youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Users appearing in dashboard spaces
Asked by Bret Gillan:

Someone made a chance in our Confluence settings recently and now a number of user spaces/blogs are appearing in the Confluence Dashboard under Spaces =\> All where previously it just showed spaces. I'm not sure what was done to cause it, but I need to undo it. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Bret,

Could it be that this user edit the layout in Confluence? Go to Confluence Admin \>\> Layout \>\> Global Layout \>\>Reset to default.  

Hope this helps.

comments: author: Bret Gillan
body: It appears to already be set to the default layout. Is there anything that toggles whether users spaces appear as spaces in the dashboard?


author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: You might want to check the site welcome message <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+the+Site+Welcome+Message>.

Do you mind to provide me with a screenshot of your dashboard. This will help me understand the issue better.


author: Bret Gillan
body: ![](../../upfiles/screenshot_6.jpg)

There's our layout. It turns out that it is customized, I was looking in the wrong spot. Unfortunately resetting to default is not an option. This is the layout, do you see anything obviously causing this?

\<div class="pagebody"\>

#parse ( "/template/includes/actionerrors.vm" )

\<table class="dashboard" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"\>

\<tr\>

#if ($mode == "dashboard")

#parse ("/decorators/includes/dashboard-navigation.vm")

#requireResourcesForContext("dashboard")

#rssautodiscovery($action.rssDescriptor)

#permitSearchEngines()

\<td class="left" width="40%" valign="top"\>

\<div class="padded"\>

#parse ( "/dashboard/dashboard-welcome.vm" )

$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{subspaces:style=list\|sort=title}")

\<br/\>

#dashboard_renderGlobalActions("dashboardActionsId", \["system.dashboard"\] )

\</div\>

\</td\>

\<td class="right" width="60%" valign="top"\>

\<div class="padded"\>

$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{recently-updated-dashboard:dashboard\|showProfilePic=true}")

$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{favpages:maxResults=$maxFavouritePages}")

\</div\>

\</td\>

#elseif ($mode == "userdir")

\<td width="100%" valign="top"\>

$body

\</td\>

#elseif ($mode == "rss")

\<td width="50%" valign="top"\>

$body

\</td\>

#end

## INFO PANEL FOR ANY PAGE

#if ($infoPanelRequired)

\<td width="$infoPanelWidth" valign="top" id="helptd"\>

#infoPanel(true true true true)

\</td\>

#end

\</tr\>

\</table\>

\</div\>

#parse ( "/breadcrumbs.vm" )

\<content tag="browse-menu"\>

#menuMacros_renderGlobalBrowseMenu()

\</content\>

\<!-- GENERAL PAGE DECORATING ENDS --\>


Tags: confluence-administration
Searching Excerpts
Asked by RPT Admin:

I'm developing two related technical documentation manuals which are hosted in two separate spaces. Some of the information is relevant to both spaces, so I'm marking it with the "Excerpt" macro in the primary space, and including it in a page in the secondary space using "Excerpt Include". I'd like it to be searchable in the second space, but the excerpted text isn't found in a regular search.

I know my users can find the original information by searching the primary space, but I don't want to make that the default for the secondary space -- the reason the documentation is separated into two spaces is because while they cover related topics, there are two distinct user communities.

Is there any way I can make the search of the secondary space include the excerpted text from the primary space?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Alex,

There is a possible workaround, made available at Sarah Maddox's blog, [here](http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/making-the-include-macros-content-appear-the-confluence-search-results/). Still it is a valid request to have it supported natively in Confluence, you can track [the request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-19054) for the feature.

This was posted to the feature request thread:
> Install Bob Swift's Cache plugin. Then wrap your include macros with the {cache} macro, using the "index=true" parameter to make the content of the include macros searchable.
>
> ```
> {cache:index=true}{include:mySPACEKEY:My page name}{cache}
> ```


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Dilbert on Confluence
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

Hi All

On our confluence we had Daily Dose of dilberts gadget installed on our dashboard and every morning we used to get a new dilbert on our dashboard. I presume it was displayed using some plugin.

From today morning the dilbert has stopped appearing although i can see only the header "Daily Dose of dilbert". No image below it though.

Can anyone help me rectify this issue.

Rahul


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Are you using this plugin ? : <http://www.simplenia.com/confluence-plugins/custom-dashboards>

Maybe you could ask them if something changed?

best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: Hi Peter

I went into the manage plugins section and could not find this plugin. How do i find out from where the dilbert is 9was) gettting populated?

Rahul


author: Statseeker
body: Saw this article and thought I would answer it

we just have a shell script that use curl on Linux that pulls the daily image down via a crontab and the places it in the image/logo directory in confluence. We then just add a link to the image using the url as the confluence logo directory is accessible.

The crontab runs once a day, so we always have the daily strip.

its fairly simple to setup

cheers

comments: author: Greg Schar
body: Hi Statseeker,

I am trying to do what you mentioned above. Do you mind to go into more detail or possibly show me how you did this?


author: Statseeker
body: Hi Greg

It's a fairly simple solution, I have listed a shell script we use which is crontab'd to run each day, the caveat is our instance of confluence is run on Linux. All we do is pull the image via a HTTP connection and in our network I just use our HTTP proxy server to get it for me as we are behind a firewall and our confluence server does not have direct access to the internet. The image is then placed in the same location as where the confluence standard logo images are stored that you can use for the confluence server, this way it's easy to then reference the image via the confluence front end via one of the macro's. Let me know if you need anything else in terms of info.

CRONTAB ENTRY:

0 8 \* \* \* /home/confluence/bin/update_dilbert.sh

SHELL SCRIPT:

#!/bin/sh

. /confluence/.bash_profile

SOCKS_PROXY=\`echo "$http_proxy"\`

curl --proxy $SOCKS_PROXY -s dilbert.com \| grep img-comic \|grep assets \| head -1 \|sed 's/.\*src="\\(\[ \^"\]\*\\)".\*/\\1/' \|xargs curl --proxy $SOCKS_PROXY -s -o /opt/atlassian/confluence/confluence/images/l ogo/daily_dilbert.gif

Kind regards,

James (statseeker )


author: Can Elmas
body: [@Statseeker](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/464652) which macro specifically, to link and access these files?

Edit : Managed with nginx routing. But still wondering the macro. Thanks.


author: Statseeker
body: Its a image marco in confluence and the URL links to the image on our confluence server.

Example:

<https://confluence-server.com/images/logo/daily_dilbert.gif>

The shell script above runs once a day to download the latest dilbert image and then stores that local on our confluence server.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

James
Confluence: Can you filter/limit an Activity Stream macro on a particular page to that page and its children?
Asked by Geert Truyen:

Can I filter/limit and Acivity Stream macro that I put on a page to only display the activities of that same page and its children pages?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Geert, as far as I am know, currently that is not possible. However it has already been raised as an [improvement request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-30082) in Atlassian bug tracker.

comments: author: David Hergert _PAYX_
body: I don't believe that issue refers to what Geert was asking about, as that is a JIRA thing. I believe they are asking when using the **Recently Updated** macro in Confluence, to focus that on the current page and its children.
Developer cannot see page in confluence
Asked by Mg12:

Hi

I have create a space and page in confluence.

My developers, who are in the developers group cannot see the page. The get 'Access Denied'.

In the space, I have given both the Developer group and even individual users full access.

On the page I have done the same.

But still, they get 'Access Denied'.

What is wrong?


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: You can find information about how to configure Jira as a user directory in confluence here : <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management>

In this way you can do your user management in Jira for both Jira and Confluence.


author: Mg12
body: Well, apparently there is room for improvement on how extremely well the work together.

I assume I added them to Jira.


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Are you managing your users in Confluence or in an external Directory (Jira/Crowd)?

If you are doing it in an external directory you might need to resync your users.

Can the developers access other pages and spaces in your confluence instance? If so you might compare those space settings with your new one.

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Mg12
body: Ah, what Jira is seperate? Its certainly not marketed like a seperate product. I was under the impresion that these products work together. And I certainly didnt see any 'resync' options.

This is the first page the we have our conflence.


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Yes, Jira and Confluence are seperate products that work together extremly well, but you need to do some configuration. In which product (confluence or jira) did you create your users and to which group did you add them?


author: Alex Perez
body: Have you included those users in the confluence-users groups?

This action grants the users to login into your confluence instance.

HTH

comments: author: Mg12
body: yes of course.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Insert JIRA Issue and Display Options do not allow displaying filter results with value 0 or 1
Asked by Sirko Manthey:

The Insert Jira Issue macro so far allowed to create some neat ticket stats and by manually adjusting the reference to JQL or XML it also displayed zero values and total ticket count when none or only 1 issue are within the filter range.

With our current version combo (confluence 5.1 + Jira 6.0.3) this does not work anymore. A filter result with zero tickets cannot be displayed at all and results with 1 ticket only as a complete key instead of a total number. The Display Options do not allow to modify this in any way.

That makes it effectively impossible to create any meaningful summaries or reports. With the very limited reporting capacity in Jira this has a significant impact on applicability.

If you experience a similar problem and if you found a workaround it would be great if you could share it. Thanks.


