youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Sharing docs is not working... anyone have a workaround?
Asked by Erika Eskenazi:

Sharing docs is not working--it's timing out. There's an issue with "command/string completion" ever since we got the updated version of JIRA.


Answers:
author: Ivan Maduro
body: Hi Eeskanazi,

Ivan from OnDemand support here, this sounds like there's a bug or a problem affecting your OnDemand instance, would you mind creating a Support case on [support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com) (you will need to make a new account if you don't have one) under the OnDemand project, one of our Support Engineers will be able to look at your instance and resolve the problem.

Cheers,

Ivan.

comments: author: Erika Eskenazi
body: Looks to be fixed now--thank you, though! I'll be sure to log bugs at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) instead in the future.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Stash not starting
Asked by Sioux Steel IT Department:

I am installing stash on a Windows 2008 R2 server with mysql 5.1. I downloaded and installed the Java SE Development Kit 7 into c: Java. The only directory it creates in c: java is a jre7. I continued through the installation instructions and when i run bin start-stash.bat it outputs the following:

Using STASH_HOME: c: StashHome

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly

This environment variable is needed to run this program

NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE

.

Started Atlassian Stash at:

<http://localhost:7990/>

If you encounter issues starting or stopping Atlassian Stash, please see the Tro

ubleshooting guide at:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Installation+Troubleshooting+Guide>

Whe I go to <http://localhost:7990/> it says it cannot display the page.


Answers:
author: Yilin
body: Maybe you need to set the JAVA_HOME variable in the system and also make sure that both stash and java are either on x86 or x64.


Tags: install

java

jdk
Widget - count down clock
Asked by Kathy Belling:

I have a code (script) to enter for a count down clock. It doesn't work. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: FernandoA
body: Hi Kathy,

I'm afraid it won't work in Confluence OnDemand due to its [restricted functions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand).

Hope this clarifies.

Let me know if you have further questions or concerns about it.

Cheers!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Insert confluence page link with page caption displayed as a link text
Asked by Sergey Shmarkatyuk:

Is it possible to insert link to confluence page with page caption/title displayed as a link text?

For example, I have page with title 'Page1 Title' and link to this page on another confluence page with the link text 'Page1 Title'.

If page title is changed from 'Page1 Title' to, for example, 'Page1234567890 Title', I want link text to be changed to 'Page1234567890 Title'.

How can I do that? Is there some kind of confluence macros for that?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Sergey, this is the default behavior if you insert the link using the Insert Link functionality in Confluence 4.2. Use the dialog box to search for your page and when you find the page you want to link to, select it. Do not modify the "Link Text" value. If you later change the name of the target page, the link text will be updated.
How to change my heading size of my 'Documentation Theme' ? (site wize)
Asked by Pierre Hilson:

Hello,

I would like to change the headings size and underlining for my whole confluence site.

I already checked <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS>  
but this is per space and not site wise.

Can this be done easily for the whole site ?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Pierre


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Assuming you've applied the Doc theme to your entire site (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Applying+a+Theme+to+a+Site>), you can do 1 of 2 things (that I can think of):

1) Use jQuery to rewrite the style setting after the page is drawn.

2) Edit the theme file and repackage it.

I think you're best bet for #2 is to read this:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Writing+a+Confluence+Theme>

Once you understand how to create your own theme, you should be pretty comfortable modifying an existing one and redeploying it across your site.

hth,

matt

comments: author: Pierre Hilson
body: Thanks for the tip. I'll follow Amalia recommendation first. Thanks for your time.


author: Pierre Hilson
body: I started changing things with jQuery and it is pretty neat.

Thanks for the advise.


author: Amalia
body: The easiest way would be to add the following CSS to the Custom HTML (at the end of the HEAD) in Confluence Admin:

```
&lt;style&gt;.theme-documentation .pagetitle {   font-size:40px !important;}&lt;/style&gt;
```

If you'd like to manipulate these styles using JavaScript, then refer to this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Use+JavaScript+in+Confluence>

comments: author: Pierre Hilson
body: I'll try that as soon as I can tomorrow. I was a bit disapointed when I read Matthew answer and understood I would have to unpack/modify/pack the theme to make those changes.

Is the Custom HTML overwritten when we upgrade Confluence ?

Thanks a lot for your time !!!


author: Amalia
body: Nope, Custom HTML won't be overwritten, provided that you do a manual upgrade (through database dump, rather than XML site backup)


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Yes, you can do it site wide by editing the global style sheet.

1. Go to the Administration Console ([http://yoursite.com/admin/console.action](http://devcenter.verivo.com/admin/console.action))

2. Scroll down the left side and click StyleSheet under "Look and Feel".

3. Add your CSS rule, being sure to add "!important" at the end of each line. This overrides any other space or page specific settings. For example:

```
ul.search-results {    line-height: 1.0 !important;  }
```
Hide space activity
Asked by Bruce Schlueter:

Hi all,

is there a way to hide the space activity (Browse / activity) from certain groups? We don't want everybody to see this. Will it also be hidden if you are on pages (Browse / pages) where the different possibilities are shown as tabs?

Thanks,

Bruce


Answers:
author: Bruce Schlueter
body: Hi Amalia,

thanks for your input but unfortunately we are usingthe Documentation Theme. The easy way you described does not work there (which would suffice). Is there an easy way to change this in the theme or does it mean to change the jar files?

Regards, Bruce


author: Amalia
body: The simplest and easiest way is to hide/remove the contents of the Activity tab (instead of hiding the menu and tab). This can be done using JavaScript. Go to **Confluence Admin \> Layouts** and click **Create Custom/Edit** on Main Layout. Add the following lines of codes **before**the closing tag of "head" (i.e. before \</head\>):

```
#if ($userAccessor.hasMembership('confluence-users', $helper.action.remoteUser.name))	&lt;script&gt;		AJS.toInit(function(){			AJS.$('.space-activity').remove();		});	&lt;/script&gt;#end
```

This will hide the contents of Activity tab from the confluence-users group. Please note that users are still able to see the contents if they view the source of the page

If you want to completely remove the contents of the page, then you'll need to edit the JAR file of the Usage Tracking Plugin. Go to *\<confluence-install\>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/setup* and open *atlassian-bundled-plugins.zip* . Locate and open *usage-tracking-plugin-x.xx.x.jar* which is the JAR file of the plugin. The file that you need to look at is located in *templates/usage*, called report-controls.vm. Please refer to the following documentation for more info:

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Display+Different+Appearance+for+Different+Users+Using+Confluence+Layouts>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Edit+Bundled+or+System+Plugins>


author: AlysonA
body: Hi Bruce,

I'm afraid there isn't a permission option for the Space Activity since it is a plugin that can be disabled by your system administrator.

You may be able to customize Confluence in order to hide this option from certain groups/users, but that would require some level of coding skills. Let's hope someone else with more expertise than me can help you out.

Cheers
Is there a way to add javadoc to OnDemand Confluence?
Asked by Menno Jansz:

Is there anyway to put our generated Java Doc onto the Confluence wiki?


Answers:
author: Felipe Cuozzo
body: Not without using a plugin like this one: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.flosdorf.confluence.plugin.javadoc-macro](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.flosdorf.confluence.plugin.javadoc-macro;jsessionid=1vfyj7ehle6ff13w1ypdmdbngf)

Unfortunately installing external plugins in OnDemand is restricted as of [Restricted Functions in Atlassian OnDemand - Confluence - Atlassian](http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=restricted%20on%20demand%20features&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fconfluence.atlassian.com%2Fdisplay%2FAOD%2FRestricted%2BFunctions%2Bin%2BAtlassian%2BOnDemand&ei=9CerUPCqAYrAiQf6j4D4AQ&usg=AFQjCNEYSUytJTPPX3SXt9BRqMZlj2B81g)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
JAVA SE upgrade on existing standalone installation
Asked by Alexander Afonyashin:

Hi,

We are currently running JIRA/Confluence box with the following java version:

# java -version

java version 1.6.0_26

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode)

We found a few of CVEs published (CVE-2012-5083, CVE-2012-5084 and others) that affect version we have. What will be the correct way to update JAVA SE bundled with your products to unaffected version?

Best regards,

Alexander A. Afonyashin


Answers:
author: PauloP
body: Hi Alexander

After upgrading JAVA, try to change the JIRA starup settings. Perhaps the following links could be useful:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Running+JIRA+as+a+Service#RunningJIRAasaService-Specifyingthestartuporderofmultipleservices>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Installing+Java>

Cheers,

Paulo Renato


Tags: java

jira

upgrade
Daily backup
Asked by Sozhavendhan M:

Can it be possible in the Confluence 3.4.6 to take weekly backups

or backup only on interval rather then taking backups daily.?


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: I would like to echo Luiz's comments.

Setting up a cron job to copy, zip and scp your \<confluence_home\> to another is a great idea. For a full production backup you will need to do the same thing with the confluence database.

The XML backup utility built into Confluence can be a resource hog as the size of your instance grows. It is a good idea to have the process that backs up your product be external to the product. This give you an extral layer of protection through abstraction


author: LuizA
body: Hello,

In addition to the previous comments, if you have a large instance would be also recommended to take a look at our production backup strategy to better understand how to approach a backup strategy in this kind of environment:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Production+Backup+Strategy>

Best Regards,

LJ.


author: Naren
body: You can change the time of daily Confluence backup, please follow this link -

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Changing+Time+of+Daily+Backup>

Aslo I hope you find this link useful too <https://www.adaptavist.com/display/Plugins/Backup+Manager>

comments: author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Thanks Naren,

the below link is a 3rd party one?

<https://www.adaptavist.com/display/Plugins/Backup+Manager>


author: Sozhavendhan M
body: the link you provided me was to change the backup time. but i need to change the interval for back up from 1 day to 3 days


author: Naren
body: Yes the second link is the 3rd Party Plugin for Confluence. Please go through the 4th point, you can backup your confluence as per your criteria by modifying the value under the \<value\>\</value\>. Let me know if that helps you
How to add Javascripts in Confluence wiki.?
Asked by DEEPAK:

I was trying to insert some javascripts in the HTML head for the navigation of my menus. But it is not working properly. But when i run the html and JScript from the local machine it is running fine. When i insert the same html code \& JScript in the HTML macro of Wiki confluence it is not working fine.

It would be great if someone could help me in how to insert the JScript code in Wiki Confluence.

<br />

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Deepak,

It could be that your local proxy/firewall is blocking malicious code from running in the server, based on this coment here:
> But when i run the html and JScript from the local machine it is running fine

I believe that you may need to check the network for something preventing this from running.

For troubleshooting purposes you can try to enable firebug and see the code running.

Hope this helps you get in the right track,

Cheers,

Guilherme


Tags: javascript
How to remove the table border in AOD Confluence
Asked by bits4fun:

The built-in table GUI designer doesn't allow you to disable the border. this is very useful when you want to structurize information in a table layout, but where the border becomes noise in the overall view.

AOD doesnt allow to modfy the default stylesheet of the page rendering either, so as an end-user, you're stuck using the GUI table.

<br />


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: This might help: [Table Plugin for OnDemand](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL/Table+Plugin+for+OnDemand). Specifically [How to control table display characteristics](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL/How+to+control+table+display+characteristics).


author: Liz Burns
body: No answers to that in over a year, I see. OnDemand certainly blows chunks.

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: There is an accepted answer above, so I don't understand your comment. I updated it with a bit more information, but, it is certainly possible to do as the live example on my OnDemand site shows.


author: Christoffer Karlsson
body: Hi gstrube,

Maybe I missunderstood your problem - But is it possible for you to create a table manually (macro) instead and skip the border?

For example:

Use the section-macro and then create columns inside that section. By default, border is set to hidden in the section.

Best regards

Chris
How can I tag content in a confluence wiki OR store cofluence wiki in SVN
Asked by Caroline Gordon:

I'm reading the Jez Humble book about continuous delivery and love the idea that EVERYTHING should be in source control.

However, I see a disconnect here, using confluence to build a wiki with all your requirements documents. How can I easily tag a version of the whole wiki so I know what source code it relates to?

Why would I want to do this? For all the reasons outlined in Jez's book, putting everthing in source control ensures it is tracked, controlled and bundled together. I will always know which wireframe / version of requirements that label went with.

I really like the pairing of Jira / Greenhopper with Confluence, there is some nice integration but there is still this disconnect from the artifact that really matters - the source code.


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Hi Caroline.

I still do not fully understand why you want to put Confluence in SVN but may be I should just read that book.

I have never implemented anything like that so my advice is only an idea. You could use [WebDAV](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+WebDAV+client+for+Confluence "Configuring a WebDAV client for Confluence") to get a copy of Confluence in your file system and then commit that to your SVN. Everytime you want to take a snapshot you can just download and commit again.

Please note that Confluence already keeps it own versions of all pages and attachments so you get a bit of source control build in.

comments: author: Caroline Gordon
body: In essence the idea of putting all your artificats, including documentation, in source control is so that you have one consistent way of understanding / seeing what your system does and how it does it.

Often in software projects this information is dispersed across a number of different systems. So, if you want a snapshot of the code and to grab all doco related to it then you have to traverse a number of systems and relate different information. In fact you will proabably find it difficult to relate things like build numbers, doc version numbers, confluence page versions, wireframe versions etc and you will probably give up.

I have solved this before by having release notes with manually filled out version numbers of specifications, when tracability is very important this kind of thing is neccessary.

Anyway ... How nice would it be to check out and get the code and ALL associated documentation artifacts that are associated with that code in one operation. If you check out a tagged / labelled verison you get the doco assocaited with that particular tag.

I had a quick read of WebDAV and I guess it's not really what I want.

One idea I had is to pdf the confluence pages each sprint and store that, but it relies on someone doing this manually which is not so great. It sounds like webdav would do a similar thing, and in fact maybe we could setup Jenkins to do that.

BTW - yes you should read the book too - it's awesome...mind you I didn't actually finish it yet ;-)
Always see "No matching user or email found" when Sharing page
Asked by Joe McDoogle:

Why do I always see "No matching user or email found" when typing portions of e-mails or usernames when clicking the Share page button?

This feature stopped working after recently upgrading my license and adding new users.

This issue affects all users.


Answers:
author: Miranda Rawson
body: Hi Joe,

This is a known problem that you can see [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6203), which has started after the last maintenance.

The People directory cache was not properly generated.

Please go to \<yourdomainhere\>.atlassian.net/wiki/admin/search-indexes.action and click on rebuild index.

This will take a few minutes, after which the People directory will be correctly populated.

Cheers,

Miranda


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
why log scanner ( Atlassian Support Tools ) not working
Asked by SherryX:

I tried to use log scanner within Atlassian Support Tools, but it started 0% then stay at 0% and running forever, confluence 3.5.17 version is used, any ideas? Thanks


Answers:
author: SherryX
body: Just in case anyone has the same problem again, here is the solution from Atlassian, hope it helps:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Hercules+Log+Scanner+Unable+to+Proceed+Past+Zero>


author: SherryX
body: I added proxy host to allow the instance to reach Atlassian servers (which initially I intended to make the plugins searchable) and it fixed the log scanner in our JIRA (v4.3) and confluence (3.5.17).

But now I have a jira test instance (upgraded to 5.1.8) still doesn't work. Any idea? Thanks

comments: author: Renjith Pillai
body: It should be the same. Can you check what does the logs say when you attempy a scan? Does the search in Manage Plugins work in the test system?


author: SherryX
body: Thanks, Renjith. Yes, I did the same to the test 5.1.8 and I can manage plugins now, but the scan still doesn't work. I could not find any error in the log.


author: Renjith Pillai
body: What does the log scan screen say? Can you post a screeshot?


author: SherryX
body: ![](../../upfiles/logscanner.JPG)

The screen has stayed at 0% and run forever (I left it running for the whole night).

Thanks for your help.


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Probably we need to get into more deeper troubeshooting steps. You need to collect the threaddumps and submit to Atlassian in a support request - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Generating+a+Thread+Dump>


author: SherryX
body: thanks,Renjith. I have raised a support ticket.


author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Sherry,

Could you try cleaning the re-indexing and cleaning the cache and see if the problem persists?


Tags: configuration

confluence-administration
Trigger notification for a page from new blog post in another space - possible?
Asked by Richard S:

Is the following possible? ...

I have a space (lets call it Space A) with a page (Page A) which has a blogposts control on it. The blogposts control is set to pick up new blog posts from the blog in Space A and also other blogs (including Space B).

If I were to add a new blog post, to the blog in Space B, is it possible to have users watching Page A notified?


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hi Steve,

Unless the users are also watching Space B, they won't receive notifications from blog posts being created there. They just need to add themselves as watchers to all spaces/pages that they want to receive email notifications from.

Cheers.


Tags: blog

cloud

watcher
in my site www.serverfaq.org, i donot want 'ALl Updates'
Asked by Krishna Tanmayee:

Q.1

I want to create an faq site and in the dashboard i donot want 'All Updates'.

I just want the dashboard page to display 'SPACES' only and visitors should be able to Navigate site based on Spaces only

Q.2

Now i want use the space on the Right Side of dashboard. How to do this?

i am a newbie,

Thanks

Raghu Addanki

[raghu@serverfaq.org](mailto:raghu@serverfaq.org)


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: You can remove the All Updates tabs by customizing the Confluence Layout. Go to **Confluence Admin \> Layouts** . Under **Global Layout**, click on "Create Custom" (or "Edit"). Locate and delete the following lines:

```
&lt;div class="dashboard-group right"&gt;    $helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{recently-updated-dashboard:showProfilePic=true}")&lt;/div&gt;## right
```

This will remove the tabs from the dashboard.

Regarding your Q2, can you please elaborate more?

comments: author: Krishna Tanmayee
body: Thank you Amalia, it worked. I will repost my 2nd question in the evening today, please do help me with that too..