youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Moving Pages when in a Hierachry view; Pages with children do not move
Asked by Kathy Perry:

Hi; I have a Wiki space that has many pages. Some pages have multiple child pages and those have child pages. I am using the "View in Hierachry" and trying to move pages from this view. NOTE: Pages with no child pages are successfully moved and stayed moved after doing a refresh. However; Pages with child pages show they are moved on the "View in Hierachry" screen but after a refresh have not in fact been moved successfully.

Is this how Atlassian works? or a bug? and do you have any suggestions to get this working. Thanks in advance for any direction you can provide?

Thanks Kathy Perry ([kperry@utexas.edu](mailto:kperry@utexas.edu)) 512 232-4360


Answers:
author: Kathy Perry
body: I found the answer to this question. you have to use the reorder command under space tools
Confluence search results macro giving different results than text search does
Asked by Irwin Schreiman:

In confluence I enter the search "a AND b\* \~10" and get 76 results. I need to export the search results, so I created a page in a personal space and then added the search results macro to the page and gave it the same search (a AND b\* \~10) with no other limitations.

When I view that page I only get 10 results. What am I missing?


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

There might be some differences in the index or some error in the macro. Would be possible to[reindex the instance from scratch](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indexes+from+Scratch) and check if the macro and the text box still shows different results? Would be possible to provide the Confluence version as well?

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Irwin Schreiman
body: I'm running Confluence 5.6.4. I've rebuilt the content Index. Now the quick search gives 158 hits but the macro is still showing only 10. It also looks like the macro is not parsing the \~10 (near operator) correctly as one of the 10 results I get has the hit highlighting showing 10 (from Chapter 10).
Confluence Team Calendar for Chrome
Asked by Young__Hahn:

I am testing Confluence Team Calendar add on and it looks like it is not working well on Google Chrome.

For example, after creating a calendar for the team, I am trying to give restriction to my group, but when I select my group (selecting group is a pop up) it does not move on... I tried clicking many times, waited few minutes.. but it still doesn't work..

I tried with Safari and Firefox, it works fine..

Is this just don't work with Chrome? or anything else needs to be configured?


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

Did you tested using the 64bit version of Google Chrome?  

This behavior is happening with the button itself and not just with Team Calendars.  

Cheers,


Tags: confluence-administration

team-calendars-for-confluence
How do I get rid of this error??....You have temporary access to administrative functions. Drop access if you no longer require it. For more information, refer to the documentation.
Asked by Michael Carels:

The documentation link is dead. Please tell me how to fix this from not showing:

You have temporary access to administrative functions. [Drop access](https://greenhousesuperfoods.atlassian.net/wiki/ajax/dropauthentication.action) if you no longer require it. For more information, refer to [the documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ConfCloud/Configuring+Secure+Administrator+Sessions).

Thanks


Answers:
author: ANUDINA
body: Its asking us to install Confluence in order to manager the secure admin access to JIRA . Why?


author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi Michael,

The correct link for the documentation is this one: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Secure+Administrator+Sessions>

Please refer to this guide which will also instruct you on how to disable the secure administrator sessions.

Let us know should you have any questions. Thanks.

Kind regards,

Luiz Maia  
Atlassian Support


Tags: confluence-administration
How can i create a query for articles?
Asked by Sandro Koch:

The standard troubleshooting article has a query for the article name and keywords. How can i create my own query for my own blueprints and how can i use the keywords to list similar articles at the bottom of the article?


Answers:
author: Thiago Zandona
body: Hi Sandro,

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for as I'm not really sure about the query you mean, but have you had a chance to take a look at these pages?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Creating+a+Blueprint-Style+Report>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Blueprints#WorkingwithBlueprints-Creatingcontentusingablueprint>

Cheers,


Tags: confluence-administration
SQL for Confluence - MS sql connection not working
Asked by Dhanasekaran Balasubramaniam:

Hi,  
I am configuring SQL for confluence plugin but i am getting the below error.   
Error rendering macro 'sql-query' : Unable to load database driver: net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver. Make sure your configuration is correct

Followed steps:  
Step 1: Placed jtds-1.3.1.jar under lib directory.   
Step 2: updated the context.xml under conf with the below.   
\<Resource name="jdbc/InventoryDB"   
auth="Container"   
type="javax.sql.DataSource"  
driverClassName="net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver"  
url="jdbc:jtds:<sqlserver://servername:1433/dbname;instance=UAT>"  
username="username"  
password="password"  
maxActive="10"  
maxIdle="10"  
validationQuery="Select 1"  
/\>

Step 3: restarted Tomcat

Step 4: in the sql plugin configuration screen updated the information.

Add a profile named: InventoryDB  
with profile value:

dbDriver=net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver \| dbUrl=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://servername:1433/wiki;instance=UAT\| dbUser=username\|dbPassword=password\| dbJar=lib/jtds-1.3.1.jar

Can Some one Please let me know if i am missing anything from my end ?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: First, you only need one of these configurations. Either application defined data source (your first 3 steps) or the data source profile configuration. See [Data Sources](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SQL/Data+Sources) for more information.

In your case, the data source profile configuration will override the other configuration. I suspect you Confluence server is on Windows. Suggest setting the **dbJar** to the full path name to the jar file.

If you still have problems, please open a [support issue](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/SQL).


Tags: confluence-administration
how to search and replace links?
Asked by Emma Gibbs:

I tried searching on a page and global scope for the link....

I tried encoding it as utf-8.....

does search and replace handle urls? Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Lukas Knoch -Rumpelcoders-
body: Hi Emma,

at first, thanks for using our plugin.

The easiest way would be: Look at the storage format of the content you like to replace. (In your case, the url.) this should look something like this:

```
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rumpelcoders.atlassian.net/"&gt;http://rumpelcoders.atlassian.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
```

Then go to "Search and Replace " in your admin interface. Choose your scope ("global" if you wan all spaces) and insert the part of the storage format you want to replace in the "Search for" section.

Click "Show Occurences" to list all occurrences. This could take some time depending on your system's size.

If you are happy with the occurrences listed, insert the replacement text into the "replace with" section and hit replace all.

This replaces all occurrences of this String in your confluence instance.

Please let me know if it worked and tell us about your experience with the plugin!

Best regards,

Lukas

comments: author: Emma Gibbs
body: Thanks for your help Lukas, I opened the storage format and took the part I wanted to search, e.g file:///\\\\server\\share\\folder1 and then using search by page , select page, show occurrences, I received no results again.Is it a problem with this type of URL?


author: Lukas Knoch -Rumpelcoders-
body: I tested the mentioned url in my system and it worked. Could you please tell me on which version of confluence you are working on? Could you also please make sure you are using the newest version of the plugin?It would really help if you could tell us the exact url for reproduction. If that's private data, please consider sending us an e-mail at rumpelstielzken@gmail.com.Sorry for my late answer.Best regardsLukas


author: Emma Gibbs
body: Hi Lukas,Thanks again for your attention on this.So, I am using Confluence version 5.6.4The plugin is now updated to v1.4 and on repeating my search - it is finding my occurrence. Which is fantastic. I think we're done here - I will continue my testing for my client.


author: Lukas Knoch -Rumpelcoders-
body: Please consider writing a review if you are happy with the plugin! Thx ;)


author: Emma Gibbs
body: Plugin = Global Search and Replace (Rumpelcoders)


author: Emma Gibbs
body: Some more detail if it helps: I have a page with hardcoded links that need replacing, and when I search for one of these urls using the plugin, I get no search results at all. Same result if I change the scope from page, to global. So then I tried converting URL to utf-8 encoding, and using that for search. I did not get any search results from the page or from global search.


Tags: confluence-administration
sidebar translation in french
Asked by Mohamadou Mballo:

Hi,

I use confluence 5.6.5 and i have configured all in french.

On side bar menu, the elements are not translate.

for example : sidebar.main.configure.edit.tip is translate only on english and never in french.

I have add-on Confluence-5.6.5-language-pack-fr_FR.jar but it's not work fine.

Can you help us please.

Regards,

Mohamadou


Answers:
author: Thiago Zandona
body: HI Mohamadou,

I could not find anything related as known issue for your Confluence version regarding translation. Have you tried to uninstall and install the translation add-on again? Also, have you tried below translation add-on? (Free for Server installations):

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.language>

Maybe it will fit more with your needs.

Cheers,


Tags: confluence-administration
Proper approach to manipulate Confluence Database
Asked by MichaelMoe:

I'm working on a project that imports contents into Confluence. Since Confluence does not have masquerade feature(well, that's what JIRA ticket from couple of years ago suggested and there's still no update on the ticket.) , I manipulate Confluence Database directly by issuing SQL statements to restore original content creation date, original content creator, likes, and last modified date. To see the changes, I need to flush Confluence Cache and rebuild index. It is not an issue at this point as I'm working on test site. But, soon I'll be working on production site and I'm concern that this may corrupt the database. What should I do to prevent corrupting database?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: * Test your SQL to death on a test machine
* Backup Confluence before running it on production
* Have Confluence offline when you run the SQL
* Restart and trigger a re-index

Your main problems are the caches and index, taking Confluence offline while you run SQL is the only way you can avoid damage to the database. Ideally, avoid SQL like the plague, it's a last resort for working with Confluence (or JIRA)

comments: author: MichaelMoe
body: Good points. Thanks!


author: Richard Atkins
body: The relevant CONF issue for impersonating users: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6786>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is Crowd the only Single Sign On option for Confluence, JIRA, Stash, and Bamboo
Asked by Kathy Plamann:

Hi

I would like to know if Crowd is the only option for single sign on for all the Atlassian products?

Thanks

Kathy


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Rosa
body: Hi,

We do have [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Single+Sign-on+Integration+with+JIRA+and+Confluence) with some information on this subject.


author: ThiagoBomfim
body: Yes. All the guides are here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Overview+of+SSO>


author: crf
body: I came here to link to [the same page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Single+Sign-on+Integration+with+JIRA+and+Confluence) that @Rodrigo Sogari \[Atlassian\] did, but I will add a little bit more detail.

Those instructions describe how to do SSO for those applications that use the `atlassian-seraph` library. JIRA and Confluence definitely use that library. I'm less familiar with Bamboo, but it appears to use `atlassian-seraph` as well, so the instructions should be similar to those for Confluence, but with a different class names for the base authenticator (presumably BambooAuthenticator).

Stash definitely does \*not\* use atlassian-seraph; however, it provides its own plugin points for doing custom authentication, as described in this other answer: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/11467425/how-can-i-integrate-sso-with-stash-application>

comments: author: crf
body: So the answer is basically: "Yes, but it's a whole lot easier if you use Crowd".


author: Gerri Urban
body: There is a SAML 2.0 Application in the Okta system for Confluence \& JIRA and an application for Stash \& bamboo - but Atlassian will not provide configuration support on it.


Tags: bamboo

bitbucket-server

confluence-administration

jira

jira-administration
Can you configure Conflunce LDAP for a server cluster with fail-over?
Asked by David Fisher:

Can you configure Conflunce LDAP for a server cluster with fail-over?


Answers:
author: David Fisher
body: From our tech:We have an Active Directory cluster (clus1, clus2, clus3). Windows systems will automatically fail-over to clus2 or clus3 if clus1 fails. You might want to ask Atlassian if they support that and find out how we modify the config files...


author: David Fisher
body: From our tech:  
We have an Active Directory cluster (clus1, clus2, clus3). Windows systems will automatically fail-over to clus2 or clus3 if clus1 fails. You might want to ask Atlassian if they support that and find out how we modify the config files...


author: Boris Berenberg
body: I am not sure I understand the question, but we typically ask admins to point our applications at a single master LDAP server rather than a load balanced cluster because we have seen clusters cause some problems in the past.


Tags: confluence-administration

data-center

ldap
If I configure LDAP for conflunce, how do current user logins convert?
Asked by David Fisher:

If I configure LDAP for conflunce, how do current user logins convert?


Answers:
author: David Fisher
body: I have current users on the internal directory. I want to use LDAP authentication on these same users. They do have the same user name. So, if someone wants a one time login, they will have to create a new account on Confluence and their content will have to be "moved" to them? Thanks for the fast response.


author: rrudnicki
body: Hi David,

What do you mean about "convert user logins"? Basically, you need to have the users created on LDAP to login.

Confluence will only try to authenticate the user against the next directory of the list in case this user does not exist on the current directory. For example:

Directory List:

DirectoryA

DirectoryB

DirectoryC

Let's say you've got a user called "UserC" from DirectoryC. If this user exists on DirectoryA, Confluence will not try to authenticate this user against other directories other than the DirectoryA; however, if the user exists only on DirectoryC, Confluence will not find the user on DirectoryA neither on DirectoryB and then will find the user on DirectoryC and authenticate it.

We don't recommend you to have the same username on Internal User directory and on LDAP.

Regards,

Renato Rudnicki

comments: author: David Fisher
body: I have current users on the internal directory. I want to use LDAP authentication on these same users. They do have the same user name. So, if someone wants a one time login, they will have to create a new account on Confluence and their content will have to be "moved" to them? Thanks for the fast response.


Tags: confluence-administration

ldap
Prevent: "Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin"
Asked by Emmet McPoland:

Hi,  

We currently use <https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Confluence+Publisher+Plugin>.  
To publish information to a confluence page from Jenkins.  

Every now and again a change is automatically made to the page which strips the Wiki Markup used to define the regions we wish to update.  

The exact comment given is :  
(Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin)  

As it removes the Wiki Markup, the information on the page is inaccurate. Ideally we would like to prevent this from happening. If we cant prevent it we would like to be able to be notified of this exact change (We don't want to be notified of all changes to the page, as we would be inundated).  

At the moment, when we noticed that something is off, we rollback the page to a version prior to the migration change. At this stage several builds may have already occurred and therefore the information is still inaccurate.  

Ive looked at the each plugin we have installed which provides release notes, none of them released a new version on the same day of the change. Ive also inspected the audit log but theres no mention of a plugin update having occurred on that day either  

Referring to <https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Confluence+Publisher+Plugin>.  
It states to use the Source Editor to add the markup for \>=4.x  
Unfortunately as OnDemand customers we don't have access to the ability to create User Macros or install the Source Editor. Also its bizarre that the old Wiki Markup method still works apart from something isn't migrating it correctly. What that something is, is a total mystery. Ideally Id like to find out what is causing the migration and prevent it from doing so.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I suspect the migration is caused because Atlassian deploys releases into Cloud a **lot** and the upgrade process is spotting your markup and trying to migrate it to the new storage type.  

I suspect the only valid approach for Cloud is to get the Jenkins plugin updated so that it posts in the right format instead of wiki.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I insert a video?
Asked by Joe Kidd:

How do I insert a video?


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi Joe,

To insert uploaded videos, I suggest you use the [Multimedia Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Multimedia+Macro).

To insert other videos from the web, like YouTube or Vimeo, you can user the [Widget Connector Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Widget+Connector+Macro)

Let us know should you have any questions. Thank you.

Kind regards,

Luiz Maia  
Atlassian Support


author: Andre Borzzatto
body: Hi Joe,

It should be possible to insert a video on a Confluence page just by Drag-and-drop the file.

If you want to enable more control on how the file should be displayed you can, then, use a Multimedia macro type.

Hope this helps!
How to create a page in Confluence summarizing all events from a calendar in a table?
Asked by Gzegosch:

Hi all,

I'd like to create a page that would give me a summary of all events from a calendar and that would be presented in a table with all the necessary information to see.

So on top would be the sections: what, where, who, when, etc.; and then under, the list of events with each cell being auto-completed from the events information of the calendar.

Hope somebody can help me.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

greg


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg
body: This is not possible with the out of the box product as far as I know. You may be able to hack something together by using the SQL macro, and pulling the info directly from the DB?

comments: author: Gzegosch
body: Thanks Boris; I'm not sure I'll be able to do that. I'll try to find another solution that's not too time consuming.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
How do I reactivate a confluence user who is expired and never logged in?
Asked by Scott Paden:

I created a user. That user didn't login for over 2 weeks.

* How do I reactivate that user?
* How do I send that user a new notice?


Answers:
author: Thiago Zandona
body: Hi Scott,

The user you created never logged in? If so, there is not a way to resend the invitation. You must delete the user and when you recreate he will receive the notification. You can follow the steps on [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Cloud/Add+and+remove+users). If he was active and was deactivated you can reactivate following the steps [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Cloud/Add+and+remove+users#Addandremoveusers-Deactivateordeleteusers).

Cheers

comments: author: Scott Paden
body: \>The user you created never logged?...That's the issue. Thanks. I wound up deleting the user and creating the account again as you suggested. Thanks.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud