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Login Issue- Assume User Directory Issue
Asked by Matt Paskus:

During the installation process I modified the Confluence box to authenticate off our jira server. All worked fine.

Restored from backup and I assume it overwrote jira connection in the 'user directoies' configuartion.

I cannot login. :-(

Is there a way to modify the user directories configuration manually from the linux command line?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Matt,

You can edit it directly via database. You may try this:

1. Identify the internal administrator:

   ```
   select u.id, u.user_name from cwd_user ujoin cwd_membership m on u.id=m.child_user_id join cwd_group g on m.parent_id=g.id join cwd_directory d on d.id=g.directory_idwhere g.group_name = 'confluence-administrators' and d.directory_name='Confluence Internal Directory';
   ```

2. Resert internal administrator password:

   ```
   update cwd_user set credential ='x61Ey612Kl2gpFL56FT9weDnpSo4AV8j8+qx2AuTHdRyY036xxzTTrw10Wq3+4qQyB+XURPWx1ONxp3Y3pB37A=='where id=&lt;id from Stage 1&gt;;
   ```

3. [Put internal directory on the top position](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights#RestoringPasswordsToRecoverAdminUserRights-Step3.PuttheInternalDirectoryinFirstPosition).
4. Restart Confluence.

I hope this helps

Cheers
Switch from native to LDAP/Active Directory
Asked by Jason Friedman:

We installed our Confluence product several years ago and are now up to 300 users. Authentication is done natively (within the tool) as opposed to LDAP or Active Directory.

We want to move to Active Directory as the authentication method. How?


Answers:
author: Jason Friedman
body: Thank you, Neal. I have a user, John Doe, who created a native login [jdoe@myorg.com.](mailto:jdoe@myorg.com.) His Active Directory login is jxd. How do I associate these two logins?

comments: author: Jason Friedman
body: See [Changing Usernames](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Changing+Usernames) for additional information.


author: nriley
body: Hi Jason,

This doc shows the process for migrating from an internal-only to LDAP-authentication:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+Internal+Directory+with+LDAP+Authentication>

Hope it helps!
Any way to have Activity Stream gadget show just today's activity?
Asked by Marc Goff:

We are using Confluence 4.3.2. We would like the activity stream gadget to only show the current day's activity. I can type in "today" in the filter, but it then saves the filter with the curent date which doesn't show the right data the next day. I couldn't find any variables or options in the documentation.

Thanks


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Marc,

To better analyze this question and confirm if this can be possible, I would suggest you to raise a support ticket at our [Support.atlassian.com](http://Support.atlassian.com), this would be the best option here.

Best Regards,

LJ.


author: Marc Goff
body: A support ticket was created and a JIRA enhancement request was added here <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27148#comment-413667>. Please vote for this if you want this feature as well.

Thanks
Admin user unable to edit posts
Asked by Jake Fox:

I have given admin priviledges to a user skell00 in confluence however they are unable to edit blog posts. Why is this? They have the highest level of access already. they are in the 'administers' group and also the 'confluence-users' group. I cannot give them any more priviledges as they have the same as me.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Go and check the permissions for the space. Just because they are in an admin group does not mean they get rights to do anything other than administrate the system (this may seem counter-intuitive, but "admin gets all rights automatically" is actually a really stupid model and is NOT implemented in Atlassian stuff)


Tags: cloud
Is there a publicly available API class to convert from Wiki Markup to XHTML?
Asked by Bahman Rafatjoo:

We have an integrated Jira and Confluence setup and use Groovy scripts (using the {script} macro) for a variety of tasks including auto-generation of release notes.

While I can change all the existing code to generate XHTML, the Jira issues have a custom field for release notes text which is in Wiki Markup. I need some way of translating this into XHTML and was looking for an API within Confluence to do so. Is there one?


Answers:
author: Bahman Rafatjoo
body: It turns out that although ConvertWikiToStorage is the right class, it has a monster constructor which for a nnon-API developer is difficult to undestand and use. On asking Atlassian for example code snippets I've been told this is not really possible, so I've resorted to writing my own simple converter using Regular Expressions.


author: JohnA
body: Hi Bahman,

There is indeed a public API available in Confluence for this task, which you can check out in our API documentation: <http://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/xhtml/api/XhtmlContent.html>

I believe the argument you would need to use for this is ConvertWikiToStorage, but this might change depending on your needs so I would suggest that you review the documentation for your needs because there are various options you might want to use depending on your approach.

All the best,  
John


Tags: markup
Why does the drop down to choose jira/confluence have two listings for jira and confuence?
Asked by Marian Skupski:

One of the other users noticed this, and it has me wondering.

When I click the arrow to choose jira or confluence in the logo on the upper left, I have 4 choices. Company Name Jira (with a description of what jira is), Confuence (with a description of what confluence is), Jira, Confluence

Both Jira links and both confluence links go to the dashboard for my company's on demand instance for the appropriate application.

Why am I seeing two links for each?


Answers:
author: OmarA
body: Hi Marian,

Perhaps someone has duplicated those links, can you check your **Customize Application Navigator,** in order to do that, you can check the documentation page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Customising+links+in+the+application+navigator>

Hope it helps!

Omar

comments: author: Marian Skupski
body: That was it.

Thanks!


author: OmarA
body: No worries :)


Tags: cloud
How do i access the confluence administrator group
Asked by RichardK:

Hi,

I have just got Atlassian OnDemand and I am working as the admin user, which is a member of a group called 'administrators'. This account lets me do most of the things that I want.

However there are a number of changes I want to make to Confluence that require me to have access to the 'confluence-administrators' group.

However when I go to the user management and groups section both the system-administrators and confluence-administrators groups are not editable, meaning that I can add the admin user to the group. The only user with access to the confluence-administrators group is the sysadmin, which I have no way of accessing.

My aim is to be able to change the css in confluence but as yet I am coming up against a very frustrating brick wall.

Any help is much appreciated as I need to demo the system on monday.

Thanks in advance

Richard


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Richard,

System-Administrator permissions are reserved for Atlassian engineers on the OnDemand platform, which is why you are unable to make the changes or access those groups. In the event that you require a specific task to be performed that requires System-Administrator permisisons you should open a ticket with Atlassian Support and they will perform the task for you. However, please be aware that there are a number of restricted functions on the OnDemand platform compared with self-hosted installs of our appplications, so it might be best to check our list of restrictions before opening a ticket: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

All the best,  
John

comments: author: RichardK
body: Thank you for that. I have edited my questions slightly.

How do i access the confluence-administrator group in order to change the css. Assuming that this doesn't require yourselves at atlassian to do this for us.

Richard


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not sure you've understood what John said. The short version is: You can't access the group, it's restricted to Atlassian engineers.

You'll need to raise your request with support. After checking the document John pointed to, in case it's something they simply will not do at all.


author: RichardK
body: Ok. I was reading <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS>

If it's not possible for us to control the font face I can see this being a problem for our marketing bods. Shame as I know that will be a show stopper for them.


Tags: cloud

confluence-administration

jira-cloud

system-administrator
Can I setup one particular wiki space under a different domain?
Asked by NickBoucartSirris:

Hi,

I have a confluence running under <https://wiki.blabla.com>. We have approx. 200 spaces in there, all private. Now we would like to open 1 space for anonymous access, preferable under a dedicated url, e.g. [http(s)://projectname.com](http://http%28s%29://projectname.com)

Is this possible, and if so, how can I accomplish this?

Thanks!

Nick.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence only listens one address at the root, so you can't do this in the application.

You could try to do something clever with rewrites though - fronted with Apache for example, you could catch any hit on the exception and translate it to the [wiki.blabla.com](http://wiki.blabla.com) location.
Remove use of subject prefix for sent emails in Confluecne
Asked by John Rehill:

Is there any way to stop the need for the subject prefix from within Confluences SMTP settings? We use the Form Mail NG plugin to enable logged in users to submit requests to ICT however every email that comes in has confluence as it is specified in the SMTP prefix settings. I tried removing it but apparently it can't be blank.

Is there any way around this?


Answers:
author: John Rehill
body: Leaving the default since this is the way Confluence is designed.


author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi John,

I don't think there is a way around. You can simple use a dot (.) as a dirty trick.

Cheers,

Selcuk

comments: author: John Rehill
body: Tried the dot but it seems uglier than the default prefix. Will leave the default I guess


Tags: email

prefix

smtp

template
Can a Confluence administrator generate an email distrubution list based on registered users?
Asked by Susan Parker:

There are some rare occasions when I, as the administrator, would like to email all of my registered users - for instance, about the status of a bug fix that I have been working with Atlassian support on. Can a Confluence administrator generate an email distrubution list based on registered users? I have poked around, but cannot find an obvious solution.


Answers:
author: Sune M?lgaard
body: I guess you could always try the following query in the database, and use that list to send mails from another program (do remember to mask recipient addresses, perhaps by using BCC: instad of TO: fields):

SELECT email_address from cwd_user;

Best regards,


author: Bastiaan Jansen
body: Hi Susan,  

It is not possible to send an email throught Confluence. The reason for this is because Confluence is already meant as a collaboration tool to "replace" emails.  
To update your users you could create a page or blog post informing the users about the updates. You can share pages and blogpost via email if needed.

comments: author: Susan Parker
body: Thank you. I think Confluence is meant to reduce, not replace emails - otherwise, why would Confluence provide so many email notification opportunities, including watch notifications and new user invitations? I am glad that Confluence downplays email. However, there are occasions when email, used sparingly, is the most efficient and effective means of *alerting* a user-base. Sure, the *content* of an important update can live in a blog post or wiki page, but that's not what I am referring to. I suppose that I can manually create a distribution list, but as my user-base grows, that is error-prone and labor intensive. I could also "force" users to watch a page or a blog that is not foolproof either. I have been using Confluence since about 2008/9 (?), originally a hosted instance and now an On Demand instance. I seem to recall administrators for the hosted instance being able to do something like this. I would have liked a feature like this to give my users a heads up about the recent upgrade.


author: Robert Lauriston
body: "The reason for this is because Confluence is already meant as a collaboration tool to 'replace' emails."

Typical clueless and arrogant Atlassian rationalization of a usability problem.

I need to bring the server down to upgrade to close your security hole.

My Confluence server sends tons of "watch" email notifications. It's an essential part of any wiki. Letting me as admin send announcements to all would increase the volume of email my server sends by approximately 0.01%.


author: Susan Parker
body: Ha ha - those were my sentiments, though I tried to express them a little more delicately.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

distribution

email

user
OfficeConnector 1.18 can consume an entire confluence heap.
Asked by Eric Koepfle:

Similar to these issues:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-21043>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-17225>

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-21043)There are certain excel files that when attached to a 3.4 confluence can go off into a rendering loop and eat up gigs of ram until your app chokes and dies.  

The tickets above have some sample files. I can post another when i remove the sensitive information.  

We use connector 1.8, and confluence 3.4.8, and have about 2500 daily users.  

I have been trying to hack in a max-rows and max-cols for the viewxls macro, as that seems to fix it. But that particular macro is too segmented.  

anyone have any ideas?  

-eric


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hi Eric,

One of the possibilities in order to fix this problem that you're experiencing would be an upgrade to a more recent version, as we can see in the bug reports that you mentioned they are fixed in the latest versions (from 4.0.5 onwards), so this could be an option.

But to have a better investigation of the problem and confirm the best approach I would like to suggest you to raise a support ticket at our [Support.atlassian.com](http://Support.atlassian.com) and so we can perform a review of the case and point to you the best solution.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

LJ.

comments: author: Eric Koepfle
body: I have been making a case for upgrading, but the removal of the wiki editor has a lot of our coder-users resisting. We are a very large company, and getting folks to accept new UI's is difficult.


Tags: ms-excel
How limit what info is displayed when inserting a single JIRA issue into a Confluence page
Asked by Rob Saul:

Hi

I'm interested in inserting a single JIRA issue into a confluence page, but I want to control what information is displayed. For example, it be nice to not have the status appear immediately after the summary. Is there a way to do this?

Regards,

\~Rob


Answers:
author: JustinA
body: Hi Rob,

Currently, this has been tracked as a feature request here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27033>

For the time being, there is no method to hide/customize the fields of the "Insert JIRA Issues" macro in Confluence OnDemand.

-Justin Alex-
Administration Layout Error
Asked by Marshall Zwick:

Administration -\> View System Information -\> View System Properties

The 1st column contains dot names (ie, **java.version** instead of**Java Version**).

Can you provide a translations for these dot name files?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Faisal
body: Hi There,

I did a quick check on my end, and I get the correct name for Java Version (instead of java.version). I tested this on JIRA 5.1.1, may I know which JIRA version are you running on? And also, may I know what is the configured language of your JIRA instance?  

You may also provide some sample screenshot illustrating the behavior for us to review.

Cheers.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to give users edit rights to pages within a space without giving them rights to add pages?
Asked by Ita Sherlock:

Whilst I am very eager to have my user community collaborate on pages, and edit them jointly, I need to start to restrict the capability to add pages, as people are putting them in the wrong places, and creating new pages rather than adding content to existing ones.

So, I need to be able to allow a group of users to edit pages but not add them.

I have tried just giving them View rights to the space, and then using Page Restrictions to give them edit rights to specific pages, but unfortunately the space-level rights over-rule the page level ones so this doesn't work.

Any suggestions\>


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hello,

You're correct, the "Add" permission will cover both scenarios. So I'm afraid there isn't a way to allow a user to edit a page but not to add pages. Sorry for that.

Please let us know if you have further questions.

Cheers


author: LuizA
body: Hi There,

To achieve this goal about your pages you can set the default space permissions, so you can restrict your users to add pages, see below how it works:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Assigning+Space+Permissions#AssigningSpacePermissions-Settingdefaultspacepermissions>

So basically you can create a group, then add your users to this group and so restrict the permissions of your spaces to this group and unchecking the option "add pages". I hope this helps.

Cheers,

LJ

comments: author: Ita Sherlock
body: How does this allow them to still be able to edit pages? The "Add" option seems to cover both from what I have read in the documentation.


Tags: access

permission

security
Confluence user-macro
Asked by Max Kornev:

Hello everybody.

I want to create confluence macro which does next things:

1. Sends data to url (I want to send POST request because data size can be large)

2.Insert request results into my confluence page

How can I do this?


Answers:
author: BernardoA
body: Actually is only possible to send by URL in these forms in using an absolute URL or a path relative to the Confluence base URL, here are examples:

```
http://mysite.com/mypath/status.png

or in this way:

/images/icons/macrobrowser/status.png
```


author: BernardoA
body: Hello,

You can refer to this article which gives step by step in how to use this Macro:

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding,+Editing+and+Removing+User+Macros](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding%2C+Editing+and+Removing+User+Macros)


author: BernardoA
body: Hello,

You can refer to this article which gives step by step in how to use this Macro:

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding,+Editing+and+Removing+User+Macros](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding%2C+Editing+and+Removing+User+Macros)


Tags: user-macro
How to paging the confluence comments ?
Asked by William:

Hi, there,

Currently, there are over one thousand comments on one page of our system, it is so slow to open the page, so I wonder that if it is possible that we can distribute the comments by pages. For example, we want to set 20 comments per page.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards

William


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi William, it has been raised as [feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22550) before, unfortunately it has been closed as won't fix.


Tags: comment
sharepoint 2010 on Windows 2008 and Confluence 3.5.13 on linux-tomcat 6
Asked by Michael Regelin:

Hello,

We are evaluating to buy Sharepoint and thus want to be able to retrive future data from Sharepoint in Confluence. Specifically attachment in sharepoint.

We are using a custom authentication based on jaas. We store users and group in an embbeded directory in Confluence and kerberos for automatic authentication.

It should be sharepoint 2010 on Windows server 2008 and Confluence 3.5.15 and 4.3 on tomcat-linux 6.

Is it possible to put Sharepoint in this environnement with the sharepoint connector ?

Thanks for help.

sincerly,

Michael


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Michael,

I'm not sure about he jaas authenticator, but using the default authenticator it is expected to work hosting Confluence on a Linux box.

Also, you may like to take a look at this [page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Planning+your+Environment+with+SP+2010#PlanningyourEnvironmentwithSP2010-selection), there you will find some guidelines to plan the environment.

Cheers

comments: author: Michael Regelin
body: thanks Tiago,

I will have a look a the link.

Michael


author: Kinto Soft
body: > We are evaluating to buy Sharepoint and thus want to be able to retrive future data from Sharepoint in Confluence. Specifically attachment in sharepoint.

To share your documents (MS Office, PDF,...) from SharePoint and publish it on Confluence: the [SuperOffice](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/44426) add-on.

Pablo.

comments: author: Michael Regelin
body: Hi Pablo,

Sorry, the superoffice plugin doesnt exist on atlassian marketplace...

thanks anyway.

Michael


author: Kinto Soft
body: It's just DocMiner for JIRA without registering JIRA. Only register SharePoint.

There was many add-ons on the Markeplace pointing to the same base ([FREE](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/40618), [PRO](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1210854) and SuperOffice) and too many pages to mantain only to say: "Do you want to publish SharePoint documents on any web page and allow your business users to relate SharePoint list items (tasks, issues,..) to texts on documents and do it even in the go, get real-time statistics about the contets progresses and much more and for free? :-)

Pablo.


Tags: authentication

connector

sharepoint
Download errors out with 404 for edgecast CDN using HTTPS Everywhere
Asked by notausernamethatiuseanymore:

When trying to download the Atlassian software from their content delivery provider, it gives a 404 error.

This is due to my extension in Chrome called HTTPS Everywhere. The CDN has SSL enabled properly but is not redirecting the request properly. A work around is to disable HTTPS Everywhere for Atlassian and their CDN.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Chris!

Thanks for this Information and the Workaround!

Kind Regards


Tags: download
how do i remove or change the confluence logo in the latest on demand version of confluence
Asked by Patrick Williams:

The confluence logo in the top toolbar now appears bigger and bolder eg: Now it not only has the standard logo but it also includes the word "Confluence"in it

This relates to the latest version of Confluence On Demand, how can I remove it or at least change it as it's really in your face now

Also can I customise it with my own.

BTW the global logo and space logo settings have nothing to do with this


Answers:
author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: Hey Patrick,

Unfortunately it isn't possible to customise the Confluence logo at the moment. We've created a feature request to permit this customisation in future, you can find it [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6076). Kindly watch it and feel free to comment.

Hope that helps !!!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud