youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
can pages within a space be moved to another space without changing security settings?
Asked by Roshni Thacker:

Hi ,

i want to move pages from one space to another space but retaining the permission on the previous space where it belonged to.

To explain it more breifly:

i have a space 'A' which has pages 'Aa','Bb','Cc' and i have another space 'Z' that has pages 'Za','Zb'.

Group A, B has edit access to the space 'A' and group 'C' has view, similarly Group 'A' has view access to space 'Z' and group 'C' has edit access to space 'Z'. Now if i move page 'Aa' from space 'A' to under Space 'Z' ideally what happens is Page "Aa' loses all its permission that was set in previous space and inherits all the permissions from new space. So my requirement is Still page 'Aa' after moving to space'Z' should have same permission like group 'C' although have edit access in space'Z' should only be able to view this page under it.

Regards,

Roshni


Answers:
author: Akeles
body: Hi Roshni,

It is not possible. While it is possible to apply page restrictions on pages, the page restriction must obey the space permissions.

The checks are performed in the following sequence:

1. Does the current user have the permission to perform the requested action in the space?
2. If pass, check whether the current user fulfill the (any) page restrictions to view/edit the page

If any of the checks fail, the user will not be allowed to perform the action.

I hope ths helps.
Convert RoboHelp to Confluence?
Asked by Nikhil Daddikar:

We have 4 manuals written in RoboHelp. I am looking for some tips (automations, gotchas, etc.) on how to go about converting them to Confluence?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: SimonS
body: Hey ngd,

Confluence can't auto-convert these, but Confluence can import Word documents into Confluence.

If there is an easy way to convert your Robo-help to Word documents, you can import them this way

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+an+Office+Document+into+Confluence>

-Simon


author: Sally Holl
body: I would also like to be able to post Robohelp-generated documentation on Confluence, without having to go through Word. I convert the Word docs to web help using Robohelp. I like the formatting capabilities of Robohelp.


Tags: import

robohelp
The edit page screen in Confluence is suddenly started looking deformed. What could be the reason? See screenshot.
Asked by Pankaj Jangid:

The problem started occuring on upgraded Confluence instances. The problem is occurring in some of the spaces only. I have upgraded from 3.5.7 to 4.1.4. The screenshot shows how it looks![](../../upfiles/deformed_screen_confluence.png)


Answers:
author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: Do you have installed the subspace plugin?

If yes, please see <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/CSSP-78>

comments: author: Pankaj Jangid
body: Thanks this was the problem.


author: Remo Siegwart
body: What browser are you using? If you are using Internet Explorer 7, you may want to read the following [End of Support Announcement](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/End+of+Support+Announcements+for+Confluence#EndofSupportAnnouncementsforConfluence-201101browser). See what browsers are supported with Confluence 4.x [here](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms).

comments: author: Remo Siegwart
body: Strange, did you already try to clear the cache?


author: Pankaj Jangid
body: I am using Firefox 10.0


author: Robert Robert
body: looks like a stylesheet problem

comments: author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I agree with Robert's suggestion. This is most likely due to changes in stylesheets. Maybe you didn't add any custom CSS, but perhaps you either edited one of thte Confluence stylesheets or added a stylesheet import in the Custom HTML header.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: +1 Remo's answer. Also, as a quick experiment (irrespective of browser), what happens if you increase the font size ("ctrl +" in Chrome and Firefox - I don't have an IE to hand to check if it's the same there)

comments: author: Pankaj Jangid
body: No change in alignment. Zooms in/out with same alignment. :(


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ah, ok, worth a shot.


author: JamieA
body: Also look for badly-formed html in the "custom html" section in confluence...

comments: author: Pankaj Jangid
body: We have not added any custom HTML.
Other users cannot view the Gliffy diagram I have inserted into a Confluence plage
Asked by Sarah Jacob:

Hi there,

I have inserted a Gliffy diagram that I created into a Confluence page. Strangely though, other members of the Confluence workspace cannot see the diagram when they access the page - there is just a blank space where the diagram should be. However, if the person then clicks on the Edit button to edit the page, the diagram becomes visible and can be edited by that user.

