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Gallery Macro - downloading all images on page cross linked from several pages using the gallery macro.
Asked by Matthew Pyle:

Hi,

I have a user who has several pages with image attachments. They surface all those image attachments using the gallery macro on to one single page. They would like to be able to then download all of those images shown in the gallery macro from that one page. The problem is that they're not attached to that page, they're attached to several other pages.

Are there any existing macro's available to do this? If not, is there any way to modify the gallery macro to include a download button?


Answers:
author: Dennis Kromhout van der Meer
body: Unfortunately there is no existing macro to do this. To modify the gallery macro, some extensive customizations will have to be made, for example, getting and zipping up all images and making it available to the page. To start, take a crack at this tutorial: <https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Creating+a+new+Confluence+4.0+Macro>

comments: author: Matthew Pyle
body: Thank you for responding Dennis! I'll see what I can figure out.
Issues hosting Captivate swf files on Confluence 3.5.1
Asked by Daniel Salter:

Am able to play Captivate swf files on a Confluence page, but without the video controls.

Captivate creates the controls in a separate swf file, along with a couple of html files that put everything together and launch the video in a browser window.

Can someone kindly advise how to set this up in Confluence?

Ideally, I would have visitors click a link in Confluence, and open the video in a full screen, replicating the experience of clicking on the swf executable which Captivate can also create. (Alas, if you host the .exe on a Confluence page you are only allowed to download, not play, the file, doubtless for valid security reasons.)

Thanks for any assistance!


Answers:
author: Felicity Chapman
body: Did you ever find a work around for this problem? I'm having the same problem with Confluence 4.3.


Tags: swf

video
Pulling Complete Microsoft Active Directory Information of a User into Confluence
Asked by Ronak Tali:

Hi There,

I want to pull all user information from Microsoft Active Directory into Confluence User Profiles. How Do I do that ?

I mean I want to be able to pull Phone#, Title, Office Location, etc. from the Active Directory

Thanks


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Ronak,

Apprently your query is already filed as an improvement request on our system here:

* [Support Retrieval of User Metadata from LDAP](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7426)

Highly recommend you to vote on it to raise the popularity of the request. As I believe this would be a great additon for Confluence, I have personally add my vote on it. If you're interested to know how we decide on which features to implement, please read our policy [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy).

Also, you might want to review the following third party plugin and see if it helps:

* [User Profile Plugin](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.communardo.confluence.plugins.userprofile)
* [Enterprise Directory and Org Chart for Confluence](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.appfusions.confluence.enterprise-directory)

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra
Question about Layout customisation and version upgrades
Asked by Adolfo Casari:

I was reading [this technote](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Customised+Site+and+Space+Layouts).

According to the note, if you make a major version upgrade (from 4.0 to 4.2 for instance), you have to save all custom layouts and reaply it, but I don't understant why you need to perform step 4 (Click **Reset Default** next to the layout whose customisations need to be reapplied).

After the upgrade the new version's default layouts overwrite any customisation? or

Customisations are preserved and the idea is to merge them the new defaults? Step 5 says reapply customisations, not merge.

Thanks for your help.


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I recently went from 4.1.2 to 4.2.3 and did not have to perform that step. I talked to a few folks at Summit about the upgrade, and they said that if it went OK, I wouldn't have to do any merging (and I didnt).

I'm assuming Step 5 "means" merge, but I would definitely try the upgrade without blowing away your custom layouts first.

My custom layouts were maintained when I did a database dump and restore. (Note: I did not export as XML and then import into the new Confluence version.)
Space doesn't open with the home page
Asked by MPal Pal:

Hi all,

I recently upgraded confluence to 4.2.2. Now when I click a space on the dashboard the space does not open with its homepage.

It opens with the "List Pages - Tree View"

Can anyone spread some light to what might have gone wrond please?

Will really appreciate your help.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: If this happens for all spaces, I would suggest to check the settings in *Confluence Administration =\> General Configuration =\> Feature Settings* . Make sure that ***View Space Goes to Browse Space*** is disabled.

comments: author: MPal Pal
body: Thanks Remo. It works just fine :)


Tags: home

home-page

link

space
How do I get confluence to link?
Asked by Renee Brown:

Hi, I am currently having problems using the linking function in the wiki markup in confluence. So far it will only go to another space but not the page. I want the link to go a space named "Products" and a page named "success in middle". What I have done so far is used \[prod:\] to successfully go to another space. However, when I try \[prod:successinmiddle\] then confluence will make another child page rather than link to the correct page in the "Products" space. I have also tried to add spaces in between each word of the page with no success. How do I get the linking to work? Note that I have already tried the add link button and it is blacked out inside of wiki markup due to the preformated font which cannot be changed in wiki markup.

Additionally, I have simply used a three column title template and have found that confluence is automatically linking(not in wiki markup) the phrase "RE-4" and "RE-2" when I have done nothing but simply enter the phrase. How do I make it stop linking "RE-4" and "RE-2"?


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: As webwesen said I would try the linking helper feature. Because this way you will get the link syntax automatically right. If this feature seems to be blacked out then just go somewhere else create the link there and copy the code to where you want it.

But perhaps this is not the problem at all. Unfortunately I don't understand what you mean with:
> due to the preformated font which cannot be changed in wiki markup.

Are you trying to add a link in a text which is between {noformat} text {noformat}?


author: Andrei [errno]
body: try the linking helper feature in Confluence - it will let you link to recently visited pages, search for pages, etc

comments: author: Renee Brown
body: I already used the link helper button before and it does not work for the preformatted font as stated above. Additionally, I want to remove two links that show up in the preview page and finalized page but do not show up in the editor at all. These two links are not inside of wiki markup.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

font

link

markup
Confluence Language Pack Croatia
Asked by Birgit Rath:

Is a LanguagePack for Croatia available?

At the "Atlassian Marketplace" I haven't found any?


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: There is no Croatian language pack.

However, all is not lost. Suggest to Atlassian that they should add it and then you can help improve the translation at <https://translations.atlassian.com/>


Tags: language
Is it possible to disable the 'like' function in Confluence 4.2?
Asked by Ross Attrill:

We have recently upgraded to Confluence 4.2.

It has added a 'like' feature.

Is it possible to disable this feature?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hi Ross,

<br />

Yep - just disable the Like Plugin from the plugin management interface (see <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Likes+and+Popular+Content#LikesandPopularContent-Disablingthelikefeature>)

Cheers,

Joe.

comments: author: Ross Attrill
body: Thank you Joe.
changing group names
Asked by Ashley C:

Hello,

We have several groups that have been active for some time and are tied to page and space restrictions. Two of them were named using special characters, and this is causing an issue with some macros. Ideally we'd like to just change the names of these problem groups, but I was unable to find a way to do that. I'd like to avoid deleting them as we have a lot of spaces and pages that would have to be reassigned and that would eat up a decent chunk of time.

If I can't rename them, is there a way I can type them in that the macros can understand? The special character used is +. The show-if macro from the Visibility plugin is the main thing I need to get this working in.

Thanks,

Ashley


Answers:
author: Ashley C
body: Unless we wanted to to some risky changes, the answer is no, so we just made the changes the hard way


author: Benjamin Horst
body: Hello,

I am unsure about Confluence, but in Jira there is an open Issue for that question:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-1391>

Since it has not been solved in the last 9 years, it's unlikely that anything exists in Confluence to rename a group.

There is a workaround, but it's a) developed for Jira and b) not advised to do since it has risky DB updates in it. You better not do this in a production system:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Renaming+groups>

Maybe someone else knows more about the macros. Haven't used those, yet.

Cheers,

Ben
Is it possible to sort global spaces in Confluence non alphabetically? But with ones own discretion?
Asked by Michelle Civil:

The global spaces in Confluence are sorted alphabetically, but i have a specific ordering I would like for them to be placed in.

Currently, We have placed numbers in front of each space 1, 10, 20, etc to sort them in the order that is needed.

Does anyone know if there is an option to sort them in any order?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Gary
body: Hi,

Currently, you cannot adjust the sorting order of spaces without using your above workaround - Confluence does not currently have this granularity. Please feel freee to add a feature request for it though, on [jira.atlassian.com](http://jira.atlassian.com). Other users in the Atlassian community will be able to view this request, and vote for it to have it included in a future version.

Cheers,

Gary

comments: author: Kimo Fouts
body: Has this capability been added? I would like to re-order my spaces but am not seeing how to accomplish that.


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Is it possible to clear all ratings?
Asked by Matthew J. Horn:

When we move from a test to a production environment, we'd like to "reset" the page ratings. Is this possible with the Adaptavist rate plugin?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Heard back from Adaptavist. This is what they said:

The rating data is stored in '[Bandana](https://developer.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2031780)', so you may be able to remove the data directly from the bandana table in the database.

The keys for the rating data will be prefixed with "com.adaptavist.confluence.rate.internals.RateManagerImpl:" if that helps.

Be careful though as the bandana table is used to store data for other plugins, so don't just empty it.

comments: author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Follow up with some additional details:

1) To remove all ratings, run this query:

DELETE FROM \[Confluence\].\[dbo\].\[BANDANA\] WHERE \[BANDANAKEY\] LIKE 'com.adaptavist.confluence.rate.internals.RateManagerImpl:%'  

2) To check, run this query:  
SELECT \* FROM \[Confluence\].\[dbo\].\[BANDANA\] WHERE \[BANDANAKEY\] LIKE 'com.adaptavist.confluence.rate.internals.RateManagerImpl:%'

There should be no results.

3) Must restart server after running the first query.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Anyone have anything on this?


Tags: adaptavist

addon-com.adaptavist.confluence.rate

app
How to disable lightbox image effect in Confluence
Asked by Adolfo Casari:

I would like to disable lightbox effect for images in pages (that is, avoid the popup window that display the image in full size when you click on the image on the page).

Is there a way to do this via javascript or in a configuration file?

Thank you,


Answers:
author: William Yeack
body: This is what I did - add this to the "At end of the BODY" section of your "Custom HTML" admin page:

```
<script>

// Removes Lightbox
$(".confluence-embedded-image").removeClass("confluence-embedded-image");

</script>
```

This will remove the class from the confluence image that is required for the lightbox to work.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: If you figure it out, let me know. In the mean time, you can "trick" users into not realizing that it's clickable by adding something like the following to your custom stylesheet:

```
.confluence-embedded-image {    cursor: default !important;  }
```

Basically, it prevents the cursor from turning into a "hand" when a user hovers over an image. That way, they don't know it's clickable.

comments: author: Adolfo Casari
body: Thank you Matt, that helps.


author: Adolfo Casari
body: This will unbind the click from the image:

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;   AJS.toInit(function() { // unbind directly-embedded images AJS.$("img.confluence-embedded-image").unbind("click.fb"); }); &lt;/script&gt;
```

Add this to Custom HTML (body section).
Why, oh WHY can't several Confulence pages in the same space have the same name?
Asked by Joe Schmoe:

WHY can't several Confulence pages in the same space have the same name?

As much as I like Confluence this architectural decision just doesn't make any sense to me.

The only possible reason I can think of is so that it is easier to use page name auto-complete when you are specifying new parent page but even then - why can't they just show multiple pages that match the same template?

IMO it makes just as much sense as if Atlassian didn't allow to use the same word more than once on the same page.

Is this something that is planned to be changed in future versions?


Answers:
author: Michelle Civil
body: If you have to anchor or link to a certain page and there are two pages with that title, then an anchor will not be possbile. But, This Plug-in will help: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.k15t.scroll.scroll-versions>


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Was it the l15T plugin (I may be misremembering the name, but it was a company from Austria or Germany). Their plugin managed spaces and versioning in a much slicker way than the base Confluence versioning scheme does.

comments: author: howard tiersky
body: Yes! Exactly.Well almost exactly. The company is K15t. [www.k15t.com](http://www.k15t.com)

Just googled to refresh my memory

he produt is Scroll Versions. Maybe a little expensive if all you are trying to do is have duplicate page titles (since it does so much more) but that is one of its features see blurb below:

* Manage and author **Multiple Versions** of your documentation in your Confluence wiki.
* Support for **Context-sensitive Help**
* Enhanced **Content Reuse**
* **Duplicate Page Titles** and Permalinks


author: howard tiersky
body: I know I saw a plugin at the Atlassian Summit in SF a few weeks ago that solves this problem. Unfortunately I cannot remember which one it was... I tried to do a quick search but didnt find it. Maybe someone else remembers?
Importing OnDemand confluence space into self hosted Confluence
Asked by Brian Jones:

I have a personal OnDemand confluence instance. My company has purchased Confluence which is being hosted internally to the company. I'd like to export a space in my OnDemand confluence hosted by Atlassian and import it into my new corporate confluence instance. How can I do that?

I see in the confluence documentation that it is possible to go from OnDemand to OnDemand and the universal wiki converter can convert other wikis to Confluence. I've seen the documentation for importing a documentation tree into confluence, but the OnDemand export is not in this format. I don't see any documentation on how to transfer OnDemand content into non-ondemand confluence.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: 1. Go to your OnDemand space
2. Browse -\> Advanced
3. Export as XML
4. Save the file and use to restore in your self hosted version
   1. This requires an administrator
   2. Admin -\> Backup and Restore

comments: author: Brian Jones
body: Bob--can you elaborate on step 4? I've done the export (3) earlier but I don't understand how to use that for a restore.


author: Brian Jones
body: BTW, I've suggested in my support ticket that Atlassian document this use case.


author: Brian Jones
body: I ended up exporting to xml from OnDemand then doing a restore in Confluence (as you recommend). The hickups where:

1. Needed to copy xml file to server rather than upload it in the restore dialogue as the file was over 100MB.

2. Needed to export entire space in one shot. The restore function does not allow parts of a space to be restored. I had thought I'd get around the 100MB file size limit by restoring in chunks but the second chunk complained that the space already existed. So, the space has to be restored from a single xml export file.  
Note that the export is done in the source space in Space Admin. The import is done on the destination side using Confluence Admin.


author: mtaylor
body: Indeed. The process is really spread across two docs, depending on your approach:

Full Confluence OnDemand export and restore-

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Exporting+wiki+data>

AND

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+a+Site>

OnDemand Confluence Space export and restore-

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+XML>

AND

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+a+Space>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Metadata- and Reporting Plugin
Asked by Matthias Born:

We try to update to confluence 4 and i have to evaluate if we further use the reporting plugin or replace/reduce with/to metadata.

During my tests i found 2 points that concern to the Metadata Plugin:

* Metadata Plugin doesn't show the normal excerpt.
  * I know u are working on C4 compatibility. Do you think u can fix this?
* Reporting Plugin does not show Metadata
  * Not a single one. Only default confluence fields. Perhaps there is a huge problem with the supplier

Well, what's my question?  
Don't know, perhaps you can say anything to these topics.  
What can be implemented, what not. What comes next, what last...

Our Versions:

* Confluence 4.2.4 (not productive)
* Newest Metadata-Plugin
* Newest Reporting-Plugin

Any other ideas/alternatives?!

Best regards

Matze


Answers:
author: Michael Kulas
body: Sad to say but we have the same problem and reporting plugin does not work with Confluence 4.3.

For we have ton's of structured pages with metadata information which are compiled to lists using the reporting plugin, this problem is a **BLOCKER** for moving forward and we have to stay on our current 3.5.16. version. Any help on this issue is highly appreciated.  
We wanted to make a intermediate step before upgrading to Confluence 5.x . Does anybody know if these plugins are working there ?


author: CharlesH
body: Isn't the metadata plugin still not fully working with Confluence 4? I'm referring to the latest release documented **here (<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.andya.confluence.plugins.metadata>)** which is version 3.0-beta 1.

You may get more information and help with resolving your issue by checking the issues already logged in the developers Jira project, or raise a new issue there.

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/META>

Reporting in Confluence 4 is working pretty well in my experience (okay a problem here and there with the value supplier, but Customware are working through these). The metadata supplier for use with Reporting comes from the metadata plugin. We don't use this, but make frequent use of Scaffolding which works well with Reporting.


author: Amit Jaiswal
body: We are also facing the same issue...with previous version of confluence 3.5.x report-info used to display metedata without any issue. After we upgraded the confluence version to 4.2 its showing up blank values..Any lead on this issue would be much appreciated..


author: BroadcomS
body: I'm having the same issue with the metadata supplier not working in Confluence 4. Not sure if this is due to the Reporting plugin or the Metadata plugin.

Any help would be much appreciated!


Tags: metadata

report
What restrictions are imposed on STARTER license?
Asked by Brett Ryan:

We have two confluence instances, one a commercial 500 user instance and another which is a specialty use with only a handfull of users. For this we have opted a STARTER license, however are getting a whole stream of the following log

```
2012-06-20 14:27:52,791 WARN [TP-Processor3] [plugin.licensing.restrictions.ProductLicenseType] isValid License type restriction failed. Required COMMERCIAL, actual STARTER -- url: /admin/systeminfo.action | userName: confadmin | referer: https://oursite.com/admin/console.action2012-06-20 14:27:52,792 WARN [TP-Processor3] [plugin.licensing.internal.LicenseRestrictionServiceImpl] applyRestrictions Restrictions Failed with the following errors This plugin license requires the application license type to be: "COMMERCIAL" - however it is actually "STARTER". -- url: /admin/systeminfo.action | userName: confadmin | referer: https://oursite.com/admin/console.action
```

Is there a restriction on what the STARTER license can do?


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: The above logs seems to indicate that your plugin license and instance license is not sync. For example if your plugin license is "COMMERCIAL" and your instance is "STARTER" the above logs would be thrown into Confluence logs.

I don't reckon any restriction for starter license owner other than license restriction and source distribution. You might want to double check your plugin license and see if it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


Tags: restriction

starter-licence
It's possible to use inline comment plugin on Confluence OnDemand product
Asked by jibanez:

We really need a inline comment for confluence ondemand product.

I like this plugin: <http://stiltsoft.com/talk/index.html> that did exactly that we need but I think that I can not install a plugin on "OnDemand" Confluence.

Please there are a plugin that can be enabled on Confluence onDemand with the same functionallity? There are a way to do that we need?


Answers:
author: Gary
body: Hi Jordi,

We currently do not support third party plugins for the OnDemand platform. However, we are starting the beta son of our new plugin architecture of OnDemand which will open many more plugins for the platform. It should be available for release next year.

Cheers,

Gary

comments: author: Holmes Chuang
body: 1.5 yrs later.. any progress on this? InLine comments - lack there of - is keeping our organization from using OnDemand.


author: Fernando Rios
body: 1.5 yrs later.... any progress on this? Lack of inline commenting is preventing my push to OnDemand.

Thanks!


author: Dave
body: The Atlassian Connect framework allows you to create your own Add-On for OnDemand or add an existing one of those available. While I wasn't able to find an existing one in the Marketplace for OnDemand, you might want to reach out to StiltSoft to see if they are planning to update their plugin to support the OnDemand framework ([](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.talk.confluence-talk-plugin)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.stiltsoft.confluence.talk.confluence-talk-plugin>). Alternatively, if you have the development resources, you might look into creating one yourself - <https://developer.atlassian.com>


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confluence-cloud