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delete own pages priviledges in confluence
Asked by Sergey Shmarkatyuk:

Is it possible to grant users access to delete their own pages in confluence?

It is very awkward - JIRA has such permission, but Confluence does not. Maybe I need to install some plugin?


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Sergey,

Unfortunately Confluence acts a little different from JIRA in permissions. So if the user create a page he will not be able to delete this page, unless he has the permissions to delete all pages.

Confluence works more as a colaborative Wiki, then the permissioning of JIRA.

Cheers,

Guilherme


author: Ruth_Kusterer
body: I see this question is from 2012, but it still comes up in searches. I assume this feature has been added in the meanwhile as "Delete Own" permissions? E.g. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/space-permissions-overview-139521.html>
Is there a SQL query to show Content Indexing Queue length?
Asked by Peter Binney:

We are migrating Confluence from 2.8 to 4.3. This involves many iterations as we work through the gremlins we uncover.

Some of the most elapsed-time-consuming steps involve waiting for behind the scenes processing to complete.

The techniques for this are a) use TOP on the server to see when the JVM's CPU activity becomes negligible and b) running SQL Trace to see if there is any d/b activity.

Though it is not always content indexing per se, the waits almost always involve something being done that shows on the Content Indexing Queue (eg: when creating an LDAP directory, tens of thousands of Add change document: com.atlassian.confluence.user.PersonalInformation-NNNNNNN items).

To gauge how much time we have before the next migration step we check Content Indexing \| Queue Contents.

But, this is *very* slow and often times out (when the queue is large).

Is there a quick SQL query that can be run to just show the Queue length, please?


Answers:
author: Peter Binney
body: Atlassian tells me that there isn't (<https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-92852>)


author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi Peter,

I am not sure if I understand the question correctly, but the index queue is stored in the INDEXQUEUEENTRIES table, that may give you an ide what is waiting to be processed. However by this, you will not be able to calculate the exact time it takes for indexing to finish.

Kind regards,

Peter

comments: author: Colin Murtaugh
body: For anyone finding this old thread: the index queue is no longer stored in INDEXQUEUEENTRIES, but I have no idea where they've moved it now.


author: Sergey Papurin
body: Index queue moved to journalentry


Tags: index

queue
Confluence: Is there any way to sum up all the links in a space and put them into an index or to relocate the spacekey of every internal link to another spacekey?
Asked by loers:

When I copy a space (A) with internal links on the pages, the links in the copied version (B) still link "A", because some people use the function "web link" even for internal confluence links.

Now I want to change these links but there are really al lot of them. So is there any way to change the spacekeys or (if there is no other option) to get an index of every link within the space to look if it is okay or (if not) change it manually?

Or maybe there are other options...

Thank you for helping me.


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

There is no standard way to do so, however to achieve this you may want to try to export the space to XML, edit the XML and write a regular expression to replace she space key in question for internal links, then load the XML back to Confluence

Part of this procedure is described on this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=169578>

However, you will have to make some additional steps to ensure that web links are also replaced.

Cheers,

Peter

comments: author: loers
body: Hi,

thank you for answering my question.

We have exported the space but it was not really helpful. because there are so many ways to link pages and everybody use his own way. After all I went through the dokument and checked every link, so... I think we have to control the way we use linking in our confluence.


Tags: link

space
Looking for a plugin to create mutual page links in Confluence
Asked by hirok:

I'm looking for a plugin or other to insert mutual links for Confluence pages.  
The links should work for interacting with one another.  
(A link in PageA jumps PageB. A link in PageB jumps PageA.)

I'd like to insert those links by one time operation.  
I know we can insert a page link to other one. But I have to do this in each page.

If anyone know good solution, could you please let me know ?

hiro


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

Could you explain the question in a bit more detail? If I understand correctly, you want to modify the content of two pages at once. But how would you decide where to place the link on **Page A** and where to put it on **Page B**?

Maybe explaining the use-case would help me to see if there are alternative ways.

Regards,

Peter

comments: author: hirok
body: Hi,  

Thank you very much for your reply.   
Sorry for my weak explanation.

When I'm working on Page A and put a link to Page B on it, I want that a link to Page A is automatically created on Page B.  

I just want to have a mutual link between them. The place of the link is not very important for me.  
I want easily go to/back to those pages by clicking it.
How long should OnDemand smart commits take?
Asked by Dan Fabulich:

I'm testing smart commits with Bitbucket and JIRA OnDemand. Twenty minutes ago, I pushed a commit to Bitbucket referencing a JIRA. I see the commit on Bitbucket.org; it links to JIRA correctly. But on the JIRA side, the issue is still open and there's no link back to the commit.

How long should I expect this to take? Are 20 minute delays normal? At what point should I contact support? (FWIW, smart commits clearly are working at least sometimes.)


Answers:
author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: Hi Dan,

Typically once the commit shows on your JIRA ticket, the smart commit should take effect. If it takes longer than that you should check your Email configuration on your local git/Hg client, where your Email address should be the same as your Jira user Email address for the smart commits to work, you can reference here:

-<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ONDEMANDKB/Git+Smart+Commits+are+not+working>

Hope it helps

comments: author: Dan Fabulich
body: That's not the question I'm asking. You're talking about the case where a commit shows on the JIRA ticket but doesn't mark the issue as resolved. I'm talking about pushing commits to Bitbucket and not seeing the commit on the Commits tab in JIRA. After a long enough wait, (half an hour or more) the commit appears on the Commits tab and resolves the issue at the same time. How long should I reasonably expect to wait for JIRA to detect a Bitbucket commit?


author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: It does not take that much for sure. It usually takes up to 2 minuts max. But this would be an interesting case with support. I'd suggest to log a ticket on our support channel : [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) and am sure someone will take a look at the problem.


author: mhottinger1
body: Dan -- Did you happen to figure out what was causing the delay? I'm experiencing the same issue with an on-prem instance of JIRA. Right now I'm sitting at a 35+ min delay between commit and Smart Commit changes being reflected. Not ideal.


Tags: cloud

integration
Is there anyway to put Personal Spaces as subspaces under a parent space?
Asked by Miles Tillinger:

Currently the Personal Spaces are littered throughout the Subspace macro that I've added to the Confluence Dashboard (in place of the standard Spaces navigation macro).

Is it possible to put them under a parent Space, or perhaps the People Directory as a psuedo-space?


Answers:
author: Communardo Support
body: Hello Miles,

unfortunatelly it is not possible to move personal spaces with the Subspaces Plugin.

Actually it is a bug in Subspaces Plugin 1.7.4 that it shows global and personal spaces on the dashboard. We are about to fix it in order to show only global spaces. But for the meantime it will help to downgrade to Subspaces Plugin Version 1.7.3

Kind regards

Judith

comments: author: Miles Tillinger
body: Thanks for letting me know Judith ... having that bug resolved is also a good result! I'll downgrade for now and look forward to the next version. Thanks for the prompt response.


author: AlysonA
body: Hi Miles,

Not sure if you're aware of the [SubSpace plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.subspace), it provides functionality to organize spaces hierarchically in spaces and sub-spaces. Should be what you're looking for. =)

Cheers.


Tags: addon-de.communardo.confluence.plugins.subspace
External Comments for Confluence Plugin not hiding comment area on all pages, nor does it hide Add>comment
Asked by Barbara Green:

We recently installed the External Comments for Confluence plugin and set up Disqus. At first, all seemed to be okay. Then, we saw regular anonymous confluence comments show up on the daily digest, but were unable to see them on the page. We finally found them under View/Activity. So the plugin doesn't hide the upper right Add\>Comments. We made sure commenting was disabled in each space and in some cases, the Add\>Comments was removed (dropdown appeared blank), but in a few others, it remains accessible.

Also, the Disqus commenting area appears on most pages (<http://wiki.acstechnologies.com/display/CL/Church+Life>), but in the same space, we'll suddenly find a page where the disqus comment dialog is not present, but the old Confuence comment dialog is present for logged in users, whle no comment dialog appears for anonymous users [(http://wiki.acstechnologies.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=28715201](http://wiki.acstechnologies.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=28715201)).


Answers:
author: Radomir Mladenovic
body: Hi Barbara,

Thanks for reporting this. Fixes are available in just released v1.0.1.

Regards,

Radomir

comments: author: Barbara Green
body: Thanks, the update did the trick.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Barbarag,

I was investigating this behavior but couldn't find any reference for it. I strongly advise to get in touch with the plugin vendor. I'll leave this question open so if other person experienced this issue, he might help here.

Regards,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Barbara Green
body: Thanks Rodrigo. I thought the vendor was monitoring this because of the link on this page: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/external-comments/version/100/support>. But I'll email directly.


Tags: app

comment

external
"Help Tips" box obscures main screen body
Asked by Peter Binney:

The dynamic Help Tips box that floats near the RH side of the screen for Administrators (at least) covers active and useful parts of the screen if you don't have a very wide screen/window.

This is a real pain, particularly if you Remote Desktop to instances where you can't stretch your window at will.

See attached screenshot (on <https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-92799> which auto-created this post).


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Peter!

I believe that you got a response from a Bug Report Opened for this. But as this is closed only to you, I'll let others know the bug Report

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26732>

Hope this helps others!

Cheers,

Guilherme
Mark table rows as header with the new editor (Version 4+)
Asked by Steffen Heller:

Hello,

in the old wiki markup a table header could be created using two pipes:

```
|| this is a table cell in the table header ||
```

The result of this was html with \<th class="confluenceTh"\>

Is there a way to create such a table header with the new editor as well?   
I recognized that there is an item in the table menu called "Row highlight" but that is not what I mean.

Instead of changing from \<td class="confluenceTd"\> to \<th class="confluenceTh"\> the "Row highlight" just adds yet another css class making it a \<td class="confluenceTd highlight"\>. Also the format is different as it doesn't have the same font weight as the original table header.

Since I have a lot of pages and tables that were created with the old markup I want to be able to get the same headers. When I create a new table this is not much of a problem because the first row is automatically formated as a header in the old style but when I work on tables, do some copy and paste, etc. I always end up with tables where I need an easy way to mark normal rows as headers or vice versa.


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: It seems that with our latest update (to confluence 4.3.7) the behaviour has changed again and I can get the header I want with a click on the top menu item "Heading Row".

Works okay for me.  

<br />


author: Adam Jacobson
body: I'm not sure whether there is an 'easy' way. Perhaps someone who can knock together scripts or user macros could provide something simple.

In the meantime, you could use the Confluence Source Editor to change the table attributes manually:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor>

Or perhaps you could use the modifyPage, -findReplace, -findReplaceRegex commands available in the Confluence CLI plugin to automate this somewhat:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli>

Hope that helps.


Tags: table
Can I place a JIRA Issues button or text field on the Edit screen ?
Asked by John Sweetwood:

I would like to have some type of button or text fields on the edit screen, or preferably the saved Confluence page for users to quick/simple create a JIRA issue. This would be used by our Management Team, which is why we'd like to make this task as quick and easy as possible.

One issue I saw with using the JIRA Issues macro (issue creation) along with JIRA Issues macro (issue feed/table) on the same page is that not only would the new issue be added to the JIRA feed, but a new cell on the page would be created somewhere as well with the issue link and status. Has any found a way to get rid of this duplicate information without going back into Edit page and and deleting the new cell?

Thank you in advance!


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Have a look at [Issue Collector](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Using+the+Issue+Collector).

comments: author: John Sweetwood
body: This is perfect. Thanks!


Tags: app
Is it possible to disable old users in bulk rather than individually?
Asked by robert.rankin@cdieurope.eu:

We've recently changed our confluence license from 500 to 5 but can't make any changes to our spaces until all old users have been deleted or disabled. Disabling 400+ users mannually will be very time consuming, can all our old users be disabled another way?


Answers:
author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Please see the previous answer to this question.

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/36219/bulk-remove-users-from-confluence>


Tags: user-management
Pie chart stopped working in Confluence pages
Asked by Mazen Ismail:

I have added pie charts to confluence pages and they were working fine, suddenly I got this error.

Error rendering macro 'gadget' : The gadget at https://\[URL\].atlassian.net/rest/gadgets/1.0/g/com.atlassian.jira.gadgets:pie-chart-gadget/gadgets/piechart-gadget.xml was not added to this Confluence instance yet.

How can I get them to work again?


Answers:
author: Dave
body: Hi Mazen,

We're currently experiencing a bug that popped up in the latest update and has broken the statistics gadgets in Confluence. You should check out the bug report at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6247> and vote/comment on that so our developers can see who is impacted. If you haven't all ready, you just need to create a user account there to vote/comment or watch the issue to be notified of any updates.

Thanks,

-dave

comments: author: Mazen Ismail
body: Thanks alot Dave.

I already voted and posted a comment on a similar issue since the one you posted is closed.

the link to the new issue is <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6252> incase anyone needs it.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Receive an error when using the searching for a JIRA issue from Confluence
Asked by jiraguy:

Hi there,

I am receiving an error when I attempt to search for JIRA issues from Confluence. The error I see is Received the following HTTP error code from the server:0. I thought it might be the application links but I am able to see/do everything else. I am able to:

- Create a new issue in JIRA from Confluence

- See my most recently views issues in Confluence

- Add Gadgets from Confluence to a JIRA Dashboard

- See the wiki link on the JIRA issue created in Confluence

That makes me think that it isn't an application link issue.

Best,

Graham


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: This issue has been fixed in Confluence 5. I've tested it out and confirm its working. Give it a check.


author: Fran?ois Nonnenmacher
body: Same error here, no error show up in the logs. I found this: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27506> unfortunately it was closed by Atlassian because they couldn't reproduce it :-(.
Page Break on PDF Export at the Heading Level
Asked by Gary Febb:

Hi all

I have been reading through the answers to this kind of question and have found that this should have been as simple as adding

h1   

{

page-break-before: always;

}   

in the PDF Style Sheet of the space. I have added the above but my export is not pagebreaking on h1 ??

Can anyone tell me where I went wrong?

Thanks

Gary


Answers:
author: Gary Febb
body: OK, just worked out me issue.

It seems that as the PDF Export generates the PDF the page title in the WIKI becomes a Level 1 Heading. This then pushed the heading I have in the page to a lower level.

So if I use:  
`h1, h2 {`  
`page-``break``-before: always; }`  
then my page breaks according to my h1 heading as they have just been pushed up to h2's.  
Gary


author: DavidH
body: Elsehwere in the documentation for the PDF export feature, it explains how all heading levels are demoted based on the overall hierarchy. Sometimes headings get demoted farther than you expect.


author: CharlesH
body: Similar issue reported here: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/103752/several-issues-with-pdf-stylesheet-output-for-confluence-4-3](/questions/103752/several-issues-with-pdf-stylesheet-output-for-confluence-4-3)

Which version of Confluence are you using?

comments: author: Gary Febb
body: I have version 4.3, and as per my post I already have the code in place. The link you provided is using my h1. {page-break-before: always;}. Only problem is that mine is not breaking on heading of level one when exported to PDF


Tags: export

pdf
Problem with "phantom" drafts
Asked by Andrew Cooper:

(PhantomDrafts.txt) We're running Confluence 4.2.13, and we have a problem whereby lots of Drafts are being created with no Creator, and no reference source page or title. The uploaded CSV file contains the records from the Content table in the database that show this problem.

The drafts have BodyContent and also attachments, if the source page had attachments. As can be seen in the CSV file many of these drafts are created over a short period of time. This results in the \<Confluence Home\>\\attachments folder getting big very quickly with many attachment copies.

What could be causing this behaviour?


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: I would suspect a web spider if your instance is publicly accessible and you have anonymous rights for editing.

If this is not the case, I would [enable user access logging](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Enable+User+Access+Logging) and see what happens based on the logs.

Cheers,

Peter


Tags: draft
Error Received the following HTTP error code from the server:0 in Confluence
Asked by jiraguy:

I can insert an issue onto a Confluence page, I can create a new issue from Confluence, but when I try to search for an issue in JIRA from Confluence I get the following error: "Received the following HTTP error code from the server:0"

Any ideas on what the issue could be? I don't think it is the application links if I am able to everything else.

Best,

Graham


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: This bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25329> is fixed in Confluence 5.1 (which will be released in the nearest future). While this bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27506> has been fixed in Confluence 5. I've confirmed that it's working fine in Confluence 5. Do give it a check.

Also, have released the latest [Confluence 5.0.3](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download) today.

comments: author: Greg Monahan
body: Having the same issue with Confluence 5.7.3

and JIRA v6.1.7#6163-sha1:94d557d


author: Jaime Gago
body: THis seems related to this

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27506>


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi,

This message seems similar to this bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25329>

I believe that it can help you. Please have a look. Hope that helps!

Regards,

Rodrigo


Tags: jira
How is Search Integrated between Atlassian OnDemand and Google Apps?
Asked by Lori Berthold:

I would like to understand how search is integrated between Atlassian OnDemand (with Confluence) and Google Apps. I understand that you can embed Google Docs and such in Confluence - when you search in Confluence, will it also search the Google Docs text?

Likewise, if you are in Google, if you do a search (which should search across Google Docs, Sites, Google Mail, etc, will content in Confluence also be searched?

We are moving our hosted Confluence environment to the Cloud via Atlassian OnDemand, but would like to understand the search capabilities better...

Thanks!

Lori Berthold


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: Hi Lori,

The plugins available with the on-demand version are described here:https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy

The GoogleDocs plugin is not amongst them. We do use this plugin within our on-premise installation of Confluence. This allows content from GoogleDocs to be embedded dynamically within a Confluence page, but that content is not indexed by the Confluence search engine. A crude work-around is to choose the page titles carefully to indicate the type of contrnt being pulled in, adding relevant labels and also HTML comments (standard macro i think) with relevant keywords for the indexer to pick up.

There's no common search in the other direction either, i.e. when in Google find content in Confluence.

Full details of what the GoogleDocs plugin does and doesn't do can be found here:https://www.appfusions.com/display/GDOCSC/Home

Might be worth contacting AppFusions directly about the possibility of implementing what you've described.

comments: author: Lori Berthold
body: Hi, Charles -

Thanks very much for your answer - that helps regarding the search piece...I do have a follow-up question though...I thought Google Apps integration came with Atlassian OnDemand? And that automatically allowed you to attach or add Google Docs to wiki pages? Is that incorrect? I didn't realize you needed a third-party plug-in?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=253231635>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Using+Google+Docs+with+Google+Apps+Integration>

Thanks,

Lori


author: CharlesH
body: Hi Lori,

Looks like the link I shared in my previous post needs updating with details of the GoogleDocs plugin - from the info you shared it would seem that this *IS* available in the on-demand offering, but only to those customers who have paid for its use. It's definitely functionality that comes from the AppFusions GoogleDocs plugin rather than standard Confluence.

Cheers,

Charles


Tags: app

cloud

google

search