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How can I sign-in to OnDemand's Confluence from Google Apps WITHOUT JIRA
Asked by Yuen-Chi Lian:

Hi, the requirement [here](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Integrating+OnDemand+with+Google+Apps) suggests that I will need JIRA OnDemand before I integerate Confluence OnDemand with Google Apps. But, I do not use JIRA (as we use something else in our organization), paying the extra $ for the integration doesn't seem practical.

Is there some way that I can get around this or I should raise a feature request instead?


Answers:
author: Kelvin Yap
body: Hi yclian,

As you've correctly pointed out, it's currently a requirement that JIRA be an activated application in your OnDemand instance if you wish to integrate with Google Apps. OnDemand leverages JIRA's [centralised user management functionality](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2011/04/jira_43_centralized_user_management/) which, in conjunction with Google Apps, provides powerful user management tools for administering your OnDemand instance for your organisation.

That being said there's definitely a case for situations where Google Apps integration is required but JIRA is not a needed application in an OnDemand instance. With that in mind I've gone ahead and raised a feature request on your behalf [here](https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-5745) - I'd love for you to vote and add your thoughts to the issue so our product team can get a better idea of such a need for this functionality in the future.

Cheers,

Kelvin Yap


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

google-apps
confluence: New 4.1 editor, how to insert tables with ||| syntax?
Asked by samjones6:

As a crusty user of confluence 2.x and 3.x for more years than I care to count...

When I try out the 4.1 editor the \|\|\| doesnot work. I want to do this:

\| \| \| \|

\| \| \| \|

\| \| \| \| // e.,g. I copy a few lines of it

I can't do that in 4.1

What is up?

(Still on 3.1, evaluating 4.1)

thanks!


Answers:
author: John Masson
body: I agree with you @samjones6 if you're just setting out an empty table (I assume that's what you're doing from the example?) that it's a little painful to do that way... I find it faster to either use the insert menu, or on the keyboard to use pipes - \| \| \| - to put in how many rows I want, then use the "Alt + Down Arrow" keyboard shortcut to insert more rows... Here's a quick example: <http://screencast.com/t/5N8NxRrwyKV>


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: When using the Wiki Markup dialog in the Confluence editor (choose **Insert** \> **Wiki Markup**).

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Wiki+Markup>

comments: author: samjones6
body: yes! This worked! Thanks!


author: samjones6
body: This works, but is pretty painful.
How do I delete a space as a confluence administrator?
Asked by Lancy Quadros:

I have a space that I wish to delete. Unfortunately, the two space admins assigned to it no longer work for us! As a confluence administrator, I do not see the option to delete the space. Has anybody run into a similar issue?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Add yourself into the confluence-administrators group and then you should have the space admin rights!

comments: author: Lancy Quadros
body: I was hoping so - but as I mentioned, I am already a confluence-administrator and I see the 'Confluence Admin' option under browse, but not the 'Space Admin' option.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Oh ok. I thought you are a Confluence Admin but not a member of the confluence-administrators group. You can be a Confluence Admin even if you are not a part of that group but then you won't become a space admin on all the spaces! If you are part of that purticular group, you should have the rights to administer all spaces. Maybe you can raise a case with Atlassian.


author: Lancy Quadros
body: Thank you Jobin! I checked again - I noticed that I was not part of the confluence-administrators group. However, my LDAP group was in the Global groups with the exact same privileges as 'confluence-administrators', so, I am not sure why I was missing the 'Space Admin' option under the Browse menu.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: **Confluence-Administrators** - This is a 'super-group' and a user from this group has permission to do anything in the site regardless of any other setting.

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Users+and+Groups


author: Joe Clark
body: Yes, Jobin is correct; the "confluence-administrators" group is a special group - membership within this group grants powers above and beyond the full System Administrator privileges that can be granted to any group.


author: Kay Brown
body: This may seem like a silly question, but are you actually in the space that you want to delete when you try to select Spafce Admin or are you doing this from the Dashboard?

Regards,

Kay


author: Kay Brown
body: From the Browse menu, select Space Admin. On the Space Admin page under Space Operations there is a Remove Space option.

Regards,

Kay

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I ran into a bug in this process a while ago - it threw an error on delete. Solution was to add myself (or the confluence-admin group) into the space permissions with admin rights. You shouldn't have to do this normally - confluence administrators should be able to admin spaces automatically. But just in case you hit the same bug I did, it's worth knowing.


author: Lancy Quadros
body: Hi Kay

I don't see the 'Space Admin' option under Browse. It appears that for some reason I was removed from the 'Space Admin' permission list.
How to calculate the event numbers in confluence calendar ?
Asked by Saturn Li:

When I need to know how many leave days or other events have happended or are about to happen in the year ( or other specified period ) , any plugin or similar calculation function can help to show the result ?


Answers:
author: AlexeyM
body: Use any Calendar macro for days.

And for any calculations you may use [CelesteCS Math for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.celestecs.confluence.celestecs-math). Please contact me directly on any question on this plugin.

Thanks!
Linking to different pages in Confluence 4
Asked by Alexander Vyrsky:

I experience a difficulty to link to a heading located on a different page. I know that I should use {{pagename#headingname}} syntax. But how does it look in reality? For example, I have a heading4 \*rV -- Position and velocity\* located on a page \*Optimized Real-Time Application (ORTA) Messages\*. On a different page, I click Link-\>Advanced and put in Link the following:

{{Optimized Real-Time Application (ORTA) Messages#rV--Positionandvelocity}}

I also filled in Link Text with rV message. When I then click the rV message link, Confluence jumps to the beginning of the page \*Optimized Real-Time Application (ORTA) Messages\*. But I expect that it will jump right to the heading \*rV -- Position and velocity\*.

Am I doing anything wrong or is there any trick?


Answers:
author: Alexander Vyrsky
body: Andrew,

I'm sorry but {{}} are from the original question I posted on Atlassian Support. I used wiki markup there to highlight some text and it appears wiki markup doesn't go to Atlassian Answers.

Yes, there is a plenty of content on the page and the heading in question is at the bottom.

What I might think of is that I use an en dash in the heading rV -- Position and velocity between rV and Position and velocity. Can this symbol cause this issue?

Alex

comments: author: Alexander Vyrsky
body: I got a confirmation from Attlassian that en dash causes this issue in Confluence 4.x. They raised a bug report.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Alexander,

You shouldn't have to use {{}} to enclose the link, you should be able to link to the heading just by using:

Optimized Real-Time Application (ORTA) Messages#rV-Positionandvelocity

Also, how much content is there on the Optimized Real-Time Application (ORTA) Messages page? A browser will only jump to the heading so that the heading is at the top of the page if there is at least a page worth of content below the heading. If there is less than a page worth of content in total then the link will look exactly the same as if you didn't use an anchor because the browser doesn't have to scroll.

Hope this makes sense?

Andrew.
hiding the people directory
Asked by Vitaly Lyashchuk:

Hi,  
I try to hide the people directory following this manual  
<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Hiding+the+People+Directory>

But I cannot find necessary lines in global.vmd file. Maybe this manual not actualized for confluence 3.5.4?  
How to edit the global.vmd for my confluence instance?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Why are you looking in global.vmd if you've got Confluence 3.5?

The document clearly states that editing the global.vmd is "**Procedure for Confluence 2.5.2 to 2.9.x. only"**

Try the setting in the properties file as it says.


author: Chris Ewe
body: Another question for me is, how I can create my own menu insteat of "People" and "Spaces"??  
I found the code block.

Do anybody know how to add them?

Regards, Chris

comments: author: Dmitry
body: You can use web-item in atlassian-plugin.xml:

```
<web-item key="my-own-menu-link" section="system.header/left" weight="60">
        <description key="my-own-menu-description">Simple link to my-own-menu.</description>
        <label key="MyOwnMenu"/>
        <link linkId="my-own-menu-link">/</link>
</web-item>
```


author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: Why don't you simply add a little stylesheet snippet to your global administration -\> Stylesheets section

```
#people-directory-link,#dashboard-people-directory-link {    display:none;}
```

This will remove the people directory link from the dashboard and from the global menu.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Because you can easily bypass that, there are links in other places, and there is a documented way of doing it properly.


author: Vitaly Lyashchuk
body: As far as I understand there is no any other solution?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There are two ways to do it discussed here. Sandro's tweak will remove the link, but not prevent people getting to the directory in other ways. The better way to do it is in the documentation you originially read (and picked up the wrong part of)


author: Vitaly Lyashchuk
body: Do you mean part of apache redirection? I did redirect:

\<LocationMatch /confluence/browsepeople.action\>  

Redirect / [http://domain.com/\<br\< a=""\> /\> \</LocationMatch\>](http://domain.com/%3Cbr)
[](http://domain.com/%3Cbr)

[But when I go to the people directory link, I get a wrong url "](http://domain.com/%3Cbr)http://domain.com/confluence/browsepeople.action?startIndex=0"

So I cannot understand where from I getting additional string "confluence/browsepeople.action?startIndex=0""


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Apologies, I mean the documentation contains TWO simple, clear and effective ways to do it.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Argh. Why are you messing with apache and redirection now? The documentation contains a simple, clear and effective way to do this, and you haven't even tried it.


Tags: directory

hide

user
The Home Page configured in Space Details in Space Admin is not being obeyed
Asked by Rick White:

No matter which page provided in the drop down menu of the Home Page configuration of Space Details in Space Admin, the setting is not obeyed.

The behavior is to bring up the Pages tab in Tree instead of navigating to the page specified in the Home Page setting.


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Rick,

It sounds like you've got "view space goes to browse space" enabled in the general Confluence administration screens.

If you log in to Confluence as an administrator and select Browse -\> Confluence Admin -\> General Configuration there's an option for "View Space Goes to Browse Space". If this option is ticked then you get the behaviour you describe, if this option is unticked then users clicking the link to a space should be taken to the page specified as the home page of that space.

Hope that helps,

Andrew.

comments: author: Rick White
body: Andrew,

That did the trick. Thank you.
Gliffy + Confluense ondemand (wiki) = not work
Asked by airon-tark:

This is OK  
1. we have JIRA ondemand  
2. we have confluence ondemand  
3. we added gliffy in my.atlassian.com  
4. there is now Gliffy in our plugins section (jira --\> administration)   
5. we can now add gliffy diagramm to the issues (more actions --\> add gliffy)  

PROBLEM  
1. we have link "Add Gliffy diagramm" in the "add macros" section during editing the wiki page  
2. That is not work  
3. See screenshot

![](http://flashphoner.com/img/gliffy-problem.png)  
![](http://www.google.com/uds/css/small-logo.png)


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Pavel,

It looks like you will need to open a support ticket for this issue so that we can get all your details, login to your instance and have a look at what's going on there. So please open a ticket with us and we will get this issue fixed for you asap.

All the best,

John


author: Thiago Ribeiro
body: Pavel and all users,

If you are facing this problem while using Atlassian OnDemand, is because you have not bought the Add-on Gliffy for CONFLUENCE OnDemand.

To solve this problem simply go to <https://my.atlassian.com/> and click on Configure; there you will be able to buy the Gliffy add-on for Confluence and Jira.

**NOTE:** If you are able to use Gliffy on your instance, for sure you have just bought the add-on for Jira and missed Confluence.


Tags: cloud

gliffy-cloud
Add comment field not expanding
Asked by jon cain:

I am having an issue with the add comment function on my Confluence 3.5.13 install. When you click "Add Comment" the editor box that opens isn't expanded. All you can see is the "Rich Text" Wiki Markup" "Preview" tabs along with the post and cancel buttons, you can't actually see the field to type in.

I upgraded to 3.5.13 from 3.5.5 to try and resolve the issue but it did not. Some of our plugins haven't been updated to work on 4.0 yet so that is out of the answer.

Any ideas would be appreciated.


Answers:
author: jon cain
body: I discovered that once I disabled the Instantsearch v1.1.1 plugin the comment field issue went away.
Installing Confluence 4.1 and MS SQL 2008 R2
Asked by Liby Mathew:

Hi,

I am new to both confluence and SQL. I was wondering if there was a step-by-syep guide to configure Confluence 4.1 and MS SQL 2008 R2.

Thank you


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Liby,

The generic instructions for configuring Confluence with an external database are available at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+For+Any+External+Database> and there are specific instructions for MS SQL at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+for+SQL+Server.> There is also a Knowledge Base article for specific issues with MS SQL at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Known+Issues+For+SQL+Server>

The guides at the links above do not mention specific versions of MS SQL, but Confluence supports MS SQL 2005 and above, including 2008 R2, so they should cover the information you need.

Hope that helps,

Andrew.


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Is this good enough? <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/Connecting+JIRA+to+SQL+Server+2005>

Is SQL Server 2008 very different compared to SQL Server 2005?


Tags: ms-sql
Difference between 'tag' and 'label'
Asked by Akilan R:

Hi, we are using Confluence as the interfacing tool and the Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 as the document respoitory. Is there any subtle difference between labels - the terminology used in the Confluence and 'tags'used in the share-point (used in the OSQA application as well) ?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not really, the terms are pretty much interchangable. There's a few subtle differences in nuances in the code and there's certainly differences in the way they work, but the concept is the same - they both really do mean "stick something on an object so we can readily identify it as belonging to a certain group".

comments: author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Yes. Same thing.


author: Akilan R
body: Thank you very much, it could be that the search can be optimised based on 'label'in Confluence as it uses the Lucene Search Engine whereas the share point may use a different search algorithm same as Microsoft 'Bing'


author: James Card
body: In the version of JIRA that we are using (7.9.2) there seems to be a very subtle but important difference between \`labels\` and \`tags\`.

When you use the bulk edit feature you have more flexibility with \`labels\`. You can:

\* Add to existing  
\* Clear field  
\* Replace all with  
\* Find and remove these  

That doesn't seem to be available for \`Tags\`. You can only set the tag line (although you MAY get multiple tags if the current selections all have the same thing (I think).


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Jira doesn't have "tags" natively. How have you added them and why are they different to labels?


author: James Card
body: Well, that's an interesting question. It was already present in our JIRA (in a very large company). So perhaps someone added it. And I just noticed that this is a section on confluence and not JIRA :(

I had googled "JIRA difference between tag and label" (or something like that) and ended up here and didn't pay enough attention.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think you paid plenty of attention - you spotted something odd about your implementation and found something related.

Jira has quite a lot of power and it sounds like one of your admins took advantage and added "tags" for some reason. I suspect they used a field type other than "label" for it, so it behaves differently.


Tags: sharepoint
Nested Group not working? Test method?
Asked by Jositz, Michael (Allianz SE):

Hi everybody, I migrated Confluence in our System Integration from 3.4.5 to 3.5.13. I had (working) atlassian-user.xml in place during update. So far LDAP synchronisation works, I set method to "Read only" so only AD users \& groups are maintained in our AD.

In "Global Permissions" I use one group, calles INTERNATIONAL. This group has "Use permission" assigned. In this group I have 1 user, the boss :). Boss can login without any problem. The group also contains another group like SINGAPORE and others parallel and also sub-groups. They then contain the users. If these users try to login they get "not permitted" error, but can login. So I assume LDAP connection works fine, but nested groups don't. "Enable Nested Groups" is enabled in the primary User directory.

How can I achive or test that the users of the sub-groups can use the permissions of the group INTERNATIONAL?

I tried everything, but have no idea what else to do :(. Thanks Michi!


Answers:
author: Jositz, Michael (Allianz SE)
body: I do not know why this option helped, but I set this and now it seems to work. I have to test it in details. Option I activated:

Naive DN Matching  
If your directory will always return a consistent string representation of a DN, you can enable naive DN matching. Using naive DN matching provides significant performance benefits, so we recommend enabling it where possible.  
Does anybody have an explanation for this, I do absolutely not understand the context? Thanks!
Where is my Confluence site page (not the admin page) ???
Asked by B G:

I feel like this must be the dumbest question ever, but where the heck are the end-user pages on my Confluence install? When I go to [http://localhost:8090](http://localhost:8090%20)all I get is the login page. I have created a Space and a Page in Confluence, but now how do I access it? (NOT for editing, for viewing the final product)

I did a default Linux install from an archive and am using PostgreSQL (Mac OS X 10.7)

Everything seems to be working fine, I just feel a bit retarded now because I can't figure out where the actual SITE is that I'm creating within Confluence. I have experience with Wordpress for years so I this type of thing is not new to me, but it's driving me nuts!

Thanks,

Ben


Answers:
author: B G
body: I think I sorted it out. I had somewhat of a skewed view of what Confluence is and I did not expect that the user and admin views would look so similar. Looks like I need to do some customizing...
How to upgrade Confluence 3.5.6 to 3.5.9
Asked by Audun Jensen:

Hi,

I'm new to this and have a test environment that I would like to upgrade to ver. 3.5.9 (same as our prod environment).

I have searched online to see if it is possible to do an inplace-upgrade, but haven't found anything.  
How should this be done?

\* Inplace-upgrade  
upgrade binaries, service

\* new install  
install new version side-by-side, backup old and restore to new, new service, uninstall old version...

What is the recommended approach?


Answers:
author: Audun Jensen
body: Well, that exe-file does not seem to recognize any existing installs. It will only create a new install.

Any tips ?

comments: author: Andrew Frayling
body: Sorry, that first link would have probably taken you to the latest version of Confluence (4.1) rather than version 3.5.9. Version 3.5.9 is available from the download archive <http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives>and I'm guessing you'll need the 3.5.9 Standlaone (ZIP archive) which is available at <http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/downloads/binary/confluence-3.5.9-std.zip> , but if you're running clustered and/or EAR/WAR then download the relevant clustered/EAR/WAR version instead.

You can still upgrade in place, but as 3.5.9 doesn't come with an automated installer you'll need to follow the instructions at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence+Manually,> or if you're upgrading an EAR/WAR version follow the instructions at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence+EAR-WAR+Distribution>

Hope that helps,

Andrew.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Yes, you can use use that version and change the license afterwards. All of the binaries Atlassian provide are the same it's just the license that determines the number of users, eval, etc. Hope that helps.


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi, an in place upgrade should be fine. Details on how to upgrade are available at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence> and specific notes on 3.5.9 are available at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+3.5.9+Upgrade+Notes>

comments: author: Audun Jensen
body: One more detail:

I have a evaluation version installed (3.5.6) and I want to change this to a test version (3.5.9).

I have generated a new license key for this.

In the first link you provided it refers to download the exe version of the Windows installer
>
> #### Upgrading Confluence on Windows {#toc-hId-1225844513}
>
> 1. Download the**Confluence 'Windows Installer'** (.exe) file (for the new version of Confluence) from the[Confluence Download Center](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ConfluenceDownloadCenter.jspa).

This link gives me only the evaluation exe file...

Can I use this file and change the license key afterwards?
Can I use the Sharepoint Connector with Microsoft Hosted Office365 Sharepoint 10?
Asked by Aron Aron:

Can I use the Sharepoint Connector with Microsoft Hosted Office365 Sharepoint 10?


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Hello. I'm afraid Microsoft Hosted Office365 is not supported with Sharepoint Connector.

Here is the prerequisites \& supported platforms for Sharepoint Connector:

- <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON011/Planning+your+Environment#PlanningyourEnvironment-requirements>


Tags: confluence-cloud

cloud

ms-office-connector

sharepoint