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Where Are the Sample Templates For Confluence?
Asked by Ed Carden:

When I go to create a new page/space there are 4 existing templates to choose from. Are there any more sample templates for confluence or are these 4 it? I've searched on every keyword combination I can think of and every hit is about how to create a templte. If there are no other sample templates I would think there would still be something to say as much. Most enterpise products that use templates will include a few templates and have more available (free or for a fee) from the vendors website.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Take a look a the blueprints packs on the marketplace...

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/app/confluence/featured?category=Blueprints>

Cheers

Christian


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi Ed,

Our Add-on Page Tree Creator works a bit different than the Confluence blueprints / templates. The PTC-templates are based on normal confluence pages and therefore creating a PTC-template is as simple as creating a Confluence page. Of course you could start creating your PTC-blueprint based on an existing Confluence page.

Try our [**Live Examples**](https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PEPSMarktExample/Marketplace+Examples) (no registration needed).

**[Marketplace link: Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)**.

Regards,  
Stephan
[CONFLUENCE] Is there a user macro which will print out a list of groups the current user is assigned to?
Asked by Steve Goldberg:

I seem to have a lot of user macros that will search for different user information but one I am sorely missing is one that will print out a list of groups a user is in, specifically the current user. Would someone mind providing me with one as I am scratching my head at this one?

Thank you


Answers:
author: Steve Goldberg
body: If anybody is interested, a very simple macro to print out a bulleted list of every group the current user is part of can be made with the following:

```
## @noparams#set ($groups = $userAccessor.getGroupNamesForUserName($action.remoteUser.name))&lt;ul&gt;	#foreach ($group in $groups)		&lt;li&gt;$group&lt;/li&gt;	#end&lt;/ul&gt;
```


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: The $userAccessor object is of type UserAccessor, and has a method called getGroupNamesForUserName(). You pass this a user name.

For the current user, this would be something like this (can't remember the exact syntax for getting current user):

$userAccessor.getGroupNamesForUserName($req.remoteUser.name)

hth,

matt

comments: author: Steve Goldberg
body: As always, much appreciated Matthew.

You were very close, it was $userAccessor.getGroupNamesForUserName(**$action**.remoteUser.name) - but you get the credit.


Tags: confluence-administration

group

user
Search function does Not find older documents
Asked by Alexander Theiss:

In Conference when using search only older documents are found, no recently created pages


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Have you checked that the permissions of the recently created pages are such that the user who searches can see them? If you don't have permissions to see a page, it will not show up in the search results.

comments: author: Alexander Theiss
body: yes, thera are no restrictions on the recntly created pages, so all users can see them.

I just noticed that the list of "all updates" stopped also 4 weeks ago so that is the point where the problems began. Is this a problem of the indexing of confluence?


author: Alexander Theiss
body: also tried to disable all new plugins, but still noch change. Rebuid from scratch?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: well, I'd try *restarting* Confluence and the web server and maybe even the database server, rather than rebuilding.


author: Alexander Theiss
body: Restarted confluence, indexing was working again, but not for older documents, after rebuilding search index everything is working fine and properly, thanks!


author: Steve Thornhill
body: Have you tried rebuilding the search index in the Admin section?

comments: author: Alexander Theiss
body: Hi Steve,

yes, I did it, no effect
Q&A plugin for Confluence
Asked by Alan Lewis:

Hi,

Is anyone aware of how to make Confluence act like a Q\&A forum, e.g. like StackOverflow or OSQA ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Zu
body: Check out [Conlfuence Questions](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/questions). Also check out the [Confluence Questions 1.0: Share Knowledge with Q\&A](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/05/confluence-questions-1-0-share-knowledge-qa/) blog.


author: RianA
body: We use OSQA in Answers. I could think of a forum plugin for Confluence though even though it doesn't work like OSQA. It's called [Community Bubbles](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.bubbles). However please bear in mind that this is third party plugin therefore fell outside our [Support Scope](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Support/Atlassian+Support+Offerings).


Tags: app

osqa
when I wanna add new user in confluence I have to restar my server?
Asked by sara rainy:

Hi

Sometimes,when I wan to define user in confluence I have to restart my confluence server?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That does not sound correct. Could you tell us how you have configured Confluence to handle users? (Internal, Crowd, ldap, something else, etc). And also, how you are adding the users into Confluence?

comments: author: sara rainy
body: Hi Nic

Thanks a lot.I find answer my question.

Sorry for my English


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You said you had an answer already.

If this was not true, then could you answer the questions you were asked last time? We can't help you without more information


author: sara rainy
body: hi

I'm admin in confluence.I can not add user in confluence.When I want to add user do not work my confluence.

Can you help me?
Error - JIRA and Confluence
Asked by Ella Z?le:

Hello!

Error rendering macro 'jira' : com.atlassian.confluence.macro.MacroExecutionException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Internal Server Error

What does it mean?

Regards,

Ella

<br />

<br />


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's a very generic error that is presented to the user to say "something has gone wrong and I can't really tell you what". The obvious possibilities are either that you've managed to give the macro parameters that it really cannot handle, or that something more serious has gone wrong on the server side.

So, quickly check that your usage of it is ok, and then I'm afraid you'll start need to looking in the log file to find out the actual problem behind the error.


author: Ella Z?le
body: It's okey now, we just hadn't free space on our server :)


author: BillA
body: Out of curiosity, what version of Confluence are you running?
Content Strategy Timeline Schedule
Asked by Dimitri Quadflieg:

Hi,

Our company is pretty new to Confluence and Jira. We have a department in that specializes only in content for our clients. When I am talking about content - we manage the blogs / posts / tweets etc for our clients campaigns. We have created a space for each of our clients where they can login and see what we are writing and what going to post.

So in a space for each client we have a Page called Content with Children Pages laid out below

* Content
  * Schedule
    * 2013
      * Month 1
      * Month 2
  * Categories
    * Category 1
      * Blog Post 1.1
      * Blog Post 1.2
    * Category 2
      * Blog Post 2.1
      * Blog Post 2.2
    * etc

I would like to create a timeline overview under Schedule for our clients where they can see their content strategised over a period and then when they view the timeline they can click on an article (page url) and read it to approve or give their comments.

Also - when we create a new page - it should automatically add to the timeline.

If anyone can help me with this - it will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

Dimitri


Answers:
author: OneThousand
body: Also try using Scroll Versions Plugin, which lets you set schedules and track content publishing status - <http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/how-to-manage-complex-versioned-content-in-confluence/>

comments: author: Dimitri Quadflieg
body: Hi Jai, thank you - I will have a look at the plugin


author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: This sounds for a perfect use case for team calendar. with this (comercial) plugin you are able to design timelines and linking to a suitable wiki-page. you could have a 30 day trial for testing. <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/team-calendars>

comments: author: Dimitri Quadflieg
body: Hi Christina - I bought Team Calendards, I now just need to figure it out. Thanks
Workflow for inactive users who want to login possible?
Asked by AR:

Hi there.

we're running the newest version of crowd/confluence. The userdata comes from crowd. If an inactive user tries to login to confluence he only gets the message "wrong username/password" but he can't figure out that he's disabled. So we want to avoid, that every disabled user has to call an admin if he got disabled due to inactivity. So we're looking for an workflow that gives inactive users the permission to reactivate their account themselves.

Any ideas for managing that issue?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: AR
body: Ok I found a passable solution for me.

I activated cgi in tomcat and edited the login.vm with some html and javascript stuff.

The used buttons trigger some python scripts, which call some REST-API functions.

If some is interested, i could explain all in more detail.

bye,

AR

some screens:

![](../../upfiles/Bildschirmfoto_2013-09-06_um_16.16.20.png)

![](../../upfiles/Bildschirmfoto_2013-09-06_um_16.22.49.png)


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi!

I believe that this would not be possible. The user can't activate his own account because this is meant for the administrator.

You can open a feature request however this might not be accepted for the application behavior.

I hope this helps!

comments: author: AR
body: hey! thank you for your response.

I am not sure about this, because if you edit the login.vm and add code like:

#set( $user = 'blabla' )  
#set( $usernames = $userAccessor.getConfluenceUserPreferences($user) $userAccessor.isDeactivated($user)

then true or false will be returned on the login page.(depends on the user)

and there is also a method called "reactivateUser" which i haven't tried so far.

so the idea is that a person is able to check if he is active or inactive first. in the second step he should be able to reactivate himself.

my big problem (or what i do not understand) is how the parameter entered in the inputbox could be stored in a velocity variable. Maybe you could help me in this case, because the only thing i can track is, that someone puts some text in an inputbox and some action will be executed, but i cant track what happens with the input exactly.

I hope this is not too confusing.. Thank you.


Tags: confluence-administration
What's the framework that this nice forum is based on?
Asked by Deepak Nizami:

Is that Confluence?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, it's based on something called OSQA, and Atlassian have modified it. Look to the bottom line of the page to see a link to OSQA.

Atlassian have mentioned that they may bundle their version up as a product at some time in the future, but I don't know how they're getting on with that, or if the plan has changed.
Is it possible to edit excel file in Confluence and save there automatically? For example -: In google doc, more than one person can edit the file at the same time and save. Is it possible in Confluence Excel file?
Asked by Vartika Garg:

Is it possible to edit excel file in Confluence and save there automatically? For example -: In google doc, more than one person can edit the file at the same time and save. Is it possible in Confluence Excel file?


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: I think you can use WebDav to access Confluence like a shared network. Every save will check-in a new version of the attachment in Confluence.


author: Vartika Garg
body: Any sugesstions?
Is it possible to Migrate user groups from 1 directory to another?
Asked by sharma-shweta:

Hi,

We currently have 2 directories under confluence (Confluence-Internal and Work-Internal). We are using Oracle db.

We plan to move the Work-Internal Directory up and make it the primary one. Since there are common users in both directories, we need to transfer the groups the users are a part of from the Confluence-Internal to the Work-Internal Directory.

Is there any way we could achieve this for Oracle db?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Sreenivasaraju P
body: You can user userAccessor API

Group gp = userAccessor.getGroup("confluence-users");

User addUser = userAccessor.getUser(employeeString);

if(null != addUser)

{

userAccessor.addMembership(gp, addUser);

}

comments: author: sharma-shweta
body: Thank you :)


author: sharma-shweta
body: Thanks :)

Do we need to specify any admin access for to script to run successfully?


author: Sreenivasaraju P
body: yes.

User adminuser = userAccessor.getUser("xxxxx");//any admin user from confluence-admin

AuthenticatedUserThreadLocal.setUser(adminuser);


author: sharma-shweta
body: Yes, I want to add people to groups. I need to add 1100+ people a particular group, and I am hoping there is an api which will make my task easier.


author: Sreenivasaraju P
body: Do you want to add/remove people from groups?


author: sharma-shweta
body: Are there any Confluence apis that we could use to change a user's group?


Tags: oracle

user-directory
Confluence licenses
Asked by Fabian Ledwig:

Good morning,

I've got a Problem with my confluence lincenses. I've running Jira and recently have installed confluence, too. Confluence is connected to Jira and uses Jira user-database. Everything works fine, all of the Jira users are in confluence, too.

We have 26 Jira users and 26 Jira licenses, but Confluence is only used by ten of the Jira users so we bought only ten confluence licenses.

Now Confluence says that we have 26 Confluence users, but only ten licenses.

How can I solve this Problem? If I disable not used accounts in confluence, they are disabled in Jira, too. Putting them out of "Confluence-User" group has no effect.

The use of the single userdatabase should be preserved. There will be more users in the next moths/years. Some will only need confluence, some will need only Jira and some will need both of them...


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Fabian,

The way Confluence configure the amount of users license are different compare with JIRA. Confluence does not count the amount of *confluence-users* member. Instead it count the amount of users that has "Can-Use" permission or able to log-in to Confluence.

For detailed information on this, please refer to our documentation [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Global+Permissions+Overview#GlobalPermissionsOverview-Overviewoftheglobalpermissions).

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: confluence-administration
No horizontal scroll bar for large table
Asked by Sue Caughey:

No horizontal scroll bar for large table. I'm using Confluence 5.1.5 and I searched and they said that we had use a "section macro" to fix the problem, but I have no idea what that is. Can someone please tell me "exactly" what to do to get a horizontal bar on a large table? thanks!


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: This is a known bug for large table. The issue is tracked here:

- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24468>

- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27557>

The workaround as you know it, is to place the table in 'section macro'. Section macro can be accessed from the page layout setting. You may refer to this documentation for details of inserting section macro to Confluence page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF51/Working+with+Page+Layouts+and+Columns+and+Sections>

Once you've inserted this, you can then add the table into the macro. As a result, you'll get a horizontal bar to scroll toward the end of the table's long column.


author: Sue Caughey
body: Thank you everyone!


author: HarryH
body: I think the default table should work fine with your Conflucence 5.1.5, if the content in the table is large, it will create the scroll bar of the page automatically, but if you want more rich functionalities,there are some conflucence plugins which provide the rich table macro, please refer to <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.table>

After you install the new macro, you can create tables through conflucence editor, **Insert** \> **Other Macros**.

comments: author: Ronald Hartwig
body: is this broken again in 2021?   

I have a large table but no scroll bar so I cannot access the rightmost part of the table. I cannot imagine that no one else is missing this?


author: Janice Chen
body: wondering the same, for large tables I need to scroll down the page just to get the left and right scroll, very annoying.


author: Sarah Synnestvedt
body: I'm having the same issue with large tables where I need to scroll down to access the table's scroll bar.


author: Hitesh Jain
body: The scroll bar is there but the problem is its position.

The scroll bar is appears at the end of the table, which is really annoying at times

For example check the below image:

scroll bar for first table is not visible, which makes it difficult to read the content in the table

![HSB.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/189788i9D366C326F72BB1B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "HSB.PNG")


author: JP
body: Same complaint here, I shouldn't have to scroll to the bottom in order to scroll left or right. As I recall, the server based version didn't have this issue. The Atlassian Cloud sucks in so many ways. Always the same replays "why would you want this?" or "maybe you could find an app".


Tags: scrollbar
How can I get "REAL" help on a Confluence problem? I tried going to Log a Bug and logged in, then got message "We're busy making things happen - We'll be right back" is this for real!?
Asked by Sue Caughey:

How can I get "REAL" help on a Confluence problem? I tried going to Log a Bug and logged in, then got message "We're busy making things happen - We'll be right back" is this for real!?


Answers:
author: Sue Caughey
body: Question - here's the original problem. We upgraded to 5.1.5 and we lost the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of a Confluence page. The page is a large table, so we really need that scroll displayed in order to see the entire table; the page is basically unusable now without that scroll bar. I researched it and Atlassian suggested a "section macro" but I couldnt find any information on how to find and install that macro. Please advise, thanks!

comments: author: Jeremy Largman
body: The section and column macro is built into Confluence, it's bundled. Here's the documentation:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Page+Layouts+and+Columns+and+Sections>

Have a look also at what theme your space has:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Applying+a+Theme+to+a+Space>

You need to be a space or confluence administrator to change that.

Table functionality got an upgrade as well, so if you're ready to redo your table, it'll be more sustainable. The new tables scroll gracefully, sort, and generally act more like you'd want your table to act:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Tables>


author: Sue Caughey
body: Thanks everybody!

I "finally" found the horizontal scroll bar after using the rite side scroll bar to go to the bottom of the page. But, unfortunatly, that introduces new limitations with the table


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Sue, were you trying to log a bug (on [jira.atlassian.com](http://jira.atlassian.com)) or open a support ticket (on support.atlassian.com)? In either case, we try to be light hearted about our systems being down, but sometimes it conveys the wrong message. What was the actual question? Maybe we can tackle it here.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Most Atlassian outages are quite short (and not that frequent, I suspect you've just been unlucky on the timing) - give it a few minutes and try again.


Tags: atlassian-support
Page with Childpage Templates?
Asked by Matt Uebel:

I am working with the concept of having some given subject, Network for instance, and knowing that we should have some consistent set of child pages that would be replicated across other subjects.  

That is, Network has configurations, diagrams, patching notes, issues, backup notes, support contracts. Now when it comes to sketching out the same layout for the Storage area, it would be nice to quickly replicate that same structure.  

Is there a way to copy a part of the page tree?


Answers:
author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Hello Matt,

we had the same requirement and used the Copy Page Tree Plugin for that.

I created a set of empty dummy pages reflecting the structure of the subject to serve as a basis for the Copy Page Tree Plugin.  
Additionally, I created a user macro which is showing a button and upon clicking this button will call the Copy Page Tree Plugin on the dummy pages.

This was in Confluence 4.x. I don't know if Confluence 5 offers better possibilities.

Cheers,  
Kirstin


Tags: hierarchy

layout
Weird issue with jira issue links in confluence
Asked by Stefan Ernst:

Hello,

I managed successfully to connect Jira and Confluence on a single server.

Both run behind nginx as proxy. Jira via [jira.hostname.com](http://jira.hostname.com), Confluence as [wiki.hostname.com](http://wiki.hostname.com)

Confluence uses Jira for user management.

Creating the application link worked fine, its configured as trusted application. I can link Confluence pages in jira issues, no problem

Searching issues from confluence also works fine. However, when I insert the macro then save the page, I see the following in the logfile and the macro only shows the title of the jira issue, nothing else. no status or anything.

2013-08-27 19:10:20,758 WARN \[http-8100-3\] \[confluence.plugins.jira.JiraRemoteLinkCreator\] handle Failed to create a remote link to XXX-2 in JIRA. Reason: 200 - OK

When I select multiple issues, the generated list does not have any entries

I'm using Confluence 5.2.3 and Jira 6.0.7

many thanks


Answers:
author: Stefan Ernst
body: nevermind, the issue was fixed by updating to jira macros 5.0.3


Tags: confluence-administration
Disable Link Highlighting in Preformatted Text
Asked by Matt Uebel:

When copying text into the editor as preformatted, url's are highlighted as links. In this case, I do not want these url's recognized as links, but there doesn't seem to be a way to modify that in the editor.  

Is there a way to disable this?


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: I should have said "click" instead of "touch". Sorry, if this was too confusing ;-)


author: Steffen Heller
body: If it is just needed for some links you can also touch the formatted link, wait for the pop up and click on "Unlink".

comments: author: Matt Uebel
body: hovering over the link in the editor does not produce a popup


author: Steffen Heller
body: It is at: {yourName} \> Settings \> Your Settings: Editor \> \[x\] Disable Autoformatting


Tags: editor