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confluence hardware requirements for 10 users
Asked by ShrutiM:

hi ,

can anyone tell me what should be the hardware and software requirements of confluence for 10 users .

Thanks \& Regards

Shruti


Answers:
author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi

For software requirements you can look up here, <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/System+Requirements>

And, this one in particular: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms>

Hardware requirements are a bit harder to define, it depends on many factors: as if you open an anonymous access it will require more machine power than if you just use it with 10 registered users.

What we have found ourselves is that you are perfectly fine to run Confluence on 2GB RAM machine (as it just wants at least 1GB of JVM heap to start).

Hope it helps to start and then you can monitor the system to know if you need to optimize anything
Disable Document Preview
Asked by John Barrus:

I need to disable document preview for my entire Wiki space. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello John,

It's currently not possible to disable document preview within a Confluence Cloud site.

I see you have already contacted support, so hopefully we are able to resolve your issue for you.

Take care,

Shannon

***Note** for other users, if you have run into any issues with Document Preview, please contact support and we can look into the issue for you.*


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Best way to migrate large confluence instance from mysql to postgres
Asked by Johan Ferner:

Hello,

The subjects says what I want to do. I have had bad experiences with xml export/import so I would like to do this at database level.

Have anyone successfully migrating using sql export from mysql and importing that file into postgres (possibly transforming some syntax)?

Any tools? Docs? Tips? Am I totally barking up the wrong tree?

Thanks,

Johan


Answers:
author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Hi Johan,

what's your problem with the xml-export?

And what is large?

I used the xml-export for a 16 GB installation migrating from MySQL to Oracle. We had problems at the beginning, so we excluded the attachments and copied them manually to the new instance and used the xml export only for the wiki content.

How many spaces do you have? Is it maybe an option to migrate space by space using xml-export?

Regards

Steve

comments: author: Johan Ferner
body: Thanks for your answer,I tried to export spaces nightly into a Disaster Recovery environment using xml export/import and ran into all sorts of inconsistent behaviour. Perhaps because of repeated delete/import. Perhaps because I exported attachments.I ended up copying the whole filesystem at that time.Examples of problems:<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33485><https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-34686><https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Some+questions+or+answers+are+missing+after+a+XML+import>But perhaps excluding the attachments and fixing inconsistencies once is the best way to go...Regards,Johan


author: Johan Ferner
body: Thanks Steve,

We will take the xml export/import route but without attachements.

Regards,

Johan


Tags: confluence-administration
what are the accepted domains for raxaemr.atlassian.net signup?
Asked by Devang Gaur:

I've tried all popular and some non popular ones . But it always shows up with restricted domain message.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Devang,

This is in reference to a specific Atlassian Cloud Domain. If you're trying to sign up on that instance, please contact the administrator. If you are the administrator, please create a support ticket at <https://support.atlassian.com,> and we'll be happy to help.

Take care,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Create new space and associate multiple existing spaces into it
Asked by IT Imperva:

Is there any option to do it from the webgui(Version 5.7)?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: If you move a parent page then the child pages move with it. So, if you go to your old spaces and create new pages that you assign as the space home page you should be able to move the old space home page and all of the child pages as well.

**Set the new home page in space admin**

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**Move the old home page from the tools menu**

image2015-2-18 8:31:34.png  
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[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/75836/1/image2015-2-18%208%3A31%3A34.png){#display_1188db6cea0dc0_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Create-new-space-and-associate-multiple-existing-spaces-into-it/qaq-p/448111?attachment-id=10488){#link_1188db6cea0dc0_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/75836/2/image2015-2-18%208%3A30%3A56.png){#display_1188db6cea0dc0_2}


author: Roadmunk
body: Using the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) you ca copy page hierarchy using [copyPage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copyPage)


author: IT Imperva
body: Moving the content, our target is to consolidate all the spaces to one space.


author: Davin Studer
body: When you say associate are you wanting to move the content or copy it?


Tags: confluence-administration
Space creation fails mysteriously
Asked by Erkki_Aalto:

We have a test system with 5.5.7. An attempt to create space fails with error message 'Your session has expired. Please [reload](https://wg-4.it.helsinki.fi/dashboard.action) the page to try again.'. In two other systems that should be identical everything works fine. Any ideas on what is corrupt?


Answers:
author: Erkki_Aalto
body: I found the problem. It was in Apache configs, not in Confluence; an extra proxypass directive in the problem server.


author: Erkki_Aalto
body: Now it seems, that the plugin system is somehow corrupt: I get messages

The [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com) server is not reachable. To avoid problems when loading this page, you can disable the connection to the Marketplace server

An unexpected error occurred. Refer to the logs for more information.

Deleting the plugin caches did not help.


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: Are you logged in in any other service which uses the same URL but different port? You may be facing this problem: [Logging into Another Atlassian Application Logs Me Out of Confluence](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Logging+into+Another+Atlassian+Application+Logs+Me+Out+of+Confluence). Please note this may also happen for other non Atlassian applications.


Tags: confluence-administration
Give Client access to see a chart of status based on Jira stories but no access to Jira
Asked by Devtree Crew:

Is it possible for me to show a chart in Confluence for the client to see (How many in backlog, progress, complete) BUT not to give them direct access to JIRA project. I dont want them to see the stories.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, because the systems need the user to be able to see the data the charts are being generated from. You need a third party to interfere - one that can read JIRA, generate reports and publish them for someone to see (hence leaking information) without access to the original data. That has uses, but it's not supported by these systems - either you can see the data or you can't.


Tags: client

cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence - faster loading solution?
Asked by Michael Ling:

So I have a page in confluence that needs to have about 20 expand macros (each linked to a different page). With this setup, I noticed it takes a long time for the page to load. Is there any way to possibly make this page load faster?


Answers:
author: Chii
body: you can try adding this plugin <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cache> which contains a macro called futures macro (<https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CACHE/Future+Macro>). It allows you to asynchronously load the contents of a macro, so that the page loads earlier.

comments: author: Arya Banerjee
body: Hi Joe,Completely with you on this. However, the cache would be retained for a day only. So, after 24 hours, the page would take usual time to load for the first time before it caches the content again. This delay would occur for all the users.Any suggestions please?


author: Chii
body: you can tune the cache to store for more than 1 day: <https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CACHE/Cache+Macro#CacheMacro-Parameters>


author: Michael Ling
body: I will give that a try! Thanks for your help!


Tags: confluence-administration
Easy way to create communities?
Asked by Victor Gleim:

I'm looking for an easy way of letting Confluence users to create sort of communities. Imagine that a corporate social network is built on Confluence. The idea is that a regular user (not an admin) should be able to create a place with a pre-defined structure where other users can share their thought on a particular topic (like Yammer).

Does anybody know if there are any add-ons available to make it true?


Answers:
author: Philipp Sendek
body: Hey Victor,  

Adaptavist's [Community Forums](http://www.adaptavist.com/w/products-plugins/premium/forums/) could be something you're looking for.  
As this is quite a broad topic which can have varying complexity, it's probably hard to answer here without doing a proper requirements analysis.  
Have you considered getting an Expert on board to assist you with your mission?  

Regards,  
Philipp  

comments: author: Victor Gleim
body: Hi Philipp,The Adaptavist's add-on is not what we need. We already have a forum, but now the requirement is to give more social features to the users. As I already mentioned, Yammer is what we'd like to simulate, sort of.Victor


Tags: confluence-administration

confluence-app
Share confluence With customers
Asked by Naama Lev:

Hello Experts,

Our company would like to share our confluence instance with our customers - so we could work together on documents and communicate on project deliverables, decisions, ect.

Can you please share your experience with me?

1. model collaboration suggestions
2. what is private / what is public

Thanks

Naama


Answers:
author: Gorka Puente _Appfire_
body: Hi Ricardo Morales,

You can share pages and attachments outside Confluence with[Comala Share It](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.keinoby.confluence.plugins.share-attachments). Your customers can access the pages you select for them, and you don't need to create additional users.

Disclaimer: My company, Comalatech, is the vendor of Comala Share It

Let us know what do you think!

Regards,

Gorka

comments: author: Filip Callewaert
body: Hi Gorka, can people who you share the page with also comment on the page?


author: Gorka Puente _Appfire_
body: Hi @Filip Callewaert, it's not currently possible, but we do have an internal feature request for doing so. I've created a support ticket in <https://comalatech.zendesk.com/> to keep the discussion going!


author: rmorales8303
body: Hello. We are a small team and we are looking for something similar. We want to share some content with our customers, so they can see what we are doing for them, but we cannot give public access to that content because any one would be able to see it. We want that one customer can see only what we are developing for him, but we don't want to spent our confluence licenses with such customer. is there any way to do that?

Thanks.

comments: author: Fanny Tastet
body: Hi [@rmorales8303](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/680517) ,

I am reading your comment years after ! We have exactly the same issue.. I would love to know how you managed to deal with it ? Thank you !


author: Chii
body: there's a blogpost on the atlassian website that detail one way you can collaborate with confluence <http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/04/how-to-run-effective-meetings-with-confluence/> - perhaps that will give you some inspiration?Also, with regard to specifications for projects, we internally use <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Product+Requirements+Blueprint> quite a lot, along with decisions blueprints <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Decisions+Blueprint> to make sure decisions are grouped together for easy access and reading. The model is (for a software product/feature) to first gather the requirements by sharing the page around with the stake holders, and allowing them to edit/add things they want. During this time, many meetings may happen, and the results recorded. Then finally, a decision page to solidify the choice(s). Then the spec is shared around the team.As for private/public, that depends on your organization and whether you want the customer to have deeper access or just present a polished set of pages to them.

comments: author: Naama Lev
body: Thanks for that :)
audio file html5 user macro
Asked by Reto Eggenberger:

Hi all,

Is there a macro to insert the attached audio file as HTML5 onto a confluence page?

Something similar to <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/171822>.

Greetings Reto E.


Answers:
author: Reto Eggenberger
body: Yes. I tried a really simple user macro (based on the mentioned post) and it seams to work.

```
## Macro title: HTML5 Audio## Macro has a body: N#### Output: HTML#### @param src:title=Source|type=string|required=true|desc=Attached audio filename #set ($attachment = $content.getAttachmentNamed($paramsrc))  &lt;audio controls&gt;	&lt;source type="audio/$attachment.getFileExtension()" src="$attachment.getDownloadPath()" /&gt;        Your browser does not support the audio element.&lt;/audio&gt;&lt;p&gt;	&lt;strong&gt;Download audio:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="$attachment.getDownloadPath()"&gt;$attachment.getFileExtension() format&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
```


author: Timothy
body: Like that post you linked to, create your own User Macro and use the HTML5 audio tag (<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/audio>).


Tags: confluence-administration
How to export a check box into a pdf original check box
Asked by Tim Mohrbach:

I'm wondering if there is any way to export a check box from a confluence page to a pdf with the original PDF checkboxes which are actually clickable and the state is then also savable into a PDF again?

Any plugin or macro that can solve this?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Tim, currently Confluence export that in a static format, though this is a good suggestion. A new improvement suggestion has been filed in our [bug tracker](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-36595).


Tags: checkbox

pdf-export
How to create template for Space in Confluence?
Asked by Pavel Potcheptsov:

There is an [article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Default+Space+Content) that describes how to customize (create template) home page for Space.

But my question is actually more deeper, suppose I want to create new Space with predefined amount of pages and structure inside Space, not only home page.

Is there a way to achieve this?


Answers:
author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: Hi Pavel,

try out Space Blueprints can help you with that:

<https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-blueprints/space-blueprints/write-a-simple-confluence-space-blueprint>

But you'll need some coding for that.

Regards

Steve


author: EPS Software Engineering AG
body: Hi Pavel,

Our Add-on Space Tree Creator does exactly what you are looking for. It creates a space, copies the properties from the source space (if the option is selected) and then creates the page tree.

Try our [**Live Examples**](https://focuspro.eps.ch/display/PEPSMarktExample/Marketplace+Examples) (no registration needed).

**[Marketplace link: Space Tree Creator.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eps.focuspro.SpaceTreeCreator/server/overview)**

Regards,  
Stephan


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [How to create pages from template pages](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/How+to+create+pages+from+template+pages) describes how to create spaces and/or pages.


Tags: confluence-administration

space

template
Comala workflow on confluence
Asked by Ruwan Mettananda:

1. How to Disable a button on Comala Workflow Window?

2. How to change the name of a button on workflow window?


Answers:
author: Miguel Reimer
body: Hi Ruwan,

* the only time a single button is able to shown is when using *submit* parameter for the initial state. Each time an approval is used, the plugin is designed to show both Accept and Reject buttons.
* You've been added to the feature request to able to alter the label on the buttons. Right now the button labels can not be changed. This feature in not currently scheduled so I can't make any promises about when or if it might be added.

Thanks  
Miguel


author: Jeff Louwerse
body: You can now change the labels

<https://wiki.comalatech.com/display/CWL/Customise+Approval+Buttons>

In case they move the doc  

To change the button captions, use the **approvelabel** and **rejectlabel** parameters on the **`{approval}`** macro as shown below:

`{workflow:name=Customise Approval Buttons}`  
` ``{state:Review|approved=Review|rejected=Review}`  
` ``{approval:Custom Captions|approvelabel=Yes|rejectlabel=No}`  
` ``{state}`  
`{workflow}`


author: Ruwan Mettananda
body: Thanks Miguel,

I will contact you or Ibrar in any case with workflow. We are newly bought your plugin and we try to get use with it. We are trying to implement different workflows for documents in our company. I think you will assist us in future.

Thanks and Best Regards,

Ruwan.


Tags: addon-com.comalatech.workflow

status

trigger
CLI add-ons - what can they do for us?
Asked by Ariel Tikotsky:

Hi all,

Can anyone explain what are the differences between

[Atlassian Command Line Interface](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.atlassian.cli)

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.atlassian.cli)[Confluence command Line Interface](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.cli)

[Run CLI Actions in Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.acli)

any help will be appreciated!

Ariel


Answers:
author: Philipp Sendek
body: Hello Ariel,  

so the first one comes bundled with any other specific CLI-tool in the suite and is used for the integration of multiple Atlassian tools.  
The second is the Confluence specific CLI-tool which contains Client- and Server-Applications/Addons for Confluence specificly.  
The last one is a tool with which you can define administrative actions, that you can trigger right out of Confluence. I.e. you can create an action to create a new JIRA project from inside a Confluence-page, giving users with access to this page, the power to create new projects, without granting them JIRA administrator permissions.  

The general use of the CLI tools in general is to "outsource" administrative tasks outside of the application to give more flexibility to run these tasks from outside the application. For instance: Considering you don't have a central user directory (like an active directory) but instead a self-developed tool that creates a new account for a new employee on all used tools. Using the CLI tools, you could empower this tool to create such new users within the Atlassian tools (or simply JIRA/Crowd if you use their user directory for the Atlassian suite).  

There's of course **a lot** more things you can do with these tools, but I hope I could give you an impression and inspiration if they're useful for you.   

Regards,  
Philipp

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Here is a specific link: <https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ACLI/Atlassian+CLI+Family+of+Tools>


author: Ariel Tikotsky
body: Thanks a lot!


Tags: confluence-administration
Migrate Tikiwiki to Confluence OnDemand
Asked by Greg Pell:

I am trying to migrate old Tikiwiki pages to our new Confluence OnDemand instance and am wondering if this is possible with the UWC 4.0? SO far I am not able to get it to connect at all? Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Greg


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

I believe it's possible to migrate using UWC. I was able to find [this page](https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Tikiwiki+Notes) with some guidelines. But first, you would need to migrate to a behind the firewall Confluence and just after the migration is done, is when you'll be able to export the contents of Confluence to a Cloud instance.

In case you are running into issues while migrating Confluence, I suggest to get in touch with the UWC vendor at [info@appfusions.com](mailto:info@appfusions.com) email.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Setting up Confluence with HTTPS (Windows)
Asked by Berry Street:

Hi all,

I've spent all day trying to get this working, and I'm at the tearing-out-hair stage. I hope someone who's done this can help out.

I've followed the [Atlassian instructions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+Over+SSL+or+HTTPS), and purchased a certificate from GoDaddy. The infobox (on that linked page) about PKCS12 format caused nothing but hours of grief, but the [Tomcat instructions](https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5239/generating-a-csr-and-installing-an-ssl-certificate-in-tomcat-4-x5-x6-x7-x?countrysite=au) from GoDaddy seemed to work fine, and I had a keystore that seemed to have three certificates in it.

Making the changes in server.xml (as per the Atlassian instructions) caused no errors, and there are mentions in the log about "Initializing ProtocolHandler http-bio-443", so it seems to know to start listening on that port.

```
Feb 16, 2015 2:47:12 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol startINFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8090"]Feb 16, 2015 2:47:12 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol startINFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-443"]
```

Indeed, running s_client shows a successful initial connection (yay!), followed by an error (boo):

```
jurgen@xx:~$ openssl s_client -connect wiki.xx.xx:443CONNECTED(00000003)43062:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure:/SourceCache/OpenSSL098/OpenSSL098-52.10.1/src/ssl/s23_clnt.c:593:
```

Running sslscan shows all SSLv2 connections "Rejected", all SSLv3 connections "Failed", and all TLSv1 connections "Rejected".

I'm at a loss of what to do next. What other information can I provide? Is there anything else I can try here?


Answers:
author: Berry Street
body: Thanks, @Renato Rudnicki. I gave that a go, and it's still not working. It's failing more quickly than it did before though, so that's a positive. :smile:

I'm going to try starting again from scratch and see how that goes.


author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Jurgen,

I believe the issue you are facing is described [on this documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASHKB/Git+clone+fails+with+SSL+routines%3ASSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO) from Stash. Could you try the workaround mentioned on the KB and let us know if it works?

Regards,

Renato Rudnicki


Tags: confluence-administration