Answers:
author: TruongA
body: You could try to use wiki markup:

To display table:

```
{jiraissues:url=https://jira.atlassian.com/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=project+%3D+CONF+and+text+%7E+%22jira+issue%22&amp;tempMax=1000|renderMode=static}
```

To display count:

```
{jiraissues:url=https://jira.atlassian.com/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-xml/temp/SearchRequest.xml?jqlQuery=project+%3D+CONF+and+text+%7E+%22jira+issue%22&amp;tempMax=1000|count=true}
```

comments: author: Sirko Manthey
body: Thanks Truong Vu, this works best for us at the moment.


author: kat
body: Hi Sirko,

Thanks for your feedback. We recently upgraded the JIRA Issues Macro, and have received a lot of feedback about this issue. We're working to fix it now and are tracking it at [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30117](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30117 "CONF-30117"). We'll update the issue with a fix version to let you know when it's available.

As a workaround for the moment, you can still use the old version of the macro with the parameters you want by using wiki markup. Please let me know if you'd like more details on how to do that.

Thanks,

Anna


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Sirko

You could add the jira dashboard gadgets to your confluence macro's as an external gadget provider as explained here : <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding+JIRA+Gadgets+to+a+Confluence+Page>

That shoud give you a way to show filter results with 0 values.

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Sirko Manthey
body: Thanks for the directions Peter! It may take a bit to try this out but I will report back if this is sufficient for the purpose.

Cheers,

Sirko


author: Sirko Manthey
body: Hi Folks,

unfortunately this is still pending. Jira Gadgets do not work properly for us in Confluence and our Sys Admins are currently in touch with Atlassian tech support.

Cheers
Confluence File Lists: can you create hierarchies and structures for file lists
Asked by Geert Truyen:

It seems to me that for every logical group of files you have to create pages and sub-pages if you want to organize and structure or hierachies.

Is there an other way to achieve this to categorize and organize your files in file lists? (other than labels)


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Geert,

You can use labels, as a manner to tiden up the attachments as described in [this blog post](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/03/confluence-wiki-attachment-document-management/). Other than that you can refer to one of the third party plugins in [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=attachments) and check if they have the needed features.

edit: [this](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-18362) feature request may be relevant

comments: author: Geert Truyen
body: Thanks for your relevant guidance.


Tags: confluence-administration
Chart macro only displaying a single chart per page
Asked by Andrew:

Currently using Confluence 4.3.3 and experiencing an issue with the chart macro - I have two tables that need to produce two charts (requirement is to have multiple charts displayed al la dashboard), only one of the tables and charts displays, no error message is thrown.

Is this a known limitatiojn of the application, to just allow one table and chart to be displayed on a single page?

Fun factor diminishing hourly.........


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Andrew, there isn't a limitation with the number of Charts per page, it may be an issue between the macro you are using for tables, or even the syntax embedding the contents in the page. Would it be possible to post the syntax you are using(on the top right of the page, Tools \> View Source)?


author: Andrew
body: Need to clarify this - seems as if I can workaround this issue by restricting the amount of Table Plus macros in use on the page. If I restrict the page to one Table plus macro to display the data, then replicate the table for the chart placeholder, it works!!


Tags: confluence-administration
What condition do I have to set in a web-item to check the pages hierarchy?
Asked by Florian:

Hi

I wrote a web-item that appears as a menu entry in the Tools menu but it only should be visible if I am in the root page of a space. Another web-item should only be visible if I am not in a root page and third if the current page has children.

Is there something like a HasParentCondition / HasChildrenCondition?


Answers:
author: Florian
body: Had to create my own "HasChildrenCondition" and "IsSpaceCondition" as there are no conditions of this kind provided out of the box.


Tags: condition

web-item
Can Confluence create an entire wiki site from a template?
Asked by Ken Sims:

I have a set of pages I want created for each new Confluence site that is created. Basically it's a collection of 30 or so documents I've imported as individual templates. What I would like is to be able to create the same set of pages on a new site when requested. Also be able to create it with the same heirarchy.


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: I think that Space Blueprints are pencilled in for the Confluence 5.2 release. Ask @Sherif Mansour - he'll know more.

Until then, the [Copy Space add-on](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/212) is a good starting point.

comments: author: BillA
body: That's correct. Space Blueprints are on the roadmap to be delivered soon. We'd love to hear your specific need, Ken, if you want to email me at Bill at atlassian with details of the kind of space you want to create and the page templates you want to put into it.

Thanks.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: We do that with a macro called "create-child". There's a global template that we use when creating a new space, which contains "create-child" for each standard page we want to create in the space

The example below starts by creating children from other global templates (which may also contain templates)

{create-child:Contact\|template=Product-Contact}

{create-child:Compliance summary\|template=product-CIS01}

{create-child:CIS Data protection\|template=product-CIS02}

and so-on

The macro we use is in Adaptavist's theme-builder, although there may be other versions available. ( <http://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/Builder/create-child+macro> )


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: See [How to create pages from template pages](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/How+to+create+pages+from+template+pages) for Confluence OnDemand or Download. The example shown there is about creating a standard space.

Confluence Download customers have it easier and a self service option is available - see [How to create pages from template pages - self service](http://imac2.local:8118/display/examples/How+to+create+pages+from+template+pages+-+self+service) .


author: hsuhailah
body: As a suggestion, perhaps you can [save your new space as a template](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Creating+your+Technical+Documentation+Space#CreatingyourTechnicalDocumentationSpace-TemplateSpace). Once you have set up your first space and are more-or-less happy with it, use the [Copy Space add-on](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/212) to copy the space. From this point on, you can copy it each time you want to create a new space.


Tags: confluence-administration
IE 10 causes the search results and notifications box to be displayed in a different location on the page
Asked by Christopher Meemken:

I'm in the process of testing our new baseline of Windows 7 and IE 10 and found it causes the search results and notifications popup to be displayed in a differnt location on the right side of the browser window. I've tried both native rendering and compatibility mode with no luck. We are not currently in a position to upgrade to 5.x at this point in time.

Is there any workaround?

Regards,

Chris Meemken


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi Christopher,

Internet Explorer 10.0 is not fully supported browser when using Confluence .. Especailly when using "Compatibily View" option. If you want to avoid UI issue with Confluence the best way is to switch to different browser (Firefox, Chrome).

More information about supported platforms you can find in below documentation:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Supported+Platforms>

I hope that will help,

Best Regards,

Mirek

comments: author: Christopher Meemken
body: Hi Mirek,

Thanks for the reply. I did read the supported versions for 4.3, that's why I was hoping for another possible workaround. Our enterprise business standard is IE for the desktop so unfortunately we cannot use another by policy. We will upgrade to Confluence 5.x sometime later this year which has the support for IE 10.

Regards,

Chris
Has anyone tried running Confluence with PostgreSQL 9.1 or 9.2?
Asked by Shira Bezalel:

The [official documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF51/Supported+Platforms "docs") recommends PostgreSQL 9.0 with Confluence. Since that version is relatively old, has anyone tried running Confluence 5.1 with PostgreSQL 9.1 or 9.2? If so, has it been successful? Any gotchas?


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Been using this without problems. Have heard a few others here also use it[.](https://www.cloudshards.com/confluencehosting.php)

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Yes, both 9.1 and 9.2 for some time.


author: Shira Bezalel
body: Thanks for the info!


author: Justin Alex Paramanandan
body: Same here! It works well with the latest PostgreSQL databases. ;)


Tags: confluence-administration

postgres
Column Organizing.
Asked by Tanvi Seth:

Is there a macro that will allow me to organize other columns but will not rearrange the first column?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Tanvi.

Not sure if that's what you are looking for, but the [Table Filter Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.plugin.tablefilter.tablefilter) allows you to change the order of the columns.

Hope it helps!
Free method for letting Confluence 5.1 (installed) users log in with Google Apps credentials?
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

Anyone know a free method for doing this?

I found the commercial AppFusions [Google Apps Authenticator](http://www.appfusions.com/display/GAPPSAUTHC/Home) add-on.


Answers:
author: Colin Goudie
body: Hey Robert, AFAIK ours is the only option out there but is a paid solution. The Crowd support mentioned with google apps works the other way, in that you use Crowd as the authentication for Google Apps.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: This has also been updated per Google's latest and most secure authentication protocol that was updated in Summer 2014. The authenticator was overhauled for this support with additional features (multi-google domain support, group support, latest security).


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Robert, you might be able to achieve so with Shibboleth, both applications are [listed as supported](https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/ShibEnabled) within the tool website.

You may want to add this post to the Shibboleth group:

\* <http://shibboleth.1660669.n2.nabble.com/>


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: I don't know of a free method, though Atlassian crowd (paid) comes with a google apps connector. The only free option I can('t) find is to write your own custom authenticator to pass authentication from confluence to google.


Tags: appfusions

google-apps

sso
Virus infected emails sent out from Confluence
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

somehow virus infected emails want to be sent out from our Confluence. Not all notifications but randomly and of course it were stucked by our protecting system.

Is it connection with a plugin or something?

Thanks for help!

Rumi


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Unlikely to be a plugin, unless you've installed some really dubious stuff - I think you need to look closely at the emails to track back where they're coming from. What is the (non virus laden) content? Subject?

Most important - what do the headers say? It could be just that someone has found the outgoing email address that your Confluence would use and is simply using that email in the header (in other words, they're nothing to do with your Confluence, they just have the same email address)


Tags: confluence-administration