youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Unable to create new cycle
Asked by Lee Buckley:

Hi

I am trying to create a new cycle and fill in the fields, click save.

All i get is a Red Error Bar saying............(!)Error !

Any Clues ?

Thanks

Lee


Answers:
author: Lee Buckley
body: Zephyr needed an update ! Once i had done this, everything started to work again

Thanks

Lee


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Depends on what you mean by "cycle"?

Although the advice is likely to be the same - what does your log file say? It's likely the "error" is just a simplified display for the end user and the logs have a lot of detail to tell you what is really wrong.
Who have permission to delete page history?
Asked by ghiyasimehr:

I want to allow users to delete page history. How can I give them this permission? We use v5.2.3.


Answers:
author: StevenA
body: Hi Hossein,

You need to have **Space Administration** permission in order to delete page history. See [Space permission](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Space+Permissions+Overview) to configure this. In addition, you can have more references on [this document](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Deleting+a+Page#DeletingaPage-Deletingallversionsofapage) to get all related page permissions.

Best Regards

Steven

comments: author: Ozan Bayram
body: That is not a good idea.

If a person has edit right need to have a right to remove specific page version

If the page is restricted same restriction need to apply page history deletion


author: Martin Kon??
body: That's not true in all cases. In our organisation we use page history versions as an audit to see who have changed what and when. Regular user should not edit or remove this.


author: Ozan Bayram
body: I don't know your case but sometimes we are having tens of unnecessary version between two versions. It will be better if a user has right to remove his/her own version. except the latest one.


author: rambabu patina
body: If you give page remove space permissions then user can delete the history

see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Deleting+a+Page#DeletingaPage-Deletingaspecificversionofapage>

comments: author: ghiyasimehr
body: at first section: "If you want to delete a specific version of a page, you need to be a [space administrator](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Space+Administrators+and+their+Permissions)."


Tags: confluence-administration

delete

page-history
Modification of sign-up page
Asked by Lars Bjerges:

In our organization we disapprove of Confluence usernames that hail from the users mail address since we, in anticipation of moving the authorization into the AD, would like to have the users register with their common user id. Beacuse of that we would like to manipulate the sign-up page to suppress the automatic entry of email data into the username field or, second best, add a text reminding the user of the preferred username.I have read the page "How to Customise the Sign Up Page" ([https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/vIT_Eg](https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/vIT_Eg "Follow link")) but that didn t really give me any answers except for maybe how to add a text string to the page.

Did anybody address this problem before me? If so how?

Regards Lars


Answers:
author: Lars Bjerges
body: Well since it seems nobody is in the mood to share information about this I think I might as well close it.

Cheers, Lars


author: Lars Bjerges
body: Another try with different browser...


author: Lars Bjerges
body: Trying to answer/close the question.


author: Renjith Pillai
body: This is not something which is supported. You should already be moving the users to Active Directory as the first step and connect Confluence to the LDAP server.

comments: author: Lars Bjerges
body: Ok, this seems to be a good idea and is actually the place we will like to be. DUe to different reasons we hav not been able to go there yet.

Would this be a resonably good way to get there do you think?

1. Add LDAP Confluence as second authirization
2. Verify that users are definied in LDAP
3. Remove users from Confluence authorization
4. See to it that they use LDAP credentials henceforth

Regards Lars


author: Renjith Pillai
body: You can just add the LDAP authorization and disable the internal directory. You will have to redo the group administration if the groups are not synchronized from the LDAP server.


Tags: confluence-administration
Space Tool button gone missing
Asked by Will Dailey:

I am configuring Confluence for our company. I have been adding and deleting spaces. I also have been experimenting with Confluence Admin settings. I am the administrator and belong to the administrator group. Now the Space Tools button on the lower left corner of the space pages is no longer appearing. I believe this is a configuration change or a permissions change I must have made. Suggestions welcomed.


