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Anonymous access by IP address
Asked by Matt Shelton:

I have a Confluence 5.1 installation which has all anonymous access turned off. It is internet-reachable through an F5 load balancer (really only doing SSL and not load balacing), and from all internet addresses, it needs to prompt for login. However, it would be of great utility if I could make some (or all, I'd be ok with all) sites readable by anonymous users who are *inside* of my company network.

Is there any way to accomplish this?


Answers:
author: Stefan K?gl
body: I've created a similar setup using nginx as a reverse proxy. I'm using a separate URL for external (authenticated, read-write) and internal (auto-login, read-only) access with the following configuration:

```
# avoid redirects from the internal to the external domainproxy_redirect https://external.site.com/ https://internal.site.com/;# Authenticate a user with read-only permissionsproxy_set_header Authorization "Basic BASE64ENCODED";# append &amp;os_authType=basic to enable basic authset $args $args&amp;os_authType=basic;# restrict accessallow INTERNALIP1;allow INTERNALIP2;deny all;# proxy to upstream serverproxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8090;
```


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Archiving Plugin Installed But Not Working
Asked by Veracode:

We have downloaded and installed the archiving plugin for Confluence, but unfortunately are receiving the following error on the screen:  

"This add-on could not be loaded. It has one or more errors which prevent it from being enabled."

<br />

Its very non-descript and provides no information. The license says its valie, but the plugin is greyed out in the list. Has anyone had this issue before?


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

I would suggest you looking at the logfile \<CONFLUENCE-HOME\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log for more information when you try to enable the plugin. If you post it here, I can check if it is something obvious for me or alternatively you can contact the plugin vendor directly: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving/version/55/support>

Kind regards,

Peter


author: Midori
body: Hello!

We are the developers of the Archiving Plugin. Please come and create a support ticket at <https://midori.zendesk.com/> and we will be there to help you.
Set up a Knowledge Base ID system
Asked by J:

Hi,

I am trying to create a knowledge base system using Confluence.

I had a look at this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Developing+a+Knowledge+Base+on+Confluence+Wiki>

We are trying to implement a page ID system so that our users can easily be referred to an ID and search for that instead of the link.

I am aware that each page has an ID but these numbers are a bit too long.

Does anyone have any idea how I can set up an ID system with the pages?

Thanks heaps.


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: May be you can try something with the tiny links. In in any page you click "Tools" \> "Link to this page..." you can see the tiny URL. You can use the last part as the ID.
Confluence Searching Alfresco?
Asked by Darryl Lucas:

Does the Aflresco Confluence connector allow users to search the Alfresco content directly within Confluence?


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Cross-system search of Alfresco files from Confluence is supported now, since Nov 2013. See video.

Contact [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com) if you would like to eval this.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Q9AqNtIj0>


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Yes - great idea - and one of many. Time to roll in these much needed feature. Please [write to us](mailto:info@appfusions.com) and lets make this happen over the summer, with you as first customer of this feature!

Keep an eye on our [Alfresco in Confluence](http://www.appfusions.com/display/CONFALF/Home) product page ;)

comments: author: Darryl Lucas
body: Done. Thanks.


author: Darryl Lucas
body: Any news on this, David?  
Does AppFusions publish a roadmap that I could read please?


author: Bernd Kisters
body: We are also very interested in this search feature (search Alfresco from Confluence).


author: Oli S
body: We now implemented an own Alfresco Connector plugin - up and running:)


author: Oli S
body: We need the same for a customer (in the next moths) and evaluated the plugin by appfusions.

With this plugin you can't search in alfresco.

We decided for us to implement an own plugin in the future.


Tags: alfresco
On Demand: Wiki markup to open external links in new tab
Asked by Trish Edwards:

I want to open external links in a new window for Confluence On Demand. How do I do that?Thank you!


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Trish,

I'm sorry to say that this isn't possible on the OnDemand platform as this would require a customisation that is considered to be a [restricted function](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand). However, in the event that you were a self-hosted customer then you would be able to implement the following solution to allow external links to open in a new tab: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Open+Link+in+New+Tab>

However, for OnDemand customers we do have an open feature request to ask that tabs should be opened in new tabs so I would also recommend that you watch/vote/comment that ticket so that you are kept updated with progress and also to encourage our developers to prioritise its implementation: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-5982>

All the best,  
John


Tags: cloud
Can't add changeset review coverage gadget
Asked by Paul Kirby:

When I attempt to add the changeset review coverage gadget into a confluence page, all appears to work well (I can configure the plugin, and in the preview it will show me the review coverage properly). However, when I press insert, I then get this:

![](http://i.imgur.com/oCpQnIq.png)

Notice that the save button is greyed out. In addition, if I try to click cancel or preview, nothing happens. The only way out of this page is to navigate away at this point. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Paul,  

After doing some research, and trying to replicate this problem, I believe I came across a bug on Crucible side. When I try to use the following URL *`http:``//HOSTNAME:8060/rest/gadgets/1.0/g/com.atlassian.fisheye.review-coverage-report/gadgets/recent-changesets.xml`* to create a gadget for Confluence, I received this message:  
"Resource not found".  

I believe that's why Confluence isn't rendering/working the gadget, because the .xml that leads to it, its broke. However I was able to find a bug already open for this case on Crucible side:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CRUC-6186>  

I would strongly suggest that you vote on this issue to increase its popularity and add it to your watchlist for future updates.

Cheers,  

WZ

comments: author: Paul Kirby
body: Hi William,

Had a look at the bug you mentioned. The only thing is that in my Confluence instance, the gadget URL is specified as: <http://HOSTNAME:8081/rest/gadgets/1.0/g/com.atlassian.crucible.plugins.review-coverage-report:recent-changesets/gadget/recent-changesets.xml> (we run on a custom port for what it's worth). I can access that particular URL just fine and it seems to return valid XML.


Tags: confluence-administration

fisheye-crucible

gadget
Show list of open tasks in a space
Asked by davfive:

We love the new confluence tasks w/ @mentions. Very useful. However, it would also be great to have a macro that would show all of the undone tasks (assigned or not assigned) in a space (or better yet, a list of spaces). Is this possible?

Thanks,

David


Answers:
author: Jason Caragan
body: Hey David, not available in Confluence just yet - I did stumble upon this request which matches pretty closely with what you're describing <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26688>. Feel free to add your vote and watch.

What kind of pages would you embed the macro on? Does the home page for the (team/project's) space act as a dashboard of sorts?
Customize headings and fonts
Asked by Lars:

Can i customize fonts and headings in confluence OnDemand?

Thanks


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: I'm afraid that's not possible. Look and Feel customization is not available for OnDemand instance. For more info, please refer [here.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand#RestrictedFunctionsinAtlassianOnDemand-Confluence)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to hide attachment paperclip icon on Confluence pages?
Asked by Robert Hall:

is there a way to hide the paperclip icon and attachment count from displaying on pages so the user doesn't have access to the attachments on that page?


Answers:
author: Robert Hall
body: I was able to do this with some css, added to master.css:

<br />

#content-metadata-attachments {   
display: none;   
}

comments: author: Alicia Miller
body: Hey,

Thanks for your help. I tried this but couldn't get it to work.

I tried adding it to the Global stylesheet and the Custom HTML sections of the admin console but no luck.

Any hints?

Thanks,

Alicia


author: dvillacorte
body: Try this instead: #system-content-items, #content-metadata-attachments { display: none; }If you want to limit the restriction to a specific space, add the CSS style to Space Tools -\> Look and Feel -\> Stylesheet.


author: Ruby Singh
body: This worked! Thank you Dolly! :smile:


author: hsuhailah
body: There's no easy way to do this via the UI. Even though it can be hidden however user can still check this from Tools \> Attachments.

How about considering [disabling attachment download](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=215484007) instead?
Search not covering all spaces
Asked by Sarah Boeckmann:

I was testing the search function and it seems like the results are not capturing content from one of the five spaces (in confluence) our company has created and I'm wondering if there is anyway to figure out why?


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Sarah

In addition to the possibility described by Bruna, it could be that the space has been archived. If that's the case, it's easy to un-archive it. Go to the Space Details screen, and set the "Status" option.

The docs describe the effect of archiving, and where you can set the option:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Archiving+a+Space>

Cheers

Sarah


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Sarah!

Usually this is regarding the restrictions set for thoose spaces.

Please check if the user that is trying to find these contents has the proper permissions.

To do that go to: **Confluence Admin \> Space Permissions**.

*If the permissions are properly set but you still cannot find some spaces or pages, you miht rebuild the indexes from scratch as described here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch>*

Kind Regards


Tags: confluence-administration
How to use JIRA Macro in templates?
Asked by WUYI LI:

I am new to JIRA and Confluence. And my boss wants me to make a report template for our team. It looks easy but still I get some difficulties couldn't conquer.

Using JIRA Macro, I could add the JIRA key and see the projects details, however, how could I do to make a list showing the projects and my teammates who uses the template, could add the projects by himself.

Any helps will be appreciated.

Wuyi


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi Wuyli Li,

It is not possible to do this at the moment. I have a question for you, what do you want this for? Are you generating some sort of release notes or project report? We are currently working on a Project Report Blueprint for JIRA. This allows you to select Create \> JIRA Report \> and then selet the many different types of reports.

Does that sound like it could help you in what you are trying to ahcieve? I'd love to hear more about what exactly you are trying to do and if you would be interested in giving us feedback once we have a prototype to show you. Interested? Please email me: smansour at atlassian dot com.

comments: author: WUYI LI
body: Thanks for your reply. My goal is to make a template of weekly report for everyone in my team. It should cover project JIRA key#, progress; research information, and other activities. It helps everyone to monitor his working perfermance, as well as helping our team leader to generalize a team report.

JIRA report you mentioned is very helpful but my template covers not only JIRA but also some other activities, like research, meeting etc.


author: WUYI LI
body: Just now, I found I couldn't add a JIRA macro where had instructional text.
{html} macro not working?
Asked by Philip Colmer:

I've enabled the HTML macro in Confluence 5.1.2 but it doesn't seem to be working. What I mean by that is that when I type {html}, the wiki markup macro opens and I cannot get the HTML macro to be recognised.

I've \*definitely\* got "Confluence HTML Macros" enabled.


Answers:
author: Philip Colmer
body: Thanks - that was it. It might be better if the UI made it a \*bit\* more obvious that not all of the modules were enabled.

But thanks for helping me get it working.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Even having the "Confluence HTML Macros" enabled, could you please check if **all modules** of this Macro are enabled as well?

comments: author: Chung Nguyen
body: Could you please help to explain more about "all modules"? I got the same issue but don't know how to fix.

Thanks a lot


author: Philip Colmer
body: Hi

When you open up the list of installed plugins, find the Confluence HTML Macros plugin and click on the little \> symbol on the left hand side to expand the pane. You'll see "x of y modules enabled" on the right hand side. Highlighted in this screenshot:

![ApplicationFrameHost_2018-05-17_07-44-18.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22268i03271503F1F2D845/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ApplicationFrameHost_2018-05-17_07-44-18.png")

If you click on the + sign, that will list out all of the modules:

![ApplicationFrameHost_2018-05-17_07-46-51.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22269i58CC35B4FE666E22/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "ApplicationFrameHost_2018-05-17_07-46-51.png")

You can then hover the mouse pointer over any of the disabled ones and an Enable button appears.


Tags: confluence-administration
Persistent sidebar navigation possible?
Asked by Chris M:

I know there is a breadcrumb nav to use, but I find it very frustrating that the page hierachy nav in the sidebar (bottom left) is not persistent on every page. Is there any way to display this?

I have seen there are a couple of page macros also available but these are not of much use in my opinion.

If you could always see the full navigation tree for the space and your current position it would be much quicker and intuitive to get around.


Answers:
author: BillA
body: We are planning to add the option to display the full page tree in the sidebar in \~Conf 5.3.

comments: author: Chris M
body: That's great - I hope that's out on OnDemand soon.


author: Chris M
body: Something to add to this - it would be nice to be able to adjust how many levels of pages display. At the moment you get a link '5 more children' that displays when more than three sub pages exist - should allow at least 10 subs to show before hiding them like this.


author: Chris M
body: I see the persistent nav is now live on Confluence for Ondemand! :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
test space
Asked by Lim Kai Shan:

How do i remove or hide the test space created by system administrator ? Is there a way to assign permission and hide it from users. ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Raju KC
body: Just go to space-admin-\>permissions-\>remove unnecessary users/groups


author: BernardoA
body: Otherwise, if you want you can remove if you have permission the space going to space admin \> remove space.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to change sidebar page tree default depth?
Asked by Backoffice:

Hi

How to change sidebar page tree default depth? At the moment I can't switch to Documentatio Theme.

Alternatively how can i incorporate TreeNavigation to sidebar?

Our users want to easly browse page tree.

Thanks,

Mariusz


Answers:
author: Raju KC
body: Go to space admin-\>theme-\>change it to Documentation Theme

comments: author: Backoffice
body: As I wrote in question I don't want to do that at the moment, I need to change default theme.


author: Raju KC
body: Then use page tree macro as <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Tree+Macro>


Tags: confluence-administration
Remove an item from the Add Page menu
Asked by Brian Bircham:

Hello allI'd like to remove the "Add Page" menu item from the Add Page menu so that it forces people to use the template.I think this may be possible based on this article but I could be wrong<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/25187/how-to-promote-use-of-existing-templates-with-new-add-menu-options>Is it possible to remove an item altogether?Thanks in advanceBrian


Answers:
author: Brian Bircham
body: I couldn't get the AJS scripts to work to fix this issue. In the end, I used JavaScript to remove the entry with the following

```
<script>document.getElementById('add-page-item').style.display= "none";</script>
```


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: This works in Conf 4.2:

AJS.$('#add-menu-link-space li:first').remove();  
Add it to your "Custom HTML".

comments: author: PeterKoczan
body: Just one thing to add: put it between

`<``script ``type``=``"text/javascript"``>`

and

`</``script``>`


author: Brian Bircham
body: This didn't seem to work unfortunately. I'm using version 4.2.4 version of Confluence and added the script tags. Do I need to enable JavaScript somewhere?


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: @Brian Bricham: Matthew's answer was almost right, but really it the JS needs wrapping in an AJS.toInit method...

In **Confluence Admin \| Look \& Feel \| Custom HTML** paste this into **At the End of the BODY**:

```
&lt;script&gt;  AJS.toInit(function(){    AJS.$('#add-menu-link-space li:first').remove();  });&lt;/script&gt;
```


author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi Brian,

Can you let me know the Confluence version you are using?

Thanks,

Peter

comments: author: Brian Bircham
body: Hi Peter

I'm using 4.2.4 and unfortunately the script didn't work (even with the script tags)

Any ideas? Do these scripts need to be enabled somehow?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: The easiest way to do this would be to just add a little jQuery that removes the first item in the drop down list. I've used jQuery before to customize my menus like that and it works great.


Tags: template
Moving an attachment
Asked by Alexander Bykov:

Hello. We use confluence 5.1.2 According to the documentation (According to the documentation), If I have "add page" and "add attachment" permissions I can move attachment between pages. However I get message that I can not remove attachment from page.


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: It seems you need to have the remove attachement permission too. That's only normal if you want to move the attachement instead of copying it.


Tags: attachment
Saved filters not showing up in filter macro
Asked by Bharath Benoit:

**Referencing CONF-28841**

When a new filter is saved in JIRA it does not populate into the macro

Have tried reindexing on confluence.

Steps to reproduce:

* Create a new saved filter in JIRA
* Add the 'JIRA Issues' macro or some other macro that pulls saved filters from JIRA
* See that the recently added filter does not appear in the list of usable filters
* Reindex Confluence
* Do not see all filters within the macro


Answers:
author: Bharath Benoit
body: Confluence User has the rights in JIRA to see the filter and has been shared to a Project


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Does your confluence user have the rights in Jira to see the filter, has the filter been shared with this user?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to get to Space Tools when command is missing from the sidebar?
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

In Confluence 5.1, I switched a space to use the Documentation Theme, but that made the Space Tools and Configure Sidebar commands disappear from the sidebar. How can I get to those pages?


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi Robert,

If you switched to Documentation Theme then you should see a Browse button next to the Spaces and People on the top navigation bar. In this menu you should see an option "Space Admin".

If you do not see it in the menu from some reason you can always use below URL to go to the space admin directly:

**\<confluencepath\>/spaces/editspace.action?key=\<spacekey\>**

I hope that will help.

Best Regards,

Mirek

comments: author: ProMax IT
body: Can't believe I missed this!


author: Bede Admins
body: I missed it as well


author: Anandhi A
body: Hi robert,I get a message 'Not Permitted' when I try Managing permissions for one particular space. I login using Confluence Admin account and I can Manage permissions for all other spaces except this.An idea why this comes?Thanks.


Tags: side-bar

space-tool
confluence chart macro
Asked by Children Services IT:

How to change Pie Selection Label font name


Answers:
author: twong_atlassian
body: Caveat Emptor: Untested-

Not very simply, but you could checkout the Chart Macro Source here:

[https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/confluence-chart-plugin](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/source/browse/CHRT)

And change: confluence-chart-plugin/src /main/java/com/atlassian/confluence/extra/chart/ChartDefaults.java

Lines 15-16

```
    public static final Font defaultFont = new Font("Helvetica", Font.PLAIN, 10);    public static final Font titleFont = new Font("Helvetica", Font.BOLD, 20);
```

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to whatever you want, then rebuild the package... then install it.
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```


Tags: pie-chart
Widget connector does not work for Twitter
Asked by Andreas Koller:

Since Twitter changed the REST API the widget connector in Confluence does not work for Twitter. Are there any efforts going on to solve the problem? Are there any workarounds?


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Andreas,  

I actually recently reported a bug for this and I believe our developers are working on it, although I cannot give you an ETA for a fix at this time: [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29639
It](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29639%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3EIt) seems Twitter have shut down their v1 API and this is impacting the Widget Connector, although unfortunately at this time we don't have a workaround because it needs to be fixed in the Widget Connector. However, I would strongly recommend that you watch/vote/comment on the ticket to stay updated with progress and to encourage our developers to prioritise a fix for this issue.

All the best,  
John


author: Dan Knapton
body: Hi @David Chui \[Atlassian\] - Any ETA for when version 2.1.6 will be available for OnDemand users? The Twitter feed is still not working.


author: DavidA
body: Hi Andreas,

In addition to what John has mentioned:

We have implemented a workaround for now. If you're using version 2.1.6 of the plugin or newer, you can [use Twitter widgets](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Widget+Connector+Macro#WidgetConnectorMacro-Twitter) instead.

Please note version 2.1.6 may not be available for OnDemand users yet.


Tags: twitter

widget

widget-connector