youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How can I bring multiple tables into a single table?
Asked by Brandon Helms:

I am trying to consolidate (for the project supervisor) a list of the status of all mini projects on 1 page for him.

I have used the details summary with the metadata details, but the problem is the tables in the metadata details field are laid out horizontally, not vertically. Is there a way to get these tables work with details summary? Or is there another way?


Answers:
author: Sean King
body: I'm not sure if I totally understand your issue but the MultiExcerpt plugin is awesome for combining bits of information from mulitple pages into one. Also, if all else fails, you can use the HTML macro and build the page in html which will give you more control.


Tags: metadata

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Sharing Error
Asked by dmtprojection:

Since upgrading to 4.3.2 when I attempt to share a page to three or more users I get an error.

This functionality used to work fine beforehand.

Now the only way I can share pages is to select two users, send, and then repeat the process. It's quite painful.

Thanks


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Damien,

Judging by your description it could be something that broke during the upgrade. Such as Index. But I could be wrong. I would give it a try with Hercules, it might find something useful.

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Problems+and+Requesting+Technical+Support#TroubleshootingProblemsandRequestingTechnicalSupport-ScanningyourConfluenceLogstoMatchKnownIssues>

Otherwise I would suggest trying to rebuild your Indices from Scratch:

* [https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+scratch)

Hope this helps you, otherwise its good to create a Support Ticket

Cheers,

Guilherme
Latest Activities Not Displayed on Confluence's Dashboard
Asked by Kwang Whee:

The latest activities are not displayed on Confluence Dashboard \> All Updates tab. The last update information shown was May 10, 2012.

I have run the rebuild of search index but the result is the same. On the Queue Contents screen, the queue last processed shown was May 17, 2012 14:05.

Please advise, thank you!


Answers:
author: Kwang Whee
body: Hi Bruna,

Thank you for your reply. My issue mentioned above is fixed now. The resolution is to assign write permission to the Confluence Home Directory and run the index again.

Cheers,

Kwang Whee


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Kwang

I suggest you to try a rebuild from scratch.

To do that:

a) First shutdown your Confluence.  
b) Make a backup of your \<confluence-home\>/index/plugin and \<confluence-home\>/index/edge directory if they exist.  
c) Remove the \<confluence-home\>/index directory.  
d) If in step 2, you have the \<confluence-home\>/index/plugin and the \<confluence-home\>/index/edge directories, create the \<confluence-home\>/index directory and copy in the backup of \<confluence-home\>/index/plugin and \<confluence-home\>/index/edge directories made in step 2.  
e) Restart server

You may find more information about this here:

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

Cheers!


Tags: dashboard
Confluence Templates Migration
Asked by Katherine Styer:

I have searched everywhere for an answer to this question to no avail.

I have been tasked with moving spaces from an existing instance of confluence to another Confluence instance. I have done the export and import of the instances, but the templates did not move with the space.

Is there any way to move the templates created by space users to a new instance of Confluence?

I cannot find anything on export of templates.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: The templates are located in PAGETEMPLATES table in Confuence database. You can move these data to a new instance of Confluence. However, please note that there are some changes to this table in 4.3 (LABELS column is no longer there).
We are going from On Demand version to the download version and i want to restore the whole confluence On Demand to our home hosted version. Problem...since there is no way to have system admin rights on the on Demand...i'm stuck on our own version...cann
Asked by S?bastien Delisle:

I need a system-admin account...how can i proceed?...and importing spaces individualy is not an option...we have more than 150 users and cannot recreate all of them.


Answers:
author: S?bastien Delisle
body: Thanks for the answer! The trick was to install confluence on demand to my instance as explained here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+from+Confluence+OnDemand+to+a+Confluence+Installed+Site


author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, congratulations on receiving full freedom to do what you like. Follow this guide <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights> to reset the admin password.

This is only possible because you now have access to the database and other parts of the system.
Javascript issue while working with confluence
Asked by Avinash:

|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Hi, I just started testing using javascript for my confluence page. This is the simple test java script im using |-----|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1 2 | `var element=document.getElementById(``"header"``);` `element.innerHTML=``"New Header"``;` | I have the following WML on my confluence page |-------|----------------------------------------| | 1 2 3 | `{div:id=header}` `Old Header` `{div}` | But, when i execute it, i dont get the required "New Header" as result. I get the same "Old header" text on my page. But, other commands like a simple document.write() works. It doesnt give me the required result when im trying to access a particular part of the body using divs. I dont know what i am doing wrong. Any solutions?? Plz help.... I am working on a standalone version of confluence 3.5.9. Thanks, Avinash |


Answers:
author: Amalia
body: You can add AJS.toInit(function() { to wrap your code:

```
&lt;script&gt;  AJS.toInit(function() {    var element=document.getElementById("header");	element.innerHTML="New Header";  });&lt;/script&gt;
```

Since the top navigation bar is placed inside an element with ID "header", the top navigation bar is replaced instead of the one created in your Confluence page

comments: author: Avinash
body: It works partially. I get the "new header" displayed but it doesnt replace the "old header"...it renders it at thetop left of the confluence window. How do i get it to replace the old header with the new header text?


Tags: javascript
We want to modify the Main Layout to include our logo. Where is the best place to put our logo files?
Asked by JT:

Would our logo files go in the images directory, or should they be somewhere else?

We are running Confluence v3.5.x


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: If you wish to change just the logo of Confluence to your company logo, you could do it by following this documentation as a guide:

* [Global Logo](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+the+Global+Logo)

Modifying the layout of Confluence is quite complex jobs, please review this documentation to give you some clue on this task:

* [Customising Look and Feel Overview](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Look+and+Feel+Overview)

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra
Extrenal database
Asked by justin gilmore:

I am installing Confluence and it will be for a small IT team and during the installation it recommends that I go with a Custom install. Once I go through the custom install it asks me to install either an embedded database or an external database. I just wanted to clarify these before i went further. Also I would like to state, we made a vm to host confluence off of and we also partitioned it. So the primary partition will be used for confluence but the secondary partition will be used to store the documents. I just wanted to be clear when it came to installing the database.


Answers:
author: Andy Brook [Plugin People]
body: External is the way to go for a production install, the embedded db is just for eval.

Depending on size of your instance, and avialable physical ram, be careful putting a database and an application within the same VM...


Tags: install
When upgrading from confluence 3.5.13 to 4.3.1 I am getting cache timeout errors
Asked by Richard A. Ehlinger:

2012-10-24 11:06:54,286 WARN main cache.tangosol.hibernate.CoherenceCacheStrategy handleLockExpiry An item was expired by the cache while it was locked (increase your cache timeout): cache=com.atlassian.confluence.cache.tangosol.hibernate.CoherenceInvokableHibernateCache com.atlassian.confluence.core.ContentEntityObject.outgoingLinks , key=78224512


Answers:
author: John Chin
body: Hi Richard,

By some chance, could you perform the following steps to increase the cache timeout?

* Open /atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/web.xml.
*

  ```
  &lt;session-config&gt;     &lt;session-timeout&gt;60&lt;/session-timeout&gt;&lt;/session-config&gt;
  ```

  <br />

* Increase the timeout as 1 hour.
* Restart JIRA.

I hope it works and good luck

Regards,

John
How to hide the comment area for a group of pages in Confluence?
Asked by Karina Clemente:

How to hide the comment area for a group of pages in Confluence? We would like to keep in the rest of our pages.


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi Karina,

If you would like to hide it for all the pages in one space you can navigate to *Browse \>\> Space Admin \>\> Stylesheet* and put the following css.

```
#comments-section {display: none;}
```

Hope it helps

comments: author: Karina Clemente
body: Hi Rian, thanks for your response! Is there a way to hide it only for a specific page within a Space?


Tags: comment
How to import a Sharepoint Wiki into Confluence?
Asked by Jennifer Lo:

I'm new to Confluence and we are seriously considering moving from Sharepoint Wiki to Confluence Wiki. What is the easiest way to do this?  

I've downloaded the UWC plug-in and am not sure how to "add" pages to the Convert from Wiki part...

See attached image:


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Happy to help you Jenn if you get in touch -


author: hsuhailah
body: I believe you were referring to the UWC here: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+User+Documentation>. For more info on UWC you may directly contact the plugin author at: [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com)


Tags: universal-wiki-converter
Possible to configure IM connectors to Google Chat for OnDemand Account
Asked by Guy L Winterbotham:

When I attempted to insert the Presence Macro in a confluence page using a Yahoo ID it worked. When I tried the same for a Google ID the page rendered with the following message:

An administrator must configure your server's Google Talk Service before you can use this macro.

Google Talk is not explicitly excluded from OnDemand:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

Are you able to config this service?


Answers:
author: FernandoA
body: Looks like it is a bug in which administrators are unable to access the IM Config page.

We are tracking this bug here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6149>

We suggest you to add yourself as a watcher on it for following further updates.  
Cheers!


Tags: administration

app
Wiki Mark Up for Excerpt and Excerpt Include
Asked by Jennifer Mazurowski:

Does anyone know what the Wiki Mark Up for "Excerpt" and "Excerpt Include" is?


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi, you can use {excerpt} for excerpt macro and {excerpt-include} for excerpt include macro. For more information please refer to the following documentation.  
\* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Excerpt+Macro>\* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Excerpt+Include+Macro>

|---|
|   |

comments: author: Jennifer Mazurowski
body: THANK YOU! This is great!


author: FernandoA
body: The Excerpt macro is used to mark a part of a page's content for re-use. Defining an excerpt enables other macros, such as the Excerpt Include and Blog Posts macros, to display the marked content elsewhere. And in the other hand the Excerpt Include macro is used to display 'excerpted' (that is, a segment of) content from one page in another.

For further reference please check:

* https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Macro

and

* https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro

comments: author: Jennifer Mazurowski
body: Thanks Fernando, I appreciate the definition. I guess I wasn't too clear. I am actually trying to place the exerpt codes in my template so I would need the mark up language of those macros. Hope this makes sense.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Upgrade d/l costs?
Asked by gwil:

What are the costs to upgrade from a lower tier to a higher tier in Confluence? I know the download prices - but if I were to upgrade is there a credit or is it a re-buy?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Last time I did it, you pay the difference. (e.g. 25 -\> 50 users, you'll pay for another 25, not re-buy a whole 50)

Contact Atlassian sales - they'll be happy to explain in detail, and talk about making the licences co-terminate on the same dates etc


author: JohnA
body: Hi Gerry,

There is a credit for upgrading a license tier, so you won't pay the full amount for the upgrade as you would for the download license but you can figure out how much it would cost you to upgrade from your current license tier to the license tier you wish to upgrade to from this page: <http://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence#downloadlicenses-2>

All the best,  
John
Update notifications in Confluence - question
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

I am a space administrator and I have 400 members accessed my space. Our space has more than 70 pages.

There are many pages which are regularly updated and I'd like to reach that most users get email notifications whenever a page is updated.

I know that there is a Watcher feature but adding more than 200 users for each page is very cumbersome!

My first question: the watching function is in hierarchy? I mean if I add a user to a parent page as a watcher, will the user get notification emails whenever sg. is updated in a child page???

In this case I would add the users as a watcher to the Space Home.

Question2: can I add groups to the watcher /notification list?

Can you please help?

Thanks in advance!

Rumi


Answers:
author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi Rumi,

You can "make" them watch the space.

But there is no daily digest so every single time a change happens they will receive an email.

Therefore they will ignore the notifications.

More infor on:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF41/Watching+a+Space>

Cheers,

Selcuk


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: It is not possible to add groups to the watchers, but it is a feature request: [CONF-20118](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-20118 "Ability to notify a group when a page blog or space is changed (group watches) "). Please vote for it if you are interested in this feature.

I don't think waching a page also affect all the child pages.


Tags: notification
Does Version 4.2.7 use the HTML macro?
Asked by Jennifer Mazurowski:

Does Version 4.2.7 use the HTML macro? I am assuming that it cannot based on trying to use the {html} macro in a template.


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Jenmaz,

The HTML macro is still available in Confluence 4.2.x, but it needs to be enabled before you can actually use it. You can enable it by following the instructions in this document, but please do take note of the potential security issues before enabling it: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Enabling+HTML+macros>

All the best,  
John

comments: author: Jennifer Mazurowski
body: Thanks John, we are currently in the process to upgrad to 4.3. Will this still be the case when we upgrade? Also the case with the Flash plugin?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Need to find out the cost of Training for Confluence
Asked by David J:

I need to find out the cost, the process of getting our organisation trainied on Confluence. Since we have the enterprise product, is there a discount or a packaged product that can be made avaialbel for us on the Atlassian Univercity site?


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi David,

The Atlassian University is actually a training tool in its own right, although we do also offer specialised training courses but I don't believe that there is any discount on those services for Enterprise customers. However, you can check out the pricing for Confluence training on our site: <http://www.atlassian.com/resources/training#trainingPricing>

Of course Atlassian isn't the only company offering training for Confluence, so you might want to check out our Expert network as we have a number of Atlassian Experts who also offer training as part of their services: <http://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts>

All the best,  
John


Tags: training-and-certification
Umlauts are shown as "?" in Jira Issue Macro
Asked by Thomas Heidenreich:

Hi there,

all of the sudden (just after a server restart) all umlauts within the Jira Issue Marco are show as "?" on our confluence pages and the preview. The "Insert JIRA Issue" dialog shows them just fine.

All umlauts in the page itself are displayed correctly.  

I have no idea where to look, as I am more familiar with jira than confluence - the site <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Troubleshooting+Character+Encodings> seems to be down....

Could anybody point me the right direction??

Thanks in advance  
Thomas  


Answers:
author: Thomas Heidenreich
body: The problem only occours when starting Jira and Confluence via runlevel skripts. At this point it seems there is no environment set so ANSI-X3.4-1968 is set as default.

I have now put

```
source /etc/default/locale
```

as the first line in the init script and it looks good now.  
I'll report back after a few reboots...


author: Mark Hrynczak
body: Actually, just in case you still have problems accessing the documentation, the main step is to run the encoding test on your instance found at:

```
http://<yourinstance>/admin/encodingtest.action
```

comments: author: Thomas Heidenreich
body: The tests show just an error for Test 6: "The file name has been mangled".

But as I have no problems with umlauts in confluence pages themselves, just with the texts within the Jira Issue Macro, I think this has to be another source than the genereal encoding...


author: Thomas Heidenreich
body: It seems it was a problem with a network drive, after rebooting and reconnecting the fileserver the problem is gone.


author: Mark Hrynczak
body: The documentation site should be back up now, so try again with the steps at [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/99668/umlauts-are-shown-as-in-jira-issue-macro](umlauts-are-shown-as-in-jira-issue-macro)

If that doesn't help, then raise a ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com> so we can look at your case in moe detail.


author: Thomas Heidenreich
body: screenshot of example:

![example](http://i.imgur.com/9MmtA.jpg)


Tags: encoding

jira
Email Content
Asked by Lettingweb:

Is there anyway to change the content of the emails in Confluence.

We have a business user who needs to be kept in the loop but would rather see and respond to threads via the automated emails.

However none of the emails contain the full conversation and often it just says "Person X mentioned you in Page X" with no content at all.

Is there anything that can be done to make these more useful?


Answers:
author: Bastiaan Jansen
body: Unfortunately this is not possible in the OnDemand environment as we do not allow any form of customization.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

email
Can I hide the People Directory in Confluence OnDemand?
Asked by Dobroslawa Wierzbicka:

Confluence has the option to hide the People Directory from users. Can this also be done on OnDemand?


Answers:
author: Matthew Hunter
body: Unfortunately this is once again no longer possible in Atlassian Cloud due to system changes. Please vote for and comment on <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7837> if you would like to see this functionality implemented in future.


author: Dobroslawa Wierzbicka
body: Presently, it is not possible to hide People Directory in OnDemand. As it is a [customization](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Hiding+the+People+Directory), it is not supported.

However, there is a feature request to introduce hiding the Directory from the Browse menu: [CONF-12842](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-12842). As a feature (and not a customization), it would be available in both standalone and OnDemand versions of Confluence, so do watch and vote for the ticket.

comments: author: Michael Knight
body: Just an update: it is now possible for us to hide the people directory in a way that persists through upgrades. Please [contact Support](https://support.atlassian.com) if you want this done.


author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Update: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7837>


author: Mauro Badii
body: It is now possible to Hide the People Directory in Confluence Cloud. Please [contact Support](https://support.atlassian.com/) if you want this done.


author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: Hi Dora,

This is not possible in OnDemand, as this requires a tweak in some property files in the application, and this will not be preserverd during upgrade cycle for OnDemand applications. There's a feature request available which I suggest you vote for it :

- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-12842>

All the best.

comments: author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Update: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7837>


author: Gabriel Radic
body: The Cloud story <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-12842> was not correctly updated after it was cloned from its Server version.


author: Bart De Baere
body: Was looking on how to do this today for the OnDemand but indeed, the documentation is referring to server and not OnDemand.

Anyone know the way to do this for OnDemand?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud