youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
ServiceRocket Randombits Addon not compatible with 5.2.3?
Asked by Matt Uebel:

I have initiated the Addon Compatibility check and found only one set of addons incompatible with Confluence 5.2.3 (upgrading from 5.1.3). This set of addons contains:  

RB Storage - Confluence

RB Storage - Core

RB Storage - Servlet

RB Support - Confluence

RB Support - Core

I dont' recall actually installing these addons. Were they bundled with Confluence itself, or part of some other addon maybe?  

Does anybody know when they will be compatible with 5.2.3?


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: They are not bundled in Confluence. They are third-party plugins and not compatible with Confluence 5.2.3.

Here are the plugins pages:

* [RB Storage - Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.randombits.storage.confluence)
* [RB Storage - Core](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.randombits.storage)
* [RB Storage - Servlet](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.randombits.storage.servlet)
* [RB Support - Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.randombits.support.confluence)
* [RB Support - Core](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.randombits.support.support-core)

You can directly contact the plugin author to ask further on plugins' compatibility with the latest Confluence 5.2.3


author: Ramakrishna Anumalla
body: RB Storage - Confluence

RB Storage - Core

RB Storage - Servlet

RB Support - Confluence

RB Support - Core

These are support plugins installed automatically if you install any Service Rocket plugins.


author: Anson Hoyt
body: What add-on did these come with? I have the same message, but don't know what they support or when I installed them. The vendor doesn't have very much info available online.


author: RambanamP
body: eaither need to submit support ticket with plugin owner

or

you have to migrate to 5.2.5 version by getting source code here

<https://bitbucket.org/servicerocket>


Tags: addon-org.randombits.support.confluence

confluence-administration

server

servicerocket
SQL plugin possibilities
Asked by Ella Z?le:

Hello!

Can You please tell me, if a company has the SQL plugin can this plugin display different results from an SQL query for each emploee individually. For example, specific emploee can see how much unresolved tasks he has in a Horizon system?

Regards,

Ella


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Not using just the SQL plugin. You can supply static parameters to a query, but not dynamic ones that change based on who is accessing the page.

However, if you combine it with the Run plugin you can get this dynamic functionality.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.run>

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: And specifically for this case, the **$current_user_id** pre-defined variable is available**-** see [Pre-defined variables](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RUN/Pre-defined+variables) .


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Hi Ella,

You can do this using the [Play SQL Base add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.playsql-base-plugin), and it is free:

- Write a query

- Use the built-in parameter $userName in your query

See [PLAYSQL-10](https://playsql.atlassian.net/browse/PLAYSQL-10) for details on how it works. Contact me (or write on Answers) if there's any difficulty.

Cheers,

Adrien


author: MuhammadU
body: I have used this plugin extensively and find it very useful. But you have to be an expert in sql.


author: hsuhailah
body: This should be possible depending on how you design the query and the way the results are being presented. You may want to check out [SQL Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.sql) and work with your DB Admin who is familiar with those queries and construct them accordingly.
Users on both Confluence and JIRA in OnDemand
Asked by Matt Russell:

I have a JIRA/Confluence onDemand instance which has a user base in the hundreds. For a few users, they are unable to be referenced / see certain spaces in Confluence that they are assigned to...

Is there anything that would cause a problem around activating a user? I have tried deactivating and reactivating their lisence... I'm stumped.


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Matt. There shouldn't be any problems for activating or deactivating a user by Application Access.

I don't quite understand what you mean by 'see certain pages in Confluence that they are assigned to'. Do you mean that there are active users, with full permissions to a page and still can't see it? If that is so, I would recommend openning a support ticket at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) with more details about the users and the pages to help you look into it. Most commonly there is a certain permission setting denying access.

Cheers!

comments: author: Matt Russell
body: Thanks Mauro. Just wanted to check I wasn't going crazy. You're right. The user has Confluence access, and is in a group that has permission to view a space, and does not show up in mentions search....


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Tasklist feature
Asked by Himanshu Kumar:

Hi Everyone,

I have creating the page for one of my projects . I want to create task list for the project \& added the task list in marco in the page.

@mention is not working the task list . also I need information on how to assign \& define the completion dates for the task.

Image 1 : show the task assigned but no notification goes

Image 2 : show the task list in edit mode. which has the information about create date \& completion dates

Regards

Himanshu

![](../../upfiles/Tasklist_1.PNG)

<br />


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: The Tasklist macro does not notify users that a task has been assigned to them and mention will not work. But alternatively, you can do that using the lightweight task list accessible from the editor tool bar instead. See [Managing Tasks in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Tasks+in+Confluence).

To assign a user to the task, you can expand the task and configure this on 'Assigned To' field. This macro is limited from the ability to define completion date.
User Tracker and Reporting Tool?
Asked by Ruth Truong:

Is there a user tracker and reporting function available, where we can tracker which users have log in, view a page, edit a page?

I have tried installing the 'Confluence Usage Tracking' plugin but no luck.


Answers:
author: HarryH
body: If you are finding a free plugin that can track a number of key activities including pages, blogs, attachments and search queries for individual users or by page or attachment.

Please try Google Analytics Confluence Integration

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/G2G-GA-CONF>


author: Midori
body: Another plugin for usage tracking: [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving) tracks and reports the most recent page view for each page.

See: [Page View Tracking with Confluence](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/view-tracking)


author: RambanamP
body: it may help you check this

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=154239308>


author: hsuhailah
body: You may try out the combination of these plugins:

- [Tracking Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.tracking)

- [Viewtracker Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.viewtracker)

- [Reporting Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting)

The plugins documentations will give you more info on the functionalities


author: HarryH
body: In space of conflucence, there is a "space activity", it shows all operations on the current space.

comments: author: Ruth Truong
body: I dont have a space activity as the confluence ususage tracking plugin does not work with our confluence set up.


author: HarryH
body: I think "space activity" is the embedded feature in confluence, you don't have to install any tracking plugin, please see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Viewing+Space+Activity>


author: Ruth Truong
body: From the above link. "The 'Activity' tab will not be visible unless the Confluence Usage Stats plugin is enabled. "


Tags: report

track
Does Confluence Poll Add-on saves options and votes?
Asked by Rodrigo Arruda:

I'm affraid of loosing my Confluence Poll data, since I can't view it on Page History. Does it saves options and votes anywhere?


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Arruda
body: I run some tests and the final result stay in Page History, though it is not possible to see each vote's version, the final result is kept if you look past versions of the page (if it isn't anymore).


Tags: addon-com.atlassian.confluence.poll

app

confluence-administration
How to remove page info message in the default space header
Asked by ElizabethC:

I need to remove the "Added by" and "Last edited by" message in the default space header. I am not currently familiar with CSS and would like to do this ASAP.

Does anyone know what to paste into the CSS Editor to remove that line, or at minimum keep it from exporting to .HTML? There is also an Attachments section added at the bottom of each .HTML page we would prefer wasn't there.


Answers:
author: David Simpson
body: In **Confluence Admin \| Look \& Feel \| Custom HTML**

Paste into **At the end of the HEAD**:

```
&lt;style&gt;  #com-atlassian-confluence .page-metadata {    display: none;  }&lt;/style&gt;
```

This will hide the "Added by" etc section from all spaces even if they've applied a separate custom stylesheet.

comments: author: ElizabethC
body: Thank you David, it did stop displaying the line in Confluence.

The line still exports to HTML, along with the "Attachments:" title and link at the bottom. I tried unchecking the Include Comments box in Custom Export but both items are still showing on the HTML page.

I imagine there is some default export template to deal with for this.


author: Davin Studer
body: In the "Page Layout" template you can remove or comment out this line to get rid of the "Added by" and "Last edited by" section of the page.

#parse ("/decorators/includes/page-metadata.vm").


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Do you have access to the decorators? If so, you can comment out the lines that render this information on the page.


Tags: confluence-administration

css

header

remove
Widget Connector Twitter Not Working
Asked by Craig Hylwa:

Widget Connector 2.1.6

Confluence 5.1.1

Safar 6.0.5

When configuring a twitter feed in Confluence following the instructions in this blog post

<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/08/bring-twitter-into-confluence-just-copy-and-paste/>

The results that I get are the following:

![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2013-09-02_at_11.21.32_AM.png)

I have tried this several time with different feeds all with the same result.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Craig,

I believe you might be facing this bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29639>

The workaround for now is to [create a widget](https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/) and then embed the HTML from that widget in a Confluence page with the [{\\html} macro](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.macros.html). as [said here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29639?focusedCommentId=496310&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-496310).

Hope it helps!

comments: author: Craig Hylwa
body: When I include the Widget from Twitter inside the html macro and preview the page I see the Twitter Feed in the Preview Page. However after saving the page it looks like the following:

![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2013-09-02_at_9.45.36_PM.png)

I do not see the feed in the saved page


Tags: twitter

widget-connector
Jira Issues Macro with columns parameter: Only column displaying data is "key"
Asked by Kirstin Seidel-Gebert:

Hello all,

I'm using the Jira Issues macro with the parameters **url** and **columns**.

* If the columns parameter is empty, all data is displayed nicely.
* If there are some columns selected, only the key column contains data. All other columns are displayed, but are containing no data.

Am I missing something?

Greetings,  
Kirstin

(Confluence 4.3.1 / Jira 5.2.10)


Answers:
author: Svante Gustafsson Bj?rkegren
body: Hi,

Do you have white-space after the comma between your wanted columns? In that case you will only see the first column. There is a bug report on this one: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28783>

The workaround is to remove the white-spaces:

excerpt from the bug report:

These are OK:  
key;summary;labels;description;acceptance criteria  
key,summary,labels,description,acceptance criteria

These only show data in the Key column:  
key; summary; labels; description; acceptance criteria  
key, summary, labels, description, acceptance criteria

Hope this helps!

// Svante

comments: author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Thank you very much, Svante.

It seemed so natural to put a white space after the comma. Removing the white spaces solved the problem.


author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: I investigated a little further and actually it is the first column of the columns list, which is the only one containing data.  
So I thought that maybe the separator I'm using might be the problem. As a separator I tried "," and ";". No difference.


Tags: confluence-administration

jira
How can I prevent people from reading content?
Asked by Julian Dziki:

Hi,

I need to be absolutely save that no one reads the content on our Confluence pages. No one should be able to download documents or find them in some rss-Feed (Calendar?).

Only my team should be allowed to do so, what settings do I have to have?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Julian,

Please check this document of how to restrict pages on Confluence:

[Page Restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Restrictions?src=search)

However, is important to mention though the users will not be able to access the pages, they will still be able to see the summary of that pages. Just its content will be restricted.

Hope it helps!


author: Davin Studer
body: The best way is to create a space for your content and make sure that only people who should be able to see that content have view access to the space. If they do not have view access to the space they should not see any of the content in search or anywhere else.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Strange character added to macro body
Asked by Kirstin Seidel-Gebert:

Hello all,

for some time now, when I open the edit screen of, let's say, a note macro, Confluence adds the following strange character to the macro body: **?** .  
If the macro body already contains some text, this character is added multiple times (randomly?) throughout the text.

This is really annoying me. Had somebody had the same problem and knows the reason for this? Could this be a problem with some Confluence language settings?

Greetings,  
Kirstin

(Confluence 4.3.1)


Answers:
author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: With help of Hanis from Atlassian support I nailed down the problem to our proxy. The tool we use to perform some URL rewriting adds this strange character.

So we'll have to do some more technical investigation here.

comments: author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: We changed our configuration lately (http to https) and the problem was gone.


author: Jessica Sullivan
body: Has this been answered somewhere else? We are having the same issue here.

Thanks - JS


author: Paolo Compieta
body: Hi all, what's the correct configuration for the proxy?

We're having the same problem with conflu 5.0.3, and i verified that using the internal address (no rewrite) actually avoids the problem.

Thanks

Paolo

comments: author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: We've still got no solution for this problem, Paolo.  
Hopfully someone of the community can give a hint?

Kirstin


author: hsuhailah
body: The problem is caused by a proxy configuration (URL rewriting causes the strange character) and this is not a Confluence editor bug.


author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: I raised a support request at Atlassian and will report the solution as soon as it's resolved.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: I think that was an editor bug that was reported and fixed on a later release. I don't have a reference, but if you open Atlassian support ticket, they can probably give you more details. It is likely the editor's required space character.

comments: author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Thanks, Bob. I will do this.


Tags: confluence-administration

macro
How to allow a body for a macro
Asked by Damien Leroy:

Hi,  

I have created a macro that works fine.  
Now, I would like to modify its behavior: the macro should have a content (text) specified in the editor and the macro would just be used to push this text inside a specifc structure provided by a Velocity file.   
I thought that I had just to return true for "hasBody()" method but an error occur when I redeploy my application and the macro is marked as "unknown".   
Could you please indicate me what could be the reason of this problem ?   
Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: When you define the macro, what did you select for "Macro Body Processing" in the admin? That should be where you indicate that the macro has a body.


Tags: macro

user-macro
Numbered Headings do not display heading title in TOC
Asked by Daniel Lehnberg:

See screenshot below.  
Heading titles do not appear in TOC when using Numbered Headings macro.

Confluence version **5.1.4**   
Numbered headings version **2.4.0**

![](../../upfiles/Numbered_headings_bug.png)


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Here's where the bug is being tracked: <https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/TOC-162>

comments: author: hsuhailah
body: The issue now is fixed in TOC v2.6.8


author: Anthony Hunter
body: This issue relates to table of contents plugin v2.6.7, after downgrading to v2.6.5 table details are restored.

Issue doesn't appear to be related to numbered heagings v2.4.0


author: Davet
body: This should be titled "ToC 2.6.7 does not display Numbered Headings"

ToC appears to be orphaned off since the plugin clearly shows "
Developer:CustomWare Asia Pacific  

yet it does not show up on a search of the Customware site (redirected to ServiceRocket these days)  

<http://marketplace.servicerocket.com/category/confluence-plugins>  

probably because it is free?  


author: Johan Ferner
body: Agreed. toc 2.6.7 is buggy. Downgrading to 2.6.5 fixes this. Does this plugin have a Jira or something?


author: Anthony Hunter
body: I can confirm this issue with confluence 5.1.5, after upgrading to numbered headings 2.4.0

However downgrading to 2.3.4 didn't restore the titles.


Tags: addon-nl.avisi.confluence.plugins.numberedheadings

addon-org.randombits.confluence.toc

confluence-administration
can we move employee card details on profile to the left?
Asked by Lakshmi:

Hi, i am using confluence 5.1.3 and I am looking for the option to move employee card details from right to left. basincally would like to swap Activity and employee details section on http://\<URL\>/display/\~username.

is there a way to do that? how much complex it is ?

Thanks,

Lakshmi


Answers:
author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: Maybe you could use a little javascript for this. Go to your global administration \> Custom HTML section and insert the following code into the "At the END of the Head" field

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;AJS.toInit(function(){var item = jQuery("#com-atlassian-confluence.profile #main .profile-page .page-item.profile-main");item.parent().append(item.removeClass("profile-main")).children(".profile-info").addClass("profile-main");});&lt;/script&gt;
```

comments: author: Lakshmi
body: Thanks Sandro Herrmann for the quick response. it fulfilled my requirement. thanks again!


Tags: page

profile

user
Moving Database from Oracle to Postgressql
Asked by tousifs:

Hi All,

our team is planning to move Database from Oracle to Postgresssql for confluence 4.3.6.

I would like to know what are challenge's we face while moving please share experience.

I want to know what are plugin level change's we need to trace.

please suggest your thought.

regard's

tousif shaikh.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Export data as XML and import it back after pointing to new DB, you should be fine. Regarding plugins, it depends on implementation but most of them should be using internal database or active object which are taken care during export/import. Neverthless, I suggest a test migration.

comments: author: tousifs
body: thank's

your suggection's are always helpful to me.

but my db size is 90 gb.

do i need to update plugin's with db dump's.

awaiting for your suggection's.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Oops, 90GB is huge. I guess you have the attachments stored in DB? You might have to check if there are any DB tools available for migrating data from Oracle to Postgres. Unfortunately, I am not an expert to recommend one!


author: tousifs
body: @jobin can u please suggest what could be plugin level change's. need to do.


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hi Tousif,

I also agree with Jubin answer ;).

If you need a guide for that migration you can check the [Migrating to Another Database](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+to+Another+Database) KB :).

Thanks and Regards,

David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: tousifs
body: @deividi thank's.

my db size around 90 gb.

dba will convert to postgress no prob's

we got some custom plugin's which are working with oracle db.

when moving to postgress what change's you suggest at plugin level.

regard's

tousif shaikh.


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Not a problem :).

As Jobin said, the best way is to set up a test Instance.

Export data as XML and then after you set up a new confluence installation in a test Env (same version as Prod) with Postegres DB, just Import the XML.

Since all the plugin's you upload (including your Custom PlugIns) on Confluence are saved on the PLUGIN DATA table at the DB, after the import on the test instance they will be there for you to test.

Thanks and Regards,

David\|Atlassian Support
About Universal Wiki Converter
Asked by Toshiyasu Oka:

Please teach me how to Export wiki of Redmine using UWC (Universal Wiki Converter).


Answers:
author: HarryH
body: This could help you, <https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+User+Documentation>

You can refer to the section export and conversion sections.

For common questions, you can look at <https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1015819#UWCF.A.Q.-Conversion>

if you need any other help, please let me know.
auto insert new row on button pressed
Asked by James Lim-It:

hi,

is there a way for me to have this scenario:

whenever the accept button is pushed, a row will be added to an existing table and the data is going to be the user who is currently logged in and the system date.

so there are only two columns in the table, and the data that was inserted will be kept and the table will just keep adding depending on when the button is pushed.

I was able to get the current user logged in but that's about it.  

the purpose of this is to have a log and keep track of every user who pressed the accept button.

If this will not be possible, please suggest a workaround that may have similar results.

Thanks,  
james


Answers:
author: Dana Jansen
body: I'm very interested in this as well

@Nic Brough \[Adaptavist\]