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Simple Auction in Confluence
Asked by Royce Wong:

Hi Confluence guru,

We are going to held an auction (\~30 items) in the company (across the U.S.) to benefit a charity.

We are wondering if we can use Confluence to facilitate the auction, do not need to be fancy like eBay.

Any creative ideas? Has anyone done something like this? Or a cool existing example so I can reference?

Any suggestion is much appreciated.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I've seen sites that do this with the comments. Each item on it's own page, and then a user bids on an item by adding a comment with his/her max bid. Works well, and users can set up notifications of the pages so they can see if they've been outbid.

Just realized you posted this almost a year ago, so it may be too late.

matthew horn

comments: author: Royce Wong
body: We ended up using JIRA to facilitate the auctions, and have confluence display most popular items, items that need more bids, etc., that way we could bulk move all auctions to start and close to control the bidding process. That was easy and beautiful!!!
Permission screen user auto-suggest not displaying full list of users
Asked by Shelley Cook:

I am adding users to a space. As I type in a name, suggestions appear below allowing me to quickly add users.

The problem is that many users do not appear in the suggest list. If I type in the username and click Add, the user is successfully added, but the suggest box is saying "no matches".

Is this an index that needs to be rebuilt? Which one? Where?


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

Yes, the reindex is a good call for this case. I highly suggest that you try to do a rebuild from scratch:  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch>

This documentation should do the work.  

Cheers,  

WZ
Release Version 4.0
Asked by Sascha Reinholz:

Hello,

we are interested in implementing Confluence in our company. A big reason why we have decided to migrate to antoher wiki is the copy and paste option for images. I've seen that you have integrated this feature in your new editor in Version. When will Version 4.0 be released.

Thanks

Sascha Reinholz


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi Sascha,

As you saw in Matts post - we are in Beta right now. Our goal is to have the final release in the next couple of months. Stay tuned!

Sherif


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/2892/release-date-of-confluence-4](/questions/2892/release-date-of-confluence-4) - it's a few weeks old, but the answer there is still valid. The Beta is out now, which means Matt Hodges \*rough\* estimate is probably good, but I wouldn't take bets on it. It'll be out when it's out.
crawl confluence with GSA
Asked by Olivier FONTANNAUD:

Hi,

We try to index confluence with a Google Search Appliance. After many tries, we haven't problems with the crawl when annonymous access is activated. Is there an issue to crawl confluence with a restricted access ? Our wiki contains many critical information and we don't want activate annonymous access for crawling.

Regards,

Olivier


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not really, I've done it before. Frankly, if anonymous access is working, then crawling with a restricted user ID is going to work fine too. Just make sure your user really does only have "view" and absolutely no other access.

comments: author: Olivier FONTANNAUD
body: Thanks for your response Nic, but there is a big difference between anonymous crawling and authenticated crawling. Based on the tests I have maid, my GSA couldn't login to confluence for crawling with a restricted access. I search an issue for configuring GSA to login into confluence.

Regards,

Olivier
Including brackets in an external link?
Asked by Jason Stoller:

When I use this in Wiki Markup it doesn't work because the link contains brackets - see \[Author\]

\[John Doe\|http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Doe%20J%22\[Author\]\\\]

Does anyone know how to make this link work?


Answers:
author: Jeremy Largman
body: I think this works:

\[John Doe\|http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Doe%20J%22\\\[Author\\\]\]
Specifying Universal Wiki Converter to export subset of Mediawiki?
Asked by Shivansh Singh:

We have a Mediwaiki which is having wiki pages of different teams. One of the team wants to migrate its wiki pages to Confluence. Is it possible to specify UWC to export only subset of Mediawiki pages?


Answers:
author: Laura Kolker
body: Yes. You have a couple of choices:

a) update the [optional sql parameters](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes#UWCMediawikiNotes-OptionalSQLProperties) or [optional namespace properties](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes#UWCMediawikiNotes-OptionalNamespaceProperties) in your export config to identify the pages or namespaces you want to export

b) export everything, but [write a custom filter](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Filters+Framework) to ignore the pages you don't want


Tags: export

mediawiki

universal-wiki-converter
Confluence 3.5 - Plugin upload hangs on "Uploading...please wait"
Asked by Dan Machovec:

Dashboard \> Administration \> Plugins

I click on upload plugin and choose browse. I select the downloaded .jar file (which is only 38kb) and click the upload button. The system hangs on Uploading and never comes to a finish.

![](http://i.imgur.com/9oRE8.png)

Has anyone seen this before?


Answers:
author: J Madra
body: We had a similar issue - with us being unable to install or manage \*any\* plugin. For us, the issue was related to our base URL in Confluence. Once we corrected that, everything was fine.

comments: author: Dan Machovec
body: I think this must be the case. I currently have Confluence running on another server that is using port 80 for IIS. We are publishing Confluence on port 8080. I have plans to break the font end off to another server, and I will modify the port back to the standard http one at that time. Thanks!


author: Arunkumar Perumal
body: thanks, I've got the same issue \& after changing my base URL it works like a charm


author: Jim Bethancourt
body: I have experienced similar symptoms where it takes a while to load. I recall that after a page refresh I was able to see the uploaded plugin listed on the list of Installed plugins.

HTH,

Jim

comments: author: Dan Machovec
body: I just gave that a try, but alas no change. The system still shows no installed User plugins. I wonder if I will have to open a ticket.


author: Jim Bethancourt
body: If you're developing a custom plugin, another option might be to deploy using the [Atlassian PDK](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEVNET/Plugin+Developer+Kit+for+Maven2) by using the atlassian-pdk:install Maven plugin goal, the atlas-install-plugin.bat / atlas-install-plugin.sh or the [AMPS plugin](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEVNET/AMPS+Plugin+for+Maven)

I've used both the plugin installation goal and the command line too before with success.

Jim
Error displaying Team Calendars.
Asked by Jeremy Fillingim:

I'm running Confluence 3.5.3 with Team Calendars 1.2.4.

I have created a number of Team Calendars, and am displaying them using calendar macros on Confluence pages. I find that until I actually navigate to "My Calendars" from the main page, that my individual Confluence page displays no events (and shows a large red box containing "Error(s) Occurred".


Answers:
author: DavidA
body: Hi Jeremy,

We've had a few accounts with this and they were caused by *not* accessing the page/Team Calendars via Confluence's base URL. That might be your problem. If not, please contact our support team at <https://support.atlassian.com.>

Thanks!
Confluence Database Deadlock
Asked by Leo B:

Hello, I have some users complaining because sometimes they are working on Confluence and they receive a message saying "service unavailable". Serching on the Confluence log, i notice that the users are having this exception: "Transaction (Process ID 51) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim"

Does anyone knows if this may be the problem and how to resolve it?

Thanks in advance...


Answers:
author: Jeremy Largman
body: Check out the knowledge base articles:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Troubleshooting+Deadlocks+in+Confluence>

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/label/CONFKB/deadlock>

If it's hard to diagnose or none of those solutions work, comment back about what you find, or open a [support ticket](http://support.atlassian.com). Sometimes you have to hunt through logs and configuration files.
How does one associate actual usernames with wiki entries made by contributors authenticated with, e.g., their google account?
Asked by Douglas Cowen:

Our wiki has users who authenticate using, for example, their google account. Their entries are then tagged with something that looks like this:

Added by <https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=aitoawkiqp5d1mdvtleecaanpd8d6vxwlg3mnhc>

This is an obvious barrier to communication since you cannot tell who actually wrote the entry. Going to the link does not produce anything useful.

Can the wiki creator do something to associate human-readable usernames with a given google login ID? Or can each user assign him/herself a username (or maybe a better term is nickname, as it replaces the official (and useless) obfuscated username)?

Thanks for your help.

Doug


Answers:
author: EddieW
body: Are you using Crowd for the google authentication?

If so creating an alias for the confluence app is the way to go:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Specifying+a+User's+Aliases

Otherwise I am not sure how you even have confluence users authenticating with openIDs.
Confluence referer
Asked by ket.pjwstk:

Hi,

How can I obtain String that contains the referrer? Or the referrer itself? I.e

\[INFO\] \[talledLocalContainer\] -- **referer: [http://localhost:1990/confluence/dosearchsite.action?](http://localhost:1990/confluence/dosearchsite.action)** \| url: /confluence/pages/viewpage.action \| userName: admin \| action: viewpage \| page: 3145732


Answers:
author: ket.pjwstk
body: String referrer = ServletActionContext.getRequest().getHeader("REFERER");


Tags: java
Audit trail
Asked by Johan Lindroos:

Hello,

In Confluence is it possible to see a audit trail of what users has been doing. Ex. Who has read what document, page, edited etc.

Is it possible to have revisions on shared documents?

-J


Answers:
author: Matt
body: You can enable user access logging in Confluence. See:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/n8oC>

By shared documents, are you referring to documents attached to Confluence pages?

comments: author: Johan Lindroos
body: Yes correct assumption on the documents, what I would like to be able to track is (ofcourse we do not then have any anynomouos users):

- Who added the document

- Who has read the document

- Who has updated the document

Above I would also like to do on page level?

Kind regards,

Johan
how do i uninstall confluence 3.5.9
Asked by Anil Kuppa:

how do i uninstall confluence 3.5.9 on production box... can i reuse the license or renew?


Answers:
author: Richard Yale
body: Confluence is a standalone application. If you used the wizard then go to the start menu and all programs and then go to the confluence folder and there should be an uninstall. If you just installed through the folder then there is nothing to uninstall just delete it.
How do I use the "{" character as a normal character?
Asked by briana wherry:

I am trying to write "{site}" as text and I keep receiving macro errors. What markup do I use to have it read as normal text?


Answers:
author: Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)
body: Just put a backslash in front of the curly braces.

\\{site\\}

comments: author: briana wherry
body: Thanks Penny!


author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi Briana,

If you don't use the Autocomplete features in Confluence (\[, ! and {) you can just turn this off. It's a setting in your editor preferences. See [this article for instructions](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Autocomplete+in+the+Rich+Text+Editor#UsingAutocompleteintheRichTextEditor-EnablingandDisablingAutocomplete) on how to turn this off.

If you still want to use Autocomplete, you can easily cancel the trigger once-off by pressing "ESC" on your keyboard. Hope that helps.

Sherif

comments: author: Penny Wyatt (On Leave to July 2021)
body: Sherif: I just had a try in Confluence 3.5.9 and even if you cancel the autocomplete, you'll get {site} which displays as an error when you preview - cancelling the autocomplete doesn't escape it for you.


author: grundic
body: Maybe [EscapeTool](http://velocity.apache.org/tools/releases/1.4/generic/EscapeTool.html "EscapeTool") can help you?
Not able to get checklist plugin working
Asked by Lokesh D:

Trying to make use of [checklist plugin](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CHK/Confluence+Checklists+Plugin) I put the following in a page, thought I need to create a page 'Animals' with label 'pets', which I did.

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `{checklist:name=The pets names|parent=Animals|label=pets}` ` ``{checklist-label:Mammal?|label=mammal}` ` ``{checklist-metadata:Comments}` ` ``{checklist-input:Common pet names|cols=``20``}` `{checklist}` |

Still it does not seem to work, any help much appreciated

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Rayone Moyer
body: I had this same issue, can't get it to work and I created a parent page and child page and put the labels in. Still didn't work.
How much server space to allocate?
Asked by Jonathan Sundquist:

What would be the minimum amount of space should you allocate to a confluence installtion? I know it depends on the amount of attachments, but if a site has a large number of spaces and a fair amount of attachments in various sizes, how much space would you suggest to use?


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Jonathan,

Although it is possible to do what Richard or Jim have suggested, I stongly suggest you don't store your attachments in the database. Someone from our support time can probably jump in here, but long story short - there are lots of performance implications with regards to backing up your database. Given, you don't really have an option if you are using Clustered (attachments have to be stored in the database right now).

