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Convert to fraction
Asked by Ethan Foulkes:

Filenames in Confluence can't contain the character "/" however they can contain a fraction is formatted as such. I can't figure out how one of my users has accomplished this but I would like to be able to recreate. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Half and quarter are valid ascii symbols, so it's not that hard to use them in file names. If you've got a windows box (sorry, I don't actually know how to do this on other machines, despite using Linux for years), then fire up an empty notepad page, hold down ALT and press 171 or 172 on the numeric keypad (you may need to toggle numlock first)

Bang, instant horrid fractions you can use in file names. Depends on the system - some are coded to protect you against them, but they're mostly valid.

comments: author: Ethan Foulkes
body: "Bang, instant horrid fractions you can use in file names." - LOL

Thanks Nic!
Team Calendar timeline view causing drop downs on page to not open, just flash in IE8.
Asked by Amber LT:

Running: Confluence 4.3.7, Team Calendar 3.1.5, IE8

When I embed a calendar(timeline view) into a page the top drop downs (Browse, \<Username\>, Notifications, Tools, Add) stop working. They just flash open for a second and close. Any other calendar style seems to work although I have noticed that even though they work the mouse highlights in the above mentioned menus isn't working properly. Highlight isn't following the mouse or highlighting multiple items in the list.

Any ideas why?


Answers:
author: Matthew Erickson
body: Hi Amber,

It looks like you have found a bug with Team Calendars and IE8. I have raised an issue: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1348>

comments: author: Amber LT
body: Thank you! I will keep my eyes peeled for the solution. :)

Amber
How to customise Conflunce Login Page text
Asked by Gavin Fowler:

Hi

I'm using Confluence 5.1.x instance within our corporate firewall and a few users are persistently using the wrong login credentials. I'd like to make the login process "fool proof" by changing the text displayed on the page (../login.action) from "Log In" to "Log In using your Active Directory credentials".

I understand that these pages are driven by Velocity templates but I'm not sure whether I should be making changes in /confluence/login.vm (its not obvious to me where though?), or is the change simply changing the interface text found in: ConfluenceActionSupport.properties (extracted from /confluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-x.x.x.jar). If the latter, can anyone suggest which name value pair needs changing, I see a few candidates such as: com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.LoginAction.action.name=Log In, but I'm not sure whether this is correct.

Hopefully I'm not too far off track!?

Thanks

Gavin.


Answers:
author: Oli S
body: Hi

with the queryparam i18ntranslate=on could you activate a "show me the ident view".

If you call {your host here}/login.action?i18ntranslate=on you see the corresponding identifier, which is **login.name**.

oli

comments: author: Gavin Fowler
body: Hey Oli

your suggestion works perfectly, love the parameter trcik too! Most Appreciated :)

To flesh out the resolve for others, as Oli outlined. stop confluence, modify ConfluenceActionSupport.properties (extracted from /confluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-x.x.x.jar), edit the name value pair "login.name=Log In" to "login.name=Log In using your Active Directory credentials" and re pack back into the jar file (there's loads of examples for editing jar files on the web). start confluence to see your change.

Thanks

Gavin.


Tags: layout

login
Show number of likes with blog macro
Asked by S:

The blog macro of confluence provides the title and description of the blogs along with the number of comments. Is there any way to show the number of likes as well? And can we also provide an instant like option rather than going to the page and liking it there.


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Smruti,

I took a look through our list of JIRA issues for this functionality I was not able to find any feature requests that matched what you were looking for.

I went ahead and filed the following ticket on your behalf.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29022>

I cribbed heavily from your answer post and added the option around liking the post as a comment as a comment rather than in the regular body of the request. I think we can get more traction with our developers this way.

Please go ahead and visit the issue and vote for it. I am attaching this post to the ticket to further increase it's visibility.


author: Anna Rumawas
body: I wish this function is available soon.

there's a plugin to display number of likes, we have to pay for it.

but it only shows number of likes from a space, and cannot be break down into pages.


author: EddieW
body: SOunds like a good enhancement request. look for an existing ticket here, <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF> and submit the idea if someone else hasn't already.
Jira Actions Column is not coming gadgets
Asked by Sreenivasaraju P:

hi ,

I am adding jira gadgets in confluence page. The gadgets are showing and columns also displaying except **Actions** column.

Any idea how to show **Actions** column in jira gadgets on confluence page.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You can't get them. They are available only in JIRA. As per the gadget code, 'Actions' column is not available in other gadget containers like Confluence.

comments: author: Sreenivasaraju P
body: Is there any other way to get similar optioin in confluence.
Administrator account initialization on Confluence
Asked by Kisung:

I have a question about the administrator account initialization on Confluence because one of my coworker did not give the administrator account to person. Consequently, we cannot access the Administrator account page. There are any methods for initializing or reseting up it on Confluence.


Answers:
author: Zul NS _Atlassian_
body: Please see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights>


Tags: confluence-administration
A fully dressed example for the new Product Requirements Blueprint document?
Asked by Dennis K:

A couple of fully dressed examples of specifications made with the new Product Requirements Blueprint would help users (me included) to better understand how the default sections are used by different teams and maybe Atlassian itself. Could anybody share please?


Answers:
author: Dennis K
body: Can't find one


author: Paul Greig
body: Hi Dennis,

The Atlassian OnDemand guide has a good example of mapping multiple product requirements pages into a summary page. This example is available here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Product+Requirements+Blueprint>

Cheers,

Paul

comments: author: Dennis K
body: Hi Paul,

Thank you. The question is here exactly because Atlassian documenation has a demo of the summary page and thus it's clear how to use it but it doesn't have a sample of the requirements doc and thus qustions section and some other default elements are confusing for example.


author: Paul Greig
body: Hi Dennis,

The example of the requirements page appears just under the Summary page screenshot. If I understand what you are trying to acheive you would need to incorporate the 'Questions' section in the frame 'Page Properties', for example underneath the 'QA' block. From the summary page you would then edit 'Page Properties Report', this allow you to select which rows are displayed. You could add all rows or just 'Questions'. Once you same you will see the summary page is now displaying the title and any other fields you requested.

Cheers,

Paul


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can I mention a username without notifying them?
Asked by Gaurav Mishra:

I am creating a page where I want to list some key people. I want to use their Confluence usernames rather than typing their name, but I don't want them to be notified.

How can I do that?


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Gaurav

Here's something that works for me: Create the page with page restrictions, limiting viewing to yourself. Save the page with the page restrictions in place, then edit the page again. When you've finished adding the people's names, remove the page restrictions and save the page again. The people will never receive the @mention notification.

:)

Cheers, Sarah

comments: author: Gaurav Mishra
body: Thanks Sarah, that helps.
Share a page includes users not in the confluence-users group
Asked by wlong (SHIP):

It seems with a recent release of Confluence the available names that show up in the auto-complete of the share functionality have greatly increased. I believe in the past the share was limited to users in the confluence-users group. Now, it seams that every user in the system is being shown as a suggestion. We use Active Directory to pull in hundreds of users but only a limited amount have access to Confluence and in the confluence-users. I'd like to suppress the auto-complete of users in the share feature to those only in the confluence-users group.


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello William,

If you do a search for the users you do not want to show up in your Confluence Admin \> Users section do you see them appear? My best would be is that the Filter you are using to pull in your users from LDAP is too permissive and you are syncing most of your AD. The workaround for this is to limit the number of users you are pulling into Confluence in the first place.

The first page I am linking you to is an overview of connecting Confluence to LDAP.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+LDAP+Directory>

You will not the user and group filter section. If you write a filter specific to the set of users you want to pull into Confluence you will not be presented with so many names when you go to share a page.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/How+to+write+LDAP+search+filters>

Please let us know if that makes sense.


author: wlong (SHIP)
body: I can't get to that Issue number (permission error). Does it talk about the type-ahead/auto-complete of users in the share showing non confluence-use?

This is happening on my 4.3.7 and 5.02 versions.

In older versions, only users in the confluence-users group where shown (I believe)


author: RianA
body: What version of Confluence that you are using? There's a bug that seems like has been fixed in regard of exposure of User name and full name in Confluence. Here's the bug for your information.  
\* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25350>
How do i customize my confluence side bar?
Asked by Nick Howser:

How do i customize my confluence side bar?


Answers:
author: SarahA
body: Hallo Nick

If you're using the new sidebar in Confluence 5.0 or later, this document describes how you can configure it:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+Sidebar>

Cheers

Sarah


author: RianA
body: Firstly you need to check whether you are using Global look and feel (default) theme or documentation theme. If you're using the default theme, you can refer to the documentation that Sarah [provided above](how-do-i-customize-my-confluence-side-bar/160039). However if you're using documentation theme, you need to go to *Space Tools (Space Admin) \>\> Themes \>\> Configure Theme* , and the you could customize the sidebar under the Navigation. For more information please refer to the following documentation.  
\* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Documentation+Theme>


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: Do you mean the side bar in your personal space?

* You can use CSS to hide it and put in one that looks different.
* You can modify the section in the Global Layout that displays that to change it.
* You can modify [/template/includes/personal-sidebar-in-context.vm](https://one.rackspace.com/spaces/viewdefaultdecorator.action?decoratorName=/template/includes/personal-sidebar-in-context.vm&key=~jonathan.simonoff), the Velocity file that is called from the Global Layout to build that sidebar. You'll find that in the Confluence install directory.


Tags: confluence-administration
Specific homepage for a group in OnDemand
Asked by Edx Admin:

I would like members of a specific group to share a specified space as their homepage. We using an OnDemand deployment. Is this possible?

Best,

Ed.


Answers:
author: Gary
body: Hi Ed,

We dont currently support setting a custom homepage for the OnDemand platform. However, there are a couple of related improvement requests out there for this:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11029>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-6068>

Feel free to add any feedback and/or votes to those issues.

Cheers,

Gary


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why can't I save pages that have links?
Asked by Barnett:

I am in my personal space using the documentation theme, editing a page. After creating a link (to a page) when I try to save I get an error message: "An error occured while trying to save the requested page."

I really need to be able to create links in my documentation pages since that is how users will navigate things such as the FAQ. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Answers:
author: Barnett
body: This issue came up a few times for me. The solution that has been working is simply clearing my browser's (firefox) cache.

Thanks Sean and Mick for your help!


author: Sean King
body: What version of confluence are you using? I tried to recreate the issue in 3.5.5 and links are created perfectly fine. Spacekeys are common practice and tilde's are part of the spacekey for personal spaces.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Is this happening with any other pages? Can you open a page in a new tab and try it? It sounds like the network to me.

Having said that, can you copy the page's content and paste it into a new page and save that? I've experienced this sort of thing before and never really found out why it happened.

comments: author: Barnett
body: I think I solved this issue. When using the bracket in Rich Text to link, for some reason the default markup is \[\~username:pagetitle\]. So to get around this I just have to do \[pagetitle\] for each of my pages.

This is annoying. Is there a fix so that rich text "bracket" linking inserts the correct markup?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I create a searchable page within the documentation template?
Asked by Barnett:

I am looking for the best solution to make it easy for our users to search through FAQs on a page (within a documentation template). At this time I'm working with 30 FAQs but this list will grow. How can I make it easy for the user to quickly find the answer they are looking for?

Other than adding a Warning/Tip that says "use Ctrl + F"...


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Barnett,

You should be able to add a search field that will only search the page it is on, plus it's subpages. To do this enter a curly bracket and start typing search:

{sea

When you do this a list of macros will appear, one of which is called something like page tree search. Select that and save your page. You should then be able to use that, assuming that your FAQ pages are sub pages of course. :)

comments: author: Barnett
body: This helps but now I must ask... how do I set up up subpages (within the documentation template) for my FAQ to be?


author: Barnett
body: Nevermind, got it!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Admin not available
Asked by Daniel Pack:

I can log in to my confluence site, but I'm not allowed to access admin functions (which I should have). What's going on?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you're using OnDemand, you have a limited range of admin rights - is that what you mean? Or is it all the admin functions? If it's all of them, could you check what groups you are in by looking at your user profile?

comments: author: Daniel Pack
body: The site is here: <https://ornlwiki.atlassian.net/>

I am the Admin for the entire site. When I try to invite a new user, the site prompts me to authenticate with my username and password.

Even after resetting my password, I am unable to access the admin function of inviting a user.

Does this help?

Thanks!!


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Is it just the "invite user" function? Or other admin stuff too?

Could you check what groups you are in by looking at your user profile?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Problems with exporting (PDF) included excerpts -> code blocks
Asked by Ingo Ostermann:

Hi,

I have a problem with a PDF export.

I included an excerpt which contains code blocks in another page.

Now my problem is that in the PDF export the content of the included code blocks is not visible...let me explain it with some pictures:

1. source page

I marked a part of the source page as an excerpt to be included in another page.

This page contains a code block.

<http://s7.directupload.net/file/d/3229/h3zrsp4q_jpg.htm>

2. included excerpt

the above shown excerpt is included in another page:

<http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/3229/52xxbgyw_jpg.htm>

everything fine until this step.

3. PDF export

When I export the page with the included excerpt the PDF doesn't show the code blocks:

<http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/3229/vocskih5_jpg.htm>

When I export the original page everything is fine with the code blocks...

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Ingo


Answers:
author: Ingo Ostermann
body: It's a bug in Confluence 4.0.

Have to talk to my admin to update the version...


author: Ingo Ostermann
body: the problem still isn't solved yet... :-(

does anyone have a clue?


author: Ingo Ostermann
body: Hi,

sorry for my late answer...

My Concluence version is 4.0.

My Problem are only the code blocks, on the source page which is included via excerpt in the page I want to export...these code blocks are not visible in the PDF export.

Don't know if this is described understandable; therefor I thought the pictures would clarify it...


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello,

Just wanted to clarify here. You are experiencing a problem a pade with pdf exports only on those pages that have a excerpt nested inside another excerpt? What version of Confluence are currently running?


author: Ingo Ostermann
body: This has nothing to do with page permissions, I have the permission to view the other page, I created it by myself...


author: Mick Davidson
body: Is this something to do with page permissions? So, do you have permission to view the other page?
Confluence trial & addons
Asked by warp_nine:

I have just started a Confluence trial. Is there a limitation on it because I can't seem to add any addons from the marketplace?


Answers:
author: Marlon Aguiar
body: Hi Erik,

Yes, adding addons is part of the Restricted Functions in Confluence OnDemand, I refer you to this document where you can see all restricted functions in OnDemand <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

Hope this information helps!

Kind Regards,  
Marlon Aguiar


author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Hi Erik, yes there is. There's only a bunch of plugins that can be used on the OD version. To be able to install any plugin you have to use the Standalone Version.

comments: author: Ramiro Pointis
body: Here you can search AddOns available for On Demand on Atlassian Market:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/app/confluence/recent?hosting=ondemand>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Multi-excerpt from restricted Space
Asked by Dave_Harrington:

I'm trying to reduce duplicative document management.

We have some Spaces that present information to customers, and Spaces we use for internal specs or requirements that shouldn't be shared, in their entirety, with customers. The latter Space, therefore, restricts customers from viewing/editing.

However, ***some*** of the information in those internal pages needs to be shared with the customer (for example, a table of agreed upon data values). Because the Space is restricted, any attempt to use the multi-excerpt macro fails.

We've created a workaround by creating a "junction" Space that allows customers to view pages within. We put the information we want shared in this Space and then reference it via the multi-excerpt macro on pages in both the customer and internal Spaces.

It works, but creates a different type of maintenance effort. So, I thought I'd check if anyone had a "magic bullet" for how to allow visibility to selected restricted information.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Dave_Harrington
body: We decided to take the approach of documenting on the "most visible" page and then using include, excerpt and multi-excerpt macros on internal pages.


author: EddieW
body: If both pages (one restricted, one open) want to show the same content to different users, I think using the "include" from both pages to the third piece of content is the right thing to do.


Tags: confluence-administration

multi-excerpt-macro
How do I remove the Log In, Spaces and Browse menu items from a space in 5.1 ?
Asked by Phill Ashworth:

I'm trying to use the documentation theme for some product documentation and I would like to remove the "Log In", "Spaces" and "Browse" items from the page header for anonymous users.

Any ideas how I can accomplish this?

I have seen various related post for older versions but the suggestions don't seem to work in 5.1.


Answers:
author: EddieW
body: YOu should be able to define a bit of custom HTML in the template and just use CSS to hide those elements. [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21912/how-do-i-override-css-styles-in-the-documentation-theme](/questions/21912/how-do-i-override-css-styles-in-the-documentation-theme)

comments: author: Phill Ashworth
body: I can hide the items with CSS but it hides them for all users and not just anonymous ones.

I still need the menu items for admin and regular users so they can add content etc.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I avoid deadend links when deleting a page?
Asked by Mary Decker:

Hi,

I want to delete a Confluence page (since I'm moving the content to another page on the same topic), but first I want to check which pages link to the page I'm about to delete so that I can redirect the links to the other page and avoid the situation of links that go nowhere.

How do I do this?

Thanks,

Mary


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: If you go to Tools \> Info, you'll see a list of the pages that link to this one (incoming links).

Another approach, which will help with links that (for example) link via URL rather than page name, is to keep the old page and put in a redirect.

comments: author: Mary Decker
body: Thank you! And if I see no list of incoming links, I guess that means there aren't any...?

How do you do a redirect? Is a macro plugin required?


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: If you see none there, that means there are no properly written links. If people have linked using URLs instead of page names, they won't show there.

For redirect, yes, it is in the Customware Redirection Plugin.

comments: author: Mary Decker
body: Thanks! I downloaded the plugin, but am not sure how to install it. It's a key file rather than an exe one. :-P


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: You need to install it via the plugin manager. Are you an admin of your wiki?


author: Mary Decker
body: I'm not an admin. I realized that and have logged a ticket with the person who does have admin rights to get this done. Thanks for the help! I'm in a new role, so there's lots of learning... :)


author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: You're welcome!  

One more thing: If your site allows use of the HTML macro, you could use an HTML redirect. <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5411538/how-to-redirect-from-html-page>


author: Mary Decker
body: Good to know. Thanks! :)


Tags: delete

incoming-link

page