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How can I change the showallusers.action in browse users to list 50 users at a time?
Asked by Richard Crane:

\[The question pretty much says it all ...\]

This for the Admin "Manage Users" screen.


Answers:
author: Jeremy Largman
body: You might just be limited by your Confluence version here. In newer versions, there's a setting in the UI to tweak this. From the [documentation](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Searching+For+and+Managing+Users):
> To specify how many results should be shown per page,
>
> click a number '**10** ', '**20** ', '**50** ' or '**100**' near the top of the page.

comments: author: Richard Crane
body: I know about the option on the Manage users page -- I want to change the default selection, which is 10, to 50.


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Ah ok, got it. If you don't want to change the source code or write a plugin, one way to hack your way through this would be to add a [mod_rewrite](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html) rule that adds those parameters to your URL. Click on 20 or 50 and check the URL - you can add all those parameters when you hit the default path. Not ideal - ideally you'd write a plugin for this - but it'd be a lot easier, especially if you're already using Apache in front of Confluence.

Do you want to modify this in the code?


author: Richard Crane
body: I don't mind editing the source -- just having trouble finding where (appears to be part of a pager routine used in various places).


Tags: administration
How can I keep an HTML string from losing characters when I paste into Confluence?
Asked by Pat Schaub:

One of our programmers wants to past an HTML string into Confluence, but when she pastes the string (that contains pipe and tildes) some of the characters are lost. How can we keep that from hapening?


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hello there!

Perhaps you can put the string inside the Code Macro plugin?

* http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Code+Block+Macro

comments: author: Pat Schaub
body: That is great! Thanks so much!


author: Joe Clark
body: There is also the noformat macro, which is similar in function to the code macro, but doesn't apply any fancy formatting or highlighting: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Noformat+Macro>
Confluence space as main company blog
Asked by George Breahna:

How can I get Confluence to look just like a blog ? I want to have a space that will simply be a public blog, with all entries shown one after another. Is there a template already existing for this ?

I want to basically add new 'Blog' pages and they will automatically be posted to the main Home page for that Space, all posts appearing one under another.


Answers:
author: Nick Muldoon
body: Hi George,

Long time since you asked this question. For anyone stumbling upon this I'm just flagging [Instant Websites for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/instant-websites) which addresses your need.

Cheers,  
[Nick, Arijea](http://arijea.com/)


author: Matt
body: Here's an example of a public Confluence site that uses the Zen Foundation Plugin and has a blog:

<https://www.appfusions.com/display/blog-Dashboard>

AppFusions are an Atlassian Partner so I'm sure they'd be happy to answer any questions you have.


author: Colin Goudie
body: Sounds like you just need to use the blogpost macro on the home page. You may want to look into the parameters for this macro if you need to pull in blog posts from other spaces. You could also set this home page as the home page for the wiki so it's the first thing people see when logging in.

comments: author: George Breahna
body: wow, that was exactly it!! nice, thank you very much


author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: You might want to take a look at [Skinning Confluence](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEVAL/Skinning+Confluence). I'd say a combination of custom themes and some macros can make this work :)


Tags: blog

instant-website

space
Need a way to add custom content to bookmarks
Asked by Theresa Adams:

My users want to use bookmarks --- but --- every bookmark must have a specific set of information included in the description.

What I had them do was to

1. Create a template for the custom info

2. When creating the bookmark put {include:newpagename} in the description

3. Once bookmark is created - the include will "fail", click the include to add a page, then choose the template from step 1 to create the page

4. Fill in the form from the template and save

Now the include in the bookmark description will include the templated page contents.

This is alot of steps for one bookmark. Does someone have a better suggestion?

Thanks


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

After researching a bit about bookmarking plugin and I could find this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Adding+a+bookmark>

According to it, You can add a bookmark via: "A bookmark icon [on your browser toolbar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Adding+a+Bookmark+Icon+to+your+Browser). ![(tick)](https://confluence.atlassian.com/s/en_GB-1988229788/4224/875a2723d3ca93f267db5c35cdbfcf91f5910d2d.27/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png) This is the quickest way."

Also, according to the same page, there are necessary fields that must be filled before adding the bookmarking. I believe this is the normal behavior. Please open a support ticket so we can investigate the possibility to open a feature request for you on this matter.

Regards,

Rodrigo


Tags: bookmark
Confluence for non-affiliated academic purposes?
Asked by Nicholas McCagg:

I'm looking to use Confluence in a web-based instructional setting in conjunction with my attendance at a university for a graduate degree. All content produced and distributed will be of an academic nature and not used for any commercial gains. My goal is to be able to produce comprehensive documentation and instruction regarding new music technologies in a classroom setting.

The only setback I face is that I can't provide any of the necessary documentation to register for a Classroom Community license, despite being both a soon-to-be certified public school music teacher and a current graduate student. While the site would be hosted on a personal server for the time being, depending on its success, it would be moved over to a community site once my academic work is complete. At that time, it may even become a non-profit organization; however, that is not logistically possible at this moment in time.

What are my licensing options for Confluence at this point?


Answers:
author: Martin Cooper
body: You will need one of the Atlassian bods to answer the whys and wherefore of the free licenses, or you could just email [sales@atlassian.com](mailto:sales@atlassian.com) direct and ask.

But the basic 10 user starter license is only $10 and that should be enough to get you up and running. You dont mention how many users you are expecting to access, but can have unlimited anonymous users on the starter license.

<http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/licensing.jsp>

comments: author: Nicholas McCagg
body: Hmmm, that's a very good point. However, the purview of the project will also relate to some coding for open-source synthesizers, and JIRA integration (plus whatever else I might wind up needing) would be mildly helpful (as well as more users, although I don't know what to anticipate). I'll shoot an e-mail to the sales address and see what they have to say.


author: Nicholas McCagg
body: The project is really in its infancy with an ill-defined scope at the moment. My ambitions are probably larger than the realistic outcomes, but having the proper tools at my disposal brings all of my ideas that much closer to reality.
How to find duplicate attachments for my Confluence instance?
Asked by Jenin C M:

Hi,

Could you please suggest how could I find all the duplicate attachments within my Confluence instance?

any specific SQL query to search it in database, as my query results includes versions also.

Thanks and Regards,

Jenin C M


Answers:
author: HuseinA
body: To exclude versions - get the latest version only, you should append **prevver IS NULL** in your WHERE statement.

If you could provide your SQL query, that would be easier for us to help tweaking it. :)


author: Jenin C M
body: Hi Husein,

Thanks for your response!!

The query I am trying to fetch the duplicate attachments is:

```
select distinct title, pageid from attachments where attachmentid in (select distinct(a.attachmentid) from attachments a inner join attachments b on a.title = b.title and a.filesize=b.filesize and a.pageid=b.pageid where a.attachmentid &lt;&gt; b.attachmentid);
```

This query is generating a very large list of attachments (it includes all the versions) but I need only duplicated attachments i.e same pageid, filesize, content but different attachmentid.

Your response will be much appreciated.

Regards,

Jenin

comments: author: JamieA
body: You just want to add "count(\*) as Kount", group by title, filesize, and "having kount \> 0"
Change page and blog icons in news feeds
Asked by Mark Nixon:

Hi,

I was wondering if its possible to change the tiny icons representing page and blog icons in news feeds(Ones mainly found on the dash? So for instance, instead of just the small icon of a 'page', important blog updates could get a star?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Azwandi Mohd Aris
body: Alternatively, just replace the image file with what you want (while keeping the filename as it is)? These icons are likely located in the \<confluence-installation\>/images/icons folder.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: @Justin Downing is right. That's the quickest way to get what you want. However, you'll need to remember what you did when you come to upgrade though, as this customisation will likely be reverted.

Another approach would be to override the CSS with a custom stylesheet.

**Browse to...**

```
Confluence Admin | Look and Feel | Stylesheet
```

**Click on edit and paste...**

```
.icon-page {
    background: transparent url(/path/to/new/page-16.gif) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
}
.icon-blog {
    background: transparent url(/path/to/new/blog-16.gif) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
}
```

This is more likely to survive an upgrade, expecially if the icons are attached to a page that permits anonymous access.


author: justindowning
body: The simplest way is to rename the image files that the stylesheet (confluence/includes/css/icons.css) is using:

```
.icon-page {
```

```
    background: transparent url(../../images/icons/docs_16.gif) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
```

```
}
```

```
.icon-blog {
```

```
    background: transparent url(../../images/icons/blogentry_16.gif) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
```

```
}
```

Save those files somewhere so you have a backup and copy your files to the same path/filename. Confluence will show your images the next time you refresh the page in the browswer.
Confluence Application Link with JIRA: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
Asked by Tom Pryor:

I'm attempting to link Confluence with JIRA but when I attempt to add the application link I encounter the following error when entering the Server URL of JIRA:

The URL 'http:/jira.mysite.com/' is not valid. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Host name may not be null

First thing I noticed was the error only display a single forward slash after the http: but this is not how I entered the URL (The Server URL textbox contains: <http://jira.mysite.com/>)

If it helps I'm currently following the Here Be Dragons guide and I'm currently at Stage 3 - Installing Confluence. I've followed this guide with the exception that I'm using Crowd to provide authentication and SSO for all Atlassian applications rather than linking them with the JIRA directory.

Am I doing this incorrectly? How do I enable the application link in confluence?


Answers:
author: Eugene Nepeipivo
body: Hey, Tom, have you found the solution?


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: From the confluence server, are you able to ping jira.mysite.com and access JIRA Homepage?

comments: author: Tom Pryor
body: Confluence is running on the same server as JIRA. However, [jira.mysite.com](http://jira.mysite.com) resolves to the external reverse proxy which points to 127.0.0.1:8080 relative to the confluence server.


Tags: integration

jira
Embedding Media in Confluence page - WMV files not working on Chrome or FireFox with multimedia macro
Asked by Martin Cooper:

Has anybody else experienced issues with this?

Add a a wmv file as an attachment and use the multimedia macro to display it on the wiki page.

IE 9 shows the windows media player control and plays the video

Chrome - shows the windows media player control, says connecting to media then just goes back to ready :(

Firefox - does the same as Chrome

Tried on on Confluence 3.5.7 and 4.0m-27 and from different machines and different wmv files.

Get same result if add a link to the file which tries to open in full window. Is this a confluence, WMV, or browser problem?


Answers:
author: Ivar
body: This solved my problem btw: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Flash+Video+user+macro>


author: Ivar
body: I believe this is not a Confluence issue but rather a "browser video support issue"; google "mp4 does not play in different browsers" or similar you will find a lot of issues related to generic browser support for the different video formats.


author: Daniel Zhao
body: I have the same problem with wmv and mp4 on my wiki too!

comments: author: Michael Roff
body: I have similar problems. Also with .avi files.

Has there been any solution provided from Atlassian on this?


author: Ivar
body: I see the same issue with mp4 on Firefox 16.0.2. Did anyone raise a ticket with Atlassian on this?


author: Matt
body: For an issue such as this I would suggest opening a support ticket at support.atlassian.com

comments: author: Martin Cooper
body: Will do, just wanted to get a feel if this was a generic or specific issue


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: I've noticed this to be a little flakey for .mov \& .mp4 files on some different browsers also.


Tags: multimedia
Is it possible to watch a page tree in Confluence
Asked by Christian Lehmann:

I could not get a way to watch a page tree in Confluence.

This post relates to unanswerd question in <http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=54432>


Answers:
author: HuseinA
body: I don't think Confluence has such feature currently. However, [Descendant Notification Plugin](https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/260) can do the job.


author: Anne EQS
body: The Descendants Notification plugin has been archived, but Tree View by Andreas Purde is an alternative:

<https://bitbucket.org/apurde/tree-view/wiki/Home>

comments: author: Anne EQS
body: ...an I can clearly recommend the application


author: BernardoA
body: Currently Confluence does not have this function, so I created this improvement request:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/i#browse/CONF-29596>

For more information on how Atlassian implements new features and improvement please see the following document:

Implementation of New Features and Improvements.\|http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy
How to create a new page in confluence using an undefined link in rich text editor?
Asked by Pawan Agrawal:

In wiki markup mode, I can create new page by putting the page name in angle brackets '\[\]'. How can I do same in the Rich Text Editor?


Answers:
author: Colin Goudie
body: This was answered here - [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/1312/how-to-insert-placeholder-links-to-pages-that-don-t-exist-using-confluence-3-4-rte](/questions/1312/how-to-insert-placeholder-links-to-pages-that-don-t-exist-using-confluence-3-4-rte)

Basically tou can use the URL field in the link browser as documented here as a workaround

<https://wiki.usask.ca/display/wiki/2010/06/22/New+Page+Links+in+the+new+RTE>
Setup Confluence for External Access via a FQDN
Asked by Joshua Glass:

I have finished setting up confluence, I will still need to setup the network to allow confluence to communicate over the net, but I am able to login using localhost. I was also able to install without any errors.

I would no wlike to set the base url to be a more friendly name like [confluence.mycompanyname.com](http://confluence.mycompanyname.com). Is this possible, this is my internal sever.

Thanks

Josh


Answers:
author: Colin Goudie
body: The base URL of your instance is updated via Admin -\> General Configuration -\> Site Configuration.

In fact, the administration page will give you a warning if you are accessing Confluence on a different URL to what this server base URL is set to.

Of course, if you are using something like Apache webserver in front of your instance then you also need to ensure it's settings are appropriate to proxy your URL to your Confluence instance, but I'm assuming you were refering to the base URL explained above.
Creating special XMLRPC user
Asked by Nate Faerber:

I would like to start utilizing xmlrpc in Confluence to update pages automatically via cronjob or some other method that does not involve human interaction. I can create a user to do this and hardcode the password but I would like to restrict the access of this user to only have permissions to view/edit particular pages. I can't seem to figure out how to implement a Deny,Allow type permission scheme.

I want the user to be denied access to every page except specific pages. I want to be able to do this through Confluence security/permissions mechanism rather than doing Apache proxy magic.

Any ideas how to do this? Confluence doesn't let me deny the user the "Can Use" then give specific permission to a space or page. I feel like it would be best to have a security scheme specifically for remote APIs.

Version 3.4.2

Thanks.


Answers:
author: twong_atlassian
body: Hi Nate:

Unfortunately, it isn't easy to do Allow/Deny- Confluence perm scheme is much like the Linux perm scheme- Hiearcharcial page permission (like folders), with granular page restriction (like files).

In order to allow 1 page in a space, the user needs to have access to the entire space, and every other page in the space must be restricted as to not allow that user into that page. (Like if you gave a key to someone to a floor, you'd have to lock every door that you didn't want them to get into).

Hows this idea:

Make a space- call it... I don't know "autoupdated pages"

Its super permissive as far as who can view, but only the autouser can edit. The auto user only has access to this one space.

On every place where you want this page, you use an include page macro to "symlink" the page in from the autoupdated pages space. That way, you get the magic of auto updates, without having the problem of having to let the autouser have access to the final place of the page.

Con: People can't edit the page easily... but these are automatically updated pages anyway.
Integrate Hosted Confluence and Jira
Asked by Matthew Cafferty:

Hi Is it possible to integrate both confluence and Jira when using the hosted solution Thanks Matt


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Define "Integrate" - it's a lovely generic word which clearly means "make them talk to each other", but it's useless on it's own - you need to define what behaviour you need from the integration before you'll be able to get anything like a useful answer.


author: Matt
body: If you are running the latest versioons of JIRA (4.3.x) and Confluence (3.5.x) you can connect the two via Application Links. See [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdhR0aS_mEU) for the funtionbality provided in COnfluence when connected to JIRA with application links.

comments: author: Matthew Cafferty
body: Thanks everyone for your answers and questions, one of the first things I would like to do is in the Jira menu bar there is a wiki option, I would like this to use my confluence instance. In the administration there is a field for the option, however the field is not enabled, this might just need a ticket raised to changed, I'm not sure hence the questionThanksMatt


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Hi Matt - I'm still not quite sure what you're after. In fact it sounds like you might have JIRA Studio. I think perhaps your best next step is to open a [support ticket](http://support.atlassian.com).


author: Jeremy Largman
body: There's a lot of things you might mean by integration. There's a start to the discussion at [Integrating JIRA and Confluence](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Integrating+JIRA+and+Confluence). Most of that is accessible in hosted. What feature or features, specifically, are you after?


Tags: cloud

jira
What is the easiest way to count the total number of pages in a space?
Asked by Yasushi Shiba:

Hi.

Does anyone know? No plug-in seems to be available. Space Admin-\>Pages-\>Alphabetical View and count the pages for each alphabet is the way I do but it's rather tedius.

Any suggestion for a short-cut would be appreciated.

Thank you!

- Yan Shiba


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: This is really a [duplicate of this question](/questions/2561/how-many-pages-in-a-space), but in Confluence 3.5 try a user macro containing

```
$spaceManager.findPageTotal($space)
```


Tags: count

page
How to create a report of Confluence pages that don't have {attachment-data}?
Asked by hcfb ru:

I have bunch of pages, designed on live-template. I would like to create report, which give me pages with no attachment included. Attachments are included using {attachment-data} macro.  

I've tried to find out filter on {attachment-data}, bud did not found any.  

is there any way to do this?  

thanks,  

Andrew  


Answers:
author: Kevin Buchs
body: The following gives you the list of all pages in a space, ordered by length of the list of attachments (in characters). So, those with 0 attachments start at the top. I tried to filter by the length of the attachment list and could not get that to work. The scope of the page search can be controlled by the content reporter such that you only list descendants or children of a parent.

```
h2. Pages, sorted by attachments (0 attachments first)
```

```
{report-block} 
```

```
{content-reporter:space=YOURSPACEHERE|types=+page}
```

```
{text-sort:content:attachments|order=descending} 
```

```
{content-reporter} 
```

```
{report-body}> {report-info:page:title|link=true} = {report-info:content:attachments}\\ 
```

```
 
```

```
{report-body} 
```

```
{report-block}
```

```
{anchor:comment1   the following does not seem to work in the content reporter above.      text-filter:content:attachments|maxLength=10  }
```
How to create a "Not Applicable" questions in the Confluence Survey plugin?
Asked by Maurice Entwistle:

How do you use the [survey plugin](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSRVY/Confluence+Survey+Plugin) and have a selection for "Not Applicable" or NA. When I add that line to the survey in Confluence, it adds it as a questions with a score of one. I want the survey to ignore scoring the question and just do nothing except mark that the question was answered. I don't want a score added to the survey results, or bump up the score on the other questions.


Answers:
author: Foong
body: Feature request:

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/CSRVY-44>


Tags: addon-com.nearinfinity.confluence.survey-plugi

survey