youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Link/alias labels
Asked by Gustav Gnosspelius:

In a site I manage there are a lot of similar labels; like "Dollar", "USD", "US Dollar" etc. Clicking one of these labels will show it only, not the other ones.

Is it possible to link labels or use alias names? So that when a user clicks one of the above, also pages with the other related labels are shown?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Gustav, the [Label Tools plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.labeltools) appears to have the functionality that you seek:
> * Add predefined labels to content automatically and display a set of pre-defined label suggestions for users to pick from

Other than that there is [a number of add ons](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=label) that can help to extend Confluences built in functionality for label management.

Hope this can put you in the right direction.


Tags: confluence-administration
PDF export does not export the whole page structure
Asked by Erik Berta:

Hi,

I'm trying to export all the content in my space in Confluence as a PDF.   
But when I do so, whole pages in several sections are missing in the final PDF output. I see the missing pages only in a table of contents in the exported PDF, but without the page numbers.

I can only export the missing pages one by one individually as a pdf, but not as part of the whole PDF.

Thank you in advance for your answers!  
Cheers!  

**Screenshot**

![](../../upfiles/Screen_Shot_2014-06-24_at_10.11.03.png)


Answers:
author: Erik Berta
body: Do you have any other suggestions how to solve this?

Thanks in advance!

Erik


author: Patrick du Boucher
body: I\`m having the same problem. As Confluence Admin I\`m trying to export a complete space to PDF and the result is missing entire subsections. I can view those pages in the space in Confluence, but the PDF eport does not have them.

There are some restrictions on some of the pages, but the restrictions apply to other users. My Admin user has view and edit on all the pages.

My admin user has no explicit Export permission within this space at all. However, since I\`m able to export *some* of the space, and not *none*I\`m assuming this is not required.


author: Erik Berta
body: I checked the permissions on the particular pages and there is no problem, they are just the same as on the working ones.

I also checked the logfile with the admin and there seems to be nothing regarding this problem.

The last thing we tried was the upgrade, but that did not solve anything, it behaves as before.

Do you have any other idea, what could be causing this problem?

Thanks!

Erik


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Erik,

Did you check the permissions on the page, maybe you don't have view permissions?

Did you check your logfile for possible errors?

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Erik Berta
body: I checked the permissions on the particular pages and there is no problem, they are just the same as on the working ones.

I also checked the logfile with the admin and there seems to be nothing regarding this problem.

The last thing we tried was the upgrade, but that did not solve anything, it behaves as before.

Do you have any other idea, what could be causing this problem?

Thanks!

Erik


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Are you using stylesheets for your pdf export?

There might be a problem there?

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF>

Best regards,

Peter


author: Erik Berta
body: I was using them, but there seems to be no problem.

I tried to export it without them and it looks just the same, pages are still missing.

Thanks.

Erik


Tags: confluence-administration
how do we get an issue re-opened?
Asked by Peter Rohner:

Specifically Issue: [CONF-33614](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33614)

This is a show stopper for us upgrading to Confluence 5.5 and beyond as we have built some necessary framework around the Personal Tasks Functionality.

Regards,

Peter Rohner


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can't really.

You could raise another issue for it, but it will probably be marked as a duplicate (unless it is significantly different to the original). Atlassian have closed that one with an explanation of why they aren't going to do it, so you'd need to come up with a good reason for them to reconsider it. That does happen sometimes, especially if a lot of people ask.

I'm afraid that whatever you've built around personal tasks will have to be done in some other way though. Might be worth explaining in a question what you've done, and see if the community have any ideas on building something similar with plugins or confluence tricks.

comments: author: Joachim Ooi
body: From my experience, this will be quite difficult to achieve. When the PM resolved this issue as Won't Fix, they have taken into account a lot of consideration before moving this issue status into Won't Fix. Sorry.


author: Peter Rohner
body: That's a bit of a bugger really. It was great to be able to manage your tasks WITHOUT having to edit a page first. Hopefully the Functionality isn't lost forever ;)


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there any way to freeze pages?
Asked by Takayuki Hirota:

I would like to prevent editing pages by mistake.

In pukiwiki I was using 'freeze' page function.

Is there good solution?


Answers:
author: Joachim Ooi
body: No direct feature for this but even if you accidentally edit the page by mistake, you can always go back to page history and revert to older page version.

If you think you might be working on some long write-up and does not want anyone to concurrently edit your page, you can temporarily edit the Page Restriction to allow only you yourself to edit the current page.

comments: author: Takayuki Hirota
body: Thanks for your reply.

I think we should use the Page Restriction.

[Pukiwiki](http://pukiwiki.sourceforge.jp/) is popular wiki software in Japan.

I found [CONF-12663](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-12663), but it was marked as 'Won't fix'.


author: Cedric DEVAUX
body: Hi Takayuki Hirota,

Try [Adhoc workflow](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow) plugin, you can create workflow with different steps (ex: draft, in progress, publish) and at the last step, you can add a trigger to restrict page edition

More details here: [](https://wiki.comalatech.com/display/AWP/add-restriction)<https://wiki.comalatech.com/display/AWP/add-restriction>

comments: author: Takayuki Hirota
body: Hi,

Thanks very much for the information.
Displaying the entire document in the space
Asked by Vish Pattanashetty:

I have a pdf document that I want to share with others. How can I share the display of the document and not just a link to the pdf file?


Answers:
author: Vish Pattanashetty
body: I tried that. But the image looks squishy. Please see the image attached. That is how it looks.![](../../upfiles/Capture_227.PNG)


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: You can switch in fullscreen mode, if that helps.

Cheers,  
Nils


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: and now click save.


author: Vish Pattanashetty
body: Aha! Thanks!

Now is there a way to make this page 11X17? Because the image looks squished. Even when I make it full screen.


author: Vish Pattanashetty
body: I did that but I was unable to get the view. This is what i see. Please see below.  

![](../../upfiles/Capture_226.PNG)


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Vish,

you can attach the PDF to the wanted Confluence page and then insert it to the page using the PDF macro (via Insert \> Macro \> Other macros \> PDF or type "{pdf"). It's then displayed on the page and can be shared with others.

Does that help?

Cheers,

Nils


Tags: display

pdf
Why does Confluence ignore heading margin CSS values in PDF output?
Asked by Chuck Martin:

Using the Documentation theme, I am attempting to output PDF. But the output ignores margin values for headings, specifcially the top margin values. The default CSS look like this:

h1   
{  
font-size: 26px;  
margin: 36px 0 4px 0;  
}  

h2   
{  
font-size: 20px;  
margin: 27px 0 4px 0;  
}  

h3   
{  
font-size: 18px;  
margin: 21px 0 4px 0;  
}

My current PDF Export Stylesheet contains the following:

h1 {  
font-size: 22pt;  
margin: 120px, 0, 20px, 0;  
page-break-before: always;  
page-break-after: avoid;  
break-after: avoid;  
}  
h2 {  
font-size: 20pt;  
margin: 100px, 0, 20px, 0;  
page-break-before: always;  
page-break-after: avoid;  
break-after: avoid;

I have also tried using pt for values (much better than pixel values, especially for print), but in every case, the PDF output leaves no space before headings. The only way I can get space before headings is to manually add blank paragrpahs at the end of eevery topic, clearly not a "solution" and a very painful workaround.

What do I have to do to get the PDF output to correctly use the defined margin values?


Answers:
author: Reto Eggenberger
body: Hi Chuck

You have to use !important in your CSS. Then it works correct.

```
h1 {font-size: 26px;margin-top: 50px !important;}
```

Cheers

Reto

comments: author: Chuck Martin
body: Thanks Reto. I'll give that a try.

Can anyone explain why that is? Why the Consfluence system simply doesn't use the default CSS as a starting point, and then "cascade" subsequent CSS properly?


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Chuck,

have you already had a look at the [Scroll PDF Exporter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-pdf)? It might be the perfect answer for your question 'What do I have to do to get the PDF output to correctly use the defined margin values?' ;-)

Please read the following blog post to learn more about the [benefits of the Scroll PDF Exporter](http://blog-test.k15t.com/display/entest/2013/01/21/5+Reasons+to+Use+the+Scroll+PDF+Exporter).

If you have any questions, please contact [](mailto:support@k15t.com)[support@k15t.com](mailto:support@k15t.com). I'll be happy to help.

Cheers,  
Nils

comments: author: Chuck Martin
body: Nils, if I need to purchase an add-on got the a product to work correctly, something is fundamentally wrong.


Tags: css

pdf
Attachment Migration from Database to Filesystem
Asked by Stephen Gurnick:

I am running Confluence 4.3.3 with a MySQL DB. Our attachments are stored in the database and I'm planning on migrating them out to the filesystem.

I was able to complete this successfully a few times using our test environment. When the migration completes in /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/attachments I see a directory titled attachment-backup-\<DATE\> which is 3.3GB. This appears to be a subset of my attachments directory which is 3.4GB.

I was wondering if this is something I need to keep around or is this safe to delete. I have other means of backing-up attachments so if it doesn't hurt anything to remove this, I like to free up the space.

Also, I'm performing this migration since in the latest version of Confluence, while it's still supported to store attachments in the database, the functionality is deprecated and it seems using the filesystem has become "best practice". Is this indeed the case? Curious as to what others are doing for attachment storage in the latest versions of Confluence.

Thank you for your help.


Answers:
author: Stephen Gurnick
body: I was able to perform this migration successfully following the instructions provided here: [Confluence Attachment Migration - The Safe Way](http://www.scandio.de/2013/05/confluence-attachment-migration-the-safe-way-2). At the completion of the migration, I did not have any missing attachments and the back-up folder I mentioned in the question did not appear.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Stephen,

We do recommend to maintain the attachments on the database when running Confluence Cluster. If it's not the case, you can proceed with the attachments migration on production.

We always recommend you to maintain a backup of the database after it, in case you face any missing attachment.

Worst case scenario follow this instructions: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Resolve+Missing+Attachments+in+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Resolve+Missing+Attachments+in+Confluence>

comments: author: Stephen Gurnick
body: Hi Bruna,

We are not running Confluence in a clustered environment - it's a standalone instance.

With this in mind is it acceptable to leave the attachments in the database? Or is it considered best practice to store attachments in the file system in the latest versions of Confluence?

Also, do you have any insight into the attachment-backup directory that gets created after the migration? Is this something I need to maintain or can I remove?

Thank you.


Tags: attachment

confluence-administration

migration

storage
COnfluence does not blank password field for LDAP authenticated account
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

HI

I am on Confluence 4.3 and i have got LDAP authentication however i would have expected that the passwords fields will be blanked out (or uneditable) when we try to create new users, however it is not. System allows me to enter password even when we have LDAP as our primary user directory which is weird.

Any ideas why? or is it just that i am on an ancient version of confluence and it was fixed in the later versions?

Rahul;


Answers:
author: Marcus Silveira
body: Hi Rahul,

What type of User Directory are you using?

Do you have permission to write to your LDAP server from Confluence by any chance?

I'd think the password field is enabled because you'll create a user in the LDAP server from Confluence.

Cheers

comments: author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: HI Marcus

User directory is Internal with LDAP authentication.

and this directory only contacts LDAP for authentication.

Where could i be going wrong?

Thanks For your help Marcus.

Rahul


Tags: confluence-administration

ldap

user-directory
Can't delete posts in Confluence OnDemand
Asked by James Plett:

We use Confluence On Demand and I am unable to delete any pages. I'm a member of the following groups:  

administrators  
confluence-users  
site-admins  
users

<br />

But there is no UI whatsoever to delete a page, or even to delete a page version. What am I missing?


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi James,  

We would suggest you to raise support case, that way our engineers can see if you're admin, and why you're not able to delete posts.

Cheers,  
WZ.

comments: author: James Plett
body: Okay, thanks.

James


author: Giuliano C.
body: To check for the given permissions, you can take a look at \*Confluence Admin \> Global Permission\* and check which permissions is given to each user. In example, remove, edit, add.

In case of still not having it, but, the user already in the permitted groups, I suggest you to raise a new ticket with our support team, through [](https://support.atlassian.com)<https://support.atlassian.com>

Hope it helps ya!

Cheers,

Giu

comments: author: James Plett
body: Yeah, I cannot even get that far. I don't think I'm technically set up as admin (though I should have admin access)... how do I grant that to myself?


author: Joachim Ooi
body: I'm not sure if you are able to take a look at your Space permission but if you can, try to check if you have the "Remove" permission for pages or not.

comments: author: James Plett
body: I cannot see what permissions each group has, unfortunately... at least I don't think so. How do I do that?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
IE 11 and confluence error adding/editing pages
Asked by Rita Kumar:

I am having an error everytime I go to an page in confluence using IE 11 and try and add or edit a page. It forces a browser error and shut down.


Answers:
author: rsperafico
body: Hi Rita,

Thank you for your question.

I would kindly ask you to open a Support Ticket using your Confluence instance under (*Confluence Admin \> Administration \> Atlassian Support Tools \> Support Request*) so we can investigate this issue further.

Kind regards,  
Rafael


Tags: internet-explorer
Table of Contents Styling
Asked by Ian Mason:

Is it possible to alter the Table of Contents in Confluence so that it remains fixed (the main frame scrolls but TOC does not) using CSS and Javascript?


Answers:
author: Michael Yang - Shinetech Software
body: The this floating table of contents free plugin works just fine and easy to use: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1221271>


author: Mick Davidson
body: I thought they were ones that came with Confluence, so I'll have to check.

I can't do that right now, sorry. Will do asap. Cheers.


author: Ian Mason
body: Hi Mick, that sounds right. In each of the examples, they reference the CSS Style macros. Are they referring to the Content Formatting macros? [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros>

Thanks!

Ian


author: Mick Davidson
body: Ian,

Does this do what you want?

[](/questions/301394/how-to-set-a-fixed-floating-image-that-scrolls-with-page)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/301394/how-to-set-a-fixed-floating-image-that-scrolls-with-page>

Cheers.
Hiding Sidebar on OnDemand Confluence Page
Asked by Irene Panuju:

Hello,

We want to open specific Confluence pages in a dialog window for our customer, as a help documentation page for specific part of our software. At the moment, we're using iframe HTML component to display the Confluence page. We would like to hide the sidebar on this iframe, to prevent people from navigating away from the pages that we want them to see. Is there a way for us to configure the OnDemand Confluence pages to achieve this?

Thanks before!


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Nope. Not possible with OnDemand.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to get the teamcalendar toolbar to display
Asked by Max Pavlov:

We are using OriginalTheme by RedefinedWiki for our Confluence.

Today I've started to evaluate Team Calendars.

We can't see a toolbar of the Month view on our desktop view:

![](../../upfiles/team-calendar-toolbar-issue.jpg)

As you can see, a file batch.css is adding a style that hides the toolbar. On the preview of the panel it does appear fine.

How can this be fixed? Is this set in some Team Calenders dialog?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Emil Sj?din _Refined_
body: Hi,

That CSS line is actually added by the Team Calendar plugin.It's used to style the dashboard calendar functionality (Listing of your upcoming events). So when we(RefinedWiki) allow macros on the dashboard there is a conflict between the Calendar dashboard functionality and Calendar macro functionality.

Her is a fix. Please go to Confleunce admin \> Look and feel \> Stylesheet and add this code:

```
.plugin-calendar-container.page div.plugin-calendar .calendar-toolbar{display:block;}
```

comments: author: Max Pavlov
body: Yep, that fixed it. Thank you.


author: Michiel Windey
body: To also make the month/year visible add this to Confleunce admin \> Look and feel \> Stylesheet:

```
div.plugin-calendar .date-display, div.plugin-calendar .right-controls, div.plugin-calendar .calendar-toolbar {  display:block;}
```


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Max, there are chances that the RedefinedWiki theme may be behind the toolbar being hidden. Would it be possible to disable that one an check if the issue persists? You can do that under *Confluence Admin* \> *Manage Add Ons* and select the component from that plugin to disable. If the issue goes away after that, you may like to [contact RedefinedWiki team](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/15228).

Please post your findings to this thread.

comments: author: Max Pavlov
body: We've done so much custom setup on our OriginalTheme that I am afraid to disable it not to loose anything, since I've never read that it's safe settings wise. I will try though. Thanks.


Tags: addon-com.refinedwiki.confluence.plugins.theme

team-calendars-for-confluence
Is there an easy way how to find all pages using a certain plugin?
Asked by Du?an Juh?s:

I would like to upgrade confluence-roadmap-plugin.

Before upgrade I would like to find all pages using this macro to notify all authors to check it afterwards.

Is there an easy way how to find such pages?


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: You can use search. For example "macroName: confluence-roadmap-plugin" should help.

More details here:

* [](http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/)<http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/>
* [](/questions/59203/find-pages-that-use-certain-macros-plugins)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/59203/find-pages-that-use-certain-macros-plugins>
* [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/How+to+Search+Confluence+for+Uses+of+a+Macro)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/How+to+Search+Confluence+for+Uses+of+a+Macro>


Tags: confluence-administration
Show Nagios Status on confluence page
Asked by Antonio D'Errico:

Hello,

i want to create a page on which I want to display the current status of services which are monitored by nagios.

See Screensshots for better understanding

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

---------------------------------------------------

![](../../upfiles/conf_3.png)

Can somebody please help?

Best regards

Toni


Answers:
author: Laurens Coppens
body: Toni,

Where you able to find a solution?

I am struggling with the same question.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Try adding [status-json](http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/APIs/JSON/status-2Djson/details) to your Nagios server and use a custom plugin to query the JSON from within Confluence.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Try adding [status-json](http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/APIs/JSON/status-2Djson/details) to your Nagios server and use a custom plugin to query the JSON from within Confluence.

Also take a look at [](https://github.com/zorkian/nagios-api)<https://github.com/zorkian/nagios-api>


Tags: confluence-administration
You are not permitted to perform this operation - getting this when trying to add a graphic to a blog
Asked by Mick Davidson:

I keep getting this message when trying to add graphic to my blog. It doesn't happen anywhere else.

Any ideas on why this would be? I'm one of the space's admins, so have all permissions. I never have this problem with normal pages and in other spaces.

We're using 5.4.3 Download.

Cheers.


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Mick,  

This problem seems to be related with permissions. Can you please make sure that your a member of the confluence-administrators group? You can check it by going through Users and find the user that you're using there.  

Cheers,  

WZ

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: William,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

I've checked our Confluence-Admin group and am not named in that.

That said, I can't see why I'd not be permitted to add a graphic to a blog I've created, in a space I am the admin for. That makes no sense to me, especially as I can and do add graphics using the same methodology to other pages within the same space.

Surely this would mean that the only people could add graphics to blogs using the Ctrl+M method are those in the Confluence-Admin group?

Cheers.


Tags: blog

image