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Can I encrypt documents on a Confluence page?
Asked by Rick Wolfe:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Running Confluence Over SSL or HTTPS](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=161203)*

I want to encrypt documents on an access-controlled Confluence page. How can I do that?


Answers:
author: Rick Wolfe
body: I want page encryption, please.

comments: author: Florian Maupas
body: How did you end up encrypting your page content ?


author: Maria Viquez [ServiceRocket]
body: Hi Florian, here's the updated link to Security \& Encryption (one of Nick's suggestions). Hope you or someone else reading this find it helpful!

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/6484/security-and-encryption-for-confluence>


author: Nick Reilingh
body: There are two Confluence add-ons for securing content:

* <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.prcpo.confluence.plugins.secure-content-block/server/overview>
* <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.vault/server/overview>

Both of these plugins allow you to store encrypted content on a confluence page.

Attaching a document and having that document encrypted is a bit different and does not seem to be a feature of either of those plugins. However, there's nothing stopping you from using a third-party tool to encrypt the document client-side, upload the encrypted document it as a regular attachment, and then storing the encryption key in Confluence (perhaps even in one of those macros).


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Do you want to enable SSL or do you want page encryption? You linked SSL documents.


Tags: ssl
Display Excel Chart in Confluence
Asked by Bob Kennedy:

When I use the Excel macro to display a chart in an attached Excel file, the chart appears, but there is a black foreground that prevents me from seeing the data. I can see some colors, but that is it.

Also I tried embedding the Excel macro in a Chart macro but there is not an chart type that matches how I want the chart to appear.

Any suggestions?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Display-Excel-Chart-in-Confluence/qaq-p/344018?attachment-id=8281){#link_1186eebc77fc43}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/58161/1/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-09%20at%207.10.57%20AM.png){#display_1186eebc77fc43_0}


Answers:
author: Bob Kennedy
body: Screen Shot 2016-05-09 at 7.10.57 AM.png


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Perhaps a screenshot so we can understand what you're asking?
IF I change my domain and I request a new Cloud instance with the desired URL. do I need to pay for both instances
Asked by Daniel Angulo:

Hi, Our company is changing Name and logo , hence, we need a new domain as my Question ask, the process will request a new Cloud instance and export my current data to a file then import it to the new one.

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, you will need to pay for both.

But, if you're paying monthly, you can simply let the old one lapse and take up the new one. If you're on annual payments, it's worth raising it at <https://support.atlassian.com> to see if they'll move over the payments.


Tags: confluence-administration
get export of all pages in a space
Asked by Benjamin:

Hi all,

Need some help on how to get an itemized inventory/list output/export of all pages within a space, such as:

Space name- Wiki Space 1

Page1 FinanceRules

Page2 HR Remote Users

Page 3 etc, etc

No need for 'page1, 2, 3, etc' But at least an alphabetical list from top to bottom of all pages in a space.

I was told to export the space into xml, which I did and imported into Excel but it was not comprehensible from what I could tell and couldn't find the actual names of any page, let alone a way to filter all pages by name or something of similar.

Thanks for the help!

Ben.


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: Try this

create a page and insert the macro "Page Index"

You can then Use the Ellipsis ()three dot icon) \> export to Word

comments: author: Seamus O'Concheanainn
body: This does not work if there are more than 500 pages
Is it possible to order pages in the sidebar not alphabetically, but numerically?
Asked by Morgan Thunder:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Changing the Sequential Order of Pages](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658736997)*

This is no user for meeting notes that begin with a date. Is there a way to have pages sorted by number/ date?


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: If you include the number or the date at the start of the page title that will become the basis of the sort

Use date in the format "20yy-mm-dd" so it sorts correctly

Then you can sort in the Browse\>Pages\>Tree
reset confirmation email
Asked by Jonathan Terrell:

Trying to create confluence cloud instance, but setup email was miss typed. Is it possible to reset the email so we can use the desired domain. Thanks


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not sure quite what you're expecting here, but assuming that you need something changed on Cloud, you need to contact <https://support.atlassian.c>om . It would probably help to give them details such as the email address and domains.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
i need french version please !
Asked by Stephane Ducreux:

i need french version please ! because i dont andestand english all words !


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: ```
S'identifier 
S?lectionnez dans la liste d?roulante ? c?t? de votre personne picture icon / profile 
s?lectionnez "Settings"
s?lectionnez "Edit" au bas de cette page 
Maintenant, vous pouvez s?lectionner la langue 
sauvegarder
```


author: Rodney Hughes
body: Login

Select the drop down list next to your person icon / profile picture

select Settings

select Edit at the bottom of that page

Now you can select the language

Save


Tags: confluence-administration
disable download
Asked by it:


Answers:
author: Laurent Corbi?re
body: Hi,

Use the Style macro and hide the download button:

```
.vf-controls .left{display: none;}
```

But user still be able to download it on the attachment page.

Regards,

Laurent


author: it
body: Sorry I should have elaborated, specific PDF's we want to prevent from downloading only visible in the embedded viewer.

basically we want to use the PDF macros to embed the document but the content is sensitive and so restricting the download button is required.

This doesn't seem to be an option so we have simply added a rewrite rule on the apache2 server to redirect those requests for those specific files.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you disable downloads, people won't be able to see the stuff in the attachments.
Restricted access to the product documentation for my customers
Asked by Sunil Malhotra:

Can I restrict access to the product documentation to only my customers, without having them to login? I don't want it to be available publicly. I know I can setup Anonymous access but that opens the gates for everyone. I will appreciate any suggestions..


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: If you wan to prevent public access then you need to have a login

You could create a generic customer login to save having to create personal accounts - but then that login could be used by anyone at any time so it will devolve into a public access ...

Login also means that the person is now "inside the system" - that is good that you can see what is being done by whom - except if it is a generic login, but it does mean they are "inside" the system which may be bad, but you can manage it with perhaps a generic customer login where you change the password every 6 months ...


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
how to install confluence on raspberry pi
Asked by Alan Peterson:


Answers:
author: Bill Bailey
body: Basically you can't as the Pi doesn't have enough main memory for the current version. I did try with an older version and it installed and started to come up, but again, the Pi is hobbled by having so little memory.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It works, just, on a Pi2 B+ and the instructions are:

1. Install something like Dietpi so the OS is utterly minimal
2. Use an external USB drive
3. Install Confluence as per instructions for a Debian based system (Assuming you used Dietpi)
4. Before the bit where you first run it, edit setenv.sh, lowering the maximum memory to fit within what you have left after the OS takes up some of the memory
5. Educate your users that it's going to be painfully s l o o o o o w.... Especially if there's more than 3 of you.


author: Bill Bailey
body: Have you got it to work? When I did it, it was sooooooo slooooow that is was unusable. And the newer versions of Confluence want 2G+ min.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Work - technically yes. Usable - pfff :wink:


author: Bill Bailey
body: Funny. That was why I went with a BRIX to have a local testing server.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yeah, I scrubbed it, it just wasn't fast enough to be usable.


author: Robert Ortner
body: :wink:


Tags: confluence-administration
Easy Events RSVP plugin notification for external participants
Asked by SherryX:

We are evaluating the Easy Events RSVP plugin, if I sign up for external participants, do they get the email notification automatically when something has changed in the event? Thanks


Answers:
author: shess
body: Hi Sherry,

thanks for trying out our plugin.

If someone sign up without using an existing Confluence user, he/she will not receive email updates, because the email address is missing in that case.

We are currently working pretty much on that plugin. Extending, improving and much more. Feel free to contact us, if you need more help: <https://seibert.biz/help>

Best regards.  
Sven


Tags: addon-net.seibertmedia.plugin.confluence.event
Can I share documents stored in Confluence with external customers?
Asked by Scott Feeney:

From what I can tell I can create a 'Space' in Confluence where I can store user guides etc that have been created for various bits of hardware or software that we've built. Version control is built into the system. Some of these user guides would need to be accessed by users external to my company, i.e. customers that have purchased a software licence requiring a user guide to navigate (not all our products have proper 'help'). There would also be other company staff requiring this access that are not a part of the team or currently use Atlassian.


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: You can create a Space that has a public access - i.e. no user login which is effectively view only.

You can then grant permissions to your own staff as individual users so that when they log in as themselves, they can edit those pages.

I do just that for a technical reference "library" for my consulting business

<https://ideology.atlassian.net/wiki/x/TYCH>


author: Scott Feeney
body: Thank you Rodney. I will give this a go.

Cheers, Scott


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can you use the task report to send reminders to people that the task is pending? If so, how can this be done?
Asked by Neeraj Tharwani:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Working with Tasks](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=658736982)*

Can you use the task report to send reminders to people that the task is pending? If so, how can this be done?


Answers:
author: Nilanjana Misra
body: I have the same question.@Neeraj did you get any answer for this?


Tags: task
How to have table filter of the excel attachment file without any add-on in Confluence?
Asked by Karmen Cheung:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Developer Documentation: [JIRA email template changes](https://developer.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=21463342)*

How to have table filter of the excel attachment file without having any add-on in Confluence?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You don't. Confluence ships with an add-on that allows you access to Excel attachments, but if the functionality in that is not good enough, you need code, in the form of add-ons, to do it.


Tags: developer-documentation
Disabling email updates for confluence
Asked by Jessie Dixon:

When I follow the directions here (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-globally-disable-e-mail-notifications-with-page-content-718670714.html>) to disable emails for page updates, it says that the module cannot be modified?


Answers:
author: Alexander Dopp
body: Same here ... using the cloud based confluence.

I have worked around this by disabling it for each and every single registered user

* User Management
* Click on user name
* Hit Login as user button
* Profile/Tools/Wiki Profile --\> Remove every watched page and disable everything in Settings/Email

Works only if you have a limited number of users though.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
What to do if I?m changing domain ?
Asked by Daniel Angulo:

Hi, Our company is changing name and domain what we must do in order to changing here in confluence and JIRA and not affecting team members,

Thank you


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/changing-the-cloud-instance-url-address-or-migrating-to-a-new-cloud-instance-691011835.html>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Space permissions in confluence
Asked by Gordon Chan:

I had a user that created a space, and no longer works for the company. The account is marked not active, so I made myself one of the space administrators with full permissions.

For some reason, I still don't see the Space Tools when in the space.


Answers:
author: 105349
body: Hey Gordon!

It's possible that the Space in question is using a different theme that has the Space Tools link hidden. If so, you should see a *Browse* button next to the *Spaces* and *People* on the top navigation bar. In this menu you should see an option *Space Admin.*

Or, barring that, you can navigate directly to the page with this URL:

**\<confluencepath\>/spaces/editspace.action?key=\<spacekey\>**

Good luck!


Tags: confluence-administration
Why can't I get the JIRA Pie Charts from Confluence to look like the Pie Charts from JIRA Dashboards?
Asked by Site Admin:

The Confluence Pie Charts are soooo ugly compared to the JIRA Pie Charts on the Dashboards. The font is too small and the chart itself is not appealing. Why don't the charts look alike?


Answers:
author: Hans-Hermann Hunfeld
body: Some of our users are asking the same questions, any news on that?

comments: author: Site Admin
body: I've heard no response.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

jira

pie-chart
Upgraded to 5.9.10, and site homepage will only go to dashboard.action
Asked by Steve Karam:

Has anyone else had this issue? I upgraded a test environment to 5.9.10, and no matter what space Site Homepage is set to in Further Configuration, it always goes to dashboard.action, even for anonymous users.


Answers:
author: Steve Karam
body: This issue has been resolved. Both problems were happening due to proxy cache settings in nginx; they forced all connections to go to the dashboard, and showed restricted information to anyone. This did not happen in 5.8.7.


Tags: confluence-administration
Can the Confluence inherit the notification scheme from JIRA when a project is integrated with a space?
Asked by Bruno Tiago:

Basically I need to make a user to receive a notifications via email when he is mentioned in a comment.

Is it possible to enable that?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-the-Confluence-inherit-the-notification-scheme-from-JIRA/qaq-p/37512?attachment-id=5545){#link_1186f0200a0824}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/6281/1/image2016-5-9%2013%3A49%3A50.png){#display_1186f0200a0824_0}


Answers:
author: 105349
body: Hey Bruno!

The short answer is that JIRA and Confluence use *very* different notification scheming, and as such, they will not inherit these settings from each other.

That said, if you use an '@mention' in Confluence, the mentioned user will, by default, receive an email notification. Are you seeing different behavior?

[Confluence - Mentions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/mentions-724765338.html)

Hope that helps!

comments: author: Bruno Tiago
body: Yes, I am! I've read that we need to have a plugin called "Confluence Mentions Plugin". It seems that it is default when installing Confluence but I checked on "manage add-ons" and I've not found this plugin installed.  
Besides, I searched it on Find new Addo-ns and I do not found it there too.  
Do you have any tip?


author: 105349
body: That's odd! It should definitely be installed by default. I assume when you're searching for the plugin, you're filtering them by 'System' plugins, right?

Also, as for behavior, when you're adding a comment and you attempt an @mention, does a context window pop up that attempts to autocomplete the username?

What version of Confluence are you on, also?


author: Bruno Tiago
body: I've found it! Really, it's installed (Confluence Mentions Plugin).  
Yes, when I'm adding a comment a context window pop up to autocomplete the username.  
My Confluence version is 5.9.7

well, I don't know what could be happening :(


author: 105349
body: That's so odd....I guess the next place I'd look is the mail queue, (**General Configuration -\> Administration -\> Mail Queue)**, and see if anything is stuck in there. Then maybe check your mail server itself to see if the notifications are even hitting it. Maybe there's a chance they're being marked as spam and being filtered? Bit of a long shot, but it's a possibility.

And during all this I'd also tail the catalina/confluence log to see if there are any odd errors being generated when adding a comment with a mention.

I know there were a couple bugs a long while back that were keeping mention notifications from being sent, but they were fixed long before the version you're on. :/


author: Bruno Tiago
body: There is nothing in mail queue also. Maybe I've found something, there are four problems detected in Instance Health. Could be it?

Please take a look in this picture.  
image2016-5-9 13:49:50.png


Tags: confluence-administration
Retirement of Document theme in version 6.0
Asked by Greg Della-Croce:

I was told by one of my co-workers that the saw that Atlassian is going to retire the Document theme in the 6.0 release of Confluence Wiki. Since several of our spaces use that theme, I am wondering what will happen when we make the upgrade to 6.0?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: They will be swapped back to the default theme (remember the theme will not affect the content of your pages, it's about the layout and view)


Tags: documentation-theme
Can We add a one-time Terms & Acceptance policy page
Asked by Philip Martineau:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Editing the Site Welcome Message](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724765520)*

We would like to add a Terms \& Accpetance policy for frist-time signups.

Is this Possible?, if so how ?

This is in the CLOUD.


Answers:
author: Rodney Hughes
body: I thought I answered this here: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38525912>

When you send the new User the link to the system, make it to a landing page with Terms and Conditions


Tags: cloud

welcome
confluence upgrade appears to be stalled
Asked by Erik Husby:

I'm running a test upgrade of Confluence 5.9.10 from a system that was running 5.6.3. Its not a large system.

Last message in catalina.out was "execute Rebuild of favorites index complete."

Then in the atlassian-analytics.log that was followed by

onboarding.notification.email.no.space.created.event

Its been 20+minutes and no messages in the log files, no response from a web page. No apparent cpu usage.

OS is Redhat Linux 6

Java 1.8.0_25

Postgresql 9.3

I disabled plugins before the upgrade.


Answers:
author: Erik Husby
body: Pilot error -- I'd not made all the necessary customizations to server.xml.


Tags: confluence-administration
Wiki mobile
Asked by kr-oxygen:

Have u guys tested the wiki on a mobile device? It is unreal to use, also switch to desktop version also impossible.


Answers:
author: TomC
body: What version of Confluence are you using? I routinely explore pages on mobile with no problems (I find I prefer the 'desktop version' due to our many customized pages that render better that way), and occasionally even get into space admin and update Permissions on mobile!

This page of Atlassian online documentation covers the topic of Confluence Mobile and even includes a mention of the current state of the native Confluence mobile app: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-mobile-284365706.html>

comments: author: Nick Reilingh
body: Whoa!!! I had no idea an iOS app was even in the works. Anyone know if it's planned to come to server as well as cloud?


author: kr-oxygen
body: I'll check the version, but links in the left menu where switch to desktop link is placed are not clickable at all. Thanks for the answer.
initial user signup -
Asked by PhilEO Martineau:

Can we create a Terms \& Conditions acceptance policy for NEW users,

During the initial signup (user account creation) we need a one-time Terms/Conditions policy that the user must accept to proceed to the site. This should only appear once (1 time) .

Is this possible with the CLOUD version of Confluence?

Thanks, Phil Martineau


Answers:
author: Philip Martineau
body: OK, but how do you make the 'landing page' change after they accept the terms.

IE. do not keep asking them to Accept the Terms/Conditions?

comments: author: Rodney Hughes
body: Do you really need to record that they have formally accepted the conditions?

Or do you simply tell them on the landing page that by proceeding to the Dashboard or any other page that it is deemed that they have accepted ... and even tell them that when sending them the link to the landing page

I suppose you could get "fancy" and have a simple 1-page Space as the landing page (in order to keep them away from the main Space until they have accepted) - on that page have (in Matrix movie fashion) a "red button" to accept which then takes them to the general Space and a "blue button" which just closes down. The inference is that as soon as they get to the main Space clearly they have accepted it ... unless someone sends them a link to the main Space so perhaps there are too many holes in that process

But before all that - how are you creating their User account in the first place - surely the T\&C should be provided to them before they ask for access? and they should indicate acceptance before you create their user account????


author: Rodney Hughes
body: When you send the new User the link to the system, make it to a landing page with Terms and Conditions

comments: author: Philip Martineau
body: OK, but how do you make the 'landing page' change after they accept the terms.

IE. do not keep asking them to Accept the Terms/Conditions?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I make the output of a user macro visible in the search?
Asked by Brett Miller:

I have a user macro that creates a unique document reference, but when I search for documents using the generated reference they do not appear. Am I missing something?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: The search does not search the visible results of all macro outputs on the page, but instead it searches only the same text that would be available in the editor.

If you want it to be able to be searchable, then I would recommend making a part of your user macro create an invisible div (can be done with class="hidden") and save it to the end of the page. Something like this:

```
&lt;div class="hidden"&gt;your-document-reference&lt;/div&gt;
```

Your user macro can search if the hidden div exists, and only if it doesn't exist, then it will create one (that way it doesn't create a new div and page save every single time). Because it is then saved in the storage format, it should show up in the search.


Tags: confluence-administration