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Cannot fetch groups from ActiveDirectory
Asked by Derek Schartung:

We can authenticate users just fine with local groups in Confluence using Active Directory.

Groups are not showing up.

Here is our LDAP string for Confluence right now:

```
ou=Corp Users,dc=Corp,dc=local
```

Our groups in AD look like this (Confluence CN added as an example group)

```
ldap://dcserv:389/CN=Confluence,OU=Corp%20Groups,DC=Corp,DC=local
```

I tried adding ou=Corp Users to the Additional Group DN but it does not work. Prepending it to the Base DN does not work either.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Derek!

For [your case I suggest](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Connecting+to+an+Internal+Directory+with+LDAP+Authentication) to set:

Base DN as: dc=Corp,dc=local

On Aditional User DN: ou=Corp Users

On Aditional Group DN: ou=Corp Groups

If it doesn't work, try setting both OUs (Corp Users and Corp Groups) on User Object Filter and Group Object filter. [Check here for more information about how to create filters](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/How+to+write+LDAP+search+filters).

comments: author: Derek Schartung
body: Yep, that was it. Thanks!


Tags: active-directory

ldap

sso
how to show ?search? tool on confluence Zen page?
Asked by lily56:

anonymouse user login website ? I want they can see "search" tool on the upper right of the page? so that they search content. If I use admin account ,I can see search ,How to show to anonymous?

Addtionally I hope show some information such as email on the top of the page ?how to do?


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: In the brand designer's Search panel, you can use the Element Selector to move the search box out of the toolbar (which you have selected to be hidden for your anonymous users). The Element Selector specifies another HTML element on the page. For example, in our Zen Intranet brand, we move the search box to the header using #header, as shown below:


author: Darryl Duke
body: For adding more content to the top of the page, I assume you're talking about the header. You can create a .zen.header page and put content there. You will likely want to wrap it in Zen's "wrap" macro, which will allow you to position it where you need it. A couple of documentation pages for more information are at:

<http://www.stepstonetech.com/display/help/Designing+Your+Zen+Site>

<http://www.stepstonetech.com/display/help/Header>

<http://www.stepstonetech.com/display/help/Wrap> (this is for the macro, the detailed parameters are also described in the macro browser in the editor)


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
Saving in the Confluence editor
Asked by Jason Crawford:

Hi guys, I'm new to Confluence so I may have missed it, but is there a way to save your updates in the editor without leaving edit mode? If not, it would be great to see a "Save without Closing" button added to the text editor. As a technical writer I make a lot of changes and save them often while editing a single page so this would be a great feature to have. Let me know if there's currently a way to do this. thanks!


Answers:
author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: I think this is not possible. However, Confluece does save drafts every once in a while so you should not loose text - in theory.

-Stefan

comments: author: Jason Crawford
body: Hi Stefan...thanks for responding. I understand that the page probably needs to be reloaded to save, but it would be nice to have the option of reloading in editing mode...to your point, maybe this isn't possible, but it would be nice. Also, I ran a test, and it is possible to lose info that isn't saved...probably not a likely real-world scenario, but it would raise my comfort level a lot if I could save easily on the fly.


author: RianA
body: Not possible I am afraid, however there are a feature request for this.  
\* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1632>


author: Jason Crawford
body: ok thanks for your response Rian


author: RianA
body: Sure no worries! Sorry that we couldn't help much


author: ANDERS EJLEV
body: Hi What is the status of the feature request ? ( just lost a lot of work by hitting the wrong key ) Thanks in advance Regards Anders


author: Alex Pinchuk
body: It REALLY sucks actually. Please fix. Was working on a infrastructure diagram for 3 hours and lost a whole lot of changes before needing to present on a meeting. Seriously, confluence. WTF? How are there not more people who are pissed off by this.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: For a long time now, Confluence has automatically saved pages every couple of minutes. Unless you have deliberately turned it off.

I suspect you need to look at the authors of the App you are using for doing the diagram, as that is done outside Confluence and not covered by Confluence's save feature.


author: Alex Pinchuk
body: Got it. Sorry for the confusion : )


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No problem, it's not something that's particularly obvious!


Tags: draft

editor
I can't modify Confluence Zen home page name
Asked by lily56:

I want to rename home page name? but no allowed to modify.

![](../../upfiles/1_15.png)


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: Page titles are changed when viewing the page (not on the edit screen). Hover your mouse over the title, and a T in a box will appear. Click on it to get a wizard for changing the page title.

In Zen, only section content is editable using the editor. All other functions are available on the toolbar when viewing the page.

comments: author: lily56
body: Hover mouse, I can't see T ,where location of the pae?


author: Darryl Duke
body: It will appear next to the page title, for example:

If you have page titles turned off, the T will appear in the top left of the uppermost section in the main column:


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
Confluence can't index attachment labels
Asked by B?a?ej O_:

Confluence is not indexing attachment labels.

These are not added to tag clouds, and popular label macros.

Is there any place where I have to enable it?


Answers:
author: B?a?ej O_
body: I have raised a bug report:

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32493)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-32493>

comments: author: B?a?ej O_
body: And here is original bug report:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27673>

Already resolves for Confluence 5.8.2 and newer.


author: Andreas Steffens
body: Hi,

we are still using confluence 5.1.4 which shows the same effect.

Because we are using label specifically to build a knowledge base from attachements of pages it would be nice to have them listed as well.

Cheers,

Matthias


author: Daniel Bar-Lev
body: Hi,

We are on Confluence 5.2.3 (Download) and using the macro 'Labels List'.

It generates the list of all page labels in the Space but not the attachment labels. Is this a bug or a missing feature of the macro 'Labels List'.

Thanks,

Daniel


author: Andreas Steffens
body: Thanks Blazej!


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Blazej,

I couldn't find any bug report on this behavior. Maybe it's a new bug in Confluence. Can you specify the Confluence version and the exact steps so we can try to reproduce the bug and create the report for it.

Regards,

Rodrigo

comments: author: B?a?ej O_
body: Hi Rodrigo!

We use confluence [Atlassian Confluence](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) 4.3.6

Here are the steps:

I am on the Confluence Dashboard. I have system-administrator rights.

I click "Add space" and create new space (just name, blank space, no restrictions).

I click "Add page" and create new page (the same as above).

I click "Insert"-\>"Other macros"-\>"Attachments", and save page.

I drag files from my desktop onto the Attachments macro. Attachments are beeing uploaded.

In the column "labels" I click pencil icon, I type the name of attachment (for example dh or test_label), click "add", click "close". Attachments are shown next to files.

Then I insert to the page any label cloud macro (popular labels or tagcloud). It doesn't show attachment macros. However when I add labels to the whole page it displays those properly.

When I click "Browse"-\>"Labels" there are no attachemnt labels displayed too.

However when I am on the page with attachment macro, and I click a label next to attached file it, it opens the site <https://ourcompany.com/label/clicked_label> and it shows all files with clicked_label.

Maybe I'm just doing something wrong...

Thanks for the interest Rodrigo, hope to hear from you soon :)  


Tags: attachment

label
how to delete Breadcrumbs on confluence Zen page
Asked by lily56:

I don't need Breadcrumbs on confluence Zen page,how to delete it?


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: Breadcrumbs color can be adjusted using the Brand Designer, on the Breadcrumbs panel. The first field ("Breadcrumbs") is a color picker and will do the job.

You can also toggle Breadcrumbs (and other page elements) using the Page Designer option in the toolbar (for pages overriding the Master Layout) or in the Master Page Designer menu option (displayed on the Master). Click the Breadcrumbs box to switch it on and off. More information can be found here: [http://www.stepstonetech.com/display/help/Columns%2C+Sections%2C+and+Page+Display+Details](http://www.stepstonetech.com/display/help/Columns%252C+Sections%252C+and+Page+Display+Details)


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
Show space list by categories on confluence dashboard
Asked by Jiannan Tang:

hi:

I want to show the space categories on "Site Welcome Message", and chick the category can show the space list of the category.

In <http://baseurl/spacedirectory/view.action> can show hte categories an click the category can list the space, but it use Ajax to realize this function.


Answers:
author: Jason Plumhoff
body: We did something similar by customizing the global layout. Take a look at the first comment on this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+Confluence+Dashboard>. We ended up doing something similar. We created two pages in a space, and then including them on the dashboard as left and right panels. One page/panel is a canned welcome message, while the other page/panel is just the spacelist macro with categories.


author: Jens Koblitz
body: I think what he is trying to do, is to display different categories and the related spaces directly on the dashboard within the the "Spaces"-Tab on the lower left. By default you see "Favorites" and "Spaces". It would be really cool, if instead you could have your categories there.

Is this possible, and if, how :) ?

comments: author: meO
body: Any answers to this question?

Yes, it would be very valuable and helpful to users to be able to show a selected list of Spaces, selected acording to their Space Category Label, in the Dashboard.

Is there any way to do this?


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

Could you please elaborate on more detail by "Site Welcome Message" does it mean you want to provide list of category on Confluence dashboard?

Listing the spaces using category could be done by using [space list macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Spaces+List+Macro). However, please note that the category feature is not working from 4.3 and above due to this [bug](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26692).

