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This is not a valid database name
Asked by Jarmo Kauppinen:

Hi,

I got stuck with the "not valid database" -error when trying out PocketQuery. I'm using MySQL and the testdb -database is in the same MySQL-instance as confluence. Confluence works fine.

Parameters entered in Database Management:

\* Name: MySQL vega

\* Url: jdbc:mysql://localhost/testdb

\* Driver: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

\* User: root

\* Password: \*\*\*\*\*

I tried out also Bob Swifth's SQL plugin which worked fine with the same set of parametres

(new Data source added to confluence tomcat's server.xml

\<Resource name="jdbc/testdbDS"  
auth="Container"  
type="javax.sql.DataSource"  
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"  
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/testdb?autoReconnect=true\&amp;allowMultiQueries=true"  
username="root"

password="\*\*\*\*"  
maxActive="25"  
maxIdle="5"  
maxWait="10000"  
/\>)

Any ideas what went wrong/how to solve the issue?

Thanks!

Jarmo


Answers:
author: Jarmo Kauppinen
body: Mystery solved. Apparently the name of the database entry point can't contain any space character. So I renamed 'MySQL vega' to 'MySQL' and "Oh yes, I can connect to this database".


author: Felix Grund (Scandio)
body: Hi Jarmo,

sorry for the late reply! Glad you solved this issue by yourself. Actually, the entity names in the PocketQuery admin are used as keys for the objects and may not contain spaces. This is described in our [documentation](http://www.scandio.de/en/atlassian-en/plugins/pocketquery/pocketquery-documentation/): "(...)only the letters \[A-Za-z_-\] are allowed for entity names"

Did you say there was no error message indicating this mistake? There actually should be. I'll inspect this behaviour as soon as possible!

Regards,  
Felix
Where is documentation?
Asked by Dan_Grindstaff:

Hi I purchased a subscription to JIRA for hosting documents and keeping track of ideas and code for game development. I am looking for the 'users manual' to find out where to begin. Can you point me to link(s) that are more prod doc and how and what to do? Thanks, Dan.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Best place to start is the documentation <https://confluence.atlassian.com/plugins/servlet/mobile#content/view/1556>

comments: author: Dan_Grindstaff
body: Thank you...


Tags: community
User logon statistics
Asked by Pieter de Vries:

Is it possible to view or retrieve statistics of user logons to Confluence?


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: Mostly no in OnDemand. In hosted variants, access logs could be scanned.


author: Pieter de Vries
body: Thanks for the comment. I seem to remember there was somewhere in the User Management under Jira Admin that showed at least when last a user logged on, but now User Management has been moved out of Jira Admin, this is gone.


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Confluence Active Directory Group
Asked by AKASH BHARDWAJ:

Hi All Genius, out there. I am struggling to find all the groups which are there in Active Directory. My Active Directory is pointing to LDAP external Directory.

So My question is I need to look Which all groups are there that are there in Acitve Directory.

Can I list those and How??

Thanks,

Akash,


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Akash,

<br />

You can run the query below in your Confluence database which will basicly list all the group associate to external user directory in your Confluence.

```
SELECT m.list_index, d.active, d.id as DirectoryID, d.directory_name, d.directory_type, g.id as GroupID, g.group_name FROM cwd_group g JOIN cwd_directory d ON g.directory_id = d.id JOIN cwd_app_dir_mapping m ON d.id=m.directory_id WHERE d.directory_type != 'INTERNAL' ORDER BY 2 DESC, 1 ASC;
```

<br />

Hope this helps!  

Regards,  
Jing Hwa

comments: author: AKASH BHARDWAJ
body: Thank You Jing HWA,

I have got what i wanted.


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Glad I could help.


author: AKASH BHARDWAJ
body: I am working on Active Directory, now my question is that :

I have Active Directory configured with Confluence.

There are currently 85 Such groups and i want all 1000 Groups present in my Active Directory to be visible under Confluence.

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

Thanks,


Tags: active-directory
Corrupted macro dialog
Asked by Lee Anne Pedersen:

I have one user for whom the Macro dialog suddenly quit displaying properly.

