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Adding a user that is NOT part of my directory for administrator purposes
Asked by Andrew Sternick:

My Confluence instance has a LDAP user directory configured. The service account used for this is not what I want and I would like to change it. The problem I am running into is:

I cannot, by design, use an account that is drawn from the LDAP directory, on the (logical grounds) that I could lock myself out. Fair enough; I need a user account with the appropriate system administrator level of access that is not an LDAP user.

The problem is, I cannot create a user account specific to Confluence. An attempt to use the "Add User" interface in Confluence Admin never completes. The "Create" button just does nothing, no report, no failure notice....zip.

I am not sure what log I ought to look at to begin troubleshooting this, but it occurs to me there might be a directory issue that is causing this problem.


Answers:
author: SimonS
body: Hi Quijybo,

It should be possible to add a user to Confluence's internal directory - you might be running into a bug or a configuration issue.

This will probably require some debugging work, best done with our support team. Please contact our support team via our [Support Portal](https://support.atlassian.com). If you have never used our support services before, you'll have to [sign up](https://support.atlassian.com/secure/Signup!default.jspa).

Let us know what the issue was here, once you figure it out, so other users can see what the issue was if they experience something similar.

-Simon
is webdav access /editing enabled on our instance of confluence
Asked by Inviqa Office:

i did follow the documntation on jira's help page but i'm not able to connect.

trying to connect via command line with 'cadaver' i get this error

==

could not access / (not WebDAV-enabled?):

501 Method PROPFIND is not defined in RFC 2068 and is not supported by the Servlet API

Connection to \`ibuildings.altassian.com' closed.

==

any help is appreciated


Answers:
author: Inviqa Office
body: i am now able to connect providing my username and password (I'm admin on our instance) but all that I can get via webdav is

Coll: atlassian-jira 0 Aug 23 09:45

Coll: backupmanager 0 Aug 6 15:15

Coll: dump_files 0 Apr 30 02:45

I THOUGHT I could browse the content of Confluence as I would like to update via webdav the following page

<https://ibuildings.jira.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2622141>

can you advise i i can reach this content via webdav?

regards and thanks

marco


author: LucasA
body: Hello,

Yes, WebDAV for file handling is enable by default in all OnDemand instance. The WebDAV access for Confluence edit is a native feature, so it's enabled too.

If you have any other question or need a more deeply support, please raise a support ticket on <https://support.atlassian.com>

Regards,

Lucas Lima

Atlassian Support

comments: author: Inviqa Office
body: i am now able to connect providing my username and password (I'm admin on our instance) but all that I can get via webdav is

Coll: atlassian-jira 0 Aug 23 09:45

Coll: backupmanager 0 Aug 6 15:15

Coll: dump_files 0 Apr 30 02:45

I tghuth I could browse the content of Confluence as I would like to update via webdav the following page

<https://ibuildings.jira.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2622141>

can you advise i i can reach this content via webdav?

regards and thanks

marco


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is it possible to grant global template editing permissions to non-adminstrators?
Asked by Jennifer Redman:

Hello,

Using Confluence 4.2.3 - is it possible to add Global template creation privileges to groups without system-administrator permissions? There are several admin tasks I'd like to assign to a new group without giving away access to everything.

Thanks,

Jen


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. You have to be an administrator to amend global templates.

You could do some coding to cover this, and I \*think\* there's an open request with Atlassian to allow more delegation of functions to admin groups, but at the moment, you're stuck I'm afraid.


author: Stephanie Allen
body: I asked this same question during Administrator's training in Nov 2012, and was told no. I would also really like to grant permissions to template creations without giving across-the-board admin access. This model actually makes very little sense to me.

I couldn't find any open issues in JIRA for this, so I created one. Please vote on it!

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27488>


Tags: confluence-administration

permission
PDF export is changing html table column's width
Asked by Mary Ramirez:

The html tables are exported assigning equal width for each column, even though the original html table's columns have a different width. Is there any work around this? Right now I have to export to a word and a pdf documents and print the pages from each file that look acceptable.


Answers:
author: MS
body: Some other layout properties such as margins may cause the tables to come out in portrait on landscape pages (especially when you're switching to landscape for tables). Try experimenting with margins, etc.

You can force column widths by placing discreet characters such as underscores, coloured to match the shading, in the header boxes after the header text.


author: hsuhailah
body: Sounds like you're hitting this bug: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25567>

The workaround is to add this CSS code to the custom PDF Stylesheets:  

```
table{   table-layout:auto !important;   width: auto !important;}
```

comments: author: MS
body: Changing the table width appears to affect the note macro in my PDFs. :-(


author: Mick Davidson
body: I've tried using both of the following and niether, either individually or combined, have made any diference. I can't see anything in the user info that helps, and I have tried both to find it and use what's there.

@page  
{  
/\*A4-sized pages in landscape orientation are 297 mm wide by 210 mm long\*/  
size: 297mm 210mm;  
}  
@table  
{  
table-layout:auto !important;  
width: auto !important;  
}

Does anyone else have any advice on how to get tables to print properly? I'm also using a two column layout added from the Page Layout button, this also doesn't work.

Cheers.


author: MS
body: Hi Mary,

You can fix this in the PDF stylesheet by adding the following CSS:

table

{

table-layout:auto;

}

Cheers,

Mary-Jane


author: Giuliano C.
body: Hello there, I'm not sure if is it is the same problem, but, we have a Feature Request talking about table column's width in export to pdf. Could you please take a look at the Feature Request?

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-11825>

Cheers

comments: author: Mary Ramirez
body: Hi Giuliani:

It is related with formatting, but in the features requests that you sent me they are mentioning column borders and header shadows, for my case is the column width. I am attaching an image in case this helps.

![](../../upfiles/Confluence_pdf_export_table.jpg)

Thank you,

Mary
Where do you set attachments directory for TWiki?
Asked by Michael:

I am doing some work on migrating data from TWiki to Confluence. On the TWiki specific page for UWC (<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+TWiki+Notes>) it says:

Attachments {#toc-hId-1844049798}
=================================

You should point your 'attachments dir' at the TWiki pub dir which is part of the TWiki standard install.

Example: C:\\tmp\\qwiki\\qwiki\\pub

However, it doesn't say where this attachements is set. The converter.twiki.properties file doesn't have any setting for attachment dir. So where is it set?


Answers:
author: Michael
body: I figured it out. It goes in the attachments property of confluenceSettings.properties. That is a little confusing because that file seemed to hold confluence related settings and then converter.twiki.properties held TWiki settings, but then all of a sudden you had to put a twiki setting in confluenceSettings.properties. That seems odd, it would make more sense IMHO to have attachment setting in converter.twiki.properties.


Tags: universal-wiki-converter
PDF export not showing PDF attachments
Asked by Mary Ramirez:

I have a page with several pdf and ppt attachments. When I export to pdf, is not exporting the pdf attachments either the ppt. Is there a way to export the page and have the attachments visible in the same exported document?

The pdf file is showing: you need flash player installed to preview pdf and ppt. I have installed: Adobe Flash Player 11 Activex and Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: This is a known bug in Confluence.

Sorry I don't know of any workarounds.

The issue to watch is <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-15973> - feel free to vote and comment on it.

Cheers,  
Mark

comments: author: Mary Ramirez
body: Thank you for your reply, but apparently the only thing that changed since 2009 was the message shown in the exported pdf. This is something that should be fixed soon. There is no point in having the attachments linked to the document, if you are not able to see their content after the export process is run. We are using conflcuence to create our technical documentation since we are able to create UML diagrams and spaces per project, but having to print the attachments separately is not likely.


author: Mark Hrynczak
body: Well, the issue has only 1 vote, so it doesn't seem to be a problem for most users.

Also, the issue is referring specifically to embedded PDF and PPT attachments, which are not rendered in a PDF export. However, your last comment mentions UML diagrams as attachments. If the embedded content is a Gliffy diagram or an image file, then it should render as expected in the PDF export. Would that be a suitable workaround for you?

If your attachments do need to be PDF/PPT for whatever reason, then leaves some open questions such as how would you display multiple pages of PDFs or presentation animations in an export? If you can detail your actual requirements on the issue I linked to, it has a greater chance of being actioned in the future.
Migrating 3.5
Asked by Joerg Bencke:

Good day, friends,

I have been out of touch a bit and have to migrate a 3.5.4 to some fresh systems. It uses confluence-markup and some 5 or 6 usermacros and quite some links + tools from adaptavist.

Is there a good 4.x version to migrate too and have a sourcecode editor for the XML ? or is that not that far, yet ?

Regards, Josh


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Hi Josch,

You can upgrade to the latest version of Confluence up to date which is 4.2.13. However you need to make sure that your plugins and usermacro is compatible with that version of Confluence. You could check from Confluence Admin \>\> Plugins, and see if it's compatible. In regards of your user macro, you need to upgrade first, and edit the user macro to be compatible. if the page is not migrated, you need to [re upgrade the page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migration+from+Wiki+Markup+to+XHTML-Based+Storage+Format). Also, we would like to encourage you to use [Manual upgrade](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence+Manually).

Hope it helps.  
-RJ


author: sunwave
body: Hi

we've migrated from 3.5.10 to 4.1.7.   
Must have Plugin is "Confluence Source Editor" because you can't edit in wiki-markup language anymore.  
To repair some migrated Pages by hand you need this Plugin. It's an XML-Editor btw.  

I'm planing to migrate to 4.2.13 and have now problems with the   
"CustomWare Linking Plugin Version 3.0.1". Therefore I advise you to not upgrade to the current release if you use this Plugin.


Tags: migration
Hide Children pages while using Documentation theme
Asked by Nawaz Quadri:

With the help of page layout changes we are able to hid the appearance for child pages. But some of the spaces are using documentation Theme which do not allow the changes of space layout. In that case how can we hide the appearance of child pages for a space using Documentation theme

<br />


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Browse to **Confluence Admin \| Look \& Feel \| Custom HTML**

Paste into **At the end of the HEAD**:

```
&lt;script&gt;  AJS.toInit(function () {    AJS.$('#children-section').remove();  });&lt;/script&gt;
```

This has the happy side-effect of allowing you to reset all your page layout modifications and therefore will provide an easier upgrade path :)

comments: author: Nawaz Quadri
body: Hi David,

I have already gone through this solution and the blog post that describes this solution. How ever this does not solves my issue. This solution actually aplies to global level and will affect all the sapces. My problem is related to a single space having documentation theme. How can I add the rendering of child pages in a "SPACE" having documentation theme?

Regards,

Nawaz Q.


author: Karina Clemente
body: On the same note, we are trying to hid the Administror changes on the top of the page. This would make the page look so much cleaner. Does someone have any ideas?


author: hsuhailah
body: You may also refer to this blog post by Andrew: <http://blog.networkedcollaboration.com/2012/03/12/hide-confluence-child-pages-with-jquery/>

comments: author: Nawaz Quadri
body: Hi Hanis,

I have already gone through this solution and the blog post that describes this solution. How ever this does not solves my issue. This solution actually aplies to global level and will affect all the sapces. My problem is related to a single space having documentation theme. How can I add the rendering of child pages in a "SPACE" having documentation theme?

Regards,

Nawaz Q.
Is the search on answers.atlassian.com totally broken?
Asked by Sorin Sbarnea (Citrix):

I tried to search for "rest browser" and got 0 results, even if I had a question asking about how to access the REST Browser ?!


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: Pretty much completely broken, yes. I think they may be fixing this stuff soon. In the meantime just use google with the site operator ([site:https://answers.atlassian.com](http://site:https://answers.atlassian.com) rest browser):

[https://www.google.co.uk/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=7\&sourceid=chrome\&ie=UTF-8\&q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fanswers.atlassian.com+rest+browser](https://www.google.co.uk/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fanswers.atlassian.com+rest+browser)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, it works, but I don't find it inituitive at all, and I don't think other people do either.

Atlassian are looking at it, and I've scribbled some feedback, but until it's improved, try "site:answers.atlassian.com rest browser" in google. It's annoying that we have to go outside the built-in search, but that's a giveaway that it's not working.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Bascially, wot Jamie said. It might technically work, but it's not working for humans.


author: Jeremy Largman
body: We've really been working on trying to improve search. Obviously, we're not there yet. Here's the status:

We've migrated search engines, from OSQA's native pyparsing to a combo of Haystacksearch + Xapian. Think of it as a change from querying the database to a Lucene-like binary data structure. That has improved performance significantly (we're no longer getting frequent crashes), but we have a few bugs to work through.

Once it's fixed - and we're close - we'll provide an advanced search UI where you can search by user, date, AND/OR/exact match, answer/question/comment. And, in general, the intuitive type a search string in will work close to what Google does. Once it's implemented it should offer an improvement to Google in that you'll have advanced search functionality, but to be honest Google may still be better in some ways, but this could be said about Confluence and JIRA as well...


Tags: community
Use cases for application links Jira - Confluence
Asked by Michael Schlueter:

I created an application link between Jira and Confluence and also linked a Jira project with a Confluence space. The documentation in <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ds/Integrating+JIRA+and+Confluence> claims that adding \[Test Page\] in a Jira issue will create a link to the Confluence page "Test Page" in the linked space. However, this doesn't seem to work. The link turns red points to nowhere. So I wonder what is the right syntax for this kind of link and what else could be the benefit of linking a Jira project and the Confluence space.


Answers:
author: John Burns
body: I am not sure if this is a function of an application link, but in a JIRA issue, you can add a link that points to a confluence page, in the same way you create in Issue Link. I use this when there is an issue in JIRA which represents a task to complete or update documentation. I point the link to the page that should be updated.

I see what you are referring to on the confluence page under the heading "Applinks Plugin", but I have never used that feature.


Tags: jira
No russian symbols in generated PDF (Scroll PDF Exporter)
Asked by STS Confluence:

All Russian symbols is absent in PDF generatade from Confluence multilingual page.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: FYI, to export a Confluence page written in a language other than English, you need to install the necessary font for that language. This means that you need to upload the font file to Confluence, as described in this documentation: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Creating+PDF+in+Another+Language>.

If the above still did not help, you may want to contact K15t Software GmbH (develper of Scroll PDF Exporter) at support@k15t.com or [http://support.k15t.com](http://support.k15t.com/) for further help as this is a third-party plugin which is not developed by Atlassian.
Confluence History
Asked by MPal Pal:

Hi All,

A lot of people have access to our company docs done in confluence. If someone changes a setting in a space or edit content on a page, how can I check which user did that please? Is there some sort of history maintained?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]
body: Hello -

For Page changes - I think you are looking for this:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+History+and+Page+Comparison+Views>

When on a page, see Tools \>\> Info.

For Space and other system-wide changes, there is some general metrics like that tracked with this plugin.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.appfusions.confluence.plugins.engagement>

Check it out. If need more metrics - it can be extended by AppFusions.

Ellen


Tags: page-history

space
How to insert a facebook like button in a confluence page?
Asked by Bahar ?a?lar:

I am trying to add facebok like putton to my confluence page.

Facebook developers gives the code:

<http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/>

I tried to add html using html-include macro, but it doesn't work :S

I want to add social links like atlassian blog does.

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

How can I do this? Please help.

Thanks for answers.


Answers:
author: sdgew sdfwe
body: \~\~\~ spam \~\~\~


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: See this reference:

<http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/>

Adapting the HTML5 version of the generated code...

Browse to **Confluence Admin \| Look \& Feel \| Custom HTML**

In **At the end of HEAD**, paste:

```
&lt;script&gt;AJS.toInit(function(){	var fbLike = '&lt;div class="fb-like" data-href="' + window.location.href + '" data-send="false" data-width="450" data-show-faces="true"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;';		var fbScript = '&lt;div id="fb-root"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;script&gt;(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, \'script\', \'facebook-jssdk\'));&lt;/' + 'script&gt;';		AJS.$('.wiki-content').append(fbLike);	AJS.$('body').prepend(fbScript);});&lt;/script&gt;
```

You should now be able to like and also post to FB:

![](http://i.minus.com/ibmb0WzMwdABSR.png)

comments: author: Bahar ?a?lar
body: This inserts to header, but I want to add wherever I want to use it.

![](../../upfiles/scre_1.png)


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Yes, that looks kinda weird. I've made a minor edit to the script and it's working good for me on Confluence 4.2 using Google Chrome and Safari on a OSX Lion.

This approach may be better than the answer by @Bahar ?a?lar because it automatically will embed the like button on all Confluence pages/blogposts.


Tags: social-media
Macro to replace tab with 4 spaces?
Asked by E:

If it possible to create a user macro that can replace a tab with 4 spaces?

The Codeblock macro has a bug that means tabs print as a single space, so I'm wondering if a macro could be created that would create a code block and then look at the text entered in the codeblock and replace the tabs with 4 spaces.

Is this possible? Any suggestions how?


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: I imagine the code block can be pinpointed easily, perhaps because it is a div with a certain class. In this case I would suggest trying to use jQuery to analyse the div content and replace the tab character with four non breaking space characters. JQuery is bundled with Confluence, so is easily used in user macros.String replacement example: <http://www.jquery4u.com/dom-modification/replace-string-characters-javascript/>


Tags: code-block

macro

user-macro
Mentions not appearing in Workbox
Asked by Richard S:

Trying out the new Workbox notifications this morning and i must say I absolutely love the personal actions and the way it picks up in-line actions from any pages that are assigned to you.

One thing I have noticed though, is that when I mention (not an action) someone else, or they mention me, the notifications do not appear in the workbox.

Is there something that we need to set somewhere, or is this not working correctly yet?


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Steve, this is not an Confluence expected behavior.

Are these notifications of mentions appearing in your email?

If 'yes' we're experiencing a problem with Confluence Workbox.

If'no' it could be a problem with the Index.

Also, I'm not sure about it, but it could be something related to installed plugins. If you want, you can enable/disable the following plugins:

Notifications and Tasks - Common Plugin

Notifications and Tasks - Host Plugin

Notifications and Tasks - Confluence Provider Plugin

To re-enable the plugins, do so in the following order: Common Plugin, Host Plugin, Confluence Provider Plugin.

You can see detailed steps it through this page: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Notifications+in+Confluence>


Tags: confluence-cloud

mention

notification

workbox
OnDemand internationalisation for simplified Chinese
Asked by Robert Vose:

I have an evaluation license for JIRA, Confluence and GreenHopper.

My main issue has to do with Internationalization.

How do I test the Simplified Chinese language pack for OnDemand Atlassian products?

Your manual mentions downloading the addon and installing the language pack.

Can the language pack be used for the Ondemand version of Atlassian, rather than for a local installation?


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, at this point OnDemand doesn't allow other language packs. You can vote for this at <https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-801>.

Otherwise, you either need a local installation or a hosted installation.

comments: author: Robert Vose
body: Hi Harry,  
Thank you for you comment. I added a vote for internationalisation options in OnDemand as per your link. I am also testing a local installation.  
Regards,

Robert


Tags: locale