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What is the best way to add users to Confluence without having to invite them?
Asked by Rich Lewis:

We are finding it difficult to launch Confluence as a Knowledgebase to our customers, because of the convoluted registration Atlassian offers. I was looking at G Suite and Google Apps discussions, which appear to provide possible solutions. I have a couple questions related to using G Suite, plus I'm interested in finding any other suggestions:

1. When you create users and sync with G suite, are users logging in from Google or can they still use the Atlassian Login once imported? If was thinking of providing a link to a Confluence URL and was hoping they would be able to login without going through Google.
2. When you import users via G Suite; can I force the password reset upon syncing?
3. What are the differences between G Suite and Google Apps for signing in?
4. I looked at the Salesforce connector for the Cloud. It seems to mostly be for data, but can this be used to import or connect Users?
5. What other options are there for creating/importing Users into Confluence without inviting them to register? - we do not want to allow "Anonymous Users".

Thanks in advance for any feedback.


Answers:
author: Victor Mutambuki
body: ![Screen Shot 2018-06-26 at 4.26.41 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/25510i602CF0BFBEF1D84C/image-dimensions/453x121?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-06-26 at 4.26.41 PM.png")

Rich,

If you do not want to allow anonymous users, then you can select option 1 or 2.

Please see attached image.

Victor


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
End of life for Apache Tomcat 8.0.x affecting Confluence v6.6.x
Asked by Thomas Berger:

<https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-80-eol.html>

We are planning to upgrade to Confluence v6.6.6 very soon.

However, we are concerned that the bundled Tomcat version has reached end of life and doesn't receive any security patches going forward.

What is Atlassian's plan for the v6.6.x enterprise release with long term support?


Answers:
author: Igor M.
body: Hello,

We just released Confluence 6.10 that comes with Tomcat 9 as outlined in [Confluence 6.10 Upgrade Notes](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-6-10-upgrade-notes-952058231.html) . There is no official date on when Tomcat 9 will become available on enterprise version too, but it should be soon enough. You can track a feature request via this ticket [CONFSERVER-44949](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-44949).

Regards,

Igor

comments: author: Thomas Berger
body: I'm after a solution for v6.6.x since I can't move to the latest version of Confluence just now.


author: Igor M.
body: Hello,

I understand, but unfortunately, there is no official statement on that yet, you can add yourself as a watcher and upvote above-mentioned feature request, to track development. I have linked your question to it, but comments are also welcome. From the point of supportability, Atlassian will continue supporting your product and tomcat that is bundled with it, any specific security vulnerabilities or concerns can always be reported to us directly and will be investigated and addressed if not already done so.

Regards,

Igor


Tags: confluence-server

server
Display page/space statistics on a wiki page?
Asked by Naomi Burkhart:

Is there an easy way to display page/space statistics (X amount of pages have this tag, X amount of pages within this space, X percent of pages have this tag, etc.) on a Confluence wiki page? Or, alternatively, on the dashboard? JIRA dashboard supports this but I can't find how to do it on Confluence. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Victor Mutambuki
body: ![Screen Shot 2018-06-26 at 3.31.17 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/25509iA7E2D8F8E6E5F748/image-dimensions/485x219?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-06-26 at 3.31.17 PM.png")<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/macros-139387.html#Macros-Confluencemacros>

comments: author: Naomi Burkhart
body: Thank you Victor! What I really want is a way to display some of that information graphically, for instance a pie chart or a bar graph of how many pages have each label. Do you know if that capability already exists somewhere?

Thanks so much!

Naomi


Tags: chart

confluence-server

dashboard

graph

server
Error while importing Team calendar from Cloud to server instance
Asked by sridhar sarella:

I am trying to import a calendar from cloud confluence to server confluence. I have exported the calendar in cloud confluence to a .ics file and trying to import the file in server confluence by import functionality, but it shows an error "java.lang.NullpointerException"


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I tried exporting an calendar to .ics on my Cloud instance and it imported without error on my Server instance. Further research found this bug report with an error like the one you are reporting:

[Cannot Import ICS File When an Event Does Not Have DTEND](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-48870)

I was curious what the .ics file looked like since the workaround on the bug report is to edit the export. It opens easily in a text editor.

I found a support case where the Atlassian agent recommended downgrading the Team Calendars plugin on Server from 5.2.10 to 5.1.21 but I am not sure how helpful that is for you because I don't know your Team Calendar versions or whether the add-on was recently updated.

comments: author: sridhar sarella
body: I have made the changes to the.ics file and tried importing the file in the server instance, but the error still remains the same.


author: AnnWorley
body: I opened a support ticket on your behalf so we could take a closer look. Please stay tuned for an email from our support portal.


author: Monica Teredesai
body: Has this issue been fixed? I am seeing a similar exception while importing a calendar from Cloud Confluence instance to a server based instance


author: sridhar sarella
body: No. it hasn't been fixed yet


Tags: confluence-cloud

confluence-server
Connection refused during backup restoring process
Asked by Martin_Nitschke:

Good day,

I am trying to set up a Confluence server for testing purposes which should be a copy of a productive used server. In order to do that I made a backup of our productive Confluence via the administration console. This backup file has almost 3 GB.

If I am now trying to restore the backup on the testing server during the setup process of Confluence, the connection to the server seems to break up after five to ten minutes and my web browser shows that the website is not reachable anymore. When I go back I am back in the setup process and the server response normally when I change any setting for instance.

Further information:  
Windows Server 2012 R2 with 6 GB of RAM  
SQL Server 2014 with confirmed Confluence Database  

The last log message is:

WARNUNG \[ContainerBackgroundProcessor\[StandardEngine\[Standalone\]\]\] org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve.notifyStuckThreadCompleted Thread "http-nio-80-exec-5" (id=46) was previously reported to be stuck but has completed. It was active for approximately 139,953 milliseconds.

Thank you in advance


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Martin,

While we do have the XML site backup/restore procedure: [Restoring a Site](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restoring-a-site-152034.html), another method of setting up a test environment is to copy the home directory and database over to the test server manually and then take steps to make sure you don't accidentally use the Production mail server or other resources: [Restoring a Test Instance from Production](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restoring-a-test-instance-from-production-127369720.html)

The article linked above ([Restoring a Site](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restoring-a-site-152034.html)) has some troubleshooting tips at the bottom to help prevent issues with timeouts and out of memory errors when restoring a site.

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Martin_Nitschke
body: Thank you very much, it worked.


Tags: backup

confluence-server

restore

server
How to see all pages with my name?
Asked by Emily Errico:

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to pull up a list of all pages (that I have access) with my name on them. (not just tasks)

I know I was mentioned on a page without a task and I need to find it again, but I can't find the page. It's not in my recently accessed or my recent notifications as the page I'm talking about was created a few weeks ago. Is there any other way I can find this page?

Edit: I found the page I was looking for by searching for my name so this question is no longer urgent. I'm keeping it open though, as I still don't have a simple way to find all the pages where I'm mentioned.


Answers:
author: Dee
body: HI Emily,

this link seems to cover the answer for you:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Search-pages-based-on-Mentions/qaq-p/116156>


author: Mumo Systems
body: Emily,

Use the Content By User Macro. See link below  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-by-user-macro-182682080.html>

Please let me know if it helped.

Victor

comments: author: Emily Errico
body: I didn't create the page in question, I was mentioned on it (@myname) without a task.

This macro is quite useful for other purposes though!


author: Mumo Systems
body: Emily,

Did you make any contributions to the pages?

Victor


author: Emily Errico
body: Not yet, it is a meeting notes page where my name was mentioned for a possible future task. We have easily hundreds of meeting notes in our Confluence, so you can see my predicament.


author: Mumo Systems
body: Emily,

Since meeting notes have the label, ++meeting-notes++ set automatically, you can use Label List macro.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/labels-list-macro-180846844.html>

victor


author: Emily Errico
body: There are hundreds of meeting notes in our Confluence instance, since we have multiple meetings daily. This is another helpful macro, but not the most efficient in this case.


author: Mumo Systems
body: Emily,

I'm sorry i can't think of any other ideas.

Victor


author: Emily Errico
body: That's alright, neither can I. That's why I posted the question. :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

mention
How can I programmatically start a reindex for Content properties?
Asked by Christoph Kober:

Due to [CONFSERVER-52489](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-52489), after restoring Confluence from a backup, Content properties are no longer indexed in Lucene. This completely breaks our plugin's search behavior.

Since it doesn't look like the Issue is going to be resolved any time soon - Is there a way to programmatically run a reindex for Content properties in Confluence? (Or in other words, re-apply all Extractors, since that's the way Content property indexing is implemented).


Answers:
author: Andrei
body: Inject ConfluenceIndexer and use the index/reIndex methods to add the Searchables that you want to reindex.


author: R. Fuerst
body: Hi Christoph,

Unfortunately I cannot provide a timeline for when this issue will be resolved by our development team. I noticed you commented on the ticket - this is good as it will help provide more visibility to our product team on how this is impacting you and other users.

You posed a great question which might be better posed in our Developers' Community which is more geared toward development questions. Please try posting this same question at the link below to see if any other developers have some insight for you:

* <https://community.developer.atlassian.com/c/Confluence>


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

index

lucene

property

server
How can I notify a JIRA user trying to modify a page which is already in use
Asked by Sourav Modak:

Suppose an user is trying to modify a page/Jira, which is already in use and held by another user.  


Answers:
author: Victor Mutambuki
body: Sourav,

Please read through collaborative editing in confluence.  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/collaborative-editing-858771779.html>

Victor


author: Tansu Akdeniz
body: Hi [@Sourav Modak](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1560159),

What do you mean with page/Jira?

Do you mean two people editing same Confluence page? Or Jira issue?

Tansu Akdeniz
How to send an email similar/equivalent to 'page update' email which is sent to watchers
Asked by nithin srikar karnala:

Hello,

We are working on a custom plugin for Confluence which allows users to send page updates as a CC mail. In order to achieve it, we wanted to know how we could reuse the default method/event used to trigger page update emails to watchers (the emails which says 'x edits made on the page', also including the diff indicating what changed).

We explored [Atlassian Confluence API](https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/6.6.0/overview-summary.html) but weren't able to figure out the exact method/event. We are aware that we could use MailQueueItem in order to push custom mails, but we would like to reuse the existing method which sends out 'page update' emails.

Could you please help us identify the underlying method/event which can be reused or suggest us any alternatives in order to achieve the above use case.

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Nithin,

I am afraid that plugin development questions are beyond my expertise. Hopefully someone else in the Community can help.

There are a lot of experienced developers for Atlassian add-ons/apps over on our [developer community](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/) that would know more of the details of which methods are used to send page updates.

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: nithin srikar karnala
body: Thanks Ann for the quick response. I will put up this question in the developer community as you suggested.


Tags: atl-dev

confluence-server

server
Roadmap Planner Macro is unavailable
Asked by zakiullah barakzai:

I am using cloud confluence and would like to add Roadmap Planner Macro, but I don't see any option available nor on marketplace. Please help.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I was able to find the Roadmap Planner in the macro browser in my Cloud instance. After editing a page I chose the plus sign from the toolbar and then Other macros:

![Screen Shot 2018-06-26 at 11.54.55 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/25502i1D773C875130710D/image-dimensions/283x314?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-06-26 at 11.54.55 AM.png")

Then I searched for "road"

![Screen Shot 2018-06-26 at 11.54.41 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/25503iEFB2847EC337FACB/image-dimensions/479x293?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-06-26 at 11.54.41 AM.png")

I hope that helps,

Thanks,

Ann


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

roadmap
Create link to JIRA *release* in Confluence
Asked by ScottBrennan:

The JIRA Issue macro can be used in Confluence to link to an issue in JIRA.

Is there a way to create a similar automatic link in Confluence that links to a *release* in JIRA?

That is, link to the *[https://jira.mycompany.com/projects/ABC/versions/75461](https://jira.mycompany.com/projects/ABC/versions/75461?)*page that is the release page for e.g. version 10.2.4 of product ABC. Better that this version can be linked using the release identifier 10.2.4 rather than the random identifier 75461.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Jack Robinson
body: +1, I'd also appreciate a macro for this


author: Vicki Wilt
body: I created a small filter and exported it as a printable. Saved as a PDF. Put the PDF in the confluence page. When you open the PDF in Confluence you see see the links within the release. It does work this way, not a macro but it does work.


author: Vicki Wilt
body: +1


author: armel.larcier
body: +1 here (4 actually)


author: Lloyd Randall
body: +5 (Me and colleagues who want it) :)   
Go on Atlassian you know you want to


author: Claudia Paredes
body: +1


author: LEM
body: +1


author: Anand Inamdar_Amoeboids
body: Hello there, while Confluence does not have such a macro the same result can be achieved via our app '[Automated release notes](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215431/automated-release-notes-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)'. If you are on the cloud there is a free version of the app as well.

Feel free to try it out.  

Best,  
Anand


author: Marcus
body: +1 ... so helpful to be able to take my release notes from Jira to confluence!


author: Stefan Salzl
body: +1


author: Geoff Brennan
body: +1


author: Sylvain Roques
body: +1


author: Lina Massarwa
body: +1


author: Yannick Vincent
body: +1


author: Sebastian Gerhard
body: +1


author: Umair Adil
body: +1


author: Ernie Rodriguez
body: +1

Having this would be extremely helpful


author: Adrian Rauber
body: +1


author: Denis Kaloshin
body: +1


author: Andreas Maier
body: +1


author: PopUp House
body: +1 A macro like that could save us some time.


author: Bryce Jones
body: +1


author: Brett Moody
body: +1


author: Matt Rogman
body: +1


author: Jay Madore
body: +1


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
User/Group Space Permissions
Asked by Hossam Khalil:

Hi There,

As in JIRA, where ou can see all of a user's Project permissions, is it possible to list all the permissions, those of a certain user on all confluence spaces, using SQL and Postgres..?

Confluence Version:

* 5.10.8

Thanks

Hossam


Answers:
author: Igor M.
body: Hello,

You can use DB queries described in [How to list which spaces a user can access](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-list-which-spaces-a-user-can-access-321258272.html) KB.

Let me know if you have questions

Regards,

Igor

comments: author: Hossam Khalil
body: Thanks Igor,

That seems like the right solution for this, if the Environment was installed perhaps on a greenfield Environment, with Standard Installation.

however, in our case, that is not plausible.

if any possibility to run CLI for confluence, i would have to either search in the backend Postgres DB Servers, or maybe install the CLI plugin for confluence, and that is another Story. :(

but for now, your solution Looks good, thanks :)

BR

hossam


author: Igor M.
body: Alternatively, you can try to create a User Macro to pull such information as discussed in this community thread: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/list-group-permissions-on-spaces/qaq-p/376395>

Regards

Igor


Tags: confluence-server

server
No job runner registered for job runner key ...
Asked by Jiri Pik:

I have many exceptions of this type in the logs - see below.

![Clipboard01.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/25454i321A2DD0494B1DFB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Clipboard01.png")

The recommended solution (<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/No-job-runner-registered-for-job-runner-key-com-atlassian/qaq-p/737398>) did not work - Confluence refused to start in full and I have to revert back.

What to do?


Answers:
author: Kavirajacholan Selvaraj
body: Hi,

We are also facing same issue but we migrate from data center to aws cloud. Below is the error message for your reference.

We need to migrate environment right away, since we already out of time. Could you please advise us with urgency.

ERROR \[Caesium-1-2\] \[scheduler.caesium.impl.CaesiumSchedulerService\] executeClusteredJobWithRecoveryGuard Unhandled exception during the attempt to execute job 'migration-plugin:analytics-events-consumer-job-id'; will attempt recovery in 60 seconds  
com.atlassian.scheduler.SchedulerRuntimeException: The parameters cannot be accessed: com.atlassian.scheduler.core.JobRunnerNotRegisteredException: No job runner registered for job runner key 'migration-plugin:analytics-events-consumer-runner-key'

Thanks,  
Kavi

comments: author: Melek Jebnoun_Vectors_
body: Hello Kavi

did manage to find any solution to this error ?

Many thanks


author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Jiri,

I understand from your [other post](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Email-not-working-in-Team-Calendar/qaq-p/699634) that there were permissions errors on configuration files after the plugin cache directories were removed on my recommendation after your installation of the Questions plugin.

If you migrated from Cloud, the workaround on this bug report may fix the issue:

There are many errors ["executeClusteredJobWithRecoveryGuard Unhandled exception" in atlassian-confluence.log after migrating from Cloud to Server.](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51661)

An example of the success of this approach may be found here:

[Recurring Crash of Confluence](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Recurring-Crash-of-Confluence/qaq-p/642145)

If you did not import from Cloud and the workaround doesn't work, please let us know so we can investigate further.

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Jiri Pik
body: [@AnnWorley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502040); thank you so much for your constant help and apologies for the delay.

Yes, I have migrated from the Cloud and my Confluence is generally most stable - the crashes happened just as a result of the cache directories delete - actually, I did not like the solution since the right way would be to to have the directory deleted by a button in the Confluence Admin area.

At the moment, there are only two problems with Confluence I have:

1. Calendars do not send any reminders by email

2. Questions show somehow odd front page - this is in another Atlassian Community case.

I have tried to reinstall Calendars but still no help. What to do?
I cannot see bold when I use it in edit mode
Asked by Livia_Maria_Ciobanu:

I am trying to edit text in confluence but I cannot see when I format BOLD.

It works with italics or underline but bold is not displayed.

If I save changes I can see that my text is bold but it is very frustrating to work like this.

I am using Chrome 67.0.3396.99 on a Mac with Sierra.


Answers:
author: Livia_Maria_Ciobanu
body: Now it works... out of a sudden but the font is different. I think I am going crazy.


author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@Livia_Maria_Ciobanu](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1553546),

Server or cloud?

Does it display correctly when using preview mode?

comments: author: Livia_Maria_Ciobanu
body: I believe it is cloud and NO it does not display as bold in edit mode also.

There is a very very small difference but is not visible to the naked eye.

The only time I see what I have marked as bold is after I save and publish changes.


Tags: cloud