youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How can I get a count of pages edited for each user?
Asked by Rob Wiskow:

Is there any way to get a per-user count of the number of page edits done in a space? I'm open to doing direct sql queries if necessary. (We use MS SQL Server).


Answers:
author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: You can have this information from viewing space activity

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Viewing+Space+Activity>

comments: author: Rob Wiskow
body: That only provides a general count of page edits and the most active contributor.

I want to actually know how many edits each user has made. Unless I'm missing something?

Also, it doesn't appear to have tracked anything from before I turned the plugin on.
creating a confluence table using confluence CLI
Asked by Walt Fles:

Is it possible to create a confluence table using confluence CLI?

I sent over "{table}\<content\>{table}" via the CLI and it was not rendered.

Ideas?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: For example, you can use:

\|\| A \|\| B \|\| \\n \| a \| b \| \\n \| c \| d \|

or if you have the table plugin installed:

{csv} \\n A , B \\n a, b \\n c, d \\n {csv}


Tags: cli

table
View Source not showing up in Zen Foundation Theme
Asked by Rodolfo Romero:

The "View Source" option found under Tools in Confluence is not showing up when the Zen Foundation is active. Is this an issue or is the option hidden somewhere else?


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: Hi Rodolfo,  
Yes, this is missing from Zen 5.2.4, but has been restored in Zen 5.2.5, which releases this week. Sorry for the inconvenience!  
Regards,  
Darryl  

<br />


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
have a problem in Searchanise with Cs-cart
Asked by akbar shahmohammadi:

Hi

Dear Mr/Ms

in my Cs-cart store searchanise can not find any word with another language .

i mean only found words with English

my website main lang is EN and have another lang but searchanise only find words with EN

without use searchanise (when disable that) in basic search method i found that another language words easily.

<br />

so what should i do ?

Cs-cart version : 3.0.4

Sincerely Yours

Akbar


Answers:
author: kmolchanov
body: Dear Akbar,

Please contact the Searchanise developer team via the CS-Cart Help Desk: cs-cart.com/helpdesk

Thanks!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Could you explain what this has to do with Atlassian products?
Multimedia Macro show Certificate Error in IE for MP4
Asked by Intel CHD Jira Admin:

When displaying a page with multimedia macro included on MS Internet Explorer the explorer show:  
Internet explorer has blocked this website from displaying content with security certificate errors

* In Confuence 4.2.12
* It is independed from the IE Mode the IE run (changed in development mode from IE 7 to 9, also independed from compartibility mode and document mode)
* Happens for MP4 files.
* Issue not seen at SWF, WMV, MP3 (others can not be tested)
* When the message is accepted this is valid for current IE session, all other pages with multimedia macro can then be viewed without the message
* The next new IE session show the message again.
* Happens also in Preview mode
* Message can be disabled when the proxy is removed from IE (then not Internet connection any more, just work within company intranet)
* This do not happen in Firefox

Any idea how to solve or how to drill in the root cause?  


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

Regarding your second question:  

*In Firefox or Chrome I have another issue: I tried to use VLC - but it chrashes most time for MP4 in Confluence pages - who to make it work?*   

I had a different problem with a customer regarding .WMV files, and I raised a bug report for that, as you can see here:  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27581>  

For .mp4 I have hard thoughts that you need to install the "Quicktime add-on" for Firefox, that way when we open a file .mp4 into the Multimedia Macro, Firefox will call Quicktime's API.  

I hope this helps.  

Cheers  

WZ  


author: Intel CHD Jira Admin
body: Thanks for the hint with Quicktime. Seems to be the only solution right now to get rid of the issue in IE (and also play MP4 in Firefox/Chrome/Iron browser). Together with Atlassian support I found the issue, please see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27723>. Seems to be a glitch in the multimedia macro.


author: AlysonA
body: Hello there,
> When displaying a page with multimedia macro included on MS Internet Explorer

Does that means it happens on pages with the include-page macro from a page with the multimedia macro? Sorry, it was not clear to me.

Also, if you can confirm this does not happen on other browsers, such as FF and Chrome, it may be an issue with IE specifically, and most likely not on Confluence side.

comments: author: Intel CHD Jira Admin
body: I face it for the page where the multimedia macro is used.

This happens only in Internet Explorer.

In Firefox or Chrome I have another issue: I tried to use VLC - but it chrashes most time for MP4 in Confluence pages - who to make it work?


Tags: multimedia

video
Jira and Confluence integration.
Asked by Dandreb Vela:

We are planning to integrate Jira and Confluence.Below are the things that i consider.

1. I want to make a Single sign on for Jira and Confluence and my concerns are the ff.

a. Jira and Confluence has different users license 500 for Confluence and unlimited for Jira

b. When single sign on if implemented what will happen to the groupings and permission of the users for Jira and Confluence

2. If ever the Integration is successful what are the considerations we have to make because we are doing an yearly upgrade for jira and confluence just to keep up with atlassian's releases.

3. What are the integration tools we need to consider.An advise from you guys will be a big help.One of the thing we want is to see the Confluence documentations in jira.

Regards,

Dan

<br />


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: 1. The key to most of this is understanding the licensing and coding for that.

In both Jira and Confluence, you need to look at the permissions. They both have a simple concept - "if a user can log in, then they count towards the licence number".

Off-the-shelf, you'll find that the groups "jira users" and "jira administrators" count as "can log in and hence count as a licence user" for Jira. Same for confluence, with groups similarly called "confluence users/admin". These are de-duplicated though - if my account belongs to both users and admins, it's still only one seat in use. Be aware that if you change these, it's the "can log in" that matters, whatever user/group scheme you decide to use.

However you implement your SSO, you just need to make sure the group memberships are following the rules (don't allow more than 500 in Confluence-users).

2. You will need to maintain your SSO code in-line with Atlassian releases. You don't \*need\* to keep up with Atlassian's releases of course, that's a matter of planning and resource for you. But you will need to check your SSO code on every release you decide to take.

3. That's a bit vague really. I'd start with the built-in application links and see how they work out for you.
Can wiki markup can be imported from text file
Asked by SubasreeN:

I have some scripts that dynamically generate wiki markup and stored in text file. Can i import the code in text to the wiki markup editor?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Your script can write directly to a page using [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) [storePage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-storePage)
Is there a way to get a count of the number of pages I have created within a calendar year?
Asked by Gary Brown:

As part of my annual review, I would like to inform my supervisor of the quantity of wiki pages I have created and/or edited. There appears to be no way of obtaining this information from Confluence, unlike in JIRA where it is easy to obtain the information using a filter.


Answers:
author: James Hines
body: Actually, I believe that the Content-by-User Macro shows ALL of the content that you have created in Confluence since it was first installed. I do not believe it has any parameters to filter for only content that was created for a particular time period.


author: James Hines
body: Actually, I believe that the Content-by-User Macro shows ALL of the content that you have created in Confluence since it was first installed. I do not believe it has any parameters to filter for only content that was created for a particular time period.


author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: You can generate this information by using the content by user macro.

Pls have a look at this url for details on how to do it.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+by+User+Macro>

Rahul


Tags: count

page
Confluence: how do I keep track of a 'release' of the content
Asked by forum question:

Let's say I'm using Confluence for product documentation and I need to have a historical record of the state of the content with each release.

How do I make the whole space as a particular release version?

I see in the docs that it says to create a new space for each version. That seems odd to me, what if I'm publishing the content from Confluence? Wouldn't that mess up the URLs?

Thanks


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo there

We use the Copy Space plugin to copy the space for each version:

<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.copyspace>

You may find this documentation helpful too:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+the+Life+Cycle+of+your+Technical+Documentation>

I hope this helps!

Cheers, Sarah
Shrink space on migration
Asked by John Douglas:

Planning on migrating to Linux and oracle from Mac OSX and Mysql. Overall mysql DB \<8Gb. But several spaces may be over 2GB. Would like to reset all space pages to their current version and reduce the DB size and time on conversion. Currently running OSX and Mysql at 64bit so java app isn't a problem. However, documentation states that the space export/import feature will be a problem if export \> 2GB.

Will this be an issue or is 2Gb export file size going to be a problem with conflucene import?


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: John,

I just wanted to post a link to the feature request that we created for your issue from our support ticket yesterday. Perhaps other people have the same question and we can garner some more votes fro the feature by posting it here.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27689>

Hopefully someone in the Community has a good workaround for you until this feature is rolled into our product.

For completeness lets also post the troubleshooting guide for getting around Out of Memory Errors that you may run into during your XML export of your instance

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Cannot+Create+XML+Backup+Due+to+OutOfMemory+Errors>


author: AlysonA
body: Hello,

Indeed exporting/importing really large XML files can be an issue in Confluence. But since you're migrating to a different database, you will need to follow the [large installation procedure](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+to+Another+Database#MigratingtoAnotherDatabase-Methodtwo%E2%80%93forlargeinstallations) to migrate your data from one db to another, that includes taking an XML backup without attachments.

I suggest you try this approach and see how it goes.

Cheers.


author: John Douglas
body: Thanks on the XML only suggestion. In fact we started off draconian by limiting any attachments to 2MB and creating a seprate WORM file service where users put larger files like their presentation's . Its \~ 1/2TB. So pretty much just the 25,000 pages which average 9 to 1 for versions. Probably not bad for a 5 year old system, but we keep the space's limited and strictly by ACL/ group.

As migration will likely be staged by group/space an alternative is to cleave off major branches of a large space to their own space an migrate them separately.
Export Confluence as CHM?
Asked by forum question:

Is anyone using Confluence to automatically export to CHM?

How did you set it up?


Answers:
author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: Just a quick info: Scroll PDF will not help directly, but

* Scroll HTML Exporter (<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-html>) exports to static HTML files and from there compile the HTML files to CHM.
* Scroll DocBook Exporter (<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-docbook>) exports to DocBook XML, which has a lot of tooling to generate all kinds of target formats. Here is the docs of how to generate CHM from DocBook: <http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HtmlHelp.html>

comments: author: forum question
body: Thanks for the note. How does the Scroll HTML export differ from the Confluence HTML export?


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi,

one of the main advantages of the Scroll HTML export is the possibility to create templates for your exports. Besides you are able to set advanced export settings:

- Creating one HTML file for each page or one single large HTML file  
- Display a TOC in your exported HTML  
- export specific pages with labels  
- define file naming

Cheers,

Nils

comments: author: Jerry
body: Hi Nils Bier,

how I can define fiel naming in confluence?

I'm just getting into the system and would like to create a CHM file where you can access the chapters from outside, for example with HTMLhelper.

Can you help me?

Greetings,

Jerry


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Jerry,

Thanks for reaching out.

In order to have context-sensitive help links, you'd need to use the page key functionality in Scroll Versions.

We've documented how this can be used in combination with our Scroll CHM Exporter in our docs. Please feel free to check out the page [here](https://help.k15t.com/scroll-chm-exporter/using-the-scroll-versions-page-key-functionality-for-context-sensitive-help-132317975.html).

Does that help?

Best,  
Nils


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Natively, no, but I seem to remember something about <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf> supporting it

comments: author: forum question
body: I just looked through their docs and I don't see any mention of it.

Thanks though
Is there a way to set your time to default to hours versus minutes?
Asked by Veronica Stewart:

Our default set up in Jira has the time defaulting to minutes. I have run into a lot of human error issues with the time since the user only puts in the number without the "m" or the "h". Is there a way to have the time default to hours when users only add the number in the field versus minutes?


Answers:
author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: Yes, you can amend the default time logging unit. See this url for details

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+Time+Tracking#ConfiguringTimeTracking-configuringtimetracking>

Rahul

comments: author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: did it work?

Rahul


Tags: cloud

jira-software-cloud
Formatting by document order
Asked by minesh patel:

Hello,

I have a confluence site with some attachments. Below, is the screenshot.

My question, is there anyway to change the order of the attachments???.

I would like to have 09 14 12 listed first, then 02 07 12 listed second, and 11 20 09 listed third.

Thanks.

![](../../../upfiles/Screen_shot_2013-01-07_at_11.34.49_AM.png)


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi!

I've created a feature for you regarding this request: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27687>

Hope that helps you! :)

Regards,

Rodrigo

comments: author: minesh patel
body: Rodrigo,

Does creating a feature mean a ticket was created??? Thanks.


author: Justin Corcoran
body: It looks to me like you've got them sorted A-Z by name. You could probably hit "Name" again or the arrow next to name to sort Z-A, or click on one of the other fields (e.g. creation date) to sort by that.

I don't think there's any way to specify the sort order (other than naming them with a letter or number @ the beginning of the file name so that they sort in the order you want).

comments: author: Justin Corcoran
body: Just noticed you want them in the 09, 02, 11 order, which won't work Z-A either. I don't think there's another option, besides changing the file name.


author: AlysonA
body: Hello there,

Can you please elaborate further on your question? What do you mean exactly by "Formatting by document name(s)"?

Once we can get a clear picture of things here we should be able to address your question(s).

Cheers.
In the Confluence admin, weard urls are generated for Confluence system images.
Asked by S?bastien Delisle:

If i go to the space permissions in the Confluence admin, the page tries to load icons (check.png for example), but with a weard url:

https://\<base url=""\>/s/fr_FR-418945332/4020/400023a0f5fc074464540c8c8db3164c2d05daa9.13/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png.

The icon is physically located in confluence/confluence/images/icons/emoticons/check.png.

I don't get where Confluence gets this urls from. I looked in the settings, my base url is ok, all other images are fine exept the system images used in the confluence admin.

Looks like a bug to me...any idea on that?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi S?bastien,

I've just found your ticket in our support channel. I believe that the issue is related to the context path not being set in the general configuration at confluence admin -\> general configuration. You may want to check that and modify if necessary.

Let us know if that helps ;)

Regards,

Rodrigo
"People with Personal Spaces" filter on the People Directory does not work
Asked by Peter Binney:

If someone deletes their Personal Space the filter on the People Directory for People with Personal Spaces still returns that person.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Possibly, a re-index is required or [rebuild of index from scratch](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratch)

Give it a try and update how it goes.

comments: author: Peter Binney
body: Just a straight rebuild did it. Many thanks.

Also, having done the rebuild the problem seems to be cured - I was using a test user to create and delete personal Space and those actions are now mirrored in the filter.

Not sure how/why the index became corrupt/confused!


Tags: directory

filter

user
Is there a plugin to export confluence pages as LaTeX source code?
Asked by Marcel_R__Ackermann:

Hi. I am looking for a way to export the content of (relatively simple structured) Confluence pages as LaTeX source code fragments. (That is, italics as \\emph, headings at \\section, \\subsection, and so on.) Does someone know of a way of doing this?

Many thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: NielsJ
body: I am afraid, there is no such plugin. But maybe devloping your own plugin is an option?

If you are using Confluence \>= 4 the contents of the pages are stored in XHTML. So you could write an XSL transformation that transforms the XHTML to LaTeX. Maybe \[1\] or \[2\] offers a good start. The transformation could be triggered via an entry in the Tools menu.

Regards,  
Niels

1: [http://www.w3.org/2004/04/xhlt91/
2:](http://www.w3.org/2004/04/xhlt91/%3Cbr%3E2:) [http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/\~gurari/docs/mml-00/xhm2latex.html](http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/%7Egurari/docs/mml-00/xhm2latex.html)

comments: author: Marcel_R__Ackermann
body: Yes, this seems to be the way to do it properly. Thanks for the links.


author: NielsJ
body: I am afraid, there is no such plugin. But maybe developing your own plugin is an option?

If you are using Confluence \> 4 the contents of your pages are stored in XHTML. You could write an XSL stylesheet that transforms this XHTML to LaTeX. Maybe one of those is a start: \[1,2\]. The transformation could be triggered via a Tools-menu entry.

Regards,  
Niels

1: [http://www.w3.org/2004/04/xhlt91/
2:](http://www.w3.org/2004/04/xhlt91/%3Cbr%3E2:) [http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/\~gurari/docs/mml-00/xhm2latex.html](http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/%7Egurari/docs/mml-00/xhm2latex.html)


author: AlysonA
body: Hi Marcel,

After researching through the <https://marketplace.atlassian.com> I couldn't find a plugin that fits your request. The only ones that I'd point out are the following:

* <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.latex.confluence.macro-latex>
* <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stepstonetech.confluence.plugins.latex>

Hope it helps!

Cheers.

comments: author: Marcel_R__Ackermann
body: Hi Alyson. Thanks for pointing to the marketplace. I have being looking there before myself, although I haven't found a matching plugin either. I was actually pondering on doing the "opposite" of what the both plugins you pointed to (or the MathJax plugin) are doing: exporting wiki content to latex documents (instead of entering latex source and displaying them in Confluence, which is what the plugins are used for).

I am still hoping that maybe someone has done this before and can give me any hint on how to convert Confluence content to latex source.


author: catworkx GmbH
body: As long as you only have a few pages to convert, there is a quite simple solution to get confluence pages converted to LaTeX. Just use "Tools -\> View Storage format" to get the HTML of your page. Now you can revert to established tools like html2tex (<http://www.iwriteiam.nl/html2tex.html>).

Cheers,

Sebastian


Tags: latex
Unable to instantiate VelocityEngine when running setup
Asked by Clifford Duke:

I am trying to set up Confluence on a tomcat server on openshift, I followed the instructions here <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF33/Installing+Confluence+EAR-WAR+on+Tomcat#> but everytime I try to run the application it tells me that it cannot instantiate VelocityEngine.


Answers:
author: Albert Garcia
body: I have the same problem with:

* Debian Squeeze 6.0.6
* JDK 1.7.0-b147
* MySQL 5.5.29
* Tomcat 7.0.35

Jira 5.2.5 (war) seems to work OK.

With confluence 5.0 beta3 this doesn't happens... :/

I've tried with velocity.properties in the install dir of confluence and rebuilding the war but doesn't work. :(


author: John Chin
body: Hi there,

Its look like your problem similar to this page, please see <http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/im-trying-to-run-the-example-in-the-tutorial-on-tomcat-and-it-cant-instantiate-the-velocityengine.html>

hope it helps.

comments: author: Clifford Duke
body: Looked at \`velocity.properties\` and changed it to this but still getting the same error for some reason.:

```
runtime.log.logsystem.class = com.atlassian.confluence.util.velocity.NullVelocityLogSystem
```


Tags: openshift

tomcat