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What happened to "FatCow" acceptance test feature?
Asked by Daniel Ziegler:

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for acceptance test capabilities of Confluence. I found release notes from 2004 of version 1.XXX when you integrated "Fatcow". I spent some time to acquire the latest information to that feature, but I'm unfortunately lost. Please give me an update of the current status of Fatcow with Confluence or other acceptance test capabilities of Confluence if there are any.

Thanks in advance :-)

Regards,

Daniel


Answers:
author: Sergey Svishchev
body: via <http://wayback.archive.org/web/20081003205231/http://opensource.atlassian.com/fatcow/index.html>
> Fatcow has been put out to pasture. It is a neat use of Confluence macros, but experience has shown that as a testing tool, Fatcow does not scale. As Fatcow is no longer used within Atlassian, it has not been updated in a while and does not work with the latest Confluence builds.


Tags: test
What to do if Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) cannot connect to Plugin Exchange?
Asked by Matthias Basler:

I have installed Confluence on a production system having a proxy. The browser has no problems accessing the Atlassian Plugin Exchange site and I have been able to install plugins manually.

However, Confluence Admin is not able to look for updates or new plugins to be installed from within the wiki.

It tells me
> The Atlassian Plugin Exchange server is not reachable

(which is not the problem of the APE server since it **is** reachable from another wiki at another site) and
> An unexpected error occurred. Please review the protocols.

Sometimes also
> java.sql.ConnectionError: Timout (or so...)

This page

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM012/Problems+Connecting+to+the+Atlassian+Plugin+Exchange>

talks about permanently disabeling the connection but I'd rather try to get it working.

I saw proxy settings mentioned as a possible source of the problem:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM012/Upgrade+tab+shows+java.net.ConnectException>

Can anybody please explain how I (well, better the admin) should configure the proxy settings of Confluence (=\> Tomcat?) to be able to access the plugin exchange?

Matthias Basler


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Matthias,

To configure Confluence to use a proxy you need to configure your System Properties in sentenv.sh (Linux) or sentenv.bat (Windows). Instructions on doing this are available at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+System+Properties> In setenv.sh or setenv.bat you need to add the following:

```
-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy.example.org -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080
```

where [proxy.example.org](http://proxy.example.org) is your proxy and http.proxyPort is the port that your proxy uses.

Full instructions on configuring web proxies is available at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configure+Web+Proxy+Support+for+Confluence>

Hope that helps,

Andrew.


author: Joerg Bencke
body: is there an alternate way to push a bunch of plugins into the system ? (dropping them into a certain dir ?

comments: author: Erik Saline [BlackPearl PDM]
body: You can the jar file from the Atlassian Marketplace and upload it on the Manage Addons


Tags: app

proxy

universal-plugin-manager
Interactive views in confluence changed with 4.0?
Asked by Jens Gombert:

Hello,

i updated confluence from 3.5 to 4.0.4 and now if i want to see the changes made on a page i got the whole page in the old version i only got the changes. Is there a way to just get the changes?

Thanks for any help


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Jens

The Confluence team have been improving the page diff incrementally in later versions. In Confluence 4.3, you'll see the parts of the page that were changed, with an ellipsis (three dots) to indicate the bits that are not shown.

For example, take a look at the "view change" on this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Text+Tokenisation+and+Filtering>

Here's a direct link to the diff: [https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/diffpages.action?pageId=11568016\&originalId=311919729](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/diffpages.action?pageId=11568016&originalId=311919729)

In practice, this works well for some pages (such as the above page). For other pages, the wyziwyg nature of the editor means that you still get a lot of content in the diff. See this page, for example: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Searching+Confluence>

Here's the diff: [https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/diffpages.action?pageId=139528\&originalId=306349811](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/diffpages.action?pageId=139528&originalId=306349811)

The issue is complicated by the fact that Confluence shows a lot of "formatting" changes (highlighted in blue) where no change actually occurred.

I hope this clears things up a bit. :)

Cheers

Sarah


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: As far as I know using the UI all the page will be shown and the changes will be colored as red (old version) and green (new version).

There's a plugin that seems like Confluence's Page History that might be of help: [Confluence Page History Slider](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.page-history-slider)

Hope it helps!


Tags: compare

page
confluence-3.0 : ldap users fail to log in
Asked by Farouk ELHAOUZI:

Hi All;

I have configured ldap ( passwd authentication only) for my confluence-3.0, and could see all users in the ldap directory (thousands of users) . Those that were locally belonging to some groups keep belonging to these groups.

**My issue is that ldap users fail to log in when non ldap ones keep logging in.**

**Please help.**

**Farouk**


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Farouk,

Confluence 3.0 has passed it's End of Life. This question is 1.5 years old with no movement. If you've resolved the problem, possibly share your experience incase there are others who experienced the same problem. If this is no longer a question you are seeking assistance to, feel free to close it out.


author: NikE
body: Wanted to confirm if this is Confluence-OnDemand (which would be v4.0) or if it is a local install of Confluence 3.0?

If it is a locally installed version of v.3.0, best to remove the OnDemand tags to get more eyes on your question as Confluence 3.0 has now reached "End-of-Life" status and not many people are still running it/able to help.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

ldap

login
Extra lines in XML export
Asked by Cassandra Targett:

We have a space that was created by importing an Open Office document. It's a guide that we decided to make into a wiki.

The import was mostly fine - some content was cut off but generally OK - but then we copied the space to make a new space so we could edit it for a new version. After the copy there were a lot of extra lines inserted into pages - between rows of tables most obviously, but carriage returns for spaces between paragraphs were doubled.

We went through and cleaned all those up, then exported the space to XML to publish the guide on our public version of Confluence. We checked the import after uploading it and it looked fine. Then the other day we noticed all those carriage returns again (note, this content had never existed on the external Confluence). We had to go through and clean all those up - basically re-editing about 100 pages.

Has this happened to anyone before? Any clues about what might be happening or why?

Thanks,

Cassandra


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Cassandra,

My guess would be that the open office file might have caused this behavior. Have you tested using MS office document to verify if the problem is reproducible?

I recommend to test in the newer versions of confluence as this might have been corrected.

Regards,

Rodrigo


Tags: export

xml
When auto-numbering table of content headings, can these numbers be automatically applied to the actual headings in the text?
Asked by Lachlan Gilbert:

Hi,

Using Confluence for the wiki....When using the Insert Table of Contents function, you're given the option to number the table of contents list.

This works well, but when you see the saved page, the numbers don't extend to the actual headings that the TOC headings jump to.

Is it possible to add these numbers to the heading somehow?

thanks,

Lachlan


Answers:
author: Gert-Jan van de Streek
body: Wow... I am definitely late with an answer here... but we answer this question a lot, so I reply anyways.

If you want this, use the [numbered headings macro](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/nl.avisi.confluence.plugins.numberedheadings) inside the toc macro. The numbering from the numbered headings macro is used by the toc macro.

{toc}

{numbered-headings}

{toc}

comments: author: James Leighs
body: is there a way to do this without using paid/free addons?


author: Gert-Jan van de Streek
body: Not that I know of, it's the reason we wrote the add-on in the first place.


author: James Leighs
body: Hmm OK thanks anyway. I am keen to avoid add-ons where possible due to needing to validate their functionality for ISO compliance.


author: Gert-Jan van de Streek
body: What ISO do you need to comply with?


author: James Leighs
body: 13485


author: Gert-Jan van de Streek
body: How can software providers help you meet those standards?


Tags: table-of-contents
Google Analytics with evaluation instance of Confluence 4.0?
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

I have a downloaded evaluation instance of Confluence 4.0, but I can't test Google Analytics since the test host isn't on the Internet.

I set up an On Demand instance, but I can't see any way to install Google Analytics. The Plugins page has only the Manage Existing and Audit Log tabs.


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: *At present,* this is not possible for Confluence OnDemand customers. Sorry.

* You can't install [Google Analytics Reporting for Confluence](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/16722).
* You can't add the Google Analytics tracking code [like so](http://davidsimpson.me/2009/03/18/tracking-atlassian-confluence-usage-with-google-analytics/) as OnDemand customers do not have access to: **Administration \| Look and Feel \| Custom HTML**

For your on premise Confluence, you could just add the tracking javascript and any client browser that has internet access will be tracked. You could also try an on premise web analytics package such as CoreMetrics, Webtrends, Omniture, ComScore, Urchin, Piwik, etc.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Hi Robert

Happy to help you with other managed hosting options so you can get any plugin, if you wish - and also the 24x7 support that is extremely appealing with onDemand.

Contact us at info at appfusions dot com and can review some options w/ you.

Best,

Ellen

comments: author: Robert Lauriston
body: I'm not interested in hosting, I just want to see what kind of reports we'd get with Google Analytics. Out of the box, Confluence seems pretty short on reporting.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Robert, check the recent Atlassian blogpost [Measure Your Wiki's Activity with Google Analytics for Confluence](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2011/11/measure-your-wikis-activity-with-google-analytics-for-confluence/) for the kind of reports you get.

Also, there's a live demo of [reporting for an external website here](https://www.appfusions.com/display/GANLC/Live+demo+-+in+the+flesh) which has very similar reports.


Tags: analytics

cloud

google
Where does Team Calendars for Confluence store data?
Asked by John Price:

I added a JIRA calendar after upgrading to conf 4.0, but before re-indexing Confluence. After indexing I got a bunch of errors about the JIRA calendar and couldn't view it. I created a new one and it's fine, but cannot delete the old one from the calendars page. Does anyone know where this is in the database?

I did find stuff in BANDANA and deleted it but it sstill shows up even after a second index.


Answers:
author: DavidA
body: Hi John,

You can remove a calendar by first adding it to your personal calendar (accessible from the "Calendar" menu at the top right corner under your name). After you've added it, you could remove it from the system.

comments: author: John Price
body: David -

Thanks. There was something going on where the Delete option was not there, nor could I see the calendar entries (errors logged in confluence log). When I got in this morning it was gone, so it looks like deleting it from BANDANA worked and there was just some internal cleanup/cache expiration that had to happen.

I think this was a one-off problem related to upgrading Confluence to 4 and not re-indexing manually before adding the Jira calendar.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Is there a feaure request for "keep with next"? If so, what is the status in having it implemented?
Asked by Michele C:

I have a follow up question that I submitted last Thursday. I exported my pages to a PDF file and inserted a page break using the following method.

h1 {

page-break-before: always;

}

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/20972/keeping-sections-together-in-a-pdf-file>

Would it make a difference if I manually inserted page breaks? It seems like I might still end up with blank pages. It seems like "keep with next" would have solved the issue. Is there a feature request for it to be implemented?


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Theoretically "keep with next" could be simply recreated with

```
h1+img {page-break-before:avoid;}
```

Unfortunatelly it is not that easy because in reality the image does not directly follow the h1 heading but has a hidden \<p\> in between.


author: Michele C
body: I haveon't gotten a response back? Does anyone have any suggestions? We added a custom macro to create a page break. It didn't fix the issue I was having.

It seems like "keep with next" would have solved the issue. Is there a feature request for it to be implemented?


author: Michele C
body: I haven't gotten a response back? Does anyone have any suggestions? We added a custom macro to create a page break. It didn't fix the issue I was having.

It seems like "keep with next" would have solved the issue. Is there a feature request for it to be implemented?


Tags: page

pdf
No Way To File Properly-Sorted Issues For Main 'A' Sites: CAC, SAC, AAC, PAC
Asked by Gregory Sudderth:

While filing an issue recently, I was forced again to mis-file an issue on Enterprise Hosting Support when I pertained to the CAC site.

We need at least one category for CAC, PAC, SAC, AAC etc. I propose

Atlassian Online Resources or Atlassian Web Pages to be plain. This would be for typos, dead links, etc.

G.


Answers:
author: Jeremy Largman
body: I assume you're referring to our \*.atlassian.com sites? I though all those acronyms were just something we used internally!

You're right, this is a bit tricky:

* [ANSWERS project](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS) (JAC)
* [Website](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/WEB) (JAC)
* [Plugins](https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/PAC) (Studio)
* CAC doesn't really have one, it'd be the [Confluence project](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF) (JAC)

Bsaically, when in doubt, you can contact us in [support](https://support.atlassian.com) and hopefully we'll route it to the right place. I think if we made another project for it on [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com), we'd just have the yet-one-more-place phenomenon.


Tags: cloud
Is there a way to limit the display of page titles with page tree
Asked by Moshe Naveh:

Hi,

I'm using pagetree macro in Confluence 3.2.1. Some of the pages have really longs titles. Is there a way to limit its length in a way that it doesn't corrupte the display of the page tree?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: Hello,

a small and simple way is using CSS. Insert the following CSS code to your "Administration" \> "Custom HTML" \> "At the end of the BODY"-part

```
&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.plugin_pagetree_children_span a {overflow: hidden;display: block;width: 150px;white-space: nowrap;}&lt;/style&gt;
```

With this code the title max lengt in the pagetree is 150 pixel. Tested this code whith my CF 4.0.3

I hope it works for your 3.2 too.


Tags: page-tree
Table formatting options missing
Asked by Matthias Basler:

Question: How to format a specific table (not all tables!) to have invisible borders.

Background: we want to have images with their caption next to it.

There's obviously no dedicated makro for this yet. The Adaptavist Content Formatting macro would allow formatted HTML tables but is not available for Confluence 4 (yet). Using area and column makros works but produces awfully long pages in the WYSIWYG editor due to unnecessary whitespace in the makros. So tables seem more appropriate.

Any preferred solution? Writing a dedicated user macro maybe?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: If it's a one-off, you could try using jQuery to modify the styles of the table on just that page with the html macro.
how to uninstall confluence in ubuntu
Asked by yang shuai:

first i try to delete the installation directory but i cann't delete it,then

i use the command

sudo uninstall

i get

sudo:uninstall:command not found

what's wrong and how can i uninstall it


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Um, there is no "uninstall" program in Linux and removing a program is generally done with a package manager. But it depends on how you installed it.

I'm assuming you've installed "standalone" Confluence, which is a matter of

1. Stop the processes
2. Drop the database (if you have not used the built-in hsql one, which is the default)
3. Delete the data directory (confluence home)
4. Delete the installation directory

If you're struggling to delete the installation directory, then you need to investigate that - read the error message it gives you and fix that problem first.

comments: author: yang shuai
body: hi, Nic i've stoped the processes and drop the database in MySQL,I forgot where the data directory is , besides when i delete the installation directory there is not error message it just no response ,and the atlassian folder icon has a lock on it


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Assuming you're using Nautilus as your file manager here, you'll find the lock means "you don't have permission to do this". I'd guess you've installed confluence under a different user id - you'll need to swap to that user or change permissions on the folder using a process with root access.

Forgetting where your data directory, we can't help you with - you'll need to find it (look in your home folder, or that of the user you installed it as, to begin with). If confluence was running, you could just look in system info, but if you've dropped the database, I don't think it'll start up.


author: yang shuai
body: yeah finaly I used the

```
sudo rm -r confluence
```

command to delete it ,and thanks for your answers


author: Herman Daou
body: sudo rm -rf confluence-home

sudo rm -rf confluence

sudo rm -rf atlassian

Just in case you come up with permission issues.


author: Remon van G
body: If you installed confluence as a service then you need to remove the start script as well

```
sudo surm /etc/init.d/confluence
```

comments: author: patti Bresnehen
body: I did not but have a picture captcha that will not let me win. please help me.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You don't get a captcha when using a command line to issue a simple remove command on a file. I think you need to explain what you're actually trying to do.


Tags: uninstall
checkbox character or workaround in Confluence 4.0?
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

Short of placing an image, is there some way to get an empty checkbox dingbat in Confluence 4.0? I don't see anything like that in the Insert \> Symbol dialog.

I could use a one-cell table but the checkboxes are already in a table and that results in way too much white space.


Answers:
author: Robert Lauriston
body: I found a sort of kludgy workaround, I can just copy a checkbox in another application and paste it. ?


Tags: checkbox
Confluence 4.0: system and user variables in page content?
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

I'd like to insert the space name as a variable in page content (not in the template). Is that possible?

I'd also like to define space-level custom variables in page content so that if I copy a page from one space to another the variables will change automatically. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: There are a number of macros that provide replacement for space name. For instance, [Run Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RUN) has [Pre-defined variables](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RUN/Pre-defined+variables). Or you can provide your own variables. However, this is on a page by page basis. I don't know of anything that does this on a space wide basis.

comments: author: Andrei [errno]
body: new working link for Run plugin: <https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RUN/Run+Plugin+for+Confluence>


Tags: variable
Variables in templates with macros
Asked by Chris Rothbauer:

Has anybody been successful in inserting variable prompts (like @var@) when trying to include a macro within a template? I'd like to do something like this...

{contentbylabel:labels=@LABELS@\|showSpace=false\|title=Related Content\|spaces=ServiceDesk}

Note the prompt for the LABELS variable. This obviously throws an error.


Answers:
author: Daniel Brice
body: This works in Confluence 4 when you specify @LABELS@ outside of your macro as well. It does not work in Confluence 5. For that discussion see: [How do you add template variables as macro parameters or in plain text macro bodies?](../141785/how-do-you-add-template-variables-as-macro-parameters-or-in-plain-text-macro-bodies)


Tags: label

macro

variable
Don't show the global logo on the login page
Asked by Chris Tybur:

I've installed a custom global logo on my wiki that works fine. However, I'd like it to not show on the login page. I have a second custom logo, different from the first, that I would like on the login page instead. I've figured out how to do this by modifying login.vm and adding some CSS to hide the main-header div. The problem is the logo is then hidden on all pages, even though I added the CSS to login.css. I assumed login.css would only be included on the login page.

Is there a better way to not show the global logo on the login page?


Answers:
author: Chris Tybur
body: I figured this out. I had originally tried adding a \<style\> tag to login.vm with a CSS rule for hiding the global logo, but I was putting it in the \<head\> tag and it wasn't being picked up. Moving it to the \<body\> tag worked, in IE 8, FF 3.6, and Chrome.


Tags: custom-field

login