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Contentbylabel alternative?
Asked by Tim_Brigham:

I have a need to take all pages with a specific label and render them into a single monolitic page.

The contentbylabel macro is just about perfect - the sort options, select by content type, etc are perfect for my goals - but it only links to the pages I need and does not embed their content.

I'm already using the Confluence Reporting plugin but I'm not sure if it can accomplish this goal. If so a sample would be much appreciated.


Answers:
author: Joerg Bencke
body: Checkout the asnwer to my question, that might be a start.

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/41525/restrict-navmaps-and-content-by-label-to-pagetree](/questions/41525/restrict-navmaps-and-content-by-label-to-pagetree)


Tags: content-by-label

report
Does anyone have experience importing a Google wiki site into Confluence?
Asked by SallyD:

Google wiki is not shown in UWC's list of supported wikis. I'm looking for any suggestions on the best way to get this done.

Thank you.

Sally


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Here is the feature request for it, btw: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/UWC-277>


author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: Please mark the question answered if this helped you, which makes it easier for future users :)


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Hi Sally

We can certainly help you - contact us at [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com)

Also this [wiki migration checklist](https://www.appfusions.com/display/Dashboard/Wiki+Migration+Checklist) will give you some ideas to start thinking of in terms of the many aspects of a content migration.

And it IS worth it!

Best,

Ellen


author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: I'm not sure what formats a Google Wiki can export to, but as far as I know Google Wiki is not supported. However, I recommend you to read our [UWC](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/Universal+Wiki+Converter) to see if you might be able to use any of the generic import methods, such as the [UWC XML Converter Framework](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Xml+Converter+Framework) (which has a number of HTML converter parsers) and by [uploading a directory of documents](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+DocDirectory+Notes).

Additionally, go here to vote for adding a new connector: [UWC Connector Vote](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Converter+Vote) - or you can take a look to see if it's possible to write your own connector: [UWC Developer Documentation.](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Developer+Documentation)
Jira gadget not working in Confluence
Asked by Amit Girme:

Hi,

Jira portlet is not available for version more than 4.x

We have set-up of JIRA (v4.2.4-b591#591) and Confluence 3.5.13

We have enabled OAuth within Jira for Confluence and vice versa.

More over we have added Gadget Specification URL

So everything seems to be fine..

But, when we click on "Insert/Edit Macro" link in Confluence page and add the required details no information is getting saved.

e.g. i am adding "pie chart" gadget but it is resolving the URL to only

{gadget:url=http://(MY.ATLASSIAN.COM)/rest/gadgets/1.0/g/com.atlassian.jira.gadgets:pie-chart-gadget/gadgets/piechart-gadget.xml\|width=auto}{gadget}

neither the project information getting resolved in URL nor showing it when i save the page and try viewing it in there.

Most of the users facing issue of no project under the select list. I was facing it initially but later I resolved it from my end.

Can any one help me with this?


Answers:
author: Amit Girme
body: I dont want to debug more on this as I read one comment in here is the fix would be reintall

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22345>

Now a days I am feeling that atlassian losing the quality of the apps. Lots of things on architectural level is chaging frequently and its not a good sign forcasting the future of software.

This is not only for Confluence but for others as well like Jira etc. I am into administration since 7+ years now. and production instance could not be reinstall for such minor errors.. I will surely have an alternative for it.


author: Dhananjay Kale
body: Hi,  

Try to add the gadget URL on the external gadget (you need admin privilege)

Browse--\> confluence admin --\> (configuration) external gadget

also add make sure the Jira is added in the application link too

taken from here -- <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Re-I-cannot-display-JIRA-Gadgets-in-Confluence/qaq-p/374124/comment-id/63264#M63264>


author: Logan G Hawkes
body: Nothing in the Jira or the Confluence logs? Try increasing the log levels and enabling HTTP logging on the Jira side and refresh the Confluence page. If you don't see anything in Jira after that then the requests aren't getting from Confluence to Jira. That would point to a network issue.


author: Amit Girme
body: The worst part is nothing in logs :(


author: Logan G Hawkes
body: 1. Are there any errors in the logfiles on Confluence or Jira?
2. Do you see anything occupying the space on the Confluence page where the pie chart should be?


Tags: gadget
Full text search cannot do exact match even if I place search word in quotes.
Asked by Jimm Chen:

I want to search the word attribution, but it returns many result containing just attribute. That's not good.

See my attach image.


Answers:
author: Sebastian Hoehne (alt)
body: Hi Jimm,

i've tried to find a solution on my local confluence, but i'm afraid this is a known problem that can't be solved at the moment. There are many tickets concerning this issue (search term stemming), such as <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-14134> and <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-14910>. Maybe you can vote for these issues, i think a lot of people would like to have this fixed.

Best regards,

Sebastian


author: hsuhailah
body: I'm afraid this is the default behaviour of Confluence known as Tokenization. The detail documentation about Tokenization can be found here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Text+Tokenisation+and+Filtering>.

Basically, Confluence trim -ion from the word 'attribute' and take only its root word for searching.


author: Sebastian Hoehne (alt)
body: Hi Jimm,

i've tried to find a solution on my local confluence, but i'm afraid this is a known problem that can't be solved at the moment. There are many tickets concerning this issue (search term stemming), such as <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-14134> and <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-14910>. Maybe you can vote for the issues, i think a lot of people would like to have this fixed.

Best regards,

Sebastian
User not displaying in Team Calendars
Asked by Stacy Busek:

I have a wierd problem. One of our Users in not displaying in Team Calendars since we migrated to On Demand. They are a Confluence user and have the same permissions and parameters as all other users, but for some reason Team Calendars is not recognising either their Username or Name.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Answers:
author: Stacy Busek
body: I ended up logging this one with Support and got the response below. Thought I would post it, in case anyone has the same problem I did.

---

This is unfortunately due to a known bug: [CONF-6404: Users from LDAP do not appear in people directory or search results until they have logged in.](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6404) We use Crowd in OnDemand, but the end result is the same. One of the fixes is to just visit the missing user's profile page in Confluence, which I've done, and he should be showing up in Team Calendars now.

---

Thanks Support Team :-)

comments: author: Rob
body: Is still an issue? I seem to be having a similar problem. Currently playing with a 30 day on demand trial account and setup a number of accounts. Yet only a few appear in the 'Who' field when trying to add a holiday to a people calendar. As far as I can tell all my users have exactly the same permissions.


author: Michael Knight
body: The [CONF-6404](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6404) issue has been fixed and deployed to OnDemand, so this should no longer be a problem. Please raise a [support request](https://support.atlassian.com) if you're still running into this.


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confluence-cloud
Questions re page restrictions/page replication
Asked by Alicia Miller:

Problem Description:

Hi,

We are using confluence mainly to host documentation for our tech support department but have some pages that we wish "general users" to have access to. We would still like to use a hierarchical file structure but some of the pages that we want to share with general users have inherited page restrictions. Is there any way to....

A) Set a page to disregard its inherited page restrictions? Or...

B) Create a second space where these pages are dynamically replicated/synced and have different restrictions.

Thanks,

Alicia Miller


Answers:
author: Alicia Miller
body: Hi,

Thanks for your responses. I have look at the {include} macro and it does make sense that it would work in this situation.... But, I think it may be hard to manage when you have a number of people uploading content. I was hoping for an easier way for a tech to decide that the page was relevant to "users" and have it available without too much trouble.


author: MatthewC
body: I think that maybe you are making it a little more complex than it needs to be.

Why not have your main space private and the customer space open, then put the public pages in the public space.

Then to keep your private space in step, create stub pages in your hierarchy that correspond to the public pages \& use the {include} macro to insert the public content into your private structure?

Your internal documents are always up to date and it's much simpler maintaining space permissions rather than a mass of confliciting page hierarchy permissions.

comments: author: Martin Moser
body: Keep in mind though that managing lots of includes is a major pain when you have to restructure across spaces or rename pages


author: JT
body: Matthew, Is there any way to do this "in reverse"? Keep all of my pages on the private space and create the stub pages in the public space? It would be great if I only had one space to edit/maintain pages instead of splitting the pages between two spaces.


author: MatthewC
body: Hi Alicia, Just reading your last comment and depending how technical you want to get you could have a few other options but they require more setup but would be less over head.1. You could develop a plugin that added an extra function to a page tools menu which copied the content to another space, perhaps somehow wiring up an event listener that picked up page updates and would auto trigger a copy on a page save.2. Use an external cript based around bob swift's confluence command line tool. Get your techs to label all public pages, then every hour/night use the command line tool to get a list of pages with a label. Dump the contents then go update the same page in the public space.Neither are simple but both have possibilities.
Unable to remove label from confluence page
Asked by Nic Brough -Adaptavist-:

I'm sure I've seen a reference to this before, but the searching is weak in this one at the moment.

Simple symptom - got some confluence pages which have labels. We want to remove a couple of them.

* We nip into "edit" mode, and delete the label, which vanishes off the labels line.
* Upon committing the edit (whether we've touched the body or not), the label comes back.
* Trying to rename the label to something else also fails - it appears to work until the change is committed, and then the old label reappears, alongside the new name
* Other new labels (including the results of failing to rename a label as above) can be removed fine
* Nothing shows in the logs

For info, we're on Confluence 3.4, but I'm sure I've seen it in 3.0 a while ago, and I'm sure I've seen a discussion about it

So, if someone could point me in the right direction for the discussions I seem to remember, and/or a fix, I'd be most grateful. Failing that, anyone know how to provoke the logs into telling me more?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: I can't specifically recall any problems like this with labelling, but there are problems like this with favourites (which are implemented as labels)... is this instance one that has been upgraded from an earlier version of Conflence (like early 2.x versions)?

This question/answer goes into a little bit of detail about it - [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/23138/cannot-make-changes-to-favorite-spaces-the-ui-for-the-change-seems-to-work-but-change-doesn-t-persist](/questions/23138/cannot-make-changes-to-favorite-spaces-the-ui-for-the-change-seems-to-work-but-change-doesn-t-persist)

**EDIT:** and the related KB article: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Cannot+Add+or+Remove+a+Favourite+Space+from+the+Dashboard>

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Hmm. 2.9 confluence import. Ok, I'll have a rummage through the database and see if that might be the problem. Thanks Joseph.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Mmm, that was sort of right - wasn't specifically that, but removing the data from the database fixed it.


author: Nikki
body: Hi [@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781454) how can I get rid of the additional 'THUMBS' label from our content-hub? As I was searching on community, I bumped into this note by you. Can we get rid of that somehow?


Tags: label
Hide a user in People Directory; disable active directory users
Asked by Stephen Pierce:

For some reason, the administration user is listed three times on the 'People Directory'. How do I hide a user from the people directory?  

I have connected confluence to our Active Directory. There are a lot of users listed who are role accounts (SharePoint Administrator). However, no one shows up in the People Directory. Once someone logs in, they show up. I like this behavior, but I have to ask: What's controlling this?  

Last question, with those 'non-people' accounts, how do I tell Confluence to disable them on an individual basis; rather than crafting an LDAP query during the import?  

Thanks,  

Steve


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: The people directory relies on the creation of personal information objects (ie. the blob that holds all the user's profile details) in the Confluence database - these only get created when a user first logs in.

I too have seen the "administrator shows up three times in the people directory" problem, but I'm not sure what causes it... Can you have a look in your database to see if it's been duplicated for some reason?

```
select * from content where contenttype = 'USERINFO';
```

To disable the service accounts that are coming in from your active directory, either configure them to not have any memberships in any groups that have permission to do anything in Confluence (ie. the user exists in Confluence, but doesn't have permission to do anything - this is equivalent to a disabled user, and won't count towards your licence limit) or, as you say, configure your LDAP import with a more restrictive import filter.
Possible to launch a Jira Issue from a Confluence Page
Asked by Craig Hylwa:

Is it Possible to launch a Jira Issue from a Confluence Page?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Try [Issue Collector](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.jira.collector.plugin.jira-issue-collector-plugin).


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Don't know what you mean by launch. Many options.

* If you want to just link to a Jira issue, directly link to the Jira Url of the issue using the usual links in Confluence text.
* Follow the steps here to Create/Insert issues <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Inserting+JIRA+Issues>
* If you are looking for results from a filter, you could use the jiraissues macro <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Issues+Macro>
* In addition you can add any Jira gadget to confluence. Follow the details here <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding+JIRA+Gadgets+to+a+Confluence+Page>

comments: author: Craig Hylwa
body: What I mean is provide a web form in Confluence that can be filled out by a user and then sent to Jira and this will create a new issue in Jira containing the provided information. Similar to the functioning of the Jira "Create" screen but without having to sign into Jira.


author: Renjith Pillai
body: You could also use the Issue Collector plugin <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.jira.collector.plugin.jira-issue-collector-plugin>
Edit link - Attachments window shows only first 50 attached files
Asked by Fedor Sukharev:

There is a page with 60 attached files. Press button Link - choose Attachments on left menu - view first 50 attachments in scroll window on right. The rest 10 attachments are unavailable to browse.


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: What version of Confluence are you using and what browser are you using?
Need information about the used DTD, Schema, ... used by Confluence
Asked by Alexander Hein:

Hello Confluence, in our company we have some confluence instances running very successful. Therefore we decided to create our technical documentation with confluence. Our main bottleneck is the translation of the content. We currently figure out how this process can be done in a professional way. In this case we got in contact with SDL a professional translation office. We will send them the XML of Confluence for translation, but they need to extract the content of the XML.

To do this they need the DTD or a Schema of Confluence. Can you please send me this file?

I only found some information about this here <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Storage+Format>.

Thanks for your support.


Answers:
author: Alexander Hein
body: The answer can be found on:

[http://www.amnet.net.au/\~ghannington/confluence/docs/index.html](http://www.amnet.net.au/%7Eghannington/confluence/docs/index.html)


author: Guenter Huber
body: Hey alecx,  
we re currently talking to SDL re the same problem and they wonder if there is any experience in-house already.

Did you succeed and do you have any SDL HR names for us? (Is there a way in this forum to exchange things privately?)  
Thanks  
G.


author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Does this help you?

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Data+Model>

comments: author: Alexander Hein
body: Sorry, no. This is only the database schema.

I am looking for the document schema, but there seems to be no official documentation about it.


author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Does this help you?

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Data+Model>


Tags: dtd
Sort order of confluence page trees
Asked by Thomas Schlegel:

Hi all,

is it possible to adjust the alphabetical order in the page tree ? Pages starting with german "Umlauts" are the last pages in the page tree. It would be better, if "?" comes after "A", "?" after O and so on.

Thank you

Thomas


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: I have just tested this with a Confluence 4.1.x (latest now is 4.2.x) but the page order is set as your requirements. I have also tested this with the page tree inside the Page Tree macro, sidebar in Documentation Theme and also while browsing the space pages tree at [http://confluence/pages/listpages-dirview.action?key=SPACEKEY](http://confluence/pages/listpages-dirview.action?key=SPACEKEY.). For more information, check out this bug report - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-3181>.

However, I noticed that the alphabetical view does not obey this sort order. I have created a separate bug report at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25305> to address this problem.

Hope this helps!

comments: author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Thank you for creating the bug report


author: Joerg Bencke
body: Make it a bugreport or an improvement suggestion in JIRA and post the link to vote on it here.


Tags: page-tree

sort
Why does the page display only in the right half of the browser window when viewing a Confluence page in Edit mode?
Asked by Hal Perrin:

We just upgraded to Confluence 4.1.2. In the prior version, I could click Edit and the page (in edit mode) would display in the full browser window. Now, in version 4.1.2, when I click Edit, the page (in edit mode) displays only in the right half of the browser window. How can I view pages in edit mode in 100% of the browser window? By the way, this annoying behavior happens regardless of the browser I use.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: This is strange, but I suspect you might have some applied customisation to the instance such as custom layouts, custom HTML, custom themes, custom CSS, custom libraries, modified templates, etc.

If you wish to check if there is no problem with the installation files itself, I'd suggest you to install/create a temporary instance of Confluence, using the same installation directory but without any existing data to upgrade. From there, try to check if behaviour persists.

If behaviour does not persist in that clean instance, it is most likely caused by customisation that exists somewhere in your upgraded data/installation.


author: Hal Perrin
body: This issue was resolved, although I'm not sure exactly how. I have a developer on my team who made some tweaks to the header/footer, css, etc.

Thanks for your input.


author: Sherif Mansour
body: A screenshot would help troubleshoot this issue..
what means the icons in the pagetree
Asked by Nikolai Merk:

Hello

What is meaning of the different icons in the pagetree?

Here is a screenshot.

<http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/2829/cubm7y7h_jpg.htm>


Answers:
author: Andreas Klein
body: is it possible that "new pages" shows up once confluence re-index all pages. We have this problem, that the plugin Community Bubbles (forum) doesnt shows our pages anymore.

comments: author: Thomas Schlegel
body: You should ask this as a new question. It has nothing to do with the original question.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Peter,

the sun says, that this is a new or recently changed page

the house says, that this is the home page of the space. This should be the top page of your page hierarchy.

Best regards

Thomas


Tags: icon

page-tree
Inconsistent underlining of h2. headers in Confluence
Asked by Jay Barra:

I'm noticing in Confluence inconsistent underlining of the h2. header. In edit mode everything formatted to be h2. is underlined properly but in the preview and saved page the underlines are missing. I haven't been able to figure out a pattern of when they display properly or not. I thought that the {section} tag may have been interfering but I haven't been able to rule that out. Do {section} tags affect formatting? It looks like the h2. tags are being formatted as h3 possibly. I do not use any h1. tags on the pages that are having the problem.


Answers:
author: Jay Barra
body: There were formatting macros getting in the way apparently

{note}, {warning}, {info}, {error}, and {tip} seem to be the culprits as of Confluence 4.1.5

Answered here:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/42937/using-note-error-tip-and-warning-info-macros-within-a-section-causes-formatting-problems-with-headers>


Tags: macro
Wiki not available for users
Asked by Kristian Lauritsen:

I have just purchased Confluence and I have the Wiki Tab in my interface. However all my users don't have the tab available even though they are in the users group. Please help me how to get access for them aswell

Kristian


Answers:
author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: Hey Kristian,

In OnDemand, you need also to grant them access to Confluence through the Application Access. Usually the Application Access be found can be found in:

\<Instance URL\>/secure/admin/user/ApplicationAccessConfig!default.jspa

Give it a try :)


author: Kristian Lauritsen
body: Perfect - worked like a charm. Thank you very much


Tags: cloud