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any variable like $currentuser can be used within "Title" Value
Asked by qingpei wang:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Create from Template Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=701434989)*

any variable like $currentuser can be used within "Title" Value like $currentDate


Answers:
author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi,

If you like to used standard confluence pages as templates or blueprints and use different kind of variables in a simple way (e.g. __Current_User__, __Current_date__, __Template_Version__), then you should have a look at our plugin Page Tree Creator.

**[Marketplace Link : Page Tree Creator](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.PageTreeCreator/server/overview)**

Regards,  
Stephan


author: Joe Clark
body: This documentation should help you:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/development-resources/confluence-architecture/confluence-internals/velocity-template-overview/confluence-objects-accessible-from-velocity>

The current user is available in a variable called `$remoteUser`. To get the current date, you can use `$dateFormatter.currentDate`

comments: author: Nadja Agreiter
body: Hello Joseph,

in our company we're trying to make the entry to confluence as easy as possible. To do so, we created a template that allows users to follow certain steps, when starting to wright content into confluence. We thought, it would be nice, if users don't need to type their names and the current date. Unfortunatly the variables you suggested do not work (*$remoteUser* and *?dateFormatter.currentDate*). Additionally we would like to have a certain field called "title" to automatically put whats typed here as page title. Is their any way to do that? Thanks in advance!

Nadja


Tags: documentation

template

variable
server recomendations
Asked by Tom Hoch:


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: Hi Tom,

Check out Atlassian's page for [Confluence System Requirements](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/system-requirements-126517514.html). If you had your choice of hardware/software, this is probably the "best" configuration:

**Hardware**

Provide at least 2GB of RAM. Depending on how many users you have, other factors follow. See [the hardware sizing guide](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/server-hardware-requirements-guide-30736403.html) for a better idea of what you need for how many users.

**OS**

Ubuntu or CentOS. Lots of people use Windows, but if you have any \*nix experience, go that direction.

**Java runtime environment**

Use the one that bundles with your Confluence install. If you go with Linux, you won't need to do any extra work for Java.

**Database**

PostgreSQL is the Atlassian recommended database if you have your choice. MySQL comes in a close second with Oracle trailing in third and a "try to avoid" warning for MS SQL. The general wisdom is that you should choose whichever database you have support for regardless of the recommendations; if you have DBAs that know MS SQL but only MS SQL, having a DBA is better than not having a DBA.

**Webserver**

Technically you don't need a webserver to frontend Tomcat for you, but it's best-practice. It's also highly recommended if you plan on securing your site with HTTPS - setting a reverse proxy up with HTTPS is a lot simpler than trying to secure Tomcat. Atlassian does not officially support reverse proxies (that is, support.atlassian.com will probably not help you fix yours if it is misconfigured) but they provide documentation for using both Apache and nginx. Personally, I recommend nginx as we have used both nginx 1.8 and Apache 2.4; the performance was **much** better with nginx.


author: Daniel Wester
body: Servers are good?

seriously, what are you after?


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence notifications stopped working after upgrade to 5.8.10
Asked by Sam Rajagopal:

Recently, we upgraded confluence from 5.4 to 5.8.10. **Now users are not receiving any notifications.** Earlier, users were getting mails like 'Recommended', 'Your name was mentioned', 'weekly updates', 'Regular updates' etc. After the upgrade, none of these are happening. Universal plugin manager version is 2.8.15, if it is a useful data.

**I am able to send test email and it is working.** So, I believe the outgoing mail server configuration is fine. The 'Mail queue' is empty. Here is a part of the maillog on the system (centos)

Jan 6 12:30:00 jira postfix/qmgr\[1978\]: 02D24100E78: from=\<Confluence@xz[.com](http://tegile.com)\>, size=23091, nrcpt=1 (queue active)  
Jan 6 12:30:16 jira postfix/cleanup\[4508\]: 666A5100E78: message-id=\<1763446658.3454.1452112216421.JavaMail.confluence@jira\>  
Jan 6 12:30:16 jira postfix/qmgr\[1978\]: 666A5100E78: from=\<Confluence@xz[.com](http://tegile.com)\>, size=35965, nrcpt=1 (queue active)  
Jan 6 12:31:45 jira postfix/cleanup\[4508\]: 98CEB1010F9: message-id=\<1211010032.3456.1452112305628.JavaMail.confluence@jira\>  
Jan 6 12:31:45 jira postfix/qmgr\[1978\]: 98CEB1010F9: from=\<Confluence@xz[.com](http://tegile.com)\>, size=104431, nrcpt=1 (queue active)  
Jan 6 12:32:42 jira postfix/cleanup\[4508\]: 3C887100FAD: message-id=\<1297042283.3458.1452112362250.JavaMail.confluence@jira\>  
Jan 6 12:32:42 jira postfix/qmgr\[1978\]: 3C887100FAD: from=\<Confluence@xz[.com](http://tegile.com)\>, size=104399, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

Please advise, if I am missing anything. thanks

Sam


Answers:
author: Sam Rajagopal
body: * Just make sure your outgoing mail notification configuration is setup properly.
* look for mails in spam folder (make it 'not spam')

No need to do anything else. there is no problem with notification after the upgrade.


Tags: confluence-administration
Content by Label Macro
Asked by Scott Stricklin:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Content by Label Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=145566)*

We're using the Content by Label macro, but recently it has stopped updating when new pages are given the appropriate label in the CQL. That is, new pages don't appear in the macro when the label is added until a manual re-indexing of Confluence is run. Why could this be happening? Is there a Confluence setting to compel macros to refresh?


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: Try the [rebuild-from-scratch method](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+rebuild+the+content+indexes+from+scratch) to see if that fixes things.


author: Scott Stricklin
body: Thanks. However, this macro is not updating over several days.


author: Milo Test
body: Many macros rely on the index for population. Supposedly new entries are placed in a queue and reindexed every 5 seconds. In reality, it can be a few cycles before things show up. If you can't wait, then you have to do the manual reindex.


Tags: content-by-label

documentation
An example of what the URL should look like would be nice.
Asked by Tom McCallum:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Subscribe to Team Calendars from Microsoft Outlook](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=251005307)*

Is there an example of what the URL should look like when you enter it in the New Internet Calendar Subscription in Outlook for a Confluence Team calendar? Or a way to derive what it should be?


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Find the calendar you'd like to obtain a link from --

image2016-1-6 11:46:53.png

Copy the URL provided -- (*ex. https://confluence.domain.com/rest/calendar-services/1.0/calendar/export/subcalendar/private/32053de2f7be70c0914fg99d4c0d61asd0ea4c0f.ics* )

image2016-1-6 11:47:32.png

Right click on **My Calendars** and click **Open Calendar** --

image2016-1-6 11:49:15.png

Paste your url into the Internet subscription box and press **Open** --

image2016-1-6 11:50:23.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/An-example-of-what-the-URL-should-look-like-would-be-nice/qaq-p/182322?attachment-id=1178){#link_118780a5d510c7}  
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Tags: ms-outlook

team-calendars-for-confluence
How can I change the frequency and granularity of email updates?
Asked by EricB:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Email Notifications](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724765358)*

I am watching several pages. But I get a separate email every time someone makes a change. If one or two people edit something on the page, I might get a dozen emails in one day, each with minor changes.

I still want to watch my pages, but I want one email per day, either (a) for each page I'm watching, or (b) a summary of changes to all watched pages.


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Silva
body: I believe this is an expected Behaviour of Confluence Cloud and currently there's no notification layer to set, but you might want to check further the doc below for more info:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/email-notifications-724765358.html>

Cheers,

Rodrigo Silva

comments: author: EricB
body: Yes, that's the page that failed to provide an answer. Providing no notification granularity seems like a pretty huge oversight for a tool that is supposed to be optimized for managing team communication around documentation and tasks.I wonder what their imagined primary scenario is, that would allow someone to follow lots of pages and tasks without drowning.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

documentation

notification
Page Title Change and History
Asked by MarkC:

Is there a way to see when a page title was changed in the history? I'm looking through a page's history, but I don't see it tracking the page title. Even when I select v.1 which I know had a different title, it displays the new page title. Is there no way to track this change?


Answers:
author: Aleg Kavalenka
body: You can track the page title changes in Page History. However you cannot do it through Compare selected versions. You need to click through versions in the list to display each version one by one and find where the page title was changed.


author: Julia Kern
body: Also, is there any chance to view changes in the parent page?


Tags: confluence-administration

page-title
Confluence accessibility after an IP change
Asked by Lewis Loren:

We have JIRA and Confluence installed in a CentOS environment on a VM.  
We recently Moved the VM containing JIRA/Confluence to a new machine, which altered the IP address.  
JIRA continued to function and while the Confluence login screen was accessible, it was not possible to log in to Confluence.  
We Added the new IP address to Tomcat's server.xml but this did not resolve the issue. The Confluence login screen was accessible, but login failed.  
We logged into JIRA and the JIRA application noticed that the IP address had changed and asked if  
we wanted to update the IP address. We accepted the change to the IP address but this did not  
resolve the issue. The Confluence login screen was accessible but login failed.  
In JIRA, went to user management and modified the application settings for Confluence by changing the IP address to the new one.  
This last changed caused the Confluence to stop responding we also get a "network error" when trying to login through Confluence. Additionally, we were unable to find any error messages in the Confluence logs.  
Does the Confluence IP address need to be modified in some additional place and if so where, or is this the result of some other issue?  
Thanks!


Answers:
author: david levy
body: Exactly the same issue. No suggestion ?


author: IT Support
body: Experiencing exactly the same issue - has anyone resolved this? No error logs at all but just "sorry, unable to login...". Shambles.


author: Daniel Ramos
body: Anyone have any updates on this? I, too, had an emergency change in the host's IP address that both JIRA and Confluence were running on. Already updated the server.xml to reflect the new IP and neither services are accessible. Where else do I need to reflect the new IP?


author: Steven F Behnke
body: What is the user server, JIRA User server? Please tail both JIRA and Confluence's logs while attempting a login, there should be no question as one of the machines should output the answer.If you're using Crowd you should tail that as well.


author: Lewis Loren
body: Yes, JIRA/Confluence was on a single VM and that VM was moved to a new server which caused a change in the IP address to JIRA/Confluence. To the best of my knowledge, the ports have not changed.


author: Phill Fox
body: Can I just clarify that when you say you are hosting both JIRA and Confluence on the same VM is this the same as before? Were you previously accessing using different IP addresses or different ports?


Tags: confluence-administration
What is the cost of using SharePoint Connector
Asked by David Bekkerus:

Is there a cost for using this connector or is it a free plugin?


Answers:
author: David Bekkerus
body: Thank you again.

I am not sure if this is a secondary question should be attempted answered in this question or a new one: but it is tightly coupled with this installation type, since we will want to integrate confluence with SharePoint, via the SharePoint Connector.

To use the SharePoint Connector we need to do an on server install, but I am not sure if that mean that we could put this install on our host providers hardware? Our SharePoint is on a MarcoNet (<http://www.marconet.com/cloud-services>) so I am assuming we need to have both platforms in the same physical location on Marco. Or would we be possible to host Jira, and Confluence on a new in house Catholic Charities server and connect to MarcoNet via the connector?

comments: author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: Confluence and SharePoint don't need to be in the same location to get the connector to work. You \~will\~ need access to SharePoint's Central Admin to install the connector as a Solution file on the SharePoint side. Confluence/JIRA can go wherever you want as long as they have network access to the SharePoint box (via VPN or if your SharePoint is accessible from the internet).


author: David Bekkerus
body: Thanks, I see there is a section that says:

Qualified academic institutions receive a 50% discount on server licenses.

Free for Open Source, Non-Profits and Classrooms

The place that would purchase this tool is Catholic Charities: which is a 501c3 Non profit. Does that meet the requirement for free use?

comments: author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: You can give the request a try: <https://www.atlassian.com/software/views/community-license-request/>However, it looks like there are additional clauses on the request form: "Atlassian Community Licenses are designed for official not for profit organisations and charities which are not for profit, non-government, non-academic, non-commercial in nature, have no religious affiliation and that would not otherwise be able to afford Atlassian software."


author: Daniel Eads {unmonitored account}
body: Hi David,

The SharePoint Connector is a paid feature - pricing details are here: <https://www.atlassian.com/software/sharepoint-connector/pricing>

Best,  
Daniel


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there any feature for Bulk Upload of test cases in Synapse RT
Asked by Nonit Rustagi:

I want to upload all my test cases in a single go in Synapse RT test project. I have these test cases written in Excel sheet. Each test case has multiple steps.

Is there any feature where I can upload all my test cases.


Answers:
author: Cheney Ma [Go2Group]
body: Hi Rustagi,

Please try [synapseRT NextGen](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.go2group.jira.plugin.synapse/server/overview), this is a totally redesigned new look synapse for more control over testing and ease of use within JIRA. Refer to our product [documentation](https://doc.go2group.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=45547904) for more details.

You can import your test case to JIRA by its built-in CSV importer, here is documentation to do it: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver070/creating-issues-using-the-csv-importer-762877845.html>

<br />

Best Regards,  
Go2Group Support


Tags: synapsert
Downloading pages in PDF format
Asked by Elena_Lurye:

I am following this procedure as described in the documentation, but unable to view/access/find downloaded file - getting the following message with no links - see below. It stays like this for a long time. Although specified as 100% completed - still shows "Running tasks". Any ideas where this download is getting created?  

download_message.PNG  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Downloading-pages-in-PDF-format/qaq-p/452955?attachment-id=9954){#link_118781d6128767}  
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Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: It seems like this is a known issue with the PDF exporter. The following Knowledge Base article should help to solve it: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/PDF+Space+Export+is+complete+but+download+button+does+not+appear>

comments: author: Elena_Lurye
body: Thank you! Will try that now. Although, I see people report that it doesn't work.. Will let you know in a few mins


author: Elena_Lurye
body: It didn't work.. same results..


author: Attila Gaspar _META-INF_
body: Hi,

With the help of this addon you can export pages (even filtered pages) in PDF format, try it with an eval licence.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.metainf.confluence.plugin.pagetreeexporter.pagetree-word-exporter-plugin/server/overview>

BR: Attila


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: I think once the export shows as 100% complete, you should be able to click on "Download" next to "Finished PDF space export" to download the files. It is not so clear that it is a link, but you should be able to click on it.

comments: author: Elena_Lurye
body: Unfortunately, it is not clickable...


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: My mistake, there should be a link that says "here" next to download, but it is strange that it is not appearing. It is also stored on the server somewhere, so I am taking a look at that.


author: Elena_Lurye
body: Thank you for looking into this. I just tried it again - same result ..


author: Ken Guill
body: Having the same issue. had worked for a over a year and just quit working one day


Tags: confluence-administration

download

pdf
Notify mails
Asked by Helpdesk ICT:

When we want to notify user when with a change on a page but he receive the whole page in his mail instead only the changed text. How can we change this? We want that the user only receive the changed text and not the whole page.


Answers:
author: Helpdesk ICT
body: very bad support!


author: Helpdesk ICT
body: could anyone please help me with this problem?


author: Helpdesk ICT
body: could anyone please help me with this problem?


Tags: confluence-administration
Content Formating Macro upgrade problem
Asked by Ragnar Veerm?e:

Upgrade from 4.2.11 to 4.2.13 (or 4.2.14):

Macro gives error message on page: "Error rendering macro 'auibutton' : null"

System info:

Confluence 5.8.9

Operating System Linux 3.10.0-327.3.1.el7.x86_64

Application server Apache Tomcat/8.0.23

Java version 1.8.0_66


Answers:
author: Rafael Franco
body: Hi all,

My name is Rafael Franco and I'm the Tech Lead for the Product Team here at Adaptavist. I'm sorry to hear you are having problems with Content Formatting Macros. We've issued a fix for analytics in our latest version 4.2.16.

Could you please update to this version and let me know if you're having further issues?

Thanks,

Rafael

comments: author: Ragnar Veerm?e
body: * [Ragnar Veerm?e](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/users?username=ragnar.veermae)
* [Jan 06, 2016](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/33143117/answers/33143356)  
Version 4.2.15 fixes the issue.


author: Rafael Franco
body: I would advise you to install the latest version 4.2.16 and not 4.2.15 since it contains additional fixes.


author: Ragnar Veerm?e
body: Version 4.2.15 fixes the issue.  

Thanks!


author: Michael Regelin
body: Hello,

I get the same message error.

I'm using Confluence 5.6.4 and were able to downgrade to version 4.2.6 or 4.2.10 where the problem doesnt exist.

It might be a good idea to send a support to adaptavist.

Michael


Tags: addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.contentformat
can not delete personal space
Asked by qingpei wang:

the space directory shows nothing about personal space

but the space does exist

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Answers:
author: Eduardo Nunes
body: Hi Qingpei,

Actually, if you'd like to view your personal space, you may reach it by clicking your name in the [People Directory](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/search-the-people-directory-201706.html). Visit your personal space by choosing your profile picture at the right side of the Confluence header and choosing **Personal Space**.

Cheers,

ENunes

comments: author: qingpei wang
body: i can visit my Personal Space, The thing I want to know can not find it under Space Directory


author: Chander Inguva
body: What do you get when you click on Personal Spaces ? It should be there


author: qingpei wang
body: @Chander Inguva NO Spaces found


Tags: confluence-administration
How to get recently created users on confluence?
Asked by Zafer Cakmak:

I want to list "recently created users" for confluence. According to this page, <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-fields-161188.html#ConfluenceSearchFields-PersonalInformation> I should filter users by using created field.

If I wrote a query like created \> 2016, it shows the users created on 2016 year but I couldn't find a way to make query that lists users created from a specific date.

1- How can I use created field with a full time? I tried to search with format 2015-12-31, 2015-31-12, 31/12/2015, 12/31/2015 but none of them worked.

2- Is there another way to get recently created/joined users to confluence?


Answers:
author: Phill Fox
body: The format you need is

created:\[20160101 TO 2016231\]

See also the previous question at <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/13414836>

comments: author: Zafer Cakmak
body: thanks a lot!


Tags: confluence-administration