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Where to begin? Oxygen transform and automated upload to Confluence
Asked by Great Big Bore:

My friend is a technical writer and a veteran Oxygen user. She currently edits her documentation in Oxygen, and publishes it in PDF format and web help. The boss now would like to see the doc also published to a Confluence wiki. I'm trying to help my friend learn how to do that, but we're sort of stumbling around in the dark at the moment. I've looked through the Confluence user's guide but it doesn't seem to address the issues we're having or the questions we're asking.

I'm finding it a bit difficult to write a transform that satisfactorily converts her XML to Confluence's wiki markdown. Also, my brief forays into looking for doc on how to automate the process of pushing transformed stuff up to the wiki have been discouraging.

We're not sysadmins, and at her company, getting help from a sysadmin is problematic, so the more we can do as just regular users, the better. She's a doc person and I'm a programmer, but that's all the skill we have. We're not superstars. She's using the cloud version of Confluence, I guess that's 5.7 at this moment.

Could someone point us in the right direction? Like where to look for doc on best practices relating to transforming XML to Confluence wiki markdown (or is there a better way?), where to look for doc on programmatically uploading the material (because cut-and-paste isn't a good long-term solution, even if I can write a good transform)? At the moment she has put PDFs up on the wiki, but her boss would rather see actual text rather than a PDF he has to click on. We're brand-new to this stuff and are having a hard time figuring out where to start looking for answers. Thanks to anyone who can advise.


Answers:
author: Elizabeth
body: Here's a plugin for going from Doxygen in Confluence - <https://www.appfusions.com/display/DOXYGEN/Home> Right now, it is pulling a compiled doc project; its not fully automated yet, but that will be next.

This is not exactly what you are seeking from Oxygen to Confluence, but same idea.

There's nothing available on the market that I know of currently to do this, but probably can be done depending on the structure of your source documentation.... Of course some variables to consider in this, to ensure proper output and automation. Happy [to discuss offline](mailto:info@appfusions.com)to help you get to what you are looking for.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Wiki markup is a convenience, a hangover from Confluence 3.x - it used to be the storage format, but it's moved to dynamic html, and the markup is just for formatting and us older people who still type in it.

For a transform, I think you've got a couple of routes. First, export it to Word, as Confluence can import that directly. The second option I think I'd chase is transforming the XML into JSON that you can use with the REST API to generate new pages.


Tags: automation

confluence-cloud
Admin helper for Confluence?
Asked by Oliver Fasterling:

I am wondering if JIRA Admin Helper can be used or made available in Confluence. We find this tool very useful for troubleshooting user's access to projects and issues in JIRA. However we don't currently have a way to use it in Confluence. Our current version is 5.4.4.

Thanks!

Oliver


Answers:
author: Priyanka Lavania
body: Hi Oliver,

Not sure on admin helper, but there is plugin for permission helper - [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220066/permission-helper?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220066/permission-helper?hosting=server&tab=overview)


author: Oliver Fasterling
body: Thanks Daniel, but that plugin is only compatible with Confluence 5.0-5.1. Also, there is a bad review on it.


author: Daniel Wester
body: Haven't tried it and don't know if it will work on 5.4 but there's <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.permissions.effective-permissions-tool>


Tags: confluence-administration
Change variable format
Asked by Chien-sheng Tsai:

Inserted a Variable in a template, cannot get variable's property panel to open so that I can change its type.

What is shown in the documentation does not work.


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Chien,

Can you post the screenshots of your actions so we can see in which template you've added the variable and how you did it?

Plus the Confluence version you are using do we can further understand the situation and better assist you?  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.

comments: author: Chien-sheng Tsai
body: Thanks Deividi. I tried to answer the email but it was no reply. I have abandoned the idea of using a variable to pursue other means. Version of Confluence is 5.6.1


Tags: confluence-administration
How to generate bidirectional reports?
Asked by Heiko Burghardt:

Hi,

I would like to use Confluence and some add-ons to generate bidirectional reports for system documentation.

For example:

1. A system document shall have information about the used switch port (amongst others). The data shall be hold here and used on several other 'overview' page (reports).
2. An overview about the systems shall be generated.
3. An overview of the switches and port usage shall be created.

There are several ways I figured out to use: the Metadata or Scaffolding plugin in combination with own reports or the Reporting plugin to fulfill 1. and 2.

It is difficult to fulfill the requirement of 3. From my point of view I have to check the values against keys or I have to define a conditional rule like 'if key = value' (e.g. if switch=switch1) then report on key 'switch port'. This shall give a report on the switch ports of 'switch1'.

Does anyone run this some kind of system documentation (non-redundant data) and reporting?

Thanks for any hint in advance.

Best regards,  
Heiko


Answers:
author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Hello Heiko,

you should take a look on these to plugins, in combination, it should be possible to fullfill your requirements:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting>

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.scaffolding>

Regards

Steve


Tags: report
How to update group name in Confluence
Asked by Siddheshwar mhetre:

I want to edit the group name in confluence, So how can I edit the group names?

I am not able to see edit option in the confluence user management.


Answers:
author: Paula Silveira
body: Hello there,

Unfortunately, it's currently not possible to rename groups. There is a feature request as you can see on [JRA-1391](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-1391), which you can vote and comment in order to increase its visibility. Please refer to [Implementation of New Features Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy) for further information regarding how Atlassian handles feature requests.

Thanks and regards,  
Paula Silveira

comments: author: Siddheshwar mhetre
body: OK, thanks for reply.Can we change this using database?


Tags: confluence-administration
Avatars are missing after upgrading confluence
Asked by Pavan Kumar:

I am performing an Confluence upgrade on Test instance.

Upgrading from version 4.3.2 to version 5.5.7, After upgrade avatars(Profile pics) are missing.

Please help me to resolve this.

Thanks in Advance.


Answers:
author: Pavan Kumar
body: I did some digging and found out that attachments folder is not updated properly during upgrade process.

So i replaced the attachments folder in Confluence home directory with attachments from backup.

After re-indexing Broken Avatar/Profile Picture issue is resolved.


author: Brian
body: Hi Pavan, this sounds like a question for the Support team, so I recommend submitting a ticket [here](https://support.atlassian.com) if you haven't already.

Cheers,

Brian


Tags: confluence-administration
Macron support in Confluence
Asked by Joy_Mather:

When I export a Confluence page containing M?ori macrons to a pdf, the macronised letter is completely missing. How do I fix this?


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Try and review this KB (<https://www.k15t.com/display/PDF/What+Can+I+do+if+Umlauts+or+Asian+Characters+are+not+proper+Exported>).


Tags: confluence-administration

moderators
Creating timelines in Confluence
Asked by JustJohn:

I am looking for a way to create timelines on my wiki pages. The type of timelines that I am interested in creating are neither project nor application related, but are related to either past historical or possible future events. Some of the timelines cover a timespan of a day, some a week, some a year, some a lifetime, and some thousands of years. Because they are historically related, I need the timeline feature to be dynamic in it's ability to display the events. The ability to display a break somewhere in the middle of the timeline (signifying a significant period of time, perhaps by displaying an ellipsis) and the ability to zoom in on a defined timespan on the timeline would be very useful.

I am currently using an older version of Confluence (v3.0) but am looking to upgrade as soon as I get my new hardware setup and configured.

Does such a feature currently exist either in the core features of Confluence or in an add-on? If not, by chance is anyone at Atlassian familiar with any other software that provides these features? If so, maybe I could persuade them to create an Atlassian add-on.

Thanks in advance for your help.


Answers:
author: Bhushan Nagaraj
body: Take a look at Roadmap Planner Macro available for the new version of Confluence.

<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2015/01/roadmap-planner-macro/>


author: Kenvin Raymond
body: I am new to jira and would like to create a timeline with roadmap-planner. Where do i go to get started?


author: PipelineFX Developers
body: I'm looking for the same type of plugin to track "what version released when" over the last 10 years, but I found the Roadmap planner won't handle timelines longer than 5 years.
confluence ldap nested active directory
Asked by Miguel Angel Perez:

Hi,

I try configure Internal directory with Microsoft Active Directory LDAP authentication on confluence 5.6.6

Although I find nested group but this doesn't import user in group. I have enable nested group

image2015-3-30 17:17:51.png

Any idea?

Best Regrads.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/confluence-ldap-nested-active-directory/qaq-p/159556?attachment-id=10097){#link_1188ac2ebbf73f}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/26722/1/image2015-3-30%2017%3A17%3A51.png){#display_1188ac2ebbf73f_0}


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Miguel,

Do Any error appears in Confluence logs? If the users don't appear in the groups, he's no being found by some filter or the user is not within the Base DN set. I recommend to check if the Base DN, User DN and group DN are correct and also check the filters.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Miguel Angel Perez
body: Thank Rodrigo,

My problem was enabled option "Follow Referrals".

Best regards.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Great finding. Thanks for sharing it with the community. Cheers!


Tags: confluence-administration
Linking two discrete Confluence Instances
Asked by Mike Rathwell:

In my company we have discrete organizations with discrete Confluence instances. I'd like to create the kind of integration between the discrete Confluence instances that we enjoy between Confluence and JIRA. I can see lots of documentation to integrate Confluence and JIRA but nothing for two Confluence federated with each other (while still remaining as discretely operated/managed/configured instances).

Any thoughts here?


Answers:
author: Christian Brien
body: A new section has been added within the following documentation to discuss federating different Atlassian applications together, whether it is 2 Jira instances, 2 Confluence instances, ect...

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/federating-jira-managing-multiple-instances-461504624.html>

comments: author: Mike Rathwell
body: Thanks for sending that along... Since I have a massively diverse user base here, I am thinking of splitting the instances... Much appreciated


author: dellagustin
body: I did a brief check of this document, it does not seem to cover the Confluence to Confluence case. I need to read it with more time though.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey Mike,  

Actually we can't integrate two Confluences. Only Confluence and JIRA.

Cheers,  
WZ

comments: author: Mike Rathwell
body: Dang.Thanks for the quick answer. Is this on a roadmap somewhere?


author: dellagustin
body: Also looking for it here, in 2019, is it already possible, or is it at least documented as a feature request?


author: dellagustin
body: I created a suggestion for this use case, as I also would like to have it:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-57782>

please vote it up if it would be relevant for you too.


Tags: confluence-administration

confluence-app
Any way to place a single image on multiple Confluence pages?
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

Is there some way to upload a single image file and place it on multiple Confluence pages, so if at some point I update the image I only have to change it in once place and all the occurrences are updated?

I guess I could make it a user macro. Anything simpler than that?


Answers:
author: Robert Lauriston
body: Ah, OK. I can do Insert \> FIles and Images \> Search on other pages, find the image I want, and place it.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The standard "shriek for an image !" will do it

Upload your image to a page that everyone can read. Now go to the places you want to repeat the image and use the ! and use the "open other media" option. Select "search", and search for your uploaded image.

If you use that repeatedly, and then upload a new image, it'll change in all places.

comments: author: Robert Lauriston
body: I'm not sure what ! means there.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It means "insert image inline, here". MOst of the time, people will use it to render an image from a file that they've attached to the page (so it would be !image.png!) but you can do things like ![www.somewhere.com/a-picture.jpg](http://www.somewhere.com/a-picture.jpg)! and !\<space\>\<page\>\<image name\>! for a local link


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: If you attach an image to a page, you can reference this attachment from any page.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Links> (Link to an attachment on another page)

comments: author: Robert Lauriston
body: That gives me a link to the image. I want the image to appear inline.


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Combine it with the "Insert files and images" (Ctrl+M) you find on the editor toolbar.


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: "Search on other pages" and search for the attached file name.


author: Robert Reiner _smartics_
body: Ah, I see you found this by yourself - sorry.


Tags: image
confluence activity stream: Restrict User visability
Asked by webtiser AG:

We have one user which should not be able to see all the activities in the confluence activity stream, except the one Project she is listed. Is this possible?

Thanks for your answer in advance.


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hey there,

It seems that you're not using any kind of filter on your gadget, so I'd recommend you to edit the gadget and set a filter in there. [This answer thread](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/50567/why-is-activity-stream-showing-every-project-for-users-only-assigned-to-a-certain-project) seems to be exactly what you want to achieve, so it might help you.

I hope it helps

Eduardo

comments: author: Mallmann
body: Hi Norbert,The filters are available on Confluence gadget too when you add the gadget. Other than that, the stream will show only activity from the spaces/pages that the user has permission to view/access.If that's not happening, can you please exemplify it by attaching a screenshot that shows the user doesn't have permissions to view a specific space that the activity stream is showing?Eduardo


Tags: confluence-administration
5.7.1 Feature "Files are first class citizens" don't show doc or docx
Asked by RalfK:

The new Feature "Files are first class citizens" offers to show all this file types:

Preview these file types right from your page:

|                    Images files                    |              Office files              | Other files |
|----------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|-------------|
| * JPEG * PNG * TIFF * PSD * WMF * EMF * ICO * ICNS | * DOC * DOCX * PPT * PPTX * XLS * XLSX | * PDF       |

My try with a doc-File ends with this message:

image2015-3-30 15:10:36.png

Translation: No Preview available. Download the file to show.

What the reason? If the feature is not ready yet?

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/5-7-1-Feature-quot-Files-are-first-class-citizens-quot-don-t/qaq-p/293235?attachment-id=281){#link_1188ac598e6bf9}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/49668/1/image2015-3-30%2015%3A10%3A36.png){#display_1188ac598e6bf9_0}


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Something like this is probably best to raise a support ticket at support.atlassian.com so the team can find out what's going on. I just tried a couple of doc files and they seem to work well for me, so might be something specific to your environment or file(s).


author: RalfK
body: I have try a docx file from office 2013 and than save it as doc (97-2003) format. None is displayed.

Which log file? attlassion-confluence.log? Nothing to see here.

