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Migrating JIRA and Confluence
Asked by Richard Annand:

Hello,

Currently we are using JIRA \& confluence on demand. We are now looking to migrate this to a hosted copy. Everything is going well so far. My problem is that after importing the data (JIRA first then confluence) confluence shows its users as from the confluence directory and jira shows them fro the jira directory. How can I merge the two lists of users together? They are identical and when creating the application link in confluence I tick they box mentioning identical users.

Kind regards,

Richard


Answers:
author: FelipeA
body: Hi Richard,

You're looking for this: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management>

On Confluence Admin-\>User Directories, you create a new user directory of type: JIRA, then point Confluence to your JIRA, and it will start retrieving users from there.

Please let us know of your developments.

Kind Regards,

Felipe Alencastro


Tags: cloud

migration
Can you embed a REST API response in Confluence wiki content?
Asked by Troy Cumbo:

I'm looking for a way to quickly embed some plain text output from a REST API (TeamCity) in a Confluence wiki page. I can't use the html-include macro, as it expects html and throws an error otherwise. The lone plugin that seems relevant hasn't been updated since many Confluence releases ago. I don't want to use the plugin or the TeamCity build status widget. I just need a little data from the server to sprinkle onto the page content I already have. Is there no way to just include the raw output from a URL regardless of its response type?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: At a minimum, you can script it - [Script Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SCRP). Or you could treat the data returned as csv and use the [CSV macro](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL/CSV+macro) with the url.

comments: author: Troy Cumbo
body: I went with the CSV and it worked great Bob, thanks! All I needed was the url attribute with the macro.


author: one useme
body: Could you please share the sample code Troy


author: Troy Cumbo
body: Hey sorry for the delay! Took me a while to find the code.

I went a different path after the CSV macro went paid (not that I didn't like the add-on, the functionality just wasn't important enough for the price given our seat count).

But if you have the add-on, use it like so:

```
{csv:url=http://teamcityserver/guestAuth/app/rest/builds/buildType:dev,status:SUCCESS,lookupLimit:1/number}{csv}
```

Which would return the build number of the most recent successful "dev" build.

Hope this helps.


author: Gabriel Diaz
body: Troy - which alternate route did you go with? (non-paid). Thanks in advance.


Tags: confluence-administration
Does the quick navigation aid search all of Confluence?
Asked by Ravi Nair:

We have installed Confluence v5.4.2 (standalone) and noticed that when we use the quick navigation aid (search box), the results listed are only the pages that I have already visited. It doesn't seem to list anything outside of pages I've already visited. Is there any way to get the quick navigation aid to list results from the whole Confluence installation or is this by design? I have run the Search indexing and it hasn't helped.


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: The quick search should return results matching your search, not results matching your history. Which search (quick navigation) are you referring to? The search box in the global header or the popup box you get when hitting 'g' then 'r' ? This is only your history.

You may want to schedule a reindex from scrach, not just a manual reindex from confluence admin menus.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratch)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratch>

Hope this helps.


Tags: confluence-administration
What is PSR?
Asked by Munteanu Mihai-Ovidiu:

My boss asked me to learn about PSR and "that plugin"! I have no idea what he is talking about... :))

He said: "That plugin was for PSR... and it's too expensive! I want to know what PSR and that plugin do!"

Can someone, please, help me? Thank you!

We are using JIRA v4.2.4 and Confluence 3.4.9!


Answers:
author: Munteanu Mihai-Ovidiu
body: Good joke, but unfotunately, i have to downvote this!

From what i've seen in confluence search (for "psr"), it returns me Project Status Reports! Might this be what he is reffering to? But eitherway, who generates those reports? That plugin that he is talking about?

comments: author: Munteanu Mihai-Ovidiu
body: Crezi ca mai intrebam atata lume sa ma fac de rahat pe aici? A fost si el intrebat de altcineva la randul lui si habar nu are ce imi cere! Banuiesc ca a fost intrebat cu aceeasi formulare... ptr ca prima data cand mi-a cerut asta mi-a zis "vezi psr care-i treaba cu el!"... la o a doua discutie a mai detaliat putin si mi-a zis ce am scris mai sus...


author: Radu Dumitriu
body: My dear friend. It MAY mean "Project Status Reports" but this may mean in return a lot of things. Go and ask two simple questions:

1/ what do you mean by PSR

2/ What plugin are you talking about

Ce naiba e atit de greu?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's the problem, you don't know what PSR means, or what the plugin is.

Nor do we, there's too many it might be!


author: Munteanu Mihai-Ovidiu
body: Let's say it means "Project Status Report"! I found some of his notes, it may sound obscure but maybe it will give you a hint : "PROJECT STATUS REPORT -\> scafolding plugin -\> PSR macro fills in those templates"

Sorry for this abstract question! I know it sounds a bit retarded! :))


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ahh, try the Confluence "scaffolding" plugin...


author: Max Westerveld
body: PSR might alsow refer to (Problem Step Recorder) PSR.EXE. It comes with windows 7 and takes screenshots of and describes al useractions. I don't know if there is a Jira plugin to for example automaticalie attach ap PSR problem reproduction to a Jira item? But also here... just guessing...


author: Radu Dumitriu
body: Unless your boss is like this one:

[](http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2005-08-22/)<http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2005-08-22/>

.... go and ask her/him.

You can also believe that PSR = Posthumous Sperm Retrieval [](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_sperm_retrieval)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_sperm_retrieval>, but this means that your boss is brain dead and just need to be reproduced. Ah, DNA mysteries....


Tags: confluence-administration
Zen Lic upgrade
Asked by Mike Myers:

I have a Licence key for a Zen 50-100 user upgrade but the plugin manager won't let me apply it, the licence manager wants me to upgrade and pay again via the cart. how do I apply this key


Answers:
author: Mike Myers
body: OK found it, looks like the button was missing at the end of the key, if you move the pointer down to the end of the key Edit pops up. Using Chrome


Tags: confluence-administration
I would like to change the url for confluence on demand
Asked by Naama Lev:

Hi I would like to change the URL for conludnce on demand

How can i do that?

Thanks

Naama


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ONDEMANDKB/Changing+the+OnDemand+instance+URL+address>


Tags: url
How to make SOLID list of spaces instead some lists of spaces ?
Asked by Vladimir Z:

hi) help to solve the problem...How to make SOLID list of spaces instead some lists of spaces ?

![](../../upfiles/confluence_1.jpg)


Answers:
author: Phillip Ponzer [Cprime]
body: You could create a new page that utilizes the spaces macro.

Stolen from [](/questions/227012/dear-admins-i-don-t-like-the-menu-of-list-of-spaces-i-want-one-page-with-all-spaces)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/227012/dear-admins-i-don-t-like-the-menu-of-list-of-spaces-i-want-one-page-with-all-spaces>


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: To point up Davids idea, you can write a Javascript like

if (AJS.$('#space-directory-wrapper')) { AJS.params.pageSize = 1000000000000000;}

and set its context to dashboard, that would do it

comments: author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: That's not going to work. Yoiu somehow need to change **AJS.params.pageSize** or the value of the content attribute in **\<meta name="ajs-page-size" ...\>** before the rest of the JavaScript loads.


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Thinking a little bit more about it, you will need to modify the page before the init event is fired...

Changing the meta-tag will be more appropriate then doing the JS, but take care, in earlier versions of confluence this is not a meta tag but a hidden input field. But after all the solution in Javascript to fix this will not be "nice" and I'm not sure, if it will work properly. This might be some work, so I would consider the first option of modifiing the plugin.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Take a look at the network on your browser developer tools...

The directory listing is populated by REST/AJAX using the following REST API:

/rest/spacedirectory/1/search?query=\&type=global\&status=current\&pageSize=24\&startIndex=72\&_=1392028346532

Looking at the Javascript in the plugin, you could break open the jar file and increase the size of the pageSize variable.

Check **line 99** here: [](https://gist.github.com/dvdsmpsn/f7000489c5fac689648d)<https://gist.github.com/dvdsmpsn/f7000489c5fac689648d#file-space-directory-js-L99>

```
//pageSize: +AJS.params.pageSize,        pageSize: 10000000000000, // a big number
```

**Edit:** I've tried repackaging the plugin, with the pageSize replaced. It doesn't seem to work.

**Write a Servlet Filter**

Another approach would be to write a [servlet filter](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Servlet+Filter+Plugin+Module) that acts on the URL **/rest/spacedirectory/1/search/\*** and replaces the **pageSize** parameter with a larger number before redirecting. This would have the advantage of not being quite such a hack and could handle upgrades to the base installation much more effectively.

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```


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: The space directory is a plugin called Confluence Space Directory with a key called com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-space-directory. The only thing, can do is overwrting this plugin, this will probably be a must do for each update you are doing...


Tags: confluence-administration

list

space
I am using the evaluation version, and need to add users.. how Do I do that? I can't find that option.
Asked by Nick Yov:

I need to try it with multiple users, How Do I add new users, I am using the free trial.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Nick,

Evaluation version should allow you to add users into your instance. May I know wich product you referring here? If it is Confluence, please review our documentation here:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Confluence+Users)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Confluence+Users>

Hope it helps

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: user
Hi - I am trying to not have to individually restrict pages in Confluence. I would like ALL the pages in a space to have the same restrictions as the space level. Is that possible?
Asked by Duncan Reece:

Hi - I am trying to not have to individually restrict pages in Confluence. I would like ALL the pages in a space to have the same restrictions as the space level. Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Perhaps I don't understand you question very well, but, that is what space permissions are all about.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Connecting to a localhost download installation from another PC
Asked by Marowi:

I have downloaded and installed an evaluation license of Confluence on my Windows PC, to the default server base URL (localhost:8090).

I would like to be able to connect to it from my laptop (on the same network).

I have set up port-forwarding to allow access to :8090 on the PC, but the connection from the laptop times out when attempting to connect to \[PC_IP\]:8090.

I'm probably missing a pretty basic step - I'd appreciate any help or guidance you're able to provide!


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Have you check the firewall? Unfortunately, the information is very limited in order to troubleshoot your issue further. If firewall is checked, please make sure that your laptop can access the IP address, you can test this with a PING.

Make sure there are no redirection, antivirus, or firewall (as mentioned) that may cause your laptop unable to connect to it. Is there any specific error message describe in the browser?

comments: author: Marowi
body: Hi Septa,

I'd forgotten that I'd enabled a firewall on the PC.

Thanks for the reply, this is perfect!


Tags: confluence-administration
Can I recover a deleted space?
Asked by John Paz:

Had an admin user mistakenly delete a space; he thought it was empty, but really there were just a lot of child pages he was not aware were there.

However, he hit the 'cancel' button while the process was deleting the space, but the space still does not appear anywhere.

We've only had this instance running for four months, so I had not enabled automatic backups yet.

Are there any options anyone knows of for restoring this kind of deletion? If it was just a page or group of pages I could restore them of course. But it's one whole space.

I can respond with whatever system configuration details needed to help, just ask.


Answers:
author: Patrice Rompas
body: Hi John,

The easiest way to do it is only by restoring the backup. However, there might be some inconventional way to restore this by performing database modification. But before that, you need to ensure that the contents/pages are not deleted from database by running this query:

```
select c.* from content c inner join spaces son c.spaceid = s.spaceid where spacekey = '&lt;deleted_space_key&gt;';
```

Regards,  
Samuel


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence installation
Asked by Owe Jessen:

I am stuck in the installation at this point - "next" never "ungrays". Has anybody an idea what the problem could be?

I inserted a screenshot - it shows in edit, but not when I view the question. So, if it is missing, drop a note.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Owe,

If you are stuck when you try to integrate Confluence user managemet with JIRA's, I suggest you to do the following steps:

1. Stop Confluence
2. Clear off Confluence HOME directory to re-trigger the installation process
3. Start Confluence to re-install from scratch
4. Choose Confluence internal users
5. [Integrate with JIRA after the installation is finished](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Connecting+to+Crowd+or+JIRA+for+User+Management#ConnectingtoCrowdorJIRAforUserManagement-jira)

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Owe Jessen
body: Thanks Septa, this helped. I have a starter licence for JIRA, but an evaluation licence for confluence, is this related with the problem?


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Nope, it is actually a bug in our product as mentioned here:

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31129)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31129>

It will be fix in the next release.

Cheers.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Difficult to say without the screenshot, but the "next" button is generally greyed out when the installer doesn't understand or can't work with the information you've provided previously. (E.g. you've given it an invalid path or it can't connect to the database you've told it to use, etc)
PDF export increase Top margin width
Asked by Joe Wojak:

I've been testing PDF output and have applied a style sheet as [discussed in this thread.](/questions/9169/how-do-you-change-the-font-size-on-the-pdf-export)

This new style sheet works great because it increases the text size so normal people can read it. However, now page titles appear close to smaller top header text. I was trying to increase the header size by trying various widths in these settings:

```
}h1.pagetitle {page-break-before: always;}h1.pagename{margin-top: 10;}
```

But adjusting margin-top doesn't seem to do anything. Is it possible to increase the top margin to push the page title further down on PDF output?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Joe Wojak
body: I am not going to pursue this. We're just going to get a plug-in that helps with PDF customization. It's easier.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Are you customizing the styling for the Confluence page so that it exports the way you want it or customizing the pdf stylesheet so that it exports according to the export stylesheet?

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF>

There is also ways to customize the pdf layout. Might find what you're looking for \^ there.


Tags: pdf-export

stylesheet
Meaning of the Recently Updated icon in Confluence
Asked by Mike Wilson:

In Confluence 4.1.6, when I'm viewing any list of pages such as in the page tree, any pages that have been "Recently Updated" have this![](http://cl.ly/image/3n393Z1p3U31) blue icon next to them. Does anyone know the meaning of "Recently Updated"? Is it updated in the last x days, or updated since the last time I personally viewed that page, etc...


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Mike,

As mentioned on our documentation here:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Icons+Used+in+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Icons+Used+in+Confluence>

The blue dot means that the page has been edited since you last viewed it. Hope it clarify your doubts.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Mike Wilson
body: Thanks. How often does that information get refreshed? Is that a setting somewhere?

To test this, I clicked on a page with a "blue dot", then, about a half hour later, I went back to the list, and the blue dot was still there even though I had viewed the page, and the page had not changed during that interval.


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: By rights it should be every minutes as it included under Confluence indexing process. If the blue dot is still there after the page is refreshed and you have confirmed that there are no changes in between, there might be indexing issue.

Need to check you logs to confirm, but you can try rebuild indices from scratch to see if the blue dot still there:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch>


author: Mike Wilson
body: Screenshot of the blue icon I'm talking about: <http://cl.ly/image/3n393Z1p3U31>
Private Space between certain users excluding Admins
Asked by Jed Slagel:

Hello,

While poking around the existing answers I did find a question which seems to summarize my concern:

[](/questions/4162/restrict-viewing-for-confluence-administrators)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/4162/restrict-viewing-for-confluence-administrators>

Given that the responses were somewhat outdated and there was no clear answer, I thought I would ask again.

One of our executives wants to share a private space with only other Confluence users of his choosing, excluding other Admins. Is there a way to reliably (and hopefully easily) accomplish this?

Many thanks for any insight you could provide.

Jed


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. Well, sort of.

The basic answer is that you are going to have to trust your administrators.

If you use restrictions to hide pages, then your admins will actually experience the same "can't see this page" stuff as your normal users. But your administrators will always have the power to list restricted pages in a space, and then de-restrict them, or change their own profiles to enable themselves access.

The only way to completely stop an admin getting to pages is to put the pages in a separate system that they do not have access to.


Tags: confluence-administration
Restrict Page Creation from a Single Page
Asked by MarkC:

I know I can restrict users from creating pages within specific spaces. However, I have a space where I want to allow users to create pages except under a certain page. For exampe:

* Space Home
  * Content Page
    * Child Page
    * Child Page
  * Content Page
    * Child Page
    * Child Page
  * Report Page

In the above setup, I have a Report Page that pulls in information from all the pages in the space to display a quick reference to everything through various label filtering. However, I want to prevent users from creating child pages under the Report Page. I have created a macro in the past that prevented comments on certain pages, so I'm curious if anyone knows of a way to create a macro to put on that page that disables the create button in the navigation bar at the top and the Create child page link in the side bar.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Mark,

You should be able to create a user macro using this FAQ as a reference:

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Display+Different+Appearance+for+Different+Users+Using+Confluence+Layouts)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Display+Different+Appearance+for+Different+Users+Using+Confluence+Layouts>

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: MarkC
body: Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but I found that less than helpful. The examples are not clearly defining what the user can or cannot do. Where is the rest of the documentation about the properties?


author: Dana Buxbaum
body: Mark, How do you restrict users from creating pages within specific spaces? I cannot seem to figure that out and I see you mentioned above, you know how to do that.


author: Carl Frendo
body: Thanks for the fast answer, I have raised a ticket with atlassian also regarding this functionality \[CONF-37855\]


author: MarkC
body: Unfortunately, I have not. I've been manually monitoring and training people not to create pages in that location, so it's been rather labor intensive.


author: Carl Frendo
body: Hi Mark,I am having the same problem and would like to ask you if you have managed to find a solution.Thanks,Carl


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a systematic approach to abbreviations?
Asked by Du?an Juh?s:

Is in Confluence available a systematic approach to abbreviations?

I would like to offer an easy way clarify an abbreviation. For instance, if I use CPU in text I would like to offer a reader a hint available on mouse over event - Central Processor Unit.

Of cource, I can create a page with all abbreviations clarified and make a link to that page each time the abbreviation is used. But it would probably disrupt the readers' flow.


Answers:
author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Not out of the box, but you can write a usermacro that can do so.

Just pass the explanation as parameter and use an abbr-tag. Should be relativly easy.