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PDF Exports in Confluence Data Center
Asked by Brian Rankin:

Hello,

On Confluence server (latest version) I've modified the CSS for PDF exports: changed the headers/footers, added page numbers, table formatting, etc. If I migrate to Confluence Data Center I understand that the CSS customizations for PDF exports (at least the way they work for Server) change or go away. Per <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/customize-exports-to-pdf-190480945.html> "Confluence Server and Data Center process space exports slightly differently. This means that some options, like adding page numbers via CSS, aren't available in PDFs created with Data Center. We recommend selecting **Include page numbers** on the export screen if you need to number your pages. ".

Is there a more specific doc out there on the ability to use CSS for PDF exports in Data Center?

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Brian,

Welcome to Atlassian Community. It's nice to meet you.

There are a few other articles you might be interested in:

* [PDF export in Confluence Data Center](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/pdf-export-in-confluence-data-center-958779100.html)
* [Document Conversion for Confluence Data Center](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/document-conversion-for-confluence-data-center-952624318.html)

There are also some more pointers in the original article you sent ([Customize Exports to PDF](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/customize-exports-to-pdf-190480945.html)) that are data-center specific, so have a look at those.

Let me know if you are having any trouble.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

data-center

server
Confluence macro to get user login count
Asked by Kyb IT:

In order to show some sort of 'welcome' text to users that have never before accessed Confluence, I am trying to write a macro that can read out the total login count for the current user.

I found out how to get the previous login date ($action.previousLoginDate) but unfortunately, I have not yet found a way to access the number of previous logins.

Any ideas?

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Dominic Lagger
body: Hi [@Kyb IT](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3083164)

I don't think this will work.

Even in the Admin console, there is no data about number of logins. Just the number of failed logins.

Maybe you could write a macro, which shows you the last login of each user, or saves it somewhere. Then you could generate this list daily and reach your goal.  
However, I doubt that this is exactly what you want.

Regards,

Dominic


Tags: confluence-server

login

macro

server

user
syntax identification XML seems inconsistent
Asked by Lesley Heizman:

Hey!

I had a question from some of my engineering team regarding syntax highlighting in Confluence Cloud and some inconsistencies they are seeing. It seems that when adding /code blocks listed as XML, not all offer syntax colors?

For example the blocks of code are very similar, but in one section it picked up the syntax for XML correctly and one section it did not. Not sure what would cause this, any suggestions? Anything we should check and/or try?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Lesley,

Hope you are doing well. I came across your question today, and although you asked this several months ago, I was curious if you were still having this issue. I'd like to know more about it.

If it's still something you'd like to look into, could you tell me if your engineering team noticed this issue was more in the new Confluence editor, or is it in the legacy editor? Would you be able to show me an example of the differences in syntax highlighting you are experiencing?

Thank you,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-cloud
contributors macro shows different counts
Asked by edward71:

When I place the contributors macro in space 1 with space "ABC" as only filled one, I get a count of e.g. 34343

When I place the contributors macro in space 2 with space "ABC" as only filled one, I get a count of eg. 27

(so the same space name filled in, no pages filled in, etc)

How does this work?


Answers:
author: Boris MBOUMEHANG
body: Hi Edward,   

I think that the contributors macro is based on the permissions applied to the space (and page) where he is, and the space (and page) from which you want to retrieve contributors. So, that's why you will not necessarily get the same results while using the macro in two different spaces (even if you are refering to the same space.  

I hope this will help.  

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,  
Boris

comments: author: edward71
body: So I place the exact same macro with exact the same variables, same space name. In space 1 and space 2 (same company, different departments).  

I look at my own name. In the one space I see "3450" and in the other space I see e.g. "12".  

So this is not based on my own permissions. But this is then based on permissions of one space to read another space from the user-rights of the user under which the macro runs. So this is apparently not the same as the viewer or creator because in both cases this is me. Ok. So the macro runs under a user privilige like "macro user" that has its own rights assigned. So for this macro-user I need to check the permissions and assign rights to read everything from both spaces. Ok. Thanks. Will look for this.  

Still there are some additional strange things additional to this:  

When I specify space name ABC, user John has a count of 1250  
When I specify space name ABC, DEF user John has a count of 15  

So somehow when adding a space the count gets lower for the user. It it as if DEF now has prreference and it only shows the counts for DEF and then decides that it can not do ABC. when I removed DEF in the space string it counts correctly again. It could be that it underneath counts for DEF then recognizes that the rights are different and then will do no counts for ABC or something.  


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Syntax hightlight for JQL in Code Block
Asked by Mykola Bilovus:

Hi

It is more like a feature request than question.  
I'd like to have a JQL syntax colored in a Code Block on Confluence. Of course JQL has to be among languages recognized by Code Block. It isn't for the time being. Are there plans to do this?

Thank you,  
Mykola


Answers:
author: Randall Robertson
body: I don't see any requests for it in Atlassian's public requests \& issues tracking site: <https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa>

Why not create one there?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Confluence mobile for server expired sessions
Asked by lenorb:

Hello,

i am running confluence server 6.5.19 and the mobile app on iOS will ask me every week or so to login again due to the session having expired.

how can I login with the app and keep me logged in for longer?


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello Lenorb,

Thanks for reaching out to the Community to see if there is a way to adjust your Confluence mobile apps session timeout period. There are a couple of factors at play for this, and while there might be methods to adjust the timeout window, they're typically bad practices from a security standpoint as the longer your session takes to expire, the more at risk you security stance becomes. Ideally, you'll want to use a Sign Sign-On method to allow for easier authentication into your applications. This would allow you to authenticate to a single source from there authenticate out to all of your applications from a single portal.

Further information on SSO configurations may be found at [Server: SSO and SAML support](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/other-atlassian-evaluator-resources/server-sso-and-saml-support) and [Single Sign-on Integration with Atlassian products](https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/single-sign-on-integration-with-the-atlassian-stack-794495126.html).

Additionally, there is a Community post which covers this similar topic which I would suggest reviewing as they do an excellent job explaining certain risks to increasing the session timeout: [Increase session timeout for the new app "Confluence Server"](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Increase-session-timeout-for-the-new-app-quot-Confluence-Server/qaq-p/850322)

I hope this information proves helpful and you're able to ease your access into the applications in the future.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers

comments: author: lenorb
body: Thank you for your answer.

So I guess it means that the mobile app does not store any credentials to re-authenticate and follows the session timeout as if it was a web browser.

Can you elaborate on how an SSO can help authenticate the Confluence mobile App?

I don't have issues with a browser on a computer or device as my password manager allows me to login again without much of a hassle. It's more that I expect mobile apps to remain authenticated, or to re-auth themselves.

I guess my question is more a feature request to the mobile app devs then, to allow the app to remain authenticated or to re-auth when the session has expired.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Hi! Could you tell me the keyboard shortcuts for adding columns to a table from MacBook Air
Asked by v_bezrukova:

shortkey from Apple MacBook Air


Answers:
author: Ste Wright
body: Hi [@v_bezrukova](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3142194)

Ctrl + Option + Arrow Left / Arrow Right should work.

Option might be "Alt" depending on your keyboard.

You can get these keyboard shortcuts in Confluence by either:

* Hovering over the actual button in Confluence
* Press Cmd + ? to see a full list of keyboard shortcuts

Ste
2 vertical scroll bar when editing a page
Asked by jobelyn radores:

I am seeing two vertical scroll bars while editing a page which makes the horizontal menu sticky and it is very annoying. Please help on how to remove the other scroll bar![Screenshot_1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/68401iD89A3A2A28EFB9F3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot_1.png")


Answers:
author: Eric Smith
body: I have that all the time when editing pages, very annoying.

![sc.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/134320iCEB590135F4435CD/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "sc.png")


author: Brett Hall
body: This happens to me too, I'm not sure when it started but seems only to happen during edit mode. It hides the update button, so I have to look around for a minute to find it..

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/161196i092B1FA42CE01163/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")
org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve.notifyStuckThreadDetected
Asked by Kiran Kadali:

unable to identify the root cause.

installed confluence on Jira server, backend is MySQL.

confluence is running very very slow. the log file spools error related to org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve.notifyStuckThreadDetected


Answers:
author: Harinath Reddy {Appfire}
body: Set The values in tomcat config server for "**org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve**" values: {threshold=0 and interruptThreshold to-1

Find ref here, <https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/valve.html#Stuck_Thread_Detection_Valve>


Tags: confluence-server

server
Cannot enable Confluence Mail archiving plugin
Asked by Daniel Voellmy:

Hi

I would like to include a mail archive in Confluence. The first step should be

"enable the plugin -- choose ![](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf64/files/936510212/936510213/1/1504586672416/Cog.png) \> **General Configuration**\>**Manage Add-ons** . Then choose **System** in the drop down, and enable the**Confluence Mail Archiving Plugin"**

(as described in <https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf64/mail-archives-936511300.html>).

My issue: in the "Systems Add-Ons" list there is no list entry called "**Confluence Mail Archiving".**The only Add-Ons with "Mail" in their names are "Confluence daily summary email" and "Confluence Email Notifications Plugin".

How do I activate the Confluence Mail Archiving Plugin?

Thanks for help in advance!

Daniel


Answers:
author: Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]
body: Hi Daniel Voellmy,

The given documentation page only applies to Server deployment option.

There is no such an option in Confluence Cloud application, are you using the server or cloud hosting?

Regards.

comments: author: Daniel Voellmy
body: Ok, I am using the cloud version of Confluence, so no Mail Archiving Plugin**.**

Is there any other possibility to integrate mails into the cloud version?

Thank you again for answering this.

Daniel


author: Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]
body: Not really as far as I know.

Probably you should [**look for a third-party app**](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=cloud&query=mail) to do the job (if any)

***Did my initial answer solve your problem?***

If so, consider to mark the proposed solution as an 'Accepted answer'. This will help other people with the same or a quite similar problem to find a solution in a easy and faster way.

In addition, by doing this the post will automatically gain the "Solved:" prefix in search results to indicate other people that no further support is needed.

Kind Regards.


author: Daniel Voellmy
body: Thanks, Jack!


Tags: confluence-cloud
Is there a way to have separate lables per space so that team A cannot see labels from team B?
Asked by Sebastian Huth:

So far I can see I can see and use all labels from a confluence site.  
But if there are strict rules for labels on team A and chaotic usage of lables in team B, the effort to find the right label may be increasing over time.  
It would be great if there were a functionality to separate the labels between spaces optionally.   
Maybe this could be managed by special permissions in the future.

Maybe someone has a recommedation for an app that provides this functionality.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Avinash Bhagawati _Appfire_
body: Hi [@Sebastian Huth](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1965438) ,

For Server instance of confluence , you can use third party app called [Labels Restric](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1218507/labels-restrict?hosting=server&tab=overview)t App which helps to Manage labels , force users to use only labels you define , organize labels and optimize label management.

Thanks,

Avinash
How do I pick white text color with the new templates?
Asked by Janne Aho:

As some of you may have already noticed, there have been changes to the templates, see [confluence editing improvements](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-editing-improvements-945107733.html) , and now you can't select white as the text color anymore. It hadn't been a big deal if the PDF generator hadn't been so lousy and made text columns in tables to be so small if another column has images.

The only way to fix that has been to use a line like:

--x--------------------------------

in a one of the columns to keep a width for it so that you don't just have one two words per line. You really don't want to see that line, you make it white and suddenly you have a table that looks nice both as HTML and in PDF format.

Please give us back the white color or FIX the PDF generator so it can handle tables a lot better.


Answers:
author: mattlusty123
body: I'm new here. But within 10 seconds I find I can't make text on a dark background white. i mean there is also a few more colors I could think of in between - but white? Really? I'm out. This does not seem like a creative platform. Shame it, looked shiny, but didn't make it off the ground!


author: Ang?lica Luz
body: Hello Janne,

Thank you for getting in touch with Atlassian Community!

The new editor has few options for color text and currently, it's not possible to add more colors or customize the existing ones. We have a feature request suggesting the implementation of this ability:

* [Custom text colors](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67183)
* [Bring back white color text](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67529)

Please, click on vote and watch in order to hear about updates on the development cycle.

Regards,  
Ang?lica


Tags: confluence-cloud
Can we create folders for files on the team page in Confluence?
Asked by Navtej Dhillon:

I can attach and share files, but can I create folders on the team page of Confluence?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, Confluence is not a file store, it has a simple flat "files on this page" structure.

If you need "folders", you do it by nesting the pages that the attachments are added to.

comments: author: Navtej Dhillon
body: Thanks, Nic for the insight.


Tags: cloud
Csv To Table for Confluence ? symbol
Asked by oliviervanhercke:

I'm using the "Csv To Table for Confluence" app.

The csv file contains the euro symbol ?.

Confluence displays the euro symbol ? as ?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Olivier,

Thank you for contacting us.

It sounds like you're running into this issue: ["?" Euro character not displaying properly](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/euro-character-not-displaying-properly-189705.html).

You'll want to check that your encoding is all set to UTF-8 (incl. filesystem, database, etc.). Have a look at [Troubleshooting Character Encoding](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/troubleshooting-character-encodings-167194.html) for help on fixing that.

Let me know if you have any trouble!

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: oliviervanhercke
body: Hello Shannon,

Thanks for your suggestion. I ran the encodingtestrun.action. And everything is okay.

If I edit a page and use the ? symbol directly, then it is also displayed as ?.

The problem with the ? symbol is only when I load it from a csv file through the macro "Csv to table" from the plugin [Csv To Table for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1217525/csv-to-table-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview)

Regards,

Olivier


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Olivier,

My apologies, I missed that part and I'm not very familiar with that add-on. I've tagged the add-on in your post, and so if the vendor happens to see this on Community, they'll be able to help you.  

I would also recommend emailing the vendor at [help@grovr.co.uk](mailto:help@grovr.co.uk), as they might be able to help you directly that way.

Regards,

Shannon


author: oliviervanhercke
body: The support team of the add-on vendor helped me.

The issue is solved in version 1.4.4. of the add-on.


author: Shannon S
body: Hello Oliver,

Thank you for letting us know about that! Glad to hear it is solved.

Take care, and have a pleasant rest of your week.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: addon-com.grovr.plugins.csv.csvplugin

atlassian-marketplace

confluence-server
Unable to preview PDF and inline notes
Asked by Pascal:

On MacOs in Firefox and Safari I am no longer able to preview attached PDF's and view and edit inline notes. These are existing pages created in the "legacy" page-template (in the new editing experience, PDF-annotating is not available AFAIK).

Instead every time a click on a link that points to a page-attachment the document is downloaded.

Only in Chrome the behaviour still works as expected. But Chrome is not our browser of choice, so our workflow is broken.


Answers:
author: Pascal
body: I just found out the preview *is* shown when the attachment is presented as a thumbnail on the page, but not when it is presented as simple link to the PDF. In the latter case the behaviour as described above occurs (also the screen darkens and a processing-sign keeps spinning even if you click the back-button on the browser - the only thing that works is refreshing the browser page).

So it is not as bas as expected, if it weren't for a few pages where I'm unable to convert the link to a thumbnail. In that case moving over the Chrome seems to be the only option.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

firefox

mac

pdf

preview

safari
Active directory users
Asked by med_moslem_barbouche:

Hi ,

All active directory users imported to confluence can sign up , is it possible to specify who is allowed to open an account on confluence between all AD users ?

thanks


Answers:
author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hi [@med_moslem_barbouche](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3583369)

we imported only a specified group of users from our AD with users who were allowed to create an account.

Prove me wrong but I don't think you can specify the groups once you imported them in system.

comments: author: med_moslem_barbouche
body: Hi [@Fabienne Gerhard](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/971720) ,

But in this case we have to create specific groups for conflence on the AD ,

for exemple : if i have Accounting group on my AD ( that i'am using for other applications ) but i don't want John and Alex ( tow members of accounting ) to login ;

is it possible ?

Thanks


author: Fabienne Gerhard
body: Hi [@med_moslem_barbouche](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3583369)

we created a special confluence group in our AD - those members all get access to confluence. The rest is made online in confluence with groups in confluence.

But this is only one opportunity. I know this means works in AD but makes it easier for you working in confluence with groups (still depends on what number of people we are talking ;) )


author: med_moslem_barbouche
body: thanks for your answer


Tags: confluence-server

server
Poor Performance on Premise VM hosted Confluence
Asked by Christian Frank:

Hi

I am finalizing testing the Atlassian applications, and noticed that Confluence application's performance is bad.

I did increased the RAM and CPU just for Confluence and set Confluence memory as highest as possible..

Also did some upgrade on DB.. but still nothing changed..

For example, when I click on "Confluence" once it took 2 seconds to load main page, few times it took 40seconds to load main page... average time is 12seconds.. which is not good at all.

Confluence Administration Tools and Log Analyzer did not find something critical.


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: I'd bet you need to raise the JVM heap memory allocations. Check this [doc](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-fix-out-of-memory-errors-by-increasing-available-memory-154071.html?focusedCommentId=211058828) on how to do it.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Change applications in aplication browser
Asked by fran garcia gomera:

Hi, community

I need to change the applications that confluence shows in the application browser on top-left corner and i can't find how

Any help

Thanks

Fran


Answers:
author: Elifcan Cakmak
body: Hello,

You can do it on the application navigator settings. Go to your confluence administration \> general configuration \> application navigator.

![Selection_459.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/68355iE482A86671973EA8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Selection_459.png")Regards,

Elifcan

comments: author: fran garcia gomera
body: Thanks, Elifcan, but when i get there i can't find the options to change the url or to delete the entries, it only allows me to check the hide radio button or change the groups field. In fact the message tells linked applications can't be deleted.


author: Elifcan Cakmak
body: Hello, that's correct, you can't change linked applications. Although, you can add, delete and change other links. Sorry can't be much help.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you want to remove the linked applications completely, go to Admin -\> Application links and remove the links. This will, of course, disable all the functions you get from the links as well as removing the menu item


Tags: confluence-server

server
How to extend a draw.io plugin
Asked by Ivan:

Hi,

We would like to add a C4Model plugin to the draw.io for Confluence. It's quite easy to do for the web version of draw.io, and I suppose should be the same here. How do I update a Confluence plugin with it's manually extended version?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Marija Radovic
body: Hi,

My suggestion here would be to take a look at the following article:

<https://desk.draw.io/support/solutions/articles/16000058316-how-to-configure-draw-io-in-confluence-quip-and-embed-mode->

You will see a text guide for adding plugins and also a video guide at the bottom of the page.?

Regards,

Marija


Tags: confluence-server

draw.io

server