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Licensing details
Asked by Vishali:

I have heard from my colleague that there can be three categories of users in Confluence -

Contributors: who needed a full license seat

Authenticated readers: who can read both restricted and unrestricted pages: but I don't remember their license status

Anonymous readers who can only read unrestricted pages

Is this true? If yes, what kind of license do I have to opt for Authenticated readers?


Answers:
author: Thiago Ribeiro
body: Vishali,

A user is defined as a unique, named account that has been granted access to an application (can use permission). Anonymous users may also be granted access and do not count against license totals.

Contributors and Authenticated readers both wil count on your license as they will need to log in on Confluence to have access on the restricted pages.

I hope it clarifies your doubt!

comments: author: Vishali
body: Thiago,

Thank you for the clarification,

Regards,


Tags: licence
Display JIRA issues within Confluence
Asked by Richard S:

This is probably a really dumb question, however I need to ask in case I am just about to put something together for the company that won't work the way I expect. :-)

At present I have a 500 user license for Confluence and a 50 user license for JIRA - this is because virtually all of the company will be using Confluence, but only developers / testers will be using JIRA.

As I want to display all project information within Confluence, I am hoping to automatically show information on JIRA issues within Confluence project pages.

My question is, will all Confluence users see this information within Confluence, or will it only be the 50 users who also have JIRA licenses?

Initially my thoughts were that all Confluence users would see the JIRA information within Confluence, however only those who also have a JIRA license would be able to click on an issue and navigate to JIRA (or create a JIRA issue) - I'm not 100% sure now, so am just looking for some confirmation / guidance.


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Steve,  

All the Confluence users will be able to see the Jira information that will be displayed in Confluence's pages, as you will be showing information from Jira inside Confluence, everybody from Confluence will be able to see this information in Confluence, no worries. But if needed to navigate inside Jira only the users who have a Jira account will be able to do this.  

I hope this helps, if you have any other doubt or need more assistance with your setup please feel free to raise a support ticket at our [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) and we will be glad to provide more assistance to you.  

Best Regards,  

LJ.

comments: author: Richard S
body: Thanks LJ, that makes sense and is how I thought / hoped it would be. :-)

Cheers  
Steve


Tags: jira
How to copy pages from one confluence to another?
Asked by Alexander Korolev:

I have to copy some pages from one confluence to another


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) has [copyPage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copyPage) action and you can use the [targetServer](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-targetServer) parameter.

If needed, a UI can be constructed using techniques similar to: [How to create or update pages with a run dialog](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CCLI/How+to+create+or+update+pages+with+a+run+dialog)


author: Alexander Korolev
body: Can I do it by webdav?


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Alexander!

What you can do is copy spaces, selecting the pages you want to be exported/imported.

Please check out [this documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+XML) for more information:

Cheers
We are receiving an error, page not loading properly. Error# Unknown macro: {User layout}
Asked by Sozhavendhan M:

We are receiving an error, page not![](../../upfiles/Confluence_Issue.JPG) loading properly. Error# Unknown macro: {User layout} ()


Answers:
author: Sozhavendhan M
body: ![](../../../upfiles/Theme_Builder.JPG)I have a production and a Dev environment. The issue is with the Dev environment. On checking the Dev, we can see that a panel Theme Builder is not there. Where as it is there in the prod. Please find the screen shot. Kindly advice if this is the issue. Also, on another pages we can see that another issue appears as Unknown macro: {align}.

Please advice...

<br />

comments: author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Also, when we checked the System Information we do not find any Plugin named Theme Builder.

The version we are using is 3.4.6


author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Please let us know if we need to install any plugin. If yes, please give us the name and location from where we can do so. Also. please suggest us the steps to installation. Kindly take this on priority as this is urgent.


author: AlysonA
body: Hello,

Indeed you need to install the theme builder plugin. You can either install it via Confluence Admin \> Plugins (or Find New Add-ons), or you can download the jar file [here](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.themes.sitebuilder) and upload it manually.

The "Unknown macro: {align}" is also a third party plugin, more precisely the [Content Formatting plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.contentFormattingMacros). You will also need to install this one in order to get rid of the error.

Hope it helps.

comments: author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Hi,

Would you tell me how the upload the plugin manually?

Regards,  
Soz


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: It seems that this page uses a macro which no longer exists. The {use-layout} macro is provided by [Theme bulder plugin.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.themes.sitebuilder) Is this plugin installed and enableld in your Confluence instance? Is the plugin version compatible with your Confluence version? Is the plugin properly licensed?

P.S.: WinXP rules :P


Tags: themebuilder
Import ICS files to existing Team Calendar
Asked by Marcel_R__Ackermann:

Hi.

I have the problem that I have a number of ICS calender files (which represent the vacations of different years each) and I want combine them all to a single Event Calendar in Confluence.

I found the import option, but this creates a new calender for each individual file. Is there a way to "Import to an existing calendar"?

Many thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Marcel,

Indeed there is no possibility of merging ics or Calendars in the current version of Team Calendars. Therefore I've created an improvement request for you:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1057>

And I have also came up with a workaround, its a little tricky, but does the job.

1. Have a Google Account.
2. Log into your Calendar, Settings
3. And then select "Import Calendar"
4. Then start merging all calendars you'd like to add.
5. When finished Export this ics
6. Import in Team Calendars

Hope this helps you!

Cheers,

Guilherme

comments: author: Marcel_R__Ackermann
body: Thanks for your answers, and many thanks for posting the workaround. I guess this will help me with my problem at hand. However, I am still hoping that the import (or merge) options of the Team Calendar plugin will be expanded in the not-to-distant future.


author: RianA
body: Hi Marcel, unfortunately there's no way to do it at the moment on team calendar. We do have the [feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1012) for this though. I am afraid you still have to restore it on different calendar.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
How to report on a page hierarchy?
Asked by Bert Roos:

Hi,

I'd like to build catalog of the third party components that we use in our product. To do so, I plan to build a page hierarchy like this:

+ Apache Commons Codec

+-- Apache Commons Codec 1.6

+-- Apache Commons Codec 1.7

+ Log4J

+-- Log4J 1.2.16

+-- Log4j 1.2.17

On the parent pages, I'd like to capture information about the product in general and on the child pages version specific information, including references to the version of our product it ships with.

The question now is: how can I build a report over this page hierarchy? I'd like to build a table like this:

\|\| Third party product \|\| Version \|\|

\| Apache Commons Codec \| 1.6 \|

\| Log4J \| 1.2.17 \|

Is this possible? If so how? Or are there better ways to capture the information and build the report?


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: I'd suggest a combination of Reporting \& Scaffolding here (both commercial plugins by CustomWare).

Use scaffold fields (text-data macro) on each page to record the version number and component name. Make sure whatever field names you choose are consistently used across all the child pages.

In your hierarchy page (let's make that the parent page for simplicity) you can then use Reporting to analyse child pages and output the field values in a table (table-data macro).

If you've not used these plugins before then I'd recommend taking a look at the [recipe book](http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/REPORT/Recipe+Library)to get a feel for the power they offer. The Custom Child List may be a good starting point - hint: pull back your scaffold fields with {report-info:data:your_field_name}

comments: author: Bert Roos
body: I'm a bit familiar with both Reporting and Scaffolding, but not with applying that over an hierarchy of pages. My reports always pull from one level.

Here now, I'd need to pull generic information of the product from the parent page and then version specific information from the applicable child page. What macros would be applicable in that context?

The list of recipes is useful. I'll dig further into that.
can you search confluence pages in Google?
Asked by Peter Bek-Thorngreen:

I would like anonymous users to be able search pages in my wiki. My wiki is an online manual and they need to find answer to their questions. Many people use google to search our the question.

Is that possible?


Answers:
author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: Yes, it's possible, if the right permissions are set to anonymous.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
bakcup confluence data from ondemand, can't restore into a Confluence Installed Site
Asked by Kevin:

1. Backup confluence data from OnDemand URL: <https://xxxxxx.com/wiki/plugins/servlet/ondemandbackupmanager/admin>

2. Migrating from Confluence OnDemand to a Confluence Installed Site, as the guide: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+from+Confluence+OnDemand+to+a+Confluence+Installed+Site>

3. The confluence version: atlassian-confluence-5.0-OD-19, and data from OnDemand is latest

4. The restore session is hanged, please see the attachment file

5. Add log of detail into attachement file.


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Kevin,

Was this a cross post from [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) that was resolved or is being resolved in a support case? I do not see any attachments here which is why I'm asking the questions. If so, can you give us the support case number so we can take a look?

Best Regards,

Ryan Goodwin

Confluence/Crowd Support

Atlassian - San Francisco


Tags: backup

data

restore
Edit permission setting
Asked by Selcuk Savas:

Dear ASll,

I have been asked to give edit access to a standart user for only a specific page.

I have tried couple of variations but I haven't been succesful.

Is there a way to give edit access to a user without giving them edit access to the space?

PS. I know that I can give edit access for the space and restrict edit for all pages but it create a lot of work and it does complicate the security settings.

Cheers,

Selcuk


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Your "ps" is the correct way to do it really.

You could cheat a bit - place the page in another space, one where you only have that page, set the permissions to deny/allow whoever you need to edit it, and then replace the original page with an {include:} macro to pull in the editable page.

comments: author: Selcuk Savas
body: Thanks Nic. It is the answer that I was looking for.


author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi Matthew,

That's exactly what I did at the end. It is Ok for the moment as we have really limited number of user and couple of dozen pages only. I need to think other option for the future and Nic's response is ther answer that I was looking for.

Cheers,

Selcuk


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: When you say "a standar\[d\] user", do you mean one specific user or do you have a single user you want to grant access to?

If it's the latter, why not use the page-specific restrictions (Tools \> Restrictions)?


Tags: edit

security
One Confluence page in two places
Asked by Fabio Di Bernardini:

I need a Confluence page is shown in two places in the same space tree using documentation theme.

Example:

```
Fruits   Red fruits      Apple       Strawberry   Green fruits      Apple      Lime
```

Look at the Apple page: it should be the same page but in two places distinct.

How to make it in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Bruce Schlueter
body: What we did to solve this is we moved all our pages physically above the entry point of the navigation tree and labeled all pages. In the navigation tree we just used pseudo pages with the content by label macro and this way we can display the same page in different branches of the navigation tree.

comments: author: ybp13
body: Bruce, what do you mean by "pseudo pages"? I need to set something up the same way and got the Content by Label done, but struggle with "pseudo page" creation.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Pages that don't have content other than macros that pull in data from other pages.


author: dy raffy
body: try the include page macro:

{include page \| SPASEKEY:PAGENAME}

Use the Macro Browser to search for your page.

regards Raffy

comments: author: Steve Walton
body: I followed dy raffy's advice and used the Include Page macro and it worked. The page displayed is like a 'mirror image' of the original page.


author: Gadi Katz
body: Worked great.

This tip allowed me to do exactly what I needed.


author: Laura LePage
body: worked great! thank you!


author: charleslcso
body: Great! Great!


author: varsha.venugopal
body: Thank you!


author: Mark
body: FYI - I opened a feature request some time ago: [CONF-25888](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25888)


author: RianA
body: Hi Fabio,

On top of what Thomas said, it is not possible at the moment. Despite virtually they have different parent page and not located in the same place, however Confluence will treat all pages the same under the same space, despite they are located on very different parent page, physically, it's still under one space, therefore there shouldn't be duplicate page name under one space. There's a [feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2524) regarding this, however it's closed as won't fix.

Hope this helps.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Fabio,

I think, this is not possible, unless you build your own space tree manually.

Every page has only one parent page and this is the dependency the space tree is built on.

Cheers

Thomas
Confluence Anchor on a difference page ? help me~~my friends!
Asked by shijun zhong:

When I install the multi-excerpt plugin(old and new version), it install failed ..so..another solution is:

I wanna a function that anchors can be place in a difference page ,does confluence has this related fuction or plugins?

Thanks a lot and sorry about my pool english.

: )


Answers:
author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi Shijun,

You can find related info on

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF41/Linking+to+Pages>

`pagename#anchorname`

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Selcuk

comments: author: shijun zhong
body: yes it works! thank you !


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: The markup for an anchor tag on another page :

```
<ac:link ac:anchor="Targetanchorwithnospaces">    <ri:page ri:content-title="Target Page Name"/>    <ac:plain-text-link-body><![CDATA[The link text]]></ac:plain-text-link-body></ac:link>
```
Cannot export a page to PDF
Asked by Rosemary Donato:

Hello,

I am using a 4.3.2 eval Confluence instance. When I try exporting a page to PDF, I get the following error message:

*This webpage is not available The webpage at ... might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.*

However, I'm able to export the same page to Word. Do you know what could be causing this?

Thanks


Answers:
author: twong_atlassian
body: Can you post a screenshot as well as the atlassian-confluence.log (confluence-home/logs/atlassian-confluence.log)

comments: author: Rosemary Donato
body: Sure. Here it is:![](../../upfiles/ConfluenceExport_PDFErrorMessage_1.png)


author: Rosemary Donato
body: Here's another image from Firefox. I decided to try exporting the page from IE and Firefox also. This is a Firefox error msg.

![](../../upfiles/FireFoxErrorMsg_1.png)


author: Chris Simonson
body: We are seeing similar behavior that the PDF export is taking tens of minutes and chewing up CPU even though the export should be just a couple of pages. The user sees a web page timeout but the Confluence instance is using \>80% CPU for 10-20 minutes. The user does not see this effect and tries it again further tying up the CPU.
Strikethrough for Resolved/Closed Issues on Confluence Pages
Asked by T:

We noticed that the strikethrough and description of the Jira issues are not displaying anymore on the Confluence pages when we insert a linked issue.

This was working a couple of weeks ago so we were wondering if it was b/c of upgrades.


Answers:
author: T
body: This is a known bug:

[CONF-27467: Jira issue macro does work when you get too many issues on the page](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27467).

Workaround was provided to split up page into multiple pages


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Todd,

I'm wondering if you're running into something related to this bug:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24446>

Check to ensure that the resolution field is not hidden for these issues for some reason.
Edit In Word not showing in Tools Pulldown Confluence 3.4.6 to 4.3.3
Asked by KP11:

After upgrade using same server.xml files we do not see EDIT in WORD in tools pulldown.

1. Checked Office Plugin installed

2. Checked 83 of 83 modules enabled including editgrid All enabled Configured

3. Authentication \<input type="checkbox" name="pathAuth" value="true" checked="checked"/\>Allow authentication tokens in the URL path

4. Error in log

Still cant see EDIT IN WORD in the Tools Pull down. Any ideas? I looked at a few doc hints but none misisng.


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Ken,

As describe on our Confluence [4.0 upgrade notes](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Confluence+4.0+Upgrade+Notes#Confluence4.0UpgradeNotes-Functionalityremoved:editingaConfluencepageinanOfficeapplication), we are sorry to inform you that Confluence 4.0 and above does not provide the feature to edit a page from your office application.

Hope the above information clarify your doubts on this issue.

Regards,  
Septa Cahyadiputra
Calendar plugin loop
Asked by BogdanS:

Hi All,

I have a loop in confluence calendar plugin (between two calendars)

I have a question:

where calendar plugin 2.7.2.1 (not team calendar) has data store? i have database backup and meybe i'm able to restore my calendar from previous day.

I will be grateful for any help. regards.


Answers:
author: BogdanS
body: resolved by modification of text_val (OS_PROPERTYENTRY table).

calendar subsctiption in one record of this table was updatet (with data from backup).


author: AlysonA
body: Hi Numen,

I'm almost sure that the BANDANA table is the one that stores data for the old calendar plugin. You can maybe try looking there.

Cheers.

comments: author: BogdanS
body: i cannot find anything in BANDANA releted to my calendar ID or even %calendar%.

also the DATA value from PLUGINDATA is identical ( orginal one and restored db)

any other tips?


author: BogdanS
body: or at least how to delete this calendar from my database? One calendar, not plugin.
Is there a way to link to the current user's personal space in Confluence?
Asked by Roy Britten:

When emailing a group of people asking them to update their personal spaces in Confluence, it'd be nice to provide them with a link. I can provide them with a link to my space [http://example.com/display/\~myid](http://example.com/display/%7Emyid) as an example, but it would be nice to say "click here" rather than "open Confluence, find your name at the top of the page, hover the mouse over it, click Personal Space" which is kinda unwieldy for folks who don't use their personal space routinely.

I can't find such a link documented anywhere, and none of the macros we have seem to do anything of the sort. Ideas?


Answers:
author: twong_atlassian
body: Disclaimer- This probably isn't the best way of doing this, but it's A way of doing it.

Assumption: All users actually have a personal space created. If they don't have one, then this doesn't really work.

Create a custom user macro. Use the follow as a body:

```
## Macro title: custom-redirect-to-logged-in-personalspace## Macro has a body: N## Body processing: Rendered## Output: Rendered#### Developed by: Timothy Wong## Date created: 06/12/2012## Installed by: My Name## This is an example macro## @noparams&lt;script&gt;AJS.$(document).ready(window.location.replace(getBaseUrl()+ AJS.Data.get("remote-user")));&lt;/script&gt;
```

Stick this macro on some page. Share that page. Anyone who hits that page will get redirected to their personal space.

comments: author: Roy Britten
body: Perhaps not the most elegant, but a fair workaround for a feature that otherwise doesn't exist. Cheers.


author: Guy Lepage
body: +1 This is a feature that should exist. We are in need of this same thing. Thx.


author: Maksim Safronov
body: Hello,

It didn't work on the 6.14.0..

Can you help to fixed it?

**User macro:**

![Screenshot_2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/47497i14084BC55457D31C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot_2.png")

**Output:**

![Screenshot_1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/47498i4BE98552973F5C9E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot_1.png")


author: Martin Cleaver
body: ```
I needed this to be:
```

```
&lt;script&gt;AJS.$(document).ready(window.location.replace(getBaseUrl()+ "/display/~"+AJS.Data.get("remote-user")));&lt;/script&gt;
```


Tags: link

personal-space