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SharePoint Connector for Confluence 4.0 timeline
Asked by Richard Scorgie:

Need the SharePoint Connector for Confluence 4.0 for an Enterprise installation that is due out in early January 2012.

Anyone know when this will be available?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hey Richard,

<br />

We're working on a 4.0-compatible release right now! At this stage, I am planning to have it relased before Christmas. However, if any critical problems are detected during our final acceptance testing, the release may be delayed further.

You might be pushing pretty close to the line by hoping to have something up and running with it in January, but I'll do my best to get it out in time for you.

:-)

comments: author: Richard Scorgie
body: That is great news!

I have not been able to figure out another way to get people into the proper group using LDAP since we have so much SSO here. I have to do it all manually. :)


Tags: sharepoint
Missing attachments after spaces migration from 3.0.1 to 3.4.6
Asked by John Cottier:

We have just completed a spaces migration from Confluence 3.0.1 to 3.4.6, all textual content has been imported but none of the attachments.

I have run the 'find missing attachments' script for v 3.4.6 and a list of missing attachments is created, as a result I have created a set of directories containing the original source file in the original format (.JPG/.pdf etc), but the 'find and recover missing attachments' script simply re-lists the missing attachments in the same paths as the files I have copied to the Wiki server, and recovers none of the attachments.

Is there something else I can do here to ensure the attachments are 'attached' to the correct pages?

TIA


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hey John, where were your attachments stored in your Confluence 3.0.1 instance? In the database or on the filesystem in your $CONFLUENCE_HOME directory? Did you copy over the existing $CONFLUENCE_HOME when you migrated?
AutoExport plugin outputting XML not HTML for macros
Asked by Dan Winfield:

Hi

I am trying to use the AutoExport plugin for Confluence. I have the latest version of both running.

The export works fine except that the content is not 100% HTML.

As an example, the ouput for a link is ...

\<AC:LINK\>\<RI:PAGE ri:content-title="The page you are linking to"\>\</AC:LINK\>

Is there a way to get HTML out of the AutoExport rather than this? The RI:PAGE tag isn't even XML!

Any help would be appreciated. I will have to process the export otherwise before I can use it.

Thanks in advance

Dan


Answers:
author: Philip Cher
body: Here is the link to the bug ticket:-

* <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/AUTOEXP-13>


author: Dan Winfield
body: Just to clarify, this was using the default template in Confluence.


author: Joe Clark
body: Hey - thanks for reporting this! Sounds like there may be a bug in the AutoExport plugin for Confluence 4. The XML you are seeing is the XHTML Storage Format that Confluence uses to persist page data. It should be passed through Confluence's render pipeline to produce HTML before the AutoExport plugin spits it out.

I'll link this question to one of the developers and see if we can reproduce the problem and fix it.

comments: author: Dan Winfield
body: Thx Joseph,

Can you let me know if I can work around it with some velocity code or any other method?

Dan
Does Confluence 4 support searching in a zip file?
Asked by Weijing:

Is it passible to search a word which in a archive file?


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Not at the moment. You can keep an eye on this request if you wish - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6510.> Also, see a list of searchable attachments in Confluence - <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Searching+Confluence>

Hope that helps!

-Hanis-


author: Homer Zaloum
body: I have the same problem. I need to search docx, xlsx files. I tried and it doesn't work even though the feature page does indeed say that this is possible. Could you please advise on whether this is possible, and, if not, whether there is a support Atlassian Marketplace plugin which could solve this issue?

Many thanks


author: Thomas Krause
body: On the Confluence Full Feature List page [](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/features)<https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/features>zip files are listed as being able to be searched.

![](../../upfiles/2014-07-23_14_51_41-Confluence_-_Full_Features_List___Atlassian.png)

I can't confirm this. I was not able to create a zip file (containing text, PDF etc.) where content is indexed.

Any idea how to reduce the confusion?
Unable to insert JIRA Issue
Asked by Justin Wyer:

When attempting to insert a JIRA issue into a page it is unable to find any issues and if I choose to create a new issue the project drop down is empty.

The JIRA project is configured in the space admin and I can insert JIRA issues macro without any problems.


Answers:
author: NikE
body: The situation you are experiencing is due to a small bug in the current version of OnDemand. [The bug report.](https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-5515 "Issue Tracker")

This issue will be fixed in the near future, but in the meantime, if you open a [support request](https://support.atlassian.com/ "Support Request") we can apply the work-around on your account and resolve this issue for you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
RSS in Confluence without (server-side) Internet?
Asked by Stephan Haslinger:

Hi,

our Intranet Confluence server has intendedly no access to the internet. Does anyone know a plugin/widged that allows to embedd an RSS feed that retreives the data via the client's internet connection?

Regards,

Stephan


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Try bundling this jQuery RSS feed plugin as a user macro:<http://www.zazar.net/developers/jquery/zrssfeed/>

comments: author: Stephan Haslinger
body: Hi David,

thank you! That was exactly what I was looking for.

Regards,

Stephan


Tags: client

rss
Trouble logging into Confluence for first time
Asked by Lachlan M:

I signed up for the 30 day trial of Jira and Confluence. In the my.attlassian page it says I am subscribed to both products. When I my domain.atlassian it logs into Jira, but I can't see how to switch to Confluence.

Do I have to download Confluence to my computer or can I use it in web browser? If so, how do I log onto confluence rather than jira?


Answers:
author: Lachlan M
body: I think it is just the wiki tab. I thought this was part of Jira, but now think it is Confluence. Please let me know if this is not right!

comments: author: Michael Knight
body: You're quite right. Everything under the 'wiki' tab is Confluence.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can the "4.0 Upgrade" process be run for a specific page?
Asked by Normand Brousseau:

I've just installed Confluence v4.0.3 in a test instance, and I find myself stuck with obsolete (non-XHTML) macros impeding conversion of their contents (both being displayed inside wiki markup code blocks), such as in the following example:

```
{table-plus:heading=1|autoTotal=true|enableSorting=false|columnTypes=S,S,I,I}|| Type de t?che \\ || Instance \\ || Nb de t?ches \\concurrentes \\ || Sous-totaux \\ |||| Transactions CICS \\ | CICSPRA \\(web) \\ | 15 \\ || 33 ||| | CICSPR1 \\ | 15 \\ | || | CICSPR2 \\ | 3 \\ | ||| DBSRVPR1 \\(acc?s SQL) \\ | APR1J1A \\ | 9 \\ || 28 ||| | APR1J1B \\ | 9 \\ | || | APR1O1 \\ | 4 \\ | || | APR1T1 \\ | 6 \\ | ||| Batch (reste) \\ | | 21 \\ || 21 \\ ||{table-plus}
```

So now editing the table has become VERY annoying... Is there a way to get rid of the wiki markup? -- e.g. delete references to the "wiki" macro (table-plus, which I don't mind losing), save the page and (magically) run the 4.0 Upgrade process on this specific page, so that the wiki table becomes an XHTML editable one?

Thanks,

Normand Brousseau


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: I don't think there is any way to run the migration on just a single page. However, you can re-run the site wide migration process at any time from the admin menu (the migration is idempotent), and it will pick up and migrate any pages that are now capable of being migrated to xhtml.

comments: author: Normand Brousseau
body: Hey Joseph, great stuff! I deleted both "table-plus" lines in the Wiki code block, manually ran the global migration process (even though Confluence told me it wasn't needed), and automagically my table was converted..

Thanks!

Normand


Tags: upgrade

xhtml
Bug or feature: Pages are orphaned after restore from trash
Asked by Alexander Seith:

Hi community,

I've come across of a (at least for me) weird functionality in Confluence and I'm wondering if this is a feature or a bug. When retrieving a page from the space's trash, the page will be restored to the root of the space, and not - as I would expect it - to be restored to the exact location in the page tree where it existed before. This results in the page to be orphaned.

According to the documentation at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+a+Deleted+Page> this behaviour is normal, but then again I feel that the correct behaviour would be that the page would 'be restored to the exact location in the page tree where it existed before'.

How do you feel about it? Is it a bug or a feature? Do you know some workaround? Love to hear your thoughts!

Regards

Alex


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: This, in my personal opinion, is a feature. There is no guarantee if the old parent page still exists after the child page restoration, hence, it would be safe to restore to the root level instead.

Related improvement request: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6451


Tags: orphan

restore
How to disable on the selected pages, Add comments?
Asked by Martin Martin:

Hi all,

we use the long time Confluence ver. 2.10

Now on one project we need to disable the Add Commnet for selected pages.

We want to disable the project [faq.2n.cz](http://faq.2n.cz "faq.2n.cz") Add comment on the first and second level pages.

I searched throughout the forum without success to solve.

Please try to help us.

Thanks


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Hi Martin,

There is no built-in feature to disable comments on specific page, I'm afraid. Confluence can only control permissions of a specific user/group to allow/disallow them to create comments throughout the entire space.

P/S: more information about this request can be found at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7742>

-Hanis-
Is there a way to prevent users from "watching" specific pages?
Asked by EliaA:

We have pages on our wiki that contain sensitive information like username/passwords for various accounts. We would like to disable the ability for users to "watch" these pages because otherwise it is possible for those username/passwords to end up in their inbox as an email notification of the changes.


Answers:
author: Andrei [errno]
body: I would suggest using <http://keepass.info> tool and attach a secure kdbx file to your page.   
That's how we do it.

more info on KeePass (great tool, btw)

- <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass>


Tags: watch
Searching in confluence with search fields - big mysteries...
Asked by Sven:

I try to use the documented searchfields as indicated here:  
<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Fields>

Unfortunately some are not working at all - perhaps someone could give me some hints here?

I will just list here what I enter and what I would expect...

* creatorName/lastModifiers/ (and other Fields, searching for Users). I enter  
  creatorName:sven  
  and would expect to see all pages, created by me. But no result at all. My userentry is as follows:  
  User: sven  
  Full Name: Sv  
  Email: somemail@somedomain.net  
  Directory: Active Directory server  
  Created: 2011-11-14 15:27  
  Last Updated: 2011-11-22 16:23  
  Login: Last Login: 2011-11-22 16:23 Current Failed Login Count: 0  
  =\> I tried "sven", "Sv" with no luck. Even with a "internal" user account (e.g. "admin") it is not working at all!

<!-- -->

* search for "username" is working to find personal pages, but search for "fullName" is not working at all?

<!-- -->

* in "Attachments"-Fields is here always "type=attachment", or is somewhere a possibility to get the filetype?  
  (as workaround searching for e.g. "filename:xls" is working...)

<!-- -->

* in "mail item"-fields, what is here the content in the "inreplyto"-field?

Finally a "completely misssing documentation" question: How to search for "userpermission"-field? Whats in that field, how to search for it?

Thanks in advance for any hint!

Bye

Sven


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: 1. Searches for **creatorName** or **fullName** are working for me, maybe this is because your users are stored in a different directory (Active Directory)?

2. Yes, the **type** of all attachments is **attachment** . There is also a field called **attachment-mime-type** which stores the content type of the attachment, but I'm not sure if it is also searchable.

3. **inreplyto** contains the the id of the message, it replied to or nothing if it's a new message

I would suggest to download [Luke](http://code.google.com/p/luke/) to analyze the content of your lucene index. From the [Confluence documentation](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+Index+Administration#ContentIndexAdministration-ViewingtheIndexBrowser):
> If you need to see more details of the indexed pages in your Confluence site, you can download and run Luke. Luke is a development and diagnostic tool that accesses existing Lucene indexes and allows you to display and modify their content in several ways.

With Luke you could also check, what is stored in the fields creatorName/fullName fields when using Active Directory.

Hope this helps
LDAP Synchronization Additions
Asked by Christian Christian:

We have setup LDAP/AD synchronzation and want to use more information from our LDAP/AD like telephone numbers, birthday, ...

Looking on the LDAP/AD configuration I do only find parameters like firstname, lastname, displayname, mail

Is there a way to "extend" those parameters to use more information?

thanks,

Christian


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Christian!

We have a feature request [for that here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5286). Since it was not implemented in Confluence yet, you can use a third-party plugins called [User Profile Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userprofile).

Hope it helps :)
Confluence 4.0 "Most popular content" list
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

Is there some way to make the list of the most popular pages on the Space Activity tab appear elsewhere, for example on the home page of a space or in a sidebar?


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Robert,

The stats in the Activity tab are provided by the bundled Confluence Usage Stats Plugin which has a {popular-content} macro.

To display on the home page of a Space just edit the page and select Insert -\> Other Macros and search for "popular". You can also wrap the popular-content macro with a {chart} macro so the data retrieved by the {popular-content} macro can be used as the input data for the {chart}

Details of the values you can use for the parameters are available at <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/USGTRK/Confluence+Usage+Tracking+Plugin> (the docs are for Confluence 3.x, but most of it is still valid for 4.x)

Hope that helps,

Andrew.

comments: author: Tomas Zubov
body: is there a way to display this with same layout as recently updated?

These are two things, that are displayed together on homepage of majority of KBs, but in confluence both look completely different, so when you place it next to each other it looks horrible.

Thanks for reply


Tags: popular

report
Customer stories on Requirements Management with Confluence
Asked by Tommy Nordahl:

One of our customers is interested in using Confluence for managing their requirements (currently managed in Excel).  
I want to know if there are any **printed** customer stories (pro's \& con's) that can be used when discussion requirements management in Confluence (in combination with JIRA).

Their needs are not unique, they need hierarchy, traceability, searchability, support for parallel development of requirements, version handling etc...

I'm just curious if there are any customer references out there, it might strengthen our case.

Br  
Tommy


Answers:
author: Tommy Nordahl
body: Answered by Requrements Blueprints


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: In case the answers below were not complete, I'm doing a survey about Requirement Management with Atlassian tools, hoping to answer any lack of feature by launching a future add-on: <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gvyPH3mgXgJubgPJB8pVilhzaSn-GUxMgD9G0YkVhbg/viewform>


author: Sanjiva Nath
body: Here's a case study for Requirements Management within Confluence, integrated with JIRA.

<http://www.zagile.com/home/SIX_study_case.html>


author: Sanjiva Nath
body: We have several case studies in progress with zAgile Wikidsmart (see Wikidsmart PM at [www.zAgile.com](http://www.zAgile.com) - a plug-in to Confluence and platform for content interchange between Confluence, JIRA and other tools and applications). Or just let me know if there are any specific questions or contacts that could help.

-andrew


Tags: management

requirement
Can I specify a link in a panel title (On-Demand)?
Asked by Barbara Green:

In my current hosted Confluence (3.5), I can set a page link in the panel title. When I try to do the same thing in OnDemand, I get

**Unable to render content due to system error: null**

Is this related to Confluence 4, OnDemand, or both? The original markup for the panel was:

```
{panel:title=[Concepts]|borderColor=#F89820|borderWidth=1|bgcolor="f9f9ff"}
```

My test instance of OnDemand lets me specife \[Concepts\] in the macro dialog, but then cannot render the title.

Thanks,

Barbara  


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Barbara,

I just tried this on a local Confluence 4.0.5 install and get the same behaviour as yourself so it looks like a Confluence 4.x thing rather than an onDemand thing.

Looks like it's a known issue (<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23669>) which is still open at the moment so no way around it unfortunately.

Andrew.

comments: author: Barbara Green
body: Thanks, Andrew. Frustrating.


author: Barbara Green
body: Also, I used to be able to create a link around an entire panel (title and body). That also seems to have changed?


Tags: cloud

panel
Embedding google search box within Confluence pages
Asked by Tim Milner:

Hi, I am unable to find an appropriate response to this question in the forums or online. Are we able to embed a standard google search box within our Confluence pages? So that entering our search term into this box within a Confluence page would take us to the results page on google.

Is this something that can be done?

Thanks,

Tim


Answers:
author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: Basically there are two ways of doing this:

**Globally:**

You can insert a google search box at the bottom (or wherever else you like) by injecting html via javascript. Browse to Administration \> Look and Feel \> Custom HTML \> "At end of the BODY" \> Edit, paste the following:

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;AJS.$('#main').append('&lt;form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"&gt;\&lt;input type="text" name="q" maxlength="255" /&gt;\&lt;input type="submit" value="Google Search" /&gt;\&lt;/form&gt;');&lt;/script&gt;
```

**Per Page:**

If you don't want a search box on every page, it's also possible to [create you own macro](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Writing+User+Macros) which you can do at Administration \> Configuration \> User Macros and using the following (rendered) html:

```
&lt;form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="q" maxlength="255" /&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Google Search" /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;
```

Good luck!

comments: author: Tim Milner
body: That's worked like a dream! Thanks Dennis, and Happy Christmas!


author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: Good to hear Tim, please mark the question as answered so that more people can use this information :) Merry Christmas to you too!
configuring or deactivating the GA integration badges
Asked by Ben Skelton:

Hi

we've signed up with GA integration. On the bottom left corner of the application there are some icons for various GA services: AOD, Mail, Calendar, Sites, Docs etc.

Our domain is configured without Sites and Docs, but these icons still appears and annoyingly when users click on them they get a message that those services are inactive for our domain.

We would like to either be able to configure which of these icons are present, or better still deactivate them completely. Is this possible, and if so, how?

cheers,  
--Ben


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: It's not possible to disable individual icons. If you'd like to have the whole bar turned off, you can try submitting a [Support request](https://support.atlassian.com) and asking the support engineer to disable the "omnibar-plugin" for JIRA and Confluence. We don't really officially support doing this but I expect it will be OK :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Google Apps integrated confluence. How to disable JIRA as landing page
Asked by Ben Skelton:

Hi,

we've signed up to experiment with with GA integrated confluence. In order to get the GA integration we have signed up also for jira although nobody in our organization will use this. The integration with GA is worth the additional cost.

What we'd like to do however, is switch off jira for all users and in particular not to have jira as the landing page when we come to AOD. This is so as not to confuse anybody in our organization with stuff they don't know about or use.

While we can hide the tabs in the UI, we still land on the Jira dashboard. Is there a way to configure the system to land on the confluence dashboard instead?

cheers,  
--Ben


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: If you revoke application access to JIRA for all users, then it should redirect them to the Confluence dashbaord after they login.

Information on how to revoke application access can be [found here](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+application+access).

comments: author: Ben Skelton
body: Thanks Michael.

It turns out that you can't disable Jira for administrator users and other user's will still be confronted with the Jira dashboard page on login. That's enough confusion (our users are very simple people) for us to look at the jira-less option.

cheers,  
--Ben


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How does one edit a link tip in Confluence 4 that was migrated from 3.5
Asked by Colin Jones:

How does one edit a link tip in Confluence 4 that was migrated from 3.5


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hi Colin,

If this link is on an existing page, are you getting any error when trying to edit it manually during a page edit?

Alternatively, you can change it via database if it's not possible through the GUI. Just go to the BODY_CONTENT table that stores the content for all pages and look for the *contentid* of the offending page (should be on the CONTENT table).

Please let me know if I understood you correctly here.

Cheers!


author: LuizA
body: Hello Colin,

To better help you I would suggest to raise a support ticket at our [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) and then explain a little more to us your scenario and what you need with your Confluence 4, unfortunately just per this description is not so clear.

Best Regards,

LJ.