youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Why do anchors do work in confluence only work using Safari and not e.g. with Firewfox
Asked by Klaus Feldmann:

I did create a page with the toc-macro at the top and some headings to be listet. On a Mac I can use Safari to jump to the headings by clicking into the toc, but it does not work using Firefox, Chrome, or even with Paralles using Firefox etc. but there it works with Safari too - on a PC its all fine.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF51/Table+of+Contents+Macro>

Any Idea?


Answers:
author: Klaus Feldmann
body: Seems to work now using Confluence 5.2.5 on Firefox 25 and Safari 7.0


author: Klaus Feldmann
body: My workplace is on Confluence 5.1.5 and the only place I can get same-page anchors to work is in the latest version of Chrome. Doesn't work in Firefox 25, doesn't work in IE 10. To top things off if you try and do it manually via the source the HTML gets stripped when you save, so there's really no way around it.

comments: author: Klaus Feldmann
body: It does work on Mac OSX Maverics using Safari too


author: Klaus Feldmann
body: We are about to upgrade to Conf. 5.2.5 to check out whether or not that helps.


author: Klaus Feldmann
body: Thanks, but this is not a browser issue it came up with confluence 5.0 -- its the way confluence handles headings and anchors and whether or not it is ascii code or not -- there are a number of issues existing already - are you using a Mac or a PC?


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Klaus,

That's probably a browser issue, are you using browser that are supported by Atlassian?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms>

If so, maybe you should create a ticket here : <https://jira.atlassian.com> ?

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Klaus Feldmann
body: Thanks, but this is not a browser issue it came up with confluence 5.0 -- its the way confluence handles headings and anchors and whether or not it is ascii code or not -- there are a number of issues existing already - are you using a Mac or a PC?


Tags: anchor

table-of-contents
Can I share a blog privately to anonymous users
Asked by Andr? Hess:

Hi. I'm in a large organization that uses a specific tool that I'm developing. Many people may be interested in following the blog but for that, should they be users? It may contain sensitive information so I'm affraid to make it anonymously available but I don't think my company wants to pay a lot of confluence users just to follow a blog.

Is there any way to limit the blog visibility to people on my google apps domain?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: To piggyback on what Matthew suggested you could create one user for this purpose, and then have a separate web form that will take their existing company login creds and if those validate it will submit the confluence user creds for the blog reader account to confluence and log them in with that account. That way they never know the creds for the Confluence account and you don't have to change the password everytime some leaves.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: You could add some authentication script to the blog's decorator that only allows certain users or groups to see a page. But I don't know how you'd establish a group of users without actually creating users.


author: StevenA
body: Hi Andre,

Very sorry that it is not possible to limit Confluence blog visibility to your Google apps users. Because those users bust be given Confluence application accesses which consume license count in order to view Confluence blog.

Best Regards,

Steven


Tags: blog

cloud

confluence-cloud

permission
Used space
Asked by Christian Bortolin:

How can I see the used spaced of Ondemand Confluence ?

Is there also a way how to reduce the used space ? automatically deleting pages older than 1 year , . . ? ?


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Christian,

At the moment there is no user interface to check the used space so please request it at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)

There is also no automatic way of deleting old pages but is probably that you don't need to. Attachments usually count for the most space used and can be managed from the space configurations section.

Have a nice weekend! :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Connecting Confluence - On Demand to OneLogin.
Asked by ScottB:

Looking for how to connect Confluence - On Demand to OneLogin. I can't see where to access or how to enable the use of third party auth providers such as OneLogin. Any guidance would be appreciated.Thanks


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I don't think you can do this. OnDemand has it's own internal login system, and you can't replace that with an external one.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If it provides some sort of layer that effectively logs in silently and redirects you, then that would work. It wouldn't need hooking up to OnDemand then, as it's external. But it's still OnDemand doing it's own authorisation and account handling behind it.

You might want to contact Atlassian or OneLogin about supporting this, if no-one else here can help!


author: ScottB
body: Its a bit confusing as within OneLogin you can choose Confluence-OnDemand as a supported application of its service. I just don't see the corresponding options within the admin interface of Confluence-OnDemand. Is this one of those features that only Atlassian can access or configure?


Tags: cloud
Paging in confluence sql plugin
Asked by Dmitriy Zavernyaev:

I have SQL Plugin for Confluence and I use it to display information from the table from MSSQL server.

I have limit option set to 300 in plugin configuration, but the table size encreases and now it has more that 300 rows. Is it possinbe to set up something like "paging" in macro settings? I mean that I can see first 300 rows selected then I click "next page" and I can see next 300 rows (301-600).

I can create new page with the same query and additional limit/offset but it is not ok, as later I'll need to create next page by hand and so on.


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: I've published another plugin, Play SQL (free for read-only mode), which has pagination. See screenshots at <https://playsql.atlassian.net/browse/PLAYSQL-19>


author: Christian Schlaefcke
body: As I also think this would be useful I opened the requested [improvement](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/SQL-305). Please vote if you also think this would be useful.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: No, not currently. Please [open an improvement](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/SQL) request. Unfortunately, it is not as simple as you may think.

Consider using the [Cache Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CACHE) and allow the whole table to be displayed with less impact on the system.


Tags: addon-org.swift.confluence.sql
How to upgrade Workflow-Script for workflow plugin confluence.
Asked by tousifs:

Hi All,

I have upgraded my **workflow plugin** to latest Version 4.2.1.

Prior we were using workflow plugin Version 3.3.5.

now at start up it's throw lot's of error for workflow script.

i would like to know do i need to update my workflow script also to 4.2.1 format.

please let me know your thought's.

regard's

tousif shaikh

<br />


Answers:
author: Roberto Dominguez
body: Hi Tousif,

Sorry to heard about the problems with your upgrade.

Please submit a ticket at <https://comalatech.zendesk.com> and we will look into it.

Please include the log messages you're getting.

Roberto
Audit function - Automatic notification for periodic review of content
Asked by Vamsi K Nori:

Can we put a type of audit function in place to review WIKIs at a determined period of time (3 or 6 months) that would automatically notify the SME to review the WIKI for any changes or updates?


Answers:
author: Midori
body: [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving) offers easy to use automatic review worklows as:

1. Pages can expire after a certain period (ex: in 3 months)
2. Pages can expire on an explicit date (ex: 10 Jan 2015)
3. It will notify the page's creator, last updater, the space's admins, a supervisor, etc.

**[Read the manual](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/)**


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Weekly digests can be send out by Confluence for the spaces SMEs are supposed to review which summarizes the updates.


Tags: notification

trigger
Text broken when exporting Korean text
Asked by wookhyunshin:

When I export Diagramly diagram which contains Korean text (to pdf, png, jpg), text is broken. It's displayed as a square box.

Korean text is visible when I access via web browser.

I've checked that Draw.io support Korean text to export.

I guess it's font problem, but what should I do?

My server is running on Centos 6.2.


Answers:
author: wookhyunshin
body: Thank you. That fixed my problem.

I have an extra question for font settings.

How can I change default font is diagram.ly editor? I cannot find options for that.

comments: author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: There's currently no option, but we'll add one.


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: Yes, you need some fonts that support Korean on the server your Confluence is running on, that's where the exports are generated.

I think for centOS it's:

```
yum install fonts-korean
```

You probably then want to refresh the font cache. It's

```
fc-cache -f
```

on debian, I guess it'll be the same on CentOS.

comments: author: kimkk
body: In unbuntu,

```
sudo apt-get install language-pack-ko
```


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly

confluence-administration
Why is my confluence search not returning expected results?
Asked by shubha nagaraj:

After importing our data into our on demand confluence wiki, our searches are not working as expected. Please help.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What are you expecting, and what is actually happening? Have you re-indexed?


author: Lang Tran
body: Does some of the content require you to be logged in?


Tags: search
Confluence: Would it be possible to create a shortcut key for inserting symbols?
Asked by Rosalind:

Hi, I have a suggestion for a future release. As a technical writer, I use the en dash on a regular basis. Instead of having to go through the Insert\\Symbols option, would it be possible to provide a shortcut key? (I have to say, I don't like the way Confluence encourages the incorrect use of hyphens.) Hope you can help, Regards,


Answers:
author: Rosalind
body: A double-hyphen plus space inserts the en dash; and a triple-hyphen plus space inserts an em dash.

comments: author: Don Mitchell
body: --- isn't working for me, -- does but I can't get emdash


author: Rosalind
body: Hi Matthew, Thanks for the tip re using a double hyphen for an en dash. Simple and it works! I'll use that from now on.


author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: In the meantime, you could create a very simple user macro that just inserts an em dash. You then won't have to change into the menu - if the macro name was "em", you just could type

text text text text text{em}text text text text.

However, the Confluence content won't look very "nice" in editing mode ... a fat macro icon will be displayed for all occurences of the em dash macro.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: For the en-dash, doesn't typing a double hyphen plus a space insert one of these?


author: Mick Davidson
body: Rosalind,

I think you'd have to raise this as an enhancement with Atlassian directly.

I'm curious to know how Atlassian "encourages the incorrect use of hyphens.)" :)

Cheers.
Confluence security questions
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

Is it also possible to limit access by a password protection for single pages?  
Is it possible to encrypt single pages?  
Is it possible to log all access activities to a single page in a tracefile?

Thank you in advance for your suggests!

Rumi


Answers:
author: Josch Bencke
body: Not out of the box - you would need to check the marketplace for addons which do this.

For my softwaredoc-wikis, I usually set up two wikis in such situations - one for the highsecurity stuff like operational details, IP addresses, adminusernames etc. and one for the documentation for businessusers and developers

This has the second advantage, that you can station the sec-wiki in a separate dmz with additional security enforced.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can't add people or JIRA calender to Team Calendars
Asked by Kevin Ulrich Moschallski:

Hi,

i recently installed the current Team Calendars plugin. It works fine and also shows me calendars of JIRA projects i added on an earlier test (older version of Team Calendars which i uninstalled before the current test).

When i now try to add a people or a JIRA calendar if have no possiblity to choose these options. All i can do is add another "normal" calendar.

I already tried a re-install of the plugin without success. The Team Calendars plugin is also installed in JIRA and an application link exists (i can use the JIRA issue macro).

Do i need to enable something additional? I coulnd't find anything in the documentation.

Thanks for help!


Answers:
author: Kevin Ulrich Moschallski
body: Hi Rodrigo,

thanks for your reply. I just sovled this with the help of Atlasian Support via an issue. I just wanst aware that i need to add calendar entries to show issue due dates, etc. I was thinking that a need to create a calendar for each project.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Kevin,  

Do you see any error in confluence logs related to the JIRA calendar? It might be worth to look there.  

Also, according to this [page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Cannot+Add+an+Event+in+People+Calendars), although is for another issue, it might be a good idea to try to rebuild indexes and see if the issue persists.  

I hope this helps. :)


Tags: addon-com.atlassian.confluence.extra.team-calendars

confluence-administration
Redirect Confluence URL
Asked by scbarmoy:

Hi,  

My project has used Confluence and Jira for about a year now and have over a hundred users who know and use these links daily. We recently set up a proxy for those outside of our network to access these sites. At the moment, the url for our confluence, for example, is still <https://confluence.mycompany.com:8443>.   

Now that we have set up a proxy, we had to add /wiki to the end of the url by modifying 'path"/wiki"' in server.xml for it to work properly. So users can now access confluence from the proxy, when outside of our network, at <https://proxy.mycompany.com:8443/wiki> or at the original server [https://confluence.mycompany.com:8443/wiki](https://confluence.mycompany.com:8443/wiki.).   

I have now changed my baseurl to include /wiki on the end. Since the users are already familiar with the original url, I want to redirect that original url, [https://confluence.mycompany.com:8443](https://confluence.mycompany.com:8443,), to [https://confluence.mycompany.com:8443/wiki](https://confluence.mycompany.com:8443/wiki.), but haven't been able to figure out how to do it properly.   

I have added a redirect in index.html that redirects <https://confluence.mycompany.com> to <https://confluence.mycompany.com:8443/wiki> but I can't figure out a redirect that works with the port number on the end, as in the original url. Some suggestions I've read suggest a proxy, but I'm already proxying to another server. Any help would be appreciated!


Answers:
author: Steve
body: If you have to (or eventually forced to) move to cloud you can't technically create a Confluence redirection. We had this need so we built a confluence redirection macro for cloud as we didn't find something that worked for us on the marketplace. We discovered it does some things can't on server or data center which was pretty nice.

We put it on the marketplace, so if you need to investigate how to create a confluence page redirection in cloud ask questions or take a look at what we did - [Easy Redirection](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1224699/easy-redirection-for-confluence-cloud?hosting=cloud&tab=overview).


author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi there, you may modify the web-inf/urlrewrite.xml. There are some examples of how to create redirect rules at the following links:

* [](/questions/43544/url-rewrite-with-confluence)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/43544/url-rewrite-with-confluence>
* [](/questions/3547/force-jira-redirection-to-single-domain)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/3547/force-jira-redirection-to-single-domain>

Cheers


Tags: base-url

confluence-administration

redirect

url
How can I install Confluence on a webserver (cpanel)
Asked by Rob Khamas:

Hi there,

I'm quite new to this so forgive me for my simple question. I would like to install Confluence and the related modules on my hosted server so I can access it via the web.

Is it possible to install it the same way you would install a web app such as SugarCRM etc..?


Answers:
author: Erik Saline [BlackPearl PDM]
body: I do not think there is an easy Confluence installer via cPanel. You will need install Confluence per this article, <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+Confluence+on+Linux>. They do have an unattended mode but not sure if that will work with cPanel.

For the follow up part of you question you can run multiple instances, check out this article for JIRA, should work the same for Confluence.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Running+multiple+instances+of+JIRA+on+one+machine>


author: Josch Bencke
body: Short: Yes it is. Check the admindocumentation for howtos.

Longer:

Confluence needs an applicationserver to run in. In your webserverconfig, you can then forward certain urls ("wiki.myserver.com") or certain paths ([www.myserver.com/wiki](http://www.myserver.com/wiki)) to your appserver in the backend.

You got all the options from outofthebox 10minutes-startup-kit to "deploy into an existing infrastructure as yet another application" bundles.

For a quick tryout, the ready2go bundles are perfectly fine. For a production environment, I would recommend a "regular" install and someone who knows what (s)he is doing.

comments: author: Rob Khamas
body: Thanks. Can i install multiple confluence instances on the one app server? And then use the web server to redirect to the different folder/instance?

That is, have instance1 and instance2 on the same app server. Then setup a web server and configure it so that [login.instance1.com](http://login.instance1.com) takes it to instance one and same with [login.instance2.com](http://login.instance2.com) taking it to instance 2?
Did collapsable comments go away recently in Confluence?
Asked by Michael:

We recently upgraded to Confluence 5.3.1 and I noticed I can no longer collapse comments when viewing a page. Has this behavior/functionality changed?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: LongN
body: after a long time develop, we have this long page in Confluence, so I hope we could have "comment collapse" feature back.

FireShot #011.png  
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[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/17110/1/FireShot%20%23011.png){#display_118ada1c8433d8_0}


author: LongN
body: I have same question, my Confluence is 5.5.3

How can I setup to make the comments to collapse-available again? Or if the feature/function changed, which version is it back? (5.6 \~ 5.9)?

My company staff want to discuss on some very long thread and without collapse ability, it's hard to use.

Regards,

Long.
Changing default font for confluence
Asked by Alex Yasurek:

How can we make the default font for confluence Arial? I read in the documentation that the default is Helvetica/Arial, but we need it to be Arial across the whole site. Where would I make the CSS changes to make it that font across the site? I figure I just need to remove Helvetica from the list so it picks Arial always as the default.


Answers:
author: rambabu patina
body: Have a look on <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF29/Change+default+font,+color,+or+spacing+in+Confluence>

In body try to give only arial. And test.

Thanks,

Patina
Error with All Spaces links
Asked by stephen john:

Hi , i use the confluence 5.2.5 version and when i go to the Space Directory from the Spaces Tab all the links are redirecting to [http://localhost:8090/...](http://localhost:8090/....). giving me an error :

cannot display the webpage {#toc-hId-1871609513}
================================================

Can anyone help me? Thank you!

Stephen


Answers:
author: darylchuah
body: Hi Stephen

Can you please check on your server base url whether is it configure correctly ?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL>

comments: author: stephen john
body: Hi Daryl

Thank you very much for your answer. I solved my issue by simply inserting the correct url! Thank you again!

Bye

Stephen


author: darylchuah
body: Hi Stephen

Glad to hear that it works for you, please accept my answer and up-vote it as an appreciation thanks ;)
User macro - "LastLogin" returns 502 Proxy Error
Asked by Conor McGmail:

Thanks to the info on Answers i've copied and modified the **lastlogin** user macro to query Crowd.

This macro i have tested for a limited number of users/groups and it works fine.

When i expand it to query all users in Crowd (500) it churns away and eventually returns the error "**502 Proxy Error - Error reading from remote server** "`.`

I feel this is a timeout issue of some sort. How do i overcome it? Thanks

Confluence 5.3

` `


Answers:
author: Ally Rippley
body: This is somewhat old, but someone may find this helpful.

<br />

If you are importing any data into your macro, make sure the files you are importing are in the same folder as the file containing the macro. This solved the issue for me.


author: Josch Bencke
body: Sounds like a webserver/appserver topic, not something configured inside confluence. Good luck


Tags: confluence-administration

last-login
Overriding macro browser param value
Asked by Nikola Zifra:

Hi there,

I am trying to override a string parameter value in Confluence macro browser. i.e instead of

the value stored by macro I would like to use the value read from the cookie. I have tried something like this but I am afraid it doesn't work to good.

```
var jsOverrides = {    "fields" : {              "string": function(param, options){                      var paramDiv = $(Confluence.Templates.MacroBrowser.macroParameter());           var input = AJS.$("input", paramDiv);           if (param.required) {                input.keyup(AJS.MacroBrowser.processRequiredParameters);           }           if (AJS.$.cookie("xPathToNode")) {                              input.val(AJS.$.cookie("xPathToNode"));                            AJS.$.removeCookie("xPathToNode");           }                             return AJS.MacroBrowser.Field(paramDiv, input, options);                 }     }};AJS.MacroBrowser.setMacroJsOverride('restclient_xpath', jsOverrides);
```

What would be correct way to use a value from the cookie instead of the previosly stored value?


Answers:
author: J D
body: Hi @Nikola Zifra,i have kind of the same problem. I want to add dynamic values to the enum param.Did you found a solution yet?Best Regards,@J D