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Embedding confluence content in an external website
Asked by Daniel Herda:

Hello,

is it possible to embed confluence content in an external website via API or an Iframe etc? Just the content, not the outer frame, confluence navigation etc.

We want to create some sort of "online help" in Confluence and display that inside our portal. I didn't find anything in the API Documentation.

Thank You

<br />

Best Regards

Daniel


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Here is how to get the content: [renderPage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-renderPage) action with the [clean](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-clean) option from [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) or use the underlying remote API support to do the same.

comments: author: BrianC
body: Bob, can you update these? None of the above links work and the code example results in an access denied message. We are very interested in embedding our knowledgebase under our corporate website.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Done. Use to have forwards to new site until plugin studio was taken down completely by Atlassian :(. The source code repository is no longer available to the public.


author: Anand Inamdar_Amoeboids
body: We have recently released an addon '[Embedder for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/amoeboids.embedder/cloud/overview)', you may want to take a look.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence with Team Calendars: Migration from 3.5 to 4.x
Asked by Kai Gottschalk:

We're facing a challenge during migration from Confluence 3.5 to 4.x with the team calendar plugin:

As every unmigrated content is shown in the *wiki markup - macro* also our existing calendars, which were created (with Team Calendars 1.9.1) and Confluence 3.5 are kind of escaped there, e.g.:

![](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21330887/team_calendar.png)

While we could create new calendars without any problem, the existing ones seem to be *migrated* manually. As this would be an annoying task, Google does not provide an answer, I'd like to have the question posted, if anyone already faced the same problem, or has any hint for us. Thanks!


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: How about [re-running the migration](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Wiki+Markup+to+XHTML+Migration#WikiMarkuptoXHTMLMigration-Re-runningMigration) or else [re-attempt the migration](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Wiki+Markup+to+XHTML+Migration#WikiMarkuptoXHTMLMigration-Re-runningMigration) to force a re-migration of all the content that was left wrapped in an 'unmigrated-wiki-markup' macro.

comments: author: Kai Gottschalk
body: Thanks for this hint. We tried both, re-attempting and re-running the migration, unfortunately without any success. So, we chose the way of manually creating new ones.


Tags: migration

team-calendars-for-confluence
How to sync only particular users from jira to confluence user-directory
Asked by Marten Prie?:

Is there any way / plugin that allows me to sync only user's to confluence of a particlar role?

Ok would also be a plugin that allow's me to copy user from jira to confluence.

Currently i'm using jira 4.4.4 and confluence 4.1

Jira is configured as base user-directory with authentication via ldap and confluence sync's all of them. I would like to get syned only some of them as mentioned...


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Marten!  

As far as I know all users will be synchronized.   
However you can select some users to be part of the confluence-users group. By doing that, just these users will be allowed to login into Confluence.  

Hope it helps!  

Kind Regards


Tags: sync

user-directory
confluence: way to notifiy user (e.g. "on create") about duplicate content in the wiki? (e.g. similar page title, similar page content...)
Asked by Sven:

Hello,

we got the demand if there is a way (plugin etc., perhaps this is just an feature request for the futur or a 3rd party developper will pick up the opportunity)

to get the users notified if the page they are creating (from page title entered or page content)

is very similar to an existing page?

If there is nothing out there, from a developer view: where are possible extension points for this?

Thanks for any hint,

bye

Sven


Answers:
author: Ray DR
body: I installed Duplicate Content Defender a couple of months back and it works well.  
It shows users similar articles as they are attempting to create a new one.  


author: Emil Varona
body: Has anyone looked into [Duplicate Content Defender](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.seibertmedia.plugin.confluence.duplicate-content-defender)? It seems well suited for this purpose. I've not tried it but I'm faced with the same request and was curious if anyone else has had luck with this plug-in.


author: Ray DR
body: YES! This is exactly what I need also! I posted a question about this before finding this.   
I see it is over 2 years old. Has anyone solved it?


author: Michael Marrewa
body: I would like something that would work in a similar fashion to the the Herucules plugin or the Atlassian Answers page. Let's say someone types in Development Workflow as a title, then it should pull up similar content before the save, or even creation, begins.


author: hhung
body: Hi Sven, would be very interested in exploring this problem you have with duplicate content, do you have some time to talk about it - feel free to email me so we can organise a time.

Thanks, Helen


author: Tim Eddelb?ttel
body: Hello Svenni,

hope this helps: <http://blogs.onresolve.com/?p=123>

Regards,  
Tim

comments: author: Sven
body: Thanks for the suggestion - but this looks to be for Jira? I'll need it for confluence...


Tags: content

duplicate

notification
Confluence PDF Export: How to fit bigger Tables on standard page size?
Asked by Sven:

Hello,

we've several nice looking tables in confluence. When they display inside confluence, with a whatever algorithmen the size of each column is determined automatically to fit nicely on the screen.

But when I use PDF-Export have of the table is cut out.

After reading this:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Advanced+PDF+Export+Customisations>

and this:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF>

I manged to put the paper export size to "landscape" and make it twice as large as normal:

```
                @page  {  /*A4-sized pages in landscape orientation are 297 mm wide by 210 mm long*/  size: 500mm 210mm;  } 
```

This way the complete table is on the exported file.

But what commands have I to put in there to make the table "fit" to normal paper size (like it is done when displaying on the screen)?

Thanks in advance for any hint,

Bye

Sven


Answers:
author: salvatore
body: I wonder whether the pdf converter I am testing these days can help with the pdf exporting work as well? Any suggetsion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-------------------------------------------

**Related:** [convert pdf](http://www.pqscan.com/pdf-to-image/)


author: Steffen Heller
body: Hi,

there is not a single command to make a table fit your paper size.

If you set the table width to 100% it should automatically fit. But if the table contains lots of columns with lots of text the given width of the page might not be enough.

In this case you can just try to play around with what is inside the table and do things like reduzing the font size, assure that long words breaks or change the overflow property.


author: zhou si
body: I found that the English long test in the table can be recognize correctly, but the Chinese can not.

Is there any advise to fix it? My confluence is 3.4.

Thanks!


Tags: export

pdf

table
using variables in confluence text
Asked by Yuri Zats:

I don't know if "variable" is the right Confluence term, so please read on

I'd like to use a variable name that would be substituted for text defined elsewhere. For example, if I have a very long product name and version that changes often, i'd like to use MyProductId variable in my text in all pages, or something similar. Can you please point me in the right direction ?


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo yzats

The Include and Excerpt-Include macros will fit the bill. Here's the documentation:

* <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Include+Page+Macro>
* <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro>

I'd also recommend that you keep the reused pages in a separate area of the space, so that you can find them easily. We have some guidelines here:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Re-using+Content+in+Technical+Documentation>

I hope this helps!

Cheers, Sarah


Tags: template

variable
Labels being added randomly in Confluence
Asked by Michael Roff:

Random labels appear to be added to random Confluence pages.

An example .........

We have a space for attendance forms which allows users to create and submit their attendance.

The attendance forms are created from a template and this template uses an add-label macro. In this case, it adds the label attendance-form to the page. This label triggers an ad-hoc workflow to be added to the page.

This all works well, but the attendance-form label has been showing up on other pages outside of the attendance space. I do not believe people have been adding the label, but instead, it has been added by something within Confluence. Either a macro or a database error or something.

Has anyone ever seen this before and if so, do you know what causes it?

While at the moment this is an annoyance, it is becoming increasingly problematic as some labels trigger workflows and in doing so, this creates confusion and doubt within the mind of our Confluence users.


Answers:
author: John Masson
body: Hi Mick,

Wonder if people are copying pages out of the space and taking the labels with them? Just an idea off the top of my head, but this really sounds like something you might want to raise a support ticket for at <http://support.atlassian.com>

Thanks,

John

comments: author: Michael Roff
body: Thanks for the suggestion John.

I am 99% confident that this is NOT what is happening. The people working with these pages that the labels have appeared on are fairly experienced with Confluence and no page copying is going on.

I am happy to hear all theories though ... this one still has me scratching my head :(


Tags: label
Importing and Exporting Spaces from Confluence getting a security token error
Asked by Brian Brian:

When importing a space to confluence (same versions number - 3.4) I am getting an

?Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page.

Which is a rather vague error, what is stopping me from import spaces from confluence


Answers:
author: HuseinA
body: Brian and John, did you guys have to re-enter the admin credential in the websudo page before hitting into the security token error? If yes, and you get the error around 9-10mins after the import process started. Most likely it's caused by you've exceeded the default 10 minutes [websudo period](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/m4cCDQ). The workaround would be to try disabling it ('Secure administrator sessions') temporarily and re-do the import.

If that doesn't help, please raise a support ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com> and we should be able to help further.


author: Michael Brinson
body: I have the same problem as well.


author: dodyrw
body: I have the same problem. I import from on demand backup file.

After import I lost all users and replaced by the ones from backup. Even the admin user is replaced too.


author: john smith
body: Bump. Same problem in my installation.


Tags: import

required-field

security

space

token

xml
Drop down menus are stuck in down state and the buttons they hide cannot be reached
Asked by Larry Talley:

The drop-down menus are stuck down, hiding buttons (Edit, Add) beneath them. At least one keyboard shortcut is disabled, because I have tried to use e to initiate editing of a page. I have tried two browsers (Chrome and IE) with same result, and, another Confluence instance to which I have access is working fine for me.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Does this happened on another pages in another spaces in your Confluence too or was it specific to just a page in a particular space? What was the existing content inside that page e.g. flash macro?
Is the universal wiki converter compatible with Confluence 4.1.6?
Asked by Aktana:

We would like to import our old wiki (Mediawiki) into our Confluence. Is the UWC compatible with the version of Confluence currently available on OnDemand (4.1.6)?


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Updates are posted - have at it! <https://twitter.com/appfusions/status/253905889482903552> Thanks [Laura@appfusions.com](mailto:Laura@appfusions.com) and recent client for their support on this effort! |


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: The UWC update for Confluence 4.2.X is now officially underway ...

Couple dev days into it \>\> Magic eight ball says: prognosis looks positive, for release in Sept.

Will update when released.. in mid/late Sept 2012.


author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: AppFusions is happy to help you get your content moved to Confluence 4.1.6 and/or OnDemand.

Contact us at [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com)

Best,

<br />

Ellen


author: Aktana
body: **Confluence versions** --- Confluence OnDemand can only import spaces that are exported from a Confluence instance of the same major version. For example, if the current version of Confluence OnDemand is 4.1.3, only space exports from Confluence 4.1.x can be imported. To find out the version of Confluence OnDemand, please refer to [Atlassian OnDemand Application Versions](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Application+Versions).

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Importing+wiki+data


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
installing a plugin in hosted evaluation Confluence
Asked by Yuri Zats:

Hi,

I'd like to install a plugin for the Exchange on the hosted Confluence that I'm am evaluating. The Plugin manager is missing a tab to install -- I only see "Manage Existing" and "Audit Log" tabs. Is this not allowed in the hosted version ?


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: No it is not. See <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Atlassian+OnDemand+Plugin+Policy>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Nominative statistics from users connections
Asked by Laurent T:

Hello,  

I would like to know what are the possibilities to retrieve nominative statistics from users connections (date, hours, number of connexion on a specific period of time).  

Thank you for your help.


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: Not really sure in what sense you mean nominative, but there is nothing in confluence that will do what you want.

But it's easy enough to use google analytics, or Piwik for a self-hosted solution, with confluence. Alternatively, front your confluence with apache, then use awstats on the access logs.
Which lucene version is in use and can it be changed?
Asked by Bruce Schlueter:

We are using lucene in our own application and we have discovered that it is possible to make a search with a wildcard at the beginning since we use lucene 2.9.3. Can we do so in Confluence also?


Answers:
author: chintu Parameshwar
body: Is it possible in case of JIRA also(i.e changing lucene or setting QueryParser.setAllowLeadingWildcard( true ))? my jira version is 5.0.7


author: hsuhailah
body: Yes, you can. For details, you can refer to this Confluence Search Syntax documentation: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Search+Syntax>

comments: author: Bruce Schlueter
body: Sorry, but this does not answer my question. As it says on the page
> ![(Info)](https://confluence.atlassian.com/s/de_DE/3398/84f448c1067609161db7eeaf020f96b084eef29d.17/_/images/icons/emoticons/information.png) Wildcards can be used anywhere within a word, except at the very beginning.

But that is exactly what we are looking for and we have learned that a newer version of Lucene can do this. So it would be nice if Confluence would use a more recent version.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Moving Confluence to another server & DB
Asked by Mark Stocker:

We are on version 3.4 and it's running on a windows 2003 server and the DB is Postgre.

I want to move this to a new windows 2008 server with a SQL Server DB.

Where do I start? Is there a migration and upgrade path?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: Hi Mark,

How big is your instance? Can you still get an XML backup? I only ask because once Confluence passes a certain size, the resources required to take an XML backup are often too much for the server \& it fails. if you do get out of memory errors when doing an XML backup, you could change the JVM parameters to give you the maximum amount of memory just for the export.

Once you have thet you can then do an XML import of the new instance.

If that still isn't an option then you could do it in stages. Move the application tier to SQL server 2008, leaving the DB on Postgres. Then talk to your DBAs and do a DB to DB transfer.

Either way, I would raise a query with Atlassian Support to make sure you're covered.

Some more redaing for you:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers>

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers>

If you are moving to 64-bit, watch out for the problem with Confluence as a windows service

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/40018/data-migration-sql-2008-to-sql-2008-r2?page=1#40064](/questions/40018/data-migration-sql-2008-to-sql-2008-r2?page=1#40064)

comments: author: Mark Stocker
body: Thanks, will take a look and have also raised a support request with Atlassian!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Duplicate of [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/40408/confluence-upgrade-and-move](/questions/40408/confluence-upgrade-and-move)


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Mark,

Take a look at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers> and   
<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers> for details of how to move Confluence to a new server.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

EDIT: If you're also looking at upgrading Confluence have a look at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF40/Upgrading+Confluence> and   
<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF40/Upgrading+Confluence+Manually>
Confluence upgrade and move
Asked by Mark Stocker:

We are on version 3.4 and it's running on a windows 2003 server and the DB is Postgre.

I want to move this to a new windows 2008 server with a SQL Server DB.

Where do I start? Is there a migration and upgrade path?

Suggestions welcome!

Thanks

Mark


Answers:
author: Elvir Hadzic
body: It really depends on the size of your instance. If it's not too big it may be the easiest to make an xml backup of the old instance (admin section), make a clean install of the new version (hooked up to the new database) and import the data there.

Also, you'll want to have a look at the confluence upgrade notes. Maybe it's possible to skip a few version (if you want to upgrade to the newest version of confluence) or maybe you'll have to do several upgrades: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrade+Notes+Overview>

Maybe it's best if you give us some more information (to which version do you want to upgrade to?, how big is your instance?, are there a lot of attachments?, etc.) so we may find the best solution for your needs.
Confluence friendly link
Asked by Erwin Manuel:

Hi,

Is it possible to set a friendly link in Confluence?

Lets say I have a page [http://wiki/display/ABC/My+Home+Page#](http://wiki/display/ABC/My+Home+Page)

and I want <http://wiki/ABC> to automatically resolve to my page.

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: NielsJ
body: Confluence has already a feature built-in that is similar. This produces links like (in your case) <http://wiki/x/ZgAJ.> It is located at (Page) Tools -\> Info.

If you want to have it even shorter you would have to implement your own Servlet Filter Module (<https://developer.atlassian.com/display/PLUGINFRAMEWORK/Servlet+Filter+Plugin+Module>).

comments: author: Erwin Manuel
body: Thanks for the reply, yes we are aware of the tinyurl but we are wondering if it is possible to have a 'friendly' url so that I can have a url of a space that as simple as <http://wiki/ABC>, right now we have something similar to [http://wiki/display/ABC/My+Home+Page#](http://wiki/display/ABC/My+Home+Page)


author: NielsJ
body: If you link to a space home page you can simply use the URL without the page name.


author: Erwin Manuel
body: Hmm. The request was so that they can give out to users a more friendly 'direct' URL to their space like I described before. If this is not possible then well gonna have to settle for the current URL's.


author: John Kilmister
body: A quick short cut is to press K while on the page


author: Ole Kristensen
body: How about. [Link](http://wiki/display/ABC/My+Home+Page "Link") ?


Tags: link

url
Confluence Trial Access
Asked by Shiva Basavaraju:

Hi,

I just added confluence trial for my on-demand Jira subscription how do we access trial confluence site?

Thanks,


Answers:
author: Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo
body: Hey Shiva,

If you have successfully subscribed for Confluence OnDemand to be added to you current existing JIRA OnDemand, you can start the trial by following the below steps:

1. Log into MAC (<https://my.atlassian.com>), the account page will display. Atlassian OnDemand will be listed in the Licenses section.

2. Click the '+' sign of your Atlassian OnDemand subscription, your account management screen will display.

3. In the Actions section click "Configure."

4. On the Configure screen select the "Start a Free Trial" to add application(s) or Add-on(s).

5. Click "Apply Changes."

Once these steps are successfully completed, in the same OnDemand instance, you should have Wiki available.

**Note:** Additional documentation on "**Evaluating Atlassian OnDemand** " can be foud [here](http://www.atlassian.com/licensing/ondemand "AOD").

Hope that helps :)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Sharepoint Connector Searchbox Code
Asked by Bj?rn Eitmann:

Hi Community

I need the code to get the SharePoint Connector Searchbox into the Refinedwiki Plugin. There is only the "normal" Searchbox, without the Dropdown field to select Search in Confluence or search in Confluence and Sharepoint.

Thanks

Bj?rn


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hello Bjorn,

If you have access to the SharePoint Connector source code, you can find the searchbox code in **sp-search.js**


Tags: refined-wiki

search

sharepoint