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Upgrade to Confluence 4.3 broke the links to headings on same page
Asked by Sanet Minnie:

Hi,  

In Confluence 3.5, we linked to headings on the same page in the following way:

```
The following panels may be configured to display in the Patient Summary: * [#Demographics]* [#Allergies &amp; Alerts]* [#Encounter History]* [#Medication History]* [#Outstanding Orders]
```

When we upgrade to Confleunce 4.3, these links no longer work. They display with an # and if clicked, does not respond at all.

![](../../upfiles/AnchorLinks_1.png)

I have no idea on which pages we have used these links, so it can be fixed. I want to avoid fixing these manually.

1. Can I fix the macro? or
2. Can I somehow search the pages that contain them?
3. How can I fix the links?


Answers:
author: Sanet Minnie
body: Our same page links broke due to the {noprint} macro and {samepage} macro.


author: Steffen Heller
body: Hello Sanet,

no, I don't know how to fix this.

If I start with a new page in version 4.x I can use the "Table of Content" macro or manually include a link in the form of \[#Anchorname\] and both still work.

Perhaps your old wiki code was somewhat destroyed by the upgrade. If you want to check the code you could have a look at the html source code or check the code in Edit mode with Firebug or give the Wiki markup toolbar button a try. No guarantee, just some ideas!

If you need to find the pages that contain the links you must find some text fragment that always comes with it. Perhaps you can try something like "The following panels...". Ideally you would simply search for "#" but I am not sure if the search accepts this as a search term.

comments: author: Sanet Minnie
body: Thank you so much for the help. Our "Table of Content" macro also broke. We will check the code with firebug.

I have tried to search for '#' but that does not work, unfortunately.

Again, thank you for this, even one idea from another user is worth a lot!


author: Sanet Minnie
body: The only way I can fix it at the moment, is by putting in an anchor - but fixing thousands of pages manually is almost impossible especially as I do not know which pages contains these links :-(

I reinstalled the CustomWare Linking Plugin for Confluence and the License Details. It did not help.


Tags: anchor

heading

link

page
After successful login, display this page for all users: https://(sitename).atlassian.net/wiki/display/(sitename)/About
Asked by Stefan Knecht:

As said in the headline:

After successful login, I want all users to be diverted to this Confluence page https://(sitename).atlassian.net/wiki/display/(sitename)/About

I cannot figure out how that can be made ...

Can you please assist?

<br />


Answers:
author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: Getting the effect isn't too hard, just create an 'sitename' space and set Confluence to redirect there on login. You can change the welcome page title to About:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Site+Home+Page>


Tags: login

redirect
Confluence/Bamboo: How can I automatically attach a generated document from bamboo to confluence?
Asked by Clifford Holden:

I have a code generator tool that is used to generate source code as part of a build plan. It can also generate PDF documents. I would like to, as part of the build plan, attach the file to a Confluence page.

Can this be done?


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Clifford

You could use the "AddAttachment" action of the Confluence CLI tool:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli>

Documentation is here:

<https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation>

Your Bamboo plan could trigger the CLI action.

I hope this helps!

Cheers, Sarah

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: And there is now a Bamboo task that can do in within your Bamboo build - see [CLI Plugin for Bamboo](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/BCLIP)


author: Clifford Holden
body: The Bamboo CLI plugin sounds more like what I want to do. Currently, I have Bamboo 3.4. I believe the plugin for Bamboo requires at least Bamboo 4.0? There is some discrepancy between the release notes and the Marketplace page, one says that the CLI was tested on Bamboo 3.4, the Marketplace indicates it's for 4.0 - 4.3

I'm planning an upgrade soon, but is there a version I can try out with my current Bamboo?

thanks for the info.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: The base Atlassian CLI was tested on multiple releases including Bamboo 3.4 - 4.3. However, the CLI task plugin was built for 4.x only.


Tags: bamboo
Is there a macro or something for a "team profile?"
Asked by Nate L:

When I am in my Personal Space I see a nice box on the right with my profile. I'd like to create a simlar item for a Team Profile to place on my team's homepage. Is there a macro or something I can use to do this?


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hello There,

I'm not sure if this macro is what you're looking for, but, it's a good feature to work with profile information.

Please, refer to [User Profile Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+Profile+Macro "User Profile Macro").

Hope it helps you!

Kind Regards,

Giuliano Tenedini


Tags: profile

team
Extra padding with Pagetree macro
Asked by Matthew Godycki:

I have noticed that when using the pagetree macro, the rendered menu is left-padded with a large number of empty space. This can be even seen in the documentation for the pagetree macro available at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF33/Pagetree+Macro>.

As you can see, the provided examples all include a hefty left-padding. It's obviously possible to somehow remove this padding given that the left navigation bar within the Confluence documentation itself does not contain said padding.

How do I go about removing this extra padding? Is there a parameter to the macro that I can use (although, documentation doesn't show anything) or a particular CSS style I can override in order to remove this excess padding?


Answers:
author: Adam Laskowski
body: The padding in the Doc Theme is set to -10px padding via this bit of CSS:

```
#splitter-sidebar .plugin_pagetree {margin-left: -10px;}
```

If you want to change the padding for all Page Tree macros in a space or in the site, you can add this CSS to either a space-level or global stylesheet (see [Styling Confluence with CSS](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS) for details):

```
.plugin_pagetree {margin-left: -20px;}
```

This will not overwrite the Doc Theme's CSS because of the additional #splitter-sidebar definition. Also, when I used -20px in a local instance, it left a small indent for the Page Tree when lining it up with a block of Paragraph text. Using -30px put it fairly flush with the text blocks if you want that instead.

comments: author: Matthew Godycki
body: Thank you, this answer solves the issue perfectly.


Tags: macro

page-tree
I can't make a wmv file play
Asked by Kathy Belling:

I attached a wmv file and used the media macro. When I click on it, the media player opens briefly and closes right away. Help.


Answers:
author: Anil Samuel
body: Same issue here; is it possible to have a flashplayer to play the media (WMV in my case) ?


author: Enrique P?rez
body: I tried with an .wmv file but Confluence shows the VLC window with the VLC icon. I got all my plugins update and my system is working properly. Is there any configuration to order Confluence to reproduce .WMV files always with windows media???


author: Gabriel Almeida
body: I am also facing the same issue !!!!!!!!!


author: Kathy Belling
body: We did try opening in several different browsers but nothing worked. Originally the size of the wmv file was too large. I changed the setting for the size of a file and it did download, but still will not play.


author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi Kathy,

Please share when you found a solution.

I am testing various formats with various browser and so for no luck.

Cheers,

Selcuk


author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: .wmv is a supported format as in <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Embedding+Multimedia+Content>. Hence, you could try different browsers as suggested by Selcuk. You could also clear old cache/history and verify your settings.

Hope that helps.


author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi Kathgy ,

It may be an browser issue. Have you tried to watch it in IE?

Cheers,

Selcuk


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Printing multiple wiki pages, including images
Asked by Jason Friedman:

I have a user wanting to print several hundred pages of our wiki.

Other than visiting each by pointing/clicking, what other options are there?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Jason,

if the pages are somehow related to each other (e.g. same parent), they can be exported to a single pdf and then print the whole pdf.

Cheers

Thomas

comments: author: Jason Friedman
body: How do I export to a PDF, either a single page or a parent and its children?


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Jason,

have a look here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+PDF>


author: Jason Friedman
body: Thank you, my screen is missing that option! I opened a case with Atlassian to figure out why.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: You need the Export Permission for the space you want to export pages. If you don't have this permission, you don't see the export functions.


author: Jason Friedman
body: Plugin was disabled. Enabling the plugin caused the option to appear.


Tags: print
Confluence MySQL Database indexes
Asked by Dominic Baines:

I am working on a client site where they have an old version of confluence (functionality is fine does what they want it to) and newer version. V2.7 and V4.

Sometimes the users moan that the system is running slower than expected... it is running but there are some non-performing queries running on the database. The newer system is not seeing the issues so I did a schema comparison and aside from a few tabl;e differences that are for functionality purposes the major difference I can see are the ealier version is missing a lot of the indexes I would create on the MySQL (5.077) schema.

Question is this... will it cause irreperable harm to any potential update option if I were to add the indexes that I can see are 'missing', I can easily create the appropriate drop statements so that they could be removed if needed.

Interested to hear views.

Dom


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Dom,  

If you're planing to upgrade your Confluence all the way to 4 series. I highly suggest you to follow an upgrade path: 2.7 \> 3.5.17 \> 4 series. It's not reliable to jump directly to 4 series, because that can lead us to several problems.  

Cheers,  

WZ

comments: author: Dominic Baines
body: Absolutely.... I am not planning on upgrading. I have a client (I am a contractor) that does not wish to pay for the upgrade but that doesn't stop them moaning about performance of the older application. A check in the database shows a lot of the expected indexes or recommended ones are just not there in the earlier schema so I was asking what the issues might be.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I've done that a couple of times. It's completely harmless, with the caveat you have already mentioned.

When upgrading in place (pointing a 3.1 Confluence at a database that was behind a 2.9 installation), it fell over on the new indices. A real DBA did give me an explanation at the time, but all I can remember was that if we dropped the indices we'd added before starting the 3.1 installation, it all worked perfectly. I seem to remember her saying that the problem was with (re)creating an index that we'd already added by hand, and we didn't need to drop it that if our user had more permissions, but don't quote me.
unable to locate confluence-init.properties
Asked by ICT:

Migrating database from HSQL to SQL server. I am following instructions in the support document Migrate to another database but cannot find any file named confluence-init.properties. I have searched all files makeing sure I can see hidden system files and protected files.


Answers:
author: Faisal
body: Hi there,

The confluence-init.properties file should be located in the $CONF_INSTALL/confluence/web-INF/classes directory. Hence, can you kindly check and confirm if the file can be found in the mentioned directory?

Cheers.

comments: author: ICT
body: I have checked the install file and it is not there. The only place I can find a web-inf/classes directory is in the confluence-home directory but it does not contain confluenct-init.properties.


author: Faisal
body: That's a bit weird, supposedly the file should be in the mentioned directory by default.

Hence, may I know which installation type are you using? Is it Confluence standalone or EAR/WAR?


author: ICT
body: Apologies, I got it a bit wrong, the web-inf file is located at C:\\Users\\.......\\AppData\\Roaming\\Atlassian Evaluation\\work\\confluence\\3.5.2\\webapps\\confluence\\WEB-INF.

I think it may be standalone version. if it helps, the home directory is located at C:\\Users\\......\\AppData\\Roaming\\Atlassian Evaluation\\work\\confluence\\3.5.2\\confluence-home
TOC Macro interferes with Links to Headings
Asked by Kirstin Seidel-Gebert:

I want to link to a heading far below on a Confluence page. This page also contains a TOC macro at the top.  
The link pagename#heading jumps to the heading listed in the TOC macro, not the "real" one down the page.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?


Answers:
author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Finally, I found out that my problems linking to an anchor probably are due to a plugin we're using.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: I think that you're facing this bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-17962>  
Which version of Confluence you're running? It seems that in Confluence 4.3.X this problem was fixed.  

I hope this helps.  

Cheers,  

WZ  

comments: author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Thank you, William, but we are using Confluence 4.3.1.


author: tousifs
body: Hi ,

I just faced the similar problem .

Please make sure Headers are not under any macro.

it will work or if your using 4.0 higher version make sure headers are put in the editor not in wiki.

all d best.

cheers,

tousif

comments: author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Thanks for your reply, Tousif. But I think my problems are coming from above mentioned Firfox bug.


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: You can try inserting an anchor right before your heading with a different name and link to the anchor instead.

More info in: [Working with Anchors](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+Anchors).

comments: author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: I already tried this, but apparently I'm suffering from a [Firefox bug](http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/927172) now. Firefox 17 jumps to whatever position on the page, but not to the position of the anchor. It works alright with IE9, however.


Tags: link

table-of-contents
Upgrade from Confluence 3.2 to 3.4.6 shows #contentTag on every page
Asked by Martin:

Hello,

I am new to Confluence and we want to update from 3.4.6 (don't ask why not the current version). I installed the missing plugins (except two i didn't found). On every page the following text is printed:

#contentTag("spacename", $helper.spaceName) #contentTag("spacekey", $helper.spaceKey)   

I searched everything but didn't find the origin of that.

Has anybody the same problem or a solution to that.

Thanks in advance

Martin


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Martin,

I believe that I have found the problem. This can be caused by the RefinedWiki theme plugin that is not compatible with the current confluence version. I either recommend to upgrade the plugin to a version which is compatible with confluence or disable the theme and change to another one bundled with confluence.

Hope that helps :)

Regards,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Martin
body: Hello Rodrigo,

thanks for your help. Because of some other problems we stayed at our version 3.2. and thus don't have the problem anymore.

Thanks

Martin


Tags: upgrade
How to provide anonymous access to a space, but not to the dashboard?
Asked by Nicolas LIATTI:

Hi,

I want to provide an anonymous access to some spaces, but not to the dashboard. I don't want the user to be able to go to the dashboard on the top left of the screen. How can I do?

Cheers,


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: This is not possible by default.

Perhaps, you can apply a similar customization that is mentioned in this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Display+Different+Appearance+for+Different+Users+Using+Confluence+Layouts> to workaround what you are trying to chieve.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Nicolas,

this question was already asked here: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/53618/is-it-possible-to-prevent-dashboard-access-by-user](/questions/53618/is-it-possible-to-prevent-dashboard-access-by-user)

Hope this helps

Cheers

Thomas


Tags: dashboard
I am using Confluence 4.3.3 , I am not able to edit a page
Asked by Deepanshu Natani:

() I am using Confluence 4.3.3, when I am trying to edit a sample page, i am not able to do that. I ahve attached the log file.

Also I am getting a JS error as below:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'registerButtonHandler' of undefined


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

Please try the following steps:

1. Shutdown Confluence
2. [Clear plugin cache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache)
3. Start Confluence

Please try the above steps and see how it goes. Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


author: hsuhailah
body: Could you please check if this issue is reproducible in different browsers? This is just to isolate if it could be a browser specific issue or otherwise.

Additionally, you can also try to temporarily [enable](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF40/Disabling+or+Enabling+a+Plugin#DisablingorEnablingaPlugin-DisablingEnablingallUserInstalledPluginsSafeMode)[PluginSafe Mode](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF40/Disabling+or+Enabling+a+Plugin#DisablingorEnablingaPlugin-DisablingEnablingallUserInstalledPluginsSafeMode) and check again if it makes any difference. This will disabled all user-installed plugins at once. So if the issue does not occur again, it is caused by one of the third-party plugins installed. In order to isolate which plugin is the culprit, you may need to enable the plugin one-by-one till you observed the issue arise again. This may need to be done during non-peak hours as disabling third-party plugins would cause users unable to perform some operations provided by those plugins. Once the test has been carried out, disable this mode.

comments: author: Deepanshu Natani
body: I tried it in different browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox) and this issue is reproducible in all the browsers. This issue is caused in Confluence 4.3.3 only. I installed Confluence 4.3 and this issue does not appear when I use Confluence 4.3.


author: Theinvisibleman
body: Hi Deepanshu,

I can't view the attached logs. Could you provide some snippets of the error message? Alternatively, you might want to raise a support ticket at [https://support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com,).

Cheers,

Joe
Confluence incompatible to twiki
Asked by vivek kumar:

The cnversion from twiki to confluence version 3.4.9 using universal wiki converter 3.13 is failing as it is not able to convert the images and all the hyperlinks are not appearing properly. The headings are also containing the texts as "!make edit!" ..

is there any workaround for this??


Answers:
author: Hitendra Chauhan
body: UWC is just a tool and not a solution for all the use cases.

You can try to see the convertors property file to tweak the convertors configuration and try again.


author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

Could you try using the latest version of UWC? You can download version 4.0 from Marketplace: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.uwc>

Not sure if that will fix the issue for you, but definetly worth give it a try.

Cheers,

Peter

comments: author: vivek kumar
body: Thanks peter but i wrongly mentioned the confluence version as 4.3.2 .apologies for that. actually the confluence version 3.4.9 is ocmpatible with the uwdc version 3.13.

further suggestins will be highly appriciated...
Download the space activity report
Asked by Gaurav Sharma:

How to Download the space activity report and can we see the page by page activity.


Answers:
author: Gaurav Sharma
body: Thanks


author: hsuhailah
body: Were you referring to this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Viewing+Space+Activity> ?

If so, I don't think you can download the report and the features only include the followings:

* How many pages and blog posts have been viewed, added or updated over a given period.
* Which content is the most popular (most frequently viewed).
* Which content is the most active (most frequently edited).
* Which people are the most active contributors/editors of content.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Will Hyperlinks opening on a new tab ever be a standard feature of Confluence?
Asked by JohnG:

I see there are a few work arounds for making a hyperlinks open in a new tab/window. But I believe this is such a fundemental feature that it should be part of the "default pakage".

Will it ever be included as an option of the "Insert Link" function? Ie. add a check box to say "Open in new Tab" or "Open in new Window"???


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

You may want to vote on the related feature request you can track here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11194>

Whenever this feature request gets implemented in a future relase, you can be notified via email if you add this to your watchlist.

Cheers,

Peter


author: Harry Chan
body: I don't think this should be an application setting at all. It's part of the browser an[d](http://www.queryfoundry.com) client behaviour. You can right click open in new tab or hold ctrl when you click on Windows to do this already.

Can you explain what you need it for[?](http://www.cloudshards.com)

comments: author: JohnG
body: If writing an user guide for an internal system which has multiple system sites (ie. not a confluence link - but a system link) - it would be great to not have to right-click or hold ctrl for each of the link. Sure it works, but not all target "users" reading the guide are technically minded (though they should).

So, usability wise I'd assume they would like the main (user) page to remain open and all the external links on tabs.
problem using UWC V 3.13 and confluence V 3.4 for TWIKI to confluence conversion.
Asked by vivek kumar:

i am stuck in a situation where randomly some of the hyperlinks are not getting converted correctly and the images are not appearing and also getting junk characters in headings. also images not appearing, they are relecting as text.some headings are reflecting with charecters looking like markup tags .. need urgent help...


Answers:
author: vivek kumar
body: am getting "!!%MAKETEXT{" in the headings and some hyperlinks are not getting created... the images are not getting converted to the correct format... it is appering as text


author: vivek kumar
body: hi can anyone help me on this issue.. its kind of show stopper for me... :(


Tags: universal-wiki-converter