youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Table scroll bars in IE but not Chrome on 5.7
Asked by Mike Rathwell:

I am having an issue where (new behavior) scroll bars appear both horizontally AND vertically on tables in IE. The same page in Chrome does NOT exhibit this behavior (preferred and the way it was). Any ideas anyone?

Confluence page - Chrome.jpg

Confluence page - IE.jpg

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Table-scroll-bars-in-IE-but-not-Chrome-on-5-7/qaq-p/39802?attachment-id=11124){#link_11926e10d68f16}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/6673/1/Confluence%20page%20-%20Chrome.jpg){#display_11926e10d68f16_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Table-scroll-bars-in-IE-but-not-Chrome-on-5-7/qaq-p/39802?attachment-id=11125){#link_11926e10d68f16_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/6673/2/Confluence%20page%20-%20IE.jpg){#display_11926e10d68f16_2}


Answers:
author: Andre Borzzatto
body: Hi Mike,

Please raise a ticket at support.atlassian.com, there's a need to further investigate this matter and report a bug if confirmed.

Thanks!

We'll be awaiting your action.

Cheers!

Andre

comments: author: Mike Rathwell
body: Andre,I've created the ticket on support as CSP-143993


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there really absolutely no way to extract the data from Confluence Questions?
Asked by Christoffer Pettersson:

Apparenty there is no rest API yet\*, no way to list all the questions in the UI itself, nor access to the database.

\* <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/12272315>

I find this very alarming that any data we put into Confluence Questions, we might never find again.

Any comments or feedback on this would be appreciated!


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Nope,I would strongly suggest that you vote on this issue:  
<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-376>  
To increase its popularity and add it to your watchlist for future updates. I also suggest you to comment in the bug, that way our Bugmaster can see how this problem is impacting your business.

Cheers,  
WZ


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) has various actions for getting Questions information including [getQuestionList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference#Reference-getQuestionList) and [getTopicList](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference#Reference-getTopicList). If you have additional specific requests, [open an issue](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/CSOAP).


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

questions-for-confluence
Insert Footer into existing Page
Asked by Scott M Tanselle:

I have a page that is way down below a Space. How can I insert a footer into the page that would include page number, etc. when exporting to PDF.

I tried the PDF layout and Stylesheet under Space Administration and that didn't work


Answers:
author: Alex Yasurek
body: We use this plugin call ed Scroll PDF for our PDF needs and it handles everything like footers, headers, page numbers, titles, etc., for us. At first I tried doing everything using Confluence's built in PDF capabilities but it was to much of a hassle. I think this company gives you a free trial for this plugin so try it out.

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


Tags: confluence-administration
confluence create does not pull templates
Asked by Paul DeSousa:

Hi all,

I upgraded my test server to 5.7.1 in preparation for the upgrade of the live server and now when I try to create a new page in any space I get a spinning wheel "loading" and never loads (I even left it running all night still loading the next morning) and the following error in my log:

net.sf.hibernate.ObjectNotFoundException: No row with the given identifier exists: 61898755, of class: com.atlassian.confluence.spaces.Space

Anyone know what went wrong? I tried a re-index but it didn't help.


Answers:
author: Paul DeSousa
body: select \* FROM CONTENT WHERE SPACEID = '61898755';

with the mouse click select all, right delete rows.

And the problem went away. Thanks!

comments: author: Paul DeSousa
body: Shoot! It started again, same error


author: Paul DeSousa
body: The entries in the database came back. I re-synchronize (rsync) the home dir from the live server to the test server and re upgraded and this resolved it. That is why it is a test server :-)


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Robert, it appears that the application is having troubles while retrieving data from a label. You can use the following queries to remove any orphanated references, note to have a DB snapshot ready before running any queries against the dataset.

