youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Confluence via AJP and SSL - no scheme SSL in Server Connector needed?
Asked by Marcel "childno?.de" Trautwein:

regarding [Configuring Apache Reverse Proxy Using the AJP Protocol](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/configuring-apache-reverse-proxy-using-the-ajp-protocol-802593042.html) I'm wondering that there is no hint that the AJP connector might need a

```
scheme="https"
```

nor

```
proxyName="my.host" proxyPort="443"
```

as like it is needed using mod_proxy to ensure correct URL handling:

* [Integrating JIRA with Apache using SSL](https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/integrating-jira-with-apache-using-ssl-802593043.html)

Can someone point out, why this is the case/requirement for Apache mod_proxy but not for AJP?


Answers:
author: Sebastian Bicchi
body: When using mod_proxy the request looks to Confluence like a browser request. Therefore you have to tell Confluence (or to be more precisely Confluence' Tomcat server) that a proxy is used and the Scheme is https, so the server can build a valid link instead of redirecting to it's own address.

AJP is different. AJP is a binary protocol, which includes different states about the request but does look not like a http request to the server. The server is aware that this is a proxified request. Inside the AJP message everything is already prepared, in other words the server will know from where the request comes:

```
AJP13_FORWARD_REQUEST :=    prefix_code      (byte) 0x02 = JK_AJP13_FORWARD_REQUEST    method           (byte)    protocol         (string)    req_uri          (string)    remote_addr      (string)    remote_host      (string)    server_name      (string)    server_port      (integer)    is_ssl           (boolean)    num_headers      (integer)    request_headers *(req_header_name req_header_value)    attributes      *(attribut_name attribute_value)    request_terminator (byte) OxFF
```

The long name is by the way **Apache JServ P**rotocol.


author: Marcel "childno?.de" Trautwein
body: because internal ajp connection is still unencrypted? while mod_proxy makes internal calls to an HTTPS server?


Tags: confluence-administration

https

mod_proxy

proxy

ssl
How to Edit Space watchers
Asked by vboerner:

In the Screenshot in <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/manage-watchers-218271870.html> a textfiel ist shown, to add SPACE-watchers. This textfiel is not available in my Installation (5.9.9). I am Confluenceadmin and Spaceadmin with all permissions.

I CAN edit the list of watcher, like the above mentiones article explains, but i cant set space watchers. Do I have to set an option to do this?

Thank you in advance

(I have to be able to put all my teammembers on the notificationlist for the whole space, not just a page)

Update:

ok, I found the BLOG and watched it [https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/blog](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/blog?src=sidebar)  
but it wasnt so obvious where to find it (or I just searched at the wrong place


Answers:
author: Jakub Pierzcha?a
body: Hi

I'm afraid editing the list of space watchers is possible from version 5.10

comments: author: vboerner
body: thank you for your fast answer. I somehow missed the update. Was there a newsletter or something?


author: Jakub Pierzcha?a
body: Confluence release notes are posted here whenever new version is published:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html>


author: vboerner
body: thank you, but I can't watch the site you stated. But I can watch the blog [https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/blog](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/blog?src=sidebar) and for Confluence one can even subscribe the RSS [https://confluence.atlassian.com/createrssfeed.action?types=blogpost\&spaces=CONFKB\&title=Confluence+Knowledge+Base+Blog\&labelString%3D\&excludedSpaceKeys%3D\&sort=created\&maxResults=20\&timeSpan=30\&showContent=true\&confirm=Create+RSS+Feed](https://confluence.atlassian.com/createrssfeed.action?types=blogpost&spaces=CONFKB&title=Confluence+Knowledge+Base+Blog&labelString%3D&excludedSpaceKeys%3D&sort=created&maxResults=20&timeSpan=30&showContent=true&confirm=Create+RSS+Feed)  
which is nice!  


Tags: confluence-administration

documentation
Confluence CLI updateUser from a CSV file
Asked by Jeanne Howe:

I am trying to update userFullName and userEmail in Confluence. I am using the command:

./confluence.sh --action runFromCsv --file "Confluence_Users_AUG4.csv" --common "--action updateUser" --continue

The command appears to run successfully, but in the end, no users have been updated

Run completed successfully. 0 actions were successful from file:

When running in --debug mode, I these messages as it reads through the file:

(note, example data only for purpose of this ticket)

element: zoe_keough, headerLine: true, endOfLine: false  
element: [zoe.keough@abc.com](mailto:zoe.keough@ctb.com), headerLine: true, endOfLine: false  
element: ZOE KEOUGH, headerLine: true, endOfLine: false

I am in Confluence 5.9.12 with CLI 5.4.0

ANy insight would be greatly appreciated


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Does you CSV file have an appropriate header line? You need column headers that match the parameters you are trying to change like "UserId", "UserFullName", "UserEmail".

If you are still having problems, suggest [opening an issue](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/JCLI) and attaching your csv file.


Tags: bob-swift

cli

confluence-administration
How to move content out from Macro?
Asked by Pavel Potcheptsov:

Say I have huge table or content with different marcos inside other Macro, for example Expand.

I no longer need to place content inside Macro and I want to just place it in a page. The reason why I might want to do so it's because of sticky table heading row doesn't work inside Macro.

If I delete Macro then I lose my content inside.

I also can't somehow copy content inside and paste it outside.

What I supposed to do?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Place you cursor just before content inside the macro and hit shift+down arrow. This will select your content. The simply cut and paste it elsewhere. I have found this to be the easiest way as sometime drag to select doesn't quite work ... especially when tables are involved.

comments: author: Pavel Potcheptsov
body: Thanks, it really works especially with tables.


author: Davin Studer
body: Glad to help.
What is the best way to display staff availability / location?
Asked by Delicia Tan:

We are a team of permanent and volunteer staff, full time and part time, situated in multiple locations.

We would like a way to know/see on a daily basis whether someone is in the office or somewhere else or on leave.


Answers:
author: Jakub Pierzcha?a
body: If you want real-time view on who is available on certain days Instant Messanger software works best.

Atlassian's HipChat integrates well with other Atlassian products and provides this functionality:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/HIPCHAT/Set+your+status>


author: Delicia Tan
body: @Jakub Pierzcha?a isn't it too unwieldy when you have 20+ people in or out of the office on different days? or is there a way to determine in real time who is available on a certain day?


author: Jakub Pierzcha?a
body: Hi Delicia,

Sounds Like Confluence Team Calendars is what you need:

<https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/team-calendars>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Disable built in admin account
Asked by Michael Salisbury:

Hi there,

Do I need to keep the built in admin account active if I am syncing to an external directory in which I have other Confluence administrators? We have a 10 user license, but the admin account seems to take up a license even though it's not in use, so I'd like to disable it. Is this a valid configuration?

Thanks

Michael  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Disable-built-in-admin-account/qaq-p/171747?attachment-id=9614){#link_11868cadc49150}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/28677/1/image2016-8-3%2021%3A38%3A58.png){#display_11868cadc49150_0}


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: If you do not have a known account on the internal directory, you will be unable to access the application in the event the external directory doesn't work.

If you have access to the database and are aware of how to create and provision a new administrator account in the case of an issue, this isn't too big of a worry. If you're not comfortable figuring out the SQL yourself, there are KB articles ++and++ Atlassian Support is aware of how to help customers when they are in this bind.

comments: author: Michael Salisbury
body: Thanks Steven. If our external directory doesn't work we have bigger issues (Active Directory), and I'm comfortable working following the KB articles (do you have them on hand?) to set up a new account through SQL (or enable the existing admin user).


author: Steven F Behnke
body: No problem.

I agree, this is something of a non-issue. Some customers don't see eye-to-eye on that matter though, which is why I approached it the way I did.

If you're simply re-enabling an account --

```
UPDATE cwd_userSET active = 'T'WHERE user_name ='&lt;user_name&gt;';
```

**PLEASE** make sure to use the exact version of documentation pertaining to your instance of Confluence, especially when running SQL queries. Measure twice, cut once!

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html>

image2016-8-3 21:38:58.png


author: Davin Studer
body: Another point to consider is that a member of an external directory cannot make changes to the config of that directory ... even if that user is a system admin. So, for instance if you setup Confluence to use an LDAP directory none of the members that are synced in via that external directory can edit the config for the directory, but the local admin account can. If you decide down the road that you need to change what LDAP users should be synced in or what LDAP groups need to be synced in you would have to re-enable the admin account. And if you are already on the line for licenses that could cause an issue as you might have to deactivate another account first. I would tend to leave it enabled and just understand that that is one of your users and plan for it.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way to display font files in Confluence?
Asked by Brittany Kreider:

Untitled.png  

I work for a publishing company and we have multiple people who work with different fonts every day. We store our fonts we license in the Confluence, but I'd really like it if we were able to display them differently and have a preview of what each font looks like so the editors can clearly see what they're looking at.  

Thanks!  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-a-way-to-display-font-files-in-Confluence/qaq-p/355886?attachment-id=8229){#link_11868cce5e842d}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/60122/1/Untitled.png){#display_11868cce5e842d_0}


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: How would you expect them to look? How would you expect to add them to a page?

I wrote this **user macro** in about five minutes --

**Edit**

image2016-8-3 21:22:47.png

**View**

image2016-8-3 21:22:18.png
Introduce your teams to Questions for Confluence
Asked by shmooth:

How do i get rid of this annoying status message in Confluence Questions? It keeps returning.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Hi Peter,

I know the one you're talking about, and just admins see it as far as I know. We're not ready to deploy CQ company-wide yet (8000 users) so I haven't clicked it. Have you tried to do that? I'm asking because I'm curious if there are options like 'Send' and 'Don't show this option again'.

Once you do use it to send a message, apparently you will not see that option again. That was revealed in this Atlassian document, "[How do I re-trigger the 'Introduce your teams to Confluence Questions' email](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cqkb/how-do-i-re-trigger-the-introduce-your-team-to-confluence-questions-email-798884686.html)".


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

questions-for-confluence
Is there a way to use addon-com.xpandit.plugins.linkpreview-confluence? in the cloud based version of confluence?
Asked by Logosou Kudayah:


Answers:
author: Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
body: This add-on does not have a Cloud version and the Vendor will need to build it in order to make it avaliable. You should ask the vendor directly.

Vendor: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/31085> (You can find their email address here)

Addon: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.xpandit.plugins.linkpreview-confluence/server/overview>


Tags: addon-com.xpandit.plugins.linkpreview-confluence

cloud

confluence-cloud
Can You Drag Files OUT of Confluence?
Asked by Spencer:

I am trying to create a PowerPoint slide library and it would be useful for my users to be able to just drag a given slide into a presentation they are building.


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: Users can download any attachment to their PC - once they download the full set of slides in the PPT file they can pick and choose as they like.

But dragging a single slide out of a PPT containing several slides whilst the PPT file is still only residing on a Confluence page sounds to be a "trick too far"
How can Jira issues show up on the Team Calendar?
Asked by jae_bambee:


Answers:
author: Jakub Pierzcha?a
body: Hi

This documentation page will cover your need:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/add-jira-events-241566244.html>

Basically you need to add JIRA Events to the calendar, specify which dates you'd like to see and then make sure they are correctly filled on each issue


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

team-calendars-for-confluence
Page properties report does not paginate
Asked by Steve Lewis:

I have a Page properties report I am using to list requirements (created using requirements template). There are two problems:

1) I am limited to 30 items being shows even when I increase the number of rows to display in the macro settings.

2) When I click on Next to show a second page of items, Confluence shows the header row but no items. When I click Prev, instead of returning to previous page, again I get headings but no items.


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi Steve,

I believe you are being affected by the below bugs:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-40898>
* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-40995>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Optimizing the search results in google.
Asked by Moiz Ahamed:

We use confluence 5.4 it for public documentation. Whenever a user searches for an module or functionality it always points to the older version of the documentation rather than the new ones. For example, when the users searches for Material Editor functionality in a graphic engine for version 4.0 in google. The results in google always point to the same topic but from the older version such as 2.5 or 3.0. But ideally it should point to the latest version of 4.0.  

Can you guys provide any suggestion on how to point to the latest docs rather than the older version. Its really confusing for the users.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Are you on Confluence Server or Atlassian Cloud?

Atlassian gets around this by leaving the latest documentation in the exact same space, and moves the OLD documentation to a new space.
Icons are missing in the editor toolbar
Asked by Open Europa Wikis Team:

With the 5.10.3 version of Confluence, **most of the icons are missing** in the editor toolbar:

icons-missing-editor-toolbar.jpg

Any idea to solve this?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Icons-are-missing-in-the-editor-toolbar/qaq-p/260775?attachment-id=2493){#link_11868d48059322}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/44017/1/icons-missing-editor-toolbar.jpg){#display_11868d48059322_0}


Answers:
author: Derrick Hardison
body: Thanks for the update! We don't happen to have that plugin, but I did go ahead and remove a couple recent ones that we did install most recently. I believe that may have fixed our issue as well. I'll have to go back and see which ones may have been our culprits. I may also see if earlier versions of those plugins have the same issue.


author: Nicolas Casel
body: It was a "conflict" with the 'Labels Cage' plugin v 3.0.6. So we downgraded to the v 3.0.5.


author: Derrick Hardison
body: Did you ever figure out what is happening? I just started having the same issue in 5.10.3


author: Open Europa Wikis Team
body: Thanks Sebastian for your feedback.

Indeed we use a reverse proxy, however there is no (404) network error in the logs.

When we restart the server, all the icons are displayed. Then, something makes them missing. Maybe a plugin?


author: Sebastian Bicchi
body: Do you use a reverse proxy? Can you enable Developer Mode and see if there are errors (404 in Network or Console Error)?


Tags: editor

icon

toolbar
Rounding numbers
Asked by Daan de Schepper:

Is it possible to round numbers to 2 decimals after the . ?

For example math outcome is 2.123456 CelesteCS Math makes it 2.12


Answers:
author: Ignacio Pulgar
body: Despite of the fact that there's no function for doing so, you can effectively achieve that through the following operation:

ROUND(X\*100)/100

Where X is the decimal number you need to have with less decimal places.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
document share - read only users/anonymous password access
Asked by Matthew Walsh:

We only have a handful of users that would be editing Confluence docs but 50+ external users that could benefit from seeing these docs in a read only capacity. I'd like to run the cloud version but I don't want to open it up publicly with anonymous access for these users (and the rest of the world).

Is there any way to lock down the anonymous access with a password? Any other work around?


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: Anonymous with a password is a contradiction - passwords are only relevant to a User account.

By definition, Anonymous is deliberately for providing access to the Space for anyone anywhere in the world.

Of course you can set the Anonymous permissions such that they can't edit any pages or upload/comment etc

and of course within the Space you can set Page View Restriction at a Parent which only allows the nominated Users or user Groups you want to see that Page(s) i.e. Anonymous would not be included in the View list so it remains private.

comments: author: Matthew Walsh
body: Thanks for the response, yeh I thought as much. My NFP org just can't justify additional licences just for read only user access. I'll have to enable anon access and wrap the site in with my own login auth page.

It would be handy if Atlassian added an additional read-only user type (that couldn't be changed) which they could sell much cheaper than the normal user rate.


author: Rodney Hughes
body: Seriously? Licences aren't per user as such unless it throws you into a higher count tranche, but still it is scalable and overall not a super-expensive compared to other knowledge/collaboration systems.

Note that some Not For Profits may qualify for FREE Community Confluence licence (i.e. unlimited) under certain provisions <https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/community-license-request>

The "half pregnant" solution is to have a single generic User account to give to all these 3rd parties.  
Downside is you have no idea who is actually accessing the information.  
But you need to manage those more stringently to change the password whenever anyone leaves that 3rd party organisation.

I still believe that any, and more so NFPs, organisation needs to demonstrate some loyalty and privilege of being affiliated with the organisation, and hence get more buy in to the organisation success.   
That can be demonstrated by having the extra Users on a personal basis - that reinforces the loyalty and privilege in those individuals minds that they are not going to post the access details on Facebook and you can still manage each individual without disruption to all the other individuals.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Setting up Confluence area - Error during setup wizard
Asked by Brian Salzle:

What is the error below trying to tell me?

Confluence v3.4.5 setup trying to upgrade to current (v3.4.5 \> v3.5.17 \> v5.0.3 \> current)   
Setting up a v3.4.5 system to match current production

System is Server 2012 R2

Database is Oracle 12c

image2016-8-2 16:1:50.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Setting-up-Confluence-area-Error-during-setup-wizard/qaq-p/200751?attachment-id=9867){#link_11868db4cd0cdc}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/33754/1/image2016-8-2%2016%3A1%3A50.png){#display_11868db4cd0cdc_0}


Answers:
author: Brian Salzle
body: You are correct that the Host name was not correctly setup. After adding our domainname.local to the host name we got through this issue. Thanks


author: Brian Salzle
body: You are correct that the Host name was not correctly setup. After adding our domainname.local to the host name we got through this issue. Thanks


author: Steven F Behnke
body: The error pretty clearly states that it cannot find the host you provided -- Is that host resolvable from your JIRA machine?
How can I tell who added a given label?
Asked by Scott Welker:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Removing Labels](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=590259487)*

How can I tell who added a given label?


Answers:
author: Scott Welker
body: Users cannot tell who added a given label.  

However, Stephen Deutsch offered a promising macro you may get your administrator to install.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Here's a short user macro to be able to tell who added the labels (you should set it to be viewable only by system administrators so it doesn't confuse regular users):

```
## @noparams#foreach ( $labelling in $content.getLabellings() )  &lt;p&gt; $labelling.label.name added by $labelling.owningUser.name on $labelling.lastModificationDate &lt;/p&gt;#end
```

comments: author: Scott Welker
body: Thanks Stephen. While I appreciate that, we simply aren't interested in maintaining a bunch of patch-work band aids (plugins, macros, etc.).  

For now our answer is that users cannot tell who added a given label.


author: Konstantin Mitov [Botron]
body: Hi Scott,

If you wish to view who added a specific label, to a specific issue, you can see that in the issue history tab.

Regards,

Konstantin

comments: author: Bill Bailey
body: He is asking about Confluence. Who added what label doesn't show up in page history. Adding a label does not cause the page to increment revision (at last as until 5.9.7). I think your only option is the user macro @Stephen Deutsch provided below.


author: Scott Welker
body: Quite right Bill Bailey. I've concluded that the end-user simply cannot ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad").  

As is far too often the case, the Atlassian/Confluence answer is install some plugin that the average user simply has little hope of accomplishing. Broken by design :-/


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label