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: If you are using a different theme (i.e. the Documentation theme) then you will find the old 'Browse' menu (up the top, to the left of the 'Create' button) has re-appeared and you can use that instead.

comments: author: Will Dailey
body: Michael,

Thanks, this worked. I have learned a lot of new stuff about Confluence this afternoon. Great tool, I insist upon using it at every shop I run.

WKD


author: Luke Timms
body: Thanks, crazy that this moves depending on theme type...


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to edit configuration of Confluence Global Dashboard
Asked by Will Dailey:

I wish to remove the Get Started Gadget from the Global Confluence dashboard and make some other useful modifications. There are instructions to do so which require:

"To make modifications to the dashboard, modify the global template `/confluence/decorators/global.vmd` or the layout at **Confluence Admin** \> **Layouts** \> **Global Layout**."

We have Atlassian OnDemand product. I am the admin for the tool set. I have searched through all of the admin functions and can not find Layouts. How can I edit the Confluence Global Dashboard to improve it for my user community?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can not.

OnDemand does not allow for customisation of code (and also has a limited set of addons you can install).

Your choices are:

* Move to self-hosted
* Move to a host who will allow code changes like this
* Find/raise a feature request for OnDemand customisations to the dashboard and wait for them to be implemented (I'm not aware of any existing ones that might work for you)
* Live with it (and hope #3 gets done, of course)

comments: author: Will Dailey
body: Nic,

Thanks, I have a decent work around and we will implement tomorrow.

wkd


author: BillA
body: Your end users won't see the getting started steps (only admins). We're tracking this request to allow OD admins to hide the getting started steps for themselves at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28255>

What other modifications would you like to make to the dashboard? Something you can do in OnDemand is create a custom Confluence page with whatever content you'd like and set it as the site home page for all your users. (see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Configuring+the+Site+Home+Page>). That way your employees see this custom home page when they log in for the first time.

comments: author: Will Dailey
body: Bill,

A. Primarily I want to list all of the new Site Spaces in the right panel. So the end users can use the dashboard as a TOC. I would then split this panel and have just the most recent activity for all pages listed.

B. I read about creating a custom Confluence page and use this as the landing page. This is what I will do.

Thanks,


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence On Demand is extremely slow and timing out sometimes today
Asked by Jeff White:

We are experiencing extremely slow (unusable) reponse times with Confluence today (on demand) the site is basically not usable. help!


Answers:
author: Jeff White
body: yes, I did. didn't realize that this question got out here too ... they had to add more memory to our Confluence instance to resolve the problem.


author: J. Caldwell
body: Did you contact support? That's the best way to start.


Tags: cloud
Team Calendars license not matching with Confluence license after upgrade to 5.3.1
Asked by starwarsfan:

After upgrading our Confluence installation to 5.3.1 we got the error message regarding a mismatch between the calendar and the Confluence license. This was working before the upgrade, so what's going on and how do I fix this?


Answers:
author: starwarsfan
body: Got it fixed. Re-inserted the Calendar license once again and the problem went away. :-)


author: starwarsfan
body: The update was from 5.2.5 to 5.3.1.

I've checked the licenses on my Atlassian account and both, Confluence and Team Calendars are stated as "2000+ Users: Open Source License".


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Which version were you on earlier? In the latest versions on UPM, the license must match the exact number of users and also the type of the license (commercial, eterprise etc).

comments: author: starwarsfan
body: Hi Jobin,

see my other comment from yesterday.

Kind regards,

Yves


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Simple query to get list of pages with unknown-attachment links and image info
Asked by mike li:

Recently migrated from mediawiki to confluence 5.1 where the images did not get migrated. Need a simple way to get list of confluence pages, image name/info so that I can update/attach the confluence pages with the images. I did come across <https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GINT/How+to+test+for+invalid+links+and+images+on+Confluence+pages> but it seems that quite a fews steps are involved.

Thanks


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

This might be a bit tricky. I was able to create this SQL query for you which will show all pages that have a image attachment.

```
select a.title as image_name, c.title as page_name, s.spacename as space_name, a.contenttypefrom attachments ajoin content c on a.pageid=c.contentidjoin spaces s on c.spaceid=s.spaceidwhere a.contenttype like 'image%';
```

This query will show the image name, page name, space name and content type. With this information you can go to the page and attach the file again :)

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Mike,

Do my answer helped you? if yes, feel free to check it as answered :)

Cheers!


Tags: mediawiki

migration

universal-wiki-converter
HTML Plugin expired - no option to apply new key
Asked by Dev thadkapalli:

Yesterday my Bob Swift HTML eval got expired, now I genereated a new license key but in the manage addons I don't see any plugins.

It shows the following message

"Congratulations! None of your add-ons currently require attention"

Where as none my pages show up due to expired software. All pages displat the below error.

Error rendering macro 'html' : Notify your Confluence administrator that "Bob Swift Software - HTML Plugin" requires a valid license. Reason: EXPIRED


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Upgrade your UPM to a recent level.


Tags: confluence-administration
Configuring SharePoint Connector in Confluence
Asked by Kristen Viscardi:

Is there anyone that can help us configure this plugin? We can't get it to work. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There are Atlassian partners / experts around, if you're willing to engage with them.

But plenty of people here have some experience of it, and are probably willing to help you directly as well.

If you could describe what the problems are, you might get some help straight away. (A good approach is to work through the install documentation and tell us where you're stuck, either when it starts to do unexpected things or you don't understand the docs)
Trouble finding updated Confluence 5.3 Schema
Asked by Trevor Hunt:

Anyone have a link to the new DB Schema for Confluence 5.3.x?

We've been using this one but it's a little outdated:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=179439242>


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hello Trevor,

Yes, that one seems a bit outdated though. We have this updated documentation which should be using the latest schema diagrams. Let me know if this helps :D

[Confluence Data Model](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Data+Model)

Regards,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Trevor Hunt
body: Thanks for the update!


Tags: database
Import Confluence V5 export into Confluence V4.3
Asked by Josch Bencke:

Hello all interested ;)

do you have a trick for me to import a V5 Spaceexport (with Gliffy Plugin drawings) into a Confluence 4.3 installation

Regards,


Answers:
author: Josch Bencke
body: Hi Steven, thanks for the answer - unfortunately, the 4.3 is a wellused productionwiki which can not be upgraded any time soon.


author: StevenA
body: Hi Josch,

It is not possible to import data from a new version of Confluence to an old one. In case that you can not upgrade your existing 4.3 Confluence, we suggest a workaround as follow:

1. Download and install [Confluence 4.3](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives) on your machine. This would allow you to upgrade easily as you will have 30 days trial.

2. Export your full data to the new instance.

3. Upgrade the new instance to V5.

4. Do space export to the new upgraded instance.

Best Regards

Steven


Tags: confluence-administration

gliffy
Confluence Salesforce.com SSO integration
Asked by Paresh Joshi:

We are looking at purchasing and implementing Connector for [Salesforce.com](http://Salesforce.com) and Confluence.

After reading the documentation, it is not clear how exactly our existing and new customer portal users (3000+ and growing in [saleforcec.com](http://saleforcec.com) ) will get created in confluence.

Is there an automated synchronization supported by this connector or do we have to write our own synchronization routine for that?

thanks,


Answers:
author: zianahanafi
body: Hello,

Perhaps below guidelines could give some insights for you:

-https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/SFCONF/Configure+Salesforce+SSO+1-click+button

-https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/SFCONF/SSO+Related+Configuration+in+Confluence

comments: author: Paresh Joshi
body: We used these links to understand the integration.

However, we were not able to use this as it requires all the users to have a default group in salesforce and we need to use this across multiple users internal, customers and partners.


author: DevDigital
body: Hey Paresh,

It would be great if you can provide me name of this Connector. I am going to implement same thing.

Connector plug in link or something?

Thank You  
Manoj


Tags: atlassian-support
(User Macro) How to feed data into velocity template parameter
Asked by kevin anderson:

Is there a way to push data into a velocity template parameter of type enum?

example...I would like to have a drop down with all the confluence user groups listed in the parameter selection screen (user macro edit mode)

## get all user groups  
#set ($_allGroups = $userAccessor.getGroupsAsList())  
#set ($_grpNames = "")

#if ($_allGroups)  
#foreach ($_group in $_allGroups)

#set ($_grpNames = "$_grpNames,$_group.getName")

#end

#end

## this does not work...( type=enum\|enumValues=$_grpNames )

## @param _group:title=Groups\|type=enum\|enumValues=$_grpNames\|required=true\|desc=The LDAP group name to perform search for members in, if no group is provided, default is all users.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: User macro parameters are just velocity comments that Confluence interprets and creates Velocity variables from. So, nope it's not possible ... it would be nice if they beefed up the variable types a bit (attachments, users, groups, etc.).

comments: author: ignaciogiri
body: Thanks for clarifying. I've been looking for this answer the last 2 hours.
Wish to disable Notify Watchers checkbox (Confluence 5.2 and 5.3)
Asked by Rosalind:

We installed Adolfo Casari's fix (entered March 18) this week in Confluence 5.2.5 However the fix only lasted for that day and did not carry over to the next day. This was the fix we installed:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+uncheck+Notify+watchers+check+box+on+Confluence+editor+by+default>

Could you suggest a permanent fix? Thanks!


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: This works for 4.x, so it might require tweaking to work with 5:

<http://www.confluenza.com/2012/05/24/9/>

comments: author: Rosalind
body: Hi Matthew, We tried your solution, but it did not work (Confluence 5.3.1). Would it be possible to clarify what tweeking is required. Thanks!


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Well, the JS line in particular points to a checkbox with a specific id ("notifyWatchers"):

AJS.$('input#notifyWatchers').attr('checked', false);

If the ID is different in Confluence 5.x, then you'd have to change the code slightly to point to the new ID.

To find out how to reference the box, use Chrome and click "Inspect Element" when you bring up the page. Then hover over the checkbox in the source area; at the top on the page, Chrome will display a little yellow tag that shows you how you would reference it in the JS.

Sorry, I'm still on Confluence 4.x so I can't check this for you.


author: Davin Studer
body: Check out this extension in the marketplace. It requires that you first install the Speakeasy add-on. This extension will give you two buttons in the editor ... "save" and "save \& notify". Behind the scenes the exention is just hding the checkbox and unchecking it so that when you save people aren't notified. When you click the "save \& notify" button it rechecks the hidden checkbox and then programatically clicks the save buttin. This works great for us.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.extra.noemailstorm>
Cannot import space from Prod to Dev environment
Asked by Jaime Romaguera:

Trying import a space from our production to our development (duplicate of prod) 5.2 3 wiki server both running on Redhat Linux with Oracle Database.

When I try and import the space received the following error

2013-11-01 08:03:10,618 ERROR \[Long running task: Importing data\] \[confluence.importexport.actions.ImportLongRunningTask\] runInternal Failure during import

-- referer: <http://qutwiki01-qas.qut.edu.au:8080/admin/backup.action> \| url: /admin/restore.action \| userName: romaguer \| action: restore

com.atlassian.confluence.importexport.ImportExportException: com.atlassian.confluence.importexport.ImportExportException: Unable to complete import because the data does not match the constraints in the Confluence schema. Cause: SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: ORA-00001: unique constraint (CONFL_OWNER.CP_UNIQUE_USER_GROUPS) violated  
Wondering if anybody have solution to fix the issue?  
Thanks  
Regards  
Jaime


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: The error says that the users/permissions/groups are different in the instances.

comments: author: Jaime Romaguera
body: Should be the same, the database is a copy of the prod? Weird thing I can import the space on my other wiki server but it doesn't have a copy of the prod database


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to pass variables to an included page?
Asked by Ramsay Mayka:

I would like to be able to define a page that can be included on other pages as a footer. One of the things I would like in this footer is some content by label. Is there a way for me to set the labels that should be used in the content by label macro so that it matches the parent page?

For example, on a page about dogs I would like to display knowledge base articles about dog as well as open JIRAs that are about dogs.

Is this possible/advisable?


Answers:
author: Renjith Pillai
body: Use this macro in the included page - [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.plugins.knowledgebase.survey.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.plugins.knowledgebase.survey.%20)

This will show all the related content based on the labels applied for the parent page.

```
Example:
```

```
{dynamiccontentbylabel:showLabels=false|showSpace=false}
```

```
?
```

comments: author: Ramsay Mayka
body: The link you included does not work for me, are you refering to "Content Survey and Reporting"? If so, where can I find documentation for that plugin? I cannot find anything at [https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/confluence-kb-survey-plugin/overview](https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/confluence-kb-survey-plugin/overview.).

Thanks


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Somehow an additional dot came at the end of the link - <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.plugins.knowledgebase.survey>

Yeah it is 'Content Survey and Reporting'

Unfortunately there is no docs for that.


author: Ramsay Mayka
body: Thanks for your answer Renjith.

Is it possible to specify a list of spaces (and page types) for the macro?

As an aside, why is this macro packaged with the survey plugin? It does not really seem related and it sounds like something that could be useful in the base product.

Cheers


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Frankly, no idea. Check the code and see the features.


author: Ramsay Mayka
body: Thanks for your advice.
Can Confluence Standalone connect with JIRA OnDemand Hosted for User auth?
Asked by Shek Singhal:

We want to run Confluence Standalone on our own servers but would like to leave our JIRA instance as OnDemand (hosted by Atlassian).

Currently we have JIRA OnDemand authenticate with Google Apps accounts with the embedded-Crowd in JIRA.

Can we have Confluence Standalone authenticate with the Crowd that is embedded in JIRA OnDemand?

Do the instructions on this page apply if JIRA is OnDemand?

[Connecting Confluence to JIRA for User Management](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management#ConnectingtoCrowdorJIRAforUserManagement-ConnectingConfluencetoJIRAforUserManagement)

If so, then how do we format the "JIRA Server URL" for JIRA OnDemand, i.e.<http://companyname.atlassian.net/something>


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Even if you can it'd be a different set of users. JIRA OnDemand uses Crowd behind the scenes and not JIRA for user management. You can't connect to that backend Crowd system.


author: Shek Singhal
body: Do the instructions on this page apply if JIRA is OnDemand?

[Connecting Confluence to JIRA for User Management](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management#ConnectingtoCrowdorJIRAforUserManagement-ConnectingConfluencetoJIRAforUserManagement)

If so, then how do we format the "JIRA Server URL" for JIRA OnDemand, i.e. <http://companyname.atlassian.net/something>


Tags: cloud

crowd

jira
Confluence: Migration to MYSQL
Asked by Dev thadkapalli:

How do I migrate confluence evaluation version from HSQLDB to MYSQL? Do I need to backup before the migration? I do not want to lose any content.

Thanks

Dev


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Dev,

You should follow these steps to be sure you don't lose any data :

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+to+Another+Database>

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Dev thadkapalli
body: Hi Peter,

Thanks for your response. By any chance is there any client tool availabe to connect to HSQLDB? I've tried to connect using Mysql Workbench, but it doesn't work.

My confluence is installed on a linux machine with embeded HSQL DB.

Dev


Tags: confluence-administration
Create pages in confluence from SharePoint
Asked by Andre Eikermann:

Is it possible to create pages and spaces in Confluence from SharePoint via Sharepoint Connector?


Answers:
author: StevenA
body: SharePoint Connector only assist to display SharePoint content in Confluence and vice versa. Currently, it is not possible to create Confluence page / spaces from SharePoint.

You can raise a feature request for this at <https://jira.atlassian.com> and vote for it. In order to be implemeted, it must meet certain levels according to [Alassian implementation of new features policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy "Atlassian implemetation of new features policy").


Tags: sharepoint