youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is it possible to restrict a live search to more than one space
Asked by Mark Wittig:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Livesearch Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=163415902)*

I want to use a live search macro that find items in a determinated list of spaces. At present I only can restrict to one space key or using "@self"


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Not really. It is designed to only allow one space. That would be a good feature request though.

comments: author: Mark Wittig
body: Thanks for the response. I have made suggestion: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-41238>


Tags: live-search
Change group name spelling in Confluence ?
Asked by Per Hall:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [User Getting Logged Out Intermittently Due to the Groupname Case Change in LDAP](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=751698301)*

This article suggests to resolve difference in group name spellings by changing it in the remote directory.

It may be hard to change the remote (ie AD) directory, as many others depends upon it. Can it be changed in the confluence side instead, adopting to the new (arguable corrected) spelling?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. If you're importing a group name, it's imported as it is. It's not a local thing, it's using the AD group.


Tags: confluence-administration

documentation
How can I import Frontify into Confluence?
Asked by Prisca Ekkens:


Answers:
author: Prisca Ekkens
body: Thanks Steven for the response. I wrote Frontify and the only option available is to save (print) a HTML file and embed in an iFrame. Still testing it out...

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-put-an-iframe-into-confluence-598837531.html>


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Does Frontify let you export or download your content, or is there an API? I can't find one with a cursory glance.


Tags: import
Installing a Plugin
Asked by Pat Condon:

The Link on this page with the title above (<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-plugin-module-types/theme-module>) seems to route to the same page. I am curious how to change the style sheet for sub-site and not the entire instance


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Themes are installed globally and then made available to the whole of your Confluence system.

You can then choose which one you want to use for each space individually.


author: Pat Condon
body: Thank you!


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I log 404's
Asked by thelinuxfoundation:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [How to Enable User Access Logging](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=182943)*

I enabled logging, there is no indication when I hit a link that it returned the page not found (404)


Answers:
author: Robert Ortner
body: you should find it in your web application server log - tomcat, websphere whatever


Tags: documentation

log

user
Can not access to confluence
Asked by Tung Nguyen Son:

My confluence server suddenly can not access even server started and process is running.

I've already try to install new one, it work normally, and then i changed to old DB, i still can access to server (but not working because difference server ID), but after i copy application data, i can't access to server again. I try to restore from backup file but it's error. Please help me!  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-not-access-to-confluence/qaq-p/438199?attachment-id=8903){#link_11871e18981205}  
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Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What does the application log file say is wrong? (In confluence-home/log)

comments: author: Tung Nguyen Son
body: Thanks for your answer, i've already found out my problem. But now i have trouble with my DB. Screen like this now:

Capture.PNG

I changed my DB character set \& collate to UTF8 and utf8_bin or create new DB and import old data, it's still like that. How can I do? Thanks!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Did you drop all the old tables before importing?


author: Tung Nguyen Son
body: Yes, i created new DB but it's still like that.


author: Tung Nguyen Son
body: I've already fixed my problem, it's about DB, new DB lack of some table, I changed character set \& collate of old DB follow Atlassian guild but i think it's not correct, i have to update all table from ALTER queries generated from SELECT query, and it's work well now. Thanks for your attention!


Tags: confluence-administration
is it possible to change http://kb.mysite.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8519797 to more human-readable URLs, i.e. http://kb.mysite.com/customers ?
Asked by Andy:

is it possible to change <http://kb.mysite.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8519797> to more human-readable URLs, i.e. <http://kb.mysite.com/customers> ?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You get the page IDs in urls when the name of the page contains punctuation or encodable characters. Try changing the name of the page to something plain (e.g. "My cat's health" won't have a human readable url, but "The health of my cat" will)  

The page id version of a url is always available, the human friendly one is only there when the name is usable


author: Barbara Snyder
body: You can always use the Tiny Link on the Page Information page instead of the pageId version. It's a bit more user-friendly, although not as much as you would like.   

Or, you could create a page kb.mysite.com/customers and have it redirect to the real page, if you want to give out a URL like [kb.mysite.com/customers](http://kb.mysite.com/customers).

hth


Tags: confluence-administration

url
How can i put the content of one confluence page into another
Asked by Corinna F?hring:

How can I put the whole content of one confluence page into antoher..does this justwork with copy paste ??Its a table that i need to put in another


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Copy and paste works, although for some pages it won't do it in "view" mode - if you copy the content while in Edit mode it will take an identical copy (although only with one section at a time)

Or, you could use the include or include-excerpt macros to avoid having to maintain the data in two places.

comments: author: Corinna F?hring
body: do i just have to mark the table whcih is content of the page..as I do ti in Excel ? It did not work at first try......seemed rare later on while pasting....seemed to paste a file...


author: Corinna F?hring
body: ahh now it works Thanks !!!!!!


author: Frances Albrecht
body: **New topic process for how to "replicate" the content of one page to another page:**  
**Step one:**  
Create new page (parent page for source content). Note the TITLE of this page.  
**Step two:**  
Create a new page, choose the "blank page" template, and then title it the same as or other than the title used for the parent page.  
**Step three:**  
In the body of the new page, insert the "Include page" macro. For the page you want to include, simply paste in the TITLE of the parent page, and then save the page.  
Now the second page will always contain the source content on the parent page.  
TIP: you can also use the Include page macro to insert a page's content into a section of a page. For ex., I use it in a section of an guide's landing page to show a revision history table that's maintained on its own, separate page.


author: Martin James
body: You could always use the **Include Page** macro that comes free with Confluence.

Here are instructions how to use it:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/include-page-macro-139514.html>


author: Mano Emmanvel
body: Hello All, We tried using this Include macro. But the problem is it expects view permission of the target page similar to that of source page.

comments: author: Mano Emmanvel
body: Our situation is that we want to share selective content from a space to our contractors space and giving view permission as that of source is not possible


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, that's correct, if a person has permission to see something, they can see it. If they do not have the permission to see it, then they can't see it.

You need to restructure your pages so that the pages you want to share are in a space visible to contractors (and included in internal spaces if they need to be duplicated there)


Tags: confluence-administration
Purging all items from trash from all spaces
Asked by Pranjal Shukla:

How can i purge all trash items from all the spaces?


Answers:
author: 105349
body: Hey Pranjal!

When ScriptRunner for Confluence was still available, this was a way to accomplish this:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/191994>

Sadly ScriptRunner for Confluence is no longer available, and there's not currently a built-in function to achieve the same thing.

That said, there is a ticket in for a feature that incorporates this:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-18160>

I suggest that you vote and/or comment!

Good luck!


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Questions Cloud Edition unanswered filter doesn't work
Asked by blah:

I am using the Cloud Edition of Confluence Questions. I have two Questions that don't have answers:

image2016-3-28 13:33:10.png

Yet, when I click the `Unanswered` filter, they don't show up:

image2016-3-28 13:34:12.png

**Is there something I need to configure / setup to get the `Unanswered` Filter to work?**  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Questions-Cloud-Edition-unanswered-filter-doesn-t/qaq-p/435847?attachment-id=5176){#link_11871ebda94f74}  
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[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Questions-Cloud-Edition-unanswered-filter-doesn-t/qaq-p/435847?attachment-id=5177){#link_11871ebda94f74_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/73915/2/image2016-3-28%2013%3A33%3A10.png){#display_11871ebda94f74_2}


Answers:
author: MadelineBarr
body: We are also testing the add-on and I am seeing this on the a server version as well.


Tags: confluence-cloud

questions-for-confluence
How do I view the version history of a single attachment?
Asked by Anatoly Klebanov:

I am aware that you can use the Attachments macro to view the version history of each file that is attached to a page. Is there a method that I can use to view the version history of a single attachment? I realize that I can remove the other attachments to achieve this, but I need the other files attached to the same page. Thanks!


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Hi Anatoly,

I think I understand from your exchange with Stephan what you are driving at. You can use the Attachments macro's parameters to accomplish what you wish I believe.

Using the *Attachment Labels* parameter, you can input the label(s) that will drive having only the desired attachment displayed. If you only have a particular filetype for that one file and all other attachments are a different filetype, you can instead utilize the *Filename Patterns* parameter (the latter is especially helpful when you want to avoid displaying non-business documents in a list such as graphics files).

Learn more at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf53/displaying-a-list-of-attachments-411108785.html>

For more on labeling attachments, see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf53/adding-labels-411108771.html>

Hope that helps.

Tom

comments: author: TomC
body: I forgot to add, the Attachments macro will list version history if you check the parameter option, *Include Old Attachment Versions*.


author: ST Kambor-Wiesenberg
body: Hi Anatoly,

go to the confluence page with the attachment, click on the paperclip icon (top of the page), now you see all attachements, click on the little arrow (\>) left to the name of the attachment, now you see the version history of this single attachment.

Is that what you looking for?

Regards  
Stephan

comments: author: Anatoly Klebanov
body: Thank you, Stephan. Close. I am looking to display the version history of a single attachment directly on the page without navigating to the attachments list. Are you aware of a way to do this?

Best,

Toly


Tags: confluence-administration
Hiding the global header on a specific space
Asked by Jon Simone:

Hello!

I'm just wondering if there is anyway to disable the global header for a particular space using Confluence Cloud.

I appreciate any suggestions!

Thanks


Answers:
author: Jon Simone
body: I finally found an answer. What I did was I went into the space where I wanted the global header disabled and then went into that space's specific "look and feel" and then changed the header which overrides the global header. The easiest thing to put was "----" which just creates a horizontal rule at the top.

Thanks everyone!


author: Jon Simone
body: In Confluence Administration in the side bar there is a spot that says "Sidebar, Header, and Footer" under "Look and Feel". As a header I added some additional navigation links. For the most part this is helpful for our teams but one team in particular does not want this global header to show up.

I guess I could go into each space and manually add the Header but there are around 20 different spaces and I just need to disable it for that one.

Any ideas?

Sorry for not being specific enough. Thanks for the help!! ![laugh](/html/@BEA1CC333F4D830F5303329D7DC07DE4/images/emoticons/laugh.png "laugh")


author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: This sounds like a smaller part of a larger problem. What are you actually trying to do? :smile:


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If by "global header", you mean the "generic menu bar across the top that you need for basic navigation in Confluence", then no, you can't hide it.

If you mean the "global header" you can apply in the global settings, then, yes, there is some stuff you can do in the html to hide it on a space-by-space basis, but it's not easy or clever.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

footer

global

header

space
When renaming a page, what is the list of macros that will not update relative links?
Asked by carolyn french:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Create and Edit Pages](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=771891928)*

image2016-3-28 13:48:38.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/When-renaming-a-page-what-is-the-list-of-macros-that-will-not/qaq-p/355754?attachment-id=12303){#link_11871ee8c37231}  
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Answers:
author: Sandy Johnson
body: I don't know the list, but the one that bothers me the most is the Include Page macro. I use this extensively and wish page name changes would be reflected here.

comments: author: carolyn french
body: Thanks, Sandy!


author: Cathy Rivard
body: I happened to be testing this out, and noticed that the page names in the Include Page and Excerpt Include macros were both updated when I changed the name of the referenced page (Confluence 6.1.2). Not sure when this behaviour might have changed, but glad to see it.

I actually haven't run across any macros that aren't updated. Would be interested to hear whether there still are any.
Can't restore password
Asked by Kseniya Bondarenko:

When I try to restore my password I get error saying that combination email and password is not found. But I just filled in only email and wanted to get a link on it


Answers:
author: Yaroslav Glodov
body: I can face the same issue.

And when I try to restore my username it shows me message "An email has been sent" but I received no email.

Screen Shot 2016-09-13 at 09.51.53.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-t-restore-password/qaq-p/454850?attachment-id=56){#link_11871f3553cb48}  
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Tags: cloud
moving *this* page
Asked by gordon grimes:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Moving a Page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=590259451)*

Are there any plans to improve the "moving a page" feature such that some context is retained when I select "reorder pages"? 99% of the time I'm wanting to move either the page I'm on or the children of that page. As it stands I need to start from the top of the project and navigate my way back to the same page I'm on. At a minimum it'd be helpful to have a "jump to" dialog on the "reorder pages" top-level page so I could enter the name of the page I'm interested in.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: I find that reordering pages via the "Move Page" feature is way too difficult and you end up wasting a lot of time. If you want to reorder, your best bet is to Click "Space Tools" and "Reorder Pages" (if using the standard theme) or, if using the documentation theme, click "Browse", "Pages", and click "Tree View". Then you can reorder the pages simply by dragging and dropping them into place and you don't have to worry about losing the context.

comments: author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Although it's true that you have to then find the page in the hierarchy that you wanted to move, it's usually not that bad to find the page, especially if you open the page reordering in a new tab.


author: gordon grimes
body: Thanks Stephen. Yeah, it's that 'navigating to the page' that I'm wanting to avoid. Our site has some deeply nested pages and since confluence hides stuff, like much of the path, re-navigating is an exercise. And it all seems pointless since confluence could easily know where to send me to start my reordering. True that sometimes I'm just wanting to reorder pages "generally", but even then being warped to my current page seems harmless enough and it is as likely to be "close" to my intended target as the root node is. I contend that sending uses to the root node is rarely what they need while sending them to the current node is nearly always what they need. The design chose the wrong default.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Gordon,

I was looking around seeing if I could maybe fix this, and I found out that Confluence already has this feature, it's just super badly labeled. Under the Tools menu (or ???), there is an option called "View in Hierarchy". This is pretty much the exact same thing as reorder pages, but it will expand up to the part of the tree where your page is. How cool is that?


author: gordon grimes
body: Very cool - thanks much!!!


Tags: feature

move

page

usability
Is this article still accurate?
Asked by Tom Jackson:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [How to use NGINX to proxy requests for Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=313459790)*

I can't get it to work as documented with Confluence 5.9.

I can come close with the following nginx.conf file:

```
server {     ...    location /blah/ {        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;        proxy_pass http://stupefied_franklin:8090/blah/;    }}
```

Note that I had to put a trailing slash after blah.

The resulting configuration mostly does the job, but with one critical exception: the create space dialog opens but spins forever (the space blueprint icons never load) ...

Does someone have an example nginx.conf and server.xml file I can use as reference?


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: Hi Thomas,

Here's the relevant location portion from our nginx config:

```
location / {        proxy_pass          http://localhost:8090;        proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Host $host;        proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Server $host;        proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;        proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP $remote_addr;        proxy_redirect      off;        client_max_body_size 10M;        proxy_connect_timeout 30s;    }
```

And the connector from server.xml:

```
&lt;Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"                maxThreads="200" minSpareThreads="10"                enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"                protocol="HTTP/1.1"                scheme="https"                proxyName="wiki.example.org"                proxyPort="443"/&gt;
```

We're currently on 5.9.4; previously we were on 5.7.1 with the same configuration. We are terminating TLS at nginx, so the **scheme** and **proxyPort** settings in server.xml should be updated to http and 80 if you're not using nginx for SSL/TLS.

It's also worth checking to make sure the baseURL in Confluence is correct.


Tags: nginx

proxy
How to make confluence links all open in new window
Asked by Chi Nguyen:

Hi Atlassian,  
We want to insert links to external websites in my page and have them open up in a new window. (It's not just ctrl+click).

We want all links to open in a new tab, window. Please support us.  
My Confluence 6.0.0-OD-2016.12.2-1113.

Thanks so much,  
Chi


Answers:
author: Carlos Gomez
body: 'HTML Link' Macro

<http://www.brikit.com/display/documentation/HTML+Link+Macro>


author: Alex Yasurek
body: Hi,

You can add some javascript to apply the target="_blank" attribute to all links so that they open up in a new window. If you want to target only links that lead to external sites, you can use the class ".external-link" which confluence applies to all links that are external.

For example, add something like this to the custom HTML section in the admin area:

AJS.$(".external-link").attr("target", "_blank");

comments: author: Steven F Behnke
body: The user indicates with labels they are on Confluence Cloud -- Custom HTML and jquery is not an option.


author: Alex Yasurek
body: Oh good point, didn't see that. Not sure how it can be done globally without Javascript then.


author: Milo Test
body: I also don't know of any way to do it in cloud. So you might want to vote for this: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-9380>


author: Debbie Lefkowitz
body: you can't, we've all been sent back to 1997.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence keyboard shortcuts on Mac, Control maps to Command
Asked by Anne Stern:

Is anyone else seeing this? I'm on a El Capitan using Chrome with Confluence. I normally use a lot of the handy control-based editing shortcuts on mac like Ctrl+A to go to the beginning of a line, Ctrl+K to delete through end of line, etc. But what I'm finding with Confluence is that Ctrl is being mapped to Command and trying to use those editing shortcuts is resulting in invocation of Confluence shortcuts that are listed as binding to Cmd+A, Cmd+K, etc. Argh....

If anyone is seeing this, would you consider this a bug? Is this something that one can work around? Any thoughts? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Isn't this by design? <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/getting-started-with-confluence/keyboard-shortcuts>
> If you are using Safari on OS X, please substitute 'Control' for 'Cmd' in the shortcuts below.