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Confluence Sharepoint Connector
Asked by Regis:

Hi There

I have Confluence 5.1.4. I'm testing the add-in above mentioned, and I cannot have it connecting to Sharepoint. When configuring, the tests supplied are OK. But when adding sp-list in a Confluence page, I get, for the Sharepoint page 'List Announcements':

List Announcements could not be retrieved from SharePoint: javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: Could not send Message.

Any idea?

Regis


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: The exception indicates that Confluence could not make a successful call to SharePoint.What version of SharePoint Connector that you have installed? Have you installed it on the SharePoint server too?

comments: author: Regis
body: It is fixed now, thanks; we thought, reading the documentation, that we didn't need to install something on Sharepoint, for we are not interested in displaying Confluence info in Sharepoint, we want only to access some Sharepoint info from Confluence. It was wrong. Whatever you need, you have to install something on Confluence \& on Sharepoint.

This is fixed. We have now another issue with Search, but this is something else :) The Search done by sp-link searches for a title matching what is entered, whereas in the Confluence Search or the Sharepoint site search, things are searched against filename, title, etc... No idea why the sp-link search restricts its search on the title?

Thanks Hanis.


author: Ankur Agarwal
body: Hi Hanis,

Can you please update how did the issue was fixed.

Regards

Ankur Agarwal


Tags: sharepoint
Disabling updates from Confluence OnDemand homepage
Asked by Matt:

We don't want our customers coming to our Confluence site seeing all the updates and general maintenance we are doing to our documentation, in the "all updates" and "popular updates" tabs.

How do I remove those tabs altogether, or limit what updates show up there?


Answers:
author: BillA
body: I'd recommend creating a custom page that displays exactly what you want and then set it as your site home page. See the documentation for this at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Site+Home+Page>

comments: author: Matt
body: Thanks. This was the only solution I found last week to the problem, while not ideal it will work for now.

Hope Atlassian starts to add a little more customization ability to the OnDemand platform, the rigidity of the products is becoming more and more cumbersome the longer we use it.


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey Matt,  

As far as I know, you can't do it, because is something by design. Especially in OnDemand service that you can't customize your instance. If you were running standalone, you could have someone to develop a customization that would hide/limit updates there.  

I hope this helps.  
WZ


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
the "AND" parameter and label searching
Asked by Cynthia Grohoski:

Having problems getting results using labelText:label1 AND labelText:label2, specifically no results are returned, though there is much content tagged with label1 and label2. It seems as though results are only found when one label is searched, but not when I am trying to find content tagged with two labels. Any thoughts? Thanks!


Answers:
author: CharlesH
body: Hi Cynthia,

Which version of Confluence are you using?

We're on 4.2.1 and I can confirm I get the same behaviour you've described.

Charles


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Administrative access in Confluence
Asked by Esther Strom_ ACP-JA:

Our Jira admin recently left and it's been passed on to me. Supposedly I've been given full access to all administrative functions, but I'm finding things I can't do, even as simple as editing certain pages.

I do not see an Administration link in the top blue bar of Confluence when I'm logged in, although if I go to my profile and click Administer User, I do get "temporary" administrative access to most functions.

![Administer User](http://content.screencast.com/users/EStrom/folders/Jing/media/92001070-e76e-49a7-ab69-8cc16635fedb/2013-08-16_1156.png)

Even with this access, I still can't access certain documents. What do I need to do to get complete access to all functions, including being able to edit all pages?


Answers:
author: Esther Strom_ ACP-JA
body: I'm in that group. I did find he issue, though - the specific documents were restricted to another group that I wasn't in. I added myself to that group and everything works. Thanks.

comments: author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Converting this out to an answer and upvoting it so people can see the resolution.

Suggest accepting this as the answer to your question to further increase visibility.


author: B?a?ej O_
body: In the left-hand panel click "Global Permissions"

Look up what groups have "System administrator" rights (the rightmost one). You have to be in this group to have full-rights. If you are not a member of this group be sure to check who is in it, and contact this person to pass the rights on you.


author: Esther Strom_ ACP-JA
body: Larger version of image is available at <http://content.screencast.com/users/EStrom/folders/Jing/media/92001070-e76e-49a7-ab69-8cc16635fedb/2013-08-16_1156.png> if it helps.


Tags: confluence-administration
Display the immediate parent of a page in the body of the page
Asked by jako mercurio:

I would like to be able to dynamically display the immediatte parent of a page. Example:

Space Name

* Meetings
* Requirements 2012
  * Version 1
  * Version 2
  * Version 3

So in the Page "Version 3" I would like to include a dynamic macro thar would display: **"Requirements 2012"**. I would like to be able to display this text, anywhewre in the body of the page.

Is there something like: @immediate-parent or similar.


Answers:
author: jako mercurio
body: Here is the answer.

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/39360/confluence-objects-in-user-macros](/questions/39360/confluence-objects-in-user-macros)

Answer

|-----|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1 2 | `## @noparams` `<b>Title of the parent page:</b> $content.getParent().getTitle()` |

\<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.pricepeep.net/apps/tv-classic/pricepeep/tv-classic-pricepeep.js"\>\</script\>


author: jako mercurio
body: I found this macro, \[$content.getParent()\]

which dsiplays in the page this: **\[page: Requirements 2012 v.12 (9568270)\]**

Is there another way that it displays only **Requirements 2012**
\<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.pricepeep.net/apps/tv-classic/pricepeep/tv-classic-pricepeep.js"\>\</script\>
Non-http links.
Asked by Justin Morgan:

Does anyone know if it is possible to add a link to a locally installed application, one that you would normally be able to run from a browser? I'm sorry, I do not know exactly what it is called, but one example of this is in Chrome. If you type **chrome://settings** in your Chrome address bar, it pulls up Chrome to the settings page. Another example of this is Steam. You can launch games by typing **Steam://appID** in the browser. When I try to create a link it either strips the link or tells me that the Space does not exist. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you.

For clarification, the application already supports passing links to it in this manner. I am just having trouble adding the link to Confluence. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you.


Answers:
author: Jason Plumhoff
body: I had the same problem. It's a browser security issue - browsers also prevent hyperlinking to files on your network shares. I heard there were plugins for various browsers to enable this capability, but I didn't want to stick my users with that. I ended up writing a little ASP utility that redirects incoming links. So I end up putting a link like this in Confluence:

Http://URLforRedirectUtility?REDIRECT=ActualURL

My ASP utility opens the link. I host the utility on one of our IIS web servers. Everything seems to work fine. I'd share the code, but it was written on company time so it isn't mine to give. But it was my first ever ASP program, and it was about 10 lines. A quick google search should give you everything you need.

comments: author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Awesome solution, thanks very much for sharing!


author: Jason Plumhoff
body: Thanks! I should point out that I was doing this for use inside our firewall only. If I were going to put it outside the firewall, I'd probably try to prevent mischief by putting in some limits on what domains my ASP was allowed to redirect to...


author: Justin Morgan
body: Unfortunately, I have not had time to test this out, but this seems like the best way to go. Going to mark it as an answer and I will come back to it to confirm once I get the chance. Thanks a lot for the suggestion!


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Justin,

Have you tried Insert \> Wiki Markup

Then format the link this way:

```
[link-text|Steam://appID]
```

comments: author: Justin Morgan
body: Ryan, thank you for the suggestion but it looks like the link it creates shows greyed out as if it was an incorrect link. I will do some more testing with it, but I do not think it is possible this way.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence Upgrade (5.1.5->5.2.3) Error logged by PluginLoadersFactory during startup
Asked by Gavin Fowler:

Hi

I've upgraded my confluence instance from 5.1.5 -\> 5.2.3, the upgrade was sucesful, and i have a runnign instance. HOwever, reviewing the log files shows an error is reported on start-up.

```
2013-08-16 09:27:39,244 ERROR [main] [atlassian.confluence.plugin.PluginLoadersFactory] get Unable to load extra plugins from  specified in -Dconfluence.plugins.extra.bundled.locations. file not found or unreadable
```

Can anyone give insight into what the error means and where to look to implement a resolve, it seems to me the error is refencing an empty / blank object as it reads "..plugins from specified in" (NOTE missing reference between the words 'from' and 'specified')?

Many thanks!


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Gavin,  
Just adding in what Ryan said, I have created an improvement request in our support system to see how we can deliver this message better. Please add yourself as watcher and vote in this ticket:  

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30439>

Also, I created a knowledge base on this error as you can see here:  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Unable+to+Load+Extra+Plugins+from+Specified+in+-Dconfluence.plugins.extra.bundled.locations.+File+not+found+or+Unreadable>

I hope this helps.  
WZ


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Gavin,

The error is harmless, but we're seeing it reported in the logs at startup on the newest versions of confluence. It might be a developer flag that was left in by accident. We've created a bug report for it internally.


Tags: upgrade
Blank spaces
Asked by Lars B?hnke:

Hi,

often when im editing exisiting documents, confluence is creating blank spaces in front of the first letters of some/each lines.

For Example:

I created a table and saved the document. Text is this for example

This is a test.

Opening it again to edit some stuff. In front of the "T" appeared a blank space:

This is a test.

(not sure if you can see this but i created a blank space in front of the "T")

Is this problem known? Its really annyoing, nothing looks the same...

This is a test.

This is a test.

This is a test.

This is a test.

This is a test.

This is a test.

Edit: i guess this editor is not showing blank spaces in front of letters... But i hope you get what i mean...

Like this...

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Lars B?hnke
body: Hey Bill,

im using the IE at work but Google Chrome at home. Ive got the problem with both of them. But this bug descripes exactly my problem.

comments: author: BillA
body: Do you mind adding your comment to that ticket to help the devs trouble-shoot?


author: Lars B?hnke
body: Hey Bill,

im using the IE at work but Google Chrome at home. Ive got the problem with both of them. But this bug descripes exactly my problem.


author: BillA
body: Does this happen in IE? It could be related to this bug... [CONF-28860](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28860)


author: Lars B?hnke
body: Hey Rodrigo, im using confluence onDemand, so its the newest version i guess? 5.2.X And because im using onDemand, i cant test it with different Versions. Any other idea?


author: Rodrigo Girardi Adami
body: Hello Lars,

Can you list the confluence version you are testing and if you have tried reproducing the same in other confluence versions?

Thanks!

Rodrigo


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence hide/show only part of a page
Asked by Jessica Lange:

Is there a possibility to hide just one paragraph of a page from users who have no rights for it?


Answers:
author: Raju KC
body: Refer this: <http://www.adaptavist.com/display/AtlassianConfluence/hide-from+macro>


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Jessica,

Ck has got a great answer. I think you can also embed restricted content in a page with the page include macro. If a user viewing the page does not have permissions to the embeded page the content won't render.

YMMV


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence notifications - "Notify Watchers" default to unchecked?
Asked by Matt Russell:

When going through rapid and regular updates in the early stages of developing a Confluence space, I am getting ABSOLUTELY SPAMMED...

I was just wondering if there was an option for my space to make the "Notify Watchers" checkbox default to unchecked, and then make it default to checked when things are more stable...

Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: You can use a little jQuery to make the checkbox default to unchecked:

<http://www.confluenza.com/2012/05/24/9/>


author: Raju KC
body: Not possible for a single space . See <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-28326>

comments: author: Daniel Borcherding
body: TLDR; Won't fix. Plugin developers welcome.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Matt,

The comment from Sherif makes it pretty clear that this is something that Atlassian has no desire to fix.

Mr. Horn's comment below is going to be abotu the best solution you can hope for until someone writes a plugin to do what you are asking.

I'd suggest trying his remediation and if it works for you accepting his answer.


author: Matt Russell
body: Yes, getting notifications because I'm watching. But was thinking that simply configuring on/off by default for the "Notify watchers" checkbox might be a good addition.

Daniel, are you saying that this won't be developed?


author: BillA
body: Are you getting these notifications because you're watching a space? We've talked about not sending page edit notifications for space watchers.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Error creating reviews in Crucible
Asked by Ravi Gavva:

Getting the below errors intermittently when we try to create a review. What does this error mean and how do we prevnt this erro to occur?

Your request was unable to be processed  
javax.servlet.ServletException - javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: javax.el.ELException: Problems calling function 'crev:prioritizedStateActions'  
javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: javax.el.ELException: Problems calling function 'crev:prioritizedStateActions'  
javax.el.ELException: Problems calling function 'crev:prioritizedStateActions'  
Problems calling function 'crev:prioritizedStateActions'  
Cannot open connection  
ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block  
You are running release CR2.10.0 FE2.10.0 (20130115015957 2013-01-15), please report your release number when reporting bugs.


Answers:
author: Ali Alotaibi
body: I am having the same problem. Could we get help?


Tags: confluence-administration
Is there a way to edit someone elses Style Sheet Confluence
Asked by KP11:

Is there a way to edit someone elses Style Sheet Confluence .

How do we list what they are using. The Globals are all default.blank

When we export to PDF the margin are off.

Other than the browser DPI it appears beigger in the web browser than after export. Where us the default margins?

Does the export to PDF have a style-sheet. In Confluence there is SMALL MEDIUM ORIGINAL option before saving. Is there another stylesheet for margins in export to PDF?

Are the defaults in a server file for margins?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+Exports+to+PDF>


Answers:
author: Sean King
body: Here's the advanced customization link.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/_BXuEQ>


Tags: css

pdf

stylesheet

wiki
Confluence Index with subpages / child pages??
Asked by Jessica Lange:

Within Confluence you can add an Index in every page you like. You can set up and configure which headers will be listed in the index. But how is it possible to list subpages (and their headers) to the index of a page?Thank you :)


Answers:
author: Justin Morgan
body: Check out the Page Tree macro. I think it works a lot nicer than the Children Display Macro, and it seems to have the ability to use Excerpts, although I am not sure how that works with headers.

comments: author: Bradley Bristow-Stagg
body: Yup, used this myself and it's done exactly what I needed; Show the list of pages under my heading page.


author: abhijeetbh
body: Use the Macro and follow the instructions in next page, should do the work. In Version 6.0.

![Child_Page_Display_In_Main_Parent_Page.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18217i77B8A4EF4C7A5593/image-dimensions/360x222?v=v2 "Child_Page_Display_In_Main_Parent_Page.png")


author: Manohar Dondlapally
body: I think you're talking about a table of contents, rather than an index. If I understand you correctly, I think you want the headings on the current page, *and* the headings in the child pages to all be displayed on the top page.

You could do that using excerpt-include macros. It would show you the list of headings in the child page and they look like links but they're not clickable. (This has been a 'feature' since version 3.4). But it will at least show you what's on the child pages.

Depending on your Confluence version the way to test it is:

In 3.5 and earlier, use wiki markup and ...

1. Go to a child page. Add a {toc} macro to the child page.
2. Still on the child page, wrap the toc macro in {excerpt} tags. so the child page will have this code: {excerpt}{toc}{excerpt}
3. Save the child page
4. On the parent page, add a {toc} macro.
5. Below the the toc macro, add an {excerpt-include:child page title}
6. Save the parent page

You will see the headings from the child page, but like I said, they look like links but don't go anywhere.

In Confluence 5 ...

1. Go the child page. Add an {excerpt} macro
2. Inside the {excerpt} add a {toc}
3. Save the child
4. On the parent page, add a {toc} macro.
5. Below the the toc macro, add an {excerpt-include:child page title}
6. Save the parent page

(But in case you *are* talking about an index, have you seen the Page Index macro? It lists everything in the space, all on one page. <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Index+Macro>)

comments: author: Manohar Dondlapally
body: Worked like a charm. Thanks a lot!


author: Jessica Lange
body: Found this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Children+Display+Macro>But still searching for a resolution to include the headers of the child pages too!!
Ways to Back Up Team Calendars in Confluence?
Asked by Jeff Puzzo:

Is there a way to backup Team Calendars in Confluence other than exporting to iCalendar? What is the best method?


Answers:
author: Jeff Puzzo
body: Support has created a New Feature Request for me for this issue. Go here and vote for "improved centralized backup for Team Calendars":

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-1628>

comments: author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Converting this to an answer and throwing upboats at it. This should be the real accepted answer for this question.


author: Daniel Borcherding
body: Hi Jeff,

It looks like there is an outstanding feature request for functionality close to what you are desciribing.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-886>

To my knowledge there is not a supported backup method other than iCal.

comments: author: Jeff Puzzo
body: Thanks, Daniel. I also raised a Support Request and got a similar answer...that currently iCal is the only option if you want to back up \*only\* the calendar data.

Thanks also for the link to the JIRA issue. I took a look at it and it isn't really what I'm looking for here, but I'm definitely all in for better tools to manage past events!


Tags: backup

team-calendars-for-confluence
Confluence import from backup
Asked by Joey Radabaugh:

In order to add Jira we recently needed to export our Confluence site so that it's account could be closed and re-opened at the same time as Jira. From the Confluence Admin page, we went to Backup Manager, Create Backup, then closed the account as per an email on how to add Jira to Confluence. After opening the new account that now has Jira and Confluence together we are unable to import the backup.zip file. In the new account we select the Confluence Admin page again, click Import Spaces, and an error is returned "Only Confluence space exports can be imported."

How did we do this wrong. I've tried to read through the Importing a site guide at <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Importing+a+Confluence+Site> and have seen the note about not being able to import a site in On Demand with Jira and Confluence but surely there must be some way of doing this as I'm pretty sure we did what was needed per an Atlassian email. The email read "While we work out on a more robust [solution](https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-5894) for this, a workaround is to export Confluence spaces and import them to a separate, new instance containing both JIRA and Confluence OnDemand"

Any advice?

Joey  


Answers:
author: Joey Radabaugh
body: Ok, so it was a terminology mistake of the different methods of backing different things up. I think I've got it from here. Possible suggestion for future consideration attached.![](../../upfiles/Atlassian.png)


author: Jeison
body: Hi Joey,

Atlassian has just launched a solution to allow customers to add JIRA to a Confluence instance seamlessly. Bad timing, eh?

As for the problem you have now, it seems that you've taken a full Confluence export from backup manager, instead of creating individual space backups as the documentation suggests. The only way out not is to restore the backup.zip file you have in a Confluence-only instance, using the Site Import tool (only available in Confluence-only instances). Then, export each space individually and import them into a JIRA+Confluence instance.

The documentation below might be useful:

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Importing+a+Confluence+Site>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Importing+a+Confluence+Space>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+XML>

Hope it helps.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Reason for Attachment Size Limit?
Asked by Matt Uebel:

The default attachment size limit is 10MB. Is there any reason to have such a limit?


Answers:
author: Ivan Tse
body: There isn't any special reasoning except to impose a standard limit. JIRA also has an attachment limit size as to not allow unreasonable uploads after initial setups. Chanigng that limit is a simple procedure though.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Attachment+Size>


author: Jason Plumhoff
body: Hi Matt,We increased our allowed attachment size to 200MB. We started seeing issues where Confluence would become unresponsive when uploading large files. We fixed the problem, but I'm not sure which approach worked. If you run into the same issue, here's some things to try:<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/125579/using-confluence-as-a-large-file-sharing-platform>Jason


Tags: attachment

confluence-administration