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AtlasCamp 2012 - plans to post videos? slides?
Asked by Brendan Patterson:

Hi!

Its been a month since AtlasCamp 2012 started and I'd definitely like to see some of the presentations I missed. In the past Atlassian has been great about posting those videos and in many cases they have been extraordinarily useful being the only place where certain internal Atlassian knowledge is made available.

So are there plans to post those videos? And if so any approximate ETAs?

thanks!

Brendan


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Try here:<http://www.atlassian.com/company/about/events/atlascamp/2012/thursday/keynote>

comments: author: Brendan Patterson
body: There they are! Thanks David. Don't know how I missed them but also don't know where they were posted. Thanks!


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: They'd not been there very long :)


author: Igor Sereda [ALM Works]
body: Hey Brendan,

Check out these:

* <http://www.youtube.com/user/GoAtlassian/videos?view=0>
* <http://lanyrd.com/2012/atlascamp/coverage/>

Cheers,  
Igor

comments: author: Igor Sereda [ALM Works]
body: PS. I did watch your lightning talk practice on YouTube - it's hilarious! And useful, too. I think you can repeat it at other conferences too. Any plans to publish IDEA plugin?


author: Brendan Patterson
body: Hi Igor,

Thanks for the info on those links and watching my Git lightning pres. That code is all public here:

<https://bitbucket.org/artemissoftware/git-prime>

My blog talks about it in depth:

<http://www.artemissoftware.net/display/art/2011/11/04/Introducing+GitPrime+-+auto+save+for+your+local+Git+repositories>

Yeah there still only seem to be 2 of roughly a dozen AtlasCamp 2012 videos posted to YouTube. And the slides don't offer a lot of info. Alas!

thanks,

Brendan
Edit/Share/Add/Tools menu wraps in Chrome under the default theme in Confluence 4.3
Asked by Don Gamble:

The Edit / Share / Add / Tools menu wraps, with tools showing below edit, in Chrome when using the default theme. The same issue doesn't exist in the documentation theme.


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi, this problem is different I believe, you can either install this plugin to fix it: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor-height-fix>

or update to Confluence 5.1.3 or later that already has the fix for it.

Kind regards,

Peter


author: Bj?rn Eitmann
body: We have the same problem now. The "edit-mode" is a very ver y small area.

Confluence 5.1.2 (Chrome Version 27.0.1453.116 m)


author: John Burns
body: It seems the latest version of Chrome (23.0.1271.64) fixes this.


author: RianA
body: Apart from that, please try to revert your customization such as layout, theme, stylesheet and custom html as these could be the cause of this issue too.

comments: author: Marley Wynne
body: I'm not sure what happened, but sometime in the last week this magically got fixed (we did nothing on our end). Thanks for all the responses!


author: John Burns
body: This looks like something caused by the rule:

```
#navigation .ajs-menu-bar {margin: 10px 0 0 1em;}
```

specifically, the 1em.  
I have also noticed a similar issue in JIRA here:  

```
.gadget .gadget-menu ul {float: right;margin: 0 0 0 1em;padding: 0;width: auto;}
```

In the file com.atlassian.gadgets.dashboard:dashboard.css.

This manifests itself in the dashbard widget menu.


author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

Could you try to temporarily [enable plugin safe mode](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Disabling+or+Enabling+a+Plugin#DisablingorEnablingaPlugin-Disabling/Enablingalluser-installedplugins(safemode)), that will disable any third-party plugins installed and see if the problem persists? If not, the most likely one of those plugins cause this issue.

You could also try the obvious - emptying browser cache - and see if that helps, but I guess you have already tried this.

Cheers,

Peter

comments: author: Marley Wynne
body: Hi Peter! We have the same error in Chrome. Cache has been cleared and enabling plugin safe mode didn't work. Any other ideas (we have a lot of Chrome users)? Cheers!


author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

Could you please attach a screenshot of the issue? I tried to reproduce it using Chrome and 4.3.1 and was unable to do so.

Thanks,

Peter


author: Marley Wynne
body: Hope this helps!

![](http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn255/Aerfen77/wikiChromeDisplay_zpsc163e16f.png)


author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

Judging by the screenshot I suspect that this is not the default theme being used, or at least there are some local customizations (CSS, layout, custom HTML) applied. Could you try temporarily disabling them and see if that helps?

May I know your Confluence \& Chrome versions too?

Thanks,

Peter


Tags: theme
Macro not displaying correctly
Asked by J Webb:

Recently the macro Live Search is not displaying correctly. Instead of GO, it says livesearch.macro.go. Another instance is instead of Share, it says share.button. I am using version 4.2.8. Would love to know what went wrong as it was working previously.


Answers:
author: RianA
body: This might be related to either third party plugin interference that you can resolve by enabling safe mode. Or this might be related to corrupted plugin cache, and you might need to flush it to resolve this issue by the following steps.

1. Shutdown Confluence  
2. Remove the following folders (they will be regenerated at startup):  
a. {{\<confluence_home\>/bundled-plugins}}  
b. {{\<confluence_home\>/plugins-cache}}  
c. {{\<confluence_home\>/plugins-osgi-cache}}  
3. {{\<confluence_home\>/plugins-temp}}  
4. Startup Confluence

Hope it helps!
Attachments Comments
Asked by Mike Bruns:

can you place a url in the comment field for an attachment in confluence that is live?


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: I'm afraid not - comments for attachments are plain text only.

You could raise a feature request for this at <https://jira.atlassian.com>


author: Giuliano C.
body: I'm not sure if I understand your toughs, Mike, but, since Confluence 4.x was launched you can insert attachments on comments on a page via **Add Comment \> Insert \> Attachment \> Post**. You will get a url to get access (download) to the attachment.

Hope it helps you!

Kind Regards
Notification When Someone Views the Wiki
Asked by Richard Lucas:

Hello all,

Is there a way to receive notifications when someone views certian pages in the wiki, and also who it is that viewed that specific page.

I would appreciate the help.

Thank you.


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

My approach would be to [enable user access logging](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/How+to+audit+Confluence+-+enabling+user+access+logging), then write a shellscript or some other mechanism that can be automated to monitor that logfile and based on specific events (e.g. page visit), trigger a notification.

This way you would not consume too much resources and can customize the mechanism the way you want.

comments: author: Richard Lucas
body: Thank you. Exactly what I needed.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Mmm, Confluence doesn't track that by default. If it did, it could be quite a heavy load, and the usual trick is for people to include javascript that will post the visitor data to other tools that are designed for view tracking (e.g. Google Analytics). Even they don't mail on view though - you'll need dedicated code for that sort of thing!

comments: author: Richard Lucas
body: Thanks Nic,

So I assume there is no plugin or macro which Confluence offers that can accomplish this task?

Thank you.
Find and Replace Function in Confluence?
Asked by Richard Lucas:

Hello all,

Is there a Find and Replace function in Confluence like there is in Word?

For example, say if I want to replace every instance "cat" (page titles, within word documents, within txt documents) with the word "dog".

Is this possible?

Thank you very much and I appreciate all the help.


Answers:
author: Jeison
body: Hi there,

Not possible at the moment I'm affraid. However, I heard that Atlassian devs are looking at implementing that in the near future, and this feature is being track through <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2522>

Make sure you vote for this feature request to increase its visibility.

Hope it helps :)

comments: author: Richard Lucas
body: Thank you very much.


author: Vera Henrichs
body: It's possible now! Took me a while to find it, but there's a magnifying glass at the right of the editor-panel :smile:

comments: author: Nicolas Casel
body: Thank you @Vera Henrichs , however the initial question is related to perform a Find / Replace on all pages of a wiki...


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Did you mean while editing a page or across pages? The 4.x editor covers the first part I think and for the second part see [How to automate adding text to Confluence pages](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/How+to+automate+adding+text+to+Confluence+pages)

comments: author: Richard Lucas
body: Thanks for the help Bob,

This is across several pages at once. But I need it not only to work for page titles and text within those pages, but also for .docx and .txt documents I have attached within those pages.

Thank you.
Calendar recurring events
Asked by Brian Gleich:

Can I create an event that repearts the last business/weekday of month rather than set date?

thanks....


Answers:
author: Matthew Erickson
body: Hi bgleich,

We have a feature request for something similair : <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-397>. You might want to vote/comment on that issue.


author: Giuliano C.
body: The best approach I know is about Confluence Scheduled Jobs, that allows you to schedule various administrative jobs at regular time intervals.

|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| The types of jobs which can be scheduled cover: * Confluence site backups * Storage optimisation jobs to clear Confluence's temporary files and caches * Index optimisation jobs to ensure Confluence's search indexes are up to date * Mail queue optimisation jobs to ensure Confluence's mail queue is maintained and notifications have been sent. Please, refer to the following article to better understand it: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Scheduled+Jobs> Hope it helps you with the doubt! Kind Regards |
Is it possible to share a site with a "group" in Confluence?
Asked by Paul Guillaumon:

When I want to share a site in Confluence I can only share it with "Users" but not with a "group".

The groups have been created in Confluence but those aren't shown as an option when entering the group name when sharing a site.


Answers:
author: Jeison
body: Not possible at the moment, but there's an open feature request regarding the same functionality at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-22430>. Feel free to vote for it, or add yourself as a watcher.

I'd also like to see that implemented :)

Cheers.

comments: author: Paul Guillaumon
body: Thanks a lot!
Passing Metadata from children pages to parent
Asked by Jakob Erber:

How can I achieve this?

For example: Extracting individual date information used in children pages to use it in the report of a parent or even unrelated page?


Answers:
author: RianA
body: How about using [Metadata Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Metadata+Details+Macro) and [Detail Summary Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Details+Summary+Macro)? Perhaps it would help. Cheers.

comments: author: Jakob Erber
body: We are using Confluence 4.2 but this macros seem not to be available. I thought they belong to standard installation.


Tags: confluence-cloud
Can I change the height of the header in the Documentation Theme for Confluence (download) 4.2.8? It's too "tall"
Asked by Andrew Drury:

Can I change the height of the header in the Documentation Theme for Confluence (download) 4.2.8? It's too "tall"


Answers:
author: RianA
body: Not really sure on which header that you meant. I guess it should be feasible through [Custom CSS](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS).


author: Andrew Drury
body: Thanks Rian - I'll try that tomorrow (in meetings rest of today), and will let you know how I do. Thx again.


author: RianA
body: Right, for the **heading text**you could put the following css.

```
.wiki-content h1  { font-size:1.5em;  }
```

For **header menu** you can put the following code

```
#header {  min-height: 0;  line-height: 1.7;  }
```


author: Andrew Drury
body: Thanks Rian.

Sorry if I should be more specific about which header, but there only seems to be one in that Theme.

Before I start ploughing through CSS (which is unfamiliar to me), does anyone know whether CSS is my answer - Rian seems uncertain. Thanks


author: Andrew Drury
body: Thanks Rian.

Sorry if I should be more specific about which header, but there only seems to be one in that Theme.

Before I start ploughing through CSS (which is unfamiliar to me), does anyone know whether CSS is my answer - Rian seems uncertain. Thanks.


Tags: change

documentation-theme

download

header

size
Display Remote Link in Confluence Page
Asked by M:

Hi All,

I create a link from Jira to a confluence page and this link doesn't appear in the confluence page.

Any Idea ?

Guillaume Mackowiak


Answers:
author: Chung Park Chan
body: Hi Guillaume,

There are already plans to have this in future, as you can see in this documentation.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-26954>

Do keep track of the page to be informed when it will available :-)

Cheers


author: Immanuel Siagian
body: Hi Guillaume,

You can find these info via Tools \> Info on your Confluence page :)

Cheers,

comments: author: M
body: No it doesn't work
Not all global spaces are shown on Confluence 4.3.2 main dashboard
Asked by Julio Mugabe:

20 of 67 spaces are being shown on the dashboard and the rest are not.

When I click view all and click global, it still does not show them.

What do I have to do to show them all on the dashboard.

<br />


Answers:
author: Vcabourdin
body: You can add them all to favorite.

comments: author: Julio Mugabe
body: Thanks for the answer but it does not help in this case. Click on "all spaces" or "global" show show all the spaces but it does not. For one to be able to add it to the fav, you must be able to see the the space on the dashboard and click on the fav icon and again doing this 50 plus spaces is not feasible.
Universal Plugin Manager 2.7.5 installed when available is only 2.7.4
Asked by Ian Clark:

I am unable to upgrade from Confluence 4.3 to 4.3.2 because of the current version of the Universal Plugin Manager I have installed.

It states that I have Universal Plugin Manager 2.7.5 installed but the only currently available version is 2.7.4 so I can't autoamattically upgrade and it prevents me from downgrading by manually downloading 2.7.4 and installing it that way.

How did I get 2.7.5? How do I upgrade?


Answers:
author: PeterKoczan
body: Hi,

We are currently facing problems with version 2.7.5, so it was unpublished from Marketplace. Please install version 2.7.6, which has these bugs fixed and should solve your problems too.

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.upm.atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin>

Kind regards,

Peter
Force Confluence 4 to keep macro in wiki markup block
Asked by Wendy Fergusson:

I'm preparing to migrate from Confluence 3.5 to Confluence 4. I'm trying to resolve problems before the migration by changing the 3.5 wiki markup into code that still works in Confluence 3.5 and will migrate cleanly into Confluence 4 when we're finally ready to do that. I have multiple uses of the add-page macro that work in some contexts and not in others - they work if they end up inside a {wiki-markup} block in Confluence 4, but they don't work if they're "successfully" translated.

I've talked to CustomWare and they'll fix this part of the add-page macro when they get to it. I guess the problem is that the plugin is advertised as supporting Confluence 4, so during the migration it gets translated (unless the macro is embedded in a block that can't be translated for another reason), however the particular functionality I'm trying to use doesn't (yet) work in the Confluence 4 version of the plugin.

So what I'd like to do is force the add-page macro to be kept inside a {wiki-markup} block on migration, instead of being translated. Is there a way to do that?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [Wiki Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CWP) has a wiki macro that does what you want. Install and use on 3.x before you migrate.

comments: author: Wendy Fergusson
body: I'm not keen on adding another plugin. I guess I'll work around the problems another way.
Lowering MySQL threads for confluence
Asked by Jonathon Marshall:

I'm currently testing confluence as an internal documentation store and intranet for a very small company. In my testing I've found that Confluence seems to hold several 10+ mysql threads open at all time. I realize this is probably for performance, but in our case it's unlikely there will ever be more than two people on the site at a time, and the total number of employees can be counted on one hand.

\*EDIT

Is there anyway to tune the number of connections used by confluence like you can in JIRA?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA051/Tuning+Database+Connections>


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Jonathon!  

Maybe you can set the number of threads on MySQL itself.  

Try changing some parameters on my.cnf, like:  

thread_cache_size = 0  
wait_timeout = 60  
interactive_timeout = 60  
max_delayed_threads = 0  

This will may help with the idle or unused connections with MySQL.  

Hope it helps!

comments: author: Jonathon Marshall
body: Unfortunately these settings did not change the number of connections remaining open to mysql from Confluence. They also resulted in an overall performance loss (thread_cache_size=0 I assume).


author: Jonathon Marshall
body: Is there a configuration file similar to this one in JIRA?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA051/Tuning+Database+Connections>


Tags: mysql

performance

thread
Migrating users from an old AD Domain to new AD Domain but retaining the history of users
Asked by Daniel Greene:

Hi,

Basically, we have Confluence right now configured to point to Active Directory DomainA.

We are currently migrating all users from DomainA to DomainZ.

Once that is done, we will point Confluence to the new DomainZ, which will have all new user accounts in it for all old users that used to be in DomainA.

My question is ... can we configure Confluence so that a user's history who logged in from DomainA is retained when they start logging in with a brand new account from DomainZ? Is there some type of config we can do in Confluence to make this work, where we can remap their history to a new user?


Answers:
author: Tiago Comasseto
body: Hi

Actually Confluence associates the history to the username, not any User ID or directory ID. So basically if the usernames in the new LDAP are exactly the same, you should have no problem in create a new directory within Confluence pointing to this new LDAP.

Cheers

comments: author: Daniel Greene
body: Hi,

We tried testing this by adding disabling the old user account in Domain A and enabling the new user account in Domain Z. We then switched the authentication order in Confluence to look up the new Domain first. Both accounts have the exact same username.

The results were that the new user account was able to login and add/edit content, but it doesn't appear that the user's history was there.

Is there something specific that we can look at to confirm that the history was re-associated to the new user account? Again, the account has the exact same username.

Thanks,
Insert a blank paragraph before and after the table
Asked by Tomasz Man:

Hi,

when I edit a page in Confluence, before and after the table is empty paragraphs inserted. Is it possible to turn it off?

Confluence: v4.2.4

Adam


Answers:
author: SimonS
body: Hi Adam,

The empty paragraphs are included by default and there is no way through the UI to turn them off. Why did you want them removed? There may be another way to achieve what you're trying to do.

-Simon


author: Petch
body: Adam,

Unfortunately these are necessary to allow placement of the cursor before or after a table (so you can insert more content).

However, these blank lines only appear in the editor and not in the final page content.

Craig


Tags: paragraph

table
How do you revert a space theme to the site theme?
Asked by Felicity Chapman:

If you choose a theme for a specific space and then change your mind - how can you revert the space to use the global site theme? I've looked at the documentation and can only find instructions on how to define a theme for a space - not how to undo this action.

Would be very grateful for any ideas.


Answers:
author: Mark Hrynczak
body: On the Space Admin\>Themes page, there should be an option:
> "Global Look and Feel"

Selecting that will remove all space-level changes, and the space will use the global theme.

Do you see that option for the space on your instance?

comments: author: Felicity Chapman
body: Thanks. I don't know how I didn't notice the **Global Look and Feel** option before. This is exactly what I was looking for.  


author: Alejandro Conde Carrillo
body: While viewing any content on the space:

1. Go to "Browse" \> "Space Admin"
2. Click on "Themes".

You will need Space Admin permissions for that space.

comments: author: Felicity Chapman
body: Thanks for the very speedy reply. I'm sorry that my question wasn't very clear.

I am aware of the Space Admin\>Themes page. However, as far as I can tell, all you can do is change to a different theme. I want to remove all space-level theme definition so that any future changes to the Global site theme will take effect in this space too. I'm using the Documentation theme and don't want to have to remember to make changes to the header/footer etc. in every space.

Is simply clearing the header/footer boxes in the space enough? Or will that override the site definition for the header/footer?