First being to check scope, second to remove reference, third to find additional offenders that may persist harming Confluence. :-)

```
select * from content_label;delete from content_label where labelid=61898755;?select * from content_label where labelid not in (select labelid from label)
```

comments: author: Paul DeSousa
body: Interestingly, there were no labels with labelid of '61898755' when I did a select \* from CONTENT_LABEL;When I did the delete from I got 0 rows affected.


author: Paul DeSousa
body: So the problem still exists


author: Paul DeSousa
body: I did a search of all tables in the database and 61898755 is a space id. Maybe a deleted or rogue space?


author: Paul DeSousa
body: K I know what happened now, I got a list of all the titles. What happened was I did a database export from the live server and a database import to the staged server. The live server had some a space that was deleted, and when the database got imported it must have had residue of that lost space. How do I remove that content?I tried delete FROM conf.CONTENT WHERE SPACEID = '61898755'; but that did not work as it failed foreign key constraint.


Tags: confluence-administration
Programatiically add a page to confluence using CLI and macro
Asked by nitinsh92:

I am trying to migrate our mediawiki to confluence. We tried usin Universal Wiki Converter, but the it exports HTML content, for which we have to manually use HTML macro inside the conflence. Obviously we can't do that manually for each page in our wiki. I used conflunec cli's function:

confluence --action convertToStorageFormat --space "ITWP" --title "test001" --content "{html}bodytext{html}" --server --user --password

it spits out something like this:

\<ac:structured-macro ac:name="html"\>\<ac:plain-text-body\>\<!\[CDATA\[bodytext\]\]\>\</ac:plain-text-body\>\</ac:structured-macro\>

Which is again not recognized by confluence.

Is there any way I can just send HTML content to Confluence and it uses HTML macro to parse and display like a standard page like it was before? But please keep in mind I have around 1000 pages in my wiki.


Answers:
author: Rafael Pereira
body: Hi Nitin

You can try using the Universal Wiki Converter plugin: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.uwc>

Besides, you can see different methods to import content to confluence here: [https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+Content+Into+Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+Content+Into+Confluence#ImportingContentIntoConfluence-Importingwebcontent)

For non-wiki markup take a look at WeDav: [Confluence WebDav Plugin](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/WBDV/Confluence+WebDAV+Plugin)

Cheers,

Rafael Pereira.


Tags: confluence-administration
How can one user view/monitor another user's task list?
Asked by mattd@customstorefronts.com:

I know how to view progress on tasks you've assigned, but how do you view an employee's progress on tasks they were assigned by other users?


Answers:
author: Daniel Wester
body: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Cloud/Add%2C+Assign%2C+and+View+Tasks>

You can add a task report macro to a page and use the assignee field to specify the user.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

task
How to add comments/details to a Confluence 5.5 task?
Asked by Gonzague:

Before Confluence 5.5 and the task redesign it seemed possible to add notes on a task.

Now in Confluence 5.5, I can't find a way to add details about a task.

Is there a way to this (hidden feature? plugin?)?


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: This is being tracked here <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26785>


author: Nicholas Aceto
body: I agree, this is absolutely necessary functionality. A task that is asking for feedback or response is currently useless as there is no way to capture the associated response.
Can I put a label on a blueprint?
Asked by Maya Eyal:

I want to create a page properties report based on a blueprint template (Meeting Notes). However, I can't seem to be able to fix a label to the blueprint, and the page properties report macro requires a label. Does anyone know the solution to this? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: I am afraid that is not possible. There is already a feature request for this: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29447>.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Where can I find Attachment Download Security Policy
Asked by Suren Gjulbekjan:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CLOUDKB/Attachments+no+Longer+Open+in+Browser+-+Users+are+Prompted+to+Download+File+Instead>

Workaround {#toc-hId-1680749413}
--------------------------------

**For Self-Hosted Instances:**

1. Click on cog at the Confluence header and choose "Confluence Admin"  
2. Under "Users \& Security" choose "Security Configuration".  
3. Click any of the "Edit" buttons on the page and find the "Attachment Download Security Policy" section.  
4. Select the "Insecure: Display all attachments inline" option and click "Save".

Following the instruction I have a problem with point 3. I don't find "Attachment Download Security Policy" section.

We have Version 5.1

Do you have some ideas where this policy can be?

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hi Sure,

I believe you're facing a cache issue. The older files are already stored on your user browser's cache, so you'll need to clear the cache in order to force the download when clicking on the attachment.

I hope it helps! :smile:

Eduardo


author: Suren Gjulbekjan
body: [http://confluence.xxx.de/admin/editsecurityconfig.action](http://confluence.aida.de/admin/editsecurityconfig.action)

is similar you mentioned. Old attachments will be open in the browser, the new one only download (as described in the article) it is confused for the users, that the same files have different behavior.


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: What is the URL you see when looking for that option? It should be `<CONFLUENCE_URL>/admin/editsecurityconfig.action`.

Do you have any plugin installed which may affect the way attachments are managed?


Tags: confluence-administration
Ondemand team calendar: How to remove my personal "subscription"?
Asked by Karl Roth:

My private Google calendar appears on the team calendar under "subscriptions".

Now I want to remove it. When I click the ... on the right, the options I get are Restrictions, Share or Embed, Subscribe, Export to iCalendar and Refresh. How on earth can I remove it completely?


Answers:
author: Karl Roth
body: TeamCalendar.jpg  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Ondemand-team-calendar-How-to-remove-my-personal-quot/qaq-p/182777?attachment-id=9242){#link_11926fbbbf5ae0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/30614/1/TeamCalendar.jpg){#display_11926fbbbf5ae0_0}


Tags: cloud

subscription

team-calendars-for-confluence
How to count the page view number in the whole conlfuence site for each guy?
Asked by Tao Lang:

How to count the page view number in the whole conlfuence site for each guy?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What method are you using for tracking the views? As Confluence doesn't track them unless you add something to do it, or enable the internal tracking (and each method I know of stores the data differently)

comments: author: Tao Lang
body: In the admin/globalusage.action page,I see the most popular spaces number for views, so I think I can get the number for each gay.

BTW?we will do the informatioan security policy, so we need to know the people's activity in the confluence system.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: And how have you enabled that? I'm not that familiar with the addons and switches you can use to get that enabled.


author: Giuliano C.
body: We have some options such as to use the [Viewtracker Add-on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.viewtracker) provided by Bitvoodoo that will display the page views and also it's visitors. As a bundled feature for Confluence, as you are already using the [Usage Stats](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Viewing+Site+Statistics), you can also try to enable the user access logging indicating which users are accessing which pages in Confluence.

For more info, you can look at [this KB article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Enable+User+Access+Logging)


Tags: confluence-administration
How to search for pages listed with the include page macro?
Asked by Manuela Raschke:

I would like to search our wiki for all pages that include a certain page with the "Include page"-Macro. How can I do this?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You can't with search. They don't index the properties of macros. There used to be a way to do it, but Atlassian let that lab project go ... sad, I know.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: You could probably run an SQL query to get the results.


author: Manuela Raschke
body: Thanks, good to know. I was afraid of it, since I could not find any hints for a solution.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Type macroName:Include into the quick search at the top right - see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Syntax#ConfluenceSearchSyntax-Searchingformacros>

comments: author: Manuela Raschke
body: Thanks, but that shows all the pages with an include page. I want to know where the page "XY" is included.
Can I install Confluence on Centos if I can't access root
Asked by Mosh:

Hello

I'd like to know if I can install Confluence on Linux Centos where I have no root permissions?

I have a 'regular' account on the host, while Java and MySQL are installed on this host (I checked your pre-req doc).

Thank you


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, although it will install only in directories that your regular account can read/write and you won't be able to make it automatically start on boot.

comments: author: Mosh
body: I see. I'd like to give it a chance and see the performance.

Can you point out the link for the best instructions of this situations?

One more question: Can I install JIRA on the same host (same situation)?

Thank you


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Just follow the standard installation instructions, the only difference you'll notice is that it will offer different installation locations.Yes, you can put Jira on the same host. Just bear in mind that you'll need to ensure you have enough resources to run the operating system, Confluence and Jira at the same time.


author: Mosh
body: Hi again,

I checked with my hosting provider and I can't just install JIRA and Confluence on a hosted machine. So I'd like to ask you again how much RAM do I need to run the following for for 10 users? JIRA, JIRA Agile, JIRA Service Desk and Confluence.

I tend to install them all on one machine.

I'll install it on a virtualized machine running CentOS. I'll install there all necessary resources (Apache MySQL Java etc.)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Well, you hadn't actually asked about resources before.For your requirements, I'd allow 512Mb RAM for Confluence and 1Gb for JIRA, and remember to leave some over for the operating system and MySQL. Ideally, I'd double those memory allocations, so start with a 4GB machine.


author: Mosh
body: Thank you.

Yes I have MySQL.

Actually it's a hosted machine I access remotely. I'll give it a chance.


author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Mosh,

Since you don't have root permission, make sure you don't have any SeLinux or Iptables that can cause some pain.

As I could see, you want to install JIRA and Confluence on a host which also will have the MySQL, am I right? It isn't a problem if you have resources, but can create future problems to do a backup or if your environment start to get bigger. However, to a staging or small environment it shouldn't be a problem.

Best regards,

Renato Runicki


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I change whats on the confluence dashboard
Asked by Misty Bannister:

How do I change the whats on the Confluence dashboard and are there widgets I can add to it?


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Misty,

Configure the confluence default dashboard is not possible in Cloud. One alternative is to create a page under a space and then configure that page in the way you want, after you do that you can turn that page as your Confluence landing page:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Site+Home+Page>  
Hope it helps.  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why don't my labeled pages show up in a search by label?
Asked by michaelsca:

Some child pages, despite being labeled, do not show up in a search by label. Example is any page listed as "engineering" in my Playstudios Confluence space. However, pages labeled "department" show up when searching for the label "department".


Answers:
author: Alexandre Roussel
body: (I know this is an old post, but here's what I found)

I have noticed that the URL (when clicking a label within a page) changes according to the space in which the page is. When clicking a label within a page, Confluence will only show the pages with that label IF they are also in the same space.

Using the search option will not cause this issue and (at least in my case) the Heatmap macro (used to view popular labels) will also work properly when clicking it's labels.


author: Audumla
body: This is happening to my confluence cloud as well. All new pages with labels do not show up in any of the label search queries. Even when I click the label on a page that has that label, the page itself does not appear in the resulting search results.

ie

Page1 - labelA (created a month ago)

Page2 - labelA (created yesterday)

Click on LabelA in Page2 only shows Page1 on the search results


author: michaelsca
body: Correction: I'm and administrator of the space, but not the entirety of the Confluence. I created the space, but apparently don't have the rights to delete it or to see a gear icon.


author: michaelsca
body: They are older pages, moved from one space to another. As I am not an administrator, do I still have the option to reindex?


author: Mallmann
body: Hello Michael,

May I ask whether this issue happens only with recently created pages?

Also, have you tried to reindex the instance though the Confluence Admin panel?

Eduardo


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

label
Confluence on SSL
Asked by Anup Kumar Prasadam:

Does Atlassian support running confluence on SSL ? I am currently using confluence version 5.5


Answers:
author: B_ Normann P_ Nielsen
body: I would recommend putting someting in front to do SSL offloading, like Apache2, ngix or varnish (or a StingRay).

This often simplifies the SSL implementation, and makes Confluence upgrades simpler. Also, some extra caching, redirection or URL rewriting can be performed.

For Apache, You can use either mod_proxy or mod_jk... I have this Link that is quite good, its for LifeRay, but thats a Tomcat server also :smile:

<http://www.knowarth.com/liferay-performance-tuning/>

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yup, one of Dan's standing orders in "The (not so) Dark Art of Performance Tuning of Atlassian apps" is "never terminate SSL at Tomcat, do it in Apache/nginx/varnish etc"


author: Davin Studer
body: Yes. Here is some documentation for it.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+Over+SSL+or+HTTPS>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: First hit on most search engines is the atlassian doc for running confluence on SSL


author: Anup Kumar Prasadam
body: Thank you


author: Davin Studer
body: Again, yes. Read the documentation.


author: Anup Kumar Prasadam
body: Does atlassian support using SSL on confluence ?


Tags: confluence-administration
Composition Plugin not working correctly in Confluence 5.7.1
Asked by James Roberts:

We are upgrading to Confluence 5.7.1 and our testing is showing that the deck.effect.duration parameter of the Composition Plugin is no longer working correctly. Is the deck.effect.duration parameter still supported? Are there changes to that parameter that I should know about?


Answers:
author: zianahanafi
body: Hello James,

I found the Effect feature breaks in newer versions of Composition, I will log a bug report fro this.

Thanks\&Regards,

Ziana


author: James Roberts
body: Yes, we are still seeing that this isn't working.

We have this in the composition setup

```
deck.memory.duration=0deck.tab.location=topdeck.tab.active.border=1px solid bluedeck.tab.active.background=#00CCCCdeck.tab.inactive.border=#ffffffdeck.tab.spacer=5pxdeck.card.border=#000099deck.card.background=#ffffffdeck.startHidden=truedeck.loopCards=truedeck.effect.type=fadedeck.effect.duration=5
```

but when clicking between decks the effect type and duration are not honored.


author: Jesse Miller
body: Hi James, are you still having an issue with this? Feel free to email us at [support@servicerocket.com](mailto:support@servicerocket.com) for some help with this.

Cheers,

-Jesse


author: James Roberts
body: William,

Yes, we have Composition 3.0.17 installed.


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

I was checking marketplace and saw that the version 3.0.17 is the only version that is available for Confluence 5.7.1 Can you please make sure that is the version that you're running?  

Cheers,  
WZ


Tags: addon-net.customware.confluence.plugin.composition

confluence-administration

server

servicerocket
Why Confluence needs utf8_bin collation instead of another utf8 collation like utf8_hungarian_ci?
Asked by mdesign:

**Confluence Health Checks alert says Problem Detected:**

-----------------8\<----------------------

##### What does this check do? {#toc-hId-1033054879}

Checks if the collation used by the tables, columns and database defaults in your MySQL database is correct.

##### Result {#toc-hId--1519102082}

Some tables or columns in the database are not using utf8_bin for their collation, or the default collation for the database is incorrect.

-----------------8\<----------------------

Our collation set depending our locale (hu_HU), i don't see a problem here...


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey K?roly,

I wasn't part of the architectural team however I do have a few ideas behind the decision of using utf8_bin collation, due to it's accuracy on sorting as UTF8 is based on the Unicode standard for sorting, and sorts accurately in a very wide range of languages. And performance since _ci adds a layer of complexity to joins, index builds, text searches and etc.

Additionally, hungarian is not the most popular setup used for mysql around the world, so they aimed for standard configuration to be used for testing during the development stage.  
Additionally you will need to fix that (as per below page) **before** upgrading your Confluence to 5.6 series or else the upgrade will fail due invalid requirements:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Fix+the+Collation+and+Character+Set+of+a+MySQL+Database>  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\| The Engineer that like Windows for realsies.


author: mdesign
body: Dear @Deividi Luvison !

Thank you for the answer, then I modify it to utf8_bin just for sure...

comments: author: Deividi Luvison
body: You are more than welcome :). Just mark this as answered so we can close this topic ;).


Tags: confluence-administration