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Space homepage not working
Asked by Olli-Peter Lutz:

Hi,

as i know i can set the space home page. I did that and set it as default. But it still starts on the pages site and not on the overview page. Does anybody knows about something?

Thx

![Bildschirmfoto 2017-11-07 um 09.29.00.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8946iF8CF06DDC9A9D702/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Bildschirmfoto 2017-11-07 um 09.29.00.png")


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi, Olli-Peter - Please let us know how you are navigating to the space when the pages menu is displayed instead of the home page. Is it through a bookmark or through the Spaces menu or another way?

comments: author: Olli-Peter Lutz
body: Hi Ann,

i navigate via spaces - all spaces - and then I choose the space which I want to enter and land on the pages site


author: AnnWorley
body: I just tried that (All Spaces\>Space) on my Cloud test instance and I also landed on Pages. Wondering whether this was the expected behavior, I looked for a report of it and found this bug ticket: [Confluence inconsistently resolves the space home page URL.](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-57078)

Until the bug is fixed we will continue to experience this behavior. Since the bug report is public, you may comment and/or vote on it. Doing so will automatically add you to notifications so you will see when it is updated.


author: Reinhard Piltz
body: For the Space Shops, the homepage has a page named Shops. Is that correct and is this the desired homepage for the Space Shops?

comments: author: Olli-Peter Lutz
body: Yes that is correct. I have the same problem with other spaces. But additionally, this happens randomly. Sometimes it works correct and starts with the overview and sometimes it starts from the pages root

Bests


author: Reinhard Piltz
body: From experience, I can say that the entry page of a space should always be the first main page, created when the space is created.


Tags: space
Does confluence have a workflow that allows us to approve documents before they can be published
Asked by Olatunde:

I want a workflow where

1. A user tries to upload or create page

2. Before it is created, another user has to validate and approve the page before it is published


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

out of the box, Confluence has no workflow for this.

There is an app [Comala Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow/server/overview) that can do the trick, but it is not for free and for server instances only.

For Cloud, you can use [Comala Approvals for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.cloud.approvals/cloud/overview), but also not for free.
Compare page versions
Asked by MrPy:

Im using scroll versions and I have 2 tables with fixed width and 1 with responsive.  
When im using "Comparing Page Version" it doesnt show the tables with fixed width it just shows a vertical line. What's going on here ?


Answers:
author: roman
body: Hi.

It's a known bug, which will be fixed with Scroll Versions 3.7.6 release: <https://k15t.jira.com/browse/VSN-3541>.

If you \<\<watch\>\> [Scroll Versions on Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions/server/overview), you will receive notifications when a new release/update comes out (simply click \<\<Watch app\>\> in the lower right corner).

Cheers,  
Roman.

comments: author: roman
body: Just a quick update from me. We have release 3.7.6 yesterday and you can download it from the Marketplace: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions/server/overview.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions/server/overview.?)

The update also brings compatibility with Confluence 6.5 and 6.6.

Cheers,  
Roman.


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

atlassian-marketplace
Attach (not import) Word Documents to Confluence
Asked by Matthew Parker:

I would like to know if i can attach word documents to confluence. I would like to use the WiKi as a repository for contacts \& agreements. I need to able to retrieve and reprint the documents in the original word format

Is this possible ?


Answers:
author: Susan Ostreicher
body: [@Matthew](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1083061), you can also find instructions here:

[Attaching files to a page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/attaching-files-to-a-page-658737033.html)

Hope this helps!


author: Sreenivasaraju P
body: Yes. It is possible . You can use attach option. Using this option you can attach any file.
LDAP error code 34 when adding multiple AD Ldap server
Asked by Service Desk:

hi all,

am attempting to add multiple AD Ldap servers for redundancy in confluence. Intended for read-only ldap authentication - don't need confluence to write back to AD

have three servers added with identical configuration settings.

First two servers sucessfully test and synchronise.

Third server returns following error:

\[LDAP: error code 34 - 0000208F: NameErr: DSID-03100225, problem 2006 (BAD_NAME), data 8349, best match of: 'ou=people,ou=cusa,dc=cusa=dc=com,dc=au'\]

difficult to see this as a configuration error, since i have two identical (that i can tell) ldap servers that validate just fine. Have manually copy/pasted config from one server entry to another with no observable change.

1) Any idea where ldap logging is stored by confluence? (windows-based install)

2) confluence does support multiple LDAP connections to same AD?

3) any further tips on troubleshooting.


Answers:
author: Lars Olav Velle
body: 1. Ldap logging would be in either atlassian-confluence.log or catalina.out

2. No, meaning you cannot add multiple servers into one user directory.

We have the following setup which enables us to have load balancing and fault tolerance:

* 2 frontend servers with one virtual IP (keepalived) The virtual IP is moved to the other server approx 1-2 seconds after one host is taken down. JIRA keeps talking to the virtual IP.
* Haproxy which forwards the requests back to several AD servers.
* SSL termination in haproxy

3. Do you have follow referrals enabled? Are you using SSL?
Internal error message on password
Asked by Mehran Moss:

Users get an internal error message when try to recover password from their email address.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Mehran,

Can you let me know the version of Confluence you are running, and the exact error message as you are seeing it? A screenshot will be helpful.

Please also have a look at your [Confluence Server Logs](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/working-with-confluence-logs-108364721.html) and let us know the error messages they are receiving there at the same time that you trigger the internal server error.

Thank you!

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Problem with paragraph spacing when importing a word document
Asked by Andy Bither:

Created Confluence page in two ways:

* Import Word document: When the document is imported into Confluence, the page displays the 3 paragraphs incorrectly with no space between paragraphs.
* Copied into Confluence editor from the clipboard: Using copy (from Word document), the pasted into the Confluence editor, the page is displayed correctly with a space between each paragraph.

In the XML storage format, the difference is:

* When imported, there is only 1 \<p\> node with \<br /\> nodes to delimit the Word paragraphs.
* When the document is pasted from the clipboard, there are 3 \<p\> nodes, which causes correct spacing

Losing the paragraph spacing in our documentation is a huge problem because we have many word documents. Word is our source documentation. We are importing it into confluence for web access. To get around the spacing problem, we are using copy/paste to create Confluence pages. However, in this way we lose formatting for colors, images, and hyperlinks.

Fixing the paragraph spacing for Import Word function will be the best solution. Are there any special options that can be set to accomplish this?


Answers:
author: Thomas Kline
body: Same problem here. Huge Problem!


author: Shannon S
body: Andy,

The issue with Word import in Confluence has been logged, and you can follow it here:

* [CONFSERVER-41626](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-41626)

We've had further reports of this in the past, but it was closed due to the lack of user interest and reports of the behavior. Therefore, I do recommend that you vote on that issue above, since it helps of keep track of how many users have had this problem. You can also comment there with your feedback and it will be routed to our development team.

As for the XML format, can you let me know what version of Confluence it came from? Into which version of Confluence are you importing?

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Andy Bither
body: As of today we are on version 6.6.1. We were using 6.5.2 when we reported the problem. Results are the same.


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Andy,

Thank you for confirming. I've added your versions affected to the bug ticket. I also want to thank you for including your thoughts on the bug ticket. It will help to get more eyes on this in case other users are having the same issue.

<br />

Take care, and kind regards.

Shannon


Tags: import

paragraph
Migrating Confluence server 3.15 version
Asked by IT Support:

Hi Shannon,

Thank you for your reply.

I have downloaded Confluence 3.5.13 and followed below guide on our new server:

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Installing+Confluence+Standalone+on+Windows+from+Zip...](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Installing+Confluence+Standalone+on+Windows+from+Zip+File)

I was able to reach step 5 in the installation guide even though [http://localhost:8080/](http://localhost:8090/) is not reachable because the webservice is not running yet.

We have set up SQL Server 2008 R2 Express installed on the new confluence server, do we still need to do more configuration with the database for the SQL Server ? if yes please advise what to do.

Should we progress to level 7 in the installation guide ?

Please find below screen shots of what we have done:


Answers:
author: IT Support
body: Unable to attach screenshots, please check previous message

Regards,

Jimi
Unable to upgrade addon
Asked by Mark Murawski:

I'm getting a nondescript error when trying to upgrade an addon:

Confluence: 6.5.0

Addon: HTML Elements (From 2.1.0 to 2.4.0)

The 'Check the logs' message is not super helpful so far. The only thing so far I've found in the logs is the following:

/var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/logs/atlassian-confluence.log

2017-11-06 17:22:03,117 WARN \[http-nio-8090-exec-9\] \[common.security.jersey.XsrfResourceFilter\] passesAdditionalBrowserChecks Additional XSRF checks failed for request: <http://doc.localnet:443/rest/plugins/1.0/> , origin: null , referrer: <https://doc.localnet/plugins/servlet/upm> , credentials in request: true , allowed via CORS: false  
-- referer: <https://doc.localnet/plugins/servlet/upm> \| url: /rest/plugins/1.0/ \| traceId: 06d53558cba50671 \| userName: markm  

Also, I think the error I'm having about the base url has something to do with it. We're using https behind an apache proxy, and have all the correct settings in place in confluence server.xml according to the docs. And yet there's an internal request to the non https url. Which might be causing the problem?

<br />

\<Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"  
maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"  
enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"  
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" proxyName="doc.localnet" proxyPort="443" schema="https" secure="true"/\>  

Edited to add screenshots:

<https://i.imgur.com/FEvvtG8.png>

<https://i.imgur.com/HR5x9UZ.png>

Also... Upgrades problems with addons (and the base url error) are new. We didn't have problem ever when running confluence 6.2.1


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Please see [Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection changes in Atlassian REST](https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-protection-changes-in-atlassian-rest-779294918.html)

Per the error message you found, Confluence is seeing the request as coming from: <http://doc.localnet:443/rest/plugins/1.0/> and the referrer as <https://doc.localnet/plugins/servlet/upm>. Since the port is different there is a cross site scripting error preventing you from updating the plugin.

I noticed a typo in the server.xml snippet in your description:

**schema="https"** should be **scheme="https"**

If that typo is in the actual server.xml it may be causing problems with the [proxy support](https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/config/http.html#Proxy_Support).

comments: author: Mark Murawski
body: Thanks!

This was the issue.


Tags: atlassian-marketplace
Increase Attachments thumb or contents of a file
Asked by Casey Maynard:

I have some HTML files that I would like to have the content of the HTML file in my Confluence page.

I have attached the file and displayed the thumbnail, but I want the thumbnail to be bigger so that when I print the confluence page it shows the content of the thumbnail

OR

Import the content of the HTML file automatically into a space on the confluence page as a block of text.


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Casey Maynard](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1140025) ,

unfortunately you can't edit thumbnail size.

Fabio
All issues are not shown in Team Calendar
Asked by Clancy Fort:

I have an event type using "JIRA Issue Dates" with the advanced search,   

"issuetype = Deployment"   

The date parameters are Start Date and Due Date.   

All of the issues are populating to the calendar correctly except for issues from certain projects.   

I can't figure out what is missing from either the project or the issue to get these to populate.  

Is this a bug?


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Clancy Fort](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/923339)

Look at this post, maybe can help you

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Team-Calendars-for-Confluence/My-Jira-issues-are-not-showing-up-on-my-team-calendar/qaq-p/1052235>

Cheers
How to insert Mothra issues into confluence wiki?
Asked by Usher Razavi:

Hi,

I'm using Mothra (Cloud Jira from Atlassian) for issue tracking and task management and I'm trying to insert Mothra Issues in Confluence wiki pages.

To do this, there is already a dropdown in Confluence (EDIT\> Insert\> Jira Issue/Filter) but this would only show our on prem Jira and not Mothra on cloud.

What shall I do to add Mothra to this list?

Any one done this before?

Cheers,

Usher


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You need application links for each Jira you wish to connect.

comments: author: Usher Razavi
body: Thanks Nic, Do you mind if you can please elaborate! Any examples?

Much appreciate your thoughts


Tags: cloud

jira
Weekly Updates Only
Asked by Michael Pellegrini:

Hi,

Is it possible to create a weekly update page that only shows the updates to the space that were made within the last week? I know that there is the "Recently Updated" macro but there doesn't appear to be a time cutoff with it. Anyone know of a work around?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Michael,

Using the [Space Activity](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/view-space-activity-2818381.html) macro, after enabling Confluence Usage Stats, you can view the space activity and narrow it down to the week.

Can you give that a try and let us know how it goes?

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
How do I create an index page for decisions?
Asked by Teddy Carroll:

When I use the decisions blueprint, no index page is created to hold the decisions that I create. What do I need to do to get an index page created?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Teddy,

do you have another space where the decision index page was created? Then you can just copy that one to your space and change the space key in the Macros "Create from Template" and "Page Properties Report"

You can also create the index page manually. Just add the "Page Properties report" macro to a page, edit the macro:

* add Label "decisions"
* add your space
* Title column heading: Decision
* Columns to show: Status,Stakeholders,Outcome,Due date,Owner

And the "Create from Template"-Macro:

* Button Text: Create decision
* Template Name: Decision
* Add your Space key

comments: author: Teddy Carroll
body: We have a huge Chalk instance. If we do have another index page somewhere, I doubt I'll ever find it. I may have to create my own.

Thanks, Thomas!
Need to query for Confluence license limit
Asked by Sol Day:

We have 2 confluence sites and I am looking for a programmatic way to pull the license limit for each. I know that the number of licensed users is listed in the Confluence GUI but retrieving the info that way requires human intervention. We are trying to automate management of our Atlassian tools.

I'm using a SQL query to pull the number of license spots we are currently using but I can't find where the actual limit is saved in the db or file system.

Let me know if anyone has ideas...


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Sol Day](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/342420)

Look at this posts, maybe can help you

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-get-a-list-of-active-users-counting-towards-the-confluence-license-298978076.html>

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Crowd-questions/How-to-get-confluence-licensed-users-count-from-database/qaq-p/1383023>

Cheers
is it possible to add more than one attachment macro to one page?
Asked by TomC:

By default, the 'Space attachments' Macro displays 20 records per page. I need to display more than 20 per page. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@TomC](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/306244)

Look at this post, maybe can help you

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/is-it-possible-to-add-more-than-one-attachment-macro-to-one-page/qaq-p/611631>

Cheers


Tags: attachment
Add list of favourite Spaces to sidebar like "My Spaces" on Dashboard
Asked by David Friedrich:

How do I add the same "My Spaces" - list from the confluence dashboard sidebar to the sidebar of a space?

I already got it to work with the Spaces List Macro:

{spaces:favourite}

But I need the exact same look of the My Spaces List from the dashboard sidebar.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Udo Wieg?rtner
body: Hi David,

I have the same challenge. Did you find a solution?

Udo

comments: author: David Friedrich
body: No, I didn't.


Tags: dashboard

macro

side-bar

space

user-macro
Export to HTML option?
Asked by Casey Maynard:

I would like to find a way to export my pages to HTML without going through several steps to export them (as require by using the Space Tool \> Content Tools \> Export \> HTML \> Custom \> Select Pages option.

I would like it available in the (3 dot) menu like the export PDF option (sorry by printing to a PDF just is impossible to figure out how to get a WYSIWIG editor).


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: I found an add-on in the Atlassian Marketplace that provides an export to HTML option on the (3 dot) menu: [Scroll HTML Exporter for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-html/server/overview). Here is a screen shot from their [user guide](https://help.k15t.com/scroll-html-exporter/exporting-to-html-75367710.html):

![Export-to-HTML (1).png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8978iB16C6B27594522FE/image-dimensions/436x250?v=v2 "Export-to-HTML (1).png")

I hope this option is helpful.

comments: author: Alexandra Winkler
body: Right now, this app is only available for Server. Unfortunately.


author: Shannon S
body: Alexandra,

There are a few other add-ons that are also available for Cloud that you can use to [export pages to HTML](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&product=confluence&query=export%20to%20html).

Have a look at those, and if you have any issues or questions, please feel free to raise a new thread. This one's a bit old, so I want to make sure we see your question!

Regards,

Shannon


author: GG
body: There's another easy to use addon for that: Content Exporter for Confluence. It's a 3-in-1 exporter: PDF/WORD/HTML.

You can try out how it works online by exporting the documentation itself from its support site:

<https://metainf.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CEX/overview>

![Content Exporter_screenshot.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10922i50F4023A1F2CB181/image-dimensions/408x203?v=v2 "Content Exporter_screenshot.PNG")
users not showing up
Asked by Jennifer Bayuk:

Two of the four users that I added are not showing up. I added my first two users Nov 4 and only one is showing up in the people list, so I cannot add the other to any groups. I found this support link: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/missing-people-in-confluence-people-directory-779166036.html>  
I rebuilt the indexes as it advises, to no avail. The first user I entered is there. The second one, I added twice because I thought it was my mistake, but he is still not showing up. I added a third yesterday. I was able to put it in groups, but today, it is not there anymore either.


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Jennifer,

* Please let me know how you added the users. Was it via the Add Users tab on the Confluence Admin\>User Management page, through an external Jira, Crowd or LDAP directory, or through the Invite Users option?
* What version of Confluence are you running?

I understand you cannot see the users in the people directory. You also mentioned not being able to add a user to a group today even though you could yesterday. The latter operation is done in User Management and not in the People directory. To help isolate the issue, please let me know if you can see the users when you go to **\<Confluence Base URL\>/admin/users/showallusers.action**.

If the users are not showing up in User Management, please run this query against your database and let me know the result:

```
select * from cwd_user;
```

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Jennifer Bayuk
body: Thank you for the response. Yesterday, I had tried some of your suggestions. One of the users shows up in select \* from cwd_user but does not show up under people. It does show up in user management. However, when I went back in today to collect logs for support, I found my install was not available at all. See: <https://getsupport.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/14/CSP-215905>


author: AnnWorley
body: Thanks for the update. I look forward to hearing what the support engineer finds out, in case it helps someone else in the Community.