youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Proper way to promote content change and using anchors
Asked by Raymond Wu:

We use pages as static material and when we change the content we make a copy of the page, edit the changes, and replace previous page with the new page.

Problem is when the pages have anchors to other pages and the referenced page is similarly "replaced" and the anchor follows the old/previous page.

How do we either stop that behavior OR properly use anchors so they'll consistently point to the original page name - in our case it's "Glossary"?

Thanks.

ray


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: One option would be to copy the current versions to an archive location and edit the originals, so the anchor still points to the same original page.

comments: author: Raymond Wu
body: Hi Ann,

Unfortunately our "publishing" procedure is to have the WIPs separate - the main pages are publicly viewable but the proposed changes needs to be reviewed and approved which is why I do it the other way - copy the current page to a our "stage" which is restricted, changes are made, to it, shared to the people for review, the current/old content is then renamed to a different location (archive which Confluence then updates all of the dependent anchors), and then new page is placed into the normal location for public viewability and thus my problem.

ray


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Raymond,

looks like you need some kind of publishing mechanism for your spaces.

We are using a plugin for that: [Comala Publishing](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.publishing/server/overview)

With this plugin you are able to create a "draft space" as a copy of your public space and then edit your pages in the draft space and publish them to your public space. You don't need to replace pages, there's just a new version of the same page.

Works fine for us and might help you. But it is not for free... And only for self hosted Confluence.

(btw. I am not working for them, just using their plugin, but I like it :-) )

comments: author: Raymond Wu
body: Hi Thomas,

Yup, you're right - am trying to manage content by going through a "publishing workflow".

Thanks for the tidbit - will see if we're interested in the plug-in but I am trying to do things OOTB :-).

ray
I'm designing a User Guide for our product on Confluence. How can I create a SSO?
Asked by Calvin Lin:

I'm building a user guide for our product on Confluence and want to limit permissions for customers that gain access to read through our user guide. I was wondering if the following are possible through confluence:

1. Create a log-in process for clients to auto-populate a "group" that has a certain permission parameter that are granted certain pages to view.

2. Within the left-hand navigation bar, be able to remove the "Blogs", "Questions", "Calendars" or be able to permission them to disappear for a group.

![Screen Shot 2017-05-30 at 11.18.57 AM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1677i18C35DFB735558E0/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-05-30 at 11.18.57 AM.png")

3. On the right-hand side, the ellipses menu, I would like it so that users of a certain group (E.g. the external clients that will have limited access) can ONLY export to PDF and Export to Word. I really don't want them to get any other permission.

![Screen Shot 2017-05-30 at 11.19.08 AM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1679iD5ECA5BC92B27BAB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-05-30 at 11.19.08 AM.png")  
Can this be achieved through admin access? Please help!


Answers:
author: Lars Olav Velle
body: Hello Calvin,

We also use confluence as a documentation site for our single sign-on products. What we did was simply give anonymous access to our space.

Hers is what is looks like: [https://docs.kantega.no/](https://docs.kantega.no/?)

For you internal users you can have a default group to which users are added the first time.

To give access to your customers the process can be either manual or you could set ut SAML. This will make your customer sign in with their organizations identity provider (like ADFS or similar)

You can then configure a default group to be added the first time they log in. This group membership will give customer access.

As for the page tree, I think that you cannot alter how it\`s presented bases on permissions. (blog post links etc)

Cheers,

Lars, Kantega Single Sign-on


Tags: sso
Confluence Test system
Asked by Mike Lawson:

Hi. We are putting together a test system for Confluence prior to upgrade / Cloud. We have built it, but have come across the following in the documentation;

"Once this is done, you can start your test instance without any mails being sent or retrieved. Think carefully about other plugins which may access production systems (SQL macro, etc.). These should be disabled promptly after starting the test instance."

As we didn't build the original system, we do not know which plugins may or may not access production systems. Is there any way of finding out?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: The user installed plugins are listed on the Confluence Admin\>Manage Add-ons page. You may investigate them by checking out their Atlassian Marketplace listings.

If the SQL macro is being used there will be a datasource for the database defined in \<Confluence_Install_dir\>/conf/server.xml. Depending on your DBMS, the datasource will look something like:

```
<Resource name="jdbc/confluence" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"         username="yourusername"         password="yourpassword"         driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"         url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/confluence?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=utf8"         maxTotal="60"         maxIdle="20"         defaultTransactionIsolation="READ_COMMITTED"         validationQuery="Select 1" />
```

comments: author: Mike Lawson
body: Thanks Ann. Looking at our server.xml it looks nothing like that so I think we are in the clear!


Tags: upgrade
Scroll Versions for Confluence: is it possible to import a word document to a specific version?
Asked by Helene Lund Engeb?:

When importing a Word file to Confluence, to a space with Scroll Versions installed: is there any way to add the pages created during import to a specific version only?

When testing, it seems the page is added as an unversioned page, in other words it is present for all versions.


Answers:
author: roman
body: Hi Helene,

It's possible to achieve this, but the process requires a couple of extra steps.

A user would have to import the word document to a temporary, unversioned space first, and then import the content from the temporary space to the versioned working space afterwards.

Related help article: <https://help.k15t.com/scroll-versions/latest/importing-content-to-a-target-version-115870143.html>.

Cheers,  
Roman.


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

import
Last session date not available in Cloud User Management
Asked by martinsnajdr:

Hi everyone,

since a couple of days the information about the last session and the creation date of users is not available anymore in the cloud user management.

Do you know why? And do you know when it'll be available again?

Best regards,

Martin


Answers:
author: Russell Siachico
body: Hi Martin,

This is an issue that's causing lots of admin like yourself grief. You can follow the progress [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ID-6281).

Regards,

Russell


Tags: confluence-cloud

session

user-management
List of Pages where Attachment is used
Asked by Frederik Frey:

Hello,

I was wondering, if it is possible to get an overview of all pages, where one attachment is linked to.  
I'm currently facing the issues, when deleting an attachment, it may be used in some other page too. When i delete a page, I do get the information where the page is set as a link, means I do know which pages i have to check.

Anybody had the same issue?

Thanks for your help.

Best,

Frederik


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Frederik Frey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1134270)

Look at this posts, maybe can help you

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-list-all-attachments-in-confluence-with-their-location-and-file-sizes-346325893.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/manage-files-139415.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-search-specific-attachment-type-in-confluence-975027237.html>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/attachments-macro-97911315.html>

Cheers


Tags: attachment
log analytics
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all   
We refer to the article of link : <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/audit-confluence-using-the-tomcat-valve-component-223216846.html>, and we can find the log as shown as the attachment. Would it be possible to determine which records belong view action or edit action?Thanks you.

![serverxml.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1658iD88A56E43DD47148/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "serverxml.jpg")


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Hsu Yao Chang](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/502429) ,

ufortunately you can't change bulitin log format to distinguish edit/view.

Fabio


Tags: log
Which plugin to use to create a pretty company news letter
Asked by Naama Lev:

Hi Experts

Can you please let me know which plugins are you using for Confluence to create a nice Company Newsletter?

At the moment we are using Brikit Theme Press for Confluence but we are migrating to Confluence on demand

Thanks in advance for your suggestions

Naama


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you are migrating to the cloud version you are left with few options. There is [Refined Theme for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.refinedwiki.confluence.cloud.refinedtheme/cloud/overview).

comments: author: Naama Lev
body: Thanks
Linking content between pages/tables
Asked by David Pastl:

Hello,

Is there a method to which content can be linked together? For example, if I have a table of various equipment and within that table a column exists indicating where in the building the equipment is, can a new table be created that lists all equipment in a particular room?

I think it's fairly similar to the tasks macro that exists, but not for people.

Cheers,


Answers:
author: Steffi Frank
body: I think, it could work:

enter your table data in macro "page properties" including the column 'locatioon'; add a specific label to your page(s).

somewhere else (or on the same page) insert the macro "page properties report". Here only select the columns needed e.g. 'location'

![PPR.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1780iD594FA1AEE304C88/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "PPR.PNG")

Cheers,

Steffi


author: Bill Bailey
body: Would the page properties macro set do what you need to do:

[page-properties-macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html)

comments: author: David Pastl
body: I looked at it but it doesn't work quite the way I want. Mostly how it makes the reports mean that I can't have multiple columns.

What I want is a database, which really isn't what this is meant for haha.


author: Bill Bailey
body: Then maybe you need to look at this paid plugin: [Reportin Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting/server/overview)

I have used this before to pull metadata from multiple pages to then create a tabulated report. Even took the data to create a management-friendly pie chart of the data. ;-)

The only issue I have had with the reporting plugin is figuring out the correct key chain to pull the data -- not always clear what the chain should be.
How to build a proper Release Dashboard in Confluence?
Asked by David Laperle:

Hi everyone,

i'm poking the community because i cannot find any useful informations anywhere and my research has led nowhere so far.

We're using JIRA for Release planning (Duh!), but we also want to show a Release Dashboard in Confluence because all our Project Management is done within Confluence and we'd like to show Release progress within Confluence.

The actual "Roadmap" macro is very limited and doesn't allow to target specific data and output it in the way i want.

What i'm looking for is an add-on or something that will allow me to build release dashboard like the one available in JIRA in "Releases".

Anyone managed to do something like this? Or am i crazy and should just redirect people to JIRA releases page? But by doing so, we lose all the communication tools available in Confluence and we ask non-tech people to move from Confluence to JIRA and vice-versa.

Thanks community!


Answers:
author: Angela Deleon
body: Hi there, you not crazy for wanting to keep everything within confluence, especially for non-technical person.


Tags: dashboard

report
User statistics is not available in Cloud - are there any workarounds?
Asked by Matvey Kazakov:

When I click on any user, I see

Last session: Not available  
Created date: Not available

Former it was possible to see last login date of user and there was a link to resend invitation if invitation was not responded for long time.

Do you have any idea why this could not work for our installation?

Or are there any other ways to get this information: Last Login Date, Creation Date

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Jack Brickey
body: Same issue. Appears to be a known issue [ID-6281](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ID-6281). Interestingly enough, it was opened in February but being recently updated.

comments: author: Matvey Kazakov
body: Not resolved, but I will mark this as solution. Thanks!


author: Jack Brickey
body: yep...the one time I need it and it isn't working LOL. Hope they fix soon.


Tags: confluence-cloud
How to get login info of Confluence users? We are using Confluence 5+ version.
Asked by Venkat Pragallapati:

How to get login info of Confluence users? We are using Confluence 5+ version. I checked logininfo table but there are users loginfo missing over there even they accessed Confluence application several times.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: You can generate a basic log indicating which users are accessing which pages in Confluence. Confluence has a built-in access logging mechanism that shows the user and URL invoked. To enable it, you need to modify a couple of configuration files and restart Confluence. Please see [How to Enable User Access Logging](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-enable-user-access-logging-182943.html).


Tags: database

login

user

user-management
How to put the version on exported pdf?
Asked by Eva Maia:

I want to have the version of each page in the pdf when I export some confluence page.

The version of the page appears on it, in confluence, because I put in the page layout the following code:

\<div id="main-content" class="wiki-content"\>  
Page version: \<strong\>${confPage.version} ${confPage.versionComment}\</strong\>  
$body  
\</div\>

However if I export the page to pdf the version does not appear. Can you help me?


Answers:
author: Vronik
body: Hello

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/customize-exports-to-pdf-190480945.html>

Regards


Tags: version
Editing page breaks file: links, but not http: links
Asked by Jens Chr. Pedersen:

I have some pages with several file: links. When I try to edit these pages, the file: links are broken, ie. the href tag etc. is removed, as soon as the editing page is entered. So I have to add every file: link once again.  
Http: and ftp: links are ++not++ broken, only the file: links  
In Confluence v. 5.x I did not have this problem.

Very annoying!

Does anyone have a hint, or is this question for Atlassian support?

++Example++

Before:  
\<a class="external-link" href="file://askfil1/ipclog" rel="nofollow"\>file://askfil1/ipclog\</a\>

After entering the editor the 'link' looks like this:  
\<a\>file://askfil1/ipclog\</a\>

Confluence version 6.1.2

/Jens C Pedersen


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi,

Might be hitting this problem

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/cannot-link-to-local-files-from-within-confluence-216958257.html>

There is also nice thread how to add files protocols

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-How-to-place-a-link-to-a-file-on-a-server-share-in-a/qaq-p/258790#M43693>
Does confluence cloud support export of page comments into PDF/word ?
Asked by Robert Kubon:

Is it possible to export all page comments into a PDF or Word format?


Answers:
author: Hermance NDounga
body: No it's not possible yet, some of our users are using a workaround : In Chrome browser, "print" the page to export it as a PDF. In that way, you will have the whole page + the comments

comments: author: Robert Kubon
body: Hi Hermance,

thank you very much for this hint.

<br />

Cheers

Robert
Delete Pages and its incoming Links
Asked by Ayse Bulduk:

I am trying to delete some pages each with over 50 incoming Links. How can I delete this from Incoming Links? I need to remove the deleted page completely from the other 50 pages.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Ayse,

I don't know of any built-in-functionality or plugin for that. I'm afraid, you have to edit every single page your page has incoming links from.

Any automatic removal might be also difficult because you don't know the context of the link. Simply deleting the link might result in incomplete sentences, empty table columns, etc. So, looking at these pages is definitely the better approach in my opinion. Even if there are 50 of them.

comments: author: Ayse Bulduk
body: Hi Thomas,

I need to delete several pages with over 50 icoming Links. Alltogether is almost thousand pages. Therefore I am looking for something, to make it easier.
Confluence search: does not find content in panel or codeblock macro
Asked by Markus Raab:

It seems that it is not possible to search for content that is incluede within a **panel** or **code-block macro.** I want to search for a text included in such a macro, but do not receive any results at all.

Can anyone confirm this or has a solution ready?

Confluence Server 5.10.1

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Markus,

I've just tried that in my Confluence 5.10.7 and it works fine.

comments: author: Markus Raab
body: I just figured out that it is a different problem than initially thought.

Especially in code-blocks often words are not separated by a space, e.g., ConfluenceHandler.this

Searching for "ConfluenceHandler" will not show any results, however searching for "ConfluenceHandler\*" does.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: This is the desired behaviour for searching in Confluence. If you don't add a wildcard, Confluence searches for the exact phrase. Look here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-syntax-158720.html>


author: Markus Raab
body: Thanks a lot.

Too bad that the wildcard is not included automatically at the beginning and end of each search term. Well, good to know now to explain it to our users.


Tags: code-block

panel

search
Collaboration, how can I manage history of childpages?
Asked by Jihunim:

Hi there,

I need to manage history of all of child pages of a parent page.

I already know that there is a history, but, it doesn't cover all of its child pages.

In other words, even if one of the child pages changes, parent page doesn't know.

Is there any way I can handle histories of all of child pages?


Answers:
author: Fabian Lim
body: Hi Jihunim,

I found an intersting post that contains a macro that may resolve your issue: <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Show-Page-Revision-History-for-Parent-amp-Children-Single-View/qaq-p/714832>

Regards


Tags: collaboration

history
Confluence Data Center each node in different network
Asked by yaniv_shoshani:

Hi Guys,

If we setup a Confluence data center env with the main node: node1 in our main network segment,than have 5 to 14 nodes each one in different network segment. (All on the same database as node1 in the main network)

If each node only has access to the main one. (Not each other)

Will this env work?

Example:

node2 only access to node1

node2 \<-\> node1

node3 only access to node1

node3 \<-\> node1

(And node2 and node3 will not have any access to one another)

(node1 has access to all nodes)

(All nodes have access to main database)

Is this possible? Would thsi work?


Answers:
author: Jonathon
body: Hi Yaniv!

Confluence Data Center requires that all nodes are able to communicate with each other so that they can keep caches and indexes in sync. It is a hard requirement that all nodes must be able to communicate with each other. In fact, we recommend using two NICs on each node so that one NIC is dedicated just to intern-node communication. We hope you find this information helpful!

Thanks!

Jonathon Kennemer \| Premier Support Engineer  
Atlassian


Tags: data-center
401, 403, 404 Errors for Internal Rest Calls -- Confluence 6.2
Asked by Trevor Steen:

I am repeadtedly seeing this type of error in my nginx access logs (IP removed):

67.11.xxx.xxx - - \[27/May/2017:09:44:29 -0500\] "GET /rest/mywork/latest/status/notification/count?_=1495896271415 HTTP/1.1" 401 115 "<https://confluence.example.com/display/OSCP/Pasteables>" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36"

There are different referrers but the common part is the "/rest/mywork/latest/status/notification/count" part in the request URI.

The only thing I can think of is that somehow the request is not taking my subdomain into account.

Any ideas or thoughts?

Running Confluence 6.2 on Ubuntu 16.04


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Something probably related to Workbox notification. It might be this problem

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-55134>


Tags: developer

nginx