youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How can I store emails from Outlook in Confluence Cloud?
Asked by renal1:

We still heavily depend on email to get information around our company and to outside collaborators. I really need a way (ideally one click) to send an email, including any attachments with that email, to a page in Confluence. This would make organizing and finding key information infinitely easier for my team.

We are using the cloud version of Confluence, and I can't seem to find any add in which performs this function specifically for the cloud instance. Is there any work around I can use for now besides cutting and pasting the mail into a page?


Answers:
author: Gary
body: ```
Hi Daniel,Unfortunately, there is not an add on available that has any of the functionality you are looking for in the OnDemand platform, and mail archiving is a restricted function in onDemand (https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand). ?
```

```
Currently, the only options available would be to copy and paste email content in toConfluence pages, or use the rest API to create pages with your email content - see https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+REST+API
```

```
Another option would be to switch over to the Confluence stand alone/self hosted solution, where you could use the SendEMailTo Page plugin (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.plugins.confluence.send-email-to-page).  It may also be worth reaching out to the developer to see if they have any plans on bringing this to the OnDemand platform - https://artemis.atlassian.net/wiki/display/EMPLG/Send%20EMail%20To%20Page%20Plugin%20Documentation.Cheers,Gary 
```


Tags: archive

cloud

confluence-cloud

email

export
What is the difference between Document theme and the Default theme?
Asked by Vera Henrichs:

It's hard to find something about it and I don't think it's a good idea to just switch it. So, what's the difference or where can I find more information? Especially the pro's and con's if possible.


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Vera,

The difference between Document theme and Default theme is that Default theme is the theme you get when you install confluence. The Documentation theme is one of the themes bundled with Confluence. You can get more information on this link:

<br />

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Documentation+Theme>

Cheers,

Renato Rudnicki

comments: author: Vera Henrichs
body: Yeah, found that page too... but as I said, that's not something what says why you should use the documentation theme or just stick with the default one....


author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Vera, For you see in more details, you can create an space to test, go in Space Tools (left menu at the bottom), Look and Feel. You will see the option to customise between Default and Documentation theme. If you customise the Documentation Theme, you will see that you can change the structure of the page, creating you own sub-tree links, etc. On the Default theme, you are more limited. Please let me know if you need more information :)Cheers, Renato Rudnicki


author: Vera Henrichs
body: Thank you, I will try that!


author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Hello Vera,

FYI, please also see this thread: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/316762/answers/2597219>  
Seems, that the documentation theme will be replaced by the default theme in future releases.

Cheers,  
Kirstin

comments: author: Vera Henrichs
body: Hi Kirstin,

Yes, indeed, found that too :smile: I'm number 114 :wink: Curious to see what happens, post is from more than a year ago...


Tags: theme
confluence setup skipped database step
Asked by Methods Digital:

I've already did two clean installs, going to the point of dropping postgresql DB.

I begin running the Install Setup, select Production, insert the license, it then asks for admin username, and finishes install without ever asking for the Database info, making it much harder to change afterwards to postgresql instead of using the evaluation one.


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi, judging by your description, it seems that you're facing this known [bug](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34288). Whenever you enter an evaluation license, the database is created using HSQL, this will be fixed in version 5.6.2.

I hope it helps.

Cheers


Tags: administration

database

install

postgres
How to turn off watching in Confluence Answers?
Asked by Norman Abramovitz:

I clicked for a single question to watch it and now I am getting email notifications for all the new questions. How can I turn off watching completely in Confluence Answers until this gets fixed?


Answers:
author: Udo Brand
body: Look under Topics (just beside Questions) and unwatch the topics you are currently watching.

comments: author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Thanks, I will search through the list to see if I can find one. What is confusing me is I did not turn on topic (label) watching because 99% of them do not make any sense without the ability of combining more than one topic and that is not possible.


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Maybe this issue is somehow related to when I was giving feedback on the test system. I really just requested to watch a single question.


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: ahhh, blissful email notification silence! :\>)


author: Udo Brand
body: When I answered my first question on Confluence Question there came this popup if I want to watch. I thougth it was the question I'm watching but - after some mails - I found out it was the topic. That's why I got in the same problem.


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: FWIW, when I looked at topics, I was subscribed to "Confluence" as a topic, which is why I was getting all new Confluence-related questions. I never deliberately signed up for that. Anyway, now I've unchecked it, and hopefully I'll stop getting the spam.


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: Here is the issue tracking this issue.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-1316>

Here is slightly more detail on how I applied Udo's answer that I wrote into the reported issue.

Look at one of the questions and see what topics are associated with it. Unfortunately you cannot search for them since the watch link is not displayed. Manually scan the unordered list to find those topics and see if they display the unwatched link.

Also if you see a popup asking you to watch it, answer NO! :\>)

One more thing, please give Udo's answer the upvote if this answer helps you.

comments: author: Ken Wood
body: I looked at all the topics using this link: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/topics>I clicked 'Unwatch' wherever it appeared next to a topic.


author: Norman Abramovitz
body: that is correct, but how many show more did you need to do to find them all? If you are lucky they are near the top, but that is not guaranteed at the moment.


author: Ken Wood
body: I just went to that page and used my brower's search to find 'Unwatch', and clicked each occurrence. So far, no more emails have showed up, so time will tell if I got them all.


Tags: community

watcher
Cache Statistics
Asked by Rushit Pandya:

Under Cache Statistics I see few highlighted red local caches. Also there are few 100% used

What will hapen if i flush them?

Lose any content or data on articles?

Will it improve performance of confluence ?

Regards

Rushit


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Rushit,

If you flush a cache you may lost any data that is not stored in the database yet. For example draft. If you want to improve Confluence performance through cache it requires you to fine tune it instead of just flushing the cache. Please refer to our document here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Cache+Performance+Tuning>

Hope it help.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to create shortcuts in the TREE of Confluence?
Asked by Vera Henrichs:

Hi there,

Our Confluence is our Knowledge-center :smile: I would like to know if it's possible to make shortcuts in the TREE-menu of Confluence. Not on a page, but on the left.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: If you are using the default theme which use Confluence Side bar, it is easily achievable. Please refer to our documentation below:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+Sidebar>

If you are using documentation theme, then it's a bit harder to achieve. But nonetheless, it is still possible. Please review the documentation below for documentation theme:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Documentation+Theme>

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


author: Vera Henrichs
body: Hi again,

So, at our Confluence-server I've created a new (Test) Space and used the Default / Blank Space.

I really can't find the option to configure the sidebar... the link is nowhere to be found...not on the bottom of the sidebar and not at the Space Opeatins or -Admin.

Please help me....

comments: author: Vera Henrichs
body: So I guess i should do it in the Document theme, at last there's a pane to configure the Navigation. But what you fill in there, gets added on the top of the navigation, even above the search-bar... That looks awefull. Where exactly is the right place?


author: Vera Henrichs
body: Somebody (don't know where anymore) adviced me to add a test-space. added a blank theme and as far i can see it, it's the same as the documentation theme. so whats the difference? (and where exactly to configure the sidebar...)


author: Kristof Vandermeersch
body: You want to add links in your pagetree on the left if I understand well.I'm afraid that's not possible. You can create a page that's a placeholder for your link, and in that page you can put the link. If the linked page is also a Confluence page, you can use the "include" macro to show your other page in your placeholder page.


author: Vera Henrichs
body: Could you please explain that last part a bit more? And does it show the page itself, like realtime?


author: Kristof Vandermeersch
body: Yes. Here is the documentation: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Include+Page+Macro>


author: Vera Henrichs
body: YES! Thank you! That's it!


author: Vera Henrichs
body: Thank you for your quick answer. We have the Documented Theme... I guess it's not possible with that one?

I am going to look into the difference of both Themes and maybe if we can change in an easy way.

comments: author: Kristof Vandermeersch
body: We use the Documentation Theme. It's nice and clean.


author: Vera Henrichs
body: Yes thats true :-)


Tags: page-tree

shortcut
Album function like Facebook is needed?
Asked by GxP Tech:

Hi Team,

I think it is good that Confluence has the Album function like Facebook.

I want to get comments on attached images from my coworker.

Album.png

Regards,

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Album-function-like-Facebook-is-needed/qaq-p/178826?attachment-id=4064){#link_11897f32a1c71f}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/29904/1/Album.png){#display_11897f32a1c71f_0}


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello there, there appears to be an improvement for that [CONF-27768](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27768), which dates from September '09, you may like to cast your vote and add your usage scenario to it.


author: Natasha Prasad
body: Hi there,

The ability to comment on embedded images in a page is something we are actively working on. We'd be keen to run some concepts by you and get your feedback. If this is something you'd be interested in, please drop me an email with your details.

Cheers,

Natasha

Confluence Product Manager


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: For others, please do vote on the mentioned feature request if you are interested to have this feature. It will raise the popularity of the request.Please refer to our policy below for extra detail:<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy>


author: GxP Tech
body: Here is New Feature Request. <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34849>
api disabled in confluence trial
Asked by gagomes:

I've just setup a trial of hosted confluence and when I visit the 'Further Configuration' section, I see the below greyed out and the mouse cursor changes to an 'unclickable' cursor.

Remote API (XML-RPC \& SOAP)  
Enabling the remote APIs allows you to access Confluence remotely.  
