youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Virtualized XEN environment supported?
Asked by Andreas Koller:

Does Atlassian support - non clustered or clustered - Confluence installations on XEN virtualizations?


Answers:
author: LucasA
body: Hi Maghnus,

As Bruna told you, neither Xen or VMware aren't officially supported by Atlassian -- as well VMware can cause several performance issues with Atlassian software. Howeve,r if you intend to use a virtualized platform, we have an enterprise guide that may help you with this matter:

- <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=312740794>

It is focused on VMware, but some information over there can be used by all virtualization platforms.

Best regards,  
Lucas Timm

comments: author: Brian Surratt
body: Lucas,

The page you linked to is secured. I found references to another page on the topic in the JIRA documentation site, *Virtualizing JIRA (JIRA on VMware)*, but that page doesn't resolve. Is there a replacement for these pages?

Thank you.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Xen itself is not supported, however in case you experience some issue running Confluence on XEN the supporters will be able to help if XEN is not causing the problem (as performance issues).

Cheers!


Tags: atlassian-support

virtual-machine
Current user info
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

is there a macro which list the current logged in users in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi,

You should be able to use the [User List Macro](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+List+Macro) , but see the note about needing to enable the user listener (<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+User+List+Macro>) and that it's not 100% reliable on some application servers.

Andrew.


Tags: login

macro
URL for PDF Export Stylesheet?
Asked by Steffen Heller:

Hello,

does anyone know where the PDF Export Stylesheet is stored.   
I would like to use it in combination with the {style} macro and import it with its URL like this:

```
{style:import=http://whatever.com/mystyle.css}{style}
```


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Is it really not possible to answer this?!

The data entered at Space Admin \> PDF Stylesheet, something must happen with it... Is it stored somewhere? Is it stored as a .css file? Can it be accessed?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: [N](https://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/190480945/confluencedefaultpdf.css?version=1&modificationDate=1243580667083)ot sure if this helps, but the doc mentions an external CSS:

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/190480945/confluencedefaultpdf.css?version=1\&modificationDate=1243580667083](https://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/190480945/confluencedefaultpdf.css?version=1&modificationDate=1243580667083)

comments: author: Steffen Heller
body: Something like that. But what I meant is not the confluencedefaultpdf but my own stylesheet that is created at Space Admin \> PDF Stylesheet.  
In the page source code are a lot of references in the form of "\<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href=..." and I was wondering if my own stylesheet is one of them.   


Tags: export

stylesheet
What is the best way to rename a user in Confluence?
Asked by Pankaj Jangid:

We run a Confluence instance over our organization LDAP user directory. Now a user is renamed in LDAP. What is the best way to migrate permissions/ownerships of all the content that the user has generated using older ID?


Answers:
author: Pankaj Jangid
body: Found a document related to this in the Confluence 4.2 documentation <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Changing+Usernames>


Tags: user-management
Creating a thin seprator line in confluence
Asked by Ali Behboodian:

How can one create the thin seprator line in the following wiki page that comes after the word "Websites"

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFHOST/Example+Confluence+Sites>

This is different (thinner) than the line that gets created by puting four dashes in a row (----).

Thanks


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: I think that is the horizontal rule?

Editor \> Insert \> Horizontal Rule in 4.x!

comments: author: Ali Behboodian
body: The two lines are different. The one you point to, seems to be an empty line with dark borders. The one on the site is a simple thin line.


author: Dmitriy Matveev
body: For newer versions also is true
Is there a dynamic status macro based on the content of it?
Asked by Rune Darrud:

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to display the status macro or similar, with color coding, based on its content.

The content is pulled from an external source via the magnificent SQL Plugin, and I'd like to color code the result based on it (not entire rows, just single cells, based on singular string values).

Thoughts on how this might be achieved?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: In your SQL statement, you can make a field to have text something like:

```
{status:title=Good|color=green}
```

Use an SQL case statement or similar to condition the specific value of the status value based on what is in your data. Make sure you specify **output=wiki** in your sql macro.

comments: author: Rune Darrud
body: Just to follow up, example with MySQL for those who wonder:  

```
SELECT DISTINCT `icinga_hosts`.`display_name`,  `icinga_hosts`.`alias`,  `icinga_hosts`.`address`,  `icinga_hoststatus`.`status_update_time`,  CASE `icinga_hoststatus`.`current_state`    WHEN '0' THEN '{status:title=UP|color=green}'   WHEN '1' THEN '{status:title=DOWN|color=red}'   WHEN '2' THEN '{status:title=UNREACHABLE|color=red}}' END as hoststatusFROM `icinga_hosts`,`icinga_hostgroups`,`icinga_hostgroup_members`,`icinga_hoststatus`,`icinga_objects`  WHERE (`icinga_hosts`.`host_object_id`=`icinga_hostgroup_members`.`host_object_id`)AND (`icinga_hostgroups`.`hostgroup_id`=`icinga_hostgroup_members`.`hostgroup_id`)AND (`icinga_objects`.`object_id`=`icinga_hostgroups`.`hostgroup_object_id`)AND (`icinga_hosts`.`host_object_id`=`icinga_hoststatus`.`host_object_id`)AND (`icinga_objects`.`objecttype_id`='3')AND (`icinga_objects`.`name1` like '<hostgroup>') 

Thanks for your quick reply!
```
How can I make the file name column wider in confluence for attachments?
Asked by HelpDeskS:

