youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
What are some example strings for the permission parameter of addPermissionToSpace?
Asked by Terryl:

I cannot figure out what string to pass in to the addPermissionToSpace method of the [Confluence SOAP API](https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/rpc/soap/ConfluenceSoapService.html#addPermissionToSpace(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)). I have tried many combinations such as "View", "Add Pages", "Space Admin", "Administer Space", etc., but all attempts have resulted in blocking the permissions for the "confluence-users" group which I'm trying to add permissions for (imagine the picture below with all red "X"s for the "confluence-users" group). What are some acceptable strings for the permissions parameter? Is there a list anywhere?

![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/300816090/SpacePermissions.png?version=5&modificationDate=1369030397983&api=v2)


Answers:
author: Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]
body: From <https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Remote+Confluence+Methods#RemoteConfluenceMethods-Permissions.1>:

```
Permission name         String valueAttachments - Create    CREATEATTACHMENTAttachments - Remove    REMOVEATTACHMENTComments - Create       COMMENTComments - Remove       REMOVECOMMENTMail - Remove           REMOVEMAILNews - Create           EDITBLOGNews - Remove           REMOVEBLOGPages - Create          EDITSPACEPages - Export          EXPORTPAGEPages - Remove          REMOVEPAGEPages - Restrict        SETPAGEPERMISSIONSSpace - Admin           SETSPACEPERMISSIONSSpace - Export          EXPORTSPACEView                    VIEWSPACE
```
Editing Confluence Pages 5.1
Asked by Lawrence Tabachnick:

When editing my page shrinks and i nede to scroll up and down to get to the different sections on each document. Why is this happening?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Lawrence

This seems to be the result of some customization or third-party plugin.

Could you try the approaches below?  

1) Try resetting the custom decorator from Administration \>\> Layouts or Browse \>\> Space Admin \>\> Layouts.

<br />

2) If the approach below do not help, try to set your Confluence Plugins on "Safe Mode" and check if the behavior persists;

Kind Regards


author: Amalia
body: As pointed out by Theo, there is bug in Confluence occuring in Chrome: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28415> Do check it out and see if the workaround fixes the issue. Otherwise, it might be caused by customization or third party plugins.

comments: author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Just a quick note about this bug. The issue is resolved in Confluence 5.1.3.

If you are on a version of Confluene pre 5.1.3 we have a plugin fix for this editor height issue available in our marketplace.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor-height-fix>


author: Lawrence Tabachnick
body: thanks everyone. There is a problem with Chrome and there is a fix out there as a plugin. Sorry for the delayed reply!


author: Wilfried Bastiaansen
body: Are you using Chrome? There's a problem with using chrome and editing pages!
Confluence space HTML Export has wrong image reference
Asked by Kenneth Leverskj?r:

When exporting a space to HTML the images are not equally refrenced resulting i broken reference to some images.

It seems lika a randomly behaviour, some images have corret link on a page and some some dont

Example from a HTML page:

```
&lt;/td&gt;                                &lt;/tr&gt;                        &lt;tr&gt;                                    &lt;td class="gallery-image" style="width: 300px"&gt;                                    &lt;img border="0" src="attachments/thumbnails/40337509/52625412" width="225" height="300"&gt;                                &lt;/td&gt;                                                &lt;td class="gallery-image" style="width: 300px"&gt;                                    &lt;img border="0" src="attachments/thumbnails/40337509/52625411" width="300" height="225"&gt;                                &lt;/td&gt;                                                &lt;td class="gallery-image" style="width: 300px"&gt;                                    &lt;img border="0" src="download/thumbnails/40337509/327301341" width="300" height="225"&gt;                                &lt;/td&gt;                                &lt;/tr&gt;                    &lt;tr&gt;
```

Working link: src="attachments/thumbnails/40337509/52625411

Broken link: src="download/thumbnails/40337509/327301341"; as there is no download folder in the exported zip-file

No difference by using CLI or Confluence Export Space function

Confluence ver: 4.3.7

Does anyone have a slution do this?


Answers:
author: Kenneth Leverskj?r
body: no, all images are saved as attachment to current page. I.e all images are listed on the attachment page, and it's also correctly listed at the bottom of the exported HTML page but not shown inline in page.


author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: Any change, that the image is referenced from another space?


Tags: export

html
Confluence on demand - Jira download
Asked by Poul Meyer:

Is it possible to have a local version of Jira Greenhopper and a Conflunce on demand connected?

The reason i ask is, that we currently have a local Jira Greenhopper and are looking at Confluence. But we would like Confluence on demand and not downloaded. Now is it then possible to have these two connected?

best regards

Poul Meyer


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Greetings,

Unfortunately integrating local and ondemand products is not possible. You can read more about the ondemand restrictions on the following page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

Kind regards,

Peter


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira
Confluence editor / Chrome 27 problem
Asked by amy kim:

Confluence Version 4.3.2

When I excuted Confluence Edit Page in Chrome, Scroll bar is limited for upper page 1/3.

But It doesn't happen to Explorer.

Why does it happen?


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: I think try this plugin

- <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor-height-fix>

Also see details here for 4.X Confluence

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28415>

comments: author: amy kim
body: Thanks!\~ Ellen. Best Answer for me.
How can I get the attachment version number at a given point of time ?
Asked by Clemens_Linowski:

for example: AttchmentA has versions: 1. from Jan 9, 2. from Jan 12, 3. from Jan 16. 4. from Jan 19.  
I now want to know the actual Version at a given date "Jan 14" for example? (answer here would be version=2, because at January 14 this is the actual version)  
Access then should be included into a reporting-generator.

Thanks and best regards, Clemens.


Answers:
author: m
body: You could query the Confluence database. Here is an article from 2010 but the concepts are sound:

<http://www.divingintothedetails.com/confluence/use-sql-to-quickly-get-information-out-of-confluence/>
5.1.3: What is the funny editor behavior at bottom of edit screen?
Asked by samjones6:

If I am at the bottom of the text area, first char of last line, at bottom left corner of editor, and I type:

h2.

or such, the line I am editing jumps off, below the editor area.

Very frustrating to have the editor jump around, and to kind of push what I am doing off screen below the work area. (4.1 had this issue, and I naively thought 5.1 would solve it...)

How do I solve?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Sam!

That's strange. Could that be a plugins or a customization causing it?

To troubleshoot the cause please try removing - temporarily - any *customization* on your Confluence.

If the issue persists, set all your third-party plugins to*Safe Mode* to check if some plugins is causing it.
5.1.3: Why is the editor two inches tall on a large display?
Asked by samjones6:

I use chrome as a browser. After upgrading confluence from 4.1 to 5.1.3, when I hit "e" to edit, the editor is really small. Not full screen at all.

I don't spot any handles to enlarge it.

What to do?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: This is a problem introduced by Chrome v27.

We have provided a [plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor-height-fix) which you can install onto your instance to fix the issue.

For more details see this ticket: [CONF-28415](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28415)

comments: author: Harry Chan
body: Thanks, very helpful. Just applied the plugin.


author: samjones6
body: Nope, not in my case. In my case the problem affected FF and Chrome, but not IE. Issue was a page view customization that had been set up on Confl 4.1 to paper over a PDF export bug... So now I can edit the pages OK... but the PDF export bug is back....


author: samjones6
body: I should add: Confluence is unusable due to this. Viewing content works, but adding/editing content is not possible.
Confluence 5.1.3 installer: Very smelly! Atlassian, please improve it!
Asked by samjones6:

upgrading 4.1 to 5.1.... should be easy, right?

Not. (at least: Not on Win2003 server with latest java JRE)

installer error #1: Cannot delete the confluence directory.... (well yes, that is because tomcat is still running and has a bunch of files locked in there... the "apache tomcat" service was created by a confluence installer, so it should be detected by the installer..)

installer error #2: "undefined variable exception" OK, whatever.

installer error #3: I didn't catch. something about install4j blowing up in some way

post install issue #1: my mods to server.xml were wiped out. So gotta figure it all out again (to get ssl back in gear). // Every update I have done to confluence over the years has this issue. I have to re-discover ssl every year or two.

If it was more reliable to upgrade confluence.... we would do it more often.... The Fog Creek guys are many miles ahead of atlassian here.

Atlassian: Can you make the install process smoother?


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: The upgrade process has improved **miles** over the past 1/2 dozen Confluence releases, every time.

But surely trickier when skipping releases, which candidly is always a challenge in high-feature server operations, understandably.

Don't know if these help any - since at least 4 notes sets to consider. But take a look.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrade+Notes+Overview>

As well as the release notes:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Release+Summary>

And Java JRE/JDK update to 1.7 with Confluence 5.

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

Hope that helps.

comments: author: samjones6
body: I will agree that the upgrade process has improved.

However it is still really bad.

I simply expect a professional, robust, installer/upgrader, and 5.1.3 isn't it.
import from confluence personal calendar in tempo
Asked by karsten walther:

is it possible to show the vacation of the team members (personal calendar in confluence) in the tempo calendar too?


Answers:
author: Gary
body: Hi Karsten,

You can add events and people calenders to team calenders in Confluence at will - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TEAMCAL/Adding+a+People+Calendar>

I beleive you can also accomplish this using timesheets from Tempo: <http://www.tempoplugin.com/products/tempo-timesheets/#section-price>

I notice you mentioned 'import' in the original question - were you looking to import data as well from calenders?

Cheers,

Gary


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
run/run-now prevents scaffolding from saving
Asked by Paul Hahler:

Hi,

We are running Confluence 5.1.2 with Run 4.1.0 and Scaffolding 5.0.1 and are facing a strange issue: If we combine run/run-now with scaffolding in one page, scaffolding won't save the entered information, if the run-macro comes first on that page.

So {run-now}Random body{run-now} ... {text-data}Random data{text-data} won't save, but {text-data}Random data{text-data}...{run-now}Random body{run-now} works fine.

Any ideas what the cause might be and how to fix this?

Thanks!

Jan


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

I did some searches over the atlassian website and internet however I couldn't find a know issue with those plugin combined.

I advise you to upgrade all of those plugins to the latest versions and if the issue persists, try to get in touch with the plugin vendor as they might know if these plugins are not compatible with each other.

Regards,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: 1. [RUN-101](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/RUN-101) was raised some time ago.
Problem showing Edit mode when using Google Chrome
Asked by Edvard:

I just isntalled some updates and now edit-mode in Confluence won't display properly when using Google Chrome.

it's only a thin line displaying content, the rest will be all white.

tested it on several computers, same problem. Using Confluence 4.2.4.

**Did these updates:**

Installed add-on RB Supplier - Core (org.randombits.supplier.supplier-core version 1.0.4)  
Installed add-on RB Filtering - Confluence (org.randombits.filtering.filtering-confluence version 1.2.4)  
Installed add-ons RB Storage - Confluence (org.randombits.storage.confluence), RB Support - Confluence (org.randombits.support.confluence) - bundled with add-on RB Filtering - Confluence   
Installed add-on Gliffy Confluence Plugin (com.gliffy.integration.confluence version 5.3.1)   
Installed add-on Ad hoc Canvas (com.comalatech.adhoccanvas version 1.5.3)


Answers:
author: Edvard
body: i was too quick to post, fix is here: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor-height-fix>
Changing URL
Asked by ttran-au:

Hi is it possible to change the url of the site? What will it involve and how long will it take?

our current site is <https://sourceoftruth.atlassian.net/>

thanks


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Checkout <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ONDEMANDKB/Changing+the+OnDemand+instance+URL+address>

comments: author: ttran-au
body: thanks - by "...request a new OnDemand instance with the desired URL" do you mean i have to sign up(purchase) for a new instance?


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Yes. And you can cancel the old one after migration.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence Application Links not found in admin console
Asked by Michael Lyman:

Hi

I have a user who has all rights, including system administrator rights. That user cannot see the Application Links or Application Navigator links in Confluence 5.1. I'm not sure if there's another setting for users that I'm missing. I'd like to link JIRA/Confluence..

sThank


Answers:
author: Michael Lyman
body: Some more digging in logs after I posted this helped my find this article:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Plugins+are+Disabled+at+Startup+and+Various+Timeout+Errors+Appear+in+the+Logs+After+Startup>

Followed the directions and see the links now. It appears that a resource issue with the server is causing some plugins to not load


Tags: confluence-administration
Exposing some parts of a Confluence wiki on a public web site?
Asked by John Fraser:

We would like to use Confluence to maintain procedural manuals. We would like to expose some parts of the manuals on a public web site. Does the licence for self-hosted Confluence permit this?


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi John,

This is certainly possible, and as Harry mentioned how you would do it is by exposing certain Spaces to anonymous users and keeping others private because this has the effect of making parts of the wiki public, (for example your procedural manuals), whilst keeping other parts of your wiki secret, (for example your new product release that marketing is working on).

How you do this is a two step process, the first is to grant the global permission to conceptually allow anonymous users to browse the site and then you can open up Spaces to anonymous users. You can read about the process for configuring this here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access>

You should check the Space permissions of every Space in the instance and also test you have configured it so only the data you want to expose is available before telling anyone the URL of the instance but it's a simple procedure so you shouldn't encounter many problems configuring it.

All the best,  
John

comments: author: John Fraser
body: Thanks John. We'll be moving from OnDemand to our own instance(s) in the autumn and will get it set up then.


author: Harry Chan
body: The license works this way. Having said that, you'd best have public and private spaces to deal with this after enabling anonymous access and make sure permissions have been audited[.](https://www.cloudshards.com/confluencehosting.php)

comments: author: John Fraser
body: Thanks Harry. John Inder has given me good advice for this.


Tags: confluence-administration

website
Justify Text in Confluence 5.1
Asked by Alaattin Kahramanlar _Yonca Teknoloji_:

We have been using Confluence 5.1. It may seem so trivial but, is there a way to justify a text in Confluence 5.1?

**I'm looking how to full-justify (not left, center of right align)**
> **![](http://i.imgur.com/HcWEjto.png)**


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: In edit mode, look just to the left of the **Link** tool. Left, center, and right \<s\>justify\</s\> align.

comments: author: Alaattin Kahramanlar _Yonca Teknoloji_
body: Bob, thanks for your answer. However I'm trying to find a way to full justify text. I've edited my question accordingly, please see the attached image there.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Use the align macro from [Content Formatting Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros) - <http://www.adaptavist.com/display/AtlassianConfluence/align+macro>


author: Thiagarajan Ramanathan
body: Just add HTML macro and in html macro add something like this

\<table\>  
\<tr\>  
\<td valign="top"\>  
\<p style="text-align: justify;"\>Your text goes here\</p\>  
\</td\>  
\</tr\>  
\</table\>


author: John Corwith
body: Wouldn't you just use something like:

\<div align="center"\>  
This is some text!  
\</div\>

or CSS syntax:

\<div style="text-align:center"\>  
This is some text!  
\</div\>


author: Paris MEULEMAN
body: To have some correctly formatted text you can always use latex if you have that macro :smile:...
Chrome cuts off page in edit
Asked by John Alton:

Just upgraded Chrome to version 27.0.1453.93. Now when I edit a page, the contents cut off after a few lines of text. Text gets clipped horizontally at a certain point within the editor.

Working on Mac OSX Mountain Lion v10.8.3.

Works fine in Firefox v20.0


Answers:
author: Petch
body: John, this is a bug in Chrome 27 (it's fixed in 28).

There's a fix in 5.1.3, for other versions you can download and install [this plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor-height-fix) that includes the fix.

There is more information in [CONF-28415](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28415).

comments: author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Works great - thanks.


Tags: chrome

editor

text
Error when added jira gadgets on confluence
Asked by Sreenivasaraju P:

Getting below error , when i added jira gadgets in confluence.

jira and confluence are running with valid SSL certificates. Both the servers are running in the same timezone also.

Error rendering macro 'jiraissues' : The JIRA server returned a trusted apps error: OLD_CERT; Certificate too old. Application: {0} Certificate Created: {1} Timeout: {2


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hello there,  

That happened because there is a date/time difference between the JIRA server and Confluence server. Most often, the problem occurs after re-starting one of the application's server, whereby the NTP is not timely synchronized, causes an offset.  

What you can do to fix this issue:  

* Verify the system clocks are similar. If the servers are in different timezones, ensure that their OS timezones are set correctly. Use a NTP time server if you're finding the clocks are going out of sync very often.
* Increase the timeout value as per our [Configuring Trusted Applications Authentication for an Application Link](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+Trusted+Applications+Authentication+for+an+Application+Link) documentation.  

  I hope this helps!  

  Cheers,  

  WZ

<br />

comments: author: Antony Galdi
body: In a given scenario with both running on the same server, without SSL, the "date/time out of sync" issue seem moot. I'd also expect timeouts of 10000 would be sufficient in this scenario. Are there other avenues of troubleshooting that should be looked in to?


Tags: confluence-administration
Adding multiple links to an image in Confluence
Asked by Vishnukumar Vasudevan:

@ All

We have a requirement to create multiple links from an Image. This is exactly same as Taging in Social Networking sites.

Basically, we will have an image, can be a flow chart where we have to link different external addresses to each of these Boxes and Diamonds in the chart.

Is there any workarround to achieve this ?

Thanks, Vishnu.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Vishnu,

your question was already asked (and answered) [here](/questions/133228/how-do-i-add-multiple-links-to-an-image-map-process-diagram).

Cheers

Thomas

comments: author: Vishnukumar Vasudevan
body: Thanks Thomas.. Sorry, I had searched but couldn't see.

Let me close this qn.


Tags: confluence-administration

link
Upgrade Confluence from 3.3.1 to the latest, what intermediate step ?
Asked by Valerie AQUILA:

Hi,

We would like to move Confluence from 3.3.1 to the latest.

The doc is not clear to me : "For example, if you want to move from Confluence 3.x to Confluence 5.x, you should first upgrade from 3.x to 4.x, then from 4.x to 5.x."

What intermediate step should I use ? 4.0 or 4.3.7 which is the latest 4.x ?

Thanks for your help


Answers:
author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: I think this would help: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF50/Upgrading+Confluence> and consider the last point release recommended. 3.3.1 \> 4.3.7 \> 5 But please do read the release not for 3.5 just to be clear about the user management migration.

comments: author: Valerie AQUILA
body: Thank you very much, it helps !


Tags: confluence-administration