youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Table font and background color
Asked by Sozhavendhan M:

How to change the table row back ground color and the Font?

In the image we can notice that alternative rows are of diffrent background colour and one is bold whereas other is normal font. How to make it uniform.?

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


Answers:
author: m
body: If you have 3.4.6 installed, this is what I would do;

1. Switch to Wiki Markup view.

2. Copy the contents of the table to and editor (TextWrangler, UtraEdit, Vi if you be that kind of player).

3. Edit the rows searching and replacing the \| (pipe symbols) with double pipes \|\| if necessary.

4. Copy the result back to Wiki Markup view.

5. Save the file.

I sent you a video illustratinig this solution.

comments: author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Thanks Mary. Its working.


author: m
body: Hi,

Selecting a row or cell is a bit tricky. You might want to practice on simpler table first. If you want to email me directly, I'll send you a video. I could not attach that to this page. manthony@atlassian.com

Mary

comments: author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Hi Mary,

I have mailed few hours ago, please take a look.

email id : [msozhave@unhcr.org](mailto:msozhave@unhcr.org)

Thank you.


author: m
body: To change a font to bold.

1. Put the page in Edit mode.
2. Select the text or the row.
3. Press the **B** bold icon from the menu bar or **Ctrl-B** on your keyboard.

To highlight a row with grey.

1. Put the page in edit mode.
2. Select the row in the table.
3. Select the row highlight button.

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

comments: author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Hi Mary,

Thanks for the reply but i am still facing the problem.

Is there any specific option to select a row or we just need to select it by click and drag.

Also i dont see the option as highlighted by you.


author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Hi Mary,

Thanks for the reply but i am still facing the problem.

Is there any specific option to select a row or we just need to select it by click and drag.

Also i dont see the option as highlighted by you.![](../../upfiles/Table_Color_2.JPG)
In Confluence, what is the length/size limit on the "version comment" field?
Asked by Dave Drexler:

When you save an edit to a Confluence page, you can add a comment. How long can that comment be?


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Dave,

As I know, there's no limit to add that comment on the page, feel free to add the comment at any time. There's only the Database Limit to comment.
Is there a setting I have to change to allow images to be pasted into Confluence?
Asked by Greg MacLellan:

Supposedly, Confluence has support for pasting images (<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5587>) but I can't get this to work for most images.

If I try to paste any image from my local system to Firefox 16, it does nothing, but Firebug console shows an error:

```
TypeError: J is undefined  if(J.substr(0,L.length)===L){I.dom.remove(H[K])                    batch.js (line 1843)
```

If I use Firefox to copy an image from the web (using copy image) it actually pastes the URL to the image, and that works fine albeit uses the remote web image.

If I try to paste an image I copied via Greenshot to Chrome, it does nothing but the dev console shows:

```
Not allowed to load local resource: file:///C:/Users/greg/AppData/Local/Temp/4qxsmdr5.hph.png
```

If I try to paste an image I copied locally, it moves the caret around a bit, but it doesn't paste anything and doesn't show any errors.

Is it possible to make this work with local images?

There's a discussion about Greenshot + Confluence: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenshot/forums/forum/676083/topic/5181167>

There's also a bug open (<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23325>) although I'm not entirely sure I have the same problem since paste is not working for non-greenshot images.


Answers:
author: Greg MacLellan
body: Using Greenshot 1.0.6 + Confluence 5.0.2 works. Note, in the "Expert" tab I have "Device independent bitmap" and "PNG" selected as clipboard formats.

<http://i.imgur.com/Kg3rDqx.png>


author: Greg MacLellan
body: @Christian Yes, I'm a full admin.


author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Just wondering, you do have the right to add attachments in that particular space?

Cheers Christian
Restrict Refresh of the navigation panel
Asked by Sozhavendhan M:

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

On clicking the Left navigation panel, the whole page reloads.

We need to customize such that only the Main page reloads and not the navigation panel.

Kindly suggest us on the same.


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: Confluence doesn't do this, you won't be able to make it happen without major work.


author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Hi

You can take the example of Microsoft outlook the Left side links to Inbox and

We are using Confluence 3.4.6.

Is this is same in case of confluence 4.3 too?


author: Sozhavendhan M
body: Hi Team,

Please suggest us on this topic as this is urgent.
Conflunce Upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3
Asked by Din Hereqi:

Hi All

I did today a upgrade from our current verison conflunce 4.2 to 4.3 now conflunce is not working anymore i got this Error

Can somebody help me?

Thanks a lot

```
org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'isShowSignUp' in  class com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.LoginAction threw exception com.atlassian.confluence.license.exception.MissingConfluenceLicenseValidationException: The given license is missing Confluence. at /login.vm[line 6, column 28]	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.handleInvocationException(ASTMethod.java:337)	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.ja
```

### Cause {#toc-hId-1156015097}

org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'isShowSignUp' in class com.atlassian.confluence.user.actions.LoginAction threw exception com.atlassian.confluence.license.exception.MissingConfluenceLicenseValidationException: The given license is missing Confluence. at /login.vm\[line 6, column 28\]  
at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.handleInvocationException(ASTMethod.java:337)

caused by: com.atlassian.confluence.license.exception.MissingConfluenceLicenseValidationException: The given license is missing Confluence.  
at com.atlassian.confluence.license.DefaultLicenseService.assertConfluenceLicense(DefaultLicenseService.java:115)


Answers:
author: LuizA
body: Hi There,

Per the stack-trace it seems something related with license, but in order to better help you I would suggest you to raise a support ticket at our [Support.atlassian.com](http://Support.atlassian.com), since we would need to analyze some more information about your instance, steps performed and the entirety of your Confluence logs. If this is a production instance I would suggest you to rollback the upgrade attempt to avoid the downtime and so you can create a test environment (as described here - <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers>) to test your upgrade before apply in the production environment to be sure that everything will be fine.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

LJ.

comments: author: Din Hereqi
body: Hi Carlos thanks a Lot for you anser i will create Ticket. Now i have some questions about the Rollback before the upgrade did start it created a backup....zip can i use that one to rollback? and how can i do the Rollback do you know where i can find more information about that?

kind Regards Din
rollback after upgarde
Asked by Din Hereqi:

Hi All

Do you know how i can rollback a backup, which went wrong?

Before the upgrade started the systemn creted a buckup XXXX.zip

Thanks for you help


Answers:
author: PauloP
body: Hi Din

If you know whare this file is, just install a new trial JIRA istance (same old version) and try to import it. In case you don't have it, perhaps you should raise a support ticket in order to find a better option.

I believe that you'll have to clone the database and fix the upgrade in a second instance.

cheers,

Paulo Renato


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Er, which system?

Generally, though, it's remove the data for the current (broken) system, remove the upgrade and go back to the previous installation, run that with no data and then look for "backup/restore" and re-import the backup.

comments: author: Din Hereqi
body: Hi

Thanks for your feedback  
I didi today a upgrade of conflunce 4.2 to conflunce 4.3 and now i'd like to rollback to the old version


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, that's pretty much covered by my generic answer.

Find the backup file and put it somewhere safe. Stop, and then uninstall Confluence 4.3. Drop all tables from the database. Re-install Confluence 4.2. Log into it and look for the "import backup" option in the admin screens.

Have a quick look through <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Site+Backup+and+Restore>


Tags: rollback
Disable certain macros from usergroup
Asked by Daniela Scheiwe:

Hi,

as we are planning to open our Confluence installation (we're using it for project documentation) to some of our customers for collaborative work, we do not want them to be allowed to do everything in there, especially not using all macros.

Therefore I would like to be able to have something like a list of macros that I can allow for certain usergroups.

Hiding the content of a macro is not the problem, our preferred solution would be to have a limited selection of macros in the macro browser for this specific usergroup

Is that possible somehow?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, it's not possible.

You either need to code macros to support this, or find/write a plugin that will provide the function for you. On the "find" side, I've used <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.confluence.macrosecurity> a couple of times and it's spot-on, does exactly what you describe (albeit, I've not tried it on Confluence 4.x, only 3.x).

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: As Nic mentions, [Macro Security for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CMSP) provides this kind of support for [Implementing macros](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CMSP/Documentation#Documentation-Implementingmacros). The restriction is on who can **create/update** content containing the macros, however, they will still appear in the macro browser. Unauthorized usage results in an error message.


author: Daniela Scheiwe
body: That sounds pretty much like what we need, thanks to both of you!


Tags: group

macro
Confluence remember me, doesn't
Asked by JamieA:

After upgrading confluence to 4.3.1, the login "Remember Me" functionality is not working. After a restart of the browser it's necessary to log in again.

The seraph.confluence cookie is being set correctly.

I am using a custom authenticator - other than stuff specifc to PKI, I am using @Joseph Clark's code. Is this something that needs to be added to the custom authenticator or should it just work?


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: I think it's a bug in Joe's code. I've posted a possible fix here: [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24358?focusedCommentId=412365\&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-412365](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24358?focusedCommentId=412365&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-412365)

Thanks Jozef for the pointer to the login() method.

comments: author: Joe Clark
body: Fix tested and applied... thanks! Pull requests welcome in the future :-)


author: JamieA
body: Sorry, would have cloned if you had been using hg ;-)


author: JamieA
body: I am using his code almost exact as is... Apache sets the remoteuser on the request which is passed to confluence via ajp. His example is for pretty much exactly that.

I am not overriding the login method. Previously I was and rememberme worked, but all the method did was call super then add the user to the confluence-users group, so I don't think it can be related to that...?


author: Jozef Kotl?r
body: It is unclear for me to what level are you following his example-confluence-sso-authenticator. Have you overriden login method - as there is rememberMe store management?

Disclaimer: We are using CAS and I want to move remember me functionality there as we got rid of native login screen, so my knowledge doesn't cover our use case.


Tags: authentication
PDF not opening in Internet Explorer
Asked by MASH Trust Atlassian ICT Team:

Hello,

We run Confluence 4.3.2 and store PDF's within it for our staff to open (Great)..  
We have just been alerted that when a pdf is clicked for opening (only within Internet Exploer), instead of opening it asks to be saved.

Chrome works perfect

This is not a PC specific issue as we have multiple reports of the same issue across the orginisation.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue? what could it be? - please advise (apart from installing Chrome on all the PC's)....

Thanks,

<br />

Grant


Answers:
author: onkeldom
body: Just worked this issue through with Atlassian.This problem is already confirmed as a bug tracked here:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26994>

There is a workaround which helped me solving the problem for us:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=311920262>

You should check it out ...


author: onkeldom
body: We have the EXACT same problems. Win7 and IE9 won't open PDFs provided by Confluence. EVERY other site on the internet/intranet works like a charm. Chrome and FF work like a charm.

It's a very very strange problem with Confluence and IE. As a matter of face, JIRA seems to work fine.

This has nothing to do with SSL either, since it behaves like that using a fresh local install of Confluence as well.

It's a major show stopper here because the ViewPDF-Plugin sucks with an incrediblly poor rendering quality.

Atlassian should really do something about that - those annoying IE bugs are very non-enterprise like :(


author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi Grant,

Check that is there an outstanding updated for Adobe reader.

Check that is there an ourstanding update for IE and add-ons. Are Adobe add-ons enabled?

Also there should be setting in Adobe reader

Edit\>Prefrences

chose internet on the left hand side and select/tick Display PDF in prowser.

I had many problems in the past. IE and Adobe don't get along with each other very well.

Even though you fix the issue with next update/upgrade it may be broken again.

If you'd like to keep your self busy try to find a solution if you are time poor FF and Chrome is the way to go.

Cheers,

Selcuk


author: Harry Chan
body: We'd had this problem once and it had to do with Adobe Reader not having the right version, problems with the Adobe Reader plugin for Internet Explorer. Anyhow, end of the day - Chrome has built-in PDF support and why it's working.

I'd look at Adobe Reader and/or Adobe Reader + Internet Explorer integration.

comments: author: MASH Trust Atlassian ICT Team
body: I might have neglected to state that we are able to open any PDF from the internet successully from internet explorer....

I believe it to be a Confluence issue (even a plug-in incompatiblity issue)...

I have 'disabled' all our plugins tempoarily to see if this was the issue - unfortunitly it didn't resolve the issue.

Thanks,

Grant
displaying photos/screens on confluence page, zoom in
Asked by D Phillips:

I desire to:

a. upload photo to page

b. set as thumnail

c. click to pop up photo in new window.

d. while viewing text on confluence page.

ability to zoom in and out of pop up window.


Answers:
author: Jeison
body: Hi there,

I'm not sure if this will suit your needs, but you can insert an image into a page by clicking on **Insert \> Image**. Then, click the image you've inserted and set size options at the bottom of it to show it as a thumbnail. Save page. Once you've finished, you can right click the image an choose to open in new window. In that window, the image is shown with full resolution, and you can use your browser features to zoom in or out (CTRL + / -).

Hope this helps.

comments: author: D Phillips
body: Yes, that partially works. The image size is 1583 x 2331 in png format. This is the size of a multi page that scrolls. However, when clicking on this for a new window. it only shows full res or medium thumbnail.

When using the bottom right corner to reduce or increase size. The window resizes, but the image stays the same resolution.

The purpose is to view the image as a photo reference, where the text on the original page is a narrative.The ideal scenario might be to use iframes.. where the image sequences are in a scrolling left to right gallery, then to click on the image, where text appears for narrative.

Thanks.
Creating KB on Confluence
Asked by Jeff Forlenza:

We are starting a Knowledge Base on Confluence. Your online Help on the topic is good. But we need more targeted/customized info for our needs.

We need guidance on:

* How to set up analytics
* How to add buttons, similar to Atlassian KB, for users to submit questions and requests.
* Advanced search functionality (meta=tags, etc.)

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Jeff Forlenza


Answers:
author: Dobroslawa Wierzbicka
body: Hi Jeff,

If you're using OnDemand, you can't install custom plugins. As for buttons, you may want to either use the Rounded Rectangle macro, or use an image as a link.

Selcuk's idea with using labels for Advanced Search should work alright for you.

Dora


author: Jeff Forlenza
body: Selcuk, Dora,

Thanks for your quick response to my questions. I will explore plugins.

Jeff


author: Selcuk Savas
body: Hi Jeff,

Most of them are available on marketplace.

**Analytics**

Most popular is google analytics. Depends on what you'd like to to. Google analytics doesn't tell you who is doing what.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/G2G-GA-CONF>

You can also use Customware tracking plugin.

<http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/AtlassianPlugins/Tracking+Plugin>

Mixpanet Engagement plugin

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

**Add buttons and submission**

As usual there is not a simple way to do. For us for some reason ciommenting is disabled for user. Therefore they cannot comment on anything.

So it can be done via customisation or alternatively (assuming that commenting is available for your users) you can use Community Bubble pluging which does the job. <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.bubbles>

**Advanced search**

Simple use the labels and allow that user can create labels. It may be hard to control but it gives you flexibility.

and some more plugin:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.advancedSearch>

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.awesomesearch>

**Personal Note**

Plugins and macros drive me crazy. Many of them with slightly different functionality and prices and for various versions.

So if you haven't done it do create a staging area and test and test again on this staging and do move on a test space on your production instance and do test and do user test and then move to the production.

This will give you enough knowledge how to use the plugings and what may go wrong.

Cheers,

Hope this helps

Selcuk


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Migrating content from Confluence 3x to Confluence 4x
Asked by Julie Allinson:

I want to migrate content from an installation of Confluence 3.1.2 into an installation of Confluence 4.3. This seems like a pretty big jump but we'd like to avoid upgrading the 'old' confluence. My question is whether it is worth trying the 'changing the version of a space backup' or is that just doomed to fail?

**<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Changing+the+version+of+a+space+backup>**


Answers:
author: JamieA
body: That is doomed to fail. You can create a staging version of 3.1.2, do a space migration to the staging version, then upgrade the staging version to 4.3. Then if you have some other instance of 4.3 you can do a space migration to that.

I recently did this for 50-odd spaces... all automated, and worked fine.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Julie,  

I personally don't suggest to try the changing the version approach, because that can lead us to problems.  
I would suggest to create a test instance with your data from 3.1.2 and then do the upgrade following this path 3.4.9 \> 3.5.17 \> 4.3  

\* Creating a test environment and import the XML Backup (the way that I personally do).   

1. # Go to your production site, and go to _Browse \> Confluence Admin \> Backup \& Restore_ and mark just the attachments option.
2. # Go to [atlassian.com](http://atlassian.com) and download Confluence 3.1.2 ( I prefer to download the standalone version ).
3. # Extract the zip/tar.gz file of the latest version of Confluence on the place you choose. ( I highly suggest that you create a folder call: Confluence 3.1.2, and inside of this folder extract the install folder, and inside of the Confluence 3.1.2 folder create a folder call: Home ).
4. # Into the extracted folder, open the file confluence-init.properties, which is located at Confluence install directory\\confluence\\web-inf\\classes and edit the line: confluence.home=/usr/local/confluence/home to point to the path where is your new home folder of your Confluence.
5. # Now start Confluence.
6. # Create a new database in your tool, e.g: MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL... I mean a clean one.
7. # Once that Confluence is configured/running go to _Browse \> Confluence Admin \> Backup \& Restore_ and choose that XML backup that you've generated in your production.
8. # Now you'll have your clone up and running, with your data.

<br />

You don't have to worry about your database, with the full XML backup, Confluence will do the magic, I mean, populate the new database, make everything right. So, you don't need to do a clone of your database.  

I hope this helps
setting up index in Confluence
Asked by Onno Makor:

Hi,

Probably the simplest question of all but I am losing time figuring it our: How can I set up EXACTLY the same view of the content you guys have in Confluence: The left frame showing the index and the right frame showing the content.

I just need that, it is not the default view (why not), how do I get it?

Thnx

Onno


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Onno,

I believe you are referring to the documentation theme, which is bundled with Confluence, which you can read about configuring in the links below:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+the+Documentation+Theme>  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Documentation+Theme>

All the best,  
John


Tags: configuration

index