youngmon/atlassian-qna huggingface dataset:
Table Filter plugin - CPU usage is too high
Asked by Nicolas Casel:

Hi all,

Since we've installed its version 3.3.1, the Table Filter plugin requires too large amount of CPU resources. Indeed, all browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox) crash or are really too slow when displaying a wiki page that embeds this plugin.

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance,


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: Hello Nicolas,

Please contact StiltSoft [support](https://helpdesk.stiltsoft.com/otrs/customer.pl).


Tags: table-filter
Can I add multiple spacekeys to the livesearch macro?
Asked by Dominique Hein:

Hey everyone,

I really need your help. I want to use the Livesearch macro in Confluence and I need to search in multiple parts of Confluence. The Search should include:

* A whole Space (e.g. IT)
* Labels from another Space (e.g. "wiki" in SUPPORT)

Do you know any way to get this?

Thank you very much!

Dominique


Answers:
author: Ryan
body: Dominique-

Did you find a solution to this? I'm attempting to do the same thing.


Tags: label

live-search

space-key
Does confluence work on amazon Elastic Beanstalk
Asked by kristiaan jansen:

Hi

We are trying to find the most efficient way to run confluence. We were thinking of using Amazon ebs with amazon rds and maybe efs or s3.

What i have seen so far of confluence it looks technically possible. 2 questions:

Is it supported?

if not has it been done before?

Thanks.

KRis


Answers:
author: kristiaan jansen
body: Rather glad i also asked Atlassian support.....

So conclusion yes.

And i also have it running already. Very easy todo.

the only challenge was to create a war from the standalone install package.

<br />

The replay from Atlassian support:

Hi kristiaan jansen,

Thanks for contacting Atlassian Support.

Yes, it's possible to host Confluence on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, it's stated [here](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_Java.html) that AWS Elastic Beanstalk do support Java applications with Tomcat application server.

Feel free to visit the link below to learn more about Atlassian support offerings :

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/Support/Atlassian+Support+Offerings>

Do let us know if you have any additional questions in regards to this.

Regards,

Jonathan

comments: author: vamsi
body: Are you still running confluence in AWS elastic Beanstalk? Did you face any issues while managing the application.


author: Midori
body: No.

Beanstalk is "too much", it is a [managed infrastructure](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/Welcome.html), while you'd primarily need a virtualized Linux box, and that is EC3.

There is an old blog post written by Atlassian about installing Confluence to EC3, but that may be totally outdated. This [3rd party write-up](http://www.dsmorris85.com/?p=528) seems rather fresh!


Tags: confluence-administration
image wiki application
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

How can we add wiki code for image used? And we would like to add hyperlink for these images. Would it be possible to use wiki language to do it ? Thank you.


Answers:
author: Milo Test
body: You can also use the Insert markup:

```
&lt;a href="[targetPage]" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="/download/attachments/[pageId]/[imageName]" alt="[optionalAltText]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
```


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: For embedding an image, you can attach a file and use the !\<filename\> notation to access it.

Not sure what you mean by "add hyperlink", but I'd start by trying placing a Confluence link macro on the page and give it an embedded image as the body of the text.


Tags: confluence-administration
Feature request: give the export file a name derived from the list
Asked by Peter Florijn:

.csv file now always gets the name "table.csv". It would be nice to name the file after the context of the table.

Noticed this one <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/16880302>

More or less a duplicate


Answers:
author: Fabian Welz
body: Added a new version to the marketplace, you should be able to name the file after the table-id now.


author: Fabian Welz
body: Thank you for your feedback.

I'll add it to my list of planed features.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence 5.9: Hide top right block with text "Share useful links, announcements and info here" from dashboard
Asked by SafetyComputing_Support:

Tried to edit layout template - but no luck. Any ideas?


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Did you restart after the template change? Are you sure you had the right template?

comments: author: SafetyComputing_Support
body: Did you mean page reload? Yes, I did page reload. I know that I edit proper template because when I remove everything from it - default dashboard is blank


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, restart the Confluence service. It reads and caches a lot of the templates as it starts up, so you have to restart it to ensure your changes are read.


author: sp
body: Ok, it's gone after upgrade Confluence to 5.9.2


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: What's that got to do with what the original poster was doing?


Tags: confluence-administration
Editing wiki markup
Asked by gagomes:

I understand newer versions of confluence will no longer allow their users to manage markup directly. I have a use case that I haven't been able to overcome and was hoping to find some guidance. I have two confluence installations for different audiences, one from wiki1.com and other from wiki2.com. If I copy an article from wiki1 to wiki2, all the auto-generated links (anchors, toc, links, etc) from wiki1 will be kept without change in wiki2. If I copy the article into a text file, I also lose the links and any active html components/formating, which means I can no longer export/import articles from one wiki to another w/o some loss of metadata **or** accepting that I will have to make manual adjustments myself, whereas if I had the metadata, I could simply perform a search/replace.

My question is thusly: How can I perform a search/replace on the metadata in confluence on the wiki2, such that I can change the urls all at once? We're talking more than 100 links here, which is almost prohibitive to do manually)

Thanks!

p.s: The built-in search and replace does not work.


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: I think it's not that they don't allow it anymore, it's just that the Confluence Source Editor plugin is not compatible yet, and they haven't committed sufficient developer time to get it working yet.

Anyways, until they can fix it, there is an option to update the XHMTL markup manually via the API. You can find the procedure in this answer:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/32968525>


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: A couple of things could help your use case:  
1. You can use [Wiki Markup for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CWP) and the wiki markup macro to continue to edit content using wiki markup.
2. You can use the [copyPage](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Reference#Reference-copyPage) action from [JIRA Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI) to copy pages and use the **findReplace** or **findReplaceRegex** parameters to change the target source during the copy.
most recent search terms
Asked by Pete B:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Recently Viewed Pages and Blog Posts](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=179440601)*

Is there a way to view most recent search terms? I'd like to understand what my readers are looking for in our docs.

I'm seeing only 2 results (out of \> 3000 unique pageviews in the past week) in Google Analytics that have "?src=search" and I know I've searched for more terms than that.

This plug-in (<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.pixsoftware.confluence.plugin.referrals/server/overview>) seems useful for referral traffic offsite, but I'd like to know what people are searching for ON our site.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: Hi @Pete B,

If you have Google Analytics on your Confluence instance, you can use an advanced filter on the Site Content page like

**Page** `starts with` "{my_confluence_url}/dosearchsite.action"

And you'll quickly see the top search terms appear at the top of the results. Here's an example when I do this for confluence.atlassian.com:

cac-filter.png

cac-search.png  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/most-recent-search-terms/qaq-p/100960?attachment-id=4454){#link_1191586c71a2b8}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/16955/1/cac-filter.png){#display_1191586c71a2b8_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/most-recent-search-terms/qaq-p/100960?attachment-id=4455){#link_1191586c71a2b8_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/16955/2/cac-search.png){#display_1191586c71a2b8_2}

comments: author: Pete B
body: Thanks for the super fast reply, Joseph Clark \[Atlassian\]. However, when I apply that filter (Site Content \> All Pages \> Advanced filter \> Include Page Begins with "/dosearchsite.action", I get just two results: /dosearchsite.action/dosearchsite.action?startIndex=0\&where=conf_allWhen I included the site URL for our Confluence, it showed 0 results, so I kept the filter just to "/dosearchsite.action".I've been searching our docs during the period, so I would figure at least the terms I've searched for would show up. When I sorted the analytics for the past month, I'm still seeing just 9 results, most of them of the form "?startIndex=10"The dosearchsite.action page has been hit almost 400 times, so you'd think there would be more results here. Thanks for your help!PS: I'm trying to upload a screen shot and get an error that I'm not allowed to perform this operation.


Tags: recently-viewed
how to use in cellphone?
Asked by Jack Li:

*This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: [Confluence Release Notes](https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=327)*

Ask your question here...


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

You can access through the web browser that you have installed in your cellphone. Then it will automatically launch the plugin that changes Confluence's layout to the mobile version.

Cheers,
Anyone using Confluence Source Editor Plugin with 5.9.1? Does it work?
Asked by Jeremiah Burley:

Greetings,

We're considering an upgrade to Confluence 5.9.1 from 5.8.17, but use this plugin and was wondering if anyone has yet upgrade to 5.9.1 and use the Source Editor. Does it work?

I know the plugin is not supported and the last "this plugin will work" version was 5.8.17. Thanks All!

Jeremiah


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: I personally have not tried it, but from all indications I have seen it does not work with 5.9.1, and there are a lot of people having problems because of that.
Confluence 5.9 on SQL Server 2008?
Asked by Martin Cleaver:

Hi,

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/supported-platforms-207488198.html> states 5.9 is not compatible / not tested with SQL Server 2008. I appreciate that we certainly should update SQL Server, but is there a way it can work?

I searched [https://jira.atlassian.com/issues?jql=text \~ "\\"sql server 2008\\"" and project = CONF order by createdDate desc](https://jira.atlassian.com/issues?jql=text ~ "\"sql server 2008\"" and project = CONF order by createdDate desc) but saw no logic as to why it's been dropped.

Thanks,

Martin


Answers:
author: Guilherme V.
body: Hey Martin,

Currently, this SQL Server version is not supported as you just noticed, however, you can install a staging environment and monitor it.

You shouldn't have problems with it, and also, let me give an example right now:

I installed Confluence 5.9.1 in PostGreSQL 8.4 without major problems, and as you can check in that documentation, this version doesn't support postgresql 8.4, but if you face any kind of problems with your database and Confluence, we'll ask you to upgrade the database to a supported one so we could further help you.

Hope this will help you, buddy.

comments: author: Martin Cleaver
body: Thanks Guilherme!


author: MattS
body: Generally if a DB vendor doesn't support a version of their DB, then other companies won't support that version for their own products such as Confluence


Tags: confluence-administration
is there an easy way to copy multiple documents to a new page?
Asked by Chandra Riccio:


Answers:
author: Mario G?nter
body: Hi Chandro,

you could you WebDAV to copy and paste your documents from one page to another one.

Please refer to:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-a-webdav-client-for-confluence-148044.html>

Cheers,   
Mario


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
confluence image slideshow question
Asked by Hsu Yao Chang:

Dear all,

Is there other free plugin of user macro can create image slideshow ? We would like to use it to create wiki language for new dashboard used ? Thank you.


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

I believe you won't find a free plugin for slideshows. The only free one that I found is not supported anymore. The others are all paid.

Cheers,
blank page in confluence after mysql database configuration
Asked by Kishor Kumar:


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: Hi,

The blank page is generally caused when the database server cannot be reached by Confluence or the database service is not started.

In case the database is located on a different server, I suggest you ping this server from the Confluence server and make sure there's no network traffic issue.

In addition, you can verify the atlassian-confluence.log file from the Home-Directory/logs folder to have a better understanding of what is happening.

I believe you're having as issue similar to the one mentioned here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Unable+to+start+due+to+net.sf.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException+Cannot+open+connection>

These are the main investigation paths we can follow initially. Otherwise, I suggest you raise a support ticket at support.atlassian.com.

Regards,  
LM


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Just one specific page, or is it the whole of confluence?

More importantly, what does the log file say is happening?
global look and feel
Asked by Alexandra Heinermann:


Answers:
author: Luiz Maia
body: You can customise the theme at both Global and Space levels.

See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/changing-the-look-and-feel-of-confluence-147534.html> for more details.

Regards,  
LM


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, there's a section for this in Admin. Do you have a a question about it?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Left panel sidebar does not open with IE11
Asked by Nicolas Casel:

Hi all,

When I hide the left panel sidebar by clicking on the small 'show or hide sidebar' icon:

show-hide-icon.png

it hides well the left sidebar:

show-hide-sidebar.png

But when I click once again, **it does not open the sidebar**.

**This bug is only with IE11.**

Any idea?

Thanks in advance,

[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Left-panel-sidebar-does-not-open-with-IE11/qaq-p/155457?attachment-id=7936){#link_11879d45ca8f3f}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/25952/1/show-hide-icon.png){#display_11879d45ca8f3f_0}  
[](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Left-panel-sidebar-does-not-open-with-IE11/qaq-p/155457?attachment-id=7937){#link_11879d45ca8f3f_0}  
[](/tnckb94959/attachments/tnckb94959/confluence-questions/25952/2/show-hide-sidebar.png){#display_11879d45ca8f3f_2}


Answers:
author: Nicolas Casel
body: After some investigation, this "bug" is related to specific Javascript customization.
Is it possible to automatically copy some pages from one space into another space?
Asked by Alex Goodchild:

Hello,

I would like to find a way to copy a page from one space into another space and make sure that the updates on one page will apply to both automatically. Is it possible?

Best regards

Alex


Answers:
author: Stephen Deutsch
body: Unfortunately, that's not really possible, but you could wrap one of the entire pages with content in an excerpt macro, and then include the excerpt include macro on the page, and then simply make a link at the top of that page that says something like "click here to edit" and include the link from the edit menu on the first page (which you can get by right-clicking on the edit button on the page with the content and copying the link).

I think that's probably the best way to do it.

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You could also have the target pages just use the include macro to pull in the whole pageIt's slightly easier than the excerpt macro because you don't have to put anything on the source page.Another option on the "click here to edit" link might be to use guidance text instead, so that when the user clicks "edit" then they get some text to explain what {include} does. Although I've found most users don't need the help - when they edit a page and see just a box with {include space:page} they're quite good at following the link.


author: TomC
body: +1 on the Include macro.
point to files on a file share
Asked by Victor Prasad:

Hello,

I would like a local internal install of Confluence to point to a pdf on a network fileshare and open when clicked, not take me to the location.

I am trying to use it in an advanced web link formatted like this:

\\\\Fileshare\\Level1\\Level2\\Document name with space.pdf

When clicking it after saving - nothing happens. Hover over it - I see nothing in the browser.

I have tried

file://Fileshare\\Level1\\Level2\\Document name with space.pdf

and

\\\\Fileshare\\Level1\\Level2\\Document name%20with%20space.pdf

and

file:\\\\Fileshare\\Level1\\Level2\\Document name%20with%20space.pdf

with no luck.

However if I do a file://\\\\Fileshare\\Level1\\Level2\\ it opens the folder correctly.

Help?!

<br />

Thanks,

Mr. V


Answers:
author: Adrian Reid
body: I think the problem is the browser rather than confluence. Some browsers have security settings that make it difficult to link to local files. The only solution I have found for that problem is to use Chrome with an addon found here.

<https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jllpkdkcdjndhggodimiphkghogcpida>


author: Victor Prasad
body: Hello Adrian,

Thanks for the help!

I am using IE10....

I will look for some something similar.
How to find pages in Confluence with only one label?
Asked by Elena_Lurye:

Hi,

I am trying to find pages with only one label attached to it (we have to encourage users to provide more than just label predefined by the template). Is there a way to accomplish that? I am using the below search trying to find pages with label "how-to" and nothing besides that, but it shows me pages with no labels as well as the ones I expect.  

(type: page labelText:"how-to") AND (type: page NOT labelText:\[a TO g\]) AND (type: page NOT labelText:\[i TO z\]) AND (type: page NOT labelText:\[0 TO 9\])

Plus, it lists not only pages with "how-to" label - it also lists pages where "how-to" is part of the longer label name - like "kb-how-to-article"


Answers:
author: Andy J.
body: Hi Elena,

You should be able to do this through the database side. Do you know if you have access to the database (this may vary if you are using Confluence Cloud or Confluence Server). I was able to get all pages that have only 1 label using the following SQL query. Note that this is syntax for PostgreSQL but should be similar (if not exactly the same) for other database flavors. This should give you a good start in getting the details you need.

```
SELECT c.title as PageTitle, count(title) as NumberOfLabels from content_label cl inner join label l on cl.labelid = l.labelid inner join content c on c.contentid = cl.contentidwhere  cl.labelabletype = 'CONTENT'group by c.titlehaving COUNT(c.title) = 1;
```

Andy Jean

comments: author: Elena_Lurye
body: Thank you! I should get a database access shortly - will try that


Tags: confluence-administration
Why are users receiving notifications for a calendar they are not watching?
Asked by DanielS:

Both myself and other users are receiving notifications for a calendar we are not watching. When the ellipsis is clicked, it says "Watch", indicating that we are not currently watching. This calendar is not embedded on any pages, and the users are not watchers on the site.


Answers:
author: Erwin Ilgun
body: Same question as <https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/293697> Calendars send updates if you watch the page. It is not a caching problem but rather a bug/feature. If there is no alternative option for stopping the notifications other than unfollowing the entire space (which certainly is not an option) then an issue should be raised.


author: DanielS
body: In this case, the users are not watchers on a page where it is embedded (calendar is not embedded) nor on the space. So there is no reason why they would have received notifications from this calendar at any time.


author: Erwin Ilgun
body: it's not caching, it has nothing to do with 'watch', it's a bug, see also <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-35478>


author: R. Fuerst
body: Sometimes browser cache can show you cached content. Have you tried clearing all your browser caches and revisiting the page to see if the dropdown says **Stop watching** as opposed to **Watch**?


Tags: confluence-administration
firewalld confluence other ports? filterstart ?
Asked by Travis Eddy:

there might be more than one problem

<br />

I'm trying to recover a Confluence. I've pulled everything got everything in the right folders/users/premissions  
(there needs to be better recovery options for this thing, is there Doc's some where I don't know about????)

If I run ./start-confluence.sh   
with firewalld running I only get a **white screen (so I am connecting! )**

<br />

**if I stop firewalld, confluence runs fine.**

the ports are open:

```
 ports: 8090/tcp 80/tcp 8443/tcp 8098/tcp 8000/tcp
?
```

if I start firewalld AFTER I launch confluence, it works for a short bit and give me database errors. then will stop responding. I am woundering if there is a database connector port I need to open? I didn't see any ports in any files other than the 8098 and 8090 **hence why I think there might be something else wrong here**

it is a standard install, with embedded database.


Answers:
author: Travis Eddy
body: I tried to update but it said i had to wait 24 hours...  

Turns our that is "masqurade" is enabled in firewalld, Confluence won't start correctly  
the internal/embedded database connection get mangled.  

the fix

sudo firewall-cmd --remove-masqurade

<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD#Masquerading>

```
 firewall-cmd --permanent [--zone=<zone>] --remove-masquerade
```


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: A firewall is a flat thing - it either blocks access or it does not. If the firewall were the problem, you would not be able to reach Confluence at all. Using the internal database simplifies this case even further as it won't be any issue with the connection to the database,

I think the best thing to do is read the application log - for errors when it white screens with the firewall running, and for when you get database errors later.


Tags: confluence-administration