youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
CF Final stable GA for 6.15.x
Asked by veneet raina:

Dear Atlassian team/Community,

We have been facing a lot of issues with continuous security advisories been sent by Atl,.

and asking for frequent minor version upgrades.

We are currently on 6.15.4 CF version and want to know the final GA stable build available for the same Major release so that we do not end up with more upgrade activity in short to long term

Appreciate prompt response on the same.

Regards

V


Answers:
author: Daniel Eads
body: Hi Veneet,

I understand you're looking to get a little more stability around release versions to reduce the workload on your team handling upgrades.

There's a few areas I'd like to draw your attention to that might help in this area.

**Enterprise releases**

Firstly, Atlassian offers [Enterprise Releases](https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/atlassian-enterprise-releases-948227420.html) which are essentially a long-term supported version of the product. We guarantee security updates to these versions for two years from the initial release on that branch. The last Enterprise release of Confluence was 6.13 and we expect the next version to be announced sometime around Q4 of this year. You get the benefit of stability with these releases; security updates will not require you to do a major upgrade, only the small bugfix version to patch the security advisory. Doing these upgrades takes significantly less time than a full dev/test/UAT/test/release style deployment that a major version might need.

**Data Center \& Zero Downtime Upgrades**

The Data Center deployments of our products allow you to have multiple nodes that you can upgrade independently. This allows you to upgrade without causing any downtime for your users. In environments where uptime is critical, zero downtime upgrades let your system administrators handle upgrades on their own schedule without causing disruption to your business.

**Cloud migration**

In Atlassian Cloud, security is handled by Atlassian and transparent to your team. There's no time investment in patching for security advisories, as Cloud is automatically kept up to date with the latest security fixes without any effort on your part. If upgrades are enough of a disruption to your team to be a major hinderance, I encourage you to check out if Cloud has the features your team needs.

Finally, I'd like to point out that the advisories typically contain mitigations you can apply to defer an upgrade. In the latest security advisory, there is [a Mitigation section](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-advisory-2019-08-28-976161720.html#ConfluenceSecurityAdvisory-2019-08-28-Mitigation) that details action you can take to reduce the risk of a malicious actor gaining access to files on your Server instance. While we recommend upgrading as the safest course of action, these mitigations can be helpful while working on an upgrade or migration plan.

Cheers,  
Daniel


Tags: atl-confsec

cve-2019-3394

security
how to find the unused space in confluence ?
Asked by John David:

hi

i need to get a list of all unused space in confluence for past 12months, is there any simple way to do it ?


Answers:
author: Ollie Guan
body: Hi [@John David](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3541242) ,

Pls refer to the following post.

<https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-there-any-way-to-get-the-list-active-spaces-within-span-of-6/qaq-p/774682>

comments: author: JRodney Estrada
body: Looks like this is for data center/server. Anything avail for cloud?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence upgrade from 6.13.0 to 6.13.7
Asked by prathap I N:

Hi Team,

Currently we have received an email which regards "Re: \[EXTERNAL\] Security advisory for Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center".

We are having 6.13.0 confluence version but as per the mail it says, fixed bug version is 6.13.7.

Please let me know whether should I go with 6.13.7 version if yes, how can we go with this.

Thanks \& Regards,

Prathap I N


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: Yes you should upgrade to confluence 6.13.7

Here is link to wonderful guide provided by Atlassian to help you upgrade - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf613/confluence-installation-and-upgrade-guide-964961580.html>

All and all the process is really simple,

* If you installed manually,
  * Get new confluence installation
  * Match all setting as old installation
    * Set data source in new installation
    * Set confluence home
    * set any settings that you changed in memory etc
  * Stop old instance and start new
* If you installed as service,
  * Just download new installation
  * and installer and it will guide you through process.


Tags: cve-2019-3394
Storing and accessing videos inside Confluence Server
Asked by Hugh Bathurst:

"Storing and accessing videos inside Confluence Server"

Hi anyone interested ..

* We'd like to be able to (in minutes not hours) create videos of any length then create a landing page in Confluence (to help gather comments, track viewers, onshare etc.) and store the video there (not on YouTube which our security folks are not comfortable us use).
* We'd be interested if anyone has similar interest \&/or currently using the same or similar approach.
* Basic idea is to use video to transfer company knowhow \& need to know instead of relying on (time consuming) words \& images creation as Confluence \&/or MSWord or other type page / article creation.
* We currently can't (reasons still unknown) upload (to our Confluence server (version 6.15.6 by the way) any .mp4 over about 25Mb (approx. 2 minutes).
* Any ideas / experiences / others interested .. welcome to gather here .. (only need one usable idea to remove this fast knowledge transfer speedhump ..) :)
* Cheers - Hugh (St Kilda Rd., Melbourne)


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: Confluence should be quite happy to do this, assuming you have the capacity to host it on your server. But you said:

*
  > We currently can't (reasons still unknown) upload (to our Confluence server (version 6.15.6 by the way) any .mp4 over about 25Mb (approx. 2 minutes).

Do you mean you haven't changed the default attachment size from 100MB to 25MB or it is set to 100MB, but the upload is failing?


Tags: confluence-server

server
What happens when moving my published pages within my published space page tree structure
Asked by Anand Rajaraman:

I have a situation where in, I got to organize my existing published space with changes by just moving my pages within the folder tree structure. So, want to know what will happen to the existing published documents ...will my new changes that I am making in the existing folder tree structure be in staging or draft status until I get published without getting disturbed the existing organized space...Can someone please clarify?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Anand,

That's a great question! When [reordering pages](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/move-and-reorder-pages-146407727.html) within the Page Tree structure, the changes are automatically applied. There is no draft, and no need to save the changes, as it should occur right away.

If you used the alphabetic sorting feature to order your pages, you can undo your changes, by clicking on option #2 as seen below:

![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/files/146407727/921043527/2/1517274854386/Page-tree-sort.png)

I hope that helps, but do let me know if you have any questions about that.

Regards,

Shannon
How do I access starred pages on confluence?
Asked by mawi:

How do I access starred pages on confluence?

I star a page in the android app.

How do find the list of starred pages ( on web / desktop) ?

BR!/marcus


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: Start implies "Saved for Later"

Go to this url to find it - https://\<SITE_NAME\>.atlassian.net/wiki/my/saved-for-later

comments: author: mawi
body: Thanks!

There they are, of course.

I was there already but got confused by the sort by time (so things I starred just now were longer down the list).


author: Crystal_Beck
body: OMG thank you. This was driving me insane.


author: Charles Williams
body: This didn't work for me. 404. I am not sure this is relevant anymore. But you can go to https://\<SITE_NAME\>.atlassian.net/wiki/home?recentTab=3


author: Johnny
body: **![Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 9.03.09 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/108227iEC600390804A7FB3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 9.03.09 AM.png")**

There is a \`Recent\` tab which has the \`Stared\` page you can use.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Moving Confluence/PostgreSQL instance to new Windows 10 laptop?
Asked by Graeme:

I run a personal Confluence on my laptop, and have done so for 10-12 years. Last time I moved it from my previous laptop to a new one running Windows 7 the support team helped me to move it into PostgreSQL 9.2.1. That was probably about 7 years ago and it has run well since. I use PostgreSQL for nothing else. I have upgraded Confluence successfully a few times (without touching PostgreSQL underneath) and it is now at 5.7.

I now wish to move my Confluence instance and its underlying PostgreSQL data across to a new laptop and I figure that at the same time I should upgrade PostgreSQL and Confluence to their latest supported versions.

My laptop runs Windows 10 Pro for Workstations (it is a Dell Precision 7730 with 6 Cores and 32Gb RAM).

Is anyone able to recommend PostgreSQL and Confluence versions that I should install, and point me at any instructions to guide my installations and data migration?


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: [@Graeme](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/598604)

There are few points to ponder,

* Postgres 9.2 is not supported by latest version of Confluence
* Atlassian suggest upgrading instances before moving them across machines.

So, I suggest following step by step upgrade,

1. On Current Machine
   1. Upgrade Confluence to 5.10 (it support Postgres 9.2 along with later versions 9.3, 9.4, 9.5)
   2. Upgrade Postgres to 9.5
   3. Upgrade Confluence to 6.15 (latest version)
   4. Upgrade Postgres to 9.6 (maximum version supported by confluence)
2. Migrate to new machine.


author: Mike Austin
body: The [laptop](https://www.fivetechblog.co.uk/) runs Windows 10 Pro for Workstations.

I suggest following step by step upgrade

1. Upgrade Confluence to 5.10 (it support Postgres 9.2 along with later versions 9.3, 9.4, 9.5)
2. Upgrade Postgres to 9.5
3. Upgrade Confluence to 6.15 (latest version)
4. Upgrade Postgres to 9.6 (maximum version supported by confluence)

comments: author: Graeme
body: Your answer looks like a copy/paste from the accepted answer.

In any event, I avoided the need to perform an upgrade by switching to use Confluence Cloud instead.


Tags: confluence-server

postgres

server

windows
Tables - how to keep the left column still whilst scrolling across?
Asked by Susan Randall:

When you have a table with items listed on the left and as you scroll across to the right you cannot visually see this column. How can you freeze the first column so that when scrolling it remains to be seen?


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hi Susan,

You can do it with the help of [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) macro: just set "[Freeze first N columns](https://docs.stiltsoft.com/display/public/TableFilter/Managing+Look+of+the+Table+and+Filtration+Pane#ManagingLookoftheTableandFiltrationPane-FreezingFirstNRows/Columns)" to 1.

comments: author: Susan Randall
body: I can't find the "Table Filter" macro? Is this available in standard confluence cloud?


author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: This is a paid [add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview&_ga=2.91369498.1231632228.1566802757-1905545116.1524137413): it is installed additionally into Confluence. You can ask you Confluence administrator to install it and try it.


author: Susan Randall
body: Thank-you


author: DPKJ
body: This is currently not possible with stock table in confluence.

[@Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/781696)solutions looks like good.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence server (6.1.5.6) is not currently fully usable via our company iPhone's ("8"). Any ideas?
Asked by Hugh Bathurst:

"Confluence server (6.1.5.6) is not currently fully usable via our company iPhone's ("8"). Any ideas?"

\* Confluence (6.15.6 on our company server) search window not opening at all on company iPhones. // We WERE able to use searching from company mobile phones fine prior to 10 Jul 2019 upgrade from Confluence 6.9.3\~ to 6.15.6. Only noticed 25 Jul 2019 (recently). (Copy of "Summary" at [Unsolved Mysteries BoK](http://crawauconfluence.crawford.asia/confluence/x/4xXCAw).)


Answers:
author: Hugh Bathurst
body: We're currently stuck on this unsolved Confluence mystery so any ideas welcome .. Thankfully our users have not yet demanded Confluence (searching) access on mobiles be made usable (yet).

\* We've recently gone to Office 365, which is better than our IBM Notes world, and I don't know the full technical story, but I understand we're using the updated version of mobile iron on our Company iPHone 8's to access our Confluence 6.15.6 instance which is on our server.

Not sure if related but we're seeing "you're URL doesn't match" messages on iPhones when we first access our Confluence instance on company iPhone's.

Happy to provide more facts if helps solve this current challenge.


Tags: confluence-server

mobile

server
Restore Confluence Installation Server is gone but database is fine
Asked by Hector Torres:

The server that had the Confluence site and installation was corrupted and is gone (no backup available). The database on the other hand in untouched and in working condition. When I try to install the confluence software again (created another virtual server with same hostname and ip) I get to the set up screen and it doesn't have an option to just connect to a database instead of overwriting it.

Db - MSSQL

OS - Windows Server 2016Std

What options do I have in this case?


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: [@Hector Torres](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3155068)

* Get the same version of confluence as you were using before.
* Now before you start your confluence setup datasource
  * Follow this - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-a-datasource-connection-937166084.html>
* Now start your confluence.

It will some part of your problem.

**But all your attachment (confluence store them in home folder and not in database) and home data is gone.**

comments: author: Hector Torres
body: I ended up doing as you said and I got most of the instance back.

Thanks again.


Tags: confluence-server

server
@mention doesn't work
Asked by Sandra Herrera:

My team members have reported that they are unable to use the user mention with my name. It's no longer showing up.


Answers:
author: Ang?lica Luz
body: Hi Sandra,

Thank you for reaching out to Community!  
I saw that you created a ticket with our support related to the same issue and it was already resolved by a Content indexing which re-synced your user with the Confluence user base.  
I'm adding the resolution here because if any other community member has the same issue they will know that it will be necessary to create a ticket since the [content indexing](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/functional-differences-in-confluence-cloud-734070955.html) is disabled by default and only a System Administrator can do this.

Regards,  
Ang?lica
Unable to start confluence after upgrade from 6.0.2 to 6.15.8
Asked by Arthur Chilipweli:

I have upgraded my Confluence from 6.0.2 to 6.15.8 everything went well, however when the upgrade was completed and attempted to start i am getting License Inconsistency error saying "You'll need to supply a valid license key. Confluence can't start without this.". I have the license purchased, however i need to get generate the license key which requires the server ID. is there a way i can obtain server ID from my server, so i can generate the License Key?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You can get your server id in the database.

```
select * from BANDANA where BANDANAKEY = 'confluence.server.id';
```


Tags: confluence-server

server
New confluence editor with NO replace text function, WTF?
Asked by Matt Comstock:

I'm speechless, why would they remove the ability to search and replace text in the confluence editor? This is a basic editor function. It feels like the product is moving backwards in features, not forwards.


Answers:
author: Sanita.Kumar
body: in Edit mode - Clicking Ctl-F only display search but not replace. Does anyone know how to get search and replace?


author: Georg DE
body: Hi Brooke, how did you trigger the replace function? I'm really not wanting to manually replace dozens of occurrences...

Thank you, Georg


author: Brooke
body: I ran into trouble with this yesterday, but it looks like it is back today. We're on Cloud.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is anyone else seeing a new button in Confluence on blog posts?
Asked by Sharon Helms:

Is anyone else seeing a new button to the right of the Watch button (eye icon) on blog posts? It seems to function as an additional Edit button (pencil icon).

It's only showing up on one of the four Confluence sites we use, and it might be relevant that it's the only one that doesn't have the new Confluence Editor enabled.

I'm also curious if other people who have access to multiple Confluence sites are also seeing a wide disparity of feature roll-out from site to site? Thanks!

![new-button-confluence.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/64615iE1AF84C9DDA708E2/image-dimensions/328x230?v=v2 "new-button-confluence.png")


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: I'm seeing this too - it appears on blogposts published using the old editor, so could be something related to backwards compatibility but having said that, it doesn't look like it was something that was intended or is ready to be released so could be a mistake.

Maybe [@Avinoam](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1163775) can shed some light on this?


author: Davin Studer
body: Do you possibly have an app on that site that is adding the button? It doesn't look like it fits in the Atlassian UI, so I don't think it is an Atlassian thing.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can you hide the created by on Pages?
Asked by Erica Bilski:

I am trying to hide the created by on my pages as this will be a space that will be used outside of our company.


Answers:
author: DPKJ
body: This feature is not available.

you can add your vote here for this feature - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30449>

As a workaround you can use cryptic names for authors like "Author 1".


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a way to indentify comments made by external users on confluence?
Asked by Pietro Pires Santos:

We are assembling the documentation of our products at confluence, but there has been a demand to allow our partners to leave comments and questions regarding the issues covered on the pages.  
We have no interest in licensing more users as they will be external to the company. However, I would like to know if there is any way to identify these external users so that when they make comments, they are not just designated as "anonymous".  
Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: This isn't possible, as Atlassian doesn't currently distinguish between what you consider to be external and internal users. Anonymous users are just that, unless you license them as named users.


Tags: comment

confluence-server

server

user
Slide Library
Asked by Alexandria McKee:

Hey there!

What I am looking to create, on a single confluence page, is a slide library for my team. I am looking for the most effective way to do so. In a perfect world I would like my team to be able to select multiple slides and export them at on time into a single deck. Is this in the realm of possibility?


Answers:
author: Adlan Z
body: Hey Alexandria,

Now there is an app for that. Slide Library for Confluence does exactly as you described. Check it out on the [marketplace.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/1225108 "Slide Library for Confluence")


author: Shree Lekha Ramanathan
body: Hi Alexandria ,   

If you're using Confluence Cloud , I believe I have a solution to your problem. I'm from Zoho Show and our add-on Zoho Show for Confluence , would be a one stop solution. With our add-on you can,  

1. Create , collaborate and publish presentations in your Confluence pages.  
2. Import existing pptx files into your confluence space.  
3. Export presentations to PDF format.  

If this suits yours requirement , give it a try and let us know your thoughts. Here's our marketplace [link .](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219866/zoho-show-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)  

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Display Options for Files and Images after Cloud update?
Asked by Brandon Cangelosi:

Is there anyway to change the display options for Files and Images after the Cloud update recently? I can't even align or make it a link anymore..

Reference: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/display-files-and-images-724765104.html>


Answers:
author: Ang?lica Luz
body: Hi Brandon,

Thank you for reaching out to Atlassian Community!  
Currently, it's not possible to show attachment as a link on the new editor. We have a feature request suggesting the implementation of this ability:  
- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67523>  
Please, click on vote and watch to receive updates about the feature.

Related to display options, I would like to confirm if it's all the previous options or a specific one.

Regards,  
Ang?lica


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Impact of Assistance and Access Australian Bill
Asked by Thierry De Leeuw:

Hi,

As Atlassian is an australian company, they likely have to comply to Australian laws. One of this law is the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018.

By this the australian companies have to give a way to australian authorities to access, upon authority request, to the information encrypted.

So my question is "What did Atlassian to comply to this legislation, and how, as an European customer, can I ensure there is no backdoor in my setup"?

Thanks

Thierry


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: Don't know if this will satisfactorily answer your concerns, but in a summary from an AMA with Atlassian's Chief Information Security Officer he said:
> **On Australia's Assistance and Access Act and what that means for Atlassian customers:** The law was written in such a broad fashion that it effects all of the major cloud service providers -- it's not specific to Australian companies, nor companies that have employees that work in Australia. Our policy (both prior to and after the law passed) is very similar to that of all of the other major cloud service providers. We cooperate with law enforcement where we believe requests are lawful, and we will challenge the scope of the request where we believe it is overly broad. That policy is publicly available [here](https://www.atlassian.com/trust/privacy/guidelines-for-law-enforcement "https://www.atlassian.com/trust/privacy/guidelines-for-law-enforcement").

From <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/AMA-Recap-Data-encryption-careers-in-Security-Australia-s/ba-p/1085585>


Tags: bitbucket

bitbucket-server

confluence-server

crowd

jira-software

jira-software-server

server