Please do let us know what you mean by "Site Welcome Message" so we could help you apply the macro into it.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: category

custom-field
Zen - Toolbar menu items become invisible if not using built-in brands
Asked by Peter Whitfield:

Hi,

My toolbar works fine when I'm using one of the 4 built-in brands, but as soon as I copy one of them and then try to customise my brand via the brand designer suddenly all of the icons/menu items in my toolbar become invisible. If I hover over them then the dropdowns do still appear, so I know they are there - they're just invisible (except for the 'User' \[my name\] menu, which is still visible).

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Pete


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: Hi Pete,Brand names cannot have spaces in them, or the icons disappear -- this might be your problem. (We've logged a bug to fix -- Zen shouldn't allow that during the brand-copying process.)Sorry for the headache!

comments: author: Peter Whitfield
body: This turned out to be exactly what the issue was. Thankyou (both) very much for your help!

Pete


author: Kelli Hoyt
body: Hi Pete,

Sorry to hear about your frustrations! If possible, can you provide your Confluence and Zen versions, as well as perhaps a screengrab of what you're seeing?

Also, when you click on 'icons' in the brand designer, are you seeing them show up in the window?

Thanks,  
Kelli


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
Confluence IM
Asked by Malik:

[answers.atlassian.com](http://answers.atlassian.com) is quickly becoming the biggest online meeting point for Atlassian users. This is why I thought I would share with you some of the most common questions we receive directly at Atlassian Support and could be of interest for the whole Atlassian Community; For example:

-\> Does confluence offer an IM chat feature?


Answers:
author: Malik
body: If you're looking to add instant messaging to Confluence, we recommend the [Hipchat integration for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.labs.hipchat.confluence-hipchat). Atlassian's [Hipchat](http://www.atlassian.com/software/hipchat/overview) is a best of breed. We [invite](https://www.hipchat.com/sign_up?utm_source=atlassian&utm_medium=wac-footer&utm_campaign=hipchat-launch&src=pricing) you for a free trial that will allow you to discover how [HipChat and Confluence take team communication to the next level](http://blogs.atlassian.com/tag/instant-messenger/).

comments: author: Sam Hall
body: It's cool but is there an option to host the server locally yet?


Tags: hipchat
Import Functionality in Confluence 4.3.7
Asked by Peter Milakovich:

My company recenctly upgraded to Confluence 4.3.7.

In our old version, you could import the contents of one page into another, including images, as long as the image indicated the source of the image file (space/page).

Since upgrading, import no longer displays images from the imported page, instead giving an 'unknown attachment' error.

The editor no longer allows you to indicate the space/page of the attached image, so I attempted to add the image to the page using the 'insert wiki markup' functionality, containing the space/page info.

This was unsuccessful as well.

Has this functionality been lost with the upgrade, or is there some trick to it I'm unable to figure out?


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Peter

I'm not sure which version of Confluence you upgraded from. The way Confluence refers to images has changed in the Confluence 4.x series, as compared to Confluence 3.x. If you copy the contents of Page A into Page B, including images, then Page B will by default refer to the images on Page A. Confluence will not copy the attachments across. This can lead to confusion if you then delete Page A, or if Page A has restrictions that prevent most people from seeing it (because it's a draft, for example).

(In Confluence 3.x, the images weren't copied, and Page B would not refer to the images on Page A. The page would immediately display an error until you attached the images.)

You should be able to make Page B refer to the images on Page A (if that's the goal) by searching for the images in the image browser. The docs are here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Displaying+Images#DisplayingImages-Displayinganimageattachedtoadifferentpage>

I'm not sure if this answers the question. If not, I'm happy to help further.

Cheers

Sarah

comments: author: Peter Milakovich
body: That is exactly what I needed! I had actually read the document, but didn't understand the concept since it was so radically different from what I was used to. But now that I've tested it out, and it works, it makes much more sense. Thanks!


Tags: image

import
Confluence Jira integration fail - cannot login to Confluence
Asked by CM:

Hello folks.

I did just try to connect Confluence to Jira for user management. I did use the guide I found on <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management> (scroll down to "Connecting Confluence to JIRA for User Management").

I followed the guide for JIRA 4.3 or later. When i came to 2. in the guide i got kicked out of Confluence and now I cannot log in again with my user. It came after i pushed "Save the directory settings".

Is there a way to restore this again? I guess I will try to use the Crowd function for the future, so if I just can restore everything and go back to the way it was before?

Thank you


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Christian!

Please check here how to recover your [Admin Rights](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights).

The idea is to put the Confluence Internal Directory at the top of the User Directories so you'll be able to access your Confluence again :)

Hope it helps!

comments: author: RianA
body: +1 to this.

Also please make sure that after you restored your Admin rights you have a unique user that resides in Confluence internal directory that has administrative right to troubleshoot this kind of issue.


author: CM
body: Thank you very much for your help :)
Disable - Saving Draft
Asked by Sozhavendhan M:

Hi

When I try to edit the confluence contents, the page is hanging a lot and finally I have to Kill the page.

I feel that it because Confluence is trying to Save the draft copy often.

Would you please suggest if there is a option to Disable to saving draft.

Regards,.

Soz


Answers:
author: Sozhavendhan M
body: It can be done.

Explained in KB link below:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Time+Interval+at+which+Drafts+are+Saved>

comments: author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Hi

What is the importance of having Saving draft enabled.

Currently its 30Sec. for our application.

what is advisable time interval to be kept?

Thanks,

Soz


author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Hi

What is the importance of having Saving draft enabled.

Currently its 30Sec. for our application.

what is advisable time interval to be kept?

Thanks,

Soz
jira-issues macros show error on confluence page only when the JIRA project?s field of ?due date? include content.
Asked by lily56:

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/147790/confluence-page-use-jira-issues-macros-show-error](/questions/147790/confluence-page-use-jira-issues-macros-show-error)

. I find jira-issues macros show error only when the JIRA project's field of "due date" include content.

And that JIRA project which not wrote content on "due date" filed is ok ?can use JIRA-issuses macros on confluence.

Why?


Answers:
author: Chung Park Chan
body: It seems like you have ran into a known bug here:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27056>

Perhaps trying the workaround?
Is there a way to have multiple default space content templates in Confluence 5?
Asked by Elvir Hadzic:

Hello everybody

Is there a way to somehow get multiple "default space content" templates in Confluence 5? I know it's called a *default* template for a reason and that one might argue there can only be one default.

But for us it would be nice have multiple default content templates for different situations. E.g. for a space that's used to manage a project, a space that's used to document a software, etc., etc. from which you can choose when creating a new space.

Thanks for your time!


Answers:
author: RianA
body: It seems that there's no way so far. Perhaps you could raise a feature request in our <https://jira.atlassian.com> in order to get the Development team noticed. Otherwise, you could ask some customization service from [Atlassian Experts](http://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts).
Confluence - administrator locked out
Asked by Ben Corcoran:

I'm just using Confluence casually at home for some practice for my work set up.

I logged out the other day, and when I tried to log back in it doesn't recognise my user/password.

I'm damn sure the password is correct, but something's definitely not working. Don't have a mail client set up so can't email myself the password, etc - and neglected to set someone else up as admin to fix it for me. Yes, I'm an idiot.

Is there any way to either:

Reset the administrator

or

Reset the admin password?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yup, see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights>


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Just to specify the queries you'd need to run in order to change the administrator password:  

```
select u.id, u.user_name, u.active from cwd_user ujoin cwd_membership m on u.id=m.child_user_id join cwd_group g on m.parent_id=g.id join cwd_directory d on d.id=g.directory_idwhere g.group_name = 'confluence-administrators' and d.directory_name='Confluence Internal Directory';
```

With this query, You'll get the admin IDs. Then you can change the admin password with the next query:

```
update cwd_user set credential ='x61Ey612Kl2gpFL56FT9weDnpSo4AV8j8+qx2AuTHdRyY036xxzTTrw10Wq3+4qQyB+XURPWx1ONxp3Y3pB37A=='where id=&lt;id from Stage 1&gt;;
```

Hope that helps!

Rodrigo

comments: author: Ben Corcoran
body: Thanks to you both!


Tags: administration

password
Confluence page use jira-issues macros?show error
Asked by lily56:

I create a filter to obtain XML from JIRA doing as following picture 1 ?but on confluence page JIRA issues macros failed, why?

![](../../upfiles/3_3.png)

![](../../upfiles/2_8.png)


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Lily,

Sorry to hear you experiencing such issue on your end. Could you please let us know your JIRA and Confluence version, this might help to understand your environment. Also, for confirmation purposes you might want to post the URL you used to retrieve the issues from JIRA, please censored the link as this is a public site.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Chung Park Chan
body: In addition, is there any due date set for the jira issues? And did you try change JIRA language to English?


author: lily56
body: And I don't know whether I changed JIRA language, Where can I see this parameter?


author: lily56
body: yeah. I find jira-issue macros show error only when the JIRA project's field of "due date" include content.

And that JIRA project which not wrote content on "due date" filed is ok ?can use JIRA-issuses macros on confluence.


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Under JIRA Administrators \>\> General Configuration \>\> Language. Please try to change it to English and see if the issue persist.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: jira
Is there any macro that can display microsoft project file (.mpt)?
Asked by Yongpyo Hong:

Hi, I'm Yongpyo

Is there any macro that can display microsoft project file (.mpt)?

I can't filnd any macro regarding microsoft project file.

Please answer.

Regards.

Yongpyo Hong


Answers:
author: Yilin
body: This is a good idea, I've opened a new feature request for you on our public bug system : <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/OFFCONN-109>

You can address your comment directly to our dev team for it.