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Team Calendars slow in Confluence 4
Asked by Adolfo Casari:

Team Calendars takes 20-30 seconds to load in a page. In the dashboard it blocks the display of the page (which is worst).

If I disable it, all is back to normal.

Is this planned to be fixed in a future release?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: DavidA
body: Hi Adolfo,

We've been tracking this issue [here](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-339) and [constantly improving](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-328) [performance](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-348). We've improved the dashboad calendar performance [quite a bit](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-328?focusedCommentId=48502&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-48502) in 1.4.0 and there will be more improvements coming in the next version.

comments: author: Adolfo Casari
body: Thank you, hope to see a new version soon. Calendars are essential to colaboration in Confluence.


author: Adolfo Casari
body: As a follow up, after moving from a virtual server to a physical one, this issue was gone. CPU seems to have been a bottleneck in the virtual server that impacted to Team Caldendars.


author: Scott Mercer
body: I'm seeing CPU spikes to 99.5% and 20 seconds loads for team calendars as well. David - is there anything you can recommend short of moving to a physical box? Would adding cores help?


author: Joe Reyna
body: I am on Confluence 5.1.2 and Team Calendars are still moving and blocking the page when viewing the Dashboard. This especially happens when a calendar has too many events and a warning dialogue is displayed seconds after loading the page and thus creating a distraction. Has this been fixed yet? I have Team Calendars v3.2.2


author: DavidA
body: Hi Scott, it's tricky for me to recommend anything as we don't know enough of your problem. Perhaps, would you mind filling a support ticket with us at <https://support.atlassian.com/> and we'll help to see if there's some settings we can change to make it better for you?


author: Joe Clark
body: I've pinged a Team Calendars developer with a link to this question.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
UWC conversion lines for tables?
Asked by Lis Riba:

Has anybody created conversion lines in UWC to convert HTML tables (\<table, \<tr, and \<td tags) into the {table, {tr, and {td macros offered in Adaptivist's Content Formatting plugin?

I thought I'd check here before struggling thru the regex myself.

Also, is there any place to share converter lines/files? I'm dealing with a TWiki whose markup has been liberally sprinkled with HTML tags. I'd be glad to share my custom converter with others if there's some forum for it...


Answers:
author: Laura Kolker
body: Check out the [Mediawiki's Table handling](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes#UWCMediawikiNotes-TableConfiguration). There's converters for outputting table syntax (from either mediawiki or html tables) into either Confluence table or Content Formatting syntaxes. The html transformations depend on the [Xml Framework](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+xml+converter+framework), which does need the html to be well-formed. If yours isn't, and you've already scrubbed out any non-html xml, you can use htmltidy option to clean up the html in question.

As for a place to share custom converters, if they're java-regex properties (and not classes) you could add them as a comment to the [UWC TWiki Notes](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Twiki+Notes) page. Otherwise, the best thing to do would perhaps be to submit a patch? You can email me offlist to discuss that if you're interested. ([laura.kolker@gmail.com](mailto:laura.kolker@gmail.com))

comments: author: Lis Riba
body: Thanks.

FWIW, I had been thinking that whatever code might be used for converting \<table parameters to {table should also be adaptable to migrate \<span style="..."\> to {span:style=...} and \<div to {div


Tags: universal-wiki-converter
How to remove the build number from the login page
Asked by Ronald de Vries:

How can I remove the build number from the login page?


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: \<web-inf\>/classes/templates/plugins/footer/footer.vm


author: JamieA
body: Oh sorry, I answered for jira.


author: Ronald de Vries
body: Jamie's answer put me on the right track and I've got it.

The actual file is (in my case) e:\\confluence-3.5.13-std\\confluence\\decorators\\includes\\footer-content.vm. It contains a section \<ul id="poweredby"\> and in there you can remove the getversion number line.

Thanks for your answers


author: Ronald de Vries
body: Thank Louis, you're probably right, or maybe some .vm etc. files. Next step now is to find out which ones.


author: Luis Mayora
body: You have to manually edit some JSP file i guess.
Any future plans to allow Conf Page Titles to contain " / + ( or [ ' characters?
Asked by Todd McKnight:

We're new users to Confluence and it turns out we use a few keyboard characters \*tons\* more then we relized. Coming from diff tool set and was not an issue with that software.

Any ideas? Could not find it as a Ticket request so maybe it's just our habits?


Answers:
author: Matt
body: Hi Jon - here's an improvement request that you might want to vote for -- [Remove restrictions on characters in page and blog titles](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-9458)

comments: author: Todd McKnight
body: Thanks Matt. But link is to post, not Request.. can you update?


author: Matt
body: Sorry about that! Updated.


author: Mark Hrynczak
body: All restrictions on characters in page titles have been removed, as of Confluence 4.1, which has just been released.

See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.1+Release+Notes#Confluence41ReleaseNotes-Useanycharacterinpagetitles>


author: Kevin Buchs
body: Jon,

Page names have to be legal for a URL. That could not be easily changed.

comments: author: Todd McKnight
body: There has to be a way - even with the basic charaters. Wordpress and Joomla both support it via some subsitutes and such.


Tags: special-character
Space Description in C 4.0
Asked by Adolfo Casari:

In 3.5. the space description was displayed in the main dashborad under the space name. Not anymore in 4.0.

Is there any setting available in 4.0 to show the description under the space name ?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: No, it's only visible in the Space Directory. Although this does feel like a great feature request suggestion - I've raised one for you: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25987


author: Pamela Cole
body: I would also like to know the answer to this...we used the Space Description heavily....
Will a fresh install using an existing database and content backup retain content/settings?
Asked by RyanR:

Prior to the upgrade wizard feature, we would create a version specific installation directory each time we upgraded (in the event we needed to roll back to the previous version). As you may guess, the upgrade wizard will install v4.0 within a directory called something like "confluence-v3-5-5." That being said, we would like to switch to a version independent installation directory (e.g. "confluence") so we can take advantage of the upgrade wizard for future releases.

If I perform a fresh install of v4.0 and connect it to our existing v3.5.5 database and import our latest daily backup, will that retain all of our content and settings? I know this method worked when we upgraded to the latest version of JIRA, but I wasn't sure if the same could be said for Confluence.

Unfortunately, I don't have a testing server at the moment so I'm trying to get a feel for the best possible upgrade procedure from v3.5.5 to v4.0 without having to deal with a messy installation directory or losing our data.

Thank you in advance,  
Ryan


Answers:
author: Remon van G
body: Yes, Confluence also can be upgraded like this. But always review the specific upgrade notes and set your backup safely asside. When pointing new Confluence to the old DB, you should not need to import the database anymore.


author: Syed Faizan
body: I have installed latest Confluence on my server, how can I connect it to existing Confluence SQL databases ? any guidelines and steps please share.


author: Remon van G
body: yes, this is how it works for confuence as well.


Tags: install
Confluence 4, paragraph new line
Asked by Machiel Machiel:

Hi,

When I typ a word and press enter, a extra empty new line is added, I cannot delete it. How can I have the editor not add this extra line?


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Here's how the HTML on the page will be marked up, and should help you understand a little...

Typing Enter will have this effect:

```
&lt;p&gt;previous paragraph&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[CARET-HERE]&lt;/p&gt;
```

Typing Shift+Enter will have this effect

```
&lt;p&gt;previous paragraph&lt;br/&gt;[CARET-HERE]&lt;/p&gt;
```


author: Kay Brown
body: Use Shift and Enter. This will create one line.

Regards,

Kay

comments: author: Machiel Machiel
body: Ah ok, would have never guessed it, thanks :)


author: Sherif Mansour
body: Peat,

Should also highlight that we have a feature request to change the default paragraph bahaviour. If you think that would help you, you might want to watch/vote this issue: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5949>
Adding a macro to a new page/blog post automatically
Asked by Mark Nixon:

Hi All,

I have a rate macro I want to be on the bottom of all new pages and blogs that are created. Is there an easy way to achieve this?

Thanks  
Mark


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: If you're feeling adventurous, you could create a Confluence plugin that listens for page \& blog creation events and appends the macro to the end of the page.

Failing that, consider adding it to the theme see **/confluence/decorators/page.vmd** \& **/confluence/decorators/blogpost.vmd** in the Confluence installation directory for where youd add them.

e.g.

```
$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{macro-name-here}")
```

comments: author: Mark Nixon
body: Im having some trouble with that - in which section would the code be inserted? Have tried in the Page Specific Decoratoor and General Page Decorating with no luck... i've tried top add the code to every section (not at once) with no luck....

Thanks


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Mark: I've done a quick (very rough) how to video for adding the macro to all page/blogpost decorators: <http://youtu.be/snfSkTyOGQ0>

I hope this helps.
Create comment by replying to update notification email
Asked by Peter Meier:

Hi,

I'm searching for a way to be able to reply to update notifications from Confluence via email. The answer would then be added as a comment to the page.

I've had a look at several email plugins like

<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/21973>

<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/264>

<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/13214>

The problems with these plugins are:

- They mainly focus on creating content

- User have to have special knowledge about how to send the email: eg. use special email addresses or use wiki markup in the subject line

The goal would be to provide a basecamp-like functionality that allows email based communication. Someone starts a thread and people can comment on it by answering via email.

Thanks a lot for your ideas, cheers

Peter


Answers:
author: DavidH
body: I know this is not exactly what you asked for....but anyway, in the update notification e-mails that I get, there is a link at the bottom of the page content, "Add Comment." By clicking that link, the page appears and the insertion point is in the comment box. Doing it this way adds a comment that's immediately part of the page, without having to send an email.


author: Jeison
body: Hi Peter,

There's an open improvement request regarding this ability here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5002>

Make sure you vote for it and add yourself as a watcher to keep track of its process.

Cheers!
Watch Page and Children
Asked by simon roberts:

Hi

Is there a way to subscribe to a particular page and its children? So whenever a page is added in a hierarchy of a page tree, everyone is emailed?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Danielle Zhu
body: Try Adaptavist's Descendant Notification Plugin: <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/260>

comments: author: simon roberts
body: Thanks, just what i needed! FYI on usage, when installed, use Tools/Watch Page Family on the parent page.

Cheers


author: Luis Mayora
body: Interesting. I would like to know the answer to this one.
Personal space permissions
Asked by Nariman Riahi:

How are the permissions set for personal apsces?

I created a new group and I want all personal spaces to be viewable by that group. Also all newly created spaces must be viewable by that group.

How do I do it short of manually changing all personal space permissions?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: Last time I looked they were provided automatically and not configurable, see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2559>.

Changing all permisions on only works at that moment in time, as you cannot control when a user chooses to create a personal space.

The solution, as I have implemented in the past is to write a scheduled JOB that scans all user spaces, and sets or resets permissions accordingly.

comments: author: Nariman Riahi
body: What do you mean with a scheduled JOB? Please elaborate.


author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: Have a read of <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Scheduled+Jobs> for starters, Trigger Module link at the bottom of the page will provide further detail.
Exporting images to HTML
Asked by Jennifer S:

When I export a series of pages to HTML and open the file, the text shows up but the images are not on the page where they are in Confluence. They are instructional screenshots and necessary for the end user. Does anyone know how I can get them to show up? I would really appreciate any help! Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Kevin Buchs
body: Ok, I read your original message a bit more carefully. You seem to suggest that the images are in the HTML location, but not where they were on the Confluence page.

Perhaps you could post the markup around the location where one of these images are located.

Are you using specific alignment? How about sectioning? What are the actual image widths in pixels? Are you constraing the image width or height?

A possible work-around is go export to PDF.

comments: author: Jennifer S
body: Thanks for the response :)

There is no specific alignment or sectioning on the pages we are exporting. The images are the original width and height of the screen shots. The images I have been experimenting with range from 585 px to 907px widths.

With further experimenting, this is what I have found so far:

When I open up the page I am exporting, the images appear as links at the bottom of the text (when I open the exported HTML in a web browser). When I click the links, it says they cannot be found. I have to open each image from their File Folder so they open in Windows Photo Viewer for every image on the page, then refresh the page in Firefox. After these steps, the images appear in their correct locations.

I am trying to find a way to have them appear without all these extra ridiculous steps. Any insight you have would be awesome. Thanks again for the quick response!! :)


author: Kevin Buchs
body: It seems like Confluence is not exporting the images with the HTML in one package. It may be best for you to use your browser to save the HTML \& images to a complete package (in IE, .MHT file, others will save a subdir of the images).


author: Jennifer S
body: I think you're right. I will have to continue experimenting. THANKS!!!


author: Jennifer S
body: Yes, in Confluence they are stored as attachments but also displayed on the page..


author: Kevin Buchs
body: Are these images stored as attachments to the Confluence page?
Migration to different DB (Oracle)
Asked by Techie Guy:

Hi,

I plan to migrate Confluence 3.3 version to Oracle 10g or 11g . I went through documentation number of times and I have few questions. I plan to use method 2 i.e for large attachments migrations (approx 45 G) .

1. Is new install of Confluence 3.3 /home etc mandatory ? In other words, does only the install setup have DB creation scripts ?

2. For large attachments (45G) , how long will it take to move 45 G ? What special setting need to be in place ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Frederic Close
body: How did it gog with your Oracle migration ?


author: Techie Guy
body: Anybody ????


Tags: migration
Confluence Dashboard customization...
Asked by Leo B:

I'm trying to find where the "star" to add a space as favourite is added to the list of spaces on the dashboard. I've added some extra tabs to clasify the list of spaces, but I'm not able to add the option to set a space as favourite on these new tabs.

Does anybody know where it is added or how?

The version of Confluence I'm using is 3.4.3

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Matt
body: Try using the [Spaces List Macro](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/sYTlDQ).
Is there any way to prevent the global administrator from viewing a certain space?
Asked by Kim Wilson:

I would like to prevent our global administrator from a certain space that contains confidential information. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: BernardoA
body: BAsically just try to restrict the admin for such page.


author: BernardoA
body: BAsically just try to restrict the admin for such page.


author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: This question was just posted, see this thread, <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/4162/restrict-viewing-for-confluence-administrators>
jiraissue macro not working on confluence.
Asked by Nikhil Naoghare:

HI Team,

The jiraissue macro not working on confluence, its showing the error as -\>

"Error formatting macro: jiraissues: java.lang.RuntimeException: Bad Request"

Please help.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Hi Nikhil,

Sounds like you have a proxy in between JIRA and Confluence. Have you tried referring to this KB article - http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Getting+a+'Bad+Request'++When+Trying+to+Use+Jira+Issues+Macro

-Hanis-


Tags: macro
Confluence 4 and no wiki markup - how to re-arrange / re-order rows in a large table?
Asked by AM:

Hi,

with wiki markup it was very ease to re-arrange / re-order rows in a table: switch to markup mode, copy to a power editor, doing some re-ordering / re-sorting based on some columns, paste back to Confluence - done.

But how to do it with Confluence 4 ...?

I did some test but did not figure out how (except the not acceptable way by cut and paste, even with CTRL-SHIFT-C/V).

This should work with drag \& drop like the tasklist but with multiple selects (otherwise it could take tons of cut/paste until a table is re-arranged).

Hints and comments are more than welcome!

A-M


Answers:
author: Migration Bot 9000
body: Hi,

We have made this easier to do with Confluence 4.0.5.

You can now copy and paste multiple rows. Simply use your mouse to select the desired rows, Ctrl + C, then paste - Confluence will no longer insert a nested table but paste into individual cells.

Please let us know if this helps.

Dave

comments: author: Dave Hong
body: How can users re-arrange / re-order rows in a large table in Edit view?


author: AM
body: Please check:  

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21735/occupy-confluence-markup-provide-a-wysiwyg-xhtml-markup-editor-to-edit-the-markup-source-of-confluence-4-wiki-pages](/questions/21735/occupy-confluence-markup-provide-a-wysiwyg-xhtml-markup-editor-to-edit-the-markup-source-of-confluence-4-wiki-pages)   

A-M


author: Matt
body: We're aware of this usuability issue for Wiki Markup users and are tracking the ability for users to cut/copy/paste multiple table rows in Confluence on this [feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23408) which you may like to vote for and watch.

comments: author: briburt
body: Any hope of giving us a "source code" editing view so that those of us who prefer plain text can just edit the XHTML source for stuff like this? Why make us jump through so many mouse-driven WYSIWYG hoops to achieve something so quickly and easily achieved in plain text mode?


author: Matt
body: @Brian -- A lot of customers have asked us this and the the main reason we don't to allow end-user editing of the raw markup is that the editor markup is not really XHTML. It is an XML dialect that looks like XHTML so that it can be edited in a browser, but that embeds a lot of important semantic information so we can turn it back into the storage format when you hit save. Please see [Why We Removed the Wiki Markup Editor in Confluence 4.0](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2011/11/why-we-removed-wiki-markup-editor-in-confluence-4/) for further clarity on this decision.


author: Mark Mark
body: For what it's worth, I've totally stopped using Confluence except when it's absolutely necessary. It's a shame, because when I could use markup I could really fly through my documentation. I've been in the process of moving my documents into markdown pages managed by revision control and served out a web browser. A huge step backwards in wiki, but at least I'm able to crank out the things I need.

FWIW... hope to see markup in Confluence sometime again!


Tags: editor

table

wysiwyg
how can I resolve rss: org.apache.commons.httpclient.ConnectTimeoutException
Asked by RuteS:

We need to display some external rss, however the following message shows.

**"rss: org.apache.commons.httpclient.ConnectTimeoutException: The host did not accept the connection within timeout of 10000 ms"**

I went to administration console and configure the whiteList, but the msg still remains. I search for the rss plugin (i supose is the Plugin key:rome.rome-1.0) but this one is enable.

I try to google it, but i'm still blind about the solution for this problem. Probably the problem resides between the keyboard and chair, can anyone help me with this?


Answers:
author: RuteS
body: I talk with IT department to figure it out what they have done to resolve the problem of the message I put in the subject.  
They told me the server, where confluence is installed, didn't had internet access.  
problem resolved


author: RuteS
body: The IT department do something at Apache configuration.

Now I have a message "rss: The RSS macro is retrieving an HTML page with the title 'Rss RTP'."

RTP is the name of the rss.

However I try another feed and it works very well. I can not use every feed as I wish?


author: RuteS
body: i forgot to mention,we're using confluence 3.4.2

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Tags: rss
Could somebody write Ad Hoc Workflow that replaces the Approval plugin??
Asked by Alex Bobrovski:

Hi,

The **pageapproval** macro doen't work under Confluence 4.0.

As an alternative, I can see only Ad Hoc Workflows.

Could somebody write a template using these workflows, that supports:

1. A user can put the workflow on any page they want.

2. A user can specify who must approve this page (a particular user list for a particular page).

3. A user is not a space admin - just a contributor.

That's all.

If you know any other alternative, please share your ideas.


Answers:
author: Roberto Dominguez
body: Hi Alex,

That use case works out of the box when you install the new version of Ad hoc Workflows (3.2-beta).

You just simply go to Add \> Workflow \> Simple Approval Workflow

![Add Simple Workflow](https://img.skitch.com/20111012-mqj2ypi1akpqp2iietj12t99xy.png)

You will be able to assign the approvers you want :-)

![Assign approvers](https://img.skitch.com/20111012-rjwi69uaw2qinp2tmpj71mstgq.png)

All the assigned approvers will get an email notification.

Give it a try! if you have more questions try <http://community.comalatech.com>

Roberto


Tags: approver