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Webcertificate error when Confluence URL changes
Asked by Fabian Ledwig:

Good morning,

we have now certified our confluence installation. Everything is okay, but if I click on subordinated Pages the URL changes from <https://confluence.MYCOMPANY.dashboard.action> to https://\<CONFLUENCESERVER-IP-ADDRESS\>/display/\<SPACE1\>... for example and Firefox shows a warning that the webcertificate is not valid for this page. If you continue nevertheless, it works. But not with the certificate.

Is there a setting to change the URLs?


Answers:
author: Sreenivasaraju P
body: Please check the base url of the your confluence instance in the general configuration section.

if you have configured IP the base url confluence, then please change it to domain name.


author: Fabian Ledwig
body: Yes, I don't access with IP by hand. Confluence changes automatically to IP if I click on Links or subordinated Pages in Confluence...?

I acces Confluence by domain name, the URL on the Confluence startscreen is on domain name.

But if I click on pages, they open automatically with IP...


author: Sreenivasaraju P
body: Certificate applys for a domain name not for domain id. you have to access the url using domain name it self.

ex: [confluence.company.com](http://confluence.company.com) is domain name and certificate applies for the url accessing using domain name.

like [https://confluence.company.com/ab](https://confluence.company.com/ab%20)c ..etc.

if you access with IP it doesn't apply the certificate.

comments: author: Fabian Ledwig
body: Yes, I don't access with IP by hand. Confluence changes automatically to IP if I click on Links or subordinated Pages in Confluence...?

I acces Confluence by domain name, the URL on the Confluence startscreen is on domain name.

But if I click on pages, they open automatically with IP...


Tags: base-url

certificate

confluence-administration

https
Hide the lable edit(pencil) button
Asked by Vijay Krishna B:

```
Added this in Confluence Admin / Space Admin >> Stylesheet?
```

```
 a.show-labels-editor.editor-icon {display: none !important;}
```

```
Works fine but this is hiding the edit buttton in all the pages and blog posts.
```

```
I want to hide this button in all pages except blog posts
```


Answers:
author: Vijay Krishna B
body: * Add this code in a css file.For example "labelhide.css" and add this file as an attachment to a page.

a.show-labels-editor.editor-icon {display: none !important;}

* Go to SpaceAdmin \>\> Page Layout

Add the below code in the layout

#if ($page.type != "blogpost")

\<link href="/download/attachments/5537850/labelhide.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" title="base"/\>

#end

This will hide the edit button in all the pages except blog posts.

Cheers,

Vijay
How do I hide the Browse menu from Group (confluence-users) in Confluence?
Asked by Siddheshwar mhetre:

I can hide the menu using follwing script from confluence-user as well as confluence-administrator.  
`<script>`  
` ``AJS.toInit(``function``(){`  
` ``if` `(AJS.params.remoteUser == ``''``){`  
` ``AJS.$(``'#browse-menu-link'``).hide();`  
` ``}`  
` ``});`  
`<``/script``>`

But, I want to hide menu to a **Group,**Is there any script to hide a menu from a group?


Answers:
author: RambanamP
body: i dont think you will get the groups in javascript and there is no REST to get groups, check this

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/140219/any-way-in-javascript-to-tell-if-the-current-user-is-a-confluence-administrator](/questions/140219/any-way-in-javascript-to-tell-if-the-current-user-is-a-confluence-administrator)

another way is you can create REST Plugin and later you can access it from javascript

check this document to know how to develop REST plugin

<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/REST+Plugin+Module>

comments: author: Siddheshwar mhetre
body: Thanks its working :)
Remove user added from LDAP User Directory
Asked by Matt Uebel:

I have a user that was added through a read only LDAP directory. I have since removed the user from the associated group in LDAP, but the user still exists in Confluence. How can I remove this user entirely from Confluence?


Answers:
author: Marcus Silveira
body: Hi Matt,

Try running the full synchronization ( Disable the User Directory, Enable it and synchronize)

This should remove the user that's not in LDAP anymore.

Hope this helps,

Marcus

comments: author: Matt Uebel
body: Hi Marcus, I am guessing I will need a maintenance window to disable the user directory? That is, while disabled, LDAP users won't be able to access.


author: Marcus Silveira
body: Indeed. While the user directory is disabled, no ldap users will be able to access the application.


author: Matt Uebel
body: Does this have any effect on existing users, and their configuration settings?


author: Pablo Ribeiro
body: what is resolution? i need removed users synchronize with User of the protocol Ldap


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Matt,

Do you want to remove all mentions of this user (the changes made, comments made,...) ?

Or only his/her access?

If you want to remove all links to this user completely that's not so easy.

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Matt Uebel
body: user activity isn't an issue, just looking to have user not listed in people, not count towards licensing etc.  

When attempting to Disable the user, receive error that it is read-only LDAP directory.


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Matt,

Did you already look at these articles :

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Changing+the+Number+of+Users+Synchronized+from+LDAP+to+Confluence>

and

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Disabling+External+User+Does+Not+Reduce+Licensed+User+Count>

They are both about reducing your user count in a Confluence instance with an LDAP.

Best regards,

Peter


Tags: confluence-administration

group

user

user-directory
Keep sort after clicking the edit button
Asked by Tim Ruijters:

This feature request is especially useful with large tables. In large tables I sort on one column. After clicking on Edit the table is not sorted anymore. I would like to keep the sort.


Answers:
author: Tim Ruijters
body: I also describes this feature request in JIRA.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30775>
Confluence 5.2.4 brief Appearance
Asked by Davet:

Yesterday Confluence 5.2.4 was available for download.

Today it is not? <https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download>

Withdrawn or perhaps a groundhog day?


Answers:
author: Jo?o Sena Ribeiro
body: It's because of a security issue:

* [Knowledge Base Article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/User+specific+page+restrictions+are+removed+during+upgrade+to+Confluence+5.2.4)

comments: author: JamieA
body: Wow... that's a pretty serious issue.


author: Brian
body: As Joao mentioned, we discovered a critical bug in Confluence 5.2.4 related to page restrictions. Due to this bug, Confluence 5.2.4 is no longer available for download. You can find more information about this in the knowledge base article Joao linked to.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think I've seen this before, when a version contained a (security?) flaw that was spotted very shortly after release.

If it's a moderately serious fault and your download logs say only a handful of people have downloaded the release, it's probably better and easier to pull the release instead of leave people with it and have to rush a patch.  

I am completely guessing what Atlassian might have done here, but I know a couple of development organisations have done that, including one I worked for at the time. Also, if you have highly automated release processes, you can find trigger-happy people release things a little too early (yes, "continuous deployment", I am looking at you...)


author: Kelly M. McDaniel
body: A detailed description of this bug, please?


author: Davet
body: Thanks guys - an explanatory splash on the download page would save a lot of searching

Looking on the bright side - it does make my inadequate testing look more robust ;)
Confluence Attachment Moving From DB to File System.
Asked by tousifs:

Hi All,

My Attachment size is around : 50 gb.

Attachment location : Database.

Moving Location: File System.

Attachment count: 30000.

i want to move attachment's from DB to File System so please let me know your suggection's.

thank's

tousif shaikh.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You can move it by changing the Attachment Storage configuration. See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Attachment+Storage+Configuration#AttachmentStorageConfiguration-MigrationbetweenAttachmentStorageSystems>

comments: author: tousifs
body: could you please suggest what could be corner cases.

Database image's are around 50 gb. so while moving it could take long time.

1) no image should be open.

2) no user should logged-in

if you could suggest some of corner cases it will be helpfule for me.

also what could be known issue's when moving image's from DB to File System.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Actually, I have gone only the other way round. That was really smooth. Someone else might have done from DB to file system.


author: tousifs
body: i would be appreaciating if anyone share experience while moving confluence attachment from database to file system.
Is there an address book or contact list plugin for the Confluence Wiki?
Asked by Ted Davis:

We need to track contact information for partners/vendors and link to that information from Confluence wiki pages. So the contact information we are talking about is \*not\* about our licensed wiki users.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Ted and Paula,

Indeed I believe there's no such tool for Confluence Yet. I've found one for Jira though: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.obss.plugin.crm-plugin>

You could get in touch with company responsible for it and check if they are thinking on bring it to Confluence too. :)

comments: author: Ted Davis
body: We can't give this investigation any more time so we'll limp along with a spreadsheet and check back here in 6 months.


author: Alexander Wirtz
body: Hey Ted,

did you find a solution to this?


author: Maarten Arts
body: I realize this is an old thread, but I'll reply anyway for anyone who ends up here via Google.

We recently released Atlas CRM for Confluence. Atlas CRM is an add-on that adds customers to JIRA and Confluence and connects your work (pages, issues) to these customers.

You can find Atlas CRM for Confluence Cloud here: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/nl.avisi.confluence.plugins.atlas-crm/cloud/overview>

comments: author: Greg Schar
body: This is not a solution. Confluence it self needs to be able to create a contact list.


author: Paula Alegria
body: Hi Ted, Just wondering if you found a solution/workaround for an address book/contacts list? I contacted Atlassian but they said "There is no out-of-the-box address book/contacts list for confluence" :( I was wondering if you were able to resolve this another way?
Confluence and/or Jira?
Asked by James Deak:

Hello! I have a company that sells and installs home cinema equipment and I'm wondering if Confluence or Jira can be what we are looking for. From what I'm reading Jira (and Confluence?) is aimed at developers, but maybe it'll work for us as well?

What I'm looking for:

1. Tasks/ticket/to-do. One employee should be able to assign a task to another employee or group of people and then have the ability to follow it up and see when it's solved.

2. Calendar. When a client buys a system from our store the sales person should be able to book a appointment with any of our installer employees. Then inside this appointment it would be great if you could add extra tasks.

Is confluence and/or jira something for us? Maybe we don't need Jira? Confluence is enough?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: James Deak
body: Thanks! We are 15 users though so it's gonna be quite expensive to buy both Confluence and Jira. I saw that confluence had some tasks or something. Can I use that as "tickets"?

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, but they are basic compared with Jira.

This blog explains it far better than I do, even though it is for Confluence 4. <http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/09/confluence-101-keep-your-team-on-track-with-tasks/>


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi James!

Seems like Jira and Confluence are just what you need. **Jira** for the tickets and **Confluence with Team Calendars** for calendars.

You'll be able to create an Application Links between them and then create the tickets directly through Confluence, so it will be easier to your final users.

Cheers!


Tags: confluence-administration

jira
Workflows in Confluence
Asked by Dirk Schaele:

Is it possible to set-up workflows in confluence?

For example: a change request, a service request which needs first validation from a manager before getting worked upon.


Answers:
author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Hey, have you tried to google that? For example, there are some plugins out there which do support workflows:

Try:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow>

Cheers Christian


author: Dirk Schaele
body: Thanks Christian, indeed multiple plug-ins exist.

I probably didn't use the right keywords in google.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence and security
Asked by Mark Hylas:

We are recently signed up to use Confluence hosted by Atlassian. Our only concern is how secure our data is.

Is our main confluence encrypted?

What has been the history of Atlassian and confluence break ins or the number of attempts to break in.

Pretty much, how secure is Confluence while its hosted by Atlassian?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: RambanamP
body: check this document on OnDemand Security Statement

<https://www.atlassian.com/hosted/security>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/About+Your+Data>


Tags: encryption

security
Automatic Child Pages
Asked by Quintin Holmberg:

I just noticed that all pages in my Confluance Spaces automically have Child pages listed at the bottom. I'm not sure if this is part of a recent update of if I just never noticed it but they just don't work well for my page layout when creating menu pages (I like the tree structure instead).

Anyone know the easiest way to get rid of these automatic child pages list?

I'm on Confluance 5.2.


Answers:
author: T I
body: In Space:

Browse \> Space Admin \> Stylesheet

Add this code:  
`#children-section{ `  
` display:none; `  
`}`

comments: author: Quintin Holmberg
body: Thank you for your assistance.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Team Calendars - Not every user can see the entrys
Asked by Fabian Toth:

Hi,

i have installed the Confluence team calendar plugin.

After the installation i have created a new calendar and some date entrys.

The problem is that some users who import the calendar can see the entrys but many users can't see anything in the calendar after the import. It is empty.

Have somebody an idea why it works with some users and don't work with others?

Thanks a lot


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey there,

Maybe rebuilding the indeces can help you with:

1. Go to **General Configuration** .   
2. Search for the **Content Indexing** option in the left side bar.  
3. Click on **Rebuild**.

If it didn't work, ask your users to delete the calendar and re-import it again.

Cheers,


Tags: confluence-administration

team-calendars-for-confluence
Which pages link to a specific page?
Asked by Jim Mackesy:

Is there a way to find all the pages that have links to a single page in the same space?

I am on V 5.1


Answers:
author: Jim Mackesy
body: I will have to assume that our indexing is not up to date or processing correctly.


author: Grace San Juan
body: Hello, did you get an answer to this question? I am new to Confluence and Jira. My project decided to use Confluence to write the use cases and requirements so we're adding links to associate them with each other. Now, I'll need a report that will display which requirements are linked to which use cases, and vice versa. How can I do that?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Go to the page, and select Tools \> Info. This will show you all the incoming links, grouped by spaces.

comments: author: Jim Mackesy
body: Thanks Matthew, but my Tools menu has "Page Information" in the menu and when I go to that link I do not see incoming links. I have sections for Hierarchy, Labels and Recent Changes as well as the first section which has Title, Author, Last Changed BY, Tiny Link, Export As and Operations.

Could it be somewhere else? I am in v5.1


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Ah, this might be a difference between 4 and 5 (I'm still on 4.x).


author: Jim Mackesy
body: Understood, thanks for the effort. I have updated the post to include version info.


author: Andrei [errno]
body: "tools" -\> "page information" works in 5.x the same way it does in 4.x. If there is no "Incoming Links " section - then there are no incoming links - pick a page you know for sure has incoming links and they will be listed


author: Jim Mackesy
body: There are definitily pages which link to the page I am looking at but there are none listed on the Pag Information screen. Is there a specific way to link a page that gets included versus a way by which they will not?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Try re-indexing in the admin. It's possible that this will update the link index, although this should auto-update so I'm not too confident that manually triggering a reindex will do anything.
Change MS SQL server address in JDBC Configuration?
Asked by Andreas Baumann:

The documentation says I have to run the install wizard. Is this really neccessary for just changing the server ip? I was not able to find any clear text reference in the confluence folder.


Answers:
author: RambanamP
body: look into the `<confluence.home>/confluence.cfg.xml` (if you are using a direct JDBC connection) or in the definition of your datasource (if you are connecting via a datasource).

check this document for more information

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+to+Another+Database>

comments: author: Andreas Baumann
body: the doc says i have to run Confluence Setup Wizard

in a normal world there would be any config file im able to edit...


author: RambanamP
body: i have updated my answer!!

dont forgot to shoutdown the confluence before changing database connections


author: Andreas Baumann
body: Thank you for the correct filename, with this i was able to find the config.

im using confluence 5.2.3 on windows server 2012 and my configuration can be found here:

**C:\\Program Files\\Atlassian\\Application Data\\Confluence**


Tags: confluence-administration

jdbc

ms-sql

trello
Why have search results changed in Confluence 5?
Asked by Marcel Plomp:

As I remember in Confluence 4, search results showed pages and other content from **all spaces** when using the search box in the header with menu items. It did not matter if you used the search box when viewing the dashboard or any other page within Confluence. The results showed global content.

In Confluence 5 using the same box when viewing an page in a space only results in pages and other content from within that space. When viewing the Dashboard and performing a search, this results in global content

Is this correct?

And why has it been changed?

How can I perform a global search from within a space? I do not want to perform a seach and then change the box "Where" to "All spaces". It just seems not logical for users in general.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: I don't see this behavior in 5.1.3.

comments: author: Marcel Plomp
body: OK, we are using 5.0.1.


Tags: search
Confluence Server Will not Restart - Server ID Not Found
Asked by Trevor Hunt:

\*Confluence displays this\*  
startup Could not start Confluence because a database connection could not be acquired. Please ensure that your database server is available and your database configuration is correct and then restart Confluence. Check the logs for details.  

No server id found.   

fatal 2013-09-12 08:39:41  

\*LOGS\*  
2013-09-12 08:08:51,516 INFO \[main\] \[com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle\] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 5.1-OD-13 \[build 4332 based on commit hash d19eb0a3bfb8be622c0ab1a0b04bdc0ee8273a95\]  
---\> Instantiating class com.atlassian.plugin.remotable.sisu.RemotableModuleFactoryas interface org.eclipse.sisu.scanners.module.ModuleFactory  
---\> Instantiating class com.atlassian.plugin.remotable.sisu.ComponentImportWiringFactoryas interface org.eclipse.sisu.scanners.analyzer.WiringFactory  
2013-09-12 08:28:41,945 INFO \[main\] \[com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle\] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 5.1-OD-13 \[build 4332 based on commit hash d19eb0a3bfb8be622c0ab1a0b04bdc0ee8273a95\]  
log4j:ERROR LogMananger.repositorySelector was null likely due to error in class reloading, using NOPLoggerRepository.  
2013-09-12 08:31:19,809 INFO \[main\] \[com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle\] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 5.1-OD-13 \[build 4332 based on commit hash d19eb0a3bfb8be622c0ab1a0b04bdc0ee8273a95\]  
log4j:ERROR LogMananger.repositorySelector was null likely due to error in class reloading, using NOPLoggerRepository.  
2013-09-12 08:38:28,783 INFO \[main\] \[com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle\] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 5.1-OD-13 \[build 4332 based on commit hash d19eb0a3bfb8be622c0ab1a0b04bdc0ee8273a95\]


Answers:
author: Trevor Hunt
body: It turns out this was related to an admin not saving their iptables config. Upon rebooting of the database server, the config was lost preventing connection.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: I've seen this error when the confluence.cfg.xml file is not formatted properly. Ensure that all elements are properly formatted and closed per xml standards.


author: BernardoA
body: I'd suggest you to check your confluence.cfg file located at Home directory\\log folder and ensure if database information such as password is correctly informed, then try to restart your instance just for test purpose.

Cheers

comments: author: Trevor Hunt
body: This is the part of the error that worries me:

No server id found.

Should I not worry about that and just try the database config?


author: RambanamP
body: as per log the data base is not configured

check this document to configure data base

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+For+MySQL>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+for+SQL+Server>

i hope those links will hel you

comments: author: Trevor Hunt
body: This is a production instance. We simply re-booted the server and this is the result something more ominous is going on here, I think.
Sent e-mail when i created a page
Asked by zombie-man:

In the wiki Confluence. Please tell me whether it is possible to automatically send a message when you create a page with information on this page?  
I would like to send messages to a specific e-mail, with a table from the page that I had just been created.  
Maybe there is some plugin for that?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Nick!

What we do have is a plugin called Share Page - <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.share-page>.

But it does not send the e-mail automatically, you'll need to share the page and type the mail address.  

Hope it helps!  


author: zombie-man
body: Hi Bruna!  
Thank you for answer!  
I want to send the page content, rather than a link to this page.  
I want to create a table there, and that the table is sent automatically to all whom I want. Is this possible to do plug-ins, or do I have to write a script on the server?  
Thank you!


Tags: email

share