youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
how to disable sql and sql-query macros in the plugin SQL for confluence
Asked by samuel_ball?:

Hi,

Improving the security, in the user documentation for sql-file macro I read as option B : disable as administrator the **sql** and **sql-query** macros.

But I cannot find how to do it.

It is not in the plugin configuration and the documentation hints that it is a confluence standard.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Go to UPM and find the SQL add-on. Open the **modules** section (right hand side, standard UPM UI for add-ons). Hover over the right hand side of each row until the **Disable** button appears.

comments: author: samuel_ball?
body: Thanks, It works !I understand now what Willam meant.Nice pluging Bob by the way.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey Samuel,  

This is a third party plugin called: SQL Plus, you can go to *Cog Icon \> Add-ons* and find this plugin there and disable accordingly.  

Cheers,  
WZ

comments: author: samuel_ball?
body: Hi, I do not want to disable the plugin. The plugin offers 3 macros, two of them can be considered unsecure and the documentation specifies that we have two methods to disable only those two leaving only the secured one.first method is to buy a plugin that does security over macros, second as administrator to disable only two of the three macros.I am trying the second method.
how do I link Confluence labels to a centralized taxonomy OR create a shared taxonomy?
Asked by antigone klima:

One of the few features that would really help us extend the life of Confluence on our site would be the ability to implement shared meta-data across spaces. In traditional big KM packages, this is called a taxonomy and users can only label content using labels that are in this taxonomy.

Yes, that's a bit too restrictive for us so we'd love to have the ability to create a centralized label lookup, if you will, and then put a system in place to capture new labels as they're created.

Is this in Confluence and I'm missing it? If so, how do we set this up? Or can it be added as a feature request?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Antigone, Confluence does have a native label system which can be used to add categories to your pages, the labels can be displayed using the most common [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+by+Label+Macro)[Content by Label](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+by+Label+Macro)[macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+by+Label+Macro), or the [Popular Labels macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Popular+Labels+Macro) which displays a heat map of the categories.

There are also add on options, such as the [Label Manager](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.kostebekteknoloji.plugins.confluence.confluence-label-manager) and the [Label Tools](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.labeltools).

Talking about sharing a common vocabulary, there is an awesome add on for managing company terminology called [Glossary](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/fr.spectrumgroupe.confluence.plugins.glossary), may be worth checking that one too.

:smile:


author: Midori
body: The [Labels Cage](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.intenso.confluence.labelscage.labels-cage) add-on will force your user to use labels from a pre-configured set of allowed labels.

comments: author: antigone klima
body: thanks! my main concern with Labels Cage is how restrictive it sounds. We'd love to have the ability to create a centralized label look-up that allows users to create new labels. I didn't see this option in the documentation. Does Labels Cage do this and I missed that part? thanks!


author: Fran?oise Coulon
body: Hello, I would also like to use controlled vocabularies as we already have a taxonomy and a thesaurus and we would need to re-use it for the Labels in Confluence. Do you know what are the latest tool(s)/add-ons that we could use to import or link them in Confluence?

Many thanks in advance

Fran?oise


author: Roy Live
body: Taxonomy entries, labels, topics, and equivalent terms can be managed using add-ons like the PoolParty tools such as "PowerTagging". This gives you functionality approaching that of Metadata Management Services (MMS) in SharePoint 2013/2016.


Tags: confluence-administration
Setup self-service registration in Atlassian Cloud
Asked by Stefan Siegl:

Hello,

I want to setup self registration in our cloud instance. I configured the "sign up options" in "user management". I selected "Turn on self sign up" and "No restrictions".

I logged myself out and went to the starting page of the cloud instance (<https://inspectit-performance.atlassian.net>) but I do not find the option to register myself.

Did I forget to set anything?

Thank you for your help,

Stefan


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: It's there.

image2015-5-4 7:9:46.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Setup-self-service-registration-in-Atlassian-Cloud/qaq-p/4116?attachment-id=12461){#link_118885851689b3}  
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author: pappuza-1
body: thank you


author: Stefan Siegl
body: Hi,

This link is working for me.

Thank you both,

Stefan


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

Try from the following link:  
<https://inspectit-performance.atlassian.net/admin/users/sign-up>  

Cheers,  
WZ


author: Stefan Siegl
body: Hi Timothy,

Now that is interesting. I do not see the "Create an account" Link. Is this the expected behaviour? I already tried clearing all cookies. Still the same

Screenshot from 2015-05-04 13:11:39.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Setup-self-service-registration-in-Atlassian-Cloud/qaq-p/4116?attachment-id=1606){#link_11888596f466d6}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/666/1/Screenshot%20from%202015-05-04%2013%3A11%3A39.png){#display_11888596f466d6_0}


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
data storage on production server
Asked by Shelly:

We are using confluence 3.4.9, clustered version and I want to check how many GB of data are we storing in our confluence production. Is there a way to find it out, some database query or macro ?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You need to ask a DBA to tell you how much space a database is taking up on the server. You can't judge it from the inside at all.


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

Actually there isn't a simple way to see it. You can see how much weights your home-directory as almost is stored there, just so you can have a number to work on.  

Cheers,  
WZ
Same child page assigned to multiple parents page
Asked by Mohammad Adeel:

While creating a page, is there a way to assign that page to multiple parents? Right now I can click on the location button and move the page to a different parent, but I am wondering if there is an easy way to assign that page so that it shows up for multiple parents? Ideally it would be a child for two parents before the page creation is complete.

I know I can use the include page macro, but that first creating a page that needs to be in two locations. Once created create a new page in a new location and use the include page macro. I am looking for a solution where I can assign the same page to two locations before the page is completed.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: A page can have only one parent. If you do not like the include page macro, use labels and use the 'content by label' macro. That will dynamically populate both pages as soon as a page is created with the specific label. You just need to remember to add the label on the child page.

You can, of course, create a template with that label and use the template if this is a frequent task.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can you edit "what did you change" description after the changes to the page are saved?
Asked by sabina_szablowska:

Hi everyone :smile:

I sometimes forget to add the description to "what did you change" field when saving the page in Confluence. I do not send notification to users but I need this description to appear in the page history. Is it possible to edit that description after the page had been saved so that the page history displays the description for the correct page version?

thanks :smile:


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Haven't seen an option to do that in the UI.

comments: author: Steven F Behnke
body: Agreed, I've never seen an API method for that either.


Tags: comment
Dynamically create pages from child pages according to checklist
Asked by Robert Schmidt:

Hi all,

I am currently searching for a confluence macro, which allows to create pages dynamically according to a checklist.

The problem is as follows:

I have a page with three child pages (A, B, C). The page contains a checklist where each of the child pages can be selected, e.g. A and B. based on the selection in the checklist, I want to dynamically update the page by including the content of the selected child pages, in this example, I want to create a new page with the content of page A and B.

I now how it is done in Semantic MediaWiki and it might be done using Wikidsmart. However, I am looking for an easier solution.

I am glad to hear about your ideas to solve this problem.

Thanks \& best regards!

Robert


Answers:
author: antigone klima
body: this would be amazingly helpful and would love to know how to get this done, too!


author: Robert Schmidt
body: Preferably not, unless I have to


author: Lukas Knoch -Rumpelcoders-
body: Are you willing to write your own plugin?


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to report on what excerpts are included where?
Asked by Sean Dundon:

We are considering using this multiexcerpt plugin to document cross-department procedures. We need to know where each excerpt is included so that we can avoid conflicts when making changes to subprocesses. Does this plugin support that in any way, or are there any common approaches used?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Melissa Henderson
body: I'm interested about this as well. I see ways to determine whether a macro is being used, but nothing more specific. Since the multiexcerpt macro requires you to define a name, it would be helpful to be able to see what pages are calling that specific macro.


Tags: multi-excerpt-macro
Can we selectively hide the group confluence-users from space
Asked by Arun Tiwari:

I have a scenario where custom groups have been created in confluence. Space admins generally add the users who are entitled to see the contents of space to the group.

Now there have been cases where the space admin do not do due diligence and instead of creating the custom group and adding the users to the group, they directly attach the confluence-users group to the space. Now confluence-users group have all the users as the members. This poses a security risk where some of the restricted contents gets exposed to the unintended users.

I am trying to explore a solution where we can disable the right to add the confluence-users group or hide the confluence-users group from getting displayed in list of groups to the space by space admin by default. Confluence-group can be added only by confluence tool administrator if the space admin follows a particular approval mechanism of the organization.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. You need to train your admins to be more careful.

The ability to add any group to a Space is critical, because most users need that (and you'd end up with lots of people saying "I can't find the group I want to add"), so Confluence has no functions for restricting the choice of groups.

What you could do is remove the confluence-users group completely, and add common groups into the "can use confluence" permission separately.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm sorry, but that makes no sense. What would "hiding a group" from a space actually do?

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: (Question updated, so this is not a good answer any more)


Tags: confluence-administration
Trouble adding a link to the navigator in Confluence in the Atlassian Cloud...
Asked by Matthew Davis:

I keep getting this error message:

**Sorry, something went wrong. Your changes are not being saved.**

Try refreshing the page. If the problem persists, please contact your System Administrator.

I'm trying to add our hipchat room as a navigator link on the Confluence page so people can quickly and easily go to the chat room, but this error message keeps happening. I have tried refreshing, logging out and back in, and different browsers (IE and chrome so far). Since this is in the Atlassian Cloud, I'm not exactly sure if I'm the System Administrator or just the Site administrator - any ideas how to fix this?


Answers:
author: Paula Silveira
body: Hi Matthew,

It seems you are being affected by the bug [CONF-36389](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-36389).

Workaround for Cloud instance with Confluence \& JIRA:

* Add the Link to the JIRA Application Navigator and it will be synced with Confluence in a few minutes.
* For Confluence only instances there is no workaround at the moment.

Thanks and regards,  
Paula Silveira


author: Matthew Davis
body: Thanks Paula. After reviewing that I think you're correct - I'll just a link on the opening page of the space for now. Thanks!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I migrate page / space ownership from one user to another in confluence?
Asked by Hamish Tedeschi:

I have a user who created the bulk of the pages in our wiki and has now left. I want to migrate ownership to a current user, so the pages display as being owned by someone who actually exists in the org!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I think there's two things here, an implied process question and a stated technical one.

The process one first.

I think you're conflating "owner" with "author". They are not the same thing. I write documentation in people's wikis and then leave. I'm the author, but it's their wiki, their data, and I hope my writings are useful to them - they still own what I've written. More importantly, in the future, they will probably want to know who wrote it, so you don't **want** to change the author.

Confluence does not have a direct single "owner" field for a page either, because it's not that useful a concept in a wiki where you're actively asking people to contribute lots of stuff. As a general rule, I'd forget a direct "owner" and just say "it's anyone with admin rights to the space, other than system admins". Or implement something to nominate a particular person per space or page.

To change "owner", change the permissions of the page so that the people who "own" it have the right permissions on it, or flag them somehow. If you conflate owner with author, you just cause problems in the structure - if you changed the author to me, and the page was wrong, I'd be being blamed for someone else's bad docs and that's also very very wrong. I can own it, but the authorship is important.

Finally, what happens when 120 people edit a page? Which one of them is now the owner? Do I own it just because I noticed and corrected a spelling mistake? Do I own it because I created a space and hence the home page, which is maintained and owned by the users who are writing in the space?

In other words, I wouldn't do this. Changing the author is wrong.

On the technical side:

You'd need to hack the database because there's no function to do this change in Confluence for the reasons above. You can't do that on Cloud.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Recurring tasks in Confluence?
Asked by Michel Hoogervorst:

Is it possible to create recurring tasks in Confluence?

I have a few tasks that I or one of my colleagues should perform each month, so it would be nice if we could tick those in Confluence so everyone can see whether or not this task has been completed this month already.


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Michael,

I believe you would need to create a copy of this page containing the tasks and rename it for each month. You could also create a blueprint for this page layout.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Michel Hoogervorst
body: Ok, but that requires me (or someone else) to do this by hand each month, making it prone to human error.I'd like Confluence to automatically create a new task on a certain date (maybe triggered by a recurring calendar item or something like that). :)


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Thansk Michel, I understand this situation. I've created a improvement request to you here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-37412>I suggest to vote and watch for future updates.Cheers,Rodrigo


author: Michel Hoogervorst
body: Thanks Rodrigo. I have voted. :)


author: Shanta Nathwani
body: I voted as well. Even if we could have a template automatically generated when we need it to, so much the better.
Can I do a bulk move of attachments from sharepoint to confluence
Asked by Dave Scheet:

In Sharepoint we have thousands of files that are indexed and segmented in folders, and we want to move them to confluence. We know we can create pages for each folder and then upload the attachments for each page, but is there a way to do this en mass as opposed to folder/page by folder/page


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) should be able to help with your automation of this.
tracking plugin
Asked by Vasu:

we had installed the tracking plugin, while using the macro to the existing space we got below error:

Error rendering macro 'tracking-table' : Error parsing contents, only 'tracking-column' macros may be used within the body of a 'tracking-table' macro.


Answers:
author: Chander Inguva
body: @Vasu @William Zanchet \[Atlassian\]

* The resolution to this issue is you have to insert the code inside wiki markup and insert the wiki markup on desired page

  {} Please insert

  ***tracking-plugin:spaces=@self*** inside flower braces (as it displays unknown macro in Atlassuan Answers
* For syntax help please refer to <https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/TRAC/tracking-table#tracking-table-WikiMarkup>
* Other way of doing this is to insert tracking column inside tracking table.

This works fine for me.

Let me know if you need any help on this and vote if the above solution finds helpful.

Regards

Chander Inguva


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hello there,  

Check if the version that you have installed is compatible with the version of Confluence that you have installed, also, try to reinstall the tracking pluing to see if you can render it. Make sure that all the modules are enabled.  

Cheers,  
WZ


author: Leesa Willan
body: I have a similar problem - and is random.

Occasionally when you load the page it has the error. If I refresh the page the macro/report loads as expected - and in the preview option (while editing) it loads ok.

Version 4.3.0 on Confluence 6.5.1

Cheers


author: joanna ransome-wallis
body: Could this error occur due to the number of pages in a confluence space? I have over 4000 in my space.


author: Chander Inguva
body: @William Zanchet \[Atlassian\]

I have installed most latest version of tracking plugin on Confluence 5.6.4, tried uninstalling/re-installing but i get same error on the page as described by Vasu.

Please let us know what is the resolution for this


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

confluence-administration
Dashboard All Updates - not updating
Asked by Erich Beyer:

Ever since our company updated our macros, now all updates on the dashboard under the "All Updates" show nothing recently changed on the pages.

[7299fdec7f7ec83700c20044390b7e33.png](http://i.gyazo.com/7299fdec7f7ec83700c20044390b7e33.png)

You can however see some under the "Popular" tab.. but the "All Updates" tab has nothing since the day we updated macros. I tried uninstalling the macros as I did not see a (roll back) function option in the administrator console. Could someone please help me resolve this issue as we used this function previously a great deal and now we have no use of it at all. Thanks in advance for any information anyone posts regarding this matter.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Dashboard-All-Updates-not-updating/qaq-p/414200?attachment-id=2627){#link_118887749c7b1c}  
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Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Erich,

All updates are based on Confluence's index, so it might be that the index is out of date. Being that said, I highly suggest that you do a rebuild of the content from scratch to see if it will work. Here are the steps:  

(!) I highly suggest that you schedule a downtime to perform it, because after the restart your users will not have the search available due the rebuild of the indexes.

# Shut down your Confluence server.

# (!) Make a backup of your \<confluence-home\>/index/plugin directory if it exists. This is where the Usage Tracking plugin stores it's index for the usage statistics and it cannot be rebuilt.

# (!) If you're in Confluence 4.2 onwards, make a backup of your \<confluence-home\>/index/edge directory if it exists. This is where the index of Likes and Popular Content are stored and cannot be rebuilt.

# Remove the \<confluence-home\>/index directory.

# If in step 2, you have the \<confluence-home\>/index/plugin directory, create the \<confluence-home\>/index directory and copy in the backup of \<confluence-home\>/index/plugin directory made in step 2.

# If in step 3, you have the \<confluence-home\>/index/edge directory, create the \<confluence-home\>/index directory and copy in the backup of \<confluence-home\>/index/edge directory made in step 3.

# Restart server.

(i) A new index directory will be created upon restart of your application if it does not exist.

# Now perform the \*manual re-indexing\* of your site to build a brand new index from scratch by going to _Cog Icon \> Confluence Admin \> Content Indexing_.  

Cheers,  
WZ


author: Kay Brown
body: Hi Erich,

Did you try reindexing?

Regards,

Kay


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence version 5.6.3 are certified for Mac
Asked by Rinku Saha:

Hi

Confluence version 5.6.3 are certified for Mac?

Thanks'

Rinku


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hello Rinku,

Can you explain what you mean by Confluence being certified for Mac? If you mean supported on Mac server, the answer is *no* , as per the Supported Platforms that Jason pasted above. However, the link should be this one, for Confluence 5.6.3: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF56/Supported+Platforms>

If that's not exactly what you want to know, please let us know so we can help you.

Eduardo


author: Jason Hensler
body: See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms>

No support for running server on Mac but, clients are supported.


Tags: confluence-administration
Calendar drop down/variable type
Asked by Harvey Braswell:

Is there a way to add a small calendar variable so that when I want someone to enter a date it gives them a calendar to choose the day rather than a text box? This would be for due dates and completion dates and have nothing to do with Team Calendars. Regards.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: Off the top of my head there is no way to do this out of the box. Could you describe the use-case a bit more?

Right now, if you type `//` you are given the option of entering a date. I often have written this on templates:

image2015-4-30 14:2:38.png

They SHOULD have it as an option, like the JIRA macro or the User mention. I created an improvement request here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-37407>  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Calendar-drop-down-variable-type/qaq-p/399498?attachment-id=7910){#link_118887c11ff1be}  
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