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How do OnDemand users handle versioned documentation
Asked by gabrielxz:

We use Confluence for a customer-facing set of software documentation \& user guides. We use a very similar system to how Atlassian documents its own software. We're considering making the jump to OnDemand Confluence, but since you can't install the copy-space plugin, I don't know how we'd survive.

Is anyone using OnDemand doing a version-based documentation system? If so, how? Is everyone use that command-line-interface tool? Thanks.


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg
body: Hello Gabriel,

Atlassian uses the copy-space plugin as our primary method. As you said, this plugin is not available in Atlassian OnDemand. The command line method would work (and is our fallback method), but as you have identified, is a bit tedious. You could write a script to make this work faster.

I guess you could also write a custom tool to do it for you using the API, but that is going to be non trivial.

Cheers,  
Boris


author: Lillia
body: Hey Gabriel,

I have to laugh:) we are considering moving to the server based version ! We currently use OnDemand for customer facing doco and we used the CLI to copy spaces but yes that is a huuuge PITA and often doesn't work grrrr.

It's probbly my biggest gripe with OnDemand - i.e. how insanely convoluted it is to simply copy a space but anyhooo I didn't choose the system. I'd much rather have a CMS...

So yes we do use it for customer facing docs but it is a pain to copy a space to update the docs with each version release....not much help sorry but that's my story:)

LM


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Problem with What's New content
Asked by Michele Grimm:

A user received a error message indicating that here was trouble downloading What's New Content from the Atlassian website possibly due to a slow internet connection. The workaround was to check the "don't show this screen again" box. Anyone have an idea why this message was displayed in the first place?


Answers:
author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: It always displayed after an update of your confluence instance. So that's probably why it was displaying.

Best regards,

Peter

comments: author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Just want to add that user could control this trough its user preference setting under the user profile


author: Michele Grimm
body: Update:

A similar question was asked by another user:

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/213978/what-s-new-in-confluence-popup-blank-in-ff](/questions/213978/what-s-new-in-confluence-popup-blank-in-ff)

A bug report was logged in October. Please vote for this issue:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31065>


author: Peter Van de Voorde
body: Maybe it's the compatibility view problem?

It's explained here : <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/Compatibility+Mode+related+problems+on+Internet+Explorer>

Best regards,

Peter


author: Michele Grimm
body: Clarification: I understand why the "What's New in Confluence 5.1" box is displayed; that part is OK. The issue is that the contents of the box are "Oops. We're having trouble downloading the What's New content from the Atlassian website..."

This occurs when you choose What's New from the drop down menu as well.

I discovered that it occurs in Internet Explorer 9 but not Firefox or Chrome.
Find last edited date for any page
Asked by Mick Davidson:

hello,

I want to find all pages that haven't been edited since before March 2013.

I've tried using modified:\[03/01/10 TO 03/01/13\]

but this doesn't yield any results at all. I've tried other variations of this. These either fail because the syntax is incorrect or they return no results.

Am I doing this right or is there another way of finding this info?

We're running Confluence 4.3.7 locally.

Cheers.


Answers:
author: T I
body: Try modified:\[yyyyMMdd TO yyyyMMdd\]


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Also, you need to add condition

*WHERE PREVVER IS NULL*

to ensure the query return only the current page instead of the old versions


Tags: history

search
OnDemand - Content wrapping when previous not
Asked by James Boulton:

Hi,

Since the weekend, it seems that the column content I have in a section of my confluence ondemand site seems to now wrap around vertically instead of alligning horizontally as previously.

This is a sudden change to the look of the page which previously alligned correctly with no problems.

Has anything changed to cause this to happen?

Kind regards,  
James


Answers:
author: Michael Knight
body: There was a recent upgrade to Confluence OnDemand's page layout rendering. You're probably best off submitting a [support request](https://support.atlassian.com) (quoting this Answers post) and working with a support engineer to investigate the issue. It's possible a bug will need to be raised for it.


author: MJ
body: Does this happen in preview mode only or also after you have saved the page? If you define the width of columns in the column macro, does it still happen?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
How to connect JIRA and Confluence when using mod_proxy?
Asked by Liviu Constantinescu:

I had JIRA running locally at <http://myserver.local:8080>I had Confluence running locally at <http://myserver.local:8090>I connected them up via the Application Links setting in Confluence, and all was fine.Then we set up a mod_proxy with the two destinations <http://my.remote.url/jira> and <http://my.remote.url/confluence>And, as instructed in the docs, we set our conf/server.xml file's context path from\<context path="" docbase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="true"\> to\<context path="/confluence" docbase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="true"\>This worked, and now both of our apps are accessible from the Internet... however, it also broke the Application Links between them.Now, whenever we try to re-create these links, we can plug in all the information - URL, user info, reciprocal URL - and get up to the final "Create" button-press... but pressing the button creates a brief spinning ajax circle icon thing, and does nothing... keep pressing Create, keep waiting, no response.We can't seem to make the application links go up again.What are we doing wrong?Thanks in advance for your help.


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg
body: Hey Liviu,

Did you update the Base Url for both applications? Are you adding HTTPs terminitation as well? or only proxying them? Is there any error in the logs for either application? What happens if you set up the application link to bypass the proxy, and point it directly at the other application?

Cheers,  
Boris


author: Dean Berman
body: A response/resolution on this would be nice, especially since many of us are having the exact same problem...Thanks

Dean Berman


Tags: application-link

confluence-administration

jira

mod_proxy
How to update only a single section of my confluence page
Asked by aneesh ar:

I have two sections in my page , and i have to update only one section through a script , so how can mention in my script to update that particular section ?


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

I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. I think it's not possible to separate the page in two pieces and edit them.

To edit pages, I believe that you can use [Confluence API](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Confluence+XML-RPC+and+SOAP+APIs).

I've also found a interesting page which talks about [editing pages through API](http://docs.servicerocket.com/display/ATLASSIAN/API+-+Confluence+-+Creating+and+Modifying+Pages).

I hope this helps!

Rodrigo

comments: author: aneesh ar
body: Thanks for your reply Rodrigo , as you confirmed that it's not possible to separate the page in two pieces and edit them , i will try to put two html tags(like start-tag and end-tag) in the page and try to put my data between those two tags .


author: Khanh Nguyen
body: You could create 2 separate pages for the sections and combined the 2 pages into 1 by using the page include macro.

comments: author: aneesh ar
body: Thanks for your suggestion Khanh . I will try to implement it as you specified using Include page macro


Tags: page

script

section
Confluence Windows service nonProxyHosts property and wildcards
Asked by VanP:

Hi,I want to use a wildcard (\*) in the nonProxyHosts property to configure a proxy except for some internal servers.If I use a \* as wildcard; it does not work. Specifying the full servername will exclude the server from 'proxy', so that works fine.Any idea what can be wrong? I already tried to use the \\ to escape the \* but doens't work.Thanks for the feedbackBest regardsPieter


Answers:
author: VanP
body: HI,

These property values does not work:

-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=s100\*\|s101server01

-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=s100\\\*\|s101server01

Only s101server01 was bypassed, for s100\* servers I get a warning that proxy authentication was required.

Best regards

Pieter


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Pieter,

A little more information is needed, can you provide an anonymized example of your property value?


Tags: confluence-administration
Where do I find "Application Links" in Confluence 5.1?
Asked by Amy Farrell:

I've just installed Confluence 5.1.4 in evaluation mode. I'm testing an application that communicates with Confluence using OAuth for authentication, which requires that I set up an Application Link in Confluence.

I have Confluence 4.3.1 installed on another server for testing and know where Application Links are in the administrator interface there (under "Administration" in the left nav on the Administration Console). But I haven't been able to find this in the 5.1.4 installation.


Answers:
author: Amy Farrell
body: I found it. A google search on the first apparently-relevant error message led me to this: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/28331/confluence-system-plugins-failing-on-startup](/questions/28331/confluence-system-plugins-failing-on-startup) ... which led to this: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Plugins+are+Disabled+at+Startup+and+Various+Timeout+Errors+Appear+in+the+Logs+After+Startup>

I increased the timeout as described in the article above, and the Application Links plugin became available after a restart.


author: Amy Farrell
body: I thought maybe I needed to install an Add-On, so I looked there. I see an "Applinks Product Plugin" with add-on key com.atlassian.applinks.applinks-plugin that shows "0 of 135 modules enabled." I don't see a way to enable it, though. I'm also seeing a lot of error messages in atlassian-confluence.log that appear to be related.

Would love to get some troubleshooting hints!
Multply values in Confluence
Asked by Ubisoft:

Hi,

Is it possible to multiply two numeric values in Confluence?

<br />

ex: I have a number in column 1 and another number in column 2. I want to multiply the two values and display the result in column 3.

<br />

How to do this?

<br />

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: You can use JavaScript to do multiplication of values in a table. You could also write a Confluence macro, which would be easier.


Tags: calculation
How do I show recent Jira Comments in a Confluence Wiki Page?
Asked by John Spitta:

I've got this beautiful wiki page using the Jira Issues Macro. My Table shows about 10 issues and updates them live. Great!

Problem. My "customers" are complaining that unlike my old hard coded tables... which allowed them to enter comments in a cell that everyone could see... I cannot seem to get the comments to show in the Jira issues macro. The "comments" key is only a count. It does not show comments.

Perhaps this is the wrong way to go about it so the problem I am trying to solve is: How can I show all comments for a Jira issue or group of issues on a Confluence Wiki page?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Boris Berenberg
body: This question was addressed at: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/134752/is-it-possible-to-view-jira-comments-in-confluence](/questions/134752/is-it-possible-to-view-jira-comments-in-confluence)

comments: author: Elliot Gates
body: Save you a click - its not possible.


Tags: jira
Link in a page body to "edit" one of the child pages
Asked by Andrei [errno]:

* Confluence 5.x
* have a tree of pages
* would like to add a link on a parent level that would open one of the children in "edit" view
* vaguely remember that one of the plugins was able to do it
  * was it Customware linking plugin? "link-to"?

default link is smth like pages/editpage.action?pageId=11111111, with no way to submit the page name.

any other solutions?

UPDATE :   
further details - this will be driven by a run macro, so the system will know which page name to edit at runtime.  

example - select "NY" from a dropdown + "Run" : some NY-specific content is shown on a page (+"NY" JIRA filter and some such) + a "NY" child page will be {included}. So I'd like to put "Edit" button next to an {include} to help people edit the right child page.  

hope it makes a bit more sense now


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: If there isn't a plugin to do it, I would probably write a macro. Just get the URLs of the child pages and iterate over them and change the URL to be "editpage.action?pageId=42", where 42 is the page ID.


Tags: addon-org.swift.confluence.run
Missing Google Document macro?
Asked by Darren Thatcher:

We use Atlassian OnDemand, Confluence

earlier this year I was able to insert the Google Document macro (to render pages inline)

![](../../upfiles/google_doc_-_step_1.png)

This now appears to be missing and where embedded documents once were, simply appears:

![](../../upfiles/google_doc_-_step_2.png)

I've pinged our onsite Atlassian SMEs but meanwhile as I wait for their response, I thought I'd ask the wider community


Answers:
author: Paul Greig
body: Hi Darren,

I couldn't see any active tickets regarding this issue but wanted to let you know the Google Document macros is dependant on Google Apps integration with your OnDemand instance. Currently Confluence-only OnDemand instances are unable to have Google Apps integration.

Rest assured, we are trying to get this improvement implemented. You can follow the progress here: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/AOD-5745>

Cheers,

Paul

comments: author: Darren Thatcher
body: Hi Paul

Thanks for getting back to me. I don't think there are any active tickets - I've not raised one yet. We have Jira and Confluence through OnDemand.

I can raise a ticket on Monday when I'm next in the office. Or did you have any further ideas?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
JSON-RPC OAuth
Asked by Jonathan Hult:

Does anyone have an example of using OAuth to authenticate [JSON-RPC](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/JIRA+JSON-RPC+Overview) calls?

Also, does OnDemand have the JSON-RPC plugin installed/enabled?


Answers:
author: Jonathan Hult
body: FYI, JSON-RPC for JIRA is deprecated as of JIRA 6.0.


author: Jonathan Hult
body: No.


author: Nandu Kalidindi
body: Were you able to figure out a solution to make XML-RPC/ JSON-RPC/ SOAP calls using OAuth 1.0 for confluence? Please let me know.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Display JIRA issues macro error
Asked by volalex:

Hello!

I use jira issues macro on my confluence page it works just fine. But when it displays column with user custom field, it displays onlyn login and don't resolves username. In same time Asignee and reporter fields are resolved.

Confluence and Jira databases contains same users.

Thanks and sorry for bad english.


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Due to the level of complexity of the case, I'd suggest to create a support ticket to us at [https://support.atlassian.com](https://support.atlassian.com/) and our engineer will assist you further on this. In the issue, please attach the following logs and also the related screen shots depicting the problem:

* Support Utility Zip - It can be retrieved by going to \*Browse \> Confluence Admin \> Atlassian Support Tools \> Support Zip\*, tick everything and click \*Create\*.
* Entirety of your latest[JIRA logs](http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=236588512) and your application server log files for further review:  
  \*\* UNIX: $JIRA_INSTALL/logs/catalina.out or  
  \*\* Windows: $JIRA_INSTALL/logs/stdout and stderr
Prevent blog posts editing by other users.
Asked by Wolfgang Lutz:

I want to prevent the blog posts editing by other users. Who to do this? Is there a way to do this automatical?


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: To disallow other users from editing your blog post, as a space admin, you should not grant 'Add Blog' permisision to other users but yourself. This will disable 'Edit' button from appearing in the blog for other users.

comments: author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Sounds like he has a blog that has multiple authors, and wants each author to only be able to edit/add their own blog posts. I'd like to know if there's a solution to this too.


author: Wolfgang Lutz
body: THX. But what when many users will create blog posts in this blog and they should be able only to edit theire own?


author: flaimo
body: 7 years later, we also have the same situation as the original author. any solutions by now?


author: Bruno Rosa
body: Wolfgang, Confluence has several permissions about restricting the ability of users to perform actions on pages/spaces. I'm not entirely sure about what you are trying to accomplish, but you should be able to prevent users from editing a page by hitting the 'Tools' option (located at the top right corner of the page) and selecting 'Restrictions' - there you will be able to restrict editing of the page.

comments: author: Wolfgang Lutz
body: thx for feedback. By default everyone who can add a blog post can also edit a blog post via edit button or via https://....../pages/editblogpost.action?pageId=######.

Is there a solution to prevent editing other blog posts?


Tags: confluence-administration
Error retrieving breadcrumbs
Asked by Evelin:

Hi guys, I tried to move a Confluence page to another space. In Firefox, it did not work because of "Error retrieving breadcrumbs". Chrome was successful. Any ideas why this error occurs?

Thanks,

Evelin


Answers:
author: Grzegorz Pawlik
body: Hi all. I faced the same problem with unable to move page to another location with "Error retrieving breadcrumbs".

Perhaps each case is different, but in my case it was NLS problem. When target parent page name contains some national characters (in my case it was polish "?") than it is impossible to move pages and error message "Error retrieving breadcrumbs" occours. It was enough to change temporary target location page name with latin letters only and then moving pages was enabled.

Regards, Greg


author: Mick Davidson
body: I'm having the same problem and getting the same message.

Sometimes this is for Current Location and sometimes for New Location: sometimes it's for both.

Normally when the move fails, I don't get any error message it simply doesn't work. So perhaps this is an improvement. :)

I've posted a question about this recently that has another answer which is worth looking at: [](/questions/295715/moving-a-group-of-pages-fails)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/295715/moving-a-group-of-pages-fails>

Cheers.


author: Evelin
body: Hi, thanks for your hints. We use Confluence 5.1.1. The templates in the target space are unchanged. The problem does only occur from time to time, in most cases the breadcrumbs are read and displayed instantly. I checked if there was something special about the page but for me it's hard to say what's important.


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Maybe someone modified the breadcrumb template in the target space?


author: hsuhailah
body: Hi Evelin. What version of Confluence are you using? Does this happened all the time in FF when trying to move another page from another space too?
View access to the one page only
Asked by Sergey L:

How to give access to one page only in Space?

For an example, here is a pages structure:

![](http://habrastorage.org/storage2/fb5/a03/285/fb5a03285bc3b6120927834667d8174f.png)

I want to give access to "Parent 2 -\> Child 3", so confluence user will view only "Child 3" page and all childs of this page ("Child-Child 3")

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Actually I'm not sure how this is being handled now but some time ago you had to open up the space to anyone (well, or a group the desired user is part of) and restrict all the other pages. In your case you'd have to restrict parent 1 and parent 3. I would guess that you'd have to open parent 2, since this page has to be visible in order to show the sub-pages...


author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: Hi Sergey, that will not be possible with confluence. For the reason that a user can see page "child 3" it is necessary to give them viewing permissions for the space and for page "parent 2".

The permission scheme of confluence allow only to constraint permissions.

The only way to restrict this page is to move it in the hierarchy.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Sergey,

Won't they have to have access to the space to be able to see that page? If so, then you'd have to set the permissions for all the pages that you didn't want them to see so that they can't see them. Which would be a very long-winded task. Cheers.
what do I use for src attribute on a form image input
Asked by Roger Weinheimer:

I'm using a third-party form, so I have limited flexibility on the html. One thing I want to do is use an image input

\<input type="image" alt="Sign up \>" src="???" /\>

in place of their submit input. I have a button image attached to the page containing the html form. My question is what do I use for the src attribute on the input? I tried using the url when I hover over the attachment name (i.e. download/attachments/6651930/sign_up_button.png), but results in a broken link.


Answers:
author: Roger Weinheimer
body: nm, I switched back to input type=submit and specified a fixed WxH with value="", then I set the background-image property on that. Problem solved.


author: Roger Weinheimer
body: nm, I switched back to input type=submit and specified a fixed WxH with value="", then I set the background-image property on that. Problem solved.
[CONF] Get ID for parent page?
Asked by Steve Goldberg:

Seems quite simple but can't figure it out. How do you get the page id for the parent page?

* I know you can do $content.getIdAsString() to get the current page's ID.
* I know you can do $content.getParent() to get the parent page.
* But $content.getParent().getIdAsString() seems to do nothing.

I can't seem to find anything relevant in the API docs that explains how/if this is possible.


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: What version of Confluence are you using? This worked for me, which is exactly what you tried.

$content.getParent().getIdAsString()

Maybe you're running the macro on the root page of the space (so it has no parent)?


Tags: confluence-administration