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Possibility to lock or trace a checked box
Asked by Ruben Decocker:

Once an option is checked, is it possible to lock this for further editing so it cannot be unchecked afterwards?

Or is it possible to only allow the user who checked a box to uncheck it?

Or is it possible to trace any changes been made to each individual checkbox?


Answers:
author: Jirong Hu
body: Come from ClearQuest, I find JIRA is harder to customize these things. In CQ, I can remember the original value (doing this is also a lot easier in CQ) when user start to Edit, then set these checked fields into read-only so user can't modify them.


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: No. You could restrict the permissions on the page so users can only "view" them.


Tags: addon-com.gumvillage.confluence.checkbox.checkbox
Confluence plugin calendar permissions
Asked by Amauri Toscano:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Restrict a Calendar](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=660737259)*

hi

we have a space where the Confluence plugin calendar is restricted to a few users.

The permissions on the space is for confluence-users to view, add pages, add comments.

There is a person that is not in the restricted list and is able to add information on the calendar, and i was wondering if it is because the person has add pages, add comments permissions


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Amauri,

Calendars also respect the view permissions of their related space. When you create a calendar in a space, or add a related space to an existing calendar, only people with permission to view the space will be able to see the calendar.

Please check this documentation for more details: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=660737259>

<br />

Cheers,

Renato Rudnicki


Tags: permission

team-calendars-for-confluence
Is it possible to use another prefix for user mentions?
Asked by Alexey Marin:

There's no "@" in the Russian keyboard layout, so mentioning someone when their name is in Russian is a flow-breaking process that requires changing the active keyboard layout twice. Is it possible to reconfigure Confluence to use a different prefix for user mentions, like "%"?


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: You'll probably won't find this done and probably hardcoded into the code somewhere.


Tags: confluence-administration
Disable "Notify watchers" for "Create JIRA issue"
Asked by Levente P?ncz?l:

When someone highlights a part of the specification document and clicks "Create JIRA issue", he does not actually modify the document (in contents' terms) but only links to it. Is there a way to make it optional or disable that these changes send notifications to those watching the page?


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Silva
body: I believe the workaround for this request can be found here:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-8276>

It seems that users can uncheck the Notify Watchers box and Confluence will save their preference.

<br />

Cheers,

Rodrigo Silva


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
I cannot add ANY macros to pages in the editor not even cheese
Asked by Kevin Salt:

Yep - I have a brand-new installation of Confluence 5.7 and I cannot add macros to a page. I can't even add e Cheese test macro. It is infuriating because the JIRA issues macro dialog actually finds the issue I want to add, but the macro will not appear on the edited page.

I can add text, but not macros.


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey Kevin,

Try clearing the plugins cache:

```
# Shutdown Confluence# Ensure the user running Confluence has full read/write privileges to the confluence-home directory.# Remove the following directories(!) This will remove the plugin cache files only and will not permanently remove any plugins. These directories will be recreated during the next Confluence startup. However, some third-party plugins may store metadata in these directories, so we recommend creating a temporary backup of the directories.#* &lt;confluence-home&gt;/bundled-plugins#* &lt;confluence-home&gt;/plugins-cache#* &lt;confluence-home&gt;/plugins-osgi-cache#* &lt;confluence-home&gt;/plugins-temp#* &lt;confluence-home&gt;/bundled-plugins_language# Start Confluence
```

Cheers,

comments: author: Kevin Salt
body: Hi Guilherme,

Thanks for getting back to me. I already tried your remedy several times to no avail, but just now (literally in the last 5 minutes) I found out more which might help. Using dev. tools I was inspecting the edit page and I noticed that there are a lot of internal rest calls to tinymce, analytics etc. .. and they all fail with a 404.

I have a similar installation on a development VM and it is working perfectly, but I can see no difference between the two.

BTW - these are not the "undefined" 404s described in <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+REST+or+Plugin+Function+Requests+Returned+404+Not+Found>

They are, or should be, valid URLs.

example https://{servername}/cnfl/rest/tinymce/1/drafts

The first part (up to the cnfl/) is the correct URL for confluence

After more testing I find that the rest service is working because /prototype/1/space/ds produces a result.

Cheers


author: Kevin Salt
body: I FOUND IT !!! - Haven't fixed it yet but at least I know what it is !!

I'm pretty sure tt's another manifestation of <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26485> ... descibed also in <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=300812262>

I'm working through a VPN - and the errors I am getting are XSRF check failures because the address of the server is internally proxied so the url is "cleaned up" be removing the port information.

Now I have to talk to the system engineers at the other end to see if they can reconfigure the VPN.


Tags: macro
How do I see a folder structure of pages within confluence?
Asked by Andrew Gould:


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: You could click on the "Space Tools" in the bottom-left corner of the screen, then click "Reorder Pages", and then you will be able to see a tree view (like a folder structure) of all pages in the space. You could also use the pagetree macro as Nic recommended.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not quite sure what you're looking for here, so I expect this answer to be inadequate in itself, but hopefully you can point at it and explain what it does **not** do that you need.

Have you tried the pagetree macro? You get the structure of nested pages laid out for you in there. It doesn't go above a space level, but you can imagine a simple flat "every space is one branch under Confluence" for that part.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Which Theme Designer is the best
Asked by Pranjal Shukla:

I don't have good knowledge of CSS and JavaScript but would like to have a tool/plugin in which i can design themes as per my Organization needs. I can arrange for a Developer who is good in CSS and JS but preferable would be a scenario where i am able to design a Theme by myself.

Please suggest one.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You've got four basic options here:

* Use a marketplace theme module, ideally one that has enough flexibility to be adapted to what you need. The problem for you with pre-designed one-off themes is that they are rarely flexible.
* Use one of the advanced theming engines - Brikit and Refined theme allow you to have multiple preset themes with quite a lot of flexibilty in their configuration, with some access to CSS and JS
* Use Themebuilder - this is in the same genre as Brikit and Refined, in that it does the many theme thing, but it takes it a step further and lets you build your entire theme from scratch and inside Confluence itself, giving you almost complete access to do what you want in the theme. But it doesn't have much in the way of preset themes and you will need to invest the time in building something that works for you.
* Write your own theme module, starting at <https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-plugin-module-types/theme-module>

There are advantages and disadvantages to all of these - some options need more effort and skill, some cost money, some you'll find won't be flexible enough, some are harder to upgrade (some themes simply don't get upgraded). I'd take a good look at the three "theme engines" I've mentioned above to be honest.

Note that I work for Adaptavist, albeit not in the Themebuilder team. I hope you can see that I'd have written the same answer even if I hadn't. Although TB really is great for heavy customisation :wink:


Tags: confluence-administration
how to add restriction for all exept me?
Asked by Tatiana Zhmodik:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page Restrictions](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=590259530)*

*How to add restriction for all exept me?*


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Restrictions work on a "who can do this" basis. So to restrict a page to just yourself, click "restrictions" and put your own ID in the users list, with no-one else.


Tags: confluence-administration

permission
Need to automatically upload a team weekly report to confluence using a cron job in linux
Asked by Guruprasad M:

We have a script to automatically create a team report based on individual entries, which runs once every week via a crontab command in linux. We want to upload the contents of the report to confluence for tracking future reference. I created a filelist confluence page which gives me an email id for the page : [confluence+364940742+attachments@eparser.aaa.com](mailto:confluence%2B364940742%2Battachments@eparser.aaa.com). If I use the linux mail command in my cron script, the report comes as a binary file with some random name. I need to upload this report to confluence as a text file with proper file name (date tag may be). Please help.


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hello,

How is the command are you using to send email?

Did you try this?

```
mail -s "your subject report" destination@email.com &lt; path-of-your-report
```

Cheers,

Renato Rudnicki


author: Guruprasad M
body: Thanks, this works.

It adds it as a child page in required main page.

regards

Guru


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You can use [addPage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference#Reference-addPage) from [Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP).
Support number?
Asked by Joe Rodriguez:

Hello,

My colleague asked a question here about a possible bug in Domainbooster, and we have not received any sort of response. We've paid for this plug-in and would like some support fixing a bug/issue. How can we get someone to speak with to answer our question?

Here is the question, please follow up with us.

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/32016722>

Thanks you


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: They seem to comment heavily on their site: <http://www.bugsio.com/DomainBooster/Domain_Booster_Plugin_for_Confluence.html>

Otherwise you could submit an issue on their Github: <https://github.com/bugsio/confluence-domain-booster-plugin/issues>


Tags: confluence-administration
Status report is not available for your version of JIRA. Upgrade to JIRA 6.1.1 or later to use this report.
Asked by Alexis Montoro:

Hi guyz,

I have a huge problem with my confluence instance.

I had a report going well on my confluence instance which is getting issues and create chart from Jira,

but since like 3 weeks and after a move that I don't really remember I have an error message and no charts anymore.

Those error message are :

"JIRA Issues Macro: [com.atlassian.sal.api.net](http://com.atlassian.sal.api.net).ResponseStatusException: Unexpected response received. Status code: 403"

AND

"JIRA Issues Macro: JIRA Charts are not available for your version of JIRA. Upgrade to JIRA 6.1.1 or later touse this macro. "

And when I want to create a new report on confluence like a status report I have that message :

"Status report is not available for your version of JIRA. Upgrade to JIRA 6.1.1 or later to use this report."

I tried anything i found on the internet, like reindex but nothing works and of course I check my version is greater than 6.1.1 so I rly need help on this one.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: Steven F Behnke
body: You're experiencing issues with the application links. Please look into this. You may delete them and recreate them without losing any data.


Tags: confluence-administration

report
Enable Labels Cage and editing
Asked by Jason Brewster:

The current 3.0.3 version of labels cage, when enabled, disables any ability to save changes in Confluence. How can I keep the plugin enabled and fix the editing issue?


Answers:
author: Daniel Bajrak
body: Hi Jason,

what version of confluence you use? Label Cage 3.x works only for confluence 5.8.x. For version before 5.8 there is similar version 2.9.x of Label Cage.

Can tell something more about this problem? Do you have any errors in atlassian-confluence.log or in java-script console? Does this bug occur for earlier version of plugin 3.0.2/3.0.1?

I think that the best way is create issue in intenso service desk: <https://intenso.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/8>

Best Regards

Edit:

There is new version on marketplace. Probably it fix your problem.


Tags: addon-com.intenso.confluence.labelscage.labels-cage

confluence-administration
Firefox Add-On for the Office Connector no longer working after Office 16 upgrade?
Asked by Stuart Corcoran:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Install the Firefox Add-On for the Office Connector](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=170494211)*

After a recent upgrade to Office 16 I can no longer open Office docs attached to Confluence pages. I've reinstalled WebDAV Launcher add in. It launches office programs but just puts up a message that it can't open the files. Any workarounds?


Answers:
author: Robin Peters
body: Works for me with "allow authentication tokens in the url path" in Office connector settings in admin backend.


author: Bruno Raymundo
body: Hi Stuart,

There is an open suggestion to add support to Office 2016:

[CONF-38024](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-38024)

Regards,

Bruno


Tags: firefox

ms-office-connector
What if I access Confluence from the atlassian cloud ?
Asked by Francesco Boano:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Hiding the People Directory](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=196816)*

I would like to hide PEOPLE link in the navigation bar, but I'm using a cloud Team Collaboration License.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can't do this on Cloud.

You could ask Atlassian support to enable the flag on your instance. Raise it at <https://support.atlassian.com> (I don't think they'll do it, but it does not harm to ask, and the worst case is a polite "no" from them)


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

documentation
How to use Confluence restore
Asked by Young__Hahn:

Hi

I am currently working on setting up Dev server for Confluence application..

Which is totally new server (same version), new URL (dev url), and new Database..

I did manual backup from our Production server.. and export that zip file out and put it into the new server (DEV)

When I use the zip file to install the new server.. it goes into the infinite mode and doesn't do anything..  
**Importing Data**  

|---------------------|---------------------|
| **Time Elapsed:**   | Less than a second  |
| **Time Remaining:** | Unknown (estimated) |
| **Completion:**     | 0% complete         |

|---|
|   |

Initializing...  

<br />

Above is what I am getting on my screen..  
I was watching it or about an hour.. and still doing nothing..  
So I installed everything brand new..  
and on the admin section.. I tried restoring from there..  
but getting the same problem..  
How can I build the new server with exact same data inside?


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Team,

The XML backup uses a lot of resources such as CPU and Memory. I suggest to review the Atlassian-confluence.log located in the confluence_home directory to search for a possible error message in the import process.

usually the XML import fails with an out of memory error message. If this is the case, [try to increase confluence memory](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Fix+Out+of+Memory+Errors+by+Increasing+Available+Memory).

Another option is to restore a database backup into a staging instance in order to create a clone [using this documentation.](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-confluence-between-servers-184150.html) I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Rodrigo

comments: author: Young__Hahn
body: I am not getting any error message from it.. again.. it just goes into infinite loop and doesnt do anything about it..


Tags: confluence-administration

install
If you can only use one page label why are you allowed to enter more than one?
Asked by Crystelle S:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Page Properties Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=184550024)*

In the help article it states you can only use one page label and one properties ID, however you can use multiple page labels. I am asking because I am attempting to pull a properties box from multiple pages with different page labels but the same properties ID.


Answers:
author: Crystelle S
body: hey thanks for answering - so maybe a little better, an example - I have properties ID "highlights" on a number of release notes across the space. My dev teams release multiple product features on their systems as part of overall business features. I snag the headlines or highlights on the release notes because they list out for each project what they have released. On the other side of things, they have a properties report that shows only their release notes. I was trying to have the business side of things pull in the "highlights" boxes despite the page but since page properties will bring in the page regardless if there is anything on it, I was trying to restrict to dev teams that I know work on the project. Hence the desire to filter by multiple pages.

The only way I've seen to make it work is to add an additional label to the notes but realize that unless I keep changing the labels I will have a perpetual list for as long as the space exists.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you mean what I think you do, it's just because of the way the macros configuration code handles the field.

I'm afraid you will need multiple properties boxes here - one per label.e


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

page-property
Votes not showing up in Confluence Questions on Wiki
Asked by Greg Della-Croce:

I have a COO reporting that Confluence Questions is not showing always showing the Votes on the summary page. ("*Even though I have voted (positively) on answers to questions on the XXXXXX Procedures and Guidelines wiki space, the number of votes is not showing up on the summary page*") Does this sound at all familiar to any of you? I know very little about how Questions really works in Confluence.


Answers:
author: TomC
body: Greg, I believe what you are describing is that the summary page shows upvotes to *questions*, not answers. Please advise if you can confirm. Personally I think it should show upvotes to answers, and I think you are suggesting that was your assumption as well.

comments: author: Greg Della-Croce
body: Tom, you are correct, I did not realize that only the votes on the question were tallied. It does seem strange. Let me check with my COO on that and see if that is his understanding also.Thanks!


author: TomC
body: Greg, sounds good. At least in our company, people are more apt to upvote answers not questions, and those viewing a list of questions want to see those that have upvoted answers. Instead, we see a lot of 'zeroes', which is not optimal for a new application we are trying to get traction on. Depending upon what you hear from your COO, I'm persuaded to open a feature request with Atlassian on this (or upvote and watch an existing feature request on this if there is one, though I looked quickly this morning and didn't find one). By the way, I added the tag 'confluence-questions' to your question to perhaps get some more 'eyes' on this topic from others, including Atlassians. Perhaps others have insights as to why it was designed this way.


Tags: confluence-administration

questions-for-confluence
Adding user with "domain\user" in confluence is ignoring "\"
Asked by Omprakash Thamsetty:

Hi

I have configured user authenticate with domain users. Actually the AD configuration in JIRA and then we configured users to take from JIRA in confluence. Even I did the synchronize both JIRA and Confluence.

When I am adding user with domain\\user then backslash is getting ignore. example: xyz is domain abc is user so I am adding the user xyz\\abc in confluence in individual but its not able to add the user. Its showing error message as xyzabc user did not find in user directory. see xyzabc ignored backslash that is the reason its not finding the user. I am able to add the users in Jira, stash and Bamboo with same configuration. Facing issue with confluence only. My confluence version is 5.8.13

Does any one have any idea?


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey Omprakash,

Even if you try to create an internal user in Confluence with the backslash character, the following error message will appear:

* *"Usernames cannot contain the characters '+', ',', '\\', '\<', '\>', ', or "."*

I also found this bug saying that if the username has the forwardslash character, will cause problems too:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-13479>

May I ask you if the problem happens in JIRA too? Or is it just in Confluence?

Cheers,

comments: author: Omprakash Thamsetty
body: Hi,We did not see this problem with Jira , Stash and Bamboo. Only with Confluence. Yes, Its a bug. I opened the atlassian support ticket. They also confirmed its bug. Waiting for work around or fix for this. We can not use confluence completely as all user authentications are having the problem with \\ .Thanks,Om


Tags: confluence-administration

questions-for-confluence
How can you see who is watching a space's blog?
Asked by Michael Macnair:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Manage Watchers](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=218271870)*

Clicking on a blog post's watch/manage watchers option allows a space administrator to see who is watching an individual post, or who is watching the entire space. It doesn't seem to allow you to see who is just watching the blog stream. Is this possible?


Answers:
author: Vera Henrichs
body: And how about this feature? <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-40582> Please vote!


Tags: watcher
PocketQuery: Can we execute DDL statements using PC
Asked by Pranjal Shukla:

Can we execute statements like Create/Update from PC? Many a times you need to create a temporary table and insert for display purpose. Also, can we write PL/SQL code?


Answers:
author: Felix Grund (Scandio)
body: Hi Pranjal,

No - PocketQuery is a read-only tool and manipulating DB queries are not possible.

Regards, Felix (Scandio)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: If you mean in Confluence's database - no. Never change a Confluence database without going via the API
how to create table from text
Asked by Dave Blaine:

In Confluence wiki 5.5.6, How do I create a table from text in a .TXT file?


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: You need to make sure the tables are in the proper format:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-wiki-markup-251003035.html#ConfluenceWikiMarkup-Tables>

and then import them as wiki markup, using either the Confluence editor (easy) (Insert, Markup, Paste, click button, done!) or using the API (a little more involved, but necessary if you want to automate the process).

comments: author: Pricob Ioan
body: Hello. What is the API name ? I need to do something similar with a CSV file and I need to automate it. Thank you !


Tags: table