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Confluence link to application HP ALM QC 11.52
Asked by RG:

Hi,

Is there any way to link confluence to HP ALM QC 11.52? or any other suggestion on how to create dashboards on confluence page using QC data is appreciated.


Answers:
author: Grace Sibomana
body: I have the same request ...


author: Daniela Beldie
body: Hello RG,

Did you find the answer to your question?

Cheers,


author: AnisB
body: Hi,

that would interest me too.. I coul not find any solution in the web or the marketplace


Tags: alm-works

dashboard
Can Cloud Atlassian app access be limited to certain IP addresses?
Asked by Dave Erkes:

This is really a question about all apps in the Cloud offering...

The goal would be to use this for a Corporate environment - with policies around things like Data Loss Prevention. So Ideally, in addition to the usual access controls, we would want to limit the ability of users to gain access to a cloud atlassian app when they are not within the (controlled) corporate network.

Is there a way to control which networks can get access to a given cloud installation? Or to have any client or browser side security (like client certs)?

You can see that \[Microsoft addresses this use case for Office 365\|<https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh526961%28v=ws.10%29.aspx>\]


Answers:
author: Paula Silveira
body: Hi Dave,

Unfortunately, it's currently not possible to restrict access to Cloud instances by IP address. There's a feature request in order to restrict access per IP address as you can see on [CLOUD-2636](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-2636). The request was accepted by developers, however you may vote and comment on it in order to increase its visibility. Also, please take a note of the [Implementation of New Features Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy) in order to understand how developers team handles feature requests.

Thanks and regards,  
Paula Silveira  

comments: author: Dave Erkes
body: Thanks for the details, Paula. Voted up!


author: Kesha Thill
body: Hi [@Dave Erkes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/626725) !

I know this was a few years back, but I wanted to give you an update on your request above. We've recently launched a beta program for IP allowlisting that's available for Confluence, Jira Software, and Jira Service Desk Cloud Premium customers and evaluators. If you're still interested, you can learn more about the feature and how to enable it by visiting our documentation for IP allowlisting [here.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/ip-allowlisting-998658750.html)

Please reach out if you have questions!


author: Boris Berenberg
body: This is not possible with the Atlassian Cloud suite.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
What values are you using for hiVal and maxLo in the HiLo algorithm in Hibernate in the next update?
Asked by marcus aberg:

Exactly what the title says.

What values are you using for hiVal and maxLo in the HiLo algorithm in Hibernate in the next update?


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: I'm assuming that you mean next update of Confluence?'m not Atlassian so I don't know of any of there plans etc but I would suggest looking at the source code (and usually they don't change things unless they've got a good reason :smile: ).

That said - Why are you asking? Reading from the database really shouldn't matter from the hiVal, maxLo. It sounds like like you're thinking about writing to the database which you really should stay away from...


Tags: confluence-administration
Individuals can't see page restricted to them? Have group permission at space level
Asked by Danielle Goetz:

I have a Confluence space with the permissions set to several user groups:

* Group A - View All / Add / Delete / etc.
* Group B - View All
* Group C - View All

There is a page on the space that I have restricted to specific members of Groups A (so by individual, not the entire group). There are people in Group A who were given view/edit permission on the restricted page who can't see it. There are also people in Group A who can see the page, but can't edit it, even though they were individually provided view/edit permission at the page level.

Any insight into what's wrong?


Answers:
author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Hi Danielle,

do all members of group A have view and edit permissions in the space of your page?

And are some view restrictions in ancestors of page A? As they are inherited, they may prevent those users who can't see the parent page from viewing the child...

Regards

Steve

comments: author: Danielle Goetz
body: Hi Steve,

The group has view/edit permissions to the space - do I need to individually provide people view/edit permissions even though they are members of a group with view/edit permissions?

I'll check out view restrictions in ancestors.

Thanks!
Remove deleted page from favourites
Asked by guybrush:

When I checked my "Favourites" list today I found that several pages from the list were deleted. They still show up in my favourites though and clicking the link brings up the "Page deleted" informational messagen.

I cannot remove these pages from the list of favourites because I cannot open the page to click "Remove Favourite"...

How can I get rid of these obsolete entries?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: I'm not sure which version of Confluence you are using, but on the favorites page you should see a grey star to the right of each favorited page. You can also click on this star to remove favorites ( it should turn to a white star, and when you refresh the page it should be gone). This also works for deleted pages (I have tried it myself).

comments: author: guybrush
body: Hmm - that would be the easiest (and somewhat intuitive) approach. Unfortunately it does not work for me: "An error occurred toggling favourite. Status: error ThrownError:Not Found"


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: I think Suren gave the right answer, but, if you can't do that, and you aren't an admin (so you can just recover the deleted pages) you might try creating a new page with the same name in the same space, Favoriting it, then Unfavoriting it. That might not work -- I think whether or not it does depends on whether the page ID is being used internally for this function -- but it is worth a try.

comments: author: guybrush
body: I might try this as a last resort (I am not talking about only one page unfortunately...). Thanks for the tip.


author: Timo Siniranta
body: I had the same issue and tried the workaround, but it did not work. Seems that the page ID is being used. Also, the creation date in the saved for later page shows the old date.


author: Suren Raj
body: Hey Guy,  

I can suggest you to do the following:

1. Refresh Confluence cache by accessing "Cache Statistics" in Confluence administrator menu. From there, please click "Flush All" and see if the issue still persist or not?
2. Rebuild Search index
   * Navigate to General Configuration under Confluence Administration.
   * Choose 'Content Indexing' under the heading 'Administration' in the left-hand panel.
   * Choose the 'Rebuild' button in either the 'Search Index' section.
3. [Rebuild the Content Indices from Scratch](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indexes+from+Scratch)  

   <br />

Hope It helps.  

Cheers  
Suren

comments: author: guybrush
body: Trying to find someone who is a) able to and b) willing to do that for me...
How do I change the step numbers in Wiki
Asked by sidhartha:


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hey Sidhartha,

I'm afraid your cannot do it in a very simple way, so you might need to create a user macro for this. One example a bit different but that could be used as a starting point is described here by Stefan Eike: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/158971/how-to-continue-a-numbered-list>

You might want to take a look at our documentation about User Macro too: <https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-user-macro-guide>

I hope it helps.

Eduardo


author: sidhartha
body: Hi,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I am documenting a procedure in confluence. I use steps there. For example, 1,2,3. Now, I want to manually change the step number 2 to A. Can I do that? because if I change it to A, the subsequent step numbering is changed. But I do not want that. Hence, I want the steps to be in this order: 1,A,3 Is it possible?


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Sidhartha,

Can you clarify your question? The description is blank and I believe it didn't came through the post. Are you referring to some procedure like migrating or upgrading confluence?

Cheers,

Rodrigo
confluence garbage collection and Optimization
Asked by Paul DeSousa:

Hi Conf Admins,

I am preparing our site for the new 5.7.3 upgrade and began investigating my setenv.sh CAT opts that are passed and noticed that I have a lot for GC:

CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Xloggc:$LOGBASEABS/logs/gc-\`date +%F_%H-%M-%S\`.log -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=5 -XX:GCLogFileSize=2M"  
CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:-PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:-PrintTenuringDistribution"

If I was debugging GC the above would make sense, but since we are stable, should I remove all the GC logging information? Would this help performance at all? What would the side effects be if I remove the above two lines or just the last one at least?

Also Does anyone know about this parm:

-XX:+OptimizeStringConcat

Does that help with latency? Should I add that?

Thanks in advance,

Robert


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

I have not tried to remove those parameters yet, but they are just to log the GC activity of the JVM. This is particularly helpful when you have memory/performance issues. You are not going to have a huge increase of performance if you remove those parameters or comment them.

My recommendation is to keep them as it is, unless you really want to fine tune and gain a very small improvement.

As for the OptimizeStringConcat parameter, [according to here](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jvm-languages/KtVBYfeT83g) it seems that:
> It recognizes pattern like new StringBuilder().append(...).toString()  
> with ... being a String, a char or an int (it doesn't seem to recognize   
> if it's an Object)  
> and tries to create the corresponding String once.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Davin Studer
body: I had a GC issue recently and after it was resolved I asked the same question. The support rep recommended just leaving them there as the performance impact was negligible and if in the future another issue arose the logs would already be there.


author: Mike Rathwell
body: Robert,

Curiously enough, I also was starting to look at GC to try to get rid of some "stop the world" events I was seeing on Confluence 5.7 running on a Windows 2012r2 server (yes, I have reasons for running it there; some of them good). I was even at the point where I was thinking I was going to have to put it back on Ubuntu 14.04 to get some speed (or at least consistency) back out of Confluence.

I did the update to 5.7.3 and... wow. Smoking fast. The good people at Atlassian seem to have solved some performance issues (and some were implied when looking at the issues resolved with this release).

Short answer to that thought now: I'm just not mucking about with it. It runs great.


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way to query data from Cassandra to display it in Confluence?
Asked by Peter Bengov:

We do have an active connection to a MySQL external DB and use Bob Swift's SQL and Script plugins to do so.

Is it possible to extract data from Cassandra as well?


Answers:
author: Brian
body: Hi Peter, it's not possible to do that natively within Confluence, and I don't know of any plugins that will allow you to connect to another database external to Confluence for that. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?


Tags: bob-swift

confluence-administration

database
device42
Asked by Glyn Burchell:

Is there any link up with Confluence and Device42?


Answers:
author: Raj Jalan
body: Hi Glyn,

We just got our first iteration of the confluence connector approved in the marketplace: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.device42.atlas.confluence.d42confluence>

With this you can add links/details/tables for individual boxes.

If I understanding you correctly, you are looking for similar feature set around hardware models as well?

Please check it out and let us know your thoughts.

Thanks \& Regards,

Raj Jalan


author: Glyn Burchell
body: Hi Raj

Device 42 is used as an asseting system for equipment. If there was a link up to Confluence, it would be possible to add notes in confluence on specific equipment types, and for individual boxes it might be possible to add a diary of fults on specific bits of equipment, perhaps more about their location and an expanded history.

Basically add links from Device 42 to Confluence, so you can look up information pages that are either specific to a particular box, or generic to a box type.

Regards

Glyn


author: Raj Jalan
body: Hi Glyn,

We are about to publish a connector for JIRA with Device42. We will be exploring confluence integration soon as well. Can you please explain what kind of integration you have in mind?

Thanks,

Raj Jalan

Device42


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Have you checked the marketplace? If you have had no luck there, then you might want to expand on what Device42 is, and what you'd like to do with such a "link up"

I do actually know, but it's worth explaining more, because a lot of people here probably don't. Also, device 42 in my house is the kettle...
https error connection refused
Asked by MartaD:

I've set up Confluence 5.6.4 on Windows/SQL in our production environment, and while I can get to it on the unsecure URL just fine, the secure URL returns "Error Connection refused" in Chrome. I get the same in IE or Firefox. I'm using a PFX certificate, which I've double-checked many times. The server.xml file is set up correctly with all the PFX information. IIS is turned off on the server. But, the secure URL just won't work. I was able to get the secure URL to work in dev, and I've set up prod in just the same way, but something is off. I don't see anything in the logs for when I try to access it via https. Anyone have any ideas on what I can check?


Answers:
author: Shun Hirayanagi
body: "Error Connection refused" sounds like a network connection problem that Chrome cannot reach the port 443 (https) of your production server.

Have you checked the firewall of your production server?

comments: author: Chris Lanigan
body: A network issue would timeout as the packets would be lost. Connection refused is normally the server rejecting the connection due a closed port. It could be a firewall if it was re-configured incorrectly. I say reconfigured as by default firewalls drop packets.This is so someone scanning etc doesn't detect something is there. They would know something is there if connections are rejected.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to add user-defined page properties?
Asked by Klaas Van Ammel:

Is it possible to add user-defined page properties, similar to those which are displayed in the page history (e.g. version)? Goal is to have metadata of which the value is page revision specific, not just page specific. Metadata using the Metadata plug-in is always displayed in the current state of the page, even when viewing an old revision of the page.


Answers:
author: Ture Hoefner
body: The Page Properties macro confused me for a while because I assumed that it deals with the page properties that Confluence provides for apps: <https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/confluence-entity-properties/>

But the Page Properties (and Report) macro is something altogether different. It is a key/value aggregator that aggregates a collection of keys/values filtered by page label.

I'm posting this here because this is where I landed while searching for info on whether or not the Page Properties macro uses page properties (it does not).


author: Klaas Van Ammel
body: Yes, I've tried those macros, but as to my understanding the 'page properties' which are defined via the page properties macro are only accessible via the page properties report macro, and only in the format of that macro. Or can these properties also be accessed in another way?

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: By default they cannot be accessed in other ways.


author: Klaas Van Ammel
body: Do you mean there is a non-default way too in which they can be accessed?


author: Davin Studer
body: Sure, but you'd have to write your own add-on to do it.


author: Klaas Van Ammel
body: Where does Confluence store these properties? Are there examples available how to retrieve them or where to look for them via a custom plug-in?


author: Davin Studer
body: Here is the developer documentation. Also, if you are an Atlassian customer you can get the source I believe for the page properties and the page properties report macro.<https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/getting-started>


author: Davin Studer
body: Have you tried looking at the page properties macro? That's the whole point of it. Combine it with the page properties report macro and you can get some nice reporting on the meta data within your pages.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Properties+Macro>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Properties+Report+Macro>
Missing the backup option after cloud migration to standalone server
Asked by Kathy Plamann:

Hi

I have migrated JIRA Cloud to JIRA standalone server following the instructions provided by Atlassian. Now I need to do a backup of this new data on the JIRA standalone and I noticed that the backup option is not available since I did the restore. Any ideas what I need to do to be able to do a JIRA Backup?

Thanks

Kathy

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Answers:
author: Chander Inguva
body: Hey Kathy,

I am not sure how i did this before, but can you login as

User name: sysadmin

Password: sysadmin

And check if backup option is available ?

Please vote if this helps

Thank You

Chander

comments: author: Kathy Plamann
body: This worked. I was able to migrate jira cloud to a standalone and then I was able to import specific projects into out standalone jira production. Thanks


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The backup option in Cloud is actually not part of JIRA or Confluence, it's really more an **export** than a backup - the main uses for it are migrating off Cloud, and for the more paranoid, making sure you could rebuild your Cloud data if Cloud died.

For small, tolerant non-critical JIRA **Server** installs, there is a regular XML export routine built into it - have a look under "admin -\> Services". For larger JIRAs, you should establish your own backup routines. Start at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Backing+Up+Data> (this boils down to "at the very least, get a decent database backup and make sure the attachments are backed up from the file system")


Tags: confluence-administration
firefox 36.0.4 confluence does not auto wrap text/resize images
Asked by Paul DeSousa:

Hi all,

When using FireFox 36.0.4 and creating a page with a section macro and two column macros inside. If there is a image inside the column macro Firefox will not resize the image nor will it wrap the text. I take the exact same page in Chrome and everything works, and if I make the Window narrow the image respectively becomes small, and the text wraps.


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Robert, good to see you :smile:. I tried reproducing this locally however everything worked fine in my end ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad").

Since I've used Firefox 37 instead of 36 could you please try seeing that page on 37 and see if that is reproducible?

If it's not please send us 2 screenshots:

* The rendering in Chrome.
* The rendering in Firefox

With that we will have a better idea of what you are seeing.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.


author: Paul DeSousa
body: Hey Deividi, I upgraded firefox to 37 and it did not help. This is not a show stopper but I can reproduce this, but it must have an image attached (I used PNG, have not tried others) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUG4WexVLxQ> Not sure about the Widget connect but if you cannot see it, just go to youtube.com / watch?v=BUG4WexVLxQ


author: Paul DeSousa
body: Also this is 100% reproducible with both Confluence 5.7.1 and 5.6.4


Tags: firefox
Confluence Space key has a space character in it
Asked by Varun Jain:

Hey Atlassian,

I inherited admining a Confluence instance, and one of the spaces has a space character within the name. Is there a way I can rename this key, or go and delete the space altogether? There's no pages in the space that need to be kept.

<br />

Whenever I try to access the space, be it Overview, Summary, etc, it gives me Page Not Found error

<br />

key="blah 1"

viewspacesummary.action?key=blah%201

<br />

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Varun Jain
body: Hi All,

<br />

I found the best solution, for me, was just going into the database and updating the Space Key and removing the space. After doing this, clearing the cache + reindexing, all things were accessible again.

Cheers,  
VJ


author: Lauretha Rura
body: Hi Varun,

In this case, you can refer to this [KB](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/After+a+Failed+Space+Import%2C+It%27s+Not+Possible+to+Re-import+Because+of+Leftover+Space+Data) which consist the instructions to delete these spaces manually from the database.

Please remember to [backup your data](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Production+Backup+Strategy) before performing any modifications to the database.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Lauretha


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Varun,

As far as I know, the only way to change a space key is by cloning the space.[It's stated here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=14286901).

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Varun Jain
body: Thanks for the response Rodrigo, but unfortunately that doesn't explain how to delete that an entire space.-VJ


author: Alex Yasurek
body: Try creating a support ticket with Atlassian since this seems to be some kind of big with their system that it let them create this spacekey in the first place. Maybe they can give you the SQL command to run to remove the space from the DB.


author: Alex Yasurek
body: I assume if you try this link you also get a Page not found?

http://*your-domain*/spaces/removespace.action?key=blah%201

comments: author: Varun Jain
body: Yes, does not work like that ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")


author: Alex Yasurek
body: I would suggest trying to use the API but I have a feeling it will also throw errors. It's weird that confluence even let them create a spacekey like that in the first place. The only other option I can think of is to delete it from the database since you are not able to get into the space admin section of the space.


Tags: confluence-administration