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Screencast videos on mobile devices
Asked by Liz Canham:

We'd like to embed videos hosted on Screencast for our software demo videos. Ideally, we'd like the user to access the page within Confluence and for the video to play automatically.

The problem is they won't play on mobile devices (IOS and Android) without the user having to download an app because they require Flash. Just wondering if anyone else has this problem and knows of anything we can do to improve the user experience? Any help is very much appreciated.


Answers:
author: Liz Canham
body: I'm surprised that no-one appears to be doing this. Due to lack of response I'll close this question as unanswered.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Liz,  

Actually Confluence doesn't have a macro that would support Screencast videos. However you could export the video as .mov and add to Confluence.

Cheers  
WZ

comments: author: Liz Canham
body: We wanted to host the videos somewhere and link to them on the page within an iframe instead of adding them to the page as attachments. On mobile devices this could increase the amount of time it takes the user assistance page to load.

What would be the best hosting solution that works well with Confluence?


author: BillA
body: Why do they need to be hosted by Screencast? We typically use unlisted YouTube videos for this.

comments: author: Liz Canham
body: We're using Camtasia to record the videos on the mobile device. We've tested YouTube, Vimeo and Screencast. We found with Screencast hosting the videos, they are resized better (without black bars down the left and right side of the mobile screen), are much better quality and we can use hotspot areas to link to other (appropriate) videos when it finishes playing.

Do you have any ideas how we can improve the user experience with the Flash problem?


author: Liz Canham
body: Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem with Screencast videos?

Surely there are other people out there recording demos from a mobile device, hosting them on Screencast and embedding them on a Confluence page?


author: Janet Fisher
body: Screencast is awesome because it supports the interactive features of Camtasia, so yeah, I'd love if it were supported.

Problem is, how do you make it so that only the employees of a company can see the videos, without forcing them all to create Screencast accounts, or knowing the user name and password of a company-wide Screencast account (which wouldn't be very secure).

I'd much prefer it if Confluence removed the size restriction of videos, or raised the max size. Then I could post tutorial videos, which are hard to keep to 50 MB.
Where can I find a list of open-source software that Confluence uses?
Asked by RakefetZ:

We are evaluating Confluence Enterprise and need a list of the open source software the Confluence uses. Where can I find such a list?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: RakefetZ
body: I received a reply that the open source licenses are in the Installation folder in a Licenses folder.

Found them there!

Thanks.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: If the docs have a copyright page, that'd be good place to start. Also, check with Atlassian sales. My company makes a list of external JARs that are used for evaluators.


Tags: licence

open-source
Upgrading the Atlassian wiki from the current version 3.5.13 to 5.0.3
Asked by Geetha Priya:

#### The Following plug-ins will not be supported as they now will require a maintenance charge: {#toc-hId-1225018204}

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1. Cache Plug-in 2. Table Plug-in 3. Adaptavist Advanced Search 4. Adaptavist Content Formatting Macros | 5. Confluence HTML Plug-in 6. CustomWare Composition Plug 7. Reporting Plug-in 8. Scaffolding Plug-in I need macrosto search in 3.5 for those plug-in mentioned below. |


Answers:
author: AndreasS
body: Hi Geetha,

first go to your "Confluence Admin" and open the view to manage or show installed add-ons. Now every installed plugin should appear. You can now click any plugin and detailed information will show up. Within this details should be a link with something like "\[+\] X of Y modules activeted". Just click it and you will get an overview of all used macros.

Now you can search your macro using e.g. (more on [](http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/))<http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/how-to-search-confluence-for-usage-of-a-macro/>):

```
macroName: table-sorter*
```

Hope this helps,  
Andreas

P.S. There is an open source and free of charge version which provides at least some of the features of "Table Plug-in". See [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.tngtech.confluence.plugins.tableenhancer)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.tngtech.confluence.plugins.tableenhancer>


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Geetha,

I still don't get what you are asking.

The message is quiet clear : those plugins have upgraded to a new version (which supports Confluence 5.x) but these new versions of the plugins are no longer free of charge.

You could try to do the upgrade in a test environment first and see if you really need those plugins. You could also look for alternatives of the pricing schemes on the atlassian marketplace : [](http://marketplace.atlassian.com)<http://marketplace.atlassian.com>

Best regards,

Peter


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Geetha,

Could you please elaborate about what you are asking?

Currently this isn't really a question.

Best regards,

Peter
Unable to insert links in confluence 5.1.3
Asked by Ash:

This is odd one. I have a confluence space admin that is unable to add any links. When ever he uses the add link option and tries any type of link the insert button is greyed out.

We've tried different web browsers, PC's, changed access levels and this does not fix the issue. We use SSO and his login is managed in AD.

Does anyone have any idea's on what could be causing the issue - thanks.


Answers:
author: Vicki Holder
body: This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen, but right-click/past does not work in this environment. Control-v does. Paste the link using the control-v command, and the insert button magically appears.


author: John Price
body: Did you resolve this? My first thoughts are:

1) Look in confluence home logs\\atlassian-confluence.log and see if there are any errors.

2) What browser is he using?

3) Does he have any browser plugins that might be breaking things?


Tags: confluence-administration
Edit attachment directly from Confluence page
Asked by Thomas Krawczyk:

I have a document attached to a confluence page. A simple link to it will result it in being downloaded when clicked. I'd like a link that edits the document directly. The Office Macro creates the right Edit link but I don't want to embed (see) the document on the page. Thanks


Answers:
author: Thomas Krawczyk
body: GoEdit has the solution I was looking for in their addon: [](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.kontextwork.goedit)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.kontextwork.goedit>Any link you hover over will now provide a Direct Edit button that opens the file, saves it directly back to the server and increments the version. Perfect!


author: Davin Studer
body: Would the WebDav support be of any help to you? It lets you map Confluence as if were a physical drive and then you can edit pages and attchments in native programs such a Word, Photoshop, Excel, etc. Behind the scenes that is what is happening for the Microsoft Office doc types. When you click the "edit" link it opens it in Office via WebDav.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+WebDAV+client+for+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+WebDAV+client+for+Confluence>


Tags: attachment
Page Properties Report Macro not showing all data
Asked by Steve Theer:

I am having a strange problem when displaying my page properties report. If I leave the settings blank for "Columns to show" it correctly displays all data. When I try to only display a few of the columns by typing them in - "Current Status, Priority, Time Required, Estimated Completion" not all the the fields are shown for each entry in the table. The Priority column is missing the value on a few entries and then the Estimated Completion column is missing data for all the pages except 1. I am not sure why this is happening since the data is correctly being pulled from the pages when I have it display all columns. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Steve,

Please log a support issue since I've seen this behaviour before and I'd like to investigate on it.

It looks like sometimes the row names don't match and don't get listed.

I know a temporal workaround that solves it that is copy the content from a Page Properties macro that is working and paste it on the one that is not working and manually changing the values.

Please include this answer on the ticket so I can assist you further.

Cheers,

Mauro

comments: author: Steve Theer
body: Thanks for the info Mauro. I opened a support ticket yesterday as well - [JST-86386](https://support.atlassian.com/browse/JST-86386)


author: Mauro Badii
body: We found that the cause is that when manually modifying a Page Properties table, a hidden tag (like \<p\> or \<span\>) might be present in the field text, making fields with same text be treated as different. This also makes impossible to list a column by it's name.

The bug report [CONF-32367](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32367) has all the details about the problem and how to workaround it.

Cheers!


author: LeonM
body: Looks like this bug (with hanging tags) is still around. Using Confluence 7.3.1 and ran into this same issue today. Tried deleting Page Property macro rows per the bug report above, but that didn't work. Ended up deleting the macro and copying it in from another page which rendered correctly. Fixed the page data and now all columns display in the report.

comments: author: Isidore Kounoupas
body: Hi, what do you mean by "fixed the page data"? Did you fix the actual page data or the reported data entries?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can't save a page or template after adding a table to it
Asked by Thomas Hardin:

Recently, I started having issue in confluence where I can't save any pages or templates once I add a table to them. the issue started when I used the Page Properties Macro and added a table to it. The moment I added the table, the SAVE option disappeared.

I thought it may be the macro, but the issue seems to occur anytime I add a table to anything.


Answers:
author: Ed Gaile
body: Tom and I just discussed this issue and resolved it. For those that also may hit this issue, it relates to using Internet Explorer 8. When you select to add a table, the table options bar appears (add rows/columns). When this options bar appears it shifts the screen downward making the save/preview buttons dissappear below the browser bottom. If you use a different browser such as Firefox, this issue does not occur. Atlassian is ending support for IE8 anyway, so it is a good time to upgrade or switch browsers.

-Ed


Tags: macro

page

save

table

template
I need to add Russian language to "Export to PDF" function
Asked by vinnikovoleg:

Hi, I need to add Russian language to "Exprot to PDF" function to OnDemand account ([](https://pay2me.atlassian.net)<https://pay2me.atlassian.net>).  

Best Regards,  
Oleg


Answers:
author: AgentSmith
body: Ensure you have installed the appropraite fonts - then open a support ticket at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)and include the following link and review it as well so you know what to expect :

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Creating+PDF+in+Another+Language)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Creating+PDF+in+Another+Language>

Hope this helps!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to find all pages that link to a specific attachment?
Asked by Tom Birch Hansen:

I have several pages with dublicated attachments. But how do I find out which attachments haven't got any incomming links? In other words how do I find pages that link to a specific attachment?


Answers:
author: Patrice Rompas
body: Hi Tom,

This can't be done through Confluence UI yet. If you have access to the database, you can run this query to find the page/blog that link to specific attachment:

```
select s.spacename, c.title, c.contenttype from content c inner join spaces s on c.spaceid = s.spaceid where c.contentid in (select contentid from bodycontent where prevver is null and body like '%filename="filename.ext%');
```

Change the filename.ext to the name of attachment (e.g.: README.txt).

Regards,  
Samuel

comments: author: Tom Birch Hansen
body: Thank you for your reply. I do have database access, but the query you suggest will not work as there are likely to be many pages in a space with attachments with same filename, for instance 'readme.txt'.

Also a sql query is not very applicaple for the average confluence users.

Do you know if there is a JIRA request to fix this?

It seems odd that links to attachments are not listed on the 'page information' page, and that you get no warning when deleting a page if there are other pages with links to attachements on the page being deleted.


author: Helen Gosper
body: @Samuel Patrice Rompas \[Atlassian\]'s reply back in 2014 mentioned this can't be done through Confluence UI yet - is this feature on the Roadmap? It would be very useful to be able to display a list of all the pages in a space that link to a specific attachment - for example, via an 'incoming links' information section, perhaps under 'Properties'.

The use-case would be to see at a glance which pages an image has been used on. This would save time in my situation when updating screenshots in technical documentation. Thanks


author: Ganesh Gautam
body: If you are a plugin developer, you can do that in a plugin by using a plugin available bean \`linkManager\` and its method [getReferringContent()](https://docs.atlassian.com/ConfluenceServer/javadoc/7.11.0/com/atlassian/confluence/links/LinkManager.html#getReferringContent-java.lang.String-java.util.List-). Follow these steps:

```
ContentEntityObject container = attachment.getContainer();
Collection<ContentEntityObject> referringContent = linkManager.getReferringContent(container);
```

You can then just look at the current ContentEntityObject's in case you are interested in current objects only and not the old page revisions using:

```
referringContent
    .filter(ContentEntityObject::isCurrent)
    .collect(Collectors.toSet())
```

Happy Coding!


author: J?rg T_
body: It's 2020 now and I am finding this old question while having the same issue. Any news on this?
Notifications are sent to disabled users
Asked by Maurice Pasman:

I have shared a page in Confluence with a group. Some of the members are disabled users. Those users have also received my notification. I did not intend so, it is also quite useless, as they cannot log in anymore. Why are notifications sent to disabled users, and can I suppress or disable this?

(I can ofcourse remove those users from groups, but this is a lot of work, as most users occur in more than one group...)


Answers:
author: rambabu patina
body: Hi Pasman,

Have a look on similar question [](/questions/214335/disabling-confluence-emails-for-disabled-user.)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/214335/disabling-confluence-emails-for-disabled-user>.

Thanks,

Patina


author: Anne EQS
body: Is this still the standard behaviour (for Confuence 5.8.5 and higher)?


author: Maurice Pasman
body: As I understand, this is by design. I will vote for this to be changed, then :)


Tags: confluence-administration

notification

workbox
Is JIRA - Confluence sync two way?
Asked by Lisa Reilly:

I've watch Confluence demos where it's possible to highlight text in Confluence to then create a task in JIRA.

What is the corresponding feature in JIRA? Can a user somehow update Confluence pages via JIRA?


Answers:
author: Andy Nguyen
body: Hi Lisa,

Please refer to [Integrating JIRA and Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Integrating+JIRA+and+Confluence) to see what you can do.

Cheers,

Andy

comments: author: Lisa Reilly
body: It isn't clear from the documentation what actual functionality you get from linking the two tools


author: Mirek
body: Hi Lisa,

If you will integrate JIRA with Confluence you can get below abilities (depending on the JIRA/Confluence versions you use):

in JIRA:

* viewing Confluence page as a Gadget on a Dashboard
* Confluence Search gadget on a Dashboard
* Activity Streams that will show updates from Confluence
* special automatic "mentioned in" link in JIRA issue

in Confluence:

* creating issue (or multiple issues) without leaving Confluence
* showing status of the issues using JIRA Issues Macro (as a table or single issue)
* showing reports from JIRA on a Confluence page

As for you question: "Can a user somehow update Confluence pages via JIRA?"

From my knowledge unfortunately this is not OOTB possible from JIRA. You will be always redirected to Confluence event that you are viewing a Confluence page on a Dashboard.

I hope that will help.

Best Regards,

Mirek


Tags: jira
How to limit page width on confluence documentation theme
Asked by vijaya reddy:

Hi ,

We are using confluence 5.0.7 . We want to limit page width.

We tried

#splitter-content {  
width: 980px;  
}

but it is hidden by

element.style{

width: 1168px;

}

So my change did not applied. Is there any way to achieve it?


Answers:
author: Silviu Burcea
body: Hi!

If you add !important, your CSS will be applied.

```
#splitter-content {  width: 980px !important;}
```

comments: author: vijaya reddy
body: Thanks Silviu. It worked.
Link to another page
Asked by Patrick_Vanhoof:

Hi,

When creating a link within a page to another page, these links still work even when the target page is renamed or moved.

But when creating a link in a comment this link is broken when the target page is renamed or moved. Is this a known bug?

Using Confluence 5.3.4.

Thanks,

Patrick


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Patrick,  

Actually there's some differences there. When you generate a link through the page, it's a link embedded to Confluence, when you create a link from a comment, it's a hard link, it can't be change due the fact it's a hard link.  

Cheers,  

WZ

comments: author: Patrick_Vanhoof
body: Hi William,

Seems there is already a bug report for this: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27721)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27721>

Cheers,

Patrick
Full Screen editing not working with Safari 7.0.1 on mavericks
Asked by buddy1974:

Whenever I either click on the full screen button in safari I am unable to scroll the content and I am unable to use the toolbar. It seems as if the full screen button stays in a pushed state. I can navigate through the sections using the tab key, but this is rather cumbersome.

Even quitting and re-starting safari did not solve the issue as safari will enter full screen mode by default once the button is clicked.

After cleaning the cookie and local cache, it works again. Is this a known bug or do i need to tweak some setting to make it work?


Answers:
author: Branno
body: Howdy Juergen!

What version of Confluence are you using? I tested this using Confluence 5.5.3 and I did not notice any issues with editing in fullscreen mode. I am, however, running Safari 7.0.6. Have you tried upgrading to the most recent version of Safari?

Regards,

Stephen Brannen \| Confluence Support
Confluence groups like Yammer, Facebook, Jive, etc.
Asked by Jorge:

Is there a possibility to allow users to:

* Easily create groups
* Let other users join groups as they choose
* All members get notifications of what happens there
* Have a wall where they share posts, files, etc.

If no options exist yet, what are your plans for the future? Is this something that we can expect?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Short answer: No.

* Groups are defined by administrators.
* Use spaces. You can delegate the spaces permissions so more people can add users to a space.
* For notifications, use the Share button. Use it to push news to your company when they are compulsory to read. Users get an email.
* [Status Updates](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+Status+Updates) are for individual profiles only.
* As a result, the dashboard is the place-to-be, instead of the email box. That doesn't answer much your question, I know.

Those do not replace "Circles" or user-determined "Facebook groups". Concerning plugins, I've seen [Group Signup](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.group-signup-plugin) which looks old and not updated.

If we can get comments from any plugin developer who makes groups, that would be awesome.

comments: author: Jorge
body: Thanks for your comment Adrien. I'm very sad for the answer though :S

The alternative you mention is a bit different, we've been that already but it's too "forced" and not really what some users expect.

* Having the admin bottleneck for managing groups will not work. It needs to be possible for the users to follow/unfollow when they want to.
* Status updates are nice, but they are not good when you cannot comment or continue discussion
* Pushing things with the share button is not nice either. It's e-mails all over a gain.


author: Nicole Samel
body: Hi Jorge,

Although this this post is rather old, I'd love to recommend a great social network add-on / app.

**Microblogging for Confluence** allows for a seamless and direct exchange of information with your team directly in the collaboration system. Just **like Twitter and Facebook**, a microblog in your own Confluence enables short, spontaneous communication and quick distribution of information without switching context and media - directly in Confluence with all it's comfortable features.

* Easily create groups
* Let other users join groups as they choose
* All members get notifications of what happens there

**You can try it here:**   
<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.seibertmedia.plugin.confluence.microblog/server/overview>

Yours sincerely,

Nicki
Use page template for sql query
Asked by Michael Schlueter:

I'm evaluating the Bob Swift SQL PlugIn for Confluence. The SQL Query macro has the option to specify the location of the SQL statement. I'm able to put it in the macro body or in a file on the Confluence server. This works great. However, there's another option to get the SQL data from a global or space page template. I was not able to figure out, how this works. Are there any examples for this?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You are probably not putting the sql statement in a no format area. See [How to deal with templates on Confluence 4.3 and later](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/info/How+to+deal+with+templates+on+Confluence+4.3+and+later) for a description of this scenario.

comments: author: Michael Schlueter
body: Yes, that's excatly what I was looking for. In the meantime I added the run plugin to the evaluation. This is a fantastic and extreme powerfull combination.

Thank you!


Tags: sql