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Create a completely blank Confluence page?
Asked by Adam Toy:

Hi all,

I was wondering if there was a way to strip all content from a Confluence page (headers, footers, etc.) and only have user-created HTML (A couple buttons and words).

My reasoning is trying to have authentication access to an iFrame that will be outward facing. We want to create the iFrame and point it to a blank Confluence page, then only give certain Confluence users access to edit it.

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: [Scroll Viewport](http://www.k15t.com/software/scroll-viewport/overview) let you do this. It provides for simple content theming for Confluence (no need to deal with overly complex Confluence themes).

In your case, you can create a template that only outputs the "naked" content like this:

```
&lt;html&gt;  &lt;head&gt;    &lt;title&gt;$page.title&lt;/title&gt;  &lt;/head&gt;  &lt;body&gt;    $page.content  &lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;
```

Please make sure to check out the Getting Started Guide (<http://www.k15t.com/display/VPRT/Getting+Started+Guide>) and the template reference (<http://www.k15t.com/display/VPRT/Template+Reference>).

Hope this helps,  
-Stefan


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Another approach you can use is to prevent Confluence from applying any decorator to the file. You do this by editing the decorators.xml file. Within the \<decorator name="none"\> block, add the following:

\<url-pattern\>/your-pattern\</url-pattern\>

hth,

-matt


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: I don't think any component of Confluence renders a naked page with only the contents. I've tried to do that before and I had to create a plugin to do that.

If you create a plugin for that, have a look at ViewPageAction#execute() in the source of Confluence (which you can download from <http://my.atlassian.com>). That will give you a good example of how Confluence renders content.


Tags: empty

iframe

page
Link a new installation of Confluence to exisitng data
Asked by David Morrissette:

Our installation of Confluence (on a Linux server), has died. Not being a Linux user, I am installing Confluence on Windows 2012. How do I link the new installation to my exising database (on MS SQL)


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: David,  

First you need install the same version of Confluence that you had in your Linux machine. The next step is copy the entire *\<home-folder\>* from your Linux box.

You need to take a database backup from your Linux machine, and import it your MS SQL under Windows 2012, because Confluence can't share databases, which means that you can't use two Confluences that has the same database.

When you have everything in place, you need to edit the confluence-init.properties to point to the backed up *\<home-folder\>* that you took from Linux, and edit the file called confluence.cfg.xml that you will find inside of the same folder. You need to edit the "hibernate.connection.url"\> line, making sure that you have the connection string for your database that is inside of your Windows Machine.  

This should do the trick.  

Cheers,  
WZ
Need electronic signature plugin for Confluence
Asked by Shannon Adams:

Running Confluence 5.1.4

We have lots of online company policies in Confluence. We would like a plugin that will allow for an electronic signature or acknowledgement of each policy. Are there an suggestions for plugins that will handle this for us?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Erin Jones
body: Hi y'all! Our e-signature solution for Confluence is now on the marketplace. Check out [DocuSign for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.praecipio.plugins.docusign-cnfl/server/overview) for free and let us know if it meets your needs (feedback is welcome!).  

comments: author: Casey Maynard
body: Tried DocuSign, but their customer support caused a drop for its use.


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: [Sign Off for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.signoff) displays a green mark at the top of the page when they've been signed. There are 2 cases:

* When you need a sign-off on specifications, it just displays a green mark at the top of the page;
* When you share the page with a group, it tracks how many % of the users have viewed and how many have signed the page, and displays a yellow mark "Sign-off requested".

### The sign-off button: {#toc-hId-1427965545}

1-Satisfying Green Mark 580x330.png

### Sharing a page with a group: {#toc-hId--1124191416}

2-Send Requests 920x450.png

### Who has clicked the email and viewed the page? Who has signed it? {#toc-hId-618618919}

3-Track 920x450.png

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Need-electronic-signature-plugin-for-Confluence/qaq-p/197733?attachment-id=12051){#link_118acf5764c0e0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/33243/1/2-Send%20Requests%20920x450.png){#display_118acf5764c0e0_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Need-electronic-signature-plugin-for-Confluence/qaq-p/197733?attachment-id=12052){#link_118acf5764c0e0_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/33243/2/1-Satisfying%20Green%20Mark%20580x330.png){#display_118acf5764c0e0_2}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Need-electronic-signature-plugin-for-Confluence/qaq-p/197733?attachment-id=12053){#link_118acf5764c0e0_1}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/33243/3/3-Track%20920x450.png){#display_118acf5764c0e0_4}


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi Shannon, you can use this plugin:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.pageapproval>

But it's compatible with Confluence 5.2

Or this one:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow>

It's for all versions, but it isn't a free plugin.


Tags: confluence-administration
Tasks disappear from workbox
Asked by Roman Karpushkin:

Hello. One of our users complained, that tasks assigned to him on one of the pages disappeared from workbox. The only noticeble thing about this tasks is that they were created 7 days prior to their disappearence, but they were not marked as completed.


Answers:
author: Roman Karpushkin
body: Hi

No, there were no tasks deleted from the page or permission being change


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Roman,

Were the tasks deleted from the page or did the page permissions change at all?
Setting Page permissions
Asked by Geoff Sawyer:

I have a user to whom I have given all permissions for a space except to export. He has created a new page but cannot set permissions on it. He does not see the padlock symbol. Neither does he have the space tools icon. I would have thought the space admin permission would have been enough to allow him to set the edit and view permission on the page but it seems not. What do I need to do? We are running 5.1.1.

The Confluence documentation (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Restrictions#PageRestrictions-Aboutpagerestrictionsandspacepermissions>) does not seem to be up to date on this topic ("tools" does not exist). Am I missing something?


Answers:
author: Geoff Sawyer
body: OK, found the answer, it was a setting in our instance that was causing the problem. Thanks Adrien for trying it out for me.

comments: author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: I'm interested in the answer: Which setting was it? Was it in relation with a plugin?


author: Geoff Sawyer
body: Not directly. We had set certain icons visible according to permissions and for some reason had made the permissions setting invisible to all but full confluence administrators. It was true that at the time we did not see others being able to set page restrictions. Now all will see the icon but only those with permission to set restrictions are able to activate it.


author: Geoff Sawyer
body: I am now being hastled to close this thread. I shall do so in a few days time but suppose that this problem is not well known. I have not yet been in contact with Stepstone / Brikit to see if they are aware. Not sure if everyone reads these boards.

So if anyone else has found this problem it would be good to compare notes. Another issue I have found is that pdf files no longer open in the browser. This is a known Confluence issue but they say it can be corrected by changing security settings. The box they say to check does not exist in my instance. Others have this problem too so it is less clear that it is Zen. Comments in the Confluence user guide have not elicited any response.


author: Geoff Sawyer
body: Hi Adrien, thanks. I guess you are confirming what I suspected that it is a deeper problem maybe with the plug-ins. We are using Zen to control layout and permissions ie "restrict based on permissions" and maybe the problem lies here. I have tested again and a user given individual access to the space with full permission is not able to see the space tools icon nor the restrictions icon.

Has anyone else found this problem?


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Tested in 5.1.1, and any user who can see the space can see the Space Tools. Also, as soon as the user has the "Restrict" permission, he can set restrictions.

Note that you can give someone Admin permission without allowing him the permission to create or edit a page. It's a bit weird since they can admin, so they can change the permissions for themselves, but that would explain why someone can administer and not do something else in a space.


Tags: permission
Confluence attachments storage
Asked by AKASH BHARDWAJ:

Hi Geniuses out there, Can anybodyu tell me migrating all attachments to confluence database, does it removes all the files from the locations.

I have pushed all the contents into the database so now when i check the attachment folder in my installation directory:

/opt/atlassian/application-data/confluence/attachments

itsa size goes up to 4 kb

But its size goes upto GB

so any views on this..

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: No, currently attachments remain on the filesystem after migration -- and there's a request ([CONF-14802](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-14802)) to change this behaviour.


Tags: confluence-administration
Workflow - Page restrictions don't work when creating page using template
Asked by Colleen Talbot:

I have an ad hoc workflow which applies view and edit restrictions to Confluence pages within a space. It has been tested using a blank page and all works as expected. When I have used a template (space or global) then the restrictions are not applied. How do I fix this?


Answers:
author: Miguel Reimer
body: Hi,

<br />

Just to let you know that we have fixed the bug for our next release(Ad hoc Workflows 4.3.1) due in the next week or two. To be updated on new versions of Ad hoc Workflows please go to our Marketplace listing here - [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow%20)- click on the Details tab then again on "Watch Add-on". An email will then be automatically sent out whenever a new version is released.  

Thanks,  
Miguel

comments: author: Miguel Reimer
body: Quick update on that - 4.3.1 was released a couple days ago. Please try it out and let us know if you have any more issues.

Thanks,  
Miguel


author: Colleen Talbot
body: New version works fine, Thanks.


author: Miguel Reimer
body: Not sure on fix date, but in a previous reporting of this issue one of my coworkers had come up with a workaround. The workaround is to add a new initial state before your first state, set a 1 minute due date on it and have it automatically change to your actual first state after about 1-2 minutes after the page is created.

Something like this:

```
{workflow}    {state:Creation State|duedate=PT1M|expired=In Progress}    {state}    {state:In Progress|approved=Approved|taskable=true}        {approval:Review|assignable=true}    {state}    {state:Approved|final=true|updated=In Progress|hideselection=true}    {state}
   ?{trigger:statechanged|state=In Progress}        {add-restriction:type=View|user=@user@}        {add-restriction:type=Edit|user=admin}    {trigger}{workflow}
```

Basically all you need to do is insert a state(with whatever name you want) like "Creation State" above with the "expired" parameter set to your actual first state which in this case is "In Progress" Nothing else needs to be done to the workflow apart from insuring you use a statechanged trigger on your actual starting state. This new state won't be used again in future iterations of the workflow.

Thanks,  
Miguel


author: Miguel Reimer
body: Hi Colleen/Charles,

I have confirmed that an issue does exist with Ad hoc Workflows in Confluence 5+ where triggers fire but {add-restriction} doesn't work on triggers fired upon page creation when created a page from a template/blueprint.

Not sure on why or where the problem originates(Confluence or Ad hoc Workflows) but I've logged a bug for the developers to look into it.

Thanks,  
Miguel


author: CharlesH
body: Is you workflow operating on all pages in a space, or just those with a certain label?

comments: author: Colleen Talbot
body: It's a space level workflow, applied to all pages. With a space template the red lock appears but when clicked on shows no restrictions.


Tags: adhoc-workflows
Allowing JIRA users access to confluence
Asked by Jonathan Levin:

I have 'users' and 'developers' groups set up in JIRA. I want to give these groups access to confluence. Do they have access automatically or do I need to first give them access to a 'space'.

When I click the 'groups' from the confluence admin panel I am taken back to JIRA as an administrator.

Do users and developers in JIRA automatically have accesss to confluence?


Answers:
author: Jonathan Levin
body: Just worked it out. I wasn't giving 'application access' to the users in the user management area.

<br />


author: Jonathan Levin
body: Just worked it out. I wasn't giving application access th the users in the user management area.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to delete an inaccessible page?
Asked by starwarsfan:

Hi all together

I need to delete a page which can't be opened but is visible on the navigation. So the question is, how to determine the page ID of this page!? Every link show's the page's name instead of the ID but to delete a page, the ID must be used. Any suggestions how to do this?

Background: The page uses a redirect witch immediately redirects to another, no longer existing page. Because of this redirect I'ts impossible to "show" the page to access the page menu.

Kind regards,

Yves


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

You can get the page's id running the following SQL query:  

```
select contentid from content where title like '%NAME OF YOUR PAGE%' AND contenttype = 'PAGE';
```

<br />

<br />

This should return the ID. Once you have it, you just need to get to an admin account, and go to this specific page:  

```
http://YOUR_CONFLUENCE_URL/pages/removepage.action?pageId=ID_FROM_THE_QUERY
```

<br />

This should do the trick.  

Cheers,  
WZ

comments: author: starwarsfan
body: Hi William,

thx a lot, that did the trick. :-)

Kind regards,

Yves


author: Roey HalfonWork
body: HiWhere do I need to to run this query? Thanks.


author: Josch Bencke
body: Hi Yves,

the redirect is an effect, that is executed by the browser, if I recall correctly.

You could use the Comandline interface (CLI) or the Webdav Interface to open the "wiki path" and then delete the node there.

Good luck,

Josh


author: CharlesH
body: The Reporting plugin can be handy here. The markup below generates a table with columns to edit or delete each page. The Reporting plugin can retrieve the page id easily, even if you can't visit the page to get it:

{report-table}  

{local-reporter:content:children\|type=page}  
{text-sort:content:title}{local-reporter}  

{report-column:title=Page Name}  
\*{report-info:content:title\|link=true}\*{report-column}  

{report-column:title=Page Id}  
{report-info:content:id}{report-column}  

{report-column:title=Edit}  
{report-link:content:id\|atlassian-macro-output-type=INLINE\|prefix=/pages/editpage.action?pageId\\=}Edit{report-link}  
{report-column}  

{report-column:title=Remove}  
{report-link:content:id\|atlassian-macro-output-type=INLINE\|prefix=/pages/removepage.action?pageId\\=}Remove{report-link}  
{report-column}  

{report-empty}  
Cannot generate table - there are no 1st level child pages below the current page.{report-empty}  
{report-table}


Tags: confluence-administration
Language Russian pack for new install
Asked by Nikolay Borozdenkov:

Hello friends,

I just connect to trail 1 month and i have Administrators group memberships. I have download Confluence-5.4-translations-language-pack-ru_RU.jar but cant to find where can i Install this plugin. Could you help me to install Russian Language?

Best regards, Nik


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Nikolay,

The Upload add-on button is on the top-right hand corner of the Manage Add-ons screen. If you do not have this please contact our support team to make a ticket.

![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/273875710/UploadAdd-on.png)


author: Nikolay Borozdenkov
body: I have install newest version, Look at this photos - where is .Choose **Upload Plugin?**


author: Shannon S
body: What version of Confluence are you using? If you're not using Confluence 5.3.\* there's a link at the top that says "Documentation for [Confluence OnDemand](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Confluence+OnDemand "Confluence OnDemand") and [earlier versions of Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ALLDOC/Confluence+Documentation+Directory "Confluence Documentation Directory") is available too." Then you can just click on "earlier versions" and find the instructions for your version.


author: Nikolay Borozdenkov
body: Thank you Shannon! But I cant find step --- 3.Choose **Upload Plugin** .


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Nikolay! You can install a language pack manually by following the \*Installing a Language Pack Manually\* instructions from this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+a+Language+Pack>


Tags: language

language-ru
Show current/logged in user profile info in confluence page
Asked by Kapil Bolli:

Hi ,

I am using confluence 5.1.3,

I need to show logged in user profile info in a page.

macro:user profile only lets me to select a user name.

can i extend this maco to show logged in user profile autmatically or any other approaches are possible.

Thanks

Kapil Bolli


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: This user macro should do the trick for you:

```
## Macro name: current-user-profile## Macro title: Current User Profile## Macro Body Processing: No macro body#### Developed by: Charles Hall## Date created: 15/11/2013## Shows the user profile for the current user## @noparams&lt;p&gt;&lt;ac:macro ac:name="profile"&gt;&lt;ac:parameter ac:name="user"&gt;$action.remoteUser.name&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;&lt;/ac:macro&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
```

comments: author: Kapil Bolli
body: Hi Charles,

It is working .

Thanks

Kapil


Tags: confluence-administration
Can't save modified confluence page
Asked by linqiang:

Recently My colleages complains confluence's page save modified function.

it always prompt like below, can someone tell me what should i do?![](../../upfiles/save_Errors.bmp)


Answers:
author: linqiang
body: i try to translate it below:

--fatal error below:

because of incomplete of security validation, it can't continue the request. please resubmit the form or refresh the page.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Any way you could translate that message for us? That page looks like it has an empty title. Ensure that all pages have a title before saving, otherwise you will not be able to save the page.

As for quick tests, try enabling safe mode and see if the trouble persists.

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Disabling+and+Enabling+Add-ons#DisablingandEnablingAdd-ons-Disablingorenablingalladd-ons(usingSafeMode](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Disabling+and+Enabling+Add-ons#DisablingandEnablingAdd-ons-Disablingorenablingalladd-ons%28usingSafeMode))
Confluence 5.3 Search Bar Rendering issue
Asked by Richard Scorgie:

Ok, no reasonable way to insert an image, I'll try to describe it then.

The search field and the selection dropdown (SharePoint\&Confluence, Confluence Only) render stacked on each other, ruining the interface.

Instead of looking like \[SharePoint\&Confluence\]\\/ \[Search\] it renders like

\[SharePoint\&Confluence\]\\/

\[Search\]


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Richard,

There are a number of reasons that this issue could be occurring and you didn't actually mention much about how you have this configured so I think the best thing would be if you open a ticket with Support, including a screenshot of the issue and your logs, then we can investigate the problem for you and hopefully find a solution. You can open a ticket in our support JIRA here: <https://support.atlassian.com>

All the best,  
John


Tags: search
extremely long rendering time for powerpoint using the "office powerpoint macro".
Asked by Mark Bockstael:

We're facing an extremely long rendering time when trying to show a ppt of about 50 slides (550kb filesize) using the "office powerpoint macro".  
Is there a limit to how many slides a ppt/pptx can have?  
(Win7, IE9, Confluence 5.1.2)


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Mark,

There is not a limit, however, there are known isues with the rendering of certain fonts and image effects. The powerpoint rendering relies on a few different components so ensure that your office connector add-on is up to date and try updating the jdk you're running against. You may have luck with increasing the memory allocated to Confluence as well:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Fix+Out+of+Memory+Errors+by+Increasing+Available+Memory>

I've experienced some issues with customers using Confluence 5.1.2 and the office connector rendering ppts. Their issues were resolved by upgrading to Confluence 5.3.1 which has the latest version of the office connector. I would suggest testing an upgrade in a staged environment and see if your ppts have better success when rendering.

comments: author: Mark Bockstael
body: Hi Ryan,

thanks for looking into the issue!

it turns out that on one of the slides of the ppt, there is a type of arrow-image that seems to cause the problem. After changing these, rendering is a lot better.

Upgrading Confluence is, although very tempting (:-)) not an immediate option in our company setup.


Tags: ms-powerpoint
HipChat Bitbucket Connector - How do I configure it?
Asked by Brian Braatz:

I have a stand alone server, the addin installed fine etc.. But where do I go to tell it which spaces and where do I go to give it my Hip Chat room and config?

I am very confused- hit google and looked at the blog post, and havent figured this out yet..


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: Are you talking Bitbucket-\> Hipchat or Confluence-\> Hipchat? (Tags and title and text aren't matching up :) ).

**Bitbucket-\>Hipchat**

<http://help.hipchat.com/knowledgebase/articles/65271-bitbucket-integration><https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Use+the+HipChat+Connector>

**Confluence-\>Hipchat**

You need to add the Hipchat admin token in first (in the General administration area of Confluence - you should see a Hipchat configuration entry)

Once that's been done - in the individual space under space administration - there's a Hipchat administration entry.


author: Brian Braatz
body: Ah Perfect! That worked... thank you very much!


Tags: confluence-administration