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Migration from server to cloud installation
Asked by Harald-Eichenberg:

Dear Sir,

Currently I've got a Confluence Installation running on my Server. I'm thinking about a cloud installation with Atlassian. My question is: How do I get migrated the content of my current server installation to the cloud installation? Is there a quick way to do this?

The second question is: Do I get a https-connection to the cloud installation?

Thank you in advance and best regards.

Harald Eichenberg


Answers:
author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: Hey mate,
> How do I get migrated the content of my current server installation to the cloud installation? Is there a quick way to do this?

A detailed step by step is available here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ConfCloud/Migrate+from+Confluence+Server+to+Cloud>
> The second question is: Do I get a https-connection to the cloud installation?

Yes, as in here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Cloud/Restricted+functions+in+Atlassian+Cloud+apps>

Your instance will be accessible at `https://<account_name>.`[atlassian.net](http://atlassian.net), where **\<account_name\>** is a unique word you specify when signing up. Use of custom domain names is not currently supported. The **\<account_name\>** URL must be at least six characters long and only letters, numbers and hyphens (-) are valid.

Hope that helps!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
JIRA project roles in Confluence for permission management
Asked by Zolt?n Leh?czky:

JIRA lets you add user groups (and users) to project roles. E.g. somebody can be an administrator on the project level. I'd like to use the same project roles in Confluence: I'd like project administrators to be admins of a Confluence space, without being global admins and without creating a separate user group for them.

Is this possible? Couldn't find a way.


Answers:
author: Mike Rathwell
body: Zoltan,

I have several cases like that in my environment. If you go to the specific space permissions, you can set a discrete individual or individuals as admin on that space. Generally I *try* to avoid specifically granted permissions as that can rapidly get out of control but your use case is a valid one and this will work well for you.

mike

comments: author: Zolt?n Leh?czky
body: Thanks Mike. I forgot to add but the reason I want to use project roles (with the alternative being groups) is not to give permissions to individual users.


author: Mike Rathwell
body: That DOES make a difference yes. A) I dunno how to do that and B) that's a damned fine use case. I'll have to investigate that. Basically it would be almost like a JIRA transition making sure that a user is in a particular project role, in this case a Project Lead. I could use that. If either of us or others find it or have a way I hope it gets posted. I'll be using that.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Deploying Confluence and Wordpress on Same Server
Asked by Patrick Gray:

I am planning on running confluence and wordpress for a website that has around 100 visits/day on the same AWS EC2 instance.

I already have wordpress set up and it is running smoothly with minimal resource consumption. And want I want to assert is that there will be no competition or conflict running both of these applications on the same instance. Has anyone done this before or have any ideas?


Answers:
author: Paulo Hennig
body: Hello there,  
As you're going to have an additional application using your DB (probably the same used in wordpress), the server would going to have more resources to run the applications smoothly. For this, I'd recommend you to give a try as the best solution, it's easy to start/stop Confluence, so in case if you check that the server is hanging and asking for more resources, you can just stop the applications or/and allocate more resources or use another plan in AWS.


Tags: aws

amazon

wordpress
comment count by space
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

Would it be possible to count comment by space list, such as the address : <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxriXuT0xeaFLWlUM2J5MzQwZjQ/view?usp=sharing>

Thank you.  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/comment-count-by-space/qaq-p/379582?attachment-id=4832){#link_119195fb3bf59e}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/64166/1/comment.jpg){#display_119195fb3bf59e_0}


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: There's probably a way using the database, but I know the API better, so here's a method using that. Just paste the following code in your browser console and you'll get a comma separated list :smile:

```
jQuery.ajax({    contentType: "application/json",    type: "POST",    url: contextPath + "/rpc/json-rpc/confluenceservice-v1/getSpaces",    success: function( response ) {        jQuery(response).each(function() {            var space = this;            jQuery.ajax({                url: contextPath + "/rest/searchv3/1.0/search?type=comment&amp;where=" + space.key,                success: function(results) {                    console.log(results.total + ", " + space.name + ", " + space.key);                }            });        });    }});
```

comments: author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: But I tried add these code as listed as above by html macro, it does not show anything. How can we separate the list by month /week? Thank you.


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: It doesn't run in the HTML macro, you have to copy/paste it into the browser console (usually pulled up by pressing F12). As for listing by month/week, what did you have in mind? all months/weeks in 2015? you have to run a separate query for each space and for each week/month, so let me know.


author: Hsu Yao Chang
body: Dear Stephen ,

Thank you for your kindly assistance.

Just make sure how can we execute the code as listed as above , because we have pasted the code into google chrome browser and then how can we run it ? Thank you.

comment.jpg


author: Stephen Deutsch
body: You should just be able to press Enter and it should run :smile:


Tags: confluence-administration
System Information on Confluence Cloud - does not exist
Asked by WilliamD:

Tried to access the System Information on Confluence Cloud only to find out that this feature does not exist. It does for JIRA Cloud.

Is there a 'back-door' way anyone know of to access this information. Pretty odd why this would not be available. It can be useful.

Thanks


Answers:
author: MattS
body: I recommend asking Atlassian Support. It is an odd thing to be hidden really, would be better to just redact some of it


author: Steven F Behnke
body: When I attempt to navigate to `admin/systeminfo.action` I am met with an error:
>
> Not permitted {#toc-hId--1333338145}
> ------------------------------------
>
> You are not allowed to perform this operation.

You could ask via a Support Issue at support.atlassian.com I suppose.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can the cloud option of confluence handle more than 2,000 users
Asked by Stuart Smith:

We are looking at Confluence for our Collaboration tool for our product. We may have over 2000 users for the site. I was wondering if the cloud offering of confluence can handle more than 2000 users.


Answers:
author: Shawn C
body: Hello Stuart,

At this time, the top licensing for [Confluence in the Atlassian Cloud](https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence#cloudsubscriptions-2)is 2000 users. If you are looking to have more than 2000 users, the licensing plans would fall under the installed [Server Version of Confluence](https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence#serverlicenses-1). If you do not have the resources to install Confluence in your environment or require managed hosting, our [Atlassian Experts](https://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts/?tab=find-an-expert&expertskills=ManagedHosting&products=Confluence&expertlocation=) can provide hosting solutions.

-shawn


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I create a dynamic report in Confluence?
Asked by Ian Lundy:

Hi,

I would like to create a page in Confluence that displays content that has been pulled in from multiple Confluence pages. That way, when the originally content is updated, it dynamically updates on the display page.

For instance, let's say i have a page where I'm providing status on a project. I want my status to appear on another page with status updates that are all pulled from other projects, is that possible? Is there a plugin for this? I would appreciate any help or guidance.

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Shawn C
body: Hello Ian,

Using the [Page Properties Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html) on your child pages and utilizing the [Page Properties Report macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html) on a "parent" report page may display the information you are looking for.

-shawn


author: Doug Swartz
body: In addition to what Mike suggests,the [Scaffolding plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.scaffolding) can do what you request, and more.

There is also at least one plugin that makes it pretty simple to run dynamic reports that hit external SQL databases. ([SQL for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SQL/SQL+for+Confluence)).

We use these, as well as the excerpt and multi-excerpt macros.


author: Mike Rathwell
body: Ian,

There are a variety of ways you can do this. The simplest is just to use the "include page" macro to embed an entire page in your roll-up page. As the pages that are "included" are updated, the roll-up will be updated as/when it happens. If you only want a chuck of those pages, you can use the "excerpt" (on the source page) and the "excerpt-include" macro on the target page. If you like the excerpt approach but have more than one element of a source page to include, there is an extra cost option plugin for "multi-excerpts". We use all those methodologies in our shop.

Additionally, if you have live information on tasks in JIRA, I highly recommend setting up the trust between Confluence and JIRA so you can use the JIRA macro and insert results of queries in your status pages. You can also have multiple JIRA configured against the one Confluence instance (I have two on mine)

Hope this helps.


author: Bogdan Gorka
body: Page properties macro and page properties report macro are very well explained in this Atlassian video: <https://youtu.be/QHo9gVeKpd4>. They demonstrate how these macros work from minute 25:30.


author: Ian Lundy
body: thanks very much!


Tags: confluence-administration
How to bulk remove the groups in confluence ?
Asked by SriM:

How to bulk remove the groups in confluence ?


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hi Sri,

As Guilherme mentioned there's no option to bulk remove users from groups yet indeed. We do have an existing suggestion for this here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26594>

However, this was closed since there are no plans to implement it in the foreseeable future.

Eduardo


author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey there,

I was performing some tests in Confluence and through the UI you don't have that option. Just through the database.

Please, take a look on the Bobswift's [answer](https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/36219/bulk-remove-users-from-confluence).

Hope this will help you :smile:

Cheers,


Tags: confluence-administration
after upgrade confluence doesn't start
Asked by Simona Persico:

Hi,

We're testing the upgrade on our test instance from Confluence 5.1 to Confluence 5.8.14. As suggest I've checked all plugin with the function 'check update' of UPM plugin and I have disabled a list of plugins . We've upgraded the server and the error we have now is

Unable to start up Confluence. Fatal error during startup sequence: confluence.lifecycle.core:pluginframeworkdependentupgrades (Run all the upgrades that require the plugin framework to be available) - com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.migration.exceptions.MigrationException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.springframework.transaction.UnexpectedRollbackException: Transaction rolled back because it has been marked as rollback-only

How can I upload the plugin? There is a particular plugin that I have to upload in order to start confluence?

Someone can help me?

Thank you

Simona


Answers:
author: Mallmann
body: Hi Simona,

Would you be able to try to clear the plugin cache of your instance and start the instance again?

1. Shutdown Confluence  
2. Ensure the user running Confluence has full read/write privileges to the confluence-home directory.  
3. Remove the following directories

* This will remove the plugin cache files only and will not permanently remove any plugins. These directories will be recreated during the next Confluence startup. However, some third-party plugins may store metadata in these directories, so we recommend creating a temporary backup of the directories.

> \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins  
> \<confluence-home\>/plugins-cache  
> \<confluence-home\>/plugins-osgi-cache  
> \<confluence-home\>/plugins-temp  
> \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins_language

<br />

4. Start Confluence

Let me know if the logs change after that.

Eduardo


author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey there,

Check this [documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Unable+to+start+up+Confluence), maybe it can help you :smile:. However as Kay suggested, it's better to open a ticket with us because we need to investigate the root cause.

Kind regards,

Guilherme Viana

Atlassian Support


author: Kay Brown
body: Contact Atlassian Support <https://support.atlassian.com/customer/servicedesk-portal>

Regards,

Kay


Tags: app

confluence-administration

upgrade
login as admin
Asked by Harry Pieterse:

I've resintalled confluence on a test system that has also JIRA installed.

Initially JIRA and conflence were llinked and using our Active Directory for authentication.

For some reason Concluence was not working so I removed is using the deinstall script.

Then I resinstalled confluence.

Now I'm not able to login into confluence even thoud the installation was without errors.

How can I fix this or create an additional admin account that is working as a non AD user?


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi Hary,

In this case, we'll need to authenticate to Confluence using the internal administrator. This user should already exist, so we can restore the user password. In case you don't find the user, we can also create a new internal administrator user.

All the instructions for both procedures are located here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restore+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights>

Thanks!

Regards,  
LM


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence wiki export: the download 'here' link not displayed with IE
Asked by Nicolas Casel:

Hi all,

We are using Confluence v.5.8.10.

At the end of the wiki **export process** , when the file (PDF, XML, HTML) is **ready for download** , the 'here' link is **not displayed with Internet Explorer v.11** (so users cannot download anything).

However, it is displayed with Firefox and Chrome.

Any idea about the reason?

Thanks in advance,

Nicolas


Answers:
author: Stefan Baader
body: We have the same problem. Atlassian has several issues documented: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35553> and <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-36465> and <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/pdf-space-export-is-complete-but-download-button-does-not-appear-691013418.html>   
Nothing is really helpful or solves the issue

comments: author: Nicolas Casel
body: Since the 5.10.8 version (and IE11), we no longer get this issue.


author: Sumit Kumar
body: must be an issue with java plugin for IE.

else confluence 5.8 supports IE11.<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF58/Supported+Platforms>

try clearing cache , cookies etc as well.

Thanks,

Sumit


Tags: download

export

internet-explorer

pdf

xml
Some function Request
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,  
Because currently there is confluence customization and functional requirements, we would like to know whether your company has to meet the following features  
1. Customized confluence dashboard home page, currently home to the left of SPACE want to do in accordance with the category hierarchy is displayed. (We will adjust some location lately)  
2. To achieve the two confluence (probably one in the intranet, one in the company firewall DMZ zone), you want to do automatic synchronization specified space, as long as it is possible under certain PAGE certain SPACE synchronized to another a confluence (preferably stored by the USER after PAGE content will automatically sync to the other one, there may be a one-way sync, there may be a two-way synchronization)  
If your company meet the request, would it be possible to let me know your contact information , such as email, contract name, country,phone...etc? If possible , to send quotation for us first. We will survey these information and report to my manager. Thank you.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Most of the Atlassian Partners would probably be happy to undertake this work, but most of them don't scan "Answers" looking for requests like this. You would be better off asking them directly - see <https://www.atlassian.com/resources/experts>


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence stopping automatically every now and then
Asked by Dhiraj Patra:

confluence stopping every now and then. I want to keep it running \[ubuntu 14.04\] but unfortunately it stop after some while and again need to start why?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There could be any number of reasons it stops. Sometimes, yes, a human does it, sometimes it's resources, sometimes it's a bug, and so-on.

Start by reading the application log - look for the last time it restarted and then read backwards from there. Are there shutdown messages? "I am struggling with" type warnings or errors? Vast swathes of horrid java stack traces? Or does it just look like it's running perfectly normally and suddenly \<bang\> it's starting up again?


Tags: confluence-administration
How to disable downvotes?
Asked by max4m:

Hi

We're using Confluence Questions in such a way (essentially to allow people to show interest in things and vote - for internal company stuff) that it it a major detriment to us when people downvote answers to questions.

We would like to know how we could configure either individual questions, or all of confluence questions such as to disable/disallow the down-voting of answers.

Thanks  
Max


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: I am not sure there is a built-in option for this. I *think* your request would fit in this Feature Request: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-717>. It would be VERY helpful if you would post details about your use-case in that issue or if you would submit your own feature request.

I am not sure if you have access to any workaround if you are on Confluence Cloud. You should have access to the `{style}`macro for now in Confluence Cloud, via the pre-installed Adaptavist Content-Formatting Macros. If you can place this macro on a page and define a selector, you could hide the element on the client-side. This is not a great solution. It can only be placed on a SPECIFIC question, and you have to add some CSS to 'hide' the downvote arrow. I do not have access to an environment to test this right now, but it would look something like this --

```
{style}    .cq-arrow .cq-down {        display: none !important;    }{style}
```


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

questions-for-confluence
Confluence Text Select isn't working?
Asked by Tiffany:

I keep reading about the "JIRA quick issue creation feature", when you highlight text in Confluence, you have an "options panel" to create a JIRA issue or quote it. This feature does not work. I have "Text Select" enabled under my profile. I am running:

* JIRA 7.0.0
* Confluence 5.9.1

I've even seen the demo video for it, here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reiLHEIlXDc>

It doesn't work for me. Highlighting just highlights.


Answers:
author: Martin Cleaver
body: Did you set up application linking with OAuth?


Tags: confluence-administration
Does Confluence index text of links?
Asked by P?ter Hendlein:

I have a link to an anchor (#sometext) and the displayed text is sometext. (anchor ID without #). If I search 'sometext' there is no result. What's the problem?

Indexing works for normal words.


Answers:
author: Rosario De Domenico
body: I was having a similar issue in 5.10 but rebuilding the content index fixed the problem.


author: P?ter Hendlein
body: You might misunderstand me.There is a page, where I declare an anchor, ID is sometext.I created a link to this anchor from other page: Link: page#sometext Link text: sometextMy requirement: searching to sometext will find other page, because link text is sometext. It works. (tick)I created a link this anchor on the same page: Link: #sometext Link text: sometextMy requirement is same: searching to sometext will find page (the original), because link text is sometext (not becuase of anchor ID or link 'URL'). But page is missing from the result. I don't understand why. (question)I hope the situation is clear.


author: Giuliano C.
body: In addition to Will's answer, in this doc, you can find some additional information on how the indexing is working: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/content-index-administration-148844.html>

Cheers,

Giu

comments: author: P?ter Hendlein
body: Thanks, but I've already read this page before my question. :)


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi P?ter,  

Actually Confluence doesn't index anchor words, only normal words and links.  

Cheers,  
WZ

comments: author: P?ter Hendlein
body: I know, the anchor ID is not indexed. (And also all other macro paramaters or macro generated outputs are not indexed.)
Does Confluence or JIRA handle AD/LDAP nested groups?
Asked by KP11:

Does Confluence or JIRA handle AD/LDAP nested groups?

We have the following versions . JIRA 5.2.4.1 \& 6.1 Confluence 4.3.3 \& 5.6.1

We want to create AD/LDAP groups \& nested groups when both applications can recognize the LDAP groups and assosciate them internally. We currently have LDAP setup for logins


Answers:
author: lavitz slambert
body: Here are the dosc for Confluence 4.3:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Managing+Nested+Groups>

And JIRA 5.2:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA052/Managing+Nested+Groups>  
Thanks and Regards,  
Lavitz - the guy that uses Confluence on Windows as a Hobby!


author: Mallmann
body: Hi Ken,

Yes, it's possible to use nested groups in Confluence. Check this documentation for further details: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/managing-nested-groups-229838455.html>

I hope it helps!

Eduardo

comments: author: KP11
body: Thanks, Is the doc only for newer version? Not 4.3.3 \& Jira 5.2.4.1. I do not see th eoption on older versions


author: Davin Studer
body: Yes, there is a checkbox in the LDAP setup to enable nested groups. However, there are some performance concerns with it. We had it setup in our environment with about two levels of nesting and certain macros that had permissions by group got REALLY slow. So, try it out on a test system first before going all in.


Tags: confluence-administration

jira-administration