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Display XML file data in Confluence page
Asked by prasadkanaparthi:

I want to show XML file data in Confluence with proper structure and sorting and filtering. XML file will be saved in physical directory and can be updated any time. Does Confluence supports this feature? Any reference please ?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Display-XML-file-data-in-Confluence-page/qaq-p/360853?attachment-id=12873){#link_118753dd25f096}  
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Answers:
author: Mario G?nter
body: Hi Prasad,

yes, you should try WebDAV as mentioned here:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/35759885>

Hope this helps,   
Cheers,  
Mario

comments: author: prasadkanaparthi
body: Unfortunately, <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-a-webdav-client-for-confluence-148044.html> is down now.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's working fine for me.


author: Mario G?nter
body: For me, too.   
Here's a PDF Version for now:


author: prasadkanaparthi
body: @Mario G?nter, In above PDF/Link i didn't find anything about displaying XML file data into confluence? What is WebDAV? How it relates to Displaying data? Please explain me.


author: Mario G?nter
body: Hi Prasad,

sorry, I think I did not understand what you wanted to reach out.

For displaying content like xml there is a code macro inside confluence (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/code-block-macro-139390.html>) Maybe you should try that.

In simple words: With WebDAV you can browse your Confluence structure like a filesystem directly through your windows explorer / dolphin browser, etc.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Mario
Why does the highlighted note on this page refer to Confluence Server to Confluence Cloud, when this page is giving instructions on the opposite? It's very confusing.
Asked by kristadelcolliano:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Migrating from Confluence Cloud to Confluence Server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724765578)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's trying to avoid confusion by clarifying what the page is for.

When you use search engines, you have to remember that they do not know what you are thinking. The most simple algorithms "weight" what you type in simply by order, and they ignore most of the structural grammar. So if you search for "migrate cloud to server" there's a very good chance a search engine will see that as "migrate cloud server" and have no idea which way you want to go. Atlassian have put a box on the page for people who are inadvertently misdirected.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

documentation
Restore Passwords To Recover Admin User Rights Does Not Work
Asked by Felipe Otarola:

So I have been hustling with this for hours now. But I still can't login to confluence.  
I bumped into this problem for a month ago and the documentation worked fine then, but now. I can't login.

I have followed every step in this manual,

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf51/restoring-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-336169506.html>

<br />

A new admin is created and active ( T )  
A new group is running  
and a membership is connected to my admin user (id 1212121)

My internal directory is set to index 0 and its active ( T )

Have i missed something? or is it another problem?

I have done this at least 10 times. and every time it doesn't work I delete everything I created and start over.

Any tips on whats wrong? :smile:

<br />

Im using confluence 5.1

thanks  

<br />

<br />


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hello Felipe,

I believe it's better to restore the password for the old admin user instead of creating a new one with that documentation.

I know that you tried 10 times, but, try the following:

```
select u.id, u.user_name, u.active from cwd_user ujoin cwd_membership m on u.id=m.child_user_id join cwd_group g on m.parent_id=g.id join cwd_directory d on d.id=g.directory_idwhere g.group_name = 'confluence-administrators' and d.directory_name='Confluence Internal Directory';
```

```
update cwd_user set credential ='x61Ey612Kl2gpFL56FT9weDnpSo4AV8j8+qx2AuTHdRyY036xxzTTrw10Wq3+4qQyB+XURPWx1ONxp3Y3pB37A=='where id=&lt;id from Stage 1&gt;;
```

```
Username:&lt;admin-name-from-first-step&gt;Password: admin
```

Don't forget to restart the service after performing the second step


Tags: confluence-administration

password
How can I distinguish between Confluence and Questions emails for an email filter?
Asked by Bj?rn M?rtensson:

We have both Confluence and Questions. I get emails from both and would like to filter them into separate folders, i.e. one folder for emails from Confluence page edits etc. and one folder for emails about questions asked/answered.

Looking at the emails, I couldn't find any header or other distinguishing feature between these email sources.


Answers:
author: Mark_McGuire
body: Looks like this is a request:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-653>


author: TomC
body: Awesome question, Bjorn. I wonder if there's a feature request for this - I have the same issue/question.

It would also be helpful to know from the email subject - some letter or symbol maybe - when an email notification from Questions is not a new question but something else, for example an answer, upvote or other update from a question one asked or a question one is watching for any reason.
remove page watches for a single user
Asked by Victor Prasad:

Hello,

We have a power user that moved pages from one space to another, and has now become a watcher for all the pages that were moved. Is there any way to unwatch all these pages, or can it only be done manually? Can ad admin help?

Thanks,

V


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Hi Victor,

A while ago I wrote a user macro to help with the very situation you describe:

[https://bitbucket.org/stephendeutsch/confluence-user-macros/src/39c3a025dacc6b45abc0105f0b7a21a7375690b4/bulk%20remove%20watchers/remove%20watches%20for%20user.vm?at=master\&fileviewer=file-view-default](https://bitbucket.org/stephendeutsch/confluence-user-macros/src/39c3a025dacc6b45abc0105f0b7a21a7375690b4/bulk%20remove%20watchers/remove%20watches%20for%20user.vm?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default)

If you embed this macro in a page (make sure it is set to only show to administrators when it is originally set up), it will allow admins to remove watches for other users (page watches are sorted by space) or allow a user to remove their own watches.


author: TomC
body: Victor,

To prevent this for future pages the power user may move, go to Profile\>Settings\>Email and uncheck 'Autowatch'.

For those already moved, I am unaware of a way to do a 'mass unwatch'. I think it may need to be done manually by unchecking the watching of individual pages (Watch icon\>uncheck 'Watch page'), but will watch your question to see if others have a solution for that.

Cheers,

T


Tags: confluence-administration
Linking inside a page doesn't work
Asked by Charlie Bay:

Linking inside a page doesn't work for me the way explained in the help (using an anchor). I'm on a Mac. Is the procedure different?


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: As far as I can see, you are doing it correctly.

Just to be sure:  
You don't check the functionality of the link while still being in Edit mode, right?  
Is the page long enough and are the link and the anchor far away enough from each other to really see the effect? If your page is not longer than your screen (no scrollbar) or both link and anchor are close to each other you won't see any effect, obviously.

comments: author: Charlie Bay
body: Yes, I'm checking out of Edit mode. And yes, the link and the anchor are not close together. I'll try and add a bunch of crap in between them to see id that could be the problem. This isn't different for Macs and PC's, is it? Because I noticed that some of the commands and structure is PC based.


author: Charlie Bay
body: I created an anchor and added a link as per the help. The only thing I noticed is that this help may have been written for PCs, not Macs.  
The anchor and link are on the same page. See the screen shots. When I do this, nothing happens. I click the link and I don;t go to the ipTables anchor.  
Thanks,  
Charlie  
confluence anchor.jpgconfluence link.jpg  
Thanks,  
Charlie  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Linking-inside-a-page-doesn-t-work/qaq-p/375635?attachment-id=8786){#link_1187546fbcfac7}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/63514/1/confluence%20anchor.jpg){#display_1187546fbcfac7_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Linking-inside-a-page-doesn-t-work/qaq-p/375635?attachment-id=8787){#link_1187546fbcfac7_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/63514/2/confluence%20link.jpg){#display_1187546fbcfac7_2}


author: Steffen Heller
body: Can you explain what you did and what happened?
Can we make links to anchors on a page searchable instead of having to manually write the link OR set header links to be connected so that all links to an anchor/header will be updated automatically when the anchor/header name is changed?
Asked by AlexPayne:

**This is more of a feature request than a question.
As it is now, creating links to headers and anchors in other pages is cumbersome as it requires switching back and forth between two tabs.**


Answers:
author: Dario B
body: We recently had another user that asked for the same feature. Please review below feature request and watch and vote for it if interested:

* <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-43672>

Cheers,  
Dario


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

feature
Is there a limit to the number of attachments
Asked by Richard Oeters:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Configuring Attachment Size](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=724765525)*

Ask your question here...


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: There is no hard limit. Only the size of the attachments is restricted.

However, you will see slow load times once you have too many attachments on the pages. And will see increased indexing times and longer search duration. I would certainly recommend not to use Confluence as a document dump yard :wink:

comments: author: Martin R?hrs (Tini)
body: I know this thread is ancient, but (approximately) how many attachments would be "too many"? A ballpark number would be nice to know. We're experiencing slowdowns on one of our client's Confluence systems and I'm trying to find out if the attachments might be the issue... (we're at around 90 attachments, but many of those have hundreds of versions)


author: Josh Gugel
body: In my experience, any page with near 100 attachments in an attachments macro will start to have a notably slower load time. More than 500 attachments and you'll soon reach the breaking point of most people's patience to wait for a page. However, I've found a page with 500+attachments has a normal load time if I don't use the attachments macro.


author: Richard Oeters
body: Appreciate the quick response


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

documentation
How does one remove the "confluence support expiring in x days" notice?
Asked by gamerdude72:

Even though I hit the "never remind me again" on the header, it pops up whenever the page reloads or a new page is visited. Screenshot from 2016-02-11 08-54-13.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-does-one-remove-the-quot-confluence-support-expiring-in-x/qaq-p/56337?attachment-id=7895){#link_118755468a5a92}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/9498/1/Screenshot%20from%202016-02-11%2008-54-13.png){#display_118755468a5a92_0}


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi there,

You're being affected by this bug:<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-40339>

You can disable the **license banner** on the Manage Add-ons page as a workaround.

Cheers,

comments: author: gamerdude72
body: would that be the "support healthcheck" plugin?


author: Guilherme V.
body: No, the plugin is the **Confluence License Banner**.


author: gamerdude72
body: Thanks, that was it.


author: SABVARX
body: Hi, is there a similar way to disable the license banner in JIRA?

Thank you!


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I hide links to spaces to which a user does not have access?
Asked by Anatoly Klebanov:

I created a page with panel macros. Each panel contains a link to a space, each of which has different group permissions. As it is, the spaces to which a user does not have access are simply grayed out, and cannot be clicked. I would like for those links to not appear at all. I suspect they are appearing because a filter cannot be applied to the Panel macro. Perhaps there is a different way to do this. Thank you!  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-hide-links-to-spaces-to-which-a-user-does-not-have/qaq-p/73261?attachment-id=4868){#link_1187553564bfec}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/12455/1/2-12-2016%209-01-03%20AM.png){#display_1187553564bfec_0}


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Try the [show-if macro](https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/VIS/show-if).

comments: author: Anatoly Klebanov
body: This is definitely the solution that I am looking for. While I was able to install the Visibility add-on, which gave me access to the show-if macro, I am receiving the following error when the page tries to render the content:

"The license could not be verified: There is no license certificate installed for CustomWare Visibility Plugin for Confluence."

Any idea what this could be? I think my company may have an evaluation version of Confluence. Is that the issue?


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: You need to get a license from ServiceRocket (formerly CustomWare). See <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.customware.confluence.plugin.visibility/server/overview>.


author: Anatoly Klebanov
body: I already have a license, but it doesn't seem to be working. I have a Visibility plugin for Confluence in the cloud. I will try opening a ticket with Service Rocket. Thanks!


author: Anatoly Klebanov
body: I found ServiceRocket's documentation for installing a license. Thank you for all of your help!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How can I sort the search results by date?
Asked by avi aharon:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Confluence Search Syntax](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=158720)*

When I search my Confluence spaces, the results are not sorted by date. In fact, I can't seem to see any logic by which the results are sorted. This calls for a manual browse of the space, something my customers find unproductive.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: It used to not be possible, but thanks to the introduction of CQL, it certainly is. However, Atlassian has not yet made it available in the user interface yet (for some reason). Here are some open feature requests:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-19493>

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-5785>

Here's how you can do it manually by editing the URL:

https://\<my_confluence_url\>/dosearchsite.action?cql=siteSearch+\~+"\<search_terms_here\>"+order+by+\<lastmodified or created\>

Just fill in the blanks for the spaces with \<\> and it will return the results ordered by creation date or last modified date.

For Confluence Cloud users, you could just install my plugin, CQL Search, which shows an interface directly to CQL in the interface:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/cql-search/cloud/overview>

If you want Atlassian to add this feature, vote on the feature requests and make sure you request that they add a filter for "order by" in the interface for the next version!


author: georg
body: @Stephen Deutsch:

Any plans to provide your cql-query plugin for the self-hosted version of confluence?

If not - do you have any easy-to-provide idea how to realise sorted search results (e.g. via user macro / third party macro)?

Thanks in advance and best regards!


Tags: search

sort
Is there a way to force page restriction before a page can be saved?
Asked by Matthew Schwarz:

I'm assuming that this functionality would come from a plug-in. I would like to basically bring up the page restrictions prompt before a page can be saved/published. And if a page restriction isn't set, then the page cannot be saved/published.


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Im not sure if a plugin already exist but you could create a Web Resource module with a JS listening globally for that button click:

* <https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/confluence-plugin-guide/confluence-plugin-module-types/web-resource-module>
How to show a dynamic list of Confluence add-ons in Confluence page?
Asked by Nigel Harrison:

Is there a way to create a dynamic list of Confluence add-ons in a Confluence page. For example using *Deck of Card,*with each card being a sql query showing friendly names of the add-ons? I know about the PLUGINDATA table, but I would prefer user friendly names rather that the PLUGINKEY. Is there a way to do this?


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: This is actually quite easy to do with [JSON Table Macro](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/TBL/JSON+Table+Macro?src=sidebar). I will publish an example of this soon, but, unfortunately it requires a slight modification to the support ([LIBSCRPT-48](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/LIBSCRPT-48)) as the response from the \<base_url\>/**rest/plugins/1.0/** api is not indicated as json.

In the meantime, you can download the data to an attachment for display.

comments: author: Nigel Harrison
body: Thanks for that Bob. I just checked our strategic instances and we have this installed. A Confluence example would be very helpful please?:smile:


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Good. So just download the results of the rest url and attach to a page. Use the json-table macro and point to the attachment. That will get you by until we can release an update that will get it directly. Use Insert -\> Markup with the following. Temporarily modify it for the attachment.

```
{json-table:url=rest/plugins/1.0/|paths=plugins|fieldPaths=name,key,version,description,vendor.name,static,userInstalled,usesLicensing,enabled|user=automation|password=*******}{json-table}
```


author: Nigel Harrison
body: Thank you, that worked a treat. What is the time frame for this release, is there a ticket for this I could vote on? Additionally, our instance is SSL so we'll need credentials to make the REST call. Is it possible to pick up SSO credentials?


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Watch [LIBSCRPT-48](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/browse/LIBSCRPT-48). We don't have a timeframe for a release, but should have a snapshot in the near term. Yes, we should be able to access without credentials for a local (same server) request. Will confirm that when testing. In that case, only viewers that have admin access will be able to see anything.


Tags: confluence-administration
Cursor automaticly "jumps" at the beginning of page
Asked by Ji?? Josefus:

Hi,

Cursor automaticly "jumps" at the beginning of page during inserting objects or macros in IE 11 (altough it was placed on other place before) (in Chrome browser its OK) .  
Confluence version 4.3.2

How to solve it in IE 11 ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Ji?? Josefus
body: Hi,

It's quite strange that I have to pay for reparing mistakes in version of Confluence 4.3.2 which we bought from your company. I've supposed that in case I found some mistakes in current version, you give me solution how the problem solve without having to buy new one licence.

So if I want to solve the problem I have to pay for licence of Confluence 5.X and I must install this version?

comments: author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi buddy,

We understand your problem, but you're running a version that is not supported anymore. You have a workaround which is the Google Chrome web browser. You can also check the [Atlassian Support End of Life Policy](https://confluence.atlassian.com/support/atlassian-support-end-of-life-policy-201851003.html) about supporting **EOL** products.

About the license, I'm not sure if you have to pay a new one, but you can contact the Customer Advocates in support.atlassian.com. They are the responsible team for licenses and payments details.


author: Guilherme V.
body: Hi there, I believe you're being affected by this bug:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31613>

The solution would be upgrading Confluence to 5.X.

comments: author: Richard Cross
body: This doesn't solve the problem - I have the same happening in Confluence 6.13.8 whenever I have more than a handful of Code Macros on the same page. At that point, the page becomes impossible to edit because the cursor jumps to the top of the page whenever I try and insert new content.

Solution is to scrap the page and start again with no macros.


Tags: confluence-administration
How do I access a specific version of a PDF file?
Asked by Der Watz:

I have PDF files with the same name, but different versions.

Do I always have to put any of these files onto a single page?

I like to put all of the files into one page.

But now I can only see the newest file.  
And I can not access an older version of the file.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: If you put the Attachments macro on the page, it will show you all the older versions of the PDF.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi,

copy the full url from the version into the clipboard and create a weblink on the page to that URL.

The URLs of the versions should be different.

Regards

Thomas


Tags: access

pdf

questions-for-confluence

version
How do I open an link to a PDF-file, with showing the bookmarks ?
Asked by Der Watz:

My PDFs do open with an outline or the bookmarks.

They never only open the page, because there is no orientation.

When I link to a PDF in CONFLUENCE, the PDF-file is only shown with the first page.

The PDF is nearly useless without the bookmarks!

There are nearly 400 pages in every document...

Do you have any solution for me?  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-I-open-an-link-to-a-PDF-file-with-showing-the-bookmarks/qaq-p/26001?attachment-id=6683){#link_118755d51f0dbb}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/243761/1/top%20of%20screen.jpg){#display_118755d51f0dbb_0}


Answers:
author: Ashley LaMar
body: I'm having the same issue. Did you ever find a solution?


author: Ashley LaMar
body: This is the top of my screen in PDF preview mode.

top of screen.jpg


author: Ashley LaMar
body: Der, what "hidden button"? If it's hidden, it's hidden well because I'm not sure what you're referring to. I've attached a screenshot of what I see.


author: Der Watz
body: Sorry, there is no Solution till noch.

but You can show the Bookmarks wit the hidden butten in the upper left corner :wink:


author: Steven F Behnke
body: What are pdf bookmarks?

No product im aware of outside of adobe reader allows you to open a pdf to a page.