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List of all tasks in space
Asked by suedti:

Hello,

we are using the news tasks feature from Confluence 4.3 quite intensively.

On the other hand sometimes the project manager wants to have on overview of alle tasks within a space/global.

Is there a way to list all task, e.g. by creating a user macro?

I only found this Object: but I don t know if and how it can be used.

<http://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/content/render/xhtml/storage/InlineTasksUtils.html>

thanks

Philipp


Answers:
author: suedti
body: Finally I found an elegant way**to show the personal tasks** of the logged-in user:

The content of the task-menu is a iframe: so this can also be used within a page with the help of iframe macro (you have to install it before).

I created a User-macro: my-tasks with this content.

```
## @noparams<ac:macro ac:name="iframe">
<ac:parameter ac:name="src">/plugins/servlet/notifications-miniview/notification</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="width">600</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="height">400</ac:parameter>
<ac:parameter ac:name="id">inlineTasks</ac:parameter>
</ac:macro>
```


author: AlysonA
body: Philipp,

You can use the SQL plugin to display the results on a Confluence page, otherwise you will only get the results on your database management tool.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by "restrictions would be ignored". Do you mean page restrictions?

comments: author: suedti
body: Yes, I meant "page restrictions"

So users could be confused if they put a task on a restriced page which is then shown in the public list.

But maybe I misunderstood it and tasks do not depend on page-restrictions at all?

Philipp


author: suedti
body: Finally I found an elegant way**to show the personal tasks** of the logged-in user:

The content of the task-menu is a iframe: so this can also be used within a page with the help of iframe macro (you have to install it before).

I created a User-macro: my-tasks with this content.

```
## @noparams&lt;ac:macro ac:name="iframe"&gt;
```

```
&lt;ac:parameter ac:name="src"&gt;/plugins/servlet/notifications-miniview/notification&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;
```

```
&lt;ac:parameter ac:name="width"&gt;600&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;
```

```
&lt;ac:parameter ac:name="height"&gt;400&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;
```

```
&lt;ac:parameter ac:name="id"&gt;inlineTasks&lt;/ac:parameter&gt;
```

```
&lt;/ac:macro&gt;
```


author: AlysonA
body: Hello Philippe,

The tasks are stored in *ao_\*\*\*_aotask* in your database. You can do a simple (replace the \*\*\* with the correct value from your db):

* select \* from ao_\*\*\*_aotask

This should list all tasks within your instance. In the GLOBAL_ID column you will find from which space/page the task belong to, as well as the owner of the task (USER column).

Hope it helps

comments: author: suedti
body: Hi Alyson,

so I would need the SQL plugin to integrate this into a macro, right?

In this case the restrictions would be ignored, right?

I have to think about it!

Thank you very much.

Philipp


Tags: list

task

user-macro
Stop users from changing/adding attachments to pages without edit permission ... ?
Asked by Timo Ballin:

We are using a lot of galleries. Discussing layouts and designs. If a layout is final we remove the "edit" permission. So even I with my system admin and space admin account cant edit the page.

BUT:

I can change the attachments... And even worse: when I add an image in the comments, the gallery tag includes it albeit no edit permission ( yes, this could be avoided - but its a lot of work ).

If somebody adds a attachment this didnt show up in the edit history for the page.

The users need to have the add attachment permission. We use a lot of attachments.

How do I inherit the no edit restriction for the attachments of a page?


Answers:
author: Timo Ballin
body: The Point is ... The users NEED to have the right to upload images in general. It's even ok that they are able to attach Images to a "closed" page (edit: only a user with admin permissions can do that.).

But the gallery macro is not usable in this state. When you have add them manually its easier to put the images in a table ...


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Alyson is right,

The can use permission gives them rights to edit the page. You have to remove those rights with the page restrictions.

Adding attachments is a seperate set of permissions administered from the Space Admin \> Permissions page. You will need to remove these rights at a space level to obtain the functionality that you are looking for.

![](../../upfiles/attach.png)


author: AlysonA
body: Hi Raketen,

If I understood you correctly, when you add a comment containing an image, the Gallery macro automatically pulls the image into the gallery? If so, this shouldn't be an expected behavior. Anyway, you can specify attachments permission on the Space Admin \> Permissions section.

Please let me know if I misunderstood your question.

Cheers


Tags: attachment

permission
Recomendations installing confluence, jira, Greenhopper and bamboo on one or more (virtual) debian linux machines?
Asked by Klaus Floth:

We were purchasing 10-user-licenses of jira, confluence, greenhopper and bamboo. We are a project team of 6 employees. We are running virtual debian Linux servers (VMware ESX) where we plan to install these 4 server applications. Is it possible to install them onto one single Linux server (ressource requirements?) or are we recommended installing the software on more virtual machines? (If yes, on how many? How should we distribute these applications?)

Thanks for help and best regards

Klaus


Answers:
author: Matheus Fernandes
body: Klaus,

It is *possible* to install all of them in the same server - there are no incompatibility between the applications that would prevent that. But I'd still advise you to try to split the applications between at least two VMs (one for JIRA+GreenHopper and one for Bamboo+Confluence) or three VMs (keeping the database in a third one so it won't need to share the processor - but keep it in the same environment, so you won't have latency issues). Also, check out:

* [JIRA Requirements](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+Requirements)
* [Server Hardware Requirements Guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Server+Hardware+Requirements+Guide) - For Confluence
* [Hardware sizing considerations](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Hardware+sizing+considerations)- For Bamboo

Since you'll also be using GH, adding 512mb to the JIRA heap should suffice the requirements for it.

I hope this helps!


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Hi Klaus.

As mentioned in the support case:

For a 10 user license, they can all run in the same (virtual) server if it is provided with enough memory. I think 4GB RAM should be enough for it (6GB if you want to have some room to escalate). Two processors should also be enough to run everything. Please make sure your intensive processes (back ups, builds,...) run over night (or any idle period) and at different times not to affect your user experience.

This is for a normal use of a small instance. If you are planning to have 100 spaces/projects and JIRA and Confluence are going to be publicly available and receiving lots of traffic you will need higher specs. Some Bamboo jobs can also be heavy on the processor.


Tags: bamboo

install

jira

jira-software
Confluence - Save Button is not visible in Internet Explorer
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

I opened a page in the Internet Explorer and then called the edit mode of a Confluence page.

Bug:

* The Preview, Save and Cancel button are not visible.
* This behavior exists in IE8 and IE9 as well

* Changing the zoom level in the lower right corner from 100% to 75%. After this the buttons are visible.

But is there a feature we can set this without the workaround?

Thanks in advance,

Rumi


Answers:
author: Consu
body: Hi all,

I have the same with IE10. It seems that the patch solves it for IE9 but not for IE10!


author: Christian Sprenger
body: We have the same issue (V4.3.1) with IE8 and IE9.

We tried to disable Jira plugin as mentioned somewhere else but still.

No content in the page, no table nothing, just "add page". Reproducable.

Workaround: zoom out


author: Amalia
body: If the above resolution does not work, one these might be related to the issue you are encountering:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26920>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Editor+footer+is+missing+when+editing+a+page+containing+table+in+IE>


author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi Rumceisz,

I have tried to reproduce this issue with IE9 and Confluence 4.3.1, but was unable to. Could you disable all local customizations/theme/CSS/layout temporarily and also [enable plugin safe mode](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Disabling+or+Enabling+a+Plugin#DisablingorEnablingaPlugin-Disabling/Enablingalluser-installedplugins(safemode)) to see if the issue persists?

If this still does not help, could you try disabling all possible browser addons and empty browser cache (proxy cache too if you are using any web proxy in between).

Cheers,

Peter


Tags: internet-explorer
Confluence ability to hide peoples public updates
Asked by C. Faysal:

How can i hide peoples public spaces and its updates from my "Popular" and "All updates" tab ?

i really don't need/want to know what other confluence users in my company are editing or adding to their private space.

Will there be an option to hide specific peoples spaces to not be provided with unneeded infos about his/her activity?


Answers:
author: BernardoA
body: To prevent these updates you can disable the popluar tab, so as admin go to the **Dashboard Macros** plugin, click **Manage plugin modules** and disable the **Popular Tab** module.

comments: author: C. Faysal
body: yeah i know but thats not the thing i want.

cause i do wanna see popular updates, but not from anybody in the company who uses confluence and has a personal space.


Tags: activity

dashboard

popular

recently-updated
How to remove the "all updates" tab from the Dashboard?
Asked by Jorge:

We are a quite large group, and to avoid overloading our users I only want them to see in their Dashboard the information related to their favorite spaces and their network.

I already found out how to disable "Popular". But haven't found anything about the "All Updates" tab.

Thanks for your help!


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: JQuery would work, but simple CSS also does the trick. Add this in to the "End of HEAD section" in the Custom HTML admin screen:

```
<style>
ul.tabs-menu li.all { display:none;}</style>

Tested on Confluence 4.2.1.
```

comments: author: Jorge
body: Thanks so much for your help! So quick and simple :)

Is there a way to change the order also? Maybe move the "Popular" tab to the end?


author: CharlesH
body: In this case, jQuery is very much your friend I think. Again, you'll want to put this code into the end of HEAD section:

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;jQuery(document).ready(function() {  jQuery('ul.tabs-menu &gt; li.all').appendTo('ul.tabs-menu');});&lt;/script&gt;
```

This works for me (Conf 4.2).


author: Vishali
body: Charles,

Is there a way that I can limit the appearance of number of updates to 3 or 5 in the Dashboard?

Thanks,


author: Ann K.
body: So I'm using Confluence 5.1 and our issue is the same... We just don't to overload people with the All Updates tab, but the custom HTML above doesn't work for me. Is there a way to disable the All Updates tab in version 5.1?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: A good approach is probably to use jQuery to manage what's accessible or visible in the dashboard. Unfortunately, we hid the dashboard itself from users, so I can't really play with the code and post an example.


Tags: dashboard
Conditional formatting for table cells in wiki markup or other method?
Asked by kevin jamieson:

I'm using Confluence 4.2, and have a table I created with Wiki Markup, that I'd like to add some conditional formatting to.

Is there a way to do that? The solution does not necessarily have to be Wiki Markup, but it does have to be something I can add programmatically.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi,

I don't think that you can do conditional formatting easily.

The only way that I can think of to create an excel speadsheet with all conditional formatting and embed it to the Confluence with Office macro.

Or you can create javascript code and apply a format (CSS) to a row/column/cell by a defined condition.

I hope it helps.

Cheers,

Selcuk


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: For unique situations like this, consider scripting it using [Script Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SCRP) and/or [HTML Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/HTML)

comments: author: kevin jamieson
body: Thanks, I'll check those out when I get more time. For now, I'll call it "good enough."
attn: Customer Service Department. I need answers to complex licensing questions
Asked by Megan Moore:

Hi Atlassian,

I work at CompassLearning in Austin, TX, where we currently use Confluence for our internal wiki. We have a license for 500 users. I am the new Technical Writer at the company and I'm pushing for us to switch our technical docs (user help) over to a Confluence wiki as well. However, I think we may need a totally separate installation of Confluence (that is, a separate server) as we market educational software to many schools and districts across the company. Each school (or district) includes Administrator, Teacher, and Student accounts. All of these users will need access to our user help. As a result, there's no way to accurately predict how many end users we would have for our online end-user help on any given day. Therefore I'm not sure what type/size of new license my company would have to purchase from Atlassian in order to support our user help with Confluence.

I appreciate the width and breadth of your online user communities and documentation, but I really feel that I need to speak directly with a sales representative or customer advocate in order to discuss our unique needs. I'm not able to find the answers I need within your user documentation or support communities. Can someone from Atlassian contact me directly?


Answers:
author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi Megan,

First I am not working for Atlassian but I beleive I can create some more questions for you to consider.

I think you don't need another installation. You can create a space for it. But it is up to you.

**The critical mass is 10.000.**

Some questions for you:

* How many schools do you serve? (simply 1 school = 1 admin and at least 10-15 teachers)
* Do you plan to give access to all students in the district/area/school? (simple 1 school = 200 students)
* Do you plan to give opportunity to sign in? Doeas anyone can create an account on the system?
* Do user help docs need to be password protected? Can they live on a regular website? (ie. open for everyone, no licencing issues)

if you have 10 schools and plan to give access to everyone you can easily exceed 2000 users. With this simple math if you have 50+ schools you will need 10000+ licence.

As you can see it is more than a licencing issue, what is you company's business plan for next 2 years?

Do you have enough resources to manage this much user and traffic and data and document?

So, do you serve 10000+ people or potentially will you serve them?

**Alternative 1 - I don't care/I am time poor/We have enough budget/I don't know**

To be on the safe side get 10000+ licence.

10000+ user licence is $4000 more then 2001-10000 licence.

**Alternative 2 - Let's release phase by phase**

Go with 2001-10000 licence and when you need more get more licence.

**Alternatively 3 - Plan Test Evaluate Act,**

You can do pilot run for a school (evangelist with your product) within you licence limit and gather information of the usage of this pilot space and model for a bigger scale to determine what exactly do you need licence and resource wise.

I hope I created some points to consider for you.

Cheers,

Selcuk
As a Confluence administrator how do I change the font size for Paragraphs?
Asked by Menno Jansz:

As a Confluence administrator how do I change the font size for Paragraphs so that the text size is more readable?


Answers:
author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: I believe that you will need to modify the CSS. This link will provide you more information: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/pAAiCg>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I assign labels for child nodes (by SQL query)?
Asked by Stefan Eike:

Hi,

I use a very strict labelling in our Confluence instance. I have a node with hundreds of child nodes. To create some new reports and filters (site **has label xy** or **has not label yz** queries) I need some new labels. (How) can I create a batch process for that (e.g. by SQL query)? Also interesting is to know, how can I do it the other way round?

Best regards

Stefan


Answers:
author: Stefan Eike
body: Hi Anselmo,

because many sites I neededto relabel used a live-template (Customware), I simply used a macro to do that. First, I removed all labels with a small user macro:

```
#set($currentlabels = $content.getLabels())#foreach($label in $currentlabels)#set($success = ${action.labelManager.removeLabel($content, $label)})#end
```

After I removed everything from that pages, I removed the user macro. Then I put an add-label macro in my live-template:

```
{add-label:MYLABEL}
```

And sometimes a second one to get some Scaffolding data:

```
{add-label:%data:tools%}
```

That did it for me, maybe it is helpful for you as well. Have fun and good luck!


author: Anselmo
body: I see, what this kind of query by labels is good for and want to use the same. But I want to do it without SQL.

The best I can imagine is a LabelManager, which shows all used labels in a hierarchy an gives the opportunity to apply them on certain levels of the hierarchy (assigning it to all children at once optionally).

Also replacing different spelling of labels should be possible. On top an undo function might make the solution perfect.

It's a long time to Christmas from now. Let's see, what Santa will have for us.


Tags: label

sql
Custom logo not displaying on login screen Confluence 3.5.13
Asked by JT:

Our custom logo is not displaying on the login screen. Instead, the alt text is being displayed. Once logged in, the logo displays as expected. Has anyone been successful in getting a logo to display on the login screen?


Answers:
author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi JT,

If the logo stored in a password protected section may cause this. As the browser cannot access the image file without login details it only renders the alt text.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Selcuk

comments: author: JT
body: Thank you Selcuk! I have moved the logo and it now displays.


author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: It works for me. I know that it also worked when we were using the older version of confluence. Unfortunately I don't have that environment set up anymore, so I can't provide a better answer. Have you checked other browsers to see if the behaviour is consistant?
Confluence Macro that customizes displayed content by viewer's OS/Browser/other software
Asked by Nik:

[Mozilla Support](https://support.mozilla.org/) uses a well-designed wiki for its Knowledge Base. The KB uses a "macro" they call [For](https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-to-use-for). Here's how they explain it.
> One of the great features of our Knowledge Base is the ability to show instructions customized for operating systems (Windows, Android, etc.) and Firefox versions. We can say, for example, that a certain section of a help article is "for" Windows users and Mac and Linux users won't see it. The feature is designed to work invisibly. When someone opens a help article, we'll automatically detect what operating system and version of Firefox they are using and show the appropriate instructions.

Is there a Confluence plugin that performs a similar function? I've done some searching, but haven't found anything. If there isn't something that exists, any ideas on how complicated making a macro like this would be?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Axxil

As far as I know we don't have a plugin ready for this purposes.

However the workaround is to create labels (like Windows, Linux) and then create a User Macro to show the links for different versions/operating systems;

The idea is to set the macro to show the same link, just changing it regarding the label.

For more info about how to create User Macros: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Writing+User+Macros>

Hope it helps!
Using the Document Theme as the site default causes problem with the Browse and Profile dropdown menus
Asked by JT:

I am testing Confluence 3.5.13. When setting the site to use the Documentation Theme as the default, the Browse and Profile dropdown menus, on the dashboard, become transparent and the Add Page button interferes with making selections in the dropdown menus. We have not customized the theme and have no customizations in the layouts or stylesheet. This issue only presents itself in the Documentation Theme.

![](../../upfiles/browsedropdown.png)


Answers:
author: JT
body: Issue was caused by the Subspace plugin. Once disabled, the Document Theme works as expected.


author: CharlesH
body: Hi JT,

The documentation theme is great, but it does have CSS which seems to override page elements it shouldn't (see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-20248>). One element to suffer are round rectangles, for which we developed the following solution:

```
&lt;script type='text/javascript' language='javascript'&gt;// Fix for background:transparent in documentation themejQuery(function(){  jQuery('.roundrect &gt; tbody &gt; tr').each(function(){    var $this = jQuery(this);    var color = $this.attr('bgcolor');    $this.css('background-color', color);  });});&lt;/script&gt;
```

This needs to go at the end of the head region in the custom html page in Confluence admin. Now that's just for roundrects but you could try adapting it for the menu you mention. Do you know Firebug? That will help you inspect the element to understand its class and other attributes, and tweak the javascript above.

Hope that helps.

comments: author: JT
body: Thanks Charles. I have added the above to our instance.

I am not familiar with Firebug or javascript but, I will give it a go.


Tags: documentation
Can we remove all the confluence page restrictions from a space at a shot?
Asked by srinivasp:

It is a painful job since i have more than 300 different pages.

<br />


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [removePermissions](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-removePermissions) can be used together with [runFromPageList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-runFromPageList) for example.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [JIRA Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI) - [getLinkList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI/Documentation#Documentation-getLinkList) together with [runFromIssueList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI/Documentation#Documentation-runFromIssueList) might be able to help. Use the [append](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI/Documentation#Documentation-append) parameter to produce one large csv file.

comments: author: srinivasp
body: Thanks Bob.


Tags: confluence-administration