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Searching for IP Addresses
Asked by David Mullen:

I have a fresh installation of Confluence -- and I've thrown some pages together for testing. I'm having problems searching for IP addresses... Any tips? or does it just not do that? My hope was that I could search for the first two octets of an IPV4 Address (i.e. 192 168 ) and have it bring up data in pages with 192.168

Thanks in advance,

Dave


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: It is possible ... just not pretty. You can do it with a regex search like below.

```
/.*192[.]168[.]0[.]50.*/
```

comments: author: Karl-Petter ?kesson
body: It does not work very well either. Here is an example from our Confluence. I have navigated to our IP Plan and that page is not one of the 10 pages that comes up in the search. ![Screenshot 2023-11-06 143455.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/290277iFCECC1C34706682D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2023-11-06 143455.png")

Do you know if someone has asked for an improvement or fix on this? Not being able to search for IPs in such a well-known and widely used service as Confluence is surprissing!


author: David Mullen
body: One thing I found was I am able to find IPs by searching for the first two octets like this:  

192.168\*

It won't work to find the last two octets, but it's something! It's cool to know that regex would work, but that'd be a real stretch for some of the people to do each time. Thanks for the suggestion though!

comments: author: Anthony Holden
body: Hi,

I just came across the same issue, although I found I would get a hit if the (full) IP I was searching for didn't have the protocol in front, ie:

192.168.0.1

If the IP is part of a path, ie:

192.168.0.1/index.htm

The search wouldn't find it either.

Thanks for the tips on searching with wildcard and regex though!
Error in Confluence Migration
Asked by Sai Sampath Bharadwaj Garikipati:

I tried to migrate confluence from cloud to server.

I have my backup file from cloud and I tried to choose that file and use upload and restore option.

It is uploading for 86% and after that i am getting a connection error . I tried it trice same happened,


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi Sai,

You may have to provide more details on this issue and some logs. I suggest you contact [atlassian support](https://support.atlassian.com/) so that they can analyze the logs if you still have problems.

Cheers
CVE-2019-3398 impact on client-api jar versions
Asked by Prakash Mehta:

Following CVE's are reported on confluence-rest-client-6.9.3.jar and confluence-java-api-6.14.2.jar by our SCA(Software Composition Analysis) tool :

* CVE-2019-2298
* CVE-2018-20237
* CVE-2019-3395
* CVE-2019-3396

Based on the security advisory(<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-advisory-2019-04-17-968660855.html>) it appears that vulnerability exists only on server components and organizations using cloud version are not impacted. So with that explanations can we assume the above CVE's are false positive reports for confluence-rest-client-6.9.3.jar and confluence-java-api-6.14.2.jar


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Prakash and welcome to the Community!

The information you provided is specific to Confluence Server installs and as you specified are not relevant to Confluence cloud products. The har files you included are also specific to Server installs (note the 6.9.3 and 6.14.2 versions) as the version in the filename reflects that of a Confluence server version.

A follow-up question I would like to ask is, how are you interacting with the listed jar files? It could be possible you're using an Atlassian SDK which includes these files and we want to ensure we're properly addressing your concern.

We look forward to your response to ensure your security concerns are addressed.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Looking for local Confluence integrator for knowledgebase creation
Asked by Susan Hardey:

Hi, looking for any Atlassian and/or 3rd Party Confluence integrator located in DC/MD/VA area for assistance and guidance for creating/establishing a knowledgebase. Looking for standards, best practices and such.


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

Hey Susan, I am sure that one one of the Atlassian Partners will be able to help you with your projects!

You can check all of them here:

***++[Atlassian Partners - Connect with an Atlassian Partner](https://www.atlassian.com/partners)++***

Also, this link here drops you straight into the search interface:

***++[Atlassian Partner Directory](https://partnerdirectory.atlassian.com/?_ga=2.21474360.2032267820.1558966354-79410561.1553795485&_gac=1.11857792.1558642367.EAIaIQobChMI0MajnLuy4gIVQT0MCh3csAllEAAYAiAAEgL71fD_BwE&lang=en-us)++***

Let us hear from you Susan!

comments: author: Susan Hardey
body: thank you for pointing me to this, big help!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I upgrade Confluence from 5.3.1 directly to 6.1.5
Asked by Erich_Villasis:

We are in the process of prepping for a Confluence upgrade. We are currently at 5.3.1 and are going to 6.1.5. I am curious if we can go directly to 6.1.5 using the Upgrade an existing Confluence installation.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Alexis Robert
body: Hi [@Erich_Villasis](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/205444) ,

as you can see in the Upgrade Confluence Page [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/upgrading-confluence-4578.html), any version from 5.x can upgrade directly to 6.x.

Let me know if you have any questions,

--Alexis

comments: author: Erich_Villasis
body: Thanks for the reply
Change colour of Confluence buttons
Asked by Moritz Neuffer:

Dear all,

I try to change to colour of the blue Confluence buttons (e.g.: Save, Create, Publish, etc.) in the global Stylesheet.

Is there an easy way to do so?

In the following thread somebody had a similiar inquiry but unfortunately only the "Create" button was mentioned:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Change-create-from-template-macro-button-color/qaq-p/819195>

Where can I find the CSS to change the other buttons?

<br />

Thanks for you help.

Moritz


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Moritz,

Changing the colors of Confluence buttons can be sometimes straight forward and other times difficult due to the buttons and versions of Confluence you're wanting to do this within. The top Confluence navigation pain is actually controlled by a plugin named "*Confluence Fixed Headers."*The issue being is that some of the buttons are set up in a way that may impact other functions of the navigation menu itself.

With this said, we will be glad to assist with pointing you in the right direction to make these types of changes, we simply need to know the following:

* The version of Confluence you're running.
* Screenshot of the buttons you want to edit.

Once we hear back we'll test a few solutions to help with guidance on changing the coloring of the buttons.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

css

server

stylesheet
What should I use instead of: AbstractBlueprintContextProvider() getSpaceBlueprint() getContext()
Asked by iamgoingtosneeze:

I'm trying to do the right thing and get rid of the warnings in Confluence Server Plugin.

I don't know what to do about these:

**#1: "The constructor AbstractBlueprintContextProvider() is deprecated"**

source code is

public class CustomerSpaceContextProvider extends AbstractBlueprintContextProvider

**#2 "The method getSpaceBlueprint() from the type SpaceBlueprintCreateEvent is deprecated"**

line in source code :

moduleCompleteKeyString = event.getSpaceBlueprint().getModuleCompleteKey().toString();

**#3 The method getBlueprintKey() from the type BlueprintPageCreateEvent is deprecated**

Source code line is:

ModuleCompleteKey moduleCompleteKey = event.getBlueprintKey();  

Some of the above was taken directly from the tutorials.

Any advice on what to do instead would be fantastic.

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Laura,

Thank you for contacting us!

Could you help me to understand exactly what it is you are trying to do? I suspect you might be working on developing a Confluence Server add-on. Is this correct?

If so, I wanted to let you know that this Community is an end-user forum, and so you won't see as many developers here as you would from our [Developer Community](https://community.developer.atlassian.com). If you have questions about developing an add-on, I would recommend you try there.

Let me know if you have any trouble.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: app

atl-dev

confluence-server

server
Confluence upgrade notification
Asked by Hans Vangansbeke:

Hi,

is it possible to get a notification (by mail) whenever a new version of Confluence is released ?

Regards,

Hans


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi [@Hans Vangansbeke](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1127497) ,

I think, you can watch this page:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html>

Every new version will be described there, so you should get a notification then.

comments: author: Hans Vangansbeke
body: Hello Thomas,

thanks for your reply. I am familiar with the provided link.

A few weeks ago I updated to version 6.15.2. I see the latest version is 6.15.4, but I did nog get any notification of this new version.

What am I missing ?

Regards  
Hans


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence Color Scheme
Asked by Thomas Firnschrott:

Hello!

On applying our businesses red-white-gray-black color-scheme I wondered why in new confluence versions there are so many blueish things left.

There are buttons, even headlines, icons, ...

Actually it's quite basic things:  
For example the "edit" button or the icons around in the left bar.

So many things that can only be adressed by CSS ?!  
Shouldn't that color scheme be more universal?

In 6.2 most off those things were gray to fit most color-schemes but the dark blue color now in 6.15 and even the lighter blues like "onclick" seem quite annoying to me.

Am I the only one - or does this bother others, too?  
Yet, is it a bug?

Regards, Thomas


Answers:
author: Thomas Firnschrott
body: A Screenshot:

![confluence-blues.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/56054i9E5D2075331F2338/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluence-blues.png")


author: Thomas Firnschrott
body: My color scheme

![color-scheme.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/56053i33ECE727C97209FE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "color-scheme.png")


Tags: confluence-server

server
JIRA search for JIRA issue/filter macro in Confluence
Asked by Nadia Leclercq:

Hi there,

I am working to create documentation from Confluence using JIRA macro. One of my requirements is as follows:

* Retrieve user story from Project A
  * ID
  * Summary
  * Description
* Retrieve linked issue ONLY from Project B
  * ID only

At the moment, any issue ID from issues linked to the story are surfaced.

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/56048i706097B3FD8B1B92/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

Thanks for your help!

Nadia


Answers:
author: Nadia Leclercq
body: Hi Nadia,

What's the specific question you're asking? Do you need help with the filter?

If so, what version of Jira are you at? If you're above 8.0, see here: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/jira-query-issues-with-linked-issues/qaq-p/426769>

Even that won't give you the ability to do the "Only from Project B" part. If you have JQL tricks or another plugin installed, you can use hasLinks() and potentially exclude all other projects but the one you're trying to include.

comments: author: Nadia Leclercq
body: Great thanks Devin! That is exactly the info I needed.


Tags: jira-software

macro
Confluence and SharePoint?
Asked by Jonathan Smith:

Morning everyone,

I need some honest feedback from this lovely community. For those who utilize both Confluence and SharePoint, when do you use each product?

Would SharePoint only be utilized for document management and Confluence for everything else?

Our company is getting to the point where they want to choose a product, and I just want to make sure I am guiding them down the correct path. I can totally see a hybrid environment, but if we went 100% Confluence, we would experience some pain using FIle Lists vs Document libraries (tagging/metadata/views).

Currently we are licensed for 2000 users so we have a healthy Confluence environment, but we will be licensed for SharePoint via O365 soon...

Thoughts / Suggestions?


Answers:
author: Pete Singleton
body: I have generally used Confluence for documentation which is often changed, or needs to be used in a collaborative way with changes by multiple authors etc. It's also easier to comment on pages and allow people to review.

Generally use Sharepoint for more 'formal' documentation, where version control is important and changes need to be tracked more rigorously, e.g. contractual documentation in Word format.


Tags: confluence-server

server
using and calculating variable on the other page
Asked by Jacob Baek:

Hi everyone,

I am a newbie for confluence. so this question might be a humble question. please understand.

The question is,

I assumed there is a page tree that has A space/B/C, D.

This means B is parent page and C and D pages are child pages.

If B has the 10 integer variable(we call that is $user_count), the user wanna use $user_count that is in B page.

And also calculate $user_count in the B page. for example, the $user_count will be 9 integer variable.

After that, the user makes D page. at the time, the user uses $user_count and the $user_count will be 8 integer.

This is the scenario for using and calculating variable on the other page.

I don't have any idea about this. Please give me some advice.

Just so you know, we are using Confluence 6.15.4.

Thanks in advanced.

Regards

Doun


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there!

So, as I understand Doun you need to Access a Variable Across Pages in Confluence, is that correct?

If it is correct, I need to tell you that this is not available natively in Confluence. You will need to make use of third-party applications, as exposed in this other Community post:

***++[Can I use variables across multiple Confluence pages?](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-I-use-variables-across-multiple-Confluence-pages/qaq-p/455365)++***

The application referenced in this Community post is not available for Confluence Cloud. Doun, in Confluence cloud we are also limited and can not work with variables across pages.

Let us know if this helps you out Doun!

comments: author: Jacob Baek
body: I'm sorry to give you lately response. and Thank you for your comment.

I had thought it is not possible as natively. I gonna check third party app or find workaround.

Thanks again

Regards

Doun


Tags: developer
How to remove special character from article created.
Asked by Dinesh Pawar:

I have created one article in confluence, and by mistake I have added special character "\|" in title.

when I open that article page it does not open that page it gives error

"

This page isn't working {#toc-hId--1436633832}
----------------------------------------------

If the problem continues, contact the site owner.

HTTP ERROR 400"

Now I am unable to delete or edit the article. I believe special character "\|" could be the reason for this.

Help me delete/edit that article.


Answers:
author: Dinesh Pawar
body: This worked perfectly, thank you so much!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's a clunky fix to this. Let's say your Confluence is running on https://myconf/

If you go to https://myconf/pages/resumedraft.action?draftId=46727175 then you will be able to edit the page and remove the special character (which is likely to be the problem, as you have thought). Note that the number is a random one from my Confluence and it is the ID of the page you want to edit.

You often won't know the page ID. To get it, create a new page in the current space, and use the re-order pages function in space admin to move the broken page beneath it.

Now go to "user macros" and create one called something like "child ids", with the output set to none, and the following body code:

    #foreach ($child in $content.children)  
      $child.getIdAsString()
    #end

For later versions of Confluence, you may need

```
#foreach ($child in $content.children)
<p>${child.title}: ${child.id}</p>
#end
```

Add this to the top level new page, and save the page, it will now give you the id of the page to use in the edit url.

comments: author: Dinesh Pawar
body: This worked perfectly, thank you so much!


author: Fayaz Abdul
body: Hi [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454)

Please let me know, how to get all page ids with page names in that space, below i used to get page ids but only getting for child pages of that parent page.

```
## @noparams
#foreach ($child in $content.children)
<p>${child.title}: ${child.id}</p>
#end
```

Thanks,

Fayaz
Send plain-text Emails from confluence
Asked by Florian Seifer:

My companies policy does not allow outlook to display HTML-Emails for security reasons.

Is there a way to force Confluence 6 to send out update emails for subscribed content in plain text?

Thank you all in advance!

**EDIT:**

There is an ongoing feature request for this here:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-36974?_ga=2.190846442.1512250513.1558940717-452964697.1556870183>

I would ask anyone who comes across my question to vote for this feature to be implemented.

In the meantime, has anyone maybe found a workaround for this issue? A plugin maybe or a template hack or some such?


Answers:
author: Pete Singleton
body: I don't believe this is possible, there is an open request here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-36974>

comments: author: Florian Seifer
body: Thank you!

I am watching this feature request now. Though it doenst seem to be of much interest, considering it got 13 votes in 4 years....


Tags: confluence-server

email

server
Is it possible for an admin to have restricted access to billing and other spaces?
Asked by Jade Naylor:

I am currently working with contractors whom I require to be able to modify and configure user access in one confluence space. I would like them to have the ability of adding, configuring and modifying both individual user access and groups for one space. I currently have the contractors setup as trusted users however, their access is limited to just inviting users with no ability to add users to groups.

I understand that this could be resolved by upgraded their access to site admin however, I need to protect our other spaces (projects) and also our billing information. Is there a work around for doing such a thing?

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Jade,

Thank you for contacting us.

Unfortunately your first request for the Space Admin to be able to add users to groups is not possible. Groups are a site-level change, and is unrelated to your spaces. Therefore this is the reason why the Site Admin needs to do it.

On the other hand, modifying permissions for a space can be done by the Space Admin. Once the Site Admin has added the users to the Confluence instance and to their appropriate groups, then the Space Admin can use this information to give them access to a specific space.

For more details see below:

* [Space Permissions Overview](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/space-permissions-overview-724764760.html)
* [Assign Space Permissions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/assign-space-permissions-724764762.html)

I hope that clarifies things, but do let me know if you have any questions about this or need further clarification.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-administration

confluence-cloud
Page template when creating it via WebDAV
Asked by Pavel Chuyko:

Good day.

I create new pages via WebDAV.

This capability is great for my task !

When you create new pages via WebDAV, empty pages are created in Confluence.

How can I configure a specific template to be created ?

My question is similar to this: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-I-define-a-default-template-for-pages-created-from-WebDAV/qaq-p/1061703>


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Pavel,

This is not possible in Confluence, as you can see by the reply I just left on the other thread:
> There was a feature request to be able to specify a default template, but the resolution was to be able to promote templates. This will not work when creating a page using WebDAV, as you can see by the 2nd link.

*
  > [CONFSERVER-3697](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-3697) *Allow default template to be specified*
*
  > [CONFSERVER-35433](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-35433) *Creating a page with WEBDAV in a space with promoted blueprint doesn't work*

As I mentioned to Yves, you can raise this as a feature request from [jira.atlassian.com](https://jira.atlassian.com). If you end up doing that, please feel free to share the link to the request.

Thank you and take care,

Shannon
Where can I find a very beautiful document template?
Asked by 123456as:

Where can I find a very beautiful document template?

I know how to create template on confluence. My questions is the template is not that beautiful. I want to find some example or sample.

So Where can I find a very beautiful document template?


Answers:
author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@123456as](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3257458) ,

There are some excellent template examples in the following articles.

[We want to know what templates you're using in Confluence](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-discussions/We-want-to-know-what-templates-you-re-using-in-Confluence/td-p/742663)

comments: author: 123456as
body: Thanks, I will check it


author: 123456as
body: I need the beautiful page? Somehow?

I have to continue to find out
What causes the content-name-unstemmed weight in Confluence search results?
Asked by Rick van Twillert _TMC_:

Hi,

We are researching what causes some pages to rank higher than others in the Confluence search and noticed that we have a page which doesnt have the following weight in its sum when using the explain.action:

```
13.393457 = (MATCH) weight(content-name-unstemmed:door in 216674) [BM25LSimilarity], result of:
```

If it would have this weight, the page would rank on top. **So the question is, what is content-name-unstemmed and how can we "add" it to a page.**

When looking at what influence the score according to the Atlassian KB article, the page that doesnt have the content-name-unstemmed weight, should rank on top because of it's Document Age, Title, Content and Popularity.

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Rick,

I've read through your very descript needs for added content-name-unstemmed into your pages for advance your search functionality and weight. I wasn't able to find anything which explicitly shows how to use this however, I did find a developer doc which does reference content-name-unstemmed. You can find this documentation at [LuceneContentNameSearcher](https://docs.atlassian.com/DAC/javadoc/confluence/4.0/reference/com/atlassian/confluence/search/contentnames/lucene/LuceneContentNameSearcher.html). Within here there is some explanation about this field.

I hope this reference proves helpful and assists with improving your search results.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers


author: Jon P
body: This is old I know, but I was looking for this info too and recently found this page which refers to: content-name-unstemmed  

<https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/extractor2-module-tutorial/>

which may help. It appears it is normally a variation of the page title:

```
`resultBuilder.add(new TextFieldDescriptor("content-name-unstemmed", page.getTitle(), Store.YES);`?
```

possibly a non-encoded version or similar


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

server