youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
How to import facebook history to personal space?
Asked by Bernd Nurnberger:

As a member of a 700+ community on facebook that started in August (thriving, but sorry, invitation only), I observed and several active members voiced concern about losing track of discussion threads, and other obstacles to getting things done within a facebook group. Booo!

As a daily user of Confluence I believe if members could share their facebook history download (a recent feature, a few MB zipped), that is, apply a filter for their group postings and import their contributions to a personal space, it would provide a fine scaffolding for pioneers and early adopters. Yaaay!

Reconstructing facebook threads from available personal imports would be just - awesome. Could it make Confluence a desirable upgrade to groups on facebook that look for better collaboration tools?

Background: The group in focus added a forum and a DokuWiki, both of which are not really being embraced, mainly because it is yet another log in, and because transfer and sync of conversations is a painful manual process. I figure Confluence would make collaboration quicker.


Answers:
author: RianA
body: would you like to make Confluence like facebook or only the group? If that's the case either way, perhaps you could raise a feature request at our <https://jira.atlassian.com>


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Bernd,

I was investigating this request, but it seems Confluence does't have this implemented. I can suggest you to open a feature request so we can verify if this would be feasible in the future. :)

How to create a [feature request](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Creating+a+Feature+Request).

I hope this helps!

Regards,

Rodrigo


Tags: social-media
How to format URLs in {{code}} in a table?
Asked by Ed Treijs:

Confluence 3.3.3. Working in Wiki Markup.

I put the double curly brackets around a URL. Works fine outside of a table. But inside a table, the curly brackets are shown, then a space, then the URL, then a line break, then the closing curly brackets. Like:

{{ URL  
}}

It's not a problem putting code into a table, as a non-URL works fine (e.g. {{TBD}} appears properly as Courier in the table cell).

I have a nicely code-formatted URL sitting outside a table. Just to test, I put a table around it. And now it's not in code format. Remove the bars on either side, taking it "out" of the test table, and it goes back to being a Courier-font URL.

I don't see anything useful in the Confluence documentation. Have I found a bug? Do I need to use some kind of escape on code-format URLs inside tables? Table-plus macro doesn't help. I'm stumped.


Answers:
author: Patricia Wiebe
body: If you are just trying to format the URL nicely, how about the "no format" macro? I threw together a quick table:

\|\| URL \|\| Something else \|\|  
\| {noformat:nopanel=true}http://www.google.com{noformat} \| Hello \|  
\| {{TBD}} \| There \|

and it looked fine.

comments: author: Ed Treijs
body: Thanks--yes that works! I checked it in Firefox and IE. (We are using Adaptavist as well, if that makes any difference.)

There's a bonus: the blue colouring and underlining is removed. And it's no longer enabled as a hyperlink. That's good, because I'm illustrating how to assemble the final URL (it's getting data from a service), and the partial URLs won't work. Even the complete URL examples may not work, depending on the data available.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Is it just URLs that are the problem? If so, as a workaround try adding the 'h' as it's HTML entity instead. Let me know if it works :)

comments: author: Ed Treijs
body: Yes, I think it's only URLs. When I put in a {{TBD}} in the table, it works fine.

I am not sure where to add an 'h'.

For reference, the URLs are like:  
<http://xdsrvjboss01:18080/appl/rest/myfoo>

They don't absolutely have to be in code, but they're a lot more readable if they are. And I'd like to be consistent with my treatment of the same URLs when they're not in a table.
Can I scrape user details from Active Directory (address, department, emails) to populate a staff directory?
Asked by Geetha Pedapati:


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Yes. We use csvde to extract AD information to a csv file. Then import csv into a database table using a database copy from csv function (postgresql copy function works nicely). This is done every 6 hours and makes the results available for query in Confluence for things like a people finder page using the run and sql macros. Also have a custom user-info user macro that can be placed anywhere like home page of personal spaces.


author: NielsJ
body: You could also use our User Profile Plugin ;-) It can synchronize those data from your Active Directory into Confluence and display them as part of the standard user profile.

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userprofile)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userprofile>
When exporting PDF, real size for thumbnail possible ?
Asked by Nicolas Coppens:

Hello,

when i am making an export in PDF from a page, the thumbnail stay at the thumbnail size, and it's not possible to read them on pdf

is it possible to change automatically thumbnail in real size when exporting pdf ?

thank you in advance for your help

Nicolas


Answers:
author: Nicolas Coppens
body: no one can help me :(

i close the answer


author: Nicolas Coppens
body: no one have an idea ?
Sync internal and external versions of Confluence
Asked by Colm Byrne:

I want my third parties to access user guides that i create in Confluence inside our firewall. Each third party might have a different version of a guide.

But I don't want them to have access to inside our firewall. I want them to access the information securely outside of our firewall

I do want the benefit of third parties commenting on pages and improving the guide but can't have them inside.

So I though that I should create an instance of Confluence outside of our firewall and sync certain pages.

How would I do that? How do I have two instances of Confluence one inside and one out where certain pages that perhaps I label with 'sync-extern' get copied to the external version.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Appfire has some sync tools as part of Firestarter - [Learn more about Firestarter](http://www.appfire.com/firestarter/)?. If you want to script your own, [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) has actions for copying pages and comments between instances or general actions that can be put together to do more specialized things.


Tags: external

firewall

internal

publish
How to find the oldest page(s) in Confluence?
Asked by Alex Bobrovski:

Hi,

I want to find the oldest page - the page that was created before the rest. I mean the first page on my Confluence instance.

Also, can I get the list of all the Confluence pages sorted by the creation time in reverse chronological order?


Answers:
author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: I think it's fun to work out the SQL query, so here it is:

select \* from content where contenttype = 'PAGE' and prevver is null order by creationdate asc;

Hope that also helps!


author: Alex Bobrovski
body: ok, I had to watch the database. Found.


Tags: sort
Alternative to TaskDock?
Asked by Philipp Philipp:

As some of you might now, Cisco has taken over TaskDock which results in the end of TaskDock for Confluence. Which alternatives exist and which ones would you recommend?

<br />

Thank you in advance

<br />

PR, Germany


Answers:
author: Roberto Dominguez
body: You mean Confluence 3.4.8, right? Yeah, the new features are not supported there :-(   

The Confluence 4.0 is a big change so in order for us to support 4.0 and pre 4.0 we had to focuse on a single version, which is 3.5

Upgrading to 3.5 is not as complex (and actually required to upgrade later to 4.0) so when you upgrade you can give it a try :)

Roberto


author: Roberto Dominguez
body: Bernhard,

Oops! Forgot to mention that Ad hoc Workflows 3.2 works with Confluence 3.5 too :-)

Roberto

comments: author: Elias Tscharf
body: Hello Roberto,

thanks for the info, but it doesn't help because we are using JIRA 3.4.8 and i think the new features are available only with ad hoc workflowversion 3.2?

Greetings from Tirol/Austria

Bernhard


author: Roberto Dominguez
body: Hi Bernhard,

As Matt said, we have made major user experience and task management improvements in our new forthcoming version. Have a look at <http://coma.la/awp32>

And there is more coming, as we are fully committed to the Confluence community :-)

Give it a try and feel free to contact me if you more info.

Roberto

comments: author: Elias Tscharf
body: Hello Matt \& Roberto,

thenks for the info!

I would like to test it but i've to wait with updating confluence until some plugins we need are compatible with the new version.

But then - of course - I will give it a try.

Greetings from Tirol/Austria

Bernhard


author: Matt
body: Ad hoc Workflows released a major update to their plugin alomgside the Confluence 4.0 release. Watch the [video on this page](http://www.atlassian.com/en/confluence-content-collaboration#add-ons).

They also offer free 30-day evaluations so you can make the decision about ease-of-use for yourself.


author: Elias Tscharf
body: Hi there!

I'm also very sad about this fact. taskdock was very nice and exactly that what we are looking for.

I already know adhocworkflows, but I don't think that it is this easy to use?! Or am I wrong?

Any other alternatives?

Greetings from Tirol, Austria

Bernhard


author: Akeles
body: There is another similar plugin that allows task management.

You can check out <http://www.adhocworkflows.com/display/WWW/Usage>


Tags: management

task

tasklist
Confluence as a personal homepage CMS
Asked by B_ Normann P_ Nielsen:

Anybody using Confluence as a personal homepage CMS ? As non commercial site for personal/family/interests relations?

I have started <http://sp.mos-eisley.dk> as a test for transferring my Joomla stuff into Confluence..

So Ideas and tips/tricks are welcome... espicially regarding photo libraries, as I have 8K digital pictures...

BR,

Normann


Answers:
author: B_ Normann P_ Nielsen
body: Site is active as <http://www.mos-eisley.dk> now...
Underscore character in a {noformat} block is not visible in Chrome/FireFox
Asked by Ola Mattsson:

I have added a number of {noformat} blocks in my wiki pages and if the text in these block contain an underscore character '_' it (the underscore) will not show up in the View tab if you browse it with Chrome or FireFox. It works in IE 8 though.

I have three images of the block {noformat}There_are_underscores_between_these_words!{noformat} used as an example

* Firefox ![Firefox](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8401240/confluence_underscore/firefox.png)
* Chrome ![Chrome](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8401240/confluence_underscore/chrome.png)
* IE8 ![IE8](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8401240/confluence_underscore/ie8.png)

Only IE8 shows the underscores but it messes up the alignment of the border and background color instead

Is it a stylesheet setting that cause this behaviour? Can I override it somehow?

My wiki pages are hosted on a Confluence 2.5.4 Build:#809 inhouse server and I am not allowed to upgrade it


Answers:
author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Just for the record, it's relatively an ancient bug :0

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7588>
Limit users in Confluence when connected to LDAP or Active Directory
Asked by Peter Meier:

Hi all,

I'm trying to limit the number of users that are displayed in Confluence when connected to an Active Directory or LDAP server.

According to (even if this is a Crowd documentation it should work for Confluence as well):

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Restricting+LDAP+Scope+for+User+and+Group+Search>

I can change the filter to:

(\&(objectCategory=Person)(sAMAccountName=\*)  
(\|(memberOf=cn=confluence-users,ou=Groups,dc=sydney,dc=atlassian,dc=com)  
(memberOf=cn=confluence-administrators,ou=Groups,dc=sydney,dc=atlassian,dc=com)))

This implies, that the membership of a user is defined in the user object via the attribute "memberOf". Unfortunately in our environment, the user doesn't have this attribute, instead, the group has several entries "member", listing all people connected to this group.

Is there a way to filter based on this setup?

Thanks

Peter


Answers:
author: Jim Birch
body: AFAIK Active directory creates the backlink entries for group membership automatically, ie each *member* entry in group should have a corresponding *memberOf* attibute in the user object. If you are using AD I'd check that there isn't something wrong with your query or the rights of the account read to the member attribute.

Other LDAP directories may not do this - I wouldn't know.

(BTW If you need a tool to view or query an LDAP server, I've found Apache Directory Studio very useful.)

comments: author: Peter Meier
body: Thanks Jim,

That solved my problem. The user hadn't had enough permissions to view the membership.

Thanks

Peter


author: Konnie McCauley
body: is there a limit to how many users are brought into confluence through an AD group?
Combination of Cache Pugin and Content Publishing Plugin
Asked by Jodie Miners:

I'm having issues with the Cache plugin on pages in my public space using the Content Publishing Plugin.

The structure of my pages are a source page and a main page. The content in the main page is included from the source page via a multi-excerpt macro. The multi-excerpt macro is wrapped in a cache macro

Here is the sample code:

Source Page

```
{show-to:user=xyzuser}
{multi-excerpt:name=xyzname}
My Content
{multi-excerpt}
{show-to}
```

Main Page

```
{cache:index=true}
{multi-excerpt-include:xyzpage|name=xyzname|nopanel=true}
{cache}
```

Immediately after publishing, a few (not all) pages are not showing their content that is contained within the cache macro. Refreshing the page does nothing. The content on the main page in draft space is rendering fine.

It is only after I edit the source page in the public space, then refresh the main page in the public space that the content renders. Of course this is not ideal as the whole idea of having the publishing plugin is so that you can prepare draft content and publish it to a public space when ready.

Does anyone know of any reason why this would be happening aand how to fix it? Is it something to do with the size of the cache? (I don't understand the instructions on the Cache plugin page "The capacity property equal to 100 means that 100 distinct renderings of the cache macro will be cached", but I do have more than 100 pages with the cache macro - is this an issue? and how do I fix it if I don't have access to the server?).


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: The cache macro renders the data at a point in time. The rendered data will not change until the cache expires or you edit the content within the cache macro (slightly different behavior if not using cache plugin 4.1.1). You can decrease the expiration time or you can add a refresh button on the main page (showRefresh=true).

comments: author: Jodie Miners
body: Thanks for the reply Bob,

I do have a refresh button on the page, but clicking it in the public space does nothing - it does not show the page content at all. (The cache content is showing in the Draft space, but not in the public space).

Is there a limit as to how much content can be in the Cache? Would that be why the cache is not refreshing?

(and how do I fix it if I don't have access to the server?).

Thanks


Tags: cache

publish
how to bulk import office docs
Asked by oliver wein:

hi, is there a plugin/ software available which allows to bulk migrate my exisiting office docs (99% word) to confluence... free solution is preferd - already found ePublisher which might be oversized, only need for the initial start

thanks!


Answers:
author: Andreas Heidrich
body: Yes, another me-too. I would also like to import a bunch of Office Docs (mostly Word) into Confluence. Not as attachments, but as native conflucence docs. Any solution for that problem ?

comments: author: Carsten Sch?fer
body: Hi Andreas,

in the meanwhile, did you find any solution for this problem?

Cheers Thorsten (resusing company atlassian account)


author: Irene Daminelli
body: I would like to import a bulk of documents as Confluence pages. How do I do?

comments: author: Victor Crittenden
body: I am looking for how to do this as well; did you ever figure it out?


author: hsuhailah
body: Hey Oliver,

Would you like to import these documents as attachments to Confluence or importing these documents as Confluence pages?

This post seems related to this as well: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/106429/how-to-conduct-bulk-import-of-word-documents-to-confluence>


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Oliver,

You can attach multiple obejcts in Confluence. Just go to tools -\> attachments and in that window you can select multiple doc files to attach at once. I'm not sure if that is what you were looking for so I'll leave this question open.

I hope that helps!

Regards,

Rodrigo


Tags: import
Wanted: Expert Third Party for Our Confluence Installation
Asked by Bob Bob:

Hi:

We're looking into have an expert third party support, maintian and upgrade our Confluence installation supporting 450+ people.

If interested, let me know.

Bob


Answers:
author: Colin Goudie
body: Hey Bob, we at AppFusions are always happy to help out, so you can contact us if you like.

Alternatively there is an Atlassian Partner directory located here

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/APW/Partner+Directory+Home>
Confluence SharePoint 1.4 adapter with Linux WSS SharePoint 2007.
Asked by Doug Earp:

Will the SharePoint 1.4 adapter work with Confluence installed on a Linux platform with WSS SharePoint 2007 using https?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Yes, we support deploying the SharePoint Connector on a Linux host.

You'll need to make sure that Confluence is configured to trust the SSL certificate from SharePoint (see <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Connecting+to+SSL+services>).

Support NTLM when running on Linux is limited, though (in particular, NTLMv2 and Kerberos may be troublesome to get working). Since you're using HTTPS, you should look at downgrading the password encryption on your SharePoint site to NTLMv1 or HTTP Basic Authentication to ensure a trouble-free integration.
Reporting on Space Page Counts
Asked by Daniel Stavrou:

Hello,

I am attempting to run a report using the reporting plugin to get a page count in all the spaces that we have in our instance of Confluence. The report is not running as I want or not at all. Here is the code I am using, I just do not see where it is going wrong:
> {report-block}
>
> {space-reporter:space=@all}  
> {space-reporter}
>
> {report-header}h2. Space page Counts{report-header}
>
> {report-body}  
> \*Number of pages in Space:\*{report-info:space:all pages \> collection:size}  
> ----  
> {report-body}
>
> {report-empty}  
> _Nothing to report_  
> ----  
> {report-empty}  
> {report-block}

I get the following error when I attempt to save the page:

|---|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   | Error formatting macro: report-block: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/atlassian/confluence/spaces/SpacesQuery This is not currently in the context of a report. This is not currently in the context of a report. This is not currently in the context of a report. This is not currently in the context of a report. |

Not sure what the issue is, any help? Thanks!


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: Just stumbled upon your question and wanted to confirm that your report works for me (Confluence 3.5.13). The error could be related to a problem during the installation of the plugin or a compatibility issue with your Confluence version. I would try to reinstall the reporting plugin and check whether all plugin modules are enabled.

I know this is an old question, but maybe it will help someone in the future.


Tags: app

confluence-app

report

space
Disable autowatch on a specific page in Confluence?
Asked by Jon Cotter:

Im pretty sure I know the answer to this, but is there any way to disable autowatch on a specific page, or even for a Space?

We have a couple of pages in confluence that get updated periodically by the entire company (PTO Logs, Food orders etc...) and due to the autowatch feature, they generate a ton of emails to people.

The autowatch feature is great on other pages, just not these and unfortunately because of these noisy pages, people have started to ignore or filter out confluence emails, or turn off autowatch for themselves across all of confluence.

Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Jon Verville
body: Here is quick solution I put together. It involves putting a macro within each page you want to disable autowatch on: <http://jonverve.posterous.com/confluence-control-auto-watching-behavior>

comments: author: Sergey Svishchev
body: that link is now broken


author: Martin Zeller
body: try the the archive \^\^:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20130315070444/http://jonverve.posterous.com/confluence-control-auto-watching-behavior>


author: Kay Brown
body: In page edit mode, there is a Minor Change? checkbox. If you check this checkbox, no notifications will be sent.

comments: author: Jon Cotter
body: Thanks, but I need a solution that doesnt require our users to do anything extra.


author: Sherif Mansour
body: Another suggestion is to implement this hack: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/12799/usability-of-minor-change-checkbox/12821](/questions/12799/usability-of-minor-change-checkbox/12821) and modify the javascript so that it only happens for a particular set of pages that you've defined


Tags: watcher
User Content Control
Asked by Lloyd Kinsella:

Is it possible to configure per-user/group what menu items and \`actions\` they have available?

We do not allow anonymous access for business reasons, however we do have a readonly user who's only supposed to be able to read the wiki, we do not want them to get to the dashboard or modify the user profile etc which is all currently possible through the Browse/User menus.

I've been looking at Menu Manager plugin but that seems to be applied across the board to all plugins.

Thoughts, suggestions?


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: I believe that Theme builder now needs Adaptavist's Plugin License Manager to be installed first in order to work. (FYI: this should be a comment, but I'm on iOS, so can't due to a bug in Answers)


author: David Peterson
body: Yeah, the Menu Manager turns stuff on and off for everyone, not specific users or groups. There isn't anything built in, but you could use the Theme Builder plugin to create your own theme, and use stuff like {builder-show} to control who sees what menu items. Otherwise, you're looking at a custom plugin that could either hack the \<web-item\> elements and add some extra permissions checks, or a filter to actually block access to the specific locations.

Hope that helps!

David

comments: author: Lloyd Kinsella
body: Tried to get Theme Builder but the plugin refuses to install and Adaptivist's site doesn't seem to want to play ball at present :(