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Confluence User Signup & Crowd management
Asked by Debbie Mac:

I currently have confluence enabled to allow users to signup for an account that is authenticated using the email domain. How do I specify that this is the allowed default application for all account creation and allow the same user to SSO to all other atlassian applications?

I want to be able to (once the account is created in confluence) to specify access to all atlassian apps and groups via crowd.

I do not want to go into crowd and create all accounts there.


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Debbie,

From confluence side, I believe this is not possible. However, from crowd side, it could be done. You first need to enable the [public signup in crowd](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Public+Signup+Setup) and set a [default group membership](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Automatically+Assigning+Users+to+Groups).

If you set this group to access the application Confluence, then all users will automatically be able to access confluence as well after they login to crowd first.

I understand that you may not want all users that signup to crowd to become confluence users, but then there won't be a way to provide such functionality to automatically add users to confluence without having to go to inside crowd and set the users manually.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: bitbucket-administration

confluence-administration

jira-administration
Variable list is not displayed in the page
Asked by M:

Hi,

I'm a beginners with Confluence and i encounter an issue.

In my template Product Requirement, in the page properties, i added a variable with list.

In the preview, everything is ok, i can see the list of values.

But when i enter a product requirement in edit mode, the firld is blanck.

Any idea ?

Thansk in advance.


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Manu,

This might be a bug, could you please tell us which version of Confluence you are using and if it's Clustered or not?

Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: M
body: Hi David,

I'm using the last 5.4.4 version, downloaded version too.

Thanks


author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Manu,

I tested this locally and it's indeed a bug, I raised a BUG to address this missbehaviour:

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33401)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33401>

Please make sure to vote for that issue and mark yourself as a watcher, also add

your thoughts in there so it can increase the bug relevance :).  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support


author: M
body: Ok thanks !


author: Consu
body: hello, I have the same happening. We use 5.4.3

I actually don't know what is the meaning of Clustered, sorry. If it means Downloade, then yes, downloaded version.  

I have 2 things to report: when I edit the template, click on add variables, I see the line variables suggestion, but no variable is actually suggested.

When I save, the template includes the variable, but this doesn't show up.

Let me know if I have to report the bug in your jira. Thanks![](../../upfiles/Edit_Template_BirdLife_Partnership_Extranet.jpeg)

comments: author: Deividi Luvison
body: Consu,

The above bug I mentioned to Manu also applies on version 5.4.3, regarding your second behaviour, sometimes I hit that one so just try saving the template and edditing again (that should do the trick ;)).  
Thanks and Regards,  
David\|Atlassian Support
what is the recommended way to work offline in confluence?
Asked by John Casey:

I am installing confluence for my team \<25 users. only a couple of us work outside the office, travelling 80%. What is the recommeded way to edit content offline? I've downloaded roadrunner which looks interesting. Can I get a personal copy of confluence to run on my laptop to edit the content? personal copies in this way should be covered under my current license as it all the same user. Also what about the addon like giffy, can I get a personal copy of it too?

If this is not the correct direction for offline editing - please suggest the recommended approach.

thanks,


Answers:
author: Robert Lauriston
body: Each Confluence license covers only a single installation.

You can buy a 10-user copy of Confluence for $10 (most add-ons are similarly cheap) and install it locally.

Word import has a lot of bugs and Atlassian apparently has no plans to fix them.


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hello John,

a possible way to do that is to use export/import page capability. Your user could export pages in word format, working on these offline, and, at the end, import these again.

Exporting to Word : <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+a+Word+Document+into+Confluence>

Importing from Word : [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+a+Word+Document+into+Confluence)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Importing+a+Word+Document+into+Confluence>

Hope this helps,

Fabio

comments: author: John Casey
body: Hi Fabio, I did read about import/export and also tried it. The problem is that you lose all of the change managment features of confluence when you do that. Word also has document versioning built in but neither of these two versioning mechanisms are integrated. Also, import/export with gliffy are not editable in word.

It seems a better way would be to create a local confluence server and use all the facilities of it. Otherwise, I'm forced to use only Word for editing with dropbox as a repository and put the links into confluence.

Does anyone have a better idea.


author: Maduranga Kannangara
body: Have you tried Road Runner?<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/rr>Looks good by the demo video. But haven't tried yet.
conflunce not able to sent test email or any other notification
Asked by Paresh Gandhi:

when i'm sending test email i'm getting below error:

An error has occurred with sending the test email:

com.atlassian.mail.MailException: com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 550 5.7.1 Client does not have permissions to send as this sender


Answers:
author: Paresh Gandhi
body: After changing mail server host name to localhost it has resolved this issue.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It's pretty much what it says - the user you've told Confluence to use as the mail sender has not been given permission to send mail on the mail server. You need to correct the configuration of the acount on the mail server.

comments: author: Pareshkumar Gandhi
body: I have to do it in JIRA or somewhere on exchange mail server?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Not sure why you have moved on to jira, you said the problem is happening in confluence. Anyway, as I already said (and what the error message says), the error is caused by the mail user not having the right settings to send the email in the email server settings. So yes, fix exchange


author: Paresh Gandhi
body: Sorry, I wanted to say Confluence.

I got question back from help desk that what is the ip address which need to be added from where confluence is sending the email.

Do you know where i can find it out?

where i can find sending server IP Address of confluence


Tags: email

notification

test
Confluence in a Frame?
Asked by Project Manager:

We use a browser based program that allows us to run other websites as a frame\* within the program. I'm interested in using Confluence as a knowledge base that would run as a frame in this other program. I've found that some websites allow this, and some don't. Will Confluence allow it?

Thank You

\*I am not a programmer so I do not know if I am using the word "frame" correctly, technically speaking. But hopefully you know what I mean.


Answers:
author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi there,

I'm not sure how this program works, but, If your users will access it from another location and Confluence is available outside your network, it should not be a problem.

I've found this for Jira, but nothing for Confluence, so I assume it work well: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-20988)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-20988>

Update: I've just performed a test with my personal domain, and using URL Frame pointing to an external Confluence. It worked fine.

Cheers!

comments: author: Project Manager
body: Wow, thanks!


Tags: iframe
Export with versioning (changes)
Asked by Rich Amick:

We are currently at version 5.1. Is there any way of exporting a space with versioning?

How about any other version?

If not export, is there any other method to do this (for my space only)?

TIA,

Rich


Answers:
author: Wayne Wong
body: Hi RIch,

Sorry if I miss understood your question.

Did you mean that you were trying to export spaces from your current confluence 5.1 and change the version to other?

If that is the case, I am sorry to inform you that you unable to do that. And because Space import is not backwards compatible Confluence only supports compatibility for space import and export when executed within the same major version of Confluence.

For example, Confluence 5.2 and Confluence 5.3 are different major versions. Confluence 5.2.1 and Confluence 5.2.6 is the same major version.

Thank you.

Regards,

Wayne Wong
Knowledge Base Question
Asked by Project Manager:

I am interested in using Confluence to create a company knowledge base. I want to create a knowledge base that uses a persistent navigation tree on the left, almost identical to what Confluence uses [here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Developing+a+Knowledge+Base+on+Confluence+Wiki) in their own online documentation. Is the online documentation in that link based on a readily available Confluence template?

Thank You


Answers:
author: Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]
body: Confluence uses "Themes" to control this portion of the look and feel. The Theme that is used on Atlassian's Confluence is the "Documentation Theme" and it is included in the product. You'll get it right out of the box.

comments: author: Project Manager
body: Wonderful, thank you.


author: Project Manager
body: Wonderful, thank you.


Tags: knowledge-base
Add attributes to elements
Asked by Alex Feldman:

When I try to add attributes to elements in source mode and hit Apply they get stripped. I even tried to add simple elements like \<div id="myid"\>\</div\> and it still saves like \<div\>\</div\>

How can I add attributes to elements?


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Can't through the editor. Annoying I know. You could use the html macro and put the html in by hand or you could add them in with JS after the page is rendered.

comments: author: Alex Feldman
body: html macro wouldn't modify the standard editor elements outside the macro. If I add a macro inside an element then it creates all the macro tags that look ugly and require extra parsing to get a hold of. Annoying, I agree.


Tags: attribute
Toggle table column group visibility
Asked by Alex Feldman:

I'd like to have a table where columns can be grouped with some meta attribute and their visibility toggled with buttons/checkboxes above the table. For example:

=============

\[Button A\] \[Button B\]

------------------

Col 0 (Fixed) \| Col 1 (A) \| Col 2 (A) \| Col 3 (B) \| Col 4 (B) \| Col 5 (B)

=============

In the example above, Column 0 is fixed and always visible. Toggling Button A would hide/show Columns 1 and 2, and togling Button B would hide/show Columns 3,4,5.

What's the best way to achieve this?


Answers:
author: Alex Feldman
body: I've come up with this javascript solution which works well. Only problem is that all tables on the page will toggle. Unfortunately Confluence is stripping any attributes that I assign to elements, so selecting unique items on the page is a little difficult at the moment. I'd love to hear solutions for this.

I added the following code to an HTML Macro:

```
&lt;input type="checkbox" checked="true" onclick="toggleColumns(this.checked, businessColumns)"&gt;Business Columns&lt;/input&gt;&lt;input type="checkbox" checked="true" onclick="toggleColumns(this.checked, technicalColumns)"&gt;Technical Columns&lt;/input&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;  var businessColumns = [2,3];  var technicalColumns = [4,5];   function toggleColumns(show, columns){    var $tapps = AJS.$("table");    for (var i = 0; i &lt; columns.length; i++) {      if(show){         $tapps.find('td:nth-child(' + columns[i] + '),th:nth-child(' + columns[i] + ')').show();      }else{         $tapps.find('td:nth-child(' + columns[i] + '),th:nth-child(' + columns[i] + ')').hide();      }    }  }&lt;/script&gt;
```


Tags: hide

table
Setting permission
Asked by Kevin Yip:

Hi,

I am trying to set permission to a confluence page that I have created. Following the Tools-\>Permission. It doesn't show the permission dialog. Is there something I am missing?


Answers:
author: Giuliano C.
body: Hey Kevin,

This error could be caused by many different symptoms. In example, external plugins, corrupted data in Confluence, some possible customisations in the instance... However, we can definitely try to isolate them by the following:

# Try to run Confluence under [Plugin Safe Mode](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/UPM/Disabling+and+enabling+add-ons#Disablingandenablingadd-ons-Disablingorenablingalladd-ons(usingSafeMode)) and try to open the dialog again.

# If not, let's give a try to [clean the plugins cache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache) to see how it goes.

# And for the least, let's isolate customisations, if you have in your instance. You can see that in \*_Confluence Admin \> Look and Feel_\* and verify the following:

a) Themes: See which theme you're using, switch back to the default if you're not using it already.

b) Layouts: See if you have any custom layout defined, if yes then make a backup and reset to default.

c) Stylesheet: See if you have custom stylesheet, if yes then make a backup and reset to default.

d) Custom HTML: See if you have any custom HTML defined, if yes then reset to default.

If the issue persists, can you create a support ticket under [](https://support.atlassian.com,)<https://support.atlassian.com>, so one of our engineers will be able to help you, Kevin?

Cheers,

Giuliano Tenedini

Confluence/Crowd Support


author: Kevin Yip
body: Thanks guys, I'll give it a try and come back if further help is needed.

Apprecaited the help and quick responses.


author: FelipeA
body: Hi Kevin,

What you get when you click the permission link? Anything pop up on atlassian-confluence.log?

As a first troubleshoot, I would [clear the plugin caches](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache).

Best regards,

Felipe Alencastro
Page restriction problem when edit restriction is enabled
Asked by Radek Zima:

Hello everybody,

I'm experiencing problem with one confluence page. When I add some edit restrictions on the page then users are not allowed to see its content. I don't understand what is wrong because when not edit restrictions are applied, everyghing is fine but when I add edit restrictions then users are immediately not able to see its content. I have checked general permissions, space permissions and page restrictions and I don't see any problem there.

Any idea what could be wrong or what I should check?

Thank you in advance.

Regards,  
Radek

![](../../upfiles/page-restrictions.jpeg)


Answers:
author: Radek Zima
body: Hi Fabio,

thank you for the answer but please check the picture again, there are added 5 people to edit restrictions, no view restrictions applied. Selected radio button has no impact on the current state.

Radek


author: Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_
body: Hi Radek,

from the screenshot provided, it seems that you defined view restriction and not edit ones. Please, take care to select the correct radio button at the top of the restriction popup.

Hope this helps.

Fabio
Account password reset emails come as from Anonymous
Asked by Consu:

Our Account password reset emails come as From:*Anonymous (confluence)*  
Our SMTP Server Details Mail server is set up to sent ${fullname} (confluence).  
This set up is good, as it allows me to know who sent me something from confluence, but for the Password reset emails, it is a bit annoying.  
Do I have a way to edit only this notification only, so that they don't come from anonymous, but making sure all the other notification contain the name of who took the action (so without modifying the current SMTP setup)?


Answers:
author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hi Consu,

It seems this is a normal behavior of the product. I've replicated the behavior and created a improvement request for you: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33487)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-33487>

I suggest to vote, watch and ask other users to vote on it as well in order to increase the chance of being implemented in the future.

Cheers,

Rodrigo


Tags: confluence-administration
How to fix "getData Error reading gadget feed from "
Asked by Elena Oleksenko:

Hello

I get message in confluence log file:

2014-04-18 11:01:32,722 WARN \[http-127.0.0.1-0000-5\] \[plugins.gadgets.metadata.GadgetsMacroMetadataProvider\] getData Error reading gadget feed from http://\<strong\< a=""\>\>OLD_LINK/jira/rest/gadgets/1.0/g/feed

-- url: /plugins/macrobrowser/browse-macros.action \| userName: admin\| referer: http://confluence.\<url\>/pages/editpage.action?pageId=39944202\| action: browse-macros

OLD_LINK mean old jira url, jira was moved but seems that somewhere old link has remained. How to fix this and replace the old link to the new one?

Thanks for help.


Answers:
author: Geert Graat
body: Hi, I have exactly the same problem: after changing the JIRA url, these messages keep on popping up in the log. Application links have changed correctly and everything works fine, just these annoying messages remain. Have you resolved your issue?Regards,Geert


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

I was reviewing your question, and I could see that this stack-trace is under a WARN flag, which means, that Confluence could complete the task, but had some problems doing it. To see if that is true, is the feed working? If yes, you can disregard the message. If you're having problems, we must check if you can access this URL, the "feed" one, from Confluence's box, to see if there's any roadblock.  

Cheers,  
WZ
How can I past text into Confluence and have it keep its formatting?
Asked by Mark Mark:

I have some text in an plain-text email. It's a couple of paragraphs, followed by some numbers lined up in columns.

How can I paste this into Confluence without losing the formatting? In particular, I want to keep the spaces in the numbers so they continue to be lined up in columns.


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Use the {noformat} macro.


Tags: noformat

paste
How can I add a feedback widget like the one on Atlassian Answers?
Asked by Consu:

I would like to add a similar widget to my Confluence. Does anyone know which plugin is used for this, if any?

Thanks!

![](../../upfiles/Tagged_Questions_Atlassian_Answers.jpeg)


Answers:
author: Timothy
body: Atlassian Answers is not a Confluence instance. This is the base product ([](http://www.osqa.net/)<http://www.osqa.net/>).

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence\&category=\&cost=\&hosting=\&marketingLabel=\&q=survey](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/search?application=confluence&category=&cost=&hosting=&marketingLabel=&q=survey)

comments: author: Consu
body: thanks Timothy!


author: Maciej Sz.
body: You can buy new Atlassian product called Confluence Questions (plugin). this is very similat to Answers.

<https://www.atlassian.com/questions>

comments: author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: There's a screenshot in Consu's question, and he's asking about the widget in that screenshot. He's not asking about having a website like Answers.


Tags: confluence-administration
Sketch button not showing in image properties pane
Asked by Mike Hedman:

I've just installed the Sketch plugin, but the option to edit my images is not showing up. Any ideas why? I'm in Confluence 5.3.1.

Thanks,

Mike


Answers:
author: Mike Hedman
body: Upgrading to 1.1.1 fixed it, thanks!


author: H
body: Hi Mike,

you can find updated version in the marketplace. Please, write your feedback once you try it.


author: Mike Hedman
body: I edited a page with an image, clicked the image, and saw no JS errors in the console.

Mike


author: Lukas Judicak
body: Hi guys,

could you check if there is a javascript error in web browser console related to the sketch confluence plugin? The message could contain something like "Failed to load resource...". If yes, please, try to reload a page.

Thanks,

Lukas


author: Keith Wallace
body: I am experiencing the same with 5.4.4. It worked before.


Tags: app
Add a filter to Confluence Recently Updated Dashboard?
Asked by Nick Shaw:

So we have a user that makes automated posts, which is polluting the Confluence dashboard's Recently Updated macro.  

I know that the non-dashboard version of the RU macro can have a filter applied to it that can filter out that one user, but we want to keep using the dashboard version, a lot of users use the different tabs in it.  

So is there a way to apply a similar author filter to the RU Dashboard macro? Or would I have to completely restructure how the dashboard looks to build some kind of equivalent?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Deividi Luvison
body: Hey Nick,

There's an idea in [this](/questions/251578/how-to-exclude-filter-out-an-author-from-recently-updated-results) tread that match the creteria you mentioned, I tried to play around locally using the source code macro to add manually a parameter "!user" to exclude a single user, but it didn't worked :(.

Another suggestion would be for you to raise a feature request.

Hope it helps.

Thanks and Regards,

David\|Atlassian Support

comments: author: Nick Shaw
body: I had seen that thread, I was hoping there'd be a non User Macro way for me to get the functionality, but it looks like that's my short-term alternative. Guess it's time for me to brush up on my macro construction!  

Thank you for the attempt and the insight!


Tags: dashboard

recently-updated