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Questions about wiki markup in 4.1.9
Asked by Derek Page:

We just upgraded from Confluence 2.7.1 to 4.1.9.

I see we can still insert wiki markup but is there a way to view a page as raw wiki markup?

We like to copy raw wiki markup out of confluence and paste in into other editors. From what I have read and googled It does not seem we can take an already created page and view as raw wiki markup?

-Derek


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Derek,

You can view the raw wiki markup for a page by clicking Tools -\> View Storage Format, but you cannot do a lot with this as it just shows you the new XML format.

What you may be interested in is the Confluence Source Editor plugin - <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor> - which allows you to edit the raw storage format using the syntax documented at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Storage+Format>

You may also be interested in Atlassian's statement on the feedback of the 4.x editor at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Editor+-+Customer+Feedback> and you have an opportunity to contribute to the specification of an improved editor at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Specification+-+Confluence+Advanced+Editor>

If you're a heavy wiki markup user the situation is not great at the moment, but it is getting better.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Derek,

there are a lot of theads and discussions here about that. Look here for example: [https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/21735/occupy-confluence-markup-provide-a-wysiwyg-xhtml-markup-editor-to-edit-the-markup-source-of-confluence-4-wiki-pages](/questions/21735/occupy-confluence-markup-provide-a-wysiwyg-xhtml-markup-editor-to-edit-the-markup-source-of-confluence-4-wiki-pages)

Best regards

Thomas
How can I reach a space, where nobody has access to?
Asked by Elisabeth Friedrich:

It sounds a bit silly, but how can I reach a space, where nobody has access to?

I know the space exists, but while deploying the confluence-system to another server the access was some kind of deleted!


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Someone in confluence-administrators group, will be able to access the space and modify the permissions I guess. Try that!

comments: author: Elisabeth Friedrich
body: Thanks for the fas answer!!!

But thats the problem: Even the confluence-administrators group doesn't have access to it...


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: So, when someone in confluence-administrators group logs in, you are not seeing the space at all? That probably means the space doesn't exists now! confluence-administrators are supposed to see all spaces, even if they don't have access to the space.

Can you look at the database and see if the space exist?


Tags: access

permission

space
Copy entire space to another without comments
Asked by Rumceisz:

Hi All,

we use a space template with default pages and hierarchy but also comments were added to the space. Now we would like to copy the entire space but without comments.

I found the Confluence Command Line Interface but we don't know how we can define that comments are not needed.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Rumi


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: [copySpace](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP/Documentation#Documentation-copySpace) from the [Confluence Command Line Interface](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CSOAP) has options to copyComments. By default they are not copied.

comments: author: Rumceisz
body: Hi Bob,

can I have +1 question?

I never used CLI before, can you please review whether this code is correct?

```
@echo offrem remember the directory path to this bat fileset dirPath=%~dp0rem need to reverse windows names to posix names by changing \ to /set dirPath=%dirPath:\=/%rem remove blank at end of stringset dirPath=%dirPath:~0,-1%rem - Customize for your installation, for instance you might want to add default parameters like the following:rem   java -jar "%dirPath%"/lib/confluence-cli-2.5.0.jar --server http://my-server --user automation --password automation %*java -jar http://&lt;MY_CONFLUENCE&gt;confluence --action copySpace --space "&lt;SPACEKEY1&gt;" --newSpace "&lt;SPACEKEY2&gt;"rem Exit with the correct error level.EXIT /B %ERRORLEVEL%
```

Many thanks!

Rumi


author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: No. Only customize the bat file to add your server address, userid, and password. Do not put actions in it! Run your action from the command line using the bat file:confluence --action copySpace ...Or don't change the bat file and always use ate server, user, and password directly on the command line.


author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Rumi,

have a look at the copy space plugin: <https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.copyspace>

Maybe this can help you

Best regards

Thomas


Tags: command-line
Link-Window and Content Publishing Plugin in Confluence
Asked by Thomas Schlegel:

Hi all,

we use the content publishing plugin to publish changes from one space to another. Regular links between pages in the source space are converted to the corresponding pages in the target space, so everything is fine.

Now the problem: we have created some links with the link-window makro, because the linked pages should open in a new browser window. These links are not converted by the content publishing plugin. From the target space, they link to the page in the source space.

Is there anything we can do to avoid this ? The only solution I found is to create the link in the source space with the target space as destination.

Thank you

Thomas


Answers:
author: Joerg Bencke
body: Hi,

1) both are "extensions" to confluence, contributed outside the confluence core functionality. So the content-publishing-plugin would need to be reprogrammed to include the link-window makro in its checks. So send a featurerequest to the authors about that

2) with several makros, moved pages or renamed pages are not tracked. I guess that would be a feature request for a "standard-api-call", trackbacks, basically, to find all makros that use pagenames in their parameters. Check the ticketsystem for a feature request and vote on it - or request it yourself. In both cases - but up the link for vote in here.

Good luck hunting

comments: author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi Josh,

thank you for your answer. I have created a change request here: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/CCPP-63>
Remote Issues Links between Confluence & Jira 5.0
Asked by Janine Roe:

I am trying to get linking to work between Confluence and Jira.

We just upgraded to Jira 5.0 in order to pick up the remote issue linking feature described here:

<http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/02/link-jira-issues-to-confluence-pages-automatically/>

However when I try to add a link in the ways described in the video I am not having any success.

First problem is the copy/paste example shown in the video does not work for me. When I copy and paste a Jira URL into confluence, it is not converting it into a Jira Issue Macro, but rather just keeps it as the link text.

Next, when I try to insert the Jira URL via the Macro: Insert Macro -\> Jira Issues I am seeing an error.

(see attached image)

I'm hoping someone can help me with this or tell me if this is a known issue.![](../../upfiles/issueLinksBug.jpg)


Answers:
author: Janine Roe
body: OK...I see what the problem was. The URL in setting up the remote issue links was incorrect. I was originally referencing an unsecure URL (http://) Seems now the URL is secure (https://)

Perhaps this was a part of the 5.0.1 upgrade that our team performed. But just thought I post it here for anyone else who might come across this problem.


Tags: issue

jira

link
Assign Confluence seat without a corresponding Jira seat.
Asked by Daniel Reid:

We are using Confluence as our primary internal documentation system. We would like to add some seats for new employees, but they do not need access to Jira and bug tracking stuff. According to the account management, we can add the necessary seats to Confluence alone. So, really, I have two questions.

1. Can anyone confirm that we can increase the seats for Confluence without increasing the seats for Jira?
2. How do we let a user access Confluence without a Jira seat?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: YvonneY
body: Hello Daniel,

I am not 100% sure what you mean with seats, do you mean those counting towards your license?

About your second question, it is possibe to grant access to one of the applications only, for this you need to got to   
admin section\>General Tab\>User Management\>Application Access.  
There you will find a list of the users and you can tick to which application a specific user should have access to.  

If you now have 50 license for JIRA and a 50 license for Confluence and you grant user A only access to JIRA, this one license will be deducted, so you still have 50 Confluence and 49 JIRA seats left.  

I hope I understood correctly :)

Regards,

Yvonne

comments: author: YvonneY
body: Before I forget, Keep in mind!

"Application access is for licensing purposes only and does not restrict data or notifications for users. The data that users can see and the notifications they receive are determined by the permissions granted at the application le


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
adding jira to current confluence on-demand setup
Asked by john smith:

I want to test out Jira with my confluence on demand install. I wasn't sure if when doing this, I would need to setup a separate installation for jira, or if the accounts could be integrated.

Thanks


Answers:
author: NikE
body: With OnDemand, your instance is normally based around a JIRA instance, which allows you to add and remove apps on the fly. If you have a "Confluence only" setup, it is going to be quite different. I would recommend getting a free trial of JIRA OnDemand by itself and testing it out. If you like JIRA, you can enter in a [support request](https://support.atlassian.com) and we can copy your Confluence OnDemand instance into your JIRA OnDemand instance and you will be all set. We are working to fix this issue, but, for now, that is how it is. (going forward, if youu have JIRA and wanted to add Confluence or anything else, all you have to do is go to <https://my.atlassian.com> , select it, and it is installed +/- five minutes later). The process will not be much of an issue on your side.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Is there a way to remove a section or column without its content being deleted or apply a section or column around existing content?
Asked by Karie Kelly:

When using the old wiki markup, it was very easy to go in and apply the section and column tags around content -- especially beneficial to use after the content is written and then you want to provide some formatting.

When I add a section or column, then I have to copy and paste content in to it.

However, if I remove a column or section, it deletes the content. So, I have to copy the content out first and then delete it. This is very tedious when you have columns within sections.

Is there a better way to do this or will the be addressed to just remove the tags instead of the content, too?


Answers:
author: Karie Kelly
body: You cannot remove the section or column without having its contents also removed. You have to cut the content out, paste it outside of the section or column macro, and then remove the macro. Much more work than when we could go directly to the markup and just remove the tags.


author: TimT
body: Confluence now supports multi-column layouts without the use of the section or column macros. It's not quite as flexible, but it's much easier to use, more visual, and handles changing layouts more smoothly.

Check it out here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Working+with+page+layouts+and+columns+and+sections

comments: author: Karie Kelly
body: I have seen that. But I have not figured out how to use that feature and have different layouts on the same page. For example, the top is one column, then I have two columns below that, a horizontal line that goes between another two columns below that. I use the line as a clean separator because each column contains a gadget that has varfying lengths and I want the gadgets to start at the same place.Or there are layouts where you want a small column for a top section to contain a set of topics... Very similar to current atlassian documents. But then the rest of the page is a single section or column.It just has taken several clicks to remove a macro like a column or a note when you just want to remove the formatting around the content, not the content itself. It was very easy in the old wiki markup because I could manually just remove the tags.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Does anyone know of a replacement for functionality of the Label Management plugin?
Asked by Dave Drexler:

Hi folks - we really could use the functionality supplied by the Label Mgmt plugin (<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.extra.revlabelingmacros>) but it appears that the plugin is not supported at all and has been abandoned.

Does anyone know whether similar functionality is available another way?


Answers:
author: Anselmo
body: Hi Josch,

do you know about issues launched for jira concerning label management? Exactly the "ability to assign a tag to a subtree (Page family)" is what I miss painfully.

How could I enforce a development for this?

Best regards


author: Joerg Bencke
body: Hi Tonks,

you can assign multiple tags to a page. The problem is rather, that the "hiearchy" of pages is a logical one only, can change easily and does not have any effect on tags listed. What confluence is missing so far is the ability to assign a tag to a subtree (Page family), but just to pages.

So nothing new here and manual work is necessary. If your client developes something like this, maybe h wants to make it available to public domain ? :D


author: Chad Bell
body: Wow! This is a really old post. However it REALLY concerns me. I would also like to know the answer to this. I'm only new to Confluence and am currently reviewing this product for a client. One of their requirements is to be able to create a "Category\\label\\tag" (whatever you want to call it) hierarchy and be able to apply multiple of these tags to an individual page. From my understanding this was what the obove mentioned plugin could kind of do. Is there any possibility that this kind of functionality may be included in future versions of Confluence?


Tags: label
Permission problems on Confluence
Asked by Ronaldo Orbite:

Hi,

My user is amanda.orbite and I'm admin of resource.jira.com (this site is hosted by Atlassian).

I\`m having a trouble when I try to go to Confluence's Admin page. Some time ago I tried to manage global permissions in Confluence, and probably I've had cuted global permission from all users, and now I can't do any admin process on Confluence.

Can you help me??

Thanks a lot.

Amanda.


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Amanda,

If you need someone from Atlassian to check/reset your permissions for you hosted instance of Confluence you're probably better off raising a ticket in the OnDemand project at <http://support.atlassian.com>

Atlassian staff are active on Atlassian Answers, but you'll probably get a quicker resolution for this particular query if you raise a support ticket directly.

Andrew.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Where/how is the Forgot My Password email configured
Asked by JT:

Confluence 3.5:

When I click on the Forgot my Password link from the login screen, the email I receive has two links:

You (or someone else) has requested to reset your password.   

If you follow the link below you will be able to personally reset your password.   
https://xxxxxxxxx/confluence/resetuserpassword.action?username=jhowe\&token=7e283032605a8286920c3be324532beb15e6bbed \<https://xxxxxxx/confluence/resetuserpassword.action?username=jhowe\&amp;token=7e283032605a8286920c3be324532beb15e6bbed\>

The links are almost identical with the exception of the 'amp;' in the secon link.

Only the first link works. Why are there two links and how do we make them both work?  


Answers:
author: HuseinA
body: Not sure why you're getting 2 different links. Tested this on [http://confluence.atlassian.com](http://confluence.atlassian.com/) which is currently running on 4.2-rc1, and works fine. Try to double check and ensure your [Application Server URL encoding](http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/uY0C) is set correctly to UTF-8.

If you'd like to check and customise the source of the Forgot Password email, you can find and do so at:

* HTML format: \<confluence-install\>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/**confluence-x.x.x.jar** /templates/email/html/**forgotuserpassword-notification.vm**
* Plain text format: \<confluence-install\>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/**confluence-x.x.x.jar** /templates/email/text/**forgotuserpassword-notification.vm**

You might want to refer to this page for reference on how to edit files within JAR archives. This would require a restart to get it picked up.

comments: author: JT
body: Thank you Husein, this is exactly what I needed to know.
Multiple issues with macros
Asked by Cornelius Engelhardt:

Hello!

Since this week, we have issues with some of the macros:

1. RSS feed macro displaying error message: Error rendering macro 'rss' : Could not initialize class com.sun.syndication.feed.synd.SyndFeedImpl

2. Recently Updated macro displaying: Error rendering macro 'recently-updated' : com/atlassian/confluence/plugins/macros/advanced/recentupdate/Theme

3. Blog Post Macro displays blog post creation time as !3 hours ago even when blog post was just created.

All plugins are on the latest versions.

Regards,

Cornelius


Answers:
author: Fabio Genovese
body: I have the same problem with a Confluence 4.3.1.

Using an Apache as a proxy, with SSL, I receive the same error message.

@Nic Brough: Can post the link of the original question??
Vertical headings on a table?
Asked by Robert Mark Bram:

How do I do this in the new Confluence now? It doesn't accept the following as creating a table with vertical (column wise) headings.

```
||heading 1|col A1|col A2|col A3|||heading 2|col B1|col B2|col B3|
```


Answers:
author: Freedom Is Not Anarchy
body: (1) Your question seems to be related to this posting.

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/27465/can-you-sort-table-columns-in-confluence](/questions/27465/can-you-sort-table-columns-in-confluence)

(2) MediaWiki, [www.wikipedia.com](http://www.wikipedia.com,), builds the ability to sort, directly into their markup language, using this "sortable", construct:

{\| class="wikitable sortable"


author: Robert Mark Bram
body: Column Highlight button.


Tags: heading

table
How can I get access the Team Calendar source code without actually purchasing a license?
Asked by P:

In order to determine if we can use team calendar, we need to look at its source code. How can we get access to it? So far I see can only see the executable JAR file.


Answers:
author: Denise Unterwurzacher [Atlassian]
body: Hi Pratik. The source code is not available unless you have purchased a license for the product. If you have, you can obtain the source code at <https://my.atlassian.com/download/source/teamcalendars/>


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
Team Calendar source code for free
Asked by P:

where can i get team calendar source code for free


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You can't have the source code unless you buy a license and hence agree to the licensing conditions.

I suppose you could ask Atlassian to tell you about the bits you want to ask about, but as you can get a $10 license, that might be a lot more quick and easy.

comments: author: P
body: Hi Nic - We just bought a $10 starter license. However, I not able to login to the "Browse Source" link here:

<https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.extra.team-calendars>

It is asking for a username/password credential that I am not aware of. Any idea how to register for one?


author: Denise Unterwurzacher [Atlassian]
body: Hi everyone. Apologies for the delay in making this available. If you have purchased a license, the Team Calendars source code is now available for download at <https://my.atlassian.com/download/source/teamcalendars/>


author: Eric S
body: Hi,

Currently, the source code for Team Calendars in not publicly available. We are tracking requests for the the source distribution here:

<https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/browse/TEAMCAL-506>

Please, feel free to vote and/or comment on this issue.

Eric Snyder

[sales@atlassian.com](mailto:sales@atlassian.com)


author: Jo-Anne MacLeod
body: I don't think that you can see the source. If you log into your [my.atlassian.com](http://my.atlassian.com) account, you will have the link "view source" for everything, except for Team Calendars.


Tags: team-calendars-for-confluence
adding a picture to dashboard
Asked by john ladebauche:

I am wanting to add a picture to my dashboard and have it stretched across the entire page but faded into the background. Does anyone know if this is possible and how to do it?


Answers:
author: Aussupport
body: HI,

I have set to the Document theme. But how do i add this fade effect image?

AS


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: To achieve the fading effect, you should probably render it in an image editing tool before using it.


author: Septa Cahyadiputra
body: Hi there,

Once the picture is ready, you could implement it into the dashboard by customizing it. Please refer to our documentation below for detailed information on dashboard customisation

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF41/Customising+the+Dashboard>

Hope it helps.

Cheers,

Septa Cahyadiputra