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Number of Confluence licenses vs Ad Hoc Workflows
Asked by Fedor Sukharev:

At the present time we've got Confluence license for 500 users with Team Calendar option and Ad Hoc Workflows for 500 users.

We're going to upgrade Confluence + Team Calendar to 2000 users. What will happen with Ad Hoc Workflows licensce (500 users).

Is it ok to use Ad Hoc Workflows only for 500 users when Confluence will use 2000 users?


Answers:
author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: As this plugin is built by Comalatech, you have a bigger chance of them answering the question by emailing to [support@comalatech.com](mailto:support@comalatech.com).

Good luck!


Tags: adhoc-workflows
Team Calendar Upcoming Events on Dashboard renders without links to event and place (where)
Asked by Fedor Sukharev:

Team Calendar Upcoming Events on Dashboard renders without links to event and without place (where) either.

When I see event on My Caledars, events appeared with links that I can follow and read more about Event. See calendar-links-on-mycalendars.PNG

The only one way to learn, where this event held, is to Edit event and refer to where field. See calendar-event-where.PNG

When I see Upcoming Events on Dashboard, event subject (What) is not a Link, so if I would like to learn more about this event, I need to go to My Calendars, find this event and click on it. See calendar-no-links-on-dashboard.PNG

Is it possible to:

1. Make event subject (What) as a Link on Dashboard

and

2. Add row with place (Where) to upcoming event description on Dashboard

?


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi Fedor,

I think this is the feture request you are after: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-105.> You might want to watch/comment/vote on the issue to stay updated.


author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi Fedor,

I think this is t


Tags: calendar
Unable to import multiple .doc files in Confluence in one time
Asked by oleonardi:

I have to import a lot of word files in Confluence (+-300) and I don't find the way to do that.  
The office connector allow me to import word files only one by one.  
Does anybody have an idea ?

Thanks for your help.


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: You could do this with Confluence's WebDAV support:

Some details

* <http://blogs.atlassian.com/2007/02/webdav_in_confluence/>
* <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/WBDV/Confluence+WebDAV+Plugin>

I wouldn't suggest that WebDAV is for everyone, but it's likely to relieve the tedium of manually uploading lots of files.


author: HuseinA
body: Out of the box, this is currently not possible yet, I'm afraid. I've raised this improvement request to track this on here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24041>
How to customize team calendar events?
Asked by David Geleyn:

Hi,

Is it possible to customize team calendar events?

I would like to use team calendar to schedule consultants.

I need to be able to add a customer field, deliverable field (I could use a jira issue for that, right?), and some administartive fields (kilometers to customer, public/private transportation, for which product was consultancy, what kind of consultancy - to determine daily rate)

Thanks for the feedback,

David


Answers:
author: James Kleinig
body: Hi Jenny,

Well we ended up settling for less functionality. We had to create A LOT of calendars to meet all our different variables (one for each team and location combination = 47 calendars).

Not ideal, we'll probably move to a more enterprise ready calendar product but this has been a great stop-gap.

Cheers

James


author: Peter James
body: Hi David,

How about using the page link on the calendar item to link to a page that contains all of the extra information.

Using the metadata, table-filter and table-plus macros, you can then report on these pages.

Regards,

Peter

comments: author: James Kleinig
body: Hi Peter,

I tried that but it means people need to duplicate all the info on the event into the page, as well as add the correct labels (which we can use the choose labels macro for). Working labels is okay for reporting, but you can't get date which is pretty critical, and client name is impractical to have as a consistent label.

Thanks anyway

James


author: J
body: Hi James,

What solution did you end up using to address all your needs? I'm looking to do the same thing, but right now just using JIRA Team Calendars in combination with a custom issue type "event" which has custom fields that captures all the information I need for a specific event/date. The only thing that's missing for me is being able to add additional fields to the calendar view so you don't have to click through to the Issue Detail View to see standard JIRA fields like Fix Versions or Label.

Thanks,  
Jenny


author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi David,

You are right in that you could use JIRA for this, only to display custom dates, however. Team Calendars 1.6 supports custom dates from JIRA. This allows you to have any field that with a date and display that in Confluence. You can learn more about it here: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TEAMCAL/Team+Calendars+1.6+Release+Notes.>

I'm not sure this fully solves your problem, but. It really sounds like you want to extend the people calendar to capture your won custom fields, is that right?

comments: author: James Kleinig
body: He Sherif,

The Jira dates feature doesn't cut it for us actually. We REALLY need to be able to add some custom fields to Team Calendars.

We'll need to either hack it (not ideal at all) or find a completely different calendar peoduct, which would be a shame as we had a lot of faith in TC to be our answer.

Would love to know if this may be on the road map at all?

Also, really like to see calendar events in search results too. Surprised they're not.

Cheers

James


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Is it possible to hide the search bar?
Asked by Bruce Schlueter:

We have the search bar with the page tree in the left frame. What we would like to do is hide the search bar for one space. The reason is that all pages are above the entry point of the page tree and that no pages are inside this part of the tree. We only have pages that contain a kind of directory (content by label) so that one page can appear in different branches of the tree depending on the labels. Because of this it is not possible to search in this tree and therefore we would either like to hide the line or find a possibility to start the search above the tree.

I hope I have described the situation clearly.

Thanks for your input,

Bruce


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: Assuming you are using the documentation theme, in **Browse =\> Space Admin =\> Themes =\> Configure Theme** you could either:

* enable**Limit search results to the current space** to disable the search bar in the left frame and limit the search results of the top right search field to the current space
* or disable the **Page Tree** option to hide the default searchfield \& pagetree and add your own navigation controls with the *[pagetree search](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Tree+Search+Macro)* or *[pagetree](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Tree+Macro)* macros.

Hope this helps

comments: author: Remo Siegwart
body: To display the favorite spaces of the current user use the following markup:

```
{spaces:favourite}
```


author: Bruce Schlueter
body: Thanks a lot, that helps us. Right now I am trying to add the users favorite spaces to the navigation. Is that also possible? I tried with favpages but that only displays pages and not the spaces. What we want to keep are the favorite spaces to be able to navigate fast.


author: Bruce Schlueter
body: I found it out by myself also ;-) Thanks a lot for your assistance
Static html file on the filesystem in confluence 3.3
Asked by Dave Myers:

Hi,

I'm trying to add a static html file into the confluence directory in version 3.3 (where blank.html sits). If I drop my static html file there, confluence is adding its header and footer to the file, and thus not allowing any script tags to render properly.

Is there an easy way to add a simple html file to a confluence filesystem without getting hijacked by the confluence header/footer?

thanks,

Dave


Answers:
author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: First ... \*rofl\* about your last sentence.

Second ... create a folder "plugins" in the confluence folder and insert your html file there. This should help.

comments: author: Dave Myers
body: Thanks Sandro that worked perfectly!
How do you get a clickable Windows UNC link in Confluence 4.x?
Asked by Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]:

What is the correct syntax to create a clickable UNC link in Confluence 4.x? If I use the same \[\\\\server\\path\] syntax as in Confluence 3.5, I only get the text and no clickable link. This is true regardless of browser. Identical syntax on 3.5 provides a clickable link on 3.5 and not on 4.0.4.

Using the "Link" wizard and playing around with various options hasn't helped either.

Any suggestions?


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: This appears to be a bug in Confluence 4.x. I have opened <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24034> in hopes of getting this resolved.
Upgrade advice moving from Confluence 3.4 to 4.0
Asked by BnJ Support:

We're upgrading Confluence from 3.4 to 4.0 and our DB is hosted on an external MySQL DB server. My preference is to migrate our 3.4 instance to a new server, upgrade that to 4.0 and cut over DNS to point at the 4.0 box. Can I run 3.4 and 4.0 off of the same DB simultaneously or will that cause the world to implode?


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: If you are suggesting pointing two different versions of Confluence at the same database instance, the newer version of Confluence will upgrade the database schema and you will no longer be able to run the old version off of that database. If bad things happen, then your world begins to implode. :)

You can most likely create a second database instance on your existing database server. Unless it is already overloaded or low on disk space, there shouldn't any ill effect from doing this. It would be a good idea to have a different database user for the "dev" instance, though. This will prevent each version of Confluence from seeing the other's databases. You'll need to do a mysqldump of the data and load that in the new instance.

If you can't create another instance on the hosted database server, you can install MySQL on a local server, do a mysqldump of the hosted instance data and load your local database with the dump file. Point your "dev" instance of Confluence to that db and test your upgrade prior to upgrading the live "prod" data.


Tags: database

mysql

upgrade
Confluence - How to mark a page as obsolete?
Asked by William Chan:

Is there any way to mark a Confluence page as obsolete? This would be useful in allowing that page to live on as a record while discouraging editors from adding to that page.


Answers:
author: Stephan Kuempel
body: Hi,

we recently released a plugin called "Outdated for Confluence" which does exactly this.

Users can mark pages as outdated with an additional button.

A outdated review table macro then lets you keep track and review the outdated pages.

For more info see:

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219467/outdated-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219467/outdated-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

[https://emapps.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EAD/overview](https://emapps.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EAD/overview?)


author: Midori
body: **[Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving)** **has various features to manage obsolete ([non-uptodate](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-expiration-tracking)** **or [non-viewed](http://www.midori-global.com/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/page-view-tracking)** **) content.**

Although it is not available for Confluence Cloud, there is a [public feature request](https://midori.zendesk.com/entries/42610107-Archiving-Plugin-for-Confluence-Cloud-aka-Confluence-On-Demand-) for that. Anyone's vote is welcome there.


author: Andrei [errno]
body: on-prem Confluence:  

i added different user macros for {draft}, (out-of-date}, etc.   
these display as a nice colorful divs - similar to {note} or {warning}

put it on top of the page = done

comments: author: William Chan
body: I'm looking for a solution for OnDemand.


author: Peter Poulos
body: do you have a link (or can you provide) further information on how you created a {draft} etc user macro. I am trying to find a way to create a {cleanup} tag that means the page requires attention. I would then need to create a master page that searches for all cleanup tags within the space so that we can work on them. Thanks for any assistance


author: Per Hall
body: Looks like a nice generic solution; but as a newbie I'm afraid I need a step-by-step guide on macro creation with embedded images in an efficient way (by reference to a common image attachment, built-in, or how?)


author: Jonas Marek
body: For future references:

you can use a status which you define by yourself.

other macros =\> status


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
After changing to site to SSL, Windows XP based systems cannot open attachments in IE 8
Asked by Dan Machovec:

We recently updated our instance of Confluence to run SSL only, off port 8443. Since moving to the encrypted web traffic, I have several clients still using Windows XP, and subsequently are tied to IE 8, and they cannot open or download any attachments. I have had one of the affected users test from my machine running Windows 7 and IE 9 and they can access attachments without issue.


Answers:
author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: 90% of the time in support this is due to a wrongly configured Base URL, be sure that it's filled in to the same URL you're accessing your application with. To change this, read the following documentation: [Configuring the Server Base URL.](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL)

If that doesn't fix it, place these Valve elements in the Context element of conf/server.xml:  

```
&lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator" securePagesWithPragma="false" /&gt;&lt;Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.NonLoginAuthenticator" securePagesWithPragma="false" /&gt;
```

comments: author: Dan Machovec
body: Thank you for your response. I will make the change and see if that works.


author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: Have you tried adding those lines to the Context in the server.xml?


author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: You would have to recycle the service :)


author: Dan Machovec
body: I have modified the base URL and added the VALVE elements in the Contect element of sever.xml.

I am awaiting a response from my users to see if the additions/modifications have resolved the issue.

Are these immediate changes or does a service need to be cycled?


author: Dan Machovec
body: After adding the elements to the server.xml, I received errors while running c:\\confluence\\bin\\startup.bat. The system wouldn't start up. I commented them out and everything gets running again.

I am still awaiting feed back from my users, I will see where this goes from here.


author: Dan Machovec
body: Thank you. They do not match, in fact there is a server name listed in the URL rather than a full https DNS address. We use a non standard port, and the old HTTP port is listed rather than the new HTTPS port. I will make the change and see if that makes a difference.

Thank you for the response.
Trusted Communication between Hosted JIra and Downloaded Confluence
Asked by Vincent Giguere:

Hi,

I have purchased a subscription to your OnDemand service and have succesfully migrated our Jira data to our OnDemand instance.  
However, since Confluence import is not yet available, we are still running confluence on our environments.

I want to setup a trusted communication between these two applications (We are using the jiraissues macro extensively) but I can not find where to do it.

It is available?

If not, will it be enabled when we will migrate our Confluence to your onDemand service?

Regards,

Vincent Gigu?re  
IT Director  
Herdwisdom


Answers:
author: NikE
body: OnDemand cannot be configured to communicate with a locally installed version of Confluence. The good news is that the Confluence importer should be available shortly.

Once you have your Confluence data imported into OnDemand, JIRA, Confluence, and any other apps you sign up for will all work together seamlessly (trusted communication / applinks are all setup and ready to go).

comments: author: Vincent Giguere
body: Thank you for your answer.

Is there a public ETA on the confluence importer?  
When you say shortly, is it a matter of days, weeks?

Thanks again.

Vincent


author: NikE
body: As of right now there is no ETA (and when one is announced internally it is made public at the same time). My best \*guess\* is between two weeks and the end of the year.


Tags: cloud

integration

trust
Users not linked to LDAP groups
Asked by Kevin Merigot:

Hello,

I have exactly the same problem as this guy : <http://forums.atlassian.com/message.jspa?messageID=257308903>

I had triple checked my conf, tried all parameters combinations, but it does not work. I'm using Confluence 3.2.1. Does anybody have any clue on this issue, I'm running out of ideas...

Thank you,


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

I couldn't locate the link you have pasted here. Usually the users and groups links are done by the:  

\<membershipAttribute\>member\</membershipAttribute\>  

inside the atlassian-user.xml file. if this is incorrect, AFAIK, the membership won't work.  

I recommend getting a LDIF from the user and verifying the membership attribute of one example and see if the setting is correct comparing to the atlassian user file.  

Hope this helps!  

Rodrigo
Change search engine for Confluence from Lucene to something else
Asked by Daisuke Niwa:

Hello there,

We sometimes get questions from our customers that whether it's possible to change the search module from Lucene to something else, for example google appliance.

We do know that you can search Confluence content from external search engine using remote API, but what about changing the search engine altogether?

What we imagine is when you run search something within Confluence, some other search engine than Lucene is used to look up Confluence content and show the result.

Please let me know if you have an idea.

Thank you and regards,

Daisuke Niwa


Answers:
author: Sergey Svishchev
body: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/115501/can-you-tweak-the-confluence-search-engine>


Tags: lucene

search
UWC missing classes: BlogForXmlRpc SpaceForXmlRpc.SpaceType
Asked by Ted Huntington:

I successfully built the UWC in eclipse, but I am unable to find the classes:

biz.artemis.confluence.xmlrpcwrapper.BlogForXmlRpc and

biz.artemis.confluence.xmlrpcwrapper.SpaceForXmlRpc.SpaceType

I have the rest of the biz.artemis.confluence.xmlrpcwrapper classes from:

svn checkout <https://svn.atlassian.com/svn/public/contrib/confluence/confluence-remote-java-wrapper/devel/src/> biz

Thanks

Ted


Answers:
author: Laura Kolker
body: Hi Ted,

Check out the CRJW project from this svn URL instead:

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/svn/CRJW/trunk>

Cheers,  
Laura

comments: author: Ted Huntington
body: That solved the missing classes errors. Thanks!


Tags: build

eclipse

java

universal-wiki-converter
Cloned issues are not being linked to original
Asked by Bradley Wagner:

Hi, after our import into JIRA Studio from our local JIRA server, cloned issues are no longer being linked to the original. I believe we renamed the Link Type for this in our local server and perhaps this change didn't persist when we migrated to JIRA Studio.

It's not urgent but it was definitely a nice to have as we sometimes need to clone/move issues into a different project and having it automatically add the link was helpful.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I suspect it's the renaming - you probably followed the info in [http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA041/Advanced+JIRA+configuration+with+jira-application.properties#](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA041/Advanced+JIRA+configuration+with+jira-application.properties) to do that.

The default is:

# The prefix added to the summary of cloned issues and the clone linktype name

jira.clone.prefix = CLONE -

jira.clone.linktype.name = Cloners

So I'd suggest (temporarily) creating or renaming a link type as "Cloners" and see if that does the linking correctly. If it does, then that's the problem, and you can either go back to using "Cloners" or contact OnDemand support to see if they can change it to match your link name.

comments: author: Bradley Wagner
body: Thanks Nic. That looks to have been the case. An OnDemand support engineer corrected the problem for me.


Tags: cloud
Office Connector won't show Excel chart
Asked by Jason Stoller:

I have attached an excel file and embedded it with the viewxls macro. Everything displays fine except a chart is not displayed at all.


Answers:
author: PRIMUS_DELPHI_GROUP
body: Hi,

do you maybe use special characters in the page headline like an " : " ? We also had the same problem. After we changed the page name, everything works fine.


author: Robert Czapor
body: Hi,

did you solve your problem. It seem to me that ia have the same issue. Could you help me if you know solution?


Tags: ms-excel

ms-office
Why isn't the Favicon file used in the browser tab?
Asked by Barbara Green:

I'm evaluating On Demand and trying to get a sample space set up so that I can review it with my group. I chose a regular corporate logo file for use in the banner. I chose a 16 px icon for use as the Favicon file.

In the system dashboard the Favicon file is used in the browser window tab. But if I go into a Confluence project, the global icon is used in the browser tab. It's unreadable, because it's sized for the banner and uses white text (for contrast with the dark blue banner).

Why isn't Favicon used for the browser tab everywhere?

Barbara


Answers:
author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Hi, there. Looks like you are encountering a known bug in Confluence OnDemand - <https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-5735.> You might want to add a watch on that bug report for keeping up-to-date with the progress.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to create and add a digital signature to page?
Asked by Bero Qasem:

Please help me with adding digital signatures to a page.

I have to create a digitally signed pages but I don't know how create the signature or how to add it.

Regards,

Bero


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: There is [the Sign-Off plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.playsql.signoff/server/overview).

image2016-6-30 16:17:6.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-create-and-add-a-digital-signature-to-page/qaq-p/117131?attachment-id=3434){#link_118dde45aae3c8}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/19509/1/image2016-6-30%2016%3A17%3A6.png){#display_118dde45aae3c8_0}


Tags: app