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Confluence 5 Site Title
Asked by Adolfo Casari:

Confluence 5 does not show the site title (as defined in Admin) in the login page. This was enabled in version 4.X

Is there a way to fix this?

Another issues with the dashboard:

1. I don't see how to customize the get started section (upper left). In 4.X you could edit the 3 options shown there (create a new space, invite, upload picture) in the Admin.
2. When changing from Favorite Spaces to All Updates, the right marging increases by 200-300px leaving a big blank right margin column

Hope this issues could be addressed in a comming release.


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

I couldn't find a bug for this behavior. It might be a new bug. I think the best is to open a new ticket in Atlassian support channel so we can investigate and add a new bug if the case.

Regards,

Rodrigo
Is there wiki markup for 'add page'?
Asked by Peter Whitfield:

Hi Folks,

I'm trying to customise the default space content for personal spaces. What I would like to happen is that when a user adds a personal space it is, by default, created with a subset of 10 pre-defined pages.

Is this possible, and if so, how would I write it in wiki markup?

Many thanks

Pete


Answers:
author: Jonathan Werth
body: Hi Pete,

It may not be what you're looking for, but if you enter the links to the pages, clicking on that link will create a page with that name. This, however, does not allow you to put text within those 10 child pages. But if you wanted:

* Home
  * Child 1
  * Child 2
  * Child 3

enter in the following links on your Home page default:

```
[Child 1][Child 2][Child 3]
```

The links will show up red until that page is clicked and created. It's definitely not bullet-proof, but that might get you halfway there.

comments: author: Peter Whitfield
body: Hi Jonathan. Thanks for your suggestion - i'll give that a try.
What should I enter for domain?
Asked by Sozhavendhan M:

I am trying to copy the contents of confluence to MS Word (in same format).

It is prompting for credentials.

Please refer to the Screen shot.

I have the crendials, but i guess it need the domain name to be added too.

![](../../upfiles/Prompt.JPG)


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: This is a network question, not Confluence. Your network is set up to demand authentication from you before it allows access to Confluence (and presumably, lots of other stuff). So you need to enter your network credentials.

Usually, you can put in domain\\username in the "user name" box here, but it depends on your network settings. You might want to ask your network admins.
Set up weekly update page in Confluence
Asked by Pedro Lyons:

Hi, I want to set up a page in Confluence where a sprint team can go to and enter the team activity for the week ahead. So.. each Monday morning first thing, each sprint team would record their activity for the week to show active projects , time frames etc. There are 12 sprint teams in operation at any given time.

I would like to set the page as a template whch will require each team to populate the required information. Is there a Calendar or weekly scheduler plugin or page structure available in Conluence? In addition I would need the page to archive automatically by end of each week so is it possible to set up automated archiving?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Midori
body: [Archiving Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/123) solves auto-archiving part of the problem.

Just set "expiration interal = 7 days" and turn archiving on in the corresponding space, to **auto-archive pages 7 days after their last update**.

Links:

1. [How to configure archiving in Confluence spaces?](http://midori.hu/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/#definitions)
2. [What happens with the archived Confluence pages?](http://midori.hu/products/confluence-archiving-plugin/documentation/#archiving)

![](https://dq1dnt4af4eyy.cloudfront.net/files/com.midori.confluence.plugin.archiving/screenshots/4b3ef19f-8166-4a27-be27-b1f039d3457f.png)

comments: author: Pedro Lyons
body: Many thanks Ferenc!


author: Midori
body: |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| you're welcome. (if my answer was actually helpful, you may want to accept that.) |


author: Pedro Lyons
body: Yes this is helpful, thanks again!


author: Midori
body: you're welcome.

(if my answer was actually helpful, you may want to accept that.)


Tags: confluence-administration
How I can add checkboxes to my template?
Asked by Alex:

I want to know if there is any way to insert checkbox to my new template.


Answers:
author: Erik Huizinga
body: Just installed the checkbox plugin version 1.4.1 on Confluence 5.0.2 and added a checkbox to a template.

But when I create a new page with that template and select the checkbox, the value isn't remembered to the next step. And that's a must have for me... Any suggestions how to evade having to fill in the blanks in the template in two steps instead of just the first?

comments: author: James
body: There is a bug in version 1.5 (and earlier) such that the initial status (called 'status' in the checkbox edit dialog) of checkboxes in templates is not remembered when a new page is created using the template.

This bug will be fixed in the next version of checkbox.

I am not sure that I fully understand your scenario, but will fixing this bug satisfy your requirement?


author: James
body: Checkbox version 1.3 has just been released. It includes full support for templates.


author: James
body: Hi Alex,

If you are using the checkbox addon, you can insert checkboxes into the template like any other macro. Note that in version 1.2 there is a limitation; the checkbox will not render properly in the Template preview. However, the checkbox will work correctly when you use the template to create a page.


author: Rayone Moyer
body: I am not sure what version of confluence you are using but we use this to add checkboxes to a template

\| {checkbox}(/) {checkbox} \| h5. Instruction header.  
Instructions

hope that helps

comments: author: ticoulat
body: I want to know how you can add a checkbox if this checkbox is an addon


Tags: checkbox

template
Share page resend possible?
Asked by Bruce Schlueter:

Hi all,

if I share a page an email is sent to the person. Is it possible for me to read my sent text later again? Or can I send it to the admin team by BCC? We are running a knowledgebase and we want to inform authors of pages or comments on changes or corrections without having to do this via comment and want to make sure that all admins are informed.

I know it is possible to share a page with multiple people but then they can always see who also is informed and that is not wished. Currently we are running Confluence 4.3.2.

Thanks, Bruce


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Dear Bruce,

Unfortunately there's not yet such a function that'd help you in this case, the best workaround I can think of is to configure your mail server to save sent emails that were generated by Confluence and belong to that specific mail account.

We however have a feature request for such, thus I'd encourage you to add it to your watchlist and vote on it: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22396>

Cheers,

Peter

comments: author: Bruce Schlueter
body: Hi Peter,

thanks for your response. I will watch that item ;-)

Cheers, Bruce
how to hide this page for anonymous user on ZEN ?
Asked by lily56:

I use ZEN foundation design my website? I don't want anonymous user see this page which URL is "http://localhost:8090/dashboard.action" ?How to configure?

![](../../upfiles/1_21.png)


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: That's a limitation for Confluence . . . there's not a way to block users from typing in URLs to get to areas that aren't restricted.

I have seen customers configure an Apache server in front of Confluence to do this kind of thing, but it's rather complex and unfortunately we can't offer any advice on this.

comments: author: lily56
body: thanks Duke?


author: Darryl Duke
body: Be sure to select the "Toolbar" panel, and scroll down to find the option:

![](../../upfiles/dashboard_toolbar_1.png)

comments: author: lily56
body: I uncheck this box? but anonymous input URL:<http://localhost:8090/dashboard.action>, they can see dashboard

![](../../upfiles/3_4.png)

![](../../upfiles/1_24.png)


author: lily56
body: I don't find "Show Dashboard Link To Regular Users" in the Toolbar panel in the Brand Designer? Can you provide a screenshopt?

![](../../upfiles/1_22.png)


author: Darryl Duke
body: Be sure to select the "Toolbar" panel, and scroll down to find the option:


author: Darryl Duke
body: Zen is designed to not show the dashboard to anyone but admin users. However, you must set the Confluence Site Homepage (on the Admin Console) to your preferred landing space, which is the "new" home page for the site (this can be any space that's visible to all users). Then visitors will land on that space, and the dashboard link (under Zen's toolbar menu) won't be available to non-admins. (There is a checkbox called "Show Dashboard Link To Regular Users" in the Toolbar panel in the Brand Designer if you want regular users to see this link.)

Also, you might want to set Zen as the site-wide theme (in the Confluence Admin Console) so that the dashboard, login panels, search results, and elsewhere are styled by Zen.


Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
Google search cannot see Confluence OnDemand pages
Asked by CarenB:

We are using Confluence OnDemand. I have given view permission to anonymous users yet the pages never show up in Google search results. We have set up two separate OnDemand spaces and it's the same for both. As we are using OnDemand to deliver support documentation to our users we want these pages to be visible to external search engines. Is there a way to do this in OnDemand?


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, how long have you had it up for? It may take a while for it to be indexed by Google. Have you tried getting a Google Webmaster account and submitting a sitemap? This might be help[.](https://www.cloudshards.com/confluencehosting.php)

If it's not listed in Google yet, you may submit to them manually. This might be an SEO problem more than a Confluence problem[.](https://www.cloudshards.com)

It's hard to say for sure when and if Google will index your pages. External back links may or may not help.

OnDemand is under Atlassian's subdomain, so it would have different SEO characteristics to say your own domain or anything else you're normally used to possibly.

comments: author: CarenB
body: Thanks, one of the sites has been up for 12 months. I have added some external links now and will see if this helps. I'll also look into your other suggestions.


author: Gary
body: Hi Caren,

Can you also check to make sure you have enabled pulic access for the site:https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+Up+Public+Access#SettingUpPublicAccess-Enablinganonymousaccesstothesite

Cheers,

Gary

comments: author: CarenB
body: Thanks for this suggestion Gary, I checked the public access for both spaces and they both have the view space set correctly.


author: Sachin Agnihotri
body: Hello Caren,

I too am trying to resolve same issue for public facing Questions for Confluence in Atlassian Cloud. I wanted to follow up to see if you were successful in making the pages accessible to your user base and if so what steps did you take.

Thanks

Sachin


author: Attach?_Software
body: HI Sahcin, I didn't take any further steps after this post and we eventually moved to self-hosting our Confluence site so I cannot offer any solutions that might help your situation. Good luck, I hope you can find a way to resolve it.


Tags: cloud
Where does Confluence get the default page title when creating a new page from a template
Asked by Michael Rainwater:

I have noticed that whenever I create a new Confluence page from a template, the system will create a default page title. The page title is not unique, and is very odd. For example, I see a page title like this: ", Project Description, Functional Requirements" for one template. Then, I see the following title for another template: ", Functional Requirements, Performance, Usability, Business Continuity, Business Rule, Conversion, Training, User Documentation, User Interfaces, User Documentation".

I have tried changing the heading levels in my templates. But I can't seem to find the pattern for creating the page title.

I would like to either:

1. Have some control on the default page title by using variables OR
2. Make Confluence stop the crazy guessing game and just leave the title blank

Any ideas out there on this?


Answers:
author: Sherif Mansour
body: Hi Michael,

Thanks for your feedback. At the moment, it is not possible to configure the default title for your template.

In Confluence 5.1 (coming in a few weeks) we will ship with a "Create from template" macro. Future versions of this macro will allow you to pre-configure the page template title with some variables (E.g Space key, currentDate etc..) which will help you create more unique page titles and standardise them.

Does this help you solve your problem?

comments: author: Burke Mamlin
body: Looking forward to this feature... we could have used it today. :-)

When considering variables, for the page title, please try to accommodate custom variables (not just a pre-determined list like space key \& today's date, though including those in the title \& page would be useful). For example, the template we created today would work best with a title like
> *$Year* -*$Month* Monthly Leadership Update for *$Service*

where *$Year* , *$Month* , and *$Service* variables would be lists (i.e., choice lists). Also note that we don't always want *today's* date in the title -- e.g., the user may want to use the template to make a page for last month's report.

Cheers,

-Burke


author: Michael Rainwater
body: The new feature works well. Thank you. This really helps.


author: Laura Ulmer
body: ok its 2018. Where is the ability to configure default tiles for custom templates?


author: Trevor North
body: +1 for configurable page titles - but please allow them to be configurable enough to add a prefix and sequence number.

For example, if creating a product requirement using the blueprint, it would be great to configure a three letter acronum and e.g. a four digit sequence number.

The space key on its own isnt enough as this is for the project but each document type would need it's own identifying key.


author: G?khan Kazanc? ?kon Proje
body: Hi all,

Is it possible to add code to the title? different Codes

Page content can be defined in the emergence of a $variable in the page title?


author: Bur Davis
body: Is it possible to insert a link to the newly-created page on the page from which you invoke the 'Create from Template' macro?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why does the Zen intranet add-on look OK in Chrome, but not Firefox and IE?
Asked by Ed Reis:

In Chrome, global header, footer, and dropdowns look as they should. In Firefox and IE, content is shifted around and styles basically break.


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hello Ed,

As the Zen Intranet is a third-party plugin provided by the [Stepstone Technologies Inc.](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/32962) I would suggest you to try to make a contact with them by the following to obtain a better assistance:

[solutions@stepstonetech.com](mailto:solutions@stepstonetech.com)

1-206-441-5165

<http://www.stepstonetech.com/>

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

LJ.
Global Header error on default theme after upgrade
Asked by Evan Overby:

Just upgraded to Confluence 5 and we are getting the error as stated here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+5+global+navigation+bar+gone>

However I do not have descriptors table in the database. I do have a dbo.DESCRIPTOR. Would this be the same?


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Evan,

Do you have a decorators table? I think the KB is referencing that table rather than the descriptors table.

comments: author: Evan Overby
body: Sorry, I have dbo.DECORATOR . A typo in my first post. I have made a copy of it but wanted to be sure before I delete it. I am running on an SQL 2008 R2 Instance.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Evan,

It sounds like you have the right of things. Making a backup of the table before you truncate it is a great idea. The dbo.DECORATOR is the table you are interested in clearing. Please let us know if that works for you.


author: Evan Overby
body: I was able to resolve the issue by submitting the command

truncate table dbo.DECORATOR;

This is in SQL 2008 R2. Thanks for the help!
When migrating from OD, watches aren't migrated?
Asked by Sune M?lgaard:

It would seem that our client, for whom we have migrated from OD to Download, is experiencing users not having their watches (pages to watch) migrated.

On migration, we have, as per request, set up two user dirs as Internal Dir with LDAP Authentication, the functioning of which, according to my understanding, should only create new users when no previous users exists, but authenticate existing users, keeping their settings.

Please advise


Answers:
author: Gary
body: Hi Sune,

User bases were most likely changed when you moved to LDAP, so the people on the watch list dont technically exist. This is because in OnDemand we use the internal crowd directory only for users, so if the username doesnt match between the OD internal directory and LDAP, the user account wont exist.

Cheers,

Gary

comments: author: Sune M?lgaard
body: That is, indeed, what was going on - thank you :-)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

download
How can I repair unresolved / not accessible links?
Asked by IT-Admins GBD:

Hello,

I moved some pages from one space to another. Now there are some links broken. :-(((

These broken links now look grey and underlined, in HTMLthey look like this:

```
Alle Auftr?ge des &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a class="unresolved" href="#"&gt;Pools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; werden...
```

If I want to edit the page and mark the defective link, I can not change or set the properties of the link!

If I look on an older version of this page, there are the links all working. Only on the actual page something went wrong. :-(

How can I repair the broken links easyly?

I use Confluence v4.3.6, Build 3397

Regards


Answers:
author: IT-Admins GBD
body: The links are internal and point to other pages within the same space.

I don't know how the links were formatted before. I think they were formatted the normal way. If I revert one of this pages to an older version, the broken links and the good links look the same. I can not see any difference or possible cause why one of the links was affected.


author: MatthewC
body: how were the links formatted before the move? What type of links are they, internal pages or external resources?


Tags: link
Confluence, duplicate Wiki-Pages (and all the sub-pages plus attachments) in same space
Asked by Thomas Schubert:

Hi,

we are using Confluence 3.4.6 as Enterprise Wiki.

I want to build up a space in which we and our contractors maintain together the documentation of our IT processes and server-machines. For this we want to use a company standardized template (a fixed set of pages, sub-pages and attachments - see picture below) that I managed to move into this space now (Thanks to [this thread](../146809/confluence-import-wiki-pages-to-another-space/147734 "Confluence, Import Wiki-Pages to another space")).

As we have to use the template for many IT-processes I now have to duplicate these pages (and all the sub-pages plus attachments) in the same space several times.

Q: How can I do that?

Thank you,

Thomas

![](../../upfiles/18-03-2013_09-41-49_DupTree.jpg)


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello Thomas,

We have the following bit of Documentation in our Knowledge base.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Copy+or+Rename+a+Space+in+Confluence>

This article reviews a manual process to copy or duplicate a space. We also have a copy space plugin available in out marketplace. It looks like version 1.2 will work for you.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.copyspace>

It is also important to note that Confluence 3.4 is now End of Life. You may want to upgrade into a supported version of Confluence for your enterprise piece of software.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence>

comments: author: Thomas Schubert
body: > ... process to copy or duplicate a space.
>
> ... also have a copy space plugin

Without having read that, once more: I dom not want to duplicate whole spaces but just sub-trees.

Q: Will that be possible in an actual or upcoming version of confluence?

Thank you,

Thomas


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Thomas,

Are you trying to import part of space into a new space? Could you make a space for each of your subtrees and then import that?


author: Thomas Schubert
body: > Are you trying to import part of space into a new space? Could you make a space for each of your subtrees and then import that?

So I should create subspaces in which I had to import my pagetree - I will try.

Thank you!
How to vertical tab sections on confluence zen foundation?
Asked by lily56:

default tab sections arrangement is horizontal ? how to horizontal?

![](../../../upfiles/tab.png)


Answers:
author: Darryl Duke
body: At the moment, vertical tabs aren't supported by Zen, though it is on our new-features roadmap.


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body: Wonderful.  

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Tags: addon-com.zenfoundation
Title Capitalization
Asked by ashan:

Hi team confluence,

Right now, every word in my titles is automatically capitalized by confluence. For example, if I have a \<h3\> title as "Intall on Linux", confluence automatically sets this as "Install On Linux". This is incorrect capitalization. How can I fix this please?

Thank you.

-Ashan


Answers:
author: RianA
body: How do you replicate this issue? Did you specify the heading from Confluence Editor or is it from html macro?


author: ashan
body: The reason why I think it is confluence doctheme styling is because \<H2\> titles are all capitalized. \<H3\> titles capitalize the first letter of all words. It appears correctly in \<h4\> and below.

I tested on IE 9 and firefox 19. Firefox has add-ons but I rarely even use IE. It happens in multiple machines too.

comments: author: Joe Clark
body: Ah, I see. I was testing on the default theme, not the documentation theme. Maybe this is the difference? I'll test again now.


author: Joe Clark
body: I just tested on Confluence 4.2.2, with the documentation theme enabled using IE9, and I'm not getting any kind of auto-capitalisation behaviour in Confluence. I'm not sure what your problem could be!

Do you have any custom JavaScript, CSS or theme/header/footer modifications in Confluence (added by an Administrator) that could be doing this?


author: Joe Clark
body: I don't think Confluence does this, it might be something in your browser that is automatically capitalizing as you type. What browser are you using, and do you have any browser add-ons or extensions installed? Have you tried this on a different browser and/or on a different computer and if so, do you get the same behaviour?


author: ashan
body: Any help on this guys?


author: ashan
body: That would be 4.2.2


author: MatthewC
body: what version of Confluence?


Tags: title
how to show Activity Stream under specified page?
Asked by lily56:

I need show Activity Stream under specified page? not but a space? How can I configure?


Answers:
author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hello,

Do you mean that you would like to display a list of the recently updated content from within a page. We have the following document that outlines how to do that.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Recently+Updated+Macro>

If not, what kind of content are you looking to display on the page?