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Using EXE or ZIP file to Install
Asked by KP11:

Hello,

I was told by previous MIS installed that when you use the \*.exe to install Confluence it causes problems on the server with ownership rights as opposed to using \*.ZIP file. Does anyone know if the issue was fixed with the EXE install? The problem is that the .EXE file ASSUMES that this is the only WEB application on the server. Any way around it? Jira \& Confluence on same server


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Hi Ken.

Please have a look at this article: [Installing Confluence and JIRA Together](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+Confluence+and+JIRA+Together). What do you mean when you say:
> The problem is that the .EXE file ASSUMES that this is the only WEB application on the server.

<br />

Are you having problems with the ports? You can modify the connection ports in the file \<INSTALLATION_DIR\>/conf/server.xml

If you want to access both application in the same port, you will need to start them in different ports and use a proxy listening in the common port. You can find more details of this configuration in my previous link.

comments: author: KP11
body: Our issue was due to the other software we run on the server plus mutilple Confluence. I need to get an answer from our MIS as to why there seems to be ownership issues with the web. I will probably have the same isssue with manual JIRA install. Is it safe to use the same config files 4.2.3 to Jira 5.2?


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Personally, I would reapply the settings to the new config file, just in case some new parameters were added, but I do not see why it should not work (for the server.xml).


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi KenP11,  

I'm not sure why it's happening this problem with .exe, but you can install the standalone version which is the .zip file. To install the standalone version is pretty easy, we just have to follow a few steps:

1. Go to [atlassian.com](http://atlassian.com) and download Confluence *(the standalone version)*
2. Extract the zip/tar.gz file of the latest version of Confluence on the place you choose. ( I highly suggest that you create a folder call: Confluence , and inside of this folder extract the install folder, and inside of the Confluence folder create a folder call: Home ).
3. Into the extracted folder, open the file confluence-init.properties, which is located at Confluence install directory\\confluence\\web-inf\\classes and edit the line: confluence.home=/usr/local/confluence/home to point to the path where is your new home folder of your Confluence.
4. Now start Confluence.

I hope this helps.  

Cheers,  

WZ


author: BernardoA
body: I believe you might check the file permission for Confluence Home folder and ensure the file ownership belongs to the user account who runs Tomcat.


author: KP11
body: The problem is that the .EXE file ASSUMES that this is the only WEB application on the server. Any way around it?
can't login to confluence.atlassian.com
Asked by Will:

Even after I reset my password at [confluence.attlassian.com](http://confluence.attlassian.com), I can't login. Did you close the site to non-atlassian employees? You used to be able to login and comment on the documentation.


Answers:
author: Will
body: ok, it was because i apparently have a different username on [confluence.atlassian.com](http://confluence.atlassian.com) than the rest of the [attlassian.com](http://attlassian.com) sites, and on [confluence.atlassian.com](http://confluence.atlassian.com) there is not a way to find out your username if you don't know it.


Tags: login

password

reset
Is there a way we can update or create content in confluence via email?
Asked by Krux:

Many apps and services (like tumblr, blogger, and evernote) have update-via-email features, with a dedicated email address, automatically creating a new post/note/entry from an email. Is there a feature that allows us to do this in confluence?


Answers:
author: Bruno Rosa
body: Hi There, actually, I don't believe this is currently possible on Confluence OnDemand. However, I agree with you that this could be a really good feature, thus I'd like to hear more about your thoughts, so we can perhaps open a feature request at jira.atlassian.com!

Cheers,


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confluence-cloud
Is there a way to restrict the color change for a team calendar?
Asked by Farzad Panahi:

Basically I want all the members of the team see the same color for a specific calendar. I don't want each person goes and customizes the color. If I can force this restriction I can make sure that everyone knows what each color represents and no one should be confused in a team meeting looking at the team calendars.


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Farzad,I'm afraid that isn't possible. I did a test in my local Team Calendars, but I don't have an option to restrict the color. Nevertheless, I found this feature request:<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-181>Which basically is saying that just the owner of the calendar will be able to choose the color.I would strongly suggest that you vote on this issue to increase its popularity and add it to your watchlist for future updates.I hope this helps.Cheers,WZ.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Using the Confluence plugin with Greenshot
Asked by Frank_Spafford:

Can anybody give me the steps to configure and use the Confluence plugin with Greenshot?

I understand the plugin makes it easy to attach screenshot imsages to Confluence, but I do not know how to use it.

Regards,

Frank


Answers:
author: boardtc
body: When you clip an image to greenshot you can select the option to upload to confluence:![confluence](http://snag.gy/FSDSR.jpg)

You need to have your confluence url set in the settings:

![settings](http://snag.gy/LrSLN.jpg)

Then you select your file and page to upload to:

![upload](http://snag.gy/d7Eoc.jpg)


author: Age de Boer
body: Besides entering the right url, which is just the base url, you'll also have to enable a setting in Confluence that allows for the submission of the image file to Confluence.

In the Administration section tick the 'Remote API' under 'Feature Settings' in 'General Configuration'.  
(This is for Confluence 5.3.4).

comments: author: Tom Davies
body: Thanks, this is now found under Administration \> General Configuration \> Further Configuration in version 5.9.2


author: Ville Manner
body: what is the address that should be written to greenshots settings ?

In using [https://mycompany.atlassian.net/](https://codebakers.atlassian.net/browse/KOS-89) ...

greenshot gives me "Welcome to [http://jira"](http://jira%22)


author: Frank_Spafford
body: Greenshot can be found at [http://getgreenshot.org/](http://getgreenshot.org/.). It has a plugin that is supposed to make it easy to upload a screenshot to Confluence. But the documentation is sparse.

I like Confluence and Greenshot, and can benefit from this feature if I knew how to use it.

Regards,

Frank


author: AlysonA
body: Hello there,

I tried researching around but I couldn't find any info on Confluence plugins with Greenshot. Can you please elaborate a little more on what you're trying to accomplish and what plugin you're referring to so we can try helping you through this?

Cheers
ViewSource bug? View Source versions of Confluence pages appearing in Google Search Results
Asked by Phil Gochenour:

In checking Google search results for our public Confluence space today, I came across some strange results, which are shown in the attached screenshot. The base URLs for all these is:

\<cite\>docs.**delphix** .com/plugins/**viewsource** /**view**pagesrc.action\</cite\>

with the page GUID appended. If you click through, you see a version of this page without any wrapper around it, just the content (which is formatted as it should be).

This is a very small subset of the total number of topics, and I cannot find anything that they have in common.

On further investigation, I was able to find many other examples of these search results for other publiclly accessible Confluence spaces, as shown in the second screen shot (which includes the search terms). What's slightly distressing is that some of these are https sites, so it seems that this bug might enable someone to see a secured page, even if it's in "source" format.

Can anyone explain to me why these pages are showing up in Google, and what the viewsource plugin has to do with it? I would really prefer that my content not show up in Google without the other information attached to it.![](../../upfiles/ViewSourceBug1.png)![](../../upfiles/ViewSourceBug2.png)


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: You can limit the search engine spider to getting to those pages by setting a robots.txt.

In the first comment of [Prevent Search Engine Indexing Using Robots.txt](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Prevent+Search+Engine+Indexing+Using+Robots.txt) there is a great example of one.

comments: author: Phil Gochenour
body: But the issue is that I want my site indexed and to show up in search results, I just don't know why these particular pages are showing up with the viewsource url. And, as I pointed out, there are other random pages from Confluence sites out there that you can find by searching on the View Source keywords, some of which are supposedly behind login firewalls. It don't think it's a question of setting up a robots.txt file, I think there's something strange going on with Confluence that exposes these pages in View Source mode to search engine indexing. Could it be something to do with Confluence caching pages in some way when they are being edited that exposes those page versions to indexing?


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google
Multiple Page Layout Definitions?
Asked by Camden Coyle:

In our confluence site we have some elements defined in the Page Layout that we would like to omit in a small number of pages, primarily the Space Home Pages. Is there a way to define more than one page layout in Confluence so that we can apply it to the home pages and omit the elements that we don't want?

Otherwise, Is there a way to edit the code for a given page to modify the default layout only for that page?

Thanks,

Camden


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: Are your page layouts defined with Velocity? If so then there is some scope here for having logic control what elements to include/exclude.

Have you seen this advice from Atlassian: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Custom+Decorator+Templates>


Tags: layout
Generating a List of User Names by Group
Asked by Camden Coyle:

I would like to generate a list of User Names by their Confluence Group Membership. I want to use this list to send email alerts to the users for maintenance outages, etc. Is there a way to do this within Confluence, or can you provide a SQL query that I could use to get it directly from the database?


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Camden,

You have either two options, to go to your Group Browser, and there have a list, but you still need to click next if there is lots of users. Or you can use the following query who will have the users by Group :)

```
select u.lower_email_address,g.group_name from cwd_user u inner join cwd_membership m on u.id=m.child_user_id inner join cwd_group g on g.id=m.parent_id order by g.group_name;
```

Hope this helps you, also I have made the query to select only emails and group names.

Cheers,

Guilherme

comments: author: Glenn Rees
body: For just one group

```
select DISTINCT u.lower_user_name, u.lower_email_address, g.group_name 
from cwd_user u 
inner join cwd_membership m 
on u.id=m.child_user_id inner join cwd_group g 
on g.id=m.parent_id 
where g.group_name = 'mygroup'
order by g.group_name;
```


author: Phil Evans
body: [@Glenn Rees](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3661757) this doesnt work


author: Monique Khairuliana
body: Tweaking Guilherme's sql query to add extra info of username, first and last name:  

```
select u.user_name, u.first_name, u.last_name, u.lower_email_address, g.group_name from cwd_user u inner join cwd_membership m on u.id=m.child_user_id inner join cwd_group g on g.id=m.parent_id order by g.group_name;
```

comments: author: Tyler Anderson
body: Why do I get this?

Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 35  
Invalid column name 'child_user_id'.

Completion time: 2021-05-26T13:47:30.0141037-04:00

When I change to just Child_ID I get a singular response.
Images error - Jira Confluence 5.2
Asked by Julissa Mendoza:

I got the following error after update to the Jira version 5.2. Now when i insert images in a confluence page and resize the image to small or medium, it disapears. By the other hand, the old images in the page aren't visible in browser.  
Attach evidence of my problem.  
![](../../../upfiles/image_error.JPG)  
Please help me. I m document writer in a company and JIRA is our principal work tool.


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

Does the image name has any spaces in them? recently this week there was a [bug report](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27233) concerning that, and we have raised a bug report to address the issue.

comments: author: Julissa Mendoza
body: Thanks for your answer Razaq,  
As a matter of fact, all my images names has spaces in them, and rename them is not a solution for us, because we have two years working in that way and there are a lot of images with this problem.  
I would like to know when the problem would be solved or if we can move to a Confluence version without this problem.


author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: I do understand that this is very important for you. I'd suggest you leave your concerns as a comment on the bug report so it would reflect how important is this for all customers. I believe that our devs are working on this matter and a fix should be on the way soon.


author: Julissa Mendoza
body: Thanks for your help Razaq,

I have copied my comment on the bug report.


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confluence-cloud
On install Confluence: This is not a valid url for JIRA 4.3 or later
Asked by eduardogula:

Jira installed on a server with Ubuntu 12.10.

I installed and chose to integrate Confluence users but with Jira returns me the error "This is not a valid url for JIRA 4.3 or later."

I've tried with the host that points to the server, with localhost, 127.0.0.1 and IP network, without success.

How do I work?  
Greats,  
Eduardo


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Eduardo,  

Actually this problem is pretty easy to fix.  

I wrote a KB for this problem as you can see here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Unable+to+Set+Up+the+User+Management+During+the+Installation>  

This will definitely help you.  

Cheers,  

WZ


author: Harry Chan
body: Are there any errors in the logs on both sides? Are you using OpenJDK[?](https://www.cloudshards.com/confluencehosting.php) If so switch to Oracle's. Which version of Java are you using[?](https://www.cloudshards.com/jirahosting.php)

I would setup Confluence locally and connect to JIRA after so it's easier to debug[.](https://www.cloudshards.com)


author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Eduardo,  

It sounds like you are setting up Confluence to use JIRA's user database, but the URL is invalid. Just to get some more background on what is going on here, can you answer these questions:  

\* What URL are you entering under "JIRA Base URL" in step4?  
\* Does that URL work if you access it in a web browser?  
\* Is that JIRA version 4.3 or later?  

Cheers  

comments: author: eduardogula
body: I removed and reinstalled the installation again.

He reaches in "Load users and groups from JIRA" and simply stop. The "Next" button becomes inactive and the images do not load.

Below, an image of the error.

![](http://www.alexsite.com.br/erro_confluence.png)

Greats,

Eduardo


Tags: jira
Adding a space watch/unwatch link to pages
Asked by Liam Jones:

Is there some way I can surface a watch/unwatch space link in page content rather than making the user go to Browse -\> Advanced?

My first thought, after built-in macros, was the link-to macro but that doesn't seem to have space watch/unwatch as an available target.

It looks like this might be possible via a user macro and velocity but I've never used velocity before and I'm having trouble working out how I'm going to do this.

Any pointers or existing solutions for this?


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

I did some quick tests on a 4.3.2 Confluence instance and basically if you go to **Space Admin \> Layout \> Page Layout** for example, you can use this code to display a watch icon:

```
&lt;div class="entity-watching" data-entity-id="$spaceKey" data-entity-type="space"&gt;     &lt;a class="icon icon-stop-watching" title="Stop watching this space"&gt;Stop watching this space&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;a class="icon icon-start-watching hidden" title="Start watching this space"&gt;Start watching this space&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;span class="icon icon-wait hidden"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
```

I hope this helps,

Peter

comments: author: Liam Jones
body: Thanks Peter. Doesn't quite work as-is for me since I need in in specific pages rather than across the whole space but certainly gets me 90% of the way there. :)


Tags: user-macro

velocity

watch
JIRA Macro - Is there a way to use it on a Confluence page in view mode?
Asked by Eduardo Mendes:

Hello everyone,

I have configured the JIRA Macro successfully in Confluence, but my company has two requirements which I am not sure I can address with it.

1) Users should not be able to click on the displayed JIRA issues, since they are not supposed to see their issues in JIRA itself. This would effectively mean disabling the links from the JIRA issues displayed in the Confluence page. Is this possible? How?

2) I can create a JIRA issue when editing a Confluence page, going to the menu 'Insert -\> JIRA issue'. But can this be done, in some other way, without editing the page? The final goal would be for a client without any knowledge whatsoever about Confluence to come into one of our Confluence pages, and simply create the issue in there in the most straightforward way.

I have searched on both these two topics, but did not get any info so far. So any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks a lot,

Eduardo


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hello Eduardo,

I strongly believe there is no way to accomplish both questions. What you could do is to open a feature request on those. This link can help you on that: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Creating+a+Feature+Request>

I'll leave this question open so other people can help too.

Regards,

Rodrigo Girardi Adami


Tags: app

jira-studio
TEXT IN TABLE TO BE MADE BOLD
Asked by Sozhavendhan M:

Hi

We are using Confluence 3.4.6

We have got a table in which the text in some rows are bold and some rows normal.

How to make it all bold.(Uniform)


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Edit the table to see what the difference in the markup is, and correct it.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, I thought so, you need to correct the markup. You've got \*s in there, which indicate the text between them is to be emboldened, and you're using them inconsistently - some have {} around them, others do not.

I'd start by remove all the \* characters and any braces around them, then see how it looks.


author: Sozhavendhan M
body: ()

In this table you can see that the font styling is not uniform


author: Sozhavendhan M
body: ()

bELOW IS THE WIKI MARK UP CODE.

{color:#666666}{\*}Chapter 0 : Pre-Chapter{\*}{color}

\| {align:left}\[Reference 0.001\|References - Chapter 1\^UNcharter.pdf\] {align} \| {align:left}\[Charter of the UN\|References - Chapter 1\^UNcharter.pdf\] {align} \|

\| {align:left}{color:#5083ac}\*\[Reference 0.002\|http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=ST/SGB/2012/1\]\*{color}{align} \| {align:left}{color:#5083ac}\*\[Staff Regulations (ST/SGB/2012/1)\|http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=ST/SGB/2012/1\]\*{color} {align} \|

\| {align:left}\[Reference 0.003\|http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=ST/SGB/2011/1\] {align} \| {align:left}\[Staff Rules and Staff Regulations of the United Nations (ST/SGB/2011/1)\|http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=ST/SGB/2011/1\] {align} \|

\| {align:left}{color:#5083ac}\*\[Reference 0.003\|http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=ST/SGB/2010/6\]\*{color}{color:#5083ac}\*\\\*\*{color} {align} \| {align:left}{color:#5083ac}\*\[Staff Rules (ST/SGB/2010/6)\|http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=ST/SGB/2010/6\]\*{color} {align} \|

\| {align:left}\[Reference 0.004\|http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=%20ST/SGB/Staff%20Rules/Appendix%20D/Rev.1\] {align} \| {align:left}\[Appendix D to Staff Rules\|http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=%20ST/SGB/Staff%20Rules/Appendix%20D/Rev.1\] {align} \|

\| {align:left}\[{color:#5083ac}{\*}Reference 0.004a{\*}{color}\|References - Chapter 0\^ST-SGB-StaffRules-AppendixD-Rev.1-Amend.1.pdf\] {align} \| {align:left}\[{color:#5083ac}{\*}Amendment to Appendix D to Staff Rules{\*}{color}\|References - Chapter 0\^ST-SGB-StaffRules-AppendixD-Rev.1-Amend.1.pdf\] {align} \|

\| {align:left}{color:#5083ac}\*\[Reference 0.004b\|\^0-004b.doc\]\*{color}{align} \| {align:left}{color:#5083ac}\*\[Consolidated Appendix D to Staff Rules\|\^0-004b.doc\]\*{color}{align} \|
Why can't I use my new 'swift run' plugin in Confluence, or find it in the macro browser?
Asked by pezjoker:

I am assuming I am missing something obvious ...

I purchased and installed the 10 user license for the [Run Plugin for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.run) to use with my 10 user downloaded instance of Confluence. I entered the license and the plugin indicates it is both enabled and valid.

When i go into a page and attempt to bring the macro up by typing {run ... i get the option to go to the macro browser (ie it doesn't recognize {run ) and once in the macro browser, i do not see the macro anywhere.

What am i missing here? The documentation doesn't seem to have any answers related to getting started, so i'm at a complete loss here.

I am using Confluence version 4.3.1 and version 3.0.0 of the run plugin. I do not have the macro security plugin installed, and for the most part, my Confluence instance is running in the out-of-the-box state and i have done very little in the way of configuration or changes of any sort.


Answers:
author: Tim
body: Well, this plugin is just not integrated in the macro browser. In order to use it, you need to edit the page and select "insert Wiki-Markup". Paste your run macro code in the popup, for example this:

```
{run:replace=name:$current_user_name:Name,happy:Yes:Are you happy?:radio::Yes::No|titleRun=Update page}[mypage - $name] page updated.{run}
```

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Correct and [RUN-76](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/RUN-76) will be available soon as well.


author: pezjoker
body: thanks... i would consider that 'missing something obvious' pretty much, right? :)


Tags: addon-org.swift.confluence.run
Do I need Confluence Administrator access to install Google Drive Plugin?
Asked by Mark Maisak:

I've scoured many resources, but having a hard time determining if I can get access to install plugins with an On Demand evaluation instance of Confluence. I don't see any of the Manage tabs or import options on the Plugin Manager page.

Reviewed Global permissions, but couldn't upgrade to Confluence Admin. Wondering if Sys Admin account could help me with permissions or let me know if this will be possible to evaluate this app along with our Confluence trial. Very interested in seeing this tool in action and considering implementing on my agency if it can be used successfully. Please advise. Thanks for the help.


Answers:
author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: Unfortunately, it is not allowed to install additional plugins in OnDemand. Only bundled plugins can be used, as per [Atlassian OnDemand Plugin Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy). This is due to some security, stability and testing concerns as the platform is shared.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud