youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Sequence Diagram under Confluence
Asked by Fabr?cioC:

I'm using a evaluation version of sequence diagram from bitvoodoo.

The diagrams does not render and at Admin Page, when I click on Configure, the following error appears:

(Only relevant parts)

System Error:

...

com.atlassian.templaterenderer.RenderingException: org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource 'ch/bitvoodoo/confluence/plugins/sequencediagramm/templates/license-admin.vm'  
at com.atlassian.templaterenderer.velocity.one.six.internal.VelocityTemplateRendererImpl.render(VelocityTemplateRendererImpl.java:113)

caused by: org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource 'ch/bitvoodoo/confluence/plugins/sequencediagramm/templates/license-admin.vm'  
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.loadResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:483)

...

I already tried the hercules, without success.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Fabr?cioC
body: Hi Andrew,

Thank you for the faster answer. I'm using the confluence version 4.3.6 with Universal plugin version 2.13.2.

Can you show me where you checked about version compatibility?

I thought that Universal Plugin were filtering with only compatible versions automaticaly.

<br />


author: AndrewA
body: Hi Fabriclo,  
After having a look at the plugin itself it is possible that this is version related. I see that the bitvoodoo plugin is only compatbily with Confluence 2.8.0-3.5.17. Are we within this range? If so, are we running the latest compatible version of the universal plugin manager (2.3.13 as of Confluence 3.5.17)? Either way, if the versions are wrong that could explain the siuation and in which case my best advice would be to get thm in line.

Cheers,  
Andrew
Macro or shortcut to do repetitive tasks
Asked by Laurent Bazinet:

Hi,

I am looking for a way to create a macro or a shortcut for repetitive tasks. As an example, I would like to define a basic structure for a table. This table can have multiple rows and columns but should have at least some pre-defined ones. On top of this, this macro should also add an anchor for easy reference.

It should be possible to add/remove columns and modify text after the instantiation of the macro.

So far, my experience with macros have been a failure in the sense that macros do not display their result structures but a box representing the code. Only when the page is redered does it shows. This does not allow me to add/remove rows or columns etc.

It would more look like a template but with a shortcut like a macro... How can one do this?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Laurent Bazinet
body: Okay, I think what I want is to render a macro directly in the editor. That would be the proper way to say what I want to achieve.

So how do we write a macro that renders in the editor (looses its macro attribute and becomes pure HTML).
Pre defined user permissions/limitations with template
Asked by Fabian Toth:

Hi,

it is possible to define a set of users which have automatically user rights for the access of a confluence site which was created trough a global template?

As example, there is a template "T1", if a user create a content page with this template, the page view is automatically restricted to "user1" and "user2"?

Thanks \& Greetz


Answers:
author: AndrewA
body: Hi Fabian,  
I do not believe this is currently possbile but I can see how this would be helpfull. As such I have created the following improvment request with the developers.

[Ability to Specify Permissions For Pages via Templates](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30812)

I would advise voting for the request as well as adding a comment to show the developers the added interest in it's creation.

Cheers,  
Andrewd


Tags: template
Umlauts issue Adaptavist Create Page Macro
Asked by Christos Papastergiou:

Hello. I am using the latest version of the Adaptavist Create Page Macro on Confluence 5.2.3. When I have umlauts in the Page Title field of the Macro Browser, when creating the new page the umlauts are replaced with a strange symbol. Then I have to edit the page again in order to fix it and it is very annoying.

Any ideas how can I fix that?


Answers:
author: Christos Papastergiou
body: Thanks for your quick response. I am using the latest version of the Create Page Macro (3.0.1). When I create the page normally using a title with umlauts this behavior does not occur. So it is not a Confluence issue. Only when I create a page with the Create Page Macro this happens. Yes please report this to Adaptavist because it is really annoying having to reedit every page and change the title.

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


author: Brian
body: What version of the plugin are you using? In Marketplace the latest plugin is compatible up to version 5.1.5 of Confluence, so there could be a compatibility issue.

Also, if you create a page without the macro and put an umlaut in the title, does the same behavior occur? If not, I would contact Adaptavist and report this behavior as a bug. I included their contact information below:

35-39 Old Street  
London London EC1V 9HX  
United Kingdom

[help@adaptavist.com](mailto:help@adaptavist.com)

+44 (0) 207 976 4896  
http://twitter.com/adaptavist


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Stop Email...all email
Asked by Anthony Hook:

Is there a way I can just stop JIRA and Confluence sending emails, I dont want this or need it at all, and I cant see any way to stop it.

My userbase doesnt want to be spammed they simply want to log in and search for stuff when they need it.

I just created a space with a team, while I was updating that space my team got 100 emails each! If i click manage watchers for the space it says I cant modify them...

The users also dont want to have to log in and unsubscribe they expect me..admin...to do this for them.

Is this a feature/bug??

Anyone have a way of stopping this, its not obvious to me and ive spent a good 30 minutes on it.


Answers:
author: Brian
body: If you want to stop all email whatsoever you can remove the mail server through the Admin console.


author: John Masson
body: Hi Anthony, it would be good to chat to you a little more about this, if you have time, drop me a note on jmasson at atlassian dot com and we can sort out a time for a quick 30 minute chat.


author: Brian
body: If this is a Confluence OnDemand instance, you'll have to contact Atlassian support to disable the plugin. In JIRA OnDemand, you can configure notification schemes per project to prevent notifications from going out, as described here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Configuring+Email+Notifications>.


author: Anthony Hook
body: Sadly this is not what I want, this would allow me to manage the email preferences for my account the admin account.

It does not give me the ability to stop confluence or jira sending emails to other users.

As admin I'd expect to be able to turn this off for everyone?


author: Mick Davidson
body: A quick response: can this not be done in the Confluence admin area? If not, if you go to the Email tab in your profile you can change the frequency and what is auto sent. This is for Confluence. I can't help with Jira. Cheers.


author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: You should be able to do this by following the steps [here](/questions/80685/disable-email-notifications-in-confluenece-ondemand).

comments: author: Anthony Hook
body: Again, that allows me to tell users how to manage their own settings, but doesnt let me as admin manage them, or turn off emails completely. I checked the plugins as they say and there is no recommended updates plugin.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Change/Reset User Password using a Microsoft Active Directory (Read Only, with Local Groups)
Asked by Rene Dohl:

Hi,

I grant the users of my Confluence installation access via delegated LDAP authentication, which worked fine. After a while an user changed his password and forgotten it. Unfortunately the users has no given email address.

How can I give him access again?

Greetings,

R.D.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Rene,

Since you're using LDAP, you can reset the user's password directly there. Confluence will always check the password in the LDAP, no password is stored locally in Confluence, so that once the user enters the new password, it'll be able to login again.

Cheers


author: Pankaj Yadav
body: First you should keep a track on user password expiration reminder via some tools as if a user password is going to expire it will give an alert in a day before

also try out Identity and access managment tool so that a user can change/reset their password by own or delegate the permission to their co workers as well it will ease you work also as an admnistrator in case take a look at this utility :

[selfservicepasswordreset.net](http://selfservicepasswordreset.net)


Tags: confluence-administration

ldap

password
Chrome page layout problem
Asked by efi rosenberg:

hello,

im using confluence 5.2.3 and i have problems with the new page layout.

i cant change the layout of the page in chrome.

If im using IE10 its working fine.

![](../../upfiles/Capture_23.JPG)


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi there,

Fromthe screenshot, it seem like you have hit into a known [bug](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28415). The detail of the bug is explain in the bug report

You should be able to fix this issue by installing this [plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor-height-fix) into your confluence.

Hope this helps!

<br />

Kind Regards,  
Jing Hwa

comments: author: efi rosenberg
body: ty, but this plugin is for different problem and it doesn't fix my problem :-(
Confluence mobile view with favorites
Asked by Laszlo Kremer:

Hey,

Anyone managed adding the Favourite Spaces section to mobile view of Confluence? How to do it?


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

AFAIK, this is not possible yet. We have an open feature to add the favourites to the mobile interface here: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29013)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29013>

I recommend to vote and ask other colleagues to vote as well to increase the popularity of the feature request.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Laszlo Kremer
body: Voted, thanks!


Tags: confluence-administration
It is possible DNS mapping in on demand confluence?
Asked by srinivasan radhakrishnan:

HI...I want to know whether it is possible to DNS mapping for On Demand/Hosted confluence ?

In other words, we will provide links with our company website ex. <http://mycompanay.com/confluence1> to customer, that link should open the on demand/hosted confluence page items ( ex. [https://mycompany.atlassian.net](https://mycompany.atlassian.net/) ).

Please share your knowledge for achieve my goal.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Duplicate of [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/210452/redirect-the-existing-on-demand-confluence-uri](/questions/210452/redirect-the-existing-on-demand-confluence-uri)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to create my own on demand confluence URL without atlassian mark ?
Asked by srinivasan radhakrishnan:

HI,

I am the new evaluation user for on demand confluence. My company idea to publish their documentation through on demand confluence.

But when i create a on demand confluence the default URL pattern https://\<company\>.atlassian.net only able to create, i need to create my company name only in the URL like https://\<mycompanyname\> .

It is possible for create our customized base URL in on demand confluence.

Please share your knowledge to achieve my goal.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This is the fourth time you've asked this question and you've ignored John's answer.

See [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/210452/redirect-the-existing-on-demand-confluence-uri](/questions/210452/redirect-the-existing-on-demand-confluence-uri)


author: Brian
body: Hi Srinivasan, custom domains for OnDemand instances are not currently supported. But this is a highly requested feature, so feel free to take a look at the feature request and vote on it to increase its visibility: [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-5311](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-5311.).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how to using confluence page tile as pdf export file name
Asked by Henry Zhang:

when exporting Confluence page as a PDF, the default file name is consisted by space key+page id+date time.

How to using page tile as pdf export file name?

Any help would be appreciated!


Answers:
author: Steve Thornhill
body: Henry,

Take a look at this page - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF>

I came across this when I was looking into the same thing, but haven't had the time to modify mine yet.

comments: author: Henry Zhang
body: Hi Steve,

Thanks for your reply.

I have read the whole page that you mentioned. but I did not find any clue about my question.
Best practice for handling multiple versions of a space (software documentation)
Asked by Mihai Iliuta:

Hello,

I have to maintain the documentation for a piece of sofware and on each page I've added a related content macro, and added labels to pages.

Now, a new version of the software is out, and I've duplicated the old space to start updating the docs for this new version. Both the new and old doc spaces need to co-exist, since not all customers will upgrade to the new version and we can't just drop support for the old version.

**PROBLEM**

Now the related content macro of course shows pages both from the old and new space. So it seems I have two choices:

1. Edit the labels in each and every page, and add a suffix, such as mylabel_v2

2. Edit the related content macro on each and every page, to only include the new space

In both situations I'm looking at a very painful and boring procedure of doing the same change to 200+ pages.

Is there a more elegant solution? Is there a way to bulk edit a common element on a page? Is there a macro I should have used to wrap the related macro with, that would have allowed this? Is there a way to bulk edit labels, which allows adding prefix/suffix to a bunch of labels?

Thanks for any suggestions!


Answers:
author: AndrewA
body: Hi Mihai,

I am not 100% on how to accomplish all the changes but utilizing the CLI tool would be a good start.

[Confluence Command Line Interface](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli)

It can be used to automate mass changes in Confluence. Maybe it can help with the changes we are trying to make here so I would adcvise investigating.

Andrew


author: Mihai Iliuta
body: Thank you Andrew, I will take a look at that :)


Tags: confluence-administration
invite existing confluence user
Asked by Wolfgang Baeck:

I want to invite an existing user to my OnDemand Confluence installation which already has his own OnDemand Confluence space.

How is it possible, that he is member of several OnDemand Confluence installations with the same email address?


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: Users are not shared between instances. Two Confluence instances can have users with the same email address because they are not related to each other.

If you want to grant him access to your instance you'll have to create a new user for that.

Cheers!

comments: author: Wolfgang Baeck
body: But that is not very well thought out! It also means that I have also to re-authenticate with every change of instance.

Not at all user friendly!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to put the page title in the footer
Asked by Tony Piazza:

Can someone tell me how to modify the PDF Export Stylesheet to include the page title? So far I was able to put a copyright on the bottom left. Now I want to add the page title on the bottom right. Here is what I have so far:

1. @page
2. {
3. @bottom-left
4. {
5. content: "Copyright ? 2013 LearningPatterns, Inc.";
6. font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
7. font-size: 8pt;
8. }
9. }


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: There is some discussions about this at the below link. In short there is not great way to do it.

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/16168/how-can-i-pull-in-the-page-title-to-the-pdf-export-header](/questions/16168/how-can-i-pull-in-the-page-title-to-the-pdf-export-header)

This plugin may get you what you want

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Personal Space creation process creates Site Space instead of Personal Space?
Asked by Matt Uebel:

As users are coming on board for my site, I am finding a few Site Spaces created, the name of which is equal to a user's name.  

My guess is that these users are creating a Site Space instead of a Personal space, but when interviewing one of the viewers, they let me know that they followed the Create Personal Space process, and were confused to find a Site Space existing with their name.  

Has anybody had an issue along these lines? Would there be any indication in the log as to which method is used to create a space?


Answers:
author: Zul NS _Atlassian_
body: How they create their Personal Space? *Space \> Space Directory \> Personal Spaces \> Create Space* won't work. They need to click on their avatar on top right, and click on "Add personal space" link in the drop down. If they had indeed create a Personal Space, the same drop down would say "Personal Space" instead.

comments: author: Matt Uebel
body: my assumption is that they are creating the personal space through the avatar drop down method.  

One of the users has a very specific name, mapped from AD, that doesn't look like it was typed in, as it would be from the normal Site Space creation process. It looks like it would have been created by some automatic process, like what happens through the Personal Space creation process.  

However, the space is ending up as a Site Space.


author: Zul NS _Atlassian_
body: Hmm, that's weird. When you say a user has specific name, do you mean you looked at their Space key? Personal space usually uses \~username as the key.


Tags: confluence-administration

personal-space
How to add hand icon for the "comment level Like" link
Asked by Vijay Krishna B:

How to add hand icon for the comment like link


Answers:
author: Vijay Krishna B
body: @jegeris

Thanks for the reply but it didn't help me.It might because of the misinterpretation of the problem.

For page level we had a "like link with hand icon".In the similar manner for a comment also you can post your like by clicking on "like" link.Here at comment level i want to add the "hand icon" beside the "like" link.


author: oskars jegeris
body: it s there ,there , lets get started <http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/getting_started/>
Sorting a Table Umlaute
Asked by Heiko Hemminger:

Hi,

when I sort a table in Confluence (Version 5.1.3) Umlaute like ?,? and ? are listed at the end of the table. Is there already n issue opened? I couldn t find one.

Greetings


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) macro handles this issue: if you wrap a table with umlauts with the [Table Filter](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/TFAC/How+to+use+Table+Filter+macro) macro, then the table sorts correctly.


author: Heiko Hemminger
body: i don t want it to be converted. I want the table to recognize it. There is already a sorting in searching pages. But not in sorting tables.


author: oskars jegeris
body: you can look in here,. <http://german.stackexchange.com/questions/4992/conversion-table-for-diacritics-e-g-u-ue>


Tags: sort

special-character

table
Confluence support
Asked by Rita Ghind:

Some of the spaces in confluence 3.5 using the theme 'global look and feel' were working fine but after upgradation to confluence 5.1 some of the pages are broken and are not displayed properly.

What should be the reason?


Answers:
author: Rita Ghind
body: The broken pages after upgradation were because of customization which were done before upgradation.As per the documentation , we need to reapply the customizations manually after upgradation.


author: Brian
body: As Bruna mentioned, there were changes made to wiki markup in version 4. If you have pages showing an "unmigrated wiki markup" message, that could explain why. Also, if you have plugins that are not compatible with your new version of Confluence, that could also be a source of the layout issue.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Rita,

There's some layout changes between 3.5 and 5.x versions of Confluence.

Please check if you have any customizations that might need to be rewritten to the new layout: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Changing+the+Look+and+Feel+of+Confluence>

About the pages being broken, do you mean the links not working or the wiki-markups not been migrate to XHTML?

If it's a migration issue, check this approach: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF50/Migration+from+Wiki+Markup+to+XHTML-Based+Storage+Format>

If the links to that pages are not working as it should, then try to Rebuild the Indexes from Scratch: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch>

Hope it helps!

Kind Regards

comments: author: Rita Ghind
body: By specifying pages are broken means the layout is disturbed after upgradation , some images are not getting displayed and in some pages some of the portion of page is missing.

Can you please specify the reasons for this?


Tags: confluence-administration
Allow project administrators to edit project workflow
Asked by GCP:

Is it possible to allow project administrators to edit project workflow - or does it require global jira administrator permissions ? Currently we only see the "Edit" button on project workflow pages when logged in as a global administrator whereas we would like to project administrators themselves to be able to make changes to this. Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Correct, you have to be a system or Jira administrator to edit a workflow. You can't delegate it further down. Yet. Atlassian are looking at delegation of admin functions, although there is one honking great issue with letting project admins change a workflow - they're shared, so an edit for project X could break project Y...

There is an option though. Jira Agile allows you to convert projects to use "simplified workflow". This creates a single-project-only workflow based on the project columns. So the project admins CAN edit the workflow, but it's done by letting them define columns and it precludes doing clever things with post-functions etc.

p.s. I assume your confluence tags are wrong?

comments: author: Alison Fukumoto
body: This is a much needed feature. I hope it comes out in an update


author: Scott Cranfill
body: @Nic Brough, Any update on the status of this? It would be really helpful.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-3156>


author: Scott Cranfill
body: Ah, great, thanks!


author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Hey,

are you talking about JIRA or Confluence, I guess JIRA... In JIRA you have te be an administrator to edit workflows...

Cheers Christian


author: GCP
body: Thanks for the responses - this clarifies the situation.

And yes - it should have been JIRA I was referring to.


Tags: confluence-administration

workflow