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LDAP Confluence syncronization
Asked by Ravi Mudumby:

While experimenting to sync LDAP to Confluence we synced more than 400 user accounts by setting thee wrong user object filter. Now we have the correct user object filter. How can I delete those user accounts and resyncronize to get only the accounts that fulfill the filter criteria?

How long would it generally take to syncronize? We keep getting timeout errors? We have more than 100000 users.

Thanks

Ravi


Answers:
author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Ravi,

From your amount of users we highly recommend you to consider [delegation method](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+Internal+Directory+with+LDAP+Authentication) instead of syncrhonization connector method due to its limitation as describe [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Connecting+to+an+Internal+Directory+with+LDAP+Authentication).

If you prefer to use sycnrhonization we recommend you to create multiple directories and configure it in a way so each directories does not pull more users than the recommended limit mentioned [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+Management+Limitations+and+Recommendations?src=search#UserManagementLimitationsandRecommendations-RecommendationsforConnectingtoLDAP) also make sure it would not trigger the synchornization in the same time.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra

comments: author: Ravi Mudumby
body: Septa,

Thanks for the information. I think this makes more sense in our case. How ever, I am confused on how user accounts will be created in Confluence when using delegation method.

From my understanding, I will create an internal directory with LDAP and provide all the criteria on searching user objects. I am not sure about the next step of actually having a user account created and assigned privileges in Confluence.

By checking on the option of Create User on Login, I was able to create a user in Confluence when the user tries to log in, but the user sees an error page saying he does not have any permissions. I had to then manually go to his user id and assign him into proper groups. Though this works, I am trying to see if my administrator can create an user account which authenticates with the internal LDAP delegation, assign proper groups to that user account and then send a notification email out to the user. That would be an ideal scenario for us. Also, our user names are not lowercase.

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Can you please provide some insight into that?

Thanks

Ravi


author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi Ravi,

Regarding the synchronization, sometimes it needs to flush the directory cache after a modification in the directory configuration.

You can flush the cache by disabling the LDAP directory, enabling it again and manually triggering the synchronization. After this you should see the correct list of users that match the LDAP filter.

Cheers


Tags: ldap
Gantt Chart view displays no issues
Asked by Patrick Faucher:

I have configured the plug-in according to instructions and created several issues. I have added planned start date and estimate to issues, added them to an active sprint in agile, etc.

My Gantt view is blank still. I can't figure out why.

Thanks,


Answers:
author: pschaff01
body: Hi Patrick,

Did you verify if the date range filter of the plugin itself is gathering these issues? If you expand the filter, no issues are displayed as well?

Also, after installing the plugin, have you already performed a reindex in your instance?

Cheers,

Pietro Schaff
Subject line of outgoing emails
Asked by Cristina Mikesell:

How can you change the subject line of emails going to space watchers? We got feedback from the watchers that they don't want to see "\[confluence\]" as part of the subject line. Is this something that we can ask our Confluence administrator to do for a specific space? Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


Answers:
author: GuilhermeA
body: Hello Cristina!

You can remove the \[confluence\], usually this is on this page here: <http://localhost:8090/admin/mail/createsmtpmailserver.action> it has that tag on **Subject Prefix**, you can still customize it further here:

* [Customizing the Mail Templates](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+eMail+Templates)

Please take in mind that the Subject Prefix cannot be null, so you need to add some value into it.

Cheers!

comments: author: Cristina Mikesell
body: This worked, thank you. I should mention that once you make this change, it is global.


Tags: email

template
Mentions autocomplete doesn't work for languages other then English
Asked by Kemal Bajramovic:

I have a specific situation in using Mentions autocomplete feature. When I type @ when using my native *Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)* keyboard, nothing happens (except having @, obviously); but when I switch to English (United States) keyboard autocomplete of mentions works as a charm.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Kemal, thank you for noting that, I have created an improvement request for such feature in [jira.atlassian.com](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30183). Please add yourself as a watcher to the ticket, and post any additional considerations to it.

comments: author: Kemal Bajramovic
body: Did so. Thanks.


author: Felipevsw
body: Hi, Kemal!

What version of JIRA are you using, so I can try to reproduce this behaviour here?

comments: author: Kemal Bajramovic
body: It is Confluence issue. I'm using latest version 5.1.4.
Major Layout Problems on Pages
Asked by Rigmor J?rgensen:

I last edited pages in my Confluence space in late June and no problems occured. When I returned to make some changes yesterday the layout on every page was changed and looked disastrous. Tables have shifted, text and pictures are out of place. In other words everything is displaced. However if I chose to "edit" the page there seems to be now changes, and the log shows that noone has made any changes since I last viewed it. Does anyone have any idea what happend here? And what could fix my problem?


