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How migrate data from Community Forums to Confluence
Asked by beecom AG:

How migrate data from Community Forums to Confluence Questions {#toc-hId-1875417018}
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Answers:
author: Hessom Arta [Adaptavist]
body: Hi Beecom  
As you know, Community Forums is an add-on from Adaptavist and provides forum functionality in Confluence pages.  
Our Forums add-on uses Confluence pages, whilst Questions stores questions as a different entity objects. As such, you will retain your Community Forum topics as Confluence pages after your Community Forums license expires - as you would with normal Confluence Page. Questions is slightly different and only provides access whilst you retain a valid license. Both products are great for their purpose and it depends on which will meet your organisations needs.  
There is currently no simple way to migrate Forum topics to Confluence Questions as they are handled differently within Confluence and Atlassian has not as yet provided an easy way to migrate pages into Confluence Questions. Atlassian are currently evaluating introducing a Rest API for Questions, as outlined in the [Questions FAQ](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/QUESTIONS/Confluence+Questions+FAQ).  
If migrating your pages into Questions is a priority, you can contact our [sales team](mailto:sales@adaptavist.com) who will be happy to discuss this as a professional services engagement.  
Disclaimer: I am an Adaptavist employee and work as the Product Owner for Community Forums. If you'd like to discuss your use of Forums further, please feel free to contact myself @ [harta@adaptavist.com](mailto:harta@adaptavist.com)  
Kind Regards,  
Hessom


author: Timothy
body: What is Community Forums? Have you tried the UWC (<https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/UWC/Universal+Wiki+Converter;jsessionid=69E6DBB705F3A83411EE3BA8100CCC29>)?

comments: author: Stephen Deutsch
body: I think he means the Community Forums addon: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.forums>


author: Desiree' Abbott
body: UWC doesn't work with anything newer than Confluence 4.


Tags: confluence-administration
Automatic creation of jira issues on creating a confluence page
Asked by Subramanian Narayanan:

Hi,

I wanted to know if it is possible to achieve the following sequence for confluence + JIRA integration

1. Click on "create child page" to create a child page
2. After entering page content, i click on "save"
3. It should create a JIRA issue automatically in JIRA ( if possible using some macro/script/plugin ) and take the page title as the JIRA issue summary
4. If possible, can i select the project, issue_type and populate other fields in the issue using the script/plugin.

I know there is a JIRA issue macro which can be used to create tickets from confluence page but i am not needing that but instead some way of automatic issue creation in JIRA after creating a page in confluence.

Thanks,

Subbu


Answers:
author: Christian Feurer
body: I' also interested in this sequence and mentioned about catching the pageCreation Event.

But then I stuck in creating JIRA Issues from my created JavaEventHandler in my Plugin.

Anyone else having an idea?


Tags: jira
How to disable the Confluence export to PDF funciton?
Asked by xinan liu:

Just as the title says, how to disable the Confluence export to PDF funciton? I don't want users to export the page to PDF. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Xinan,

All you need to do is to disable the add on as per below KB :smile::

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+disable+PDF+Export+for+Pages+or+Spaces>  
Hope it helps.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.


Tags: confluence-administration
Indentation not carried over when pasting to code block
Asked by Matt Uebel:

When I select code that is indented and spaced as I want, then copy and paste it into a confluence code block, the text ends up with all the indentation and extra lines removed.  

This makes the code more difficult to read. Is there anyway to prevent this from happening?


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hey Matt,

From your description it seems that only the empty lines are deleted, right? Sounds like you're running into this bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28582>

There's a comment on this bug that seems to be a workaround worth it a shot:
> Use the workaround, set linenumbers=true. You'll have to change all the macros for that, but once this issue is fixed, you won't necessarily have to change 'm back. You'll be able to paste without losing the linebreaks.

Can you please try it to see whether it helps? Also make sure to test it using other browsers.

I hope it helps!

Eduardo
Unable to remove attachment files from gbi confluence page
Asked by krreetesh:

Two files have been uploaded by mistake. But I am not getting any option to remove those items. Please help me on this.

Screen Shot 2015-05-21 at 11.26.10 PM.png

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Unable-to-remove-attachment-files-from-gbi-confluence-page/qaq-p/6812?attachment-id=6619){#link_11886efbb9ae85}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/1122/1/Screen%20Shot%202015-05-21%20at%2011.26.10%20PM.png){#display_11886efbb9ae85_0}


Answers:
author: Kay Brown
body: Do you have the delete attachments permission for that space?

Regards,

Kay
office connector
Asked by Ivan Zaman:


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hi Ivan,

Can you describe your question so we can help you?

If you want to know how to use it, please see: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Office+Connector>

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Office+Connector)You might also want to take a look at its limitations and known issues here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Office+Connector+Limitations+and+Known+Issues>

I hope it helps!

Eduardo
Are Confluence and Jira open source free licenses available for the cloud versions?
Asked by Raul Sierra:

It seems that the free license is only on the self-hosted modality. Is that right? Or a free license is also available in the cloud version?

Thanks,

Raul


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. You can get a free Cloud install too. See <https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request> (and look for the server/cloud radio button)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I create a template with meeting notes and files pre-configured
Asked by Harvey Braswell:

I am trying to provide a team template that is pre-configured with a file list and a meeting notes named the same as the main page. For example:I have provided a "make new project button" that creates "project1" within that template are variables and static information. But after created I wish there to be a "project1meetingfiles" files repository created with a link on the "project1" main page. As well as a "newproject1meeting" button to allow for planners to create new meetings under this page. Thoughts?


Answers:
author: Harvey Braswell
body: FYI I am using the create from template macro for the button that allows them to create new meetings.


Tags: confluence-administration
Automatically notify user to update page content
Asked by Jacob:

I am looking to insure our wiki is always up to date and doesn't contain outdated information from a year ago.

Ideally, this would mean assigning a user (in Confluence, not by word of mouth) a page, and after a certain amount of time of the page going unedited, notify the user that the page needs to be reviewed and updated.

Does this functionality already exist? Or at the last something similar to it?

As I understand it, "watchers" allow you to be notified when a page is updated. I am looking for the opposite: notify a user when a page needs to be updated!

Thanks


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: We've been looking at this plugin for that purpose: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving>
can i have more than calendar per workspace
Asked by Victor Prasad:

Noob questions.

Can I have more than one Team Calendar in a space?

v 5.7.1

Thanks,

V


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Victor,

If by more then one calendar in a space you mean displaying more than one existing calendar into a space, yes.

Else me know if I misunderstood you :smile:.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.
how to use windows authentication while creating a jdbc in server.xml
Asked by sanket nayak:

Hi,

can you please tell me how to use windows authentication while creating jdbc in server.xml.

Regards

Sanket


Answers:
author: sanket nayak
body: Mike,

I already tried that but that's not working for me.

Sanket


author: Mike Rathwell
body: Sanket,

The only place I've run into this is for a SQL server jdbc datasource behind tomcat (not the Confluence DB which is PostgreSQL; SQL Server is another I have behind Confluence for other purposes). The "username" and "password" values didn't seem to take. I had to bake it into the url:

url="jdbc:jtds:[sqlserver://hostname:\<port\>;domain=\<domain\>;user=\<username\>;password=](sqlserver://ana-db-01.ana.corp.morpho.com:1433;domain=MPH;user=GRWIKISVC;password=Onlyconfluence)\<password\>"

Even if you have another DB that has its auth via AD, the same syntax may work. Hope it helps

mike


Tags: confluence-administration
What do I put in the "config" field in the macro set up
Asked by Brian Ormsbee:

I am trying to embed the Forms for JIRA macro on a page in confluence. As I am in edit mode, It has a field called, "config". What is supposed to go in this field?

<br />

This is an urgent request as we may purchase this plugin for a project we are working on.

Thanks.

Brian


Answers:
author: Martin Langr
body: Hi Brian,

see the plugin [documentation](https://public.ders.cz/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=171213657#FormsforJIRApluginmanual(EN)-Formdefinition(theproperuseofattributespool)) (incl. configuration [samples](https://public.ders.cz/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=171213657#FormsforJIRApluginmanual(EN)-Sampleformdefinitions)) please.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I add a Create Blog button to a page?
Asked by Sal Quintanilla:

I opened up the Create from Template macro so that I could allow Blog pages as a sub-page to the parent page I created, and for me (Confluence 5.7.3), Blog isn't in the template list. Maybe Blog isn't a template, but regardless, how can I add a Create Blog button?

As an alternative, can I rename the Blog link in the sidebar?


Answers:
author: Nelson Carranza
body: Hi Sal,

A blog is not a page so it can not be a child of any page.

more info <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Pages+and+Blogs>

Now to create a blog, I created this user macro where you specify the space where to create the blog and any label you want to add

```
## @param Name:title=Name|type=string|desc=Button Text## @param space:title=Space|type=spacekey## @param label:title=Label|type=string|desc=Label to add to the new post#if(!$paramlabel)#set($paramlabel ="")#end&lt;a href="/pages/createblogpost.action?spaceKey=$paramspace&amp;labelsString=$paramlabel" class="aui-button"&gt;&lt;span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-add-comment"&gt;Add &lt;/span&gt; $paramName&lt;/a&gt;
```

Regards

Nelson

comments: author: Sal Quintanilla
body: Thanks Nelson. Playing with how Blogs are organized, it became clear that they were treated differently and couldn't be nested... though I think that's more due to implementation than any real issue with nesting one or more blog hierarchies.


author: Sam Hall
body: See here for a more recent verson of the same question: [https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions/How-can-I-create-a-blog-button/qaq-p/586394/comment-id/50584#M50584](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions/How-can-I-create-a-blog-button/qaq-p/586394)


author: Matt C. Wilson
body: This process, from [this post](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-add-a-Create-Blog-button-to-a-page/qaq-p/766177#), will produce a link instead.   

```
If you want to try, replace the CAPS text in the steps below with your own values

1. Went to my personal space overview:
? ? ?https://SITE_NAME.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~SPACE_NUMBER/overview
2. Copy SPACE_NUMBER to the clipboard.
3. Delete everything starting with /spaces to the end of the url.
4. Replace what you deleted with /pages/createblogpost.action?spaceKey=SPACE_NUMBER

That new URL can now be bookmarked as a "Create new blog post" shortcut.
```


Tags: blog

template
LDAP sync is not working
Asked by Dhanasekaran Balasubramaniam:

Hi,

We have configured ODSEE in confluence with specific group access. When i add the user in LDAP, i don't see the user is coming to LDAP until the user is logged into confluence.

This issue I am having right now, we use Local group in confluence and for LDAP we are just using for authentication. Every time we have to ask user to login to confluence before granting them access to specific space. If the LDAP sync can pull the user once I added into group, I can add them into confluence without asking them to login first time.

Confluence Version: 5.3.6

Aberration from my end:

LDAP sync is happening only the user authenticates.

Copy User on Login check box is enabled. Since we have only Production environment I havent unchecked this box and tested.

image2015-5-21 11:33:35.png

I am not seeing any manual synchronization option.

image2015-5-21 11:34:36.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/LDAP-sync-is-not-working/qaq-p/91280?attachment-id=12946){#link_118870155d3c7d}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/15308/1/image2015-5-21%2011%3A34%3A36.png){#display_118870155d3c7d_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/LDAP-sync-is-not-working/qaq-p/91280?attachment-id=12947){#link_118870155d3c7d_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/15308/2/image2015-5-21%2011%3A33%3A35.png){#display_118870155d3c7d_2}


Answers:
author: Dhanasekaran Balasubramaniam
body: Apologize for my Late reply and thank you for your response. You are correct, I was working with support and found we have created Delegated LDAP. Now we started configuring direct connection to LDAP and we hit some [issue](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Lexical+error+during+directory+synchonization).


author: LifeOfAFlippedTable
body: Hi Dhanasekaran,

It looks like you have set up [Delegated LDAP](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+Internal+Directory+with+LDAP+Authentication) instead. This is the correct behavior where user information will be authenticated first on the user's first login and then only it copies the user's information over Confluence as the screenshot above. Using Delegated LDAP *will not* sync the users but rather authenticate them as they log in for the first time. This is usually very beneficial if you have very limited user-based license.

However, based on your requirement, it looks like your method would be connecting directly to the [LDAP server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory). This will perform regular sync where the entire user directory of the LDAP server (or if you have specified a filter) to completely sync to your Confluence.

I hope this information help!

Cheers,

Andrew Er


Tags: confluence-administration

ldap

questions-for-confluence
Publishing on a cloud confluence instance from a server one using comala publishing
Asked by Rita Kumar:

We are considering getting this add on. Can one publish from confluence server to a confluence cloud version? If yes, does the cloud then need to have all the same add ons?

<br />

Also, is there a way to auto sync without having to hit live each time to publish or is that needed? We are trying to do a daily sync to update an internal wiki to a partner instance.

<br />

Thanks,

<br />

Rita


Answers:
author: Gorka Puente _Appfire_
body: Hi @Rita Kumar,

With [Comala Publishing](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.publishing) you can only publish on the same Confluence instance. However, you can combine [Comala Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow) (paid add-on) with [Comala Workflows - Remote Publishing](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.remotepublishing) (free add-on) to publish on remote instances. Just make sure that the "Remote API" can be enabled.

Regarding the auto sync, there's no such feature in [Comala Publishing](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.publishing). Could you create a ticket in our [support system](https://comalatech.zendesk.com/) to follow up? I'm interested in your use case.

However, in [Comala Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.comalatech.workflow), you can use {trigger:pageupdated} to add the ability to immediately remote publish pages (or space publishing) any time a page is updated. This will allow you to automatically sync your partner's instance whenever there is an update in your internal wiki.

Best regards,

Gorka

comments: author: Rita Kumar
body: Thank you that is helpful and I just added the ticket on your website as it would be very helpful for these to auto sync so we can have a separate instance for our partner ecosystem that is automatically updated every 24 hours for example.


Tags: comala-publishing
[Confluence] How to list people watching a page (aka "Contributors macro issue" ?)
Asked by Philippe PEREZ:

Hello,

The [Contributors Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Contributors+Macro) is supposed to be abble to list the watchers of a page.

I can't manage to have it to work. Whatever the parameters, the macro is returning "No contributors found for: watches on selected page(s)" even if I'm watching this page. I tried in several spaces and pages (btw, I'm system administrator of this Confluence).

Is there a bug ? Bad documentation ? Or simply something I don't catch ?

We are using Confluence 5.7.3.

image2015-5-21 15:2:0.png

image2015-5-21 15:1:4.png  
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[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-How-to-list-people-watching-a-page-aka-quot/qaq-p/328798?attachment-id=9372){#link_11922c4c6dd06c_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/55391/2/image2015-5-21%2015%3A1%3A4.png){#display_11922c4c6dd06c_2}


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hi Philippe,

From the documentaiton of the macro, we can see that you are going through the right procedures to use it. However, I believe that we could be definitely facing a bug. For example, take a look at the following report:

[Contributors Macro is not working properly for Watchers after update](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-36476)

<br />

I believe this is the same symptoms, since I just reproduced it using the 'Watches" and the same result was displayed. So, as we still don't have a fix version for this, by clicking on the \*Watch\* button, it will display an option to **Manage Watchers** , which will display all the page watchers for you. :smile:

<br />

Hope it helps you, sir!

<br />

Regards,

Giuliano Tenedini

Confluence/Crowd Support  

comments: author: Philippe PEREZ
body: Hi Giuliano,

Thanks for the answer.

Actually the issue as been reported to me by someone who wanted to advertise who is watching this page for the information of its readers. So unfortunately the workarround is not usable in such context.

But I'm glad to see a bug report already exist on this and I will follow it.


author: Nicolas Casel
body: Hi all,

As [the issue is still ongoing](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-36476) (at least for Confluence v 5.8.16), does it exist another macro or way to display a list of space/page watchers?

Thanks in advance,
Confluence. Migration to server and sysadmin account.
Asked by Kosmos Team:

Hi all!

I've migrated our company's Confluence from cloud to own server. And now I have a problem with "System Administrator" account. It has [noreply@atlassian.com](mailto:noreply@atlassian.com) e-mail and I can't change it. Also it is the only one account in system-administrators group, account with the highest privileges.

So here is my questions:

1. How can I change credentials for this account? I've searched in DB - nothing there.
2. How can I add someone else to system-administrators group?

Thank you very much in advance!!

P.S. I didn't find this account in database. And I've tried this how-to: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights>. It didn't help.


Answers:
author: Paula Silveira
body: Hello there,

Please take a look on [Retrieving the JIRA Administrator](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Retrieving+the+JIRA+Administrator), I believe you can find some helpful information you can use for Confluence.

Thanks and regards,  
Paula Silveira

comments: author: Kosmos Team
body: Thank you, Paula. But it doesn't help. Maybe I can add someone else to system-administrators group?


author: Paula Silveira
body: Did you check this?Add the group memberships for the 'localadmin' user:insert into cwd_membership values (666666,888888,999999,'GROUP_USER','','jira-administrators','jira-administrators','localadmin','localadmin',1);I'm suggesting you this cause on Cloud, JIRA and Confluence use the same User Management.


author: Kosmos Team
body: I have several users in group confluence-administrators. But it's not the same as "system-administrators" group. I don't have this group in database at all. But I see this group in UI with the only member "sysadmin" (with contact e-mail noreply@atlassian.com). All I want is to add someone else to this group (system-administrators, not confluence-administrators) or change contact e-mail for user "sysadmin".


Tags: confluence-administration
How can we save images in a confluence server
Asked by sidhartha:

I use confluence for documenting and I use a lot of images. Is there a way to store all the images attached to our Wiki pages to a particular server? This would help us to locate the images for future reference


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: Hello there!

All the Confluence attachments, as default, are stored into Confluence Home Directory. You can identify what is the directory of your home folder on **\<confluence-install\>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties.**

I understand you want to store the attachments/images on a different server, so we would need to "move" this home directory to the other server. For this to be possible to work, the first requirement is that your other Server can communicate to the Confluence server on the same network. Then, you'll need to map this network share as a network drive, because Tomcat does not work with the slashes ("\\\\") present in the network share name.

After you have the network drive for the attachments server configured, you'll just need to come back to **\<confluence-install\>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties** and change the home-directory to the path of the network drive you've created.

Please let me know should you have any questions. Thanks! :smile:

Kind regards,

Luiz Maia  
Atlassian Support