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How do I merge disabled users
Asked by Craig Newbury:

I have a relatively large set of disabled users within my Confluence server instance. I would ideally like to remove them but am unable to since they have previously created content. As an alternative merging each disabled user in to a generic account would really tidy up my administration - is there any way to do this?


Answers:
author: Paulo Junior
body: Hi Craig,

Unfortunately it isn't possible to be achieved. I believe that a possible workaround for it would be changing all disabled user names to communal one.

For example, try renaming all of them to "Jon Snow".

That way, you would know that everything created by a Jon Snow user would refer to a inactive user, even though there would be more than one.

Please note that two users cannot have the same username, but they can share the same "Full Name" field.

I hope that helps.

Cheers,

Paulo


Tags: confluence-administration
I used to be able to expand pictures from a table by clicking on them, but now I cannot. Did something change?
Asked by Tim Stonelake:

I used to just get an expanded view of the picture when clicking, and I noticed that if the picture isn't embedded in a table this still works. Now pictures in a table have a small arrow next to them that flip on a click instead of the old expand. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: You have the picture in a sortable header. The sortable header is taking priority of the mouse.onClick event. Turn off the sortable header or move the picture out of the sortable header.

Same issue as reported here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29527> and closed as local support: Confluence cannot handle two mouse-click events at once, the Sortable table takes priority.

comments: author: Tim Stonelake
body: That worked, thank you! It took me a bit to find the option, but if I selected the whole row and turned off 'header row' then they resized as normal. Much appreciated!


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Tim, can you attach the image in question to this thread, so we can test if this is reproduceable?


author: Tim Stonelake
body: Tom,

Thanks for the info. I'm on Confluence Server 5.6.5 and the arrows in question are shown below. Scrolling over a picture in a table causes both to show up (it looks like an elevator) and then clicking 'sticks' the arrow to up. Clicking again flips it to down, and then you can toggle at your leisure between the two. What confuses me is that I"ve since checked other pages in our space, and only one page is doing this. On other pages the image expands as expected.

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author: TomC
body: Hi Tim, Atlassians often weigh in to help answer questions but many of us are other users like yourself. Can you share what version of Confluence Server you are referring to, or if you are referring to Confluence Cloud? It may also help to include a screenshot of what you mean by 'Now pictures in a table have a small arrow next to them that flip on a click..'. If noone is able to answer your question here (I'm not sure I can but maybe with more info someone can..), then don't hesitate to input a ticket at support.atlassian.com.Cheers,Tom


Tags: confluence-administration
Summary of revision information / Delta Information
Asked by Pamela Sheridan:

We are using confluence to build up a suite of documentation, is there a neat way to extract a summary of delta information (changes from one version of a page to the next) from all pages within a specified tree ?


Answers:
author: Pamela Sheridan
body: Hey thanks for the rapid response, really appreciated, Ill give that a try

Rgds

Pam


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Pamela, you can see which pages where updated using the following query.

```
SELECT spaces.spacename, MAX(content.lastmoddate)FROM content, spacesWHERE content.spaceid = spaces.spaceidGROUP BY spaces.spacename;
```

Further to it you can compare page versions, looking into the `version` column within the `content` table from Confluence database, and making a *diff* between the corresponding content from the other table `bodycontent`. For documentation reference you can refer [to this](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+History+and+Page+Comparison+Views).

Hope this can put you on the right track to achieve the desired result.


Tags: confluence-administration
Why are my task lists suddenly showing as bullet points?
Asked by Maureen Turner:

We have several confluence pages that make use of the task list feature. Today, for the first time, all our pages with task lists (some checked, some not) all show up as regular bullet points, so I can't tell which tasks have been completed. It happens on Windows 7, Mac OS X, in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome browsers. It worked last week. Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Nicolas Casel
body: If someone is also impacted by this issue, here is a possible solution:

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Help-Task-list-check-boxes-are-now-appearing-as-dots/qaq-p/704854>


author: Rachel Robins
body: Hi Maureen, that does sound odd. I've not been able to replicate the problem you're seeing. I'd recommend raising a [support request](http://support.atlassian.com) about that. Our support engineers will be able help troubleshoot what is going on, and raise a bug with the Confluence team if necessary.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

tasklist
Confluence Workbox is not working for several users
Asked by DIGIT CITnet:

Hi,

since a few days the Workbox is not working properly for several users. The users sees the workbox and that he has notifications in it, but when he clicks on it, the panel is empty and/or it is loading for ages.

I have checked the the <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/The+Workbox+Notifications+Icon+on+Upper+Right+is+Missing+or+Not+Appearing> article, but it doesn't solved our problem.

Could you give us a hand?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey There,

The first thing we would need to check is when one of your users click into the workbox, what is displayed into the atlassian-confluence.log file?  
Also when did this behaviour started, was it after a environment change like a upgrade/migration?  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.

comments: author: DIGIT CITnet
body: Hey @Deividi Luvison,

it had to do with our special authentication method, it was not related to COnfluence.

Thanks and sorry for my late answer.
How can I refuse the email from Atlassian Answers?
Asked by wang:

I received many mails from atlassian Answers. It is so irritating to me. Please tell me how can avoid it ?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Panos
body: I would go [here](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/topics) and check "unwatch" to the topics i watch but don't want any more.


author: Joe Clark
body: At the bottom of every email there is a link to "**Unsubscribe from all notifications**".


author: Mallmann
body: Hey Wang,

Another option, in case you think you might want to look at these e-mails in the future, is to create a filter on your e-mail box so you'll not see those e-mails on the inbox. :smile:

Otherwise, if you really don't want to receive them any longer you will need to *unwatch* the topics just as Panos has mentioned.

I hope it helps!

Eduardo


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Scaffolding plugin for cloud (ondemand)
Asked by Candice Nel:

Hi there,

Does anyone know when the scaffolding plugin for cloud (ondemand) will be available? It's an incredibly useful plugin and finding it very frustrating not having it available...


Answers:
author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: Unfortunately, the open requests for this matter have been closed as "Won't Fix" ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-12484>
* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-1315>


author: Azwandi _ServiceRocket_
body: And... it's coming! Sign up for updates at <https://servicerocket.typeform.com/to/ROAklf>.

Disclaimer: I'm from the team who builds Scaffolding at ServiceRocket.


author: SoumyaM
body: Service Rocket (the vendor who dveloped the plug-in) says the plugin is not available in Confluence ondemand. Link for your reference <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.scaffolding>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think this one is still in the "if it will be available" stages, rather than "when".


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Restric Label List to A parent page and its child pages
Asked by Hermance N'dounga:

Hello

Do you know how to restric the macro "label list"? I don't want to see all the labels in the space, only in the page i displayed it and all its child pages. Thank you

hermance


Answers:
author: Jan Pleva
body: Well, I'm search for exactly the same. I have kind of knowledge base of articles and would like to list the labels used on articles for better orientation. Unfortunately, seems, that right now, there is not option to do so.. :(

comments: author: Achim Haag
body: Me too. Spaces become bigger and bigger, so an index for keywords from a specific page downwards would be helpful.


author: Achim Haag
body: I found [CONFSERVER-54744](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54744) , you may vote for this issue ;-)


author: Tini Good
body: Isn't this possible now with the CQL Filters using the Content by Label Macro... or am I reading it wrong?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-by-label-macro-145566.html>

comments: author: Jan Pleva
body: not really. This allows list content with explicitly listed tags, however Hermance, as I do, would probably like to have list of all available labels for specific site and all of it's childs. And, this is not possible to do, unfortunately.


author: Denise Panepinto
body: This would be very helpful. I'm trying to figure out how to do that myself. I have a page and sub-pages. I want a table list of all the sub-pages.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The macro doesn't have that functionalilty
merge users
Asked by Craig Newbury:


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hey Craig,

May I ask you to describe a bit what you're trying to achieve here? For example, if you have two Confluence instances that you want to merge users only, or if any of the instances has a LDAD, etc.

A description of your set up and what you want to do will be very helpful to understand the question. :smile:

Eduardo


author: Ansar Rezaei
body: I faced with this problem before. We use JIRa Internal User directory at first and then we wanna to use OpenLDAP beside Atlassian Crowd for all systems in company and we had to merge old JIRA internal users with new LDAP users to in order to keep the history of activities for each users. It really boring for me ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")

Try **Script Runner** plugin :smile:. It has a good built-in script for doing that :wink:


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Craig, this thread is empty in content, it just has the title. Please add your query here, otherwise we will need to close this query.


Tags: confluence-administration
is there a way to connect calendar to hip chat
Asked by Warren G Kruse II:

trying to get notified in hip chat if someone added something to the calendar


Answers:
author: Abhinav Chawade
body: You may want to give this app a try <https://github.com/drnushooz/hipchatbuddy>. I had same problem with HipChat and needed to create a standalone integration with Google Calendar to automatically change my status based on meeting. Feel free to file bug/feature requests and I will be happy to fix them :smile:.


author: mtruong
body: There is a HipChat integration that you could install into your HipChat rooms to integrate with Google Calendar

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/hipcal/cloud/overview>


author: Adam Wei?haupt
body: Well, there's a HipChat REST API and an [undocumented Team Calendars REST API](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-774), so you could do some polling (a Cron Job should suffice) and that should do the job.


author: Warren G Kruse II
body: thanks I tried that but the event that shows up in hip chat doesnt look anything like what you would expect this is an example... hard to read isn't it?

The topic was changed: 2015-04-17T09:04:27.000Z2015-04-18T05:30:00-04:00Apr 18, 2015 06:30AMhome


author: hsuhailah
body: Currently, there is no feature to integrate HipChat with Team Calendars that is available in Confluence however it is possible to integrate HipChat with Google Calendar but we do not support the official integration, it is supported by third-party vendor, Zapier. You can check this out for details: <https://zapier.com/zapbook/google-calendar/hipchat/>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

hipchat
I cannot log in to my Atlassian Cloud
Asked by courtney:

I cannot log in-to my Atlassian Cloud, I have tried every email imaginable to have my user name sent to me, but nothing has worked. The email that is on file in my Atlassian account does not work for retrieving it either. I am not even sure if I set-up a user name in the first place. How can this be fixed or re-store my account to be able to login.


Answers:
author: rsperafico
body: Hello Courtney,

Thank you for your question.

I would kindly ask you visit <https://support.atlassian.com> and raise a support request informing:

* cloud url
* your email address
* your username

If you find this answer useful, I would kindly ask you to accept it so the same will be visible to others who might be facing the same issue you have inquired.

Thank you for your understanding.

---

Kind regards,  
Rafael P. Sperafico  
Atlassian Support


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence: Page search doesn't work with the Expand Macro or Code Block when collapsed
Asked by R Donato:

Hello,

One of my coworkers was looking for information he knew was on a specific page. He used Ctrl+F to look for the info on the page. But no result came back.

He discovered that the info - which is in an Expand macro - was only found using Ctrl+F when the Expand macro is expanded. When it is collapsed, the info doesn't display.

He then found out that the same issue happens when he looks for code that's in a collapsed Code Block macro. We use collapsed Code Blocks for very long code. So we frequently use it but not always.

I also did a test where I looked for information that I know is in a collapsed expand. The Space search displayed the results. But when I went to the page to do a Page Search, the result came up nil.

Does anyone know how to get around this issue? Or how to fix the issue?

Thanks,

Rosemary


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg
body: I filled an improvement request for this at: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-37259> as I could not find any existing ones.


author: P?ter Ipacs
body: Hi everyone!

This issue is still open?

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-37259>

We have the same problem.

CSS and HTML macro is not a solution. ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Rosemary, in the meanwhile this feature gets digested by our tracker, you may use a [CSS syntax](http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_visibility.asp) to conceal keywords that will take you to that page section along the [HTML Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/HTML+Macro).
Confluence hung when upgrading from Team Calendars 4.2.4 to 5.2.10
Asked by Madhav Kompella:

We have an enterprise-level installation of Confluence, and we are trying to upgrade the Team Calendars plugin on this Confluence installation from version 4.2.4 to 5.2.10. The upgrade though is just hanging, and not proceeding to completion as quickly as plugin uploads usually do. Some other symptoms that we are noticing:

1. We have 2 Confluence servers in a clustered set-up, the server on which the plugin upload is started immediately started showing "calendar3.link" (or something similar) on the main Confluence page. The other server doesn't show this link though
2. Pages that do have a Calendar show all "unresolved" CSS "text" similar to the issue reported in (1), and seem to remain that way even 20 minutes after the plugin upload was started

Any advise on why this might be happening, and what we could do to alleviate this? We would like to take advantage of the custom event types available in Team Calendars 5.


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Madhav,

This kind of issue we would need to check the logs to further understand what is happening, do you mind raising a support ticket at <https://support.atlassian..com> so we can further check what is going on?  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Confluence Support Engineer


Tags: confluence-administration

team-calendars-for-confluence
Task Report
Asked by Luke Smith:

Is it possible to generate a task report which shows all tasks on child pages of the current page? I know I can type in all the child pages that I would like to generate the report from, but I would like to build this into a template.


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: I think it would be better to restrict it to pages with a certain label. Then just put the label on all of the pages that you want to show in the report. Also, if you are creating the pages from a template then put the label on the template and when the pages are created they will already have the label.

comments: author: Luke Smith
body: Thanks Davin. That doesn't really solve my issue - the pages with the Task Report are being created with a custom template, and the child pages are from the Meeting template.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Proxy Settings Missing - Confluence is Sort of Working?
Asked by AndrewP:

So I tasked a new employee to run an upgrade of our DEV and STG Confluence environments from 5.6 to 5.7.1.

Everything looked good for two weeks - app links were tested and they were fine the day after each upgrade. However a week later they failed.

I went in an updated the Certs between JIRA and Confluence and got DEV to work and STG - sort of worked. That was odd as it should capture all or nothing right?

Later we identified that during the upgrade process, the tech failed update the proxy settings in the server.xml.

Okay GREAT! But my question is... how can Confluence/JIRA \& App Links sort of work without it and sometimes not?


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hello Andy,

Can you describe a bit more what features were working and what not? The application links has a few different features that might use different call methods and such. So if you describe a bit more what you mean might help us on explaining the behaviour :smile:

Eduardo


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way to use inline commenting over the Excerpt Macro?
Asked by Boots Wang:

The situation is that we have pages with the excerpt macro and we want to be able to use inline commenting. It looks like the inline commenting only works on regular text and not anything within macros... What are the workarounds?

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Answers:
author: Kate (izi)
body: With the [Talk add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.talk.confluence-talk-plugin) you can add inline comments to the content of the excerpt macro in both Edit and View modes.

*Adding talk to the content of the excerpt macro in **Edit** mode:*

image2015-4-17 22:16:6.png

image2015-4-17 22:16:49.png

**Talk added *to the content of the excerpt macro* in **View** mode:**

image2015-4-17 22:33:13.png

Besides that, Talk has [lots of other useful features](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/Talk/Comparison%3A+Talk+add-on+and+Confluence+5.7+native+inline+comments) not available with Confluence native inline comments, e.g. working with inline comments in Edit mode, collapsing of long comments and discussions, settings viewing permissions for each talk or for all talks in the space.  
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author: Rachel Robins
body: Hi Boots, at the moment you can't add an inline comment on a macro. The team hope to improve this in future, but for now you can only add inline comments to plain text.
Is there a way to see the latest available version of each Atlassian product?
Asked by Justin Shapiro:

I'd really like to add a table to my Confluence with an automatically up-to-date listing of products and latest versions and maybe a link to release notes. It would make it a lot easier to plan upgrades.


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: Marketplace has a REST API, example: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/rest/1.0/applications/JIRA](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/rest/1.0/applications/jira)

To get the latest version: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com//rest/1.0/applications/jira/latest>

You could build a confluence macro around that, or have something that checks that periodically and builds a confluence page.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Jamie's answer gave me the idea to create this live page: [Atlassian Product Versions](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/info/Atlassian+Product+Versions).

comments: author: JamieA
body: Very nice! For a bonus you could link to the release notes, you can infer the url from the version ID, eg <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+3.0+Release+Notes>.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Yes, good idea. I did it for JIRA and Confluence for now. Stash doesn't follow the same standard.


author: Justin Shapiro
body: You guys are awesome. Thanks for the help.