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Instanced wiki page by user.
Asked by Andrew Sturtevant:

Hello,

I am trying to create a wiki page with a checklist that users can access. The idea is that when these users access it we want them to see a unique or 'instanced' checklist that is unaffected by other users.

So if user1 has item 1 checked and user 2 has 1 and 2 checked, they each will see the same when they are logged in. Right now when accessing this page, if user 1 edits it, the same checks are seen by user 2.

Is there a setting or something I can use to have this individual page w/ checklist to only show user1's checklist to user1? Please help. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Andrew,

I don't believe that this is a functionality that we would roll into the default behavior of Confluence. We have a piece of wiki software that encourages collaborative editing.

I think having a versioned task list is a great idea. I can definitely see the business use for this function.

Internally we use something like that when we onramp a new employee. We just have the person copy the default page into their personal space and complete the task list there. This makes sure that they are not disturbing the original.

If you are set on the kind of functionality that yououtline above you may want to contact one of our [experts](http://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts) to help you create a custom plugin that encapusulates this functionality.

comments: author: Andrew Sturtevant
body: Thanks for your quick response. This is a small task so I don't believe a custom plugin needs to be worked on. I appreciate the help!


author: Andrew Sturtevant
body: One other note I should add, I have been playing around with the {include:TEST PAGE} macro, if the page with the macro was edited currently 'TEST PAGE' gets modified too. Is there a flag to turn this dependancy off? So that users who went to the page with the macro could edit the checklist mentioned above and it would not change the master? Thanks again.


Tags: confluence-administration
Link to this page Wiki Markup URLs
Asked by James Roberts:

What will happen to links that go directly to the Wiki Markup URL once Confluence has been upgrade to v4.x that no longer has Wiki Markup included? Will those URLs simply be broken and take the user to a 404 error page? Will Confluence understand that it is a Wiki Markup URL and take the user to the page but just not the Wiki Markup URL?


Answers:
author: James Roberts
body: Looking that the Wiki Markup URL information further shows that it was just a way of linking internally from the Wiki and would not work from external sources. The format for that Wiki URL is still valid and will not break.


author: James Roberts
body: Previous versions of Wiki that allowed Wiki Markup brought up a Wiki Markup URL in the Link to this page dialog box. It only showed the Wiki Markup link information for the page.

\[SPACEKEY:page\]


author: Timothy
body: Whats a "Wiki Markup URL"?


Tags: confluence-administration
Collaboration on meeting notes?
Asked by Philip Colmer:

The promotional material for meeting notes mentions "crowdsource your agenda" which - to me - suggests that you can get multiple people contributing to it at once.

However, unless I'm missing something, that doesn't seem to be possible. The feature seems to provide some nice templating on top of what looks like an otherwise standard Confluence page and therefore you need to go into edit mode if you want to make any changes.

What we've started using more recently for keeping track of meetings is a Google document, if for no other reason than the fact that multiple participants in the meeting can add to the notes at the same time, thus sharing the burden.

So - am I misunderstanding something or am I correct to say that meeting notes do not support multiple collaborative editing?


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Confluence does not have the simultaneious editing like how Google Doc does. Two or more users can edit a page at the same time but you will have to do the [merging once a user saves the page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Concurrent+Editing+and+Merging+Changes).

comments: author: Philip Colmer
body: Thanks for the confirmation. I think that is a shame, but hopefully it will come in a future version ...


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Phillip,

Timothy is correct. We do not currently have this behavior. We do have an outstanding feature request for this behavior.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8333>

It looks like it is a bit of an older feature request. I have added this post to the ticket to bring it back to the developers attention.


author: DanielS
body: EtherPad provides this synchronous editing and there is a connector for Confluence in the marketplace: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.imaginarymachines.confluence.etherpadlite.etherpadlite4confluence>

This would provide true "crowdsourced meeting notes". I use EtherPad for conferences and group meetings so that all the perspectives in such group settings can be captured.
Is there a limit on the number of images you can attach to a page within a space?
Asked by JEB:

We are unable to use templates or any other macros within our organisation. We have set up our space with a manual navigation bar across the top and a side menu bar, all using \*.png images attached to a separate page - it is more the look and feel of an intranet. We have been advised that this is not effective and that we should revert to using the standard Confluence menus. Can anyone advise if there is a limit to the number of images you can attach to a page and/or space in Confluence, and it anyone else has built their site without templates in a similar way.


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: JEB,

Timothy is correct that these is not a limit to the number of files you can attach to a given page. You are limited only by your instances disk space and ability to render the attachments back out.

However, I think that may be beside the point. Why are you not able to use templates? Who told you that your current configuration is not effective? If your customizations are done smartly and css having some custom graphics on your page should not slow down your instance too significantly.


author: Timothy
body: Well, there is no actual limit of how many images you can attach to a page. It's a matter of the browser and the client machine on whether they can display/render the page or not.
Track down big attachments
Asked by Dick Visser:

Hi,

I'm faced with a rather large attachments directory (2Gb), and I'm looking for a way to display a list of attachments with their size, space, and location.


Answers:
author: fsim
body: Hey Dick,

You can do that by running this query in the Confluence Database:

```
SELECT a.TITLE AS "Attachment Name", a.FILESIZE, c.TITLE AS "Page Title", s.SPACENAME AS "Space Name", CONCAT("http://&lt;YourConfluenceURL&gt;/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=", a.PAGEID) AS "Location" FROM attachments a JOIN content c ON a.PAGEID = c.CONTENTID JOIN spaces s ON c.SPACEID = s.SPACEID ORDER BY a.FILESIZE DESC;
```

Replace \<yourConfluenceURL\> with your Confluence URL. That will give you the correct hyperlink to each attachments' location. Added this as a KB here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=346325893>

This was tested with MySQL (some DB might not have a CONCAT function. Check the DB manual for the correct method to concatenate 2 strings).

Foogie


author: Peter Doyle
body: Here is the same query for SQL Server

```
SELECT a.TITLE AS "Attachment Name", a.FILESIZE, c.TITLE AS "Page Title", s.SPACENAME AS "Space Name", 'http://&lt;yourConfluenceURL&gt;/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId='+convert(varchar(10),a.PAGEID) AS "Location" FROM [ConfluenceDB].[dbo].[ATTACHMENTS] a JOIN [ConfluenceDB].[dbo].[CONTENT] c ON a.PAGEID = c.CONTENTID JOIN [ConfluenceDB].[dbo].[SPACES] s ON c.SPACEID = s.SPACEID ORDER BY a.FILESIZE DESC;
```


author: Dick Visser
body: Thanks, this is what I was looking for.

I adjusted it a bit becuase we run PG, so it was possible to do this straight from the command line, did some formatting stuff, and sorted by Space name (so I can blame specific space admins):

```
postgres@confluence:~$ psql confluencedb -Atc "SELECT s.SPACENAME, pg_size_pretty(a.FILESIZE), a.TITLE AS AttachmentName, c.TITLE AS PageTitle, s.SPACENAME AS SpaceName, 'https://confluence.terena.org/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=' || a.PAGEID AS Location FROM attachments a JOIN content c ON a.PAGEID = c.CONTENTID JOIN spaces s ON c.SPACEID = s.SPACEID WHERE a.FILESIZE &gt; 1048576 ORDER BY s.SPACENAME, a.FILESIZE DESC"
```


Tags: confluence-administration
Using 2 instances of Confluence on Demand one for developing tech doco and one for customers
Asked by Lillia:

Is anyone out there using 2 instances of Confluence on Demand one to develop tech doco and then another instance to publish it for customers?? So one instance would be our internal site with draft versions etc and the other instance would contain the signed-off doco and be accessible to customers?  
The reason we are thinking of doing this is to simplify the whole permissions things:) pros? cons?

<br />

Thanks Lillia.


Answers:
author: Sam Hall
body: IMO permissions in Confluence are pretty damn simple if you avoid using page restrictions. This is a very simple scenario you are talking about compared to organisations with complex departmental relationships. Imagine an organisation with 20 departments, each of which have various client/vendor type relationships with one another all sharing the same Confluence instance quite happily. This is what Confluence was built to support. If you fragment it, I suspect you wont be able to leverage some of the social features in Confluence as effectively. Your technical team wont be engaging as directly with your clients to allow them to improve your product(s) and your client relationship as fluidly as they otherwise might. I hope that made sense, it's just my gut feeling.


Tags: confluence-cloud
Sync with Active Directory
Asked by GeekWannaBe:

Can I sync an On Demand installation with my Enterprise Active Directory or do I need the Download version to accomplish this?


Answers:
author: Marlon Aguiar
body: Hi MrBlueSky,

No you can't unfortunately, that's listed on the OnDemand Restricted Function page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

There's a improvement request regarding this here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-1837> I strongly recommend you to vote for it (so it increases it's priority), add yourself as a watcher (in order to get updates) and if you have the time please add a brief comment so our DEVs can get the customer's point of view on how this should be implemented, most people don't realize but the more activity a improvement request gets the more likely it is to be implemented.

Let me know if this information helps you!

Regards,  
Marlon

comments: author: Zul NS _Atlassian_
body: Adding to that, you can have Confluence Download version to [sync with AD](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory).


author: GeekWannaBe
body: Thx for the info and link to restrictions!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Fancybox gets javascript ?not implemented? error in IE8
Asked by Avinash:

Hi,

I am using the {gallery} macro in my webpage to display all the photos (thumbnail view). It works well with chrome and firefox but it gives me problem with IE8. When i click on individual images to see the enlarged version, i get a javascript error with message "not implemented". How can i eliminate this problem as most of my people use IE8. Please help!

Thanks!

Avinash

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.3; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)

Timestamp: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:32:01 UTC

Message: Not implemented

Line: 1

Char: 2891

Code: 0

URI: <http://wagwiki.walgreens.com/confluence/s/en/2166/24/1.16/_/download/batch/confluence.macros.advanced:fancy-box/confluence.macros.advanced:fancy-box.js>


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Please check if this relates to you.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23077>

comments: author: Avinash
body: Thanks! I just had to turn the compatibility view OFF in IE8 and it works! :)


Tags: internet-explorer

javascript
how can I delete the "Site Spaces" tab?
Asked by Giovanni Azua:

How can I delete the "Site Spaces" tab from the default Confluence dashboard? I have the Subspace addon and don't need that long list of flat spaces. I tried creating a custom Global Layout in the Admin-\>Edit Layouts but I don't have fine grained access to the "Site Spaces" tab instead I can only remove the whole panel and I'd like not to.

```
#foreach ($webPanel in $webInterfaceManager.getDisplayableWebPanels("atl.dashboard.left", {}))  &lt;div class="dashboard-item"&gt;      $!webPanel.getHtml($req.getParameterMap())   &lt;/div&gt;#end
```


Answers:
author: Bhushan Nagaraj
body: Custom HTML at the end of HEAD

```
&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.space-list-section {display:none !important;}#spaces-tab-link {display:none !important;}&lt;/style&gt;
```

comments: author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Nice work. Thanks for sharing!


author: Giovanni Azua
body: Thanks but can you please give more context on this solution and not just drop a code snippet? what template it applies to? how to reach the document using Confluence 5.1.x? etc.


author: Bhushan Nagaraj
body: Sorry Giovanni I am new to Confluence and I haven't developed or played around with it much as yet. Maybe Ryan can help us with the information you are looking for.

However, I tried the css I shared above and it answered your question as to how you could delete the site spaces from the default dashboard.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Giovanni,

You'll want to apply this to the global stylesheet. Navigate to Confluence Admin \> Stylesheet. Paste in the css from above. Navigate back to Dashboard and you'll see the spaces tab is gone.

Cheers!


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Giovanni,

This isn't really an answer. I tried to hide the tab via css but anything I do only hides the whole panel. I'm stuck same as you. Maybe someone else will have better luck or be more ninja...

I figured you should at least know someone out there is trying!


Tags: css
Categories in Team Calendar
Asked by Tim Gehrmann:

Hi,

we use the team calendar and we would like to highlight different events. Is there a chance to set up categories and use a color scheme in one calendar?

Thank You

Tim


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Tim,

I think we have an open feature request for that behavior.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-364>

It is not yet rolled into Team Calendars. I have attached your question to the issue to further increase it's visibility to our developers. Please feel free to visit that ticket and add your own comments.


author: RIsk
body: Apologies for this stating something that is, perhaps, obvious!

As a workaround, instead of multiple categories in one calendar, create calendars for every category and use a common prefix when naming them for visual grouping. As you add these calendars, the calendar view will be color coded calendar name, which is really event category.

Not exactly a solution but works if you're desperate for this functionality now.

comments: author: Tim Gehrmann
body: How about "publishing/inserting" this set of calendars into a common confluence space without having people creating their own calender view?

Havent tried yet but is it possible to combine sevaral calendars and create an overlay view where people visiting this confluence space see this overview inserted in a page/space?


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Is it possible to grant 'Super User Rights' to migrated AD-Groups?
Asked by Wilhelm Kr?ger:

Hello Guys,

we are planning to use a Active Directory for user authentication. Therefore i created a new "Confluence AD Administrator" Group in the Active Directory. Now i want to know if it's possible to to grant "[Super User](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview)" Rights to the newly created group.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Wilhelm,

The super user group is confluence-administrator, if you want to administrate this group into your LDAP, create the LDAP group with this name and set the LDAP directory on the top position in Confluence.  

Hope this helps.

Cheers

comments: author: Wilhelm Kr?ger
body: Hello Tiago,

I tried your solution and it worked for us. I created a group named "confluence-administrators" in the Active Directory and deactivated the Internal JIRA Directory.

But it seems to be a problem if I want to use a different group name.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Willhelm,

Tiago is correct. You are more than free to create a group called confluence-administrator inside your LDAP. This is the default administrators group that will grant all users in it Super User Rights.

If you wanted to keep your group name you could visit Confluence Admin \> Global Permissions and add your "Confluence AD Administrator" as a group in the top permissions area. You would then mirror the permission scheme that the "confluence-administrator" for that group. I am including a link to our global permissions over document below.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview>

comments: author: Wilhelm Kr?ger
body: Hello Daniel,

I'm afraid i can't name my own AD Group with Super-User rights. I did the following things you said:

1. Go to Confluence Administrator -\> Global Permissions
2. Added "Confluence AD Administrator"
3. Mirrored the rights (Personal Space, Create Space(s), Confluence Administrator \& System Administrator
4. Go to "User Directories"
5. Moved up the "Active-Directory-Server" to the Top

But nevertheless my new Administrator Account is not allowed to see any spaces. Next thing I'll try is naming a group confluence-administrator in the Active Directory.


Tags: confluence-administration
Survey Plugin by Frank Stiller - Compatible with 5.1.2 or will there be an update to support Confluence 5.1.2
Asked by Kirk Fahlberg:

I am interested in this plug-in and I am currently using Confluence 5.1.2 and StepStone Zen Foundations but am concerned about compatiblity. Is anyone using this plugin in this environment or is anyone aware of this plugin being updated at some time in the future?

Regards,

Kirk


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Kirk,

Checking the plugin's page we only have versions for Confluence 2.1.3 to 4.1.2, so to confirm if there's some available version for Confluence 5.1.2 or if it will be developed a version for Confluence 5.1.2, I would suggest you to make a contact with Frank by the following:

[drohne1673@googlemail.com](mailto:drohne1673@googlemail.com)

This would be the best way to clarify this point about compatibility with the latest Confluence version.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

LJ.


author: Frank Stiller
body: Thanks Luiz,

ya i picked up the keyboard in june and it will be maintained quite a lot more ;)

cheers

Frank

p.s. could you please tag this question also with this plugins tag addon... ? or can i do it somehow?


Tags: addon-com.nearinfinity.confluence.survey-plugi

confluence-administration

survey
Human readable names for Confluence pages
Asked by Yamila Vigil:

Hallo:

We are using Conlfuence OnDemand, but sometimes we can see the diference between some url that generate Confluence. For example, sometimes the name of the url is totally readable like:

[https://jwebsocket.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JWSDEVSTD/Common+Coding+Conventions](https://jwebsocket.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JWSDEVSTD/Common+Coding+Conventions "Follow link")

but in other moments, in the same space, Confluence generates a totally different url:

[https://jwebsocket.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2621452](https://jwebsocket.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2621452 "Follow link")

We would like to know how define a page in a space of the way that it generates a readable name in the url???

Thanks in advanced!


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: If you say away from special characters in the title, then the url is readable.


author: Yamila Vigil
body: Hallo Bob:

Yes, the problem is that sometimes Confluence generates readable url, for example thisone:

[https://jwebsocket.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JWSDEVSTD/Common+Coding+Conventions](https://jwebsocket.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JWSDEVSTD/Common+Coding+Conventions "Follow link")

But in other moment in the same space, it changes totally the convenction to create the url, like here:

[https://jwebsocket.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2621452](https://jwebsocket.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2621452 "Follow link")

This url doesnt say me nothing clearly about the name of the space or the page, and the before url, yes.

So, We want to know what we need to do or of what way we can create the pages in Confluence that always it generates readable url?


Tags: confluence-cloud
Confluence OnDemand - Customer Content Privacy Policy
Asked by srapport:

Is there a published Atlassian Confluence OnDemand customer content privacy policy?

**Specifically -**

1. Who within Atlassian has access to customer content?

2. Under what circumstances can / will this group access customer content?

3. What approval process is required within Atlassian before an employee accesses customer content? (i.e. Customer PIN / Approval)

4. Is there an audit trail that shows ALL access to content, including that of an Admin at Atlassian? **\*\*\*\* THIS SEEM REALLY IMPORTANT \*\*\*\***


Answers:
author: Dave
body: Hello,

For OnDemand services, Nic is correct on these accounts, and also our Operations team will access your account when necessary - we maintain the sysadmin login for all accounts. For 3, there is no approval process - you can review all of this information in [our Security statement](http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/security).

Thanks,

-dave


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think you'll get a faster and more comprehensive response if you raise this directly with Atlassian OnDemand support.

We're not Atlassian, we are customers of Atlassian.

However, when I skimmed the OnDemand docs (and based on my experience with the apps and Atlassian support)

1. The support team. All of them. Possibly including developers if necessary

2. When they need to, in order to support you

3. I can't answer this one

4. I suspect there's little or none. The applications do not log access directly, so you're into looking at url hits which are not always a complete list and are a monumental pain to plough through when they're large.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud