youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How to create a hyperlink to a heading in the same page which contains special character ' (aphostrophe))
Asked by Selvanayakam:

example:

Heading

How to go to user's home page


Answers:
author: Sharon Hinde
body: Hi,

I would place an anchor just before the heading and link to the anchor. See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Anchors>

Sharon
Is there an action for the keyboard shortcuts to trigger adding a specifc macro - such as Expand?
Asked by Scott Selberg:


Answers:
author: Scott Selberg
body: That does work - but I'm hoping I can link something like Ctrl+E to insert the expand macro.


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: In Confluence editor, you can type curly bracket ('{') and start typing the macro name.


Tags: confluence-administration
Want JIRA reports accessible to all Confluence users
Asked by Shelley Rueger:

I have 50 JIRA users (folks who need to edit and enter tickets) and 100 Confluence users (everyone in the company). Nothing in JIRA is "secret" meaning anyone in the company could see it. But since we're using JiRA Cloud, I can't enable anonymous access - we don't want the entire world seeing our issues.

Is there a way I can expose information in JIRA to logged in Confluence users who do not have JIRA access? Or am I forced to buy enough JIRA licenses so that we can have everyone have JIRA access?


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg
body: This would normally be accomplished by using Basic Auth to connect the two applications. However, since you are on Cloud, this is not an option which we allow users to set as it carries security implications.


Tags: jira

permission

report
Are site-wide contact lists possible in Confluence?
Asked by Beverly Flegel:

The concept is to be able to store client contacts for multiple clients and only display those that apply on each client's page. I've not found a plug-in that could manage this - if there is one, please enlighten me.

Otherwise - what are the options for making something like this? Would it be possible to create a custom table in the confluence database and reference that? If so, I'm not sure how permissions would work and if that information would be up-datable from within Confluence?

Any other ideas? Ultimately, I need to be able to view and update client contact lists both individually and en masse.

Thank you in advance!


Answers:
author: Beverly Flegel
body: I have since found this plugin:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ru.teamlead.jira.plugins.teamlead-crm-plugin-for-jira>

but I'm open to other ideas too?


Tags: table
conflunce data import reporting weeks to complete
Asked by david martin:

is it normal for confluence to report estimated time to complete 40 weeks and still counting after 3 days of importing a backup and still only being at 1%. Is there another way to import data?


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

No, I believe this can be shown due the lack of resources of your environment. I would highly suggest you to increase the JAVA memory that way Confluence will have more memory to work on it. First you'll shutdown Confluence, and then update the values there. I highly suggest that you set your Confluence to have 4gigs of memory.

Here are the steps to do such:  

To increase the JVM memory, here are the steps:  

Linux:  

# From \<confluence-install\>/bin (Stand-alone) or \<Tomcat-home\>/bin (EAR-WAR installation), open setenv.sh (you can create this file in the EAR/WAR version).  
# Find the section JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m ...  
# See Diagnosis above and enter the appropriate values. Xmx is maximum, Xms is minimum, and MaxPermSize is PermGen.  

Windows:  

# From \<confluence-install\>/bin (Stand-alone) or \<Tomcat-home\>/bin (EAR-WAR installation), open setenv.bat.  
# Find the section set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m  
# See Diagnosis above and enter the appropriate values. Xmx is maximum, Xms is minimum, and MaxPermSize is PermGen.  

Running Confluence as a Service:  

\* [You can scroll down to Windows Service section](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Fix+Out+of+Memory+Errors+by+Increasing+Available+Memory#HowtoFixOutofMemoryErrorsbyIncreasingAvailableMemory-SettingPropertiesforWindowsServicesviatheWindowsRegistry)  

<br />

For more information, you can refer to this documentation: [How to Fix Out of Memory Errors by Increasing Available Memory](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Fix+Out+of+Memory+Errors+by+Increasing+Available+Memory#HowtoFixOutofMemoryErrorsbyIncreasingAvailableMemory-Step2:IncreaseAvailableMemory).  

Cheers,  
WZ


author: david martin
body: Also this is a virtual server does that matter?


author: david martin
body: My current setting are "-Xms4096m -Xmx4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+UseG1GC". And now it stops at 9 % oh and I have to consistently move my mouse around and stay in the browser window where the import is running. Can you please assist me.


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

I would say Xms4098m -Xmx4098m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m without -XX:+UseG1GC  

Cheers,

WZ


author: david martin
body: My current setting are "-Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+UseG1GC". what would you recommend I change them to.


Tags: confluence-administration
SSH Links
Asked by Robert Otto:

Hello,

We create pages about each router or switch we deploy and at the top we create a ssh2://ipaddress link and the link appears to be created but when we click it nothing happens. I'v gone into the link and verified it is correct. Is there something I'm doing wrong?   

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: It seems like ssh2 is not recognised as a valid protocol... ssh:// works but ssh2:// does not

I suppose a trivial use macro will solve the problem:

```
## Macro title: anyLink## Macro has a body: N## Any protocol hyperlink## @param Link:title=Link|type=string|required=true|desc=Link address## @param Caption:title=Caption|type=string|required=true|desc=Link caption&lt;a href="$paramLink" target="_blank"&gt;$paramCaption&lt;/a&gt;
```

comments: author: Edson
body: Thanks for this code!

I tried it but initially it didn't work (it just output the HTML code instead of rendering the link), but then I changed the last line like this:

```
## Macro title: anyLink
## Macro has a body: N
## Any protocol hyperlink
## @param Link:title=Link|type=string|required=true|desc=Link address
## @param Caption:title=Caption|type=string|required=true|desc=Link caption

<a href="$paramLink" target="_blank">$paramCaption</a>
```

Then the output is the correct one.

It seems to be related to [this bug (CONFSERVER-46039)](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-46039 "Links can't be edited or clicked on after saving the page") . So if you need that feature, please vote and watch it. Also, you can add your use case as a comment so the developers can be aware of the impact it has and take it into consideration while triaging it.


author: Robert Otto
body: We are looking to move away from Mindtouch Dekiwiki and it has the ability to do it. That is unfortunate to read that this is something that Confluence is unable to do. When we click it it just opens our default SSH client that is all I want it to do nothing within Confluence itself.


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

May I ask you, if this ever worked? I'm not aware of such link work.

Confluence doesn't have the ability to open the SSH2 directly.

Cheers,  
WZ

comments: author: James_Beckett
body: Confluence doesn't need to "open" the link directly. Opening a suitable application based on a URI is done by the OS protocol handler, all it needs is for the link html to be properly functional in a web page.

With Confluence \[5.4.4\] when you create a link like "ssh2://example.com", it appears to be accepted, and is rendered in link style, but there is no **href** property in the generated **a** tag, unlike for **ssh** URIs:

```
&lt;a href="ssh://example.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;ssh://example.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow"&gt;ssh2://example.com&lt;/a&gt;
```

This would seem likely to be due to a rule in the markup renderer (or maybe it doesn't even get saved).


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way to integrate two jira instances with Confluence?
Asked by Hari Prabhu:

Hi,

We would like to integrate two JIRA instances with Confluence. Will just the app links be enough to integrate it?

We are not sure how would it behave after integration as we currently have one instance and mention the JIRA issues directly and use saved filters etc.

Regards,

Hari


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You can integrate more than one JIRA instances to a single Confluence. You have to mark one of the application links as primary but you can pick the other one when you create issues, filters etc. Existing links will point to primary unless changed.

Also, if both JIRA instances has the same projects, I assume it will point to primary unless specified in the macro. Never tried it myself but worth testing it.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Hari,

I was able to find another question with the same doubt as you have[here.](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/246479/merging-two-confluence-instances)

The best would be to export space by space and import into the instance you would like.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


author: Hari Prabhu
body: Rodrigo, Thanks for your answer. But my query was integrating two JIRA instances with one confluence instance. So exporting and importing spaces is not the right solution for us.

Jobin, Thanks. Your answer seems to have resolved my query. I will try it out and see how it behaves.
table of contents links revert back to top of document
Asked by Nick:


Answers:
author: Alexei Budsan
body: Importation a word document and its associated table to contents had never worked for me. Ultimately I've had to in the past manually update the header styles, remove and then insert the TOC macro from within confluence (not using the TOC from word).

comments: author: Nick
body: Hi Alexei,I had done all that - removed the Word ToC and replaced with the Confluence one. The issue is that the Confluence ToC entries do not work properly. When clicking on any entry, the cursor moves to that entry, and then immediately moves right to the top of the document, at least 20 lines above the ToC.


author: Nick
body: Hi,

I have imported a 40 page Word doc into Confluence, using the 'Don't split' option.

Then inserted a Table of Contents which has correctly listed all the numbered sections.

When clicking on a hyperlinked section heading in the ToC, the cursor moves to that section, displays it for a few seconds, then blanks the screen and the cursor goes back to the top of the document (20-30 lines above ToC).

I cannot see any related issues through Google searches for this. Any suggestions ?

Using Confluence 5.6.5 with IE9 (system does not allow other browsers).
Attachments not showing in Viewfile macro
Asked by Geoff Sawyer:

When I try to use the viewfile macro on some pages (not all which is strange) the macro will not pick up to show the attachments which could be viewed. ie within the macro parameters are the page (which is showing the current page) and the file to view (which should show the list of attachments to the page so that the correct one can be selected). In this case there are no options showing and hence it is not possible to use the macro.

Anyone else found this problem and know if there is an answer?


Answers:
author: Justin Justin
body: Geoff, an alternative is to use [Sharpview for Atlassian Confluence,](https://www.appfusions.com/display/SHRPVW) which is quite popular. Provides a richer viewfile experience (feature-rich viewer; either flash-based or HTML5), but also it is only for PDFs. (The link has video and in-line example, since AppFusions website is built on Confluence.)

An evolved variation of that is AppFusions' document management integration plugins for Google Drive, Alfresco, Dropbox, Box, Egnyte, \<your flavor; let us know\>. Here's a [playlist of videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj3RRvf1WrpdQCzgqkO9CjUZyipY1z-EY). In these solutions, you can navigate/embed folders, preview, embed docs, download, upload, and edit (in Office apps including MS Office, NeoOffice, OpenOffice) all from within Confluence ... and also uses the rich viewer of Sharpview.

All of these are highly supported plugins, some since as early as 2010 (and through Confluence's many versions since then). We have customers running these that have renewed for years, with over 20K+ users on their corporate wiki. [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com) if you would like to try these.


author: Geoff Sawyer

author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Geoff,

This is awkward indeed. Do you see any error in the logs regarding attachments and the name of the affected pages?

Are you using the latest version of confluence? I could find some bugs that were fixed in the latest versions:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35155>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34835>

It might be a good idea to check in a staging instance with the latest version installed to check if that replicates;

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Geoff Sawyer
body: We are on v5.4.3 but there were no errors reported just that the macro failed to show any attachments.It is stranger than that as it only appears on certain pages. I can theorise that it depends on the parent page. I am creating new pages on which I wish to display the pdf (or word) attachment; so only the viewfile macro is being used. For some pages it will show the attachments (of the relevant type ie .doc .pdf etc) for others (well one other which I have found) it will not show anything.I have gotten around the problem by creating the page elsewhere and then moving it to where it should be, but it is a strange bug in the system!Maybe that helps?


Tags: confluence-administration
This version of Confluence is unrecognized by the Atlassian Marketplace. It might be a non-standard build or be too new to appear.
Asked by jayasri:

I installed confluence5.6.5 version and created plugins but Iam unable to see the plugins in the UPM below error occurs

This version of Confluence is unrecognized by the Atlassian Marketplace. It might be a non-standard build or be too new to appear.

<br />


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Heya Jayasri,

As the same issue is persisting, can you share which version of UPM is being used? Also is there something related inside the please, atlassian-confluence.log \<Confluence Home/logs\>?

If this is becoming critical for you, I would suggest you to raise a new ticket through our Support Channel (<https://support.atlassian.com)> so we will have the engineers working to have it fixed and provide you the right directions to follow.

Cheers,

Giuliano


author: jayasri
body: yes still I have the same problem


author: jayasri
body: Hi Joseph,

Still I see the same error Iam not able to see the user installed plugins.I have created simple helloworld plugin by studying in the atlasian tutorials but Iam unable to see the plugin under user installed plugins Please let me know what I need to do

comments: author: jayasri
body: Hi Plz reply to my question


author: Joe Clark
body: What version of Confluence are you running? What is the \<confluence.version\> value specified in your pom.xml file? Make sure it is a officially released and supported version.


author: Joe Clark
body: Hi @jayasri,

This can happen when the Atlassian Marketplace database is not updated to know about the new Confluence release. It's not a serious error, it just means that the add-on manager in Confluence is not able to check the plugins you have installed for compatibility with the version of Confluence you're running.

It's now been corrected and the warning message should be gone now.

comments: author: Sebastian Kouba
body: Our clients are really not happy with this because it looks like we installed an improper version on their server. It would be nice if Atlassian could let its marketplace know about its own application versions.


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Am I understanding your problem that you built your own confluence plugins, but they do not show up in the plugin list?
UML diagram with versioning in confluence
Asked by Christian B?ttner:

Hi,

the verion history of pages feature is great! You can even show in a macro the current version, what is very important in safety relevant software projects.

What i need i a rudimentary UML tool to visualize e.g. an important workflow in a flow chart or a communication protocoll. I found some (like Draw.IO) that fits quiet well, but i also need a version history on the page:

uml_versions.png

Something like the own drawn history (see the red arrow), but the history has to belong to the UML diagram, not the page, and a diff of selected versions must be possible,

Is this possible somehow?

Christian


Answers:
author: Christian B?ttner
body: Thank you Rodrigo,

i allready tried this one, but the lack of drawing (in form of drag and drop uml controls) is a no-go for our company..

We need to reduce our 'tool hell' and i think we make it with jira.  
But for this we need an UML Plugin with revision history and a revision comparisson.

christian


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Christian,

I believe you can use [this plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.griffel.confluence.plugins.plant-uml) to achieve the functionality you'd like. The Plant UML might be helpful.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: diagram

history
How can I reference confluence pages / urls without risk of them changing?
Asked by Craig Coxon:

Hi,

I am setting up a knowledge base using Confluence OnDemand and we would like to link to the pages in our Service Desk ticketing system. I was hoping that each page may have some sort of reference that I could search for or link to but I've yet to find one, the other option was to use the URL but the risk with this is that if the content is moved or the title is changed then the URL becomes useless.

It doesn't have to be a link in that it takes you directly to the page, more of a reference so the user that views the ticketing system can be certain that page relates to that ticket.

Can anyone think of a solution that would solve my problem?

Thanks,

Craig


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Use tiny urls. See: [Linking to Confluence pages from other websites](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Links#WorkingwithLinks-LinkingtoConfluencepagesfromotherwebsites)

comments: author: Craig Coxon
body: Perfect, thanks Bob.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

knowledge-base
Sharepoint 2003 migration to Confluence
Asked by Stephen Bui:

Hello! We are looking to migrate our intranet running on SharePoint 2003 to Confluence. What would be the best approach to this project? Any input is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Stephen


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Take a look at

<https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/UWC/Universal+Wiki+Converter>

<https://bitbucket.org/appfusions/universal-wiki-converter>

to start with... But, don't expect this to work out-of-the-box for all cases, especially with Sharepoint


author: Justin Justin
body: Happy to help with the UWC. Write to [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com) and yes, as Sash said, the UWC is a tool, not the whole solution. It really depends on the content of your existing system, which is a variable for all "from" systems, but after a test run or two, and discussion on strategy abt archiving, end goals, etc. it's pretty clear on how to move forward to a successful migration, which is all reviewed up and up with you.

Another consideration is if the migration is going into a new Confluence or merging into an existing one, or if there are differences in the user name accounts. If any of these merge considerations, we review that with you too.

Here's a checklist that is useful to understand all the content elements involved, of which some are heavily challenged and some less so or not at all ... simply depends on your unique content.

<http://www.appfusions.com/display/Dashboard/Wiki+Migration+Checklist>

The point is that there's not a silver bullet. That said though, the UWC will get you 80%+ or more further down the track, which is better than ground-zero.

Hope this helps.


Tags: universal-wiki-converter
how to hide people tab in confluence cloud
Asked by Henrik Madsen:

Hi, is this possible, thanks


Answers:
author: TinA
body: Hello Henrik,

Currently, it is not possible to hide People Directory in OnDemand. As it is a [customization](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Hiding+the+People+Directory), it is not supported.

However, there is a feature request to introduce hiding the Directory from the Browse menu: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7837>. As a feature (and not a customization), it would be available in both standalone and OnDemand versions of Confluence, so do watch and vote for the ticket.

-Regards,  
Tin Nguyen \| Confluence Support.


author: Bill Lanyon
body: Ditto. I need to hide the People Directory from customer users in a customer space please.


author: Alfa Aminudin
body: Hi, Just wondering if there are any updates on this?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Fixed Variables in Templates
Asked by Danielle Goetz:

Is there a way to fix the variables within a template once it's a page?

We've created a template based on the Product Requirements Blueprint. When users create a page based on that template they fill out the form using the provided dropdowns etc. in the wizard. But once they hit next, and it's a page, they could conceivably change that information, e.g. a provided dropdown of "yes, no" could be changed to "oogabooga" on the following page.


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: I am afraid there is not a way to do that. Once the page is created, the information from the template is transform to XHTML so there is no difference between what was a variable in the template or normal text.


Tags: template

variable