youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Is it possible to display the entire path to a page by default?
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

Is it possible to display the entire path to a page by default (see picture)? The location of a page in the space hierarchy is very important for us to understand the context of the page content.

![](../../upfiles/space_bar.png)

Can you please help?

Thanks in advance,

Rumi


Answers:
author: Kay Brown
body: To remove the ellipses in the breadcrumbs, go to Admin Console, Look and Feel, Custom HTML, at end of HEAD, and enter the following:

\<script\>

AJS.toInit(function(){

AJS.$('#ellipsis strong').click();

});

\</script\>

comments: author: Rumceisz
body: thank you Kay!

Is it possible to show the whole path only in a particular space instead of the entire Confluence?
Confluence not starting in Tomcat
Asked by GregS:

The following error is being thrown in catalina.out when I try starting confluence (this is a fresh install):

Nov 6, 2012 10:55:51 a.m. org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig lifecycleEvent

SEVERE: Error processing TLD files for context path /confluence

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI file:./ is not hierarchical

I Google this and the closest I could find to this error was <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=193299658> ... however, the content was different enough that before I tried this fix, I wanted to verify that this was the problem I was encountering. Also, if this is the fix, then could you please give me the syntax for how this should be set up for Confluence:

grant codeBase file:${catalina.home}/webapps/jira/- { permission java.security.AllPermission; };

I am ssh'ing remotely to the host (RHEL) on which Tomcat6 is running, so I am not accessing the Tomcat manager through localhost, but remotely.

Thanks very much in advance!

Greg--


Answers:
author: GregS
body: Done! Solution was that I installed Tomacat from source code.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Just wanted to add for any others out there experiencing this issue that we found Tomcat was installed via a package manager for that particular system. Downloading a distribution from the Apache website cleared up the issues Confluence was experiencing.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Greg,

It sounds like this might be a question for our support team so we can look more in depth at the issue you're having.

The error states Tomcat is having a problem processing the files that contain your context path, which by default would be the server.xml.

I would check that the account you're using to start confluence has r/w permissions on the confluence-installation directory and the confluence.home directory. If you used one of our installers, then there will be a user created to run the confluence service which owns those two directories. If you're not starting Tomcat with that user, you may be running into this permissions error.

If this is not the case, please log a support request at <http://support.atlassian.com> under the confluence project so we can further assist you.

Best Regards,

Ryan Goodwin

Confluence/Crowd Support

Atlassian - San Francisco

comments: author: GregS
body: Hi Ryan,

I did log a support request for this. I did not use the installer. Should root be the owner? In any case, root has rwx permissions to the isntall directory...

Thanks!

Greg--


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Greg,

Found your ticket here [https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-91135](https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-91135.).

We'll sync up via that channel.

Best Regards,

Ryan Goodwin

Confluence/Crowd Support

Atlassian - San Francisco


Tags: redhat

tomcat
Export does not respond
Asked by Ren? Steg:

I am trying to export several pages from Confluence using the Export feature in the Advanced feature (Browse / Advanced).

The export, however, does not respond and keeps hanging, when calculating the export pages (see attachment). The export has worked in the past and we did not upgrade Confluence since. BTW: We are on Confluence 4.2.6

Any idea, what the issue might be?![](../../upfiles/Bildschirmfoto_2012-11-06_um_17.45.46.png)


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

As mentioned in previous comments, you may find additional pointers for the root cause in the log files. My first guess in this case would be the instance running out of memory, but this is just the statistics in my head that make me think so.

If you could monitor the \<CONFLUENCE-HOME\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log while you reproduce the issue, you may see additional information.

Another catch could be that your browser cached the content of the page and for some reason the taskbar is not getting updated, so trying it with another browser could lead to a solution, however this is not very likely the cause.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Does it spike the CPU usage?


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: any error on logs?


Tags: export
Confluence 2.7.3
Asked by Duncan Wilkinson:

Hi,

I have been tasked with looking at a very old version of Confluence (2.7.3) to see if I can help improve it in the short term - don't worry, I'm already pushing for an upgrade to happen asap :)

There are several caches which could do with being flushed and increased, but I'm unable to find the confluence-coherence-cache-config.xml to be able to edit them. I thought it would be in either the \<confluence-home\>/config directory or the \<confluence-install\>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes directory but its not.

Is there anywhere else it could be?

Thanks in advance,

Duncan


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Duncan,  

I believe the reason that you can't find the ***confluence-coherence-cache-config.xml*** file is because it was deprecated as of Confluence 2.6, so now you need to edit the ***\<confluence install directory\>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-2.7.3.jar*** file and then add the .XML file you've extracted from the .JAR and place it in the ***\<confluence install directory\>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes directory*** , where it will override any of the files contained in the .JAR. You can read more about his in this document: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=214862129>

If you're not confident editing the contents of .JAR files, you can follow the instructions in this document to assist you in doing this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF26/Editing+files+within+.jar+archives>

<br />

All the best,  
John

comments: author: Duncan Wilkinson
body: Thank you for all the info John - I'll give this a go and report back :)


author: Duncan Wilkinson
body: Just wanted to say thank you John - we have the files and we are tweaking! ;)


author: JohnA
body: Thanks for letting me know Duncan, I'm glad to hear that I was able to help you figure this out.

All the best,  
John


author: JohnA
body: Glad to hear that I was able to help you figure this out Duncan.

All the best,  
John
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Button captions are missing after confluence restore
Asked by Sergey Shmarkatyuk:

![](../../../upfiles/Screenshot_-_11_6_2012_,_6_40_44_PM.png)


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hello Sergey,

It seems that you've got the answer for this question through href="https://support.atlassian.com%20"\>https://support.atlassian.com and the solution for this was remove one of the duplicate .jar file having older version and restarting Confluence.

Don't worry to ask again, if you nmeed some additional help.

All the best,

Giuliano


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: I have seen similar problems when using incompatible plugins or having problems with the plugin cache.

First try clearing your plugin cache

1. Stop Confluence.
2. Delete the content of these folders (if they exist):

*
  * \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins
  * \<confluence-home\>/plugin-cache
  * \<confluence-home\>/plugins-osgi-cache
  * \<confluence-home\>/plugins-temp
  * \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins_language

1. Start Confluence

If this does not solve the problem go through your plugin list and update them to compatible versions with your new Confluence version.
Removing User Issue
Asked by jiraguy:

Hi,

I have both a JIRA instance running and a Confluence instance running. My instance of Confluence is utilizing the JIRA user repository.

So, I imported an export from another JIRA instance which by de facto gave me a new DB, thus my users that came from JIRA and are in Confluence no longer exist. I am trying to remove them from Confluence but it will not allow me. Is there a way now to remove the users in Confluence who were in the previous JIRA?

Cheers,

Graham


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Did you delete the old user directory? I believe all users from a directory are deleted when the directory is removed. Their username will still appear if in any content created by them.


Tags: jira
How do I start confluence in safe mode or with specific plugins disabled directly from the command line?
Asked by Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix):

I am looking for a solution that would allow me to start confluence in safe mode (all plugins disabled) or to specify which plugins to be ignored?

I am doing this because I try to do an updrade from 3.5.x production confluence to latest 4.2.x confluence and the upgrade seems to fail due to some plugins.

Also, it would be helpful to know how can I upgrade plugins before upgrading confluence, this seems like a chicken and the egg problem: plugin x is blocking upgrade but there is a newer version of the plugin which is supposed to work with the newer confluence.


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hi Sorin,

Just in addition to Vicky's answer, as you're performing an upgrade you can disable all the plugins that you want to disable in the beginning of the upgrade(Confluence 3.5.x) and so upgrade and just enable again in the latest version (4.2.x), and in this meantime you can check at our <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/> and search for the latest versions of your plugins that work with Confluence 4.2.x.

Best Regards,

LJ.

comments: author: Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix)
body: Preparing an upgrade: this means that I have a script that replicates confluence 3.x database which I am trying to upgrade on another machines using Confluence 4.x. As you can imagine I do not have another 3.x instance for test and I do want to have a slipstream upgrade process.

Usually when I found problems on the 4.x-test-instance I do fix them in production and do the upgrade again. Disabling the plugins in production is not an option.


author: vkharisma
body: Or this [one](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Disabling+or+Enabling+a+Plugin) for Confluence 3.5


author: vkharisma
body: Hi Sorin,

You may want to refer to the following doco:

[Disabling or Enabling a plugin](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Disabling+or+Enabling+a+Plugin#DisablingorEnablingaPlugin-Disabling/Enablingalluser-installedplugins(safemode))

Hope this helps, Vicky.


Tags: app

confluence-app
How to change the distance between page title and content
Asked by Martin Johst:

Hello @ all,

is it possible to change/ decrease the dinstance between a page-title and the page-content.

Is there any way with CSS or so?


Answers:
author: Martin Johst
body: To change it in all themes the best way is to go to Admin-Space =\> Look and Feel =\> Custom HTML.

At end of the HEAD

```
  <style type="text/css">  .wiki-content h1{   margin-top: 0px;   margin-bottom: 0px;}h1.pagetitle{margin-bottom: -20px; margin-top: -20px;}  </style>

#h1.pagetitle is the Pagetitle and the distance to the top 
#To change the distance between the first healdline and Pagetitle insert .wiki-content h1 { margin-top: 0px;}

```


author: Amalia
body: You can add the following CSS to **Confluence Admin \> Stylesheet**:

```
h1.pagetitle {   margin-bottom: 0px;}
```
How to protect logon credentials from sniffing
Asked by Josef Wagner:

I just completed a tcpdump session to find out, how confluence protects credentials (user, password).

I was somewhat shocked, everything is plain text. Which possibilties exist to use confluence outside of he intranet in a professional (safe) way.

Avoid the https hazzle would be great.


Answers:
author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: Well, it would be, thats how forms based auth does, its open to sniffing. However, the days of 'one cable' lan are long gone, an attacker would need to have access to core network infrastructure to do the same, especially true on internal networks.

If you want secure transport layer you need to use SSL, the middle ground may be to adopt a 3rd party single sign on authenticator...

SSL doco is @ <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Running+JIRA+over+SSL+or+HTTPS>


author: VitalyA
body: Josef,

There are no alternatives to "plaintext" transmission of user names and passwords, if you are using plain HTTP. Think about it for a second - even if you are encoding passwords in the browser somehow (if this is what you propose), then the encoded value becomes a "plaintext" password accepted by the server. As long as one can sniff your traffic, and you are not re-implementing HTTPS in some way, one can impersonate you.

comments: author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: Agree, should also add, the days of a single cable have gone, but wifi is the new weakness, every wifi hotspot is a potential attack point _if_ you are not using ssl...


Tags: security
How to input a header or sentence that starts with #?
Asked by Karie Kelly:

When I start a header or a paragraph with the character, #, it automatically changes it to 1. However, I don't want to number what I'm writing, I need to use the # character. For example, we have field labels in our app that start with # so I need to reference them exactly as they appear in the UI.

How do I input a header or start a sentence with this character?


Answers:
author: Jon Sword
body: A couple of options.

1) A backslash before the hash \\#  
2) Use {noformat} or {code} macros

Cheers,  
Jon

comments: author: Karie Kelly
body: That's alot of real estate to display a macro every time I need to reference #. When I tried \\, that didn't seem to work. It displayed the \\.


author: Jon Sword
body: Are you using the Rich Text or the Wiki Markup?  
What version of Confluence are you using?


author: Jon Sword
body: BTW - The assumtion was that you would use the macros to surround a large text block.


author: Karie Kelly
body: We are OnDemand so we only have access to RTE, current version.


author: Karie Kelly
body: It seems to work if I add the \\ in front of # \> save the page \> edit the page \> remove the \\.


author: Mark Hrynczak
body: You can press 'Ctrl+z' to undo any autoformatting.

That is:

1. Type '#'
2. Press space bar (and the # will change into a 1.)
3. Press 'Ctrl+z' (and the 1. will change back to the #)
4. Continue typing
Pie chart throws error when there are more colours than data series
Asked by Wendy Fergusson:

I'm running Confluence 3.5.13. I have a pie chart which graphs a dynamic set of data, which contains up to 4 data series. The color parameter specifies four colour values. When the dataset includes fewer than 4 data series the macro throws a "java.lang.ClassCastException" error.

Eg.

{chart:type=pie\|dataOrientation=vertical\|colors=maroon,blue,yellow,cyan}  
\|\| Priority \|\| Num Defects \|\|  
\| 2 \| 1 \|  
\| 3 \| 1 \|  
{chart}

Is this a known issue? Is it going to be fixed?

The problem also exists on Confluence 4.3.2, the error shows as "java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Integer"


Answers:
author: Wendy Fergusson
body: Looks like that's the only way I'll get any help with this - opened [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27584.](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27584 "CONF-27584")


author: Luzia Mendes
body: You should report that at [jira.atlassian.com](http://jira.atlassian.com), on Confluence project. It seems a bug.
Is there a way to create repeatable snippets of text
Asked by Ralph Avery:

In our previous 'Wiki' we had something called a Snippet.

If I wanted to put a tab in my content, instead of typing ' ' I created a snippet called 'tab' and entered {s:tab} which was replaced by the formatter at save time to reflect a tab character.

Is this possible in Confluence? I find that I really miss the ability to have a tab in my content.

I realize I can use tables, but it's not the same.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: I wrote a simple user macro that kind of works the way you want.

```
## Macro title: Tab## Macro has a body: N## Body processing: n/a## Output: HTML#### Developed by: Milo Grika## Date created: 30 JUL 2015## Installed by: Milo Grika## @noparams&lt;span&gt;&amp;emsp&lt;/span&gt;
```

Not exactly a tab, but when you want some space, type a space then {tab} then whatever else. Sadly, there has to be a space before the macro, and even if you use Insert--\>Macro, it will still put a space before it.


Tags: format

recurring-task

snippet
Why is Project dropdown missing from new Confluence navigation?
Asked by Jeannice Angela:

This used to be the fastest way to navigate between projects/spaces, now I have to go to Confluence, then go to dashboard and select my space instead of being able to tab over (issues/wiki) for each project/space. It makes it feel a lot less integrated than before, and is a bit annoying. Am I missing the new shortcut?


Answers:
author: Felipe Cuozzo
body: Please note this annoucement:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/October+2012#October2012-Newvisualdesign>


author: Jeannice Angela
body: Yes I understand the navigation was updated, but I really think it made it worse, there's no more easy link to navigate between projects in JIRA and their corresponding spaces. It was how Studio was setup, now that it's onDemand, it's decoupled and honestly makes it more of a pain to navigate between the two. I wish it wasn't done, don't agree with the logic behind it.

comments: author: Felipe Cuozzo
body: We value your feedback, we are working on improving the new design to make it better and faster for the end-user.

I agree with you that it may feel like a step back, the new design is implemented using a completely revamped infra-structure that will allow us to improve the integration of the tools in the future, the old design/implementation had a few several drawbacks behind the scenes that we required us to make a difficult choice when moving forward with these new concepts.

Also please feel free to open a Improvement request with your concerns at <https://jira.atlassian.com> - AOD project.


author: Jeannice Angela
body: Yes I understand the navigation was updated, but I really think it made it worse, there's no more easy link to navigate between projects in JIRA and their corresponding spaces. It was how Studio was setup, now that it's onDemand, it's decoupled and honestly makes it more of a pain to navigate between the two. I wish it wasn't done, don't agree with the logic behind it.


author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: Jeannice,

This seems to be an expected behavior with the new header introduction.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I control Fonts in a Template
Asked by Kurt Staufenberg:

Hi,

How do I control the font style (bold, etc) in a template (created using wiki code)?

In the following template snipit; when users create a page using this template, the font is always set to BOLD. I want the font to be standard "paragraph" where the user enters text following a definition tag; see below.

Thanks,

Kurt

\*\[Definition\|Metadata-Definition\]:\* (when the user type here in the page, it comes out bold)  

\*\[Attribute\|Metadata-Attribute\]:\*   

\*\[Relationship\|Metadata-Relationship\]:\*   

\*\[Authoritative Source\|Metadata-Authoritative Source\]:\*   

\*\[Discrepancy\|Metadata-Definition Discrepancy\]:\*   

\*\[SQL\|Metadata-SQL\] or \[Derivation\|Metadata-Data Derivation\]:\*


Answers:
author: Kurt Staufenberg
body: Putting the space seems to work. Thanks!


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Have you tried adding an extra space after the second asterisks (\*)?


Tags: template
Using plugins in the trial period
Asked by Simon Baker:

Is it possible to use the Flowdock plugin with Confluence during the 30-day trial period. We're not seeing how to install the plugin on our on-demand instance - basically the tabs are missing in the plugin manager.


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Simon,

I'm sorry to say that it isn't possible to install plugins into the OnDemand environment due to our OnDemand plugin policy and this is why you cannot find where to install plugins: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy>

All the best,  
John


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to add a heatmap macro to a Confluence page which draws data from Issues?
Asked by Tim Pearson:

On the dashboard you are able to create a heatmap from Issue data, such as the Labels field.

In Confluence it seems that you can add a heatmap macro for labels, but it draws this data from Confluence page labels. Is it possible to change this so that it looks at Issues for the data?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Paul Greig
body: Hi Tim,

I am able to insert the 'Heat Map' macro in Confluence, select the necessary project or saved filter and then select the 'Statistic Type' as 'Issue Type'. This will display a heatmap on all issue types for that project in JIRA. Is this similar to what you are trying to achieve?

Cheers,

Paul

comments: author: James Wei
body: Hi Paul,

Not sure if this is a valid thread for Concluence server 6.x. We want to add in Confluence page of Heatmap macro but it looks like the macro can not be found.

Any suggestions? (we have JIRA for Heatmap feature but our reports are in Confluence page with maros)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why does confluence not display my columns according to the column size I set when inserting the column macro?
Asked by Brian lear:

New to confluence, evaluating 4.3, I create a new page, insert a section macro, then insert a column within the section specifying the % column width or width in number of pixels(px). Using the office excel macro, insert a spreadsheet into the column. When I preview, the entire spreadsheet shows in the page. My ultimate outcome is to display 4 office docs on 1 page in a "Dashboard" 4 equal quadrants. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Selcuk Savas
body: If the other columns are empty, the filled out column expands.

Before going deep in CSS and HTML table simple try to add something in the other columns.

But I am not sure what happens to the lenght of the docs.

If you have to display all 4 in an equal quadrants I suggest to use iframes which gives you scrolls (both horizontal and vertical) for bigger docs.

or simple save the docs as images and place into cells.

Sometimes not propper (dirty) way is the way to go to save some time and sanity. Most of the case the end users don't care.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,

selcuk


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: I'm guessing that you're using the section \& column macros which produce an HTML table for rendering the columns.

It looks like the content for these macros is too big and therefore simply expands in size horizontally to allow the full content to be seen.

[Find out more](http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200704/how_to_prevent_html_tables_from_becoming_too_wide/).


Tags: content