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How can I delete a page from a space without going on the page
Asked by Panshul Gupta:

Hello,

I created a page in a space and I added an iframe to the page which loads a webpage that has a redirect script in it.

So as soon as I open the page, I am redirected to the webiste of the link to which the iframe is pointing.

So I am not able to delete the page.

Also I get the update notification on my Jira dashboard, so from there also I am redirected to the linked page.

Please help me.

Thnks,

Regards


Answers:
author: Jason Plumhoff
body: I had the same question - several good answers here:<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/70642/is-there-a-way-to-delete-a-page-without-going-to-the-page>Jason

comments: author: Panshul Gupta
body: thnx that really helped


author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: I believe you can use the [Confluence Command Line interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Confluence+Command+Line+Interface) to delete such spaces. It's a client tool that you just need to download and edit the Confluence.sh or Confluence.bat to point to your instance URL and include your credentials. Check the examples on the documentation to delete spaces.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
optional word break, define where long words are allowed to break
Asked by Steffen Heller:

Hello,

I have tables with long words like "Notlichtbetriebsger?t" which bloat the table column.To avoid this I would like to define certain points where these long words are allowed to break. I thought I could use \&shy, \<wbr\> or \&#8203 for this.

But how does that work in confluence? How can I enter such code? Or is there another way to get some sort of optional word break?


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Steffen,

My first idea was to use the confluence source editor to add that html directly to the page.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor>

On adding these tags It looks like they are actually stripped out of the editor on page save.

I have created the following bug on your behalf.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SOURCE-83>

Please visit this issue and att your voice to the conversation by voting in the top right corner. I will attach this post to the issue to further increase it's visibility to our developers.
Is it possible to make the name/title default in templates?
Asked by Jonas Spon?s:

We want to mass produce wiki pages under different spaces using global templates - and we also want the same title / name on them. Is that possible? Now, the name is blank when creating a page from template.


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello,

It looks like this functionality is a standing feature request which I will link below.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-13715>

Please visit this issue and vote in the upper right hand corner to add your voice to the conversation. I will also add your post to the request to further increase it's visibility to our developers.


Tags: template
Including an external web application
Asked by Dave_Sykes:

Hi All,

I am trying to include content from an external web application, the visualisation part of our monitoring system (<http://www.nagvis.org/>) This site runs over https and uses basic authentication. Not all users of the wiki that will need to see this page have accounts on the NagVis system, so what I would like to do is have the confluence displayed pages use a specifc user. The SSL certificate is a public one, not self signed

I'm not sure of the best way to achieve this in Confluence. I have tried the HTML Include macro, but this doesn't seem to have any where to enter the user credentials. I've tried the <https://user:password@examplesite.com/> format, but this comes back with a Page Not Permitted error.

I've also tried to use the iframe plugin, but as this goes direct from the client, it pops up the username/password box, or if I try the user:pass@ format that only works for the initial page call, and then the usual authentication box for the subsequent requests (in Firefox at least)

So does anyone have any suggestions, I would have thought that this is a reasonbly common requirement

Dave


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I use the Seraph authentication scheme, which is also used by Confluence's admin console. I blogged about it here: <http://www.confluenza.com/2013/01/04/protect-static-html-pages-using-crowd-and-confluence/>

Apologies for the self-promoting link.


author: Dave_Sykes
body: Hi Matthew,

I've got what I was trying to do working, but it's not very elegant. What I've come up with is to create another web site (old site name with -public on the end - [site-public.example.com](http://site-public.example.com)), that is proxied through Apache, and that injects the view-only authentication HTTP header into the requests to the original site. Then I use the iframe macro to insert a frame containing the new site address, and it all works. Currently we've set this up so it only works internally within our network, which isn't ideal, but is better than nothing.

For your solution, how have you protected the HTML pages with Confluence's security? For us the other app is dynamic and has it's own security, having an SSO into Confluence would be good.

Dave


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I'm curious to see what you come up with for this. I recently had a similar requirement. Rather than include the HTML inside the confluence site, we decided to just protect the HTML pages with Confluence's security system, and let users browse the pages of the external site (as long as they were logged into Confluence).
Version.history macro
Asked by nsavor:

Hi,

Our {version-history} macro stopped working, do you know which plugin do I have to Install/Reinstall to enable it again?

(screenshot attached)

Thanks


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

"version-history" is part of the [Page Information Tools](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.pageinfo) from Adaptavist. A little bit of googleing would have told you that also.

Cheers

Thomas


author: MatthewC
body: It comes from the System Macros section of the plugin manager, under the "Advanced Macros"

Although it's very strange that it's stopped working. make sure the module within the plugin hasn't been disabled.

Does it not appear in the macro browser or just it just not work?


Tags: adaptavist

macro
Banner for OnDemand Confluence
Asked by Henry Whincup (Adaptavist):

Is it possible to create a banner within Confluence under OnDemand a la JIRA?


Answers:
author: Miranda Rawson
body: Hi Henry,

(I've also answered this in your support case.)

Unfortunately [this option](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Add+a+Site-Wide+Banner) is not available to OnDemand customers, due to the fact that the use of HTML is now a [restricted function](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand).

The banner in JIRA is an added feature, and also not available in Confluence.

I have created a improvement request for you [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27939 "here"), as I could not find one that had been opened previously.

Cheers,

Miranda


Tags: announcement-banner

cloud
PDF rendered incorrect
Asked by Bruce Schlueter:

Hi all,

today we ran into a strange problem. We are running Confluence 4.3.2 and we have a number of large pptx files that were saved as PDFs. These PDFs were uploaded into different pages (one PDF per page) and we used the Office connector to display the PDFs directly. Now we noticed that in one PDF a page was shown that belongs to a different PDF. Downloading the PDF shows the correct page. So there seems to be a problem that occured while rendering the PDF. This happens on different workstations and different browsers, so that we believe the rendering job is only done once and the result is stored somewhere. Does anybody know of a possibility to rerender all objects? We have deleted all caches already without any change. What we have done for now is deleted the attachment and uploaded it again. This solved the problem for now but leaves a bad feeling that we might have information that is displayed to users who should not have the right to see this.

Does anybody know of this problem or knows a way to rerender PDFs? We believe that the upload may have been simultaneous from different clients.

Thanks for any input, Bruce


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Bruce,

I did a quick test of the problem you are describing, but was unable to replicate the behavior in my test environment. I uploaded 4 pdfs to 4 seperate pages. I embeded them in the pages using the viewpdf macro. Each of the PDF's were rendered on the correct page with the correct content.

This seems like a case in which you want to create a case on our support portal.

[https://support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa)

Including a [support.zip](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Problems+and+Requesting+Technical+Support#TroubleshootingProblemsandRequestingTechnicalSupport-CreatingaSupportZipFileviatheConfluenceAdministrationConsole) with you issue will give us a peek at what is going on behind the scenes with your instance. I might also suggest you upload the pdfs you are having trouble with. Issues created on our support portal remain completely private and there is no chance of sensetive data leaking to the public.

comments: author: Bruce Schlueter
body: Hi Daniel,

thanks for the response. I will open a ticket but the problem is we can not reproduce this ourselves. As I said we deleted the PDF and uploaded again and it was rendered correct. So it may be that we just run into a timing problem and hopefully not into a thread problem. We will deliver the logs etc and hope that support will find something inside. I saw many warnings concerning the PDF conversion and hopefully your support can provide an explanation.

regards Bruce


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Bruce,

If you aren't able to reproduce it may have just been a transient issue. Support will be happy to review your logs for you. There may not be much that we are able to do for you as the issue is no longer appearing. I will keep an eye out for your support request and let you know what I find out.


Tags: import

pdf
Full text search in confluence
Asked by Fran?ois:

Hi,

Is it possible to have a textbox in my plugin to do a full text search on pages in confluence just like the default text box in the right top.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: How is your plugin? Why would yo uneed another box with the same functionality you already have?

If your plugin is providing a macro and you want to include the serach box within a page content you could use the livesearch macro for that. You can include that macro in your content with the following format:

```
&lt;p&gt;&lt;ac:macro ac:name="livesearch"&gt;&lt;ac:parameter ac:name="id"&gt;123&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;&lt;ac:parameter ac:name="spaceKey"&gt;SPACEKEY&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;&lt;/ac:macro&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
```

Both parameters (*id* and *spaceKey*) are optional.
News section on Confluence Dashboard
Asked by c:

Hi,

we've been using confluence as our companies intranet for a while.

I'm now trying to find a way to display generic news on the confluence dashboard that everybody will see when opening confluence in their browsers. These would be generic news, i.e. they're not linked to a specific topic/space in Confluence.

In addition it should be possible for every user to add news entries to this news section.

Is there a function somewhere in Confluence to do this (maybe I've simply not been able to find it) or is there a module/plugin etc. evaiable to do this? (Found AppFusions Newsticker plugin but it seems that I cannot install it on hosted Confluence and therefor I'm not sure that it does what I required)

Thanks for in advance for your help/input.

Christian


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Christian!

The dashboard (and most parts of the Confluence UI) are customizable. Some pieces are more easily customizable than others.

[Customize the dashboard in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+Dashboard) documents some of these ways.

You can also edit the Confluence welcome message in Confluence Admin \> General Configuration.


author: Remo Siegwart
body: You may want to try our [Custom Dashboards add-on for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.simplenia.confluence.plugins.customdashboards), which allows you to replace the default dashboard of Confluence with a custom one defined on a wiki page. There you could use the [Blogposts macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf57/blog-posts-macro-701434962.html) or our [News Teaser macro](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.simplenia.confluence.plugins.newsteaser) to list the most recent news by label. With this solution, other users could easily contribute by just adding a certain label to their important blogposts.

Hope this helps


author: Naama Lev
body: Hi Christian, I am now facing the same challenge! Did you find a solution, if you did can you please share it with me?ThanksNaama


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Seems that this applies to Atlassian OnDemand, not Download versions - Mis-tagged.


Tags: newsfeed
Confluence installation database
Asked by B?a?ej O_:

Hello.

I have installed Jira , now I'm trying to install Confluence, both locally. What database do I have to provide for Confluence?

I want Confluence to be connected with my Jira, so I can link issues, and share project spaces. Do I have to point confluence to jira's database on installation? Or go for separate databases and somehow connect it through confluence settings after installation?


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi there,

You need to specify separate database for Confluence, so that there won't be any issue in the future. You can still integrate JIRA and Confluence despite you installed on different database. For more information please refer to the following documentation.  
\* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+Confluence+and+JIRA+Together>\* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Integrating+JIRA+and+Confluence>

Hope it helps.

comments: author: B?a?ej O_
body: Thank you very much for the quick answer!


author: Mizan
body: You need to integrate both the application by configuring an application link . You dont need to do anything to the database . Refer [this](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Integrating+JIRA+and+Confluence) document

comments: author: Mizan
body: WC :) ......


author: B?a?ej O_
body: Thanks! I aprreciate your help.


Tags: database

install

jira
How to remove anchors in Confluence
Asked by Meech:

Hi,

Do you have any idea why are some of the hyperlink turned to grey and its not pointing to anywhere? the link initially move from another confluence by copying the wikimarkup and insert to new confluence. its actually an attachment link, attachment was downloaded and attached back to the page but the link remained in grey color and if i edit page and take the cursor to the link , the selection of "unlink" does not appear at all. So, I can't remove the link in any other way as to delete and rewrite the text.

Please advice.

br,

Michelle


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Michelle,

Just attempting ot clarify a bit here.

1) You had link to an attachment inside a header on your old Confluence instance

2) You migrated your wiki from a previous version of Confluence.

3) The migration removed the link from the header

4) Reuploading the attachment to page does not correct this issue

Have you attempted removing the heading itself and recreating the link? You should just be able to remake the heading, highlight hte text and click on the link dialog at the top of the page. From there you should be able to navigate to the attachments on the page and select the correct one.

Please let me know if I am misunderstanding the situation.

comments: author: Meech
body: Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your reply. Let me clarify abit.

I migrate the page from older version confluence to new one by copy and paste the wikimarkup code to the new confluence. the link suppose to have an attachment attached to it, but the latest decision is to make the wording to a normal text. so we need to unlink it. But when we are in the edit mode, the function unlink does not appeared.

below is the screenshot of the broken link and it's appeared in grey and is not pointing to anywhere.

thanks.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Meech,

Ah I see. You may want to give the source editor plugin a try. It should allow you edit the raw HTML on a page and manually remove the link surroundinghte heading.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor>

Once you have installed this plugin edit your page. Clicking on the "\< \>" button in the upper right hand corner will bring up the source editor. From there you can strip the anchor tag surrounding the heading. This should unlink the attachment.


author: Meech
body: Hi Daniel,

Thanks. Another way to remove the link is to rewrite the text. We are just curious and wonder why is the unlink or edit link option does not appeared? if this is a bug or if this is a known issue.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Meech,

What version of Confluence are you coming from and going to? I can mock up an upgrade in my test systems and see if I can replicate this behavior. I know of an issue that can break headings that are wrapped in macros. Are you using a macro to create the link on the headings or just the norrmal link syntax?


author: Meech
body: Hello,

my confluence version is 4.3.6.

i tried to reproduce the issue again and realised that it happened to attachment link only.. :)


Tags: link
Need fastest way to view content from old backup
Asked by Derek Fitzpatrick:

I own a backup file from a Confluence setup from an old company of mine that has since dissolved. I need to re-expand the wiki so I can view the content. The backup is over 1 year old, so I don't know what version of Confluence it will be compatible with. I want to know the quickest/easiest path to view this content. (I don't need a permanent setup - I just need to view the content for a couple of weeks.)

Also, I don't have the login credentials for the old account, so I need to know if that will inhibit me from having admin control over the newly expanded wiki.


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: Is it a SQL backup? Is it an XML backup? the version number will be in the data somewhere, either in XML or in a DB table. Here's the schema

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=179439242>

As for the version, depends.... you could look at what was released up to a year ago so it could confluence 4.0 or it could be earlier so a 3.5.17 would probably work without having the major 4.0 upgrade work to do.

As for admin rights... read this

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights>
System Error
Asked by Nyi Nyi Htoo:

My Confluence version is 4.3.7 and Tomcat7 on ubuntu 12.4.

Firstly, I am trying to install evaluation version. While installing license from auto generate page, I found attached photos problem.

Let me get some solution or advice as soon as possible.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi There,

Sorry, but I think the images were not attached. You may manually attach them to [this](system-error) question at [answers.atlassian.com](http://answers.atlassian.com) to get help from our community or you can create a support ticket at [support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com) and attach your [logs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Problems+and+Requesting+Technical+Support#TroubleshootingProblemsandRequestingTechnicalSupport-CreatingaSupportZipFileviatheConfluenceAdministrationConsole) for further analysis.

Cheers
Upgrade Confluence from 3.4.8 to 4.3.5 question
Asked by uspdev:

I understand that we cannot do a restore of the backup from a 3.4.8 instance to 4.3.5. My question is, is there some type of workaround that exists where I can maybe move to a lower version that will allow the restore to occur?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's not even a workaround - the official route is "to get on to 4.x, you must export from 3.5". So get your 3.4 to 3.5 and then jump to 4.3


author: LuizA
body: Hello Julian,

Just in addition, to move to a lower version is not possible (I mean move from 4.3.x \> 3.5.x - this is not possible). But if you need to restore a backup of a 3.4.8 I would suggest you to install from the scratch a new 3.4.8 and then restore the backup (if it's a XML backup) or if isn't a XML backup you can follow this procedure to build a test instance of your 3.4.8 version:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers>

I hope this helps, if you need more assistance please feel free to raise a support ticket at our [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) and we will help you.

Best Regards,

LJ.
Confluence: Result of placing a link to a folder on a server share if user has not access to the server share?
Asked by James Roberts:

What would be the result if I placed a link to a folder on a server share for user that did not have access to that server share? Would the user receive an error telling them that they did not have access?

What is the result of placing a URL to a folder on a server share if the server share is not on the same network as the instance of Confluence? Would using an https URL for that folder change the behavior?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The link you've placed is interpreted by the client machine - i.e. the browser on the users machine.

If that machine cannot access the server share for some reason (including the user not having rights), then their machine will tell them it can't find the file to open.

The important thing here is to think about what system is serving up the attachment and how. If it's via Confluence (i.e. an attachment), then Confluence permissions apply. A link is handled by your network and user-client, so the permissions the user/machine has over the network applies.

Https will make no difference, you're still passing a (network) link to the client, not a file via Confluence.


Tags: server

url
How do I add dropdown boxes to the cells within a table in a page?
Asked by Michelle Nifong:

I have added a Page to a Space and within that Page I have added a Table. I would like to put dropdown boxes in the cells for easy sorting and searching. Is this possible? if so, how?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Michelle Nifong
body: Thank you rondv10.

I found the answer is to add a Table Filter Plugin, and for the other newbies: you must be an administrator to add this to your server.

More information can be found here: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter>

and here: <http://sandbox.stiltsoft.com/display/tblfilter/Confluence+Table+Filter>

comments: author: Stiltsoft Support
body: Hi [@Michelle Nifong](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/743887)

You can use another Stiltsoft app to add a dropdown section to your Confluence tables. [Handy Macros for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214971/handy-macros-for-confluence-formatting-and-interactive-ui?tab=overview&hosting=server&utm_source=atlassian-community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=handy-macros-traffic-sources&utm_id=1216111&utm_content=table_dropdown) could satisfy your needs with its Handy Status.


author: Anders Nilsen
body: Does the Table Filter PLugin give you the option to add dropdown too? Or do you need tableplus for this?


author: Ronald de Vries
body: you could use the tableplus plugin for this.


Tags: select-list