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Navigation Tree Jumping About
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Hello,

I've read about this here before but I can't find anything on it now.

In 4.3.7 and in 5.3.1 the Navigation Tree jumps about when you change pages. This means you have to keep scrolling down to find the page you're on in the navigation tree.

This is really tedious and annoying, especially when you're reviewing a lot of pages and the quickest way to find them is in the tree.

I'm very disappointed to find this stil happens in Confluence latest, but does anyone know how to stop this happening in 4.3.7?

Cheers.


Answers:
author: Paul DeSousa
body: I created this issue with atlassian as my user base really is starting to get hostile about this issue: [](https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-130145%20)<https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-130145>

comments: author: Deividi Luvison
body: Case replied :).


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Mick and Robert :),

Firstly tahnks a lot for reporting that to us and creating a case, we really appreciate that.

I was able to reproduce this and the good new is that this missbehaviour no longer happens in Confluence version 5.6.1, so if you upgarde confluence it will no longer move the cursor.

I also raised below bug for reference:

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34823)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34823>  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Confluence Support Engineer


author: Paul DeSousa
body: My user base has complained about this as well. So if there is a large page tree then it tends to jump about. We are in version 5.5.4


author: Mick Davidson
body: it'd be great if someone from @atlassian could comment on this.


Tags: navigation
Manage Groups
Asked by Rodrigo Maccari:

Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to give authorization to a user or group only to add and remove users from local groups?

This user can t have access to Confluence administration, it shoud be a standard user, just with permission to manage users.

Thanks,

Rodrigo Maccari


Answers:
author: Anand Unadkat
body: Hi Rodrigo,

This is not possible as far as I know. There is either Confluence administration or System Administrator. There is no one manage group permission. That would fall under confluence administration.

Anand


author: FelipeA
body: Hi Rodrigo,

This is not possible, as "admin" rights on confluence database is a single flag that gives access to the whole "Confluence Administration", so if a user has this flag, he/she will have access to all confluence administration panel.

Regards,

Felipe Alencastro
Gliffy Plugin Issues
Asked by Septa Cahyadiputra:

Hi All,

Did you ever wonder if we do have an FAQ page regarding Gliffy plugin issues page?


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Yes we do! Here is the mentioned page:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Gliffy+Plugin+Issues>


Tags: faq

knowledge-base
How build a border around a table and chance font size
Asked by Kim Scheil:

Hello!

I would like to add a border around a table, but it seems that there is no possibility to do that.

Also i would like to change the font size in a table more than 1-6. Is there anywhere a plugin or a something that allows that?

I would be nice if anyone have an idea how i can do it.

Greetings

Kim


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Kim,

Another option is to enable the html macro in Confluence, and create the table using html tags instead. This will allow you to make all this changes using directly HTML code.

Please check here for more info: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Enabling+HTML+macros>

Hope it helps!


author: Davin Studer
body: The Content Formatting Macros by Adaptavist has a CSS style macro that lets you embed CSS into a page. With that you could style the table directly in the page via css.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: It is free by the way.


author: Kim Scheil
body: Well, thanks for your answers. We use Version 4.3 so enable html didn t work. I suggest my boss to try it with the Table Plugin.

Thanks and have a nice day!


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Kim,

maybe you could have a look at the [Table Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.table).

Cheers,  
Nils


Tags: confluence-administration
Space Permissions and editing rights
Asked by Shreena Patel:

Hi there,

We have one space that is restricted to managment only. I have viewing and editing rights to one of the parent pages with 3 pages under it, however when I am on one of those pages I don't see the edit button and I'm not able to make comments etc. How do I fix this? Is it under Space Admin\> Permissions of that space?

Your support would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Shreena


Answers:
author: Anand Unadkat
body: Do you have the permission for the space itself? You will need that as well and only then will the retriction work.


author: Anand Unadkat
body: Hi Shreena,

You will need editing right for the child pages as well. And it is done under the permissions as you mentioned.

Regards

Anand

comments: author: Shreena Patel
body: The odd thing is- when I go to any of these child pages- under 'Restrictions' it shows I have both editing and viewing rights. But I can only view and not edit.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Viewing second-most recent version of an embedded document
Asked by Alyssa:

I would like to host our monthly departmental service desk statistics in Confluence. With an embedded Excel doc, I can update the document with new data each month and executives can always check that same page for the most recent performance--this is great!

BUT.

They would also like to be able to compare this month with last month. That is, show the second-most recent version of the document in another page or lower on the page. Is this possible? Or do I have to manually upload each file and change the confluence page text each time to show this month and last month?

Any ideas welcome.


Answers:
author: Alyssa
body: The data is all available in a SQL database, so we could run a 6mo analysis, if needed. But Excel was not made to handle so much data, so I don't want to design our system like that. I think I will just manually update the attachments.

comments: author: Josch Bencke
body: oK, so you did it right already and have all the data :) So just use the excel to present the resultset from the queries dynamically. One query per tab, and then show the tabs inside the wiki.   

Dont know, though, how that will work with passwords, which might be necessary to update the excel tables, could be that every user who can update the excel needs an DB account.


author: Josch Bencke
body: And next time once ypu solved this, they ask for a 6months delta analysis ... Do it right and store ALL data and use a datefilter inside excel to consolidate the numbers you need to tab 1. confluence ist just there to display tab 1 of the excel.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
UWC is unable to convert the HTML tags to correct form in Confluence
Asked by Satyam Roy:

Hi,

I am using the UWC to convert our Mediawiki data to Confluence. I am able to create text files for all the data successfully. But I figured out that some pages have HTML tags in the text files

eg - \<font face="Arial" color="black" size="6" font-weight="bold"\>Title of Page\</font\>

After checking throughly I found out that this is the way data is stored in the Mediawiki database. So it gets carried forward to the text files created.

When this text file is used to create pages in Confluence, it doesn't get converted to **h1** or **h2**. Thus the page created in Confluence contains the data with the html tags in them.

So my question is, does the UWC support this type of syntax or do I need to write my own parser to parse such occurences of HTML tags.

**Secondly**, I have a problem with the bullet points as well. What I found is say there are 4 bullet points under a topic, say for 3 the style is maintained and the last is converted as "\*". This occurs sometimes for some pages only.

eg-

**In the text file**

\* Topic 1

\* Topic 2

\* Topic 3

**In Confluence**

* Topic 1
* Topic 2

\* Topic 3

**Thirdly**, the attachments are not getting carried to Confluence. I tried to search for the attachments location in Mediawiki but could not locate it.

Any help would be helpful.


Answers:
author: Satyam Roy
body: I had to write many regular expressions and put them in the mediawiki.converter.properties file to get it work. For some cases I changed the already existing regular expressions to suite my requirements. This way it worked.


author: sandeep sankalapur
body: Hi Satyam, There will be nothing like attachments in MediaWiki, you will find 'Images' directory this is what they call as attachments.


Tags: universal-wiki-converter
pdf. displaying quality.
Asked by gredwhite:

I want to add pdf file to my page.On my computer all symbols are readable at this pdf file. But when I add this pdf to page I cannot read this pdf(even in full screen mode)

Can you help me to solve this problem?

I use ****Confluence 5.1**** .version


Answers:
author: Pedro Rodrigues
body: Hi,

The Link Preview ([](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.xpandit.plugins.linkpreview-confluence)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.xpandit.plugins.linkpreview-confluence>) is a great Confluence Utility. You can preview PDF documents, images and webpages.

Try it now.

Best Regards,

PMRodrigues


author: arron lee
body: Hi, Nikolay.

As for myself, I learning about how to create document viewer, such as [PDF viewers](http://www.yiigo.com/guides/csharp/how-to-create-pdf-viewer.shtml), with the help of some manual tools which can be customized by users according to our own favors to help [display and read PDF files](http://www.yiigo.com/guides/vbnet/how-to-read-pdf.shtml) these days. You can also google it and select one whose way of processing is simple and fast to help you with the related work. Remember to check its free trial package first if possible. I hope you success. Good luck.  

<br />

<br />

Best regards,  
Arron  


author: Patrice Rompas
body: Hi Nikolay,  

Currently, there are a lot of improvement requests regarding PDF viewer quality. But there hasn't been direct fix on that thus the only way to view PDF with the best quality is to download the PDF itself. However, you can try using third party plugin such as [SharpView High-Resolution PDF Viewer for Atlassian Confluence](http://www.appfusions.com/display/SHRPVW/Home). It supports Confluence 5.1 version.  

Cheers,  
Samuel


Tags: pdf
HTTP Status 500 - Unknown column 'this.external_id' in 'field list'
Asked by Rakesh Sankar:

The title says it all, but below is some snippet of the error information. Please help.  

**What I did**  
I have upgraded the Confluence from 5.0.x to the latest via .bin (64 bit) on our instance. The upgrade went well and the installation reported that the Confluence has been upgraded successfully.I tried to restart and I see only HTTP Status 500 error with the below snippet of the error message.  

**Solution That I tried**  
I have tried the below solution but in vain.  
1. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Change+All+Columns%27+Collation+to+utf8_bin+in+MySQL
2. https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/218119/confluence-error-missing-field-external_id   

**Error Info**   
org.springframework.jdbc.BadSqlGrammarException: Hibernate operation: Unable to perform find; bad SQL grammar \[\]; nested exception is com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown column 'this.external_id' in 'field list' org.springframework.jdbc.support.SQLStateSQLExceptionTranslator.doTranslate(SQLStateSQLExceptionTranslator.java:97) org.springframework.jdbc.support.AbstractFallbackSQLExceptionTranslator.translate(AbstractFallbackSQLExceptionTranslator.java:72) org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateAccessor.convertJdbcAccessException(HibernateAccessor.java:364) org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateAccessor.convertHibernateAccessException(HibernateAccessor.java:351) org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateTemplate.execute(HibernateTemplate.java:375) org.springframework.orm.hibernate.HibernateTemplate.execute(HibernateTemplate.java:337) com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.hibernate2.HibernateUserDao.internalFindUser(HibernateUserDao.java:472) com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.hibernate2.HibernateUserDao.internalFindByName(HibernateUserDao.java:449) com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.hibernate2.HibernateUserDao.findByName(HibernateUserDao.java:429) com.atlassian.confluence.user.crowd.CachedCrowdUserDao$1.apply(CachedCrowdUserDao.java:76) com.atlassian.confluence.user.crowd.CachedCrowdUserDao$1.apply(CachedCrowdUserDao.java:71) com.atlassian.confluence.cache.option.OptionalReadThroughCache.get(OptionalReadThroughCache.java:33) com.atlassian.confluence.user.crowd.CachedCrowdUserDao.findUser(CachedCrowdUserDao.java:136) com.atlassian.confluence.user.crowd.CachedCrowdUserDao.findByName(CachedCrowdUserDao.java:158)  


Answers:
author: Rakesh Sankar
body: Thanks to Hercules. It gave me a hint to a solution that solved this problem. Some of the tables were in MyISAM and when I replaced those tables with InnoDB and made the MySQL default engine type to InnoDB, the problem was solved.

I think the automatic upgrade should do this as part of the checklist and ensure that the DB schema contains an appropriate configuration/data.
Confluence Indexing throw Error at restart.
Asked by tousifs:

Hi All,

recently moved confluence instance from Oracle to postgress.

Rebuild indexes search functionality work's without any issue At restart of confluence system

i have below error.

**ERROR \[scheduler_Worker-10\] \[net.java.ao.sql\] handleUpdateError Exception executing SQL update \<CREATE INDEX "index_ao_9412a1_aotask_user" ON "AO_9412A1_AOTASK"("USER")\>**

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: relation "index_ao_9412a1_aotask_user" already exists at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.receiveErrorResponse(QueryExecutorImpl.java:2102)

at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.processResults(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1835)

at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.execute(QueryExecutorImpl.java:257)

at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:500)

at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.executeWithFlags(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:374)at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.executeUpdate(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:302)at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyStatement.executeUpdate(NewProxyStatement.java:64)at net.java.ao.DatabaseProvider.executeUpdate(DatabaseProvider.java:2294)at net.java.ao.DatabaseProvider.executeUpdateForAction(DatabaseProvider.java:2364)

at net.java.ao.DatabaseProvider.executeUpdatesForActions(DatabaseProvider.java:2327)at net.java.ao.schema.SchemaGenerator.migrate(SchemaGenerator.java:94)

please let me know your suggection's.


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Tousif,

from the look of the error message you're geting there it seems this is an issue with the database indexes and not with the Lucene index that is responsible for the search in Confluence, so I suspect the most likely cause of this issue is that the Confluence user may not have sufficient privileges over its database and that is why you are seeing these issues. So, please ensure that the Confluence user has full permissions over its database and then I'm hopeful that this issue will disappear for you.

All the best,  
John
Can confluence super users see drafts?
Asked by Jennifer H.:

Hi,

As a confluence super user, is there a way to see drafts of other users? (We're on 5.1.3, fwiw).

Thanks!


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Jennifer,  

I was able to do some test locally, I can say that the super user can't see the user's draft.   
A user only has access to the drafts of pages they have been working on and whose content has not yet been saved.   

Cheers,  
WZ  


Tags: draft
Is there a way to automatically label attachments to a page OR bulk label attachments?
Asked by IGS:

Testing out the Label Tools plugin, but the documentation leaves much to be desired.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP?src=breadcrumbs-homepage) has the

addLabels

action which can be used to bulk label attachments. You might want to combine that with

[getAttachmentList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-getAttachmentList) or [runFromAttachmentList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-runFromAttachmentList)

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Editor is messing up the formatting badly :(.


author: IGS
body: Thank you Bob!


Tags: confluence-administration

label
Confluence Usage Stats - Which table?
Asked by Trevor Hunt:

Anyone out there happen to know which table the Confluence Usage Stats plugin stores it's data? I'd like to access this via the SQL macro so I can slice and dice the data a few ways.


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: First place I'd check is the bandana table. Lots of macros seem to store their data in there. In your SQL, use all caps ("BANDANA") for the table name.


author: Richard Gee
body: It doesn't use the database, it uses Lucene to store the data.


author: Ihor Tretyakov
body: Hi, in BONDANA:

```
SELECT TOP 1000 [BANDANAID],[BANDANACONTEXT],[BANDANAKEY],[BANDANAVALUE]FROM [Confluence].[dbo].[BANDANA] where [BANDANAKEY]like 'plugin.manager.state.Map'
```

But the code in table like this:

```
&lt;map&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;confluence.macros.html:html-migration&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;true&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;tac.confluence.languages.fr_FR&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;false&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;confluence.macros.html:html-xhtml&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;true&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;tac.confluence.languages.es_ES&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;false&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;tac.confluence.languages.ja_JP&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;false&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;com.adaptavist.plm.plugin.plm-plugin&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;false&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;confluence.macros.html:html-include&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;true&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;tac.confluence.languages.de_DE&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;false&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;confluence.macros.html:html&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;true&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-mobile&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;false&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;com.atlassian.confluence.ext.usage&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;true&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;  &lt;entry&gt;    &lt;string&gt;confluence.macros.html:html-include-xhtml&lt;/string&gt;    &lt;boolean&gt;true&lt;/boolean&gt;  &lt;/entry&gt;&lt;/map&gt;
```


Tags: sql
Command Line Tool - findReplace on descendents
Asked by MarkC:

I'm trying to use the Conflunece Command Line Tool to find and replace a parameter in a macro based on the XHTML of the page. This is the command I'm using, but it keeps telling me "The system cannot find the file specified."

```
confluence --action runFromPageList --space "Experimental" --title "Test Title Rename" --descendents --common "--action modifyPage --id @pageId@ --findReplace \"&lt;ac:parameter ac:name=\"root\"&gt;Test Title Change Rename&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;#&lt;ac:parameter ac:name=\"root\"&gt;Test Title Rename&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;\" --special \" #\""
```

Anyone have any idea on how to do a findReplace across multiple pages?

I tried the above without the quotes after the --common command, but that didn't work as it told me "Error: Unexpected argument: modifyPage".


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Open an issue](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/CSOAP) and include the command and the output adding **-v**.
prevent user names from showing on people button?
Asked by Susan Paulson:

How can I turn off the People button or hide user names from other users?


Answers:
author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Check out a previous thread - [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/99620/can-i-hide-the-people-directory-in-confluence-ondemand](/questions/99620/can-i-hide-the-people-directory-in-confluence-ondemand).
> it is now possible for us to hide the people directory in a way that persists through upgrades. Please contact Support if you want this done.

Please note that this will only disable the peope directory menus in Confluence. It cannot, however, prevent users to access via a direct URL.

It is also not possible to hide user names from other users.

comments: author: Susan Paulson
body: Yes, we would like to have this upgrade done for [amplifire.atlassian.net](http://amplifire.atlassian.net). Please contact me so i can understand this better. Thanks, Susan Paulson [spaulson@knowledgefactor.com](mailto:spaulson@knowledgefactor.com) and 720-214-9961

Or can you direct me to the documentation on this new feature? I could not find it, and in fact your doc still states that for ondemand, this is NOT possible, because it requires a plug-in.


author: Susan Paulson
body: I am getting emails telling me to comment, but I have already commented on this, 2 days ago....


author: Susan Paulson
body: Can I please get a response on this from my Nov. 22 comment....again, I am getting emails requesting me to comment.


author: Dave
body: Susan, this is a community site that is publicly accessible, it's not a good idea to include your email or phone in this venue. If you need support, please file a ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com> so that an Atlassian engineer can assist.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Removing labels from page
Asked by Rain:

I created a copy of existing page which had one label 'label1'. In this new copy page I'm tying to delete label1 and add label2. It is removed and showing only 'label2'. When returning to same page later it still has label1 and label2. label1 is back and I can remove it for a moment, but it is coming back. Initial page was created long time ago from template which had label1 label, but this template does not exists anymore. What makes label1 coming back? When I create a new page from create button then labels work properly. Any ideas what can cause this or how to fix it?


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hello Rain,

I could find another question that had the same symptom that you are having (removing a label and the label keeps in the page).

This is the case: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/41759/unable-to-remove-label-from-confluence-page](/questions/41759/unable-to-remove-label-from-confluence-page)

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Rain
body: Hello Rodrigo,

Thanks for your help. Im not sure it is connected to same problem, but from there I got idea to turn off plugins. After doing that it was fixed. This was caused by Page properties macro where label was set to label1. Now every time when I remove label1 and add label2 macro seems to add label1 back. Fortunally this macro parameter is not a must and after removing it it does not come back. Not sure if it is a feature or bug, but definitely solved my problems with labels. Thanks for giving me this hint :)


author: Brittany Reith
body: I am also having this issue. I will remove a label, but it seems whenever someone goes back to view that page, the original label gets added back. It's a little frustrating, considering we use the labels to organize our active projects on Confluence. We cannot remove the macros as we use them as well. Is there another way to fix this?