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Can I revert a Confluence space that was created with "visible only to me"?
Asked by Amanda Chu:

I created a space checking "visible only to me" but now I want to make it public. Is this doable?


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Yes. In the left sidebar, you should see the icon "Space Tools". Click it, then click "Permissions", and you'll be able to manage exactly who can see your space.

comments: author: BillA
body: documentation can be found here <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Assigning+Space+Permissions>


author: Amanda Chu
body: I have read the space permission documentation but change a space from private to public is not specific. Any idea?


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Amanda,

In a nutshell, just go to the space only visible to you and then go to "space tools" button located in the bottom left of the screen. There, select permissions and you'll see just yourself in the permissions.

What you must do there is to add some groups or people and grant them the "view" permission so they will be able to see the space. You can also grant them the add page, and other permissions you'd like.

I hope this helps :)

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Amanda Chu
body: Thanks Rodrigo, will this remove the "red lock" by the space name?


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: No, the red lock only appears because of page-level restrictions. Those are accessible in the Tools menu on the page.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence to JIRA connection: BAD_PROTOCOL_VERSION
Asked by Yeou-Fang Wang:

We have Confluence version 3.2. We did JIRA upgrade from 4.4.3 to JIRA version 6.1.7 over the weekend. After the upgrade, we see error messages like this in the Confluence page where we have JIRA connection:

![](https://jplwiki.jpl.nasa.gov:8443/images/icons/emoticons/warning.gif)Errors were reported by the JIRA trusted connection.

* BAD_PROTOCOL_VERSION; Unsupported protocol version: {0}. required {1}; \["0","2"\]

Any idea how to fix this? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi, I found that there's a known bug refering this message [here](https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/APL-1143). Additional to that, you may also check your [application link version](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/APPLINKS/Application+Links+Version+Matrix), if you have the security patch applied as mentioned there, the application link won't work between your application's version.

Cheers


Tags: jira
Suggested best practices for working with Team Calendar?
Asked by Johan Lund:

So, we're testing Team Calendars and I'm trying to figure out what the optimal workflow it was designed to support. I have a number of roles that it needs to support but I don't really know where to start.

Team Leader:  
The TL has to keep track of all people and multiple projects on his team. Sales people and project managers go to the TL to ask if and when they can get resources. The TL needs a birds eye view. Currently TL's use Excel for this.

Project Manager:  
The PM lives in JIRA and Excel at the moment. He plans releases and figures out what resources are needed for what issues and follows up on progress. A PM needs to be able to figure out things like when people are available or not "how many days are free on this person to allocate", "are we breaking the budget on this issue" etc.

Developers:  
The developer needs to know what are expected of them and when. The Developer should be able to map out when he's on vacation etc.

Some questions that popup include:  
1. Should we have a personal calendar for each developer?  
2. How do we work with releases (we don't have JIRA Agile) are they at all useful except just displaying a desired release date? Usually there are many other important dates in relation to a release date such as internal testing start/end, customer Site Acceptance Test etc.  
3. We have never used JIRA for setting dates/estimates on issues before. What if we don't want to communicate this information to our customers (who collaborate with us inside JIRA).  
4. If we try to do project planning with JIRA/TC, how do you work with desired plan vs actual plan? What happens when a planned issue takes 3 times as much time?

I guess what I'm really asking is, how do you work with Team Calendars?


Answers:
author: Ron Summers
body: Johan, those are great questions. I'm surprised no one has responded yet, especially from Atlassian. Unfortunately, I don't have the answers, I just have the same questions. Like you we just started looking at and testing out TC so we have a lot of questions as well.

IMHO, the documenation for TC seems to be very sparse and incomplete.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Search in Page History
Asked by maytho:

Hi,

A user wants to reduce the number of pages (meeting protocolls) and therefor he would like to simple overwrite the protocol when a new meeting starts. Is it possible to search full text in a Page History?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Tthere is currently no way for search to include page history ... it would be cool if there was an option for it though.
Confluence space and page watchers
Asked by Paresh Gandhi:

In my space, my team members are atomatically getting added to watcher list at space level.

Is there any setting to remove this.


Answers:
author: rambabu patina
body: Hi,

As a space admin/confluence admin we can manage the watchers at page level. For space level manage watchers, the enhancement has been raised in [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22313.)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22313>. Vote for the issue to make priority high.

Thanks,

Patina


Tags: page

space

watcher
Can you bulk upload question and answers?
Asked by Graham Hemmings:

Hi, I'm moving an existing base of Q\&As from a different system into confluence, can this be done in bulk, and if so how?


Answers:
author: BillA
body: We've got a request for a documented REST API which would server this purpose. See <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-376>

Which system are you importing from?

comments: author: Graham Hemmings
body: Hi Bill.

In effect it's going to be a one off, the data is in [Salesforce.com](http://Salesforce.com), but I also have it as an excel file. What I'm looking to do is import the Q\&A's but also manipulate the date \& people (IE the person who asked the person\\people who answered)


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confluence-cloud
edit word document direct in confluence
Asked by Eka:

Hello together,

I'm using confluence 3.5.5

Is it possible to edit a word document direct in confluence, over the confluence editor and not over a redirection to ms office?

Best Regards


Answers:
author: Eka
body: Hello together,

thanks a lot for your answers.

You have really helped me!

Best Regards

Eka


author: Davin Studer
body: There is no way to edit a Word document in Confluence directly. The only thing that is available is the Office Connector plugin which will open Office and when you save it will push the changes into the wiki. I believe that is what you mean by "redirection to ms office".

Confluence is not Word and could never be Word. The best thing for editing Word documents is Word. You can render Word documents out to a page and even save a page to Word format but for editing Word files you need to use Word.


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello Eka,

you can install Office Connector plugin [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.extra.officeconnector)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.extra.officeconnector>

It allows to edit office documents in Confluence.

Hope this helps,

Fabio


author: Eka
body: Hello,

has anyone an idea?

Does Confluence anyway support this feature?

Best Regards

Eka


author: Eka
body: Hello,

has anyone an idea?

Does Confluence anyway support this feature?

Best Regards

Eka
// not working to add dates to tasks
Asked by Eric Sara:

I see the way you add a due date to a task is to type //.

However this is not working for me. I just get //. No option to select a date.

Can anyone advise what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,


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

I could make it work in the latest version of confluence 5.5.2. Maybe you can specify if this is happening to some specific Browser, which confluence version and if you have some layout customizations in confluence that might be harming the functionality.

Are you able to test on a confluence from scratch and check if this works?

Cheers,

Rodrigo
File List - Icon / message when a file is being modified?
Asked by Damien:

Hi,

Is there any method to display a icon/message when a file is being modified (whatever the file is - office or a image, ect...).

So the others team members will see that the file is being update (ideally by who) and avoid any changes at the same time (avoiding conflict or overwriting each other efforts).

This feature doesn't seem to be include in the File "List template".  

Thanks!  


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: There is a plugin the marketplace that will allow you to check out files and place a lock on them. [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.arsenale.plugins.lockpoint)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.arsenale.plugins.lockpoint>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, it's not synchronous like that. When a user opens a file for edit, the effective process is "download file, edit, upload new version".

A user could easily walk off after download, and never "close" the file by uploading or explicitly abandoning it, so Confluence can't "lock" it - it doesn't really know if the user really has it open or not.

(Cue call for "google docs interactive file editing", which would be lovely)

comments: author: Damien
body: Thanks for the answer!

What a shame there is no "notification system".

Would it be possible to restrict the modification of one or some files to a couple of users only?

I mean a group can see and modify the page, but only one or two can modify a specific file included in that page.

thanks in advance.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The permission to view a page is separate from edit, and from modifying files, that's all done by space permissions.

However, this applies to the whole space - you get access to ALL of the files in the space, or none of them, it's not selective.


Tags: confluence-administration
Task List Report
Asked by Eric Sara:

I see that you can create a page that is a report of all tasks.

When I click "Create" I cannot see this in the list.

Am I going about this the wrong way?


Answers:
author: Eric Sara
body: I gave this another go and it worked. Thaks for the help.


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Eric, let me ask you a couple questions :):

Did you create an application link between Confluence and JIRA?

Do your user have permission in the JIRA project you are trying to search for those tasks?

What are the steps your are following to achieve that end?

Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I open a internet hyperlink in a new or popup Window?
Asked by BRUCE BERGER:

The title pretty much says it all. I have several hyperlinks on my home page (space) and would like to open these in a new window. HTML is target="_new" or target="_blank" but I don't know how to get this to work.


Answers:
author: Svante Gustafsson Bj?rkegren
body: Hi Bruce,

You can do this by adding some custom HTML in the Confluence admin section.

Please refer to:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Force+Links+to+Open+in+a+New+Window)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Force+Links+to+Open+in+a+New+Window>

There is a complete walkthrough describing this!

Cheers,

// Svante


author: BRUCE BERGER
body: Thanks - kinda new in here...


author: BRUCE BERGER
body: *Thank you - solved the problem nicely!!*

comments: author: Svante Gustafsson Bj?rkegren
body: Great!

Glad to help! You can accept the anwser to show that the question has been answered.

Cheers,

// Svante


Tags: confluence-administration
How to use labels to cross reference pages
Asked by louis ortega:

Hi All,

Again, since I had asked another question I am fairly new as a confuence user and I am have set up a tree structure in confluence for documentation content I will be migrating from another Wiki. I understand the very basic of labels. So how can I leverage labels to cross reference to other pages (parent or child). Can you recommend a source in confluence such as a user manual? I am trying to get this done fairly quick and no one else here can tell me much. Thank you


Answers:
author: Wayne Wong
body: Hi,

Can you elaborate more what you're trying to achieve ?

In addition, you can refer to the documentation here for the confluence label usage:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Confluence+Labels)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Confluence+Labels>

Also, there is another free label plugin here which might help you for that.

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.labeltools)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.labeltools>

Thank you.

Hope these help.

<br />

Regards,

Wayne Wong

comments: author: louis ortega
body: Wayne,

Thank you for posting the links and your comments. Very helpful :)

Louis
Embed frames into a confluence page
Asked by Ewgenij Sokolovski:

Hello, community. I want to mebed two frames on a confluence page. The first frame contains an HTML form. The user inputs some data in it. After he clicks the "submit" button, he gets a result in the second frame which resides on the right. So, I want to achieve something like that:

```
&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;My Page&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;frameset cols="70%,30%"&gt;  &lt;frame src="input.html" name="input"&gt;  &lt;frame name="result"&gt;  &lt;noframes&gt;    &lt;body&gt;      &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Frames have to be enabled!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;/body&gt;  &lt;/noframes&gt;&lt;/frameset&gt;&lt;/html&gt;
```

I used the HTML-Macro first. But apparently it cannot work with paths on the server. When I supplied the source path of my first frame - \<frame src="/one/two/three/input.html"\> it could not display the content. OK, then I used the HTML-Include Macro and included the code above as URL. But now it says that no frames are enabled. So, what could I do?

BR

Ewgenij


Answers:
author: BRUCE BERGER
body: I would also like to know the answer - 160 followers!


author: BRUCE BERGER
body: Yes, I found it, installed it and it seems to be working.


author: Davin Studer
body: Does this "application already exist somewhere butyou just want to display in your wiki as well, or is this something new? If it already exists then you could use an iframe to show it in the wiki. The html macro could be used for this, or if you have the [content formatting macros](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros) (free) it comes with an iframe macro. You would simple use an iframe to show the existing site on the wiki page. If this is something new and you are set on using frames then again I would build this outside of Confluence and show it inside the wiki using an iframe (inline-frame).

comments: author: Ewgenij Sokolovski
body: OK, actually, it does not exist yet. I wanted to implement it in a confluence page :-) What do you mean by using content formatting macros?


author: Davin Studer
body: I provided the link in my above anser. It is a add on in the atlassian marketplace. Onve of the macros included is an iframe macro.


author: Ewgenij Sokolovski
body: OK, so is it the only way? Is there no possibility to implement it on a confluence page directly? I ask because I wanted to use the name of currently logged in user in page contents and also did not want to make a separate webpage, accessible outside of confluence.


author: Ewgenij Sokolovski
body: Apparently, nobody knows :-(


Tags: embed

frame
How to hide all user updates from one user on the main dashboard
Asked by John Shaw:

Hello,

I am working on a script using xmlrpc to update a confluence page once a day from tests that run over night. There are several pages that need to be updates, however, I do not want the updates to appear on the main dashboard's "Popular" stream, or even on the "All Updates" stream.

I have tried writing the pages using xmlrpc with the minor_edit set to True, but they still appear in both streams.

