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Export / Import Space Confluence
Asked by Flaviano Silva:

Hello, I need to export and import confluence space for another installation of Confluence Cloud.

how to make?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Start at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/import-and-export-data-744721621.html>

comments: author: Hitesh Veeramachaneni
body: Hi Nic,

There is a Confluence Wiki (\~20 users with restricted access) and then there is Confluence for all users across the organisation.

A wiki user exported a space and asked me to import it into Confluence. I imported the XML Backup, everything went good.. Re-Indexing happened too.. Although there is one problem.

Clicking on few links would redirect me to Confluece wiki LogIn page. Few links are working fine(staying on the Confluence and rendering appropriate content).

What's possibly happening with those few links that are redirecting the user to Confluence wiki(from where the space was exported)?

FYI, Space exported from 5.4.x and imported into 5.9.2

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Someone please suggest a solution.

Thank You..


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Were the links going off to the old Confluence you imported it from? Hardcoded links instead of local ones?


author: Hitesh Veeramachaneni
body: Yes Nic, few links are going off to the site from which the space was exported out from.

No, I did not hard code any links in any file. Should I?

I assumed, it is built with in Confluence to change / point links automatically during the import process to the new Confluence!

If you're suggesting me to hard code links, would you please tell me which file should I edit and where it would be located.

Thanks for your response.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The problem when you have http links in the text is that Confluence can't know that you might want to change them on import. Or what to change them to. ("Hard coding" was not the right phrase, sorry. I meant "links that have been explicitly phrased as a url, rather than relative pointers within Confluence")

You'll need to manually correct the links to their new targets.


author: Hitesh Veeramachaneni
body: Yea, I edited the entities file manually and it worked fine.

Thanks Nic. I appreciate your help


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can we use the same user directory for JIRA and Confluence Cloud?
Asked by Bill:

Looking to trial Confluence, but I am unsure if our JIRA Software (Cloud) user directory can be authenticated in Confluence. We have over 400 JIRA Software users and don't need to add them to Confluence on the Cloud.

On the cloud, how can we use the same user list between JIRA and Confluence? If we add users to one instance will it be updated on the other list using the same group name? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Cloud uses either Google accounts, or its own internal directory.

If you have JIRA and Confluence in the Cloud (assuming it's the same domain), then they use the same set of users automatically.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Insert a section that appears only according to user's permissions
Asked by Ahmad Tawila:

When editing a confluence page, is there a way to insert some text block / section that is only shown to specific users based on their permissions or roles ?

I know that a workaround may be to split the info into multiple pages and assign restrictions to every page separately, but this approach will force the privileged users to browse multiple pages to get the whole info they need.


Answers:
author: Monika Antos [Adaptavist]
body: Have you tried the Visibility add-on:  
<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility/server/overview> ?

comments: author: Ahmad Tawila
body: Just noticed it and installed it. looks good for formatting, but actually the hidden sections can be viewed simply by viewing page source. This is mentioned in [their documentation](https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/VIS/Visibility)

Is there a special permission for viewing page source, which I can revoke from the users, to fix this leak in the add-on functionality ?
Task checkbox for whole table row
Asked by Charlie Misonne:

I want to create a table where each row is a task.

The first cell of each row would contain a checkbox. When the checkbox is ticked I want the whole row to be recognized as task.

Is this possible?

The task report macro does not fit my needs. I don't need to gather tasks from multiple pages or a filter. Just a table with tasks.


Answers:
author: Reto Eggenberger
body: There is a feature request for task in a table:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-40334>

Every vote is appreciated!

comments: author: Charlie Misonne
body: thanks for the link. I voted!


author: Alex Quelch
body: Me Too :)


author: Marcus Sternberg
body: Yes, indeed helpful. Atthe moment doing as described above didnt trigger the task in the task list / report so its not being trackable. You need to type everything in one cell of the table (Statusbox, Assignee and Duedate) which is not nice. I would vote for a feature like this.


author: Anne EQS
body: Couldn't find a way to wrap a \<tr\> or \<td\> with a tasklist - let me know if you do


author: Charlie Misonne
body: exactly.

Maybe with a custom macro


author: Anne EQS
body: If I understand correct, the requirement is to add a column with Task checkboxes and then the whole row would be a task and h displayed in the users personal task overview. Checking the checkbox would as usual complete the task.   
Same requirement for us here, unfortunatey no solution.
Task reports does not contain open tasks, is it a caching issue?
Asked by hemanth acharya:

Task reports are no longer showing the open tasks mentioned in the Meeting notes. The configuration of the tasks reports are correct. It appears to have been lost all of a sudden. Can it be a caching issue?

Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Carla Ann Rowland
body: I had to remove the open task report. Then I added it back in and only told it which page to look at; left the label field blank and left the other fields at their default settings and then my open tasks showed up.


author: Matthias Andres
body: I have got the same problem after upgrade to 5.9.9 only task from the next child page were displayed. Tasks from deeper level childpages were not shown.


author: hemanth acharya
body: @Rodrigo Adami , Can you please help me on this? Thanks


author: hemanth acharya
body: Also, I tried to add a new tasks to one of the child pages, that comes up in the task reports. It seems only the existing open tasks are not getting displayed.


Tags: task-report-macro
Is there a way too see the contributor list from a certain date?
Asked by Joe Lindsay:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Contributors Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658736861)*

I.e. in the last month who has been most active?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Global Activity under ADMINISTRATION.

You have to turn it on first as it's off by default, and so, you'll only get data from when you turn it on.

comments: author: Alex Yasurek
body: Just beware though that this could cause the instance to slow down some which is why Atlassian disables it be default.


author: Joe Lindsay
body: Thanks!


Tags: macro
Combining Structured Data and Documentation in a Confluence Page
Asked by Hugh Ferguson:

I would like to set up pages that conform to a fixed format, that allow me to enter free text in some areas, and data in other areas, so that the data can be extracted from the Confluence DB, or perhaps through the API, or perhaps using the CLI.

Neither the templates nor the forms seem quite appropriate. I think I'm looking for a combination of both.The purpose is to have pages that contain structured data, but are also documents.

Can you suggest the best approach?

Thanks


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Hugh,

Not sure this is what you are looking for, but the tools from K15t offer structure to Conflience pages as described in this blog post: <https://www.k15t.com/blog/2014/07/structured-authoring-for-confluence>

Good luck.
how to edit "children display"
Asked by Rauno Pihlajam?ki:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Children Display Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=139501)*

I have a page, with links like this. When I click the "Edit" button on top of the page (I want to add new link, eg. API) to that list.

Selection_408.png

And this opens. I don't know how to proceed with this, when clicking the "Edit" on this element, what I have to do to add that API link there?

Selection_409.png

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/how-to-edit-quot-children-display-quot/qaq-p/47997?attachment-id=11578){#link_118716737dcf71}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/8127/1/Selection_408.png){#display_118716737dcf71_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/how-to-edit-quot-children-display-quot/qaq-p/47997?attachment-id=11579){#link_118716737dcf71_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/8127/2/Selection_409.png){#display_118716737dcf71_2}


Answers:
author: Rauno Pihlajam?ki
body: Hi,

and thanks for the answer, it works.

Is it so that the children display macro is "untouchable" after it has been created?

Is it possible to "ungroup" it to "normal" page layout?

BR.

Rauno

comments: author: Monika Antos [Adaptavist]
body: **Children display** macro looks at the child pages of the page it is located on (unless you change the parent page attribute in its configuration).

If you want to add an 'API' link, an easy way is to add a child page titled 'API' where you place all the relevant information. When you refresh your parent page, the **Children display** macro should list the API page too.

Also, double-click on the macro to get familiar with its attributes. There is an option there to change how the links are displayed. This may satisfy your layout needs.

Otherwise you can replace the macro with manually created links.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: If you want to "ungroup" it, you could select the links in view mode, copy, and then paste over the Children display macro. However, if you were to then add another child page, it would not show up in the list automatically anymore.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Rauno,

The children display macro doesn't show links in the editor because it is generated dynamically upon viewing the page.

If you want to add another link at the bottom of the list, I would recommend moving the cursor to the right side of the children display macro box and pressing Shift+Enter (this will insert a single line-space instead of a double line-space) and then create a new Bullet List by clicking on the icon or pressing Ctrl+Shift+B and create a new link to wherever you need. Then you should be able to have a dynamic list of children followed by your link.


Tags: child-page

confluence-administration

documentation
What is the difference between the groups listed by default in Confluence Cloud Edit Global Permissions?
Asked by Jordan M. Pflum:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Global Permissions Overview](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724765488)*

In the linked documentation guide, what is the difference between the groups of "site-admins" and "system-administrators" and "administrators"? We see in a screenshot in that documentation that these groups are all listed in Confluence under Editing Global Permissions, but that these all have different permissions. What is the difference? And how do we manage these groups? I understand what "administrators" is (the application, not the site), but what are the other two? Under site administration, I can see how to manage the "site-admins" group, but not the "system-administrators". Is it a case of the "system-administrators" group not actually being a group at all, but rather that this is just the collection of users who are site administrators? It is very confusing why there are 3 groups listed in this way, and even more why their permissions are so different.


Answers:
author: Monika Antos [Adaptavist]
body: Hi Jordan :smile:,

I agree that the names of the groups and permissions are very confusing.

In Confluence Server 'System Administrator' permission gives you access to site-wide admin functions, including those that can compromise the security of the system. Since this is a Cloud environment hosted by Atlassian, that permission is assigned to Atlassian staff who are represented by a **system-administrators** group. This is why you can't see that group under the Group management, nor you can change its permissions on the Global Permissions screen.

**site-admins** are users who have access to billing and user management functions, plus access to admin console.

**administrators** are users who have access to admin console.

Cheers,  
Monika


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

permission
Programmatically changing Server Base URL
Asked by Bob Kaucher:

Is there a way to change the server base URL from either SQL or via a configuration file?

I'm working on automating the testing of our disaster recovery and this is the only aspect that I have left requiring human intervention. If there is an option for doing this, it would make my life a lot easier. I've searched the DB schema for anything with server, base, and url in it but have not found anything.


Answers:
author: Bob Kaucher
body: Thanks, Nic. My question was actually about Confluence. I should have said so explicitly even though I tagged it as such. But your answer got me to thinking, if it's not in someplace obvious as in Jira, then it's got to be someplace that is not obvious. It is in fact in the BANDANA table and stored within a string column that contains XML. Add that info to your answer and I'll accept it. Please leave the info about JIRA as well because people coming hear from Google might be looking for that as well.

```
SELECT [BANDANAID],[BANDANACONTEXT],[BANDANAKEY],[BANDANAVALUE]FROM [Confluence].[dbo].[BANDANA]WHERE [BANDANAVALUE] LIKE '%domain.com%'
```

```
SELECT * FROM [Jira].[dbo].[propertyentry] as [e]INNER JOIN [Jira].[dbo].[propertystring] as [s] on [s].[ID] = [e].[ID ]WHERE [s].[propertyvalue] like '%domain.com%'
```

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Sorry, had JIRA on the brain. Yes, Bandana for Confluence (same advice for doing it while Confluence is offline though)


author: Bob Kaucher
body: I intended that as a comment... Apparently computers are too hard for me.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not you, me. I converted it to an answer because it was a metric-shed-load more right than mine and deserved the "right" flag! Glad the hint got you headed in the right direction despite being completely wrong, I'm very impressed by that leap!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: With SQL (while JIRA is down), and from memory, the base url is in one of the first 40-50 records in "propertyentry" and you can just splat a new one in there.


author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: For people coming in to actually replace these (instead of just looking at them)

JIRA - replace the whole property (specify the new url, including http/https)

```
UPDATE propertystring SET propertyvalue = 'https://NEW.URL.com' WHERE id in (select id from propertyentry where property_key like '%baseurl%');
```

Confluence - replace just the slice (the field is a CLOB) that contains the host portion. You don't need to specify http/https here as the SQL will only replace the portion of the URL that you enter. Just specify your old URL and new URL.

```
update BANDANAset BANDANAVALUE = replace(BANDANAVALUE, 'OLD.URL.com', 'NEW.URL.com')where BANDANACONTEXT = '_GLOBAL'and BANDANAKEY = 'atlassian.confluence.settings';
```
looping pictures
Asked by dignacio:

Is there a way to loop pictures in Confluence spaces or pages?


Answers:
author: Nicolas Bourdages
body: You mean a slideshow? You'd need a plugin for that.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.simplenia.confluence.plugins.imageslider/server/overview>


author: Milo Test
body: You could also create an animated GIF, but Confluence doesn't support them for security reasons, BUT, you can host the GIF elsewhere and use **Insert** --\> **Files and images** --\> **Images from the web**.
Multiple Confluence Instances allowed?
Asked by Sebastian Baehr:

Dear Atlassian team

I didn't find any information on this in the license. Is it allowed for a company to purchase and host multiple 10-user licenses of Confluence for different (unrelated) projects? Or do we need to upgrade our existing license?

Regards

Sebastian


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You need one licence per production instance of Confluence. So if you have 5 Confluence installs, 3 with less than 10 users each and 2 with up to 50 users each, you will need 3 10-seat licences and 2 50-seat licences.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence scaling
Asked by Kirill Kuznetsov:

Hi!

We are planning to upgrade our confluence platform up 10k users. What recommendations do you have for the hardware and nodes count to support so many users with satisfying productivity? Does standard confluence license support clustering in one data-center or even between two data-centers?

Best regards,

Kirill


Answers:
author: Ross Lindell _Information Officer Pte Ltd_
body: The Data Center license is different, and might be something to look at for 10K users.

Data Center covers high availability setups (e.g. clustering, same data center), but not geographic redundancy or geographic load balancing (like a CDN).

<https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/data-center>

comments: author: Kirill Kuznetsov
body: Thank you! But could you please specify us the difference between the standard license and data-center license:

* Both support 10k users;
* Both have no any data size limitations;
* Both support database clustering

What will be the user amount limit or data size limit that will require us to migrate the enterprise license.


Tags: confluence-administration
Make the browsers load the Javascript(jquery) changes with out manual hard refresh
Asked by betsen baby:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [How to use JavaScript in Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=313458839)*

Hi, I am using Jquery(in theme configuration) to Hide/Show some elements in the Confluenc. The changes in this java-script is not reflected unless I do a hard refresh on the browser.

As it is not possible to make all the users to do hard refresh on their browsers, is there a way in confluence to make the browser update the local javascript?

Best regards,

Betsen


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: If you are using web resources, changing the web resource key will force the javascript to be reloaded when the plugin is upgraded. Worth checking out.


Tags: confluence-administration

javascript
Starting JIRA automatically stops Confluence, vice versa
Asked by Hong Zheng:

I recently migrated JIRA 6.4 and Confluence 5.7 to a new Ubuntu server. I noticed starting one server automatically stops the other. Has anyone else come across this problem or know what the problem might be?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you have shared any resources between the two, then yes, this can happen.

Starting one can make the other run out of memory if you've allowed too much memory to them, their databases will lock if you try to share, the home directories, any part of their Tomcat installations and so-on.  

Best bet is to read the log. Bring them both up, and then read the application log for the one that stops, and, probably more usefully, the catalina.out file for both Tomcats.

comments: author: Hong Zheng
body: Found this in Confluence catalina.out

*Error occurred during initialization of VM*

*Could not reserve enough space for object heap*

Both Xms and Xmx were set to 1024m in setenv.sh. The default values for JIRA seem more reasonable to me. Not sure why Confluence team did that.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Both applications can be quite memory hungry as they grow, and it often makes sense to start java systems with Xms = Xmx. (I'm not going to pretend I understand it, or when it's a good idea, but I'm told it's appropriate here)


author: Jan-Peter Rusch
body: Atlassian doesn't support \& recommend running multiple Atlassian products on a single machine. Your solution might work, but think about separating Confluence \& JIRA or at least run them in different virtual machines.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Actually, they do. What they do not support is running multiple products on the same **application** server. In theory, it's possible to run one Tomcat with JIRA and Confluence and others all running inside it. That is not supported.

But running one Tomcat per application is supported, even if those Tomcats are all on the same server. You must be careful to ensure the server is capable of handling the load though.


author: GabrielleJ
body: Also, try checking the ports being used in your start/stop scripts. The shutdown port being used by the other is being used by a starting port by the other.


Tags: confluence-administration

jira
Tableau Plug-in
Asked by Kulbir:

Great job with the plug-in.....My question is about controlling one dashboard using another dashboard.

for eg: I'm going to put two Tableau plug-in macro on my page. One dashboard filters to another dashboard. This is not working. Even, I'm publishing the tabs and I don't want to toggle between the tabs. Is there a way around it, so I can get two tableau views which interact with each other ( on same page)?

Thanks

Kulbir


Answers:
author: Roel Gerrits
body: Hi Kulbir,

This is not possible with this plugin,

You can define actions within a tableau dashboard itself, but not link multiple embedded views together

Roel


author: Roel Gerrits
body: Hi Kulbir,

I don't know of other plugins for tableau,

Roel


author: Kulbir
body: Thanks Roel for a quick reply.

My organization recently took up confluence and our main visualizations are in Tableau.

My requirements are such that I need two dashboards adjacent to each other.

Is there any other plug-in that you recommend?

Thanks

Kulbir


Tags: tableau
With 5.9 my My Space are not sorted. What order are they in?
Asked by Bob Schrempp:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Confluence 5.5 Release Notes](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=589366874)*

With the release of 5.9, the home screen has changed. There is a new My Spaces area in the left side bar. The spaces do not seem to be in any order. How can I soft them alphabetically?


Answers:
author: George Lewe (LSY)
body: Here is a related/duplicate question:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38071589>

The Javascript solutions suggested in there do not work in my environment though.


author: George Lewe (LSY)
body: I second on this one. Just upgraded to 5.9 and see that the My Spaces are not sorted.

Is there any way to change that?