youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
number security application at login
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear Support Team,   
Would it be possible to add number check security as shown as below, or is there plugin for the security application ?Thank you.  
number.jpg

example:

example2.jpg  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/number-security-application-at-login/qaq-p/371415?attachment-id=4){#link_1187740ab1d6f8}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/62776/1/number.jpg){#display_1187740ab1d6f8_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/number-security-application-at-login/qaq-p/371415?attachment-id=5){#link_1187740ab1d6f8_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/62776/2/example2.jpg){#display_1187740ab1d6f8_2}


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's a "captcha" - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-captcha-for-spam-prevention-169970.html>


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Support is available at support.atlassian.com.

answers.atlassian.com is a user-forum.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do you add a watcher (other than myself) to a documentation theme page?
Asked by Donna Macauley:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Configure the Documentation Theme](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=213518993)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: What version of Confluence? Don't you just hit "Watch" and then select "Manage Watchers?"


Tags: documentation-theme
disable/delete user not available
Asked by Gerri Urban:

the links for disable/delete user are not available


Answers:
author: Gerri Urban
body: I can't do either any longer - I have accounts out there that are disabled so I've done it in the past. I don't want confluence to be able to delete people from AD due to the mastering we have with Workday - but I want to be able to at the very least manually disable accounts.


author: Gerri Urban
body: Sorry should of thought to include that - Confluence version 5.6.4, server version, running LDAP AD sync to get users in.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, is it set up as read/write?


author: Gerri Urban
body: no it never has been, and I use to be able to delete users. Don't know when that went away


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If it is read only, then you would not have been able to delete users.

You might have been deleting internal accounts (i.e. not LDAP ones), but you can't delete from LDAP if you can't write to it.  

You should still be able to disable users though, that's all within Confluence.


author: Gerri Urban
body: can't disable them either - not sure why - it's very odd


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's starting to sound like you've been removed from the admin group.   

Could you explain exactly how you "can't delete/disable"? Which screen are you on and is it that the options are not there, or they give an error message?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What user directory are you using, and is it fully read/write?


author: Chander Inguva
body: Hi Gerri, Which version of confluence you are having ? And how is User Mangement done, Internal Directory/ AD sync ?


Tags: confluence-administration
How to remove the "Powered by Atlassian" bar
Asked by Najeeb Shaikh:

I was wondering how the "Powered by Atlassian" bar at the bottom of the Confluence wiki could be removed? (I have attached an image along with.) I am using the cloud-hosted solution for this.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

powered.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-remove-the-quot-Powered-by-Atlassian-quot-bar/qaq-p/185803?attachment-id=12879){#link_118775414a2c33}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/243772/1/powered.png){#display_118775414a2c33_0}


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Technically, if you're on Server, you can remove it by hacking the code. But it's illegal for you to do this, you'd be breaching your licence contract.

On Cloud, no, Atlassian will not remove it.

comments: author: Najeeb Shaikh
body: Oh, ok. Thanks for the answer


author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi Najeeb,

As Nic commented, it's illegal to remove the "Powered by Atlassian" because you'd break the User Agreement as it is stated in section 6.4 of the [Atlassian Customer Agreement](https://www.atlassian.com/end-user-agreement/) document.
Section 6.4"In any use of the Software, you must include the following attribution to Atlassian on all user interfaces in the following format: "Powered by Atlassian," which must in every case include a hyperlink to [http://www.atlassian.com](http://www.atlassian.com/), and which must be in the same format as delivered in the Software."

Cheers,


Tags: cloud
change username in confluence export
Asked by Wouter van Bommel:

I want to perform a migration of 2 confluence sites between 2 different confluence installations (and user databases).

I was wondering on how to that I can 'manipulate' the xml export to get the correct (new) accounts inserted so that everything stays linked as expected.


Answers:
author: Steve Rhodes
body: I have the same problem. In the source space i had usernames of three letters from the first name and 5 from the last. And in the destination space i had first letter plus last name as the username. I couldnt find an easy way round so I created some internal users with the 3+5 style name and made them inactive in the destination space. That way they didnt show up as Unknown User. However, if you are importing more than a small space this is very impractical.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to display only the 'Edit Document' link, without content of the document just below?
Asked by Nicolas Casel:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [View File Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=170494360)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: The View File macros are being eliminated so you should probably start moving to another method such as the Attachments macro or <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/display-files-and-images-245827130.html>.

comments: author: Nicolas Casel
body: Thanks for your feedback.

Concerning the Attachments macro:
> To view an Office or PDF file, click the link or thumbnail to see the full preview

=\> It is **limited to preview** and full aside download.

However, I would still like to benefit from the 'real' **edition features** provided by the 'View File' macro.


author: Milo Test
body: Like it or not, it's going away. It was never a perfect option for us as it only worked on Windows and at least half our users are on Macs.


Tags: ms-office

ms-word

view-file
Can we disable the Like feature for a particular page?
Asked by Howard Friedman:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Likes and Popular Content](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=771892494)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Jonathan Soo
body: Hi,

you can put html macro on that page and put this stylesheet inside the macro.  

|-------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1 2 3 | `<style ``type``=``"text/css"``>` ` ``#likes-section{display:none !important;}` `<``/style``>` |

Regards,  
Jonathan


author: Howard Friedman
body: Thanks. That works. Also removed the children, but no big deal. We can put that back with another macro if we want.

Cheers,

Howard

comments: author: Jonathan Soo
body: Hey Howard,

Cool, glad it helps :smile:

Lets accept the answer above.

Cheers,

Jonathan


Tags: like
How do I know where the excerpt is used?
Asked by Rosario De Domenico:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Excerpt Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148062)*

I am moving an Excerpt (with all the text inside) from a page to another. How can I figure out in which pages I was including my excerpt to check / fix the excerpt include macro? Or is this fixed automatically?


Answers:
author: Anne EQS
body: The excerpt include macro refers to a page, therefore isn't updated when moving the excerpt.

To fix the references after moving the excerpt use the search

"*Title of old excerpt page*" AND macroName:excerpt-include\*

Replace*Title of old excerpt page*by the pagetitle of the page which contained your excerpt before moving it.

comments: author: Sherryl Radbil
body: So glad to find this!


Tags: confluence-administration

documentation

excerpt
How to restrict livesearch and popular labels by pages
Asked by Nickolay Frolov:

Hello!  
I have space in confluence with unique spacekey. There are few hierarchy trees of pages with different content. To optimize searching of information I'm using standard macros "Live search" and "Most popular labels" but I cannot restrict searching space of these macros only by hierarchy pages. It allows me to restrict only by space which is so wide and there are too much unnecessarry information from other pages.

How can I restrict search space by hierarchy of pages?


Answers:
author: renaud staessens
body: dis you find the answer ? I'm interested too !!
AWS ELB Health Checks preventing Confluence install
Asked by Jeanne Howe:

I am trying to install Confluence on a AWS linux server. The ELB performs automatic health checks. Originally, we had the health checks pointing to the Confluence /status page. This works great, if Confluence is up and running. During the install process, the /status page can not be seen by the ELB (and therefore, does not return a response of 200). Because the ELB is not getting a response of 200, I can not get Confluence to render in a browser so I can walk through the setup process.

Has anyone installed Confluence with an ELB? How do you get around the health checks?


Answers:
author: Jeanne Howe
body: We resolved this by pointing the health checks to the TCP Port while we did the install. Once complete, we re-pointed back to the Confluence forgot password page.


author: Jeanne Howe
body: Daniel,

We resolved this by pointing the health checks to the TCP Port while we did the install. Once complete, we re-pointed back to the Confluence page.


author: Daniel T?rnqvist
body: Thanks for that. However the version of Confluence we were using (5.7.1) apparently doesn't have a /status page.

We ended up upgrading to 5.9.10 and dumping in the data from an old installation instead.


author: Daniel T?rnqvist
body: We're running into the same issue. Anyone got any ideas?


Tags: confluence-administration

elb
how do you add people to watch a space? it says "You cannot modify this list"
Asked by Donna Macauley:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Manage Watchers](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=218271870)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Vera Henrichs
body: And how about this feature? <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-40582> Please vote!


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Donna,

The current server version of Confluence does not support adding people to watch a space (from that menu, at least). The Cloud version of Confluence does allow you to do this, but that feature was released only a week ago!

There is an option you could use until then, though, if you really need it.

I wrote a user macro to allow admins to be able to manage watches for other users, including adding/removing space watches. It's here:

[https://bitbucket.org/stephendeutsch/confluence-user-macros/src/39c3a025dacc6b45abc0105f0b7a21a7375690b4/bulk%20remove%20watchers/remove%20watches%20for%20user.vm?at=master\&fileviewer=file-view-default](https://bitbucket.org/stephendeutsch/confluence-user-macros/src/39c3a025dacc6b45abc0105f0b7a21a7375690b4/bulk%20remove%20watchers/remove%20watches%20for%20user.vm?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default)

Just save it as a user macro under some name (and set to only show to administrators), add it to a page, and then you should be able to use it without any problems :smile:


author: Kay Brown
body: Hi Donna,

You need Space Administrator permissions to add watchers.

Regards,

Kay


Tags: watcher
How can a Confluence admin check and correct the restrictons of a particular calendar that he is not allowed to see?
Asked by linde-engineering-uk:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Restrict a Calendar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=660737259)*

How can a Confluence admin check and correct the restrictons of a particular calendar that he is not allowed to see?

This is a common support case in companies and I'm wondering that there is no admin screen to see and modify all created team calendars in the system...

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: linde-engineering-uk
body: OK, no answer is an answer anyhow ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

I finally was able to solve the issue. Please find the findings in the following:

* There is no "manage view" even for Confluence admins to manage team calendars created in the system.
* Confluence admins are able to see all team calendars e.g. in My Calendars view but cannot change anything like restrictions in the UI if not allowed to.
* Entries in the BANDANA table with BANDANDAKEY values like "__view_events_users__", "__view_events_groups__", "__view_events_groups__" and "__view_events_groups__". contain the restrictions for team calendars (XML expression in CLOB column). They can be corrected in the database if there is no other option (calendar owner unknown or absent). In my case, Confluence crashed right after the update when looking at the My Calendars view but it works as intended after restart.
* The usage of XML and iCal as storage format is probably the reason why Team Calendars performs so slowly.

As conclusion I have to state that this topicis another confirmation that Team Calendars still fails for enterprise solutions - even if I really like its concepts.


author: linde-engineering-uk
body: Sorry for being impatient but my customers are still waiting for an answer. And on the other hand this seems to be a rather very basic and simple question that should be raised before if some companies ever used the Team Calendars plugin...

At the moment I'm just afraid that there is no possibility in the UI but what about database?

I just realized that there are entries in the BANDANA table with BANDANDAKEY values like "__view_events_users__", "__view_events_groups__", "__view_events_groups__" and "__view_events_groups__".

Are this the restrictions of team calendars?

Your quick reply is much appreciated!


Tags: permission

team-calendars-for-confluence
Roadmap Planner Macro: Jira Integration
Asked by Victoria Dames:

Can we please get an integration with JIRA (Ability to populate the roadmap using Feature/Epic or User Story Types)?


Answers:
author: oberluz
body: I agree, it would be really nice to have this. Atlassian?


author: Stefan Solender
body: It seems like Roadmap Planner Macro does not integrate data from Jira. I don't see anywhere to feed it with realtime data from Jira.


author: Chad Krueger
body: Ditto that. A simple way like this to reflect/communicate epic level scheduling would be amazing.
How can I order and sort by title?
Asked by Wendy Dugal:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Content Report Table Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=317194676)*

The sort by 'Title' does not seem to work, it doesn't change the order. (Cloud plaform)

Is there anyway to set the list to be ordered by the Title and sort in reverse order?


Answers:
author: Anders Brunland
body: Same here - (Cloud platform)


author: Isaac Montes
body: Looks like there is a bug


author: Dominik Tschopp
body: Same issue here on a server instance running Confluence 5.9.8.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

content-report-table-macro
Create from template macro - can it be linked to a picture?
Asked by Elena_Lurye:

Hi,

I am looking for a way to link "create from template" macro with a picture - so when I click on a picture - I would be able to create a new page.

Currently we can only modify a wording on the button, but adding a corresponding picture would add a nice touch.

Please let me know if it is possible - maybe with some user macro?

I see the following in the documentation (looks like the solution must exist), but I am not able to make it work -   
<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/tutorials/macro-tutorials-for-confluence/providing-an-image-as-a-macro-placeholder-in-the-editor>.

In other words - if I have a page with 10 pictures to choose from - how can I specify one of them to be a placeholder for "create-from-template" macro?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: You can use the free *Create from template* macro to generate the URL that you will link to the image:

1. Add the *Create from template* macro
2. Configure the macro to use the template of choice, (optionally) the space to save the page in, and (optionally) the name of the new page
3. Save the page and click the **Create from template** button that was created
4. Copy the URL at the top of the browser window
5. Edit the page with the graphic
6. Select the graphic, click **Link** , select **Web link** if necessary, and paste the URL
7. Delete the *Create from template* macro

comments: author: Elena_Lurye
body: Thank you! That worked like a charm.Really appreciate your help


Tags: confluence-administration

image

link

template
How can i copy data (~10000 pages + 5000 attached files) from Confluence 5.3 to Confluence 5.9.2?
Asked by Dmitry Malov:

I have one space \~10000 pages + 5000 attached files on Confluence 5.3 (server installation, PostgaceSQL, attaches stored as files).

I need to copy this space to Confluence 5.9.2.

But at page <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restoring-a-site-152034.html> written: "Importing an old XML backup file to a new major version (for example, Confluence 5.5 to Confluence 5.6) is not supported."

How can I do it?


Answers:
author: Jonathan Soo
body: Hi Dmitry,

For a large spaces like this, create XML backup is error prompt and it might take a lot of time and resources to do that. If your Confluence only have one space, I would suggest you to export it as a SQL dump and migrate to a newly create database, install Confluence 5.9.2, point Confluence 5.9.2 to the new database.

<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/backup-dump.html>

Regards,  
Jonathan


author: Jonathan Soo
body: Take a look at the [Software Catalogue](http://www.postgresql.org/download/product-categories). Under [Administration/development tools](http://www.postgresql.org/download/products/1) I see [DBConvert for MS SQL \& PostgreSQL](http://www.dbconvert.com/convert-mssql-to-postgre-pro.php). Probably there are other similar tools listed. The converter might be able to help. :wink:


author: Dmitry Malov
body: I know only one way:

1. Copy Confluence 5.3
2. Upgrade Confluence 5.3 to 5.9.2
3. Backup/restore from Confluence 5.9.2 to Confluence 5.9.2


author: Dmitry Malov
body: My Confluence 5.3 use MSSQL and Confluence 5.9.2 use PostgaceSQL ... so I can\`t use dump. I can transfer data via SQL insert scripts.


Tags: confluence-administration
Restore Confluence 5.1.3
Asked by Daniel Schwinghammer:

Hello everybody,

I have problems to set up a new server for our confluence. The OS is el6 and we want to move from a Mysql DB to a postgres DB.

I have tried it how it has worked times before. I made a XML-Export and sync the attachments(10GB). Then I copy the xml to the new server in the restore directory. After that I tried to restore the xml over the web installation wizard.

There are different situations.

1 Attempt:  

Upgrade Confluence and set up a new server with the postgres DB in one step. During the restore over the installation web wizard I got errors, which said that they can't find addons and stuff like that. Restore duration was about 5 hours or more.  

2. Attempt:

Same as first attempt, but restore after finishing the installation. The result was that I couldn't login anymore.

3 Attempt:

Same Confluence version with new database. Restore over web installation wizard. Failure in end of xml and after restart confluence couldn't access web wizard any more.

I am not able to say a correct time the restore needs because the webgui timed out and I was not able to see the progress.

I have searched after my troubles, but never found a resolution for my problems. I hope that you can help me.

Thanks for every answer :smile:  
Kind regards,

Daniel


Answers:
author: Daniel Schwinghammer
body: Is here somebody who made this before?

In my opinion I haven't made main failures. Maybe one person has an idea.

Cheers Daniel


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Daniel,

The first thing we must take note is that you want to change the OS and the database. These are 2 different migrations and should be done separately, not together.

My recommendation is to first migrate the server and after the database in the end.

1) [Server migration](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-confluence-between-servers-184150.html)

2) [Database migration](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-to-another-database-148867.html)

In order to migrate the database, there are 2 ways. One is by using the XML backup and restore to the new instance and the other way is by using some external database migration tool of your preference.

For the XML backup, I recommend to finish the installation and then proceed with the restore by going to the confluence administration -\> backup and restore. If you cannot login to the instance, try to restore the local administration account online [using this documentation.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights)

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Daniel Schwinghammer
body: Hi Rodrigo,we are not changing the OS, it is only a new server but the OS is the same.Would it be better to change the database on the old system first and then install confluence on the new server and use the same database? And if this works, do we lose the data or do i have to make the restore?Cheers,Daniel


Tags: confluence-administration

database

restore
No Login to Confluence with JIRA as user-directory - not even as local admin!
Asked by Thomas Tausend:

I set up Confluence to use JIRA for authentification and it worked for a few days. As a user wasn't synced after i changed his username, i used the "test"-Option for the user-directory in confluence and since that moment NO user can login into confluence anymore - no JIRA-User, no local-confluence-user - NOBODY!

So I can't access the confluence-webinterface at all - only console-access is possible.

Any login attempts are refused. Log says "login login : 'thomas' tried to login but they do not have USE permission or weren't found. Deleting remember me cookie."

Any ideas how to gain access (as an admin)? Without loosing all my pages?

Thanks in advance

Thomas


Answers:
author: Jonathan Soo
body: Hi Thomas,

Can Confluence admin login to Confluence ? Only user with "Can use" permission are able to log in to Confluence. What you can check is, login Confluence as a Confluence administrator, verify if the user from JIRA is being assign to a group, and check if the group had being assigned with "can use" permission in Global permission page.

If you cannot login as a Confluence admin, you can regain your access by following the guide below, to reset the password back to default (admin) in database :

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html>

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html)Regards,

Jonathan

comments: author: Thomas Tausend
body: Thanks for the link - that did the job as absolutely no user was able to login. I'm back in the system now.Greetings from GermanyThomas


author: Jonathan Soo
body: awesome ! glad it helps. :smile:


author: Vasiliy Zverev
body: Check wether users are members of group "confluence users".


Tags: confluence-administration

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