I have a specific user account that does not do anything else, so is there a way to just completely hide all updates from this user from the main dashboard?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Hi John

In **Confluence Admin \| Look \& Feel \| Custom HTML \| At the END of the HEAD**, paste:

```
var hiddenUser = 'david'; // Change this as required	AJS.toInit(function ($) {		var hideUpdates = function () {			AJS.$('#recent-updates a[data-username="' + hiddenUser + '"]').parents('.grouping,.stream-item').hide();		};			hideUpdates(); // for the initial page load		$('#recent-updates').ajaxComplete(hideUpdates); // for tab clicks	});
```

This will hide all updates from the user **david** and will also hide any updates when you click on different tabs in the activity stream.

comments: author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: @John Shaw: If it works, mark it as correct ;)


author: Jo
body: tried that. didn't work. any ideas?


author: Normann P. Nielsen - TDC/Netic
body: Hi David,

A similar script for the new (Modern) Dashboard?

BR,

Normann


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi John,

I believe there's no way to do that for some specific user, however you can do for all users by disabling some plugins as we can see in this [answer](/questions/103813/confluence-ability-to-hide-peoples-public-updates).
> go to the **Dashboard Macros** plugin, click **Manage plugin modules** and disable the **Popular Tab** module.

Cheers,

Rodrigo
Is there a way to grant someone access to edit ALL questions witout making them an Admin?
Asked by Martin Wasiak:

I am going through a Confluence Questions POC and have a request to allow one user access to edit ALL questions but not make him/her a Confluence Admin.

Is that even possible?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello Martin,

did you read this guide [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Permissions)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Permissions>?

Regards,

fabio

comments: author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: #### Permissions required to remove questions and answers {#toc-hId--653248930}

Users can delete their own questions, answers and comments. Users with Confluence Administrator permissions can delete any question or answer.

I think that also editing follows the same approach.


author: Martin Wasiak
body: So as I suspected, only Administrators are able to edit other users' questions. That's too bad and might be a show stopper.


Tags: confluence-administration
Where did my breadcrumbs go?
Asked by Chris Solgat:

We upgraded Confluence from 4.3.1 to 5.5 last week. After setting the Global Theme to the new Default theme, the metadata icons (permission padlock and attachment paperclip) are just hanging out in the middle of the pages. In researching, I noticed that the icons should follow directly behind the breadcrumbs. I do not have any breadcrumbs visible. All of my decorator layouts are set to default.


Answers:
author: Chris Solgat
body: Nevermind, we had a custom stylesheet that carried over from the old version. Once we cleared out the stylesheet customizations, everything is as it should be.


Tags: confluence-administration
Export template to be available for other confluence instances
Asked by Difikra Admin:

I have made a new template that I need to share with other collegues. I didn't find an export feature for templates. When I searched answers I got this link of a workaround [](/questions/39200/is-there-a-way-to-export-a-global-template-for-use-in-another-instance-of-confluence)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/39200/is-there-a-way-to-export-a-global-template-for-use-in-another-instance-of-confluence>

which even doesn't work as of current Confluence 5.x

Is there a way to perform this in a clean way?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Difikra, most of workaround that have been mentioned require an installed version, or to have people on the same instance/network. Nevertheless this has been brought up previously, and was a request filed under this [bug tracker ticket](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30778).

You may post your usage case to that thread, and encourage others to do so as means to increase the feature request visibility. More about how we categorize new feature requests can be [reviewed here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy).

comments: author: Difikra Admin
body: I have added comment, and voted for the feature.


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Difikra,

One Idea would be this:

1. Create a space (let's say templates).
2. Then add a new page with the name of the global template you want to share.
3. In a new tab open that global template.
4. While both pages are in edit mode, copy the contents from the global template to this new created page.
5. Give those colleagues access to that space.

Another option would be to us the [source editor plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor) (it's free) and then click in the '\<\>' icon while in editing the desired template you will be able to get the storage format code.

Doing that you can save it into a file and send to the colleagues you want and then these colleagues can add the this code into their template using the source code editor.

Is not an optimal solution but I hope it helps.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: Difikra Admin
body: Other colleagues are not on same company to access another space, it is like I want to share to anonyomous.

The source editor plugin is not available for onDemand Confluence.

I really don't know why this is that hard???????


author: vboerner
body: the sourceeditor is a good idea, thank you (even if the variables are not!! copied correctly, i found this as the best way)


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confluence-cloud