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Sending out SMS
Asked by Selcuk Savas:

Dear All,

It is possible to send out SMS to the confluence users via a pluging when there is an update on a page or on a space?

How?

Cheers,

Selcuk


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: There's an outstanding feature request but there is no SMS plugin for Confluence

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-13672>

however, if you wanted to do it for specific users you could change their email address to one that is sent to an SMS gateway and converts the email to an SMS and delivers it. If they also wanted to receive the email in their inbox, you would create an alias that sent it to both the reguar inbox \& the sms gateway

This article should give you a few ideas to get started.

<http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/>

comments: author: Selcuk Savas
body: Thank for the information Matthew. It is a long outstanding feature request.

I have checked the article that you sent. Unfortunately it is a really big problem to collect every users mobile numbers and providers and maintain the data as they may change the provider very often .

I am looking forward hearing about the new feature soon.

I don't have access so I cannot vote for the request.

Cheers,

Selcuk


author: adam son
body: i don't thing its full information,visit our website to get better information. [SMS SQUAD](https://smssquad.com/ "SMS")


author: fazil mushtaq
body: thanks for giving us information.

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author: Neha Singh
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Page per group vs group space help needed
Asked by Selcuk Savas:

Dear All,

We would like to create an area to display group specific contect distilled from master/parent area.

This area need to have

* Calendar: Display general items + group specific items and it fires up email notification to all users in the group
* Blog or news feed: Display latest information to the group posted by the administrators
* Survey: Show available survey to this group and encourage them. It may be several surveys open at the time but maybe some of them available to the group.
* Forum: The group members post questions and comments on an open forum

Is this wishlist achievable?

What is the best approach: a group page or a space?

Which plugins do I need to investigate?

What are the possible hurdles? What should I pay extra atention?

Thanks in advance. Any help will be highly aprreciate it.

Cheers,

Selcuk


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Yes, this wishlist is available through some plugins or Confluence Features:

Calendar: We have the **Team Calendars** **Plugin** <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.extra.team-calendars>

Blog or News Feed: There's the **RSS Feed macro** to reach this question <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/RSS+Feed+Macro>

Survey: **Survey Plugin** works fine to reach Survey questions <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.nearinfinity.confluence.survey-plugin>

Forum: **Community Bubbles** enhances collaboration and encourages interaction within your wiki by letting people connect and discuss. A forum. <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.bubbles>

A group space is better to share with people, it's more easy. But a page is recommended too, will be better if you have both of them. This question is more about which will reach what you're wanting.

I've sent to you the plugins that you have to investigate, don't worry about it.

URL curtomisation will need an Apache. When you upgrade Confluence, if you have any customisations, you will have to reset them, they will interrupt you with it, if you don't you could get some errors and could be not abble to proceed. Also, don't forget that customisations are out of support scope. Also, if you wish, you can take a look at Confluence 4.3 Release Notes, to be updated with it. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.3+Release+Notes>

Kind Regards,

Giuliano Tenedini

comments: author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi Giuliano,

Thanks for the advice. Let me keep the question open for a while. If there won't be any other (satisfactory) answer I will accept your answers.

Cheers,

Selcuk
Bulk delete of watches for a user in Confluence
Asked by Neeraj Tiwari:

One of the users in Confluence has too many page watched since he has notifications for 1729 unique pages and hence loading the list of pages he watches is taking a while for him.

I found a solution online here: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/33993/bulk-unwatch-pages?page=1#90305. Just wanted to check whether droping the notification entries for the user from confadmin database (using the query given by Christian) is a safe way or not and should I proceed with that...

Also, is it necessary to stop Confluence before the db edit and perform indexing after the db edit?


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: the query looks good to me but you should \*always\* have a DB backup before you do do any modifications, just in case something goes horribly wrong.

It's also advisable to stop confluence to make the changes \& starts afterwards. You could flush the caches (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Changing+Content+Directly+via+SQL>) but I prefer a restart, it's a lot cleaner

You don't need to reindex for something like this.

comments: author: MatthewC
body: BTW do it in the DEV/TEST environment first ;-)


author: Neeraj Tiwari
body: thanks for your help...for some reason I never received an email saying I got an answer...I thought I automatically "watch" a question that I posted here?


author: chang.lee
body: Hi there, is there a way to mass delete users in Confluence? Or an add-on for mass deletion like the one for Jira?

comments: author: Martin Boehme
body: Hi,

Please submit an new question for this topic.

Martin


Tags: watch
Impersonate a user
Asked by Selcuk Savas:

Dear All,

Is there a way to impersonate users for the administrators? I found Sudo Plugin but I cannot install it as it is not suitable for our version of Confluence (v.4.1.4)

Cheers,

Selcuk


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: That's the right answer!

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.javahollic.confluence.confluencesu>

You could either contact Andy Brook and ask nicely if he will update it, do it yourself or ask an Atlassian partner/consultant to do it

comments: author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi Matthew,

I contacted Andy. He said that it is in the pipe. I am looking forward using this one.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,

Selcuk


author: Jon Tice
body: [Jack Nolddor \[Sweet Bananas\]](https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=movil.jacknolddor) made a free plugin for Confluence that is similar to the Jira User Switcher

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220850/user-switcher-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220850/user-switcher-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)

comments: author: Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas]
body: I've just seen this message.  
Thanks!


author: Bhupesh Nagda
body: [Script Runner](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.onresolve.jira.groovy.groovyrunner)!! is awsome


author: Andrei [errno]
body: you might have talked about <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.sudo>

it works for 4.1 as well, although it does not say so in the "supported versions"


Tags: sudo
Page Tree is not responding
Asked by Jaime De La Ree:

I have tried using all my browers, mac, pc, and another person's PC to make adjustments to the layout of the pages (trying to make one page a child to another). It won't let me click and drag to a new position, the image of the text and icon just freeze in place. when i click and drag again, it treats the entire tree as an image.


Answers:
author: Karie Kelly
body: I was notified by support that the customer facing issue is: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26647>

If you are interested in resolving sooner than later, recommend you vote and comment on it.


author: FernandoA
body: This is the ticket link we are using for tracking this bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26647>


author: Jaime De La Ree
body: Thanks for all the great answers. I hope this really does deploy with the OnDemand version being released Monday October 15th 2012. Will follow up when it does.

thanks again.

J


author: Karie Kelly
body: Yes - I reported the same issue through support yesterday - I started experiencing the problem last week but waited for the Sept 24th OnDemand version to be updated to see if it fixed - it didn't :-(

It's a major issue for us right now as we head into 4th quarter as we use this feature ALOT to consolidate pages into quarters and years once the quarter or year closes.

BTW - Atlassian set the priority of this issue to minor.


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: There is an open issue on this at least for OnDemand - <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-20874> . Apparently it is not public yet.


Tags: page-tree
Page not found after save Blog Post
Asked by Buelent Caliskan:

Hi!

I cant create Blog Posts after update Confluence from 3.1 to 3.5.17.

The error affects only one of 120 spaces.


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: we probably need more information to guess at any kind of answer.... logs, exceptions, messages? 1st guess is that it's permissios or maybe some 3rd party plugin?
Confluence 4.3.x Migrating to New Database Looses Previously Installed Plugins
Asked by Gavin Fowler:

I'm wondering if anyone has any experience of migrating the between back-end databases.

I'm attempting to migrate away from our ageing Oracle 9i database to mySQL 5.5.x. I've followed the instructions on the atlassian website (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Migrate+to+Another+Database>) and used method #2 (as my attachments folder is \~1.4GB).

The migration works (at least it doesn't throw errors during the process), but when i log in and look at the installed plugins all i see is what i suspect is a default set of plugins belonging to a new installation, all my manually installed plugins (like SQL Plugin, Page Information Tools, etc, etc ) are missing. As a result pages using these plugins show "unknown macro" in place of expected functionality.

If I revert back to the previous Oracle database configuration (confluence.cfg.xml) and restart, all the missing plugins return and are functional.

I can only assume the plugins/associated configurations are stored in full/part in the database. I'm beginning to wonder weather I'm missing a step during my database migration and/or whether plugins need to be dealt with in another manner

FYI. I have the confluence db (in MySQL 5.5) created as outlined below (it did occur to me whether DB character-set / language is influence this).

```
CREATE DATABASE confluencedb CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;
```

Any pointers / advice would be most welcome.

Gavin.


Answers:
author: Gavin Fowler
body: The documentation also states that you need to "make note" of your installed plugins. I guess the manual installation approach is the accepted approach.


author: Jason Hensler
body: Not sure if this would work but, copy the whole data directory for confluence not just the attachements folder. Make sure you edit your confluence.cfg.xml file to point to your new database or rename the file to configure the database in the install gui.

comments: author: Gavin Fowler
body: Hey Jason, thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately copying the who data directrory still doens't help (my test was to use the a a mysql confluence.cfg.xml in the orginal data directory (where jar files reside). It seems to me there must be something stored in the database (perhaps plugin registration?). I'll test further - but for now it seems like manually installing the plugins is way forward.


author: Gavin Fowler
body: UPDATE: I've manually installed all the plug-ins from the market. This approach feels a little clumsy so still interested if there's a more optimal / preferred method.


Tags: app

database

migration
How2 use built in velocity context?
Asked by Adrian Terwedow:

Hi,

I'm using a velocity template rendered by the velocity template renderer from within a servlet. The template is rendered fine although my web-resources are bound like they should.

Problem is I cant get any of the built in velocity context elements like $dateutils, $generalUtil, $baseUrl and so on to do anything. Everything is rendered as string and seems not being processed as variables.

As those contexts are mentioned to be accessible from action- and macro-modules, I already tried to implement GeneralUtil as a velocity-context-item like that:

```
&lt;velocity-context-item key="generalUtilContextItem"	name="General Util Context Item" context-key="generalUtil"	class="com.atlassian.confluence.util.GeneralUtil"/&gt;
```

But with no effort. Did I miss anything or is it just impossible to get them to work in a servlet-hooked template?

Edit:

Thanks for your fast reply John and sorry for my delayed response :(

I followed Your suggestion and installed a lokal confluence instance via the atlassian plugins sdk 3.2.

Then I'd set up a new servlet-plugin project to run under Confluence 4.3. I am now able to use the applicationProperties Context just as suggested, but unfortunatly I still can't use the generalUtils or dateUtils items. Do I have to set up a manager instance in my servlet to be able to use them or should it be enough to declare them as velocity-context-item or template-context-items in the atlassian-plugin.xml?

Thanks and regards

Artee


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Artee,

<br />

I see that this question relates to an OnDemand instance of Confluence, and if that is the case then the reason you won't be able to do this is because this is a restricted function in OnDemand, as per our documentation on the restricted functions in OnDemand: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Restricted+Functions+in+Atlassian+OnDemand>

Therefore if this functionality is important to you then you should consider hosting your own instance of Confluence so that you can customise the velocity templates in your instance.

All the best,  
John


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is SQL 2008 SP3 Supported?
Asked by Tom Wilson:

We are plaaning to upgrade to service pack level SQL 2008 SP3. We need to make sure there is no compatibility issue or anything like that.


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: It's not yet officially on the supoprted platforms list yet but it should probably be ok. Which products are you using?

Confluence lists 2008 SP2 <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Supported+Platforms>

Jira doesn't list SP levels <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Supported+Platforms>

best go through <http://support.atlassian.com> if you want it to be official


author: Marcus Silveira
body: Hi Thomas,

There's currently no known issues with any of Atlassian products regarding SQL 2008 SP3.

Nonetheless, I'd advise you to always first try updates on a testing environment whenever possible.

Hope this helps,

Marcus Silveira
How can i connect to the JDBC resource from inside a Java plugin? (Confluence)
Asked by Matt Albone:

I need to connect to the Confluence databases to the extent where i can execute SQL queries and get results.

When attempting to create a JDBC connection in my user search plugin, I get the following error

```
java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc/renderStatsDS
```

This is (i believe) because Confluence uses a resource on the server to connect automatically to it's database.

I've found the resource at opt/atlassian/confluence/conf/server.xml

```
&lt;Resource   name="jdbc/renderStatsDS"    auth="Container"    type="javax.sql.DataSource"    driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"    url="jdbc:mysql://aveley.dhcp.dneg.com/renderstats?autoReconnect=true"    username="safety"    password="safety"    maxActive="25"    maxIdle="5"    maxWait="10000"/&gt;
```

Does anyone know how to access this resource?

Alternatively if anyone has any code they could share that has connected to the confluence database and been able to execute SQL via some other method, that would obviously be very helpful to me too.

Cheers, Matt


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Matt, check my answer to [How to access external database through Confluence Plugin](/questions/90026/how-to-access-external-database-through-confluence-plugin?page=1#90030) earlier today :)

It's almost an identical question. Also, don't forget to add your driver jar to **\<CATALINA_HOME\>\\common\\lib**

comments: author: Matt Albone
body: My colleague had actually jsut stood up from his seat to come and tell me he'd found out how to do this as I was looking at your response haha.

Thanks a lot for the reply, I'm surprised i didn't find that toher post from this morning when i was searching here, maybe it hadn't been cached yet or something.

Thanks again!


author: Chris Kent
body: Hi David

Is it possible to create a datasource from the Confluence database (configured in confluence.cfg.xml). I know it can be done by adding another entry in server.xml (duplicate) but if I want to ship my plugin to users, they will need to do this manually and I don't want them too.

Cheers


author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, you need to use JNDI to access this resource.


Tags: app

database

database-connection

jdbc

sql
Excel fails to download
Asked by Mick Davidson:

I'm trying to download an Excel attachment but it keeps failing with this error msg:

Page Not Found {#toc-hId-1817351296}
====================================

The page you were trying to reach could not be found. This could be because:

* The page does not exist.
* The page exists, but you do not have permission to view it.

The spreadsheet doesn't have permissions set, and I can download and view other spreadsheets attached to the same page.

Cheers.


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Found the answer.

It's because there were plus signs in the name.

We removed these and now it downloads correctly.

Cheers.


author: bogdan_maier
body: Bad question, not constructive at all, maybe an example for other user would be greate.


Tags: attachment

download

ms-excel
How can I set limitations; one user to edit Excel file at a time
Asked by Ilkka Ker?nen:

I m sharing an Excel file for dozens of users to edit in confluence. Problem evolves when two user edit the file at a same time. When this happens the other users updates will fanish when the latter one saves his own modifications. Is there a way to set limitation for simultaneuos user count for a attachement?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not really.

Confluence is not a document management system, or a source-control system. Attachments are a convenience and the tracking/locking functions around them simply aren't that sophisticated.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
New installation as a Google App -- my users can't see the Wiki tab?
Asked by Rob Gabel:

Hi, as the admin I can see the wiki tab but my users cannot. If I send them a link to a wiki page they get an error.

Some notes:

\* All user accounts were created automatically by Google Apps. They are all members of the group "users"

\* The Jira projects are all linked to the confluence wikis

\* When I invited a non-Google user, it did say that I had more Confluence accounts left to assign than Jira accounts

\* However, I can't seem to find a way to authorize my users to have access to Confluence

Thank you


Answers:
author: Rob Gabel
body: Ah ha!  

There is a link in Administration called "Google Management". On our installation, under "Defaults for New Users", only Jira was checked. Editing and adding Confluence took care of new users

To take care of existing users, I found I could go to "User Management" and click "Application Access"

All Set!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Macro connection
Asked by Selcuk Savas:

Dear All,

Is there a way to connect/tie up 2 macros ?

I am using usage statistic marco which gives me a table basically.

I woud like connect it to insert chart macro to provide a bar chart based on usage statistics.

Any help weill be appreciated it.

Regards,

Selcuk


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You can use the chart macro and put any table or macro that generates a table into the body of the chart macro.

comments: author: Selcuk Savas
body: Thank you Bob.

It's great.

Cheers,

Selcuk


Tags: macro
How to add tagcloud feature to dashboard
Asked by William:

Hello guys,

Now, I want to add a tagcloud feature to dashboard, the plugin has been installed . But the problem that I can see "Edit" in my dashboard and the tagcloud only can be shown by "Browse"--\>"Global Tagcloud"/  
"Space Tagcloud".How shoud do to make the feature shown on the page anytime when I visist the dashboard.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards

William


Answers:
author: William
body: Now, I can make the tagcloud shown on a page by the following tags:

```
{cumulus:70|width=400|height=300|minStyle=6|maxStyle=12|tcolor=0x3d3cf2|tcolor2=0x333333}{tagcloud: format=cumulus|minSize=9|maxSize=50|truncate=40}{cumulus}
```

But, the problem is I can not edit the dashboard, there is no "Edit" item on the dashboard page.Then how can I manage this?

comments: author: William
body: solved, there is a plugins for dashboard layout.


Tags: dashboard

tag
How to import the contents from a confluence space to a specific space of another confluence instance?
Asked by srinivasp:

We have two confluence instances of two different versions(4.1.5 and 4.1.6) running behind our firewall with different set of users.

<br />

I have exported the space from 4.1.5 in the form of a zip file and now i want to import to a space of 4.1.6. What is the best possible way for importing this zip file without effecting the existing data.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: It is not possible to merge a space in this way. You might want to consider copying pages from one to the other being careful not to overwrite data. [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP) provides enablers for doing this.


Tags: import

space
Moving Pages in List Pages-Tree View
Asked by Shreena Patel:

Hi there,

I have never had an issue with going to the List Pages-Tree View and moving pages around. Today, I tried to move a page to the top level and it kept freezing, regardless of whether I open a fresh browser or refresh it or logout and log back in again. Is this a bug? I don't seem to have the ability to move it anywhere.

Would appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Shreena


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: I reported this as a support issue - [JST-46449](https://support.atlassian.com/browse/JST-46449). I will add a pointer to your question in that.

comments: author: Shreena Patel
body: Thanks, am I meant to be able to see it? When I clicked on the support issue link, it said I didn't have permission. See error message provided below:

**Permission Violation** It seems that you have tried to perform an operation which you are not permitted to perform.  
If you think this message is wrong, please contact your JIRA administrators.


author: Renjith Pillai
body: Atlassian support restricts the tickets to the reporter, in this case it is Bob. That is why you are unable to see it. That support case has been change to a confluence bug report which you can see in the below link.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26647>


author: Shreena Patel
body: Sorry for the poke, checked out the Confluence bug link and it says it will be deployed on 15th Oct so I will wait a couple of days. Thanks.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud