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Notify watchers even when unchecked
Asked by Ethan Foulkes:

Users that are watching a page are getting emailed even when notify watchers is unchecked. They are ***not*** watching the space.

Any ideas on where to start looking?


Answers:
author: Ethan Foulkes
body: Hi Joe,

I've just isolated the issue to pages which use Service Rocket Scaffolding plugin. I will reach out to them for help but figured I'd add the information here in case you have any ideas.

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Thanks,


author: Ethan Foulkes
body: Hi Joe,

I've just isolated the issue to pages which use Service Rocket Scaffolding plugin. I will reach out to them for help but figured I'd add the information here in case you have any ideas.

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Thanks,


author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Ethan,

Could you elaborate more on what those email notifications are about? This is because it seems that the 'Notify Watchers' checkbox only affects edits on Confluence pages.

However, the following changes will still notify the watchers, as mentioned in [Watching Pages, Spaces and Blogs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Watching+Pages,+Spaces+and+Blogs) :

* Deletions.
* Attachments, including new versions or deletions of an existing attachment.
* Comments, including new comments, edits of existing comments or deletions of existing comments.

I suspect that it was one of these actions that triggered the notifications.

comments: author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Ethan,

Glad to hear that you've managed to isolate the root cause of the issue. Hmm, I'm not really that familiar with the Scaffolding plugin, so I'll leave this in their hands then. Have you raised an issue at their [Support site](http://support.servicerocket.com/access/unauthenticated?return_to=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.servicerocket.com%2Fhome)?
confluence glify plugin update
Asked by Hannes BW:

Hello,

we bought glify plugin for version 4.5 and above (the license mail told so). I updated glify to latest (5.4) and now my license is invalid. How i can revert this to older version?

thx


Answers:
author: BernardoA
body: Hello,

Since this is an external plugin, I'd suggest you first to contact the plugin's vendor to check your lincese:

[support@gliffy.com](mailto:support@gliffy.com)

<br />

+1 (877) 245-4339

Hope it helps!


author: Hannes BW
body: thx for answering.

ok I found a solution. I delete the plugin, download an older version from:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.gliffy.integration.confluence/versions#b234>

and install it. License was automaticly recognized and all things work as expected. The reason is, that gliffy switched to atlasian marketplace and our license is not transferd to myAtlasian yet. So I will contact the gliffy support and then update to latest version ...
Email -> New Confluence page
Asked by Al Stevens:

I am interested in this plugin which allows emails to create confluence records/pages - <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.plugins.confluence.send-email-to-page> but we use onDemand.

What are my options?


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Al,

Your two options are to either migrate to a self-hosted instance or to convince the plugin developer to release a future version of their plugin using [Atlassian Connect](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/AC/Atlassian+Connect), (the news Plugins 3 format), for a future release of their plugin because then the plugin would be usable on the OnDemand platform. My personal recommendation would be to contact the plugin developer because Atlassian Connect is still very new and many plugin developers haven't converted their plugins yet, and I'm certain many OnDemand customers would like to use their plugins so I'd recommend always reaching out to the plugin developers and encouraging them to convert their plugins so they are compatible with OnDemand. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to prioritise it so that is what I would recommend ALL OnDemand customers do for plugins they would like to use!

All the best,  
John


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
improved blog support
Asked by Martin Smock:

Are there plans at atlassian to improve the blog and micro blog support in confluence?

We are currently evaluating software for blogs and micro blogs to be used in our company network and would prefer a integrated solution.

Regards, Martin


Answers:
author: Martin Smock
body: During a search session a few weeks ago I found a forum post on altlassian activities to improve blog functionality in Confluence. I missed to bookmark it and cannot find it anymore.

What we are lokking for is some of the common social community features. like

* blogs
* microblogs
* having a overview to see the latest blogs
* etc.

Are there plans or is it already in ?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: What, specifically are you looking for as far as "improvements"?
How do I rename attachment versioning ?
Asked by sara rainy:

Hi,

I attach a file to a page and upload a file with the same name as an existing attachment. Confluence will rename the old file e.g Version 1.How can I rename version 1?

Thanks


Answers:
author: mstrejczek
body: Hi, I'll join this thread as I have a similar need.

Are there any plugins that can make attachment versioning scheme more sophisticated?

I want some of my attachments (Word, PPT, Excel documents) to follow a versioning scheme like this:

0.1 -\> 0.2 -\> 0.3 -\> 1.0 (published version) -\> 1.1 -\> 1.2 -\> 2.0 (published version) -\> 2.1 and so on

Or alternatively:

PA1 -\> PA2 -\> PA3 -\> A (published version) -\> PB1 -\> PB2 -\> B (published version) -\> PC1 and so on.

Basically any scheme that makes it easy to distinguish drafts from published versions. Flat versioning scheme used by Confluence by default is too simplistic...

Ideally, the plugin would update Version property in Word documents automatically at check-in to make sure version number displayed in Confluence history and inside the document are in sync.

Thanks,

Marek


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You don't. Confluence has a simple fixed scheme for keeping document history clear, it doesn't expect you to need anything more complex than "File X, version y".

Of course, there's always coding/plugins. Could you explain why you want to change the naming scheme and what to? Then we might have recomendations or ideas for you.
Can i migrate all (old) events in a team calendar, to a certain (new) event type?
Asked by Emsysh:

Previously, we had dedicated a team calendar to keep an overview of the vacation of everyone. The new team calendar has support for this using the new event types ('Leave').

I'd like to migrate all the old events in the calendar (after the upgrade, their event type has become 'Event', which I can't change using the edit option), to the new event type ('Leave').

How can I do this?


Answers:
author: Yilin
body: You can try the following workaround solution:

1. export the calender to ical file.
2. open the ical file with a test editor
3. Search the related event then look for the string: "X-CONFLUENCE-SUBCALENDAR-TYPE:other"
4. Change the string to : "X-CONFLUENCE-SUBCALENDAR-TYPE:leaves"
5. Save the change then import the ical file to a new calender and check whether it helps.

comments: author: Emsysh
body: Thank you Yilin MO for the help.

It helped us a lot.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Has anyone imported DocBook XML-pages into Confluence 5?
Asked by Svante Gustafsson Bj?rkegren:

Hi,

I am working with a customer who has the technical documentation in DocBook and wants to migrate over to Confluence. I have been looking for a migration tool for this but haven't found any :-(

There was one (back in the days) by Red Hat called DocBook import for Confluence but it is not supported for Confluence 5.

Any clues, anyone?

Kind regards,

// Svante


Answers:
author: Svante Gustafsson Bj?rkegren
body: This is probably a viable way to solve the issue.

If you have an existing Confluence instance in which you want to import the DocBook documents you could:

* setup a "test" Confluence with 3.5.17
* do the migration into a space there
* upgrade the "test" instance
* then export the space
* import into you existing 5.X instance

Based on the low activity in this thread I guess this is the best way to do it. Let me know how it goes for you!

Cheers,

// Svante


author: Amos Shapira
body: I'm in a similar position. What I intend to do is to try to install the latest version of Confluence which is suppoerted by the plugin (3.5.17, according to [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.jboss.labs.confluence.plugin.docbook_import)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.jboss.labs.confluence.plugin.docbook_import>), import the data, then try to upgrade Confluence.

If you or anyone else found a working solution I'd be happy to hear about it.


Tags: confluence-administration

docbook
confluence ondemand Unknown macro: {html}
Asked by art vandelay:

Hello,

I am trying confluence for the first time and trying to build a html form. however I am getting

Unknown macro: {html}

any ideas on what I might need to set. I have searched the plugins and no confluence html macro shows up.

My end challenge is to build a custom form to submit tickets to jira ondemand so any tutorials on this would also be appreciated.

thx

Art


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: The HTML macro is not available in OnDemand for security reasons: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

Generally, OnDemand won't let you insert arbitrary HTML. This is an attempt to protect against [XSS attacks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting). At this time I don't believe there's a way to create a custom form in Confluence OnDemand.

comments: author: art vandelay
body: Thanks you for the answer Michael. Do you know if jira ondemand will accept an api call to add data. I am thinking of building the forms on another webserver.

thx

Art


author: Michael Knight
body: Yes, absolutely. You may also be interested in the [JIRA Issue Collector](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.jira.collector.plugin.jira-issue-collector-plugin), which is bundled with OnDemand.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a more obvious way to show the Space in the Link Suggestions dialog?
Asked by Greg MacLellan:

When I go to insert a link to another page, if I have the same page name in multiple spaces, it is impossible to tell them apart without hovering. As a result, this is causing friction as some users (especially new to Confluence as we start using it more) are making links to the wrong place, which easily goes unnoticed until someone else clicks and is taken to the wrong place.

![Link suggestions with duplicate names](http://i.imgur.com/BeulyaJ.png)

In my case, we have a space for developer documentation (which may explain implementation details and API), and another for tech support documentation (which explains how to run and troubleshoot the component), so many pieces of the system often end up with duplicate titles.

Is there a way to change the format of these links so they show which space they're in?


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Greg,  
I agree, unless something's changed between 4.3.7 and the current version, the info you see when linking or in searches that show where a page is is pretty minimal. In most cases if not all, you have to make the link before you can see where it actually goes. Cheers.


Tags: confluence-administration
IE 10 problems for JIRA 4.4 and Confluence 4.1
Asked by Srinivas Patruni:

Today I have updated IE 10 and found issues with JIRA and Confluence. I am unable to comment on JIRA issues and also unable to save confluence source editor.


Answers:
author: Matheus Fernandes
body: Srinivas,

IE10 is known to have problems with older versions of the applications, so I'd advise you to either use another browser or, if you have upgraded this for all users that access the apps, to upgrade JIRA and Confluence.

IE 10 is supported for JIRA since 6.0, and for Confluence since 5.1.

Cheers


Tags: jira
Confluence left toolbar
Asked by villegas2000:

?How can i activate the left toolbar icons present on the confluence video?

I just have a column with a index of my articles, but i can't see that toolbar with the Decision Register option

Thanks


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Santiago,

If you are referring to the small left toolbar where you only see the icons, you can shrink the left wide toolbar with '\[' or with your mouse or by clicking \<\< at the bottom of the toolbar.

The Decision Register icon or menu option will be available once you create your first Decision. To do so, click Create, choose Decision.

Cheers!


author: villegas2000
body: ?


author: BernardoA
body: Hi Santiago,

I guess that you are referring "Decision Register option" to this video:

<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/07/introducing-confluence-decisions-decide-faster-record-forever/>

According to my understanding is necessary to have this plugin:

\* <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-business-blueprints>

comments: author: villegas2000
body: Hi Bernardo,

I have onDemand versi?n, so i have it installed now, but i can't see how can i activate that left toolbar.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can i add confluence gadget in JIRA dashboard
Asked by cleiton borges:

Hello,

My name is Cleiton Borges and my company got JIRA and Confluence. I need create a JIRA dashboard with gadget confluence, but at JIRA not appeared a gadgets conflunce.

I need install or configure some thing ?

Thanks

Cleiton


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: If you're using OnDemand, JIRA OD does not include the other applications' gadget feeds in its gadget directory by default. You will need [Support](https://support.atlassian.com) to add it in for you.

There is a bug open for this at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-2244>


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You will have to create application links between the two and then add it using the gadget URL. See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding+a+Confluence+Gadget+to+a+JIRA+Dashboard>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Search in other wikis, sharepoint, network drives with Confluence
Asked by Fabian Toth:

Hi,

is there a possibility to search document content which is stored in other wikis, sharepoint oder network drives from Confluence? Could build for example a connection to another wiki and include the wiki content in my confluence search?

Thanks a lot


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: Confluence provides an integration with SharePoint using [SharePoint Connector Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.extra.sharepoint). One of the features of this plugin is to enable you to search Confluence contents in SharePoint Web Part and to search SharePoint from Confluence (although this would eventually redirect the search to SharePoint search)

Here are some details about this:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Searching+Confluence+and+Sharepoint+Content>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Configuring+the+SharePoint+Federated+Search+on+SP+2010>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Configuring+the+SharePoint+Web+Part+on+SP+2010>

comments: author: Fabian Toth
body: Thank you Amalia, the Sharepoint connector i have seen yet, is there also a possibility to search data in a other standard wiki like wikipedia?


Tags: confluence-administration
Multiple domain names for Confluence running via IIS
Asked by cRR Kampen:

Hello,

We have to IIS proxies to our Confluence instance, one is for internal usage [https://confluenc](http://confluence)e/confluence and one is for external usage [https://portal.domain.com](https://portal.domain.com/confluence.)/confluence. The base URL is set to [https://confluence](http://confluence)/confluence.

When accessing confluence via the portal url we run into a problem, the search function does not work because the URL doesn't match the base URL. After reading some docs I found out there's a workaround by using url rewrite. I have been able to download an URL rewrite plugin for IIS as well as an Application Request Routing Plugin, but can't seem te get it working.

- Is it possible to get this done when using IIS as a webserver?

- Can you sent me some guidelines on how to configure this?

- Is this the only way, or is there a more simple solution?

regards Ruud


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: How about testing out [Domain Booster for Confluence plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.bugsio.confluence.plugins.domain-booster). It allows the use of a single Confluence instance with multiple domain names.


author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Ruud,

We have this [KB](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Integrating+JIRA+with+IIS+using+ARR?src=search) explaining how to integrate JIRA with IIS using ARR, this procedure is the same for Confluence, but the complicated part is that both applications JIRA and Confluence use the Base URL to perform some operations, for example the Application links communication, therefore it's only possible to define one Base URL and accessing Confluence through other URL way cause problems.

Cheers


author: Susanne Harelius [Riada]
body: My customer has the same problem - or will have. We are looking at opening up JIRA externally and the portwise is a good way for this.


Tags: domain

iis
Why can't i see the "user macro" section in Confluence Admin
Asked by Christoph:

I use the hosted service of Confluence and should have Administrator privileges (I am member of the administrators group and can open Confluence Admin), but there is no User Macro section. Is this feature not available in the hosted service? Is there any way to access this feature?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Sadly, user macros are not available in the On-Demand version. On the below link on the right side of the page you will see an info box that says "The information on this page does not apply to Confluence OnDemand."

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Writing+User+Macros>

Here is a more full list of what is and is not supported in the On-Demand version.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>


author: Cheryl
body: Maybe we should rethink using the cloud version if this is the case.


author: Terri Isidro
body: Is there an update to this or will the ability to create user macros be available for the cloud version in the future?

Please update us on this, and how do we make this a feature request (can it be one?)

Thanks!

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: I don't think Atlassian will ever allow user macros on Cloud. It would present too much of a security threat.


author: Pawel Wesolowski
body: "The information on this page does not apply to Confluence OnDemand." info is not there (anymore?).

Does it mean "user macro" should be available on the OnDemand version?

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: No, unfortunately, user macros are not available in the cloud(formerly called on-demand) version.


author: Paul Preibisch
body: wow - that really really really really sucks


author: Cameron Mathers
body: Agree. I hate spend a hour or so reading crap that says to: "go here, do this or that" only to find that Confluence OnDemand doesn't do something...


author: Matthew Storkey
body: This is dissapointing - I am finding this tool quite limited. Are user plugins available to the cloud Confluence?


author: Scott J. Keeton
body: This cannot be true! I was killing myself for days trying to find the _User Macro_ button!


author: Lauri Niskanen
body: Sad


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence: Force "notify watchers" on an article
Asked by Richard Bradley:

We have a sensitive page for which we want to be notified of any change. However, when users edit the page, they can untick the "Notify watchers" box to disable notifications.

We would like to be able to remove this checkbox for certain pages. Is there any facility for doing so?

I have seen [this article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+uncheck+Notify+watchers+check+box+on+Confluence+editor+by+default) which describes how to add javascript to the page to modify this box. Is that the best workaround available?

We are using Confluence 5.2

Thanks,

Rich


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Yes, you will have to use JavaScript to do it. You could simply hide the checkbox(since it is checked by default). However, keep in mind that this won't stop people who are really determined and have some html/js skills. If you want to do it for multiple pages you would probably want to define an array of pages and if the page you are currently editing is in the array then hide the checkbox ... otherwise move on.


author: Davin Studer
body: You should also maybe check out the Speakeasy plugin for Confluence. It gives you the ability to more easily segment your custom JS into extensions. You can even as an administrator globally assign an extension so that it is turned on for all users and they cannot turn it off. I'm considering porting all of our custom JS to Speakeasy extensions. Speakeasy can only do html/js/css, but coupled with the AJAX API's you can do a lot with it.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence search does not show the right results
Asked by Fabian Toth:

Hi,

i have created two sites in confluence. The first one has the titel "testentry", the second one "newtestentry". If i now search for testentry only "testentry" is found. If i search with the joker symbol for "\*testentry", the site called "newtestentry" is still not found.

Why is this?

Thanks a lot


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Fabian,

do you have Confluence onDemand ? Leading wildcards is an experimental feature currently only available in the OnDemand-System. This is described here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Syntax#ConfluenceSearchSyntax-Wildcardsearches>

Cheers

Thomas


Tags: confluence-administration
Web-resource not included on page
Asked by DERS:

I have following declaration in atlassian-plugins.xml:

```
&lt;web-resource key="dictionariesScript" name="Dictionaries manager javascript" &gt;	&lt;resource type="download" name="dictionaries.js" location="/cz/ders/confluence/plugins/budict/js/dictionaries.js" /&gt;	&lt;context&gt;page&lt;/context&gt;&lt;/web-resource&gt;
```

and in confluence 4.x it works (I have menu item in Tools menu on each page, that runs javascript popup window), but now in confluence 5.2.3 the resource is not included. I can't find where is the problem. Could you please help me?


Answers:
author: DERS
body: I'm sorry, my mistake, resource was included, but I didn't see it. Problem was in js file.