Sherif


author: Jim Birch
body: I would second the idea of storing attachements in the database. This gives you a single point of backup for the real Confluence data.

We have a database of 5.7 Gb of which 4.6 is in the attachmentdata table and .3 Gb is free space. There are about 12000 current pages and comments or 84k including old versions. About 16k attachments, inc versions. Wiki markup is a fairly compact form of text storage so it's really the number and size of the attachments that will drive your data size. This relates to the style and purpose of your Confluence instance so there's no clear a priori way of guessing this.

You may be able exert some control on attachment volume by limiting the maximum attachment size. (You might also get told to increase it :) The biggest attachments will soak up a lot of attachment space. We allow up to 10 Mb, but occasionally we need to temporarily break the rule for someone.

Our Confluence home directory is around 1 Gb and the application directory is 0.5 Gb.


author: Richard Yale
body: The best option is to have your attachments stored in the database. That way you need a larger database space than physical space on your server. This will allow your server to run faster.

Then what you can do is have a dynamically scaling database which will increase in size as it is needed. Problem solved :)


Tags: requirement

server
Confluence - Customizing PDF Export
Asked by Pggsb Lin:

Hi All,

A couple questions:

Is there a way to customize the PDF stylesheet or the header/footer so that it will include the byline (added by xxx last edited by xxx on such such date) in the PDF?

Is there a way to export all version of the pages to PDF without having to restoring them one at a time?

Thanks,

Song


Answers:
author: StaceyA
body: This pdf plugin includes the page author [https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/7019](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/7019.) and let's you add extra fields about who did what.

comments: author: Michael Roff
body: Thanks Stacey. I've been discussing this on another thread - [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/30717/css-for-pdf-export?page=1#31498](/questions/30717/css-for-pdf-export?page=1#31498) and this was the conclusion there also.


Tags: export

pdf
LDAP Directory - Synchronize group memberships with Confluence (posixAccount, posixGroup)
Asked by Johannes Friedrich:

I am struggling to integrate LDAP with confluence.

I am using the following main configuration:

* OpenLDAP
* LDAP Permissions: Read/Write
* Groups: posixAccount + posixGroup

The problem I'm facing is that the users and groups are transfered without a problem, but the memberships are not set.

I managed to get it to work with *groupOfNames* as the group scheme. The only case it works is if a group membership is defined inside the user (*memberOf* attribute) and the setting "Use the User Membership Attribute" is set. If either of these is not set there is no user-group assignment.

As posix is more widely supported (especially by LDAP user managers like LAM or Webmin) I would like to use it as my LDAP scheme and would prefer not to add attributes manually (would not be supported by user managers). Also this scheme is just using the username as an identifier (*memberUid: username* instead of *members: uid=username,ou=People,dc=domain,dc=domain)*

So my questions are:

Is there a possiblity to syncronize group memberships with the posixGroup scheme?

Is it sufficent if the members of a group are just set in the group entry *(* *memberUid)?*

Is it sufficent if a user is just defined by their uid and not by there complete DN?


Answers:
author: David Chan
body: Hey JFR,

1. When configuring LDAP, there is also a LDAP directory type labeled **'** **OpenLDAP Using Posix Schema'**. Try using that instead of the usual 'OpenLDAP'. The problem, however, is that Confluence's Posix integration is Read-Only. This means that you will not be able to manage users/groups within Confluence, everything has to be done within OpenLDAP.

2. You can define the membership attributes if you expand the **'Membership Schema'** section within the directory configuration. You should be able to set the membership attribute to *(memberUid) .*

3. When integrating LDAP, Confluence needs a base DN for users. Once defined, all user searches will only be within that set DN. You can then further define the users under the advance section labeled **'User Schema Settings'**

Checkout this document:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory>


Tags: ldap

user-management
Create a Link to access to a macro
Asked by Gabriel Sejournant:

Hello,

I woul like to creat a link opening directly the pop up parameters of a defined macro, without having to click \<\< insert macro \>\> and after searching the macro in the macro browser.

I would like in one click to have access to the parmaters of the macro, is it possible and how ?


Answers:
author: Gabriel Sejournant
body: Hello Sarah,

I'm using the version 3.5 (and testing the 4.0 beta) of Confluence.

You are rignt the auto complete macro work, but the goal was to provide a direct link for one macro, in a model of page, with scaffolding, to be sure all the users will be able to use the same macro at the same place for a kind of pages.

Is their an other way to have this result ?


author: SarahA
body: Hallo Gabi

It depends which version of Confluence you are using. If you are using Confluence 3.5 (or Confluence 4.0, now in beta release) in the rich text editor, you can use the macro "autocomplete" functionality. It's much quicker and less annoying than using the mouse to open the macro browser.

To use autocomplete, just start typing the curly bracket and the beginning of the macro name. A dropdown menu will appear, offering some suggestions. The suggestions will change to match your typing. As soon as you see the macro you want, select it with arrow keys or mouse. That will open the macro dialogue with the parameters.

I hope that answers the question. :)

Cheers

Sarah


Tags: app

link

macro
Make a page Redirect in confluence
Asked by Mark Nixon:

Hi,

I want to create a page within a space, that when clicked on/visited automatically redirects the user to another page in another space. Is there an easy/transperent way to do this? The closest I can come is render a page within the page by using a macro.

Ideas?

Thanks,  
Mark


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: ### [CustomWare *Redirection* Plugin - *Confluence* - Atlassian Plugin Exchange](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/183) {#toc-hId-1509947616}


author: Brian Padley
body: What about for Confluence 4.x? Shouldn't this be a feature out of the box?
Problem with secure access to confluence (and jira) through "portal-feature" of security appliances like Fortigate or Checkpoint
Asked by Manuel Scharfy:

Hi,

we are evaluating Confluence and Jira as new tools for our software-devlopement. We solved nearly all problems, as long as the users are in our internal network. We want to use a secure 2-factor authentication for external access to this services for external developers. We tried to use the "Portal" feature from a Fortigate-Appliance (which is in fact some kind of reverse proxy), but ran into a lot of troubles. Basically it's working, but some features don't. E.g. in Confluence the Rich Text Editor isn't working (nothing is happening if we try to switch to this edit mode). Another problem exists in Jira with the "Create issue" button in the upper right corner (it's resetting the URL).

I think it's somehow related with ajax-reloads used for this functions. When using the "Portal" function of the Fortigate-Appliance, it creates a kind of Forwarding-URL like <https://external.domain.com/proxy/http/jira.domain.loc/secure/Dashboard.jspa> (jira.domain.loc is the internal address of jira, same with confluence.domain.loc)

With Jira it's possible to see the problem within the URL. The URL in the address bar of the browser is rewritten to something like [https://external.domain.com/secure/CreateIssue.jspa?pid=10000\&issuetype=7\&Create=Create](https://external.domain.com/secure/CreateIssue.jspa?pid=10000&issuetype=7&Create=Create). As you can see, the entire proxy part is missing.

We also tried a similar feature implemeneted into a Checkpoint-Appliance and it has the same issues.

Any help or experiences with this matter would be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Yours,  
Manuel


Answers:
author: AM
body: Hi Manual,

unfortunately this won't work - check

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Various+Issues+Caused+when+Server+Base+URL+Does+Not+Match+the+URL+Used+to+Access+Confluence>

If you really need your Fortinet or Checkpoint to protect JIRA/Confluence, the only option I could think of is fronting JIRA and Confluence with Apache and the extensivly usage of mod_rewrite.

comments: author: Anton?n E?er
body: Hi,

we have the same problem, If someone solved this mod_rewrite I need know how.


author: Jakub Bobran
body: I second this.

It seems that the issue is more and more painful for people.

edit: In my case it is both Confluence and Jira.


Tags: jira

proxy