Can you help?

There are a few things I should mention, that may or may not have a bearing on this problem -

Firstly, that we are all using trial versions of both Confluence and Gliffy at present, to try out the programs before buying them and installing them on our server.

Secondly, I have installed Confluence only on my local host, and have given access to that instance to other users on my network via a URL, so that we can collaborate on the same workspace.

Thanks,

Sarah


Answers:
author: Eric Chiang
body: Hi Sarah,

This could be an issue with your Confluence install being on your localhost. Gliffy prepends the Confluence base url to the image displayed in the wiki page and thus, that url may be invalid for users accessing your instance.

We do have a snapshot build that addresses this problem. Please create a support ticket at [support.gliffy.com](http://support.gliffy.com) and we can provide you with that download.

If you have any issues with Gliffy in the future, please create a support ticket and we'll be able to respond more quickly.

Thanks,

Eric

Gliffy Engineering.

comments: author: Sarah Jacob
body: The snapshot build fixed the problem - thanks!
How do I create a Space category as the administrator but not the sysadmin?
Asked by Andrea Shirk:

I cannot create a space cateogry as the administrator. The documentation says I should go to browse --\> space admin but I do not have space admin as an option. It appears the sysadmin has confluence admin rights but I have no idea who that even is....I would like to do this as the administrator - I can gonfigure everything else.


Answers:
author: Matthew Hunter
body: Hi Andrea,

You don't need sysadmin permission in order to see the space admin menu, however you do need to have the correct space permissions. Whoever created the space needs to add you to the space admin permission, check out the following documentation for more information:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Assigning+Space+Permissions>

If you're having some troubles with the permissions please do log a ticket over at <https://support.atlassian.com> and we can make sure you have space admin access.

Cheers,


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Including variables automatically in page templates?
Asked by cvanhasselto:

Is there a way to include a simple replacement variable in a page template that can be passed into a page template on creation? For example, to put "dynamic" or context specific information onto the page?

What I ahve done is use he create-child macro to create a page into a hierarchical page structure, based on user entered firstname and lastname (for sake of discussion, the page is called "Doe, Jane")

```
...{run-now}   {create-child:$paramlname, $paramfname|parent=$init|template=TAInformation}   {run-now}...
```

At the time I create the page, I also capture the user account name that the data entry person looks up for this person, which may not have anything to do with the person's name - Jane Doe might have the user name "Gandalf" or "TwilightFan". I'd like to have that account name written into the page when it is built from the TAInformation template, without the data entry person having to go through and open the page, edit the page, enter the account name again. So, data entry maestro enters "Jane", "Doe" and "TwilightFan" and a page called "Doe, Jane" is created (got that working, above!) and the "TwilightFan" is shoved onto the page, \*WITHOUT\* the data entry maestro visiting the page and typing it in the page directly. Does that make sense?

Ideally, if there were something like this syntax, it would be great, but I'm looking for any ideas...

```
   {run-now}      {create-child:$paramlname, $paramfname|parent=$init|template=TAInformation|data=acct:TwilightFan,dog:Spot}   {run-now}
```


Answers:
author: Daniel Brice
body: You used to be able to do this sort of thing in Confulence 4, but I don't think there is a solution for Conflucence 5: See: [How do you add template variables as macro parameters or in plain text macro bodies?](../141785/how-do-you-add-template-variables-as-macro-parameters-or-in-plain-text-macro-bodies)


Tags: template
[Confluence] Embed an iframe on a page... Can I hide html code in the search results?
Asked by liljoint:

Hi, I have a little problem... I want to embed an iframe with the html macro, but, when I make a search by the page title, on the results it show me the html code, in fact, the URL of source... Can I hide this html code?

can you help me?

thanks


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Can you use the iframe macro instead of using HTML?

comments: author: Janet Fisher
body: There's an iframe macro? Which version of Confluence?


Tags: html-macro
How do I create a link back to the page from an issue I created in a Confluence page
Asked by FileTrek:

I am using On-Demand Confluence and Jira.

I can create a new Jira issue from a Confluence page by using the Insert Jira Issue action and creating a new issue.

I would like to have the Jira issue include a link back to the page that it is linked to.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Carol


Answers:
author: Cyrille Martin
body: You can vote for this [issue](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-24628) the trackback is broken since JIRA 4.3

We cannot vote for it.


author: Cyrille Martin
body: Hi Carol,

Normaly you should have a [trackback link](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA044/Enabling+Trackback) to Confluence in the JIRA issue .

I said normally because it was working in previous versions , I didn't test for the last year.

If others have some experience on it...

Regards,

Cyrille

comments: author: FileTrek
body: I'm not seeing the Trackback option in my admin settings under Issue Features - only time tracking and issue linking.

I have trackback enabled on Confluence. How do I enable it in Jira?


Tags: cloud

jira-cloud

link

trackback
TaskDock confluence
Asked by Davor:

Where can i find this plugin to download?


Answers:
author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: This Plugin is no longer available i think. It was bought by Cisco Systems.

<http://infos.seibert-media.net/display/Productivity/TaskDock-Confluence-Plugin+nicht+mehr+verfuegbar>


Tags: task
Integration Fisheye-Confluence
Asked by Natalie Wenz:

I'm wondering if there is an integration for FishEye with Confluence. It would be nice to get a piece of source code from our fishEye repositories into confluence, without copy the code into editor.

Is there any way to do this?


Answers:
author: Tobias Degen
body: me, too


author: Blake Jenkins
body: I would like to do this as well.


author: user1648639125013
body: Hi

Currently there is no official integration between Confluence and FishEye as seen in the following document outlining all the Atlassian products FishEye can integrate with;

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/Integrating+FishEye+with+Atlassian+applications)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/Integrating+FishEye+with+Atlassian+applications>

Kind Reagrds,

Chris


author: Hans-Christian Riehl
body: me too


author: Michael Bostwick
body: Something to note, there is an API for fisheye, so making an add on (or some javascript..) is possible (and wouldn't be terribly diffcult..) .

However, I haven't seen anything, best advice would be to file a feature request up stream or sponsor a devloper to do it..


author: Michael Bostwick
body: You could always write your own plug in and post it to the market place.

There is a REST API for Fisheye-https://developer.atlassian.com/display/FECRUDEV/REST+API+Guide

<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+Plugin+Guide>

You could write something that pulls from the rest api, and shows up in confluence.


Tags: fisheye-crucible
Where are team calendar subscriptions stored?
Asked by Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_:

Hi,

we've experienced something odd after configuring the mail server for one of our customers. People that are NOT in the Confluence users group (we're using Actice Directory) were recieving e-mail notifications about team calendar events. Now I'd like to see who has subscribed to this partcular calendar. I know how many people have subscribed but I can't manage the watches as I could if was dealing with pages.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Christian


Answers:
author: Diane Sexton
body: Hi, I have the same question.

I've raised a JIRA issue at <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-580>


Tags: email

subscription

team-calendars-for-confluence

watch
adding Vote functionality in confluence
Asked by Nariman Riahi:

Is there a Vote function or plugin in confluence. I have seen the Rate macro and it is not detailed enough. THe Vote plugin from Adaptavist is a bit too expensive for my use.

Anyone knows of another solution?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Survey plugin: <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/195>


author: Monika Turska [Adaptavist]
body: @Nariman Riahi, it's been a while since you posted the question about voting in Confluence, although may be worth adding to the list:

Form Mail for Confluence add-on also does the job: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.formMailNG>

Take a look at a few examples in the Form Mail add-on tutorial to see how it fits to the purpose e.g. <http://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/FMCP/3.8.3+Voting+Using+Radio+Buttons>


author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Does the new "like function" do the job?

<http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whats-new>

Cheers

Christian
Any way to disable the ability to share calendars publicly in Team Calendars?
Asked by David Corley:

Is there any way to disable the ability to effectively disable the service provided by:

`/rest/calendar-services/``1.0``/calendar/export/subcalendar/``private``/*`

We want users to be able to share internally, but not make calendar event details public. We'd like that ability to be controlled centrally by Confluence admins. Perhaps there's a specific plugin module we can disable?


Answers:
author: David Corley
body: This functionality is now available in Team Calendars 2.2.0, released today


author: Matthew Erickson
body: Hi David,

There is not currently a way to do this inside Confluence. I have raised a ticket for this functionality: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-503.>

In the meantime you might want to ask your sys admin if they have a way of blocking requests to that URL.

Cheers,  
Matt

comments: author: David Corley
body: There's an extra period "." at the end of the URL above. The following should work:

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-503>


author: Gregory Sudderth
body: Tried to vote for 503, but I'm getting "Project Does Not Exist"


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Confluence 2.9.1->4.1 upgrade, problem with User Macro
Asked by David McSorley:

We recently upgraded to v4.1 (2.9.1 to 3.5.1, 3.5.1 to 4.1).

In the 2.9.1 instance we were using a user defined macro named "indent". On pages that use the "indent" macro we are experiencing problems. I will attach screenshots from the pre and post upgrade instances, as well as a screen shot of the user macro definition.

**User Macro Definition from 2.9.1**

**![](https://support.atlassian.com/secure/attachment/388386/screenshot-3.jpg)**

**User Macro Definition from 4.1**

**![Definition in 4.1](https://support.atlassian.com/secure/attachment/388389/screenshot-4.jpg)**

**What it looks like in 2.9.1**

**![Display in 2.9.1](https://support.atlassian.com/secure/attachment/386980/screenshot-1.jpg)**

**What it looks like in 4.1**

![Display in 4.1](https://support.atlassian.com/secure/attachment/386982/screenshot-2.jpg)


Answers:
author: Tobbi Gudmundsson
body: Hi David,

The screenshots are not showing for me. Could you describe the problem?

Tobbi G.


author: Tobbi Gudmundsson
body: Hi David,

The screenshots are not showing for me. Could you describe the problem?

Tobbi G.
Activity Stream not displaying activity for Spaces correctly.
Asked by mboles:

When migrating to Confluence 4.0, we are experiencing issues with Activity Streams not displaying issues from spaces correctly. We have tested other methods (user specific filtering, update date) and they are correctly displaying activity, however when we try to apply the global filter of certain spaces, we only see information from when the space was created (sometimes as much as a year ago, with no activity since then, when there has definitely been activity), nothing current.

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but several of the spaces have several (3-8) components to which all issues are tied. This had no negative effect on issue reporting in the Activity Stream before migrating, so I doubt it would be the cause.


Answers:
author: Matthew Hunter
body: Hi Nark,

I'm not too sure what's going on here, the only thing I can think of is that you may need to perform a reindex. It's worth logging a ticket through to <http://support.atlassian.com> and requesting an engineer look into this issue, and potentally reindex your instance. The problems seem to be too specific for us to be able to solve without investigating the specific goings on in your intance.

Cheers,

Matt

comments: author: mboles
body: Sorry it has taken so long to respond!

It looks like the original issue where we were seeing nothing due to the "Spaces" filter has seemed to resolve itself (go figure), however this has opened up a new issue.

From doing a little more research, it looks like our instance does not have the "Project" filter as a global filter to use; we have Space, JIRA Issue Key, Update Date and Username. No idea what could be causing this, could it be something set at the admin level?


author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: Is this Confluence, or JIRA?


author: mboles
body: Confluence, needing to integrate with JIRA project. Worked fine before the update.


Tags: activity

activity-stream

cloud

confluence-cloud
Does the usage plugin create / catalogue the user activity it reports on? Or does it access pre-existing user data?
Asked by Devin Stronge:

We want to run a script we wrote using the usage plugin and the reporting plugin to create a list of spaces that have not been viewed in a year. The usage plugin has not been enabled on our system for a long time (much longer than a year) because of the performance issues. However, we were hoping to move a copy of our production data onto our test server, enable the usage plugin there, and then the script. Will the only user activity be activity post-enabling the usage plugin?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: As far as I know, the Usage Stats plugin stores the usage data in its own Lucene index. The index is located in:

```
{confluence-data-directory}/index/plugin/usage
```

So if you want to keep your old usage data, you could try to copy the index manually to the new location. Otherwise you would start with a clean usage index.

Hope this helps


Tags: activity

app

user
Where can I download the office connector plugin for Firefox to install on an offline system?
Asked by Jay Barra:

For some of my systems I am do not have an internet connection. I can't find an offline installer for the Firefox plug-in that will let me view embedded documents in Confluence.


Answers:
author: Jay Barra
body: "Save as" from the addons page, but the addon for webDAV is not compatible with new version of Firefox apparently. Just in the extensions screen "install from file" from the gear near the top


Tags: firefox

ms-office-connector
Active directory groups mapping
Asked by Vitaly Lyashchuk:

Hello guys,  

I have confluence instance with a few "User directories" which are Active Directory servers. Right now we need to support many similar groups in AD and confluence.  

So, I need to map all groups from AD servers into the confluence.

I found manual, but he is out of date:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Mapping+Active+Directory+to+Confluence>

Is there any way to map groups from AD to confluence?

P.S. Sorry for my bad English.


Answers:
author: SimonS
body: Hi Vitaly,

There is a way to map AD groups to Confluence. Here is some documentation that is more up-to-date:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory>

-Simon

comments: author: Vitaly Lyashchuk
body: Hi Simon,

Thanks for you reply, it was useful for me.


author: SimonS
body: Also - don't worry - your English is fine! Even if it wasn't you'd still be welcome here :)


Tags: active-directory

user-management
Need to add plugin - LaTex
Asked by Vanraj Dav:

Hi,

We are using confluence ondemand. Need to configure below plugin to confluence. Is it feasible?

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CLATEX/LaTeX+Plugin>

Regards,

Vanraj Dav


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Connecting Confluence with IIS 6 did?t work
Asked by Johannes Teixeira:

![](../../upfiles/problem_1.JPG)

I ve tryed to Setup IIS 6 with Confluence like the tutorial on this website (<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+Confluence+with+IIS+5.1+or+6>)

but it doesn t work. What should I do?

Best regards

J.T.


Answers:
author: Brendan Patterson
body: If it is at all a viable option I would seriously consider putting Apache out front and using it as a proxy to both your IIS server and Confluence. I think you'll save yourself a lot of pain which I have experienced just having spent time connecting IIS to some Tomcat servers.

That way you can completely avoid what is a pretty arcane pursuit which relies on opaque and possibly outdated DLLs, Tomcat workers, etc. Though I know it might be hard to go the Apache proxy route if you're depending on NTLM for SSO or something.

Here is a bit of related documentation on that setup. In my opinion (if viable) this will be about 100x easier especially since there is really no next step if the IIS config doesn't work other than just trying it again.

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Apache+with+virtual+hosts+and+mod_proxy>


Tags: iis

tomcat
How do I disable automatic link in a Confluence page
Asked by Mike Naseef:

When I have text like "this must start with file:/" in a confluence page, Confluence is automatically converting "file:/" to a clickable link - even though I don't have any square brackets around it. Can I disable this somehow or escape the code so that it will show as "file:/" and not ,e.g., "file\\:/" and not be blue and clickable? NB, I use the Wiki Markup tab, not the Rich Text.

Thanks,

Mike


Answers:
author: Mike Naseef
body: So, I discovered the answer by using the rich text editor - the nolink macro seems to take care of this: {nolink:file:/}.


Tags: link

wiki