youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Why change name to Classic Planning Board?
Asked by Matt Ross:

It's a small thing, but I found it annoys me. Why are my Planning Board, Task Board, and Chart Board all of a sudden called "Classic Planning Board", "Classic Task Board", and "Classic Chart Board".

When I'm using the dropdown nav now, and scanning the options, everything starts with Classic. Don't make me think.


Answers:
author: Mirek
body: Hi autonomatt,

Starting from GreenHopper 6, new view of the menu list is introduced. The Classic boards (Planning, Task, Chart/Released) are no longer being actively improved and are not recommended for use in new projects.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/GreenHopper+6.0+Release+Notes>

<br />

Regards,

Mirek


Tags: cloud

jira-software-cloud
Merge two spaces
Asked by Kevin Hughes:

I am evaluating Confluence for our technical documentation and am looking at the process governance around it. Currently we have multiple development running concurrently. This is handled within our current CMS using a branch/merge (of questionable robustness). In Confluence I have been looking at copy space as the branch and then ...... theres the problem - how can I merge two spaces?

Any help suggestions in this area much appreciated


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Unfortunately, this function isn't available yet, but we have a Feature Request to reach this function of Merge Spaces. You can vote to raise its popularity and add yourself as watcher too, if you like to know how this Feature is going. <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7024>. Anyway, let's see if anyone has a valid workaround to be shared.


author: SarahA
body: Hallo Kevin

It sounds as if you're looking for sophisticated version control, with branching and merging of content for different versions of a product perhaps. If so, then the Scroll Versions plugin sounds good for you. Version 1 of the plugin is available now, and goes a good part of the way already:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions>

The K15t Software team are planning and designing for an enhanced release of the plugin. It's worth getting in touch with them to see if the update will meet your needs. We're waiting for the update too, as we need the ability to manage multiple versions and variants of our documentation.

Cheers, Sarah


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: I depends on what you mean by **merge** spaces. Using the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) it is easy to copy a page hierarchy using [copyPage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copyPage) or a space using [copySpace](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copySpace). However, this will **replace** the contents, not **merge** the changes.

comments: author: Jake Grochowski
body: ok ok
how to unstick the footer from the bottom?
Asked by Vladimir Alexiev:

In Confluence 3.5.3 **Documentation Theme** the footer of content pages is stuck at the bottom of the window (doesn't scroll).

Screen real estate is valuable, so I'd like to unstick it so it's at the bottom of the page but not bottom of the **window**.

I've inspected with Firebug and I think the stickiness comes from .../download/resources/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.doctheme:documentation/default-theme.css (line 257):

```
#footer {bottom: 0; position: absolute;
```

But the same CSS applies to other pages (eg Administration, People Directory...) where the footer is not stuck.

* - I've tried a fix by Menno Bieringa: Admin\>Stylesheets\>Edit the custom CSS  

  ```
  #footer{position:relative}
  ```

  It has no effect, probably because the custom global stylesheet will not be applied to spaces that define their own custom stylesheet or are using a theme.
* I've tried adding this to Custom HTML\> At end of the HEAD:  

  ```
  &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;#footer{position:relative}&lt;/style&gt;
  ```

Looking with Firebug, I see it is applied and overrides absolute. But the footer is still stuck :-(

I'm confused, can anyone help?

Cross-references:

* [CONFKB How to Edit the Footer](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Edit+the+Footer+in+Confluence?focusedCommentId=245827109#comment-245827109)
* CONF-18059


Answers:
author: Rusty Newton
body: I think your question may be a duplicate of mine here [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/78485/how-to-change-floating-footer-to-a-static-footer](/questions/78485/how-to-change-floating-footer-to-a-static-footer) , but I haven't solved the issue yet either.


author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: There was a problem where this would happen. I will see if I can find the actual report of it. I do know that it was solved with the upgrade (and that was the main reason why we actually did the upgrade).

comments: author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: Actually thinking about it, the issue that we were seeing may have only occured when editing a page, so it may not be the same after all.


Tags: footer
Cannot export Confluence Calendar
Asked by SamK:

Hi,

We upgraded from Confluence 3.5.6 to 4.2.12.

Since then, the old Confluence Calendar Plugin is not working anymore. As I read it's an expected behavior because it is not supported anymore.

We want to test the new Team Calendar plugin to see if it suits our needs.

As I understand from this page <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TEAMCAL/Licensing+and+Installing+Team+Calendars> we will have to migrate from the old Confluence Calendar Plugin to Team Calendar.

I'm trying to follow this procedure but I cannot find the Download link to export the old calendar.

How do I fix this?


Answers:
author: SamK
body: I could not afford doing so many procedures manually.

I told the users that the data will be lost.


author: Maxfield B
body: If you need to extract the calendar data manually from the database, you can find the data in the os_propertyentry table's text_val column, where the entity_key is set to 'confluence.extra.calendar:\<calendarid\>'.


author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: To get an export of the old calendar plugin, you will need to do so from the Confluence 3.5.6. Once you have the export files, you can import them to the new Team Calendar plugin in your Confluence 4.2.12.


Tags: calendar

upgrade
Custom layouts not working in Confluence
Asked by Bob Nicholson:

I've downloaded and installed the test version of Confluence. In the site admin, the Default theme is selected. When I edit the Layouts (i.e. create custom layouts), they have no effect no matter what I do. What am I missing?


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: If you are using the Demonstration space that ships with Confluence, then it is not using the site-wide default theme, instead it has a space-level theme applied. This will be overriding the custom layouts.

To work around this, you can either:

* Change the Demonstration space to use the default theme, see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Applying+a+Theme+to+a+Space>
* Create a brand new space

Hope that helps,  
Mark

comments: author: Bob Nicholson
body: Thank you - that was exactly the problem.
Can no longer maintain space watchers in confluence
Asked by Brett Ryan:

We have found that at some stage confluence stopped allowing us to maintain space watchers in Confluence. We used to be able to add space watchers for spaces but can no longer do so, we can not identify which version of confluence stopped this behaviour.

Confluence now reads under the Watching this space as You cannot modify this list.

This is true even for an admin user.

\*Steps to reproduce\*

# Log in as an admin user.

# For a space click {{Tools \> Manage Watchers}}

See right list for the message You cannot modify this list.


Answers:
author: Brett Ryan
body: It turns out that this feature is not available, it also turns out that bubbles was what was allowing this to work in prior versions, though adaptavist have now taken this capability away from bubbles.

Pleas cast your vote on the following. Atlassian have no immediate interest in adding this capability though are guaging interest on the subject.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22313>


author: Mirek
body: Hi Brett,

I had the same question in the past..

As I remember if someone is **watching a space** there is now way to remove person from doing that (even admins cannot do that). If some one added a comment or edited a page it becomes a **watcher of a page** then admins can remove them from watching the page.

For more info please look at below page:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Watchers>

I hope that will help.

Regards,

Mirek

comments: author: Brett Ryan
body: Thanks Mirek, unfortunately we need to have this capability. We had previously added a whole bunch of people to a space as watchers but now can no longer maintain this list. Those users also can not log into confluence as they do not have computers and are remote staff who only have mobile devices.
Adding an 'I agree to Terms of Service' checkbox to public sign-up?
Asked by Ehud Halberstam:

I need to gate access to the confluence portal to users who have agreed to comply with the portal's Terms of Service.

To achieve this, I was thinking to include a checkbox with a link to the agreement, and only create an account to users if they first check the agreement checkbox.

Is this possible?


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: You can modify the login.vm file to include such terms and conditions with a checkbox if you want. Note that the "signup" part can be found in login.vm for Confluence 4.3 and above. Which confluence version are you using?


author: JamieA
body: Similar question here: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/35476/force-accept-company-policies](/questions/35476/force-accept-company-policies)

Plugin here: <https://bitbucket.org/jamieechlin/confluence-ts-and-cs-plugin/src>

The checkbox thing only appears whenever an editor is shown, but perhaps you can modify it to your needs.


author: Giuliano C.
body: Hello Ehud,

Unfortunately, Confluence doesn't work with the specifically checkbox with link to the agreement. But, you can insert a checkbox and create a dialog box manually with the Terms of Agreement. I'm not sure if that is the best option to work on, but, I hope it helps you!

All the best,

Giuliano
confluence upgrade 3.2. to 4
Asked by Chandan kumar:

I am looking for steps to upgrade confluence from 3.2 to 4. I googled it and checked in this portal too, however, I am yet to get a clear cut steps.


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hi Chandan,

You're correct, it's recommended that you use 3.5.17 as an intermediary step to avoid a few known user management problems. After everything's working, you can go straight to the latest 4.2.13 version.

Hope it helps.

comments: author: Chandan kumar
body: Thanks. I did the upgrade. After the upgrade I got the mysql error that I fixed as per instruction. And now its showinh :: Upgrade failed and try again.

I have attached the logs


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The steps you need are in the standard documentation - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence> and let us know if you get stuck.

Also, I think your tags are wrong, as OnDemand is already on version 4.

comments: author: Chandan kumar
body: so I dont have to first upgrade to 3.5 and then to 4? Can I directly upgrade from 3.2 to 4?


Tags: upgrade
PDF Export won't add page numbers
Asked by ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago:

I am trying to add page numbers to wiki pages to show on a PDF export by adding   

#pageNum:before  
{  
content: counter(page);  
}

to the Global PDF Stylesheet and adding \<span id="pageNum"/\>  
to the PDF Space Export Footer.

I used the directions found here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Providing+PDF+Versions+of+your+Technical+Documentation#ProvidingPDFVersionsofyourTechnicalDocumentation-AddingHeadersandFooters>

However no page numbers appear in the exported PDF. (Confluence 4.2.4)

Please help! Thank you in advance.


Answers:
author: Thomas Wendel
body: Try following the instructions from this page, they worked for me: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Advanced+PDF+Export+Customisations>

Just add the following code to either to the global or the space PDF stylesheet:

```
@page{    @bottom-center    {        content: "Page " counter(page) " of " counter(pages);        font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;        font-size: 8pt;    }}
```

You don't need to add any HTML code anywhere.

Please let us know if it worked.

Cheers,  
Thomas

comments: author: Thomas Wendel
body: You are welcome! Glad I could help.


author: ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago
body: This solution worked! Thank you!!
Traffic stats for Confluence
Asked by Bob Nicholson:

I was hoping to find a way to track page traffic in Confluence (without installing macros on eahc page). The installation is behind a firewell, so we can't use Goggle Analytics.

I found a link to a plugin called **Traffic Stats Plugin**, but the page is missing:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DEVNET/Traffic+Stats+Plugin>

Any idea what happened to the plugin? Is there another way to track traffic?


Answers:
author: Kay Brown
body: Try the Usage Tracking Plugin:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.ext.usage>

Regards,

Kay

comments: author: Bob Nicholson
body: Ah - thank you. From the initial blurb, I thought this required a macro to be installed on each page I wanted to track. I see now that I was mistaken, and this does what I need.


author: Midori
body: You haven't gone into details about what you'd use this information for.

1. If it is for full-blown analytics, then besides Kay's answer, you should also check out the [Viewtracker Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.viewtracker).
2. If it is primarily to find the "abandoned" pages that no-one views anymore, then the [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123), particularly its [page view tracking](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-view-tracking) feature is your friend.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Hi Bob,

Just because you're behind a firewall, it doesn't necessarily mean you can't use Google Analytics. Do your client browsers have access to the internet? if so, you can still track usage with Google Analytics.

If you want to embed Google Analytics reports into Confluence with [Google Analytics for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/me.davidsimpson.confluence.plugins.googleanalytics) plugin, then you'd have to open up the firewall for your Confluence server (only) to communicate with [www.google-analytics.com](http://www.google-analytics.com)


Tags: analytics

track
User Receiving Unwanted Recommended Updates Email
Asked by John DeLong:

Even though they have these updates disabled in their profiles, we have multiple users receiving these unwanted update emails in Confluence 4.2.6.

Please advise on how to resolve this issue.


Answers:
author: Jonathan Drapeau
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-the-recommended-updates-email-notification-281480712.html>It says : If your Confluence site has public signup enabled, the Recommended Updates notification is disabled by default.If public signup is not enabled, the notification is enabled by default.Why is it different with or without public signup is a very strange and a very bad decision to take on the user part.


author: Patricia Xia
body: Me Too!

After v4.2.7 upgrade, the "Recommended update email" was ON by default system wide. I noticed this afterwards, and then unchecked the "Send by default" box (under Conflucence Admin\| Recommended update email \| Send by Default ) . However, this seems only affect newer users. All existing users had, by default, already subscribe to it (from the top menu bar \| User Name \| Settings \| Email \| Subscribe to recommended updates is CHECKED).

It is important to allow users opt-in, rather than sending the messages by default. By the way, in our case, almost ALL newly created pages/comments made it to "Recommended ..." and therefore being sent system wide to ALL users within the permission setting. It is way too much. We have to stop it.

Can we update this setting on all users in the SQL database? In which table/field is this subscription stored?
Why does Confluence try to use Word to open an Excel file?
Asked by Jane Vorhies:

Hi

My computer is just starting to use Confluence. I am in the pilot group. I am having problems opening Excel files in Confluence - it tries to open them with Word. The problem seems to be around when click on one of the 'Edit' options. I have been able to download the file, modify, then upload, but when I try to edit it just starts opening Word.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That's usually your machine set up to do that, rather than Confluence. Confluence is telling your browser "here's an excel file", and your browser is deciding what to open it with.

Look in the browsers options and default programs for opening files.

(Also, check versions - some versions of Excel/Word can get confused about the document type)

comments: author: Jane Vorhies
body: I had to 'repair' my Office installation.

Thanks for the response...


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Does the Confluence Server ID change when you upgrade or reinstall Confluence?
Asked by John Pedro:

Our organisation is in the process of renewing its license for Confluence as well as upgrading to version 4.2.

We have just purchased the Arsenale Lockpoint macro. As part of its licensing process Arsenale is asking for our Confluence Server ID.

Since we are about to upgrade, we are unsure as to whether the Server ID will change upon upgrade / reinstallation from scratch.

Can you please clarify whether this would be the case?

Many thanks for your help.


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi John,

According to our FAQ on the Server ID in Confluence, the Server ID won't change when you perform an upgrade or if you reinstall your data. However, it will change when you initially reinstall but once you import your data the Server ID should be reverted back to the one which the data was being restored from: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Server+ID+FAQ>

All the best,  
John


Tags: licence

server-id
Annotations in Confluence
Asked by Olga Yakhontseva:

Hi there!

Could you suggest me any way to make annotations in Confluence like MS Word does? I found no such option in documentation.


Answers:
author: Maxim Kuzmich [StiltSoft]
body: Hello Olga,

Also you can try [Talk plugin](http://stiltsoft.com/talk/index.html) which allows you not only to insert annotations in any point of the page but to establish inline discussions with e-mail notifications.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Olga,  

Yes, it seems that Confluence don't have this kind of option.  
But I did a search in our Marketplace, and I found this third party plugin, which I believe that do what you need:  

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.spartez.confluence.plugins.kwik>  

Cheers,  

WZ

comments: author: Geoffrey Peddle
body: This plugin looks great but doesn't appear to be available on the cloud. Is there a cloud solution?


author: Filip Pokorny
body: You could add annotation with default jira just by selecting text you'd like to annotate in confluence and press lowercase I


Tags: annotation

ms-word
how to disable the "Site Welcome Message" in confluence
Asked by Andreas Worbs:

Hi all,

I want to disable the site welcome message in confluence. Deactivating the "welcome-message" of the dashboard macro does not work.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much.

Best regards,  
Andreas


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi Andreas,

If you would like to disable the Welcome message, you could achieve that by navigating to *Confluence Admin \>\> Layouts.* Click create custom on**Global layout**. From there you look for the following line, remove it. and save it.

```
&lt;div class="dashboard-item welcome-message"&gt; $action.welcomeMessage&lt;/div&gt;
```

Hope this information helps. Cheers.


author: LuizA
body: Hello Andreas,  

You can go at Browse \> Confluence Admin \> Configuration \> General Configuration and then "edit" the site welcome message. You can just write something as "h2. Your_Company_name" and then save. If you try to remove the whole message this will not work, but with this workaround you can edit and change the message that appears. If need more help about this topic, please raise a support ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com> with your latest logs so we can continue troubleshooting it.

Kind Regards,

Luiz.
Re-direct in Search
Asked by Ole Kristensen:

Here's an example of what I mean: If you enter the bacteria "E.coli" in the Wikipedia search field it guides you directly to the page "Escherichia coli". This happens because someone has created this redirect which is quite useful in many cases where people enter abbreviations or synonyms in the search.

Is it possible to create this kind of re-directs in Confluence? And how?

/Ole Kristensen


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hi Ole,

I'm afraid this is not possible to achieve in Confluence without customizing it a bit, so in case you don't get any good insights on this, feel free to raise a feature request at <https://jira.atlassian.com> regarding this matter.


Tags: redirect
[CONFLUENCE] Is there some Velocity code I can use to check whether a page has children?
Asked by Steve Goldberg:

I have a macro I'm writing that would be improved by a conditional that will execute code based on whether a page has children. Does anybody know how to do this?


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: If you have [a page object](http://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/Page.html) you can call:

```
#if($page.hasChildren())    ## do some magic#end
```

See the [page API documentation](http://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/pages/Page.html) for more information.

Hope this helps


author: Steve Goldberg
body: I see that you can use .hasChildren but $page.hasChildren() did nothing. After some poking around, I found that $content.hasChildren() works just fine.

Thanks Remo!


Tags: child-page

macro
Sharepoint connector: "Search Confluence and Sharepoint" only searches Sharepoint?
Asked by David Meacock:

We're currently using the Confluence Sharepoint connector at work, and it has some nice features.

One issue I've noticed though is that the "Search Sharepoint \& Confluence" option in the search box only seems to search Sharepoint.

What's going on there? Are we missing a config setting somewhere?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: G'day Dave,

You'll need to configure your SharePoint Search Center to include federated search results from Confluence if you want to see both sets of results on one page.

Installation \& setup instructions for this are outlined on our documentation for [SharePoint 2007](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Configuring+the+SharePoint+Federated+Search+on+SP+2007) and [SharePoint 2010](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Configuring+the+SharePoint+Federated+Search+on+SP+2010) instances.

Do you know if this has been done? If it has, and you are still seeing no Confluence results on the page, there's probably a mis-configuration between Confluence and the Federated Location in SharePoint - let me know if this is the case and I can help you track it down.

comments: author: David Meacock
body: Thanks - didn't realise I'd have to modify sharepoint as well. Seems obvious in retrospect, though!


author: Joe Clark
body: No worries :-)


Tags: search

sharepoint