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bulk exports
Asked by Amy Gammon:

Can you export bulk loads of pages out of confluence


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: It would also help to know what the purpose of doing this is. There are a number of options available, but not all make sense depending on what you want to do with the data.


author: J. Caldwell
body: Are you talking about a group of pages or like an entire space? What version of Confluence are you running?
Is Confluence version 4.2.13 is in any way vulnerable to apache struts-related attacks (including, b
Asked by Joseph Norman:

Is Confluence version 4.2.13 is in any way vulnerable to apache struts-related attacks (including, but not limited to CVE-2017-5638)?


Answers:
author: MattS
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-4-2-13-release-notes-298978950.html> shows that 4.2.13 was released on August 12th 2012

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Security+Overview+and+Advisories?src=contextnavpagetreemode> has the list of all security advisories. I would read all the ones from 2011 forward.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-advisory-2014-05-21-597557675.html> looks relevant?


Tags: questions-for-confluence
Why is the Space "homepage" layout different between users?
Asked by Erica Cunningham:

About 3 months ago the layout for space pages changed on Confluence, then changed back like a week later, for everyone except me apparently. I am a Confluence Admin, and my other fellow admins have a different view, and we can't figure out why. We have not changed the settings or layouts, this seemed to have happened during an update maybe, not sure. Does anyone know how to change this or why it would be doing this? We're befuddled, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Few more things: this happens on all Space "home pages" whether it was created by me or by someone else. I used three different browsers and get the same layout. I have cleared history, cookies etc. logged out and back in.

The first screenshot is the layout I see in any browser, the second shot is how everyone else would see the same page:

![confluencescreenshot.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/474i20100181E27DC8A7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluencescreenshot.png")


Answers:
author: Erica Cunningham
body: Turns out it was a UI upgrade trickled out by Atlassian. I just happened to be first in my company. Nice, since I'm the one doing the training and materials on it... I'm ahead now.


author: Jan-Peter Rusch
body: Just an idea: Did you check the Layout section in Confluence administration? Is this reset to standard?

comments: author: Erica Cunningham
body: Thank you for the reply. I am not seeing it and I do have system admin rights as well. I looked it up and can only see it referred to in the server based versions. Can you send me a screenshot of where this is? TMaybe I'm just not looking in the right place. Thank you so much! : )


Tags: cloud
Context aware SSO linking from Web-App to Confluence.
Asked by Dan Kellett:

We are considering Confluence as a help and knowledge base system for our B2B web application. We would like to have context-aware links within our application that will log in or create users in via SAML(SSO) and drive users to relevant information depending on where they are coiming from.

Is this possible, and what are the recommended solutions?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Lars Olav Velle
body: First you should look at how you can distinguish user 1 from user 2.

If your users can be distinguished by IP/subnet, then you could apply some apache/nginx rules based on that and redirect them to the proper content.

Finally you can add a SSO solution ontop of that.

Cheers,  
Lars, Kantega Single Sign-on
Can't get anchors to work for pages with ( ) in the title.
Asked by John Corwith:

My company requires Confluence document titles to start with *(PROPRIETARY)*

I start with a working anchor on page:

<http://myconfluence.com/display/spacekey/PROPRIETARY+pagename#PROPRIETARYpagename-anchorname>

When I put in the parens, the URL for the page changes to:

<http://myconfluence.com/display/spacekey/%28PROPRIETARY%29+pagename>

So I tried:

<http://myconfluence.com/display/spacekey/%28PROPRIETARY%29+pagename#%28PROPRIETARY%29pagename-anchorname>

And it links to the page but not the anchor

To complicate matters, I want to use the anchor in a Page properties macro so that it shows up in the Page properties report on a separate page.

The issue here is that I can't use the Insert link/Advanced function to set the anchor to current page#anchorname since Confluence removes the current page and when I run the report, it is looking for the anchor on the report page.


Answers:
author: John Corwith
body: It seems all you have to do is have the first character of the title be a number or letter.

<br />

So this works

Page title: Companyname (PROPRIETARY) Pagename

<http://myconfluence.com/display/spacekey/Companyname+%28PROPRIETARY%29+pagename#Companyname(PROPRIETARY)pagename-anchorname>

and this

Page title: Pagename (PROPRIETARY)

<br />

<http://myconfluence.com/display/spacekey/pagename+%28PROPRIETARY%29#Pagename(PROPRIETARY)-anchorname>

This also works

Page title: Companyname (PROPRIETARY/PII) Pagename

<http://myconfluence.com/viewpage.action?pageId=00000#Companyname(PROPRIETARY/PII)pagename-anchorname>

They all fail the page checker looking for (PROPRIETARY) markings at the beginning of the line but the policy people seem ok with these alternatives.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's a limitation of html - the brackets need to be escaped in urls, but they can't be used in anchors because the escaped character is not the same as the pages actual name.

I'm afraid you are pretty much stuck, unless your company changes its policy to match internet standards (not using escaped characters in titles)
Unable to Copy/Paste Image from Confluence
Asked by xpt:

The problem exactly as described in

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/unable-to-copy-paste-image-from-confluence-to-outlook-or-word-655196184.html>

\> When copy/pasting an image into Outlook or Word, nothing appears. Using Chrome, a very small outline of a box appears with no image inside. Using IE11 or Firefox has the same results, but in the outline is actually the size of the image.

However, that fix in above page doens't work for me using Microsoft Word 2016 -- I have disabled 'Protected View' just as eplained but the problem still remains.


Answers:
author: Alberto Ferrari
body: Seven years later this issue still happens, **shame on you, Atlassian!**


author: Christoffer Dam Bruun
body: I try to paste images from a confluence webpage into an email - it does not work

- on other sites it normally does.

Could it be related to the use of blob urls: \<img src="blob:<https://atlassian......../>\> ?


author: Dominic Lagger
body: I have the same issue and unchecked the options like it is described in the article.

Does anyone have an idea how to fix it?


author: Mike Rink
body: I have encountered this same issue. I don't have a long term answer to your question, unfortunately. But, I have found you can drag your image to the desktop, then drag it to Word/Office etc. and it will appear properly.

comments: author: xpt
body: Yeah, that's basically download the image, which is what I've been doing, which is really annoying, because we are forced to do downloading then cleaning up.

Thanks though.
Include Macro to also include Page Title
Asked by Simon Dunn:

I am trying to use the {include} macro, but it does not insert the page title. It only includes the content.

Is there any way to switch on the Page Title as well as the content?


Answers:
author: Daniel Hauswirth
body: Unfortunately it looks like [@Reinhard Piltz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/676896)'s answer does not match the question.

I'm looking for the same.

I have multiple pages which I want to include to on wiki page to be able to print out or make a PDF for all.

Is there a way to include the page title too?


author: Reinhard Piltz
body: Macro:**Include** the**excerpt** from one page within another page


Tags: macro
Unable to communicate with server. Saving is not possible at the moment.
Asked by Song Xue:

I set up a local confluence server for evaluation. However, I cannot really save anything. "Unable to communicate with server. Saving is not possible at the moment." error shows everytime I tried to save pages. I checked the knowledge base and find answers about turning off collaborative editing. Unfortunately, I couldn't find that in the general configuration. I'm using confluence 5.10.8.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Song,

do you see an error in the logfile?

comments: author: Song Xue
body: Hi, Thomas

Thanks for the quick reply. Which log file should I look into? I saw a lot of errors.

Regards,

Song


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: I would look first at atlassian-confluence.log


author: Song Xue
body: I got this error when saving pages.

<http://i.imgur.com/rEQoepg.png>


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: hmm, from this snippet, I can't find out what is going wrong there. Do you create a page with the REST api or with the user interface?

Since you are evaluating the server, you can ask official Atlassian support also: <https://support.atlassian.com/contact/>

They are able to take deeper look at your logs and configuration files than we can do here.


author: Song Xue
body: Cool. Thanks for your help anyway. I will ask the support. Cheers
Is possible to access ?Components? system field, it?s values updated in Jira Project into confluence
Asked by Manjunatha K R:

Is it possible to access "Components" system field and it's values updated in a specific Jira Project in a Confluence space or page?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Define what you mean by "access"? Read it? If so, then yes, have a look at the JIRA macros in Confluence.

comments: author: Manjunatha K R
body: Nic,

Thanks for your prompt response.

I will try to explain my requirement in Confluence page briefly as below:

I will be capturing my all product requirements in a table format with the below explained column details - first column is "Requirement key", followed by "Tittle" column, "Description" column, "Related Business requirement key to be linked" column and "Impacted components" column as last.

In this last column i,e "Impacted components", I need to read the "Components" system field, it's values and update one (or multiple) of the value applicable against each requirements in the requirement table.

- Manju


author: Manjunatha K R
body: Hi Nic,

I tried to get some add-ons for confluence to create a Drop down menu with pre-defined values updated in it and In confluence page, we should able to use this Drop down and user should able to select (i,e multiple values selection) against each requirement in the table format.

I tried Easy Drop down menu, Scaffolding Forms, HTML macros - but didn't work for me.

Please suggest if you have any other inputs.

- Manju
Is there any simple way to import source code from Bitbucket to Confluence?
Asked by Hisamitsu Koga:

I would like to know if there is a simple way to import source code from Bitbucket to Confluence? If there is, please point any helpful link and/or document.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What do you mean by "import"? Copy it? Or show something in a page that's been drawn in from somewhere in Bitbucket?


Tags: bitbucket

import
How to redirect directly from the title to another confluence page?
Asked by PolYGame:

Hi everyone,  

I'm looking for redirecting people to another confluence page directly when they click on the page title on the left tree, is it possible ?

Currently I am using iFrame to display the content of the second confluence page but it's not ergonomic and ugly.  

Any suggestions?  

Thanks !


Answers:
author: Bernard Welter
body: Could Atlassian implement a feature like 'redirect' in wikipedia?

Adding extra macros on the server is often not possible for a ordinary user.

see: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect>


author: Steve
body: On Confluence cloud there is no way to do what is technically a redirect. But even with the other way to do it any page still needs to load.

We were struggling to redirect Confluence cloud pages and didn't find anything useful on the marketplace so built our own macro. It works pretty well so we just put it on the marketplace as [Easy Redirection for Confluence cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1224699/easy-redirection-for-confluence-cloud?hosting=cloud&tab=overview).

It's a bit of a workaround due to the cloud restrictions, thus the pop up. In building it we learned a lot so sent me a question if want to learn more details. I know many are planning or at least considering moves from server to cloud and need to map things out beforehand.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Pol,

no, I don't think that this is possible. The tree on the left side is representing the Confluence pages in the space, so if a page title there would link to something completely different, this would be very confusing.

But you can add custom links to your sidebar, if you are a space administrator. Just click on "Configure Sidebar".

comments: author: PolYGame
body: Thanks for the reply, I will ask my administrator if he can change it !


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It wouldn't make sense to redirect someone when they click on a page title on the tree - the whole point of it is that it should take you to the page the user has asked for.

You say you are using an iframe to display another page in a page, that really is a horrible way to try to show content.

Try the "include page" or "include excerpt" macros instead, they're far better (and you can always enclose them in a simple panel if you need to highlight that the content is from elsewhere)

comments: author: PolYGame
body: The point is, we need to access the same confluence page in different trees.


Tags: redirect
how can we change the blog icon?
Asked by steve.pranga:

Hello there,

my first post :-)

How can we change the blog icon.

