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WebDav vs Universial Wiki Convertor for SharePoint Conversion
Asked by JT:

I have a team that would like to convert their SharePoint wiki into Confluence. It appears I can do this using either WebDav or the UWC. Does anyone have any experience with converting SharePoint? Any benefits in using one tool over the other?


Answers:
author: Laura Kolker
body: I wouldn't use the UWC for Sharepoint conversion at this time unless you're planning to develop against it. Good luck!


Tags: universal-wiki-converter

webdav
Licensing cold-failover servers..
Asked by Jason Pepper:

If I have a 100 user licence for my production confluence server, what sort of licence do I need for a cold-failover server ?

Do I need another 100 user licence ?

I have looked at the FAQ and in the documentation, I was wondering if I could use a development licence to cover that ?


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Jason,

Yes, you can use a development license to cover a cold-failover server - <http://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing#licensing-9>

"Developer licenses can also be used for non-production installations of our software deployed on a cold stand-by server."

I've used developer licenses for cold standby servers in the past and haven't run into any technical or licensing issues.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

comments: author: Jason Pepper
body: top man.. thanks


author: amagi pe
body: Im planing to deploy a cold stand-by server for failover puroposes for our production instance. Does development license apply in this case?


author: Harry Chan
body: Since the cold failover is non-production, it does apply. You always only have ONE single server as production with this solution[.](https://www.cloudshards.com/confluencehosting.php)


author: Henry Chew
body: Topping the question,

Can both Active and cold standby server connect to one single mysql database?


author: ragesh punathil
body: For cold failover we have to keep the databse and home directory seperatly ?  


author: Stefan Broda
body: On the topic of failover: Atlassian has just released a dedicated best practice guide for High Availability. It covers a cold failover scenario and includes implementation details on reverse proxying, monitoring, replication and failover mechanisms:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ATLAS/Failover+for+JIRA>


Tags: licence
Team calendars & Feedbuilder or RSS or subscribe to multiple at once? Please?
Asked by M:

I'd like to take an RSS feed directly from the My Calendar View - rather than subscribing to individual calendars.

And/Or

When I am looking at a number of calendars e.g. Release sched, Vacation Calendar etc. I'd like to capture that as an RSS or subscribe rather than having to do multiple.

This would be v handy for iphone/android or other desktop calendar applications.


Answers:
author: Matthew Erickson
body: Hi Chance,

You can raise a feature request on the Team Calendars issue tracker [here](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL). In fact it looks like there is already a request for this kind of functionality: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-261>. You might want to vote on that issue and (optionally) add a comment.

Cheers  
Matt


Tags: feed

rss

team-calendars-for-confluence
Hiding the recent blog posts panel
Asked by Wesley Monroe:

Is it possible to hide the recent blog posts panel that show up on the right when you view a blog post? Its affecting the layout of my blog entry.


Answers:
author: SimonS
body: Hi purpleHey,

This isn't super-easy to do, but you can hide it globally by editing the default Confluence CSS:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS>

Please note that this option is not available for OnDemand.

-Simon


Tags: blog

cloud

confluence-cloud
Unclear license cost
Asked by Filip Traugott:

In your "Licensing \& Purchasing FAQ" it seems like the cost is $10 for both Jira and Confluence, but when I click on Buy the cost is $20.

What is the A la cart pricing? is it $10 per product.

Please clarify this for me.


Answers:
author: Matthew Hunter
body: As Renjith said, it's $10 for 10 users for each products, so JIRA costs $10 and Confluence costs $10.

Playing around with <https://my.atlassian.com/ondemand/signup> is your best guide on how much things cost. :)

Cheers,

Matt


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Each one costs $10 for Starter License.


Tags: cloud

integration

licence
Two-Dimensional Filter Statistics as a Gadget in Atlassian OnDemand
Asked by Danielle Johnston:

I've been looking through Atlassian's documentation and I believe that I should be able to view the results of a filter in JIRA's Two-Dimensional Filter Statistics Gadget in a Confluence instance. Though I've added the XML path for the gadget to application links and can select the option in the macro browser, I cannot define the filter or statistics to view from Confluence.

When I've looked for instructions on embedding JIRA gadgets in Confluence, I found this page: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GADGETS/All+Atlassian+Gadgets#AllAtlassianGadgets-JIRATwo-DimensionalFilterStatistics>. However, when I dig further into the JIRA and Confluence System Administrator's Guides, those articles say they do not apply to Atlassian OnDemand.

Could someone help me? This is a key feature that I've been trying to exercise for my team to support our purchase of Confluence and JIRA.


Answers:
author: AgentSmith
body: Greetings!

We presently have a feature request to pre-load JIRA gadgets into Confluence. Please take a look to vote, comment and watch that for subsequent updates:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-2244>

In the meantime, you can submit a support request at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) to request we add this gadget for you as it requires specific administrative access that only an atlassian support engineer can provide.

I hope this response was helpful. Sorry I could not be of more service.

Cheers,  
Jason \| Atlassian


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
recently updated: status not appearing
Asked by tobias leenaert:

hi :-)

i'm trying to display the recently updated statusses by my users. i should use the "recently updated" macro for this, but that macro works for all content types, except for "status", it seems. it always turns up a blank list. any ideas?

thank you

tobias


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: You need to set the parameter **Space(s)** to **@all**, otherwise the status updates won't be displayed.

[Documentation about the Recently Updated Macro](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Recently+Updated+Macro)

Hope this helps

comments: author: tobias leenaert
body: thank you remo, that solved it :-) (doesn't seem very logical to me, but whatever works :-)


Tags: recently-updated

status
Remove the "hidden" message in the People Directory
Asked by Jason Pepper:

When we look at the People Directory in our Confluence instance under each name it says "hidden" rather than (I assume) showing the email address.

As all the users who view the directory are logged in - why do they see the "hidden" word and not the email ?

How do I configure the directory so that it displays the email (and other info) instead of "hidden" ?

Cheers

![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2012-02-10_at_22.05.03_1.JPG)


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You need to change the User Email Visibility under Administration to public. See http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+Email+Visibility

comments: author: Jason Pepper
body: thanks !

knew it must be in there somewhere..
Question about rich "forums" / "bulletin board" integration with Confluence
Asked by Benedikt:

Hi all

We (Iclelandic Radio Amateurs) are running a Internet facing web, today we use Confluence 3.5.13 (actually runnning and older version, but we have 3.5.13 running on a different host ready to take over)

We have a phpBB board on the side, that is not used alot - we would be ever so happy if we could:

- integrate some kind of a BB/Forum software within the confluence system / look

- Share the Confluence user database with the BB

We have looked at Communty bubbles and are quite lost - would that be the way to go (before I dive into that system)

Does anyone have any good tips for us, usage examples etc to help us with this project ?

- Benedikt


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: There are some areas in which Community bubbles may not satisfy you as it lacks the below features (as per my understanding)

1. Replies to be handled via emails into the forums
2. Forum level administrators for spam and content management
3. Forum level security to be enforced, as the pages follow the space level security


author: SimonS
body: Hi Benedikt,

We don't provide forum/BB functionality out of the box, but there are a couple of resources you should check out:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Confluence+as+a+Forum>

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=157232>

-Simon


Tags: forum
Mothballing a confluence ondemand account
Asked by Sian Jones:

Background: we're a small school for kids with disabilities. We have a project coming up which means a lot of remote document work with people who can't get into the school. So I thought "let's chuck it in a wiki" and my other half suggested confluence. Had a quick nosey round, like the look of it, so far so good. We'd have to use ondemand, we are too small to host it ourselves.

The issue is we have a pre-project of about a month's frantic activity, at which point we will decide to go ahead, cancel or - 90% chance - to hold off for a year. After that year we need to pick up where we left off, probably in a hurry. We would be looking at the smallest possible hosted licence, but I can't justify spending even $100 a year just to keep the data in suspended animation on the Atlassian servers: our kids have better uses for $100.

So, the obvious plan is to take a month's trial, ask Atlassian to back it all up, cancel the account and then when the real project kicks off, start a new account and chuck the backup at it. But is that workable?

The product will have moved on in a year; will the backup be compatible? Could they restore it and upgrade it for us? Is there another import/export mechanism which would save less of the pretty bits but be enduringly compatible? Can I retrieve files from a backup if I don't have a downloaded version of confluence?


Answers:
author: SimonS
body: Hi Sian,

Glad to hear our products are being used for a good cause :)

Our support team should be able to work with you on this. If you take a backup of Confluence (request it on our support portal - [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)) they should be able to re-import it in a year's time.

If the product is too far changed at that point, you can setup a local instance of that old Confluence version (it took me about an hour to do on my own machine) on a free evaluation license, import that backup, and upgrade to an importable version.

-Simon

comments: author: Michael Knight
body: You actually don't need to contact Support for a Confluence backup. You can perform [space export](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+XML) yourself.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence + Crowd SSO Problem
Asked by Kyle:

I have Confluence 4.1 and Crowd 2.3.3 in my environment and was trying to get SSO to work. I followed everything in the documentation and SSO worked. But when I login to Confluence, part of the system no longer work. And i am puzzled what the heck is going on.

Have anyone faced this problem before?

Confluence SSO config is correct or else i can't login, isn't it? Hmm...

Confluence Log:

2012-02-09 23:38:38,293 ERROR \[http-80-8\] \[atlassian.confluence.servlet.ConfluenceServletDispatcher\] serviceAction There is no Action mapped for namespace /status and action name update  
-- referer: <http://confluence.test.com/dashboard.action> \| url: /status/update.action \| userName: tester

![](../../upfiles/WTF.png)

![](../../upfiles/WTF2.png)


Answers:
author: Kyle
body: Handled by support.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Doesn't look like and issue with SSO. Did you see it only after enabling SSO? What is the language you have in your profile now? Seems internationalization is broken somehow!

comments: author: Kyle
body: Yes, this happens after enabling SSO. I'll probably file for a support request to ask what's going on. Thanks mate.


author: Kyle
body: Handled by support.


Tags: crowd

sso
Multiple Domain Names and IP Addresses to Spaces
Asked by Don Gaconnet:

Is it possible to configure Apache with multiple IP addresses and domain names to forward a specific domain name to a space? I am using virtual host files on the Apache Web Server 2.2

somedomain.info point to [SpaceA
newdomain.net](http://SpaceA%3Cbr%3Enewdomain.net) point to SpaceB  
bestdomain.us point to [SpaceC
maindomain.com](http://SpaceC%3Cbr%3Emaindomain.com) point to main confluence installation

Thank you for your answer


Answers:
author: Radomir Mladenovic
body: Sorry about the shameless plug but we've just released Domain Booster plugin that could help you.

<http://bugsio.com/display/DomainBooster/Domain+Booster+Plugin+for+Confluence>

comments: author: Gregory Sudderth
body: Hey, what's the difference between a solution, a plug, and spam?

Degree of efficacy!

"A plug-in is like any other product, its a benefit or a hazard. If its a benefit then its not my \[SPAM\] problem." -- Blade Runner

G.


author: Gregory Kneller
body: Hi, I installed Domain Booster, but it immediatly says that beta is expired and doesnt add any hostnames. Rgds, Greg
Confluence tasks
Asked by Davor:

Is there any plugin in which i can do the folowing

That on one page there are all tasks but wisible only to one person

all other persons can view their tasks only

Something like Jira but more for tasks not for issues and integrated in confluence


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: And a similar thread [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/31526/task-management-in-confluence](/questions/31526/task-management-in-confluence)


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Not sure what you mean by tasks unless you have a plugin you are talking about. In any case, the Visibility plugin might help: <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/202>


Tags: task
Customization of login screen in Confluence
Asked by Christian Christian:

Hi!

I am looking for a possibility to customize the loginscreen of Confluence. Right now it shows the global logo and next to it shows the text "Confluence". Any idea how I can change this text? I want to replace it by the name of our page.

I have already checked within login.vm, but could not find the right place? Or do I need to change another file?

thanks and best regards,

Christian


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: The text "Confluence" is actually the default site title of Confluence, which you can customize in the Administration Console under **Browse** =\> **Confluence Admin** =\> **General Configuration** =\> **Site Title**.

Hope this helps

comments: author: Christian Christian
body: Hi Remo!

Thanks a lot - works perfectly. Any idea how I can change the logo shown in the browser and in the tab of a browser? Right now it dows show the Atlassian logo which I would like to replace with the logo of our company.

Christian


author: Remo Siegwart
body: You mean the favicon? Just follow the steps explained here: [Changing the Confluence Browser Icon, aka favicon](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/QoAbAQ)


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: We also change login.vm to add additional instructions to users.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: The Main Layout decorator in the global site layouts controls the HTML wrapper around the content of that page. Of course, it also controls the label list pages and SERPs, so muck with at your own risk.


author: Suresh Srini
body: What is the best way to change "login.vm"?

Also, Site Tile- Need help to add new OR update. I need to add additional text verbiage on the login screen. Your help is much appreciated.
time limit to write comment
Asked by Nikolai Merk:

Hello

is it possible in confluence to set a time limit to write a comment on a page, like one week?

After that week it should not possible to write, edit or delete a comment.


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: Not sure about the time part, but you can lock comments in a page if you are using the community bubbles plugin from adaptavist

<https://www.adaptavist.com/display/Bubbles/Page+Comment+Locking+Administration>


Tags: limit

time
Confluence 4.1 Directory Syncro
Asked by Leo B:

Hello All,

I'm having a problem when I try to syncro Confluence with my AD. It is bringing all the users and groups but all the users are not linked to any group, so no user belongs to any group. Does anybody know why this is happening? what should I change on the configuration? Thanks in advance.

Cheers...


Answers:
author: Matthew Hunter
body: Hi Leo,

It seems like you might want to re-tag this question, OnDemand doesn't allow conncections with Active Directory, so you might be using a different version of Confluence.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
'Import Wizard : Settings' page can not find, while importing data from csv file
Asked by fabby:

'Import Wizard : Settings' page can not find, while importing data from csv file.

the chart below is what i copyed from <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/Importing+Data+From+CSV.>

i don't know why the "settings" page can't appear .and of course ,i can't configurate the "create new users or not","create new versions or not"....

anyone can help ?

![](http://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/267257636/jira+4.2.3_import_csv_6.png?version=1&modificationDate=1311741900083)


Answers:
author: Wojciech Seliga
body: Hi,

The reason is quite simple: thiis functionality is provided by a plugin - JIRA Importers Plugin. In newer versions of JIRA, a newer version of the plugin was bundled (or you have upgraded it manually). In recent versions of JIRA Importers Plugin settings page has been completely removed (for the sake of simpler UI and easier import) and the importer just always creates users, versions, components and custom fields.

We decided to do that because we think that very few people don't want to create this stuff (as it usually means that the import will fail for these rows from CSV file) and we want to spare one more screen to all these users who don't need this functionality.

If you don't like this change, please raise an issue at [https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JIM](https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JIM%20).

Cheers,

Wojtek

JIRA Importers Plugin Lead

comments: author: fabby
body: thanks for you answer


Tags: configuration

csv

import

page

wizard
Oracle migration
Asked by Frederic Close:

Hello,

we currently have a confluence installation working with Oracle 10g.

We plan on migrating the database to 11g.

Would that be ok to do

* an oracle export of the 10g database and import that in a new oracle 11g server
* At Confluence level change the connection information

Would that be enough ?


Answers:
author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: I would think so, the leap between the two isnt great, you may have to update your JDBC driver though: <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/jdbc/index-091264.html>

Caveat is always do a dry run on a backup, always better to be safe than sorry!


Tags: oracle
Greenpepper plugin for Confluence
Asked by H?ctor Naves Sordo:

Hello everybody,

We had a request from a development team to install the Greenpepper plugin in our Confluence instance. We have checked and saw that the plugin is not listed in the Plugin Exchange page and we have some concerns about its support and alignment with Confluence's update roadmap.

<http://www.greenpeppersoftware.com/confluence/display/GP/Confluence+Plugin+Install>

Do you have any recommendation on how to deal with this kind of third party plugins?

Many thanks in advance!

H?ctor


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: From [GreenPepper blog](http://www.greenpeppersoftware.com/blog/), I found out the following:
> GreenPepper upgrade on the way  
> Hi all,
>
> We are actually aware that GreenPepper is not compatible with Confluence 4.0, .Net 4.0 and the last version of Jira, Bambo and Xwiki. The fact is that GreenPepper is no longer managed by Pyxis Canada. The product was transferred to the new subsidiary of Pyxis in Switzerland and the development was halted for several months during this process.
>
> The good news is that the swiss team took the product back on hand a few weeks ago and are actively working on those compatibility problems. We planned a new release for November that will make GreenPepper works with Confluence 4.0, .Net 4.0 and other systems.
>
> Support and product development are always assured and we will make every effort to answer all your questions and deliver a product tailored to your needs.
>
> Best regards,
>
> The swiss GP team.
>
> October 12th, 2011

Looks like there is no GreenPepper plugin available for the latest Confluence \& JIRA versions yet and I'm also not too sure about the specific plugin version that are compatible with older version of Confluence \& JIRA. You may want to contact GreenPepper directly for an alternative to this till they came out with the latest plugin version that are compatible with the latest Confluence \& JIRA.


author: Aziz OUATTARA
body: Hi,

4 years later ....

Did you find an alternative to your need ?

I was working in a company using greenpepper and the GreenPepper project went down for a while. 2 years later I have succeeded retrieving the code and created an open source project to maintain GreenPepper. The followings may interest you :

* <https://greenpepper.atlassian.net/wiki>
* <https://github.com/strator-dev/greenpepper>
* <http://strator-dev.github.io/greenpepper/#/home>


author: J Larkin
body: Hi,

We too are interested in using GreenPepper with JIRA.

Did anyone get any joy with this?

thanks James
Confluence - look
Asked by Davor:

Whick theme/skin do u recomend to make Confluence look

nicer?


Answers:
author: Alain Moran
body: By far the easiest way to give confluence a prettier skin is the [RefinedWiki](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/15231) theme, it's easy to use and gets results fast. Similarly you might like to look into the [Documentation](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/16393) theme as it provides some really useful functionality. However if you want full-control over customisation \& an almost infinite range of possibilities then you really can't beat the [Builder](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/274) theme, however the learning-curve is steep and to get great results you will need to be proficient in CSS and wiki-markup/storage-format.

If you are using confluence 4.x then you can find a compatible release on [our site](http://www.adaptavist.com/display/community/Theme+Builder+Confluence+4+EAP), along with [documentation](http://www.adaptavist.com/display/Builder/Documentation), and a limited number (sadly the majority of layouts we create are highly client-specific) of layout [examples](http://www.adaptavist.com/display/Builder/Layout+Library).

comments: author: Davor
body: Ok, thanks

[RefinedWiki](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/15231) is nice, i need soething liek apply this theme, so...


Tags: look-and-feel

theme