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Form to List Plugin
Asked by Bj?rn Eitmann:

Does anyone know a plugin to fill a list in confluence via a form?


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

editing pages with forms can be done with the Scaffolding Plugin:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.scaffolding>

It's a commercial plugin, not for free.

Cheers

Thomas


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Old question, but would like to update with an answer from 2015, as of now you can use another plugin for this [ConfiForms](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.vertuna.confluence.plugins.confiforms). You can create data entry forms, and use various ways to show your stored data: using lists, using cards (sort of a table), tables and anything in between (wysiwyg way)

Take a look at examples and tutorials: <http://wiki.vertuna.com/display/CONFIFORMS/Tutorials>


Tags: forms

list
how to enable dark features in confluence...
Asked by C. Faysal:

does anybody know where/how to enable the darkfeatures in current confluence release?


Answers:
author: C. Faysal
body: hmm i decided to wait for v5 to be released....


author: Nikhil Kundra
body: I don't think Atlassian has anything built-in by default. But [this Chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadpbcbfnmbkopoojfekhnkhdbieeh) is pretty great for an out-of-box generic solution. I prefer the \`Dynamic\` preset ?

comments: author: Andrey Ilin
body: Thank you!


author: Cameron McPherson
body: I have observed that DarkReader v4.9.16 causes pages to hang and ultimately fail editing (in Brave Browser) when inserting coloured panels (ie: /note /warning /info etc) into Confluence pages.


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: You should be able by going to the URL \<CONFLUENCE_URL\>/admin/darkfeatures.action


author: SarahA
body: Hallo C. Faysal

By "current release" do you mean the latest EAP release of Confluence 5.0? If so, then you can enable the optional new features ("dark" features) by clicking "Enable EAP Features" in the user menu. There's a screenshot in the release notes: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.0-m9+EAP+Release+Notes#Confluence5.0-m9EAPReleaseNotes-Optioninusermenuforenablingnewfeatures>

I hope this answers the question!

Cheers, Sarah

comments: author: C. Faysal
body: hi sarah,

no i mean the current stable version...

just like jira 5.2.2 where in the admin section "General Settings/Advanced"

some dark featuers can be enabled...i.e. the new designed header wich will be shipped in jira 6

my question is if there is a similar setting in confluence 4.3.5 to enable this new header


author: Giuliano C.
body: Hello Faysal,

Sorry for my misunderstanding, but, what do you mean with 'Dark Features'?

Kind Regards,

Giuliano

comments: author: C. Faysal
body: hi guiliano..

i mean something like this

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Enabling+Labs+Features+in+JIRA+5.2>


Tags: header
Mentions in confluence pages and templates
Asked by JIRA Autobot:

Hi,

I am heavinly relyiing on mentions in the pages i have on Confluence so i have few questions.

The way i use mentions is for status meetings like who participated and who needs to be informed about them so when we have a status meeting i add mentions of the people available at the meeting. What i usually do is that i prepare the status meeting page before the meeting and it would be nice to put some people as mentioned but be able to disable the send of email until i actually had the meeting. That is not possible as of now, if i mention somebody and i Save the page then the notification goes out. I can't find a way to disable this for that save, is that possible ?

/donnib


Answers:
author: Chung Park Chan
body: Hello Donnib,

There is a workaround for this that might help.

If you add the mentions and restrict the page to yourself before saving it, the email notifications will not be sent. Thus, you can prepare the page with all mentions correctly assigned beforehand. Then, when you remove the restriction, they will receive the notification.

Besides, take a look at this guide, particularly in the Notes section for more information: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Mentions>

Hope this helps.

comments: author: JIRA Autobot
body: @Chung i was not aware of that Confluence sends notifications based on the View restrictions. I will try your suggestion. thank you


Tags: mention
Is it possible to check for values in scaffolding to see if they have been populated?
Asked by Jason Gurvitz:

Hey guys,

I have a question about the scaffolding plugin and templates. I was wondering if it were possible to determine if values for templates have been populated or not. We have a bunch of projects that are using the same template and the idea is to be able to see if said project has all the necessary fields populated.

Please let me know!

Thanks,

Wootens


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: Hi,

Each field can be marked as "required" to ensure it is filled in when the page is edited. It won't be possible to save the page until all required fields are populated.

If you want something a little fancier, then I've used the Reporting plugin to analyse field values and also the presence of pages according to certain criteria. Here's some links to more info which should help:

<http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/REPORT/Checking+if+page+exists>

<http://community.customware.net/customware/topics/can_a_report_column_be_used_conditionally_like_a_report_body>

Regards,

Charles


Tags: customware

scaffolding

template
Danish letters not recognzed in search using IE
Asked by Sol og Strand:

Our customers have reported problems using your search tool in Confluence.

The search tool cannot recognize Danish letters ?? ?? ??. When searching for a word containing og starting with one or more of these letters cannot be done in Internet Exploere however it is working fine in Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Charset is in confluence and databasewise set to UTF-8 and every browser tested is using this charset. Only IE is having problems though.

I have attached a screenshot searching for the Wheelchair -- K?restol in Danish.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: So we've figured it out that this is a bug in Redefined Wiki Theme instead and not a Confluence bug.


author: hsuhailah
body: Looks like you are hitting this bug: [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-18276](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-18276.). I've updated the bug report and included Danish characters as well. I'm afraid that there is no fix for this issue yet. Alternative workaround would be to use other browsers besides IE for the result of search using special characters to be succssfully returned.

comments: author: Sol og Strand
body: hmmm this is really sad as most of our customer base have company politics forcing them to use IE, this would force me to find another solution than Confluence even though I really like it.   

Btw. the link you have provided doens t work....


author: Sol og Strand
body: this would be a problem for countries like Norway and Sweden too.....actually most of the northern Scandinavia as they use the same special letters as well.


author: hsuhailah
body: After further testing, I'm sorry to say that you may not be hitting the bug that I mentioned as we no longer able to reproduce the same issue in Confluence 4.x. We shall investigate further on this and communicate with yout through the ticket and we'll post the answer to this thread once we have found the solution.
OnDemand JIRA and Confluence sometimes slow to load
Asked by Doug Brunner:

We've been noticing that our OnDemand instance sometimes performs poorly: pages that would normally load in around a second take more like 10 or 15, as though server load is spiking. This has been going on for the last couple of months; it's not a serious problem, just annoying. It appears to affect all pages on both JIRA and Confluence. I haven't noticed any pattern in time of day or pages affected.


Answers:
author: Ivan Maduro
body: Hi Doug,

This kind of performance slowdown can be caused by a number of things. do you also have Fisheye / Crucible on your instance? Fisheye indexing repositories can be the cause of slowdown, as this takes up a large chunk of CPU.

Other causes could be embedded .Doc or .XLS files, if the system occasionally re-indexes, parsing large or complex files can cause some slow down as well.

If the slowdown becomes hindering or starts occuring more often, please file a [Support Ticket](https://support.atlassian.com) and one of our Support Engineers will examine your instance and try to find the cause.

Cheers,

Ivan.

comments: author: Doug Brunner
body: We don't have Fisheye or Crucible. Indexing might be an issue; one of our Confluence spaces has a bunch (on the order of 20-50) of PDFs attached, several hundred kB each. However, those were added back in May, and the problem started manifesting more recently.

I've been compiling a list of times when the slowdown occurred; unfortunately that list is only one entry long since we've been closed for a couple weeks for holiday break. Once I get some more data points I'll send it over to support.
Confluence Command Line Interface security
Asked by Ken Poulton:

We use the command line interface (CLI) a lot, but the authentication creates a big security hole.

hole 1) CLI requires the user's password for each command.  
To write a script, many people embed their passwords in the script. (Really bad).  
Better is to put the password in a file readable only by the user, but this is still a cleartext password.

hole 2) CLI requires the users's password to be passed on the command line, where anyone can see it with ps(1)

I think (2) is a defect in CLI.

Does anyone have a better solution than a cleartext file for part (1) ?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: 1. Recommend customizing your CLI bat/sh (either atlassian.bat/.sh or confluence.bat/.sh) to include your password. For me, none of my scripts contain passwords, they only refer to the atlassian command. It also makes it easier to maintain. If you need to access multiple servers, strongly recommend using the atlassian.bat/sh as it is much easier to customize for multiple servers and products. It also works better in scripts. It is available as part of the [Atlassian Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ACLI) distribution
2. [CSOAP-153](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/CSOAP-153) covers a few more options - vote and comment there for what you would like to see


Tags: addon-org.swift.confluence.acli

command-line

security
Confluence command line interface tokens not working
Asked by Ken Poulton:

I can't get login tokens to work.

\>\> confluence --action login --user poulton --password mypass

successfully returns a token Er9NXZafyy . But then I can't do actions with that token:

\>\> confluence --action getSpaceList --login Er9NXZafyy   
Error: Parameter 'password' is required.

\>\> confluence --action getSpaceList --loginFromStandardInput \< junk.l  
Error: Parameter 'password' is required.

I'm using Confluence 3.5.6


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Use --password "". It will be ignored if the action you are using does not require a password and a token is provided. The token only works for SOAP based actions and a password is still required for non-SOAP actions. For Confluence, almost all actions are SOAP based still.

comments: author: Ken Poulton
body: Okay, this works:

\>\> confluence --action getSpaceList --user poulton --password "" --login Er9NXZafyy

It seems like a bug to me that when --login is used it still requires a null --password. Even an error message that says this is required would address this.

There is a different bug in --loginFromStandardInput:

\>\> confluence --action login --user poulton --password mypass \>junk.l  
\>\> confluence --action getserverInfo --user poulton --password "" --loginFromStandardInput \<junk.l

Remote error: com.atlassian.confluence.rpc.InvalidSessionException: User not authenticated or session expired. Call login() to open a new session

The problem turns out that it is expecting the DOS CR-LF in the file! When I run this command on Linux, text file lines have only LF on each line as God and Dennis Ritchie intended.

A workaround for Linux users:

\>\>confluence --action login --user poulton --password wikiwiki \| sed 's/$/\^M/' \>junk.l

where "\^M" is ctrl-M (a.k.a. CR).

It seems like the Linux version of the confluence(1) CLI binary ought not to be expecting CR-LF.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Yes, its a bit of an oddity that I have choosen not to fix. Password was always required (for all clients) before token support was added and in 99.9% of cases it is a convenient way to prevent people from forgetting to use it. Token support is limited to the SOAP request and is for more advanced users, etc... Over time non-SOAP requests will dominate (JIRA especially and eventually Confluence), so just leaving it as is.

Regarding your other issue, I opened [CSOAP-178](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/CSOAP-178)


Tags: addon-org.swift.confluence.acli

command-line

login

security
Disable Email Notifications from a Single Page
Asked by K:

We have a page in Confluence that we are using to store some passwords on. When a password is updated, the person updating the password usually does not check (or unchecks) the "Notify watchers" check box, but in cases where that person forgets, it sends an email that alerts all the watchers of the changes. The page is restricted and the watchers are all ok to know that the changes were made, but the email itself is the security concern.

We don't want all the passwords saved locally in peoples' email. Also email could be unencrypted so technically it could be intercepted on the network, being that email is internet facing they would then in turn have passwords.

Does anyone know of anyway to permanently disable notifications on singular pages or have ideas for a work around?


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Kwiers,

I believe not, Confluence is designed to be a Enterprise Wiki, so this would go a little against it. But it should be possible with a feature.

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27567>

In another option you could use Mail through SSL.

Cheers,

Guilherme

comments: author: Vijay Krishna B
body: I had a similar requirement i want to stop mail notifications from a single page and that page is daily edited by a batch process.  
Is it possible to stop notifaictions using API


Tags: notification
Restrict Anynomous Access for user profiles to a subset of users.
Asked by Christian Gutknecht:

We run JIRA/Confluence on demand mostly for internal purposes. Some user now also would like to run a [public blog](https://openaccess-unibe.atlassian.net/wiki/display/PUB/News+Open+Access), where we also would like to show the profile of the bloggers. Yet, when using the profile macro to display name and photo of the blogger is restricted to only authenticated users.

Is there way to set a specific profile public, without really give anynomous access to all profiles of Confluence via global space permissions?


Answers:
author: Miranda Rawson
body: Hi Christian,

I have looked into this for you. Unfortunately at this time there is no way to set individual anonymous access for profiles. It is currently either all or nothing as you saw in the global space permissions.

I'm sorry to disappoint you!

Cheers,

Miranda


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

permission

profile
How to disable the full-size image option when clicking on an image
Asked by Javier Olazaguirre:

Since version 4 of Confluence, when I add an image, it can always be clicked and it will pop-up in full-size. For certain image this is useful, but I have many images that I don t want to have this behavior (titles done as image instead of text or logos).

Is there an option to enable/disable this functionality for each image?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Chung Park Chan
body: There are three ways to do this:

1. Through stylesheet "trick" where it changes the "point" to normal cursor when hovering over an image.

```
.confluence-embedded-image {   cursor: default !important; }
```

2. Add Custom HTML in Confluence Admin \>\> Look and Feel. This will disable all images to be enlarged when you click them (applies Globally).

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;    AJS.toInit(function() { // unbind directly-embedded images AJS.$("img.confluence-embedded-image").unbind("click.fb"); }); &lt;/script&gt;
```

3. [Enable HTML Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Enabling+HTML+macros). Then insert the below html macro in a page where you wish to disable the full-size image option (applies only to particular pages that has the macro embedded).

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; AJS.toInit(function() {  // unbind directly-embedded images  AJS.$("img.confluence-embedded-image").unbind("click.fb");  // unbind the gallery macro  AJS.$("a.gallery-link").unbind("click.fb");  // unbind the attachments macro AJS.$(".attachments a.filename").unbind("click.fb");});&lt;/script&gt;
```

Hope this helps.

comments: author: Javier Olazaguirre
body: Hi, thanks.

I just linked the image to a bogus anchor, so didn't create any anchor but still linke the image to #1 (for example). Maybe is not as professional, but gets the result.


author: Ran Liu
body: What is the "click.fb" mean? Is the .fb something special with Confluence?


author: hprt
body: Thanks for the tip Javier!Since I don't have admin rights on company confluence, this was the only way I found that allows me to disable the image popup:\[!http://link.to/image.png!\|#bogusanchor\]


author: Nicolas Casel
body: Hi @Chung Park Chan ,

The snippet code you provide as the 3rd option does not work. Maybe it is outdated?


author: Timothy Vattima
body: I did something a little different than the above solutions.

First I created a new page in my Space. On this page, I just attach images that will be added as an HTML Image to other pages in the space.

On a page where I just want a plain-old image, first I right-click on the URL of the image I want that is sitting on my "Images" page, then in the page I am editing, I paste-in the URL, set the correct image width and height, and viola! You just get an image - not clickable, no popup....just an image.


author: Ken Poulton
body: I'd like to get thumbnails displayed (full size) in a popup window instead of the fancybox popover. Is there some way to rebind these to popups instead of simply disabling them?
Can you link a file in Perforce to Confluence?
Asked by Alan Bell:

I would like a live reference files in my Perforce depot from within Confluence. I want this so that we do not have to attached files to Confluence.

I am thinking that there is a plugin that allows you to reference a file in a Perforce depot and possibly even specify the changelist.

Thanks.

-arb


Answers:
author: Mathiyalagan
body: Hi alan, Any thoughts how to connect the confluence from perforce?


author: Troy Cumbo
body: I run a P4Web instance and reference it with links. See <http://www.perforce.com/perforce/r12.1/manuals/p4web/help/actioncodes.html>. It works pretty well.
Can I have a single page inside a restricted space, that they can edit?
Asked by Susanne:

I have a restricted space where normal users can only have a view as set in the space permission setting. Can I have a single page inside this restricted space, that they can edit?


Answers:
author: Laurent Corbi?re
body: Hi,

- Open your space to all.

- do a browse\>pages

- create a "public" page from here. It will create a page at the same level than the Home page

- then restrict you home page

So the "public" page will heritate permissions from the space permission and the home page and its childrens will heritate of the home page restriction.

Have a nice day :)


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Susanne,

Restrictions on a page can only remove privilidges that already exist. A user must be part of a group that already has edit permissions for a given space in order to edit a page.

A possible work around for you is to place the page you want a user to be able to edit in another space that has a less restrive permissions set. You can then link to this page from your more restricted space which would give the appearance that you are editing a page within that space.

Please let is know if that makes sense for you.


Tags: restriction
Can I embed a Google custom search engine into a confluence wiki page?If so how?
Asked by JobContax:

I have a number of CSE's which i use for research. Can I embed them into confluence pages?


Answers:
author: EddieW
body: Not without a custom plugin me thinks.

But their API is pretty easily extended. DO you have development experience? If not I can look at what it would take for you...


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Rename blog to news throughout
Asked by Jeremy King:

Hi

I am currently working on upgrading our confluence installation to version 4.3.

One of the requests for the peice of work to do this is to rename the terminology blog post throughout the system to be news instead.

I have looked around on the documentation and cannot see a way of doing this as a configuration to edit.

I know that if you want to edit the dashboard name you can edit a jar file which has a dashboard.home configuration. I was hoping that maybe there is the same thing for a blog post?

If not, can you recommend a good way of going about this?

Cheers,

Jeremy


Answers:
author: Jeremy King
body: See <https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-93415>

comments: author: twong_atlassian
body: Support tickets are not accessible to the public. The gist of that ticket is that you can create your own translation file:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Language+Pack+Translations>


author: twong_atlassian
body: Hi Jeremy,

There's a file called ConfluenceActionSupport.properties inside of the confluence-{version}.jar located in \<confluence-install\>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib directory. Unjar this file (or unzip) to a temporary location.

This file controls most of the language in Confluence. The left side of the equal sign is the property name, don't change that. The right side is the display langauge. You change the langauge to your liking in this file.

I cheated and did it programmatically using a linux utility called awk:

```
awk -F= -v OFS='=' '{gsub(/Blog/,"News",$2);gsub(/blog/,"news",$2);print }' ConfluenceActionSupport.properties   &gt; output
```

Save your modified copy to \<installdir\>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ and restart Confluence.

I've taken the liberty of attaching my modified ConfluenceActionSupport.properties from Confluence 4.3.1 (where I tested this).

EDIT: It's zipped.

EDIT: Never mind. Apparently answers hates everything I do. I've posted it here:

<https://bitbucket.org/twong_atlassian/answers-responses/raw/a84798846e9433366a1a329dc74ee8c39bf25ce8/atlassian-confluence-4.3.1/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/core/ConfluenceActionSupport.properties>

Tim

comments: author: Jeremy King
body: Hi Tim,

That looks good.. thanks

I raised a support ticket at the same time as asking this on answers.

The recommendation i was given can be found here

<https://support.atlassian.com/browse/CSP-93415>

Basically they suggest creating custom translations

Thanks for your help!

Jeremy


author: twong_atlassian
body: That's basically the same as my solution. We're just calling it different things. The ConfluenceActionSupport file is the thing that handles i18n in Confluence.


Tags: blog

rename