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noformat macro not working after update to 5.1
Asked by Lukas Karrer:

Hi community

We have upgraded confluence from 4.x to 5.1. Now, the noformat macro is not workling anymore. The macro is not listed in the macro browser, the editor displays "Unknow macro: noformat"

Any ideas how to fix this? Which add-on does the noformat macro belong to?

Thanks for your help!

Lukas


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Lukas

The noformat macro is one of the modules in the "Basic Macros" plugin. The plugin is shipped with Confluence. Perhaps the plugin or module was disabled for some reason during the upgrade. I've seen that happen before, with no known explanation. To find it, go to "Manage Add-ons" in the admin console, and choose "System" from the dropdown menu. That will show you all the system plugins. Find the "Basic Macros" plugin, and click it to open the details panel. Then choose the link that says "xx of 13 modules enabled", to see the modules. If the noformat module is disabled, you can enable it here. On our site, all 13 modules are enabled.

Cheers, Sarah

comments: author: Lukas Karrer
body: Sarah, thanks for your help.

It seems that the "Confluence Basic Macros" Plugin did not get installed since it does not seem to be compatible with confluence 5.1 (See <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.macros.basic> )

As you are Atlassian Employee, I might ask you to raise this issue internally: How can it be that a bundled system plugin is not compatible with the latest release?

Thanks for your Help!

Lukas


author: SarahA
body: Hallo Lukas

Thanks for pointing that out! I've raised an issue here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28833>

I'll bring it to the attention of our quality assurance and product management teams, for further comment.

Cheers

Sarah


author: SarahA
body: Hallo again Lukas

Our QA team has responded to the issue I raised. It seems that the problem is, after all, specific to your Confluence installation. Please would you raise a support ticket at [http://support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com,), and the support team can help diagnose and fix the issue.

Here's more detail from the QA engineer: The basic macros plugin is bundled successfully with Confluence 5.1 When a new major version is released, there is no easy way to update the Atlassian Marketplace - it's a manual process, and is sometimes forgotten. We are aware of this problem, and looking for an automated solution.  

I hope this helps to clarify the situation. Good luck with restoring the Basic Macros plugin and the noformat macro. :)

Cheers, Sarah


Tags: macro
How to change the default URL address for Confluence?
Asked by lily56:

I use Confluence as company's website. When user input [URL:http://www.XX.com](http://URL:http://www.XX.com), the URL address now is automatic display <http://www.XX.com/display/Spacename/home>

I hope when user input URL :http://www.XX.com? the URL address still is <http://www.XX.com>, but the content actually is <http://www.XX.com/display/Spacename/home>, How can I configure?

In addition?I wish user can not access this URL:http://www.XX.com/dashboard.action ?How can I do?


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello There,

In this case you have to configure your server base URL:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL>

And try to run Confluence behind Apache:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+behind+Apache>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Apache+with+mod_proxy>

Kind regards,

LJ.
Confluence 5.1 Plugin Update Check Incompatible
Asked by Mike Kalnicki:

Performing an update check on my plugins for an upgrade to 5.1 shows incompatibilities in the following Atlassian plugins:

Atlassian Universal Plugin Manager Plugin

Basic Macros

Confluence HTML Macros

Confluence SU

IM Presence NG Plugin

RB Support - Core

Widget Connector

Will these automatically upgrade when I upgrade to 5.1 or will they stop working?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Not all of them are from Atlassian (for example SU plugin) but the ones from Atlassian will be automatically upgraded.


Tags: compatibility
If has macro of SEO KEYWORDS on Confluence Zen foundation ?
Asked by lily56:

I see macro of SEO title and meta description ,but it seems have no SEO keywords. How to find this macro?


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: Both macros have single parameters -- title and description, respectively. Whatever you type into those parameters will be added to the meta tags in the header.


author: Darryl Duke
body: Both macros have single parameters -- title and description, respectively. Whatever you type into those parameters will be added to the meta tags in the header.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: If you have access to the database you can run this query to find the space name and page title of each instance of this macro. To find the search string to you'll need to know the macro title, which you've said is SEO. So run a query like this against the database:

-- SEARCH BODYCONTENT FOR REFERENCE TO A SPECIFIC STRING

select s.spacename, c.title

from bodycontent bc join content c on bc.contentid=c.contentid

join spaces s on s.spaceid=c.spaceid

where bc.body like '%\<ac:macro ac:name="SEO"%';

This will show you where this macro is used. If you're not getting results using Confluence search for SEO, you might also try this:

\* Navigate to Confluence Admin \> Cache Statistics

\*\* Click flush all

\* Navigate to Confluence Admin \> Content Indexing

\*\* Rebuild the index  
Hope this helps!


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
How to Configure Confluence server IP port from 8090 to 80?
Asked by lily56:

The default Confluence server IP port is 8090 , I need change port to 80, but it seems the port number only change between 1234 to 9999, I can't chang to 80, How can I do?

The IP such this exmpale? [http://localhost:80](http://localhost:8090/)


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Have you tried changing the port number in the file \<confluence_install\>/conf/server.xml ?

If you don't want to run Confluence as root and don't want to change your IP tables, you can setup an Apache server runing on port 80 and reverse proxing to Confluence's port. You can read more about this option in [Running Confluence behind Apache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+behind+Apache).

comments: author: Ryan Goodwin
body: mod_proxy configuration described here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Apache+with+mod_proxy>

This setup gets my vote.


author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, it sounds like you are on Linux? you run it as non-root user, you will not be able to run it on e.g. port 80[.](https://www.cloudshards.com/)

There are a few options and the easiest one might be using iptables to redirect port 8090 to port 80[.](https://www.cloudshards.com/confluencehosting.php)

comments: author: Harry Chan
body: iptables is the easiest way -- what's wrong with it? Authbind is another way. Wouldn't recommend running it under root. You could also have a reverse proxy, such as Apache or nginx running on top of it.


author: lily56
body: Can you tell me other optins , I don't want use iptable


author: lily56
body: thank Harry:)


author: mcomsto
body: If I wanted to use iptables, could you point me to a good place to learn about what commands I would need to run?

comments: author: mcomsto
body: I received an answer to my question.

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/195234/confluence-redirect-8090-to-80>
Inserting Blueprints in an existing page?
Asked by Jay A:

I have a need to insert prewritten content into a page. The include Macro won't work for me because after it's inserted, I need to modify it.

Is there any way to insert a Blueprint into an existing page? For example, I may create a Blueprint called "Best Practices for ProductX". If the client requirement involves ProductX, I want to be able to easily put my prewritten best practices for it into the document, and be able to make changes to it (for client names, IP addressing, etc).


Answers:
author: Alex
body: Hi Jay,

A blueprint is a set of page templates with added functionality to help you create, manage and organize content in Confluence more easily.You can certainly customize the blueprint templates to fit your needs, however, it seems as though you want less of a template and more of a "content object", something that allows you to control content from a single source and distribute it to multiple pages throughout your space where the object is called. So for example you could write "Best Practices for Product X" and include it on another page detailing Client Requirements and be able to edit the Best Practices to provide details specific to the client.

So, in short, no you cannot insert a blueprint into an existing page.


author: Alex
body: I added a feature request to JIRA for this, you can view the status (and vote for it) here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28826>

comments: author: Jay A
body: Thanks! Yes, this is exactly what I want. Preferably, I'd like a way to organize that content also. I have hundreds of pages of reusable content, and having it in a "flat" structure would be a nightmare. Ideally, this Content Object would be able to pull content from my _InclusionsLibrary page tree.


author: Alex
body: I added a feature request to JIRA for this, you can view the status (and vote for it) here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28826>


Tags: blueprint

template
Roadmap Plugin task resizing appears not to work in 5.2
Asked by Derek M:

Appears a fix was deployed for this same issue to support 5.1. Is a fix coming for 5.2?

Context: [This is reqgarding this plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-roadmap-plugin).


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: I beleive this has just been fixed. See <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-roadmap-plugin>. You might want to update your plugin.

Out of curisoisty, how have you found the plugin? Do you like it? What do you use it for? Any improvement suggestions? I'm curisous as we're still discussing if this should be a core feature of COnfluence or not.

comments: author: Derek M
body: Thank you. We applied the update to the roadmap plugin which fixed the issue I was experiencing.

I found the plugin doing a Google search. I was looking for a way to graphically display project roadmaps and deliverables at a very high level to make it easily consumed by upper management.

Suggestions:

1. Linkable tasks - this would allow for drill through to a detailed space or page in Confluence...or even Jira. A simple click of a project task would navigate the user to detailed information.

2. Task meta data - simple text entry that would allow for the entry of project description. This would display on mouse over.

3. Current date marker - similar to existing marker feature only have it default to the current date or approximation.

Thanks again for your help.


author: Sherif Mansour
body: Thanks Darek. Can you mark my answer as correct so we can close this thread off?

Thanks for your feedback, I've passed that onto the developer.


author: BillA
body: Thanks for the feature requests! I've added them to our issue tracker:

1. <https://bitbucket.org/mjensen/confluence-roadmap-plugin/issue/32/link-a-task-to-one-or-more-jira-issues>
2. <https://bitbucket.org/mjensen/confluence-roadmap-plugin/issue/45/have-an-optional-task-description>
3. <https://bitbucket.org/mjensen/confluence-roadmap-plugin/issue/44/current-date-marker>


author: Madhusudhan Matrubai
body: We totally love this product, we hope Atlassian take this plugin more seriously and do more bug fixes. We have Gliffy on board and have compared creating road maps and found "road map " plugin is much more powerful and yet simple. If they can take priority and fix this bug, <https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/confluence-roadmap-plugin/issue/63/unwanted-whitespaces-are-shown-when> it will be great.


Tags: confluence-app

roadmap
OnDemand integraton among Confluence / JIRA / GreenHopper: Is that possible ?
Asked by Marcio Barroso:

I'd like to know if it is possible to get Confluence, JIRA and GreenHopper working together using only OnDemand instances of them.

PS: I'd like also to integrate my private SVN server to a JIRA OnDemand instance. Is that possible ?

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: JoeS
body: In OnDemand these products can be linked if they are under the same account. You wouldn't be able to link differnet OnDemand accounts together.


author: Bruno Rosa
body: Marcio, just for the record, you can't integrate your local SVN server to JIRA OnDemand directly, but you can integrate your SVN with a local Fisheye server and connect it with your JIRA OnDemand instance. More info abou this can be found here - <https://go-dvcs.atlassian.com/display/aod/connect>.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Unable to add Jira 5.2 Gadgets to Confluence 5.0
Asked by Divya Parthasarathy:

I am trying to create a project dashboard in Confluence 5.0 using burn down charts and create/resolved charts in Jira (ver 5.2) in Confluence 5.0 and I cannot seem to do that. Can someone guide me on how to do this?


Answers:
author: Ivan Tse
body: I believe that you might be running into a known bug.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-29908>

The workaround for getting to function for the moment would be to turn off gzip compression in JIRA.

comments: author: Divya Parthasarathy
body: Thanks we will try that... following up on this we were only able to figure our how to include a burn down chart gadget -- how do we include a create/resolved chart from Jira into confluence? Thanks!


author: Divya Parthasarathy
body: ![](../../../upfiles/error_4.jpg)

hi Celso,

<br />

Thanks for your response, our jira admin tried the steps you mentioned above and is getting the above error(screenshot uploaded)... could you helps us figure our what we are doing wrong? thanks! Divya


author: CelsoA
body: Hi Divya,

Please refer to this link to see how to create Jira Gadgets on Confluence.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding+JIRA+Gadgets+to+a+Confluence+Page>

Regards,


Tags: gadget

jira
Any plans to allow attachments in filesystem for clustered Confluence?
Asked by James Roberts:

Are there any plans to allow attachments to be stored via filesystem rather than database (as is required now) for clustered instances of Confluence? Storing large amounts of data in the database could cause some performance decrease and we would like to do it via filesystem. I've searched for documentation that may indicate whether that is a possiblity but didn't find anything.


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: we have a open feature request for this you might want to watch/vote/comment: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-9335>
Atlassian products (JIRA - Confluence) maintenance (support and upgrade) fees?
Asked by Tsol:

Hey everybody,

i have just checking the policy for maintance renewal. And in the faq section of products, they have the following

> **\*** Maintenance renewals commence from the expiration of your active maintenance period, regardless of when the maintenance renewal is purchased. If you intend to renew, we recommend renewing at least 30 days before expiration.

I was wondering what happens if you have a product that have not been under maintenance more than a year.

You have to pay for the year that you have been out of maintenance or you have to buy a totally new licence or something else?

Cheers,

Kostas


Answers:
author: Jim C.
body: Hi Kostas,

Yes, Aggelos is correct. When you are more than a year out of maintenance it is more cost effective to purchase a new license which includes a full 12 months of software maintenance.

If you have a $10 Starter License, and the license is more than a day out of maintenance, we recommend you purchase a new license. This is because the cost of a new Starter License and a renewal for one is the same $10.

Hope this helps.

Jim

comments: author: Tsol
body: Hey Jim,

thanx for your help.

Cheers,

Kostas


author: angel
body: Hi Kostas,

You have to pay for the full license.

Cheers,

Aggelos

comments: author: Tsol
body: Hi Aggelos,

thanx a lot.

Cheers,

Kostas


Tags: licence

maintenance
CSS class for "Paragraph" text
Asked by Jay A:

If I use the source editor, the \<p\> stuff generated in the WYSIWYG editor does not have a class associated with it. Is there a way to associate a class with the "Paragraph" style? The reason is, when I use the scroll PDF exporter, I want to modify the font/size \*only\* for text generated as the Paragraph type in the WYSIWYG editor. If I modify it for all \<p\> tags, it obviously formats things I don't want it to. I'd like to be able to specify attributes for something like p.confluence.

Yes, I know I can change this with the source editor, but that's potentially doing hundreds or thousands of modifications for each document. I'd like the WYSIWYG editor to put it in automatically.


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: @Stefan: Your link is dead because of the dot at the end.


author: Sean Curtis
body: In lieu of adding a class to all paragraphs in the content what about just being more specific in selecting them? Something like:

```
.wiki-content &gt; p {  ...}
```

That will only target paragraphs that are at the "top level" (ie not in a macro). You may need to extend it to match other things like:

```
.wiki-content &gt; ul &gt; li &gt; p {  ...}
```

comments: author: Jay A
body: Where would I add this? In the CSS for the Scroll PDF exporter?


author: Sean Curtis
body: Yup. You may need to boost the specificity - I'm not familiar with the Scroll PDF exporter but it should work. Try it and see :)


author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: For the Scroll PDF Exporter you can put it into Content Formatting panel of your template as described here: [http://www.k15t.com/display/PDF/Formatting+the+Content](http://www.k15t.com/display/PDF/Formatting+the+Content.).

<br />


Tags: css
Need help for setup: Access Rights
Asked by Matthias Bachler:

Dear all,

we have decided to switch our 10 user starter licence to 50 or more,

but before we can proceed I need to know how it would be possible to setup access rights.

what we want / our "Problem"

we have different people from different locations who will be working in the system.

those system might be combined in few spaces (like tutorials) but be restricted for others (like financial results etc.)

so the question is how to setup the users in groups so we don't need to create like 1000x of groups

detail example

in our office in thailand we would have abt 3 users,

"edit" / "view" / "admin"

those would be groups.

but we won't need those only for thailand but also for other locations,

where only the location itself should be able to view / edit their information.

meaning we would setup a user with following groups: location / role / 2nd role (etc)

is it possible to check if a user has both groups to access a space / page?

or do I need to setup groups like (thailand_sales_edit) (china_bookkeeping_view) etc... ?

also open for other idears.

thank you and best regards,

Matt


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: You could set up an ldap system that uses nested groups. We have documentation describing this. I believe this to be the solution to your needs as nested groups inherit the permissions of their 'parent groups'.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Nested+Groups>

Hope this helps!


author: JohnA
body: Hi Matt,

I'm sorry to say that permissions checks don't cascade so permissions checks will only check against one group, but you don't necessarilly need to configure so many groups if you can have a bookkeeping group and have all the members from every office who need those permissions. However, you will probably find that grouping as you are describing helps with user management in the longer term, even if it does require more groups.

All the best,  
John
Adhoc workflows plugin and page activity log
Asked by Jeannette Lamb:

I haven't been able to find any help from comalatech so I'm hoping maybe someone else has encountered and resolved this issue. We're using the adhoc workflows plugin for page approvals which logs the page activity of state changes. However, I've found that if a user Rejects a page, the previous approvals that were logged in the page activity are removed. This is a big issue for keeping track of approvals, nothing should be removed from the activity log. I'd really like to know if there is a way to resolve this in the markup or another configuration setting that I missed.

Confluence v4.1, adhoc workflows 3.2.5

Here is the workflow.

{workflow:name=Document Review \& Approval}

{description}

An Approvals Workflow with five stages (Draft, Ready for Review, Approved, Published and Update Pending). Staff edit pages, and assign reviewers when ready. Once Approved by assigned Reviewers, the owner of the page is notified that it is ready to be Published. Once published by the owner, content changes are Published, and viewable by non-participants.

{description}

{workflowparameter:Owner\|type=user\|edit=true}

@creator@

{workflowparameter}

{state:Draft\|submit=Ready for Review}

{state}

{state:Update Pending\|submit=Ready for Review}

{state}

{state:Ready for Review\|approved=Approved\|rejected=Update Pending}

{approval:Review\|assignable=true}

{state}

{state:Approved\|approved=Published\|rejected=Update Pending}

{approval:Owner\|final=true\|user=@Owner@}

{state}

{state:Published\|final=true\|updated=Update Pending\|hideselection=true}

{state}

{trigger:pageapproved\|approval=Review}

{send-email:user=@Owner@\|subject=Page ready to be published}

The page @page@ has been approved by \[\~@user@\] and is waiting to be published.

{pageactivity}

{send-email}

{trigger}

{workflow}


Answers:
author: Jeannette Lamb
body: see thread with comalatech support

<https://comalatech.zendesk.com/requests/1369>


author: Jeannette Lamb
body: see thread with comalatech support

<https://comalatech.zendesk.com/requests/1369>


author: Roberto Dominguez
body: Hi,

We quickly tried your workflow and we were not able to reproduce your problem.

Could you submit a ticket on <https://comalatech.zendesk.com/> ?

Please provide screenshots of the page's activity after the rejection (Tools \> Page Activity) and we will look into it.

Roberto


author: Roberto Dominguez
body: Oops! noticed you had submitted the issue already. Following up there


Tags: adhoc-workflows
Unable to upload files to certain spaces in our OnDemand Confluence site. Receive 'Could not upload the file to Confluence. The server may be unavailable' error.
Asked by Joel Wood:

Unable to upload files to confluences on particular spaces using the edit function of the page.

However, It is possible to upload using Tools\>Attachments\>Upload File .

I cannot check logs as this is an OnDemand service that apparently does not allow me access to such logs.


Answers:
author: Pocums
body: I am also having this issue all the time. How could it be fixed?


author: Joel Wood
body: Using the file selection dialog through insert \> attachment.


author: RianA
body: How did you do the upload, is it drag and drop?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud