youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Pretty printing Confluence HTML
Asked by Ken Poulton:

We often use the Command Line Interface to download a page, edit it in a Linux text editor and upload again. For some kinds of editing, that's just much easier.

The machine-generated HTML that comes out of Confluence 4 is remarkably editor unfriendly, with run-on lines and no indentation for lists or tables.

Does anyone have a pretty printer for Confluence HTML? The standard Linux program tidy(1) barfs on the \<ac:\> tags.


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: The storage format is XML based with a custom namespace.

Really, you need to

1. [get a hold of the schema](http://www.amnet.net.au/~ghannington/confluence/readme.html)
2. wrap the content in a new root element with the namespacing specified
3. parse in tidy with namespacing enabled


author: Jimmi p
body: I use online tool such as [https://jsonformatter.org/html-pretty-print](https://jsonformatter.org/html-pretty-print?)
Confluence 5.0.3 Remove Site Logo from Dashboard Landing Page
Asked by Gavin Fowler:

Hi

I've just upgraded my production environment to confluence version 5.0.3 where I have one small anomaly. I can't recall how to remove the site logo from the dashboard landing page (I've managed to perform this on my test environment?).

This is not to be confused with the site logo that appear in the top navigation bar (which is present on all pages), I'm referring to the site logo that also appears on the dashboard landing page (i.e. immediately below the persistent top navigation bar, to the left of the dashboard title "Dashboard"). To be absolutely clear, this is in-line with the right hand buttons "invite user" \& "create space".

Would be most grateful can someone point me to in the right direction. I'll try to upload a screenshot if that helps.

Gavin.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Gavin,

Thank you very much for bringing this issue to our attention. We proceed to create this bug report regarding this issue:

* [CONF-28795](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28795)

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Gavin,

I have checked with the default dashboard layout and it seems that by default Confluence is not suppose to show two logo on the dashboard.

Please double check if there are any [dashboard customization](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+Confluence+Dashboard) on your end to remove the mentioned logo.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Gavin Fowler
body: Hi Septa

Many thanks for the feedback.

I've checked our installation and there aren't any dashboard customisations in my production instance? It didn't occur to me that my "test" confluence instance has been upgraded 5.1.0 (with production only on 5.0.3). Can the rouge logo I'm seeing on the dashboard be a nuance only seen in version 5.0.3? Would you know what velocity template (or similar) i can compare between the two versions to establish whether this is the case?

thanks!

Gavin.


author: Gavin Fowler
body: Just to close this question. It appears that when you change the theme (admin/look and feel/ theme) from "default" to "documentation" the site logo appears and when you switch back to "default" theme the site logo goes away. I've checked in the "documentation" theme's "configure theme" settings and there's no mention of enabling / disabling site logo.

I'm guessing this is a "feature" of the "documentation" theme. I'll raise a support ticket with Atlassian to see whether this behaviour is intended.

EDIT. I see this behavior in confluence 5.0.3 and 5.1

Gavin.


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Gavin,

Looking at your ticket now.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


author: Gavin Fowler
body: Image indicating the logo I'd like to remove (looks odd having two logo's in close proximity)

![](../../upfiles/Dashboard_-_Dashboard_2013-03-30_08-46-42.png)


Tags: dashboard

logo
No menu item "Upload Add-ons"
Asked by Oleg Vashchukov:

You can not install plugin. No menu item "Upload Add-ons". Why is that?

![](http://olegv.ru/jing/2013-03-29_1203.png)


Answers:
author: moxin
body: Try disabling the connection to Atlassian Marketplace.


Tags: app

cloud

confluence-cloud
On linux where file path of MySQL installation wizard?
Asked by lily56:

I install mysql for Confluence on linux, refenrence from"Confluence's Database Setup For MySQL"

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Database+Setup+For+MySQL#DatabaseSetupForMySQL-Step3.ConfigureMySQLServer>

On the Step 3 **Configure MySQL Server**

"Run the MySQL installation wizard:" ,I **can't find a file like "MySQLInstanceConfig" on linux** .

Where file path of MySQL installation wizard?


Answers:
author: Radu Dumitriu
body: Not an MySQL expert, but I believe those instructions are contaminated by the Windows OS.

On unix, such modifications are made through direct modification of configuration files, prompt commands, etc. You may want to lookup the MySQL documentation to find the exact correspondents of each action listed there.

comments: author: Radu Dumitriu
body: Saw that I got negative votes. **MySQLInstanceConfig** is not available on linux**,** AFAIK**,** and **mysqlsetup** was only used for a new instance last time I check. Anyway.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Lily,

Mysql install is not part of Confluence's download. For linux systems, you'll need to download this and install separately. There are many guides out there on the internet for your specific linux distro, but you should follow mysql's instructions and incorporate any linux flavor specifics for your OS.

<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/linux-installation.html>

Confluence does not ship with mysql so you'll not find any installation wizard until you either download an installer, or install using a package manager on linux.

Hope this helps!


Tags: install

mysql
Thumbnail image display in Confluence 4
Asked by Ken Poulton:

We need our thumbnail popups back!

We have lots of graphs of voltage waveforms from simulations and measurements of our circuits. We often put them into tables to show the effects of changing a couple of parameters.

In Confluence 2, thumbnail images displayed in popup windows. That worked well for us. We could click from one thumbnail to the next and animate the full size image one frame at a time. Or we could leave the full size image up while we compared to another image in the browser.

In Confluence 3, thumbnails got pushed into **popover** windows. This was awful until we found two workarounds:

1. disabling "fancybox web resources" - restored popups, but broke another dialog box
2. disabled "thumbnail image web resources" instead. This restored the Confluence 2 behavior.

In Confluence 4, the evil popover windows are back, and we can't find a way to get back to the popup behavior.

This is a huge issue for us. Can anyone help?


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: I don't know if I fully understand you but do you manually create your own thumbnail galleries with tables?  
If so, wouldn't you be better off with a macro like the {gallery} macro? That also uses popover windows but at least it would automatically create and position the thumbnails and you could click from one image to the next.

comments: author: Ken Poulton
body: The {gallery} macro fits for a random collection of photos, but not our more structured usage.

We typically have an X-Y array of images, where X might be clock rate and Y might be different circuits. We use column headers and we use a column for row labels and we often have some columns or rows filled with descriptive text. We often have sparse arrays, because not all cases in the X-Y grid need to be done.

We do some table creation manually and some with scripts generating WML and adding it via the command line interface.

I observe that images in a gallery can still be opened in a separate window (with right-click). That right-click option used to be there for non-gallery images, but went away in Confluence 4. Is there a way we can get that back?


Tags: thumbnail
Voting, surveys and approvals in confluence
Asked by KP11:

We need a way in Confluence to enable a user to actively acknowledge/affirm they had read a page and/or attachments, as a way to automate tracking of internal informal training.  
The thought was put a "survey" checkbox "I have read and undstand the material" and then get a report of which users checked the box as training material.  

Is there a Voters \& Watchers for Confluence similar to the above.

I have seen some of the plugins Page Approval \& Read Confirmation.

Are there any others with high ratings?

<br />


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: You could try using the tasks functionality by inserting an empty checkbox using left and right brackets \[\] and then Confluence mentions (@rgoodwin) next to the checkbox. This associates a workbox task for that user and you should see a completed task in your workbox when they have completed the task by checking the checkbox.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Tasks+in+Confluence>

Note that these features were introduced in Confluence 4.3 so you'll need to be using that version or newer.

Hope that helps!


Tags: vote
Multimedia macro doesn't play
Asked by James Pyles:

I've made an mp4 file an attachment on a page and added the multimedia macro to the page. The video appears but won't play. I've tried both Windows 7 and Ubuntu OSes and Chrome, Firefox, and IE web browsers but nothing works. Chrome on Windows 7 will play the sound but not the picture. Any ideas?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi James,

Please check if you have Quicktime plugin up and running.

Also, make a test with small videos (like 1 minute length) and with different sizes (resizing).

Kind Regards


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I link in a repository's wiki to a page in the source of the latest commit?
Asked by Corey Skiffington:

How can I link in a repository's wiki to a page in the source of the latest commit of a branch without having to update the link every time there is a new commit?

I'm not uploading commits from local every time right now because it's easier to just drag the new .dll's into dropbox where the link is static as long as the filename stays the same. Is there a static path to the latest commit page of the source for a repository?


Answers:
author: rverschoor
body: Does this page help?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Linking+to+a+File+from+a+Wiki+Page>

comments: author: Corey Skiffington
body: Not really I already know how to create wiki pages and add links. The problem I have is that every time I do a commit the link to the page in the list of source files for a repository changes with a new long hashcode in the middle of it. So on a project where I do 100-200 changes a day it's impractical to have a link to a page in the sourcecode at all at the moment because it would kill my productivity to update it after every commit. I didn't know if there was something equivalent to "hxxxxxxxbitbucket.org/myteam/myrepository/src/%latestcommit%/foo/bin/release/?at=development


author: rverschoor
body: As mentioned on that page:
> By default, if you do not specify the revision, the link will point to 'tip'.

which is exactly what you want.


author: Corey Skiffington
body: ALMOST :) The file is in another repository. Oh DERP! Thanks for your help! just realized I can put the download page in the wiki for that repository and link to he page. \*facepalm\*


Tags: bitbucket-cloud

cloud

link

wiki
Mail archive not automatically polling
Asked by RIsk:

At some point before or after upgrading to Confluence 4.2.2, a Mail Archive used in a space stopped automatically updating. Administrators can still click Fetch new mail to update manually.

The Confluence Mail Archiving Plugin and all its 17 modules are enabled!

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Hey there,

Although the admin can still manually fetched the email but do you happen to see this error message:
> Error retrieving message: \[Ljava.lang.Object; cannot be cast to com.atlassian.confluence.content.CustomContentEntityObject

I wonder if this issue is somehow related to this bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26036>. What's the mail server in used?

Do you encounter any other mail functionality issue besides this? Also, is there anything thrown in the mail server logs?


Tags: archive

email
Missing Blueprint since Confluence 5 update
Asked by eKyNoX:

Hello,

Since I updated my Confluence, there's only :

* Blank Page
* Blog Post

in Create Blueprints Window.

Is it normal ?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo eKyNoX

It depends on your version of Confluence. In Confluence 5.0, the Create dialog will show just Blank Page, Blog Post, and any templates that you and other users may have added to your site. If no-one has added any templates, then it's quite fine to see only Blank Page and Blog Post.

In Confluence 5.1, you should see Blank Page, Blog Post, your own templates, plus 3 blueprints: Meeting Notes, File List, and Product Requirements.

I hope this answers the question!

Cheers, Sarah


author: Normann P_ Nielsen _Netic_
body: Well, in the Create Window, there should be several Items, but have You checked Space Permissions?

A bit of the same context, I have 2 Confluence instances, both 5.1 that does the same :

When Creating File List, the UI Dialog just hangs

Upon Create - Product Requerements (and a few other types) - the Dialog gets blank with a "lets get started" title...

Hope I am not to much Off-Topic


author: Normann P_ Nielsen _Netic_
body: Well, in the Create Window, there should be several Items, but have You checked Space Permissions?

A bit of the same context, I have 2 Confluence instances, both 5.1 that does the same :

When Creating File List, the UI Dialog just hangs

Upon Create - Product Requerements (and a few other types) - the Dialog gets blank with a "lets get started" title...

Hope I am not to much Off-Topic


Tags: blueprint
Confluence - E-Mail Push Notification
Asked by Christian Calabr?:

Hello. We are looking for a possibility to push out an E-Mail message to all existing Confluence users after generating an new Confluence News entry. And this push feature has to be enabled only for few Confluence Admins. We need Confluence as company intranet and some news are high important and should reach the users immediately via E-mail. Is there a possibility to do that?

Thanks for your answers.

Christian


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Use [the Share button](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Emailing+a+Page), it now supports groups:
>
> 1. Enter a username, group or email address - autocomplete will suggest matching users and groups.

It was fixed in Confluence 5.2 ([CONF-22430](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22430)) and you should be able to get it in older versions of Confluence by upgrading the Share plugin.


author: Jim
body: I would be interested in this feature too.


Tags: blog

email
Team Calendars plugin upgrade mentioned in Confluence workbox notification?
Asked by Thomas Wendel:

On the test-system I just noticed the notification "Team Calendars has been upgraded - Try it now!" in my workbox?

* Does this happen for other plugins as well? So far I haven't noticed any notifications from other plugins, but are there others that notify users through the workbox?
* How can install and upgrade notifications from plugins be disabled? Although I think the feature is pretty cool, in a work environment a lot of users don't care whether a plugin has been updated. It just makes it hard to convince users to start using their workbox as a a every-day tool when they consider the messages in it as spam.

Thanks,  
Thomas


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: "Does this happen for other plugins as well?"

- No it doesn't. It's up to each plugin developer to do so using the Wokrbox API. To date, the only Atlassian tool which uses this is Team Calendars.

"How can install and upgrade notifications from plugins be disabled? "

They can't. We deliberatly did this because we had constant requests form admins who upgrade add-ons and their users have no idea that anything has changed. The result is more difficult change mangement, because they load the new feature and are confused or want to know what changed. So we did this for that.

For Team Calendars, we don't use this every time we upgrade. We only use the WorkBox notification if we feel the change is significant enough it would help users transition.

comments: author: Thomas Wendel
body: I can imagine that some users, probably mainly power users, find it really nice to get information about new features in Confluence. As I already mentioned, I think this is a nifty idea.  

However, I believe that the majority of users, especially in larger non-IT companies, find such an update through the workbox rather annoying. They would find it similarly annoying if, for example their e-mail program would give them updates about new features. Those users just want the tool to work and not to bug them.  

The administrator of one of our customers is actually thinking about turning the workbox of in order to prevent the Team Calendars update notification popping up in every bodies workbox. Most of their users don't even know about Team Calendars as only certain teams really use it.  

How about a button in the plugin configuration with which administrators can trigger this notification if they really want to inform their users about new features in Team Calendars?


Tags: notification

team-calendars-for-confluence

workbox
Migrate Confluence 2.10.2 from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008
Asked by Thomas Malli?:

Hello,

We are running an old version fo Confluence (2.10.2).

The SQL servers hosting Confluence must be decommissioned and I was wondering if it was possible to migrate this version of Confluence to SQL 2008.

I had a look for technical documentation in the KB but didn't find the information.

Do you know if this is possible ?

Thanks

Thomas


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Who knows man. It's such an old version of Confluence. I'm sure you won't get much support from Atlassian if it fails.
Gadget Errors
Asked by Lingyan He:

Since March 25, we got the same gadget errors.

Error loading gadget from rest/gadgets/1.0/g/jira-timesheet-plugin:timesheet-gadget/gadget.xml: org.apache.shindig.gadgets.GadgetException: Unable to retrieve gadget xml. HTTP error 404


Answers:
author: richie_gee
body: Hi there,

It appears to be pointing at the timesheet plugin that you have installed, can you verify whether you have the compatible version of the plugin installed?

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/jira-timesheet-plugin>

If yes, the plugin installed seems to be having difficulties to connect to external site to extract information, you could check out the documentation below to see if you encountered the issue described on them:

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Gadgets+do+not+Display+when+Failing+to+Access+XML+Specification?utm_source=SAC\&utm_medium=hercules-issue-view\&utm_content=417609](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Gadgets+do+not+Display+when+Failing+to+Access+XML+Specification?utm_source=SAC&utm_medium=hercules-issue-view&utm_content=417609)

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=222200924\&utm_source=SAC\&utm_medium=hercules-issue-view\&utm_content=417609](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=222200924&utm_source=SAC&utm_medium=hercules-issue-view&utm_content=417609)

Let me know if you need further assistance on this, cheers :)


Tags: gadget
Some plugin isn't functioning properly.
Asked by Sozhavendhan M:

Some of the plugin isn't working properly.

I am getting the error as the image uploaed.

Can you tell me which plugin is responsble for this.

1. Present condition

2. the correct one

![](../../upfiles/untitled_19.JPG)


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Do you have some customization that can be affecting the plugins layout?  

To check if that's the case, go to Confluence Admin \> Look and Feel and check if there's some custom code there (template and/or css) then remove it temporarily and see if the behavior persists.  

This will help you to diagnose if the problem is regarding a conflict between custom code and the plugins or its a problem directly with the plugin itself.  

Kind Regards

comments: author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Thanks for your suggestion. I did the same.

then I cleared the PLugin cache as instructed in

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache>

and the Left hand tree structure is missing.

Please tell me if the customizations were deleted /?

1 - current scenario

2. the correct one

![](../../upfiles/Plugin_issue_1.JPG)


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hello there,  

From your screenshot it seems that the 'Snip-Snap' plugin is playing a role there. If you would like to disable it, you just need to go to *Browse \> Confluence Admin \> Manage Addons or plugins* and find the Snip-Snap' plugin through the list. Once you find it, you just need to disable.  

I hope this helps.  

Cheers,  

WZ


Tags: confluence-app
Sending mails from confluence to JIRA are ignored (as they are considered bulk)
Asked by francis:

We have Confluence and we are using the FormNG plugin to allow users to fill in a request.  
The result is then sent by email to JIRA for further processing.

Alas, that was the idea, but the mail sent out by Confluence is bounced by JIRA due to

<br />

*... Email handler The message has been rejected: Rejecting message due to failed bulk check.*

Any idea how to catch this (apart from generating the mail ourselves)

Francis


Answers:
author: AhmadDanial
body: Hey there, Francis.

I noticed that it has been a while since you received any response here. Therefore, I would recommend you to contact the plugin vendor to get your query answered.

* Email: [help@adaptavist.com](mailto:help@adaptavist.com)
* Homepage: [](http://www.adaptavist.com/display/community/New)<http://www.adaptavist.com/display/community/New>

Hope this helps and good luck.

comments: author: francis
body: We resolved in another way (not with FormNG).

Now that you bring up the contacts - I'm wondering if Adaptavist is tracking plugin specific questions on AAC ? AAC is much more efficient than any direct support channel as other people would benefit from their answers.


author: AhmadDanial
body: Thank you for the response, Francis. As far as I know, yes. They do keep track of plugin specific based on the tags. As an example, this question is tagged with [addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.formmailng](../../tags/addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.formmailng "See questions tagged 'addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.formmailng'").

Since AAC is open to everyone, we do agree with you that it is efficient as every user, developers, and admins are able to view, discuss, and benefit from it. :)


Tags: addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.formmailng
how correct set timezone for russia?
Asked by pavelmoscow:

Hi! Currently system date - 09:20:40 +0300 ( behind a hour from actual time).

Region - system default, time zone - gmt +03:00 Moscow.

How fix on actual time ?


Answers:
author: pavelmoscow
body: Hello Janet! I add -Duser.timezone=Europe/Moscow into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \>\> SOFTWARE \>\> Apache Software Foundation \>\> Procrun 2.0 \>\> JIRA \>\> Parameters \>\> java \>\> options, restart JIRA, but time still wrong - 12:40:22 +0300

<br />

I add -Duser.timezone=Asia/Novosibirsk , restart JIRA, but time still wrong  
I'll try any combinations, but not find correct work.

<br />

Version my JIRA is 5.0.6 ( 733 version)


author: Janet Albion
body: Hi Pavel,

Have you tried explicit specifying the -Duser.timezone in the JIRA startup option to use the Timezone code instead of specifying GMT+3 ? Detail at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Setting+Timezone+in+JIRA>

If still the same, are you using JIRA 4.4.5 and below ? If yes, I think you hit into bug that has been fixed in JIRA 5.0 :

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-26959>


Tags: jira

timezone