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Trigger external System
Asked by Hendrik Adam:

Hi everyone,

we are using Jira OnDemand.

We need to send (RPC, SOAP, CURL, ...) information to an external  
system by creating or updating a WorkLog for an issue.

Is there any Workflow or Notification or Event to do so?

Thanks for assistance!


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: Currently you have the WebHooks feature in Labs. Check out https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Managing+Webhooks


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: As well as Jobin's "pull", you can use emails on events to trigger actions in other systems. That does rely on the other system being able to read and process the emails Jira sends though


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You can't do it in onDemand. An option is to make use of JIRA's remote APIs (preferrably REST) and do a pull for the changes you want to listen in and then send the information to external system.


Tags: cloud

integration
How do I sort pages by the number of labels they have?
Asked by Niall Sheridan:

Hi,

My problem is we have a list of pages, each page containing a description of an issue being experienced by users, some issues are encountered by only one client some by many e.g.

Issue 1 (Labels: User1)

Issue 2 (Labels: User1, User2, User3)

Issue 3 (Labels: User1, User3)

What I want to be able to do, on the parent page is rank the list of issues by the number of labels associated with them, and if possible show the number of labels associated with the page.

e.g.

Page \| Count

Issue 2 \| 3

Issue 3 \| 2

Issue 1 \| 1

Any help ont his woudl be greatly appreciated. I can get a plugin installed for thsi if it's needed.


Answers:
author: Niall Sheridan
body: In the end, as purcasing plugin Reporting from Customware is not an option I've used the Cheklist Macro with Checklist Labels it doesn't give me a count but does allow me to see the data more clearly..  

e.g.  

Issue \| User1 \| User2 \| User3 \|  

Issue1 \| x \| \| \|  

Issue2 \| x \| x \| x \|  

Issue3 \| x \| \| x \|


author: Cyrille Martin
body: Hi,

You can do that with the plugin [Reporting](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting) from Customware

Regards

Cyrille

comments: author: Niall Sheridan
body: Thanks Cyrille, unfortunately the licence cost is too much, but looks like it would work.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Niall

I'm not sure if there's a plugin or macro able to do exactly what you mentioned.

However, did you try using the [Content By Label Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Content+by+Label+Macro)? Could be helpful. :)

comments: author: Niall Sheridan
body: Thanks Bruna, definitely helps me out.
Auto Redirect from page to URL (space... or page)
Asked by Dirk Bromberg:

Hi,

we want to auto redirect our users when click on a page to another URL or page in another space...

What are possible solutions for this?

thanks!

Dirk


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.redirection>

comments: author: Dirk Bromberg
body: Works fine.


author: Johannes.Stark
body: wish I could say that.... When I enter the destination URL and publish the site from which I want to redirect, it reverts to a default (the main landing page of our Confluence Documentation suite) and not the URL I entered... Also, when attempting to edit the redirect parameters, I can't edit the destination page. I tried various approaches, so far no luck


author: Steve
body: No easy or ideal way to do a Confluence redirect. We moved to cloud and ended up building our own app, just put on the marketplace [Easy Redirection for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1224699/easy-redirection-for-confluence-cloud?hosting=cloud&tab=overview). If have any feedback let me know.


author: Radu Dumitriu
body: mod_rewrite or this filter <http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/>

comments: author: Dirk Bromberg
body: Whow, fast answer. But we want more dynamic without customizing the server or webapp. Like paste macro or html snippet on the page...


author: Radu Dumitriu
body: I'm on fast music right now; motorhead. Add a script into the page changing the window.location to your desired one


author: Dirk Bromberg
body: Hm, you have an short example? or howto?


author: Radu Dumitriu
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Writing+User+Macros>

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/2479/how-to-add-custom-javascript-in-confluence-pages](/questions/2479/how-to-add-custom-javascript-in-confluence-pages)
How to move or disable team calendars gadget from confluence dashboard
Asked by George Lewe (LSY):

We recently installed TeamCalendars for Confluence. The plugin places a gadget on the system dashboard in the upper left corner showing upcoming events related to the currently logged in user.

Placing that gadget there reduces the usability for our users immensly. The most important gadget on the dashboard for us is the space list. That's the first thing users do, clicking on their space to get there. Now that calendar gadget moves that space list way to the bottom, depending on how many events are in your calendars. Everybody has to scroll down now to find the links to their spaces.

How can I move or disable the team calendar gadget from the Confluence dashboard?


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi George, You can achieve this by putting this css from *Confluence Admin \>\> Stylesheet \>\> Edit.*  

|---------------------------------------------|
| `.dashboard-calendar {` `display:none;` `}` |

Hope it helps. Cheers!

comments: author: George Lewe (LSY)
body: Worked like a breeze! Thanks.


author: John Corwith
body: this no longer works in server 5.9


author: Jeff Guthrie
body: Anyway to simply swap the calendar with the spaces/pages/network area?

comments: author: LarryBrock
body: Hi Jeff, You might get more response if you make this a stand-alone question instead of an answer to someone elses question. Making it a stand-alone question will make it visible in searches for calendar questions.
User profile images don't always appear in the recently updated section on the dashboard
Asked by linden linden:

I have a number of wiki instances and this happens on each of them.

Intermittently an image for a person in the recently updated area on the dashbaord shows up with a red cross.

The server has plenty of memory etc, so it's strange that this continually happens.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Linden


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Linden,

This might have something to do with the index being corrupt or something else. It's hard to tell.

I recommend to rebuild indexes from scratch and if that doesn't help, I suggest to open a ticket to the atlassian support so we can investigate this behavior.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: dashboard

image

profile

recently-updated
Feeds are showing in popular feed that have restricted permissions.
Asked by Louise:

How do I stop them from showing to users who don't have permission. The space has permissions set, so only certain users can see it, but when opeing the dashboard as a public user or a user without permissions, you can see the feed for these restricted pages. How do I stop these feeds from showing to unauthorised users.

Thanks,

Louise.


Answers:
author: Migration Bot 9000
body: Hi Louise,

This sounds like a bug - the popular feed should only show content to users that they have permission to see. If you are able to reproduce this problem, could you please report it as a bug by creating a new JIRA issue on <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF>?

Joe.


Tags: dashboard
Survey macro as a "quiz"
Asked by JT:

We are trying to set up a "quiz" in Confluence. We have used the survey macro to get the questions and answers but, the macro does not show who answered and when they answered. Since this is a quiz, we need to know who was the first person to submit the correct answer.

Is there a way to do this with the survey macro? Is there another/better way to do this?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi!

Instead of using Survey for this purpose you can use Gilly or DForm:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.edubrite.confluence.plugins.gilly>

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/DFORM>

Regards!

comments: author: JT
body: Thanks for the suggestion Bruna. Looks like either of these will work for me. Unfortunately, they are both commercial license plugins. We were hoping to do this without spending any money.


author: StephanieC
body: Gilly is Free. We were just looking at it


author: Kate (izi)
body: Hi,

With the **[izi for Confluence - LMS](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214110/izi-for-confluence-lms-training-courses-quizzes?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&utm_source=atl_community&utm_medium=answer&utm_campaign=quizzes-traffic-sources&utm_content=Survey+macro+as+a+quiz)**add-on you can create quizzes and tests, distribute them, and track completion and results. Quizzes doesn't require any integrations and allows you to work with tests right in Confluence. You can:

* Build plain text quizzes and tests with images, videos, formatted text
* Configure test settings
* Assign tests to Confluence users or people without a Confluence account by sharing a quiz link via email
* Let participants self-enroll to tests
* View reports by user and by question
* See answers of each participant

Here are some posts you can read on the topic:

[Assessments, tests and training with Quizzes for Confluence](https://www.isostech.com/blogs/atlassian/assessments-tests-training-quizzes-confluence/)

[Assessing Job Candidates and Training Employees with Quizzes for Confluence](http://arijea.com/2016/04/28/assessing-job-candidates-training-employees-quizzes-confluence.html)

Kind regards,

Katerina Kolina
How do I enable the mobile plugins and notification plugins in my OnDemand instance?
Asked by George Williams:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If they're free, they're enabled, if they're paid, go to your OnDemand account and buy them. If they're not on the list of supported plugins, then you can't.

See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy>

comments: author: George Williams
body: They are listed in the System Plug-ins but the are disabled. I can't find any option or way to enable them. From what I can find online, both sets of features should be available in OnDemand now.

![](../../upfiles/notifications.PNG)


Tags: confluence-cloud
Confluence: Unable to Edit Blog Post Area even though can edit Subject Area
Asked by Ian Roseman:

I have permissions, am an administrator, and just tried to post a blog. I am able to edit the Subject of the blog, but not the Blog Display area itself. I can even update the subject, and save the blog. I tried IE and Chrome. Does anyone know if this is a browser or Confluence configuration issue?


Answers:
author: Petch
body: You shouldn't be able to open the editor unless you have permissions to edit the blog, so it sound like there's another problem (probably a Javascript error).

Have you tried contacting Atlassian support, you will probably get this fixed much quicker.

Until then, you can try a view things:

* Do a full page refresh (e.g. shift-refresh) or clear your browser cache.
* Disable third party plugins (a plugin may be causing a scripting issue affecting the editor).
* Check the browser console for any Javascript errors which may give a clue as to the source of the problem.

I do think the best course of action is to contact support as this is not normal behaviour.


author: Sean King
body: By blog display are you talking about the default sidebar with the calendar and recent blog posts? Or the regular page content like any other page?


author: Sean King
body: Make sure you don't have any css that could be messing up the edit box.


Tags: blog

edit

editor
How to hide change password form for users connected via read-only Active Directory users?
Asked by dchisholm:

We have Confluence connected to a Crowd directory that is coupled to ActiveDirectory for authentication only (i.e. it's a read-only connection to AD).

Users of this directory are trying to change their password using the Confluence password form, and this results in a null pointer exception.

Is it possible to hide the change password form for these users?

We have another internal Crowd directory which is read/write, and for its users the change-password form should not be hidden in Confluence.


Answers:
author: Paula Manildi
body: Added bug - go vote - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34025>


author: Paula Manildi
body: We need this also. It actually seems like a bug in Confluence. When will it be addressed?


author: Matt
body: You may change Jira template inits guts.

Remember to copy that, each time Jira is updated.

here it is Jira login JSP template (in this case jira is installed in /srv/jira/):

/srv/jira/atlassian-jira/includes/loginform.jsp

You may check this out too:

/srv/jira/atlassian-jira/secure/views/user/changepassword.jsp

/srv/jira/atlassian-jira/views/resetpassword.jsp

comments: author: dchisholm
body: To clarify, I'm looking for a way to do this in Confluence and not JIRA. I'd like Confluence to detect that the ActiveDirectory authenticated user is connected to a read-only user-directory and display an appropriate message while allowing regular (read-write user directory) users change their password.


Tags: active-directory

crowd

password
pdf export outputs < as < inside code block
Asked by Johan Ferner:

Hello,

I just upgraded a bunch of plugins including the pdf export plugin and have come across something strange.

When we export our technical docs to PDF we get:

\&lt;foo\&gt;this is xml\&lt;/foo\&gt;

from the following wiki code:

{code}  
\<foo\>this is xml\</foo\>  
{code}

It is rendered correctly on screen.

Running Confluence 3.5

Any ideas? If not, Can I downgrade the plugin?

Thanks,

Johan


Answers:
author: Johan Ferner
body: After contacting the excellent Atlassian support (thanks Peter Koczan) I downgraded the pdf exporter.

The problem persisted. Then I downgraded com.atlassian.confluence.ext.newcode-macro-plugin from 1.9.12 to 1.9.10 and the problem went away.


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

I was trying to replicate this behavior, but here worked as expected.  

Could you please clarify what this \<foo\> does? That could be the case.  

Cheers,  

WZ

comments: author: Johan Ferner
body: Hello William, thanks for your answer. \<foo\> is just some text to demonstrate my problem. I'll try to open a support case and report back here if resolved.


author: Giuliano C.
body: Johan,

I'm not sure if what you're experiencing is a bug or some kind od expected behavior for earlier versions of Confluence. But, you can take a look at those export customization pages, that speaks how these Export actions goes, what you have to do in some cases.

Maybe you have to modify your PDF Stylesheet to applicate your changes.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Editing+the+PDF+Stylesheet>

Or customize the exports to PDF.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF>

Sorry if it doesn't help you.

Cheers
Team Calendar
Asked by HopeJ:

Hi

We have recently purchased the new calendar and for some reason the times do not show correctly.

Instead of 08:00 we get 8A and instead of 14:00 we get 2P.

Can anyone please help with this.


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, can you please check if your time and date formats are what you'd like it to be? Follow <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Time+and+Date+Formats>

Cheers,

comments: author: HopeJ
body: Hi

We have done that it is set up as say that out time format is "hh:mm a" which should come out as "12:08 PM" according to <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html>

It is also only effecting th emonth view and not the list or week view


author: MatthewC
body: I think it's a "feature"... if you look at the screenshots from the Team Calendar product pages, they have this same behaviour. using "a" instead of "am", "p" instead of "pm"

<http://www.atlassian.com/software/team-calendars/overview/screenshot-tour>

I suggest you raise an improvement issue at their Jira site

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL>

comments: author: HopeJ
body: Thanks for the advice Matt, i have done just that <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-873>


author: Kerrin Hardy
body: I understood that this is done purposefully to save space in the grid format of the month view.

(We also have CMS that has this same behaviour in an events calendar. I'm certainly not a fan of it so if there is a way of formatting it to read AM or PM in full, I'm in!)


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Is the Bubbles Plugin package and its Forum template available for Atlassian OnDemand?
Asked by Philipp Baganz:

We are also testing a "Download" version of Confluence and the **Adaptavist Community Bubbles**plugin package is available. Can this free plugin be installed on our OnDemand site? If yes, how? If not, is there a plugin package already installed as default or one which could be installed? Or is there a TechDocument in our knowledge base, which could be used to help build a standard looking Forum i.e. Thread listing with user and user statics, Top Users, Current users, Post button etc....

do let us know


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Gerald,

look here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy>

Cheers

Thomas


author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, this plugin isn't available for OnDemand. The list of available plugins is here <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy> and that's all there will be.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Gliffy plugin is failing
Asked by VibekeS:

Im currently using confluence 3.0.2, and Gliffy plugin are suddenly failing.

Status information about the product

|--------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| **Plugin version** | 3.1.4                                                  |
| **License Status** | Paid License (support/maintenance expires in 315 days) |

From log file /var/confluence/data/logs/atlassian-confluence.log:

2012-08-28 10:58:37,034 ERROR \[TP-Processor7\] \[atlassian.confluence.servlet.ConfluenceServletDispatcher\] serviceAction There is no Action mapped for namespace /plugins/gliffy and action name showgliffyeditor

-- referer: [https://int.basefarm.no/confluence/display/\~vibeke/Home](https://int.basefarm.no/confluence/display/%7Evibeke/Home) \| url: /confluence/plugins/gliffy/showgliffyeditor.action \| userName: vibeke  

Any solutions?


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

Did you try to check if the baseURL ( Browse \> Confluence Admin \> General Configuration ) is the same URL that you're accessing Confluence? If not, be sure that the BaseURL matches the URL that you access Confluence.  

If that doesn't work, I would suggest to you, to create a ticket with Gliffy Support - <http://www.gliffy.com/support/> in order to speed up the process.

<br />

I hope this helps.  

Cheers,  

WZ
Linux-confluence installer (.bin file) error : Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Asked by Bahar ?a?lar:

I download the confluence installer, atlassian-confluence-4.2.13-x64.bin,

I changed it to executable with \>chmod 777 atlassian-confluence-4.2.13-x64.bin,

and when I run it with \> ./atlassian-confluence-4.2.13-x64.bin, I get the following error:

Unpacking JRE ...  
Starting Installer ...  
/mnt/archive/atlassian-confluence-4.2.13-x64.bin.1646.dir/jre/bin/java: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

What is wrong, and How can I fix it?

Thanks for answers


Answers:
author: Toby Hobson
body: I'm seeing the same problem with the latest 4.3.3 build on ubuntu: /home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-4.3.3-x64.bin.5105.dir/jre/bin/java: 1: /home/ubuntu/atlassian-confluence-4.3.3-x64.bin.5105.dir/jre/bin/java: Syntax error: "(" unexpected


author: C. Faysal
body: Once i had this error. I found out i downloaded the installer for the wrong architecure. Check if the installer matches your hosts arch. 32/64 bit


author: LuizA
body: Hi Bahar,

As an alternative approach I would suggest you to try to install Confluence using the tar.gz file, that you can download from this link below:

<http://www.atlassian.com/en/software/confluence/post-download?file=http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/downloads/binary/atlassian-confluence-4.2.13.tar.gz>

And then try to follow these instructions to install, it's easy as the installer, no worries:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Installing+Confluence+on+Linux+from+Archive+File>

If you still experience problems with your install after this attempt, please feel free to raise a support ticket at our [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) and we will be glad to take a look at this problem with you in order to solve it.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

LJ.


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

To be honest with you, you're doing everything right.  
Can you try to download Confluence 4.2.13 again from our website: <http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/downloads/binary/atlassian-confluence-4.2.13-x64.bin> ? That file could be corrupt.  

I hope this helps.  

Regards,  

WZ  

comments: author: Bahar ?a?lar
body: This is where I downloaded confluence :)

Also, I installed confluence using the same bin file on a different machine.


Tags: error

install

server
Anchors should not be considert by TOC Macro
Asked by onkeldom:

We've got a nasty issue. A lot of our documentation consists of large pages. For a better navigation within the page, we use a lot of anchors. If one of those anchors is accidently formated as heading, it is also recognized by the TOC-macro.

Problem is:

If you add a link to a heading-formated anchor somewhere on the page and click it, the link points to the TOC listing.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

\* Write a page with several headings

\* Put an anchor somewhere on that page and format it as heading (h1-h6 work fine ... doesn't matter).

\* Create a link pointing to that anchor

\* Add the TOC-macro on top of the page

\* Click the link.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Dominic,

I don't think that this is an error. The toc-macro lists all the headings in the page. If your anchors are headings, the macro is doing its job fine.

The other way round: if someone creates a heading as an anchor intentionally. How would you explain him / her that this heading is not shown in the toc ?

Cheers

Thomas


Tags: anchor

bug

link

table-of-contents
Possibility to restrict page access for Confluence system administrators
Asked by Georgi Mitov:

Hi,

We have a setup where we use Confluence to keep all kinds of compnay information - including development related info and docs, but also financial and HR documents - e.g. people HR records, etc.

The company is growing so at one point of time the owners, who were in the roles of System administrators initially, want to shift this responsibility to other people. However, if a person is added as a member of the Confluence System administrators team, then this person will be able to see all pages in the Conflunece instance, regardles of their page restrictions.

Is it possible to configure the Confluence so that the System admnistrators are not able to see some spaces or some pages?

Alernatively, do you know of plugin which allows page content to be encrypted and made availableonly by people knowing the password? This might be also a solution to the above problem.

Of course - any other solutions would be welcome!

Thanks,

dr


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, it'd be impossible to restrict pages to Confluence System Administrators. At the end of the day, if you drop their permission from it, they can just add it themselves. Anything that you add to restrict it based on permissions has the same effect.