youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Troubles with Instalation of "Questions for Confluence" Plugin
Asked by admin_ruben:

Hi everyone,

I yesterday purchased the Questions for Confluence Plug-In and immediately after entering the key got into troubles.

Namely, it is obvious that the installation of the Question plugin did not integrate with the existing Confluence instance.

* There are two occurences of the "People" button in the header menu:  
  image2015-12-15 10:4:37.png
* On the side menu in the Confluence Administration view there are duplicate instances of several menu items. Ex: Purchased add-ons or Global Permissions.  
  image2015-12-15 10:8:4.png
* The Create -\>"Ask a question" takes me to Page Not Found page.

I am even unable to Disable nor to Uninstal the plugin via the Manage add-ons Panel. I get the following log messages:

|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---|---|
| Failed to uninstall add-on Questions for Confluence Plugin (com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-questions version 2.4.4) |   |   |
| Failed to disable add-on Questions for Confluence Plugin (com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.confluence-questions)                 |

Can anyone help or share experiences?

Thank you in advance,

Ruben N  
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Answers:
author: admin_ruben
body: Hi Vasiliy,

The Questions plugin version 2.4.4 and the Confluence 5.8.4 are compatible. Anyway, we managed to solve the problem by simply... restarting Confluence. After that everything seems to get into place.

Thanks anyway!


author: Vasiliy Zverev
body: First of all check where plugin version is compatible to Confluence version.


Tags: app

confluence-administration

disable

questions-for-confluence

uninstall
Is it possible to remove the rating and points system from confluence questions user profile ?
Asked by Dennis:

The PlugIn is really nice, but due to working council concerns we must remove the points and crown things - everything that rates a user in any way has to be disabled.


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey Dennis,

Current, there are no workarounds for that, however, I created a ticket to our devs so they could develop this feature:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-2306>

I suggest voting in this ticket in order to expedite its resolution.

Cheers,

comments: author: Dennis
body: thank you @Guilherme Viana \[Atlassian\] - perhaps someone knows a workaround disabling stuff via jquery / js


Tags: confluence-administration

questions-for-confluence
RSS Feed Builder generates invalid XML
Asked by Neocreative Admin:

Hi, any feed that is produced with the RSS feed builder within Confluence generates an invalid XML feed when testing via W3C's validator - <https://validator.w3.org/feed/>. As the outputted feed does not validate this prohibits using RSS feeds from Confluence to generate blog posts and newsletter campaigns via RSS on third-party services. I am currently using Confluence server 5.7.4, has this been rectified in a later release as I do not see an alternative plugin for Confluence that will solve this issue. I would like to use Confluence as the source of content for our organisations marketing via third-party services however this issue prohibits me from doing so.


Answers:
author: Ralph Hagemeier
body: **OK, JIRA support opened a bug, please upvote if you have a spare minute.**

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-60347>


author: Ralph Hagemeier
body: Not sure I am supposed to do that here but I opened a ticket <https://support.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/22/JSP-264653>


author: Ralph Hagemeier
body: RSS for activity stream is invalid, too. impossible to integrate to 3rd parties.


author: Witt Meesangnil
body: still not validate on 5.8.16
How do I get rid of the page tree and children navigation options when using custom navigation in the default theme
Asked by Phil Gochenour:

I'm using the pagetree macro to create custom navigation in a space that uses the Global Look and Feel default theme. My question is, how do I override the default "Navigation display options" so that I don't have to choose Child pages or Page tree? My custom navigation works fine, but then I have a repeat of the entire space contents below it because I have to choose one of these two options for "Configure Sidebar." I know that the answer is to use the Documentation theme, but I'm having to convert all my spaces that use that theme to "default" because there's a bug with the TOC macro and the Documentation theme, and Atlassian apparently will discontinue support for the Documentation theme in 2016Q1.


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Yet another unanswered question. What's the point of calling this Atlassian Answers if no one does? Doesn't anyone at Atlassian regularly trawl unanswered questions to see which ones can be answered?


Tags: confluence-administration

side-bar
Is article voting only available as an add-on for server instances?
Asked by Ryan Organ:

We have a cloud instance of Confluence and would like to have article helpfulness voting available. From what I've gathered so far, these add-ons are only available for server/self-hosted instances and not cloud. Is this correct or am I missing something?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Eduardo Nunes
body: Hi Ryan,

There are some available third-party plugins for survey/voting, however they are indeed restrict to Confluence Server. It seems that Ondemand is very strict in terms of plugin usage.

I've also found the Improvement Request for implementing such feature for Cloud version, however it looks like it won't be implemented for now:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CLOUD-6694>

Kind regards,

ENunes


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Options to restrict page access are not available. Are the special permissions required to do this?
Asked by Katherine Escobar:

I am using the DI2E instance hosted by DISA. I have created some pages for my team, however the options to restrict these pages do not seem to be available.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Options-to-restrict-page-access-are-not-available-Are-the/qaq-p/396816?attachment-id=10515){#link_11914e1654124f}  
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Answers:
author: Attila Gaspar _META-INF_
body: Hi Katherine,

Confluence permissions not so easy than it seems like :smile: Sometimes some "other" permissions need to have a checked permission :smile:

Using [Ultimate Permission Manager](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/hu.metainf.plugin.confluence.ultimate-permission-manager/server/overview) you can analyse the permissions you need e.g. for accessing restrictions on a page you need some others as ENunes mentioned. This addon listed all of the necessarily information for you in a central page. Even you can check a users effective (maybe grated by a group) permissions on site, space or a page level.

Try it for free, and if you have any questions, contact me.

Attila


author: Eduardo Nunes
body: Hi Katherine,

If you'd like to add or remove restriction to a page in Confluence Cloud, you may have permissions to edit the page and 'Restrict' or 'Admin' permission in the space.

You can refer to the below article for a better understanding on this:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/page-restrictions-724764891.html>

Kind regards,

ENunes


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
"confluence questions" Error occurred while loading watchers in this space
Asked by Marc:

Hi, I get this error, when clicking on "questions" in a documentation space.

Confluence is newly installed, the space is newly created. Index is reindexed directly after I got the error the first time - it persists, though.

You can see it here:

<http://confluence.opentm2.org/display/INSTALL/questions/all>


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey there,

It would be better if you could attach your logs with some stack traces related to the INSTALL space. Nevertheless, check if it's not related to your plugins cache:

* [How to clear Confluence plugins cache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+clear+Confluence+plugins+cache)

It would be interesting to see if it's not related to a corrupted index file, so please, try to rebuild the index file from scratch:

* [How to rebuild the content indexes from scratch](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+rebuild+the+content+indexes+from+scratch)

And for last, check if it's not a third party plugin that is causing the issue:

Go to the **Manage Add-ons** page, click on the**Enter Safe mode** link and then access the page again and check if the watchers list is loading.

Cheers,

comments: author: Marc
body: I tried Safe mode and it did deactivate the complete "questions plugin". After returning to normal mode, the problem persisted. The other 2 solutions I did not try yet - however the problem disappeared by itself. I do not know why. Thanks for your answer!


Tags: confluence-administration
replace("\", "/) the path
Asked by Bihua Zhou:

Hi,

I want to change the path C:\\download\\datei\\books\\ with User Macro to C:/download/datei/books/ as following:

#set($a = "C:\\download\\datei\\books\\")

#set($b = $a.replace("\\", "/"))

but i take the follwing Erorr.

"Error occurred rendering template Content"

can you help me?

thanks

Bihua


Answers:
author: Robert Krause
body: Have you tried escaping the backslashes?
Increase header and footer height in PDF layout
Asked by Tim Mohrbach:

I am looking for a way to change the footer and header height for the confluence PDF export layout.

I have tried to do it through margin from bottom and top, but the content gets cut off.

Thanks for any idea how to achieve this. This should be possible through the global CSS somehow, right? Which framework is being used for the PDF export in anyway, I understood that the metalanguage is html, but where is a complete list of what's possible and what's not possible?

Everything else works pretty smooth and we are very happy with the PDF export function so far. We surely don't want to spend another few thousand dollar on a third party plugin just to increase the height of the header and the footer.


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi,

headers and footer can be defined in two different places:

1. Space Admin \> PDF Layout \> PDF Space Export Header
2. Space Admin \> PDF Stylesheet \> PDF Export Stylesheet

1. is nice and simple but rather limited.

2. gives you the possibility to define your own customized CSS. The thread at [PDF-Export: Which CSS properties do work and which ones not?](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/50936/pdf-export-which-css-properties-do-work-and-which-ones-not) discusses what is possible and what is not.

**Your question in short:**

Generally, the height of your header/footer is equal to the top/bottom margin of your @page settings.

For a header with 1cm and a footer with 3cm you would go to 2. and enter the following:

```
@page {size: 210mm 297mm; margin-top: 1cm;margin-bottom: 3cm;}
```

The vertical position of text within the header/footer is defined with "vertical-align: top/middle/bottom/...".   
You might need to adapt that to your needs.

comments: author: Tim Mohrbach
body: Great, exactly what I was looking for, thanks for that!


Tags: brikit

export

pdf

pdf-export

stylesheet
Permissions and Restrictions
Asked by Darya:

Can I create a page with different Permissions. For example, when the manager comes - he sees one information, when the employee - other. And how i can make it


Answers:
author: Adrian Reid
body: Or you could try the Hide-If and Show-if plugins. Same page but different visitors get different information.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility/server/overview>


author: Giles B
body: Hey Darya,

This should be pretty simple to do by constructing the page using include page or excerpt include macros.

1. Put the content for managers on one page and restrict it to them (group or individuals)
2. Put the content for everyone else on another page (won't need restrictions if everyone sees this part, but not exactly sure what you need)
3. Create the main page, and use include page or excerpt include macros to place the content on it

Users will only see the content they have permission to view on the main page.


author: Mario G?nter
body: Hi Darya,

you should strictly cut off these two views on a high hierarchical level.   
Then you can define on top level which pages to see for which users oder groups. Do define such permissions you may use the gear on the right top and choose restrictions / permissions.

For detailled documentation u could read the official doc here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html>

Hope this helps.   
Cheers,   
Mario


author: Robert Krause
body: Hi @Darya !

You could use the [Profile Based Content](https://info.seibert-media.net/display/we/Using+and+understanding+Profile+Based+Content+in+Confluence+and+Linchpin) Plugin, which allows you to show users specific content, based on their user profile. If you need more information, feel free to contact our sales team.


Tags: confluence-administration
Was the Page Properties Macro improved?
Asked by tash_macnica:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page Properties Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724765240)*

The document says: "In the macro body create a two column table and remove the header row." in the paragraph "Adding the Page Properties macro to a page" and "If your table has a header row, this row will be ignored by the Page Properties Report macro. You should remove the header row." in the footnote but I found no need to remove the header. In addition, we can leave the 3rd and more columns which might be useful for legends, descriptions, comments, remarks of the row. I think the Page Properties Report Macro gracefully ignore those columns now.PageProperties_vertical-edit.PNG

And I found a horizontal table with heading row could work as my expectation;

PageProperies_horizontal-edit.PNG

The result of the Page Properties Report macro was seen;

PagePropertiesReport.PNG

This is great! But is this an unexpected behaviour of the macros or lazy updating documentation?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Was-the-Page-Properties-Macro-improved/qaq-p/110274?attachment-id=12054){#link_1187929fb30801}  
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[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/302563/3/PagePropertiesReport.PNG){#display_1187929fb30801_4}


Answers:
author: Giles B
body: Hi Mamoru,

Thanks for pointing out the errors on that page. We promise it's not laziness; we're just super busy! :wink:

comments: author: tash_macnica
body: Hi Giles,I know you are one of the busiest persons in the world.:-)I hope this feature of the Page Properties Report macro won't disappear in future.Thank you,TASH


author: Vince Butera
body: are there plans to make the report scrollable like the rest of the tables in the latest version?

comments: author: tash_macnica
body: Hi Vince,I agree with your idea but guess you better raise another proposal desribing your idea in detail to Atlassian Support with a bloody-prefixed title like "FATAL! ", "CRITICAL!! " to attract the busiest engineers' attentions;-)Thank you,TASH


Tags: confluence-cloud

page-property
Multi Vote Macro
Asked by John Anderson:

Is there a supported macro that will allow visitors to vote on a survey multiple times without overriding their previous vote?

Like this

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=345637394\&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fconfluence.atlassian.com%2Fpages%2Fviewpage.action%3FpageId%3D345637394\&application=cac](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=345637394&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fconfluence.atlassian.com%2Fpages%2Fviewpage.action%3FpageId%3D345637394&application=cac)

But that appears to be this unsupported Macro <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.plugins.knowledgebase.survey/server/overview> and when I use this I need to close my browser before I can resubmit a vote.


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi John,

Take a look at [ConfiForms. Data Forms \& Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.vertuna.confluence.plugins.confiforms/server/overview) add-on for Confluence.

You can create various types of forms, including the ones which will capture "votes": allowing or disallowing multiple votes (records) per user is also a setting you can manage, additionally to many other customisation options.

Feel free to send us a message to get hands-on help with your setup (see wiki.vertuna.com for add-on showcase and tutorials, and contact details).

Best Regards,

Sash
confluence workbox
Asked by Jesse Paliotto:


Answers:
author: Jesse Paliotto
body: Sorry about that. Was on several tabs searching Atlassian docs and meant to type in a search term here.

But since you ask...

My workbox isn't loading tasks or providing any options to add a task. I just get a "Hi..." message about notifications.

Screen Shot 2015-12-14 at 1.31.30 PM.png

Is something not configured correctly?

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/confluence-workbox/qaq-p/65208?attachment-id=5216){#link_118792ff33b190}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/11088/1/Screen%20Shot%202015-12-14%20at%201.31.30%20PM.png){#display_118792ff33b190_0}


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, there is one. Do you have a question?
Watch Community Forum Macro
Asked by Komal Mathur:

Is it possible to watch when a new topic is created in Community Forums Macro 2.0


Answers:
author: Rafael Franco
body: Hi,

You can use Adaptavist's Enterprise Notifications plugin for that. What it allows is to watch a page and all descendants of that page. In this case you would only need to watch descendants on the main Forum page.

Hope that answers but feel free to contact me [rfranco@adaptavist.com](mailto:rfranco@adaptavist.com)

Regards,

Rafael Franco (Tech Lead)


Tags: addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.forums
All CSS stripped after forwarding
Asked by Vijay Patil:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Using Apache with mod_proxy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=173669)*

Hi all,

Well I used the article and set the URLs right, then also updated the base URL.

But my whole confluence site is rendered in some basic HTML format! Any ideas how to fix this?Screen Shot 2015-12-12 at 06.36.18.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/All-CSS-stripped-after-forwarding/qaq-p/54408?attachment-id=10028){#link_11879316d5a646}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/204643/1/Screen%20Shot%202015-12-12%20at%2006.36.18.png){#display_11879316d5a646_0}


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This usually means your proxy is not serving up the css and javascript that Confluence is giving it. (Did it work ok when you visited the service **without** going through the proxy?)

It could be a number of things, but the usual culprits are minor errors in the proxypass settings (e.g. "ProxyPass /conf http://myserver:8090/conf/" should be "ProxyPass /conf/ http://myserver:8090/conf/" for some setups) or mostly errors in the Tomcat connector settings - check your server.xml **really** carefully.


Tags: apache

css
I have Jira and Confluence on one Ubuntu server. How do i get apache 2 to redirect to both of them?
Asked by Edward Rempala:

I looked at the following article  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf57/using-apache-with-virtual-hosts-and-mod_proxy-701435690.html>

When I try to do what the file asks, my apache says NameVirtualHost has no effect and will be removed in the next release

Also I tried breaking up the configs into to files, one for jira, and one for confluence. When I do that the server redirects all the traffic to Confluence.

My jira runs on port 8800 and confluence runs on port 8090

I don't have a ton of experience with Apache. and Apache 2 on Ubuntu/Debian is even more complex.

I've been pulling my hair out for 3 days trying to get this to work. Any help?


Answers:
author: Edward Rempala
body: I have Jira and Confluence running on one VM. Apache was installed with Jira. Apache forwards the traffic from Jira.mydomain.com to the Jira application. I'm trying to get my confluence to work the same way. I want all traffic to confluence.mydomain.com to be forwarded as well. I don't have to use Apache I just don't want my users to have to type in port numbers for the address.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Can you just clarify your situation a little bit first?Two applications on one machine? Is Apache on the same machine too?Can I ask why you're using Apache, and what you want your end result to look like?


Tags: confluence-administration
control structures in macros
Asked by Paula Manildi:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [User Macro Template Syntax](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=223906130)*

I'm looking for the syntax for control structures like #foreach - what else is available? I want to show all the spaces, similiar to [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/43122/know-space-administrators](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/43122), but I get a timeout, so I want to exit the foreach at a certain count... unless I can figure out a different way to limit getAllSpaces().


Answers:
author: Paula Manildi
body: Thanks! I got #break to work (I guess I wasn't doing it correctly the first time I tried). Now I just have to figure out how to partially query spaces, because the foreach over $spaceManager.getAllSpaces() times out after 13 or so. Using a version of this: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/43122>


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: You can use the #break command to break out of a #foreach loop. More information about Velocity itself can be found on this page: <http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/user-guide.html>

I think Confluence uses Velocity 1.6, and they do not have any plugins installed, so no MathTool, SortTool, etc.


author: Alex Yasurek
body: There are also if statements. What are you trying to do?


Tags: confluence-administration

documentation