The question is self-explanatory. I must be a dunce because I can't find a way to do this.


Answers:
author: Jon Verville
body: Atlassian is looking into fixing this known issue, but they haven't yet. See: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22002>


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Can you please poke atlassian on this question?

I would add this question applies to both the attachments display as well as the **attachments** macro


author: Fujitsu Karlskrona
body: Hi

It made the name column wider, but the filename is still truncated.

Is there a way to fix that too?

/Mathias


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi,

You can make the column wider by using some custom CSS. To set it globally select Browse -\> Confluence Admin -\> Look and Feel -\> Stylesheet and use something similar to:

```
table.attachments th.filename-column {  width: 75%;}
```

using a value in place of 75% that's appropriate for the width you want.

To change it for individual spaces use the same CSS, but enter it via Browse -\> Space Admin -\> Stylesheet.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: This can't be used with OnDemand either :(.


Tags: attachment

macro

size
Adding dynamic content conditionally to a Page in WIki
Asked by Nariman Riahi:

I like to add content to Wiki that upon selection of a popup will change.

For example if I select option-x from popup then the text underneath will be different than when option-y is selected.

Any idea how to do that?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You could use the [Confluence Run Plugin](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RUN) where the selection determines what page to include.

```
{run:autoRun=true|replace=page:A:Page to display:radio::A:Page A:B:Page B}{include:$page}{run}
```


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,Maybe the Composition Plugin can help you: <http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/COMP/About+Composition>Best regardsThomas
Confluence "Insert Jira Issue" macro broken
Asked by MichaelS:

It seems that the "Insert Jira Issue" macro in Confluence is somehow broken. If I try to create a new Jira issue in Confluence, I can enter the issue data, but the creation of the Issue fails because the marco does not set the "reporter" field of the issue. Normaly the reporter field was set to the current confluence user. My Confluence uses the Jira user database. I use the macro relatively often, so guess that it has been broken by recent updates. I use Jira 5.0.4 and Confluence 4.2.2. Can anyone confirm this?

![](../../upfiles/Insert_Jira_Issue.png)

Regards,

Michael


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: This is a known bug, introduced in JIRA 5.0.3.

Watch this issue for updates: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-28046>


author: Don Willis
body: This is fixed in Confluence 4.2.4, which should be released next week.


author: Rick Bowman
body: I am experiencing the exact same thing. This is an important part of our workflow so hopefully someone can explain how to correct this!


Tags: jira
How do I easily insert link to new page in 4.2 ?
Asked by samjones6:

OK, I have reviewed this document:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Keyboard+Shortcuts>

And I see that when I type \[something

That I get an insert link menu.

What I do not see or understand (sorry), is how to be as efficient as I was in wiki markup to type:

\[a new page I want to link to and create\]

Please advise.

I am sorry if this is documented. I read the docs, with someone reading them along by my side, and I tried it, and I don't get it so far.

(note, must be keyboard only, and not require any memorized shortcuts that are new.... ctrl K and ctrl S are as far as I go!)

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Sam,

In 4.2 you should be able to just type:

```
[a new page I want to link to and create]
```

and the closing \] should automatically turn the text into a link. If the text inside the \[\]'s is the same as an existing page in the Space then it links to that page, if it doesn't match an existing page it creates a link which will create a new page when it's clicked.

Is that not what's happening?

Andrew.

comments: author: samjones6
body: yes that works! Thx! (not intuitive, because of all the auto stuff popping up in editor)
Cannot create project link from Crucible to Confluence
Asked by Chnikki:

We have been trucking along with Crucible and JIRA. (Thanks for you help with that!) We have the application links created from Crucible to JIRA and Confluence. I finally created a project to link to a Confluence space. I keep getting the following error though:

Sorry, there are no links available when using anonymous access, check the permission configuration of the remote application.

I followed the directions to disable anonymous access to remote API's in Confluence. I re-started both the Crucible and Confluence services, but still got the same error. I deleted and re-created the application link between Crucible and Confluence, but still get the same error.

I haven't found much about this on the interwebs...do you have any suggestions or other ideas?


Answers:
author: Chnikki
body: I contacted Atlassian support for help with this. Daniel Y. with Atlassian advised me how to get it working. I had origanally created the application link in Crucible using "Trusted Application" with Confluence. He had me:

* delete the existing application link in Crucible to Confluence and vice versa.
* After the application link is deleted in each app, create the application link again in Crucible to Confluence. When it asks if it's a "Trusted Application" click on "No" and complete the wizard.

1. In Crucible \> Application Links, click "Configure" on the newly created app link
2. Outgoing Authentication tab \> Trusted App tab\> click Disable \> Basic Access tab \> login with admin sign-on
3. Incoming Authentication tab \> Trusted App tab\> click Disable \> Basic Access tab \> login with admin sign-on

* Follow the above 3 steps in Confluence
* In Crucible, go to Projects. Choose Application Links under Operations on the project you want to link to Confluence. Proceed with "Add Link"

More investigation is being done at Atlassian to see if there is bug with "Trusted Application" in the wizard for Application Links. I'll keep you posted if an issue ticket is created for it.


Tags: fisheye-crucible
"Like" button for Confluence 3.3.1
Asked by Royce Wong:

Is the ["Like" button for Confluence 4.2](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Likes+and+Popular+Content) available for Confluence 3.3.1 ?

It says on that page:
> The functionality is provided by a plugin called the 'Confluence Like Plugin'

but I couldn't find such a plugin on [Atlassian's Plugin Exchange](https://plugins.atlassian.com/).

We plan to upgrade in distance future but we want this feature NOW! :)

We prefer not to use other 3rd party solutions to implement the "Like" button since their data probably won't be compatible with the 'Confluence Like Plugin', hence we will lose all the "Liked" data when we upgrade to 4.2.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: It is a plugin but that is available only in 4.2. Since it is a plugin, you can disable/enable at will and that is one reason why it was made as a plugin. But that doesn't make it available for lower versions, atleast for now!

comments: author: Royce Wong
body: Thanks Jobin. Do you knowwwhere is the 'Confluence Like Plugin' home page?

Someone make that plugin backward compatible for Confluence 3.x please please plese!


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: I don't think every system plugin has a home page. I could be wrong abt this one! Someone from Atlassian can confirm ;)


author: hsuhailah
body: Hey Royce, this plugin does not have a home page and not listed under our [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/,), just FYI


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Royce,

i would rather use the time to prepare the migration to Confluence 4 or 5 than doing a lot of customization in your quite old Confluence instance.

Also I don't think, that watching a page is identical to like a page. A page watched by a lot of people might be popular (in the meaning of 'like'), but maybe not all of the people who would click on the "like" button want to be informed about changes on the page.

Just my opinion.

Cheers

Thomas


author: Royce Wong
body: Now I think about it, the "Like" feature I am looking for is almost identical to the existing "Watch" feature.

If I rename "Watch" to "Like" and "Stop Watching" to "Unlike", that would serve the same purpose for me.

There is a macro posted in the forum: <http://forums.atlassian.com/message.jspa?messageID=257362632> which uses the comments as Likes, but I think using Watch is more elegant.

Now how can I put the "Watch" \& "Stop Watching" (options under the Tools menu) onto every single page, and rename them to "Like" and "Unlike"? Any idea?


Tags: like
People Directory Does Not Show All Users
Asked by Craig Hylwa:

Confluence 4.1.9

Not all users are showing up in the people directory.


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: Are these users defined within Confluence, or come via a LDAP connection? If it's the latter, then has your configuration included adding the users to the confluence-users group? This may make a difference. In previous versions I think I'm right in saying that users were only visible in the people directory once they had actually logged in to Confluence.Hope this helps,Charles
Can you use confluence 4.2 with PostgreSQL 9.1
Asked by Jim d:

We are upgrading our boxes to PostgreSQL 9.1 from version 8.4. The documentation lists support for postgresql 9.0, but not version 9.1. For other Atlassian products the documentation indicates if newer versions are supported (e.g. on the bamboo documentation it lists support for "8.2+").

Will Confluence 4.2 work with PostgreSQL 9.1?


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Jim,

As mentioned, currently Confluence only support PostGreSQL 9.0. Please understand that even though we do not support 9.1 yet, that does not mean that it won't work, it just means that we have not tested our product against it yet, hence we are unable to support it yet.

Anyway, I found an improvement request in regards to this

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25354>

We highly recommend you to vote on it to raise the popularrity of the request, watch it so that you would be updated on it and please feel free to address your concern directly on it.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Jim d
body: Thanks Septa. I'll vote up that issue you mention, and if we end up upgrading I'll be happy to provide datapoints.


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi Jim, I found this documentation about the [Supported Platforms](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms) for Confluence 4.2

Edit:

Altought it doesn't say anything about the 9.0 version, here says that yes it is:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.2+Release+Notes#Confluence42ReleaseNotes-Infrastructurechanges>

comments: author: Jim d
body: Thanks Ramiro - yes, I saw that only 9.0 is listed in the docs. I suppose my question is really "will it work" vs. "is it officially" supported (though I care about that, too, so thanks). Let me know if I should phrase my question better.


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Oops sorry, that happens when someone doesn't read completely the question. Lesson learned ;)

Answer edited.


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Yes it is supported as I see here:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.2+Release+Notes#Confluence42ReleaseNotes-Infrastructurechanges>


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: I erased the other question answer too, because it was the same...


Tags: postgres
Restore Page Layout VMD?
Asked by Matthew J. Horn:

I spent a considerable amount of time customizing the Page Layout and Main Layouts for a space. Then one of my "admin" users clicked a single link (the "Restore Default" link in the admin panel) and undid all the customizations. Is there a way to restore or find previous editions of these custom VMDs?

matt


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Follow up to this. After noodling around in the database, it doesn't look like versions of the decorators are stored in the DECORATOR table. As a result, unless there's another way, I'll have to restore the database from a known good back up and then extract the one decorator that got blown away.


Tags: backup

layout
Encoding problem in comments
Asked by Kate Slisenko:

Hello.

We are currently evaluating Confluence.

I've got a problem with comments encoding. Some users are able to add comments in Russian and encoding is not broken, some aren't (depending on used browser). It seems to work OK in Firefox, but in IE and Chrome encoding is broken.

Confluence encoding is set as UTF-8. Encoding test is accomplished properly.

How can I fix the issue?

Thanks in advance!

Regards, Kate


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi Kate,

Unfortunately, it seems that you're hitting the following bug.  
\* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25173>

However, no worries, it's fixed in Confluence 4.2.2. Perhaps you can download it and give it a try.

Cheers,  
Josua

comments: author: Kate Slisenko
body: Thanks Rian, I've upgraded to 4.2.2 and comments encoding is OK now. Thanks a lot for your help!

Regards, Kate
Restore a space
Asked by Richard S:

I'm in the middle of evaluating Confluence (via on demand trial) for my company, and one of the key requirements is to set up a project structure within a space that can act as a template.

The only way I can see of doing this at the moment is to backup the space, manually edit the XML and then restore the space.

This should work fine, however as I am not a system administrator, I can not get to the option to restore a space.

Some ideas / help would be really appreciated. =)


Answers:
author: Bastiaan Jansen
body: Hi Steve,

You do not need to be the system administrator, a normal administrator is enough to get to the space import tool. If you browse to the **admin page =\> wiki tab =\> configuration =\> Import Spaces**

Let me know if you have additional questions.

comments: author: Richard S
body: Many thanks - works a treat. =)


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Without doing some manipulation of the export, you cannot change the space key on import. You might want to consider using [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) to copy a hierarchy (or all) of pages from another space (consider them "tempates"). Use the [copyPage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copyPage) or [copySpace](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copySpace) action. This also allows you to do easy do some [findReplace](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-findReplace) of text. You can set some default space permissions to get started as well. For download only: optionally, use the [Confluence CLI Plugin](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CCLI) to make it easier for an administrator to do this within Confluence.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to rename a space key in Confluence?
Asked by Rumceisz:

is there a script for this?

Thanks!

Rumi


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: There's a copy space plugin... you could copy it, then delete the original. It won;t do redirects though.

comments: author: Jozef Kotl?r
body: It should be noted, that by copy space you will break also links based on pageid.


Tags: space
PDF export preformatted text is too large
Asked by Chris Mylonas:

Hi - I just exported my first space and opened the PDF to find that the preformatted text is hidiously large :D

How do I reduce the size of it for export. On screen the size looks correct and proportional.

I am using confluence version 4.2.2

Thanks for any help


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Have you tried to explicitly define the CSS for the export? This is documented here:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF>

hth,

matthew horn

comments: author: Chris Mylonas
body: Thanks - after a few attempts I worked it out to be

pre{

font-size: 10px;

}

In the PDF Stylesheet in the space admin section.

Thanks for pointing that out - cool name confluenza :)


author: salvatore
body: Hi,

I wonder do you have any suggetion about pdf extraction process? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Pan

----------------------------------------------------------------

**Related:** [pdf extraction](http://www.pqscan.com/extract-text/from-pdf-csharp.html)


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Thanks. I just bought the domain the other day. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet... :)

matt


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Thanks. I just bought the domain the other day. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet... :)

matt


Tags: export

pdf