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Script to add multiple user to watch multiple spaces?
Asked by Trinh Nguyen:

Hi

I would like to add multiple users to watch multiple spaces in Confluence - preferrable through script or directly into the database. Is it possible and how?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Trinh,

You can use this User Macro I wrote to add space watches for multiple users (unfortunately, you have to do it one at a time, but it's not impossible):

<https://bitbucket.org/stephendeutsch/confluence-user-macros/src/39c3a025dacc6b45abc0105f0b7a21a7375690b4/bulk%20remove%20watchers/remove%20watches%20for%20user.vm?at=master>


author: bruce szalwinski
body: Confluence REST API docs are at Confluence REST Api docs are at <https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/REST/latest/>. You might find something there.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Trinh,

I wasn't able to find this functionality in Confluence. I believe it doesn't exist from default. You may want to try to use the [CLI from Bobswift](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation) which may provide this functionality.

I hope this helps!

Regards,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Unfortunately, Confluence doesn't provide the ability to set space watches for another person - see <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22313>. The CLI can't work around that limitation. It is different for page watches. Here is the documentation for the addWatch action found on <https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference>.Add watch to page or space for a user. Any user can be specified for page watches. Only the current user is valid for space watchers.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Thanks for clarifying this information and the feature request link @Bob Swift \[Bob Swift Atlassian Add-ons\]!


Tags: confluence-administration
How to make a blog-post private?
Asked by Victor:

As you know, the permissions are applied to Confluence pages only. There is no possibility to restrict viewing of a particular blog-post. It makes life not so easy since if a user wants to create a draft of a post before sharing it with other users, he has to create a separate page in his personal space and only then move it to the blog.

So I'm wondering if there is any add-on exists on Marketplace that provides such feature.


Answers:
author: Taha Khanzada
body: Hi,

Just FYI, this issue has been fixed in Confluence 5.6.

Refer - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-3305>

Taha


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

confluence-app
Community Forum Plugin 2.0 Issue
Asked by Fusion Helpdesk:

I'm not able to view the list of new topics.

If i do content indexing then im able to see all the new topics that has been created by us.

So everytime it is not possible to do content indexing. Can you please suggest us how to synchronize the new topics in the List.

Can you please look into the image. 12 topics i created but list is showing only 9

support.PNG  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Community-Forum-Plugin-2-0-Issue/qaq-p/302282?attachment-id=1734){#link_1187fe9efceddb}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/51030/1/support.PNG){#display_1187fe9efceddb_0}


Answers:
author: Hessom Arta [Adaptavist]
body: Fusion, can I ask you to raise a support request via our [contact form](http://www.adaptavist.com/w/about/contact-us/) and a member of our support team can help address this issue. When doing so, please provide the add-on version \& Confluence version , as well as any screenshots that help illustrate this issue. Additionally, if you could provide the steps to reproduce this error it would be helpful.

This will help us provide a resolution more quickly for this issue you are experiencing.

We do not expect topics to take 3-5 minutes for a new topic to appear in the forum, this suggests an underlying issue, although very large forums may often have a longer delay in the time for a topic to appear in the forum.  
Regards,  
Hessom  
EDIT: Please also include information as to whether you have migrated recently from an earlier version of Community Forums or Community Bubbles.


author: Pilar
body: It usually takes about 3-5 min for new topics to show. Can you wait for 5 min and see if the new topics appear?

Pilar

comments: author: Fusion Helpdesk
body: No pilar, it is not viewing. Almost 10 days back we created even though we are not able to see in the list.


author: Hessom Arta [Adaptavist]
body: Hi Fusion,I've just spoken with our support and we have not received a support request for this issue. We need this so we can look to investigate and troubleshoot the source of the issue you are facing.Could you please raise a support request via our contact form and a member of our support team can help address this issue. You can raise a support request at the following link: <http://www.adaptavist.com/w/about/contact-us/> As per my previous message, provide the add-on version \& Confluence version. Additionally, if you could provide the steps to reproduce this error it would be helpful.Kind Regards,Hessom


Tags: addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.forums
Why video is auto starting even if I am not selected auto start? Using MP4 video format.I do not want to post my video on youtube etc.
Asked by rahul kumar:

Why video is auto starting even if I am not selected auto start? Using MP4 video format.I do not want to post my video on youtube etc.


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi There,

I found a bug report about your issue:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33678>

We suggest voting and watching it in order to expedite its resolution.

Cheers, buddy.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Where's 'View Source' for Atlassian Documentation?
Asked by Yuri Matsumoto:

Hi, I work as a document translator for one of Atlassian Premium Partners. I noticed there was a change in the interface for your documentation pages, and I can't seem to find 'view source' option and copy your pages to our company website to provide translations for our customers. I'm trying to copy Confluence Release Notes for example (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html>).

Please let me know how I can workaround it. Thank you.

Yuri


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: You could open up your browser console and copy/paste this line and press enter:

```
document.location.href="/plugins/viewsource/viewpagesrc.action?pageId="+jQuery('meta[name=ajs-page-id]').attr('content')
```


author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi Yuri,  
Indeed the documentation layout have changed. What I could see is that documentation is using a theme by the K15T company.

So you could see the "View Source" option, click on that menu with the three horizontal lines, and then click on **View in Confluence** . You will be redirected to the Wiki page again :smile: :smile: :smile:

Cheers buddy!


author: Yuri Matsumoto
body: Hi Stephen and Guilherme,

That method works. Thank you both!

Best Regards,

Yuri


author: Yuri Matsumoto
body: Hi Guiherme, thank you for your reply.

I can't find the three horizontal lines you mentioned. The screen attached below is what I see. Our company engineer told me that it looks like the K15T theme has been customised.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Best Regards,

Yuri

image2015-9-4 14:55:11.png

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Where-s-View-Source-for-Atlassian-Documentation/qaq-p/387646?attachment-id=11340){#link_1187fee53378cc}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/65518/1/image2015-9-4%2014%3A55%3A11.png){#display_1187fee53378cc_0}

comments: author: Guilherme V.
body: Heey there,Are you able to see this page?<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Release+Notes>


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: It's possible that permissions are different for Atlassian employees than for external customers. Going to that link for external users simply links back to the Scroll Viewports page.
Confluence Space & Page watched status
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

If there are space included some pages, is there any function or plugin which we can know which page we have watched , which page we have not watched ? Thank you.


Answers:
author: anderson hsu
body: Can we adjust the email notification sent times? (Probably by day one time one email)

Thank you.


author: Kay Brown
body: Hi Hsu,

You will get a notification email.

Regards,

Kay


author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Dear Kay,

If the page or space updated some content , how can we found the page or space updated?

Thank you.


author: Kay Brown
body: Go to your personal menu and select Watches.

Regards,

Kay
How do we disable a built-in macro?
Asked by Chris Ridgeway:

We want to disable or hide the legacy [view-file macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/view-file-macro-170494360.html#pdf) that was used to view PDFs.

Atlassian support seems to be saying this is impossible. User macros have management options to restrict to certain groups, add a category, etc. Built-in macros seem to have none of these. Macros that are installed by plug-in can be removed in a group by removing the plug-in.

The functionality of the old PDF macro has been replaced and superseded by the new PDF file viewer in 5.7, so to be honest, we're not sure why they left the old one in there in the first place.

But any help on removing a macro? They have to be stored somewhere... can they be deleted from the admin side?


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi Chris,

However not suggested, the PDF macro can be disabled. This macro is part of the Office Connector Plugin.

Go to the Manage Add-ons page, change the search filter for "System Add-ons", find the Office Connector Plugin and disable it.

Please note that both the Office Connector Plugin and View File Macro will be discontinued soon. The View File Macro will already no longer exist in Confluence 5.9. We now suggest the usage of the new Files and Images Macro feature.

Thanks.

Regards,  
LM


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Well, you could disable the module (within the add-on) that provides "view file", but that has a couple of problems.

First, you'd be disabling **all** the view-file possibilities, not just PDF.

Second, there may well be shared code - if you turn off view-file, you might lose all the PDF functions because the code that reads PDFs is all in there and other modules just call it. (I don't think this is the case, but it might be)


Tags: confluence-administration
Linked web images not appearing in PDF Export
Asked by Melanie Albrecht:

I am using Confluence 5.8.

When I export pages to PDF, the images that are linked do not show up. They show up nicely in in the wiki itself, just not the PDF. Any attached images are fine.

The linked images are PNG files that are stored in Box.com. Attaching the images to the Confluence pages is not an option. The images are not inside a table, or centred.

I see that this question has been asked before. Someone recommended changing the encoding. I'm not sure how to do this (or why).

Any other advice?


Answers:
author: Slavomir
body: Is there any update on this? I have exactly the same problem. My linked images (not attached) are not showing in exported PDF or Word docuemnts. Thanks


author: Giuliano C.
body: Hi Melanie,

Generally, when we have issues with the encoding, it would be related to characters not properly displaying. However, you can find some information about the Confluence encoding configuration through [this doc](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Character+Encoding).

So far, while looking at some related possibilities, I could notice [this article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Referencing+local+JPG+image+file+in+PDF+export+fails) with a bit of different symptoms, but, could be related. Can you let us know if the URL path for the images would be your case here, as described in the article? :smile:

Cheers,

Giu
Usage examples for Content Formatting Macros on Confluence Cloud
Asked by WilliamD:

Hello:

I am trying to use the content formatting macros bundled in with Confluence Cloud and must be missing something to get these macros enabled. Followed example in: <http://www.adaptavist.com/doco/display/CFP/table+Macro> but all I get is plain text.

1. Do I need to enable these macros for the confluence page first?
2. Are there examples showing the syntax for rending the formatted content?

I pasted this example into my page  
`{table:border=1}`  
`{tr}`  
`{td}cell 1{td}`  
`{td}cell 2{td}`  
`{tr}`  
`{table}`  
but don't see a table displayed, just get the plain text as entered ... when I try to type the {table} macros does not show up as one in the available macro list. I've confirmed the plugin is enabled.  
Thanks for any help.


Answers:
author: Taha Khanzada
body: Hi William,

I believe your Confluence version 4 or higher. You can use Confluence Editor for adding tables to the page.

You can refer [Working with Table](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/creating-content/using-the-editor/working-with-tables) in confluence.

If for some reason you still want to use old formatting then Go to Insert Link --\> click on Wiki Markup and copy paste your content inside Wiki Markup otherwise it will just display as plain text.

Taha


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

format
Upgrade to Gliffy 6.7.0 impacting all page attachments
Asked by Teresa Hollidge:

We recently upgraded to Gliffy 6.7.0 from 6.5.1. While creating and editing Gliffy images seems to be working fine, it's having an negative impact on our ability to manipulate all page attachments.

All page attachments (PDFs, Gliffy, png, etc.) are all treated as Gliffy diagrams. On all attachment pages, the last column for all attachments is Delete \| Delete \| View \| Properties \| Delete regardless of the actual file type. If you select either of the first 2 Delete options, the Gliffy editor is launched.

I assume that I need to uninstall this version of Gliffy, but I'm not sure if it's ok to go back to 6.5.1 without any negative impact on my hundreds/thousands of Gliffy images.

Any advice? We're running Confluence 5.3.4.

Thanks in advance!

Teresa


Answers:
author: Mike Cialowicz
body: Hi Teresa,

We're having trouble reproducing the problem you've described. Could you please send a note to [support@gliffy.com](mailto:support@gliffy.com) so that we can work more closely with you to resolve this?

Thanks,  
Mike  
Gliffy, Inc.


Tags: confluence-administration
How can I connect Confluence with Axure to have access of the specs evolution in real time (not link a static document)?
Asked by Gen Trem:


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

We're not aware of cases that customers were able to connect Axure with Confluence. However I could find the following thread that might help you:

<br />

<http://www.axure.com/c/forum/6-x-feature-requests/8560-jira-confluence-integration.html>  

Cheers,  
WZ
Signing of PDFs
Asked by Timmy Martin:

Hi,

I am looking at GroupDocs to see if it will do the job we are asking for.

We would like a plugin to Confluence that will allow our compliance team to upload pdf documents for our staff to view. As requested by compliance they would also require these documents to be signed as proof that the documents were read by each staff member. Would GroupDocs fit this scenario?


Answers:
author: Timmy Martin
body: Thanks William!


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey Timmy,  

You can send an email to their support: [support@groupdocs.com](mailto:support@groupdocs.com)  

I hope this helps!

Cheers,  
WZ


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to do daily automatic Confluence space exports
Asked by Marleen Schilt:

The company I'm working for creates and sells software. The software suite is composed of many programs that all work together. The business this software is created for requires offline available help. The help is distributed with the installer of the software and displayed in a browser.

To maintain these help pages we use Confluence. All the help is put in one Confluence space called Help. In this space, all programs are listed with help pages per program. The structure looks like this:

* Help
  * Program1
    * Program1 - File menu
    * Program1 - View menu
    * ..
  * Program2
    * Program2 - File menu
    * Program2 - View menu
    * ..

The current way of affairs is to do a manual export to HTML for each program listed in the help space.

This goes like this:

* In the Space Tools, click Content Tools
* Open the Export tab
* Select HTML export and click Next
* Select Custom Export
* Uncheck "Include comments"
* Uncheck the whole Help space
* Check the program help that should be exported, so Program1 in this case
* Click Export
* Wait for the Export to complete
* Click "Download Here"
* Unpack the downloaded zip and place it in a folder on the server, ready for the installer

So the process is time consuming, and brain dead work since there are more than 50 programs that have to be done like this.

Question: Is there a way to do this automatically? Either per subspace (Program1, Program2, etc) or the whole Help space at once?

If an automatic space export can be done we could just split up the current space to suit our needs. We would like to make this part of our nightly build process, to always have up-to-date help available for our installer.


Answers:
author: Pilar
body: It is possible using the CLi interface for confluence. See this link for more details

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/92944/is-it-possible-to-schedule-a-pdf-export-of-specified-spaces-in-confluence>

Pilar

comments: author: Marleen Schilt
body: Thanks for the extremely fast (and on first glance, helpful!) answer.I like the sound of a bamboo plugin for this. Thanks for that link Pilar.


author: Tim Eddelb?ttel
body: You can try the [AutoExport for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.extra.autoexport) Plugin.

The Marketplace Download is a bit outdated. The sources in the Bitbucket Repo are newer. <https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/confluence-autoexport-plugin>

comments: author: Marleen Schilt
body: Thanks for the extremely fast (and on first glance, helpful!) answers.Thank you Tim, I'm going to give the plugin a try!
What is the best way to track scroll depth on a Confluence page?
Asked by Rob Murchison:

We currently use Woopra which allows us to see analytics per page by user.

As our pages are getting longer, we are wanting to track scroll depth and jumps to anchors. What is the best way to do that?


Answers:
author: lavitz slambert
body: Maybe using the [Google Analytic's for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.go2group.plugins.confluence-ga) plugin (which is paid add on), besides that I don't recall a way to extract that kind of statistic ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad").  
Good luck buddy.  
Thanks and Regards,  
Lavitz - the guy that uses Confluence on Windows as a Hobby!


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to create draw.io UML class diagrams based on source code?
Asked by SRBR SE:

I noted PlantUML has this feature...


Answers:
author: Scott Palmer
body: Both of those websites give me "Access denied". How do I check up on this request?

comments: author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: <https://about.draw.io/use-plantuml-in-draw-io/>


author: SRBR SE
body: <https://draw.uservoice.com/forums/266072-feature-requests/suggestions/9594009-create-uml-class-diagrams-based-on-source-code-li>


author: SRBR SE
body: Done !thank you


author: David Benson _draw_io_
body: PlantUML is open source, we could pull it in easily enough. Please add at <https://draw.uservoice.com/forums/266072-feature-requests>


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly
How to enable the reader (non admin) to export a ginormous PDF, including TOC and cover page? As a space admin i can do it in ondemand version
Asked by rahul kumar:

How to enable the reader (non-admin) to export a ginormous PDF, including TOC and cover page? As a space admin, I can do it in on demand version,


Answers:
author: rahul kumar
body: Any macro available? I can find Export PDF from k15, but it is not available for on-demand (cloud) version.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Nope, not that I could find.


author: Jeremiah Jackson
body: Scroll PDF Exporter provides a REST API URL that you can provide as a link that will recreate whatever you tell it to publish. So, if you tell it to publish the entire site, then copy the REST link and place it as an icon on a page, users can click that and it will generate the book. Be forewarned that the book isn't cached, it's generated on demand and will cause load on the server if you have a bunch of requests at the same time.

Alternatively you can copy the link for a single given document and use that as a link to Confluence's built-in PDF export function for a particular page.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can't, they need space admin rights to do it.
Label update and inheritance for child pages
Asked by kccastillo:

Hi folks, is there a way to apply labels to a page and have its child pages automatically inherit this label? I'm looking at attaching a label to a how-to landing page for an application and its 30+ children and would rather not have to do so for each child page. Cheers!


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Kenneth,

You could try our plugin, Bulk Action Tools:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/bulk-action-tools>

That would allow you to add labels for a page and all its children (among other things). It's a paid plugin, but you get a free trial, so feel free to use and uninstall, or maybe you'll find it useful and decide to keep it :smile:

comments: author: Radu Dumitriu
body: @Kenneth Castillo - See? problem solved.


author: kccastillo
body: Thanks Stephen! We'll try this out. : )


author: Radu Dumitriu
body: Create a template page, then use it.

comments: author: kccastillo
body: Good suggestion Radu; we'll actually implement labelled templates moving forward!

Unfortunately the pages I need to adjust (and their child pages) are already existing in our wiki, written in the past few years. Can anything be done to change them all in one go?


author: Radu Dumitriu
body: mmm. not sure how, other than scripting :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Problem with tasks
Asked by Confluence Devs @ //SEIBERT/MEDIA:

Hello,

we experience a strange behaviour about the default task plugin of confluence with the following symptoms in the task section of the profile:

* Almost every tasks is showed twice or thrice or even more often
* When clicking on the checkbox of one task nothing happens, no error message is shown, and the task is still unchecked on reload

Did anyone else ever experience such a behaviour? Does anyone have a solution?


Answers:
author: Tim Eddelb?ttel
body: Hello,

maybe you're running into this problem? <https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/dIA5JQ>

Regards,  
Tim


author: Confluence Devs @ //SEIBERT/MEDIA
body: Thank you @Tim Eddelbuettel, JD, an update to 5.8 is already planed, we will revalidate the error after that update


author: J D
body: Yep, we had the same problem. I have deleted all the pages with a task on it, which are signed to me. But they still showed up in my taskbar. After a confluence update they disapeared.

regards