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Signed SSL Cert for Confluence coming up - same process as the initial setup?
Asked by Bruce Garlock:

I have until June 21, 2017 to renew our signed SSL cert from Digicert, and I am wondering if I need to follow all the steps of generating a CSR and importing the signed cert from our CA, digicert, or if the renewal process is different.

Many thanks!


Answers:
author: Craig Nodwell
body: Yes, you do.


Tags: ssl
Unattended upgrade of Confluence
Asked by Danny Verkade:

Hi,

I would like to do a unattended upgrade of Confluence. I found this guide in the Atlassian documentation: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/unattended-installation-838416261.html>

This will actually install Confluence. When I'm running this now, it says it's already installed (which is correct), but I want to force the upgrade. How can I achieve this behaviour?

Here's the command I'm running:

```
./atlassian-confluence-6.2.0-x64.bin -q -varfile response.varfile
```

Here's the response.varfile I'm using:

```
#install4j response file for ConfluenceexecuteLauncherAction$Boolean=trueapp.install.service$Boolean=truesys.confirmedUpdateInstallationString=falselaunch.application$Boolean=falseexistingInstallationDir=/opt/atlassian/confluencesys.languageId=ensys.installationDir=/opt/atlassian/confluencebackupConfluence$Boolean=falsee
```


Answers:
author: Danny Verkade
body: I have fixed this issue. You can set this parameter to true on order to upgrade:

```
sys.confirmedUpdateInstallationString=true
```
Outside users
Asked by Raoul Kaiser:

We are using Confluence and Jira in our I.T. department only. How can I create confluence pages to allow those outside of I.T. but part of the company to view the confluence pages we create?

If I was to open this to the internet so any one can see then that would require building extra security and getting my sys admin involved etc etc.

I want to create a confluence page and just allow corp employees to view it.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The most simple approach is to create a new space for the non-IT folk, put your pages in that space and set the space access rights to "anonymous can see it".

Before doing that, check none of your other spaces use anonymous access.

Then you can point anybody who can see the server to that space and let them see everything in it.

There are more complex variations - making spaces anonymously readable in the same way, and then restricting parts of them, but I find the simple "one anonymous space" approach works best

comments: author: Raoul Kaiser
body: Doesn't that mean that someone outside of the company could run across it and could see it?


Tags: permission

user
Why can't I add labels to a blog post?
Asked by Laura Gribble:

A collegue has created a blog post in a space for which I am space admin. He forgot to add a label so it is not being pulled into the blog stream. I have tried to add a label but get a message saying I can only add personal labels.

Does anyone know a) why this is happening? and b) how I can fix it? I'd rather not have to delete the original and re-create it just to add the label, especially as that doesn't stop this happening in the future - it has happened before.

I also can't see an edit button, even though I have edit permissions and am on the list of editors in the restrictions. Is that related or a separate problem?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Laura Gribble](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/881665)

Look at this posts, maybe can help you

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtY7FDZ3WN4>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/add-remove-and-search-for-labels-136419.html>

Cheers


Tags: label
Codeblock macro turns one character into color pink - how to mitigate?
Asked by Michael Edinger:

In Codeblock: It looks kinda funny - just one character - how do I get it simply black ?


Answers:
author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Or you may select "Plain Text":

![screenshot.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1387i5E328F64658A02D8/image-dimensions/447x124?v=v2 "screenshot.png")


author: AnnWorley
body: You may edit the macro and clear the Syntax highlighting field, that should do it.


Tags: code-block
database
Asked by rehan choudhury:

can I use same postgresql database for jira and confluence


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: You may use the same PostgreSQL instance but not the same database.

comments: author: rehan choudhury
body: I have integrated jira service desk from jira software itself.How do I know jira service desk is using which database in same instance.


author: AnnWorley
body: JIRA Service Desk is an application that runs "on top of" JIRA Core so it does use the same database as JIRA. To see which database and server, check the **Database URL**on JIRA Admin\>System Info. It will be something like: jdbc:postgresql://\<server\>:\<portnumber\>/database_name


author: rehan choudhury
body: Can I make jira service desk to be installed in separate database.


author: AnnWorley
body: No, the JIRA Service Desk (JSD) tables are added to the JIRA database when JSD is installed, and are dependent upon it.

Please let us know what you would like to accomplish by installing it on a different database, maybe we can help with the use case.
Is there a tutorial on how to add Bob Swift CLI to Confluence?
Asked by Eric Dierkens:

Is there a tutorial on how to add Bob Swift CLI to Confluence? I'm not looking for the example CLI, I can't find where to add the code. Something more visual. I've installed the Bob Swift CLI for Conflience and can add it to a page, but I can't make it do any commands.

I'm also looking for a CLI language reference. Something similar to C# language reference that describe how variable are defind and the language structure.


Answers:
author: MattS
body: Beyond the documentation at <https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP>

I don't know of any. But the CLI usage is from the command line. Any add-on part installed in Confluence is to extend what the CLI can do


Tags: bob-swift

cli
Unable to interpret the value as a 'com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject'
Asked by Vitor LC:

Hi,

our logs are being flooded with the exception "com.servicerocket.confluence.randombits.support.core.param.InterpretationException: Unable to interpret the value as a 'com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject'".

A few lines further the following message is found: at net.customware.confluence.plugin.scaffolding.macro.list.ContentOptionsSource.\<init\>(ContentOptionsSource.java:75). It seems Scaffolding is the "culprit" but honestly I don't know what to make out of it... the plugin is up-to-date and we cleaned up the plugins cache to ensure there was no "trash".

Do you know what can be the cause?

Thank you


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Vitor,

did you already ask the vendor of the scaffolding plugin?

[http://support.servicerocket.com](http://support.servicerocket.com/)

comments: author: Vitor LC
body: Hi.

Wanted to check first if someone from the Community had already caught this and fix it...

Already created a ticket at ServiceRocket.

Thanks


Tags: addon-net.customware.confluence.plugin.scaffolding

addon-org.randombits.support.support-core

server

servicerocket
Render embedded images with Confluence with REST API
Asked by Simran Khalsa:

I'm using the following api to get page content to display in our website.

/rest/api/content?spaceKey=FAQ\&expand=body.view\&title=Reports

I'm able to retrieve the html but the images aren't displaying. Is this a bug or do I need to make an extra api call order to render the images?


Answers:
author: Simran Khalsa
body: I found that the images would appear when logged into my Confluence site. I enabled anonymous access for the space that I was trying to get the images from and it's working now. I did have to modify src="" in the \<img\> element by adding the base url name in front of the source url. Another option is to use basic authentication in the URL, as explained in <https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/atlassian-platform-common-components/rest-api-development/rest-and-os_authtype>.  
To use the basic authentication with rest API, you will have to insert the following parameters:  
os_username=internal-admin\&os_password=mypassword  
Replace the internal-admin and the mypassword for the correct information.  

If you don't authenticate against Confluence, the content won't be shown as the source of the image is still pointing to Confluence URL.  


Tags: rest-api
With the new confluence layout, how can you change the global footer?
Asked by G-man:

Hello,

When we started with Jira and Confluence, it was possible to add a footer for all you space pages. This was accomplished by adding a _footer-page on the root of your space and you could then set up this page in the Look and Feel section of the space tools.

Now apparently we made a mistake in those days by linking a _footer page with another space. Now today we wanted to make that space public, but we get an error on autorization as the _footer page is in a space that isn't public.

So I wanted to change this to use the _footer page from his space and not the other space, but I can't find how I can do this in the new confluence.

Any help appreciated!

Kind regards,

Gerbrand


Answers:
author: Summer Hogan
body: Hi [@G-man](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/66475) - I found this question that was answered a while back that may help you. I hope it does help!   
<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Customizing-Header-and-Footer-by-Space/qaq-p/892195>
Is it possible to set the default category for a spaces list macro?
Asked by Richard Beckett:

I'm trying to create list of specific spaces on the 'homepage' of my intranet and at the moment I'm using the Spaces List Macro which almost does the job.

The site has several category labels and I'm using a specific one to identify which spaces I want in my list. I'm using the macro in category mode and from the dropdown list the category I want to be the default is the third one. However the macro seems to default to the first item in the list and then remember on a user by user basis which option was selected last. Is there any way to override this or manipulate the list to get my desired functionality?

The category list doesn't seem have a reason for the order that categories are displayed? There is no logic I can see as to why the order is what it is, it certainly isn't alphabetic, nor does it appear to be the order the tags were created or the categories applied. If I could manipulate the order of the list, I wouldn't need to set a default as I could make the required one first.


Answers:
author: thais
body: Hi, Richard,

Thank you for the detailed description, I could replicate the behaviour of the Spaces List macro on our test instance.

We have the following open feature request for this at:

- [CONFCLOUD-25148 - Enforce a category in the spaces list macro](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-25148)

We suggest you add yourself as a watcher there to receive the latest updates and changes in status from the developers, adding any information you'd like to share in the comments. You can also find more information on our bug fixing policy [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/atlassian-cloud-bug-fixing-policy-206865884.html).  


Tags: cloud

list

space
Is there a way to migrate Assembla wiki to Confluence Server?
Asked by Peter Bengov:

Thanks


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Is there a way to export Assembla content to a standard format that Confluence might be able to read?

comments: author: Peter Bengov
body: Hi Nice, what would these formats be?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's some flexibility if you are happy to do scripting, but off-the-shelf, it'll happily read in Word (albeit individual pages) and simple text files. I've done a few imports with a "scrape existing site, run it through html2text to create one text file per page, run import"

With scripting or add-ons, you get a lot more power though. Even the REST interface can help with more complex "read some data, poke it into Confluence as a page"


author: Peter Bengov
body: Thanks. I'll review

Looks like Assembla offer a JSON export


author: Prashant Bhosale
body: Hey,

Did you find the way to move pages from Assembla to Confluence.


Tags: export

import

migration
Dashboard instead of login screen
Asked by Thomas Egger:

Hey guys,

can somebody please explain me why a Confluence installation does not show the login screen but displays the dashboard, even though I'm logged out?

Is there an option I have not known about yet?

Regards,

Thomas


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Thomas,

you can allow anonymous access to your Confluence spaces and pages. If you have some of these public spaces, your users do not have to log in. So, if you show them just a login screen, they don't know what to do.

But you're right, I sometimes have (mostly new) users calling me, because they don't see their information. Usually they are not logged in, and they didn't find the login function in the upper right corner.

comments: author: Thomas Egger
body: Hi Thomas,

there are no spaces with public access and under "Global permissions" it is turned off, too.

The problem is that users see the dashboard but they should be redirected to the login screen.


author: Alexey_Omelchenko
body: Thomas, did you manage to resolve the problem?


author: Thomas Egger
body: Honestly I can not remember the exact case anymore. Maybe it had something to do with a linked Knowledgebase for Jira Service Desk or something similar.


Tags: server
Is latest documentation for Confluence 6.2 available?
Asked by Swarna Radha:

Hi,

I want to have the latest documentation for Confluence 6.2.

Link: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/get-started-777010817.html>.

There are missing notes on the new templates like: DACI Decision, Health Monitor , Experience Canvas \& Project poster.

Kindly provide us with the link for the latest documentation

Thanks

Swarna


Answers:
author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: You can find information on all of those here

<https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays>


Tags: team-playbook
Multiple Ldap directories
Asked by ????? ???????:

I plan to use Confluence in an organization with multiple domains that have a trust relationship between them. In domains, there are tens of thousands of users, their names are repeated, but use confluence will not more than 500. Tell me, how best to configure confluence in my case?


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: I guess you need to figure out an LDAP filter that can give you the users that you need.

The best option will be to create a group in LDAP and put all those users who are supposed to use Confluence in that group and configure the LDAP filter in Confluence to use that group


Tags: ldap
JIRA Issue creation from Confluence
Asked by Matthew Hurley:

**Is there an feature or solution that allows users to create JIRA issue(s) from Confluence without navigating the user away from Confluence?**

++My goal++ is to create a Meeting Notes Template/Blueprint and include a JIRA Issue creator option.

The best issue creator, IMO, appears to be creating issues via direct HTML links:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA051/Creating+Issues+via+direct+HTML+links>

The downside is it navigates the user to JIRA. *I realize you can right-click and open a new tab so you don't lose your spot in Confluence. Nevertheless, I'm trying to make this as slick and easy to use/adopt as possible.* Is there a solution that will keep the user in one location so they don't have to navigate between the tools or toggle between tabs?


Answers:
author: Vladimir Horev _Raley_
body: Matthew, you can try [Jirassimo IntakeForms viewer](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.jirassimo.addons.intakeforms.confluence/cloud/overview) for your purpose

Best,

Vlad


author: AnnWorley
body: Matthew, Nic is right. There is a video of what he is describing on this blog post:

[5 ways to work with JIRA issues in Confluence](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/confluence/5-ways-work-jira-issues-confluence)

comments: author: Matthew Hurley
body: Thanks Ann!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you have the application links correct, then you can highlight lines or bullet points in Confluence, hover until the popup appears, then hit the JIRA logo - it'll turn each line or bullet into a JIRA issue, leaving the user in Confluence.

comments: author: Matthew Hurley
body: Thanks Nic. I appreciate it.
Is there a way to set a limit of versions in change history macro?
Asked by Miguel Rodriguez:

The change history macro is greeat to keep track of versions and edits to confluence pages, but it may get too long over time. IS ther a way to set it up to display only let's say the last 5 versions?


Answers:
author: Don Willis
body: Hi Miguel,

I'm sorry to say the change history macro does not have any parameters and puts no limit on the number of versions displayed. There is a feature request for this at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-32315>.

comments: author: Jo?l van Amerongen
body: Thanks, voted for!
Database Migration from PostgreSQL8.4 to Oracle12C
Asked by Navadeep M:

Hi,

We are planning for migration from PostgreSQL 8.4 to Oracle12C for our applications JIRA and Confluence.

Current version of JIRA is 6.3.12 and we are planning to upgrade to latest available version.

Current version of Confluence is 5.6.4 and we are planning to upgrade to latest available version.

Could anyone suggest on how to plan for migrate from PostgreSQL to Oracle12C.

Does any one did this earlier? If so could you please share the steps on how we can start this activity..

Thanks


Answers:
author: MattS
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira063/supported-platforms-683541780.html> shows the requirements for 6.3, e.g. no Oracle 12c. So if you upgrade to JIRA 7.2 say you are going to have to do it as a combination anyway.

XML export from 6.3 and postgres

New 7.2 install with Oracle 12c on a staging instance

XML import into 7.2

The problem is that postgres 8.4 is not supported in JIRA 7.2 either, so this one is going to involve more changes at once than Nic or I would recommend


author: Navadeep M
body: Thank you Nic and Matt for your inputs.

Also like to know, as we are migrating the data from PostgreSQL to Oracle 12C, are there any compatibility issues which I might come across ? Do I need to go from PostgresSQL 8.4 to Oracle 11g first and then to Oracle 12C ? Need your suggestions please..


author: MattS
body: Also, using XML backup to change the Confluence DB will mess up favorites for users but you don't have another choice


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: First, separate out "upgrade" from "change database". You don't really want to do them at the same time. You should always test these things, and if it all goes well, there is no problem booking one block of time to do both, but always do it one step at a time.

See

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/switching-databases-861253056.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-to-another-database-148867.html>

For the two docs on changing the database, and have a look at the standard "upgrade" docs for upgrading the two applications.


Tags: jira

migration

oracle

postgres
An error 400 confluence Application Link jira - confluence
Asked by Antonio Abril Ledesma:

Hi all,

I have two instances, one of jira and another of confluence that have over there an apache and an F5 load balancer.

I have jira linked with confluence by application link, the problem is I can?t view issues from a filter confluence page.

When I try to link a filter in a confluence page, the call are throwing 400 Bad Request error. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get any additional info on the errors from catalina.out because only show the call.

Anyone have any idea why they would be failing when i try to link the filter? In the application link, appear correct conected both instances.

Thanks a lot.

![error400.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1333iA9D8D4A0B8F0A780/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "error400.jpg")


Answers:
author: Antonio Abril Ledesma
body: Thanks Edwin, I?m working with token OAuth, from jira show conected but from confluence there is a message network error

comments: author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: You may have to import the ssl cert into the jvm for Confluence and restart


author: Antonio Abril Ledesma
body: Thanks again Edwin, now it works fine.  
Now i have another problem, do not recognize filters from confluence to jira... any idea?

Regards


author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: Take a look at my answer here and follow the same steps

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/JIRA-questions/Application-link-Jira-to-BitBucket-Server-via-nginx-https-all-in/qaq-p/582414>

Also make sure the application link is using \[OAuth (impersonation)\]


Tags: apache

application-link

load-balancer
Can the Confluence Space Blueprint be done on the cloud version?
Asked by angelasimmons27:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-blueprints/space-blueprints/write-a-simple-confluence-space-blueprint>


Answers:
author: Suren Raj
body: Hi, Angela.

You may refer to the following documentation on how to create space blueprint in confluence cloud:

* <https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/blueprints/>

Hope it helps.

comments: author: Christopher Chong
body: [@Suren Raj](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/510277) This does not seem to be an article on a Space Blueprint but rather Page Blueprints. Is there a way to create a blueprint for an entire Space?


Tags: atl-dev

blueprint

confluence-cloud
"Recent changes" macro not reflecting attachments
Asked by Klaus Pieper:

We have empty pages with Word document attached anduse the Office Connector macros to display the attachment as content.

We noticed that the "recent changes" macro does not reflect the change of an attachment. Is there any possibility to synchronize timestamps of modified attachments with the page change timestamp?

We could write a database trigger but that would not be our preferred solution.


Answers:
author: Craig Nodwell
body: I'd go with the attachments macro. It seems to be more accurate for this type of update.
Where does Confluence build its temp database on trial installation?
Asked by Blaine:

I have finished my evaluation of the software and am interested in establishing a Confluence instance running on my network. I installed Confluence for OSX with a temporary database because I wasn't ready to integrate MySQL at the time of installation. Now that I have MySQL ready I am trying to delete all Confluence directories/files and re-run the installation to a production version. The problem is that every time I build the two directories and launch on localhost to run through the installation wizard, Confluence recognizes the temp DB and loads the administration page.   

How do I properly delete that temp DB? Is there another method to resolve my issue?

Thanks.  
Blaine


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Blaine](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1132876) ,

H2 db file is store in \<confluence-home\>/database folder. Take a llok to the following article for more information <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/embedded-h2-database-145098285.html>

Fabio


Tags: install

mac

mysql
Is there a limit to the size of a Word document I can import into Confluence?
Asked by Jeffrey Bachman:

I was trying to import a 300 page Word document into Confluence page, but I ran into some issues, specifically that it didn't import at all. I was able to import a much smaller document of about 65 pages.

Is there a limit to the size of the document that can be imported (either in file size or page size) that can imported. I wasn't able to find one in the documentation.


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Please take a look at this document for details on limits: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/import-a-word-document-into-confluence-170493136.html>


Tags: import