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Home page is vanished after moving to a different space
Asked by sn:

hi all,

users of Confluence 5.10 server.

I moved the home page from my personal space to a different space then i moved it back to my home page. Now, when i click on my name, it is opening a page with updated page info but not the homepage. i tried reordering but not helping.

i cannot see the home icon anymore beside any of my pages

is this a bug? is there a workaround.

thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi sn,

I just tried to replicate this on my own instance, and it appears you may have inadvertently orphaned the page.

You can check this by going to your personal space, clicking on **Space Tools** at the bottom, and then under **Content Tools** click **Orphaned Pages**. If your page is there, then we can set it back as the home page so it won't be orphaned anymore.

To do this, click on **Overview** under **Space Tools** , and then on the **Space Details** tab, click **Edit Space Details** . Then, at the bottom, next to **Home page:** you can type in the name of your homepage. Save this, and you'll see that now when you click on your name, your home page will display again.

Can you give that a try?

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: sn
body: There were not orphaned but adding the home page worked !!!

thank you Shannon :)


author: Shannon S
body: What a relief! :) Glad you were able to get that sorted out.

Take care and have a pleasant rest of your week.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


author: sn
body: hi Shannon,

I'm trying to reorder pages. trying to hide them in the side bar or tree. so, I used to move them to above the home page. but after my above scenario, this doesn't seem to be working.

any pointers to help me out here are much appreciated.


Tags: jira-software
how to get the list pages last viewed date
Asked by Jaime Romaguera:

Would anybody know how to get information of pages last viewed date from Confluence via a Macro or Database Query. Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury buying a tree-view plugin or other similar plugins

We want to archive wiki spaces pages that have not been viewed over a certain period.

Thanks

Jaime


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Jaime,  

In your database, you can run a SELECT statement, such as:

```
SELECT?* from "AO_92296B_AORECENTLY_VIEWED";
```

If you wanted, you could also probably sort by LAST_VIEW_DATE to get the dates you want.

We do have a feature request for this, so you can vote on it to help show the amount of interest and comment with your usage case so we can best implement to fit your needs:

* [CONFSERVER-33386](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-33386)

And I know you didn't want to install an add-on, but for anyone else that happens across this, it appears a few will be able to do that, such as the [Archiving Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving/server/overview).

Let me know if you have any trouble with the database query and I'll be happy to help.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Jaime Romaguera
body: Thanks for that :-). I am only getting results for pages last viewed for only 2017, can I get results before 2017?

Thanks very much for your help.


author: Shannon S
body: Jaime,

It may be that it really only does track recently viewed, as the name of the table says. :/

This add-on is free and seems to do something similar;

[ServiceRocket Tracking Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.tracking/server/overview)

I would recommend to try that and see if it goes back further.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Export Space to PDF with attachments
Asked by Don Mankewich:

I'm using Confluence Server 6.4.2 on an evaluation licence and have found that exporting a space to PDF does not include the attachments. This was raised some time ago and the original question and related Jira issue are still unresolved.

It is noted on the Export Space page that exporting to PDF does not include the attachments but this is a serious drawback for anyone wanting to produce a stand-alone manual from their content.

I'm wondering if there is any intention to address this issue or will it continue to be a known shortcoming?

Here's the link to the original question:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Export-to-PDF-and-Include-attachments/qaq-p/369833>

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Brant Schroeder
body: Atlassian is currently working on different and new archiving options for JIRA. At this years Summit they were collecting feedback. They also sent out a survey on the issue. While there is no option at this time to do what you would like without manual work involved, this is a known shortcoming and it is hopefully finally being addressed. With that said I wouldn't expect anything to soon.


Tags: export

pdf
Verifying security configuration for all pages in Confluence
Asked by Michael Hall / Raytheon:

Is there a method available to check all pages within a particular wiki for security permissions, like show me all pages that permit anonymous writing?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Michael,

You can view all restricted pages in a space: [Confluence Page Restrictions \> View all restricted pages in a space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html#PageRestrictions-Viewallrestrictedpagesinaspace)

However, keep in mind that you wouldn't need to specifically permit anonymous writing unless you allowed anonymous writing in the Confluence Global Permissions, so there's a chance that won't show up there.

If you're not on Confluence Cloud, another option would be to try a [User Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/writing-user-macros-4485.html) to display all restricted pages in the entire wiki, such as the one [developed by a user here](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-macro-for-getting-the-restricted-pages-for-any/qaq-p/219401#M37094). Keep in mind that particular one was written in 2013 so it may not work for your current version of Confluence.

Let us know if you have any trouble.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Random code is created when I save a page in Confluence
Asked by Sanet Minnie:

When I edit a page and then save it, this random code is created at the bottom of the page in the source code. It is not doing anything but very annoying. A new line is added every time I save the page, so I end up with heaps of these in the source code. It does not happen to a colleague when he saves the same page.

```
<p><span style="text-indent: 20.0px;width: auto;padding: 0.0px 4.0px 0.0px 0.0px;text-align: center;color: rgb(255,255,255);z-index: 8675309;display: none;cursor: pointer;">Save</span></p>
```

Has anyone seen this before and how can i fix it?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Sanet,

Is this happening for you in one specific browser? If you were to test with your user on a whole other computer or browser, does it continue to happen?

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Sanet Minnie
body: Hi Shannon,

I have checked, and seems to only happen when I use Firefox. My colleague also uses FF, so it must be something in my installation that is causing this. If I log in on another person's computer and use FF, it does not happen.

This is giving me a starting point. Thank you for your help.


author: Sanet Minnie
body: I have found the culprit. It was the Pin It button 1.37.9 add-on in my FF that caused the issue.


author: Shannon S
body: Wow, good catch! Thank you for sharing those details with us, should anyone else run into the same issue.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Confluence Macro's not working in Firefox and IE, But working in Chrome, and Edge.
Asked by Blair M:

Confluence Version 6.0.7  
Firefox 56.0

Setting up a new environment running through Haproxy. I'm able to load macro's if I go to the http://ipaddress:8090, but not if I go to <http://mywebsite.com> in Firefox and IE. Chrome and Edge work fine.

When running Development Tools in Firefox I see 403 error under Network.

Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1  
X-ASEN: SEN-10016435  
X-Seraph-LoginReason: OK  
X-AUSERNAME: user  
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff  
Content-Encoding: gzip  
Vary: User-Agent  
Content-Type: text/html  
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Any help would be great


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Blair,

Is that IP address your Confluence Base URL or is the mywebsite.com the baseURL?

Also, is the IP an internal one or external?

I'm wondering if the Proxy simply doesn't want to serve the macros when visiting it from "the outside." Since a 403 error means it's forbidden, and if you're accessing it using a proxy, it might mean that you have to whitelist a domain or IP for it to be able to access the content.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Blair M
body: Thank for getting back to me.

We figured it out when customizing the server.xml file with our proxy information 403 would show across all browsers. We noticed that when setting the proxy information it auto switches off syncrony, so just need to enable it in the setenv.sh.

server.xml

```
<Connector port="8090"

maxThreads="150"
minSpareThreads="25"
connectionTimeout="2000"
proxyName="mywebsite"
proxyPort="443"
scheme="https"
enableLookups="false"
maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
protocol="HTTP/1.1"
useBodyEncodingForURI="true"
redirectPort="8444"
acceptCount="100"
disableUploadTimeout="true"
/>
```

setenv.sh

    CATALINA_OPTS="-Dsynchrony.proxy.enabled=true ${CATALINA_OPTS}"


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Blair,

Thank you for the update! Glad you were able to figure it out, and by providing the details it will help other users should they run into the same issue.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Can I import all emails to a certain Google group to a page on confluence?
Asked by Kimia Nassehi:

Good morning,

I would like to display all emails sent to a certain google group on a page on confluence. Is there a macro to import emails?

Thanks

Kimia


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Confluence can poll a POP email box, but it removes the mail from the server so it's not ideal if you are using the google group for other purposes. Here are some docs with more details: [How Do I Get Email Into Confluence?](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-get-email-into-confluence-180294236.html) and [Where Can I View Email Imported to Confluence for Archiving?](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/where-can-i-view-email-imported-to-confluence-for-archiving-180294238.html)

A third party plugin like: [Send EMail To Page Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.plugins.confluence.send-email-to-page/server/overview) may be of more help. I look forward to hearing how you decide to proceed.
Cloud Confluence Wiki SSL
Asked by Debra Hicks:

Hi,

We currently host our own Wiki and I am tasked with finding out about the ramifications of switching to the Cloud version.

The first thing that comes to mind is how do we integrate with our corporate SSL?

What other issues may we run into?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Atlassian Cloud instances already have SSL provided, so you shouldn't have to integrate it.

For other concerns, please see the paragraph on this page about supported plugins:

[Migrate from Confluence Server to Cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/migrate-from-confluence-server-to-cloud-724765529.html)
> After migrating your data, you'll need to install any compatible add-ons, like Questions for Confluence and Team Calendars for Confluence.   
> Some third party add-ons are only available for Server, and will no longer be available after you migrate. You can check whether your essential add-ons are available for Confluence Server, Cloud or both on the Atlassian Marketplace.

Here is another guide to review before migrating:

[Restricted functions in Confluence Cloud](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/restricted-functions-in-confluence-cloud-734070955.html)


Tags: cloud

ssl
confluence fails to start in cluster
Asked by Ravi Shankar:

i have confluence instance which fails to start as cluster service in drbd cluster.

It starts well as stand alone service.

It is creating thread dumps and failing to start.Any help on resolution would be appraiciated.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think you're missing a point here.

You can not cluster Confluence Server, it will not work as anything other than a single node. You "normal drbd and pacemaker cluster" are pointless and can't be used with it.

For clustering, you must use Confluence Data Centre. To use that, see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/installing-confluence-data-center-658737332.html>


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Ravi,

you need a special data-center license to run confluence in a clustered environment.

Find more information here:

<https://de.atlassian.com/licensing/data-center>

comments: author: Ravi Shankar
body: Thanks for your reply.

Does confluence not work with normal drbd and pacemaker cluster environment as it worked earlier?

We have license for normal Jira/confluence applications.Is this mandatory to purchase this datacentre license?

If we install this datacentre license what changes should be done in our current environmment. Please let us know so that we can check with our management and do required changes.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: I think, you should contact Atlassian directly with these questions. There's a special contact form for customers interested in datacenter applications:

<https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/contact>
How do I get new bars to appear in an active lane on the roadmap?
Asked by Roni Borri:

When I add a new bar it goes into the top lane. I have to drag it down to the right position. The only problem is that I can only see 5 bar widths at a time, so if I have to move it to the bottom, it can take a long time.

Is there a way to force the bars into the last active lane? Or failing that, to increase the size of the edit window?


Answers:
author: Roni Borri
body: I have actually just found a quick workaround - the edit window scales to fit the screen, so reducing the zoom on the screen (CTRL - in Chrome) I can see more bars, making dragging and dropping a lot easier!

Hopefully it will help someone else ;)


Tags: roadmap
Problem with Preview plugin
Asked by Alexander:

Hello everyone!

I have some problem. I use confluence in docker. Version confluence 6.3.3

And find some problem with Addon 'plugin' confluence preview v.5.0.2

When i click on attachment to preview, it's loading and then nothing hepend in older version 6.0.1 everything good.

Error

\[http-nio-8090-exec-5\] \[common.error.jersey.ThrowableExceptionMapper\] toResponse Uncaught exception thrown by REST service: Could not initialize class com.atlassian.plugins.$  
\| url: /rest/files/1.0/files/content/15761412/mi$  
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.atlassian.plugins.conversion.convert.image.ImagingConverter

Can any help?

Thank you


Answers:
author: Alexander
body: Thank you, but i solved problem. Problem was be with that in docker need create image with oracle java 8 and dont use openjdk 8.


author: AnnWorley
body: I found an article ([Unable to add attachments or view existing attachment after server migration](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/unable-to-add-attachments-or-view-existing-attachment-after-server-migration-881521533.html)) with similar symptoms, and the error:

```
Could not initialize class com.atlassian.plugins.conversion.convert.image.ImagingConverter
```

* Please try clearing the plugin cache as described in: [How to clear Confluence plugins cache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-clear-confluence-plugins-cache-297664846.html).

If the attachment has fonts that are not installed on the server you should be able to find an entry in the log like:

```
FontFamily 'Font_Name' not found
```

You will need to install the font on the OS level to resolve that.

comments: author: Jorg
body: Thank you


Tags: questions-for-confluence
How can users select a preferred homepage page on Confluence Cloud?
Asked by Mark Keane:

Users don't seem to be able to select a preference for a homepage for their profile, has this option been removed or relocated since confluence update? It used be available by going Profile\>Settings.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: You may change each space home page or the overall site home page. The individual site homepage option is no longer included. Here are more details about the changes: [Changes to setting a site home](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/blog/2017/08/changes-to-setting-a-site-home)
> We've also taken a good look at the option, currently available to each user, to choose a personal homepage. As you can bookmark any page you visit regularly in your browser, and to keep things consistent, we're removing this option in the new Confluence experience.


Tags: cloud
Specializing Reference Documentation Theme
Asked by Safa ?zt?rk:

We think to move our technical documentations to Confluence. We are looking to find a theme like in video:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k19dhwtIvwM>

but it's so hard. How can we specialize our theme like examples?

<https://www.atlassian.com/blog/add-ons/5-real-life-examples-beautiful-technical-documentation>


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Safa,

These themes are made using a few of the add-ons available for Confluence from Marketplace, such as the following:

[Confluence themes on Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?product=confluence&query=themes)

Brikit and Refined Theme are among the most popular, so please feel free to have a look at that.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon


Tags: server

theme
Show x-last columns of a confluence table
Asked by Jan Szczepanski:

Hello community,

I'm searching for a way to shorten a confluence table in the "view" mode.

**Szenario:**

We have some pages with huge confluence tables, lets say 40 columns. But we only want to show the last 10 columns.

How can I achieve this?

**Info:**

We cannot use the HTML add-on from Bobswift, due to a serious security (XSS) vulnerability witch comes with the Add-on.

Regards,  
Jan


Answers:
author: Jan Szczepanski
body: Dirty but good, we're using an add-on which has a css macro.

```
td:nth-last-child(+n+6) {
    display: none;
}
```

Works! :)


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hello Jan,

You can use [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter/cloud/overview) macro for this purpose:

1. [Wrap your table](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2785540#HowtouseTablefiltermacro-InsertingTableFiltermacroonthepage) with Table Filter macro.
2. Add a [Hide column](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/Managing+Look+of+the+Table+and+Filtration+Pane#ManagingLookoftheTableandFiltrationPane-HidingTableColumns) filter. You can find it easier to add filter while [viewing the page](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TableFilter/Managing+Filters+in+the+Page+View+Mode#ManagingFiltersinthePageViewMode-Addingfiltersinthepageviewmode).
3. Choose columns to hide (or [set filter inverse](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/download/attachments/11665690/image2016-9-10%2010%3A27%3A33.png?version=1&modificationDate=1473492454000&api=v2&effects=border-simple,shadow-kn) and choose columns to show).
4. Don't forget to save changes.

You can try it right now on the [demo site](https://demo.stiltsoft.com/display/tblfilter/Managing+Look+of+Tables?os_username=guest1&os_password=guest1#ManagingLookofTables-Hidingtablecolumns).


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Jan,

I think, this should be possible with a user macro that is filtering columns. I've done something similar, filtering rows with JQuery. Should work with columns too, I think. I've written an article about that here:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/The-Admin-s-tale-User-Macro-filtering-a-Confluence-table/ba-p/459369>

Viele Gr??e um die Ecke

Thomas

comments: author: Jan Szczepanski
body: Moin Thomas,

I'll try that one, thanks!

Beste Gr??e zur?ck ;)

Jan


author: Davin Studer
body: Using a user macro you could actually do it without having to resort to jQuery. Look into the nth-child CSS selector and display: none.


author: Jan Szczepanski
body: Thanks Davin, exactly that worked for me.


Tags: confluence-app

java

javascript

questions-for-confluence

script

table
Share Confluence page with a group by looking up available groups
Asked by Markus Raab:

I know it is possible to share a Confluence page to users and to groups. However, it is absolutely necessary to know the actual name of the group, or at least the first letters of it.

1. Is there a way to browse all available groups?
2. Is there a way to preview the members of this group (for confluence-users)

I know a workaround would be to add a prefix (e.g., "gr_" to all groups intended to use for the sharing process and communicate within the organization. However it would be way easier if a simple look up of groups is possible.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Markus,

We have a bug report below since Confluence is not auto-completing group names when sharing:

* [CONFSERVER-33616](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-33616)

Please vote on that and comment with your version so we can keep track of who and what is still affected.

I have noticed that if I insert the [User List Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/user-list-macro-139546.html) on a page, and enter \* as the group name, it will display all groups and their members. This will display even if I'm not site admin, so perhaps you could create this page for your reference.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Markus Raab
body: Thanks Shannon.

I found already the opportunity to list the groups including their members for documentation. However, I hope this problem will be fixed soon.

best

Markus


author: Shannon S
body: Glad to hear you were able to find that, Markus!

Take care and Kind Regards,  
Shannon


Tags: group

share
How to bump up a question
Asked by Don Mankewich:

I replied to an old Confluence question because I'm having the same issue and the original question was not resolved. I thought this would bump the question back up to the top of the 'recent' list. I can find the original question and my reply is there but it's nowhere to be found in 'recent'. How do I bump up the question? Do I have to ask it again? If so, can I link it to the original question?

<br />

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Don,

a new reply will not put an older question to the top of the list. The list is ordered by the date when the question was asked. Your reply will trigger notifications, if someone is watching the question or the channel.

So, it might be better to ask a new question. You can link to the old question simply by adding its url to your new question.


Tags: feedback
uft 8 bin collation
Asked by YongDuk Kim:

In Confluence Administration, (Menu : Administration -\> Support Tools - Instant Health)  
I saw the message

'Collation'

-\> checks if the collation used by the tables, columns and database defaults in your MySQL database is correct.

-\> change character set to utf8_bin

(<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-fix-the-collation-and-character-set-of-a-mysql-database-670958160.html>)

So I changed the character set to utf8_general_ci.

<br />

Is it a must to change character set to utf8_general_ci ?

If it is difficult to change, what is the result?


Answers:
author: Gonchik Tsymzhitov
body: Hi!

It is need a more window time for change collation.

1. You have already documentation how to change it.
2. Just switch off your confluence
3. Just do backup
4. Next step is follow by docs steps: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-fix-the-collation-and-character-set-of-a-mysql-database-670958160.html>
5. Review dbconfig.xml
6. Switch on confluence
7. That's all

In fact, collation will be affacted for search indexes, and for some plugins. Hence it will be nice, if you change it.

If you have concern, just repeat it on test environment.

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov