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The current Team Calendars isn't valid for use Team Calendars Plugin's license type (COMMERCIAL) is not the same as Confluence's license type (null)
Asked by Chris Freeman:

I am getting the following error on my confluence setup over the weekend.

The current Team Calendars isn't valid for use

Team Calendars Plugin's license type (COMMERCIAL) is not the same as Confluence's license type (null)

OrganisationOptiver Pty Limited

Date Purchased15 August 2012 00:00:00 EST

License TypeCOMMERCIAL

Licensed Users 500

License Expiration

Support expiration15 August 2013 00:00:00 EST

Support Entitlement NumberSEN-2341883

This is causing the system to give an OOPS error for any page with and embedded team calendar.


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Joshua,  

I believe that you're pasting Team Calendars license in the wrong place, try to go to Browse \> Confluence Admin \> Plugins and try to find the Team Calendars and insert there.  

To make that you have the right license, you may have to go href="http://my.atlassian.com%20"\>http://my.atlassian.com to get the TC license.

I hope this helps  

Cheers,  

WZ


author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, what Confluence license are you currently using? The number of users and license type must match between your Team Calendars license and your Confluence license.
Space Steward Info
Asked by Kim Wall:

Is there a good way to imbed space stewardship into a space where it can't be updated or removed? I know I could add it on a page when I create the space for people, but they can just remove it. Basically, we want to specify a space owner (steward), review date, etc for each space so that come yearly compliance reviews we have people to contact. The admins for a group can be fluid as any existing space admin can change that info. And we're not allowing just anyone to create a space, so the "created by" info won't be the steward.

Is it possible to add fields to the Space Details section? That would be helpful.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: BernardoA
body: Hi Kim,

I created for you this feature request which will be analyzed for future versions:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27389>

Regarding not allowing users to remove or update spaces, I believe you can manage this in "Space Admin".


author: AlysonA
body: Hi Kim,

For the space owner, it is usually the user that creates the space (if it's a personal space), public spaces do not have owners, just creators that can specify space permissions according to their needs.

As for adding fields to the space details section, I researched here but I don't think that's possible unfortunately, we can create a feature request for it thought.

Cheers

comments: author: Kim Wall
body: Unfortunately, in a regulated corporate environment we have to have stewards. Especially in public spaces. We need someone who is ultimately accountable for ensuring the content fits guidelines. For our needs, we need steward, retention information, and a review date. I'm currently maintaining thati n a spreadsheet as I create the spaces. We don't allow users to create spaces on their own, they have to come through us. If we could have a feature for that that'd be great.

Thanks!
Upgading Confluence
Asked by AbrahamA:

Hi

When I look at release notes of Confluence

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.2.13+Release+Notes>

It says "If your version of Confluence is earlier than 3.5.x, then you *should* upgrade to Confluence 3.5.x before upgrading to Confluence 4.2.x."

Is there a recommended version for 3.5.x ( I mean what is x, is it 3.5.9 or 3.5.4 or it does not matter?)

Please let me know.

Thanks

Abe


Answers:
author: BernardoA
body: Besides 3.5.13 you can upgrade to 3.5.17, and I think this version is good to avoid issues before upgrade to some 4.2.x version.

comments: author: AbrahamA
body: Thanks for the info.


author: BernardoA
body: Besides 3.5.13 you can upgrade to 3.5.17, and I think this version is good to avoid issues before upgrade to some 4.2.x version.


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hello Abe,

That's correct. We advise to reach the latest stable version of Confluence 3.5, which is the 3.5.13.

That version corrects a lot of bugs in user managent for this version, and is very good to prepare confluence to upgrade to the latest versions.

Hope that helps you :)

Regards,

Rodrigo


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It doesn't matter much, but it would be best to take the highest numbered release, simply because there are more bugs fixed (and hence a lower chance of running into problems)
Edit in Document and View not Working
Asked by Karie Kelly:

We are an OnDemand user and cannot get the Edit in Document or View to work across browsers. I've also submitted a support ticket, but was wondering if anyone else has this working with the latest Confluence version or has any workarounds.

IE8 - we get errors that the file cannot be found or opened

Firefox 15 - we can view the docs; but, nothing happens when you click on Edit in Document. You cannot view Excel docs that have a few thousand rows - get a script error or java heap. Browser becomes unresponsive and it starts affecting responsiveness of other apps

Safari 6/Chrome 22 - we can view the docs (the performance is actually quite fast in these browsers, and there are no issues viewing excel docs with thousands of rows). However, doesn't appear to be supported by Atlassian since you get an error message when you click on Edit in Document that says you must use IE or Firefox. With this, if Atlassian is providing support for all browsers, why is this functionality not supported in these two browsers since they actually appear to work (and are quick!)?

So, at this point, our users, whether mac or pc, can use this feature.


Answers:
author: Karie Kelly
body: 1) Getting help from another Atlassian partner, they recommended to setup the JIRA site as a trusted site for IE users. This resolved one of the issus.

2) Atlassian had to up the memory cache on our instance because viewing larger documents caused the entire instance to crash. This seems to have resolved the firefox issue (even though in Chrome/Safari it could be viewed)

3) Although Atlassian claims cross browser support, there are IMPROVEMENT requests to provide this functionality in these other browsers. The good thing is that they recognize this needs to be done; my feedback is that it should be considered a bug and not an improvement if they are going to claim cross-browser certification.


author: Nikola ILO
body: You probably will want to open an atlassian support ticket for this.

IE8 -\> There is a problem with cache headers and office

Firefox 15 -\> I think you need the webdav plugin

Here is some information on this issue: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Editing+an+Office+Document+from+Confluence>


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
List Pages - Recently Updated are not displaying recently edited pages
Asked by Chloe Sowers:

When going to Browse \> Pages \> Recently Updated, it does not show the recently updated pages. If it does show a page, going to Alphabetical list will show pages that have been edited even more recently, but aren't in the Recently Updated list.

I already rebuilt the index. And I also rebuilt the index from scratch last week.

<br />


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hi Chloe,

Is the Recently Updated section in the Dashboard also presenting this issue? If so, reindexing from scratch should have fixed the problem, at least for now.

It would be worth to check your logs to look for OOM errors, because if your instance is running out of memory it will probably trigger this issue every now and then.


Tags: index

lucene
Confluence Newbie - Best method to incorporate a Page Refresh
Asked by Christopher Meemken:

What would be the best method to incorporate a page refresh into a confluence page? Enable the HTML macro or can a user macro be used to run a page refresh similar to a \<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60"\> URL ?


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: Hi Christoper,

The best way is to create a user macro which uses some JS. be careful with enabling HTML macro as it means anyone can out any kind of HTML code into a page.

here's the macro:

```
## Macro title: page-refresh## Macro has a body: N## Body processing: N/A## Output: Selected HTML#### Developed by: Matthew Cobby matt@andamooka.com## Refreshes the current page after a configurable number of seconds.## @param Period:title=Refresh period|type=string|required=true|desc=How many milli-seconds before the page should refresh. e.g. 5000ms = 5s&lt;script type="text/JavaScript"&gt;&lt;!--	setTimeout("location.reload(true);",$paramPeriod);//   --&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
```

There was an earlier version of this script here: <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/4757/periodic-refreshing-in-macro>


author: Christopher Meemken
body: Thanks Matthew. That works perfect. I didn't want to activate the HTML macros for the reasons as you stated but I was unsure how to incorporate java script into a user macro. I'll have to spend some time to learn to utilize them better.

Thanks again,

Regards,

Chris Meemken


Tags: html

new-to-confluence
Restrictions to anonyoums User in Confluence
Asked by codecentric AG:

Hi,

I created a confluence space where I show all blogs in that space. Anonyoums user should have the possibility to read, create new and comment blog entries.

Unfortunately I can't prevent that an anonyoums user edits an existing blog article. He should only be able to comment and to creat new ones.

What I did:

1. Add to Global Permissions: Anonym can use Confluence.

2. In the space administration changed the anonymous permissions to: Can show, Add News, Add comments.

Did I miss anything?

Thanks

Joerg


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: In Confluence, Create and Edit are driven by the same permission. Once you grant 'Add' to Anonymous users, they will be able to edit as well.

comments: author: codecentric AG
body: Thanks Jobin. I already suspected that.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to delete photos for other users?
Asked by Karina Clemente:

How can the System Administrator change the profile picture for the users? Is there a way to do mass upload?


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hello Karina  

Since Confluence is a collaborative tool just the users are able to change their own pictures.  
What you as admin can do is reset a user password, access Confluence using the user credentials and then change the picture.  

Another possibility is to change the default profile picture in the database, but in that case all the users will use the same picture:  

Example:  
*UPDATE OS_PROPERTYENTRY SET string_val='/images/pathToTheNewImage/image.png' WHERE entity_key='confluence.user.profile.picture';*   

Hope it helps!

comments: author: MatthewC
body: if you reset the user's password, they won't be able to get back in, you don't (or shouldn't) know their password. Also, if you are backing onto an LDAP/Active Directory you might not be able to change the password.


author: Karina Clemente
body: Thanks for your answer! I logged in as the user and changed the picture. There was no other way...


author: MatthewC
body: 1. You can use the Confluence SU plugin to do it manually by switching into a users account \& uploading <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.javahollic.confluence.confluencesu>
2. you could use a gravatar profile picture which is tied to a users email address <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.vicox.confluence.plugins.gravata>r
3. or you could do a write a SQL script to set user profile pictures \& then copy them to Confluence home directory. There is a related question here about how to read the data [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/15018/retrieve-profile-pictures-using-sql](/questions/15018/retrieve-profile-pictures-using-sql)
Line Numbering on Confluence pages
Asked by Jens G?tz:

Dear all,

is an option available to turn on line numbering for Confluence pages? This would be beneficial for reviewing Confluence pages.

Best regards,

Jens Goetz


Answers:
author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: This feature is not part of the standard confluence. One Problem are the different kind of Elements that are going to be displayed (Images; Tables; Text; Makros).

Maybe its possible to write a little javascript to count the lines of the text parts


author: JohnA
body: Hi Jens,

One way to add a numbered list in Confluence is to type a hash or pound '#' symbol followed by a space. Autoformat will then convert the line to a numbered list and you can continue typing your text immediately after it. Each time you hit enter the editor will automatically iterate another number in the list for you, until you press enter twice to break out of the list.

All the best,  
John

comments: author: Jens G?tz
body: Hello John,

this is not a good solution because this would merge the view and the model layer. So if this is not a built-in function of Confluence's view layer, I need a hint how to change it programmatically. Do you know if this is possible by writing a Confluence plug-in?
When will Adaptavist theme builder be upgraded to work with Confluence 4.3
Asked by Poova Moodliar:

When will Adaptavist theme builder be upgraded to work with Confluence 4.3.

We cannot upgrade our production environment as Adaptavist theme builder does not work correctly.

reason for the upgrade is we using the sharepoint connector and it works perfectly with the lasts versions of the software.


Answers:
author: MatthewC
body: I'd redirect the question to Adaptavist <http://www.adaptavist.com/display/ADAPTAVIST/Contact+Us>

They are generally quite busy working for customers and their plugin upgrades come along eventually. If it's critical for you, then you could always commission them to do the work!


Tags: adaptavist

themebuilder
How to get log in user infor in Confluence
Asked by Sreylin Doung:

Dear All,

I want to get the information of user who is currently logging in Confluence 4.3 from my plugin. As I have tried to search, the RemoteUser API is proper for this problem. But when I tried to use this api, the problem occurs. Also, I tried to find out the document of the API usage, but I cannot find.So my question is:

- Does RemoteUser API is the proper api in order to get informaiton of currently login user in Confluence? if not, I hope you could point out the way to solve this poblem. If yes, I hope you could tell me how to use this API.

Thanks in advance,


Answers:
author: Thomas Kalsberger, MSc
body: Hi !

this should work:

```
HttpServletRequest request = ServletActionContext.getRequest();String remoteUserName = request.getRemoteUser();  or:             this.remoteUser = AuthenticatedUserThreadLocal.getUser();
```

cheers

comments: author: Sreylin Doung
body: I tried the these two ways. They all work properly! Thanks you so much, Thomas.


author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: Hi,

have your tried to use :

```
AuthenticatedUserThreadLocal.getUser()
```

comments: author: Sreylin Doung
body: Thank Sandro, it realy works!
How to make a button like in Confluence "Knowledge Base Home"
Asked by sniadeks:

Hello everyone

How to make a button like in Confluence "Knowledge Base Home" ?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/KB/Knowledge+Base+Home>

It is picture, with effect added, there is a clickable text on it, and one more little png on the left.

I tried to figure it out from cource, it looks like they use some dash-item macro:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/plugins/viewsource/viewpagesrc.action?pageId=179443510>

Thanks in advance


Answers:
author: Sandro Herrmann [Communardo]
body: Hi,

you can do this fade effects easily with javascript and jQuery. Please have a look at the documentation:

<http://api.jquery.com/animate/>

<http://api.jquery.com/fadeIn/>

There are gread examples as well

Cheers,  
Sandro
How to show and print images from a JIRA filter in a Confluence page on PDF export?
Asked by Willem-Jan van Asseldonk:

We try to print a list of JIRA issues displayed on a Confluence page via a PDF.

This works fine, images attached to the JIRA issues are displayed on the Confluence page.

However when exported to PDF the JIRA issues do not contain the images anymore.

Is there a way to export/print the images from JIRA?


Answers:
author: Fl?vio Gondim
body: Hi,

I am experiencing the same problem.  
I am using the cloud version.

I created a report where I display some issues from Jira.  
There are some images in the body of some issues.

They are displayed correctly in Confluence.  
But the images are not displayed when I export to PDF or Word.  

Since that is an old issue, I imagine that you should have a fix for that.  

Thanks,  
Flavio

comments: author: Barbara
body: I am also seeing this issue, 2.5 years later. Has anyone found a fix for this?


author: Midori
body: I'm not sure if it is doable in your use case, but if you export the issues on the JIRA side with the [PDF View Plugin](http://www.midori-global.com/products/jira-pdf-view-plugin/), then you will be able to:

1. display the attached images themselves
2. display the attachment metadata only (filename, filesize, etc.)
3. display any image that is in the text fields, like "description" or "environment". It can be an attachment or even an external image specified by an absolute URL.
4. [embed the attached images](http://www.midori-global.com/products/jira-pdf-view-plugin/documentation/embedding-attachments) (and other attached files) in the PDF document!

(You can select any combination of these options.)


author: Philipp Sendek
body: Hey Willem-Jan,  
hey Roya,

It's been quite some time to come up with an answer, but I just want to point you to the release notes of Confluence 5.6, especially the part on the improvements of the PDF export:  
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.6+Release+Notes#Confluence5.6ReleaseNotes-PDFExportimprovements>

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+5.6+Release+Notes#Confluence5.6ReleaseNotes-PDFExportimprovements)

This might be just what you're looking for - if it's not too late yet. :smile:

Regards,  
Philipp


author: Roya Afshar
body: I have the same question


Tags: jira

pdf
Mobile Client on 4.3.1
Asked by Patrick Leonard:

I see you have a new mobile client for 4.3.1 but I can't seem to find it in the Apple App Store. Is this a 3rd party app or something you have developed? Can you please provide installation instructions?

<br />


Answers:
author: Norman Abramovitz
body: I could be wrong here since I am not a Confluence user, but I do not think there is a separate client mobile app for Confluence itself. From what I could read, it is using the standard iOS browser as noted in this url under "web browsers - mobile".

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Supported+Platforms>

You should not need Mini Confluence anymore as noted by 4.3 new features url. Search for   
"4. Be productive everywhere with *Confluence Mobile"*

<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/09/stop-time-wasting-at-work-with-confluence-4-3/>
Table Cells are empty when exporting confluence page to pdf
Asked by apanda17:

When exporting a confluence page to pdf or word the table cells for the Summary section (which is pulling from JIRA) are empty. Any ideas why just this field is having issues?

Thanks for your help


Answers:
author: pschaff01
body: Hello!

This problem usually happens when the the content coming empty (in your case, the table cells from the Summary Section are including information from JIRA, as you pointed).

One of the reasons of exporting problems to PDF is that maybe your table content is inside a third-party plugin macro. In case it is, you could put your table in the root of the page, so it comes clean to export.

In case this doesn't solve your problem, you could open a ticket on [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com).

Best regards


Tags: pdf

table
I am not able to create a page in Confluence 4.3 even though I am an admin
Asked by Andreas Johannessen:

I just bought Confluence and I got it running. I have created a Space and I want to add pages, however the page where I can add page title, content etc renders....but I am only able to add a page title. What is happening?? Non of the buttons work either.


Answers:
author: AlysonA
body: Hi Andreas,

Is there any errors being thrown? Maybe the logs (\<confluence-home\>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log) will tell us something.

If this is a clean install, I suggest re-installing it. Something went really wrong during the installation.

comments: author: Andreas Johannessen
body: Nope, the log does not show anything. How do I make a clean install on Ubuntu server?


author: Andreas Johannessen
body: It was fixed by re-install. Thanks for your advise:)


author: Thomas Krause
body: I still have a similar issue (open issue at support) with 4.2.12. At random times for random users the javascript init fails, happens in FF, IE and Chrome.

If it happens again to you, yu should have a close look at the firebug console (F12 tools) in the browser.
moving files in tree view no longer working
Asked by Amber Anderson:

When I try to move an item in the tree view to a sub document - it just freezes up. Image attached.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Already opened as an issue - see https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/89942/moving-pages-in-list-pages-tree-view?page=1#89988


Tags: treeview
People Directory search is not finding people.
Asked by Chloe Sowers:

When doing a People Directory search, it is not finding people, including myself. It finds some people, but not all the people it should. Where does it look for people?

I see in the Apache logs that it tries to access the following action:

\<13\>Sep 28 10:47:04 MACHINE02 apache-access : 172.17.87.25 - admin 28/Sep/2012:10:47:04 -0400 POST /team/dopeopledirectorysearch.action HTTP/1.1 109383 200 18646 <https://cms.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/team/dopeopledirectorysearch.action> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.79 Safari/537.1

I read this, but it contained no technical information that was useful:

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

<br />


Answers:
author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: This could be related to your index. You should try to [rebuild your index from scratch](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Rebuild+the+Content+Indices+from+Scratch).


Tags: people-directory

search
Is it possible to "convert" Confluence table to a table with column sorting?
Asked by Lars Sj?gren:

Using wiki markup I know I can create a table with coumn sorting using the table-plus macro. But what if I have an already created table in Confluence 4+, can I somehow get column sorting into it, or do I have to rewrite the whole table in a table-plus macro?

Thanks,

Lars


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Copy/cut/paste the table into the body of the table-plus macro. If it is a Confluence 4.x native table (no wiki) then you need to have [Table Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL) version 5.0 or later which has a native Confluence 4.x table-plus macro.