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Confluence 4.2.5 System Error while Active Direcotry configuration
Asked by Robert Nimax:

Hi,

we have an issue regarding Active Directory configuration. After saving the configuration (the quick-test at the first LDAP-configuration page is sucessfull) you are led to a page to test the remote directory. If we try to test and go forward a system error occurs ("A system error has occurred --- our apologies!"). The stack trace is hidden and there is no log entry, even if we set log4j configuraton to "info".

Any suggestions ? :-)

Thanks a lot !

Cheers,

Robert.


Answers:
author: Robert Nimax
body: Okay, forget it.:)

my bad.

Cheers,

Robert.

comments: author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Robert, closing this question as it seems it's resolved now. If wish, you may yet post a comment saying the cause of this issue, this may help others in the future.

Cheers


Tags: active-directory

ldap
Save email attachment directly to confluence
Asked by Laura Krieter:

I get many documents emailed to me and I need to save the attachments directly into Confluence. It there a way to do this? Currently, I have to save the attachments to my hard drive and then drag and drop into Confluence. Looking for an easier way.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Check into the WebDav plugin. You can map a drive straight into Confuence and work with it as if it were part of your file system. Also, you can set up a space email address that you can send emails to to create pages.


Tags: attachment

cloud

confluence-cloud

email
connecting to confluence from a mac using webdav
Asked by Tim Roberts:

i can't authenticate to confluence using webdav/finder on my mac. does confluence still support this?

or are there good alternatives for publishing attachments to confluence from a mac?


Answers:
author: LucasA
body: I'm not sure if it's working on Mavericks now, but it usually doesn't works on previous Mac OS versions. The workaround is make use of Cyberduck to connect to Confluence WebDAV folder: [http://cyberduck.ch/](http://cyberduck.ch/.).

Cheers,

Lucas


Tags: mac

webdav
Confluence Documentation theme
Asked by Zuber Khursiwala:

Hi,

In most of the Atlassian documentation, it looks like their 'Heading 1' is a very large font which looks something like Courier. It's blue (everywhere I've seen it). For example,

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=295306144>

(where it says "Confluence Documentation Home")

Sorry this is such a basic question, but how do I get the same style/theme? It looks really nice.

Update: I found this article (<http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/new-style-for-confluence-documentation-what-do-you-think/>) so I guess my question is whether that same theme now is included in Confluence somewhere and I can just activate it, or do I have to manually have to recreate it with CSS myself?

Thanks

Richard


Answers:
author: aprentice
body: Hi Richard, the CSS is available in this bitbucket repository: <https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-documentation-stylesheet/src/8982a05ba4919b0dede1eb448f6c28f1ce29a73b/stylesheetForExternalUse.css?at=master>

This doesn't include the font we use for our headings, as that's a commercial font we don't have a licence to redistribute, but if you want to, you purchase a licence here: <https://typekit.com/fonts/kulturista-web>

Note that we provide this CSS in response to requests like yours, but this public variant is not officially supported and so may not always be in sync with what's on [confluence.atlassian.com](http://confluence.atlassian.com).

comments: author: Zuber Khursiwala
body: Thanks Andrew \& Jeremy, got it looking great now :)


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Internally we're calling that "sexy docs." We never built it into a proper theme, so for the foreseeable future it's going to just be implemented as the CSS you found.

comments: author: Zuber Khursiwala
body: Nice name, I like it :)I couldn't actually find any CSS to download. Can I get it somehow?


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Yes, it's here: <https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-documentation-stylesheet>


Tags: theme
How can you edit Confluence error messages?
Asked by Felise Uy:

How can you edit the Confluence error messages such as

"Conflict

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."  

or "**The following error(s) occurred:**

* A page can not be set as its own parent.
* A page already exists with the title 'Resources - ONE' in the space 'Line of Business'.

<br />


Answers:
author: Felise Uy
body: For the Conflict error, I had to set my Apache 409 document. For the other error, not sure how to do it still.


author: StevenA
body: Hi Felise,

You can restart your Confluence to remove internal old cahce data to fix the issue. If your instance is OnDemand, then just raise a support ticket for us to proceed.

Best Regards

Steven


Tags: error
Calendar visible even with view restriction
Asked by starwarsfan:

Hi

We use Confluence 5.2.5 with TeamCalendars 4.0.5.1. The overview page and every space is configured to include the calendars on the left side below the navigation. Some of the calendars are configured with view- and edit-restrictions but the problem is: All calendars are visible even if one is not logged in!? Is there something wrong with the plugin or is it a problem with the configuration? Is there another option to use instead of just add desired groups to edit- and to view-settings per calendar?

Some Details:

* Running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
* Oracle JDK 1.7.0_40
* MySQL 5.5

Please let me know if further information about the system is necessary. Thx a lot in advance.

Kind regards,

Yves


Answers:
author: starwarsfan
body: Hm, looks like as I need to file an issue fot that...


author: starwarsfan
body: Problem still existing, seems to be necessary to file a bug...


author: starwarsfan
body: No ideas so far?


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Redirect Confluence URL without PORT
Asked by Robert Solovy:

our local URL for Confluence is [http://ServerName:8091](http://ServerName:8091.). We have created a local CNAME called Wiki which points to that server. How do we make so that we can go to <http://wiki> instead of <http://wiki:8091> ?


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Change the Tomcat configuration for the domain name (<http://www.jvmhost.com/knowledgebase/article/207/how-to-map-a-domain-to-tomcat-s-web-application-/>).

Change the port from 8091 to 80.

Though, its much better if you setup a web server for this.
Unable to save the page
Asked by Rekha B:

Hi I am not able to see the save tab on my wiki confluence page. I use a demo version of the software, I am in urgent need of help!


Answers:
author: Zubin Irani
body: Hi Rekha,

Which browser are you using? IE? Can you try with other browsers - Firefox, Chrome?

Also, do you see a "Done with errors" message with an exclamation mark on the lower left hand corner of the page?

This is just a guess at this point - but it could be that there are script errors on the page, if IE is blocking Java and/or scripts - please see this troubleshooting link from Microsoft - <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308260>

Cheers!


author: Mick Davidson
body: I don't know what else to suggest Rekha, other than to contact Atlassian or someone wth more technical knowledge than I have. Cheers.


author: Mick Davidson
body: OK, that's disappointing. Have you tried CTRL+S?

How about copying and pasting into a different space and then saving it.

If that doesn't work I don't have any more suggestions other than to contact Atlassian support.

Good luck.

comments: author: Rekha B
body: I have tried CTRL+S to save and CTRL+SHIFT+J to preview but both in vain!

I have also attempted creating a new space and tried the same over there as well.


author: Rekha B
body: Hi,  
The same thing happens, there is no save or preview tab on the page anywhere!!


author: Mick Davidson
body: Rekha,

I've no idea why this is happening, but it might be a glitch with that page.

You could try copying all of the page's content, then opening a new one and pasting the copied content there.

If you do that, can you save the newest page instead? If so, you can delete the other one.

Cheers.
Create pages and spaces through SharePoint (via Sharepoint Connector) in Confluence?
Asked by Marco Anderson:

Is it possible to create new pages and spaces through SharePoint (via Sharepoint Connctor) in Confluence?


Answers:
author: StevenA
body: Hi Marco,

You can have references on this page [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/228134/create-pages-in-confluence-from-sharepoint](/questions/228134/create-pages-in-confluence-from-sharepoint) for your request.

Best Regards

Steven


Tags: sharepoint
Page Name - odd behavior
Asked by Dave_Harrington:

We're still using Confluence 4.2.4...

Occassionally, after creating a page, I've noticed that the URL appearing in the browser's address box does NOT show the page name, but a weird "viewpage.action.?pageID".

For example, on such a page the address appears as:

portal.fakename.com/*pages/viewpage.action?pageId=15896528*

Although, on most pages it looks like this:

portal.fakename.com/display/SpaceName/Reference+Info+-+Data Extracts

where the page space and name are explicitly displayed.

In addition, I've recently noticed that pages for which only the pageID is displayed DO NOT send notifications to watchers or to users referenced within the page.

Am I crazy or is this a known issue? Is there anyway to correct the page?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Confluence changes the request to point to a pageID rather than using the usual RESTful request (of .../display/page_name) when page names have a special character in them, such as an apostrophe or ampersand.

The second part you mentioned, about not getting notifications on pages like this, sounds like a bug in the notification system.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Dave,

I can't tell you why this happens but it happens to us too. We're running download 4.3.7.

I'd not noticed the problems you've highlighted; I shall investigate.

Cheers.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to get rid of the line break which Confluence is adding when editing.
Asked by Paula Quint:

I have created a template that contains a table holding partly prefixed texts. Users have to fill in texts themselves when creating a page. While testing this I noticed that Confluence is adding a \<br/\> after a text added in the editing mode. This \<br/\> causes a white line in the export to Word. This \<br/\> is not wanted.

Example:

The template says:

\<td\>  
\<p\>  
\<em\>1)\</em\>  
\</p\>  
\</td\>

The created Page based on this template says:

\<td\>  
\<em\>1) Dizzy - Tommy Row\<br/\>  
\</em\>  
\</td\>

Can anybody explain why there is the \<br/\> and how can I get rid of it!!!

Thanks in advance. By the way, this ia all happening in Confluence 5.1.5.

Best regards,

Paula Quint


Answers:
author: Paula Quint
body: Thanks again! I just discovered that using *Italic* \<em\>\</em\> in the template is causing the \<br/\> when creating/editing a page based on this template. So now I skipped all the *Italic*in the template and add them when creating/editing. This gives me the result in Word I want!! :-)


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I don't remember if this happens when creating a template, but Confluence inserts hidden tags all over the place when you work in the GUI editor. If you can (and again, I don't remember if template creation allows this), use the Source Editor plugin to get in there and remove extraneous tags.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: The source editor does work in template creation.


author: Stephen Gilson
body: +1 Thanks for the help


author: Steffen Heller
body: I have had the same experience as Matthew: There are lots of hidden tags and there is no way controlling it.

My typical problem are \<p\> within table headers.They are sometimes...

* ...there: \<th\>\<p\>text\</p\>\</th\>
* ...and sometimes not: \<th\>text\</th\>

The result is that the font formatting is different in Confluence and the height of the table header cell is different in PDF.

My "solution" is to ignore the difference in Confluence but to define CSS styles that make the header look the same in PDF.

comments: author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Yup, I find myself going into the source editor on really complicated pages (lists within lists, macros within sub-lists). The most common thing I remove is extra \<p\> tags from list items and extraneous \<span\> tags. Requires a bit of manual work, but cleaning up a page in the source is so much easier than wrestling with the GUI's "generous" tag insertion.


author: Paula Quint
body: Thanks for your answers, but I allready deleted alle the \<br/\>'s in the template via the source editor. But whenever I create a new page based on this template and I add texts the \<br/\>'s show up again after saving the page and causes whitelines in Word when I export the page. The idea of deleting all the \<br/\>'s everytime I create a page based on this template makes me unhappy! :-(

Any other ideas?


author: Steffen Heller
body: I can't say why it is there. But have you tried to simply delete it? That is what I do with it.
getAttachment(String token, String pageId) error
Asked by Suman Adhi:

I have used following code to extract document attachment of cross space and same page using

```
ConfluenceSoapServiceService _service; var attachmentsList = _service.getAttachments(_token, pageId);
```

i got the following errors:

```
WebException: The operation has timed out
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream(TransportContext& context) at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream() at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters) at  getAttachment(String token, String pageId)

where token is given by API .
```

1. Is there version dependent on the function of the Confluence?
2. Do i have to be version specific?
3. I have found on search that use 0 as version ??
4. Is there is problem on using **Var** instead of **Attachment** ??  

   Thanx in advance  
   Namus

```


```


Answers:
author: Neejesh Dhaubhadel
body: i did also encounter the same problem. i have used the token to save the authenication token and the pageid is also passed properly but during calling getAttachments the operation timeout is displayed. the basic parameter of timeout for the ConfluenceSoapServiceService is set to 10000ms in default but i have set it to 5 minutes but the same timeout exception occurs. what should i do ?


author: Davin Studer
body: Your code above is limited ... just to be sure are you getting an auth token and storing it in _token and does pageId have a value?
'JIRA Server' is not functional during authentication
Asked by Ivor Ejitagha:

Hi,

We are getting this error after migrating Confluence and JIRA to a different server. So far solution given for a similar issue has not fixed the problem, e.g (updating IP whilte list and encoded_address_binary field on Confleunce and Jira tables: cwd_directory_attribute and cwd_application_address)

Any ideas?

regards,

Ivor


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Ivor, it may be easier to solve this issue via UI. I'd suggest that you log in Confluence with an internal administrator (you may need to follow this [doc](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights)) and recrease the integration with JIRA as in this [page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management#ConnectingtoCrowdorJIRAforUserManagement-ConnectingConfluencetoJIRAforUserManagement).

Cheers


author: Ivor Ejitagha
body: Thanks Tiago, I followed your suggestion and the problem has now been addresssed
Make restrictions visible on page
Asked by Matthias Droste:

We have restrictions based on groups in our confluence-setup.

In order to avoid accidentally adding content that should only be visible for Group A to a page that's also visible for Group B, I'd like to have the groups that have access to the page visible directly on the page.

Is there a way to do this?

Currently we use the workaround to add tags like \<Group A\> \<Group B\> to the page. However, the more content is added, the more difficult it becomes to keep the tags in sync with the actual restrictions...


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Here is a user macro that you can use to show the page permissions.

```
## Macro title: restrictions## Macro has a body: N## Developed by: Davin Studer## Date created: 10/24/2013## @noparams#####################    Viewers    ######################set ($vPerms = $content.getContentPermissionSet("View"))#if ($vPerms &amp;&amp; $vPerms.size() &gt; 0)    Viewing Groups:&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;    #foreach($vPerm in $vPerms)        #if($vPerm.isGroupPermission())           &lt;li&gt;$vPerm.getGroupName()&lt;/li&gt;        #end    #end    &lt;/ul&gt;    Viewing People:&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;    #foreach($vPerm in $vPerms)        #if($vPerm.isUserPermission())           &lt;li&gt; $vPerm.getUserSubject().getFullName()&lt;/li&gt;        #end    #end    &lt;/ul&gt;#end#####################    Editors    ######################set ($ePerms = $content.getContentPermissionSet("Edit"))#if ($ePerms &amp;&amp; $ePerms.size() &gt; 0)    Editing Groups:&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;    #foreach($ePerm in $ePerms)        #if($ePerm.isGroupPermission())            &lt;li&gt;$ePerm.getGroupName()&lt;/li&gt;        #end    #end    &lt;/ul&gt;    Editing People:&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;    #foreach($ePerm in $ePerms)        #if($ePerm.isUserPermission())            &lt;li&gt;$ePerm.getUserSubject().getFullName()&lt;/li&gt;        #end    #end    &lt;/ul&gt;#end
```

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: I realize that the output of this user macro is certainly not pretty(I'm no designer). You might want to edit it to look a little nicer, but the functionality is there.


author: Davin Studer
body: Hmmm. Just realized that you tagged the question as confluence-ondemand. In that case there is no way.


author: Matthias Droste
body: Right, I tried to try your suggestion out, only to find that I'm pretty limited by using on-demand :-(


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Remove 'Be The First To Like' in confluence
Asked by Stephen Swavley:

How do I remove the 'Be The First To Like' and 'Write a comment...' from the bottom of the page?

They are not appropriate for our usage of confluence.


Answers:
author: Chung Park Chan
body: If you want to remove the 'Like' feature, you need to disable the **Confluence Like Plugin.** Meanwhile, you can disable commenting on a space via the guide [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Commenting+on+pages+and+blog+posts#Commentingonpagesandblogposts-Disablingcomments). Additionally, if you are looking at disabling comment for a particular page, you need to use a user macro by David Simpson.

<http://davidsimpson.me/2011/01/23/more-flexible-commenting-in-atlassians-confluence/>


Tags: confluence-administration
How I can remove list of spaces and done All Spaces on one page at once ?
Asked by Vlad Matv:

This is what I want

Help me. how can I do it ?

![](http://cs7010.vk.me/c322217/v322217213/44e7/RVIT6RhVaXw.jpg)


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Image is broken.


Tags: space-list
Can I have more than one file list index page in a space, and why aren't my file lists appearing as children of that page?
Asked by Phil Gochenour:

I have just started working with the file list blueprint in our test instance, and have noted two strange behaviors.

1. I'm setting up a space for a program, with several child "project" sections beneath it. The hierarchy looks like this:

* Home Page
  * Project Home Page
  * Project Technical Overview
  * Meeting Notes (blueprint index page)
    * Meeting Note 1
    * Meeting Note 2
  * Project Documents (File List blueprint index page)
    * Document List 1
    * Document List 2

This works fine if I have a single project. However, if I recreate the topic structure for another project, and add a Meeting Note or File List blueprint, it doesn't create a new index page for the project meeting notes or file list, but just adds a meeting note or file list content page. Is there a restriction on only being able to have to one Meeting Note or File list index page per space?

2. If I'm in an empty space and want to add a Meeting Note or File list from the templates, Confluence creates the index pages as expected, but the new meeting note or file ilst doesn't show up as a child of the index page, but as a stand-alone page.


Answers:
author: Xavier Arques
body: Phil,

For 1) the improvement has been logged by Atlassian: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29499> but it is still open

For 2) it could be linked to bug <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30495>

Regards


Tags: blueprint

confluence-administration

file-list
Jira Issues Macro not working - content rendering
Asked by David Dube:

Background:

We have a Jira On Demand Instance, and an internal instance of Confluence running 3.5.1.

We had been pulling our content from our Jira On Demand Instance into our Confluence instance using the jiraissues macro w/no issues. Unfortunately, the content is no longer being pulled... the macro appears to just sit there with a "Processing, please wait..." indicator

Sample code of jiraissues macro instance (I obfuscated username, password, and specific doman)

```
{jiraissues:url=https://ourjirainstance.jira.com/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=project+%3D+%22CSC+Universal+Binary%22+and+%22Issue+Source%22+%3D+%22User+Acceptance+Test%22+and+%22Reported+Version%22+%3D+%22Version+3.2%22+ORDER+BY+status+ASC%2C+key+DESC&amp;tempMax=1000&amp;os_username=omited&amp;os_password=omited|columns=key;priority;summary;reporter;assignee;reported build;status;created;updated}
```

Thoughts? This was working fine... someone most have been tweaked in one of the Jira OnDemand updates???


Answers:
author: Jackson Harper
body: Aimir CG is an architectural visualization company based in China, delivering consistent art quality 3D interior rendering services and animations worldwide. We are fast, efficient and always deliver on time. Our professionalism and communication skills make us easy to work with and the end product was nothing short of impressive!


author: David Maye
body: It sounds like the JIRA issues aren't able to be pulled into Confluence. I'm not sure what your JIRA/Confluence settings are, but this bug ticket may be related:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31663>

Otherwise, usually a spinning icon means that the macro finds the JIRA issue, but seems to get stuck grabbing the data (for whatever reason). If you're on a self hosted Confluence server, I would suggest either rebooting the server or disabling/re-enabling the JIRA Issues module and see if the issue persists.


author: EddieW
body: You may need to dig into the logs, could be a connection timeout. You can enable DEBUG logging on the plugin specifically if needed, though I suspect there should be something already.

Check the Application Link configuration in Confluence and validate overall connectivity. (You could also try using CTRL+SHIFT+J while editing a doc to test)

If that works try using a filter in JIRA that returns a small result set (a few issues), and see if the result differs.

Also I had an issue specifying fields once, and if I just left it empty the macro worked, so you may give that a shot.

comments: author: David Dube
body: I tried two tests... 1) I constrained the search to pick up a unique jira ticket (based on a defined issuekey) and it continues to spin. 2) I then took the above example, and removed all explicit columns, and again, I continue to see the spinner...


Tags: jira