youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
enabling apache ssl proxy in front of jira and confluence broke integration.
Asked by Kent Perrier:

I followed the instructions at [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Integrating+JIRA+with+Apache+using+SSL)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Integrating+JIRA+with+Apache+using+SSL>to terminate SSL at an apache instance in front of both confluence and jira. (They are running on different servers and the SSL cert is an internal self-signed cert.) Accessing either application works fine. I put an apache rewrite rule to send any requests to (for example) [](http://jira.us.local/browse/IN-1234)<http://jira.us.local/browse/IN-1234>to https://.... on both servers.

This has apparently broken the integration between Jira and Confluence. Looking at a Confluence document that contains a link to a Jira has the following text:

```
com.atlassian.confluence.macro.MacroExecutionException: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
```

Through searching I found some documents that pointed to the fact that the Java instance will not trust the self signed certificate. Following the directions here: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Connecting+to+SSL+services,)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Connecting+to+SSL+services>, I imported the cert into the JRE certificate store in /opt/atlassian/\[jira\|conflence\]/jre/lib/security/cacerts. This has not made any difference in operation. Do I need to restart Jira and Confluence so they pick up the updated certificate store?

If I edit or create a page in confluence and use the ctrl-shift-J macro to insert a link to a Jira I attempt to use the search feature to fine my Jira, I get the following error in a red box:

```
Received the following HTTP error code from the server:500
```

I don't see this error in the apache logs, so I don't know where it is coming from. I am at a loss here. I am not an admin for either Jira or Confluence but I can get them to help me.

We are running Jira 6.2 and Confluence 5.4.3


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: > Do I need to restart Jira and Confluence so they pick up the updated certificate store?

And of course the answer to this is yes. And also, what @Danielsaid is true. Do:

User --- https ---\> Apache --- http(s) ---\> Tomcat

comments: author: Kent Perrier
body: The restart did clear up the issue.


author: Kent Perrier
body: Sorry, I wan't clear. I am doing the HTTPS at the apache layer, I did not muck with the tomcat config to get SSL working there.

I will schedule a time to restart Confluence and Jira and let you know what happens.


author: Daniel Wester
body: It sounds like your config is browser-\>http proxy-\>https tomcat.My suggestion would be to move https to the front (or at least add it there)


Tags: confluence-administration

jira

jira-administration
How do you enable the Confluence Mail Archiving Plugin
Asked by Toby Fifer:

I'd like for a Confluence space to be able to collect all the emails our team is CCing and store them within the space. I thought this could be achieved via the Confluence Mail Archiving Plugin, however, it an not be enabled on my On Demand instance for some reason. It is showing as disabled and I do not see an enable button. See attachment.![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2014-05-14_at_11.04.33_AM.png)


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello Toby,

in my opinion this issue is related to Confluence version 5.5-OD-22.001

I'm using official relese (5.5) and I'm able to disable/enable this plugin without issues.

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: Toby Fifer
body: Thanks Fabio. How can I switch to the official 5.5? (I assume you are also on an On Demand version?) We utilized the On Demand version and I've never actually changed the version, they just update it automatically as they add/update features.

Thanks again for your help!


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello Toby,

sorry but I missed that you're using an on-demand Confluence. In my opinion, you could raise a support ticket to Atlassian team [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/lwIYDw)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/lwIYDw>

Best regards,

Fabio


Tags: confluence-administration
remove a topic
Asked by Graham Hemmings:

Hi, can someone let me know how you can delete a topic from conflucence questions please

Thanks

Graham


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

Just so you know that we have a feature request already open for it:  

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-773)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-773>  

The good news is that on the next release :D  
Cheers,  
W.


author: Bhushan Nagaraj
body: Hey Graham,

Refer to the documentation here.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Topics)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Topics>

Refer to the Adding, Editing and Removing Topics. It states, " You cannot remove a topic from the topic list."


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence language problems
Asked by Andrey Zhupanenko:

Global Confluence language is set to English, but some labels are German.

Restriction popup as example <http://screencast.com/t/tBjK0skj9>


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello Andrey,

I found this open issue [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23220#comment-350883)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23220#comment-350883>

Probably, it is your browse language that cause this issue. Please, could you try the workaround proposed into the above issue?

Regards,

Fabio

comments: author: Andrey Zhupanenko
body: your link is not working


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello Andrey,

please, could you check your default language? Each user can define its own language in its user preferences.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+User+Settings)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+User+Settings>

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: Andrey Zhupanenko
body: was "Auto" there and changed to "English". didn't helped.

tried to change to "French", bot English and German labels were changed to French


Tags: confluence-administration
Pages with Cards and Tables look poor
Asked by TenLeftFingers:

As you can see from the image, my card deck neither matches the look of or lines up with the tables on the right. Is there a way to get the card deck to look more square like the tables? Also, anyway to align them better?

![](../../upfiles/confluence_cards_vs_tables.png)


Answers:
author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Hi Jarlath,

you can adjust your CSS but I think, you will get it done only for one page.

Is this done via the composition plugin? I think there once was a setup macro where you can embed your own css. Maybe that helps?

Regards

Steve

comments: author: TenLeftFingers
body: Hi Steve, yes I used the composition-setup macro. I've learned that because my cards have tables with headings, I get the grey everywhere outside the table within each card. When I delete the headings I don't get grey in the body anymore (except for a badly drawn uneven border).

I see an option to include a CSS class. Where would I define such a class? And do you know where I can find what elements to override for theming?

Thanks,

Jarlath


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Take a look on <https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/COMP/composition-setup>


author: TenLeftFingers
body: Thanks, I missed the import css option!! Now I just need some CSS to make them match, but at least I know what needs to be done. Thank you.
Confluence compatibility
Asked by Patrice E_:

Hello,

Will this plugin be compatible with confluence 5.5 in future ?

Regards,


Answers:
author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Normally, as long as there are no changes in the api, I would expect, that these plugins will still work. If you hava a test or development environment, just try them out. I would give it a 95% change to work ;)


author: Patrice E_
body: Hello Suren,

sorry, we are sharing my account between some admins ;-)

we would like to know if the Roadmap and Dynamic task list 2 for Confluence plugins will be updated shortly for confluence 5.5.

Best regards


author: Suren Raj
body: Hi Patrice,  

What Plugin are talking about?   

<br />

Cheers  
Suren


Tags: compatibility
It is possible to increase the pagelist in confluene left menu?
Asked by Atlassian Support in ARGP:

It is possible to increase the pagelist in confluene left menu?

Our users are uncomfortable because the list is too small.

Please check, Thank you.


Answers:
author: Atlassian Support in ARGP
body: Thank you for answer. It is not possible without Documentation Theme?

Please check, Thank you.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You can use the Documentation Theme to get a better and customizable left menu.
Questions on Confluence- Currently evaluating platform
Asked by Dina Tsuda:

I am currently evaluating if I would like to purchase Confluence for our company intranet and had a couple of questions I was hoping the community could help answer...

1. If I have a link to another website on a page, the search box does not seem to find it. I would think it would be able to search the link title? Can someone confirm if there is an extra step I need to do?
2. For versioning, does this only work if the content is typed directly on the page? For example, if I have an attachment on the page and the attachment is updated, can it save a version?
3. Is there a way to set up key words on attachments so the search can be more defined?
4. Is there a way to add administrative comments to a page or attachment that is NOT viewable to the general user?

Any guidance you can provide would be great! Thank you!

Dina Tsuda


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: 2. Yes, attachments have versions. By default, adding an another attachment of the same name creates a new version.

3. Labels should be used for this both for pages and attachments

4. Not natively, but there are add-ons that provide macros like show-if and similar that do this type of thing. See <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility>


author: Dina Tsuda
body: Thank you for your answers!

Mick- Yes, when I say link, I am putting the text on the page and hyperlinking it to a URL. All I want it to do is include the text in the search. However, when I test it, it does not include it in the search. Not sure why...

Thank you!


author: Mick Davidson
body: As for Q1, when you say link, do you mean the full URL, or some text that is clickable, which effectively hides the URL?

I can't say for sure, but I can't see why the text shouldn't be in the search, as it is text on a page.

I don't think there's much you can do beyond that, ie, there is no further step.

Cheers.
Is there a way to show all labels from blog posts only?
Asked by Jorge:

I'm interesting in showing a tag cloud that shows all the labels from all the blogposts in my Confluence installation. I've tried the existing macros, but can't seem to get what i need.

<br />

Thanks for your help!


Answers:
author: discountrobot
body: Not aware of a excisting macro that can do this.

I've made a pseudo code snippet you can use in a macro or API that fetches all labels of all blogposts across your instance

There should be doublicates so you can count those to get the "weight" of the labels, you will have to write the vm file and styling.

```
// will contain all our blog labels (there might be dublicates List&lt;Label&gt; allLabels = new ArrayList();// get all the spacesList&lt;Space&gt; allSpaces = this.spaceManager.getAllSpaces();for (Space space : allSpaces) {    // get all the blog posts of a space    List&lt;BlogPost&gt; blogPosts = this.pm.getBlogPosts(space, true);    for (BlogPost blogPost : posts) {        // fetch the labels of a blogpost and add them to our stack.        List&lt;Label&gt; labels = blogPost.getLabels();        allLabels.addAll(labels);    }                        }
```

comments: author: Jorge
body: I guess i didn't know what to expect for an answer, but this will be hard for me since I don't even know what a vm file is :)

Thanks for your answer anyway.


author: discountrobot
body: Hey Jorge, duty calls. i'll whip up a macro that does this for you when i get a few open moments.   

Hopefully somebody will find an already exisiting macro for you in the mean time.


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Try this [plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting).

The only problem will be, that there will be duplicates, but nothing you can't handle with some javascript ;)

comments: author: discountrobot
body: Thats a link to Web Resources :P


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: changed the link


Tags: blog

label
I am an admin for confluence and I am granting access for team mates but it isn't working. I am not system admin.
Asked by Kara Glasgow:

How does the site admin grant user access if the site admin is atlassian folk? I am an administrator but not the site admin. hlep pleasee


Answers:
author: Mel Paisley
body: Hi Kara,

As a site-admin in OnDemand you are able to grant users access to JIRA and Confluence from the user management screen.

However, it sounds like you might be experiencing the bug outlined here [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6992.)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6992>.

I'd suggest raising a support request at [](http://support.atlassian.com/)<http://support.atlassian.com/>so that we can resolve this for you.

Cheers!

Mel


author: Kara Glasgow
body: I am in User Management granting access to Confluence to exisisting Jira Users and creating new users. It isn't granting them access.


author: Andrew Wolpers [BlackPearl PDM]
body: When granting access, are you granting under the specific page or are you granting under Global Permissions?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Header Garbled
Asked by Chris Lehan:

After an upgrade to version 5.5, the header bar menu is all mixed up (drop down menu is white, search field is out of place, etc.). In the header, this is type displayed: "menuMacros_renderGlobalBrowseMenu()


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: UI problems could be mostly related to two things:

* plugins
* browsers

In order to identfy what is the problem you can use safe mode to disable all plugins and check if the issue is the same .. and switch to a different browser.

This will say what could be a potential problem.

If this is a plugin problem the just enable one by one and verify if the issue is still there. After few attemps you should be able to identify the problematic plugin. If this is a browser then first you can clear the cache and if this will not help the workaround is to use another browser and report a issue to Atlassian.

Mostly there are problems with IE browser.


author: Philip Lucas
body: I am experiencing the same problem, were you able to resolve the problem? If so, how?

Thanks.

comments: author: Chris Lehan
body: Hi Phillip, No, I did not. I ended up rolling back to my previous version 4.2.2. I suspect it's something to do with third party Plugins (there are many I use that have not been updated to support version 5). Once they are; I will try again.


Tags: menu
Unable to save page in confluence 5.5
Asked by pietr:

I've just installed Confluence 5.5 with Postgress DB and Jira integrated. I created a space. but when I try to edit main page or try to create child page - there is no Save button on the form. Only Preview and Cancel. Noticed pehavior is the same in Chrome and FF. I have superadmin privileges.

Can anyone help me? Thank you.


Answers:
author: pietr
body: I rebooted virtual machine with Jira an? confluence and save button appears


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Petr,

Does this bahvior happens just with when trying to edit this specific page?

Or does it happen when you try to create other pages withing this space?

comments: author: pietr
body: Hi Bruna, thank you for your answer.

This behavior happens in both situations. While editing existing page and while creating new page.
Google Chart within Confluence - Access denied
Asked by m.w:

Hi,  

Charts which have been published from google sheets are not displaying on the wiki - an 'Access denied' error message displays instead of the published charts. This was working fine yesterday.  
Other wiki pages have been affected by this issue.  

Can anyone suggest a solution/workaround?  

<br />

HTML code:  

```
<script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/static/modules/gviz/1.0/chart.js"> {"dataSourceUrl":"//docs.google.com/a/openbet.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0AmAfXSjNjIdmdEx0Nlp2eFZvWDF4Skt4cS1NQ1RhSHc&transpose=0&headers=1&merge=COLS&range=A1%3AA7%2CD1%3AH7&gid=3&pub=1","options":{"titleTextStyle":{"bold":true,"color":"#000","fontSize":"12"},"legendTextStyle":{"color":"#222","fontSize":"10"},"animation":{"duration":0},"width":450,"hAxis":{"useFormatFromData":true,"minValue":null,"viewWindowMode":null,"viewWindow":null,"maxValue":null},"vAxes":[{"useFormatFromData":true,"title":"","minValue":null,"viewWindow":{"min":null,"max":null},"logScale":false,"maxValue":null},{"useFormatFromData":true,"minValue":null,"viewWindow":{"min":null,"max":null},"logScale":false,"maxValue":null}],"title":"TB System Testing - Defects Raised by Priority","booleanRole":"certainty","height":320,"domainAxis":{"direction":-1},"legend":"right","useFirstColumnAsDomain":true,"annotations":{"domain":{}},"isStacked":false,"tooltip":{}},"state":{},"view":{"columns":[{"calc":"stringify","type":"string","sourceColumn":0},1,2,3,4,5]},"isDefaultVisualization":true,"chartType":"ColumnChart","chartName":"Chart8"} </script>
```

*View mode
<br />*  
![Displaying pageView.png](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=e80e77d664&view=fimg&th=145effe6233f199a&attid=0.1&disp=inline&realattid=f_hv3mtrtr0&safe=1&attbid=ANGjdJ-IGtaDQaxHDIbm33hOsiY8btT8_4J3sXnUXb-niapvXfnooVJ_2sa0chdhBGhySjXnvqlTX3lNaa9FLgRgu8RQQkXm9IhLK_LLoourBHxFXUTAxf574vmqa8s&ats=1399969578630&rm=145effe6233f199a&zw&sz=w1785-h719)  
*Edit mode*  
![Displaying pageEdit.png](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=e80e77d664&view=fimg&th=145effe6233f199a&attid=0.2&disp=inline&realattid=f_hv3mtwzq1&safe=1&attbid=ANGjdJ8r7ivFuxph5eebbSyo4lKL7eXuOod7YmJ_7wLdZOkmyj55D_Ez6ELzMrRze92R33ihnpb3-34fdmHzYb2zW9gPDENIyyg6fcmXuCrCciZTEtLuyidT4eP9ILQ&ats=1399969578630&rm=145effe6233f199a&zw&sz=w1785-h719)

<br />

Thanks for any help,  
Mark


Answers:
author: m.w
body: In the data source url, I had to remove the "\&pub=1" from the parameters. This fixed my issue.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: You should mark Bruna's answer as the answer if it answered your question.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: It usually happens when the spreadsheets are not public. Is important to make sure that all of the pages of the sheet public and that they are published.

comments: author: m.w
body: Hi Bruna,

All the sheets are public and have been published - still not working.

Do you have any other ideas?

Thanks for the quick reply and help.


Tags: google-charts
Does an Export of wiki pages include the page history?
Asked by Admin2:

Have tried searching everywhere and have failed to find the answer to my question! Currently using Confluence OnDemand but intending to migrate to self hosting. I need to preserve the full history of our Wiki as it currently exists. It seems possible to migrate all users, pages, comments and attachments but it is not clear whether migrating the pages will include the page history. Can anyone advise if the page history is automatically included or whether there is a way of including this?


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello Mike,

if you backup/restore your Confluence instance, all data (including page history) will be preserved into the new Confluence instance.

Regards,

Fabio


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Modifying content via confluence cli tool
Asked by Application Management:

```
confluence.bat --action getPageSource --space "ICT" --title "XXX" --file out.txtconfluence.bat --action storePage --space "ICT" --title "XXX" --file out.txt --findReplace "Application:XXX"
```

When trying to modify content of pages through the confluence cli tool, the adjusted content is stored on the page as plain xhtml code, instead of the neatly formatted text it was previousely.

I use the following commands stated in the code block.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: John Paz
body: Can you provide a little more information about the kind of modification you're trying to execute?Any reason why you didn't try using the modifyPage action instead?


Tags: addon-org.swift.confluence.acli

cli
Finding the HTML used to render as PDF
Asked by Sam Hall:

How do you actually grab a copy of the temp HTML that Confluence apparently uses to generate a PDF?

In the Notes section here it lists a path to use to find the intermediate HTML file on the server, however it doesn't exist. Even when I generate a huge PDF that takes a few seconds to generate... <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Advanced+PDF+Export+Customisations#AdvancedPDFExportCustomisations-Notes>


Answers:
author: rsperafico
body: Hi Sam,

I would kindly ask you to follow the steps under [Exporting Confluence Pages and Spaces to HTML](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+HTML "Exporting Confluence Pages and Spaces to HTML").

Kind regards,  
Rafael


Tags: confluence-administration
Possible to turn off the "Request Access" feature?
Asked by Ed Jones:

We are in a similar situation to the comment made by "jackie" in response to the blog post announcing this feature;

[](https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/09/new-in-confluence-request-access-to-view-restricted-pages/)<https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/09/new-in-confluence-request-access-to-view-restricted-pages/>

Which is to say; we have restrictions in place for a reason. So we don't want people requesting access to pages to which they do not have access. Is it possible to turn this "Request access" feature off at all? I couldn't find anything at the page or space level that looks like it would achieve this, is there anything in the system admin insterface that does it?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Ed, currently the Request Access feature is displayed based on the functioning described in [the documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Restrictions):

> If the request access message does not appear, you are not able to request access for that particular page. This usually is because the page has inherited restrictions from a parent page, or you may not have adequate space permissions.

Nevertheless there isn't such thing as an option to toggle it on or off, maybe this would be a good case to add a ticket to <http://jira.atlassian.com>as a *Feature Request*, in that way it can be evaluated to become something delivered in upcoming releases.

The feature has been created after [this ticket](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28346), may be worth watching the one too.

comments: author: Ed Jones
body: Thanks. I created an issue to request this feature.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33703>


Tags: confluence-administration