What is the plugin-name for this feature (for configuring logging)?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Difficult to say. Doc files are working fine for me in 5.7, so the question is what's different about your installation, or the file you are attaching. What does the log file say is going wrong?


Tags: confluence-administration
What's the best upgrade path from Confluence 5.0 to 5.7.x
Asked by Thomas Alfred:

How many intermediate versions do you recommend and which ones?


Answers:
author: Suren Raj
body: Hi Thomas,  

You can upgrade your Confluence directly to Confluence 5.7.  

Before you upgrade please backup :

1. Your External Database.
2. Your Confluence Home Directory.
3. The Confluence installation directory

You can get more info regarding Upgrading in the below Documentation:

* [Upgrading to 5.7
  <br />](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF57/Upgrading+Confluence)

You can download Confluence from this [link](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download).[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF57/Upgrading+Confluence)

Hope it helps.

Cheers  
Suren


Tags: confluence-administration
how to restrict access to a certain section on a page
Asked by Niamh Laffan:

I need to make certain sections on all my pages in Confluence uneditable. Is this possible? If so, how?


Answers:
author: Alex Yasurek
body: What about using an include instead? They still may be able to edit the page that is being included if they have rights to the space its coming from but at least they won't be able to on the page you are including it on.

comments: author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: I was thinking that. He could restrict editing on the included page, too.


author: Davin Studer
body: Include is the way to go. Just make sure they don't have perms to edit the included page.


author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Users would be able to remove the include, though.


author: Alex Yasurek
body: Yes that is true. This would also require some training letting them know not to remove that. If a user has edit rights though there really is no way to stop them from doing that.


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: How about this arrangement:You have three pages: one has the content they can change, one has the content they can't change, and the third shows both of them via includes. You then restrict the latter two, and allow them to edit only the first one -- they can't remove the includes (since the page with the includes is restrcited) and they can't edit the restricted page, but they can edit the unrestricted page.


author: Dan_Nelson
body: Am I missing something with this \`include\` proposal? If a page was authored with an \`include\` directive to a resource that is restricted, any viewers of said page WITHOUT permission to the included content would receive this UGLY and UNFORTUNATE message:
> Unable to render {include} The included page could not be found.

That's in no way acceptable for our team's use case(s). In addition, this include error message does not look professional as the page will appear broken to users.


author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: This would only be the case, if users don't have viewing permission, Dan. Just restrict editing, not viewing.


author: Timothy
body: Nope. You are looking for this (<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5913>).


Tags: confluence-administration
Unique list of recently changed pages?
Asked by Peter Keller:

Is it possible to show a unique list of pages that have changed, ordered by the most recent change to the page? I would like to specify either:

* the maximum number of pages to display, or:
* the time interval to display (i.e. last *n* days).

The "All Updates" tool on the dashboard shows pages over an interval which is too short, and there doesn't seem to be a way to alter this. I have also looked at activity streams and RSS feeds, but these show every change which is useless clutter for the users concerned. They need to see just one entry for each page that has changed that satisfies the criteria, along with the date of the most recent change.

I am using version 5.5 of Confluence, but would consider upgrading if 5.6 or 5.7 adds something that would make this easier.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Why don't you just use the "Recently Updated" macro? You can limit the maximum number of pages to display, but you can also see more by clicking "Show More". Just make sure you choose "@all" for the space name, and you can limit it to only pages in the options. I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to as "Activity Stream", but as far as I know it does not show multiple edits multiple times, it only shows the most recent edit.

comments: author: Peter Keller
body: You're right: I think that I had conflated this macro with "Recently Updated Dashboard"."Activity Stream" is also on the macro list in our installation, but I think it comes from JIRA. Thanks.


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Hi Peter,

you can try the reporting plugin: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.reporting>

Regards

Steve


Tags: confluence-administration
Dot net 3.0 instalation issues on Win XP SP3 for mRemoteNG
Asked by Nick Halliwell:

I am trying to install on Win XP SP3, I download the dot net 3.0 install package and ran it it makes 5 attempts to complete the download gets to 27/50 Mb. Then says it cant do it cause of an error and do I want to send an error report, so yes, and thats it.

Any one any ideas?

The program is great and I love using it, I am installing it for a customer who needs to RDP to a server. For me on Win 8.1 its perfect.

Hope someone can help me.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'd suggest asking this in a Windows / .Net / rRemoteNG forum.

Or explain what it has to do with Confuence


Tags: confluence-administration
authenticate to confluence
Asked by Nguyen Duy Vu:

Hi all,

I want to develop a mobile app can authenticate with my Confluence via Rest API. Anyone know? Please help.

Many thanks


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Start with the REST API - there's lots of stuf there, but I find the best start is actually the examples - <https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-rest-api>


Tags: authentication