youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
replicate confluence content to another instance
Asked by Ben Arundel:

Hi

I want to know if its possible to on a schedule copy/ recreate a confluence page(s) from a cloud instance to a locally installed instance.

The reason for this is a requirement to present public documents but lock down by an IP range.

I have tried a number of export HTML plugins but I have found you lose the native links macros etc.

I'm not holding off any hope for [CLOUD-2636](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-2636) 6 years and no progress, If I dont find a solution we will be moving away from confluence.

Any and all advice welcome.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Ben!

There's not a way within Confluence itself to schedule a copy of page(s) from one instance to another, but there are many add-ons that could help you with the task.

I would start by having a look at Bob Swift's [Command Line Interface](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.atlassian.cli/cloud/overview?_ga=2.66415150.1460861443.1525075432-1485076413.1519291985) extension. You can have a look at [Bob's response from this post here](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Re-How-to-copy-pages-from-one-confluence-to-another/qaq-p/251785/comment-id/42571#M42571) with information on how to do that.
> [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) has [copyPage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copyPage) action and you can use the [targetServer](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-targetServer) parameter.
>
> If needed, a UI can be constructed using techniques similar to: [How to create or update pages with a run dialog](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CCLI/How+to+create+or+update+pages+with+a+run+dialog)

I've also tagged your post with the Atlassian Marketplace tag in case other users are aware of other add-ons that could help to accomplish this.

Kind regards,

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

cloud

confluence-cloud
Calendar for Confluence email notification is being sent with date one day before date of the event
Asked by Kiran Koneti:

Calendar for Confluence email notification is being sent with a date one day before the date of the event. This is leaving us with incorrect info on the email notifications where my team has raised a concern.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Kiran,

Could you tell me what version of Confluence and Team Calendars you're using? It might be a bug so I want to check any existing ones against your version.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Kiran Koneti
body: Hi Shannon,

Please find the versions which we are using

Team Calendars : Team Calendars 1000.0.51

Confluence : Confluence 1000.0.0-c37976d0fec

<br />

Regards

Kiran


author: Shannon S
body: Kiran,

Thank you for confirming.

This is indeed the bug I thought it might be.

You can see here that this is an issue in Team Calendars Cloud:

* [CONFCLOUD-56131](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-56131)

Please vote on that issue in order to show how many users are affected by this issue. At this time, there is no known workaround.

Do let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Shannon


author: Kiran Koneti
body: Hi Shannon,

Thanks a lot for your for confirming that it is a bug, I have voted the above mentioned issue.

Regards

Kiran


author: JN
body: Hi,

Has the provided work around resolved the issue for many users?

Thanks

Jon


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Default message in the Inline Comments
Asked by madhusudhananravi:

We use Confluence for storing techinal documents which undergoes a review process. The reviewers are supposed to add the category of review comments for tracking.

The reviewers are supposed to add \[O\]/\[D\]/\[Q\]/\[E\] at the start of each inline comment.

However the reviewers forget to add them leading to tracking issues.

Is there a way to add the string "\[O\]/\[D\]/\[Q\]/\[E\] :" as default message in the inline comment.

Whenever user select the text and clicks on inline comment. this string should be dispalyed in the pop-up by default.


Answers:
author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi [@madhusudhananravi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/249315) ,

You can try developing a javascript (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-use-javascript-in-confluence-313458839.html>)

Hope this helps,

Fabio


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

inline-comment

server
Building Confluence docker container fails (libc6-compat)
Asked by Snorre Selmer:

I've followed the recipe here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/update-the-confluence-docker-image-to-use-oracle-jdk-829062521.html>

Building works fine until step 13. Here I get the following error:

(4/29) Installing libc6-compat (1.1.18-r3)  
ERROR: libc6-compat-1.1.18-r3: trying to overwrite lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 owned by glibc-2.27-r0.  
ERROR: libc6-compat-1.1.18-r3: failed to rename lib64.apk-new to lib64.

Any suggestions? I'm up for testing whatever to make this work!


Answers:
author: Dave Chevell
body: Hi Snorre,

That error message suggests that your Dockerfile still includes the commands to install libc6-compat library. This should be removed from the list of libraries to be installed - from the doc you linked:
> Within the same **`Dockerfile`** , remove the **`lib6-compat`** library as it is already in the above `anapsix` image. Also re-order the **`update-ca-certificates`** command as such:
>
> *
>
>       RUN apk update -qq \    && update-ca-certificates \    && apk add ca-certificates wget curl openssh bash procps openssl perl ttf-dejavu tini libc6-compat \    && rm -rf /var/lib/{apt,dpkg,cache,log}/ /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
>
>   to
>
>       RUN apk update -qq \    && apk add ca-certificates wget curl openssh bash procps openssl perl ttf-dejavu tini \    && update-ca-certificates \    && rm -rf /var/lib/{apt,dpkg,cache,log}/ /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
>
> <br />
>
If it's still not working for you after making this change, can you post your Dockerfile contents here?

Cheers,

Dave

comments: author: Snorre Selmer
body: The container built successfully. One warning was thrown when updating the CA-certs: "WARNING: ca-certificates.crt does not contain exactly one certificate or CRL: skipping", but I can live with that. I'll set up a container stack once I get home from work, to see if the lack of libc6-compat affects the running of the container.


author: Dave Chevell
body: Hey Snorre,

I should clarify: the base image already has libc6-compat installed. This is actually why you got the initial error - the binary trying to be installed already existed. So your container still includes this library, and you should see no ill effects related to removing that line from your Dockerfile.

Cheers,

Dave


author: Snorre Selmer
body: Ah! Well, the application is running smoothly now, working on building Bitbucket, and then it's onto Jira. Hopefully I'll have all three up and running by the end of the weekend. :) Thanks for the help!


author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: Hi Snorre,

Try deleting the package in another step and then re install

```
apk del libc6-compat
```

comments: author: Snorre Selmer
body: I just tried this, still gave the same error. :(


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to use Grammarly with Collaborative Editing?
Asked by Jan Benhelm:

Since the introduction of collaborative editing, Grammarly, my preferred spell checking software (<https://www.grammarly.com/>), stopped working when editing pages in Confluence. It still works when editing templates where no collaborative editing is available at the moment.

1. Is there a way I can get this to work?
2. Can I switch off collaborative editing at times to perform my spell checks?
3. Is there another spell checker that works on Mac and Confluence with collaborative editing switched on?

Thanks, Jan


Answers:
author: Manon Soubies-Camy
body: Hello Jan,

There is an open feature request: [Support for Grammarly extension in Collaborative editing](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-44321), you can watch it to be updated and vote for it.

You can disable collaborative editing but it's for the whole instance, [see documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/administering-collaborative-editing-858772086.html).

Hope this helps,

- Manon

comments: author: Jan Benhelm
body: Thanks Manon, for pointing me to the ticket. I hope this gets a concrete assignment anytime soon. -Jan


author: stevesparks
body: This needs to be fixed. I am much less likely to use confluence until this is resolved. Honestly, the product has gone from a 4-star product to a 2-star product by breaking the spelling and editing tools. The irony is that as I create this comment, Grammarly is working fine.


author: Jan Benhelm
body: Hello Manon,

the evolution of this topic is a rather frustrating experience. Could you provide me with an update, please? How far are we away from the ticket mentioned above getting any attention or an assignment at least? Shall we write this off?

Thanks, Jan


author: Manon Soubies-Camy
body: Hi [@Jan Benhelm](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3505530)

We're a community of users, we do not work at Atlassian. I'm afraid I can't give you any other update than what's written on [CONFSERVER-44321](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-44321). You can check [Implementation of New Features Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/implementation-of-new-features-policy-201294576.html) to understand how this is reviewed.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence memory consumption slowly increasing - well above -Xmx spec
Asked by Marcus Kesper:

Our Confluence process is started with -Xmx4048m setting but actual memory consumption according to top is 5.8GB:

```
KiB Mem: 8199296 total, 7985528 used, 213768 free, 61360 buffers
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 used, 0 free, 140896 cached

PID  USER     PR NI VIRT  RES  SHR  S %CPU %MEM TIME+     COMMAND
2837 confluen 20 0  7651m 5.8g 25m  S 74   73.9 92090:48  java
3258 mysql    20 0  1063m 634m 3756 S 6     7.9 1554:31   mysqld
4041 confluen 20 0  2767m 900m 4576 S 0    11.2 503:38.02 java
```

Together with Synchrony and MySQL we'll soon reach 100% memory (8GB). According to Confluence System Information, only about 2.5GB of 4GB allocated memory is used. What are the recommendations in such a case? Reduce -Xmx or increase server memory?


Answers:
author: Roman Kirilenko
body: It's actually [OK](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1262328/how-is-the-java-memory-pool-divided) that java machine consumes more memory than specified in -Xmx setting. You have to choose between increasing server memory and decreasing the heap size based on your server load and your instance size.


Tags: confluence-server

server

synchrony
Is Confluence 5.9.7 compatitble with SQL server build version 11.0.7001.0
Asked by Newton Konia:

We want upgrade our SQL build Version to 11.0.7001.0

Is confluence version 5.9.7 compatible with the above MS SQL DB build version?


Answers:
author: Alexis Robert
body: Hello,

as shown in [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/supported-platforms-792499889.html) Confluence is compatible with MS SQL 2012, so this build should work fine.

Cheers,

---Alexis
How turn off Collaborative Editing - Cloud Edition
Asked by Ian Thompson:

Hi,

We can no longer add or edit pages, due to the collaborative editing plug-in being unable to connect to the server.

This makes Confluence useless as a Wiki. I've followed instructions for the enterprise version to disable the plug-in, but despite being an owner/administrator, I don't have access to disable it.

Is there some way to disable collaborative editing in the cloud version? Alternatively, is there some way to export a confluence space so we can move to a provider of working software?

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This is a Cloud server side problem, for which you are supported. Rather than try turning off functions or do a panicked migration, please raise it with Atlassian support over at <https://support.atlassian.com/contact>

In the longer run, consider migrating to server where you (or a third party hosting it for you) have more control over stuff like this, and can directly look into issues like this more quickly.

comments: author: Ian Thompson
body: Thanks Nic,

In the past I have found Atlassian support less than helpful, but I will raise a ticket a see what happens.

In the interim, given this is the third breaking change forced on us, we have deemed that this software is high-risk, so we need to explore alternatives as a matter of policy.

Thanks for your reply.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Create a user with a deleted-user email
Asked by Etay Gafni:

Hello - we have a new team member that got an email address that was used to a former (as in 3 years ago) team member. When I try to set the user, I could not reuse the same email address. So I have deleted the OLD user and tried to set a new one, using the same email address.

This just recovered the OLD user, and I cannot edit the name.

I am fine with re-managing access rights, but the name is a bit annoying - I like the NEW person to be able to use their name.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: If you have Jira and it is linked with Confluence you might have to do this in Jira but there are instructions here to edit user's names in Confluence Cloud.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/invite-edit-and-remove-users-744721624.html>

comments: author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: Hi [@Etay Gafni](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1327069),

I'd like to know if this worked or not. Can you please let me know. Thanks!


author: Etay Gafni
body: Yes - thanks!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira-software

user-management
Removed user from Confluence space but still receiving emails
Asked by Jill Solovey:

A user was removed from a space that they were watching. However, they are still receiving emails. How do we make this stop?


Answers:
author: Ollie Guan
body: Pls Check if the user is Watching a particular page in this space

http://xxx/users/viewnotifications.action

comments: author: Jonathan Smith
body: If this is the case, I am surprised space permissions didn't stop watched page notifications from being sent.


author: Jill Solovey
body: Yes, they are watching a page. For security reasons they have been removed from the space. Does that mean when we remove users we need to also remove them from anything they are watching? YIKES!!!! what a NIGHTMARE!


author: Jill Solovey
body: [@Ollie Guan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853638) are you implying that this is known behavior? is an issue logged an I up vote?


author: Jonathan Smith
body: [@Jill Solovey](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/726072)I doubt this is your case, but when we implemented Confluence, people manually created accounts. Soon after, we hooked up to active directory.

If they did not put in their same username both times, then they would have 2 accounts.

The secondary account (which is also watching the page/space) might still be in your space permissions.

Personally I would follow up with the user and check their watched pages as noted by [@Ollie Guan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853638)


Tags: confluence-server

server
Can I search for box.com links in Confluence
Asked by Jessi Alva:

I'm trying to find out how many links to box.com documents we have on our wiki. Is there a way to do this?


Answers:
author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: Another option is Bob Swift's CLI plugin, from this answer a few years back.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions/Find-All-The-Links-to-Particular-Domain-in-Confluence/qaq-p/221773>

How did your search syntax work?


author: Jessi Alva
body: After reading this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-search-syntax-158720.html>, I ended up doing the following search: http\*.box.\* ..this is the closest answer I can find..
Any *free* survey options for Confluence Cloud?
Asked by Lucas Dotzler:

I know there are some in the marketplace but I am curious if there are any free options to have users fill out a survey.


Answers:
author: Manon Soubies-Camy
body: Hello Lucas,

You can do this search in the Marketplace by filtering on:

* Confluence
* Cloud
* Free
* Keyword: survey

[This search](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&pricingAndSupport=free&product=confluence&query=survey) will give you one result: [Gilly - LMS add-on for Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.edubrite.confluence.plugins.gilly/cloud/overview) (but note it's not Atlassian verified).

Hope this helps,

- Manon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
confluence connector for sql server, oracle and azure cosmosDB
Asked by Prasad Vaze:

Is there jdbc/odbc driver to connect confluence to these databases? we are looking to build a light weight app in confluence that can pull data from these sources


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: There are drivers for SQL Server and Oracle but not Azure, this page provides the download links for the JDBC drivers for all supported databases: [Database JDBC Drivers](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/database-jdbc-drivers-171742.html)


Tags: confluence-server

server
JIRA Calendar on Wiki
Asked by Brooke Musat:

I created a jira calendar on the wiki, but the field I want to display on the calendar (due date) is not an option.

On this screen below, these are my available date options. How do I get "due date" to show up?

![1.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/21178iB879F469B2C0EF72/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "1.PNG")![2.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/21179iE5C5D47D2932E9C7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2.PNG")


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: If you click on an option like due date under single date you can pick due date. If you want a range, click on the "Add start and end date" link and pull up this screen:

![Screen Shot 2018-05-02 at 3.25.14 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/21181iBC78B058AE3A6C11/image-dimensions/436x357?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-05-02 at 3.25.14 PM.png")

comments: author: Brooke Musat
body: Hey Ann, "Due Date' is not an option under "Single Date" - that is my issue. Any thoughts?


author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Brooke,

What if you pick Issue Due Date under single date -is that the wrong due date?:

![B2B.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/21254i804358E5CEDE93F3/image-dimensions/556x623?v=v2 "B2B.png")

This article may also be of help with setting Jira to display the due date:

[Due Date Field is Missing](https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/due-date-field-is-missing-189431917.html)

Cheers,

Ann


author: Brooke Musat
body: It is the wrong date.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Metadata Reporting by User
Asked by Kevin Bolam:

I would like to display content via something like a page properties or content by user report based on the user that is logged in where their id is present in a metdata field


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority
body: The only way I have seen this done in the past is: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.seibertmedia.confluence.profile-based-content/server/overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.seibertmedia.confluence.profile-based-content/server/overview?)


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

server
File thumbnail displays the ability to edit when I attach a PDF
Asked by Paula Murray:

I don't want others to be able to edit the PDFs that I add to the site. Even if they are read only, it is still misleading that there is an Edit choice. Can that be disabled?


Answers:
author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: Unfortunately I don't think you can do this on cloud OR server.

The module on the Attachment Actions System Add-on cannot be disabled in either environment.

comments: author: thais
body: Hi, Paula,

It's not possible removing the edit button for the file on Confluence. As it is, the edit button will allow the user only to download the file.

You can check available customisations at [Changing the Look and Feel of Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/changing-the-look-and-feel-of-confluence-724765494.html).


author: Paula Murray
body: okay thanks.

Paula


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Issue Tracking WITHOUT JIRA or Bitbucket
Asked by Samantha Clancey:

HI! My team is getting Confluence soon and I was wondering if anyone had used a specific blueprint for issue tracking? We use TFS for our "official" bugs, but I am looking for a way to track ***internal issues***in a sprint with my team without relying so heavily on Excel!

We won't be adding Bitbucket, unfortunately (yet) ..and JIRA is out of the question too. Any tips would be helpful! I thought about just trying a Q\&A but I think that could quickly get disorganized!

Samantha


Answers:
author: Oman Costa
body: What about Trello? Depending on your Confluence version, you can integrate both in a good way:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/use-trello-and-confluence-together-943978256.html>


Tags: questions-for-confluence
How do you get the contents of a page with excerpt include macro included in a search
Asked by Jennifer Van Gorkom:

We have a lot of data in Excerpt Macros that we are then combining into more useful pages via the Excerpt Include macro. Unfortunately when we do a search all we are getting are the pages with the Excerpt macros, not the ones that included the excerpted content.

We are using Confluence Cloud if that makes a difference.

Thanks

Jennifer


Answers:
author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: Unfortunately there is no way to do this.

Currently there is an open ticket:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-19054>

comments: author: Jennifer Van Gorkom
body: Thank you for the answer.

Sadly this is not the answer I was looking for.

Right now I am wondering if it would be possible to create such a search as a plugin to the server version of Confluence.

Thanks

Jennifer


author: Patrick Cartier [Candylio]
body: In the comments of that issue there's a workaround. You'll need to buy a plugin but it seems like it has worked for some:

<https://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/making-the-include-macros-content-appear-the-confluence-search-results/>


author: Jennifer Van Gorkom
body: Thanks, if I can talk management into the server version of Confluence that looks like it is the tool to fix our search problem.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Draw.io distortion on blank page
Asked by Moritz Volland:

I've created a diagram using draw.io, unfortunately when I save it to my page it's distored and very small. How can I change to display size and have it not distorted.

Thanks

PS the distortion appears to be a change in width and length without a ratio lock


Answers:
author: Moritz Volland
body: Hi past me, this is future you.

This is the editing display, once you publish the diagram the distortion will be gone and you can change the size.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud