youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Confluence Admin training
Asked by Elif ?zcumali:

Hey,

I?m looking for a Confluence admin training like the "JIRA admin training" in Atlassian University.

Thanks

Eli


Answers:
author: Paulo Hennig
body: Hello Elif,

In additional to Luiz response, I'd advice you to take a look in the Confluence Administrator Guide as well.


author: Luiz Maia
body: Hey there,

In Atlassian University we really don't have admin training sessions. I suggest you check our [Ninja Training Guide](https://www.atlassian.com/qac/download/confluence/ninja-training/admin-ninja/white-belt/) and you can also refer to the [Here Be Dragons](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ATLAS/Here+Be+Dragons) guide for installation training for both Confluence and other Atlassian products.

Please let us know in case you have any questions.

Thanks!

Kind regards,

Luiz Maia  
Atlassian Support


author: Elif ?zcumali
body: Thanks Liuz and Paulo.

@Paulo Roberto, I guess that is what I was looking for. I couldnt found it. Could you send me a link, pls?

Thanks in advance

Eli


Tags: confluence-administration
base url confluence without context path
Asked by Stefan Baader:


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, you can. Change the context in Tomcat's server.xml and remove the context from the base url in Confluence

comments: author: Stefan Baader
body: Nic, many thanks. You're really fast in reaction.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Breakfast espresso just kicked in :-)


author: Stefan Baader
body: is it possible and what is the impact to remove the context path (/confluence) from the URL of a Confluence installation?   
Concerning existing web links in the content. Concerning planned cluster installation.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It depends on your data to some extent. If you have a Confluence where people have used links properly, then the impact is minimal, because links within the system are based on the base url. But if people have pasted full urls to Confluence pages into their docs, these will break. So \[space:page\] type stuff will work, but <http://baseurl/context/display/space/page> type links will fail as the context part disappears. You usually have to make the business decision to say to your users "tough, this is why you should use Confluence properly, it's up to you to correct all your links", or run a mini-project to find and replace all the broken hard urls. If you do the second, then insist on replacing them properly - don't correct the context in the url, but change them to proper \[\] based linksAs soon as you've changed the context and base urls and restarted, I would plan for a full re-index too. In theory, I'm not sure you need it for plain Confluence, but I suspect some macros and addons might need it.Check your user macros for any use of the base url too - I've made the silly mistake of hard coding urls into them sometimes, instead of using $baseurl (this is the same as using urls instead of \[\] links in pages, but, of course, user macros are totally different to pages) Probably the biggest part will be that you need to consider any integrations you've got (for example if you've used a 2 way application link with JIRA, that will need updating. Or if you've got scripts that hit the old url. And so-on)
Is there any plugin where we can see the movements of the user ?
Asked by Mehmet Karay?lan:

Which project on jira or space and pages on confluence have been viewed by users?


Answers:
author: MehmetK
body: Thank you. What about JIRA ?


author: Nelson Carranza
body: Hi Mehmet,

For Confluence server, we use this free plugin

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/ch.bitvoodoo.confluence.plugins.viewtracker>

Regards

Nelson


author: Elif ?zcumali
body: Did u checked the global activities pages in Confluence Admin,

U should be able to see some reports there.


Tags: confluence-administration

jira

jira-administration
Composition plugin Query
Asked by l:

Hi Team,

I am from JIRA team I would like to know about composition plugin in confluence.

<https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/COM/Customizing+Tabs+and+Cloaks>

In the above link I tried the following parameters: deck.tab.active.border=2px dashed black deck.tab.active.background=#ff0055

The second one is working, ie, the background colour is changed. But the first parameter to make the border as dashed line is not working.

Could you please comment whether this is a known bug or not? Please provide an update on this ASAP

Thanks \& Regards,

EE JiraSupport

Parvathy


Answers:
author: l
body: Hi,Please provide an update on this


Tags: addon-net.customware.confluence.plugin.composition

server

servicerocket
Does this support Confluence 5.7.4?
Asked by PlatformT:

This plugin looks like what we are after, however, it only states it is for confluence 5.6.6 and lower.

Please advise.


Answers:
author: PlatformT
body: Great thanks mate.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You have not told us what addon it is (addon-paco is not enough, it's not got any vendor or addon name in it. Link to the addon's marketplace entry?)

comments: author: PlatformT
body: Sorry it just auto tagged it when i pushed the support button.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/PACO>


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No problem. It's ok when it's one people are more familiar with, but there are hundreds now, and most of us don't know them when the tags are simple like that.Hopefully, someone from the vendor is monitoring that tag and will pick up this question soon. In the mean time, my partial answer is1. The vendor has said 5.6, so you should work on the assumption that it's not going to work on 5.72. It \*might\* work though. You could try a manual upload via Manage addons -\> upload plugin and see what happens. Obviously, in a TEST environment. I've worked with a lot of plugins that don't say they work on \<latest\> but are absolutely fine. It's just a case that the vendor had not had time to test them and hence didn't want to set the flag3. It's well worth poking the vendor. Hopefully, they'll see this question, and hopefully it really is just "we haven't tested it yet" and it all works fine.


Tags: app
New Roadmap Macro does not allow more than 14 entries?
Asked by Christian Byza:

Hi,

I was so happy when I read about the new Roadmap macro in Confluence. I created a new plan with 8 Markers and 6 Themes. After adding the 14th "Task" no changes are saved and all my work was gone. I tried different things but any time I add more than 14 entries everything is deleted after I save. Also how do I add Links to the Tasks so that I can link to my Epics/Stories in Jira?

Thanks,

Christian


Answers:
author: Christian Byza
body: Hi @Tin Vuu \[Atlassian\],

5.1.4 right now but we will upgrade to 5.7.4 on Friday. Might that be the issue? Will try it again next week. On the other request: Great, that more people want that. Look forward to that in the future!

Thanks,

Christian


author: tvuu
body: Hi Cristian,

* For the first question, I tried to create Roadmap from your description, but I could create Roadmap with 8 markers, 6 themes and added more than 14 tasks. So please help me give more information: Confluence, Roadmap version.
* For the second question, at the current moment, we do not support linking bars to epics and stories in JIRA. We have some other customers who have requested for a similar feature. You can follow <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-37496> to get the latest updates on this.

Thanks,
display multiple users from username parameter in macro
Asked by cherie heiberg:

Hi,

I'm brand new to Confluence and to Velocity. I'm trying to design a macro that will allow our users to enter multiple usernames into a parameter box in a custom macro, which will subsequently display those names in list form. My problem is I can't get it to display more than one username without breaking the code. Here's what I've come up with so far:

```
## Macro title: Design Status## Macro has a body: N## Body processing: Selected body processing option## Output: Selected output option#### Developed by: cheiberg## Date created: 05/27/2015## Installed by: cheiberg?## @param Creator:title=creators|type=username|required=true|multiple=true## @param Lead:title=leads|type=username|required=false|multiple=true## @param Reviewers:title=reviewers|type=username|required=false|multiple=true## @param Drivers:title=drivers|type=username|required=false|multiple=true&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Creator(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;#if( $paramCreator )    &lt;ac:link&gt;&lt;ri:user ri:username="$paramCreator" /&gt;&lt;/ac:link&gt;#end&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Owner(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;#if( $paramLead )    &lt;ac:link&gt;&lt;ri:user ri:username="$paramLead" /&gt;&lt;/ac:link&gt;#end&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reviewer(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;#if( $paramReviewers )    &lt;ac:link&gt;&lt;ri:user ri:username="$paramReviewers" /&gt;&lt;/ac:link&gt;#end&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drivers(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;#if( $paramDrivers )    &lt;ac:link&gt;&lt;ri:user ri:username="$paramDrivers" /&gt;&lt;/ac:link&gt;#end&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
```

As is, if I enter multiple usernames into Creator, for example, I'll come up with something like this: \~cheibergwwilliamson. How can I get my code to recognize that there are multiple names in a parameter and display them correctly?

Any help on this topic would be wonderful.

Thank you!


Answers:
author: Lukas Knoch -Rumpelcoders-
body: Hi,

you would have to split the string by space or similar. Something like that:

```
&lt;ul&gt;#foreach($user in $paramCreator.split("[,]+"))&lt;li&gt; &lt;ac:link&gt;&lt;ri:user ri:username="$user" /&gt;&lt;/ac:link&gt;&lt;/li&gt;#end&lt;/ul&gt;
```


author: cherie heiberg
body: One more question: This fix works to display the username, but won't notify users by email or through the confluence interface when they are selected and added to the macro. Is there any reason a user wouldn't be notified? If so, how can I fix it?

<br />

I've already made sure that "@" notifications are working elsewhere; both on the page and in comments.


author: cherie heiberg
body: Thanks, Lucas! This works! I thought it might #foreach but I didn't know how to do it.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

user-macro
Upgrade suggestions for Confluence 5.3.4 to 5.6.6 requested
Asked by Teresa Hollidge:

It's time to start preparing to upgrade my Confluence instances again. I'm hoping to upgrade to 5.6.6 from 5.3.4 but will take recommendations from the community on the best path forward. I've reviewed all the release notes and upgrade guides and haven't noted any gotchas but one of you may have additional insight or recommendations.

I have 2 large Confluence instances running 5.3.4 (one running Postgres 8.4.20 \& one running Oracle 11.2.0.2.0) that are linked to a JIRA instance running 6.1.7 \& JIRA Agile 6.3.6.1. We do have a few custom plugins that we rewrote for the jump from 3.5.17 to 5.3.4. I'd prefer to not upgrade JIRA/JIRA Agile at the same time.

Looking forward to hearing your recommendations \& thanks!


Answers:
author: Chander Inguva
body: Hi Teresa,

* Any Confluence version after 5.0 can be Upgraded to Latest version.
* Please refer to the [Documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence)
* Please Upgrade on Staging Environment before Upgrading Production.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Chander Inguva


author: Mallmann
body: Hello Teresa,

Also remember to [Check Add-on Compatibility](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Checking+Add-on+Compatibility+with+Application+Updates) for the targeted version before upgrading so you can avoid *losing* any plugin due to incompatibility. :smile:

Eduardo

comments: author: Teresa Hollidge
body: Thanks Eduardo! I've been making use of this tool - it's very helpful.


author: Alicia Pena
body: BTW: I upgraded from 5.5.6 to 5.6.4 and again to 5.7.3 without any issues.

Confluence 5.7 has so many nice new features that work great with Jira. If you have application links set to JIRA you can hover over any text in confluence and create a JIRA ticket straight from there with the text you hovered over as the subject line. It also has great inline document collaboration. By hovering over any text you can add a comment and track if the owner accepts it. I'd recommend testing an upgrade to 5.7.x in staging first, otherwise you're going through the down time for an upgrade but still missing out on some great features.

comments: author: Teresa Hollidge
body: I agree with your assessment. I believe that I will need to upgrade my JIRA instance in order upgrade the version of application links which is a larger project than I can undertake at this time, but I'll check into it again. My plan will be to follow our Confluence upgrade with an upgrade to our JIRA if we're limited by app links.Thanks! Teresa


Tags: confluence-administration
Is it possible to move the 'favorite spaces' next to 'all update'
Asked by Naama Lev:

Hello Experts,

I would like to rearrange a bit the confluence dashboard and move the 'favorite space ' section up - so it will be on the same level of 'all update/popular' ect

Can you please advise?

Thanks

Naama


Answers:
author: Chander Inguva
body: HI Naama,

I think we can see this already here as shown below. Are you looking for something else ?

Fav_Spaces.PNG

Hope this helps

Regards

Chander Inguva  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Is-it-possible-to-move-the-favorite-spaces-next-to-all-update/qaq-p/326515?attachment-id=12892){#link_11886998c3f9d0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/55072/1/Fav_Spaces.PNG){#display_11886998c3f9d0_0}

comments: author: Naama Lev
body: Yes... what you have shown me is the updates on the favorite spaces i am looking to move the favorite space/ pages upThanksNaama


Tags: dashboard
How do I make the "last edited by" line fade-out like it does on the Atlassian pages?
Asked by Kevin Morris:

Atlassian fade-out the 'last edited by' section and show them when you hover the mouse under the title. Is there a way I can make it like that for my pages in Confluence Cloud?

Thanks,

Kevin


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Unfortunately, Confluence Cloud until now only supports custom CSS on a page-by-page basis (i.e. using the CSS Stylesheet macro in a page). If you want, you could include this by using the following CSS:

```
.page-metadata {  opacity            : 0;  transition         : opacity .25s ease-in-out;  -moz-transition    : opacity .25s ease-in-out;  -webkit-transition : opacity .25s ease-in-out;}.page-metadata:hover {  opacity       : 1.0;}
```

If you were really determined to add it to all pages (or for a whole space space), you could use the API to add it to multiple pages, but that seems a bit like overkill.

comments: author: Kevin Morris
body: You beautiful beast thank you!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Can you provide an example of a PocketQuery SQL statement?
Asked by Heidi Fernandez:

I have connected to a ClearQuest database and am having trouble with the SQL query context. Can you provide some examples? Thank you! Heidi


Answers:
author: Chander Inguva
body: Hi Heidi,

Please have a look at Pocket Query [Documentation](https://www.scandio.de/en/atlassian/plugins-en/pocketquery-en/pocketquery-documentation/) which provides the examples.

Regards

Chander Inguva


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Spaces not visible with URL rewrite?
Asked by Scott Beeson:

I have IIS setup to rewrite subdomains to JIRA and Confluence.

* tasks.domain.com -\> domain.com:8080
* wiki.domain.com -\> domain.com:8090

I've been using JIRA for days like this without problem. Today I installed Confluence and all was seemingly fine. I've been going through some configuration and playing around without trouble. Then I tried to view the demo space. I got a 404. So basically:

domain.com:8090/display/ds/Welcome+to+Confluence \<-- Works fine

wiki.domain.com/display/ds/Welcome+to+Confluence \<--- 404

<br />

For now I kept the base URL as domain.com:8090 so it will automatically point to a working URL, but I really want to know how to fix this.


Answers:
author: Scott Beeson
body: It was actually due to the + (plus) character in the URL. I had to enable "allow Double Escaping" in IIS. All is working now!


author: Giuliano C.
body: Hey Scott,

From the outlined steps in [this documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+mod_rewrite+to+Modify+Confluence+URLs), I believe that you are following the right direction here. However, once we still need to update the port number in the Base URL, can you check if all the procedures from [setting up the instance behind Apache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+behind+Apache) are properly done? This could be crucial for the URL to be found.

Hope it helps ya, sir!

Regards,

Giuliano Tenedini

Confluence/Crowd Support


Tags: base-url

confluence-administration
Duplicate page menu items
Asked by HuwM:

Can anyone help me understand why I'm seeing multiple "Remove Favorite" under the page menu / ellipsis. Theres the regular menu item with a line under it, then there are four 'Remove Favorite" under that


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hi Huw,

Looking from past cases where we had duplicate items for the menu, it was caused by external add-ons. However, to be sure about that, if you are running a production instance, can you schedule some downtime and then, run the instance under [Plugin Safe Mode](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Disabling+and+enabling+add-ons#Disablingandenablingadd-ons-Disablingorenablingalladd-ons(usingSafeMode)) to see how it goes?

In addition to that, if this is an issue that is persisting in your company, please, don't hesitate to raise a ticket in our <https://support.atlassian.com> channel.

Regards,

Giuliano Tenedini


author: HuwM
body: There are no customizations.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hello there,  

You shouldn't see duplicate page menus. I was wondering if you have any customization there, if yes,

could you please check in _Confluence Admin \> Look and Feel_ and verify the following:

\* Themes: See which theme you're using, switch back to the default if you're not using it already.

\* Layouts: See if you have any custom layout defined, if yes then make a backup and reset to default.

\* Stylesheet: See if you have custom stylesheet, if yes then make a backup and reset to default.

\* Custom HTML: See if you have any custom HTML defined, if yes make a backup then reset to default.

<br />

Cheers,  
WZ


Tags: confluence-administration
Display users in confluence groups
Asked by lazy boy:

Hi,

I am using the user macro below (thanks Davin).

Is it possible expand on this macro and display the users contained in a specified group?

```
## Developed by: Davin Studer## Date created: 04/21/2015## @noparams&lt;ul&gt;#foreach($group in $userAccessor.getGroups())    &lt;li&gt;$group&lt;/li&gt;#end&lt;/ul&gt;
```

Thanks for any help!


Answers:
author: Chander Inguva
body: Hi,

Please find a possible solution mentioned in the link mentioned below

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+List+Macro>

Hope this helps.

Regards

Chander Inguva

comments: author: lazy boy
body: ah brilliant, thank you!


author: Alex Yasurek
body: Hi,

I think you may need to use the getMembers() method: <https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/user/UserAccessor.html#getMembers(com.atlassian.user.Group)>

Haven't tested this but it would probably go something like this:

## @param Group:title=group\|type=string\|required=true\|desc=Group name

\<ul\>  
#foreach($group in $userAccessor.getGroups())  
#if($group == $paramGroup)  
#foreach($user in $userAccessor.getMembers($group))  
\<li\>$user\</li\>  
#end  
#end  
#end  
\</ul\>


Tags: confluence-administration
How to remove individual menupoints from Confluence for individual users?
Asked by Max Heidenreich:

Hello everybody,

i have a simple question. I create a new user for a client and already gave him the rights to see the related projects. On the other side he can also see the whole list of users from our system over the menu in the navigation. How can i set the rights that he can not see the menupoint in the navigation. See the attachement for better understanding. (i am sorry it is in german) Bereiche = spaces, Personen = persons

Greetings   
Max

<br />

Bildschirmfoto 2015-05-27 um 16.05.30.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-remove-individual-menupoints-from-Confluence-for/qaq-p/219517?attachment-id=3595){#link_11886a08e1ba53}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/37121/1/Bildschirmfoto%202015-05-27%20um%2016.05.30.png){#display_11886a08e1ba53_0}


Answers:
author: Paulo Junior
body: Hi Max,

Since you are using cloud, and System Preferences is a restricted function for this kind of instance, you would have to open a support ticket at support.atlassian.com in order to have People Directory disabled.

Regarding the feature request, it already exists. Feel free to vote for it :smile:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7837>

If this answer was useful, please feel free to accept it.

Cheers :)

comments: author: Max Heidenreich
body: Thank you Paulo :)


author: Max Heidenreich
body: Hi Paulo,

thank you for your quick response. Its sad that there is no way to handle that with permission. Maybe it could be a new feature for your next releases? :smile:

Where do i found the place to edit the code-line, because we are using cloud?

Greetings Max


author: Paulo Junior
body: Hi Max,

Unfortunately there is no way to "hide" the People Directory using a permission related way. There is a workaround for it, but it would actually hide the People Directory for all your Confluence Users:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Hiding+the+People+Directory>

Cheers,

Paulo

Atlassian Support \| Cloud


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How do I remove unwanted links from the top menu?
Asked by PM:

See screenshot here: <http://picpaste.com/pics/screenshot-VNEc7K39.1432723280.png>

There are links to two Confluence instances but one of them is invalid. How can I remove the invalid link?


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Go to your Confluence administration \> Application Links. Hide or remove the wrong link.

comments: author: PM
body: That didn't help. Basically, there are two different instances of Confluence (say confA and confB). \`confB\` is not required anymore and is deactivated. When I go to configuring links, it shows me either confA or confB - never both in the list of Application Links.


author: Timothy
body: Whoops. I meant Application Navigator.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud