icons), but at least they will open in a new window when clicked.


author: lily56
body: Thank Darry!


author: lily56
body: If new version of ZEN can support Zen Button macro open a new window?can you reply me on this question?


author: Kathy
body: Hi lily56,

To be notified when the next release of Zen Foundation is available, use the **Watch Add-on** link on the Atlassian Marketplace (

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.zenfoundation>

(The "Watch Add-on" link is in the **Resources** section, in the right-side column)

comments: author: lily56
body: Great? thank you.


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
UWC test connection error
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

we try to test the connect with UWC but it failes and replies: user not permitted or bad space id.

The address of the confluence is correct

the space id is correct

the user has space admin rights

What else can be the problem here????

Please help!

Thanks,

Rumi


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Rumi,

As the UWC is a third-party tool, the best option to obtain a better assistance with this problem would be to make a contact with the AppFusions, that is the provider of this tool, you could contact them by the following:

[info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com)

<https://www.appfusions.com/>

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Hi Rumi

Contact us at [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com) and we can assist you -

Best,

Ellen


Tags: universal-wiki-converter
How to hide thest tabs on Confluence Dashboard for anonymouse or all user?
Asked by lily56:

![](../../../upfiles/1_30.png)


Answers:
author: Jeison
body: Those tabs are a functionality provided by the "recentlyUpdatedContentService" macro, which is enabled by default in Confluence instances +5.x. You could simply deactivate this module inside Dashboard Macros (from Manage Add-Ons page), but that would make the dashboard display an odd "Unknown macro" rendered in the dashboard instead of the tabs. If you want to customize the Confluence dashboard, you can have a look at the documentation [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+Confluence+Dashboard). Other than that, IMHO, the best approach to have a customized landing page on your instance would be by sending users to a space home page instead of the dashboard, following the instructions at: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Site+Home+Page>

Hope it helps!
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError while removing a space
Asked by Michael Rieger:

We tried to remove a seemingly normal space with about 95 pages. It took quite some time and before it got finished, a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError was thrown and server broke down (of course...).

Unfortunately, now heap dump was written. I cannot give any further information thus.

Did anyone encounter a similiar issue and found out more about it?

We are running Confluence 3.5.13.


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Michael,

OOM errors can happen in a Confluence instance due to many reasons, that normally consumes all the memory and generate this kind of error stack-trace, so in this case I would suggest you to review the following article that have a solution for this kind of problem:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Fix+Out+of+Memory+Errors+by+Increasing+Available+Memory>

I hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

LJ.
Mac OS X (10.8) and Confluence WebDAV
Asked by C. Faysal:

Hey guys,

does anyone know of a good KB to get a mac speaking webdav with confluence (5.1)

every time the login fails..

ssl_access_log shows lot of 401

i've read atlassians KBs

i.e. [this](https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/wiki/display/WBDV/WebDAV+Client+Setup#WebDAVClientSetup-MacOSXFinder) but can't get it connected.

windows user in my team have no trouble connecting...i think linux users as well

any idea of what needs to be done on Mac side to get it working?

thanks


Answers:
author: nriley
body: I've confirmed this issue, and filed a bug here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28845>

As a workaround, I was able to get this working with a 3rd party client Cyberduck (<http://cyberduck.ch/>), can you try accessing with Cyberduck instead?

comments: author: C. Faysal
body: thx for that hint Neal...


author: Anna
body: I use a tool like Commander One. Commander One is a robust [WebDAV client for Mac](https://ftp-mac.com/webdav-client.html) with an intuitive two-pane interface and many convenient features for the best connection to remote servers. Move, edit or delete your online files on the server, copy files from one WebDAV server to another in a couple of clicks.


author: MikeR
body: Has this bug been addressed? I tried the link above for the status of the bug, but its broken


author: Lukas Karrer
body: Same issue here. Sad, that atlassian has not fixed this bug in the lest 2.5 months


Tags: connection

mac

webdav
Quick Search - not finding text on pages
Asked by Lisa Todesco:

When searching for text using the quick search function and entering 'CR Register' which appears on a page - this page is not found in the quick search drop list of results. We need the quick search to do this, how can we get this to work?

Thanks,

Lisa


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Lisa,

\* Navigate to Confluence Admin \> Cache Statistics

\*\* Click flush all

\* Navigate to Confluence Admin \> Content Indexing

\*\* Rebuild the index  
Hope that helps.

comments: author: Lisa Todesco
body: Hi Ryan,

I have done that and now our search is worse than previously. If I try to search for 'CR Register' which is a link text on a page - it does not display that page in the results. However if I put the labels 'CR' and 'Register' on the page then it finds them. I don't think this is very good. Our users are not going to label every link text that appears on a page.

Why is it not finding the text that is clearly on the page?

Cheers,

Lisa


Tags: search