Answers:
author: BillA
body: I think you're hitting this bug which we're working on [CONF-30166](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30166).


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Maybe a Confluence update screwed up your layout? I think you should send an ticket to atlassian support about it, they might have the answer.

Best regards,

Peter


author: Rigmor J?rgensen
body: I guess this was a different bug, and a new issue was created.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Rotated photos from iPhone
Asked by Jim:

I have a user who has taken photos with an upsidedown iPhone. When viewed on the iPhone or a Mac the photos view just fine, as the iPhone or Mac compensates and shows them in the way you might want. Once uploaded to Kingfluence, however, they render in the original upsidedown view. There s no way to anticipate this on a Mac. Works fine on Android.Anyone else ever seen this? Should I just tell my users to switch to Android or am I missing something? Confleunce 5...


Answers:
author: Jim
body: The solution we have found is to rotate the photos by 360? (that is, all the way around, a full circle). Then it works just fine. Strange.

comments: author: Johnathan Lucky
body: Strange but an easy work around thanks!


author: Stacy Markel
body: You don't need to install any plug-in for it. However, there are plug-ins to help you through this.

All you need to do is to rotate the image by 360 degrees and you will have a rotated image.

If you have further queries for your Apple devices visit [Apple ID Customer Service](https://www.appletechnicalsupportnumbers.com/apple-id-support/)


author: CelesteCS
body: Hello,  
Have a look at the following plugin: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.celestecs.confluence.image-lossless-rotator>.

It rotates images lossless, which means the image quality and file size are not changed. Additionally it can rotate images based on EXIF orientation tag, so to fix iPhone photos orientation you will have to simply press one button.  
I believe that is what you need.


author: Matt
body: This is a known issue, which is being tracked here:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-17621>

This is really a web browser issue, rather than an issue with Confluence itself. Confluence sends the complete image information to the browser, but then the browser doesn't rotate the image when it renders it.

Jim's workaround documented above works :)


Tags: image

ios
Office macro is not recognising attached files
Asked by Rosalind:

Confluence: v5.1.4: I've attached a PowerPoint file via Tools\\Attachments. When I use the Office PowerPoint macro the dialogue box does not make the file available for selection. The File field is blank. (I had the same problem with a Word file, and it eventually worked on the third day of trying.)


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

As far as I know, who does the recognitions of the files, is Office Connector, that is a bundled plugin from Confluence. Probably this plugin could be culprit, that's why is not working. Being that said, lets try to rebuild our bundled plugins, that way, the plugin itself will work.  

\* Shutdown Confluence  
Delete the content from the following folders:  
\* \<confluence-home\>/plugin-cache  
\* \<confluence-home\>/plugins-osgi-cache  
\* \<confluence-home\>/plugins-temp  
\* \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins  
\* \<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins_language  
\* Startup Confluence  

**I highly suggest that you schedule a downtime to perform it, because we don't want to disturb your business.**   

Cheers,  

WZ
Confluence lightweight tasks - how to list them all
Asked by francis:

Is there a way to list all the tasks of a set of pages / Space into one place (just to get an overview of all tasks which still need to be completed ?)


Answers:
author: francis
body: We are using the JIRA features of confluence to create tasks (in JIRA). The JIRA Issues macro is used to list all the unresolved.

Not really lightweight tasks anymore, but good enough.


author: BillA
body: We don't have this feature exactly yet but are tracking at [https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26688](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26688.). As Guilherme mentions above, you can use that workaround.


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Francis, you can use the Confluence workbox to see all the tasks assigned to you, as described in [this documentation](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Managing+Tasks+in+Confluence#ManagingTasksinConfluence-Creatingpersonaltasksandhavingtasksassignedtoyou). Alternatively you can include the pages where there are [tasklists](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Tasklist+Macro) in a single location using the [Include Page Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Include+Page+Macro) or even the [Excerpt macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Excerpt+Include+Macro).

Hope that helps!

comments: author: francis
body: Hi Guilherme, it is what Bill says, this feature is not available.  
I found some suggestion to query the database directly using the SQL plugin, but that is paying option.

We will use an alternative approach for now.
Putting videos in columns
Asked by minesh patel:

Hello, I am using confluence version 5.1.4. The wiki mark-up is different than from the other the previous versions. I think more complex.

Right now, I have about 8 videos on the wiki page. All these videos are lined up under each other.

I would like to put them either in two columns (4 \& 4) or in three colunms (3 \& 3 \& 2). Does anone how I can acheive this??? Thanks.

minesh


Answers:
author: BillA
body: Don't use tables...there's dedicated feature for this. You'll see a page layouts button in the editor toolbar immediately to the left of the link button. From there you can choose a two-column or three column layout. (more documentation here <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF51/Working+with+Page+Layouts+and+Columns+and+Sections>) Note that page layouts have changed a little bit in 5.2 to give more layout options.

Since the videos are macros you should be able to just drag them into the column you want them to go into. Note, if you're using youtube videos, you can just paste in the url to the video and it will automatically convert into a youtube macro.


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Minesh,

As a simple way, you could create a table.

As a better way you could create a CSS to do the alignment: <http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_align.asp>

Hope it helps!!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
view table border within panel
Asked by Terrence Bayley:

I discovered that the confluence framework CSS that is used specifically calls out to not have a table border while inside a panel. I would like to be able to enable or disable the border attribute at will.   

There is a CSS Stylesheet macro in confluence but I have not been able to find some working examples. If this macro would overwrite the CSS hierarchy then this would be an easy solution.


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hi Terrence, an easy way to acomplish such is by using the Table Plugin for Confluence as described in [this thread](/questions/61522/confluence-hide-table-cell-borders). This was raised to the Confluence dev team as a concern [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-21159) but has been closed since then.

There is a customer proposed workaround in the ticket thread:

```
1. go to the space admin2. choose Look And Feel &gt; Stylesheet &gt; Edit3. paste the following:.panel table.confluenceTable th.confluenceTh,  .panel table.confluenceTable td.confluenceTd {      border-width: 1px !important;      border-style: solid !important;      border-color: #DDDDDD !important;  }
```

Hope it helps.

comments: author: Terrence Bayley
body: Worked like a champ! Many Thanks, and I hope this week is a good one for you! Terrence \~


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Great to hear that, please mind to mark this answer as accepted(top right checkmark, should turn green) as such we can help other people too!


author: Mick Davidson
body: Guilherme,

Thanks for that, I've just tried it an it works perfectly. I'll be adding this to our Confluence admins knowledge database.

Cheers.


author: BillA
body: Note that behaviour you're seeing only pertains to the Documentation Theme so if you're using the Default Theme you won't need this workaround.


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Great to hear that, please mind to mark this answer as accepted(top right checkmark, should turn green) as such we can help other people too!
Plug-ins in Confluence hosted evaluation
Asked by John Daughety:

I recently evaluated the hosted version of Confluence and was very impressed, especially with its ability to embed a web page. I recommended the software to our company and we are evaluating the locally-installed version now, but I can't embed a web page. It seems like there are other features I am missing from the hosted version, and I want to give Confluence a fair Proof of Concept trial: what plug-ins would I need to buy in addition to the base license to match the hosted version of Confluence?


Answers:
author: John Daughety
body: Many thanks for the answers. I did need a plug-in called "Adaptavist Content Formatting Macros" and once I had this plug-in installed (easy to install and a trial version so I can still work in trial mode) I could use the IFrame macro and I can now see the embedded website just as I could in the OnDemand trial. This is great! I also like the way it is easy to manage and install new plug-ins in Confluence.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi John,  

You don't need to pay to use our trial version. You just need to go to our <https://my.atlassian.com> generate a license, and finally download Confluence.

Cheers,  
WZ


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: John,

Have you tried the html include macro?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Enabling+the+html-include+Macro>

You are going to have to follow the instructions to enable it. Once you have you should be able to embed external pages into your Confluence instnace.


Tags: confluence-administration
[Crowd / Confluence] How to change usernames in Confluence ?
Asked by Eric T:

Hi,

We use Crowd to authenticate users of our Confluence instance : authentication and authorisation information is stored in the Crowd database. We now want to connect Crowd with our entreprise ActiveDirectory. Unfortunately, usernames are different in the AD and in the Crowd Internal Directory (for example : eric.tournier in AD and etournier in Crowd Internal Directory) then information about the creator, etc. is lost in Confluence pages.

How could we do to change all these alias ? Should we only replace the entries in the Confluence XML export file ?

Thanks in advance

Eric


Answers:
author: fsim
body: Hey Eric,

Actually there is a database script that you can run, although it's not very robust: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Changing+Usernames>

But it gets the job done if you need this very urgently!

Foogie


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Eric,

I could find this feature request, unfortunately not yet implemented: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-1133>

Please watch the feature report for future updates and read how Atlassian approaches bug fixes and improvements requests: <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Support/Atlassian+Bug+Fixing+Policy>

I hope this helps you.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: crowd

user
Sharing a Page
Asked by Steve Sweales:

This is a question from one of the project managers in my team ...

Is there a way I can see who I shared a page with?

Obviously I could share the page with myself when I am sharing it with everyone else. That way I would receive an email that would show me who I shared the page with (audit trail purposes). However, is there a way of seeing this information if I had forgotten to share the page with myself, and as a result receive no email?


Answers:
author: fsim
body: Hey Steve,

Another way would be to check the sent mails in the SMTP account you configured in Confluence Admin \>\> Mail Servers , as all share mails are sent through that 1 account in Confluence.

Let me know if you have more questions regarding this!
I want to search my hipchat rooms from confluence
Asked by francis:

Hi,

More and more knowledge is recorded in the day to day chats between our developers, and we are using hipchat for that - it does persist the discussions, so we can look it up again later on.

The thing now is that if I'm looking for some information, I have to look in 2 places (in confluence and in hipchat).

Is there a way to do a kind of federated search (between confluence and hipchat) and/or integrate the discussions of hipchat into confluence ?

Francis


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Francis, currently that is not possible, however you may always raise a feature request for such in <http://help.hipchat.com/>, there is a number of already raised (I can see from my side), you may add your to the list using the [help.hipchat.com](http://help.hipchat.com) page.

edit: changed the tracker address, thanks to Zuhaib :)


Tags: confluence-app

hipchat
What did you changed - Default NOT Notify
Asked by Bj?rn Eitmann:

Hey \*

Is it possible to set the "What did you changed - Notify" Checkbox default to NOT NOTIFY?

Best,

Bj?rn


Answers:
author: fsim
body: Hey there,

You can use the Workaround here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-25367>

Which is essentially to add this to Confluence Admin \>\> Custom HTML:

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;AJS.toInit(function () {  AJS.$('#notifyWatchers').attr('checked', false);});&lt;/script&gt;
```

Try to add it to either "At end of the HEAD", or "At end of the BODY", as different versions of Confluence will treat JS differently

Foogie


author: Mick Davidson
body: Here's a Chrome extension that individual users can add if they're using Chrome (this only works for the person who uses it, it's not universal across Confluence):

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

// ==UserScript==  
// @name disable_notify  
// @namespace your_name  
// @description Disables the notify watchers by default  
// @include https://\<your url here\>/pages/editpage\*  
// ==/UserScript==

<br />

var e = document.getElementById("notifyWatchers");  
e.checked = false;

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Note that you have to use the URL of a page that appears when the page is in EDIT mode. Then you have to remove the page ID and replace everything after editpage with an asterisk.

Save the file as: \<file name of your choice\>.user.js file

When you've done that drag it into the Extensions area (under Tools).

I'm now trying to get a developer to write something that will post a warning when someone who is using this saves a page. The message will say something like: Do you want to notify anyone of your changes? If they select Yes, then the message will disappear and they user can select the Notify tick box.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ok, you can make a change in the system default user profile.

However, that won't change what you send out. The "do not notify me" only applies to YOUR account. Changing it won't affect what anyone else receives.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Nic,

sorry, I'm confused. Can you clarify what you've said and how that relates to the code from Foogie please? Cheers.


author: Bj?rn Eitmann
body: I mean the default setting, so that i have to fill the checkbox, if i updated something very important for all users.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Do you mean the language, or the default setting?


Tags: confluence-administration
Has anyone created a form in Confluence that is used to nominate people for an award?
Asked by Debbie Augusteyn:

I would like to create a form in Confluence that can be used to nominate employees for an award. The form needs to be available to everyone for completion, but the completed form should be visible only to a select group of people. Ideally, we would have an email notification going to the select group of people when a form is submitted. We would also like to be able to generate a summary of all submitted forms.

Has anyone done something similar?


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Hi Debbie,

maybe the answers over here could help you out? : [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/92908/is-there-any-way-to-create-a-form-in-confluence-and-save-the-inputted-data-to-a-page](/questions/92908/is-there-any-way-to-create-a-form-in-confluence-and-save-the-inputted-data-to-a-page)

Best regards,  
Peter


Tags: confluence-administration