youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Sharepoint Connector Authentication Question
Asked by Paul Coppola:

I would like to use the Confluence Sharepoint Connector 1.8.2 with Sharepoint 2013. According to the configuration flowchart on [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Planning+your+Environment+with+SP+2013)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Planning+your+Environment+with+SP+2013>, we should use NTLM because Confluence is not running on Windows and our corporate policy allows NTLM. However, the NTLM document link "Access SharePoint using [Integrated Windows Authentication](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/Ho4CDQ) (NTLM only)" says it applies to Sharepoint 2010 (not 2013) and has a caveat that our "top level site" must specify NTLM as the authentication method, not Kerberos. Does this still apply to Sharepoint 2013? Asking because all of our Sharepoint webapps may soon be set to use Kerberos and it looks like the other authentication method (Basic Authentication and SSL) precludes Kerberos also. Am I out of luck unless we put Confluence itself on Windows?


Answers:
author: Paul Coppola
body: We have not embedded any Confluence public spaces that I know of


author: David Doucette
body: Do you have any Confluence public spaces (available to anonymous users) that you embed in SharePoint? We haven't implemented yet and we are wondering how that will act for non-Confluence users in SharePoint and Confluence users who are logged into SharePoint.


author: Paul Coppola
body: We have certain site collections in our legacy SharePoint 2007 and our SharePoint 2013 that are permitted to connect to Confluence, so users can logon to Sharepoint and see data from Confluence or vice-versa, no need to logon to both products. I looked into the SharePoint Online integration last year and at that time Atlassian did not have an offering for that, possible this has changed for 2016...


author: David Doucette
body: Thanks Paul. Does that mean your SharePoint online users and your Confluence on premises users need to login separately to both applications? Does the SharePoint Connector work with the SharePoint online product?


author: Paul Coppola
body: David, this became moot for us since we migrated most of our sites to Sharepoint Online and the remaining Sharepoint 2013 on-prem webapps/sites remained NTLM for the most part. For what its worth, the connector worked fine on those NTLM sites. Last I checked there was no connector for Sharepoint Online however, so we still have the same problem in a different place...


author: David Doucette
body: Hi Paul,

Did you get an answer on this? Or have you found a way to use Confluence on Linux with Kerberos for your SharePoint integration?


author: Paul Coppola
body: I have submitted this question as a support request to Atlassian today.


Tags: sharepoint
Can't save page because of error
Asked by Lyubov Alekseyeva:

Good evening!

I can't save page in Confluence OnDemand after adding tabel rows, text or attachments. It happens in only one space, in others everything's ok.

This message appears when I try to save the space:

"Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page."

Please help me fix it.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Lyubov Alekseyeva
body: Problem fixed: when I deleted a lot of information from page and saved it without troubles


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi there!

I could find in [an answer](/questions/154885/required-security-token) that this kind of issue is highly probable to be a browser issue.

Try to flush the browser cache or use a different browser. Also, this might be a bug related to the linking plugin as stated in the answer above.

[](https://greenhouse.customware.net/jira/browse/LINK-214)<https://greenhouse.customware.net/jira/browse/LINK-214>

regards,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Lyubov Alekseyeva
body: I've tried to go the link below and this message appears "This site is currently undergoing maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience." And change the browser doesn't helps.

I need to solve my problem now, it really affects on my working process.

What else can I do?


author: Lyubov Alekseyeva
body: I've tried to go the link below and this message appears "This site is currently undergoing maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience." And change the browser doesn't helps.

I need to solve my problem now, it really affects on my working process.

What else can I do?


author: Lyubov Alekseyeva
body: Please, answer on my last question. That problem really affects my work!


Tags: confluence-cloud

cloud

required-field

security

token
templates, older version of confluence?
Asked by fiona hanington:

is it possible to use templates with version 2.10.3 of confluence?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, templates are a very early feature of Confluence, although, with 2.10, you are, of course, \*way\* behind in functionality.

Not surprisingly, there are documents - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF210/Working+with+Templates+Overview>


author: fiona hanington
body: thanks!
Automatically changing link texts possible?
Asked by Christian Wei?:

Hi,  

let's say I have two pages called "My Sample Requirement" and "Page B".

On "Page B" I'm creating a link to "My Sample Requirement" with the link text "My Sample Requirement". (so it's the same as the title)  

Now I'm changing the page name of "My Sample Requirement" to "Some Other Name".  

The link on "Page B" still works and points to "Some Other Name", however the link text still is "My Sample Requirement".  

Is there a way to have a "dynamic" link text which automatically changes when the underlying page title changes?  

In a perfect world, I would think this even further and would love to have a way to use a "page property" as the link text. So it would be great if you could choose between "Custom Link Text", "Page Title" and "Page Property: xyz" as the link text.  

Some background on why this would be interesting:  

We want to use Confluence as a requirements tool where every requirement is a page. The page title is a short identifier and the page also has a page property called "User Story" which explains the requirement in one sentence.  

We are sometimes linking to those requirements based on the title and sometimes based on the "User Story" property. However, since those fields change quite often during specification time, it's hard to always manually change the incoming links as well.  

thanks in advance for your help and best regards,  

christian


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: It actually already does this. When you create the link just go to the link button and search for the page and let it populate the name. If you override the text of the link then it will use your override. However, if you let it populate the link text then it will change if you change the page name. I'm on version 5.1.3. I'm not sure what happens before 5.x, but at least in my version it already does what you are asking.

comments: author: Christian Wei?
body: hmm... yes, you are right. after trying it again it worked as expected. I must have made some mistake the first time. :-(

but a way for binding the link text to a page property doesn't exist, does it?!?

Davin, thanks for your time!

best regards


author: Davin Studer
body: Nope ... no page property ability.


author: Patrick_Vanhoof
body: Is the same thing possible with links to anchors?
Changing Base URL for OnDemand Confluence
Asked by Shawn Hill:

I have an on demand setup of confluence which has been used for testing which is aiming to go live now that the initial development is complete. Does anyone have any idea how to get this done? Can I log an issue with support (as this config option is disabled in the on-demand version)


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hello Shawn,

We have a page with all steps to accomplish this. In a summary, you'll have to migrate to a new instance with the new base URL.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ONDEMANDKB/Changing+the+OnDemand+instance+URL+address)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ONDEMANDKB/Changing+the+OnDemand+instance+URL+address>

I hope this helps!

Regards,

Rodrigo


author: Shawn Hill
body: Thanks - worked perfectly!

comments: author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Thanks for the feedback :)

Cheers!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

url
Confluence: How to do a content classification into public internal or confidential?
Asked by Stefan Baader:

In enterprises the intranet content is usually to be classified into categories like internal or confidential. Inside one Wiki installation there are spaces with anonymous access (used by every employee of the enterprise) which are best classified as "internal" and there are restricted spaces for closed usergroups which are best classified as "confidential". How to solve this with Confluence? The requirement is that the classification has to be "tagged" on every page, watched or printed. The best pragmatic solution could be to write the classification into the theme template or on top and bottom of the content, depending on its accessibility. So anonymous content should be tagged as "internal" and restricted content should be tagged as "confidential".

Is this possible in Confluence?

Cheers

Stefan


Answers:
author: Gaj Umapathy
body: Compliance for Confluence is an add-on that will allow you to do this.


author: Akanksha Phadnis
body: Hi,

Is there a way to do the classification?

Thanks

comments: author: Juris Bergmanis
body: Hi, you can use following add-on to classified your pages .

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219076/page-classification-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219076/page-classification-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)


Tags: content

permission
bottom links(attachments, labels, watch etc..) have been dissappeared
Asked by chowdary evk:

In editor the bottom links(attachments, labels, watch etc..) have been dissappeared after the zen installation. Can some please let me know how to resolve this problem.

I have not installed Scafolding plugin or any of the third party plugins. I just installed Confluence and zen only but still the editor bottom links are not appearing, if we disable zen then these are working fine.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: This sounds to me like a question for Zen tech support.


Tags: community

zendesk
Is it possible to run Confluence without JIRA?
Asked by Polly Thompson:

Is it possible to use Confluence without JIRA? I am a Project Mgr interested in the benefits of using Confluence, but the developers/QA, etc. are not quite sold on implementing JIRA. So I am wondering if it is 1) technically feasible to run Confluence on its own, and 2) if there is value with running Confluence on its own (without all the benefits of integration with JIRA)?

Thanks for any help.


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: As Nic says : it's perfectly doable.

But I'm suprised about the reaction of your developers/QA on JIRA. In most cases it's the developers that want to use JIRA and Confluence. What are their arguments against using it?

I always want to learn something new :) .

Best regards,

Peter


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Absolutely. The two applications are totally separate (but play nicely together if you do decide to integrate them)

They do two different things. If you've a space for a wiki type application in your organisation, then Confluence is worth a look. In fact, it's integration with Jira is only a minor selling point for it.


Tags: project-management
Can the comment editor in Confluence be loaded lazily?
Asked by MartinS:

On [](https://confluence.atlassian.com,)<https://confluence.atlassian.com>, the comment Editor is not loaded on page load (like it is in "Download" Confluence installations), but only after clicking "Add Comment". This reloads the page with the parameters "showComments=true\&showCommentArea=true", in which case the editor is loaded. This probably keeps some load off the server if you do not have a lot of commenters.