Is this a limitation of the trial? If so, is this limied also in the product itself if I host it myself (e.g starter license) ?


Answers:
author: RVal
body: I have Development licensed Confluence v 5.3.1 hosted locally and Remote API (XML-RPC \& SOAP) option can be enabled or disabled. To enable it I went to General Configuration -\> Feature Settings section and clicked 'Edit' button next to the section title on the right hand side. It is clickable/selectable only in Edit mode. After done editing you have to click either Save or Cancel at the bottom of the page.


author: nursihah_amir
body: API usage is not restricted/limited for OnDemand. ![](https://support.atlassian.com/images/icons/emoticons/smile.gif) However, please note that we do not provide support the usage of APIs.

Best Regards,  
Nursihah


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why were some users awarded a large reputation bounty during the migration to Confluence Questions?
Asked by Migration Bot 9000:

Now that Atlassian Answers is running on a system powered by Confluence Questions, many users (especially those with very high amounts of reputation), show that a large bounty was awarded to them on the date of the migration. Why did this happen? Why do some users get a bounty and others not, and why are the amounts different?


Answers:
author: Migration Bot 9000
body: We implemented a 'one-off' bounty award during the migration from the legacy Answers system to Confluence Questions. Because karma/reputation is awarded differently in Confluence Questions than in the old system, some users had drastically lower reputation totals in the new system than the old one. In order to counteract people feeling "cheated" by this loss, we bumped everyone's reputation total back up to where it was before the migration.


Tags: community
Why isn't answers read-only?
Asked by JamieA:

The banner says it will be read-only, I see that the migration has started into confluence questions, yet lots of questions are still getting updated.

If I add new answers or comments now, are they going to be moved to the new system? If not it's kind of a waste of time.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Jamie,

Actually the migration was done on 7th of September and it was read-only during the migration process. I believe it was indeed not in read-only mode at 4th of September. If I remember correctly the banner mentioned that it will be read-only during the migration process period which was done on 7th of September.

Hope it clarifies.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: JamieA
body: I think it was partially in readonly mode hence the question. I could create comments but not add new answers.


Tags: community

feedback-forum
Confluence NGINX Reverse Proxy 504 Error
Asked by Karl Bateman:

Hi All,

Is there any reason as to why I am getting an NGINX 504 Gateway timeout error when running NGINX as a reverse proxy for confluence.

Setup:

User =\> 80:NGINX =\> 8090:Confluence

Regards,

Karl


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Karl,

The code 504 means that the application server isn't getting the expected answer in time. Usually, it happens when the application is under maintenance or if the application has some problem on the configuration. So, if you try to access nginx on port 80, is it works ? If you try to create a simple index.html with a "hello world" passing by NGINX on port 8091, for example, you can see the content of the page ?   

I'm asking it, because, if you be able to see the "hello World" message, we can see that the problem is something about confluence configuration. If you won't be able to see the Hello World, so, the problem is on NGINX configuration.

When we work with reverse proxy, it's very common we have problems with the TCP/IP conversation (three hand shake) when your request can achieve the destiny, but the request doesn't back by the same path, which can generate an error. So, for you do a more deep troubleshoot about it, you can run a tcpdump on confluence server to see what is happening.

tcpdump dat host confluence_IP and dat port 8090

Please let me know if you need any additional help.

Best regards,

Renato Rudnicki


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence NGINX Proxy SSL
Asked by Karl Bateman:

Hello All,

I just wondered if anyone could provide a simple guide for setting up confluence to run with an NGINX reverse proxy. Either NGINX accepting SSL connections and sending them to confluence as http or https.

Regards,

Karl


Answers:
author: Walter G. da Cruz
body: Assuming you already has Confluence and nginx working, and you just need to connect them:

confluence initial URL: [http://my.server.info:8090](http://my.server:8090)

you want to use: <https://my.server.info/wiki>

on confluence server.xml file:

\<Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"  
maxThreads="200" minSpareThreads="10"  
enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"   
proxyName="[my.server.info](http://stephanie.dacruz.info)" proxyPort="80"  
...

\<Context path="/wiki" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="true"\>

...

on /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:

```
server {    ...    listen 443 ssl;    ...    server_name my.server.info;    ...    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/apache.crt;    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/apache.key;    ...    location /wiki {        proxy_set_header X-forwarded-Host $host;        proxy_set_header X-forwarded-Server $host;        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;        proxy_pass http://localhost:8090/wiki;    }...}
```

Restart Confluence; then, restart nginx, and give it a try.


author: Timothy
body: Not the Confluence documentation but similar (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Securing+Stash+behind+nginx+using+SSL>).

Already asked before too:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/275805>


Tags: confluence-administration
Don't see "PDF Export Language Support" in Confluence Admin panel
Asked by Oleksandr Redko:

What permissions do I need to see "PDF Export Language Support" in General Admin?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Oleksandr, the item is in the *left pane menu* , you can also access it through the direct link: [\<your_confluence_url\>/admin/flyingpdf/configurepdflanguagesupport.action](http://localhost:8550/admin/flyingpdf/configurepdflanguagesupport.action)

comments: author: Oleksandr Redko
body: Thanks for the answer! I go through the direct link and see next message: "Not Permitted. You are not permitted to perform this operation." I need some permissions.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

pdf-export

permission
Confluence Licensing while migrating the server of same OS.
Asked by SuBoDh KoMmInEnI:

Hi, I need to migrate Confluence PROD from Win 2008 R2 to Another Win 2008 R2. Can i use same license which was issued for old server or need to contact atlassian to get a new one?


Answers:
author: gustavo_refosco
body: Hi,

The license is not tied to a specific machine, so you are able to have this license in your new server, though Atlassian needs to be informed in case your Server ID is changed, so your existing license can be adjusted. Please take a look at [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=179438999) for further clarification on this.

If the intention is to have this only temporarily, while performing the migration, please consider generating an Evaluation license, so it can be used in your new server while migrating. After you migrate it and stop using the old server, you could use your existing license in the new server.
frevvo form not working in Chrome
Asked by Steffen Heller:

Hello,

we are using different frevvo forms. They work okay in IE and Firefox, but in Chrome none of them does. When I try to open a form, it shows a message...
> "Initializing form  
> Please wait..."

...and keeps trying to load the form but never does.

Anyone any idea what that is or if it can be fixed?

We are using Atlassian Confluence 4.3.7, Windows 7, 64-bit


Answers:
author: Bart Geens
body: you probably need v5.1.1 patch8

see: <http://docs.frevvo.com/d/display/frevvo/Detailed+Release+Notes>


Tags: app

chrome

forms
Formatting or Marker in Pages Hierarchy (sidebar) to indicate it is restricted
Asked by Gokul K:

is there a way to format the text/links in the pages hierarchy (sidebar) to show which ones are restricted to end users?  

Scenario: I have several pages that are restricted to GROUP1, I want the end users to know that the "Current Projects" page is only viewable by GROUP1 users and not all users. I'd like an easy way to indicate to end users that the pages in the sidebar are restricted.I'd rather color code them or add an icon next to the link.


Answers:
author: Elisa [Atlassian]
body: Hi Gokul,

Your end users will only be able to see on the sidebar those pages which they have the proper permissions.

In your case, if you'd like to have a control over what is being restricted or not, Confluence displays a padlock icon on the byline when a page has current viewing or editing restrictions.

Please let us know if this helps you.

Cheers!

comments: author: Gokul K
body: Is there any way i can add a custom icon near the page link which has view or edit restriction?


author: Elisa [Atlassian]
body: Unfortunately no. :/


Tags: confluence-administration
Display a web page on dashboard using custon content gadget
Asked by bradley kramer:

I am trying to display a HTML page I created in the custom content gadt on my dashboard, but I cannot get the file path right. I have Apache installed and had modified the http.conf to point to the server and port. I have tried using the full http path and also the file path for the url.. what am I doing wrong? HTLM is not my strong suit so any advice would be great. Thank you


Answers:
author: bradley kramer
body: BTW this is not a publishe website but a local on hosted on my machine


Tags: html
Gather spaces
Asked by atla atla:

Hello,

I'm going to organize confluence differently for each department of my company. And I'm wondering, for ergonomic reasons, if it's possible to gather spaces in different groups (each department in my case).

And if it's not possible, how can I do to organize spaces ? Because there gonna be a lot of them.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

Thanks for your clarification. The only way to change your dashboard is to modify it which describe on our documentation [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+Confluence+Dashboard). The problem here is, you can't set Confluence to render a specific categories for users that logging in according to their group membership or username.

However, you might be able to create a label with their group/department name. So, when user see the space categories, they should know which categories they should click to reveal the set of spaces relevant for them.

Hope it help.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


author: atla atla
body: Thank you. But I'm wondering if it's possible to do this for the "site spaces" of the dashboard for the users to find easily their spaces, not only to see the recent activity of the one they are interested in. More clearly, I would like a list of the spaces, organized according to their group. (As the "Favorites spaces" in the dashboard separate some spaces from the others).

I'm sorry if I'm communicating badly.

<br />

Cheers


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's what "Space Categories" are for.

comments: author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

Just want to confirm that you can indeed categorise spaces using Space Categories. Please refer to our documentation here for detailed information on this:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Labels+to+Categorise+Spaces>

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: confluence-administration