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Confluence - Creating a list on child page and rolling up data to parent page
Asked by ReachingForPython:

Hello,

I need to create a parent page with 4 lists that roll up from the child pages under it.

The child pages are created monthly with items listed (Example, List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4).

The parent page will summarise all child list 1's in the same place, and summarise all child list 2's in the same place and so on.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: You should use the pair of Properties macros to complete this with a Table. I don't see a great way to complete this with a list since I'm not sure how this would work with the Include macro, but with a table these macros make the work inconsequential.

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Properties+Macro>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Properties+Report+Macro>

image2015-8-13 10:34:23.png

I'm not sure, but it looks to me like you're using the depreciated Task List macro. You should be informed that this is deprcated and that the lightweight Task List in the Editor is the new method of assigning "tasks."  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Creating-a-list-on-child-page-and-rolling-up-data-to/qaq-p/138195?attachment-id=12083){#link_11881621188c20}  
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author: Milo Test
body: We use the Pagetree macro to do just that.

comments: author: ReachingForPython
body: <br />

This is an example of the lists and I want all the lists from each child page to roll up onto the parent page

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Creating-a-list-on-child-page-and-rolling-up-data-to/qaq-p/138195?attachment-id=9125){#link_1188162d7cc224}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/22905/1/List.PNG){#display_1188162d7cc224_0}


author: ReachingForPython
body: Can you please explain, all that appears to do is pull child pages over, I want the content of each child page rolled into one list.


author: Milo Test
body: I don't think there is an fully automated way to do this just yet. I say "yet" because soon, Excerpts are supposed to support all kinds of elements, not just text, then hopefully you can just select Include Excerpts and be good to go.For now, you can definitely do it in a semi-automated way by using the Include Page macro, well four of them, and pointing them to the four children.


Tags: moderators
Is there a way to find out which spaces read in a specific calendar?
Asked by Antigone K:

I'm looking at a calendar that needs some love, and it says it has 28 subscribers, but I don't see a way to find out who those subscribers are. how do I do that, please? thanks!


Answers:
author: Natalie Hobson
body: Hi,

It looks like the answer is no, [according to this issue logged in the Confluence Team Calendars project](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-145). I know it's not perfect, but maybe you could add an event with a title like "please email Antigone K if you subscribe to this calendar"? Not a great workaround, but hopefully that helps!

comments: author: Antigone K
body: thank you!!


author: Natalie Hobson
body: You're welcome! :)
attachment file name change
Asked by Rita Kumar:

I would like to attach files and have their name just be File name rather than file name.pdf and when this is done and someone clicks it it asks them to select what program to use to view the document. Is there a way to have this done so we can have the file name and the properties reflect the doc type.

<br />

Currently properties show application/pdf however as soon as you remove the .pdf from the title the PC cannot recognize the browser type.

Thank You


Answers:
author: Gary Hart
body: Not an answer, sorry.

How do i change the name of an attachment file?


Tags: attachment

confluence-administration

mimetype
Confluence Jira Macro shoes no components if the issue has more than one componentmultiple component
Asked by Guy L Winterbotham:

When I add a JIRA macro that pulls a table of issues with a mix of one or more components, and add the Component as a column, those issues with \> 1 component leave the Component column empty.

Seems like a bug.


Answers:
author: Paulo Junior
body: Hi Guy,

There was a similar bug about sub-components that apparently has been fixed and is described here:<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33179>

I performed some tests and indeed the component column remains blank when issue has more than one component. Given that, I registered this behavior under this bug report: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38779>.

Feel free to vote for it in order to increase it's visibility to Atlassian Devs.

Cheers,

Paulo.


author: Guy L Winterbotham
body: The work around was to switch to the JIRA Filter results gadget


Tags: cloud

component

confluence-cloud

jira

jira-cloud
Link To Location macro displays error
Asked by Dan Campbell:

Link To Location macro displays error:

The license could not be verified: License Certificate has expired!

Where\\how does this license get updated?


Answers:
author: Fr?d?ric Fokan
body: Hi,

I have exactly the same issue ...

Have you got the possibilty to find out from which plugin or macro it was coming from ?

Fr?d?ric


Tags: addon-net.customware.confluence.plugin.linking

confluence-administration
cannot add a user, as I do not have admin access. Unable to contact administrator.
Asked by Wasim Qureshi:


Answers:
author: Nicolas Bourdages
body: Unfortunately, we can't help you either. This is a community of end users, we don't have access to you instance either.

Is there anyone else in your organization that might have admin rights? Some system administrator or the person who bought Confluence?


author: Paulo Hennig
body: Hello Wasim,

As Nicolas mentioned, you'd have to contact the administrator from your instance to perform this operation (And set the user to the right groups).
What was the first version of confluence to support REST?
Asked by John Lawlor:

Hi,

I have been trying to make REST requests using Confluence 4.3.1. They all fail with 'Page not found', however, if I make the same request against confluence.atlassian.com, the request is sucessful.

Just wondering if 4.3.1 supported REST, or am I missing something else.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: From memory, a REST prototype came in 3.2 or 3.3, then when they decided to do it properly (because the prototype basically worked), it was enabled properly in 5.something. The URLs changed though, so stuff you see documented for 5 won't work for lower versions, as the endpoints are wrong.

I think you need <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Prototype+REST+API> as a starting point.

comments: author: Stephen Deutsch
body: The prototype version is read-only, so if you want to do any write operations, you'll have to use the XML-RPC/JSON-RPC methods. The new REST API (with POST/PUT/DELETE) was implemented in Confluence 5.5.


author: John Lawlor
body: So it is possible to do write operations in 4.3.1?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, because the prototype, as Stephen said, is read only.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: But it is possible to do write operations, it's just that you have to use the different API (RPC). Please let me know what you are trying to do and in which language.


author: John Lawlor
body: Thanks Stephen, I am using XSLT to convert XML to Confluence Markup and the I want to add the markup to Confluence using RPC. I am trying to do this in Java.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: This should help you out: <https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-apis/jira-api-status/jira-rpc-services/jira-xml-rpc-overview/creating-an-xml-rpc-client#CreatinganXML-RPCClient-BuildingaJavaclient>Just subsitute "confluence2" for the client instead of "jira1". Then you should be able to use the methods on this page:<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-rest-api/confluence-xml-rpc-and-soap-apis/remote-confluence-methods#RemoteConfluenceMethods-Pages>and the required format for pages is here:<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-rest-api/confluence-xml-rpc-and-soap-apis/remote-confluence-data-objects#RemoteConfluenceDataObjects-pagePage>I would recommend doing a getPage so you can see the format and just change the values to what you need to. Good luck!


author: John Lawlor
body: Thank you Stephen!
Confluence add Space watcher
Asked by Conor McGmail:

As a space admin is is possible to add watchers for an entire space rather than just individual pages?

When i go to Manage Watchers I can only add watchers for the page (left side) - see attachment.

Watchers1.png

Thanks

Conor  
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[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-add-Space-watcher/qaq-p/287646?attachment-id=1553){#link_1188176f386b35_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/48801/2/Watchers1.png){#display_1188176f386b35_2}


Answers:
author: Vera Henrichs
body: And maybe you can use this feature? <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-40582>

Please vote!


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Normally this is not possible, but I wrote a user macro to be able to do this:

<https://bitbucket.org/stephendeutsch/confluence-user-macros/src/39c3a025dacc6b45abc0105f0b7a21a7375690b4/bulk%20remove%20watchers/remove%20watches%20for%20user.vm?at=master>

Just embed it in a page and you will be able to change space watches (and all other watches, for that matter) for other users. Note that you have to be a confluence administrator (a member of the confluence-administrators group) in order to be able to change space watches for other users.

comments: author: bosscq
body: your macro is very good.

thanks!


author: Ariel Hern?n Landaida Duarte
body: this macro work perfectly with confluence server 6.3.3!!! thanks.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence: restric permission for confluence-users
Asked by Simon G_:

Hi!

I would like to provide a confluence account for each of my customers companies. But I have two problems:

* It's an account for all a company, it means that several users will use a same account. So I need to lock the profile edition to be sure that nobody will change the password or the name. Is that possible?
* A confluence-user can go on his profile, then click on "People", then he get the page browsepeople.action where he can see every customers account. How can i disable that?  

  Thanks for your response!


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Takar,

You cannot block an user to edit his own profile, unless you try to do some customization but I believe it won't worth it. And, if you want to create an account for many people use the same account is not a good idea. If some day something goes wrong, you wont be able to know who made that.

For your second questions, please have a look on this documentation:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Hiding+the+People+Directory>

Cheers,

Renato Rudnicki


Tags: permission
creately
Asked by Patrick Talloen:

Failed to install Confluence Diagramming by Creately (free trail), got error: An error occurred while installing the add-on. Refer to the logs for more information.

<br />


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hello Patrick,

Can you please check the logs under *\<confluence-home-directory\>/logs*? The file is called atlassian-confluence.log

In case you are not sure where the *\<confluence-home-directory\>* is located, please refer to this documentation: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Home+and+other+important+directories>

This should tell us more about the error so we can try to help you.

Eduardo


author: Patrick Talloen
body: Problem solved, some parameters in mySql were not properly configured.

comments: author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Thanks Patrick. Please feel free to mark this question as resolved.Cheers,Rodrigo


author: lavitz slambert
body: Can you also check your base URL?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL>

If the Base URL you have is different from the one you are using to access your Confluence then the add on will indeed fail to be installed.

If the base URL is also correct then let us know your JAVA and Confluence version.

![information](/html/@4DF2F60CA30FBCA0CD7B960B5D0F871B/images/emoticons/information.png "information") Don't forget about the atlassian-confluence.log file :smile:.

Thanks and Regards,  
Lavitz - the guy that uses Confluence on Windows as a Hobby!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, what does the log say?


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to add external links to the SubSpace Child levels?
Asked by Areg Vrtanesyan _Work_:

Hi Team

We are looking to the possibility to add the "External Links" to the other levels of a SubSpace too but don't see how to do that at the moment.

We would like to have the Links not only on top of the "Show subspace menu on each page" Menu bar ...

Regards,

Areg


Answers:
author: Communardo Support
body: Hi @Areg Vrtanesyan,

Thank you for your request and your interest in our add-on.  

At the moment it is only possible to define additional links (in the Confluence administration) and display these at the top level of subspace structure.  

Would you be so kind as to describe your use case a little bit further? I hope I understand it correct, eg:

* Space 1
* Space 2
  * Subspace 21
  * Subspace 22
  * Additional Link 1 (not possible)
* Space 3
* Additional Link 2 (possible)
* ...

<br />

Regards,  

Bill Martin  
Communardo Support

comments: author: Areg Vrtanesyan _Work_
body: Yes absolutely right.Could be this added as enhancement request?


author: Communardo Support
body: Hello, there is already a feature request for it: <https://jira.communardo.de/browse/CSSP-185> I've added a vote on your behalf for it. Greetings!


author: Areg Vrtanesyan _Work_
body: Thanks a lot.Will follow it.


Tags: addon-de.communardo.confluence.plugins.subspace

confluence-administration
Hi, Can I create Context-sensitive help/Online help using Confluence and attach it to my product that would go to an end user outside of my organization? will the user be able to view the help seamlessly?
Asked by Jyothi:

Do I need to buy/install any plugin? please provide complete details about online help generation and integration with my software product.


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi [Jyothi](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/users?username=jyothi.tw)

have you checked the answers at [Confluence 4.0 context-sensitive online help mapping](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/24018/confluence-4.0-context-sensitive-online-help-mapping) ?

Generally, I think you should explain in more detail what you want to do:

* Do you want to set some links from your application to the wiki pages?   
  - or -
* Do you want to create an online help system from your wiki pages (by exporting it to some other format like .chm)?


author: Milo Test
body: Yes. You will need to give anonymous users global permission, and at least read permission on the help pages. If you are using Confluence server, you may need to change firewall access.
Is there a mobile version of the login screen (or responsive version) I can enable in Confluence?
Asked by Shane Fisher:

We use Confluence + Brikit and all the pages look great on a mobile (Brikit also allows you to define a mobile version of a page easily but you generally don't need to as it is fairly responsive). But the login screen is still the standard desktop version - so it is very hard to use on a mobile.

Does anyone know if there is a way or a plugin to make it responsive or provide a mobile specific version if a user is on a mobile?


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey Shane,

Confluence has its on plugin that is called Confluence Mobile, which you can see in your add-ons section.  
However, if you're using Brikit it might be that it's overwriting Confluence's default login screen. To see if that is the case, you can disable Brikit to see if you'll be presented with a login screen.  

By default Confluence has the following screen:  

<https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/10804/74993/lczgmnlm38yklxb/confluence-signup.jpg>  

<br />

Cheers,  
WZ  


author: Shane Fisher
body: Yes it is an issue with Brikit interfering with the standard login screen behaviour. The newer version of Confluence also has a much nicer styled mobile login screen as well. Will send a support request to Darryl and the team at Brikit to see if they can resolve it. Thanks WZ. Cheers!

comments: author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: You're welcome Shane! :D


Tags: confluence-administration
Hide Login in Confluence Dashboard
Asked by Tet Cheng Chia:

Hi,

How do I hide just the login (at the top right hand corner) in Confluence Dashboard from anonymous users?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey Tet, I found the following Custom HTML from another[Atlassian Answer](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/13007/removing-log-in-from-a-space-in-confluence-4) that another person created:

This script works for the "Demonstration Space" (which has a spaceKey of "ds") that ships wiith Confluence

Browse to **Confluence Admin \| Look and Feel \| Custom HTML**

In **At the end of the HEAD**, paste:

```
&lt;script&gt;  AJS.toInit(function($){    if (AJS.params.spaceKey == 'ds') {      $('#login-link,#browse-menu-link').parent().hide(); // Hide the login &amp; browse menu    }  });&lt;/script&gt;
```

Then Save.

Change the 'ds' bit to whatever the spaceKey is for your space.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: This should work:

```
&lt;script&gt;  AJS.toInit(function() {    if (AJS.params.remoteUser == '') {      AJS.$('#login-link').hide();    }  });&lt;/script&gt;
```

comments: author: Chris Purser
body: This is the one that worked for me


author: Joerg Marzoner
body: This one worked for me as well

Thanks!


author: Chris Purser
body: This worked for me as well!

Thanks! Perfect solve.


author: Tet Cheng Chia
body: Thank you! It works!


author: Tet Cheng Chia
body: Hi Stephen,

I tried your method but it does not work. Actually I also tried this script which is working but it hides the whole menu bar from anonymous users:

\<script\>

AJS.toInit(function() {

if (AJS.params.remoteuser == '') {

AJS.$('header').hide();

}

});

\</script\>

How do I modify this script to just hide the login button in the menu bar. I would like to leave the rest (eg. quick search textbox) visible.

Thank you


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: The script that Guilherme linked to will block the login link for a particular space, but not from the dashboard.

This would probably work better:

```
&lt;script&gt;  AJS.toInit(function($){    if (document.location.href.indexOf("dashboard.action") !== -1) {      $("#login-link").parent().hide(); // Hide the login menu    }  });&lt;/script&gt;
```


Tags: confluence-administration
SSO With Conf, Jira and Crowd (shared credentials)
Asked by StevenM:

Hello,

I'm new to Atlassian so not totally sure how it's been setup here. We are using Crowd with JIRA and Confluence. and Google Apps IMAP for user authentication.

What I'd like to setup is shared user authentication between Confluence and Jira. There is currently a working link between the two, as JIRA can pick-up pages under confluence. The problem is, users still have to login to JIRA and Confluence separately.

Is there any way to achieve this without relying on Crowd for full authentication? I don't want to rely on Crowd for Google Apps authentication, for if it were to go down we'd lose access to email.

Thanks.

Steve


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey Steve,

So you could share the authentication between Confluence and Jira, you need to enable the SSO in both applications:

* Edit the [JIRA/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/seraph-config.xml](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Integrating+Crowd+with+Atlassian+JIRA) file
* Edit the [CONFLUENCE/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/seraph-config.xml](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Integrating+Crowd+with+Atlassian+Confluence) file

*Note: Click on the link so you could gather more information about what you need to edit.*

I'm not sure if you already did this, so it would be nice if you could give more information about what you already did to enable the SSO.

Kind regards,

Guilherme Viana

Atlassian Support
What is the rest endpoint for confluence cloud?
Asked by Devin Lusby:

I've read all the sample documentation and confluence REST API documentation, but can't locate what should go in [https://host:port/rest/api/...](https://hostport) URIs for Host and Port?


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Those are provided when Confluence hits your install hook, as described in <https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/modules/lifecycle.html>

Provided the following atlassian-connect.json descriptor:

```
{  "installed": "/installed",  "uninstalled": "/uninstalled",  "enabled": "/enabled",  "disabled": "/disabled"}
```

Confluence will hit your /installed REST resource with a POST and the following contents:

```
{  "key": "installed-addon-key",  "clientKey": "unique-client-identifier",  "publicKey": "MIGf....ZRWzwIDAQAB",  "sharedSecret": "a-secret-key-not-to-be-lost",  "serverVersion": "server-version",  "pluginsVersion": "version-of-connect",  "baseUrl": "https://example.atlassian.net",  "productType": "jira",  "description": "Atlassian JIRA at https://example.atlassian.net",  "serviceEntitlementNumber": "SEN-number",  "eventType": "installed"}
```

So the base url is https://example.atlassian.net.

Now concerning authentication... It's a little difficult because you need to authentify the request from your server to Confluence using JWT and the sharedSecret (above). The explanation is [in the Connect documentation](https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/concepts/authentication.html), and my intern was able to implement the whole JWT thing in a week (but he wears Superman clothes so he might have a secret).

comments: author: Devin Lusby
body: Whoops, meant this as a comment. I tried that - we browse to ahcwiki.atlassian.net, so I attempted a simple call to the content resource atGET <https://ahcwiki.atlassian.net/rest/API/content> but got a 500-class service unavailable response. I would have expected unauthorized, since I didn't supply any credentials with the reauest


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I can't install team calendars on my confluence server because button is invisible ;;
Asked by Alec Kim:

image2015-8-12 12:23:48.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/I-can-t-install-team-calendars-on-my-confluence-server-because/qaq-p/341663?attachment-id=7195){#link_11881819c5189d}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/57703/1/image2015-8-12%2012%3A23%3A48.png){#display_11881819c5189d_0}


Answers:
author: Dayana
body: Hi Alec,

You can try to download the plugin .obr file from Atlassian Marketplace and install the plugin via upload the plugin .obr file through Manage Add-ons page in your Confluence.

Regards,

Dayana


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Alec,  

If the following query returns a row, it means that is installed:  

```
SELECT * FROM PLUGINDATA WHERE PLUGINKEY LIKE '%team calendars%';
```

Cheers,  
WZ


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That usually means it's installed already - could you check the "manage addons" and the list of currently installed addons?


Tags: confluence-administration