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Need to create a boxes in a Confluence space
Asked by Jenin CM:

Hi All,

I need to create a confluence page where I need a format in which there are lots boxes in the page and inside each box with a heading I need to include contents from different pages. like given below. What approach should I take to create such a page. which macros could be used or hlpfull.

Thanks and Regards,

Jenin C M

![](../../upfiles/Asurion_intranet_v2.png)


Answers:
author: Mick Davidson
body: Jenin,

That's a pretty neat layout, next form I have to make I'll get you to design it. :)

For the content you can use the page include and the excerpt include macros. The first takes all the contents of the whole page, and the latter just the part that's in the excerpt. You can find both in Insert/Other macros.

If you want to add headings seperately you can do so as you would any page. But you can also make sure the include macros use the original page's headings.

You can use sections and columns to create the laout, and inside them you can also use panels and possibly even tables. With panels you should also be able to add a title when you create the panel as well as add colours to the backgrounds and borders.

I'm not sure you can achieve tabs withou either coding or a 3rd party macro. Good luck with your project, it'll be interesting to see how you get on.

Cheers.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
problem with source editor for confluence
Asked by Alex Samad YB:

I still have the view souce in the menu bare, but I don't have the \<\> edit source in the editor window


Answers:
author: JohnA
body: Hi Alex,

This might be a bit of a long shot but have you saved the page once yet? When you create a page the \<\> Source Editor icon won't be available in the editor window until the page has been saved at least once.

All the best,  
John

comments: author: Matthew J. Horn
body: I just noticed that the other day. Glad it's not just me. :)


author: Alex Samad YB
body: Hi

yes I have seen the initial page bug.

its an old page that I used to be able to source edit


Tags: addon-com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor
Is there a shortcut key to collapse an expanded macro
Asked by Leanne:

Hi, I am looking for a shortcut to collapse an expand macro as we have many open at any one time. Thanks Leanne


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Leanne, I am fraid that there isn't a shortcut for this specific action, you can see all available shortcut keys at [this page](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Keyboard+Shortcuts).

You can yet open a feature request in <https://jira.atlassian.com/> with the desired functionality suggestion.


author: Leanne
body: Thanks Guilherme, appreciate your help.
OpenLdap automatic group creation from database
Asked by Fajar Suryawan:

This might not exactly be an atlassian-related question, but I've asked this in SO but to no avail.

How to automatically create users and groups in OpenLDAP / Active Directory, given facts from a database? That is, from the following views in the database:

* view_all_staff(personID, personName, personPassword, personEmail, personPhone)
* view_Confluence_users(personID)
* view_HR_people(personID)
* view_ENG_people(personID)

we would have an appropriately populated OpenLDAP / AD server, with all the groups. Any change in the database (by business processes) should be reflected in the OpenLDAP / AD system.

These ldap users and groups will, in turn, be used for creation of groups in Confluence and JIRA.

Any thoughts, tips, links, or advice is welcome. Thanks!


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi Fajar,

If I understood right, you want that your LDAP directory to be populated with Confluence and JIRA users and groups, right? If so, I believe creating a LDAP connector could solve this issue. Please have a look on these links:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/The+difference+between+connector+and+delegated+LDAP+user+directories>

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+User+Directories>

In case you want a more specific thing, then I believe you will need to create a script that will check on Confluence and JIRA database for new users, and then populate your LDAP base. This shouldn't be so complicated to create, but I the connector I've mentioned before will be enough.

Regards,

Renato Rudnicki


Tags: active-directory

confluence-administration

ldap

openldap

user
confluence 5 - hide 'space tools' from anonymous user -how
Asked by francis:

What's the best way to hide the space tools for anonymous users ?

<br />


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: You can do it with client side Javascript, if that's good enough.

In **Confluence Admin \| Look \& Feel \| Custom HTML** add in **At the end of the HEAD**:

```
&lt;script&gt;  AJS.toInit(function () {    if (AJS.params.remoteUser == '') {      AJS.$('a[href*="spacetools.action"]').parent().hide();    }  });&lt;/script&gt;
```

```

```

comments: author: R Donato
body: Hello,

I tried this in Confluence 5.4.2. But the Space Tools menu still displays for Anonymous users. Is there an adjustment I can do to the script to make it work?


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Hi @R Donato,

You should ask new questions and reference old ones with links in the future!

To do this via clientside javascript, I modifed David's slightly and this worked for me on Confluence 5.4.4

```
&lt;script&gt;  AJS.toInit(function(){    if (AJS.params.remoteUser == ''){      AJS.$("#space-tools-menu-trigger").hide();    }  });&lt;/script&gt;
```


author: R Donato
body: This didn't work in 5.4.2. The Tools menu and all its options still display.


author: Wilvin Szeto
body: Did anyone know how to remove the space tool for the cloud (on-demand) version?


author: Coline Macorol
body: What about removing the space tools for another group of users, like a new group created on the admin configuration side?


author: Gregg Saksefski
body: I made this work by using single quote ' rather than double quote "

\<script type="text/javascript"\>  
AJS.toInit(function(){  
if (AJS.params.remoteUser == ''){  
AJS.$('#action-menu-link').hide();  
AJS.$('#comments-section').hide();  
AJS.$('#space-directory-link').hide();  
AJS.$('#space-tools-menu-trigger').hide();  
AJS.$('#people-directory-link').hide();  
AJS.$('#create-page-button').hide();  
}  
});  
\</script\>


Tags: confluence-administration
Page Permission Settings for Users on Confluence OnDemand
Asked by Jessica Siu:

I'm looking to set up my team's Confluence (OnDemand). I'd like to provide access for them to delete a page but not the space. While reviewing the permissions on a Space and Global level, I haven't found any options to block deleting a Space but allow for Page delete. Seems like it's a all or nothing option - in order to provide access to delete a page, I need to give the user access to delete the space.

Is there a way to set up Confluence OnDemand permission schemes to block users from deleting a space but provide access for the user to delete a page?

Thanks in advance for any info!


Answers:
author: Jessica Siu
body: I found an answer to my own question. I'm adding in permission for users to delete in a Space, but to actually delete the space itself - a user without Space Admin or Admin privelages will only move pages/spaces into the trash. This is completely recoverable.   

Thanks all that viewed the question.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
After upgrade, how do I change all bullets back to left-justified instead of centered?
Asked by Kathleen Morse:

After upgrading to Confluence 5.1, all bullets on all pages are now centered instead of left-justified.What do I do to get them back to left-justified?


Answers:
author: Bimmel
body: We're in the same boat too. The source of the bullet list element centering is coming from the **user agent stylesheet**.

```
li {  display: list-item;  text-align: -webkit-match-parent;}
```

Our fix was to add a CSS rule to the footer of the page that changes the **text-align** from**match-parent** to**initial**.


author: Kathleen Morse
body: I don't believe we have any customization for this.

comments: author: Lisa Rahder
body: When you highlight the bullets in edit mode, do they show up as being left-justified in the formatting bar?


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Kathleen,

It usually happens because of some customization on your Confluence side. Check if there any CSS created for your Confluence on Confluence Admin \> Stylesheet and Confluence Admin \> Layout. You might have already some code that's causing this, or you might force the bullets to be left by using a new CSS (in case you don't have customizations to be changed).

Here is an example that might help: <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9018686/how-can-i-make-a-centered-left-aligned-variable-width-bullet-list-with-css>

Cheers!
Why can't I edit confluence Microsoft Active Directory Connecntion
Asked by Richard Wollenberger:

I'm unable to edit the settings of the Microsoft Active Directory and can't figure out why. It says I am logged in through it, but I don't think I am (from server as local admin, and logged into Confluence Internal Directory (which I also can't edit)


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Richard,

It sounds like you're seeing the 'You can't edit this directory because you're logged in with a user that is part of that directory message'. Confluence restricts editing of the directory you're logged in through so that you can't lock yourself out. The confluence internal directory is uneditable, as it's the default directory stored in the database.

If you know your internal directory confluence-administrator group member (this is configured either in setup wizard during install, or you've added another after initial setup) then you need to log in as this user. If the active directory user directory is in the top most position and you have the same user in both directories, then it will log you in via active directory. If you move the internal directory to the top position using the 'up' arrow, and the user you are logged in is a member in the internal directory, it will switch you to the internal directory and you should be able to edit the active directory config.

If you're not sure of the confluence-administrator member, please follow the instructions in this article to identify it and possibly change password to something you know or create a new admin user:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights>

Hope this helps explain things and get you the right access!


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi Richard,

Seems like you would need to create a precise search filter to retrieve specific set of users and groups. It would be tough for us to set it for you from here as it is necessary to review your LDIF export to come up with as suggestion.

However you could review our Crowd documentation here that could help you to compose a good search filter.

[Restricting LDAP Scope for Group and User](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Restricting+LDAP+Scope+for+User+and+Group+Search)

Hope it helps.

Cheers,  
Septa Cahyadiputra


author: Richard Wollenberger
body: Ryan,  
I THOUGHT I wasn't logged in through the current directory, but I obviously was. While we've made it over this hurdle, we still can't get the settings right to only import People (our staff) into Confluence. We've made it down a level from the domain, but want to get one level further down. Our structure looks like this: domain.local\\company nickname\\Users \& Groups\\Users.

Confluence is getting me to the Users \& Groups level, but I want to get it so that only the container Users is showing in the "people" section of Confluence, and we're not sure how to make this work correctly.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,


Tags: confluence-administration
filtering project component in JIRA and show in one page real time
Asked by jay patel:

here is my whole senario friends ,

ALL THE ISSUES CREATED IN JIRA SHOULD HAVE jira project COMPONENTS ASSIGHNED TO IT AND THERE WILL BE ONE PAGE(in jira or confluence) WHERE PEOPLE CAN SEE WHAT ARE THE ISSUES running FOR A PERTICULAR COMPONENT of perticular project . whEN ANY ONE CRAETE NEW ISSUE THIS PAGE WILL ATOMATICALLY SHOW THIS ISSUE UNDER RELATED PROJECT COMPONENT " any help will be much appriciated .


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Ugh, mind the caps-lock key

Anyway

1. Make component mandatory in the field configuration

2. Create a filter that looks for all issues in the project(s) you're interested in and save it

3. Create a "dashboard" (consider using the default system one so everyone gets it). Add a "2 dimensional filter" gadget, selecting "project" as one axis and "component" as the other. Each number in the result will link to a filter to get the list behind the number

Or, to keep it really simple, just send the users to the "all" filter. They won't use it (tldr), but it meets your requirement

comments: author: jay patel
body: Thank you sir :) i will try this out .


author: jay patel
body: ANSWER: 1. Make component mandatory in the field configuration

2. Create a filter that looks for all issues in the project(s) you're interested in and save it

3. Create a "dashboard" (consider using the default system one so everyone gets it). Add a "2 dimensional filter" gadget, selecting "project" as one axis and "component" as the other. Each number in the result will link to a filter to get the list behind the number

Or, to keep it really simple, just send the users to the "all" filter. They won't use it (tldr), but it meets your requirement


Tags: jira
Multimedia macro
Asked by minesh patel:

Hello,

I have just upgraded to Confluence version 5.1.4. I have attached a video file (mp4) that needs to be displayed on the page. I am using the Multimedia marco to display the video.

However, the the video seems to be stuck but the audio plays on. Also, there are no controls on it (play and pause) like there is on JWPlayer.

How can I fix this? Is this possible, what I'am asking??

Also, can I embed the video on the page?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Minesh, videos are tricky sometimes, since they come in different encoding flavors. You may like to add the video to a specialized hosting website such as Youtube or Vimeo and use the [Confluence Widget Connector](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Widget+Connector+Examples#WidgetConnectorExamples-Vimeo) to embed the media within Confluence. Does this makes sense to you?


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Minesh,

Can you reproduce the same behavior using other files? If so, probably we are facing a bug here and I would recommend to get in touch with atlassian support so we can replicate and open a new bug report for you.

If the issue occurs with only one file, then probably the issue is with the file. If you can recreate the file again to test that would be great.

I hope that helps!

Rodrigo

comments: author: minesh patel
body: I converted the file to avi, and got the same result.


author: minesh patel
body: Is there a media player with controls (stop/start button) for confluence 5.1.4.

If so, where do I find it??


author: Patrick O_Connell
body: Minesh,

I'm on 6.9.0. If you can resolve your encoding issue, when you use the macro, the controls that show up in the rendered page are:

Play/pause,  
Scrub bar (the thing where you can drag back and forth to navigate in the video),  
Volume control,  
Fullscreen icon,  
A clickable three-dots thing where you can download the video, or do picture-in-picture (whatever that is).

And by the way, at least with our Conf. version, there are **two** ways to have a video show up. The first is as described above: using the macro.

The second way: you can just insert the video as you would with a still picture. With this, when you click on what shows up in the rendered page...you know when you click on an image, and it opens up in fullscreen viewing pane?

It's like that, but it's for the video, and there's:  

Play/pause,  
Scrub bat,  
Volume control,  
Fullscreen icon.  

Whichever way you do it, the file has to be attached to the page, first.

Cheers,  
Pat O'Connell  
Technical Writer  
MindGeek


Tags: confluence-administration
Encrypt parts of page or whole page
Asked by Erik Lindberg:

I have been looking for a good plugin to encrypt parts of a page or a whole page, but the only two plugins I found were not good enough to be used (CustomWare Security and Encryption was way to cumbersome to use, and could not encrypt parts of a page, ie with HTML tags etc, Praecipio Secure Content cannot encrypts a whole page or parts of a page and is bulky).

Is there anything out there that is easy to use, and can encrypt parts of a page? So, I want to encrypt a whole HTML-table that has passwords etc.

<br />

Regards


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Erik,

Aside from the options you've listed, have you seen this?

<http://superuser.com/questions/458150/confluence-inline-encryption-form-encryption>


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: You might also consider using a scripting tool like jython that has an encryption library to encrypt parts of a page. It might not meet your criteria of being easy to use, but I've done something similar with it and it works very well.
Features for custom template
Asked by Corentin:

Hi,

I am trying to create a template of a document with a lot of field but with only few answers possible each time. Currently, i use a word template with blank field, fields with a menu of 2 or 3 items and some fields with multiple choice questions (i just click on the right answer to add a stick)

It is not a problem to deal with blank field in confluence but do you know a possibility to have a menu in the template in order that the user just chooses an item between three and does not write anything ?

Thanks for your attention.

Corentin


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Corentin,

If I understand your question correctly, you want to create a template that has a selectable dropdown field with a few choices. If I've misunderstood this, please let me know. For that requirement, you should be able to do it following these instructions:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF42/Form+Field+Markup+for+Templates>

There is also a detailed discussion of options for a similar question here:

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/65263/how-to-generate-a-selectable-drop-down-list-data-with-related-labels-in-confluence](/questions/65263/how-to-generate-a-selectable-drop-down-list-data-with-related-labels-in-confluence)

Let me know if that's what you're looking for.

comments: author: Corentin
body: Thank you for your answer but it is just a part of my question. For some general fields, it is a very good solution. But my problem is also the following, the user does not know all the answers when he creates the document. So i would like to create selectable dropdown field in the document (and not just before creating it) in order that the user can save is work and continue later.


author: Corentin
body: Or is-it possible to add some html code in my template like this ?

\<form\>  
\<input type="checkbox" \>123\<br\>  
\<input type="checkbox" \>456  
\</form\>

And that will read as html when a user uses the template ?

thanks


Tags: confluence-administration
applinking: one jira vs TWO confluences?
Asked by Alex Perez:

Hi,

We are wondering about splitting our confluence instance into 2 separate instances. There are some practical and economical reasons because the target audience, license sizes and the plugin set of each instance would be very different ...

Is anyone using this in productive env?

App linking will work fine in these conditions? (c1 -\> jira \<- c2 )

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: There should be no problem making them link together.


Tags: application-link

jira
Creation of Pages/post in confluence from MS Outlook
Asked by Bala Krishna:

Hi,

I want to know is there a way (addin) where i can create Pages/Post from Ms outlook 2010.

What i wanted to do is I wanted to convert my mail's direclty as pages or post in our confluence main page from Ms outlook 2010 insted of opening confluence.

Let me know if any such addin is there.

Thanks in advance.

-Bala


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Bala,

[This add on](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/biz.artemissoftware.plugins.confluence.send-email-to-page) appears to perform the feature that you seek. Though it is a paid add on.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Diagramly doesn't reflect remove attachment permissions of current user.
Asked by Rostislav Simonik:

Diagramly allows to delete diagram including diargram attachment by clicking on remove diagram toolbar button for user who is not allowed to remove attachments. Would be great if that button just removes macro but keeps diagrams attachment.

Impact of current implementation is that user can intentionaly or just by accident click remove toolbar button and diagram is lost without possibility to recover.


Answers:
author: Boris
body: Version 2.6.1 has just been released with reworked security checks.

comments: author: Rostislav Simonik
body: Yes, it's resolved


author: Rostislav Simonik
body: Confluence version 4.3.5

Diagramly plugin version 2.6.0

OS: Linux

Have you setuped permissions correctly

User B must have

for pages

* add page -\> allowed
* remove page -\> allowed

attachments

* add attachment -\> allowed
* remove attachment -\> restricted


author: Boris
body: I tried deleting the diagram with user A on a page that is restricted to user B.

It resulted in an 'Access Denied' dialog. When page was refreshed, 'Edit' and 'Delete' icons were missing from the toolbar.

What were your reproduction steps for the issue?

And what is your configuration, Confluence version, plugin version, OS?


author: Boris
body: The issue is being investigated.


Tags: addon-com.mxgraph.confluence.plugins.diagramly
List order in Side bar
Asked by Bala Krishna:

Hi,

In side bar we are displaying the pages by Alphabetical order. I want to know is there any way to have custom order.

we have to set the list in Custom order not by Alphabetic.

Pl help me.

-Bala


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Bala,

You can accomplish that by click inside the space, "**Space tools** \> **Reorder pages"**

More information about the available options can be reviewed in [this doc](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Changing+the+Sequential+Order+of+Pages).

comments: author: Bala Krishna
body: Okay thanks Guilherme.


author: Bala Krishna
body: Okay thanks Guilherme.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud