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Can I give anonymous users access to confluence without giving them the option to select the 'linked' Jira?
Asked by Wouter Bellekens:

I would like to give access to anonymous users for the confluence page. However, our confluence is linked to a JIRA Account (named Intersentia).

Jira-Confluence.JPG

How can I prevent anonymous users from seeing this *Intersentia* page?

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Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hello Wouter,

You can restrict each application listed in this menu under *Confluence admin panel \> Application Navigator*. All you need to do is to access this page and restrict that specific application to certain groups.

I hope it helps.

Eduardo


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Just add restrictions to your "*Intersentia*" page, set it visible to only certain user group for example


Tags: confluence-administration
Atlassian Documentation on a mobile device?
Asked by Jan Fabry:

If I browse the Atlassian Documentation itself on a mobile device, the layout is horrible: the side-menu takes a fixed amount of space, leaving almost nothing for the content itself. Is there a better way to read this?


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Guys,

I've created an improvement request for this. Please check <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/WD-315>

Cheers,   
Renato Rudnicki


author: Nils Bier _K15t_
body: Hi Jan,

it looks like the current Scroll Viewport theme on confluence.atlassian.com is not [responsive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design), leading to the described behavior.

With Scroll Viewport in general it's possible to define multiple layouts for the desktop mode, tablet mode, and smartphone mode.

So let's hope Atlassian will have another look at their theme regarding the look and feel on mobile devices in the future.

Best,  
Nils


Tags: addon-com.k15t.scroll.scroll-viewport

documentation

mobile
is there a way to know which spaces are being used?
Asked by Kim Lennon:

I am looking for a way to do some clean up easily - is there a way (Confluence 5.8) that allows me to see when a space was last updated?

Cheers,

Kim


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi Kim,

You can use the Recently Updated Macro for that. Please see the macro functionality here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/recently-updated-macro-139519.html>

Regards,  
LM


author: Midori
body: You can also use the Archiving Plugin to get a report like this: <http://www.midori-global.com/images/products/carch/content-quality-statistics.png>

It shows the pages not updated in a space, and the page not viewed in a space. Combining these gives you a more precise feel about the quality of the content in a space, than looking at the last update date simply.


Tags: confluence-administration
email notification question
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

We have setup email notification and test email setting successfully. But why we can not receive email notification by our setting. Thank you.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Do you get test emails that you can send from the email server setup screen? Do errors occur when you try that send?

comments: author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: I can get test email as listed as below:

This is a test message from Confluence.  
Server: SMTP Server  
From: [gxxxxxxxx@yuntech.edu.tw](mailto:g9823206@yuntech.edu.tw)  
Host User Name: gxxxxxxx

It show sent test email successfully.Is email scheduled job problem or not ? Thank you.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Excellent, that's exactly what we needed to know, you have proved that your entire email routing and delivery works fine. So, yes, there's a problem with what is being sent and when by Confluence.The next thing to look at is what you are expecting. You've said "we have set up email notification", but what is that for? What have you set up and what emails are you expecting to be triggered and when?


author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Thank you , probably it works now for the funciton.


author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Probably I have some answer about the issue as listed as below:

At confluence version 4.2.1, email notification just only suitable for comment from other account (if you comment your page, maybe it will not send email notification).

Email notification is not applied to likes , so if you click likes option to some page, it will not send email notification.

But the latest version can be used to comment or likes option.


Tags: confluence-administration
Hot pages application
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

Would it be list the popular page at the confluence dashboard when the user login confluence ? Thank you.


Answers:
author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: But we just only can watch the update / watch /favorite content, we can not view the popular pages when we login confluence. (We use admin account to login )

Thank you.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey,  

Yes, if you have the default dashboard, you should see the popular pages, if you have permission to.  

Cheers,  
WZ


Tags: confluence-administration
how do I delete an attachment attached to a question
Asked by benoitries:

Hi,

I would like to delete an attachment related to a question.

How can I do that ?


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hello there,

I was only able to delete the attachment when I edited the Question after posting it.

Cheers,

comments: author: benoitries
body: that would be fine for me, but I don't see any menus to perform this...Could you tell me how you did that concretely ?


author: Marlon Grawer
body: Hi Benoit,

<br />

Assuming you are in Confluence, when in your page, click on Tools \> Attachments . When the attachment is listed, you should have a option on the right side saying "Remove".

Hope this helps,

For additional info please refer to Deleting an Attachment doc.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/confluence-user-s-guide/organising-content/working-with-attachments/deleting-an-attachment>

or to this youtube video showing how you do it on practice.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ_jPECaPX0>

Cheers,

Marlon

comments: author: benoitries
body: Hi Marlon,

Thanks for the quick feedback. BUT I wish to delete the attachment that is ++**in a Confluence question**++, not in a page.


author: benoitries
body: the information you refered to, does not apply to attachment of a Confluence question. any other idea ?
Can I get a list of all confluence page restrictons?
Asked by Kevin Sermon:

We want to clean up a number of groups in Confluence, but we want to know which of these groups are used in page restrictions first (without having to go through each single page).

I searched for an answer but couldn't find one. Can you help us?

We're using Confluence 5.8.4.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You might find that [Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) can help you with this.

1. Space permission use - [getSpacePermissionList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Example+output+with+augments#Exampleoutputwithaugments-getSpacePermissionList)
2. Page permission use - [getPermissionList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Example+output#Exampleoutput-getPermissionList)


Tags: confluence-administration
Using GRAPHVIZ I get the error message "No useable executable name defined in graphviz.properties" .
Asked by Martin Siffling:

I want to use the GRAPHVIZ 2.4.0 but inserting the makro I will get right away the message

"No useable executable name defined in graphviz.properties"

What did I wrong?

Thanks Martin


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Did you follow the pre-req requirement: [How to install Graphviz software](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GVIZ/How+to+install+Graphviz+software) ?
DashBoard title change
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

Would it be possible to change the title of dashboard, such as other name ...etc ?


Answers:
author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Probably we have understand how to change the confluence title.

Would it be possible to change the menu title as same as the address : <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxriXuT0xeaFTmhKQ2NQbERWQUk/view?usp=sharing>

We found some information as listed as below: (refer to the address <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf53/customising-the-confluence-dashboard-411108927.html> )

**You can remove the existing entities panel by disabling the global-entities-panel plugin from the dashboard macros plugin**

But we can not find the plugin of global-entities-panel plugin (our confluence version is 4.2.1).

Thank you for your kindly assistance.


author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey Hsu,

What part of the Dashboard do you wanna change?

Let me share with you a documentation of [How to Customise the Dashboard.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf53/customising-the-confluence-dashboard-411108927.html)

Cheers,


Tags: confluence-administration
editing the global space template removes colour scheme
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Hello,

I've edited the Global space template and removed all the default settings and added the ones we want to use. I've edited it as a normal page, not in the actual coding.

I noticed later that the colour scheme we'd been using (which was red rather than blue) has now disappeared. I can't see how the two things are related as there is nothing in the original Global space template that affect the colour schemes available.

But given the colour scheme disappeared after my editing, it does seem to point to that being the problem.

Has anyone else experienced any odd things happening when editing the Global space template?

Cheers.


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: FYI I've just noticed that the spaces are now all using the Global colour scheme.


author: Mick Davidson
body: PS, we're using 5.4.1 trial, server.


Tags: colour

edit

global

space

template
Questions: answers are not imported
Asked by vboerner:

Hello,

i have a mid Problem:

I exportet a complete space via full xml-export.

Then i copied the space via "copy page tree" into another space and deleted the space.

I found out, that the questions where not copied, so i imported the space again (via general \> restore/backup) and it completed successfully.

BUT in the "Questions" the Answers to the Questions are missing. All Questions where exported and imported, but not the Answers!

Can i find the answers somewhere in the xml-Backup?

Thank you in advance


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey VB,

I've opened a[bug report](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38885) about it. As you can see it's still open so I suggest voting that ticket in order to expedite its resolution.

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38885>  

Cheers,

comments: author: vboerner
body: thank you!

Can i somehow extract the answers from the export? I have the "entities.xml" (didn't found it there) and the subfolders (the contained files are not readable)


author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey VB,I only found the answers in the DB but not in the Confluence's files. Not sure if its feasible to export the answers from the "previous" DB and import in the "NEW" DB.


Tags: confluence-administration
What is the price for an Atlassian Confluence SharePoint Connector?
Asked by Sabrina:

What is the price for an Atlassian Confluence SharePoint Connector and how is it licenced?


Answers:
author: Taha Khanzada
body: Hi Sabrina,

You can check Price of Confluence SharePoint connector here - <https://www.atlassian.com/purchase/addon/sharepoint.connector>

Go to Manual and enter your USER TIER.

Taha


Tags: confluence-administration
How to reorder Jira issues in Confluence?
Asked by Jonathan Wong:

I am using the JIRA plugin for Conflunce. Displaying an epic through the table option. The issues are listed in the exact opposite order I would like them to be displayed. I'm wondering if there is a way to display them the other way (1-5) by default without filtering.

Here's a screen of what it looks like: <http://i.imgur.com/2NQl7BF.png>


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: JQL has an order by function... Take a look here, <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/advanced-searching-179442050.html#AdvancedSearching-ORDER_BY>
my {noformat} tag is rendered in text instead of changing the content format
Asked by Nate Chu:

I have entered some text surrounded by \\{noformat\\} tags. I'm not clear why the text is not rendered in a separate box as indicated in the help documentation?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: The Confluence editor no longer supports wiki markup natively. Therefore, you have 2 options:

1. In the editor, click on "Insert" and then "Wiki Markup". This will allow you to insert text surrounded by the noformat tags.
2. In the editor, type "{" and then start typing and you should see "No Format" in the popup list. Click on that and a box will be inserted where you can type the text that you want to be in the non-formatted text box.

If you already knew all this, and it is simply that your text was not rendered in a box, then there is probably some issue with CSS interacting with other stuff on the page. I just tried it in my personal Cloud instance and it rendered just fine.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I display a table in the dashboard?
Asked by Dan Cedrone:

I want to display a table from excel in the dashboard. This is not information I am getting from JIRA. Can you help?


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

You can't add a table in the dashboard, but you can change the landing page so it goes to an excel. If you would like to do it, you can go to Cog Icon \> Further Configuration \> Site Homepage and select the space.  

Cheers,  
WZ
ad account Synchronize question
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

We setup ad account synchronized our confluence account, but we found one situation : When some account is the same (but different domain ad), it can not synchronized successfully. (for example , domain A has Anderson Wang, domain B has also Anderson Wang account, it just only domain A can synchronize successful. Is there other way can solve the question?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Confluence will not use duplicate accounts - there is no way to know what to do with them.

It will synchronise and use the accounts being imported from directories in the order you have placed the directories in the list. If you have duplicates the order of the listings matters because it will use the first one if finds.

If you need domain B to be used instead of A, all you can do is move it up the list so that B is found first. There's no other logical approach to this.


Tags: confluence-administration
Why can't I see the space tools for one project ?
Asked by Aur?lie Narozniak:

Hello,

I am the administrator for all projects of my company.

But for one project, i don't have the space tools button.

Do you know why ?

I am on cloud.


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Aur?lie,  

It's more likely that this space have the documentation theme instead of the Global Look and Feel, so the option should be on the top of the page where says: "Browse".

If you would like to have the *spacetools* again there, you need to choose the Global Look and Feel theme.

Cheers,  
WZ


author: Aur?lie Narozniak
body: Thanks William. I have choose the Global Look and Felle and it is fixed.

You can close this ticket


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Because you are not in the space administrators permission.

System admin is there to let you administrate the system, not spaces. As such, you can adminstrate the permissions and add yourself, but it doesn't grant you any automatic rights over a space.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Restrict list of content created by a user to content-type page
Asked by Anne EQS:

I'd like to give each of our users to give a list of the pages created - only the pages, not comments, attachments etc.   
User macro for the display of all content works, but how restrict it to content-type page?

## Macro title: Content by current user  
## Body Processing: Escaped

\<ac:structured-macro ac:name="content-by-user"\>  
\<ac:parameter ac:name=""\>  
\<ri:user ri:userkey="${action.authenticatedUser.key}"/\>  
\</ac:parameter\>  
\</ac:structured-macro\>


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: This should work:

```
## Macro title: Pages by current user## Body Processing: Escaped&lt;ac:structured-macro ac:name="content-by-user"&gt;  &lt;ac:parameter ac:name=""&gt;    &lt;ri:user ri:userkey="${action.authenticatedUser.key}"/&gt;  &lt;/ac:parameter&gt;&lt;/ac:structured-macro&gt;&lt;script&gt;  AJS.toInit(function() {    jQuery(".grid").find("span.icon:not([title*='age'])").parent().hide();  });&lt;/script&gt;
```

There will be a few empty spaces, but that can't be helped; since Confluence doesn't support filtering by type, you have to use some javascript magic to filter the results to show only pages.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Anne, sorry I saw your question earlier, but didn't get a chance to respond. Give me a little bit of time an I'll update the macro.


Tags: confluence-administration
How to backup only Confluence admin settings / configuration?
Asked by D. Brutscher:

Hi,

how can I backup / restore only the whole admin settings / configuration (including installed plugins?) of a Confluence instance?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There is no function for doing that. You can backup a space, or everything.

comments: author: D. Brutscher
body: I do not need a end-user-answer :wink: I'm interested in a developer / admin answer, I think everything is stored in a specific database table or something like that...


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Same answer - there's no function for it, and the data is scattered through many tables, so even digging it out with SQL is not particularly easy (and there's no way to restore SQL into another confluence anyway)


Tags: confluence-administration
List all pages in a space showing page IDs as well as titles?
Asked by Helen Gosper:

Does anyone know if a way to list all pages within a confluence space, but with Page IDs as well as page titles? Either via a plugin or something more complex such as a sql report? I know how to get individual page IDs but this is not what I am looking for. I want to generate a list of all pages showing the page ID as well as page title. Running confluence server 5.8.x

thanks


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Helen,

Here's a user macro that not only outputs all pages, but also does it in a tree so that you can see the relationships between the pages:

```
## @param SpaceKey:title=Space Key|type=string#set ( $spaceToDisplay = "" )#set ( $spaceToDisplay = $spaceManager.getSpace($paramSpaceKey) )#if ( !$paramSpaceKey )  #set ( $spaceToDisplay = $space )#end#if ( $spaceToDisplay == "" )  &lt;p&gt; Space with key "$paramSpaceKey" not found. &lt;/p&gt;#else  &lt;p&gt; Pages in space $spaceToDisplay.key &lt;/p&gt;  #set ( $topLevelPages = $pageManager.getTopLevelPages($spaceToDisplay) )  &lt;div&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;       #foreach ( $topLevelPage in $topLevelPages )       &lt;li&gt;         &lt;a href="${req.contextPath}$topLevelPage.urlPath"&gt; $topLevelPage.title &lt;/a&gt; - $topLevelPage.id       &lt;/li&gt;       #parseChildren($topLevelPage)       #end    &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;#end#macro(parseChildren $pageToParse)  #set ( $pageChildren = $pageToParse.getChildren() )  #if ( $pageChildren != "[]" )    &lt;ul&gt;    #foreach($childPage in $pageChildren)      &lt;li&gt;        &lt;a href="${req.contextPath}$childPage.urlPath"&gt; $childPage.title &lt;/a&gt; - $childPage.id      &lt;/li&gt;        #parseChildren($childPage)    #end    &lt;/ul&gt;  #end#end
```

If you put it on a page and don't choose any space key, it will do the current space. If you choose a space key, then it will search the space with that space key :smile:


author: Betsy Walker {Appfire}
body: You can use the [Bob Swift Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI) add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli) with this command to create CSV output with that information:

```
--action getPageList --space "yourspacekey" --outputFormat=2
```

You can also use the [Bob Swift SQL for Confluence add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.sql) (which comes in both Express and Pro editions) using a query like this (written using MySQL):

```
SELECT C.title, C.contentid, CONCAT('[',C.title, '|http://yourwiki.com/pages/editpage.action?pageId=',C.contentid,']') AS ViewURLFROM CONTENT CINNER JOIN SPACES S ON S.spaceid = C.spaceidWHERE S.spacekey = 'general' AND C.content_status = 'current' AND C.contenttype = 'PAGE'ORDER BY C.title
```

Note that the SQL add-on has the ability to automatically render its output in a table. If you want to render CLI output in a table, you will need the [Bob Swift Advanced Tables for Confuence add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.table).


Tags: confluence-administration
Display JIRA project info in Confluence
Asked by Zolt?n Leh?czky:

I'd like to display a JIRA project's basic info (Name, logo, description, project lead...) embedded in a Confluence page. Kind of like how you can use the User Profile macro to do the same for users. Is there a way to do this (where obviously copying data by hand is not a suitable solution)?

Being on Atlassian Cloud keep in mind that our options are limited and e.g. can't use the Confluence SQL plugin as advised here: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/46182>


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: I haven't done it but you can potentially use the "Dynamic Content Macro" exposed by Atlassian Connect framework and populate the details using JIRA's REST API.

See <https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/modules/confluence/dynamic-content-macro.html>

comments: author: Zolt?n Leh?czky
body: Thank you, but unfortunately this macro doesn't seem to be available in the Cloud version.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Sorry, I should have been clear. You need to develop it using the Atlassian Connect framework.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud