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using the meeting notes blueprint fails
Asked by Thomas Schubert:

Confluence 5.1.4 on

Firefox 24.2.0,

IE 8

SRWare Iron 27.0.1500.0

---  

Hi today I started 1st time with the meeting notes blueprint. After watching Atlassians video on Youtube I know what should go and how it should work.

But with the above mentioned confl-Version and browsers it mostly fails.

What goes wrong:

I am in page edit mode in a page made out of the blueprint "meeting notes"and if I want to use the grey preformatted objects (e.g. in the Discussion Items table \> row Who \> object "**Name**" they vanish and are just overwritten by the text I type. There is no automatic replacement by a confluence persons name as seen in the above mentioned video.

I tried that in Firefox and IE - it does not work at all. Only in SRWare Iron (this browser is based on Googles Chrome) it works in the Attendees section for the "@mention a person, ..." object. But for the other objects it does not work - they are always overwritten by the text I type.

How can I repair that?

Thanks,

Thomas


Answers:
author: Thomas Schubert
body: Seems I misunderstood the functionality completely!

The grey objects except the ones beginning with "@" are to be overwritten - they only give you a hint what to write down there. The ones beginning with @ tell you, that you may type in an @ followed by the first letters of a persons name. On typing so, Confluence offers you a list with persons, that you may click on. So you get the persons into and connected to that page.

Anny other ideas?

Rgds, Thomas


Tags: confluence-administration
Ondemand using own domain/sub domain
Asked by Vanraj Dav:

Our current ondemand url is something link below.

https://\<ourid\>.atlassian.net

Instead, can I use our own domain/sub domain here? ie.

https://wiki.\<companyname\>.com


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Vanraj,

AFAIK, this is currently not possible due to this: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/UNIFIED-51)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/UNIFIED-51>

I suggest to vote and watch the improvement to increase the chance to be implemented in the future, but I believe it will take some years to do that.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

domain

subdomain
How many blog watchers in my Confluence space?
Asked by Jorge:

is there a way to get a report/list of users who are watching a particualr space?

Some good comments here [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Watchers?replyToComment=280694094&#comment-280694094)[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Watchers?replyToComment=280694094\&#comment-280694094](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Watchers?replyToComment=280694094&#comment-280694094), but no response from Atlassian yet.

Thanks!!


Answers:
author: Artem Grotskyi
body: Hi Jorge,  

even though five years passed since you posted your question Atlassian still didn't provide a convenient way to get that information.  
The only way to get that information is to run an SQL query:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-get-a-list-of-users-that-has-subscribe-to-all-blog-posts-option-checked-967338946.html>

That's a shame that so useful and as for me, easy to add function not implemented yet.

Hopefully, it helps.  

Thanks,  
Artem


author: Manuela Raschke
body: You can use the Contributors Macro ([](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Contributors+Macro)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Contributors+Macro>) to show who is watching a page, a blog or a space.

Greetings

comments: author: Jorge
body: Sorry, that didn't help :(

It will only show those that are watching a page or a specific blogpost. Not those who are watching/following for new blogposts.


author: Manuela Raschke
body: I am not sure whether thats possible at all.

Users can receive notifications about all new posts, but you can't track that.

Users can have an rss about new posts, but you can't track that either.

But as a user you can watch the page where blogs (e.g. with the blogpost-macro) are listed. But in that case the user does not get a notification when a new post is listed.

Does anybody have a better solution?


Tags: blog

confluence-administration

watcher
The Create button is missing from the TOP navigation bar
Asked by Andrei_K?rkk?nen:

The Create button disappeared from all spaces. All I see is Browse button.  

How to solve this problem ?


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: In Cloud the create button is a plus sign now:

![create.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/27758i1088774E303C3B92/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "create.png")

comments: author: Evie Sun
body: Thanks a lot. Found it.


author: Lowell20
body: Really? I checked several threads for an answer and even ran some db queries to find no solutions.

Then found my trial account had expired, updated my account, and the Create button re-appears.

CHECK YOUR ACCOUNT STATUS before changing any other config settings, etc


author: Deividi Luvison
body: If you are logged as administrator and the button is not showing up my advice is that you raise a ticket for our OnDemand support team so they can validate this.

Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support


author: Evie Sun
body: Can't find the Create button either. It used to be there. Logged in as site admin.


author: Anuradha Karunaratne
body: I faced same issue. In my case this is connected to expired licence (as correctly mentioned by @Lowell Johnson)

Better to check the licence before do any configuration changes.


author: Andrei_K?rkk?nen
body: I logged in as administrator and have all permissions.


author: Martin Box
body: Are you an instance administrator?

Sounds as if the Add permission has been removed from the pages section, within the space permissions.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Associating Versions in Confluence
Asked by Anna Brounstein:

Hello! In Jira, you have a version which is associated with certain issues. I am interested in something similar in Confluence, where you have a Product Version that can be associated with specific versions of a document (technical doc, test procedure, schematic, etc.). Is this possible?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Anna,

<br />

<br />

Yes there are. Ussually the documentation that you find from the google is for the latest version version of Confluence. Their URL look something like this.  

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Documentation+Home)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Documentation+Home>  

Noticed the DOC in the URL, this means it is the documentation for the latest version of Confluence.

<br />

You easily access documentation for other major version of Conlufnece by replac the DOC with something like CONF43.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Confluence+Documentation+Home)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Confluence+Documentation+Home>  
This is the documentation for the Confluence version 4.3

Hope this helps!

<br />

Regards,  
Jing Hwa

comments: author: Anna Brounstein
body: You're right, this is the exact functionality I want! The problem is, I am a unsure how to implement it.


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Anna,

<br />

You can make create documentation and separate each version to a different space. The CONF43 in the URL example is basicly the spacekey for the space.   

Also make use of the label in the pages to identify the type of the documentation.

<br />

Hope this suggestion help!  

Regards,  
Jing Hwa


author: Anna Brounstein
body: Interesting use of spaces. That makes a lot of sense, I just didn't invision using them that way. Thanks for your help!


author: Anna Brounstein
body: Well, I have another question. Is it best to acheive this by copying the space entirely or to simply copy the pages of interest? Is it possible to copy spaces in Atlassian or is the [Copy Space Plugin](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Copy+or+Rename+a+Space+in+Confluence "Copy Space Plugin") still our only choice? How does Atlassian do this for their different versions? Thanks!


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Anna,

<br />

<br />

Copy space plugin is the easiest way to copy your space however you can copy your space as well by replacing the spacekey in the entities.xml of your space xml backup.

Regards,  
Jing Hwa


author: Anna Brounstein
body: Hi! I'm sorry to open this again! We have another question regarding this. We want to know if it is possible to selectively copy pages and other objects (eg. attachments) that have a certain label. Is there a way to do that? Thanks.
New users not receiving creation notices
Asked by Peter K:

I'm experiencing a strange problem wherein when users are first created in the User Management panel no e-mail is being sent out to the new user notifying them (with a temporary password and link). This only happens with one account, however a different account with the same permissions and access isn't experiencing the problem. Has anyone else seen this before?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Peter,

You've mentioned that this is happening with just one account. But if this is happening also with new users, I would check on the logs for something thrown on the logs at the same time window when you've created the user.

A Warning or an Error message would help us to see if the application is having any problem.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Peter,

Have you ckecked to see that the Mail Que is being properly flushed?

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/The+Mail+Queue)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/The+Mail+Queue>

comments: author: Peter K
body: They're not getting trapped in the Mail queue.


author: Mauro Badii
body: Maybe the email goes to spam, maybe the email is misspelled, maybe the server receiving the emails consider it spam and blocks it or rejects it, or maybe the server is not sending that particular email for another configuration reason.

If you feel that it needs investigation, feel free to create a support request at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) indicating which email address is having problems and deailing the steps.

Cheers!  
Mauro

comments: author: Peter K
body: The mail isn't going to spam, nor is it being misspelled. Addresses are being copy/pasted out of the mail client. It's not a mail server problem either. The issue is that when one administrator account creates a user, that user receives a notice as normal, and when a different account tries the same action (creating a user) no notification is sent.


author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Peter,

Have you created a support request at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)?

When a user is created the email is sent by Jira, not by the user, so there is no difference on who creates the user. The email should go out the same way on both times unless the Send Notification Email box is unticked.

Jira sends the email to an email delivery server that accepts the message or rejects it because of several reasons. If it accepts the message, it may still filter it as spam, an it might happen to just some of the emails depending on how frequent emails are received. So it might only allow x emails per minute for example.

Do both users have the same domain? If they don't, one server might be rejecting the emails and the other one is not.

Have you done the test to create the same user with the same email with both admins to confirm that only users created by one admin get sent?

It is not something easy to resolve because there are many factors in play. Feel free to create a support request to get personalised assistance on this one.

Cheers, :)  
Mauro


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a way to use Confluence for shared reviews
Asked by jopakent:

We use Adobe's shared review to gather comments and questions on documents. Acrobat needs a location on which it can store the PDF that is being commented on.

I'm hoping there is some means of uploading a PDF that is configured for shared review.

Brand new Confluence user, so apologies if I'm totally missing the mark.

Regards,

**JPK**


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: My suggestion is to create a Confluence page and using inline comments and comments you can review a page like a pdf. Keep in mind that page will maintain history and it could be exported in word or pdf format.

Hope this helps,

Fabio


author: Eric Pabst
body: The kind of shared review I'd really like is like github's pull request. It allows comments on the pull request, updating the pull request with additional changes, and then anyone can accept the change.
Confluence Team Calendar Does Not Scroll
Asked by Daniel Geske:

We're using Confluence Team Calendars OnDemand. On a MacBook Pro 13", the add/edit event modal top and bottom are cut off, so that we cannot see the OK/Cancel buttons.

Should I raise a bug?

Zoomed to 100%.  
Safari on OSX Mavericks.

![](../../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2014-03-12_at_3.29.13_PM.png)


Answers:
author: Daniel Geske
body: This is a confirmed problem. The bug is tracked in [TEAMCAL-2207](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-2207).

[Suggested workaround](https://support.atlassian.com/browse/JST-92759) by Bruno from Atlassian Support:
> Meanwhile, users should be able to press "Command" then hit the "-" button to workaround this problem. This will zoom out the page, making the buttons on the event window appear.

Thanks Bruno and William, for staying on top of this.

comments: author: MadelineBarr
body: Great to see we are not the only ones with this problem.

We just upgraded to Confluence 5.4.4 with Team Calendar 4.2.4 and we are getting a number of complaints about this as well.

We have a lot of people using laptops with Windows 7.

Looking forward to a resolution.


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

I use a MacBook Pro 13" and I don't have this problem. It could be related with the resolution that you're using. Try to press "Command" then scroll down, it should reduce the zoom on it.  

Cheers,  
WZ  

comments: author: Daniel Geske
body: That doesn't fix it, see updated issue description. I also attached a screen grab to illustrate the issue (details removed for privacy).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I delete the "created by and last modified by" wording at the top of a page?
Asked by Gan Admin:

How can I delete the "created by and last modified by" wording at the top of a page?


Answers:
author: salehparsa
body: Hi Gan,

If you need to remove the "Created by" and "last modified" from top of the page, you should use the custom stylesheet.

You can take a look at [this](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS)for more information about Confluence customization.

I tried following code on my **Space Tools \> Look and Feel \> Stylesheet** , to remove metadata from top of the page in one specific space.

```
.page-metadata-modification-info{display: none !important;}
```

I would also recommend you to take check ["How to Hide Elements in Confluence Using CSS or JavaScript"](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Hide+Elements+in+Confluence+Using+CSS+or+JavaScript) for more information.

Let me know if you have any other questions,

Cheers,

Saleh


author: E.L. Fridge
body: FYI the proposed fix will only hide the names. You can still easily see them when viewing the source. Still, this may be enough to keep nosy people from viewing the names. To really keep them from getting there in the first place you'd have to edit the appropriate velocity template.

Does anyone have an idea which line in which file to comment out? We had thought about putting a conditional around it so that only logged in users would see this line.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can't, if you really do mean "answers", because you don't have a access to the code. If you mean one of the other atlassian systems, then it is a code change, but you will need to tell us which one for more help.

comments: author: Gan Admin
body: Thank you for your response. I working on a Confluence page.
How do I hook in JIRA authentication with Confluence?
Asked by chris:

I have JIRA and Confluence On-Demand products and I'd like to be able to integrate the two so that Confluence displays as a link in Jira. I'd also like to use JIRA to authenticate with Confluence since the users are the same.


Answers:
author: chris
body: Ok, that makes sense. I have JIRA but I'm only doing a trial option with Confluence. I assume once I purchase a license for Confluence it should be seamless or is there another step that is required?


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Chris,

As far as I know, if you have confluence and jira on on-demand, they should be appearing in the dashboard. If you have both in the same box, then the option to go to one application to the other should be appearing in the header of the page. If not, I suggest to get in touch with the ondemand support team.

I hope this helps.

Rodrigo
disable notify watchers by default in confluence 5.4 on demand?
Asked by Rutger Buijzen:

how can I disable notify watchers by default in confluence 5.4 on demand? tx


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi!

I could find this [improvement request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22070) which was closed as won't fix. There was a workaround that worked until version 5 but it's not working in the newer versions. That workaround involves some coding and customization and ondemand environments are restricted on that matter.

I believe this won't be possible on the future but you may want to reach the developers in the improvement request anyway.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
template options for Confluence... best option for moderately complex documents?
Asked by Tom Boduch:

I need to support the eventual generation of PDF documents from Confluence content that must follow a prescribed format. This is for system development life cycle documents: requirements, architecture decisions, designs etc.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Tom,

Any document you create in Confluence will be able to be exported to PDF.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+PDF)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+PDF>

The idea behind Confluence blueprints is that they contain operational best practices for creating documents.

[](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/03/confluence-blueprints-collaboration-best-practices/)<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/03/confluence-blueprints-collaboration-best-practices/>

You can roll your own blueprints to present custom documentation types specfic t oyour organization, or purchase blueprint packs from the Atlassian Marketplace.

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/home/confluence)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/home/confluence>


author: Tom Boduch
body: Brilliant!

So with a custom blueprint, can I specify "sections" of content that are mandatory, others that are optional etc? Would the content that is created via said blueprint live in one page or can it span pages? I'm thinking in terms of navigability if a piece were to span say, 100 printed pages.


Tags: forms

template
Ideation blueprint : add mobile support
Asked by St?phane Genin:

Hi

I'm evaluating Ideation blueprint. It works pretty well on the desktop interface. However, it doesn't display properly when used via a mobile device (iPad, android, ...).

Do you plan to add mobile support?

Thanks

St?phane


Answers:
author: Anis Othman
body: Thanks Daniel, we are already in discussion with St?phane.

Actually, native mobile support for ideation (and others Spectrum blueprints) are ongoing works for next releases.

Please do not hesitate to contact us:

<http://lab.spectrumgroupe.fr/jira/browse/BPIDEA>

<br />


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: St?phane,

The ideation blueprint appears to be from a third party vendor.

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/fr.spectrumgroupe.confluence.plugins.ideation)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/fr.spectrumgroupe.confluence.plugins.ideation>

They may be monitoring Answers, but it is likely that you will get a faster response if you contact them directly.

[](http://www.spectrumgroupe.fr/en/contact-us/)<http://www.spectrumgroupe.fr/en/contact-us/>

Please post back and let the community know anything you find out about mobile support.


Tags: idea
Additional database access on the wiki page
Asked by Ewgenij Sokolovski:

Hello, community. I'm just wondering what the proper way for that would be... The goal is to display a selection form on a confluence page to filter and display entries of a separate custom database table. I want to create a new table in the confluence database like

Harry 30 meat

John 25 vegetables

Jennifer 27 meat

And then I want to create a selection form on the confluence page where I could filter the table for a 25 years old person who likes vegetables :-) And show the results.

I thought about creating a new table in the confluence database, then embed some javascript/php on the confluence web page in question to access the table. Is that the right way? I'm quite new to confluence...

BR

Ewgenij


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hi Ewgenji,

Another idea for that end would be to create a page to store that information and then use something like the [Confluence SQL plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.sql) from Bob swift (which is a third party plugin).

I would avoid creating tables in Confluence database, since that kind of customization could cause some problems during upgrade or data restoration procedures.

Also [this](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Data+Model) page might help you if you decide to play around Confluence database.

Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: Ewgenij Sokolovski
body: Hello, thank you for your answer, what do you mean by "to create a page to store that information"?

BR

Ewgenij


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Ewgenij

I'd just like to amplify David's point. The Confluence SQL macro allow you to query and display data from an external database. Your would add a new datasource to your Confluence instnace in the following manner.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+MySQL+Datasource+in+Apache+Tomcat)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+MySQL+Datasource+in+Apache+Tomcat>

You wouldn't create a paget ostore that information, but an entirely new database. You could then use the SQL macro on a page of your chosing to display your desired information. To my knowledge you can't use a page in confluene as a datasource. I think David is trying to suggest decoupling the Confluence database and the new datasource to avoid problems during upgrade.

comments: author: Ewgenij Sokolovski
body: Hello Daniel, thank you. "Confluence SQL macro" you mean this plugin: [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.sql)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.sql?>Or something else?


author: Ewgenij Sokolovski
body: Do I understand it right, that I'm supposed to use the HTML Macro to embed javascript to a Confluence page? If so, I have to activate HTML Macros for all Confluence pages, and everybody with access to Confluence can put scripts on any page. Is that correct?


Tags: database

javascript

php