youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Best way to enable survey participants to upload attachments
Asked by Peter Whitfield:

Hi Folks,

I'm trying to set up confluence to manage an application process. To achieve this, I've set up a survey in which participants will need to answer questions on how they meet the application criteria. However, I will also need them to upload evidence (in the form of an attachment) to compliment the answers that they have submitted.

So, my question is: what's the best way to do this? Is it possible to embed the 'attachment' macro into the survey somehow (perhaps by writing this in wiki markup in the 'Question Group' Header/Footer) or by some other means?

I'm probably pushing my luck here, but I'd also like to be notified by email once an application has been submitted. Again, is there some way of incorporating the notification functionality provided by the 'Form Mail NG' macro into the Survey macro, and if so - how would I do this?

Any help very gratefuly received!

Many thanks in advance,

Pete


Answers:
author: pschaff01
body: Hi Peter!

You can always try to set up an Issue Collector! With this you will be able to gather any feedback from your participants, will automatically be notified via email and attachments will be allowed by default!

To use this, you can follow the instructions on these documentations:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Using+the+Issue+Collector>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Advanced+Use+of+the+JIRA+Issue+Collector>

Just notice that you can completely customize your Issue Collector (so you don't have to use the presets and limit your survey), and so you can use ANY fields that you want, on any format!

We hope this helps!

Cheers :D

comments: author: Peter Whitfield
body: Thanks for the suggestion Pietro - much appreciated. I'll take a look at the Issue Collector.
Documentation versioning in Confluence On Demand
Asked by Layla Abdullayeva:

Is it possible to create pages with identical headings within one space in Confluence On Demand?

The problem is that we release new product version once in a 3 months and provide a full documentation package for each version. Since creating a separate space for each documentation version is not efficient (especially because of the impossibility to use space copying option is not supported by On Demand version) we would like to maintain all versions of a particular document within one space. This can not be achieved, as Confluence does not allow creating two pages with the same title within one space.

Maybe you could suggest a possible workaround, as this issue is crucial for our documentation management and workflow.

Regards,

Layla  


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi Layla,

How about to create different title for each Documentation for each version? Like appending the title with the relased version of your product?

Hope it helps

comments: author: Layla Abdullayeva
body: Hi Rian,

Thank you for a reply.

Seems like I have created a duplicated question, as I have already found a lot of similar requests in the Atlassian knowledgebase, such as:  

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/8969/how-to-handle-unique-page-names-in-confluence](/questions/8969/how-to-handle-unique-page-names-in-confluence)

Since such workarounds as putting all content into one space or using different titles for the same pages of different versions affect design concerns, I'll prefer creating separate space per version for consistency.


author: RianA
body: Sure. Please do that, if that's better. There has been a feature request for this but it has been closed as Won't Fix, for more information please refer to the following link.  
\* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2524>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Customising Upcoming Events
Asked by Aram Kocharyan:

Is it possible to customise the upcoming events on the dashboard of Confluence to only include specific calendars? This is related to Team Calendars obviously but I haven't found any substantial settings page which has this option.


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Aram,

I took a quick look through our feature tracker and did not yet see this request. I went ahead and filed the following feature request.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1270>

I have also attached your post to the request to further increase it's visibility. Your best bet is to add yourself as a watcher to that issue so you will be notified when it is incorporated into a future release of Team Calendars

Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
No menu icons in Confluence 5?
Asked by Steve Loft:

There appear to be no icons on menu items in Confluence 5? Is there a way to turn them back on again?


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi Steve, could you please let us know on which menu that you mentioned on this case?


author: Steve Loft
body: Sorry, I wasn't clear. But on the Tools menu, for example, in Confluence 4, some of the items have icons:

![Confluence 4 Tools menu](http://nybbles.co.uk/images/conf4.png)

In Confluence 5, it has none:

![Confluence 5](http://nybbles.co.uk/images/conf5.png)


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Steve,

In fact, Confluence menu changed in version 5 but the content are still there, in a different way.

[Clicking on the weel (top-right) you'll be able to access most of the itens that we need.](http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/02/meet-confluence-5-new-look-feel-and-flow/)

Although you can create some customization on your confluence to change the menus, but I really suggest you to give a try to the new menu :)
Confluence, Import Wiki-Pages to another space
Asked by Thomas Schubert:

Hi,

we are using Confluence 3.4.6 as Enterprise Wiki.

I want to build a space in which we and our contractors maintain together the documentation of our IT processes and server-machines. For this we want to use a company standardized template that I have imported from Word. It consists of several pages and sub-pages, contains instructions for completing the documentation and the editor has only to fill in some content.

<br />

My problem now is that the pages are not templates in the sense of Confluence. They are just pages and sub-pages and they are in a different space.  
How can now I get the pages (and all the sub-pages plus attachments ) over in one piece to another space? (I just managed to produce an XML-Export of it, but there is no Import-function at the other space.  

Additionally: How can I make a template from that?  

Thanks for the replies,  

T. Schubert


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Thomas

Just to confirm: From reading your original question, it sounds as if you have two questions:

1) You have already imported the Word documents successfully into a Confluence space, and now you want to move the pages (and all the sub-pages plus attachments ) over in one piece to another space.

Answer: You can move pages from one space to another using "Tools" \> "Move" in Confluence. This will move all attachments and child pages too. See the documentation here (for Confluence 3.4):

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Moving+a+Page>

2) You would like to convert the pages to Confluence templates.

The only way to do this is to add the templates individually, and copy across the wiki markup from each page into the template.

Here's the documentation on adding a template:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Adding+a+Template>

I hope this answers the questions. :)

Cheers, Sarah

<br />

comments: author: Thomas Schubert
body: Thank you, that helped me a lot!

Thomas


author: Chung Park Chan
body: You can refer to this guide for steps to restore a space.

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Restoring+a+Space](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+a+Space)

Do note that you need to have the same major release of Confluence in order to perform the restore, in which is als covered in the guide.


author: Raju KC
body: See Browse-\>Space Admin-\>Import Pages from Disk

this will be useful

comments: author: Thomas Schubert
body: Sorry but I exported the pages to XML (to be sure to get everything!).

How would I have to export my pages+sub-pages to get them imported without any loss?

Thanx, thomas


author: Thomas Schubert
body: furthremore

at Browse-\>Space Admin-\>Import Pages from Disk

is is no hint

1. how these "Pages from Disk" have to look like (which format) and

2. wich disk is meant: my C:/ drive?


author: Raju KC
body: See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+Pages+from+Disk>


Tags: wiki
How can we have 2 different child pages with different parents but same name without namespace conflict
Asked by Mangosteener:

In confluence 4.3.3 I'm trying to add a new child page with the name "Login"

So what I currently have is:

Classes

--\> Login

Which gives me the namespace mydocs/Login

What I want is to add a child page with the same name but under a different parent category.

Wizards

--\> Login  

So I can we setup the namespaces so childpages can be set under parent folders? ie.

mydocs/Classes/Login

mydocs/Wizards/Login

<br />

With the above namespaces there is no conflicts. Currently there is a conflict because both child pages from different parent categories must have the same name.

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

within a confluence space, every page name must be unique, so there's no chance to have more than one page "Login" in your space "mydocs".

You can either rename your page to "Login Classes" and "Login Wizards" or create a space for "Classes" and a space for "Wizards".

Atlassian stated [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2524)that they won't change this.

Cheers

Thomas


Tags: child-page

page
Any Forum macro for confluence?
Asked by Raju KC:

Any Forum macro for confluence?


Answers:
author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: Below links might be useful:

* [Confluence as a Forum](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Confluence+as+a+Forum)
* [forum macro](http://www.adaptavist.com/display/Bubbles/forum+macro)

Hope that helps !!!
Modifying the Header to Include Drop Down of all Spaces instead of a link to Spaces Page
Asked by Aaron Booth:

Hi all,

I am trying to modify Confluence 5.X to make the Spaces Link that is in the Header become a drop down of all available Spaces for the logged in User (similar to the Browse button that appears when using the Documentation Theme). In 4.X I used to do this with the Adaptavist Theme Builder Menu Macro and it would generate a list of all Spaces. Unfortunately all of our users are revolting against having to click on the Space page to go to another page to select their space.

The only part I have figured out (which is not much) is to modify aui-header-primary.vm to add new links in the header. For example I can add a link to the Users Default Home Page before the Spaces/People/Browse/Create by including the following code.

```
&lt;ul class="aui-nav"&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.site.com/"&gt;Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;	#menuMacros_renderHeaderLeftImageLinks()&lt;/ul&gt;
```

I would appreciate any assistance in this.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Daniel Varela Santoalla
body: Hi I am also interested on this. Did you finally find any solution?


Tags: documentation-theme

header
Treeview Sort Behaviour
Asked by Saadiq Patel:

Is there a way to set the treeview child items sort order without Confluence doing this alphabetically automatically? and also avoiding putting numbers at the start of the item as the order may need to be adjusted and if you have a large number of items you don't want to have to change all numbers.


Answers:
author: Saadiq Patel
body: View under page hierarchy to change from Alhpa (Tool - View in Hirarchy)


author: Saadiq Patel
body: View under page hierarchy to change from Alhpa (Tool - View in Hirarchy)
PDF export of Confluence page does not show 'tick box' properly
Asked by Caroline Gordon:

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

this is how the tick box (when ticked) looks in the pdf export. It doesn't look very different to an 'unticked' box.

Is there any way to fix this through configuration options


Answers:
author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: I have verified that this a bug and reported it here:

- <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28483>

comments: author: Caroline Gordon
body: Thanks Razaq! Hopefully it gets fixed soon, I'm using those tick boxes a lot!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Balsamiq & Universal Wiki Converter
Asked by KP11:

We have a few questions on Confluence, Balsamiq and Wiki converter.

1. Can Balsamiq run standalone without Confluence? We need both options, so if is there configuration doc can you point us to it. External facing Wiki etc

2. Can Confluence be used as an external delivery tool for manuals, release bulletins.

3. Can Confluence with Balsamiq export, Diagrams, Videos and provide documentation delivery? Any Best Practice methodology?

4. Best way to get support \& FAQ info?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: 1. Yes. Try a search for, um, Balsamiq

2. Yes

3. Yes

4. Read the documentation, read the web, and ask here (but ask specific questions here - generalisations won't get you far, because you should be able to get better answers more suited to your needs by reading for yourself first)

comments: author: KP11
body: 1. We were looking for customers who had tried running Balsamiq with Confluence VS Standalone. Any benefits or issues?

2. Is there any white paper or customer testimonials or examples of external delivery? We were hoping a user conference would have an example usage.

3. Where can we find the Best practice examples, white papers or examples of customers using it pr conference customer testimonials?
How I can create a cgi-bin folder in the confluence root??
Asked by liljoint:

Hi, I need to create a cgi-bin from transbank's webpay in confluence;

I can't create it...

I use this tutorial and doesn't work ( <http://mischorradas.nishilua.com/2007/11/que-hacer-para-que-en-tomcat-6-funcionen-cgis-de-ficheros-ejecutables-en-linux/> )

please help.


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: You have to modify 2 files on the server install.

* The **CONF_INSTALL/confluence/WEB-INF/web.xml** - to define the cgi servlet and mapping it to a URL
* The **CONF_INSTALL/conf/server.xml** - to allow Confluence webapp to use the container servlets \& avoid a security violation

In server.xml, modify the context line \& add the privileged=true parameter
> \<Context path="" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true" privileged="true"\>

in web.xml, you need to add two sections, one a servlet definition, the other a servlet mapping.

Add to the start of the servlet mappings
> \<!-- CGI --\>  
> \<servlet\>  
> \<servlet-name\>cgi\</servlet-name\>  
> \<servlet-class\>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet\</servlet-class\>  
> \<init-param\>  
> \<param-name\>debug\</param-name\>  
> \<param-value\>0\</param-value\>  
> \</init-param\>  
> \<init-param\>  
> \<param-name\>cgiPathPrefix\</param-name\>  
> \<param-value\>WEB-INF/cgi\</param-value\>  
> \</init-param\>  
> \<load-on-startup\>5\</load-on-startup\>  
> \</servlet\>  
> \<!-- CGI --\>

and to the start of the servlet-mappings
> \<!-- CGI --\>  
> \<servlet-mapping\>  
> \<servlet-name\>cgi\</servlet-name\>  
> \<url-pattern\>/cgi-bin/\*\</url-pattern\>  
> \</servlet-mapping\>  
> \<!-- CGI --\>

You then create the directory: CONF_INSTALL/confluence/WEB-INF/cgi This is where you store your scripts. By default the servlet will try \& invoke perl on the server to run the script. You can change this by reading the configuration on the how to.

<http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/cgi-howto.html>

One warning.... using a java application container to run cgi scripts is EVIL. Don't do it. It will also open up all sorts of security holes which is you are working for a bank on a payment system is a BAD idea. I think you may want to go \& look at how you are solving the problem
Confluence server side open external links
Asked by Nate Hawbaker:

I am currently able to open external links in an iframe(macro) within a Confluence page. This is working fine. However, most of the clients that will be using Confluence do not have Internet access. The confluence server does have Internet access. Is it possible on the server side to navigate to the external link and display the external page within a confluence page, without the client having Internet access?

It's been awhile since I set up the Iframes, but I remember someway I did it, where it tried using server side to open an internal link. Clients could not get to it, but the server did, but the server was able to display it on the client side hence why I used iframe to have client side open link. But I forget what method I used that was trying to open on server side.

Thanks for your help!


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Nate!

I don't believe that's possible, since the client will still be the client (its browser) and not the server itself.

What you could do is to create rules on your proxy to just allow access to the URLs used on Confluence, and use the firewall to redirect the connection under this conditions.
No Homepage for a space in Confluence
Asked by Greg Baran:

Within a Space in Confluence, there appears to be no homepage. When accessing the space, there is a browse space screen, but no edit button to edit the page. Additionally, all pages within the space are listed as orphans.

Can somone help provide insight on how to create or assign a page to be a space homepage?

I have searched the documentation, but everything I find appears to be for an older version of Confluence and I am unable to recreate the steps in the new version.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Dobroslawa Wierzbicka
body: Go to **Space Admin** **\> Space Details** , and in the **Home page** field type in the title of the Page that you want to set as Space Home Page (autocomplete prompt will be displayed) and click **Save**. Hope this does the trick :)

comments: author: Greg Baran
body: Hi Dora, Do you need to be the space creator to see this? By any chance is there updated documention that you can link to so I can follow it there?


author: Judy Whitney
body: I want to add to this, as I came across the same issue.

I went looking for **Space Details**. Here's how I found it:

1. Go to **Space Directory** \> Under **Space** , for the Space in question, find **Space Details**. For me, it looks like an information icon (encircled i).

2. Click on this, and it takes you to **Space Tools**. This suggests to me there's likely another way to get here.

3. Under **Overview** , under **Space Details** tab, select **Edit Space Details** . From here, specify the page you wish to set as the Space's **Home Page**.

I got myself into a conundrum when I accidentally deleted my Home Page. Hopefully the write-up helps someone else!


author: Richard Yale
body: See if this is your issue:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Unable+to+Set+Homepage+for+a+Space>

comments: author: Greg Baran
body: Hi Richard, Thanks for your help, but for some reason this didn't work either.

After some thought, I realized I was spending too much time on this, and a new Space was created and I moved all the documents there. The new Space is working and all of the Space users are happy now.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

home-page

orphan

version
SOLVED: Cannot install team calendar trial license during dragon test step 4
Asked by Uwe Schuerkamp:

EDIT: Thanks guys, manually updating the UPM and then team calendars did the trick. You rock ;)

Hi folks,

I'm currently working through the dragon test, but I seem to be unable to install the team calender trial license. Whenever I go to the plugin page and click on the user installed team calendar item, the spinning "busy" sign comes up but never completes. Same goes for the UPM update which I tried unsuccessfully. The system runs on centos 6 using express installation method and so for, most everything has worked as advertised during the previous steps.

I've also tried restarting confluence, but that hasn't helped, either.

I have the "calendar" entry in confluence user options, but all i see is a "read only" calendar and it tells me to renew my subscription.

TIA for your help, Uwe

Uwe


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Please check also the [Base URL](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL) whether it is matched the adress you used to access Confluence.


author: Thiago Ribeiro
body: Uwe,

Have you tried to remove the Team Calendars Jar file from your Confluence and re-installing it again?


Tags: dragonslayer

team

team-calendars-for-confluence
Confluence Cluster on shared file-system? is it possible / recommended?
Asked by chrisi:

has anyone experiences with running confluence clustered on a shared file-system / san to store attachments directly on disk instead of storing them in the db?

will this be officially supported by atlassian in the future?


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Chris,

As far as I know, it's not possible to store attachments on file-system running confluence clustered, the option is not available by default and I don't think it's something that is going to be supported someday.

Cheers


Tags: data-center

database

file-system
confluence 5.0.2 release notes access problem
Asked by Davet:

All I can get is a "forbidden" message when trying to fetch the release notes for 5.0.2

No Permission {#toc-hId-1873515141}
===================================

[Skip to Recently Updated](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.0.2+Release+Notes#dashboard-recently-updated)  
You cannot view this page

Page level restrictions have been applied that limit access to this page.


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Davet

Thanks for pointing that out. I've published the release notes now!

Cheers, Sarah


author: John Chin
body: Hi Davet,

I didnt get any error message when accessing the page above, eventhough I didn't logged in. Can you try again?


Tags: release-note
PDF Export Language Support
Asked by jason hong:

I 'd like to use korean font ( gulim.ttc ) . But I can't use "PDF Export Language Support" page.( Not Permitted )

<https://clayworks.atlassian.net/wiki/admin/flyingpdf/configurepdflanguagesupport.action>


Answers:
author: Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar
body: Hi Jason,

Ask [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) to upload the language font for you, and you should be able to export the PDFs in Korean after that. We have logged a [feature request here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28348) to allow admins to be able to do this by them self.

Note: probably would be best to remove your instance URL as this is a public post, unless you don't mind.

All the best


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to display new pages ?
Asked by Mathias Herrmann:

Hi,

i would like to know how to show the pages of a space which were created recently. There is a "recently updated pages macro" but it also displays updates.

I just want to show/list new created pages in confluence.

Can someone help me ?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Mathias

I don't know of a way to show new pages only. One workaround would be to use the RSS feed builder to give you a list of updated pages, and order the results by date created. You'd still see the updated pages, but the newly created pages would be first in the list.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+the+RSS+Feed+Builder>

I've had a look in the Confluence issue tracker, and I couldn't find a feature request for the ability to show newly-created pages. That's odd, because it seems like an obvious use case. If you like, you could create the request and see how the product managers respond:

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

Cheers

Sarah

comments: author: Mathias Herrmann
body: Thanks,

done :)

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28447>