youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is it possible, to create link to undefined page, with do-not-create-page-if-not-exist possibility?
Asked by P?ter Ipacs:

I'd like to create multiple links to pages - automatically (CLI).

Some links points to existing pages, others to undefined pages.

I dont want to have the "create new page" possibility, if a user click to undefined link. Do nothing. :)

In my special case, the non-existent pages should be created ONLY by space admins (whether manually or by automated process), because these pages have special content, special structure, which is not known by regular user.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance, P?ter


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence has no way of knowing whether a link to a non-existent page should or should not go to "create this page". That's deliberate though - the whole point of the behaviour of the place-holders is to encourage people to create missing pages.

comments: author: P?ter Ipacs
body: Thanks for Your quick reply.

In most cases, the "normal" behavior is the best, and expected. But in my special case, the non-existent pages should be created ONLY by space admins (whether manually or by automated process), because these pages have special content, special structure, which is not known by regular user.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's no way to stop people creating pages. They either have create/edit in the space or they don't.

You should really have templates for these special pages, so the users don't make a mess of them, rather than dedicated groups of people to create them. Or, use blueprints and templates to create them in the right shape instead of relying on place-holder links.


author: Macurion
body: Ability to manully add Links to non-existing pages was added in 2020:  
<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-articles/Link-to-undefined-placeholder-pages/ba-p/1412785>


author: P?ter Ipacs
body: Thanks, Nic \& Milo!

I don't want to disable page creations for users. I know the templates/blueprint possibility.

But these pages have huge lists, which only could be prepared by admins, and cannot be used the templates.

During the automatic page preparation process, I cannot determine if all linked pages exist or not.

Workaround solution: copy structure to a separated sapce, so I can change space permission for "normal" users - view only, and when they click on non-existent link, nothing happens.

Exactly what I want! :smile:

Just I thought, that it is possible with macro also, not only with space restriction

Thanks. P?ter


author: Milo Test
body: If all you want to do is keep the honest people honest, You could simply hyperlink the text to the page they are on: clicking the link would appear to do nothing. You would probably have to add a bit of CSS to get the links to be red.


Tags: confluence-administration
Why is e.g. the menu on top right called "Save for later" and not "Add to Favorites"?
Asked by Robert Graf:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Favorite Pages Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148581)*

*Why is e.g. the menu on top right called "Save for later" and not "Add to Favorites"? It's confusing to use different terms for the same. Or is there any difference which I don't understand? (Sorry I'm a new user of Confluence).*


Answers:
author: Robert Graf
body: Thanks a lot.

For me there is a difference in the "real" world. :wink:

* Favorites are "permanent"
* "Saved for later" are links/pages which I want to re-visit/read later because I have no time at the moment (you have a page with x links and you open them but you can't finish to read them all). A "saved for later" page can become a favorite page of course.

Would be great if we can have a difference in future release. Currently I save my real "Saved for later" as extra links in my personal space.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Nice idea - I'd raise it with Atlassian as a suggestion.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, there's no difference, it's still "add to a list I will come back to". The UX designers decided it was a better phrase than "favourites" (and I notice it dodges a spelling mistake in American English - the English word has a u in it)


author: Aaron Carlson
body: Why is it called save for later? It used to be called favorites and everyone understood what it meant. Someone at Atlassian thought save for later made more sense but that change has caused nothing but confusion.

Favorite and Bookmark are industry terms that have been used for decades and are clear, concise, and globally understood. I agree that the Save For Later terminology seems like a draft or a copy you would save and then read later. I would expect if you saved for later you would be saving a copy of that page *at that moment in time* to read later, and if the content changed, your saved copy would not change, but this is not how it works.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Either that or something that you want to read at some point, but not now and once you read it you will "un-save it". I agree that favorites and save for later are two totally different ideas and the terminology should not have been changed.


author: Davin Studer
body: Yeah, I'm not too thrilled with the new lingo. To take a feature that has been around for so long and change it s meaning is poor design in my opinion.


Tags: documentation

macro
The instructions to COPY a post are not accurate. There is nowhere to choose to Copy a post.
Asked by Stu Marks:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Pages and blogs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=320602215)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Stu Marks
body: We use Confluence for our public facing Blog.  
<https://wiki.ezwebplayer.com/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=KB>

[](https://wiki.ezwebplayer.com/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=KB) Apparently, even though there exists clear cut instructions as to how the editor of said space can COPY an article, those instructions do not apply to us. Don't know why. There are no notes or articles anywhere that shed light on this, and this is not the fist time I have asked this question.

The instructions on how to copy a post simply describe a condition that does not exist. There is no "copy" in the " ...\> " menu. And, there are two of those menu locations on any given existing post. Another point of confusion. Do the system architects write these helps?


Tags: blog
How to adjust the PDF page margin?
Asked by Raimon Gonzales:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Advanced PDF Export Customizations](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=198806890)*

I'm figuring out how to beautify the exported PDF files. For some reason Confluence think ConfluenceInstalledFont is the prettiest font ever.

I managed to change that in the exported PDF copy. But I can't fix the enormous page margin. Also, columnMacro seems to be fixed to display as block.

Any idea how to beautify the PDF exported file?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Did you try adjusting the margins in the PDF Stylesheet?:

```
@page{margin-top: .75in;margin-bottom: .75in;margin-left: .75in;margin-right: .75in;}
```

Oh, and columns are problematic. If the output is wonky, try using a table instead.

comments: author: Marisa Hager
body: I tried multiple different ways suggested online to get this to work, and you'rs is the only solution that did it, Milo. Thanks!


Tags: export

pdf
How do I get the User List macro to display users in a Crowd group?
Asked by Graham Bakay:

Hi,

We have Crowd set up as a User Directory in Confluence. Authentication and authorization works great. However, when I try to use the User List macro to display a list of users in a group, it says `No results were found`.

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Graham Bakay
body: Not sure what the deal was with this, but when adding the [User Log In Listener](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/user-list-macro-139546.html), it fixed it.

I don't really have any care for displaying online vs. offline users --- I just wanted a list of users in a group. Not sure why this is difficult.


Tags: confluence-administration

crowd
Send email notification before the task is due
Asked by Ernie Jennings:

Is there a way (OTB) to send an email notification (1 or 2 days before) to a user before the task due date in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Not out of the box. There is a free add-on for this.

[Task Reminder for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.scandio.confluence.plugins.task-reminder/server/overview)

comments: author: Martin Gregory
body: Server only :(


Tags: confluence-administration
Page titles are defaulted to be H1, can I change that?
Asked by Erica Cunningham:

I want to change the page title to like H6, or even create a new header to H7, does anyone know if that is possible and if so, how to do it? : ) Thank you so much!


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: There are a couple of approaches you could try, but the easiest is probably the Style macro.

Note: It requires a knowledge of CSS and that you are comfortable applying a manual override to Atlassian's styling.

This won't add a new style to the text editor, but would allow you to apply what ever styling you like to some text on the page.

If you want to change the styling of the page tile across an entire space, once you've worked out the right style to tweak, add that macro to *Space Tools \> Look and Feel \> Sidebar, header and footer.*

If you want to make this apply to your entire site, you'll need to add it to each space.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
uninstall confluence
Asked by Daryndecker:


Answers:
author: Charles Meireles
body: Hi Daryn,

You did not specified in which environment confluence is installed so i added here links for the documentation on how to uninstall confluence on Linux and Windows environments.

Linux - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/uninstalling-confluence-from-linux-255362396.html>

Windows - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/uninstalling-confluence-from-windows-142115136.html>

Hope it help you.
Redirection from confluence.domain.com to confluence.domain.com:8090 is not working.
Asked by Esupport:

Hi All!

Can someone help? We have a windows server that handle all our redirection request for our company. For confluence, we want to setup where when a user type in confluence.domain.com, it'll redirect to confluence.domain.com:8090. but it's not working? It keep giving us a rejection error. It works if we have it setup to redirect to IPADDRESS:8090 but not the name? No idea what we are missing as we have that window server handle redirection before on other webpages and it works with no issue. Not sure why it's not working here. Any help will be greatly appreciated!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: A rejection error suggests that you have not got the root domain correctly set in your DNS. If ipaddress works, but name doesn't, then it's not resolving correctly.

I wouldn't use redirects to do this though, I'd use a proxy.

comments: author: Esupport
body: Thank you for responding Nic! That's the thing though. In DNS, we have confluence pointing to the redirection server that handle the request to translate into confluence.domain.com:8090 but it's not doing that. If we change the script to point to IPADDRESS.domain.com:8090 it'll work. It's almost like the server is rejecting the other name?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: All I can say is that there is something in your networking that is not aware of the redirection.

Confluence itself does not care, although I'd want to check that you have the right base-url set - it's on confluence.domain.com ? No port.
How to count users in confluence server version?
Asked by AdminTeam EMC:

The documentation we've found appears to work for cloud version, but not server.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-count-users-in-confluence-server-version/qaq-p/365047?attachment-id=9946){#link_1185a25852a246}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/61694/1/image2017-3-9%209%3A4%3A19.png){#display_1185a25852a246_0}


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello all,

I'm updating this old post as it has a lot of views, and we have a feature request now for the functionality, as it exists in Jira.

Have a look at this:

* [CONFSERVER-54271 - Have a function to export a list of users counting towards Confluence license](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54271)

Please feel free to vote on the request if you are interested, since it will help show how helpful this would be to many users. You can watch the case as well if you want to be updated of any changes.

Kind regards,

Shannon


author: AdminTeam EMC
body: Thanks for the feedback, but I found that in the server version, the answer is in Confluence administration --\> License Details. There is a "Licensed users" section that shows how many are currently signed up, out of the total available licenses.


author: Davin Studer
body: On the System Information page (http(s)://{yourserver}/admin/systeminfo.action) there is a section that tells you the count of users. Search on that page for "Local Users".

comments: author: AdminTeam EMC
body: Thanks, but I think this shows the number of theoretically possible users who can login, not who actually has logged in, and hence is consuming a license.


author: Davin Studer
body: Atlassian licensing is not based on how many people are currently in the system. It is based on how many people are in the user directory with the "can use" permission applied. Even if no one is logged in your licenses are being consumed. Check out the links below for how Confluence licensing works.

image2017-3-9 9:4:19.png

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/global-permissions-overview-138709.html>

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/global-permissions-overview-138709.html)<https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence#serverlicenses-6>


author: Charles Meireles
body: Hi Kurt,

I found this documentation that may be helpful to you - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-get-a-list-of-active-users-counting-towards-the-confluence-license-298978076.html>

Basically you can run a query in the confluence DB and retrieve the number of users.

Hope it help you.


Tags: confluence-administration
We have server instances of JIRA and Confluence configured with each other as trusted applications. Do the license tiers / number of seats on each application need to be the same?
Asked by Fred Wagener:

We have JIRA and Confluence running on a server in our company. Access to each application is controlled via MS Active directory groups using LDAP. Each application has its own AD group. JIRA and Confluence are configured to treat each other as trusted applications. **Do the license tiers for JIRA and Confluence need to be the same?** I ask because it seems likely that we will have more Confluence end users than JIRA, and we're concerned that if we keep up the trusted application relationship we'll need to buy JIRA seats we'll never use.

I have seen many references that say "stand alone" deployments don't have to match, but I don't know what precisely is meant by that.

Any light shed on this question will be most gratefully received. Thanks in advance!

Addendum: Here's what our IT staff told me: "We have been told that integrated deploys (i.e. Jira and Confluence have been integrated - you can see Confluence content in Jira, etc.) - require the licensing to be the same between both tools. If they aren't integrated (standalone) they do not." I just am trying to be thorough to make certain I'm not confusing the issue due to incorrect word choice. Thanks again!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, they do not need to match.

If you have group-A with access to JIRA and 45 people in it, then group-B with Confluence access and 220 people in it, you'll need 50 JIRA users and 250 Confluence licences (higher numbers because it's by tier).

You will need to think about the cases where someone has a licence for one and not the other system though. If a user has access to JIRA but not Confluence for example, then when they visit a JIRA issue that links to Confluence, they'll see a "you need to authorise to see this link" (which won't work because they can't log in). Same in the other direction - the JIRA macros in Confluence will not function for users who don't have JIRA access. A partial fix for this is "anonymous access", which might not be suitable for several reasons.


Tags: confluence-administration

jira

jira-administration
Remove the Atlassian logo in the footer
Asked by NM:

I do not want this in the footer. How can I remove it, please? This is Confluence 5.7.

image2017-3-7 22:0:55.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Remove-the-Atlassian-logo-in-the-footer/qaq-p/108523?attachment-id=6382){#link_1185a29a3229e2}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/101690/1/image2017-3-7%2022%3A0%3A55.png){#display_1185a29a3229e2_0}


Answers:
author: NM
body: Try #footer-logo { display: none; }

comments: author: Fayaz Abdul
body: Hi [@NM](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/613806) [@charlotte s](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1186357) [@Thomas Schlegel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781483),

where should we have to place this #footer-logo { display: none; }   

In this file /opt/atlassian/confluence/confluence/decorators/includes/footer-content.vm or someother file?

Please let me know

Thanks


author: DINESH APONSO
body: Hi There,

Following method worked for me.

Go to **Custom HTML** and Add following lines

\<script\>  
jQuery('#footer').hide();  
\</script\>

to the **At end of the BODY**text area.

it will hide the whole footer. So if you want to hide just the logo try with the logo div id.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

here it is described: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-edit-the-footer-in-confluence-163415355.html>

But you are not allowed to remove the text "Powered by [Atlassian](http://www.atlassian.com/)".

comments: author: NM
body: Thanks. I just want to remove the logo but the link you gave doesn't show how to remove the logo.


author: NM
body: Found the way:

#footer-logo { display: none; }


author: charlotte s
body: Hi Nirdesha,

Where is the style sheet located?


Tags: footer

logo
How to grant access to user to only one directory in confluence?
Asked by sJ:

Hi

Is it possible to grant access to user to only one directory in confluence. User shouldn't see any other spaces except this. At this time, all our spaces have global confluence users access so we are wondering if this is possible? Can you please confirm?


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: Yes, this is possible.

The default configuration is that Confluence adds the confluence-users group to new spaces. Your default groups are managed through the Default Space Permissions in Confluence administration.

You need to create a new group for your main users and use that instead of confluence-users in your space permissions. Then add extra individuals or groups as required to specific spaces for the exceptions.

Slide 11 in my 2014 Summit presentation talks about this <https://summit.atlassian.com/archives/2014/collaboration-teams/purposeful-collaboration-in-the-cloud-with-confluence-ondemand>


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

as a space admin, you can set space permissions. If some users shouldn't see a space, you have to set view permissions to all the others but the users that shouldn't see the space.

See: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/space-permissions-overview-724764760.html>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
conflunce cannot show chinese
Asked by George:

???111.jpgwhy status show ???????  
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[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/53091/1/%E6%97%A0%E6%A0%87%E9%A2%98111.jpg){#display_1185a2efe83f43_0}


Answers:
author: Marcel Woschek
body: The reason might be the encoding configured in your Confluence.

If it is utf8 it won't be able to show the chinese chars in the correct way. Therefore you need to change it to utf16.

You can change these settings as decribed here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-character-encoding-174010.html>


Tags: confluence-administration
libjli.so issue in confluence installation
Asked by Omid Marxen:

Following this guide: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/installing-confluence-on-linux-143556824.html>

I get the following issue with step 2.2 ($ sudo ./atlassian-confluence-X.X.X-x64.bin) :

```
Unpacking JRE ...Starting Installer .../.../confluence/atlassian-confluence-6.0.6-x64.bin.14497.dir/jre/bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libjli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
```

I couldn't find anything either in the knowledge base nor in the forum.


Answers:
author: Niclas Sandstroem
body: So basically you doft get real sudo. Sorry to hear hope you can host it somewhere eller.

Br, Niclas


author: Omid Marxen
body: According to the server hoster, Confluence can not be installed due to missing privileges, which can not be changed.

comments: author: Ankineedu Garlapati
body: Hi Omid, I am also getting the same error while upgrading the confluence version, May I know the solution to fix the issue?


author: Omid Marxen
body: Hi, unfortunately I did not find solution.


author: Ankineedu Garlapati
body: Same here, I did upgrade manually. It is not too complicated.


author: Omid Marxen
body: I checked for Java via $JAVA_HOME but I got no result. I checked manually in /usr/lib/ and there is also no trace of Java.

If all that seems ok, I will contact the server host, maybe they will know more.


author: Niclas Sandstroem
body: This should work I tried your setup locally on my server. Must be something non-standard with your server setup. Tricky... Do you have anything that could interfere with extraction of the files or so? Something in your PATH/installed already OpenJDK for example?


author: Omid Marxen
body: Hi,

I put the installer in a folder called "confluence". these are the commands I use:

```
cd confluencesudo chmod a+x atlassian-confluence-6.0.5-x64.binsudo ./atlassian-confluence-6.0.5-x64.bin
```

Elevating myself to su does not work, due to server restrictions.


author: Niclas Sandstroem
body: If you have the installer in /tmp and stand in /tmp and execute the installation.

cd /tmp/  
sudo ./atlassian-confluence-X.X.X-x64.bin

Can you evaluate yourself to root? "sudo su -". Do you run into the same issues?


author: Omid Marxen
body: Hi,

I could not find confluence 6.5, I tried 6.0.5 though but it has the same issue. Do I perhaps need to install java manually despite using the installer?

What do you mean by "Did you stand in the same path as the installer?" ?


author: Niclas Sandstroem
body: Hi Omid did you try 6.5 if you experienced the same issue? Did you stand in the same path as the installer?