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The PDF viewer in Confluence doesn't allow one to find (Ctrl+F) content in it
Asked by Somujit Bhattacharya:

I'm using Confluence Server 6.5.1 and when I click on a PDF attachment, the viewer doesn't allow me to find (Ctrl+f) content within it. I'm using Google Chrome to open the page.

Interestingly enough, if I hit Ctrl+f before launching the attachment, Chrome opens up the 'find in page' utility and then if I open the attachment, I'm able to find content through it.

Can somebody explain why the viewer doesn't allow one to 'find' content in the page?

Regards,

Somujit


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

As I understand, you are unable to use the Find tool of your browser when a PDF preview is open, correct?

I am able to reproduce this issue locally and was also able to find a report pointing to this. You can check the report here:

**[Enable the use of CTRL/CMD+F shortcut to activate the Find tool in browsers](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-40333)**

There are three workarounds to this! Here they are:
> 1. Open the Find tool with CTRL/CMD+F shortcut**before**previewing the attachment
> 2. Use the Menu bar of your browser to open the find tool while previewing
> 3. Download the attachment and find the content locally

Please, keep in mind that the Find tool is native to each browser and is not provided by the Confluence interface itself. So it may behave differently when using different browsers.

Looking forward to your reply Somujit!

comments: author: Matt Gortner
body: F3 may be a 4th workaround
confluence and synchrony with traefik reverse proxy in docker-compose
Asked by Joerg Troeger:

Hi,

I'm trying to get confluence working with docker-compose.yml and traefik. Confluence itself is running, but synchrony won't work, that means I can't edit a page, when synchrony is enabled.

Can someone share a running docker-compose.yml with some working traefik-labels?

Regards,

Joerg


Answers:
author: Joel K?berg
body: Did you find out how to do this [@Joerg Troeger](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3007497) ?

comments: author: Joerg Troeger
body: I regret, no. Synchrony is disabled for now.


Tags: confluence-server

server

traefik
Stale document detection
Asked by Kobus Myburgh:

Hi,

I am wondering if there is a way to "detect" potentially stale documents. I would be happy if there was something like "Send me an email whenever a document was not modified in X months".

I am not talking about drafts, per s?; any version of the document.

Thanks in advance,

Kobus


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: You could try Analytics for Confluence <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215795/analytics-for-confluence> - Note: they have just been acquired by Atlassian and it looks like it will become part of the core offering.

Otherwise you could use Confluence Query Language (CQL) to find documents that haven't been modified in a particular time - there is a free macro that can help with this <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1213090/cql-search>

comments: author: Kobus Myburgh
body: Hi James,

Thank you for your answer. This looks like it will do what I need, I appreciate you taking time to answer me.

Kind regards,

Kobus


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I insert two line breaks between paragraphs?
Asked by John M:

Whether I type \\\\ \\\\ or just \\\\, it prints the backslashes out on publishing instead of inserting line breaks.


Answers:
author: Sireesha Dugginapeddi [Appfire]
body: Hi [@John M](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2663431) ,

You can try using **shift + return (enter for windows)**to insert a line break. This should work!

Thanks

Sireesha


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I render Markdown files from Bitbucket Server in Confluence Server?
Asked by Ingo Mohr:

On my Bitbucket Server's Git repo I have an \*.md file which is perfectly rendered on Bitbucket (Bitbucket Server 6.0 or newer).

What I want is to have it rendered on a page on Confluence Server (6.12).

Is there a way to achieve this?

(The two servers are connected to each other.)


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hey there!

Currently, there is no native method to include this file within Confluence. We had a feature request that tackled this:

**[CONFSERVER-24088 \| confluence should support markdown](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-24088)**

To workaround this, we can still use some third-party applications, such as:

**[Markdown for Confluence \| Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211445/markdown-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)**

**[Markdown Extensions for Confluence \| Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215703/markdown-extensions-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo-_rwJXG4QIVhZ-fCh0EZQQPEAAYAiAAEgJ_d_D_BwE)**

Hope this helps your needs Ingo! Looking forward to your reply.

comments: author: Ingo Mohr
body: Hi Diego,

Thanks for your quick answer.

**[CONFSERVER-24088 \| confluence should support markdown](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-24088?_ga=2.76323861.12507075.1554892757-1365184947.1526487912)**

imho doesn't help because it asks for using markdown on Confluence pages.

My problem is to render markdown files on Confluence that are stored in a Git repository - or, in general, behind some URL.

But it seems, one of the 3rd party plug-ins you've added does the job:

**[Markdown Extensions for Confluence \| Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215703/markdown-extensions-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo-_rwJXG4QIVhZ-fCh0EZQQPEAAYAiAAEgJ_d_D_BwE&_ga=2.118445833.12507075.1554892757-1365184947.1526487912)**

Thanks for helping out!


Tags: bitbucket

bitbucket-server

confluence-server

markdown

server
Login via Interal DB ot working
Asked by Stewart Bradley:

Hi all,

I am running confluence 6.0 and have inherited this from a previous install. No one seems to have passwords, the LDAP does not seem to be working.

So I have tried to run through

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf64/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-936511358.html>

My confluence internal database is listed as priority 0

however no matter how many times i set the password to what it says in the document, or check the users are active and ok and admins

i still cannot log in with those users. Are there any logs i can check?


Answers:
author: Rambabu Patina _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Stewart Bradley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3004703),

The Knowledge article you were referring does not work if,

* **Confluence is configured for SSO through Crowd.**
* **You're using Confluence 3.4 or earlier.**

As you are on Confluence 6.0, you could refer to the older documentation if you're still using [OSUser](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF256/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights) or [AtlassianUser](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights). Hope this helps you.

Thanks,  
Ram.

comments: author: Stewart Bradley
body: Thanks,

running the commands from the AtlassianUser link

I can create the admin user

However when i run the :  
SELECT \* FROM groups;  
SELECT \* FROM users;

I only get the user i added and no groups show up for me to add the user to.

So i cant make this command work:

`// Add group memberships into local_users``insert into local_members (userid, groupid) values (<from select above ``for` `user>,<from_select_above_for_conf_users_group>);``insert into local_members (userid, groupid) values (<from select above ``for` `user>,<from_select_above_for_conf_admin_group>);`

Because no groups turn up to use the ID of

thanks


Tags: confluence-server

server
How do I recover my Roadmap planner edits if I haven't inserted them?
Asked by Manju Hegde:

I was working on a document on my mac and did not insert assuming confluence was saving my work. and I swiped right on the key pad and lost my file. Now I can't find my file -- any ideas on what I can do?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Manju,

Welcome to Community! It's nice to meet you.

It's not clear on what you mean by **insert** here. It sounds like you had already added the Roadmap Planner macro to your page but you didn't save it. Is that correct?

If so, you might be able to find it in your **Drafts**.

* [How to find drafts on Confluence Server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/drafts-149040.html)
* [How to find drafts on Confluence Cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/create-edit-and-publish-724764831.html#Create,edit,andpublish-Drafts)

Can you have a look and let us know if you have any trouble?

Regards,

Shannon
dont want receiving email notifications
Asked by Zhang Yu:

dont want receiving email notifications


Answers:
author: Zhang Yu
body: could anyone told me how to cancel email notifications? thx

comments: author: shetty
body: Refer Notification Scheme of project who should get notified

meanwhile you can also check your profile settings for Notify me settings for individual


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: [@shetty](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1602927)is right - you will need to check your profile settings to see what you can do in there, and then configure your system not to send you the emails you do not want.

It's not a case of "unsubscribing", it's a case of configuring it not to send the mails you don't want.
H2SQL to Postgresql failing.
Asked by Brian Whitney:

Hi all,

I'm currently trying to migrate H2 DB engine data to Postgresql 9.6, so that I can further upgrade to the latest Confluence. I followed this guide, <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-to-another-database-148867.html>

I've got a second instance of the same confluence version, (5.7.4) and am getting the following error when trying to restore from backup on the new instance..

Import failed. Check your server logs for more information. java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not get unique fields for table 'AO_187CCC_SIDEBAR_LINK'

I checked my logs, and not finding this error anywhere.

My System:

Debian Stretch

Postgresql 9.6

Confluence 5.7.4

I hope I'm just doing something stupid, any insight is appreciated.

thanks,

Brian


Answers:
author: Brian Whitney
body: I was able to resolve this by replacing the Postgresql jdbc driver in /opt/atlassian/confluence/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/

I downloaded the proper jdbc driver from <https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html>

Replaced /opt/atlassian/confluence/confluence/WEB-INF/lib//postgresql-9.2-1002.jdb  
c4.jar with the one from the link above. Restarted confluence, continued on with the restore which finished without error. After some testing, I was able to upgrade to the latest Confluence without issue.

thanks,

Brian


Tags: confluence-server

server
Blog post template for Confluence Cloud?
Asked by Chris Selvig:

We would like to use the blog functionality in Confluence to document customer call notes. We have a set of questions to be answered in these notes each time - is there a way to set a template for blog posts, as one can do with a Page template?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Chris,

Thank you for reaching out!

While it's possible to [create your own templates](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/blueprints-and-user-created-templates-724764985.html) in Confluence, it's not possible to create or modify the template for blog posts.

There are [a few add-ons for Confluence **Server** version](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=blog%20template) where you can create a blog post template, but there don't appear to be any for Cloud in marketplace, unfortunately.

We do have the following feature request that I would recommend voting on, but please be advised a few years ago it was noted that we don't have plans to pursue this in the near future. Please watch the ticket in order to be subscribed for any updates.

* [CONFCLOUD-4174](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-4174) *Use of Templates in Blog Posts*

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Alex Dess
body: Um Shannon, you do realise that CONFCLOUD-4174 is 14 years old right. Voting does not seem to working :)


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Alex,

Thank you for your follow up! Yes, unfortunately as I pointed out, this feature request is quite old and we don't currently have plans to pursue this in the near future. However, it's still worth watching in the event that there *are* any further updates.

As far as voting for feature requests goes, it's not the only thing we consider when choosing which features we implement. You can see the full list at [Implementation of New Features Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/implementation-of-new-features-policy-201294576.html) if you want to know more about that.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Billy Bryant
body: We are nearly 4 years later, now 19 years since this was originally requested, why is this not a feature yet? It seems so simple to achieve.


Tags: blog

cloud

confluence-cloud

template
Macro to send email
Asked by Michael Hawkes:

Hello,

I would like to create a page that would use a macro or even other ideas you might have to generate a template (or fill in the blanks) and it would generate to an email address. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi!

I think it's hard to do it.

Only you can wrap a js code into macro or tag mailto:


Tags: atlassian-support
Code macro does not maintain line breaks or code indentations in Safari
Asked by Dave Carlton:

Type {code

Select Code Block

Paste in

```
case HID_POV:
? ? if(sval >= _StickElements[i].ref->min && sval <=? _StickElements[i].ref->max)
? ? ?{

It becomes:
case HID_POV:
? ? 
if(sval >= _StickElements[i].ref->min && sval <=? _StickElements[i].ref->max)
? ? ?
{

Extra lines are added, indentation is gone
```


Answers:
author: Dave Carlton
body: Found part of the problem, copying code from Xcode the clipboard is in RTF. If I first paste into Aquamacs, then copy that text it is now plain text which can then be pasted into confluence retaining the lines and indentation.
I can't find any documantation about how to upload a header photo in my profile
Asked by Danno:

I've created a profile page and wanted to add a header photo. No matter what photo I try to upload it will just churn indefinitely. I cna't find any documentation regarding this "feature"


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: Sounds like the photo is to large. I don't know what the maximum size is but you should try using a smaller image and see if that helps. If not then you might try a different browser and see if it is a cache issue.

comments: author: Danno
body: Thanks Brant. That sounds plausible. BTW, I finally got a JPEG to load quickly enough that I do know it should work. It seemed frustrating that the help pages didn't mentiuon any specific requirements or limitations.


Tags: cloud

profile
Anyone else experiencing broken emoticons and statuses after Confluence 6.14.2 upgrade?
Asked by StephanieC:

Anyone else experiencing broken emoticons and statuses after Confluence 6.14.2 upgrade?

Specifically, the lightbulb (on) \& (off), the question mark (?) are breaking randomly

Also when copying a status or jira filter macro, it pastes as a broken image but renders ok after publishing the page.

The empoticons stay broken and we use the lightbulb heavily in status reporting


Answers:
author: Barbara Berti
body: Hi [@StephanieC](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/541399),

we have just released [Icons for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1224522/icons-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview), a library that consists of +500icons for Confluence Cloud with emojis too. If you wish to give it a try, there's a free trial period.


author: Diego
body: Hey there!

Stephanie, this is a known issue with Confluence. You can check this documentation right here:

**[Broken avatars/icons in Confluence after an upgrade](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/broken-avatars-icons-in-confluence-after-an-upgrade-329974322.html)**

There are three known causes for this:
> * Corrupted cache (The URL is pointing to an old cache)
> * Misconfigured base URL
> * Corrupted plugin cache

Let us know your thoughts!

comments: author: StephanieC
body: the next upgrade fixed this . :-)


Tags: confluence-server

emoji

server

status
Page properties report - no content or error fetching until refresh
Asked by Anton Kokh:

Hello,

I have a Page properties report macro on a page and in 90% of cases when I load this page, it would show "No content found", then after page refresh it would show "Error while fetching page properties report data:" (with no explanation) and after next page refresh shows the actual correct content.

Any idea what could be causing this?

Thank you

Anton


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Anton,

Welcome to Community! It's nice to meet you.

I suspect you might be running into the following bug:

* [CONFCLOUD-65630](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65630) *Page Properties Report intermittently failing with an "Error while fetching page properties report data" error message*

It describes your site's behavior exactly. If you concur, please click the **This affects my team** link in the top right. This helps us to keep track of the number of users who are running into this issue.

Thank you for your help in reporting this!

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Edit and send PDF forms
Asked by Mikael Stalberg:

Hi. I am placing link to PDF document that user want to be able to edit and possibly send as attachment in e-mail with downloading a copy first. Possible? thanks


Answers:
author: Arthur Mack
body: Yep:

[https://yourdomain.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/flyingpdf/pdfpageexport.action?pageId=YOURPAGE NUMBER](https://tetratec.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/flyingpdf/pdfpageexport.action?pageId=449675312)

You can see the page numbers in the URL

[https://yourdomain.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SPEC/pages/449675312/testpage](https://tetratec.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SPEC/pages/449675312/10.0+ppg+Sodium+chloride+brine+bulk)

[https://yourdomain.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/flyingpdf/pdfpageexport.action?pageId=449675312](https://tetratec.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/flyingpdf/pdfpageexport.action?pageId=449675312)
JIRA Issue/Filter
Asked by chrizpro:

Hi guys,

I have this internal macro (not a third-party macro that must be installed and updated) and the name of the macro is JIRA Issue/filter. We haven't had an update to our version of JIRA or Confluence and everything used to work like 2 weeks ago, but now when the user tries to sort the status column, it fails to sort correctly.

A little background about the addon. It grabs issue information from JIRA and displays it into a table in Confluence.

![TableSort.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/50837iE04E2A3CBD13CBE0/image-dimensions/368x229?v=v2 "TableSort.PNG")

I'm thinking that I might need to ask Atlassian about this problem because they have the code for this macro. I just want to make sure that there's nothing on my end that I can do to get this fixed.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

Christopher, as I understand we are facing some issues when ordering by status field, right?

I was able to replicate this behaviour locally. With this, I could file a new bug report. You can check it here:

**[CONFSERVER-58144 \| Applying order by on Status field in Jira Issue macro has wrong order](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-58144)**

Something you could give us is a little information about your instance, so we can update the ticket and also try this behaviour in other versions. Here are the details needed:
> 1. Confluence Version
> 2. Jira Version
> 3. Operating System
> 4. Jira Macro version

Looking forward to your reply!

comments: author: chrizpro
body: Thanks so much for the ticket


Tags: jira
Is it possible to automatically delete tasks in jira?
Asked by Sergey:

Hi, is it possible to create automatic removal of tasks in fat? Can there be any plugin with which you can put the removal on the schedule?


Answers:
author: Iago Docando
body: "In fat" means "in bulk"? If so you can just make a JQL search that returns all the issues you want gone, then click on the "tools" cog icon on the upper right part of the screen and select "All XX issues", where XX is the amount of returned issues.

In the next screen (step 1 of 4) you can manually fine tune your selection or simply select all.

In the next screen you can select what to do those issues: edit them, move them... or in this case delete them.

Hope it helps.

comments: author: Iago Docando
body: I've just read de AUTOMATIC part... :P You would need to resort to a plugin for that. Jira Automation is a good option.
Confluence 6.14.1 installation problems on Amazon PostgreSQL RDS & kubernetes
Asked by Neven Miculini?:

I've tried installing confluence so many times, beyond counting. And each time it fails miserably.

Latest attempt:

<https://pastebin.com/xsjGFYHA>

<https://pastebin.com/Pw7GZ2UR>

Database setup (9.6.11 postgresql):

CREATE USER confluence;  
CREATE database confluence WITH ENCODING 'UNICODE' LC_COLLATE 'en_GB.UTF8' LC_CTYPE 'en_GB.UTF8' TEMPLATE template0;  
drop database confluence;

ALTER user confluence with encrypted password '\<password\>';  
grant all privileges on database confluence to confluence;

Kubernetes manifest: <https://pastebin.com/VVvf598k>

I've tried both

\* cptactionhank/atlassian-confluence:6.14.1

\* atlassian/confluence-server images:6.14.1

images (( they have some differences, though not much, some folder where they mount confluence data dir and some env variables )).

DNS works ok; database connection works ok; Jira works ok with \`cptactionhank/atlassian-jira-software:7.13.1\` image and similar database setup. But not confluence. Confluence is a tough nut to crack and deploy. This is before any data importing for this migration; license works ok, but it just keeps crashing with miles long stack traces.


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hey Neven,

A quick run through your manifest shows Confluence only has 1GB of allocated heap. This might be the cause of some woes - increasing to 2G or above is probably a good start.

Have a look at <https://github.com/Bonn93/atlassian-kubernetes> which has a Confluence manifest that you can reference.

While Atlassian doesn't officially support kubernetes deployments currently, we do have official CloudFormation templates and are interested in making sure you can get Confluence running! I'm hopeful that the repo above will get you pointed in the right direction.

Cheers,  
Daniel


Tags: confluence-server

server