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How to change language from German to english?
Asked by Priya Vasanad:

![Capture.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41725i7A05B3C433B3A2C2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture.PNG")![Capture2.PNG](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41727i3930E0011B6A009F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Capture2.PNG")I am a trial user and using Confluence for the first time. My page is all of German and I tried making changes in language settings but not able to get it. Here is how it looks.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hello Priya,

I believe that the setting you were changing is for the [Default Language](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/set-the-default-language-873871361.html) of the site. However, there's a way to also change the language for individual users.

Have a look here for more details: [Language settings for individual users](https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/set-the-default-language-873871361.html#Setthedefaultlanguage-Languagesettingsforindividualusers)

Can you take a look at that page and let me know if you're able to get it changed to English that way?

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

language
How can I create multiple spaces?
Asked by Nitesh Nilajgi:

I have my personal space created but I need to create another one for my team.

Trying to search but not sure yet. Could you please help ?


Answers:
author: Tarun Sapra
body: Hello [@Nitesh Nilajgi](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2516633)

Currently, it's not possible to copy a space in confluence, please see the KB article

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-copy-or-rename-a-space-in-confluence-169578.html>

You would need to use paid plugins for this purpose as it's not supported out of the box.

comments: author: Nitesh Nilajgi
body: Thanks Tarun.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can create as many spaces as you need, just by using "create space".

You have to be an administrator, or in a group that an admin has given "can create space" permission to.

comments: author: Nitesh Nilajgi
body: Thought so, Thank you!

Not seeing a Create option under Space Directory (On top of the 'Filter'--search box)

![Screen Shot 2019-01-07 at 6.24.37 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41743i8CFB7575D6B7AC69/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2019-01-07 at 6.24.37 PM.png")


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: So you're not an administrator (you would have a config cog at the top right hand corner if you were), and you do not have the "create space" permission.

You need to talk to your administrators to get yourself added to the "create space" permission.
Search for old pages
Asked by Brian Logan:

How do I generate results that show pages which haven't been modified in the past 2 years?

I realise I can search using a specific date, but I want to have this date dynamically update so that people doing content review do not have to modify the macro. Ideally the results will be ordered by modified date in ascending order.


Answers:
author: Yogesh Mude
body: HI [@Brian Logan](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1116772)

Please loot at the below article using full search may be it help you.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/search-139528.html>

comments: author: Brian Logan
body: Thanks, that shows me a variety of searches, including how to get recent results.

I can't anything resembling **modified:\[\* TO -2y\]** or **modified:\[BEFORE -2y\]** . I know I can use **modified:\[\* TO 20160101\]** but that is not a dynamic date, and requires someone to edit a page built with that search.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Uploading attachment into Confluence
Asked by Anna Sosnowski:

I tried uploading a Google Docs attachment into Confluence and received this error:

The following error(s) occurred:

* You must select a file in the browse file input box.

Please advise.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What did you put in the input box for the location of the file you want to attach from your machine?

comments: author: Anna Sosnowski
body: I just clicked on Attachment and then searched for my file and clicked on it and uploaded and then pressed attach.


Tags: attachment

upload
creating a catalog in catalist
Asked by Lincoln Stoller:

I have no idea if this is the right place for this question, or even to whom I am addressing this question, yet I have been taken here... so what the hell.

I signed up for a Catalist account since I have titles created through Webform and my membership with Biblioshare and Booknet. My titles are not appearing in Catalist because, I presume, I have not created a catalog.

I cannot login with my Biblioshare password, so I register with Catalist and my "basic" account is created, but I cannot add a catalog because I am not an administrator.

So I find I can create and upload titles, but Catalist won't list them because I cannot create a catalog???? And I cannot create a catalog because.... because why? I think a few "WTFs" are appropriate here.

Anyone care to take the blindfold off me and point me toward the tail of this donkey.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I am afraid you might not be in the right place. This is a place to talk about Atlassian software, so unless Catalist is based on Atlassian software, I don't think we can help you much, as we don't know it (although it sounds quite interesting to me as a bibliophile, so I am going to have a look at it)

My guess is that Catalist uses Confluence (Atlassian's wiki software) for its documentation and you've clicked a link to help with Confluence, rather than help with Catalist.
E-Mail Notification with Check Box
Asked by Valerio Vallone:

Hello Community,

is there any way to put an automated E-Mail notification after klicking on a check box?

Thx in advance


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Valerio,

Do you mean you want to send out an email to someone once you completed a task?

Anyone who is owner of or is watching a page will receive a notification when a box is checked off.

There was a feature in the past to also email the creator of the task, but we will not be implementing that in the near future:

* [CONFSERVER-43313](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-43313) *The user that created the task on a page should be notified even he/she is not watching*

However, the Cloud version of this request is still open and has not been rejected yet:

* [CONFCLOUD-43313](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-43313) *The user that created the task on a page should be notified even he/she is not watching*

I would recommend commenting on the feature with your usage case, and let us know if you have any questions about that.

If this is not what you were looking for, please elaborate and I'll see if I can help you with it.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
License for Confluence
Asked by Nidhi Sachin Jindal:

Hello,

Is it possible to buy less number of Confluence License? We have team of 50 users and need to buy Confluence License for only 20 users, is Atlassian providing this facility? Please suggest.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: See <https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/confluence> - you need a 16-25 licence if you have 20 users on Cloud.

comments: author: Nidhi Sachin Jindal
body: From Licensing point of view, I am understanding Jira Products example Jira, Jira Service desk, Confluence etc can have different number of user license. It will only impact if we buy additional Add-on for these, example if we have Jira Software on Cloud than any of the additional Add-on need to have the same number of License which we have in Product example Jira Core. Right?

Same way Confluence need to have the same number of user license in its Add-on example Team Calendars for Confluence.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Add-ons must be licensed at the highest tier of application you have (Confluence only has one application, Jira has three)


author: Nidhi Sachin Jindal
body: Thank you Nic...


Tags: confluence-cloud

licence
Migrated Confluence to cloud - one user missing and all contact marked from "Former User"
Asked by Peter Machell:

I setup users as directed. I did have two users under my name in the old system, one the admin with an old address.

However once migrated, all pages and content I formally created is marked as "Former User".

Is there a way to correct the name on this stuff?

Is there a way to try the migration again?

Cheers!

Peter.


Answers:
author: Nicole Manilal
body: Hi Peter,

Can you point us to the method you are using to migrate your data. We have tried using the Cloud Migration Assistant for Confluence but have found none of our users are mapped so all our contact info is marked as 'Former User'. You seem to be one step ahead of us so if you can help point me in the right direction to get users mapped that would be appreciated.

comments: author: Peter Machell
body: Hi Nicole, yes I used the Atlassian Cloud Migration Assistant. Note you need to create your users in the new cloud system before you migrate. My 8 other users have been marked correctly but I have not and I created a lot of the content. Seems to be something to do with me changing email addresses sometime during the life of the wiki.

Confluence support can assist with this by running scripts, but they're quite slow and now my cloud instance has been deactivated so I'll need to start again :-( .


author: Alexey Matveev
body: Hello,

It means these users were not migrated during your migration. How do you migrate data? By CSV file? If so , just mark the map option for the reporter and assignee fields and you will be able to map users. All absent users will be created.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Has anyone hit a limit on the number of people to view a page simultaneously?
Asked by Robert Duffer:

I don't expect that there is a limit but I want to check first. We will roll out some pages when a project goes live and as many as 500 people could hit the page at one time. (extremely unlikely)

If anyone could let me know what might be barriers to everyone accessing it at once I would appreciate the help.


Answers:
author: Danny Zuccaro
body: Hi Robert,

Don't believe a hard limit has ever been communicated in terms of simultaneous page views. As long as the hardware is bulky enough don't believe there should be any concerns for your scenario.

Hope this helps,

Danny

comments: author: Robert Duffer
body: That is my expectation also. Thank you, Danny.
Confluence has Vulnerabilities (detailed in Description section) - need your help.
Asked by MUFG ALM Team:

Confluence has below Vulnerabilities on application level, that needs a fix . We need to know which upgraded version will solve the vulnerabilities mentioned below.

We are on v5.9 (chwiktst201). Is it possible to skip v6 and upgrade directly to v7.x? Also. Please help us with upgrading the application.

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|---|
| Title                                                                                                | Server      | # |
| Atlassian Confluence Server Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability                                 | chwiktst201 | 1 |
| Atlassian Confluence Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability                                      | chwiktst201 | 2 |
| Atlassian Hipchat Integration Plugin for Bitbucket Server, Jira, Confluence Secret Key Vulnerability | chwiktst201 | 1 |
| Atlassian OAuth Plugin 'IconUriServlet' Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability (OAUTH-344) | chwiktst201 | 1 |

<br />

Thank you.

Piyush Gaba \<Piyush.Gaba@unionbank.com\>

MUFG ALM Team


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There is no Confluence 7, you just want to jump to 6.high (probably 6.13 as the latest). See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/upgrading-confluence-4578.html>
Google Doc update in Confluence
Asked by dave ruffin:

Is there a way I can import a google doc in Confluence (so the document is visible in Confluence) and if/when someone updates the google doc, the confluence page will also be updated?


Answers:
author: roman
body: Hi [@dave ruffin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2060355),

you could try pasting a shareable Docs link into a Widget macro. Alternatively, there is a third-party app Google Drive \& Docs for Confluence: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216484/google-drive-docs-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216484/google-drive-docs-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview).

Hope this helps.

Roman.


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

confluence-server

google-docs

google-drive

server
Is it possible to manage default email settings for all Confluence users?
Asked by Nicholas Hudson:

I asked this question once before, but it seems that I may have posted it in the wrong place, so I haven't seen any answers yet.   

Our team recently moved from Confluence Server to Confluence Cloud. Since the migration, I've received a substantial number of complaints from users regarding the frequency and volume of email notifications sent to them. Just while our facility was closed for the holidays, I received no fewer than 150 email notifications from Confluence, one for every edit that was made to any element that was in my "watch" list, any action performed by another user who I was "following", etc.  

The email notification settings need to be dialed back for ALL users in our Confluence instance, and I'd like to change the "default" settings so this doesn't have to be changed on a per-user basis moving forward.   

I've gone through all of the menus, read every shred of documentation I could find, and while it seems to be a snap for Confluence Server, everything I've found online leads me to believe that these changes are impossible in Confluence Cloud.   

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Is this even possible to do, or do we need to wait for a new version of Confluence Cloud to be released, and hope the functionality we're looking for is added before then?  

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there Nicholas!

Currently, this is not possible within Confluence Cloud. We do have a **Feature Request** that tackles a similar situation here:

**[-](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-57677)[Disable Email Notifications \| CONFCLOUD-57677](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-57677)**

And also another that takes in consideration almost exactly your situation:

[**- As Confluence Admin I would like to configure default Email Settings for users \| CONFCLOUD-39970**](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-39970)

We can proceed by **voting and watching** the reports. Votes increase the request visibility and watching it will keep you up to date with it!


Tags: confluence-cloud
How do you archive articles in your knowledge base?
Asked by Ellen Dickson:

We have several articles that we don't want to delete but need to archive so our employees don't use them for reference since they are out of date. But, I cannot figure out how to archive articles. Does any one have any tips?


Answers:
author: James Dellow
body: Some suggestions to consider:

* Create an archiving space that is flagged as archive in space settings and move the document there - this has the benefit of filtering out of search results
* Change the document title and add the word "ARCHIVED" or similar
* Create a user-macro with some boilerplate text to notify users that the content is archived, perhaps with links to current content (you might be able to automate this using labels)

comments: author: Ellen Dickson
body: Thanks James - great ideas!


Tags: archive

evaluator-resources

knowledge-base
Creating a list of tagged items
Asked by Tim Dettmar:

Hi,

Wondering if someone could help. I'm using confluence to document a new product that is about to be released. There will be some known issues / features to be expanded on. I want to add details of these in the relevant sections, but also have a single list on one page.

Is there any way to do this in confluence? I was hoping to be able to tag content and then just include something that returns all items with that tag, but I can't find anything that seems to do this.

Thanks

Tim


Answers:
author: Andreas Furbach
body: Maybe "Page Properties Macro" and the related "Page Properties Report Macro" for showing the collected issues / features in a table on one page will help you.

See: [Page Property Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-macro-184550024.html "Page Property Macro")

and: [Page Properties Report Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-properties-report-macro-186089616.html "Page Properties Report Macro")


Tags: questions-for-confluence
Creating visual timeline in Confluence without Roadmap Planner Macro
Asked by AJ_Tabang:

I'm looking to display a visual timeline in Confluence without having to use the roadmap planner macro (since our current installation is locked down and does not have this available.) Any suggestions on how to do this easily? Some initial thoughts were to use HTML/CSS, but would like the bars to be easily editable.


Answers:
author: Stephen Sifers
body: Hello AJ and welcome to the Community!

Being able to create a visual representation of what is expected or planned out does help when dealing with large picture ideas and tasks. Ideally, you would want to use the roadmap planner as it is part of the product and supported, but as you stated this is not available to you.

While you most certainly may create your own planner using HTML and CSS to make something comparable, there may be a better options within the Atlassian Marketplace (if it is available to you). You may find a preset search for roadmaps at the [Atlassian Marketplace](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?hosting=server&product=confluence&query=roadmap). Using HTML with CSS stylesheets would give you a similar experience, but it may not be able to write back to Confluence to save what you've created. Along with this, custom HTML and CSS is not officially supported, leaving you with best effort support in the event you ran into an issue.

I hope this helps with some direction on how to proceed.

Regards,  
Stephen Sifers

comments: author: AJ_Tabang
body: Thanks for the response Stephen. Yes unfortunately neither the roadmap planner or items in the Atlassian Marketplace are options for me. Looks like I'll have to wing it with HTML or play with Excel for now.


author: Ansar Thennaden
body: i created a visual timeline just using Table, formatting and css. It worked for me as a static report that i need to show for client during status review.


Tags: atl-adm
Getting the error "Confluence had problems starting up"
Asked by Joey Magnus:

DescriptionTimeLevelException

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Unable to start up Confluence. Fatal error during startup sequence: confluence.lifecycle.core:mananagedjobs (Start and stop the Managed Scheduled Jobs) | 2019-01-03 15:49:29 | fatal | Could not roll back Hibernate transaction; nested exception is net.sf.hibernate.TransactionException: Unable to rollback against JDBC Connection |


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: There's not much we can do with that, except tell you that there is something wrong with the database.

Could you read the \<confluence home\>/log/atlassian-confluence.log file for more detail? It should contain the error you've already given us, but with a lot more detail.


Tags: confluence-server

server
Who created a user
Asked by Mark_Holdread:

I see that a user was created and given access to groups they should not have been. There are 5 people (other than myself) who have the ability to do this. They all deny that they did it. I need to determine who did it.

How can I find out? I can see the time stamp of when it was done, but how do I see who did this?

Mark


Answers:
author: Danny Coleman
body: As admin, you have access to the Audit Log, which will tell you who performed what action and when it was performed. That should help you get the info you need. Check out the page below for more details.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/audit-log-802164269.html>

Hope that helps!

comments: author: Mark_Holdread
body: Every audit log entry shows the user as "System." Even things I just did, logged in under my account. (Below is a screenshot. All of the 4 Jan items are things I did)...

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41642iC788C2C5E37A51BA/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Mark_Holdread
body: In JIRA, all audit log events show the author as JIRA...

![image.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41646i2FAEDBB845DE660C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")


author: Mark_Holdread
body: I checked, there are no users named "System" nor "JIRA" that appear in Users under User Management...


author: Peter Danko
body: [@Mark_Holdread](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/536750)did you have luck with identifying why author is system/Jira user? I have face off the same issue and I can't figure out where is the problem. Thank you.


author: Mark_Holdread
body: I filed a ticket with the Atlassian Service Desk. They were able to ID the actual user through a table to which admins, such as myself, do not have access. It took a day or two, but the actual user was identified.


author: Luiz Santos
body: Any news here? I have the same situation...


author: Louange HIRWA
body: I have the same too. No answer


Tags: confluence-cloud
Can I use Decision Log for other content?
Asked by Richard Bate:

I work on a fast paced project and it's sometimes hard to keep track of all open issues at a Project Management level.

What I want is an Incident page similar to Decision log, that lists all open Incidents. The Incident Page will use labels to show all content with a general description. Incidents could be very similar to Decisions, so this macro seemed the obvious choice.

I've copied the layout and macros from the Decision Log page, but I cannot edit these to remove 'decision'. Is there a better way to achieve this?


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Richard,

Decisions Log is [based on a Blueprint](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/decisions-blueprint-339739406.html), and these are not possible to be edited. Blueprints are sets of templates and allow them to work together as a whole. Blueprints can only be created separately and [require some development knowledge](https://developer.atlassian.com/server/confluence/confluence-blueprints/).

If you wish, you can create your own template, which works to create a single page. Have a look at our documentation on [Page Templates](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-templates-296093785.html) for more information.

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Richard Bate
body: thanks for responding Shannon.

I managed to get it done with one Template for an 'Incident' based heavily on Decision. I created a top level page for all Incidents using the Page Properties macro (in case any stumbles on this post in the future)


author: Shannon S
body: That's great news, thank you for letting us know how you were able to work around it.

Take care, and have a pleasant rest of your week.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: decision

template