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Force users to always create a new page from a template
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Hello,

Is it possible to force Confluence functionality to always use a specific template when users create a new page?

I can't find any info on this in Answers of the documentation, so I suspect it isn't possible without a 3rd party plugin.

Cheers.


Answers:
author: Jim
body: Not what I was originally looking for either, but it does solve a different user request for me, so not all lost.


author: Jim
body: So, the macro above basically puts a button on your page that you can click to create a subpage from a template. It doesn t go in the Create popup menu. It s more designed for, say, a user that requires a template-driven Weekly Meeting Notes page, one per week. You would add the macro (button) to the parent Meeting Notes Home Page saying "Click the button to create a page from the template." This will create a child page from a template, with formatted title and so on. It s nice for some instances, but possibly not what Mick wants.

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Jim,

Thanks. Yes, it's a nice idea but not really what I want. Cheers.


author: Jim
body: I m looking at this one: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.createpage>. Will update...


author: Alexander Seith
body: Hi Mick, hi Jim,

well, then there's no easy solution to your request, I'm afraid. This can most likely be achieved through a custom plugin.

Regards

Alex

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Thanks Alex. I've just been looking, this is what I've found so far: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.seibertmedia.confluence.space-template-plugin>


author: Jim
body: I m on 5.1. What I really want to to replace the Blank Page template with one I ve created.Failing that, I would like for my new template to appear higher up the options list when a user clicks on Create.


author: Alexander Seith
body: Hi Mick, hi Jim,

which version of Confluence are you using?

If you put a webserver like Apache in front of Confluence, it could be possible to rewrite/redirect the page creation url to one that includes the template you would like to see on every new page.

Cheers

Alex

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Alex,

yes, that would be helpful to know wouldn't it? :)

We're on 4.3.7. I agree with Jim, just making it the first choice would be enormously helpful and remove the need to force people to choose it. I'm sure that would be much better politically speaking.

Cheers.


author: Jim
body: I m interested in this question too.


Tags: template
Possible to Hide Global Templates
Asked by Craig Hylwa:

Is it possible to hide global template while maintaining other global templates visiible?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Craig, this is currently not possible with Confluence out of the box, however there is a [feature request](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2370) in place for such functionality. You may like cast your vote and post your concerns to the thread.
Comment rendered over top of page
Asked by Chris Wundram:

I'm getting a strange rendering issue in Confluence on one of may pages. The comment box is getting rendered right on top of the upper left corner of the page, over the top of the page content. There is nothing special about the page in question that I can find, the only macros it is using are the standard code block macro, and the attachments macro. It looks like something broke the stylesheet on this page, but I can't figure out what.

Below is a screen grab. Any ideas on how to fix this?

![confluence screenshot](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3825/9352614721_19c9134b51_o.png)


Answers:
author: Chris Wundram
body: It appears that this might be an issue with putting the attachents macro inside of a list. Removing the attachments macro made the weird comment box go away.


author: David Kurtz
body: FYI, This also occured for me when having two stacked "section" objects on a single page and the second Section just contained an Excerpt to a table on another page. Removing the "section" and placing the Exceprt macro as the last item outside the first section corrected the error.
CPU running at 30% after upgrade no load on the system (as far as I can see)
Asked by Jaime Romaguera:

Hi,  

Upgrading from Confluence 3.5.17 to 5.x via 4.3.7  

Our confluence 3.5.17 server with no load has the CPU running roughly around 0 - 5%. But I notice when I when upgraded to 4.3.7 that the CPU with no load running @ 25 to 30%. Upgrading to Confluence 5.1.3 does the same, cpu with no load running @ 25% to 30%  

There is no DB latency, I have deleted and rebuild the the Index. Removed all the plugin folders in confluence.home directory. I has disable the plugins. Adjusted the cache statistics The cpu is still running between 25% and 30%  

Wondering if this normal? Are there something I am missing   

We are running the Confluence on VMWare ESX4  

Virtual Confluence is running the following specs

O/S: Linux 2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64  
CPU: 2  
RAM: 8192Gb  
JAVA: 1.70.25  
Tomcat: 6.0.35  
Oracle Database: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0.  

Java_OPTS environment: -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.35/conf/logging.properties -Djava.io.tmpdir=/wiki/tmp -Xms5890m -Xmx5890m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Dspep.data=/wiki/spep -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8086 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=qutwiki01-qas.qut.edu.au -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/var/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.35/endorsed -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.35 -Dcatalina.home=/var/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.35 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.35/temp


Answers:
author: Jaime Romaguera
body: Hi,

**The reason is due to having more than 25000+ users account causing the the Confluence daily summary email macro causing the server to have high cpu. We disable the macro and restarted the service fixed the cpu issue**


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: It could be a temporary thing while Confluence pages are being migrated.


Tags: confluence-administration
Migrating content from SharePoint to Confluence
Asked by Mike Lange:

We're considering migrating a fair share of content that we currently have in SharePoint (both "stock" SharePoint as well as SharePoint wiki) over to Confluence. Suprisingly enough from what I'm seeing via Google searches there are a lot more options available for moving content in the other direction.

What approaches have others taken and what have their experiences been?

Thanks,

Mike


Answers:
author: jing_hwa_cheok
body: Hi Mike,  

I would suggest you to use the Universal Wiki Converter to migrate Sharepoint wiki to Confluence. Please take note that this plugin does not work with Confluence 5.0 and above.

To migrate the sharepoint wiki to Confluence 5.1 and above, you will need to:

1. Install a Confluence 4.3.x
2. Install the [Universal Wiki Converter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.uwc)into the Confluence.
3. Migrate the wiki into the Confluence.
4. Upgrade the Confluence 4.3.x to the new Confluence Version.
5. Import the Content to your Confluence.

Hope this helps.  

Kind Regards,

Jing Hwa

comments: author: Rathna
body: Hi Jing,

Just was wondering if you happened to know any of the below...

* 1. Any documentation for this **UWC** apart from this [documentation](https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/UWC/Universal+Wiki+Converter "doc").
* 2. Any **How-To** articles or documentation for migrating from Sharepoint.

Is there any proper **How-To** articles or documentation for migrating from Sharepoint.

Regards,

0_0


author: Stephen Tsai
body: Hi,

I want to move from sharepoint to confluence as well however we have Confluence OnDemand and I haven't found any articles on how to migrate from sharepoint over to Confluence OnDemand which also happens to be the latest version. Is there any way available for this conversion other than recreating by hand? Even if we cannot copy over all of sharepoint is there at least migrations for specific pages that we want to copy over such as wiki documents and custom lists?

-Stephen


author: Justin Justin
body: You need to set up an local hosted server to do the migration first. Then when done (through iterative migrations until it is looking good), upgrade that server to the current OnDemand Confluence version. Then take an export of the spaces, and work with Atlassian Support to import them back in, into your OnDemand instance.


author: Boris Zinchenko
body: You might explore [Enterprise Bridge](http://caseagile.com/products/enterprise-bridge/sharepoint-to-confluence-migration/), which offers fully automated migration of SharePoint sites to Confluence cloud and on-premise.
Decision Status - How do I change it?
Asked by Wells Anderson:

The new Decisions feature works well, but I do not see a way to change the Status from Not Started to In Progress or Decided. After adding Decisions, they appear in the Decision Register. After going to a Decision page and clicking Edit, I can change the other fields but there seems to be no way to select a different Status.

![Decisions](http://www.activepractice.com/storage/images/misc/decision1.png)


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Wells,

To edit the status, you can double click the input box where it says 'Not Started' next to the edit button, then select the color you want. Alternatively, you can click the edit button which should open the edit macro dialogue lightbox, type in your new status, select the desired color and click save. Then you'll save the page or preview the page.

There are no preset next status to choose from, the status will change to whatever you type in the input box.

I tested this out on my own instance and it works as expected. There is an update to the Confluence business blueprints add-on to v. 1.7.4 which I applied to my own instance before testing.

Hope this helps!

comments: author: Wells Anderson
body: Ryan, thank you for the explanation. I had just assumed the the Decisions page would use a List field for updating the Status field since a List field is used for Status when the user first creates a Decision page. At that point, the user can click a drop-down button and choose (not type) Not Started, In Progress, or Completed. Any chance that the Edit Contents can be changed to work like the Create Page with a drop-down (list field)?


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: I have to agree with you on this one Wells. I've created an improvement request for it here:

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30087>


author: Wells Anderson
body: I am impressed with the speed and the quality of Atlassian's responses. Thank you, Ryan!


author: Jeff Leake
body: Also assumed there would be some sort of list of choices....


author: Michael Ricciardelli II
body: I have a situation where I deleted the status lf "not started". Now, I cannot bring up the dialogue box with the colors in it at all. Any ideas other than copying and pasting the whole document into a new "decision" page and starting over?


author: Christopher Jaksch
body: @Wells Anderson The speed and quality... still no efforts on <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-30087>. :-(


Tags: decision

moderators
Source editor button missing from Confluence 5.1.4
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

The button to open the source editor has disappeared. I tried disabling and re-enabling the add-on, no change.


Answers:
author: Steven Parsons
body: Hi Bruna,  
Thank you for your suggestion. I swapped the theme back to document and the \<\> appeared again.

We do have custom CSS and thats probably what caused it to go missing originally.

thanks again,  
Steven


author: Bruna Griebeler
body: Hi Robert and Steven,

I didn't found any bug reported about this yet on [jira.atlassian.com](http://jira.atlassian.com).

Is that possible that some customization is resulting on this? To narrow if that's the cause, I suggest you to remove temporarily all the HTML/CSS/JS customizations of the instance.

Could you guys give us some feedback about if even Ryan (or my) suggestion worked?

Kind Regards


author: Steven Parsons
body: After upgrading to 5.1.5 it's now missing form my Confluence install as well. Did anyone come up with a fix?


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Hi Robert,

I have Confluence 5.1.4 running locally with the source editor installed and working as expected. The source editor add-on is version 1.1.0.

Have you tried enabling add-on safe mode, then only enabling the source editor? I would also check if you have any layout customizations that might be interferring with the source editor button appearing when in edit mode.

Last, you could try clearing the add-on caches and restarting confluence. To clear the add-on caches:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Clear+Confluence+Plugins+Cache>
Copy page out of personal space to public space. Edit button disappears?
Asked by Robert Finley:

How did we manage this trick in Confluence 5.1?


Answers:
author: m
body: Did you check the page restrictions and the space permissions? Either could restrict edits on a page in a space.


author: m
body: Cool. Glad you got it sorted.


author: Robert Finley
body: Oh. No. Yup. I really did goof that up.

I kept looking at Space Permissions and didn't realize those were for the admin, and not the entire group (all 10 users in this instance.)

Somehow, you don't need write permissions for a group to copy pages to that group ( have to ask the user how he managed that trick ) but you will need permissions to change those pages.

Several weeks, after realizing your Crowd documentation could really use a "best practices guide", I realized I was using groups wrong and built new groups, deleting the old ones. But, didn't check the space permissions in Confluence.

Thank you for your help.


author: Robert Finley
body: I should have mentioned he owned the source pages in his private space and the public destination says he created the pages. He has a whole subtree that he now can't edit from his personal space.


author: m
body: Did you check the page restrictions and the space permissions? Either could restrict edits on a page in a space.


author: m
body: Did you check the page restrictions and the space permissions? Either could restrict edits on a page in a space.


author: m
body: Did you check the page restrictions and the space permissions? Either could restrict edits on a page in a space.


Tags: edit

page
Copy Pasting an Image from one page to another
Asked by Armon Tiongco:

copy pasting from one page to another references the image to the original page instead of creating a new image attachment on the new page. The bad thing is, once the original page is deleted, so is the image that has been copied on the new page.

Do we already have a solution for this? Something like copy pasting an image will create it as a new attachment on the new page?


Answers:
author: Matthew J. Horn
body: This problem has bitten me a few times. THe solution, as far as I know, is to either attach the image to the new page in addition to the original page... or, if you use the image in ALOT of pages, add it to your /images directory and then reference it inline rather than using Confluence's copy/paste function.
Embedded pdf (pdf macro) doesn't show up on the viewer properly
Asked by Sathyan Velumani:

Our team is using OnDemand; Using pdf macro we are able to embedded the pdf on a page, but it doesn' show up properly. Some pages don't have the content in the original pdf, on download the same pdf is good. How do we fix the issue.


Answers:
author: RPT Admin
body: There's a known bug which is being tracked [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-16922). I've hit exactly the same problem myself, which I resolved with a workaround - I simplified the PDFs by flattening the graphics -- removing drop shadows etc, and the simplifed PDFs dispalyed without any errors.

comments: author: Sathyan Velumani
body: The pdf was created using Visio and it has multiple layers. Flattening is not a option with visio or with the 60 pages that we have. But would remember this in future. As of now, thinking whether it would be a good idea to get a paid slideshare account and embed the pdf (if i can do it privately)


author: Sathyan Velumani
body: @Ryan We are using atlassian OnDemand V5.2

I believe its the latest version available. Still we are facing issues with the pdf. We have already tried using the pdf macro on different pages. Still the same sissue.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Theres probably some content in the pdf that the pdf macro can't display. You could try re-saving the pdf using a pdf editing program, reupload and see if there's any difference.

This might also be due to you using an older version of Confluence. Newer versions of the flyingpdf jar files have been included in newer versions of confluence that might be able to render the pdf content better.

Try downloading the latest version of confluence available, set up an empty site, create a space, add your pdf and put in the viewpdf macro. See if it works there.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

pdf
Hi - do you have reports on Confluence usage?
Asked by Duncan Reece:

I am trying to build adoption in the Confluence tool, but I need to be able to actually "see" data that tell me how things are going. Can I get access to these data?

Thanks,

Duncan


Answers:
author: Tim
body: Hi Duncan,

We've created an add-on that gives some great usage statistics in Confluence Cloud. It includes an overview of activity but also the details like who has viewed a particular page.

You can find more information here: [Analytics for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.addonengine.analytics/cloud/overview)

It's many years later, but I hope it helps you and the next person.


author: Paul Greig
body: Hi Duncan,

If you wanted to use a plugin I would recommend the 'Confluence Usage Stats' as discussed here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Viewing+Space+Activity#ViewingSpaceActivity-notes>

The example of the Space Activity tab seems to cover your initial requirements.

The default state of the plugin generating this data is disabled within OnDemand, as there is potential to impact the performance of your instance for large installations. If you would like to try out the feature just raise a ticket to [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) requesting activation of 'Confluence Usage Stats' plugin for your instance.

Cheers,

Paul

comments: author: Duncan Reece
body: Thanks Paul - I just submitted a ticket to try it out. We have \<100 users so I think it is a low risk expeieiment

Best,

Duncan


author: Paul Greig
body: I'll keep a watch out for this and get it sorted for you shortly :)


author: Duncan Reece
body: Thanks. More technical of an approach than I am probably able to handle it, but I will give it a shot. Is there an easy tutorial on how to implement a custom macro like this?


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Ah, ok. GA would *not* be useful for that data. GA does not give you visibility into individual user actions.

You can do alot with Confluence macros to get usage info, though. There are probably some plug-ins, too. I've used a customized version of Andrew Frayling's macro to get some additional data about users:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/33385/macro-that-produces-a-list-of-users-last-login-date>


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: Can you be more specific about what data you want to see? Do you mean usage stats like that which Google Analytics shows? Or something different? If the former, then you could use GA to get all sorts of good information.

comments: author: Duncan Reece
body: Hi Matt -

Thanks for the response. I am not looking for aggregate usage stats, although those too would be helpful. What I am looking for is to see exactly who is using (clicking into) the wiki and contributing to it. If I don't know how the wiki is being used, I am flying blind in optimizing the use of the site.

On Google Analytics (which still doesn't get to the person-level detail) - is that really an option for an OnDemand customer? I don't think it is?

Thanks,

Duncan


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Why does a page with a viddler link open slowly?
Asked by Cheryl Schmelzer:

I am using the widget connector macro in Confluence to link to a video on Viddler. It works, but it takes nearly a minute for the page to load. Has anyone seen this issue before? Do you know how to resolve it?


Answers:
author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Cheryl,

The widget connector used to have issues when working with Viddler, as reported [here](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27267) maybe there are still some difficulties with the integration. I am going to test on a local instance and get back to you!


author: Cheryl Schmelzer
body: Thank you! I appreciate your help.

comments: author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Cheryl, do you happen to have a link to the video you are trying to embbed? I just realized Viddler needs an account. You can send it to my email address, gnedel at atlassian dot com.

Thanks :)


author: Cheryl Schmelzer
body: Hi, the video is quite large. I can't send it through e-mail. Is there another way that I can get it to you. I've continued to test, and I still have the same problem. Viddler said that it would work better if i could embed the code instead of using the widget connector, but with an On-Demand solution, I can't do that.


author: Cheryl Schmelzer
body: Hi Guilherme, do you have any feedback for me? I just renewed my demo version of Viddler and added another video to our On-Demand site. The same issue occurs...it takes over a minute to load the page.


author: Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]
body: Hello Cheryl, apologies as this fell under my radar. I did not take into consideration that you were using an *OnDemand* version for Confluence.

In that scenario, I believe that the present workaround would be to cut the video in smaller pieces, to improve performance.


Tags: cloud

widget-connector
Exclude a Page layout column when exporting to PDF - how?
Asked by Mick Davidson:

Hello,

Our wiki is set up so that it uses the page layout functionality to create two columns. The larger column to the left contains all the important content, so writing and pictures. The right one is used for the TOC and links etc.

We want to print the contents of the left column and not print the right column at all.

I'm sure this can be done by customising the space's CSS, but I've no idea how to do this. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.


Answers:
author: Steffen Heller
body: No, it is not a per page solution. The code I offered should be added to the CSS once and changes columns in all pages.


author: Steffen Heller
body: You must search the html code, find the two columns and then find a way to hide the second one but not the first one (which is difficult because there is no such thing like "first/second" in the code).

You can try with:

```
div.columnLayout.twoColumns .cell { display: none; }div.columnLayout.twoColumns .cell:first-child { display: block; }
```

comments: author: Mick Davidson
body: Steffen,

thanks for your help. I've edited the HTML for other pages, so in my experience this sort of thing works per page, but not en masse. Not being much of a coder, I'd assume that this isn't something that I could add to the CSS. But I'll give it a try and see what happens. :)

Cheers.


Tags: export

layout

pdf