Can I have that in the download version of Confluence installation, too?


Answers:
author: Tim
body: Yes, you can disable "Confluence Quick Edit Plugin" from System-Add-Ons.

comments: author: MartinS
body: This leaves the "Quote in comment" link visible when marking content on a page - which does not work with the quick edit plugin disabled. Any way to make that work, or, disable the "Quote in comment" link?


author: MartinS
body: Found it myself, disabling the "Quote in comment(quote-comment)" module in the "Page Highlight Actions" plugin removes the button.


Tags: confluence-administration

performance
Copy space template (blueprint personalization too)
Asked by Fabrizio Galletti:

We are creating different type of spaces, and in these space we made some template personalization (to blueprint too)

is there a way to copy the space and all personalization?


Answers:
author: JONATHAN BOHLMANN
body: Did you ever get a response on this? We are looking for the same functionality now that CopySpace does not work in 5.9


Tags: content
how to remove the 'allow sharing' check box in the edit blog mode in confluence ?
Asked by Karl Daly:

hi Guys,

I want to remove the allow sharing check box (in the edit blog mode), which when checked shares content on**facebook, twitter and google sharing,** this is an option that my organisation does not want for security reasons. Just not clicking the check box is not a valid option we want to remove altogether. Can anybody help me with this ? I've provided a screen shot below of the check-box.

Thanks in advance,

Karl

![](../../upfiles/blog.PNG)


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Karl,

You can use [Firebug](http://getfirebug.com/) *inspect element* or any other browserdeveloper tool as means to get to the element name for that checkbox.

Later, please refer to our [styling guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS#StylingConfluencewithCSS-GettingStarted) and add {display:none; visibility:hidden;} next to the element/container name.

Hope this helps you to get started with such task!

comments: author: Karl Daly
body: thanks Guilherme,

Is it the same if the blog is part of refined wiki ?

spaces/refinedwiki/edit-blog.action


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: I'm not sure, but maybe this plugin could help you without disabling the feature:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.extra.noemailstorm>


author: Karl Daly
body: Hello

This is a solution that worked for me , just removed the check box .

i added this code to Confluence admin \> look and feel \> stylesheet

```
#rw_form_allowSharing
```

```
{
```

```
display:none;
```

**}**

(Note that the title and help text will still be there)

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


Tags: blog

confluence-administration
Confluence upgrade failure
Asked by Sharath R:

Hi Team,

I tried upgrading Confluence fron 5.1.3 to 5.4.1. When upgrade was complete, i opened the confluence site and i found this error " *Build version* *number in application server is different from the build version number in database*".

After searching through the KB i found this link [https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+will+not+start+up+because+the+build+number+in+the+home+directory+doesn%27t+match+the+build+number+in+the+database,+after+upgrade](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+will+not+start+up+because+the+build+number+in+the+home+directory+doesn%2527t+match+the+build+number+in+the+database%2C+after+upgrade)

and tried the resolution, but still i am facing the same error. Please help me out with this.


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hi Sharath,

That usually happens when you had a failed upgrade attempt and then you try to upgrade again without restoring your Confluence to a state prior the first attempt.

It's possible for you to restore the application directories and the database to macht with Confluence in version 5.1.3?

If it is, after that is done try to upgrade again and see what kind of error you get.

Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: Sharath R
body: Hi Deividi,

I upgraded the confluence from 5.1.3 to 5.4.1 then i got tis error, i restored the database from the previous night's backup. Then i downgraded the confluence from 5.4.1 to 5.1.3 successfully.   

After a week i tried to update again, still i am getting the same error. So had to backout to 5.1.3 only.


Tags: confluence-administration
Insert Jira issue macro returns an HTTP 500 error when IP patterns are added to the application link.
Asked by Matthew Pyle:

Hi, I'm trying to configure the application links after a Confluence (5.1.5) and Jira (6.0.8) upgrade. In the past we used both URL and IP patterns on the outgoing authentication tab of the application links to restrict access. Now, I'm able to configure URL patterns but as soon as I add IP patterns the macro returns an HTTP 500 error.

Our configuration is both Jira and Confluence on the same server with IIS ARR in front of them to provide SSL. I've followed the information in the link below and no matter how I configure the URL's it still returns an error. All I have to do to make it work is remove the IP Pattern.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Trusted+applications+functions+not+working+though+applink+is+created)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Trusted+applications+functions+not+working+though+applink+is+created>

Any assistance anyone could provide on this issue would be appriciated. Thanks!


Answers:
author: splitworks
body: Did you find any solution?


Tags: confluence-administration
Integrity of links when Confluence pages are moved
Asked by Lisa Carcia:

If I paste a link to a Confluence page into an external location (e.g. a Word doc stored outside of Confluence), and later I move that Confluence page to a different parent in the same space, will the link I pasted into the external location still work?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: It depends on how the link is structured. Each page has a couple ways to structure the URL you could have a link that looks like this ...  

<http://wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9699743>

or this

[http://wiki/display/{spacekey}/Policies+Procedures](http://wiki/display/%7Bspacekey%7D/Policies+Procedures)

The first type of link will reference the page based on the internal id in the database. That link does not change. The second type references the page based on the title. The first one won't change but it is ugly. The second could change if you change the page title, but it is a pretty link. Techincally, there is a third way as well. Each page has a tiny link that woud look like ...

<http://wiki/x/h4Bj>

The tiny link also doesn't change when you change the page title.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Simply changing the parent page will not change the link for any of these cases. It only changes if you change the title for the second case.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I've found that when I copy/paste a link, it becomes static. Try to avoid adding links in that way.


author: Lisa Carcia
body: Thank you, Davin. I tested it and it worked the way you described (although I only see the second type of link and the tiny link under the "Link to this page" option, not the first type of link you mention).

I think the tiny link will be the safest choice for my needs. Thanks again!

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Ther first type of link you will mostly see crop up when a page title has a special character that would not work will in a browser url bar. Really, if you know the id of any page you could craft a link to that page by simply changing the number, but mostly you will just see it if the system doesn't like the page title much.


Tags: link
"Page Not Found" in "Edit" after migrating data from Confluence 4.2 to 5.2
Asked by Winnie Wang:

I installed Confluence 5.2 and restored xml backup from our original installation Confluence 4.2, it seems that the Content was restored except for one Blog that shows "Page Not Found", i already removed all customizations (deleting all rows from Decorator table). Some of the pages are highly customized yet they appear to be fine in the new version. Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Winnie,

Since you have an xml backup from 4.2, you'll need to import in another Confluence 4.2.

Just then you may upgrade to 5.0.3 and 5.2 respectively.
How do I get the mockup links working on exported pdf from confluence
Asked by cbenoist:

Hey,

When I link Balsamiq mockup together (<http://support.balsamiq.com/customer/portal/articles/111742>), it is working on the confluence pages but not in the exported pdf ("Tools/Export to PDF" from the confluence page).

This is working when I export a pdf from the balsamiq desktop version.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Salvatore "Sax" Cammarata
body: Hi Christophe,

You are right, at the moment the PDF exported from a Confluence page does not include the links.

We are currently working on introducing the project model to our Atlassian plugins (the same model we are using in our web application, myBalsamiq, and in our Google Drive plugin). This will allow you, among many other features, to export all the mockups that are part of the same page/project in a single PDF.

At the moment, we have no ETA yet, but we are working are to release the new version in the next future.

My best,  
Sax

comments: author: Alan Sigus
body: Hi Salvatore!  
Any chance to give somekind of ETA by now? Would really love to see PDF functionality in Confluence Balsamiq :)

thanks,  
Alan


author: Salvatore "Sax" Cammarata
body: Hi Alan,

We are working hard in that direction but still no ETA is defined.

Sorry to not be able to be more precise and thanks for giving us your precious feedback.


author: cbenoist
body: Thanks!


Tags: addon-com.balsamiq.confluence.plugins.mockups

confluence-administration
Development users count towards license?
Asked by Alex Yasurek:

Hi,We have both a hosted version of Confluence and development version we use for testing. We recently copied over everything in production to our development instance to test some stuff but it copied over all the users in had also. I was wondering if these users also count towards our license we have for our production instance? Say we have a license for 500 users, if we have 100 on production and 100 on development, does that mean we have 200 users counting towards our license?Side note: no one uses the development version but developers and people testing so I just want to know if there is a need to go and delete all those users from our development instance or if I can just leave it for now.Thanks


Answers:
author: Patrice Rompas
body: Hi Alex  

Confluence counts all users with 'can use' global permission but ignore those deactivated user which means Confluence will count 200 active users which belong to the same license (see [documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Reducing+the+User+Count+for+your+Confluence+License)) You could deactivate/disable those users from the development instance in order to reduce the license count.

Alternatively, you may use [Developer License](https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing#licensing-9) for your development instance in case you need to keep those users. (see article on [How to get Confluence Developer License](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+get+a+Confluence+developer+license))  

Cheers,  
Samuel