youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Internal Server Error when creating a new space
Asked by paoloviccione:

I am trying to create a new space. System opens a modal, with a spinner turning forever.

I did open developer tools in the browser, and i see:

:8090/rest/create-dialog/1.0/space-blueprint/dialog/web-items Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Thank you for checking the developer tools in the browser.

Are you by chance using MySQL? A similar error and symptom were reported on the forum for an older version of Confluence: [Unable to create Space on Confluence 5.5.2 (clean install)](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Unable-to-create-Space-on-Confluence-5-5-2-clean-install/qaq-p/82333)

In that case, the database was MySQL and the mysql configuration file had "sql_mode=NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO" instead of "sql_mode = NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER".

If you are not using MySQL, or the sql_mode is already set properly, please let me know so I can investigate further.
Can I create a 12 month planner in Confluence?
Asked by Glenn Parkes:

In the calendar view I would like to introduce a 12 month planner view so I can capture and represent key activities that fall in each month within the Financial or calendar year. I cannot see this as an option.

What would I need to do to have the planner presented in a Confluence page and be updated in Confluence when dates of events move? thanks


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Glenn Parkes](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1150833)

Look at this posts, maybe can help you, but i think no

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Roadmap-Planner-view-by-Day/qaq-p/719465>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-51320>

Cheers
Page Properties
Asked by indra:

Hi All,

How to get page title ,Current version,last modification date,last modified person name properties in tabular form using queries, scripts and any macros.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Indra,

Would the [Page Info](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.pageinfo/server/overview) for [ScriptRunner](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.onresolve.confluence.groovy.groovyrunner/server/overview) perhaps work for you? It appears you can use this to display page information within a Confluence page.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
How to add a footer to all the pages and sub pages under a certain space in confluence?
Asked by Ravinder Reddy Singireddy:

I would like to add a common footer to all the pages and sub pages under a certain spaces in confluence.

I have been trying to do it in the look and feel but its not getting applied.

Can some one please provide me a step to step process to do it.

Regards

Ravinder Reddy.S


Answers:
author: Bruno Miretti
body: Hi,

I'm doing this using a common space that contains a page that corresponds to the footer then in each space settings, I set the footer to something like this:

{include:\<spaceid\>:\<myfooter\>\|nopanel=true}

example: {include:KBCOMMON:KB-Footer\|nopanel=true}

There is no way, at least in Confluence Cloud to force a common footer to all spaces, you need to edit the settings space by space.

I think you however met the problem where the footer is not displayed in the overview page thanks to the new UI.

You should vote for this feature here: [CONFCLOUD-57098](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-57098)

Hope this helps

Bruno

comments: author: Ravinder Reddy Singireddy
body: Hi Bruno,

Sorry for the wrong information earlier.

What I am actually looking for exactly is like same footer for all the pages and sub pages under a certain space.


author: Bruno Miretti
body: Ok, so it"s easy, just open the space tools menu then "Look and Feel" tab and define the footer with either pure text or macros like the one I gave in my example

![confluencefooter.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6231i66191827574DB99D/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "confluencefooter.png")


author: Bruno Miretti
body: As I said the Overview page will not display the footer with the new user interface so to check, you'll have to look at child pages footer.


author: Michelle Rau HP
body: I implemented this before reading your answer, and this technique has worked great for us. It solved the problem of people creating blank pages without footers. (The footer is included in all our page templates, but many people don't use the templates.)

The previous wiki admin created a wiki-specific search bar and help links page, then used CSS to float it in the upper right corner of the page. I was able to include that page using the same method so now the search box and links are available even on the blank pages. This was a big benefit as users really rely on search.
how to looking for the apache struts with the confluence?
Asked by Kevin Ye:

my confluence version is 6.3.3 and i see the apache struts 2.3.32 have a bug with

Remote code execution and i don't know how to looking for my confluence apache struts version and how to update the struts ?

anybody to say how to looking for the apache struts in the confluence ?

and how to update the struts ?

my confluence environment is Centos 7

thanks


Answers:
author: Justin Roysdon
body: For newer versions of confluence (after 8.0) you can find this on your server using this command:

{code}

find / -name \\\*struts\*.jar

{code}


author: Shannon S
body: Hi Kevin,

It appears that Confluence is not affected by this issue since it uses webwork 2, which predates Struts 2:

* [CONFSERVER-53435](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-53435)

I hope this helps. Let us know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
I NEED DATA: ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE CONCEPT OF "THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE"?
Asked by Filip Callewaert:

Hi, tomorrow 15 Sept. I present a session at Summit17 about the use of Confluence as foundation for your company's digital workplace.

But I'm mainly interested at this moment if this concept is widely known.

So, I would very much appreciate your input on the question:

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE CONCEPT OF "THE DIGITAL WORKPLACE"?

Choose 0=don't know at all

or 5 = I live in one!

and everything in between (1,2,3,4) reflecting the degree of familiarity!!

Thanks a lot!

Filip


Answers:
author: Gregory Van Den Ham
body: 5, wow.. how did i miss this one? Hope the presentation went well!


Tags: jira

jira-service-desk
Migrating spaces from conf 5.7 to existing conf 5.10 instance
Asked by Stephane Desrochers:

HI,

HL Summary:

I am trying to migrate a many spaces from one confluence instance to another. And i am going to do it via space xml export and xml import.

But attachments migration included in the above makes the projet a big challenge. Can we simly copy attachment files "manually"?

More details:...

Both instances of confluence use the file system for attachment. No DB.As you know, Attachments are automatically included into my zip file and there is no option to exclude them from the export.

We experience lots of issues in the process, mostly on the import step. They are: contention, slow down for existinf users, faillure for many reasons (memery error, socket connection timeout,...)

Some spaces have pages and attachments in the thousands!

I am looking for a more viable option; excluding to do a complete site backup as both systems have evolved concurrently. We really need to add content from the 5.7 version to the 5.10 version. So...

I read that it is possible to simply move the attachment files from one system to the other.

My solution would then (repeat 1 to 3 for each space to migrate)

1 to export spaces to zipped xml.

2 zip the entities.xml and the exportDescriptor.properties (hence filtering out the attachments)

3 import the space (w/out attachments)

4 then copy all attachments from one site to the other.

Would that work ? or copying attachment files works only for site backup


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@Stephane Desrochers](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1150794) ,

your approach seems ok and it should work. After restoring a space in the target instance please copy attachments in the home folder (or shared home in a data center perspective).

Fabio


Tags: space

attachment

confluence-administration

import

server
i forgot my login credentials,I am admin of confluence,how can i login in to it?
Asked by SRINIVASA RAO:

when i am trying to login into the confluence it showing a error msg like please re enter user and password. here I am attaching screen shot for your kind reference.![Capture.JPG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6181iDBD4AE88696C9B7C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.JPG")


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Try the instructions at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-158390.html>
How do I add the "Create Meeting Note" button on a Meeting Note Space?
Asked by Dave Tragethon:

![Screen Shot 2017-09-13 at 9.51.39 AM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6167iD1B340E73AB0EEA5/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-09-13 at 9.51.39 AM.png")


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: The button in the screen shot looks like it was added using the [Create from Template Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/create-from-template-macro-317196995.html)
> The Create from Template macro displays a button on a page, linked to a specific template. When someone clicks the button, the macro opens the editor, ready to add a new page, and adds content to the page based on the given template.

I look forward to hearing whether this is what you are looking for.

comments: author: Dave Tragethon
body: Thanks Ann. I'm thinking this is a Meeting Notes Index page. Is there a way to create a page using that template?


author: AnnWorley
body: The meeting notes index isn't available when you use the "create a page from template" option but it is created automatically when the Meeting Notes template is used.

If you need another copy of it you can use the three dots in the top right corner to copy the page.

If you want to build a page with the same elements you can edit the page to see what macros it consists of. On my test instance I see the create from template, task report and Content report table macros on the meeting index page.
Can the number(id) in URL of a confluence link change ?
Asked by Massinissa Ikhelef:

Hello,

I'm using confluence URL to link our java code to confluence. I wanted to know, if the number (id) in the URL (example: [https://osloprojet.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/..../pages/79654669/](https://osloprojet.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OSLO/pages/79654669/)...) can change ?

Thank you for your answer.


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: Yes, as long as you want to link to the current version of the page.

comments: author: Massinissa Ikhelef
body: Thank you for the answer
URLs
Asked by kris wilkinson:

Hello, new to Confluence and curious if anyone can answer the following:

1) If we use the hosted version, does it support virtualhosts to allow redirects using CNAME or A records to establish a branded URL (eg. fancy.something.com)?

2) Do either hosted or self-hosted editions support a secondary domain for a specific space only (eg. blog space that has a different url from the main instance: eg. blog.something.com)

We can certainly do redirects, but it would be ideal to set everything up with vhosts (or equivalent) to have one space appear totally on its own.

<br />

Thanks in advance,

Kris


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Kris,

I'm not sure I understand your first question, but by your 2nd question, it seems that you want to point a subdomain to a specific space in Confluence. Is this correct?

Generally, CNAME records can only be pointed to a FQD (fully qualified domain) thus the path that leads to the space wouldn't work properly. And an A record can only be pointed to an IP address. So if your Confluence is hosted on a single domain or IP address, then certainly you can redirect another domain to it.

However, considering you want to point a subdomain to a space, if you're physically doing a redirect (as some DNS hosts will allow) then you can certainly point it to the full path including the space. The problem here would be that if a login is required to access the space, they'll then be directed to the Confluence login page, log in, and then be sent straight to the home page.

Thus, the only way for it to absolutely point to a specific space would be if the space was accessible publically, that is, anonymous users can read the space.

I hope this is clear but do let me know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,  
Shannon

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I can pick up the first question, I know what it means. The answer is "no". You have to use an atlassian.net url.

You could use a domain of your choice and run a simple "redirect", or even a proxy on it over to the \<something\>.atlassian.net, but Atlaasian applications have a single base url which your users need to use. They might land on your redirect or proxy initially, but for the applications to work properly, they would need to move over to the atlassian address.


author: Shannon S
body: Thanks, Nic!

Kris - Nic is right - if you were to try to point an actual A record or CNAME to your Cloud URL it will not work. Only physical redirects work (such as HTML), depending on how you set them up, and they won't maintain the URL that you've set.

If you want your own domain then you're best hosting on a Server application or with an [Atlassian Partner](https://www.atlassian.com/partners/search?page=1&expertise=Managed%20Hosting).

Kind Regards,  
Shannon
Confluence Number Formats do not work
Asked by Natalia Zaitseva:

Hello, I am trying to change Number Formats for Confluence by following \[Atlassian Documentation \|<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf63/configuring-time-and-date-formats-929729856.html>\] and it did not applied for numbers.

Here is a Format that I would like to use:

![Selection_062.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6148i64D123A75602C302/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Selection_062.png")

![Selection_062.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6148i64D123A75602C302/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Selection_062.png")

Does anyone know how to make it work?

Kind regards,

Natalia


Answers:
author: Vero Rivas
body: Hi [@Natalia Zaitseva](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1139369)

I imagine that since you asked the question, your problem has been solved, if not, let me know

Cheers


Tags: format

number
Looking for a way to archive a space with possibility to use this archived state later on
Asked by Klaus Foerschl:

Hello.

We are pretty new to Confluence \& Jira but want to use Confluence as our single source for Software development documentation.

Now we are looking for a way, to view/browse/archive a particular state of space or folder, incl. pages and attchments, as it is common in software configuration management.

So we thought any of the following features of Confluence could be helpful:

- labels:  
This would require the ability to recursively apply a label to all entities in a space or folder + the option to view labeled "versions" only. But, it seems neither recursive labeling nor selecting older versions of attachments is available.

- export/import or backup/restore:  
The XML backup from within the space tools + the Restore from XML looked quite promising. It allows to export a complete space incl. attachments into a single .zip file and the restore is able to import such a .zip file.

So, our idea was to import an "archived" space.zip file into a further \& new Space in the case it is needed.

Unfortunately the import has some restrictions which prevents us from doing this.

\* a Space with the same key must not exist  
We think this could be easily resolved by editing the entities.xml \& exportDescriptor.properties files in the .zip

\* the entities.xml file has id's for each entity which cause import errors because of unique id constraints.

This makes it impossible to create a clone of a space by the backup/restore.

- Archive a space via WebDAV  
This means, we access Confluence over WebDAV and zip the complete Space folder in an archive, which we can later on simply copy (by WebDAV again) into another Space.

It seems to us, that the WebDAV approach is the most promising way to do what we want to achive.

Or does anyone have a better idea.

Thanks for your input and Kind regards

Klaus


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: There is some guidance here on options for copying spaces:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-copy-or-rename-a-space-in-confluence-169578.html>

You can then mark the space as "archived":

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/archive-a-space-284368719.html>


Tags: archive

backup

restore

xml
Password reset email wrong
Asked by stefan:

if i click on the password forgotten link i get an email with a link to reset, but the link in the email is nonsense:

it sends me to ***forgotuserpassword.action***which is the site, where i entered the username to get the email.

confluence 6.3.3, default language: german


Answers:
author: stefan
body: ok, the problem solution is something else: Lotus Notes does not display the email correctly, so the link is hidden.

There is a KB entry for this

comments: author: Marc Dionne
body: Hi Stephan,

Could you please give me the link to this KB entry?

Thank you!


author: stefan
body: sure: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-33475>


author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Stefan,

On my test instance the email does have a link to forgotuserpassword.action but it says that is the link for requesting a password reset email. Below that is a blue button that takes me to a URL that does let me change my password:

![changepasswordemail.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6150i1514282018DEF1FE/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "changepasswordemail.png")

![Screen Shot 2017-09-13 at 10.02.15 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6153iEE22A3754FC45CB7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-09-13 at 10.02.15 AM.png")

I look forward to hearing how the blue button works for you on your instance.![Screen Shot 2017-09-13 at 10.02.15 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6153iEE22A3754FC45CB7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2017-09-13 at 10.02.15 AM.png")

comments: author: AnnWorley
body: I am having trouble deleting the duplicate screen shots in my answer.


author: stefan
body: Thank you Ann,

unfortuneatly it looks different for me:

I click on password forgotten:

![Image_20170914_007.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6203iDFE9C46E56ED434A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Image_20170914_007.png")

![Image_20170914_007.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6203iDFE9C46E56ED434A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Image_20170914_007.png")

![Image_20170914_008.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6204i07C63A7D0386C92A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Image_20170914_008.png")

![Image_20170914_008.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6204i07C63A7D0386C92A/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Image_20170914_008.png")


author: stefan
body: me screenshots are doubled :-/

first 2: password forgotten link

second 2: link from email i got


author: stefan
body: ok, the problem/solution is something else: Lotus Notes does not display the email correctly, so the link is hidden.

There is a KB entry for this
Page created in Confluence not accessible
Asked by Richie:

Hi there

I'm an admin on my cloud based Confluence instance. Today I created a page in an existing space. A collegue of mine went to the URL (<https://cathxocean.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/STS/pages/4337200/Customer+Camera+firmware+versions>) and requested access using the button which appeared. I received the email notification and approved access.

Later I went back to the URL above to make some more edits to the page, but I got the page saying I did not have access and to request access! I pressed the request access button but I got a message saying the email was not sent and to contact the administrator (ie, me). I've been unable to access the page since. I've searched for the page in the space it was created in and also across our whole Confluence site - its like its just been permanently deleted by someone.

Any ideas on what could have happened here? Or is there a way for me to track its changes / history?

Cheers

<br />

Richie


Answers:
author: Ryan Kearney
body: Hi Richie,  

That is strange! The first place to check would be the audit log:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/audit-log-829076528.html>  

<br />

comments: author: Richie
body: Thanks for the tip. I checked out our audit log and its showing nothing changing at all today! I'm beginning to wonder if this is something to do with our cloud instance?


author: Ryan Kearney
body: Hmm. Might be worthwhile to check with support. They can grep the logs on the backend for more details.
Testing External Database in Evaluation Installation
Asked by Heather Selbe:

I am attempting to set up a test instance of Confluence 6.4 for a user in my network, and we plan to use Postgres for the database if we decide to move to production. I would like to configure the evaluation install to use postgres to ensure I understand how they talk and get a handle on configuration beforehand. I saw some answers where it seems like this was possible in Confluence 5.x but I do not see any documentation on if and how this is done with the evaluation version. Is this possible at all, or will I have to wait until we buy a production version to work on hooking in postgres to Confluence?


Answers:
author: Ryan Kearney
body: Hi Heather,  

First off, that is definitely possible. Atlassian actually develops on Postgres, and it is the preffered database for these tools. Not to mention it is free and reliable! The eval version will work just like production. Whenever you first load up Confluence, choose the production install option. After that, it will ask you for info about your external database.   

One thing I would recommend, since you are just trying things out, is working with docker here. You can boot up a Confluence Docker image with the commands below. After that, just put a DB somewhere and point to it. The docker image can stop, start, be killed, etc. and the data will remain in the external database. If you do happen to kill the container instead of stop, you would lose the filesystem data of course.  

<br />

1. Download \& install Dockerhttps://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/  
2. (IN TERMINAL) `docker run --detach --publish 8080:8080 cptactionhank/atlassian-confluence:latest `  
3. (IN BROWSER) <http://localhost:8080/>

comments: author: Heather Selbe
body: Thank you! I got confused in thinking I needed a full license to use the production server, but now I see the link to get an evaluation license.


author: Ryan Kearney
body: Sweet, good luck!


Tags: postgres

trial
how to sync a sharepoint calendar with a team calendar?
Asked by Uta Scheidereiter:

Hi, I would be interested in this - how to sync a sharepoint calendar with a team calendar?  
This is not about embedding a sharpoint calendar in a Confluence page as this was answered in some threat in 2015...

Thanks for any suggestion.


Answers:
author: Fadoua
body: [@Uta Scheidereiter](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1150511)

Did you check if the following [add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/235/sharepoint-connector-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) can help?

all the best,


Tags: sharepoint

team-calendars-for-confluence