![blog icon.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/455iBF2DFB20FB204883/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "blog icon.png")

These simple receaving beam.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Welcome! :-)

The quick and dirty way to change it would be to replace the icon file (blog-empty-placeholder.png) in the directory \<Confluence_Install\>/confluence/images/icons.

Here is a discussion of how to use CSS to customize icons:

[Change page and blog icons in news feeds](/t5/Confluence-questions/Change-page-and-blog-icons-in-news-feeds/qaq-p/351767)
WebDAV Launcher add-on restarted my firefox but didn't proceed to install the add-on
Asked by Candy Yi:

I wanted to use "Edit in Office" function then firefox promted to install WebDAV Launcher add-on. I chose to install and then it requested to restart firefox. After firefox restarted, nothing happened. So I tried to install again and still nothing happened after firefox restart. Now if I click the "Edit in Office", even no window pops up for add-on install. Firefox just has no reaction at all....

My OS is Mac v10.12.4 and my firefox is v45.8. The add-on I tried to install is v1.1 which I got here - <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webdav-launcher/>


Answers:
author: Branno
body: I would recommend that you install the latest version of Firefox and manually install the latest version of the WebDAV addon from <https://update.atlassian.com/office-connector/URLLauncher/latest/webdavloader.xpi>


Tags: server
A Confluence macro to read the number of JIRA issues
Asked by CelesteCS:

Hello,  
I'm looking for a Confluence macro, which could let me count the number of issues in JIRA, just like JIRA Issues macro does it. The problem with JIRA Issues macro is that it returns a number of issues asynchronously and in this case it cannot be used inside my macro, which uses its output for further calculations.  
Hopefully there is an alternative macro, which works synchronously and does the trick.  
Thanks!


Answers:
author: thais
body: Hi, Alexey,

Can you please share more details, for example a use case for this macro?

When you say "returns a number of issues asynchronously and in this case it cannot be used inside my macro", can you please clarify what would be asynchronous/synchronous and what macro would this macro be inside of?

comments: author: thais
body: Hi, Alexey,

Thanks for replying, and thanks for sharing you could find a workaround.


author: George Ivanov
body: Hi Alexey, thais,

I have similar problem. Could you please share the workaround you were able to find?

Thank you


Tags: confluence-cloud

jira
How do I turn off email notifications for Team Calendars?
Asked by Irum Jones:

We've recently rolled out Confluence/JIRA suite to the company and all end-users are complaining about the excessive email notifications from the Calendars.

How can I turn off notifications from the Calendars? We're on Confluence 6.0.1

So far we tried:

* Managing it at the Plug-in/Manage Add-Ons but the option mentioned in the Help article doesn't exist for us
* Attempting to stop watching the Calendar by clicking on the down black arrow (but there is no option to Stop Watching for that specific calendar)
* Unsubscribing from the page
* Going to My Profile\>Stop Watching the page the Calendar exists on

Is anyone else having this issue? Any workarounds to decrease or stop notifications?


Answers:
author: carolyn french
body: Can you have the users receiving the email notifications look at the bottom of the email notification to see why they are receiving that particular notification? We've found that frequently users are watching spaces, and then when calendars are associated to those spaces, lots of email notifications start going out. You can then either switch the space/calendar associations or otherwise troubleshoot easier.


author: Hermance NDounga
body: Which kind of notification is it ? if it's reminders, you can try this : <https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/reminders-693899708.html> as all the reminder affect everyone


Tags: calendar

notification
Admins
Asked by Amy Gammon:

I am a new admin for Confluence. I granted someone admin access to their space and they said they can't see others documents in that space only their docs. She needs to see them so we can move them. If you could also send me training material for my role in confluence that would be greatly appreciated.


Answers:
author: Danny Zuccaro
body: Hi Amy,

Here is a link to the Confluence admin documentation. This should help get you started in your new role as a Confluence admin.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-administrator-s-guide-138143.html>
Is there a way to make a blog post required?
Asked by Kimberly Stowe:

Hello!

We are transitioning to Confluence and would like to know if there's a way to mark a blog post or page as required reading. For example, display the post/page everytime the user logs in until they acknowledge that they've read it. I would also need a history of who has accepted the post/page.

Essentially, we're trying to think through whether or not we can use Confluence to push out HR policies/changes.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Mike Rink
body: Hi Kimberely,

I'm with Comalatech, one of the Atlassian add-on vendors. We have an add-on called [Comala Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow/server/overview) that may be able to provide the functionality you're looking for. Using Workflow's task system along with Confluence's audit log you should be able to create a system that works for your situation. I would note as well that we're currently working on a feature enhancement for the product to provide the exact function you've described; if you're interested in receiving updates regarding the upgrade please feel free to create a [support ticket](https://comalatech.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and we'll keep you informed.

Another option would be to take a look at our friends at Service Rocket and their add-on [Knowledge Pathways for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.servicerocket.confluence.pathways/server/overview). It has built-in tracking of employee progress on Confluence pages.

Good luck, and let me know if I can help further!


Tags: human-resources

required-field
Page tree
Asked by O?uz B?y?k:

i want to copy space but i have to do some page modification while copying. my old space's page tree just shows pages but copied space's page tree show pages + copied space's home page. i dont want see home page link at page tree. i think i need to set something while creating space or need PageTree manager(or somethink like that) and remove home page from there. thanks.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: On my test instance the home page shows in the sidebar if I have "Child Pages" selected (under Space Tools \> Configure sidebar) but it just shows the child pages if I pick "Page tree".


Tags: page-tree
How to backup everything in Confluence and also restore using the backup?
Asked by bfang711:

I would like to do daily backup for everything in Confluence Server. Several questions I have here.

1. I would like to backup into the local and also into a cloud, like dropbox. I wonder if this is possible. Any referred link for reference would be helpful.

2. Is the backup the whole archive backup or just incremental backup? or I can control both. (In the current stage, whole archive backup would be good for me. but in future, maybe incremental backup would be prefered. )

3. I think the backup should be only one big binary file, and I can copy to whereever I want, is that right?

4. I want to know how to restore the backup, maybe in the Conflunce cloud, maybe in another Conflunce server on another host. Any referred link for reference would be helpful.

thank you very much.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

we backup our Confluence data with native backup tools from Oracle (database backup) and another tool that makes daily backups of our Virtual machines.

If you want to restore such a backup, you have to use the tools of your database vendor or VM restore tools.

We don't use regular XML-Backup in our production environment. Also, this is not recommended by Atlassian. Look here for more information: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/production-backup-strategy-38797389.html>


Tags: backup

restore
Java Issue Upon Fresh Install
Asked by Audra:

I had an issue with my Confluence where the service kept stopping itself and, although I contacted support, we decided that just reinstalling it would be to our benefit. Unfortunately now , right after a fresh reinstall (where I restarted the server prior) I've gotten an error page with this as the cause:

org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'isShowSignUp' in class com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.LoginAction threw exception java.lang.NullPointerException: Application cannot be null at /login.vm\[line 6, column 28\]  
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.handleInvocationException(ASTMethod.java:337)  
caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Application cannot be null  
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:226)

I'm sure it's a java issue, but I don't understand what is going on.


Answers:
author: Marcelo Horlle
body: Hey Audra,

There is a CAC Knowledge Base Article that can be helpful to assist you with this issue!

It is intended to help fixing issues on instances facing exactly the same issue as you are facing. Why don't you take a look on the documentation and see if it helps on your case as well? You can find it [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-returns-system-error-due-to-invocation-of-method-isshowsignup-in-class-com-atlassian-confluence-user-actions-loginaction-threw-exception-java-lang-nullpointerexception-at-login-vm-693899125.html).

Have a great day ahead!