![Macro dialog window](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14253302/macro%20dialog.png)

This only happens for one person, and it happens for new macros, editing existing macros, on pages and templates, in personal and global spaces. He's tried clearing the browser cache, logging off and on (both confluence and windows), rebooting. He can reach the options by tabbing, but it's very awkward to use.

Update: This same user can log onto a different workstation and it works fine. So it's specific to the workstation.

Windows 7 x64, IE 10, Confluence 5.1

Any ideas how to fix this?


Answers:
author: Lee Anne Pedersen
body: The solution - IE's zoom was not at default.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Improper+Layout+in+Macro+Browser+Due+to+Browser+Settings>


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way to create a private space in Confluence?
Asked by Amanda Chu:

Where only the creator can view and edit the space and those he/she share it with?


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Amanda,

Yes. All users can do this by selecting the option to do so from the menu under their user name. I can't remember what this is called now.

When they select that, they can chose to make the space public or private.

If they chose private, then no one but them can see the space. If they want to let people see the space, they can change the privacy settings whenever they want to.

Cheers.

comments: author: Amanda Chu
body: Mick,

Are you saying when I create a new Space, I should select "Visible only to me"?

Thanks,

Amanda


author: Mick Davidson
body: Yes Amanda. I can't remember the rest of the options, but essentially that's it. it can be changed later if you like. Cheers.


author: Amanda Chu
body: Hi Mick,

If I created a private space and want to revert back to public space, is this possible?

Thanks,

Amanda


Tags: confluence-administration
Active directory (LDAP) login to Confluence OnDemand
Asked by Fabio Martignago:

Hello,

I red a year ago that was not possible to log-in to Confluence OnDemand with LDAP users from my Active Directory.

Is still in this way? Any news?  
I would like to move from onPremise/Site version to OnDemand as soon as possible, but I need to integrate AD users authentication, because I don't want a user has a lot of differents passwords.

thanks


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: If you strictly need a hosted solution, but doesn't have to be OnDemand, you might like to look for 3rd party Atlassian hosting as well until the LDAP for OnDemand is ever completed.


author: salehparsa
body: Hello Fabio,

Watch [Support LDAP Integration with Ondemand](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-1837) to recive updates. It seems this request accepted by developers.

Cheers

Saleh


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Confluence Active Directory Groups
Asked by AKASH BHARDWAJ:

Hi All,

I want to list the groups and users under Active Directory of Confluence.

So is it possible to view the Groups and Users.

Please give me suggestion on this.


Answers:
author: salehparsa
body: Hi Akash,

You can check Connecting to an [LDAP Documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory#ConnectingtoanLDAPDirectory-ConnectingtoanLDAPDirectoryinConfluence) for more information. There is a quick way provided for Microsoft Active Directory under the User Direcotries.

Cheers,

Saleh


Tags: active-directory
How do I access the java DateTool in a User Macro?
Asked by Chris Kent:

Does anyone know how to load java libraries/tools into Confluence User Macros?

I need to use the DateTool()

Thanks


Answers:
author: Chris Kent
body: So I have had to write a plugin to solve my solution. User Macros are great, but do lack the flexibility to include java modules.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: What is your use case for needing DateTool specifically?

comments: author: Chris Kent
body: Hi Daniel,

I want a macro that compares the last edit timestamp of a linked page, with the users recent history of the same page. If the page has been updated since the user last viewed it, then the macro will highlight the link to show it has new content not viewed by the current user.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Chris,

It seems like you are trying to notify users that specific page has been modified since a user edited it last.

Would having a user subscribe to a page and then getting email notifications as well as notifications in the notifications box fulfil this need, or does the use case necessitate that text be highlighted on the page itself.

I am just trying to walk you through some of the default behavior of Confluence before you build something on your own. Maintianing your own plugin can be a giant pain.


author: Chris Kent
body: Daniel,

Yes that is close to what I want, but the pitfall here is mandating that users subscribe/watch the page and remain subscribed (as they can always stop watching the page if they get sick of emails etc). Since we have staff all over the world, and tracking new staff and ensuring they subscribe can be a bigger challenge.

I was wanting a more descrete method of notifications that did not use emails and does not rely on them "doing" something (ie. subscribing/watching pages).

I have written User Macros, but never any plugins, this is new territory for me, so if I can avoid doing that, all the better.

Thanks


author: Deividi Luvison
body: From my research I was not able to find any macro/plugin or guide that match the criterea you want :(.

I believe you might need to develop your [own plugin](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Writing+Confluence+Plugins) to do that.


Tags: confluence-administration
Permissions to view all restricted pages without giving super user permissions?
Asked by Jennifer H.:

Hi there,

We have a content manager for our wiki (Confluence) and she has space admin privileges for all spaces. However, she is still unable to view restricted pages (I'm aware she can remove the restriction as a space admin, but we don't want to do that). Is there a way to give her permissions to view all restricted pages without giving her super user permissions?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Hi Jennifer,

as far as I know the only way is to use the restricted pages view in the space admin section to first remove all the restricitions and then add it back, but with her as additional modifier. Or use it, to get the information who you can contact. That's what you can do out of the box.

There is a [plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.javahollic.confluence.confluencesu) which enables you to change our user in a user who can access the page, but you need at least confluence-administrator priviledges for that.

Regards

Steve

comments: author: Jennifer H.
body: Thanks Steve.. this was very helpful!
How did atlassian make "marketplace" - confluence + what?
Asked by Peter Kahn:

Hi all (especially Atlassian):

Does anyone know what Atlassian uses to make / manage the plugin marketplace sites? The market place is quite sweet and I have an internal need to manage / "market" many resuable components within my organization. Since we already use the Atlassian tool set I was hoping to find out details on the approach Atlassian took to build and maintain its marketplace.

So, doesn't anyone know how they did it or have any good examples of projects that support pulling build / source / issue tracking together in a market place?

Thanks

Peter


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Peter,

The Atlassian Marketplace was built by our team from the ground up-- it's written in Scala and uses a MongoDB data store. We use a lot of open-source technologies in our codebase, but it's not really possible to package and re-purpose what we've built.

cheers,

John

comments: author: Peter Kahn
body: Thanks John. So, I had a feeling that might be the case. I have much to refactor and automate before I can populate an internal market place with data in a reliable way. I'll take a look at some other projects as well for inspiration on approaches.


Tags: atlassian-marketplace
Confluence shows my user account twice
Asked by Anthony Garritano:

We are using JIRA and Confluence -both On Demand.

In Confluence I see my user profile twice (I am an administrator). In JIRA I am only listed once. I've reindexed in JIRA and did a Content Reindex in Confluence with no changes.

Any thoughts on what to else to do?


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Antony,  

I suspect that you have encounter this bug [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30050.)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30050>. I suggest you to raise a ticket in [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) so we can help resolve this issue for you.  

Regards,  
Jing Hwa


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confluence-cloud
Export selected content in PDF
Asked by Jorge Onrubia:

Hi,

We have a Doc Space in which we use tables, the tables we use have many columns, when exporting to PDF merges all the columns into the same width of the PDF, wich makes the content unreadable.

How can it be solved?? Is there any way to select the content to export??

THanks in advance,


Answers:
author: salehparsa
body: Hi Jorge,  

I'm afraid to say that, there is a bug in PDF exports that create a PDF file with full-width. This bug is tracking with [CONF-25233](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25233) ticket number.  

Please refer to the workaround provided in the bug report to resolve this issue. I would also recommend that you watch the ticket to receive the updates.  

Let me know if you have any other questions.  

Cheers,  
Saleh


author: Jorge Onrubia
body: Hi Saleh,

I have posted a comment on the issue, because it doesn't solve my issue as i still cannot see the columns above the 11th.

Thanks so much


author: Steffen Heller
body: The width of table columns is defined by the CSS property "table-layout". It can be "auto" or "fixed". Try "auto" to have the table automatically adjust to the content inside the table cell.

see [](/questions/207981/on-demand-confuence-pdf-export-tables-have-equal-size-columns-need-text-sized)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/207981/on-demand-confuence-pdf-export-tables-have-equal-size-columns-need-text-sized>

As regards selecting the content to export: You can select a single page or do a space export and select all or some of the space's pages.

comments: author: Jorge Onrubia
body: thanks so much for the comment, that is made on the Look\&Feel secion PDF Stylesheet??


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Edit excel link does nothing
Asked by glenn bernsohn:

I'm trying to use the excel macro in on demand version of Confluence. Data show up but when I click the edit document link nothing happens. Using Firefox. Here's the link that edit document is pointing to. [](https://fidelitylife.atlassian.net/wiki/plugins/servlet/confluence/editinword/15663134/attachments/RDS%20Sunset%20Plan.xls)[https://fidelitylife.atlassian.net/wiki/plugins/servlet/confluence/editinword/15663134/attachments/RDS%20Sunset%20Plan.xls](https://fidelitylife.atlassian.net/wiki/plugins/servlet/confluence/editinword/15663134/attachments/RDS%2520Sunset%2520Plan.xls)

Thanks.


Answers:
author: glenn bernsohn
body: Ah ha ! Combination of MS Office on a Mac is not supported....wish it was.


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Glenn,

Are you the only one facing that behaviour or other users of your OnDemand instance are unable to edit that doc as well?  
Also make sure to check if you have all the pre requisites as per this page:  
[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Editing+an+Office+Document+from+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Editing+an+Office+Document+from+Confluence>  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: Premal
body: Deividi has this been fixed? I'm facing the same problem. Its really painful to use without that.


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confluence-cloud
Hide content in screen but not in PDF export
Asked by BenoitP:

Hi all,

I used to play with the noPrint feature to hide content from PDF exports with no problems.  
But how do I hide the content in the page but show it in the pdf export?

I have tried with inline style for the divs (display:none or visibility:hidden) in the confluence page and custom CSS for pdf export overwritting these but the inline style is not overwritten. This end up with hidden content in both screen and PDF...

Any idea?

PS: I would use this for runningheader and runningfooter being defined in the page but that I want to hide in the confluence page (keep it for the edit mode only)


Answers:
author: Max G?bel
body: Hello Plet Benoit,

we faced the same issue some time ago.

You migth use the "show-if" makro from <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility> as a conditional branch within your own macro.

e.g.:

```
## @noparams&lt;ac:macro ac:name="show-if"&gt;	&lt;ac:parameter ac:name="display"&gt;pdf&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;	&lt;ac:rich-text-body&gt;		... your html ...			&lt;/ac:rich-text-body&gt;&lt;/ac:macro&gt;
```


author: Juha Mustonen
body: My requirement is to hide some content (for example JIRA macros that are only shown as loooong URLs) from PDF export. But similar to Benoit Plet findings, one can change some attributes like background color of the element, but `display: none;` has no effect.

Could this be considered a bug or limitation in PDF export?


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Diagramly is trying to GET dropins.js from Dropbox, how can I stop it
Asked by Matt Shields:

The Diagramly plugin seems to be attempting to GET a Dropbox Javascript file from Dropbox, dropins.js. Our locally installed Confluence instance is behind a firewall which blocks access to Dropbox. Is there a way to disable this call as Dropbox isn't something we would use?


Answers:
author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: The JS doesn't do anything, it's not called. It just wasn't stripped from the build process that generates the Confluence plugin from the online version.

We did remove it in a release this year, I forget the exact version, if you upgrade the plugin to the latest version, it's no longer in.


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Which version of the plugin are you using?


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly
Column values does not displayed
Asked by kA:

Hi friends,

I created five child page under one parent page. Each child page has their own table(Columns:Title,Date,Organizer) on it. Now i want to show the particular column(Date) value in parent page. Show i specified the column(Date) in "column to show" in "Page properties report macro". Then i save the changes, now the column title alone shown in that page, I could not get the respective values under it.

if i could not specified anyting in column to show, it will display all the column along with the values.

Then i specified the "organizer" column alone in column to show field.,It is also display the values. But i could not get the values for Date.

Please share your thoughts,

Thanks in advance,

Karthik A.


Answers:
author: kA
body: Hi Bill,

The page properties screen shot:

![](../../upfiles/Properties.png)

If i specified the "Organizer" column in column to show filed in page properties report i got the values under the column, but i could not get the value, if i specified the Date instead of it in column to show.


author: BillA
body: I'm out of suggestions without seeing screenshots of the way you've configured the page properties and page properties report macro.


author: kA
body: Hi Bill,

Any update on this..

Thanks in advance,

Karthik A.


author: kA
body: Yes, i have added the label in the child page and i also specified that label in page properties report macro. Please refer the screen shot below.

Child page:

![](../../upfiles/Child.png)

Page properties report:

![](../../upfiles/page_1.png)


author: BillA
body: You also need to add a label to the child labels and specify that label in the page properties report macro. did you do that as well?


author: kA
body: Hi Bill,

Thanks for your update.Yes, i used the same spelling in both places.


author: BillA
body: I believe the columns to show field is case sensitive. Are you sure you're using the exact same spelling in your table column title and marcro parameter?


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confluence-cloud
bug css at confluence while using https and chrome
Asked by Nguy?n D??ng Ph?:

dear folks,

my system is

* [Confluence](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) : 5.3.4
* Chrome : Version 33.0.1750.117 m
* Structure : using nginx as reverse-proxy, redirect all request to https and use context path at domain like <https://mydomain/confuence>

![](../../upfiles/bug_while_https_and_chrome.png)

any helping are appreciated

thank :)


Answers:
author: Sebastian Wiederhold
body: ![](../../upfiles/26-06-2014_14-12-31.png)


author: Nguy?n D??ng Ph?
body: Thank for your response, I faced that bug with chrome only, i dont know how to check css err on chrome dev tool


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Nguy?n,  

Is this just happening with Chrome? Or the same behaviour happen on Firefox?  
Could you check for CSS/JS errors on Chrome Dev Tools and let us know the results?  

Kind Regards


Tags: confluence-administration
Adding new users in Existing Team space
Asked by kA:

Hi friends,

I created the Team space and working on it now. Initially i created the Team space with 2 users. Now i want add two more users on that team space. So i proivided all the permission for them to access the Team space in the permission but still they are not able to access the team space.

Please share your thoughts,

Thanks,

Karthik A.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You need to re-examine the permissions basically.

It's difficult to tell you more than that, because we don't know what you've done when you say "provided all the permission for them" or what "not able to access the team space" means - how much of confluence can they get to?

comments: author: kA
body: Hi Nic,

Thanks for your updates, Please refer the below screen shot![](../../upfiles/Permission_1.png)

Anandaraj is the new member i added into my Team space and he has all permission on my team space but when he try to open the page by his credential, It is display the message like "Access denied".

Thanks,

Karthik A.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, that's the permissions covered - can you check the "restrictions" on the space though - I suspect the top level page might be restricted. Also, if you take the url for "space admin" on the space from your browser, what does Anandaraj get when they try that url?


author: salehparsa
body: Is Anandaraj belongs to any group? or Is your team space restricted from "Confluence-users"?


author: kA
body: Yes, Anandaraj belongs to Users group. That group has the following permission on that team space(marked in red color).

![](../../upfiles/users_1.png)


author: salehparsa
body: Can you check the global permission of this group?!

Thanks Nic for Clarifying

1. Go to your global permission
2. Add this group

Grant the **Can Use** this group


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The group membership is not that important - the way the permissions work is permissive. If Anandaraj matches **any** rule that grants access, then they're in. Doesn't matter if the group doesn't have access, Anandaraj's account has full rights.

I think what Saleh was getting at was checking Anandaraj actually has the rights to \*use\* confluence at all. Bascially, can they see any pages at all? That are not open to "anonymous"


author: kA
body: Hi All,

Thanks for your update, now he can able to access the team space.

Thanks,

Karthik A.


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